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DIMAPUR tuesday, august 9, 2016

Parliament clears historic GST bill

PM says it will empower states, end corruption

Asean study centre inaugurated in Meghalaya Correspondent SHILLONG, AUG 8: India on Monday inaugurated the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Study Centre here in Meghalaya to facilitate Asean-India research projects and studies.

The study centre which will function from the Indian Council of Social Science and Research-North Eastern Regional Centre located at North Eastern Hill University campus, was inaugurated by Ministry of External Affairs secretary (East), Preeti Saran.

Union minister of state for External Affairs V.K.Singh, was supposed to inaugurate the historic ASEAN Study Centre but he cancelled his trip to at the eleventh hour.

Diplomats from ASEAN countries- Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia, Indonesia, Philippines, Lao PDR, Singapore, India’s ASEAN joint secretary, Pooja Kapur, Chief Secretary KS Kropha besides former diplomats attended the inauguration of the study centre “The Centre would serve the all the stakeholders in the North Eastern India and ASEAN by facilitating ASEAN -India research projects, studies, workshops and related activities as by maintaining a documentation centre the which would be repository of information on the North East- ASEAN engagement,” Saran said.

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Suicide bomber kills over 70 in Pakistan

QUETTA, AUG 8 (IANS): A suicide bomber blew himself up in a crowded hospital here on Monday killing over 70 people and injuring over 100 in one of the worst terror attacks in Pakistan this year, authorities said.

The Quetta media, however, put the death toll at 93.

The powerful blast ripped through the emergency ward of the Civil Hospital when nearly 100 lawyers had gathered to collect the body of a prominent lawyer shot dead hours earlier in the city.

The deafening explosion, heard clearly on video, instantly killed dozens, including two television cameramen. The hospital presented a ghastly scene with bloodied bodies and body parts strewn in a small area.

Samaa TV said bodies were strewn on the floor, some still smoking, “amid pools of blood and shattered glass”.

A bomb disposal squad said the suicide bomber had around 10 kg of explosives hidden in his vest, Xinhua news agency said. Police found the limbs of the bomber. The Pakistan Taliban faction Jamaat ur Arhar claimed responsibility.

ARY News said the dead included at least 25 lawyers. As the explosion ripped through the hospital, Aaj TV cameraman Shehzad Khan could be heard on the camera reciting the “Kalma” in a groaning voice as he died.

The other cameraman to get killed was Mehmood Khan of DawnNews.

Quetta’s Urdu media -Daily Millat, Baaghi TV and

NEW DELHI, AUG 8 (IANS): Marking a major leap towards enforcing a unified tax regime in the country, the Parliament on Monday gave its nod to the constitutional amendment bill on a Goods and Services Tax (GST) in what is seen as the most radical indirect tax reform since Independence.

The Lok Sabha voted for the second time on the measure in little over a year it had first cleared the enabling legislation in 2015. Lok Sabha had to take up the bill yet again after the Rajya Sabha, where the bill had been languishing since then as the government did not have a majority in the house, gave its nod with few vital amendments on August 3.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi was present in the Lok Sabha when the bill was passed as were Finance Minister Arun Jaitley and other senior ministers Rajnath Singh, Nitin Gadkari, Sushma Swaraj and BJP patriarchs L.K. Advani and M.M. Joshi.

Making a departure, a jovial mood prevailed in the house even while the amendments and the bill was taken up for voting. As it was a Constitutional amendment bill, division of votes was also mandatory.

“The motion is adopted by the majority of the house and not less than by the twothird of the majority of the house as required by the Constitution,” Speaker Sumitra Mahajan announced every time at the end of division voting. After its passage and the chair announced adjournment of the house, treasury bench members and Union ministers were seen greeting each other.

Intervening during the nearly six-hour debate on the bill, Modi said the GST bill will go a long way in helping states, support small entrepreneurs and also curb the menace of corruption.

Expanding GST as “Great Step by Team India, Great Step towards Transformation and Great Steps towards Transparency”, he said that it will be an important step

SSU serves 7-day ultimatum on C&S school education

Measles outbreak: medical deptt Patton calls for unity to settle Naga issue soon sounds alert across Dimapur district

DIMAPUR, AUG 8 (NPN): Sakshi Student’s Union (SSU), Longleng district, has served a seven-day ultimatum on the Commissioner and Secretary (C&S) school education to fulfil the assurances of posting maths and science teachers at Government High School, Sakshi under DEO Longleng.

In an ultimatum addressed to the C&S school education, SSU president Y. Pongshi Yangang and general secretary L. Hongba Yangang cautioned that failure to fulfil assurances within stipulated time would compel them to take own course of action, for which the union it would not be held responsible if any untoward incident. Reminding the C&S of his assurances, the union lamented that “unfortunately” there was no positive response or any action taken till date.

Narendra Modi, Rajnath Singh and others during the voting on the GST Bill in the Lok Sabha on Monday. (PTI) Leader of the Congress in the Lok Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge took a dig at Modi, saying he had opposed the bill as Gujarat Chief Minister.

“We were the creators of the GST. We were the first to bring the GST. We support it. Those who are passing the GST now, why were they opposing it when they were in the opposition?

“Had they agreed to our conditions on the GST earlier, the delay wouldn’t have happened,” he said.

The Constitution (One Hundred and Twenty-Second Amendment) Bill, 2014 and amendments (carried out by Rajya Sabha) were declared approved by a two-thirds majority with 443 members voting in its favour and none against.

AIADMK, which had staged a walk out in the Rajya Sabha, did so in the Lok Sabha also.

Urdu Post -- however, put the death toll at 93. In any case, doctors warned that the toll could rise because some of the injured were in a serious condition.

It was the worst terrorist attack in Pakistan this year since the March 27 bombing at Gulshan-e-Iqbal park in Lahore that left 75 people dead.

As Balochistan, Pakistan’s biggest province by area, declared three days of mourning, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif flew to Quetta. Army chief Raheel Sharif visited the injured in the Civil Hospital.

Gen Sharif ordered intelligence agencies to initiate “special combing operations to target those involved in terror attacks”, a spokesperson for the military said.

Balochistan Chief Minister Sanaullah Zehri blamed the Indian intelligence agency RAW, saying it was respon-

Correspondents

DIMAPUR, AUG 8 (NPN): An alert has been sounded across Dimapur district, after the recent outbreak of measles in Myanmar bordering Nagaland.

Chief medical officer (CMO) Dimapur, Dr. K. Vikato Kinimi in a press statement informed all private health facilities under Dimapur district to report on any cases relating to measles as there was possibility of influx of patients to Dimapur. CMO also requested all heath centres to be on alert and immediately report to CMO office in case of any similar measles cases so that the outbreak in the district could be prevented.

It may be noted that state health department had sounded alert in four districts along the international border after the outbreak of the disease.

Principal Director of Health and Family Welfare Department, Nagaland, Dr DIMAPUR, AUG 8 (NPN): Watikala Ao had directed CMO Nagaland Medical Dealers and medical superintendents Association (NMDA) has condemned the physical assault on one of its bonafide members Pinak Nath, owner of M/s Nonee Pharmacy, his wife and son by “one KOLKATA, AUG 8 (IANS): miscreant” on August 7 night A unique database of parasitic in Dimapur “just because worms could become the key the medicine he demand- to helping doctors identify and ed was not available in the diagnose food-borne infections pharmacy.” In a press re- in North East, besides aiding lease, NMDA president Ato in drug formulation, its designYepthomi said following the ers say. Rather cumbersomely incident the pharmacy owner called the Northeast Helminth and his family along with Parasite Information Database, (Cont’d on p-7) or NEIHPID, it has exhaustive information on worm parasites of the northeast that are also widely found in South and Southeast Asia, regions with similar dietary habits.

Developed at the Bioinformatics Centre of the North-Eastern Hill University (NEHU) in Shillong, the Meghalaya capital, the project is headed by veteran parasitologist Veena Tandon, who was earlier with NEHU and is currently associated with Biotech Park, Lucknow.

The database uses bioinformatics -- application of computer technology to the “We are limiting sale of management of biological sand for Nagaland to information -- tools to list neglected helminthic infections. It ensure demand and supply also provides genetic sequence economics”. data in addition to geographi-

NMDA condemns assault on member

towards getting the country rid of “tax terrorism” and also make “consumers the king”.

He asked Jaitley to ensure that 16 states ratify the bill at the earliest and also that adequate steps are taken to ensure early passage of the draft legislation on integrated GST, the central GST and the state GST. The government will be targeting April 1, 2017 (the next financial year) for the roll out.

Replying to the debate, Jaitley said that the uniform tax law will make India an “integrated market and once it is enforced, “doing business in this country will become easier”.

He also said demand for reducing indirect taxes and hiking direct taxes is not practical.

Jaitley hit out at the Congress, saying the 18 per cent cap on GST rate was suggested by the party only after the bill was passed in the Lok Sabha.

People help victims of the blast in Quetta, Pakistan on Monday. (AP/PTI)

(MS) of Kiphire, Mon, Phek and Tuensang districts to remain vigil in their districts and alerted all healthcare providers.

3 more succumb to measles in Naga area

YANGON, AUG 8 (AGENCIES): Three more children reportedly died over the weekend in the eastern region of the Naga Self-Administered Zone after contracting measles, raising the number of victims of the recent outbreak to 41, reports The Irrawaddy.

“The total number of those who have died has reached 41,” said Thein Zaw, the assistant director of the Naga Self-Administered Zone, who confirmed that the oncemysterious illness has been identified as measles. “Now, we almost have control over the situation.”

Thein Zaw told The Irrawaddy that approximately 100 people have been infected by the disease from two town-

ships, Lahe and Nanyun; the vast majority are from Lahe, with 15 patients reportedly from Nanyun.

On August 5, after media reported on the outbreak, authorities from the Naga Self-Administered Zone sent around 20 medics to the Lahe village of Thankholama to treat the victims and identify the illness.

After locals tested positive for measles, the medics began administering vaccines to villagers on Saturday, August 6; it was in Thankholama where the disease first appeared in June.

“The medics gave out vaccines in the villages where the disease broke out, and even gave vaccines to [other] villagers who stay in the nearby area,” Thein Zaw said.

The rural areas of Lahe and Nanyun townships have little to no health care or transportation infrastructure, and are incredibly difficult to access.

WOKHA/KOHIMA, AUG 8 (NPN): Nagaland home minister, Y. Patton, on Monday called upon all sections of Naga society and all Naga political groups (NPGs) to unite under one umbrella so as to settle Naga political issue at the earliest.

Speaking as chief guest at the inaugural programme of new office building of NPF Wokha Division near NST colony Wokha town on Monday, the home minister said Naga political deadlock could be settled only through unity.

Pattion said with the presence of eight Naga political groups in the state, people were suffering as they had to pay tax to different groups.

Home minister urged upon to all the groups to unite since they were all striving for “one political ideology” that is “sovereignty”.

On the occasion, Patton also advised NPF party officials to practice principle in politics as a norm so as to earn the respect of the people whom

Y. Patton along with NPF party functionaries in Wokha. (NP) they represented.

He also advised the NPF party officials from the division and assembly constituency levels to carefully screen and recommend party tickets to only those leaders who have good grassroots support so they win and eventually add up to the party’s overall tally in the state assembly.

Expressing happiness that NPF Wokha division has got new office building, Patton urged the party functionaries of Wokha district to take care of the building and make best

use it.

He thanked the NPF Wokha division party officials for remaining united even during the recent political crisis within the party.

Earlier, Patton hoisted the party flag and cut the ribbons of the new NPF office building after it was dedicated by Lotha Baptist Ekhumkho Sanrhyutsu (LBES) executive secretary Rev. Nyanchumo.

Giving a technical report on the building, NPF Wokha division vice president Yilobemo Humtsoe acknowledged the

sible for incidents of terror in Quetta. His comments came even before the police could say who was responsible for the horrific attack.

The lawyers were at the hospital to take the body of Bilal Anwar Kasi, president of the Balochistan Bar Association who was killed earlier in the city, Dawn reported. Gunfire erupted after the explosion.

A stampede too broke out, causing chaos at the hospital.

Smoke filled the corridors of the emergency ward. Lawyers who survived the blast rushed out to fetch stretchers.

Shocked survivors wept and comforted one another.

One journalist broke down after seeing the bloodbath. Many of the dead were in black suits and ties -- the lawyers’ uniform.

Police and Frontier Corps surrounded the hospital. An emergency was declared in all Quetta hospitals.

party president Shürhozelie Liezietsu, the state chief minister T .R. Zeliang and home minister for their generosity.

Chairing the inaugural programme and delivering welcome address, NPF Wokha division president P. Mhonthung Lotha also thanked NPF president, Dr. Shürhozelie Leizietsu, chief minister T.R. Zeliang, and home minister Yanthungo Patton for their generosity.

Short speeches were also delivered by ex-MLA and former congressman Sulanthung Lotha, former candidate and erstwhile JDU president Mhonjan Humtsoe, NPF central general secretary and Wokha division incharge Renbomo Kikon, and a representative from the NPF women wing central.

NPF Wokha division youth wing presented a special number, and Wokha division NPF press secretary Manthungo Kikon proposed vote of thanks at the programme attended by NPF officials from central, division and assembly constituency levels.

Unique database of worms to help combat disease in NE NSCN (R) condemns defection;

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cally specific information on the parasites from each of the eight northeast Indian states.

“It is a complete documentation of worm parasites from fish to frogs to reptiles to birds to mammals, including humans. Some of the worm parasites which are found in these animals can establish themselves in human beings after being transmitted from animals to human hosts,” Tandon told IANS. Given the meat-rich diet in the region, Tandon said it also sheds light on food-borne worm infections that have the potential to become zoonotic.

Zoonoses are diseases that can be spread between animals and

humans. The documentation effort has been published in the June edition of Plos One journal. Devendra Kumar Biswal, Manish Debnath, Graciously Kharumnuid and Welfrank Thongnibah helped develop the database.

Apart from serving as a record, the database paves the way for practical applications of molecular diagnostics in the region by pinpointing the exact infection and preventing misdiagnosis, said Biswal, who contributed to the bioinformatics part of the database.

As an example, the researchers cite lung flukes of the genus Paragonimus which cause paragonimiasis, or lung

fluke disease, with symptoms that mimic tuberculosis.

There are around 50 different species of Paragonimus across the globe, predominantly in east and Southeast Asia, including in China, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Korea and Japan. Humans may be infected when they eat raw, salted, pickled, smoked, marinated, dried, partially cooked or poorly processed crustaceans like crabs and prawns. It is estimated that more than 20 million people are infected worldwide due to several species of Paragonimus, said Biswal.

The database comes in handy with its listing of the specific molecular markers (a DNA fragment) for the causative organism to bridge or explain the faunal overlap in Southeast Asia -- these countries might have groups of one particular organism in similar or various different forms.

“Molecular marker data serve as diagnostic features for identifying organisms that mimic symptoms with some other causative agents or geographical isolate discrimination

of faunal overalapping forms.

Molecular markers can be further harnessed in designing barcodes for biological specimens,” explained Biswal.

Currently, information on 121 types of helminths (including platyhelminth, nematode and acanthocephalan parasites) that are known to occur in vertebrate hosts with food value (fish, amphibians, poultry, ruminants and pigs) in northeastern India has been formatted and fed into the platform.

Adding further insights to the narrative of the portal from the Indian perspective, Tandon said it also opens up avenues for practical applications of molecular diagnostics.

“Molecular-based diagnostics of worm infections in India is mainly of academic interest so far. We wanted to provide that data so that it becomes practicable to design drugs based on drug target molecules and frame effective disease control strategies,” added Tandon, NASI senior scientist Platinum Jubilee Fellow and Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Parasitic Diseases (Springer).

appoints new kilonsers, secys

DIMAPUR, AUG 8 (NPN): Condemning the defection of its members to NSCN (I-M), NSCN (Reformation) said that “the main reason of defection in our society is lust for position and money which will not help the Nagas including NSCN-IM”.

In a press note, MIP however said NSCN (R) had no problem as it was “only on the ground that they have joined other Naga group hoping that, their problem would be solved by the NSCN (I-M).” While stating that it would withstand and continue to uphold the Naga national plebiscite of 1951, MIP said the defection had no meaning as it only “displayed their cheapness and shallowness, reducing themselves like essential commodities, which could be sold and bought with Indian currency.”

Stating that the Naga issue was unique and that no faction/ individual could override it, MIP said solution to the problem can only be found through collective efforts. However, if any solution is imposed upon on Nagas, it

would only inflame entire situation, MIP added. MIP said it had supported the framework agreement, with the hope that NSCN (I-M) would widely consult other NPGs leaders. However, MIP said NSCN (I-M) failed to consult the NPGs till date.

“NSCN (R) will continue to maintain cordial relationship with all NPGs and formulate collective policy to stand by the glorious history of the Naga Nation”, MIP reminded.

Meanwhile, NSCN (R) president has approved its cabinet decision to appoint four kilonsers, three Naga Army officers and two secretaries.

They are-- Yato as kilonser; Khampai, dy. kilonser; Shaopa dy. kilonser; Khekhaho Newell dy. kilonser; Wechu dy. secy. and Menlem dy. secretary. In a major reshuffle within its military setup, MIP said its president has inducted ‘brig.’ Jackson as the commander-in-chief of Naga Army, ‘brig.’ Wanglon as GSO-I (Admin) and ‘brig.’ Phongjei as military supervisor.

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Medümneo festival celebrated across the state

S H A M AT O R , AU G 8 (NPN): The Medümneo festival which is one of the most important and premier festival of the Yimchungrü Naga was celebrated with pomp and gaiety here at Shamator town and Naga United village Dimapur on Monday.

Speaking on the occasion as chief guest at Shamator, organized by Thuneo Committee Shamator Town, ADC Shamator, Wonchio Odyuo, said that, festival was celebrated to respect and honour the traditional norms which “our” forefathers had practice long ago. He lamented that with the coming of Christianity and modern era slowly the Naga culture and identity has been lost.

Therefore, he urged upon every Naga citizen not to forget the real meaning of festival.

He further said that, every festival has its own unique significance and also festival was celebrated for merry making and to bring peace and harmony to the neighborhood and community.

The programme was attended by Commandant 15 Assam Rifle, EAC Shamator, HoDs, town council, tribal leaders, NGOs, churches with different cultural troupes.

Earlier, the programme was moderated by associate professor Shamator College, N. Yanjila while blessing prayer was pronounced by pastor STBC, Rev. R. Thsankiu. Welcome address was delivered by secretary Thuneo Committee Z. Lashi while Jimjiba Martin highlighted the significance of Medumneo. Short speeches were also delivered by vice president YTC Tsurito and Kiuji member town council.

Special number was present-

ADC Shamator, Wonchio Odyuo along with the various head of government department and organizing committee on Monday at public ground Shamator town.

ed by Thrunso choir master.

Vote of thanks was proposed by chairman Thuneo committee A.M.Showuba and benediction offered by chaplain PBF Shophu.

YUTT: Yimchunger community of Tuensang town and displaced families of 2014 inter tribal feud came together to celebrate the premier festival of Yimchunger tribe Medumneo which was organised by Yimchunger Union Tuensang Town at the Yimchunger Baptist Church Compound Tuensang Town (YBCTT) on August 6. The occasion was graced by parliamentary secretaries, R. Tohanba as chief guest and Kejong Chang as guest of honour.

Speaking of the occasion as Tohanba said that festival was the time for joy, reconciliation, to forgive and forget any misdeeds in the past and to set new approach to move forward in every

field. Kejong Chang stressed on the need to develop friendship, maintain peace and unity for overall development of the state.

The significance of Medunneo as a festival symbolising love and exchanging gifts was delivered by senior HA, DEO Tuensang, M. Bombahkiu. The festival also incorporates the post harvest festival of the millets.

During the course of the program Sangün Chimpü a traditional cotton spinning was demonstrated by Kiulola & group, folk songs by Kemifu cultural club & traditional bamboo flute was played by Tsukheamla.

The program was attended by Yimchunger Tribal council ( YTC), Chang Khulie Setsang (CKS) led by its president Nokshang Chang, ENPO vice president Kekongchim and Coni Mongko Chang , DC Alem Jongshi, SP R.V. Ezung, A.

Zanbemo Ngullie, director of Municipal Affairs, Er. B Mananglemden, executive engineer PWD R&B Tuensang and Er. Toba.

The program was led by pastor youth ministry, A. Apong, invocation prayer by pastor YBCTT Rev. P. Akhum and welcome speech by president, YSUTT, W. Kushang.

YUNUV: Yimchungru Union Naga United Village Dimapur also celebrated the Medumneo festival with much zeal and splendor at its union treasurer on Monday.

Kilonser, ministry of Religious Affairs, GPRN/ NSCN, ‘Maj.’ Retd. Kewongkhum Yimchungru, stressed on the importance of preserving the culture and tradition, in order to keep it alive. He also called for peace, unity and reconciliation amongst the brethrens through the celebration of festival, he said adding, “we

must be warrior in the field of religion and education”.

Kewongkhum further quoted Biblical Matt. 6; 12, Forgive us our debts as we also have forgiven our debtors. During the celebration of the festival, Shodang club was formally approved and declared by the president Yimchungru Union Naga United Village Dimapur, Kiumehean. Invocation prayer was pronounced by pastor YBC Naga united village Shokum. A. Ato exhorted the gathering and briefed on the celebration of festival. Vote of thanks was proposed by executive chairman YUNUV Kiucham.

Shodang club also presented a cultural dance on the occasion.

YUMT: In Mokokchung the festival was celebrated under the aegis of Yimchungrü Union Mokokchung Town with much pomp and gaiety, merry making, exchange of gifts and gratitude amongst the members. The program was chaired by Kiujimong, general secretary YUM while Tsüyihba president gave the welcome address and also greeted the gathering. The significance of Medümnio was elaborated

by Tokiu. The program also witnessed presentation of folk dances by Yimchungrü Arihako Mokokchung and Yimchungrü Students’ Union Mokokchung. Yansomong president ENPUM exhorted the gathering. He emphasised to live in harmony with each other so also with other tribes too. The program concluded with a word of prayer by associate women pastor Asola, followed by entertainment consisting of various traditional games like top spinning competition, bamboo pole climbing etc.

Father attempts to murder children Opium seized NMDA condemns assault DIMAPUR: Mon police personnel namely, Vanthungo tried

DIMAPUR: Ministry of Human Resource Development, department of School education and Literacy Shastri Bhavan New Delhi has asked the schoolchildren across the country to celebrate the “Azadi 70-Yaad Karo Kurbani” (Freedom Fortnight) from August 9 to 23 August in a befitting manner. In this regard the department of school education, Nagaland has notified all the DEO, DDEO, SDEO, principals and headmasters to supervise and monitor the activities of Azadi 70 -Yaad Karo Kurbani”(Freedom Fortnight) celebration and submit a brief report of both the government and private school along with photographs to the directorate of school education.

Additional director (HoD) DoSE, Wonthungo Tsopoe in a release informed that mass singing of the national anthem would be conducted for all school children in the state on August 23 at 11 am. Suggested activities are: painting of greeting cards for jawans posted at the border stations, mass tree plantation drive, schools to invite persons who can talk on freedom movement of 1857, painting competition, elocution, freedom run, essay writing competition, play with freedom movement as theme, slogan writing competition and singing(patriotic songs) competition.

One drowned in Chathe river

DIMAPUR, AUG 8 (NPN): One person drowned in Chathe river on Monday wee hours. The deceased identified as Avung Odyuo (28), residence of Seithekima drowned at around 2 am, family sources said. The body of the deceased was found in the evening at around 4:30 pm near Toluvi bridge. Funeral service will be held on 11 am, Tuesday at Seithekima. (Staff Reporter)

KVYO objects to ‘tender permit’ issued by KMC DIMAPUR: Despite prior request to the municipal department, the Kohima Village Youth Organization (KVYO) has alleged that the KMC had gone ahead and issued “tender permit” to individuals.

KVYO in a press note by president Medozhatuo Rutsa and general secretary, Kezhalelie Keretsu stated that while re-affirming its stand against monopoly, KVYO strongly condemns the action and request the concerned authority as to why the tender permit was granted to those individuals. KVYO also stated that while they had no restriction in issuing “tender permit” on luxury goods, the office was completely against monopolising business on essential commodities as this would affect the general public. KVYO has therefore requested the KMC administrator to revoke the tender permits within a week (7-days) failing which the organisation would be compelled to take its own course of action.

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DIMAPUR: In a major haul by the Narcotics Cell, PHQ, while conducting checking and frisking at Khuzama Check Point, approximately 8 (eight) kilos of opium were detected and seized on August, 2 from a passenger Bus (Regd, No. MN01-2173) bound for Guwahati. This was stated in a release by SP (Crime) PRO, Nagaland Police, M.Tungoe.

In this connection, initially one person by the name John Mech, who was the bus conductor, was taken into custody for interrogation, during which it was revealed that the consignment was to be delivered to one Krishna at Guwahati, who has also been arrested by the cell. The modus operandi was that the opium, which was seized, was part of the larger Avon Cosmetics Consignment.

In another major haul, the Narcotics Cell PHQ, during regular checking and frisking at Khuzama Check point on 5th August, 2016 detected and seized 78,850 capsules of SP from the possession of Kh. Rajul Shah and Md. Aslam Khan of Manipur, both of who were travelling from Guwahati to Imphal in a Bus. According to SP (Crime) PRO, Nagaland Police, M. Tungoe, a case has been registered for further investigation.

DIMAPUR: Nagaland Medical Dealers Association (NMDA) has condemned the assault of one of its memberPinak Nath, owner of M/s Nonee Pharmacy- and his wife and son who were “severely” beaten allegedly by one Ikaho Achumi over non-availability of the medicine demanded by the accused on August 7.

In a condemnation note, president NMDA, Ato Yepthomi, stated that the victims lodged a complaint, jointly through NMDA, at Sub Urban Police Station and the accused was arrested on August 8 morning and forwarded to judicial custody. In this regard, NMDA appreciated the prompt action of the police in arresting the accused and has urged the concerned authority to deny bail to the accused without complete verification of the case. Terming the act as “barbaric” where someone could just assault and threaten an entire family over nonavailability of a medicine, the association also called upon all right thinking citizens to condemn the incident. Also, NMDA alleged that the victim has been threatened to withdraw the case and compromise out of court or face dire consequences.

NMDA stated it “cannot tolerate such lawlessness in a civilized society” and warned of stern legal action against

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“You lived your life with little needs, full instead of selfless deeds, for everyone you did your best, may God grant you eternal rest. Now in God’s arms, but always in our hearts”.

any such attempt by any miscreant on its members.

It also requested the administration to provide adequate security to its members and officials involved in the case. Further, NMDA cautioned that in the event of any eventuality against its members the association may “even resort to closure of all medicine shops in and around Dimapur for want of justice.”

PBUD general meet: Pork Butchers’

Union Dimapur (PBUD) has convened general meeting on August 10, 10 a.m. at its union office, Walford, near circuit house, Dimapur. All pork butchers of Dimapur have been requested to attend the meeting.

AYC Dmu-1 A/C convenes: Assembly Youth Congress (AYC) Dimapur- 1 A/C has convened emergency meeting on August 10, 10 a.m. at congress Bhawan. All executive members have been requested to attend the meeting.

WSKH executive meet: Western Sumi Kukami Hoho (WSKH) has convened executive meeting on August 13, 10 a.m. at its WSH Hiyam, Chekiye village, Dimapur.

All executive members of (2016-19) have been requested to attend the meeting.

DPDB Zbto meeting postponed:

Monthly Zunheboto DPDB meeting has been postponed to August 12 at DCs conference hall. It further informed that finalization of LADP 2016-17 would be held during the said meeting. All heads of offices have been asked to attend the meeting without fail.

Cleanliness drive Pughoboto: A week ahead of the Indian Independence day celebration, Citizens of Pughoboto town conducted social work in all the colonies and the football ground under the supervision of ADC Pughoboto, Avelu Ruho on August 8 in preparation for Indian Independence day. Pughoboto Adhoc Town committee vice chairman, Viyikhu Wotsa and its members, both armed and unarmed police forces and others government officials also participated in the cleanliness drive.

Mass social work Peren: Mass social work was conducted on August 8 at Peren district headquarters under the leadership of ADC, Tainiu Yim to clean up the Multidisciplinary Outdoor Sports Complex, local ground and roads leading to the ground as part of the preparation for the upcoming Independence Day celebration. All the departments along with their staff participated in the social work. Attendance of the staffs present during the social work was taken.

DPDB Dimapur: Monthly Dimapur District Planning & Development Board (DPDB) meeting for the month of August has been fixed on August 10.

LMRSU presidential meeting: Lotha Middle Range Student’s Union (LMRSU) has convened its unit presidential meeting on august 12 in Wokha at LSU office. The unit presidents have been asked to take this meeting seriously and attend the meeting without fail.

DDEO Zbto clarifies: DDEO Zunheboto clarifies that the information published on August 3 regarding issue of CEAF exam form was meant only for the government schools. The rest of the information remains the same.

ANPSTA emergency meeting: All Nagaland Pre-service Teachers Associations (ANPSTA) has convened

emergency meeting for all the D.Ed/PSTE trained candidates who have cleared the 1st /2nd phase of NL TET on August 12, 11:30 a.m at Angami Public organization (APO) building opposite Oking hospital Kohima. Individual without association ID card would not be allowed to attend the meeting and the members failing to attend the meeting would not be held responsible by the association for non-inclusion of names in association further endeavors.

For further information may contact @ 9615001412/9615771633.

Cash award distribution ceremony at IG stadium Kohima: Department of

Youth Resources & Sports Nagaland would be organizing a ‘Cash Award Distribution Ceremony’ on August 9, 11 a.m at Indira Gandhi (IG) Stadium Kohima. According to DIPR report, Nagaland chief minister, T.R. Zeliang would grace the occasion as chief guest and parliamentary secretary for Youth Resources & Sports, Khriehu Liezietsu and chief secretary of Nagaland, Pankaj Kumar IAS would be special guests.

CRBC medical team contain outbreak of diseases: The council of Rengma Bap-

tist Churches, Zunpha, Tseminyu medical team conducted medical camp on information of various types of outbreak like fever, gastric, jaundice etc at Runmesinyu village and new Sendenyu village on August 6. 104 patients registered treatment at Rumesinyu village and 60 patients at new Sendenyu village, where the doctors found majority of the patients had the same type of complaints. In the press release issued by pastor Rumesinyu Baptist church H. Keppen expressed gratitude to the church council medical team consisting of doctors, nurses and technicians and also to CRBC for providing medical needs to the people of these villages.

Pochury Hoho convenes: Pochury Hoho has convened selection of Pochury literature board office bearers on August 12, 10 a.m. at Pochury office chamber and general meeting on August 13, at at GHSS auditorium Meluri. All Pochury office bearers, executive members and range presidents have been requested to attend the selection and all presidents of frontal organizations, all range presidents and all village council chairmen and secretaries under Pochury area have been requested to attend the meeting.

RMSA Wokha meeting: Nagaland RMSA Teachers Association, Wokha unit 2015-16, has convened a meeting on August 13, 10 a.m at local ground, Wokha.

The association informed there would be attendance check for all the members of the unit while membership fee (Rs. 300) for Wokha unit would also be collected from the members. Those who were yet to clear the membership fee (Rs. 200) for the central forum has been asked to do so on the day of the meeting.

9TH DEATH ANNIVERSARY of

Khrievituo Nganga Sekhose

CONDOLENCE MESSAGE

Baimhomi Kulolau Kukhakulu Dimapur (BKKD)

Is saddened by the demise of Late Honito Kiba on 16/07/2016 at Dimapur.

Late Honito Kiba was the General Secretary (2 Terms) of BKKD Dimapur. He was a humble man and a social worker. The BKKD extends our heartfelt sympathy to the bereaved family.

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President. Akai Yepthomi Baimhomi Kukolau Kukhakulu Dimapur

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Through this column, we the bereaved family members of Late Mrs. Mangyangchetla (MONGCHEN) would like to extend our heartfelt gratitude to every individual and unions who stood by us in every possible way during her brief illness and at the sad demise of our beloved mother and grand mother.

Although we are unable to thank you individually, we pray that our Almighty God bless you abundantly for your good deed.

Loving children, in laws, grand children and great grand children

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to murder his two children Chumben, 6 years and Marbeni, 3 years during the wee hours of August 7. According to SP Mon in a press release, the father initially tried to strangulate his children but he was not successful. Later, the boy was grievously injured on the neck with a machete (dao) but the girl was unharmed. It stated that due to timely intervention of the neighbors he was however stopped and taken into police custody. Mon police stated that the boy was presently receiving medical care and his condition was stable. A regular case has been registered at Mon PS and investigation has been initiated to ascertain the circumstances leading to the incident.

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On this day you left us for your eternal home, but you continue to live with us in our thoughts and memory as ever before.

There are some people who leave lasting impression and beautiful memories. For us you are among the few. You will always hold a special place in our lives.

“God keep you safe till we meet.’’

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Born : 03/03/1921 Died : 30/07/2016

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

We the bereaved family members would like to express our heartfelt gratitude and appreciation to all who stood by us at the sudden demise of our beloved son Lt. Mr. Alemtemjen Jamir on 25th July 2016.

1. Delhi Ao Church, Students Union, Ao Union and doctors & nurses, Safdarjung Hospital, Unger Family Member Delhi 2. Dimapur Unger Union, Asangma relatives & Naga United Ao Church Colony, Dimapur.

3. NAP Ao Church Alichen, United Baptist Church, Alichen & Langpangkong range.

4. Unger Council & Church.

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The family of Late Shijungkala, wife of Late M. Lanutemjen Ao extend our gratitude to all who helped in every way during her illness and at the demise. Your expression of kindness and oneness towards the family will always be remembered and we pray that our Almighty God bless you abundantly.

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8th Aug. 1942 to 4th Aug. 2016

The wife, children, grand children and relatives of Late Zubemo Odyuo (Yikhum Village) are deeply grateful to each and every individuals, church leaders, organizations and colony members who stood by us at his sudden demise on 4th Aug. 2016 at Yikhum Village by extending spiritual, physical, emotional, financial and material support.

We regret our inability to thank every individual but pray that Almighty God bless you all abundantly. Your good deeds and love shown to us will be cherished and remembered always.

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Loving wife, children & grand children

Words are inadequate to express our profound gratitude to each and every individual, unions, colonies, churches, departments, institutions, friends and well-wishers for their support and help during the illness and at the sad demise of our beloved Late Wonyimo Lotha.

We regret our inability to thank each one individually but fervently pray that Almighty God bless you all abundantly.

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Guwahati Couple of thunderstorms Imphal

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IAP Nagaland celebrates WBW DIMAPUR: Indian Academy of Paediatrics (IAP) Nagaland state branch hosted the celebration of World Breastfeeding Week (WBW August 1 to 7) at Hotel Acacia, Dimapur on August 7 with all major hospitals from town participating.

The celebration of world breastfeeding week included quiz and discussion hour for nurses and doctors with presentation on “benefits of breastfeeding” by treasurer IAP Nagaland and consultant pediatrician & neonatologist, Zion Hospital & Research Centre, Dr. Akumtoshi followed by presentation by joint secretary IAP Nagaland and consultant pediatrician & neonatologist, Nikos Hospital & Research Centre, Dr. Apong Longchar) on “role of nutrition in digestive comfort in infancy”.

President IAP Nagaland, Dr.Tokuho Chishi gave the welcome address while programme was chaired by general secretary IAP Nagaland, Dr.Wapang Imchen and the interactive session moderated by vice president IAP Nagaland, Dr. Deepak Jain.

The celebration ended with a positive note but stressed on the importance of exclusive breast feeding for at least six months which could reduce infant mortality rate by about 19%.

NNC/PRN support

DIMAPUR: NNC/People’s Republic of Nagaland (PRN) has supported the clarification on the framework agreement between Govt of India and NSCN IM, by ato kilonser, GPRN/ NSCN, Kitovi Zhimomi, and stated that NNC/PRN was “not against the framework which is in process to arrive.” In a press note, MIP NNC/PRN stated however that “if the accord benefits Nagas in other states then Nagas of Nagaland shall not claim or interfere.” Further, stating that if govt of India was serious about the Naga issue, NNC/PRN suggested the Govt of India to take consent of civil societies such as GBs, tribal councils (national & regional) and NPGs before arriving to a solution.

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Commissioner secretary K.D Vizo, resource persons and delegates at the training in Kohima, Monday. (NP)

Correspondent

KOHIMA, AUG 8 (NPN): With an objective to accelerate implementation of e-Governance initiatives in North Eastern region a six-day programme on Champion Skill Enhancement was organized by the department of Information Technology & Communication (IT & C) in association with National Institute of Smart Government (NISG) at De Oriental Grand, Kohima today.

In his inaugural address commissioner and secretary IT & C, K.D Vizo said Government of India was committed in promoting e-Governance and make India more competitive in the new global economy and to meet the challenges. Vizo said Department of Electronics & InformationTechnology (DeitY), New Delhi has entrusted the National Institute for Smart Government (NISG) with the task of designing and conducting training to inculcate a deeper understanding of factors that result in success and sustainability of e-Governance

projects.

He said officials who have undergone the training were expected to have all the skills necessary to implement an e-governance project from conceptualization to complete rollout stage. Vizo also informed that India as a country has an objective of achieving 175 million broadband connections by the Year 2017 and 600million by the year 2020 and there are even plans to provide a uniform broadband speed of 100 Mbps across all Gram Panchayats in the Country and said more focus need to be paid on aerial OFC, wireless and satellite technologies as under round optical fibre it were not likely to work properly in landslide prone areas of North eastern region except the State of Assam.

He said various NE states should have keeping in view, the aspects of setting up of Business Process Outsourcing (BP0)/ Knowledge Process Outsourcing (KPO), transformation of society into a digital society, enabling all Government Departments to have e-office, promote knowl-

edge economy and increase the GDP, promote electronic financial transactions using virtual bank branches operating from Customer Activated Terminals through electronic accessories, ensuring cyber and information security, prevention of data corruption and fraudulent practices, integration of all government departments on a single platform, enable modern electronic systems like e-Cabinet, e-Legal, e-Education, e-mobile classroom, eHospital, e-Dashboard, Single window e-Business etc.

Also he mentioned about strengthening of core infrastructures like State Data Centre, State Wide Area Network, e-District, National Information Infrastructure(NII), Common Service Centres (CSC) etc, enable security systems using electronic equipment such as electric field perimeter protection system, microwave co-axial cable system, vehicle identification system, biometric system, electronic scanner system, electronic explosive detection system, electronic jammers system, CCTV surveillance system

KCJA conducts good news tour

Parish priest father Thomas Muttathil, Kidima Catholic Juniors Association with Kezo Basa Catholic community on Sunday.

DIMAPUR: Kidima Catholic Juniors Association (KCJA ) Good News tour to St Joseph Church Kezo Basa of Kezochazou the longest range in Nagaland with Reverend Father Thomas Muttathil parish priest as main celebrant on Sunday.

Father Thomas Muttathil

addressing on the occasion asked the faithful people to go to the church and make a confession and reconciliation.

Parish priest in his homily urged the large gathering to live with the love of Christ in mind, soul and spirit and inherit the Kingdom of God. While proclaiming the gospel

the glory and honour was for God, he added. Eucharist celebration, presentation of special number by KCJA and proclaiming the Messiah to fellow brethrens were the highlights of the Good News tour.

57 faithful people joined the St Joseph Church Kezo Basa in the day’s programme.

Dimapur: In view of the upcoming National Deworming Day (NDD) on August 10, and national Mop up Day (MUD) on August 17 during which albendazole tablet would be administered to all the children from 1 – 19 years of age in all the Anganwadi centres and govt/private schools in Dimapur district, Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Dimapur has requested all parents and concerned authorities to cooperate.

with centralized common control, IP based surveillance system, advanced video analytic system etc. Vizo appealed the participants to create IT infrastructure in North Eastern region collectively. Resource person NISG, Prof. JC Kapur Yongphang students’ union under Sakshi EAC HQ, in his keynote address said Longleng district conducted mass social work of clearing there were different training the only short cut road stretching one and half kilometers. programmes in North East This road is the lifeline for general public of the area. capacity building initiatives which are targeted for skill building of government officers and to nurture a pool of trainers in e-Governance through the two specific programmes – Champions Skill Enhancement Programme and Executive Skill Enhancement Kapur informed that this was one of the special services programme for empowerment of North East through IT while the objective was to train the government officials on project management, business modules, contract management, project monitoring and evaluation.

Delegates from all eight North Eastern States are currently in the state undergoing the six days training Jakhama Students’ Union distributes dustbins as part of sanitation drive in the village programme. at Jakhama Panchayat Hall, Jakhama on August 6.

JSU conducts sanitation drive at Jakhama

NPF central team visits 60 A/C Kiphire-Pungro DIMAPUR: The Naga people’s (NPF) central team visited 60 A/C Kiphire –Pungro on July 27 and held a meeting with party office bearers at its treasurer 60 A/C. While lauding the party workers, general secretary NPF Anungba Imson urged them to have a good co-ordination with the divisional as well as with central office.

General secretary women wing Tushila Santam in her address encouraged the party workers to overcome all obstacles with a vision for the forth coming election.

The visiting team also encouraged the party workers to rededicate and stand firm as one for strengthening the party.

President Kiphire division Lipongkyu sangtam also address the gathering.

The programme was chaired by president NFP 60 A/C Thritongse sangtam.

DIMAPUR: Distribution of dustbins was undertaken by the Jakhama Students’ Union (JSU) in collaboration with sanitation committee at a programme held on August 6 at the Jakhama panchayat hall.

A press note by JSU president, Kelethuzo Yosa stated that the sanitation drive was conducted in view of the forth coming JSU golden jubilee. The convenor of JSU golden jubilee committee Zavishio Khieya stressed on the importance of “sanitation” by highlighting Swachh Bharat Abhiyan which was launched in the country by the Narendra Modi. He also reminded the villagers of their aim to bring up their village, Jakhama to be one of the cleanest village by 2030.

JSU stated that the coconvenor of JSU Golden jubilee committee Kezhokhoto Savi also said that sanitation was the maintenance of hygienic condition through services such as garbage collection and waste water disposal and sanitation is the basic and general principles for governing the dignity and healthy life by preventing hazards of waste and proper disposal of sewage.

Police Baptist Church 9th NAP (BN) IR, on August 7, observed NPBCA ‘Youth Day’ under the theme “Making Wise Decision” with Dy. Comdt. (2 I/C) Talisunep as guest speaker.

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India to deploy BrahMos missiles along China border

AP minister to chip in edu process

ITANAGAR, AUG 8 (PTI): Arunachal Pradesh Education Minister Honchun Ngandam Monday called upon people of the state to help shape up the state’s education process by their own instead of only depending on department.

Addressing over 200 women of self-help groups of celebrating the World Indigenous People’s Day, themed ‘Indigenous people’s right to education’ as decided by UN at National Youth Project, Ngandam said all Indians are indigenous in their respective native place like the Arunachalees.

He exhorted the masses to rise above taboos and get educated and educating their children.

“Education is your birth right. It enlightens human beings with knowledge which alone can help to earn livelihood and lead a decent life besides learning how to preserve and protect the indigenous cultures and traditions”, he said quoting Swami Vivekananda: “Education is manifestation of perfections already in men”.

Indigenous Faith & Cultural Society (IFCS) President Dr Ligu Tacho speaking on the occasion said the theme is important for tribal state of Arunachal Pradesh and education hould spread to remote and far-flung areas of the state.

FELICITATION

We the Mesen Clan with immense happiness and joy felicitate Mr. Jethro Mesen S/o Mr. Wekhenu Mesen of Ehunnu Village for securing the post of Inspector/Extension Officer under Industries and Commerce in the recent NPSC Exam.

May the gracious Father continue to guide him and we wish him all the best.

HAILO MESEN, Convenor Mesen Clan K-2942 OFFICE OF THE MERE YOUTH KROTHO CHIECHAMA VILLAGE Kohima : Nagaland

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The Mere Youth Krotho, Chiechama Village with immense pride would like to congratulate Miss. Vituozonuo Keditsu, D/o Thekielie Keditsu & Mrs. Neituonuo Keditsu, for securing the post of Station Superintendent (NST) 1st rank in the recently declared NPSC result 2016.

We pray that may the Lord continue to bless and wish her all the best in the days to come.

Kevilekho Keditsu, President Kiyaselie Mere, Gen.Secy, Mere Youth Krotho Mere Youth Krotho OFFICE OF THE

ALIBA MEJENJANGER PUTU MENDEN FELICITATES

Sakuwati, Adhoc Chairman Aliba Village Council

I. Toshi Kichu, Secretary Aliba Village Council

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The Aliba Mejenjanger Putu Menden would like to congratulate Miss. Limakumla, D/o Er. R. Longzo Pongener from Aliba village for securing the post of EAC in the recently declared NPSC results.

The Aliba Mejenjanger Putu Menden would also like to express our sincerest gratitude to her and her parents for bringing good name to our community.

It is our belief that through achievement God has answered the prayers of the citizens of Aliba village. It is our hope and prayer that god will continue blessing her in all her future endeavours.

N E W D E L H I , AU G 8 (AGENCIES): India has decided to deploy a BrahMos regiment operating the latest Block III version of the supersonic cruise missile to defend Arunachal Pradesh against China, which the country claims is a part of South Tibet.

The deployment comes in the wake of reports of a huge build-up of Chinese military forces along the 4,057 kilometer Line of Actual Control (LAC).

Arunachal Pradesh is the most northerly state along the LAC and one of the most threatened

by China. To be deployed to Arunachal Pradesh will be the 864 Regiment of the Indian Army’s 41st Artillery Division. The regiment will operate around four to six BrahMos batteries and three to four Mobile Autonomous Launchers (MALs).

The regiment will command up to 100 BrahMos Block III cruise missiles, each armed with a 290 kg warhead. It is the fourth missile regiment to be equipped with BrahMos. The fire-and-forget BrahMos Block III possesses unique trajectory maneuver and steepdive capabilities that allow it to hit targets hidden on the reverse slopes of mountains.

KOLKATA/AGARTALA, AUG 8 (PTI): Aiming to expand the base of Trinamool Congress outside West Bengal, party chief Mamata Banerjee Monday left for Agartala in Tripura where she would address a rally to be attended by dissident Congress MLAs. The Trinamool Congress has already carved a place for itself in the Marxist bastion emerging as the principal opposition party after six dissident Congress MLAs had joined it last June.

Sudip Ray Barman, who led the Congress dissidents in the sensitive Northeastern state, told PTI, “Mamata Banerjee’s rally at the Swami Vivekananda Maidan in Agartala tomorrow will be the first nail in the coffin of the corrupt and inefficient Left Front government of Tripura.”

Barman said that Banerjee would give the Tripura unit ‘direction’ to emerge victorious in the next Assembly poll due in 2018.

“All MLAs and other leaders who have joined the TMC from other parties, including the Congress, will be present in the rally. It will be a historic rally,” he said.

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With immense pride, we the family of Residency hostel Kohima would like to convey our heartiest congratulations to Mr. Nokinketba Longkumer on his success in securing the post of Dy. SP under Police Establishment Branch, Home Department in the recently declared NPSC exam result 2015.

It is our sincere prayer that you will touch the life of others through your impeccable personality and work ethic as you have with us during your short but memorable stay in the hostel. Thank you for bringing laurels and being an inspiration. May God bless you even more in your future endeavours.

With Best Wishes, Proprietor & Fellow Hostellers (Residency Hostel, Near High School, Kohima) K-2947

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KHOMI UNION, KOHIMA Motto: “Solidarity Towards Progress”

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The Khomi Union, Kohima with immense joy would like to extend our heartiest appreciation and felicitation to the following members.

1. Mr. Niehusa Nakro on being promoted to Dy. Secy. (Rural Development) 2. Dr. Sakhoveyi Lohe, Assistant Professor Kohima Science College, Jotsoma on being conferred with Ph.D in Geography on the Thesis: “Environmental Management of degraded ecosystem in Phek DistrictA geomorphologic approach” from Nagaland University under the supervision of Prof. M.S Rawat.

The Union wishes them all success in their future endeavour.

SHEPOHU LOHE, President Khomi Union, Kohima K-2939

The Kohima Akuk Ekhung would like to convey our heartiest congratulations to Mr. M. Mhabemo Kithan, son of Mhonyamo Kithan for securing to the post of Economic Investigator in the recently declared NPSC examination result.

The Ekhung also congratulates and felicitates Mrs. Tumchobeni on being promoted to the post of Section Officer under Nagaland Civil Secretaries.

The Ekhung wishes and prays that the Almighty God will continue to grant them good health and a successful career.

Rentsamo Kithan Gen. Secy., K.A.E

GUWAHATI, AUG 8 (PTI): Assam government Monday said it cannot stop rhino poaching alone and is considering to hand over the probe to National Investigation Agency in order to break the international cartel.

Replying to a Zero Hour notice by AGP MLA Pabindra Deka, Forest Minister Pramila Rani Brahma said the state government is currently evaluating options to hand over the investigation to NIA. “Our department or government cannot alone stop rhino poaching. I have taken poaching of rhinos very seriously and

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ILP stir: JCILPS sets deadline to Manipur government

IMPHAL, AUG 8: Joint Committee on Inner Line Permit System (JCILPS) on Tuesday set August 13 deadline to Manipur government for publication of the draft of new bill for introduction of inner line permit (ILP) in the state. JCILPS convenerin-charge BK Moirangcha said JCILPS will be compelled to launch intense forms of agitations, if the government fails to invite JCILPS and other stakeholders to discuss the proposed new bill to replace The Protection of Manipur People Bill2015. Addressing a news conference at JCILPS office, Imphal, Moirangcha said demanded that government should take the suggestions and comments of the stakeholders including the JCILPS and Joint Action Committee against Anti-Tribal Bills (JACATB) before finalizing the new bill. (Correspondent)

discussed it with my officials. I have informed this to the Chief Minister also,” she said.

Brahma said five rhinos have been killed by poachers since the BJP-led government came to power in Assam despite its best effort to prevent it. “We have decided to hand over the probe of rhino poaching to NIA. We are discussing this with Home and Political Department. We are evaluating now whether NIA will accept our proposal and how they will proceed,” she added.

If NIA accepts the state government’s request to probe

the poaching cases of the world famous one-horned rhinos, then it will lead to breaking of the international cartel, the Minister said. The main reason of continuing rhino poaching is its horn. The price of a horn goes up to crores of rupees in international market for its medicinal value in cancer treatment. BJP MLA Padma Hazarika pointed out that Nepal has been successful in stopping rhino poaching in recent years and suggested the state government to send representatives to the Himalayan nation to study their preventive measures.

Barman said the people of Tripura had become fed up with the Left Front regime and disapproved of the tie-up between the Congress and the Left Front in West Bengal.

“With this, the tacit understanding between the Left Front and the Congress came out in the open. Why then will people vote for the Congress as an alternative to the Left Front in Tripura?” he wondered.

If the Left is to be ousted from Tripura, Trinamool Congress is the best option because it is the only “anti-dote for the Left”, Barman said.

After her landslide victory in West Bengal, Banerjee and her trusted lieutenant Mukul Roy have been working to expand her party’s influence in the Northeast with Tripura being the prime target. The Bengali population there forms the largest ethnolinguistic group in the state with nearly about 70 per cent of the population. According to TMC sources in Kolkata, Tripura and the Northeast hold a key to TMC’s panIndia political ambition with an eye on the 2019 Lok Sabha poll where TMC wants to play NF Railway General Manager Chahatey Ram meeting Governor of Assam and Nagaland, P. B. Acharya at Raj Bhawan in Guwahati on Monday. a vital role.

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FELICITATION NOTE

We the Ehunnu Yikhanu Citizen Kohima convey our heartiest congratulations to Shri. Jethro Mesen S/o Shri. Wekhenu Mesen for securing the post of Inspector/ Extension Officer under Industries and Commerce in the recent NPSC Exam.

The Union thank the Almighty God and further wish him long life and a successful career.

HANSILO APON MEHAITHANG MESEN General Secretary Convenor

The Yaongyimchen Students' Union Kohima with immense pride and honour extends our heartiest congratulations to Ms. Y. Manphen, for her success in JEE (Main) and also to all the successful members in their various exams: HSLC, HSSLC, UG/PG Degree, LLB etc. the union further prays and wishes them success in all their future endeavours.

Tehomeli Phom S.Mangyangkaba President, YYSUK Gen. Secy., YYSUK

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OFFICE OF THE KHENSA STUDENTS’ UNION

KOHIMA CHUCHUYIMLANG STUDENTS’ UNION FELICITATES

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The Kohima Chuchuyimlang Students' Union take immense pleasure to congratulate our Asst. General Secretary, Miss. Watisenla Pongener, daughter of Mr. Akangmeren Pongener and Mrs. Washizungla Longchar for successfully securing the post of Secretariat Assistant (SA) conducted by the Nagaland Public Service Commission for NCS, NPS, NSS & Allied Services, 2015.

It is our sincere prayer that our Almighty God will continue to bless her and wishes the best for her future endeavours.

(Akumyanger Aienba Jamir) President

(Senlemtemjen Pongener) General Secretary

CRPOK CONGRATULATES

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Lizamo Kinghen President, K.A.E

Wish you many many happy returns of the day.

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Mamata leaves for Tripura Assam govt to hand over rhino poaching to NIA to bolster TMC’s stock

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GUWAHATI, AUG 8 (PTI): At least 49 people have lost their lives and nearly 41 lakh were affected in three waves of flood this year in Assam, the state assembly was informed on Monday.

In a written reply to a short notice question by AGP MLA Phani Bhusan Choudhury, Minister of State for Disaster Management Pallab Lochan Das said 49 people were killed due to flood this year as per available information.

“During the current year, 40,92,180 people in 4,675 villages across 29 districts were affected in three waves of flood in Assam,” Das said. He also informed the house that 41,426.48 hectares of crop land have suffered massive damages due to the deluge. “The detailed information about the quantum of damage is still being collected. We will be able to tell about the exact loss only after flood water recedes,” Das said.

To another written query by Choudhury, the minister replied that the land area of the world’s largest river island Majuli has been shrinking gradually. “Under Majuli revenue circle, the area of Majuli was 9,30,712 bigha 3 katha and 4 lecha in 1951.

Currently this stands at 5,25,712 bigha 3 katha and 4 lecha,” Das said. Of this, 13,440 bigha 2 katha and 15 lecha vanished since 2001 due to erosion by Brahmaputra and its tributary Subansiri, he informed.

ITANAGAR, AUG 8 (PTI): At least 19 deaths due to several diseases have occured within two months at Chongkhow village in Longding district of Arunachal Pradesh, Education Minister Honchun Ngamdam, said on Monday.

19 people have died between June and August first week, he said, adding the exact reason behind the deaths were yet to be diagnosed.

The victims had shown symptoms of dysentery, fever, headache, jaundice and typhoid, said Ngamdam, who represents the area.

Taking serious note of the reported outbreak, Chief Minister Pema Khandu spoke to Ngandam today to get first hand information on the matter, officials said. Khandu issued directives to the Health Department to immediately send a medical team headed by state epidemiologist Dr L Jampa to combat the situation, the officials said.

The Chief Minister assured every possible support to the village and directed to evacuate the critical patients to referral hospitals. Dr Jampa earlier said the department did not have any updates on these deaths during this period but was inquiring in to it. Wakka Zila Parishad member Matpho Kolong, in a release, said dozens of villagers are suffering from dysentery, fever, headache, jaundice and typhoid. The CM also alerted the district administration to ensure precautionary measures for containing further spread of the disease.

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IMPHAL, AUG 8: Two BSF personnel were injured in a powerful IED explosion in Manipur on Monday in the run up of Independence Day celebrations.

The injured have been identified as Anil Kumar and Lalji Yada. Both suffered minor splinter injuries, Kumar on his hand and Yadav on his leg.

The incident took place along NH-2 near Changoubung village, a one and half kilometer off Senapati district headquarters from its Kangpokpi subdivision around 10.30 a.m.

According to the report, the militants triggered off the IED targeting a bus bearing No AS-01S3-8780 carrying

slain militant one AK 56 rifle, two magazines of live ammunition and one grenade were recovered.

“The exact number of militants and the militant group involved in the attack is being investigated,” the Home Minister said, adding the state government has made satisfactory arrangements for the treatment of those injured in the attack.

Ex­g ratia relief of Rs 5 Lakh has been provided to the next of kin of those killed, Rs 1 lakh to those seriously injured and Rs 20,000 to those with simple injuries. A criminal case has been registered at Kokrajhar Police Station to investigate the militant attack.

“I condemn this dastardly attack on innocent persons who lost their lives and on behalf of this August House, convey heartfelt condolences to the bereaved families and pray to the almighty to give them strength in this difficult moment.

“On behalf of all the members, I also pray for the early and full recovery of those injured,” Singh said. The issue was also raised in the Rajya Sabha by Congress member Santiuse Kujur saying that in December 2014, the Centre had launched an ‘Operation All Out’ to eliminate NDFB(S) militants. However, the operation was later withdrawn. The Congress member asked the Centre to re-launch the operation. Later, the Home Minister made the same statement in the Rajya Sabha, asserting that those involved in the “deplorable” act would be hunted down.

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Earlier in the morning, another IED weighing 3 kg was recovered from a passenger bus plying on the same national highway by a joint team of state police commandos and Assam Rifles at Tengdongyang under Sekmai police of Imphal West district.

The IED was found wrapped in a polythene bag inside a rice bag from the passenger bus bearing No MN 011823. RDX, circuit, splinters and remote control devices were found in the polythene bag, a senior police official informed.

A woman identified as Th Shakhi who is suspected to be the bearer of the IED was arrested by the joint team, he added.

NEW DELHI, AUG 8 (PTI): In the wake of killing of 14 people by militants in Kokrajhar, the Centre has urged the Assam government to hunt down those involved in the attack and bring them to justice.

Making a suo motu statement in Lok Sabha, Home Minister Rajnath Singh said he has already taken up the matter with the state government.

“I have taken up with the Assam government and the security forces in the state to track down the militants involved in this attack, so that they are brought to justice for this crime against humanity,” he said during Zero Hour.

Giving details of the August 5 incident, the Minister said there was a militant attack at a crowded weekly market at Balajan Tiniali in Kokrajhar district of Assam.

Quoting available information, he said around 11.30 AM, the militants, reportedly wearing army­like fatigues, set ablaze some houses and shops which led to a cylinder blast and fire in the area.

This was followed by indiscriminate firing on the crowd of shoppers by the militants. “14 innocent persons -- 8 Bodo men, one woman, one child and four others lost their lives in the attack. 19 persons were seriously injured who are under treatment in various hospitals of the district and the state capital,” he said.

Singh said the state police and security forces reacted swiftly and neutralised one militant whose identity is yet to be established. From the

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This was the second major attack on security forces by militants within the week. In the first attack, the militants blw off a powerful IED injuring CRPF jawan and a minor girl near Imphal Raj Bhavan on August 5, last.

The security forces also recovered two more IEDs from a place not so far away from the explosion site. The IEDS were later defused by the bomb disposal squad.

The IEDs were recovered during a search conducted by bomb experts of 113 Assam Rifles from Leimakhong along with a combined team of 25 Assam Rifles and state police.

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Cong stages walkout in Lok Sabha over attacks on Dalits Don’t shed crocodile tears but act: Cong to PM on Dalits

Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge and other members walkout from Lok Sabha during the ongoing monsoon session, in New Delhi on Monday.

N E W D E L H I , AU G 8 (AGENCIES): Congress on Monday staged a walkout in Lok Sabha on the issue of attacks on Dalits and hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi for “not being serious” over the issue.

Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge raised the issue and sought discussion over the issue soon after Question Hour was over.

Referring to Prime Minister’s speech in Telangana on

Sunday, Kharge said, “Modiji is not serious enough in combating attacks on Dalits.”

Congress members trooped into the Well despite Speaker Sumitra Mahajan’s assurance that she would let them have their say after the listed business.

“I will allow him to speak. I have never said no to it, but let me be done with the (Zero Hour) list. There are many smaller parties here and it will be an injustice to

the members,” she said.

Home Minister Rajnath Singh as also Minister for Parliamentary Affairs Ananth Kumar were seen gesturing to Kharge suggesting that a way could be found out through informal talks.

Congress members were unrelenting and demanded that the Prime Minister come to the House and speak on the issue.

“He (the PM) should not shed crocodile tears. He

No change on KC(M) decision, says Mani

KO T T AYA M / T H I RU VANANTHAPURAM, AUG 8 (PTI): A day after Kerala Congress (M) severed its longstanding ties with UDF, party supremo K M Mani Monday said no mediation would help change its decision even as the Congress said talks for a patch up would be made only after discussions among partners.

“We have taken a decision not in the anticipation that it would lead to debate or discussion. We stand by our decision (to severe the ties with the UDF),” 82-year old Mani told reporters in his assembly constituency Pala in the district.

He was responding to a question on the reported move by key UDF partner IUML to carry out a mediation effort.

“We welcome discussions. But on this issue, are mediation efforts just enough? ...We have already taken a decision,” Mani, who has been sulking since being forced to quit as finance minister last year over the bar bribery scam, said.

He said KC(M) had nothing to fear as the party had proved its strength by fighting elections alone in the past.

Meanwhile, BJP started sending positive vibes to the KC(M), saying the saffron party has no “untouchability” towards the Mani-led party, which is wielding considerable clout among Syrian Catholic community in central Kerala.

Giving a jolt to the Congress, KC-M yesterday announced its decision to snap over three-decade old ties with UDF citing “humiliation” meted out by Congress.

The party, which was the third largest partner in the UDF after Congress and IUML, also decided to function as a separate bloc in the state assembly.

In Thiruvananthapuram, UDF Chairman Ramesh Chennithala said a decision to have further talks for a patch up with the KC(M) would be taken only after discussions among the front constituents.

“Congress and other front parties never did anything to force Mani to quit UDF. There were no issues that could not be resolved. Mani should have taken up his party’s problems within the front,” he told reporters.

However, he added: “I am of the view that KC-M

should remain in the front.”

Chennithala said KC-M had left the UDF without any valid reasons and it was quite unexpected from the part of a veteran politician such as Mani.

Congress had always tread the path of unity and tried for it by holding talks with Mani, he said.

Chennithala, who was the Home Minister when the bar scam came out, said he had never intervened in the functioning of Vigillance and Anti-Corruption Bureau.

He said there was no deliberate attempt to tarnish the image of Mani, who faced bribery charges in the bar scam.

It was the same UDF government that filed two Vigillance inquiry reports in the Special Court exhonorating Mani in the case, he said.

“The present CPI-M-led LDF government has also not changed the reports so far,” he said. “UDF still believes that bar bribery case was the result of a conspiracy by then LDF Oppposition and also firmly of the opinion that Mani was innocent in the case,” he said.

should not tweet, but act (against those perpetrating atrocities on dalits),” the Congress MPs chanted.

Later talking to reporters outside Parliament, Mr. Kharge said, “Prime Minister has become helpless, he has become weak and this helplessness has forced him to say that he should be shot and Dalit brothers be spared.”

Kharge demanded that Prime Minister should make a statement in Parliament on the issue.

“Rather than giving a reply in the Parliament, he is making a statement outside the Parliament. We had asked for a discussion on the issue under Rule 193, but they did not answer,” he said.

During his maiden visit to Telangana, Mr. Modi made it clear on Sunday that caste discrimination will not be allowed.

He also called for putting an end to politicising the caste issue and alleged that some parties which considered Dalits as their vote bank and afraid of the initiatives taken by his government, were trying to raise such issues by somehow influencing Dalits.

“I want to tell all such people, if you want to attack, attack me, not my Dalit brothers. If you want to shoot, shoot me, not my Dalit brothers,” Mr. Modi said without naming any party.

JNU withdraws Kanhaiya’s private security cover NEW DELHI, AUG 8 (PTI): JNU has withdrawn the private security cover provided to students’ union president Kanhaiya Kumar who is out on bail in a sedition case.

The varsity, has sent a notice to Kumar stating that the expense on his security has run up to Rs 5 lakh and the same arrangement can be continued only after that amount is cleared.

“Kanhaiya has already been provided with security

by Delhi Police on orders from the High Court and hence there is limited need for private security on campus,” a senior varsity official said.

“The Vice Chancellor decided to withdraw the same and the decision was communicated to Chief Security Officer.

The university can’t bear such high cost for personal security of a single individual.

The campus is safe and there is security everywhere,” he added.

Prez nod for NEET to medical courses NEW DELHI, AUG 8 (PTI): There will be single test-- National Eligibility cum Entrance Exam (NEET)-- for admissions to medical and dental courses across the country, as President Pranab Mukherjee has given nod to two bills recently passed

by Parliament in this regard.

Mukherjee has given assent to Indian Medical Council (Amendment) Act, 2016 and Dentists (Amendment) Act, 2016, officials said.

These laws were passed

by Rajya Sabha on August 1 to pave way for the NEET, which is designed to curb corruption by bringing in transparency, checking multiplicity of exams and to stop exploitation of students in counselling. They had got Lok Sabha nod last month. The two Acts mandates uniform entrance examination for admission to all medical and dental educational institutions run postgraduate and undergraduate courses.

“There shall be conducted a uniform entrance examination to all medical educational institutions at the undergraduate level and post-graduate level through such designated authority in Hindi, English and such other languages...,” reads the law. The same provision is for admissions to dental educational institutes.

The NEET is intended to be introduced from the academic year 2017-18. These legislations have amended the Indian Medical Council Act, 1956 and the Dentists Act, 1948 and replaced the Ordinances that were promulgated by the government to circumvent the Supreme Court order for implementation of NEET examination from this session itself.

CHANDIGARH, AUG 8 (PTI): Delegations of BJP and RSS Monday met Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal here and expressed concern over “deteriorating” law and order in the state in the wake of the attack on Sangh leader Jagdish Gagneja.

Badal assured the delegations the peace and communal harmony would remain the top priority of the government.

He reiterated his government’s resolve to continue policy of “zero tolerance” against attempt to disturb peace and communal harmony in Punjab. RSS (Punjab) Vice President, Jagdish Gagneja was attacked in Jalandhar on Saturday night and he is admitted in a hospital.

The BJP delegation led by state party chief and Union minister Vijay Sampla sought speedy arrest of accused.

“We expressed concern over the law and order in the state during our meeting. We said appropriate steps need to be taken to prevent such incidents in future,” he said.

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Open dialogue with people of Kashmir : Mehbooba tells Modi NEW DELHI, AUG 8 (PTI): Facing a month-long turbulence and violence in the state, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti Monday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to open a dialogue process with the people of the state.

Talking to reporters after a two-hour meeting with Home Minister Rajnath Singh, which was attended by Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar, Mehbooba also hinted at resuming a dialogue with Pakistan on Kashmir issue saying the state could act as a “bridge” between the two nations.

“I believe there is a need to heal the wounds of people, to initiate dialogue with the people of Jammu and Kashmir.

These are our own people. If process of dialogue with the people of Jammu and Kashmir can improve the situation in valley, we should do it,” she said and adding, her state could become a bridge between India and Pakistan. “There is a need to apply balm to the wounds of Kashmiri people,” she said.

Mehbooba, who has been facing difficulties in restoring normalcy in the Valley following the killing of Hizbul Mujahideen militant Burhan Wani on July 8, said only the process of dialogue with the people of Kashmir can help improve the situation.

The Chief Minister said during the one month of unrest, which started after the killing of Wani, 55 people lost their lives and referred the deceased as “our own boys”.

“People will keep dying if we don’t take initiative to bring normalcy. We want peace.

Mehbooba Mufti There is an opportunity for dialogue and we should avail it,” she said.

“We have seen agitations in the past like in 2008 (Amarnath land row) and 2010 (over fake encounters by army). Our children have been killed. Our families have suffered. I don’t wish to see any more killing.

“Our Prime Minister has a huge mandate in the present Lok Sabha and he should seize the opportunity created by the unrest to win the hearts of the people and solve their problems, the way former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee did,” she said.

“I am hopeful that the Prime Minister will take this as an opportunity to initiate dialogue with people to address their problems. There is a need to take the same initiative of winning hearts of people, which was taken during Vajpayee ji’s tenure,” she said after the meeting which was also attended by National Security Advisor A K Doval and other senior officials of Home, Defence and Finance Ministries.

The meeting took place on a day when month-long curfew in Kashmir echoed in Parliament with Leader of Opposition in

BJP delegation led by Vijay Sampla meeting Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal & Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal in Jalandhar on Saturday night, at the CM’s residence in Chandigarh on Monday.(PTI) the meet. The Chief Minister asked the state police chief to ensure the highest degree of vigil against elements with nefarious designs to divide the society on sectarian or communal lines in the wake of coming Assembly elections.

“There was never a time that any RSS leader was attacked in the state and it has now happened. Therefore, we fear such incidents can reoccur in future. We need to be alert and steps need to be taken to contain anti-social elements,”

said Sampla. A delegation of senior RSS leaders also demanded speedy investigation into the incident. RSS leaders conveyed displeasure over “deteriorating” law and order situation in the state.

Whether it was the attack on Shakha in Ludhiana or the day-light murder of Mata Chand Kaur or incidents of kidnapping and snatching, the common man is feeling insecure, it said. “We cannot let go waste the sacrifices made

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Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad raising the matter during Zero Hour and demanding a statement from the Prime Minister about the steps being taken by the government for restoring normalcy.

“In such circumstances, we want to awaken the government ... We feel the government and the Prime Minister are watching the situation deteriorate like a silent spectator,” he said, adding he wanted to know why Modi has not spoken on the grave situation in Kashmir so far. The Chief Minister stressed on the need for taking “bold and tangible” initiatives to reach out to the people in Jammu and Kashmir.

Mehbooba called for reviving the confidence building and peace process in the state and the region through a productive dialogue process with all shades of the political opinion, as was done by the then NDA government headed

by Atal Bihari Vajpayee in 2003, a state government statement said.

She said while the problems confronting the state could be tackled through short-term economic and developmental initiatives, “there has to be a political solution to the problem of the state, which could be reached out by involving all the stakeholders in a constructive and result-oriented dialogue process.” Mehbooba said the state has been witnessing repeated cycles of deadly violence, and there has to be an end to this vicious cycle of violence, which can be made possible only through a productive dialogue and reconciliation process.

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and communal harmony in Punjab. Ensure rule of law,” the delegation said. Both, the CM and his Deputy condemned the attack.

Meanwhile, a four-member Special Investigation Team headed by ADGP-cum-Director, Bureau of Investigation, Sahota has been set up to investigate the attack.

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his year’s US presidential election has already taken a turn for the worst ever contest in the US history where only 9% of Americans nationwide like both Republican candidate Donald Trump and Democratic candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton. That means 91% of Americans do not like both the candidates. Why an overwhelming number of Americans don’t like both Trump and Clinton is because both of them are controversial figures whose past records only make people despondent. Americans feel they deserve candidates who reflect the country’s values.

With such staggeringly low favourable ratings there are concerns among many Americans that something is seriously wrong with their electoral system. Bernie Sanders the popular Democratic Party ticket aspirant and an outsider who did not have the blessings of the Democratic National Convention –made up of various veteran party leaders, senior functionaries and governors of various states- had made it clear that he was fighting the “establishment” of Democratic leaders and Wall Street comprising of big business interests and corporate houses who have backed Hillary Clinton. This is not a figment of Bernie’s imagination as it is a known and accepted fact, that American democracy is welded to the big and sometimes ugly influence of multi-zillion business empires across and beyond the USA. Campaign funds in billions of dollars come from these business empires who also have so many elected representatives and senators looking after their interests and also lobbying for them with other world leaders. The fears of internal riggings also echoed in the campaign speeches of Republican maverick party candidate Donald Trump, who had accused the Republican establishment of trying to wreck his nomination and also even went to the extent of accusing the party establishment of conspiring with Democrats to deny him any chance of winning. He also accused Democrats of planning to defraud the electoral process as in the past. Trump’s accusations are not wild but valid. He had pointed to several court cases nationwide in which restrictive laws requiring voters to show identification have been thrown out.

He said those decisions open the door to fraud in November 2016. Somewhat rings a bell with public of Nagaland (and other parts of India where fraudulent means for voting is rampant). In his interviews, Trump offered that his chief concern about fraud was that states without strict identification requirements would see rampant repeat voters. There are fears that the American system has not been strict against permitting voters without proper identity proof, to cast votes and an overwhelming number of them are supporters of the Democratic Party. There is no doubt that the Democratic Party has been gaining the most from votes cast by voters, particularly immigrants. He has been exposing his ignorance, insensitivity and lack of empathy with statements that have further driven away most Republican leaders to the other side in deep anger. Trump has received support from extremist right wing groups who like his ranting. Be that as it may, the tide is building up against Trump and he has only himself to blame for making wild accusations and sometimes, venomous outpourings against everybody but himself. Hillary only has to hold herself and let Donald Trump destroy himself and sweep the November polls. Unfortunately, among Americans, their election system has come under scanner as people want to directly choose who gets to become their President and not a college managed by “establishment” and “Wall Street.”

DailyDevotion Prayer in the Father’s Honor …that Holy One who is to be born will be called the Son of God. —Luke 1:35

If the Son of God has been born into my human flesh, then am I allowing His holy innocence, simplicity, and oneness with the Father the opportunity to exhibit itself in me?

What was true of the Virgin Mary in the history of the Son of God’s birth on earth is true of every saint. God’s Son is born into me through the direct act of God; then I as His child must exercise the right of a child— the right of always being face to face with my Father through prayer. Do I find myself continually saying in amazement to the commonsense part of my life, “Why did you want me to turn here or to go over there? ‘Did you not know that I must be about My Father’s business?’ ” (Luke 2:49). Whatever our circumstances may be, that holy, innocent, and eternal Child must be in contact with His Father.

Am I simple enough to identify myself with my Lord in this way? Is He having His wonderful way with me? Is God’s will being fulfilled in that His Son has been formed in me (see Galatians 4:19), or have I carefully pushed Him to one side? Oh, the noisy outcry of today! Why does everyone seem to be crying out so loudly? People today are crying out for the Son of God to be put to death. There is no room here for God’s Son right now— no room for quiet, holy fellowship and oneness with the Father.

Is the Son of God praying in me, bringing honor to the Father, or am I dictating my demands to Him? Is He ministering in me as He did in the time of His manhood here on earth? Is God’s Son in me going through His passion, suffering so that His own purposes might be fulfilled? The more a person knows of the inner life of God’s most mature saints, the more he sees what God’s purpose really is: to “…fill up in my flesh what is lacking in the afflictions of Christ…”

(Colossians 1:24). And when we think of what it takes to “fill up,” there is always something yet to be done.

Quotes I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it. ~ Pablo Picasso

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y favourite Zen story is when a question is asked of a Zen monk – ‘‘A house is on fire. What is the most important thing that you would save?’’ He replies – “I would save the fire.”

This story has stayed with me for 40 years teaching me to look deeper into what we consider valuable.

Let’s talk about the single tiniest living being on the planet – the bacterium, a tiny single cell being so small that millions live together and are collectively known as bacteria. A gram of soil contains about 40 million bacterial cells. A millilitre of fresh water usually holds about one million. Earth is estimated to hold at least 5 nonillion (54 zeros!).

A bacterium is a proper being. It can communicate, travel, multiply, generate energy, understand its environment. There are three types: ball shaped or cocci, rod shaped or bacilli, and spiral or spirilla.

They are found everywhere – from your stomach to the Arctic ice and volcanoes, the bottom of the ocean to 30 miles up in the sky. Soil, plants, animals – all of us are walking mountains of bacteria. Some of them are extremophiles, surviving in such toxic conditions or extremes of temperature where no other being can survive.

Bacteria are the first forms of life on this planet about 4 billion years ago. You are their descendants.

They were first attempted to be identified by Marcus Terentius Varro (Roman - 116 BC-27 BC) who suggested that disease may be caused by miniscule animals that floated in the air. They were finally identified

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by Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (Dutch 1632-1723) who made microscopes, with which he saw what he called animacules in 1676 (to be called bacteria 162 years later). He is known as the father of microbiology.

Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg (German 1795-1876) introduced the term bacterium in 1838. Robert Koch (German 1843-1910) was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1905 for proving diseases were caused by bacteria. Paul Ehrlich (German - 1854-1915) won the Nobel prize for pioneering the use of stains to detect them.

Bacteria feed themselves in a variety of ways. Some eat other organisms. Some absorb dead organic material, such as decomposing flesh. Some parasitic bacteria kill their host.

Some make their own food out of sunlight, carbon dioxide and water. In fact, these helped create the oxygen atmosphere of the earth. Some use water, and chemicals such as ammonia, sulphur, phosphorus, nitrogen, zinc, iron to produce their food.

We call them nitrogen fixers.

They are common in plant roots. Aerobic bacteria grow only in the presence of oxygen.

They can cause corrosion and bad smells. Anaerobic bacteria can only grow if there is no oxygen present. In humans, they are most commonly found in the gastrointestinal tract.

They cause gangrene, tetanus, botulism and dental infections.

Some grow with or without oxygen and are found in soil, water, vegetation, humans and animals. One example is salmonella. Human bacterial infections are mainly caused by mesophilic bacteria (like ecoli) - because our bodies

What we consider valuable are moderate (37 Celsius).

Mesophiles thrive in moderate temperatures. The human intestine contains many beneficial mesophilic bacteria, such as dietary Lactobacillus acidophilus as well. Extremophiles thrive in conditions considered too extreme for most life forms - temperatures from 85 to 113 degrees Celsius, salt lakes, acidic or alkaline environments.

They multiply by dividing themselves, or by passing genes from one cell to another when they come in contact through a tube called pilus. Some bacteria move by gliding on surfaces.

Others control their movement through internal gas bubbles.

Some bacteria have tails and they rotate them like propellers going as fast as 0.00017 km per hour - the equivalent of a man running at 100 meters per second. E.coli can travel 25 times their own length in 1 second, equivalent to a horse running 215 km per hour.

When bacteria do not have enough resources to live they turn inactive. Spores can remain dormant for centuries.

They are resistant to radiation, desiccation, starvation, chemicals and extremes of temperature. In 2007, biologists revived a 8-million-year-old bacterium

from the Antarctic ice.

Most people react negatively to bacteria. But they create the air we breathe; the nitrogen in the soil that plants need. Friendly bacteria help the human body survive. Bacteria in the digestive system are crucial for the breakdown of nutrients, such as complex sugars, into forms the body can use. Friendly bacteria protect us from dangerous ones by occupying places in the body that disease causing bacteria want to occupy. Some friendly bacteria rescue us by attacking bad bacteria. Lactic acid bacteria have been used for the preparation of foods as cheese, soy sauce, vinegar, yoghurt and pickles and fermented foods for thousands of years. Bacteria can break down organic compounds at remarkable speed and help in waste processing. They are frequently used for cleaning up oil spills and clearing up toxic waste. Pharmaceutical and chemical industries use bacteria in the production of chemicals. Bacteria, such as Bacillus thuringiensis, can be used in agriculture instead of pesticides without the undesirable consequences of pesticides.

On the other hand some of the most deadly epidemics in human history have been

caused by bacteria – Cholera, Diphtheria, Dysentery, Plague, Pneumonia, Tuberculosis, Typhoid, Typhus.

Here are some more odd facts: 1,458 new species of bacteria live in the bellybutton of human beings. Everyone’s bellybutton ecology is unique and one volunteer’s belly button harboured bacteria that had previously been found only in soil from Japan, where he had never been.

Bacteria only multiply – unlike humans - to the extent that there is food. The amount of bacteria on a pair of jeans reaches a maximum after 2 weeks of wear. You can wear them for the rest of your life without worrying about them getting any dirtier!

Human faeces is mostly bacteria that are both dead and alive.

Magnetospirillium magneticum has the ability to take in iron, convert it to magnetic magnetite, align it along its body, and travel using magnetic fields.

Millions of people don’t actually need to use deodorant (especially East Asians) because they have a gene that stops them from producing sweat that attracts body-odourcausing bacteria.

One teaspoon of the bacterium C. botulinum, properly distributed, could kill every human being in Asia.

The “smell” of rain on the earth is produced by bacteria.

Floating bacteria are effective at spurring condensation, leading to snow and rain.

Some scientists propose spraying bacteria into the clouds to end droughts.

Deinococcus radiodurans can survive 10,000 times the dose of radiation lethal to humans, making it a prime candidate for the clean-up of nuclear waste.

Ralstonia metallidurans can turn dissolved gold into solid nuggets.

Some marine animals have specialized light organs which contain bioluminescent bacteria which turn on and off like a flashlight. The flashlight fish uses its light to communicate with other fish, attract prey and avoid predators. The bacteria benefit by receiving nutrients and oxygen from the fish’s blood.

Bacteria signal to each other through chemicals produced. Through these signals, bacterial species know how many others of their kind exist and whether there is a “quorum”. The bacteria change and coordinate their behaviour when a “quorum” is present.

Are humans beings the dominant life forms of the Earth, or are bacteria? The terrifying “thought control” talent of the Toxoplasma gondii protozoa is amazing. It infects rats and then alters their brains so that the rodents seek out their natural predator, cats. This is because T. gondii can only complete its reproductive cycle in feline intestines. The rats offer themselves to be eaten and the T. gondii parasites complete their lives. It also infects humans and I wonder how much of our activities come from its orders. After all, your body has 10 times more bacterial cells than human cells. To join the animal welfare movement contact gandhim@nic.in,www. peopleforanimalsindia.org

Post-mortem Prevention of Child Abuse Constitute Lokayukta without further delay: Nagaland Congress

ew weeks back I had the privilege of attending three days Sensitization Programme on Child Abuse organized by the National Institute of Public Cooperation and Child Development Regional Centre at Guwahati for the Principals & Vice Principals of Govt. Schools of Arunachal Pradesh & Nagaland. Even though I was forced to cut short my summer vacation and attend the programme, I have no regrets for sacrificing my holidays because the programme was well designed and was effectively executed to derive maximum benefit within the limited time.

I have been in the teaching field for nearly 25 years and have developed a feeling that I am discharging my duties sincerely towards the cause of children. But the facts and figures we got exposed at the program made me feel guilty for being ignorant about an important issue concerning children over these many years. I am afraid that many teachers, school administrators and officials dealing with children may be in the same state of mind as I am. As practically it will not be possible for the Govt. to depute all the Principals and Teachers in the state to such training programmes, I wish to share the knowledge gained from the Sensitization programme with the readers in the coming days. I hope it may help to increase awareness among the public and would ultimately help the helpless children. Kindly remember that I am not an expert in this subject matter and my main intention is to arouse curiosity among the readers for further exploration of knowledge.

Child abuse starts from home: Child abuse in India is often a hidden phenomenon especially when it happens in the home or by family members. Numbers of cases of child abuse in the home are hard to ascertain because most of these crimes go unreported. Focus with regards to abuse has generally been in the more public domain such as child labour, prostitution, marriage, etc. Intra-family abuse or abuse that takes place in institutions such as schools or government homes has received minimal attention.

Societal abuses that are a result of poverty such as malnutrition, lack of education, poor

Rejoinder to ‘Sekruzu town govt. employees inform’

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Nagaland Post, Dimapur tuesday, August 9, 2016

hrough the esteem columns of your daily, may we place a rejoinder note to a press statement published on 12th July 2016 under the heading “Sekruzu town govt. employees inform” (News in brief column) issued

by Vice Chairman Vesakhoyi Shijoh and Secretary Bedukho Shijoh of Adhoc Town Committee (ATC) Sekruzu. That we, the undersigned; the land donors for the development and establishment of Sekruzu Head Quarter, strongly disapproved and vehemently condemn the resolution adopted by the Adhoc town committee (ATC) Sekruzu to favour the permanent settlers of Sekruzu in matters concerning appointment of grade- IV staff in any government offices. Community developments were carried out in our cultivable lands with the promise of grade – IV posts without any land compensation. The said resolution; without the consent and concern of land donors, is purely a malice act of arbitration for selfish motive which is suppression to our basic right and so by no means acceptable to us. As such, if the said decision is not revoke and comes to affect any appointment belittling the prerogative stand of land owners then, we shall be compelled to re-utilize our own land for survival. Thereby, any lose occurring to the existing community development shall not be held responsible to us.

Khrüveyi Swüro, Rüzazho village & Khresavoyi Swüro, Rüzazho village

health, neglect, etc are recognised in various forms by the Indian legal system. But India does not have a law that protects children against abuse in the home.

In 2007, the Ministry of Women and Child Development (MWCD) released a study report on child abuse. The report discusses incidence of child abuse nationwide.

The study of the MWCD found a wide spread incidence of child abuse. Children between the ages of 5-12 are at the highest risk for abuse and exploitation. The study found that 69% of children reported to have been physically abused. Out of these 54.68% were boys. 52.91% of boys and 47.09 % of girls reported having been abused in their family environment. Of the children who were abused in family situations 88.6% were abused by their parents. Every two out of three school children reported facing corporal punishment. In juvenile justice institutions 70.21 % of children in conflict with law and 52.86% of children in need of care and protection reported having been physically abused. With regard to child labour 50.2% of children work all seven days of the week.

81.16% of the girl child labourers work in domestic households, while 84% of the boy child labourers worked in tea stalls or kiosks.

65.99 % of boys and 67.92% of girls living on the street reported being physically abused by their family members and other people.

The study also examined emotional abuse and girl child neglect. It examined two forms of emotional abuse: humiliation and comparison. Half the children reported facing emotional abuse with 83% of that abuse begin conducted by parents. Girl child neglect was assessed girls comparing themselves to their brothers on factors like attention, food, recreation time, household work, taking care of siblings, etc. 70.57% of girls reported having been neglected by family members. 48.4% of girls wished they were boys. 27.33% of girls reported getting less food then their brothers. Of the young adults (ages 18-24) interviewed, almost half of them reported having been physically or sexually abused as children.

Nellayappan B, principal, GHSS, Bhandari, (bnellayappan@gmail.com)

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tate Government must admit and react to the fact that Nagaland is Problem State, weighed down with political indecisiveness, mis-governance, economic logjam, development breakdown etc on one side and rampant corruption, scam after scam and social uprising on the other side altogether pointing to the fact of collapse or near collapse of governing system.

Reason can be many but problems are escalating day by day due to absence of government’s accountability and critical mass of people side by side. These are problems also found elsewhere but enormity of the problem in Nagaland has surpassed that of other states and not without reason Nagaland is listed most corrupted state in India. From top to bottom, from government to village level whether in public, private or administrative sectors the powers that be are deeply involved in the mesh of corruption and the scope of accountability almost down to zero. Considering the size of funds allotted by GOI it could be more than actually required by the State but considering the oversize gobble down by insignificant percentage of people in chair there is only leftover crumb for common people. Yet the little that common people earned is again directly or indirectly collected by series of NPGs. The recent appeal of Governor of Nagaland, P B Acharya to the State Government to immediately enact the Lokayukta Bill is apparently a reaction to the government’s

dilly dally over the pending Bill already tabled in the 12th Nagaland Legislative Assembly Session a year ago on 21st July 2015. Meantime multiple scams like fuel adulteration, pension, scholarship and others burst out and he was forced to make the appeal. But as Governor of the State he is constitutionally bound to give ADVICE and not appeal to the State Government to fulfil a constitutional obligation as important as Lokayukta. The unwillingness of state government to constitute the “anti-corruption body” is well understood because erring elective public functionaries and bureaucrats will become the first casualty. Whatever it maybe unless Lokayukta is instituted corruption is bound to destroy the very basis of the welfare state.

Lokayukta is not a new concept; it was mooted way back in 1966 when the Administrative Reforms Commission (ARC) headed by Marorji Desai submitted a proposal for Lokayukta as an anti-corruption body in every state. Although much later, Parliament passed Lokayukta Act in 2013 by which it has become mandatory for the state to constitute Lokayukta to investigate allegation of corruption and mal-administration against erring public servants and government servants and to provide speedy redressal of public grievances. Much dirt has flown below the bridge but now the constitutional safeguard must be raised up to put a hold to the free flow of

corruption. And Governor has rightly stated, Lokayukta is “a constitutional countercheck to corruption...”.

Considering the frightening nature of corruption and irregularity in the state, Nagaland Congress urges the State Government to immediately constitute a Lokayukta without dragging further the matter on some nonsensical pretext. There is no justifiable reason- political, legal or moral to rationalise continued corruption and irregularity or because some states also have not yet constituted Lokayukta there is no reason for the state to sleep over the imperative demand of aggrieved public as represented by few sensitized pressure groups and individuals.

Also Nagaland is predominantly Christian state and act of corruption, immorality, covetousness are considered deadly sin about which our Christian public leaders and government officers are not unaware.

CORRUPTION MUST BE UPROOTED THROUGH OUR JOINT EFFORT. Therefore, Nagaland Congress calls upon every likeminded pressure group and individual to pool in their potential strength and put coordinated pressure on the reluctant state government to constitute Lokayukta with immediate effect. Nagaland Congress assures unwavering commitment to stand by conscientious public at all times when situation calls.

Vaprumu Demo, general secretary, media & spokesman, Nagaland Congress

Non-fulfillment of scheme policy

e, the first batch of engineering students under the Eastern Naga Student’s Federation (ENSF) Educational Initiative (EEI) -in collaboration with the All Assam Students’ Association (AASA)- would like to testify the nonfulfillment of the scheme policy as per the advertisement Eastern Naga Student’s Federation Office, dated Dimapur, the 8th May’ 2013, the policy of the fee reimbursement scheme was highlighted as: 1. No admission fees, no donation and no course fee.

2. The selected students will need to pay only the registration fees of 26500 for the whole course which is non-refundable 3. Reimbursement of the annual courses fees shall be the responsibility of the ENSF and AASA where the government needs to reimburse it to the concern institution at the end of every academic year.

4. In order to avail scholarship/ reimbursement from the govt. The students must maintain 55% marks in aggregate in every semester. ENSF and AASA will try to allocate hostel depending on the availability.

5. However, the accommodation/Hostels fees shall be borne by the concern student’s.

As per the terms and criterion of this scheme (Number 3 and 4), the students have achieved to maintain the required 55 % every semester.

Also for which the ENSF and AASA have stated to bear the full responsibility to fulfill payment of scholarship/ fee reimbursement at the end of every academic year when the Government sanction the avail scholarship to the students. However, since the admissions in 2013 till 2015the college fees have not been paid nor did the students receive any scholarship even after the Government of India has sanctioned the Minority scholarship to the respective availing students account. Unfortunately, the BOI account passbook of all the students has been submitted to the Federation as commanded by ENSF and AASA which we the students now learned that to handover our personal account book to anyone is an offensive thing to do. We regret to state that this act of irresponsibility by the ENSF and AASA has caused the students to suffer a lot but we students tolerated much by dealing with the collage management and by rising voice against the team of ENSF and AASA. Until April 1, 2016 the pending dues of 28 students of Royal Institute of Technology and Science (RITS) was paid 50% from the total dues. As a graduating student of RITS we were compel to clear the remaining dues to get our original documents which the scheme policy left us unjustified.

Undoubtedly, this initiative (EEI)could have beenworthy of

praisesif the Federation (ENSF) and AASA had not been so mindful and dominion over the student’s scholarship which the students are most capable of applying by themselves. In fact, this Fee-reimbursement scheme has alsoprovided an opportunity to many Naga students to pursue in various branches of Engineering and in various field of medical when the State Government of Nagaland itself couldn’t establish one-degree collage for Engineering and Medical students to which the endeavoring students had to migrate in various parts of the globe and creating hindrances to the students who are financially

weak. For this reason, we student’s want to give our gratitude and credit to the team of ENSF. However, the same problems are being faced by the remaining hundreds of students who have come under ENSF Education Initiative in various colleges in Hyderabad up to this day. So we wish them to justify by the scheme policy unlike we the 18 passed out students from Royal Institute of Technology and Science was left unjust according to the scheme policy as per the advertisement.

Students of Royal Institute of Technology and Science, Chevella, Hyderabad

Reader’s Post

Sir,

Where are the good roads?

Despite the state government and the leaders promising good roads in Nagaland, it is wonderful that the roads particularly the commercial hub or the so called gateway to Nagaland, Dimapur continues to go from bad to worse. Isn’t it shameful to hear outsiders comment and mock at our leaders for giving us such bumpy pot-holed roads? People have been paying road tax to the government, sanitation tax to the municipal councils, but do we see any changes? Where does all the tax go to? High time, the government needs to ACT rather than shift blame.

Lipok Imsong, Lengrijan, Dimapur

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

NEW DELHI, AUG 8 (PTI): The corruption in MGNREGA scheme has been stopped by making payment of wages directly to the bank accounts of labourers and strengthening the monitoring system, government said in Rajya Sabha on Monday.

“There used to be massive corruption. ...There was perception that MGNREGA means loot. We have put a stop to the loot and lies through DBT (Direct Benefit transfer),” Minister of State for Rural Development Ram Kripal Yadav claimed during the Question Hour.

There were a number of deficiencies and the government has taken several measures to improve the transparency. “To curb corruption, we have taken the DBT route for making payment of wages.

We are also strictly monitoring the scheme.”

The budget for the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) has also been raised by Rs 5,000 crore to Rs 43,500 crore for this fiscal, he said.

The Minister also made it clear that the scheme “will not be closed but will be strengthened. ... It is a special direction from the Prime Minister not to compromise on this scheme,” he said while responding to a query raised

by Trinamool Congress leader Derek O’Brien.

Ram Kripal Yadav

To a query raised by NCP leader Vandana Chavan on the gap in demand and supply of jobs under the scheme, the Minister said the government had provided employment to around 4.82 crore families in 2015-16.

The average employment created was for 49 days in last six years. “I felt the money allocated is sufficient.

Rs 38,500 crore has been allocated for payment of wages for this year. Rs 5000 core more has been given. Now, the amount is higher,” he said. The government’s priority is to create more jobs and also set up assets especially irrigation and farm sector, he added.

Dissatisfied with the MoS reply, Chavan asked if the government will audit the scheme, Rural Development Minister Narendra Singh Tomar said “it is a demanddriven scheme. Many times, there is a situation where there is more demand but

less people come (to join the scheme). Hence, there is a gap.” A maximum of 235 working days were created in 2015-16 and the government has taken new initiatives like creation of assets, he said, adding “let me assure you, everyone who asks for job will definitely be provided.”

Responding to a question on asset creation, Yadav said that 61 per cent of the total funds of the scheme was spent on creating assets, especially irrigation and farm related works in 2015-16.

“We are spending a lot and giving emphasis on asset creation,” he said. Replying to a query on delay in payment of wages, Yadav said “I do accept that there was some delay in payment of wages in the past few years. This is mainly due to lack of funds. ...When our government took over, the entire budget money was released. There is no shortage of funds.”

In 2011-12, Rs 21,000 crore was released against the budget allocation of Rs 40,000 crore. Similarly, Rs 32,934 crore was released against the budget allocation of Rs 33,000 crore in 2013-14 fiscal, he added.

“Earlier, the delay was 4-5 months. Now it is being done within 15 days through the DBT route,” he said.

The government is paying in cash in the Northeast in 364 blocks, he added.

LG directs review of orders, files that required his nod N E W D E L H I , AU G 8 (PTI): Three days after the Delhi High Court held that Lt Governor is the administrative head of the national capital, Najeeb Jung Monday directed the heads of all departments to “review” orders and “identify” files for which his approval was required but not taken by the AAP government.

“The secretaries, principal secretaries and heads of all the departments, autonomous bodies, boards, corporations and institutions concerned should immediately review all such orders and identify by August 17 those cases where prior approval of the LG was required but not taken,” Secretary to LG Vijay Kumar said in an order.

“All such cases may immediately be placed with appropriate proposal before the LG through proper channel and with the opinion of the Law department, wherever required,” the order said.

“It is also directed that no order in the future be issued without approval of the competent authority,” it said.

The HC had on August 4 held that LG is the administrative head of National Capital Territory and the AAP government’s contention that he is bound to act on the advice of Council of Ministers was “without substance.

The decision had come after months-long turf war between the LG and Kejriwal for the reins of Delhi.

One more dead, curfew continues in parts of Kashmir; death toll now touches 55 SRINAGAR, AUG 8 (PTI): A youth injured during clashes on Friday succumbed at a hospital here on Monday, taking the death toll 55 in Kashmir where curfew continued in many areas in the wake of violent protests since the killing of Hizbul commander Burhan Wani in an encounter a month ago.

Amir Bashir Lone, a resident of south Kashmir’s Shopian district, succumbed to injuries at SKIMS hospital this morning, a police official said.

He said Lone had received pellet injuries on his head during security forces’ action against protesters on Friday.

With Lone’s death, the number of people killed in the unrest in the Valley, which entered the second month today, reached 55, including two police personnel.

Many parts of Kashmir, including several areas of summer capital Srinagar, continued to remain under curfew for the 31st day today.

Curfew remains in force in six police station areas of Srinagar -- Nowhatta, Khanyar, Rainawari, Safakadal, Maharajgunj and Batamaloo -- today as a precautionary measure to maintain law and order, the official said.

He said curfew was also in force in two towns of Budgam district -- Chadoora and Khansahib -- and Anan-

Police taking away a National Conference member during a protest march against civilian killings in Srinagar on Monday. (PTI) tnag town. The official said restrictions were in force in other areas of the Valley.

“Restrictions on assembly of four or more people continue to remain in effect in rest of the Valley,” he said.

There were reports of army being called to maintain law and order in Sopore township of north Kashmir’s Baramulla district. However, a police spokesman denied it. “The army has not been called in but it is patrolling the peripheries of the town,” the spokesman said.

Meanwhile, normal life

NMDA condemns assault on member Cong to go alone (From p-1) in UP polls: neighbours immediately informed the matter to the association and had gone to the Sub-urban Police Station Sheila Dikshit even though the owner was profusely bleeding from severe

AAP workers protesting against crime in Uttar Pradesh, in Allahabad on Monday. (PTI)

School sealed, manager arrested after ban on national anthem

SOYIM GAZETTED OFFICERS’ ASSOCIATION HQ: UNGMA, P.O MOKOKCHUNG, NAGALAND

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The Soyim Gazetted Officer’s Association would like to convey our heartiest congratulations to:1. Mr. Imkongsangba Jamir S/o Late Akangwati Jamir for his achievement on being selected as DSP in the recently declared NPSC result.

2. Smt. Kikatemla Jamir D/o Shri.P.S Meren Jamir on being promoted as Head Pharmacist under Health & Family Welfare department.

With a joyful heart , we warmly welcome you both to our fold. May the Good Lord bless you with good health and prosper in all future endeavours.` Imosong Imsong Imtiangashi Longkumer President General Secretary

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WOKHA TOWN OLD RIPHYIM UNION WOKHA : NAGALAND

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Through this column, the Wokha Town Old Riphyim Union would like to extend our heartiest congratulations to all the mentioned individuals who successfully brought pride and laurels to the Riphyim community in the recently declared NPSC result.

1. Mr. Johnny M Patton (Dy. SP) S/o Late. James Patton 2. Miss. Mhonlumi Patton (APRO) D/o Shri. Motsuthung Patton IAS 3. Mr. Jenithung C Patton (Economic Investigator) S/o Late. Chipo Patton The Union further wishes them the very best and success in their future endeavors.

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SRINAGAR, AUG 8 (PTI): Three BSF personnel, including an officer, and a militant were killed today in an operation in Macchil sector near the Line of Control in Kashmir, officials said here.

Security forces launched the operation in Macchil sector in north Kashmir’s Kupwara district following information about presence of militants in the area, an Army official said.

One militant and two BSF jawans were killed while five other security force personnel were injured in the initial firefight between the two sides, the official said.

Among the injured personnel -- three BSF jawans and two Army soldiers -condition of one BSF jawan was critical.

The injured BSF jawan later succumbed to injuries, a police official said.

Chomomo Patton Chairman, DNPE

Y. Kasho Humtsoe VDB Secretary Humtso Village

NEW DELHI, AUG 8 (PTI): Condemning the attacks on Dalits, RSS Monday termed as “inhuman” the violence and asked state governments to take action against elements trying to “disturb communal harmony and trust”.

VHP, an RSS affiliate, however, vowed to continue its work related to protection of cow, saying they have been doing it for a long time and will continue the work.

“We appeal to all the sections of the society to remain aware of elements who want to disturb the environment of communal harmony and trust. We expect the administration to take speedy action against such individuals and groups who break the law,” RSS general secretary Bhaiyaji Joshi, second in chain of command after its Sar Sanghchalak Mohan Bhagwat, said in a statement. Significantly, RSS had also issued a statement yesterday denouncing the attacks on Dalits.

He said taking law in one’s own hands to harass Dalits was not only illegal but also inhuman. While declining to comment on the attacks on Dalits and Muslims by cow vigilantes, VHP joint general secretary Surendra Jain said there was a lot of controversy over it. “We will not like to comment on the issue. However, cow protection has been going on since long. We will continue to work for it,” Jain

said. The comments by RSS and VHP came in the backdrop of Prime Minister Narendra Modi strongly rebuking perpetrators of violence on Dalits in the name of cow protection, telling them, “if you have to shoot, shoot me” but stop attacking “my Dalit brethers”.

Facing increasingly bruising opposition assault on his government and BJP over attacks on Dalits and on the issue of cow vigilantes, Modi had yesterday lashed out at “fake cow protectors”, denouncing them for the second day running for trying to create “tension and conflict” in the society and asking the states to take stringent action against them.

Joshi said that several political parties and leaders of various castes are trying to create a situation of uncertainty through half baked information which is not conducive to harmony. RSS also would like to appeal to political parties and various heads that there is a need to normalise the situation of uncertainty through public cooperation, Joshi said.

“By sympathising with the victims, there is a need to think that such incidents do not take place,” Joshi said in the statement. However, Modi faced flak from some Hindutva groups with the chief of a right wing organisation sending him a legal notice and alleging that his comments will encourage cow smugglers.

The Murrytsu Ekhung of Wokha District, congratulate Shri. Zademo Murry son of Shri. Zuben Murry of Wokha village, for securing the post of Secretariat Assistant in the recent NPSC exam.

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The Yongnyah Hongnyü Students' Union (Dimapur Unit) would like to extend its heartiest congratulations to Mr. Shahong Phom S/o Chingduk Phom for successfully clearing Joint Entrance Exam (JEE) Computer Engineering.

The Union further wishes him the best in all his future endeavour.

L. Shahjong Phom Chingmei Phom President General Secretary

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SUMI WELFARE SOCIETY

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PWD, CHANDMARI & PORTERLANE (PCP), KOHIMA NO.ED/GSS/RS/194-95(Pt), Dt. 12/12/1994 Motto: “Help In Distress”

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Nyanthung Humtsoe Head GB Humtso Village Council

RSS slams attacks on Dalits 2nd time in two days

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Peter Patton Jt. Secretary, DNPE

The Office of the Humtso Village Council (HVC) extends heartfelt congratulations and best wishes to :1. Mr. Nchumthung E. Humtsoe S/o. Mr & Mrs. Eliyamo Humtsoe for clearing NSEE-II for MBBS securing Top I Position 2. Mr. Renbemo Yanthan S/o. Mr & Mrs. Chibemo Yanthan for clearing the NSEE – II (Civil Engineering).

The Humtso Village Council in earnest expresses pride for their achievement and best wishes in their carrier and future endeavors.

outgoing facility on prepaid connections is also barred.

The separatist camp has extended the shutdown call in Kashmir till August 12 and has asked the people today to block all roads around Civil Secretariat Srinagar, deputy commissioners’ and Tehsil offices and ensure that no employee is able to join duty.

Kashmir has been rocked by violent protests after Wani was killed in an encounter with security forces in south Kashmir’s Anantnag district on July 8.

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The Dimapur Nkonjan Patton Ekhung congratulates the following for clearing the NCS and Allied Services examination 2015.

1. Mr. Johnny M Patton S/o. Late James Patton (DySP) 2. Mr. Myingthungo Patton S/o. Joseph Patton (Inspector of Taxes) 3. Mr. Jenithung Patton S/o. Chipo Patton (Economic Investigator) 4. Miss. Mhonlumi Patton D/o. Motsuthung Patton (APRO) The Ekhung also wishes them success in all future endeavour.

LUCKNOW, AUG 8 (IANS): Senior Congress leader Sheila Dikshit on Monday said her party will contest the 2017 Uttar Pradesh assembly elections alone and not align with any other political party.

The results of the assembly elections will surprise everyone and the Congress will form the next government in the state, the former Delhi chief minister told the media here.

To a pointed query on whether she will contest the polls, she said a decision was yet to be taken on this issue.

Claiming that the people of Uttar Pradesh were fed up with the politics of the Bharatiya Janata Party, the Samajwadi Party and the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), Dikshit said the people were now looking towards the Congress with great hope.

The Congress chief ministerial candidate said only her party can usher in an era of good governance and development in Uttar Pradesh.

“We will seek people’s support on development plank,” she said.

Lashing out at the Akhilesh Yadav government, the Congress leader said the state was in the throes of lawlessness and communal riots and blamed the Samajwadi Party for what she said were power and water shortage in the state.

Ms. Nyamok Konyak (EAC) With immense joy and pleasure, the Kongan Union Mon Town takes delight in felicitating those following successful Kongan Youths for bringing laurels to the Konyak Society in general and Kongan in particular.

1. Ms. Nyamok Konyak for being inducted as EAC in the recently conducted NPSC Examination 2016.

2. Mr. Pu-au Konyak for successfully clearing the recently conducted NSEE Entrance Exam for MBBS. 3. Mr. Bunyei T Konyak for successfully clearing the recently conducted JEE for the post Electrical Engineer.

While lauding their achievement, the Union also uphold them in our prayers and wish them success in all their future endeavours.

God Bless Mantoon Konyak, Gen. Secy., Pangloi Konyak, President Kongan Union Mon Town Kongan Union Mon Town

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of Allahabad Andra Vamsee said. An FIR was filed by the education department in the matter which came to light when eight of the school’s teachers, including its principal, resigned last week after they were denied permission to hold recital of the national anthem during the upcoming Independence Day celebrations. Haq had defended the move, claiming that the phrase ‘Bharat Bhagya Vidhata’ in the national anthem’s opening stanza violated the basic tenets of Islam.

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for two decades without any clearance from authorities and the allegation against the manager, they said. BJP had demanded action against the school while local units of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad and the Hindu Yuva Vahini had on Sunday threatened to launch an agitation if the school was not shut down within 72 hours.

“Orders for sealing the school have been issued. “The education department has been requested to arrange shifting of nearly 300 students enrolled there to some other school so that their studies do not suffer,” officiating District Magistrate

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A L L A H A BA D, AU G 8 (PTI): Police has arrested the manager of a school here who refused to allow recital of national anthem on Independence Day, while authorities today began proceedings for sealing the school, which was allegedly running illegally, and stepped up security due to tension in the area.

Zia-ul Haq, manager of MA Convent School in Baghara locality, was booked under the Prevention of Insults to National Honour Act and arrested, officials said. A magisterial inquiry has been ordered to look into how the school was allowed to run

cut on his forehead and lodged the complaint jointly through NMDA. According to NMDA, the duty officer promptly registered the case and sent the victim to government hospital.

On investigation, the association said the police found the “culprit to be one Ikaho Achumi, son of Inashe Sema of Sematilla, Dimapur. NMDA said the accused was arrested by police on the morning of August 8, 2016 and was forwarded to judicial custody.

NMDA while appreciating the prompt action of the police in apprehending the accused has urged the court not to grant him bail without complete verification of the case.

The association also called upon all the right thinking citizens of Dimapur to condemn “such act of barbarism”.

Alleging that the pharmacy owner has been threatened to withdraw the case and compromise out of court or face consequences in the future, the NMDA said it cannot tolerate “such lawlessness in a civilized society”. Cautioning of stern legal action against any such attempt by any miscreant on its members, the NMDA appealed to the administration to provide adequate security to its members and officials involved in the case. Further, NMDA warned that in case of any eventuality against its members the association “may even resort to closure of all medicine shops in and around Dimapur for want of justice.”

in the Valley remained affected for the 31st consecutive day due to the curbs imposed by the authorities and the separatist sponsored strike.

Schools, colleges, business establishments, petrol pumps and private offices remained closed while public transport remained off the roads.

The attendance in government offices and banks was also thin, the official said.

Mobile internet services continued to remain snapped in the entire Valley where the

Giving glory to our Almighty God, the Sumi Welfare Society PWD, Chandmari & Porterlane (PCP) Kohima take this privilege to extend our heartiest congratulations to the following bonafide members for bringing laurels to the community through promotion and achievements.

1. Er. Hotovi Aye, Executive Engineer Promoted to S.E (I&FC).

2. Er. James Khada, Asst. Director Promoted to Dy. Director (NRE) 3. Er. Inaho P. Awomi, Asst. Director, Promoted to Dy. Director (NRE) 4. Avika K. Achumi, Employment Officer, Promoted to District Employment Officer (Employment Exchange).

5. Dr. Pitibo A. Kiba, BDS for appointment as Dentist at NHA Kohima 6. Botovi Chishi, Superintendent, Promoted to Registrar (LR) 7. Linoka K. Achumi, D/o Kikhevi Achumi for securing MBBS through JEE. 8. Alivi K. Acumi, D/o Kavito Achumi for successfully passing MBA. The Community wishes them success in their future endeavours.

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The two laws on inter-state GST and central GST will have to come before the Parliament.

The state GST will be passed by various state assemblies,” Jaitley said.

Since GST will be the responsibility of the Centre and states both, the government wanted to have a larger consensus on it, he said.

“There has been a wide consensus. A large number of political parties have come forward in its support,” Jaitley said.

The Rajya Sabha had last

week unanimously passed the Constitution amendment bill to pave the way for the introduction of a pan-India Goods and Services Tax regime.

The upper house passed what is called the Constitution (One Hundred and TwentySecond Amendment) Bill, 2014, with 203 ayes in the final voting. The AIADMK staged a walk-out before the bill was passed in the upper house.

The gover nment had moved amendments to the bill earlier passed by the Lok Sabha to accommodate some concerns of opposition parties.

The government has removed the one per cent additional levy and agreed to compensate for any loss of revenue to the states for next five years.

“There was a delay, but most of the political parties came on one platform. After a long time, after efforts which continued for a number of years, finally a consensus was formed,” he said. Initially, the GST was supposed to be applicable from April 1, 2010.

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incorrect reporting of crude oil production has presented an inaccurate picture of performance of the company on crude oil production and has led to the company sharing an additional subsidy burden of Rs 18,787.43 crore during 2012 and 2015,” CAG said.

Besides, the over-reporting also resulted in over payment of performance related pay (PRP) to the company executives and staff.

“With ageing of fields (majority bring more than 30 years old), there has been an increase in water cut. This coupled with lack of adequate handling/processing facilities at the production installations resulted in higher proportion of BS&W and off gas in the crude oil.

“The company, however, reported crude oil production without adjusting these elements fully,” CAG said, adding that anomalies were noticed in the measurement practices.

The auditor recommended that the loss/gain during transportation of crude oil through closed pipeline systems should be closely monitored to ensure that the variations are in normal range and identify abnormal loss/gain for corrective action.

Also, asset-specific standard operating procedure (SOPs) for measurement of crude oil production may be formulated and implemented.

“The company may report condensate as a separate stream as opined by international consultant,” CAG added.

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NEW DELHI, Aug 8 (PTI): India’s steel consumption declined for the second-straight month in July falling over 7 per cent to 6.3 million tonnes (MT) as compared to June.

According to the latest data from the Joint Plant Committee (JPC), part of the Steel Ministry, “Consumption in July 2016 (6.289 MT) was up by 1.1 per cent over July 2015 but was down (by 7.4 per cent) over June 2016.”

Similarly in June this year, the demand for the metal, stood at 6.8 MT, down by 4.3 per cent over June 2015 as well as down by 8 per cent over May 2016, the JPC said.

However, on the brighter side, consumption of total finished steel in India - world’s third largest steel maker, grew albeit marginally by 0.5 per cent in April-July 2016-17 to 26.2 MT over same period of last year. During the first four months of 2016-17, crude steel production was 31.8 MT, up 5 per cent over same period of last year, the committee said.

The production in July 2016 stood at 8.1 MT, which was up by 5.6 per cent over July 2015 and by 0.1 per cent over June 2016, it added.

Total finished steel stood at 2.4 MT during April-July, a decline of 34 per cent over same period of last year.

Mumbai, Aug 8 (PTI): The rupee today fell by 7 paise against the US currency to close at 66.84 on fresh dollar demand from banks and importers on the back of strong dollar in overseas markets.

Firm stock markets as well as consistent foreign capital inflows failed to restrict the rupee’s fall against the dollar, a forex dealer said.

The rupee opened lower at 66.85 per dollar as against last closing level of 66.77 per dollar at the Interbank Foreign Exchange (Forex) market. It hovered in a range of 66.71 and 66.8575 before ending at 66.84 a dollar, showing a loss of 7 paise or 0.10 per cent.

The domestic currency had gained 22 paise or 0.33 per cent in the previous two trading days.

Pramit Brahmbhatt of Veracity Financial Services said, “At lower levels, a supportive buying in dollar forced rupee to depreciate since opening trade. Trading range for the spot USD/ INR pair will be 66.50 to 67/USD.” Meanwhile, the RBI fixed the reference rate for the

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Mumbai, Aug 8 (PTI): With two companies raising Rs 5,000 crore via offshore masala bonds in the last month, global ratings agency Fitch has said it will help diversify funding for India Inc, especially non-banking finance companies.

“The recent issuance of the first offshore masala bonds by domestic companies could pave the way for a broader opening and development of the market,” the agency said today in a note.

Even though the instrument is in its infancy, the two recent issues by mortgage major HDFC and state-run NTPC will mitigate initial market concerns about liquidity, it said, adding the issuance also helped both the companies get better ratings.

The bond pricing was surprisingly competitive relative to onshore funding considering uncertainty over liquidity and currency risks, it said, adding this will prod other corporates to go to the market. It can be noted that HDFC raised Rs 3,000 crore by issuing three-year bonds, while NTPC raised Rs 2,000 crore in a ‘green’ masala bond issue.

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ONGC over-reported crude oil production by 12%: CAG NEW DELHI, Aug 8 (PTI): State-owned ONGC shelled out Rs 18,787 crore in excess subsidy over 3 years as it ‘overreported’ crude oil production by 12 per cent, which also resulted in extra payment of peformance related pay to its executives, government auditor CAG said today.

In a report tabled in Parliament, the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) said ONGC ‘over-reported’ its crude oil production by 12 per cent through inclusion of items like condensate in the output.

“Audit of the crude oil measurement and reporting system indicated that the company (ONGC) was reporting partially stabilized crude oil as its crude oil production.

“This led to over-reporting of crude production by including items other than crude oil, namely, off-gas, BS&W (impurities) and recoverable internal consumption,” it said.

Basic sediment and water (BS&W) is a technical specification of certain impurities in crude oil.

ONGC has also reported ‘condensate’ production inappropriately as crude oil production, though both products were identified distinct and treated differently by it.

Out of 132.17 million tons of crude oil production claimed by ONGC in five years from 2010-11 to 201415, as much as 12.1 per cent of over 6 million tons was over-reported.

“The over-reporting and

contended that it was not liable to pay licence fees for Punjab telecom circle for April 1996 to March 1998 as the government “had of its own accord unilaterally, illegally and without any basis brought about a de-facto suspension of the licence during that period”.

The telecom major has said that prior to going for arbitration it had in 2001 deposited the amount with DoT on the understanding that if the company wins the dispute, then the amount would be refunded.

The arbitrator had dismissed the refund claim of the company against which it came to high court which in 2012 had set aside the arbitral award, Airtel has said in its petition.

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New Delhi, Aug 8 (PTI): Delhi High Court on Monday sought the Centre’s response on telecom major Bharti Airtel’s plea seeking refund of over Rs 2,500 crore, which includes disputed licence fees of Rs 399.92 crore paid by it for its Punjab circle for 1996-98 and interest on the amount.

A bench of Chief Justice G Rohini and Justice Sangita Dhingra Sehgal issued notice to the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) and sought its reply by September 29 on Airtel’s plea challenging a single judge order holding that the telecom company was not entitled to refund. “The limited question is whether you are entitled to refund,” the bench observed while issuing notice.

In its plea, Airtel has

reverse engineer Qualcomm’s code.

The attackers can exploit the bugs to gradually take control over a device and gain access to data. “It is always a race as to who finds the bug first, whether it is the good guys or the bad,” Shaulov added.

According to the report, Check Point handed information about the bugs and proof of concept code to Qualcomm earlier this year.

In response, Qualcomm is believed to have created patches for the bugs and started to use the fixed versions in its factories. As a security measure, Android owners should download apps only from the official Google Play store.

According to Check Point, affected devices include: BlackBerry Priv and Dtek50, Blackphone 1 and Blackphone 2, Google Nexus 5X, Nexus 6 and Nexus 6P, HTC One, HTC M9 and HTC 10, LG G4, LG G5 and LG V10, New Moto X by Motorola, OnePlus One, OnePlus 2 and OnePlus 3, US versions of the Samsung Galaxy S7 and Samsung S7 Edge and Sony Xperia Z Ultra.

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London, Aug 8 (IANS): Researchers have reportedly found major security flaws in chips being used in nearly 900 million Android smartphones globally that could give cyber criminals complete access to the data.

According to the team from Israel-based software and hardware giant Check Point, the bugs were uncovered at the software running on chipsets made by US firm Qualcomm, BBC reported on Monday.

Qualcomm processors are found in about 900 million Android phones, Check Point said, adding that there is no evidence of the vulnerabilities currently being used in attacks by cyber thieves. “I am pretty sure you will see these vulnerabilities being used in the next three to four months,” Michael Shaulov, head of mobility product management at Checkpoint, was quoted as saying.

The flaws, which were found in software that handles graphics and in code that controls communication between different processes running inside a phone, were revealed after six months of work to

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NEW DELHI, Aug 8 (PTI): Mutual funds ramped up their allocation for bank stocks to a record high of nearly Rs 94,000 crore by June-end, primarily on account of steps taken by the government and RBI to clean up the banking system.

Fund managers have been raising their allocation to banking since February.

Prior to that, they had trimmed exposure to the sector between November and January due to higher bad loans.

The recent focus on cleanup of the Indian banking system by RBI and the government by rightly recognising NPAs (non-performing assets) has helped fund managers raise their allocation for bank stocks, Wealthforce.com founder Siddhant Jain said.

Besides, the government’s announcement of capital infusion in public lenders too has a positive impact.

In percentage terms, exposure to banking stocks was at 20.4 per cent of equity AUM in June as against 20.28 per cent in May. The overall deployment of equity funds in bank stocks stood at Rs 93,885 crore at the end of June compared with Rs 90,014 crore in May-end, as per data available from the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi).

The industry’s exposure to banking sector was at Rs 78,644 crore, Rs 71,864 crore, Rs 82,196 crore, Rs 85,330 crore in January, February, March and April, respectively.

Security Interest (Sarfaesi) Act, and the debt recovery tribunal (DRT) Act have flaws.

“The DRTs have become den of corruption.

Cases remain pending for 10-15 years at the DRTs. We also want the government to allow the wilful defaulter cases to be tried as criminal offenses rather than civil,” Singh said.

PSBs have transformed banking in the country during the last 50 years and have withstood various economic onslaughts and resisted the crisis without damage.

AIBOC is protesting against consolidation of PBU banks, increasing foreign capital leading to privatisation, grant of new bank licences among others.

Last month, PSU bank employees were on a one-day nationwide strike to protest against the government policies including merger of SBI’s associates with the parent – State Bank of India.

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We want to oppose the privatisation. The government is not paying attention to our issues,” Singh said.

The public sector banks are plagued with the rising non-performing assets (NPAs) problem and the government is not paying attention to correct that, he added.

Overall, the banking sector has stressed loans worth Rs 13 lakh crore of which the PSBs account for the major portion of Rs 10-11 lakh crore, Singh said.

“The federation has been demanding that government help recover the money, as the money belongs to the common man. The government is not paying attention to that.

We are not even allowed to disclose the names of willful defaulters in the guise of secrecy. Rather, the PSBs are being maligned that they are not performing,” he added.

AIBOC said the recently amended Securitisation and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcement of

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N e w D e l h i , Au g 8 (PTI): A section of officers of the public sector banks (PSBs) under AIBOC will hold a ‘March-to- Parliament’ protest tomorrow against a move to consolidate stateowned lenders and other “anti-worker” decisions of the government.

All India Bank Officers’ Confederation General Secretary Harvinder Singh said AIBOC has called the protest on the same day (August 9) on which Gandhiji had launched Quit India movement in 1942 to oust the British from India, because it too wants to save the Indian economy from the clutches of capitalists and foreigners, while protecting PSBs. More than 10,000 officers including from communication, power and other public sector entities will take part in the march, he said.

“We are opposing policies of the government that are leading to the foreign direct investment into critical sectors including banking.

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Lahore, Aug 8 (PTI): Pakistan has directed a top official to follow up with India the matter of sending 24 witnesses of the Mumbai attack case to Pakistan to record their statements so that the trial in the case could be completed at the earliest.

“The Foreign Ministry has written to its director general South Asia to take up the matter of sending 24 Indian witnesses to Pakistan for recording of their statements in the trial court in the Mumbai attack case here with the Indian Government,” Prosecution chief (in Mumbai case) Chaudhry Azhar told PTI. He said earlier the Foreign Ministry had directly written to the Indian Government about sending the 24 witnesses to Pakistan and now it has asked the DG South Asia to follow-up the matter.

“We have already made it clear that the Mumbai case cannot move forward unless India sends its witnesses here to record their important statements,” he said.

According to the prosecution, all Pakistani witnesses have recorded their statements.

“Considering the emperor’s duties, as well as his age and the burden (of the job), we have to firmly look at what we can do.”

Speculation about the emperor’s future emerged last month with reports he had told confidantes that advancing age was making it harder to perform his ceremonial duties and that he would like to step down in a few years.

The address marked only the second time for Akihito to speak directly to the nation.

The first was in the days after the March 2011 triple earth-

London, Aug 8 (PTI): Newly-appointed UK home secretary Amber Rudd is to decide on the extradition of Tiger Hanif, wanted in India in connection with two bomb blasts in Surat in 1993 following the Babri Masjid demolition, a media report said here today.

The 55-year-old Hanif, an alleged aide of underworld don Dawood Ibrahim, was traced to a grocery store in Bolton, Greater Manchester, and arrested by Scotland Yard on an extradition warrant from Indian authorities in February, 2010.

He lost his appeal in the UK High Court in April 2013 following which the case was handed over to then UK home secretary and now Prime Minister, Theresa May, to sign an extradition order.

As part of UK extradition proceedings, he was allowed to make representations to the Home Office and the case has now passed on to May’s successor Rudd’s desk.

“Further representations have been made to the Home Secretary in this case and they are currently being

carefully considered,” a UK Home Office spokesperson said.

Hanif, whose full name is Mohammed Hanif Umerji Patel, arrived in the UK illegally in 1996 after skipping bail in India following his arrest over the attacks.

He was allowed to stay in Britain claiming he was a Muslim being persecuted in Hindu-dominated Gujarat and went on to obtain a UK passport in 2005.

According to a report in the Daily Star Sunday, lawyers representing Hanif have received around 200,000 pounds in legal aid or state funds sought by people unable to afford legal costs of their defence.

“The costs to taxpayers of these cases are large enough, without lengthy delays on top causing the bill to balloon”.

“Of course procedures must be followed, but a swift resolution is in everyone’s interest, and it’d save taxpayers’ money too,” Jonathan Isaby, from UK pressure group TaxPayers’ Alliance, told the newspaper.

May had first ordered Hanif ’s extradition to India

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The Kiphire District Sumi Union Dimapur conveys its heartiest congratulations to the following for successfully clearing the NPSC Examination for NCS, NPS, NSS and allied service 2015.

1. Mr. Vitoka Yepthomi (EAC), S/o. Mr & Mrs. Hokheyi Yepthomi.

2. Boskha K. Yepthomi (Inspector of Taxes), S/o. Mr & Mrs. Kughazhe Yeputhomi.

3. Nikiye Z. Yeputhomi (SA), S/o. Mr & Mrs. Zhetovi Yeputhomi.

The Union wishes them success in all their future endeavours.

Ghokiho Yeputhomi Shikato Kibami Chairman, KDSUD Secretary, KDSUD

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ZELIANGRONG MIPUI ORGANISATION(N) PEREN : NAGALAND

FELICITATES The Zeliangrong Mipui Organisation (ZMO) with immense pride and honour extend our heartiest congratulations to the following individuals on their achievements in the recently declared NPSC results and bringing laurels to the Community.

1. Mr. Keyileuteing : Excise Inspector 2. Mr. Ihoilung Chuilo : Asstt. Public Relation Officer 3. Miss. Ngimdauna Thou : Secretariat Assistant 4. Mr. Lunghilang Pamai : Secretariat Assistant 5. Mr. N. Irangsaplung : Inspector of Taxes 6. Mr. Teizeung Zeliang : Inspector of Industries/ Extension Officer The Organisation (ZMO) further wishes them greater success in their future endeavours.

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Jeddah, Aug 8 (PTI): Saudi Arabia’s King Salman has ordered authorities to address “once and for all” the grievances of distressed foreign workers, especially Indians and the Filipinos, stranded in the Kingdom after not being paid for months.

The King, in a series of directives yesterday, ordered the Minister of Labour and Social Development to take necessary measures, in coordination with the Ministry of Finance, to oblige companies who have contracts with the government to pay the salaries of their employees in accordance with the government’s Wage Protection Programme that ensures workers’ salaries are fully paid.

According to Saudi Press Agency, the directive is for the government not to release what it owes those companies unless the Labour Ministry confirms that the companies have paid on time what they owe their employees. The King[‘s directives comes amid increasing complaints by workers that they have not been paid their salaries for months.

Construction giant Saudi Oger has been the subject of complaints by thousands of its workers for not paying

WOKHA TOWN HANKVU ELOE EKHUNG FELICITATES

The Wokha Town Hankvu Eloe Ekhung would like to extend our heartiest congratulations to Miss. Mhayani Ovung, D/o. Tsumongo Lotha on being selected for the post of Secretariat Assistant in the recently declared NPSC Exam.

The Ekhung further wishes her success in her future endeavour.

Nlumlo Lotha President, WTHEE

TEKANGANGSHI Secretary, ASTD

Emilo Ovung General Secy, WTHEE

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The Jotsoma Youth Organization (JYO) in a follow-up move after its caution notice circulated in local dailies and their notice splashed out have apprehended and penalized the owner. His driver Soho Dab S/o Sukharo Dab the vehicle bearing registration No. NL01A 1789 Reg.Date 10/1/2012 a Mini truck was intercepted at night 7:00 pm on 7th August 2016 by the JYO Officer while in the act of dumping rubbish, garbage/waste alongside National Highway under its Jurisdiction.

Therefore, the JYO further reiterate its resolve and commitment to continue urging the general public to be cautious and abstain from breaking and bridging rules. Any would be defaulter is repeatedly warned of serious consequences.

Rokokhotso Vizakietuo President, JYO Gen.Secy. JYO

INFORMATION This is to inform to all that the Village Council, Settsü will not entertain any person selling or doing any kind of business activity within its jurisdiction without prior approval from the said Village Council.

Defaulters will be dealt with seriously by the Village Council.

Sd/Sd/SARI NGANGNEN S. LANU JAMIR Chairman Secretary Settsü Village Council Settsü Village Council

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CHUCHUYIMLANG KAKETSHIR TELONGJEM BPO: CHUCHUYIMLANG

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IMLANG LONGKUMER KIDONG, UNGMA DISTRICT: MOKOKCHUNG,NAGALAND

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With profound happiness and joy, we the Imlang Longkumer clan take pride in congratulating the following individuals for uplifting and bringing laurels to the clan: 1. Shri. O.Alem Longkumer IPS(Rtd) S/o Late. Masatoba Longkumer on being conferred with two prestigious Awards on July 25,2016 at New Delhi. a) Jewel of India Award conferred by International Institute for Education and Management, New Delhi. b) Rashtriya Vidya Gaurav Gold Metal Award conferred

by Indian Solidarity Council, New Delhi 2. Ms. Imsusangla Longkumer, D/o Rev. Manen Pastor, Police Baptist Church, Chumukedima for achieving 1st Class in Bachelor of Engineering Electronics from Maharashtra Institute of Technology, Alandi Pune.

The Clan prays and wishes good health and more success in their life as they persist to work with renewed zeal and dignity.

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King Salman their salaries for the past nine months.

In one of his directives on Sunday, King Salman authorised the Labour Minister to also immediately address the housing and accommodation services of the distressed workers by contracting with companies that provide such services.

India and the Philippines as well as their communities in the kingdom have rallied behind their compatriots at Saudi Oger by providing them food. Indian minister of state for external affairs VK Singh also visited Saudi Arabia to resolve the issue.

Currently, a total of 7,700 affected Indian workers are living in 20 camps and the embassy is in the process of collecting information about others residing in different parts of Saudi Arabia.

The King also commissioned the labour minister to coordinate with the Saudi Arabian airlines to transport foreign workers who wish to return to their countries and to charge the cost to their employers.

The Labour Minister is also authorised to contract with legal consultancy agencies to pursue the financial claims of the workers in local courts.

ADMISSION NOTICE

FOR MOKOKCHUNG LAW STUDENTS.

Admission for 1 st semester LLB in Law College for 2016 Academic session has begun.

Interested students may collect application form and prospectus from the college office between 10:00 am to 2 : 00 pm on working days. Admitted students can avail text books from college library which has to be returned back after examination.

Sd/Temjenkaba Principal, Mokokchung Law College.

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“Without an investigation, we cannot tell what caused the accident,” Ramesh Shiwakoti of the Fishtail Air said.

In Nepal, air travel is hugely popular as there is only a limited road network.

The country has suffered a number of air disasters in recent years, affecting the tourism industry. In February, 23 people on board a small plane were killed after their aircraft crashed in a remote mountainous region amid poor visibility.

Dhaka, Aug 8 (PTI): Bangladesh police have raided the office of a news website and detained three journalists for allegedly spreading rumours about the death of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s son in a plane crash, days after the government shut down over 30 online portals in a crackdown on media. Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) personnel raided the office of banglamail24.com last night and detained its editor Shahadat Ulla Khan, executive editor Maksudul Alam and reporter Pranta Palash. They also seized a computer from the office. “We have detained the three to be questioned on allegations of spreading rumours...we are yet to decide if they will be freed or arrested,” a RAB official told newsmen.

According to journalists of the online newspaper, the website ran a story published by an obscure news portal called Todaynews71 claiming that the Premier’s son was killed in a plane crash along with its own comments criticising the “baseless report”. They said the RAB men raided their office after they ignored a request by the Premier’s office to retract the story from the site, which remained unupdated since their detention.

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ment in Kathmandu with her mother, crashed at Bhatine Danda area in Nuwakot district, 150 km west of Kathmandu, officials said.

All seven people, including pilot Ranjan Limbu, on board the 9N-AKA helicopter were killed, the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal (Caan) said. A Nepal Army team and other rescue officials have been deployed at the crash site, said Devendra KC, spokesperson of the Caan. The cause of the crash was yet to be probed.

Saudi King asks authorities to resolve foreign workers’ issues

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APEUNA IHEILUNG President ZMO (N) Peren

NOKEN KICHU President, ASTD

Kathmandu, Aug 8 (PTI): All seven people, including a new-born baby, on board a private chopper were killed after it crashed in a forest area in central Nepal while flying the baby and her mother to Kathmandu for treatment. The Fishtail Air helicopter carrying six passengers lost contact with air traffic control tower shortly after it took off from Gorkha this afternoon.

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in June 2012 and his last appeal was heard in the UK High Court in April 2013 when Justice Kenneth Parker said there was “no arguable basis” for not extraditing him.

Justice Parker had said in his ruling, “The information provided in the request describes how, following an attack on a mosque in December 1992, internecine hostilities broke out between the Muslim and Hindu communities in Gujarat.

“The requesting state’s case is that the appellant was part of a Muslim group which obtained explosives, guns and other weapons and then carried out revenge terrorist attacks on the Hindu community, including two explosions which resulted in loss of life, injury and damage,” he said.

The first explosion was in January 1993 in a market in Surat which killed an eightyear-old girl and the second in April 1993 at Surat railway station.

If the new UK home secretary signs the extradition order, Hanif may take his appeal to the European Court of Human Rights.

The Aliba Senso Telongjem Dimapur expresses heartiest congratulations to all the successful individuals on their achievements in different fields: 1. Miss. Limakumla Pongener D/o. Er. R. Longzo Pongener EAC. 2. Miss. Moamenla D/o. Lolenkaba Jamir Gold Medalist (M.Sc Applied Geology, University of Mysore, Karnataka.)

3. Miss. Aien Jamir D/o. Imnasucha Jamir Best Design Award (Cosmopolitan India X Fiama Di Wills Blogger Award.)

4. Imkongkumzuk S/o. Burkumba Lkr, Ph.D JNU Thesis on 'Russia's Policy towards Nuclear Arms Control 1991-2012'.

The Aliba Senso Telongjem wishes them further success for their future.

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LUNGSIDAILE Gen. Secretary ZMO (N) Peren

Kathamandu, Aug 8 (PTI) A five-year-old Indian girl, who was abducted from Bihar and taken to Nepal, was rescued today as two of her kidnappers were arrested from the country’s eastern Morang district.

Sparsa Agrawal was abducted on Thursday from Kursela in Katihar district of Bihar while returning home from school.

A joint team of regional investigators and Central Investigation Bureau personnel rescued Agrawal from the Morang district, ‘The Kathmandu Post’ reported.

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MONTSSO EPI YILAN Vankhosung Baptist Ekhumkho ji nzyu songa sanrhyutsu lo nsonhyav yita evamo ji lotha metalo longtsui elumotona erandania vamo ji yakchia potsow na randan ejanlana -31/07/16 lo VBE ji Lotha Baptist Ekhumkho sanrhyutsu lo esonhyanthako ji tsukona, okhupoe potsow nrui mmhom jiang randan osi ekhyurong yakchia tssochecho kato onte topvu thungi montsso piala.

1. Rev. Nyanchumo Lotha, Executive Secretary LBES. 2. Ordain Ministers, LBES. 3. Mr. Zubonthung Tsopoe Pastor VBC. Shiang ephalo longtsui kutatana erandania ekyo erong epia vancho sana, nte topvu thungi potsow khi nte nzana, mmhayitokuv randaniala.

Calling for the merger of the north and east, Wigneswaran said it is necessary to keep the culture and integrity of the Tamil-speaking people against ‘encroachments’ by the majority Sinhalese. The Sinhala-majority dominated government at the Centre must not use the Muslim issues in the north and east in order not to grant a federal structure with the merger of the two provinces, he said. Within the united north and east, the Tamilspeaking Muslims could have separate autonomous unit, he said. Wigneswaran also called for action to set up the accountability for the warcrimes before the government formulates a A Fishtail Air helicopter crashed in Madanpur area of Nuwakot district, Nepal killing all seven on board including a newly-born baby, in central Nepal on Monday. new Constitution.

Kidnapped Indian girl rescued in Nepal

UK to decide on 1993 blast accused’s extradition

7 killed as chopper carrying sick baby crashes in Nepal

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quake, tsunami and nuclear disaster as he sought to calm a nation undergoing its worst crisis since the war.

Japan’s imperial house is said to be the world’s oldest hereditary monarchy, and according to legend stretches back some 2,600 years in an unbroken line.

Akihito has keenly embraced the role of symbol of the state imposed after the war. He is credited with seeking reconciliation both at home and abroad over the legacy of the war fought in his father’s name.

He has ventured to a number of locales that saw intense fighting, including Okinawa at home and Saipan, Palau and the Philippines abroad, making sure to offer prayers for the souls of all the dead and not just Japanese.

Any eventual move by Akihito to step down appears to have wide public support.

A sur vey by Kyodo News last week showed that 85.7 percent of people surveyed were in favour of legal changes that would allow abdication.

Colombo, Aug 8 (PTI): Chief Minister of Sri Lanka’s Tamil- dominated northern province C V Wigneswaran has asked the community to “insist” on the federal solution to resolve the country’s decadeslong ethnic conflict.

Addressing the Tamil Peoples Council in Jaffna yesterday, Wigneswaran said the Tamils must insist on a federal structure under the new Constitution with the re-merger of the northern and eastern provinces to form a single Tamil-speaking province. His comments came in the backdrop of the current move to adopt a new Constitution for the country replacing the existing one formulated in 1978.

Ms. Watisenla Pongen Shri. Sentiyanger The Chuchuyimlang Kaketshir Telongjem congratulate Ms. Watisenla Pongen D/o Akangmar Pongen for securing a post of secretariat Assistant under Personal & Administrative Reforms Department in the recently declared NPSC result 2016.

The Union also congratulate Shri. Sentiyanger S/o Lt. Rev. Waimeren on being conferring Indian Administrative Service (IAS).

The Union further wishes them the best in their future endeavor.

Sd/Sd/Mr. Aotongdang Ms. Imkongsangla President General secretary

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Tokyo, Aug 8 (AFP): Japanese Emperor Akihito said today he is concerned his weakening health may make it hard to fulfil his duties, in a speech seen as signalling a possible future abdication.

“I am worried that it may become difficult for me to carry out my duties as the symbol of the state with my whole being as I have done until now,” he said in an address to the nation.

“There are times when I feel various constraints such as in my physical fitness,” the 82-year-old said.

Akihito spoke obliquely -- never mentioning the word abdication -- but the government is expected to interpret his comments as meaning his wish is to eventually step down.

It can then begin creating the necessary legal mechanism which currently does not exist.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, in a swift response to the emperor’s speech, said the government would take the emperor’s remarks “seriously”.

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UNGMA SENSO MUNGDANG MOKOKCHUNG, NAGALAND.

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A: NPSC ACHIEVERS. 1. Mr Imkongsangba Jamir, S/o Mr & Mrs Lt Akangwati Jamir –Deputy Superintendent of Police ( DSP) (Classs-1) under Home Department.

2. Mr Limagangshi Jamir, S/o Mr & Mrs M.Senti Jamir Tatar, Senior Inspector of Cooperative Societies(ClassIII Non Gazetted) 3. Miss Imtinungla Longkumer, D/o Mr & Mrs Alemjungshi Longkumer D.C.Tuensang,Inspector of Industries ( Class III non Gazetted ) 4. Miss Shilusula Jamir, D/o Er & Mrs Tsuknungsowa Jamir, Secretariat Assistant ( Class III Non Gazetted) B: Promotion.

1. Mr Takomeren Lkr, S/o Mr Marliba Lkr, Promoted to the post of Senior Pharmaciest.

2. M r S h e p o n g c h i z u n g , S / o L t L o n g ku m b a Lkr,Promoted to the post of Senior Pharmaciest.

3. Mr Chubanungsang Jamir, S/o Mr Merenjemba Jamir, Promoted to the post of Senior Pharmaciest.

4. Mr Opangjungba Jamir, S/o Mr Alempokba Jamir, Promoted to the Post Of Head Pharmaciest.

5. Mr Nungsangmenen, S/o Lt Nungshikoba Jamir, Promoted to the post of Head Pharmaciest.

C : Dr Beremjungla, D/o Mr Imtimayang for having successfully completed Ph.D on the topic “Nutrient Management in Maize based intercropping system” Under the Rain fed Condition Of Nagaland from Agronomy Department NU SASRD. The Union wishes them success in all their future endeavors and thank each and every Individuals for bringing laurels to our villagers- Ungma .

Sd/Sd/Mr Imdangmeren Jamir Mr Sademnungsang Longkumer President General Secretary

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outh Ministry of Dimapur Ao Baptist Arogo (DABA) will be taking up an initiative to create space to showcase local products created by its members.

The objective of the initiative taken up by the ministry is to motivate, instil and nurture entrepreneurial spirit among the youth and encour-

age them to work with their creative imagination.

The products will be displayed at Wednesday Bazaar, Supermarket, Opp hotel Saramati, Dimapur, on August 10, from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m.

The youth department has invited the general public to be part of the initiative by exploring and encouraging the youths in their venture.

Dave Mustaine plans ‘at least’ 2 more Megadeth albums

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yricist-scriptwriter Javed Akhtar is the latest from the Hindi film industry to criticise Naseeruddin Shah for his comments that Rajesh Khanna was responsible for bringing “mediocrity” in Bollywood in the 1970s.

“It’s simple - Naseeruddin Shah does not like successful people. I have never heard him praise any successful person.”

“He criticises Dilip Kumar; he criticises Amitabh Bachchan,” Akhtar, who was here to participate in the firstever Bangalore Poetry Festival organised by ‘Atta Galatta’, said. Shah’s comments had stirred a hornet’s nest with Akhtar’s former scriptwriting

partner Salim Khan attributing the veteran actor’s remarks to “frustration and bitterness”.

Khanna’s daughter Twinkle also had said Shah should not have attacked a man who is dead and cannot defend himself. In an interview, Shah had said that 70s was the time when mediocrity came in Hindi films and also when Khanna joined the industry, who according to him was a “poor actor”.

Khanna, who was Bollywood’s first superstar, died of cancer in July 2012 at the age of 69. He acted in films like “Baharon Ke Sapne”, “Aradhana”, “Haathi Mere Saathi”, “Amar Prem” and “Aap Ki Kasam” among others.

Zumba fitness trainers CRT (L) and Talien (R) demonstrating at Lighthouse Church, ADC Court.

Martial Arts and draws its movements from a wide array of disciplines.”

He added that supported by driving music and power-

ful role model instructors, strike, punch, kick and kata, a person can work their way through calories to superior cardio fitness.

ll-star super villain escapade Suicide Squad has shrugged off dire reviews to earn an estimated $135m (£103m) in North America in its first weekend.

That is the biggest ever August box office opening, beating Guardians of the Galaxy’s $94m (£56m) record.

Cinemagoers ignored critics who dismissed it as “boring and unfunny” and “the worst of the worst”.

In the film, Will Smith

and Margot Robbie team up with a gang of villains from the DC comic stable.

Jared Leto, Cara Delevingne, Karen Fukuhara and Viola Davis play other anti-heroes.

The box office takings “bested anything that we could have expected”, Warner Bros distribution executive vice president Jeff Goldstein said.

“The elephant in the room is that the reviews were harsh. Clearly there’s discon-

nect between audiences and critics.”

The film took a further $132m (£101m) outside North America between Friday and Sunday, according to the studio estimates.

Fans also showed more enthusiasm than critics by giving it a B+ rating, according to audience trackers CinemaScore. Viewers under 18 gave it an A rating.

“You can’t put reviews in the bank. You can put money in the bank,” Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst for comScore, told the Associated Press.

“The long-term success of any movie is predicated on positive sentiment from the fans. For any movie, that’s the most important aspect.”

However after doing strong business on Thursday and Friday, its takings dropped sharply on Saturday, leading to suggestions that its earnings may decline steeply in the coming weeks.

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The Tsiesemiapfü Mechü Krotho wish to thank God and congratulate Miss. Dziesengunuo Mere, D/o Mr. & Mrs. Pratsolie Mere on her grand success in NPSC Exam 2016 who had qualified and came out with flying colors by securing the post of EAC Nagaland and for bringing laurels and glory to our village.

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

Vikeduonuo Khrabvü Neizovinuo Yhor General Secretary Chairperson

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Approved by Indian Nursing Council ( INC) Affiliated to Assam Nurses’ Midwives’ & Health Visitors’ Council,

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LONGPA KAKETSHIR TELONGJEM FELICITATES

With immense pride and honour, we extend our heartiest congratulations to Mr. Imliwapang Aier Longpa, son of Mr. Limaonen Aier and Mrs. Ngangshikokla Longchar for successfully securing the post of EAC in recently declared NPSC 2016 examination.

May the Almighty continue to uplift and guide you in all your future endeavours.

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EASTERN SÜMI STUDENTS' UNION

ALIBA STUDENTS’ UNION

HQ : Aghunato : Nagaland

MOKOKCHUNG, NAGALAND.

Motto : "Form Darkness to Light"

The Aliba Students’ Union would like to extend our heartiest Congratulations to the following persons:

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Miss. Limakumla Pongener Miss. Moamenla. L Dr. Imkongkumzuk 1. Miss. Limakumla Pongener, D/o Er. Longzo Pongener for attaining EAC during the examination conducted by NPSC, 2015.

2. Miss. Moamenla L., D/o Lolenkaba Jamir for achieving Gold Medal in M.Sc Applied Geology from University of Mysore, Karnataka, 2016.

3. Dr. Imkongkumzuk, S/o Late Purkumba Longkumer for completing Ph.D in Center for Russian and Central Asian Studies (CRCAS)/School of international Studies(SIS) from Jawaharlal Nehru University(JNU), New Delhi on the thesis: “Russia’s policy towards nuclear arms control 1991-2012”.

We would also like to thank you all for bringing laurels to our students’ Union and to Aliba Village as well. With warmest regards and good luck for a successful future.

Moatemsu Kichu Imkongneken Imchen President, ASU General Secretary, ASU

The Eastern Sumi Students' Union with immense pride and joy extend our heartiest congratulations to Mr. Ninoto I Zhimomi son of Shri. Ikuto Zhimomi, Joint Director, Agriculture who secured 1st Rank of DSP in the recently declared of NPSC exam 2016.

The ESSU has acknowledged his excellent achievement for bringing laurels to our society and pray that Almighty God to bestowed abundant wisdom to serve the people in his future endeavours.

Ms. Mhasivino Kar D/o Vishede Kar Gold Medal in B.A. Examination, 2014-16 in Economics Japfü Christian College, Kigwema.

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Mr. Vizayie Kar S/o Vilakhozo Kar Inspector of Taxes, Taxation Department, NPSC Examination, 2015.

The Union also express profound gratitude to these elites and wish them unending blessings and prolific success in their future endeavors.

President, PSU General Secretary, PSU Thejanguzo Zashümo Khriephreno Kipu Y M C

HEULUNGYING Vice President (PSUN)

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Wb. J. Limaonen Aier aser Wt. Ngangshikokla Longchar, tenajaboso, Wb. Imliwapang Aier-i Nagaland Public Service Commission (NPSC) ajanga EAC post 3rd position jenjang tongteta takok ngutetba atema Longpa Council-i kanga pelaba metetdaktsur aser tenungsang tetushi agutsur.

Tarutsunung nu wadang Ts u n g r e m i m a n a n i t a l i moajangma.

The Phesama Students’ Union takes immense pride in congratulating its members who had attained success in their endeavors and bringing laurels to the Union in particular and the village in general.

Mr. Vimetsito Kuotsu S/o Thepfüneiko Kuotsu Sub Inspector (BSF), SSC, CPO Examination, 2015

Govt. Regd. No. H/RS-4998 Head office -Poilwa The Poilwa Students’ Union Nagaland is pleased to extend its heartiest congratulations to Shri Ihoilung Chuilo Son of Lt. Heuzwangbe Chuilo for his success in the recently conducted NPSC exam 2016 by securing the post of Assistant Public Relation Officer (APRO).

The PSUN wishes him further success in all his future endeavours.

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Mr. Lhoushevikho Lhoushe S/o Neikhrielie Lhoushe Inspector of Industries/Extension Officer, Industries & Commerce Department.

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Ms. Asano Zashümo D/o Vipusie Zashümo Secretariat Assistant, Personnel & Administrative Reforms Department NPSC Examination, 2015.

NORTH AMERICAN BOX OFFICE TOP FIVE 1. Suicide Squad - $135.1m (£103.5m) 2. Jason Bourne - $22.7m (£17.4m) 3. Bad Moms - $14.2m (£10.9m) 4. The Secret Life of Pets - $11.6m (£8.9m) 5. Star Trek Beyond - $10.2m (£7.8m) Matt Damon’s Jason Bourne dropped to a distant second in the weekend box office rankings with $22.7m (£17.4m).

The top five also featured raunchy comedy Bad Moms, fluffy family animation The Secret Life of Pets and Star Trek Beyond, the latest frontier in the series reboot.

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ormer American Idol contestants Lazaro Arbos and Devin Velez, as well as former producer Nigel Lythgoe, have spoken out in response to Mariah Carey’s claims that the show is “abusive”.

During a Television Critics Association press tour interview on Wednesday (August 3), during which Carey was promoting her new E! reality show, Mariah’s World, the 47-year-old singer was asked about American Idol.

“It was the most abusive experience” she responded, referring to her short stint as a judge on the singing competition in 2012, during which she was caught in a feud with

fellow judge and singer Nicki Minaj.

“You’ve just driven me to drink,” Carey told the TCA journalists after the American Idol questions as she raised a glass of champagne.

Former contestant Arbos, who appeared during Carey’s 2012 series, told Billboard: “I’m honestly shocked she said that…she was always treated with respect and courtesy from the producers.”

Lythgoe, who was one of the producers on the show in 2012, joked in response: “I’m looking forward to Mariah’s new series and wondering if Nicki Minaj may guest.”

Arbos continued, saying he believed Carey’s comments about “abuse” on the show were directed at Nicki Minaj, while fellow season 12 contestant Velez said: “She wanted to do her job and smile for the cameras, but it’s hard to do that when her fellow judges aren’t doing their jobs.”

Arbos finished by saying: “[Carey’s] only job was to come in, sit down in a panel and give her comments to the singers and go home and get paid 18 million dollars.

If that’s abusive, then I really want to be abused by Idol!”

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egadeth mainman Dave Mustaine says he wants to make at least 2 further albums with band before he retires Dave Mustaine says he hopes Megadeth will release at least two more albums before he calls it quits.

The singer and guitarist was responding to a question from a fan on social media who asked how many records he hopes to release before he retires.

Mustaine, 54, says: “At this rate I hope two more.” He later added: “At least.”

Megadeth’s 15th album Dystopia was released in January of this year and has been critically hailed, with Metal Hammer saying the thrash heroes “are back on the very best of neck-wrecking form.”

Dystopia features Lamb Of God’s Chris Adler on drums, though he has since been replaced by Soilwork’s Dirk Verbueren. Angra’s Kiko Loureiro joined Megadeth as lead guitarist on the album and, along with Verbeuren, is a full-time member.

Last week, Mustaine and his bandmates visited a hospital to meet a fan who had been robbed and stabbed at Megadeth’s show in Neuquen, Argentina.

Mustaine revealed that Fabian Young will be flown to Buenos Aires for the band’s upcoming show.

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umba fitness club has introduced Les Mills Bodycombat, a Martial Art conditioning workout designed and engineered as non contact body combat work out which includes Boxing, karate, Muay Thai, Kung Fu, Tae Kwon Do, Capoeira, Tai Chi and Jiu-Jitsu.

The introduction was done during a short programme held at Lighthouse Church, ADC court on Friendship Sunday, during which Sinai Ministry leader Wabang S Longchari offered a special prayer for the Zumba team.

Les Mills Bodycombat trainer Talitemjen a.k.a. CRT, also a trainer at Performing Arts With Fitness (PAWF) Nagaland along with cotrainer Talien demonstrated the new fitness programme during the dedicatory programme.

Describing Sinai Ministry as special in their hearts, team PAWF said the ministry had always supported them, pushed them ahead and moulded them in all possible ways.

CRT explained Les Mills Bodycombat as, “An empowering cardio workout where trainees can totally unleash themselves. A fiercely energetic program inspired by

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he first round of The Amazing Voice Season-2 is slated to be held on August 12 at hotel Acacia from 3 p.m. onwards.

The organizers, Livemaster Studio has informed all the selected contestants to reach the venue two hours ahead of the scheduled time for sound check, rehearsal and other necessary briefings.

Judges for this season will be pianist and professor of music at Patkai Christian College Rebekah Moore and singer, composer and recording engineer Sunep Lemtur.

The main hostess for the show will be the present Miss Dimapur Zehovire Kechü.

Meanwhile the Watsapp auditions for the other districts including Kohima, Mon, Peren, Mokokchung, Kiphire, Tuensang, Phek and Wokha will continue till the first round begins. The show is still open to interested singers and anyone can join, informed the organizers. Interested individuals can send in short video clips of their voices to 9612-94-7394 or 9774-86-2205.

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Chelsea beat Bremen to end pre-season

Chelsea players celebrate Oscar’s (right) goal during their final pre-season friendly against their Bundesliga opponents.

Bremen, Aug 8 (Agencies): Chelsea ended their pre-season campaign in style, outclassing Werder Bremen to record a 4-2 victory in Germany.

Antonio Conte’s men were in search of a positive result, with their opening Premier League match against West Ham looming large on August 15.

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Sjostrom breaks own world record RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug 8 ( Ag en c ie s ) : S a r a h Sjostrom broke her own world record in the 100 metres butterfly on Sunday to become the first Swedish woman to win an Olympic gold medal for swimming.

Penny Oleksiak of Canada won silver and Dana Vollmer of the United States, the defending Olympic champion, took bronze.

Sjostrom, three times world champion in this event, set a time of 55.48 seconds to break her previous mark of 55.64 seconds, set in Russia a year ago. It was the first Olympic medal for the 22-year-old Swede, competing in her third Games.

Sjostrom, the reigning world champion, led at the turn and pulled away in the last 50 metres as the crowd cheered her on in anticipation of the record. Oleksiak, 16, put in a strong swim in lane two to snatch the silver ahead of Vollmer.

Hazard, Ocasr – the Brazilian’s third in the space of a week – Diego Costa and Pedro did the job, although ex-Chelsea striker Claudio Pizarro and substitute Lennart Thy did notch for the hosts.

In a match that saw N’Golo Kante make his inaugural start for his new club since joining from Leicester City, Hazard was also named

in a Conte starting XI for the first time.

Bremen had already played seven friendly matches going into the game, but any superior match practice was not evident, as the visitors flew out of the blocks.

Hazard was allowed to find the bottom corner for Chelsea with merely seven minutes gone, after being gifted far too much space on

the edge of the penalty area by Zlatko Junuzovic.

Two minutes later, Conte’s men found themselves two up, with Hazard again playing an important role. The Belgium winger drove down the left before finding Oscar in the box and he played a neat onetwo with Diego Costa before stabbing in a low finish.

After striking the crossbar early on, Junuzovic atoned for his error by winning a penalty from Nemanja Matic on 32 minutes, with Pizarro slotting home an inch-perfect spot-kick to reduce the deficit.

But just before the break, Costa was slipped in behind enemy lines by Hazard, before keeping his cool to slot a neat finish across goal to restore Chelsea’s two-goal cushion.

Bremen’s Thy made an impact from the bench with a stunning strike from 25 yards on 65 minutes, Thibaut Courtois only able to offer a despairing dive.

Conte took no chances in immediately substituting captain John Terry after a late injury scare caused by a collision, before Pedro ensured it was all smiles again with a stoppage-time strike to seal the win.

Russia appeals against ban from Paralympic Games Moscow, Aug 8 (IANS): Russia has submitted an appeal against the suspension of its para athletes from the Rio 2016 Games by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC), the president of the Federation of Physical Culture and Sport for Persons with Physical Disabilities of Russia has said.

IPC President Philip Craven on Sunday announced a decision to suspend Russian athletes from 2016 Rio Paralympics, reports Sputnik. “We have just lodged an appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS). It will be considered in accordance with the established procedure.

This is all Mr. Craven’s black PR,� Lev Seleznev told RSport on Sunday.

In July, the World AntiDoping Agency (WADA) urged IPC to suspend the Russian Paralympic team from the Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.

A report of the WADA independent commission led

by Canadian lawyer Richard McLaren, said that Russia had run a state-controlled doping program.

Misadministered Indian boxers out to prove themselves at Rio

Shiva Thapa

Vikas Krishan

Manoj Kumar

Rio de Janeiro, Aug 8 (IANS): Indian boxers will attempt to put a four-year long administrative turmoil behind them when they launch their Olympic campaign at the Riocentro arena here on Tuesday.

The chaos in the boxing administration in India has affected the preparations of the national squad. There has been no senior national tournament for the last four years and the absence of a national federation has resulted in very little foreign exposure for the boxers.

This was reflected in the reduced number of boxers who have qualified for the Rio Games. Shiva Thapa (56kg),

Manoj Kumar (64kg) and Vikas Krishan (75kg) are the three pugilists who will represent the Indian challenge in Rio, down from eight at the 2012 London Olympics.

Vikas is the only Indian boxer to get a seeding but none of them managed to secure a first-round bye. Vikas, placed sixth in the world rankings in his weight category, is the seventh seed in the middleweight (75kg) division. Vikas will ring in India’s campaign with a bout against 18-year-old American Charles Conwell on Tuesday.

Vikas won gold at the 2010 Asian Games and took the 2011 World Championship

title. He is one the country’s strong medal hopes.

The 24-year-old was the victim of some controversial officiating at the London Olympics and will be eager to set the records straight.

Thapa will start his campaign in the bantamweight division with what is expected to be a tough bout against sixth seed Robeisy Ramirez of Cuba.

Manoj Kumar was also handed a tough challenge in the light welterweight (64kg) category. The 2010 Commonwealth Games champion will be up against Evaidas Petrayskas of Lithuania in his opening bout.

Inter Milan sack head England name FC Pune City sign goalkeeper Edel Bete for ISL coach Roberto Mancini unchanged

Roberto Mancini Milan, Aug 8 (Agencies): Inter have confirmed the sacking of manager Roberto Mancini just under two weeks before the start of the new Serie A season.

The Nerazzurri’s Chinese owners have decided to wield the axe following the club’s heavy 6-1 defeat against Tottenham in a pre-season friendly in Oslo.

Mancini, 51, had been under pressure at Inter due to the club’s failure to qualify for this season’s Champions

League with a fourth-placed finish last term, having been top of the table as late as January.

And Mancini has since been dismissed on the back of just one win from five pre-season friendlies, with former Ajax boss Frank de Boer poised to replace him at the helm, Goal understands. “Inter would like to place on record its thanks to Roberto for the work carried out with the team since joining in November 2014,� said a club statement. “Last season the club led Serie A until the Christmas break, ending the season in fourth place and qualifying for the UEFA Europa League.

We thank Roberto for the work and commitment he has shown the club over the past 20 months.�

Mancini, who guided Inter to three Serie A titles between 2004 and 2008, returned to the club for a second spell in November 2014.

squad for Oval

London, Aug 8 (Agencies): England have named an unchanged 13-man squad for the fourth and final Test against Pakistan at The Oval next week after taking a 2-1 series lead at Edgbaston.

In addition to the XI that won the third Test by 141 runs at Edgbaston on Sunday, England also kept Nottinghamshire fast bowler Jake Ball and Yorkshire leg-spinner Adil Rashid in the squad.

They could also bring in an extra batsman after James Vince suffered an injury to the ring finger of his left hand while fielding in the slips on Sunday.

Hampshire captain Vince was taken to hospital for a scan on a finger injury, and it confirmed he had not suffered a dislocation but it remains to be seen if he will be available.

The fourth Test starts on Thursday.

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We, the bereaved family members and relatives of Late Ayutila (Khar) are deeply grateful to every individual, churches, organizations, friends, neighbours and well-wishers who showed great kindness and support during her illness and the time since she left us on 1st August 2016.

We are unable to thank each individual personally but it is our humble prayer that the Almighty God bless all abundantly.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

We the bereaved family members would like to express our heartfelt gratitude and appreciation to each and every individual, churches, organizations from far and near, friends, neighbours and well-wishers who supported us spiritually, physically, ďŹ nancially and materially during the brief illness and at the sad demise of our beloved father Late Orenthung OdyĂźo of New Riphyim Village on 04/08/2016.

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Pune, Aug 8 (Agencies): Apoula Edima Edel Bete has signed for FC Pune City, the club has confirmed. The experienced goalkeeper comes from Hapoel Tel Aviv after having played for Chennaiyin FC in the 2015 ISL season. Edel Bete has had an unbelievable couple of seasons in the Indian Super League. The two teams he played for, Atletico De Kolkata and Chennaiyin FC in the 2014 and 2015 seasons respectively were crowned champions at the end of the campaign. Maybe he is just a good luck charm. FC Pune City hope that Edel Bete would get a third time lucky and

help them to a maiden championship victory. Bete expects the same as well. “My experience playing in India has been memorable to say the least. I’ve won the title with two different teams and am looking forward to win it with my third team, i.e.

FC Pune City. I am thankful to FC Pune City for providing me a new challenge and work with Habas again,� he stated.

The CEO of FC Pune City Gaurav Modwel believes that Edel Bete has a towering presence and that his concentration levels are very high, which is an excellent quality to have in a keeper. He also thinks that

Edel Bete the former Paris Saint Germain goalkeeper was an excellent stalwart between the sticks, thwarting opposition strikers’ attempts with relative ease. “Bete has a towering presence in front of

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With deep sorrow, we the bereaved family members would like to extend our heartfelt gratitude to each and every individual, church members, friends, neighbours and well wishers who stood by and supported us physically emotionally, materially, financially and through prayers at the sudden demise of our beloved Late Kezhangol Angami.

We would like to convey our Born : 22/03/1982 Died : 02/08/2016 special thanks to : 1. Former Home Minister, Thenucho Tunyi 2. Commandant 1st NAP Bn. CMD 3. A- Coy 1st NAP Bn. CMD 4. Jharnapani Village Council 5. Trade Union Medziphema 6. Medziphema Town Women Org. 7. Kigwema Union Medziphema 8. Khuzama Krotho Medziphema Town 9. Zakhama Kroto (CMD) 10. Angami Krotho 1st NAP Bn. CMD 11. Police Baptist Church CMD 12. TBCC Thenuko Dept.

13. TBCC CMD. 14. WSCB Staff Medziphema 15. Youth Dept. TBCC 16. CTYO Org. 17. G. Sports CMD 18. Altura Society.

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the goal. He is one of those rare goalkeepers who can read his opponents mind early enough to anticipate and make a difference. The fact that he has been a crucial cog for both the sides that won ISL in the first two seasons (ATK in ’14 & CFC in ‘15) says enough and more about his abilities,� he said ecstatically.

Antonio Habas, who had worked with Edel Bete in the 2014 ISL season with Atletico De Kolkata, is aware of the Armenian goalkeeper’s qualities all too well. He said that Bete’s exceptional reflexes and other gifted abilities make him the finest goalkeeper in the league.

Born : 27/09/1933 – Died : 01/08/2016

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We would like to thanks : 1. ANTA Medziphema Unit.

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6. Bindya Basini Mandir Medziphema.

7. Gorkha Youth Medziphema.

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Gymnast Dipa creates history by entering final

Indian Woman gymnast Deepa Karmakar participates Rio de Janeiro,Brazil on Sunday. (PTI) Rio de Janeiro, Aug 8 (IANS): Dipa Karmakar created history by becoming the first Indian gymnast to enter the Olympic finals at the Rio Olympic Centre here.

The 22-year-old qualified for the final round in the individual vault final of artistic gymnastics after finishing eighth on the standings on Sunday.

Competing in the third sub-division, Dipa had an average score of 51.665.

She managed to perform her much-vaunted ‘Produnova’ vault cleanly to score 14.850 on the vault, 11.666 on the uneven bars 12.866 in balance beam and 12.033 in floor exercises.

The Tripura gymnast scored executed the ‘Produnova’ in her first attempt on the vault to 15.100 with

8.1 for execution and 7.00 for difficulty.

She scored 14.6 in her second attempt with 8.6 for execution and 6.00 for difficulty.

In uneven bars, Deepa scored 7.166 for execution and 4.5 for difficulty. In balance beam, she scored 7.566 for execution and 5.3 for difficulty while in floor exercises her scores read 7.133 for execution and 5.2 for difficulty with a penalty of 0.3.

By time she finished, Deepa was sixth in vaults and 27th overall and had to endure a nervous wait of five hours for the other two sub-divisions to finish. The top eight qualify for the final.

Dipa’s chances seemed bleak after she fell to seventh when Simone Biles of the US scored 16.050 in the vault

sports Laxmirani out of individual event

Rio de Janeiro, Aug 8 (IANS): India’s archer Laxmirani Majhi bowed out of the women’s individual event, beaten 101-108 by Slovakian Alexandra Longova at the Rio Olympics here on Monday.

Laxmirani trailed for the very beginning of the contest and lost three of the four rounds, eventually going down 25-27, 26-28, 26-26, 24-27. She began the contest nervously and notched up only 25 points out of 30 in the first round, giving Longova advantage.

The Slovakian scored 27 in the first round to take a two point lead. The Slovakian steadily extended her advantage over the 27-year-old Indian as the match went on. She scored 28 out of a possible 30 in the second round whereas Laxmirani managed only 26.

Laxmirani needed big scores in the fourth round to stretch the match to the fifth round. But nerves got the better off her as she failed to hit the perfect core of 10 in any of her three shots. That virtually sealed her fate. But still at the Rio Olympic 2016 in Longova showed no signs of complacency to score 27 in her first attempt to finalise a event. She dropped another comprehensive victory. rung to eighth when Canada’s Shallon Olsen’s terrific effort of 14.950 on the vault rejiged the overall standings further.

However, with no other competitor managing to sur- Rio de Janeiro, Aug 8 pass her score in individual (IANS): The Indian women’s vault, Dipa managed to enter archery team crashed out of individual vault final and grab the Rio Olympics after losing a piece of history. to Russia in the quarter-finals Brazil’s Rebeca Andrade at the Olympic archery statopped the overall standings dium here on Sunday. with 58.732 overall. She scored The Indians, who had 15.566 on the vault, 14.933 on clinched a silver in the 2015 the uneven bars, 14.2 on the balance beam and 14.033 on World Championships, turned in an inconsistent show to lose the floor exercise.

The Russian duo of Seda 23-25 in the shoot-off after Tutkhalian (58.207 overall) both teams were locked 4-4 and Aliya Mustafina (58.098 on points, having won two overall) finished second and sets each.

The Russians, who had third respectively on the overwon the World Championall standings.

Deepa will compete in ships last year, will take on Italy in the semi-finals. the finals on August 14.

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Murray through but Djokovic bows out

Andy Murray

Rio de Janeiro, Aug 8 (Agencies): Andy Murray started the defence of his Olympic singles title with a comfortable straight sets win over Viktor Troicki in the first round at the Rio Games.

However, world No 1 Novak Djokovic is out after losing to Juan Martin Del Potro, who produced a superb display to triumph 7-6 (7-4) 7-6 (7-2).

Del Potro is a former US Open champion, now on the way back to his best after struggling with injury, and he represented a nightmare draw for Djokovic, who he defeated

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for bronze at London 2012.

Djokovic played a full part in a match of the highest quality but Del Potro’s awesome forehand gave him a slight edge and he clinched victory with a lucky net-cord at the end of the second set tie-break.

The duo exchanged a warm embrace at the net and a tearful Djokovic then left the court.

As for British No 1 Murray, who won Olympic gold at London 2012, he was broken in his opening game, but quickly gained command to seal a 6-3 6-2 victory over his Serbian

opponent.

Murray had won all seven of his previous matches against Troicki and immediately hit back with a break of his own after dropping his first service game.

The Scot’s powerful ground strokes were giving him the edge in rallies and Murray moved 4-2 up after wrestling another break from Troicki. With the opening set in his grasp, Murray comfortably moved into a 1-0 lead after bringing up set point with a winner that kissed the top of the net cord.

Indian women’s archery team go down in quarters Laishram Bombayla Devi was the best performer on the day with a series of consistent attempts. Her efforts, however, went in vain as teammates Laxmirani Manjhi and Deepika Kumari were a tad too inconsistent.

Bombayla Devi later said that “when a gust of wind comes, you have to go ahead and shoot, you cannot wait or you may do much worse.”

Deepika Kumari got a bit riled when a journalist asked her that had she hit the perfect score of ten, the Indian team could have won. “You should come and see at the spot. We

want to hit a ten every time,” she said.

Manjhi in particular was not in the best of form and registered poor scores at crucial junctures that ultimately cost the Indians the match.

Head Coach Dharmendra Tiwari said that strong gusts of wind at least twice before the Indian team’s turn may have been a strong factor in the loss. “The girls have not practiced much against strong winds, and in archery that plays a very important role,” Tiwari told IANS after the match.

He said it was commend-

able that they had held the World Champions to a shootoff, but a little bit of inconsistency problem in the end did not help. Hopefully, in the individual events we will do well. “I have very high hopes from the girls,” he said.

But Rajiv Mehta, Secretary-General of the Indian Olympic Association said that overall performance of Indian contestants had been patchy so far. “The girls did well in between but they could not meet up to the expectation in the end. There’s no point in blaming any particular factor for the loss,” Mehta told IANS.

Bindra misses out on medal Rio de Janeiro, Aug 8 (IANS): Abhinav Bindra narrowly missed out on a medal after finishing fourth in the final of the men’s 10 metre air rifle final at the Olympic Shooting Centre here on Monday.

Bindra started well, but a couple of wayward shots cost him dearly as he lost in the bronze medal play-off to finish fourth with a total score of 163.8 points.

Monday’s disappointment will see the curtains come down on the glittering career of the 2008 Beijing Olympics gold medallist -- India’s only individual Olympic gold -- as he had earlier announced that he will announce his international retirement after the Rio Olympics. Participating in his fifth Olympics, the 33-year-old got off to a good start with scores of 29.9 and 30.2 in the first two series placing him in the top three.

He fell to the fourth spot after a relatively poor 21.1 in the third series with a total score of 81.2. But luck favoured Bindra in the fourth series as he climbed to second with 21.5 as the other shooters in the top four also faltered.

However, Bindra seemed to let the pressure get to him as his performance started to go downhill from there. The former World Champion registered progressively poorer scores of 20.8, 20.2 in the next two series.

A brilliant series of high 10s saw him go up to second after 11 shots and third after 12.

He maintained the position till the 14th shot but a couple of poor shots saw him score 20.1 in what would eventually be his final series and tied at fourth with Ukranian Serhiy Kulish after the 16th shot.

In the shoot-off that followed, Bindra could manage only a 10.0 while the Ukranian shot a brilliant 10.5 to move ahead, thus relegating the Indian to the fourth place.

Brazil held to draw by Iraq at Olympic football Rio de Janeiro, Aug 8 (Agencies): Brazil fans jeered their own team and cheered Iraq after Neymar and his team-mates flopped again in front of 60,000 at the Olympic football tournament.

The Middle Eastern side held the hosts to a 0-0 draw – Brazil’s second of the tournament after a stalemate against South Africa – and Neymar’s men must beat Denmark on Wednesday to progress to the last eight.

Gabriel Jesus, who last week secured a big-money move to Manchester City, missed a few decent chances early and was loudly booed when he was substituted in the second half.

At the end, the Brazilians were booed by the crowd, who instead chanted “Iraq, Iraq”.

“We need to apologise to the fans, to the people of Brasilia,” Brazil coach Rogerio Micale said. “We didn’t play our best football. We feel like we left our fans frustrated.”

Barcelona superstar Neymar, the tournament’s biggest star, played below expectations for the second straight game.

During the game, frustrated fans chanted “Marta,

Barcelona superstar Neymar is hounded out of possession by four Iraq defenders.

Marta” who is the star of the women’s team who are in brilliant form in their tournament.

Iraq coach Abdulghani Alghazali said: “It’s a historic day for Iraq to be able to draw against Brazil at its home. It’s a great achievement for Iraqi football.”

Right at the end, mid-

fielder Renato Augusto should have won it, but his close-range volley went over the bar.

“As the time passes and we can’t score, the anxiety increases, and in this situation it’s easier to make mistakes,” Micale said. “It’s natural.”

Nigeria are through to the quarters after beating Sweden

1-0 in Manaus, and Portugal are close after a 2-1 win over Honduras.

Mexico defeated Fiji 5-1 in Salvador with four goals by midfielder Erick Gutierrez and Argentina topped Algeria 2-1 in Rio. Germany needed a late goal to grab a 3-3 draw with South Korea in Salvador.

Long Qingquan

Rio de Janeiro, Aug 8 (IANS): Chinese lifter Long Qingquan claimed his second Olympic gold medal, winning the men’s 56 kg weightlifting event with a world record total lift of 307kg.

The 25-year-old Long, the 2008 Olympic gold medallist, overcame a stiff challenge from defending champion Om Yun Chaol of North Korea, reports Xinhua.

Long hoisted 137kg in snatch and 170kg in jerk to go past the previous world best of 305kg set by Turkish legend Halil Mutlu 16 years ago in the Sydney 2000 Games.

Om, 24, lifted 134kg and

jerked 169kg for a combined lift of 303kg to settle for the silver medal. Long is the first weightlifter with eight years between his first and second Olympic gold medal, in any men’s and women’s weightlifting event. “I am really happy. I am really proud. I came to this competition with two dreams: to win the competition and break the world record and I did both,” Long said after winning on Sunday.

Sinphet Kuraithong of Thailand took bronze with 289kg, becoming the first male weightlifter from his nation to win a medal at the Olympic Games.

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