February 8, 2020

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Oppn slams PDA over governor’s address

Correspondents

KOHIMA, FEB 7 (NPN): Debate on the motion of thanks to the governor’s address marked ongoing budget session of the 13th Nagaland Legislative Assembly after the newly elected speaker took the chair.

The Opposition NPF came down heavily on the ruling PDA government on the Governor’s address delivered on January 17, wherein he had stated that the Naga political talks had been “successfully concluded” and that it was “close to solution”.

Initiating the debate NPF member Imkong L Imchen insisted that Ravi’s speech be amended and asked leader of the house (LoH) Neiphiu Rio to explain what the governor meant by “successful conclusion”.

Imchen claimed that the governor’s address contained contradictions such as the appeal to all governments and citizens of neighbouring States to extend cooperation for successful conclusion of the negotiations in the interest of enduring peace and stability in the region despite having

Fund misuse issue resolved: DVC

DIMAPUR, FEB 7 (NPN): Diphupar Village Council (DVC) Friday said that the village has resolved to withdraw the compliant letter submitted to deputy commissioner (DC) Dimapur by fact finding and action committee (FFAC) Diphupar village, Diphupar Community Chairman Forum (DCCF) and Auditor with regard to Diphupar village fund misuse issue. In a statement, DVC chairman Ghuzui Shohe and FFAC convenor Kenilo Rengma said the matter was discussed at length at a joint meeting on January 29 at DVC hall and resolved to withdraw the compliant.

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NPF to hold antiCAA stir on Feb 11

DIMAPUR, FEB 7 (NPN): Naga People’s Front (NPF) would stage sit-in protest against Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) at Super Market area Dimapur, February 11, 2020 starting from 10am to 2pm. In a press release, NPF Dimapur division general secretary (admn) Itokhu Chophy said the decision to hold protest was taken at its executive meeting on February 7, 2020 following the directive of the NPF Central office H.Q Kohima to organise sit-in protest against CAA.

claimed that talks had been successfully concluded.

Imchen said though the governor had only fulfilled his constitutional obligation, conventionally speeches are prepared by the cabinet and so demanded that official speeches should be prepared with integrity since they are cabinet documents.

On Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), Imchen reiterated that the Act infringed on the principles of liberty. He said CAA posed threats on the fabric of unity and warned of its catastrophic affect in the years to come.

Opposition member Vikheho Swu, who also took part in the debate on the governor’s address maintained that the government of India can take any positive decision in the interest of enduring peace and stability of the north east. He said the negotiations spanning 23 years was long enough for the government of India to obtain an agreeable settlement and that it would be “grievously wrong” on the part of the latter to blame either Nagas or the neighbouring states if settlement was prolonged or should anything go wrong.

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Sharingain Longkumer elected as Speaker

Rio and Zeliang congratulate (inset) Sharingain Longkumer.

Sharingain Longkumer of the ruling NDPP was elected on Friday as Speaker of the 13th Nagaland Legislative Assembly The first-time legislator from Aonglenden constituency defeated former speaker Dr. Imtiwapang Aier by a margin of seven votes (32-25). 19 NDPP legislators (excluding Speaker), 12 BJP and 1 Independent voted in favour of Longkumer, while 25 NPF MLAs voted for Dr. Imtiwapang.

The election was necessitated following the demise of Speaker Vikho-o Yhoshu of the NDPP on December 30. Two seats of the House are currently vacant-- one NDPP and one NPF. The 37-year old Speaker thanked the members of (Cont’d on p-7) the Treasury bench in repos-

ing their trust in him in spite of being the youngest member of the House. He also acknowledged the efforts of the opposition bench for upholding the fundamental principles of democracy by participating in the election for the post of Speaker.

Terming it as an important responsibility and great honour, Sharingain reaffirmed to function as a true umpire respecting the glorious traditions attached to the dignified office of the Speaker.

Leader of the House and chief minister, Neiphiu Rio and Leader of Opposition, T.R. Zeliang congratulated the newly elected Speaker. Advisor Rural Development, Dr. Neikiesalie Kire conducted the election to the post of Speaker.

(L) Modi addresses a public rally during an event to celebrate the signing of Bodo agreement. (PTI)

KOKRAJHAR, FEB 7 (PTI): Pitching for peace from the once hotbed of an armed movement for Bodoland, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday urged banned outfits in the North East, Kashmiri militants and Naxalites to lay down their arms, join the national mainstream and “celebrate life”.

Addressing a massive public rally here to celebrate the January 27 tripartite accord amid a spectacle resplendent with Assam’s cultural opulence, he also attacked the previous nonBJP governments for “procrastinating” resolution of vexed issues that alienated people and made them lose faith in democracy and the Constitution.

“The Bodo accord has heralded a new dawn of peace and development in Assam. With people’s support, it has paved the way for permanent peace. Those still with bombs, guns and bullets in Kashmir, other parts of North East, and Naxalites...come back... join the mainstream and celebrate life,” he said.

“Now development is our first and last priority.

Trust me, I am yours. When you have decided to shun the path of bombs and guns, I will do everything to ensure that not even a thorn pricks you,” he said.

In an apparent effort to allay fears of non-Bodos, Modi said the Centre will work expeditiously to implement Clause 6 of the Assam

Accord once the high-powered committee submits its report.

Targeting the previous non-BJP governments, Modi said: “Nobody wanted to touch North-East with a bargepole. They thought there’s trouble, there’s violence. Quell it with force.

This alienated people who lost their faith in democracy and the Constitution,” he said, adding for his government North East was a priority area. Modi said that the combined central allocation to the eight states of the region went up to a staggering Rs 3 lakh crore under the 14th Finance Commission, after his government was formed, from Rs 90,000 crore under the 13th Finance Commission.

BJP, Cong MPs nearly come to blows in LS Fuel adulteration continuing with impunity: ACAUT New Delhi, Feb 7 (PTI): A few members of the BJP and the Congress almost came to blows in the Lok Sabha on Friday when Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan roundly condemned Rahul Gandhi’s ‘danda’ remark at Prime Minister Modi and called it “outlandish”, sparking demands for apology from each side to the other.

The ruckus broke out during the fag end of the Question Hour after Vardhan said he would like to make a statement on Gandhi’s recent comment on the prime minister before giving an answer to a starred question by the Congress leader related to establishment of medical colleges.

During a poll campaign rally in Delhi on Wednesday, Gandhi warned Modi that in the next six months, the youth will hit him with sticks if he doesn’t address the issue of unemployment in the country.

“Sir, please excuse me.

Before I begin answering this question of dear Shri Rahul Gandhi ji. I want to condemn in no uncertain words the outlandish language that he has used against the prime minister of the country,” he said reading out from a prepared note, even as Speaker Om Birla asked the minister to stick to his answer.

As Vardhan continued reading out the statement, Congress MPs came to the Well loudly protesting against the minister’s move. One of the Congress members from Tamil Nadu, Manickam Tagore, came to the treasury benches and attempted to aggressively reach Vardhan, who was sitting in the second row.

I m m e d i a t e ly, B r i j Bhushan Sharan Singh, a BJP member from Uttar Pradesh, held Tagore by his arm to prevent him from reaching the union minister.

Singh is incidentally the President of the Wrestling

Federation of India.

Congress MP from Kerala Hibi Eden also tried to intervene.

Several MPs from both sides and union ministers, including Smriti Irani, prevented them from coming to blows. Unnerved by the commotion, Vardhan continued reading his statement. The speaker immediately adjourned the House till 1 pm.

Gandhi later alleged that the ruckus in the Lok Sabha was “orchestrated” to prevent him from questioning the government. As soon as the House reassembled at 1 pm, Kirit Solanki, who was in the Chair, adjourned proceedings till 2 pm.

When the House resumed, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi condemned Tagore’s attempt to attack Vardhan. As Congress members too were on their feet, A Raja, who was in the Chair, adjourned the proceedings for the day.

DIMAPUR, FEB 8 (NPN): ACAUT Nagaland Friday claimed that Dhinanath Shah, one of the main accused arrested in connection with fuel adulteration case on October 1, 2017 following the exposure of fuel pilferage in Dimapur, has shifted his adulterating unit to Lahorijan and continuing illegal operations with impunity “due to the kickbacks received by the beneficiaries.”

In a press release, ACAUT Nagaland chairman Tia Longchar and cochairman Simon Kelio said that the recent accidental exposure of fuel adulteration following burning of oil tankers at Khatkati Lahorijan, was “indeed” a proof that fuel adulteration still continued in full swing “showing no sign of stopping” despite the matter was sub judice.

ACAUT pointed out that in 2017 the co-coordination committee on fuel

adulteration (CCOFA) comprising of several civil society organizations (CSOs), dissatisfied with government constituted SIT’s “shoddy reports and findings” on fuel adulteration, filed a PIL to bring in CBI to further investigate the matter.

In the CCOFA’s PIL, ACAUT said it was stated that SIT report was “a mere façade” to shield the corrupt officials, politicians and the kingpins of fuel adulteration. ACAUT said the matter was now in the High Court.

ACAUT said it had also filed FIR with West police station and the matter was under the Court of the Chief Judicial Magistrate Dimapur.

ACAUT recalled that in 2016 it had busted fuel adulterations units in and around Dimapur during which numerous tankers, containers with thousands of liters of kerosene, various chemicals and equip-

NLA session: Replies to starred and unstarred questions Correspondent

KOHIMA, FEB 7 (NPN): In the ongoing budget session of the 13th Nagaland L e g i s l a t i ve A s s e m b l y (NLA), the ministers incharge of various depart(Cont’d on p-8) ments Friday responded to several starred and unstarred question raised by members of the opposition bench.

State deputy chief minister Yanthungo Patton, who is also minister in-charge of National Highways, replying to a starred question raised

by NPF MLA Muthingnyuba on the status of National highway, stated that there were two ongoing projects under annual renewal programme—improvement of riding quality programme (IRQP) to NH-202 from km 130.00 (near C/Saddle) to Km 140.00 (near Yakur) “Invest with us and vote under Tuensang division. for us. Means we buy your He said the physical progvotes with freebies.” ress was 50% and financial

This is it!

He said developing a common and agreeable understanding between NSCN (I-M) and the NNPGs, depended upon the government of India. Citing the fourth clause in the Cease Fire agreement signed between the government of India and NSCN (I-M) in 1997, Swu said it held that talks would be between government of India and the NSCN (I-M).

However, Swu said NPF legislature party leader T.R. Zeliang as then chief minister in 2017 urged the Interlocutor and now governor of Nagaland R.N. Ravi to include the seven NNPGs to join the talks if the negotiations were to have any meaningful conclusion.

He said though Ravi has initially opined that NSCN (I-M) would never agree, it changed its stance after T.R. Zeliang successfully negotiated with the group after which the Interlocutor officially included the seven NNPGs for negotiations. Swu also urged upon the PDA government to take the lead and help find out gaps if any, between the negotiating parties and the government of India.

‘Come back, celebrate life’, Modi tells insurgent groups

progress was 32.63%. He said the second project was periodic renewal from Km 272.00 (near Ngoromi) to Km 284 .00 (near Akhegwo) on NH-202 under Kiphire division with 60% physical progress and 22.00% physical progress.

Patton also stated that there were two NH divisions in NH 202 Tuensang and Kiphire. He said that the amount sanctioned for NH202 from the MoRTH for the maintenance and survey works from its inception till date was Rs. 297.60 crore.

Replying to a supplementary question, Patton said that the project started in 2011 and would lay full report and exact amount after discussing with the department in the next session.

Replying to a starred question raised by NLA member Chotisuh Sazo on the details of anganwadi centre construction, the

chief minister and minister in-charge of social welfare, Neiphiu Rio, stated that the department did not receive fund/sanction for construction of new anganwadi centre during the period from March 2018 till date.

Replying to a supplementary question, rural development minister Metsubo Jamir said a sum of Rs. 7 lakh each was given to 74 blocks for construction of anganwadi centre. He said that no complaint or information was received as to why Rs.60,000 was given to village council, but assured that he would acquire more information and place on the table in the next session.

Replying to the starred question on the status of the scholarships and the number of beneficiaries from 201819 raised by opposition member Kuzholuzo Nienu, the minister higher & technical education and tribal

affairs, Temjen Imna Along, stated that full payment of scholarships have been made to all the eligible beneficiaries with active bank accounts and the number of students availing scholarships was total 39684 – 38201 within Nagaland and 1483 outside Nagaland.

Replying to a starred question by opposition member Chumben Murry on the status of the augmentation of water supply to Wokha town from Engorotchu and the capacity of the project, the PHE minister Jacob Zhimomi stated that the main components of the project have been completed and commissioned on October 12, 2018 by the minister PHED. The capacity of the project is 3.75 million litre per day. He pointed out that the department encountered some technical and other unforeseen problems. The minister, however, said that

the department was in the process of rectifying the problems by repairing the affected items while efforts were underway to complete the remaining works.

Replying to an unstarred question by MLA Chumben Murry, minister of agriculture, G Kaito Aye, stated that the amount of fund received under International Fund For Agricultural Development (IFAD) is Rs. 1 crore for 92 village.

The minister stated that the works/projects taken up under IFAD village-wise in Wokha district were formation of farmers interest groups (FIG), support to lead farmers, lead farmer honorarium, legume cover crops, supply of quality seeds, improved soil fertility, support for wetland agriculture, irrigation support and supply of quality planting materials.

ments for adulterating fuel were found. Stating that it has been appearing for court summons and testified numerous times for the last 4 years, ACAUT said the case was yet to see any breakthrough till date.

When such matter of public importance was sub judice, ACAUT said the unwanted elements were

taking undue advantage of its delay. In this regard, ACAUT has urged the Court to expedite the case.

It also urged the Nagaland Lokayukta to take cognizance of “this illicit malpractice”. It alleged that the fuel adulterating units were procuring kerosene from government supplies meant for public.

ANPDU clarifies to report

All Nagaland Petroleum Dealers Union (ANPDU) has strongly condemned the February 4, incident that took place at Khatkhati where several oil tankers were burnt creating panic among the residents of Khatkhati.

In a press release, ANPDU president Akokla P Lucy and vice president Akho Neikha have, however, clarified that fuel station owners in Nagaland were not at all involved in any kind of illegal syndicate or fuel adulteration activities as reported in the media.

The union has warned all those kingpins of Nagaland involved and indulging in fuel adulteration for “tarnishing the image of all the fuel station owners of Nagaland.”

Meanwhile, the union has urged the state government and its responsible authorities to launch a crackdown on such illicit activities and take stern action at the earliest.

ANPDU also urged the government authorities to inform their counterparts not to allow such activities in their states especially in the border area of Assam and Nagaland.

Deplaning of NPMHR secy. general flayed

DIMAPUR, FEB 7 (NPN): Over 160 concerned citizens from across the country representing mass based organisations and peace, human rights groups etc. have condemned “the silent but targeted attack by Government of India and its agencies on the Naga civil society leaders and the leaders of the NSCN.” A joint statement, signed by around 167 citizens, condemned Centre for “illegally and unlawfully” de-boarding secretary general of Naga Peoples’ Movement for Human Rights (NPMHR), Neingulo Krome from a KolkataBangkok bound flight on February 5, by immigration authorities at Kolkata.

According to them, Krome was told that he was not allowed to travel abroad (Cont’d on p-2) as per the orders of the ‘Gov-

ernment’. However, no additional clarification was offered nor any list shown with Krome’s name, they said.

“We are certain that by not allowing the leader of one of India’s oldest human rights organisations to travel abroad, GoI has made yet another statement about their intolerance and arrogance,” they added. However, the signatories said they were more concerned that it was also in many ways an open attack on the Naga people’s rights, amidst a 23 year old peace process and ceasefire.

Condemning the act of the Government, the individuals demanded that Krome be allowed to travel and also demanded that the Government respect the spirit and letter of the peace process and desist from the witch-hunt against Nagas and their leaders.

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Meeting on final publication of e-roll held in 5 districts

ADC Kohima, Lithrongla Tongpi Rutsa handing over a DC Tuensang, Kumar Ramnikant speaking at the final final publication of e-roll to the PAERO’s and BLO’s at publication of e-roll at DC conference hall Tuensang on ADC office chamber, Kohima on February 7. DIPR) February 7. (DIPR)

DC & DEO Longleng, M. Shayung Phom giving away DC & DEO, Mon Thavaseelan K with official and representative final publication of at DC conference hall, Longleng on of political parties during the final publication of e-roll at DC’s conference hall, Mon on February 7 (DIPR) February 7. (DIPR)

DIMAPUR: In connection with the final publication of photo electoral roll pertaining to special summary revision was held on February 7 in four districts Kohima: The meeting for Kohima was held at ADC office chamber, Kohima. Briefing the meeting, ADC Kohima, Lithrongla

Tongpi Rutsa said that the final Electoral Roll was very important for the electors as within a short period of time; Kohima district will be facing another election. The ADC urged the political parties, AEROs, and BLOs to share the data with the respective electors and to check the errors

such as mismatched of photographs, names, age, address, gender etc. and informed that in case of any corrections to be made, continuous updation will be there.

She also informed that many new electors who have completed 18 years of age have been enrolled and

requested them to check and submit if death electors are found to be unreported for a fair election.

She thanked the political parties, AEROs and BLOs for assisting in completing the Final Electoral Roll.

Dimapur: De puty commissioner (DC) and district election officer

(DEO) Dimapur, Anoop Kinchi handed over the final publication of electoral roll in both hard and soft copy to all political parties on February 7 at DC’s chamber, Dimapur. It was also informed that the list of amendments to the draft electoral roll for 1- Dimapur I, 2- Dimapur II, 3- Dimapur III, 4- Ghaspani I and 5- Ghaspani II assembly constituencies has been prepared in accordance with the registration of elector rules, 1960. Copy of the roll together with list of amendments has been published and would be available for inspection in the office of DC and DEO Dimapur during office hours.

Tuensang: The final publication of E-Roll for Tuensang district was conducted at DC conference Hall, Tuensang, conducted

by DC Tuensang, Kumar Ramnikant. The programme was attended by representatives of every political parties of Tuensang where the final publication of E-Roll was distributed to every political party.

Longleng: Themeeting of final Electoral Roll was held at DC’s conference hall, Longleng. Addressing the BLOs and the political parties the Deputy Commissioner & District Election Officer M. ShayungPhom asserted that clean electoral roll is essential to conduct free and fair elections. DC & DEO exhorted the BLOs to discharge their assigned duties with utmost sincerity and

at the same time appealed to the political parties to extend fullest cooperation and support to the BLOs to have clean electoral roll in the district. The DC also gave away the final draft publication of the E-Roll to the political parties. The meeting was attended by the BLOs and the political parties of the district.

Mon: Deputy Commissioner & District Election Officer, Mon Thavaseelan K held meeting with the representatives of political parties from BJP, INC, NDPP, NPF and NPP at DC’s conference hall, Mon in regard to the final publication of Electoral-Roll.

During the programme, DC handed over the copies of draft publication of electoral roll along with soft copy to the political parties.

Assistant Election Officer & AERO Mon Chisho K Swu in a notification informed to all the concerned that the list of amendments to the draft electoral roll for the 41 – Tizit A/C, 42- Wakching A/C, 43Tapi A/C, 44- Phomching A/C, 45- Tehok A/C, 46Mon Town A/C, 47- Aboi A/C, 48 – Moka A/C and 55- Tobu A/C has been prepared with reference to January 1, 2020 as the qualifying date and in accordance with the Registration of Electors Rules, 1960. A copy of the said roll together with the said list of amendment has been published and will be available for inspection in his office.

news in Brief Mokokchung DPDB meeting rescheduled: The monthly District Planning and Development Board (DPDB) meeting of Mokokchung have been rescheduled.

Therefore, the new date and timing for the meeting will be notified later.

SDPDB Pughoboto meeting: ADC & vice-chairperson SDPDB Pughoboto, T. Moa Lemtor has convened SubDivisional Planning and Development Board (SDPDB) Pughoboto meeting for the month of February on February 11, 11 a.m. at the office of the Additional Deputy Commissioner, Pughoboto. All the SDPDB members have been informed to attend the meeting.

TSUD informs: Tenyimi students’ union Dimapur (TSUD) has informed that a presidential meeting would be convened on February 8, 10 a.m at Tenyimi complex.

A press release by BT Donsa, information and public secretary has requested all the constituent unit presidents to attend the meeting without fail.

ADC & ERO Peren informs: Additional Deputy Commissioner and electoral registration officer (Addl. DC & ERO) Peren, Moa Sangtam has informed the public that the list of amendments to the draft electoral roll for 6-Tening and 7-Peren assembly constituencies has been prepared with reference to January 1 as the qualifying date and in accordance to the registration of elector’s rules, 1960. It also informed that a copy of the roll along with list of amendments has been published and will be available for inspection at the office and at the concerned booth level officer (BLO) of the respective polling stations/areas.

ATMA Dimapur hold meeting

DIMAPUR: Governing board of Agriculture Technology Management Agency (ATMA) Dimapur held a meeting at DC’s Conference Hall, Dimapur on February 6. Accroding to DIPR report, Deputy Commissioner and chairman of ATMA Governing Body Dimapur, Anoop Khinchi said that there are a lot of scope in Agri and allied sector in Nagaland. He encouraged the members to work harder for the upliftment of the farming community and urged the officials to give more training on food processing including follow up trainings.

A slide show on ATMA Dimapur activities conducted on 2019 - 2020 was presented by BTM, Niuland block ATMA, Demalu Hasnusa.

Recipient of farmer award, give a presentation on his success story and thanked ATMA Dimapur and Agri and allied department for their assistance and guidance.

Unity College NLA session: Replies to starred Various DLSAs conduct consultative meeting observes swachhta DIMAPUR: District legal services authorities (DLSAs) under the directive of Nagaland state legal services authority (NSLSA) conducted consultative meeting with prosecutors and police at the district level of superintendent of police, sub divisional police officer, officer-in-charge and investigation officer in regard to “protocol for early access to justice at pre-arrest, arrest and remand stage” during the past few days.

According to a press release by DLSA, the consultative meeting was initiated following the 31st central authority meeting resolution of NSLSA to implement a framework for providing legal assistance at pre-arrest, arrest and remand stage by all state legal services authorities.

Wokha DLSA: Wokha DLSA conducted the meeting on February 6 where the meeting was chaired

by Y Tumchobemo Yanthan (NPS) addl. SP Wokha, Khrievono Seletsu, Wokha DLSA JMFC/secretar y spoke on the purpose of the consultation, its importance and explained the judgement of Arnesh Kumar vs state of Bihar, while Shanchobeni P Lotha, project assistant expounded the meaning of “pre arrest, arrest and remand stage” and relevant sections of law which covers the rights of an accused at these stages and Imtitoshi Jamir (NPS) SP Wokha and Renbemo Tungoe asst. public prosecutor delivered short speeches.

Zunheboto DLSA: Zunheboto DLSA held the consultative meeting on February 6 at SP conference Hall, Zunheboto. The meeting was chaired by Tovi Z Yeptho project assistant, Wokono Yhoshii secretary ZDLSA highlighted the purpose of the meeting, J Khetoholi Yepthomi, APP Zunheboto briefed on juvenile justice act and Easter H Yepthomi retainer lawyer highlighted the procedure on remand. The meeting was attended by 33 police prosecution under DEF Zunheboto.

Mokokchung DLSA: Mokokchung DLSA conducted the meeting at ADC planning conference hall.

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dress was delivered by Duvelu Vero, chairman MDLSA and Holika Sukhalu, secretary MDLSA highlighted the agenda on the topic and explained the necessary steps to be taken. The meeting was attended by SDPOs, OC, IO from 6 police stations under Mokokchung district including women cell, traffic control and prosecution office. Altogether 40 person attended the meeting.

Dimapur DLSA: Dimapur DLSA conducted the meeting on February 5.

During the meeting, Y Longkumer principal district and session judge-cum-chairperson chaired the meeting and highlighted the purpose of the meeting, while Ajongba Imchen, secretary DDLSA reminded the participants about Cr.PC, provision on arrest, remand, production.

Meanwhile, the police and prosecution also expressed their views with regard to the pre-arrest bail and custodial interrogation in the presence of penal lawyers of Legal Services. The meeting was attended by 36 officials from the prosecution and police department.

Peren DLSA: Peren DLSA held the meeting on February 7 at district court complex. In the meeting, Somet C Chang Peren DLSA-secretary-cum CJM chaired the programme, Asungbe retainer lawyer briefed on procedure on arrest and remand, followed by discussion hour. The meeting was attended by four OC and 9 police personals from different police station under Peren DEF and four assistant public prosecutors, district court, Peren.

Mon DLSA: Mon DLSA conducted the consultative meeting where Seyielenuo Mezhü, secretary-cum-CJM NJS delivered welcome address, while rights of arrested person and corresponding duties of investigation officer was delivered was N. Mannon project assistant. Discussion on expectation and challenges faced by police, advocates, prosecution while performing their duties were also shared. The meeting was attended by officer in-charge and other police personnel, prosecutions and advocates.

Longleng DLSA: Longleng DLSA held the

meeting with police officials on February 7. Anguto Sophie, APP briefed that arrest should not be made mechanically and spoke on section 41A CrPC, guidelines and condition provided by the supreme court in the case of Arnesh kumar vs state of Bihar which should be complied with before arresting a person.

He stated that the rights of accused should be protected by informing the accused ground of arrest and right to bail, right to have a lawyer of his choice right to inform about his arrest, right of medical examination and that the accused should be produced before the nearest police station within 24 hours.

Further, he added that at the stage of remand, accused should be represented by a lawyer and if he has no means to engage a lawyer, then one should be provided to him from legal aid to assist in avoiding unnecessary arrest to decrease the vulnerability of the arrestees as well.

Phek DLSA: Phek DLSA in collaboration with district police, Phek conducted consultative meet/ awareness in a matter of disclosure of victim of sexual assault/pre-arrest, arrest and remand, investigation and trials at DRDA conference hall, Phek.

During the meeting, Mezivolu T Therieh, NJS, district and session judge and chairperson DLSA, Phek spoke on right to free legal aid in pre-arrest, arrest and remand and criminal investigation and trials.

Earlier, the programme was chaired by Keneinuo Swuro, project assistant Phek DLSA. Altogether 23 police officers, officers-in-charge and investigating officers from all the 6 police stations under Phek district registered for the programme.

Tuensang DLSA: Tuensang DLSA held the consultative meeting with Tuensang DEF at Tuensang town on February 4. The programme was chaired

by Soteth Anar project assistant, Kumdilong Kessen, JMFC-cum-secretary spoke on cognizance and non cognizance, bail and non-bailable, warrant and summon, while Soteth Anar

spoke on pre-arrest, arrest and remand stage.

Meanwhile, the programme was attended by SP Tuensang, SDPO Tuensang and officers from different sub-division police station.

All together 28 police personnel attended the programme.

Kiphire DLSA: Kiphire DLSA held a consultative meeting with the police and prosecution at the police station, Kiphire. The programme was chaired by Asuthong, PLV, welcome address was delivered by Rebica T Sangtam, project assistant, and Amit Nigam, superintendent of police Kiphire delivered a short speech in the meeting.

During the meeting, Amit spoke on the value and importance of human rights basing on Article 39 (A) of the Indian constitution which provides information on availing free legal services to the people. Resource person Nokshei Kano, secretary DLSA and CJM Kiphire spoke in regard to arrest and pre-arrest and providing access to justice for the people In his speech, Nokshei stressed on the procedures for arrest in cognizable and non- cognizable offences, arrest of women and remand and also talked about on framing the quality charge sheet and medical aid to the accused persons and the convicts.

Meanwhile, Michael APP Kiphire also urged the members of the meeting to work hand in hand in order to provide access to justice to all the citizens in the district and encouraged DLSA Kiphire to work sincerely to uplift the people. The programme was attend by 14 members representing the police, prosecution, DLSA Kiphire and ended with a discussion hour with the members of the meeting.

It may be noted that the state authority has taken the initiative of meeting director general of police to workout modalities for effective implementation of the framework and preparing quality hoardings enumerating rights and phone numbers and addresses of legal services authorities which are to be distributed in all the police stations across the state.

pakhwada

DIMAPUR: Unity college observed swachhta pakhwada from January 16 to Januray 31 at the college premises where a list of activities were conducted to spread awareness on the importance of cleanliness and steps to be undertaken in contributing towards a clean environment.

According to a press release by the college, the swachhta week started with a pledge taking ceremony where students vowed to commit towards cleanliness and devote time in making India a clean country.

Cleanliness and plantation drives were also conducted in and around the college campus under the initiative of student council and eco club.

During the swachhta week, cleanliness drive was carried out with active participation from girls of the college hostel under supervision of the warden on January 25. A talk show on “swachhta -personal, mental, environmental, and societal” was also organised to create awareness among students on all aspects of swachhta, followed by an interactive session.

Later, eco club of the college organised a speech, slogan and poster competition under the themes “water conservation” and “forest conservation” on January 27 with an aim to stress on the importance of conserving our water and forest resources.

Meanwhile, the programme was led by Assuvi Zhimo, assistant professor, department of education and competition was judged by Lumchirhoni Tungoe, assistant professor, department of education, Sadamyanger, assistant professor, department of english and Kikruneino Sachu, assistant professor, department of EVS. Winners of speech competition were Subhana Rahman and Aloto T Sumi, winners of slogan competition were Laxmi Giri and Zuchobeni Erui, while Chingyapalm, Pongjilemba and Kenyuylunlo Seb were winners of poster competition.

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(From p-1) He said the total amount of IFAD works/projects taken under CSS RKVY component in Wokha district is Rs.1,13,66,200 (including loan & CSS component in IFAD - FOCUS).

Of the Rs 198 crore sanctioned for Kohima smart city project, Rs 113 crore had been released till date. This was stated by Rural Development minister Metsubo Jamir in response to a starred question by legislator Yitachu at Nagaland Legislative Assembly on Friday.

Jamir said Kohima Municipal Council and smart city offices had been completed under the smart city project and the list of ongoing projects included beautification of Kohima town phase-1, multi-level car parking at old medical directorate, multi-level car parking at old NST, capital cultural hall, re-development of old Assembly secretariat phase-1, parking and community hall at New Market, integrated command and control centre (ICCC) and wi-fi for Kohima city.

He further informed Yitachu that so far Rs 77.90 crore had been spent from the project fund. In reply to a supplementary question by leader of opposition (LoO) TR Zeliang, the rural development minister said the department had got verbal assurance from the Union

Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) to construct multilevel car parking at old medical directorate and old NST under Kohima smart city project. To this, Zeliang stressed that the department should get approval from the Centre and not verbal assurance because if New Delhi stopped funding, then the mega project would be left incomplete.

The NPF Legislature Party leader further insisted that work should follow the guidelines as per the original DPR without diverting the fund by following the norm laid down by MoHUA. He recalled that the State government had work hard in 2015-16 and only on its third attempt, the Central ministry approved Kohima smart city project, as there were lots of criteria to be qualified.

Jamir assured to take necessary measures when LoO demanded an assurance to the House that it would be approved by the MoHUA. Meanwhile, responding to a starred question by Y Vikheho Swu, deputy chief minister Yanthungo Patton, who is also in charge of civil administrative works department (CAWD), said the total amount sanctioned for construction of ADC office at Pughoboto was Rs 313.31 lakh, adding that the work had started in 2016, and so far Rs 138.39 lakh has been paid to the contractors.

Patton said there was no allocation of fund in 2019-2020 as the work order had expired w.e.f March 2018 and no extension of time had been applied by the contractor till date. However, the fund released so far was commensurate with the work progress and the completion of work was subject to extension of time for the work and, if funds were allocated in time, the department would try to complete the project

by August 2020, he added.

Replying to another starred question of Yitachu, Patton said there was a proposal for creation of village guard posts in the State, adding the consolidated proposal also included Kanjang village under Meluri ADC headquarter in Phek district.

In response to an unstarred question of Dr Imtiwapang Aier, deputy chief minister replied that 1,135 police constables were appointed between March 2018 and January 2020. District-wise, 409 (including 206 through open recruitment rally) were appointed in Kohima, 81 in Mokokchung, 91 in Tuensang, 133 in Dimapur, 49 Wokha, 57 Zunheboto, 104 in Mon, 45 in Longleng, 78 in Phek, 42 in Kiphire and 46 in Peren district. Altogether 35 sub-inspectors were appointed, including UBSI (GD) sub-inspector (technical) and sub-inspector (opr) in 2018-2020, he added.

Nagaland BJP legislators organised a get together at the residence of deputy chief minister and BLP leader, Y. Patton in the run up to assembly session and to discuss matters concerning party affairs and governance.

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Guwahati Hazy sunshine

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Participants after the District task force meeting at DC’s chamber, Zunheboto.

DIMAPUR: District task force (DTF) held a meeting and observed national deworming day (NDD) on February 6 at DC’s chamber, Zunheboto.

According to a press release by Shekho Sophie, district media officer (DMO) Zunheboto, Dr. Akaho Sema, Dy. CMO, Zunheboto gave a brief note on national deworming day and sought support from social welfare and education department. Dr. Alemwabang Aier, DPO (RCH & UIP) highlighted about national deworming day and mentioned that

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Zunheboto would be observing national deworming day on February 10 along with the rest of the country and that, it would it would also organise mop up day on February 17.

D r. A l e m w a b a n g briefed that all schools and anganwadi centres would be implementation sites on NDD with an objective to improve the overall health, nutritional status, access to education and quality of life of children. He also added that the programme was for Children between 1-19 years of age where albendazole chewable tablets

would be provided. The programme will be conducted by AWWs/teachers and medical officers, RBSK team, Nurses and ASHAs of the district.

Meanwhile, the first DTF-NDD meeting was attended by DC, social welfare department, education department, STH, Dy.CMO, DPO (RCH &UIP), MO- RBSK, epidemiologist IDSP, UIP staff and IEC bureau, Zunheboto, while Peter Lichamo, deputy commissioner, Zunheboto chaired the meeting and welcomed the participants.

KSU appeals to relax ‘Eligibility Criteria’ for PT

DIMAPUR: With reference to the government’s r e c e n t a dve r t i s e m e n t for the post of Primary Teacher (Hindi), Konyak Students’ Union (KSU) in its letter to the Principal Director, School Education Nagaland has appealed for relaxation of “Eligibility Criteria” for the Konyak to apply for the post of Primary Teacher (Hindi).

In a letter signed by KSU president, Bumang Phaiba and assistant general secretary, Nokpho Wangsha, it stated that the Konyak tribe of Mon district consistently remains the lowest literacy rate in the state with every count of population census.

In this connection, Konyak Students’ Union (KSU) has informed that most of the Konyak applicants would not fulfil the required educational qualification or ‘Eligibility Criteria’ to apply for the Primary Teacher (Hindi).

Therefore, Konyak Students’ Union (KSU) has appealed the department of school education to relax the ‘Eligibility Criteria’ for the Konyaks to apply for the aforesaid posts.

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DC Mon, Thavaseelan K with four entrepreneurs.

DIMAPUR: Deputy Commissioner (DC) Mon, Thavaseelan K handed over a sum of Rs 50,000/- each to four upcoming entrepreneurs in Mon town during a function held on February 6 at the DC office Conference Hall, Mon. The financial assistance for upscaling of entrepreneurs was from the Department of Underdeveloped Areas (DUDA), Government of Nagaland.

A press release from the district administration Mon stated that during the function, the DC encour-

aged the entrepreneurs to work harder and commented that their success story is a source of inspiration to the youth of Nagaland.

He also thanked DUDA for extending assistance to deserving entrepreneurs.

Minphao Konyak runs a cobbler shop in Walo ward, Mon town and is amongst the first Konyaks to start a cobbler shop in Mon town. Coming from a family where both his parents are farmers, Ahon Konyak, who studied upto HSLC and runs his barber shop with the help of an

assistant in a rented room in Tompang ward, Mon town. Yapang Konyak is a freelance photographer/ videographer and graphic designer. He did not take up any professional training or course but his passion, hobbies and creativity brought him to where he is now. Chinglang Konyak is the founder and director of Mon School of Music.

The school provides formal training to aspiring musicians and aims to be an institution where the students can pursue music as a career in their future.

Kohima Smart City reaches out to the 19 wards Peren DPDB approves renovation of Govt School

DIMAPUR: Kohima Smart City organized an awareness campaign on citizen perception survey under Ease of Living Index’ 2019 for all the ward functionaries on February 7 where the interward wall painting competition and signature campaign for a cleaner, greener and more liveable Kohima were also launched.

A press release from CEO of Kohima Smart City, Kovi Meyase informed that for the inter-ward wall painting competition, the painting should be a minimum of 8x15 feet and in a prominent location of the ward. The paintings should carry a catchy slogan and will be inspected by a group of judges around February 21 - 22. It also informed that certificates and token cash awards will be given

Participants during the signature campaign.

to the best three wall paintings.

The signature campaign under the theme

#MyCityMyPride with the pledge “I pledge to take responsibility to make Kohima a Green, Clean and

more Livable City” was also launched in the programme.

Banners for the signature campaign were handed over to all the 19 wards to organize the campaign at the ward level.

Hoardings and posters were given to all the wards for creating awareness on the importance of the participation of citizens.

CEO of Kohima Smart City, Kovi Meyase thanked the wards for all their efforts and co-operation towards making Kohima a better city.

He stated that the opinions and views of the citizens are imperative in making practical policies for any city. He appealed to the wards to create wide publicity on the citizen perception survey which accounts for 30% weightage in the ongoing Ease of Living Assessment.

DIMAPUR: The monthly Peren District Planning & Development Board (DPDB) meeting was held on February 6 at Deputy Commissioner’s Conference Hall, district headquarter New Peren under the chairmanship of DC Perencum-DPDB vice-chairman, Sentiwapang Aier.

According to DIPR report, the meeting discussed on the requirement for renovation of Govt.

School at Peren where the DEO Peren highlighted some of inconveniences faced by both the students and the managing authorities due to the unstable and dilapidated school building.

Taking it into consideration, the house agreed to approve and go for major renovation of the same.

DC Peren, Sentiwapang Aier, NCS addressing the DPDB meeting.

In regard to survey and mapping of departmental sites, LRSO informed the house that 2nd phase of survey and mapping will be conducted on February 25 and 26 for the departments which have not been surveyed and further requested them to cooperate with the team. The board also approved the registration of Society-SPACS in

the meeting.

Other minutes of the meeting included discussion on the adoption of Peren Government College and implementation of Iconic Project under Local Area Development Project (LADP). In connection to Iconic Project under LADP, DC Peren urged the district officials present in the meeting to come up with

innovative ideas and submit in written within a period of one week.

A slide show was also presented by Power Department and Medical Department. DC Peren entrusted Tourism department to prepare a slide show presentation of their departmental activities in the next DPDB meeting.

SJC students visit SMHI, Kohima

DIMAPUR: Diploma course counselling psychology students of St. Joseph’s college (autonomous) Jakhama visited state mental health institute (SMHI) on January 7 to help build health awareness among adolescents and young adults.

According to a press release by Fr. C. Joseph, counsellor SJC, Dr. Viketoulie and his team welcomed the students and made arrangements for a two hour interaction on stress, mental health issues, depression and mobile phone addiction etc.

During the visit, Fr. C. Joseph, presented a paper on “mental health of the young”, and stressed on the present scenario where adolescents experiencing physical, emotional, cultural and social shocks and added that they live in a polluted environment. He also added that the traditional culture and its values are being substituted by modern cultures like drugs, alcohol, internet, etc.

Meanwhile, the students actively participated in the interaction with Dr. Viketoulie, while Dr. T. Wabang, medical superintendent expressed his gratitude on behalf of the patients, hospital staff and thanked SJC for its visit. Various cultural performances were also performed by the students.

4th general session of KMH at Thonoknyu hq

Dimapur: The 4th general session of the Khiamniungan Menyiu Hoikam (KMH) was graced by Kushe Patron as introductory guest on February 6 at Thonoknyu Hq. She called on the women to know their rights and duties and appreciated president KMH, Niukai for their tireless work. Khiamniungan Students’ Union president also spoke on the occasion. Guest of honour was Muchiam Patron and valedictory guest was president KTC, L. Ngon.

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Modi govt giving tremendous focus to Northeast: Jitendra dous focus of the NDA government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the overall development of the Northeastern region including that of infrastructure, an official statement said.

Singh said in the last two years major steps were taken for air connectivity and for the rapid development of inland waterways in the region.

There are 20 inland waterways including the one at mighty Brahmaputra for cheap and easy transportation of goods, he said.

This signifies the priority being attached to the region, Singh said.

The minister briefed the delegation about international collaborative arrangements for the development of the Northeastern region and said Japan is investing in a big way for the construction of roads and bridges there.

Israel is having a project on citrus food parks as well, he added.

Singh wanted to know from German delegation as to how Germany can help in commissioning developmental projects in the region, the statement said.

Left-backed tribal outfit in Tripura to protest against CAA Agartala, Feb 7(PTI): TRUGMP, the tribal wing of CPI(M) in Tripura, will launch a statewide agitation to protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and to “save democracy” from Saturday, its leader said.

Fo r m e r M P J i t e n Chowdhury, also president of Tripura Rajya Upajati Ganamukti Parishad, filed a petition in the Supreme Court in January this year, challenging the new citizenship law and said the amended Act is “discriminatory” and “unconstitutional”. “We will launch our statewide agitation against CAA from Saturday, because it is unconstitutional,” he told reporters here on Friday. Tripura is “overpopulated and has no capacity to accommodate more people” in the state, he said. Chowdhury alleged that the BJP-IPFT government in the state has failed to address the problems of common people.

“The BJP had promised to provide adequate jobs under MGNREGA, but virtually there is no job in the rural areas. Tribals are now living under deplorable condition”, he said.

Innovative policing tactics required in Arunachal: Khandu Itanagar, Feb 7 (PTI): Stressing on the need for innovative policing tactics specific to diverse communities of Ar unachal Pradesh, Chief Minister Pema Khandu on Friday said that improved law and order will pave the way for development in the state.

Khandu, addressing police officers at an event here, said law and order challenges vary from each district and tribe and the force must act accordingly.

“The sentiments, ethos and sensitivities of the people are different which call for inclusive and innovative tactics in policing. I advise you all to take community leaders into confidence in all matters related to law and order,” he said.

He said that the pace of development will accelerate only in a peaceful environment. Khandu said with encounter killing of the person accused of murdering senior police officer Bomto Kamdak, arrests of drug peddlers and militants and seizures of a large number of stolen vehicles, the force has gained the trust of the people.

The chief minister assured budgetary support to strengthen the police and asked the officers to prior-

Imphal/Aizawl, Feb 7 (IANS): Amid fears over the novel coronavirus (2019nCoV) across the country, Manipur and Mizoram governments have imposed restrictions on imports of foodstuffs and other items from China, Myanmar and other South-East Asian countries, officials said on Friday.

Officials in Imphal said that the Manipur Health and Family Welfare Department has issued notification restricting on production, distribution, sale of any packed food products, which are not marked and labeled properly as per regulations or packed and produced in China, Myanmar and other SouthEast Asian countries.

“The Chinese food and various other products including second-hand or used clothes are sold in the bordering markets of IndiaMyanmar along Manipur.

People have been advised not to purchase or use these items,” the official said.

Meanwhile, a district official said that following the outbreak of N2019nCoV, the district authorities have decided to close the international trade route through the two border

villages under the border district of Ukhrul (in eastern Manipur) to Myanmar as a preventive measure from February 9.

“The villagers themselves also have decided to shut the Tusom-Somra road to prevent foreign traders from entering India as well as Indian traders to go to the border markets,” the official said.

An official in Aizawl said that the authorities in Mizoram districts along the Myanmar border also asked the people not to use the Chinese products specially the food and clothings.

Officials in Aizawl also said five people, who had returned to the state from China early January, have been kept under house quarantine in view of the outbreak of the deadly coronavirus in the neighbouring country. An official of Mizoram Health Department said though all the five persons did not show any sign of being infected with the virus and both of them tested negative for the deadly virus, they were put under house quarantine as a precautionary measure.

To check the threat of 2019-nCoV, Indian authori-

NSCN(U) cadre apprehended in Tirap district

First Aid Capsule at Mimbung, Mizoram AR rifleman held with drug worth Rs 11.50 cr in Mnp

An AR personnel imparting First Aid Capsule training to students.

M I MB U N G , F E B 7 : Aizawl battalion of Assam Rifles under the aegis of 23 Sect Assam Rifles /Inspector General of Assam Rifles (East) is organizing a three- day First Aid Capsule for students of Mimbung

English school at Mimbung from February 7 to 9.

A total of 35 students and 3 teachers of English School Mimbung attended the course on Friday in which classes were conducted on various com-

Jitendra Singh New Delhi, Feb 7 (PTI): The NDA government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi is giving tremendous focus for the overall development of the Northeastern region including that of infrastructure, Union Minister Jitendra Singh said on Friday.

This was conveyed by Singh when a six-member parliamentary delegation from Germnay, headed

by Jurgen Hardt, called on him here.

Singh, the Minister for the Development of the North Eastern Region (DoNER), said the central government is allocating 10 per cent of its resources to the region despite it having just 3.5 per cent population of the country and 7 per cent area.

He apprised the delegation about the tremen-

monly inflicted injuries and measures to prevent it. This course imparted basic health care tips to the attendees to protect themselves and their families from common water borne diseases which are frequent during monsoon and dry season.

Mimbung village is located in a far flung location of Saitual district with difficult terrain and dense jungle. Villagers often get injured while farming, fishing & hunting and only limited medical facilities are available. To educate the villagers on life saving and first aid medical activities, a special three-day first aid capsule is being conducted at Mimbung by 46 Assam Rifles.

The initiative by Assam Rifles were appreciated by villagers.

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has been introduced at all PRS & UTS counter all over NFR. To promote cashless transaction; 527 POS machines have already been installed for accepting of payments through digital transactions in both mobile and static catering units spreading all over NFR. As one of the pioneer Railways, Northeast Frontier Railway said its has successfully implemented Electronic Transmission of Railway Receipt (eT-

RR) on July 31, 2019 by generating the first Electronic Transmission of Railway Receipt (eT-RR) from ICDA, (Inland Container Depot, Amingaon) to CTKR (CONCOR Terminal KOPT Coal Dock Road). Again, on August 1, 2019, NFR generated eT-RR from Bongaigaon Refinery & Petrochemical (P) Ltd, an IOCL Siding.

The 1st eT-RR of private firm was generated from Dolgaon. RR (Railway Receipt) is a vital document; it

is like an acknowledgement of receipt of goods for transportation by rail. The owner of original Railway Receipt is supposed to be the owner of the goods.

The eT-RR system is also very secure, because at every step from generation to transmission to surrender of RR, electronic authentication is required through user IDs, passwords and through unique system generated Freight Number Record (FNR) and One Time Passwords (OTPs).

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IMPHAL, Feb 7: Police commandos in Manipur’s Thoubal district have arrested a personnel of Assam Rifles with a huge quantity of WY (World is Yours) tablet valued over Rs 11.50 crore in the international market.

A police source said that a total of 2,30,000 pieces of WY tablets in 23 packets was seized from the car the Assam Rifles personnel travelled in. The value of the seized drug was estimated at around Rs 11.50 crore in the international market. The source did not give the exact value of the seized contraband drug.

However, according to a source in the Narcotic Affairs of Border (NAB), the current value of a piece of WY tablet is Rs 500 in the international market and Rs 50 per piece in the local market. The Assam Rifles personnel arrested along with the contraband drug was identified as Yengkhom Bikram Singh (35) son of Y Chandramohon @ Mohon Singh of Moirangthem Leikai in Kakching district.

The police commandos who were on random vehicle checking duty along the Imphal-Moreh section of NH-102 detected the contraband drug in a Maruti Swift Dzire car (MN 01AG 2307), he came with.

The arrested is person reportedly belong to

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We, the Phusachodumi Women Welfare Organization extend our heartiest congratulations to Smt. HUZHOLU CHUZHO, daughter of Shri Vezhosayi Chuzho and Smt. Neikhonuo Chuzho of Phusachodu Village for her successful achievement to the post of Geo-Scientist (Under Geological Survey of India) conducted by UPSC in general category.

The Organization further wishes and pray to Almighty God to guide and grant her more success in all her future endeavours.

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The Zapami Village Government Employees’ Union heartily congratulate Mr. Melite Wetsah, S/O Lt. Welonyi Wetsah, for successfully clearing the Combined Geo-Scientist and Geologist Exam 2019 conducted by the Union Public Service Commission as Geologist.

The Union delightfully share the joy of his remarkable achievement and sincerely wishes him greater success in all future endeavors. May the Almighty God guide and bless him always.

NEISA WETSAH DAVID KHUTSO President, ZVGEU General Secy., ZVGEU

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

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Vice Chairman Secretary HCMC/CHC Tseminyu HCMC/CHC Tseminyu

Date : 07.02.2020

E-Procurement TENDER NOTICE

The Director, ICAR-NRC on Mithun, Medziphema, Nagaland invites online bid under two bids system through e-procurement from registered/well established/reputed firms for Procurement of Solar Pump with Accessories and Service of Milk Sample Analysis. Detail may be viewed from www. nrcmithun.res.in or https://eprocure.gov.in.

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We, the Health Communitisation Management Committee members and the Doctors/ Nurses and Staff of CHC Tseminyu convey our immense gratitude to the Department of Health & Family Welfare, Govt. of Nagaland and the District Health Authority Kohima for recognising the performance of Tseminyu CHC and awarding us the best Communitisation Management for the year 2019 on the occasion of the 71st Republic Day, 26 Jan' 2020. The award is a great encouragement and support to all the VHCs under Tseminyu HCMC/CHC, Kohima District.

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6 Assam Rifles. He was detained by a team of police commandos attached with Thoubal district police after an airbag containing 2,30,000 pieces of WY tablets packed in 23 packets was recovered from the car he was driving at Wangjing Bazar around 8.30 pm on Thursday.

He has been handed over to the Thoubal police station along with the seized items after lodging a case, the police source said.

There have been instances of security personnel and police personnel arrested with contraband drugs allegedly smuggled from Myanmar through Moreh, Manipur’s town at the border with Myanmar where official cross border trade is carried out between the two neighbouring countries. On the other hand, the seizure of the huge quantity of illegal drug from a security personnel, that too from the Assam Rifles was at a time when Manipur government was pressing the Union home ministry for replacement of Assam Rifles from manning the check posts on the national highways in Manipur.

On January 19 last, a

Pema Khandu itise proposals that can be implemented in the next five years. Home Minister Bamang Felix asked the police officers to work towards improving the intelligencegathering system.

He called for overhauling the special bureau of the state police.

“The budgetary allocation to the state police has been tripled to Rs 150 crore from Rs 50 crore,” Felix said.

Both Khandu and Felix stressed on the need to focus on the state capital region, where they said 90 per cent of law and order issues of the state occur.

The home minister said the ‘Hamara Arunachal Abhiyan’ is bringing the people closer to the police.

He said promotions and recruitments have substantially boosted the morale of the police personnel.

Assam Rilfes personnel arrested with 2.30 lakh pieces of contraband WY tablet in Manipur. personnel of the 12 Assam Rifles on duty at Khudengthabi Check Post man by the paramilitary force allegedly assaulted physically and molested a lady IPS officer at the check post. Though the Assam Rifles refuted

the allegation, following the incident, N Biren Singh-led BJP’s coalition government had taken a cabinet decision to take over the task of manning the check posts on the national highways in Manipur by the state police.

Dear Echu, Happy Birthday Echu, You are love of my life. As you celebrate your big day toady, may the light of this beautiful day fill your heart and make your life shine as bright as the sun.

From, your Senpai

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CORRIGENDUM

In reference to the Department Advertisement No.ED/HT/ADVT1/2015-16 dated 16/01/2020, the last date of submission of recruitment Forms is further extended to 29/02/2020 and the date of issuing the Admit Card shall be intimated in due course of time.

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MALIGAON, FEB 7: To promote digital transactions and ease of purchase of train tickets including local train tickets by commuters, NFR has taken various initiatives during last few months.

A press release by NFR Chief Public Relations Officer Subhanan Chanda stated that NFR had launched the Mobile Ticketing app on October 25, 2018 which is gaining popularity across N.F. Railway. The application is free to download. Registration can be done through mobile phone application or website (https://www. utsonmobile.indianrail.gov. in).

The release informed passengers that on the app, one can easily purchase platform tickets, season tickets and unreserved train tickets from any station to any destination without standing in queue by downloading the app in his or her mobile.

Passenger has to commence the journey within three hours from booking of the ticket. Renewal of season tickets can also be done easily by using this app.

However, booking a ticket using utsonmobile application inside the station premises is not permissible as a passenger should enter the Railway premises after purchasing the ticket.

Moreover, 178 POS machines have been provided at different PRS counters to facilitate & promote digital transactions. Universal Payment Interface (UPI)

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NATIONALIST DEMOCRATIC PROGRESSIVE PARTY (NDPP) MOKOKCHUNG REGION “Facta Non Verba”

Regd. No. 56/222/2017-17/PPS-I. E-mail: ndppmkgregion@gmail.com The Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party Mokokchung Region through this communique congratulates Shri. Sharingain Longkumer on being elected as the Speaker of 13th Nagaland Legislative Assembly by defeating the NPF Candidate by a margin of seven votes.

The NDPP Mokokchung Region expresses our heartfelt gratitude to the able leaderships of the Hon’ble Chief Minister Shri. Neiphiu Rio and the PDA Government for the commitment and their fullest support towards the newly elected Speaker.

The NDPP Mokokchung Region also thank the NDPP President, Shri. Chingwang Konyak and the PDA Partner for their unflinching support to Shri. Sharingain Longkumer Speaker of Nagaland Legislative Assembly.

The NDPP Mokokchung Region is confident that Shri. Sharingain Longkumer, Speaker Nagaland Legislative Assembly will fulfil the hope and aspiration of PDA Government to its highest end.

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I T A NAGAR , F E B 7 (AGENCIES): In Arunachal Pradesh, Security Forces have apprehended one NSCN(U) cadre in Tirap District on Wednesday.

Acting on a tip-off, Indian Army and State Police jointly launched an operation at Hukanjuri area and was successfully apprehended hardcore cadre. The cadre was in possession of point 32 mm Pistol and live ammunition.

“The successful operation gave a severe blow to the insurgent group by reinstalling the confidence of local populace in security forces in maintaining peace in the region,” said defence officials.

ties have set up screening and testing centres along the borders with Myanmar and Bangladesh.

A medical team comprising doctors and health staff since Tuesday has been Aconducting medical checkup at Zokhawthar (an IndiaMyanmar border checkpost in Champhai district of eastern Mizoram) for the travellers across the borders based on their health status and travel history.

Manipur Health and Family Welfare Department had also deployed medical officers along India-Myanmar border towns of Moreh and Behiang to screen all people -- both foreigners and Indians -- entering India after travelling from China or any other neighboring countries. Screening and testing centers are now also operational in the checkposts along India-Bangladesh borders with Tripura, Meghalaya and Mizoram.

Four Indian northeastern states of Tripura, Meghalaya, Mizoram and Assam share 1,880 km border with Bangladesh, while Mizoram, Manipur, Nagaland and Arunachal Pradesh share 1,640-km unfenced border with Myanmar.

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Situation on nCoV under control: Health Secy

New Delhi/ Pune, Feb 7 (IANS/PTI): The situation over the novel coronavirus is under control in the country and is being regularly monitored by the Prime Minister’s Office, Dr Harsh Vardhan, Union Minister of Health & Family Welfare and Cabinet Secretary on a daily basis,” Health Secretary Preeti Sudan said on Friday while chairing a video conference with officials.

The conference was attended by Health Secretaries from states and Union Territories along with senior officials from the ministries of Shipping, External Affairs, Civil Aviation, Tourism and Home Affairs.

It aimed at reviewing their preparedness for prevention and management of Novel Coronavirus. The Health Secretary also informed the officials that various precautionary measures had been undertaken in close coordination with the concerned ministries at the central level.

The secretary asked the states to enhance the awareness activities regarding the updated advisories.

Preeti Sudan

She advised that the States and UTs needed to stay on alert and be more vigilant.

For this purpose a portal has been put in place as a special surveillance web tool to monitor the cases on real time basis. This will also help for national-level monitoring. She advised that all the States/UTs need to fill the data accurately and in a timely manner.

She said that “Universal” screening for all flights from Singapore and Thailand, besides Hong Kong and China at earmarked aero-bridges, the new visa restrictions and advisories are issued in view of the emerging scenario globally.

“Ministry of Human Resource Development has

In rare move, word from PM Modi’s speech in RS expunged

nCoV: Chinese man quarantined after he throws up on flight

been requested to take adequate measures to spread awareness of hygiene among the students across the country. To which officials said that the states and UTs had been following the protocols and guidelines issued, in order to avoid any eventuality. They also informed the secretary that sufficient stocks for the Personal Protection Equipments and masks had been procured.

“Adequate IEC activities like hoardings at the State’s borders, pamphlet distribution, announcements etc are being undertaken to spread awareness about the symptoms and precautions” said one of the officials.

“The States bordering Nepal have informed that they have made all the necessary arrangements for screening of people transiting across the border.

Orientation of the medical personnel and health officials has been conducted regularly. Special Gram Sabhas are being organised to boost awareness and sensitisation regarding the Novel Coronavirus diseases, its symptoms, preventive

measures and reporting in the border villages.”

According to the Ministry, 1,275 flights and 1,39,539 passengers have been screened so far at 21 Airports. All 645 evacuees from Wuhan have been tested negative for nCoV. As of now 1232 samples have been tested and 1199 samples were found negative, 30 are under process and 3 samples tested positive (Kerala). 6599 persons are presently under community surveillance in 29 States and UTs. The Health Secretary urged that all the states needed to strengthen their rapid response teams to counter any eventuality.

Also there needs to be role clarity and robust administrative structures in place at all Districts.

Dr Ganga Khedkar, ‘G’ Scientist, Head of ECD (Epidemiology and Communicable Diseases) Division, Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) informed the health secretary that laboratory at Guwahati Medical College, Assam has also being utilised now for testing of Novel Coronavirus.

After ‘threat to life’ plea DSP Davinder sent to Kathua jail

Govt proposes jail term for ads promoting magic remedies

A Chinese man was on Friday admitted to a hospital here for possible exposure to novel coronavirus after he vomited on Pune-bound Air India flight from Delhi, officials said.

The passenger was isolated and shifted to the civicrun Naidu Hospital after the flight arrived at the Pune airport around 7 am, an Air India official said.

“The passenger was travelling from Delhi to Pune on Air India flight. He complained of nausea and vomited on board. After the plane landed at the Pune airport, he was immediately isolated and shifted to Naidu Hospital,” the official said.

Chief health officer of the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC), Dr Ramchandra Hankare, said the passenger is a Chinese national.

“On his arrival, he was isolated and taken to Naidu Hospital. His swab and blood samples have been sent to the National Institute of Virology (NIV) for analysis,” he said.

The plane was later sanitised, which delayed its return journey to Delhi.

“The flight, which was supposed to take off for Delhi around 7.40 am, got delayed as it was cleaned and sanitised,” an airport official said.

Naidu Hospital in Pune is one of the three hospitals in Maharashtra, where quarantine facilities have been set up to deal with the suspected cases of coronavirus.

No confirmed case of the deadly virus, which has so far killed 630 people in China, has been detected in Maharashtra yet.

The virus - which first emerged in Wuhan city in China’s central Hubei province - has spread to 25 countries including India (three confirmed cases have been reported from Kerala), the US and the UK.

NEW DELHI, FEB 7 (IANS): The Health and Family Welfare Ministry has proposed the draft amendment to the Drugs and magic Remedies (Objectionable Advertisements Act, 1954), with a stringent punishment of a jail term of up to five years and a fine of up to Rs 50 lakh for advertisements for magic remedies and drugs for fair skin, enhancing sexual performance, stammering, infertility in women, premature ageing and greying, increasing brain capacity among others.

The draft amendment has made several additions to the list of diseases, disorders, conditions covered in the Act. The Act says that medicines, “magic remedies” and products to cure any of these 78 diseases, disorders, conditions named should not be advertised.

The new additions include ads for drugs or treatment for enhancing sexual performance, sexual impotence, premature ejaculation and spermatorrhoea, fairness of skin, premature ageing, AIDS, improvement of memory, improvement in height of kids/adults, improvement in size of sexual organ, duration of sexual performance, premature graying of hair, stammering,

sterility in women, disorders of menstrual flow hysteria, power to rejuvenate, obesity, maintenance or improvement of the capacity of the human being for sexual pleasure, improvement in size and shape of the sexual organ and in duration of sexual performance, insanity, increase in brain capacity and improvement of memory and improvement in height of children/ adults.

Under the Act, the first conviction is punishable with imprisonment of up to six months or fine or both; and a subsequent conviction can result in imprisonment of up to a year or fine, or both.

The amendment proposes to increase the penalties. For the first conviction, the proposed punishment is imprisonment of up to two years and fine up to Rs 10 lakh. For subsequent conviction, the imprisonment may extend to five years with a fine of up to Rs 50 lakh.

The Ministry said the amendment is being made in order to keep pace with changing time and technology. It has been decided to solicit suggestions/comments/objections from the public/ stakeholders with regard to the said draft Bill.

Capital punishment for PSO for murder of wife, son of judge

EC issues show cause notice to Kejriwal

Delhi polls: Record Rs 53-cr haul of cash, jewellery, liquor

NEW DELHI, FEB 7 (PTI): In a rare move, a word from Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s speech in the Rajya Sabha was expunged from records.

Rajya Sabha Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu expunged the word used by Modi on Thursday during his reply to the discussion on a motion thanking the President for his address to the joint sitting of the both Houses of Parliament at the start of the Budget session.

“The Chairman was pleased to direct expunction of a certain portion of the proceedings of Rajya Sabha dated February 6 at about 6.20 and 6.30 pm,” a statement issued by the Rajya Sabha Secretariat said.

Naidu routinely expunges any remark found unsuitable from Rajya Sabha’s records after going through the proceedings of the day. This has been done on several occasions but

rarely was any remark of Modi expunged.

Modi had made the remark as he launched a strong defence of the NPR, saying the country’s population register was being updated with demographic information for better targeting of government’s welfare schemes. He had targeted the opposition Congress for taking a U-turn, saying the party had brought the NPR in 2010 and was later updated in 2015 by adding photographs and some biometric information.

Naidu also expunged a word from Leader of the Opposition and senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad’s statement made after Modi had finished his speech. Azad had stated that the Congress was in favour of giving citizenship to persecuted migrants from Pakistan but was against framing of a law based on religion.

PSO Mahipal (middle) allegedly shot the wife and son of the judge on October 13 last year. (File)

GURGAON, FEB 7 ( AGENCIES): A day after the Personal Security Officer (PSO) who opened fire on the wife and son of an Additional Sessions Judge in 2018 was convicted in the crime, a Gurgaon Court Friday sentenced him to death under Section 302 (murder) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).

“The court has awarded him capital punishment in 302 IPC. In addition, under IPC 201 (disappearance of evidence of offence), he has been awarded 5 years rigorous imprisonment and Rs 10,000 fine, and in addition to it, he has been sentenced to 3 years imprisonment and

Rs 5,000 fine under Section 27 of the Arms Act,” Public Prosecutor Anurag Hooda said. The accused, Mahipal, had been convicted by a Gurgaon court on Thursday, with the date regarding the Quantum of the sentence being fixed for today afternoon.

The incident occurred on October 13, 2018, at the busy Arcadia Market in Gurgaon’s Sector 49, in broad daylight. The PSO, who had been deployed with judge Kishan Kant Sharma, was accompanying his wife, Ritu, and 18-year-old son, Dhruv, to the market. When they finished their work and returned to the car, an

argument ensued, following which he allegedly pulled out his service pistol and opened fire at both of them.

While the judge’s wife succumbed to her injuries the same night, her son died in hospital 10 days later.

Videos of the incident which had surfaced, the PSO could be seen trying to haul Dhruv’s body into the car in which the family had arrived, before eventually giving up and fleeing in the vehicle. However, He was arrested nearly 2 hours after the crime from Gwal Pahari.

The chargesheet in the case was filed on December 26, 2018, and charges were framed on January 9, 2019 with the final hearing in the matter on February 3.

During the court hearing, the defense argued that the incident was a result of “accidental firing”, whereas, the prosecution relied on CCTV footage, the accounts of two eyewitnesses, and forensic evidence to prove that Mahipal “shot down two innocent people without any provocation”.

Arvind Kejriwal

New Delhi, Feb 7 (PTI): The Election Commission on Friday issued a show cause notice to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal for posting a “Hind-Muslim” video on his Twitter handle to target the opposition, saying prima facie it has the potential of disturbing communal harmony.

Kejriwal has been asked to respond to the notice before 5.00 pm on Saturday, the day of polling in Delhi.

The video purportedly shows that other parties and media are allegedly talking of “Hindu-Muslim”, “CAA” and “mandir-masjid”, but Kejriwal was talking of development, schools and women safety.

New Delhi, Feb 7 (IANS): Authorities have made a record haul of cash, jewellery, liquor and even drugs valued at nearly Rs 53 crore -- including over Rs 10 crore in cash -- in the run-up to February 8 Delhi Assembly elections, a senior election officer said on Friday.

The haul was made between January 6 and February 5, Delhi CEO Dr Ranbir Singh told IANS. Liquor valued at over Rs 2.63 crore, drugs/psychotropic substances valued at over Rs 5.87 crore and jewellery valued at over Rs 32.18 crore were seized during this period. According to official figures, 402 cases were registered under the Arms Act and 440 persons arrested in the run-up to the elections. A total of 1,021 cases were registered under the Excise Act and 1,029 persons arrested. As many as 7,397 licensed weapons too were seized. A total of 534 FIRs were registered for the violation of the model code of conduct during the period, including a maximum of 37 against the Aam Aadmi Party. Ranbir Singh said

Police detained Kailash Vijayvargiya and Mukul Roy (R) during the BJP ‘Abhinandan Yatra’ rally. (PTI)

Kolkata, Feb 7 (PTI): BJP national general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya and senior leaders Mukul Roy and Joy Prakash Majumder were on Friday taken to preventive custody during the start of a pro-CAA rally here.

Police said the rally was being held without permission, but the saffron party asserted that it has informed the authorities about it.

The Mamata Banerjee government has started an “autocratic” rule in West Bengal but the BJP cannot be intimidated, Vijayvargiya told reporters while being taken to a police vehicle at Talligunge Phari area.

“We were taking out a rally in support of the

CAA which has received overwhelming support from all over the country. But the police of Mamata Banerjee is not allowing us to take out a peaceful, democratic rally,” said BJP’s West Bengal minder.

Vijayvargiya said they won’t resist being taken to the city police headquarters “as we believe in democratic protest.”

Police sources said the three, along with several supporters, were taken into custody as the party was organising the rally without permission.

BJP sources, however, said they had given prior intimation to police for the rally from Tollygunje phari to Hazra Crossing.

Protest onboard Indigo flight against ban on Kunal Kamra

S r i nagar , F e b 7 (IANS): Disgraced Jammu and Kashmir Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Davinder Singh who was sent to 15-day judicial custody, will be put up in a Kathua jail instead of a Jammu one, after he raised “threat to life” alarms.

According to sources Singh pleaded for sending him to the Heeranagar jail and told that there is a threat to his life in the Kotbalwal Jail which housed militants who were arrested in operations led by him.

A Special NIA court in Jammu on Thursday sent Singh and four others to judicial custody.

Singh was on Friday sent to the Heeranagar jail while the other four, including Hizbual Mujahideen commander Naveed Babu have been put up in the Kotbalwal jail in Jammu.

According to sources, the NIA is carrying out investigations after raids at multiple locations, including Singh’s residences in Kashmir. Sources indicate that questioning of Singh will be done in Jammu and there was no plan to shift him to Delhi for now.

They also said that Singh’s phone is being examined for extracting deleted WhatsApp chat.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks in the Rajya Sabha in New Delhi. RSTV.PTI

5 Vijayvargiya, other BJP leaders detained in Kolkata before rally

VA R A NA S I , F EB 7 (AGENCIES): Following the criticism received by IndiGo airlines for imposing a flying ban against stand up comedian Kunal Kamra, some passengers travelling by the airlines protested against the same inside a flight, reports The Quint .

Three women environmental activists protested against the ban by holding banners on an Indigo flight, that read, “We condemn IndiGo’s ban on Kunal Kamra #YouDivideWeMultiply.” The photographs from this inflight protest are now going viral on social media.

It is reported that the plane was still on tarmac when they stood up to protest. Although, when IndiGo’s security ground staff requested them to take their seats, the activists obliged.

The activists, seen in viral images, were reportedly flying on an Indigo flight from Varanasi to Delhi. Priya Pillai, Medha Kapoor, Debayan Gupta and one another person staged this protest, while their friend Munna Jha took pictures Celebrities like Anurag K a s hya p a n d A s h i s h

that after the model code of conduct came into force on January 6 for the Assembly elections, the seizures were made possible as the Election Department had geared up its functioning to ensure free and fair elections.

Protesters holding placards onboard Indigo flight from Varanasi to New Delhi.

Shakya also commented against the move by the airlines. Filmmaker Anurag Kashyap refused to fly with IndiGo and other airlines which have imposed a flying ban o Kamra, following his confrontation with Arnab Goswami on an IndiGo flight, which went viral on social media. In Kolkata, for a film festival, Kashyap said that he will only fly Vistara or Air Asia.

Celebrities like Anurag K a s hya p a n d A s h i s h Shakya also commented against the move by the airlines. Filmmaker Anurag Kashyap refused to fly with IndiGo and other airlines which have imposed a flying ban o Kamra, following his confrontation with Arnab Goswami on an IndiGo flight, which went viral on

social media. In Kolkata, for a film festival, Kashyap said that he will only fly Vistara or Air Asia.

Following his confrontation with Goswami, IndiGo suspended Kamra for six months. This was followed by Air India, which barred him “until further notice” to “discourage such behaviour”, as well as SpiceJet and Go Air which decided to suspend him from flying with the airline till further notice on 29 January.

After the suspensions, Kamra issued a statement saying it was “not shocking at all” that he was being banned from these airlines for “exercising my right to free speech”. Kamra also issued a legal notice against IndiGo.

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Tip of the iceberg

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hen the Nagaland Lokayukta accorded sanction for prosecution of a retired commissioner and secretary of the Tourism department on allegations that the former bureaucrat had back dated the appointments of tourist officers and tourist assistants during 2018 when the Model Code of Conduct was in place; there was mixed reactions to the development. Largely many welcomed the Lokayukta’s action as it sent a strong message that that even a retired high ranking government servant cannot escape the long arm of the law. The other side, as ventilated by the opposition NPF welcomed the move, and hoped the Lokayukta will also deal with corruption effectively but asked whether the Lokayukta will use the same yardstick on earlier cases and not be driven purely by political vendetta. Close on the heels of the matter being highlighted in the media, the Nagaland Public Rights Awareness and Action Forum (NPRAAF) while welcoming the Lokayukta’s move threw a challenge to take suo moto notice of its press statement over the appointments of Tourist Officers under deputation in the Tourism department. NPRAAF threw the gauntlet at the Lokayukta to take suo moto notice of allegations of irregularities as contained in its press release on the above. In the press release, NPRAAF also alleged that the appointments were made when the Model Code of Conduct came into force in December-February 2008.

What could be understood from the press release was that one of those appointed as Tourist Officer, was a graduate teacher on deputation then absorbed in the Tourism department without the post being routed through NPSC. What is more, the NPRAAF alleged that the appointments were post dated from the date of appointments in 2006 and 2008 to August 5,2010.

It was also alleged that the regularisation of the appointments were done without mandatory sanction from the P&AR department. It is now incumbent upon the Lokayukta to take cognisance of the allegations made by NPRAAF and ascertain the facts. It is also expected that the Lokayukta will make public the findings of the allegations since NPRAAF has brought the issue to public domain. With regard to appointments in the government, it may be recalled that backdoor appointments have been rampant for decades. Over the years, the services of those appointed through backdoor to posts that had no sanction from the government were eventually regularised. This newspaper had carried a series of reports on backdoor appointments that had led to over employment in the government. According to official sources, the ‘excess’ number of employees in Nagaland is around 70,000; which is 50% of around 1,40,000 government employees. The figure of ‘excess’ employment is based on the recommendation of the 13th Finance Commission that the salary component ought to be well within 35% of the budget. However the figure of excess number of employees continued to rise from around 40,000 to 50,000 and now to 70,000. In 2011-12, the total number of state government employees was 1,10,038 which leapfrogged to 1,20,819 by 2012-13, revealing an increase of 10,781 employees appointed within a year. By 2013-14. Further it was also revealed that another 4791 employees were appointed taking the figure to 1,25,309 serving employees during the same period. Certainly if the Lokayukta takes the call, it would be a herculean task to end the irregularity and illegality of backdoor appointments.

DailyDevotion Spiritual Dejection

We were hoping that it was He who was going to redeem Israel. Indeed, besides all this, today is the third day since these things happened. —Luke 24:21

Every fact that the disciples stated was right, but the conclusions they drew from those facts were wrong. Anything that has even a hint of dejection spiritually is always wrong. If I am depressed or burdened, I am to blame, not God or anyone else.

Dejection stems from one of two sources— I have either satisfied a lust or I have not had it satisfied.

In either case, dejection is the result. Lust means “I must have it at once.” Spiritual lust causes me to demand an answer from God, instead of seeking God Himself who gives the answer. What have I been hoping or trusting God would do? Is today “the third day” and He has still not done what I expected? Am I therefore justified in being dejected and in blaming God? Whenever we insist that God should give us an answer to prayer we are off track. The purpose of prayer is that we get ahold of God, not of the answer. It is impossible to be well physically and to be dejected, because dejection is a sign of sickness. This is also true spiritually.

Dejection spiritually is wrong, and we are always to blame for it. We look for visions from heaven and for earth-shaking events to see God’s power.

Even the fact that we are dejected is proof that we do this. Yet we never realize that all the time God is at work in our everyday events and in the people around us. If we will only obey, and do the task that He has placed closest to us, we will see Him. One of the most amazing revelations of God comes to us when we learn that it is in the everyday things of life that we realize the magnificent deity of Jesus Christ.

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The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits. ~ Unknown

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Post-mortem

Has Govt overlooked Bipartite Settlement?

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inance Minister rose to present the Union Budget 2020-21. 30 Lakh Crore Expenditure Budget is tabled in the parliament for India’s aspiration towards economic development for its caring society. The government has committed various schemes for improvement in the quality of life.

The budget has estimated nominal growth of GDP at 10% while the said macroeconomic indicator kept falling from 8.2% (16-17) to 7.2% (17-18), 6.8% (18-19), 5% (19-20).

India is still the 5th largest economy in the world in terms of GDP at current US $ Trillion after US, China, Japan and Germany. It has initiated structural reforms in GST to abolish multiple taxes and bring uniformity.

But our economy slows down despite those tracking progress in numbers. Incidentally there was nation-wide 2 days strike on the budget day for want of pay revision by 12 Lakh Public Sector Bank (PSB) employees. Has the government overlooked them as human and compassionate? On the other

hand New Delhi is in the process of implementing one nation one pay day and is looking at uniform minimum wage across sectors which will safeguard better livelihood of workers. Bank employees are often accountable for small mistakes. Should there be incentive for high risk job? Every Cashier in a bank faces lose out cash at the counter often due to cash handling mistakes. Shouldn’t they be protected?

Indian Banks’ Association is entrusted under the Chief Labour Commissioner for Bipartite wage settlement that takes place every five years. The 11th Bipartite for which negotiation is currently on that is due from November 1, 2017. Performance-Linked Incentives (PLI) or variable pay is set to become the buzzword for PSB employees. It is well-accepted across industries including private banks, but not in public sector banks. The series of talks have continuously been failed and there is strike happening.

They go to road and even loss salary for a strike to protect economic safe-

guard. From time to time Govt cautioned employees to not to go flash strike for being in the public utility sector.

The banking sector has made it possible for India’s unique leadership in digital revolution globally. The seamless delivery to citizens electronically by the service industry helps to improve infrastructure for social security schemes.

From Demonitization to PMJDY banks make the country digitally empowered for inclusive growth.

Information Technology and Electronic Fund Transfer have emerged as the twin pillars of modern banking development.

B e s i d e s P ay m e n t Banks for alternative channel after Internet and Mobile Banking, banks have been the primary source of funding for the infrastructure sector. The Global Financial Crisis 2007-08 has hit our country too but banking in India has displayed the ability to recover from recession faster than US or any other developed country. Does India surely move ahead with its vision to become an economic powerhouse

in the next decade?

Despite all good works are done, the government kept a long silence over the issues of wage revision. The profit by PSBs is shared to RBI/Government.

At the same time banks are responsible if incur loss. Nirav Modi scripted largest bank scam while Vijay Mallya used Kingfisher Airlines to launder siphoning of funds.

The top thirty defaulters’ accounts are for one-third of gross NPAs worth Rs 9.49 lakh crore. Banks have to open Zero Balance Account as per government guidelines of Financial Inclusion despite there are a cost for maintenance.

To boost business, Govt directs banks for loans without security.

Funds are given to industry as country needs to prosper at government direction but there is NPA. Should defaulters name be public and declare loan defaulters criminal for wasting public money? RBI/ Government must compel NPA defaulters to return money/asset. Now the amalgamations of PSBs (OBC, PNB and UBI), (Al-

lahabad and Indian) and (BoB, Vijaya and Dena) are in the process. There must have provisions to safeguard the rights of workers.

So far IBA has offered 12.25% wage hike as adequate but United Forum of Bank Unions, the umbrella organisation of nine leading bank associations did not agree. Their demand is for 20% wage hike on Pay Slip Component.

The unions are also demanding merger of Special Allowance with Basic Pay, scrapping of NPS, updating of pension, implementation of family pension and allocation of staff welfare fund based on operating profit. IBA tactfully added the Performance Linked Incentive (2.74%) and five days Additional Encashment of Leave (1.37%) with Payslip Component (12.25%) totalling 16.36% (12.25%+1.37%+2.74%).

Few banks already offer rewards and incentives for individual employees based on their performance on certain business parameters. But the new structure would be based on performance of banks.

When the world is moving towards 4-day workweek, Indian bankers are still fighting for 5 day banking where IBA denied it for the sack of tough times of economy.

On the other hand RBI, DFS, CVC, NCLT, Ministry and other Central/State Dept are working in 5 day week. Are they not serious for country’s economy slowdown? Neighbouring Bangladesh follows five day working.

Many organizations in Europe are cutting work weeks though not wages from 36 hours (5 days) to 28 hours (4 days) to reduce burnout and make workers happier, productive and committed to employers.

France implemented a reduction of working hours (less than 35 hours) almost 20 years ago to create better work-life balance for the nation.

Leading today’s trend is the Netherlands, where the average weekly working time is about 29 hours, the lowest of any industrialized nation. Can India’s think tanks be truly effective? Should bankers go for regulated working hours?

Kamal Baruah

New idea of India: Secularism of common aspirations takes shape

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ake allowance for poetic license, but the mood that the protest movement against CAA, NRC, NPR has maintained this past month would have thrilled the stalwarts of the Progressive Writers’ Movement of which Majrooh Sultanpuri and Faiz Ahmad Faiz were key figures. In fact, Faiz’s poem ‘Hum Dekhenge’, has clearly become the movement’s signature song. By singing the Kannada version at the Bengaluru Town Hall, M.D. Pallavi may well have inaugurated a trend in cultural commerce.

Faiz in Maithili, Bhojpuri has percolated down to villages and hamlets.

Since the movement has kept political parties at a distance, it is becoming possible for diverse elements of civil society to embrace it. Even the most conservative groups have accorded hospitality to Faiz. The dominant song at a social event of High Court judges, which I attended was ‘Hum Dekhenge’. No movement on this scale has so spontaneously spread across the length and breadth of the country.

That the unprovoked police attack on students huddled over their books at the Jamia Library ignited the agitation is common knowledge. How the videography and transmission of live visuals of the brutality disturbed the nation has a small story attached to it. It was entirely the imagination of Anwar Jamal Kidwai who, as Vice Chancellor, inaugurated the Institute of Mass Communications at Jamia in 1982. Bollywood, theatre, Doordarshan and countless of channels were all manned substantially by students trained at Jamia.

Since the Institute of Mass Communications is the university’s flagship, students across the campus are familiar with its students and, by association, with videography. This explains the high quality footage of the events of Jamia which fired the nation’s imagination.

There has always existed a shade of uninstitutionalized apartheid, a wariness in visiting colonies and ghettos across communal lines. Every year during Ramadan I face, not resistance, but a lazy reluctance from friends to visit Jama Masjid to share the festive atmosphere.

I have so far failed. For one ‘sehri’ or the meal at dawn after which the fasting begins, I personally ferried Swami Agnivesh and Lord Meghnad Desai.

At the other end of New Delhi, the image of Batla House near Jamia has been sketched on our minds by the electronic media as a combat zone where encounters take place. To correct that image, visit the nearby Shaheen Bagh today.

Breaking down the apartheid of the mind has been a singular achievement of the televised nationwide protests led by students and youth. Another stereotype the protests have shattered is an image of cloistered Indian women, those in hijab and the ones in more cosmopolitan gear.

Indeed, a heartwarming fact has been the leadership provided by women -- articulate, dignified and focused. Standing upright for the National anthem mornings and evenings at Shaheen Bagh, and reading the Preamble to the Constitution like they had erstwhile read a religious texts -- all of this is exhilarating, particularly

after a depressing 2019.

The secularism this movement promises has on its visage a refreshing sincerity, compared to the stale, withered tokenism of recent decades. The secularism of a common struggle and aspirations is what India’s first war of independence had set into motion in 1857.

With the British in control, the freedom movement never quite rediscovered that �lan. Post Partition, a pall hung over the practice of secularism -- a situation promoted and exploited by politicians. The current youth movement transcends gender, community, caste and language. It is defined by its simplicity, absence of pretense, and hypocrisy. It stands out like a lotus in a pond of murky politics.

The lotus must retain its pristine purity. The movement must remain aloof from the discredited political formations.

Only then will it gather momentum. The critical mass will then grow. The movement’s demands, because they are honest, have already caused politicians to ponder.

Look, how protection of democracy and the Constitution have become the centre piece of all discourse.

Since all social and economic strata are joining the movement, a resounding call for social justice is unlikely to invite a caste/class backlash. The movement will have to be sensitive to that call. Sectarian nationalism will have to slowly give way to what Tilak and Maulana Hasrat Mohani meant by ‘Swaraj’ which embodied a notion of ‘sovereignty’ which had a powerful anti imperial thrust. Since the initial tussle has been with a formation

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he pristine and serene A handful of young, dove, common myna, tree However, difficult to topography mesmer- educated Nagas are com- pie, drongo, cuckoo, golden resist, everyone should avoid izes any nature lover ing out desperately to save oriole, shrike, chestnut-tailed bush-meat on the other who visits Nagaland from the wildlife. Some village starling etc., during the last hand, as it is a well-known outside. The cordial hospi- councils are also prohibiting few months in Patkai cam- career of the germs of many tality of the ever welcoming hunting in their jurisdic- pus. These birds could be diseases. Moreover, birds are Naga people will elevate tion in support of them. hardly seen before. the indispensable parts of them even more.

Community conservation is Already, a significant the Mother Nature whose However, one weird consolidating gradually. number of tree sparrows, healthy population signithing would always stick Visible results are in warblers, tits, munias, red fies the well being of the into the minds of those: the progression. The iconic con- vented bulbuls, wagtails, environment too. uneasy silence of the vast servation story of amur red water hens, magpie robins, I appeal to the governhilly greenery. Yes, till the falcon of Doyang, Wokha sunbirds, pond heron, king- ment of Nagaland to impose recent past, bird calls were and bat conservation of fishers etc., are proliferating an umbrella ban on air-gun scarcely heard in the dark & Mimi village, Kiphire are here in the campus for quite and gaming culture at the deep jungles here. the proud testimony of such some time. earliest. If requires, stringent All the wildlife includ- developments.

The lucky one can even laws should be enforced. ing the birds had been disAt this juncture, I must hear the calls of the mounThe civil society orappearing sharply from the appreciate personally the tain eagles and red junglejungles of Nagaland due to relentless, silent but lone ef- fowls also sometimes on ganizations including the the rampant, uncontrolled forts of Dr. Chijamo Kikon the hilltop adjacent to the church bodies also have hunting and poaching. No at Patkai Christian College campus. I was a proficient a lot to do in this regard wildlife protection act had campus, Chümoukedima, bird shooter during my early collectively. The student been capable to keep them who is a die-heart naturalist. young-hood which eventu- community should also alive. Even some sophisti- Due to his persistent care, a ally turned me into a bird- get involved into, to spread cated people are still seen visible fraction of the new lover in the course of time. the consciousness among arguably justifying hunting Campus, Patkai has been My personal experi- the masses. I hope all the in the name of customary turning into a naturally ence taught me that bird- wildlife and birds will reaptradition till today. unbounded aviary where watching (Ornithology) is pear soon in this beautiful But of course, to our birds can be seen flocking an enormously fantastic paradise. good fortune, the situation is and singing freely in good hobby which inculcates in Ranjan Das changing otherwise slowly, numbers. I myself have one’s mind, a lasting sense Patkai Campus, Chuunderway. witnessed birds like spotted of jubilation. mukedima- Seithekema Reader’s note: Articles or letters published in any of the columns do not reflect the view of this

committed to a unitary system, the idea of federalism will automatically creep into a renewed idea of India as protests grow.

The Sangh Parivar must be baffled by the upsurge. The RSS-BJP combine completely mixed up religious fervour with communalism. Religious fervour was mollified once the Supreme Court permitted the construction of the Ram temple. In a sense, the bird that laid the saffron egg was dead.

The Modi-Shah duet are under all sorts of pressure. The Congress Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh, Bhupesh Baghel has, in an interview to to a TV channel, set the cat among the pigeons: the contradictory statements on, say, the NRC are a function of a growing divide between Modi and Shah, he says. Uddhav Thackeray, meanwhile, has compared police action in JNU and Jamia with the November 25, 2008 terrorist attack on Mumbai.

The BJP will, of course, extract comfort from the opposition disarray. A coherent opposition is only possible if the Congress house ever acquires some order. This can only happen if the party leadership takes courage in its hands and holds elections to all key posts. A fixation on the Gandhi parivar will remain a huge road block to opposition unity.

The opposition, sandwiched between a weakening BJP and a growing youth movement, will seek salvation in the regions. Federalism will be strengthened, which is just as well.

Saeed Naqvi (saeednaqvi@hotmail. com) IANS

Reader’s Post Pan-Naga Hoho: Its relevance Sir,

Nagas have a myriad of organizations, associations, forums all in the name of unity but in reality, the more unions, organizations we have the more divisive we become. It is because the interest of group overwhelms the common.

Mention maybe made of all 16 tribal organisations of Nagaland, 40 plus Nagas outside Nagaland, western, eastern, southern, northern of the same tribes, CNTC, NTC, TPO, ENPO, etc. etc., the so call civil societies. Now think of the political groups-NSCN (I-M), NSCN (K), NSCN (R), NSCN (U), NNC (Accordist, Non-Accordist) etc., all in the name of freedom and liberty.

Numerous service and students, youth, women associations, contractors, suppliers, business, ward, colony associations, GB federation, and so on and so forth.

Now after more than half a century of turmoil and struggle, a flicker of hope for solution is seen at the end of the tunnel and the citizens are happy but to our dismay some “Rhetorics” are trying their best to hinder and blot out the inking of the final solution by imaginary and abstract appreciations.

Shiloh Kath, Burma Camp, Dimapur. newspaper nor that of the Editor in any manner.

Delhi ready for assembly polls today

This is nearly four times the number of CAPF personnel deployed during the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, he added.

There are 13,750 polling booths, besides one auxiliary booth, located at 2,689 locations across Delhi.

“As far as critical polling stations are concerned, there are 516 locations and 3,704 booths in that category,” Singh said.

Besides police security, polling stations falling in the “critical category” get paramilitary cover. Activities will be monitored through webcasting, he said.

Police and election machinery are on “extra vigil” and assessing the situation all the time across the national capital, he added.

Security personnel kept guard at strong rooms storing EVMs. Election staff carried EVMs and other

Oppn slams PDA over governor’s address (From p-1) He also said many Naga civil societies played significant roles in bringing the talks to near conclusion as per the governor’s address.

Swu spoke against any organisation or individual from playing any role in the peace process as it could only create confusion and delay the final settlement.

He said if at all, such organisations and individuals may play a role for strengthening and encouraging the NNPGs to unite and raise a united voice to the government of India.

Swu also said since the governor had stated that negotiations have successfully concluded it would be productive if the government of India disclose to Nagas and all stakeholders what had been agreed or negotiated as it would help clear all doubts and assumptions and protect the process from misconception.

On CAA, Swu said the expression of resentment by some had transformed into a nationwide movement now and urged the State government to review its stand and withdraw the Assembly resolution supporting CAA of February 23, 2019.

He accused the PDA government of denigrating Naga people’s image by supporting the Citizenship Amendment Act just to be in the good book of the Central government.

Re f e r r i n g t o N a galand Post reports, Swu observed that, besides political parties, State governments, universities, unions, associations, student bodies, human rights organisations both within and outside the country, religious bodies, legal fraternity and six of the largest political groups in European Parliament and United Nations Commission for Human Rights (UNHRC) had stated Citizenship Amendment Act was “discriminatory” in nature and “dangerously divisive” and had called for repealing the discriminatory provisions.

On Register of Indigenous Inhabitants of

Nagaland (RIIN), he remarked that listing names of indigenous inhabitants for identification and making a master list could not protect or safeguard the rights and identity of indigenous people.

Swu said the justification put forward by the State government that RIIN would prevent issuance of false indigenous certificates to non-indigenous people was misleading, stressing strengthening the existing laws was the need of the hour instead of spending time and resource to find alternative means that would only lead to incurring of huge financial cost.

Also taking part in the debate, NPF MLA Kuzholuzo Azo Nienu observed that despite the peace talks, there was social and political unrest in the State.

He also questioned the silence of the government on recruitments by various underground groups after October 31, 2019.

He said anticipation for a solution had kept alive insurgency problem and multiple taxations, adding the word “close” had confused the citizens.

Azo asked the government if the governor’s assertion that negotiations had been successfully concluded was true, or in case there was any hidden agenda, it should be revealed to the MLAs. Calling for informing all factions that Nagas in Manipur would be accommodated under Naga Autonomous Council, Nagas in Arunachal Pradesh under autonomous council and Nagas in Assam under district council, Azo said accommodating all the factions in Nagaland could lead to grave situation and so the truth must be spelled out.

On Citizenship Amendment Act, Azo said expecting ILP or Article 371 (A) to save the Nagas was foolish. He cautioned that the Central government would bulldoze Citizenship Amendment Act and spell the death of the constitution.

Taking part in the debate, NPF member Dr

Chotisuh Sazo extended support to the amendments moved by his party colleague Imkong Imchen.

He also asked Rio how close Naga political issue was towards solution as always claimed.

While appreciating the negotiating parties, Sazo said the House must urge them to take all sections of the people into confidence to avoid dissension in future.

He also stressed that solution should be inclusive and honourable whereby durable peace would reign in the land.

He also hit out at the government for the panic situation in Nagaland in October 2019 when Dimapur airport was taken over

by Indian Air Force for some time for jet fighters to practise day and night operations over Nagaland even as Army personnel intensively patrolled villages and raided houses.

He said PDA government had instructed its administrative officials to remain in station, while leave of police personnel were cancelled except on medical ground and police battalions asked to stock sufficient rations for two to three months, etc.

He asked the government whether creating such war-like situation was meant to press upon the NPGs to conclude the peace talks on or before October 31, 2019 and today, the governor claiming that talks have successfully concluded?

Sazo demanded that as elected representative of people and also as stakeholders, the MLAs deserved to know the outcome of the talks and asked the government to explain the meaning of “successfully concluded” and “we could be very close to it”.

Further, he pointed out that Article 371(A) and ILP did not protect the Nagas as even some of the clauses that were enshrined in the Article were not implemented in toto by the Centre and also many clauses of the 16 Points Agreement still not implemented.

Cautioning that if

gover nment of India scrapped BEFR 1873, Nagas would be left with no option and so insisted that the house pass the NPF sponsored resolution to oppose Citizenship Amendment Act NDPP legislators S Pangnyu Phom and Toshi Wungtung also took part in the debate and supported the governor’s speech.

As many legislators could not participate in the debate, newly-elected NLA speaker Sharingain Longkumer announced that the debate would continue on February 10.

New Delhi, Feb 7 (IANS): Prime Minister Narendra Modi had announced the 15 member trust for the construction of the Ram Temple in Ayodhya in Parliament on Wednesday but a controversy has erupted about the representation of the committee.

Some BJP leaders have raised exclusion of OBC members in the trust. Two former party Chief Ministers, Kalyan Sinagh and Uma Bharti, who were in forefront in the Ram Mandir agitation and have been facing cases in the CBI court, have sought reservations for them on the committee.

“Not just Dalits but backwards too should get representation in the Ram Mandir Trust as they are as staunch Ram Bhakts,” said Kalyan Singh, who was Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister when the Babri Masjid was razed in 1992. Now sources close to Dalit leaders have said that they are contemplating the matter to challenge in the court as the “government body should adhere to the policy of reservation” in which adequate representation of SCs, STs and OBCs is required. But they are talking to legal experts if the constitution of a trust can be challenged or not, said a source. The Dalit leaders have been affirmative after the court order on rebuilding of Ravidas Temple in Delhi.

NEW DELHI, FEB 7 (AGENCIES): As Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the Lok Sabha in an over hour-long speech on February 6, he attacked the Cong ress and the Left and spoke about the controversial Citizenship Amendment Act. He also spoke about the revocation of Article 370, which gave Jammu and Kashmir a special status under the Constitution, a scroll.in report stated.

During his address, Modi attributed the following quote to former chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir Omar Abdullah: “The abrogation of Article 370 will bring a massive earthquake that it will divide Kashmir from India.”

Abdullah has been under house arrest for the past six months. On Thursday, officials said that their detention had been extended as he and another former chief minister, Mehbooba Mufti, were booked under the harsh Public Safety Act (PSA).

As it turns out, Prime Minister Modi was actually quoting an article from a satirical website “Faking News”. The website had published the exact quote on May 28, 2014.

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The day before this satirical piece was published, Abdullah had posted a tweet about Article 370 and the Modi government. The tweet suggested that Jammu and Kashmir would not be a part of India if Article 370 ceases to exist. This is the closest statement by Abdullah Alt News could find compared to Modi’s statement. However, there is no mention of an earthquake. That word appears only in the Faking News article.

A Google search does not throw up any reports in which Abdullah has been quoted making the statement cited by Modi.

Furthermore, an advanced search on Twitter in both English and Hindi using keywords from Modi’s claim only throws up references to the Faking News’ article and nothing else.

“There were statements made by former chief ministers of Jammu and Kashmir that were unacceptable. These are the leaders who don’t trust the Kashmiri people, which is why they used such a language. But, we trusted Kashmiris and abrogated Article 370. Omar Abdullah said the abrogation would trigger a massive earthquake that will separate Kashmir from India,” PM Modi said in the Lok Sabha on Thursday.

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(66,80,277), service voters (11,608), third gender voters (869), and senior citizens (aged 80 and above) voters (2,04,830), officials said.

The bitterly fought high-octane campaign that lasted for over three weeks ended at 6 pm on Thursday, just 38 hours before the start of voting for the high-stakes Delhi assembly election.

There are 672 candidates in the fray for 70 assembly seats.

Tight security arrangements have been made across the national capital and police force and paramilitary personnel have been deployed.

Special Commissioner of Police (Intelligence) Praveer Ranjan, had earlier said 190 companies of Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) will be deployed as part of the security measures.

ran, Bijwasan, Trilokpuri, Shakur Basti, Nee Delhi, Rohtas Nagar, Chhatarpur, Rajouri Garden and Jangpura According to Singh, focussed campaigns were carried by his office to reach out to different sections of voters, aiming to break the “urban apathy” of the electorate.

Special campaigns were carried out in 30 constituencies which had seen lower turnout in 2019 Lok Sabha polls.

Singh hoped that the twin-edged strategy of more thrust on use of technology complemented with massive campaigns in the run-up, will lead to a greater turnout than in 2015.

A mega, multi-domain outdoor campaign is being carried out by the Delhi CEO Office to bring large number of electorate to the polling booths, besides jingles on all major FM stations.

The ruling AAP is going into the Delhi election with the hope to repeat its stellar performance in the last assembly polls, while the BJP, which bagged all seven seats here in the Lok Sabha election, will be aiming at expanding its vote share in the national capital.

The Aam Aadmi Party had got 54.3 per cent votes in the 2015 Assembly polls, while the Bharatiya Janata Party got a vote share of 32 per cent and the Congress managed to bag just 9.6 per cent of the total votes polled.

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Polling officers carry EVM machines and other polling material as they leave for their polling stations. (PTI)

polling material to booths under tight supervision in all constituencies.

Shaheen Bagh falls in the Okhla assembly constituency. The area has become the epicentre of protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) in the national capital and the agitation has been thrust by political parties into a poll issue.

Hundreds of people, including women and children, have been protesting since December 15 at Shaheen Bagh against the CAA and the National Register of Citizens.

Poll authorities had met protesters recently and encouraged them to vote on the polling day.

“The 2020 Delhi polls will be tech-driven with greater use of technology elements like mobile apps, QR codes, social media interface, seeking to enhance the experience of all categories of voters, before polling or on the voting day. And we are trying to make the best use of it,” he said.

Electors can carr y smartphones at polling stations in 11 assembly constituencies for accessing QR codes from the voters’ helpline app in case they have not brought the voters’ slip to the booth.

Delhi has 70 Assembly constituencies and one constituency in each of the 11 districts will have this techdriven facility.

The 11 are Sultanpur Majra, Seelampur, Ballima-

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New Delhi, Feb 7 (PTI): Riding on tech-savvy elements like QR codes and mobile apps, poll authorities have geared up for the elections to the 70-member Delhi assembly on Saturday, making tight security arrangements across the national capital and keeping an extra vigil in Shaheen Bagh and other sensitive polling areas.

Over 1.47 crore voters are eligible to exercise their franchise in the electoral battle for Delhi, which is largely being seen as a triangular contest among the ruling AAP, a spirited Congress and the opposition BJP which has campaigned very aggressively ahead of the election.

In view of the ongoing anti-CAA protests in Shaheen Bagh, the Delhi CEO Office has put all five polling stations in the area under the “critical” category, and confidence-building measures are continuously being undertaken to reassure voters, officials said.

Delhi Chief Electoral Officer Ranbir Singh reiterated that the area is under “tight vigil” and “there is no obstruction” in areas where poll activities will be conducted, so voters will face no problems.

He said 1,47,86,382 people are eligible to vote in the Delhi polls, and 2,32,815 are in the age group of 1819.

Vo t e r s i n va r i o u s categories include males (81,05,236), females

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MUMBAI, FEB 7 (PTI): The rupee declined by 22 paise to settle at 71.40 against the US dollar on Friday amid selling in domestic equities and strengthening of the American currency overseas. Forex traders said the rupee traded weak largely owing to strengthening of the US dollar ahead of the non-farm payrolls number scheduled to be released later in the day. At the interbank foreign exchange market, the local currency opened on a weak note at 71.26.

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KOHIMA, FEB 7 (NPN): In a significant development, Naga national workers-- NSCN (I-M) and NNPG leaders would be meeting here on February 9 as part of the “4th edition Kingdom leaders prayer breakfast meet”, at hotel Vivor.

Speaking to Nagaland post, founder of the ‘Leaders Arise Nagaland’, Apostle Rev. Luoliehu Yimsung informed that around 26 Naga national workers including 14 delegates from Working Committee of the Naga National Political Groups (NNPGs) and 12 delegates from NSCN (I-M) would be attending the programme.

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general secretary Th. Muivah and WC, NNPGs convenor N. Kitovi Zhimomi attendance was unlikely, sources said.

Rev. Yimsung said it was purely spiritual and nothing related to political agenda.

He said besides national workers, other frontal organization, church and public leaders, politicians would be attending the programme.

Former chief minister, T.R. Zeliang and former chief minister Nagaland and governor Dr. S.C. Jamir will also address the gathering.

The programme is being jointly organized

by Fathers House Church and Nagaland GBs Federation.

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lege stated that Tabrez Khan, Asst. Manager-projects, FINER speaking as the resource person said Northeast have ample of opportunities in Agro base economy but lacks basic infrastructure.

While added that Nagaland has good scope in food processing, and added that some entrepreneurs from the state has already ventured out into the field. HE therefore urged the youths to take up entrepreneurship while adding that it can help them be job creators rather than seekers.

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DIMAPUR, FEB 7 (NPN): In a bid to create awareness and ensure youths participation at the forthcoming ‘North Eastern Region Entrepreneurs’ Summit 1.0’ which will be held in the month of March, an awareness workshop programme was conducted at Patkai Christian College (Autonomous) on Friday.

The awareness programme was organised by Federation of Industry and Commerce of North Eastern region (FINER) and facilitated by the Department of Commerce, PCC. A release from the col-

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“We are coming up with steps to simplify the tax regime. We have shown our intent to move towards a simplified tax regime and corporate tax simplification and reduction is a move towards that. The tax payer charter (as announced in the Budget) is based on trust that should be there between the taxation regime and tax payers”, she said at a media conference on Budget 2020-21 after interactions with industry, academia and policy makers.

In the Budget 2020, the government announced

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MUMBAI, FEB 7 (IANS): Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday said the IPO of the state insurer LIC will bring retail investors into the picture and also assured that the government will come up with steps to simplify the tax regimes.

“We are looking at an IPO for LIC which will bring retail investors in the picture”, she said.

The LIC listing is aimed at bringing the much needed revenues to the government which is facing a shortfall due to poor tax collections.

NEW DELHI, FEB 7 (IANS): Petrol and diesel prices recorded the biggest drop so far in this month on Friday. Oil marketing companies reduced the price of petrol by 21 to 22 paise, and that of diesel by 24 to 26 paise per litre.

Due to the steep fall in the price of crude oil in the international market, consumers in the country are constantly getting relief in the price of petrol and diesel.

So far in this month, petrol has become cheaper by 59 paise per litre in Delhi, while in diesel prices, consumers have got 60 paise per litre relief.

According to the Indian Oil website, the price of petrol in Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai and Chennai has come down to Rs 72.68, Rs 75.36, Rs 78.34 and Rs 75.51 per litre respectively.

At the same time, the price of diesel in the four metros has also come down to Rs 65.68, Rs 68.04,

Rs 68.84 and Rs 69.73 per litre respectively.

Oil marketing companies cut petrol prices by 21 paise in Delhi, Kolkata and Mumbai on Friday and 22 paise per litre in Chennai. At the same time, the price of diesel has been cut by 24 paise in Delhi, 25 paise in Kolkata and Mumbai and 26 paise per litre in Chennai.

Due to the outbreak of coronavirus in China, there has been a steep decline in the crude oil prices in the international market in the last two weeks causing fears of slowdown in the economy there.

Benchmark crude oil Brent crude has lost nearly $ 10 a barrel. However, on Friday, oil prices showed a slight increase compared to the previous session.

Brent crude’s April contract on the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) was trading at $ 55.13 a barrel, up 0.36 per cent over the previous session. At the same time, US crude West Texas Intermediate’s March contract on the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) was trading at $ 51.09 a barrel, up 0.27 per cent from the previous session.

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Nirmala Sitharaman speaks during a press conference in Mumbai, Friday. (PTI)

its decision to list LIC in next fiscal.

In the Budget speech, Sitharaman, noting that the government has launched Rs 103 lakh crore of infra projects, announced providing about Rs 1.70 lakh crore for transport infrastructure and accelerating highways construction to augment India’s infrastructure and create jobs.

She said focus is on infrastructure for economic development and 6,500 projects across sectors under the National Infrastructure Pipeline (NIP) envisions ease of living for citizens.

About Rs 22,000 crore has already been provided, as support to the NIP. Sitharaman also told the industry here that the government is engaged with states and private investors to come up with an infra pipeline comprising over Rs 6,000 crore of projects.

The minister also said that the government will take steps so that civil offences are not treated as criminal offences and government looks forward to invest in infrastructure creation.

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China’s novel coronavirus toll soars to 636, total confirmed cases over 31,000 cases to 86, the second highest figure after China which on Friday confirmed 636 deaths and 31,161 infections, a BBC report said.

“The results of the remaining 171 tests came out and 41 tested positive,” Health Minister Katsunobu Kato said. “Today they will be sent to hospitals in several prefectures, and we are now preparing for that.” With the quarantine due to last until February 19, there has also been concern over supplies of normal medicine to the ship.

China announces probe into death of doctor Li

BEIJING/TOKYO/LONDON, FEB 7 (PTI/IANS/ AP): The death toll in China’s novel coronavirus epidemic has risen to 636 with 73 new mortalities reported, mostly from the worst-affected Hubei province, while the total number of confirmed cases has crossed 31,000, Chinese health officials said on Friday. Hubei province and its provincial capital Wuhan, the epicentre of the virus outbreak, reported 69 deaths on Thursday while Jilin, Henan, Guangdong and Hainan provinces reported one each, China’s National Health Commission said.

As many as 73 people died on Thursday, while another 3,143 new cases of infection were reported, taking the total number of confirmed cases of infection to 31,161 from 31 provinciallevel regions, the commission said. A total of 1,540 patients infected with the virus have been discharged from hospital after recovery by the end of Thursday, it said, highlighting that a large number of people are getting cured.

The Chinese officials said 19 foreign nationals living in the country had been confirmed of contracting

the novel coronavirus as of Thursday, but did not disclose their nationalities.

Meanwhile, China on Thursday opened a new 1,500-bed makeshift hospital especially built for virus patients, days after a 1,000bed hospital started functioning with prefabricated wards and isolation rooms in Wuhan. Chinese officials argue that the death toll and confirmed cases are rising in Hubei province because of lack of enough hospitals and beds. Officials also started setting up tent hospitals and mobile clinics to treat the growing number of patients.

China also lodged diplomatic protests to countries over cancellation of flights to China due to virus fears.

Several international airlines, including Air India and IndiGo, have cancelled flights to China over fears of the virus spreading across the world, a move which Beijing described as being against WHO guidelines.

Many countries including India and the US have also announced travel bans.

strain separated from pangolins was 99 per cent identical to that from infected people, indicating that the scaly mammal may be an intermediate host of the deadly virus, a study has found.

The study was led by the South China Agricultural University, reports Xinhua news agency.

According to Liu Yahong, president of the university, the research team analyzed more than 1,000 Pangolins may be samples of intermediate nCoV host metagenome wild animals and found panThe genome sequence golins as the most likely inof the novel coronavirus termediate host. Molecular

biological detection revealed that the positive rate of Betacoronavirus in pangolins was 70 per cent.

Researchers further isolated the virus and observed its structure with an electron microscope.

They found that the genome sequence of the coronavirus strain was 99 per cent identical to those in infected people. Results showed that pangolins were a potential intermediate host of the novel coronavirus, Liu said, adding that the study will support the prevention and control of the

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Heavy rain hits Australia’s bushfire-ravaged east coast

Trump confirms key Al Qaeda leader killed in Yemen

Sydney, Feb 7 (IANS): Australia’s bushfire-ravaged east coast was lashed by heavy rain on Friday, prompting authorities to issue flood warnings for the region.

In the midst of the worst drought on record, the huge downpour has been predicted to continue for at least a week, bringing relief to the long-suffering communities, reports Xinhua news agency.

“A coastal trough near the northern and central New South Wales (NSW) coast is bringing increased rainfall and other severe weather to the area,” the Bureau of Meteorology said in a forecast.

“This trough is expected to deepen and gradually shift southwards, increasing rainfall and bringing dangerous winds and surf conditions along the central and southern parts of the coast and adjacent ranges during the next few days.”

Thunderstorm activity or the formation of mesoscale lows embedded within the coastal trough are possible, according to the forecast. In the tourism hotspot of Byron Bay, the town received over 250 mm of rain in less than 24 hours -- the heaviest single-day

rainfall since 2002.

With severe flooding blanketing several north coast areas of the state, the NSW Emergency Service (SES) said they had received over 600 calls for assistance already.

“We’ve got our rescue crews right up and down the coast because we know this event will really go border to border,” SES Assistant Commissioner Paul Bailey told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

“We put crews in those areas where we traditionally have problems with people driving into flood waters.”

While there are still around 40 fires burning across NSW, it’s hoped that the sustained downpour will finally bring a halt to Australia’s wildfire season which has claimed the lives of 34 people, destroyed over 3,000 homes and burnt around 18.6 million hectares of land. Although the rain is mostly being seen as good news, authorities are also warning that fire-damaged areas are at extreme risk of flooding. “In some places there is not a lot of vegetation around to stabilize the slopes,” said the Bureau of Meteorology’s acting NSW State Manager Jane Golding.

Washington, Feb 7 (IANS): US President Donald Trump has confirmed that Qasim al-Rimi, the leader the Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) terror group, was killed in an operation carried out by American forces in Yemen last month.

“The US conducted a counterterrorism operation in Yemen that successfully eliminated Qasim al-Rimi, a founder and the leader of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and a deputy to

New virus cases in UK, Germany and Italy

epidemic, as well as offer Britain, Germany and scientific reference for poli- Italy have announced more cies on wild animals. cases of the new virus from China, bringing the total 61 test positive of confirmed cases on Japanese ship number in Europe to 31. In GerJapan’s Health Ministry many, all but two cases are on Friday confirmed that the related to auto parts supplier number of people who tested Webasto, whose headquarpositive for the novel corona- ters near Munich was visited virus on board a quarantined by a Chinese colleague. cruise ship off the coast of Germany’s 13th conYokohama has increased to firmed case of the new 61, after the emergence of 41 coronavirus, announced by fresh cases.

Bavaria’s health ministry, The new cases on the was the wife of an emDiamond Princess ship bring ployee previously diagnosed Japan’s number of confirmed with virus. Two of their

Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri,” Xinhua news agency quoted Trump as saying in a statement issued by the White House on Thursday.

Trump added that alRimi had been a part of the group since “the 1990s, working in Afghanistan for Osama bin Laden” and under him, the Al Qaeda “committed unconscionable violence against civilians in Yemen and sought to conduct and inspire numerous attacks against the US and

our forces”, reports Efe new.

Al-Rimi’s death degrades the Al Qaeda branch and the global movement, Trump said.

“The US, our interests, and our allies are safer as a result of his death. We will continue to protect the American people by tracking down and eliminating terrorists who seek to do us harm.” The 41-year-old AlRimi’s death is a major blow for the group, considered one of the most dangerous Al Qaeda branches, as it has

carried out attacks beyond its borders in Yemen.

The New York Times newspaper had reported last week that American officials believed they may have killed the leader in January in an airstrike after months of tracking him using aerial surveillance and other intelligence.

According to the daily, the CIA came to know of al-Rimi’s location from an informant in Yemen last November and began tracking him through surveillance

C h i n a ’s a n t i - g r a f t watchdog on Friday launched a probe into the death of a whistle blower doctor who was reprimanded by police for spreading “rumours” about the coronavirus outbreak in China that has claimed over 630 lives, amid an outpouring of global grief and anger over his demise.

China’s ruling Communist Party has sent a high-level investigation team to the epidemic-hit Wuhan city in Central Hubei province to probe Li Wenliang’s death on Thursday.

Li, 34, was among eight Wuhan residents who were reprimanded by local police in early January for spreading “rumours” about the outbreak of the novel coronavirus in the province.

The doctor died due to the very virus he desperately tried to highlight in December last year through social media and has become a national icon with millions of netizens expressing their grief and anger over the way he was treated.

drones. Al-Rimi had led the branch in Yemen since mid2015 following the death of his predecessor, Naser al-Wahishi, in a US drone strike.

Until then, al-Rimi had been the military chief of the branch and played an important role in recruiting the current generation of its militants. In May 2010, al-Rimi was included in the US’ most-wanted terrorist list and Washington had also offered a $10 million bounty for information on him.

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Islamabad, Feb 7 (IANS): Pakistan’s National Assembly on Friday passed a resolution calling for the public hanging of offenders convicted for sexually abusing and murdering children by a majority of votes. The resolution was presented by Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Ali Muhammad Khan and passed by all lawmakers, apart from the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), Dawn news reported.

Raja Pervez Ashraf, PPP leader and former Prime Minister, said: “Ramping up the severity of punishments does not result in a reduction in crime. “We cannot put public hanging into practice as it violates the laws of the UN.” He was not the only one to raise his voice against the passing of the resolution. Minister for Science and Technology Fawad Chaudhry “strongly condemned” it.

“This is just another grave act in line with brutal civilisation practices. Societies act in a balanced way.

Barbarism is not the answer to crimes... This is another expression of extremism,” he wrote on Twitter.

Security guards take temperature readings at a seafood market in Guangzhou.

children are among those infected. Neither they nor their mother are showing any symptoms.

Germany’s two other cases tested positive after arriving on an evacuation flight from China last weekend. British authorities confirmed the country’s third case, saying the patient did not contract the virus in the UK. Italy announced the first case of an Italian citizen confirmed to have the virus.

A government health institute official, Giovanni Rezza, said the 34-year-old man contracted the virus in Wuhan, where he was living. The man was one of 56 Italians who arrived in Italy on Monday via an Italian air force plane that evacuated them from Wuhan.

All the evacuees were put in quarantine at a military facility near Rome, but the man was moved to Rome’s Spallanzani infectious disease hospital after test results Thursday indicated “a suspected case” of the virus.

That is the same hospital where a Chinese couple in their 60s were admitted last week with confirmed virus cases. They are in intensive care with pneumonia.

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he original cast of Friends have reportedly signed a deal with Warner Bros to return for a one-off special.

The episode, which will air on HBO Max, will see original members Jennifer Aniston, Courtney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, David Schwimmer, Matt LeBlanc and Matthew Perry reunite once more for an hour-long special.

According to Deadline, the reunion will see the cast being paid $3m$4m each for their involvement.

There are also reports that the original creators of the long-running show, Marta Kauffman and David Crane, will also be involved in the special.

The news comes after Matthew Perry said “big news is coming” amid continued speculation of a reunion. The 50-yearold actor, who portrayed Chandler in the hit ’90s’00s sitcom, wrote the hint on Twitter earlier this week (February 5).

Meanwhile, his costar Jennifer Aniston told The Ellen Show earlier

this year that she too was “working on something” with Perry and the other cast members.

Additionally, The H o l l y w o o d Re p o r t e r published an article last November in which an insider said talks were “currently underway for an unscripted reunion special” on HBO Max. The source made it clear, however, that discussions were “far from done and agreements with cast and creatives still need to be hammered out.”

(NME)

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he song is the latest track to be taken from Bieber’s upcoming fifth album ‘Changes‘, and comes accompanied by a heartwarming video that sees the pair providing support for vulnerable women and children in Los Angeles.

The clip, a collaboration with LA nonprofit organisation Alexandria House, tells the story of several women who are working for the organisation and providing support for others as they battle the threat of homelessness and the struggle to find stability for their families.

Each volunteer tell their own individual stories, before Bieber and Quavo are seen hanging out with Alexandra House families

as they move “from emergency shelter to economic stability and permanent housing”.

In addition to the video, Bieber has also launched a $200,000 Intentions fund to support families at Alexandria House.

It’s the latest single to arrive from the record, following on from ‘Yummy‘ and ‘Get Me’, a soulful duet with Kehlani.

Ye s t e r d ay, B i e b e r announced that he will celebrate the release of ‘Changes’ by playing a small show at the Indigo at The O2 in London on February 11. The exclusive fan event has been billed as “an evening with Justin featuring acoustic song performances and Q&A”.

(NME)

Artist with Sümi Alokümsumi Muqo (SAM) advisor and GPRN/ NSCN (R) vice president Akato Chophi and SAM organizing team. (NP)

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umi love song medley album was release Friday, at Hotel Saramati, Dimapur.

Re l e a s i n g t h e a l bum, Sümi Alükumsumi Muqo (SAM) advisor and GPRN/ NSCN (R) vice president Akato Chophi spoke on the importance of preserving one’s identity and importance of speaking one’s own mother tongue.

He encouraged the community not to forget one’s own root but continue to uphold it no matter wherever we go.

While lauded the organizing for coming up with the initiative of encouraging the younger generation to love the music in their own dialogue.

Greetings message was delivered by department of Land Resources registrar Botovi Sema who highlighted that the artist were selected from the sümi love songs competition held last year at Zunheboto organized by SAM to revive the cultural, traditional and love songs of the Sümi community in particular.

He encouraged the gathering not only to focus in upholding the traditional ways during the festival time but also other time.

The love song medley album comprises of six sumi artist namely Kivika, PK Toli, Ashito, Kiyeho, Khekivi and Sunon preseting two songs each.

The programme was chaired by Unity village, associate pastor youth Amento Achumi, invocation prayer was offered by SBBC home evangelist, Hoshimu Awomi.

(Staff Reporter)

Mass wedding in S Korea Demi Lovato sets talk show series at Quibi Ranbir Kapoor and Alia Bhatt to tie the knot in December: Report defies coronavirus fears who have recently been in Wuhan, the epidemic’s centre.

Festivals, graduation ceremonies, and K-pop concerts have been cancelled over fears large events could facilitate virus transmission, and authorities have asked religious groups to co-operate in preventing it spreading.

The church went ahead with the event because it had been “four years in the making” as part of the celebrations of the 100th anniversary of Moon’s birth, said official Jang Youngchul.

But followers from China were asked not to come, he added.

Nearly 6,000 identicaldressed couples from 64 countries -- many of whom met for the first time in recent weeks -- married in Gapyeong, a festive mood filling the venue as newlyweds took group photos and were congratulated by friends and relatives.

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After several postponements, their upcoming film Brahmastra is finally headed to theaters on December 4. Director Ayan Mukerji announced its release date recently.

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housands of couples -- some in facemasks -- tied the knot in a mass Unification Church wedding on Friday, despite concerns in South Korea over the spread of the coronavirus outbreak.

The church founded by Sun Myung Moon -- revered as a messiah by his followers -- distributed face coverings to the 30,000 crowd, but only some donned them.

“I am overwhelmed that I am getting married today,” said Choi Ji-young, who met her husband -matched by the church -only two months ago.

“It would be a lie if I said I was not concerned at all about the infection,” said the 21-year-old university student. “But I feel like I will be protected from the virus today.” South Korea has recorded 24 cases of the novel coronavirus outbreak that emerged in neighbouring China, where more than 30,000 cases have been confirmed, and Seoul has barred entry to foreigners

inger Demi Lovato will be headlining low Talk with Demi Lovato" is execua new talk show from upcoming shorttive produced by Lovato, anbir Kapoor and form streaming service Quibi.

Scooter Braun, Allison Alia Bhatt are, reThe streamer has officially green Kaye, Scott Manson, portedly, set to tie lit the 10-episode series that has been JD Roth and Adam tentatively titled, "Pillow Talk with Greener.Quibi, co- the knot in December this Demi Lovato". founded by Hol- year. Film journalist RaDuring the show, the Gramlywood heavy- jeev Masand revealed the my winner will get into candid weight Jeffrey news in a column in Open and unfiltered conversations with Katzenberg and magazine.

Rajeev Masand wrote her guests -- both experts and former HP CEO celebrities, as per Deadline.

Meg Whitman, in the article, “(For Alia) Their discussions will explore will debut in the Most significantly, the year will culminate in marriage. issues such as activism, body US in April. positivity, gender identity, sex, (PTI) Yes, remember you read it ances together and even here first: Alia and Ranbir attended several B-town relationships, social media Kapoor are set to tie the weddings hand-in-hand. and wellness. knot in December this year, Alia was also by Ranbir "I've always considnot long after the release of and his family’s side when ered myself someone that Brahmastra on the 4th of his father Rishi Kapoor was speaks honestly about that month. Preparations undergoing cancer treatissues that face my are already underway; their ment in New York. generation," Lovato extended families have been said. asked to mark off those "We're excited dates to join in the celebrato bring those frank tions.” conversations to a Rumours about Ranbir public forum, where Kapoor and Alia Bhatt’s people can have the relationship gathered steam opportunity to relate to after Alia began posting picthe topics and guests, tures from the sets of Brahwhile finding room for mastra on her Instagram laughter and learning," account in 2018, crediting she added. them to “RK” aka Ranbir.

Produced by GoodThe two actors soon began story Entertainment making red carpet appearand SB Projects, "Pil-

J&K HC allows release of ‘Shikara’ R. Kelly’s sexual abuse trial

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release of “Shikara” would not disturb public order.

“The petition was dismissed after assurances that there will be no law and order problems,” a litigant said.

The petitioners had submitted that “Shikara” has wrongly depicted the facts related to migration of Kashmiri Pandits from the Valley in the early 1990s.

They alleged that Chopra has blamed the majority population of the erstwhile state for the migration of Pandits without making any distinction between civilians and the militants, and sought to withhold the release of the movie till it was scrutinised and the objectionable scenes and dialogues removed.

(IANS)

federal judge on Thursday delayed R. Kelly’s racketeering, sexual abuse and bribery trial in Brooklyn, New York to July 7, so it would not conflict with the singer’s upcoming trial in a separate Chicago case.

U.S. District Judge Ann Donnelly in Brooklyn federal court said the scheduled April 27 trial date in Chicago made the May 18 target to begin the Brooklyn trial “somewhat unrealistic.”

Kelly, who federal authorities have detained in Chicago, attended the Brooklyn hearing by video conference, wearing an orange, V-neck short-sleeve shirt over a white T-shirt.

His lawyer Douglas Anton supported the delay, citing “voluminous” evidence to review and that Kelly’s defense lawyers “don’t even know who two of the alleged victims are.”

Questionnaires will be given to about 400 to 500 prospective jurors in May, from whom lawyers hope to find 200 to question further in July.

Known for such hits

as “I Believe I Can Fly” and “Bump N’ Grind,” Kelly, 53, has faced sexual abuse allegations dating back more than two decades, including accounts from some accusers in the January 2019 Lifetime documentary “Surviving R. Kelly.”

He has pleaded not guilty to all criminal charges in several cases filed in New York, Illinois, and Minnesota last year.

The Brooklyn prosecutors have accused Kelly of running a criminal scheme in which women and underage girls were recruited to have sexual activity with him.

They also charged Kelly with bribing an Illinois official in August 1994 to obtain a fake identification for the singer Aaliyah so they could get married.

Kelly was then 27 and Aaliyah was 15, but according to published reports their marriage license listed Aaliyah’s age as 18.

The marriage was annulled in 1995. Aaliyah died at age 22 in a 2001 plane crash in the Bahamas.

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Real, Barcelona knocked out of Copa del Rey MA D RI D , F e b 7 (Agencies): Real Madrid were dumped out of the Copa del Rey at the quarter-final stage on Thursday after losing 4-3 at home to Real Sociedad in a hugely entertaining game which saw two goals ruled out by video technology and a late red card for the visitors.

Sociedad’s Sweden forward Alexander Isak inspired an incredible attacking display, scoring twice in the second period, setting up the fourth goal for Mikel Merino and also having a strike ruled out for offside.

Norwegian midfielder Martin Odegaard, who is on loan from Madrid, had given the visitors the lead midway through the first half, following up on the rebound after home keeper Alphonse Areola could only parry a long-range effort from Isak.

Defender Marcelo quickly pulled a goal back for the hosts after Isak’s quick-fire brace to make it 3-1, beating keeper Alex Remiro at the near post moments after receiving a volley of boos from the home fans for his haphazard display.

But rampant Sociedad soon restored a three-goal

Real Sociedad players celebrate after scoring a goal during their Copa del Rey match against Real Madrid.

cushion when Isak teed up Merino for a simple tap-in after 69 minutes.

Madrid substitute Rodrygo pulled a goal back in the 81st to make it 4-2 after his Brazilian team mate Vinicius Jr had a strike ruled out for offside following a VAR review, while Nacho struck in added time for the hosts to set up a tense finish.

Sociedad defender Andoni Gorosabel was

sent off in stoppage time but Madrid, who are top of La Liga, could not find an equaliser and suffered their first defeat in any competition since losing 1-0 at Real Mallorca on Oct. 19.

Madrid host Manchester City in the first leg of their Champions League last 16 tie on February 26.

Also Record 30-times winners Barcelona were sent crashing out of the

Copa del Rey in a 1-0 defeat at Athletic Bilbao after a stoppage-time header from Inaki Williams.

Spanish striker Williams glanced a cross into the bottom corner to spark jubilant scenes at a rocking San Mames stadium and recalled Aritz Aduriz’s added-time goal in Athletic’s 1-0 home win over Barca on the first day of the Liga season.

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Inter-Ward Football Trophy from March 17 ganising the tournament is to the promote football amongst the youth in Mokokchung and also to provide a platform for talented players.

The registration forms will be issued from February 10 to 29.

Meanwhile, the organisers have informed that no hired players will be allowed in the tournament.

The champions of the tournament will receive a cash prize of Rs. 50,000 along with trophy and certificates while the runners-up team will pocket Rs. 30,000 along with certificates.

Interested teams can avail the entry forms from Officials of YAM during the press conference.

‘Cyber 48’, MMC shopping D i m a p u r , F e b 7 is all set to organise the 2nd 17 to 27 under the theme complex. For mor informa(NPN): The Youth Asso- edition of Inter-Ward Foot- “Towards Excellence”. tion, contact 9856512399 ciation Marepkong (YAM) ball Trophy from March The objective of or- or 9615230847.

Pep urges Messi to stay at Barca

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on February 26.

Guardiola said, “It’s a hamstring injury. We will see. Of course it takes weeks.

We will see before Leicester, Madrid and the rest of the games. I don’t know right now.” “It’s a problem. We were without (Ilkay) Gundogan for six months in the first year and (Aymeric) Laporte this season for four months. It’s always a problem but it’s what it is. During the season it happens unfortunately.”

EPL extend bans for racist chants

London, Feb 7 (Agencies): Premier League clubs have voted to extend any bans imposed on supporters for abusive behaviour across the whole of the English top flight.

The season has been marred by incidents of racist abuse, with the Professional Footballers’ Association calling on the government to set up an inquiry into the matter and its chief executive Gordon Taylor seeking custodial sentences

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K o l k at a , F e b 7 (IANS): Railways dominated the final day of the Senior National Weightlifting Championships even as Chandrakant Mali of Services registered three records here on Friday.

Former world champion Mirabai Chanu was named the Best Senior Women’s Lifter. She had shattered three records to win the women’s 49 kg crown.

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pion Jeremy Lalrinnunga became the Best Senior Men’s Lifter. He had made a record in clean and jerk on the way to winning the men’s 67 kg for Services.

But it was 32-year-old Mali’s day as he lifted a total of 330 kg.

Indian Railways won both the men’s and women’s titles.

Services finished the men’s as runners-up as Maharashtra took the second place in women’s category.

ASA wrestling meet

Kohima, Feb 7 (NPN): The 48th wrestling meet of Angami Sports Association (ASA) will be held on February 11 and 12 at Khuochiezie (Kohima local ground) with advisor, Urban Development and Municipal Afairs, Dr. Neikiesalie Nicky Kire as the special guest and chief engineer PHE (Rtd) Er. Kevisekho Kruse as the guest of honour.

AFFIDAVIT I, Merenla Aonok, daughter of Imlisensen is recorded in my Aadhaar Card and MA Missiology record as Merenla Aonok. However in my educational records my name is recorded a Sashimerenla, and in my Passport it is recorded as Merenla. Henceforth my name shall be used as Merenla Aonok in future for all purposes in all my correspondence and recorded vide Regd.

No. 2560/18 dated 07.12.2018.

Merenla Aonok

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DECLARATION (Change of Name)

Dearest, it seemed just like yesterday that you left us heartbroken and in tears forever on this day ten years ago. Our lives became so dark and inconsolable in your absence and not even a single day passes by without your memories in our hearts.

However as we realised that you went away to be in a better place with our Lord where there will be no more earthly cares, we were consoled with the belief that we will see you one day at other side of the horizon in our Lord’s presence.

From all your loved ones.

MKC-51

Regd. No. 23/19 Dated 08/02/2019 I, Shri. Thungtsemo Lotha, S/o. Late. Yima Lotha, a permanent resident of Church Colony, Wokha, Nagaland do hereby solemnly affirm an oath and declare as under: 1. That, I am a bonafide citizen of India and belongs to Lotha Naga Tribe.

2. That, in my service documents my name has been entered/recorded as John Kikon.

3. That, for and on behalf of myself and remitter issue, I wholly renounce/ relinquish and abandon the use of my former name John Kikon and I do hereby assume from this date the name THUNGTSEMO LOTHA for all purposes.

4. That, for the purpose of evidencing such my determination declare that I shall at all times hereafter in all occasions use the name THUNGTSEMO LOTHA in place and in substitution of my former name.

5. That, this affidavit is a piece of evidence that may arise in the future correspondence.

6. That, the statements made in para (1-5) are all true and correct to the best of my knowledge and belief and no material herein.

Deponent Solemnly sworn before me on this 8th day of Feb 2019 at Wokha, Nagaland Notary WC-50

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT For, “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved”.

Romans 10:13

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

" The Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away, Blessed be the name of the Lord."

Job 1:21 We, the family and relatives of Lt. K. Merenla, wife of Shri. N. Temsu Aier offer our heartfelt gratitude to all the friends, neighbours, churches and well wishers who stood by us, comforted us and helped us bear the bitter cup.

We convey our heartfelt special thanks to : 1. Doctors & Nurses, Oking Hospital, Kohima 2. OMH Council Kohima 3. OMH Youth Kohima 4. Molungyimsen Senso Telongjem, Kohima 5. Molungyimsen Fellowship Kohima 6. Molungyimsen Baptist Arogo 7. Molungkimong Senso Union Kohima 8. Changki Union Kohima 9. Changki Fellowship Kohima 10. Kosasanger Putu Molungyimsen 11. Kohima Ao Baptist Arogo 12. KABA Youth Department 13. Judge of Gauhati High Court (Kohima Bench)

for those found guilty.

A statement following the Premier League shareholders’ meeting on Thursday said the clubs were “united against all forms of violent, threatening and abusive behaviour”.

“Following recent events, the 20 clubs committed to introducing a league-wide ban for anyone banned by their club for discriminatory, abusive or violent acts,” the statement added.

Mirabai Chanu

We, the family members would like to extend our heartfelt gratitude to each and every individual who stood by us physically, financially, materially, morally and spiritually during the prolonged illness and demise of our beloved Late Chivotso Ringa.

We would also like to convey LATE CHIVOTSO RINGA our special thanks to the following Born: 1st July 1936 organisations: Died: 1st February 2020 1. Thürütsüswü Village Council 2. Phühgi Village Council 3. Dzülha Village Council 4. Rüzazho Village Council 5. Süthozu Nagwü Village Council 6. Khütsa Village Council 7. Süthozu Nasa Village Council 8. Chozuba Range Public Organisation 9. Sekrüzu Town Committee 10. Sekrüzu Area Public Forum 11. Pensioners’ Union Chozuba Range 12. 19th A/C NPF Phek 13. Thürütsüswümi Union Chozuba 14. Rüzazhomi Union Chozuba 15. Thürütsüswümi Union Kohima 16. Thürütsüswümi Women Welfare Union Kohima 17. Father & Sister, Thenyizu Parish 18. Baptist Church Thürütsüswü 19. Assembly of God Church Thürutsüswü 20. Catholic Church Thürütsüswü 21. Bethel Hospital, Kohima 22. The Doctors, Nurses & Staff, Chozuba Hospital We regret our inability to thank each and every individual personally but it is our sincere prayer that the Almighty God blesses you all abundantly.

Loving Wife, Children, Grandchildren, In-Laws & Family Members.

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Madrid, Feb 7 (Agencies): Pep Guardiola has urged Lionel Messi to stay at Barcelona amid speculation he could leave the Nou Camp and reunite with his old boss at Manchester City.

The six-time Ballon d’Or winner become embroiled in a public row with Barca sporting director Eric Abidal this week after he accused the players of not working hard enough under former manager Ernesto Valverde. Messi responded by telling Abidal to “take responsibility” for Valverde’s dismissal and urged him to name the players he was accusing of downing tools.

The 32-year-old’s disgruntlement, along with a clause in his contract that allows him to leave Barcelona for free at the end of the season, has led to reports he could be set to move to City.

They already employ Guardiola as well as a number of former Barca staff in senior positions. But Guardiola says he is against any potential move, saying: “He’s a player from Barcelona. He will stay there. That is my wish: stay in Barcelona. I think he’s going to finish his career there.”

Guardiola also revealed Raheem Sterling faces weeks on the sidelines after suffering a hamstring injury in City’s 2-0 defeat at Tottenham last Sunday.

The issue makes the England international, who has 20 goals for City this season, a doubt for their Champions League last 16 first leg against Real Madrid

IN THE COURT OF DEPUTY COMMISSIONER DIMAPUR DISTRICT DIMAPUR : NAGALAND NOTICE NO.M-453/19/6914-15 Dt. Dimapur the 22nd 01, 2020 Notice is hereby given that Shri/Smti. Hokheto Achumi -VrsNeiko-ü Nuh resident of Padumpukhuri Town/Village in the District of Dimapur, Nagaland under Rule 50 & 51 of Assam Land Revenue Regulation 1886 have applied for Mutation of land described in the schedule below:The undersigned under Rule 52 of the said Rules do hereby invites Claims/Objections concerning to the said land if any & should there be any, should submit to this Court on or before 1 (one) month from the date of publication in local newspaper.

SCHEDULE OF LAND AND BOUNDARY Name of Patta Holder Hokheto Achumi Village/Block No. Kushiabill Patta No. 738, Dag No. 886/893 Area: 00-01-02 North: Sukhavi, South: Inavi, East: Alongtise Sangtam, West: Vihoto (ANOOP KHINCHI), IAS Deputy Commissioner, Dimapur DP-1004

dad, Granada and secondtier Mirandes in Friday’s semi-final draw, which will not include Real Madrid, Barca or Atletico Madrid for the first time in 17 years.

The defeat heaped more misery on Barca in a tough week for the Catalans in which captain Lionel Messi spoke out against sporting director Eric Abidal and forward Ousmane Dembele was

ruled out for the rest of the season with a hamstring injury.

Barca defender Gerard Pique said the team needed to show unity and refrain from in-fighting, adding that the performance, if not the result, proved that they had moved on from the saga.

Messi spurned a glorious late opportunity for the visitors when he could only shoot at the legs of Athletic keeper Unai Simon and his fellow striker Antoine Griezmann also went close in the second half.

The game looked to be heading into extra time when Williams missed a gilt-edged chance but he made amends by getting the slightest of touches on a cross from Ibai Gomez in the third minute of stoppage time.

The victor y must have felt like redemption for Athletic, who were knocked out of the Cup

by Barca in 2017 and 2016 and lost to them in the final in 2009, 2012 and 2015.

The Catalans have appeared in the last six finals but they joined Real Madrid in being knocked out after Zinedine Zidane’s side were beaten 4-3 at home by Real Sociedad earlier on Thursday.

11 Chanu named best women’s lifter at Weightlifting nationals

Lt. K. Merenla

03.03.1957 - 28.01.2020

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NE United hold Kerala Blasters goalless G u wa h at i , F e b 7 (Agencies): NorthEast United and Kerala Blasters were locked without a goal in an Indian Super League (ISL) 2019-20 clash at the Indira Gandhi Athletic stadium in Guwahati, Assam, on Friday.

The two teams stay put at their positions on the standings table with the Highlanders ninth with 12 points and the southern side, who had their head coach Eelco Schattorie in the stands for the tie, was in the stands for the tie eighth with 15 points.

Robert Jarni brought in Rakesh Pradhan in place of suspended Reagan Singh at right back besides calling Kai Heerings and Milan Singh in place of Wayne Vaz and Jose Leudo in the hosts' first 11.

On the other hand, Rehenesh TP was dropped from matchday squad for Kerala other than Messi Bouli. Bilal Khan took his place in between the sticks.

Moutapha Gning and Vlatko Drobarob returned from suspension along with La-

Players of NorthEast United FC and Kerala Blasters fight for the ball during their ISL match in Guwahati on Friday.

lruatthara and Sahal Sa- half with just one shot on Roy Chowdhury was in the mad. target that came in the 45th right place to cling on to It was a listless first minute when Subhasish Gning's header off a Sergio

Cidoncha free-kick.

Bartholomew Ogbeche and Andrew Keogh have been marshalled well at both ends, although the latter did get close on an occasion.

The Irishman got at the end of Federico Gallego's delivery from a free-kick to volley wide a first time effort in the 41st minute.

The second half brought about double of the chances in the opening 10 minutes with Nikhil Kadam, who replaced Simon Lundevall, forced Bilal into making his first save while Subhasish had to thwart a shot by Gning after Zuiverloon headed down Cidoncha's delivery from a free-kick.

The NorthEast custodian dived to his right to keep out a shot by Halicharan Narzary around the hour mark and held his ground to see Ogbeche shoot wide at his near post after a a perfect ball in by Gianni Zuiverloon in the 73rd minute, while Bilal was not the most convincing but kept out Keogh soon after none-the-less.

Nagaland Post, Dimapur SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2020

Kezhaseluo-o Pienyü is NASA wrestling champion

Champion of Northern Angami Sports Association wrestling meet, Kezhaseluo-o Pienyü with other winners and officials.

Correspondent Kohima , Feb 7 (NPN): Ke z h a s e l u o - o P i e n y ü (21) from Kohima village emerged as the champion of 61st Northern Angami Sports Association (NASA) wrestling meet after defeating Khrietsonyü Whuorie (21) in the final held at Khuochiezie local ground on Thursday.

Pienyü, weighing 122 kg and standing at 6.3 feet, walked home with a cash

prize of Rs. 80,000 while runner-up Khrietsonyü Whuorie received of Rs. 50,000.

Menuosetuo Yiese and Seyiekhrietuo Yiese b a g ge d t h e t h i r d a n d fourth place respectively.

The third and fourth place received a cash prize of Rs. 30,000 and Rs.20,000 respectively.

Meanwhile, Kekhrievor Sekhose emerged the champion in junior category of 61st wrestling meet of

Northern Angami Sports Association (NASA) held at Kohima Local Ground on Friday.

Ke k h r i evo r S e k hose defeated Visoneilie Khoubve in the final.

Kekhrievor received a cash prize of Rs. 20,000 while 2nd place Visoneilie received Rs. 15,000.

Third position holder Neizo Keyho received Rs. 10,000 and 4th place Kevimhalie Chadi pocketed Rs. 5000.

Champions of Lotha Football Championship, Vungoju FC with Er. Chonrhonthung Ezung, executive engineer (electrical), Wokha and WDFA officials.

XL Red Cricket Academy opens in Kohima Correspondent Kohima , Feb 7 (NPN): XL Red Cricket Academy, a premiere cricket academy, was inaugurated at St. Mary Cathedral Higher Secondary School, Kohima by Nagaland Cricket Association (NCA), general secretary Hyunilo Anilo Khing on Thursday.

Khing in his address highlighted the importance

of infrastructure and facility of the institution in promoting the game of cricket in the state.

While pointing out that the game has came a long way with challenges and struggles over the years, Khimg said the game is heading in the right direction.

Proprietor of the academy Kechesin Keppen in his introductory speech said

that XL RED is a self-made acronym which stands for ‘acceleration’.

The programme was chaired by Runosin Keppen, invocation prayer said by Fr. Jaison CJ, principal, St. Mary Cathedral Higher Secondary School Kohima and special song was presented by students of St. Mary Cathedral Higher Secondary School Kohima .

Tokyo expects over 8 mn footfall in Olympics Chennai, Feb 7 (IANS): Japan is not expecting any coronavirus impact at the upcoming Olympic Games in July and estimates over eight million foreigners to reach Tokyo during the prestigious quadrennial event, said a senior official of Tokyo Convention & Visitors Bureau (TCVB).

So far, over 600 people have lost their lives in China due to coronavirus outbreak and more than 30,000 confirmed cases have been reported.

“London got eight million overseas visitors during the Olympic Games when it was held last time (2012). We hope to cross that number,” Kazuomi Yamashita, Director of Marketing/Promotion, Tourist Promotion Officer, TCVB told reporters on Friday.

According to him, the coronavirus impact on Chinese visiting Japan is major. Chinese account for 30 per cent of the annual overseas travellers to Japan. In 2019, 31.88 million travellers visited Japan from overseas.

Last month, the organisers of the Tokyo Olympics had also stated that the Games, slated to begin from July 24, will not be cancelled because of the coronavirus outbreak.

“We have never considered cancelling the Games,” Tokyo 2020 had said in a statement. “We will work closely with the IOC and other relevant organizations and review any countermeasures whenever necessary.”

About 1.7 million Indian travellers visited Tokyo in 2019 logging a growth of 14.2 per cent over 2018 numbers, said Yamashita.

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