December 12, 2016

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Vol XXVII No. 10

DIMAPUR, monday, december 12, 2016 Pages 12 ` 4.00

Kangana reacts on charging 15 cr per film

Costa fires Chelsea past Baggies

Gentiloni appointed Italy’s PM

Infotainment, page 10

sports, Page 11

international, Page 9

Pres launches ‘100 mn for 100 mn’ campaign

NEW DELHI, DEC 11 (IANS): Joined by a host of Nobel laureates and world leaders at Rashtrapati Bhavan here, President Pranab Mukherjee on Sunday launched “100 Million for 100 Million” campaign that strives to change the future of millions of children worldwide.

Conceptualised by Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi, the campaign was flagged off by Mukherjee in the presence of Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama, Nobel laureates Tawakkol Karman and Leymah Gbowee, former Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard and First Lady of Panama Lorena Castillo.

“Despite the progress the world has made in science and technology, economic development and in other fields of human endeavour, there are still over a 100 million children who are out of school and are denied a childhood and facing exploitation in various ways,” President

Gov greets President on his 81st birthday D I M A P U R , D ec 1 1 (NPN): Nagaland Governor P.B. Acharya Sunday on behalf of the people of Nagaland and his wife greeted President Pranab Mukherjee on his 81st birthday. In his message, Acharya said that it was due to concern and reiteration of Pranab towards the Northeast, despite small population has made immense contribution to the nation and inspired the people to work hard. On this auspicious occasion, Governor said that the people of Nagaland vividly remember Pranab last visit to the state in 2013 and was eagerly waiting for his second visit.

Governor further wished him long and healthy life so that he would continue to lead the nation to reach the great heights in the comity of the nations.

Corrigendum

DIMAPUR, DEC 11 (NPN): Apropos news item, “State govt ignores foothill road demand”, the statement should read as “the foot hills road trace cutting or formation cutting is nearing completion except the remaining portions of 3km at Nagninimora sector and another 5km at Niuland sector”. “To complete the remaining 8km of formation, NFHRCC is demanding Rs. 11.5 crores from the state government” and not as published.

Pranab Mukherjee flagging-off the campaign on Sunday.

Pranab Mukherjee said in his address.

“Mankind must realise without any further delay that there can be no progress unless our children are safe and secure, unless they are provided freedom and the opportunity to become the agents of change,” he said.

Lauding the campaign, Mukherjee hoped it will have a path-breaking impact on millions of children across the globe.

“This global endeavour of mobilising 100 million youth and children is the beginning of change that was long overdue. It

DIMAPUR, DEC 11 (NPN): After it claimed to have highlighted mismanagament and lack of transparency in the department of Irrigation and Flood Control (I&FC) on the implementation of Accelerated Irrigation Benefits Programme (AIBP), National Concerns Initiatives (NCI) on Sunday claimed to have dectected several non-existence minor irrigation (MI) projects in Wokha district.

According to NCI convener Atiba Ao and Yanbemo Lotha (Lotha community representative of NCI) said an amount of Rs. 82, 02, 27, 200 was spent by the department, as per the data accessed

by NCI in respect of 153 MI projects under AIBP in Wokha.

The department had also remarked the MI projects as completed in the data that was submitted to the Ministry of Water Resources, NCI said.

for the crimes committed by them.

On the recent spurt of violence, sources said the Centre is closely monitoring the situation and directed the forces to intensify operations to deal with the situation. Sources said that according to inputs available, most of the operations were carried out by members of the Khaplang faction of the NSCN and members of the ULFA (Independent) only helped them. “The ULFA (I) is now not in a position to launch major offensive on its own and that is why, it has been taking help of other outfits, particularly the NSCN (K). The leaders of the ULFA(I) are desperate to make the presence of the outfit felt,” sources added.

Sources said the Songbijit faction of the National Democratic Front of Boroland (NDFB) had sent feelers to Centre on several occasions expressing desire for talks. However, the government turned down their proposals and made it clear that the members of the outfit would have to face the consequences for killing innocent people.

However, most of the projects were “totally nonvisible”, said the convener.

Similarly, during spot verification conducted by the department representatives on December 5, 2016, it was also found that most of the projects were “fraud”, the convener alleged.

According to NCI convener, the department representatives were also left “red-faced” on witnessing non-implementation of the projects.

Not only this, the village councils have also revealed on the non-existence of MI projects.

NCI also alleged that the department in the RTI had failed to furnish the details of the projects undertaken during the financial year 2000-2007 (6 years), 2009-2010, 2010-2013 (3 years), Actual Payment Receipts (APR) and sanctioned order from the Government of India.

T h e r e f o r e, N C I warned the department

that the Lotha youths, farmers and village councils would be taking stern action against all unattended fraud MI projects in the district.

It asked the public of Wokha to analyse carefully and wisely the year, the file number and matchless amount as the name of the projects appears alike.

Further, on the department’s claim that ongoing projects on 159 batch (2014-15) in the district would benefit 339 farmers, it asked “whether the farmers really benefited before the completion of the projects as mentioned in the list or simply entered for the sake of office data record (sincere conduct of public service) like the on-going AIBP corruption issue?”

NCI, an NGO which was working for the welfare of the farmers in the state, also vowed to continue to highlight the irregularities to enlighten the public of their rights.

DIMAPUR, DEC 11 (NPN): Drawing attention to reports in the local dailies on the busting of alleged PDS rice scam in Dimapur involving names of two prominent stockists, secretary Food & Civil Supplies (F&CS) department Ramongo Lotha IAS, clarified that the allegations have not been brought to the notice of the government and which has to be based on some finding prima facie illegality.

He said if found true, then there was no reason why government would not take action against such stockists but at the same time, people cannot be allowed to take the law into their own hands.

Ramongo explained that government appoint stockists for procurement of foodgrains from FCI “in view of timely availability of funds as well as limitations of godown space.” In this regard, the secretary said the department was expected to lift the food grains within the stipulated time given by the FCI, failing which the allocation lapses. For this reason, he said stockists were appointed to implement National Food Security Act (NFSA). Coming in defence of state stockists, Ramongo

Helpline number ‘14444’ for digital payments support NEW DELHI, DEC 11 (PTI): After a TV channel and a website to promote digital payments, a nationwide toll-free helpline number ‘14444’ will be launched soon to educate people and provide support related to cashless mode of transactions. The service is expected to be operational within a week.

“Government had sought Nasscom’s help in providing support on a mass scale to people. We had requested a single nationwide helpline should be set up which now assigned by the DoT which is 14444. We are putting call centre support at the back-end. It is fairly advance stage of operation,” IT body Nasscom president R Chandrashekar told PTI. “It is to help people at the first level to zero in on the option most suitable for them that depends on person whether he has feature phone or not, Aadhaar number or not, bank account so many combination need to be seen,” Chandrashekhar added.

said they have actually been assisting the department in keeping custody of the food grains which is regularly inspected by department officials.

On December 9 (the day the raid was conducted), he said godown of the stockists was raided by a group of people and subsequently sealed by the police. The food grains stored in Dimapur godown were meant to be despatched to other districts/FPS which have no storage facilities and fed through Dimapur except Mokokchung, Mon and Tuensang which have the FCI Food Storage Depots (FSD).

On the repackaging of food grains into plastic bags, Lotha clarified that the stockists had sought permission from F&CS to repackage the food grains, on the ground that gunny bags received from FCI used to be torn while “loading/unloading during transit resulting in spillage/wastage.”

He said the matter was also flagged to the Centre during the meeting of the secretaries from NE states at Guwahati on October 3-4, 2016. In response, he said the union Food secretary informed that there were no provisions for making good

the losses, and so the department granted permission to carry out the repackaging in order to avoid wastage and to ensure that the PHH receive their allotted entitlements.

He also said numerous complaints were received from consumers, as also published in the local media, that the full entitlements were not issued.

While assuring that the department was committed to ensure transparency, Lotha said “it is expected that the complainants bring it to the notice of the department instead of taking law into their own hands and creating confusion and suspicion in the minds of the public.”

Staff Reporter adds: Following the busting of the alleged PDS rice scam by a joint team of ACAUT and Concerned Citizens of Nagaland (CCN) on Friday, including filing of FIR by ACAUT at sub-urban police station, it was reported that a counter-FIR was lodged at the police station.

When contacted, police sources said some unidentified person lodged a ‘criminal trespass’ case on the issue, but not directed against any particular organization.

Jaya’s demise: Shock death toll 470, says AIADMK NEW DELHI, DEC 11 (AGENCIES): AIADMK on Sunday said that a total of 470 people had died after the death of former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and AIADMK chief Jayalalithaa. The party said these people were unable to bear the death of Amma. AIADMK had on Saturday announced that Rs 3 lakh will be given in aid to the families of all deceased.

On Saturday, they had released a list of 203 deceased persons, saying they died of “shock” over the demise of party supremo J Jayalalithaa on December 5,

taking the number of toll in this regard to 280. The deceased persons were from different parts of the state, including Chennai, Vellore, Tiruvallore, Tiruvannamalai, Cuddalore, Krishnagiri, Erode and Tirupur districts.

The party condoled their death and announced a welfare fund of Rs 3 lakh each to families of the deceased. Earlier, the party had said that 77 persons had died of shock and grief following Jayalalithaa’s death and announced a similar sum as relief to the dead persons’ families.

One held with fake Rs. 2000 notes in Dimapur

Accused Satyajit Saikia Staff Reporter

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GUWAHATI, DEC 11 (AGENCIES): Concerned over the recent spurt of violence in the North Eastern region, the Centre has directed the security forces to intensify operations against the militants involved in such attacks. The Centre has also reiterated its stand that anyone indulging in violence would be dealt with strongly.

“Gone are the days when the militants indulged in large scale violence and whenever operations were intensified against them, they opted for talks and the government accepted their proposals. Now the government has adopted a tough stand on the issue and there will be no talks with any outfit that indulges in killing of innocents. Only strong operations will be launched against such outfits,” highly placed sources in the Government of India told The Assam Tribune.

Sources clarified that if any militant is willing to surrender and come back to the mainstream, he or she is welcome to do so. But such persons would not be pardoned and they would have to face the laws of the land

NCI detects anomalies in Wka MI projects

This is it!

“The FM is driving ideas into the PM’s mind. So you can bet more policies will be out soon”.

is only appropriate that the campaign begins from India which has the largest population of youth in world,” added Mukherjee. The campaign aims to bring together 100 million young people and educate them about their rights and the rights of thousands of other children, similar to them.

The campaign also brought curtains to the two-day ‘Laureates and Leaders for Children Summit’ that brought together the collective leadership of around 25 Nobel laureates and leaders for creating a child-friendly world.

Ops against anti-talk F&CS deptt. clarifies on alleged scam outfits to be intensified

DIMAPUR, DEC 11 (NPN): Despite efforts to keep check on corruption and circulation of counterfeit notes by way of demonetizing the Rs. 500 and Rs. 1000 notes and introducing the new Rs. 500 and Rs. 2000 notes, the entire process has not yielded results as new fake notes have already invaded the markets across the country.

The new fake currency notes have also penetrated into Dimapur, which was confirmed after Dimapur Police on Saturday arrested one person in possession of seven fake Rs. 2000 notes from Hong Kong Market area.

Police said the accused, Satyajit Saikia from Tuliajan Assam, who reportedly came to Dimapur for shopping, was arrested while trying to use the fake currency notes at a shop in Hong Kong Market. Police has taken the accused into custody and efforts were on to establish the origin of the fake notes.

Meanwhile, the Central government on Friday told Parliament that it has decided to print currency notes made of plastic to curb counterfeiting. In a written reply to a question filed in the Lok Sabha, Minister of State for Finance AR Meghwal said the central government has already initiated the process to

Rectangle with `2000 in raised print on right A colour-shifting security thread with the inscription Bharat (in Hindi), RBI and 2000. The colour changes from green to blue when note is tilted

HOW TO KNOW A FAKE NOTE Seven angular bleed lins in raised print

Portrait of Mahatma Gandhi with ‘RBI’ written on his spectacle which can be read using a magnifying glass

See through register which will show up number 2000 when note is held against light

Letent image of number 2000 can be seen when note is held at 45 degree angle

procure the materials necessary for printing such notes.

Meghwal later said that it is easier to keep track of counterfeited currency made of plastic. Successive governments have discussed and tested the use of such notes, which are made of plastic based on a polymer

Wa t e r m a r k s o f Mahatma Gandhi and electrotype of numeral 2000

Numerals growing from small to big on top left and bottom right

substrate. In February 2014, the Congress-led UPA government told Parliament that one billion Rs 10 notes had been introduced in five cities – Bhubhaneshwar, Jaipur, Kochi, Mysore and Shimla – as part of a field trial. Plastic notes have an expected life span of five years.

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KUWA annual Metsü Mehpu cum Rünyi festival held

K. Therie addressing Runyi festival at Chumukedima on December 10.

DIMAPUR: Kuzhami Welfare Association Dimapur (KUWA) held its 21st annual Metsü Mehpu cum Rünyi Festival at Chumukedima on December 10, with president NPCC, K. Therie as We Tetshü Tarho’ Kehtsüo.

A press note by KUWA general secretary, Pretso Therie stated that Therie emphasized on the

need to preserve one’s own language and culture. He also said that in today’s society, respect for elders has been lost as our culture has been overtaken with ignorance.

He called upon the Kuzhami government servants to extend their help and to support the upcoming generations to face different challenges ahead

and not only sit and perform their duty in the office alone. He expressed concern over the fast changing society in Nagaland where un-employment has reached its peak. He reminded the gathering that unless the people joined a political party and participate and function under the party, the society would not change and there would be

State BJP seniors appointed/awarded

Vihoshe Sumi

DIMAPUR: Spokesperson Nagaland BJP, Vihoshe Sumi, has been appointed as Representative of the Russian Federation with the Power of Attorney to represent four key Russian industries to the Republic of India while former president BJP Nagaland Dr. M.Chuba has been awarded Bharat Vikas Award for Individual contribution towards Economic growth and social development.

Informing this in a press note, general secretary (Media) and spokesperson BJP Nagaland, Jaangsillung Gonmei said all the industries represented by Vihoshe Sumi were associated with cutting edge-high-end scientific technologies.

Dr. M.Chuba receiving the Bharat Vikas Award.

‘Bee Bitron’ company is a scientific industrial and engineering enterprise that provides for Defence, ISRO, Shipping etc. The companies of ‘Wilsi Plus’ and ‘Metkatom’ Company involves in research, development and production of high speed railways while ‘Vik Agro’ company involves with research and production of Scientific technology for Agriculture.

Vihoshe is scheduled to leave for Russia as part of the Union Railways Minis-

ter’s entourage in the following days, the release stated.

The press note further stated that Dr. M.Chuba, proprietor and administrator of St. Mary’s Mount school and college, Chumukedima, has been awarded the Bharat Vikas Award by the Institute of Self Reliance, Bhubaneswar.

Meanwhile, the state president and BJP Nagaland expressed happiness and wished them well in their new assignments and achievements.

no welfare development.

He urged upon the gathering to elect God fearing leaders from any political party so that he/she would deliver justice to the public.

New team for KUWA for 2016-2019 tenure was inducted during the annual mepu, led by president Dr. Eyekhweshe Kepfoh, general secretary Neipete Therie along with two others.

Earlier the program was chaired by Kekhrongulo-ü Kapfo, presidential address by president KUWA, Wekhape Letro. The significance of Rünyi Festival was shared by president Kuzhalhu Zawe, Mikha Lomi. Special number and folk tune was performed by Krowemi Union Dimapur and Lasumi Union Dimapur respectively while invocation was said by Rev. Dr. K. Kapfo, pastor Kuzhami Baptist Church Chumukedima.

BTS & GHST special prog DIMAPUR: Short programme was organised for students of Bejing School, Tobu and Govt. High School, Tobu by SDO (C) Sentilong Ozukum on November 21. The programme was to hand over solar lamp, instrument boxes, pens and other study materials to the students.

Head master, BST, M. A. Wanmai congratulated all the students selected for writing the HSLC exam and thanked Sentilong for his immense contribution and dedication rendered towards the students community in Tobu area. The program was attended by chaplain, Police Baptist Fellowship, youth director, TTBC and staffs of both the schools.

ATI conducts SSFC 2016 trg

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news in brief GSUD general executive meet: Office bearers, executive members and units of Gorkha Student’s Union Dimapur (GSUD) are informed that there would be general executive meeting for the upcoming annual sports meet on December 13 at 1 p.m in the president’s residence. All concerned have been requested to be present without fail.

AKM executive meeting: 6th AKM executive meeting has been convened on December 14 at AKM conference hall. All the tribunals, seniors and executive members have been requested to attend the meeting positively.

LLVSU golden jubilee: Lio-Longchum Village Students’ Union (LLVSU) has informed all the committee members and office bearers to be in station latest by December 20 for the celebration of golden jubilee to be held on December 29 and 30. It further requested all concern students to reach the village before December 29 for the same.

LSU emergency presidential meet: Lotha Students’ Union (LSU) has convened an emergency presidential meeting on December 14 at 11 a.m in LTC hall for the forthcoming LSU triennial conference to be held from January 11 to 14 January 2017 hosted by CRSU. Union has requested all the range/circle/ area units, village units, senior leaders, former leaders and committee members to attend the meeting positively.

PMEGP beneficiaries meet: PMEGP beneficiaries for the period 2014-15 & 2015-16 relegated to Bank of Baroda under Wokha district has convened a meeting on December 14 at 10 a.m in the public ground Wokha.

All the beneficiaries have been requested to attend the meeting positively.

ANDSMA Zbto unit emergency meet: ANDMSA Zunheboto unit has convened an emergency meeting on December 14 at 11 a.m in DC conference hall, Zunheboto. All departments have been requested to send at least 2 representatives to the meeting without fail.

Prayer fellowship for revival of the Nagas: Jericho Prayer Ministries in association with Kohima Town Area Prayer Groups would be organizing three-day prayer fellowship for revival of the Nagas from December 16 to 18 at Nagamese Church, Nagabazar Kohima.

SBAK-NM 62Ü Lhothemi Baghi Hoho: Sümi Baptist Akükühou Küqhakulu (SBAK-NM) department of Youth Ministry would hold its 62Ü, three-day long youth conference from December 16 at Surumi B/C with “24x7 with Jesus” as the theme. Speakers of the three-day event are SBAK-NM executive secretary, Rev Hukugha Zhimo; pastor SBCK, Dr. Hokheto Chophy; principal NTC, Dr Hutton Achumi; academic dean

NTC, Niholi H Shohe; and SBAK-NM youth secretary Hekato Awomi. Executive secretary, Rev Hukugha Zhimo has requested all the concerned council members to arrive host Surumi BC by December 17.

DBC to celebrate platinum jubilee: Dziilhami Baptist Church (DBC) platinum jubilee would be held from December 17 to 18 under the theme, “..We will serve the Lord.” The main speakers for the conference include Rev. Dr. Zelhou Keyho, general secretary, Nagaland Baptist Church Council, Rev. Dr. Vezopa Tetseo, executive secretary, Chakhesang Baptist Church Council and Rev. Khriitsoyi Liiriio, president, Chakhesang Baptist Church Council. DBC has extended invitation to everyone and to all Dziilhami in-laws to be a part of the historic celebration.

Block level workshop: RSPY Wokha district coordinator has convened block level workshop on RSBY (National Health Insurance Policy) for BPL families and Senior Citizen’s Health Insurance Scheme (SCHIS) on December 14 a 10 a.m. in the District Hospital Wokha.

All village, ward chairmen, MOs of CHC/PHC, BAC and Ashas under Wokha Sadar & Wozhuro have been requested to attend the meeting.

Bhandari sub-division awareness prog: Social Welfare department would be organising a community awareness programme relating to ICDS schemes at Town Hall, Bhandari town on December 16 at 12 noon headed by jt. director and state programme officer. All village council chairmen, GBs, VDB secretaries and woman representative from villages covered by ICDS Anganwadi scheme under Bhandari project have been requested to attend the programme.

ToT programme on sign language: Department of English, Nagaland University in collaboration with Rotary Club of Kohima and Ali Yavar Jung Institute for Speech and Hearing Disabilities, Mumbai would be organising a Trainer of Trainers program on sign language, for teachers, special education teachers, social workers, parents, church workers, youth leaders and others from the 13th December 13 to 16 from 10 a.m to 4 p.m daily in the ladies common room at NU, Kohima Campus, Meriema. Resource persons would be from the Ali Yavar Jung Institute of Speech and Hearing Disabilities, Mumbai and Kolkata. Certificates will be awarded after completion of the training program.

Interested individuals have been requested to contact the HoD, Deptt of English, Nagaland University at 8974248224, at the earliest, as seats are limited.

Lost and found: A marksheet of HSSLCE (arts stream) belonging to Shekivi Swu was found near Dhobinala. Rightful owner may contact 9856435083 with other related documents.

St. Xavier’s Church Zhavame inaugurated DIMAPUR: The newly built St. Xavier’s Church Zhavame was blessed and inaugurated by Bishop of Kohima, Most Rev. Dr. James Thoppil combined with a special thanksgiving mass on the occasion of the perpetual profession of Rev. Srs. Savirhii Esther Dukru and Krosalii Rose Hesiih held on December 11 at Porba.

Bishop in the introduction congratulated Rev. Srs. Rose Hesuh (Krosalü) and Esther Dukru (Savirhü), for their final commitment in religious life in the Marian Congregation of the Hous-

es of Charity and assured them of the community’s prayers and continued support. Bishop congratulated the community Zhavame for great optimism and hope and for their untiring work to complete the Church.

In his homily, the Bishop invited the community to make themselves the living temples by their way of life.

While thanking God for the gift of this beautiful and big church, Bishop reminded the faithful to be grateful to God and to offer true and genuine sacrifice and worship in spirit and truth with upright and gos-

pel based life.

Rekha Rose Dukru anchored the short felicitation programme during which CYA choir of Zhavame felicitated the two finally professed sisters with their melodious tunes. Gifts were presented to the invited guests. Rev. Sr. Savirhii Esther expressed words of gratitude to all who promoted in her vocation and to those present. Sarhiinyi John, local catechist proposed vote of thanks while the concluding prayer was pronounced by Salunyi Joseph Shupao.

Earlier, Rev. Fr. James

Thsepongkiu, parish priest, Razeba warmly welcomed Most Rev. Dr. James Thoppil, Bishop of Kohima, Deo Nukhu, parliamentary secretary of Higher & Technical Education and his wife, Rev. Sr. Ines, Major Superior of Minor Carmelites of Charity from Italy, Sr. Mary, Regional Superior, Rev. Fr. David, responsible of the Marian Congregation of the Houses of Charity, India, other Fathers and Sisters from various parishes in Nagaland and delegates from DAN, NCWA, NCYM, many invited guests and the community.

DIMAPUR: Secretariat Service Foundation Course (SSFC) for newly recruited 30 secretariat assistants (NPSC 2015) began in ATI, Kohima on December 5.

At the inaugural programme guest of honour jt. director L. Youdang Jamir exhorted the trainees and urged them to be sincere, dedicated and be committed to work. Librarian and course co-ordinator (SSFC) Dr. Alem W. Longchar, gave an introduction to the course. The foundation course is for 3 months, covering soft skills, basic office procedure, Govt. rules, service and account matter etc. which will be taken up by faculties from ATI and guest faculties. The trainees would also be attached to various directorates followed by one week district and village visit. Earlier, deputy Fire razing through Dzukou valley has been reportedly brought under control on December 10 by timely Hindu Samaj ushered in the festive season of Christmas and New Year by distributing director Hovithal N. Sothu, intervention of NAAME members namely Diezeu, Amhale, Medozeto, Ado and Angule. Meanwhile, NAAME has chaired the programme. issued a warning to all trekkers to exercise caution in order to prevent spread of fire in the valley. food to passersby outside Aier Mansion here on Sunday at Dimapur. (NP)

NIELIT conducts digital payment Various organisations conduct social work & cleanliness drive awareness at Kohima, Chuchuyimlang DIMAPUR: Awareness workshop on Digital Payment Systems with the theme “go cashless, go digital” was conducted at NIELIT Kohima and its extension Center Chuchuyimlang on December 8 and 9. Director i/c of NIELIT Kohima, L. Lanuwabang said the main objective of the workshop was to promote digital payment options as an integral part of government’s strategy to transform India into a cashless economy and to inform citizens about government policies and about digital financial options available to them.

Hands-on practical on cashless mode of payment such as USSD (Unstructured Supplementary Service Data), UPI (Unified Payment Interface), AEPS (Aadhaar enable payment systems), e-Wallet and POS/Card, (L-R): Volunteers of WSSU after the cleanliness drive. People of Alempang Ward Mokokchung, repairing road with donation and their precious time. (NP). National Service were shown by the technical team of NIELIT and State Scheme (NSS) of St. John College, Dimapur conduced mass clealiness drive in observation of Swachh Bharat Abhiyan on December 9 at the college campus.

Bank of India officials. The workshop was attended by DIMAPUR: In view of About 500 hundred drive. WSSU also acknowl- colony Wokha under the keynote address delivered Wokha branch. Organ- citizens, merchants and students. forthcoming Christmas cel- students and volunteers edged the well wishers, initiative of sanitation by P.T. Humtsoe while ising committee further ebration, the Western Sumi from all the units under advisors of the union, ad- committee of Tsumang ‘A’ prayer was pronounced by extended gratitude to adStudents’ Union (WSSU) WSSU divided into small- ministration and the police colony. executive member Shan- ministrator Wokha town DIMAPUR: One alleged NNC/FGN cadre identified as conducted a cleanliness er groups carried out the for their valuable support Altogether 563 men, bemo Ngullie executive council staff, Wokha dis- Toshevi Sema was arrested by troops of 41 Assam Rifles drive on December 10 in cleanliness drive in all logis- towards the success of the women and youth took part member. trict Chambers of Com- (AR) and police during a search operation at Nihokhu and around Dimapur town tic locations of the town. cleanliness drive. at the programme. A formal Refreshments were merce and Industries, SBI Village on Sunday. According to AR report, one Pt 22 cleaning hospitals, governIn a statement, Nito WOKHA: Tsumang programme was conducted donated by Er. Yanpvuo Wokha, emergency and Rifle, one magazine, 14 rounds of live ammunition and ment offices including DC Achumi appreciated the ‘A’ Wokha conducted social by vice chairman and con- Ezung, Khyodemo Ovung, Fire Services Wokha, lead- 132 fired case cartridges were found in his possession. In office complex and main participation of the stu- work-cleanliness drive on vener sanitation committee Y.Thungchanbemo Erui, ers of Tsumang ‘B’ colony, this connection, the alleged cadre along with the seized items were handed over to Niuland Police Station. junctions in the town. dents and volunteers in the December 10, at Tsumang R.Nchumbemo Ezung, Muslim community, SBI and all the participants.

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nagalandpost.com Poll Q.: What do recent raids on black market business

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Q: Is the arrest of retired

air chief Tyagi meant to divert attention from demonetisation ?  Yes  No  Can’t say

WEATHER FORECAST December 12

(Temperature in ºC)

Max Min

Agartala Mostly sunny and pleasant

27 13

Aizawl

Sunshine and delightful

Guwahati Sunny and delightful Imphal

Mostly sunny and pleasant

Itanagar Sunny and not as warm

24 9 26 11 25 6 23 10

Shillong

Nice with plenty of sunshine

20 2

Kohima

Sunny and not as warm

21 8

Dimapur Sunny and pleasant Mkg

Sunny and not as warm

26 11 22 7

Tuensang Sunny and cooler

16 6

Sunny and cooler

19 13

Wokha

PBCM inaugurates ‘silver jubilee memorial hall’

Zunheboto Cooler with plenty of sun

19 5

Senior SP Aotemsu (center) with the construction committee and Church members. (NP) Correspondent MOKOKCHUNG, DEC 11 (NPN): The newly constructed youth department “Silver Jubilee Memorial Hall”, of Police Baptist Church Mokokchung (PBCM) was inaugurated, Sunday, by senior superintendent of Police, Aotemsu and was dedicated by PBCM pastor L Temsu.

“The building is just a structure, utilise it to the best possible benefit, in line with

Christian principles”, stated the chief guest and senior SP, Mokokchung, Aotemsu, NPS, while delivering his speech at the inaugural function. He hoped that the hall would be a venue of nurturing talents and leadership and was optimistic to witness the felicitation of a renowned personality in the near future. He further appealed to the church, “Do not let it (hall) gather dust”.

While delivering a short

speech, the youth director, Toshi thanked the church for fulfilling the wishes of the youth department and the families and personnel of the DEF for generously contributing in the construction of the hall. The brief function was led by Imjungsen Jamir and the vote of thanks was proposed by construction committee convenor & additional SP, Mokokchung, Yanrenthung Ngullie, while the construction report was said by recorder, Bendang.

DIMAPUR: Pradhan Mantri Surakshit Matritva Abhiyan (PMSMA) scheme is to provide a healthy life to pregnant women, lower maternity mortality rate, make pregnant women aware of their health issues/ diseases, safe delivery and healthy life of the baby. Under the programme, fixed day Quality Antenatal Checkups (ANC) would be provided to pregnant women in their 2nd and 3rd trimesters of pregnancy on the 9th day of every month.

The scheme would provide several tests including blood pressure, sugar level, weight, haemoglobin, blood and screening at the medical centres. District Health Society, Mon has informed that PMSMA scheme would also be applicable in District Hospital, Aboi CHC, Tobu CHC and Phomching PHC. The services would be provided by the obstetrician/medical officer in order to strengthen the identification and management of high risk factor during pregnancy.

Participants and judges of the sketching & crayon drawing competition organized by the Kumlong ward golden jubilee planning committee as curtain raiser at Eden Academy, Kumlong Ward.

long Baptist Church, jointly organised the drawing competition on the theme “toxic free environment”.

The competition was divided into junior (Class V-VII) and senior (Class IX – XII) category and judges for the competition were Aren Changkija as the chief judge, and assisted by KBC associate pastor, Moanaro Imchen and planning committee member, I Tsukjem.

The winners of both the categories were awarded

cash prizes while the remaining participants were awarded certificates of participation. The winners and the paintings would be incorporated in the golden jubilee souvenir book.

Convener of the Kumlong ward golden jubilee planning committee, Tia Longkumer also expressed heartfelt gratitude to all who have rendered their services for the success of the competition.

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PBCK observes pastor’s day

S.L. Yuo preaching on pastor’s day at PBCK on Sunday. (NP) Correspondent KO H I M A , D E C 1 1 (NPN): Special prayer day was organised by Poumai Baptist Church Kohima (PBCK) to acknowledge the services and contributions of the pastor and his family members, with church deacon S. L. You as the speaker on Sunday K

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Artist Rabin Bar exhibits his talent in art form. (NP) Staff Reporter D I M PAU R , D E C 1 1 (NPN): Annual programme cum award distribution ceremony was organized by Chitrakala School of Fine Art and Euro School of Fine Art (CSFA& ESFA) Sunday at Kaloo Dutta memorial hall, Latika complex, Dimapur.

At the programme

special art presentation was displayed by artist, Rabin Bar (World record holder) from Assam by means of alphabets, numbers and signatures of various invitees present at the programme.

He also presented his talent of one minute art.

Press officer to chief minister of Nagaland, Pushika Awomi while delivering his speech as chief guest

defined art as an exhibition of fine thinking, intelligence of a person depicting the mental pictures in the truest form of fine art.

He also believed that everyone had talent but there were only few people that exhibited their vision and understanding of the subject matters to a particular meaning.

According to his understanding, Awomi exclaimed “art is a simple expression in the form of visual that someone has and infact it is not only the artist but even a musician, actor are artist in their own way of expression”.

He also lauded Robin Bar for his genius work of art and he wished the students who had opted for art the best so that they would be able to exhibit their expression though art.

“Art itself has many things to learn” he added.

The programme highlighted award presentation ceremony. Earlier, welcome address was delivered by Dr, Dalia Bhattacharjee and later vote of thanks was delivered by Kamalendu Das.

PMSMA for pregnant women launched SCHE celebrates

Kumlong ward golden jubilee curtain raiser

D IM AP U R : Kum l o ng ward golden jubilee planning committee successfully organized a sketching and crayon drawing competition for the children of Kumlong and Mongsenbai at Eden Academy, as a curtain raiser on December 10 participated by fifteen enthusiastic and talented artists.

Planning committee with the active support of the Kumlong ward council, Kumlong environment committee and the Kum-

DIMAPUR: National Cooperative Union of India (NCUI), Co-operative Field Project, Kohima in collaboration with Indian Farmers Fertilizers Co-operative Ltd, New Delhi organised a programme on “promoting women agri & allied co-operative societies” of Kohima district at NCUI project office Kohima on December 5.

IFFCO deputy general manager (co-operatives relation) Tarun Bhangava in his speech encouraged the women corporators to work together by availing the support and guidance of IFFCO for the upliftment of women farmers. Once the society gets connected to the co-operatives with the rest of India, societies in Nagaland could be promoted and uplifted for the betterment and self sustenance, he added.

National IFFCO awardee Akokla P. Lucy in his speech said women should co-operate and work effectively for the upliftment through the assistance of IFFCO. It was also informed that IFFCO jubilee celebration would be held in Dimapur on April 2017. Earlier the programme was project officer, NCUI Kohima Ketholenuo.

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at PBCK premises.

Shangne in his speech said that the God’s servants ought to be respected with revered as they were anointed by God. Based from the Bible of 1 Timo.

5:17, he said spiritual leaders were to be honoured and respected. He reminded the members that spiritual leaders have unseen

weapons which God bestow upon them. He also shared the responsibilities of church members towards pastor based on the word of God. The programme was led by Kh. Sosii deacon, invocation prayer said by Th. Moses, special prayer session for the pastor and his family was led by D.M. Moses deacon, offertory prayer by H. Veikho and benediction prayer proposed by associate pastor Sone Shangne. The pastor and his family members were honoured and acknowledged with gifts and greetings.

It may be mentioned that all the Poumai Baptist churches under Poumai Naga Baptist Association (PNBA) numbering around 80 churches observe pastor’s day every year on first Sunday of November as a special day for the pastors.

that Kumlong Ward, which is one of the biggest wards in Mokokchung town, would be celebrating its 50th year anniversary in the year 2019. The winners in senior category are first Imliakum Jamir, second Moanenla Imchen and third Retsungdangba T. Kichu respectively, while in junior category, first Alemrenla Jamir, second Tangsemnaro Imsong and third Imnasenla T. Longkumer respectively.

College week concludes at SJC Jakhama

DIMAPUR: Week-long college week held at St. Joseph College, Jakhama concluded on Friday. Inaugural function on December 5 was graced by IGP (PHQ) Kohima, P. F. Zeliang as the chief guest. During his speech, he emphasized on the need of healthy practices to maintain good health in life.

Mr. and Ms. Josephite titles were also featured, where Miss Nagaland 2015, Nenghoilhing Hansing conducted the opening of the show. There was special appearance by Vilhousa Movi, winner of the Northeast Ethnic Fusion Designer Competition.

Bishop of Kohima, Dr. James Thoppil gave away the various prizes to the winners. The overall championship went to Team Fusion followed by Team Munich and the third was awarded to Team Rajnikanth.

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DIMAPUR: Salesian College of Higher Education (SCHE) celebrated weeklong College Week (CW) from December 2 to 8 in the college football ground, with senior most principal of Tetseo College, Dr. P.S Lorin as the chief guest.

Principal of SCHE, Fr. Dr. PolicarpXalxo, emphasizing on the event said, “sports and various competitions are part and partial of academic life. One learns team spirit, co-operation and leadership qualities.”

He encouraged the College Week Committee (CWC) to organize events creatively and wished all the students an educative experience.

Addressing the students, Dr. Lorin said, “Your destiny lies in your hands.

You decide today for your future.” Winners must appreciate the participants and positive vibes should be radiated to all, he remarked.

He exhorted all the staff and students to contribute and work together for the upliftment of the SCHE by way of getting NAAC accreditation. Chief guest unfurled the college flag and the anthem of SCHE was sung.

During the valedictory function on December 8, director of Shalom Rehab Centre-Chumukedima, Fr. Dr. Mathew Thuniampral was the chief guest.

Chief guest spoke on spirit of Christmans and exhorted all to reach out to the poor and the needy just as Christ came for the weak and the poor.

With Christmas just around the corner, Dimapur zone-1 is seen jammed with traffic even on Sunday, inspite of the best effort of traffic personnel on duty. (NP)

26th KCJA Day celebrated

26th Kidima Catholic Juniors’ Association Day with Reverend Father Thomas Muttathil, parish priest, FSMA sisters, instructors and leaders on December 11.

DIMAPUR: The 26th Ki- asked the faithful to pray echism class awards were dima Catholic Juniors’ As- to God so he may bestow given to Methasunu Mary, sociation (KCJA) Day was his blessing upon the chil- Khruzonu, Viswedenu, celebrated from December dren.

Medolenu, Vilavoto and 10 to11 on the theme “All He also exhorted the Pesachonu Rosemary. you that fear the Lord, trust parents to live for their Further, Eucharist celhim, and you will certainly children and others. ebration was followed by be rewarded “. (Sirach The two-day event also enchanting Gloria.

(Ecclesiasticus) 2:8) with saw competition between Zayiekhonu Gabriela Reverend Father Thomas St Francis and St Xavier presented year’s activities Muttathil, Parish Priest as in various disciplines like reports. Franciscan Saint main celebrant. gospel skit, solo, Bible reci- Mary of the Angels (FSMA Father Thomas in his tation, group song. ), parents and faithful from introductory note said chilDuring the function, different villages attended dren belong to God and best attendance for the Cat- the sacred feast.

NMYO observes 43rd foundation day work of NMYO in the field of games, sports, education and social fields and urged upon the youth members to continue their efforts and move forward.

NMYO also express gratitude to all for the success of the foundation day program.

It may be mentioned that NMYO was established on December 10, 1973 un-

der the leadership of Kuotsu, the present chairman of NMAP. Earlier the programme was chaired by NMYO president Sedevizo Nakhro and benediction by NMYO advisor Toso, Pusa.

Meanwhile the annual fete day will be held on December 16 and 17 at the NMAP Panchayat premises.

Kovi Meyase, administrator, KMC addressing at the 43rd NMYO foundation day.

DIMAPUR: New Market Youth Organization (NMYO) observed 43rd foundation day at panchayat hall, NMAP on December 10 with KMC administrator Kovi Meyase, as chief guest.

Kovi Meyase in his speech lauded the pioneers who in 1973 formed the youth organization and has come so far as one of the leading organization in state capital. He called upon the

youth organization and its members to seriously re-introspect one-self as to which direction they are heading.

He further encouraged the youths to re-dedicate self and look forward for better ways to uplift the youth organization.

NMAP chairman Kuotsu in his exhortation said planted as a small sapling in 1973, now NMYO have grown into a big tree.

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Centre planning special package for road development: Gadkari

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Imphal, Dec 11: Union minister for road transport and highways Nitin Gadkari Sunday laid the foundation stones for construction of new bridges on Barak and Makru rivers along the Imphal-Jiribam section of NH-37.

The union minister, who arrived at Imphal today for his two-day visit, said the Imphal-Jiribam road will be repaired within three years while construction of the

two bridges was targeted to complete within 32 to 34 months.

Later, the Union minister laid the foundation stones of other projects for development of national highways covering 493 km with an estimated cost of 1152 crore in Manipur in the presence of state chief minister O Ibobi and MPs and MLAs of the state at a function held at the parade ground of 1st Manipur Rifles in Imphal.

The 17 projects which

Kolkata-Mizoram trade route to open via Myanmar

that the political intent of the “drastic decision” to create seven new districts was to divide the Nagas and to make the anticipating framework agreement impossible and to grab the ancestral land of the Nagas as “Meiteis cannot legally acquire tribal lands”.

It also attacked the Manipur government of playing devastating political game, by not consulting the Nagas and the affected villages.

Even, the HAC, the constitutional mandate of the Hill Areas was not even taken into account, the committee said. The committee also hit out at the Government of India (GOI) and questioned whether this was the solution it has promised to the Nagas in the historic framework agreement. It further stated that the silence of the government of India has revealed about its political insincerity.

Therefore, CJNCSD affirmed that Nagas will always stand for communal harmony, but regardless, would be compelled to defend their ancestral land, identity and nationhood against the aggressive antiNaga politics “ruthlessly pursued” by Ibobi government.

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288 crore and 15 km NH137A (Khumbong-NambolMayang Imphal-Kakching Lamkhai section worth Rs 20.9 crore.

The Union minister said that the Centre has accorded special status to Manipur and was planning a package of more than Rs 22000 crore for road development over a period of three to four years.

Gadkari has also requested state government to expedite the land acquisition proceedings and forest clearance which are major factors in finalization of DPRs and bidding process for civil works. The Union minister further informed that Centre has taken initiative to upgrade the capacity of local contractors, engineers and stakeholders in the North Eastern states and the projects were being tendered in small packages.

“Based on their success, further action will be taken for more projects.

A meeting with potential contractors is also planned in near future by NHIDL to propagate the idea further,” he added.

Centre must intervene to end eco blockade: Ibobi

Shillong woman held in Delhi murder case Tension flares-up in Senapati

sea port is the first phase of an integrated $500-million project being funded by a long-term interest-free loan provided by India. “Dredging of the river and inland water terminals are included in the plan,” Ambassador Misri said.

India has for years sought transit access through Bangladesh to ship goods to the landlocked north-eastern States. At present, the only route to this region from the rest of India is a rather circuitous one through a narrow strip of Indian territory nicknamed the Chicken’s Neck in West Bengal, sandwiched between Bhutan and Bangladesh.

“The strategic advantage would be that it would significantly lower the cost and distance of movement from Kolkata to Mizoram and beyond,” Misri said.

Once shipments arrive at Sittwe, they will be transferred to smaller freight carriers which would sail upstream into Mizoram.

The link was conceived by the Manmohan Singh government and work began in 2010.

6 get 9 yrs rigorous imprisonment for murder

ONGC to roll out new ‘basin’ in Agartala by 2017

AGARTALA, Dec 11 (Agencies): Six youths were sentenced to nine years’ rigorous imprisonment for killing an 80-yearold man three years ago in Khowai district.

The additional district and sessions judge of Khowai Pankaj Kumar Datta sentenced Dipu Sabar, Smarajit Khashi, Swapan Khashi, Laxman Khashi, Rajesh Khashi and Kajal Khashi.

In March 2013, three of the convicts had been warned by the father of a schoolgirl, Jitendra Debbarma, against eve-teasing. That night, the three men, accompanied by three others, barged into the girl’s house in an inebriated state and attacked Jitendra with sharp weapons. When Jitendra’s 80-year-old father Arjun came to his rescue, the attackers hit him on the head with a stick and fled.

The elderly man succumbed to his injuries at Agartala Government Medical College. The judge, sentencing the six men, said it was a planned attack and a serious crime. The perpetrators, consequently, must be punished to set an example, the judge added.

D I M A PU R , D EC 1 1 (NPN): Committee of Joint Naga Civil Societies, Delhi (CJNCSD) has served 48hour ultimatum on Manipur government with effect from Sunday midnight demanding immediate withdrawal of the cabinet decision to form seven districts and unconditional release of two “incarcerated” UNC leaders.

The committee warned State government of “compelling” consequences and eventuality in case of nonfulfilment of its demands.

In this regard, CJNCSD appealed to the Nagas to stand firm with UNC and be prepared to meet any eventuality in defending their land, identity and culture tooth and nail to the end.

In a press note, CJNCSD information and publicity secretary Sira Kharay, attacked Manipur government of “championing brought daylight robbery, lawless violence and anarchy by instigating the counter-blockaders to vandalise, harass, torture and loot the innocent Naga civilian passengers”, when the Naga areas were rapidly militarised to terrorise and suppress of their legitimate demands. The committee assertion was

the Union minister laid the foundation stones today are to be implemented by National High Infrastructure Development Corporation Limited (NHIDCL) and Manipur Public Works Department (PWD).

The projects to be implemented by NHIDCL were construction of new bridges on Barak and Makru river along Imphal-Jiribam section of NH-37 with an estimated cost of Rs 141 crore, five projects for maintenance/rehabilitation for 115 km length NH-102A (Ukhrul-Toloi-Tadubi) costing Rs 64 crore, three projects for 162 km NH-102B (Churachandpur-SinghatSinzawl-Tuivai) costing Rs 168 crore and one project for 40 km NH-137 (Tamenglong-Khongsang) The projects to be implemented by the state PWD were three projects for improvement of 90 km NH-2 (former NH-39) from Mao gate to Imphal city with a project cost of Rs 451.2 crore, three projects for 71 km NH-150 (Tipaimukh-Imphal-Jessami (Ukhrul) section worth Rs

YA NG O N , D e c 1 1 (Agencies): A deep water port built in Myanmar’s Sittwe on the Bay of Bengal

by India is ready to be commissioned. An inauguration ceremony for this strategically important facility is expected to take place next month, according to Vikram Misri, the Indian envoy to Myanmar.

The Indian achievement pips to the post a Chinese endeavour to create a deep-sea berthing infrastructure and an SEZ further down the Rakhine coast at Kyaukphyu. The two investments are inevitably being seen as the Asian competitors attempting to expand their spheres of naval influence in the Indian ocean region as in the case of Gwadar in Pakistan and Chabahar in Iran being built by China and India, respectively.

Sittwe is the capital of Rakhine State in southwestern Myanmar. It is located at the mouth of the Kaladan river, which flows into Mizoram in northeastern India.

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Guwahati, Dec 11 (PTI): State-run energy behemoth ONGC will set up a new ‘basin’ in Agartala by the end of next year as it looks to focus more on exploration of oil and gas in the North-East region.

“We are discussing about setting up a ‘basin’ in Agartala. Director of Exploration and I visited Agartala around five months ago. We checked the facilities. Currently work for creation of workstation is going on,” ONGC Director (Onshore) Ved Prakash Mahawar told PTI. Construction work is going on as earlier there was no proper building to start functioning of a ‘basin’ in Agartala, he added.

“A ‘basin’ receives huge amount of data, which are processed subsequently. It will take around a year to prepare the facility. By 2017, we will roll out the Agartala Basin,” Mahawar said.

ONGC’s North East operations are divided into two areas - Assam Shelf from Jorhat to Duliajan and Assam Fold Belt from Silchar to Agartala.

While exploration is being done only by AssamArakan ‘basin’ based at

CJNCSD serves 48-hour ultimatum on Mnp govt

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IMPHAL, Dec 11: Manipur chief minister O Ibobi Singh Sunday urged the Centre for immediate intervention to the ongoing economic blockade on the national highways. Speaking at the laying of foundation stones for some developmental projects by Union minister for road transport and highways Nitin Gadkari in Imphal, the chief minister urged the minister and BJP leaders present to advice the Prime Minister and home minister to intervene immediately and tell “whether to NSCN (IM) or UNC to lift the economic blockade.”

Ibobi said that imposing economic blockade on the national highways is illegal and Centre should convince the same to UNC and NSCN (IM). National highways are properties of the nation, and to maintain and control them is the duty of the central government, he asserted. But, Ibobi alleged, that UNC has been using national highways as their tool to diktat the state government for years.

Jorhat, the production is divided by three ‘assets’ -- Assam Asset at Nazira, Jorhat Asset at Jorhat and Tripura Asset at Agartala.

Basin’s job is to discover or explore oil and gas, but it does not produce anything. On the other hand, an ‘asset’ exploits or produces and sends products to refineries.

Explaining the rationale behind creating a new ‘basin’, the senior official said: “The Assam Fold Belt is a complex and a complicated one. Sometimes we get minerals and other things.

We want an experienced person there who knows about it. This will bring in focus to that area. As it is a difficult area, so we want to treat it differently.”

Assam Fold Belt has mainly gas, while there are both oil and gas in Assam Shelf, he added. Mahawar said the new ‘basin’ is being created to focus more on exploration of energy sources in the area.

In last fiscal, ONGC production in Assam was 0.9 million tonnes and this year, it is targetted to reach the figure of one million tonnes.

New Delhi, Dec 11 (PTI): Two persons, one of whom is a resident of Shillong, were arrested in connection with the twin murders in South Delhi’s Munirka.

Mini Sangma, a resident of Shillong and a spa worker, was arrested on Saturday morning from a guest house in the Capital, Delhi police said. The woman also led police, who are looking for two more accused in the case, to the murder weapons, a khukhri and a chopper.

The police claimed to have cracked the cases of the brutal murder of two women roommates in Munirka and rejected the reports that a ‘serial killer’ was on the prowl.

Of the four accused, one is the husband of one of the victims and is still absconding.

The bodies of the two women were found in Vasant Vihar and Munirka areas of Delhi on November 18 and 25, respectively.

One of the bodies, wrapped in a polythene sheet, was found outside a temple in Vasant Vihar on November 18 while a headless body

was found in a sewer in Munirka village on November 25.

Besides these two bodies, some more bodies were found with similar injury marks during the same time that hinted towards the possibility of a serial killer.

However, R.P Upadhyay, Joint Commissioner of Police (Southeast), rejected the serial killer theory. On November 26, the headless body was identified as that of Sushma Rai, a resident of Assam, by her former boyfriend.

The victims were in touch with a group of persons, identified as Jeevan, Govind and Arjun, who provided logistical and financial support to the duo.

Jeevan, who was arrested on Friday, told police that Mini was in a live-in relationship with Arjun and taking care of his kids, from an earlier marriage.

However, Arjun, who used to look after Rai’s savings, knew the victim had a liking for him.

“A day after Karwa Chauth, he clandestinely married Rai at Kalkaji Mandir and convinced her that from now on,

their assets and liabilities were common and she shouldn’t be asking for her dues which came to around Rs 2.5-3 lakh,” the officer said.

Later Rai sent wedding pictures to Mini on WhatsApp to make her jealous and that enraged Mini to the extent that she hatched a plan to get Rai killed. Mini instigated the trio and also put a condition before Arjun asking him to choose between her and Rai. A plan was hatched in East Delhi and Arjun murdered Rai on the intervening night of November 16 and 17, beheaded her and dumped one of the parts in a sewer.

They also decided to eliminate the other woman Nayesha, who hailed from Nepal, since she knew about Arjun and Rai’s marriage and had also been asking the latter to have a court marriage. Both the women were freelance beauticians.

Police are trying to arrest Arjun and Govind, who are suspected to be in Nepal.

NO.JUDL-4/SUCC/2015-16/227 Dated Pughoboto the 2 Dec. 2016 PUBLIC NOTICE Whereas Smti. Ghuvili, wife of Late Shihakha Sema of Pughoboto town has applied for the issue of Succession Certificate under Indian Succession Act, 1925 in order to claim Family Pension and Bank Account etc. of her husband, who expired on 03/11/2016.

Therefore, Public are hereby asked to file claims/objection if any within 30 (thirty) days from the date of issue of this notice.

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APPRECIATION

Through this column I would like to extend my deepest gratitude to all who effortlessly worked in helping me retrieve my lost vehicle bearing No. NL07C1922 and 8th of December 2016 at Kisama. I would like to propose my sincere thanks to the following :1. UBSI Posehu Kezo, I/c Kisama.

2. ASI Kelekhretuo (Alan) 3. Duty personnel 4. 10th NAP (IR) Bravo Company ROP party.

I salute your invaluable service rendered and I wish you all the best of luck in all your future endeavour. I also extend my profound gratitude to all concerned person involved for your timely assistance and contribution.

Shri. P. Yangseri K-4449 Regd No. 5053/16 Date : 28/11/2016 AFFIDAVIT By this Deed I, the undersigned Mr. ATENJENBA LEMTUR (new name) previously called N. ATENJENBA (old name) doing Business (give profession or vocation) and resident of Daklane, House No-39, Ward 7, Section-2, Kohima District, Nagaland-797001 solemnly declare:1. That for and on behalf of myself and remitter issue, I wholly renounce/relinquish and abandon the use of my former name/surname of N. ATENJENBA and in place thereof, I do hereby assume from this date the name/surname ATENJENBA LEMTUR so that I remitter issue may hereafter be called, known and distinguished not by former name/ surname, but assumed name/surname of ATENJENBA LEMTUR. 2. That for the purpose of evidencing such my determination declare that I shall at all times hereafter in all records, deeds and writings and in all proceedings, dealings and transactions, private as well as upon all occasions whatsoever, use and sign in the name of ATENJENBA LEMTUR as my name/surname in place and in substitution of my former name/surname.

3. That I expressly authorize and request all persons in general and relatives and friends in particular, at all times hereafter to designate and address me and remitter issue but such assumed name/surname of ATENJENBA LEMTUR. 4. In witness whereof I have hereunto subscribed my former and adopted name/surname of ATENJENBA LEMTUR and N. ATENJENBA affix my signature and seal, if any, this 28th day of November 2016.

Signed sealed and delivered by above name.

Date : 28.11.2016 Former Name N. Atenjenba In presence of: Name : ATENJENBA LEMTUR Notary Public Address; Daklane, House NO-39, Ward 7 Regd. No. 60 Section-2, Kohima District, Nagalend-797001

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S e na pati , D e c 1 1 (Agencies): A large number of security convoy moving towards Mao Gate located at ManipurNagaland border was prevented from proceeding further at Senapati town late evening on Saturday by irate public.

On learning that a combined convoy of Manipur police, CRPF and IRB were heading towards Mao Gate from Imphal to escort stranded goods trucks, the public used loud speakers asking the people to come out and drive back the security force convoy.

Minutes later, a large number of people came out and blocked the highway.

On reaching Senapati town, the moving security convoy halted on seeing the large number of people. Though tension ran high, there was no physical confrontation.

After an hour of halting at Senapati town, the security convoy returned towards Imphal without proceeding ahead.

The Nagas under the banner of the United Naga Council (UNC) began the

blockade on the important two highways of ImphalDimapur route and ImphalJiribam route since November 1 protesting against the Manipur government’s move to give district status to Sadar Hills and Jiribam.

The situation was aggravated after the Manipur Government arrested the president and publicity secretary of UNC on November 25 for allegedly imposing the ongoing economic blockade and also for different cases of arson committed in the course of the blockade.

On December 9, an uncompromising Manipur Government under the chief minister-ship of Ibobi Singh, ignoring the ongoing intense protest, had announced the creation of seven (7) new districts, which include Jiribam, Kamjong, Kakching, Tengnoupal, Noney, Pherzawl and Kangpokpi.

In the next few days, various Naga frontal organisations under the aegis of the UNC have planned to chalk out strategies against the actions of the Manipur government.

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FIRST ANNIVERSARY ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Koinonia Prayer Centre was dedicated to the glory of God with the theme, "... My house shall be called a house of prayer (Matt 21:13)", on 5th December 2015 with the heart for reaching the lost and to be a spiritual, healing, deliverance and anointing Centre.

A year has passed and we give every praise and glory to God for He alone is the reason for every celebration upon this ministry. Because of His faithfulness, Koinonia Prayer Centre has been immensely blessed to be a spiritual home where the weary souls found rest, brokenhearted healed, broken families restored, and the lost and perishing souls received the forgiveness as well as the newness of life through Jesus Christ.

• Approximately 1715 people from different parts of Nagaland, the neighbouring North-East States, West Bengal, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab and from Nepal and South Korea registered at Prayer Centre for Fasting programs.

• 91 people took Water Baptism this year of which 17 were from other religions.

People came all the way from Assam, Uttarakhand and Punjab for Water Baptism.

• 26 people were completely restored from their mental sicknesses.

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lowing us to do so,” he said.

On demonetisation, he said, “You must have seen that the government is after people who have stashed black money. The government is committed to empowering the poor. The people are also taking pain to ensure the country moves on the path of development.”

Attacking Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party, Modi said both the parties are talking in the “same tone”. He said both the parties are facing “hardship” due to note ban.

Modi said only BJP

Mamata flays PM for doubting opposition party’s honesty

KOLKATA, DEC 11 (Agencies): West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday hit back at Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his charge that opposition parties were not treading the path of honesty, saying that the “most corrupt” people were talking about eradicating corruption.

“Demonetisation (has been) done only to help Modi babu and his close associates,” Banerjee said in retaliation for the Prime Minister’s attack on opposition parties over corruption and disruption of Parliament due to protests against demonetisation.

“The most corrupt people are talking about removing corruption,” she said, joining issue with Modi over his attack on the opposition parties earlier in the day.

Addressing BJP’s Parivartan rally in election-bound Uttar Pradesh, Modi said the opposition parties never wanted to tread the path of honesty

“but we will definitely win this fight against corruption”.

“Parliament is not being allowed to function for 20 days. We are ready for debate (on demonetisation), but we are not being allowed to present our viewpoint by those very parties that have been discarded by the electorate,” Modi said addressing the rally at Bahraich through mobile phone from Lucknow after his helicopter failed to land there due to poor visibility.

“Demonetisation has meant complete demolition of the Indian economy,” Banerjee said in a series of tweets, continuing her unrelenting attack against the Modi government over invalidation of Rs 1,000 and old Rs 500 notes.

“The arrogant and destructive attitude of this government is trying to destroy the world’s largest democracy,” the Trinamool Congress supremo said.

100 bombs planted by maoists found in J’khand

RANCHI, Dec 11 (IANS): More than 100 improvised explosive devices - or crude bombs planted by the Maoist guerrillas were detected and defused in Jharkhand’s Latehar district on Sunday, the state police said.

According to a police officer, the IEDs planted in series were recovered from a jungle in Latehar, around 140 km from Ranchi.

The bombs were recovered during a search operation by security personnel. The state police said the bombs were planted to target security personnel. Maoist guerrillas are active in 18 of the 24 districts in the state.

Prez, Vice Prez greet nation on Milad-un-Nabi New Delhi, Dec 11 (PTI): President Pranab Mukherjee and Vice President Hamid Ansari Sunday greeted people on the occasion of Milad-un-Nabi, the birthday of Prophet Mohammad, and appealed to them to recall his message to work towards universal brotherhood, tolerance and well-being of all. “On the auspicious occasion of Milad-un-Nabi, the birthday of the Holy Prophet, I extend my heartiest greetings and best wishes to all my fellow countrymen, in India and abroad,” Mukherjee said.

Vice President Hamid Ansari, in his message, said the Holy Prophet showed the humanity the righteous path of compassion and universal brotherhood. The Holy Prophet showed the humanity the righteous path of compassion and universal brotherhood, he said.

Cyclonic storm Vardah to cross TN/Andhra coast Chennai , D e c 1 1 (IANS): The very severe cyclonic storm, Vardah is likely to cross north Tamil Nadu/ south Andhra Pradesh coast near here on Monday afternoon, said Meteorological Department on Sunday.

According to the weather forecast, Vardah will cross the coast as a cyclonic storm with a wind speed of 80-90 kmph gusting to 100 kmph

by Monday afternoon. The weather office said Vardah is now over westcentral and adjoining southwest Bay of Bengal, about 370 km east of Chennai, and likely to weaken from Sunday evening onwards.

As a result, heavy rainfall is predicted over south coastal Andhra Pradesh, north coastal Tamil Nadu and Puducherry starting Sunday evening for subsequent 36 hours.

NEW DELHI, Dec 11 (PTI): Seeking changes in date of birth in existing passports will become hassle-free with government further simplifying services relating to issuance of the travel document.

Making the changes in existing rule, the government has also allowed digitally signed marriage and birth certificates as valid proofs of marriage and birth respectively.

As per the revised guidelines, passport issuing authorities (PIAs) have been authorised to consider request of each applicant seeking change in date of birth irrespective of the period that would have lapsed after the issue of the passport.

According to earlier guidelines, request for change of date of birth was allowed within five years of issuance of the passport

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Following the massive raids on the premises of three Chennai-based businessmen, the Income Tax Department on Saturday confirmed seizing Rs. 24 crores in new currency notes in Vellore, Tamil Nadu. The latest haul is the highest number in cash recovery that has been retrieved so far in the form of new currency.

During an investigation, the IT department

and the entire process was lengthy and cumbersome as it involved lot of paper work.

If the PIA is satisfied with the claim based on documents submitted by the applicant, then passports with revised date of birth can be issued by the authorities concerned.

“Based on genuineness of the cases, the passport issuing authorities can issue fresh passports,” Chief Passport Officer Arun K Chatterjee said.

The Ministry of External Affairs, which issues passports, has already sent instructions to the passport issuing authorities to accept digitally signed mar-

Stacks of currency notes that was found at Rohit Tandon’s Greater Kailash residence during a raid by Delhi Police crime branch on Saturday night. (PTI)

have started to check up those accounts that have suspicious transaction post demonetisation and shining bright on their radar are those banks and branches where maximum amount of cash in old currency has been deposited.

Meanwhile, Income Tax officials continue to

carry out raids on the premises of three Chennai-based businessmen and Rs.106 crore in old and new currencies and 127kg of gold bars have been seized so far.

The seized money included Rs. 96 crore in old notes and Rs. 10 crore mostly in the newly introduced Rs. 2,000 notes.

Ministry of External Affairs had processed around 12 million passport applications last year.

riage certificates and birth certificates as valid proofs of marriage and birth respectively.

The ministry is also exploring the possibility of making amendments in

the Passport Rules, 1980, in order to further simplify the documentation process necessary for issuing passports in a timely, transparent, more accessible, reliable

manner and through streamlined processes.

MEA officials said the process of issuance of passports has been made foolproof and under the new system there was no scope for anti-national elements to obtain passport.

As per guidelines, the first time passport applicants who furnish Aadhaar Card, Electoral Photo Identity Card (EPIC), PAN card and an affidavit of noncriminality in the prescribed format, get faster passport services.

The MEA had processed around 12 million passport applications last year.

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found out that some cash was hidden in a car in Vellore, upon which it was discovered that all currency was in the form of Rs. 2,000 notes in 12 boxes of Rs. 2 crore each.

Upon interrogation of those detained in Chennai, a breakthrough was made in the recovery of this cash wherein the IT sleuths laid a trap for the person transporting Rs. 24 crores in Vellore and subsequently seized the currency. Interrogation is currently underway of those who were detained in Chennai which could lead to further recoveries.

Following demonetisation, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) had carried out massive raids in 50 branches of 10 banks across the nation in an attempt to keep a tab on those account holders, who deposited huge amounts at one time. According to sources, the ED also received a strong tip off that several account holders post demonetisation deposited money and changed their black money into white through banks nationwide.

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search operation is under way to nab the perpetrators.

When the police team raided the office, its rooms were locked and a caretaker was present.

Police are searching for the firm’s owner, lawyer Rohit Tandon.

Two weeks ago, the I-T department had seized unaccounted money worth Rs 19 crore from his bank accounts. The total value of his unaccounted income that has been found so far exceeds Rs 160 crore.

Police said more raids would be conducted in connection with this case.

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could fulfil aspirations of the people of Uttar Pradesh and appealed to the electorate in Awadh region to vote for the party in the coming Assembly polls in the state.

“For Uttar Pradesh to progress, poverty and goonda raj need to be removed,” he said.

“Police are also helping those who are indulging in hooliganism. We have to crush those patronising ‘goondagardi’ (hooliganism). BJP will fulfill aspirations of the people of the state,” he said.

Asking people to learn to use mobile banking, Modi said, “I am addressing you through mobile. You can turn your mobile into your bank. You have to learn it slowly.” Modi was national general secretary of BJP when he visited Bahraich in 2001 for the first time, and later in November 2013 for the second time. This was BJP’s 5th Parivartan Yatra to be addressed by the Prime Minister in the state.

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Bahraich (UP), Dec 11 (PTI): Expressing concern over virtual washout of the Winter Session of Parliament amidst continued opposition protest on demonetisation, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said parties “discarded” by the people have stalled proceedings in both the Houses.

“Parliament has not been allowed to function for 20 days. We are ready for a debate (on demonetisation) but we are not being allowed to present our view point by those very parties that have been discarded by the electorate,” he said.

Modi was addressing BJP’s Parivartan Yatra through mobile phone from Lucknow after the IAF chopper carrying him failed to land in Bahraich due to poor visibility.

“They (opposition) come to the Well of the House...throw paper at the Speaker. We want to put forth the government’s view point...but they are not al-

NEW DELHI/ VELLORE, Dec 11 (Agencies): Delhi Police raided the office of a law firm in southeast Delhi’s Greater Kailash-I area yesterday, and recovered Rs 13.56 crore in cash.

Out of the money recovered, Rs 2.6 crore was in new banknotes released after demonetisation.

The raid was carried out by the Crime Branch at the office of T&T Law Firm, a senior police officer said.

Joint Commissioner of Police Ravindra Yadav today said the Income Tax Department was investigating the source of the new Rs. 2000 notes worth Rs 2.6 crore.

“Rs. three crore in the seized amount of Rs. 13.5 crore is in denomination of Rs 100, Rs. 7 crore in 1000 notes, Rs. 2.60 crore in 2000 notes and rest in Rs. 50 and others,” he said.

Two counting machines have been recovered from the firm and the case has been registered with the I-T Department and the Enforcement Directorate (ED), he added.

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Samziuram, New Chalkot, Jalukie 'B'(New Peren).

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fter having steam rolled the resolution on August 24,2016 in the 12th Nagaland Legislative Assembly through voice vote held under the shadow of a 5-point whip issued on all 47 NPF legislators(excluding the speaker), state chief minister T.R.Zeliang achieved the distinction of adopting contradictory stand by undoing the assembly resolution he piloted on September 22,2012.

The NPF has 48 MLAs and eight independents and four BJP legislators form the DAN alliance or “opposition-less” house which provides the all-party government. However, one independent MLA has been compelled, through circumstances, to be the lone dissenting voice and play the role of a one-man opposition. The Naga Hoho and the Eastern Nagaland People’s Organisation (ENPO) have issued a 15-day ultimatum with effect from December 10, 2016 on chief minister T.R.Zeliang to reconvene the 12th Nagaland Legislative Assembly and reinstate the September 22,2012 resolution. If T.R.Zeliang is compelled to accede to the demand, he would certainly go down in history as a man whose political ideology or belief is subject frequent change. The government in 2006, amended the Nagaland Municipal Act 2001 to include 33% reservation for women in ULBs. This was revoked in 2012 in the face of strong resentment from tribal organisations. While introducing it for revocation, T.R.Zeliang as then minister of parliamentary affairs in 2012, said Part IX A (for 33% women quota) would infringe upon Article 371A. On August 24, 2016 this stand totally changed and so as chief minister, Zeliang pushed for revocation of the resolution he piloted. At the crux of the matter is Part IX A vis-a-vis Article 371A of the constitution of India which provides protection to Nagas of Nagaland against any Act of parliament that could infringe on – (I)The Religious or Social Practices of the Nagas or(II) The Customary Laws and Procedure besides (IV) ownership and transfer of land and its resources. The tribal organisations believed that Part IX A (2) infringed upon the customary and traditional practices and by which, it would mean diluting the Article 371A. There were other clauses in Part IX A which the tribal organisations felt, had to be dealt with through informed deliberations over issues such as taxation involving land and buildings. The Naga Hoho and ENPO have also maintained that the main idea behind women reservation in politics to empower them politically , has to much to do with the caste-ridden, prejudiced and male-dominated Hindu community where women have been kept enslaved by centuries of medieval bigotry. While the two bodies maintain that Naga fathers shower equal treatment between daughters and sons and hence females are respected and not discriminated; there are feminists who think otherwise. The tribal bodies have therefore, concluded, that instead of reservation, there can be nomination of women chosen on merit and given voting rights in order to prepare them to contest elections. This is a reasonable idea and merits consideration. The immediate concern is what will be the response of chief minister T.R.Zeliang to the ultimatum? The haste in rushing off to decide on civic polls without addressing many concerns raised and then saying that civic polls will be held only in places where there is no opposition to women quota; defeats its purpose. It also indicates that the decision will turn out to be a case of marrying in haste and repenting at leisure.

DailyDevotion Individuality Jesus said to His disciples, “If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself…”

—Matthew 16:24 Individuality is the hard outer layer surrounding the inner spiritual life. Individuality shoves others aside, separating and isolating people. We see it as the primary characteristic of a child, and rightly so. When we confuse individuality with the spiritual life, we remain isolated. This shell of individuality is God’s created natural covering designed to protect the spiritual life.

But our individuality must be yielded to God so that our spiritual life may be brought forth into fellowship with Him. Individuality counterfeits spirituality, just as lust counterfeits love. God designed human nature for Himself, but individuality corrupts that human nature for its own purposes.

The characteristics of individuality are independence and self-will. We hinder our spiritual growth more than any other way by continually asserting our individuality. If you say, “I can’t believe,” it is because your individuality is blocking the way; individuality can never believe. But our spirit cannot help believing. Watch yourself closely when the Spirit of God is at work in you. He pushes you to the limits of your individuality where a choice must be made. The choice is either to say, “I will not surrender,” or to surrender, breaking the hard shell of individuality, which allows the spiritual life to emerge. The Holy Spirit narrows it down every time to one thing (see Matthew 5:23-24).

It is your individuality that refuses to “be reconciled to your brother” (Matthew 5:24). God wants to bring you into union with Himself, but unless you are willing to give up your right to yourself, He cannot. “…let him deny himself…”— deny his independent right to himself. Then the real life-the spiritual life-is allowed the opportunity to grow.

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Nagaland Post, Dimapur monday, December 12, 2016

Maintaining interest rate safeguard against shock

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he Reser ve Bank has been sanguine in not changing the interest rates amid clamour from depositors to raise it and industry to reduce it.

The monetary meet also noted that there might be some drop in the GDP growth because of disruption in money supply. The central bank lowered its growth forecast for 201617 to 7.1 percent from 7.6 percent. There are indications that RBI could cut the projections further.

All eyes were set on repo (repurchase) rate. The RBI left it unchanged at 6.5 percent. It set at rest the speculation that banks could reduce consumer lending rates. It was certainly a shock for many as the banks are full with Rs 11.85 lakh crore, almost 76 percent of the scrapped currency, deposits in the wake of demonetization of high value notes.

Many people thought that the flush of fund would be a great help for the banks suffering high NPA of almost Rs 12 lakh crore.

People forget that had those NPAs not been there the banks would have been in a deluge. The floods have their problems, if not managed properly.

The RBI finds that the banks themselves could not manage it so even before the monetary policy announcement banks were asked to maintain 100 percent deposits accrued between September 16 and November 11 as incremental cash reserve ratio (CRR).

An increase in CRR means that the banks have to park more money with the central bank. It sucks out liquidity from banking system.

This is a measure to safeguard the deposits on which banks earn 6.25 percent interest from RBI. This prevents the banks from pressure of managing excess funds.

The new situation is another aspect of the demonetization. Those who believed that higher funds were equivalent to higher liquidity had not realized the risk factors.

The credit demand is low as witnessed in October. It means that industry is either having excess funds or having sluggish activities. The latter seems to be true as the industrial index has been indicating.

The strong action could also be aimed at signaling RBI’s reluctance on

This indicates that market interest rates falling too sharply, too soon in the economy is passing the present sluggish global through a fragile situacontext. The surplus rupee tion. If interest rates were liquidity and sharply fall- allowed to fall further, it ing rates was also creating could have led to social distortions in the forward tension, as the vulnerable premia and indirectly im- depositors rue any fall in pacting the spot rupee- interest rates.

The rate cut could dollar rates. This liquidity absorption measure could have made loans cheaper, as per the par tially reverse disShivaji Sarkar general belief. But it is tortions.

Since mid-November, now also being said that a number of banks have re- lower interest rates leads duced deposit interest rates to easy funding and even by almost one percent. swindling of bank funds, Some banks have done it opening these to the risk a bit more. It leads to less of high non-repayment yield on deposits, particu- or NPA. The RBI though has larly term (fixed) deposits causing huge loss to all de- not stated specifically but positors and virtually gives is now also considering a shock to senior citizens, that lower interests may women and other deprived not be in the interest of the people who depend on economy and the health of the banks in the long run. interest accruals.

It also needs to be There have been suggesunderstood that interest tions for minimum floor accrual is not an earning. It interest rates for deposits; is only a safeguard against mostly it is quoted at 9 inflation and falling value percent. So far RBI has not accepted it. of deposits.

The fixing of floor Bond yields could see knee-jerk reaction of deposit rate is suggested around 15 basis points as safeguard against seek(bps) if rates had been cut. ers of loans on frivolous The issuing market sta- reasons and ultimate swinbilization scheme (MSS) dlers. A higher deposit rate bonds of Rs 300 billion is also likely to repose faith has been put off for this in the banking system, which has been shaken reason.

by a number of large loan scams during 2009-2014.

The RBI stated that so far it could replenish Rs 4 lakh crore new currency, 25 percent of the total demonetized assets.

The four currency note presses at Nashik (Maharashtra), Dewas (MP), Salboni (West Bengal) and Mysuru (Karnataka) have the capacity to print about would be 26.66 billion pieces of notes in two shifts if they work all the 24 hours.

It may take may take six months to replenish the stocks. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley says the crisis would be over in three months.

The government is not keen on printing the notes abroad to give a boost to indigenization. Another reason is to prevent printing of fake notes. Earlier, the government had done so and it found that Pakistan was also printing its currency there.

The presses are also facing some raw material shortage.

The problem has also been accentuated as the proportion of the Rs 100 note in circulation by volume has come down from 20.3 percent in 2011-12 to 17.5 percent by the end of

2015-16. During the same period, the proportion of Rs 500 note by volume increased from 14.8 percent to 17.4 percent. The proportion of Rs 1000 note also increased from 5 percent in 2011-12 to 7 percent in 2015-16.

By the end of 201516, Rs 500 and Rs 1000 notes made up for a quarter of all the notes in circulation by volume, around 22 billion pieces.

The RBI is in a crisis management situation.

Immediately it cannot correct the ratio because of market demand. It is however mulling how to increase the ratio of smaller denomination notes and reduce the supply of high value one.

It has already started the process by printing more Rs 50 and Rs 20 notes. But it would take time to tide over the crisis.

Maintaining interest rates is the immediate step. The micro and macro financial management would take some time to correct many of the logistic anomalies. Overall despite some reaction in the stock market, there is agreement that RBI has taken the correct step to save the economy from sudden shocks.

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nyone can be a hero; it is the act of heroism which makes a hero; likewise, a group of people, acting in concert, to perform an act of heroism are all heroes. An act of heroism is a deed accomplished against near impossible odds, for the welfare and benefit of society, state or nation; success or failure of the deed is immaterial, what counts is the courage, determination and perseverance in attempting the deed.

The members of Against Corruption and Unabated Taxation are real heroes in every sense of the word. They are the David going up against the Goliath of Corruption in Nagaland; a Goliath which comprises the entire establishment, both

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overground, (lawmakers and the guardians of the law), and underground, (all factions). David had his sling and the stones he picked up, in his battle against Goliath. But the ACAUT faces even greater odds in its battle against corruption; for though it has the stones (the charges of corruption against the high and mighty), it lacks the sling (the law enforcement agencies) to launch its stones.

Those in power cannot hide behind the excuse that they didn’t start the all pervasive practises of corruption.

They are perpetuating it. Even thieves and prostitutes practise their profession in the dark and away from the eyes of the public.

But our misbegotten “leaders”

are worse than thieves and prostitutes in that they practise their looting and plundering in broad daylight, in full view of the public.

They may have a misguided sense of their importance but they are nothing more than petty thieves; and their wives and children are just the wives and children of thugs who thrive on their ill-gotten gains.

And we, the people of Nagaland are to blame for all of it. We look up to and idolise anyone with money, irrespective of how they come by it. We worship Mammon, not Christ. And given half a chance, we would do the same, if not worse. In every other society in the world, those who expose corruption have the

comfort of knowing that they have the support of society. But in Nagaland, we don’t, because we are all the same.

It is very commendable that the CNTC has come out in support of the ACAUT; and now it is time for all Organisations, from the Naga Hoho to the N.S.F. down to the tribal organisations to come out and speak out against the forest of corruption that is Nagaland.

And most importantly, I urge the NBCC and all other Church Organisation to speak out against corruption; for it the greatest evil that the Nagas have ever faced.

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A more beautiful place to live in

t is believed that Nagas have occupied Nagaland in the fourteenth century. Our forefathers made terrace on the fringes of mountains and hills for jhum cultivation. Terraces were made in the foothills and plain areas for paddy cultivation. They set aside thick forest areas of mountains and hills undisturbed. Thus, they practiced land use system since time immemorial and passed it to us. And many Naga villages hold fast to this system till today.

Almost every Naga village has its forest area and the people’s lives on the cradle of nature, then.

Every Naga village was sovereign, independent as it is now having its own social set up, religion, culture, jurisdiction etc.

Unless it was for the construction of village bridge, gate, dormitory bed, log drum, pounding table, wine drum etc., nobody went into the thick forest and fell trees out of greed. Thus they had a strong love of their forest wealth. It was their intention and consensus will to preserve, conserve and protect the forest of their country.

Since head hunting was a sport and trophy for them, then, most of the Naga villages were established on hill tops for safety and easy access of watching of attacking enemies from the village. They never sell out their forest land to the aggressors at the cost of war. They were self dependent and sufficient except for salt. They travelled to outside world for trade and commerce for salt, thread, iron, ornaments, sea shells etc. and go to Assam, Sylhet (Bangaladesh), Culcutta, Bombay and to the extent of Sri. Lanka (Ceylon) all without the expense of their forest wealth. Indeed, it is said that they produced garlic, some powders, spices and etc. and do business.

At other times they work hard with their family. It was a pride, prestige and honour to offer feasts of merits freely to all villagers, relatives from neighbouring villages. In all feasts, festivals and religious rituals Nagas use wild banana leaves and other leaves as cups and wrappers for rice bear and meats respectively.

They wore varieties of beautiful wild flowers on their head, headgears and earrings etc. Thus in many of their folk songs, love songs, ballads and poetry names of some particular place, trees, animals, birds, flowers, butterfly and stone are mentioned. With full enthusiasm girls with their boyfriends collects edible wild vegetables, brooms, decorative items during the day and freely distributed them to neighbours and relatives of both boys and girls partakers and old widowed/ widowers for use. Such is a culture so sweet and beautiful that binds the society together for good was practiced then.

Nagas are fond of hunting and regard it as a sport. During dry seasons, festivals and gena days they go for hunting. All males of both young and old take part in this. Those hunters who killed wild animals like deer, rein-deer, boar, bear, porcupine, elephant and etc. never enjoy the flesh of his kill. His family, relatives and friends will have feast with his kill whereas he will be given to eat a bird or chicken provided freely by family or friends. Usually hunting was seasonal and for enjoyment only.

The objective of hunting was not to exterminate any wild life species but for sport.

To be honest our present generation has already destroyed our forest and its habitations to a great extent. It is high time

for us to conserve, protect the remaining forests and vegetation for future generations. It is important to note that the forests and its habitats don’t belong to the present generation alone. Keeping this in view, some villages have already started community initiated nature conservation projects.

In order to strengthen, encourage and support this endeavour, Foundation for Ecological Security India & NEPED Nagaland had engineered and conducted series of consultative meetings at Mokokchung and Kohima and finally set up Nagaland Community Conserved Areas’ Forum (NCCAF) and officially launched it in their presence along with Forest Department Officials in the year 2015.

The main aim of NCCAF is to facilitate better co-ordination among members of Community Conserved Areas and to assists, support, encourage CCA’s promotion and development. The forum has been inviting CCA’s to join it and request other villages to start nature conservation programmes in their respective areas. Presently, around twenty CCA‘s have registered with NCCAF in Nagaland representing all districts except one district.

As land and its natural resources are the property of the public (i.e indigenous inhabitant tribes) of Nagaland let us rise up and revibrate Nagaland’s rich nature and its habitats by conserving and protecting it before it’s too late. So that conservation of natural resources i.e. flora and fauna of Nagaland attain greater heights. Then, Nagaland shall become a “More beautiful place” to live in.

Khriekhotuo Mor, Chairman, Nagaland Community Conserved Area’s Forum, Kohima

to prove to all intelligent Nagas that you worship CHRIST and not MAMMON. For it is written in The Bible:-“.. the unpunished crime is never regretted”(Isiah53:12) and unless we raise our voices in protest and punish the criminals, we will never end corruption. For God has chosen you as the shepherds of Nagaland and The Holy Bible says, ”Woe to my worthless shepherd, who deserts the flock!

May the sword strike his arm and his right eye! Let his arm be wholly withered, his right eye utterly blinded!”(Zechariah 11:17). God bless ACAUT and God save my Nagaland.

Kahuto Chishi Sumi, GB Hevishe village, Dimapur, (Kahuto107@gmail.com)

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Deepening crisis in Manipur

Sir,

The deepening present political crisis in the state of Manipur raises some fundamental issues and questions.

Development and events in Manipur indicate that democratic spaces have been consciously exploited and arbitrarily suppressed by the State; existing concerns and apprehensions of different communities in Manipur have been abused to politicalize peoples’ issues, generate fear and suspicions, and create communal disharmony.

In a democracy it is the moral responsibility of those in public office to ensure that democratic political space is created and upheld to foment a spirit of constructive debate and engagement among all in identifying solutions. However, in Manipur, the manner and spirit in which legislative and administrative decisions are sought to be taken, as evidenced by events, suggest that existing constitutional guarantees and mechanisms for all people in Manipur, particularly the tribal and minority communities, have been deliberately circumvented or illegally and completely disregarded. For instance, the guarantee afforded by Article 371C of the Constitution of India in safeguarding the interest of the Hill Areas has been time and again contravened. The Hill Areas Committee, mandated under Article 371C, and whose primary function is to protect the interest of those in the Hill Areas, has been made weak and its powers intentionally circumvented and treated as an obstacle rather than an institution essential to the judicious functioning of the government.

The controversies around SADAR Hills & Jiribam district and the three bills (The Protection of Manipur People Bill 2015, Manipur Land Revenue & Land Reforms 7th Amendment Bill 2015, the Manipur Shops And Establishments 2nd Amendment Bill, 2015) etc is symptomatic of the larger underlying problems of institutional deficiencies and design defects that require a process in which the people have to be taken into confidence by enabling them with the required technical advice and resources to take informed decisions.

This requires pursuing processes that respect the dignity and liberty of everyone within a framework that validates the rule of law instead of actions such as bandhs, blockades and counter blockades.

It also calls for much deeper introspection and reflection among every quarter of the society in identifying the real underlying issues instead of firefighting and reacting to the symptoms.

The minimum the Government of Manipur must urgently do to resolve the present crisis is to open up democratic space and initiate informed consultations on issues by clearly declaring commitment to respecting and acting upon constitutional guarantees like Article 371C. Unless, this is done, the underlying issues that have led to organizations calling for bandh and blockade would continue to manifest.

Dr. Gina Shangkham, Convenor NPMHR (South Sector)

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.

Indonesia to forge closer ties with India: Widodo

An Indian national facing death sentence in Indonesia on drug smuggling

charges may not be pardoned, President Joko Widodo has indicated, saying the capital penalty is handed down only to individuals who have carried out serious crimes and is not based on nationality.

Widodo said, “My duty as President is to uphold the law and Indonesia’s sovereignty. This will be applied in all cases, including those involving capital punishment”.

Asked if he would pardon Indian national Gurdeep Singh, who is facing death sentence in Indonesia on drug charges since 2004, the President said, “The death penalty is imposed only on individuals who have carried out serious crimes, and is not based on nationality.”

Indonesia has 1.2 million people addicted to drugs, 40 to 50 of them die daily due to drug abuse and 4.5 million are undergoing rehabilitation, he said.

India needs to invest more in public healthcare: WHO

Amarinder to request Priyanka to campaign in Punjab

ment in health, inadequate financial protection and high out-of-pocket expenditure”. He said many more abstain from health services or delay seeking healthcare due to financial difficulties. In this context, the WHO proposed a few steps of working with the government to position health higher on the agenda, both at the national and state levels.

Besides investment, strengthening the systems to detect and respond to outbreaks and new emerging diseases, accelerating effective financial protection to ensure no one goes into poverty as a result of using health services and finally, ensuring that there is a strong monitoring and evaluation system in place are also required, Dr Bekedam said. He also praised India for combating HIV, TB and malaria as as well as the avertable maternal and child mortality, saying the country’s major challenge is “safeguarding the population from slipping into poverty due to healthcare bills”.

New Delhi, Dec 11 (IANS): Punjab Congress President Amarinder Singh on Sunday said he will request Congress President Sonia Gandhi’s daughter Priyanka Vadra Gandhi to campaign ahead of the upcoming assembly elections in the state.

In response to a question whether both Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi would be campaigning for the Congress in Punjab, Amarinder said: “Both of them will campaign. I will also request Priyanka Gandhi to help us with the electioneering in the state.”

There have already been demands by Uttar Pradesh Congress leaders that Priyanka Gandhi should campaign in the state ahead of the upcoming assembly elections.

Priyanka Gandhi has so far confined her electoral campaigning to constituencies of her mother and brother Rahul Gandhi (Rae Bareli and Amethi) in UP, but is yet to agree to extending her efforts elsewhere in the state.

BOGOR, DEC 11 (PTI): India and Indonesia must cooperate closely in areas like defence, security and counter-terrorism, President Joko Widodo has said ahead of his state visit as the key Southeast Asian nation sought to enhance bilateral strategic partnership and trade ties.

Widodo said Indonesia is also willing to consider a bilateral trade pact with India. “I am very much looking forward to have discussions Prime Minister (Narendra) Modi,” Widodo, 55, told PTI ahead of his two-day visit to India beginning tomorrow, the first by an Indonesian President after former President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono’s trip in 2011.

Widodo said he sees closer cooperation between Indonesia and India in defence, security and antiterrorism fields. It is also appropriate that Indonesia

KO L K ATA , D e c 1 1 (PTI): India needs to invest more in public healthcare and build a robust health delivery system in all aspects, including infrastructure and human resources, with special focus on rural areas, the WHO today said.

“We know that nations need a healthy population to prosper. Stepping up investment in public healthcare is pivotal to sustaining India’s economic growth.

Investing in health is investing in India’s growth story,” Dr Henk Bekedam, WHO Representative to India, said.

“We, therefore, need to and swiftly advance and accelerate progress towards Universal Health Coverage (UHC) and the Sustainable Development Goals, especially the health goal,” he suggested.

According to Dr Bekedam, though India has made enormous progress in the healthcare sector in recent past, still “60 million people are in poverty through paying healthcare bills mainly because of the country’s low invest-

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and India work together to fight terrorism, he asserted, adding that, “no country is immune from a terrorist attack”. “I hope to increase ties in all sectors, especially economic. We have cultural and religious ties going back centuries.

Ramayana and Mahabharata are very famous in Indonesia,” Widodo said.

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Pakistan conspiring to divide India on religious lines: Rajnath

Jaya lost 1996 election because of me: Rajinikanth C HENNAI , D e c 1 1 (Agencies): Rajinikanth’s denouncement of J Jayalalithaa and her politics during the 1996 Tamil Nadu assembly election campaign caused her distress and defeat, actor Rajinikanth said on Sunday.

Speaking at a condolence meet for the late former Tamil Nadu chief minister organised by the Nadigar Sangam (South Indian Artists’ Association), the veteran actor said his campaign speech ensured AIADMK’s defeat in 1996. “She was distressed because of my words. I was one of the main reasons why she lost in 1996,” he said.

The superstar had famously said back then, “If Jayalalithaa is voted back to power, even God cannot save Tamil Nadu.”

Rajinikanth added that he was pleasantly surprised that Jayalalithaa participated in his daughter’s wedding, despite the troubled relationship.

KATHUA/ NEW DELHI, DEC 11 (AGENCIES/PTI): Union minister Rajnath Singh launched a scathing attack on Pakistan today, accusing it of trying to create religious divide in the country.

Lashing out at Pakistan at a rally in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kathua, Mr Singh said Pakistan wants to break off Jammu and Kashmir from India through terrorism, but it should know that terrorism is the weapon of the “coward” and not the “brave”.

In this context, he said, “Pakistan is conspiring to divide India on religious lines but it won’t succeed.

India can’t be divided again on religious lines again”.

“Pakistan gave us Uri, Gurudaspur, Pathankot (sites of terror attack) in response to our cordiality.

Pakistan has attacked India repeatedly but we won’t fire first,” the minister added.

At the same time, the minister said if Pakistan

Govt committed to bring power to all households by 2019: Goyal NEW DELHI, Dec 11 (Agencies): Union power minister Piyush Goyal on Sunday said the Centre is committed to supplying electricity to every household in the country by 2019.

Addressing the ‘Laureates and Leaders for Children Summit’ at Rashtrapati Bhavan here, the Minister called upon the international community to act in unison for making the world a better place for children.

“Why wait for 2030 for the sustainable development goal of power to reach every house? Fourteen years is too long a time and too significant for our children. If we have to make a difference, we have to make it now.

“The Modi government assured of electricity to every house by 2022. But I have made it a personal mission to see that electricity reaches every home by 2019 so that children get equal opportunity for a better life,” said Goyal.

“I think this is small debt that our generation owes to our children,” he said. Hailing the summit that brought together around 25 laureates and leaders, Goyal said it was time for the world

to come together and battle child labour, trafficking and slavery.

“Let us shake the world’s conscience; let’s tell the world that we have to work together to make a difference to the children of our times. If we can’t together stand up for children, we will not be standing up for anything much,” he said.

Goyal lauded students of Kashmir for taking Class XII board examinations amid continuous unrest and terror threats.

“Schools in the Kashmir valley were burnt but I salute the grit and determination of the students of Kashmir who, despite terror threats, came out in large number for the board exams.

Over 95 per cent of the students took the exams despite adversity,” he said.

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“fails to control terrorism and wants India’s cooperation, we are ready to help in eradicating the menace from Pakistan”.

Mr Singh’s comments come amid intense strain in Indo-Pak ties in the wake of Nagrota terror strike and intensified crossborder firing in Jammu and

Kashmir.

Last week, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had underscored the need to wipe out the terror network in south-east Asia at the Heart of Asia summit in presence of Pakistan’s foreign advisor Sartaj Aziz.

Without naming Pakistan, PM Modi had

said, “Silence and inaction against terrorism in Afghanistan and our region will only embolden terrorists and their masters.”

“If Pakistan does not mend its ways, it will be broken into pieces. India will not be responsible for it,” Mr Singh warned today.

Thambidurai for Sasikala as AIADMK General Secretary Chennai, Dec 11 (PTI): A day after Tamil Nadu Chief Minister O Panneerselvam backed V K Sasikala for the post of AIADMK General Secretary following the death of his predecessor J Jayalalithaa, another senior leader and Lok Sabha Deputy Speaker M Thambidurai also batted for her to take over the reins.

Sasikala had even given suggestions to Jayalalithaa on party affairs and governance in the past, he said and urged her to take over the “reins” of AIADMK. “At this juncture when Honourable Amma (Jayalalithaa) is not amongst us, respected Chinnamma (Sasikala) is the only person who is capable, who has (the) acumen and experience, to lead the AIADMK

party,” he said.

Sasikala was associated with Jayalalithaa for the last 35 years and had made “several sacrifices”, he said.

“Due to political vendetta, false cases have been foisted against Chinnamma, and Chinnamma went to jail and underwent many struggles. Chinnamma protected Amma during such struggles,” Thambidurai, also the AIADMK Propaganda Secretary, said in a statement.

“Chinnamma has given valuable suggestions to Amma regarding party administration and also on governance. Like this, the list of traits of Chinnamma can go on,” he said.

He recalled that whenever “persons like me” went to Jayalalithaa to get direc-

tions, either during polls or other times for important decisions, she had “directed us” to consult Sasikala and implement them.

Sasikala had shown him the “right path” to follow and given him “innumerable” advices and suggestions and had stood shoulder to shoulder with Jayalalithaa during “testing times and historical moments,” he said.

Sasikala possessed all the qualities to lead AIADMK, he said, adding, she was the only person “capable” of following the path taken by Dravidian veteran CN Annadurai, his party founder, MG Ramachandran, and Jayalalithaa “in embracing the party cadres, without the considerations of caste and community.”

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1 killed as chopper crashes in Mumbai Mumbai, Dec 11 (IANS): A private helicopter on a joyride crashed and erupted into a fireball, killing the pilot and injuring three others, at an isolated spot in Mumbai suburb Goregaon on Sunday. The helicopter, a Robinson R44 belonging to Aman Aviation Pvt Ltd, was on a sight-seeing flight over Mumbai when it suddenly crashed inside the forested Aarey Milk Colony and caught fire around 12.15 p.m., said the BMC Disaster Control. The cause of the crash, which hit an area called Jambli Maidan in Filter Pada near the Royal Palms Club, is not known, and an enquiry has bene launched into the incident.

According to witnesses, hundreds of people from nearby tribal hamlets inside the Aarey Milk Colony and some other settlements rushed to help the victims even as fire tenders rushed to the spot. People and police personnel extricated the victims from the burning chopper and rushed them to the Seven Hills Hospital in Andheri East. The 53year old pilot Prafulkumar Mishra who suffered extensive injuries and severe burns was declared dead, and the co-pilot and two passengers including a woman are reported to be in critical condition, Deputy Commissioner of Police Kirankumar Chavan told media persons.

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New Delhi, Dec 11 (PTI): India’s manufacturing sector may show growth improvement in the October-December quarter with a slightly better outlook for production, driven by better export prospects, according to a report.

The proportion of respondents positive about growth rose to 63 per cent from 55 per cent in JulySeptember, revealed Ficci’s latest quarterly survey on manufacturing.

Those expecting a negative figure seem to be reducing at just 11 per cent.

However, manufacturing growth in India got dampened in November as the demonetisation move weighed on new workflows, buying activity and production while subdued inflationary pressure may prompt Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to loosen policy, a monthly survey released earlier showed.

The Nikkei Markit India Manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) -- a gauge of manufacturing performance -- fell to 52.3, down from October’s 22month high of 54.4.

A reading above 50 points to expansion while one below signals contraction.

According to the Ficci survey, outlook on domestic demand remains uncertain as of now.

“The slight improvement in the outlook for manufacturing production in the third quarter of the current financial year was attributable primarily to better outlook for exports compared to previous quarters,” the survey pointed out.

The proportion of respondents expecting higher exports in the third quarter of 2016-17 went up to 46 per cent as against 41 per cent in the previous quarter.

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Besides, over 43 per cent reported higher capacity utilisation in the last quarter.

“Despite better capacity utilisation, the future investment outlook is not very optimistic. As for the third quarter of 2016-17, 77 per cent respondents reported that they don’t have any plans for capacity additions for the next six months, as against 73 per cent in the previous quarter,” the survey noted.

“Increased competition from imports, lack of demand from industrial sectors and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and shortage of credit are some of the major constraints which are affecting the expansion plans of the respondents.”

There is also a realisation that current demand is primarily from the government and a decline there will affect manufacturing growth.

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Investors look forward to fed policy action New Delhi, Dec 11 (PTI): The outcome of the Federal Reserve’s policy meeting, domestic macroeconomic data and the global market trend will keep investors hooked in the week starting December 12, according to experts.

The two-day ratesetting meeting of the US central bank will kick off on December 13, which will be keenly tracked worldwide. Talk of policy tightening has kept emerging markets, including India, on the edge as this means a flight of capital to the US. “We believe the market has already factored in a 25 basis point rate hike.

Nevertheless, since the US is the world’s biggest economy and a major source of capital for emerging markets like India, something beyond that could bring selling pressure,” said Abnish Kumar Sudhanshu, director and research head at Amrapali Aadya Trading & Investments.

That apart, the global market trend and the trading activity of foreign and domestic institutional investors will be a key sentiment driver.

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say these mishaps have taken place due to the lack of upgrading and proper maintenance of track and signalling system.

The basic thrust in the Rashtriya Rail Sanraksha Kosh proposal is to go for modern signalling system and elimination of all vulnerable unmanned level crossings to prevent accidents. Since majority of accidents happen at unmanned level crossings it is essential to eliminate those level crossings through construction of road over bridges and under bridges.

Since Railways has decided to increase the average speed of trains, it is important that rail track and rail bridges are also strengthened along with signalling upgrade.

Apart from increasing speed of passenger service, Railways has also decided to run freight trains with 25 tonne axle load for which strengthening of track and rail bridge is essential.

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New Delhi, Dec 11 (PTI): To tap opportunities arising out of limited cash supply, SBI Cards will soon launch a credit card with a cap of Rs 25,000 for those at the lower strata of the society, who have the capacity to pay but don’t have cards, a top company official said.

“For the lower strata of society who do not have credit worthiness to get card, what we understand today is that each bank account has some money.

So, we can give them secured card, even if they don’t have any credit history. So, card with a limit of Rs 25,000 against the security of bank deposit can be given to anyone,” SBI Cards & Payment Services (SBI Cards) Chief Executive Vijay Jasuja told PTI in an interview.

The problem is not that these people don’t have money to spend, but they don’t have cards to use, Jasuja said, adding

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agreed to provide only 25 per cent and suggested that Railways raise 75 per cent resources itself for the special safety fund, sources said.

“Though the Railway Minister is not in favour of raising fares at this juncture when passenger bookings are falling and fares of AC-2 and AC-1 are already on higher side, the reluctance of Finance Ministry to provide a bailout package has left the minister with no option,” a source said.

According to the plan, the cess on Sleeper, Second Class and AC-3 will be higher while it will be marginal for AC-2 and AC-1.

A final decision on raising fares is yet to be taken as modalities are still being worked out, sources added.

Railways is witnessing train derailments on almost regular basis - two in quick succession in the recent past causing heavy casualties. Experts

SBI Cards will offer them secured cards in about twothree months.

After government’s decision to ban old banknotes of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000, SBI Cards has been witnessing a surge in card usage and expects to add 20-25 per cent more customers.

“Since this move (demonetisation), there is surge in the usage of cards both in terms of number of transactions and volume.

Our plan was to grow by 900,000 to 100,000 cards in one year but with this change, it will be extra by at least 20-25 per cent new set of customers,” he said.

He also said that the company has simplified card acquisition process and is planning to reduce the income cut-off criteria for giving credit cards to potential customers.

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“We are set to open Khadi India Lounges across metros in the country in the next few months. We are opening these premium outlets in Delhi, Mumbai and Jaipur initially, and will take it to all major cities by next year,” Suresh said.

Further, to increase sales from the current Rs 1,500 crore, KVIC has several expansion plans in the pipeline. “We have announced a franchise scheme, where we will have four outlets in each of the state capitals, and two in different districts,” she added.

Currently, there are 26 exclusive Khadi stores, and over 7,050 sales outlets.

KVIC is also in discussions for launching outlets in airports.

She said that KVIC is also setting up export cells to promote overseas sales of its products, as there is good demand from countries like US and UK.

Manufacturing sector may improve in Oct-Dec qtr: Ficci

New Delhi, Dec 11 (PTI): Train passengers may have to shell out more as Railways is mulling increasing fares in a bid to raise resources after the Finance Ministry rejected its proposal of a special safety fund.

According to the proposal, a safety cess will be levied to generate funds for strengthening track and upgrading signalling system and elimination of unmanned level crossings among other safetyrelated works to prevent mishaps.

Earlier Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu had written a letter to Finance Minister Arun Jaitley seeking Rs 1,19,183 crore to create the special Rashtriya Rail Sanraksha Kosh for undertaking various safety works.

However, the proposal did not find much favour with the Finance Ministry and it asked the Railways to raise resources on its own by raising fares.

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Mumbai, Dec 11 (PTI): Khadi and Village Industries Commission plans to adopt e-commerce in a “big way” to reach its sales target of Rs 5,000 crore by 2018, a top official said.

“We are in talks with e-commerce players and are targetting online sales in a big way to reach our sales target of Rs 5,000 crore,” KVIC’s Chief Executive Officer Usha Suresh told PTI here.

“We are in the process of tying up with Paytm, and are also looking at tieups with other e-commerce majors to promote online sales,” she added.

KVIC, par t of the MSME Ministry, is eyeing at least 10 per cent of its sales coming from online channels in the next few years, she added.

In order to promote khadi as a fashionable fabric, KVIC is looking to open premium lounges across major cities, called ‘Khadi

the 7-day period November 17-23. Deposits in the 25.8 crore such accounts totalled Rs. 74,609.50 crore at the end of December 7, as per the Finance Ministry data.

The upper limit for deposits in Jan Dhan account is Rs. 50,000.

The overall amount was Rs. 72,834.72 crore in 25.68 crore accounts at the end of November 23.

After Prime Minister Narendra Modi surprised the entire nation with demonetisation of Rs. 500 and Rs. 1,000 notes on November 8, deposits in Jan Dhan accounts have increased by 28,973 crore. As of November 9, the balance in about 25.5 crore such accounts was Rs. 45,636.61 crore.

The aggregate deposits increased to Rs. 64,252.15 crore in a week ended November 16.

Last week, the government said that inflows into Jan Dhan accounts have come down significantly after it warned people not to allow their accounts to be misused for converting black money into white.

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extinguish any of RBI’s balance sheet. Therefore, there is no implication on the balance sheet as of now.

The question of a special dividend automatically does not arise as of now,” Patel had said.

RBI has issued currency notes worth over Rs 4.27 lakh crore to public through banks and ATMs following the demonetisation of old high value bills.

Consequent to the announcement of withdrawal of legal tender status of banknotes of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 from the midnight of November 8, 2016, the central bank made arrangements for exchange and/or deposit of such notes.

Long queues for cash withdrawal have been witnessed outside banks and ATMs all over the country since November 10. The bank were kept closed on November 9, the day demonetisation came into effect.

NEW DELHI, Dec 11 (PTI): Despite a huge surge in total deposits in Jan Dhan accounts following demonetisation, about onefifth of these still continue to have no balance.

Net addition in the 25.8 crore Jan Dhan accounts was just Rs. 288 crore during the week ended December 7, taking total deposits to about Rs. 74,610 crore.

The percentage of zero balance account however remained flat at about 22.9 per cent despite the addition of Rs. 29,000 crore in total deposits in about 30 days after demonetisation of high value notes took effect on November 9.

After the initial surge, total deposits in Jan Dhan accounts have seen a decline week after week. As much as Rs. 1,487 crore was parked in these accounts during 7 days ended November 30, as against Rs. 8,283 crore in the previous week.

The accretion was Rs. 18,615.54 crore a week after demonetisation which moderated to less than half to Rs. 8,582.57 crore during

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Asked about the amount of money which did not get into the system, sources said, it would add to bottomline of the RBI and it would be in a position to pay the government in the form of higher dividend or special dividend.

Banks have received Rs 12 lakh crore demonetised currency notes as against Rs 15.5 lakh crore.

The government expects Rs 13 lakh crore to come back to banking system.

Higher dividend from the RBI due to cancellation of Rs 500/1000 may not be applicable until the RBI law is amended.

Last week, Reserve Bank Governor Urjit Patel had said it would not have any automatic impact on the central bank’s balance sheet as per the existing law.

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23% Jan Dhan accounts Hike in fares likely as Rlys without balance mulls ways to raise resources

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New Delhi, Dec 11 (PTI): The government is likely to amend the Reserve Bank of India Act to extinguish the validity of Rs 500 and Rs 1000 printed before November 9 and a reference to this effect would be made in the upcoming Budget.

As part of the demonetisation process, there would be a law to make Rs 500/1000 notes invalid and it can be made effective from March 31, sources said.

“In 1978, when the currency was banned, the law to annul the validity came ahead. This time the government acted under 26 (2),” sources said.

As per RBI Act Section 26 (2), the central government, on the recommendation of the Central Board of RBI, may by notification in the Gazette of India, declare that, with effect from such date as may be specified in the notification, any series of

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Bombing in Cairo Coptic cathedral kills 25 Turkey links PKK to bombings Pope Francis condemns attacks in Egypt, Turkey

Bombing in St. Mark’s Coptic Orthodox Cathedral in Cairo killed dozens. mourning have been declared.

The explosion happened at 10:00 (08:00 GMT). Video footage carried by regional media showed the interior of the church littered with broken and scattered furniture, along with blood and clothing on the floor.

“I saw a headless wom a n being c a r ried away,’’ one eyewitness told the Associated Press news agency. “Everyone was in a state of shock.”

“There were children.

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serve this? I wish I had died with them instead of seeing these scenes,’’ she said.

President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi has declared a three-day period of national mourning. He condemned the attack, calling for the perpetrators to be punished, local television reported.

“Vicious terrorism is being waged against the country’s Copts and Muslims. Egypt will emerge stronger and more united from this situation,” he was quoted as saying. Coptic Christians make up about

Gentiloni appointed Italy’s PM

14 killed in fogrelated accidents in Pakistan

C A I R O / V a t ica n City, DEC 11 (Agencies/IANS): A bombing near the Coptic cathedral in the Egyptian capital Cairo has killed at least 25 people, officials say.

Dozens of others were injured in the blast at St Peter’s church during a Sunday church service.

The church is adjacent to St Mark’s cathedral, within the same complex.

Photos and video footage showed damage to the church, with shattered windows and broken roofing. Three days of national

Paolo Gentiloni

Paris, Dec 11 (Agencies): Italian Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni has been asked to form a government by the country’s president.

President Sergio Mattarella has been looking for a replacement for centreleft PM Matteo Renzi, who resigned after losing a referendum on constitutional reform last week.

Mr Gentiloni, 62, is a loyalist from Mr Renzi’s Democratic Party.

Correspondents say that if he is successful in rallying support a government could be formed in days.

In a brief acceptance speech, Mr Gentiloni said he realised the urgency of forming the government to reassure the country.

He said he would

work within the framework of the previous administration, making it likely that he will reappoint several ministers.

But he faces a banking crisis and a rise in popular support for anti-establishment and eurosceptic parties.

Opposition parties have ruled out joining a national unity government.

Italians voted last Sunday by a margin of 59% to 41% against Mr Renzi’s plans for constitutional reform, prompting his decision to stand down.

Two of the big winners in the referendum, the anti-EU Northern League and anti-establishment Five Star Movement, are pushing for early elections, but others who are trailing in the polls are opposed.

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Aboi Area Students' Union extends our profound gratitude and heartiest congratulations to Miss.

Ngipleih Konyak, d/o Mr. Toming Konyak of Aboi Town for bringing laurels to our Union in particular and community in general by achieving Top-1 position in M.Sc (Anthrolopology) from Nagaland University and also for clearing NET. We wish and pray for her more success in her future endeavours.

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On the event of a massive landslide occurrence on 16th – 18th November 2016 at 54 KM near Bhandari Town on Wokha-Merapani Road, a lot of hardship was caused for commuters and the transporters of all essential commodities were affected. It had also severely hampered the daily activities of everyone.

The Department would like to extend our gratitude to the Deputy Commissioner Wokha, The Additional Deputy Commissioner Bhandari, Truck Union Wokha, Chamber of Commerce Wokha Town, All India Radio Kohima and Nagaland Police for putting all available resources and effort for making an emergency pliable road.

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were with Egyptian Copts, “as well as for the broader Egyptian society that fall victim to similar inhumane attacks.”

On Saturday, six policemen were killed when a bomb exploded on a main road leading to the pyramids at Giza. The explosion, at a police checkpoint, was the deadliest attack on security forces in Cairo in over six months.

A recently formed militant group called Hasm said it carried out the attack.

Egypt’s Coptic Christian minority have complained of discrimination in the mostly Muslim nation.

Two p e o p l e we r e killed outside St Mark’s cathedral in 2013, when people mourning the death of four Coptic Christians killed in religious violence clashed with local residents.

In February this year, a court sentenced three Christian teenagers to five years in prison for insulting Islam. The teenagers had appeared in a video, apparently mocking Muslim prayers, but claimed they had been mocking the Islamic State group following a number of beheadings.

Turkish government has declared 3 days mourning after the stadium bombing in Istanbul. would fight “the scourge of terrorism to the end”, and promised that the attackers would pay a “heavy price”.

The site of the attack reopened swiftly, with floral tributes laid on the ground and people bearing Turkish flags. The government is as always keen to give a sense that the situation is under control.

But beneath the surface, Turkey feels vulnerable and afraid that it can’t stop the wave of bombings.

The government has vowed revenge and President Erdogan says terrorism will be crushed.

But perhaps the most tumultuous year in Turkey’s history means many will see the words as empty rhetoric. This is, though, a defiant nation. One protester told me terrorists “aimed to keep us at home, scared of going out. We can’t do that. We must show unity

against this threat”.

After bombings by the PKK and IS and an attempted coup, Turkey finishes 2016 angry, grieving and even more politically polarised. A toxic mix for a country that has seemingly lost its way.

Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said 13 people had been arrested after the latest blasts, but gave no details.

Thirty of those killed were police officers. Dozens of people remain in hospital, some in intensive care.

Turkey has declared a day of national mourning.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the explosions had “aimed to maximise casualties”.

But they came two hours after the end of the match between top-division teams Bursaspor at Besiktas at the Vodafone Arena in central Istanbul.

Nigeria Uyo church collapse kills 60 IS recaptures Palmyra Uyo, DEC 11 (Agencies): At least 60 bodies have been recovered from a church that collapsed in the south-eastern Nigerian city of Uyo. Some reports put the number much higher. The roof of the church caved in on worshippers who had gathered for the ordination of a bishop.

Those inside the Reigners Bible Church included Akwa Ibom state governor Udom Emmanuel, who survived the disaster.

The church was still under construction and workers had rushed to complete it for the ordination, witnesses said.

Mr Emmanuel said there would be an investigation into whether safety standards had been com-

despite airstrikes

Close to 60 bodies have been recovered after the church collapse in Nigerian city of Uyo. promised. Pictures from the scene show collapsed metal girders and corrugated iron sheeting.

The city’s mortuaries are overflowing, hospital sources say. Etete Peters of the University of Uyo Teaching Hospital told the AP news agency that at least 160 people had been killed.

President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed “deep sorrow” over the incident.

An unnamed survivor quoted by Nigeria’s Channels TV said: “Suddenly, the roof fell on worshippers.

The governor was quickly rescued. But others were not that lucky.”

BEIRUT, DEC 11 (Agencies): Islamic State militants seized the ancient Syrian town of Palmyra on Sunday from government troops despite a wave of Russian airstrikes, according to a monitor group.

Backed by Russian air power, the Syrian government had recaptured Palmyra, home to towering 2,000-year-old ruins, to great fanfare in March.

But the militants have been steadily advancing in recent days while the government has waged a major offensive against rebels in the northern city of Aleppo.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and the Palmyra Coordination group

said IS militants fought their way into the town in a multi-pronged assault, forcing government forces to retreat to the south.

Russia had earlier claimed to have repelled an IS attack on Palmyra, saying it had launched 64 airstrikes overnight that killed 300 militants. But hours later, the activists said IS had seized a castle just outside the town that overlooks its famed Roman-era ruins.

Palmyra was a major tourist attraction before the civil war broke out in 2011. IS seized the town last year and held it for 10 months. During that time it dynamited a number of temples and destroyed other artifacts.

NBCYD CELEBRATION The Nsünyu Baptist Church Youth Department (NBCYD) is celebrating its 75th Anniversary of God's Faithfulness under the theme "Christ Our Focus" on 18th December 2016 at 10:00 am.

Rev. Dr. Tezenlo Thong Sr. Pastor Simpson United Methodist Church, Colorado U.S.A will be the speaker of the celebration. For which convenor organising committee Asao Seb and colleagues asked all the active and associate members of the youth residing outside the village to attend the celebration. Besides, the Youth Pastor/Director of different churches under CRBC are also requested to attend the celebration along with two members of the youth leaders.

NSÜNYU BAPTIST CHURCH YOUTH DEPARTMENT 75TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION PROGRAMME President : Teyalo Seb, Asst. Youth Pastor, NBC

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Islamabad, Dec 11 (IANS): At least 14 persons were killed in fogrelated accidents in Pakistan’s Punjab province on Sunday.

Six members of a family were killed when their car fell into a canal in central Multan district, Xinhua news agency reported.

In neighbouring Vehari district, two persons died when a truck hit their bike due to low visibility.

In Sargodha district, two brothers were killed when their bike was ran over by a car -- also due to poor visibility.

Four persons were killed and several others injured in a van-bus collision in Narowal district.

10% of Egypt’s population.

St Mark’s Cathedral is the headquarters of the Coptic Orthodox church, and the home of its leader, Pope Tawadros II. The Coptic Orthodox Church is the main Christian Church in Egypt.

While most Copts live in Egypt, the Church has about a million members outside the country.

Copts believe that their Church dates back to around 50 AD, when the Apostle Mark is said to have visited Egypt. Mark is regarded as the first Pope of Alexandria - the head of their church. This makes it one of the earliest Christian groups outside the Holy Land.

The Church separated from other Christian denominations at the Council of Chalcedon (451 AD) in a dispute over the human and divine nature of Jesus Christ.

The early Church suffered persecution under the Roman Empire, and there were intermittent persecutions after Egypt became a Muslim country. Many believe that continues to this day.

Bishop Angaelos of the UK’s Coptic Orthodox Church said his prayers

Istanbul, DEC 11 (Agencies): The Turkish government says Kurdish militants appear to be responsible for twin bomb attacks on police outside a stadium in Istanbul on Saturday.

Deputy PM Numan Kurtulmus said initial findings pointed towards the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), which has targeted security forces in the past.

At least 38 people died near Istanbul’s Vodafone Arena when attackers struck after a top-division football match.

A car bomb hit a police vehicle and a suicide bomber blew himself up nearby.

Numan told CNN Turk news channel that about 300-400kg (660880lb) of explosives had been used in Saturday evening’s attack.

“Arrows point” to the Kurdistan Worker’s Party (PKK), he added. No group has said it carried out the bombings.

Attacks in Turkey this year have been carried out both by the PKK and socalled Islamic State (IS).

Turkey is a member of the US-led coalition fighting IS. It is also facing a renewed conflict with the banned PKK in southeastern Turkey.

President Erdogan told reporters that Turkey

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‘Le Connect’: Inside The Mind of an Artiste

(L-R) Le Connect-Inside the mind of and artiste hostess Bethel Tsuzu, Dr. Vivee Peseye and Hojevi Kappo. The impromtu performance. Some musical instrument created by Hojevi Kappo. (NP) music, learn more about their field of expertise and get the opportunity to watch them perform live.

The December session featured accomplished pianist, music professor, choir conductor and the Margaret Shishak School of Music, Patkai Christian College dean Dr. Vivee Peseye.

The session covered various topics such as challenges of leadership in church music ministry, classroom music teaching, piano playing, conducting,

incorporating folk into western music etc.

Dr Vivee gave insightful and practical answers to queries posed by the show participants.

The show concluded with a special appearance

by Hojevi Kappo, founder and leader of the Nagagenous, a folk and gospel music group and also a maker of Naga indigenous instruments.

Hojevi gave a demonstration on his musical instruments, disclosed information behind the

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Madonna’s Billboard Women in Music 2016 speech

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adonna gave a heartrending, emotional speech at Billboard Women in Music 2016 that touched on feminism, sexism and much more.

“I stand before you as a doormat. Oh, I mean, as a female entertainer,” she said.

“Thank you for acknowledging my ability to continue my career for 34 years in the face of blatant sexism and misogyny and constant bullying and relentless abuse.” She remarked that male artists had more freedom than females. “’Wait a minute, isn’t Prince running around with fishnets and high heels and lipstick with his butt hanging out?’ Yes, he was.

But he was a man.”

Madonna also remembered being criticized for setting feminism back.

Top five albums 1) The Rolling Stones-Blue & Lonesome 2) Michael Ball & Alfie BoeTogether 3) Little Mix-Glory Days 4) Elvis Presley-The Wonder of You 5) Olly Murs-24 Hrs Last week’s number one - Glory Days by Little Mix - has dropped to number three this week.

Michael Ball and Alfie Boe’s Together has held on to the number two spot, while Elvis Presley and Olly Murs round off the top five.

On the singles chart, Rockabye by Clean Bandit which features Anne-Marie

and Sean Paul - has held on to the top spot for the fifth week, giving the band their longest ever run at number one. Rag N Bone Man’s Human has entered the top 10 for the first time, reaching number eight.

Earlier this week, he was named the winner of this year’s Brits Critics’ Choice Award.

Top five singles 1) Clean Bandit ft Anne Marie and Sean Paul-Rockabye 2) Rae Sremmurd-Black Beatles 3) The Weeknd ft Daft PunkStarboy 4) James Arthur-Say You Won’t Let Go 5) Neiked-Sexual

Bach hints at Skid Row reunion

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ebastian Bach says there are currently talks over a Skid Row classic lineup reunion.

The former frontman reported earlier this year that he wanted to “bury the 20-year hatchet” with his former colleagues, though the band have repeatedly shouted down the idea – even declining $500,000 for two reunion shows.

Now Bach says his current manager Rick Sales is discussing the idea with Skid Row’s earlier manager Doc McGhee.

He tells Eddie Trunk (via Blabbermouth): “All I can say is that Rick is talking to Doc. That’s all I can say.

That is what is happening, and I don’t have anything else to tell you.

“All I can tell you is we’re not getting any younger, folks. Let’s put the hair band back together while we’ve got hair.”

He adds: “Things are going amazing!”

Kangana reacts on charging 15 crores per film

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here were rumours about Kangana Ranaut being the highest paid actress in Bollywood.

According to reports, the actress charges Rs. 15 crore per film leaving behind her contemporary Deepika Padukone who has charged 12 crore for SLB’s ‘Padmavati’.

Recently at an event Kangana was questioned about being the highest paid actress. Reacting to the reports the actress said, “How much I charge is no one’s business. It is only for me to know.”

During the performance, musical instruments created, designed and played by Hojevi including Qüqüpu (windchime), Asüpuhu (bamboo containers) and Fifipu (Traditional Panflute), bamboo shakers etc. were played as accompaniment along with Dr Peseye on the piano and Hojevi on the flute.

The show was hosted by Mountain Music Academy director-Bethel Tsuzu.

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ob Dylan said it was “truly beyond words” to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.

In a speech read on his behalf at the ceremony in Sweden, he said he thought his odds of winning were as likely as him “standing on the moon”.

The songwriter told those at the event in Sweden he was there “in spirit” and thanked the Academy for seeing his songs as works of literature.

Patti Smith performed his song A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall at the ceremony.

But the singer, who is a friend of Dylan’s, had to apologise during her rendition after nerves got the better of her and she forgot the lyrics.

“Sorry, can we stop that section,” she said as the audience began to applaud her. “I apologise, I’m so nervous.”

In the speech, read out by the US ambassador in Sweden, Azita Raji, Dylan said he had joined the “rare company” of Nobelwinning writers.

He said from an early age he had read and absorbed the works of past winners and giants of literature such as Kipling, Shaw, Thomas Mann, Pearl Buck, and Ernest Hemingway.

But he said it was “truly beyond words” that he was joining those names on the winners list.

“If someone had ever told me that I had the slightest chance of winning the Nobel prize, I would have to think that I’d have about the same odds as standing on the moon,” he wrote.

He said his win was surprising because he was a songwriter, rather than a writer of books and poems “taught in the schoolroom, housed in libraries across

Steve Vai on offers to form supergroups

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n a brand new interview with The Salt Lake Tribune, legendary guitarist Steve Vai was asked what it was that convinced him to join David Lee Roth and Whitesnake when his solo material is so different from the music that those artists churn out. He responded: “I was a teenager in the ‘70s, so I was really into the rock music of the ‘70s — Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Queen, Kiss, Alice Cooper.

That music just lit me up.

And I also was composing at the time. I was listening to fusion, and [Al Di] Meola and [John] McLaughlin, Carlos [Santana] and jazz — I was listening to a lot of different kinds of music. But the energy of rock music has always been at the centre of what I do.”

He continued: “When the opportunity came up to join, like, Dave Roth’s band, it was the perfect gig for me, because I had enough authenticity in my guitar playing — rock authenticity — that it worked. But it was quirky enough that it was

still me. And Roth is kind of quirky in a sense — I say that not in a negative way, but he does funny little things sometimes. So we were a perfect match. I thought it was a great gig. And then when Whitesnake came along — I mean, I liked the music of Whitesnake. That record that they released [‘Whitesnake’] — [with] ‘Still Of The Night’ and all that — that was huge. It sounded great, and David Coverdale’s an incredible singer.

“So, maybe a part of me questioned it, you know?

‘Should I go and do my solo music now?’ But I didn’t, because I wanted to be in these rock bands. And I wrote

music with Dave, and I was just expressing a particular side. All through it, I knew that it was fleeting. And as far as what other musicians choose to do, I would be very surprised if anybody I know were offered those gigs and turned them down!”

Asked if he has ever considered going back to a situation like that, a la Joe Satriani joining Chickenfoot a few years ago, Vai said: “No. I’ve done it. And I get offers all the time to form supergroups… And I’m not opposed to doing something if I think all the moving parts are in place. But I’m not interested in trying to re-live the glory days of yore. Because that’s what a lot of people wanna do.

They do one style and they get a taste of rock stardom and it becomes addictive.

I wouldn’t be opposed to doing something with a supergroup if I thought that everybody was on the same page, with a desire to do something completely different, uncommercial yet very accessible.

the world.”

“Not once have I ever had the time to ask myself, ‘Are my songs literature?’” he told attendees at the dinner, before thanking the prize-givers for “providing such a wonderful answer”.

The folk singer explained that Shakespeare, the “great literary figure”, probably thought of himself a dramatist.

“The thought that he was writing literature couldn’t have entered his head,” he said. “His words were written for the stage.

Meant to be spoken not read.”

Few predicted that Dylan would be awarded the prize when the announcement was made in October.

The 75-year-old singer waited two weeks to acknowledge the win and later said he would not travel to Sweden due to “pre-existing commitments”.

The delay was deemed “impolite and arrogant” by Per Wastberg of the Swedish Academy, the body which awards the prize.

Varun Dhawan believes comedy is a tough genre

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ith three films last year, Varun Dhawan, says that slowing down with movies was a conscious decision.

The young actor, however promises that the coming year will see him in more than just one movie.

He wants to give a message to the audience with his movies, because he feels that the audience is changing.

The actor feels that that comedy is a tough genre.

The reason for that is the fact that this cannot really be taught to any actor.

While action can be leant, practiced and then shown in movies, drama also can be learnt and showcased, but comedy is something that is all about timing.

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he inte r na tio na l renowned Swedish guitarist Yngwie Malmsteen will make his debut live performance in India, at the upcoming third edition of the 2016 Orange Festival Dambuk in Arunachal Pradesh on 17 December.

The three days festival will be staged at the breath-taking Lower Dibang Valley’s quaint village Dambuk, starting on December 15, and host an array of adventure Yesterdrive (Arunachal sports and line-up includ- Pradesh), The Lightyears ing Menwhopause (Delhi), Ganesh Talkies (Kolkata), Antoine (France/Delhi),

Explode (Mumbai), Frisky Pints (Delhi/Mizoram), Shubhangi Joshi Collective (Mumbai), Boby Techi (Arunachal Pradesh) and Ginger Feet (Kolkata/Darjeeling), among others.

Dambuk is located about 50 Km (around 90 minutes drive) from Pasighat (off-road) and around 40 minutes drive from Roing. Commuters can also travel from Guwahati by train till Mokokngselek and grab a special shuttle bus to Dambuk at Rs. 250.

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imapur Night Carnival 2016 (DNC) organizing committee has informed all the stall allottees to be physically present at 8 a.m. on December 13 at Naga Shopping Arcade for earmarking and physical stall allotment. The stall allottees are also informed to

come prepared for a mass social work with DMC and the organizing committee at the venue of the carnival.

DNC further informed that it will not entertain any complaints on the event of failure to get stall allotment due the absence of the allottees.

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he Rolling Stones have topped the UK chart with their latest album Blue & Lonesome - their first original studio album to reach number one for 22 years.

It notched up 106,000 combined sales across all platforms - the second highest opening week sales so far this year behind David Bowie’s Blackstar.

Blue & Lonesome is the 12th album by The Rolling Stones to reach number one. The Official Charts Company said 95,000 of the album’s sales were physical - the rest were downloads and streams.

It was also the only new entry in this week’s top 40.

The last Rolling Stones album to reach number one was a 2010 reissue of Exile On Main St, but 1994’s Voodoo Lounge was the band’s last album of original studio material to top the chart.

The news came a day after Sir Mick Jagger became a father for the eighth time at the age of 73.

instruments and its connection with Naga traditions.

Hojevi and Dr. Vivee, who are both Governor’s Award winners, shared an insightful journey into the Naga folk instrument and its structure.

Midway through the show, an impromptu musical presentation was done where participants of the show were given the chance to perform with the two guests and the hostess on the Christmas song ‘Joy To the World’.

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Participants at Le Connect had the opportunity to interact with the invited artiste, while they share about their experiences during their musical journey, their passion for

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Ronaldo, Real maintained their six-point lead at the top of La Liga as Mariano Diaz equalised six minutes from time before Ramos’s late intervention.

Zinedine Zidane’s men have now surpassed Real’s previous record mark of 34 games unbeaten from the 1988/89 season under Dutch coach Leo Beenhakker.

Zidane made a host of changes ahead of Real’s trip to Japan for the Club World Cup in the week ahead with Ronaldo left out of the squad alongside Karim Benzema and Luka Modric.

The European champions were exceptionally lucky not to be behind at the break as Celso Borges headed against the post and the rebound somehow escaped Guilherme with the goal gaping.

Madrid looked to be on track for the three points early in the second half when Morata turned 25 yards from goal and arrowed a drive into the far corner.

However, the game was turned on its head in a two-minute spell as on-loan Stoke City forward Joselu formerly of Madrid - struck

Sainik School Punglwa sports meet culminates

The chief guest along with the winner of 9th annual sports of Sainik School Punglwa.

Dimapur, Dec 11 (NPN): The 9th annual sports meet 2016 of Sainik School Punglwa concluded on December10 with Er Khupi Natso, Engineer-in-Chief, Government of Nagaland as the chief guest. The chief guest, who is an alumni of Sainik School Goalpara, emphasised the importance of sports in the life of young cadets. He advised all to stay fit and take sports and fitness as a part of daily routine. He also reminded the cadets that

with hard work, dedication and perseverance they can achieve any milestone in life. The chief guest also gave away the medals and certificates to the winners and the overall spor ts trophy that was bagged by Melak house. Japfu house was adjudged as the best marching contingent.

Gp Capt Sanjay Gaekwad, principal while welcoming the guests gave a rundown on significance of annual sports meet that kick

started on November 5 with marathon. He also gave the details of various track and field events held during the month long sports meet that witnessed a number of new records set beating the earlier school records.

On the concluding day of IX annual athletics and sports meet, finale of some of the track events viz 100 meter, 800 meter, 4x100 meter and 200 meter race for cadets in different categories were held.

ATK need to focus on second leg: Postiga Ko l k ata , D e c 1 1 ( IA N S ) : C o n t a i n i n g joy of winning the first leg and focusing on the second semi-final should be Atletico de Kolkata’s aim against Mumbai City FC, marquee footballer Helder Postiga said here on Sunday.

The second leg will be played in Mumbai on Tuesday.

The city franchise inched closer to their second final in three seasons of ISL, beating Mumbai 3-2.

“The most important (thing) now is control the happiness,” said Postiga.

“Yesterday we played a very good match. Now we must focus on the second leg vs Mumbai. We are playing against a big team and it is important to focus on the match and forget yesterday’s result,” he said.

Asked about offensive role behind striker Hume, t h e f o r m e r Po r t u g a l international said, “I play more back. I try and help the team from different positions. I think I have showed in the last few games that I can play in that position. For me it’s not a new position.”

MDCA, ATC Tuli XI exhibition match held

O SA K A , D e c 1 1 (Agencies): Silvio Romero struck twice as Mexican side Club America beat Asian champions Jeonbuk Motors 2-1 on Sunday to set up a Club World Cup semi-final with Real Madrid. Kim Bokyung swept the Koreans in front after 23 minutes in Osaka before the Argentine forward pounced twice to turn the tide in favour of the CONCACAF title holders. Romero equalised with a clinical header just before the hour mark and volleyed home the winner via a slight deflection off Jeonbuk forward Kim ShinWook after 74 minutes as the K-League side wilted under increasing pressure.

America, who also beat Jeonbuk in the quarter-finals of the FIFA tournament 10 years ago, will face European champions Real Madrid in Yokohama on Thursday.

The hulking Kim ShinWook, instantly recognisable with his peppermint green mohican, was a constant m e n a c e b u t wa s we l l shackled in a tense finish as the Mexicans clung on for victory. South Africa’s Mamelodi Sundowns were playing Japanese champions Kashima Antlers later on Sunday for the right to face South American Libertadores Cup holders Atletico Nacional in the competition’s first semifinal on Wednesday.

Costa fires Chelsea past Baggies

Spanish striker Diego Costa weaves his way around Brunt.

London , D e c 1 1 (Agencies): Chelea have returned to the top of the table after a Diego Costa rocket helped them eventually break the resistance of West Brom at Stamford Bridge.

Looking to win an incredible ninth straight Premier League match, Antonio Conte’s side knew they would faced a tough task to do so with West Brom on a great run of their own, winning three of the last four and riding high in eighth spot.

With their wide-men assigned the task of tracking Chelsea’s wing-backs, and their full-backs tasked with following Pedro and Eden Hazard, the Baggies effectively had a back six in place

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Guwahati, Dec 11 (IANS): Star boxers Laishram Devendro Singh (52kg), Manoj Kumar (69kg) and Shiva Thapa (60kg) stormed into the semi-finals of their respective weight categories at the senior men’s National Championship here on Sunday.

Shiva’s bout, however, turned out to be an ugly one when his opponent Ashok from the All India Police (AIP) allegedly head-butted the local star during their lightweight quarter-final at the Sarusajai Indoor Stadium here.

Despite winning the contest by a 5-0 unanimous decision, the 23-year-old Shiva’s further participation in the tournament was jeopardised after being hit towards the end of the second round.

After completely domi-

nating the first round, Shiva managed to floor his opponent with a volley of punches before a desperate Ashok head-butted him.

The injury seemed serious in nature with Shiva bleeding profusely before the ringside doctors attended to him.

The referee, however allowed the bout to continue as Ashok targeted Shiva’s face in the final round but the latter managed to keep himself out of the AIP boxer’s grasp.

Manipur’s Devendro faced a tough fight from Haryana boxer Niraj, before emerging victorious by a 3-2 split decision. The 24-yearold Asian Championships and Commonwealth Games silver medallist had to sweat hard with his trademark tempo as the Haryana lad matched every punch in the Flyweight category contest.

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steadied the inning and later displayed some big shots hitting over the boundaries.

At the end ADC IX Tuli managed to put up 93 runs on the board losing all wickets in the 20 overs. For MDCA, Sachin managed to take 3/31 in four overs while Ato Chang chipped in with 2/10 in 4 overs. MDCA XI run chase started in a very disastrous manner losing their openers cheaply. At one stage MDCA XI were

struggling at 17 for 4 with all their top order batsman out. Then Aloto (32 runs) and Sadammeren (14 runs) build a good partnership to take MDCA XI to victory in the 16th over. Lanu of Tuli ADC XI was the pick of the bowler with 2 for 12 in 4 over while Sungkum also took 2 wickets. Aloto of MDCA IX was named the man of the match for his all-round performance with both bat and ball.

LONDON, Dec 11 (PTI): Five-time world champion Viswanathan Anand got off to a good start with an easy draw against World No. 2 United States’ Fabiano Caruana in the first round of the London Chess Classic.

Anand solved his opening problems, showing deep insight in an English opening game. Caruana exerted pressure on the queen side by pushing his pawns forward but the Indian was able to keep white pieces in check with a counter-attack.

Once the centre was opened by Caruana, pieces changed hands in quick time and although Anand had two knights against two bishops in the ensuing endgame, the position was always within the boundary of a draw.

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A year has gone by when you left us broken hearted. Words are few. Thoughts are deep, You are always in our hearts. We miss you.

Loving Wife & Family members

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of excitement and drama, where MDCA XI ultimately emerged the winner by beating their opponent by 4 wickets.

ADC XI after winning the toss and electing to bat first got off to a steady start but in the process couldn’t capitalize much in the power play overs. They also lost their opener early but their middle order batsman Rongsenwati (24 r uns) and Chungshi (26 runs)

Tony Pulis’ side created only a few opportunities themselves, with their best efforts coming in the first half, Chris Brunt firing a fearsome effort just wide of Thibaut Courtois’ righthand post with the Chelsea goalkeeper relieved to see it fail to curl in past his despairing dive. Salomon Rondon had the other best effort, bustling his way into the box before shooting across goal but the ball went a couple of yards past the far post.

However, it was Costa’s brilliant strike which proved the difference to send Chelsea three points clear at the top of the table.

Match results Southampton 1-0 Middlesbrough Man United 1-0 Tottenham

Devendro, Shiva reach Anand draws with Caruana senior nationals semis in London Chess Classic

Players of MDCA XI and ADC Tuli XI during theirexhibition cricket match at DBS ground, Tuli on Saturday.

Dimapur, Dec 11 (NPN): The fourth and the last exhibition cum promotional match initiated by the Mokokchung District Cricket Association (MDCA) with the theme “Instilling aspirations” was played on Saturday between MDCA XI and ADC Tuli XI at Don Bosco School ground, Tuli.

It was a low scoring and evenly contested encounter which did not lack any sort

when Chelsea attacked, time and space at a premium in the final third.

As a result chances were extremely difficult to come by, with David Luiz’s free-kick the only shot on target the Blues had until Costa’s moment of magic in the 76th minute.

Substitute Cesc Fabregas sent a hopeful ball into the channel for Costa to chase but McAuley was very much the favourite to clear it; however, the Northern Irishman misjudged the bounce and allowed Costa to nip in ahead of him and claim the possession, surging into the penalty area before unleashing a thunderous strike which gave Ben Foster no chance and flew into the top of the net.

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Born : 13/03/1984 – Rest : 6/12/2016 We the bereaved family members of Lt. L. Vongmei Phom would like to express our heartfelt gratitude to each and every individuals, relative, near and dear ones, who has helped us physically, materially, financially and spiritually during the time of prolonged illness and till her last breath on 6th Dec. 2016 at NEIGRIHMS Shillong.

We deeply regret for not being able to thanks each one of you individual for showing your kindness and generosity during the time of our sorrow, but it is our humble prayer from the core of our heart that the Lord Almighty bless you all abundantly.

We convey our special thanks to : 1. NEIGRIHMS Dr & All Staffs Shillong.

2. Naga Elders Forum Shillong.

3. NCF Shillong.

4. Eastern Naga Students' Union Shillong.

5. Nagaland House Shillong.

6. Dimapur Phom Union.

7. Signal Angami Village Council.

8. Signal Phom Union.

9. Signal Phom Baptist Attoi Dimapur.

10. Kangching Buhu Union Dimapur.

11. Signal Kangching Fellowship Dimapur.

12. Phom People Council Longleng.

13. Kangching Village Council.

14. Transport Commissioner Kohima.

15. District Transport Office Dimapur.

16. Enforcement Wing (DTO) Dimapur.

17. Bhuhnyu Union Dimapur.

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Ramos is buried by Real Madrid team-mates after his stoppage time winner capped a memorable night.

his first two Deportivo goals.

Madrid were incensed that the referee didn’t blow for a foul on Casemiro in the build-up to the equaliser before Carles Gil teed up Joselu to smash the ball in off the underside of the bar.

Real were still rocking from that blow when they were caught cold by another Deportivo counter-attack and this time Joselu drilled the ball between the legs of Keylor Navas.

High up in the VIP boxes of the Bernabeu, Ronaldo cut an increasingly frustrated figure at not being able to ride to the rescue of his teammates. In his absence, Mariano was handed a rare first-team opportunity off the bench and took his chance to shine with a looping header from Lucas Vazquez’s cross that left Przemyslaw Tyton helpless.

The Polish goalkeeper then suffered an injury when colliding with the post as he made a save in stoppage time. And Tyton had only just got back to his feet when Ramos powered another header into the net from Toni Kroos’s corner.

Barcelona remain second as Lionel Messi scored twice in their first La Liga win in four matches, 3-0 win at Osasuna, earlier on Saturday.

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Real Madrid set new club record

MA D RI D, D e c 1 1 (Agencies): Real Madrid captain Sergio Ramos produced more late drama by powering home a stoppage-time winner to beat Deportivo la Coruna 3-2 as the European champions set a new club record of 35 games unbeaten in all competitions.

Two g o a l s i n t wo minutes from Joselu just after the hour mark looked set to end Real’s unbeaten streak stretching back to April after Alvaro Morata’s opener. However, even without the rested Cristiano

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India close in on series victory

India player Murali Vijay with teammates celebrates the wicket of England batsman Moeen Ali during the fourth day of fourth Test match in Mumbai on Sunday. (PTI)

Mumbai, Dec 11 (PTI): India put themseleves on the cusp of completing a comprehensive series victory with England caught in a spin web following skipper Virat Kohli’s career-best 235 at the end of the fourth day of the fourth cricket Test.

Records tumbled one after another as Kohli’s third double ton in as many Test series was complemented

by Jayant Yadav’s maiden hundred with India piling up a mammoth 631 tereby taking a lead of 231 runs.

In reply, England were left tottering at 182 for 6 needing another 49 runs to

avoid innings defeat as the hosts are now all but assured to regain the Anthony De Mello Trophy that they had lost back in 2012.

Ravichandran Ashwin (2/49), Ravindra Jadeja (2/58) and Jayant Yadav (1/39) shared five of the six wickets. The other wickettaker was Bhuvneshwar Kumar (1/11), who removed first innings centurion Keaton Jennings (0).

It was a day of records with Jayant being the first Indian to score a Test hundred at No 9 and 241 runs added for the eighth wicket between Jayant and

Kohli literally put England out of the game.

With Indian spinners proving to be much superior in quality than their Indian counterparts, it will be a matter of time before the home team take series clinching lead going into Chennai for the fourth Test.

Jonny Bairstow was the not out batsman for England, on 50, after Jake Ball departed in the final over of the day.

Skipper Kohli yet again proved why he is among the top three batsmen in world cricket. The India captain struck 25 fours and one six in

his monumental eight-anda-half hour innings while he faced 340 deliveries.

With an able ally in Jayant, Kohli dictated terms for the second successive hitting boundaries on both sides of the wicket. He attacked the loose deliveries, the intensity didn’t drop one bit even after he reached 175 plus as he was still running the second run as hard as ever. With each run that the duo scored, England players were frustrated a degree more.

The home team were dismissed 48 minutes into the second session and England – with only a draw to play – plunged into deep trouble to be 49 for three at tea before being revived by a fourth wicket partnership of 92 runs between Joe Root (77) and Bairstow.

The dismissal of Root, who looked in good touch till he was trapped on the backfoot by Jayant, followed

by Ben Stokes (18) and Ball (2) in the last session has left the visitors with a very difficult chance to save the penultimate game of the series.

Captain Alastair Cook (18) and Moeen Ali (0) were also dismissed cheaply.

Jadeja scalped Cook and Ali after Bhuvneshwar had

packed off Jennings with the second ball of the innings.

Brief scores: England 182/6 (Root 77, Bairstow 50*; Ashwin 2/49, Jadeja 2/58) & 400 trail India 631 (Kohli 235, Vijay 136 Jayant 104; Rashid 4/192) by 49 runs

Shami, Saha ruled out of Chennai Test

India’s leading pace bowler Mohammed Shami and regular wicket-keeper Wriddhiman Saha were on Sunday ruled out of the fifth and final Test match against England because of their injuries. Saha suffered a hamstring tendon injury in the second Test at Visakhapatnam of the series against England.

He is undergoing rehabilitation programme at the National Cricket Academy (NCA) in Bengaluru, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) said in a release.

Mohd. Shami wasn’t named in the ongoing fourth match in Mumbai.

“Shami has soreness in his right knee and has been advised rest and rehabilitation. He will be going to the National Cricket Academy, Bengaluru, to start his recovery programme,” the BCCI said.

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Belfort celebrates with team mates after scoring a goal for Kerala Blasters during the ISL semi-final first leg.

Kochi, Dec 11 (Agencies): Kerala Blasters FC will take a slender but impor tant advantage in the second leg of the semifinal to be played away after defeating Delhi Dynamos FC 1-0 in the first leg at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in Kochi on Sunday.

Playing in front of a massive crowd, Kerala Blasters their impressive home run as they registered their sixth consecutive home win, thanks to a 64th minute strike from Kervens Belfort.

With Mehtab Hossain returning from suspension and Josu Prieto also back,

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Kerala were at their best.

Delhi Dynamos almost silenced the crowd in the first minute itself. A long ball from midfield saw Florent Malouda take aim but a clearance saw the ball fall for Kean Lewis. Before the Delhi Dynamos winger could try his luck, defender Cedric Hengbart deflected the ball away for a corner.

Kerala thought they had scored their opening goal when Belfort put the ball into the net in the 45th minute but that celebration proved premature as the assistant referee ruled that Belfort had handled the ball before scoring.

The home team drew

first blood in the 65th minute when Belfort received a ball in his own half. The Haitian international ran quite a distance with the ball, sidestepped defender Ruben Gonzalez Rocha and took a chance with only the goalkeeper to beat.

The shot wasn’t powerful enough but a deflection from the sliding Anas Edathodika was enough to catch goalkeeper Antonio Doblas on the wrong foot and the ball sailed into the net.

D e l h i ’s r e s p o n s e was strong with Malouda testing the rival goalkeeper and 10 minutes later, Kerala sur vived their biggest scare. A corner kick from Malouda saw Kerala head it out but the ball came back for Marcos Tebar who lobbed it inside the goalmouth where Marcelinho headed it dangerously towards goal but Hengbart came to Kerala’s rescue again by heading it off the line.

The second leg between the two teams will be played at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, Delhi, on Wednesday.

Russia’s doping abuse

M o s c ow, D e c 1 1 (IANS): The International Federation of Football Associations (FIFA) will ask for the information from the World Anti-Doping Agencys ( WA DA ) I n d e p e n d e n t Commission about the alleged widespread doping abuse in Russian sports, the global football body has said.

WADA Independent Commission Chairman Richard McLaren stated on Friday that an unprecedented system to cover up doping abuse cases of athletes has been in effect in Russia over the recent years, reports Tass.

According to the report, over 1,000 Russian athletes competing in summer, winter and Paralympic sports could have been involved in manipulating the system to conceal positive doping tests.

“FIFA will request from WADA all details and evidence concerning the individual cases of doping in Russian football that are referenced in Prof.

McClaren’s investigation,” FIFA’s statement said on

Saturday. “Once FIFA receives this information from WADA, it will take the appropriate next steps,” the global football organisation added ahead of the upcoming Confederations Cup. The 2017 Confederations Cup will be held next year between June 17 and July 1 at four stadiums in Russia.

They are Otkritie Arena in Moscow, St. Petersburg Arena, Fisht in Sochi, and Kazan Arena in Kazan city.

Russia is currently in full-swing preparations for hosting the Confederations Cup and the 2018 World Cup. The country selected 11 host cities to be the venues for the matches of the World Cup and they are Moscow, St. Petersburg, Sochi, Kazan, Saransk, Kaliningrad, Volgograd, Rostov-on-Don, Nizhny Novgorod, Yekaterinburg and Samara.

The matches of the World Cup will be held between June 14 and July 15 at 12 stadiums located in the 11 cities across Russia. Two of the stadiums are located in the Russian capital.

Chennai, Minerva get direct entry into I-League Kolkata, Dec 11 (IANS): Chennai City FC and Chandigarh-based Minerva Academy FC were on Sunday handed direct entries into the I-League, sources at the All India Football Federation’s (AIFF) bid evaluation committee meeting said.

Minerva Academy had finished behind Dempo in the I-League second division in 2016.

They have since then renamed themselves as Minerva Punjab FC. Chennai City FC, on the other hand, play in the local league in Chennai. AIFF has also incorporated Goa’s Churchill Brothers to play in the I-League, making it a 10-team contest.

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of the tournament is scheduled to start in January next year.

Chennai City FC, it was learnt, had submitted a bid for direct entry in the league but failed to meet the financial criteria which needed a performance bank guarantee of Rs 100 crore.

But they were given the nod after AIFF watered down the bank guarantee to a mere Rs 1 crore.

Popular Goan club trio of Salgaocar, Sporting Clube de Goa and Dempo SC recently pulled out of the I-League citing AIFF’s lack of vision.

The withdrawls left AIFF with barely seven teams in the I-League top division, which included the relegated Aizawl FC

and Churchill, who are being recalled after a twoyear hiatus.

Churchill were denied permission to play in the top division for failing to follow strict Asian Football Confederation (AFC) guidelines.

They were part of the I-League till 2014 but were dumped for failing to fulfil the mandatory club licensing criteria.

Since then, Churchill filed four petitions in the Delhi High Court and earned a relief last week when the court asked AIFF to consider their application.

Goa’s FC Bardez and Neroca FC from the North East region of the country also submitted their bids but failed to make the cut.

India conquer England in Junior Hockey WC L u c kn ow, D e c 1 1 (IANS): India got the better of England 5-3 in Pool D to virtually assure themselves a quarter-final spot in the men’s Junior Hockey World Cup here on Saturday.

Jack Clee’s field goal in the 10th minute gave England the 1-0 lead, leaving the Indian camp worried. But the hosts slowly clawed their way back and found the goals through Parvinder Singh (24th minute), Armaan Qureshi (35th), Harmanpreet Singh (37th), Simranjeet Singh (45th) and Varun Kumar (59th).

Trailing 1-5, Will Calnan (63rd) and Edward Horler (67th) reduced the goal difference to two for England.

This win took India’s tally to six points from two matches.

Earlier they had thrashed minnows Canada 4-0. Harendra Singh-coached India will now look to complete the pool phase with an all-win record when they face South Africa on Monday. England and South Africa occupy the second and third positions respectively with three points each.

Canada, who earlier in the day lost to South Africa 1-3, are fourth in the pool with no points.

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