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Offer on farm laws still stands: PM Opposition question handling of protests at all-party meet NEW DELHI, JAN 30 (PTI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday told floor leaders of various political parties that his government’s offer on agri laws made to protesting farmers “still stands” and it was a “phone call away” for talks, days after violence broke out in parts of the national capital on Republic Day. Addressing these leaders at the customary all-party meeting convened by the government for the smooth conduct of the Budget Session, the Prime Minister, responding to the references by opposition leaders about the “unfortunate incident” on Republic Day, said that the “law will take its own course”.

Sharing the details of the meeting chaired by Modi and attended by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi said, “The Prime Minister assured that the Centre is approaching

Hike in fuel prices hit pause for third day NEW DELHI, JAN 30 (IANS): Pause on price hike of petrol and diesel continued on Saturday for the third day in a row. Across the country as well the fuel prices remained at Wednesday’s level. Though firm global crude and product price is the reason for the increase in retail price of petrol and diesel, it is interesting to note that even though crude has been hovering just over $55 a barrel for some time now, OMCs have gone in for both a pause in price of auto fuels as well increase in its retail prices on consecutive days.

Informed sources said that oil companies may be building buffer on retail price of petrol and diesel to prevent any sharp price increase of government decided to further raise excise duty on the two products to mobilise addition al revenue.

Crude price have remained firm for last few weeks in wake of unilateral production cuts announced by Saudi Arabia and a pick up in consumption in all major economies globally.

Petrol and diesel prices have increased 10 times in January with both auto fuels increasing by Rs 2.59 and Rs 2.61 per litre respectively during the month.

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the farmers issue with an open mind.”

“The Prime Minister said the Centre’s stand is same as it was on January 22, the last meeting between the protesting farmers and the Centre and proposal given by Agriculture Minister on the farm laws still stands. Modiji reiterated what Tomarji had said - that he (Narendra Singh Tomar) is phone call away for talks,” Joshi said, quoting Modi.

Emphasizing on the need for smooth functioning of Parliament, Modi said smaller parties suffer the most due to disruptions as they do not get chance to raise their issues.

“It is for the bigger parties to ensure Parliament functions smoothly, there are no disruptions and thus, the smaller parties are able

to voice their views in Parliament,” Joshi said citing Modi’s remarks.

The all-party meeting is convened for the government to put forth its legislative agenda before political parties. Leaders from various parties flag issues they wish to raise during the meeting.

Meanwhile, the opposition parties demanded that the Prime Minister must convene a meeting of all party leaders and discuss threadbare the three farm laws. While unequivocally condemning the violence during the farmers’ tractor rally in Delhi on Republic Day, the opposition parties, including the Congress, Trinamool Congress, Shiromani Akali Dal and Shiv Sena, questioned the government’s handling of the farmer agitation.

The opposition parties demanded an immediate inquiry into the Republic Day violence to find out who was responsible for it and they were also unanimous that the blame should not be put on the farmer leaders.

TMC party leader in the Lok Sabha Sudeep Bandopadhyay , said that 20 opposition parties boycot-

ting the President’s address on 29 January is a strong message for the government to withdraw the three farm laws. Bandhopadhyay said “This will be a good message that the government is democratic,” the party’s leader in Lok Sabha, as saying during the meeting.

“Majoritarianism cannot let farmers suffer,” Bandopadhyay was quoted as saying.

Congress’ Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury told reporters that the Prime Minister narrated what Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar told the farmers during discussions that he is a phone call away from them provided they accept the government’s proposal.

Even the Biju Janata Dal (BJD), considered friendly to the ruling BJP, said the government should incorporate a specific provision in the farm law that the Minimum Support Price will not be removed. While almost all opposition parties condemned the violence and vandalism at the Red Fort by a group of protesting farmers on Republic Day, they asserted that other farmers protesting peacefully should not be held responsible for it.

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Meet to discuss Trans Nagaland Expressway

Cong slams BJP over FIRs filed against Tharoor, 6 journalists

DIMAPUR, JAN 30 (NPN): Nagaland Foothills Road Coordination Committee (NFHRCC), which had a meeting with 11 Dimapur-based tribal hohos at its KherMahal Office, Dimapur on January 30,2021, has resolved to organise a meeting in consultation with all the elected MLAs of the 11 tribes on or before February 5, 2021 on the issue of Trans Nagaland Expressway (Foothills Road).

In a press release, NPHRCC convenor Supu Jamir, general secretary W Lemba Chang and assistant general secretary Chenithung Humtsoe stated that detail of the meeting date, venue and the timing would be intimated at the earliest.

Further, the meeting urged the state government to specifically finalise the Head of Account against which the remaining bills would be booked once the ongoing Doyang bridge construction was completed.

NFRHCC also acknowledged the donation amount of Rs.30,000from the Dimapur Phom Baptist Church to the committee.

New Delhi, Jan 30 (PTI): Congress on Saturday slammed the BJP over FIRs filed against party MP Shashi Tharoor and six journalists, with its leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra alleging that the ruling party has “torn to shreds” the “dignity of democracy” by this action.

The opposition party also alleged that the BJP governments at the Centre and in states are hell-bent on “brutally and blatantly silencing” every contrarian or dissenting voice “by hook or by crook”.

Tharoor and six journalists — Mrinal Pande, Rajdeep Sardesai, Vinod Jose, Zafar Agha, Paresh Nath and Anant Nath — have been booked by police in some BJP-ruled states over their allegedly misleading tweets on the violence during the farmers’ tractor rally in Delhi on Republic Day. Reacting to the development, Priyanka Gandhi said the trend of the BJP government threatening public representatives and journalists by filing FIRs is “very dangerous”.

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BJP has ‘torn to shreds’ the ‘dignity of democracy’

- Priyanka Gandhi racy is not the government’s prerogative but it is its responsibility. The atmosphere of fear is like poison for democracy,” she said in a tweet in Hindi.“The BJP government has torn to shreds the dignity of democracy by FIRs against senior journalists and public representatives,” she said.

In a statement, Congress chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala said, “The BJP governments at the Centre and in states are hell-bent on brutally and blatantly silencing every contrarian or dissenting voice by hook or by crook.”

In doing so, it is resorting to threats, intimidation and coercion that seem to be exceeding the overreach of even the “draconian Press Act of 1910 and the Rowlatt Act of 1919”, he said refer-

ring to the British-era laws.

“The FIR filed against senior journalists and editors and a Congress MP is a clear cut instance of strangulating democracy by the BJP and its leaders,” Surjewala said.

“Either you should be with us, or we will use state machinery to harass and bulldoze you’ is thoroughly embedded in the Modi government’s DNA,” he alleged.

Tharoor and the six journalists have been booked by the Noida Police for sedition, among other charges, over the violence during the farmers’ tractor rally in Delhi, officials said on Thursday.

Madhya Pradesh police have also filed a FIRagainst Tharoor and the six journalists over their ‘misleading’ tweets.

States asked to increase coverage of Tikait’s emotional outburst reignites stir beneficiaries receiving COVID vaccine NEW DELHI, JAN 30 (PTI): Centre on Saturday asked states and Union Territories to augment coverage of beneficiaries receiving vaccination against COVID-19 and increase as well as optimize inoculation sessions per day.

The states and UTs have also been asked to start vaccinating frontline workers from the first week of February, the Union Health ministry said in a statement.

This was done during a review meeting chaired by Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan.

“While some states and UTs have more than 50 per cent coverage, they were all advised to improve the percentage coverage of vaccinated beneficiaries as there are many states and UTs that need to improve their performance on this parameter,” the statement said.

The health secretary pointed out that COVID-19 vac-

cine is available in sufficient quantity and technical glitches on CoWIN have now been resolved.

“States/UTs were advised to ensure that regular review meetings of the state, district and block task force were held to assess the emerging challenges, understand the ground issues and promptly address them at the appropriate levels,” it said.

It was pointed that there is a huge scope for improvement in the number of average vaccinations per session and the state health secretaries were asked to analyze the daily variation in the number of average vaccination and take the necessary steps to increase them.

The states and UTs were also asked to organize multiple simultaneous vaccination sessions per day in the health facility wherever possible.

“This would substantially boost the number of vaccina-

tions per day. He (secretary) urged the District Immunisation Officers to interact with the nodal officer at the session sites on a regular basis to evaluate the scope of this enhancement,” the statement said.

Drawing attention to the recent letter of the Health Ministry, Bhushan pointed out that a provisional digital vaccination certificate after the first dose and final certificate after completing the second dose is required to be issued.

“States/UTs were asked to take the necessary steps to ensure that the vaccination certificates are issued to all vaccinated beneficiaries before they exit the session,” it said.

Bhushan reiterated that validation of eligibility and verification of identity of a beneficiary is of utmost importance to ensure that only genuine and duly authenticated beneficiaries are vaccinated as per the priority group identified.

Rakesh Tikait addresses a gathering of farmers at Ghazipur border in New Delhi, Saturday. (PTI)

NEW DELHI, JAN 30 (AGENCIES): The emotive pull of tears of UP farm leader Rakesh Tikait is being felt in the villages of Punjab too. The fear and confusion over the protest ending abruptly that had gripped the state’s villages in the aftermath of the Republic Day violence has now been replaced by a renewed vigour to join the stir.

Several village-level committees are now sending

‘Nana- A tale of us’ wins best film at Prag Cine Award Correspondent

KOHIMA, JAN 30 (NPN): Indigenous film ‘Nana— A tale of us’ has won the ‘Best Film’ in the Northeast category at Prag Cine Award 2021. The award ceremony was held at University of Science and Technology (USTM), Guwahati on January 30.

The film was earlier nominated in four categories including Best Film Northeast Category, Mengu Suokhrie for Best Actor Female Northeast Category, Zhokhoi Chüzho for Best Actor Male Northeast Category and Tiakumzuk Aier for Best Director Northeast category.

In a telephonic interview with Nagaland Post, female protagonist of the film, Mengu Suokhrie, said that getting recognised and being nominated for Best Actor Female Northeast cat-

A still from the movie ‘Nana— A tale of us’ that won the award.

egory was very rewarding.

“I feel humbled and grateful and take the nomination as a huge encouragement and a boost for me to work harder.

And I’m very proud for our very own Nagaland made film bagging the prestigious award,” Mengu said.

With this recognition, Mengu said she hoped that more avenues and opportunities would open up for the youth, especially, the aspiring actors and film makers in the state. She thanked all her fans for their continuous support this far and

expressed optimism that the same would continue even in the future.

Director of the film Tiakumzuk Aier in a short note said, “I thank God for the award, for the recognition. I feel happy to start the year with an award.”

While lead actor of the film Zhokhoi Chüzho said, “Finally our work getting recognition outside our State, in a prestigious award as a nominee itself feels truly rewarding. I thank God for this.”

The film produced by Aoyimti Youth Ministry was released on July 17, 2017 and besides the above two stars, other casts of the film included Watipongla Kichu, Ariensa Longchar and BokaviSwu. The film, regarded as one the most expensive indigenous films, has received both critical and commercial success after its release.

large number of people, not just farmers, to support the movement.

These committees are now also assigning duties to villagers related to the staying at protest sites, taking water, milk, food for the protestors there.

In several villages, people said that they were moved by the video of farm leader Rakesh Tikait getting emotional over how farmers were being branded as terrorists.

Over 37 lakh beneficiaries vaccinated: Govt NEW DELHI, JAN 30 (PTI): Over 37 lakh healthcare workers have been vaccinated against COVID-19 till now, the Health Ministry said on Saturday.

On the 15th day of vaccination on Saturday, 2,06,130 beneficiaries were vaccinated and 71 adverse events following immunization (AEFIs) were reported.

“The cumulative number of healthcare workers vaccinated against COVID-19 is 37,06,157 (as at 7 pm Saturday), as per the provisional report,” the ministry said.

Of the 37,06,157 beneficiaries, the highest number of people were vaccinated in Uttar Pradesh at 4,63,793 followed by Rajasthan at 3,26,745, Kar nataka at 3,15,343, Madhya Pradesh at 2,73,872 and Maharashtra at 2,69,064.

They added that several farm leaders in Punjab needed to learn from Tikait’s dedication.

He was once a Delhi Police constable, tried his hand at electoral politics and been a farmer leader for years. But Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) leader Tikait has broken out of the confines of western UP to find a space in the national spotlight as arguably the most powerful farm leader of the day.

The movement was till now dominated by protesters from the fields of Punjab and Haryana who set up camp at Singhu and Tikri border points into the city. Now, the focus has shifted to Ghazipur on the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border where farmers are gathering in thousands to boost the fight that seemed to have been weakening only two days ago.

“We have a population of around 1,800 peo-

ple and every household will send one person each to the protest site and we have decided to send 4050 persons every week who will be replaced with the new group,” a farm leader said, adding that now zeal to go to Delhi has increased manifold ever since the government used force on the protestors at Singhu and Gazipur borders.

The crowd at Ghazipur border that had reduced to 500 Thursday night grew manifold over the next 12 hours, running into well over 5,000 in next 24 hours. The movement was not just revived but further energised.

Various farmer leaders Saturday claimed that with more and more farmer groups marching towards Delhi, there would a be a record gathering of peasants and farm labourers on the borders by February 2.

State COVID tally 12090 COVID-19 STATUS AS ON january 30, 2021 ACTIVE CASES Symptomatic AsympCritical-ICU District tomMod- Se- With- With On Mild atic erate vere out Oxy- VentiOxygen gen lator Dimapur 22 7 2 0 0 0 0 Kiphire 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 Kohima 13 0 0 0 0 0 0 Longleng 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Mokokchung 3 2 0 0 0 0 0 Mon 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Peren 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 Phek 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Tuensang 2 0 0 0 0 0 0

Death MiRecovunder Total Death gratered InvestiCases ed gation 6306 40 3708 10 180 594 504 47 243

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DIMAPUR, JAN 30 (NPN): Nagaland on Saturday reported two new COVID-19 positive cases in Kohima, taking the caseload to 12090.

As on January 30, the state recorded 52 active cases while 11806 have recovered from the infection.

Out of 88 deaths recorded

till date, 78 have died due to the infection.

PTI adds: With 13,083 fresh cases, India’s COVID-19 tally has gone up to 1,07,33,131, while 1,04,09,160 patients have recuperated so far, pushing the national recovery rate to 96.98 per cent, the health ministry said on Saturday.

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Conference hall inaugurated in Longleng

DC M. Shayung Phom with Longleng District VDB and VCC Association at the inauguration programme on Saturday. (NP)

Correspondent LONGLENG, JAN 30 (NPN): Deputy commissioner of Longleng, M. Shayung Phom inaugurated the conference hall-cumcommercial building of VCC & VDB Association as special guest on Saturday at Longleng.

M. Shayung Phom at the inaugural expressed happiness over the timely completion of the building and said it was because of the cooperation among the

members and judicious use of the fund. He said, having such kind of multi building in a district would serve the people a long way and lighten their burden.

DC also called upon the members to continue to maintain unity and integrity for all round development. He was optimistic that the newly constructed hall would bring people from all corners closer and strengthen unity and integrity. He therefore urged the Association to inculcate the

culture of unity and cooperation among the members in order to create more success stories.

DC also encouraged the Village Council chairmen and VDB secretaries to use the hall as a place for justice and equality, accessible to both the genders so that goodwill prevail in society.

Adding that state government has conferred the villages with the powers like legislative, executive and judicial through the

Nagaland Village Council Act.1979, he urged the village authorities to use their powers wisely.

DC also unveiled the monolith of the association, where dedicatory prayer was offered by Mongoi Phom associate pastor, Longleng Town Baptist Church.

Others who delivered short speeches included Tenau Phom, general secretary Phom Peoples Council (PPC) and Samuel Phom BDO Longleng.

Earlier, programme was chaired by president and vice president of the Association. A brief history on building construction was delivered by L. Langsho Phom, finance secretary while thanks giving prayer was led by P. Pangpent Phom, pastor Orangkong Baptist Church.

All the council chairmen and VDB secretaries under Longleng district, Phom Peoples Council (PPC) Phom Students’ Conference (PSC) Phomla Hoichem, All Wards Chairmen of Longleng town, staff from DC office, officers & staffs from DRDA & block office Longleng and invitees attended the programme.

AGEI holds 22nd triennial conference in Dimapur

news in Brief BAC meeting: Nagaland Legislative Assembly and chairman of business advisory committee (BAC), Sharingain Longkumer has re-convened the meeting of BAC on February 2, 11 a.m at committee room of assembly secretariat to finalise the provisional programme for 7th session of 13th NLA. All members of the BAC have been requested to attend the meeting positively.

Evidence meeting: NLA commissioner and secretary, Dr. P. J. Antony has informed that evidence meeting with departmental representatives of Tourism has been convened on February 1, 11 a.m at committee room of assembly secretariat. All the members of the estimates committee have been requested to attend the meeting.

SMPCS informs: Star Multipurpose Co-operative Society (SMPCS), D Block, Kohima has informed all its members to bring their share holder’s card to the society’s building on February 2 at 9 a.m.

‘Anti-Leprosy Day’ observed in Tuensang

Medical officials, EAC and others at the programme held on January 30 at CMO conference hall, Tuensang.

DIMAPUR: Chief medical officer’s office Tuensang observed anti-leprosy day programme under the theme, “Last war against leprosy” at CMO conference hall on January 30.

A press release by DMO Tuensang, Apheang stated that, zonal leprosy officer, Dr. Limawabang urged the health workers to focus more on social stigma. He also informed

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Born on 14.11.1949 – Died on 27.01.2021 “I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith”.

2nd Timothy, 4:7 The family of Late A Beso wishes to acknowledge the many expressions of sympathy and gestures of kindness shown to us.

We offer our heartfelt gratitude to Tadubi Village, Tadubi Town Area, MBC Tadubi, Doctors and staff of Zion Hospital, Dimapur, Doctors and staff of Christian Institute of Health Sciences and Research, Dimapur, Unity Christian Hr. Sec. School, Dimapur, Modern College, Kohima, Mao Maram Hr. Sec. School, Tadubi, MBC 7th Mile Dimapur, MBC Kohima, different organizations, neighbouring villages, friends, neighbours, wellwishers and all other individuals for your unending support, prayers and kindness meted out to us during this difficult time.

God Bless you all.

AGEI Nagaland members at the triennial conference held in Dimapur from January 27 to 28.

DIMAPUR: Assemblies of other members.

Altogether, 62 pastor God of East India (AGEI) 22nd Trienniel conference delegates attend the conferwas held from January 27 ence.

DP-595 to 28 at Bethesda Celebration Centre (AoG), central ACKNOWLEDGEMENT colony, Walford dimapur under the theme “be transformed by renewing of your mind” (Romans 12:2).

A press release by Bethesda School stated that, the speakers for the conference were general superintendent, AGEI, Rev. Moses Murry, former general superintendent, AGEI Rev. T Phesao, and district superintendent, Nagaland, Rev. Tusaya Kath.

The following office Born on : 07/06/1967 – Died on : 22/01/2021 bearers were elected for We, the bereaved family members of Lt. Hav. Tatongkaba the year 2021-2023: Rev. (Dibuia) 2nd NAP Bn. Alichen would like to express our deepest Tusaya Kath as superinten- gratitude to all our sympathizers who stood by us physically, dent; Rev. Zuchamo Murry financially, materially and through prayers.

We deeply regret our inability to thank each and everyone as assistant superintendent; Rev. Khriezolie Angami as of you individually but we pray that Almighty God bless you all secretary along with four abundantly.

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the health care workers like ASHAs and Anganwadis to create awareness and go for contact tracing and also to detect and reduce leprosy disease at the earliest.

EAC Ketsinle Tep, said leprosy was curable so affected people needed to go for treatment as early as possible. She also said that by creating awareness one can change people’s mindset and eradicate leprosy

disease in the district. She also encouraged the health workers to join hands together to fight against leprosy.

Earlier, welcome address was given by deputy CMO Dr. G. Viholi Sema.

Leaflets on “handout on leprosy” were also distributed during the programme chaired by Changlemba NMS and invocation by Masatuba PMW.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

"He will swallow up death forever, and the Lord God will wipe away tears from all faces, for the Lord has spoken" Isaiah 25:8.

The family of Late Arhomo Ovung wishes to acknowledge with deep appreciation to the Phiro Villagers, old aged people groups, Phiro Baptist Church, neighbouring villages, Christian men and women groups, relatives and friends from various places for your innumerable expressions and gestures of sympathy, love, kindness and support shown to us Born in 8th June 1919 during our grief and Died on 24th January 2021 sad loss.

We deeply acknowledge the kindness and support in various ways you have given to us.

As it would not be possible to thank everyone individually, please accept this acknowledgement as an expression of our deepest gratitude.

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Ecclesiastes 12:7 Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.

“Those who sow in tears shall reap in joy” - Psalms 126:5

Died on 06/01/2021 We, the family members of Late Takozulu are deeply grateful to each and every individual, churches, organizations, friends and neighbours for the kindness and compassion showed upon during the hours of his prolonged illness. We express enough gratitude for the love, the greatest comfort, the expression of sympathy that was bestowed upon our family in times of our grief in ways through physically, financially and with unceasing prayers. We much appreciate your thoughtfulness, gentle sympathy & practical kindness, which we will ever remember with affection and gratitude.

We sincerely apologize our inability to mention each and every individual but it is our sincere prayer that our Almighty God shower His blessings upon each & everyone.

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Loving wife, children, friends and relatives

1st DEATH ANNIVERSARY Late I. Longtichang (Dibuia)

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“A righteous man will be remembered forever” Psalm 112:6 YANGER IMCHEN 5th April 1960 – 26th January 2021 We, the family members of Late YANGER IMCHEN express our deepest gratitude to every individual, groups and churches who have given us their support-physically, morally, spiritually and financially during the course of his illness and on the event of his death on 26th January 2021. The appreciation for the compassion which we received in any way, shape or form from neighbours, friends, relatives and well wishers towers above the emotions of grief following our loss.

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Fondly remembered Children, In-laws, Grand Children & Great Grandson

Shri Imkong L Imchen, Hon’ble MLA Shri Tarep Imchen, Addl. Secretary, Works & Housing, Mission Director, NBDA 3. Er. Imsenkaba, Executive Engineer, Power Department, Dimapur 4. Er. Moameren, Executive Engineer, Power Department, Mokokchung 5. Shri Temsu Longkumer, Accounts Officer, Tribal Affairs Dept. Kohima 6. Rtd. Chief Engineer, K Tongpang Lkr & family 7. Mrs & Mr Meyionen Jamir & family IGP & Director, Nagaland Lokayukta Police.

8. Mrs. Imtinaro, Mekuli, Mokokchung 9. Mr. Sanjay & Mr Amit, Medicine Distributor, Dimapur 10. Penlisen SHG, Longkhum 11. Mesayashi Co-Operative Society, Dimapur

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Zangna SHG, Dimapur MS, DHD and staff Ao Nurses Telongjem, Dimapur The TNAI, Dimapur ANM Association, Dimapur Longkhum Senso Telongjem Dimapur Longkhum Village Council Landmark Colony Council, Dimapur Imchen Kidong Mungdang NPF Dimapur Division NPF Dimapur 2-A/C Former DMC Members Dimapur Ao Baptist Arogo NCRC Ao Dimapur ACRC Youth Fellowship Dimapur Longkhum Baptist Church NCRC, Longkhum

We regret our inability to mention and thank each one of you personally, but we deeply acknowledge the love and concern bestowed upon us. It is our earnest prayers that the Almighty God bless you all abundantly.

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Died on 23rd January 2021 The family of Late Toshi Imsong wishes to acknowledge the expression of kind gesture, love and support shown to us during his prolonged illness till his death by our neighbours, friends, well wishers and relatives. We could not pay you back anything in return but we will uphold you all in our prayer to our Almighty to bless you abundantly.

We would like to convey our special thanks to: 1. Dept. of A.H. & Veterinary. Govt of Nagaland 2. Kohima Ao Baptist Arogo 3. Pezielietsie Welfare Board, Kohima 4. Drivers’ Union, A.H.& Vet. Dept.

5. Langpangkong Senso Telongjem, Kohima 6. Symbios Creation Private Limited, Kohima 7. Kohima Kangtsung Senso Telongjem 8. Kohima Kangtsung Fellowship In a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.

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WEATHER FORECAST January 31

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Agartala Hazy sunshine

25 8

Sunshine

21 7

Guwahati Sunshine and pleasant

25 9

Pleasant with sunshine

23 6

Aizawl Imphal

Itanagar Mostly sunny

21 10

Shillong Sunshine and some clouds

15 2

Mostly sunny

17 4

Dimapur Mostly sunny and pleasant

23 9

Mostly sunny

18 5

Tuensang Mostly sunny and cooler

11 1

Mostly sunny and cooler

16 9

Zunheboto Mostly sunny and cooler

25 3

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Special guest, T. Yangseo Sangtam addressing at the inaugural programme on January 28.

DIMAPUR: Kizathsa Colony, under Jail Ward Kiphire Town, was officially inaugurated on January 28, with T Yangseo Sangtam, MLA 60 AC as special guest.

A press release by MLA’s media cell stated that, T Yangseo Sangtam speaking at the inaugural function, appreciated the district administration and authorities of Jail Ward for initiating recognition of Kizathsa as a colony.

He highlighted the importance of various responsibilities of residents and leaders and also encouraged ward authorities

to abstain from any sort of anti-social activity that would hamper the peaceful atmosphere of Kiphire town.

He further lauded the chief minister, Neiphiu Rio, for allotting construction of road from main town via District Jail to NH 202 under Urban Development which was harnessing fruitful progress. He added that the only way in catapulting developmental activities was fostering civic responsibility and public cooperation while maintaining peace and prosperity.

He further appealed

public to be more vigilant in upcoming census drive and also to enrol themselves in Kiphire town as permanent residents.

Chairman, Kizathsa Colony, Muricho, Hd. GB Kiphire town, Justin Khatomong and 11 ward chairman also spoke on the occasion, chaired by asso. pastor KTBL, Alison and dedicated by sr. pastor KTBL, Chopongkyu.

NDPP Nagaland state secretary, Kiritong Sangtam, Hd. GB Kiphire town, GBs, DBs, 11 ward officials, church leaders, public leaders, NGOs and general public also attended.

Convocation for 40th batch of forest guards

Chief guest Ved Pal Singh inspecting the passing out forest guards during the convocation on January 30.

DIMAPUR: State Environment and Forestry Training Institute (SEFTI), Dimapur conducted convocation programme for the 40th batch of forest guards on January 30, with additional principal chief conservator of Forest and chief wildlife warden, Ved Pal Singh as chief guest in the presence of senior officials of the department.

A press release by

SEFTI deputy director, Obed Bohovi Sema stated that, 25 forest guards from various forest divisions across the state completed compulsory induction training from SEFTI, Dimapur.

Ved Pal Singh congratulated the passing out trainees and encouraged them to strive for technical competence, adding that with the ongoing JICA

project being implemented by the department, the importance of technical competence assume much more importance.

He also highlighted on the impor tance of right intervention in the day to day activities and programmes of the department. He further reminded the trainees keep updated with technical knowledge.

State warehouse inaugurated in Kma

Principal director, Dr. Vizolie Z. Soukhrie inaugurating the state warehouse on January 30.

DIMAPUR: State warehouse of Directorate of Health and Family Welfare (DH&FW) was inaugurated by principal director, Dr. Vizolie Z. Suokhrie on January 30.

A press release by IEC bureau, DH&FW, stated that mission director, NHM, Dr. Kevichusa Medikhru, stated that the ware house had been completed in three months and K Y M C

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applauded all officials for dedication and workmanship to complete it. The state warehouse was constructed under initiative of Nagaland Health Project (NHP), committed to improve storage facilities in state and district level.

The warehouse has 8 turbo vent installed for ventilation and proper circulation of air to avoid damping, and one level of

mezzanine floor available which increases storage area by 2304 square feet.

The warehouse will help health department by providing sufficient storage space for medical supplies and function as a central depot.

The project will also procure and install heavy duty palletise racking system and forklifts for the warehouse.

Director of SEFTI, Dimapur, Shakiba Yimchunger in his annual report presented during the programme acknowledged the help and assistance from various departments and agencies.

He reminded the trainees to look forward to a better future and a healthier world as they pass out as trained foresters.

D I M A P U R , JA N 3 0 (NPN): Rotary Club Dimapur (RCD) honoured the community service p r ov i d e r s d u r i n g t h e Rotary Vocational Service Award (RVSA) programme held at RCD, Rotary Centre, Midland, here on Saturday.

At the programme, the nurses, sanitary workers, postmen and entrepreneurs of Dimapur and club members, who served during the pandemic, were recognised.

Giving away memento, certificate and cash amount, CVS, Pradip KR Jain stated that persons from various vocations such as nurses, sanitary workers, postmen etc provided services to the community at large during the pandemic, but were recognised seldom by the

Recipients of various awards with RCD members at Dimapur on Saturday. (NP)

society.

He stated that Rotary conducted the award programme to recognise the service rendered by frontline workers during the pandemic.

Rotar y Vocational Service Award for useful vocations was awarded to P Ramna (sanitary worker, DMC), Nagraj (sanitary worker, DMC), Diezenuo Miachieo (staff nurse, District Hospital Dimpaur) Thunglamo Lotha (postman, Dimapur post office) and Temsuwapang Longchar (sanitary officer, DMC). Under Rotary Vo-

cational Service Award for entrepreneurs, the awards were bagged by Bistro 29, Funky Buddha and The Himalayan Beans, Hope Café & Bakery and Nagaland Coffee Shop, while Dr.AsonlaAying Chang, Dr. D R Sharma, Dr. EM Ovung, Dr. Nitin Agarwalla and Rakesh Kochar and Ann Prima K bagged the award for rotarians who served the community beyond vocational commits.

Earlier, RCD president Kitoshi Zhimomi, in her welcome speech, stated that the aim of Rotary was

to encourage and foster the ideal of service as a basis of worthy enterprise.

She said that Rotary recognised the importance of all skills and occupation by honouring business or professionals which demonstrated high ethical standards.

A brief speech Rotary foundation recognition was also presented by CRFC, Rtn, RS Panesar while awardees also presented short speeches.

Vote of thanks was proposed by Lucy Akokla and national anthem was sung at the opening.

Entrepreneurship development on piggery DIMAPUR: College of Veterinary Sciences and Animal Husbandry (CAU), Jalukie, organised entrepreneurship development programme on piggery for youths from September 15, 2020 to January 22, 2021 on scientific management and rearing of pigs.

A press release by CAU Jalukie stated that, training programme was conducted with help of St. Xavier College (SXC), Jalukie, whereby students from SXC voluntarily participated

NSCN (I-M) condolence DIMAPUR: NSCN (I-M) expressed grief at the untimely demise of Wango Renlee, joint secretar y, Eitangiter office, NSCN/ GPRN from Unopat village under Khurmi region on January 30.

A condolence note by NSCN (I-M) through its MIP stated that, late Wango who enrolled in Naga national service on October 10, 2004 had served the nation with unwavering patriotism until his demise, whereby the vacuum created by his demise would be deeply felt and difficult to fill in.

For his selfless contributions to the Naga national cause, the MIP stated that his name shall be recorded in the pages of the Naga history and his sacrifice for the Naga nation shall ever be cherished by all.

NSCN/GPRN conveyed deep condolences to the bereaved family members and pray for his spirit to rest in eternal peace.

Training on sericulture for women farmers DIMAPUR: Hands-on training programme on “Package of practices in sericulture” for ten days was organized by Research Extension Centre (REC), CSB, Dimapur, under the aegis of Central Sericultural Research & Training Institute, Central Silk Board, Berhampore, West Bengal from January 20 to 30.

A press release by REC, CSB Samaguri, Dimapur stated that, twenty women farmers selected by department of Sericulture, Nagaland participated in the programme, inaugurated by extension officer, Mejomongla Jamir in favour of district sericulture officer, DoS, Dimapur.

Mejomongla Jamir in her inaugural address urged the farmers to get fullest possible benefit in earning technological expertise from the resource persons. Several experts from both state and CSB took part as resource persons, mainly Tenga Seb, assistant sericulture officer, Ninito, sericulture field assistant, Mejomongla, extension officer, all from department of Sericulture, DoS, Nagaland; Dr. Kartik Neog, scientist-D, REC, Dimapur and all technical staff of the unit of CSB-REC, Dimapur.

Farmers were given practical knowledge primarily on various technical aspects of sericulture. Concluding session of the programme was chaired

by Sarat Kr. Saikia, scientist-D (Retd.)

CSB, and there was also distribution of participation certificates to the trainees. Vote of thanks was delivered by Babul Mech, TA, REC, Dimapur.

in the training programme by utilising lockdown period of pandemic COVID-19.

Co-ordinator of the training programme, assistant professor, department of LPM, Dr. T. Gyaneshori Devi along with professor, department of ILFC, Dr. A Subramaniam and his team trained the students and conducted the programme.

Dean, SXC, Dr. AK Sangwan along with faculty members also supported throughout the training

programme. Training programme was for rearing pigs by scientific method, which was found successful and profitable, within a short period by rearing 20 piglets.

Certificate distribution ceremony was conducted at COVSc & AH, Jalukie on January 23, where Sangwan addressing the participants stated that scientific rearing of pig was suitable in Nagaland and adviced youngster to adopt the method for income generation and self employment.

Raj Bhavan bids farewell to outgoing officers and staff

The retiring/outgoing officers and staff at the farewell programme held on January 30 at Raj Bhavan, Kohima.

DIMAPUR: Farewell programme was held for retired/outgoing officers and staff of Governor’s secretariat at Raj Bhavan Kohima on January 30.

PRO to Governor stated that, farewell was held for additional sec-

retary, SK Sahoo; OSD, K. Isaac; head attdt, Bal Bahadur Sunar; Sweeper, Seno Angami; Driver, Baburam Pradhan and outgoing ADC to Governor, Wing Commander, Vikas Ramola on reversion to his parent depart-

ment, Indian Air Force.

Additional secretary, George Abraham thanked the retiring and outgoing personnel for their services rendered to Raj Bhavan and wished them a happy retirement life.

More condolences pour in for late Temjen Toy

DIMAPUR: More organisations, councils and others conveyed their condolences at the demise of Nagaland chief secretary, late Temjen Toy who passed away on Thursday after a brief illness.

NGTC: Nagaland Garo Tribe Council (NGTC) in a condolence note through its president, Karampai G Momin stated that late Toy was a visionary leader and the state has lost a great personality. NGTC conveyed condolences to the bereaved family members and prayed that the Lord would grant them strength as the departed rests in eternal peace.

LHD: In a condolence note, Lotha HoHo Dimapur (LHD) through its chairman, YL Jami stated that the passing away of late Toy, who was a visionary and dynamic leader of outstanding capability was an irreparable loss for Nagas. LHD conveyed its deepest condolences to the bereaved family members.

NWHD: Naga Women Hoho Dimapur (NWHD) stated that his dedication, will to elevate the society and his leadership qualities with deep intellect would be fondly remembered.

NWHD conveyed its condolences to the bereaved family members and prayed that God would grant them strength.

PPC: Phom Peoples Council (PPC) stated that “a good heart

has stopped beating, a good soul ascended to heaven” and that it was honoured and blessed to have known “an administrator and an officer who always put God first in his life, the life which the young upcoming officers and youth would admire”. PPC further sent prayers to the bereaved family, Ao brothers and sisters at this time of grief and that the departed soul rest in peace.

GPPK: Gorkha Public Panchayat Kohima (GPPK) in a condolence note by president, Santu Thapa stated that demise of late Temjen Toy was not only a loss to the family and the state but also for the Gorkha community.

Describing late Temjen as a sober, dynamic administrator, sincere, efficient, kind hearted and a great soul, the GPPK stated that his bond with Gorkha community will not be forgotten in the years to come. Panchayat thanked him at this hour of grief for all that he had done in different forms for the Gorkha community. GPPK along with Gorkha NGOs conveyed deepest condolences to the bereaved family members and pray almighty God to grant peace to the departed soul in his heavenly abode.

NCSU: Nagaland Contractors & Suppliers Union (NCSU) in a condolence note through its president, Pele Khezhie and general secretary, John Kath de-

scribed late Toy as “a dynamic, upright and a man of principle”. NCSU further conveyed its condolences to the bereaved families.

CPO: A condolence note by Chakhesang Public Organization (CPO) through general secretary, Veduvo Rhakho stated that he was a unique personality and prayed that God would grant eternal rest to the departed soul.

SNUNS: South Nagas Union of Nagaland State (SNUNS) in a condolence note by president, Sanü Putukho and secretary, Kashungnao Worshim described late Temjen as humble, dedicated and influential civil servant, and an irreplaceable loss for Nagas.

SNUNS conveyed sincere condolences to the bereaved family and pray that God’s grace and comfort be upon them.

USSC: United Sangtam Students’ Conference (USSC) in a condolence by vice president, Sethrongba Y. Yingbithrongrü stated that demise of an illustrious administrator has caused irreparable vacuum which would be hard to fill. While his selfless dedication towards the Naga people will be cherished forever, the USSC further conveyed heartfelt sympathy and condolence to the bereaved family members and loved ones and that the good Lord grant the departed soul rest in heavenly abode.

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BJP working to destroy the social fabric of Assam : Cong

Gourav Vallabh (R)

Guwahati, Jan 30 (PTI): The Congress on Saturday alleged that the ruling BJP has been working overtime to destroy the social fabric of Assam.

The saffron party during the past five years of its rule in the state has continuously used communal divide as a tool to polarize the voters of the state, AICC spokesperson Gourav Vallabh told a press conference here.

“Assam is the land of Vaishnav saint Srimanta Sankardeva who propagated an inclusive society, but BJP has been working overtime to destroy the social fabric of Assam”, he said.

BJP has been boasting of close co-ordination between the central and the state governments over the development efforts in Assam but the reality is completely different, the

NFR moots new trains to Mathura for pilgrims

Mathura (UP), Jan 30 (PTI): North Eastern Railway is contemplating new train services for the benefit of locals and pilgrims visiting Mathura, a senior official here said.

“Demand for the introduction of few trains on different routes, including Delhi, and passenger trains for locals have been received,” Vinay Tripathi, General Manager, North Eastern Railway said on Friday.

On an inspection from Bareilly to Mathura on board a special train, the senior railway official inspected Mathura Cantonment, Hathras, Kasganj among other stations.

He said some trains may be introduced with approval from the Railway Board. Mathura is a religious place and scores of passengers, mainly from eastern UP and Bihar (the area that is covered under NER) come to the city for pilgrimage throughout the year.

To create a pollutionfree environment at Mathura Cantonment, instructions have been issued to halt the use of diesel generator for power supply.

He appreciated authorities for keeping the station neat and clean. Station authorities have been asked to improve few shortcomings and ensure display of important telephone numbers at the premises.

Congress leader claimed.

Implying that there are two centers of power in the state governmnet - chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal and Finance minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, Vallabh said “The so called double-engine government has turned out to be a double-CM government with both moving in opposite directions with the development of Assam going nowhere”.

Continuing his attack, Vallabh said the BJP government has been completely indifferent towards building an infrastructure to withstand damage against natural disasters like floods and earthquakes.

“It took the BJP government at the Centre two years to come up with a shoddy North East Industrial Development Scheme (NEIDS) that doesnt even

propose an exclusive industrial policy for the North East,” the Congress leader said.

According to the 227th report of the DepartmentRelated Parliamentar y Standing Committee on Home Affairs, only 33 paise per capita was allocated for Assam in 2019-20 (Rs.1 crore in total) under the NEIDS and during 2019, Assam accounted for only 0.73 percent of the large industrial units established in the country, he pointed out.

Out of 36 states and Union Territories combined, Assam ranked 20th in the Business Reform Action Plan Results, 2019 indicating no concrete reforms initiated by the BJP government in the state, he alleged.

As per the CMIE data, the unemployment rate in Assam in December 2020 was 7.6 per cent, which is higher than the national unemployment rate of 6.5 per cent.

Vallabh claimed that BJP government had promised nine new medical colleges and one high-tech 500 bed hospital in every district of Assam but the BJP government has deceived the people by holding foundation laying ceremonies just a month before the state elections.

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NEPEX 2021 held in Shillong S HI L LO N G, JAN 3 0 (AGENCIES): On the second day of First Circle Level Online Philatelic Exhibition, North East Philatelic Exhibition (NEPEX), 2021 organized by the chief postmaster general, North East Postal Circle in association with the North East Philatelic Society, a Special Cover on Chabimura Tripura was released on January 29 by Ashok Kumar Poddar, additional director general (Coordination), Department of Posts in a function held virtually.

Chabinimra is Tripura also known as Chakwraktna or Chakrakma and famous for its panels of rock carving on steep mountain wall on the bank of river Gomti in Tripura. The spot has huge carved images of Shiva, Vishnu, Kartika, Mahisasura Mardini Durga and other gods and goddesses.

Other dignitaries present in the function included B. Chandra Sekhar, chief

general manager Telecom, NE-1 Telecom Circle as the guest of honor; S. Mervin Alexander, chief postmaster general; T. Mang Min Thang, postmaster general; Som Kamei, postmaster general; Subash Chandra Barik, director of postal services; Suman Deb, general secretary, North East Philatelic Society and other philatelists.

It may be mentioned that 48 Philatelists from the six states of North East; Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, and Tripura have participated in this exhibition and have displayed varieties of postage stamps and stationeries on different themes. The exhibition will continue till 31' January, 2021. People can visit the exhibition at www. nepex202l.com and enjoy the beauties of postage stamps. The event for the day can also be seen on YouTube.

AR recovers heroin in Mizoram; apprehended one DIMAPUR, JAN 30: Serchhip Battalion of 23 Sector Assam Rifles, under the aegis of Headquarters Inspector General Assam Rifles (East), recovered 74 grams of grade 4 Heroin in general area Zote on January 29.

A press release by IGAR (E) stated that the operation was carried out by a joint team of Assam Rifles, customs department, champhai based on specific information.

Approximate cost of the recovered Heroin is Rs 29,60,000. As the customs department, champhai seized the contraband item, They also detained one individual identified as a Myanmar national of Bukphir (Myanmar), the release added.

Mnp students protest against abnormal passenger fare hike Correspondent IMPHAL, Jan 30: After Manipur government allegedly failed to check abnormal hike in the passenger fare, students on Saturday came out onto the streets in Imphal to protest against the unchecked fare hike.

The students alleged that they were in a situation unable to go for study as fare has been hiked triple times compared to the post COVID-19 lockdown fare.

Denouncing the abnormal hike in fare and stating that it has directly hit their study, a large number of students of Imphal College boycotted their classes for the day and staged a protest in front of their college along Tiddim Road.

(Imphal-Churachandpur Road) The students displayed placards with slogans against unusual hike in the passenger fare which led to disturbance of normal traffic movement on the highway.

Police who rushed to the spot no sooner the protest started put the students under control a major traffic jam could be caused on the busy street.

They said private passenger service vehicles hiked the fare three times higher than the normal fare taking advantage of the restriction imposed on them under

Sonowal announces relief for 1,300 BJP leader shot dead in Tripura families of Laika-Dodhia villages

Sarbananda Sonowal

GUWAHATI, JAN 30 ( AG E N C I E S ) : A s s a m Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal has announced an one-time financial assistance of Rs one lakh to 1,300 landless families living in the two forest villages of Laika and Dodhia inside the Dibru-Saikhowa National Park located in Dibrugarh and Tinsukia districts, reports The Sentinel Assam.

CM Sonowal made the annuoncement while attending the 38th triennial central convention of All Assam Tribal Sangh in

Nelli, Morigaon.The financial aid announcment has come even before the report of the committe set up by the CM to find a permanent solution for the families living in these forest villages has been submitted.

The committee was directed by the CM to complete the process of taking stock of the situation of the villagers and finding a viable solution for their rehabilitation and resettlement by January 31.

According to reports, there are around 1,480 families in these two vil-

lages who are waiting to be relocated and resettled.

Some of the Laika-Dodhia villagers and supporters of their cause held protests near the office of Deputy Commissioner of Tinsukia.

They had set up camps with women and children and continued with the protests as a pressure building tactic.

Protests were seen in Guwahati too in support of the Laika-Dodhia villaergs’ cause.

Laika and Dhodhia are two forest villages that fall under Dibru-Saikhowa National Park of Upper Assam’s Tinsukia district. The Laika and Dodhia villages are said to have come into existence after the massive earthquake of 1950 that rocked Assam.

Post the earthquake, Brahmaputra river washed away several villages. Some of the people who survived the massive floods are said to have settled in these villages which fall inside the Dibru-Saikhowa reserve forest. As the villages are inside forest area, developmental work is not possible and human habitation inside forest areas is not allowed.

Problem for the families living inside the National Park began when in 1986 Dibru and Saikhowa reserve forests were clubbed together and then in 1999, the Dibru-Saikhowa Wildlife Sanctuary was upgraded to a National Park.

Massive fire in Meghalaya’s Rajabala market

Rajabala market in West Garo Hills.

Hatsingmari, Jan 30 (Agencies): A massive fire broke out in Rajabala market in West Garo Hills of Meghalaya. Three shops have been gutted in the fire.

Property worth over Rs 50 lakh have been destroyed in the fire, reports The Sentinel Assam.

The fire is said to have happened due to an electrical short circuit. Fire tenders rushed to the spot to douse the fire. But by the time the fire was brought under control, the articles inside the three shops was completely destroyed, many things were reduced to ashes.

The fire that destroyed the shops included a medical shop, a grocery shop and a textiles and apparel shop.

Agartala, Jan 30 (IANS): In a shocking incident, a leader of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Tripura, Kripa Ranjan Chakma, was gunned down on Saturday by unidentified gunmen, the police said, adding that a combing operation has been launched to nab the assailants.

The police said that two to three assailants with arms attacked the house of the 35-year-old BJP leader in Manikpur in Dhalai district in the wee hours of Saturday and shot the tribal leader who died on the spot.

A large contingent of security forces led by senior officers has launched a search operation in the tribal dominated area to nab the attackers. A local suspect has been detained in connection with the incident.

Ranjan Chakma

The BJP has termed the incident as a “political conspiracy” ahead of the elections to the Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council, a politically important constitutional body.

“It is very shocking that Kripa Ranjan Chakma has been killed. He was a very pro-active and dedicated person who worked for the welfare and development of the tribals,” BJP spokesman Nabendu Bhattacharjee said.

Chakma was politically active since the 2014 Lok Sabha elections.

Assam man jailed for 16 years for sexually assaulting niece

Imphal, Jan 30 (IANS): A Special POCSO court Judge in Manipur on Saturday sentenced a man from Assam for 16 years and a fine of Rs 20,000 under the POCSO Act, 2012 for sexually assaulting his 12-yearold niece, a court official said.

Both the victim and the convict are close relatives and hailed from Silchar in Southern Assam.

According to the Manipur police, the convict Babul Kol, 39, raped his minor niece in 2016 while they are staying together in Ukhrul district in northeastern Manipur.

Babul brought the minor girl from Silchar to Ukhrul in October 2015 and admitted her to class III at a school in Ukhrul and stayed together at a rented house.

GOVERNMENT OF NAGALAND

OFFICE OF THE INSPECTOR GENERAL OF POLICE (Int) NAGALAND: KOHIMA

NO.IGP/INT/IX-45(4)/20-21/234 To,

CN Slo V/o POPS Dist.

Dated, Kohima the28th Jan 2021.

: Throngdiba Sangtam : Chubanungba Sangtam : Chare : Longkhim : Tuensang, Nagaland.

CALLING NOTICE

It is hereby notified that C/N Throngdiba Sangtam, S/o Chubanungba Sangtam, Village- Chare, DistrictTuensang, State- Nagaland, of IGP(Int) Establishment has been remaining absent from duty w.e.f 17/08/2020 till date without any permission or authorized leave from competent authority.

He is directed to report to the office of the IGP(Int) Establishment, Nagaland Kohima, within 7(seven) days i.e on or before 03/02/2021, failing which disciplinary action will be initiated against the delinquent personnel.

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(NAROLA SOPHIE) IPS Sr. superintendent of Police (S) For Inspector General of Police (Int) Nagaland, Kohima

Students protesting against abnormal passenger fare hike in Imphal on Saturday.

COVID-19 SOP. However, none of them care about the SOP, the students alleged.

At the same time, the hike in the fare has put the students in a situation where they have to work to earn money to meet the fare to attend college.

“Are we going to work for two or three days to earn money to meet fare for a day,” H Dayanada, a student taking part in the protest asked.

He demanded that authorities of the state government should check the manner in which private transporters are fixing the fare. They fixed the fare at their own will, he added.

While urging the pertinent authority to come up with a government policy to fix the fare regularly, he appealed to transporters to give concessions to college and school going students.

The state government should intervene and fix

the fare immediately. Delay in government action could invite intense forms of agitations from the student community, the students warned.

The protest of the students came three days after the schools and colleges in the state re-opened since January 27 for resumption of classes for the StandardIX and above.

Various civil society organisations and student bodies have been pressing the concerned authorities of the state government to check the ever hiking passenger fare in the state after public transport resumed with the unlocking of the COVID-19 induced lockdown.

They alleged that in the name of following the COVID-19 SOP, private passenger service operators had hiked the fare two times the normal fare though they did not follow the SOP.

No new COVID case in Arunachal Itanagar, Jan 30 (PTI): Arunachal Pradesh did not record a single fresh case of COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, a senior health department official said on Saturday.

The COVID-19 tally in the state remained at 16,827 as no new case has been reported since Friday, the official said.

Two more persons recuperated from the disease on Friday, taking the total number of recoveries in the state to 16,758, State Surveillance Officer (SSO) Dr Lobsang Jampa said.

The recovery rate in the state has touched 99.58 per cent, while the positivity stands at 0.07 per cent and the fatality rate at 0.33 per cent, he said.

Arunachal Pradesh currently has 13 active COVID-19 cases, while 56 people have succumbed to the infection so far.

The Capital Complex Region -- comprising Itanagar, Naharlagun, Nirjuli and Banderdewa areas -- and West Kameng have the maximum number of active cases at four each, the SSO said.

A total of 3,91,822 samples have been tested for COVID-19 so far, including 547 on Friday, he added.

State Immunization Officer (SIO) Dr Dimong Padung said that a total of 16,350 health workers have received the first dose of COVID-19 vaccine so far including 609 on Friday.

The health department has been carrying out the inoculation drive four days a week -- Monday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, he said.

Seven persons reportedly developed after effects following immunization, the SIO added.

IN THE COURT OF PRINCIPAL DISTRICT AND SESSIONS JUDGE TUENSANG: NAGALAND

NO.PD&SJ.TSG OBJECTION NOTICE-1/2017-18/233

Dt.Tsg the 29th Jan'2021

OBJECTION NOTICE Whereas Mrs. P. Tsungom Khiamniungan mother of Late PS Ngon, permanent resident of Noklak Village, District Noklak has applied for issue of Succession Certificate to operate/draw/transfer/ withdraw the depts. & security in respect of her Late Son, who expired on 23/12/2020.

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

Principal District and Sessions Judge K-248 Tuensang : Nagaland.

IN THE COURT OF

PRINCIPAL DISTRICT AND SESSIONS JUDGE TUENSANG: NAGALAND

NO.PD&SJ.TSG OBJECTION NOTICE-1/2017-18/231

/Dt. Tsg th 27th Jan '2021.

OBJECTION NOTICE Whereas Mrs. A. Esther Phom, wife of Late Chuba Phom presently resident of Old Medical Sector "A" Tuensang District, Tuensang has applied for issue of Succession Certificate to operate/draw/transfer/ withdraw the depts. & security in respect of her Late husband who expired on 23/11/2020.

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

Sd/Principal District and Sessions Judge Tuensang: Nagaland K-245 IN THE COURT OF PRINCIPAL DISTRICT & SESSIONS JUDGE DIMAPUR::NAGALAND S/C. NO. 6/21

NOTICE

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

Whereas application under Succession Act 1925 for grant of Succession Certificate for the estate/pension benefits of Late Melhupra Vero has been applied by Smti Kerele Vero, W/o Late Melhupra Vero, R/o H.No. 286, Ward No. 4, Chakhesang Colony, Walford, Dimapur, Nagaland for possession of: 1. PPO No. PEN/COM-8315/NL/MLA/225 2. PPO No. MPRAJ 9200283 3. SBI A/C No. 10530632534 Notice is hereby given that any person having interest in the administration of the estate/pension benefits of the said deceased may is she/ he so desire appear in this court on or before the said day of 25th Feb, 2021.

Given under the hand and seal of the court on this the 25th Jan, 2021.

Principal District & Sessions Judge Dimapur ::Nagaland DP-575

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Farmer stir regains momentum

Ghaziabad/New Delhi, Jan 30 (PTI): Agitating farmer leaders held a day-long fast at various protest sites on Delhi’s borders on Mahatma Gandhi’s death anniversary on Saturday as the stir against the agri laws appeared to regain momentum after rallying support from the agricultural community of the crucial western Uttar Pradesh region.

More farmers gathered at Gazipur, on the Delhi-Meerut highway, that has now become the new focal point of the stir, while union leaders claimed that protesters were also heading back to Singhu and Tikri borders from Punjab and Haryana, days after the crowds had waned following the violence at the tractor rally on January 26.

The administration remained on high alert with Internet services temporarily suspended at the Singhu, Gazipur, and Tikri borders of the national capital, as well as the adjoining areas.

Haryana has already suspended the internet in 14 districts.

Security personnel, including from anti-riot police and paramilitary forces, were deployed in strength.

Multiple layers of barricades

including concrete blocks were being put at the protest sites.

Wearing garlands, the farmer leaders, who had called for observing ‘Sadbhavana Diwas’ (Harmony Day) on Saturday after the immense outrage over violence by protesters during their Republic Day tractor rally, sat on the dais during the fast, as crowds of supporters swelled, especially in Gazipur where the Bharatiya Kisan Union is leading the protest.

Addressing the protesters in Gazipur, BKU leader Rakesh Tikait, whose emotional appeal had galvanised farmers from Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand to flock to the protest site, said they have fought this battle for over two months now, and “they won’t relent or retreat”. “ T h e m ove m e n t was and is strong,” BKU’s Meer ut Zone president Pawan Khatana said, a day after tens of thousands of farmers from politically sensitive western Uttar Pradesh had gathered in Muzaffarnagar to participate in a mahapanchayat in a massive outpouring of support for the Bharatiya Kisan Unionled protest.

Till now, the agitation was seen as mainly being

BJP scripted R-Day violence: AAP

Saurabh Bhardwaj

New Delhi, Jan 30 (PTI): The AAP on Saturday claimed that the violence that took place during the tractor parade on January 26 was scripted by the BJP with the help of Delhi Police to “defame and discredit” the farmers’ movement.

Addressing a press conference, AAP spokesperson Saurabh Bhardwaj called BJP leaders the “greatest anti-nationals” and demanded that cases of sedition must be filed against them and probed by the NIA. An immediate reaction was not available from the BJP. “Police and BJP together scripted the violence of January 26 and the days after. This script was prepared by the BJP with the help of Delhi Police to defame and discredit the farmers’ movement,” the AAP leader claimed.

He said on January

26, BJP agent Deep Sidhu was allowed by the Delhi police to start his march to enter Delhi much before the farmers.

“On BJP’s instructions, the Delhi police allowed this person to reach and vandalise the Red Fort. The BJP and the Delhi police also allowed this person to hoist a flag of Nishan Sahib at the Red Fort and to create a ruckus,” Bhardwaj claimed.

Tens of thousands of farmers broke barriers to storm the national capital on Tuesday, their tractor parade to highlight their demands dissolving into unprecedented scenes of anarchy as they fought with police, overturned vehicles and delivered a national insult hoisting a religious flag from the ramparts of the Red Fort, a privilege reserved for India’s tricolour.

The AAP leader claimed that “BJP goons” on Saturday attacked the farmers at Singhu and Tikri borders and were not local residents. “To push their divisive agenda, the BJP set up this script. Immediately after the event, if you see the chronology, you will understand how the events unfolded.

Farmers raise slogans at Ghazipur border as they observe a hunger strike on Mahatma Gandhi's death anniversary.

of Delhi.

“People in large numbers from Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttarakhand are reaching the protest sites,” Rajewal claimed.

The president of the Bharatiya Kisan Union (Rajewal) also condemned the violence in Delhi on the Republic Day and said it was unfortunate.

“Possibly by February 2, there will again be a record gathering of people at the protest sites,” he said, adding that the agitation would remain peaceful.

Rajewal also criticised the Haryana government for suspending internet services.

He accused the Centre of instilling a sense of fear among people by showing pictures of the “unfortunate incidents”, apparently referring to the January 26 violence in the national capital.

Rajewal appealed to those joining the agitation at Delhi’s borders to keep the protest peaceful.

“It is our responsibility to keep the agitation peaceful,” he stressed.

The farmer leader appealed to the Centre to shun its “stubborn attitude” and withdraw the three farm laws.

led by Punjab-based farmer unions.

A multitude of greenand-white caps, symbolic of the unions spearheading the battle, union flags and the tricolour, planted on tractors, dotted the highway On various tractors and camps, photos of legendary farmer leaders such as Chaudhary Charan Singh and Mahendra Singh Tikait have been put up.

Khatana, who is at the demonstration site with Tikait, said there has been continuous support for the “peaceful protest” against the farmers’ demand for removal of the new agri laws.

“This is not a political protest. Anybody who shares the ideology of the BKU and Rakesh Tikait is

welcome here. But it is our appeal to those who do not wish to support the movement till the end that please do not come only to leave in between,” he said.

Several opposition parties including the Congress, TMC AAP, RLD and the Left have openly supported the stir.

Abhimanyu Kohar, a senior member of Samkyukt Kisan Morcha which is an umbrella body of farmer unions, said the ongoing agitation will gain strength as farmers in large numbers will join them in the coming days.

Farmer leader Balbir Singh Rajewal said in Chandigarh that he expects a record gathering by February 2 at the border points

38 cases, more than 80 arrests over R-Day violence

Funny but as expected: Sena on Hazare’s fast U-turn

New Delhi, Jan 30 (PTI): The Delhi Police has so far registered 38 cases and arrested 84 people in connection with the violence during a tractor parade by farmers here on Republic Day, officials said on Saturday.

The tractor march by farmers protesting against the three recent agriculture laws had turned violent, leading to chaotic scenes on the streets of the national capital on Republic Day. Thousands of protesting farmers had clashed with the police during the parade. Many of them, driving tractors, reached the Red Fort and entered the monument.

They also hoisted flags on the domes and placed a flagstaff at the ramparts of the national monument, where the national flag is unfurled by the prime minister on Independence Day. Police had asked nine farmer leaders to join the investigation in the case on Friday, but no one turned up.

MUMBAI, JAN 30 (PTI): The Shiv Sena on Saturday slammed activist Anna Hazare for first announcing a hunger strike over farmers’ issues and then calling it off within hours, saying this was “on expected lines”.

Hazare on Friday announced an indefinite fast in support of farmers who are agitating on Delhi borders against the new farm laws, but later changed the decision after discussions with BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis and Union Minister of State for Agriculture KailashChaudhary.

“The developments were funny but on expected lines,” the editorial in the Sena mouthpiece `Saamana’ said, adding it was unclear what was Hazare’s stand on the controversial farm laws of the Union government.

“Protesting farmers are being targeted and the way they are being treated is shocking,” it said.

During the UPA regime led by Manmohan Singh, Hazare went to Delhi twice and staged massive agitations (against corruption) and the BJP had sup-

ported those agitations, the Sena said.

“But in the last few years, he has not taken a stand on demonetization,lockdown (for coronavirus),” it said.

The party also alleged that the Union government is doing everything tocrush the farmers’ agitation, and `look- out notices’ have been issued against their leaders at airports as if they were international fugitives.

When asked by reporters about the Saamana editorial, Hazare said at Ralegan Siddhi, his village in Maharashtra’s Ahmednagar district, that society and the country’s interest mattered to him and not the party in power. “When I see anything wrong happening, something which is against the country and society, I take a stand. I have protested against the land acquisition bill during the Narendra Modigovernment’s tenure,” he said. On Friday, Hazare, 84, had said he won’t be proceeding with the indefinite fast as the Central government has agreed to some of his demands and set up a high-level committee.

5 Delhi Police At all-party meet, TMC requests file FIR against government to repeal farm laws ‘The Caravan’ New Delhi, Jan 30 (IANS): The Delhi Police have registered an FIR against ‘The Caravan’ magazine for allegedly spreading false information that a farmer died in police firing at the ITO intersection on January 26 after the proposed tractor rally by the protesting farmers rally turned violent in the national capital on Republic Day. The post-mortem report of the deceased person suggested the cause of death to be head injury after his tractor turned turtle.

“As per the post-mortem report, the cause of death is shock and haemorrhage due to a head injury received after his tractor overturned,” said a senior police officer. The case has been registered at the IP Estate police station. The FIR also names certain other persons who too tried to mislead the public. On 26 January, The Caravan had put out a tweet citing an eyewitness, saying the farmer was shot by the police. Earlier on Thursday, the Noida Police had booked Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, journalists Rajdeep Sardesai, Mrinal Pande, Vinod K. Jose (The Caravan) and others for sedition on Thursday.

New Delhi, Jan 30 (PTI): The Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Saturday appealed to the government to withdraw the three contentious farm laws at an all-party meeting convened

by Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the smooth conduct of the Budget Session of Parliament.

According to sources, TMC MP Sudip Bandyopadhyay told the meeting that the prime minister must convene an all-party meeting for a threadbare discussion on the farmer issue.

“This will send a good message that the government is democratic. Twenty opposition parties boycotted the President’s address (to the joint sitting of Parliament) which sent out a strong message for the government to withdraw the farm laws. Majoritarianism cannot let farmers suffer,” a source quoted the TMC MP as having told the meeting.

Thousands of farmers have been protesting at Delhi’s borders with Haryana and Uttar Pradesh demanding the rollback of the Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, 2020, the Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement

on Price Assurance and Farm Services Act, 2020 and the Essential Commodities (Amendment) Act, 2020. The protest took a violent turn during the farmers’ tractor rally on January 26.

Addressing the all-party meeting, the prime minister said his government’s offer on agri laws made to protesting farmers “still stands” and it was a “phone call away” for talks.

At Saturday’s meeting, several leaders including Ghulam Nabi Azad of the Congress, Balwinder Singh Bhunder of the Shiromani Akali Dal and Vinayak Raut of the Shiv Sena raised the issue of protesting farmers, sources said.

TMC MP Bandyopadhyay also asked how could the President in his address to Parliament note that the ‘one nation, one ration card’ policy had been introduced when the Standing Committee on Food, Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution was discussing the matter.

“The report is yet to be submitted. But (I am) surprised that the President’s address said the policy had already been introduced.

This has to be clarified,” he was quoted as saying.

Grand Alliance in Bihar forms human chains against new farm laws

Patna, Jan 30 (PTI): Supporters of the opposition Grand Alliance in Bihar on Saturday formed human chains across the state as an expression of solidarity with the farmers who have been agitating in the national capital seeking the repeal of the contentious farm laws.

Leader of the opposition Tejashwi Yadav took part in the demonstration in front of the Buddha Smriti Park here, a stone’s throw from the Patna Junction, where he was joined by alliance partners, most notably party emblem waving workers from the Left who have been enthused since the CPI(ML), the CPI and the CPI(M) showed signs of recovery in the recently held assembly polls.

The opposition leaders stood at their designated spots for close to 30 minutes, beginning half past noon. Many of them held hands but many others chose to simply stand with a safe distance from each other in view of the physical distancing norms in force

Members of Grand Alliance in a human chain.

because of COVID-19.

The RJD leader bristled when asked about Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s remark suggesting that the opposition seemed to have taken a leaf out of his book.

When approached by journalists with questions about the “manav shrinkhla”, Kumar had replied with a broad grin “we had organised human chains in 2017 in support of prohibition and against dowry and child marriage the following year. Last year, a human chain held to spread awareness about climate change in addition to the issues we had previously raised broke all records”. “It is nice that

others are also drawing inspiration. Everybody has the right to hold such programmes,” he had said with a smirk.

Yadav responded with distaste “it is a petty remark.

Is he the first person to have ever held a human chain?

He should instead make his stand clear on the new farm laws”. RJD national spokesperson Manoj Jha, who stood nearby, said, “The human chains sponsored by the chief minister depended upon the bureaucracy for its success. Officials concerned were given targets of turnouts to achieve. What is happening here today is spontaneous.”

BJP and AIADMK to fight Media bodies condemn sedition charges against journalists Tamil Nadu election together

JP Nadda

CHENNAI, JAN 30 ( AGENCIES): Tamil Nadu's ruling AIADMK and the BJP will fight the state election this year together, BJP chief JP Nadda said at a rally in Madurai today.

This is the first time the BJP has formally announced it would fight the state election with the AIADMK, reports NDTV. The Tamil Nadu party had in November last year said it would tie up with the BJP. The BJP and the AIADMK had fought the general election together in 2019. After a setback in the Lok Sabha elections, the AIADMK hopes to trump

rival DMK once again in the state where it has been in power for more than nine years now.

The AIADMK defeated the DMK in the 2011 assembly polls when former chief minister J Jayalalithaa led the party to a resounding victory. It won again in 2016 before the DMK bounced back with a strong performance in last year's Lok Sabha elections.

Makkal Needhi Maiam chief Kamal Haasan on Sunday hinted at realignment of political alliances in Tamil Nadu ahead of the assembly election next year, while not ruling out

a possible tie-up with actor Rajinikanth, who is set to launch his party soon.

"The Lok Sabha alliance will continue for the assembly elections. We have given 10 years of good governance. Our alliance will win the 2021 polls. Tamil Nadu will always support PM [Narendra] Modi," Chief Minister E Palaniswami said in November last year during a meeting with Home Minister Amit Shah in Chennai.

A closely watched entrant in the state election is Kamal Haasan's Makkal Needhi Maiam. Mr Haasan has not ruled out political realignments before the election. "Alliances will break up and alliances will come together," the actor-turned politician told reporters in December in Madurai, where he launched his party's campaign for the election likely to be held in April-May. Haasan's party contested its first election in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, fielding candidates in 38 constituencies in the state, but failed to win any seat, polling only 3.77 per cent votes

New Delhi, Jan 30 (PTI): Media bodies Saturday condemned the filing of sedition charges against six senior journalists and editors for their reporting on the farmers' tractor parade and the ensuing violence here on Republic Day, alleging the situation in the country is akin to an "undeclared emergency".

At a 'protest meeting' held here, a number of media bodies including the Press Club of India, Editors Guild of India, Indian Women's Press Corps (IWPC), Delhi Union of Journalists (DUJ) and Indian Journalists Union (IJU) condemned the "practice of filing sedition charges against journalists".

Senior journalist and president of the Press Club of India Anand Sahay alleged the current government "does not care for the notion of democracy" as the smallest voice of criticism may land people in jail.

"Today the atmosphere is such, it's so poisonous, so toxic that anyone who wants to go to the court perhaps is a fool. You know what the result is going to be. Even during the emergency, rules against journalists were not so harsh, I don't recall any-

body going in for sedition," Sahay said.

On Thursday, the Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh Police filed FIR for sedition against journalists Mrinal Pande, Rajdeep Sardesai, Zafar Agha, Paresh Nath, Anant Nath, Vinod K Jose for reporting on the farmers' protest rallies and the ensuing violence that took place in the national capital on January 26.

Sahay also named some of the journalists who have been proceeded against in the recent times including Siddique Kappan from Kerala, Kishore Chandra Wangkhem from Manipur, Dhaval Patel from Gujarat, Rahul Kulkarni from Maharashtra, and Vinod Dua. DUJ president S K Pande alleged the situation was like an "undeclared emergency”.

“What is happening today is a situation which is an undeclared emergency. People have seen what the emergency was, we are heading for something worse, where if you raise the voice against the powers that are you will be targeted whether through sedition, or filing of FIRs so that you lose desire to fight or feel compelled to call it a day. "From journalists, to

farmers, to trade unionists, to artists, to writers and intellectuals all of them are facing a lockdown of the mouth," Pande alleged.

Editors Guild president Seema Mustafa said the government's action against journalists are meant to "intimidate and harass" them.

"This is only being done to intimidate, harass, victimise the journalists against whom these cases are being filed. But also to terrorise the professionals as well, to make you think twice, to make you afraid of doing your job, to be worried every time you write, to be looking over your shoulder, and then of course the editors, the proprietors those who control the news to be very reluctant in reporting the news as it is," Mustafa said.

S N Sinha of IJU recalled a recent incident where journalists from Kanpur in Uttar Pradesh were charged for reporting on a yoga function. He said that journalists were "society's watchdogs, not the government's lap dogs".

"In today's time, a journalist's duty is to praise the government and if you criticise through a factual story you can be put behind

bars. The government wants to hear its praise, but the type of journalism we have done we are the society's watchdogs, not your lap dogs," Sinha said. Rajdeep Sardesai, who is one of the

charged journalists, said that despite the difference of opinion the journalist community needs to come together against the government's practice of filing serious criminal charges.

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ith global explosion of social media platforms such as WhatsApp, Twitter, Facebook , among the most widely used besides others, there has been a big concern on the widespread abuse of these outlets over the issue of ‘fake news’. In India, social media has been fully exploited for political propaganda by most political parties. Fake news is misinformation and in India it is more about domestic misinformation problem involving major political parties and associated “cyber-army” groups. India is facing information wars of an unprecedented nature and scale. Indians are bombarded with fake news and divisive propaganda on a near-constant basis from a wide range of sources, from television news to platforms like Facebook and WhatsApp. Many of India’s misinformation campaigns are developed and run by political parties with nationwide cyberarmies; which target not only political opponents, but also religious minorities and dissenting individuals, with propaganda rooted in domestic divisions and prejudices. The consequences of such targeted misinformation are extreme, from death threats to actual murders and dozens of lynching cases by mobs spurred by nothing more than rumours. In the aftermath of the violence during Republic Day in New Delhi when thousands of protesting farmers including hooligans in the ranks, had a showdown with Delhi Police, all hell broke loose. There have been many allegations and counter-allegations on who and why the supposedly peaceful proposed tractors rally turned out to be anything but peaceful. The scenes of protestors breaking police barricades and hundreds storming the historic Red Fort, attracted wide attention while the national Republic Day programme was on at Rajpath. The entire issue of protesting farmers and their demands is also turning out to pit the government on one side and the opposition on the other side. Quite clearly, the opposition parties recognise the farmers issue as a potent weapon to hit the government with and would like the protest to gain more momentum. The government on the other hand, is confident that it has the aces up its sleeve to checkmate and then defeat the demand for repeal of the three laws as well as the dream of the opposition to milk the agitation. However, as news, both fact and fake, are broadcast or uploaded, another element has come into play. A total of three sedition cases have been filed across three BJP-ruled states against those critical of the government or merely reporting on available reports.

Those charged included Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, India Today journalist Rajdeep Sardesai, National Herald’s senior consulting editor Mrinal Pande, Qaumi Awaz editor Zafar Agha, The Caravan magazine’s editor and founder Paresh Nath, The Caravan editor Anant Nath and its executive editor Vinod K. Jose, and one unnamed person for sharing “unverified” news during the farmers’ tractor rally in Delhi on January 26. The Editor’s Guild of India criticised the police forces for registering cases against journalists, saying they were reporting “all the details as they emerged”. The Guild said the FIRs alleged that the tweets were “intentionally malicious and were the reason for the desecration of the Red Fort. According to the Guild, the FIRs were basically “an attempt to intimidate, harass, browbeat and stifle the media” and said it was disturbing that journalists were charged with ten different provisions including colonial sedition laws; promoting communal disharmony and insulting religious beliefs etc. Therefore, if fake news is unpalatable, even those which are palatable, should also attract same penal provisions.

DailyDevotion The Dilemma of Obedience

Samuel was afraid to tell Eli the vision.

—1 Samuel 3:15 God never speaks to us in dramatic ways, but in ways that are easy to misunderstand. Then we say, “I wonder if that is God’s voice?” Isaiah said that the Lord spoke to him “with a strong hand,” that is, by the pressure of his circumstances (Isaiah 8:11).

Without the sovereign hand of God Himself, nothing touches our lives. Do we discern His hand at work, or do we see things as mere occurrences?

Get into the habit of saying, “Speak, Lord,” and life will become a romance (1 Samuel 3:9). Every time circumstances press in on you, say, “Speak, Lord,” and make time to listen. Chastening is more than a means of discipline— it is meant to bring me to the point of saying, “Speak, Lord.” Think back to a time when God spoke to you. Do you remember what He said? Was it Luke 11:13, or was it 1 Thessalonians 5:23? As we listen, our ears become more sensitive, and like Jesus, we will hear God all the time.

Should I tell my “Eli” what God has shown to me? This is where the dilemma of obedience hits us.

We disobey God by becoming amateur providences and thinking, “I must shield ‘Eli,’ ” who represents the best people we know. God did not tell Samuel to tell Eli— he had to decide that for himself. God’s message to you may hurt your “Eli,” but trying to prevent suffering in another’s life will prove to be an obstruction between your soul and God. It is at your own risk that you prevent someone’s right hand being cut off or right eye being plucked out (see Matthew 5:29-30).

Never ask another person’s advice about anything God makes you decide before Him. If you ask advice, you will almost always side with Satan. “…I did not immediately confer with flesh and blood…”

(Galatians 1:16).

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A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune. ~ Richard Whately

Nagaland Post, Dimapur SUNDAY, JANUARY 31, 2021

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hat is the place for a single year in the history of a nation? A lot, if it was 2020.

A year ago, on January 30, 2020, India’s first confirmed case of Sars-CoV-2 (then called novel coronavirus 2019 or 2019-nCoV) was reported. Till the fourth week of March 2020, though India had reported only a few hundred confirmed cases, experts using a “modelingbased study” projected that the country could have hundreds of millions of cases and a few millions of deaths

by July 2020.

In the year that is now behind us, the virus, the pandemic and related interventions changed many things around us. For most, daily routines were disrupted.

The lockdown and other pandemic responses resulted in reduction of economic activities, the loss of job opportunities, economic slowdown and caused hardship to every citizen. The migrants walking across highways became the disconcerting and defining image of challenges faced by people during the pandemic.

People tested positive for the virus were discriminated against and stigmatised.

Frontline workers, while out for contact tracing, were

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abused and attacked. The “infodemic” became a major hurdle in effective response to the pandemic.

This period also witnessed an unprecedented high-level policy discourse on the need to strengthen the Indian health system and boost public health services.

The health workers toiled against all odds to defeat the virus. COVID-19 specific services such as testing, contact tracing and treatment facilities were scaled up.

Within the country, production of personal protective equipment (PPE) coverall, testing kits, and ventilators was ramped up and self-sufficiency achieved.

Multi-sectoral and multiagency collaborations were formed to mount a joint response.

Researchers and scientists joined hands to develop new testing kits, to conduct clinical trials on treatment regimens as well as vaccines. Citizens internalised COVID-appropriate behaviour in their routine. In early 2021, two SARS CoV-2 vaccines were licensed in India and vaccination has started.

The COVID-19 vaccines manufactured in India are being used in a number of other countries as well.

A year since India first

confirmed COVID-19 case, the country has reported nearly 10.7 million confirmed cases and 1,53,000 deaths. This, by any count, is not a small number but, as a whole, the COVID-19 situation in India has not been as bad as it was projected and better than many countries (if we compare in terms of per million). However, the fight is not over yet. The emergence of new strains in many countries is a cause of concern. A fresh surge in Manaus, Brazil, in spite of high sero-prevalence in the city, is a warning that the virus cannot be taken lightly and that the pandemic is far from over.

While we will ultimately win in the fight against COVID-19 pandemic, the victory will be incomplete if the lessons are not learnt and then acted upon.

Diseases have social and economic impact, with the poor, marginalised and vulnerable populations often being the worst affected. In the COVID-19 pandemic, it was the marginal and informal sector workers whose sources of income decreased, and many of whom lost jobs. Children’s education was adversely affected. Women had difficulty in accessing routine

health services. The ongoing pandemic has reportedly widened inequities and Oxfam has termed COVID-19 as “the inequality virus”. India as a country, aiming for “Antyodaya” (upliftment of the weakest in the society), needs to urgently increase investment on strengthening its health systems. Government investment on health has potential to address various types of inequities, alleviate poverty, prepare the country for future epidemics and pandemics, and can help accelerate economic growth.

That is the first learning.

Second, the need for strengthening India’s health system had received the highest level of political attention during the early part of the pandemic. This needs to be sustained and followed through. A stronger health system is possible when interventions are done in various areas, including governance and leadership, health financing, service provision and delivery, health infrastructure and workforce, medicines, diagnostics and vaccines and health information system.

Merely increasing hospital beds or getting additional ventilators would not be sufficient.

Third, keeping society

Economy: Staying on Track

he Economic Survey chapter on State of the Economy (SOE) 2020-21 – A Macro View, is a fluent narrative of the Indian economy in a COVID-19 world, first pushing itself to limit contraction of output and subsequently achieving a sharp V-shaped recovery with the help of timely and effective policy interventions by the Government. It further explains the futuristic underpinnings of Government policies that are intended to lift the economy back to its prepandemic growth path.

The SOE describes the policy dilemma of lives versus livelihoods faced globally at the beginning of the pandemic forcing countries to choose between the two. Deploying the containment strategy India initially chose lives but soon enough livelihoods as well once the system to handle the pandemic was in place to hasten the unlocking of the economy. The result was a 23.9 per cent year-on-year contraction of GDP in the first quarter of FY 21 followed by a much smaller shrinkage of 7.5 per cent in the second quarter and thereafter by a steady decline in the pandemic curve. It was the accurate timing of the lockdown and gradual pace of its unlocking that made India resolve the dilemma earlier than others.

The monetary strategy discussed in SOE is built around the measures taken

by RBI to support businesses by reducing cost of borrowing and boosting liquidity. The RBI administered cut in policy rates, launched open-market and long-term repo operations,

reduced banks’ CRR, raised banks’ borrowing limits, granted term loan moratorium and interest deferral, and enhanced ways and means advances of Governments, among others.

The significant cut in policy rates seems to be the standout feature of the strategy as it risked provoking capital flight from the country. However, the global liquidity glut caused by advanced economies trying to pull themselves out of pandemic induced slowdown prevented the capital flight. In fact, the growth promise seen in emerging market economies, particularly India, has been continuously attracting capital into the country.

The fiscal strategy to deal with the pandemic initially provided a safety net to vulnerable segments of the population that included healthcare support, food supplies, cash transfers, loan guarantees, interest subsidy and tax deferrals, among others. Later in the year the fiscal strategy shifted gears to strengthening consumption.

As explained in the SOE, the need for protracting fiscal stimulus was to align it with the evolution of private consumption demand. During the initial period of uncertainty, the private consumption demand was low and limited to essential spending as the perceived need of the people was to augment precautionary savings.

Accordingly, fiscal spending provided for meetingessential consumption. As uncertainty cleared with the easing of lockdown, people started spending on discretionary non-essential consumption.Growth picked up requiringadditional fiscal stimulus to provide only

a tailwind to the incipient recovery. Thus, alignment of fiscal response with changes in private consumption ensured non-wastage of fiscal resources.

The SOE next explains the role of structural reform in resurrecting the growth potential of the economy. Freeing of agriculture marketing, definitional change of MSME to support growth and job creation, enactment of four labour codes, reducing crosspower subsidies, disinvestment of PSUs and commercial mining in coal, were the major reforms announced by the Government. These reforms together with the ones implemented over the last 6-7 years are intended to further ease the binding constraints on private sector investment.

The economic outlook in SOE projects the real GDP growth at 11 per cent in 202122. IMF in its January, 2021 update projects it at 11.5 per cent. These projections are inspired by GDP growth in 2020-21, sequentially expected to increase from (-) 19.4 per cent in H1 to (+) 23.9 per cent in H2. Within H1 itself GDP growth has sequentially increased from (-) 29.3 per cent in Q1 to (+) 23.2 per cent in Q2. Such jumps in sequential growth rates do not reflect an economy in recession. On the contrary they show the economy staying on track strategically navigated bycontainment measures, monetary expansion, fiscal stimulus and structural reforms.

Rajiv Mishra, Economic Adviser, Ministry of Finance Views expressed are personal

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cannot even dream of such luxury.

It is totally unfair and illogical that middle-income honest persons have to bear taxation-dose to bear cost at public-exchequer to tackle such agitations heavily funded by extra super rich farmers beneficiary of totally tax-free agricultural income.

Best is that central government may unconditionally withdraw all the agricultural legislations (old or new) freeing farmers to adopt any mode of sale of their agricultural produce as per their sweet will maintaining phenomenon of MinimumSupport-Price (MSP) only. But at the same time, Income Tax may be levied on agricultural income as per exemption-limit and tax-

technical experts (medical and public health experts) and community members, which has been formed for pandemic response. This would be essential to ensure that health policies are evidence informed, effectively implemented and services widely used by the community. People’s participation and community engagement has been vital to pandemic response and need to be sustained.

The victory in this fight against COVID-19 pandemic is assured. However, the real victory would be when the learnings are used to create a stronger healthcare system in India, which will provide accessible, available, affordable and quality healthcare services to the last person in the society. Our actions will determine the place of 2021 in the history of the nation.

Chandrakant Lahariya, Randeep Guleria Co-authors of Till We Win: India’s Fight against the COVID-19 Pandemic, Lahariya is a public policy and health systems expert and Guleria is Director of All Indian Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi.

(The views expressed are personal)

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rom Real Estate investor to the chair of The 45th President of the United States of America, Donald Trump is considered the most controversial and divisive president in America’s History. Trump winning the 2016 election was the biggest upset moment for many Americans. The media says it was a white lash, but it is not necessarily true. States like Iowa, Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, and Pennsylvania flipped towards Trump because of Jobs. These states were still not recovering from the recession and were heading towards a stagnant economy. Trump’s campaign promised jobs to these highly unemployed states.

The Tax cuts and Jobs Act, signed

by Trump in December 2017 was the most significant restructuring of the U.S tax system since the 1980’s, his tax cuts helped fuel economic growth, reduce unemployment to the lowest level for half a century. He also expanded fracking, making U.S the biggest oil producer. Since the Economy was slowly heading for a recession, months before the 2016 presidential election.

If not for his policies of repatriating American corporate cash held overseas, tax cuts and reduction of unnecessary regulations, another recession would have probably happen instead of the more robust economic growth. In 2019 he presided over America’s lowest unemployment rate in 50 years, boosting the Economic growth among the lowest paid workers. The Economy was booming just as he promised. Trump tax cut bill cut corporate tax from 35% to 21% and decreasing taxes for around 65 percent of working Americans in 2018. The booming economy was not the result of Trump’s political philosophy but a result of him allowing business to work and create jobs and not through the government, because he keeps the government out of the way by keeping taxes and regulations to the minimum. As the economy was slipping after Obama’s 2016 GDP

Farmers’ agitation against Agricultural-Legislations

armers’ agitation against Agricultural-Legislations can be ended logically by withdrawing all legislations and in turn abolish tax-free agriculturalincome.

Huge money being spent on on-going farmer-agitation in and around Delhi for last more than 50 days with heavy funds spent on providing extra luxurious facilities reveal that either the agitation is funded by non-farmers (middlemen and foreign agencies) or by our extra-rich farmers habitual of living in such extra luxury and affording to invest heavily on the agitation.

On the contrary, most Indians are poor. Even mute category of tax-paying middle-income people

healthy requires a broad range of health services — preventive, promotive, curative and diagnostics and rehabilitation. This is possible by transforming the hospital-dominated “medical care” system into a “health system” which delivers both medical (curative and diagnostic) as well as public health (preventive and promotive) services. This is possible through setting up community clinics and strengthening the primary healthcare system in both rural and urban areas.

Fo u r t h , i n c r e a s e d spending on health, by both states and the Union government, should be prioritised and earmarked for the primary health care and public health services. There is need for a specialised cadre to deliver public health services and preventive health interventions as well as strengthening public health laboratories and disease surveillance systems. The provision of mental health services needs a boost, as does the health data and information system. Teleconsultations can be effectively used to this effect.

Fifth, sustain the threeway partnership between policymakers (elected leaders as well as administrators),

rates for other people. This will in turn abolish large-scale taxevasion by hi-fi politicians and known celebrities decorated with national honours turning their black money in white by showing it as tax-free agricultural-income as produce from their luxurious farm-houses or infertile land purchased at throw-away price just to show agricultural produce for claiming tax-free income. Taxing agricultural income will in no way affect ordinary farmers because of basic exemption-limit of rupees five lakhs from Income Tax and lower tax-slab for next rupees five lakhs.

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performance of 1.6% growth, Trump turned it all around and rather quickly increased the GDP growth more than 3% which is faster than the last two Obama years. His greatest achievement was his blunt recognition of China as the new geopolitical threat of the 21st century and placed sanctions on top Chinese companies. However, Trump’s internal policy has been overshadowed by his Foreign policies in relation to Trade. He prefers bilateral agreement where an agreement is made with just one other country without any import taxes on any American goods entering another country. He favors a neo-classical Economic approach with a heavy emphasis on local industry, for that reason he always use the phrase ‘America First.’ But on the other hand if America only built their own products with their own citizens in their own factories rather than buying from overseas, it does protect the local industries and jobs but it loses competitiveness on a global scale.

Donald Trump is one among many who exposed the liberal American Media. The American media are more left- oriented; on top of that, the vast majority of journalism schools are run by liberals, the media is a powerful tool which can even manipulate the opinions of the public. During his tenure, almost all the mainstream Medias, celebrities and talk show hosts were not in favor of him due to many reasons; one in particular is due to his inability to emphasize. In 2020 he also lost young voters due to his denial of climate change.

With all that being said and despite all pros and cons under Trump administration we can all learn to rethink and question the first impressions our mind creates. Real power in politics is not the office you hold, everyone losses that eventually, it’s not the policies you implemented, it can be reversed. Real power is when you change the way people think.

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With the national highway 29 being mended, our people these days have become F1 race drivers overnight. Owing to the traffic during daylight, there is less speeding. However as sun sets, almost every young drivers turn into Michael Schumacher and Lewis Hamilton.

Regardless of the several advices being given concerning not accelerating when being overtaken, our youths rather find pleasure in competing especially on the ‘roads’. Besides, there are other older drivers whose lives are put at risk everyday because of the ignorance of the younger folks. Therefore, it is my humble request to all the young people to drive cautiously and not speed.

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who came to Delhi recently are being examined.

Teams from the National Bomb Data Centre (NBDC) of the NSG and Delhi Police’s Special Cell visited the spot for postblast analysis on Saturday. A senior officer said NBDC’s findings will be shared with the police team investigating the case.

“We have recovered some CCTV footage but have not obtained anything concrete yet as most of the CCTV cameras in the area near the embassy are non-functional,” an official source said.

An envelope addressed to the Israeli Em-

bassy and containing a note was found at the site of the blast, sources had said. A case has been registered and the Delhi Police’s Special Cell is investigating the matter.

“The investigating agencies are checking IPDR of the area to check whether the suspected persons used internet to communicate instead of call.

They are also checking the CCTV footage of the nearby hotels,” a source said. The source said that dump data of mobile calls, which were active hours before and after the blast, are also examined.

They are collecting data from the cab services of the persons who were dropped in the nearby area of the spot just before the incident happened.

In an interview with PTI, Ambassador Malka also said the investigations will look into all possible angles, including whether there are any links to the 2012 attack on Israeli diplomats here while events around the world are also being examined to find any related operations or activities at any destination.

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New Delhi, Jan 30 (PTI): Dump data of mobile calls, Internet Protocol Detail Record (IPDR), CCTV footage of nearby hotels and pick and drop details of those who availed cabs are thoroughly being examined by the investigators to get a breakthrough in the ongoing probe in connection with the minor blast near the Israeli Embassy, sources said on Saturday.

I s r a e l ’s a m b a s s a dor to India Ron Malka, meanwhile, said there are

enough reasons to believe it was a terrorist attack but they are not surprised at the event as the alert level had been increased for past few weeks following intelligence inputs.

According to sources, police questioned some persons, including a few Iranian nationals and a cab driver who dropped two persons near the blast site just before the explosion.

Po l i c e a l s o f a c e d some challenges as most of CCTV cameras were not functional at the time of incident, an official said.

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Amit Shah with the 5 TMC leaders who joined BJP.

New Delhi, Jan 30 (IANS): Home Minister Amit Shah’s visit to West Bengal may have been postponed, but his masterstroke sitting in New Delhi has once again taken Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee by surprise.

On Saturday, five leaders from the state joined the BJP in the presence of Home Minister Amit Shah including three rebel Trinamool Congress MLAs. The five leaders who came in from Kolkata on a special flight, will reportedly share the stage at Smriti Irani’s rally in Howrah on

Sunday.

Home Minister Amit Shah was to visit West Bengal on January 30 and 31.

Five leaders, including Rajib Banerjee, who resigned as minister from the Trinamool government, were scheduled to join the BJP during the visit. However, in view of the blast in the Capital and the farmers’ agitation, the trip had to be postponed. Nevertheless, it had no impact on the plans of the disgruntled Trinamool leaders.

National general secretary and state-in-charge Kailash Vijayvargiya and

National Vice President Mukul Roy accompanied the Trinamool leaders from Kolkata to Delhi in special flight that arrived in the Capital at 4 pm.

Thereafter, all the leaders arrived at the residence of Home Minister Amit Shah and joined the BJP. The prominent leaders who joined the party on Saturday include former Forest Minister of West Bengal Rajib Banerjee, MLAs Prabir Ghoshal and Vaishali Dalmiya, Howrah Mayor Rathin Chakraborty and former MLA Partha Sarathi Chatterjee.

M a d u r a i , Ja n 3 0 (IANS): Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) National President J.P. Nadda on Saturday performed a ‘puja’ and sought God’s blessings at the Meenakshi temple in Madurai district of Tamil Nadu.

With this Nadda kickedoff his three-day tour of the southern state.

After visiting the temple, Nadda chaired a meeting of the Tamil Nadu BJP Core Committee where he discussed the poll preparations with state level leaders of the party.

This is the second time in January when the BJP President has visited pollbound Tamil Nadu. He had earlier visited the southern state on January 14.

The BJP National President will address a public rally in Madurai at 6.15 p.m. on Saturday.

Tamil Nadu is among the five states where assembly elections will be held this year.

New Delhi, Jan 30 (PTI): A day after a blast outside its Embassy here, Israel’s ambassador to India Ron Malka said there are enough reasons to believe it was a terrorist attack but they are not surprised at the event as the alert level had been increased for past few weeks following intelligence inputs.

In an interview with PTI, he also said the investigations will look into all possible angles, including whether there are any links to the 2012 attack on Israeli diplomats here while events around the world are also being examined to find any related operations or activities at any destination.

“These attacks by those seeking destablisation in the (West Asia) region cannot stop us or scare us. Our peace efforts will continue uninterrupted,” he said when asked whether the attack was aimed at derailing Israel’s peace efforts with various Arab countries.

He said Israeli authorities and the embassy are providing all assistance and every information Indian authorities probing the at-

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tack. A low-intensity improvised explosive device(IED) went off near the Israeli Embassy in the heart of Delhi on Friday evening but no one was injured.

Some cars were damaged in the blast that occurred about 150 metres away from the Embassy in Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Road in the very high-security Lutyens’ bungalow zone.

An envelope addressed to the Israeli Embassy and containing a note, purportedly linking the blast to Iran, was also found at the site of the blast. Initial investigations revealed that the IED was planted in a flower pot on the median near Jindal House on A P J Abdul Kalam road outside the Israeli embassy.

The blast took place when President Ram Nath

New Delhi, Jan 30 (PTI): The nation on Saturday remembered Mahatma Gandhi on his 73rd death anniversary with President Ram Nath Kovind, Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu and Prime Minister Narendra Modi leading the country in paying homage to the Father of the Nation.

President Kovind, Vice President Naidu, Prime Minister Modi and Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, among others, also paid floral tributes to Mahatma Gandhi at Raj Ghat in Delhi.

Naidu and Modi also attended an inter-faith prayer meeting in the memory of Mahatma Gandhi at the Gandhi Smriti here. Gandhi was shot dead on this day in 1948 by Nathuram Godse.

His death anniversary is observed as Martyrs’ Day. Paying tributes to Mahatma Gandhi, Kovind said people should adhere to his ideals of peace, nonviolence, simplicity, purity of means, and humility.

“On behalf of a grateful nation, my humble tributes to the Father of the

President Ram Nath Kovind pays floral tribute to Mahatma Gandhi at Rajghat in New Delhi, Saturday. (PTI)

Nation, Mahatma Gandhi who embraced martyrdom this day. We should adhere to his ideals of peace, nonviolence, simplicity, purity of means and humility.

Let us resolve to follow his path of truth and love,” he tweeted.

On Twitter, Naidu shared a quote of Mahatma Gandhi - “Ahimsa is the highest duty. Even if we cannot practice it in full, we must try to understand its spirit and refrain as far as is humanly possible from

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Also, there has been intense speculation in some quarters that the BJP high command is mulling a leadership change in Karnataka in the days to come considering Yediyurappa’s age (77 years).

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historical changes in the state after Sankranti.

During the meeting of party legislators earlier this month, Yatnal reportedly had a face-off with Yediyurappa, as he objected to the “step-motherly” treatment meted out to some assembly constituencies and alleged interference of the CM’s son B Y Vijayendra in

violence.”

“Gandhiji was a crusader of peace, non-violence & selfless service. Both, through his words and actions, he left an indelible imprint on the sands of time.

He inspired countless people worldwide to follow the path of ahimsa,” Naidu said.

“Mahatma Gandhi worked relentlessly for the uplift of the vulnerable sections, downtrodden and socially backward. Gandhiji’s glorious life and principles continue to inspire the en-

tire world. As we remember him, let us emulate his teachings and resolve to follow the path shown by him,” he said in another tweet.

Paying homage to Mahatma Gandhi, Modi said his ideals continue to motivate millions.

“Tributes to the great Bapu on his Punya Tithi.

His ideals continue to motivate millions. On Martyrs’ Day we recall the heroic sacrifices of all those great women and men who devoted themselves towards India’s freedom and the well-being of every Indian,” he said in a tweet.

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal also paid tributes to Mahatma Gandhi, saying his principles of truth and non-violence are still relevant through which any struggle for rights can be won.

“Truth, non-violence, patience, bravery and ‘Satyagrah’. These principles of Gandhiji that rendered ineffective bigger powers are relevant even today, through which any struggle for rights can be won,” he tweeted in Hindi.

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Despite warnings by the BJP leadership against making statements in public on issues relating to the party and leaders, Yatnal had, after the cabinet expansion earlier this month, accused the Chief Minister of making appointments under

Madurai, Jan 30 (PTI): A temple dedicated to AIADMK icons, M G Ramachandran and J Jayalalithaa, was unveiled near here on Saturday by Chief Minister K Palaniswami and Deputy Chief Minister O Panneerselvam.

In a grand function, the temple, a large multipillared hall with life size bronze statues of MGR and Jayalalithaa was opened by Palaniswami and Panneerselvam, the top AIADMK leaders who performed an ‘arti’.

Amid chant of hymns, priests poured holy water on the finial -which had similarities to a pot- on the dome like structure over the roof.

The shrine, an initiative of Revenue Minister R B Udhayakumar who is also the AIADMK wing ‘Amma Peravai’s’ secretary, is located on a 12-acre site at T Kunnathur in Madurai District.

The statues of both Jayalalithaa and MGR feature statues of a lion and the shrine was thrown open for the public.

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New CM for Karnataka after Ugadi: BJP MLA Yatnal

Bengaluru, Jan 30 (PTI): Senior BJP MLA Basanagouda Patil Yatnal on Saturday once again harped about leadership change in Karnataka, saying a new Chief Minister will assume office after Ugadi on April 13,the day the state celebrates New Year.

The Bijapur city MLA, who has been openly critical of Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa for some time now, even indicated that the new CM will be from the northern part of the state.

“I will not go with open hands seeking a Minister’s post here onwards.

I have said one of our own will come in place (of CM) who can give the Minister’s post.

I have said that someone from north Karnataka will come.. it will happen... wait and watch,” Yatnal told reporters in Vijayapura “....this will be very soon, as you (media person) said Ugadi... for new year, new (CM).”

The former Union minister has for some time now repeatedly been speaking out against Yediyurappa and his style of functioning.

He had in October said that Yediyurappa would not remain Chief Minister for long and the high command had decided that his successor would be from the north Karnataka region.

He had also recently indicated the possibility of

Kovind, Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu and Prime Minister Narendra Modi were present a few kilometres away at the Beating Retreat ceremony.

Besides, it coincided with the day when India and Israel marked the completion of the 29th anniversary of the establishment of their diplomatic relations.

Asked whether Israeli agencies will join the probe, Malka said a kind of cooperation and collaboration is taking place, but the probe is mostly being done by Indian authorities as it happened on Indian soil.

“But of course, whatever assistance we can provide, whatever we can share, we will do that,” he said.

On the envelope recovered from the site hinting at a possible Iranian link, Malka said, “You need to understand that the investigation is still in early stages, so it is not appropriate to talk about anything that might harm the investigation.” He said it won’t be fair for him to talk about any specific detail regarding the investigation or other inputs relating to the probe.

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The Gold mini ‘options in goods’ contracts delivered on Saturday were delivered based on BSEBIS India Good Delivery Standards in alignment with “Make in India” and “Atmanirbhar Bharat” initiatives.

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Kolkata, Jan 30 (PTI): Leading industry bodies CII and Engineering Exports Promotion Council (EEPC) have expressed concerns about the problems faced by engineering exporters in the last two three months.

Chairman of CII committee on Exports and Imports Sanjay Budhia said the engineering exporters are facing tough times due to factors like high steel prices and increased ocean freight.

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Yield on benchmark 10 year yield now is 5.95 per cent. The new Covid bond may carry coupon rate higher this level.

“Though the idea to mobilise resources from the Covid bond is not bad, government may not be needing it this year as it is flush with cash balances in its account while debt mobilisation has been relatively easy. Also, the country’s banking system is full of liquidity and is willing to lend if demand is generated,” said a bond market expert with one the leading global consultancy firms, asking not to be named.

New Delhi, Jan 30 (IANS): Budget airline SpiceJet will add 20 new flights on its domestic network from February.

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Sources said that though resource mobilisation through debt instruments is not a problem for the government currently, the Covid bond will aim to channelise large proportion of private savings into this long term instrument.

The bond would be made attractive to get participation even from retail investors by offering a coupon rate higher than yield on benchmark 10 year government securi-

create a facilitative framework for creation of the official digital currency to be issued by the Reserve Bank of India. The Bill also seeks to prohibit all private cryptocurrencies in India, however, it allows for certain exceptions to promote the underlying technology of cryptocurrency and its uses. The government will also introduce the Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2021 that would carry forward reforms in the sector allowing for better regulations that attract investment and removed cumbersome processes and clearances.

Yet another economic legislation would be introduction of the much delayed Electricity (Amendment) Bill, 2021 that proposes to de-license the distribution business and bring in competition, appointment of member from law backg round in ever y Commission, strengthening of APTEL, penalty for non compliance of RPO, prescribing Rights and Duties of Consumers.

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NEW DELHI, JAN. JAN 30 (IANS): As the country’s fight against Coronavirus reaches the next level with the launch of the world’s largest vaccination programme, the government proposes to launch new Covid bonds to finance the rising pandemic relief expenses.

Sources privy to the development said that the announcement on Covid bonds may be made in the budget to be presented by finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on February 1. Though the budget may be used to announce its launch, the bond issue may be made only in the next financial year as govern-

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structural changes in the governing structure of the CCI including expansion of CCI activities across India by opening Regional Offices.

The other bill to be introduced during Budget Session will be the Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority (Amendment) Bill, 2021 that proposes to amend PFRDA Act allowing for separation of NPS Trust from PFRDA while also strengthening the institution.

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New Delhi, Jan 30 (IANS): The Centre has lined up an intensive legislative agenda with over 20 bills for the Budget Session of Parliament which began on January 29.

A major portion of the legislative agenda would include introduction and passage of several economic bills that aim at carrying the reform agenda of the government.

Among the bills lined up for consideration during the Budget session of Parliament include legislation’s covering delicensing of country’s electricity distribution sector, amendments to Competition Commission of India and PFRDA legislations, creation of new development financial institution, ban on private cryptocurrencies.

These would be besides the Finance Bill 2021-22 that would form part of bulk of budget proposals made by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on February 1.

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Observing that there are business cycles in the economy and there are peaks and troughs, he said, when the economy is doing really well, private sector is also doing very well and it’s time for the government to step back and consolidate its fiscal position.

“But when the economy is not doing well, it’s in a trough, the private sector therefore is not doing very well, the void that is left on consumption, investment etc, the government moves in and fills that void,” he told PTI in an interview.

Most of the domestic companies have been shying away from making invest-

measures will reinvigorate demand in the economy.

That is why the government is emphasising on capital expenditure, especially infrastructure, he said.

“When infrastructure spending happens, that crowds in private investment. And that is why there is basically a jargon that for every rupee of public sector investment in infrastructure may be another rupee that comes in as investment from the private sector itself,” Subramanian said.

The government is focussing on the National Infrastructure Pipeline which envisages an investment of Rs 111 lakh crore over five years. He also highlighted that the government capital expenditure spending went up by 60 per cent in October on a month-on-month basis.

“It further increased to about 160 per cent in the month of November, and subsequently by another 60 per cent in December. So the capital expenditure spending we all recognise very well actually has much greater bang for the buck than revenue spending,” he said.

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ments but rather busy in de-leveraging their books for the past few years. As a result, the responsibility of capital formation has largely fallen on the government’s and state-owned firms’ shoulders. Even during the pandemic, PSUs have undertaken capital expenditure (capex).

To encourage fresh investment from the private sector, the government in September 2019 cut corporate tax to one of the lowest in the world.

In the biggest reduction in 28 years, the government slashed corporate tax rates up to 10 percentage points as it looked to pull the economy out of a six-year-low growth with a Rs 1.45-lakh crore tax break.

Base corporate tax for existing companies has been reduced to 22 per cent from 30 per cent; and from 25 per cent to 15 per cent for new manufacturing firms incorporated after October 1, 2019, and starting operations before March 31, 2023.

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New Delhi, Jan 30 (PTI): Chief Economic Adviser K V Subramanian on Saturday said the country would witness revival of ‘animal spirits’ of private enterprises with the economy staging a ‘V-shaped’ 11 per cent growth in the next fiscal year beginning April.

The Economic Survey 2020-21 presented in Parliament on Friday expects the growth rate to rebound sharply from an estimated record contraction of 7.7 per cent in the current financial year on account of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

“I think next year with an 11 per cent growth rate, that is anticipated. Private sector moves in when they see opportunities,” Subramanian said when asked about the revival of ‘animal spirits’ in private investment.

The expression ‘animal spirits’ was coined by celebrated economist John Maynard Keynes to refer to investors’ confidence in taking action in terms of investment.

Subramanian, the lead author of the Economic Survey, also made a case for strong counter-cyclical mea-

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Myanmar military allays coup fears

Tatmadaw says it will protect and abide by 2008 constitution YANGON, Jan 30 (Reuters): Myanmar’s military said on Saturday it would protect and abide by the constitution and act according to law, a move that could allay concerns that the armed forces might attempt to seize power.

The statement comes a day after United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and Western embassies in Myanmar expressed serious concerns about the possibility of army intervention in Myanmar, a country ruled by the military for 49 years after a 1962 coup.

The military, known as the Tatmadaw, said recent remarks by its commanderin-chief, Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, about abolishing the constitution had been misinterpreted.

“The Tatmadaw is protecting the 2008 constitution and will act according to the law,” it said. “Some organisations and media assumed what they want and wrote as Tatmadaw will abolish the constitution.”

Aung San Suu Kyi’s ruling National League for

Police checkpoint is seen on the way to the congress compound ahead of new parliament opening in Naypyitaw, Myanmar on Saturday. (Reuters)

Democracy Party (NLD), which won November’s election in a landslide, called the statement a “suitable explanation”.

NLD spokesman Myo Nyunt told Reuters the party wanted the military to be an organisation “that accepts the people’s desire regarding the election”.

Myanmar-based analyst Richard Horsey said an imminent coup now seemed unlikely.

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mar military has stepped back from its coup threat,” he said on Twitter. “How to interpret that, and what it means for stability going forward, depends on the behind the scenes details that aren’t clear yet.”

Political tensions escalated this week when a military spokesman declined to rule out a coup ahead of a new parliament convening next week, and warned the armed forces could “take action” if its complaints

about vote fraud were not addressed.

Pro-military demonstrations were held in several major cities. On Saturday, about 200 people marched through the commercial capital of Yangon, waving banners and chanting in support of the military and against foreign intervention in the country’s internal affairs.

The crowd, walking in the shadow of Shwedagon Pagoda, Myanmar’s most

important Buddhist site, called on government and the election commission to resolve complaints of fraud.

Myanmar’s election commission on Thursday rejected the military’s allegations of vote fraud, saying there were no errors big enough to affect the credibility of the vote.

The army’s repeated allegations of irregularities in the election, in which the NLD won 83% of seats, have led to the most direct confrontation yet between the civilian government and the military, which has an awkward power-sharing agreement.

The constitution reserves 25% of seats in parliament for the military and control of three key ministries in Suu Kyi’s administration.

Military chief Min Aung Hlaing added to the coup fears when he told military personnel on Wednesday that the constitution should be repealed if it was not abided by, citing previous instances when charters had been abolished in Myanmar.

In Saturday’s statement, the military said his remarks were “to make them understand the situation of the constitution.”

WHO team visits second Wuhan hospital in coronavirus probe Wuhan, Jan 30 (AP): Members of a World Health Organization (WHO) team investigating the origins of the coronavirus pandemic visited another Wuhan hospital that had treated early COVID-19 patients on their second full day of work on January 30.

Wuhan Jinyintan Hospital was one of the city’s first to deal with patients in early 2020 suffering from a then-unknown virus and is a key part of the epidemiological history of the disease.

“Just back from visit at Jinyintan hospital, that specialised in infectious diseases and was designated for treatment of the first cases in Wuhan,” Dutch virologist Marion Koopmans said in a post on Twitter.

“Stories quite similar to what I have heard from our ICU doctors.”

Zoologist Peter Daszak of the U.S. group EcoHealth Alliance, who is a member of the team, said in a tweet that the visit was an “important opportunity to talk directly” with medics who were fighting the virus at the critical time.

The team’s first face-toface meetings with Chinese scientists took place on January 29, before the experts

Members of the WHO team chat after returning to their hotel in Wuhan on Saturday. (AP/PTI)

who specialise in animal health, virology, food safety and epidemiology visited another early site of the outbreak, the Hubei Integrated Chinese and Western Medicine Hospital.

The Geneva-based WHO said late on January 28 on Twitter that its team plans to visit hospitals, markets like the Huanan Seafood Market that was linked to many of the first cases, the Wuhan Institute of Virology, and laboratories at facilities including the Wuhan Centre for Disease Control.

“All hypotheses are on the table as the team follows the science in their work to understand the origins of the COVID19 virus,” WHO tweeted. It said the

team had already requested “detailed underlying data” and planned to speak with early responders and some of the first patients.

The mission has become politically charged, as China seeks to avoid blame for alleged missteps in its early response to the outbreak.

A single visit by scientists is unlikely to confirm the virus’s origins. Pinning down an outbreak’s animal reservoir is typically an exhaustive endeavor that takes years of research including taking animal samples, genetic analysis and epidemiological studies.

One possibility is that a wildlife poacher might have passed the virus to traders who carried it to Wuhan.

EU authorizes China warns Taiwan independence ‘means war’ Russian president Putin signs AstraZeneca/Oxford bill to extend nuke treaty with US COVID vaccine

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M o s c ow, J a n 3 0 (IANS): Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday signed a bill into law ratifying a five-year extension of the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) with the US, one of the last major arms reduction treaties signed since the end of the Cold War. The validity period of the New START will be extended by five years to February 5, 2026, Xinhua news agency quoted the Kremlin as saying in a statement issued on Friday.

On Tuesday, Moscow

and Washington exchanged notes on extending the key arms control pact.

Presidents Vladimir Putin of Russia and Joe Biden of the US welcomed the move in a telephone call.

The same day, Putin submitted a bill on the extension in the State Duma (the lower house of parliament).

On Wednesday, the Russian Parliament approved it.

The extension of the treaty meets Russia’s national interests, makes it possible to preserve the transparency and predict-

ability of Moscow-Washington strategic relations, helps to maintain strategic stability in the world, positively affects the international situation, and contributes to the nuclear disarmament process, the Kremlin said.

In response to the development, a US State Department representative told Russia’s TASS News Agency said: “There are still steps that should be finalized. But we are optimistic that the extension, which obviously meets our national security interests, will be finalized before expiration on February 5.”

In 2010, Russia and the US signed the New START, which stipulates limits to the numbers of deployed nuclear warheads and strategic delivery systems by both.

The last remaining nuclear arms control treaty in force between the two nuclear superpowers was about to expire on February 5 before they agreed to preserve it.

B ru s s e l s, J a n 3 0 (IANS): The European Commission has granted conditional marketing authorization for the Covid-19 vaccine developed by British company AstraZeneca and Oxford University, although the bloc seems unlikely to get the amount of doses as agreed at the moment.

“Securing safe vaccines for Europeans is our utmost priority. With the AstraZeneca vaccine now authorized, 400 million additional doses will be available in Europe,” European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Friday.

Von der Leyen said that she expected AstraZeneca to deliver the doses as agreed so that Europeans can be vaccinated as soon as possible, reports Xinhua news agency.

The European Union has been squabbling with the British company over the latter’s announcement that it may deliver considerably fewer doses than promised for the first quarter.

Lo n d o n, Ja n 3 0 (Agencies): China has warned Taiwan that any attempt to seek independence “means war”.

The warning comes days after China stepped up its military activities and flew warplanes near the island, BBC reported.

It also comes after new US President Joe Biden reaffirmed his commitment to Taiwan, and set out his stance in Asia.

The US has called China’s latest warning “unfortunate”, adding that tensions did not need to lead to “anything like confrontation”.

China sees democratic Taiwan as a breakaway province, but Taiwan sees itself as a sovereign state, with its own constitution, military, and elected leaders.

Analysts say Beijing is becoming increasingly concerned that Taiwan’s government is moving the island towards a formal declaration of independence and it wants to warn President Tsai Ing-wen against taking steps in that direction.

China sees Taiwan as a breakaway province.

President Tsai, however, has repeatedly said that Taiwan is already a independent state, making any formal declaration unnecessary.

On Thursday, Chinese defence ministry spokesman Wu Qian defended the recent military activities near Taiwan, saying they were “necessary actions to address the current security situation in the Taiwan Strait and to safeguard national sovereignty and security”.

“They are a solemn response to external interference and provocations by ‘Taiwan independence’ forces,” he added.

“We warn those ‘Taiwan independence’ ele-

ments - those who play with fire will burn themselves, and Taiwan independence means war.”

The US responded later on Thursday.

“We find that comment unfortunate,” Pentagon press secretary John Kirby told reporters, in the first statement by the new administration on ChinaTaiwan relations.

Mr Kirby added that the Pentagon “sees no reason why tensions over Taiwan need to lead to anything like confrontation”.

The new US administration is expected to maintain pressure on China over a wide range of issues including human rights, trade disputes, Hong Kong and

Taiwan, amid the deteriorating relationship between the two powers.

Taiwan’s Mainland Affairs Council, meanwhile, said China should “not underestimate” the island’s determination to defend its sovereignty and uphold freedom and democracy.

China’s official spokespeople try not to talk about war. They almost always emphasise that theirs is a peace-loving country.

China is not a nation with a history of expeditionary military confrontation far beyond what it regards as its borders.

However, under Xi Jinping’s leadership, China has repeatedly said that it would use military force to prevent any move towards formal independence by Taiwan, which it regards as a renegade province.

Threatening a war isn’t as nuanced as talk of military intervention. It’s blunt, more frightening. It is different too. Military intervention could come in a multitude of ways; not necessarily an out-and-out war between two competing sides and their allies.

Pakistan again warns against Pak-based banned terror group Lashkar-e-Islam picks new leader Indian false flag operations by its forces, but on the other, it started the campaign to turn the Muslim majority state into a Hindu majority territory by permitting over half a million Hindus from India to usurp the land of Kashmiris, which was a genocide under the international law.

“India has silenced Kashmiris through its campaign while it threatens Pakistan through aggression by continuously violating the ceasefire along the Line of Control (LoC).

“India’s disastrous war was averted in February 2019 through Pakistan’s restraint. However, the region may not be fortunate to avert it next times.”

Pakistan’s war ning at the UN, comes after it raised objections against the G4 states’, including India, attempt to get permanent seats at the UN Security Council (UNSC).

Pakistan has stated that the G4’s attempt to reform the 15 member body “would kill the consensus based process to make it more effective, representative and accountable”, insisting that

the Inter-Government Negotiations (IGN) remains the only credible platform for a comprehensive reform of the UNSC. “Any attempts to undermine or derail the IGN process will prove counterproductive,” said Ambassador Akram.

Pakistan government sources have said that the ongoing protests by farmers in India has gained global attention, adding that New Delhi may try to opt for a false flag operation to divert the attention from that subject.

The sources said that intensified aggression has been witnessed along the LoC by India along with increased accusations of exporting terrorists from Pakistan, whenever it has been challenged by its internal problems.

Pakistan has maintained that the 2019 Pulwama terror attack was an act of a local Kashmiri citizen, who was not linked to Pakistan.

Yet, India was quick to jump the accusation bandwagon against Pakistan.

rorist activities and carried up to USD 3 million American bounty on his head, was killed in southern Afghanistan, media reports said on Thursday, quoting a senior Afghan official.

He was “killed along with two of his aides in the roadside bomb blast in the Bandar Dara area

of Achin district of Nan- (TTP) – the umbrella of His terror group was acgarhar this morning,” the militant groups operating cused of attacking NATO Express Tribune newspa- in Pakistan’s tribal regions. convoys. per had reported, quoting Afghanistan’s Nangarhar OFFICE OF THE province governor Ziaulhaq Amarkhil as saying.

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With immense pride and honour, The Tikhir Gazetted Officers’ Association extends our heartfelt congratulations to Shri. Tsintsumong. T, NSS on his promotion to the post of Jr. Section Officer (Class-II Gazetted) in Nagaland Civil Secretariat, Kohima.

The Association further prays to the Almighty God to grant him good health and wishes him more success in his future endeavours.

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Islamabad, Jan 30 (IANS): Pakistan has once again warned the UN and the global community of what it claimed as Indian false flag operations to “justify its aggression” towards Islamabad.

In what can be described as typical Pakistan bombast and a combination of lies and prevarications, it once again challenged India’s right over Jammu and Kashmir despite knowing fully well that ethically, morally and constitutionally the state acceded to the sovereign of India on October 26, 1947.

A false flag operation is committed with the intention of disguising the actual source of responsibility and pinning the blame on a second party.

While addressing a debate at the UN General Assembly, Pakistan’s Permanent Representative Munir Akram, said: “On one hand, India suppressed the Kashmiri people’s right to self-determination, given to them under the UN Security Council Resolutions through unabated atrocities

Peshawar, Jan 30 (PTI): Pakistan’s banned terrorist group Lashkare-Islam has named Zala Khan Afridi as its new head, days after the outfit’s fugitive leader Mangal Bagh was killed in a roadside bomb blast in southern Afghanistan.

Afridi, a close associate of Bagh, was named as the new head after members of the group held a meeting at Bander area in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province.

The new head belongs to Akakhel tribe of Bara tehsil in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province.

The shura (council) also nominated Bagh’s son Tayyab alias Ajnabi as the new deputy commander.

Bagh, who was involved in a number of ter-

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ncrypted messaging app Telegram which added over 100 new million users in January has made it official to bring your chat history to its platform from apps like WhatsApp, Line and KakaoTalk.

This works both for individual chats and groups and you can transfer photos as well as video calls.

Telegram which has now crossed 600 million users said in a statement that Messages will be imported into the current day but will also include their

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original timestamps.

“All members of the chat on Telegram will see the messages,” the company said.

“With this update, you get even more control: secret chats, groups you created and call history can now also be deleted for all sides at any time”.

Messages and media you move don’t need to occupy extra space.

“Older apps make you store all data on your device – but Telegram can take up virtually no space while letting you access all

your messages, photos and videos anytime you need them,” the company said.

The company also announced improved chats where the users can adjust the volume of individual participants to manage microphone levels.

“Adjustments made by group admins are applied for all listeners,” Telegram said.

You can now see which of your groups have active Voice Chats from the top of the Call History page.

Telegram also has an improved audio player where when a track is playing, tap the author name in the player to see their tracks from all your chats.

“If you need to skip ahead or repeat something you missed, press and hold on the Next and Previous buttons to fast-forward and rewind”.

Telegram has seen a significant uptake in new users as WhatsApp’s new Terms of Service and Privacy Policy trigged a fresh data sharing debate.

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ilming on the ITV show was originally due to start this month, but was pushed back three weeks ago due to the third English lockdown and rising cases.

However, on Friday, the talent show’s producers said that “safety has to come first” and called it off until 2022. They said performers like dance groups, choirs and orchestras wouldn’t be able to rehearse and audition safely. The BGT audition shows typically involve hundreds of people congregating and then performing in front of a live audience and judges Simon Cowell, Alesha Dixon, David Walliams and Amanda Holden.

In a statement, the producers said: “Despite everyone at ITV, Thames and Syco doing their best to make it happen, and with our absolute priority of safeguarding the wellbeing and health of every person involved in the programme from judges, hosts and contestants to all of the crew and audience, the decision has been made to - unfortunately - move the record and broadcast of the 15th series of Britain’s Got Talent to 2022.

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Bog beetles finally reveal their remarkable age

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onsider two beetles wedged in the grooves of a piece of oak that was dug from a Cambridgeshire bog in the 1970s.

The insects were donated to the London institution by a farmer concerned they might be an invasive species.

They weren’t, and so were put in a drawer.

Only now have they been examined and shown to be nearly 4,000 years old. The beetles are Oak Capricorns (Cerambyx), a species not previously known to have ever existed in Britain.

About the size of your thumb, they have wonderful long antennae. And if alive today and resident in the UK, they would certainly be among the country’s largest beetles.

“They’re as big as a stag beetle,” said the NHM’s senior curator of insects, Max Barclay.

“As far as I know, the story is this: A farmer in eastern England was cutting up wood he’d found while doing some deep ploughing and discovered these insects inside; dead, of course. This was a huge piece of waterlogged oak, and he sent us

Can people be allergic to exercise?

magine a woman has a few drinks one night, pops some ibuprofen in the morning for her hangover, and goes for a run.

She’s never had an issue with alcohol, ibuprofen or exercise before. But this time, some combination of the three triggers a lifethreatening allergic reaction known as anaphylaxis.

This is a real case that happened to a patient of Dr. Andrew Murphy, an allergist at Suburban Allergy Consultants in Pennsylvania. So, is it possible to be allergic to exercise?

Not technically, Murphy said. When a person is exposed to something they’re allergic to, a protein from the allergen, for example peanuts, grass or cat dander, interacts with antibodies on immune cells in their body. The immune cells fire off chemicals like histamine that cause sneezing, hives, wheezing and other symptoms. There’s no protein that enters the body when a person works out, so it’s not possible to be allergic to running.

But, exercise can trigger the same array of symptoms in people with a rare condition called exercise-induced anaphylaxis. “It’s not necessarily antibody-mediated, but exercise is a trigger and the allergy [immune] cells

are still activated,” Murphy told Live Science.

Exercise alone is enough to trigger an allergic reaction in some people, but the way it does so is unknown. One theory proposes that exercise causes a release of endorphins, which triggers certain immune cells to release chemicals such as histamine, according to a 2010 review in the journal Current Allergy and Asthma Reports.

Other people, like Murphy’s patient, have a condition known as fooddependent exercise-induced anaphylaxis, or FDEIA. For them, eating a certain

food before working out can cause symptoms such as wheezing or hives — even if they have no reaction to that food when lounging.

In the case of Murphy’s patient, the “food” was either alcohol, ibuprofen, or a combination of the two.

There are several theories why certain foods in combination with exercise can cause an allergic reaction, including that working out makes the gastrointestinal tract more permeable, allowing allergens to come into better contact with the immune system. Ibuprofen can further increase permeability and the body’s uptake

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of foreign allergens, and it may directly interact with immune cells, according to the review.

Exercise-induced anaphylaxis is rare. About 2% of people in the Western world experience anaphylaxis, and 5% to 15% of cases are exercise-induced, according to the review. The food-dependent version of the condition is less common and represents between a third and a half of all cases. Not many children come into the office with either condition, Murphy said, and it generally appears in teens and adults.

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dependent exercise-induced anaphylaxis is simple: Don’t eat for four hours before and after working out, according to a review in the journal Expert Review of Clinical Immunology. Another option is to avoid the triggering foods entirely, if those foods are known.

When exercise is the sole trigger, managing the condition can be harder than managing FDEIA, but doctors can help patients develop specialized exercise regimens, Murphy said.

The amount of exertion someone with the condition can do safely varies.

A casual stroll can trigger a reaction in some people, but others can ride a bike with no issues. Each patient must work with a doctor to figure out their own limits.

Murphy always prescribes an EpiPen in case of emergency, and antihistamines can help prevent episodes, according to a 2001 review in the journal American Family Physician.

Serious reactions in response to exercise are rare. In 25 years of practice, Murphy has only seen one person pass out from it. “I usually see more people with cutaneous [skin-related] symptoms like hives, or they have some lip swelling or get wheezing with it,” he said.

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a sample. I think, primarily, he was concerned the beetles were pests. My colleagues at the time said, ‘well, they’re not British’, and so they were left.

“Today, you find this s p e c i e s h a l f way d ow n France. You get it in Poland, Hungary and into Slovakia. And there are also old records from southern Germany.

“We recently had the opportunity with some American collaborators to actually date the wood and the beetles. This was really interesting. Because the beetles are inside the wood,

you know they’re the same age; and it’s therefore a test of the dating techniques to show they get the same results whether it’s plant material or animal material.

It’s a kind of Rosetta Stone moment.”

The radiocarbon dating found the beetles and the oak to be 3,785 years old.

The farmer’s land near Ramsey in Cambridgeshire would have looked very different back then.

It was the Bronze Age, and we think these islands were experiencing relatively dry and warm conditions.

We don’t have thermometer

records but many other similar “proxies” suggest this.

The presence of the woodchomping beetles probably speaks also to more forested times. East Anglia has since been cleared of nearly all its ancient woodlands.

You can still find something “new” in the insects brought back to Britain by the great naturalists Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace. Darwin on his Beagle expedition picked up 8,000 beetles. Wallace, working in the “Malay archipelago”, amassed 10 times that number.

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Allahabad HC stays arrest of Mirzapur makers Farhan and Ritesh

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he Allahabad High Cour t on Friday stayed the arrest of producers of Mirzapur web series, Farhan Akhtar and Ritesh Sidhwani, in connection with a first information report that accused them of improper and indecent portrayal of the town Mirzapur and outraging religious belief.

However, a division bench of justices Manoj Kumar Gupta and Subhash Chand directed the petitioners to offer full cooperation in the investigation while granting the relief. Hearing a writ petition filed by Akhtar and Sidhwani, the court issued notice to the Uttar Pradesh government and complainant seeking their replies and listed the case in the first week of March.

The FIR was registered against Akhtar and Sidhwani at Kotwali Dehat Police Station in Mirzapur district under sections 295-A, 504, 505 and 34 of IPC and 67-A of IT Act. The petitioners’ counsels argued that no offence was made out against Akhtar and Sidhwani.

There was no allegation that the web series was produced with any deliber-

ate or malicious intention of outraging the religious and social feelings of the citizens of India or to insult the religious and social feelings of the people of any particular class, they said.

“Having regard to the facts of the case and the submissions made, till the next date of listing or till submission of police report under Section 173(2) CrPC, whichever is earlier, no coercive action shall be taken against the petition-

ers in pursuance of the FIR registered. However, the petitioners shall offer full cooperation in the investigation,” the court said.

The action crime thriller series on Amazon Prime Video created by Karan Anshuman who wrote the script along with Puneet Krishna and Vineet Krishna took the audiences along the dark world of guns, drugs and lawlessness.

(India Today)

REAFFIRM

We, the Mangmetong Senso Telongjem, Dimapur would like to thank to Dimapur Urban Council Chairmen Federation (DUCCF) President and General Secretary, Shri. Tsenthungo Nyamo and Shri.

Zasivikho Zakiesato, Churches and different organizations for the support and help rendered in the search for the missing boy Master M. Kampa Phom, 11 years of age male who went missing from the residence of Rev. Temsü Imchen of Mangmetong village at NST colony Dimapur on the 4th of January 2021 around 2 p.m. The Union is still painstakingly continuing the search for the missing boy and will continue till the end.

Therefore, we the Mangmetong Senso Telongjem Dimapur, appeal to each and every one, young and old to continue your efforts to help us in the search for the missing boy.

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hip-hop scene in the Northeast, music in general and how often the northeast music scene is underrated, demeaned and deprived of bigger platforms.

BK in his verse talks about racism and Moko Koza talks on how he was turned down by one of the biggest hip-hop talent show

in India (MTV Hustle, India) for the reason that he did not rap in Hindi.

The song sends out a strong message to the general public and shows the evolving North East music scenario. The music video for the song is out on YouTube at Borkung Hrangkhawl’s channel.

S/o S. Mongdong Age: 11 years, Sex: Male, Complexion: Fair Date of Missing: 04/01/2021 Missing from Home (Rev. Temsü Imchen, NST Colony, Dimapur Permanent Add: Bhumnyu Village, Longleng Finders may contact at Mobile No. 1) 8415060102 2) 985607318 3) 8974001433

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appers from Nagaland Moko Koza and Tripura, Borkung Hrangkhawl (BK) officially released a new song entitled “8” on January 30.

8 stand for the eight states in the North Eastern part of India. In the song, both rappers talk about the

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I-League: Aizawl beat NEROCA 2-1

Aizawl now move up the table with seven points.

into the match after a 4-1 defeat against Gokulam Kerala, started with an attacking game and had two chances to score within the first three minutes. Khanngam Horam latched on to a forward pass from Jude Garcia in the second minute but his shot was blocked and sent for a corner.

It was Horam again who was the end of the following corner at the near post but his header was off target. Aizawl settled in after the early scare and threatened the NEROCA goal through a number of corners. They, however, only tested the goalkeeper in the 15th minute, when C Laldinpuia reached Malsawmtluanga’s corner but the defender’s header was straight at Bishorjit Singh.

Five minutes later, Bishorjit was forced to make another save to keep the scores equal as Ramhlunchhunga chested a cross down to his feet and took a shot.

The Neroca goalkeeper had to come off his line quickly and deny him the opener.

In the 28th minute, Aizawl were again denied the lead as Alfred Jaryan’s header was cleared off the goal line.

Aizawl kept threatening and reaped rewards for their efforts in the 37th minute.

Laldinpuia got at the end of an inswinging cross delivered by Malsawmtluanga and he sent his header past a stranded NEROCA goalkeeper Bishorjit Singh.

The former champions almost doubled their lead in the 40th minute through Alfred Jaryan but Bishorjit

had no trouble in dealing with the shot as he ensured that his team went into halftime with just a single goal deficit.

NEROCA retur ned with vigour after the break and levelled the score through Judah Emmanuel Garcia just before the 50th minute. Songpu Singsit turned past his man in the centre of the park and found Garcia in space. The Trinidad and Tobago striker took a couple of touches before taking a powerful low shot from outside the box, which zoomed past Aizawl goalkeeper Lalmuansanga.

With the scores equal, both teams started to attack with intent and this opened up the game. Nathaniel Jude Garcia almost gave NEROCA the lead in the 55th minute, but his longrange free kick struck the top of the crossbar.

The third goal of the game came a minute later in the 56th minute and it was the former I-League champions who grabbed the lead for the second time.

A cross from the right flank caused panic inside the NEROCA box and as the goalkeeper failed to deal with the long ball, MC Zuala headed the loose ball into an empty net to make it 2-1 in favour of Aizawl.

Shah ‘appointed’ president of Asian Cricket Council

New Delhi, Jan 30 (IANS): Indian cricket board secretary Jay Shah was on Saturday “appointed” president of the Asian Cricket Council (ACC) following its virtual AGM on Saturday. Shah will take over from Nazmul Hassan who is also president of the Bangladesh Cricket Board.

“Shah, 32, is the youngest administrator to be appointed as the ACC president,” said a statement from the BCCI. Interestingly, the BCCI statement mentioned at four places that that Shah was “appointed” ACC president while at two places it said that he was “elected”.

“I accept this honour and I thank my esteemed colleagues at the BCCI for nominating me and considering me worthy of this prestigious position,” Shah said in the same statement.

BCCI president Sourav Ganguly, currently hospitalised in Kolkata with an heart ailment, congratulated Shah.

3rd Aphuyemi Cup Lazami Students Union 1-1 Iphonoumi FC D Boys Ghatashi 3-1 Juvenile FC Shesuli Spireites Fc Pughoboto 2-0 Mishilimi FC United FC Chisholi 2-0 Chishili FC

India top medals tally at Asian Online Shooting Championship New Delhi, Jan 30 (IANS): India topped the first Asian Online Shooting Championship with 11 medals, including four gold medals on Saturday. India’s tally included two silver and five bronze medals, the National Rifle Association of India (NRAI) said on Saturday. India fielded a 24member contingent in the two-day competition, and air pistol exponent Saurabh Chaudhary, was among the gold medal winners. The other gold winners were Divyansh Singh Panwar (men’s 10m air rifle), Kynan Chenai (men’s trap), and Rajeshwari Kumari (women’s trap).

Arjun Babuta (men’s 10m air rifle) and Shreyasi Singh (women’s trap) won silver while Manu Bhaker (women’s 10m air pistol), Sarabjot Singh (men’s 10m air pistol), Deepak Kumar (men’s 10m air rifle) Prithviraj Tondaiman (men’s trap), and Manish Keer (women’s trap) won bronze medals.

This performance, the first international challenge after the pandemic-enforced lockdown, has enhanced India’s reputation as one of the top global powers in the Olympic sport.

There were a total of

Australian Open to allow up to Sonam upsets Shakshi at wrestling nationals 30,000 fans to attend per day

Lo n d o n, Ja n 3 0 (Agencies): Up to 30,000 fans a day will be allowed to attend the Australian Open, Victoria’s minister for sport has announced.

A daily crowd capacity of 30,000 will be permitted for the first eight days of the tournament, split equally between day and night sessions, BBC reported.

It will then be reduced to 25,000 from the quarterfinals - half the average attendance of previous years.

The Australian Open runs from February 8-21 in Melbourne. “Over the 14 days, it means we will have up to 390,000 people here at Melbourne Park, about 50% of the average over the past few years,” said Martin Pakula. Six events at one venue in a pandemic - tennis warms up for opening Grand Slam of the year “Rod Laver Arena will

have incredible atmosphere, not that different to the atmosphere we’ve seen at all the Opens in the years past.

“It will not be the same … but it will be the most significant international event with crowds that the world has seen in many, many months.” Players have started to leave hotel quarantine after completing their mandatory 14-day isolation period upon arrival in Australia.

In early January, more than 1,700 players, staff and others tied to the first Grand Slam of the year were flown into the country on chartered flights. Most players were allowed out of their rooms for five hours a day to practise on court and exercise, but a smaller group of 72 players were fully confined to their rooms after coronavirus cases were discovered on their flights.

Swati Shinde and Delhi’s Kirti won the bronze.

H a r ya n a w r e s t l e r Anju also claimed the top honours in the 55 kg with Delhi’s Bunty settling for silver and Indu Tomar of Uttar Pradesh and Delhi’s Sushma Shokin winning the

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Agra, Jan 30 (PTI): Talented grappler Sonam Malik stunned Rio Olympics bronze medallist Sakshi Malik 7-5 in the finals to claim the gold medal in the senior women’s national wrestling championships here on Saturday.

The 19-year-old from Haryana displayed great determination to outwit Sak-

bronze. In 57 kg, Haryana once again dominated with Anshu pocketing the gold medal and Mansi claiming the bronze.

RSPB’s Lalita won the silver, while MP’s Raman Yadav won the other bronze.

shi, representing Railways, in the 62kg weight category.

It was Sakshi’s third loss to Sonam.

Madhya Pradesh’s Pushpa and Har yana’s Manisha bagged the bronze medal. In 50kg category, Haryana’s Minakshi claimed the gold, while state mate Henny Kumari won the silver and Maharashtra’s

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eight events on the roster with no final rounds in the pistol and rifle competitions. In the shotgun events, 150-bird matches were held.

Chaudhary, world No.4 and Tokyo 2020 Olympics quota holder, set the ball rolling for India with a gold in the men’s 10m air pistol event, held on Friday.

He shot 588 to beat Javad Faroughi of Iran, who shot 587 for second place.

Sarabjot won bronze in the event with a score of 582 while Abhishek Verma came in fourth with 581.

Manu won India’s second bronze of the competition in the women’s 10m air pistol competition. She shot 578 to finish behind two Iranians. Haniyeh Rostamiyan shot 580 for gold while Sebghatollahi Golnoush was a point behind for second place. In the men’s 10m air rifle, world No.1 Divyansh

Singh Panwar shot a sublime 632.4 to strike gold. It was an Indian clean sweep with Arjun Babuta claiming silver with 630.1 and another Olympic-bound shooter Deepak Kumar, shooting 628.8 for bronze.

Elavenil Valarivan in the women’s 10m air rifle missed out on the medals by a whisker. She shot 629, the same as bronze winning Shiori Hirata of Japan, but placed fourth due to lesser inner 10s. India also won both the trap competitions. In men’s trap, Kynan Chenai won gold, shooting down 145 birds out of 150.

Prithviraj Tondaiman was third with 143. Shooters from Kuwait placed third and fourth respectively.

I n w o m e n’s t r a p, Rajeshwari Kumari led an Indian clean sweep with a score of 138. Shreyasi Singh shot down the same number of birds but was placed second on countback while Manisha Keer came in third with a score of 136 out of 150.

The two-day competition, held on January 2930, was organised and hosted by the Kuwait Shooting Federation and 274 shooters from 22 Asian countries competed.

CONDOLENCE Lotha Hoho Dimapur with heavy heart, expresses sorrow and deeply saddened to hear of the demise of Shri Tali Temjen Toy, Chief Secretary to the Government of Nagaland.

The passing away of Lt. Tali Temjen Toy, a visionary and a dynamic leader of outstanding capability is an irreparable loss to the Nagas as a whole. The LHD conveys deepest condolences to the bereaved family members.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT We, the bereaved family of Lt. Mrs Ashihrii Losa Lucy, who died on 25th Jan 2021, would like to thank most sincerely all those sympathized with us on the recent loss of our beloved mother.

We offer our heartfelt thanks to all the friends and family, churches, societies, neighbors, colleagues, well wishers and various organizations for all the prayers, love, flowers, visitations, financial and emotional support and messages of condolences.

Though, we are unable to thank each and everyone of you individually, it is our earnest prayer that the Almighty God bless you all abundantly.

Psalm 23:4 Even though I walk through the darkest valley, I will fear no evil for you are with me.

Beloved Husband, Children, Mother and Grand Daughter.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT “Naked came I out of my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return thither: the Lord gave, and the Lord had taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord”.

- Job 1:21 (KJV)

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Ko l k at a , J a n 3 0 (IANS): Aizawl FC beat North Eastern Re-Organising Cultural Association Football Club (NEROCA FC) 2-1 with the latter being reduced to nine players in stoppage time after getting two red cards at the Mohun Bagan Ground, Kolkata on Saturday.

MC Malsawmzuala scored the winner in the 56th minute after NEROCA’s Judah Emmanuel Garcia equalised in the 49th minute. PC Laldinpuia had earlier given Aizawl the lead in the 37th minute. With the victory, Aizawl now move up the table with seven points and are placed four points behind the leaders Churchill Brothers with one game in hand.

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Late T. AYIM LONGCHAR Born on : 02.09.1942 – Died on : 22.01.2021 We, the bereaved family of Late T. Ayim Longchar wishes to acknowledge and express our profound gratitude and appreciation to all our relatives, friends, neighbours and well-wishers for the numberless acts of love and kindness extended to us in the course of his brief illness and sudden demise.

We regret our inability to thank each one of you individually for the immense support offered to us physically, materially, financially and through prayers during our moment of intense sorrow and great loss and it is our prayer that the God Almighty bless each one of you abundantly.

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“Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted” Matthew 5:4 We, the bereaved family members and relatives of Late Yanchamo Ovung would like to extend our sincere gratitude to each and every individual, families, friends, organisations, churches and well wishers for extending your love and support.

We regret our inability to mention every individual and well wishers, but it is our prayer that our Almighty God bless you all in abundance.

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The family of Lt. Dziesesieü Bernadette Dzüvichü (1928 – 25.01.2021) gratefully acknowledge the kind expressions of sympathy and thoughtfulness shown to us following our sad loss.

We offer our heartfelt gratitude to all our friends and families here and across distant land who have visited our home, hospital and attended the funeral service and for extending emotional support and prayers during our time of bereavement.

For those who telephoned, travelled long distances, sent floral tributes, cards and messages of condolences, we are truly grateful and will always be remembered.

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The family of Late Zhuvihe Chophi would like to offer our thanks to all the people who showed great support and kindness during his illness and in the time since he left us on 25th January.

We offer our heartfelt gratitude to individuals, friends, neighbours, clubs, organisations and wellwishers who visited our home ,attended the wake, service and burial and who provided emotional and practical support in difficult times. For those who telephoned, travelled long distance, sent floral tributes as well as those who made charitable donations we are truly grateful.

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World Tour Finals: Tai Tzu Northeast beat table topper Mumbai 2-1 BWF Ying to face Carolina in final

New Delhi, Jan 30 (Agencies): NorthEast United FC got the better of Mumbai City FC yet again, doing a double over the Islanders with a 2-1 win in the Indian Super League at the GMC Stadium, Bambolim, on Saturday. The win also ended Mumbai’s chances of creating history with a record 13th-straight unbeaten game, News18 reported.

Interestingly, NorthEast is the only side who have managed to win against the might of the table-toppers. Interim coach Khalid Jamil also maintained his perfect run since taking charge of NorthEast and has now recorded his third straight win, taking his side back into the top four with 21 points.

Deshorn Brown’s firsthalf double was enough to see Mumbai off, despite Adam Le Fondre pulling back a late goal.

There were a couple of changes for both teams.

Mandar Rao Dessai returned to the starting XI for Mumbai while Jackichand Singh was handed his first start.

For NorthEast, Benjamin Lambot made a comeback to the playing XI after Dylan Fox was ruled out with injury while Provat Lakra came in for

NorthEast United players celebrate a goal against Mumbai City FC.

the suspended Gurjinder Kumar.

NEUFC got off to the best possible start, scoring two goals in the opening 10 minutes to hand an early blow to Mumbai.

Brown powered NorthEast ahead in the sixth minute. Luis Machado had a shot at goal which was parried by Amrinder Singh, but the danger wasn’t cleared as Nim Dorjee sent in a cross into the box. Brown, timed his run and smashed the ball, into the back of the net.

The Highlanders punished Mumbai for sloppy defending and scored their

second within three minutes. Federico Gallego whipped in a corner in the box, which the Mumbai defense failed to clear as Hernan Santana’s weak header found Machado.

The Portuguese forward pushed the ball to Brown and the Jamaican netted his second.

Mumbai tried to get back into the game but nearly conceded their third.

It was Brown once again for NorthEast. On getting the ball on the flank, Lakra made a run before crossing the ball to an unmarked Brown, however, the Jamaican shot wide.

Rohan Bopanna ties up with McLachlan for Australian Open

Rohan Bopanna, who served a 14-day hard quarantine after arriving in Melbourne on January 16, informed that Ben (R) and he were in the same boat. (File)

New Delhi, Jan 30 (PTI): Indian tennis star Rohan Bopanna’s search to look for a partner for the men’s doubles competition at the Australian Open ended on Saturday as he tied up with Japan’s Ben McLachlan for the season’s first Grand Slam.

Bopanna had originally paired with Joao Sousa but the Portuguese contracted coronavirus virus, forcing them to pull out.

Bopanna, who served a 14-day hard quarantine after arriving in Melbourne on January 16, informed that Ben and he were in the same boat.

“I got lucky there.

Unfortunately Ben’s partner Raven Klassen had to pull out and Ben was looking for a partner, so we finally decided to commit and sign up together. I am looking forward to see how it goes. Definitely was not easy to find partners,

happy to have found one,” Bopanna told PTI. Australian Open will begin on February 8 under strict COVID-19 protocols.

Apart from Bopanna, India will have Divij Sharan in the men’s doubles event while Sumit Nagal will compete in the men’s singles on a wild card.

Ankita Raina is waiting to find out if she gets ‘lucky loser’ spot in the women’s singles.

NorthEast continued to attack and nearly scored the third soon after the restart but Mumbai custodian Amrinder Singh produced a fine save to deny Lalengmawia.

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Olympics without spectators among options: Yoshiro Tokyo, Jan 30 (IANS): Holding the Tokyo Olympics without spectators is one of the scenarios that the Games organising committee is evaluating, the committee’s president Yoshiro Mori said.

Uncertainty looms over the Olympics, which had already been postponed once due to the Covid-19 pandemic and is scheduled to be held from July 23 to August 8 this year.

“We have been doing all kinds of simulations.

Basically, I don’t think (the games without fans) is something that would happen or something that I would like to do, but it won’t be a simulation unless we think about it,” Mori told reporters after a remote meeting with International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach on Friday. Bach had earlier said that while the organisers would prefer having fullcapacity stadiums during the Games, they looking to host a “safe” event, even if it means holding it behind closed doors.

well in the midfield particularly creating problems for Hugo Boumous, who particularly had an unusually quiet game.

Second-half substitute Adam Le Fondre pulled a goal back for the Islanders in the 85th minute to restore some hope for Mumbai. Le Fondre and Boumous combined before the Frenchman found Ogbeche, who set free Le Fondre in the box. And the man who initiated the move fired the ball into the back of the net.

Mumbai nearly equalized in the stoppage time.

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Ba n g ko k , Ja n 3 0 (IANS): Chinese Taipei world No.1 Tai Tzu Ying will face Spanish Olympic champion Carolina Marin in the women’s singles final of the BWF World Tour Finals in Bangkok on Sunday.

Tai beat South Korea’s An Se Young 21-18, 21-12 while Marin beat Thailand’s Por napwee Chochuwong 21-13, 21-13 in their respective semifinal matches on Saturday.

Defending champions Mohammad Ahsan and Hendra Setiawan of Indonesia cruised to the men’s doubles final as they beat Korean pair Choi Solgyu and Seo Seung Jae in their semi-final match, 23-21, 21-13. They will face Chi-

Carolina Marin

nese Taipei’s Lee Yang and Wang Chi-Lin, who beat England’s Ben Lane and Sean Vendy 22-20, 21-17.

Lee and Wang had won the two Thailand Open tournaments this month.

The women’s doubles final will be an all-Korean affair, with Lee So HeeShin Seung Chan and Kim So Yeong-Kong Hee Yong, both winning their semifinal matches. Lee and Shin beat Malaysian pair Chow Mei Kuan and Lee Meng Yean 21-14, 21-15 while Kim and Kong beat Thailand’s Jongkolphan Kititharakul and Rawinda Prajongjai 21-11, 12-21, 21-16.

In the singles action, Young raced to a 13-9 lead

in the first game before Tai fought back to level the game at 18-18. Tai went on to win the next three points on the trot to take the first game 21-18.

Young kept up until the score was 5-4 in Tai’s favour in the second game after which the Taiwanese won the next nine points to race to a 14-4 lead. She eventually took the game 21-12, ending the match in 37 minutes.

Marin pulled away from Chochuwong after the score was 11-10 in the first game to charge to an 18-10 lead. The second game was a far more straightforward affair with the Spaniard taking a 14-5 lead. She won her match in 40 minutes.

Wilson double helps Newcastle sink Everton London, Jan 30 (AFP): Callum Wilson eased the pressure on Newcastle manager Steve Bruce as his late double sealed a vital 2-0 win against Everton on Saturday. Bruce has been under fire from Newcastle fans after a wretched run plunged his team into the Premier League relegation battle. But Wilson netted twice in the last 17 minutes at Goodison Park to give Newcastle their first victory in 12 matches in all competitions. Having ended a dismal streak of five successive defeats, Newcastle are now nine points above the bottom three.

Their first win in 10 league matches gives Bruce some breathing space, but he still has only minimal margin for error given the ever-present gloomy mood on Tyneside.

Everton remain seventh after a first defeat in three league games. Carlo Ancelotti kept faith with Everton goalkeeper Jordan Pickford despite the England international’s latest costly mistake in the midweek draw against Leicester.

Pickford produced the best

Wilson struck deep inside second half stoppage time to wrap up Newcastle’s victory.

save of the game to divert Wilson’s flicked header onto the crossbar as the visitors began to generate some momentum before half-time.

Everton’s Yerry Mina twice headed over as James Rodriguez’s delivery caused problems. Wilson should have done better when he swept Ryan Fraser’s pass just past the far post from a counter-attack not long after the restart. The sub-

stitution which Newcastle hoped would change things up came in the 66th minute when Allan Saint-Maximin replaced Fraser.

And they made the breakthrough in the 73rd minute when Wilson lost his marker at a Jonjo Shelvey corner and looped a header across Pickford and inside the far upright. Wilson was then denied by the post after rounding Pickford, but the

former Bournemouth striker made no mistake when Newcastle countered quickly in stoppage-time. Firing a low shot past Pickford, Wilson turned away in celebration as Bruce punched the air on the touchline.

RESULTS Man City 1-0 Sheffield United Crystal Palace 1-0 Wolves West Brom 2-2 Fulham

No Ranji Trophy this season, after 86 consecutive years Test rankings: Kohli steady at New Delhi, Jan 30 (IANS): After staging Ranji Trophy for 86 consecutive years since its inception in 1934-35, India’s premier first class cricket national championship will not be held for the first time in 2020-21 domestic season.

Interestingly, in a letter addressed to all its affiliated state associations dated January 29, the Indian cricket board is mum on not organising the Ranji Trophy this season. It merely says that the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has decided to conduct the Vijay Hazare Trophy 50over tournament and Senior Women’s One Day tournament after the completion of the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy T20 tournament.

The president of a state association said that all the indications of the BCCI not being keen on staging the Ranji Trophy had been there for a long time. “The writing on the wall was there since Day One, that the BCCI would not hold the Ranji Trophy this season. It is sad and unfortunate that the

Saurashtra celebrate their maiden Ranji Trophy title in 2019-20.

Ranji Trophy will not be played. It is a sad news and a sad day for Indian cricket followers,” he told IANS. “BCCI secretary Jay Shah’s letter to the states doesn’t mention the words ‘Ranji Trophy’ even once.

But he spoke to the states on phone and said that the Ranji Trophy would not be held this season. It is, however, not there is black and white,” he said referring to the letter. In a smart move, and clearly to deflect the blame for not organising the Ranji Trophy from itself,

the BCCI asked its affiliates to give their opinion of whether to hold the Ranji Trophy or the Vijay Hazare Trophy. The BCCI, however, has not made this ‘poll’ public, so no one knows how many of its affiliates wanted the Ranji Trophy to be organised.

“It was extremely important for us to ensure that women’s cricket takes place and I am extremely happy to inform you that we are going to conduct the senior women’s one-day tournament simultaneously with

the Vijay Hazare Trophy and follow it up with the Vinoo Mankad under-19 Trophy. This has been decided after having received your feedback on the domestic season 2020-21,” Jay Shah said in his letter.

Shah said that details of the tournaments, including dates and venues, would be communicated later. With the 2021 Indian Premier League set to begin in April, only a two-month window was available for the BCCI to conduct domestic tournaments.

“I would like to take this opportunity to thank each one of you for your support. It has been heartening to see the outstanding quality of cricket on display during the course of the tournament and the coming of age of quite a few youngsters. We are keenly looking forward to an exciting final game,” Shah said.

“The preparations for the England tour of India (Senior Men) which commences on the 5th February onwards, are in full swing and there is a lot of excite-

ment around it after the historic tour of Australia where, as you are aware, the team had performed miraculously under extremely trying circumstances,” he said.

The final of the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy will be held between Tamil Nadu and Baroda on Sunday in Ahmedabad. The tournament started on January 10 and the group stages were conducted in bio-secure venues in Bengaluru, Kolkata, Vadodara, Indore, Mumbai, and Chennai.

The knockout stages were held in Ahmedabad behind closed doors.

The tournament was the first to be conducted in the 2020-21 domestic season that had been truncated due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Shah in an earlier letter to state units had asked for their feedback on which tournaments need to be conducted after the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy and a decision for the same was to be made by the BCCI after the group stage of the tournament.

4th; Pujara rises to 6th place

New Delhi, Jan 30 (PTI): Virat Kohli remained the highest-placed Indian batsman at fourth position even as Cheteshwar Pujara rose a rung to sixth in the latest ICC Test rankings issued on Saturday.

Apart from Kohli (862) and Pujara (760), Test vicecaptain Ajinkya Rahane (748) is the other Indian batsman in the top-10, hanging on to the eighth spot.

Pujara moved up one place to sixth, while wicketkeeper-batsman Rishabh Pant and star opener Rohit Sharma remained static on the 13th and 18th spots respectively.

New Zealand captain Kane Williamson (919) continued to lead the batting charts, with the Australian duo of Steve Smith (891) and Marnus Labuschagne (878) rounding up the top three while England skipper Joe Root (823) retained the fifth spot. Among the bowlers, veteran spinner Ravichandran Ashwin (760)

and pace ace Jasprit Bumrah (757) retained their eighth and ninth spots respectively.

Pat Cummins (908) continues to lead the chart followed by England pacer Stuart Broad (839) and

New Zealand’s Neil Wagner (835). Ravindra Jadeja (419) and Ashwin (281) also retained the third and sixth place, respectively, in the all-rounders’ list led by England’s Ben Stokes (427).

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