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edN institutions to remain shut Single STANDARD SOP to be issued Correspondent

KOHIMA, JUL 30 (NPN): A day after the centre issued the nationwide Unlock 3 guidelines, the High Powered Committee (HPC) headed by the chief minister, decided to continue with the current lockdown measures in Nagaland, till August 31, 2020.

The centre on Wednesday further extended the process of phased re-opening of activities in Unlock 3, which would come into effect from August 1, 2020.

HPC deliberated on the existing lockdown measures and decided to continue with the measures. HPC also reiterated that respective district task force (DTF) on COVID-19 were empowered to take decisions on imposition of stricter or additional lockdown measures as per their assessment of the local conditions in their respective districts. It was also reiterated that schools and colleges would continue to remain closed.

Minister and state government spokesperson, Nei-

Dimapur-Chümoukedima highway wears a deserted look during the ongoing total lockdown Thursday. (NP)

ba Kronu, told Nagaland Post that new single standard operating procedure (SOP) for the entire state would be brought out very soon.

The decision to extend current lockdown measures in Nagaland was taken at a meeting of the High Powered Committee (HPC) on COVID-19 in Kohima under the chairmanship of the state chief minister, Neiphiu Rio. Other HPC members who attended the meeting included- HPC co-chairman & deputy chief minister Y Patton; minister health & family welfare; minister

planning & coordination, LR & parliamentary affairs; chief secretary; additional chief secretary & development commissioner and senior government officials.

The HPC was briefed by the home and health departments on the overall COVID-19 situation in the state.

Both the school education department as well as higher & technical education departments briefed members on various measures being taken to ensure continuous learning of the students through both of-

fline and online modes during the lock down period.

In view of the rise in COVID-19 positive case, three districts are currently under total lockdown— Kohima (July 25-31), Dimapur (July 26- August 2) and Mon (July 27-August 2).

With public gripped by fears of community transmission, sources Wednesday said the district task forces of Kohima and Dimapur would have to take stock of the situation in the next few days before deciding on whether or not to extend the lockdown period.

DC Dimapur Nagaland COVID tally 1566 Record spike of transferred COVID-19 STATUS AS ON july 30, 2020 52,123 COVIDDIMAPUR, JUL 30 19 cases in India (NPN): The State governACTIVE CASES Asymptomatic Dimapur 435 Kiphire 0 Kohima 316 Longleng 0 Mokokchung 13 Mon 109 Peren 30 Phek 13 Tuensang 4 Wokha 7 Zunheboto 8 District

ment on Thursday carried out a bureaucratic reshuffle by transferring 20 IAS, NCS and NSS officers. As per the rejig, Dimapur deputy commissioner (DC) Anoop Khinchi has been transferred and posted as additional secretary in Water Resources department. Rajesh Soundararajan will take over as the new DC. (More on p-6) DCCI opposes: Dimapur Chamber of Commerce & Industry (DCCI) has expressed strong opposition to the transfer of DC and urged the government to put on hold his transfer order till such time Dimapur returned to normalcy.

Expressing shock and outrage at the development, DCCI president Akashe K Zhimomi in a release questioned the logic behind the abrupt transfer of the incumbent at a time when the government and all sections of society were all engaged in fighting the COVID-19 pandemic, relegating all other activities and issues to the background. He also questioned the motive of the government in transferring the head of the district at a time when Dimapur was gripped by worst fears of the disease reaching epic proportions.

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608 0 443 3 18 148 252 28 46 8 12

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*4 deaths reported as due to Covid-19, 1 death is Covid-19 positive but not due to Covid-19 (paid quarantine center) and 1 Covid-19 positive death (with co-morbidities) under investigation.

DIMAPUR, JUL 30 (NPN): Nagaland’s COVID-19 tally rose to 1566 after 48 fresh cases were detected from Dimapur and Kohima on Thursday.

According to Health minister, S. Pangnyu Phom 32 cases were reported from Dimapur and 16 in Kohima. Active surveillance and contact tracing had been

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activated to prevent further spreading of the infection.

The tally as on July 30 stood at 1,566 cases-- 935 active, 625 recovered and 6 deaths. Out of 6 deaths the Health department said 4 died due to COVID, 1 death (positive) but not due to COVID and 1 death under investigation-- co-morbidities and positive case.

NEW DELHI, JULY 30 (PTI): COVID-19 cases in India crossed the 50,000 mark in a single day for the first time, pushing the virus tally to 15,83,792, while the recoveries went past 10 lakh on Thursday, according to the Union Health Ministry data.

The country registered a record increase of 52,123 infections in a span of 24hours, while the death-toll climbed to 34,968 with 775 people succumbing to the disease in a day, the data updated at 8 am showed.

There are 5,28,242 active cases of coronavirus infection in the country presently.

T h e r e c ove r y r a t e among COVID-19 patients was recorded at 64.44 per cent, while the fatality rate was at 2.21 pc. The total number of confirmed cases also includes foreigners.

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Delimitation exercise in Nagaland: Apex court seeks response from Centre

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NEW DELHI, JUL 30 (PTI): The Supreme Court on Thursday sought response from the Centre on a plea challenging an order to resume the delimitation exercise in Nagaland based on a 2001 census.

A bench comprising Chief Justice S A Bobde and Jusitces A S Bopanna and V Ramasubramanian tagged the plea with an earlier petition related to delimitation in neighbouring Assam.

The petition sought quashing of the order passed by the centre on February 28, terming it “arbitrary and violative of Article 14 (equality) of the Constitution.” It sought a direction that the delimitation exercise to be conducted based on the 2021 census. The petition sought stay on the February 28 order passed by the Centre till the time matter is decided before the court.

Earlier the delimitation exercise was deferred in the state by an order dated February 8, 2008. The petition said that the 2008 order was passed considering the law and order, disturbance to tribal equilibrium, ongoing peace talks etc.

KOHIMA, JUL 30 (NPN): At least ten(10) staff at the chief minister’s residential complex in Kohima tested positive for COVID-19 on Thursday.

According to highly placed sources said the ten, that included security personnel and support staff, had tested positive for COVID. Sources informed that the security personnel are sent for sentry duty and were not from the CM’s inner security section.

In a tweet, the CM’s Office said that chief minister Neiphiu Rio, as a safety precaution, was under home quarantine while strict adherence to Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) have been put in place for primary and secondary contacts.

Following the detection of positive cases, CMO said that the complex was sanitized and the residential office closed for 48 hours.

However, CMO said the CM’s Office at Nagaland civil secretariat was functioning normally with all guidelines.

“The new order is arbitrary since the reasons continue to exist and there is no change in circumstances,” the petition, filed

by Chakhesang Public Organisation (CPO) said.

It further said that “the object of delimitation would best be served in case the last census i.e. 2011 census figures are made the basis for the delimitation exercise or the census of 2021 which is currently underway.”

“State of Nagaland has a unique history of insurgency and is comprised of several tribes having their distinctive language, cultural and customs. It is because of these circumstances that the State of Nagaland enjoys special constitutional guarantee under Article 371A of the Constitution of India.

“The impugned order seeking resumption of delimitation exercise based on 2001 census would certainly disturb the tribal equilibrium/demarcations and lead to abrogating their constitutional rights,” it said.

It further said that that the grievance with the 2001 census figures for the State of Nagaland is marred by

Demand for ouster of state BJP chief Correspondent

KOHIMA, JUL 30 (NPN): After a short truce brokered by the party’s central leadership, dissidence has once again surfaced in Nagaland unit of BJP over the leadership issue. According to reports, some district presidents of the party launched a poster campaign in their areas seeking removal of State BJP president Temjen Imna Along.

A twitter post showed photos of Peren, Tuensang, Noklak, Kiphire, Kohima, Phek, Wokha, Mon, etc, district presidents, besides Aboi subdivision, holding placards that read “Will not undertake any party activity unless the president was removed”, “No to liars, we want president with principles”, etc.

Earlier, 10 district and organisational district presidents of BJP had demanded replacement of Along after accusing him of being dictatorial, autocratic and

not being transparent in financial matters, besides demanding implementation of one man, one post.

In a memorandum to BJP’s national general secretary (Org) Ajay Jamwal, the district presidents also pointed out certain allegations against the incumbent State president. However, after a meeting in Delhi in mid-July, Jamwal claimed before Nagaland Post that there was no issue within the State BJP leadership and that the “miscommunication” between the leaders had been resolved, adding that there won’t be any change in the leadership.

On the memorandum submitted by the 10 district presidents, he assured that the central leaders of the party would take a call when the time comes.

Meanwhile, when contacted, a party insider told this correspondent that if the State president had to be replaced at all, there were four/five potential contend-

ers. However, he said so far there was no directive from the central leaders.

Another party member asserted that the party would function as usual but admitted that dissent among certain district presidents were growing louder.

According to him, the district presidents were given a false hope that they could impeach the State BJP president, “which they actually cannot”. He recalled how in the past signatures were appended and protest rallies were held with slogans and banners to remove previous presidents, but all of which failed, predicting that the current move too would meet a similar fate.

Pointing out that never in BJP’s history had a State president been removed, he asserted that Along would remain as the State president because he was “constitutionally appointed” for the tenure 2020-23 on January 13 this year in the presence of party’s central leaders.

several fallacies and abnormalities which have not been corrected even after 14 years of protracted litigation.

On July 19, 2020, a former legal advisor to the Election Commission (EC) had red-flagged the Centre’s order setting up a Delimitation Commission for Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Assam and Nagaland, calling it “unconstitutional” and “illegal”. S.K. Mendiratta, who served with the EC for over 50 years, wrote a letter to the three election commissioners last month, pointing out that the Law Ministry’s notification of March 6 violates the Representation of the People Act 1950.

Section 8A of the RP Act 1950, introduced by Parliament in 2008, states that delimitation in the four North East states, when held, would fall within the EC’s remit. Hence, any delimitation exercise in Arunachal, Manipur, Assam and Nagaland by the new Delimitation Commission would be “declared void by the courts” and, subsequently, result in “wastage of huge precious public funds”, Mendiratta wrote in his letter.

Peren bodies threaten to launch phase-III stir

DIMAPUR, JUL 30 (NPN): Zeliangrong Students’ Union (Nagaland), Kuki Students’ Organization (N) and Zeme Youth Organization (N) Thursday threatened to launch third phase of agitation “any time soon” on the ground that the state government failed to fulfill its assurance to set up technical committee for better health facilities in Peren district.

In a press release, ZSU (N) president Dithuibo Newmai and general secretary Adona Herie claimed that the government seemed “to give little less important to the genuine needs of the district.”

Reiterating the demand, ZSU(N) said it had put its early agitation on halt with the hope that government would be sincere to their commitment. However, ZSU(N) cautioned that if the government failed to fulfill its commitment, it would be forced to take up its third phase of agitation and for which the government would be fully held responsible in the event of day night, around 8.30 p.m., any untoward incident. close to the Indo-Myanmar border. The rebels attacked the jawans by detonating an improvised explosive device (IED) first and then opened D I M A P U R , J U L 3 0 fired at troopers with sophis- (NPN): A 57-year old person from Nagaland died of ticated arms.

The sources said that COVID-19 in Guwahati on the three AR personnel were Thursday.

Informing this on Twitkilled on the spot. The deceased were later identified ter, Assam Health minister as Havildar (general duty) Himanta Biswa Sarma said Pranay Kalita (No. 412160), “I mourn the demise of two rifleman Ratan Salam (Rfn more #COVID19 patients no. 5009574) and rifleman today, Late Aolepshi Jamir Methna Konyak (Rfn no. (57) of Kamrup Metro and Late Swapan Saha (45) of 5005839).

Three rebel groups Darrang. May God give the while owning up the am- bereaved families enough bush, in a joint statement, strength to bear the loss. claimed that four troopers Prayers & condolences.”

According to reports, were killed and many others Aolepshi was doing busiwounded in the attack.

Wednesday’s ambush ness in Guwahati. He was was the second attack on suffering from other health 4 Assam Rifles based in issues and was being treated at a hospital.

Khongtal village.

CEOs of Amazon, Apple, Facebook & Google grilled 3 AR jawans killed in joint

WASHINGTON, JUL 30 (AP): Congressional lawmakers finally got a chance Wednesday to grill the CEOs of Big Tech over their dominance and allegations of monopolistic practices that (Cont’d on p-5) stifle competition. But it’s not clear how much they advanced their goal of bringing some of the world’s largest companies to heel.

Invective flew as legislators questioned Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, Sundar Pichai of Google and Tim Cook of Apple at a hearing of the House Judiciary subcommittee on antitrust.

For the last year, that panel has probed the business practices of the Silicon Valley giants with an eye to determining if they need to “With only 3 out of 10 be regulated more heavily, reporting for work, it or even broken up.

In nearly five hours of cannot contain COVID testimony and questioning, nor promote economy.” however, there were few

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startling revelations or striking confrontations. While the executives faced hostile questioning and frequent interruptions from lawmakers of both parties, little seemed to land more than glancing blows.

The CEOs testified via video to lawmakers, at times appearing together on the committee room display as tiny individual figures in a mostly empty array of squares. Most committee members were seated, masks on, in the hearing room in Washington.

The execs provided lots of data purporting to show how much competition they face and just how valuable their innovation and essential services are to consumers. But they sometimes struggled to answer pointed questions about their business practices. They also confronted a range of other concerns about alleged po-

litical bias, their effect on U.S. democracy and their role in China.

The panel’s chairman, Rep. David Cicilline, a Rhode Island Democrat, said each platform controlled by Facebook, Amazon, Google and Apple “is a bottleneck for a key channel of distribution.” “Whether they control access to information or to a marketplace, these platforms have the incentive and ability to exploit this power,” he said.

“They can charge exorbitant fees, impose oppressive contracts, and extract valuable data from the people and businesses that rely on them.” “Simply put: They have too much power.”

The four CEOs command corporations whose products are woven into the fabric of everyday life, with millions or even billions of customers, and a combined

market value greater than the entire German economy.

One of them, Bezos, is the world’s richest individual; Zuckerberg is the fourthranked billionaire.

And they had a few rough moments. Pichai and Zuckerberg, for instance, appeared discomfited when pressed about unsavory aspects of their companies’ businesses, but got respites when their inquisitors ran out of time. Bezos also acknowledged that alleged misdeeds at Amazon — such as reports that the company has used data generated by independent sellers on its platform to compete against them — would be “unacceptable” if proven to be true.

Outside observers were able to draw radically different conclusions from the event. Richard Hamilton Jr., a former Justice Department

militant attack in Manipur

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IMPHAL, JUL 30: At least three jawans of Assam Rifles were killed and five others wounded in an ambush carried out by rebels in the restive state of Manipur on Wednesday night, official sources here said on Thursday.

The ambush was laid by a joint team of Manipur Naga People’s Front (MNPF), Revolutionary People’s Front (RPF) and United Liberation Front of Asom – Independent (ULFA-I), according to a joint statement of the three rebel groups.

It was reported that the joint team laid the ambush to a column of 4 Assam Rifles on area domination at Khongtal village in Manipur’s Chandel district bor(Cont’d on p-5) dering Myanmar Wednes-

Naga man dies due to COVID-19 in Guwahati

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WEATHER FORECAST july 31

(Temperature in ºC)

Max Min

Agartala A thunderstorm in the area

32 26

Aizawl

A p.m t-storm in spots

26 21

Guwahati A thunderstorm in the area

29 24

A t-storm around in the a.m

30 21

Imphal

Itanagar Mostly cloudy with a t-storm

26 23

Shillong

Couple of thunderstorm

22 18

Kohima

Mostly cloudy with a t-storm

23 18

Dimapur A stray afternoon t-storm Mkg

An afternoon thunderstorm

Tuensang Couple of thunderstorm

29 24 26 19 21 15

Mostly cloudy with a t-storm

24 21

Zunheboto Rather cloudy with a t-storm

23 17

Wokha

Y. Patton extends Naknyulum greetings DIMAPUR: Deputy CM and BLP leader Y. Patton has extended Naknyulum greeting to the Chang community on their premier festival. In a greetings message on behalf of BJP legislators, Patton wished the Chang community a very happy and meaningful Naknyulum. He said that during these uncertain times, one should give thanks to the creator by celebrating the festival at home and paying reverence to the forefathers for leaving behind a great legacy. He also advised for celebrating the occasion by following all the SOPs.

Day 6 of Kohima total lockdown

DIMAPUR: Association of Kohima Municipal Wards Panchayat (AKMWP) informed that the total lockdown passed off peacefully with no untoward incidents being reported from any of the wards in Kohima on day-6.

In a press release, the AKMWP informed that association will have a meeting with the district authority for extension of total lockdown, as the 7 days total lockdown draws to an end on Friday.

AKMWP also disbursed the assistance amount granted

by Kohima District Task Force to all the 19 wards.

AKMWP further urged all citizens to remain calm and cooperate with respective ward/colony leaders to ensure that each and everyone remains safe.

Manually dug fishery ponds at farm lands in Phisami village for augmenting income.

Correspondent KIPHIRE, JUL 30 (NPN): Despite the COVID-19 pandemic across the world, the villagers of Phisami village under Kiphire district started fish farming, although their main occupation is jhum and terrace cultivation.

During off season, the villagers cultivate oth-

er organic produces for sustenance. Villagers also dig fishery ponds mostly through manual labour so as to augment the family income.

Atoka, primary teacher interacting with Nagaland Post said that he has listed a total of 398 fishery ponds, out of which about 20-30 fisheries were dug by machines and the rest done

Border villages urge government for restoration of bridge in Mokokchung Correspondent MOKOKCHUNG, JUL 30 (NPN): Four border villages, namely Saringyim, Aonokpu Yimsen, Tsuremmen and Akumen held a joint meeting at Saringyim village to deliberate on the breakdown of the only connecting bridge (Liangmen Bridge) between Longchem and Saringyim on July 23.

The village council members from the four villages discussed that the

said bridge broke down since 2016 and expressed their resentment at the state government’s lackadaisical and “step brotherly” attitude meted out with regard to this issue.

Besides, they also discussed on the inaction of the concerned Road and Bridges department, which goes to show the negligence towards the people living in the border areas.

Meeting also dwelt on how COVID-19 pandemic and border shutdown with

neighbouring Assam has made people to suffer for lack of even basic essentials, besides medical, NAP and IR personnel ferrying medicines and ration has been heavily disrupted.

Therefore, the four village council members at the meeting urged the state government to come to the rescue of the people living at the border areas and take remedial measures by restoring the bridge, the only life line of these villages at the earliest.

news in Brief DC Dimapur informs: Deputy commissioner, Dimapur, Anoop Khinchi, has informed all concerned that Duncan Urban PHC and Burma Camp Urban PHC will function as normal OPD for general public till such time the District Hospital is reopened for public. DC further notified that arrested and accused persons requiring medical check up will be send to Duncan Urban PHC for availing necessary medical facilities and seriously ill UTPs will be admitted at Medziphema CHC till such time the District Hospital is utilised as COVID Hospital.

DC Mon restricts movement in Phomching town: Deputy commissioner Mon, Thavaseelan K has prohibited movement

of public with one km radius of Phomching town due to COVID-19 positive cases among frontline workers. This order comes into immediate effect and will remain in force till further order. Any one violating the order will be liable for punishment under section 188 of the Indian Penal Code.

F&CS Dimapur informs: Food & Civil Supplies (F&CS) assistant director, S. Kavito Aomi has directed all urban/rural FPS under Dimapur district to keep the fair price shops open from August 3 and 4 onwards from 9 a.m to 3 p.m, to issue food grains under PMGKY Scheme, in which the ration card holder can avail 5 kgs of rice per head and 1 kg of chana per card.

Incessant rainfall triggers landslide in Tobu area CNC to conduct thanksgiving programme

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KO H I M A , J U L 3 0 (NPN): Incessant rainfall had triggered a massive landslide under Tobu subdivision, from Tobu town to Monyakshu via Wangshu-Tamkoang-Yongkhao and Pessao village which was the only lifeline for the seven villages.

Villagers of the seven villages have been clearing off the mud for months that occurred in almost all the roads up to the village, to ensure that trucks carrying

DIMAPUR: Council of Nagalim Churches (CNC) will be holding a thanksgiving programme on August 1, 9 a.m in view of the Indo-Naga ceasefire day and August 3 Framework Agreement day in respective churches or places.

A press release by CNC general secretary Ikato Chishi Swu stated that, the greatest and most important JCB clearing off the soil in the landslide in Tobu area. (NP) achievements of National essential commodities and villagers, village councils initiated the clearing of Socialist Council of Namedical emergencies pass- and party workers, advi- landslide and made it mo- galim (NSCN) in its struggle against the aggressors, since es through. Along with the sor N Bongkhao Konyak torable from July 30.

DC Kiphire informs on DTF COVID-19 meeting held in Longleng inter-district movement

DIMAPUR: Kiphire district being only the green zone as far as COVID-19 positive case is concerned in the state, the deputy commissioner Kiphire, Abhinav Shivam has informed all the persons to follow the guidelines for inter-district movement.

According to DIPR report, any person who wish to travel outside Kiphire shall mandatorily obtain transit permit from DC office, Kiphire along with COVID-19 screening slip obtained from Medical department at control room District Hospital Kiphire and the same shall be produced at Longmatra check gate. This is applicable to all including general public government servants except for front line workers (FLWs); Any persons entering the district shall be mandatory screened at Longmatra check gate and their details collected as per the format enclosed as Annexure-1; All incoming passengers shall undergo mandatory 14 (fourteen) days home quarantine which shall be monitored by the respective ward authorities and the COVID-19 control room, Kiphire; During the period of home quarantine if song person develops COVID-19 symptoms should immediately call help line no.7085889854/6009468943; Government officials posted under Kiphire district travelling in or out of the district shall obtain prior from the deputy commissioner & chairman DTF. Further, on their return, they shall undergo mandatory self- isolation for seven days and COVID-19 swab test before resuming their official duties; All car passes issued by the deputy commissioner till date shall stand cancelled with immediate effect. Transit permit issued hereafter shall be issued only on extreme emergency cases.

COVID-19 review meeting in Wokha DIMAPUR: Wokha DTF held a review meeting at DC conference hall, Wokha on July 29, chaired by deputy commissioner & chairman of Wokha DTF for COVID19 Orenthung Lotha. According to DIPR report, Dr. C.W. Tungoe, CMO, Wokha gave a brief update of COVID-19 status in the district. Pathologist, Dr. Motsuo Memorial Hospital, Wokha suggested for a mobile sample collection van to reduce the chances of transmission. CMO Wokha has been entrusted with the responsibility of assigning a vehicle for the said purpose.

Taking into account the surge in COVID19 positive cases in the district, entry of outsiders from other states including construction workers will be restricted for two months and in case of emergency services, they should produce COVID-19 free certificate from the competent authority at designated state entry points. Personnel and labourers of Anusha Project Pvt. Ltd and other companies undertaking developmental projects will be restricted entry into Wokha district for a period of two months. However, for any emergency situation, they may first undergo paid quarantine in Dimapur for 14 (fourteen) days and only upon testing negative for COVID-19 will they be allowed entry into Wokha district.

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by manual labour. According to him, the source of income from the entire household is approximately 2 lakhs per year for selling fingerlings and fish among the villagers. He added that the around 10,000 fingerlings were brought from Dimapur during 2019 from private arrangement, and this year around 2030 thousand fingerlings

were brought from different sources.

During this initial stage, Atoka said the people of the village were in the process of purchasing fingerlings as in the coming years there is high scope of fish supply to the district markets etc. He also expressed that no financial assistance from the department was received yet, but in 2019 the Land Resources department (LRD) Kiphire distributed some fingerlings to fish farmers.

For lack of assistance from Fishery department, he informed that fish famers connect water supply through traditional irrigation and rubber pipe for rearing fish.

He also added that the fishery ponds were not protected, whereby otter and birds eat away maximum fishes leading to huge loss of the investment for fish farmers. On a brighter note, he informed that village was expecting spot verification from the Fishery department by end of the year. If this happens, Atoka was optimistic that it will boost the usage of modern technologies for fish production on a larger scale.

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gist were directed to get a first hand report of the situation from Doyang area and advise the DTF, whether it should be declared a containment zone or not. Strict action will be taken against those returnees who stray from the quarantine centers or break quarantine facility rules. All drivers entrusted with the task of ferrying returnees to the district to be kept in isolation at Rest House observing all SOP. Also, drivers assigned for sample collection duty in mobile van to be directed to do the same. It was also agreed upon that COVID-19 Nagaland App should be downloaded compulsorily by all returnees. Check gates and entry points were to be monitored by police personnel to thwart unregulated movement of people and vehicles.

It was also agreed upon that strict imposition of fines for not wearing mask would be strictly implemented. Member also discussed on restriction of inter-district movement. In this regard, deputy commissioner, Wokha issued order the same day promulgating restriction of inter-district movement for 7 (seven) days from August 1 to 7 except for medical services, security forces, government servants and departments on bonafide duty and other essential services. Col. K.S. Gill, commandant of 40 Assam Rifles and Dr. Sachin KB, 40 AR also attended the meeting.

DIMAPUR: Longleng District Task Force (DTF) on COVID-19 meeting was held under the chairmanship of DC, Longleng M. Shayung Phom at his official Bungalow on July 29.

According to DIPR report, the meeting discussed on alteration of days for passanger of Longleng bound vehicles at Watiyongphang, NagalandAssam gate. In this regard it was decided that the DC & chairman DTF Longleng to write to DC & chairman DTF, Mokokchung to direct stakeholders to alter the days for passage of Longleng bound vehicles at Watiyongphang, Nagaland-Assam Gate to Tuesdays and Fridays instead of the current arrangement Tuesday and Thursday.

DTF also deliberated on entry of vehicles carrying commodities (construction commodities exempted) from Assam will be permitted entry to the district only on Fridays. Vehicles bringing essential commodities will however be exempted from this restriction.

With regards to arrangement for permitting vehicles to bring commodities from Assam, the house entrusted

the ADC & administrators LTC to work out modalities in consultation with the chambers of commerce & industries, Longleng.

After thorough deliberation on the condition of road between Changtongya-Longleng the house unanimously decided to write to general manager, NHIDCL to take up the repairing works of the aforementioned roads at the earliest.

Meeting reiterated that drivers along with helpers bringing all kinds of commodities to the district will compulsorily remain in the vehicle on entry to the district and also during unloading of the commodities. After unloading the commodities they will be directly sent back or sent to other arrangement (if any). Dobashis and Police will be detailed to ensure that these safety protocols are strictly adhered to.

It was also decided that a committee to oversee assets in quarantine centers will be setup at an early date. The committee will consist of the representatives from the district administration, Police and Medical departments.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT LATE KISHELHO ACHUMI

its inception on January 31, 1980, under the leadership of its former chairman Late Isak Chishi Swu and general secretary Th. Muivah, are as follows: NSCN becoming a member of the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO) on January 23, 1993; Declaration of the Second IndoNaga Ceasefire on August 1, 1997; Joint declaration of the NSCN and GoI on official recognition of uniqueness of Naga history on July 11, 2002; Signing of

the Framework Agreement between NSCN and GoI on August 3, 2015.

CNC stated that, these important dates and days needed to be remembered and observed because these were hard earned victories granted by God to Naga nation. Therefore, the CNC appeals to all denominations, churches in Nagalim and all the regions, units, battalions and brigades to conduct a special thanksgiving prayer programme on the mentioned date.

1st DEATH ANNIVERSARY OF LATE KAHOLI ACHUMI

31/07/2019 Psalms 103: 15-17 The life of mortals is like grass, they flourish like a flower of the field. the wind blowsover it and it is gone, and its place remembers it no more.

But from everlasting to everlasting the Lord’s love is with those who fear him, and his righteousness with their children’s children.

Loving children and family members

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REMEMBERING OUR BELOVED LATE REV. K. TIAKABA WALLING (NOKPU)

ON HIS 1st DEATH ANNIVERSARY “In the way of righteousness is life; and in the pathway thereof there is no death.” Proverbs 12:28

Born on : 22/02/1924 Died on : 20/07/2020

We the bereaved family members would like to express our profound and heartfelt gratitude to each and every individual, relatives, friends and wellwishers who stood by us and comforted us physically, spiritually, morally and financially at the demise of our beloved LATE KISHELHO ACHUMI, GB, Sapotimi Village.

We would like to convey our special thanks to: 1. Sapotimi Baptist Church.

2. Women Dept. Sapotimi Baptist Church.

3. Youth Dept. Sapotimi Baptist Church.

4. Sapotimi Village Council.

5. Sapotimi Kughuko Union, Dimapur.

6. Suruhuto Area GB Association.

7. Tichipami Baptist Church.

8. Tichipami Village Council.

9. Darogajan Village Council, Dimapur.

10. Zhekuto Village Council.

11. H. Khehovi Yeptho, Advisor, Tourism and Art & Culture, Govt of Nagaland.

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

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Loving Children, Grandchildren, Family Members & Relatives.

(9th April 1938 – 31st July 2019)

It’s been a year since we laid flowers and wreaths upon your casket for goodbye, It’s been a year since we have seen you smile, talk or laugh, It’s been a year that an eternal void has filled our hearts, It’s been a year since the world has grown one good soul poorer, But it’s been a year since heaven rejoiced as God called you son and welcomed you home.

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Loving Wife, children & grandchildren.

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Flood situation improves further in Assam GUWAHATI, JUL 30 (PTI): The flood situation in Assam improved further on Thursday though one more person lost his life taking the toll to 108 in the calamity, an official bulletin said.

The number of people affected by the deluge in Brahmaputra and its tributaries dropped to 12 lakh in 22 districts, it said. The figure on Wednesday was about 17 lakh in 21 districts, it said.

Assam Governor Jagdish Mukhi visited the flood hit Barpeta and Baksa districts, where the overflowing rivers have rendered thousands of people homeless.

According to the daily flood report of Assam State Disaster Management Authority (ASDMA) one person drowned in the flood water in Mikirbheta area of Morigaon district on Thursday taking the toll to 108.

The toll in the landslides triggered by the flood stood at 26 taking the total number of deaths to 134, it said. The ASDMA reports said over 12.01 lakh people are in the grip of floods in Dhemaji, Lakhimpur, Sonitpur, Biswanath, Darrang, Baksa, Barpeta, Chirang, Bongaigaon, Kokrajhar, Dhubri, South Salmara, Goalpara, Kamrup, Kam-

Villagers on a banana raft move to a safer place from the flooded area of Goalbil, in Baksa district, Thursday. (PTI) rup Metropolitan, Morigaon, Nagaon, Golaghat, Jorhat, Majuli, Sivasagar and Dibrugarh districts.

Goalpara is the worst hit where about 3.76 lakh people have been affected by the flood, followed by Morigaon where more than 2.34 lakh people are in its grip. In Dhubri the number of affected people is 1.52 lakh people.

The reports said the State Disaster Response Force, district administrations and local people have rescued 46 people from different places during the last 24 hours by deploying 102 boats.

At present, 1,339 villages are under water and

82,169.99 hectares of crop area have been damaged across Assam, ASDMA said.

The authorities are running 203 relief camps and distribution centres across 15 districts, where 29,981 people have taken shelter currently.

They have distributed 393.08 quintals of rice, dal and salt and 809.90 litres of mustard oil along with other relief materials such as drinking water and masks among the people.

Mukhi has expressed concern over the extensive soil erosion by Beki river in Barpeta and Baksa districts and asked their administrations to reach out to the

affected expeditiously and provide them with relief materials.

The governor said that he will have threadbare discussion with senior officers of the water resources and soil erosion departments to narrow down the probable causes of erosion and find out a scientific solution to this long standing problem.

On the flood situation, the ASDMA report said Brahmaputra is flowing above its danger marks at Dhubri town, at Nimatighat in Jorhat and Tezpur in Sonitpur districts.

Its tributaries Dhansiri and Jia Bharali are flowing above their danger marks

10 arrested in connection with Khowai gangrape case, says DIG

Meghalaya policeman dies in quarantine centre

Students protest against the rape incident.

AGARTALA, JUL 30 (PTI): Ten persons have been arrested in connection with the gang rape of a 17-year-old girl in Tripuras Khowai district, a senior police officer said on Thursday.

D I G, N o r t h e r n Range, Soumitra Dhar said the girl in her complaint said that five persons have raped her in a jungle in Khasiamangal area of the district on July 21.

Dhar said the police has arrested 10 people including three for raping the girl and the rest had either collaborated or given shelter to the accused.

The DIG said two collaborators were arrested from different parts of Sepahijala district on Tuesday and others were arrested earlier.

Two other accused are absconding, police said, adding that a man-

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hunt has been launched to arrest them. .

A week after the incident, a group of university and college students in Tripura have started an online campaign to stop “crime against women” demanding fast disposal of such cases and exemplary punishment of the accused persons.

Asmira Debbarma, a student of political science in Tripura University has formed an “SMS” (Stand against rape) group and at least 25 other students have joined the group.

The group has appealed to all sections of people to stand bravely against the incidents of rape and put up posters in social media - Facebook, WhatsApp - to stop violence against women.

“We want fast disposal of the rape cases and exemplary punishment of the rapists. We want they should be hanged till death,” Debbarma said.

Correspondent Shillong, Jul 30: A Meghalaya police constable on Thursday passed away at a quarantine centre in RiBhoi district, but heath authorities said that he didn’t die of COVID-19.

“We conducted an antigen test immediately after he died and the test result was negative,” District Health Medical Officer of Ri- Bhoi, Dr. M. Mawrie said over the phone. 54-year-old constable Ajay Baidya from Meghalaya Police’s 1st Battalion passed away at the Mahatma Gandhi University quarantine centre in Khanapara after he complained of stomach ache, vomited blood and later fell unconscious.

“The exact cause of his death will be known only after we receive the post mortem report,” the medical official said. Meghalaya Police spokesperson Gabriel Iangrai informed that Constable Baidya had undergone quarantine as he was among the secondary contacts of a positive patient.

at Numaligarh in Golaghat and NT Road Crossing in Sonitpur respectively. Kopili river is above its danger mark at Dharamtul in Nagaon and Beki river at Road Bridge in Barpeta.

Embankments, roads, bridges, culverts and many other infrastructure have been damaged at various places in Udalguri, Bongaigaon, Kokrajhar, Sonitpur, Chirang, Lakhimpur, Golaghat, Morigaon and Sivasagar districts by the flood. Massive erosion have been witnessed at different places of Biswanath, Lakhimpur and Sonitpur districts, ASDMA said.

The ASDMA bulletin said that a total of 24 camps out of 223 at Kaziranga National Park, three out of 40 camps at Rajiv Gandhi Orang National Park and one out of 10 camps at Tinsukia Wildlife Division have been affected by the deluge.

The deluge has so far claimed the lives of 143 animals, while 165 others were rescued in Kaziranga National Park, it said quoting the divisional forest officer of the Eastern Assam Wildlife Division. The flood has also affected 15,24,339 domestic animals and poultry in the state during the last 24 hours, it added.

Bamboo can be main pillar of medicinal, paper industries, says Jitendra Singh NEW DELHI, JUL 30 (PTI): Union Minister Jitendra Singh said on Thursday that bamboo can be the main pillar of ecological, medicinal, paper and building sectors in India and it can become one of the important components of the country’s post-COVID-19 economy.

Chairing a review meeting of the Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER), Singh urged the Cane and Bamboo Technology Centre (CBTC) to explore setting up of vocational training and skill development centres for the bamboo sector for its full exploitation, branding, packaging and marketing in India and abroad.

Bamboo can be the main pillar of ecological, medicinal, paper and building sectors in India, he said.

The minister for DoNER said that CBTC, in coordination with National Bamboo Mission, will work in this direction to boost the bamboo economy in the northeastern region.

The skill centres will propel the bamboo indus-

Jitendra Singh try with new start-ups and also enhance livelihood opportunities, he said.

Singh said the bamboo sector will be one of the important components of India’s post-COVID economy and a vital pillar of the ‘Atmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyan’ (self-reliant campaingn) in the northeastern region.

Underlining the unexpected potentials of this sector and “being neglected for the last 70 years”, he said the present government has the capacity and the will to unlock its potential to the highest level as 40 per cent of all bamboo resources lie in northeastern region in the country.

Welcoming the central government’s decisions

to ban import of finished products and raising the import duty by 25 per cent on raw bamboo items, Singh said the measures will help the domestic bamboo industries, including incense stick-making, in a big way.

He was also apprised about a letter written by the Union agriculture minister to the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs to promote bamboo in a large measure in housing projects in the northeastern region.

The minister said 10 commercially important species of bamboo have been identified and the states will take up plantation of these new species on a large scale.

Moreover, Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim and Mizoram have been found suitable for Moso Bamboo cultivation widely used in incense stick industry.

Singh also directed the North Eastern Development Finance Corporation Limited, (Nedfi) to undertake a comprehensive bamboo study in coordination with other stakeholders and identify project profiles at the earliest.

Four Covid patients booked for spitting on doctor AGARTALA, JUL 30 (IANS): Four COVID-19 patients were booked after they allegedly abused and spat on a woman doctor at a health facility here, police said on Thursday.

A police official said that the four accused, who have recovered from the disease, will be arrested after the completion of their seven-day institutional quarantine period.

“Some coronavirus patients last week spat at and aggressively abused West Tripura District Health Surveillance Officer Sangita Chakraborty at a Covid care centre in Agartala when she had gone there on Friday to admit five women who had given birth to babies a day before,” the police officer said.

Chakraborty also told the media: “One of the patients rinsed his mouth and spat on my head from the roof of the Covid care centre, forcing me to rush inside the centre.”

She said they had reached the care centre with a health department team and police personnel

to admit the new patients when a group of people, men and women, obstructed and falsely claimed that there were no vacant beds in the centre.

“When requested by the other doctors and nurses to return to their beds, some of them started agitating using filthy language, spat at me and threatened to touch me and infect me with coronavirus,” the health officer said.

Tripura Health and Family Welfare Department Director Radha Debbarma said that the appropriate authority would take stern action against the accused persons.

Stating that Chakraborty, a young doctor, worked hard to take care of COVID-19 and other patients, Debbarma told IANS : “We will not tolerate any unruliness in the health institutions and Covid care centres.”

Demanding ‘exemplary punishment’, the All Tripura Government Doctors’ Association (ATGDA) general secretary Rajesh Choudhury said they had

raised the issue with higher authorities, including Sanjay Kumar Rakesh, Additional Chief Secretary (in-charge of the Health and Family Welfare Department). “If they failed to take any action, we would take appropriate legal steps,”

Choudhury told IANS. Tripura Law and Education Minister Ratan Lal Nath, who is the spokesman of the state government, said that severe legal action would be taken against those who ill-treated the woman doctor.

Sonowal’s condolences for Manipur’s COVID-19 fatality rises to four Complete lockdown extended till August 6 killing of Assam Rifles men Guwahati, Jul 30 (PTI): Condoling the killing of three Assam Rifles personnel in an ambush by suspected militants in Manipur, Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal on Thursday said that militancy does not solve any problem, but complicates matters further.

Out of the three slain jawans, one hailed from Barpeta district of Assam, a release issued by the Chief Minister’s Office said.

“It is really shocking to know the loss of the life of a brave jawan of our state who became an innocent victim of the dastardly attack of the militants.

Militancy is not a solution to any problem rather it

complicates the situation,” Sonowal said.

Three Assam Rifles jawans were killed and six others injured in the ambush in Chandel district of Manipur on Wednesday evening.

“This is a testing time for the family of slain jawan Pranay Kalita, as I express my heartfelt empathy with the bereaved family members and pray to God for eternal peace of the departed soul,” Sonowal added.

The attackers triggered an IED explosion and fired at the Assam Rifles personnel when they were patrolling Khongtal area in Chandel near the IndiaMyanmar border.

AR apprehend four KYKL and PREPAK cadres

KOHIMA: Troops of Assam Rifles apprehended four cadres of KYKL and PREPAK near Kasong village in Kamjong District of Manipur on July 27. A press release

by PIB (Defence) stated that based on specific input, the troops launched an operation and apprehended the cadres from the area. of the four apprehended cadres, three belong to KYKL and one from PREPAK group. The apprehended cadres have been handed over to Kasom Khullen Police Station for further investigations, the release added.

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Correspondent IMPHAL, Jul 30: Manipur reported three more COVID-19 related fatality along with soaring number of fresh cases.

With the three deaths on Thursday, the COVID-19 related fatality tally in the state rose to four. Three male adults aged 48, 47 and 60 respectively from Leimakhong of Kangpokpi district, Langol of Imphal West and Moijing of Thoubal districts died at RIMS and JNIMS hospitals today.

“They expired due to comorbid health conditions and COVID-19,” a report of the COVID-19 Common Control Room on Thursday stated.

One of the two COVID19 positive patients who died today at RIMS hospital was a patient under treatment for other chronic diseases and was found infected by COVID during random testing of patients of the hospital after 18 staff, including doctors and nurses, were contracted the virus.

The 48-year-old man died around 2.40 am on Thursday. He underwent treatment at the Nephrology

ward of the hospital since June 8 last with chronic kidney disease and lung infections along with others.

The other was shifted to the COVID care facility of the hospital after he tested positive for the virus as he was admitted at Shija hospital for medical treatment of his ailment.

He was admitted at the Covid care facility on Wednesday and died around 10.30 am on Thursday, official sources said.

The third fatality- a 60year-old patient from Thoubal’s Moijing village treating at JNIMS hospital was found infected by COVID19 while being treated in a ward of the hospital.

The state reported the first COVID-19 related fatality when a 46-year-old man suffering from chronic disease and also tested positive for the virus during treatment at RIMS hospital died on Wednesday.

Meanwhile, 47 new cases (37 males and 10 females) were detected during testing of 783 samples including 49 tested with rapid antigen kits in the last 24 hours (from 6.30 pm of July 29 till 6.30 pm of July 30),

an official report of the state health department said.

With the new 47 cases, COVID-19 infection in the state tally rose to 2505 including 829 active cases.

Including 19 persons discharged today after recovering from the disease, the recovered tally also rose to 1672. The recovery rate stood at 66.90 percent, a report of the COVID-19 Common Control Room said.

Of the 47 positive cases detected today, 18 were security personnel and 15 (two from Thoubal district and 13 from Imphal West district) were suspected cases of local transmission. The remaining 14 positive persons were returnees from other states.

The ongoing complete lockdown in Manipur reimposed after the spread of the pandemic in the local and cluster levels started has been extended for another week, that is, till August 6.

Following a surge in the cases of locally transmitted cases in some districts of the state, the state government re-imposed the complete lockdown for a week with effect from July 23 last.

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ith seven patients tested COVID-19 positive who died of co-morbidities, while the state health & family welfare department recorded only five in its tally, there is need for serious review of adherence to SOP as well as the entire preparedness. As of July 30,2020 there are 1566 COVID-19 cases recorded in Nagaland. For too long have people believed that COVID-19 was restricted to those returnees and that it was confined within the quarantines.

Confirmed COVID-19 cases reported in several colonies in various districts appear to conclusively prove that transmission has gone out of the quarantine facilities and now out there in the open. The vociferous public demand for extension of lockdown in Dimapur and Kohima is a mixture of both misplaced fear and ignorance.In Peren district, which can be considered far-flung like Mon, there had been fears that owing to the mishandling of returnees in quarantine facilities, the virus is gradually spreading rapidly and which has compounded the existing problems faced by the authorities. There have also been fears expressed, that unless there is immediate contact or rapid testing, the virus will spread through community transmission. In fact, the Peren as well as Tuensang episodes reveal how unprepared the state has been in dealing with such a critical challenge. According to a frontline worker, most transmissions within quarantine centres have taken place due to negligence and mishandling. This happened when all returnees were kept together in quarantine facilities before testing. There were some among the returnees who were already asymptomatic and through whom, the virus was transmitted to others. There was a video that went viral where some returnees caused a big scene in protesting against being kept together with some returnees who were reported to be asymptomatic. The other suspicion is that after being overwhelmed with several thousand returnees, those managing the quarantine centres were literally at their wit’s end. The testing was delayed even as swabs of several hundred returnees accumulated since they had to be sent outside the state. The first laboratory –BSL3 became operational only on May 21. Even so, it was still too little as thousands of returnees began arriving back from various states, and many from the ‘Red Zone’ districts where COVID-19 transmission assumed menacing proportions. Faced with restive and near-rebellion in some quarantine centres, authorities were in a way, quite relieved when the situation made them release hundreds of returnees, who had completed the mandatory 14-day quarantine period. This was reported in Peren when some who were asymptomatic were placed together with non-symptomatic and released after the mandatory period without conducting the second mandatory testing. Be that as it may there are over 14,000 who have been released from quarantine centres and how many have been conclusively tested is a matter of debate. Transmissions taking place at several colonies and market places in Nagaland need to be verified since in some cases, it was reported that there had been no travel history or even known source of contact. What is most worrying not only in Nagaland but in states where health sector is in shambles, is that COVID-19 could prove to be the nemesis.

DailyDevotion The Teaching of Disillusionment Jesus did not commit Himself to them…, for He knew what was in man. —John 2:24-25 Disillusionment means having no more misconceptions, false impressions, and false judgments in life; it means being free from these deceptions.

However, though no longer deceived, our experience of disillusionment may actually leave us cynical and overly critical in our judgment of others. But the disillusionment that comes from God brings us to the point where we see people as they really are, yet without any cynicism or any stinging and bitter criticism. Many of the things in life that inflict the greatest injury, grief, or pain, stem from the fact that we suffer from illusions. We are not true to one another as facts, seeing each other as we really are; we are only true to our misconceived ideas of one another. According to our thinking, everything is either delightful and good, or it is evil, malicious, and cowardly.

Refusing to be disillusioned is the cause of much of the suffering of human life. And this is how that suffering happens— if we love someone, but do not love God, we demand total perfection and righteousness from that person, and when we do not get it we become cruel and vindictive; yet we are demanding of a human being something which he or she cannot possibly give. There is only one Being who can completely satisfy to the absolute depth of the hurting human heart, and that is the Lord Jesus Christ. Our Lord is so obviously uncompromising with regard to every human relationship because He knows that every relationship that is not based on faithfulness to Himself will end in disaster. Our Lord trusted no one, and never placed His faith in people, yet He was never suspicious or bitter. Our Lord’s confidence in God, and in what God’s grace could do for anyone, was so perfect that He never despaired, never giving up hope for any person. If our trust is placed in human beings, we will end up despairing of everyone.

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Post-mortem

Sate govt directive to govt servants on self declaration T he State Gover nment by the Office Memorandum Vide No.CON-6/LOR-5/2007 (Pt File) dated 07-07-2020, issued by the Chief Secretary, Nagaland had directed all the Administrative Heads of Departments and all the Heads of Departments to obtain information of all the State Government Servants in a self declaration form regarding family members and relatives in underground organizations and submit to the Home Department, Political Branch by 7th August, 2020 positively. The Office Memorandum was issued “ As per instructions”. The Note to the O.M dated 0707-2020 had defined “Family members shall consist of spouse, sons/daughters, sibling and parents of the Govt.Employee. Relative shall consist of anyone who is directly related to any of the family members of the Govt.employee”.

The State Government had enacted The Nagaland Government Servants Conduct Rules, 1968. Rule 2(e), defines the member of the family. The wife or husband but does not include wife or husband separated by a decree or order of a competent court. Son or daughter or step son or step daughter wholly dependent on the Govt. servant.

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13 (1) read with Annexure provides that every Govt. servant on his first appointment and thereafter at such intervals as may be specified by the Govt. submit a return of his assets and liabilities.

There is no provision in the Rules of 1968 to submits information regarding family members and relatives in underground organizations.

Also , the definition of family members and relatives as per the Rules of 1968 are those “wholly dependent on the Govt. servant”.

There has been much speculation on “ As per instructions” in the O.M dated 07-07-2020. The State Government had finally clarified in the media that the Commissioner & Secretary to the Hon’ble Governor had written to the Chief Secretary on 14-02-2020 asking for the information to be furnished by 2nd April 2020. A reminder was also received on 24-062020 requesting to furnish the information urgently for the perusal of the Governor.

It is the justification of the State Govt. that in order to avoid any confrontation with the Governor, the State Govt. had no option but to issue the O.M dated 07-072020. It clearly shows that the O.M dated 07-07-2020 was issued merely upon an executive instruction and not a legislation enacted by the Govt. Also, there was no amendment of the Rules of 1968.The State Cabinet cannot simply shrug off

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its responsibility by simply blaming the Hon’ble Governor. Any government worth its salt should stand up for the rights of its servants and especially when the Hon’ble Governor functions on the aid and advice of the Cabinet. The normal constitutional schemes enable the Cabinet to request the Governor to reconsider, to reiterate and which is binding upon the Governor.

The Article 371 (A) (1) (b), provides that notwithstanding anything in the Constitution, the Governor of Nagaland shall have special responsibility with respect of law and order in the State of Nagaland. The Governor shall discharge of his functions after consulting the Council of Ministers.

The said constitutional provision also recognised the individual judgment of the Governor . The instruction to all Govt. servants to self declare their relations with members in underground organizations have no relation whatsoever with law and order situation in the State of Nagaland. After all, human relations are not by one’s own choices.

It is the consistent stand of the Govt. of India and the negotiating parties that the long standing Naga issue, it is political and not a law and order. The issuance of the O.M dated 07-07-2020 had created an apprehension upon the seriousness of the Govt. of India towards a

here is an anonymous from public view with proper saying that says, what is sanitation and slaughter protonauseating to one man cols and at the same time taking is meat and drink to another. care of public health concerns If this is not and food habit and than outlets can be in any the world over is akin and ho- corners of the town. mogenous, there will be food To this cause I have apcrisis leading to ecological prehensions that if we continue imbalance. For which through to slaughter animals the Naga natural selection, carnivores style ( By the way Halal is the and herbivores roam the jungle best method of slaughter) there to maintain ecological balance may be issues on cattle and pigs in the forest. in the nearby future also. An To eat or not to eat dog awareness ; the best time to eat meat ( I prefer to call canine meat is after passing off rigor meat like sheep as mutton, mortis which in medical term is South Koreans called it gae- the stiffening of the body after gogi) was and is not the conten- death caused by biochemical tious issue to my own opinion. changes in the muscles. Time As per history dogs were prob- taken for rigor mortis to set in ably there from the times of the depends on species and in cattle Nagas migration and dog was & pigs it will set in by 6-12 hours not only a hunting companion and resolves by 24 to 48 hours but was also a source of meat after which ageing of the meat by choice from those days. will begin. By then the meat will The contentious issue was become tender and palatable the inhumane and reckless to eat. But for general advice, transportation and selling of animal slaughtered today will live dogs in the open market be best to eat the next day. for meat purpose that attracted This cause also taught animal lovers and activists at- us a lesson on the need of an tention. Chapter 111 of The expert opinion on issues. It is Prevention of Cruelty to Ani- a pride to say that, today there mals Act, 1960 No.11 treating are Naga experts in almost all animals cruelly(1)d says if fields and disciplines and Nagas any person conveys or car- can rely on such experts in times ries, whether in or upon any of needs. Here expert opinions vehicle or not, any animal in are with the A.H & Veterinary such manner or position as Services, SPCAs, State Animal to subject it to unnecessary Welfare Board, animal lovers pain or suffering; or (e) keeps and activists and maybe old or confines any animal in any man mozz to advice us like cage or other receptacle which he use to advice the Phantom does not measure sufficiently when he is in doubt. in height, length and breadth to Today, society for the prepermit the animal a reasonable vention of cruelty to animals opportunity for movement or; are registered there in almost (f) keeps for an unreasonable all the districts in our state time any animal chained or with Deputy Commissioner tethered upon an unreasonably as the chairman, Chief A.H short or unreasonably heavy & Veterinary Officer as the chain or cord; are all punishable member secretary and members under the prevention of cruelty drawn from all related discito animals act,1960. plines and also State Animal Religion does allow believ- Welfare Board. Their functions ers to eat meat of their choice of which is to oversee any but caring and loving them incidence of cruelty acts and is also the prerogative of the at the same time see for their owners. Killing and slaughter- welfare and wellbeing. ing animals in public views Finally, to eat or not to eat is considered to be an act of canine meat is like the titular cruelty that invites penalties prince Hamlet in dilemmaunder Veterinary Jurispru- from Shakespeare’s play Hamdence. In my small campaign let, when he said the famous for this cause, some years back soliloquy, to be, or not to be, when the construction of the that is the question. So to come slaughter house at Wokha town out from this dilemma we need came up, I told the officials expert opinion but still Bertrand that they could have consulted Russell is of the opinion that, the Veterinary department but even when the experts agree the reply was they also know. they may well be mistaken.

Or else my intention was the Dr. N. Mhonchan Shitiri slaughter house should be away Reader’s note: Articles or letters published in any

permanent political solution which is honourable and acceptable to all the Naga people.

The Hon’ble Supreme Court by the constitutional bench decision in K.S Puttaswamy and Another VsUnion of India and Others, (2017) 10 SCC 1, had recognized the right to privacy as a basic fundamental right and it forms an intrinsic part of Article 21 of the Constitution of India and freedoms guaranteed under Part III of the Constitution of India. The right to privacy is a natural, primordial, basic, inherent and inalienable right of every citizen of India. The right to privacy permeates the core of preambular philosophy underlying the principles of liberty and dignity and also the human concepts of life and personal liberty enshrined in Article 21 and wide ranging freedoms guaranteed under Part III of the Constitution which are considered essential for a meaningful human existence. The right to privacy finds recognition in various international conventions and specially Protection of Human Rights Act, 1993.

The privacy of individual recognises an inviolable right to determine how freedom shall be exercised. The integrity of the body and the sanctity of mind can exist on the foundation that each individual possesses an inalienable ability and right

to preserve a private space in which the human personality can develop. Right to privacy is a postulate of human dignity itself. The right to privacy is more than merely a derivative constitutional right but it is the necessary and unavoidable logical entailment of rights guaranteed in the text of the Constitution.

The right to privacy is not an absolute right. It is subjected to reasonable restrictions and limitations made by the State to protect legitimate State interests or public interest. The right to privacy must meet the threefold requirement of (i) legality, which postulates the existence of law;(ii) need, defined in terms of legitimate State aim; and (iii) proportionality which ensures a rational nexus between the objects and the mean to achieve them.

The legitimate state interest which would permit abridgement of right to privacy by enactment of law. For example, national security, including terrorist and cyber attacks, data mining to ensure that public resources are not siphoned off by the underserving in social welfare programmes and schemes, prevention of crime, protecting interest of the Revenue and public health, these are just illustrative etc. Every State intrusion into privacy be subjected to the balancing test prescribed

under the fundamental right that it infringes depending upon where privacy interest claimed is founded. It is also important that the information disclosed should not be self –incriminating, the information collected by the Government should not be used to the detriment of the disclosers.

In the absence of a valid law, the legality and competency to issue the Office Memorandum dated 07-07-2020 is under serious legal scrutiny, especially when it is only an executive instruction. What is the real underlying need and object to collect such sensitive information. Whether the information is going to be used against the discloser.

Is it a situation where Nagaland is under law and order emergency or a clear case of capitulation of the people in power to protect their interests . It is not the authority who had issued the instruction but the authority who had issued the O.M dated 07-07-2020 is directly responsible to the people at large, whose lives shall be adversely effected.

These are serious questions the elected government is answerable to the people of Nagaland instead of simply washing off its hands like Governor Pontius Pilate before the crucifixion of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Taka Masa Ao, Senior Advocate & Ex-MLA

Impact of traditional shifting cultivation in Nagaland

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nder the NAFCC (National Adaptation Fund on Climate Change) a project called “Gene pool conversation of indigenous rice varieties under traditional integrated rotational farming system (Jhum optimization) for promoting livelihood and food security as climate change adaptation strategy in Nagaland” is being implemented in five districts.

BACKGROUND: The activities under this scheme are being implemented in a project on a convergence manner. An assessment of climate change dynamics related to agriculture suggests that three key features characterizes a climate- smart landscape: climatesmart practices at the field and farm scale; diversity of land user across the landscape to provide resilience; and management of land use interaction at landscape to achieve socioeconomic and ecological impacts.

Therefore, for agricultural systems to achieve climate-smart objectives including, improved food security, rural livelihoods and climate change adaptation and mitigation, it is imperative to take up an integrated landscape management approach.

The departments envisage taking up this challenges in its vision 2030 by outsourcing the role of soil and water conservation measures in climate smart highland agriculture in collaboration with agriculture and allied departments under the ageis of National Adaptation Fund in Climate Change (NAFFC) INTERVENTIONS: The work components in soil and water conservation interventions in this project are: contour bunding, contour trenching, loose boulder check dams, land levelling and bench terraces, plantation of area specific tree species, application of manure (FYM and green leaf), vermi composting, Jhum sanitation: construction of toilets in jhum areas, agro-forestry: regeneration of forest in fallow lands, farm ponds and water harvesting structures.

IMPACT: Changing cropping pattern, erratic rainfall, raising temperature, natural calamities, remoteness, lack of health care facilities, lack of awareness, low income, difficulties in communication & transportation and undulant topography are the major constraints and impacts faced by the local farming communities with regards to risks under climate change. Moreover for centuries many have considered jhum cultivation as a primitive and unsustainable cultivation causing irreparable damage to the soil health.

With an aim to sustain cycle of rotations and in line with adaptation to climate change, jhum field has of the columns do not reflect the

been converted into semi- permanent cultivation minimum upto three years through improvising and integrating soil and water conservation measures such as, gap filling of multi-purpose trees i.e. tree bean, application of vermi-compost for growing winter vegetable crops, facilitating water conservation and it’s judicious use, increase in cropping pattern, proper sanitation, checking of soil erosion and nutrient management.

BRIEF ECONOMICS: Jhum cultivation is the highest employment sector in Nagaland. The amount of resources put in the field defeats the outcome in terms of economic returns, which is much, much lesser than the wages of the migrant labours. This lack of subsistence agriculture has led to mass migration of the farming community to the urban both in the state as well as outside the state, resulting to reduction of area of cultivation. There is need of dedicated policy and agency to rejuvenate this traditional cultivation both to retrieve and blend traditional indigenous knowledge with the modern technologies.

With active involvement of the farming communities and implementing agencies, they are now equipped to adapt with the climate change as the vulnerability and risk has been drastically brought down to minimum. On-farm demonstration and capacity building help them to rely on themselves for livelihood and

economic issues and also adapting to climate change on the grassroot level. All the crops are grown and maintained organically, which yield fresh and high-grade organic produce, the future good of the planet but till the organic certification is made, the ideal economic returns will be laughing.

KEY TAKEAWAY • Involving all the stakeholders for successful implementation of the project under the local governance of village council; • Educating through on field demonstration and capacity building; • Active participation of the farmers to harness their ideas and ready to improvise to new innovative technologies; • Collecting sufficient information and accordingly planning it through the GIS platforms; • Sustaining traditional rotational farming to a semi-permanent cultivation, minimum upto 3 years for cultivation, prolonging the cycles and addressing the climate change issues; • Improving the living standard & health sector, addressing the livelihood of the marginal farmers and also to overcome the vulnerabilities and risks of climate change; • Promoting Organic produce and marketing (DIPR: Source- Soil & Water Conservation, Land Resources and Agriculture Department)

Reader’s Post Exodus of young Nagas, a harbinger of predicament Sir,

The COVID-19 pandemic indeed is relentlessly precipitated leaving behind in its path a blazing trail of trauma, tremor and terrifying nightmares for many across the state, sounding an alarm that Nagaland is no exception for its invading army of pestilence. It also proved beyond doubt that Coronavirus is non-native to our state.

Nonetheless, the abominable hydra monster reared its ugly head by late March 2020. The first case of Corona positive was detected on the test conducted on some returnees by train at Dimapur i.e. 23 march 2020.

Thenceforth, the outbreak took an unabated upsurge in positive cases every passing day. Tests were delayed and eventually the quarantine centre became a hotspot for Corona Virus, thus giving birth to its virtual habitat for incubation.

It would be costly if not forestalled promptly by strategic measures such as mentoring advocacy for social obligations and practice of pragmatic and proactive lifestyles with utmost restraint from any objectionable activities.

An honest approach to defined health guidelines, SOP and other protocols will go a long way to mitigate or address this issue. Any or all updates should be considered beneficial in this respect.

Despite many a lockdown imposed from time to time, the citizens are expected to stay calm and orderly even as the world is inching towards vaccine development in the immediate future. Well! The show must go on! May all the good sense prevail over our land.

Atovi Sumi, Ex-MLA, Dimapur view of this newspaper nor that of the Editor in any manner.

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Devp cooperation don’t come with conditions: PM

NEW DELHI, JUL 30 (PTI): India’s development cooperation with other nations does not come with any conditions and is not influenced by political or commercial considerations, Prime Minister Narendra Modi asserted on Thursday.

He also said that India’s approach to development is mainly human-centric and it wants to work for the welfare of humanity.

“Our development partnerships reflect the development priorities of our partner nations,” he said.

The prime minister was addressing a virtual event of the inauguration of a new Supreme Court building of Mauritius.

Modi and Mauritius Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth jointly inaugurated the new Supreme Court building at Port Louis.

The new building in Port Louis is a symbol of our cooperation and shared values, Modi said.

“Both India and Mauritius respect our independent judiciaries as important pillars of our democratic systems,” the prime minister observed.

Modi said history has taught us that in the name of development partnerships,

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nations were forced into “dependence partnerships”.

“It gave rise to colonial and imperial rule. It gave rise to global power blocks and humanity suffered,” he said.

India is making development partnerships that are marked by respect, diversity, care for the future, and sustainable development, he noted.

For India, Modi said, the most fundamental principle in development cooperation is respecting its partners.

“This sharing of development lessons is our only motivation. That is why our development cooperation does not come with any conditions. It is not influenced by political or commercial

considerations,” the prime minister asserted.

Modi observed that Mahatma Gandhi had said, “My patriotism includes the good of mankind in general.

Therefore, my service to India includes the service of humanity.”

This, Modi said, is India’s guiding philosophy.

“India wants to develop and India wants to help others in their own development needs,” he noted. India’s development partnerships are diverse, he said adding that from commerce to culture, energy to engineering, health to housing, IT to infrastructure, sports to science, India is working with nations across the globe.

“If India is honoured to help in the parliament building in Afghanistan, it is also proud to be associated with the making of the Mahatma Gandhi convention centre in Niger,” he said.

Modi said New Delhi has been happy to help Nepal improve its health services through the construction of an emergency and trauma hospital.

“And we were similarly privileged to support Sri Lanka’s efforts to establish emergency ambulance ser-

vices in all nine provinces,” he said.

India is glad that the oil pipeline project it is doing with Nepal will help ensure the availability of petroleum products, he said.

Last month, Nepal completed the process to update the country’s political map by incorporating three strategically important Indian areas by amending the Constitution. India has termed as “untenable” the “artificial enlargement” of the territorial claims by Nepal. Modi said India is contributing towards ensuring the availability of drinking water and sanitation in 34 islands of the Maldives.

“We have tried to make cricket popular in countries as diverse as Afghanistan and Guyana by helping build stadiums and other facilities.

“We are excited to see the young Afghan cricket team trained in India emerge as a force to reckon with,” he said.

India is now providing similar support to develop the talent of the Maldives cricket players.

He also pointed out that India is at the forefront of a major housing project in Sri Lanka.

“India is not only proud to be helping your present.

We consider it our privilege to help you create a better future for your youth. That is why training and skilling is such an important part of our development cooperation,” he said.

With Mauritius, India shares not only the waters of the Indian Ocean but also a common heritage of kinship, culture, and language, the prime minister said.

In his address, Prime Minister Jugnauth expressed appreciation for India’s support for the project as reflective of the close ties of friendship and cooperation between the two countries.

He noted that the construction of the Supreme Court Building with Indian assistance is a new milestone in the modernisation of infrastructure in Mauritius and will help make the Mauritius justice system more efficient, accessible and inclusive.

In his address, peppered with sentences in Hindi, he also thanked India for the assistance rendered amid the COVID-19 pandemic. He also referred to Modi’s “sabka saath, sabka vikas, sabka vishwas” philosophy.

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DC Dimapur transferred

(From p-1) According to the trade body, Khinchi as head of District Task Force had had several coordination meetings with tribal hohos, civil society groups, NGOs and student bodies and discussed strategies and measures to collectively tackle the pandemic since the pandemic alert was raised.

Mentioning that he worked almost 24x7, right from monitoring relief measures to reception of the returnees, to visiting all quarantine centres, etc, in the past couple of months, the release claimed that the incumbent DC was now well versed with the ground reality.

DCCI clarified that

it was not against a new DC but emphasised that a change of guard at this point of time when Dimapur was in the middle of a deep crisis would prove suicidal and disastrous.

“A new DC has to start all over again – meeting and getting acquainted with different tribal hohos, civil society groups and other stakeholders and reviewing the strategies and logistics.

At the present juncture, Dimapur and its citizens cannot afford to lose precious time adjusting to bureaucratic reshuffles when lives are at stake,” the release stressed.

Claiming that the transfer order also smacked of vested interests and high-

lighted the step-motherly treatment of the State government towards the citizens of Dimapur, the trade body asked why the DC was transferred when he had not completed even nine months in office.

“Was it not a stepmotherly treatment of Dimapurians when some nine months back the government transferred both the deputy commissioner and commissioner of police of the district on the same day,” the organisation questioned.

DCCI said such whimsical transfer of government officials without taking into confidence the people of the district should not be the norm.

More areas sealed in Kma DIMAPUR, JUL 30 (NPN): In view of the detection of COVID-19 positive cases, the deputy commissioner (DC) Kohima, Gregory Thejawelie, has ordered demarcated several locations in Kohima as “sealed area” in order to contain the spread of the disease/infection and for necessary contact tracing.

The sealed areas include two locations at Old Minister’s Hill (Ward No. 14), New Minister’s Hill (Ward No. 16), two locations at Lerie Chazou Colony (Ward No. 16), Upper Agri (Ward No. 17), Lower Agri (Ward No. 18), Middle PWD (Ward No.

11), two locations at Phezoucha Colony, Upper Chandmari (Ward No. 12), Daklane (Ward No.7), Kenouzou (Ward No. 3) and Meriema Village.

Meanwhile, in addition to July 29, 2020 notification, DC has demarcated Middle PWD (Ward No. 11) and Phezoucha Colony (Second Assembly Quarter 1 number) as sealed area.

DC notified that all movement of person/vehicles within the defined sealed area was strictly restricted/prohibited and underactive medical surveillance with immediate effect.

CEOs of Amazon, Apple, Ex-Samata Party prez Jaya Jaitley, 2 others get 4-year jail term Facebook & Google grilled (From p-1) antitrust lawyer, said that everyone on the committee seemed to be in agreement on the need for tougher regulation of all four companies — an “ominous” sign, he said. But Stephen Beck, CEO of the management consulting firm cg42, said the tech companies and their brands emerged relatively unscathed.

In particular, he said, Cook was particularly polished and well prepared, enabling the Apple CEO to put on what Beck called “a master class in terms of how to handle these situations.” Cook drew less attention from lawmakers than did the other CEOs after arguing that Apple isn’t dominant in any of its markets.

Among the toughest questions for Google and Amazon involved accusations that they used their dominant platforms to scoop up data about competitors in a way that gave them an unfair advantage.

Bezos, who was appearing before Congress for the first time, said he couldn’t guarantee that the company had not accessed seller data to make competing products, an allegation that the company and its executives have previously denied.

“We have a policy against using seller specific data to aid our private label business,” Bezos said in a response to a question from Rep. Pramila Jaya-

pal, a Washington Democrat. “But I can’t guarantee to you that that policy hasn’t been violated.”

Pichai deployed an old Washington trick — appealing to the specific interests of legislators. In his opening remarks, he touted Google’s value to mom-and-pop businesses in Bristol, Rhode Island, and Pewaukee, Wisconsin, which just happen to be located in the home districts of Cicilline and Rep. James Sensenbrenner of Wisconsin, the panel’s senior Republican.

But the Google executive struggled as Cicilline accused the company of leveraging its dominant search engine to steal ideas and information from other websites and manipulating its results to drive people to its own digital services to boost its profits. Pichai repeatedly deflected Cicilline’s attacks by asserting that Google tries to provide the most helpful and relevant information to the hundreds of millions of people who use its search engine each day in an effort to keep them coming back instead of defecting to a rival service, such as Microsoft’s Bing.

As Democrats largely focused on market competition, several Republicans aired longstanding grievances, claiming the tech companies are censoring conservative voices and questioning their business activities in China. “Big Tech is out to get conservatives,” insisted Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio.

NEW DELHI, JUL 30 (PTI): A Delhi cour t Thursday awarded 4-year jail term to ex-Samata Party president Jaya Jaitley and two others for corruption in a 2000-01 case related to a purported defence deal, a lawyer said.

Special CBI judge Virender Bhat also awarded a 4-year jail term to Jaitley’s former party colleague Gopal Pacherwal and Major General (rtd) S.P. Murgai in the case, Murgai’s advocate Vikram Panwar said.

The court, in an in-camera proceeding, also imposed a fine of Rs 1 lakh each on all three convicts and directed them to surrender before it till 5 PM on Thursday itself. The three were held guilty of corruption and criminal conspiracy in the purported purchase of handheld thermal imagers.

The case stemmed from ‘Operation Westend’ sting aired by news portal Tehelka in January 2001.

While convicting the three accused, the court had held that they, along with Surender Kumar Surekha (who later turned approver), were party to a criminal conspiracy that took place between December 2000 and January 2001 at Delhi.

The court observed that while Jaitley accepted illegal

Govt shifting blame to Raj Bhavan for July 7 memo procedural lapse: Shürhozelie DIMAPUR, JUL 30 (NPN): NPF president Dr Shürhozelie Liezietsu has termed the State government’s clarification on its July 7 directive by trying to shift the blame to governor’s June 24 letter while implementing its own decision as a very serious procedural lapse.

Reacting to the government’s clarification on its July 7 memo that required all its employees to furnish information about their families and relatives in underground groups by giving self declaration, the former chief minister in a statement emphasised that the government alone was fully responsible for all its cabinet decisions. He said any government trying to shift blame to others for its own actions would be deemed irresponsible.

And if a government became irresponsible, he pointed out that there were provisions for the constitutional head of a State to recommend the matter to the Central government for a decision, which implied he was suggesting President’s rule.

Mentioning that by trying to shift the blame to others for its own decision reflected the political decadence in the State, Liezietsu remarked that it was unfortunate that such action had gone into the record books of Nagaland’s parliamentary history.

“This indeed is a clear departure from the normal track of a parliamentary system of governance,” he observed.

He said it was very well understood that the government had received a reminder letter from the governor on June 24 regarding seeking details of family members and relatives of the employees in underground groups, which was then taken up by the State cabinet on July 3 under the chairmanship of chief minister and approved it. Thereafter, the chief Secretary had issued the official memo on July 7 in this regard.

Following, the sharp reaction of NSCN (I-M) on July 22, the government issued a clarification that claimed that the decision was taken at the behest of Raj Bhavan.

Pointing out that cabinet memoranda were normally prepared based on any urgent matter requiring the decision of the government or prepared based on any proposal or suggestion on public importance given by others, the NPF president explained that when a cabinet meeting is convened, these memoranda are put up for a decision.

Stating that all cabinet meetings were normally chaired by the chief minister, he further explained that any cabinet memorandum taken up required serious study of the subject matter by all cabinet ministers. After thorough deliberations, the cabinet gives its decision, which then becomes the government’s decision.

Suggestions, proposals or memoranda could come from any quarter but the cabinet, which was the final authority, could either take up or reject them. If any of its decision did not fall in line with the wishes of certain sections of people, the cabinet still remained the final authority to either withdraw or revoke its own decision, he added.

gratification of Rs 2 lakh from Mathew Samuel, a representative of fictional company Westend International, Murgai received Rs 20,000. The illegal gratification was accepted for obtaining supply orders for handheld thermal imagers from the army.

All the three accused – Jaitley, Pacherwal and Murgai – were convicted of the offence of conspiracy (Section 120-B IPC read with Section 9 (Taking gratification, for exercise of personal influence with public servant) of Prevention of Corruption (PC) Act. The court held it is “proved beyond doubt that in the meeting in the hotel room on December 25, 2000, Surekha and Murgai assured their assistance to Samuel in procuring letter of evaluation for the product of his company from the Ministry of Defence and also to arrange a meeting between him and accused Jaya Jaitley who would provide political cover to them in this regard”.

It was agreed that Samuel would pay Rs 1 lakh each to Surekha and Murgai and Rs 2 lakh to Jaitley, the court noted.

“Thus there had been an agreement between them to obtain the evaluation letter for the concerned product by ille-

Sonia discusses political situation with Cong RS MPs NEW DELHI, JUL 30 (PTI): Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Thursday held a meeting with party’s Rajya Sabha members and discussed the current political situation with them, sources said. The meeting was organised through video conference in which its top leaders, including former prime minister Manmohan Singh, participated. Former ministers A K Antony, Ahmed Patel, Ghulam Nabi Azad, Anand Sharma, Mallikarjun Kharge, Ambika Soni, P Chidambaram and Jairam Ramesh were also part of the meeting.

The MPs also raised concern over the current economic situation and the rise in the number of COVID19 cases in the country, the sources said. The meeting comes after Sonia Gandhi had organised a similar meet for party’s Lok Sabha members some time back.

The Monsoon Session of Parliament is likely to be held next month. Efforts are on to hold the session following the physical distancing norms which are in place due to the coronavirus pandemic.

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gal means i.e. by resort to corruption and personal influence upon the concerned officials,” it said, adding that “accordingly, Pacherwal arranged the said meeting for December 28, 2000. He too was present in the said meeting in the room of Jaitly along with Surekha, Samuel and Murgai”.

The court further said: “In that meeting, which took place in the official residence of the then Union Minister for Defence, George Fernandes, Samuel was introduced to Jaitley as a businessman whose company intends to enter the market of defence procurement.

“Samuel offered the sum of Rs 2 lakh to Jaitly who instructed him to hand over the money to Pacherwal and accordingly, the money was received by accused Pacher-

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wal knowing that it was bribe money. In lieu thereof, Jaitley assured Samuel that in case the product of his company is not considered, she would intervene by making a request to ”Sahib” (purportedly the Defence Minister Mr. George Fernandes) to send a word to the concerned officer in this regard”.

The court said both the accused, Pacherwal and Jaitley, are also guilty of the offence of conspiracy.

“Jaitley received a sum of Rs 2 lakhs through Pacherwal from Samuel as a motive/reward for agreeing to accomplish the task given to her i.e. to exert personal in-

fluence upon the concerned Ministers/ Officers in pushing the product of the company of Samuel into the Indian Army,” it said.

S i m i l a r ly, M u r g a i received Rs 20,000 from Samuel on January 4, 2000, in lieu of the assistance rendered by him in arranging a meeting with Jaitley and securing a letter of evaluation for the product of the company by exercise of personal influence upon the concerned officers, the court noted.

“Therefore, both of them have committed offence envisaged under Section 9 of the PC Act,” it said.

DC Dmu issues unsealing orders DIMAPUR, JUL 30 (NPN): Deputy Commissioner (DC) Dimapur, Anoop Khinchi, has ordered unsealing of Nikos Hospital & Research Hospital, Dimapur, in view of the hospital being sanitized and the eight staff, who were TrueNat positive for COVID-19, being isolated.

DC, however, advised all other primary contacts for strict seven-day home isolation.

Further, in another order, DC ordered unsealing of M/s Zinyu Gas Agency following the sanitization of the gas agency and carrying out all the other precautionary measures as per the government guidelines.

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DIMAPUR: A review meeting on plantation wo r k s i n b a t c h - I v i l lages of Changtongya New, Mongsenyimti and Mopungchuket was held at Marepkong Forest Complex, Mokokchung on July 29.

A press release by DFO-cum-DMU Mokokchung division stated that, meeting was held after the inspection of all the NFMP model sites i.e JAF, JFF, JCF, JCC and PEC in the respective villages by the DFO-cum-DMU head, Dr. Sentitula along with ADMU, FMU heads, field staff and DMU supporting staff.

FMU heads of Changtongya and Mokokchung gave presentations on the status of the plantation works, area covered, nursery stock and photo points of all the models in their

DFO and DMU staffs during the field inspection of all the NFMP model sites under Mokokchung division.

respective villages under batch-I. Of the three villages under NFMP, only Changtongya New Village has undertaken all the five models i.e JAF, JFF, JCF, JCC and PEC. Mopungchuket has only two models i.e JCC and PEC and Mongsenyimti

has undertaken only 3 models i.e JAF, JFF and PEC. As per the work done under NFMP Mokokchung, JAF model covered an area of about 71.823 hectares where about 33,500 saplings were planted. JFF model area covered about 30.8262 hectares with ap-

prox 25,726 saplings planted. JCF model 12.7 hectares of area coverage with approx 8000 saplings planted.

JCC model area coverage is about 30.0481 hectares with approx 11,700 saplings planted. PEC model coverage is about 802.29 hectares with about 17,000 saplings approx. has been distributed for planting.

Further action plan which includes silvicultural operations and weeding will begin from the month of August.

FMU field staff highlighted the issues faced and observations made during the field inspections. In the meeting, issues faced during implementation were resolved with adoption of better ways to deal with the remaining works as well as to proceed towards Batch-2 villages with minimal field errors.

ATMA Kobulong block conducts training and FDP

Farmers with ATMA functionaries at Longpa during the field day programme.

DIMAPUR: ATMA Kobulong block, conducted training, demonstration and field day programme (FDP) from July 25 to 28, at Chami, Longpa and Yisemyong villages.

A press release by ATMA Kobulong block stated that, training on sequential cropping of paddy-pulses and scientific management on banana cultivation, while demonstration on chilly, soyabean and nutrient management on banana were

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conducted, with resource persons as KVK, ACTO, Mkg, Renbemo, and KVK, ACTO, Mkg, Samuel Sangtam.

FDP on disease resistant varieties on chilly and tomato, was also conducted, where resource person Renbemo highlighted on diseases resistant varieties, in comparison to locally available varieties with aim to popularize and to introduce varieties in the district since the introduced

varieties were susceptible to diseases such as chilli veinal mottle virus and powdery mildew in chillies and bacterial wilt, early blight and tomato leaf curl virus in tomatoes.

In a separate programme, revolving funds and seed money were handed over to various FSGs and FIGs.Inputs such as bio- pesticides, bio-insecticides, various seeds and related agri farming tools were distributed to the participants.

Transfer and posting of IAS/NCS/NSS officers DIMAPUR: Nagaland government in a notification ordered the transfer and posting of 20 IAS/NCS/NSS officers with immediate effect.

J Alam, IAS, Additional Chief Secretary to Chief Minister, Development Commissioner, TPT, and Tribal Affairs, shall hold additional charge of Personnel & Administrative Reforms Department.

R Ramakrishnan, IAS, Principal Secretary, Justice & Law, shall hold additional charge of Principal Secretary, Geology & Mining Department.

V Shashank Shekhar, IAS, Principal Secretary attached to P & AR Department is posted as Principal Secretary, Parliamentary Affairs Department.

Imjung M Panger IAS, Commissioner & Secretary, Geology & Mining and Higher & Technical Education, is relieved of the charge of Commissioner & Secretary, Geology and Mining Dept.

Kevekha Kevin Zehol, NCS, Additional Secretary, PHED (designate), is transferred and posted as Additional Secretary, Works & Housing.

NSCN (I-M) condolence DIMAPUR: NSCN (I-M) has expressed grief at the untimely demise of late Rongsenchiba Aier, ‘leacy’ of NSCN/GPRN from Longjang village under Ao region on July 29.

A condolence note by NSCN (I-M) through its MIP stated that, the void created by his demise is deeply felt and would be difficult to fill in. For his selfless contribution 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. Late Rongsenchiba joined Naga national service in August, 2012 and had served the Naga nation with unwavering patriotism until his demise.

GPRN in general and the Ao region in particular conveyed condolences to his bereaved family members and friends and pray the Almighty God to grant his soul eternal peace and rest.

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Anoop Khinchi, IAS, Deputy Commissioner, Dimapur, is transferred and posted as Additional Secretary, Water resources.

Rajesh Soundararajan, IAS, Additional Secretary, Water resources, is transferred and posted as Deputy Commissioner, Dimapur.

Polan John, NCS, Secretary, NPSC (designate) is retained as Joint Secretary, Rural Development.

John Tsulise Sangtam, NCS, Joint Secretary, Industries & Commerce, is transferred and posted as Secretary, NPSC. Robert Longchari, NCS, Joint Secretary, Land Revenue, is transferred and posted as Joint secretary, Industries & Commerce Department.

Angelina Tajen, NCS, Joint Secretary, NRE & Additional Director, ATI, is relieved of the charge of Additional Director, AT1.

Arenla Jamir, Jt. Sec. Land Resources, shall held additional charge of Additional Director, ATI. Reny Wilfred, IAS, ADC, Kiphire, is transferred and posted as Deputy Commissioner, Noklak.

Mekala Chaitanya, Prasad, IAS, ADC, Noklak is transferred and posted as Joint Secretary, Municipal Affairs Department and placed his service at the disposal of Municipal Affairs Department for appointment as Mission Director HFA. Temjensangla, NCS, Deputy Secretary, Municipal Affairs, Department & Mission Director, HFA, is transferred and posted as Deputy Secretary, Lab, Emp, Skill Dev & Entrepreneurship.

T Sulanthung, NCS, SDO (C), Sanis (designate), is transferred and posted as SDO (C) Bhandari.

Riku Khutso, NCS, EAC, Bhandari, is transferred and posted as EAC, Sanis, with additional charge of EAC, Lotsu.

Chenithung Ovung, NCS, EAC, Kiphire, is transferred and posted as EAC Shamator.

Tsenthungo E Ngullie, NCS, EAC, Shamator (Designate), as transferred and posted as EAC, Ngwalwa.

Rumbemo Kithan, EAC, Ngwalwa, is transferred and posted as EAC Mon.

Sanitisation of Medziphema town DIMAPUR: Fumigation and sanitisation of Medziphema under the initiative of additional deputy commissioner Medziphema and Miathou Krose, chairman, NHHDC, was successfully undertaken with the help of Dr. Kobu Khate, chief technical officer, NRCM, and Dr. Kezhavito Vüprü, NRCM, as well as a fire brigade from the Fire department.

A press release by Medziphema Town Mechü Krotho general secretary, Khrielie Iralu Meyase and Medziphema Town Youth Organisation general secretary, Mhasilevi Kuotsu stated that, with technical assistance from NRCM, ICAR (Mithun), another

Sanitisation by Fire department being undertaken at CHC Medziphema on July 28.

sanitisation round was ac- Medziphema town market complished at Community area and ADC Complex on Health Centre Medziphema, July 28.

WDTP observed at Longleng & Seluophe DIMAPUR: Longleng district observed “World Day against Human Trafficking” at DC’s conference hall on July 30, organized by District Task Force (DTF) BBBP, Mahila Shakti Kendra and Sakhi One Stop center Longleng on the theme “There is hope, together we can stop the traffickers, we are not powerless” with ADC, D. Robin as special guest.

According to DIPR report, ADC said that the root cause of trafficking was poverty, lack of employment opportunities, low socio-economy status, lack of education and lack of proper implementation of government schemes for children like mid-day meal, Poshan Abhiyan etc.

Addl SP Longleng, Atopu Sumi emphasized that district administration, converging departments along with local bodies, should take a survey in villages, awareness programme etc, which can end such crimes in society. He also stressed on two actions under police department for such crime, namely, direct action and indirect action.

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Phom and keynote address

by EAC HQ Longleng, Robhi Sangtam. WWO MSK Longleng, P. Phungla Phom presented the winner for online essay competition for junior & senior category also online mother daughter photograph competition, winner in essay junior category: 1st Leitong Phom, 2nd Chingpang, 3rd Esapzeu, and senior category: 1st Longshom Phom, 2nd Spvia Jenger and 3rd Kontok Phom. Mother daughter photograph competition 1st Atau Phom, 2nd Shumei Phom and 3rd Chuthei Phom. Vote of thanks was pronounced by C. Henchmen Phom center administration (OSC) Longleng.

Miqlat Ministry, Seluophe: Miqlat Ministry (MM) held a small awareness programme at Miqlat Centre, Seluophe with few village leaders, women society and youths on July 30.

A press release by Miqlat Ministr y stated that, director of MM Asha Sanchu as resource highlighted that in Naga context, the demand for domestic helpers was also one of the main reasons, leading to an increase in human traffick-

ing in Nagaland. She also mentioned more than 80% of the returnees during this pandemic were engaged in different sectors of work, mostly youth and therefore, this was an opportunity for the community leaders to dialogue, explore the available resources and create employment opportunities for the youth of the community. Exhorting the church leaders and village council leaders, she said that they have to be more informed as they have power and authority which can be exercised to bring transformation in society. She also said that survey conducted to assess government schools indicated that active involvement of concerned village authorities made huge progress. She also said that lack of education was one of the main push factors for human trafficking and so uplifting the education system in respective community was one way to combat human trafficking.

She pointed out that many parents take pride saying that their children were working in cities without contemplating the kind and nature of work they do.

GOVERNMENT OF NAGALAND OFFICE OF THE INSPECTOR GENERAL OF POLICE (Int) NAGALAND ::: KOHIMA NO.IGP/NT/lX-45(4)/20-21/ 861

Dated, Kohima the 29th July 2020

To,

Present Address Rank and Name : NCE Hari Shankar Yadav S/o : Badri Yadav V/o : Kalibari Road PO/PS : East P.S Dimapur Dist. : Dimapur State : Nagaland Permanent Address Rank and Name : NCE Hari Shankar Yadav S/o : Badri Yadav V/o : Basudeopur PO/PS : Sahebgan Dist. : Chapra State : Bihar CALLING NOTICE It is hereby notified that NCE Hari Shankar Yadav, S/o Badri Yadav, VillageBasudevpur, District- Chapra, State- Bihar, of IGP(Int) Establishment has been remaining absent from duty w.e.f 04/05/2020 without any permission or authorized leave from competent authority and is overstaying from leave w.e.f 04/05/2020 till date.

He is directed to report to the office the IGP(Int) Establishment, Nagaland Kohima, on or before 10/08/2020, failing which disciplinary action will be initiated against the delinquent personnel.

(K. Martin Pienyu) IPS Inspector General of Police (Int) Nagaland. Kohima DC-470

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NASA launches biggest Mars rover Islamabad HC to hear plea

a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket launches at Space Launch Complex 41 at the Cape Canaveral, Thursday,

tion, the mission will yield lessons that could pave the way for the arrival of astronauts as early as the 2030s.

“There’s a reason we call the robot Perseverance.

Because going to Mars is hard,” NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine said just before liftoff. “It is always hard. It’s never been easy.

In this case, it’s harder than ever before because we’re

doing it in the midst of a pandemic.”

The US, the only country to safely put a spacecraft on Mars, is seeking its ninth successful landing on the planet, which has proved to be the Bermuda Triangle of space exploration, with more than half of the world’s missions there burning up, crashing or otherwise ending in failure.

China is sending both a rover an orbiter.

The UAE, a newcomer to outer space, has an orbiter en route.

It’s the biggest stampede to Mars in spacefaring history. The opportunity to fly between Earth and Mars comes around only once every 26 months when the planets are on the same side of the sun and about as close as they can get.

Launch controllers wore masks and sat spaced apart at the Cape Canaveral control center because of the coronavirus outbreak, which kept hundreds of scientists and other team members away from Perseverance’s liftoff.

“There’s nowhere else I’d rather be,” said Alex Mather, the 13-year-old Virginia schoolboy who proposed the name Perseverance in a NASA competition and traveled to Cape Canaveral for the launch.

If all goes well, the rover will descend to the Martian surface on Feb 18, 2021, in what NASA calls seven minutes of terror, in which the craft goes from 12,000 mph (19,300 kph) to

a complete stop, with no human intervention whatsoever. It is carrying 25 cameras and a pair of microphones that will enable Earthlings to vicariously tag along.

Perseverance will aim for treacherous unexplored territory: Jezero Crater, a dusty expanse riddled with boulders, cliffs, dunes and possibly rocks bearing signs of microbes from what was once a lake more than 3 billion years ago. The rover will store half-ounce (15-gram) rock samples in dozens of super-sterilized titanium tubes.

It also will release a mini helicopter that will attempt the first powered flight on another planet, and test out other technology to prepare the way for future astronauts, including equipment for extracting oxygen from Mars’ thin carbondioxide atmosphere.

The plan is for NASA and the European Space Agency to launch a dune buggy in 2026 to fetch the rock samples, along with a rocket ship that will put the specimens into orbit around Mars. Then another spacecraft will capture the

in Jadhav case on August 3

ISLAMABAD, JUL 30 (IANS): After the government’s proposed ordinance to facilitate Kulbhushan Jadhav file a review plea against his death sentence by a Pakistan military court was passed by the Lower House of the National Assembly amid uproar and protest by the opposition benches, the Islamabad High Court (IHC) has constituted a bench to hear the plea submitted by the federal government against Jadhav’s sentence on August 3.

The federal government, under the Presidential Ordinance, has appointed a legal representative for Jadhav, who will be presenting his case before the IHC. Chief Justice Athar Minallah, who will be hearing the petition on Jadhav’s case, heads the bench.

The federal government had approached the IHC on July 22, stating that Jadhav, the Indian spy, who it claimed had been involved in several terrorist activities in Pakistan, had refused to file a plea against his sentence, adding that

UK extends COVID-19 HK disqualifies 12 opposition nominees isolation period to 10 days

pro-democracy Civic Party members attend a news conference in Hong Kong, Thursday, July 30. (AP/PTI)

kongers, tramples upon the city’s last pillar of vanishing autonomy and attempts to keep Hong Kong’s legislature under its firm grip,” Wong said in a Facebook post on Thursday.

Wong and many prodemocracy nominees had been asked to clarify their political stance earlier this week as their nominations were being reviewed.

Kwok said the disqualification of pro-democracy nominees was a political decision that amounted to political screening.

“Today we are seeing the results of the relentless oppression that this regime is starting ... to take away the basic fundamental rights and freedom that are once enjoyed by all Hong

Kong people under the Basic Law,” Hong Kong’s mini-constitution, Kwok said in a news conference.

“They also try to drive fear and oppression into our hearts and this, we must not let them succeed,” he said.

Other nominees were still being reviewed, the government said in a statement expressing support for the disqualifications.

“We do not rule out the possibility that more nominations would be invalidated,” it said.

E a r l i e r T h u r s d ay, Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Lee Cheuk-yan denounced the new national security law imposed by Beijing in response to last year’s massive protests call-

COVID-19: China sees over 100 new cases for 2nd consecutive day

280 asymptomatic cases, including 90 from outside the mainland, were still under medical observation. (Reuters)

Beijing, Jul 30 (PTI): China’s COVID-19 cases have crossed the 100-mark for the second consecutive day, belying the hopes that the country managed to contain the deadly contagion.

The National Health Commission (NHC) on Thursday said that 105 new coronavirus cases, including 102 domestically transmitted ones, were registered in the country on Wednesday, mainly in the Muslim Uygur majority Xinjiang province which reported a sudden spike in cases.

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day said that 102 cases were reported on Tuesday, crossing the 100 mark for the first time in three months after it was controlled in Wuhan where the virus first emerged in December last year, sparking fears of a second wave of the COVID-19 attack in the country.

It said on Thursday that 96 of the 102 domestically transmitted cases were reported in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, five in Liaoning province and one in Beijing municipality.

Also on Wednesday, 21 new asymptomatic cases,

including one from outside the mainland, were reported and 12 asymptomatic cases were re-categorised as confirmed ones.

The commission said that 280 asymptomatic cases, including 90 from outside the mainland, were still under medical observation.

Asymptomatic patients, also known as silent spreaders, pose a problem as they are tested COVID19 positive but develop no symptoms such as fever, cough or sore throat.

However, they pose a risk of spreading the disease to others. No deaths related to the disease were reported on Wednesday. As of Wednesday, the overall confirmed COVID-19 cases on the mainland has reached 84,165, including 574 patients who were still being treated, with 33 in severe condition. Altogether 78,957 people have been discharged after recovery, and 4,634 died of the disease on the mainland, the commission said. Provinces of Guangdong, Yunnan and Shaanxi each saw one new imported case on Wednesday.

ing for greater freedoms.

He criticised authorities for arresting four youths under the law on suspicion of inciting secession via online posts.

“Hong Kong politics keeps changing,” said Lee. “Now they are using the national security law against the young people … these young people are being charged just for the things they said.”

The four, aged between 16 to 21, were detained Wednesday for announcing on social media that they had set up an organization for Hong Kong independence.

An organization called Studentlocalism – which disbanded ahead of the national security law taking effect on June 30 – said in a Facebook post that four of its former members had been arrested on secession charges. Lee spoke ahead of a court appearance with 14 other pro-democracy activists, including former lawmaker Martin Lee and media tycoon Jimmy Lai. The group was arrested in April over anti-government protests last year and was charged with participating and inciting others to take part in an unauthorised assembly.

L ondon , J ul 3 0 (IANS): People who test positive for the novel coronavirus or show symptoms in the UK must now selfisolate for at least 10 days, rather than seven, it was announced by the country’s chief medical officers on Thursday.

The change comes as Ministers were trying to avoid a resurgence of the virus, reports the BBC. U n t i l n ow, t h o s e showing key symptoms - a new continuous cough, a temperature or loss of taste or smell - have had to selfisolate for at least a week.

The new advice is in line with World Health Organization guidance.

The chief medical officers said the change is “particularly important to protect those who have

been shielding and in advance of the autumn and winter when we may see increased community transmission”.

It comes after Prime Minister Boris Johnson warned of signs of a “second wave” of the pandemic in parts of Europe.

Speaking to the BBC before the announcement, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said the government wanted to “take a precautionary approach” and “protect people from that wave reaching our shores”.

Officials said a further 83 people with coronavirus had died in the UK, taking the total number of deaths to 45,961.

It also reported another 763 confirmed cases, taking the total to 301,455.

OFFICE OF THE

LOTHA HOHO DOYANG

DIST. WOKHA-797111, NAGALAND The Lotha Hoho Doyang with United Baptist Church DHEP, Thillong Village, Esanphen Yan Village and St. Thomas Catholic Church, Doyang held an emergency meeting on 25/07/2020 and resolved that, in view of the Covid-19 Pandemic, fishing, picnic and side seeing in the Doyang Reservoir area and Doyang downstream area is strictly prohibited. Anyone found violating the resolved shall be penalized.

Jim Odyuo Eliyamo Yanthan Chairman Secretary Lotha Hoho Doyang Lotha Hoho Doyang

“The government had passed an ordinance that would benefit the Indian spy in Pakistan’s custody,” said leader of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Bilawal Bhutto Zardari.

However, Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi maintained that the “ordinance was promulgated in line with the Inter national Court of Justice (ICJ) decision that required counselor access and right of appeal to the spy”.

“India wants to drag us to the ICJ again but we have followed all the instructions of the international court to foil any attempt of India against Pakistan,” he said.

But the opposition benches claim that the government is trying to give concession to Jadhav.

Till now, Pakistan has offered consular access to India thrice. The second consular access was given to Jadhav on July 16, but Indian side had raised reservations over the arrangements put in place for the meeting.

US failed to recognize COVID19 threat from Europe: CDC

Washington, Jul 30 (IANS): The US has failed to recognize the coronavirus threat from Europe in time, Robert Redfield, Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), has said. Since the country’s COVID-19 pandemic broke out, the US has reported over 4.4 million confirmed cases and over 150,000 deaths, reports Xinhua news agency. “The introduction from Europe happened before we realized what was happening,” Redfield said in an interview with ABC News. “By the time we realized (the) Europe threat and shut down travel to Europe, there was probably already two or three weeks of 60,000 people coming back every day from Europe,” he said.

OFFICE OF THE

WOKHA TOWN CHUDI EKHUNG WOKHA : NAGALAND

FELICITATION The Office of the Wokha Town Chudi Ekhung extends our heartfelt congratulations to the following individuals for bringing laurels to the community through dedication in their respective departments and through hard work and determination.

1. Mr. Thungchanbemo Tungoe, NCS, SDO (C) Mokokchung promoted to ADC Pughoboto.

2. Mr. Moyithung Jami, JE promoted to SDO under NPWD. 3. Mr. Tsenbemo Jungio, ABI, 7 th NAP Bn, promoted to Dy. SP, 4th NAP. 4. Ms. Jandeno Jami, D/o. Mr & Mrs Tsenjamo Jami, Lecturer in Humanities under Technical Education Nagaland, NPSC. May you be a beacon for the society and shine brighter.

Sd/Sd/Limhathung Mozhui Renbemo P. Tungoe Chairman General. Secretary

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HONG KONG, JUL 30 (AP): At least 12 Hong Kong pro-democracy nominees including prominent activist Joshua Wong were disqualified for September legislative elections, with authorities saying Thursday they failed to uphold the city’s mini-constitution and pledge allegiance to Hong Kong and Beijing.

Others who were disqualified include democracy activist Tiffany Yuen from the disbanded political organization Demosisto, as well as incumbent lawmaker Dennis Kwok and three others from the pro-democracy Civic Party.

It marks a setback for the pro-democracy camp, which had aimed to win a majority of seats in the legislature this year. Earlier this month, they held an unofficial primary, with candidates including Wong topping the polls.

Wong said he was disqualified because he had described the city’s recently imposed national security law as draconian, which indicated he did not support the law and thus invalidated his candidacy. “ C l e a r l y, B e i j i n g shows a total disregard for the will of the Hong-

Jadhav cannot appoint a lawyer in Pakistan without assistance from India.

As per the petition, “Jadhav refused to file a petition against his sentence, while New Delhi is also reluctant to avail the facility under the ordinance.”

The federation, through the Defence Secretary and the Judge Advocate General (JAG) branch of the General Headquarters (GHQ), has been named party in the petition filed by the Federal Minister of Law and Justice.

The move comes after the federal government presented the International Court of Justice (Review and Reconsideration) Ordinance 2020, in relation to Jadhav getting the approval through the National Assembly of Pakistan (Lower House) and is geared up to present it in the Senate (Upper House).

Opposition parties have strongly protested against the ordinance, calling it an open support to the “Indian spy”, who has “spread fear and terrorism in the country”.

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CAPE CANAVERAL, JUL 30 (AP): The biggest, most sophisticated Mars rover ever built — a car-size vehicle bristling with cameras, microphones, drills and lasers — blasted off Thursday as part of an ambitious, long-range project to bring the first Martian rock samples back to Earth to be analysed for evidence of ancient life.

NASA’s Perseverance rode a mighty Atlas V rocket into the morning sky in the world’s third and final Mars launch of the summer.

China and the United Arab Emirates got a head start last week, but all three missions should reach the red planet in February after a journey of seven months and 300 million miles (480 million kilometers).

The plutonium-powered, six-wheeled rover will drill down and collect tiny geological specimens that will be brought home in about 2031 in a sort of interplanetary relay race involving multiple spacecraft and countries. The overall cost: more than USD 8 billion.

In addition to addressing the life-on-Mars ques-

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Nagaland Post, Dimapur FRIDAY, JULY 31, 2020

Cagliari stun champions Juventus in Serie A Barty pulls out of US Open

C AG L I A R I , J u l 3 0 (Agencies): Cristiano Ronaldo’s hopes of finishing the season as top scorer in Italy’s Serie A faded away on Wednesday as he failed to find the net when champions Juventus slumped to a shock 2-0 defeat away to Cagliari.

The 35-year-old Portuguese attacker is on 31 goals for the season, four behind Lazio’s Ciro Immobile with only a home league game against fifth-placed AS Roma left to play.

Cagliari, who are 13th in the table, shocked the newly-crowned champions in the eighth minute when 20-year-old striker Luca Gagliano reacted quickest, stabbing home Federico Mattiello’s pass across the box to net his first goal for the club.

Things went from bad to worse for Juventus in first-half stoppage time as Giovanni Simeone smashed a right-foot shot across keeper Gianluigi Buffon and in at the far post to put Cagliari two goals up.

With a first-half goal chalked off for offside, Ronaldo had plenty of chances as Juventus domi-

The Serie A match between Juventus and Cagliari in progress.

nated, but he found his efforts smothered by the Cagliari defence.

When his team mates did manage to get a shot on target they found keeper Alessio Cragno in superb form as Cagliari held on to win.

Meanwhile, Veteran AC Milan forward Zlatan Ibrahimovic scored twice and Gianluigi Donnarumma saved a penalty as

they won 4-1 at Sampdoria on Wednesday to stay unbeaten since the Serie A season restarted.

Milan remained sixth with 63 points which will earn them a place in the Europa League second qualifying round next season, with the automatic spot in that competition going to fifth-placed AS Roma, who beat Torino 3-2 later on Wednesday.

Milan went ahead after four minutes when Ante Rebic crossed from the left and the unmarked Ibrahimovic headed past Sampdoria goalkeeper Wladimiro Falcone who was making his Serie A debut at the age of 25.

However, Falcone made a good save to deny Ibrahimovic a second goal before halftime when the Swede’s shot took a deflec-

Murray calls for more mixed events

Sports Awards likely to be delayed

Andy Murray

Lo n d o n, J u l 3 0 (IANS): Former world no.1 Andy Murray has said that tennis is missing a trick by not getting more mixed gender events. Murray is currently taking part in the Battle of the Brits exhibition featuring male and female players.

Murray said that tennis is a sport where both the male and female players have similar stature and the sport should exploit that further. “The Hopman Cup, for example, was a brilliant event in my opinion,” Murray told British media. “Putting match-ups in tennis like Serena Williams and Roger

Federer on the same court, it is so brilliant for our sport.

We are able to do that in tennis and I think we should embrace it a little bit more, not necessarily every single week, but at times it would be great. I would like to see Rafa (Nadal) on the court with some of the top female players.”

The Briton also said that he is expecting to see a few upsets to happen whenever tennis returns due to the lack of match time that most players have got amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

“You just can’t replicate matches in practice, it just isn’t the same,” said

Murray. “It is different on the body, on the mind. The pressure is just different and no matter how hard you try to make your practices as challenging and difficult as matches, they just aren’t.”

“Some players who have had injury lay-offs will probably be a little bit more experienced in terms of coming back after a long period, but it’s an opportunity for players. There will be upsets for sure. Going into the US Open with potentially only one or two matches in the Cincinnati event in New York, it will make for some interesting results.”

New Delhi, Jul 30 (PTI): The National Sports Awards ceremony this year is likely to be delayed by a month or two due to the COVID-19 pandemic but a final decision will be taken only after receiving guidance from the Rashtrapati Bhavan, a Sports Ministry official has said.

The National Sports Awards include the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, the Arjuna, Dronacharya and Dhyanchand honours, conferred every year by the President of India at the Rashtrapati Bhavan on August 29.

The ceremony coincides with the birth anniversary of hockey legend Major Dhyan Chand. But this year, it might be delayed due to the pandemic, although a final decision is still awaited.

“We haven’t heard anything from the Rashtrapati Bhavan yet. We are waiting for a communication with regard to the Sports awards.

So, at this point of time, it is very difficult to say what will happen,” the ministry official told PTI.

tion. Donnarumma did well to stop a Fabio Quagliarella free kick after the break before Hakan Calhanoglu added a second in the 54th minute. The referee initially disallowed it for a foul but the goal was awarded following a VAR review.

Calhanoglu also set up the third with a pass to Ibrahimovic who scored from a narrow angle four minutes later. It was the 38-year-old Swede’s ninth league goal since he returned for a second stint with Milan in January.

Donnarumma saved Gonzalo Maroni’s penalty and, although Kristoffer Askildsen pulled one back for Sampdoria, Rafael Leao then added a fourth for Milan.

In Turin, Roma went behind to an Alex Berengue strike in the 14th minute, but goals from Edin Dzeko and Chris Smalling and an Amadou Diawara penalty put them 3-1 ahead after 61 minutes.

Wilfried Singo pulled a goal back for Torino but Roma held on for a 3-2 win that put them on 67 points, four ahead of Milan with one game left.

Sydney, Jul 30 (IANS): World No. 1 women’s tennis player Ashleigh Barty has pulled out of this year’s US Open due to concerns over the COVID-19 pandemic.

“My team and I have decided that we won’t be travelling to the US and Wester n and Souther n Open and the US Open this year,” Barty was quoted as saying by the Herald Sun newspaper.

“I love both events so it was a difficult decision but there are still significant risks involved due to COVID-19 and I don’t feel comfortable putting my team and I in that position.” “I wish the USTA all the best for the tournaments and look forward to being back in the US next year,” she added.

The Australian is the highest profile player so far to pull out of the event which is scheduled to take place in New York from August 31-September 13.

The Grand Slam is slated to be held amid a slew of restrictions on player movements and the number of people that accompany them to the venue and on court.

The 24-year-old fur-

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ther said that she is yet to decide if she will defend her French Open championship, with that event rescheduled for late September.

“I will make my decision on the French Open and the surrounding WTA (Women’s Tennis Association) European tour-

naments in the coming weeks,” Barty said.

Earlier men’s World No.1 Novak Djokovic had said that he is undecided on whether he wants to participate in the US Open or not this year. Djokovic had said that the upsurge in cases in America does not spell well for the US Open.

Man City close in on £40m deal for Ake Lo n d o n, J u l 3 0 (Agencies): Manchester City are close to completing a £40 million ($52m) deal for Bournemouth defender Nathan Ake. The Netherlands international will discuss personal terms and the transfer could be confirmed in the coming days, with it understood there is the potential for an additional £1m in add-ons as part of the deal.

City are also set to confirm the signing of Valencia winger Ferran Torres in the next few days for an initial fee of £21m ($27m).

It was reported earlier this week that the 20-yearold Spaniard had agreed personal terms on a fiveyear deal at the Etihad Stadium.

The two clubs reached an agreement which also includes add-ons that could be worth an extra £11m ($14m).

City were in the hunt for new central defenders after suffering nine defeats in the Premier League having failed to replace captain Vincent Kompany last summer.

Nathan Ake

D e s p i t e Bournemouth’s relegation to the Championship, Ake’s reputation has soared since he left Chelsea in 2017.

The 25-year-old is a homegrown player and can also provide cover at left-back. He may not be the only defensive signing during the transfer window, however, with City also

looking at Napoli’s Kalidou Koulibaly and Sevilla’s Diego Carlos.

A deal for Torres is also expected to be announced soon after City beat a host of top European clubs for the Spain Under21 international.

Due to the UK government implementing travel restrictions surrounding the Covid-19 pandemic, he

is expected to complete his medical in Spain ahead of joining up with the squad for the new Premier League season.

City boss Pep Guardiola is understood to have played a key part in convincing him to choose the Premier League side amid interest from clubs including Manchester United, Juventus, Borussia Dortmund, Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid.

Torres was keen to work with Guardiola and spoke to the former Barcelona manager before choosing his new club.

And the deal moved a step closer when the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) lifted the two-year ban from the Champions League imposed on the club by UEFA. The deal is seen as a bargain for a highly-rated and exciting Spain Under21 international.

But Valencia needed to raise money after failing to qualify for Europe next season, and Torres was in the final year of his contract having turned down a number of offers to extend his current contract.

Brentford reach Championship play-off final Man Utd confident of Sancho deal

Players of Brentford and Swansea City in action during the 2nd leg of the EFL Championship play-off semi-final at Griffin Park.

Lo n d o n, J u l 3 0 (Agencies): Brentford gave Griffin Park a fitting farewell as they came back from a first-leg deficit to beat Swansea and reach the Championship play-off final with a 3-2 aggregate win.

Playing their final home game at the 116-year-old stadium, the Bees were trailing 1-0 against the Swans, but two quick goals from Ollie Watkins and Emiliano Marcondes quickly turned the tie

on its head. Bryan Mbeumo then sealed their passage shortly after half-time and a 3-1 victory on the night.

Swansea had snuck into the play-offs and were excellent in the first leg but, Rhian Brewster’s late goal aside, struggled to cause Brentford too many problems.

Thomas Frank’s side will face Fulham or Cardiff in the final at Wembley in a 7.45pm kick-off on Tuesday,

August 4 as they target a first play-off triumph in their history at the ninth attempt.

It could well be their west London rivals who they vie with for a spot in the Premier League, too. Fulham lead 2-0 on aggregate ahead of their second leg on Thursday night.

Brentford had lost their last three games on the spin before Wednesday night, but any question marks about how they would go about

trying to overturn the deficit were answered quickly and emphatically as they struck twice in four minutes early on.

A quick counter-attack in the 11th minute levelled the tie as goalkeeper David Raya found Mathias Jensen, and he threaded through Watkins to charge in on goal and finish low past Erwin Mulder. After 15 minutes Brentford had turned the tie.

Said Benrahma’s ball into

the box found Marcondes, and he managed to guide a header just inside the near post.

Swansea boss Steve Cooper made two changes at the break, but Brentford put the tie beyond them almost immediately after the restart. Rico Henry - who saw his red card rescinded from the first leg - raced down the left in the 46th minute and crossed for Mbeumo, who fired a fine left-footed volley past the helpless Mulder.

Brentford were cruising and seemed as comfortable as you can in a game of this magnitude. But in the 78th minute Pontus Jansson’s inexplicable error allowed Brewster the opportunity to lob Raya from the edge of the box and give Swansea some hope of a recovery.

But they couldn’t get another and Brentford saw the tie through. The fans were sorely missed, but they still said goodbye to their famous old stadium in the style they would have hoped.

Brentford will head to the Championship play-off final at Wembley on August 4. They will face Cardiff or Fulham.

Manchester, Jul 30 (Agencies): Manchester United are growing increasingly confident a deal can be done with Borussia Dortmund for the transfer of Jadon Sancho after cooling interest in Jack Grealish.

Discussions for Sancho centre around the transfer fee and structure of payments. It is understood personal terms will not be an issue.

Dortmund are holding out for €120m (£109m) for the 20-year-old England international winger but United are unwilling to go that high given the financial hit that they, and many others, have taken during the pandemic.

The Ger man club also want in the region of €100m (£90.5m) as an immediate payment and for the deal to be resolved by the time their pre-season training camp in the Swiss spa town of Bad Ragaz begins on August 10.

That is to give them time to find a replacement, and Dortmund are interested in Lille forward Jonathan Ikone as potential replacement for Sancho, with the French

Jadon Sancho

club valuing him at €50m (£45.25m). There has been no bid from United as yet, but they are the only club to have made official contact with Dortmund.

Sancho’s contract runs out in 2022 and Dortmund are relaxed about his situation.

If they do not get what they feel he is worth, they will keep him and happily

wait until next summer to sell - albeit for a lower price.

United are looking at alternatives, notably Kingsley Coman on loan from Bayern Munich, but their chances of convincing Sancho to come to Old Trafford will have been enhanced by them qualifying for the Champions League

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