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Naga political issue dominates first day of the 8th session of NLA Correspondent

KOHIMA, AUG 3 (NPN): After the proposal for an opposition-less legislative assembly is being considered, the 8th session of the current 13th NLA got underway here Tuesday where the Naga political issue dominated the proceedings on the first day.

The discussion saw various shades of opinions come to the fore as 15 members participated including the leader of the house and leader of the opposition.

The discussion on Naga political issue was initiated by minister of planning and member-secretary of the committees, Neiba Kronu under matter of urgent public importance.

Rio urges unity: After several members spoke, leader of the house and chief minister Neiphiu Rio

in his concluding remarks, thanked all who participated at the highest forum of democracy in the state to carry the aspirations and wishes of the people.

Rio begun by touching on divisions within the underground set up where 12 different groups have emerged. Even in the overground, he said people were divided among tribal, political and social lines where even the centenary of Naga Club was celebrated by two different organisations.

Rio said despite legislators not being perfect and always accused of wrongdoings, yet since 1964 the elected members, leaving all political affiliations and ideologies, have consistently and unanimously passed 12 resolutions on Naga political issue. Rio pointed out that PDA and NPF legislators

Whichever group cannot sign agreement NLA adopts 5-point resolution house unanimously passed the should abrogate cease-fire, says Azo 5-pointTheresolution, earlier adopted by the Par-

Neiphiu Rio addressing the house on Tuesday. (DIPR)

had issued a joint statement in public domain on Naga political issue as per the directive of union home minister Amit Shah. Also as per the insistence of the NPF, he said all 60 MLAs and two MPs were included in a newly named Parliamentary Committee for Naga political issue. Due to the second lockdown, the core committee was formed and resolution passed on July 9.

Rio said both the Framework Agreement of

NSCN (I-M) and the Agreed Position of NNPGs had a lot of similarities and so efforts were made to have both the groups reconcile their differences.

On the issue of Naga flag and constitution, (which have kept solution suspended after all official negotiations concluded on October 31, 2019), Rio said union home minister Amit Shah did not reject them but assured to discuss them post-solution.

(Cont’d on p-11)

Senior NPF legislator Kuzholuzo Azo Nienu, made a bold and frank statement while asking which among the two negotiating groups, was holding back solution? Azo said the government of India must be bold enough to call for round table conference of the stakeholders and see their positions for solution.

He said whichever group does not want to sign the agreement, should be brave enough to abrogate the ceasefire and go back to their camps. Azo said today the desire to end the political issue was to also end taxes, threat, intimidation, extortion, kidnapping etc. He said people are totally fed up of all these activities and that prices of all commodities continue to rise due to multiple taxations in the name of peace process.

Without naming the political

group Azo said the cadre strength has gone to more than 11,000 from the previous estimate of around 2000 members. He asked the members whether they will watch silently as situation becomes more intolerable. Azo said it was time for the government to show its existence and put all these things to an end.

Being a mandated government, Azo said it should not allow multiple governments to function as self styled mandated governments.

Azo also said occupying the chair does not mean that the elected members were clever as there are more clever people watching.

He said the house should show political will and it should be “now” and not after 2023 state general election, since then, no one will be willing to vacate the chair.

liamentary Core Committee on Naga Political Issue on July 9. NLA speaker Sharingain Longkumer put the resolution for adoption through voice vote, which was unanimously adopted.

1. The House appeals to the negotiating Parties of the Indo-Naga Political dialogue to resume the Peace Talks with a positive approach and mutual respect for each other by setting aside pre-conditions, indifference to the Naga people’s cry for long term peace, and resolve the contentious issues of the competencies at the earliest.

2. The House appeals to all Naga Political Groups to make serious efforts towards unity and reconciliation. The constant antagonism against each other, especially in public space and the media is sending out a wrong message to the masses, considering the fact that we are all pursuing the same aspiration of peace and political solution. Taking the positive example set by the elected Members of the Nagaland Legislative Assembly, who have risen above Party affiliations to unite for the Naga Political Issue, the Naga Political groups should make concerted efforts, and listen to the voice of the people for unity and oneness.

(Cont’d on p-10)

NSCN (I-M)’s 12-hr closure call passes off peacefully Human remains found at construction site in Kma

Dimapur town wears a deserted look as shops remained closed. (NP)

Staff Reporter/Correspondents of India (GoI) for keeping

DIMAPUR/KOHIMA/ MOKOKCHUNG, AUG 3 (NPN): A 12-hour “total closure of shops and business establishments in Nagalim” called by NSCN (I-M) against Government

silent on the Framework Agreement (FA) even after six years evoked mixed response in Nagaland.

While Dimapur, Kohima, Mokokchung and Peren witnessed total closure, the shops remained opened in

some districts, as per reports received here.

In Dimapur, shops and business establishments remained closed till 12 noon, despite the directive issued by the Confederation of Nagaland Chamber of Commerce & Industries to conduct business as usual.

Dimapur Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DCCI) president Akashe K Zhimomi told Nagaland Post over the phone that the shops had to remain closed following the NSCN (I-M) closure call. However, he said that since there was no official intimation from NSCN (I-M) to CNCCI, the chamber was compelled to issue directive not to close the shops. (Cont’d on p-8)

NSCN (I-M) grateful Experts suspect these

NSCN (I-M) has expressed “sincere gratitude” to all the shop owners and business establishments for “exhibiting the courage to show solidarity to the Framework Agreement (FA).”

NSCN (I-M) also expressed gratitude to the Naga people and public for bearing with the inconveniences.

It said that the shutdown call was met with “a grand success” due to the “overwhelming support” from all over Naga areas including the Naga areas of Arunachal Pradesh and Manipur. “It was organized to show our anguish and disappointment for dilly-dally in finalization of the FA,” MIP stated.

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Correspondent

KOHIMA, AUG 3 (NPN): Human remains were discovered by some construction workers at a site of a Church here recently. A team of researchers led

by Nagaland University’s archaeology professor Dr Tiatoshi Jamir went and salvaged the human remains, which have now been kept at art and culture department’s research storeroom awaiting further analysis.

Speaking to Nagaland Post, Tiatoshi disclosed that

Human remains and the lighter found at the construction site in Kohima. (Social media)

the recently-collected human remains had been left to dry and would be sent for tests along with more samples collected from other archaeological sites. He said the remains included a fragment of maxilla (upper jaw), the orbit (eye socket) and femur (thigh bone).

Along with the human remains, a lighter bearing a swastika insignia and frag-

ments of artillery shells were found next to the bones. “By the time we reached the construction site to collect the materials, the area was already disturbed by the construction workers. All the human remains along with the relics were removed and therefore we were unable to get a good contextual evidence of the burial,” he (Cont’d on p-8) said.

DoSE cautions on reopening schools D I M A P U R , AU G 3 (NPN): Department of School Education (DoSE) has cautioned against resumption of normal classes for students of Classes XI and XII without obtaining permission from the DTF. The department also directed the schools not to resume regular classes for students of other classes before the same was permitted by the government.

DoSE further informed that schools were required to obtain permission from the respective district task force for the re-opening and were to continue with the present system of online teaching while awaiting clearance from the DTF.

CNCCI flays ultimatum on traders DIMAPUR, AUG 3 (NPN): Confederation of Nagaland Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CNCCI) has vehemently condemned the purported “ultimatum/threat” being circulated on social media by the NNPGs Sumi region to the business community under Sumi region.

In a press release, CNCCI vice president S Abenthung Ngullie and general secretary Dr. Seyievilie Mor said the chamber has taken “serious note” of business community members being made victims due to political differences be-

tween different Naga political groups. CNCCI affirmed that it had always been supportive for early and honourable solution to the “long protracted Naga political issue.”

Asserting that it respected all Naga political groups in their pursuit for a final solution, the CNCCI, however, said various Naga political groups should understand that the solution to Naga political issue “neither lies with the business community nor forced closing/opening of their establishments.”

(Cont’d on p-8)

State logs 68 fresh Covid cases, 3 deaths DIMAPUR, AUG 3 (NPN): Nagaland on Tuesday recorded 68 fresh Covid-19 cases and three more deaths.

Of the fresh cases, 19 were from Dimapur, Kohima-15, Mokokchung-14, four each in Mon and Phek, three each in Peren and Tuensang, two each in Kiphire and Zunheboto and on each in Longleng and Wokha, taking the total caseload to 28072 Further, three more patients-- one each in Dimapur, Kohima and Mokokchung succumbed to the infection, pushing the death toll to 577 (including 14 non-Covid deaths).

This is it!

"Frankly, prices are rising everyday. All these are due to corona."

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Translate Naga panel’s resolution No. 4 into reality: NTC DIMAPUR, AUG 3 (NPN): Nagaland Tribes Council (NTC) has urged members of NLA to translate resolution no. 4 of Parliamentary Core Committee on Naga Political Issue into reality without delay.

In a representation to chief minister NTC president Toniho Yepthomi and general secy Nribemo Ngullie stressed that if not now, no better opportunity would come for the elected leaders to implement the resolution by sacrificing their seats for expeditious solution to Naga political issue. (Full text on p-6) K Y M C

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NAGALAND POST, DIMAPUR WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 4, 2021

Coffee Bar-Native brew launched in Dimapur DIMAPUR: Coffee BarNative Brew was launched on August 3 in the office of district project officer (DPO), land resources department Dimapur. The coffee bar was launched by special guest of the programme, deputy commissioner (DC) Dimapur, Rajesh Soundararajan.

According to DIPR report, Rajesh said that with the support of Coffee Board of India (CBI), it was the right and opportune time for the department to leverage the conducive opportunity for increasing coffee plantation.

He also added that it was an opportunity to improve market linkages and come up with coffee processing capabilities.

Informing that India stood as the sixth major coffee producer in the world which was further projected to increase from 15 to 18%, Rajesh encouraged the department to keep up with their awareness programmes and continue

DC Dimapur, Rajesh Soundararajan launching the coffee bar- native brew in DPO office. (DIPR)

supporting coffee farmers.

Highlighting the history of coffee plantation in Nagaland, deputy director, LRD & supervisory officer for Dimapur district, Puvil Kikhi disclosed that during the early ’80s, the CBI and state government jointly started Nagaland plantation crop Development Corporation in 1981 and did not fail.

He however said that

NEWS IN BRIEF Coordination meeting at Chozuba: Chozuba subdivision coordination meeting was held on August 3 at ADC’s office, Chozuba. The meeting deliberated on the detail programme for the upcoming Independence Day celebration and various issues including drought problems in the sub-division, vaccination and soft loans to affected business establishment in and around Chozuba town due to two-lane road construction.

Noklak DTF meeting: Noklak district task force on COVID-19 under the chairmanship of DC, Hiazu Meru held a meeting on August 3 and discussed on latest SOPs and guidelines of unlock-4 phase of COVID-19. District task force members also reviewed the preparedness on COVID-19 in the district and resolved to intensify awareness campaigns on COVID-19 in the district.

NNC/FGN to observe Naga I-Day: Naga National Council (NNC) and the Federal Government of Nagaland (FGN), at central level, along with Angami Region would celebrate the “75th Nagaland Independence Day” on August 14, 10 a.m., at its headquarters, Kohima. NNC/ FGN through its Rali Wali kilonser Yirei Lungleng has requested all central authorities, Angami regional authorities and eligible top Naga army officers to participate.

Regional Midan Peyus, FGN and all regional presidents NNC have been informed to celebrate the occasion.

since CBI could not arrange market for coffee farmers, most plantation farms were abandoned by farmers except for few districts such as Wokha, Mokokchung, Mon and Zunheboto.

He said that during 2014-15, the CBI had a discussion with land resources department and agreed on taking up coffee plantation where an MOU was signed.

Since 2015, the coffee

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from Kathmandu, British Coffee School.

The trainers would be imparting training to the educated unemployed youths across all the districts of Nagaland and the training would start from August 10.

He informed the department’s latest initiative of taking up Natural tea including Butterfly Pea tea, Gooseberry tea, Sumac tea, Fresh ginger tea, Rosella tea, Cinnamon and Moringa tea.

DPO Dimapur, LRD, I. Acato Chishi announced that all visitors in the coffee bar would be offered (American, Expresso, Latte) coffee drinks free of cost.

Special invitees including ADC Dimapur, Atokhe, CCF, Hukato Chishi, IFS, joint director, industries and commerce, Tokugha, DHO Dimapur, Temsu Longkumer, district soil conservation officer and DPRO Dimapur were also part of the programme.

DIMAPUR: Tseminyu aspirational block committee (TABC) held a meeting on August 3 in the conference hall of the DPDB, Kohima to discuss on preparation of its five-year action plan for the selected block.

According to a DIPR report, deputy commissioner Kohima & chairman of the committee, Gregory Thejawelie informed the members that the Government had notified Tseminyu block under Kohima district along with other nine blocks spread over the districts as aspirational blocks.

He said that as per the government’s direction, the district aspirational block committee was constituted with DC as chairman and DPO (planning) as member secretary along with other 22 officers from various departments as members.

Discussing on the preparation of the action plan, the meeting deliberated on various implementing programmes under centrally sponsored scheme and other programmes undertaken by

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

OBITUARY

We, the bereaved family of Late Aosashi Lusang would wish to express our deepest, heartfelt gratitude and appreciation and our indebtedness to all individuals, friends, well-wishers, churches, organisations, associations and groups for your unreserved contribution physically, clinically, materially, financially and unconditional moral support through words of comfort and encouragement during his illness and at the ultimate demise on the 30th July, 2021.

We would also like to express from the depth of our hearts that your prayer, presence, gifts and assistance have been an immeasurable sources of help, encouragement, strength, comfort and consolation which will continue to enlighten and cherish our hearts forever.

Though there is little that one can say and do and we are unable to thank each and everyone personally in person but it is our ardent prayer to Almighty God that you be richly blessed.

Loving wife, children, in-laws, grandchildren & relatives

Late NguchiNyi Koza (01st aug. 1938 – 31st July 2021) We, the bereaved family express our profound gratefulness to all who stood by us at the departure of our beloved father Late Nguchinyi Koza who left for his heavenly abode on 31. 07. 2021.

We express our heartfelt gratitude to churches, neighbors, friends, relatives and well-wishers who supported us through prayers and all possible needs.

May God richly bless you.

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plantation started in real earnest and since 2016, there was no turning back, Kikhi informed.

He informed that presently 8996 hectares of coffee plantation was developed in Nagaland where last year alone 1003 hectares has been developed in collaboration with CBI. Disclosing the department’s vision for 2020-30, Kikhi informed that the department had earmarked to develop 50,000 hectares of coffee.

“If we can develop 50000 hectares the state would be able to generate a revenue of 1630 crores”, he explained.

He further said that till date (2019-20) the department has exported 27.5 metric tonnes of coffee to a South African company by the name of Noble Cause where a memorandum has been signed for 30 years.

Kikhi also informed that two of the department’s staff were trained for coffee development

TABC discusses action plan for Tseminyu DC Kohima Gregory Thejawelie addressing the meeting on August 3. (DIPR)

the departments.

In this regard, the members shared their views and suggestions for preparation of the action plan. The meeting decided to work out departmental-wise action plan based on implementing programmes including schemes under CSS to be incorporated and to submit it on or before August 20.

In this connection, DC asked departmental officers to have required consultation with ADC Tseminyu and respective sub-divisional officers while preparing the action plan and to submit it within the time framed.

He said that with the action plan submitted by each departments, the committee would prepare the final action plan for the selected aspirational block

depending on its potential and requirements.

In his brief note, ADC Tseminyu W. Manpai Phom on Tseminyu Aspirational Block, stated that Tseminyu block, with 26 villages, was one among the seven blocks under Kohima district.

As per the 2011 census, Tseminyu has a total population of 51314, including a sex ratio of 1022 as against the state average of 931, and a healthy literacy rate of 81.71% as against the state average of 79.55%.

The meeting also highlighted the potentiality of the block, infrastructure needs, increasing income of people in the block, trade/ sector requirement capacity buildings and also on the present condition of various sectors in the block.

IN REMEMBRANCE FOREVER

LATE T. VUNGATHUNG KIKON (12/10/1936 – 04/08/2013)

Eight years have gone by…

But Always remembered, missed and cherished by your near and dear ones. wc-178

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Alhou-ü AlbinA Dzüvichü (10th June 1928 – 30th July 2021) “Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life; And I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever” (Psalms 23:6) The family members of late Mrs. Alhou-ü Albina Dzüvichü acknowledges with deep gratitude the prayers, gestures of support and kindness, messages of sympathy and solace from all across, on the demise of our beloved mother on the 30th July 2021. May God bless all of you abundantly as we pray for her eternal rest and peace.

We remain indebted to the following leaders and organizations – 1. Shri. Neiphiu Rio, Hon’ble Chief Minister of Nagaland 30. Catholic Women Association, Christ King Church, Kohima Village 2. Dr. Shürhozelie Liezietsu, Fmr Chief Minister of Nagaland 31. St. Dominic Savio Church, Chiephobozou town 3. Khriehu Liezietsu, MLA, Nagaland Legislative Assembly 32. Catholic Women Association, Chiephobozou 4. Angami Public Organisation 33. St. Paul’s Catholic Church, Chiechama 5. Angami Women Organisation 34. Holy Cross Angami Catholic Women Association, Dimapur 6. Catholic Union, Christ King Church, Kohima Village 35. St. Andrew Church, Jotsoma 7. Angami Catholic Union 36. St. Stephen’s Church, Rüsoma 8. Angami Catholic Women Association Kohima 37. Catholic Church, Phesama 9. Northern Angami Catholic Union 38. Catholic Women Association, Chiechama 10. Angami Catholic Women Association, Cathedral 39. Chakhro Angami Catholic Women Association 11. St. Joseph’s Church, Thizama 40. Northern Angami Catholic Women 12. Catholic Junior Association, Christ King Church, Kohima Village 41. Christ King Church Socünoma 13. Northern Angami Catholic Thenumiapfü Krotho 42. Kewhimiapfü Mechü Krotho 14. Catholic Women Association, L. Khel, Kohima Village 43. Lhisemiapfü Mechü Krotho 15. Northern Angami Catholic Youth Association 44. Northern Angami Women Organisation 16. Catholic Youth Association, Christ King Church, Kohima Village 45. Global Naga Forum 17. Nagaland Catholic Women Association 46. Naga Mothers’ Association 18. Angami Women Catholic Association, SFS, Kohima Town 47. Dzüvichünuomiapfü Mechü Krotho 19. Former leaders of Angami Catholic Women Association 48. Socünoma Women Organisation 20. Angami Catholic Youth Association 49. New Socünoma Village Council 21. Holy Cross Church, Chedema Village 50. Northeast Women Association 22. Catholic Women Association, Thizama 51. Principal and faculty, Kohima Science College, Jotsoma 23. Angami Catholic Women Association 52. Staff of G.M.S. Forest colony, Kohima 24. Catholic Union, P. Khel, Kohima Village 53. Staff of G.M.S. L.Khel, Kohima Village 25. St. Peter’s church, Jakhama town 54. Department of English, Nagaland University 26. Kohima Town Region Angami Catholic Union 55. Faculty, Nagaland University 27. Rüsoma Women Association, St. Stephen’s Church 56. Rotary Club, Kohima 28. Catholic Union, Khonoma Village 57. Dolphin Club 29. Sts. Peter and Paul Church, Zhadima village 58. Members of the Media fraternity Loving Children, In-Laws, Grandchildren and Great-Grandchildren L. Khel, Kohima Village k-1433 K Y M C

NAGALAND POST, DIMAPUR WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 4, 2021

nagalandpost.com Poll nagalandpost.com Poll Q.: Is climate change this year more intensely evident than in earlier years?

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NEXT POLL Q: Can the border dispute

between Assam and Nagaland be resolved through dialogue?  Yes.  No.  Can’t Say.

WEATHER FORECAST AUGUST 4

(Temperature in ºC)

Max Min

Agartala A stray afternoon t-storm

33 25

A t-storm in the afternoon

28 20

Aizawl

Guwahati A thunderstorm in spots Imphal

A t-storm around in the a.m.

34 26 30 20

Itanagar Very warm with clouds and sun 33 24 Shillong A thunderstorm in spots

26 19

A t-storm around in the a.m.

27 18

Dimapur A t-storm around in the a.m.

33 24

Kohima

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NVBDCP Kma observes ‘anti-dengue month’

DIMAPUR: National Vector Borne Disease Control Programme (NVBDCP) Kohima district observed “anti-dengue month” from July 1-30 to spread awareness, prevention and control of the disease.

In a press release, Kohima district vector borne officer (DVBO), Dr. Kevilhulie Meyase informed that various activities were conducted in 12 villages under Kohima district: Kohima Sardar; Jakhama block; Sechu block; Chiephobozou block and Tseminyu block.

MTS/ SWs and ASHAS from all the blocks conducted the activities along with district consultant and senior entomology and team from directorate of Health and Family Welfare (H&FW) Kohima.

Various activities such as house to house vector density study and miking awareness was conducted NVBDCP representatives conducting vector density in order to educate the community on the dengue. study in one of the villages.

Two-day NLA session begins

JNV Chukitong admission rescheduled D I M A P U R : Jawa h a r N avo d aya V i d ya l aya (JNV) Chukitong, Wokha has informed that Selection Test 2021 for admission of students to Class VI in JNV for the academic session 2021-22 has been rescheduled to August 11.

According to a DIPR report, registered candidates have been requested to download admit cards with rescheduled dates of selection test and carry the same to test centres as indicated in the admit card.

Candidates have been to follow the COVID-19 protocols and guidelines as given in the admit card.

JNV has informed candidates to collect their card from district education officer’s office, Wokha, and head master of concern school or JNV Chukitong Wokha.

The exam centres include: GHSS Wokha; Mount Sinai School; GHS Sanis; GHSS Bhandari and GHS Wozhuro.

Seminar on smart tea farming & networking held at Akumen village

Participants, speakers and others during the seminar.

DIMAPUR: Ayulcr Tea Private Limited company organised a seminar under the theme, “Smart Tea Farming and Networking” at Akumen village under Mokokchung district to empower the local tea farmers.

A press release from Ayulcr Tea Private Limited informed that during the programme, managing director of Ayulcr Tea pvt

Ltd., Lima Jamir spoke on the topic smart tea farming and networking.

He addressed the need to work for the younger generation where self-sustenance should be learned. He also stressed on uplifting the economy of the state from a scratch.

Lima Jamir said that just as their forefathers were hard working people, they

would also need to follow their legacy by working hard and smart in the tea plantation area.

Earlier, director of Ayulcr Tea pvt ltd., Yanger hosted the event while Anok Akumen Baptist Church pastor invoked God’s blessings. Nearby villagers from Tsuremen village tea growers were also present at the seminar.

Labour deptt on work-from-home for nursing mothers

DIMAPUR: The eight session of the 13 Nagaland Professions, Trades, Call- DIMAPUR: Following where the nature of work Nagaland Legislative Assembly began ings and Employment Taxation (Fifth the advisory issued by the assigned to a woman is Mkg Partly sunny with a t-storm 29 20 on Tuesday with chief minister Neiphiu Amendment) Bill, 2020 and The Na- Centre, the state labour of such nature that she Tuensang A t-storm around in the p.m. 23 16 Rio making obituary references to the galand Lokayukta (Amendment No.2) commissioner Er. S. L. may work from home, the Wokha A t-storm around in the a.m. 28 22 Wati Aier has advised the employer may allow her to passing away of sitting member of NLA Bill, 2021.

Zunheboto Partly sunny with a t-storm 27 18 Toshi Wungtung. NLA Speaker, SharLaying of reports/rules: Leader employers to encourage do so after availing of the work-from-home for nurs- maternity benefit for such ingain Longkumer also made obituary of the house, Neiphiu Rio laid a copy ing mothers under the en- period and on such condireferences to the following former mem- of the Annual Report 2019-2020 of the abling provision for permit- tions as the employer and bers of the NLA --Khutovi Sema, K. Nagaland Information Commission. ting work from home for the woman may mutually Imlong Chang, P.K. Along, N. Yeshito Tribal Affairs and Higher Education, nursing mothers under the agree.

Chishi, Dr. K.C. Nihoshe and T. Kikon. minister Temjen Imna Along also laid Section 5 (5) of the MaterIn the context of preIntroduction of government bills: a copy of the Rules/Bye-Laws of Naga- nity Benefit (Amendment) vailing COVID-19 panLeader of the house, Neiphiu Rio land Eklavya Model Residential School Act, 2017. demic, the nursing mothers DIMAPUR: Deputy ComThe Act provides that are a highly vulnerable lot introduced two government bills- The Management Society. missioner Dimapur, Rajesh Soundararajan convened a meeting of all heads of departments (HoDs) under Dimapur district on August excluding MLAs, their pay 3, in the conference of the KOHIMA, AUG 3 (NPN): chief minister Neiphiu Rio suring that the State machin- allocated the works.

Chumben, however, and allowances, etc, Rio DC Dimapur. The meeting On the first day of the intervened and said there eries were alert and prepared was held to chalk out the eighth session of 13th Na- were different categories to offset any move made by retorted that he was not replied that 19 persons were satisfied with the reply and appointed. programme for the ensuing galand Legislative Assembly of people in the State and Assam.

He said their pay and (NLA), ministers in-charge Chozuba CHC: NPF their rights should not be insisted that the department 75th Independence Day of various departments re- trampled upon. He assured legislator Dr Chotisuh Sazo should depute its officials allowances varied from the celebration.

According to a DIPR plied to several starred ques- that once the consultation wanted to know the total to monitor the quality and status of cabinet ministers to pay level-17 and all their process was over, the report number of posts sanctioned execution of the works. report, the Deputy Com- tion raised by members.

In a reply to a starred would be tabled on the floor against Chozuba commuFoothill road status: allowances, including TA/ missioner informed that nity health centre (CHC), Replying to another starred DA, were as per entitlenumber of people for at- question raised by NPF of the house. legislator Kuzholuzo Nienu whether all the sanctioned question of Nienu on the ment of class-I officers in He said those who tending the Independence Day celebration would be on the status of Register of resided before the Indian posts had been filled up ect. status of Foothill road, Pat- the State. Five government regulated where social dis- Indigenous Inhabitants of independence would get per- Health & family welfare ton, who is also in-charge vehicles (Innova, Scorpio tance and other Covid ap- Nagaland (RIIN), deputy manent resident certificates, (H&FW) minister S Pang- of R&B department, said and Bolero) were allotted chief minister and minister while different certificates nyu Phom replied that there road construction work to four of them from the propriate behaviour would in-charge of Home, Y Pat- or permits would be issued were 37 posts sanctioned had stopped since funding transport special pool. be maintained. He however ton said that the government to those who had come for against Chozuba CHC, in- under SPA was discontinUDAP, BADP: Replydirected the HoDs to in- which had constituted com- business purposes. Rio fur- cluding medical officer (2), ued though construction of ing to another starred quesstruct the staff for attending mittees at the state level and ther said that if documents staff nurse (4), ANM/HFW two-lane RCC bridge over tion raised by NPF legislator the programme to mark the district level were holding are found to be fake, then (5), LHV (1), LDA/CA (1), Doyang river near Gover- YM Yollow on UDAP & special occasion. deliberations with tribal the issuing authority would lab technician (1), sanitary nor’s Camp was in progress. BADP funds, Rio replied Wo r k d i s t r i b u t i o n hohos and organisations on be held accountable.

Since funding under that there was no deduction inspector (1), vaccinator was assigned to different the recommendations of the Asked by leader of (2), compounder (1), driver SPA had stopped, he said from UDAP, as exemption departments for success- Banuo Jamir commission the opposition TR Zeliang (1), lab attendant (1), ayah the State government had from 15% pro-rata cut was ful celebration of the pro- and other issues pertaining whether the Banuo Com- (1), medical attendant (13), proposed to the Union min- given for the scheme. He gramme. Marking the 75th to RIIN. mission report was a secret dresser (1), sweeper (1) and istry of road transport & also shared a list of allocaanniversary, a number of He said that the gov- document since its contents peon (1). He said all posts, highways to take up the proj- tion of fund under BADP. activities would be taken ernment had decided to were not laid in public do- except one post each of ect under national highways.

He informed the House up between August 9 to 14 prepare the register with an main, Rio replied that there staff nurse and sweeper, The decision by MoRTH that allotment of funds for as per. In this regard the aim to prevent issuance of was nothing confidential were filled up, adding that was still pending, he added. BADP schemes were given meeting discussed organ- fake indigenous inhabitant and the report was shared vacant posts were due to Covid vaccination: as per the following criising workshops, rallies, certificates. with tribal leaders to study. recent retirements/ earlier Asked about Covid-19 vac- teria of Union ministry tree plantation, cleanliness However, due to dif- He sought time to complete ban on appointment against cination drive by Chumben, of home affairs: length of drives, essay and painting ferent opinions expressed the consultation process, grade IV posts. Details of the H&FW minister replied international boundary – competition by different de- by various sections of civil after which the report would names and designations of that 6,02,985 individuals 33% weightage; area of the partments and road safety society and tribal bodies, he be tabled in NLA for ap- employees at Chozuba CHC had received the first dose border belt covering: census of vaccine as of July 26, villages/semi-urban/urban were furnished. rally by traffic police, CPs said the government con- proval.

Pangnyu mentioned while 1,42,269 had received areas situated within 0 to Border issue: NPF legoffice and other activities in stituted a commission with 10 km within border block Banuo Z Jamir as chairper- islator Dr Chumben Murry that officer/staffs were not the second dose. tune with the theme.

He said following the – 33% weightage; populason, along with two other asked whether it was a fact appointed/posted for traumembers, to study, examine that Assam chief minis- ma centre since no separate Gauhati High Court Ko- tion of the census villages/ and recommend and advise ter Himanta Biswa Sarma posts were approved for hima Bench directive, the semi-urban/urban areas on the issue. planned to set up police appointment. As the facility State government had in- situated within 0 to 10 km The commission had battalion camps at strategic was under Chozuba CHC, tensified the vaccination of international boundary submitted its report and a location along the Assam- it was manned by existing drive by way of inter alia – 33% weightage. He said consultative meeting with all Nagaland border and, if so, staffs. Details of life saving mobilisation of beneficiaries allocation of these blocks DIMAPUR: In view of the tribal hohos and organisa- what was the stand of the equipment/materials/medi- through outreach activities were increased or decreased forthcoming Independence tions to discuss the modali- Nagaland government on cines provided to the CHC carried out by district task depending upon the overall Day Celebration 2021, the ties and process to achieve this issue and how it planned and PHCs under Chozuba forces (DTFs) with the par- fund allocation.

Status of Phek DC sub-division for fighting ticipation of officials from Commissioner of Police the objectives of RIIN was to counter the move.

Acknowledging that against Covid-19 were also H&FW department, local office: In a reply to an(CP) Dimapur, Rothihu held on April 16, 2021, administration, civil society other starred question on Tetseo, has prohibited flying where it was decided to it was learnt from media furnished. and faith-based organiza- the status of DC’s office reports that Assam governconstitute a State-level joint Wokha town roads: of sub-conventional aerial tions. He mentioned that in Phek district by Nienu, ment had plans to set up consultative committee with On the issue of upgrading platforms like para-gliders, home commissioner as con- battalion camps at strategic roads of Wokha town in village councils/wards and the chief minister, who is para-motors, hang gliders, vener and representatives of locations along the inter- 2020-21 raised by NPF leg- committees were also being also in-charge of CAWD, UAVs, UASs, microlight CNTC, ENPO, TPO and of State border, deputy chief islator Dr Chumben Murry, sensitised before mobilisa- replied that 93% of the work aircrafts, remotely piloted non-Naga Scheduled Tribes minister Y Patton, who is Rio, who is also in-charge tion in the respective villages had been completed and it aircrafts, hot air ballons of the State as members. In also in-charge of home de- of urban development de- for voluntary vaccination. had been occupied since etc. over the jurisdiction of the districts, district-level partment, however, replied partment, said 75% of up- Covid vaccination centres September 2016 due to the Dimapur district. sub-committees with DCs that no official communica- grading of roads at Wokha were also being set up in Assembly election in 2018.

In an order, CP Dima- as conveners and respective tion had been received in town was complete. He also non-health facilities like Its contractor was pur Rothihu Tetseo notified tribal hohos as members will this regard. shared a list with names of workplaces to facilitate ben- M/s Keduo Zumu and tothat order would come into be constituted for holding tal project cost (revised) He claimed that the the roads that were being eficiaries, he added. force with effect from Au- further deliberations with State government had re- upgraded.

Appointments: In re- was Rs 972.46 lakh, while gust 4-17, 2021 (both days various stakeholders from cently strengthened its manHe said tendering pro- sponse to another starred the amount allocated for inclusive) unless withdrawn the State on RIIN. power at Vikuto, Aosenden cess was adopted for alloca- question by Nienu on the the work up to date was earlier. CP cautioned that As Azo supplemented and Tsutapela gates in order tion of works and that three number of persons appoint- Rs 555.65 lakh, whose balviolation would be punish- the question asking the fate to counter fresh attempts firms had applied for the ed to the ranks of cabi- ance amount of Rs 316.81 able under section 188 of of Garos and Kukis of Na- by Assam to establish new works, out of which M/s net/state minister, adviser, lakh was yet to be paid, Rio galand, leader of house and border outposts (BoPs), as- Humtsoe Construction was commissioner & secretary, added. the Indian Penal Code.

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and the need to protect this segment of the population from getting infected by the corona virus cannot be over emphasized.

Labour commissioner stated that allowing nursing mothers to work from home could contribute to protecting them and their babies from getting infected.

The employers have been advised to allow more and more nursing moth-

ers to work from home wherever nature of work allows to do so. For nursing mothers at least for a period of one year from the date of birth of the child, the commissioner said.

Labour commissioner has, therefore, advised all employers of mines, plantations, shops and establishments (either in organized sector or unorganized sector) and factories to comply with the information.

PDTTU meet adopts 5-point resolution DIMAPUR: Peren District Timber Traders Union (PDTTU) held a meeting at its office, Monday Bazaar, Jalukie on August 2 and adopted five-point resolution.

During the meeting, the house unanimously decided to commence membership drive from August till October last, 2021 after which late fine would be charged as prescribed by the union. The union would man three gates at different locations: Saijang; Punglwa and main office respectively. The union resolved to charge Rs. 3000 for the sticker and decided to buy a vehicle for PDTTU duty. Meanwhile, during the meeting, the union unanimously selected Samhing as union treasurer and Wangko, Puilungbe and Nchalak as auditors. PDTTU further warned that it would be compelled to seize log/ timber of any individual or group who is found operating timber without registration within its jurisdiction.

NLA session: Gov gives assent to 6 bills DIMAPUR: Nagaland governor, RN Ravi has given his assent to six bills, NLA commissioner & secretary, Dr. P.J. Antony informed the house on the first day of the 8th session of the 13 NLA. The bills include-- The Nagaland Goods and Services Tax (Fourth Amendment) Bill, 2020; Nagaland Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management (Amendment) Bill, 2021; Nagaland Appropriation (No.1) Bill, 2021; Nagaland Appropriation (No.2) Bill, 2021; Nagaland Appropriation (No.3) Bill, 2021 and Nagaland Appropriation (No. 4) Bill, 2021.

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Border row: Mizoram faces shortage of medicines MIZORAM HEALTH MINISTER WRITES TO CENTRE ON BLOCKADE

AIZAWL, AUG 3 (IANS): The Mizoram Health Minister has urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home and Health Ministers to intervene as the state has been facing severe crisis of medicines including life-saving and Covid-19 related drugs due to the “economic blockade” on the National Highway-306.

Mizoram Health and Family Welfare Minister on Tuesday said in Aizawl that the hilly state has been facing acute crisis of vital medicines and urged the Prime Minister, Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya to intervene at the earliest to prevent any health crisis that may soon engulf Mizoram and which would be beyond the control of anybody.

Lalthangliana wrote separate letters to the Prime

Lalthangliana Minister, Union Home Minister and Health Minister detailing the medicine crisis due to the “economic blockade” on the National Highway-306, which connects the hilly state with the rest of the country via Assam.

Lalthangliana said that following the border dispute and clash on July 26, the Assam government on July 29 summoned all the transporters (in Guwahati) who have been operating between the two states to stop transporting

any goods into Mizoram due to “security concerns”.

“This resulted in to a complete halt of any type of goods coming to the state including basic medicines, life saving medicines and Covid-19 medicines as well. Even oxygen cylinders, oxygen plant materials, and Covid-19 test kits have been blocked.”

The Minister said that never before in the history of this country has anyone resorted to such a draconian and inhumane act to his fellow citizens.

“The basic fundamental right to life as guaranteed by the Indian constitution which includes the right to basic health care and medicines have been denied by the belligerent activities of the Assam government,” Lalthangliana said.

He said that despite having endured this problem for almost a week, there has been no response

from the central government on this front.

“As true citizens of the country, we are entitled to amicable and positive response and intervention from the Central government at this critical time.

“Every citizen of this country has the right to medical care and medicines and denial of this right is contrary to the basic laws of this country. No citizen of Mizoram should lose his or her life because of the non-availability of medicines which are man-made as is being done by the Assam government,” the Minister added.

Mizoram Chief Secretary Lalnunmawia Chuaungo said that the state government had taken up the issue of “economic blockade” with the Union Home Ministry. “We have understood that the MHA would be able to convince the Assam government to

lift the blockade in southern Assam.

“Mizoram’s 95 per cent supplies come through the National Highway-306, which is the lifeline for our state,” he told the media.

In a letter to Union Home Secretary Ajay Kumar Bhalla, Home Secretary Pi Lalbiaksangi also requested that the Centre may intervene and instruct the Assam government to take necessary action for the immediate removal of the blockade.

The ever most violent clashes along the AssamMizoram border on July 26 left six Assam Police personnel dead and around 100 civilians and security personnel of the two neighbouring states injured, including an Inspector General of Police in Assam and Cachar Superintendent of Police Vaibhav Chandrakant Nimbalkar, who was shifted to Mumbai.

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NH8 blockade between Assam and Tripura lifted after 8 hours

Arunachal may soon get second medical college I TA NAG A R , AU G 3 (PTI): Arunachal Pradesh is likely to get its second medical college after the Centre assured to set up one in the Namsai district, officials said on Tuesday.

Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya gave the assurance when a team led by state’s Health and Family Welfare Minister Alo Libang called on him in New Delhi on Monday, they said. At present, the Northeastern state has only one medical college -- Tomo Riba (TRIHMS) at Naharlagun, near Itanagar. The ministers also discussed strengthening medical infrastructure, medical equipment, medicines and better medical services in the state, officials said.

Libang, who was accompanied by Lok Sabha member Tapir Gao and Namsai MLA Chau Zingnu Namchoom, also discussed the COVID-19 situation in the state and the strategy to fight the pandemic, they said.

DIBRUGARH, AUG 3 (AGENCIES): Protestors, who had blocked the National Highway 8 between Assam and Agartala in protest against Tripura’s stance to allow transportation of essential commodities to Mizoram on Monday finally lifted the blockade after eight hours on Tuesday, reports The Northeast Today.

Organised under the banner of Rashtriya Yuba Chatra Parisha (RYCP) in Karimganj district of Assam, the blockade was lifted following talks between police and the protestors.

The protestors had blocked the highway between Karimganj in Assam and Sabroom in Tripura, stating that Tripura, which is dependent on Assam for the supply of essential goods, is supporting Mizoram despite the economic blockade imposed by the Assam government following the violent clashes on the Assam-Mizoram border that saw the death

of six Assam policemen on July 26.

Expressing dismay over Tripura’s gesture, the protestors had initially said that we will not allow the trucks carrying essential items such as medicines, food, and other essential items for Mizoram to pass through the area.

“They (Mizos) have killed our policemen during the inter-state border clash on July 26. This highway is the lifeline of Tripura and they are dependent on Assam for basic commodities. And now, Tripura is helping Mizoram which is also dependent on Assam. We will block supplies to Mizoram unless they seek an apology from the Assamese people,” said a member of the RYCP, who didn’t want to be named. On the other hand, the Mizoram health minister Dr. R Lathangliana on Monday had written a letter to the Union home minister, Amit Shah requesting him to intervene in the matter.

Man from Bihar held with fake Border row: 2 Assam Ministers to visit Mizoram on Aug 5 441 Remdesivir vials in Manipur Correspondent IMPHAL, AUG 3: Manipur police arrested a person with fake 441 pieces of DESREM (Remdesivir 100 mg) injection, a key drug in the treatment of COVID-19.

The arrested person, identified as Lalo Sah (55) Bihar’s Sasam village of Samastipur district, was arrested by a team of Imphal East district police who were on frisking and checking duty at New Checkon area under Porompat police station on Monday, around 1pm. Addressing a press conference today, Imphal East SP N Herojit Singh said that the person was detained upon detection of 441 pieces of Remdesivir injection in one of the two luggage bags he was carrying.

Initially, the police personnel detained Sah as he could not produce relevant documents for possessing the medicine as no private individual can procure or possess the said drugs without any proper document

Lalo Sah (55) with fake Remdesivir medicine. from the concerned authority. However, he was arrested formally after the concerned authority of the state health department suggested that the seized drug appeared to be a fake.

After the recovery of the medicine, the police enquired from the state health department and the officials of the State Drug Controller compared the seized medicine with the genuine sample of the same company maintained in the

directorate. The directorate certified that the overall impression in the seized item seemed to be a fake product and no private individual can procure/possess the said drugs without any proper document from the concerned authority, the SP informed.

Following the response of the health directorate, the police formally arrested the person while confiscating the 441 pieces of DESREM injection. One mobile phone and a boarding pass of air Asia were also recovered from his possession, the SP said. On being observed, the seized medicine looked bigger compared to the genuine medicine in the stock of the state health authority.

However, the cover of the seized medicine has the same print price of Rs 4,400.

During initial investigation, the state police came to know that the arrested person procured the fake drug from a person in Guwahati and came to Imphal by a flight on July 31.

GUWAHATI/AIZAWL, AUG 3 (IANS): In a bid to resolve the inter-state border row, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Monday night said that he will send two senior Ministers to Aizawl on August 5 for “a meaningful dialogue” with the Mizoram government.

The two states have also decided to withdraw most cases filed against each other, including those against Sarma, Mizoram Rajya Sabha member K. Vanlalvena and senior officials of two states.

Sarma, in a tweet, said that “in aid of an early amicable resolution”, Agriculture Minister Atul Bora and Urban Development Minister Ashok Singhal would go to Aizawl on Thursday to talk with the Mizoram Ministers and officials to defuse the border crisis, that intensified with the July 26 border clash and firing that left six Assam Police personnel dead and scores of others injured.

“Assam stands committed to ensuring peace on its borders, paving the way

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for a peaceful & developed North-East,” he said.

Noting that he learned his Mizoram counterpart Zoramthanga has asked Mizoram Police to withdraw the July 26 FIR against Assam officials, he said: “I heartily reciprocate this positive gesture and ask Assam police to withdraw cases against DC Kolasib and SDPO Virengte (sic).”

Before Sarma’s tweet, Zoramthanga has announced withdrawal of the FIR registered against the Assam Chief Minister and six other senior officials in connection with the July 26 violence. Zoramthanga posted: “In order to build a conducive atmosphere for amicable solution to the Mizoram-Assam bor-

der dispute & to reduce the plight of suffering of citizens, I have directed Mizoram police to withdraw FIR dt. 26.07.2021 filed at Vairengte, Kolasib District, Mizoram against all the accused persons.”

Sarma earlier on Monday morning asked the police to withdraw an FIR against Vanlalvena which was lodged in the wake of the July 26 border row. The Assam Police had issued summons to Vanlalvena and six Mizoram state officials for their alleged role in the violence and asked them to

report before the investigating officers on August 1 and August 2. In a series of tweets then, he said : “To take this goodwill gesture ahead, I have directed the Assam Police to withdraw the FIR against K. Vanlalvena, Hon’ble MP, Rajya Sabha from Mizoram. “He (Vanlalvena) was not in that area on that day. We had booked him only for provocative statements. “I have noted statements in the media by Hon’ble CM Zoramthanga

wherein he has expressed his desire to settle the border dispute amicably. Assam always wants to keep the spirit of North East alive. We are also committed to ensuring peace along our borders.”

Zoramthanga retweeted his Assam counterpart’s posts.

Monday’s series of developments came a day after Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday spoke to both Chief Ministers and urged them to resolve the border issue amicably through dialogue.

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AG A RTA L A , AU G 3 (IANS): Outlawed extremists gunned down two Border Security Force (BSF) personnel including a subinspector rank official and looted their sophisticated arms in Tripura on Tuesday, police said.

A police official in Agartala said that during patrolling, the suspected National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) militants attacked the BSF troopers at Manikpur tribal village leading to a fierce encounter in which two para-military personnel were killed on the spot.

The martyred BSF men include sub-inspector Bhuru Singh and constable Raj Kumar. The tribal guerrillas have taken away two sophisticated arms of the slain BSF jawans before they fled from the area, which is close to India-Bangladesh border under Dhalai district in northern Tripura.

BSF official said that as per the blood strains available at the spot, militants have reportedly sustained some injuries. “Both our martyrs have fought valiantly before succumbing to their injuries. Massive search operation has been launched in the area to nab the militants,” the BSF official said.

Senior BSF and police officials have rushed to the spot, 150 km north of Agartala. Further details of the incidents are awaited.

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TMC MLA threatens to ‘look after BJP members’ THREAT COMES AFTER ‘ATTACK’ ON ABHISHEK’S CONVOY IN TRIPURA

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post, I didn’t speak about attacking anyone.”

Guha’s hand was fractured in post-poll violence in Dinhata in May. Criticising the TMC MLA, who is the son of late Left Front leader Kamal Guha, BJP’s Natabari legislator Mihir Goswami said, “We demand that a case be lodged against Udayan Guha and action be taken against him. It seems that the stinging NHRC observations against him regarding post-poll violence and its perpetrators are justified.”

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Nine Covid related deaths, 556 new cases in M’laya

S H I L LO N G, AU G 3 : Meghalaya on Tuesday recorded nine COVID-19 related deaths, eight of whom were not vaccinated against the virus, mounting the number of deceased due to the viral disease to 1118.

The State also reported 556 new cases of infection added up to 5,574 active cases, even as 816 more recoveries surged the number of recovered cases to 59,803 in the State, which has registered 66495 confirmed cases so far.

Director of Health Services (MI), Dr. Aman War said the deaths recorded included five in East Khasi Hills district and one each in East Jaintia Hills district, South West Khasi Hills district, West Garo Hills dis-

trict and West Jaintia Hills district.

Till today, 8,59,717 persons have been tested for COVID-19 in the state, of whom 7,93,222 have been tested negative for the virus, as per data released by the National Health Mission, Meanwhile, 31,845 persons have received the first dose of the vaccine against COVID-19 and 23,146 have received the second dose, 96,974 front-line workers got the first jab and 42,683 took the second shot, 7,69,138 persons from among the general population have been inoculated with the first dose and 1,36,772 citizens have been fully vaccinated with the second dose across the state till date, as per official information. (Correspondent)

demand, senior TMC leader and state Agriculture Minister Sobhandeb Chattopadhyay claimed that Guha was literally speaking about “taking care of BJP workers, to live peacefully with them and ensure not a single saffron party member in Dinhata is harmed in retaliatory action.”

“Only a party like BJP can twist such a comment which by no stretch of imagination means taking the law into one’s hands or teaching the BJP a lesson,” the veteran TMC leader told PTI. He said that the BJP should explain why no action was taken against police officers who were on duty during the “brazen and audacious” attack on Abhishek Banerjee in Tripura.

“Action was taken against three police officers after the alleged attack on BJP national president J P Nadda in West Bengal in December last year,” he added.

Covid-19: Manipur imposes curfew till Aug 7

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IMPHAL, AUG 3: In a grim milestone, Manipur on Tuesday crossed the one lakh-mark in number of people infected by coronavirus so far. The state achieved the grim milestone even as stricter curfew to break the chain of transmission of the virus entered its 17th day and it was extended for another four days (till August 7).

The state registered 753 cases and 14 fatalities in the last 24 hours. The total virus tally in the state stands at 1,00,625, and the death toll at 1,592. On the positive side, 1063 COVID-19 patients were cured and discharged from various hospitals in the state, taking the total number of COVID-19 recovery to 89,543. The recovery rate stands at 88.98%.

The number of active COVID-19 cases in the state after taking into account the cured and dead stands at 9,490. The 753 new cases were detected upon testing of 5,476 samples over the past 24 hours. The positivity rate is 13.75 per cent.

Of the 14 fatalities recorded in the past 24 hours, five of them were vaccinated against COVID-19 while nine of them had comorbidities, the state health department said.

Five deaths each were reported in Imphal West and Imphal east, two in Bishnupur and one each in Ukhrul and Churachandpur, the department added.

Meanwhile, the Manipur government on Tuesday relaxed nine of the 16 districts of the state from “strict curfew” as it was extended for another four days, till August 7. The whole day curfew will be continued in seven districts where the positivity rate was still high and there will be curfew only in the night time (from 6pm till 5am) in the remaining nine districts, the state home department said, in an order issued on Tuesday. The strict curfew has been imposed in the entire region of the state since July 18 following rapid increase in the daily Covid infections in the state coupled with wide prevalence of Delta variant cases of the COVID-19.

Sanbor Shullai issues clarification on ‘Eat More Beef’ comment S H I L L O N G, AU G 3 (AGENCIES): Meghalaya’s animal husbandry and veterinary minister Sanbor Shullai has gripped himself into controversy after his “eat more beef ” comment went viral and was reported by various media houses.

BJP minister Sanbor Shullai in a clarification statement said his comment has been highly exaggerated and misunderstood, reports The Sentinel Assam.

According to reports published in the media, the Meghalaya animal husbandry and veterinary minister Sanbor Shullai in his statement encouraged the people of Meghalaya to primarily choose beef over any other meat like chicken, mutton, and fish. He told this on Friday while talking to reporters.

Following the controversy that had spread like wild fire, Minister Shullai clarified in his letter addressed to Umakant Lakhera, the president of Press Club of India, New Delhi, saying, “This is to clarify that the news item

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published in various media houses ranging from printelectronic and social media regarding the “Eat more beef comments” has been highly exaggerated and misunderstood.”

“The whole statement has been given a new dimension with few media houses editing the actual press briefing leading to a different interpretation of what was said by me,” the letter read further. Shullai, who is also holding home (passport & prison) and labour portfolios clarified that the “beef comment” was made particularly in context to Assam where a “ban on beef created a panic among the indigenous tribal and other communities in the state of

Meghalaya, who consume it and consider beef as a staple diet”.

He further clarified that similarly like the tribal and other communities in Assam, people of Meghalaya have also undergone the same kind of fear that if they vote the BJP to power, then the same ban on beef-eating would be applied in the state of Meghalaya where it is a staple food for them.

“So, to eradicate any such fears against the BJP, I wanted to tell the indigenous tribal people here in Meghalaya that they will be able to continue to eat more beef without the fear of any item being banned in the state of Meghalaya,” Shullai stated in his letter.

Minister Shullai further clarified in his letter that his only intention was not to hurt sentiments of a particular community but to inform the citizens of Meghalaya that “no such rule would ever come to affect the lives of the indigenous tribal people here in the state of Meghalaya and not for any other purpose”.

M’laya-Assam boundary talks should be based on ‘documentation’, says Cong

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SHILLONG, AUG 3: Ahead of the second round of Chief Ministerial level talks between Meghalaya and Assam on the interstate boundary dispute, the Leader of Opposition in Meghalaya, Dr. Mukul Sangma on Tuesday asserted that the negotiations on resolving the vexed boundary issue should be based on the documentations prepared by the State government on the 12 areas of difference which substantiate and establish the claims that these places belong to Meghalaya.

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rad K Sangma is scheduled to meet his Assam counterpart Himanta Biswa Sarma in Dispur on August 6 following their first round of meeting between the two Chief Ministers in Shillong on July 23.

“These compilations enabled us to substantiate and justify our claims along the areas of differences,” the Leader of Opposition said.

The veteran Congress leader pointed out that during the last Chief Minister level meeting between Conrad Sangma and Himanta Biswa Sarma, the latter had said that Assam had its own interpretation and stand

over Meghalaya’s claims.

“This means that they will try to deviate from the stand of Meghalaya,” the former Chief Minister voiced apprehension and underscored that any resolution of the inter-state boundary dispute should be acceptable to the people of the state.

Dr Sangma, who as chief minister had taken part in boundary talks with the late Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi and Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal, emphasised that the documentation prepared by Meghalaya should form the basis of all discussions with Assam.

Asked about the joint statement of Meghalaya Chief Minister and his Assam counterpart, on the “give and take policy” to resolve the vexed boundary disputes, the veteran Congress legislator said: “only people’s opinion matters.”

“The border dispute is a “contentious issue” that has lingered on for several decades and the problem can be resolved by talking across the table. However, during such discussions there would be diverse opinions on the matter,” he said. “When we sit across

the table there would be multiple opinions based on certain parameters and factors. In such a scenario what the Assam Chief Minister or the Meghalaya Chief Minister says would only be construed as individual opinions and not a collective voice,” the former Chief Minister said.

Alleging that the Conrad Sangma-led government was not implementing the Inter State Border Area Development Programme, Dr. Mukul contended, “The present government is bankrupt in understanding

the problems of villagers living along the border with Assam.”

“Meghalaya government has “abandoned” the border villagers and schemes under Inter-State Border Area Development Programme initiated by the previous Congress-led government have been “diverted somewhere else,” the Congress legislator alleged.

The Leader of Opposition said that this is a reflection of the government’s “insensitivity” to the plight of the common people.

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KOLKATA, AUG 3 (PTI): A TMC MLA on Tuesday threatened to “look after” BJP leaders and workers in Dinhata area of West Bengal’s Coochbehar district “in a proper manner”, a day after the convoy of party national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee allegedly came under attack in BJPruled Tripura.

The BJP demanded penal action against Dinhata MLA Udayan Guha for issuing a threat in public against activists of an opposition party.

“After the Tripura incident, BJP workers and leaders in Dinhata will have to be looked after in a proper manner,” Guha’s Facebook post in Bengali read.

The post triggered a storm on social media, with many flaying the legislator for his statement while others extending support to him.

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Nagaland Post VOL. XXXI NO. 239 DIMAPUR, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 4, 2021

A software Frankenstein

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hat was supposed to have been a means to protect legally constituted governments against terror attacks and enemies, has instead turned out to be the Frankenstein whose name has now become synonymous with a global snoopgate. Today Pegasus, a software developed

by Israel’s NSO group is at the eye of the snooping scandal in many countries besides India. The company says it only sells its spyware to countries for the purpose of fighting terrorism and crime.The Israeli cybersecurity company NSO Group, has temporarily blocked several government clients around the world from using its spyware technology as the firm probes its alleged abuses, according to a US media report.

What has riled the western democracies is on the alleged use of the Pegasus software to spy on journalists, human rights defenders, politicians and others in a number of countries, including India. The use of Pegasus by government has triggered concerns over issues relating to privacy besides abuse of power. On its part, the Israeli government has also faced pressure since it regulates the sale of spyware technology to other countries. It has launched a probe into allegations against NSO. In India there were reports of the spyware being used against critics of the government.

According to media reports, Pegasus was procured during 2017 the year that prime minister Narendra Modi became the first ever Indian prime minister to visit Israel. An investigation by an international media consortium has revealed that more than 50,000 phone numbers from across the world are believed to have been targeted for hacking through the spyware called Pegasus, which is only sold to government agencies by the Israeli NSO Group. More than 300 phone numbers from India- including serving ministers, journalists, opposition leaders and one sitting judge - are believed to have been a target of hacking through the Israeli spyware called Pegasus. When parliament reassembled on July 19, the opposition made their intentions clear and wanted discussions on snoopgate. However, the government’s parliamentary affairs minister Pralhad Joshi dismissed snoopgate as a “non-issue” in the Lok Sabha and said the government was ready for discussions on people related issues. IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw had, in a suo motu statement in Parliament, dismissed the reports of the use of Pegasus software to snoop on Indians, saying the allegations levelled just ahead of the session were aimed at maligning Indian democracy. Interestingly, Vaishnaw’s name figured in the Pegasus list for snooping. Former IT minister and Congress leader Kapil Sibal including several other opposition leaders have demanded a Supreme Court-monitored probe and a government white paper in parliament to state whether it is using Pegasus or not. What the government is doing is to derail every effort to discuss the matter under one plea or the other. In the Rajya Sabha opposition leaders submitted a request for discussion under Rule 267. The chairman Venkaiah Naidu rejected the demand on the ground that it would be discussed along with other matters. Under Rule 267 matters listed for the day can be shelved to discuss any matter of utmost national importance. The opposition demand that Pegasus row be discussed in the house in presence of the prime minister and the home minister, is not only right but a matter of national security. By refusing to discuss in parliament, despite its brute majority, the NDA government has shown that either it cares a hoot for democratic conventions or that it wants to hide something.

DailyDevotion The Compelling Purpose of God

He…said to them, “Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem…” —Luke 18:31 Jerusalem, in the life of our Lord, represents the place where He reached the culmination of His Father’s will.

Jesus said, “I do not seek My own will but the will of the Father who sent Me” (John 5:30). Seeking to do “the will of the Father” was the one dominating concern throughout our Lord’s life. And whatever He encountered along the way, whether joy or sorrow, success or failure, He was never deterred from that purpose. “…He steadfastly set His face to go to Jerusalem…” (Luke 9:51).

The greatest thing for us to remember is that we go up to Jerusalem to fulfill God’s purpose, not our own. In the natural life our ambitions are our own, but in the Christian life we have no goals of our own. We talk so much today about our decisions for Christ, our determination to be Christians, and our decisions for this and that, but in the New Testament the only aspect that is brought out is the compelling purpose of God. “You did not choose Me, but I chose you…” (John 15:16). We are not taken into a conscious agreement with God’s purpose— we are taken into God’s purpose with no awareness of it at all. We have no idea what God’s goal may be; as we continue, His purpose becomes even more and more vague. God’s aim appears to have missed the mark, because we are too nearsighted to see the target at which He is aiming. At the beginning of the Christian life, we have our own ideas as to what God’s purpose is. We say, “God means for me to go over there,” and, “God has called me to do this special work.” We do what we think is right, and yet the compelling purpose of God remains upon us. The work we do is of no account when compared with the compelling purpose of God. It is simply the scaffolding surrounding His work and His plan.

“He took the twelve aside…” (Luke 18:31). God takes us aside all the time. We have not yet understood all there is to know of the compelling purpose of God.

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If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future. ~ Winston Churchill

NAGALAND POST, DIMAPUR WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 4, 2021

Post-mortem

NTC representation to CM on Naga political issue T he non-resolution of the Naga Political Issue and its extensive negotiations have immense toll on the economy, the social and Political fabric and on the total wellbeing of the citizens of Nagaland in particular.

Despite of negotiations with the GoI for 24 years now as for the NSCN (IM), and for 4 years as for the W/C NNPGs, we are yet to see the other end of the tunnel, and thus the negotiations have become unconvincing.

Nevertheless, all the negotiating parties with the GoI and the facilitators in the background have made much investment in terms of time, energy, and sacrifices. Having come thus far, we cannot af-

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ford to belie the people by letting the exercises to become a damp squib due to insincerity. Therefore, it has to be the endeavour of everyone to see that no stone is left unturned to ensure that the negotiations are brought to its logical conclusion.

In the light of above, when the 59 Legislators and 2 Members of Parliament formed the Parliamentary Core Committee on Naga Political Issue for the purpose of facilitation, the Nagaland Tribes Council (NTC) has welcomed it hoping that the Parliamentary Core Committee would not betray but live up to the expectation of our people.

Despite some of the big announcements made

on the Naga Political issue and its solution by the Prime Minister of India during the inauguration of the Hornbill Festival at Kohima in December 2015, as saying “Solution within 18 months…” and more of it, the Assembly Election 2018 with “Election for Solution” are but of no consequences on solution.

Moreso, Nagaland Assembly Election since 2002 have been fought with the slogan “Pave the way for Solution”. In fact it was August 2012 all the sixty Legislatures from Nagaland met the then Prime Minister and the Home Minister GoI as published by MadhumitaChakraborty/Vision Communication on Au-

gust 9/2012 under caption “Nagaland MLAs ready to quit for lasting peace in State” and have “expressed to sacrifice their present position and put up their resignation letter to pave the way for permanent peace in the state…”, but with no tangible result till date.

These promises have created anxiety amongst the people, and that the Nagas are impatient now to continue remaining in years of uncertainties. The longer the process of solution to Naga Political issue takes the more complicated it becomes to find a solution to this vexed Naga political problems.

Dialogue between GoI and NPGs had been culminated on “31st Oc-

solution arrived at”.

The Nagaland Tribes Council (NTC) therefore, urges upon the Members of the Nagaland Legislative Assembly to translate the resolution No. 4 of the Parliamentary Core Committee into practical action and reality without delay.

If not now, when better opportunity will come to the elected leaders to implement the resolution by sacrificing your seats for the expeditious solution to Naga political issue. Such sacrifices will definitely make immense impact on the process of Negotiations to the decades old Naga Political problems.

(Toniho Yepthomi) President NTC (Nribemo Ngullie) General Secretary NTC

The Worrisome Chinese Space Programme

ost countries around the world whether big or small, developed or developing pursue a space programme of their own or in collaboration with advanced countries. Most aspects of these programmes are in the public domain and are targeted towards scientific and human advancement.

The spectre of a space was between US and Russia came to an end with signing of the START Treaty in 1991 between the two. However, China has emerged as a country, which pursues a very secretive space programme and may force the mankind in a space war and global dominance.

There is enough evidence to prove that China’s space programme is targeted to move ahead and use space to dominate not only the US but also the rest of the planet. In terms of the US national security, and for the rest of the world also, China’s space capabilities have been defined as one of the most significant future threats to the global peace.

China’s plans were outlined very clearly when shortly after becoming president in March 2013, Xi Jinping made his ambitions for China’s space power very clear. “Developing the space program and turning the country into a space power is the space dream that we have continuously pursued”, he said. “The space dream is part of the dream to make China stronger.”

China’s aim is to become the world’s leading space power by 2045.China Daily had editorialised in 2017 that”China will become an all-round world-leading

country in space equipment and technology. By 2045, it will be able to carry out man-computer coordinated space exploration on a large scale.”

US concerns The advances and secret dimension of the Chinese space programme have been duly noted and concerns have been raised by the United States in this regard.

The US-China Economic and Security Review Commission in its 2019 Annual Report to Congress stated that “China is taking steps to establish a commanding position in the commercial launch and satellite sectors relying in part on aggressive state-backed financing that western market-driven companies cannot match.”

The US Defence Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III, in his written testimony prior to his confirmation hearing in January 2021 declared that Chinese and Russian space activities present serious and growing threats to US national security interests.

Chinese and Russian military doctrines also indicate that they view space as critical to modern warfare and consider the use of counter-space capabilities as both a means of reducing U.S. military effectiveness and for winning future wars.

A Pentagon report in 2020 stated that the PRC continues to strengthen its military space capabilities, despite its public stance against the weaponisation of space.... the PRC is developing electronic warfare capabilities such as satellite jammers....and China probably intends to pursue additional anti-satellite weapons capable of destroying satellites.

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Chinese space programme A significant aspectof China’s space initiative is the Beidou Navigation Satellite system (BDS), a global navigation satellite system that provides positioning, navigation and timing, in addition to data communication. The Chinese military has created the programme in order not to be dependent on the US-controlled GPS network. A report by the Jamestown Foundation states, “In recent years, the PRC has actively sought to promote the image of Beidou as a civilian-led programme intended primarily for commercial and scientific purposes, however, the program is under overall military direction, with the People’s Liberation Army in charge of Beidou’sdevelopment.”

Beidou can also be termed as China’s “Space Silk Road”, which expands China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and its land-based and sea-based versions to space. Beidou makes countries participating in the BRI, dependent on China for precision navigation and other space based services.

Malcolm Davis of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute wrote in 2017 that, “Chinese provision of satellite communications, weather monitoring and earth observation add to this vision for a Space Silk Road that overarches and underpins the Belt and Road Initiative. By signing up to the BRI ‘Space Information Corridor’, the BRI states would become dependent on Chinese-provided space services. That would give Beijing greater power to influence the policy choices of those states,

because it would control the vital space capabilities that sustain their economic growth”.

We have already seen the negative impact on countries like Sri Lanka and Brazil, which participated in the land and sea versions of the BRI. The US-China Economic and Security Review Commission further expressed caution in its 2019 Annual Report thus, “Beijing has specific plans not merely to explore space, but to industrially dominate the space.... Beijing uses its space programme to advance its terrestrial geopolitical objectives, including cultivating customers for the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)... China’s promotion of... the Beidou global navigation system under its ‘Space Silk Road’ is deepening participants’ reliance on China for space-based services.”

China’s “Space Silk Road”, forms a very crucial part of its ambitious space goals. The commissions’ report further states that China has already succeeded in undercutting some US and other foreign launch and satellite providers in the international market, threatening to hollow out these countries’ space industrial bases... The aggressive pursuit of foreign technology and talent... continues to be central to this strategy and to China’s space development goals in general.

China’s Moon Programme The China Daily in 2019 reported that, “The next steps in China’s manned space programme will be manned exploration of the moon. We will set up bases on the moon to conduct scientific operations, expand a

habitable place for mankind and gain experience and expertise for deep-space expeditions beyond the moon. The long-term goal is to send humans to Mars.”

Another worrisome development is Chinese cooperation with Russia in this regard. In March, China signed an agreement with Russia to work together to build a research station on the moon, which will carry out research on exploration and crucially, utilisation of the moon.

Already in 2013, China launched its first lunar rover to explore the surface of the moon, hoping, among other things, to discover rare earth minerals, which are reportedly abundant on the moon.

China’s Chang’e 5 lunar probe mission landed on the moon and brought back geological samples to China, which became just the third country to do so after the US and Russia.

In view of these developments it is a foregone conclusion that China will also move ahead to use space to dominate not only the US but also the rest of the world. Its plans for the future wars are space-based, in addition to utilising its large stockpile of surface to air missiles,ballistic and cruise missiles – which can strike from 500 to 5,500 kms, thus covering a major part of the globe, without putting its soldiers’ boots on foreign soil and indeed it may not portend well.

Asad Mirza is a political commentator based in New Delhi. He was also associated with BBC Urdu Service and Khaleej Times of Dubai. He writes on Muslims, educational, international affairs, interfaith and current affairs. @asadmirza.blogspot.com

Decluttering and happiness

arie Kondo and stuff and donate them. her philosophy There are some websites his statement applies choice to make. You can of being happy and apps on the internet to the current Assam help start and create a new with decluttering things that let you put up old and - Mizoram border culture and age of collab- in your living space have used household items for conflict which is part of a orative and thriving peoples caught on with people sale. In sharp contrast to of the North-East, rich in across the world. Marie, a this new trend are some bigger regional problem.

The physical geog- ethnic and cultural diversity Japanese organising con- stars and celebrities taking raphy of the North-East co-existing in peace and in sultant firmly believes that pride in their collection makes Assam the opera- mutual benefit, by reorga- by removing the clutter of branded clothes, bags, tional heart of much of the nizing Assam’s borders with around, you can clear up shoes….often flaunted on region’s daily life. Assam the contiguous states in a your mind as well. She had social media. When talking is the region’s lifeline for systematic, fair, and ami- been listed as Times 100 about hoarding, one name transportation, movement cable process. Or fall into most influential person. which comes to mind is the of goods, and so on. In the temptation of allowing This concept is now infamous former First Lady addition, the colonial his- the Central Government catching up in India as well of the Philippines Imelda tory and post-independence in Delhi to use Assam as and more so in the times of Marcos, and her staggering Indian government’s policy its oppressive surrogate in Pandemic. Some Indians collection of nearly 3,000 in the region makes Assam the region and go down in are embarking on a journey pairs of shoes. Ludicrous! the political axis for the un- history as the fall-guy state of material detox. Tired of M y f r i e n d wa s a resolved colonial problems for the failures of post- frenzied consumerism and hoarder too and would that the Government of independence India. consumption, they are buy- often buy things on impulse We hope and trust As- ing only what they need to and sales. She was wellIndia has been either unwilling to resolve or is incapable sam will make the right declutter their spaces and traveled and picked whatof redressing in a good faith choice. Our respect for the minds eventually. ever fancied her especially people of Assam and for democratic fashion.

This is on an increase souvenirs, artifacts, clothes This dual reality of our people’s history with as venturing outdoors has and bags. Her house turned a small geographical area your ancestors, going back become a risky option and into a veritable store with with immense ethnic and centuries, convince us that some lost their jobs while little space to move around political diversity on the the Assam government will many exhausted their sav- freely. It all changed when one hand, and on the other make the right choice at this ings during the Pandemic. she moved to another city. the complicated history of critical time with Mizoram People are realising the She was astounded armed conflicts between and the region. We eagerly importance of not spend- by the number of things groups representing several look to you with hope and ing unnecessarily and hav- around and the sheer effort freedom movements and good will. ing minimal possessions. it took to let them go. It took (Chuba Ozukum) Indian armed forces, has Some are even giving away several weeks disposing Convenor saddled Assam with an unwanted things, helping and giving away. She gave Global Naga Forum unenviable responsibility. out those in need. A couple away most of her books to (Prof Paul Pimomo) In our understanding, the of non-profit organiza- a library and found good Secretary Assam government and tions have sprung up to homes for her collection Global Naga Forum the people have a difficult the need and recycle old of crockery. Some of the Reader’s note: Articles or letters published in any of the columns do not reflect the view of this

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tober 2019” with agreed points for settlement, considering “all unresolved matters shall be pursued through democratic political process post-solution”.

Meanwhile, Parliamentary Core Committee in its meeting on 9th July, 2021 adopted 5 Point resolution of which serial 4 goes; Quote: “All Members of the Core Committee and the Parliamentary Committee on Naga Political Issue, including the two Members of Parliament, have come together under the same banner in line with the Election manifestos of all Political Parties and commit to the people that the elected members are prepared to pave way as and when an inclusive, honourable and acceptable

furniture which was no longer required was sold off on websites selling used things. And a huge collection of sarees stuffed up in her almirah were given away one by one to family and friends who cherished and wore them regularly.

The more precious ones were kept by her.

With most of the unwanted things gone from her house, she finally admitted that she used to feel asphyxiated with the rooms stuffed with things.

And now she spent lesser time cleaning and organis-

ing, leaving more time for enjoying the things that truly matter to her in life.

Removing clutter is also a concept borrowed from Zen to bring about clarity of thoughts. It’s all about making room for more of what matters. The clutter obscures what is important. Once you realise what you no longer need, let go of it. Keep the things that you truly love and use. And in return, there is sheer joy and happiness.

Alka Varma (As published by The Times of India)

Reader’s Post

Is planting trees enough?

Sir,

Reforestation is seen as a way to help cool the climate, sucking excess warming carbon out of the atmosphere.

But it’s not always that simple.If we think of planting trees as a stand-alone action to fight climate change, we will run into some hard limits on how much CO2 they can store. Urbanisation is one of the many reasons destroying farmable land and greenery more rapidly than we are planting trees and this is why proper city planning has to be addressed. We must prevent urbanization happening in the areas which are fit for forestation and while we plant plenty of trees, we must also take other issues into consideration if we are to “restore” the biodiversity.

Aren Aier, Kohima newspaper nor that of the Editor in any manner.

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likely to 8 states show rise in R-factor, Class 10 results: CBSE records visitRahul Maharashtra highest ever 99.04 pass percentage soon, says Raut Covid ‘still raging’, cautions govt NEW DELHI, JUL 30 (PTI): The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) recorded the highest ever pass percentage of 99.04 in the class 10 exam results declared on Tuesday, with girls outshining boys by a slender margin of 0.35 per cent.

The pass percentage increased by over seven percentage points against last year’s 91.46 per cent. The difference between the pass percentage of girls and boys was 3.7 per cent last year.

While the pass percentage of girls and boys stood at 99.24 per cent and 98.89 per cent respectively, transgenders achieved a pass percentage of 100 per cent.

The board has announced the results on the basis of an alternative assessment policy after the exams were cancelled in view of the aggressive second wave of COVID-19.

According to the policy, while 20 marks for each subject were for internal assessment as every year, 80 marks were calculated

Students celebrate after CBSE declared class 10th results, in Patna, Aug. 3. (PTI)

on basis of the students’ performance in various tests or exams throughout the year. Schools were also asked to ensure that the marks awarded by them are in consonance with past performance of the school in class 10 board exams.

Over 21.13 lakh regular candidates had registered for the class 10 exam this year.

“The result of 16,639 students is till under process. No merit list will be declared this year and no

merit certificates will be issued to students,” said CBSE Examination Controller Sanyam Bharwdaj.

The number of candidates scoring above 95 per cent has increased from 41,804 last year to 57,824 this time. Similarly, the number of students scoring between 90 and 95 per cent has increased from 1,84,358 to 2,00,962. The number of Children with Special Needs scoring above 95 per cent is 53 while 224 students in the category have scored

above 90 per cent. In the CBSE-affiliated schools abroad, 99.92 per cent students have passed class 10.

Kendriya Vidalayas and the schools under the Central Tibetan Schools A d m i n i s t r a t i o n h av e achieved a 100 per cent pass percentage as against 99.23 per cent and 93.67 per cent respectively last year.

The Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas have improved their pass percentage from 98.66 to 99.99 this year. The pass percentage of government and government-aided schools has increased by over 15 per cent and 18 per cent respectively.

The pass percentage of private schools has also increased by over six per cent since last year.

A total of 17,636 candidates have been placed under compartment as against over 1.5 lakh students last year. “The compartment examination will be conducted between August 16 and September 15. The exact dates will be announced in some time,” Bhardwaj said.

MUMBAI, AUG 3 (PTI): Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut on Tuesday said Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has assured him that he will visit Maharashtra soon.

Raut, whose par ty shares power with the NCP and Congress in Maharashtra, met Gandhi in New Delhi on Monday. He also attended a breakfast meeting of leaders of opposition parties hosted by the former Congress president at the Constitution Club in the national capital on Tuesday where stress was laid on opposition unity. Taking to reporters in Delhi, Raut said, “A meeting between us was due since us some time. He (Gandhi) had some doubts which have been addressed now. He has assured to visit Maharashtra soon.” “I will brief my party chief (Uddhav Thackeray) about the discussion we had on a possible alliance ahead of next general elections,” he said.

The Rajya Sabha member also said Gandhi was curious about the Shiv Sena and its founder late Balasaheb Thackeray.

NEW DELHI, AUG 3 (AGENCIES): The pandemic is “still raging” in the country and eight states have shown a rise in the Rfactor, the government said today, calling it a “significant problem”.

As many as 44 districts have reported a high case positivity and the Deltadriven second wave is still not over, warned VK Paul, who heads the government’s Covid task force.

Eighteen districts showed an increasing trend in cases in the last four weeks, according to the government.

“Delta variant is a dominant problem. The pandemic is still raging and the second wave is persisting in our own country,” Dr Paul said, expressing concern about the R-factor or the reproductive rate of a virus, which indicates how fast it is spreading.

“Please remember that R number should be 0.6 or below. If it has gone over 1, it shows it is a significant problem and the virus wants to spread,” said Dr Paul.

He said the number of districts with high positivity had decreased from the previous week but per state, the number of districts with high positivity had decreased from the previous week. Now new states are showing districts with high positivity, he said.

The states where the R-factor is more than one are Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Lakshadweep, Tamil Nadu, Mizoram, Karnataka, Puducherry and Kerala.

Only Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra show a declining trend and states like Bengal, Nagaland, Haryana, Goa, Delhi and

Jharkhand the R-factor is at 1.

“Whenever R number is above one, it means that the case trajectory is increasing and it needs to be controlled,” explained Lav Agarwal, Joint Secretary, Union Health Ministry.

He said the US, Canada, Australia and India have an R number of 1.2 on average. This means one infected person is infecting more than one.

The ‘R’ factor - a statistic used worldwide to track and control the spread of the virus - is a measure of how many people are being infected by one infected person.

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the country,” the PM said.

Notably, India’s Mirabai Chanu ended the country’s over two-decade long wait for a weightlifting medal at the Olympics, clinching the 49kg category silver medal recently.

In another achievement, P V Sindhu on Sunday became only the second

Indian and the country’s first woman to win two Olympic medals, securing a bronze after a straightgame win in the badminton women’s singles third-place play-off.

Debutant Lovlina Borgohain (69kg) assured India of its first boxing medal at the ongoing Olympic

Games when she enter the semifinals on Friday.

Two days back, the Indian men’s hockey team entered the Olympic semifinals following a 49-year gap. However, the Indian team lost to Belgium in the semifinals on Tuesday and will now play in the bronze medal match on Thursday.

NEW DELHI, AUG 3 (PTI): Rajya Sabha Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu on Tuesday urged both the government and the opposition to collectively resolve the present stalemate in Parliament. It has been learnt that Naidu also discussed the stalemate in the House with Leader of the Opposition in Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge after the first adjournment of the House on Tuesday. According to sources, he held a meeting with Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Home

Minister Amit Shah, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi and Leader of the House Piyush Goyal on Monday evening.

The sources added that Naidu has urged both the opposition and the government to sit together and work out an amicable solution to the current impasse in Parliament.

Both Houses of Parliament have failed to transact any business in the last two weeks since the Monsoon Session of Parliament started on July 19.

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of Chief Minister Vijay Rupani’s five years in office.

Modi in his speech said, “Our players haven’t just qualified, they are giving their best performance too. New India’s towering self-confidence is reflecting in each game. Our Olympics players and teams are giving a tough fight to their competitors having better rankings. The conviction and confidence of Indian players are at their peak.”

He said the Indian players are more confident because of the transparency in the system and the identification of right talent.

“This self-confidence comes naturally when the right talent is identified and promoted, when the system gets changed and transparency is brought in.

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AHMEDABAD, AUG 3 (PTI): Elated by the performance of Indian players in the Tokyo Olympics, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said new India’s towering self-confidence was getting reflected in each game as the conviction and confidence of the country’s players are at their peak.

“This time, the highest number of Indian players have qualified for the Olympics. We must not forget the fact that we have achieved it while fighting the worst pandemic of the last 100 years. There are sports in which our players have qualified for the very first time,” Modi said in a virtual address.

He was taking part in a Gujarat government’s event of distributing free ration to the poor. The event, held in Dahod, was part of the nine-day long celebration

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NEW DELHI, AUG 3 (PTI): Gold prices in the national capital dipped marginally by Rs 31 to Rs 46,891 per 10 grams on Tuesday, in line with weak global trends and on rupee appreciation, according to HDFC Securities. In the previous trade, the precious metal had closed at Rs 46,922 per 10 grams. Silver also tumbled Rs 372 to Rs 66,072 per kg, from Rs 66,444 per kg in the previous trade.

The Indian rupee opened on a flat note and inched 4 paise higher to 74.30 against the US dollar in early trade on Tuesday.

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ate the sacrifices you have made during the difficult times and your steadfast commitment to give the best caring service to not only Mr. Th. Muivah but to others as well. Thank you for your persistent efforts in making sure that Mr. Muivah is safe in your hand. Thank you for your courage and dedication,” NSCN (I-M) stated.

It also thanked the Naga churches, church leaders and other well wishers across Nagalim for their prayer support and also the Naga Civil Society Organizations (CSOs).

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(From p-1) CNCCI has, therefore, appealed to the NPGs to resolve the Naga political issue in the right platform and stop harassing the peaceful section of society (business community) for Naga solution. “Conducting business activity is our livelihood and that cannot be contested nor infringed upon by any organization,” CNCCI remarked.

kilonser, Th. Muivah who was admitted to Christian Institute of Health Sciences and Research (CIHSR) Dimapur on July 24 evening was discharged from the hospital on Monday.

After assessing his overall health condition, Muivah was discharged after staying at the hospital for one week, a doctor at CIHSR said.

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Mokokchung: Closure of shops called by the NSCN (I-M) passed off peacefully without any untoward incidents even shops downed their shutters till 12 noon. Normal business activity came to a grinding halt while the main town square wore a deserted look.

Meanwhile, NSCN (IM) Ao region CAO, P Lima Kichu and secretary Lidener have expressed gratitude to district administration, all the leaders, civil society groups particularly the Mokokchung Chamber of Commerce and Industries for their understanding and cooperation towards making closure call a success.

Ao region lauded the “matured political understanding of the Aos who wholeheartedly extended their support during the closure of the shops.”

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CHENNAI, AUG 3 (IANS): Electric scooter maker Ola Electric Mobility Pvt Ltd will launch its models on August 15, said Bhavish Aggarwal, Chairman and Group CEO of the company. “Thanks to all who have reserved our scooter! Planning a launch event for the Ola Scooter on 15th August. Will share full specs and details on product and availability dates. Looking forward to it,” Aggarwal tweeted on Tuesday. Cagey about the vehicle specifications and the price, the company had said that the pricing will be competitive.

The electric scooter will be rolled out of its factory in Krishnagiri district in Tamil Nadu and the total project outlay has been put at Rs 2,354 crore.

for final solution. He, however, said that the businesses should not be hampered by giving out order for closure without proper intimidation. DCCI president lamented that the business community had been “sandwiched” between the parties as there was no rescue from the state government and civil society groups.

Kohima: All shops and business establishments remained closed in the State capital Kohima till 12 noon on Tuesday despite CNCCI directive to the trade bodies to carry out business as usual. Shops in all the colonies remained closed and while there was a drop in movement of people, there was no respite in vehicular movement as traffic congestion began even before shops resumed their normal business.

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(From p-1) Describing as “rude shock” the sudden notice for closure of market, DCCI president said the notice came at a time when the business community had just started to build their “shattered economy”.

Zhimomi asserted that protests of any kind involving closure of business establishments resulted in losing crores of rupees per day.

He said that the traders had already undergone untold sufferings and economic hardships due to pandemic.

“It is a very difficult situation for a lot of businesses community…all are trying to reopen now, so this is a very trying moment for them…” he added.

Zhimomi said the business community supported and respected all Naga political groups in their pursuit

will remain robust and the rupee is expected to trade with positive bias in the near term, Parmar added.

Meanwhile, the dollar index, which gauges the greenback’s strength against a basket of six currencies, dipped 0.07 per cent to 91.98. On the domestic equity market front, the BSE Sensex ended 872.73 points or 1.65 per cent higher at 53,823.36, while the broader NSE Nifty advanced 245.60 points or 1.55 per cent to 16,130.75.

Brent crude futures, the global oil benchmark, rose 0.80 per cent to USD 73.47 per barrel. Meanwhile, foreign institutional investors were net sellers in the capital market on Monday as they offloaded shares worth Rs 1,539.88 crore, as per exchange data.

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human remains from the construction site and see if there was any potential to conduct further tests.

Although a thorough analysis was yet to be conducted, he suspected the human remains to be from the World War II era.

He said if the human remains were identified and proved to be of Japanese soldiers from WW II, these could be sent to officials at the Japanese embassy in New Delhi as they often visited Nagaland to check whether any remains of their soldiers were discovered in the State.

rally today, albeit in a quiet fashion in comparison to domestic equities that hit life-time high. Overseas forex markets also remained lacklustre with G10 currencies trading in a tight range on thin volumes,” said Dilip Parmar, Research Analyst, HDFC Securities.

Looking ahead, the focus will remain on RBI monetary policy. The inflows from primary market

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(From p-1) “We are collaborating with some institutions that do human DNA testing.

Such tests on these materials, especially genetic studies and finding the real identity of the remains, may take some time though,” he added.

However, a bio-archaeologist is expected to conduct some tests soon and thereafter furnish a report on the condition, gender and stress marks (if any) on the bones. Tiatoshi said art and culture secretary had initially informed the group of researchers to collect the

NSCN (I-M)’s 12-hr closure call passes off...

MUMBAI, AUG 3 (PTI): The rupee rose by 6 paise to close at 74.28 (provisional) against the US dollar on Tuesday amid a firm trend in domestic equities and a weak American currency.

The rupee moved in a narrow range ahead of the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) policy decision and the US non-farm payrolls data, forex dealers said.

At the interbank forex market, the local unit opened at 74.36 against the greenback and witnessed an intra-day high of 74.21 and a low of 74.36.

It finally ended at 74.28 against the American currency, registering a rise of 6 paise over its previous close.

On Monday, the rupee had settled at 74.34 against the US dollar.

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fake credentials at the time of registration; by indulging in raising a fake invoice to avail under Input Tax Credits; misdeclaration of classification etc,” he said.

Besides, the evasion may be committed intentionally and at times nonpayment of tax may happen due to human error.

However, no evasion of tax has been reported due to a failure in the CBIC back-end

NEW DELHI, AUG 3 (PTI): Shares of Vodafone Idea on Tuesday fell over 10 per cent after reports that Aditya Birla group Chairman Kumar Mangalam Birla has offered to hand over his stake in debt-laden VIL to the government entities to keep the company operational. The stock plunged 10.30 per cent to close at Rs 7.40 on the BSE. During the day, it tumbled 13.09 per cent to Rs 7.17 -- its 52-week low. At the NSE, it closed at Rs 7.40, lower by 10.30 per cent. The billionaire businessman made the offer in June in a letter to Cabinet Secretary Rajiv Gauba.

According to official data, VIL had an adjusted gross revenue (AGR) liability of Rs 58,254 crore out of which the company has paid Rs 7,854.37 crore and Rs 50,399.63 crore is outstanding.

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Chaudhary said the GST interface for the taxpayers is on a digital platform and software-based to be used for payment of tax and to comply with the requirements of law and procedure by taxpayers.

“However, tax evaders are known to commit fraud even on electronic platforms by way of misrepresentation of facts like furnishing of

system, Chaudhary added.

The minister further said to prevent tax evasion, various validations have been built in the GSTN/ CBIC system to weed out tax evaders. This includes the introduction of Aadhaar authentication for processing of new registration applications, provisions to suspend/cancel the registration of taxpayers, bulk suspension of registration

by GSTN based on business intelligence, bulk cancellation of registration of taxpayers who failed to file GSTR3B returns for six or more consecutive months and blocking of ITC credit.

In reply to a separate question, Chaudhary said in 2020-21 fiscal, 7,268 cases of input tax credit (ITC) fraud was detected by Central GST officers, involving an amount of Rs 31,233 crore.

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NEW DELHI, AUG 3 (PTI): GST officers have detected tax evasion of Rs 7,421 crore in the April-June period of the current fiscal, Parliament was informed on Tuesday.

In a written reply to the Rajya Sabha, Minister of State for Finance Pankaj Chaudhary gave details of the total tax evasion detected in GST in the last 3 years. In 2019-20, 10,657 cases of evasion, involving Rs 40,853.27 crore were detected.

Re c o ve r y w a s R s 18,464 crore. In 2020-21, Rs 49,384 crore worth GST evasion was detected in 12,596 cases. Recovery stood at Rs 12,235 crore.

In the current fiscal up to June, 1,580 cases of Goods and Services Tax evasion involving Rs 7,421.27 crore were detected, and Rs 1,920 crore recovered in April-

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NEW DELHI, AUG 3 (PTI): With Parliament’s proceedings being stalled by the opposition’s protests over the Pegasus issue, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday slammed it for its conduct, including tearing papers and making “derogatory” remarks on the way bills have been passed, as he accused them of insulting the legislature and the Constitution.

Briefing reporters on Modi’s speech at the BJP parliamentary party meeting, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi said the prime minister expressed anger at the conduct of some opposition members and noted that those who tore papers and threw it around have remained unrepentant. This shows their arrogance, Modi said and asked his party members to maintain restraint.

While a TMC member in Rajya Sabha had torn the statement of IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on the Pegasus issue, several opposition members had torn papers in Lok Sabha and threw it in the air and towards the Chair. A tweet of TMC leader Derek O’Brien

Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Union Ministers arrive to attend the BJP Parliamentary Party meeting, during the Monsoon Session of Parliament, in New Delhi, Aug. 3. (PTI)

criticising the manner of bills’ passage in Parliament also drew Modi’s ire, Joshi and another Union minister V Muraleedharan told reporters, without naming the TMC member. He had tweeted, “In the first 10 days, Modi-Shah rushed through and passed 12 Bills at an average time of UNDER SEVEN MINUTES per Bill. Passing legislation or making papri chaat!”

Such comments are “derogatory” to the parliamentary procedure and the esteem of elected representatives, Muraleedharan said quoting Modi. The conduct of the opposition is an “insult” to Parliament and the Constitution, Joshi said, quoting the prime minister. Modi accused them of having “undemocratic” attitude and said they are not keen on meaningful debates.

The opposition has stalled Parliament’s proceedings demanding a discussion on the Pegasus snooping row, an issue dismissed as inconsequential by the government.

In the meeting, Modi asserted that his government will leave no stone unturned to fulfil its commitment to people. Bills do not belong to the government but are aimed at people’s welfare, he

added. The prime minister, Joshi said, reiterated the government’s stand for constructive and rich debates.

The BJP parliamentary party also hailed Modi at the meeting over the government’s decision to provide reservation to the OBC and the EWS in the all-India quota in the medical entrance test NEET. The prime minister also highlighted the rise in the GST revenue in the month of July with a collection of 1.16 lakh crore to express confidence about the state of economy. Finance Minister Nirmala Sithraman also spoke in detail about the economic conditions and asserted that the recovery has gathered pace despite the second wave.

India’s foreign reserves are at an all-time high while the GST collection also rose significantly last month, she added. The government’s package for the MSME sector is now at Rs 4.5 lakh crore while the banking sector has also made recovery and posted profit of over Rs 31,000 crore, sources quoting her said. Economic indicators have been doing well, she said.

NEW DELHI, AUG 3 (PTI): Leaders of several opposition parties attended a breakfast meeting hosted by former Congress President Rahul Gandhi at the Constitution Club here on Tuesday where stress was laid on opposition unity.

Several opposition MPs led by Gandhi later cycled to Parliament to highlight the issue of fuel price hike.

Some opposition MPs, who could not cycle, walked down to Parliament.

Apart from around 100 MPs of the Congress, leaders of several opposition parties including Trinamool Congress, NCP, Shiv Sena, DMK, CPI-M, CPI, RJD and Samajwadi Party attended the meeting.

Leaders of JMM, JKNC besides IUML, RSP, KCM, LJD and RSP were also present at the meeting.

Leaders of 17 opposition parties were invited at the breakfast meeting, but the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) did not attend.

Rahul Gandhi speaks during a breakfast meeting of opposition leaders, at the Constitution Club in New Delhi, Aug. 3. (PTI)

Trinamool Congress, which had skipped the last meeting of Opposition leaders by Gandhi, was also present at today’s breakfast meet.

“The single motive to invite you is that we should unite. The more this voice unites, the more powerful it will become, the more difficult it will become for the BJP and RSS to suppress this voice,” Gandhi said at the meeting.

“We should remember the foundation of unity and it is important that now we start to come up with the principles of this foundation,” he told the opposition leaders.

After the meeting, leaders of opposition parties cycled to Parliament from Constitution Club to highlight the high fuel prices and express their solidarity with the people who are suffering due to the high fuel prices.

“As far as fuel prices are concerned, the people of India are struggling and if we cycle from here to Parliament, it will have an impact,” Gandhi said.

Besides Gandhi, senior Congress leaders Mallikarjun Kharge, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, KC Venugopal, Anand Sharma and P Chidambaram were present at the meeting.

‘Rahul indulging in gimmicks for cheap publicity’ LeT terrorist from Pakistan 8 states log Covid R-value higher than 1: Centre killed in encounter in J-K

NEW DELHI, AUG 3 (AGENCIES): No recommendation has been made so far on mixing anticoronavirus vaccines, the Rajya Sabha was informed on Friday. COVID-19 vaccines have been developed recently. Therefore, scientific evidence about mix and match studies of different vaccines is still evolving, Minister of State for Health Bharati Pravin Pawar said in a written reply.

To a question on the issue, she said no recommendation has been made so far to mix the first and second doses of Covid vaccines by the National

Technical Advisory Group on Immunization or the National Expert Group on Vaccine Administration for COVID-19. There is no specific recommendation from the World Health Organization presently on mix and match of vaccines, the minister added.

She was responding to a question on whether one can mix first and second doses of COVID vaccines and administer them to people who need it and whether any studies have been carried out or is there any scientific evidence that such mixing would not have any adverse impact on people.

HC issues notice CHUKITONG RANGE PUBLIC ORGANIZATION H.Q. CHUKITONG, WOKHA: NAGALAND to Yediyurappa in GRATITUDE corruption case The Chukitong Range Public Organization (CRPO), the apex body of BENGALURU, AUG 3 (IANS): In a major setback to former CM B.S. Yediyurappa, the Karnataka High Court on Monday issued notice to him in connection with alleged corruption in a housing project. A single judge bench of Justice S. Sunil Dutt Yadav also issued notice to Yediyurappa’s son and BJP state VP B.Y. Vijayendra, former minister S.T. Somashekar, and others in connection with the case.

Activist T.J. Abraham had approached the high court seeking inquiry, after a special court dismissed the case for want of sanction to prosecute as Yediyurappa held the Chief Minister’s post and Somashekar was a minister.

Pegasus row: Editors Guild moves SC seeking probe into snooping scandal NEW DELHI, AUG 3 (IANS): The Editors Guild of India has moved the Supreme Court seeking an SIT probe into the alleged Pegasus snooping allegations and also a disclosure from the Centre on the alleged use of spyware for hacking and surveillance between 2017 and 2021.

The journalists body also sought issuance of guidelines on surveillance on Indian citizens and safeguarding them from electronic surveillance, spying and hacking. The plea said surveillance has a chilling effect on public actors holding the government accountable and also termed it

seven (7) villages forming the Chukitong Administrative Circle/Range under Wokha district, Nagaland hereby express our heartfelt gratitude and appreciation to Shri. Yanthungo Patton, Honourable Deputy Chief Minister and Minister Incharge of Home and PWD (R&B), Government of Nagaland for constructing the Chukitong Range Community Hall at Chukitong under Iconic Project 2020-21 and inaugurating the same on 09/03/2021.

CRPO further wishes our Honourable Deputy Chief Minister good health, long life and greater wisdom in the days to come.

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The plea also urged the top court to declare provisions of the Indian Telegraph Act, and the Information Technology Act, allowing tapping of phones, as unconstitutional, illegal, and void.

NVOMONGO MURRY TSOERÜIDEN CONGRATULATIONS The Nvomongo Murry Tsoerüiden with immense pride and honour extends its heartiest congratulations to Miss Khonzani M Murry, D/o Myingthungo Murry for awarding “Gold Medal” in Bachelor of Computer Application 2021 with a CGPA of 8.86 under PCC (Autonomous), also acknowledging his achievement and awarding ‘Meritorious Certificate’ by ANCSU. The Nvomongo Murry Tsoerüiden wishes her all success in her future endeavour.

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The LSM convey our heartiest congratulations to 1. Dr. S. Nungsangmongba Jamir, S/o Lt. Sahituden for successfully completing his Ph.D in Theology on the Thesis “Reimagining Ecclesia in the context of Homophobia: Towards a relevant Church”.

2. Dr. Tialila, D/o Mr. Luke (Nangdenbenla) on being conferred Ph.D in English Department on the thesis “An Ecocritical Reading of Toni Morrison’s selected Novels”.

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3. Miss Sentiyala Jamir, D/o Dr. Meyiwati Jamir for achieving Academic Excellence Award in Bachelor’s Degree of Music and Education The LSM extends best wishes for their future endeavours (Sademkaba Pongen) (Alemchuba Pongen) President Secretary OFFICE OF THE

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unconstitutional and illegal, as surveillance impedes the free flow of ideas and information.

The plea said: “This has a severely detrimental impact on the ability of politicians and public officials to freely exercise their freedom

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It said that 18 districts from six states, including Kerala, Maharashtra, Manipur and Arunachal Pradesh, reported an increasing trend in daily new Covid cases in the last four weeks.

It added that in the last week, 49.85 per cent of the total coronavirus cases were reported from Kerala.

The government also said that the total number of COVID-19 vaccine doses administered in July is more than double of that in May.

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With immense joy and pride, the Kohima Village Students’ Union would like to extend our heartiest congratulations to: 1. Mr. Salhouvi Rutsa (Top 1, B.Sc Geology, Nagaland University) 2. Ms. Nounesenuo Tseikha (Top 16, HSLC) 3. Ms. Vilhouvonuo Yaotsu (Top 5, HSSLC Art Stream) 4. Mr. Menuosatuo Mepfhüo (Top 9, HSSLC Commerce Stream & highest mark in Financial Markets Management) 5. Ms. Vikehienuo Sharon Kelio (Highest marks in HSLC Social Science) KVSU also congratulates all its members who have successfully cleared the recently declared Nagaland University and NBSE Examinations 2021.

The Union acknowledges their hardwork, dedication, commitment, and further wishes them the best of luck for their future endeavours.

(NEIZOVOLIE NIGEL SOLO) (KENEILHOUZO SOLO) (SELUOKUOLIE RUTSA) President Info. & Publicity Secy.

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Daniel P Chungtok h Bemong angh M Sc, Geology B Sc, Botany Gold Medalist, Kohima Science College Top 18, St Joseph College Jakhama

the Pongching Students' union expresses our heartfelt congratulations to mr. Daniel P Chungtok, S/o Panglong Phom and miss h Bemong angh, D/o Mr. Henty Angh for bringing laurels to the Union and native people in General.

The Union further congratulates all the successful candidates of HSLC, HSSLC, Degrees Exams & wishes them success in all future endeavors.

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been outdoing each other in disrupting Parliament’s proceedings to project themselves as the leader of the anti-BJP grouping. Opposition parties have stalled Parliament’s proceedings over the Pegasus row.

O n a d ay G a n d h i hosted a breakfast meeting of opposition parties and cycled to Parliament along with his colleagues, BJP chief spokesperson Anil Baluni said the Congress leader is mostly concerned about

site on July 24. Ali was a resident of Ugada district of Punjab in Pakistan and his body was retrieved from the site of the encounter.

Three militants of the LeT, including Sharik Altaf, were killed in the Shokbaba encounter. However, the official said, Ali had managed to escape from the site and was being continuously tracked thereafter.

After pinpointing his presence in the Chandaji forest area on Tuesday, an operation was launched by the security forces, the official said. Incriminating materials, arms and ammunition, including an AKrifle, two AK-Magazines, 40 AK-rounds, a pouch, a wireless set and a medicine bag were recovered from the site of the encounter, the official said.

spread. An official said the pandemic is far from over, and the second wave, as far as India is concerned, is still not over. The daily new COVID-19 cases being reported across the world are still high as more than 4.7 lakh infections are being recorded every day, the official added.

The government said 44 districts across 12 states and Union Territories reported more than 10 per cent weekly COVID-19 positivity rate in the week ending

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NEW DELHI, AUG 3 (PTI): The BJP on Tuesday accused Congress leader Rahul Gandhi of indulging in “gimmicks” for cheap publicity and alleged that the opposition has resorted to “rant and run” tactics to hijack parliamentary proceedings and defame the government.

Union minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, the deputy leader of the House in Rajya Sabha, said opposition members have

S R I NAG A R , AU G 3 (PTI): A Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorist hailing from Pakistan was killed in an encounter with security forces in Bandipora district of Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday, police said.

Security forces launched a cordon-andsearch operation in the Chandaji area of Bandipora in north Kashmir following inputs about the presence of terrorists there, a police official said.

He said the search operation turned into an encounter after the terrorists fired upon the forces, who retaliated. In the exchange of firing, one terrorist was killed, the official said.

He identified the slain terrorist as Babar Ali who had managed to escape from the Shokbaba encounter

NEW DELHI, AUG 3 (PTI): Amid rising concerns about an imminent third wave of Covid-19 in India, the government stoked worries on Tuesday when it said that the second wave of the pandemic was far from being over.

As per reports, the R Value - or reproductive value - of Covid-19 is more than one in eight states. These include Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Tamil Nadu and Kerala.

The R-Value is denotes the spread of the Covid-19 virus. The number is a measure that highlights the number of people a coronavirus positive person infects, thereby reflecting the severity of its spread. A number of one or below one indicates a slowly spreading virus while any number above 1 indicates a rapid

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cheap publicity through gimmicks like driving tractor or riding cycle and does not take the legislature seriously. “They have no real issue and do these things to be in news. This is the first time we are seeing that the government wants to debate issues in Parliament while the opposition does not,” he said.

Naqvi said the opposition is engaging in “rant and run” tactics. It is not allowing Parliament to function and then defames the government outside it, he said.

In their “Modi-bashing”, the opposition has been resorting to “Indiabashing”, he alleged.

Leaders of several opposition parties attended a breakfast meeting hosted by Gandhi at the Constitution Club here where stress was laid on opposition unity.

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NEW DELHI, AUG 3 (PTI): The Rajya Sabha was adjourned for the day on Tuesday amid continuous protest by opposition parties over their demand for a discussion on the use of Pegasus spyware, farmers’ agitation against farm reform laws and other issues.

However, the House passed the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (Amendment) Bill, 2021 with a brief discussion amid the ruckus created by opposition parties.

As soon as the House resumed after lunch at 2 pm, BJP member Bhubaneshwar Kalita in Chair asked Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman to move the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (Amendment) Bill, 2021.

Soon after, the opposition members started their protest and trooped into the Well of the House and remained there throughout. They also continued sloganeering.

The chair called Amar Patnaik (BJD) to initiate the debate on the bill.

Parliamentarians in the Rajya Sabha during the Monsoon Session of Parliament, in New Delhi, August 3. (PTI)

Thereafter, Banda Prakash (TRS), M Thambidurai, K Ravindra Kumar (TDP) and V Vijaysai Reddy (YSRCP) participated in the discussion on the bill amid continuous protest by opposition members.

John Brittas (CPI-M) also rose to participate in the debate, but then started taking about issues like snooping, saying that the democracy is in danger.

After the brief debate by a few members, the bill was moved for passage in the House and it was passed with voice vote

amid the din by the opposition.

Referring to the behaviour of opposition members, Sitharaman said it was unacceptable that they disrupted the members from participating in the debate and surrounded them in a threatening fashion.

She also expressed her dismay over opposition members throwing pieces of paper on the chair, disrespecting the House.

The bill seeks to replace the IBC Amendment Ordinance, 2021 pro-

mulgated in April which introduced pre-packs as an insolvency resolution mechanism for micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) with defaults up to Rs 1 crore.

The Lok Sabha had passed the bill on July 28.

The proposed amendments will enable the government to notify the threshold of a default not exceeding Rs 1 crore for initiation of the pre-packaged resolution process. The government has already prescribed the threshold of Rs 10 lakh for this purpose.

The bill proposes a new chapter in the IB Code to facilitate the pre-packaged insolvency resolution process for corporate persons that are Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs).

As per the Statement of Objects and Reasons of the bill, it seeks to specify a minimum threshold of not more than Rs 1 crore for initiating the pre-packaged insolvency resolution process as well as provisions for disposal of simultaneous applications for initiation of the insolvency resolution process and pre-packaged insolvency resolution process, pending against the same corporate debtor.

There would be a penalty for fraudulent or malicious initiation of the pre-packaged insolvency resolution process, or with intent to defraud persons, and for fraudulent management of the corporate debtor during the process.

Further, punishment would be meted out for offences related to the prepackaged insolvency resolution process.

Lok Sabha passes 2 key bills; witnesses continuous ruckus

NEW DELHI, AUG 3 (PTI): Lok Sabha continued to witness protests by the Opposition over the Pegasus snooping controversy and farmers’ issues on Tuesday and had to be adjourned for the day after the House passed two key bills.

The Tribunals Reforms Bill, 2021 and the Essential Defence Services Bill, 2021 were passed separately by voice vote in the midst of continuous protests by opposition members. Amid the protests during the Question Hour, Speaker Om Birla said that important issues related to farmers were being discussed and urged the protesting members in the Well to go back to their seats.

He also said the protesting members do not seem to want discussions and were insulting Parliamentary traditions.

More than five questions and supplementaries, mostly related to agriculture and horticulture, were taken up before the proceedings were first adjourned till noon. The Question Hour went on for nearly 40 min-

utes.

Opposition members continued their protests.

Many of them trooped into the Well of the House shouting slogans and displaying placards.

Parliament proceedings have been disrupted due to Opposition protests since the start of the Monsoon Session on July 19.

Tuesday was the eleventh consecutive working day when the lower house witnessed repeated disruptions. When the House reassembled at noon, the opposition protests continued.

Senior MP Bhartruhari Mahtab, who was in the Chair, first allowed the papers related to various ministries to be laid in the House.

He also announced that the adjournment motion moved by a few members were rejected by the Speaker.

As the protests continued, Mahtab appealed to the opposition members to go to their seats so that the House can function normally. As the opposition ignored his plea, Mahtab adjourned the House till 2 pm after 10 minutes of business.

Flood relief: Maha Chirag Paswan keeps cards on No black marketing of onions approves Rs 11,500 and tomato reported: Centre cr aid package tie-up with RJD close to chest

NEW DELHI, AUG 3 (IANS): The prices of vegetables are determined by the normal market forces of demand and supply as well as production/harvest season, and there has been no report of black marketing of onions and tomato from the states/UTs, the Parliament was informed on Tuesday.

“The prices of vegetables are also influenced by other factors such as disruptions in supply chain, functioning of mandis, rainfall, labour, transportation etc.

State governments as well as the Central government

continue to exercise powers under the Prevention of Black Marketing and Maintenance of Supplies of Essential Commodities Act, 1980 for preventing such practices,” Minister of State for Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution Ashwini Kumar Choubey told the Lok Sabha in a written reply.

The government is implementing market information system where the prices of vegetables are collected through Agricultural Produce Market Committee (APMC) mandis and disseminated for its

use by the farmers through Agmarknet portal, mobile applications etc. for better price realisation, he said.

To give fair price to the farmers for green vegetables, the government is implementing the scheme of ‘Operation Greens’ for integrated development of tomato, onion, and potato (TOP) value chain since 2018-19. The major objectives of the scheme inter alia include enhancing value realisation of TOP farmers, price stabilisation for producers and consumers, reduction in postharvest losses, increase in food-processing capacities and value addition in TOP value chain by creating firm linkages with production clusters.

Further, the government has extended the Short-Term Price Stabilisation Measures from tomato, onion, and potato to another 41 notified crops - fruits and vegetables - with effect from June 11, 2020, the Minister said.

MUMBAI, AUG 3 (IANS): The Maharashtra government on Tuesday announced the much-anticipated relief package of Rs 11,500 crore for emergency relief, repairs and longterm rehabilitation measures for the victims of the recent devastating floods which hit 9 districts last month.

The decision was taken at a crucial cabinet meeting presided over by Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray in the presence of Deputy CM Ajit Pawar and ministers of the three allies -- Shiv Sena-Nationalist Congress Party-Congress, said Relief & Rehabilitation Minister Vijay Wadettiwar.

As an immediate measure, the government will provide Rs 10,000 for all affected families, Rs 1.50-lakh for those who have lost their houses completely, he said.

Besides, the government will extend Rs 50,000 to all shopkeepers who have suffered damage, and streetside vendors will be given aid of Rs 10,000 for losses, said Wadettiwar.

PATNA, AUG 3 (PTI): Beleaguered LJP leader Chirag Paswan on Tuesday expressed gratitude for the support received from RJD president Lalu Prasad, recalling the “cordial relations” the latter shared with his late father Ram Vilas Paswan.

The chief of the erstwhile undivided LJP, however, ducked queries about Prasad’s suggestion that Chirag should team up with his son Tejashwi Yadav who has emerged as the rising star of the RJD. “Lalu ji had madhur sambandh (cordial relations) with my father and political mentor Ram Vilas Paswan. I thank him for lending credence to my leadership. But, my current priority is the ongoing state-wide Ashirwad Yatra”, Chirag told reporters here.

He was responding to queries about remarks made

by Prasad, who has been in Delhi since his release from jail earlier this year. The remarks that crisis in the LJP in fact established Chirag as a leader were made by the

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septuagenarian after a meeting with veteran socialist leader Sharad Yadav, a former president of the JD(U) controlled by Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar with whom the latter fell out in course of time.

The Jamui MP has been cornered within his own party following the rebellion staged by his uncle Pashupati Kumar Paras, cousin Prince Raj and other LJP MPs. The rebellious faction, which has been recognized by the Lok Sabha Speaker though the move has been challenged by Chirag, has squarely blamed the son of its late founding

CBI carries out surprise CBI arrests key accused in murder of Andhra CM’s uncle checks at CIMFR in Dhanbad surprise checks were conducted on the basis of the request from its vigilance department to find if there are any loopholes.

The source said that on the basis of the surprise checks and after scrutinising the accounts and documents the agency will decide if there is a need to register an FIR or not. The CBI in the past had carried out such surprise checks at several government departments along with their vigilance department.

Raj Kundra is accused of offence detrimental to society’s ‘health’: Court

MUMBAI, AUG 3 (PTI): The alleged offence for which businessman Raj Kundra and his associate Ryan Thorpe were arrested last month was “detrimental” to society’s health, and society’s interest in such cases cannot be “overlooked”, a magistrate’s court here has said.

While rejecting their bail pleas on July 28 in a case related to alleged production and streaming of pornographic content through apps, the court also said that the police had followed the legal procedure.

The detailed order passed by Additional Chief

Metropolitan Magistrate S B Bhajipale became available on Tuesday.

Kundra and Thorpe were arrested by the Mumbai Crime Branch on July 19, and are presently in judicial custody.

The alleged offence is “detrimental to the health of our society”, and “societal interest in the prosecution of a crime which has a wider social dimension cannot be overlooked”, the magistrate said.

The accused have also moved the Bombay High Court challenging their arrest, pleading that the police did not issue a notice as

required under section 41A of the Code of Criminal Procedure before the arrest.

The HC has reserved its order. But the magistrate noted that the investigating officer (IO) had recorded the reason for the arrest, as required.

“This court on July 20 (during a remand hearing) came to the conclusion that the arrest of the accused is as per law,” the judge said.

“The IO has already mentioned the reasons for the arrest of both the accused. In such circumstances, it cannot be said that the accused are entitled to bail,” the magistrate said.

was arrested after CBI sleuths carried out searches for him, as he had shifted to Goa with his family.

The arrest comes almost two years after the gruesome murder of Vivekananda Reddy, the the brother of late (undivided)

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy in his house on March 15, 2019. The case was transferred to the CBI following an appeal by his wife and daughter to the High Court.

Jagan Mohan Reddy had then alleged that the

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We the Sumi Students' Union Purana Bazar 'B' Village with enormous pride and joy would like to extend our heartiest congratulations to all the students from our village who have qualified in the recently declared HSLC and HSSLC results.

HSLC Name Distinction/Subjects 1. Vilika Chisho - S/S, Alt Eng 2. Lucy Swu - Eng, Maths, S/S, Alt Eng 3. Limi S. Yepthomi - Maths, S/S 4. Niputo Yeptho - E.V.S. Appeared - 14 / Qualified - 13 Division - 1st - 4/ 2nd - 2/ 3rd - 3 HSSLC Name - Vipito I. Achumi (Distinction/subject - Accountancy) Appeared - 12 / Qualified - 8 Division - 1st - 2/ 2nd - 4/ 3rd - 3 The Union extends it's best wishes to all for further studies.

May God bless you all.

VIKAHO H. WOTSA President

HETOKA ACHUMI General Secretary

ruling Telugu Desam Party (TDP) played a role in the murder and demanded a CBI probe. After he took over as Chief Minister in 2019, he faced embarrassment when his cousin and Vivekananda Reddy’s daughter went to the high court last year. The CBI had recorded the statement of several persons in connection with the case. The source said that the agency has also found that amount in crores was given as blood money for the murder of Vivekananda Reddy by the accused.

(From p-1) 3. The House, while appreciating the constant role and contributions of the Churches, Civil Societies and the NGOs towards facilitating peace and strengthening the peace process, appeals to the Civil Societies, mass-based Organizations and the Tribal Hohos to make renewed efforts towards creating a conducive atmosphere for the early realization of a political solution by pursuing unity, reconciliation and oneness.

4. All Members of this House have come together under the same banner in line with the election manifestos of all Political Parties committing themselves to the people that all the elected Members are prepared to make any sacrifices for an inclusive, honorable and acceptable solution.

5. The House, therefore, appeals to the Naga political negotiating groups to come together in order to hammer out their differences, and give the people One Solution and One Agreement.

Delhi Cabinet approves increased salary of MLAs NEW DELHI, AUG 3 (IANS): The Delhi Cabinet on Tuesday approved salary hike of the members of Legislative Assembly (MLAs) after getting approval from the Centre.

With the approval from the cabinet, Delhi MLAs will now get a salary of Rs 30,000 per month.

As per a provision of the Bill cleared by the Delhi Assembly in 2015, the basic salary of legislators will increase from the current Rs 12,000 to Rs 50,000.

However, the AAP government said that the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has scuttled the proposal and restricted it and capped the salary of the MLAs to only Rs 30,000. They will be getting a total of Rs 90,000 per month including Rs 30,000 basic salary and other allowances.

The restriction imposed by the Centre has forced Delhi’s MLAs to be amongst the lowest paid among all states in the country.

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The Sangtam Union, Dimapur (SUD) conveys its heartfelt congratulations to Mr. R. Tsapikiu Sangtam, the newly elected president of Eastern Naga People's Organisation (ENPO). The Union has complete faith and confidence in his leadership to safeguard and uplift Eastern Nagaland and its people. SUD also expresses its gratitude to ENPO for the privilege given to its bonafide member to serve the people of Eastern Nagaland.

The Sangtam Union, Dimapur extends best wishes to the president, ENPO and his team as they take up their newly assigned position and responsibilities.

(Mr. Nukshiba) President

(Mr. T. Imlikumzuk Sangtam) General Secretary

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D H A N B A D (JHARKHAND), AUG 3 (IANS): The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) along with the vigilance department of the Central Institute of Mining and Fuel Research is conducting surprise checks at its offices here, sources privy to the development said on Tuesday.

According to a CBI source related to development, the CBI is carrying out surprise checks at the CIMFR in Dhanbad. He said that the

NEW DELHI/PANAJI (GOA), AUG 3 (IANS): The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested one of the key accused in the murder of Y.S. Vivekananda Reddy, the uncle of Andhra Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy, sources said on Tuesday.

“The agency has arrested Sunil Yadav from Goa,” a CBI source related to development told IANS. He said that Yadav, whose role emerged after several rounds of questioning earlier by the agency,

president for the party cutting a sorry figure in the assembly elections last year.

Chirag had pulled out of the NDA ahead of the polls, claiming that the people of Bihar were fed up with Nitish Kumar and yearning for a change in leadership.

He had, however, paradoxically claimed to be loyal to the BJP and Prime Minister Narendra Modi – their backing to Kumar for another term in office notwithstanding. The saffron party, however, owing to the indispensability of Kumar in Bihar, seems to have distanced itself from the belligerent, hot-blooded leader. Chirag has been suspecting the JD(U)’s hand in the split suffered by his party. On Monday, he alleged that Nitish Kumar’s recent posturing on issues like Pegasus, population bill and caste census and the claim of some JD(U) leaders that the Bihar Chief Minister was “PM material” pointed towards a plan to “snatch” the top post from Narendra Modi.

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NAGALAND POST, DIMAPUR WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 4, 2021

We, the family of Thuingaleng Muivah, are deeply grateful to God for His great mercy, faithfulness and healing. We also sincerely wish to express our heartfelt gratitude to every one of you, for your overwhelming aid in prayer and in kind. We are grateful for the moral support extended by all the churches, at home and abroad, from the day he felt unwell until the time of his full recovery. We also wish to thank the Govt. of Nagaland, the team of doctors and their supporting staff at the CIHSR Hospital, the NSCN/GPRN, the Civil Society Groups, and finally, all individuals drawn from different communities for their priceless sacrifices and their constant prayers.

We deeply appreciate and join with each and every one of you as we constantly pray for Th. Muivah and our Naga leaders to bring about honorable and acceptable solution to the Indo-Naga political issue.

We shall remain indebted to you.

Mr. Shangreihan Muivah (Eldest brother) & Family Mr. & Mrs. James Muivah (Elder brother) & Family Mr. & Mrs. Vareisui Muivah (Younger Brother) & Family.

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Bengal flood: 15 dead, 3 lakh affected

TMC, BJP engage in political slugfest KOLKATA, AUG 3 (PTI): At least 15 people have died, and lakhs of people were rendered homeless or marooned, as the flood situation in six districts of West Bengal aggravated on Tuesday, triggering a slugfest between the ruling Trinamool Congress and the opposition BJP over the release of “excess water” by the DVC. Around three lakh people got displaced after heavy rain in the last few days, followed by discharge of water from Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC) dams, inundated major parts of the districts of Purba Bardhaman, Paschim Bardhaman, Paschim Medinipur, Hooghly, Howrah and South 24 Parganas, officials said. The DVC, since July 31, has released 5.43 lakh cusec of water till Tuesday evening. Seven people died and 2.5 lakh have been affected by the flood Till Monday.

Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who keeps a tab on the relief and rescue operations and has sent ministers to the affected areas, is likely to conduct

IAF personnel evacuates a woman during a rescue operation at a flood affected area of Khanakul. (IAF twitter)

an aerial survey of Howrah and Hooghly districts on Wednesday to take stock of the situation.

She will later conduct an administrative meeting, officials said.

“We are collecting the details of all 15 people who have lost their lives due to the flood. Some deaths are due to electrocution, snake bite, wall collapse. We are waiting for a final report from district administrations,” an official said.

Several areas in the six affected districts are reeling under flood, with people struggling to wade through waist-deep water.

The districts of Hooghly, Howrah and West Midnapore are among the worst affected due to the floods.

Around 79,000 people were affected in Hooghly district alone, whereas crops

and livestock worth lakhs of rupees were destroyed.

“Around 345 villages are affected by the floods, and more than 34 thousand hectares of crop area have been damaged. Around 1159 houses have been damaged in the district. We are presently running 89 relief camps,” a Hooghly district official said.

The situation was worse in Kolkata’s neighbouring Howrah district, where around 1.8 lakh people were affected as 10 gram panchayats were severely affected by the floods.

“Seven Gram Panchayats are completely under water, and three are partially submerged. The Udaynarayanpur block is the worst affected,” a Howrah district official said.

Water from the Rupnarayan and the Dwarakeswar

rivers have over topped banks and entered residential areas, flooding homes, the official said.

State Irrigation Minister Soumen Mahapatra conducted a tour of the Udaynarayanpur block in Howrah district and took stock of the relief and rescue operation.

The Paschim Medinipur district administration has opened 212 relief camps as areas under 172 gram panchayats and seven municipalities were flooded. The link road between towns of Keshpur and Medinipur is under water.

Over one lakh tarpaulin, 1,000 MT of rice, thousands of drinking water pouches and clean clothes have been sent to the shelters homes, an official stated.

On Monday, the Army and the Air Force had undertaken rescue operations in Hooghly district, where rivers have over topped banks and flooded villages.

The ongoing flood situation triggered a political slugfest between the ruling TMC and the opposition BJP. Mahapatra accused the Central government-owned DVC of releasing water and causing a “man-made flood” situation.

“The DVC deliberately released so much of water

that it led to a flood-like situation. The Central government deliberately created this man-made flood situation in Bengal. We condemn such politics,” Mahapatra told reporters after his visit to Howrah.

BJP state spokesperson Shamik Bhattacharya termed the allegations “baseless”.

“Before making such allegations, the TMC government should know why the water was released.

There must be a logic behind DVC releasing the water.

The fact is the state government has failed to conduct relief and rescue operations properly and are now blaming others,” he said.

The DVC on Saturday said the storage facilities at Panchet and Maithon dams have reached their capacities due to heavy inflow of water from upstream Jharkhand, and discharge under such circumstances was “unavoidable”.

A DVC official stated that the corporation released 5.43 lakh cusec of water till Tuesday evening since July 31.

Water discharge is regulated by Damodar Valley Reservoir Regulation Committee, which has a representative from the state government, the official said.

Army helicopter crashes into Ranjit Sagar Dam lake

Army and Police personnel inspect the site after a helicopter of the Indian Army crashed in Kathua district, Aug 3. (PTI)

K AT H UA / C H A N D I GARH, AUG 3 (PTI): An Army helicopter crashed into the Ranjit Sagar Dam lake in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kathua on Tuesday, prompting the authorities to launch a massive search operation to trace the missing, an official said.

The dam is located about 30 km from Pathankot in Punjab and the incident took place

around 10.30 pm.

Kathua Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) R C Kotwal told reporters that the forces and boats were mobilised for the search operation, after which some pieces of chopper were found, confirming it to be an Army helicopter.

“We cannot say how many people were in the chopper and what hap-

pened to them,” the SSP said.

Specialised forces and Army divers are carrying out the search operation and the picture will be clear in next four to five hours, he added.

The exact place of the crash has been identified and some floating material has been recovered, the SSP said, stressing that it is a huge lake and the operation will take time.

The depth of the crash site has been measured to be over 200 feet.

As per the unconfirmed reports, the chopper belonged to the 254 Army Aviation Squadron and had taken off from Mamun cantonment and it came down during low-level sortie when it lost control.

Eyewitnesses said the chopper was flying over the lake and suddenly it came down and crashed into the water with a loud thud.

It was a Dhruv chopper, which crashed at Purthu area in Basohli in the lake area, they said.

According to reports, two people were on board.

During the search operation, a helmet, two big size bags, one shoe and some helicopter parts were recovered.

Naga political issue dominates first day of the 8th session of NLA (From p-1) On integration, Rio claimed that Shah said it was not possible immediately but that Nagas can have emotional integration through a Pan Naga hoho with its own flag. Rio also claimed that Shah said he was willing even to unfurl the Pan Naga Hoho flag on the occasion of its celebration.

On Naga constitution, Rio said it could be discussed minutely by Naga stakeholders, tribal leaders, civil society organisations etc so as to have a meeting point for the Naga aspiration.

Zeliang’s plea: Leader of the Opposition, T.R. Zeliang said August 3, 2021 marks six years after signing of the Framework Agreement between the government of India and NSCN (I-M) and also four years after signing of Agreed Position on November 17, 2017 between the government of India and NNPGs. Zeliang said these agreements raised hopes of early settlement to the vexed Naga political issue and high time that all legislators pursue early solution as desired by Nagas with the government of India.

The opposition leader said the two major milestones, the signing of the Framework Agreement on August 3, 2015 and the Agreed Position on November 17, 2017, should not be left idle out without reaching a logical conclusion.

He however said due to the current stalemate between the Naga Political Groups and government of India, final solution could not be inked and which was a cause for great concern.

He also expressed the hope the all elected members of newly formed committees for Naga political issue as suggested by his party (NPF) would rise to the occasion despite criticisms levelled against

the committees and work whole heartedly for realisation of early solution.

He said the formation of the Parliamentary Committee, was the right platform to invite for better understanding between the two groups and which could help both to arrive at mutual understanding.

Zeliang also expressed dismay at the souring of relationship between the NSCN (I-M) and government of India’s Interlocutor R.N. Ravi where each blamed the other over misinterpretation of certain clauses in the FA that has only caused confusion among people.

Against this backdrop, Zeliang urged upon elected members to stand for what was right for the Nagas, sort out the differences at the earliest through proper dialogue so that things would materialize.

He also said NPF has no agenda for proposing an all-party government but was only to help facilitate the Naga Political Issue.

He also said the concept of Opposition-less Government should not be for cheap political gains but rather to strengthen the progress of the negotiations and also to fulfil the aspirations of the Naga People.

Zeliang also said till the proposal was yet to complete NPF members will continue to maintain status quo as opposition and he also will remain leader of the opposition.

He also hoped that the BJP led NDA government at the Centre would stand true to the slogan of the BJP Party of the State during 2018 election “Election for Solution” adding that Prime Minister and Union Home Minister has shown great political will-power to resolve the Naga Issue unlike their predecessors.

Planning and coordination, land revenue and parliamentary affairs, Neiba Kronu said the for-

mation of Parliamentary Committee for Naga political issue under the Core Committee comprising of 22 members was to discuss the political issue in detail.

He highlighted the activities of the Core Committee and cautioned that if the Naga political issue was not resolved, it will hamper the entire system and society after both the government of India and the Naga groups have reached such a crucial stage.

Also taking part in the discussion minister Kashiho Sangtam suggested that the Parliamentary Committee or the Core Committee should negotiate with NSCN (I-M) and 7 NNPGs appealing to sort out their differences and come together for the Naga people.

Minister Tongpang Ozukum, while appreciating the supreme sacrifices made by the Naga Political Groups since the beginning of the movement, also appealed to them to forget and forgive the past mistakes and to come together as one.

He said that the Government is convinced and committed as before, with more trust and confidence on one another, to give concerted efforts in giving

a push to the Naga Political Issue, so as to arrive at a peaceful solution in the interest of the Nagas.

Advisor Khehovi Yepthomi said that when the government of India was showing seriousness in solving the Naga issue, the opportunity must not be missed as delay and neglect will only give birth to more political groups.

A d v i s o r P u k h ay i maintained that any resolution that NLA passes should not contradict to any group but the voice of the August House should conclude in a peaceful settlement.

NPF MLA Yitachu said that Naga struggle was one of the longest struggles within the Indian Union that has been going on for 97 years. Yitachu said the blame game between NSCN (I-M) and Interlocutor, of changing “goal posts” is not going to bring solution and asked whether this changing of goal post was to keep the Nagas in confusion?.

He said as opposition members, joining the government for an oppositionless government was an act of cowardice yet they have decided to swallow their pride to move for an all party government to give

final push for settlement in upholding the manifesto of the party.

Yitachu exuded confidence that the 60 members coming together will send a positive signal to the central government, and the two negotiating groups while endorsing the motion moved by Neiba Kronu.

NDPP legislator H. Chuba Chang said 7 NNPGs were ready to sign the agreement but NSCN (IM) was not. He asked what else does NSCN(I-M) want when “Yehzabo” can be discussed post solution.

He said Naga issue can be solved only politically and called all the leaders to unite in finding a lasting solution which was acceptable to all.

Y.M Yollow Konyak NPF MLA reminded that it will be difficult for every member to step down after 2023 election(to pave way).

He said the negotiating parties should also think about the elected members and should come together and sort out the differences.

Advisor Dr. Longrineken suggested for a resolution appealing the two groups NSCN (IM) and 7 NPPGs to negotiate with the GoI as united Naga and hammer out the differences and sacrifices

Framework agreement not defined: Imkong

Supporting the motion moved by minister Neiba Kronu, opposition MLA Imkong L Imchen elaborated on the different dimensions of Naga Political struggle – Naga political talks of the 1960s between the Government of India (GoI) and the Federal Government of Nagaland (FGN) and GoI recognition of the NSCN (IM) leadership and Working Committee of NNPGs in sequence.

Imchen pointed out that the definition/ interpretation of the sentences entered in Framework Agreement was never defined consequent upon which the interpretation of GoI and NSCN (IM) differ frequently making it an obstacle in the due process of negotiations.

He mentioned that two different agreements were signed: Framework Agreement officially signed in presence of the Prime Minister and another “The Agreed Position” with NNPGs by Interlocutor R N Ravi. However he said after being appointed as Governor even while being the Interlocutor for Naga talks, Ravi could not be made available as required.

Imchen said Nagas desire for peaceful existence was becoming unbearable and said whatever the high valued political agenda one may have, practical politics always was with the spirit of give and take and not winner takes all as in contemporary politics.

Imchen pointed out that both NSCN (I-M) and government of India have to come down and mad a compromising position and if they were serious about settlement, then solution was lying underneath.

Recruitment ad that mimicked memes puts HDFC Bank in a spot

CHENNAI, AUG 3 (IANS): With memes/jokes going the rounds on social media about the graduates who had passed out during the ‘Corona years -- 2020 and 2021 -- a recruitment advertisement by a leading private bank has come as a real shocker.

Curiously, the advertisement also shocked the private bank which had to do the firefight.

An advertisement for hiring branch sales officers in Tamil Nadu issued on behalf of HDFC Bank by its vendor had landed the former in a piquant situation.

The ad with HDFC Bank and its logo at the top and the slogan ‘We Understand your world’ below it, announced walk-in interview for graduates who are less than 28 years of age.

The work locations mentioned were Madurai, Ramanathapuram, Sivaganga and Virudhunagar. The ad also proclaimed that “2021 pass out candidates are not eligible”.

“I don’t think #hdfcbank ‘understand our world’. Look at the job eligibility. Farewell to all 2021 graduates,” tweeted a person by the name of Ramachan Shimray.

When contacted for clarifica-

tion, a spokesperson for HDFC Bank told IANS: “This is a typo and we regret the error. Graduates can apply irrespective of the year of passing as long as they meet the age criteria. We have already issued the corrected advertisement.”

The bank interviewed several candidates on Tuesday, including many graduates who passed out in 2021.

for the future generation.

Dr. Chumben Murry NPF MLA proposed that the Core Committee on behalf of the Parliamentary Committee call on Central leaders and urge them to be magnanimous on the issue of flag while at the same time have more discussion be held with NSCN (I-M) to urge it to re-consider their stand on the line of the conclusion of negotiations on October 31, 2019 in the interest of the younger generation and posterity.

Fur ther he asked whether the members can

proactively facilitate to bring about a re-visit to the Naga Concordant signed on August 26, 2011 and bring about a Covenant of sort based on these two monumental documents the Framework Agreement and the Agreed Position adding that this task will not be insurmountable as the connotation of the two documents are basically the same.

He also pointed out that the Core Committee must now meet the Tribal bodies, its women wings and the students’ bodies

to make the desire for solution a mass movement while the Churches need to be involved to build emotional and spiritual support in the move towards solution.

Murry said basing on point 2 & 3 of the Core Committee resolution; the two negotiating groups must come together to a common platform within six months and that GoI and the Naga negotiating groups should culminate the talks with a further six months and ink an inclusive agreement.

NAGALAND EDUCATION MISSION SOCIETY SAMAGRA SHIKSHA NAGALAND: KOHIMA

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Dated, Kohima the 3rd August 2021

ORDER In pursuance of this Office Advertisement No. NLD/SS/APPT-CON/2019-20 (Vol-I) dated 20th April 2021 and Advertisement NO.NLD/SS/IE-SET/2019 dated 22nd June 2021 and on the recommendation of the Interview Board/ Screening held on 28th and 29th July 2021, the following candidates are hereby selected based on the marks obtained in the interview for engagement on fixed pay as mentioned in the advertisements.

A. Selected Names for G/T Science Admit Card/ Sl. Name Roll No. No 1 OBANGTILA A JAMIR 64 2 TEMJENLILA JAMIR 81 3 OBEKA T 65 4 MEYENU THOKHWE 46 5 KIKRUSENUO SACHÜ 32 6 NEITSHU-Ü 56 7 TSUNGTILA T MONGZAR 85 8 KERHEINGUNUO SHÜYA 29 9 KHRIELANEINUO SOUKHRIE 31 10 KUHOLI K.SUMI 33 11 MOATEMSU 48 12 TEMJENRENLA JAMIR 82 `

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14 NZANBENI N SHITIRI 63 15 RONGPANGNENLA OZUKUM 75 16 TAKUJUNGLA JAMIR 80 17 TOLIVI V AYE 84 18 LIBENI K OVUNG 36 19 ROSEMARY PHOM 76 C. Selected Names for G/T Mathematics

Waiting list for G/T Science Sl. Name No 1 MOLONA AO 2 PETEKHRIENO 3 VILABEI Ü SUOHU 4 KELENO NEIKHA 5 CECILIA RHI 6 EVEKA V ASSUMI 7 MOATULA A SANGTAM 8 RELUIBAMLE 9 KETHOVINUO CHÜTSO 10 RÜÜLHOUNUO PIER

Admit Card/ Roll No. 51 68 86 27 10 15 49 73 30 77

B. Selected Names for Special Education Teacher Sl. Name Admit Card/ No. Roll No. 1 NUNGSHISENLA OZUKUM 4 2 SHASENLE Y KENT 2 3 SHALO KENT 5 4 Y NINGSHISUSANG STM 7 5 A YEZAKA CHISHI 1 6 P CHONGTIN 3

Admit Card/ Sl. Admit Card/ Name Roll No. No. Roll No. SATEMNUNGLA 23 12 KHOMAN MEITEI 13 LIPOKNUKSHI JAMIR 14 13 ANGUN KONYAK 4 TEMJENNARO LONGKUM- 25 14 IMLISENLA AIER 11 ER 4 MOAMEREN 18 15 PAUHUIGUANGBE 21 5 MHIESISI WHISO 17 16 CHUMCHITHUNG J. LOTHA 8 6 DZIESE-II ZATSU 9 17 KEVISATUO YHOME 12 7 MEGOTSINO YALIE 15 18 RONGSENMANEN LONGCHAR 22 8 ZAVINUO 26 19 SENTINARO 24 9 BENDANGTEMSU AIER 6 20 APHEI KONYAK 5 10 AKUMSUNEP KICHU 2 21 ORENBENI Y.KIKON 20 11 CHATHAVINO NAGI 7 22 OBETOLI AWOMI 19 • Selected candidates should submit ‘Acceptance letter’ to the State Mission Office on or before 9th August 2021.

• No separate Offering letter will be issued to the selected candidates.

• Waiting list will remain valid for a period of 6 (six ) months from the date of issue of this order.

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Mass testing in China’s Wuhan, several cities Florida becoming new Covid IMPOSE LOCKDOWNS AMIDST COVID-19 RESURGENCE

BEIJ ING, AUG 3 (PTI):Authorities in central China’s Wuhan, where the coronavirus first emerged in 2019 and spiralled into a pandemic, on Tuesday began testing of its over 11 million people following the resurgence of cases, a year after it contained the deadly virus, even as a sense of unease prevailed in the country as several provinces reported fresh infections.

Wuhan, which became famous all over the world for its first coronavirus lockdown early last year, broke the zeroinfection record since June 2020, as seven new COVID-19 cases were reported.

Authorities began a citywide COVID-19 testing on Tuesday, the official media here reported.

The city has upgraded its epidemic response measures in the face of the recent coronavirus infections, locking down the area where COVID-19 infections have been reported while upgrading its

File photo of mass testing in China

risk levels, state-run Global Times reported.

The city metro has adopted stricter anti-epidemic rules, and all schools have been closed.

Just as Wuhan braced for the second COVID-19 resurgence, especially the Delta variant, several provinces and cities including Beijing are rushing to test millions of people.

The National Health Commission (NHC), in its daily report on Tuesday, said that 61 new locallytransmitted COVID-19 cases have been reported from different provinces, including Jiangsu, Hunan,

Hubei, Henan, Yunnan besides Beijing, Shanghai and Fujian.

This is in addition to a host of imported cases of Chinese nationals returning home from different countries.

The municipal authorities of Zhangjiajie, a tourist destination in China’s south Hunan province where the new clusters of cases were reported, and spread to 15 Chinese provinces, banned people from leaving the city.

China has so far reported 93,193 COVID-19 cases, including 1,157 patients still receiving treat-

Turkey’s Recep Erdogan faces mounting criticism over wildfires

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan during an ariel survey.

BOZALAN, AUG 3 (AP): As Turkish fire crews pressed ahead Tuesday with their weeklong battle against blazes tearing through forests and villages on the country’s southern coast, President RecepTayyip Erdogan’s government faced increased criticism over its apparent poor response and inadequate preparedness for large-scale wildfires.

Fed by strong winds and scorching temperatures, the fires that began Wednesday have left eight people dead, forced thousands of residents and tourists to flee homes or vacation resorts in boats or convoys of cars and trucks. Charred and blackened trees have replaced some of the pine-coated hills in Turkey’s Turquoise Coast

while many villagers lost homes and livestock.

Firefighters were still tackling nine fires in the coastal province of Antalya and Mugla that are popular tourist destinations. Other active fires were reported in the provinces of Adana and Isparta. In all, 137 fires that broke out in over 30 provinces since Wednesday have been put out, officials said.

A senior Turkish forestry official described the wildfires as the worst in Turkey in living memory, though he could not say how many acres of forest land the fires had devoured. He also could not estimate how long it would take the crews to put the fires out, saying strong winds were reigniting flames that had previ-

ously been brought under control. The official spoke on condition of anonymity in line with government regulations.

As residents lost homes and livestock, anger turned toward the government, which admitted that it did not have a firefighting aircraft fleet, and that the existing planes were not in usable condition. Opposition parties accused the government of failing to procure fire-fighting planes while channeling funds for construction projects that they say are harmful to the environment.

Erdogan’s government has also been accused of compromising firefighting efforts by refusing help from Western nations, including rival Greece, during the early stages of the fires.

Agriculture and Forestry Minister BekirPakdemirli rejected the accusation, saying that the government had only refused offers for planes whose water-dumping capacities were less than five tons.

The Israeli Embassy said Tuesday that Israel had also offered to help but that Turkish officials had refused the offer, saying the “situation is under control.” It said the offer still stands.

ment, and 4,636 deaths.

The new infections raised concern over the Chinese vaccines, especially against the Delta variant, as China has administered 1.60 billion doses of the locally-made vaccines so far.

China’s top epidemiologist Zhong Nanshan claimed that the Chinese vaccines were effective against the Delta variant.

The Chinese COVID-19 vaccines can protect people against the Delta variant, Zhong said, referencing studies of some 100 patients who were infected with the variant in southern Guangzhou city in May. The preliminary studies found that the Chinese vaccines are 100 per cent protective against severe cases, and 76.9 per cent, 67.2 per cent and 63.2 per cent against moderate cases, mild cases and asymptomatic infections respectively, Global Times quoted him as saying.

Zhong said that to achieve herd immunity

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and improve the national currency.” Doubts about an imminent return to Tehran’s tattered 2015 nuclear deal, which granted Iran sanctions relief in exchange for limits on its nuclear program, have become a dark

cloud dangling over the incoming hard-line administration. The collapse of the nuclear agreement after former President Donald Trump withdrew the U.S. from the accord three years ago doomed the relatively moderate administration of outgoing President Hassan Rouhani, who has seen his popularity plummet.

Rouhani sat stone-faced throughout the endorsement ceremony. Last week, Khamenei delivered a harsh rebuke of the West, blaming the delay of the nuclear deal’s revival on America’s “stubbor n” negotiating stance.

While repeating his

and Romanian national were killed”, Xinhua news agency quoted the FCDO as saying a statement.

“Minister Cleverly reiterated that Iran must immediately cease actions that risk international peace and security, and reinforced that vessels must be allowed to navigate freely in accordance with international law,” the statement said.

The UK, the US, and Israel have accused Iran of carrying out the attack, which Tehran has denied. Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said

More than 10,200 people in Florida are currently hospitalised with confirmed Covid-19 cases.

Today reported.

More than 10,200 people in Florida are currently hospitalised with confirmed Covid-19 cases, according to data reported to the US Department of Health & Human Services.

The previous record of 10,170 hospitalisations was from July 23, 2020, more than a half-year before vaccinations started becoming widespread, according to the Florida Hospital Association.

Florida leads the nation in per capita hospitalizations for Covid-19.

However, Florida is

“not taking all the steps needed to control the spread of the virus”, said the Forbes report, noting that the state government is only reporting new cases on a weekly basis rather than daily.

Meanwhile, the state is not urging its people to take necessary measures such as keeping social distance and wearing masks.

On July 31, Governor Ron DeSantis even asked the health and education department to “protect parents’ freedom to choose whether their children wear masks in schools”.

‘CHINESE SCIENTISTS WORKED TO MODIFY VIRUS TO INFECT HUMANS’

WASHINGTON, AUG 3 (REUTERS): A preponderance of evidence proves the virus that caused the COVID-19 pandemic leaked from a Chinese research facility, said a report by U.S. Republicans released on Monday, a conclusion that U.S. intelligence agencies have not reached.

The report also cited “ample evidence” that Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) scientists – aided by U.S. experts and Chinese and U.S. government funds – were working to modify coronaviruses to infect humans and such manipulation could be hidden.

Representative Mike Mc-

Caul, the top Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, released the report by the panel’s Republican staff.

It urged a bipartisan investigation into the origins of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic that has killed 4.4 million people worldwide. (Graphic on global cases and deaths) China denies a genetically modified coronavirus leaked from the facility in Wuhan – where the first COVID-19 cases were detected in 2019 – a leading but unproven theory among some experts. Beijing also denies allegations of a cover-up.

Other experts suspect the

pandemic was caused by an animal virus likely transmitted to humans at a seafood market near the WIV. “We now believe it’s time to completely dismiss the wet market as the source,” said the report.

“We also believe the preponderance of the evidence proves the virus did leak from the WIV and that it did so sometime before September 12, 2019.”

The report cited what it called new and under-reported information about safety protocols at the lab, including a July 2019 request for a $1.5 million overhaul of a hazardous waste

Nikol Pashinyan re-appointed as Armenian PM Y E R E VA N, AU G 3 (IANS): NikolPashinyan has been re-appointed as Armenia’s Prime Minister

by President Armen Sarkissian, according to local media Armenpress.

Pashinyan appointment on Monday came after he was re-nominated by the Civil Contract party, which won majority of the seats in the June 21 parliamentary elections, reports Xinhua news agency.

Pashinyan was first appointed as the prime

usual anti-West rhetoric on Tuesday about Iran’s “enemies” seeking to sway public opinion, Khamenei struck a milder tone during the endorsement. He focused on Iran’s mounting domestic issues, praising Raisi’s anticorruption campaign and asking him to encourage local production.

“The nation needs competent, effective and b r ave m a n a ge m e n t ,” Khamenei said.

Without commenting on the stalled nuclear negotiations in Vienna, Raisi stressed he would “pursue the removal of oppressive sanctions” in order to salvage the crippled economy.

UK summons Iranian envoy following oil tanker attack LONDON, AUG 3 (IANS): The UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) has summoned Iran’s ambassador after a drone attack allegedly carried out by Tehran on an Israeli-owned oil tanker in the northern Indian Ocean.

On Monday, James Cleverly, the UK’s Minister for the Middle East, summoned Mohsen Baharvand, the Iranian Ambassador to Britain “in response to the unlawful attack on a merchant vessel off the coast of Oman on 29 July, in which a British national

MIAMI, AUG 3 (IANS): The US state of Florida is becoming the new epicentre of the Covid-19 pandemic in the country as new cases have been surging recently, according to media reports.

On July 30, the Sunshine State recorded 21,683 new Covid-19 cases, breaking its previous one-day record of 19,100 new infections which was set in early January, Xinhua news agency quoted the Forbes report as saying on Monday.

According to the weekly report from the state’s health department, Florida reported 110,477 new cases from July 23 to 29, which was about a 50 per cent increase from the 73,196 cases in the week before. Since the onset of the pandemic early last year, Florida has so far reported a total of 2,636,066 confirmed coronavirus cases and 39,079 deaths.

On Sunday, the state broke its record for coronavirus hospitalisations, USA

US Reps conclude coronavirus ‘leaked’ from Wuhan lab

Iran supreme leader endorses Raisi as president TEHRAN, AUG 3 (AP): Iran’s supreme leader officially endorsed his hard-line protege as the nation’s next president on Tuesday, just two days ahead of the inauguration of Ebrahim Raisi.

The new president’s ascension comes at a sensitive time for Iran and the wider Middle East.

Iran is reeling from crushing U.S. sanctions that have devastated the economy, led to the crash of the Iranian riyal and hit ordinary Iranians hard.

In his speech, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei advised Raisi, a former judiciary chief, to “empower the country’s poor people

through vaccination, China -- which has a population of nearly 1.4 billion -- needs to inoculate 83.3 per cent of its population.

Meanwhile, reports from Wuhan said that people were getting ready for the second COVID-19 outbreak.

A Wuhan resident surnamed Xiao told the Global Times that her residential community has set up a site for nucleic acid tests.

A resident of Zhuankou neighbourhood, who was the first to test positive in the latest spike, transmitted the virus to six other close contacts, prompting the officials to declare a lockdown.

Another seven communities near the infected patient’s workplace, a construction site in Wuhan’s Jingkai district, have also been put under closed-off management. All residents living within the communities will receive nucleic acid testing, the local health commission said.

epicentre in United States

that his country had “intelligence evidence of Tehan’s involvement in the incident”. In response to Monday’s development, Iran has also summoned the British charge d’affaires in Tehran.

In a statement, the Iranian Foreign Ministry said: “The source of instability in the Persian Gulf is not Iran; it is rather the presence of warships and military forces of countries from outside the region.”

Iran also warned against “any adventurism by the occupying regime of Israel or others in the region”.

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minister in 2018. He announced he would resign in April to pave the way for the scheduled snap parliamentary elections

as well as to solve the tensions between himself, the Armenian Army’s General Staff Onik Gasparyan and the opposition parties.

E a r l i e r t h i s ye a r, Pashinyan submitted several requests to President Sarkissian demanding the dismissal of Gasparyan, while the military leader’s deputies and dozens of top military commanders signed a statement in February, demanding the resignation of the Prime Minister and his cabinet.

‘UN must step in and guide Afghanistan away from catastrophe’ UNITED NATIONS, AUG 3 (IANS): The United Nations (UN) must step into this vacuum in Afghanistan and the Secretary-General must immediately convene the Security Council meet and seek a clear mandate to empower the UN, both in the country and at the negotiating table, said Kai Eide and Tadamichi Yamamoto, UN former envoys to Afghanistan.

That would mean the United States, Russia, China, and other members of the council coming together to authorize a special representative to act as a mediator. With the pivotal support of member states, this would put pressure on both sides to halt the fighting and reach a settlement, said the authors in an opinion piece for New York Times. The authors served as United Nations envoys to Afghanistan, Eide from 2008 to 2010, and Yamamoto from 2016 to 2020.

The UN must now step up and guide Afghanistan away from catastrophe. The alternative, as all-out civil war beckons, is too grim to contemplate, the authors said. They said the organization needs to do more.

Though two UN envoys are currently assigned to

treatment system for the facility, which was less than two years old.

In April, the top U.S. intelligence agency said it concurred with the scientific consensus that the virus was not man-made or genetically modified. read more U.S. President Joe Biden in May ordered U.S. intelligence agencies to accelerate their hunt for the origins of the virus and report back in 90 days. read more A source familiar with current intelligence assessments said the U.S. intelligence community has not reached any conclusion whether the virus came from animals or the WIV.

US orders 24 Russian diplomats to leave by Sep 3

WASHINGTON, AUG 3 (IANS): Anatoly Antonov, Moscow’s Ambassador to the US, said that Washington had asked 24 Russian diplomats to leave the country by September 3 due to visa expiration.

“We received a list of twenty-four diplomats who are expected to leave the country before September 3, 2021,” Xinhua news agency reported on Tuesday citing Antonov as

saying to a media outlet.

“Almost all of them will leave without replacements because Washington has abruptly tightened visa issuing procedures.”

Antonov said that “last December the State Department unilaterally established a three-year limit on the assignment period for Russian personnel in the US that, as far as we know, is not applied to any other country”.

IN THE COURT OF PRINCIPAL JUDGE FAMILY COURT DIMAPUR :: NAGALAND Guardianship Petition No. 11/2021

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Afghanistan, neither is sufficiently empowered to make a difference. The UN’s humanitarian appeal to support the basic needs of Afghans — nearly half of whom urgently need material assistance — remains woefully underfunded. At the diplomatic level, the Security Council has looked on blankly as peace talks, held in Doha, Qatar, have failed to make any serious headway. “Yet no single country involved in Afghanistan is well placed to help. For its part in the conflict, the United States is now viewed with suspicion. Russia and China, which have different allies among Afghanistan’s neighbors, aren’t seen as neutral, either. Pakistan, regarded with hostility by the Afghan government for its ties with the Taliban, doesn’t want the involvement of India, which has opened its own channels of communication with the Taliban.

(See 10 of Guardianship & Ward Act.) Whereas an application under the Guardianship & Ward Act has been filed by Shri. Imliwapang Jamir for appointment of Guardian in respect of minor(s) 1. Master Akumienba Jamir, 2. Miss Sendongjungla Jamir before this Court and whereas the 31st day of August 2021 has been fixed for the hearing on the matter.

NOTICE is hereby given inviting objection if any from the person having interest in the above named minor(s) to be furnished on or before the fixed date/or appear in person.

Given under my hand and seal of the Court on this 26th day of July 2021.

Judge Dp-3728 AFFIDAVIT Regd. 266/2021 I, Mr. Yeangom Yinlunghu, aged about 33 years, son of late Khongnyei, permanent resident of Totokchingnyu Village, District: Mon, Nagaland and presently residing at Lower Chandmari Colony, Kohima, Nagaland, do hereby solemnly affirm and state as under: 1. That I am a bonafide citizen of India and a resident of the above referred address.

2. That my correct name is Yeangom Yinlunghu, My father's correct name is Khongnyei and my mother's correct name is Monglao.

3. That however, in my educational (academic) documents and service records respectively, my name has been entered and recorded as Y. Yeangshong Konyak, Yeangshong Konyak respectively instead of Yeangom Yinlunghu. Whereas, the name of my father's and my mother's has been inadvertently entered and recorded as Yangong Konyak and Mongyem Konyak respectively instead of Khongnyei and Monglao respectively.

4. That my name Yeangom Yinlunghu, Yeangshong Konyak and Y. Yeangshong Konyak refers to as same and one person. Also the name of my father Yangong Konyak and Khongnyei refers to as same and one person so also the name of my mother Mongyem Konyak and Monglao refers to as same and one person 5. That henceforth, for all official records and documents, I shall be known and referred by the name Yeangom Yinlunghu, my father's name as Khongnyei and my mother's name as Monglao respectively.

6. That the statements in this affidavit are true and nothing material is concealed therein and shall be used as a piece of evidence.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I sign this Affidavit on this the 23rd day of July, 2021.

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NASA’s X-ray solar imager to probe Sun’s Corona

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cientists at NASA have successfully launched a sophisticated X-ray solar imager on a suborbital flight via sounding rocket to gather new insight regarding how and why the Suns corona grows so much hotter than the actual surface of Earths parent star.

Developers at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, call the mission “MaGIXS” -- Marshall Grazing Incidence X-ray Spectrometer. It launched from White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico at 2.20 p.m. (local time) on July 30.

The MaGIXS mission dispatched its payload, which included a high-powered camera, telescope, and X-ray spectrometer containing a matched pair of grazing

incidence parabolic mirrors, to study so-called “soft” X-rays at a wavelength that hasn’t been previously observed in such detail.

“Our knowledge of the corona’s heating mechanisms is limited, partly because we’ve not yet been able to make detailed observations and measurements of the temperature distribution of the solar plasma in the

region,” said Marshall heliophysicist Amy Winebarger, principal investigator for the MaGIXS mission, in a statement.

The Sun’s surface temperature is more than 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit, but the corona routinely measures more than 1.8 million degrees Fahrenheit.

MaGIXS will be the first imager to measure specific temperature dis-

tributions at different parts of an active solar region.

That precision data will help scientists resolve the debate concerning how, and how often, the corona is superheated.

Shedding new light on coronal heating mechanisms could help researchers better understand and even predict potential solar flares and coronal mass ejections, both of which occur most often in connection with regional spikes in coronal heating.

These violent outbursts can interfere with communications satellites and electronic systems, even causing physical drag on satellites as Earth’s atmosphere expands to absorb the added solar energy.

The MaGIXS sounding rocket mission also serves as a testbed for

instrumentation for future NASA missions to study solar flares in greater detail, possibly tying their origins to measurable coronal activity and helping demonstrate how advanced flight hardware and space systems can be hardened to weather high-energy tantr ums from Earth’s star.

NASA routinely uses sounding rockets for such brief, focused science missions. They’re often smaller, more affordable, and faster to design and build than large-scale satellite missions, Winebarger said.

“They offer unique, suborbital science opportunities, a chance to develop innovative new instrumentation, and rapid return on investment,” she added.

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New data shows the power of COVID vaccines

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he effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines is borne out in new government data showing that more than 99.99% of fully vaccinated Americans have not had a breakthrough infection resulting in hospitalization or death. There were 6,587 COVID-19 breakthrough cases as of July 26 -- including 6,239 hospitalizations and 1,263 deaths -- among more than 163 million fully vaccinated people, according to U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention statistics, CNN reported.

That means that fewer than 0.004% of fully vaccinated people had a breakthrough infection that required hospitalization and less than 0.001% died from a breakthrough infection, CNN reported. Most breakthrough infections (about 74%) occurred among adults 65 or older, CNN reported.

The data support what health experts have been saying for months: COVID-19 vaccines are highly effective at preventing serious illness and death, and they offer the nation its best chance of slowing the pandemic, CNN reported. The CDC published a study last week that showed the Delta variant produced similar amounts of virus in vaccinated and unvaccinated peo-

ple if they get infected. That study convinced CDC leaders to update the agency’s mask guidance on Tuesday, recommending that fully vaccinated people also wear masks indoors when in areas with high COVID-19 transmission to prevent further spread of the Delta variant.

Unvaccinated people should continue masking until they are fully vaccinated, the agency added.

World’s first 3D image of Bryan Adams album delayed due to record label change monkey brain developed

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cientists in China have developed the world’s first high-resolution, 3D image of a monkey brain, which can one day lead to treatments for diseases such as Parkinson’s.

A team from the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, created a detailed map of a complete macaque monkey brain using fluorescent imaging techniques, the Daily Mail reported.

The team created a new technique, known as Volumetric Imaging with Synchronous on-the-flyscan and Readout (VISoR).

Using VISoR, they tested the brains of three 10-yearold macaque monkeys. The

findings are published in the journal Nature Biotechnology. The images turned out massive, taking up more than a petabyte of data -1,000 terabytes or about 30 million high-definition movies. As it captured billions of neurons in unprecedented detail, the team turned to artificial intelligence to study the results, the report said.

VISoR helped the team to show how nerve cells are organised and connected within the monkey brain at a ‘micron resolution’. The human brain comprises nearly a hundred billion nerve cells with delicate and complex connections, and while up to 17 times larger than that of a

macaque, it is similar enough for comparisons to be made between the two, researchers claim. Until now, a mouse brain was the largest to be mapped, taking days to create a complete 3D image, but VISoR made it possible to move up to a macaque brain, which is about 200 times larger in volume than that of a mouse, the report said. According to the researchers, VISoR may also help in imaging other tissues and organs, including samples from clinical pathology. The technique may help to understand the fine 3D structure of the brain and body as well as how they change in various disease conditions, they noted.

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ryan Adams says his new album has been delayed because he switched record labels.

The ‘Run to You’ rocker recently signed to BMG, which caused a minor setback in his release schedule, but over the weekend he told fans they can expect the first single from his 15th LP - the follow-up to 2019’s ‘Shine a Light’ - in October.

Alongside a snap of his new vegan leather jacket, he wrote on Instagram: “If you’d wondered why it was taking so long to get the new album out, it’s because I’ve changed labels, and joined up with @bmg_us to release my 15th studio album. The first song will be released

in October. I can’t wait for you all to hear it and there will be more news as we get closer! #bryanadamsalbum15 PS: that’s a new vegan leather jacket from

#Zara. (sic)” A release date for the album is still yet to be revealed.

On signing the Canadian rocker, Thomas

Scherer, BMG’s president of repertoire and marketing in LA and NYC, said: “As soon as we met with Bryan and his team to listen to the album, we instantly connected with the songs.

“This record is the perfect showcase of his exceptional artistry, performing all the music while also producing. We are very proud to welcome him to BMG, his first new label home in 40 years, and provide our best-in-class global service to a global superstar of his stature.”

The ‘Summer of ‘69’ hitmaker joins the likes of Duran Duran and Kylie Minogue at BMG. The 61-year-old musician recruited Ed Sheeran

and Jennifer Lopez for his last record.

On co-writing with the ‘Shape of You’ hitmaker, he said at the time: “I met Ed in Dublin this year at one of his shows and we kept in touch.

“One day I sent him a chorus I had for a song idea I had called ‘Shine A Light’ and asked him if he was interested in collaborating on it.

“I got a couple of verses back a few days later, and man you should hear him sing it!”

The ‘When You’re Gone’ singer also joined forces with US pop superstar Jennifer, 52, on the ballad ‘That’s How Strong Our Love Is’.

(Contactmusic)

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T h e P u k h o l i m i O rga n i z a t i o n , through this column, extends heartiest congratulations to Miss Anguvili Swu, D/o Mr Obed Bohovi Swu and Mrs Kiyeli Sema for securing Top 20th Position and subject topper in Social Science and Environment Education in the recently declared HSLC Examination 2021.

We, the Pukholimi Organization, would like to praise our Almighty God for her success and prays for her bright future. The Organization appreciates and acknowledges her sincere effort, hard work, dedication and the success, and wishes her the best in her endeavour.

Further, the Organization also congratulates all the HSLC & HSSLC examinations 2021 from the clan and village and wishes and prays for success in their endeavours.

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The Tuophema Village Council would like to congratulate Shri KEViSA KENSE, Director of Fisheries & Aquatic Resources, Government of Nagaland on being promoted to Indian Administrative Service (I.A.S). His achievement was due to hardwork and determination as deserved, with this new responsibility may Almighty God grant you wisdom and knowledge as you resume the prestigious office.

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Theme song for Paralympic launched

NEW DELHI, AUG 3 (IANS): Union Spor ts Minister Anurag Thakur launched the theme song “Kar De Kamaal Tu” -composed and sung by a ‘divyang’ (specially-abled) cricketer Sanjeev Singh from Lucknow for the Indian Paralympic contingent for the Tokyo Games -- at a ceremony in New Delhi on Tuesday.

The thought behind the Paralympic Committee of India’s (PCI) decision to get the song composed by the ‘divyang’ community was to give them a sense of inclusiveness.

“The lyrics of the song motivate not only the athletes but all the people with any form of disability to never underestimate themselves and what they have

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in them to create wonders,” said a statement from the Sports Ministry.

Thakur said that, “India is sending its largest ever contingent to the Paralympic Games in Tokyo -- 54 para-sportspersons across nine sports disciplines. India will be watching your every move; we will be

following your incredible journey at the Games. The sheer determination of our Para-Athletes shows their phenomenal human spirit.

Remember that when you play for India you will have 130 crore Indians cheering for you! I am extremely confident that our para-athletes will give their optimum best!

“Prime Minister Sh Narendra Modi had met our Rio 2016 Paralympic Games athletes and has always had a keen interest for the welfare of our athletes and focused the government’s approach on nurturing talent along with development of sports Infrastructure across the country. I would also like to congratulate the Paralympic Committee of India

and its President Ms. Deepa Malik for ensuring that our athletes are well prepared and receive the best facilities,” said Thakur.

Sanjeev Singh, the composer and singer of the song, said that it was a moment of pride not only for him but for the entire community. He said that it was the accomplishment of Deepa Malik as a player in Rio 2016 Para Games that inspired him to write a poem about her, which has taken the shape of the theme song.

“I just wish that this song inspires para-athletes to do well. They are already winners in their life but a medal will make the entire country (take) note of them and make the nation proud,” said Sanjeev.

15 Kane’s standoff with Spurs continue

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LO N D O N, AU G 3 (AGENCIES): Tottenham striker Harry Kane has failed to report to the club’s training ground for a second day as the stand-off over his future continues amid interest from Manchester City.

It is anticipated the England striker, 28, will be fined for his absence.

Kane believes he has a gentleman’s agreement

with Spurs chairman Daniel Levy to leave the club this summer.

He is expected to return to the club by the end of the week and talks are anticipated between both parties.

The England captain did not turn up as scheduled on Monday for his coronavirus tests, without which he cannot join in with the group sessions, and was absent again on Tuesday.

Manchester City remain keen on Kane but have ruled out any chance of paying £160m, which was suggested as the potential fee Tottenham would want earlier in the summer.

The Premier League champions have made an English record £100m bid for Aston Villa captain Jack Grealish.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT After faithfully serving the Lord all his life, Lt. Ratsuo Ezung went to rest in his heavenly abode with Jesus on July 25, 2021, after a brief illness.

He served as the Assistant Pa s t o r ( 1 9 8 3 ) Pa s t o r (1984~1988) in his Native Longsachung Village Baptist Church. His Ministry went beyond Nagaland.

He had a special burden for Nepal since 1993 and was AWANA Ministry Partner for Nepal, equipping Church Leaders, AWANA Volunteers to reach Children L. Ratsuo Ezung with the Gospel and lifelong (1954 ~ July 25, 2021) discipleship. He led youth leaders in various Bible studies, Devotions & Gospel meetings.

With a heart for Service & Education, he ran Gilgal High School in Wokha, Nagaland, jointly founded with his Wife. Giving children from rural areas a chance at education brought so much joy to him.

Like Barnabas of old, Lt. Ratsuo was an encourager, who lived by Paul’s vision, “For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain” (Phil 1: 21).

We, the bereaved family members would like to convey our sincere gratitude to each and every individual, Yikhum Baptist Church, Village Council, relatives, friends and well wishers who stood by us during our bereaved moment. Our beloved father Late MPIO KItHaN who passed away on 25th July 2021 was the oldest among the Kithan Clan.

We are profoundly grateful and humbled by the love you have shown through prayer, physical and financial support towards our family at this time of grief.

We are unable to thank each one of you individually but may Almighty God bless you all abundantly.

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Late ViLhoungu-ü Victoria KeKuo Wife of Late P. Kekuo Khezhie rested on 15 July, 2021 My father predeceased her in the year 1976. My mother is a walking miracle. She was the heartbeat of our home. Counting her blessings, she had four grandchildren and a loving son in law, whom she loved beyond measure. She had been bedridden for six long years with Leukemia, the most precious years where the amazing people untiringly stood with us.

We are overwhelmed with your touch in our lives. You have listened without judgement, spoken without prejudice, helped us without entitlement, understood us without pretention, loved us without conditions and also for being our strength in cash and kind and most importantly in prayers. No one can get this far alone.

We convey our heartfelt gratitude especially to: 1. Dr. Etho 2. Kire and Khezhie Clan 3. Christ the King Parish, Kohima 4. The different churches and prayer warriors 5. Blood donors We deeply regret our inability to thank each and everyone individually, but we sincerely pray that God bless you all abundantly.

Until we meet again…Apfo …Atsa A light from our lives has gone, a voice we love is stilled, A place is vacant within our hearts which never can be filled A bouquet of beautiful memories sprayed with a million tears We wish God could have spared you, if just for a few more years but His plans exceed ours in glory ‘So rest in His care, our most beloved one’ We hope that God has given you the crown you truly won.

Your life was full of loving deeds, forever thoughtful of our needs.

Today, tomorrow and our whole life through, we will always love and cherish you.

Continue to walk with us in our hearts until we meet again.

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“The magnificent tree, our pride under whose shade weary travellers lean on and glorify God. Your love protects us as a strong fortress; well learned guide, your compassionate word will lead us on. Now you rest in God’s love.”

We, the family members of Late Kiyekhu Swu wish to express our profound gratitude from the core of our hearts, to each and everyone who stood by us, as our strength with your presence and rendered immense help through prayer, financially and materially, at the demise of our father on 14th July 2021, at Pughoboto Town.

We specially give thanks to : 1. Pughoboto Town Baptist Church.

2. Natsümi Baptist Church.

3. Pastor Ahovi Swu, PTBC 4. Rev. C.S Kiheto Sumi, Senior Pastor NBC 5. Miss. Katoli, Women Pastor, PTBC 6. Pastor Toiho Assumi, Mukalimi B/C 7. Rev. Akhato L. Achumi, Pastor LBC 8. Rev. Hotokhu Zhimomi, E.S (SABAK) 9. Mr. Hokiqhe Sheqi, V/Chairman Adhoc Town Council Pughoboto 10. Mr. Jekuto Wotsa, Chairman BOD, PTBC 11. Mr. Tokiye Wotsa, G.B Mishilimi 12. Mr. Kughakhu Sheqi, G.B Natsümi 13. Mr. Kiyevi Swu G.B Natsümi 14. Mr. Nishena Sheqi G.B Pughoboto 15. Natsümi Village Council 16. Adhoc Town Council, Pughoboto 17. Pughoboto Town Kukami 18. Aphuyemi Kukami Hoho 19. Phaphaghu Colony 20. Pughoboto Phughi Kiphimi Kuqhakulu 21. Additional Deputy Commissioner, Pughoboto 22. SABAK Mission Center, Pughoboto 23. Aqemi Kuposhukulu, SABAK 24. Kughutomi Baptist Church 25. Khughutomi Baptist Church W/Deptt.

26. Khughutomi Baptist Church Y/Deptt.

1928 – 14/07/2021 27. Shesulimi Baptist Church Y/Deptt.

28. NCRC – Natsumi 29. NCRC – Pughoboto 30. Natsumi Welfare Pughoboto 31. Natsumi Welfare Union, Kohima 32. Natsumi Tughalo Chekemi Kuqhakulu 33. Mr. Ghujuhe Achumi, Natsumi 34. Mission School, Pughoboto 35. Lokivi SHG Pughoboto Though we could not name each and every individual and express our gratitude personally; we pray God to bless you all abundantly.

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(15.03.1973 – 02.08.2021) We, the family members of Late imrongtula (molungkimong) wish to acknowledge each and every individual for the kind sympathy, gestures and support shown to us during her brief illness and sudden demise.

We convey our special gratitude to : 1. Dimapur District Task Force on COVID-19.

2. Doctors and nurses of District Hospital Dimapur.

3. Dimapur Ao Baptist Arogo.

4. Dimapur Molungkimong Senso Telongjem.

It is our earnest prayer that the Almighty God bless you all abundantly.

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We, the bereaved family of Lt. C. Leipa Konyak would like to express our profound gratitude to all the individuals, friends, families, neighbours and well wishers who stood by us morally, physically, financially, materially and through unconditional prayer support at the sudden demise.

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Hockey: Gold dream ends, Indian men to play for bronze

TOKYO, AUG 3 (PTI): The Indian men’s hockey team’s dream of an Olympic gold after 41 years remained unfulfilled as it lost 2-5 to world champions Belgium in the last-four stage but the side is still in the hunt for a bronze in the Tokyo Games here on Tuesday.

Alexander Hendrickx (19th, 49th, 53rd minutes), the tournament’s highest goal getter, scored a hattrick while Loick Luypaert (2nd minute) and John-John Dohmen (60th) also struck to hand the reigning silvermedallists their second successive entry into the final of the Olympics.

India’s goals came from the sticks of Harmanpreet Singh (7th) and Mandeep Singh (8th).

The Indians still have a chance to secure an elusive medal from the Olympics as they will feature in the bronze medal match on Thursday against Germany, who lost 1-3 to Australia in their semifinal clash.

India’s last appearance in the final of the Olympics

India’s Sumit tries to control the ball during their men’s field hockey semifinal match against Belgium, at the 2020 Summer Olympics, in Tokyo, Tuesday. (PTI)

came way back in 1980 Moscow Games, where they went on to win their last of the eight gold medals.

The Indians had only themselves to blame for Tuesday’s disappointment as Belgium’s all four goals came from penalty corners.

Belgium’s game plan was clear from the onset as

Simone Biles returns to Olympic competition; wins bronze on beam T O K Y O, A U G 3 one was looking to defend (IANS): American her four gold medals from superstar Simone the 2016 Rio Olympics.

Biles, who had withBut after being unable drawn from many to do two-and-a-half gymnastics events at twists on vault during Tokyo Olympics citing the first rotation of mental health issues, the women’s bagged a bronze team final medal in the last week balance beam o n Simone Biles competition on TuesTuesday. day, she withdrew from Simone finished third the competition in order to behind Chinese duo of protect her mental health.

She tried to explain Guan Chenchen and Tang Xijing. Simone ended with what was happening with a total of 14.000 points after her, with regards to the getting 6.100 for difficulty ‘twisties’, a mental block and 7.900 for execution. for gymnasts where the Guan had a total of 14.633 mind and body are not in rhythm. while Tang had 14.233.

The 24-year-old Amer“For anyone saying ican returned to competition I quit, I didn’t quit, my after a week due to mental mind and body are simply health concerns, especially not in sync as you can see the ‘twisties’. Arriving for here,” she wrote on her the Tokyo Olympics, Sim- Instagram.

they tried to enter the Indian circle and earn penalty corners with Hendrickx and Luypaert in their ranks.

The ploy worked to perfection as the Indian defence wilted under pressure to concede the set pieces.

India too earned five penalty corners in the match but could make use of just

one.

Belgium scored from their first attack, earning a penalty corner which was converted by Luypaert with a powerful flick in the second minute.

The Indians came back strongly and changed the course of the match in a span of two minutes with

two goals.

India secured two penalty corners in the seventh minute, the second of which was beautifully converted

by Harmanpreet for his fifth goal of the tournament.

A minute later, Mandeep, who has been under pressure for his underwhelming form so far, gave India the lead with a fine field goal.

Mandeep beautifully received a Amit Rohidas cross from the right, turned over and found the back of the net with a fierce reverse hit past Vincent Vanasch in front of the Belgium goal.

India got another chance in the first quarter in the form of a penalty corner but Rupinder Pal Singh’s effort this time was saved by Vanasch.

Trailing by a goal, the Red Lions came out stronger in the second quarter and pressed hard on the Indian defence which wilted under pressure, conceding as many as four penalty corners, the last of which was converted

by Hendrickx to level the

scores.

With both the teams locked at two goals apiece after the third quarter, the stakes were high in the fourth and final quarter and it was the Red Lions who came out on top by breaching the Indian citadel thrice.

Belgium went on the offensive and secured three consecutive penalty corners in the 49th minute and again it was Hendrickx, who rose to the occasion for his side to hand them a 3-2 lead.

With a goal upfront, the Belgians kept up the pressure on the Indian defence, which was guilty of conceding three more penalty corners in quick succession, resulting in a penalty stroke for the world champions which was duly put into the goal by Hendrickx for his third goal of the match.

Trailing by two goals, a desperate India withdrew goalkeeper Sreejesh for an extra player but the move backfired as Dohmen slammed home in an empty net from a counter to shatter India’s hopes.

MEDAL TALLY AS ON AUG 3 (TOP 20) COUNTRY

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China

32

21

16

69

2

United States

24

28

21

73

3

Japan

19

6

11

36

4

Australia

14

4

15

33

5

ROC

13

21

19

53

6

Great Britain

13

17

13

43

7

Germany

8

8

14

30

8

France

6

10

8

24

9

Netherlands

6

7

7

20

10

Republic of Korea

6

4

9

19

11

New Zealand

6

4

5

15

12

Italy

5

9

15

29

13

Hungary

4

4

3

11

14

Cuba

4

3

4

11

15

Czech Republic

4

3

1

8

16

Canada

3

4

7

14

17

Switzerland

3

4

5

12

18

Brazil

3

3

7

13

19

Croatia

3

3

2

8

20

Chinese Taipei

2

4

4

10

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India

0

1

1

2

India’s double Olympic medallist Sindhu felicitated NEW DELHI, AUG 3 (AGENCIES): Sports Minister Anurag Thakur felicitated Indian shuttler PV Sindhu upon her return to the country from a successful Olympics campaign in Tokyo. Sindhu won the women’s singles bronze at the Tokyo Games to become the first Indian woman to win two individual Olympic medals, NDTV reported.

She beat China’s He Bing Jiao in the bronze medal match to add to the silver she won at the Rio Olympics in 2016. Sindhu and her coach Park Tae-Sang were felicitated at a ceremony in New Delhi, attended by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharman and Minister of State for Youth Affairs and Sports Nisith Paramanik among others.

“PV Sindhu is amongst India’s greatest Olympians. She is India’s icon,

Union Ministers Nirmala Sitharaman and Anurag Thakur felicitate PV Sindhu as Union MoS Nisith Pramanik felicitates Sindhu’s coach Park Tae-Sang. (PTI)

inspiration and has caught the imagination of every Indian who dreams of playing for the country,” Anurag Thakur said on the occasion. “Her incredible achievement - that of winning two Olympic medals in two consecutive Olympic Games will inspire a generation of budding athletes.

“Her success shows how the Target Olympic Podium scheme of the government has nurtured our

Olympic hopefuls towards a podium finish.

“Just before setting off for Tokyo Olympics, she had an interaction with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and right after her victory he was the first person to call her and congratulate her. The nation of 130 crore Indians is thrilled by her smashing performance,” said Thakur. Sindhu’s parents P Vijaya and PV Ramana were also present for

the felicitation ceremony.

“I would like to thank each one of my fans because of the support and though we played without fans in the stadium, but I am sure billions have supported me from India and this success is the result of their wishes,” said Sindhu. “I would like to thank my parents for their constant support and scarifies and my coach for working with me and making this dream come true.”

Norway’s Warholm sets world record; wins 400 hurdles TOKYO, AUG 3 (AGENCIES): Norway’s Karsten Warholm ran a stunning men’s 400m hurdles race to obliterate his previous world record and take gold at Tokyo 2020.

Warholm, 25, finished in 45.94 seconds to slash more than seven tenths off his old record, while American Rai Benjamin was hot on his heels to win silver having Karsten Warholm (Reuters) Warholm had set the also beaten the previous previous world record of record.

46.70 in Oslo in July.

Brazil’s Alison dos Santos took the bronze medal with a time of 46.72.

“You know the cliche that it hasn’t sunk in yet? I don’t think it has but I feel ecstatic,” Warholm, who now holds the European, world and Olympic titles, told BBC Sport.

“I can’t believe the time, it’s so fast! A lot of the time I am asked about the perfect race... I said it didn’t exist,

but this is the closest I’ve ever come. “I told myself going into the race, remember all the work you have put in. It was the only thing missing from my [medal] collection.

“I can’t describe how important this is for me. This is what I do morning until night - it’s huge.”

It was tipped to be one of the most exhilarating races at the Games after Benjamin had come within five hundredths of a second of

FOOTBALL: Spain, Brazil to meet in gold medal game SAITAMA, AUG 3 (REUTERS): Marco Asensio struck in an extra-time winner as Spain ended Japan’s hopes of Olympic gold in men’s football with a 1-0 (aet) victory, setting up a clash with Brazil in Saturday’s final.

Defending champions Brazil also had to struggle to make the final, beating Mexico 4-1 on penalties after the game ended goalless after extra-time.

Japan had matched Spain throughout the game, playing with creativity and invention going forward and tenacity without the ball and they were five minutes away from taking the match to a penalty shootout.

After a cagey first half, Spain thought they had a great chance to go in front when referee Kevin Ortega of Peru pointed to the penalty spot after Mikel Merino went down under challenge

Marco Asensio (R) scores in extra time in Spain’s 1-0 win over Japan at the Tokyo Olympics on Tuesday. (Kyodo)

from Maya Yoshida.

But the video assistant referee ordered Ortega to go to the pitchside monitor and he saw the clear images that Yoshida had made a perfectly fair and well-timed challenge.

That overturned penalty sparked both sides into life and it was a lively second half with openings at both ends.

Japan keeper Kosei Tani did well to race out quickly and smother Rafa Mir as the ball broke to him close to goal while at the other end Takefusa Kubo’s blast at the near post was parried by Unai Simon.

Both teams were unable to make the most of half-chances, however, and the game followed a similar pattern into extra-time be-

fore Real Madrid forward Asensio picked the ball up in the inside right channel, glanced up and curled the ball into the far corner.

Spain are looking to repeat their gold medal success from the Barcelona Games in 1992 but will have to beat the Rio winners from five years ago.

Brazil went close to settling their match against Mexico inside 90 minutes when Richarlison struck the post with a glancing header in the 82nd minute.

But when it came to the shootout, they had their keeper Santos to thank for a fine save to keep out Eduardo Aguirre’s spot-kick and after Mexico’s Johan Vasquez hit the post, Brazil just need to keep their cool.

Reiner’s right-footed shot into the bottom corner ensured victory for the team captained by 38-year-old former Barcelona full back Dani Alves.

taking the then-world record in winning the US trials this summer.

Warholm established a strong lead when he raced out of the blocks but Benjamin threatened to claw him back before the Norwegian’s final push for the line.

He roared with delight when he looked up at the screen to see his time, ripped his shirt in celebration and posed for photographs next to the new world record.

Sonam loses opening bout on Olympic debut TOKYO, AUG 3 (PTI): Young Indian wrestler Sonam Malik lost her opening bout on criteria to Mongolia’s Bolortuya Khurelkhuu in the women’s 62kg category here on Tuesday and will now have to wait and see if she gets a repechage round on her Olympic debut.

The 19-year-old led the bout 2-0 after scoring two pushout points but the Asian silver medallist Khurelkhuu effected a take-down move with just 35 seconds left in the contest to level the score.

The score remained 2-2 till the end but since it was the Mongolian who scored the last point with her move, she was declared winner on criteria.

There was hardly any action during a major part of the bout. No move was made till one and a half minute with the two wrestlers measuring each other from standing position.

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