12 Feb 2022

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3-tribe legislators form CNLF

DIMAPUR, FEB 11 (NPN): In a significant development, all legislators belonging to the Ao, Sumi and Lotha tribes, have formed the ‘Central Nagaland Legislators Forum’ (CNLF) Friday with Agriculture minister G. Katio Aye as convenor and NPF legislator Imkong L. Imchen as the co-convenor.

It may be stated that the Eastern Nagaland Legislators’ Union (ENLU) is in existence comprising of all legislators from ENPO areas.

The formation of CNLF was revealed through a press note

by Central Nagaland Tribes Council (CNTC) media cell.

The media cell informed that a joint meeting of CNTC executive members and the Central Nagaland legislators was held on Friday at Hotel Acacia Dimapur where the house adopted a three-point resolution.

According to the resolution the CNLF has been formed in the larger interest of the people of Nagaland and to safeguard the interests of the Central Nagaland. Besides Katio and

First part of Budget Session concludes NEW DELHI, FEB 11 (PTI): The first part of the Budget Session of Parliament concluded on Friday after debates on the Motion of Thanks on the President’s Address and the General Budget.

The session, which began with the address of President Ram Nath Kovind to both Houses of Parliament assembled together on January 31, will have a threeweek recess for members to study the budget proposals of the government.

“Lok Sabha will meet again on March 14,” Speaker Om Birla said at the conclusion of the first part of the Budget Session. Lok Sabha will take up Demands for Grants, Appropriation Bills and Finance Bill, along with other bills, during the second part of the Budget Session which is scheduled to conclude on April 8.

In his closing remarks, Birla said that despite the challenges of Covid-19, members worked till late night in the House, which resulted in 121% productivity rate. Birla said that instead of the allotted time of 12 hours for the discussion on the President’s Address, it was held for 15 hours and 13 minutes, in which 60 members participated and another 60 members submitted written speeches.

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CNTC and newly formed CNLF functionaries after the meeting on Friday. (CNTC)

Imchen as the convenor and co-convenor, the also house selected deputy chief minister Y. Patton as the treasurer, minister Metsubo Jamir as Finance secretary and Mmhonlumo Kikon as the spokesperson/PRO. The forum has also been entrusted to select the remaining officials during the first meeting and to communicate the same to the CNTC office.

The media cell said that 15 legislators attended the meeting, while those legislators who could not attend the meeting expressed their solidarity to the formation of the forum by conveying their messages to the council.

With the formation of

CNLF, CNTC said that the forum will work for the common issues faced by Nagas on economic and social issues. The meeting was also attended by president of Ao Senden, chairman Lotha Hoho, president of Sumi Hoho and Central Nagaland Students Association along with members.

The legislators who attended the meeting include-- Y. Patton, Kaito Aye, Metsubo Jamir, Temjen Imna Along, Tongpang Ozukum, Kazheto Kinimi, H. Khehovi Yepthomi, Mmhonlumo Kikon, Imnatiba Jamir, Imkong L. Imchen, Azheto Zhimomi, Er. Picto Shohe, Amenba Yaden, Moatoshi Longkumer and

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Meanwhile, talking to Nagaland Post after the meeting, PWD (housing & mechanical) minister Tongpang Ozukum said that the forum, comprising of legislators from Central Nagaland, has been to bring about “unity among ourselves and to act as a bridge with the rest of the Nagas.”

Earlier, the presidential address was delivered by CNTC president T. Lanu Imchen, invocation by CNTC executive member EH Lotha and benediction

by CNTC publicity & information secretary Imsumongba Pongen. The meeting was chaired by CNTC vice president Hukiye Yeptho.

ANTA flays alleged reports of taxation KOHIMA, FEB 11 (NPN): All Nagaland Taxi Association (ANTA) Hq. strongly condemned the alleged reports of taxation levied on its unit members. Therefore, ANTA in consultation with all its district units reiterated its unflinching support and reaffirmation to the “One Government, One Tax” resolution made by ACAUT on October 31, 2013.

In a press release, ANTA president Dziesevituo Solo and general secretary, Meyieho Hibo stated that taxation at a time when everyone especially Taxi Owners and Drivers were facing untold hardships, was highly condemnable and warned that such injustice, meted on its members, will not be tolerated.

ANTA further appealed to those organisations/individuals collecting Tax from its members to refrain from such activities. It said that prolonged lockdown has already pushed its members, who are mostly educated unemployed youth, on the brink of poverty.

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MoHUA-funded housing project in Dimapur soon, says Tongpang Staff Reporter

DIMAPUR, FEB 11 (NPN): Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA), which approved construction of Demonstration Housing Projects (DHP) using emerging technologies at Dimapur on December 23, 2021, would soon begin construction of DHP at PWD housing complex, Sematila, here.

DHPs are model housing projects built with new/ alternate technology that not only showcase field level application of the technology but also used as platform to impart on-site orientation & training to practitioners in the housing sector on the application and use of such technology.

Taking to Nagaland Post on the sidelines of an event, minister for PWD (housing & mechanical), Tongpang Ozukum, maintained that DHP would be wholly funded by ministry of housing and urban development.

In 2016, Centre had written to all states to avail

Tongpang Ozukum and officials during the inspection. (NP)

the scheme, Ozukum said, adding that after one and half years of pursuit, the Centre agreed to construct DHP here in Dimapur. The minister acknowledged Union minister Hardeep Singh Puri for allotting the scheme to Nagaland.

Ozukum said that the DHP would consist of threestoreyed building, which would cater to working women, students and old age people. Further, Ozukum informed that DHP would be constructed using new technology and not in conventional manner. Through this project, he said PWD engineers of the state would

also be trained on new technology of building construction. Ozukum disclosed that laying of foundation stone of DHP would be virtually initiated by union minister, Hardeep Singh Puri.

PWD housing additional chief engineer, Er. Hozheto Shikhu, stated that the work for the proposed developmental activities would commence within 30 days. He said that it would take around nine months to complete the project at an estimated cost of Rs. 10 crore. Earlier, Ozukum also inspected the ongoing building construction under PWD housing in Dimapur.

More Covid VoC expected as pandemic has not ended yet: WHO Scribe bodies object to new accreditation rules NEW DELHI, FEB 11 ( AG E N C I E S ) : Wo r l d Health Organization (WHO) chief scientist Soumya Swaminathan on Friday cautioned against future Coronavirus variants and said the world is not yet at the end of the Covid-19 pandemic.

“We have seen the virus evolve, mutate … so we know there will be more variants, more variants of concern, so we are not at the end of the pandemic,” Swaminathan was quoted as saying in South Africa by Reuters.

The top scientist made the statement during a visit to vaccine manufacturing

facilities with WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.

Swaminathan’s comment comes days after WHO Covid-19 Technical Lead Maria Van Kerkhove warned that the Omicron strain will not be the last one and the possibility of other new variants is really high. Kerkhove said that

Nagaland logs 35 fresh Covid-19 cases, 1 death DIMAPUR, FEB 11 (NPN): Nagaland on Friday recorded 35 fresh Covid-19 positive cases while one more patient succumbed to the infection in the last 24 hours.

Of the fresh cases, 22 were from Dimapur, seven in Kohima, three in Peren and one each in Mokokchung, Mon and Wokha, taking the total caseload to 35117. Further, one more patient succumbed to the virus in Mokokchung, pushing the death toll to 750 (including 4 non-Covid deaths but with positivity).

As on February 11, a total of 1426427 persons have been inoculated against Covid-19 (807079 first dose and 619348 second dose) while 18466 got their booster shot.

Altogether, 55625 teenagers have received their first dose of Covaxin.

PTI: India saw a single day rise of 58,077 coronavirus infections, which took the tally of cases to 4,25,36,137, the death toll climbed to 5,07,177 with 657 daily fatalities, the Union Health ministry stated on Friday.

NEW DELHI, FEB 11 (PTI): Various journalists’ bodies on Friday wrote to Information and Broadcasting (I&B) Minister Anurag Thakur raising objections to the new guidelines issued recently for the accreditation of media persons by Press Information Bureau (PIB).

In their letter, the journalists’ bodies said the new accreditation guidelines were discussed at a meeting organised under the aegis of the Press Club of India and it was noted that the I&B Ministry has taken “unilateral and unfair” decision to “drastically” alter the accreditation guidelines in violation of the existing guidelines of

the Press Council of India (PCI). Among those who signed the letter included presidents of PCI, Indian Women’s Press Corps, Press Association, Delhi Union of Journalists and Working News Cameramen’s Association.

“The meeting, after a detail discussions, strongly opposed unilateral and unfair decision of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting in drastically altering the guidelines and forming a lopsided Central Media Accreditation Committee (CMAC),” the letter stated.

“Both the guidelines and the CMAC violate the existing guidelines framed

by the apex media body Press Council of India,” it added.

According to CMA Guidelines-2022, announced on February 7, accreditation is liable to be withdrawn or suspended if a journalist “acts in a manner prejudicial to the country’s security, sovereignty and integrity, friendly relations with foreign states, public order, decency or morality, or in any relation to contempt of court, defamation or incitement to an offence”.

Accreditation can also be suspended if a journalist or the media organisation the scribe represents is found to have furnished false or forged information or documents.

the global health agency is tracking four different versions of Omicron.

“We know a lot about this virus, but we don’t know everything. And quite frankly, the variants are the wild card. So we are tracking this virus in real time as it mutates as it changes but this virus has a lot of room to move,” she said.

“Omicron is the latest variant of concern. It will not be the last variant of concern that WHO will speak about. The next one, you know, that will come hopefully, it will take some time to get there. But with the level of intensity of spread, the possibility that

we will have other variants is really high,” she said.

“So, we need to ensure that we again, not only increase vaccination coverage, but we also take measures to reduce the spread,” she added. Since the designation of B.1.1.529 as a variant of concern on November 26, 2021, several lineages have been identified. These include Pango lineages BA.1, BA.1.1, BA.2 and BA.3, which are all being monitored by WHO under the umbrella of ‘Omicron’.

“BA.2 is more transmissible than BA.1 so we expect to see BA.2 increasing in detection around the world, Van Kerkhove said.

Rainfall likely over parts of NE

5 villages back shifting of Longshen EAC Hq.

DIMAPUR, FEB 11 (NPN): India Meteorological Department (IMD) has predicted scattered to fairly widespread rainfall very likely over Arunachal Pradesh and Assam and Meghalaya during next two days.

Dense fog conditions were very likely in isolated places over Assam & Meghalaya & Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram & Tripura during next 24 hours during night/ morning. It also said that light/moderate isolated to scattered rainfall/thundershower was likely over east and northeast during 2nd half of the second week Feb.

DIMAPUR, FEB 11 (NPN): Five Sheanghah villages— Sheanghah Chingnyu, Sheanghah Tangten, Sheanghah Wamsa, Sheanghah Mokok and Sheanghah Lokyo— have “unanimously” decided to reaffirm support to shifting of EAC headquarters from Longshen to Yukho.

In a press release, chief Angh of five Sheanghah villages, Aluh Angh, stated that the decision was taken at a meeting with the representatives of the five Sheanghah villages.

Conveying the stand of five villages, chief Angh stated that the situation of shifting the present EAC

headquarters to new location arose in 2003 after the then chief Angh of Tangnyu had allegedly altered the boundary of more than 200 hectares of land, which was already donated to the state government for creation of Longshen Hqs in 1982.

Angh claimed that people of the town were not even allowed to do farming within the altered boundary line. He said that the survey team sent by the state government was also not allowed to take the survey.

He said that the present EAC Hqs has limited areas for development. He said that infrastructure such as

EAC office, EAC quarter, staff quarters etc. located at the land donated by Tangnyu village were demolished, adding that presently there was not a single government property.

In 2003, Angh said the matter for shifting was kept on hold and waited for another 18 years for the Tangnyu village to remove the stone pillars. However, since they failed to remove the same, the five villages led by chief angh of Sheanghahs have decided to “reignite the shifting of the present Headquarter to new location for the better administrative controls and development.”

Angh said villages falling under EAC Longshen Hqs include Tangnyu village (under 43 Tapi AC), Yuching village (under 46 Mon AC) and the rest five villages under 44 Phomching AC. Stating that five villages also submitted letter to the verification team, the chief Angh said that failure of the government to shift the present headquarters to new location, he would reclaim the donated land (for Longshen EAC Hqs) for farming purposes. He said that five villages have also submitted “no objection certificate” for shifting of the present headquarters since 2003.

RPP alleges backdoor appt in Technical Education dept IRCTC to resume cooked meal DIMAPUR, FEB 11 (NPN): Rising People’s Party (RPP) on Friday alleged that the Technical Education Department (TED) has appointed more candidates as against the post that were advertised on November 26 last year.

In a statement, RPP said that 16 posts of lecturer, 8 posts of demonstrator and 3 posts of Multi Taking Staff (MTS) were advertised in November 26. However, it said that the February 10 ‘selected candidates’ notification

No. of candiNo. of Posts adName of dates actually candidates vertised the posts ‘appointed’ by in Waiting

by TED List TED 13 Lecturer 16 21 7 Demonstrator 8 12 20 Total 24 33 had more ‘appointees’ than the actual number of posts advertised (See Table).

Reiterating its earlier statement, RPP said the interview for the posts of lecturers and demonstrators carried out by the TED between February 7-9 should

be cancelled, alleging that “all departmental recruitment processes are farcical with the candidates already selected beforehand, and the conduct of written and interview tests are mere formalities to present the picture of ‘fair’ recruitment.”

While stating that the “diabolical character of the TED” was shocking, RPP said it goes without saying that the waiting list candidates will also be absorbed into the department as it has now proved without reasonable doubt that TED has more ‘hidden’ posts than it has actually revealed in public domain.

“What more ample proof was needed of “backdoor appointment?” Only God knows how many relatives of ministers/MLAs/ top government officials

have been appointed in TED as per the manipulated exam thus depriving thousands of genuine candidates the chance to get gainful employment,” RPP stated.

Alleging that the “socalled” departmental recruitment exercise was illegal, RPP demanded that all results should be declared null and void by the NDPP-BJPNPF coalition government.

It also demanded that the state government constitute a Judicial enquiry headed by a sitting High Court judge to probe the matter.

services in trains from Feb 14

NEW DELHI, FEB 11 (AGENCIES): Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation Limited (IRCTC) is all set to fully resume services of cooked meals in trains. The services were suspended as a precautionary measure during the outbreak of the Covid pandemic in March, 2020.

In a statement, IRCTC informed that services of providing cooked meals will resume from February 14, adding such food is already being served in 428 trains.

“Of the total number of trains, cooked food had already been restored in 30%

by Dec 21’, 80% by Jan 22’ and the remaining 20% shall be restored by February 14, 2022. Cooked food on premium trains (Rajdhani, Shatabdi, Duronto) had already been restored in December 21. Ready to eat meals would also continue,” it added.

Earlier, the Ministry of Civil Aviation had allowed all airlines to serve cooked meals on domestic flights.

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National seminar on ISDP concludes

Staff Reporter

DIMAPUR, FEB 11 (NPN): Livingstone Foundation International College (LFIC) organised a valedictory programme for the two-day national seminar on “integrating skill development programmes in higher education”, sponsored by Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) – NERC here, Friday.

Addressing the gathering at the valedictory programme, guest of honor, additional commissioner, Central GST Dimapur, Sashi Wapang Lanu (Indian Revenue Service) stated that at present, India had an unemployment rate of around 9%.

He lamented that the state had the highest unemployment rate in India at around 25% and that its nearest competitor was Lakshadweep at 13% and Andaman and Nicobar Islands with 12%, which were very small island union territories.

Sashi Wapang Lanu speaking at the valedictory programme on Friday. (NP)

Pointing out that all North Eastern states had low unemployment rates, he questioned why the state’s labor market had not expanded itself in proportion to the increased education in the state and if the people were only chasing after certain kinds of “jobs”.

Sashi also questioned if there were gaps between institutions of learning and needs of industry or whether the graduates were lacking in employability skills.

Maintaining that the answer to all these questions would be affirmative, he talked about “The Nagaland Vision 2030”, a document released by the state government which gave a vision of how development in the state would take place in the next decade.

In the document, he said that in case of employment, it arrived at a figure of about 9,500 numbers of educated unemployed without opportunities every year being produced

Photo exhibition inaugurated at MCK

Director, A&C department Adela Moa (third from the right) with winners of the on Friday. (NP)

Correspondent KOHIMA, FEB 11 (NPN): Field Outreach Bureau (FOB), Kohima in collaboration with Modern College, Dzüvürü, Kohima (MCK) organised an inaugural programme of the integrated communication & outreach programme/photo exhibition in the conference hall of the college as part of the series of activities under “Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav”, here, Friday. Speaking at the programme, direc-

KKMK mourn DIMAPUR: Kuda Kewhimiapfü Mechü Krotho (KKMK) has expressed deep pain over the demise of Neilavoü Mepfhüo, former president of KKMK and advisor.

KKMK said late Neilavoü continued to contribute immensely for the association till her last breath and would always be remembered.

The association extended its deepest condolences to the bereaved family and prayed that the Almighty would grant them comfort and solace during this difficult time.

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tor, department of Art & Culture (A&C), Adela Moa lauded the in-charges for their initiative. She said that in a fast-developing world, this was one step to encourage the youth of the state to learn about the constitution and to educate them on their rights.

Moa hoped that it would also enlighten students on their duties towards the nation and propagate the founding principles of India’s history. During the programme, an essay com-

which was in addition to existing number of people on the register of employment exchanges, approximately standing at around 70,000.

In this regard, he stated that many young people seeking jobs were expected to have skills beyond their educational degree and that they normally found this out during their first job interview.

Sashi said that this was when they realise educational degrees were merely helping one qualify to apply for a job.

“Potential employers are looking for achievements beyond your subject area. Employers want you to have good communication skills, good at problem solving, a team person, tech savvy, have digital skills, have soft skills” he stated. He also stated that employability skills were something beyond qualification of education as it meant knowing how to use your knowledge, skills and attitude.

NAGALAND POST, DIMAPUR SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2022

NSCW team visits Mkg, Noklak and Longleng

NSCW team along with nurses at Noklak district hospital.

DIMAPUR: To keep up with the status and conditions of women in various districts of Nagaland, the Nagaland State Commission for Women (NSCW) headed by its chairperson, Khrienuo Tachü and member, Chongliu visited Noklak, Mokokchung and Longleng districts from February 3 to 8.

According to a DIPR report, interactive sessions were held with the respec-

Installation service at DH Kiphire: Baptist Pastors’ Fellowship Kiphire Town in collaboration with NMM mission wing of NBCC, ministry under the Nagaland Mission Movement held its first Chaplain installation service at district hospital, Kiphire on February 9.

PHED deptt notifies: PHED department has informed the public of Wokha town urban water supply consumers that due to highway construction in the town, mainline (100mm dia GI pipe & 80 mm GI pipe) on the highway in Etsuchukha colony areas leading to main reservoirs located at Ganga post area and NAP camp areas would be dismantled and laid at a new alignment leading to non-supply of water to consumers during utility shifting from works. The department has expressed regret and requested the consumers to bear with the inconveniences caused till the water supply are replaced at the earliest.

CSU to hold platinum jubilee from Feb 14: Chakhesang Students’ Union has informed that its platinum jubilee on the theme “towards a refined guild” would be held from February 14-16 at Phek town with chief minister, Neiphiu Rio as inaugural guest on February 15, 10 a.m. CSU has requested delegates to reach the venue on February 14, before 12 noon. It informed that as per Phek Town Council on ban of single use plastic, the same would be strictly enforced. Delegates have been asked to wear a traditional item throughout the conference while also maintaining standard operating procedure (SOP) as issued by the DTF.

tive tribal women Hohos at Noklak and Longleng.

Meanwhile in Mokokchung, the NSCW team interacted with Watsü Mungdang.

During the visit, Khrienuo Tachü also made a courtesy call on the president of Ao Senden.

Later, the team visited districts hospitals, district jails, women police stations and Sakhi- One Stop CenDIMAPUR: Deputy comtres (OSCs). missioner (DC) Tseminyu, Dr. Zasekuolie has directed all concerned that materials debris kept unattended on the highway under Tseminyu jurisdiction from Henbeji villageKandinu station areas bordering Wokha district should be cleared from the road within a period of 10 days from February 12 to 21.

In an order, DC notified that the debris and construction materials lying unattended at the

petition was also held on the theme “Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav” where the first position was bagged by Akhü Richa (4th semester), second position by Emjung Wapang Amer (4th semester) while the third prize went to Goma Chetri (2nd semester). Earlier, welcome address was delivered by P. Sophie followed by various special presentations.

The photo exhibition showcased pictures of the eminent personalities who fought for freedom. It may be mentioned that the exhibition was organised with an aim to educate students and public on the “journey to new India” and to celebrate the contributions of Affected land owners protest against non-payment of compensation under freedom fighters through Sakhabama village jurisdiction at Chakhabama-Zunheboto 2 lane road. (Land Owners outreach activities. The ex- Union Sakhabama) hibition would be open to the public for five days.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

NEWS IN BRIEF

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.

II Timothy 4 : 7

In the midst of our grief upon the demise of our beloved Late Ms. R. Akala Sanglir On 30.01.2022 at Darogapathar, many individuals, churches, organizations, families, friends, neighbors and well wishers comforted our bereaved souls and offered great solace in prayers and rendered great physical, financial and material support.

We, the family members profoundly acknowledge our deepest gratitude and may our Almighty God bless each and everyone abundantly.

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DC Tseminyu directs

roadside, at several places in New town areas along national highway-2 under Tseminyu jurisdiction not only caused obstruction to smooth passing of vehicles but also endangered pedestrians.

In the event of failure to comply with the order by the end of the specified period, DC informed that all such materials would be confiscated without further notice and with suitable penal action liable to be initiated against the defaulter.

Funeral service Funeral Service of Late T. IMNUK IMCHEN, Retired Additional Secretary, Department of Art and Culture, Govt. of Nagaland, Kohima Nagaland, will be held on 12th February 2022 at 1 P.M, at his residence in Viola Colony, Lane-2, Tzuben Cottage, House No.4.

Dimapur, Nagaland.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

DOB : 20/03/1971 – DOD : 05/01/2022 Words are not enough to express our heartiest gratitude to all who stood by us physically, materially, financially and through prayers at the sudden demise of Mr. Alemmeren Ao, who left for heavenly abode on 5th January 2022.

We sincerely say thank you to each and everyone who supported us. It is our humble prayer that our Almighty God bless you all abundantly.

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Late Rhonthungo Tungoe 10/09/1919 – 01/02/2022 We, the bereaved family members of Late Rhonthungo Tungoe, would like to express our deepest heartfelt gratitude and appreciation to all the individuals, relatives, friends, well-wishers, churches, neighbours and various organizations who stood by us through prayers, encouraging words, physical presence, material and financial support, condolence messages, beautiful floral tribute during our darkest hour of loss and grief.

We are truly grateful and humbled by your kind gestures of love and sympathy.

We extend our special thanks to 1. Emergency doctors & nurses of 12. D. Block Panchayat, GB’s, Oking Hospital Youth and Women Organization 2. Phiro Baptist Church Kohima 3. Kohima Lotha Baptist Church 13. Deign Club Middle D. Block, 4. Union Baptist Church, Kohima Kohima 5. Victory Zone Youth, KLBC 14. Lower PWD Youth, Kohima 6. Ezomontsürüi Ekhung Kohima 15. Daklane Panchayat, Kohima 7. Shri Y. Patton, Hon’ble Dy. CM 16. Daklane Women Organization, Nagaland Kohima 8. Shri Dr. Nicky Kire, Adivsor 17. Mr Shaiza & family Urban Development & 18. Headmaster and staff C. C Municipal Affairs School Kohima 9. Mr. Renchamo Kikon, ADGP 19. Kohima Traffic Police Administration, Nagaland 20. Eastern Printing Press, Kohima 10. Phiro Union Kohima 21. Khrietho Krotho, Kohima 11. Mr & Mrs Geoffrey Yaden, 22. Mr. Jeevan (media coverage) Nagaland Post We deeply regret our inability to thank each and everyone personally but it is our prayer to Almighty God that you be richly blessed.

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1st Death anniversary of L. Moatemjen Jamir Mangmetong (12.02.22)

A year has passed by ever since On this first death anniversary, We still miss your physical presence, Yet we will ever cherish The good legacy that you have left behind.

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WEATHER FORECAST FEBRUARY 12

(Temperature in ºC)

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Agartala Hazy sun

25 11

Sunshine and patchy clouds

Guwahati Beautiful with sunshine Imphal

Hazy sun

20 7 24 11 22 5

Itanagar Sunshine and some clouds

19 9

Shillong

Mostly sunny

14 3

Kohima

A passing morning shower

15 5

Dimapur An a.m. shower; partly sunny Mkg

A shower in the morning

22 10 18 7

Tuensang Cooler; a morning shower

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NAGALAND POST, DIMAPUR SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2022

Prof. Jagdish Mukhi interacting with Kiphire village authorities on February 10. (DIPR)

DIMAPUR: Governor of Assam and Nagaland, Prof.

Jagdish Mukhi said that during his visits to educational institutions, he found a lot of deficiencies that needed to be fixed.

According to a DIPR report, Prof. Mukhi was addressing the people of Kiphire village during his visit on February 10, where a reception programme was held at public ground.

The governor while assuring that he would pursue the needs of Zizaji Presidency College, Kiphire to the government appreciated Kiphire village for preserving the tradition and culture and expressed his love for the unique Naga traditions.

He encouraged the gathering to implement in-

digenous language in primary schools to preserve and to promote culture.

On his visit to Government Higher Secondary School, the governor with regard to the demand for science stream in GHSS assured that the matter would be pursued seriously. He also said that Naga students were studying in different parts of the country in search of good institutions.

In this regard, Prof.

Mukhi said that all facilities and infrastructure should be provided within Nagaland for better education in the state. He also added that the JNV school would come up with Science, Commerce and Arts streams where students from villages would be able to study in the school.

The construction would be completed by March-April 2023, he informed.

Later, he interacted with the Kiphire village leaders, teachers and students, JNV construction engineers, contractor and other officials.

Earlier, the governor was received by men and women in traditional attires and received the Rashtriya salute from village guards.

Other highlights of the programme included traditional fire making and folk dances, national anthem presented by Kiphire Village Students’ Union, welcome address from Sethrongba Y Sangtam while vote of thanks was delivered by KVSU president, Akokba.

KO H I M A , F E B 1 1 (NPN): Advisor, Urban Development & Municipal Affairs, Dr. Neikiesalie Nicky Kire graced the 39th annual session of the Angami Gazetted Officers Krotho/Union (AGOK) at RCEMPA, Jotsoma, here, Friday.

Addressing the gathering as main guest speaker, Dr Nicky said that AGOK members should meet often in order to build a stronger bond and to discuss issues confronting the society.

Dr. Nicky stressed on the need to help each other in various aspects including seeking employment for educated and qualified youths from the community.

He impressed upon the members of AGOK to give back to the community by adopting villages and taking up development works.

On the prevailing trend of giving costly gifts to invitees during

Dr. Nicky Kire addressing the gathering at RCEMPA, Jotsoma on Friday (NP)

programmes, Dr. Nicky said that societies and organisations should discourage such traditions and rather, funds should be diverted to other productive purposes.

In his message, Angami Public Organisation (APO) president, Razouvotuo Khroitsu lauded AGOK for its yeoman ser vice to the Angami community, adding that it was the protector, guide and leader of the Angami tribe.

Maintaining that AGOK reflected the core of Angami ethos, he urged

exclusive breast feeding were highlights of the programme.

The show was judged

by Dr. Motsuo Memorial District Hospital, paediatrician Dr. Ruutuou Sorhie and Nyiro PHC, medical officer Dr. Wonchibeni T Murry.

Mharhoni Kikon of Akuk was the adjudged

ENSURE WOMEN’S SAFETY IN OUR OWN HOMES AND OFFICES FIRST: DGP

DGP T. John Longkumer along with trainees and officers at the valedictory programme.

DIMAPUR: Director general of police (DGP), Nagaland T. John Longkumer graced the valedictory programme of the second batch of “five-day course for investigators on women safety” in the multi-purpose hall of the

Nagaland Police Training School (NPTS) on Friday.

Speaking at the programme as special guest, DGP said that apart from the legal processes of investigation on women’s safety, people needed to be aware of the physical

and mental issues of the victims of abuse.

“We need to emphasise and take that extra step to make them feel safe and secure under our wings”, Longkumer stated.

Pointing out that they must practice what they

February 25 at Naga Heritage village, Kisama with chief minister, Neiphiu Rio as special guest while golden jubilee celebration of APO would also be held on April 8 at local ground Kohima.

Meanwhile a new team of AGOK was inducted as office bearers for the tenure 2022-2024 led by Dr. Neilasa Sopfu as president, Nongozo as general secretary, four joint secretaries, Ketuzo Peseyie as finance secretary, Vekhozo Vitsu as legal advisor and three advisors.

‘Girl Child Day’ celebrated in Wokha

Trg for investigators on women safety concludes preach, DGP said that the maxim should begin from the police department. “ E n s u r e wo m e n’s safety in our own homes and offices first” he further exhorted.

Longkumer stated that Naga men were traditionally taught to be true warriors to defend what they held dear, however, he said that “a true Naga warrior will defend and ensure the safety of the women he holds dear”.

Later, DGP handed out the certificates and remarked that the category would be kept in mind for the award of DGP commendation disc in the future.

E a r l i e r, t h e p r o gramme was chaired by NPTS assistant principal Thungrhoni Kikon, welcome address was delivered by vice principal I. Meren Chenth while speech on behalf of the participants was delivered

by SDPO Mokokchung, Chuba Chang.

upon the AGOK members to be concerned and be helpful to the community.

He also called upon the Angami officers to be honest while helping the public and to avoid excuses of being governed by too much rules.

Khroutsu appreciated the venture of AGOK Multi Utilty Centre at Meriema, Kohima that could be used by all the tribes in the state on completion of the construction.

The APO president also announced that Angami Sekrenyi festival would be celebrated on

winner of the show, Mhachoni Ngullie won the second prize while Mharhoni Ezung and Nzani Ovung bagged the third prize and Grace N Kikon won the consolation prize.

Baby kits including baby care collection and baby blanket were distributed to all the mothers present at the programme.

DC Wokha, Orenthung Lotha handing over the award to one of the winners. (DIPR)

DIMAPUR: To celebrate the Wokha district “Girl Child Day”, Wokha district administration and DLCW-MSK under the Banner of BBBP organised a baby show-cumdistribution of baby kits to all the new born girls born between April 2021 and January 2022 in the conference hall of the deputy commissioner (DC), Wokha town on February 10.

According to a DIPR report, speaking on the occasion, SDO (C), Selemla S Sangtam said that being a mother was one of the

most important roles a woman could play.

She said that a mother was a role model for a young child and they subconsciously imitated how a mother carried herself, behave and think.

In this regard, she appealed to all the mothers to consider a girl child as an asset and give equal opportunities without any gender bias as girls could become responsible and productive members of the society.

Baby show competition to promote institutional delivery and

NPF Mon division meets Zeliang, Yollow DIMAPUR: Naga People’s Front (NPF) Mon division led by its president S Chingyem Konyak and general secretary (admn) HA Hongnao Konyak on Friday met newly elected chairman of United Democratic Alliance (UDA) and former state chief minister, TR Zeliang and newly inducted minister for environment, forest, wildlife and disaster management, YM Yollow Konyak.

In a press release, NPF Mon division said the party members greeted the two leaders and had prayer fellowships in their respective residents at Dimapur.

They also conveyed party’s happiness on their new assignments in United Democratic Alliance government.

Naga People’s Front, Mon informed that during the meeting, the party expressed confidence on their leadership and urged upon them to take the responsibilities forward to strengthen the UDA government.

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ZSUN, 42-Wakching A/C fete Zeliang Students’ Union, Nagaland (ZSUN) has welcomed the induction of TR Zeliang as United Democratic Alliance chairman.

In a press release, ZSUN through its media cell said that it was “a proud moment for all the people of Peren district” and prayed that the Almighty would continue to shower His blessing and knowledge.

The union also acknowledged chief minister Neiphiu Rio and his colleagues for “reposing faith on T.R. Zeliang by giving him coveted chair”.

Meanwhile, 42 Wakching assembly constituency through its president Woklang Konyak and general secretary Chemwang Konyak welcomed the induction of YM Yollow Konyak as minister in the state cabinet.

They said that the achievement was an inspiration for the community and further extended its support.

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5 M’laya Cong MLAs to be suspended Correspondent

SHILLONG, FEB 11: Five Congress legislators who recently extended support to the BJP-backed Meghalaya Democratic Alliance government are likely to be suspended, State Congress party president, Vincent H. Pala said on Friday.

The five Congress legislators led by their legislature party leader Dr. Mazel Ampareen Lyngdoh recently met Chief Minister Conrad Sangma and handed him a letter of support to the government.

Apart from Lyngdoh, the other legislators who are likely to be suspended include Process T. Sawkmie, Mayralborn Syiem, Kimfa S Marbaniang and Mohendro Rapsang.

“The AICC is against this move and they are likely to be suspended. The party high command is not favour of their decision to be part of the MDA government,” he told reporters after chair-

Vincent H. Pala

ing the party state executive meeting since he took over as state party president last year.

“A show cause notice would be issued to them asking why they shouldn’t be expelled from the party,” he said.

T h i s d eve l o p m e n t came after 12 legislators from the Congress had already merged with the Trinamool Congress.

If these five legislators are expelled, the Congress, which won 21 seats in the

2018 Assembly elections, would be left with no Congress legislators representing the party in the 60-member House assembly.

Stating that the five legislators took a unilateral decision of joining the MDA government, keeping self interest first instead of the party, Pala said the “Congress High Command is not in favour” of their decision.

“The CLP leader and the MLAs didn’t consult the Meghalaya Pradesh Congress Committee or the AICC before taking a decision to join the MDA government,” he said.

Two of the five legislators Mayralbron Syiem and Mohendro Rapsang were also present in the meeting.

Syiem asked why the Congress can’t work with the BJP while it has no problem to work with the Shiv Sena in Maharashtra having the same ideology as the BJP. However, Pala said the decision to work with the

Shiv Sena was taken it was done after thorough consultation with the party High Command.

“The party is not dependent on individual leaders, but is dependent on the party workers who spend sleepless nights to ensure the party’s victory,” Pala asserted.

Moreover, he said that he has got hints of their next move and likewise the party is working on the ground so that the Congress’ prospect is not affected in the 55, out of the total 60 Assembly segments just due to five individuals.

Meanwhile, Congress legislators Syiem and Rapsang said that that they would continue to be with the Congress party, but said the decision is left with the Congress.

“I am a Congressman and with the party and will stick to it. I cannot say much on this development as the ball is in the court of the party,” Syiem said.

Arunachal Pradesh logs 76 new COVID-19 cases

I TA NAG A R , F E B 1 1 (PTI): Arunachal Pradesh reported 76 new COVID-19 cases, 14 less than the previous day, pushing the tally to 63,890 on Friday, a senior Health department official said here.

Of the 76 fresh cases, 20 were reported from the Capital Complex Region, 10 from West Kameng, Lower Subansiri (8), Lohit (7), East Siang (5) and three each from East Kameng, Leparada, Lower Dibang Valley, Namsai and Tawang district respectively, the official said.

The COVID-19 death toll in the state remained at 293, as no fresh fatality was reported in the last 24 hours.

The frontier state currently has 978 active COVID-19 cases, while 62,619 people have recuperated from the disease so far, including 229 on Thursday, State Surveillance Officer (SSO) Dr Lobsang Jampa said.

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Mnp BJP expels its chief spokesperson

Correspondent

IMPHAL, FEB 11: The ruling BJP in poll-bound Manipur has expelled its chief spokesperson Chongtham Bijoy Singh from the primary membership for six years.

Besides being the chief spokesperson of the state unit of the saffron party, Bijoy was one of the aspirant candidates of the party from Uripok Assembly constituency of Imphal West district.

BJP Manipur Pradesh president A Sharda Devi expelled him from the party primary membership in an order signed on February 8.

The matter was made public and to the spokesperson himself only on Friday. Until Thursday, he addressed the media as the chief spokesperson of the state unit of the party.

“I came to know about the expulsion only today, that too, at the eleven hour of my participation in a panel discussion on a local

Chongtham Bijoy Singh TV network as the chief spokesperson of the BJP,” Bijoy told reporters.

He claimed that he had already agreed to participate in the panel discussion.

The local TV network also confirmed his participation as the chief spokesperson of the party.

According to the order of the state BJP president, Bijoy was expelled for violation of “party’s rules and regulations under Article XXV, breach of discipline Clause (b) and (d), the order of the state president asserted.

After the denial of the party ticket, Bijoy recently

told the media that he would either support or campaign for the BJP candidate in Uripok AC. He had also declared not to cast his vote in favour of the BJP candidate and he would prepare to press the NOTA (None of the above) button.

Strongly reacting to his expulsion, Ch Bijoy, speaking to reporters, said that he was expelled by some “self-centric leaders” without following proper procedures.

He asserted that he worked for the BJP for the last more than 27 years at various capacities being a lover of the party’s ideology.

However, the BJP has now compromised its ideology and commitment which is based on anti-corruption by the party leaders who came to the saffron fold recently.

He expressed strong resentment and said that incumbent party leaders have sidelined party’s long sufferer cadres and leaders.

Traders asks Mizoram govt to N. F. Railway to restore Security forces rescue 2 truck drivers in Mnp allow all shops to open daily services of few trains Correspondent

SHILLONG, FEB 11 (IANS): Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad K. Sangma on Friday said that his National People’s Party-led Meghalaya Democratic Alliance government’s ‘farmers’ welfare programme - FOCUS - would benefit over 4.5 lakh farmers in the mountainous state.

The FOCUS innovative inclusive scheme with an estimated budget of Rs 200 crore was launched in September last year to provide the financial assistance of Rs 5,000 to each farmer.

While distributing various tools and essentials at a function in South Garo Hill’s Chokpot, the Chief Minister said that the FOCUS programme was conceptualised by taking into consideration the economic hardship that the farming community had to face due to Covid-19.

He said that through this programme, the farmers are grouped together as farmers collective - “Producers Groups” and financial assistance of Rs 5,000 is provided to each memeber in the group.

The funds can be used as seed money for upscaling farming activities.

O n Fr i d ay, S a n g ma distributed cheques amounting to Rs. 1.2 crore to 170 “Producer Groups” under the programme, to boost up their farming and

entrepreneurial activities.

He also attended the ‘SHG Mela’ in Chokpot and extended financial assistance worth over Rs 1 crore to 29 village organisations and Self-Help Groups. Sangma said that the MDA government is happy to support the women-led SHG movement that is empowering enterprising women at the grassroots level.

He said that the government has introduced various funding options to encourage entrepreneurial activities, wherein interest-free loans are being provided to the people.

The government’s welfare programmes are targeted for overall improvement in farming activities, farmers’ sustainable income, marketing linkages and ensures that agricultural and horticulural products of the state are promoted and marketed for optimum benefits. He also announced that Rs 100 crore plus has been sanctioned for various infrastructure development projects in the Chokpot area, including Chokpot Water Supply, Guest House, new Civil Sub Division building and a road 12 miles to Chokpot.

Clean Cook-stoves under the CSR initiative of the Global Himalayan Expedition were also distributed to beneficiaries at the event.

MALIGAON, FEB 11 (NPN): Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) has decided to restore services of few trains which were earlier slated to be cancelled for infrastructural development works in various locations of Katihar division and to ensure safety.

A press release by the Chief Public Relations Officer ( CPRO) Sabyasachi De stated that While some trains will restore from February 12 and 13. The restored train services include : one pair DEMU special train between Siliguri junction - Malda Court; one pair special train between Katihar – Malda Court and another pair train between Katihar - Malda Town.

Moreover, Howrah – Katihar - Howrah express will partially restore between Malda Town and Katihar.

Services of trains have been restored as under:Train No. 07520 Siliguri Junction - Malda Court DEMU special, journey commencing on 12th February, 2022; Train number 07519 Malda Court - Siliguri Junction DEMU special, journey commencing on 13th February, 2022: Train number

FELICITATION

The Kohima Changki Senso Telongjem (KCST), would like to extend heartiest congratulations to Smti. Hokhuli K. Chishi, W/o Shri. Indianoba Tally Ningdangri on being inducted to the Indian Administrative Service (IAS).

It is a matter of pride and gladness for the Union. The Union further wishes her good health and success for her future endeavours.

Sd/Sd/President (K.C.S.T) General Secretary (K.C.S.T)

Felicitation The Wakching union Dimapur would like to sincerely congratulate Shri. Y.M. Yollow Konyak on being sworn into the State Cabinet as Minister of environment, Forests & Climate Change.

With a new assignment comes greater responsibility. You have our full support and we wish you success in all endeavours.

Sd/(P. Yongwe Wumnok) President, WUD

Sd/(Henmoi) Gen. Secy., WUD

05772/05771 Katihar – Malda Court - Katihar special, journey commencing on 13th February, 2022; Train No. 05702 Katihar – Malda Town special, journey commencing on 12th February, 2022; Train No. 05701 Malda Town – Katihar special, journey commencing on 13th February, 2022.

The following trains will undergo partial restoration: Train number 13033 Howrah - Katihar express, journey commencing on 12th February, 2022 has been restored partially between Malda Town and Katihar stations. Train number 13034 Katihar – Howrah express, journey commencing on 13th February, 2022 has been restored partially between Katihar and Malda Town stations.

On the other hand, train number 15464 Siliguri junction – Balurghat express, train number 13174 Agartala – Sealdah express and train number 12364 Haldibari – Kolkata express will start as per schedule.

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Felicitation Wakching Wankon Üdüp Dimapur would like to congratulate both Shri. Y. M. Yollow Konyak on being sworn in as Cabinet Minister, Forest, Environment and Climate Change, Government of Nagaland and Shri.

Chingwang Konyak as Advisor to Chief Minister, Nagaland, the rank and status of Cabinet Minister. The Union further wishes both of them a success and fruitful tenure as they carries out their new assignment and responsibility.

The Wakching Union Üdüp Dimapur further expresses our gratitude to Hon’ble Chief Minister, Shri. neiphiu rio for his wisdom and reposing faith in inducting both our leaders Shri. Y.M Yollow Konyak and Shri. Chingwang Konyak to the Cabinet Minister.

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Assam to help Tata transform technical institutes

GUWAHATI, FEB 11 (PTI): Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has assured the Tata group of companies that the state government would provide all necessary help to transform technical institutes of Assam to technology hubs under their innovative project ‘Transforming Engineering Academia to Industry 4.0’. In a meeting with senior executives of the Tata

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group here on Thursday on up-gradation of state’s ITIs and polytechnics to Centres of Excellence, the chief minister assured that the state government will provide required space and all other support to introduce state of the art curriculum in all 75 technical institutes of the state where more than 9,000 students will

get trained simultaneously on latest engineering skills.

He also called on the corporate house to take steps for providing scholarships to trainees, employing experienced teachers and instructors from Tata group in the institutions for five years for training the local instructors among others, an official release said.

OFFICE OF THE

ManGMetOnG KaKetSHir teLOnGJeM MOKOKCHUNG : NAGALAND

INFORMATION

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

Whereas application under Succession Act 1925 for grant of Succession Certificate for the estate/pension benefits of Late M. Johnny Ngullie has been applied by Smti. Loseno S Ezung, W/o. Lt. Johnny Ngullie, R/o, Wokha, Nagaland for possession of: 1. GPF, GIS, Leave Encashment, Family Pension and Service Claims and Benefits.

Notice is hereby given that any person having interest in the administration of the estate/pension benefits of the said deceased may, if she/he so desire to appear in this Court on or before 28/02/2022.

Given under the hand and seal of the Court on this day, the 28/01/2022.

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This is to inform all the students of Mangmetong who are residing outside Mokokchung, Kohima and Dimapur. The students (from class 7 to the university level) are requested to contact the Union office through the contact numbers given below for enrollment in the Union latest by September 2022.

Also under this ambit, recipients of any medal from any arts and streams and those having completed their Doctoral/ PhD studies may kindly report/inform to the said office. imlikokba, President – 8119041741 Chubayanger, VP – 8575492316 Benjonglemla, GS – 8575231266 Sentijungla, aGS – 6009221273 tasenrenla, education and Statistical Secretary – 8787524695

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Dated Zbto., the 10.02.2022

notice Calling Objection for the issue of Succession Certificate Whereas application has received from Shri Hoito, U/S 372 of the Indian Succession Act, resident of Saptiqa Town, Zbto District for Succession of SBI A/c No. 11736604109, Leave encashment, GIS, GPF, Gratuity, service & pension benefits, debts & securities of Late Vitoli Achumi.

Notice is hereby issued for filing objections to all who has interest in the said claim(s) within 45 (forty five) days from the date of publication to this notice.

Office Of the

Wakching WankOn ÜDÜp, Dimapur

IMPHAL, FEB 11: Security forces in Manipur on Friday successfully rescued two truck drivers kidnapped by suspected armed cadres of a group active in Tamenglong and Noney districts of the state.

The drivers were whisked away by the armed miscreants who stopped the trucks that headed to Imphal with rice from FCI godown,Jiribam from Keiphundai area along NH-37 in Tamenglong district around 8 am on Thursday.

Soon after the duo were kidnapped, a combined team of special police commandos and troops of 39 Assam Rifles rushed to the area on Thursday and launched the rescue operation and rescued drivers - Kangujam Brajamani (60) of Yairipok in Imphal East and Md Inao Khan (29)

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AffidAvit

I, Shri Juthe Gurung, S/o Purna Bahadur Gurung, permanent resident of Assam Bazar Happy Valley, Shillong presently residing at Jorapukhuri, Dimapur, Nagaland through the Affidavit No. 94/2022, dated 11.02.2022 hereby declare that my wife’s name SanGeeta GurunG and her Date of Birth 10.01.1971 inadvertently entered in my Service Book whereas her actual name is SanGita GurunG and her Date of Birth is 26.06.1972 and these refers to the same person. Hence the name SanGita GurunG and Date of Birth 26.06.1972 shall be used in all official and other purposes.

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FOCUS to upscale farming of 4.5 lakh farmers: Sangma

our boys and girls, who are employed to tend our shops,” Laldinthara said.

He said a sizeable number of traders have already permanently shut their shops for failing to pay their rents.

The MIMA president said that their opinions are sought by the government every time guidelines are made but to no avail.

“We used to request the government to ensure that traders do not face problems because we believe that shops are not the main sources of transmission.

Our medical experts also agreed with us on shops. But ever y time SOPs are issued, we are at the receiving end,” he said.

Laldinthara claimed that they have conducted a survey of over 3,500 shops in Aizawl during the festive season between December and January, out of which only one shop reported about the detection of COVID-19 cases among two employees, who were believed to have contracted from their neighbours.

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odd-even basis in a bid to prevent further spread of COVID-19 according to the guidelines issued on February 4.

The guidelines will be in force in all parts of the state until further order.

In Aizawl district alone, about 80 villages or neighbourhoods are currently under red-zone.

MIMA president PC Laldinthara told PTI that traders and shopkeepers in the state have faced an acute financial crisis due to prolonged lockdown and closure of their shops for several days.

He said that traders and shopkeepers have put their shutters down for more than 200 days now since the first wave of COVID-19 in 2020.

He said that they have incurred huge losses and many traders could not repay their loan and room rents due to prolonged closure of their shops.

“We are now under huge financial burden as we have to pay loan interest, room rent, various bills and also salaries to

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AIZAWL, FEB 11 (PTI): An apex body of merchant associations in Mizoram on Friday asked the state government to revise the existing COVID-19 guidelines and to allow all shops to open on a daily basis under strict adherence to COVID Appropriate Behaviour (CAB) in all parts of the state including in areas declared as ‘red-zone.’

Mizoram Merchants’ Association (MIMA), the umbrella body of 23 trader associations in the state, through a statement, demanded a relief package to compensate their loss if the government fails to allow them to open their shops daily.

The association also said that it would hold an executive meeting to decide its future course of action if the government fails to revise the existing standard operating procedure (SOP).

B a r r i n g e a t e r i e s, shops dealing in groceries, medicines, meat and vegetables, all shops in red-zones are now opened on alternate days on an

of Lakhinagar of Assam’s Cachar district.

After a daylong operation on Thursday failed to yield positive results, the combined team continued the operation on Friday in the mountainous area of New Keiphundai area.

The armed kidnappers fled and fired some rounds on seeing the approaching security forces.

The police are yet to identify the kidnappers but they suspect cadres of NSCN (K) behind the kidnapping of the drivers in connection with extortion from truckers on the highway.

Meanwhile, Manipur Drivers’ Association expressed gratitude to the security forces for rescuing the kidnapped drivers unharmed , the police in Jiribam district and others who extended full cooperation in the rescue operation.

Regd.No.31/2022 I, Mr. T. Liotsapa Sangtam, aged about 28 years, son of Mr. Thsisepi Sangtam, permanent resident of Yingshukur Village, District- Kiphire, Nagaland and presently residing at Bazar ward, Kiphire, District- Kiphire, Nagaland do hereby solemnly affirm and declare as under: 1. That I am a citizen of India and resident of the above referred address.

2. That my correct name is T. Liotsapa Sangtam.

3. That however, in my appointment order and other official documents my name has been inadvertently entered and recorded as T. Liose Sangtam instead of T. Liotsapa Sangtam.

4. That the name T. Liose Sangtam and T. Liotsapa Sangtam belongs and refers to as same and one person.

5. That henceforth, I shall be known and referred by the name T. Liotsapa Sangtam for all official records and correspondence.

6. That the statements in this affidavit are true and nothing material is concealed therein.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I signed this affidavit on this the 5th day of February, 2022 at Kohima, Nagaland.

DEPONENT Solemnly Declared Before me.

Sd/-LIKHASE SANGTAM NOTARY PUBLIC, NAGALAND

DECLARATION

This is to certify that Mr.T. Liotsapa Sangtam, son of Mr. Thsisepi Sangtam is a bonafide citizen of Yingshukur Village. However, in his official records and documents it has been inadvertently entered as T. Liose Sangtam whereas we the village authority has No Objection and certify using his corrected name as T. Liotsapa Sangtam.

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PM distracting people of Goa: Rahul

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi addresses a press conference, in Panaji, Goa, Friday. (PTI) they have done for creating employment in the state and for tourism industry and environment.

Modi, while addressing an election rally at Mapusa near here on Thursday, had slammed the Congress, saying its government took 15 years to liberate Goa from the Portuguese rule.

Targeting him over the remarks, Gandhi said, “Freedom fighters have commented on this issue.

Academics have spoken about it. The sad fact is that the PM does not understand the history of those times.

He does not understand what was going on postWorld War II. He is coming

BJP govt believes in devp but has bulldozers for mafia: Yogi SHAHJAHANPUR/BUDAUN, FEB 11 (PTI): Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Friday said the BJP government believes in development but also has bulldozers for the mafia and that is why women in the state feel safe.

Addressing an election meeting in Shahjahanpur’s Kant, Adityanath targeted the opposition Samajwadi Party, saying while it was in power, it only built boundary walls for graveyards in the name of development.

“The BJP government keeps development on one hand and a bulldozer on the other. This bulldozer is used to run over the mafia.

For this reason, women in the state are safe, and the girls are going to schools,” he said, apparently referring to the authority’s bulldozing of allegedly illegal properties owned by criminals.

Earlier, Ramlila could not be staged in the state, but that has changed now, and goons and the mafia are fleeing, Adityanath added.

During the Samajwadi Party (SP) government, electricity was supplied only to Saifai (hometown of SP chief Akhilesh Yadav) and Azam Khan, but

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under the BJP, villagers are now getting electricity 24 hours, the chief minister said. The SP government withdrew cases registered against the terrorists, while the BJP waived the loans of farmers, he said, adding, “In Shahjahanpur alone, loans of 68,000 farmers were waived.”

The chief minister claimed that in its five years (2012-2017) in power, the Samajwadi Party could not even provide houses to 18,000 people, but the BJP has given houses to 45,950 people in Shahjahanpur.

“The BJP gover nment distributed tablets and smartphones, and the SP did not like this. It has registered a protest with the EC over this. If voted to power, we will distribute smartphones and laptops to two crore people,” he said.

to Goa to distract people from the real issues like environment and employment.”

Gandhi also alleged that the BJP came to power in Goa and ruled it for the last five years by stealing the mandate given to the Congress by the people.

“Congress will get full majority in Goa and there will be no question of any alliances. Congress will act immediately to ensure we have a government in Goa,” he said. In the 2017 elections, the Congress had emerged as the single-largest party in Goa by winning 17 seats in the 40-member House, but could not come

YS Reddy likely to shift capital to Visakhapatnam VIJAYAWADA, FEB 11 (AGENCIES): Andhra Pradesh chief minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy seems to have made up his mind to shift the capital from Amaravati to Visakhapatnam on Ugadi or soon after the Telugu New Year.

It is also likely that Jagan will not pitch for three capitals, and instead go for Visakhapatnam as the lone capital city, sources in the CMO said.

If the remarks made by Jagan during his interaction with the representatives of the Telugu film industry are any indication, he would be shifting his base to the port city anytime in the near future. Also, according to sources in the chief minister’s office, Jagan is planning to move to Visakhapatnam on Ugadi, the Telugu New Year, which falls on April 2 this year. Jagan had dropped enough indications that Visakhapatnam would be the only city that could become the capital city.

Jagan said that Visakhapatnam would become a major city in the next 10 to 20 years with everyone moving to the city. The CM wants to complete the exercise of appointing new collectors and SPs, besides revamping the IAS and IPS officers before shifting to Visakhapatnam.

to power as the BJP, which bagged 13, acted swiftly and allied with some independents and regional parties to form the government under Manohar Parrikar, who died in 2019.

This time, the Congress is contesting the election in alliance with the Goa Forward Party (GFP).

While the Congress has fielded 37 candidates, the GFP has given tickets to three.

Gandhi, who is on a day-long visit to the coastal state, said if his party comes to power, it will start sustainable mining in the state.

“We have studied the subject. There is no problem in restarting the mining in a legal way,” he said.

“We are going to allow legal and sustainable mining which will give a large number of jobs. Your spirit and tourism is a huge asset.

I have spoken to different stakeholders in the tourism industry, we have a plan to completely rejuvenate the tourism industry,” he added.

The iron ore mining industry, which used to be one of the major sources of revenue for Goa, had come to a grinding halt in the state in March 2018 after the

Supreme Court quashed 88 mining leases.

Gandhi said the Congress proposes to invest money and energy for turning Goa into an IT and knowledge hub, so that many young Goans can get jobs in the IT industry.

The Congress leader assured that three linear projects in Goa - a national highway expansion project, Tamnar power transmission project and the South West Railways’ double-tracking that cut through the biodiversity hotspot of Mollem - would be scrapped, if his party comes to power.

“The issue of environment is crucial for Goa. You would say that these three linear projects are in the ambit of central government, but after assuming power, the Congress will resist the idea of these projects. We will not let them happen,” he said. There is also the issue of unemployment in Goa, Gandhi said.

He refused to comment on the raging controversy over ‘hijab’ and said he would not get into any kind of conversation that will distract the people of Goa. “My mission is to focus what is important for the people of Goa,” he said.

‘What is this poverty?’: FM Sitharaman mocks Rahul Gandhi’s 2013 ‘state of mind’ remark

NEW DELHI, FEB 11 (PTI): Faced with criticism for her latest Budget not doing enough for the poor, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday mocked Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s 2013 comment of poverty being a state of mind, and asked if this is the poverty she was supposed to address.

Replying to the discussion on Budget 2022-23 in the Rajya Sabha, she said her Budget brings stability to the economy and has measures to create jobs.

Without naming Gandhi, she referred to the Congress leader’s remarks on poverty to counter the criticism from Opposition leaders, including former finance minister P Chidambaram of the Budget leaving out the poor.

“Please be clear, is this the poverty that you wanted me to address, the poverty of mind?” she said.

As Shiv Sena MP Priyanka Chaturvedi protested that she was mocking the poor, Sitharaman said, “I am not mocking the poor people. The person who had mocked the poor people, you are in alliance with his party.”

Amid repeated inter-

RAMPUR (UP), FEB 11 (PTI): Taking a swipe at the ruling BJP, Samajwadi Party (SP) president Akhilesh Yadav on Friday said while Azam Khan is in jail for building a university, a Union minister’s son is out on bail in a case pertaining to the killing of farmers, and mockingly said this is the “new India” of the saffron party.

He also claimed that the voting in the first phase of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls has given enough indications that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will be wiped out from the state.

The Allahabad High Court on Thursday granted bail to Ashish Mishra, the son of Union minister Ajay Mishra, in a case of violence in Lakhimpur Kheri district of Uttar Pradesh in which eight people, including four farmers, were killed.

Addressing an election meeting here in favour of Khan and other SP candidates, Yadav said, “Even if the BJP performs 700 squats, the farmers will not forgive the party.”

He said Khan’s son Abdullah Azam had to languish in jail for two years on false cases.

“A z a m K h a n wa s also sent to jail on false charges. Cases of buffalo theft, chicken theft and theft of books were lodged

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against him. But the man who crushed farmers under the wheels of a jeep has come out of jail. This is the new India of the BJP,” the former Uttar Pradesh chief minister added.

“The man who built a university for you, fought for your rights and honour, was sent to jail. And the man who crushed farmers using a jeep has been sent out of jail. Nowhere in the world, farmers have been

crushed by a jeep. But since the Uttar Pradesh polls are here, he has got bail and is out,” he said. Khan got the Jauhar University built in Rampur. He is currently lodged in the Sitapur jail on various charges. The SP has fielded Khan from the Rampur Assembly segment and his son from the Suar constituency in the district. Rampur will vote on February 14. “People were waiting for March 10 for the election results, but the way voting took place in the first phase (on Thursday), it seems that the results were out by yesterday evening.

“In the first phase of polling, people from different sections of the society including farmers, have wiped out the BJP and whatever is left (of the party), will be wiped out in the second phase from Saharanpur to Rampur,” Yadav said.

ruptions, she took Congress leaders to the cleaners for the poverty comment.

“What is the poor that you are talking about?,” she asked. “Your former (Congress) president said the poverty does not mean scarcity of food, money or material things. If one possesses self-confidence, then one can overcome it. He said it’s a state of mind. I’ve not named the person but we know who it is.”

As protests broke out, she said the comment was reported in the media and she was just quoting the Congress leader.

Taking the help of a Tamil proverb, Sitharaman said she did not take any name but everybody started defending. “If you want a rough translation of the

Tamil proverb, it is -- during rainy seasons no one knows where the frog is, but you know where it is when it makes the croak-croak.”

Sitharaman took strong exception to senior Congress leader Kapil Sibal’s remark that ‘India is not in Amrit Kaal but in Rahu Kaal since 2014’.

‘Rahu Kaal’ was then, when an ordinance brought by the Prime Minister of their own party was torn in front of the media, she said referring to the 2013 incident of Rahul Gandhi.

“That was the Rahu Kaal”, she said. “Rahu Kaal is what produces G-23” G-23 is a grouping of 23 Congress leaders including Sibal who have voiced concerns over the party’s leadership style.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses a rally, ahead of Uttarakhand Assembly polls, in Almora. (PTI) ALMORA, FEB 11 (PTI): The development of Uttarakhand is among the top priorities of the BJP’s double engine government, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Friday at a rally here for the February 14 assembly elections.

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Criticising Modi over his statement that if Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru wanted, Goa could have been liberated “within hours” in 1947 when India attained independence, Gandhi said the prime minister does not understand the situation of those times and what was happening post-World War II. Addressing a press conference in Margao, around 35 kms from here, Gandhi expressed confidence that the Congress will win majority of seats in the February 14 Goa assembly elections and there won’t be any need for post-poll alliances.

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Complexity of Manipur politics

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close fight appears to be on the cards for the Manipur assembly election where voters will choose 60 members in a two-phased poll on February 28 and March 5. Counting will be held on March 10 as along with other four states. The BJP is contesting all the 60 assembly constituencies followed by the Congress which is contesting 54 seats.

The Congress, CPI, CPI (M), Forward Block, RSP and JD (S) have formed Manipur Progressive Secular Alliance (MPSA). The NPP seems to be gaining some ground and will contest 41 seats. As per poll predictions, both ruling BJP and opposition Congress are locked in a tight fight. It is difficult to make any accurate predictions but by and large, it is expected that the margin of seats between the BJP and Congress could be hardly three to five. Of course, it is quite a different matter when the final tally is arrived after counting. One cannot discount the National People’s Party(NPP) which is also likely to win a sizeable number of seats. The BJP could have sailed through but it has been wracked with dissidence and defections of some of its senior leaders. They have rebelled against the party because defectors were given importance in ticket distribution while the party veterans and loyalists were denied tickets.As of today, opinions speculate that the BJP could win around 20 to 25 seats while the Congress could win anywhere between 15 to twenty seats. As for NPP speculations indicate that the party could win anywhere between 10 to 15 seats. The NPF which is a post-poll coalition partner of BJP will contest 10 out of 20 seats in the hill districts. The party is expected to win anywhere from three to 7 seats. Speculations stem from mostly trends but these could either go right or wrong. Among the leaders, Biren Singh is still more popular than Congress veteran O.Ibobi in a ratio of 5 to 3 in favour of the former. However if the result is a fractured mandate, the Congress could ally with NPP and other like minded parties to stake claim provided the combine tally is around 35 legislators. However, even if non-BJP parties stake claim, the same story could be repeated as it did in 2017 when the Congress despite having won 28 seats and the BJP only 21, was not invited to form the government by Najma Heptullah a former Congress veteran who defected to BJP. The saffron party mustered the majority number after forming a coalition with smaller parties like the National People’s Party (NPP) and the Naga People’s Front (NPF), which had bagged 4 seats each. In 2020, the BJP was practically unseated when its ally NPP as well as three BJP MLAs pulled the plug on it and pledged their support for the Congress. The BJP however managed to stay on despite not having the numbers following the intervention of its central leadership. The Biren Singh government then went on to win the controversial vote of confidence through voice vote. Many BJP leaders and MLAs have defected to other parties and it remains to be seen whether they will cause enough damage to the party in the forthcoming elections.

DailyDevotion Is Your Mind Stayed on God?

You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on You, because he trusts in You. —Isaiah 26:3

Is your mind stayed on God or is it starved?

Starvation of the mind, caused by neglect, is one of the chief sources of exhaustion and weakness in a servant’s life. If you have never used your mind to place yourself before God, begin to do it now.

There is no reason to wait for God to come to you.

You must turn your thoughts and your eyes away from the face of idols and look to Him and be saved (see Isaiah 45:22).

Your mind is the greatest gift God has given you and it ought to be devoted entirely to Him. You should seek to be “bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ…” (2 Corinthians 10:5). This will be one of the greatest assets of your faith when a time of trial comes, because then your faith and the Spirit of God will work together. When you have thoughts and ideas that are worthy of credit to God, learn to compare and associate them with all that happens in nature— the rising and the setting of the sun, the shining of the moon and the stars, and the changing of the seasons. You will begin to see that your thoughts are from God as well, and your mind will no longer be at the mercy of your impulsive thinking, but will always be used in service to God. “We have sinned with our fathers…[and]… did not remember…” (Psalm 106:6-7). Then prod your memory and wake up immediately. Don’t say to yourself, “But God is not talking to me right now.” He ought to be. Remember whose you are and whom you serve. Encourage yourself to remember, and your affection for God will increase tenfold. Your mind will no longer be starved, but will be quick and enthusiastic, and your hope will be inexpressibly bright.

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Post-mortem Full access and participation The opportunities in India-B’desh for women and girls in science relations through paradiplomacy

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eing a career mentor, I had the opportunity to visit different campuses in different places. These campuses include schools, colleges, universities and some special institutes. Be it in India or even in other countries we don’t see many girls in the research or technical studies though there are a number of girls in different courses. Globally it has been seen that women are typically given smaller research grants than their male colleagues and, while they represent 33.3% of all researchers, only 12% of members of national science academies are women. One of the most important and demanded fields such as artificial intelligence, only one in five professionals (22%) is a woman.

Despite a shortage of skills in most of the technological fields driving the Fourth Industrial Revolution, women still account for only 28% of engineering graduates and 40% of graduates in computer science and informatics. Female researchers tend to have shorter, less well-paid careers.

Their work is underrepresented in high-profile journals and they are often passed over for promotion. The situation may differ and data may be even less in a few countries. Girl children or students and women must have full and equal access and participation in science subjects as science and gender equality are both vital for the achievement of the internationally agreed development goals, including the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

In order to achieve full and equal access to and participation in science for women and girls, and further achieve gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls, the United Nations General Assembly declared 11 February as the International Day of Women and Girls in Science in 2015. Recognizing the role of women and girls in science, not only as beneficiaries, but also as agents of change, including in view of accelerating progress towards the achievement of SDG 6 (Clean Water and Sanitation) this year’s theme is “Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion: Water Unites Us” Gender equality has always been a core issue for the United Nations. On 14 March 2011, the Commission on the Status of Women adopted a report at its fifty-fifth session, with agreed conclusions on access and participation of women and girls in education, training and science and technology, and for the promotion of women’s equal access to full employment and decent work. On 20 December 2013, the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted a resolution on science, technology and innovation for development, in which it recognized that full and equal access to and participation in science, technology and innovation for women and girls of all ages is imperative for achieving gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls.

UN reports point out that billions of people around the world will be unable to access

safely managed household drinking water, sanitation, and hygiene services in 2030 unless access progress rates quadruple.

Rising demand, poor management, and failure to conserve water resources, compounded by climate change, represents key challenges, urgently requiring a new sustainable holistic approach to support aligning strategies on water.

The Secretary General of the United Nations, António Guterres in his message said that “we need more women developing artificial intelligence that serves everyone and works for gender equality. We also need to reverse trends that keep young women scientists from pursuing careers that help us address the climate and environmental crises.” “I taught engineering. I know from personal experience that young women and men are equally capable and equally fascinated by science, brimming with ideas, and ready to carry our world forward”, he said.

There is already more focus on girl education and we can ensure that they have access to the technical learning and work opportunities related to science. When guided and mentored properly today’s girl may become leading scientists, change makers, innovators who could certainly enhance sustainable development. Let us commit and ensure that girls get quality education and contribute towards a sustainable future.

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oreign policy is traditionally thought to be the sole domain of sovereign states, but paradiplomacy is the word used to describe regional or subnational governments engaging in international relations.

In India, state governments have limited options because Article 246 of the Constitution solely addresses the Union government when it comes to foreign policy.

Nonetheless, the nature of coalition governments with regional parties at the center, the desire for economic reform and trade interests of various states, as well as the growing need to include key regional stakeholders in foreign policy discourse, have resulted in significant international engagements by states in recent years.

The role of Tamil Nadu’s political parties in India-Sri Lanka relations, Gujarat’s economic outreach to the international community, the Northeastern states’ increasing push to be involved in India’s Act East policy, and the establishment of a ‘states division’ in the Indian Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) are all examples of paradiplomacy gaining traction.

The pandemic of Covid-19 that has swept the globe in the last two years has heightened the demand for paradiplomacy. During the crisis, states such as Assam obtained PPE kits from China and began negotiations with the Royal Bhutanese Government for an oxygen plant via MEA. A case for paradiplomacy involving Assam and Bangladesh is noteworthy in this regard.

This year marks the 50th anniversary of India-Bangladesh relations. In the South Asian region, Bangladesh is India’s most important trading partner.

Its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita has overtaken India’s, as has its ranking in the Sustainable Development Goals.

Bangladesh has taken action against Indian insurgents seeking refuge in the nation under Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s leadership, and the Land Boundary Agreement (LBA) reached in 2015 resolved the boundary dispute.

It was the surrender of a major faction of the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) led by Arabinda Rajkhowa after Sheikh Hasina became Prime Minister in the post-BNP government period, when Assam began the process of recovery after the tenure of the Asom Gana

Parishad (AGP), which had witnessed gruesome violence during insurgency and counterinsurgency operations, that brought relative peace back to the state.

When India signed the LBA protocol in 2011, then Chief Minister (CM) Tarun Gogoi and then-Prime Minister (PM) Manmohan Singh traveled to Bangladesh. Although there was strong opposition to the agreement in Assam, both Dr Singh’s and PM Narendra Modi’s ministries actively engaged the Assam government in the finalization of the accord.

Following the swearing-in ceremony of the new Assam Chief Minister, Himanta Biswa Sarma, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina wrote a letter stating her government’s commitment to improving connectivity in the Northeastern region, as well as an invitation to Assam to benefit from Bangladesh’s socio-economic development and growth trajectory.

In his statement, Chief Minister Sarma emphasized the importance of exploring areas of cooperation with Bangladesh. At the request of the Union government, Assam has increased economic collaboration with Bangladesh in recent years. Bangladesh has established an Assistant High Commission in Guwahati, and has also opened Chattogram and Mangla ports for the shipment of products from the Northeast.

With cooperation from the MEA and the Assam government, the state can press for more rail, road, and air connectivity with Bangladesh, as well as an emphasis on organic food, silk, crude oil, fisheries, tourism, and work permits for talented youth.

A joint outreach to Bangladesh by all Northeastern states could result in improved results in terms of goods transit via inland river systems. The Union government of India should encourage and assist the Northeastern states in taking advantage of its proximity to Bangladesh. To change itself from a landlocked to a land-linked region with the support of Bangladesh, the Northeastern states need to establish a vision plan for their paradiplomacy efforts and engage regularly with Bangladeshi authorities and the MEA. Anup Sinha sinhaanup1990@gmail.com

Are India’s Armed Forces stuck in a ‘Modernisation vs Atmanirbhar’ Dilemma?

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n the run-up to the Finance Minister’s budget speech on 1 February, a story in the media revealed that the defence services had recorded an unusually slow pace of expenditure of their capital allocations. According to the report, the Indian Army had spent just about 40% of its capital budget in the ongoing financial year, with the Indian Air Force managing a figure of around 70%. Only the Indian Navy has achieved 90% spending of its capital outlay.

The Army’s slippage in spending came as a surprise, because it has, for some time, been projecting a requirement for capital budgets much higher than its normal allocation. Last year’s defence budget had even allocated additional capital funds for the purchase of new arms and equipment. That, however, appears not to have helped.

The growing support for ‘vocal for local’ Not unexpectedly, the latest defence budget (202223) has reduced the capital

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allocation for the Army.

While the overall defence budget has registered a healthy though less-thanimpressive rise of 9.48% (from Rs 4.78 lakh crore last year to Rs 5.25 lakh crore in the next fiscal), the Army’s share of capital allocation is down by a significant 12% (more than Rs 4,000 crore).

The Navy’s share of capital, on the other hand, has been raised by over Rs 3,000 crore, including a 43% rise in its modernisation funds. At Rs 47,590 crore, the Navy’s overall budget stands considerably higher than Rs 33,253 crore allotted in the previous financial year, evidence that the government is alive to the China challenge in the Indian Ocean, and the need for assertive presence operations in the littorals. Even the Coast Guard earned a hike of 39% over its allocation last year.

The main talking point of the budget, nevertheless, was the Finance Minister’s announcement that 68% of the modernisation budget would be reserved for do-

mestic industry. The latest in a series of government decisions meant to promote indigenisation, the move seems intended also at reducing the military’s dependence on foreign procurements.

The Finance Minister’s budget speech reiterated the need for the services to meet their warfighting needs from domestic sources. The Defence Minister, who has in the past backed moves to indigenise, including a new DRDO (Defence Research and Development Organisation) procurement manual to facilitate indigenisation, tweeted his support for “vocal for local”, as did many defence veterans and commentators.

Military left grappling with a paradox Yet, something about the government’s move suggests an attempt at ‘forcible indigenisation’. At a time when warfare is becoming increasingly sophisticated, the military is being pressed to accord preference to indigenously designed and manufactured equipment

that may be less than fit-forpurpose. Indeed, on more than a few instances in the past, the military has had occasion to reject sub-par indigenous equipment. This is not to say that all domestic defence industry in India is incompetent. Larson & Toubro (L&T), which has played a key role in India’s submarine-building programme, is an example of a private enterprise that has done yeoman sernavyvice to the military. L&T, however, is an exception rather than the norm. On the whole, private industry in India has struggled to deliver, not least because it is yet to fully invest in research and development (R&D). While the lack of contracts from the military has certainly been an aggravating factor, process inefficiencies in India’s domestic private sector are a reality that must not be overlooked.

The defence budget’s reservation of almost threefourths of the defence capital budget for Atmanirbharta (self-reliance) may be justifi-

able from an indigenisation standpoint, but it leaves the military grappling with a paradox – India’s armed forces must find ways to preserve their operational edge using equipment that may not be best-in-class, or even necessarily reliable.

With some foreign projects still in the pipeline, the Navy, in particular, will have to devise means to acquire proven equipment, made sparse through government diktat.

The Armed Forces remain suspended in a ‘Chakravyuh’ In recognition of the modernisation deficit, the new defence budget sets aside 25% of the total R&D budget for private industry, startups and academia. That may seem significant in percentage terms, but isn’t really so in actual numbers.

In reality, the allocation to private industry for defence R&D in FY-2022-2023 is a mere Rs 3,000 crore, with the overall R&D budget at a conservative Rs 11,981 crore (an increase of about Rs 500

crore over last year’s allocation of Rs 11,375 crore).

One had expected the Finance Minister to announce a dedicated and non-lapsable Modernization Fund for Defence and Internal Security (MFDIS), as per the recommendations of the 15th Finance Commission. It would have been a step in the direction of addressing the issue of unpredictable spending of capital allocation. But the government isn’t still quite ready to allow unspent funds to be reallocated to the defence budget. This means the military will continue to surrender its funds under the current rules and remain in the budgetary ‘chakravyuh’ (labyrinth) that all armed forces are fated to live in.

Abhijit Singh is Senior Fellow at Observer Research Foundation (ORF) and a former naval officer. This is an opinion article and the views expressed are the author’s own.

(As published in The Quint)

Liberalization did not lift poverty; it did the opposite

common impression about the Indian economy is that the entire pre-liberalization period was marked by a low growth rate of the gross domestic product, and persistent, if not growing, poverty, and that with the introduction of neo-liberal policies, the growth rate accelerated and millions were lifted out of poverty; but Narendra Modi, with his demonetization of currency notes and the goods and services tax, has, of late, caused a reversal of this improvement, to which the pandemic of course has greatly added.

This impression is erroneous.

No doubt, Modi’s demonetization and GST have hurt the informal economy, where the bulk of the workforce is employed, causing acute and pervasive distress; and no doubt this distress has been compounded by the pandemic.

But the reading of the pre-Modi years is entirely wrong.

The mass distress of the working people and the rise in the proportion of the absolutely poor in total population began with liberalization. The earlier period after Independence had kept the poverty ratio in check; it is liberalization, in spite of an acceleration in GDP growth, that has seen an increase in the ratio of povertyafflicted population in the total. The

mass suicides of peasants, unheard of earlier, began with liberalization; but, apart from suicides, there is also direct and compelling evidence of an increase in the poverty-ratio.

Poverty estimates in India began systematically in 1973-74. Persons who could not access 2,400 calories per day in rural India and 2,100 calories in urban India were defined as poor (but in practice, a lower-2,200-calorie rural norm was actually applied).

The National Sample Survey conducts a large sample survey every five years, obtaining data on both spending by people and quantities of food consumed, from which nutritional intake can be worked out; hence, the percentage of the population that is poor on this criterion can be determined. The percentages of the poor in rural India were 56 in 1973-74, 56 in 1983-84, 58 in 1993-94, and 68 in 2011-12. The corresponding figures for urban India were 60, 59, 57 and 65.

These figures are in conformity with other trends given in NSS reports, such as declining average daily calorie intake for the rural and urban populations as a whole.

It is clear that the poverty ratio, which was not increasing, though not declining either, in the pre-lib-

eralization period, has climbed up noticeably after liberalization in the early Nineties. The next large consumption survey, for 2017-18, showed such a drop in real spending and in nutritional intake, and hence such an alarming increase in poverty, that the government decided to suppress the findings and to discontinue the surveys in the old form, though they had been designed by P.C. Mahalanobis. The rise in poverty on this criterion after the introduction of neo-liberalism, and only after the introduction of neo-liberalism, is thus indubitable.

We do not have information for the period before 1973-74. It is possible that poverty had declined after Independence, up to 1973-74. This would be in conformity with the fact that per capita availability of foodgrains that had declined in British India from 200 kilogrammes around 1900-01 to only 137 kg in 1946, started climbing back after Independence, reaching about 180 kg by 1990-91. But no matter whether the trend in the poverty-ratio before 1973-74 was flat or declining, the post 1993-94 trend has certainly been upwards.

The official reaction to this phenomenon of growing nutritional deprivation accompanying accelerating GDP growth has been not to deny

such deprivation, but to dissociate it from the definition of poverty. But any redefinition of poverty delinking it from nutritional deprivation, and there have been several such redefinitions, cannot wish away the basic fact of growing nutritional deprivation. This is both significant and meaningful.

It also makes theoretical sense.

Neo-liberalism has meant two things.

One is the withdrawal of State support to peasant agriculture (the withdrawal of the last vestige of such support in the form of minimum support prices for some remaining crops has just been defeated by the peasant agitation).

This has reduced peasant incomes, made them vulnerable to price fluctuations (especially in those cash crops where price support no longer exists), and pushed them into greater debt and distress. Lakhs of poor peasants have migrated to cities in search of employment.

The second implication of neoliberalism has been the removal of all restrictions on the introduction of technological change. This follows from the lowering of trade restrictions; to withstand foreign competition, new technology must be introduced, and such technology is typically laboursaving.

Hence the rate of growth of

labour productivity has increased along with the rate of GDP growth, so that the growth-rate of employment which is the excess of the latter over the former has come down compared to earlier.

Under dirigisme, GDP growth was 3.5 to 4 per cent per annum but employment growth was about 2 per cent; under neo-liberalism however GDP growth may have doubled to 7-8 per cent (before the recent slowdown) but employment growth has halved to about 1 per cent per annum, which is too low to absorb the natural increase in workforce, let alone the displaced peasants migrating from the countryside.

The result has been the sharing of a given amount of work among more workers, impoverishing all of them. It has also reduced the bargaining strength of organized workers, hurting their real wages. All these have accentuated poverty. Waiting for poverty to be significantly reduced under neo-liberalism is like ‘Waiting for Godot’ in Samuel Beckett’s play.

Prabhat Patnaik is Professor Emeritus, Centre for Economic Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

(As published in The Telegraph India)

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Hijab row: SC says will protect May take time before Ashish Mishra walks free fundamental rights, take up plea later

Ashish Mishra escorted by policemen.

most likely not be able to file bail bond for his client on Friday.

The lawyer said that he would file for a correction in the bail order to include IPC section 302 and 120 B. Only after the correction, will he file for the bail, the lawyer said.

On October 3 last year, eight people were killed in Lakhimpur Kheri during the violence that erupted when farmers were protesting against Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya’s visit to the area.

Four farmers were mowed down by an SUV. A driver and two BJP workers were then allegedly lynched by angry farmers.

Kushwaha slams K’taka’s minister for tricolour remark

NEW DELHI, FEB 11 (IANS): Chinese People’s Liberation Army entered into Indian territory in Ladakh region last month and did not allow local people’s herds from grazing, claimed former BJP councillor Urgain Chodon of Nyoma area on Friday.

She put out a video on social media platforms purportedly showing that Chinese troops running after herds. Chodon lives in Koyal, a village on the banks of Senge Zangbu, a tributary of the Indus River, that divides the Himalayan region of Ladakh between India and China.

Chodan tweeted that in January, PLA soldiers came into Indian territory and were “not letting our herds graze in our own territory”.

She alleged that when this was happening, no action was taken by Indian security forces.

Instead of when a herdman cross the undemarcated border to get his livelihood (yak) back, the Indian army caught him from our own territory and sent him to a police station, she alleged.

India and China are engaged in border disputes for the last 22 months. To resolve the issue, India and China military delegates have carried out 14 rounds of talks.

the national flag,” the rural development minister of Karnataka said on Wednesday. He, however, added the tricolour is the national flag now, and it should be respected by everyone.

Earlier, Kushwaha sought action against Sahitya Akademi Award winning playwright Daya Prakash Sinha for likening Asoka the Great to Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb.

In a recent interview, Sinha expressed the view that Asoka was very much like Aurangzeb, as both rose to power after fratricide and projected an image of piety to appear respectable. The JD(U), which draws its support base from Koeris and Kurmis, had mounted an offensive on the issue.

R L D c h i e f Jaya n t Chaudhary hit out at the “system” that granted bail to Mishra. “What a system!

Mowed down four farmers, got bail in four months,” he tweeted in Hindi.

BKU spokesperson Saurabh Upadhyay described the court order granting bail to the minister’s son as an “attack” on democracy.

Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra renewed the opposition demand that the accused’s father should resign.

“Everyone says our Prime Minister is a good man, then why did he not ask his minister to resign?

Does he not have any moral responsibility towards the country?” she said at a poll meeting in Rampur.

“Today that man has got bail and soon, he will be roaming around openly -- the man who mowed you down. But whom did the government save? Did it save the farmers? Where were the police and the administration when farmers were killed?” she asked.

NEW DELHI, FEB 11 (PTI): The Supreme Court Friday said it would protect the Constitutional rights of every citizen and take up at an “appropriate time” the pleas challenging a direction of the Karnataka High Court asking students not to wear any religious clothing in educational institutions, and emphasised that these issues should not “spread” at “national level”.

A bench headed by Chief Justice N V Ramana was told by senior advocate Devdutt Kamat, appearing for the students, that the high court order has led to the “suspension of fundamental right to practice religion under Article 25 of the Constitution” and the plea be listed for hearing on Monday.

Refusing to list the plea on February 14 as sought by Kamat, the bench, also comprising justices A S Bopanna and Hima Kohli, referred to the ongoing hearing of the case in the high court and said it will protect the fundamental right of every citizen and take up the matter at an

“appropriate time”.

At the outset, Kamat said, “I am mentioning a fresh SLP against an interim order passed yesterday in the ‘hijab’ matter by the high court. I would say it is rather strange that the high court says that none of the students should disclose any religious identity when they go to school and college. It has far reaching implications not only for Muslim community but also for other faiths.” He referred to Sikhs wearing turbans and said the high court, by an interim order, has directed all the students that they should go to educational institutions without disclosing religious identity.

“Our respectful submissions are that this amounts to complete suspension of Article 25 (freedom to practice and propagate religion) as far as our clients are concerned. So kindly hear us on the interim arrangement,” Kamat said.

Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, appearing for the Karnataka government, said the high court order has

not even come out and this should have been pointed out.

“The high court is already hearing this on an urgent basis. We do not know what the order is...Wait . Let us see,” the bench said.

All the schools and colleges have been closed, the lawyer said while insisting for an urgent hearing and added, “Whatever interim arrangements this court will decide will be acceptable to all of us”.

“I do not want to express anything. Do not spread these things to a larger level. This is what we want to say. Mr. Kamat, we are also watching. We also know what is happening in the state as well as in the hearing...and you also have to think over whether it is proper to bring those things to Delhi as a national level issue and all that,” the CJI observed.

When told that pure legal questions have emerged from the high court order, the bench said it will definitely examine if something has gone wrong.

‘Withdraw or we will quash it’: SC to UP govt on Students must wear prescribed recovery notices against anti-CAA protestors uniform, says MP minister NEW DELHI, FEB 11 (IANS): Supreme Court on Friday pulled up Uttar Pradesh for taking action on the recovery notices issued to the alleged antiCitizenship Amendment Act (CAA) protestors in December 2019.

A bench of Justices D.Y. Chandrachud and Surya Kant gave last opportunity to the state government to withdraw the proceedings, and added that, if not done then those proceedings will be quashed for being in violation of the law.

“Withdraw the proceedings or we will quash it for being in violation of the law laid down by this court.”

The bench told counsel representing the state government that it acted like a “complainant, adjudicator, and prosecutor” while attaching the properties of the accused.

It pointed out that proceedings initiated in December 2019 were contrary to the law laid down by the apex

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court and they were not sustainable.

Additional Advocate General Garima Prashad, representing the UP government, said over 100 F I R s we r e r e g i s t e r e d against more than 800 rioters and 274 recovery notices were issued against them. She submitted that r e c ove r y o r d e r s we r e passed in 236 while 38 cases were closed.

Citing the new law notified in 2020, Prashad contended that claim tribunals were set up, headed by retired district judges, and earlier these were headed by Additional District Magistrates (ADMs).

Citing the top court’s verdicts in 2009 and 2018, the bench said judicial officers should have been appointed in claim tribunals, but the state government appointed Additional District Magistrates.

The UP government counsel submitted that 451 policemen were injured during the protest and parallel criminal proceedings

and recovery proceedings were conducted.

The bench emphasised that the state government should follow the due process under the law.

“Please examine this, we are giving one opportunity till February 18,” it added.

Justice Surya Kant told Prashad: “This plea concerns only a set of notices sent in December 2019... You can withdraw them with a stroke of a pen. 236 notices in a big state like UP is not a big thing.”

The top court reiterated that it will quash the proceedings conducted prior to the legislation with liberty to take the recourse under the new law.

It clarified that proceedings which are pending will be under the new law. “You tell us next Friday what you want to do and we will close this matter for orders,” the bench told Prashad.

The apex court made these observations during the hearing of a plea by

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Parwaiz Arif Titu, who sought quashing of notices sent to alleged protestors and claimed such notices have been sent in an arbitrary manner.

The district administration had sent these notices to recover losses caused by damage to public properties during the antiCAA agitations in Uttar Pradesh.

The plea cited that a notice was sent to a person, who died six years ago at the age of 94.

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INDORE, FEB 11 (PTI): Amid protests in Karnataka over some colleges not allowing girls to wear the hijab in the campus, a Madhya Pradesh min-

ister on Friday batted for uniforms in educational institutions.

Madhya Pradesh Spiritual, Culture and Tourism Minister Usha Thakur was replying to a query on the hijab controversy while speaking to reporters here.

Without using the term hijab or alluding to the controversy, she said, “Educational institutions have their own discipline.

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PATNA, FEB 11 (PTI): Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s key political aide Upendra Kushwaha, who has been rankling the ally BJP over alleged denigration of Emperor Asoka, on Friday found fresh ammunition in a controversial statement by a Karnataka minister.

The JD(U) parliamentary board chief latched on to reports of K S Eshwarappa, a minister in the BJP-ruled southern state, having said that the tricolour may be replaced by a saffron flag sometime in the future.

“First Emperor Asoka was insulted. Now a campaign seems to be on against the tricolour. How can India tolerate this?” Kushwaha, a former Union minister, tweeted in Hindi.

Tagging Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Karnataka Chief Minister B S Bommai, Kushwaha also asked for prompt action against the minister, calling him a “deshdrohi” (antinational). “... sometime in the future, after 100 or 200 or 500 years, Bhagwa dhwaj (saffron flag) may become

A journalist also died in the violence that triggered outrage among opposition parties and farmer groups agitating over the Centre’s now-repealed farm laws.

Videos that triggered anger and shock showed an SUV ramming farmers and crushing them without breaking speed.

Meanwhile, the Allahabad High Court has raised questions about some of the charges listed by the police against Ashish Mishra, including firing at protesters.

“Considering the facts and circumstances of the case in toto, it is evident that as per the FIR, the role of firing was assigned to the applicant (Ashish Mishra) for killing the protesters, but

during the course of investigation, no such firearm injuries were found either on the body of any of the deceased or on the body of any injured person,” the court said.

The high court said it “could not shut its eyes to the killing of three persons in the Thar SUV, including the driver, who were killed by the protesters”.

Photographs “clearly revealed the brutality of the protesters”, the court said, naming those killed as Hari Om Mishra, Shubham Mishra and Shyam Sunder.

Stating that only four accused had been charged, the court said organisers of the protest must help investigators with giving details of others seen beating up the BJP workers.

The high court order to give bail to Ashish Mishra has created an uproar among opposition parties.

The Bhartiya Kisan Union (BKU) and the Rashtriya Lok Dal expressed displeasure, while Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra renewed her demand for the Minister’s resigna-

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LU C K N OW, F E B 1 1 (IANS): The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court may have granted bail to Ashish Mishra, an accused in the Lakhimpur Kheri violence last year, but it may take more time before he walks free.

A closer look at the order reveals that the court has not granted him bail on all the sections he has been charged with.

The charge sheet filed by the Lakhimpur Police in the court says that Mishra has been charged with offences under IPC section 147, 148, 149, 302, 307, 326, 34, 427 and 120 B, as well as section 3/25, 5/27 and 39 of the Arms Act. However, the court order granted him bail for charges under IPC section 147 148, 149, 307, 326 and 427 along with section 34 and 30 of the Arms Act. The bail order has no mention of the IPC section 302 and 120 B. The two sections pertain to murder and criminal conspiracy, respectively.

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PIL in HC against Maha govt’s move on sale of wine

Review of ‘serious allegations’ on, trust the Board: New BharatPe CEO

MUMBAI, FEB 11 (PTI): A public interest litigation (PIL) has been filed in the Bombay High Court to challenge the decision taken last month by the Maharashtra government, allowing the sale of wine in supermarkets and walk-in stores in the state.

The petition filed by Sandip Kusalkar, a social worker, said the government’s decision was defeating the aim and objective of de-glamorising alcohol consumption and would facilitate a person to buy alcohol on his own without any supervision. The petitioner, who claims to be working closely with teenagers, young adults and underprivileged children, who are either orphans or unable to receive parental care, said such children are susceptible to social vices like alcohol or drug addiction and gambling. In its meeting held on January 27, the state cabinet allowed the sale of wine in supermarkets and walk-in stores across the state. A minister had

then said that the decision was taken to give a boost to fruit-based wineries which provide additional income to farmers. The petition filed in the high court claimed that the state’s decision was contrary to a government resolution of August 2011 that adopts a de-addiction policy. The PIL claimed that the aim of the de-addiction policy adopted by the state government was to curb proliferation of addictions among youth, and to take efforts to discourage people from indulging in drinking habits. “The resolution casts a duty upon the state to prohibit consumption of intoxicating drinks and drugs, which are injurious to health, and to improve the standard of living and improve the public health at large,” the PIL said.

The government resolution says that there shall be no sale of alcohol near educational, government offices, parks, hospitals, religious places and state and national highways, it added.

NEW DELHI, FEB 11 (IANS): As the plot around BharatPe and its Co-founder/Managing Director Ashneer Grover saga thickens, the newlyappointed CEO Suhail Sameer has written a letter to disgruntled employees, saying that there are some “serious allegations” based on internal complaints which are being reviewed and they must keep their faith in the Board.

Assuring them to have a “trust” in the Board, Suhail said that it is his “commitment, also on behalf of the wider leadership, that we’ll emerge stronger from all this”.

He said the company will set up a town-hall meeting towards the end of this month to “share updates about governance review” and other announcements.

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KOLKATA, FEB 11 (PTI): EVC Global, which currently offers location and mapping service of electric charging stations operators across the country on its app, is seeking angel funding to install 10,000 such stations by 2022, a company official said.

Sensing opportunity in the electric charging station, other startups have also announced their plans to install EV charging stations.

Delhi-based startup ElectriVa will also install and operate 100 electric vehicle charging stations in the national capital.

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advisory firm, is expected to submit its report into financial irregularities at the firm during Grover’s time in “a couple of weeks”, global audit firm PwC has also been roped in auditing the functioning of the fintech platform.

Sameer said in the letter that the “internal governance review is being carried out by firms (Shardul Amarchand, A&M and PwC). Based on some internal complaints, we decided to do a full audit of our governance processes”.

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NEW DELHI, FEB 11 (PTI): India’s industrial production rose by 0.4 per cent in December 2021, according to official data released on Friday.

According to the Index of Industrial Production (IIP) data by the National Statistical Office (NSO), the manufacturing sector’s output contracted by 0.1 per cent in December 2021. In December 2021, the mining output climbed 2.6 per cent, and power generation increased by 2.8 per cent.

The IIP had grown by 2.2 per cent in December 2020.

During April-December this fiscal, the IIP grew 15.2 per cent against a 13.3 per cent contraction in the same period last year. Industrial production has been hit due to the coronavirus pandemic since March 2020, when it had contracted 18.7 per cent.

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ed the performance of the Executive Chairman and “unanimously approved the reappointment of Chandrasekaran as the Executive Chairman for the next five years.”

Chandrasekaran, 58, said, “It has been a privilege to lead the Tata Group for the last five years and I am delighted at the opportunity to lead the Tata Group for another five years, in its next phase.”

Chandra, as he is usually referred to, took over the reins of Tata Sons in 2017 at

commerce super-app -- one of Chandra’s key projects -- to market its swathe of consumer products and services as part of a digital makeover.

The group is also reinventing its aviation businesses after successfully acquiring Air India Ltd from the central government last year.

Under Chandra, Tatas sold the mobile phone business of Tata Teleservices to Bharti Airtel in an attempt to cut losses. In May 2018, the group made one of the biggest acquisitions to date when Tata Steel took over Bhushan Steel by paying Rs 35,200 crore under the insolvency process.

Tata Steel, which managed to turn around the company renamed as Tata Steel BSL, however, couldn’t close a deal to sell its European business to ThyssenKrupp.

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a time when the group faced a leadership crisis and a trust deficit after the ouster of his predecessor, Cyrus Mistry, by the board. Until then, Chandra, a trusted lieutenant of the Tatas, had helmed TCS, the crown jewel and cash cow of the group.

A large part of Chandra’s tenure was spent fighting the legal battle with Mistry.

He joined the Tata Sons board in October 2016, was designated chairman in January 2017 and took official charge in February 2017. He also chairs the boards of operating companies such as Tata Steel, Tata Motors, Tata Power and TCS. Continuity in leadership will give investors and stakeholders confidence in the 154-year-old conglomerate that makes salt to luxury sedans. The group is working on an all-in-one e-

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raised by Congress member Chhaya Verma on cryptocurrency.

Ve r m a h a d a s k e d about the legitimacy of taxing cryptocurrency.

In her Budget speech on February 1, Sitharaman had said that only RBIissued ‘Digital Rupee’ will be recognised as currency, and the government will levy a 30 per cent tax on gains made from any other private digital assets from April 1.

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NEW DELHI, FEB 11 (PTI): N Chandrasekaran was on Friday reappointment as the chairman of Tata Sons - the holding company of the salt-to-software Tata Group - for a second five-year term.

His reappointment was backed by Ratan Tata, chairman of Tata Trusts, the majority owners of Tata Sons.

Tata Sons board met on Friday to review the last five years and consider the reappointment of its Executive Chairman N Chandrasekaran, it said in a statement.

“Ratan. N. Tata who was a special invitee to this meeting expressed his satisfaction on the progress and performance of the Tata Group under the leadership of Chandrasekaran. He recommended his term be renewed for a further fiveyear period,” it said.

The Board commend-

Nirmala Sitharaman

has proposed a 1 per cent TDS on payments towards virtual currencies beyond Rs 10,000 in a year and taxation of such gifts in the hands of the recipient.

The threshold limit for TDS would be Rs 50,000 a year for specified persons, which include individuals/ HUFs who are required to get their accounts audited under the I-T Act. Also, no deduction in respect of any expenditure or allowance shall be allowed while computing income from transactions in such assets. It has also specified that losses from the transfer of virtual digital assets will not be allowed to be set off against any other income.

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NEW DELHI, FEB 11 (PTI): Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday said the government has sovereign right to tax profit made from cryptocurrency transactions, and the decision on banning or not banning will be taken based on feedback from consultations.

Replying to the general discussion on Union Budget, the minister said, “I am not going to legalise it or ban it at this stage.

Banning or not banning will come subsequently, when consultations give me input”.

About the profit emanating from transactions in cryptocurrencies, she stated that “(Whether it is) legitimate or illegitimate, it is a different question, but I will tax because it is a sovereign right to tax”.

The minister was responding to the questions

While many findings of governance review are “pretty standard”, there are “a couple of more serious allegations,” he wrote, saying the review is still “substantiating the allegations”.

Sameer said that whatever the Board decides, it will be in the best interest of employees, merchants and consumers.

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MOSCOW/ADELAIDE, FEB 11 (AGENCIES): Russia is now massing yet more troops near Ukraine and an invasion could come at any time, perhaps before the end of this month’s Winter Olympics, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Friday.

Commercial satellite images published by a private U.S. company showed new Russian military deployments at several locations near Ukraine.

In his starkest warning yet to Americans in Ukraine to get out now, President Joe Biden said he would not send troops to rescue U.S. citizens in the event of a Russian assault.

“Things could go crazy quickly,” Biden told NBC News. Blinken, visiting Australia, told a news conference: “We’re in a window when an invasion could begin at any time, and to be clear, that includes during the Olympics.”

The Beijing games end on Feb. 20.

“Simply put, we continue to see very troubling signs of Russian escalation,

Pak blames India for unrest in Balochistan NEW DELHI, FEB 11 (IANS): In a classic case of the pot calling the kettle black, Pakistan which is widely acknowledged as a terror sponsor is blaming India for the unrest in Balochistan.

The Pakistan Foreign Office made it clear that there was strong evidence that India was involved in unrest in Balochistan, The News reported. Islamabad blamed New Delhi for its ‘sinister campaign’ to sabotage CPEC and also rejected the “unwarranted” and “preposterous” remarks it made on the PakistanChina Joint statement of February 6, the report said.

“Pakistan categorically rejects the unwarranted and preposterous comments made by the spokesperson of the Indian Ministry of External Affairs on the PakistanChina Joint Statement of 6 February 2022, and we also strongly reject India’s persistent propaganda against China-Pakistan Economic Corridor.

A satellite image shows a close-up of troops and equipment at Oktyabrskoye air base, Crimea February 10. (Reuters)

including new forces arriving at the Ukrainian border,” Blinken said.

Russia has already massed more than 100,000 troops near Ukraine, and this week it launched joint military exercises in neighbouring Belarus and naval drills in the Black Sea. Moscow denies plans to invade Ukraine, but says it could take unspecified “military-technical” action unless a series of demands are met, including promises from NATO never to admit Ukraine and to withdraw forces from Eastern Europe.

Several Western countries launched diplomatic

pushes this week to persuade Russia to back down, but Moscow brushed them off, yielding no concessions to French President Emmanuel Macron who visited on Monday and openly mocking British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss during a visit on Thursday.

Four-way talks in Berlin between Russia, Ukraine, Germany and France, part of a longstanding peace process in a conflict between Ukraine and Russian-backed separatists, also yielded no progress on Thursday.

Paris said the Russian delegation had agreed to

hold more talks but demanded Kyiv negotiate directly with the separatists, a “red line” which Ukraine has rejected since 2014.

U. S. - b a s e d M a x a r Technologies, which has been tracking the buildup of Russian forces, said images taken on Wednesday and Thursday showed new deployments in several locations in western Russia, Belarus and Crimea, which Russia annexed in 2014.

The images could not be independently verified by Reuters.

In Crimea Maxar identified 550 troop tents and hundreds of vehicles newly deployed at Oktyabrskoye airfield north of the city of Simferopol, as well as deployments near the towns of Novoozernoye and Slavne.

In Belarus it identified a new deployment of troops, military vehicles and helicopters at Zyabrovka airfield near Gomel, less than 25 km (15 miles) from the border with Ukraine. And in western Russia it found a large new deployment of troops and forces at the Kursk training area, approximately

110 km (68 miles) to the east of the Ukrainian border.

Russia has not disclosed how many troops it has deployed and says it has the right to move forces around on its territory as it sees fit. It insists they pose no external threat.

Dialogue of the deaf and mute Western countries have mostly stood together in threatening economic sanctions against Russia if it invades Ukraine, but have given conflicting views on the immediacy of the threat.

The United States and Britain have both warned an invasion could come within days. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Thursday the coming days would be the most dangerous moment in Europe’s biggest security crisis for decades. France’s Macron, by contrast, has said he thinks Russia does not have designs on Ukraine but wants changes to European security arrangements, and the existing Franco-German-led peace process for Ukraine’s separatist conflict provides a way out.

Quad a tool to contain China, stoke confrontation: Beijing BEIJING, FEB 11 (PTI): Terming the Quad alliance between the US, India, Australia and Japan as a “tool” to contain China’s rise, Beijing said on Friday that the grouping is a “deliberate move” to stoke confrontation and it is doomed to fail.

China, which has territorial disputes with many countries in the strategic Indo-Pacific region, has been opposing the Quad alliance since its formation.

In November 2017, the US, Australia, India and Japan gave shape to the long-pending proposal of setting up the Quad to develop a new strategy to keep the critical sea routes in the Indo-Pacific free of any influence, amid China’s growing military presence in the strategic region.

“China believes that the Quad mechanism is only a tool to contain China,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian told a media briefing here while responding to a question that Quad foreign ministers opened their talks in Melbourne, saying that

Zhao Lijian

the countries need to stand up those who seek to coerce them raising the longterm issue of China’s rising power.

“This is a deliberate move to stoke confrontation and undermine international solidarity and cooperation,” he said.

“I want to stress that the Cold War is long gone and any attempt to create an alliance as aimed containing China will not be popular and such moves are doomed to fail,” he said.

“Relevant countries should abandon the outdated Cold War mentality to correct their wrong practices of advancing bloc confrontation and geopolitical rivalry. Instead, they should

play a constative role to promote peace and stability in the Asia Pacific region,” he said.

Ahead of the Quad Foreign Ministers meeting, Zhao said on Wednesday that China rejects creating exclusive cliques and inciting bloc confrontation.

“We hope the US and other countries concerned will grasp the trend of the times, adopt a proper mindset and discard the Cold War mentality,” he said.

The foreign ministers of the Quad grouping on Friday held extensive talks in Melbourne amid escalating tension between Russia and NATO countries over Ukraine, the Afghan crisis and increasing concerns over China’s “coercion” in the Indo-Pacific region.

China claims nearly all of the disputed South China Sea, though Taiwan, the Philippines, Brunei, Malaysia and Vietnam all claim parts of it.

Beijing has built artificial islands and military installations in the South China Sea.

Biden to split frozen Afghan Covid vax have reached just half of world population funds for 9/11 victims, relief WASHINGTON, FEB 11 (AP): President Joe Biden is expected to issue an executive order on Friday to move some $7 billion of the Afghan central bank’s assets frozen in the US banking system to fund humanitarian relief in Afghanistan and compensate victims of the Sept 11, 2001, attacks, according to a US official familiar with the decision.

The order will require US financial institutions to facilitate access to $3.5 billion of assets for the Afghan relief and basic needs. The other $3.5 billion would remain in the United States and be used to fund ongoing litigation

by US victims of terrorism, the official said. The official spoke on the condition of anonymity because the decision had not been formally announced.

International funding to Afghanistan was suspended and billions of dollars of the country’s assets abroad, mostly in the United States, were frozen after the Taliban took con-

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trol of the country in midAugust.

The country’s longtroubled economy has been in a tailspin since the Taliban takeover. Nearly 80% of Afghanistan’s previous government’s budget came from the inter national community. That money, now cut off, financed hospitals, schools, factories and government ministries.

Desperation for such basic necessities has been further exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic as well as health care shortages, drought and malnutrition.

The official noted that US courts where 9/11

US has always used Pak, while China stood the test of time: PM Imran Khan ISLAMABAD, FEB 11 (PTI): The US has always used Pakistan to meet its strategic goals and when the purpose was served it abandoned and slapped sanctions on the country, while “friend” China stood the test of time, Prime Minister Imran Khan has said.

Khan made the remarks during a recent interview with Eric Li, Director of the Advisory Committee of China Institute of Fudan University, The News International newspaper reported on Friday.

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friendly ties with the United States. However, when the US feels that it no longer needs Pakistan, it distances itself from it.

“Whenever the US needed us, they established relations, and Pakistan became a frontline state (against Soviet), and then

abandoned it and slapped sanctions on us” when its purposes were served, he said, citing an example of the Pak-US ties in 80’s when the erstwhile Soviet Union had deployed its troops in war-torn Afghanistan.

Later, the prime minister continued, friendly relations between the US and Pakistan were restored and Islamabad became a friend of Washington, according to the excerpt of the interview recorded during his recent visit to China from February 3-6 to attend the opening ceremony of Beijing Winter Olympics.

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victims have filed claims against the Taliban will also have to take action for the victims to be compensated.

The executive order is expected to be signed by Biden later on Friday.

The Taliban have called on the international community to release funds and help stave off a humanitarian disaster.

Afghanistan has more than $9 billion in reserves, including just over $7 billion in reserves held in the United States. The rest is largely in Germany, the United Arab Emirates, Switzerland and Qatar.

The Taliban are certain to oppose the split.

As of January the Taliban had managed to pay salaries of its ministries but was struggling to keep employees at work. They have promised to open schools for girls after the Afghan new year at the end of March, but humanitarian organisations are saying money is needed to pay teachers.

NEW YORK, FEB 11 (IANS): Even after more than a year of Covid vaccine drives, just over half the world’s population has been fully vaccinated, media reported.

According to Our World in Data, nearly 54 per cent of the world’s population is fully vaccinated against the coronavirus, Washington Post reported.

Nearly 62 per cent have received at least one dose of a coronavirus vaccine.

However, the figures show a stark global divide.

The data shows that less than 11 per cent of people have received at least one dose against Covid in lowincome countries.

That number jumps to about 55 per cent for lowermiddle-income countries and nearly 80 per cent for both upper-middle-income and high-income nations, the data showed.

Public health experts, including the World Health Organisation, have been warning that vaccine inequity is prolonging the pandemic.

The US, countries of

the European Union and others were criticised for buying up most of the early global supply of coronavirus vaccines, the report said.

Covax, a UN-backed global vaccine-sharing initiative, was created in April 2020 to ensure vaccine access to countries that cannot afford The initiative struggled in the beginning as rich countries stockpiled them. In January, this year, Covax shipped its billionth dose in mid-January, and according to the WHO, African countries were sent twice as many vaccine doses in January as six

months ago.

However, about 100 million Covid-19 vaccines, offered to third world nations were near expiry which the countries were forced to dump, according to the UN’s children’s fund Unicef.

“More than 9.4 billion vaccine doses have now been administered globally. But 90 countries did not reach the target of vaccinating 40 per cent of their populations by the end of last year, and 36 of those countries have not yet vaccinated 10 per cent of their populations,” WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said.

Ghebreyesus said that more than 85 per cent of the population of Africa about one billion people - is yet to receive a single dose of vaccine.

“We cannot end the acute phase of the pandemic unless we work together to close these gaps,” he warned.

Meanwhile, the WHO has also said that Africa is on track to end the pandemic.

But, “continued vigilance is key” to dealing with outbreaks and monitoring the possible emergence of new variants, it said.

“Although Africa still lags behind on vaccination, with only 11 percent of the adult population fully vaccinated, we now have a steady supply of doses flowing in,” said Matshidiso Moeti, the WHO’s regional director for Africa.

Now, she said, efforts should be focused on “scaling-up Covid-19 vaccine uptake” in African countries, as well as increasing the capacity for testing and surveillance of coronavirus variants.

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advertiSement The State Health Agency(AB PM-JAY) Directorate of Health & Family Welfare, Government of Nagaland invites application from interested candidates to fill the following post purely on contractual basis.

Ayushman Bharat PM-JAY the flagship public Health Insurance Scheme which aims at providing a health cover of Rs. 5 lakhs per family per year for secondary and tertiary care hospitalization. Over 2.3 lakh poor and households in Nagaland are covered under the scheme.

Sl. Position number monthly minimum educational evaluation criteria (total: 100 marks) of post remuneration Qualification criteria marks 1. Medical 1 Entry Salary essential: 1. MBBS from a recognized medical college 50 marks Management & ` 75,000/• MBBS from a recognized 2. Additional Qualification Quality Manager Medical College 20 marks 2.1 MBA/PGDM(Health/hospital Addl 10% of desirable: Administration/Healthcare) or MPH entry salary • MBA or Postgraduate Diploma 2.2. Years of work experience in the area of for every 5 10 marks in Business Administration healthcare quality(max. 10 marks) years of work or Master of Health/Hospital experience 2.2.1 More than 10 years of work Administration or Master experience in the area of 10 marks of Public Health or MBA healthcare quality in healthcare would be of 2.2.2 At least 2-10 years of work additional advantage experience in the area of 5 marks • At least 10 years of work healthcare quality experience in the area of health 2.2.3 0-2 years of work experience in the care quality.

0 marks area of healthcare quality • Experience in insurance or 3. Experience in insurance or TPA industry in TPA industry in the area of 10 marks the area of provider management is desirable provider management is Interview 10 marks desirable. information: 1. Interested candidate may download the Application Form from uhc.nagaland.gov.in 2. Maximum Age for applicants as on 31st January 2022: 40 years 3. Contract will be for a period of 1 year with possibility of renewal subject to satisfactory performance.

4. Filled Application form may be submitted at room 215, State Health Agency (AB-PMJAY), Directorate of Health and Family Welfare, Ruziezou, Kohima Nagaland, 797001.

5. Deadline for submission of application is 28/02/2022 12:00PM. 6. Applicants not fulfilling the essential qualification criteria will not be accepted.

7. In case of multiple candidates obtaining same marks after interview, further selection criteria will be as per merit based on degree certificate.

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Hair Health: Natural Treatments for Hair Loss Onion Juice

bald, this hasn’t been proved true for people. In fact, too much selenium can actually cause hair loss, as well as problems with your memory.

Sulfur in onion juice may help regrow hair.

The idea is that the sulfur in onion juice helps hair regrowth. There’s not much Melatonin research on this, but a small study tested it in people with alopecia areata, which causes Melatonin may help boost hair growth and slow hair loss. patchy hair loss. Half put onion juice on their scalp twice a day; the rest used tap water.

You may know melatonin as the “sleep hormone.” Many people take it as a suppleAfter 2 weeks, 74% of the onion juice group had regrown some hair, compared with 13% ment for a good night’s rest or to cut jet lag. But a cream with melatonin can also boost of tap water users. If you try it, you might want to add something that masks the smell. hair growth or slow down hair loss. The reasons aren’t clear, but in a study, people who used a melatonin mixture on their scalp saw less hair loss in 30 days. Struggle with Iron dandruff ? Melatonin could help that too. As with all supplements, check with your Low iron levels may contribute to hair loss.

This crucial nutrient helps your body make blood, and low levels of it are linked doctor first. to hair loss. The reason why isn’t clear, but make sure you eat plenty of iron-rich foods Pumpkinseed Oil like meat, fish, poultry, tofu, broccoli, and all kinds of greens. Talk to your doctor Pumpkinseed oil may help regrow hair. before taking iron pills, though. Too much can cause vomiting and constipation. Very Daily doses of pumpkinseed oil taken by mouth could safely help bring your hair high doses can even be fatal. back. While more research is needed, one small study found that men who took four capsules of PSO each day for 6 months saw their hair count increase by 40%. One reaBiotin son why? Like saw palmetto, pumpkinseed oil could block testosterone from changing Biotin in food and supplements may help with hair loss.

Some doctors prescribe biotin (a.k.a. vitamin B7) for hair loss and get good results. into a compound called DHT, which is linked to hair loss.

(It’s also good for your skin.) Although it’s safe, you probably get plenty from the foods Green Tea you eat. Eggs, wheat germ, and mushrooms all contain a high amount of biotin. Don’t ECEG in green tea helps with hair growth. worry so much about putting it on your scalp. While many hair products boast that they An extract made from its compounds may help a range of health issues, including contain it, there’s not much proof that your hair loss will be helped by them. hair loss. It may be a compound called EGCG that helps with hair growth. Researchers saw a difference when they gave balding rats green tea extract for 6 months. But that Zinc hasn’t been tested in people. Use green tea supplements with caution, though. Some Zinc strengthens hair follicles.

Since zinc helps with most processes in your body that keep you alive, it’s no sur- contain other compounds that can make you sick. prise that it also strengthens the follicles under your scalp that nourish your hair. Your Platelet-Rich Plasma (PRP) body doesn’t have a way to store zinc, so you need some in your diet every day. If your PRP injections in the scalp may help your hair grow. levels are low, there’s some proof that taking zinc by mouth could help with hair loss, Doctors sometimes inject platelet-rich plasma (PRP), which comes from your own but more research is needed. Your doctor will likely have you try other treatments first. blood, to help with healing after surgery. PRP, which is rich in growth factors, might also help your hair grow. You give a little blood, and a lab spins it in a centrifuge to home Saw Palmetto in on platelet-rich plasma protein. You then get it injected into different points on your Saw palmetto may help regrow hair.

From the fruit of a small palm tree comes this herbal remedy, which is sometimes scalp. Many people who have PRP notice their hair grows back -- thicker than before. hyped as a hair growth wonder drug. Some studies have shown that it keeps the male Amino Acids hormone testosterone from breaking down, which can help prevent hair loss. While Get enough amino acids if you want to grow healthy hair. it’s unclear how well saw palmetto works, the good news is that it’s believed to be safe, These are “building blocks” for proteins. They help your body work the way it can be taken with other drugs, and doesn’t cost much to try. should. Some amino acids -- such as cysteine and L-lysine -- play a special role in keeping your hair healthy and growing. But you don’t need to take them as supplements. You Aromatherapy should get plenty of amino acids through a healthy diet. Good food sources include Essential oils may help regrow hair.

Sandalwood, lavender, rosemary, and thyme oils have been used to treat hair loss cottage cheese, fish, eggs, seeds and nuts, whole grains, and meat. for over 100 years. A compound in them is thought to boost hair growth. You can try Smart Hair Care rubbing one or more of these oils into your scalp for at least 2 minutes every night.

Be gentle with your hair to guard against hair loss.

Then, wrap your head in a warm towel to help it absorb. A bonus: This nightly massage In some cases, you can help your own hair loss with small and easy changes. Be smells good and can help you feel more relaxed. gentle when you wash, dry, and brush your hair. Don’t yank! Limit the use of curling irons and hot rollers, which can weaken your hair. (So can often wearing your hair in a Silicon tight ponytail, braid, or bun.) If you smoke, now’s a great time to quit. Men who light High levels of silicon may help slow down hair loss.

High levels of this common element can slow down hair loss. (Not to mention, up are more likely to have hair loss than those who don’t. make your locks brighter.) You’ll find different types of silicon supplements at the store, Tame Your Stress but a manmade version called orthosilicic acid (OSA) may be absorbed best by your Combat stress to deter hair loss. body. Still, talk to your doctor first. It’s not clear how safe silicon supplements are.

Going through a rough time can sometimes lead to hair loss. Try to head it off by getting a better grip on your stress. Try techniques like meditation, deep breathing, Selenium guided imagery, relaxation exercises, or talking to a counselor. Exercise is also a great Selenium helps keep hair follicles healthy.

Some hair growth supplements contain a nutrient called selenium. It can help your option. These are all easy to learn and proven to help ease tension. Keep in mind, the body fight off any toxins you’re exposed to (like through smoking or unclean air) and best treatment for your hair loss depends on the cause. Talk to your doctor for guidance. keep your hair follicles healthy. Although rats and mice with low selenium start to go (Reviewed By: Stephanie S. Gardner, MD)

oted film director-producer Ravi Tandon, known for directing Amitabh Bachchan’s “Khuddar” and Rishi KapoorNeetu Kapoor’s “Khel Khel Mein”, died in the wee hours of Friday at his residence here. He was 87.

Ravi Tandon, father of Bollywood actor Raveena Tandon and Rajiv Tandon, passed away due to respiratory failure. “He was suffering from lung fibrosis from past few years. Today he passed away due to respiratory failure at 3.30 am,” a family member told PTI. Raveena, 47, shared a heartfelt tribute to her father on Instagram.

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The Changkilari Telongjem Kohima extends a hearty congratulations to Smti. Hokhuli K.Chishi, wife of Er. Indianoba Tally (Rtd. Chief Engineer), on being inducted into the prestigious Indian Administrative Service (IAS).

Her well deserved and outstanding achievement is indeed a matter of pride and honour for the Telongjem.

May God Almighty continue to bless and guide her as she takes up new challenges and tasks in her new position.

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We, the Zeliangrong Baptist Church Dimapur would like to express our deepest appreciation to everyone who helped and supported us in making our Golden Jubilee Celebration a success.

First of all, we gave all the Glory to God. We give our sincere thanks to the Nagamese Baptist Church Association (NBCA) Executive Secretary Rev. Dr. R. Meren Jamir and his colleagues and all the Pastors and Leaders under NBCA for their continuous guidance and support, we also thank all the Pastors and Leaders under Dimapur Baptist Pastor Fellowship, all the Baptist Association Leaders from ZBCC, LBA, RBA, ZBA Nagaland, Inpui Naga Baptist Association Manipur, ZBC Tamenglong, ZBA Assam, Pastors and Leaders of different churches under Jalukie Valley and Assam. Our Church missions Pastors and Church in-laws, our immediate neighbouring churches, Village Council Leaders and Officer in Charge (C.O) from 121 INF BN (TA) GARH RIF for giving us parking space and feast hall. We also thank all the individuals, invitees, Church members for your support both physical, financial and prayer support. May God bless you all.

Rapheal Newmai Jeliangga Kamei Secretary Chairman Golden Jubilee Committee Golden Jubilee Committee Zeliangrong Baptist Church Zeliangrong Baptist Church Dimapur, Nagaland Dimapur, Nagaland

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keeper Julen Aguirrezabala had produced a reflex save to deny Bryan Gil following a cross from Gonzalo Guedes.

It was clear from the start that it wasn’t going to be a flowing game of football, with Valencia pressing high up the pitch and looking to stop their rivals moving the ball comfortably.

Duro headed a Jose Luis Gaya cross over the Athletic bar, while Dimitri Foulquier and Thierry Cor-

rea combined well down the right for the visitors, who kept breaking up the home side’s play with a series of fouls, Xinhua reports. It wasn’t until the 31st minute that Inaki Williams found space down the right, but he could only shoot at Giorgi Mamardashvili from a tight angle.

Athletic took the lead in the 37th minute when Iker Muniain was brought down on the edge of the Valencia area and Raul Garcia

MANCHESTER, FEB 11 (AGENCIES): Manchester City’s lead over Liverpool isn’t enough to guarantee them the Premier League title, manager Pep Guardiola said on Friday, adding that his team may need 95 or 96 points to claim a second straight league trophy.

City are nine points clear of Liverpool after 24 games but their rivals can cut that gap to six if they win their game in hand.

On Thursday, Liverpool boss Juergen Klopp played down his side’s chances of catching City, saying they do not “smell our breath”.

Speaking ahead of Saturday’s league trip to relegation-threatened Norwich City, Guardiola told reporters: “We have to fight to win the league and if we want to win, we’ll have to win an incredible amount of points against an incredible opponent we’ve faced many times.

“The margin against Liverpool is nothing. We have to win a lot -- more than 90 points. 95, 96 to be champions.”

Last season, City secured the title with 86 points, 12 better than neighbours Manchester United.

Australia beat Sri Lanka by 20 runs in 1st Twenty20 match

Australia players celebrate during the 1st T20 match.

SYDNEY, FEB 11 (AP): Australia defeated Sri Lanka by 20 runs in its first Twenty20 match since capturing the T20 World Cup last November in the United Arab Emirates.

Sri Lanka finished with 122 runs for eight wickets on Friday after Australia scored 149-9 after Sri Lanka captain Dasun Shanaka won the toss and sent the home side in to bat.

Sri Lanka’s required

run total was adjusted under the Duckworth-Lewis system due to a short rain delay that reduced the visitors’ overs to 19.

Josh Hazlewood led Australia with four wickets for 12 runs in his four overs while Adam Zampa took 3-18.

The teams play again on Sunday at the SCG in the second game of the fivematch series.

In the Australian in-

NAA to conduct selection trial for state team

DIMAPUR, FEB 11 (NPN): Nagaland Archery Association (NAA) will be conducting selection trial for the state team on February 14 to participate in the 41st Senior National Archery Championship to be held at Jammu from March 18 to 27.

Interested archers in recurve and compound division have been informed to report at Nagaland Police Training Centre Archery Ground Chumoukedima at 9:30 am. For more information, one may contact at 7005225979.

Despite big wins, we cannot take Van Poel wins 2nd Olympic gold, sets world record France, South Africa lightly: Manpreet

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P O T C H E F S T RO O M FEB 11 (IANS): India hockey team captain Manpreet Singh said on Friday that despite his side defeating France and South Africa in the opening round matches of the FIH Pro League here, the boys cannot take the two teams lightly over the weekend matches as they are capable of springing surprises.

Having begun their Pro League 2021/2022 campaign with back-toback victories, India will vie to end their South African campaign on a winning note when they take on France and South Africa

over the weekend.

In the opening match, India beat France 5-0 with Harmanpreet Singh (21st min), Varun Kumar (24th), Shamsher Singh (28th), Mandeep Singh (32nd) and Akashdeep Singh (41st) on target.

“It was good to start off the campaign with a win. Our first quarter was patchy but after the first quarter we played a rather composed game. We played to our structure and converted from the chances we created,” stated Manpreet talking about their first match against France, who are building their team

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towards the Paris Olympics in 2024.

Manpreet believes France are an unpredictable team and on a good day they can pull off a surprise. “It’s important we don’t take them lightly when we play against them on Saturday. We saw what France is capable of when they played against Netherlands. The match went into a shootout after 2-2 draw and eventually they lost in the shootout. Even when we played against them, they created good chances to score,” said the skipper.

In India’s second match where they won 102, newcomer Jugraj Singh (4th, 6th, 23rd) scored a hat-trick of goals and Harmanpreet Singh (2nd), Abhishek (12th), Gursahibjit Singh (24th, 36th), Dilpreet Singh (25th, 58th), Mandeep Singh (27th) scoring in India’s win. Though it was a big win for India, Manpreet expressed that there were several aspects the team could have done better particularly in the second half.

BEIJING, FEB 11 (AP): Nils van der Poel spoke his mind, then got back to racing. Turns out, it was just him against the clock.

The Swedish speedskater broke his own world record and captured his second gold medal of the Beijing Olympics with a dominant victory in the men’s 10,000-meter Friday.

Van der Poel added to his victory in the 5,000, which was a much closer affair. The longest race on the Olympic program was a blowout. He underestimated what he had in those powerful legs.

He almost did, stumbling a bit with about 2 1/2 laps remaining. But van der Poel managed to stay on his feet, swung both arms to build extra speed and breezed across the line with plenty of time to spare in 12 minutes, 30.74 seconds.

The Swede easily broke the world mark of 12:32.95 that he set in February 2021 and was more than 9 seconds ahead of the Olympic record set four years ago by reigning champion Ted-Jan Bloemen of Canada.

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PHILADELPHIA, FEB 11 (AGENCIES): The Philadelphia 76ers have acquired sharp-shooting guard and former NBA Most Valuable Player James Harden from the reeling Brooklyn Nets as part of a blockbuster trade, ESPN reported on Thursday.

In exchange for Harden, the Nets will receive former first overall draft pick Ben Simmons, Seth Curry, Andre Drummond and two first-round draft picks, according to an ESPN report that cited sources. ESPN said the Nets will receive an unprotected 2022 first-round pick and a protected 2027 K Y M C

first-round pick as part of the deal that was reached ahead of the NBA’s 3 p.m.

ET (2000 GMT) trade deadline on Thursday.

Australian Simmons, whose future in Philadelphia has been in serious doubt ever since the team collapsed in the second round of last year’s playoffs, has not played this season and told the team in the past that he wanted to be traded.

The Melbourne-born Simmons helped the 76ers secure the top playoff seed in the Eastern Conference last year but had a poor percentage from the foul line during the post-season.

Nils van der Poel of Sweden during a venue ceremony after winning the gold medal. (AP)

The silver medal went to Patrick Roest of the Netherlands, the same spot he took behind van der Poel in the 5,000, but this time he was nearly 14 seconds off the winning pace in 12:44.59.

The margin in the 5,000 was just 0.47 seconds.

Van der Poel’s victory came after he ripped the Dutch federation over a report that it was trying to influence ice makers and other officials at the Olympic oval to set up conditions that benefit its skaters.

While saying he had nothing against athletes

Online applications from intending candidates belonging to Arunachal pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim and Tripura for admission to MBBS course for the academic session 2021-22 are hereby invited for the following seats: (I) EWS (Economically Weaker Section) - 11 seats (II) Open North East (NE-UR) - 10 Seats The candidates must be a domicile of NE state of NE States of Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim and Tripura.

The last date of submission of online application at RIMS website (www.rims.edu.in is February 19, 2022 upto 4:00 pM and counselling be done at RIMS, Imphal on February 19, 2022 upto 4:00 pM and counselling will be done at RIMS, Imphal on February 24, 2022 at 10:00 a.m. Reverted AIQ seat, if any, will also be included in this counselling.

The candidates shall be selected purely on the basis of merit (rank) in NEETUG-2021.

The following documents are required along with the application.

1. domicile certificate 2. Admit card of NEET-UG Exam 2021.

3. Score Card of NEET-UG Exam 2021 4. Age proof certificate 5. pass certificate of class X and Class XII 6. Mark sheet of Class XII 7. EWS certificate issued by the competent authority (for those candidates applying under EWS category.

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nings, Ben McDermott carried his impressive Big Bash form into the first T20 international to help the hosts set Sri Lanka a moderate initial target of 150, later reduced to 143 due to the rain delay.

McDermott recorded his first half-century at international level with 53 from 41 balls before falling lbw to Chamika Karunaratne.

McDermott, who replaced the rested David Warner as captain Aaron Finch’s opening partner, was restricted in the opening stages but began to find his groove.

Finch went cheaply but McDermott, who averaged 48 in the T20 Big Bash, built a hard-fought 50-run partnership with Josh Inglis (23).

“It was an unbelievable performance from our bowlers,” Finch said.

Sri Lanka has not beaten Australia in T20 cricket since 2017.

from the Netherlands, van der Poel called the report a sign of “corruption” that needed to be investigated by the IOC and the International Skating Union.

Dutch officials shrugged off the complaints, but van der Poel had no regrets about taking on such a hot-button issue while in the midst of competing at the Olympics.

He said he’s received support from plenty of other competitors.

After his performance in the 5,000, the Dutch

skater thought he might have a chance to knock off van der Poel. Actually, he had no chance.

Davide Ghiotto skated in the next-to-last pair with van der Poel and could barely see him up ahead.

But the Italian’s time of 12:45.98 stood up for the bronze, setting off a raucous celebration on the infield as he was swarmed by teammates and coaches.

Bloemen finished eighth, backing off during his race to conserve his energy for the team pursuit.

Jorrit Bergsma of the Netherlands failed to become the third skater to win three medals in speedskating’s longest Olympic race. He finished fourth, about 3 seconds behind Ghiotto. Bergsma won the gold in 2014 and a silver in 2018.

Van der Poel is the only skater standing up to the powerful Dutch teams, which has won the other four events at the Ice Ribbon oval and eight medals overall.

EPL to drop Covid emergency measures LO N D O N, F E B 1 0 (IANS): The Premier League has decided to drop some of its Covid-19 emergency measures following a decision at Thursday’s shareholder meeting.

“At today’s Premier League Shareholders’ meeting, it was decided to remove a number of the Covid-19 Emergency Measures from February 11. While the requirement to ensure social distancing indoors is maintained, restrictions such as wearing face coverings in indoor areas and limiting treatment time will be removed,” the Premier League said in a statement.

“Lateral-flow testing for players and relevant club staff will revert to twice weekly from February 14. The Premier League’s Covid -19 Emergency Measures remain under regular review, with the aim of them expiring at the end of this month,” it added.

OFFICE OF THE

AO TEMOLUNGTSÜR TELONGJEM DIMAPUR DIMAPUR : NAGALAND

FELICITATION The Ao Temolungtsür Telongjem Dimapur (ATTD) with immense joy and pride would like to felicitate Smti. Obangla Jamir, Secretary, Nagaland Information Commission, on being inducted into the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) and Smti. Temjensenla Jamir, AIG (Probation), PHQ Kohima, on being inducted into the Indian Police Service (IPS).

We extend our heartiest congratulations for their outstanding achievements.

May the Almighty bless them good health, wisdom and success in all their future endeavours.

Sd/(Mrs. Asangla Lemtur) President, ATTD

Sd/(Mrs. Nükshisüngla) General Secretary, ATTD

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Athletic Bilbao’s Raul Garcia celebrates after scoring his side’s first goal against Valencia during the Copa del Rey semifinal first leg match. (AP)

headed home his free kick from close range. Williams almost doubled the lead a minute later after Diakhaby slipped inside the area, but the Valencia stopper recovered just in time to flick the ball away from the striker.

Diakhaby was then unlucky to escape punishment on the stroke of half-time when he pushed Garcia to the ground as tempers frayed. The second half was similar to the first, with Athletic unable to find the rhythm that typifies their football, with Valencia allowed to produce a stream of niggling fouls by a referee who was tolerant of their constant interruptions.

After Duro’s equaliser, Athletic failed to react and were left relieved when the referee failed to give a penalty after Duro went down in the Athletic area following a slight contact from Dani Vivian.

At the other end, Diakhaby produced a vital last-minute clearance when it looked as if Asier Villalibre was on the point of heading home a late winner.

In the first semifinal on February 9, Real Betis won 2-1 away to Rayo Vallecano to take a big step towards the final.

City need more than 90 points to win title: Guardiola

ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

School of Agricultural Sciences & Rural Development [Erstwhile College of Agriculture: NEHU] Medziphema – 797 106, Nagaland

No: Pres/AASASRD/07/2022/01

Date : 9th February, 2022

FELICITATION

The Alumni Association of NU: SASRD, Medziphema, Nagaland takes great pleasure and extend our heartiest congratulations to Shri. A. Pangjung Jamir on being promoted as Director, Land Resources Department, Govt. of Nagaland. We are exceedingly delighted on your glorious achievement and wish you all success and glory in your new assignment.

Sd/Prof. L. Tongpang Longkumer President

Sd/C. Peter Yanthan General Secretary

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Valencia take ugly draw in first leg of Cup semifinal in Bilbao

BILBAO, FEB 11 (IANS): Athletic Bilbao and Valencia drew the first leg of their Copa del Rey semifinal 1-1 in the San Mames Stadium after 90 minutes of badtempered football.

Valencia did their best to break up the home side’s play and got their reward with a second-half goal from Hugo Duro, which gives them a slight advantage for the return leg in three weeks.

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3rd ODI: India complete 3-0 whitewash of WI

A H M E DA BA D, F E B 11 (IANS): Led by threewicket hauls from Prasidh Krishna and Mohammed Siraj, India signed off from the ODI series with a 96run win over West Indies in the third and final match at the Narendra Modi Stadium on Friday. Chasing 266, West Indies were never in the hunt and were bowled out for 169 in 37.1 overs.

Deepak Chahar tested the opening pair of Brandon King and Shai Hope with some movement available from the pitch. He was almost successful when King top-edged the third ball of the innings but it fell between mid-on and midoff fielders. King survived a DRS call off Chahar and ended the third over with successive boundaries.

Mohammed Siraj was the first bowler to strike, trapping Shai Hope with a sharp nip-backer to hit him flush on the back pad.

Hope didn’t take the review as replays later showed the ball was missing the stumps. In the next over, Chahar returned to take out King and Shamarh Brooks in the space of four balls. While King nicked

Indian batters Shreyas Iyer and Rishabh Pant run between during the third ODI cricket match between India and West Indies, at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad. (PTI)

an outswinger to first slip, Brooks sliced the ball straight to point, departing without troubling the scorers. Darren Bravo and Nicholas Pooran amassed some boundaries but Prasidh Krishna broke the 43-run stand for the fourth wicket in the 14th over.

Bravo played an expansive drive away from the body

and edged to second slip.

The extra bounce in the pitch helped Krishna in taking out Jason Holder as the ball hit the shoulder of the bat while defending and edge flew to slip fielder.

Two balls later, Fabian Allen fell for a golden duck, enticed in driving forward by a returning Kuldeep Yadav. But the googly took

the edge behind to Rishabh Pant. Allen took the review but replays showed a spike on UltraEdge.

Yadav returned in his next over to take out captain Nicholas Pooran, who went hard on the drive and edged to slip fielder. But Odean Smith gave a stunning exhibition of his clean ball-striking, taking Yadav for fours

through down the ground and extra cover. It was followed by back-to-back sixes over both sides of ‘v’.

Smith had luck on his side as Suryakumar Yadav dropped an absolute sitter at mid-off off Siraj the unlucky bowler. After hitting Yadav for another six over long-on, Smith had a streaky boundary off an outer edge off Siraj.

Two balls later, Siraj ended Smith’s short-lived blitzkrieg as the right-handed batter mistimed to cover.

Alzarri Joseph and Hayden Walsh frustrated India with a 47-run stand for the ninth wicket. Siraj broke the stand with a short ball directed towards Walsh, and the left-handed batter gave a simple catch to leg gully. Krishna finished off the match as Joseph pulled and top-edge flew to deep mid-wicket.

Brief scores: India 265 all out in 50 overs (Shreyas Iyer 80, Rishabh Pant 56; Jason Holder 4/34, Alzarri Joseph 2/54) beat West Indies (Odean Smith 36, Nicholas Pooran 34; Prasidh Krishna 3/27, Mohammed Siraj 3/29) by 96 runs

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PVL 2022: Bengaluru Torpedoes defeat Hyderabad Black Hawks

Bengaluru Torpedoes and Black Hawks engaged in a keen tussle for supremacy in the Rupay PVL match.

HYDERABAD, FEB 11 (AGENCIES): Bengaluru Torpedoes scored its second win defeating Hyderabad Black Hawks 15-12, 14-15, 15-12, 11-15, 15-13 in the Rupay Prime Volleyball League championship at GMC Balayogi Stadium (Gachibowli) here on Friday.

Torpedoes was the better side under pressure in the final set after the teams were locked twosets all.

In the first set, Torpe-

does was the clearly more dominant, leading 11-8 at one stage thanks to the brilliant coordination between setter Ranjit, attackers Pankaj Sharma and G.S. Varun. Though Hawks fought back well to score a few points thanks to a couple of big spikes by Amit Gulia, Torpedoes won the first set with the classy Rohit tapping a winner.

In the second set, Hawks shot into a 6-1 lead thanks to the awesome power of attacker Rohit

Kumar with E.J. John Joseph coming up with some superb blocks.

However, with Ranjit and Lavmeet Katariya putting up a splendid show in defence to put Torpedoes in the hunt.

Noah Taitano was exceptional with his blocks and a couple of big smashes which saw Torpedoes clinch the super point to leave the scores 13-all.

Then, Rohit saw Hawks level the scores at 14-all with a super spike. But, Torpedoes came back again through Taitano spike. But, ironically, Taitano served out at 14-all to concede the set to Hawks.

To r p e d o e s w o n the third set but Hawks clinched the fourth to take the issue into the decider.

In the tension-packed final moments, to the delight of Torpedoes, Lavmeet, Pankaj regained composure to overcome an erratic display to help the team clinch the set and match even as till then the star performer for Hawks, Rohit faltered when it mattered most.

Mavericks’ Luka Doncic sinks Clippers with 51 Formula One to race in Bahrain until 2036

Dallas Mavericks’Luka Doncic shoots at the basket during the NBA match against the Los Angeles Clippers.

LOS ANGELES, FEB 11 (AGENCIES): Luka Doncic scored 28 of his career-high 51 points in the first quarter and tied a season best with seven 3-pointers, all made in the opening period, as the host Dallas Mavericks beat the Los Angeles Clippers 112-105 on Thursday. Doncic shot 17 of 26 overall, grabbed nine rebounds and dished six assists.

The Mavericks pushed their lead to 17 points midway through the third

quarter before Los Angeles got within three in the fourth quarter. A 7-0 Dallas run put the game away.

Five Clippers scored in double figures, led by Marcus Morris Sr.’s 21 points. Norman Powell scored 19 points in his third game since joining the Clippers in a trade with the Portland Blazers, and Reggie Jackson scored 18.

Suns 131, Bucks 107 Deandre Ayton scored 27 points on 12-of-14 shooting while Chris Paul

had 17 points and matched his season high of 19 assists to lead Phoenix over visiting Milwaukee in a rematch of last season’s NBA Finals.

Mikal Bridges added 18 points as the Suns earned a fourth straight win and their 15th in the past 16 games.

Paul compiled the 500th double-double of his career.

Jrue Holiday and Khris Middleton scored 21 points apiece for Milwaukee, which had a four-game winning streak halted while losing for just the third time in 11 games. Giannis Antetokounmpo had 18 points, eight assists and seven rebounds before sitting out the fourth quarter.

Knicks 116, Warriors 114 Julius Randle capped a 28-point performance when he was awarded a hoop on a goaltending violation with 21.4 seconds remaining as New York held on to beat Golden State in San Francisco.

Randle added a game-high 16 rebounds and a team-high seven assists, and Evan Fournier used five 3-pointers as the foundation for a 22-point night, allowing the Knicks to snap a four-game losing streak.

Stephen Curry had a game-high 35 points for the Warriors, who lost for a second straight night. Klay Thompson and Jonathan Kuminga scored 17 points apiece.

M A NA M A , F E B 1 1 (AGENCIES): The Bahrain Grand Prix will remain on the Formula One calendar until at least 2036, F1’s chief executive said on Friday, in a deal that secures the event’s long-term future.

The Gulf island kingdom, which held its first race in 2004, is set to host this year’s season opener on March 20, having also hosted the first round last year. In addition it held

two races on two different layouts of its Sakhir track during the COVID-19 pandemic-shortened 2020 season.

“I am delighted we will be racing at the Bahrain International Circuit until 2036,” Formula One chief executive Stefano Domenicali said in a statement.

“Since 2004 we have had some fantastic races in Sakhir and we cannot wait to be back there for

the start of the 2022 championship,” he said.

Friday’s news means Formula One will continue to have at least four races in the region for the foreseeable future.

Abu Dhabi, which joined the island kingdom as the second Middle Eastern race in 2009 and typically hosts the season finale, agreed a new deal in December last year keeping it on the calendar until at least 2030.

Saudi Arabia joined the schedule for the first time last year with a deal spanning at least 10 years.

Qatar, which also held its first race in 2021 as a COVID-19 stand-in, is set to return to the calendar in 2023 on a 10-year deal, after hosting the soccer World Cup later this year.

The news reflects the Middle East’s growing profile and influence within the sport.

Jota double inspires Liverpool to win over Leicester

Liverpool’s Diogo Jota celebrates scoring their second goal with teammates during the Premier League match against Leicester City. (Reuters)

LIVERPOOL, FEB 11 (AGENCIES): Liverpool closed the gap on Premier League leaders Manchester City to nine points as Diogo Jota’s doubled earned Juergen Klopp’s side a 2-0 victory over Leicester City on Thursday.

After City’s 2-0 win over Brentford on Wednesday extended their advantage at the top, second-placed Liverpool needed to issue a response, edging in front in the first half at Anfield thanks to Jota’s close-range finish.

Mohamed Salah came off the bench to rapturous

applause to make his first appearance since returning from the Africa Cup of Nations, with the Egyptian striker curling a sumptuous effort against the post as Liverpool pressed for a second.

That second did not look like it was going to come as chances continued to come and go, but Jota remained ruthless in the penalty area, drilling home the gameclinching goal three minutes from time.

The win moved Liverpool onto 51 points from 23 games, with leaders City having played one game more,

while Leicester’s poor season continued as they remain languishing down in 12th in the standings.

“I always like to get into those spaces,” Jota told BT Sport. “I was lucky enough to be in the right place and to score.

“There was obviously an established front three (at Liverpool before he joined) but we have more options now and that is good for the team.” Another of those attacking options is Luis Diaz, who was handed his Premier League debut by Klopp after signing for Liverpool during

the January transfer window, with the Colombian showing off his skills to get fans off their seats early on.

Trent Alexander-Arnold forced Leicester goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel into a fine save, before Andrew Robertson almost got on the end of a low cross at the back post.

When Liverpool finally made their pressure pay, the goal came via a familiar source, with Jota reacting quickest to Schmeichel’s save to keep out Virgil van Dijk’s header from a corner.

Leicester beat Liverpool in the reverse fixture between these teams earlier in the season, but they never looked like getting back into the game at Anfield.

Salah’s introduction re-energised the hosts, with Liverpool’s top goalscorer twice denied by Schmeichel, before then hitting the woodwork.

The dazzling Diaz was then next to be denied

by Schmeichel, before Jota made one count, squeezing his 12th league goal of the season home to put the game to bed.

Liverpool, the only remaining Premier League side yet to lose on home soil this season, have now won 11 of their last 15 league games at Anfield.

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