February 20, 2020

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Vol XXX No. 74

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High attendance after order on ‘No Work, No Pay’

Despite legal challenge, govt to enforce its order Correspondent

KOHIMA, FEB 19 (NPN): Close on the heels of the warning issued by the state government on implementation of “No Work, No Pay” on absentees, there has been huge increase in attendance of government employees over the past few weeks which indicate that the notice appears to have had the desired effect.

Even staff attached with VVIPs have started attending offices regularly, while civil secretariat buses that normally ferry a few passengers are now jampackedafter the decision to implement Aadhaar-enabled biometric attendance system.

The department of information technology and communication, in collaboration with home department, is monitoring the record of

SC on appointment of district judges NEW DELHI, FEB 19 (PTI): Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that member of subordinate judiciary services will not be eligible for appointment as District judges by way of direct recruitment.

A bench headed by Justice Arun Mishra said appointments for the posts of district judges is limited for lawyers who have a minimum of seven years of experience of continued practice at the Bar. The bench while interpreting Article 233 sub clause 2 of the Constitution said the provision bars candidates who are in judicial service to be considered for appointment by direct recruitment of district judges.

Article 233 sub clause 2 states that a person who is already in the service of the Union or of the State shall not be eligible to be appointed as a district judge.

The provision also says that a person to be eligible for the post of district Judge should have not less than seven years of practice as an advocate or a pleader and is recommended by the High Court for appointment.

The top court said members of subordinate judiciary can, however, be considered for the post of district Judge by way of promotion.

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government employees at Nagaland Civil Secretariattwice a day, as majority of the employees, despite being registered with the Aadhaarbased attendance system, used to ignore the use of use of the devices for marking their attendance.

Chief secretary Temjen Toy had issued the order on January 29,2020 where attendance would be checked at month-end and remarks sought from the administrative heads of departments (AHOD) if required, after scrutiny. Then after approval from the chief secretary, names of employees with satisfactory attendance would be forwarded to the bill and cash branch of the home department for initiating processing of salaries.

Speaking to Nagaland Post, chief secretary Temjen Toy emphasized it was time for change and employees with the impression that they would invariably get paid irrespective of the fact whether they attended their offices or not would have to reorient themselves.

He exuded confidence that change would come with the new policy, adding what had happened in the past was not relevant anymore. Toy explained that the government had initiated the process to be prepared for future. He cautioned that those not prepared for the future would become irrelevant and that no amount of rights would help them, stressing that time had come for change and those in the government and the entire citizenshad to realise this because every individual was responsible for change.

The chief secretary remarked that one could not go on criticising the government alone as every individual was responsible for change and those who did not change would be left out, be it those in the government or outside.

Mentioning that after the “No Work, No Pay” policy was initiated, some had gone to court but said that the government will stick to its decision. Toy informed this correspondent

that enough check systems were enforced in the past like checking attendance every year and conducting surprise checks. However, as nothing worked, he said the government was forced to come up with the new policy of “No Work, No Pay”, which would be strictly enforced.

It may be noted that cash-strapped Nagaland has been totally dependent on Centre for funds and with the state having over 1.25 lakhs employees (1:20), most of the development funds goes as salary component.

The reason of “excessive employees” has apparently become the root cause of the state having poor infrastructure and chief minister Neiphiu Rio echoed the same during a recent press conference. State chief secretary had also announced that the state government was considering diverting a part of the salary given to government employees in order to develop infrastructure. However, Toy said that the proposal was yet to be finalized.

COVID-19: Death toll surges past 2,000 in China BEIJING, FEB 19 (PTI): The death toll from the coronavirus epidemic in China crossed the 2,000-mark on Wednesday with the death of 136 more people, while the overall confirmed cases climbed to 74,185, authorities said.

The National Health Commission said in its daily report that 2,004 people had died of the disease known as COVID-19. NHC said 1,749 new cases of novel coronavirus infection have been confirmed.

Of the new deaths, 132 were reported from the worst-hit Hubei Province and one each from Heilongjiang, Shandong, Guangdong and Guizhou.

Another 1,185 new suspected cases have been reported. On Tuesday, 236 patients became seriously ill, while 1,824 people were discharged from hospital after recovery.

The commission added that 11,977 patients remained in severe condition, and 5,248 people were suspected of being infected with the virus, the staterun Xinhua news agency reported.

North Eastern states can supply India’s total organic food: Rupala Cab decides to make PMFBY voluntary

Correspondent

UMIAM (MEGHALAYA), FEB 19: Union Minister of State for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Parshottam Rupala on Wednesday said the North Eastern states can supply India’s total organic food demand.

“I urge all the farmers to move towards organic mode of food production as global demand for organic food is increasing due to health consciousness among people,” he said addressing a day long workshop on Soil Health and review meeting of soil health and Krishi Vigyan Kendra’s at Dr. M. S. Swaminathan Hall, Indian Council for Agricultural Research (ICAR), here in.

Umiam, Meghalaya.

“India can only fulfil the global demand of organic foods and the North Eastern region specially can supply India’s total organic food demand as it has the potential,” Rupala said.

Stating that soil health cards help farmers to reduce production cost on agricultural produce and increases the income of the farmers,

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the Union Minister said that the soil health card will fulfil Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s aim of doubling the income of farmers by 2022.

Rupala assured the farming communities of resolving at the earliest issues related to organic certification and Soil health card for Jhum cultivators.

The day long was workshop organised by Indian Council for Agricultural Research- Agricultural Technology Application Research Institute, Umiam, Meghalaya on the occasion of Soil Health Day where Meghalaya government representatives of seven Northeastern states and farmers participated in the event.

IANS Adds: Union cabinet on Wednesday decided to make the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY) voluntary for farmers, Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar said.

Tomar said that the decision was taken in Wednesday’s cabinet meeting following some complaints regarding the scheme.

PMFBY is compulsory for loanee farmers availing crop loan and Kishan Credit Card account for notified crops, while it is voluntary for others. The scheme provides comprehensive crop insurance from pre-sowing to the post-harvest period against non-preventable natural risks at extremely low premium rates of 2 per cent for kharif crops, 1.5 per cent for rabi crops and 5 per cent for horticulture and commercial crops.

The cabinet also gave its sanction of Rs 6,000 crore for the Farmer Producers’ Organisation (FPO) as the government has a target of creating 1,000 FPOs in the next five years.

Patkai colony residents stage PAC questions State Govt on lessee system Forest dept reprimands 3 plywood units in Dimapur protest against dust pollution

Patkai colony residents staging protest.

DIMAPUR, FEB 19 (NPN): Residents of Patkai Colony, Chumoukedima Ward I on Wednesday staged a protest over the ongoing highway by-pass construction. No vehicles belonging to Simplex Infrastructure Ltd were allowed to ply.

A press statement issued on behalf of the residents stated that colony residents had been facing hardships because of the hazardous dust that was be-

ing emitted on a daily basis and leading to serious health concerns.

They had lodged numerous complaints and requested the authorities concerned to spray the road with water as and when required. But as the authorities had failed to respond positively despite numerous complaints and requests, the residents were left with no choice but resort to blocking of the road until their demands were met.

DIMAPUR, FEB 19 (NPN): Even as the lessees had obtained a stay on the cancellation order of principal secretary of municipal affairs department from Gauhati High Court Kohima Bench, Public Action Committee (PAC) of Naga Council Dimapur (NCD) has raised few questions for the State government to ponder and act upon, rectify, amend or legislate wherever need be.

In a representation to the chief secretary through Dimapur deputy commissioner, PAC of NCD wanted to know under what Act, provision or clause was municipal affairs department authorised to collect toll and utility fees.

It also asked the government to define and substantiate toll tax and utility fees as rest of India had done away collection of octroi, etc, after GST, adding that the public were no longer totally ignorant and

understood the meaning of toll and utility.

Asking why GST was implemented and whether the State was not receiving the share levied/taxed on merchants, PAC pointed out that GST had subsumed all other fees and octroi and questioned why double tax merchants in Nagaland.

Further, If the State desired to levy fees and royalty by legislation, the committee said the government should implement it digitally (online) to avoid and do away corrupt practices.

Questioning whether minor minerals coming from other States could be taxed in the name of royalty, the committee asked the why the forest and geology & mining departments imposed royalty on minor minerals coming from Assam.

Pointing out that Nagaland Municipal Act, 2010 framed before GST had become redundant and

obsolete, the committee stressed that till the Act was amended, the same was inapplicable, especially after GST had become effective.

Reiterating its opposition to the lease system of Dimapur Municipal Council (DMC), PAC said it had identified certain negative points during its “Operation Check Gate” against illegal collection of taxes.

The committee claimed that the lessees sub-leased and gave sub-contracts to individuals who employed thugs to collect fees and alleged that the lease system encouraged illegal collection as the lessees were given a free hand.

It also said that the system encouraged and gave birth to syndicates and monopoly that prevented free open market, while the collection booths served as information and identification booths for anti-social elements.

Forest department officials during the inspection.

DIMAPUR, FEB 19 (NPN): Additional chief secretary and head of Forest Force and principal chief conservator of forest Lhoubeilatuo Kire has directed issuing of notices to three plywood units for recovery of double royalty of all excess timber as per Nagaland Tree Felling Regulation, 2017.

He also directed that in case of unsatisfactory replies to the notices, action for suspension or revoca(Cont’d on p-7) tion of licences should be

initiated, while instructing forest officials to make a roster for inspection of all high powered committee (HPC)-cleared units and non-HPC units within the next few days.

The move followed checking of plywood units in Chümoukedima range of Dimapur by a team of forest officials led by Kire as a follow-up to the recent haul of four trucks carrying illegal teak wood and five trucks carrying plywood (Cont’d on p-8) veneer.

Govt to give EC legal power to link Aadhaar, voter ID MDM scam: NPRAAF reacts to DoSE clarification NEW DELHI, FEB 19 (AGENCEIS): Central government has moved to amend the Aadhaar Act to legally empower the Election Commission to link the unique identification number with the electoral roll, which would remove bogus and duplicate entries and pave the way for giving “remote” voting rights to migrant voters.

The law ministry is working on a note to be put up before the Union Cabinet for the decision which, apart from sanitising the electoral roll, will save migrants from what amounts to “disenfranchisement” by changing the current practice where they can vote only if they are in the constituency where they are registered as voters.

The ministry conveyed this to the Election Commission at a meeting on Tuesday to discuss electoral

reforms.

At the meeting between top EC functionaries and the law secretary, chief election commissioner Sunil Arora stressed on the need for the law ministry to fast-track implementation of reforms proposed by the poll panel as far back as 2004-05 and also hold regular discussions with the EC to review progress. Law secretary Narayan Raju assured the poll panel that the ministry was examining the 40 electoral reforms proposed by the EC and that each was at a different stage of discussion.

On seeding of the electoral photo identity card (EPIC) with the 12-digit Aadhaar number, the law secretary, according to EC sources, said the government was favourably inclined and a Cabinet note would be moved soon to amend the Aadhaar Act.

EC officials said Aadhaar-EPIC linkage will help realise the commission’s plan to work towards secure, possibly electronic, voting to help migrant voters — including domestic workers, migrant labourers etc — exercise their franchise. “Their identification having been adequately verified, the commission can explore technology that will let them vote from a remote location guarded by the EC,” an officer said.

The EC had in 2015 taken up linking of voter card and Aadhaar number as part of its National Electoral Roll Purification and Authentication Programme.

Around 32 crore Aadhaar numbers were seeded by the time the EC decided to abandon the programme in view of the Supreme Court judgment restricting the use of Aadhaar.

Following the SC judg-

ment last year allowing mandatory collection of Aadhaar with due amendment in the Aadhaar Act, the EC wrote to the law ministry in August seeking a suitable amendment to enable linking of EPIC with UID. The law ministry had in-principle agreed and a Cabinet note is being prepared.

Other reforms which were on the table on Tuesday include the proposal to allow more than one cut-off date for enrolment of a voter after attaining adulthood, making false affidavit an electoral offence/ corrupt practice that would attract disqualification, covering print media and social media intermediaries under Section 126 of the RP Act 1951 (48-hour silence period), making service voter facility for spouses genderneutral, and amendment in the contributions form.

DIMAPUR, FEB 19 (NPN): Nagaland Public Rights Awareness and Action Forum (NPRAAF) reacted to the clarification by department of School Education (DoSE) principal secretary Shanavas C over alleged anomalies in Mid Day Meal (MDM) scheme implementation in the backdrop of the latter issuing a clarification.

NPRAAF said it was amused by the statement defending carriage contractor RN Sharma’s misdeeds.

While appreciating Shanavas for clarifying that annual sanction of food grains allocated by Centre was 4076.590 metric tonne (MT), which was more than the figure of 4,000 MT given by it, and therefore more in excess of state’s actual requirement, NPRAAF demanded to know as to why the department failed to regularly implement the scheme.

Further, if the unspent balance of food grains were subsequently adjusted during the next allocation and was a normal practice as claimed

by Shanavas, NPRAAF wanted to know why year after year adjustment over adjustment was made hoodwinking the Centre. It also asked whether the school education department showed inflated number of students to Delhi to receive even more food grains to make further adjustment next year.

Alleging that poor school children did not receive midday meals regularly every school day as per Government of India guidelines, the forum asked the principal secretary not to fool the public, stressing that Nagas were not fools to buy such unjustifiable argument, cautioning “lies will only breed more lies”.

Expressing shock that when the actual require-

ment for school children as per entitlement was 100 gm per child per day in primary and 150 gm per child per day in upper primary, the forum said it was absolutely scandalous to demand and receive 10 lakh kg or 80,000 bags (each weighing 50 kg) of food grains from the Centre to feed the poor children in schools regularly.

Referring to Shanavas’s claim that the total number of beneficiaries was 1,57,510 (1,19,144 in primary and 38, 366 in upper primary), NPRAAF pointed out that it had a received a copy of the letter written to State education secretaries/principal secretaries dealing with MDM scheme on April 29, 2016 by department of school education & literacy (MDM division) under Ministry of Human Resource Development (HRD) by one Gaya Prasad from RN Sharma himself. (Cont’d on p-8) K Y M C

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‘Soil Health Card Day’ observed in various districts

Farmers being given demonstration on how to use soil testing kit.

DIMAPUR: With the rest of the country, Nagaland state also observed soil health card day across all the 11 districts of the state in coordination with KVKs and other agri and allied departments respectively on February 19. The scheme has been introduced to assist state government to issue soil health card to all farmers in the country. It also provides information to farmers on nutrients status on their soil along with the recommendation for improving soil health and its fertility.

Kohima: The department under the pilot project on model villages during 2019-20 has adopted one village in each of the 74 blocks, where soil health card will be provided to each and every farmer after analysis based on the land holdings.

Besides providing SHCs, kisan mela and demonstrations are also scheduled for all the 74 villages in the coming months in order to sensitize the farmers on the

importance of soil health management and its benefits in crop production.

A press release from Soil and Water Conservation Kohima stated that, in the regional level, a workshop was organized at Dr. M S Swaminathan Hall, ICAR RC for NEH Region, Umiam, Meghalaya with Parshottam Rupala, minister of state for Agriculture & Farmers’ Welfare, GoI as the chief guest. K Khekiho Shohe, joint director and state nodal officer for soil health card & management represented the state on the said programme where he addressed the gathering on the perspectives of shifting cultivation and its sustainability through incorporation of best soil and water conservation technologies at the farmers’ field.

Additional secretary to the GoI, MoA & FW, Dr. Alka Bhargava of the programme acknowledged the suggestions and recommendations put up by the officials and farming com-

ADC Wokha, K. Mhathung (DIPR)

munity of the NER and committed to considerately look into the matter.

Department of Soil and Water Conservation, Nagaland is zealously taking up the pilot project on model village during 2019-20 on a war footing to provide soil health cards to 27,304 farmer beneficiaries within a stipulated time and also to promote and distribute micronutrients covering 70,000ha. The department is also gearing up for setting the state of the art soil testing laboratories (STLs) in all the district headquarters and fertilizer quality control laboratory (FQCL) & bio organic fertilizer quality control laboratory (BOQCL) at Dimapur with the aim of delivering commendable services to the farming communities of the state.

Wokha: Department of Soil & Water Conservation organized the programme at Wokha village council hall, during the observation of mini soil test-

ing kit and soil health cards scheme which was inaugurated by ADC Wokha, K. Mhathung Tsanglao.

According to DIPR report, speaking during the occasion, Mhathung said through this scheme farmers will be benefited to a great extend in terms of yielding more organic agriproducts. He also urged the farmers to take up corrective measures in their farming practices to maintain productivity.

Introducing about the scheme, JSCO, Wokha, Nzanbeni Jami said, the scheme aims at issuing soil health cards to farmers every two years in order to address nutritional deficiencies in soil.

SCA, Yanpothung Jami gave demonstration about the kit to the gathering. The function was chaired by DSCO, Wokha, Litemo Murry while Chumbemo Kikon proposed the vote of thanks.

Dimapur: District soil conservation office Dima-

DSCO officials with farmers and others.

pur district observed the programme at Selouphe village in collaboration with KVK Dimapur ICAR Nagaland centre.

A press release from DSCO Dimapur stated that, Limasunep, DSCO highlighted the importance of soil testing for soil health management and increasing crop yield. Dr Epibeni Ngullie, SMS from KVK encouraged the farmers to get their soil tested to know their soil nutrient status for good crop yield.

Resource person Dr Moanaro, KVK stressed on the importance of maintaining neutral soil pH as it plays an important role in nutrient uptake by the plants from soil. Soils of Nagaland being predominantly acidic in nature the soil pH can be neutralized by using agricultural lime or even wood ash, she added. Atsumong, SCA soil department gave a demonstration on soil sample collection while on spot soil testing was done

by Talitemjen, SCA and Mantick, SCA. Earlier, invocation was given by Kegwashe, GB. Altogether 30 farmers attended the programme.

Longleng: District Soil & Water Conservation department Longleng observed the day at Soil office Longleng, with DSCO Longleng, Senlichila Ao as resource person. While speaking on the occasion, she emphasized on the benefits and usage of soil health care as it increases the productivity level by 5-6 percent and it decreases the use of chemicals by 10 percent. She also urged the farmers not to use chemicals mixture in the soil in order to get organic food, instead she advised them to practice organic way of farming. Cards will be issued in the first phase to 3 (three) villages under Longleng district namely, Yachem, Kangching and Yangching villages. Around 200 farmers received the soil health card.

ABAM YM, MTBA organise programmes for youth

Excise conducts raid in Dimapur

Rev. Dr. Abraham Lincoln, Dr. Liz Lincoln with youth mentors, pastors and Christian leaders.

DIMAPUR: ABAM youth ministry (YM) next gen. leaders training “Lead like Jesus” was successfully held at Don Bosco Institute of Leadership & Development (DBILD), Dimapur from February 14 to 17, with facilitators from “Lead like

Jesus” India.

A press release from ABAM executive secretary, Rev. Dr. Mar Atsongchanger stated that, ABAM YM has been organising this programme from 2019 with the objective to train young leaders

whose leadership will be in the footsteps of the greatest leader Jesus Christ. I Training teaches a leader not to be self centered, which is the greatest enemy to success but cultivate servanthood attitude to provide maximum weight towards spiritual and

social maturity of society.

Altogether 83 young leaders from 14 local churches attended and out of which, 14 young leaders have been given special training to be the facilitators of this programme.

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Childline India Foundation holds meeting in Zunheboto

DC Zunheboto, Peter Lichamo speaking at the programme. (DIPR)

DIMAPUR: Childline India Foundation (CIF), under the ministry of Women and Child Development, India held a meeting with administration department, NGOs, public leaders, church leaders and various other concerned organisa-

tions, at DC’s conference hall Zunheboto on February 17, with an aim to set up a child helpline service at the district to provide protection for children and awareness on children’s rights.

According to DIPR report, while chairing the meet-

ing, DC Zunheboto Peter Lichamo expressed gratitude towards the ministry and the resource person Abhishek Biswas from the concerned organisation, for the noble initiation. He also thanked the gathering for positively attending the programme and said that the initiative should be properly utilised for the welfare of the children.

Speaking at the programme, the resource person deliberated on the requirements for setting up district child protection unit like forming an advisory board, which would be chaired

by DC, minimum requirements for NGOs to partner

with the Unit, structuring and challenges, funding and monitoring etc.

The meeting culminated with an interaction.

It may be noted that CIF which was established in 1996 as a pilot project under the ministry of social justice came into full recognition in 2006 under the ministry of women and child development, government of India.

The foundation provides 24 hours helpline service to children across the country and covers 118 train stations. It also aims to set up at various bus terminuses across the country in the future.

Organisations appeal for peaceful conduct of examination DIMAPUR: Dimapur District Citizens’ Forum (DDCF) has appealed the concerned department to look into the load shedding of electricity (supply) during the exam time especially from 6 p.m to 11 p.m in the evening and 4 a.m to 8 a.m in the morning which is usually the study hours for the students.

A press release from DDCF media cell also asked the concerned department to check noise pollution especially created K Y M C

by night parties as it creates unconducive environment for students. DDCF requested the traffic personnel to make some arrangements and consider the students in uniform for their safe and timely passage to exam centres.

WCSU: Wokha Circle Students’ Union (WCSU) has urged the citizens of Wokha town to maintain peaceful environment. Union also appealed the people to restrict using loud music

entertainment and late night partying within Wokha town during the examination period. Union cautioned that any individual or group hampering the peaceful environment, strict action would be initiated. Union has also appealed the power department to supply proper electricity during HSLC & HSSLC exam. WCSU further wishes best of luck to all the HSLC & HSSLC candidates appearing exam.

hung Town Baptist Arogo (MTBA) and Northeast Alliance for Leadership Education and Social Transformation (NEALEAST) jointly organised a mentorship development seminar on February 18 at MTBA conference hall.

A press release from MTBA stated that, resource persons were Rev. Dr. Abraham Lincoln (Longri) and wife Dr. Liz Lincoln, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Around 50 youth mentors, pastors and senior christian leaders attended the programme which involved lectures on tolls and crafts of mentoring, as well as brain storming sessions which were conducted in 6 groups. Rev. Dr Takatemjen, president NEALEAST, Rev. Ponen Longchar, pastor MTBA and Monglier, youth evangelist MTBA also spoke at the seminar.

CSU stand against illegal appointments

DIMAPUR: Chakhroma Students’ Union (CSU) has appealed the chief minister to set up enquiry committee at the earliest to check into illegal appointment of more than 900 police recruits and backdoor appointments in bulk.

A press release from CSU president, Zhasakholie Kehie stated that, this kind of malpractices scare the hopes and aspiration of many unemployed Naga youths.

It also reminded for the setting up of enquiry committee as mentioned by the chief minister during the NLA session.

Union also applauded the NTUCT for voicing out against the unfair and unjust means in recruitment, while it affirmed that it would not be silent spectators if government does not look into the matter.

DIMAPUR: Excise department conducted a joint raid in and around Dimapur on February 18 and seized 560 bottles of assorted Indian Made Foreign Liquor (IMFL). A press release by assistant commissioner of Excise (ENF), Khevito S Swu stated that the raid was carried out by Mobile Squad, Narcotic Cell and Dimapur Excise units of the department.

In this connection, Swu said 25 numbers of offences were registered under Nagaland Liquor Total Prohibition (NLTP) Act and that all accused were booked under relevant section of the act.

Swu informed that such raids would be carried out regularly and efforts would be made to arrest and ensure that those dealing in such illegal activities were penalised as per the law.

Nagaland Post, Dimapur THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2020

news in Brief NFHRCC joint inspection to Doyang Bridge: Nagaland Foot Hill Roads Coordination Committee (NFHRCC), the contractor, and the department of PWD(R&B), Nagaland will undertake a joint inspection to the ongoing construction site of the Doyang Bridge, Governor’s Camp, Liphanyan-Koro on February 22. Team will leave at 8 a.m from NFHRCC office, Dimapur. All the tribal members have been requested to be present without fail.

ADC Pfutsero notifies: Additional deputy commissioner (ADC) Pfutsero, Phuleshe K Yepthomi has notified that certain beneficiaries are yet to remove standing structure/building or demolished only a certain portion of structure which have been duly compensated for the construction of 2-lane road from Pfutsero to Phek under SARDP-NE. Such defaulters are given last and final notice till February 24 to start immediate evacuation/complete demolition failing which, concerned authority will initiate necessary action.

NNC/GDRN (N-A) informs: Collection leadership of NNC/GDRN (N-A) has convened an emergency meeting of UT-I Dimapur on February 22, 10 a.m. All the staff under UT-I Dimapur have been requested to attend the meeting positively. For further details, one may contact at 6909147408.

Mokokchung DPDB meeting: Mokokchung district planning & development board (DPDB) meeting will be held on February 25, 11 a.m at ADC Planning conference hall, Mokokchung. All heads of offices (DPDB members) have been informed to attend the meeting positively.

High court bar election result: High Court Bar of the Gauhati High Court, Kohima bench, conducted election of office bearers and executive members for the term 2020 to 2022 on February 18, at the Bar conference hall. Bar members unanimously decided to allow present set of office bearers, with Ashiphri Zho, as president and Kekhriengulie Theünuo, as secretary to continue for one more tenure.

Lost and found: NSCN/GPRN, UT has recovered one four wheeler Innova G bearing vehicle No. AS-01BL6673, chassis No-MDJ11JV40074704220614, Eng No.2KDU559886. Rightful owner has been informed to claim it by producing the original document within 7 days. One may contact at 7005536090.

Free heart screening at NHAK

Dr. T. Naresh Babu, associate consultant, cardiology from SKY Hospital, Imphal, screening a patient.

DIMAPUR: Two-day free heart and ECHO screening was held for children under 18 at Naga Hospital Authority, Kohima (NHAK) on February 18 and 19, conducted by RBSK programme, National Health Mission (NHM), Nagaland, in association with SKY Hospital and Research Centre Imphal.

According to RBSK press release, a team of doctors headed by a Dr. T. Naresh Babu, associate consultant, cardiology from SKY Hospital, Imphal, and medical teams from RBSK and DEIC conducted the camp.

Altogether, 107 children from different parts of the districts availed the free screening service, out of which 53 children

were found to be having heart problems and were referred to SKY Hospital for treatment. The treatment cost will be borne by the RBSK, NHM as per RBSK model costing.

It may be noted that mobile health teams have been screening children from 0-18 years of age at government schools and AWCs under RBSK programme. The main objective of the programme is early detection and management of cases of children detected with defects, diseases, deficiencies and developmental delays. For this tertiary care centres are roped in for management of complicated cases requiring high-end medical care and treatment.

FGD conducted in Longleng district

D I M A P U R : Fo c u s e d group discussion (FGD) and interpersonal communication on maternal health, child health, family planning and adolescent health was conducted in seven villages, namely Auching, Sakshi, Yangching, Yongphang, Montikang, Yongam and Nyang under Longleng district from February 17 to 18.

A press release from CMO office Longleng stated that, FGD was conducted by district media officer (DMO) Roseline and district community mobiliser (DCM) Henmei with lactating mothers, pregnant women and eligible couples as the target group.

The sessions were conducted to sensitize and create awareness and educate the people on various health issues, and to bridge the gap between the beneficiaries to boost their health seeking behavior. It was implemented with a view to reach the grass roots

District media officer Roseline conducting a session at Yangching health and wellness centre.

levels in the villages with an average of ten participants per village.

The release stated that, despite the existence of sub centres, the villagers are still reluctant in seeking health care, and in immunizing their child. ASHAs in all the villages have been mobilizing the mothers to send the pregnant women to health units for institutional delivery; however

eligible couples opt for home delivery.

The components of Janani Surakhsha Yojana (JSY) and Janani Shishu Surakhsha Kar yakram (JSSY), adolescent health, free screening of eye and heart in government schools and anganwadi centres, different methods of family planning, ANC registration were discussed as well.

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WEATHER FORECAST February 20

(Temperature in ºC)

Max Min

Agartala Hazy sunshine

30 13

Aizawl

Considerable cloudiness

24 10

Guwahati Mainly cloudy

28 14

Hazy sunshine

26 7

Imphal

Itanagar Cloudy

22 15

Shillong Periods of sun

19 6

Mainly cloudy

20 7

Kohima

Dimapur Hazy sun

26 12

Hazy sunshine

21 10

Tuensang Cooler with clouds and sun

14 5

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Workshop on gender budgeting

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Hazy sunshine and cooler

Zunheboto Hazy sun

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Toshi Wungtung (M) and others during workshop on gender budgeting at NU Kohima campus Meriema. (NP)

Correspondent KO H I M A , F E B. 1 9 (NPN): Three-day state level workshop on gender budgeting for gender equality in rural areas organized

by Nagaland National Institute of Rural Development & Panchayati Raj, North Eastern Regional Center (NIRD & PRNERC) in collaboration with the women’s studies center (WSC) along with department of Education, Nagaland University and sponsored by ministry of Women & Child Development, India, got underway at ladies common room, Meriema campus Nagaland University on Wednesday.

Advisor IPR, SCERT & Village Guards, Toshi Wungtung in his inaugural address as special guest

said that in any democratic country like India, as long as they have voting rights, everyone was equal before law. He said both men and women share the equal responsibility to come forward in participating and raising opinions and concern in the democratic country. Advisor stressed the need of addressing the gender issue in the state and political empowerment for women as part of the policy formulating.

He said culturally, philosophically and spiritually women were no less, however in the socioeconomic status there may be differences in policy approach. He opined that gender budgeting should be sustainable in approach while regulating and formulating various policies in the country and society

Assessment camp for senior citizens and PwDs

I. Tochi Imlong, ophthalmic assistant examining a patient during the camp. (DIPR)

DIMAPUR: Assessment camp for senior citizens and people with disabilities (PwDs) under Rasdhtrya Vayoshri Yojana (RVY) and ADIP Schemes was held at town hall Tuensang on February 19.

According to DIPR report, the camp was organized by district admin-

istration Tuensang, departments of Social Welfare, Health and Family Welfare, Nagaland, in collaboration with Artificial Limbs Manufacturing Corporation of India (ALIMCO), under the ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment.

Thousands of targeted individuals attended the

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camp who were medically examined by Dr. Temjen Sunep MS-orthopedics, Dr. Y. Imlong Chaba dermatologist and I. Tochi Imlong ophthalmic assistant of District Hospital Tuensang along with Moirangthem Surendro audiologist of District Hospital Wokha.

due to different cultures and social stratification of different places.

Advisor said that although Nagaland government had passed a resolution that every department must go into gender budgeting, however it was yet to be practically implemented. He also informed that there were various schemes in different government departments for the upliftment of women.

He hoped this workshop would bring a sustainable approach towards empowering women on gender budgeting for an equal and healthy society.

Re s o u r c e p e r s o n s for the workshop were associate prof NIRD & PR-NERC Dr. Jayanta Choudhury, entrepreneur, Benjamin Chishi, professor NU, Buno Liegise,

BBBP-cummithun mela held at Tening DIMAPUR: District administration of Peren in collaboration with ICARNRC organised Beti Bachao Beti Padhao (BBBP)-cummithun mela under Tening block task force at Tening village panchayat hall on February 19.

According to DIPR report, ADC Tening, Rhosietho Nguori emphasized on the importance of Beti Bachao Beti Padhao (BBBP) and upliftment of women through participation. EAC Tening, Tumben P. Tsanglao while addressing the gathering urged the village health and sanitation committee (VHSNC) and village education committee (VEC) to participate actively and achieve the targets in order to enhance the female enrolment ratio in the schools and maintain efficiency in monitoring women’s health.

Programme was attended by the representatives from Tening, Nzau and Nsong with womenfolk and block task force.

professor NU, Dr Lungsang Zeliang, secretary NPSC, Kevekha Kevin Zehol, MD (Psychiatry) P. Ngully, advocate Joshua Sheqi, Dr. Khotsole Khieya, Dr. Ratan Kaurinta, asst. district programme manager NSRLM DMMU Kohima, Kenivole Richa, and principal JCC Dr. Asakho Hibo.

Panelists for discussion were Dr. Anungla, prof. Rosemary Dzuvichu, Dr. Asakho Hibo, Dr. Rukhono Iralu and Gracy Aye SRCW. Earlier, programme was chaired by Narola Chuba, welcome address by professor NU, Buno Liegise. Vice chancellor NU, Prof. Pardeshi Lal was the guest of honour and key note address was delivered by associate prof.

NIRD & PR- NERC Dr. Jayanta Choudhury.

Government officials, academicians, scholars, civil societies, NGOs and faculty members are participating in the three-day workshop.

The workshop is sponsored by ministry of Women & Child Development, India and organized by Nagaland National Institute of Rural Development & Panchayati Raj, North Eastern Regional Center (NIRD & PR- NERC) in collaboration with the women’s studies center along with department of Education, NU.

Launching programme for upgradation of Tuensang-Longleng Road

Minister of Health and Family Welfare, S. Pangnyu Phom and others praying at the launching programme. (NP)

Correspondent LONGLENG, FEB 19 (NPN): The much awaited launching programme on rehabilitation and upgradation of Tuensang-Longleng road under North East Road Sector Development Scheme (NERSDS) NEC was launched, Wednesday, at Nagalempong Zero Point Longleng by minister of Health and Family Welfare, S. Pangnyu Phom.

Last year on August 12, the formal consultative meeting and inaugural programme was held at Sakshi EAC headquarters 30 kilometers away from Longleng by Ram Muivah secretary North Eastern Council (NEC) and an-

nounced Rs. 188.61 Crore being sanctioned by the NEC out which Rs.75 Crore only has been already released to the department of NPWD for early construction of 51 kilometers stretch road between TuensangLongleng. This is considered to be the oldest PWD road in Nagaland constructed in the year 1950.

With the construction of this road, not only the people of two communities (Phom and Chang) will benefit but would bring great relief to the entire Eastern Nagaland people including Nagas living beyond the borders as this road will facilitate with one the shortest route to reach commercial city Dimapur via neighbour-

ing Assam.

As the heavy machinery gets ready for work on the first day after the launching, pastors, missionaries, leaders from different organizations, minister and department officials invoked God’s blessings for better understanding and cooperation among the people of the two districts and for early completion of the road.

Others who were at the programme were head of department from (NPWD), district administration, Phom People’s Council, (PPC) Chang Khulei Setsang, (CKS), Phom Students’ Conference (PSC), Phomla Hoichemla, Police, contractors and public from 19 villages.

Valedictory function held for SSEP 2020

DIMAPUR: Valedictory function of the 3rd solidarity students’ exchange programme (SSEP 2020) was held at Hotel Eastgate, Kohima on February 15, organized between Sophia College for Women (SCW), Mumbai and Kohima Science College (KSC), Jotsoma from February 9 to 16.

A press release from KSC Jotsoma stated that, visiting team from Mumbai comprising of eight B.Sc 2nd year students and two chaperones, interacted with students & faculty of KSC, visiting classrooms and laboratories of various departments. They also visited important heritage sites in Kohima and several villages nearby such as Kigwema, Khonoma, Viswema etc, interacting with the local people.

They participated in interactive sessions covering a wide variety of topics including “Naga Culture Today” by Theja Meru (advisor, TaFMA) at the RCEMPA, “Naga Textiles” with Dr. Theyiesinuo

SCW Mumbai and KSC students at the valedictory function held in KSC Jotsoma.

Keditsu (Mekhalamama), “Coffee-Cultivation & Careers” with Lichan Humtsoe (founder & CEO Été Coffee), “Naga school children grow organic mid-day meals” with Keneisenu Vitsu (head teacher, GMS, Viswema), “Working with Naga farmers & Women street vendors” with Neichute Duolo & Neikule

Duolo (Entrepreneurs Associates), and “Story of Youthnet” at Made in Nagaland complex which gave them an insight into Naga culture and way of life.

The students attended “Beloved”, a concert by Yamaha artiste Nise Meruno & Nourhe Khate, followed by a personal interaction with Meruno at the Vivor

Hotel.

They also visited directorate of IT and Science, specially arranged by advisor, IT, Science & Technololgy, NRE, Nagaland, Mmhonlumo Kikon, and conducted by Dr. Nesa.

SSEP started in 2017, co-designed by Dr. K & T Keditsu Foundation, Kohima and INFC, Mumbai.

screening GOC Spear Corps maiden visit to Kma Skill development for unemployed youth begins Cancer camps for women held in Mon

Chief guest Albert Ezung with participants and priests of AIDA centre.

DIMAPUR: Skill development programme for unemployed youth (batch 32) was launched on February 18 at Don Bosco Tech AIDA centre by Dimapur Municipal Council (DMC) administrator, Albert Ezung as the chief guest.

A press release by the centre informed that, speaking on the occasion Ezung spoke on the importance of skilling and giving opportunity to the K Y M C

unemployed youths of Nagaland. He also lauded the Don Bosco Tech AIDA for their contributions towards this end.

Ezung also encouraged the trainees to skill themselves to get an employment and urged the trainees not to depend on government jobs as the government was inadequate to provide job to the entire citizen.

“No job is big or small

as long as we do it dutifully with sincerity. Whatever we do we should do it with dignity; unless we do that society will consider government job as social prestige. So, we need to change our mind set and venture out in life without depending on Government job,” said Ezung.

Mission Procure, of Province of Dimapur & AIDA in-charge, Father T.T Joseph also encouraged the

trainees to put God at the centre of their life and also asked them to love their neighbours.

Yangkong Yangla anchored the programme; Fr. C.T Vargeshe, Rector Don Bosco Dimapur led the opening prayer followed by welcome speech by Avito Horo. Trainees also presented Ao folk dance and Lotha folk song and Sidanan Pashwan said the vote of thanks.

DIMAPUR: Free breast cancer screening camps for the women of Mon district was organised by district administration, Mon from February 3 to 15, under Beti Bachao Beti Padhao (BBBP) programme.

According to DIPR report, the free breast cancer screening camps was held in Tizit, Aboi, Tobu, Naginimora, Mopong, Longching, Phomching and Chen town. A total of 661 women were screened, out of which 43 cases have been detected.

Screening camps were organised in collaboration with UMANG, a company based in Hyderabad. UMANG is powered by NIRAMAI technology (Non-Invasive Risk Assessment with Machine Intelligence). This method of breast cancer screening can detect tumors five times smaller than what clinical exam can detect, is non-contact, painless and free of any radiation.

Deputy commissioner Mon, Thavaseelan K, expressed gratitude to UMANG, district Medical department, Konyak Nyupuh Shekho Khong (KNSK) and all individuals for their services and support towards a successful completion of the camps.

GOC, Lieutenant General Rana Pratap Kalita meeting the Army personnel.

DIMAPUR: On his maiden visit to Kohima on February 19, Lieutenant General Rana Pratap Kalita, AVSM, SM, VSM, General Officer Commanding (GOC) Spear Corps visited HQ IGAR (North) where he was briefed about the prevailing security situation and operational preparedness of the formation.

According to PRO HQ IGAR

(N), GOC also visited Kohima war cemetery to pay reverence.

Appreciating the role played by the troops of Assam Rifles in Nagaland, the GOC encouraged them to continue with the effort in creating a conducive and peaceful environment in the region so that the trust and faith of the populace in the security forces is further cemented.

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‘Efforts on to make Act East Policy fully operational’

Correspondent

IMPHAL, FEB 19: Manipur chief minister N Biren Singh Wednesday said that his government was putting all out effort to make the Act East Policy fully operational as various developmental activities and projects were being taken up.

Replying to a question raised during Question Hour

by Congress MLA Surjakumar Okram, Biren Singh said under the policy Integrated Check Post (ICP), Moreh was constructed and inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and wais now fully operational.

He said Government of India and Government of Myanmar have agreed to open nine Border Haats along the border within a distance of 1640 kms to facilitate free exchange of locally available commodities and services of which two Border Haats are included in the list from Manipur. In addition two Border Haats were proposed to be opened at Ukhrul

GOC 3 Corps visits Manipur GUWAHATI, FEB 19 (AGENCIES): General Officer Commanding Spear Cor ps, Lt. Gen. RP Kalita visited the field formations and forward areas in Manipur on February 18-19.

During the visit, the GOC was briefed by commanders of various field formations on the prevailing security situation in the area and operational preparedness of the formations.

Lt. Gen. Kalita expressed satisfaction with the security measures and operational preparedness of the forces.

The Corps Commander accompanied by Inspector General Assam Rifles (South) also called on Manipur Gover nor Dr Najma Heptulla at Raj Bhawan. GOC apprised the Governor of the actions being taken by the Army and the Assam Rifles in coordination with other agencies towards the maintenance of peace and security in the State.

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and Kamjong districts of the state, he added. Regarding infrastructure and road development, Singh said that the construction works of 69 bridges, including approach road from Tamu-KyigoneKalewa road section on EPC mode, scheduled to be completed by November 20202, was stalled due to a court case. He further said that agreement on land border crossing with Myanmar was signed on August 8, 2018 to mark the symbolical commencement of movement of people across the two countries. Major business summits and workshops have been conducted both in Myanmar and India.

For commencement of bus service within the two countries, MoU was signed

3-day SDG conclave 2020 in Guwahati

NEW DELHI, FEB 19 (AGENCIES): NITI Aayog is organising ‘Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Conclave 2020: Partnerships, Cooperation and Development of North Eastern States’, in Guwahati, in association with the North Eastern Council, Government of Assam, Tata Trusts, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS).

The three-day event from 24 to 26 February, will take place in Assam Administrative Staff College, Guwahati and will see representations from the highest offices of all the State Governments of the North East, Central Ministries, academia, civil society and international development organizations.

The inaugural session will be presided over by NITI Aayog vice chairman Rajiv Kumar, Union minister of state for DoNER Jitendra Singh, Chief Ministers of Arunachal Pradesh,

Shillong may soon get direct flight to New Delhi S H I L LO N G, F E B 1 9 (AGENCIES): Bolstered with the success of direct flight with Kolkata, the Meghalaya government is now planning to have direct air connectivity with New Delhi.

The Meghalaya Transport Corporation (MTC) on February 7 floated a tender to select operator for the direct air link with New Delhi. The tender will close on February 24. The MTC is planning to engage an operator to start flight services between Shillong and New Delhi, twice a week, initially for a period of three months.

So long, people travelling to New Delhi, have been boarding flights from Guwahati.

All regional carriers, scheduled carriers and international carriers, who are qualified to operate in Shillong-New Delhi sector, are allowed to participate in the bid, MTC officials said. The tender papers mentioned that MTC is planning to introduce a 40 to 80 seater aircraft in the Shillong-New Delhi sector.

The MTC officials are optimistic that introduction of direct air links with New Delhi will play an important role in growth of the tourism sector in Meghalaya. The MTC officials are optimistic that the flight to New Delhi K Y M C

on February 14. Regarding the commencement of regular Imphal-Mandalay flight service, the chief minister said Ministry of Civil Aviation has included Imphal-Mandalay sector under the International UDAN scheme. Process of selection of operator for the sector through bidding is likely to be finalised by March 2020.

Regarding the commencement of regular Imphal-Mandalay flight service, the chief minister said Union ministry of civil aviation has included Imphal-Mandalay sector under the International UDAN Scheme. Process of selection of operator for the sector through bidding likely to be finalised by March 2020, he added.

Earlier, opposition Congress member Surjakumar Okram urged the government to take steps for full operationalization of the ambitious Act East Policy to facilitate people in terms of trade, business and transportation.

may start by mid-April. At present, the Shillong airport at Umroi, located about 32 kms north of the capital city, has only one direct flight to Kolkata. On July 20, last year, budget carrier IndiGo had started operations from Umroi airport with a 70seater aircraft.

Meanwhile, the Meghalaya government is yet to take a final call whether it should go ahead with upgrading the airport or go for a Greenfield airport.

Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim and Tripura.

Renata Lok-Dessallien, UN Resident Coordinator, India and Amitabh Kant, CEO, NITI Aayog will also preside over the session. This inaugural session on the first day would be followed by technical sessions on the next two days. The valedictory address will be delivered

by Shoko Noda, Resident Representative, UNDP India.

The technical sessions would include sessions pertaining to SDG localisation in the northeast, economic prosperity and sustainable livelihoods, climate adaptive agriculture, health and nutrition, education, skill development and entrepreneurship, connectivity and infrastructure development & inequality and exclusion.

Each of the sessions, chaired by a renowned domain specialist, are expected to take stock of progress and discuss and deliberate on the way forward for the region in the aforesaid areas.

Sharjeel Imam (File)

GUWAHATI, FEB 19 (AGENCIES): Former JNU student Shar jeel Imam, who was arrested in January for “cut-off Northeast” remark, will be produced in a Guwahati court on Thursday.

Imam was arrested from Jehanabad in Bihar on January 28.

DIMAPUR, FEB 19 (NPN): Troops of Indian Army in an operation apprehended a ULFA (I) cadre near Kachijan Village, Tinsukia district on February 17.

Based on specific input, the troops swiftly launched an operation in the village and apprehended a ULFA (I) cadre. The troops also recovered one Point 32 Pistol, one country made rifle and assorted ammunition.

The apprehended individual has been handed over to the police for further investigation.

6 dead, 6 injured in Arunachal road mishap BORDUMSA, FEB 19 (AGENCIES): At least six members of a family – four minors and two adults – were killed, while six others were injured in a road accident that occurred between Chongkham and Namsai, Arunachal Pradesh late Tuesday evening.

The vehicle, with 12 members of the same family on board, was heading towards Chesing Wingko village in Piyong area after attending a marriage party.

The car collided with a loaded vehicle parked on the road at Joypure Habi Gaon under Namsai Police Station. The driver of the vehicle, identified as Bablu Mura, was reportedly missing, while the injured were being treated at the Namsai Civil Hospital.

According to a resident of a nearby village, five persons died on the spot and a critically injured minor died on way to Tinsukia.

Police from Namsai rushed to the site and helped rescue the injured.

NAGALAND :: KOHIMA

Dated Kohima, the 18th Feb' 2020

To, No. ....................., Rank : C/N (Driver) Name : Sankar Mahato S/O : Babulal Mahato Vill : Bombaya Harlal, P.O : ................................

P.S : Dalsing Sariya, Dist : Samastepur State : Bihar, Pin : 848101 CALLING NOTICE You have been found absent from the Government bonafide duty w.e.f 23/07/2018 till date without any leave or permission from the competent authority.

You are therefore directed to report for duty immediately within 7 (Seven) Days from the date of issue of the notice, failing which Disciplinary action will be initiated against you in absentia.

Addl. Superintendent of Police (MT), Police Headquarter, Nagaland, Kohima

GOVERNMENT OF NAGALAND

OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR GENERAL OF POLICE NO.PHQ (D-I)16/2020-21/

Imam was handed over to Assam police custody by the Patiala House court earlier on Wednesday.

He was presented before the CJM Kamrup on February 13 through video conferencing and later sent to judicial custody.

Imam’s remark during an anti-CAA rally in Shaheen Bagh in New Delhi sparked a major controversy and multiple FIRs were registered against him.

Sedition charges were also slapped on Sharjeel for his remarks.

Police in Manipur, Meghalaya and Arunachal Pradesh had also lodged FIRs against the JNU scholar.

ULFA (I) cadre held in Tinsukia

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Itanagar to have Police Commissionerate system

Sharjeel Imam to be produced in Guwahati court today

GOVERNMENT OF NAGALAND

NO. PHQ(MT)10/(A)/2019/2999

Nagaland Post, Dimapur THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2020

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Dated Kohima the th Feb’ 2020.

TENDER NOTICE

Sealed tender are hereby invited for supply of the following Centrally purchased Ration for Nagaland Armed Police and Indian Reserve Battalions for the year 2020 - 2021.

Sl. No ITEMS Approximate Requirement 1 Milk Powder (FSSAI/BSI Standards) 213118 Kgs 2 Tea Leaf (FSSAI & Tea Board of India) 53280 Kgs 3 Refined Oil (FSSAI Prescribed Quality) 384796 Ltrs 4 Red Chilly (Dry) (Standard Quality) 88800 Kgs Interested tender(s) may collect detailed tender notice from the office of the Director General of Police on payment of ` 500/- (Rupees five hundred) only on any working days and shall be issued with effect from 20th of Feb’ 2020.

Last date of receipt of tender is 20th March 2020 till 12.00 hrs and shall be opened on the same day at 13.00 hrs in presence of Tenderer(s).

(T. JOHN LONGKUMER) IPS, Director General of Police, Nagaland: Kohima.

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I TA NAG A R , F E B 1 9 (PTI): Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu on Wednesday said the Police Commissionerate system will be introduced in the state capital complex to improve the law and order situation.

Once the commissionerate system is introduced in the state capital, there would be a visible change in the law and order situation within a year, the chief minister said.

"The commissionerate system will enable effective policing in a capital complex area such as Itanagar, which is growing at a fast pace with diverse culture living side by side," Khandu said at the all-party meeting which was convened by him to discuss the commissionerate system.

"Itanagar-Naharlagun is the face of our state. So it is necessary to maintain peace and order in the capital complex to achieve meaningful development," he said, according to an official communiqué.

Home Minister Bam-

Pema Khandu addressing the meeting.

ang Felix said the new system will provide better accountability as responsibility will be fixed directly on the police department eliminating all chances for blame game between civil administration and the police in the event of any policing failure.

Earlier, explaining the rationale for a commissionerate system in capital complex, Director General of Police R P Upadhyay said the new system would enable swift and unified action giving no chance for delayed action.

"The proposed new police command system in the capital complex will be headed by a Commissioner of Police (DIG rank or higher) to be assisted by

numbers of DCP (SP rank) and ACP (DySP rank).

Representatives from different political parties including Indian National Congress, Janata Dal (United), National Peoples Party, Peoples Party of Arunachal and Independent MLAs expressed their views on the commissionerate system and extended support for its implementation.

The all-party meeting also discussed on possibilities for a non-party system in the upcoming panchayat elections.

Khandu said that a non-party system would enable best leaders to be given chance and preserve community camaraderie, the communique added.

Mizoram: Highest HIV&AIDS prevalence rate in India

GUWAHATI, FEB 19 (AGENCIES): Mizoram has recorded the highest HIV&AIDS prevalence rate in India, followed by Manipur and Nagaland.

A total of 21,538 cases have been registered in Mizoram since October 1990, when the first case was identified, state health minister R Lalthangliana told the Assembly.

Answering a joint query posed by MNF leader Vanlaltanpuia and Independent MLA Lalduhoma, the minister said that most of the cases were found between the age group of 25-34 years.

The minister also said that local bodies, churches, NGOs have been asked for help.

Just recently, the gov-

ernment of Mizoram had sought support from the United Nations to fight the menace and deal with the rising number of HIV&AIDS patients.

Help has been sought from UNAIDS in the form of financial aid as well as logistics.

Project director of Mizoram State Aids Control Society (MSACS) Dr Lalthlengliani said that at least 2,416 people have died of the disease between January 2006 and September 2019.

According to various reports, there has been an increase in drug inflow within the region from neighbouring countries.

The youth, in particular, have been affected by the drug problem.

IN THE COURT OF PRINCIPAL DISTRICT AND SESSION JUDGE KIPHIRE: NAGALAND.

NO. PD & SJ.KPE.OBJECTION NOTICE-1/2019-20/ Dated Kiphire the 12th February, 2020 OBJECTION NOTICE Whereas Mrs. Henjila, W/o Lt. Abel Yim of Zanger Village P.O/P.S Kiphire Dist. Kiphire has applied for issue of Succession Certificate to operate/draw/ transfer/withdraw the debts and security in respect of her Husband Late Abel Yim who expired on 04th November, 2019.

Now, therefore, the public are hereby informed to file claims/objections if any within 30 (thirty) days from the date of publication of this notice.

(VICTO SEMA) NJS Principal District and Sessions Judge Kiphire : Nagaland K-456

2010. In the year 2016, India had 80,000 new HIV infections against 1,50,000 in 2005, and 62,000 AIDSrelated deaths against 1,50,000 in 2005. India has HIV prevalence of 0.26% in the adult population, approximately 2.1 million people living with HIV, shows data.

Dear Zakievikho, “Be happy! Today is the day you were brought into this world to be a blessing and inspiration to the people around you! You are a wonderful person!

May you be given more birthdays to fulfill all of your dreams!”

From, Mommy, Daddy, Brothers and Sister.

AFFIDAVIT

I, Asenla, D/o T. Amongba of Waromung Village, do hereby declare that my correct and actual name is Asenla, however in my service book my name is inadvertently recorded as Ayangla. The names Asenla, Ayangla and Asenyangla are my names which represent one and the same person i.e. me. Henceforth, my name as Asenla shall be used in all my official and future correspondence and records.

That this affidavit is made to declare as a piece of evidence for all purposes and that the statements made by me are true to the best of my knowledge and nothing has been concealed herein.

Solemnly affirmed before me by the deponent on this 7th February 2020.

Deponent Regd. No. 2/2020 Date 07/02/2020 Notary Public GOVERNMENT OF NAGALAND

NOTICE NOTICE INVITING CLAIMS/OBJECTION OF OTHER CLAIM(S) UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION 370 OF THE INDIAN SUCCESSION ACT 1925 FOR ISSUE OF SUCCESSION CERTIFICATE. SC/N0.20/20 Whereas application under Succession Act 1925 for grant of Succession Certificate for the estate/pension benefits of Late Mhabemo Ngullie has been applied by Smti. Ochumbeni Ngullie R/o Blue Hill Colony, H/No. Nil, Wokha, Nagaland W/o Late Mhabemo Ngullie for possession of: (i) SBI A/C No: 11766593962 (ii) PPO No. NL/25060 Notice is hereby given that any person having interest in the administration of the estate/pension benefits of the said deceased may, if she/he so desire appear in this court on or before 18/03/2020.

Given under the hand and seal of the court on this day the 18/02/2020 Sd/- District & Sessions Judge Wokha : Nagaland WC-69

GOVERNMENT OF NAGALAND OFFICE OF THE COMMANDANT 13 NAP (IR) BATTALION YAJANG-C MKG: : : NAGALAND No.13 NAP (IR) BN/RO-17/19-20/2416

According to the National AIDS Control Organisation it was estimated that 2.11 million people in India live with HIV&AIDS in 2015. Again the 2017 UNAIDS data showed that new HIV infections in India have decreased by 46%, and AIDS-related deaths have decreased by 22% since

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Dated Yajang, the 19th Feb’ 2020

FINAL CALLING NOTICE

Whereas D.E proceeding has been drawn against No. 131226 CN Deepak Kumar Thakur S/O Shri. Chandrama Thakur, Village Lagusa, P.O – Rajpur, P.S-Raghunathpur, Dist-Siwan, State- Bihar of 13 NAP (IR) Bn. for remaining absent w.e.f 17/12/2019 till date without any permission from the competent authority. Three calling notices through concerned P.S and a memorandum were also served and issued against the said constable Vide this Office Order Nos: 1) 13 NAP (IR)BN/RO-17/19-20/1921 Dated 06/01/2020.

2) 13 NAP (IR)BN/RO-17/19-20/2056 Dated 16/01/2020.

3) 13 NAP (IR)BN/RO-17/19-20/2134 Dated 28/01/2020.

4) 13 NAP (IR)BN/RO-17/19-20/2314 Dated 11/02/2020.

And whereas, the said constable has failed to respond or acknowledge the calling notices and the Memorandum issued against him. And whereas, his willful absenting from bonafide Government duty w.e.f 17/12/2019 till date tantamount to violation of relevant Service Conduct Rules and applicable laws.

Therefore, it is notified that last opportunity is given to No. 131226 Constable Deepak Kumar Thakur of 13 NAP (IR) Bn to submit his written defense or report to the undersigned within 7 (Seven) days from the date of publication of this Final Notice and failing which, it shall be presumed that No. 131226 Constable Deepak Kumar Thakur has nothing to defend himself on the said charges and DE proceeding shall be instituted against him ex-parte and penalty shall be imposed accordingly.

Sd/- Commandant, 13 NAP (IR) Bn. Yajang, Nagaland.

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OFFICE OF THE ADDITIONAL DEPUTY COMMISSIONER TSEMINYU : NAGALAND

NO.ADC/JUD/SC-1/2009/PT-III/312 Tseminyu, Dated the 12th Feb. 2020.

OBJECTION - NOTICE

Whereas Smti. P. Libeno Lotha, W/o Late Japhet Seb (Constable (SIG) 11th NAP (IR) Bn.) who expired on 7/01/2020 has applied for issuance of Succession Certificate to Draw/Operate/Transfer her late husband Pension/GPF/Gratuity/GIS/FBF/Commutation/Leave encashment and SBI Account No. 32240335683 (Rangapahar Branch) under section 375 of the Indian Succession Act 1925.

Pubic are hereby asked to file any claims/objection within 30 (thirty) days from the date of issue of the notice failing which no claims/objection will be entertained after the stipulated time.

(NOKCHASASHI) Additional Deputy Commissioner Tseminyu : Nagaland DP-1307

DECLARATION OF ACTUAL NAME Regd. No. 53 Dt. 7/6/17 I, Shri H. NIHOTO ASSUMI, S/O HOVISHE SEMA permanent LITTAMI NEW VILLAGE and presently residing at KHUWABOTO COLONY, Dist. ZUNHEBOTO State NAGALAND do hereby solemnly affirm and declare an oath as under: 1. That I am a bonafide citizen of India belonging to SUMI Community resident of the above mentioned address.

2. That my name is inadvertently recorded as H. NIHOTO SEMA in my Appointment Order, but my actual name is H. NIHOTO ASSUMI which is recorded in my all other official documents.

3. That the above mentioned names H. NIHOTO SEMA and H. NIHOTO ASSUMI are one and same person which is referred to me.

4. That, from the date of this declaration, my name shall be used by the name as H. NIHOTO ASSUMI for all official purpose and legal proceedings and at all times and occasions.

5. That the statement made in para 1-4 are true and correct to the best of my knowledge & belief and nothing material is concealed therein.

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AFFIDAVIT

(Declaration/Rectification of Maiden & Marital name) Regd. No. 1076 Dt. 27/09/19 I, Smt. VISAVOLE TASE, W/o KETOVIKHO TASE resident of Kezoma Village, Kohima, Nagaland do hereby solemnly affirm and declare on oath as follows.

1. That I am a bonafide citizen of India.

2. That my maiden name is VISAVOLE MEKRO and marital name is VISAVOLE TASE however, some of my documents my name has been recorded as VISAVOLE TASE and VISAVOLE MEKRO respectively.

3. That the stated names VISAVOLE TASE and VISAVOLE MEKRO represents the same and one person having single identity i.e. myself.

4. That henceforth I herewith rectified and declare that my name will be VISAVOLE TASE and the same shall be use for all official purposes, future references and correspondences.

5. That this affidavit shall be uşed as a piece of evidence of the fact and proof as mentioned above and also to be used for rectification.

That the above paragraphs 1-5 are true and correct to the best of my knowledge and nothing material has been stated or suppressed therein. And I signed this affidavit before the competent authority at Kohima on this day the 26th Sept 2019.

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Didi slams centre over Tapas death

KO L K AT A , F E B 1 9 (IANS): Holding the BJP government at the centre responsible for actor-politician Tapas Paul’s death, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday alleged that three persons including a Trinamool MP and wife of another Lok Sabha MP have died in recent years unable to withstand the pressure of the central agencies.

“In 2017, Trinamool MP Sultan Ahmed died. His family told me he received a letter and phone, went to the bathroom, and died.

Arjuna awardee footballer Prasun Banerjee’s wife also died, unable to bear the sufferings,” Banerjee said while delivering her speech at the Rabindra Sadan cultural complex here, where Paul’s body was kept for public viewing.

“And now, it is Tapas.

His death has again shown how his life had become terrible due to pressure mounted by central agencies. He had become a mental and psychological wreck.

“He didn’t know till

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death what was his crime.

A number uno film star like Tapas was kept in prison for 13 months. His crime was he was the director f an entertainment channel. He used to get a salary for that. But for that he was imprisoned,” said Banerjee.

Lashing out at the centre’s BJP-led dispensation, Banerjee said its behaviour was akin to apolitical vengeance.

“This sort of behaviour is akin to political vengeance. Nobody is able to escape the vengeful plans of

the centre, she added.

A nu m b e r o f Tr i namool leaders have been interrogated or arrested in connection with the multi billion rupee ponzi scam and the Narada sting footage scandal by the CBI and other central agencies, which took over the cases following court orders.

Pal was also arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on December 30, 2016, in connection with his association with the Rose Valley group, one of the companies under inves-

SC directs Raj government to stop illegal sand mining NEW DELHI, FEB. 19 (IANS): The Supreme Court on Wednesday was surprised to learn that rampant illegal sand mining was in progress in Rajasthan, despite the ban on such activities years ago.

Taking a strong view on the matter, the top court directed the state government and an array of highranking officials in administration and police to take immediate steps in the matter.

A bench headed by Chief Justice S.A. Bobde and comprising Justices B.R. Gavai and Surya Kant sought a report from the state government within four weeks on action taken.

“Illegal sand mining could damage the environment irreparably”, said the court.

The observation from the apex court came on a clutch of petitions connected to sand mining in Rajasthan. The top court had issued orders in 2017 to stop illegal sand mining in the state.

The Supreme Court also ordered state government, and the Collectors and Superintendents of Police (SP) of all districts in Rajasthan to take immediate action to stop rampant illegal sand mining.

The bench also directed the apex court-appointed Central Empowered Com-

mittee (CEC) to examine the issues of illegal sand mining and submit a report recommending measures on this matter.

The top court observed that the CEC would take into account the issues faced by stakeholders involved in the matter, which includes sand traders, transporters and associated others.

In conducting the detailed probe on the matter, the CEC would also have the authority to summon people, including government officials, fix responsibility as well as give suggestions on way forward. The court said the CEC would submit its report within six weeks.

tigation in the ponzi scam.

He got bail after spending 13 months in prison in Bhubaneswar.

Ahmed and Prasun Banerjee were questioned by the CBI and the Enforcement Directorate multiple times in the Narada sting case.

They were among a dozen Trinamool leaders allegedly caught on video tape while receiving money in exchange for a promise to dole out favours to a fictitious company. The clipping was uploaded on the Narada news portal in March, 2016.

The ponzi scam came to light in 2013, when the Saradha Group companies closed down one after another, unable to return the deposits of investors, who had been lured with the promise of interest at rates much higher than those prevailing in the market.

A number of companies were later brought under the ambit of the probe, which the Supreme Court handed over to the CBI in 2014.

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Gargi college panel records 600 testimonies NEW DELHI, FEB 19 (IANS): A fact-finding committee conducting an independent probe into the alleged molestation of female students of Delhi University’s Gargi College here on February 6 has so far recorded and examined the statements of over 600 witnesses, varsity sources said on Wednesday.

A preliminary probe by the committee revealed gross lapses in overall security at the fest and that the college had underestimated the number of participants in the fest on the campus. It recommended immediate sensitisation of the college staff to gender issues.

“The committee found that the Internal Complaints Committee (ICC) is grossly biased and compromised and that a new Internal Complaints Committee be formed as per University Gargi College requirements by Februaryend,” the college’s student body said in a statement.

SC invites Nitin Gadkari to court on issues related to EVs

NEW DELHI, FEB 19 (IANS): The Supreme C o u r t o n We d n e s d ay expressed willingness to interact with the Union Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari to consider issues related to procurement of electric vehicles (EVs) for public transport and setting up charging infrastructure for these vehicles in the country. EVs would play a major role in curbing air pollution.

A bench headed by Chief Justice S.A. Bobde and comprising Justices B.R. Gavai and Surya Kant asked the Additional Solicitor General N.S. Nadkarni if the minister can come over for an interaction on this matter, and assist the court. “Could the minister come to the Supreme Court and explain the proposal to introduce vehicles run on electricity/hydrogen,” the court queried the top law officer.

Nadkarni replied this may send a wrong message and political colour

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added to it; otherwise, the minister would be happy to come to the top court. The court clarified that there is nothing political about it.

Although, the law officer said that there was nothing wrong in politicians coming to the court.

The court said, “we understand Prashant Bhushan is a political person, but he will not argue with the minister.”

The observation from the top court came during the hearing on the plea of

an NGO, represented by Bhushan, on the implementation of a scheme, National E-Mobility Mission Plan (NEMMP), 2020.

According to this scheme, the government were to procure electric vehicles.

The apex court in its order clarified it would like to consider issues related to EVs with the “assistance of an authority” empowered to take decisions.

Speaking to IANS, Nadkarni clarified, “The observation from the top court was an invite to the transport minister.”

The top court also recommended government to explore possibilities of making EVs affordable.

Bhushan argued under the scheme the authorities were supposed to encourage sale of EVs through subsidies, and also provide charging infrastructure at public places like malls and petrol pumps.

The bench will take up the matter after four weeks.

Suicide by family: Ex-DIG, four other get 8-year-jail

AMRITSAR, FEB 17 (PTI): A former DIG and four others were sentenced to eight-year imprisonment by a local court in a 2004 case in which a family of five had committed suicide, blaming the accused for the extreme step.

A serving DSP of the Punjab Police was also sentenced to four years in jail.

The court of Additional District Sessions Judge Sandeep Singh Bajwa also slapped fine ranging from Rs 10,000 to Rs 20,000 on them.

Former DIG Kultar Singh, DSP Hardev Singh, Parminder Kaur, Palwinder Singh, Mohinder Singh and Sabreen Kaur were convicted in the case on Monday.

Kultar Singh was post-

treme step, the entire family had written a suicide note on the walls of a room of their house.

They also sent copies of the suicide note to their friends and some known people by post.

The family had directly blamed Kultar Singh for the extreme step.

The Amritsar police had registered a case in Kultar Singh (File) 2004 when public pressure ed as the Amritsar senior mounted but the accused superintendent of police while DSP Hardev Singh held the charge of an inspector in 2004 when the family committed suicide.

Hardip Singh, along with his wife, mother and two children, had taken some poisonous substance on October 31, 2004.

Before taking the ex-

were not arrested then.

In 2009, Punjab Human Rights Organisation (PHRO) activist Sarabjit Singh Verka took up the matter before a local court and sought justice for the victims while alleging that the local police was not probing the case properly.

The court issued non-

bailable warrants in September 2011 against Kultar Singh and Hardev Singh under Sections 306 (abetment to suicide), 420 (fraud), 467 and 468 (forgery of documents), 471 (using forged document as genuine) of the Indian Penal Code and 7/13 of the Prevention of Corruption Act.

Poet, journo held over recital of anti-CAA poem (Government of India)

INCOME TAX DEPARTMENT Office of the Income Tax Officer TDS, Dimapur Aayakar Bhawan, Purana Bazaar Dimapur, Nagaland Email : dimapur.ito.tds@incometax.gov.in

PRESS NOTE

It is informed that the last date for online request for lower/ nil Income Tax deduction certificate for a Financial Year has been fixed on 15th March of the Financial Year. Accordingly, all applicants are requested to file Form 13 application on or before 15.03.2020 for the Financial Year 2019-20. It is further informed that the applicants may apply for lower/nil deduction certificate for the Financial Year 2020-21 from 28th February, 2020.

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dia. Based on a complaint by a BJP leader the case was registered under section 505 of the IPC. They went absconding after that and surrendered before the court on Tuesday,” a police officer told PTI. The duo sought an interim bail, which the public prosecutor objected to and

sought police custody to shared the details with,” conduct inquiry. police said.

The court granted sent Bisaralli and Rajabaxi to police custody till Wednesday afternoon.

“We may not seek further extension of their custody until some fresh evidences surface. We have seized their mobile phones to ascertain whom they had

Time not ripe for women officers to get into combat roles: Western Command GOC DEHRADUN, FEB 19 (PTI): Western Command GOC Lt Gen R P Singh has hailed the Supreme Court order on giving permanent commission to women officers in the Army, but said time is not ripe for them to get into combat roles.

Talking to reporters after an investiture ceremony here on Tuesday, Lt Gen Singh said, “We welcome the apex court ruling giving permanent commission to women officers. It will encourage them. But at the

same time, it is also true that time is not ripe to have them in combat roles”.

Women officers getting into combat roles is a gradual process, he said.

“Women officers are already there in our combat support units and a time will come when they will graduate to tackling bigger roles and responsibilities,” Lt Gen Singh said. In a landmark victory for gender equality, the Supreme Court on Monday allowed permanent commission to all women

officers in the Army, paving the way for them to get command postings and parity with male counterparts in promotions, ranks, benefits and pensions.

The Wester n Command GOC was here to preside over the investiture ceremony to honour Army bravehearts. He gave away 41 awards, including 32 Sena Medals for gallantry, two Sena Medals for distinguished service and seven Vishisht Seva Medals, to Army officers and soldiers.

(A Govt. of India Undertaking) DIMAPUR BRANCH Appendix –IV Rule 8(1) Possession Notice FOR IMMOVABLE PROPERTY

Whereas, The undersigned being the authorized Officer of UCO BANK under the Securitisation And Reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcement of Security Interest Act, 2002 and in exercise of powers conferred under section 13 (12) read with rule 9 of the Security Interest (Enforcement) rules 2002, issued a demand notice dated 15-06-2019 calling upon the Name: M/S Beauty Cosmetics, Prop: Chubby Yanthan Address: Odyuo complex, New market, Dimapur

Whereas, The undersigned being the authorized Officer of UCO BANK under the Securitisation And Reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcement of Security Interest Act, 2002 and in exercise of powers conferred under section 13 (12) read with rule 9 of the Security Interest (Enforcement) rules 2002, issued a demand notice dated 15-06-2019 calling upon the Name: Repabenla Address: H/No.63, Hill View colony, near DC Court Dimapur.

Repay the amount mentioned in the notice being Rs. 835604.67/(Rupees Eight Lakhs Thirty Five Thousand Six Hundred Four and Paisa Sixty Seven only), plus further interest and cost within 60 days from the date of receipt of the said notice.

The borrower having failed to repay the amount, notice is hereby given to the borrower/guarantor and the public in general that the undersigned has taken possession of the property described herein below in exercise of powers conferred on him/her under section 13(4) of the said Act read with rule 9 of the said rules on this 13th day of February of the year 2020.

The borrower in particular and the public in general is hereby cautioned not to deal with the property and any dealings with the property will be subject to the charge of the UCO BANK for an amount of Rs. 835604.67/-( Rupees Eight Lakhs Thirty Five Thousand Six Hundred Four and Paisa Sixty Seven only), plus further interest and cost.

The borrower’s and/or guarantor’s attention is invited to provisions of sub section 13 of the Act, in respect of time available, to redeem the secured assets.

Description of immovable property A plot of land measuring 1B-0K-0L (1338 Sq.m) covered by Dag No.2051/2098, PP No. 1480 situated at Purana Bazaar, A.K Village, Mouza No 3, Dimapur, Nagaland.The property is standing in the name of the borrower Chubby Yanthan.

Bounded by : On the North by : Abemo Lotha On the South by : Land of Nribemo Lotha On the East by : 4.40m Wide Earth Road On the East by : Land of Richard Humtsoe Authorized Officer Dated :13.02.2020 Place: Dimapur UCO BANK

Repay the amount mentioned in the notice being Rs. 1162588/(Rupees Eleven Lakhs Sixty Two Thousand Five Hundred and Eighty Eight only), plus further interest and cost within 60 days from the date of receipt of the said notice.

The borrower having failed to repay the amount, notice is hereby given to the borrower/guarantor and the public in general that the undersigned has taken possession of the property described herein below in exercise of powers conferred on him/her under section 13(4) of the said Act read with rule 9 of the said rules on this 13th day of February of the year 2020.

The borrower in particular and the public in general is hereby cautioned not to deal with the property and any dealings with the property will be subject to the charge of the UCO BANK for an amount of Rs. 1162588/-(Rupees Eleven Lakhs Sixty Two Thousand Five Hundred and Eighty Eight only), plus further interest and cost.

The borrower’s and/or guarantor’s attention is invited to provisions of sub section 13 of the Act, in respect of time available, to redeem the secured assets.

Description of immovable property A plot of land measuring 0B-0K-5L covered by Dag No. 1562/1564, Patta No. 1461 situated at Hill view colony, Block 5, under Mouza No.2, Dimapur, Nagaland. The property is standing in the name of Smti. Repabenla.

Bounded by : On the North by : DRDA Office On the South by : DC Office road On the East by : Property of N.Sema On the East by : Property of Nikito Sema Authorized Officer Dated :13.02.2020 Place: Dimapur UCO BANK

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File photo of anti-CAA protestors.

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BENGALURU, FEB 19 (PTI): A poet and a journalist have been arrested in connection with recital of a poem against CAA and NRC at a government sponsored function in Koppal district of Karnataka last month, police said on Wednesday.

The arrests were made based on a complaint from a BJP functionary alleging that Siraj Bisaralli, a poet had recited an anti-CAA poem at ‘Anegundi Utsava’ in Gangavathi town of Koppal district in January and Rajabaxi, editor of an online news portal uploaded it on social media.

Police had registered a case against them under section 505 of IPC (statements conducing to public mischief).

On Tuesday, Bisaralli and Rajabaxi surrendered before a court in that district, which rejected their bail plea and remanded them to police custody for investigation into the matter.“Siraj had recited the poem and Rajabaxi had shared it on the social me-

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Nagaland Post Vol. XXx NO. 74 Dimapur, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Development back on track

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here was a sense of jubilation when the Ministry of Civil Aviation(MCA) decided to consider major improvement at Dimapur airport on both infrastructure as well as in enabling it to handle landing and take-off by wide bodied aircrafts such as Airbus and Boeing. The MCA had acted on the inputs from Nagaland Governor R.N. Ravi during his meeting with the minister of civil aviation Hardeep Singh Puri during November 2019. The airport built during the Second World War, became operational for civilian aircrafts in the mid-70s and has since shown a potential for growth. All these past decades, Dimapur airport, which began ferrying civilian air passengers since the mid-70s, has been serving the air travellers of Nagaland, Karbi Anglong and parts of upper Assam.

While other airports that began operations much after Dimapur airport have scaled higher in terms of amenities and connectivity, it is not understood as to why the regional authority have meted out a step-motherly treatment to Dimapur airport. The fact that the state government has been inept in stating its case with the MCA is borne by the fact that after several decades of stalemate , the picture changed when Nagaland Governor R.N. Ravi took it up with the MCA last year.

Nagaland Governor R.N. Ravi certainly deserves the credit for finally clearing the decks to enable Dimapur airport to play its role for the progress of Nagaland. So much had been written and discussed on the matter, that the state government cannot feign ignorance. It took Ravi just a few months to understand what was needed to be done in order to promote trade and travel which form the nucleus of the state’s development agenda.It is now hoped, that the next important step which the Governor would also hopefully focus is on Dimapur railway station. This newspaper has been reporting and commenting on the crucial need for improving air and rail connectivity since the past few decades. Dimapur Railway Station nets the second highest revenue for the North Frontier Railway in the entire north east after Guwahati. Having said this, it is pertinent to look into factors that have derailed the progress of Dimapur to attain the status its revenue contribution deserves. The NFR has been giving mere lip service for lack of interest in catering to the growing demands for more trains for Dimapur passengers. The mere cosmetic façade of ‘development’ is commendable though the budget was a mere Rs.2 crore when compared to the Rs.5 crore or more for other smaller stations in other states. It is hoped that the Governor will undertake a study about the impediments and hurdles. As reported, Dimapur handles around 4000 to 5000 passengers daily but there are only around 600 seats available. When there are around 40 passenger trains running from Tinsukia-Dibrugarh-Dimapur and Guwahati, it is shocking that as the second highest revenue earner for NFR, only two trains originate at Dimapur: Nagaland Express and Guwahati-Dimapur BG Express. To clear the decks, there is need to clear encroachers from railway land in Dimapur so that NFR will have no more alibis or excuses to not develop the station. Unless the land is freed of encroachment, it will not be possible to build passenger amenities and have additional train facilities. In this regard, the public, especially the train travellers will hope that the Governor will do the needful.

DailyDevotion Taking the Initiative Against Drudgery

Arise, shine… —Isaiah 60:1 When it comes to taking the initiative against drudgery, we have to take the first step as though there were no God. There is no point in waiting for God to help us— He will not. But once we arise, immediately we find He is there. Whenever God gives us His inspiration, suddenly taking the initiative becomes a moral issue— a matter of obedience. Then we must act to be obedient and not continue to lie down doing nothing. If we will arise and shine, drudgery will be divinely transformed.

Drudgery is one of the finest tests to determine the genuineness of our character. Drudgery is work that is far removed from anything we think of as ideal work. It is the utterly hard, menial, tiresome, and dirty work. And when we experience it, our spirituality is instantly tested and we will know whether or not we are spiritually genuine. Read John 13. In this chapter, we see the Incarnate God performing the greatest example of drudgery— washing fishermen’s feet. He then says to them, “If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet” (John 13:14). The inspiration of God is required if drudgery is to shine with the light of God upon it.

In some cases the way a person does a task makes that work sanctified and holy forever. It may be a very common everyday task, but after we have seen it done, it becomes different. When the Lord does something through us, He always transforms it. Our Lord takes our human flesh and transforms it, and now every believer’s body has become “the temple of the Holy Spirit” (1 Corinthians 6:19).

Quotes

The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.

~ Frederick Douglass

Nagaland Post, Dimapur THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Post-mortem

‘We can make our people dance like fools’ (Confirmed saying of NSCN-IM)

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he lull in the present political discourse between the GoI and our NNPGs is beginning to unsettle the minds of the entire Naga population...

(More so for the Nagas of Nagaland)...considering how Shri.

R.N. Ravi/Interlocutor Governor of Nagaland had pushed the dateline button with urgency and making this fact known to the representatives of the 14 Tribal Hohos present on the 18th October 2019’s meeting at Hotel Japfu.

The Governor/ Interlocutor made a very emphatic statement that day that the GoI was prepared to go ahead and close the negotiation with those NNPGs willing to pen the final Agreement...and deal with the ‘unwilling others’ as may be deemed fit...adding that “ the collateral damage caused to the innocent civilians can’t be helped”. It necessarily meant that when push came to shove it would be the civilian population that would ultimately face the brunt of the manhunt for the “unwilling” by the Indian army all over again. It appears that the Nagas civil population is but a dispensable vegetable from the stand point of the GoI. The 31st October 2019 dateline has long since gone. In order to gain a better understanding of the ‘reality situation’ as to the reason for such a prolonged hibernation in both camps...some concerned members of the Senior Citizen’s Association of Nagaland (SCAN) met the Governor/Interlocutor Shri. R.N. Ravi, on the 13th of February 2020 at 3.00pm, at Rai Bhavan, Kohima. While a wide range of issues were generally covered, a more concentrated discussion revolved around the subject of Pan Naga Hoho (PNH) which has of late become very controversially disturbing to the Nagas of Nagaland. This is an unabridged account of what transpired: Pan Naga Hoho (PNH): The Governor/Interlocutor explained that the first roadblock was on the issue of ‘Naga Flag’ and the ‘Naga Constitution’ that had suddenly been introduced by NSCN (IM) at a very late stage of the 23 years old negotiation...that had bogged down the process. He however confirmed that this matter has mutually been placed on hold by both the contending parties to be addressed through peaceful democratic process in the due future. The unambiguous fact of the matter without doubt therefore, is that the issue of “Sovereignty”

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t has been said of the Jews that when times were difficult over many centuries, Jews remained Jews, but when times became easy in the modern world, Jews stopped being Jews and defected or were assimilated in record numbers. Words are indeed too cheap to even try to describe the amount of persecution Jews suffered in the course of history. The phrase “if there is a god, he will have to beg my forgiveness” (allegedly) carved on the wall of a concentration camp during the WWII by an unknown Jewish prisoner, the hopelessness depicted as painfully as it can be in the poem “where was God during the holocaust” and many others, hold a testament to their sufferings. Yet in the midst of all those horrors they remained as Jews.

It is injustice to compare Nagas adversity to that of the Jews. However, we find a certain similarity in the circumstances; each has gone through in history.

We as Nagas have had our own share of struggle. It gives immeasurable pain to even think of what we have been subjected to in the past and now. Grouping, hiding in the thick and inhabitable forests, burning down of entire villages, granaries and forests, rape, killing and unthinkable violence of all forms being committed against, yet throughout these trials we triumphed

and “Integration” is no longer an immediate contending issue with both the GoI and the NNPGs. Yet NSCN (IM) would have the Nagas believe in their weird daydreaming philosophy of ‘Shared Sovereignty’ which seems like a make-believe myth being woven around the concept of “the State of Nagaland ceasing to exist and becoming a Nation”. The Nagas must know that this audacious claim to ‘Naga Nationhood’ is being worked out from within the Indian Constitution with demand for enhanced representation of MPs in both Houses of the Indian Parliament! One has to concede: NSCN (IM) does have a weird sense of humour. The ground reality of ‘’shared sovereignty’’ is that all States in the Federated Union of India has certain vested authority under the State List that the Centre cannot interfere...but Nagaland, unlike other States, has an additional dispensation under Article 371A. However this fact does not make Nagaland a “Sovereign Nation”. But it is beginning to dawn on the Nagas of Nagaland that the NSCN (IM) is more inclined to erase even this hard earned Article 371A by their very action of wanting a SupraStatutory Body called the Pan Naga Hoho that will make Article 371A redundant without their being able to significantly better the existing status. According to the Governor/Interlocutor, the present slowdown of the talk is on account of the issue of PNH. The NSCN (IM)’s original proposition was for the creation of PNH through an Act of Parliament as a statutory body purely for the purpose of cultural and emotional integration with advisory role in matters of education and development to which GoI had offered less resistance...albeit doubtfully.

Since then, NSCN (IM) has upped the ante once more by wanting PNH to be a more authoritative body to additionally be able to dictate political terms over another Statutory Authority called the State Government of Nagaland.

GoI is not averse to allow setting up of a Bicameral Legislature... meaning the creation of the Upper and Lower Houses in the State of Nagaland. NSCN (IM) is now vehemently demanding that PNH should be fully empowered as a ‘Nominating Authority’ to ‘select’ certain undisclosed percentage of Members to the Upper House... and have a direct role to dictate terms in matters of ‘Education, Development’ and perhaps even

governance within the state of Nagaland rather than an ‘advisory role’ earlier envisaged. Judging from their high-strung unscrupulous streak, it would not be beyond the NSCN (IM) to take one further arrogantly atrocious step of wanting to nominate their lapdogs to fill up the Upper House of Nagaland with even representatives from other States like Manipur, Arunachal Pradesh and Assam as well...who knows!

It necessarily means that PNH will become a “Supra-Statutory Authority” over the Statutory Government of Nagaland...telling the Nagas of Nagaland how much meat, salt, chillies, axone, bamboo shoot should be put into our curry in our own kitchen. While the upstairs leaders of the Nagas of Nagaland are more likely to lap up such a curry....one would rather feel convinced that the more upright common Naga majority would perhaps refuse to eat such a dictated curry by someone who does not belong to our kitchen!

The Interlocutor had rightly expressed serious apprehension that this latest twist in the tale on the part of the NSCN (IM) could open up another Pandora’s box of never-ending inter and intra-Tribal conflict, but NSCN (IM) seems to have confidently responded that the GoI need not worry about this because “we (NSCN-IM)can make our people dance like fools”.

It ominously appears that in the Nagas’ long difficult journey for self-determination, we seem to have only succeeded in creating a monster in the form of NSCN (IM) who want to continue their oppressive regime within the State of Nagaland even in the post solution period through PNH. It is now up to the common man... the real Nagas of Nagaland...to decide whether we are prepared to “dance like fools” to the obnoxious tune of NSCN (IM) by accepting the PNH as is being visualised by them at this stage.

The simple fact of the matter is that PNH in its present form absolutely violates the very principle of Naga customary law and practices in the matter of land and its ownership control that our forefathers have defended with their heads on the line and sustained it over the centuries. Not a single sensible Naga would allow any other Naga(s) from elsewhere to pilfer the rights of his land ownership... be it as an individual Naga or as a community of Nagas... ever! In fact this is a universally accepted principle of mankind on

planet earth. It would therefore be extremely unwarranted even on the part of the GoI to expect that the Nagas of Nagaland would accept such a theory of population integration as a reason to give way to our Naga brothers from other States to interfere in the affairs of the State of Nagaland. PNH can never and will never qualify as a wholesome indigenous body... in the absence of geographical integration. NSCN (IM) has miserably failed to gain the trust of the people of Nagaland with their hidden agenda such as this being held so close to their chest. This is precisely the reason why they have shown no courage to openly disclose their list of “Competency Clauses” and carefully explain their background reasonings in the public domain... despite repeated request and reminding to do so.

For instance NSCN (IM) has thus far not even amplified the criteria as to how the elementary composition of Tribal membership within the PNH will be like... but there is no prize for guessing here that the Nagas of Nagaland will most definitely be a minority within PNH in the likeness of the present Naga Hoho or the NSF despite the fact that our population equation far outnumber the rest of the Nagas put together from Arunachal Pradesh, Assam and Manipur. The problem is further compounded when the NSCN (IM) says that the rules and regulation governing the PNH will be structured by the Body after the Body is formed...where Nagas of Nagaland will be a minority whose voice can be overruled by the majority every single time even if the issue is unfavourable and detrimental to our own survival!

Would the Nagas of Nagaland ever want to be a part of this illusion? Earlier, the Senior Citizens were not completely averse to the existence of PNH purely for the sake of emotional and cultural integration while rejecting the “advisory role” perspective even then. The drastically irrational, re-constructed demand being made and doggedly being pursued by the NSCN (IM)...as has been confirmed by the Governor/ Interlocutor... is that the NSCN (IM) wants a very specific status of empowerment of PNH to enable it to directly or indirectly intervene in the affairs of the State of Nagaland, Manipur, Arunachal Pradesh and Assam. This is an utter nonsensical cesspool concept unpalatable for any Nagas of Nagaland with a minuscule of

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and remained as proud Nagas. The barrel of the gun, the draconian laws, demonic atrocities and the intellect voices of the oppressor were all too weak to put us down, it didn’t scared us neither did it stopped us from being Nagas. Many a lives were cut to live short yet like the Jews Nagas remained as Nagas. Honourable Indian Prime ministers Lt. Pt. Jawarhalla Nehru and Lt. Morarji Desai were both wrong; were too naïve and inhuman, when they commented, “..Will wipe out the Nagas within one week”and the later, “I will exterminate all the Nagas without any compunction”.

In the midst of such threat and adversity Nagas sang their songs, danced on their music, and passed down their rich cultural knowledge and practices, struggles, victories and failures in the driest of circumstances.

During the most dangerous time of Naga history, Nagas have remained as Nagas, but as good times set in, Nagas have began to compromise and have assimilated in large numbers with the outside world. We’ve compromised to such extend where we have let our adversaries who tried to wipe us out become heroes, martyrs and patriots not anywhere but in our land itself and yet we have chose to remain as silent spectators.

Surviving in nature as indigenous people, thriving

in jungle hideouts because of forceful occupation of their homes by alien forces, Nagas were once known to be diligent in work, honest, brave, and trustworthy.

Nagas valiant display of courage, empathy and life of integrity is amply found in their history and culture.

“They guided our columns” wrote Field Marshall Sir William Slims, “collected information, ambushed enemy patrols, carried our supplies, and brought in our wounded soldiers under heaviest gunfire and then being gentle men they refused payment”. Perhaps it may be surreal for the modern Nagas to learn that our ancestors didn’t ask for anything even after putting their life in the war front.

Such was the ideals and principles upon which Nagas stood once upon a time. But today, the essence of Naga is evaporating fast from the Nagas.

The 22 years of IndoNaga cease fire has allowed Naga parents to bring up, educate and mould their children in so called peaceful atmosphere (i.e. if peace is just the absence of war/ killings). Thus, for the first time since Indian independence, a Naga generation has grown up without witnessing much violence, though the amount of fear psychosis and war like environment created in their minds due to the presence of large number of armed

forces (both underground and overground) and their activities cannot be ignored.

Children were/are send to the best colleges and universities in India and abroad, most of them came back with their honorable degrees but in the process many lost the Naga essence. Sometime somewhere parents were too scared to tell their children about the Naga struggle, history and culture or perhaps were too naïve to the threat of the modern force.

Somewhere down the lane we have traded our Naga virtue and values with monetary ones.

The period from cease fire coupled with various factors such as growth of academic book knowledge (not education), onset of modernization/globalization, outburst of technology era etc has brought about a great paradigm shift amongst the Nagas (considered good times by many).

This shift is clearly visible and felt in every aspect (from political, social, economic, cultural to religious belief) of our society today. Some may call this shift, “transition” and other may call it “evolving” but the shift is too destructive to call it just a transition or evolving process, for in this shift we are losing everything, be it cultural, physical or spiritual.

Society is torn apart, the chasm between the have and the have not’s

gray matter in between the ears!

The Senior Citizens of Nagaland therefore, firmly stand opposed to the PNH as is being envisioned by the NSCN (IM).

On being questioned, the Governor/ Interlocutor also confirmed that the NSCN (IM) wants to establish the PNH HQs within the State of Nagaland...though not mentioning the location specifics. In this regard, SCAN now firms its belief that setting up PNH HQs within the State of Nagaland will become a perpetual festering thorn in the backside of the people of Nagaland, judging from the very obvious and devious reasons for which NSCN (IM) is fighting extra hard (even at the cost of the collapse of the negotiation) to find the final comfortable landing ground for their one and only Supremo. If at all, SCAN advocates that PNH should be headquartered anywhere else outside the State of Nagaland, sans meddling empowerment in the affairs of other States...most of all Nagaland. This is a pre-requisite if the Nagas of Nagaland really want to sleep peacefully at night... post solution!

We, the Senior Citizens of Nagaland believe that if NSCN (IM) is unprepared to frankly and honestly share the details of “Competency Clauses” aspirations, it is equally incumbent upon the GoI to have it placed in the public domain...because the Stakeholders have contributed their share of excruciating sacrifices (at gun point or otherwise) over the years as beasts of burden and have more than earned their absolute right in the eyes of God and in the eyes of Man...demanding to know their immediate destiny and the destiny of their children ...BEFORE, repeat...BEFORE and NOT AFTER the final deal is INKED. Without completing this elementary process, the GoI will also be equally accountable as that of the Factions. In failing to do this, it is more than likely that this PNH road will lead to a very severe confrontation between the Nagas of Nagaland and those beyond as has been witnessed by our headhunting forefathers before! Nagas of Nagaland should not be made to dance to the foul tune of our Southern Brothers.

SCAN can only hope and pray that this does not happen.

Khekiye K. Sema IAS (Retd) President and Medoselhou Keretsu General Secretary, Senior Citizen’s Association of Nagaland

ever increasing, families are breaking away, relationships (political or social) too cheap to last for life, Culture a festival, Religion a Sunday affair, Law a mere piece of paper in black and white, Politics is all about money power and Individuals becoming panderers. Even so, we have developed a tendency to think that everything that is foreign is great. As a result we have embraced the modern system of democracy and left behind arguably one of the oldest indigenous system of democratic governance (like the Putu Menden), have traded our sustainable and self-sustaining economic activities into unsustainable and totally dependent on others, have burrowed the lotus, palm, elephant,

bicycle etc and let it rule over us when we could have denied them.

In a world as dynamic, flexible and individualistic like never before, where our entire culture and life so relies on the gifts of the modern world that we feel less need to hold on to the history, culture, values, and ideals of the Indigenous Nagas (let alone trusting in God); if we continue to act deaf and dumb then the tomorrow will call this period as the declining period or the ceasing period of Nagas.

Perhaps it is an opportune time for the Nagas to retract, reflect, retrospect, unite and once again be that Nagas which our foe was not able to suppress.

Mar Jamir, Landmark Colony, Dimapur

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INX Media case: Delhi court grants bail to ex-NITI Aayog CEO, others

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(From p-1) Alleging that fees were collected randomly at high rates without fear of authority, PAC claimed it had noticed and nabbed such lessees, adding that there was no transparency or accountability either.

PAC argued that no benefit accrued to public from such collections whatsoever, and instead led to jacking up of prices. As examples, it claimed that MS rod was cheaper in Mokokchung, while vegetables were cheaper in Dimapur.

If through proper legislation the State was entitled to issue lease, the committee said it should be done openly for all interested parties to participate.

Alleging that over 300 persons had been appointed in DMC who had no task to do, the representation asked if the municipal affairs department was utilising the lease system to pay salaries to these employees. At the expense of the public, the department had no right to collect money to pay government employees, it declared. PAC expressed the confidence that the chief secretary would heed to voices of the public instead of succumbing to few vested interest people, who were

ready to ruthlessly throttle and suffocate the common man. Mentioning that NCD was one of the oldest NGOs in Dimapur comprising all Naga tribal and non- Naga community representatives, the representation asserted that the council was the highest mandated NGO of Dimapur and represented all citizens of this cosmopolitan city of Nagaland.

Pointing out that Dimapur was the commercial hub of Nagaland that required no explanation, it added that every commodity entering the State from mainland India could not be stocked, sorted, dispatched and distributed without the town as it was kind of a “dry port” of Nagaland.

The representation claimed that PAC had been tirelessly working for the good of the common man without any ulterior motive, prejudice, partiality or discrimination. It said it wanted to make Dimapur a better city to live in, and hence it was determined to root out all ills that hampered growth and ease of living, especially multiple collection of money.

The representation was signed by PAC convener Vekhosayi Nyekha and secretary Ellis Swu.

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LU CKNOW, F E B 19 (AGENCIES): A rape case has been filed against a BJP MLA from Uttar Pradesh and his six family members. The woman, 40, had first filed a complaint against Bhadohi MLA Ravindra Nath Tripathi’s nephew for allegedly raping her after promising to marry her. She later added the leader’s name to her complaint, the police said.

“The complainant had said that the MLA’s nephew Sandeep Tiwari had established sexual relations after the promise of marriage. She later levelled similar charges against the MLA and other people of the family. We had received a complaint, and on the basis of the complaint, we have registered a case against all those who have been named. A team has been constituted to investigate the case,” Superintendent of Police (SP) Ram Badan Singh said.

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The woman has alleged that the MLA’s nephew, who she had met on a train, sexually exploited her for six years. She said when she asked him to marry her, she was harassed.

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the MLA and other menChandrabhushan Tripathi, Deepak Tiwari, Nitish Tiwari and Prakash Tiwariallegedly raped her.

The MLA has claimed that the accusations are part of a political conspiracy to defame him. “I and my family are ready to be hanged if any of the allegations prove to be true after probe,” he said.

ever, want it to take place in presence of the reporters.

“The right to protest is a fundamental right,” the court said. “But there are lines and boundaries... if everyone starts blocking roads, where will people go?”

The Shaheen Bagh protests have made headlines worldwide and inspired protests across the country.

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taken into custody on August 21, last year when he was arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in INX Media corruption case. On October 16, the ED arrested him in the separate money-laundering case. Six days later, on October 22, the apex court had granted him bail in the case lodged by the CBI. On December 4, after 105 days of custody, Chidambaram was granted bail by the Supreme Court in the money laundering case lodged by the ED. CBI had registered its case on May 15, 2017, alleging irregularities in a Foreign Investment Promotion Board clearance granted to INX Media group for receiving overseas funds of Rs 305 crore in 2007 during Chidambaram’s tenure as finance minister.

“The Supreme Court has upheld your right to protest. We will listen to everyone. We would come up with such a solution that it would become an example for the world,” Sadhana Ramachandran told the protesters.

The mediators have asked the protesting women for a dialogue away from the media. The women, how-

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the accused persons, senior advocate Siddharth Luthra and advocate Vikash Kumar Pathak, had said that the CBI did not arrest the accused persons while probing the matter. “Now while the probe is already complete and the final report filed, there is no ground to take them in custody since there is no ground to suggest that they tried to hamper the probe,” they said.

On Tuesday, the court directed the CBI to hand over to Chidambarams certain documents filed along with the charge sheet in the case. The judge issued the direction to the CBI during the hearing in the corruption case after the father-son duo told the court that they had not received various documents filed along with the charge sheet.

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NEW DELHI, FEB 19 (PTI): The third and final batch of inmates quarantined at an ITBP facility here after being evacuated from the corona virus-hit Chinese city of Wuhan was discharged, a senior official said on Wednesday.

With the latest release, all 406 people at the Indo Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) facility have been discharged after being declared free of corona virus by the doctors.

The release of the inmates that began on February 17 ended on Wednesday morning with the last departure of a family of six people, ITBP spokesperson Vivek Kumar Pandey said.

The discharge process was initiated after the final corona virus reports of all the 406 people living at the facility tested negative.

“Doctors manning our facility have sensitised the outgoing people to take certain measures of personal hygiene and selfisolation for a few days,” the spokesperson said.

A total of 650 people were brought back from Wuhan in China on February 1 and 2 in two 747 Boeing Air India aircraft after the outbreak of the corona virus in that country.

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NEW DELHI, FEB 19 (PTI): A Delhi court Wednesday granted bail to former NITI Aayog CEO Sindhushree Khullar and others in the INX Media corruption case which also involves former finance minister P Chidambaram and his son Karti as accused.

Chidabmarams are already on bail in the case.

Special Judge Ajay Kumar Kuhar also granted bail to former Officer on Special Duty (OSD) to finance minister Pradeep Kumar Bagga and former FIPB director Prabodh Saxena.

Former section officer of the FIPB unit in the Finance Ministry, Ajeet Kumar Dungdung; the then under secretary in the FIPB unit, Rabindra Prasad and former joint secretary (Foreign Trade) DEA Anup K Pujari were also granted the relief by the court.

The judge, who granted them bail on a surety of Rs 2 lakh each, directed that the accused would not leave the country without its permission.

It further directed them not to tamper with the evidence or hamper the probe.

The CBI had opposed their applications, saying they may tamper with evidence and flee from justice if granted the relief.

While seeking bail for

COVID-19: Final batch of inmates at facility

Sanjay Hegde and Sadhana Ramachandran mediators appointed by Supreme Court at Shaheen Bagh in New Delhi.

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hoomi Tirth Kshetra Trust.

T h e m e e t i n g wa s aimed at working out modalities to speed up the construction of the Ram temple in Ayodhya. It was also decided to open an account in Ayodhya’s State Bank of India branch for donations for the Ram temple construction, Chan-

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NEW DELHI, FEB 19 (AGENCIES): Mahant Nritya Gopal Das was elected president and Champat Rai general secretary of the Ram Temple

trust at its first meeting here on Wednesday.

The meeting, held at the residence of senior lawyer K Parasaran, also elected Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s former principal secretary Nripendra Misra as the head of the temple construction committee of the Shri Ram Janmab-

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“From 1949 we have been fighting for this cause.

We were a party to the case.

Other Hindu organisations too worked for it. But when the Supreme Court gave it’s verdict and tasked the government to form a trust, the VHP and Sangh occupied it. This is unfortunate,” he alleged.

He added, “The government didn’t feel the necessity to call all the stakeholders and thank them for the role they played or ask for their suggestions.”

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Members of the Sri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra during its first meeting at Greater Kailash - I in New Delhi, Wednesday. (PTI)

Hours before the very first meeting of the Ram Janmabhoomi trust here in Delhi, a controversy has erupted. The Hindu Mahasabha has alleged that the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and the BJP have “occupied” the trust through the present government.

Calling the present formation of the trust as “unfair”, Hindu Mahasabha Chief Swami Chakrapani said he is “hurt”.

NEW DELHI, FEB 19 (AGENCIES): Supreme Court-appointed mediators Sanjay Hegde and Sadhana Ramachandran visited Delhi’s Shaheen Bagh - the epicentre of the agitation against the contentious Citizenship Amendment Act or CAA -- today to speak to the women who have been sitting in protest for more than two months. The resulting blockade of an arterial road has been repeatedly flagged by the BJP as a law and order problem and was made the centrepiece of its campaign for the Delhi assembly election.

The two senior advocates were named as mediators on Monday as the matter ended up in court.

They have been tasked with persuading the protesters to continue their agitation in another location, so the road can re-open and commuters do not face problems.

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mpat Rai told reporters after the meeting.

Swami Govind Dev Giri of Pune was appointed as treasurer of the trust at the meeting.

Senior lawyer Parasaran was named as the head of the Trust and its other members include Jagatguru Shankracharya, Jyothishpeethadheeshwar Swami

Shaheen Bagh mediators urge protestors to resolve issue mutually

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(From p-1) During checking of records and physical verification of stock of raw materials, anomalies were found in Changki Valley Forest Products, Tenyiphe, M/s Angami Ply, Tenyiphe, and Akash Wood Products, 7th Mile.

Kire took strict cognizance of the anomalies and issued the directive.

The team also included conservator of forest (STC) Dr Kenei Miachieo, Dimapur range officer Jongpong Walling, Chumukedima range officer Imkongsunep and 18 other forest staff.

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According to ISMA, out of 449 sugar mills which had started crushing for 2019-20, 23 sugar mills have stopped crushing operation due to non-availability of sugarcane.

Last year, 521 sugar mills had operated, out of which 19 had stopped crushing on the same corresponding date last year.

Sugar production has decreased considerably in Maharashtra, the second largest producer of sweetener in the country.

As per the data compiled by ISMA, Maharashtra’s mills have produced 43-38 lakh tonnes of sugar this year while they had produced 82.98 lakh tonnes in the corresponding period last year.

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of the contractor was absolutely unbecoming of a civil servant on whom the public had high hope. When corruption had become like a cancer today and was destroying the fabric of the society, the only hope was on young bureaucrats like him, but even he too was only interested in scoring a point and not in finding remedy, it added.

It explained that the objective of putting the scam in public domain was to make the public aware of their rights. According to the statement, the most important Issue was why the carriage contractor, whose responsibility was only to lift food-grains from FCI depot and transport these to various destinations and receive transport bill for carriage contract, was doing business with the food grains meant for the poor children.

Stating that every Naga knew the episode that had remained unresolved for a long time, NPRAAF termed it as unfortunate that Shanavas had come out in defence of the contractor. It urged him to stay wise and not get polluted with corruption issues at an early stage of his career as the nation had great hope on a young leader like him.

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NEW DELHI, FEB 19 (IANS): Sugar production in the country has declined 22.67 per cent so far in the current sugar season 2019-20 (October-September) as compared to the last year.

Indian sugar mills have produced 169.85 lakh tonnes of sugar as on February 15, 2020 in the ongoing season as compared to 219.66 lakh tonnes produced on the corresponding date of last year, said Indian Sugar Mills Association (ISMA) in a release on Tuesday. As per market reports, about 16 lakh tonnes of sugar have been exported from India and about 32 lakh tonnes of contracts have been signed for exports, said the apex sugar Industry body.

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no scope for doubt on Pan Naga Hoho.” It stated that Khiamniungan people also reminded the “mandate given to the NSCN by the Naga people. “They also express their aspiration that Naga political problem be solved at the earliest,” it added.

Further, the release stated that KTC, however, expressed concern for the Eastern Khiamniungans in particular and other Nagas in Myanmar.

NSCN (I-M) delegation was led by Kilonser “maj. (retd.)” N.S. Thangpong and steering committee member M Longshen while from Khiamniungan civil society groups were represented by important members from the KTC led

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DIMAPUR, FEB 19 (NPN): Khiamniungan national workers of NSCN (I-M) and Khiamniungan Tribal Council (KTC) along with other civil society groups had a consultative meeting at Noklak on February 15, 2020 and reportedly discussed the ongoing “Indo-Naga” political talks particularly Pan Naga Hoho.

In a press release, Khiamniungan national workers said that Khiamniungan people appreciated the NSCN (I-M) on the progress of “Indo-Naga” political talks and the decision taken on Pan Naga Hoho “if it would benefit the whole Nagas.”

The release stated that “they urged the NSCN negotiating team to leave

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that the contractor had paid money to various organisations, politicians and officers, which the contractor had himself admitted and therefore was a prima facie evidence in itself. And all this instead of trying to find out the truth behind the corrupt activities and initiate legal action against the culprit, it added.

The forum said it had called a meeting of its executives in the wake of the principal secretary asking evidence of nexus between government officials and politicians in the scam, which was not a new issue in public domain.

NPRAAF expressed its readiness to make even more sensitive disclosures as confessed by the contractor in the court of law and as desired by Shanavas how much money per quintal was being paid to various organisations in more detail when the matter comes before the court of law as promised at the earliest. Claiming that the MDM scam was an open secret, the forum said it was intriguing if the “young IAS officer” was pressurised by some higher-ups to issue such unqualified press statement. Observing that Nagas were plagued by multiple corruption issues and could not grow, NPRAAF said Shanavas taking upon himself the scam on behalf

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In the current fiscal (FY20), oil imports from Iran have dipped to 1.97 mt, down from 23.9 mt in FY19.

Iran used to meet more than 10 per cent of country’s total oil imports.

But since last fiscal, the Iran oil squeeze is being compensated through higher supplies by Iraq, the UAE and Saudi Arabia.

During the period, imports of US oil have also increased to 6.2 mt in FY19 from a level of mere 1.9 mt in the previous year. In the AprilDecember period of this fiscal, import of US oil has already crossed last year’s import figures.

Diplomatic sources said the talks between Indian and US officials on increased oil support by US has progressed smoothly since last year during Prime Minister Modi’s US visit.

In fact, the ‘Howdy Modi!’ event was also used to nego-

NGOs in the whole fiasco was totally unjustified, it added. Further, clarifying that the contractor had informed it that the exact number of enrolled students was 1,06,298, as against the figure shown in the official documents submitted to Delhi, NPRAAF stressed it was necessary to enlighten the public with facts and figures as it was not doing business out of it. But it said the figure was subjected to change.

The forum explained to Shanavas that it was only going by the Mid-Day Meal Rules, 2015 published vide notification no. G.S.R 743(E), dated 30th December, 2015 wherein MHRD (department of school education and literacy) ruled that every child within the age group of 6 to 14 years studying in Classes 1 to VIII who enrolled and attended the school would be provided meal having nutritional standards free of charge every day except on holidays.

The forum expressed unhappiness that when food grains were being taken away even from the poor children and civil society groups, student bodies and public were crying foul for long, Shanavas was trying to shield the corrupt contractor and asking it to produce evidence to show

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of PSU oil company asking not to be named.

Another government official said that the idea is to more than double country’s oil imports from the United States next year and contracts would be facilitated if better concessional terms are offered.

“The shipment of US oil to India has already increased over the past two years and we may end up importing close to 10 million tonnes (mt) in the current fiscal year. This would be doubled in FY21 if official and company-level negotiations taking place for some time yield positive results,” said the official.

If this level of oil imports is doubled in FY21, the US will reach close to meeting India’s 10 per cent oil import needs, the same what Iran was meeting prior to the supply squeeze post sanctions.

tiate possible deals with US oil companies to meet the growing needs of world’s third biggest oil importer.

That time too, the US had indicated its intent of supplying increased quantities of oil and gas to India on a short notice to prevent the country from facing any shortages.

Though Indian oil companies have started importing oil from the US for the past couple of years, the quantity remains miniscule, forming just about 3 per cent of the country’s total oil imports. But the quantity can grow with US shale oil market becoming relevant again at current crude levels and an increase in total rig count again in December-January period in the world’s largest oil-guzzling nation.

“The rig count in the US had slowed in the second half of FY20 but has again picked up in last few weeks.

The domestic rig count will be largely stable, at least through the first six months of the year, as companies spend their drilling budgets for the year and prepare the field to quickly execute on their budgets for the first half of the new year. This would make higher quantities of US oil for exports,” said an oil sector analyst who did not wish to be named.

(From p-1) It claimed that on the overleaf page, the letter for allocation of food grains State-wise was imprinted, wherein it was mentioned that in 2015-16 there were 1,97,296 students and rice allocation was thus – 830.72 MT and 1006.44 MT for 1,59,753 students in primary stage; 354.59 MT and 292.68 MT for 37,523 students in upper primary; and 11.61 MT and 11.03 MT for 980 children under National Child Labour Project (NCLP) scheme.

Pointing out that the total allocation was 2,507.07 MT, whereas the respective allocation was just made for the first and second quarters alone, NPRAAF said the State thus received more or less the same amount of food grains in the next two quarters, which totalled up to over 5000 MT. And this meant the department received about 1,25,000 kg of rice or 1 lakh bag of rice (in 50-kg bag) or more in the past every year, it explained.

The forum said it was unfortunate that in spite of the unaccounted food grains received by the State from the Centre, MDM could not be efficiently implemented. And as the allocation received by NCLP or NGOs was meagre to this day, blaming NCLP or the

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NEW DELHI, FEB 19 (IANS): India and the US may seal a larger crude oil supply deal during the visit of President Donald Trump later this month with diplomatic sources indicating that American oil companies are coming with offers that would make it attractive for indian companies to increase oil imports from US despite the longer distance and higher freight.

Sources said big oil producers from the US are willing to step up shale oil supplies to India by offering importing companies a discount of upto $ 5 per barrel over global benchmarks. This is expected to make US oil attractive even over Dubai crude that makes up for most of Indian oil imports now.

Also on the table would be freight discounts and a higher credit period of 60-90 days to Indian importers on the lines of what Iran used to offer India before sanctions squeezed oil supplies from the gulf nation.

“We expect to increase oil imports from US next fiscal and sweetened deals would help us increase the quantum of buys. The hope is that few contracts may be signed during the visit of US President or later next month,” said an executive

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Trump says no big trade deal with India now

WASHINGTON, FEB 19 (AGENCIES): US President Donald Trump on Tuesday downplayed expectation of a trade deal with India during his visit to India next week, saying, “We can have a trade deal with India, but I’m really saving the big deal for later on.”

“We’re doing a very big trade deal with India.

We’ll have it. I don’t know if it’ll be done before the election, but we’ll have a very big deal with India”.

Trump told reporters at an airbase outside Washington DC as he flew out west for a series of domestic events next three days before he heads out to India on Saturday.

Tr u m p, w h o h a s dubbed India “tariff king” among other epithets, complained again that the US is “not treated very well

by India” but said “I happen to like Prime Minister Modi a lot.” Modi, the US President said, bringing in his expectations of a grand

Donald Trump (File)

spectacle, had told him there will 7 million people between the airport and the Motera stadium the two are expected to inaugurate.

“The stadium, I understand, is sort of semi under construction, but it’s going to be the largest stadium in the world. So it’s going to be very exciting.

But he says between the stadium and the airport, we’ll have about 7 million people. So it’s going to be very exciting. I hope you all enjoy it,” Trump said.

The President’s re-

Coronavirus further dents Asia’s growth prospects: Moody’s SINGAPORE, FEB 19 (IANS): The coronavirus outbreak has added another dent to Asia’s growth prospects which are already under pressure, Moody’s Investors Service said in a report on Wednesday.

“The outbreak of the coronavirus has added a further dent to growth prospects at a time when economic growth trajectories throughout the region were already declining,” says Deborah Tan, a Moody’s Assistant Vice President and Analyst. Moody’s Investors Service says in a new report that credit conditions in Asia will turn negative in 2020, in tandem with a slowdown in growth momentum, continued trade policy uncertainty and simmering political disputes.

Although several nearterm pressures, such as the US-China trade dispute, have contributed to the downshift in Asia’s growth trajectory, the slowdown could turn out to be more than just a temporary blip, whereby the underlying causes are likely to be structural rather than cyclical.

These include China’s steadily decelerating growth and the fact that it is a major source of export demand for

many Asian markets; growing demographic challenges in places like Thailand and Korea, a less stable geopolitical environment and the increasing threat to multilateral global trade relations.

The report said that the the likelihood of risks crystallising in Asia has risen. A slowdown in Asian growth will constrain policy choices and limit the region’s ability to respond to negative shocks. “Lower growth could make it more difficult for governments in the region to defuse social tensions, raising political risk and reducing policy effectiveness,” adds Tan. If Asia’s slowdown does turn out to be due to more than just temporary factors, investors might recalibrate their demand for assets from the region, possibly triggered by unexpected shocks, and funding costs for issuers could rise in weaker economies. At the sovereign level, weaker growth prospects will hinder revenue generation and shock absorption capacity.

The weaker growth outlook could increase refinancing risks for corporates and pressure asset quality at banks in the event that repayment capacities deteriorate.

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marks virtually confirmed that there will at best be a modest outcome of deliverables from the visit, and at the very least, he hopes for a grand spectacle that will impress his constituents back home.

The Indian side too has virtually confirmed that an overarching trade deal is not going to happen given US insistence on India opening up its vulnerable farm and dairy sector and other contentious issues that the two sides have been unable to

resolve despite months of negotiations.

But as far as New Delhi is concerned, even the optics of the visit is strategically significant. Not only is the US President – accompanied by the First Lady – making a stand-alone State visit (something Trump has rarely done in the threeplus years he has been in office), but just the act of flying all the way to India and back is an expression of US political and diplomatic support for India at a time New Delhi is in the international spotlight for a series of tough decisions ranging from dismantling the status quo in Kashmir to domestic laws relating to citizenship, not to speak of emphasizing India’s role as a bulwark against China’s expansionism.

The Trump administration has been conspicuously taciturn in remarks about India’s domestic issues even though at every given opportunity the President piles it on to

India when it comes to trade and tariffs. It remains to be seen whether a grand spectacle in Ahmedabad, about which Trump appears to have hyperbolic expectations, will mollify his intense desire to advance US interests at the expense of all else.

As things stand, Trump is expected to arrive directly in Ahmedabad for the grand road-andstadium show on Monday before heading north to New Delhi.

A ceremonial reception at Rashtrapati Bhavan, followed by talks and an official banquet at Hyderabad House will follow on Tuesday, interspersed with a business conference hosted by the US embassy.

Given the US President’s tempestuous nature, all plans are considered tentative and subject to change, but he is expected to leave New Delhi on Tuesday night after spending only one night in India.

China expels three Wall Street Journal correspondents BEIJING, FEB 19 (PTI): China on Wednesday expelled three Wall Street Journal correspondents, the largest expulsion of overseas media personnel from the country in more than three decades, after the newspaper declined to apologise for a column which Beijing criticised as “racist” and tarnishing its efforts to combat the deadly coronavirus epidemic.

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said China made repeated representations to the US newspaper over the opinion piece which had the headline: “China is the real sick man of Asia”, but regretted that it had not offered a public apology.

The move comes less than one day after United States officials announced they would be treating five major Chinese state-run media companies as effective extensions of the Chinese government. A senior State Department official said

China said the newspaper had refused to apologise publically.

Tuesday that Xinhua, China Global Television Network, China Radio International, China Daily and People’s Daily will be designated as “foreign missions”, effective immediately. Without directly linking the expulsions to the US move, Geng said China has decided to revoke the “press cards” (accreditation) of three WSJ journalists as the daily has not apologised to “racist headline” it carried recently.

“On February 3, the Wall Street Journal pub-

lished an article titled “China Is the Real Sick Man of Asia” by Professor Walter Russell Mead of the Bard College, which smears the efforts of the Chinese government and people on fighting the epidemic”.

The death toll from the coronavirus epidemic in China crossed the 2,000mark on Wednesday with the death of 136 more people, while the overall confirmed cases climbed to 74,185, according Chinese health authorities.

SL to withdraw from co-sponsorship of No visas for low-skilled workers: UK govt UN rights body resolution on war crimes

Mahinda Rajapaksa (File)

COLOMBO, FEB 19 (PTI): Sri Lankan Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa on Wednesday said that his government will withdraw from co-sponsoring a UN Human Rights Council resolution on accountability for war crimes.

His statement came days after the US imposed travel restrictions on Army chief Lt Gen Shavendra Silva and his immediate family members over alleged gross violations of human rights during the final phase of the island nation’s Civil War in 2009. “Our government has decided to withdraw from the process of co sponsorship in relation to resolution 30-/1,” Rajapaksa said in a statement. The resolution 30/1 on promotion on rec-

onciliation in Sri Lanka was co-sponsored in 2015 by the then Lankan government.

Rajapaksa accused his predecessor of betraying the island’s security forces by cosponsoring the resolution.

“It is because of the historic betrayal that other countries are able to name members of our armed forces as violators of human rights,” said Rajapaksa, who was president and commanderin-chief when Sri Lanka launched the offensive to crush the LTTE in 2009.

The 2015 resolution was based on the UNHRC report which had accused the Lankan troops of violating human rights, Rajapaksa’s statement said.

Sri Lanka’s ruling and opposition parties have

The moment your heart stopped beating, our hearts were torn in two. One side filled with heartache, the other side died with you. Although your soul is at rest and your body is freed from pain, the world would be like a complete bliss if we can have you back again. Your love for us was so pure and sacrificial, like no one else ever will. Even on your death bed, your love for us was shining still. It's a never ending nightmare of pain and we miss you much more each time when we hear your name. We have cried so many tears yet our hearts broken just the same. When we lost you we lost ourselves too. Lost and alone, and don't know what to do. But the prayers you set over us, over and over again have kept us going through. As long as we live we will carry you with us throughout the end time safely tucked within our hearts till we meet in "The Eternal Kingdom of Our Lord Jesus Christ".

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strongly opposed the US move to impose the travel ban on Lt Gen Silva, saying America’s decision was based on independently unverified information.

Fo r e i g n M i n i s t e r Dinesh Gunawardena last week said that Lt Gen Silva was only conducting a war against a designated terrorist group which was the LTTE. Lt Gen Silva was appointed as the Sri Lankan Army Commander last year and previously headed the Army’s 58th Division in the final battle against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) rebels of the civil war in 2009.

LONDON, FEB 19 (IANS): Low-skilled workers would not get visas under postBrexit immigration plans unveiled by the British government.

It is urging employers to “move away” from relying on “cheap labour” from Europe and invest in retaining staff and developing automation technology, the BBC reported on Wednesday.

The Home Office said EU and nonEU citizens coming to the UK would be treated equally after UK-EU free movement ends on December 31.

Labour said a “hostile environment” would make it hard to attract workers.

But Home Secretary Priti Patel told BBC the government wanted to “encourage people with the right talent” and “reduce the levels of people coming to the UK with low skills”.

She added that businesses could also recruit from among eight million “economically inactive” potential workers in the UK. But the SNP called this a

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2ND DEATH ANNIVERSARY

LATE DIKHA DACHO ZEHOL

(20-02-2018) “We continually remember before our God and Father your work produced by faith, your labour prompted by love, and your endurance inspired by hope in our Lord Jesus Christ” (I Thess. 1:3) We thank God for giving us you, You provided us everything, You taught us how to pray, Your life was truly a blessing for us.

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“ridiculous or dangerous idea”, as many in this group were suffering “ill health or injury”.

Under the plan, the definition of skilled workers would be expanded to include those educated to A-level/Scottish Highers-equivalent standard, not just graduate level, as is currently the case.

Waiting tables and certain types of farm worker would be removed from the new skilled category, but new additions would include carpentry, plastering and childminding. The government wants to bring in a “points-based” immigration system, as promised in the Conservative election manifesto.

Under this, overseas citizens would have to reach 70 points to be able to work in the UK. Speaking English and having the offer of a skilled job with an “approved sponsor” would give them 50 points.

More points would be awarded for qualifications, the salary on offer and working in a sector with shortages.

LATE LANTHUNGO ODYUO (Born: 06/03/1961, Died: 09/02/2020)

“For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord” We, the bereaved family members would like to extend our sincere thanks and gratitude to all who stood by us and supported us at the sudden demise of our beloved father on 9th Feb 2020.

We apologize and regret for not being able to mention each and every one individually, but it is our humble prayer that our Almighty God bless you all abundantly.

Loving wife, family members and relatives.

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Born on 1953 – Died on 04.02.2020 “I Have Fought a Good Fight. I Have Finished the Race.

I Have Kept the Faith” 2nd Timothy 4:7 We, the bereaved family members would like to express our heartfelt gratitude to each and every individual, relatives, neighbours, churches, organisation, fellowship, friends and well wishers' who stood by us through prayer, physically, financially and materially during the prolonged illness till the demise of our dearly beloved Kihoto Awomi.

We are unable to repay you overwhelming gesture but it is our sincere prayer that the Almighty God bless you abundantly.

We also regret and apologize for our inability to acknowledge each and every person individually, but we shall forever remain grateful in our hearts for your kind deeds.

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Through this column we would like to express our profound gratitude and appreciation to all individuals, groups and organisations who stood by us and supported us morally, materially and physically and upheld us in prayer throughout the illness and sad demise of our beloved mother Late YUZANGNARO (Khar) on 3rd February 2020 at Dimapur.

Though we are unable to mention and thank each and every one personally, it is our humble prayer that the Almighty God pour His blessings upon you all.

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struct the jury how to work through the five charges facing Weinstein, 67. First they must consider the evidence relating to the two main accusers.

One is a woman who the Guardian is not naming because her wishes over identification are not known. She alleges she was raped by Weinstein in a New York hotel, for which he has been charged with rape in the first and third degrees which carry a maximum sentence of 25 years.

The second main accuser is Miriam Haley, a former Project Runway production assistant who alleges the fallen Hollywood producer forced on her in his SoHo apartment in 2006. The count of criminal sex act also carries a top sentence of 25 years.

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-ha’s classic 1985 music video for “ Ta k e O n M e ” has passed the one billion views threshold on YouTube, earning the Norwegian electro-pop trio a special place in the history books.

It’s one of the few pre-‘90s music videos to join the billion-views club alongside Guns N’ Roses' “November Rain” and Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody”. A-ha become the first continental European act to accomplish this feat, and the first pop outfit.

Also, “Take On Me” stands alone as the only video from its era to use the “rotoscoping” illustration technique.

“Take On Me” was originally released in 1984, but failed to make a lasting impression. The following year it was re-launched with its groundbreaking, Steve Barron-directed mu-

sic video, which blends pencil-sketch animation and live action The clip was a huge hit with the MTV generation and it launched A-ha into the big league. The single went to No. 1 in 36 territories, and images of its band members Morten Harket, Paul Waaktaar and Magne Furuholmen were immediately plastered on bedroom walls and the front pages of music titles around the globe.

Their debut album Hunting High And Low went to No. 2 in the U.K. and No. 15 in the U.S. and also yielded the top-20 hit “The Sun Always Shines on TV.” Career album sales are north of 55 million.

“Take On Me” officially reached one billion views on YouTube on Feb. 17 at 8.20pm GMT, and was recently restored and upgraded to 4K resolution.

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Apple warns of coronavirus causing iPhone shortages

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pple has war ned of global “iPhone supply shortages” resulting from its Chinese factories being shut because of the coronavirus outbreak.

The Californian company told investors on Monday night it would fail to meet its quarterly revenue target of $63-67bn (£4852bn) because of the “temporarily constrained” supply of iPhones and a dramatic drop in Chinese shoppers during the virus crisis. Apple did not provide a new forecast for its second-quarter revenue.

Apple makes most iPhones and other products in China. The spread of coronavirus has caused the company to temporarily halt production and close retail stores in China. Some Apple retail stores reopened in China with reduced hours last week.

“Work is starting to resume around the country, but we are experiencing a slower return to normal conditions than we had anticipated,” the company said in a statement. “As a result, we do not expect to meet the revenue guidance we provided for the March quarter.”

Apple said while all iPhone factories outside

of the Hubei province, the centre of the outbreak, had reopened, “they are ramping up more slowly than we had anticipated”. It added: “These iPhone supply shortages will temporarily affect revenues worldwide.”

The company, which had already warned about the impact of the virus on its production last month, said “demand for our products within China has been affected”.

“All of our stores in China and many of our partner stores have been closed.

Additionally, stores that are open have been operating at reduced hours and with

very low customer traffic.

We are gradually reopening our retail stores and will continue to do so as steadily and safely as we can.”

Apple’s chief executive, Tim Cook, said last month that the company had provided an unusually wide revenue forecast of $6367bn because of uncertainty about how dramatically the coronavirus would effect its production. “As you can see from the range, anticipates some level of issue there.

Otherwise, we would not have a $4bn range,” he said on 28 January.

The company said: “As the public health response

to Covid-19 continues, our thoughts remain with the communities and individuals most deeply affected by the disease, and with those working around the clock to contain its spread and to treat the ill. Apple is more than doubling our previously announced donation to support this historic public health effort.

“The health and wellbeing of every person who helps make these products possible is our paramount priority, and we are working in close consultation with our suppliers and public health experts as this ramp continues.” Earlier this

Children prey to online Ads of Harmful Products – UN

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hildren and adolescents are being bombarded with ads on social media promoting harmful products from fast food to tobacco and alcohol, according to a United Nations-backed report on Wednesday that called for regulation.

Advertisers also sell data on children obtained from electronic games to global tech giants, said the report's lead author, Anthony Costello.

"Children have the right not to be bombarded every day on their phones with advertisements or to have their data stolen...," said Costello, professor of global health and sustainability at University College London.

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bling," Costello told a news briefing.

The report entitled "A Future for the World's Children?", which also identifies climate change as posing an imminent threat to young people, was released by a commission of more than 40 experts, convened by the World Health Organization (WHO), UNICEF and The Lancet medical journal.

Industry should be regulated to protect young people from "inappropriate use of their personal data", it said.

Selling data In some countries chil-

dren see up to 30,000 TV ads a year, while youth exposure to vaping (e-cigarette) advertisements in the United States has exploded, according to the report. In Brazil, China, India and Nigeria, two-thirds of 5and 6-year-olds surveyed could identify at least one cigarette brand logo.

"But the biggest fear I think is the trend in social media advertising and algorithmic targeting," Costello said. Many games "are actually made by advertising companies who then will sell on all the data of those children without

Ben Affleck finally reveals the real reasons he left the Batman

permission to major (tech) companies...," he said.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told global leaders and security chiefs in Munich on Saturday that online content should be regulated with a system somewhere between the existing rules used for the telecoms and media industries.

Children's exposure to commercial marketing of junk food and sugary beverages is associated with buying unhealthy foods, being overweight and obesity, the report said. The number of obese children and adolescents jumped 11-fold from 11 million in 1975 to 124 million in 2016, it said. The WHO said in October 2016 that governments should tax sugary drinks to fight the global epidemics of obesity and diabetes, recommendations that industry at the time branded as "discriminatory" and "unproven".

(Reuters)

month Ming-Chi Kuo, an analyst at TF International Securities, said he expected that Apple would be forced to cut iPhone shipments by 10% due to the coronavirus outbreak.

Our latest survey indicates that the iPhone supply is being affected by the coronavirus and, therefore, we cut the iPhone shipment forecasts by 10% to 36-40m units in 1Q20,” Kuo said in a note to analysts on 2 February.

Apple does not disclose how many iPhones it ships each quarter, but Kuo estimated that the company shipped about 38m during the first quarter of last year.

“The situation is evolving, and we will provide more information during our next earnings call in April,” the company said.

“Apple is fundamentally strong, and this disruption to our business is only temporary. Our first priority – now and always – is the health and safety of our employees, supply chain partners, customers and the communities in which we operate.

Our profound gratitude is with those on the frontlines of confronting this public health emergency.”

(The Guardian)

hat started as a prank on the telly has become something tons of people are rooting for and talking about. Rumours of Neha Kakkar's wedding with Aditya Narayan started making the rounds some time ago, and now, both Neha and Aditya are finding it difficult to keep the speculations in check.

Neha has finally taken the social media route and clarified rumors of her wedding with the singer-TV host. Here's what she commented on a video of her shared on Instagram, "Nooo Shaadi Virallll!! I'm happily single. Aadi just keeps asking me on screen to get married and I keep saying no to him, never said yes.

Rest is all to entertain the world. I feel lucky that I'm capable enough to entertain people and give them happiness with my music and appearances”.

While fans of both singers have been shipping this cute couple and rooting for their supposed relationship, we think it's safe to assume that a wedding is certainly not in the offing anytime soon.

It all started when Aditya Narayan's father, veteran singer Udit Narayan, spoke about his son marrying Neha Kakkar.

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n an interview published by The New York Times, the twotime Oscar winner said his struggles with alcohol, his divorce from Jennifer Garner, and a “troubled shoot” on Justice League prompted him to abandon the role of Bruce Wayne.

“I showed somebody The Batman script,” Affleck told the Times. “They said, ‘I think the script is good. I also think you’ll drink yourself to death if you go through what you just went though again.”

Affleck said he “drank relatively normally,” but then things got out-ofcontrol. “I drank relatively normally for a long time.

What happened was that I started drinking more and more when my marriage was falling apart,” he explained.

“You’re tr ying to make yourself feel better with eating or drinking or sex or gambling or shopping or whatever,” the actor and director explained.

“But that ends up making your life worse. Then you do more of it to make that discomfort go away. Then the real pain starts. It becomes a vicious cycle you can’t break. That’s at least what happened to me.”

Affleck’s marriage to Garner ended in 2018 after a long separation and in the interview, he mentioned that his divorce with Garner was the “biggest regret”U of his life. The 47-year-old star played the caped crusader three times — in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and Justice League, and a cameo in Suicide Squad.

Robert Pattinson is now taking over the title role in The Batman. Directed and co-written by Matt Reeves, the film costars Zoë Kravitz, Colin Farrell, Andy Serkis, Paul Dano, Jeffrey Wright, John Turturro, Jayme Lawson and Peter Sarsgaard. It’s slated to arrive in theaters on June 25, 2021.

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perfectly-preserved leaf that fell from an elm tree 6,000 years ago has been discovered intact in Lancashire.

Archaeologists found the leaf while clearing a plot of land just outside Blackpool in preparation for a new A-road bypass. The leaf was discovered among a selection of other Stone Age tools and pottery.

The archaeological finds unearthed from peat and clay date to between the Mesolithic, Neolithic and Bronzes ages, stretching back as far as 14,000 years.

Highways England revealed the three-mile A585 dual carriageway will take traffic around Little Singleton.

The project is also designed to improve the junctions at Windy Harbour and Skippool.

The haul of items found at the site also includes ancient pollen, wood, leaves and hazelnuts to signs of burnt seeds. A pointy shard of stone which may be the tip of an arrow head, was also unearthed. All items will go on display at local venues to raise awareness and support of the £100million construction project.

Oxford Archaeology was conducting pre-construction ground investigations for the project last year when it uncovered the prehistoric leaf. Tools found at the site include worked flint and chert blades (left), stone tools of either Mesolithic hunter-gatherers (pre 3800 BC) or Neolithic first farmers (after about 3800 BC). The two grey pieces on the right are fragments of a Neolithic polished stone axe +5 Lead archaeologist Fraser Brown said the finds were of national significance with no precedent for such finds in the area.The coastal region is today boggy and Windy Harbour, at the eastern end of the planned bypass, is more than six miles from the sea. But this

patch of land may have been underwater when the leaf first fell to Earth. This region may well have been fished by hunter gatherers and then, as the land emerged from the sea, settled by early farmers.

Mr Brown said: 'We have found extensive deposits of peat and marine clays which have helped preserve ancient plant remains and which yield information on the local vegetation, water, climate, and human activity.

'We've also found pottery, stone tools and charred remains providing direct evidence for Mesolithic hunter-gatherers foraging, and possibly camping, at the water's edge and later on, Neolithic and Bronze Age farmers living on the fringes of a salt marsh.'

(Joe Pinkstone for Mailonline)

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The Longjang Kaketshir Telongjem Mokokchung express our profound gratitude to Mechi Imchen for bringing laurels to us by achieving 1st position in the district level Science Exhibition 2019, 2nd position state level Science Exhibition 2019 and a special prize in the Eastern India Science Fair 2020 (Inter State Science Exhibition). The LKTM further wishes him the best in all his future endeavours.

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he jury of 12 New Yorkers will begin a potentially testing deliberation on whether or not to find the disgraced movie mogul guilty of rape and sexual assault.

Their collective decision could have monumental consequences. If they find the defendant guilty he could face a maximum sentence of life in prison.

If they acquit, the failure to secure a conviction against a man who has been accused of alleged sexual misconduct by more than 100 women will send waves of shock and dismay throughout the fledgling #MeToo cause that was largely triggered by revelations involving Weinstein in 2017.

The judge in the case, James Burke, will closely in-

If the jury finds Weinstein guilty of the charges relating to either or both of the main accusers it can then move on to consider the final two counts: predatory sexual assault. To convict on these charges the jurors must find the movie producer guilty of sexually assaulting more than one woman.

For these counts, prosecutors have invited them to consider the evidence of the best-known of the six women who have gone into the witness stand, the Sopranos actor Annabella Sciorra. She gave harrowing testimony in which she described allegedly having her hands pinned above her head as she was held down on a bed and violently raped in her Gramercy Park apartment in the winter of 1993-94.

Though the alleged incident is well beyond the statute of limitations, and thus cannot be prosecuted in its own right, it can speak to the accusation that Weinstein was a serial sex criminal contained in the sexual predatory assault charges.

Those are the most serious counts of all, carrying a possible maximum sentence of life imprisonment.

(The Guardian)

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India U-17 women’s side defeated Romania in their second friendly, with Priyangka Devi scoring the decisive goal.

NEW DELHI, FEB 19 (IANS): The India U-17 women’s team registered a 1-0 victory over their Romanian counterparts in the second friendly match between the two teams in Turkler, Turkey, on Wednesday.

Their previous encounter on Sunday ended in a 3-3 draw but this time around, it was the Indian

outfit that notched up the win with Priyangka Devi scoring the game’s solitary goal.

The first half began with the Indian side pressing hard to seize the initiative. Sumati Kumari, who had scored India’s third goal in the previous match against Romania, came close in the 12th minute but her run was adjudged

to be offside.

Two minutes later, Sunita Munda put in a dangerous cross from the flank after beating her marker.

However, it was collected by the Romanian custodian.

India earned a couple of free kicks in good positions and it was a set-piece opportunity in the 28th minute where Nirmala

Devi saw her shot being saved by the keeper.

However, a minute later, the Indian side took the lead through Priyangka Devi -- who made no mistake from 12 yards and slotted the ball into the net calmly.

Just after the half-hour mark, the Romanian keeper came to her side’s rescue yet again to keep the scoreline intact. Mariyammal Balamurugan intercepted a pass in Romania’s defence and took on the keeper. Her effort though was saved and put out for a corner.

The second half was played out on similar lines as Sumati came close to scoring in the 58th minute. She got on the end of a cross from Priyangka with an excellent run but the shot was saved by the keeper.

With 70 minutes gone, Sunita displayed great skill to cut in from the left flank and deliver a cross towards the far post. However, it missed the onrushing forwards by a whisker.

The match ended at 1-0 as the Indian defence kept a clean sheet and Priyangka’s first-half strike proved to be the difference.

LFC World heads to New Delhi NEW DELHI, FEB 19 (IANS): Liverpool FC have confirmed New Delhi as the next stop for its interactive road-show, LFC World.

The unique fan experience will arrive at the Select Citywalk Mall on March 7, bringing Liverpool FC directly to supporters in India via the LFC World hub. LFC World is now in its fourth season, having met thousands of fans in eight countries across the world since 2016. Liverpool legends Emile Heskey and Jason McAteer will be in town for the event, giving local fans the opportunity to meet former Participants at the 3rd Sekrenyi Open Air Rifle shooting players as well as take part competition organised by the Kohima Air Rifle Club and T. in a range of engaging and Khel Peli union at T. Khel ground on Wednesday. (NP) interactive activities. Reds

Hebron HSS lift U-15 cricket trophy overs. Khrievitso scored 24 runs and Rohit took one wicket. Player of the tournament was awarded to Khrievitso Kense (Hebron HSS), Neizekho (Hebron

HSS) was adjudged best bowler, Hariom (SD Jain HSS) bagged best batsman while Little Star HSS was declared best disciplined team.

in Delhi can also have their photograph taken with one of the most prestigious trophies in world football - the UEFA Champions League trophy, which LFC won for the sixth time last season - and various iconic recreations of Anfield such as the Shankly Gates, This Is Anfield sign and the players’ dressing room.

“LFC World Delhi is the place to be for Reds in India. We know not all our fans can get to Anfield, so we want to bring the club closer to them,” said Heskey. “We’re really looking forward to visiting Delhi and meeting all of our supporters out there - it will be a fantastic experience for us and them!”

ISL: Hyd looking to avoid embarrassment in NE

GUWAHATI, FEB 19 (IANS): The bottom two in the Indian Super League table go head-tohead when NorthEast United FC host Hyderabad FC at the Indira Gandhi Athletic Stadium here on Thursday.

It has been a season of woe for both Hyderabad and NorthEast and all that both the sides have to play for now is pride.

NorthEast, who are currently second from the bottom with 13 points from 16 matches, can potentially leapfrog Jamshedpur FC and Kerala Blasters and finish as high as seventh if the results go their way.

However, it does not take away the fact that it has been a disappointing campaign for the Highlanders.

Injuries to key players have not helped matters for NorthEast. Asamoah Gyan’s injury was a huge blow to their forward line and goals dried up after that. Irish striker Andy Keogh, who came in as a replacement, hasn’t had enough time to come good.

In what is their penultimate game of the season,

interim coach Khalid Jamil has more concerns. Jose Leudo, Wayne Vaz and Redeem Tlang are all suspended while Komorski, Nikhil Kadam and Provat Lakra are injured.

“We are not thinking about Hyderabad FC. This is our penultimate home game. We will be going for three points. We cannot do much about the players who are suspended. It is beyond our control,” said Jamil.

The Highlanders last won a game about 12 matches ago, incidentally against Hyderabad. They will hope Federico Gallego and co. can break their winless run against the bottom-placed side.

H y d e r a b a d h av e notched just seven points from 17 matches. Apart from finishing their final match of the season with a victory, interim coach Javier Lopez and team will be hoping to avoid registering the worst ever points tally in an ISL season.

Chennaiyin FC, who registered just nine points last year, hold the dubious record right now and unless Hyderabad manages to beat NorthEast, the feat will be theirs.

Nagaland U19 girls cricket team at Kaddapa in Andhra Pradesh after winning the first match of the one-day trophy.

5th Lt Emi Merry memorial championship concludes DIMAPUR, FEB 19 (NPN): Lt. Emi Merry (IAS) memorial women football and volleyball championship 2020, which began on February 11, 2020, concluded at Local Ground Wokha on Wednesday.

In football final, Tsumang defeated Suren colony SC, the defending champion, with a solitary goal.

In volleyball final, the Wokha Town Yanthamo Eloe Ekhung defeated Lakhuti women’s SC and lifted the trophy.

The tournament was organised by Wokha District Women’s Sports Association in collaboration with district administration (MSK) Wokha, supported by department of Women resource development.

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He has saved us and called us to a holy life – not because of anything we have done but because of His own purpose and grace. This grace was given us in Christ Jesus before the beginning of time.

2 Timothy 1:9

We, the family members of LT. KOLAVOR ZINYÜ extend our heartfelt gratitude to all those who stood by us through prayer and support in cash, kind, good deeds and physical presence during his illness and sad demise on 4th Feb 2020.

We extend our sincere apology for our inability to thank each and every one personally. May the good Lord bless you all abundantly.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. “Psalms 23:4” "Until we meet again may God Hold you in the palm of His hand."

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Lt. REV. K. ATHIKHO 15th Jan 1936 – 10th Feb. 2020 Through this column, we would like to express our profound gratitude to all who stood by us and extended care and love through prayers, financial support and physical presence during the illness and demise of our beloved father Lt. Rev. K. Athikho on 10th Feb. 2020 at Pudunamai village, Manipur.

Words are inadequate to express our immeasurable thanks and gratitude to the many wonderful people who were the source of our strength during our bereavement.

May our Almighty God bless you all abundantly.

We would like to give special thanks to: 1. Rev. Dr. N. Paphino, President, NCRC 2. Dr. Y. Sobita, Asst. Prof. RIMS, Imphal 3. Dr. Loli, CMO, Senapati, Manipur 4. Dr. Jacob Pao A. DSO, Dist. Hospital Senapati 5. Dr. Athihe, MO, CHC, Mao Manipur 6. MCRC, Mao CRC, Paomai CRC, Maram CRC 7. Southern Angami, Sub-Council, CRC 8. CCCRC, Chetheba 9. Cross Wonder Church, Kohima 10. Kidima CRC 11. Pfosemei Churches 12. Pfosena Union, Pfosemei Village Council and Youths 13. Khezhakeno CRC 14. Zeu Litemo, Pianist Beloved Wife, Children, In-laws, Grand and Great Grand Children and Relatives K-477

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Apropos to the announcement published in local dailies on February 18 & 19, 2020 for a football trials scheduled on February 28, 2020 at the Indira Gandhi Stadium. This is to notify that the address of the venue was incorrectly mentioned. The correct address is Indira Gandhi Stadium, Kohima. Any inconvenience caused is regretted.

Ellies Yanthan Project Associate For further information contact: NEIDA, NBCC Office Building, First Floor (Road Level) Lower Bayavu, Kohima 797001, Nagaland, India Contact Number: 9615971650

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DIMAPUR, FEB 19 (NPN): Hebron Higher Secondary School (HSS) beat SD Jain Higher Secondary School (HSS) and lifted the U-15 Inter-School Tournament 2020 organised Dimapur District Cricket Association (DDCA) NCA Ground, Sovima SD Jain HSS, who won the toss and chose to bat, were all out for 42 (15 overs). Hariom scored 15 runs while Neizekho and Khrievitso took five and four wickets respectively.

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IN LOVING MEMORY OF DR. ASENUO LINYU 28-06-1965 TO 20-02-2019

Late K. Inovi Swu

13/06/1984- 08/02/2020 Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, Love leaves a memory no one can steal.

Life goes on, but your void remains. You are missed each and every day, for you were someone special who meant more than words can say. You continue to be our guiding light and inspiration.

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Loving Husband & Children.

We are sincerely grateful to the family and friends who have given us support and comfort during this time of loss.

We would like to thank : • Chekiye Village Baptist Church.

• Mudutsugho (Kilomi) Baptist Church.

• Dimapur Christian Fellowship.

• Naga Christian Fellowship, Kolkata.

• Block III, Chekiye Village.

• Kilomi (M)- Khughuto Kuposhukulu Dimapur.

• Youth Front, Chekiye Village.

• Assistant Controller and Staff of Legal Metrology and Consumer protection, Dimapur.

• Doctors and Nurses of Olive and Eden Hospital, Dimapur and Apollo Hospital, Kolkata.

• Naga Student Union, Kolkata • Deputy Resident Commissioner and Staff of Nagaland House Kolkata.

• Shri. Jacob Zhimomi (Minister PHED).

• Shri. K. T. Sukhalu (Adv. School Education).

• Capt. John Sema and Family, Kolkata.

• Shri. Hetovi Ayemi (Pastor NCF, Kolkata).

Lastly we deeply regret our inability to thank each and every one personally. It is our sincere prayer that our Almighty God bless you abundantly.

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Born on 19/04/1962 – Died on 20/02/2019 "For we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands" 2 Corinthians 5:1

Every day was a blessing when you were here with us. You are loved, you are remembered. Your memories fill our hearts, our home and keep us alive always. Your life, legacy and passion of serving the Almighty always gives us strength and keep us to move on. We deeply miss you Apuo.

When we all get to Heaven, what a day of rejoicing that will be. Apuo, We will meet again in our eternal Heavenly home.

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Asian Wrestling Championships: FC Goa hammer Jamshedpur FC 5-0 Ashu, Aditya, Hardeep win bronze Becomes first Indian club to play in AFC Champions League group stage

JAMSHEDPUR, FEB 19 (AGENCIES): FC Goa created history by becoming the first Indian side to qualify for the AFC Champions League Group Stage by finishing atop the Indian Super League (ISL) table with an incredible 5-0 win over Jamshedpur FC. The league stage winners also became the first side to win the ISL League Winners Shield.

Ferran Corominas’ (11’), Hugo Boumous (70’, 90’), Jackichand Singh (84’) and Mourtada Fall (87’) scored to provide the Gaurs with an unassailable sixpoint lead at the top of the table.

It was Jamshedpur who enjoyed the positive moments in the opening minutes and it would be fair to suggest that the opening goal arrived against the run of play. Mobashir Rahman attempted a volley off Aitor Monroy’s delivery from the corner, missed it completely and hence set up Hugo Boumous on the counter.

The Frenchman spotted Corominas’ run through the centre and played a weighted pass in the Spaniard’s path.

Corominas made no mistakes upon entering the box and slotted it past Mohammad Rafique to round up a perfect counter-attacking goal.

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FC Goa team celebrate after registering 5-0 win over Jamshedpur FC. well to going down by pushing men forward in search of the equaliser. Goa, on the other hand, slowed down the tempo and let the hosts have the ball as long as they were unable to beat their deep block.

David Grande and Farukh Choudhary were at the end of easy chances during long spells of Jamshedpur domination. But they were unable to make the best of Sumeet Passi’s dangerous deliveries into the box and the score stayed 1-0 until the break.

The Goa that turned up in the second half was a fresh change from the one that finished the first. The Gaurs stepped on the gas after sitting back for most parts of the game and the

result of this is reflected perfectly on the score-sheet.

Boumous added doubled Goa’s advantage with an incredible finish after exchanging passes with Seminlen Doungel. The Frenchman danced through the centre of the pitch before laying Len off for a shot.

The winger hesitated, took it to the touchline and cut it back for Boumous to smash it on the volley and make it 2-0.

14 minutes later, the 24year-old set up Jackichand with a brilliantly weighted ball down the centre of the pitch. The winger latched on to it and produced a stunning finish to lob it over the Jamshedpur custodian.

The floodgates never seemed to shut with Fall

getting his name on the score-sheet with a header off Edu Bedia’s cross following a well-orchestrated team move in the 84th minute.

Boumous then returned to produce the fifth of the night with some dazzling bit of skill to get past Memo on the touchline before slotting it home from a tight angle.

Goa thus registered yet another massive win to finish on top of the ISL table and qualify for the AFC Champions League.

FC Goa ended the league phase with 39 points after 18 matches. They are now six points clear of ATK who are on second spot with 33 points with one match left to play.

Indian clubs like Mohun Bagan and East Bengal

have played in the Asian Club Championships but no team from the country has ever played in the group stage of AFC Champions League since its introduction in 2002.

I-League champions used to play in the preliminary/play-off rounds of the AFC Champions League till this ongoing season but none have been able to qualify for the group stage.

With the ISL having been recognised as the toptier league in the country by the All India Football Federation, its top team in the league phase will represent India in the prestigious AFC Champions League.

Under Asian Football Confederation’s member association ranking system issued in November 2019, India has been allotted one slot in the expanded AFC Champions League as the country occupied eighth spot in the West Zone.

The member associations ranked 7th to 10th in both West and East Zones get one direct slot in the group stage of the AFC Champions League which will have 40 clubs in the 2021 edition instead of 32 earlier.

The top team at the end of the league stage of ISL has been guaranteed a berth in the 2021 AFC Champions League.

Ashu (blue) fights against Alhasan of Syria during Asian Wrestling Championship 2020, in New Delhi, Wednesday. (PTI) NEW DELHI, FEB 19 (PTI): Ashu, Aditya Kundu and Hardeep won a bronze medal each in their respective weight categories as Indian wrestlers bagged five medals in Greco-Roman events of the Asian Wrestling Championships here on Wednesday.

While Ashu won a bronze in in 67kg category, Aditya and Hardeep also bagged the medals of same colour in the 72kg and 97kg respectively on the second day of the competitions.

Ashu beat Syria’s Abdulkarim Mohammad AlHasan 8-1 while Kundu defeated Nao Kusaka of Japan 8-0 inside one and a half minutes in a lop-sided 72kg bronze medal bout.

Later in the evening, Hardeep beat Kyrgyzstan’s Beksultan Makhamadzha-

novich Makhmudov 3-1 to register India’s third podium finish of the day. India has so far five medals in the championships, after Sunil Kumar’s historic gold in 87kg and Arjun Halakurki’s bronze in 55kg Greco-Roman category on Tuesday.

Gyanender, however, lost 0-6 in the 60kg GrecoRoman bronze medal bout on Wednesday. The gold was won by Kenichiro Fumita of Japan, who beat Kyrgyzstan’s Zholaman Sharshenkov 4-0.

The other bronze in 60kg was won by Mehdi Seifollah Mohsen Nejad who beat Kazakhstan’s Aidos Sultangali 4-3. The other bronze in the 67kg category was won by Iran’s Hossein Nasrollah Assadi Kolmati, who beat Japan’s Tsuchika Shimoyamada 5-3, while the

gold medal went to Korea’s Hansu Ryu, who defeated Uzbekistan’s Makhmud Bakhshilloev 4-1.

In the 72kg category, besides Aditya, Ruslan Tsare of Kyrgyzstan won another bronze, beating Chinese Taipe’s Yan Kai Chen 8-0. The gold in this weight division was won by Amin Yavar Kaviyaninejad of Iran with a 8-0 win over Ibragim Magomadoc of Kazakhstan.

In the 97kg weight division, Uzbekistan’s Muhammadali Shamsiddinov got the better of Thailand’s Ponlawat Saimmai inside 20 seconds to win the other bronze with a 4-0 scoreline.

The gold in this category was bagged by Mohammadhadi Abdollah Saravi of Iran, who defeated Seyeol Lee of Korea.

Masters: Müleciyi Vadeo wins CWA U-16 wrestling title Pujara signs up with Gloucestershire Barcelona Saina advances to LO N D O N, F E B 1 9 (PTI): India Test specialist Cheteshwar Pujara was on Wednesday signed up by Gloucestershire for the first six matches of the English County Championship starting April 12.

Pujara is one of the key players in the Indian Test team, providing solidity to the batting line-up with his technique. His stint with Gloucestershire will be from April 12 to May 22.

“I am really excited to get the opportunity to represent Gloucestershire this season. The Club has a rich cricketing history, and this is a great opportunity to be a part of it and contribute to its success,” Pujara said in a press release issued by the club.

The club took into consideration the 32-yearold right-hander’s ability to bat for long periods.

He will bring his expe-

Cheteshwar Pujara rience to a Gloucestershire side, which will be playing in Division One of the County Championship for the first time in over a decade.

“I am grateful to the Club for giving me this opportunity and cannot wait to get to Bristol to meet my teammates and score some runs,” Pujara said.

“I have really enjoyed the experience of coming over to the UK and playing county cricket over the last few years and I am look-

ing forward to building on that whilst continuing to improve my game.”

Pujara has previously played in England for Derbyshire, Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire in the County Championship.

The batsman made his Test debut for India in 2010 against Australia. In 2012, he made his first international Test century against New Zealand in Hyderabad where he scored 159.

He has an impressive batting average of 49.48 in Test cricket with 206 not out being his best score, which he made against England. He has an equally impressive first-class average of 53.99 with a highest score of 352 for Saurashtra against Karnataka.

Gloucestershire head coach Richard Dawson said, “Cheteshwar is a player with great temperament who will add international experience to the squad.

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BARCELONA, FEB 19 (PTI): India’s Olympic bronze medallist shuttler Saina Nehwal advanced to the women’s singles second round of the USD 170,000 Barcelona Spain Masters with a 21-16 21-14 win over Germany’s Yvonne Li here on Wednesday. Sania took just 35 minutes to beat her opponent in the first round match. Pranaav Jerry Chopra and Sikki N Reddy also won their mixed doubles first round match against Denmark’s Mathias Christiansen and Alexandra Boje 10-21 21-16 21-17.

However, H S Prannoy lost to Malaysian Daren Liew 18-21 15-21 to bow out of the tournament. Saina is looking to keep her Tokyo Olympic hopes alive after an inconsistent outing in 2019 and she also didn’t enjoy a good start this year.

I-League: Churchill beat Real Kashmir 2-1

Willis Plaza stars as Churchill Brothers down Real Kashmir to go third.

M A R G A O, F E B 1 9 (IANS): Churchill Brothers registered a 2-1 victory over Real Kashmir in an I-League clash at the Fatorda Stadium here on Wednesday.

Willis Deon Plaza opened the scoring by converting a penalty before Mapuia added the second with a stunning strike. Robin Singh pulled one back for the Snow Leopards, but the first half double turned out to be enough for the

hosts to walk away with three points.

The victor y takes Churchill to third in the I-League standings with 19 points, while Kashmir remain in seventh place with 15 points.

In the 10th minute, Churchill were awarded a penalty after Farhan Ganie was adjudged to have handled the ball while trying to clear a cross from Quan Gomes. Willis Plaza stepped up and made no

mistake from 12 yards, sending Kashmir keeper Phurba Lachenpa the wrong way.

Around 10 minutes later, Mapuia latched on to a loose ball on the edge of the 18-yard box and with a flurry of white shirts closing him down got his strike away and found the top corner in stunning fashion, doubling his side’s advantage.

C o a c h Ro b e r t s o n was forced into making

an early substitution in the 24th minute, given how the game was unfolding at this point. He opted to add some fire to his attack, bringing on Higginbotham, with Dalraj Singh making way.

The Englishman almost pulled one back before half-time, going for goal on the volley from a distance but his effort skimmed across the crossbar in what would have otherwise been a spectacular goal. However, Churchill went into the break with a two-goal cushion.

Mapuia had another golden opportunity in the 80th minute after Plaza had put him through on goal but he couldn’t ride on Bazie Armand’s challenge and went down. The pieces fell to Plaza with the goal gaping, but his effort was blocked.

The Snow Leopards roared back in the 82nd minute when Sena Ralte’s cross-field delivery found Robin Singh unmarked in the box and the veteran forward made no mistake as Kashmir’s two winter signings combined and delivered to stir a nervy ending.

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KOHIMA, FEB 19 (NPN): Müleciyi Vadeo, a 16-yearold lad from Rünguzu Nagwü village, emerged as the champion of the 1st Under-16 category of the 27th Wrestling tournament of the Chakhesang Wrestling Association (CWA) at Phek Town on Wednesday.

Vadeo, who was also the champion of Chozuba Range Wrestling Association, defeated 15-yearold Thenuveyi Vero of Chepoketa village by two straight bouts in the final to take the title.

Johi Rhakho stood in third and Phrüpe Lomi in fourth position respectively of the junior category.

The champion received Rs. 25,000 followed by second with Rs. 20,000, while third and fourth positions received Rs 15,000 and 10,000 respectively.

Karunaratne to lead SL in ODIs against Windies C O LO M B O, F E B 1 9 (IANS): Dimuth Karunaratne will lead Sri Lanka in the upcoming three-match home ODI series against West Indies beginning Saturday.

Danushka Gunathilake has not been included in the 15-member squad announced by Sri Lanka Cricket on Wednesday due to a back injury while all-rounder Thisara Perera makes a comeback.

After the first match in Colombo, the two teams will travel to Hambantota and Pallekele for the remaining two ODIs to be played on February 26 and March 1. The ODIs will be followed by two T20Is to be played in Pallekele on March 4 and 6 respectively.

Squad: Dimith Karunaratne (c), Avishka Fernando, Kusal Perera, Shehan Jayasuriya, Niroshan Dickwella, Kusal Mendis, Angelo Mathews, Dhananjaya de Silva, Thisara Perera, Dasun Shanaka, Wanindu Hasaranga, Lakshan Sandakan, Isuru Udana, Nuwan Pradeep, Lahiru Kumara.

Müleciyi Vadeo (centre) along with other winners and referees after winning the title at Phek Wednesday. (NP) Chokri Area Wrestling Association was awarded the group champions and received a sum of Rs. 10,000.

Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) vice president Nikhrolo Khalo

graced the occasion as the valedictory guest.

The two-day tournament was hosted by Phek Area Wrestling Association (PAWA) and managed by the Losami Baptist Church (LBC).

The new CWA office bearers were also elected for the tenure 2020-24 with Vekhozo as the president, Kuzhovesa Soho as general secretary, Vezoho Ruho and Keniezo Puro as vice president.

India to host 2022 AFC Women’s Asian Cup KUALA LUMPUR, FEB 19 (PTI): India will host the 2022 AFC Women’s Asian Cup as the sport’s continental body on Tuesday awarded the showpiece to the country with an aim to maximise the promotion of the game.

India was awarded the tournament by the Asian Football Confederation’s Women’s Committee here as part of the AFC’s commitment to grow the women’s game.

It was felt that India, which will also have the experience of hosting the FIFA Women’s U-17 World Cup later this year, was best placed among the three bidders – Chinese Taipei and Uzbekistan were the other competing candidates – to maximise the promotion of the women’s game.

The venues proposed

by India – D Y Patil Stadium, Trans Stadia Arena and Fatorda Stadium – are also being used in the FIFA tournaments, the AFC said.

India was the host of the AFC U-16 Championships in 2016 and the FIFA U-17 World Cup 2017 and the committee agreed the country could continue

raising the standards of the AFC Women’s Asian Cup. A F C ’ s Wo m e n’ s Committee Chairperson Mahfuza Akhter Kiron said: “India offers the best opportunities to build the event commercially as well as increasing the value and India is also committed to developing the women’s game and while all three were strong bids, India stands out.”

The committee decided that the expanded AFC Women’s Asian Cup -- from eight to 12 teams -- will be played in three groups of four teams with a minimum of 25 matches with eight teams qualifying for the newly introduced quarter-finals.

“This is the most important competition in

women’s football in Asia.

The last edition was a major step forward. It was played in Jordan, the first time a West Asian nation had hosted the event. Now we are looking to build on that legacy,” Akhter added.

The committee agreed that the minimum length of the competition would be 17 days and that the administration would be mandated to organise the relevant play-off matches depending on the AFC slots at the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup. The dates of the tournament are likely to be in late October and early November 2022 and the match schedule will be worked out keeping in mind the start of the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar.

The committee also discussed about the phased introduction of the AFC Wo m e n’s C h a m p i o n s League, following the successful AFC/FIFA pilot championship in Korea Republic in November 2019.

The pilot programme will continue in 2020 with a maximum of six invited clubs.

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