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New guidelines, SOPs for reopening schools

NEW DELHI, FEB 3 (PTI): Central government on Thursday said the districts having less than five percent Covid positivity rate can move in the direction of reopening schools but it is up to the state governments to take a call in this regard.

Noting that the pandemic situation has improved and there has been a consistent decline in new COVID-19 cases, Niti Aayog Member (Health) V K Paul said we have more confidence now to go in the direction of reopening schools.

Ministry of Education (MoE) officials said schools are completely open in 11 states while they are reopened for mostly higher classes in 16 states. They said following the “extensive” vaccination coverage, the ministry had in December revised the guidelines issued to state for reopening of schools.

Schools continue to remain completely closed in nine states, officials said, adding that all the states have vaccinated at least 95 per cent of the teaching and non-teaching staff, while few states have achieved 100

JCCV to hold public rally on February 10 DIMAPUR, FEB 3 (NPN): Joint Co-ordination Committee of Villages (JCCV) under Dhansiripar sub-division resolved to hold a public rally at Dhansiripar on February 10 at 10 am against the State government’s silence over the grievances of 45 villages communicated through public representations by various organisations.

Informing this in a statement, JCCV convener Lughozhe Swu, co-convener Tsithrongse Sangtam and secretary Devendra Rana said that the rally would be followed by submission of representation to the government through SDO Dhansiripar calling for review of the December 20, 2021 notification without further delay.

The meeting lamented that the government was maintaining silence despite the grievances having been highlighted through public representations submitted

by Aqahuto Tokukujo Kukami Kughakulu on November 13, 2021, Sema-Dimasa Union, Dhansiripar subdivision on December 22, 2021 and Dimasa Public Organisation on January 4 this year in connection with the jurisdiction notified for the newly created district of Chümoukedima.

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“These employees say only a district will solve their problems.”

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with less than ‘‘Districts 5 pc Covid positivity rate can move towards reopening schools

percent vaccination coverage for them.

“The pandemic situation has improved. There are states and districts of concern, but overall there is a contraction in the spread of infection which is heartening. There are 268 districts where the positivity is below 5 per cent. And clearly, these districts can move in the direction of non-COVID care and also in the direction of other economic activities as well as school reopening,” Paul said at a press conference.

“The decision for reopening schools rests with the state governments, by the district administrations.

But the broad issue is that we would still like to ensure that schools are opened and

schools are run, according to protocols, standard operating procedures because we are still in the midst of the pandemic.

“By implementing Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), we can ensure safe conduct of schools, make physical learning possible, school activities, which lead to interaction development, possible. Teachers can feel safe because now in any case, as they are vaccine protected. So following the SOPs is the essence of the guidelines that the Union government has been issuing. And we believe these guidelines are adapted, these are considered directly by the state governments and decisions are taken for opening the

schools,” he added.

Noting that the nation is concerned that there have been a significant learning loss, Paul said schools should be open at the “earliest opportunity but also appropriate time”.

“It (school closure) had other imperatives in the absence of vaccine — the teachers were not protected, and so on and so forth…

We have more confidence to go in the direction of reopening schools but according to the SOPs. We are very happy to share with you the the paradigm within which, in a scientific evidence, schools can be opened safely,” Paul said.

Sweety Changsan, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Education said after taking into account the extensive vaccination coverage, the ministry had issued revised guidelines to states in December last year and the decision to ask for parents consent was left with states.

“Also, the revised guidelines talked about congregations and gatherings which were earlier banned in schools.

According to the new

advisory, schools may celebrate events and hold gatherings according to SOPs issued by the state.

States and UTs have also been advised to evolve SOPs for safe conduct for group activities and events,” she added.

Further, the revised guidelines issued by the Department of School Education and Literacy, Ministry of Education, suggested preparing bridge courses and implementing them in classrooms.

“Once school reopens, the grade-related syllabus should be undertaken only after the bridge course is completed, so that students can adjust to the changed school environment and do not feel the stress or being left out, especially students who did not have access to alternate means of education,” the guidelines had said.

“In the modified guidelines, the government has also suggested identification of children based on their learning levels so that teachers can focus on students who need additional support,” it added.

Covid-19 cases declining in India: Centre

NEW DELHI, FEB 3 (AGENCIES): The Centre said on Thursday that most states and Union territories (UTs) across the country are reporting a decline in their Covid-19 tally, with the number of those having more than 50,000 active caseload currently standing at eight.

Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Rajasthan and Kerala are some of the states where the active tally was above 50,000, joint secretary of Union health ministry Lav Agarwal said during a weekly Covid-19 press briefing.

He added that there is

an overall dip in Covid-19 cases across India, with the active case count of the country at 15,33,921 as of February 3. Agarwal said India reported a peak of 3,47,254 of active infections on January 21 this year, which is less than the previous peak recorded on May 7 last year - during the second wave of the pandemic, of 4,14,188.

“There has been a drop in the number of states with more than 50,000 active Covid-19 cases. Meanwhile, there are 12 states where the active count is between 10,000 and 50,000, while

16 states have less than 10,000 infections currently,” Agarwal said. He said that among the states with over 50,000 active caseload, Kerala is the only one that has witnessed a surge in infection rate.

The remaining seven states in the list, including Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Kar nataka, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, and Andhra Pradesh, have shown a consistent decline in their Covid-19 infection rate.

Tamil Nadu’s active tally has seen a drop by 0.83 times from 213,692

a week before to 177,999 currently. Karnataka and Maharashtra, meanwhile, saw a decline by 0.50 and 0.59 times, respectively.

Regarding the case positivity and active case count scenario across India, Agarwal said besides Kerala, Mizoram is the other state where the infection rate is seeing an uptick on a weekon-week basis.

“We are constantly in touch with the states, and have urged them to take containment measures along with hospital management so that we combat the Covid-19 together,” he said.

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APHLC asks KAAC to adhere to 6th Schedule for eviction DIMAPUR, FEB 3 (NPN): Barely a week after Karbi Anglong Autonomous Council (KAAC) carried out the third phase of eviction at Block No.3, Balijan area along the DimapurKhatkhati border, the All Party Hills Leaders’ Conference (APHLC) said it was not against eviction of encroachers “anywhere in the three hills districts of Karbi Anglong (KA), West Karbi Anglong (WKA) and Dima Hasao (DH)” as governed under the 6th Schedule of the Indian constitution, but that those encroachers who are not scheduled tribes or tribe and who are unconstitutionally occupying lands meant for ST and other tribes, “must be evicted under Paragraph 20 of the Sixth Schedule.”

In a representation addressed to Chief Executive Member (CEM) KAAC, president of APHLC J.I. Kathar, IAS (Retd) and general secretary Sarkiri Rongphar stated, that APHLC opposes eviction of any tribes of Nagas or hill tribes from the three districtsKA,WKA and DH- without proper and prior rehabilita-

India announces diplomatic boycott of Beijing Winter Oly NEW DELHI, FEB 3 (AGENCIES): Terming China’s decision to field a People’s Liberation Army soldier involved in the June 2020 Galwan clashes as the torchbearer for Winter Olympics Games in Beijing as “regrettable”, India announced a diplomatic boycott of the games just ahead of the opening ceremony.

State broadcaster Doordarshan also announced it will not telecast the opening and closing ceremonies live.

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APHLC members addressing the media on Thursday.

tion in Karbi Anglong, if land sought to be freed, was not directly needed for welfare of the tribal people.

The signatories cited a Supreme Court order which cautioned against eviction of Scheduled tribe. In this, they cited Paragraph 20 of the 6th Schedule which clearly stated that KA and WKA districts “are tribal areas” and that the schedule did not say that these tribal areas belong to any particular hill tribes or tribe.

They further stated that APHLC did not agree in evicting encroachers on the basis of religion as the Sixth Schedule was for all STs belonging to any religion.

Claiming that many

encroachers had already obtained land pattas, the signatories demanded that, instead of punishing the encroachers, exemplary punishment must be given to the revenue officers and staff, village headmen and other allegedly involved in helping encroachers purchase land and obtain pattas illegally.

APHLC further alleged that many non-tribal encroachers married tribal women to obtain land in Karbi Anglong and West Karbi Anglong in their wives’ names. APHLC has therefore, demanded that such practise of taking advantage of poor tribal women must not be allowed.

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Heroin worth `5 cr seized in KA G U WA H AT I , F E B 3 (AGENCIES): In a major drug haul, Asam police on Thursday seized heroin worth around Rs. 5 crore in Assam’s Karbi Anglong district, and arrested two persons-- male and a female, hailing from Dimapur.

The heroin consignment weighing 660 grams was seized at a check point near the CRPF camp at Bokajan in Karbi Anglong district.

“Today morning, one Wagon R was intercepted near Bokajan police station and after thorough search, 660gms of heroin was re-

covered from the car,” Assam DGP Bhaskar Jyoti Mahanta said. The seized heroin consignment was hidden inside 51 soap cases.

“Two persons have been arrested so far, both hailing from Dimapur,” Mahanta said.

According to IBNS report, Bokajan SDPO John Das said that the apprehended persons had planned to deliver drugs to a person of Bokajan area who was arrested recently along with 695 grams of heroin and a case was registered at Khatkhati police station against him.

AR get police powers to fight drug menace Court issues notice to PMO for Modi wearing army uniform NEW DELHI, FEB 3 (AGENCIES): Centre has conferred additional police powers to the Assam Rifles to keep a check and fight against the increasing drug trafficking from Myanmar into the North Eastern states.

The force has been asking for additional police powers to fight the drug menace on this long border with Myanmar, where the infamous “Golden Triangle”, one of the two largest producers of narcotics drugs in the world, is located.

Now the government has extended to the Assam

Rifles two provisions of the country’s Narcotic Drugs & Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, 1985. Section 42 of the NDPS Act authorizes the empowered officers of this force now to “search the premises, seizure of the drugs, detain any person or arrest the person who has committed the offence without a warrant.”

Section 67 of the NDPS Act gives the power to “the officer mentioned under section 42 to examine any person or record the statement.”

Director General of Assam Rifles, Lt Gen

Pradeep Chandran Nair, told Republic World that his force is now working on procedures to operationalize these legal provisions that will boost the anti-narcotics capability of the force.

Nair said the total value of the drugs seized

by Assam Rifles in North Eastern states in 2019 was worth Rs. 516 crores at current market value. In 2020, the value of drug seizures by Assam Rifles in the region was worth Rs. 688 crores and in 2021 the drug seized

by Assam Rifle in Northeast India were worth Rs. 908 crores.

NEW DELHI, FEB 3 (AGENCIES): A notice has been issued to the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) by a district court in Uttar Pradesh after Prime Minister Narendra Modi wore the Indian Army uniform during his visit to Kashmir last year while interacting with Army personnel.

The notice was issued to the PMO after a plea was filed in the Prayagraj district court in UP, stating that Modi wearing the uniform was illegal under Section 140 of the Indian Penal Code, and should be termed as a punishable offence.

Narendra Modi addressing the Army in Nowshera on November 4, 2021 (ANI File)

Section 140 of the Indian Penal Code states that wearing garb or carrying tokens used by soldiers, sailors or airmen is an offence punishable.

As per Dainik Bhaskar

reports, district judge Nalin Kumar Srivastava issued a notice to the PMO as well as Advocate Rakesh Nath Pandey, who had moved the application under section 156(3) of the Code of Criminal Procedure (which empowers Magistrate to order an investigation into a cognizable offence).

The plea has been filed

by Pandey before a district judge, and now the matter will be heard by the court on March 2.

Earlier, the application was initially filed by Pandey in December in front of chief judicial mag-

istrate Harendra Nath, who rejected the plea. Last year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had visited the Nowshera sector in Jammu and Kashmir to celebrate Diwali with soldiers and Indian Army personnel.

Pandey had earlier filed a plea in December last year, however, the CJM had rejected it saying that the incident happened outside the jurisdiction of the court and the matter can be heard by a magistrate having jurisdiction. The order was challenged by Pandey before the district judge who has now issued notice to PMO.

NFR begins final location survey for Imphal-Moreh railway line State logs 70 fresh Covid cases G U WA H AT I , F E B 3 (IANS): The Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) has started a final location survey of the 111 km ImphalMoreh section for construction of a new broad gauge railway line intending to link India with the neighbouring Myanmar, NFR General Manager Anshul Gupta said on Thursday.

The NFR General Manager while talking with the media said that the final location survey up to Moreh along India-Myanmar border is expected to be com-

World’s tallest bridge pier in Manipur which is part of the 111 km long railway project.

pleted by July or August this year, following which, the budget estimate would be finalised.

Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw, after visiting

Manipur last month, accorded sanction for the final location survey of the 111 km Imphal-Moreh section.

The commercial capital of Manipur and India’s

gateway to South-East Asia, Moreh is a rapidly developing trade point in India on the border with Myanmar, with the city of Tamu on the other side of the border.

According to the other railway officials, the proposed new broad gauge railway line once constructed would be of strategic importance and form an important part of the proposed TransAsian Railway which would connect India with South East Asia on a rail network.

The NFR is now implementing the Rs 14,320 crore

Broad Gauge railway project to connect the Manipur capital Imphal by 2024.

After the completion of the vital 111 Km railway line from Jiribam, along Manipur-Assam border to Imphal by 2024, capital Imphal would be the fourth capital city in the region after Guwahati, Agartala and Arunachal’s Naharlagun (adjacent to Itanagar).

The NFR is also laying new railway tracks to connect the capital cities of two more North Eastern states -- Mizoram and Nagaland.

DIMAPUR, FEB 3 (NPN): Nagaland on Thursday recorded 70 fresh Covid-19 positive cases while no deaths were reported during the day.

Of the fresh cases, 49 were from Dimapur, 16 in Kohima, two each in Mokokchung and Peren and one in Phek, taking the total caseload to 34680.

A total of 14,17,201 persons had been inoculated against Covid-19 till February 3 (802368 first dose and 614833 second dose) while 14465 received their booster dose.

Further, a total of 49,014 teenagers received their first dose of Covaxin.

Meanwhile, India on Thursday reported a slight spike in single-day Covid-19 cases after 1,72,433 people tested positive for the virus, according to the Health ministry.

As many as 1,008 fresh fatalities were logged, taking the overall toll to 4,98,983.

The sharp rise in the daily toll was contributed

by Kerala that added as many as 500 backlog numbers.

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Soil testing lab inaugurated in Mon

STATE

Deputy Commissioners issue directives on COVID-19

DIMAPUR: Deputy ComThe offline or physimissioner (DC) Tuensang cal classes for students of and Phek have issued direc- class I to VIII is allowed tives on COVID-19 to be from February 15, subject imposed within respective to parental consent of the districts with immediate student concerned, and effect up till February 15. further subject to fulfillment According to DIPR report, of the conditions and stanthe DCs have warned that dard operating procedures any person/group found (SOPs) to be issued by the acting in violation of the home department. directions as well as other The board examinaorders/SOPs/guidelines tion for Class X and Class for preventing the spread of XII conducted physically/ COVID-19 shall be liable to offline by the Nagaland be prosecuted under the rel- Board of School Education evant sections of the Disas- (NBSE) shall be allowed as ter Management Act, 2005 per the examination schedbesides action under Section ule to be decided by it in 188 of IPC and other legal the month of March, 2022 provisions as applicable. subject to the fulfillment of Following are the di- the conditions and SOPs rectives: All the existing to be issued by the home restrictions in the district department. Suitable arfor preventing the spread of rangements should also be COVID-19 as issued in the made for the students who earlier order, including those are unable to appear for the Thongwang Konyak along with DC Mon, Thavaseelan K and others at the inaugural of social /religious /political examination on account /sports /academic /cultural of being tested positive programe. (DIPR) /entertainment gatherings for COVID-19 or who are DIMAPUR: A soil testing report, Thongwang ap- gramme chaired by SDO etc. shall continue. symptomatic. laboratory was inaugurated preciated the department (SC) Aboi, W. Shoyan

by Thongwang Konyak, for implementing the Konyak.

MLA, on February 2 in much-needed project in A dedicatory prayer the presence of deputy the district. He said the was pronounced by district DIMAPUR: Rengma Public Organisation, Kohima commissioner (DC) Mon, project would greatly ben- chaplain Mon, Rev. Ashok (RPOK) has convened a meeting on February 7, 2 p.m.

Thavaseelan K at the dis- efit agriculture sector of Konyak while the vote at the residence of joint secretary (finance), Sohilo Kath trict soil conservation of- the district. Block level soil of thanks was delivered below SP Office Kohima. All the office bearers, advisors fice, Mon. testing equipment was also by DSCO, Mon, Chumei and range representatives (president and general secreAccording to a DIPR launched during the pro- Yanlem. tary) have been requested to attend the meeting.

RPOK to hold meeting

DCCI mourns demise of HPBWC president

Funerary

Following the untimely demise of its president, late Hukato V. Achumi, the Hazi Park (Hongkong Market), Business Welfare Committee held a meeting on Thursday and called for a shutter down on February 4 as a mark of respect.

In a press release, its vice president Tarun Nandy and secretary Bokato Yeptho informed that the funeral service would be held at his residence at Kushiabil village, around 1 p.m. - 2 p.m.

Antenatal HIV screening camp conducted in Dimapur

Members of Ahana Project, NCPI+ and others at the screening camp.

DIMAPUR: Ahana Project and National Coalition of People living with HIV (NCPI+) in collaboration with District AIDS Prevention and Control Unit (DAPCU) and National Health Mission (NHM) conducted and antenatal HIV screening camp at Naga United Health and Wellness Centre on February 2.

According to a press release, the camp was conducted to create awareness

among the community, especially among pregnant women on the importance of HIV testing for early treatment linkage if detected HIV positive.

The early treatment for a HIV positive pregnant woman would reduce the risk of HIV transmission to her unborn baby, the release stated.

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AcknowLedgement

DIMAPUR: Dimapur Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DCCI) has expressed shock and anguish at the sudden demise of its executive membercum- president of Hazi Park (Hongkong Market) Business Welfare Committee, Hukato V Achumi, who Southern Angami Youth Organisation (SAYO) visited Dzükou Valley from Jan 29-31 and trekked passed away on February 2 adjoining ranges for boundary inspection. 14 members participated in the two-day trek. in New Delhi.

In a condolence message, DCCI said late Hukato was a pillar of strength and a tall leader not only amongst We, the family members of our the traders and shopkeepers of Hazi Park but to beloved mother Lt. Jakjemlemla Lkr. the business community of (W/o Lt. Pundit Jungponglemba: The Dimapur as a whole. In his Pioneer of Education), Mokokchung untimely demise, DCCI said Village, a Woman of Faith & a Legend, it has lost a guiding light and would like to extend our heartfelt mentor and further extended gratitude to churches, village councils, heartfelt condolences to the various groups and individuals who stood bereaved family members by us in time of our deep mourning. and prayed for eternal peace Your valuable word of encouragement, of the departed soul.

HPBWC calls for shutter down

NAGALAND POST, DIMAPUR FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Born : 16th November 1972 – Died : 30th January 2022 We, the bereaved family members of Late Nukshimatong (Mkg), express our heartfelt gratitude to every individual who helped and supported us with prayers, financially and physically during his short illness and demise.

It is our humble prayer that God bless you abundantly for all your kindness.

We learnt so much from him in his short span of life and his presence will be cherished by all your loved ones. You are gone but you have left behind so many sweet memories.

We regret our inability to mention each and every individual who supported us but some particular persons we would like to convey our thanks to: 1. Dr. Imsu, nurses and staff, Lenjem Hospital, Mokokchung 2. Dr. Tali Longkumer, City Medical Centre, Dimapur.

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cash and kind, and your prayer support have comforted us immensely. She was physically and spiritually strong, but on the fateful late night on 27th Jan, 2022, she took her last breath at the age of 106 running years. She leaves behind up to three generations of children and Sept. 9, 1916 – Jan. 27, 2022 grandchildren.

Words are not enough to say THANK YOU to all but it is our earnest prayer that our good Lord bless you abundantly.

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DIMAPUR: NSCN (IM) has welcomed ‘homecomer’, ‘lieutenant’ Ningchuilung Kamei, cadre of ZUF (K) who joined the “mainstream National Socialist Council of Nagalim (NSCN) under Zeilad region.”

NSCN (I-M) through its MIP stated that the Zeilad region welcomed him “for taking the right decision at the right time.”

It said that “he made his stand clear that it was his mistake to have joined ZUF (K)” and that he went “against the people’s mandated government.”

Meanwhile, Zeilad region CAO, DG Robert stated that NSCN would we l c o m e “ m i s g u i d e d youths” who were in other groups “to come and be a part of the mainstream NSCN before it is too late.”

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NAGALAND POST, DIMAPUR FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2022

CS J Alam releases NFMP Farewell programme organised for AEO Kiphire manuals and annual report

DIMAPUR: State chief secretary, J Alam released Nagaland Forest Management Project (NFMP) manuals and annual report (2020-2021) on February 2 at the chief secretary’s conference room, Kohima.

According to a DIPR report, while releasing the manual Alam congratulated the entire NFMP team for their good works in implementation of activities of the project. He urged the team to focus on publicity of various activities through media including social media.

The chief secretary new practices, technologies shall be deployed in the project and assured that efforts would be about convergence with concerned departments.

At the programme,

project director (Imp, M&E), Vedpal Singh highlighted the status of the NFMP such as engagement of Project Management Consultant (PMC), infrastructure strengthening, recruitment of PMU and DMU support staff, setting up of GIS and MIS lab, deployment of FNGOs in all districts, Microplan preparation, entry point activity and water harvesting structures, formation of SHGs and establishment of nursery and plantation activities etc.

A presentation about the various modules of the WebGIS portal as well as the mobile app platform was presented by GIS expert, Rashid while MIS expert, Longshithung presented about the working of the MIS portal capturing

various data involved in the implementation of the project activities.

PMC international expert, Jayesh Bhatia commented upon issues like capacity building, preparation of microplan, nursery and plantation activities at different stages of various batches in the villages.

He pointed out that the pace of release of fund flows to villages, needs to be augmented. Bhatia also discussed about convergence with allied departments and having a common platform for all externally aided projects like JICA, IFAD and KFW. The programme was chaired by PCCF & HoFF, Dharmendra Prakash, who also gave a brief overview about the NFMP project.

At the programme, short speeches were delivered by ADC, Rahul Mali and UDA, Lipimong (election department); Vinoka (presented a special song while vote of thanks was delivered by LDA, L. Sepi Sangtam.

The prog ram was chaired by EAC, Chumbenthung Murry.

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DC Kiphire, T. Wati Aier along with officers and staff at the farewell programme. (DIPR)

DIMAPUR: Kiphire district administration and election department organised a farewell program for outgoing assistant election officer (AEO) Olivi Thurr Thursday, in the

conference hall of the deputy commissioner (DC), Kiphire.

According to a DIPR report, DC Kiphire T. Wati Aier said the outgoing officer served the district

with utmost sincerity in all the assigned works.

DC also urged the election department to be well-prepared for the ensuing state assembly elections.

In her speech, Thurr said the tasks were successfully done because of cooperation and support from various departments and the people of Kiphire district.

SCERT organises workshop on toy-based pedagogy

SCERT officials along with participants at the workshop on Thursday.

KOHIMA: A two-day workshop on “toy-based pedagogy” under the aegis of State Council of Educational Research & Training (SCERT) Nagaland got underway in Kohima on

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Thursday.

The New Education Policy 2020 provides for a definitive shift in curricular and pedagogical changes in all stages of education with toy-based pedagogy

being one major inclusion in education system.

During the inaugural function, SCERT director Chumchanbeni Kithan highlighted the varied role of toys and games for

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learning.

She said that toys were not only entertaining for children but also had the potential to develop the cognitive, affective and psychomotor domains in children.

The workshop would culminate with documenting of indigenous toys and games for education.

Participants of the workshop include the Training of Trainers (ToTs) and primary teachers from all the districts of the state.

Resource persons from SCERT and District Institute of Education and Training (DIET) would conduct sessions on the importance of toys and games for developmental needs and linking toys and games with foundational stage learning with special reference to indigenous toys and games.

Dimapur Ao Christian Revival Church Youth Fellowship (DACRCYF) attended the The workshop would culmi- Nagaland Christian Revival Church Youth Fellowship (NCRCYF) general conference nate on February 4. held from January 28-30 at Longkhum village under Mokokchung district.

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WEATHER FORECAST FEBRUARY 4

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Agartala Turning cloudy

27 15

Aizawl

Sun through high clouds

Guwahati Downpours in the afternoon Imphal

Increasing cloudiness

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Itanagar Rather cloudy, p.m. showers

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Shillong

Downpours in the afternoon

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Dimapur An afternoon shower in spots Mkg

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Tuensang A shower in the afternoon Wokha

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Zunheboto An afternoon shower in spots

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NORTHEAST

Taken up torture of teen with China: MEA

NAGALAND POST, DIMAPUR FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Chandranathan new security advisor to M’laya

Assam CM reminds Rahul Gandhi of biscuit feeding incident

SHILLONG, FEB 3 Meghalaya government on Thursday appointed former Director General of Police R Chandranathan as the Security Advisor to the government for one year.

Chandranathan would be tasked with coordinating with the Ministry of Home Affairs and other central and intelligence agencies, VIP security in other parts of the country, except in Meghalaya. He would be stationed at New Delhi and his office would be at the Resident Commissioner, APJ Abdul Kalam road.

“The security advisor would be given a monthly honorarium of Rs.75, 000 and other entitlements of perks,” Additional Chief Secretary (Home), Donald Philip Wahlang said.

Chandranathan shall also be provided an official vehicle and TA and DA as per existing rules.

All these expenditures would be charged from the Home department. Chandranathan retired from office on December 31 last year.

G U WA H AT I , F E B 3 (AGENCIES): The Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma again reminded Congress leader Rahul Gandhi about the biscuit feeding incident when he ignored Sarma while feeding dogs and then offer him the same biscuits, reports The Sentinel Assam.

The reaction from CM Sarma came after Rahul Gandhi made accusations against Union Home Minister Amit Shah of political indecency during his speech in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday. The congress leader in the parliament further slammed the Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi as a king. He also blamed the Prime Minister for running an autocracy in the parliament.

In a recent tweet by the Assam chief minister, he hits back at Rahul Gandhi for such allegations the PM and Home minister by stating that those people who choose to feed biscuits to dogs by ignoring a leader from Assam and offering him the same biscuit should

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NEW DELHI, FEB 3 (PTI): India on Thursday said it has taken up with China the issue of torture of a teenager from Arunachal Pradesh when he was in the custody of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA).

“We have taken up the matter with the Chinese side,” Arindam Bagchi, the spokesperson of the Ministry of External Affairs said at a media briefing.

He was replying to a question on the matter.

Miram Taron, 17, was allegedly abducted by the Chinese army on January 18 from Lungta Jor area near the Line of Actual Control in Arunachal Pradesh when he was on a hunting trip with his friend Johny Yaying.

Yaying managed to escape from the scene and report the matter to the authorities.

The Chinese ar my handed over Miram to the Indian Army on January 27 at the Wacha-Damai interaction point at Kibithu in Anjaw district.

Miram’s father Opang Taron said his son was tied

Miram Taron with his parents after he was handed over to India by China. and blindfolded while in the custody of the PLA and that he was kicked and given mild electric shock.

Asked about Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s allegations in Parliament on Wednesday that the Modi government brought Pakistan and China together, Bagchi refused to comment saying External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has already reacted to them.

The Manipur JD (U)’s president Hangkhanpao Taithul said the party has gained popularity.

IMPHAL, FEB 3 (AGENCIES): A minor political outfit in Manipur, the Janata Dal (United) has suddenly come to spotlight in the run-up to the state Assembly elections, with more than 10 BJP members switching to its camp after being denied poll tickets by the ruling party. These disgruntled BJP ticket aspirants are on the list of 36 poll candidates that the JD(U) released Wednesday.

Both the BJP and the JD(U) are NDA allies in Bihar as well as at the Centre, but they are separately contesting the elections to the 60-member Manipur Assembly, which will be held in two phases, on February 27 and March 3.

With the BJP announcing all its 60 candidates, its rejects are now crossing over to other parties in their bids

to contest the polls.

Several leaders and ticket aspirants from other parties, especially the principal Opposition Congress, have also joined the JD(U) in recent days after being denied tickets by their parties.

Some of the prominent faces on the JD(U)’s candidates list include Jiribam MLA (Independent) Ashab Uddin, Thangmeiband MLA Kh Joykishan (Congress), Independent MLA from Lilong Md Abdul Nasir, former BJP MLA Samuel Jendai, ex-DGP LM Khaute (BJP), Congress vice president Dwijamani, and ex-Congress MLAs, Kh Devendro Singh and Ksh Biren.

The lone woman candidate on this list is Th Brinda. A former police officer, Brinda was also denied ticket by the BJP. She is the

“The external affairs minister’s tweets are selfexplanatory. He had issued a series of tweets after the discussion in Parliament. I do not have anything to add to them,” Bagchi said.

Following Gandhi’s comments, Jaishankar said he needs some “history lessons”.

“Perhaps, some history lessons are in order: In 1963, Pakistan illegally

first police officer from the Manipur narcotics division to have received a gallantry award.

Although the JD(U) has existed in Manipur since 2003, it has failed to win a single seat in any polls so far.

The Manipur JD (U)’s president Hangkhanpao Taithul said the party has gained popularity thanks to the leadership of its chief and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar.

“We all have witnessed how Nitish Kumar transformed Bihar. This is the big factor why people are preferring JD(U) over other parties”, said Taihul, adding the party has the same vision for Manipur.

There is however a strong perception in Manipur’s political circles that being an NDA ally the JD(U) would be the “B-team of the BJP”, which might be a key reason, some observers say, why a number of disgruntled BJP ticket aspirants have defected to the JD(U).

Taihul dismissed such a perception as “baseless”.

“We are NDA partners. But, that doesn’t make us the Bteam of the BJP…We are contesting own our own,” he said, claiming that his party would win over 10 seats and be part of the next Manipur government.

handed over the Shaksgam valley to China. China built the Karakoram highway through PoK in the 1970s,” Jaishankar tweeted.

He said from the 1970s, the two countries also had close nuclear collaboration.

“In 2013, the ChinaPakistan Economic Corridor started. So, ask yourself: were China and Pakistan distant then?” he questioned the Congress leader.

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IMPHAL, FEB 3: Five candidates, including state Assembly Speaker Y Khemchand Singh, on Thursday, filed nominations from different assembly seats for the first phase of Manipur assembly elections.

After a Janata Dal (United) candidate filed nomination on Wednesday, altogether six candidates have filed their nomination till date, an official source in the state CEO said.

Among the five candidates who filed their nomination papers today, three were from the National People Party (NPP) and two from Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The incumbent state Assembly Speaker Yumnam Khemchand Singh of the BJP filed his nomination papers from the Singjamei Assembly Constituency.

Khemchand filed three nomination papers supported by three proposers each, at the office of the Returning Officer (RO) of Singjamei AC Pangambam Yaitongba.

The third day of filing of nominations in respect of the first phase of polling also witnessed four other candidates, including former minister Karam Shyam, filing their nomination papers in Imphal West district.

The former minister

filed his nomination as BJP candidate from Langthabal Assembly Constituency of Imphal West district.

Shyam had served as a cabinet minister for consumer affairs, food and public distribution until he was removed in a major reshuffle in the incumbent BJP-led government.

National People Party (NPP) candidate Konthoujam Sharat Singh also filed his nominations from the Konthoujam Assembly Constituency at the office of the RO of Konthoujam AC Samson Huidrom.

Sharat filed three nomination papers supported by three proposers each. Sharat had won the Konthoujam Assembly seat in 2012 from an AITC ticket.

NPP candidate Khuraijam Loken Singh filed his nomination from Wangoi Assembly Constituency of Imphal West. Khuraijam Loken’s three nomination papers were supported by three proposers each.

Another NPP candidate Ayangbam Oken Singh also filed nomination from Sekmai (SC) AC of Imphal West district today supported by one proposer.

On Wednesday, JD (U) candidate Khwairakpam Devendro Singh had filed his nomination from Sekmai (SC) Assembly Constituency.

Manipur Cong candidates pledge loyalty at Kangla shrine Correspondent IMPHAL, FEB 3: In a unique style, Congress candidates for the ensuing elections to the Manipur Assembly pledged before the sacred shrine of historic Kangla fort that they will remain loyal to the party after winning the elections.

AICC Manipur incharge Bhakta Charan Das administered the oath to the candidates in the presence of senior party leaders and MPCC functionaries.

The Congress candidates vowed that they will respect people’s mandate and will be loyal to the rules and regulations of the constitution of the party.

The candidates then proceeded to temples of Meiteis and Hindus, and churches and mosques in Imphal area and offered prayers seeking divine blessings.

The Congress has so far named 50 candidates to be contested from 50 Assembly segments in the ensuing polls as official nominees of the party.

Former chief minister O Ibobi Singh seeking

Congress candidates for the ensuing polls in Manipur taking oath not to leave the party after elected before the sacred shrine of Kangla fort in Imphal on Thursday. re-election from Thoubal Assembly constituency in Thoubal district and former deputy CM and CWC member Gaikhangam who will also be seeking-election from Nungba AC of Noney district were amongst those who took oath.

The Congress administered the oath to its candidates in the backdrop of rampant defection by party legislators in the state.

In the 2017 elections, the Congress won in 28 seats out of 60 and became the single largest party.

However, in the run up to government formation

and even before taking oath as a member of the state Assembly, the party lost one of its MLAs to the BJP that emerged as the second largest party with 21 seats.

After the BJP formed a coalition government from the backdoor (as claimed by the Congress), the party lost more legislators to the BJP. The Congress had even lost former chief minister O Ibobi’s nephew, Okram Henry.

Talking to reporters on the sidelines of the oath taking ceremony, MPCC spokesperson and MLA K Meghachandra said that

administering the oath to the candidates was necessitated to uphold the sanctity of peoples’ mandate and the sacred trust reposed in them by the electorate.

Defection from one party to another by the legislators has put a big question mark to the trust reposed on them by the people.

People have lost trust in the politicians because after winning the election, they forget the mandate given by the people and switch their political affiliation for their own gain.

Another objective of

candidates’ taking oath was to save dying democracy in the country, he said.

The 60 seat Manipur Assembly goes to poll in two phases. The notification for the first phase in which polling will be held in 38 assembly segments had already been issued on February 1 and candidates have started filing nominations.

The notification for the second phase which polling will be held in the remaining 22 Assembly segments on March 3 will be issued tomorrow (February 4).

AGARTALA, FEB 3 (PTI): A 33-year old truck helper from Punjab’s Pathankot who tested positive for COVID-19 was found hanging in a Corona waiting centre in North Tripura district, police said on Thursday.

Truck driver Tarsem Singh (48) along with his assistant Balbinder Singh (33) reached Churaibari check gate, the entry point of Tripura from Pathankot on Tuesday night.

As COVID-19 test is mandatory for those who are coming from outside the state, they went for test at Churaibari Sales Tax Complex on the same night.

While Tarsem tested negative, Balbinder tested positive for COVID-19.

Accordingly, he was taken to a designated room by the health workers before sending him to a quarantine centre at Panisagar.

When a medical team came to Churaibari Sales Tax Complex to take Balbinder, to the Covid quarantine centre, they found his body hanging from a window.

On being alerted, a police team of Churaibari police station rushed to the spot and recovered the body by maintaining Covid protocols.

Sikkim reports lowest Covid cases of 2022 at 62 GANGTOK, FEB 3 (PTI): Sikkim registered the lowest number of daily Covid-19 infections this year on Thursday when 62 people tested positive for the virus, the health department said in a bulletin.

The coronavirus tally rose to 38,415 in the small Himalayan state. The death toll remained unchanged at 432 as no fresh fatality due to the disease was reported in the last 24 hours.

Out of the 62 new cases, 34 were reported from East district, 26 from West district and two from South district.

Himanta Biswa Sarma and Rahul Gandhi. be the last one to speak about political decency. In his tweet, CM added that the high command mindset in the Indian National Congress is be-all and end-all, the Indian citizens know it all very well.

During the early hours on Wednesday 2 February, Rahul Gandhi in his parliament speech said that there are 2 visions of which one vision is that it is a union of states, a partnership and not a kingdom. He said that the PM can never rule over the people of the country as it was not possibly done in three thousand years.

Gandhi further stated

that the Indian National Congress had removed the idea of ‘king’ but at present, it has again returned in India with the BJP government.

Earlier Sarma had reminded Rahul Gandhi about the same biscuit feeding incident and mocked him by mentioning that he was grateful to the Congress leader who ignored him by throwing him out of the Congress party. The insult

by Gandhi had eventually led Sarma to leave the Congress party and then he successfully became the Chief Minister of the state Assam.

M’laya records 3rd lowest unemployment rate in India

S H I L LO N G, F E B 3 (AGENCIES): The unemployment rate in the northeastern state of Meghalaya is reported as the 3rd lowest in the country at 1.5 percent., according to the data released by independent think-tank CMIE (Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy), reports The Sentinel Assam.

Meanwhile, the state of Telangana has reported the lowest unemployment rate at 0.7% in the month of January 2022 on the other hand the state of Haryana has reported the highest unemployment rate at 23.4%.

However Gujarat reported the unemployment rate at 1.2%, Meghalaya and Odisha at 1.8% and Rajasthan reported the secondhighest at 18.9 percent. The unemployment rate in India has seen a big decline with the drop to 6.57 percent in January this year which is reported as the lowest since the month of March last year. According to CMIE the decline in India’s unemployment rate comes after the county gradually recovered along with ease in the restrictions following the decreased number of Omicron cases.

As per the CMIE data, the unemployment rate in the urban region of the country stood at 8.16 per-

cent by this month and in rural India, it was reported as lowest at 5.84 percent.

The Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE) added that the rate of unemployment was reported as 7.91 percent in the month of December last year and it stood in rural at 7.28 percent with urban at 9.30 percent in the same month.

Notably, the CMIE had estimated the tally of the total number of people that are unemployed in the country as of the monthv of December last year at 5.3 crores. It mentioned that a huge proportion of the data were women in India that are unemployed. As informed by CMIE Managing Director and CEO Mahesh Vyas in December 2021 data analysis, a total of 3.5 crores Indians were actively searching for work to get employed in different organizations and among those people 80 lakh individuals i.e. 23 percent people were women.

The CEO further stated that it is an equally significant challenge to offer employment opportunities for the additional 17 million people who are unemployed but willing to get employed with the availability of work despite the fact that they are not actively searching for work.

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China lost 42 soldiers in Galwan: Aus newspaper BJP will come down to its 2012 tally of

heavy machinery into the area.

“According to a Weibo user alias name Qiang who claims to have served in the area, the PLA was creating infrastructure in this buffer zone, violating the mutual agreement and had been trying to expand its patrolling limits within the buffer zone since April 2020,” the researchers state in the newspaper.

The re por t states: “On June 6, 80 PLA soldiers came to dismantle the bridge and nearly 100 troops came to defend it.”

The paper citing the report states that during the June 6 standoff, officers

Earlier govts wanted to use police as personal tool: Yogi LUCKNOW, FEB 3 (PTI): Claiming success in controlling crime in the state, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Thursday accused his predecessors of failing to undertake police reforms and said they wanted to use the department as their “personal tool”.

He alleged that the Samajwadi Party (SP), which was in power from 2012 to 2017 in the state, only “usurped money” in the name of development and the Akhilesh Yadav government’s development is seen in the boundary walls of ‘kabristan’ (graveyard).

The chief minister also claimed that the state was free of riots and terrorist activities for five years and that Uttar Pradesh had now become the preferred desti-

Yogi Adityanath nation for investors.

Giving out details on the number of riots in the previous Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and the Samajwadi Party (SP) governments, Adityanath said, “In BSP regime (2007-2012), there were 364 riots. During the SP tenure (2012-2017), there were over 700 big riots in which hundreds were killed.

LUCKNOW, FEB 3 (PTI): The BJP in Uttar Pradesh will be reduced to its 2012 tally of 47 or thereabouts as the wind is blowing in favour of the Akhilesh Yadavled coalition this election, says Swami Prasad Maurya who left the saffron party to join the Samajwadi Party last month.

The high profile exit of the former state minister along with two other colleagues in the Yogi Adityanath cabinet and some legislators was viewed by many as a consolidation of the electorally powerful Other Backward Classes (OBC) bloc in favour of the opposition coalition.

“The BJP will reach its 2012 figure… and the SP will form the government with an overwhelming majority. After March 10 (counting day), the BJP will come to know whether the OBCs are actually with them or not,” Maurya told PTI in an interview here.

The BJP had won 47 seats in the 2012 Uttar Pradesh assembly elections and taken it to 312 in the 403-member house in 2017.

GHAZIABAD, FEB 3 (PTI): AIMIM chief and Lok Sabha MP Asaduddin Owaisi’s car was allegedly fired upon in Hapur while he was returning to Delhi after attending electionrelated events in western Uttar Pradesh.

Owaisi’s vehicle was near the Chhijarsi toll plaza on the Hapur-Ghaziabad stretch of the National Highway 24 when the incident took place at around 6 pm, he said.

No one was injured in the incident, Owaisi said.

The Hapur Police said one person involved in the firing has been arrested while multiple teams are investigating the case.

“Some time ago my car was fired at near Chhijarsi toll gate. Four rounds of shots were fired. There were 3-4 people, all of them ran away and left the weapons

list the matter for hearing after February 21, Justice Khanwilkar said there is a statement in the letter that the matter was listed unexpectedly, but it was already on the advanced list.

The bench queried Chidambaram: “You want adjour nment till what date?”

He requested for four weeks adjournment in the matter. The bench told Chidambaram that the matter was notified much earlier, notice on review petitions were issued in September 2018, but the accused has not filed a reply so far.

Senior advocate Siddharth Luthra, representing the petitioner, said the other party was served in September and requested the bench to hear the matter after two weeks.

Bhagwant Mann clared as the chief ministerial candidate of the AAP after the party in Punjab held a first of its kind ‘Janta Chunegi Apna CM’ drive last month.

In the AAP survey to

pick the party’s chief ministerial candidate, 93 per cent of those who called or sent messages to a party number chose him.

The comedian-turnedpolitician, who has a knack for connecting with the people with his repartee, is fighting from the Dhuri seat, which is one of the assembly constituencies of Sangrur Lok Sabha. Mann is a two-time MP from Sangrur parliamentary constituency.

With the AAP’s CM candidate Mann being nominated from Dhuri, this assembly seat has shot into

Discussing his chances of becoming deputy chief minister in the event of the SP-led opposition forming government, the 68-year-old OBC leader said he had been driven by ideology, in support of the poor, Dalits and backward sections, rather than ambition in his political career.

“At this point of time, the topic of discussion is not about who is going to be deputy chief minister or cabinet minister. The topic of discussion is how to help UP get rid of BJP’s exploitation, and keep the BJP out of power,” Maurya said on whether an OBC leader will be a deputy chief minister in the future. The legislator from Padrauna will be contesting from Fazilpur in

there. My car got punctured, but I moved to another car and left. We are all safe.

Alhamdu’lilah,” Owaisi tweeted in Hindi.

The All India Majlise-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) president and Hyderabad MP said he had

we suddenly heard three-to- dent took place at the toll four rounds of gunshots. My plaza, we are also checking car also got some dents and the CCTV footage available a tyre got punctured,” he there.

Police teams have been later told reporters.

“I urge the EC to en- deployed and very soon othsure an independent probe ers involved in the episode into the incident. It must be will also be held,” he told known who is behind this reporters. The officer said incident. It’s also an appeal the investigation was at the to the Modi government preliminary stage and other and the Yogi government,” facts and details would be he added. Hapur Superin- shared as and when availtendent of Police Deepak able.

Meanwhile, senior disBhuker said one accused involved in the episode has trict officials, including those been arrested and police are from the administration and confirming the details of the police, reached the incident site, where several others and their motive.

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SC adjourns hearing of road rage case against Navjot Sidhu to Feb 25 NEW DELHI, FEB 3 (IANS): The Supreme Court on Thursday adjourned hearing on a plea seeking review of its May 15, 2018 verdict, letting off Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu with a mere Rs 1,000 fine in a 1988 road rage case where a Patiala resident had died, till after the February 20 Punjab Assembly elections.

A bench of Justices A.M. Khanwilkar and Sanjay Kishan Kaul cited a letter circulated by Sidhu’s counsel seeking adjournment in the matter.

Senior advocate P. Chidambaram, representing Sidhu, submitted that a new advocate on record has been engaged in the matter and he was informed of the matter late last night.

As he urged the bench to

Swami Prasad Maurya

Kushinagar district in the assembly elections beginning later this month and will file his nomination papers on Friday. He dismissed talk of threats from former Congress leader RPN Singh, who joined the BJP recently, forcing him to change his assembly seat. “The seat has been decided by the party president keeping the equations in mind.”

To another question if the RPN factor triggered the decision, Maurya said, “Not at all. And what election will he (RPN Singh) fight?

Anyway, he is not going to contest the polls. Even if he decides to contest the current polls, the candidate put up by us will defeat him.” Maurya, who grabbed headlines when he switched sides, also made it clear he is going to contest from only one assembly seat.

RPN Singh’s move to join the BJP was seen as compensating the saffron party’s loss from the Maurya and other OBC leaders particularly in the Purvanchal region, which comprises 167 seats in the 403-member Uttar Pradesh house.

Owaisi’s car fired upon in poll-bound UP, urges EC to take note

As Justice Kaul quipped: “Two weeks are crucial for him (Sidhu)”, the bench told Luthra: “You haven’t come since 2018 and now you want the matter to be heard after 2 weeks? Nothing will happen if the matter is not heard for 2 or 4 weeks.”

After a brief hearing in the matter, the top court scheduled the hearing in the matter on February 25.

In 2018, the top court had let off Sidhu saying there was no sufficient evidence to prove the harsher charges of culpable homicide not amounting to murder against him.

Sidhu was charged under Section 323 of the Indian Penal Code for voluntarily causing hurt, however he was let off with just a fine.

Punjab wants AAP to form next govt: Mann

DHURI (PB), FEB 3 (PTI): People of Punjab are tired of giving chances to the Congress and the SAD for the last 44 years and now want the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) to be in the saddle, says the party’s chief ministerial face Bhagwant Mann.

The 48-year-old Mann, who is contesting from the Dhuri Assembly segment, also says that mafia raj, unemployment, inflation, drug menace and farm distress are some of the major issues facing the state and his party will work to solve them.

Mann has been de-

47 seats this election: Swami Prasad

limelight.

“People gave at least 25 years to the Congress and 19 years to the Badal family.

These parties could not do anything in the last 44 years and they still want one more chance. People are tired of giving them chances but these parties are not tired of seeking the same,” says Mann.

He says people of Punjab want change and are keen to see the AAP form the next government because they know that the party has delivered in Delhi and will serve them here as well.

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PANAJI, FEB 3 (PTI): Congress’s Assembly poll candidates in Goa will take a pledge of loyalty to the party in the presence of its senior leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday, when he will be on a day-long visit to the state, a party functionary said.

During the visit, Gandhi will also address a public meeting in Sankhalim Assembly constituency, which is currently represented by state Chief Minister and BJP leader Pramod Sawant, he said. Elections to all 40 Assembly seats in Goa will be held on February 14 and the results will be declared on March 10. The Congress has tied up with the Goa Forward Party (GFP) for the polls. While the grand old party has fielded 37 candidates, the GFP is contesting on three seats.

“On his arrival in Goa on Friday, Rahul Gandhi would first hold a meeting with the party leaders at the International Centre in Dona Paula near here,” the spokesperson of the Goa Pradesh Congress Committee (GPCC) said.

“The party has designed a programme called Pledge of Loyalty at 1 pm, wherein poll candidates and other leaders would take an oath of loyalty to the party in the presence of Gandhi,” he added.

At 3 pm, Gandhi is scheduled to hold an interaction with various stakeholders in the state and at 5 pm, he will address a public meeting at Sankhalim, the party functionary said.

In the last five years, the Congress was hit the hardest by defections in the BJP-ruled Goa as most of its legislators quit the party. In 2019, as many as 10 Congress legislators had joined the ruling BJP, whose current strength in the Assembly stands at 27.

researchers states that the deadly June 15 battle was sparked over a temporary bridge, which Indian soldiers had erected across a stream of the Galwan River three weeks earlier, on May 22.

The report stated that the Indian and Chinese military officials had agreed to a “buffer zone” along the border in an attempt to “deescalate the crisis” amid rising tensions.

It states that despite creation of a buffer zone, China had been building “illegal infrastructure” inside the zone, including erecting tents and creating dugouts and had moved

The report says that “the moment Col. Fabao attacked he was immediately besieged by the Indian army troops”.

“To rescue him, PLA battalion commander Chen Hongjun and soldier Chen Xiangrong entered the encirclement of Indian army and started (a) physical scuffle with Indian troops using steel pipes, sticks and stones to provide cover for (their) commander to escape”.

India’s Colonel Santosh Babu was killed in the fighting.

It further cited “several Weibo users” states: “at least 38 PLA troops along with Wang were washed away and drowned that night of which only Wang was declared among the four officially dead soldiers”.

“After the incident, the bodies of the soldiers were first taken to Shiquanhe Martyr Cemetery, followed by local ceremonies at the local towns of the killed soldiers,” the report states.

India had maintained that 20 soldiers were killed during the incident.

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A still from a footage of the Galwan valley clash.

from both sides “agreed to withdraw all personnel who crossed the buffer zone line” and to “dismantle all the facilities that crossed the line”.

However the report says China failed to adhere to the agreement.

“PLA did not adhere to its promise and instead of dismantling its own infrastructure as agreed upon, secretly dismantled the river crossing bridge constructed by the Indian army,” it says.

Three days later, on June 15, Colonel Santosh and his troops returned.

The Chinese forces were led by Colonel Qi Fabao.

“On 15th June 2020, Col. Santosh Babu along with his troops went to the disputed area in the Galwan Valley at night in an attempt to remove the Chinese encroachment where Col. Qi Fabao was present along with nearly 150 soldiers,” the report states.

It says that Fabao ordered his troops to form a battle formation, instead of discussing the issue on the lines of mutual consent made at the June 6 meeting.

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NEW DELHI, FEB 3 (IANS): Chinese People’s Liberation Army lost 42 soldiers, not four during the Galwan Valley clashes with the Indian troops in Eastern Ladakh, claims The Klaxon, an Australian newspaper, on Thursday.

The clashes took place on June 15, 2020.

The Indian security establishments remained silent over the claims made by the Australian newspaper report. The report filed

by Editor Anthony Klan makes such claims citing a report of a group of social media researchers.

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“It also shows extreme lengths Beijing has gone to in order to silence discussion about the battle - in particular, discussion about the true number of Chinese casualties.”

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Foot in the mouth

erhaps nothing more defines Rahul Gandhi and his political worth than the observation made

by M.R.Venkatesh, a known political analyst.

Venkatesh wrote : “Whenever he (Rahul Gandhi) opens his mouth, Congress party seems to lose half a million votes. That is the problem with the Congress party.” Perhaps it may not be wrong to also say that it has also become a problem for millions of Congress supporters across the nation who have voted and supported the party since the time of late Indira and Rajiv. There is a popular saying ‘don’t shoot the messenger’. However, in Rahul’s case he deserves brickbats for changing the message. Even if Rahul, may not actually plan on changing the content of the messages, yet it all comes crashing down because of his lack of ability to articulate. He raises many important topics but his goofs up and faux pas take precedence. One magazine went as far as to write : ‘ Rahul Gandhi is for real. He is known for his faux passes, bloopers and bloops. Just as one is about to get over one, he comes off with another. Over the last few years, particularly since Mr Modi came to power, the frequency of his bloopers increased manifold.

Perhaps it is the awe and overbearing personality of Mr Modi that brings out Rahul’s insecurities and inanities to the fore. Here is a fifty-year-old man who has the singular distinction of being born in a family that boasts of a Prime Minister in each of its last three generations, yet every time he opens his mouth, he bloops.’ In the ongoing budget session of parliament, Rahul again managed to attract more brickbats that bouquets for his lacklustre speech. Though he sought to debate about the Budget, yet Rahul only managed to tie himself in knots. He even dragged the statutory bodies when he said “The judiciary, Election Commission and the Pegasus spyware are all instruments to destroy the voice of Union of States.” Referring to the Pegasus snooping row, he said, “When the Prime Minister personally goes to Israel and authorises the use of Pegasus in India, he is attacking the people of Tamil Nadu, he is attacking the people of Assam, he is attacking the people of Kerala, he is attacking the people of Bengal.” On why there was no guest for the Republic Day on January 26 this year, Rahul said “Ask yourself why you could not get a guest for the Republic Day function? The nation is at risk. The nation is at risk for outside and the nation is at risk from inside. And that is a very dangerous place for a nation to be in.” Needless to say, Rahul now faces a privilege motion in the Lok Sabha and also demands from union ministers to tender an apology for his speech. The Congress has seasoned debaters like Sashi Tharoor or Manish Tewari in the Lok Sabha but Sonia has made Adhir Ranjan Choudhury and Rahul initiate debates even though they are poor orators.

Congress veterans themselves say this is to ensure capable leaders don’t come up in the party except a Gandhi. Though millions of Congress supporters are ready to fall behind a capable leader, somehow Sonia is unwittingly helping BJP to fulfil its vow of Congressmukht Bharat by backing an incapable Rahul.

DailyDevotion Becoming the “Filth of the World”

We have been made as the filth of the world…

—1 Corinthians 4:13

These words are not an exaggeration. The only reason they may not be true of us who call ourselves ministers of the gospel is not that Paul forgot or misunderstood the exact truth of them, but that we are too cautious and concerned about our own desires to allow ourselves to become the refuse or “filth of the world.” “Fill up in my flesh what is lacking in the afflictions of Christ…”

(Colossians 1:24) is not the result of the holiness of sanctification, but the evidence of consecration— being “separated to the gospel of God…” (Romans 1:1).

“Beloved, do not think it strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you…” (1 Peter 4:12).

If we do think the things we encounter are strange, it is because we are fearful and cowardly. We pay such close attention to our own interests and desires that we stay out of the mire and say, “I won’t submit; I won’t bow or bend.” And you don’t have to— you can be saved by the “skin of your teeth” if you like. You can refuse to let God count you as one who is “separated to the gospel….” Or you can say, “I don’t care if I am treated like ‘the filth of the world’ as long as the gospel is proclaimed.” A true servant of Jesus Christ is one who is willing to experience martyrdom for the reality of the gospel of God. When a moral person is confronted with contempt, immorality, disloyalty, or dishonesty, he is so repulsed by the offense that he turns away and in despair closes his heart to the offender. But the miracle of the redemptive reality of God is that the worst and the vilest offender can never exhaust the depths of His love. Paul did not say that God separated him to show what a wonderful man He could make of him, but “to reveal His Son in me…”

(Galatians 1:16).

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Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar. ~ William Wordsworth

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Post-mortem

Budget 2022: Ignored jobs, women, health & education F inance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman started the innings of her much-awaited 2022 Budget speech by emphasising her macro-fiscal priorities to be positioned for a long-term budgetary vision of ‘India at 100’. It included areas of: ‘inclusive development’, ‘productivity enhancement’, ‘sunrise opportunities’, ‘energy transition’, ‘climate change’, and ‘PM Gati Shakti’.

The PM Gati Shakti Programme identified seven engines of growth: Roads, Railways, Airports, Ports, Mass Transport, Waterways, and logistics infrastructure. It seems these are the ‘engines of growth’ that the government feels committed to.

To enable a narrower understanding and reading of all key announcements made, without getting too lost in the details, it would be better here to critically focus this Budget’s meaning and analysis on two broader areas – job creation-job security and social-welfare spending priorities (with a focus on women).

What about employment of women in rural areas?

It seems the Modi Government’s ‘blinded’ or ‘indifferent’ approach with regards to addressing the puzzling crisis of unemployment-underemployment, is likely to continue.

A long-term view of ‘India at 100’ remains centred around enhancing capital expenditure-supported ‘growth’ and ‘productivity’ in big-infra segments, which the Finance Minister has remained rigidly tied to since the last budget.

The hope is that the big boost in capital expenditure and more ‘supply side’ spending measures will subsequently create enough ‘good quality jobs’ for all. It is worth iterating here, though, that from a gendered analysis of pastemployment trends across sectors, most jobs created in areas of infrastructure (including construction, ports, logistics) have broadly increased male participation while adversely affecting the ‘female labour force

participation rate’ in these segments.

It is largely in areas of services, communication, part-manufacturing and agri-business where women employment viz-aviz males has been in some proportion. But it has been most ‘equal’ across gender in service sectors of ‘health’ and ‘education’ (as seen below), which have received the least public spending/ investment in the past.

Union Finance Minister Nirmal Sitharaman did announce a slew of initiatives targeted at womencentred development in her fourth budget speech.

“Recognising the importance of ‘Nari Shakti’, three schemes were launched to provide integrated development for women and children,” the FM said in Parliament today. Sitharaman said Mission Poshan 2.0, Mission Vatsalya and Mission Shakti were launched recently to provide integrated benefits to children. Saksham Anganwadi is a new generation that has better infrastructure and audiovisual aids covered by clean energy and provides improved environments for early childhood developments. Two lakh anganwadis will be upgraded under the scheme, Sitharaman added.

Last year, Sitharaman allocated ₹20,105 crore for Saksham Anganwadi and POSHAN 2.0 scheme, ₹900 crore for Mission Vatsalya and ₹3,109 crore for Mission Shakti (Mission for Protection and Empowerment for Women). But there are other areas where women-centred employment opportunities, especially in rural areas, weren’t prioritised in this budget.

The FM didn’t even mention the jobs crisis Higher allocations to MGNREGA (already affected in 2021 by inadequate budgets), greater support to states for targeted job creation, enhancing PLI schemes towards ‘job creation’, and introducing an urban version of the MGNREGA plan (at least on a smaller scale) were all seen as part of expectations to address the ‘joblessness’ cri-

sis head-on. We didn’t hear on either of these, which is disappointing.

On MGNREGA, the Union government lowered its allocated spending for FY2023. It has allocated Rs 73,000 crore for India’s rural jobs guarantee programme in the upcoming fiscal.

India’s broken labour markets and an asymmetric employment landscape has largely been split between the unorganised-organised space. The informal (unorganised) space was hit the most during the pandemic.

It has also been the most resilient though, once the state-wide or national lockdowns were lifted. Most women in India’s employment landscape are employed in the vulnerable unorganised, informal space.

One major reason for some of these poor numbers remains centred around the fact that India’s female labour force participation rate (LFPR) – the share of working-age women who report either being employed or being available for work – is as low as 16.4 per cent (in the 15-29 age group) and 33 per cent (in the 35-39 age group), as per the 2017-18 PLFS data (not taking the pandemic effect into consideration). Among women in the prime working ages of 30-50, more than two in three women are not in the workforce, with the majority of them reporting that they are “attending to domestic duties only”.

MSME sector has fallen through the cracks The situation for both women-employment and women-based entrepreneurship also appears calamitous. As discussed recently, if we look at the recent data extracted from round 73 of the National Sample Survey (NSS), there are less than 21 per cent of women entrepreneurs in the MSME sector, which holds the bulk of the share in India’s manufacturing landscape.

In the organised formal jobs sector, only seven of 100 entrepreneurs in India are women, and of them, nearly half (49.9 per cent) get into business ‘out of necessity rather than

aspiration’, as per a recent IWAGE report.

Given the lack of jobs in the organised (formal) segment, the better treatment of the (un)organised sector via the protection of MSMEs is also vital. Unfortunately, the second wave fiscal response measures by the government failed to do much to protect the affected MSMEs, adversely affecting employment in unorganised-organised sectors.

In context to MSMEs, one of the larger job-creating segments for both the unorganised-organised employment landscape, the only positive from the allocative announcements made was in the direction of extending the emergency loan guarantee (ECLGS) amid the COVID crisis.

The scheme will now be extended till March 2023 and its guarantee cover will be expanded by Rs 50,000 crore to a total cover worth Rs 5 lakh crore, said Finance Minister Sitharaman.

Will ailing banks really support MSMEs? I am not sure but the scheme provided immediate relief to small enterprises.

The concern is that there is still no clarity on the quality of these loans, how they will be allocated, and the role of banks. It is also not clear whether scheduled commercial banks or public sector banks, already affected by ‘poor quality loans’ on their balance sheets and weak Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC)-driven recovery of bad loans, will actually walk the talk on extending credit to MSMEs. With a high government debt-to-GDP ratio, the government would also need to tread with caution on how it implements the credit guarantee allocations, as such guarantees will be a contingent liability on the government’s books.

Govt’s social welfare spending is dismally low As argued in my prebudget analysis, it was shown how dismal the Union government’s social welfare spending levels have been, even during the pandemic years. The Economic Survey 2021 report highlights it as well. The

combined aggregate spending in areas of education, healthcare (outside COVID-19) has been less than 9% of the GDP. As a percentage of total government expenditure, the aggregate expenditure on social services is around 26.6% (it is 9.7% in education and 6.6% in healthcare). The level of public expenditure on nutrition-centred programmes, including those focusing on early child development, has been dismally low.

For FY 2022-23, the Union Government allocated Rs 1,04,278 crore for the education sector, which is 11,054 crore higher than the amount allocated to the education sector in the financial year 2021-22. Last year, the Union Budget allocated an amount of Rs 93,224 crore to the education sector. The revised estimate made this to be Rs. 88,002 crore. This indicates an increase in the budgetary allocation for education by 11.86%.

Learning loss, dropouts ignored It would be interesting to see how the allocation happens for this increased outlay in education, as a slew of new schemes have been announced by the Finance Minister this Budget, including a digital university to provide education in different Indian languages that will be built on a huband-spoke model, and a one-class one TV channel e-learning service.

The government’s budgetary allocations have also seen a decline in child-related departments FY 202021 onwards. The Union Ministry of Women and Child Development saw a decline in budgetary spending from Rs 30,007.1 crore to Rs. 24,435 crore. The budget for the Department of Education and Literacy was already slashed to Rs 53,600 crore from 59,370 crore. The budgetary allocation for child protection was cut down by 40 per cent from Rs 1,500 crores to Rs 900 crores. This has affected the states’ ability to spend on existing child-related programmes.

Centre has abdicated its responsibility

Why are children not learning what they should in school?

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massive proportion of the preposterous claim that the our children do not failure of learning in Indian learn basic reading schools is because of children and writing, and mathematics, with such disabilities. So, the or do so very inadequately. basic learning failure in Indian The country accepts that our schools cannot be attributed to education system is failing some innate problem within on this count; the National children.

Education Policy 2020 has Second, perhaps children candidly confronted this issue. just don’t want to learn. This is Let’s keep our question absolutely true in many ways. sharply and narrowly focused Most children don’t want to sit on the matter of basic lan- down and learn how to read, guage and math, leaving aside write or do math. They want all other learning expectations, to play and have fun. and explore this question from This doesn’t mean that the very basics. they are not learning. Children If children are not learn- are learning with bewildering ing, what is happening inside speed all the time. About the the classroom must be insuf- world around them, about ficient and/or ineffective. people, about themselves, and In any classroom, you have more. Children are incredibly children and a teacher. So, the curious. reasons for ineffectiveness in Led by curiosity and with the classroom must have to experience, they can absorb do with the children and the and build knowledge like a teacher. dry sponge soaking water. This As a start, let’s just focus very strong innate disposition on the children. Since we are of children energizes them talking about basic language to do all kind of things and and math, we are talking about experience the world, instead children between the ages of of sitting down to learn how 6 and 11. to read and write or do math.

What all might cause Third, perhaps with so them not to learn? Consider many children in a class, four possibilities. they disturb and distract one First, perhaps some chil- another. This is true, as a cordren just don’t have the capac- ollary of children not wanting ity to learn. We know this is to learn language and math not true. All children have the but do other things that intercapacity to learn, and certainly est them—including social for basic language and math. interactions, with their friends A small proportion of children (and antagonists). with disabilities may not have Fourth, perhaps there are these basic capacities, and other things that stop children we must address their needs from learning that are from specifically, but no one makes outside the classroom. A child Reader’s note: Articles or letters published in any

is so hungry that she cannot of engagement and commitconcentrate. Another has a ment, and thus develops into home environment where she a self-fulfilling prophecy. is working all the time and is Harnessing the innate left exhausted. curiosity of children to learn Perhaps she is not able what is part of their curricuto come to school regularly lum, managing their attention because of chores at home and suitably and methodically, and so has no idea what’s going on making things interesting and while in class. Much could be relatable to them are some of added to this list, all emerging the most important capacities from poverty, which creates of a teacher. these many kinds of obstacles The nature of children to learning in the classroom. is what it is and that’s not an Children from well-to- obstacle to learning. In fact, it do families don’t have these can be the greatest energizer obstacles. And it should also of learning if managed apnot escape us that this ‘lack of propriately and effectively. basic learning’ is a phenom- Including social interactions enon found overwhelmingly among children in class. with children from homes Obstacles arising from in poverty or near-poverty, poverty have implications for rarely with children from af- the teacher, the school and fluent or comfortable families. the larger system. These canSome children are tormented not be completely addressed by extremely abusive home by even the ideal teacher and environments, though this has ideal teaching in a classroom. nothing to do with poverty However, teachers do have a and is such a tiny sliver of the key role to play. They must unoverall proportion of those derstand the specific obstacles who don’t learn that, like the that each child faces and bring matter of children with mental empathy and sensitivity to the disabilities, it is not an expla- child in the classroom. nation for the phenomenon But the bigger role is of we are exploring. public systems: making sure What are the implicathat hunger is not a problem, tions of these four things? that there is adequate resourcThe first three points have ing in the school, that comimplications for teachers and munities are involved, and so teaching.

All teachers must under- on. We must do our utmost, stand and act with the con- even if we know that we’re not viction that all children can about to eliminate poverty in learn. Wrong-headed ideas the near future.

Anurag Behar is CEO of such as “children of the poor Azim Premji Foundation are dull and can never learn” (As published in Live Mint) powers a vicious cycle of lack of the columns do not reflect the view of this newspaper

States like Chhattisgarh, Kerala, Odisha, Tamil Nadu and Telangana have a higher decline in public expenditure on children in the post-COVID period as the difference between their actual expenditure and budget estimates is higher than the difference between their actual expenditure and budget estimates in the preCOVID period.

Ke r a l a a n d Ta m i l Nadu have made sustained investments for children.

Thus, a cut in expenditure for a year might not adversely impact the welfare of children in these two states. However, Chhattisgarh, for example, which has been grappling with a high under-5 mortality rate, stunting and wasting rates, was not able to prioritise child expenditure in the post-COVID year in spite of its fiscal prudence.

As most states’ spending capabilities have been adversely affected during COVID years, the bulk of the fiscal responsibility of redistribution of additional resources towards social welfare, including for child-women development, fall directly on the Central government. That responsibility, it seems, has been abdicated.

In sum, both the 202223 Budget and the Finance Minister’s ‘India at 100’ long-term vision blindly ignore the need for establishing a robust social and economic safety net for the most vulnerable populations, including women and children across communities in India. What it indicates is a wide degree of abdication of responsibility on the Union government’s in addressing deep-rooted inequities and exacerbated levels of poverty, which have worsened during the last two years.

Deepanshu Mohan is associate professor of Economics, OP Jindal Global University. He is currently visiting professor, Department of Economics, Carleton University. He tweets @Deepanshu_1810. This is an opinion piece and the views expressed above are the author’s own.

(As published in The Quint)

Fide Non Armis and Indo-Naga peace talks

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he first regional party of Nagaland, ‘Democratic Party’, was formed on 21st October 1963 under the chairmanship of Late A. Kevichusa at Kohima with a group of Naga leaders. The main aims and objectves of forming this new party were: 1. To act as a facilitator or bridge between two contending parties – the Government of India and the NNC 2. To shift political power from the power of bureaucrats to democratically elected people 3. To preserve Naga identity, culture, Naga customary laws, etc 4. To set up a pattern of administration best suited to all the tribes 5. To form a lasting good relationship with the Government of India for a permanent and honourable solution of the Indo-Naga problem through reconciliation.

During the formation of the Democratic Party, Mr. A. Kevichusa and his friends decided on the motto ‘Fide Non Armis’. This is a Latin word that means ‘by faith and not by arms’. They believed that only faith can solve this problem.

Not arms. Government of India and Nagas need to have faith on each other. To achieve this faith, Nagas need unity first and Government of India needs sincerity.

Honourable Chief Minister N. Rio rightly said that Nagas will not progress as long as they are divided.

Before the final solution of Indo-Naga problem, Nagas should come to a common platform under one umbrella. What I feel is that if the Government of India and Nagas, having faith in each other, try for a settlement that will be an honourable, acceptable and final settlement for contending parties – the Government of India and the Nagas.

As Mr. Kevichusa and his friends rightly said, faith is the only answer to this problem, but not arms.

P.G Banerjee, Dimapur. nor that of the Editor in any manner.

BJP leaders slam Rahul’s remarks in LS NEW DELHI, FEB 3 (IANS): Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s speech in the Parliament on Wednesday has drawn huge flak from the ruling BJP leaders.

The ruling party leaders condemned Rahul Gandhi’s remarks related to Union Home Minister Amit Shah, judiciary, Election Commission, unemployment, pegasus spyware and foreign policy.

Reacting to the remarks made by the former Congress chief while addressing the motion of thanks to the President’s address in Lok Sabha, Parliamentary Affairs Minister, Pralhad Joshi said, “The Congress which doesn’t have democracy within their party, is talking about our elected Prime Minister in a very very silly manner. I don’t understand his mentality and language. He is talking about China and Pakistan, they have been against us since decades, it’s a known fact.”

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“When somebody comes to our home, we always request him to remove shoes outside, it’s our culture. We keep separate slippers for home, Rahul Gandhi doesn’t understand this. I must say he is a brainless person,” Joshi said while reacting to Rahul Gandhi’s allegation that a group of politicians from Manipur was “forced to remove their shoes” at Amit Shah’s home.

Similarly, Commerce and Industry Minister, Piyush Goyal said, “It is a religious matter of an in-

dividual, as many of us do puja at home and don’t allow shoes at home.”

Rahul Gandhi, during his speech, “narrated an incident” about Amit Shah alleging that when a delegation from Manipur went to meet Shah, “they were told to remove their shoes, whereas Amit Shah himself was wearing slippers”.

The Congress leader, demanding an apology from Shah, has asserted that the Home Minister has “insulted people of Manipur”.

Meanwhile, Union Minister Kiren Rijiju has

sought the Congress leader’s apology for his comments on Constitutional institutions- Judiciary and the Election Commission.

“How can he give reference to a matter (pegasus spyware) which is sub judice, he should know the rules,” BJP MP Nishikant Dubey interrupted Rahul Gandhi during his speech, quoting the rule.

Meanwhile, responding to the former Congress president’s remark that the BJP-led Central government brought “Pakistan and China together”, External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar said that the two Asian countries have been sharing close ties since the last several decades.

Jaishankar also rejected Rahul Gandhi’s allegation that “it is India’s faulty foreign policy under the Narendra Modi-led government which made China and Pakistan join hands together against India, and convert into a front”.

TN CM Stalin welcomes Rahul’s ‘rousing’ speech in Parliament

M K Stalin

CHENNAI, FEB 3 (PTI): Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin on Thursday hailed Rahul Gandhi for his “rousing” speech in Lok Sabha and said the Congress MP had voiced the long-standing arguments of Tamils in the Parliament.

In a Twitter post, the DMK president thanked Gandhi on behalf of “all Tamils” for his parliament speech.

“Dear Rahul Gandhi, I thank you on behalf of all Tamils for your rousing speech in the Parliament, expressing the idea of Indian Constitution in an emphatic manner. You have voiced the long-standing arguments of Tamils in the Parliament, which rest on the unique cultural and political roots that value self-respect,” Stalin said.

Launching a full-blown attack on the BJP government at the Centre on Wednesday, among others, Gandhi accused the ruling party of bringing back the idea of a “king of India” that was “smashed in 1947” and targeted Prime Minister Narendra Modi saying that the “idea of a king is back”.

“India is described in the Constitution as a union of states and not as a nation. One cannot rule over the people of a state in India. Different languages and cultures cannot be suppressed. It is a partnership, not a kingdom.”

“We smashed that idea of a king.

Now, that idea of a king has come back, that there is a king, a Shahenshah, a ruler of rulers, a master of masters...

What is happening is that the instruments of the conversation between our states. The instruments of the conversation between our peoples, what we call the institutions of our country are being attacked and captured by one idea,” he had said. Batting for cooperative federalism, Gandhi said the only way India has been ruled over the decades was through conversations. He had also said the states in the country do not have a voice in the present system and insisted that the only way to govern India is through conversations.

Unpaid protesting Delhi doctors threatened with termination notice NEW DELHI, FEB 3 (IANS): Unpaid for the last three months, the medical staff, including senior and junior doctors, and nursing staff of the East Delhi Municipal Corporationrun Swami Dayanand hospital have been threatened with termination of their services if they continue with their protest over pending salaries.

“In view of the prevailing health situation of Covid pandemic, all the junior residents and senior residents are hereby directed to join back their duty by 9 a.m. on February 3, 2022.

Otherwise, we will be forced to terminate your services and appoint new JR/SR. This is essential to run the basic health services in the hospital,” reads an office order of the hospital.

The medical staff of the EDMC-run hospital have been protesting over their demands of immediate release of pending salary from February 1. All the services, including emergency, have been stopped in the hospital.

Talking to IANS, Dr Atul Jain, RDA President of the hospital said, “We are asking for our rights only.

We don’t have any demands from the administration.

One more college in K’taka stops students wearing hijab ‘Drink gaumutra shots’: Trinamool No one should come to school for practicing MP’s dare ahead of parliament speech their religion: Karnataka Home Minister

Bengal civic polls to be held on Feb 27

K O L K AT A , F E B 3 (IANS): The West Bengal State Election Commission (SEC) has announced that it will conduct the municipal elections in the state on February 27. The elections were due for nearly two years but could not be held due to the Covid-19 situation.

Announcing the polls, State Election Commissioner Sourav Das said: “The municipal polls in 108 municipalities across the state will be held on February 27 and the model code of conduct will be in force from February 3 only.

The last date for the filing of nomination is scheduled

on February 9.” The Commissioner added that there will be elections in all the municipalities except one ward of South Dum Dum municipality.

“There is a high court directive and so we cannot conduct any election in ward number 29 of the South Dum Dum municipality,” Das said. However, the SEC didn’t make any announcement of the date of counting of votes.

Meanwhile, the SEC has also announced the elections of four municipal corporations -- Siliguri, Bidhannagar, Chandannagar and Asansol -- on February 12.

The state election b o dy h a d e a r l i e r a n nounced to conduct the polls in these four municipal corporations on January 22 but following the high court directive it had to defer it to February 12. On Wednesday, the poll panel convened an allparty meeting in which the Congress urged the former to postpone the elections amid the Covid-19 situation even as the Trinamool Congress said they would abide by the panel’s decision.

The Left and the BJP demanded that the counting also be held on the polling day.

We are witnessing trailers of future conflicts: Army Chief

NEW DELHI, FEB 3 (PTI): India is witnessing trailers of future conflicts and its adversaries will continue with efforts to achieve their strategic aims, Army Chief Gen MM Naravane said on Thursday delving into the national security challenges emanating from China and Pakistan.

In an address at a seminar, he said India is facing “unique, substantial and multi-domain” security challenges and that developments on the northern borders have adequately underscored the requirement of ready and capable forces with an optimal component of boots on the ground backed by modern technology to preserve the country’s sovereignty and integrity.

Without directly naming China and Pakistan, Gen Naravane said that the disputed borders with nuclear-

Gen MM Naravane

capable neighbours coupled with state-sponsored proxy war were stretching the security apparatus and the resources. He said the Army is focusing on “restructuring, rebalancing and reorienting” its forces and the process has already been initiated and that the force is committed to the theaterisation initiative to ensure tri-services integration.

“We are witnessing trailers of future conflicts.

These are being enacted daily on the information battlefield, in the networks and

in cyberspace. They are also being played along unsettled and active borders,” he said.

“It is for us now to visualise the battlefield contours of tomorrow based on these trailers. If you look around, you will realise the reality of today,” he said.

The seminar organised by the Centre for Land Warfare Studies (CLAWS) was attended by Air Chief Marshal VR Chaudhari, Navy Chief Admiral R Hari Kumar and defence attaches of several countries. Gen Naravane said the developments in Afghanistan have again brought to focus the use of proxies and non-state actors to decisive effect. “These actors thrive on local conditions, innovatively exploit low-cost options to devastating impact and create conditions that limit the full use of sophisticated capabilities which are available to state,” he said.

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ments which come in the way of unity of this country,” he stated. “Naqab, burqa, hijab, saffron or green shawls are not allowed in the classrooms. The minister for Education has already stated that uniforms are compulsory. There should not be any divisive factors in the academic environment. There are mosques, churches and temples for religious practices,” the Home Minister explained. “With these developments, the etiquette of integrity is being challenged,” he said.

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Principal of Bhandrakars’ College stopped girl students who came to the college wearing a burqa or hijab at the entrance.

Karnataka Home Minister Araga Jnanendra on Thursday said children should neither wear hijab nor saffron shawls at schools and he has asked the police to keep watch on religious organisations that are trying to undermine the country’s unity in this regard.

Speaking to reporters here, he said no one should come to school for practicing their religion, as it is a place where all students should learn together with a feeling of oneness.

The remarks come amid a row over wearing ‘hijab’ (headscarf) by some students at a government pre-university college at Udupi. In another incident, Muslim girl students of the Kundapur PU college, who reached the institution today wearing the hijab, were stopped at the gate by the principal. They were informed that they are not allowed to wear the headscarf inside the classrooms and asked to remove it before entering. Yesterday, around 100 Hindu students came to classes wearing saffron shawls as a counter to the girls wearing hijabs.

“Schools are the place where children belonging to all religions should learn together and imbibe a feeling that we are not different, and all are children of Bharat Mata,” Jnanendra said in response to a question.

Speaking to reporters here, he said, there are places like Churches, Mosques and temples for people to freely practice their religion and offer prayers, while at schools there should be an academic atmosphere for children to develop a culture of national unity integrity.

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BENGALURU, FEB 3 (IANS/PTI): Showing no signs of abating, hijab row in Karnataka has spread to more colleges as girl students wearing hijab or burqa were stopped at the entrance of the Bhandarkars’ College of Kundapur in Udupi district of the state on Thursday morning.

The girl students who came to the college wearing burqa or hijab were stopped at the entrance by the Principal of Bhandrakars’ College.

The Principal told students that as per the government order and college guidelines they will have to come in uniform to the classes. The girl students argued that they have been coming to the college in hijab for a long time and they must be permitted. But the entry was denied. The administration of Bhandrakars’ College on Wednesday had also denied permission to students who came to classes in saffron

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Third Covid wave eases Jan services output: PMI

NEW DELHI, FEB 3 (IANS): The third wave of the Covid-19 pandemic has sequentially dampened India’s service sector growth in January 2022.

The seasonally adjusted India Services Business Activity Index came in at 51.5 (index reading) for January, lower than 55.5 in December.

The PMI ranges between 0 and 100, with a reading of above 50 indicating an overall increase compared to the previous month. Besides, the headline figure pointed to the slowest rate of expansion in the current six month sequence of growth.

The upturn was reportedly stymied by the intensification of the pandemic, the reintroduction of restrictions and inflationary pressures, the IHS Markit India Services PMI report said.

According to survey participants, demand was

restricted by the fast spread of the Omicron variant and the reinstatement of curfews in parts of the country.

“New work intakes increased further at the start of the year, taking the current sequence of expansion to six months. That said, the rate of growth was only slight and the weakest over this period.”

On consolidated manufacturing and services, the Composite PMI Output Index fell from 56.4 in December to 53 in January.

“Both services activity and manufacturing production increased at weaker rates,” the report said.

“Although new orders received by private sector companies continued to rise, the rate of expansion eased to the slowest in the current six-month period of growth.

Slower increases were seen among manufacturing firms and their services counterparts.”

Furthermore, January data pointed to a second successive monthly drop in private sector employment.

“Despite being modest, the rate of job shedding accelerated from December.

A quicker fall among goods producers was matched by a similar trend among service providers.”

Pollyanna De Lima, Economics Associate Director at IHS Markit, said that the escalation of the pandemic and reintroduction of curfews had a detrimental impact on growth across the service sector.

“Concerns about how long the current wave of Covid-19 will last dampened business confidence and caused job shedding. Firms were also alarmed about price pressures,” she said.

“On this front, the latest PMI results brought worrying news as input prices increased at the sharpest rate in over a decade.”

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Sugar production surplus in India since 2010-11: Govt

NEW DELHI, FEB 3 (IANS): As against the domestic consumption, there has been surplus production of sugar in the country since sugar season 2010-11 (October-September), except in sugar season 2016-17 due to drought, the Parliament was informed on Wednesday.

“In the previous sugar season 2020-21, about 310 lakh metric tonnes (LMT) of sugar was produced, after discounting diversion of 22 LMT of sugar to ethanol, by Indian sugar mills against domestic consumption of 265 LMT. Further, against the estimated domestic consumption of 270 LMT in sugar season 2021-22, the sugar production is estimated to be around 308 LMT, again, after discounting estimated diversion of 35 LMT of sugar to ethanol,” Union Minister of State for Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti told the Lok Sabha in a written reply.

The government has

been extending assistance to sugar mills, with a view to facilitate export of surplus sugar, and thereby, improving liquidity of sugar mills and enabling them to clear cane price dues of farmers, she said, Giving details of export of sugar in past five years, the Minister said, in the sugar seasons 2016-17 ande 2017-18, 6.2 LMT was exported, in 2018-19, exports came down to 38 LMT followed by a substantial increase to 59.6 LMT in sugar season 2019-20, and further increased to 70 LMT in sugar season 2020-21.

The export of sugar in sugar season 2021-22, till Jan 31, 2022, is 26.5 LMT. Till date, contracts of about 40 LMT have been signed for export of sugar in current sugar season and that too without announcement of any export subsidy.

It is also estimated that in sugar season 2021-22, about 50-60 LMT of sugar is likely to be exported by domestic sugar mills.

With record $10.7 bn sales, Qualcomm eyes IoT, Metaverse space

NEW DELHI, FEB 3 (IANS): Riding on strong performance in its chipset and licensing business, chip-maker Qualcomm has reported a record revenue of $10.7 billion in its December quarter of 2021.

According to Cristiano Amon, President and CEO of Qualcomm Incorporated, the chipset business had its second consecutive quarter of record performance with $8.8 billion in revenue.

“We are at the beginning of one of the largest opportunities in our history, with our addressable market expanding by more than seven times to approximately $700 billion in the next decade,” Amon said in a statement late on Wednesday.

“Our one technology roadmap positions us as the partner of choice for both mobile and the connected intelligent edge,” he added.

In Internet of Things

(IoT), Qualcomm continues to see strong momentum with revenue growth of 41 per cent (year over year) across consumer, edge networking, and industrial.

“In consumer IoT, our early investments, collaboration with Microsoft, and the recent acquisition of NUVIA uniquely positions us to drive the PC industry transition to ARM-based computing for next-generation connected laptops,” said the company CEO. At the recently-held CES 2022, the company highlighted broad support from ecosystem partners, including Acer, ASUS, HP, Lenovo, and Microsoft, as well as 200 enterprise customers currently testing or deploying Windows on Snapdragon laptops in twoin-one devices.

“We’re also seeing strong growth in premium and high-tier Android tablets, further highlighting the convergence of mobile and PC,” Amon said.

Additionally, as the metaverse opportunity materializes, “we continue to build on our industry leadership position in VR and AR devices with key ecosystem players, including Meta and Microsoft”.

At CES, Qualcomm announced a collaboration with Microsoft to expand and accelerate the adoption of augmented reality in both the consumer and enterprise sectors.

In handsets, the company recently announced its most advanced 5G mobile platform for flagship smartphones, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1.

“The new chip leads the way to a new era of premium mobile technology with category-defining enhancements across modem RF, camera, AI, gaming, security, and more. Snapdragon 800 Gen 1 is the world’s first 5G modem RF solution to reach 10-gigabit download speeds,” said Amon.

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Only five counters closed in the green -- ITC, Maruti, Titan, SBI, and Asian Paints, advancing up to 1.14%. On the macroeconomic front, India’s services sector activity moderated further in January as new business rose at a noticeably slower rate amid the escalation of the pandemic, reintroduction of restrictions and inflationary pressures, a monthly survey showed.

this is a great move and will bring India closer to the world standards.” Unnikrishnan also welcomed the mega logistic parks and said, “it will not only generate enormous employment

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The 30-share BSE Sensex plunged 770.31 points or 1.29% to finish at 58,788.02. Similarly, the broader NSE Nifty lost 219.80 points or 1.24% to close at 17,560.20.

HDFC was the top laggard among the Sensex constituents, tumbling 3.23%, followed by Infosys, L&T, Bajaj Finserv, Bajaj Finance, Tech Mahindra and Kotak Bank.

digitisation of the logistics sector in the country. It will help reduce paperwork and aid better logistics and supply chain management. Indian Railways’ One Station One Product plan to provide capable logistics services to farmers and MSMEs will ensure that local businesses overcome the existing bottlenecks in the supply chain,” Nahata added.

Sudhir Unnikrishnan, Senior Vice President and Managing Director of India, Blume Global, said, “Given that India’s supply chain and logistics costs currently account for 14 per cent of the country’s GDP (compared to the global average of approximately 8 per cent),

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MUMBAI, FEB 3 (PTI): The Sensex and Nifty buckled under heavy selling pressure on Thursday as investors pocketed gains in IT, finance and bank stocks after three sessions of robust gains. Nervousness in European markets ahead of central bank meetings coupled with lacklustre macroeconomic data back home also sapped risk appetite, traders said.

PM Gati Shakti plan. The expansion of the national highways network, implementation of multi-modal logistics parks and development of 100 new cargo terminals will facilitate swift movement of goods, improve pan-India connectivity and reduce logistics costs,” said Kushal Nahata, CEO & Co-founder, FarEye. In addition to adding new cargo terminals, the Budget has also underlined the government’s plan for a sustainable economic revival as it proposed initiatives that favour digitisation of the sector and strengthening of infrastructure. The Budget has also introduced policies that support the survival and growth of MSMEs. “The Gati Shakti scheme’s focus on sustainable growth and digitisation looks extremely promising. The proposed unified logistics interface platform will accelerate the

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NEW DELHI, FEB 3 (IANS): The government’s drive to boost efficiency in the logistics sector, which is critically linked to the growth of trade and economic activities, is undoubtedly a positive move that will eventually strengthen the sector, as highlighted by industry experts.

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, in her Budget speech on Tuesday, announced 25,000 km of new highways, PM Gati Shakti Masterplan for expressways and 100 new cargo terminals with multimodal logistics parks. She also announced an array of initiatives that will connect urban transport to railways, a move that will boost the industry.

“We welcome the positive steps the government has taken for strengthening and further developing the logistics sector under the

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NATO says Russia to have 30k troops on drills in Belarus, north of Ukraine

KYIV/BRUSSELS, FEB 3 (AGENCIES): NATO said Russia had stepped up deployments to Ukraine’s northern neighbour Belarus in recent days and was expected to have 30,000 troops there for joint military exercises this month.

The Russia-Belarus exercises, running until Feb. 20, have provided Moscow with cover to further increase forces near Ukraine at a time when the United States and Britain have warned that Moscow may be gearing up for war.

Ukraine’s defence minister said Russia had currently massed a total of 115,000 troops near Ukraine’s borders.

Russia denies planning to invade Ukraine and has described the Allied Resolve exercises with Belarus as a rehearsal in repelling external aggression. It has not disclosed the size of its forces there but says they will withdraw after the drills.

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said: “Over the last days, we have seen a significant movement of Russian military forces

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Tanks ride during joint exercises of the armed forces of Russia and Belarus at a firing range in Belarus. (Reuters)

into Belarus.

“This is the biggest Russian deployment there since the Cold War, with an expected 30,000 combat troops” as well as Spetsnaz special operations forces, SU-35 fighter jets, S-400 air defence systems and nuclear-capable Iskander missiles, he said.

Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu arrived in Belarus on Thursday to inspect Russian and Belarusian troops and was due to meet Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko, Interfax news agency said.

The United States and NATO have rejected Russian demands to bar Ukraine

from joining NATO and withdraw allied forces and weapons systems from eastern Europe, while expressing a willingness to talk about arms control and confidence-building measures.

Ru s s i a n P r e s i d e n t Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday the West had ignored Russia’s main concerns and accused the United States of trying to lure it into war, but he said Russia was still interested in dialogue.

O n T h u r s d ay t h e Kremlin again accused Washington of inflaming tensions after the United States said it would send nearly 3,000 extra troops to Poland and Romania.

The Pentagon said the aim was to send a “strong signal” to Putin and the world that “NATO matters to the United States and it matters to our allies”.

Tu r k i s h P r e s i d e n t Tayyip Erdogan, who has offered to mediate between Russia and Ukraine in the crisis, was due to visit Kyiv on Thursday.

Ukraine and Turkey will sign a framework agreement on manufacturing Turkish drones in Ukraine, Defence Minister Oleksii Reznikov told reporters, in a move that is certain to annoy Moscow. Ukraine has already deployed Turkishmade drones in a war with Russian-backed separatists in east of the country.

Reznikov said the number of ceasefire violations in that conflict had decreased and there had been no combat losses for the past three weeks.

Ukraine was happy to shift the venue of peace talks on eastern Ukraine to Istanbul or other Turkish cities following a suggestion

by Erdogan, but Russia has to agree, he said.

Europe entering ‘plausible endgame’: WHO

COPENHAGEN, FEB 3 (AP): The director of the World Health Organisation’s Europe office said on Thursday the continent is now entering a “plausible endgame” to the pandemic and that the number of coronavirus deaths is starting to plateau. Dr. Hans Kluge said at a media briefing that there is a “singular opportunity” for countries across Europe to take control of COVID-19 transmission due to three factors: high levels of immunisation due to vaccination and natural infection, the virus’ tendency to spread less in warmer weather and the lower severity of the omicron variant.

As the winter subsides in much of Europe in the coming weeks, Kluge said the upcoming spring “leaves us with the possibility for a long period of tranquility and a much higher level of population defense against any resurgence in transmission.” Even if another variant emerges, Kluge said health authorities in Europe should be able to keep it in check, provided immunisation and boosting efforts continue, along with other public health interventions.

Putin slams US boycott of Beijing Olympics ahead of talks with Xi

BEIJING, FEB 3 (PTI): On a key visit to China amid escalating military tensions with the West over Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin has denounced the diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Winter Olympics by some countries led by the US, saying attempts to politicise sports for selfish interests go against the Olympic Charter.

Chinese President Xi Jinping is due to declare open the 17-day-long 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics on Friday.

Putin, Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan and 30 heads of state and international organisations are due to attend the opening ceremony, which is being boycotted diplomatically by the US, EU and several other countries to highlight the allegations of human rights violations against Uyghur Muslims in China’s restive Xinjiang province.

In his article carried by the official Xinhua news agency on Thursday ahead of his visit, Putin said, “Sadly, attempts by a number of countries to politi-

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cise sports for their selfish interests have recently intensified.”

“This is fundamentally wrong and contrary to the very spirit and principles of the Olympic Charter”, he said.

“The power and greatness of sports are that they bring people together, give moments of triumph and national pride as well as delight with fair, just and unwavering competition.

And these approaches are shared by most of the countries participating in the international Olympic Movement”, Putin said in the signed article.

Beijing says its security crackdown in Xinjiang is aimed at the separatist East Turkistan Islamic Movement (ETIM) - an affiliate of the Al-Qaida faction

operating in Xinjiang. The labour camps have been called regular job training.

Chinese officials say Beijing attaches great importance to Putin’s visit, as it is aimed at re-enforcing solidarity and strategic ties between the two countries in the backdrop of the growing adversity they faced from the US, EU and other western countries.

The Xinhua news agency said China and Russia’s “ever-growing friendship is not flourishing accidentally, but has been nurtured by the two leaders’ common perspective on the importance of bilateral ties and on international issues”.

Putin’s visit to Beijing comes as the US and NATO have been strengthening defenses around allies in Eastern Europe since late last year. The tensions regarding suspected annexation of Ukraine by Russia have ratcheted up in the last week, with US President Joe Biden ordering 2,000 US-based troops to Poland and Germany, and moving 1,000 more from Germany to Romania. All diplomatic talks have failed so far.

Won’t endorse: US on Rahul’s ‘China, Pak PM leaves for Beijing to attend Winter Oly, meet Chinese leader Pakistan closer remark in Parliament

KARACHI, FEB 3 (PTI): Armed assailants attacked two security forces’ camps in Pakistan’s restive southwestern Balochistan province, triggering an intense exchange of fire in which at least 15 terrorists and four soldiers were killed, a senior minister said on Thursday, terming it a “great success” against terrorism.

The attacks, claimed later by the banned Baloch Liberation Army (BLA), took place in Panjgur and Noshki districts on Wednesday. In Panjgur, the terrorists tried to enter a security forces’ camp from two locations while in Noshki they attempted to get into a Frontier Corps (FC) post which was “promptly responded”.

Interior Minister Sheikh Rasheed Ahmed said in a video message that nine terrorists and four soldiers were killed in Noshki while six terrorists were shot dead in Panjgur. “The terrorists were repulsed from both places by the Pakistan Army.

A few — four to five people — are surrounded by the army in Panjgur and will be defeated,” he said, terming it a “great success” against terrorism. Prime Minister Imran Khan took to Twitter on Thursday to congratulate the security forces for foiling the terror attacks on their camps in Balochistan.

of India has been to keep China and Pakistan apart, the government was doing the opposite.

“The Chinese have a very clear vision of what they want to do... the single biggest strategic goal of India’s foreign policy has been to keep Pakistan and China separate. This is fundamental for India and what you have done, is you have brought them together.

Today, do not be under any illusion,” he said.

“Do not underestimate the force that is standing in front of you. Do not underestimate the power that stands in front of us, do not underestimate it. You have brought Pakistan and China together and this is the single biggest crime that you could commit against the people of India,” he said.

Rahul Gandhi further stated that China has a clear vision and urged the government to correct these mistakes.

panying Khan on the trip.

Besides attending the opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics, Khan is scheduled to meet President Xi and Premier Li Keqiang and the two sides would review the entire gamut of bilateral relations, with a particular focus on stronger trade and economic cooperation including the multi-billion-dollar CPEC project, the Pakistan Foreign Office said on Wednesday.

China currently has launched a diplomatic offensive to mobilise world leaders to attend the February 4 opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics as the US, European Union and several western countries have announced a boycott of the event by their diplomats to highlight the alleged human rights violations in Xinjiang, including the incarceration of over a million Uygur Muslim men and women

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in camps. As per the list released by China, 32 world leaders, including Khan, Russian President Vladimir Putin and UN SecretaryGeneral Antonio Guterres will attend the ceremony.

Prior to the departure, the accompanying ministers termed Khan’s visit to China of great significance.

Fo r e i g n M i n i s t e r Qureshi said Khan’s meeting with the Chinese leadership would focus on bilateral strategic partnership, regional matters, and peace and security in South Asia.

Finance Minister Tarin said Khan would propose that the Chinese leadership relocate the industry in Pakistan’s Special Economic Zones for a win-win situation besides extending assistance in agriculture.

NSA Yousaf said the visit would provide an opportunity to discuss ways to improve peace in Afghanistan to end terrorism, while Commerce Adviser Dawood said the meetings would focus on some areas of the free trade agreement and trade of cement, rice, fruit and vegetables. Information Minister Chaudhry said Khan’s China tour would further enhance the bilateral relations between Pakistan and China.

“Pakistan-China relations are deeper than the oceans and higher than the Himalayas,” the minister was quoted as saying by the Geo News.

The prime minister will also hold meetings with the Chinese investors and businessmen on the sidelines of the tour, besides meeting the president and the prime minister, he said.

The Pakistan government hopes that Khan’s trip to China will reinvigorate the CPEC project.

“Twenty-one different sectors have been identified to be discussed with the Chinese leadership,” Information Minister Chaudhry told the Dawn newspaper on Wednesday after attending a series of meetings chaired

by Khan at the Prime Minister House.

The sectors to be discussed during Khan’s visit are related to the Special Economic Zones created under CPEC, trade, information technology, agriculture and the relocation of massive Chinese industries to Pakistan, the report said.

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With immense pride and honour the Lazami Lazakito Youth Organisation convey our heartiest congratulations to the following persons for bringing laurels to the organisation.

1. Mr. Ahovi, S/o Hotoshe Futhena & Ghojuli Futhena for successfully qualifying SSC-CAPF 2019 and getting recommended for the post of Sub-Inspector in CRPF. 2. Er. Shikaho Wotsa, S/o Allu N Wotsa & Maria A Wotsa on being promoted from Junior Telecom Officer (JTO) to the post of Sub-Divisional Engineer (SDE) at BSNL. We are so proud that your dedication has enabled you to accomplish great things and also for bringing laurels to our Village. The LLYO further wishes them good health and greater success in their future endeavors.

Sd/Sd/Nihuto Tenna Lavito Achumi General Secretary, LLYO President, LLYO

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With immense pride and joy, the Kiphire Ao Senso Telongjem would like to extend our heartiest congratulations to Shri. Bendangtemsu LKR (Ungma Village) S/o Alemtemjen LKR, Range Forest Officer, Kiphire on being conferred the Governor's Commendation Award, for distinguished service on Republic Day 2022.

May God bless and guide you in all your endeavours.

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States conveys a series of advantages that countries typically would not find when it comes to the sorts of partnerships that the PRC has sought to have around the world,” he said.

He also said, “Pakistan is a strategic partner of the United States. We have an important relationship with the government in Islamabad, and it’s a relationship that we value across a number of fronts.”

Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday hit out at the government over its foreign policy decisions which he alleged have brought China and Pakistan together against India, eliciting a sharp response from External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar who said “some history lessons are in order” for the Wayanad MP. Speaking first from the Opposition side in Lok Sabha during the debate on the Motion of Thanks on the President’s address, he said while the strategic goal

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NEW DELHI, FEB 3 (AGENCIES): The US has said it would not endorse Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s remarks in which he stated that China and Pakistan have come closer. US State Department Spokesperson Ned Price said, “I’ll leave it to the Pakistanis and PRC [People’s Republic of China] to speak about their relationship. I certainly won’t endorse those remarks.”

When asked for his thoughts on why Pakistan is working so closely with China or if Pakistan feels they are abandoned by the US, he said, “We’ve made the point all along that it is not a requirement for any country around the world to choose between the United States and China. It is our intention to provide choices to countries when it comes to what the relationship with the United States looks like.”

“And we think a partnership with the United

I S L A M A BA D, F E B 3 (PTI): Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Thursday left for China on a fourday official visit to attend the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympic Games in Beijing and meet the country’s top leadership, including President Xi Jinping.

Khan’s visit marks the culmination of celebrations commemorating the 70th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between two all-weather allies. A high-level delegation, comprising Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi, Finance Minister Shaukat Tarin, Planning Minister Asad Umar, Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry, National Security Adviser Moeed Yousaf, Commerce Adviser Abdul Razak Dawood and Special Assistant on China- Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) Khalid Mansoor, is accom-

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KOHIMA VILLAGE COUNCIL, KOHIMA FELICITATION The Kohima Village Council (KVC) with immense pleasure, express our sincere congratulations and appreciation, to Shri.

Gregory Thejawelie Sote, a bona-fide citizen of Kohima Village, and presently serving as the Deputy Commissioner,Kohima, on being upgraded and conferred to the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) by the government of India. His outstanding achievement and accomplishment has indeed made us all proud.

The Kohima Village Council (KVC), further wish and pray to our Almighty God, that, He will continue to grant him with unbounded grace, bestowing good health and success in all his future endeavours.

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Date 03/02/2022 We the Sakipheto Area Sports Association would like to extend our heartiest thanks to all the technical staff and would like to extend our heart filled gratitude to each and every individual who had helped and supported us morally, financially, physically and with prayer during the WSSA tournament held at Nikhekhu Village from 24th of Jan' to 29th of Jan' 2022.

We convey our special thanks and appreciation to:1. Shri Zhaleo Rio IAS (Retd) - Advisor, Sericulture, Excise & Minority Affairs, Govt. of Nagaland.

2. Shri Kasheto Yepthomi - Class -1 Contractor 3. Shri Semato Zhimo - Proprietor, Zhimo Traders.

4. Shri Khetovi Swu - P.A to Zhaleo Rio 5. Dr. Anguvito Zhimomi - Zhuikhu Village 6. Shri Kartic - Hekheshe Village.

7. Shri Viloto Zhimo - Chairman, Kukidolong Village Council.

8. T. Hekuto Zhimo - Alato.

9. Shri Yekuto Chishi - Chairman, Kuphuhe Village Council.

10. Shri Kato Zhimomi - Sakipheto village 11. Sakipheto Area Public Union.

12. G.Bs & Village Council of Six (6) Villages under Sakipheto Area & Sumi Council Medziphema Town.

13. Alato Village Council & villagers for providing fooding/lodging during our stay for Six (6) days coaching, 14. Shri Zhekiye Yeptho - Kilonser, GPRN/NSCN. We are indeed regretted since we could not mention each and everyone.

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he nominations for the 75th BAFTAs (British Academy Film Awards) have just been announced today (February 3).

Rebel Wilson is set to host this year’s BAFTAs, taking place at London’s Royal Albert Hall on Sunday, March 13.

In her announcement statement, Wilson refers to Prince Andrew over a “peculiar medical condition where I can’t sweat” and jokes about her weight loss.

Amanda Berry, chief executive at BAFTA, said: “Rebel has stolen the show at several previous film awards, and we’re hugely excited to see her bring her fantastic charisma and humour to the whole show as we celebrate the very best in film.”

BAFTA announced the nominees for the EE Rising Star Award earlier this week – it is the only award voted for by the public, and voting is now open.

N o T i m e To D i e star Lashana Lynch is up for the award, as well as West Side Story‘s Ariana DeBose, The Power of the Dog actor Kodi SmitMcPhee, Harris Dickinson and Millicent Simmonds.

List of nominees: Best Film: Belfast, Don’t Look Up, Dune, Licorice Pizza and The

Power of the Dog. Outstanding British Film: After Love, Ali & Ava, Belfast, Boiling Point, Cyrano, Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, House of Gucci, Last Night in Soho, No Time To Die and Passing.

L e ading A c tress: Lady Gaga (House of Gucci), Alana Haim (Licorice Pizza), Emilia Jones (CODA), Renata Reinsve (The Worst Person in the World), Joanna Scanlan (After Love), Tessa Thompson (Passing).

Leading Actor: Adeel Akhtar (Ali & Ava), Mahershala Ali (Swansong), Benedict Cumberbatch (The Power of the Dog), Leonardo DiCaprio (Don’t Look Up), Stephen Gra-

ham (Boiling Point), Will Smith (King Richard) Supporting Actress: Caitríona Balfe (Belfast), Jessie Buckley (The Lost Daughter), Ariana DeBose (West Side Story), Ruth Negga (Passing), Aunjanue Ellis (King Richard), Ann Dowd (Mass) Supporting Actor: Mike Faist (West Side Story), Ciarán Hinds (Belfast), Troy Kotsur (CODA), Woody Norman (C’mon C’mon), Jesse Plemons (The Power of the Dog), Kodi Smit-McPhee (The Power of the Dog) D i re c t o r : A l e e m Khan (After Love), Ryusuke Hamaguchi (Drive My Car), Audrey Diwan (Happening), Paul Thomas Anderson (Licorice Pizza), Jane Campion (The Power

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‘Game of Thrones’ studio tour takes fans into world of Westeros

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they see here was used in the show,” actor Ian Beattie, who played Meryn Trant, told Reuters at a preview on Wednesday.

“These are the actual sets that we walked on.

These are the actual costumes we wore, the swords we swung - you name it, it’s all here. And unlike the show where you don’t always see it, you will actually get to see the incredible detail that went into every aspect of the making of this show.”

The 110,000-square foot (10,000-square metre) attraction features sets including the Great Hall at Winterfell, King’s Landing, and Dragonstone, as well as interactive experiences.

Based on the “A Song of Ice and Fire” novels by

American author George R.R. Martin, “Game of Thrones”, first aired in 2011, becoming a global phenomenon over its eight seasons.

The award-winning HBO series wrapped up in 2019 with a finale that divided fans.

Prequel “House of the Dragon”, which is set 200 years before the original series, is scheduled to premiere this year.

The Game of Thrones Studio Tour opens to the public on Friday.

“It was such an iconic thing, it kind of changed the landscape of television, so I hope that people still enjoy the show for years to come,” said actor Daniel Portman, who played Podrick Payne. (Reuters)

ollywood star Channing Tatum once contemplated quitting acting as he was overwhelmed by existential thoughts.

The thought of moving out of the business of acting came to him in 2018, around the time of his divorce from Jenna Dewan (with whom he shares custody of their eight-year-old daughter Everly), reports ‘Variety’.

In an interview with ‘Variety’, the actor recollected asking himself: “Do I want to act anymore?

Was I going to direct? Do I want to be in the industry anymore? I got lucky.

I won a creative lottery ticket. I made a little bit of money, so I could take a step back and figure out what life is.”

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mericans have tossed and turned their way through the pandemic, and a new study shows they are increasingly turning to melatonin in an attempt to get some good rest.

But the researchers also issued a warning, because some folks are using amounts that pose a risk to their health.

In 2018, Americans were taking more than twice the amount of the over-thecounter sleep aid than a decade earlier, according to the research published Feb. 1 in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Since 2006, a small but growing number of adults are taking amounts of melatonin far above the 5-milligram-a-day dosage typically used as a shortterm treatment, the study found.

“Taking sleep aids has been linked in prospective

studies with the development of dementia and early mortality. Melatonin is one such sleep aid,” Rebecca Robbins, an instructor in the Division of Sleep Medicine at Harvard Medical School, told CNN. She was not involved in the study, which was led

by Dr. Jingen Li, from the Beijing University of Chinese Medicine.

Melatonin has also been linked to headache, dizziness, nausea, stomach cramps, drowsiness, confusion or disorientation, irritability, mild anxiety, depression, tremors and abnormally low blood pressure, and can also interact with common medications and trigger allergies, according to CNN. It’s also noted that pills may contain levels of melatonin higher than what is advertised on the label. Currently, melatonin is not fully regulated by the U.S. Food

and Drug Administration, so there are no federal requirements that companies ensure their pills contain the amount of advertised melatonin.

While overall use of melatonin in the United States remains “relatively low,” the study does “document a significant manyfold increase in melatonin use in the past few years,” Robbins noted. Experts are concerned that the stress of the coronavirus pandemic may have further increased the widespread reliance on sleeping aids, she told CNN. Short-term use of melatonin for jet lag, shift workers and people who have trouble falling asleep appears to be safe, but longterm safety is unknown, according to the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, part of the U.S. National Institutes of Health.

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Actor Jackie Chan carries Olympic torch atop Great Wall

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he Olympic torch relay began its second day on Thursday atop the Great Wall, with Hong Kong actor Jackie Chan and Chinese Olympic medallists among those taking turns carrying the flame along a route shortened to three days because of COVID-19.

The relay for the torch that will open the Feb. 4-20 Winter Games is much more modest than the globe-spanning relay for Beijing’s 2008 Summer Games, a tour that was disrupted by protests.

Table tennis Olympic gold medallist Ma Long and Wu Jingyu, a twotime gold medallist in taekwondo, were among those carrying the red-andsilver spiral torch along the Badaling section of the Great Wall, where the Thursday morning tem-

perature was a bracing -11 Celsius (12 Fahrenheit).

Chan, 67, a Hong Kong action and comedy film star known for his support of the Beijing government, was identified in the official press release by his Chinese name Chen Gangsheng.

“I woke up at 4 a.m.

This is my fourth Olympics.

I’m very happy. I’m also cold!”, Chan told reporters after his run along the wall.

Badaling, the section of the wall most often visited by tourists, is 70 km (45 miles) northwest of central Beijing in the Yanqing district, near the Olympics sliding and Alpine skiing venues.

It was built around 1500 A.D. during the Ming dynasty.

Later on Thursday, the torch will be taken to Zhangjiakou in neighbour-

ing Hebei province, where most of Olympic snow events will take place. The relay will end with the lighting of the Olympic cauldron at Friday’s opening ceremony.

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ID-19, the Games are taking place inside a “closed loop” keeping competitors and other Olympics personnel away from the public, and will be attended only by small, selected audiences.

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The Longkumer Kidong Longjang heartily congratulates Shri MEYASASHI, Dy. Director, Directorate of Horticulture on being conferred the Governor’s Commendation Certificate for his dedicated and exemplary service.

The Kidong takes pride in his achievement and prays that God will continue to bless you in all your endeavors.

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rom the frozen lands “Beyond the Wall” to the destroyed “Throne Room”, a new “Game of Thrones” Studio Tour takes fans behind the scenes of the hit television series.

Located at Linen Mill Studios in Banbridge, Northern Ireland, one of several locations where the fantasy show was filmed, the attraction opens up the world of Westeros to the public with an array of costumes, props, and sets on display.

Items include character Jon Snow’s sword ‘Longclaw’ and the dress his sister Sansa wore for her wedding to Joffrey.

“Fans are just going to be delighted with a studio tour because everything

of the Dog), Julia Ducournau (Titane) Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer: After Love, Boiling Point, The Harder They Fall, Keyboard Fantasies, Passing Adapted Screenplay: CODA, Drive My Car, Dune, The Lost Daughter, The Power of the Dog. Original Screenplay: Being the Ricardos, Belfast, Don’t Look Up, King Richard, Licorice Pizza EE Rising Star Award: Harris Dickinson, Millicent Simmonds, Lashana Lynch, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Ariana DeBose.

Cinematography: Dune, Nightmare Alley, No Time To Die, The Power of the Dog, The

Tragedy of Macbeth.

Animated Film: Encanto, Flee, Luca, The Mitchells vs The Machines Documentary: Becoming Cousteau, Cow, Flee, The Rescue, Summer of Soul (Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised).

Film Not in the English Language: Drive My Car, The Hand of God, Parallel Mothers, Petite Maman, The Worst Person in the World.

Costume Design: Cruella, Cyrano, Dune, The French Dispatch, Nightmare Alley.

Make Up & Hair: Cruella, Cyrano, Dune, The Eyes of Tammy Faye, House of Gucci Original Score: Being The Ricardos, Don’t Look Up, Dune, The French Dispatch, The Power of the Dog. Editing: Belfast, Dune, Licorice Pizza, No Time To Die, Summer of Soul (Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) .

Production Design: Cyrano, Dune, The French Dispatch, Nightmare Alley, West Side Story Sound: Special Visual Effects, British Short Animation Casting: Boiling Point, Dune, The Hand of God, King Richard, West Side Story. (NME)

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We, the Mongchen Students' Union would like to express our deepest appreciation and congratulations to Dr. Yinjungbenla, Daughter of S. Temsu Longkumer from Mongchen village for her outstanding feat in clearing the Foreign Medical Graduates Examination (FMGE). She recently completed her MD/MBBS from Davao Medical School Foundation, Philippines.

The Union wishes her the best of luck for her promising career.

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Aus retain Women’s Ashes with ODI win over Eng CANBERRA, FEB 3 (IANS): Riding on fine bowling performances, Australia beat England by 27 runs in the first ODI to retain the multi-format Women’s Ashes series at the Manuka Oval, here on Thursday.

A strong bowling display from England led

by Kate Cross (3-33) and Katherine Brunt (3-40) helped England restrict Australia to a below-par total of 205/9 in 50 overs, despite Beth Mooney’s fighting innings of 73.

I n r e p l y, D a r c i e Brown took 4-34, backed up by Megan Schutt 2-39 and Tahlia McGrath 2-34, to bowl England out for 178 in 45 overs and seal a 27-run win.

With this win, Australia, who only had to draw the series to retain the Ashes now lead 8-4 pointsbased series with two ODIs remaining. England, who could still draw the series with two points available for an ODI win, have now gone four series since they last won the Ashes in 2014.

Opting to field first, England found an early breakthrough when Anya Shrubsole had Rachael Haynes caught behind off a short ball in the fourth over.

Australia women cricket players react during the first ODI match against England on Thursday.

While Meg Lanning and Alyssa Healy combined to revive the innings, Kate Cross broke the stand by cleaning up Lanning with a peach, seaming back in to cut her in half and hit the stumps.

Sophie Ecclestone landed the bigger blow at the other end by dismissing Ellyse Perry for a golden duck. Australia’s woes compounded when a brilliant stumping by Any Jones brought an end to Alyssa Healy’s innings next

over off Cross’ bowling.

At 67/4, Australia were in trouble, but Beth Mooney combined with Tahlia McGrath to revive the innings. The pair put on a half-century stand brought the Aussie innings back on track, but before McGrath could unfurl her full range of strokes, England struck again, Katherine Brunt returning to the attack and cleaning up McGrath with a slower cutter.

With Ashleigh Gardner run-out shortly after

and Jess Jonassen falling for 4, Mooney changed gears. She took the onus of seeing Australia through till the end of 50 overs and succeeded at that, being dismissed off the last ball of the innings for a wellmade 73, her 10th ODI half-century.

Chasing 206 for a win, England were in early trouble against the 18-year old Brown playing her fourth ODI. Tammy Beaumont edged one off her to first slip in the fourth over and she was followed immediately after by Heather Knight, who was trapped in front first ball.

Opener Lauren Winfield-Hill fell in the 11th over, holing out to the deep just as England were recovering from the early blows.

Megan Schutt completed 100 ODI wickets in the process, becoming the secondfastest women’s cricketer to the feat. Nat Sciver and Amy Jones rebuilt for England, but Jones was caught out off a nearly waist-high full toss from Tahlia McGrath after she spent nearly 10 overs at the crease.

McGrath struck again when she trapped Sophia Dunkley in front in her next over while Brown returned to take a crack-

ing return catch to send back Sciver five short of her half-century. At 103/6, England’s innings hadn’t quite gone to plan, but Danni Wyatt and Katherine Brunt fought back in a quick partnership that helped England get closer to the target.

It was Schutt who brought Australia the breakthrough, cleaning up Wyatt with a terrific leg cutter. Brown struck from the other end with Sophie Ecclestone’s wicket and Jess Jonassen had Anya Shrubsole bowled around her legs to leave England nine down for 154.

Kate Cross and Brunt hung around for a bit to worry the Aussies. The former was even dropped in the deep by Ellyse Perry as England continued to edge closer, but Jonassen landed the telling blow when she had Cross caught and bowled to seal a 27-run win for the hosts, the victory ensuring the Ashes would stay in the Aussie shores.

Brief scores: Australia Women 205/9 in 50 overs (Beth Mooney 73; Kate Cross 3-33) beat England Women 178 in 45 overs (Natalie Sciver 45; Darcie Brown 4-34) by 27 runs.

Korea beat Philippines 2-0, enter maiden final of AFC Women’s Cup

Korea Republic women players celebrate after scoring against Philippines.

PUNE, FEB 3 (IANS): Korea Republic made a maiden entry in the final of the AFC Women’s Asian Cup 2022 with a comfortable 2-0 win over the Philippines at the Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex here on Thursday.

In 13 appearances in the Women’s Asian Cup, Korea Republic (South Korea) have reached the semifinals four times, bagging third place once and fourth place three times.

Korea’s first-ever appearance in the final was sealed early, with Cho So-Hyun and Son Hwa-Yeon scoring in the first half for the East Asian side.

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final, can be proud of their efforts though as they gave the match their all and can look forward to an inaugural appearance in the FIFA Women’s World Cup Australia/New Zealand.

The Korea Republic wasted no time in applying heavy pressure from the start and opened the scoring as early as the fourth minute when Player of the Match Cho headed in Kim Hye-Ri’s corner kick past Philippines goalkeeper Olivia McDaniel. Eager to impress in their first-ever semifinal appearance, the Philippines were undeterred by the early setback and Sofia Harrison’s attempt from distance six minutes later showed they meant business. The Taeguk Ladies, however,

continued to hold the lion’s share of possession and came close through Son Hwa-Yeon’s efforts in the 15th and 19th minutes, but McDaniel’s safe hands kept the Philippines in the game.

Despite having to play on counter-attacks, the Philippines had their moments with Katrina Guillou giving the Koreans a scare in the 24th minute when her long-range strike missed by mere inches. The Korea Republic, however, looked dangerous every time they surged forward and doubled their lead in the 34th minute when an unmarked Son tapped in Choo HyoJoo’s cross.

The Philippines’ head coach Alen Stajcic sent on Malea Louise Cesar, Chandler McDaniel and Sara Castaneda at the start of the second half but the changes had little effect as Korea Republic goalkeeper Kim Jungmi was hardly tested.

It was harder for the Korea Republic to find opportunities as the Philippines kept their defence compact, but they almost found a breakthrough in the 67th minute when Son got at the end of a series of passes only to shoot straight at McDaniels.

Korea continued to attack the Philippines goalmouth with Cho and substitute Lee Min-a getting into the thick of the action in the final 15 minutes, but couldn’t keep their strikes on target.

Lee should have scored the third in the 87th minute after squeezing

past two defenders to collect a through a pass in the final third, but McDaniels stood firm to deny her but it mattered not as the Korea Republic advanced to their first final.

FIFA World Cup 2022: Mexico, US remain on track for berths in Qatar

Mexico’s Raul Jimenez dribbles the ball during the FIFA WC qualifier match.

MEXICO CITY, FEB 3 (IANS): Raul Jimenez converted a late penalty as Mexico kept their World Cup qualification hopes on track with a 1-0 home win over Panama while the United States romped to a 3-0 win against Honduras to inch closer to a berth in Qatar.

In Mexico City, having failed to find a way past the visitors’ defense for most of the match, Jimenez broke the deadlock in the 80th minute, holding his nerve from the spot after Diego Lainez was pulled down inside the area.

The result at the Azteca stadium leaves Mexico third in the eight-team North, Central American and Caribbean (CONCACAF) qualifying group

with 21 points from 11 games. Panama are fourth, four points further back.

Meanwhile, at Saint Paul, Minnesota, Juventus midfielder Weston McKennie and Chelsea forward Christian Pulisic were among the scorers as the United States cruised to a 3-0 home win over Honduras in their World Cup qualifier on Wednesday.

McKennie put the hosts ahead at Allianz field with a glancing header following Kellyn Acosta’s floating 35-yard free-kick.

Walker Zimmerman doubled the lead just before halftime by poking home from close range after the Honduras defense failed to deal with another Acosta set-piece delivery.

The U.S. put the result beyond doubt when Pu-

lisic struck a low first-time effort following Ricardo Pepe’s flicked header from Acosta’s corner.

The result leaves the U.S. with 21 points from 11 qualifiers while Honduras remain at the foot of the eight-team North, Central American and Caribbean (CONCACAF) group with just three points.

The top three teams in the group will automatically earn a place at football’s showpiece tournament in Qatar later this year while the fourth-ranked side will advance to an intercontinental playoff.

In other CONCACAF zone qualifiers on Wednesday, Canada defeated El Salvador 2-0 while Costa Rica prevailed 1-0 over Jamaica.

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Wizards upset Philadelphia 76ers to end skid

Washington Wizards forward Kyle Kuzma (33) shoots a three point basket against the Philadelphia 76ers during the third quarter at Wells Fargo Center.

PHILADELPHIA, FEB 3 (AGENCIES): Kyle Kuzma scored 24 points, Montrezl Harrell added 14 and the Washington Wizards defeated the host Philadelphia 76ers 106-103 on Wednesday to snap a six-game losing streak.

The Wizards’ Spencer Dinwiddie added 14 points, 12 rebounds and 10 assists for his first career triple-double.

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Harrell’s clutch runner in the lane with 52.5 seconds remaining gave the Wizards a 102-98 lead.

After the 76ers trimmed the margin to a single point, Dinwiddie hit two free throws in the final second to seal it.

Washington played without three-time All-Star Bradley Beal (wrist) and Thomas Bryant (ankle).

Joel Embiid had 27 points,

14 rebounds and six assists for the Sixers, whose fivegame winning streak was snapped.

Magic 119, Pacers 118 F r a n z Wa g n e r ’ s three-point play with 1:17 remaining put Orlando ahead for good as the Magic posted their largest comeback of the season, overcoming a 17-point, second-half deficit to win at Indianapolis.

Gary Harris’ sixth trey of the game tied the score at 108 with 1:51 remaining, part of an 11-0 Orlando run. Wagner’s three-point play made it 113-110, and the Magic stayed ahead as Cole Anthony sank four free throws inside the final 10.9 seconds.

Harris finished with a team-high 22 points off the bench. Indiana got 26 points from Caris LeVert, 24 points and 16 rebounds from Terry Taylor (both career highs) and 22 from Torrey Craig.

Lakers 99, Trail Blazers 94 Anthony Davis scored 30 points and grabbed 15 rebounds and Carmelo Anthony added 24 points as Los Angeles ended a three-game losing streak with a victory over visiting Portland.

Russell Westbrook amassed nine points, 13 assists and 10 rebounds as the Lakers won after going 2-4 on their just-concluded road trip.

Nor man Powell scored 30 points and Anfernee Simons added 19 as the Trail Blazers lost their third consecutive game and fell for the fifth time in six contests.

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approves 28 sports for LA 2028; doubts U-19 WC: India thrash Aus, reach 4th final in a row IOC persist on inclusion of boxing, weightlifting

O S B O U R N, F E B 3 (IANS): An even-ball century by skipper Yash Dhull (110) and his 204-run partnership for the third wicket with Shaik Rasheed (94) set up India Under-19 for a 96run victory against Australia in the semi-finals of the ICC U-19 Cricket World Cup. India, the most successful nation in U-19 Cricket World Cup history with four titles, thus reached the 4th successive final and will take on England in the summit clash. India last won the title in 2018 in the biennial event and had lost to Bangladesh in the final two years back.

Electing to bat first, India were in a spot of bother at 37/2 with both openers Angkrish Raghuvanshi (6) and Harnoor Singh (16) back in the pavilion. Skipper Dhull (110 off 110) and Rasheed (94 off 108) stitched together a majestic partnership of 204 runs to help the 2020 finalists reach 290/4 in 50 overs at the Coolidge Cricket Ground.

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succumbed to the pressure created by the India U-19 bowlers in the middle overs and lost their way despite a fighting half-century by Lachlan Shaw (51 off 66) to be eventually restricted to 194 all out in 41.5 overs, falling short by 96 runs.

Earlier, the Indian innings didn’t get off to the start skipper Dhull would have wanted as Raghuvanshi fell for a 30-ball six in the 8th over, with runs hard to come by in the Powerplay.

It was William Salzmann who picked up the early scalp, but Jack Nisbet was

the most impressive bowler in the early stages, with his first six overs going for just 12 runs as India were put under huge pressure.

Nisbet got the reward for his tight spell with the wicket of the other opener Narnoor for 16, to leave India in a spot of bother on 37/2. But that dismissal brought captain Dhull to the crease, and India didn’t look back, as the skipper and Rasheed patiently led the recovery and before upping the scoring rate significantly in a remarkable partnership.

The pair were still at

the crease going into the final ten overs and with both approaching a century.

Captain Dhull did get to that milestone before signaling his intent with a smoked six off the very next delivery.

And Rasheed fell to the next ball, caught at backwardpoint just six runs short of his own century. The double-blow threatened to slow what had looked set to be an explosive finish to the innings, with Rasheed’s dismissal leaving India at 241/4 with four overs remaining. But Rajvardhan Hangargekar (13 off 10) and Nishant Sindhu (12 not out off 10) ensured that the runs kept flowing, before Dinesh Bana (20 not out) finished the innings in style, hitting two sixes and two fours off the four deliveries he faced. Bana’s late cameo helped India reach 290/5, with 27 runs coming off the final over. Wyllie had scored significantly at the top of the order in all three of Australia’s previous wins at the tournament, but his

dismissal didn’t immediately seem to knock the team’s confidence, with Campbell Kellaway (30) and Corey Miller (38) scoring at a reasonable pace through the following 15 overs in a partnership worth 68.

However, India’s main threat was always expected to be their quality spin attack, and so it proved, with part-timer Raghuvanshi fooling Miller with a clever change of pace, and Vicky Ostwal picking up the scalp of Kellaway six balls later.

Wickets fell at regular intervals from there on, as India’s spinners took the game away from Australia, with only Lachlan Shaw surviving for any length of time for a hard-fought 51.

Brief scores: India U19 290/5 in 50 overs (Yash Dhull 110, Shaik Rasheed 94; Jack Nisbet 2/41, William Salzmann 2/57) beat Australia U19 194 in 41.5 overs (Lachlan Shaw 51, Corey Miller 38; Vicky Ostwal 3/42, Nishant Sindhu 2/25, Ravi Kumar 2/37).

BEIJING, FEB 3 (IANS): The International Olympic Committee has approved the initial sports programme for the 2028 Summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles with 28 sports on the schedule including skateboarding, sport climbing and surfing. The initial sports programme, which has a strong focus on youth, was approved on Thursday by the 139th Session of the IOC in Beijing.

While inclusion in the ‘core’ sports is a big boost for these news sports, doubts persist over the inclusion of embattled sports boxing and weightlifting hat are in trouble because of governance issues highlighted by the IOC. The 28 sports included in the initial sports programme are athletics, rowing, badminton, basketball, canoe and kayaking, cycling, equestrian, fencing, football, golf, gymnastics, handball, hockey, judo, wrestling, swimming, rugby, taekwondo. tennis. table

tennis, shooting, archery, triathlon, sailing, volleyball, surfing, skating and sport climbing, the IOC informed in a release on Thursday.

Skateboarding, sport climbing and surfing, all youth-focused sports, made their Olympic debut successfully at Tokyo 2020 and all of them have deep roots in California, the release said. Meanwhile, The IOC Session also acknowledged additional proposals from the IOC Executive Board (EB), recommended by the Olympic Programme Commission (OPC), which considered sport-specific issues, as well as the impact on the overall cost and complex-

ity of the Games. The IOC Session acknowledged the proposal on pathways for boxing, weightlifting, and modern pentathlon to be potential in the LA28 initial sports programme at the IOC session in 2023.

These three sports may be included in the initial sports programme for Los Angeles by the IOC Session in 2023 if by then the respective IFs have demonstrate’ to the IOC’s satisfaction that they have addressed the areas specified by the EB on December 9, 2021, the release said.

There is a possibility for the LA28 organising committee to propose additional sports in 2023 and it also approved a process for finalising the disciplines in each sport to provide early certainty to athletes, National Olympic Committees (NOCs), International Federations (IFs) and the organising committee for the Olympic Games (LOCOG).

DD Sports not to live telecast ceremonies of Beijing Olympics

NEW DELHI, FEB 3 (PTI): DD Sports channel will not telecast live the opening and closing ceremonies of the Winter Olympics being held in Beijing, Prasar Bharati CEO Shashi Shekhar Vempati said on Thursday.

The announcement came shortly after the Indian government decided that its envoy will not attend the opening or closing ceremony of the 2022 Winter Olympics as China has chosen a military commander involved in the Galwan Valley clashes as its torchbearer for the mega sporting event.

“Consequent to the announcement by @meaindia, @ddsportschannel will not telecast live the opening and closing ceremonies of the Winter Olympics being held in Beijing,” Vempati tweeted.

External Affairs Ministry Spokesperson Arindam Bagchi described the Chi-

nese action of honouring the Galwan commander as “regrettable”.

China on Wednesday fielded Qi Fabao, the regimental commander of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), who was injured during the June 2020 border skirmish with Indian soldiers in the Galwan Valley in eastern Ladakh, as a torchbearer for the Games Torch Relay. The eastern Ladakh border row escalated after the Galwan Valley clashes on June 15, 2020.

Twenty Indian Army personnel laid down their lives in the clashes that marked the most serious military conflicts between the two sides in decades. In February last year, China officially acknowledged that five Chinese military officers and soldiers were killed in the clashes with the Indian Army though it is widely believed that the death toll was higher.

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