August 22, 2020

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SC notice on Nagaland Lokayukta NEW DELHI, AUG 21 (AGENCIES): In a major development, the state government has approached the Supreme Court to arbitrate on the actions of its own Lokayukta, Justice Umna Nath Singh, who it claimed to have made several “arbitrary demands”.

Supreme Court Friday agreed to hear a plea filed

by Nagaland government which has raised questions over the functioning of Lokayukta in the state.

A three-judge bench of Chief Justice of India SA Bobde and Justices AS Bopanna and V Ramasubramanian issued notice after Advocate General for the State KN Balgopal made submissions on behalf of the state. Issue notice returnable two weeks, the court stated in its order.

As reported by Bar and Bench- a news protal, the Supreme Court sought Nagaland Lokayukta’s response in state government plea calling for cessation of

his powers and functions.

The petition also prayed for the Court to direct the Lokayukta to assign all the pending matters before him to the Upa-Lokayuktas. This was in addition to a prayer seeking an order to prohibit the Lokayukta from exercising his powers and functions as per the Nagaland Lokayukta Act of 2017.

The state government claimed that since April 2019, the Lokayukta had fallen short of the standards that were expected from a person holding his position.

Moreover, his unreasonable demands and “capricious behaviour” made it untenable for him to continue in the post, it is averred.

Lokayukta Justice Uma Nath Singh, who is former Chief Justice of the Meghalaya High Court, also made a request to the chief secretary of the state government for relaxation of Section 4(2)(c) of the Nagaland Lokayukta Act in order to facilitate his engagement as an arbitrator in an arbitration matter. The provision makes it impermissible for the Lokayukta to hold any other office, the plea explained.

Elaborating on other “arbitrary demands” made

1.5L illegally printed NCERT school books seized; kingpin flees

Ravi’s comment on state’s performance cannot be denied, says Imkong Imchen

Govt seeks cessation of state Lokayukta’s powers & functions

MEERUT (UP), AUG 21 (IANS): Over 1.5 lakh illegally printed NCERT school books worth Rs 50 crore were seized in a raid carried out by a joint team of Military Intelligence (MI), Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force (UP STF) and local police at a facility near Kashigaon on Friday.

Official sources said that the alleged kingpin, Sachin Gupta, has gone missing after burning similar books in the main factory in Mohkampur Enclave near Sabzi Mandi.

Early this month, local Military Intelligence officials received input of suspicious activities in a godown near Kashigaon, Achronda Road, under the Partapur police station. During the investigation, the MI sleuths learnt that the facility stored large number of illegally printed books of NCERT. MI shared the input with local STF of UP Police.

A joint team of the three agencies raided the facility at about 2.30 p.m. on Friday. A massive number of illegally printed books for almost all classes starting from Class I were recovered during the raid. The illegally printed books, sources said, were being supplied to buyers in multiple states.

This is it!

“He’s taking the COVID19 SOP too far. It’s against sportsmanship spirit.”

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KO H I M A , A U G 2 1 (NPN): NPF leader L. Imkong Imchen said the remarks in the Independence day message from the Nagaland Governor RN Ravi that Nagaland was the “worst performing State in the country” was a fact which cannot be denied.

While clarifying to Nagaland Post that it was his personal opinion, Imchen said the governor, as constitutional head of the State, had every right to make such an observation.

Imchen maintained that the governor as “a fatherly figure had every right to give his advice to the State Cabinet and even the opposition”, which must be accepted.

Imchen said even though the PDA government didn’t take lightly to the comment and claimed

by Singh, the petition stated that not only did he sought permission to function online from Delhi, but also made a request before the chief secretary for accommodation, among other things.

The petition stated that the Lokayukta was personally informed that the requests could not be acceded to, considering that the same would require amendment to the statute. Subsequently, a communication dated June 6, 2019, purportedly sent from the office of the chief secretary, came to light, which claimed that the chief secretary approved of these demands, even though he did not have knowledge of the same.

The June 6 letter was later withdrawn owing to the chief secretary’s lack of knowledge of the communication being made. It was also proposed that an inquiry be made into how the “misleading letter” was sent.

The Lokayukta then “started showing his ire”, the petition said, by issuing notices to various honest officials.

Justice Singh’s unreasonable requests also included a demand for the presence of the Commissioner of Police at Dimapur airport at

that the government was making every effort to take the state forward, the governor’s remark cannot not be denied.

It may be mentioned that Ravi had, in his Independence Day message stated that Nagaland was the 16th State of the Indian Union, the second oldest State in the North East and was endowed with one of the finest of human and natural resources.

Ravi said that for quite some decades since its birth, Nagaland had raced ahead of several other States in the region despite odds.

The Governor, however, said unfortunately “today it has the dubious distinction of being the worst performing State in the country, including in the North Eastern region, on almost all significant indicators of human development”.

the time of his arrival and/or departure every time, which is in clear deviation from the security protocol and the Y plus security detail accorded to the Lokayukta, the petition stated.

Meanwhile, in a press note, Advocate General Nagaland, KN Balgopal said the Lokayukta had made request for being allotted the chief minister’s former bungalow which was converted into a V.I.P guest house. He also insisted upon writing to the authorities for avoiding frisking at the airport which was also not allowed. Balgopal said that the Lokayukta, in a complaint case, directed the chief minister to conduct an enquiry against the deputy chief minister and to file a report in his court overlooking the fact that the chief minister was not an investigating authority.

In yet another case, Balgopal claimed that the Lokaykta had alleged that the Law department was a danger to the government because some officer of the Law department in an internal note questioned his authority in interfering with service matters of an employee retired in 2009, adding the list was endless.

CWC to discuss JLF issue on August 26

NPF’s Central Working Committee (CWC), the apex decision making body of the party, has called for a meeting on August 26 to discuss about the party legislators’ withdrawal from the Joint Legislators’ Forum (JLF).

In a notification, the party has asked all members to attend the meeting, while stating that COVID protocols would be strictly maintained.

When contacted, party sources however refused to comment on the appeals by the ruling PDA and Nagaland Legislative Assembly speaker Sharingain Longkumer to reconsider the decision of withdrawing from the forum, stating that the party’s decision would be known only after the working committee meeting.

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JEE-Main, NEET exam to be held in Sept

NEW DELHI, AUG 21 (PTI): Joint Entrance Examination (Main) and the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET-UG) will be conducted in September as scheduled, officials in the Ministry of Education said on Friday. While NEET is scheduled on September 13, JEE-Mains will be held from September 1-6.

In a statement, the ministry’s National Testing Agency (NTA), which conducts these exams, said over 6.4 lakh candidates have downloaded their admit cards for the JEE-Main.

It said 6,49,223 candidates have downloaded their admit cards, so far, against a total of 8,58,273. There have been demands from several students and parents to further postpone the entrance exams in view of increasing coronavirus cases.

Supreme Court Monday dismissed a plea seeking postponement of JEE (Main) April 2020 and NEET-UG exams, which are scheduled to be conducted in September, amid spurt in number of COVID-19 cases, saying precious year of students “cannot be wasted” and life has to go on.

WHO chief hopes pandemic ends within 2 years LONDON, AUG 21 (AP): World Health Organisation chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus Friday said he hopes the world can end the coronavirus pandemic in less than two years-less time than it took for the 1918 flu pandemic to be stopped.

Describing COVID19 as a “once-in-a-century health crisis”, he said that while globalisation had allowed the virus to spread quicker than the flu did in 1918, there was also now the technology to stop it. “We hope to finish this pandemic (in) less than two years, especially if we can pool our efforts,” he said during a press briefing. WHO’s emergencies chief Dr Michael Ryan noted that 1918 pandemic hit the globe in three distinct waves and that the second wave was the most devastating.

But he said it didn’t appear COVID-19 was following the same pattern.

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NEC funded project to boost water resources development in Nagaland

Govt to propose projects for easing Dmu, Kma traffic

Neiba Kronu releasing the report of the GWRM of Nagaland. (NP)

Correspondent

KOHIMA, Aug 21 (NPN): A North Eastern Council (NEC) funded project is set to boost the development of water resources in the state.

Minister for Planning & Co-ordination, Land Revenue & Parliamentary Affairs Neiba Kronu, who released a two-volume report of the project “Geospatial Water Resource Map of Nagaland” at Nagaland GIS & Remote Sensing Centre, New Capital Complex here on Friday, said that the report would provide impulsion for the development of hydro-electric power, irrigation and drinking water availability besides monitoring of water quality and quantity in the state.

The project, funded under NEC titled “conducting a detailed survey on the

Nagaland COVID-19 tally 3619 COVID-19 STATUS AS ON august 21, 2020 District

Asymptomatic

Dimapur 843 Kiphire 1 Kohima 520 Longleng 0 Mokokchung 2 Mon 73 Peren 3 Phek 0 Tuensang 3 Wokha 3 Zunheboto 61 Total 1509

bias incredibly seriously, and want to make it clear that we denounce hate and bigotry in any form,” Mohan said.

He was referring to the controversy generated after a Wall Street Journal (WSJ) report claimed that Facebook’s content regulation policies favoured the BJP. The WSJ report sparked a widespread debate in India, raising serious questions over Facebook’s content regulation practices.

The report claimed that Facebook India’s Public Policy Head Ankhi Das had told staff members that punishing violations by BJP politicians would damage the company’s business prospects.

Mohan said the policies at Facebook are “ever-evolving to take into account

the local sensitivities, especially in a multicultural society such as India”.

“An example is the inclusion of caste as a protected characteristic in our global hate speech policy in 2018,” Mohan said.

The Facebook India chief said that the employees represent a varied political spectrum who have either served in many administrations or have political experience and take immense pride in being active contributors to public service.

“Despite hailing from

diverse political affiliations and backgrounds, they perform their respective duties and interpret our policies in a fair and non-partisan way. The decisions around content escalations are not made unilaterally by just one person; rather, they are inclusive of views from different teams and disciplines within the company,” he elaborated.

Amid the debate, BJP’s IT cell chief Amit Malviya has claimed that Mohan worked with the Planning Commission during the UPA era.

According to Mohan, there is no place for hate speech on Facebook but they need to do more.

“We know this work is never over, which is why we will continue to invest in our efforts to

ACTIVE CASES RecovMiTotal Symptomatic Death ered grated Cases Mild Moderate 20 1 975 1850 8* 3 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 487 1009 0 2 0 0 3 3 0 0 0 0 17 19 0 0 0 0 190 265 0 2 0 0 263 266 0 0 0 0 31 31 0 0 0 0 45 48 0 0 0 0 17 20 0 0 0 0 46 107 0 0 20 1 2074 3619 8 7

*1 death is Covid-19 positive but not due to Covid-19

D I M A P U R , AU G 2 1 (NPN): Nagaland registered 36 new COVID-19 cases on Friday-- 17 in Kohima, 10 in Dimapur, 7 in Zunheboto and 2 from in Peren, taking the state’s tally to 3619.

Till August 21, the state registered 1,530 active cases, 2074 recovered, 8 deaths and 7 migrated.

As per the severity of symptoms, 1509 active cases

Will purge hateful posts by public figures in India: FB NEW DELHI, AUG 21 (IANS): Facing intense political heat in India over its alleged role in favouring the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on its platform, social networking giant Facebook on Friday clarified its position, saying it has removed and will continue to remove content posted by public figures in India which violate its community standards.

Ajit Mohan, Vice President and Managing Director, Facebook India, said in a statement that Facebook has always been an open, transparent and non-partisan platform where people can express themselves freely.

“Over the last few days, we have been accused of bias in the way we enforce our policies.

We take the allegations of

water resource potential in Nagaland, including preparation of report on potential of river”, was undertaken by the Nagaland GIS & Remote Sensing Centre under Planning department.

Kronu pointed out that state line departments including Water Resource, Power, New and Renewable Energy, Land Resources, PHED and Disaster Management etc. would benefit from generated geospatial database, which would provide them the tools to plan with more precision and accuracy in the area of water resource programmes and schemes.

Congratulating the state GIS & remote sensing centre for successful completion of the project, Kronu urged Centre to take up such projects in future by making use of tech(Cont’d on p-6) nology.

Minister for Planning & Co-ordination, and Revenue & Parliamentary Affairs Neiba Kronu disclosed that the state government would be contemplating proposing developmental projects in order to ease the traffic congestion in Dimapur and Kohima urban areas in the near future.

Disclosing this during book release, Kronu observed that the traffic congestion especially in Kohima and Dimapur had adversely impacted the quality of life and economic productivity.

To ease traffic congestion in Kohima and Dimapur, the minister said infrastructure such as construction of flyovers, bridges, multipurpose parking lot complex, bypass and arterial roads were required.

Project Director GIS and Remote Sensing Centre, Mhathung Kithan, gave a brief highlight on survey findings on the cause for traffic congestion in Kohima and Dimapur. (Cont’d on p-6)

combat hate speech on our services. We welcome the opportunity to engage with all parties -- political or otherwise -- who want to understand our content policies and enforcement more,” he said, adding that Facebook’s commitment to India and its people is unwavering.

The Congress has demanded that Facebook should order a high-level inquiry into its leadership team and their operations in a time-bound manner, and publish and make transparent all instances of hate speech since 2014 that were allowed on the platform. “Facebook India should appoint a new team so that the investigation is not influenced,” said Congress leader K.C. Venugopal in a letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

are asymptomatic, 20 mild and 1 moderate case.

Further, out of the 3,619 positive cases, the distribution across various categories of people include 1,570 from the Armed Forces, 1,201 returnees, 239 frontline workers and 609 traced contacts.

A tota l o f 34,188 samples were for testing through RT-PCR and re-

sults of 32,588 samples received. In addition, a total of 21,701samples were also sent for testing on TrueNat.

India’s virus tally crosses 29L mark

P T I a d d s : I n d i a ’s COVID-19 tally zoomed past 29 lakh, a day after it crossed 28 lakh, with a single-day spike of 68,898 infections, while the recoveries have increased to 21,58,946 on Friday pushing the recovery rate to over 74 per cent, according to the Union Health Ministry data.

The total cases of coronavirus infections mounted to 29,05,823, while the death toll climbed to 54,849 with 983 new fatalities being reported in a span of 24 hours, the data updated at 8 am showed. Case fatality rate has declined to 1.89 per cent while the recovery rate has risen to 74.30 per cent.

GBs react to NSCN (I-M) Konyak Region statement DIMAPUR, AUG 21 (NPN): GB associations of nine districts and two sub-divisions have expressed “utmost disappointment and resentment” over the NSCN (I-M) Konyak region statement that was published in local dailies on August 12, 2020.

In a joint statement, presidents of GB associations said they took exception to the Konyak Region statement, which they maintained was “a direct target” to NGBF president Shanlem Konyak in particular and GBs in general.

Further, they said that the “intention to manipulate our simple and honest President cannot be taken lightly” and described it a “condemnable act.”

Affirming “unflinching support” to NGBF president Shanlem Konyak, the signatories appealed to the NSCN (I-M) to “restrain from publishing such statements about GBs without proper understanding.”

GBs also affirmed support to the “demand for early solution to the Naga political issue under RN Ravi as interlocutor.”

GBs said that Nagaland GB Federation (NGBF) was their apex body, which represented the voice of Nagaland Goanburas.

The signatories included Mokochung District GB Association president Along Jamir, Kohima District GB association president Vineipra Pienyii, Wokha District GB association President PN Tongoe, Peren District GB association president Kania Dilong, Phek District GB association president Zadulhu Ringa, Tuensang District GB association president Khuni Chang, Longleng District GB association president T Yungie Phom, Kiphire District GB association president Selitong, Dimapur District GB association president Khehovi V Chophi, Tseminyu GB association president Kehoga Kent and Meluri GB association president T Nyupuli.

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WEATHER FORECAST August 22

(Temperature in ºC) Max Min Agartala Mostly cloudy witha t-storm 30 24 Aizawl Mostly cloudy with a t-storm 24 20 Guwahati Some sun with a thunderstorm 32 25 Imphal A thunderstorm in spots 28 20 Itanagar A t-storm around in the a.m. 30 22 Shillong A thunderstorm in the area 24 18 Kohima Variable cloudy with t-storms 25 19 Dimapur A thunderstorm in spots 31 24 Mkg 27 20 Couple of thunderstorms Tuensang A t-storm in the afternoon 21 16 Wokha Party sunny 26 21 Zunheboto Couple of thunderstorms 24 18

Dr. K. Akaho Sema addressing the meeting.

DIMAPUR: Sensitisation meeting on “anti stigma and discrimination on COVID-19” was held on August 13 and August 19 at VDB Hall, Zunheboto and Satakha town respectively.

A press release from Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Zunheboto office, stated that deputy CMO Zhunheboto, Dr. K Akaho Sema was the resource person of the sensitisation

meeting. Speaking on anti stigma and discrimination on COVID-19, Dr. K Akaho urged the people to empathised each other and extend support to family, friends, neighbours and the frontline responders in the fight against COVID-19.

“We all have a role to play in protecting the physical and mental health of ourselves and others during the COVID-19 out-

District Education Officer Zunheboto informs

Dimapur: District Education Officer (DEO) Zunheboto, R. Nyimshio Lotha has informed all the government and private schools under Zunheboto district that pre-matric scholarship portal has open for

the academic year (2020-21). All head of institutes have been directed to inform their students to apply on or before October 31, 2020. For any queries, one may contact at 7630918324, 9366484921.

SAMETI holds trg on doubling farmers’ income

DIMAPUR: Two-day online training programme on “Doubling farmers’ income: Market led agricultural extension” was organised

by State Agricultural Management and Extension Training Institute (SAMETI) on August 20-21 for ATMA functionaries at SAMETI, Medziphema.

A press release by SAMETI Medziphema stated that the training was aimed at working towards vision 2022-Doubling farmers’ income through market led agricultural extension and educating them to help farmers to have better ac-

break”, he said.

Seeking the public support in the fight against pandemic, Dr. Akaho said so far the only weapon to fight the disease was by wearing mask, proper hand washing and social distancing.

T h e m e e t i n g wa s chaired by ADC, Satakha TL Kiusumong Tikhir and STBC Pastor Rev. Kughato Chophy said the prayer.

cess to markets.

Delivering an inaugural speech, director SAMETI & principal IETC in-charge, Dr. Watimongla Jamir emphasised on the importance of doubling farmer’s income.

She stated that majority of the farmers are still suffering from traditional marketing problems like lack of adequate scientific storage facilities, grading and processing facilities, transportation facilities and marketing information services.

As extension functionaries, she encouraged the participants

to assist the farmers in solving problems faced in marketing of their produce.

Resource persons for the training were retired senior zonal manager (marketing) in-charge, NERAMAC, government of India, P.C. Roy and deputy project director SAMETI Medziphema, Vikaho Chophi.

During the training, topics on farmers double – income generations: marketing strategic plan; MOVCD or Atma – Nirbhar Krishi (Self Reliant); market led agricultural extension and linking farmers to markets were covered.

DIMAPUR: Namsang Citizen Union (NCU) has appealed department of PWD (R&B) to repair road stretching from Lushei village to Shetap village under Longleng district. In a letter to the department, NCU president, M Baue Phom said the road, which has been earmarked as Foothill road connecting Naginimora town under Mon, was in “pathetic condition”. While appreciating the department for “emergency clearance work” performed in July, NCU said with onset of monsoon, the road was in deplorable state. NCU appealed the department to repair the road without any further delay stating that the road which is a lifeline of the Namsang area had been in dire state for “a very long time”.

NU declares recruitment results

DIMAPUR: Nagaland University has declared the results of the written exams conducted during February 2020, for recruitment of various non-teaching posts.

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DIMAPUR: Nagaland Theological Colleges Association (NTCA) has appealed the state government to look into the “needs” of theological colleges in Nagaland and understand the plight of the community during the pandemic.

In a press release, NTCA general secretary, Apolo Assumi stated that the theological community was confronted by the “cruelty of the pandemic”.

NTCA said hundreds of theological fraternity like the teaching and nonteaching staffs, students or families are being “affected to the worst” and that the fraternity feels itself as the “most neglected community in the state”.

NTCA has appealed to the state government to look into various needs of the theological colleges in Nagaland and understand the “plight” of the community.

It also pointed out that states like Andhra Pradesh, Mizoram, Meghalaya, the theological fraternity have received a “good amount of assistance from the government be it grant in aid, student scholarship or COVID 19 relief ”.

Incomplete school building: ESSU, SSN come to agreement

DIMAPUR: Following Eastern Sumi Students’ Union (ESSU) ultimatum on the Samagra Shiksha Nagaland to resume incomplete and abandoned school building constructions in four villages, the two parties held a meeting on August 19 Shevishe village, Aghunato and adopted five-point resolution.

A press release by ESSU stated that six member team of State Mission Authority, Samagra Shiksha Nagaland was headed by joint mission director SSN. ESSU said the meeting held after visiting all the

DIMAPUR: ADC Kohima, LithronglaTongpi Rutsa, has informed that five areas have been sealed in view of the detection of a COVID-19 positive person residing in these areas.

According to DIPR report, all movement of person/vehicles within the defined sealed area is strictly restricted/prohibited and under active surveillance with effect from the date of sealing.

Following are the sealed areas: Fire Station, Old Barrack BOC, P.R.Hill, Kohima; House No. 198, Merhulietsa (Para Medical) Ward, Kohima; House No.726, Lower Agri Colony, Kohima; House No. 149, Upper Agri Colony, Kohima and House No. 236, Perizie Colony, near KMC TATA parking.

Though you have gone miles apart from us to an unseen heavenly abode, we still miss you in our hearts and the void created by you cannot be filled upon.

We, the bereaved family members of Late Bendangyanger Longkumer would like to convey our heartiest and heartfelt gratitude to all the individuals, unions, youth organizations and churches who stood by us physically, spiritually, materially and financially during the prolonged illness and sad Late Bendangyanger Lkr demise on 14th August 2020.

(LIRMEN) No words are big enough to repay 06/03/1962 – 14/08/2020 all during our painful moments, but it is our sincere prayer to Almighty God to bless each and everyone of you abundantly.

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DIMAPUR: Deputy Commissioner Mon, Thavaseelan K, has issued new Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) to streamline the movement of people from the villages.

According to DIPR report, the SOP stated that those villages travelling to Mon Hq via Tobu-Mon town and Sonari-Mon town highways will be permitted entry into Mon town to avail essential services only on Monday, Wednesday and Saturday from 9am to 2pm.Those villages travelling to Mon Hq via Wakching-Mon town and Phomching-Mon town highway will be permitted entry into Mon town to avail essential services only on Tuesday, Wednesday

Late Mrs. Nohosünü Thakro 1942-2020 (78 years) And said: “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked I will depart. The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away; may the name of the Lord be praised.”

Job 1: 21 We the family of Late Nohosünü Thakro sincerely express our heartfelt gratitude to all who stood by us spiritually, physically and financially during the prolonged illness till her demise on 18th August 2020. We are profoundly grateful to each and everyone who stood by us and supported us throughout this ordeal.

We convey our special thanks to: 1. Town Baptist Church, Chumukedima 2. Chumukedima 'A' Village Council 3. Chumukedima Town Ward No. 5 4. Tenyiphe-1 Village Council 5. Tenyiphe-1 Village Youth 'D Khel' We deeply regret our inability to mention all your names individually but we pray that our Almighty God continue to bless each of you abundantly.

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CONDOLENCE

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

I have fought an excellent fight, I have finished my full course and I’ve kept my heart full of faith.

2 Timothy 4:7

affected schools of Government Middle School (GMS) Shevishe, GMS Ngozubo, GMS Kelto and GMS Viyilho had a threadbare discussion on the reasons for the delay in construction for nearly a decade.

ESSU said the meeting resolved on the following:GMS Kelto will be completed by the month of September 2020; GMS Viyilho will be completed

by November 2020 and GMS Ngzobumi and GMS Shevishe will be completed

by January 2021.

The meeting resolved that the construction of

the above school buildings shall be monitored by the SMC members and ESSU officials and update the progress to the SMA, SSNon regular basis.

With regard to the demand of ESSU for penalizing the offenders with exemplary punishment as per the provisions of the law, the union said the SMA has assured that “the law will take its action without any biasness/favour”.

Meanwhile, ESSU has thanked SMA, SSN for their sincerity in meeting the demands of the union and hoped that the resolution would be achieved.

DC Mon issues new SOP

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

The Pungro Village Council is deeply grieved to learn the demise of Lt. Y. Tomuku, Retd. Teacher, Village Council Member and former Village Council Chairman after a prolonged illness in Dimapur.

Lt. Y. Tomoku was a sincere and dedicated person who dedicated his life for the welfare of the people. In his death, Pungro villagers have lost a noble leader and a fatherly figure. His immense social contribution for the people of Pungro village will always be remembered.

Through this column, we express our heartfelt condolence to the bereaved family, and also pray that the Almighty God grant eternal rest to the departed soul.

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and Saturday from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

DC informed that the villagers should have a valid permit issued by their respective village councils. Only one member per household will be permitted and those vehicles from the villages within the district duly authorised by the district administration or village council will be permitted entry into Mon Town. Only two passengers along with the driver and helper will be allowed per vehicle. The driver and occupants should at all times wear face mask and strictly remain social distancing norms. Penalty will be imposed if anyone found without the permit or on the day not assigned to his/her village.

1 st DEATH ANNIVERSARY of our Late Mother NITOLI SEMA 22-08-2020

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Nothing can ever take away The love a heart holds dear: Fond memories lingers every day, Remembrance keeps you near, Deeply missed and remembered.

From your Loving Family

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

We the family members of Late Methavi Nagi extend our deepest heartfelt gratitude to each and every individual and churches who stood by us physically, financially, morally and spiritually at the sudden demise of our beloved on the 16th August, 2020. May God bless you abundantly.

"The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away; may the name of the Lord be praised."

Job 1:21

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Loving wife, children and grandchildren

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

“FEAR NOT FOR I HAVE REDEEMED YOU. I HAVE CALLED YOU BY NAME. YOU ARE MINE. ISAIAH 43:1

20.01.1965 to 06.08.2020 We the family of Late Vitoshe Achumi Head G.B of Awotsakilimi Village would like to extend our sincere gratitude towards everyone who supported us, not only with your comforting words, prayers and genuine act of kindness but also with your presence.

Though we are unable to thank each and every one personally, it is our fervent prayer that our Almighty God bless you all.

Special thanks to: 1. Awotsakilimi Baptist Church 2. Awotsakilimi Union Zunheboto 3. Awotsakilimi Union Dimapur 4. Awotsakilimi Students' Union 5. Atoizu Areami Kukami Hoho 6. Dr. Akaho Awomi, Deputy CMO Zunheboto 7. Dr. Obed Sema, MO I/C Atoizu PHC 8. Shri. Picto Shohe, Hon'ble MLA 32 AC Atoizu 9. Shri. Arikumba Ao, NCS ADC Atoizu and staff 10. Mrs. Hukali Kinimi SDO, PHE Atoizu block 11. Shri. Kashito Yeputhomi, President, Sumi Kukami Hoho Loving Wife, Children, In-laws and Family Members

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NCU appeals (R&B) to repair road

NTCA appeals government for assistance

More areas sealed in Kohima

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Kitchen of Gorkha Baptist Church Mon Town was damaged by mudslide.

Nagaland Post, Dimapur SATURDAY, AUGUST 22, 2020

Lt. ONENPOKLA

17-07-1947 – 16-08-2020

We t h e f a m i l y m e m b e r s o f L t . O n e n p o k l a (Chuchuyimlang) wish to extend our most heartfelt gratitude and appreciation to all those who selflessly stood by us physically, mentally, financially and in prayers during her illness and sad demise of our beloved on 16th Aug. 2020.

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Loving husband, children, grand children and relatives

BORN ON : 15/11/1972 DIED ON : 10/08/2020 We, the bereaved family members of Late Zhekheli Assumi, would like to extend our sincere gratitude to all who stood by us and supported us financially, materially, physically and spiritually at the sudden demise of our beloved mother on 10th August 2020.

We convey our special thanks to:1. The Pentecostal Mission (TPM) Church Purana Bazar, Dimapur.

2. Baptist Church & Youth Department Toluvi Village.

3. Doctors and nurses, Olive Hospital, Dimapur.

4. Directorate of Industry & Commerce, Kohima 5. District Industry & Commerce, Dimapur 6. Littami Union Dimapur 7. Littami Totimi Kuqhakulu Dimapur 8. Mutakito sa (Missionary), Toluvi Village, Dimapur 9. Abolomi Welfare Society, Dimapur 10. Friends, families & well wishers.

We regret our inability to thank each and every individual but pray that our Almighty God bless you abundantly.

Loving Children & Family Members.

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Nagaland Post Vol. XXx NO. 257 Dimapur, SATURDAY, AUGUST 22, 2020

Faction-ridden alliances

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ongress in Assam has already kick-started its election campaign for the 2021 assembly election and has already declared formation of a ‘grand alliance’ of anti-BJP and secular forces.

The Congress hopes be the early bird and win ‘big’ with 80 seats. In the 2016 assembly election to the 126-member house in Assam, the Congress under three-time chief minister Tarun Gogoi won 26 seats of 78 it held(one resigned and later contested and won on BJP ticket); the BJP won 60 over five it held; NDA ally, the AGP won 14 over 10 it held; Bodoland People’s Front(BPF) retained all 12 it held; while the All India United Democratic Front(AIUDF) of Badhruddin Ajmal won 13 of 18 it held. The current ruling NDA coalition in Assam-BJP,AGP and BPF- with 86 seats, will tested in the 2021 elections on its performances and pressing issues such as the Citizenship, NRC and illegal immigrants issues. New political parties could also emerge after the All Assam Students’ Union (AASU) and Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti (KMSS) - two leading forces of the anti-CAA movement - finalised plans to float political parties to contest the 2021 assembly polls. As of now, there could be three main contenders- NDA (BJP,AGP,BPF); Congress, AIUDF and the nascent AASU-KMSS. Over two crore voters will decide the fate of the alliances. The cracks within the Assam Congress seem to have widened following former chief minister Tarun Gogoi’s announcement that the party was ready for an alliance with the AIUDF ahead of the 2021 assembly elections. Several Congress leaders believe that the Hindu electorate across the state would vote against the party if the AIUDF is projected as a partner. Soon after the public announcement, senior functionaries, including leader of the Opposition Debabrata Saikia, veteran leader Pradyut Bordoloi, Bhupen Borah, Rana Goswami and Abdul Khaleque held a separate meeting in which they decided to send a formal request to the party high command, seeking change of APCC chief Rupin Bora.

Even before 2019 Lok Sabha polls there were serious differences within the Congress over the party’s alleged “secret understanding” with the AIUDF. In 2006 Gogoi distanced Congress from AIUDF and joined hands with the BPF led by Hagrama Mohilary, which won ten seats. This strategy worked for the Congress, and Gogoi became chief minister for the third time in a row. BJP led alliance in Assam has set a target of winning 100 assembly seats in 2021 assembly. BJP is also not without its internal divisions with former Congress leader and Gogoi confidante and present finance minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, chief minister Sarabananda Sonowal and Speaker Ranjit Dass.

BJP ally AGP is also hit by internal fissures over the CAA. Party members in Guwahati had demanded the resignation of party president Atul Bora, working president Keshab Mahanta and senior leader Phani Bhusan Choudhary for their tacit support to the BJP over the CAA. The AGP now has two factions- one led by Atul Bora and the other by former chief minister Prafulla Kumar Mahanta. The AASU which has been the backbone of AGP, has decided to pull out all its members from AGP and float its own party. The BPF is also unhappy with BJP and has decided to go it alone for the Bodoland Autonomous Council election.

Internal divisions within alliances aside, the question is whether the pandemic will come in the way of holding elections in 2021.

DailyDevotion The Ministry of the Unnoticed

Blessed are the poor in spirit… —Matthew 5:3 The New Testament notices things that do not seem worthy of notice by our standards. “Blessed are the poor in spirit….” This literally means, “Blessed are the paupers.” Paupers are remarkably commonplace!

The preaching of today tends to point out a person’s strength of will or the beauty of his character— things that are easily noticed. The statement we so often hear, “Make a decision for Jesus Christ,” places the emphasis on something our Lord never trusted. He never asks us to decide for Him, but to yield to Him— something very different. At the foundation of Jesus Christ’s kingdom is the genuine loveliness of those who are commonplace.

I am truly blessed in my poverty. If I have no strength of will and a nature without worth or excellence, then Jesus says to me, “Blessed are you, because it is through your poverty that you can enter My kingdom.” I cannot enter His kingdom by virtue of my goodness— I can only enter it as an absolute pauper.

The true character of the loveliness that speaks for God is always unnoticed by the one possessing that quality. Conscious influence is prideful and unchristian.

If I wonder if I am being of any use to God, I instantly lose the beauty and the freshness of the touch of the Lord. “He who believes in Me…out of his heart will flow rivers of living water” (John 7:38). And if I examine the outflow, I lose the touch of the Lord.

Who are the people who have influenced us most?

Certainly not the ones who thought they did, but those who did not have even the slightest idea that they were influencing us. In the Christian life, godly influence is never conscious of itself. If we are conscious of our influence, it ceases to have the genuine loveliness which is characteristic of the touch of Jesus. We always know when Jesus is at work because He produces in the commonplace something that is inspiring.

Quotes

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth. ~ Benjamin Disraeli

Nagaland Post, Dimapur SATURDAY, AUGUST 22, 2020

Post-mortem

Remembering the soldiers of the Burma Campaign, 1944 S econd World War ended in 1945 and the end of the world war led to a new beginning globally.

Narrowing down the second world war theatre to the Burma Campaign; Burma, Imphal and Kohima have also been impacted by the world war fought in these respective regions. When we look into the history of the Burma Campaign, the Japanese Imperial Army advanced into Burma with the intention to cut off the supply line with China.

Confident about their abilities, the Japanese Imperial army were on the winning side till the Imphal region.

The fate of the Japanese soldiers in the battle of Kohima unexpectedly turnaround from victory into defeat. The Japanese soldiers who survived and went back home barely recovered from the horrors of the Burma campaign. They chose to remain silent and not talk about this event. Instead, they bear the feelings of loss, grief and guilt within themselves. The battle of Kohima and simultaneous battle of Imphal saw troops from both sides suffer deplorable inhumane horrid conditions. This is what the course of war does to the people who stands on behalf of their nation. This implies not only to the second world war but other decisive wars as well. The victory of the British allied force was indeed a celebrated moment.

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However, the survivors also had their own share of grief over the loss of their comrades and the cruelty of war.

The people of Burma, Imphal and Kohima were free from their temporary invaders after the war was over. The people of these regions begin to live a new normal life with least news of their former invaders.

This war has also impacted the Naga society in certain areas. Most prominently, we see how it has impacted the minds of the people in understanding nation building and independence. Similarly, we understand that there has been a transition in the Naga society through this event. The Naga war veterans recalls their experiences with mixed emotions; laughter, fascination, pain, grief and most importantly their survival. To have survived is the biggest relief for any survivor.The idea or concept of nation building was much learned through this event by the Naga political leaders. The Nagas participated in the first world war as labour corps and the second world war was witnessed in their own land. This exposure imbibed sense of community togetherness and identity consciousness.Though it was a war not invited by the Nagas, the two super power nations of the 1940’s created a historic event for the Nagas. The transition

from conservative tribal livelihood to western civilization is because of such unexpected event which none could ever imagine in their wildest imaginations.

The British as well as the Japanese were temporary invaders whose chase for power and supreme authority influenced the Naga people that they were also no less than their invaders and it prompt them to consider themselves as an abled community.

However, herein lies a problem that despite all these tributes and the recognition that the battle of Kohima and Imphal as the fiercest battles in British war history, the importance of the battle of Kohima does not loom large in the histories of World War II. For the Nagas, who hoped that they will be free from superior authority, this dream was terribly shattered when the British empire left India for good and giving way to India which the latter attained her Independence on 15th August, 1947. Is it not relevant to mention this that during the need hour, the Naga population adhered to complete loyalty towards the British in defeating their opponent. Then, why is it that we were left unattained and uncared? These voices have been lingering on in the hearts of the people and the atrocities and sufferings in the name of freedom still remains conflicted.

Is war a good or bad thing? Practically, war is evil yet, it is inevitable because sometimes the call for war seems to be the only solution for a nation. The evolution of Just War theory by Middle Ages Roman and Greek philosophers and later supported by Christian theologians specifies condition for judging if it is just to go to war, and conditions for how the war should be fought.Coming from the experiences of former Japan’s Imperial soldier, war is nothing else other than killing. Any soldier with utmost allegiance and patriotic fervor desires to serve his nation. However, when one is met with such horrible crises where you are either killed or kill someone else, it jeopardizes the concept of humanity.

War crime is also another impact of war. During the Second World War the murder of several million people mainly Jews by Nazi Germany, and the mistreatment of both civilians and prisoners of war prosecuted by the belligerent powers for a range of legitimate and illegitimate reasons. Robert Gilpin offers the most comprehensive definition of hegemonic war. It involves “a direct contest between the dominant power or powers in an international system and the rising challenger or challengers,” and the “participation of all the major states and most

of the minor states in the system.” The fundamental issue at stake is the nature and governance of the system”; hence hegemonic wars are unlimited in their ends and in their political economic and ideological consequences. Hegemonic wars are unlimited in their means as well as their ends and expand to encompass the entire international system. The second world war is identified as general war or hegemonic war.

The problems of the post-war never can be resolved without the sense of peace and reconciliation.

Post-war conciliatory gestures by the Japan government is commendable. The Japan government initiated the search for the remains of former Japanese servicemen. The team known as Japan Association for Recovery and Repatriation of War Casualties (JARRWC).

This team have been covering the Burma, Manipur and Nagaland regions as part of the search operation. Also, initiative undertaken by Japan government, people to people contact between Japan and the people of Nagaland and Manipur since 2017 has been an impactful policy. The Kohima Educational Trust/Kohima Educational Society which was founded by the British Kohima war veterans have been consistently offering monetary help towards the education of Naga students

besides other commendable activities. The Burma Campaign Society is committed to restore friendly relations between Japan and United Kingdom through sharing of information’s, imparting education and mutual sympathy. Over the years, many war veterans and their descendants of the Burma Campaign have visited Kohima and Imphal and to honor the sacrifice of the forgotten soldiers and also express sincere gratitude to the local inhabitants for their service during the war. Akiko Macdonald, Chairperson of the Burma Campaign Society wanted to stand where her father stood at the Kohima battle in 1944. She practically traced her father’s footsteps and walked through the battle site where his father fought which was a highly emotional and heart pinching remembrance. The definition of war weighs high and it is difficult to predict the cost of war, it could be more if we do not learn lessons from the past.

Reconciliation is a hope for peace and no war.

This article was published in YeningHunba, a journal for peace and reconciliation studies by 2nd World War Imphal Campaign Foundation.

Khyulano Ezung, Research Scholar, History & Archaeology, Nagaland University, Kohima Campus.

addressing the zeliangrong question

he Naga peace talk is to his successor late Apeh This was the first setback Nagas in other states, but the formation of NSCN Zeliangrong people could on the edge of con- Gaidinliu (1915 -1993). In to Zeliangrong fraternity. it is hard to comprehend in 1980 and later split of not be achieved straightclusion as reported Nagaland context, fellow Even after the Statehood that NNPGs will fight NSCN to NSCN (I-M) and away.

However, failing to in the Nagaland post dated Naga tribes often question and Shillong Accord under tooth and nail to secure NSCN-K in 1988 to 2020 15.07.2020. It goes further Zeliangrong existence in the Indian Constitution, interests of Nagas outside (which comes to total of achieve even administrative to state that in a major Nagaland without bother- the Zeliangrong commu- Nagaland, even when the 40 years and still count- autonomy from the peace breakthrough Government ing to find out its historical nity still believes in the so-called Naga national- ing), Zeliangrong people talks, the Zeliangrong of India Representative and backgrounds. Late Gaidin- Naga cause and continues ists has taken regionalism have given its due share of people need to seriously Interlocutor, Mr. Ravi, and liu though born and raised to support the Naga cause to a new level. In such a cooperation to IM, so what re-examine the sacrifices of also Governor of Nagaland in Longkao Village, under carry forward by NSCN reality, Zeliangrongs have more one could anticipate their people to Naga cause and the Working Commit- Tamenglong District Ma- and thus suspended their very nominal or nothing if the peace talks fail to in- by not only studying the tee of NNPGs agreed to nipur, had huge followers movement for homeland. to achieve from GoI and tegrate Zeliangrong people present social, economical, finalize draft agreement from her kindred tribes The Zeliangrong people NNPGs solution for the and their lands? Or one and political conditions or early settlement to the living in several villages especially living in Assam Nagas. expects all Zeliangrongs of the Zeliangrong people decades old Naga Politi- under Tening Sub-division and Manipur still believe in With GoI and NSCN to fully cooperate if IM living in the three states cal issue. The said press (Peren) and also from Ze- the results of Naga Peace (I-M), the situation is not decides to resume their of Assam, Manipur, and statement also mentioned liangrong people living talks with the hope of in- better, may be even worse. guerrilla warfare against Nagaland, but also studythat both the parties have in Dima Hasao formerly tegration.

The NSCN (I-M) has said India in case the peace talks ing whether continuing to sacrifice for Naga cause chalked out action plan North Cachar Hills, which Forlornly, the Naga they have not given up break down. for impending final agree- is one of the main reasons movement had come a long on integration, but InterAs for myself being will integrate its people. ment, so the negotiation is why Zeliangrong entity ex- way crossing 70 years now locutor had time and again apart of the Zeliangrong, I Lastly Zeliangrong people closed between Interlocu- ists in Nagaland. and counting, in these long maintain integration of will be more than content need to realize India’s potor and WC of NNPGs as Followers of Naga po- years Zeliangrongs faith Naga areas is out of the if any group in peace talks litical realities before it is per the deadline of the 31st litical history will be aware in Naga cause remain as picture. How can Nagas could bring some sort of too late, that India will October 2019. of the fact that when Naga strong as it was in early get separate flag and con- administrative autonomy remain a difficult place for However, the narra- Movement gained momen- NNC days, even overlook- stitution even when GoI is outside the administrative the minorities to survive, tive on the other side is tum across all Naga vil- ing the reality that the not willing to redraw state control of present states and worst in tribal state.

Pakinrichapbo, Advodifferent with the GoI and lages from middle part of Naga tribes leading the boundaries, which is legally government in Assam and NSCN (I-M) failing to 1950s, Apeh Gaidinliu met movement now seems to permissible within the con- Manipur context, even cate, Samziuram Village, Peren break the impasse on the Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru have different aspirations stitution? From the time of when full integration of issue of co-existing as two at Imphal (in 1953) and to achieve from the peace entities and share sover- made him conscious of her talks, as most of the leading eignty with IM still not people living conditions tribes lives within a single giving up on separate flag, and also to do something state and have nothing constitution, and territorial spreading across the three much to lose but to gain integration .The question States. She soon mobilized more after the final agreeas to what makes the results members of the Zelian- ment is executed. While of Naga peace talks more grong who believed in her for the naive Zeliangrongs so connected with the Ze- cause to fight for Zelian- their faith in Naga cause liangrong people comprise grong homeland under the could not shake them out of Zeme, Liangmai, Rong- Indian Constitution. When unless the contents of im- Sir, I am a Gorkha and my family has been living in Shillong right from the late mei and Inpui tribe, living the Naga National Council pending final agreement do 1890’s. Like mine, there are many more Gorkha families who have lived throughout in three state of Assam, (NNC) authority was in the talking.

Manipur and Nagaland. its peak, Gaidinliu had As an ardent believer the country for more than a century and are devoted, patriotic and proud Indians.

Zeliangrong people were to suspend Zeliangrong in Naga unity, I still hope However, our community has been facing a brutal identity crisis.

Yes for many of us, our forefathers had come from Nepal. But the great marecognized under different movement for homeland the peace talks will deliver jority of us are born in India, educated in India, learned to live the “Indian way names by the Schedules due to intense pressure something to all the Naga of life”.

However there has always been a scepticism surrounding our Nationality Tribe Order 1950 and its from Zeliangrong leaders tribes, but I’m left with little as we are confused with our Nepali friends who come to India from Nepal legally subsequent amendments. working in NNC. The Ze- hope as Interlocutor R. under “Indo-Nepal Treaty of Peace and Friendship”.

This article is an attempt liangrong leaders felt that N. Ravi said even territoI have no problem with our Nepali friends nor with the Treaty. In fact, I as an to illustrate how the results it would not be right to rial integration is dropped of the current peace talks go against the Naga cause from the demands of Naga Indian am thankful to our Nepali friends for their enormous contribution towards will have a huge implica- spearheaded by NNC as it negotiators. With GoI and our Nation’s Security and Overall development. But there are many instances when tion on the Zeliangrong might create a sense of be- NNPGs agreement, it is our fellow Indians have been confusing the Nepali speaking Indian Gorkhas with people and their ancestral trayal by the Zeliangrong. very likely that the agree- the Nepali Nationals. Sometimes even our educated childhood friends often taunt lands. The irony is that the Soon after suspension of ment would extend only with us with:”Or bhai tu Nepal Wapas Kab gayega”. Though it’s painful but over Zeliangrong people are so the Zeliangrong move- within Nagaland state. years we have been habituated to such responses and have learned to live with it.

However, with the recent happenings in Nepal, have now led to a very differpolitically divided thanks ment, the talks between And if speculations are to individual and local Naga People Convention true, Nagaland will see ent and volatile situation. It is definitely not under our control to see how people interests, crude regional- and GoI, resulted in Naga increase of State Legisla- in Nepal behave towards Indians. But we can definitely control and should control ism, and blind loyalty to hills being upgraded to tive Assembly seats and how Indians behave towards their fellow Indians. The recent jabs, memes, Facebook their own factions without full pledge statehood in parliamentary seats, es- and WhatsApp status targeted towards Nepali people were extremely offensive prudently discussing how 1963. Even though NNC tablishment of legislative and it hurted the emotions of many of the Gorkhas because as usual they failed to to secure the best interests condemned the statehood, council. Not discrediting distinguish the Indian Gorkhas from our Nepali friends.

I request my fellow Indians to condemn and restrain from such actions before for the people. their condemnation could the influence of NNPGs more feelings of the Gorkhas are hurt.

In modern political not save the Zeliangrong outside Nagaland, but I I also pray for a better and improved relations with Nepal as it is equally sense, Zeliangrong con- people from physical disin- wonder if any arrangesciousness as one unit start- tegrations, blood brothers ment made for Nagas in beneficial for both the Nations. We must try to remind Nepal of the historical and ed with Haipou Jadonang land boundaries with few neighboring states would cultural ties we share.

However, let me be very clear that the Gorkha community will surely stand in 1905 -1931. After his un- inch apart became state see the light of day. Time any decision that is taken in national interest against any other nation. timely death the burden of boundaries further sever- and again NNPGs have Jai Hind, Bharat Mata ki Jai. fulfilling Zeliangrong polit- ing their historical ties and stressed that they speak and Raj Sunar, Shillong (sunaraj42@gmail.com) ical interests was passed on sympathy for each other. remember the welfare of Reader’s note: Articles or letters published in any of the columns do not reflect the view of this newspaper nor that of the Editor in any manner.

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A request from an Indian Gorkha

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Students attend neighbourhood classes in Tripura Mnp COVID death toll rises to 20

Agartala, Aug 21 (PTI): On its first day, over one lakh school students in Tripura attended neighbourhood clases in open places maintaining social distancing, a state minister said.

The state government has started neighbourhood classes for students, who do not have television sets or mobile phones, the minister said on Friday.

A total of 1.25 lakh students attended the classes on the first day on Thursday, Education minister Ratan Lal Nath said.

Under this system, a teacher will teach a maximum of five students by strictly maintaining social distancing. Every student must carry a mask and sanitise his hand before and after classes.

Students from class 3 to class 12 participated in the neighbourhood classes in the school ground or in an open space near the educational institution, the

Students attend a class in an open area in the wake of coronavirus pandemic, in Agartala, (PTI) minister said.

“Schools and various other educational institutions remained closed for the past five months (due to COVID-19 pandemic) hampering the education of the students. We have formed

committees with representatives from all political parties and organisations and on the recommendations of these committees, steps are being taken to teach the students.

“We have also asked

the teachers not to pressurise any student to attend the neighbourhood classes if their parents are not willing,” Nath said.

After the lockdown started from March, the state government had introduced

virtual classes through cable TV networks and android phones to engage the students in the process of learning.

But a survey conducted by the state Education Department showed that all students did not have access to phones and TV. The initiative will help students who could not take the benefit of the digital initiatives being run by the School Education Department, the minister had said.

The survey conducted by his department in all the eight districts showed that 29 per cent (94,013) of the 3.22 lakh students did not have mobile phones and around 44 per cent (1.42 lakh) of the students did not have access to television, Nath said.

“Since these students can’t avail our ongoing classes, we have decided to start neighbourhood classes with a 1:5 teacher student ratio, mostly in remote areas,” Nath said.

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Shillong, Aug 21 (PTI): At least 57 more people, including five security personnel, tested positive for COVID- 19 in Meghalaya on Friday, taking the northeastern state’s tally to 1,718, a Health Department official said.

Of the 57 new cases, 33 were reported from East Khasi Hills district, 17 from from West Khasi Hills district, three from West Garo Hills district, two from East Garo Hills district and one each from Ri-Bhoi and West Jaintia Hills districts, Health Services Director Aman War said.

“Three BSF personnel from West Garo Hills district and two employees of the Indian Air Force from East Khasi Hills district are among the new patients,” he said.

Fourteen more people were cured of the disease, taking the total number of recoveries in the state to 749, and six patients have died so far, War said.

Meghalaya currently has 963 active COVID-19 cases, hesaid.

East Khasi Hills district, of which state capital Shillong is a part, has the highest number of active COVID-19 cases at 599, followed by West Garo Hills (221) and Ri-Bhoi (92), War said.

“Of the 599 active cases in East Khasi Hills district, 223 are security personnel,” he said. Meghalaya had reported its highest single-day spike of 126 new COVID-19 cases on Thursday.

More than 70,413 samples have been tested for COVID-19 so far, the official added.

Constituency of Imphal West is the son of former Congress leader and chief minister RK Jaichandra and son-in-law of incumbent chief minister N Biren Singh.

Before his expulsion from the primary membership of Congress, MPCC had served a show cause notice after he cross-voted in favour of the BJP candidate during the Rajya Sabha polls held on June 19.

A show cause notice

FELICITATION The Lumithsami Kughuko Kuqhakulu Dimapur (LKKD) would like to congratulate Shri. S. Khetoshe Awomi, S/o Lt. Shokhuyi Awomi, Havildar, DEF Dimapur on being awarded the prestigious Governor's Gold Medal on Independence Day 2020.

The LKKD is immensely proud of your achievement and for bringing laurels to the community. We wish you all the best in your future endeavours.

Sd/(NITOHO KIHO) President

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57 new cases take M’laya’s COVID19 tally to 1,718

R K Imo Singh

Sd/(HOTOKHE KINIMI) General Secretary

DIMAPUR NKONJAN EZONMONTSÜ-RÜI EKHUNG DIMAPUR : NAGALAND

FELICITATION Dimapur Nkonjan Ezonmontsü-rüi Ekhung do hereby congratulate Mrs. Apeni Kithan W/o Dr. Mhabemo Kithan of Old Changsu Village, Wokha District on being promoted to the post of Director, Department of Higher Education, Government of Nagaland.

While complementing Mrs. Apeni Kithan for her illustrious career, DNEE prays that God continue to shower His blessing on her with good health and wisdom.

P. Pius Lotha Chairman

Mhademo Kithan General Secretary

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IMPHAL, AUG 21: Manipur Pradesh Congress Committee (MPCC) has expelled its sitting legislator RK Imo Singh who had crossed voted in the recently held Rajya Sabha election in the state from the party.

He was expelled for six years under the party’s constitution, following a recommendation of the disciplinary action committee, a source in the MPCC said.

A copy of the order expelling RK Imo has been submitted to the state Assembly secretariat today, the source said. His expulsion was informed to the media in a release issued by MPCC general secretary (administration) Hareshwar Goshwami on Thursday.

RK Imo who was elected on Congress ticket from Sagolband Assembly

was also issued to another congress MLA, Okram Henry, who also voted cross voted. He had however resigned both from being a member of the state Assembly and Congress party on August 10 , after the trust vote in the state Assembly.

Henry is the nephew of senior Congress leader and former three-time chief minister O Ibobi Singh.

After his resignation, Henry joined the BJP along with four other resigned Congress MLAs in New Delhi. Imo had, in his response to the show cause notice criticised the state Congress which is under the leadership of O Ibobi Singh who is also the leader of the opposition.

RK Imo is also currently in New Delhi travelled in the same charter flight which the chief minister and six resigned Congress MLAs boarded.

Itanagar, Aug 21 (PTI) : Security forces in Arunachal Pradesh have apprehended three cadres of various factions of the NSCN during joint operations in Changlang district, police said on Friday.

A joint team of Changlang police, 9 Assam Rifles and 149 Battalion of CRPF, during an operation on Thursday, apprehended one self-styled second lieutenant of the National Socialist Council of Nagaland (Reformation). The NSCN-R cadre was apprehended from New Sallang village in the district, the sources said.

In another operation on Thursday, an NSCN (K) Yung Aung (YA) faction cadre was apprehended from

Namgoi area by a joint team of Changlang district police, 19 Assam Rifles and 171 Bn of CRPF. Earlier on August 15, security forces apprehended a self-styled Sergeant Major of the NSCN-K (YA) from New Sallang area by personnel of 9 Assam Rifles and district police.

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IMPHAL, Aug 21: The COVID-19 situation in Manipur is deteriorating even as locally transmitted cases are reported amid rising cases of COVID- related deaths.

With the deaths of two males aged 73 years and 67 years from Imphal who also had comorbid health conditions, the fatality rose to 20 on Friday. The 73-year-old, a businessman died yesterday (August 20) at his home in Imphal’s Thangal Bazar before he was shifted to a COVID care facility after he tested positive for the virus.

His test result was received a day earlier on August 19, sources said. The other fatality, a 60-year-old man from Imphal’s Wahengbam Leikai died at JNIMS hospital around 10.30 am on Friday. He was admitted after complaining of fever, SOB and diarrhoea on August 20 and tested positive for the virus, a hospital source said.

Including the two, the cumulative number of deaths due to COVID-19 rose to 20, a release of the COVID-19 Common Control Room informed. As per the release, the COVID-19 infections in the state rose to 5049 with the detection of 124 new cases which included 98 from the general population and 26 personnel from Central Armed Police Force (CAPF). Of the 98 new cases from the general populace, 97 have no signifi-

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cant travel history and only one of them from Kakching district was returnee from outside the state.

Of the 98 fresh cases on Friday, 50 were from Imphal West district, 26 from Imphal East, 8 from Chandel, 5 each from Churachandpur and Thoubal districts and 1from Tamenglong district, the release stated.

Of the 5049 infections, 1768 including 794 CAPF personnel were active cases as the number of recovered cases rose to 3261 with the discharge of 259 persons on Friday. The recovered cases included 2744 from the general populace and 517 from the CAPF. The state’s recovery rate stood at 64.58% percent on Friday.

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Govt to propose projects for easing Dmu, Kma ... lot complex at various loca- he suggested the need for (From p-1) Kithan said intersec- tions along the road corridor more bridges to connect to the City in order to ease the tion points in Kohima were of Kohima City.

While for Dimapur, traffic congestion. one of the causes for traffic congestion. He suggested alternative routes for continuous movement and free flow of traffic by creating ring roads to reduce the traffic 1. Around 50 Pura with Fisheries cover about during the peak hours.

6 Pura.

He also suggested single lane flyover at PR Hill 2. Rubber Tree Plantation - 5500.

Junction and High School 3. Tea Plantation - 45000.

Junction.

4. Betel Tree - 6500 Kithan suggested road expansion and development 5. Yanchak Tree - 1000 of ring roads at High School Junction, PR Hill Junction, Location – Zuheshe, Village – Niuland, Sub TCP Gate junction, and Kit- division – Dimapur, Distance from main road 100 subozou (Choto Bosti) Junc- Metre. Contact No. 7005364863, 8119076423. tion. Pointing out that taxi parking was also menace Contact Person – John Yeptho. for traffic congestion in the Price 15 Crore (Negotiable) state capital, he suggested the need for multi parking

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Additional development commissioner for planning & co-ordination, Nosazol Charles, in his welcome address, said the total estimated project cost was Rs. 135 lakh (90:10) funded by NEC. Senior Analyst GIS, Dr. Chubawati, who is also principal investigator of the project, said the project was carried out with thorough research and intensive field survey with special emphasis on surface water resource management and development of the hydro-electric power (HEP) generation potential for Nagaland.

He informed that the report contained mapping of the entire river system, drainage network, the drainage pattern and preparation of large scale watershed delineation and morphometric analysis of the 22 watershed and the survey and assessment of surface water runoff/discharge in more than 100 different locations across the State.

The report prepared for the project demonstrates the application of space technology and use of remote sensing and GIS techniques in the implementation of the project.

The repor t release programme was attended by advisor for treasuries & accounts and national highway Dr. Longrineken, advisor for water resources Namri Nchang, senior officers and staff from the State GIS & Remote Sensing Centre.

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kar Rao. Operations at the power station have been suspended following the incident.

The Srisailam dam is located across the Krishna river which serves as the border between Telangana and Andhra Pradesh.

Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao ordered a probe by the CID into the fire.

Following the direction, Chief Secretary Somesh Kumar issued an order appointing Additional Director General of Police, CID, Govind Singh as the

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Visa linked with Chinese groups to go through scanner NEW DELHI, AUG 21 (IANS): The decision was taken after some suspicious activities were noticed involving certain individuals linked with Chinese think tanks. The security and intelligence agencies have been asked to do background check of people who get sponsorships from various Chinese think tanks and advocacy groups before the issuances of their visas.

Indian intelligence agencies have alerted the government that China has set up various think tanks as part of its extensive outreach programme. These have been set up with an objective to influence people in countries of strategic interest. These think tanks could be used to identify and recruit people for espionage, said a senior officer with an intelligence agency.

IN THE COURT OF PRINCIPAL DISTRICT AND SESSIONS JUDGE ZUNHEBOTO : NAGALAND

NO. JUD/SUCC-34/19-20/43

DT. ZBTO. THE 31ST JULY 2020

NOTICE CALLING OBJECTION FOR THE ISSUE OF SUCCESSION CERTIFICATE Whereas application has received from Smti. Ruth U/s 372 of Indian Succession Act, resident of Vekuho Village, Zbto for succession of Pension Benefit, debts and securities, PPO No. NL/S116689 and SBI A/c No. 36904633135 of Late Lukhuho.

Notice is hereby issued for filing objections to who has interest in the said claim/s within thirty days from the date of this publication to notice.

Mrs. Khesheli Chishi District & Sessions Judge, Zunheboto, Nagaland K-1325 Regd. No. 2497

AFFIDAVIT

Date: 21-08-2020

I, Shrimati Niepukhrieu Kuotsu Angami, D/o Kenny Kuotsu Angami, aged about 20 years resident of H.No. NMH C/142, New Minister's Hill Colony, Kohima, Nagaland do hereby solemnly affirm on oath and declare as under 1. That I am a bonafide citizen of India, belonging to Angami Naga 2. That I am also known as Niepukhrieii Kuotsu 3. That Niepukhrieu Kuotsu Angami & Niepukhrieii Kuotsu refers to one and the same person, that is myself 4. That henceforth I shall be known/ called as Niepukhrieu Kuotsu Angami for all my official purposes, future references and correspondences 5. That this affidavit shall be used as a piece of evidence of the fact and proof as mentioned above and also to be used for any rectification if need arises in future.

6. That the above statements are true.

Notary Public DEPONENT K-1324A

IN THE COURT OF DISTRICT & SESSIONS JUDGE WOKHA : NAGALAND NOTICE

S/C No. 66/2020

NOTICE INVITING CLAIMS/OBJECTIONS OF OTHER CLAIMANT(S) FOR ISSUE OF SUCCESSION CERTIFICATE UNDER PART-1 OF INDIAN SUCCESSION ACT 1925.

Whereas application under Succession Act 1925 for grant of Succession Certificate for the estate/pension benefit of Late R. Zanabeni Lotha has been applied by Shri. Ezanbemo Lotha, H/o. Lt. R. Zanabeni Lotha, R/o, H/No.., Wokha, Nagaland for possession of; 1. SBI A/C No. 30718102290 2. GIB, GPF, Leave Encashment, family pension and other benefits Notice is hereby given that any person having interest in the administration of the estate/pension benefits of the said deceased may, if she/he so desire appear in this court on or before 20/09/2020.

Given under the hand and seal of the court on this day the 20/08/2020.

District & Sessions Judge Wokha : Nagaland WC-3549

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and TS Genco and Transco Chairman and Managing Director Prabhakar Rao rushed to the spot and were overseeing rescue efforts.

Reddy said that the accident occurred in the first unit of the power station and four panels were damaged. He said that rescue personnel were unable to enter the tunnel due to thick smoke.

“As soon as the fire started, they tried to trip the units but that couldn’t happen. So we isolated the 400 KV input and all units were tripped,” said Prabha-

hensive inquiry and submit the report to the Chief Minister.

The Chief Minister expressed his deep shock over the fire incident and termed it as “very unfortunate”.

According to a statement from Chief Minister’s Office, he voiced his sorrow over the efforts to rescue the trapped people failing to yield results.

KCR, as the Chief Minister is popularly known, conveyed his heartfelt condolences to the families of the deceased. He expressed his best wishes for early recovery of those injured in the incident and directed the officials to ensure best treatment to them. He said the government would bear the entire cost of the treatment.

KCR was in regular touch with Jagdish Reddy and Prabhakar Rao to monitor the situation.

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy, who was scheduled to visit Srisailam on Friday, cancelled his visit in view of the disaster.

Senior officials informed the Chief Minister about the incident and said his visit to Srisailam to participate in pooja and review meetings would not be proper as efforts were on to rescue the trapped employees. Following this, he decided to cancel his visit. Expressing shock over the fire incident, he assured all support from Andhra Pradesh in the rescue operations.

DIMAPUR, AUG 21 (NPN): State deputy chief minister, Y Patton, has congratulated the three urban areas of Nagaland—Mokokchung town, Chümoukedima and Pfütsero— for making it to the Swachh Survekshan 2020. During a virtual programme “Swachh Mahotsav 2020” organised by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs on Thursday, Mokokchung town was adjudged as the cleanest city of the North East under 25,000 to 50,000 population category, Chümoukedima in Dimapur district was adjudged as the ‘best self-sustainable city of the North East under 25,000 to 50,000 and Pfütsero under Phek district bagged the ‘best city in innovation and best practices of the region in the upto 25,000 people category.’ Acknowledging the efforts of the citizens of three urban areas, Patton encouraged them to maintain consistency. He also urged the other towns and cities to come up to their level so Nagaland could soon be put in the map of innovation and sustainable development on a par with other performing states in the country.

LOST NOTICE I, Akai Chophy, S/o Lt. Zhekheto Chophy have lost Original Marksheet of B. Com 1st Year Roll No. – C1023011 Regd. No. 2010230005 Year. 2009-10 Public College of Commerce.

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Employees use a fire extinguisher as they attempt to douse a fire at Srisailam Left Bank Power Station (SLBP), in Kurnool district. (PTI)

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Hyderabad, Aug 21 (IANS): All nine persons trapped after a huge fire at an underground hydroelectric power station in Telangana were killed, officials said on Friday.

All the efforts by rescue workers to save the trapped employees at Telangana State Generation Corporation (TS Genco) plant at Srisailam canal’s left bank in Nagarkurnool district were futile.

The rescue workers recovered the bodies of five victims. They were identified as Assistant Engineers Mohan Kumar, Uzma Fatima, and Sunder, Divisional Engineer Srinivas Goud and Mahesh, an employee of a battery company.

Efforts were on to trace the bodies of the remaining persons. The rescue personnel including those from the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) and the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) were battling thick smoke to retrieve the bodies.

Some rescue workers have also reportedly become ill during the rescue operation.

E a r l i e r, p e r s o n n e l from the NDRF and experts from the Singareni Collieries Company Ltd (SCCL) joined the rescue operations.

The fire, which broke late on Thursday, was brought under control by the firefighters.

A short-circuit is believed to have caused the fire at unit one of the underground power house. Of the 30 persons reported to be present at the spot, 15 escaped to safety through a tunnel while six were rescued by rescue personnel.

They were admitted to a local hospital.

One of the survivors said the sparks were first noticed on a panel. “This was followed by series of explosions. There were utter chaos and we all ran out for safety,” he said.

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LOST NOTICE I, Hemlata Bajaj, D/o Jagdish Prasad Bajaj have lost Class-12, Mark Sheet, Admit Card and Pass Certificate Roll No. - 972336 Reg. No - 9 Year - 1997 S.D. Jain Girls College

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LOST NOTICE

S/C No. 71/2020

NOTICE INVITING CLAIMS/OBJECTIONS OF OTHER CLAIMANT(S) FOR ISSUE OF SUCCESSION CERTIFICATE UNDER PART-1 OF INDIAN SUCCESSION ACT 1925.

Whereas application under Succession Act 1925 for grant of Succession Certificate for the estate/pension benefit of Late Pithungo Lotha has been applied by Smti. Nthelo Lotha, W/o. Lt. Pithungo Lotha, R/o, H/No. 066, Wokha, Nagaland for possession of; 1. SBI A/C No. 11766602742 2. PPO No. PEN/COM-21757/NL/V/21370 Notice is hereby given that any person having interest in the administration of the estate/pension benefits of the said deceased may, if she/he so desire appear in this court on or before 20/09/2020.

Given under the hand and seal of the court on this day the 20/08/2020.

District & Sessions Judge Wokha : Nagaland WC-195

IN THE COURT OF DISTRICT & SESSIONS JUDGE WOKHA : NAGALAND NOTICE

S/C No. 60/2020

NOTICE INVITING CLAIMS/OBJECTIONS OF OTHER CLAIMANT(S) FOR ISSUE OF SUCCESSION CERTIFICATE UNDER PART-1 OF INDIAN SUCCESSION ACT 1925.

Whereas application under Succession Act 1925 for grant of Succession Certificate for the estate/pension benefit of Late R. Mhonchan Lotha has been applied by Smti. Khyochano, W/o. Lt. R. Mhonchan Lotha, R/o, H/No.., Wokha, Nagaland for possession of; 1. SBI A/C No. 11766533276 2. PPO No. NL/7522 Notice is hereby given that any person having interest in the administration of the estate/pension benefits of the said deceased may, if she/he so desire appear in this court on or before 20/09/2020.

Given under the hand and seal of the court on this day the 20/08/2020.

District & Sessions Judge Wokha : Nagaland WC-196 AFFIDAVIT

I, Hemlata Bajaj, D/o Jagdish Prasad Bajaj have lost Class-10 Mark Sheet and Admit Card Roll No. - 4155 Year - 1995 S.D. Jain High School.

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STOLEN SCOOTY ACTIVA 125 DLX Name of Owner : Md. Khosrul Islam Registration No : NL07 R 9905 Engine No. : JA49EU2087001 Chassis No : ME4JF496CJU014304 Colour : M. Blue Stolen on : 20/08/2020 around 4:15 p.m.

Stolen from : Supply Colony, Dimapur Finders please contact : 8837498840

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Regd. No.8347 I, Mr. PHONGMEI L. PHOM, permanent resident of Nyang village in the district of Longleng, State Nagaland do hereby solemnly affirm on oath and declares as follows.

1. That I am a citizen of India by birth and resident of the above mentioned address.

2. That, in all my official document my mother’s name has been entered, recorded and reflected as NIAME PHOM whereas due to ignorant and clerical mistake my mother’s name has been entered, recorded as C NIVAME PHOM in all my educational Qualification Certificate.

3. That, this Affidavit is made to declare that the name NIAME PHOM and C NIVAME PHOM refers to same and one person only.

4. That this affidavit is made to declare that when the name NIAME PHOM and C NIVAME PHOM appears it should be read corrected and understood as NIAME PHOM. 5. That, the statements made in para 1 to 4 are true and correct to the best of my knowledge and belief and nothing immaterial has been made or concealed therein And, I sign this Affidavit on this the 18th day of July 2020 at Longleng, Nagaland.

DEPONENT Solemnly sworn and declare before me by the above name deponent on this 18th day of July 2020 at Longleng, Nagaland.

Magistrate/Notary Public DP-3548

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Biden accepts prez nomination

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden hugs his wife Jill Biden after his speech on the fourth day of Democratic National Convention. (AP/PTI)

Washington, Aug 21 (IANS): Former US Vice President Joe Biden has formally accepted the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination to take on incumbent President Donald Trump in the November 3 election.

His acceptance speech came on the last day of the four-day Democratic National Convention on Thursday night, which also marked 33 years since he

made his first bid for the White House, reports ABC News.

“It’s with great honour and humility, I accept this nomination for president of the United States of America,” the 77-year-old said while speaking from a mostly empty event centre in his hometown of Wilmington, Delaware.

“It is time for us, for we, the people, to come together. And make no mis-

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take, united we can and will overcome this season of darkness in America. We will choose hope over fear, facts over fiction, fairness over privilege.”

“I’m a proud Democrat and I will be proud to carry the banner of our party into the general election.”

“But while I’ll be a democratic candidate, I will be an American president.

I’ll work hard for those who didn’t support me, as hard

for them as I did for those who did vote for me. That’s the job of a president, to represent all of us, not just our base or our party. This is not a partisan moment.

This must be an American moment.”

Biden also said that Trump has “cloaked America in darkness for much too long” and has unleashed “too much anger, too much fear, too much division”.

If Trump is re-elected, Biden said, “(Coronavirus) sases and deaths will remain far too high. More mom and pop businesses will close their doors and this time for good. Working families will struggle to get by and, yet, the wealthiest 1 per cent will get tens of billions of dollars in new tax breaks”.

The “assault on the Affordable Care Act will continue until it’s destroyed”, he added.

Trump has “failed in his most basic duty” to protect Americans from the virus, said the former Vice President. Biden also took a moment during his nomination acceptance speech to thank former President Barack Obama saying, “You were a great president.”

HK mass COVID testing to begin on September 1 HONG KONG, Aug 21 (Agencies): Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam said on Friday that mass testing of residents for coronavirus in the Asian financial hub will begin on September 1, as she warned people not to be complacent despite a steady fall in the number of new infections.

The testing, which will be done with the assistance of a 60-person team from the mainland, is the first time Chinese health officials have assisted the special administrative region in its battle to control the pandemic.

The testing will be voluntary and take around two weeks to complete, Lam said. “There will be a substantial boosting of the testing capacity in the public and private sector, a more than 10-fold increase.”

Hong Kong had seen a resurgence of locally transmitted cases since the start of July but the daily number has fallen from triple digits in recent weeks to low double digits.

Since late January, over 4,600 people have been infected in Hong Kong, 75 of whom have died.

Russia to let Alexei Navalny fly to Germany for treatment Moscow, Aug 21 (AP): Russian doctors gave a dissident who is in a coma after a suspected poisoning permission to be transferred abroad for medical treatment, a senior physician said on Friday.

The reversal came after more than 24 hours of wrangling over Alexei Navalny’s condition and treatment.

Navalny, a 44-year-old politician and corruption investigator who is one of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s fiercest critics, was admitted to an intensive care unit in the Siberian city of Omsk on Thursday.

His supporters believe he was poisoned and that the Kremlin is behind it.

His family and supporters wanted him brought to a top German medical clinic, but his physicians in Omsk said he was too unstable to move, even after a plane with German specialists and advanced equipment arrived.

Navalny’s supporters denounced that as a ploy by authorities to stall until any poison would no longer be traceable in his system. A

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senior doctor in Omsk said the team did not believe he was poisoned.

The German doctors later examined Navalny and said he was fit to be transported. “I understand he’s still unconscious, but they’re used to such special assignments and they say very clearly he can fly and they want to fly him,” film producer Jaka Bizilj, of Cinema For Peace, told The Associated Press after being in contact with the German doctors.

The Russian medical team then relented and deputy chief doctor of the Omsk hospital Anatoly Kalinichenko told reporters on Friday that he would be allowed to leave.

The flight was scheduled for Saturday morning, Russia’s RIA Novosti news agency reported, citing airport officials.

Earlier, a Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov denied the resistance to the transfer was political. He said he wasn’t aware of any instructions to stop the transfer and that it was purely a medical decision.

“It may pose a threat to his health,” Peskov said.

Navalny’s wife told reporters that hospital staff and men she suspected were law enforcement agents didn’t let her speak to the German specialists, who she said were brought into the facility in secrecy, through a back door.

Navalny fell ill on a flight back to Moscow from Siberia on Thursday and was taken to the hospital after the plane made an emergency landing. His team made arrangements to transfer him to Charite, a clinic in Berlin that has a history of treating famous foreign leaders and dissidents and insisted that the transfer is paramount to saving the politician’s life.

Pandemic could cause poverty to Scant progress in EU-UK trade negotiations: Barnier surge by 100 mn, says World Bank

Washington, Aug 21 (Agencies): The coronavirus pandemic may have driven as many as 100 million people back into extreme poverty, World Bank President David Malpass warned Thursday.

The Washington-based development lender previously estimated that 60 million people would fall into extreme poverty due to COVID-19, but the new estimate puts the deterioration at 70 to 100 million, and he said “that number could go higher” if the pandemic worsens or drags on.

The situation makes it

“imperative” that creditors reduce the amount of debt held by poor countries at risk, going beyond the commitment to suspend debt payments, Malpass said in an interview with AFP. Even so, more countries will be obliged to restructure their debt.

“The debt vulnerabilities are high, and the imperative of getting light at the end of the tunnel so that new investors can come in is substantial,” Malpass said.

Advanced economies in the Group of 20 already have committed to suspending debt payments from the

be resolved and even where there is a broad understanding between negotiators, there is a lot of detail to work through,” Frost said in a statement. “Time is short for both sides.”

After 46 years of membership, Britain became the first country ever to leave the EU on January 31. The two are now negotiating a new partnership, to be effective from 2021.

Disagreements over state aid rules and fishing quotas have so far thwarted a deal, which the EU says must be in the making in time to be approved at an October 15-16 summit of the bloc’s 27 national leaders to enable ratification this year. Beyond the biggest stumbling blocks, differences

also linger in discussions on migration, security, disputesettling mechanisms, human rights guarantees and other areas.

Barnier sounded downbeat on Friday, however, saying he was “disappointed and concerned” because British Prime Minister Boris Johnson had told the EU he wanted to speed up the negotiating process over the summer. “This week, once again, as in the July round, the British negotiators have not shown any real willingness to move forward on issues of fundamental importance for the European Union,” Barnier said.

“A n d t h i s d e s p i t e the flexibility which we have shown over recent months.”

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He said negotiations too often appeared to be going backwards rather than forwards and so, at this stage, an agreement looked

unlikely. “On the European side, we are very concerned about the state of play in our negotiations. The clock is ticking,” Barnier said.

OFFICE OF THE

MERANGKONG SENSO TELONGJEM, KOHIMA FELICITATION

The Merangkong Senso Telongjem Kohima, with immense pride and honour, take the opportunity to congratulate Dr. Imlirenla Jamir, D/o Mr. Bendangtoshi Jamir and Mrs Ladongmongla Imsong on conferment of Ph.D under Geology Department, Nagaland University on the topic – “Slope Stability Analyses in the Yamuna Valley, Garhwal Himalaya”.

The Union wishes her all success in her future endeavours.

O. IMLIWATI President, MSTK

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Utah Food Bank volunteers assemble bags of food to be delivered to waiting cars in Salk Lake City.

poorest nations through the end of the year, and there is growing support for extending that moratorium into next year.

But Malpass said that will not be enough, since the economic downturn means those countries, which already are struggling to provide a safety net for their citizens, will not be in a better position to deal with the payments. The amount of debt reduction needed will depend on the situation in each country, he said, but the policy “makes a lot of sense.”

The World Bank has committed to deploying $160 billion in funding to 100 countries through June 2021 in an effort to addresses the immediate emergency, but even so, extreme poverty, defined as earning less than $1.90 a day, continues to rise. Malpass said the deterioration is due to a combination of the destruction of jobs during the pandemic as well as supply issues that make access to food more difficult.

BRUSSELS/LONDON, Aug 21 (Agencies): British and European Union negotiators made scant progress towards a deal on future ties in talks this week, they said on Friday, and both sides voiced concern that time is running out to reach an agreement before an endyear deadline.

“Those who were hoping for negotiations to move swiftly forward this week will have been disappointed,” said EU’s chief negotiator, Michel Barnier.

His British counterpart David Frost said a deal on post-Brexit relations was “still possible” and was still London’s goal but would not be easy to achieve.

“There are ... significant areas which remain to

CHANGKIRI KIDONG TELONGJEM FELICITATION

NOTIFICATION Kohima, dated the 21st August, 2020.

NO.TPT/MV/05/2020:: In supersession of this Department's Notification of even number dated 08.06.2020, it is hereby notified that the temporary suspension of services pertaining to registration of vehicles and driving licenses is hereby lifted.

The Motor Vehicles Department shall resume with immediate effect its function of registration of vehicles and issue of driving licenses.

SOP on Covid-19 as issued by the State and subsequent periodical instructions as issued by the Government must strictly be adhered to.

Sd/A. ROBIN LOTHA Secretary to the Govt. of Nagaland.

Kohima, dated the 21st August, 2020.

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It is indeed, a proud moment and a sense of immense pride for Changkiri Clan, to extend our heartfelt congratulations to Shri. Limatemjen Changkiri, Joint Director, North East Police Academy, Barapani Meghalaya, a proud son of Lt. Mejenchanger and wife Mrs Sentinungchetla on being conferred the President's Police Medal for meritorious service on the occasion of the 74th Independence Day, 2020.

May our Lord continue to guide you for higher achievements.

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Sakshi Malik

New Delhi, Aug 21 (PTI): The Sports Ministry on Friday decided against bestowing the Arjuna award on former Khel Ratna winners Sakshi Malik and Mirabai Chanu, pruning the list to 27 but accepted an unprecedented five recommendations for the country’s highest sporting honour this year.

Last week, the Justice (retd) Mukundakam Sharma-led selection committee had recommended 29 names for the Arjuna Award to the Sports Ministry.

The list also included

Rio Olympics bronze medal-winning wrestler Sakshi and 2017 weightlifting world champion Mirabai, but the decision on bestowing the Arjuna on them was left to the discretion of Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju.

This was due to the fact that they had already won the Khel Ratna, the country’s highest sporting honour.

The strange decision to include their names raised eyebrows and attracted criticism.

While Sakshi won the Khel Ratna in 2016 for her

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bronze in Rio, Mirabai was bestowed with the prestigious honour in 2018, after her exploits at the world championships the previous year.

The five Khel Ratna winners for this year would be star cricketer Rohit Sharma, wrestler Vinesh Phogat, Paralympic gold-winner Mariyappan Thangavelu, TT player Manika Batra, and women’s hockey team captain Rani Rampal, the ministry confirmed in a formal press release.

In a first, the awards will be held virtually on

Marseille revoke PSG shirt ban for CL final

Paris Saint-Germain fans in team’s jersey.

Marseille, Aug 21 (Agencies): A ban on Paris Saint-Germain football shirts in Marseille’s city centre has been revoked just hours after it was imposed to avert clashes between rival fans during Sunday’s Champions League final.

PSG face Bayern Munich in Lisbon on Sunday evening, attempting to become only the second French winners after Olympique Marseille, who clinched the biggest prize in European club football

in 1993.

Marseille’s police prefecture on Thursday had announced a ban on “the presence of PSG supporters or people presenting themselves as such and behaving as such” around the historic Old Port — only to revoke it the next morning.

The ban was supposed to apply from 3pm local time on Sunday afternoon to 3am on Monday, with the evening match scheduled in between.

Tensions between fans

of the two clubs are so strong that the French interior ministry regularly issues travel bans for away fans when the clubs meet.

Justifying its initial ban, the police said “there is strong animosity on the part of some Marseille residents, supporters or not, toward the PSG team, in contradiction with any sporting spirit”.

The aborted order followed incidents during the broadcast of Tuesday evening’s Champions League semi-final, in which PSG beat RB Leipzig.

The police said gatherings of more than 250 people took place in Marseille and there were two assaults on people wearing PSG shirts, including “attempts to intimidate them in order to interrupt the broadcasting of the match”.

French authorities are also wary of possible unrest in Paris, where 36 people were arrested following Tuesday’s semi-final when jubilant fans clashed with police on the ChampsÉlysées.

August 29, the National Sports Day, instead of the Rashtrapati Bhavan this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The criteria for the awards takes into consideration the athletes’ performances over a four-year period.

A weightage of 80 per cent is given to athletes winning medals at various international competitions with the remaining 20 per cent left to the discretion of the panel members.

Paddler Manika Batra’s recommendation for the Khel Ratna raised

doubts as she has not won anything of note since the Arjuna award on the back of her exploits at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast.

During this period, her world ranking has slipped to 63, but the ministry decided against rejecting her recommendation.

The recommendation of Rani Rampal also raised questions even though she helped the Indian hockey team secure a berth at the Tokyo Olympics, besides leading the team into the final of the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta, where it lost to Japan 1-2.

The sports fraternity, though, lauded the Arjuna recommendation of Winter Olympic Games legend Shiva Keshavan, who has represented India six times in the luge event at the Games from 1998 to 2018.

Keshavan has won innumerable medals for India at the international level and has several world and Asian records to his name.

With the sports ministry pressing for recognition to indigenous sport, the Arjuna Award list also included an athlete from kho-kho (Sudhakar Sarika Kale).

BA RC ELO NA , Au g 21 (Agencies): Lionel Messi still wishes to leave Barcelona after meeting new coach Ronald Koeman, according to reports in the Spanish media on Friday, as all four sports newspapers dedicated their front covers to the Argentine’s uncertain future.

Marca, Spain’s biggest selling daily, said the Argentine told Koeman that he was more likely to leave the club than to stay, while AS declared on its cover ‘Messi sees himself leaving’.

Barcelona-based daily Mundo Deportivo said Messi ‘does not see his future clearly’, but stressed that the captain has little hope of leaving the club immediately due to his 700-million-euro ($827.05 million) release clause.

Messi, who joined Barca aged 13, has scored a record 634 goals for the Catalans in 730 matches and is also the club’s most from matching Xavi Herdecorated player with 33 nandez as the club’s alltime appearance maker. trophies.

But the 33-year-old is He is 37 games away

Players of LA Lakers and Portland Trail Blazers in action during their match.

34 points in each of his previous five games, including a 61-point effort on August 11 against the Dallas Mavericks.

Davis took charge early in Game 2, scoring 21 points by half-time and reaching 31 through three quarters. He did not play in the fourth. Davis was 13-of21 from the field and 3-of-4 from three-point range.

James took more of a background role in Game 2. His 10 points marked

his lowest scoring playoff game since he had seven points for the Miami Heat in Game 5 of the 2014 Eastern Conference Finals against the Indiana Pacers.

Kentavious CaldwellPope scored 16 for the Lakers while JR Smith had 11 and JaVale McGee added 10.

M i lwa u k e e Bucks 111 – 96 Orlando Magic: Topseeded Milwaukee held eighth-seeded Orlando

Majority of Japanese companies against holding Tokyo Olympics

A group of students from Uruguay pose for a souvenir picture on the Olympic Rings set outside the Olympic Stadium in Tokyo.

Tokyo, Aug 21 (IANS): A recent poll shows that more than half of Japanese companies want the Tokyo Olympic Games to be cancelled or postponed again.

Japan’s Kyodo news agency said on Thursday that in the online survey by Tokyo Shoko Research covering 12,857 companies, 27.8 per cent want the Tokyo Games to be cancelled while 25.8 per cent said the sporting event should be postponed again.

That means a combined 53.6 per cent of the responding firms are against holding the games from July 23 to August 8, 2021, writes Xinhua news

agency.

The survey, which was conducted between July 28 and August 11, shows that 46.2 per cent want the games to go ahead in some way -- 22.5 per cent are in favour of holding the Olympics as planned, 18.4 per cent want it to be held but with fewer spectators and 5.3 per cent without any spectators.

Japan is suffering a second wave of COVID19 infections, with new confirmed cases increased by 1178 in the country and 339 in Tokyo.

To k y o G o v e r n o r Koike Yuriko is urging residents to take thorough

precautions in every aspect of daily life.

Tokyo 2020 organising committee president Yoshiro Mori has said that the delayed Tokyo Olympics, originally scheduled from July 24 to August 9 this year, could not be held next year if COVID-19 pandemic continues as it is.

He also said that the games will have to be cancelled if it could not be held next year.

The organisers will start discussing concrete countermeasures against COVID-19 this autumn onwards with the Japanese government and Tokyo Metropolitan government.

Messi contemplates Barcelona exit: reports

NBA: LA Lakers beat Blazers to even series

Orlando, Aug 21 (Agencies): Anthony Davis scored 31 points and grabbed 11 rebounds as the Los Angeles Lakers earned a 111-88 victory over the Portland Trail Blazers on Thursday night to even the first-round series at one game apiece.

LeBron James added a modest 10 points with six rebounds and seven assists in 27 minutes as the Lakers rebounded from a 100-93 defeat to the eighth-seeded Blazers in Game 1.

The Lakers led by nine points in the opening quarter minutes and increased that to 17 in the first half.

The advantage reached 32 late in the third quarter as the Lakers jumped on top 88-56.

Blazers guard Damian Lillard was held to 18 points while CJ McCollum added 13. Portland were limited to 40 per cent shooting from the field and 27.6 per cent (8-of-29) from three-point range.

Lillard, who left the game with a dislocated left index finger late in the third quarter, had his lowest scoring game since the NBA’s restart late last month. He scored at least

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to three first-quarter field goals en route to a doubledigit lead, then rode Giannis Antetokounmpo’s 28 points and game-high 20 rebounds to even their bestof-seven Eastern Conference playoff series at one game apiece.

Nikola Vucevic went for a game-high 32 points, but no other member of the Magic topped 12 as Milwaukee avenged a poor defensive effort in a 122110 loss in Game 1 on

Tuesday.

Brook Lopez chipped in with 20 points, while Pat Connaughton added 15, Eric Bledsoe had 13 to complement a game-high seven assists and Donte DiVincenzo 11 for the Bucks, who outshot the Magic 47.2 percent to 34.8 percent.

Miami Heat 109 – 100 Indiana Pacers: Duncan Robinson tied a franchise postseason record with seven 3-pointers in just his second career playoff game, helping Miami take a 2-0 lead in its first-round Eastern Conference series against Indiana.

Robinson finished with a game-high 24 points, Goran Dragic added 20 and Jimmy Butler had 18 in a balanced attack that allowed the fifth-seeded Heat to successfully follow up on their 113-101 triumph in the series opener. The Heat never trailed in the second half.

Victor Oladipo, playing two days after suffering an eye injury that required brief hospitalization, led the fourth-seeded Pacers with 22 points. Myles Turner and Malcom Brogdon added 17 apiece.

Lionel Messi

since 2015.

Sport, also based in Barcelona, talked of a ‘first summit meeting’ between the captain and coach, adding that Messi interrupted his holidays in order to meet with Koeman.

The Dutch coach said in his presentation on Wednesday that he wanted Messi to stay, although he did not show as much reverence to the player as some of his predecessors.

Koeman said he “did not know if he needed to convince Messi to stay” although he did call the Argentine the best player in the world and said he would be happy if he chose to remain at Barca.

With his contract running out next June, the six-times world player of the year is free to negotiate with other clubs from next January.

Yet even without a transfer fee, Messi’s colossal salary, reported to be the highest in world football, means very few clubs would be able to afford him.

into the final year of his contract at the club and doubts about his future have grown since last week’s

historic 8-2 thrashing to Bayern Munich to exit the Champions League, which Barca have failed to win

IPL 13: Malinga to miss initial games

Pursuit for record spurred Djokovic to compete in US Open

Colombo, Aug 21 (IANS): Mumbai Indians seamer Lasith Malinga will not be available for the initial stages of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2020 due to personal reasons.

According to a report in ESPNcricinfo, the Sri Lankan bowler will not be travelling to the UAE with the Mumbai Indians squad as his father is ill.

The lucrative T20 league, scheduled to be played across three venues in Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Sharjah, will be held from September 19 till November 10. “It is understood Malinga’s father has been ill and may require surgery in the coming weeks. The fast bowler wants to be by his side and will be training in Colombo,” the report said.

Last year, Malinga was in the middle of things as he helped the franchise get to their fourth IPL title with a scintillating last-over finish.

He has played 122 games in the IPL, picking 170 wickets at an average of 19.80.

The 36-year-old last featured for Sri Lanka in a T20I during the home series against West Indies in March this year.

Belgrade, Aug 21 ( Ag e nc i e s ) : N ova k Djokovic decided to travel to New York for the US Open amid the COVID-19 pandemic because the 17-times Grand Slam champion did not want to pass up on the opportunity to close in on Roger Federer’s record tally of 20.

Federer will not be at Flushing Meadows this year after he took the year off to recover from a knee surgery while defending champion Rafael Nadal joined a number of top seeds in refusing to travel to the U.S..

“I cannot say it’s the main reason why I’m here, but it’s one of the reasons,” Djokovic told The New York Times, adding that he came very close to skipping the tournament as well.

“I have to think about myself and my health and my fitness and whether my team is OK to be here. Once that was checked, then I, of course, also felt responsible as a top player to be here, it’s important for our sport to keep going.”

“I want to play... That’s why I’m here. I’m personally not afraid of being in a

Novak Djokovic

risky, dangerous health situation for myself. If I felt that way, I most likely would not be here.”

Djokovic came under scrutiny in June when he hosted the ill-fated Adria Tour in Serbia and Croatia, which was scrapped when many players and staff, including himself, tested positive for COVID-19.

The 33-year-old Serbian said he felt the criticism had turned into a “witch hunt”. “I don’t think I’ve done anything bad to be honest,” Djokovic said. “I do feel sorry for people that were infected. Do I feel guilty for anybody that was infected from that point onward in Serbia, Croatia and the region? Of course not.

How can you blame one individual for everything?”

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