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Rudy, Gov lead Intl. Yoga Day in Nagaland Staff Reporter/Correspondent

DIMAPUR/KOHIMA, Jun 21 (NPN): Thousands of yoga enthusiasts took part in the International Yoga Day (IYD) programmes that were led by Union Minister of State for Skill Development & Entrepreneurship, Rajiv Pratap Rudy in Dimapur and Nagaland Governor, P.B. Acharya in Kohima on June 21.

Rudy, who was assigned to observe IYD in Nagaland, led the event at Argi Expo site Exposition Hall, Dimapur.

Rudy encouraged the people in Nagaland to practice yoga in their daily lives.

He said “yoga is a skill of looking good, smart and intelligent” and that regular practice of yoga would enhance fitness of mind and body.

The minister said he was impressed by the turnout even though the event was organized within a short span of time under the Ministry of Skill Development with Beauty and Wellness Sector Skill Council and Ministry of AYUSH. Appreciating Naga youths for their enthusiasm,

NPF to vote for NDA Prez nominee: Dr. Shürhozelie DIMAPUR, JUN 21 (NPN): NPF president and chief minister of Nagaland Dr. Shürhozelie Liezietsü has made it unequivocally clear that NPF will vote for the NDA candidate as the next president of India. In a statement, he pointed out that NPF had been an ally of non-Congress party since late 1970s and also formed the Democratic Alliance of Nagaland (DAN) in 2003 (with non-Congress parties) in which then NDA chairman George Fernandes was a signatory.

Dr. Shürhozelie said DAN had grown and today NPF along with BJP including 7 independent MLAs have been maintaining a spirit of healthy alliance especially after formation of North East Democratic Alliance (NEDA) in May 2016 and also in Manipur where four NPF legislators are part of the BJP-led government.

He said the alliance with BJP was based on principles to ensure maximum benefit, development and good governance to the people of the region. He went on to reiterate that NPF will vote for the NDA candidate as a permanent ally of BJP and NDA and also a principal component of NEDA.

This is it!

“High caste politics.

Having Dalit for decorative post. But the lot of poor Dalits like us will never change.”

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(L) Rajiv Pratap Rudy performing yoga at Exposition Hall, Agri Expo site Dimapur and (R) P.B. Acharya leading the IYD event at IG Stadium, Kohima on Wednesday. (NP)

the minister informed that the Centre would be setting up the best infrastructure in Nagaland in the beauty sector, hospitality, fitness etc.

Rudy also said that the government would facilitate sending capable Naga youths across the globe for promoting the nation.

In Kohima, Nagaland Governor, P.B. Acharya led the event which was held at the IG Stadium under the

motto “Yoga for harmony and peace” organized by the department of Youth Resources & Sports (YRS) on Wednesday.

Over 1000 yoga enthusiast took part to observe the 3rd edition of the IYD, including teams from the NSS, NCC, Assam Rifles, NYKS, Bharat Scouts and Guides, students, YRS staff and officials, Army, National Ayush Mission Na-

galand, Patanjali Yog Samiti, Kohima; Indira Gandhi Academy, and other government officials.

Speaking to the media persons after the programme, director Youth Resources and Sports, Linda Solo said the event was a success. She clarified that Yoga was a kind of exercise and physiotherapy to keep us healthy and had nothing to do with religion.

It may be mentioned that the idea of an International Day of Yoga came into being when the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi proposed the idea while addressing the 69thsession of United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on September 27, 2014. Subsequently, UN approved the proposal and declared June 21 as “International Day of Yoga”.

68% govt teachers do not attend work: Gov

Gov interacts with Myanmar Naga students

Correspondent

KO H I M A , J U N 2 1 (NPN): Nagaland Governor, P.B. Acharya has again expressed anguish that 68% of government school teachers do not attend duties and opined that it was the chief factor why government school students failed to achieve good results.

He said this while addressing at the Semoma Students Welfare Board Trust (SSWBT) after distributing Tata Trust scholarship 2017 at Durbar Hall, Raj Bhavan on Wednesday.

Acharya further called upon teachers do justice by carrying out their duties responsibly.

On the occasion, Acharya also congratulated the student achievers and urged them focus on skill-based education in order to be employable.

He pointed out that without skills, possessing mere conventional degree would be meaningless.

A c h a r ya h oweve r sounded a note of caution by reminding students that after more empowerment

Acharya with the students at Raj Bhavan on Wednesday. (NP)

comes, people become more greedy and loot the people which result in creating inequality in society.

He lamented that “the good values and life of tribals were slowly diminishing”.

Achar ya reminded students to understand that they have great responsibilities to give back to the society. “Except by ourselves, no one will come and make Nagaland a Golden Nagaland”, he added.

Meanwhile, SSWBT secretary K. Seyie in his keynote address highlighted the activities of trust since its inception in 2000.

Seyie informed that SSWBT has been granting stipends to around 40

students annually for past 15 years and received help from Sir Dorabji Tata Trust in 2016, He also informed that under the welfare board, 38 girl students are given 50% subsidy and offered free tuitions in Hindi, Mathematics and science besides other necessities like medical aid, exposure trip within and outside the state and extracurricular activities.

Altogether 80 students from across the state, including eight students from Myanmar (studying in Nagaland) received the scholarship sponsored by Tata Trust. SSWBT members, village GB’s, government officials and others attended the programme.

Controversy over firing incident KO H I M A , J U N 2 1 (IANS): A gunfight broke between the Indian Army para commandos and militants in Nagaland’s Mon district bordering Myanmar in the early hours of Wednesday, a police official here said.

The exchange of fire took place in Choknyu village near Tapi bridge, when suspected militants fired at the para commandos.

“The gunfight lasted for an hour and suspected NSCN-K and ULFA-I militants retreated back to the jungles after intensive firing from the para commandos,” a Nagaland police official told IANS. Intelligence officials said that the militants had

sneaked into Nagaland from Myanmar to create terror.

Mon Correspondent adds: There were conflicting reports about the incident. As per Mon police report, the firing incident took place in Choknyu village when one person, identified as Avihoto was on a hunting trip.

Police said Avihoto, reportedly a worker at the ongoing bridge construction over Tapi River, had crossed over Tapi river towards Choknyu area for hunting with a 12 bore gun.

On seeing a wild cat, he took his shot at the animal at around 8.30 p.m.

However, police said he

suddenly heard shots being fired from Choknyu side.

He was not aware that the AR patrolling party was in that area, police said.

In this regard, the Assam Rifles personnel detained Avihoto for accidental firing on the patrolling party.

Meanwhile, Konyak Union has expressed dismay for violation of its resolution. In this regard, KU has directed its Mon Unit to take appropriate action against Avihoto for violating the hunting restriction imposed by the KU, which is from March 1 to October 31.

Further, KU has appealed to all to maintain peace within its jurisdiction.

DIMAPUR, JUN 21 (NPN): Nagaland Gover nor, PB Achar ya, on Wednesday urged the Myanmar Naga students, whom he invited for interaction at Raj Bhavan, Kohima, to be the “Game Changers” of their society.

The students, who were recipients of the SSWBT/ TATA Trusts Scholarship, 2017, were also encouraged to study and work hard and to be torch bearers of their community. According to Raj Bhavan PRO, the governor said “Your empowerment of education should be for the development of your areas and you should give back to the society.”

The governor also highlighted various scholarships that Colleges and Universities were offering to students through Indian National Fellowship Centre, Mumbai.

Acharya advised the students to avail such opportunities and gain out of it. Further, he informed the student that talks were held with the Central Government to open educational institutes in border areas so students need not travel to far away towns and cities for education.

He said some Universities were keen to enter into Public Private Partnership (PPP) for opening institutions in the border areas, which would be beneficial for them. During interaction, the governor expressed his concern for the Naga brothers and sisters from across the border, their social upliftment and empowerment.

Focusing on social issues, the governor expressed the need to empower the students through education.

He also appealed to the citizens to be local guardians of students who did not have family or relatives in the towns they study. “One should invite these students, interact with them and make them feel at home. This will strengthen the Naga bonding.” Acharya opined.

Khango Konyak elected as new NSCN/GPRN chairman D I M A P U R , J un 2 1 (NPN): ‘Lt. Gen’ (Retd) Khango Konyak was unanimously elected as chairman/ president of NSCN/GPRN on June 20, 2017 following the demise of S.S. Khaplang on June 9, 2017. This was stated in a communiqué issued by the MIP. Born on July 17, 1943 at Yangkhao village and christened Bechung Khango, he joined the Naga national service in 1963 at the age of 20 and after completing basic military training, was inducted into the Naga Army.

According to MIP, while in his teens, ‘Lt. Gen’ (Retd) Khango got inspired by heroic exploits of Naga Army fighting foes. In 1966 Khango went to erstwhile East Pakistan on Alee (Foreign) Command and in 1976. He was promoted as ‘2nd Lt’ and commanded 50 cadres who went to China under Isak Chishi Swu and Th. Muivah which they reached in 1977. The journey on foot was arduous and they had to go without food and water for weeks and took several months to reach China after trekking through mountains, hills, crossing

‘Lt. Gen’ (Retd) Khango Konyak

deep and dangerous rivers and also evading enemy forces.

In his military career, MIP said ‘Lt. Gen.’ (Retd) Khango held many prestigious positions both “at home and abroad” such as commander of units, battalions, brigades during which he witnessed crucial victories in battles and bringing laurels to the army.

K h a n g o s e r ve d a s chairman Konyak region in 1989 and on April 30, 2011 appointed as kilo (home) kilonser and then elevated to vice chairman/vice president NSCN/GPRN on May 25, 2011.

In his speech on being appointed as chairman NSCN/GPRN, ‘Lt. Gen.’

(Retd) Khango recalled his services that spanned 54 years under various capacities till his appointment as chairman and gave thanks to God for having reached such a position. He also remembered many his comrades who died in action and how he could survive death by hair’s breadth because of the Almighty.

The newly elected NSCN/GPRN chairman lamented on how many educated Naga leaders led Nagas astray and had caused divisions and factions within for selfish and vested interests. However, regardless of all these Khango said he remained firm to serve NSCN/GPRN and pledged to carry on the unfulfilled task of late S.S. Khaplang. MIP also pointed out that despite internal crisis in 1988, 2011 and 2015 Khango refrained from involving in them.

Khango assured that he would serve as chairman solely in the interest of the Naga people to defend and uphold the sovereign rights, identity and dignity of the Nagas.

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NSCN (I-M) leaders to meet Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Staff Reporter

DIMAPUR, JUN 21 (NPN): Top NSCN/ GPRN leaders led by general secretary, Th. Muivah are set to meet the founder of Art of Living (AoL) Guru, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar.

According to sources, the leaders would be meeting the AoL Guru on Thursday in New Delhi.

Sources said prior to Thursday’s meeting, some senior NSCN/GPRN leaders had already met Sri Sri few months back in Bangalore.

It was also learnt that GPRN/NSCN leaders are also likely to meet with Sri Sri in Bangalore.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar runs international Yoga and spiritual institutes and is also acclaimed as an ambassador of peace.

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HAC mitigation awareness campaign

DIMAPUR: Human animal (wildlife) conflict (HAC) mitigation awareness campaign program was organised by forest department on June 19 at the council hall of Tening village, Peren district.

A press note by chief wildlife warden Nagaland, Satya Prakash Tripathi stated that retired PCCF & principal secretary (Forest) and chief guest of the programme, D. K. Zeliang, deliberated on constitutional provision of Article 371(A) in the matter of land and its resources for the people of the state.

He emphasized on the need for declaration

of community conservation areas to community reserves and its funding on the pattern of government owned protected areas.

Zeliang said that purchased land owned by the government should be converted into protected areas, sanctuaries for integrated development of wildlife habitats. He also appealed to the villagers to ban fishing, using poison and hunting.

Additional deputy commissioner, Tening and guest of honour, Holohon Yepthomi, stated that the communities have more to play for conservation of forest resources and appealed

for conservation of forest and wildlife.

In his keynote address, Satya Prakash Tripathi highlighted the policies of the state government and the MoEF & CC, government of India for addressing the problem. The chairmen/members made a resolution to ban fishing and hunting in their respective areas.

Wildlife warden, Dimapur, K. Caroline Angami welcomed the participants, Heuneilung, DCF, Intanki National Park, gave a brief introduction and invocation prayer was said

by Kitanvwi Chewang E.S. LBA (N). Nangkamak

Pame sang a theme song on the Intanki National Park while the programme was chaired by Sentitula, DFO, Peren and Y. M. Jami, conservator of Forests (NTC), Mokokchung and director, Intanki National Park, Dimapur, proposed vote of thanks.

Around 250 persons, officers from the district administration, Agri and allied departments, chairmen/members of village councils of villages affected with Human- Animal conflict from Peren district attended the programme sponsored by the MoEF&CC, government of India, New Delhi.

CCTCA warns shopkeepers against paying tax

KUD calls on Dr. Shürhozelie

news in brief NSSATA Kiphire unit meeting: Nagaland SSA Teachers’ Association, Kiphire Unit has convened a general meeting on June 30 at 10 a.m. at Hopongkyu Memorial Kiphire Town. All SSA teacher appointees of 2010 and 2013 batches have been informed to attend the meeting. The unit has informed that absentees shall be deal according to its resolution.

HYS general meeting: Hindu Yuva Sangha (HYS) has convened a general meeting on June 25 at 4:30 p.m. at the office premises. All the office bearers and members have been asked to attend the meeting.

CHILDLINE Dimapur informs: State Commission for Protection of Childs Rights (SCPCR) and CHILDLINE Dimapur would be jointly organizing a one day workshop on “role of schools in child protection” on June 24 at 10:30 a.m. at Holy Cross Higher Secondary School auditorium, Dimapur with DC Dimapur, Kesonyu Yhome as the key speaker.

NSDU general meeting: Nagaland Secretariat Drivers’ Union (NSDU) has convened its 23rd general meeting cum farewell service on June 24 at 10 a.m. at TPT special pool workshop PWD Kohima. All the union members have been requested to attend the meeting.

Supply Colony combined meeting: Combined meeting of Supply Colony Council executive committee, Supply Colony Mothers’ Union and youths has been convened on June 24 at 10 a.m. at

Rape of minors in Tuensang condemned

DIMAPUR: Eastern N a g a l a n d Wo m e n Organization Kohima ( E N WO K ) u n i t h a s vehemently condemned t h e a l l e ge d r a p e a n d sexual assault allegedly by Thunglim Lemba Chang of Hakchang village on two minors 5 and 7 years old on June 15 at Tuensang.

In a condemnation note, ENWOK President Lemei Phom and assistant general secretary ENWOK Amen Khiamniungan stated regardless of village, community and tribe, such crime should be awarded s t r i n ge n t p u n i s h m e n t under the customary laws so that such incident may not happen again.

ENWOK appealed to every community and society to condemn such beastly act against minors and urged the concern authority to award befitting punishment to the culprit and not to grant bail under any circumstances. The organization has also assured to the victims and families members that they would stand with them in pursuit of justice.

HBTTT: Hakchang Bukmüt Thangjam Tuensang Town (HBTTT) has condemned the alleged rape by Lemba son of Yentin on minor girls on June 15.

In a condemnation note, HBTTT president L. I. Chuba and general secretary, S.Yonga appealed

DIMAPUR: Chumoukedima Chamber of Trade and Commerce Association (CCTCA) has said that some shopkeepers in Chumoukedima are paying annual tax to some Naga national group which was against the public resolution of “one government one tax” taken at weekly market on February 13, 2014.

Therefore, CCTCA president Avi Chase and general secretary James Kin cautioned that the shopkeepers paying tax would be doing at their own risk. Further, the association has reminded the shopkeepers not to sale their goods above the MRP. It also asked the pharmacies of Chumoukedima to keep qualified/eligible person to mend the pharmacy and obtain proper certificate from Dr. Shürhozelie Liezietsu with Kewhimia Union Dimapur members. the medical department of DIMAPUR: Kewhimia Dimapur, Dr. Shürhozelie various social issues in a Nagaland.

Union Dimapur (KUD) assured the delegation that cordial manner. d e l e g a t i o n l e d b y i t s he would to look into the Further, KUD has president K. James Vizo matter shortly. informed that it would be met chief Dr. Shürhozelie KUD stated that Dr. organising a workshop D I M A P U R : G P R N / Liezietsu on June 19, at his Shürhozelie Liezietsu is the for the youth on the topic NSCN through the office official residence Kohima first person from Kohima “ c a r e e r b u i l d i n g a n d of ‘brig.’ Aheto Chophi and deliberated various village to become the chief awareness on social issues related to health”.

GSO-I (Admn) has termi- social issues pertaining to minister of Nagaland.

Meanwhile, the KUD nated the service of ‘maj’ the KUD and its member’s delegation also met the Ghutoshe of Hovukhu UT-I welfare.

In a press release, KUD Kohima Village Council region; ‘capt’ Inaito of Koiboto Sumi region; ‘2/lieut’ joint secretary Esabel Solo, Chairman Dr. Neiphe Kire The Sumi Baptist Akukuhou Kuqhakulu Hezheto of Hezulho UT-I with regard to construction at his private residence at (ABAK-NM) mourn the demise of Late Rev. of community building at Kohima and deliberated region and ‘2/lieut’ Kisheto Luhezu Sema, also known as L. Sema who of Ahozhe UT-I region passed away for eternal peace and rest. with immediate effect from service of general headThe SBAK-NM condoles his death and pray quarters. GPRN/NSCN God would grant peace to the departed soul. stated that the members We pray that God would give strength to the have been terminated due bereaved family to overcome this loss at this to their prolonged absence from duty without obtaining hour of grief.

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GPRN/NSCN terminate members

Children Park to discuss matters relating to the “clean election”.

World Drug Day in Kma: International day against drug abuse and illicit trafficking under the theme “listen first” would be held on June 26 at 10 a.m. at conference hall hotel Japfü with Dr. Nicky Kire, MLA, as the chief guest.

DWO Wokha informs: District Welfare Officer (DWO) Wokha has informed that second phase of National Social Assistance Programme (NSAP) Payment would be made from the office of the DWO, Wokha starting from July 11 to 15. Therefore those beneficiaries who could not collect the cash during the first phase have been directed to collect the same during the mentioned dates.

YKKD to celebrate advance Tuluni: Yeza Kughulo Kuqhakulu Dimapur (YKKD) would be celebrating advance Tuluni on July 1 at 3 p.m. at (Rtd) excise superintendent, Tokheko Achumi’s residence, Supply Colony, Dimapur. All members have been requested to attend the celebration.

SUPCC to celebrate silver jubilee: Students’ Union Public College of Commerce (SUPCC) Dimapur would be celebrating silver jubilee on August 26.

All the former students’ union president, general secretary and executive members from the tenure 1991-2010 have been asked to contact general secretary SUPCC.

the concern authority to take befitting punishment as the law. The union further expressed sympathy for the victim families at the hour of pain and further extended support to victim families till justice was delivered.

S VC, Y VC, S L K : Sakshi Bühü (Citizen) Sakshi Village Council, Yimchong Village Council and Sakshi Laivangh Khong (Saskhi Students Union) have jointly condemned the alleged rape and sexual molestation on two minors allegedly by Lemba Chang son of Yentin Chang of Hakchang village at Tuensang town on June 15.

In a condemnation

note, Sakzhi citizen general secretary, A.T, Shingyu, VCC Sakshi village, T Shangnyei, VCC Yimchong Village, S Thepong and vice president SSU, P.N. Hongba, said they were shock at the evil and cruel act and added that such act would not be tolerated in the civilized society.

Condemning the barbaric and heinous crime committed upon the minors, the organisations h ave a p p e a l e d t h e concerned authority to ward befitting punishment as per the POCSO Act and also demanded that the culprit be booked under non bailable offence.

EYSU: Eastern Yingnyu Students Union

(EYSU) Sakshi has vehemently condemned the cruel and evil act of alleged rape of two minors allegedly by Lemba Chang son of Yentin Chnag of Hakchang village.

In a condemnation n o t e, E Y S U g e n e r a l secretary, Yongkai Keikung and speaker L.M. Shamdok have strongly demanded the authority concern to punish the culprit as per relevant law at the earliest. The union has also demanded for capital punishment for the crime.

Further, EYSU has urged the concern authority to provide assistance to the victims and extended support to the demands of ENWO and PUTT.

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Participants of human animal conflict mitigation after the programme at Tening.

Nagaland Post, Dimapur Thursday, june 22, 2017

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

CONDOLENCE MESSAGE

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

IN MEMORIAM

Excise MS seizes IMFL; one held

DIMAPUR: Excise mobile squad has seized 3,086 bottles of IMFL in and around Dimapur on two occasions and one person has been arrested. According to superintendent of excise (MS) Katoho Sumi on June 21, the excise mobile squad special surveillance team seized 121 bottles of assorted liquor from 1st mile area, Dimapur at around 1:30 pm. In this connection, one person identified as Akum has been arrested and booked under NLTP Act 89. The team also seized 2965 bottles of IMFL from Burma Camp area on June 15 at around 5 pm. In both the cases, the seized articles have been kept at unit’s malkhana, the superintendent said.

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(26/01/1959 – 09/06/2017) We the bereaved family members of Late Mashio Demo convey our heartfelt gratitude to each and every individual, sympathisers, different churches, communities & organizations, who stood by us during the time of his prolonged illness and his last journey on earth. Your constant prayer support, material help and physical presence gave us strength during our painful moment. We wish to make special mention of Naga Shisha Hoho Prayer Centre, Pruzie and Healing & Prayer Centre, Gidemi Village where he received spiritual strength and deliverance.

We regret our inability to reach you in person to thank you but it is our humble prayer that our Almighty God bless you abundantly for all underserved kindness and support given to us.

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(A/Saghemi) Old Town Zunheboto.

Ever loving father who went to be with the Lord this 22nd June 1992.

"A life well lived" A beloved son of the Lord & A great humanitarian.

Your memories are forever treasured in our hearts.

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Deeply missed By wife, children, sons-in-law, daughter-in-law & loved ones.

Through this column, we would like to express our gratitude and sincere thanks to all who stood by us physically, mentally and financially at the sudden demise of our beloved Late Kam Mükho, Jt. Secretary to the Govt. of Nagaland, Department of Economics & Statistics, at our native village, Tangha on 09th June, 2017.

Our special thanks to : 1. Tangha Baptist Attoi.

13. Nagaland Secretariat Services 2. Tangha Village Council.

Association.

3. Tangha Students’ Union.

14. Phom Union, Kohima.

4. Waüching Hong Club, Tangha.

15. Phom Baptist Attoi, Kohima.

5. Yoteli Khel,Tangha.

16. Tangha Bühü Union, Kohima.

6. Phom People’s Council.

17. Tangha Bühü Union, Dimapur.

7. Phom Lungvang Pangthai.

18. Kenouzou Colony, Kohima.

8. District Administration, Longleng.

19. Kenouzou Welfare Board,Kohima.

9. Tamlu, Yachem, Kangching, Yongshei 20. Inter Denominational Prayer Fellowship, Kenouzou Colony, Kohima. and Orangkong Mükho Phang.

21. Pastor, Longleng Town Baptist Attoi.

10. Yensha, Yongnyah Village.

22. Friends & neighbours.

11. J.N.V School, Tangha.

12. Department of Economics & Statistics, Government of Nagaland.

We deeply regret our inability to thank each one of you individually but your act of concern and love extended to us during our times of grief and sorrow can never be forgotten and pray that the Almighty God bless you all abundantly.

Loving family members & relatives.

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Nagaland Post, Dimapur Thursday, june 22, 2017

International Day of Yoga observed across Nagaland

Lions Club Dimapur:

78th Battalion CRPF

SASRD, Nagaland University, Medziphema campus.

ICAR-NRC Medziphema

NSS students

NCC cadets Mokokchung.

DIMAPUR: People across Nagaland on Wednesday obser ved Inter national Day of Yoga by organising yoga sessions. The day was marked by various activities organised to promote and create awareness on yoga.

Lions Club Dimapur: International Yoga Day was observed at Lions Club, Midland, Dimapur Wednesday which was organized

by Patanjali Yog Samati and Lions club Dimapur.

The event showed active participation of young, old and adult.

78th Battalion CRPF: The 78th Battalion of CRPF observed the day at its unit headquarters, Zubza as well as in all sub-units of the battalion in the districts of Kohima, Dimapur and Mokokchung. Participants were briefed about the benefits of yoga in maintaining a healthy body and healthy mind especially to get rid of the tensions and stress in daily life. Officers, jawans and their families participated in large numbers. A team of unit personnel led

by Ram Chandra, Secondin-Command also partici-

pated in the joint yoga camp organized by the Patanjali Yoga Kendra at Indira Gandhi Stadium, Kohima presided over by Governor P.B. Acharya. Volunteers of NSS, students of NCC, Scouts & Guides as well as officers and personnel of other Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs) such as BSF, Assam Rifles, etc. also attended the programme.

173th Battalion CRPF: 173 Battalion CRPF Airfield Dimapur organized colourful event along with the sister agencies. Around 98 personnel including CISF unit participated in the International Yoga day under supervision of Joseph Keishing commandant and units officers. Joseph Keishing interacted with units’ personnel and CISF personnel after completion of yoga and discussed the benefits of yoga and asked them to adopt yoga in their life.

Zakhama military station: Zakhama Military Station participated in a mass Yoga practice. Yoga is being regularly practiced in the weekly curriculum in the Zakhama Military Station apart from the international yoga day.

SASRD: SASRD, Nanagalandpost.com Poll galand University, MedzQ.: Is the state govt doing iphema campus conducted anything to prevent yoga in the library, wherein extortion? the dean, professor R. C. Gupta gave the opening re–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 100% marks while a brief talk was 90% –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– given by professor L. Daiho, –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 80% department of Plant Pathol70% –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– ogy on the importance of 60% –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– yoga and its health benefits.

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Dimapur, Nagaland. The ď ą Yes outside experts enlightened ď ą No the participants with elaboď ą Can’t say rate training on common yoga protocol. The director WEATHER of the institute encouraged FORECAST the gathering for regular June 22 practice of yoga and suggested to partner with Pa(Temperature in ÂşC) Max Min tanjali group to organise Agartala A couple of thunderstorms 32 25 mass yoga performance Aizawl A couple of thunderstorms 27 20 once in a month, preferably Guwahati A couple of thunderstorms 32 24 on every second Saturday.

Imphal A couple of thunderstorms 29 20 HYS: Hindu Yuva Itanagar A couple of thunderstorms 29 22 Sangha (HYS) organised Shillong A couple of thunderstorms 23 18 a yoga camp at K. Sachu Kohima A couple of thunderstorms 23 19 Colony Dimapur on June Dimapur A couple of thunderstorms 30 24 21. HYS stated that the Mkg 25 20 A couple of thunderstorms programme proved to be Tuensang A couple of thunderstorms 20 16 beneficial for the voluntary Wokha A couple of thunderstorms 25 21 participants.

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Under aegis of NCC group HQ Kohima, 4000 girl cadets of 1 Nagaland (G) Bn NCC participated in the�

International Day of Yoga� at 17 venues across the Nagaland. NCC already has a record for largest yoga performance simultaneously by a single uniform youth organization at multiple venues in 2015. The girl cadets performed the asanas as per the protocol given by the ministry of Ayush. 200 Cadets from 1 Nagaland (g) Bn NCC have got the opportunity to perform yoga with the Governor of Nagaland at IG Stadium, 600 cadets performed Yoga in Kohima Science College in annual training camp in addition to this at 15 other venues in Nagaland NCC has organized Yoga for Girl Cadets.

LFHSS: Livingstone Foundation Higher Secondary School (LFHSS) observed International Yoga Day at its school premises with renowned celebrity Yoga Guru, Vivek Mishra who led the yoga exercises during the hour long programme.

During the observation, Vivek Mishra elaborated on the concept of Yoga and highlighted the importance of Yogic postures in maintaining a balanced and healthy life. He also said that Yoga is a way of life and not some ordinary exercise. The Yoga Day programme started with the welcome speech delivered

by Chairman cum Principal LFHSS, Andrew Ahoto, who encouraged the gathering about the significance of the International Yoga Day and also spoke about the benefits of Yoga. Earlier, the school prayer was led

by Vernon Fernandez who was also the MC of the programme. Special number was also presented on the occasion by Duangaimeilu Panmei of Grade-XII Arts.

Along with the students and teachers of LFHSS, 30 NCC girl cadets from Christian Higher Secondary School (CHSS) and 10 NCC girl cadets from Eden Higher Secondary School (EHSS) participated in the programme. In the programme, several Yoga Asanas were imparted to the gathering during the yoga session which culminated with a meditative posture.

NSS students: NSS students’ volunteers of Sao Chang Government College, Tuensang participated in the Yoga Day at Tuensang town hall. The programme was organized by the department of Youth Resources & Sports Na-

173th Battalion CRPF

Ncc cadets perform yoga with governor

galand. In the yoga session, many students’ from different institutions of Tuensang town took part.

Assam Rif les: Assam Rifles under the aegis of headquarters IGAR (N) observed International Yoga Day at Dimapur, Ghaspani and Jalukie on June 21. A lecture highlighting importance of yoga, health benefits and cure of life style diseases through yoga was followed by demonstration cum practice of various yoga aasanas. The troops of Assam Rifles and their families participated in the event enthusiastically and with great zeal.

SMHSS: Yoga programme was held at St. Mary’s Higher Secondary school which was organized by Patanjali Yog Samiti & Bharat Swabhiman, where more than 600 students took part with great enthusiasm.

15 BRTF: 15 Border Roads Task Force (BRTF) orga-

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nized mass yoga session at high school junction, Kohima. The session was conducted for all the personnel posted with HQ 15 BRTF. Similar sessions were conducted in allied units of this task force at various locations Zubza, Mon and Maram. During the one hour session, a brief introduction of Yoga and its benefits were explained, followed by prayer and various exercises like Pranayam, Tarasan, Ardhkati Chakrasan, Sabasan etc.

Finally, Col N Joshi, Commander, 15 BRTF highlighted the importance of Yoga in bringing harmony between mind and body and further advised everyone to inculcate Yoga in daily HQ IGAR (N): HQ IGAR (N) as a nodal agency for all CAPF commemorated the 3rd International Yoga Day by bringing together troops of Assam Rifles and other

CAPF of Nagaland in the capital in Kohima. A total of 22 officers, 43 JCOs, 415 other ranks and 102 families & children celebrated the yoga day at Kohima. Similar camps were organised at various other locations which was attended by all ranks & families.

TUENSANG: Yoga camp at Tuensang was observed with the theme “Yoga for Health�. A total of 155 personnel including ladies and children participated in the event.

ZUNHEBOTO: Yoga Day was observed by 5 Assam Rifles with an aim of prolonging healthy & happy life and include yoga in daily regimen.

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In Dimapur, Ghaspani and Jalukie a lecture highlighting importance of yoga, health benefits and cure of life style diseases through yoga was followed by demonstration cum practice of various yoga aasanas.

FORWARD AREAS: Assam Rifles also furthered the Yoga Day celebration in forward and remote areas of the sate as troops organised the Yoga event at Chukitong, Wokha, Kiphire, Phek, Chieswema and its company based locations.

NCC Mkg: NCC annual training camp underway at Mokokchung saw the cadets participating at the International Day of Yoga on June 21 followed by drill

with arms. Cadets were also introduced to fire fighting lecture cum demonstration

by Fire Brigade Mokokchung. The SD cadets also went to District Hospital for blood donation.

Later cadets had display and handling of infantry weapons.

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Northeast states celebrate IYD Mizoram Campaign.

The campaign was launched by the Assam R i f l e s a n d wo u l d b e concluded on June 21, 2018.

M e a n w h i l e, t h e churches, the central Committee of the Young Mizo Association

(YMA) and the student organisations refrained from participating in the International Yoga Day. The YMA, in a press statement, said that yoga was not compatible with the social and religious practices of the Mizos and should not be propagated.

Javadekar joins Yoga Day celebration in Manipur

Manipur CM, N Biren Singh, Union HRD minister Prakash Javadekar along with state health minister on International Yoga Day in Imphal. (NP) Guwahati/IMPHAL, Jun 21 (PTI): The northeastern states of the country today celebrated the third International Day of Yoga with thousands of school children and people from all walks of life enthusiastically performing yoga asanas.

U n i o n m i n i s t e r s, state ministers, personnel of paramilitary forces, NCC cadets and sports personalities participated in yoga camps spread across the region.

Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal said, his government would extend facilities for yoga to all school children, panchayat offices, tea gardens and interior char areas.

This was being done as yoga was an integral part for maintaining good health, the chief minister said.

Senior Assam minister Dr Himanta Biswa Sarma said, the state government has decided to set up 100 block level yoga training

centres with the help of Patanjali Yoga Kendra of yoga guru Ramdev.

In Arunachal Pradesh, the main function was organised at Rajiv Gandhi Stadium, Naharlagun by the Indo Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) in which more than 1000 people participated.

Braving over night downpour, people joined the programme.

The day was also observed at Indira Gandhi Park here.

State Governor P B Acharya in his message said, “Yoga provides physical and mental well being of the people. For sound health and mind, we need to incorporate Yoga as part of our daily life.”

I n Tr i p u r a , t wo Union Ministers Faggan Singh Kulaste and Babul Supriyo participated in yoga camps.

The main programme was organized at Umakanta stadium here where over 10,000 school

students, sports persons, personnel of Tripura State Rifles (TSR) and BSF participated.

More than 50,000 s t u d e n t s j o i n e d yo g a camps in different part of Tripura.

Mizoram Governor Lt. General (Retd) Nirbhay Sharma today inaugurated the ‘Healthy Mizoram Campaign’ and joined yoga enthusiasts at the Assam Rifles ground.

C e r t a i n misconceptions about yoga must be dispelled, Sharma said, adding that yoga does not adhere to any particular religion, belief system or community.

The governor suggested that the Mizos should embrace yoga with open mind and healthy living is an imperative in a state like Mizoram with high incidences of cancer, alcohol and drug abuse.

Union Minister Rajen Gohain, who was on a two-day visit to the state, also lauded the inclusion of Yoga in the Healthy

Manipur moving towards prosperity: Prakash Javadekar

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IMPHAL, JUN 21: Union minister of human resource d e ve l o p m e n t P r a k a s h Javadekar on Wednesday said that Manipur was moving towards prosperity and development under the new BJP-led coalition government.

Addressing reporters, after a review meeting with state ministers and officials on the works being implemented by the new government, Javadekar said that the new government has achieved many things within 100 days which the previous government couldn’t in last 10-15 years.

“The new government h a s b r o u g h t p e a c e,

stability and prosperity besides marching ahead with becoming the state free from corruption. It has been able with the support of the people,” he asserted.

He said that the BJPled NDA government at the Centre was fully supporting the state government in i t s i n i t i a t i ve t owa r d s developmental and people welfare oriented programme, and assured that there would be no dearth of funds in t a k i n g d e ve l o p m e n t a l works.

The union minister also said that Centre will extend all kinds of assistances to improve the education system in Manipur. “The Central gover nment is

lending its hand to give any assistance including financial to deliver quality education for all in the state,” he said.

He further informed that Centre would provide funds for construction of around 120 new schools including primary and upper primary schools in the state soon.

Javadekar said, “We have found that there are more than 40 schools where there are no students because it is located in such a remote place which is totally inconvenient for students to go to the schools.” In this regard, state government has been directed to enquire into it and take necessary action, he added.

NCW seeks report on crime against women in Tripura

Agartala, Jul 21 (PTI): The National Commission for Women (NCW) has expressed concern about the “high rate” of crime against women in Tripura and asked the director general of police to submit a report on it.

A three-member delegation of NCW led by its member Sushma Sahu yesterday visited the state and talked to many victims and their family members.

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Shukla, and asked him to submit a report on crime against women in the state to the commission immediately. If he fails to submit the report, he would be summoned to the commission in Delhi,” Sahu told reporters here last night.

Sahu said, “The commission recently received 15 cases of heinous crime against women (from Tripura) and it seems that the Left ruled state administration preferred to remain silent on the issue.”

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Khandu asks depts to have dedicated pages on FB

Itanagar, Jun 21 (PTI): Arunachal Pradesh C h i e f M i n i s t e r Pe m a Khandu today asked the state government departments to have dedicated pages on Facebook. “I believe 90 per cent of our urban citizens are on Facebook and can avail information on the programmes, policies and schemes offered by the government through its departments on Facebook far better than through meetings, seminars, workshops or the traditional media. Through Facebook we can reach individuals who can benefit from such programmes and schemes but are not aware of it,” Khandu said.

“We, however, have ve r y l i t t l e k n ow l e d ge about Facebook and its usage that would benefit us in good governance. It is for this reason that I feel government machineries need to be educated with variety of tools that makes communicating easy,” he said while opening a special training programme here for government officials.

The chief minister expressed optimism that the training will empower and enable departments to leverage their presence on Facebook and meet organisational objectives.

Date : 21/06/17

I, N. Kughaho Sema, S/o Nihezhe Sema that my name is wrongly entered as Kughato Sema in my GPF statements. From today my name shall be known as N. Kughaho Sema in all my GPF statement.

DP-6458 Regd. No. : 924/17

Hundreds of people participated in the International Yoga Day on Wednesday at Manipur.

Manipur chief minister N Biren Singh and Union human resource development minister Prakash Javadekar who was on his two-day visit in the state joined in one of the celebration at Indoor Stadium of the Khuman Lampak Sports Complex, Imphal.

He said that the International Day of Yoga has been celebrated in more than one lakh venues across the country and 170 countries across the globe, adding that “Yoga is a wellness healthy practice or exercise that prevents illness and keep our mind and body healthy”.

“Dedication, determination and discipline are the teachings of Yoga,” he added.

He further said that Yoga was not only confined to India but is being practiced in all over 170 countries.

In the last three years, India has transformed and was moving in the path of progress with the support and faith of the people of the country, he said.

On the occasion, Manipur chief minister N Biren Singh said that it was the contribution and achievement of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to popularise Yoga, which has spread across the world.

He therefore encouraged people to practice Yoga, as practicing Yoga promotes inner peace and well-being of an individual. “If there is no inner peace and well-being of body, there would be no peace and harmony in the state,” he added.

Later, Biren and Javadekar flagged off “Run for Yoga” to encourage people to practice Yoga in the state.

State minister for Health and Family Welfare L Jayantakumar Singh, minister for Social Welfare and Co-operation Nemcha Kipgen, minister for Forest and Environment Th Shyamkumar Singh, minister for Youth Affairs and Sports Letpao Haokip were among others who attended and joined the Yoga practice after the main celebration function.

The celebration was jointly organised by Directorate of AYUSH, National Health Mission, Manipur and Department of Youth Affairs and Sports, Manipur.

The day was also celebrated at various levels across the state in which hundreds of people attended the Yoga demonstration held to mark the occasion.

Date 20/6/17

I, Subolila, W/o I. Tiatemjen, resident of H/No-202, Mongsenbai Ward, Mokokchung, Nagaland do hereby solemnly affirm ad declare on oath as follows :1. That, I am citizen of India.

That, my correct name is Subolila, 2. That, my name is recorded as Subalila, in my marriage certificate due to inadvertent clerical mistakes in place of my actual and correct name Subolila.

3. That, Subolila, and Subalila, is the same and one identical person.

4. That I swear this affidavit only to declare that my father's correct name is Subolila, if any false information given by me mentioned above then I shall be fully liable.

Verification :- That I verify that the above statements made in para 1 to 4 are true and correct to the best of my knowledge and belief.

Deponent Solemnly sworn before me Chief Judicial Magistrate/Notary Notary Public DP-6443

DC-1463

Regd. No. 367-2017 Dated : 03.05.2017 AFFIDAVIT I, Ms. Medoleno Seyie, daughter of Setuovi Seyie, resident of Tenyiphe-1 Village, District-Dimapur, Nagaland do hereby solemnly affirm on oath and declare as under : 1. That I am a bonafide citizen of India and presently residing at the above mentioned address.

2. That inadvertently my name and my father's name has been entered and recorded in my Elementary School Leaving Certificate Examination-2008 and Certificate of Qualification-2010 and also from Matric (HSLC) to B.A as "MEDOLENUO SEYIE" instead of "MEDOLENO SEYIE" and "SETUOUI SEYIE" instead "SETUOVI SEYIE" respectively.

3. That this affidavit is made for the purpose of declaring that the names "MEDOLENUO SEYIE" and "MEDOLENO SEYIE" and also "SETUOUI SEYIE" and "SETUOVI SEYIE" refer to one and the same person and also to put the record straight for all purpose and intends.

4. That the statements made from para 1 to 3 is true and correct to the best of my knowledge and belief and nothing false has been stated therein.

Deponent Solemnly sworn before me by the deponent on this the 3rd day of May, 2017 at Dimapur.

NOTARY PUBLIC DP-6440

Nagaland Post, Dimapur Thursday, june 22, 2017

World Bank sanctions 44 mn dollars for ASPIRe Guwahati, Jun 21 (PTI): World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors has approved a loan assistance of 44 million dollars for the Assam State Public Finance I n s t i t u t i o n a l Re f o r m s (ASPIRe) Project.

The loan was sanction

by World Bank (International Bank for Reconstruction and Development) in its meeting held on June 15 at Washington DC, USA, an official release said here today.

Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal expressed his gratitude towards Prime Minister Narendra Modi for supporting the ambitious project and facilitating the approval.

The project aims at improving predictability and transparency in budget execution and efficiency in tax administration in Assam.

All gover nment departments and functionaries - specially finance, taxation and excise departments – will benefit immensely from this project while the citizens of Assam will see transformative benefits accruing to them through efficient processes, better service delivery such as electronic payments and collections for services.

ASPIRe project is based on three important components that act as pillars for institutional reforms – strengthening public finance institutional capacity, strengthening expenditure and revenue information systems and on-project management, monitoring and evaluation, and coordination.

To our dearest Rose, We hope you have a wonderful day and that the year ahead is filled with much love, many wonderful surprises and gives you lasting memories that you will cherish in all the days ahead.

Happy Birthday.

With love, Mom,Dad and brothers.

Anti-railway pressure groups threaten to intensify protests

S h i llo n g, J u n 2 1 (PTI): Anti-railway pressure g r o u p s i n M e g h a l aya Wednesday threatened to further intensify their protests if Chief Minister Mukul Sangma refuses to hold talks with them on the issue of extension of railways up to the state capital here.

The decision was taken after a delegation of the pressure groups, who staged a sit-in demonstration here, met Home Minister H D R Lyngdoh to discuss on the issue. “We will be compelled to take up other course of action to pressurise the state government to comply with the demands put forth by us,” Federation of KhasiJaintia and Garo People (FKJGP) president Wellbirth Rani told reporters after the meeting.

“We have also urged him (Lyngdoh) to speed up the process of dialogue at the earliest and to ensure that all pressure groups including the Khasi Students’ Union (KSU) are invited,” Rani said.

T h e F K J G P, t h e Hynniewtre p National Youth Front (HNYF), t h e R i B h o i Yo u t h Federation (RBYF) and the Confederation of Ri Bhoi People (CoRP) demanded

the state government to put on hold the construction of the railway project in absence of effective mechanisms to check influx of outsiders.

In their meeting with the Lyngdoh, Rani said the Home minister had only assured the delegation that he would convey the message to the chief minister to initiate dialogue with the anti-railway pressure groups. The leaders of the groups had maintained that they will not accept the railways into the Khasi Jaintia Hills region without proper mechanisms to check influx of outsiders in place.

As of now there are no signs on the part of the government to speed up the setting up of entry/exit points and to implement the Meghalaya Residents Safety & Security Act, 2016, HNYF leader Sadon Blah said.

The anti-railway groups will be meeting here tomorrow to further discuss on the outcome of their meeting with the Home Minister.

The chief minister had recently maintained that the government will not invite any groups for talks until they refrain from criminal and unlawful activities while protesting railway projects.

Assam reels under floods; lightning kills 3 in Odisha New Delhi, Jun 21 (PTI): The flood situation in four Assam districts c o n t i nu e d t o r e m a i n critical even as lightning strike killed three persons in Odisha while Monsoon advanced further into Bihar bringing rains and respite.

Rains in different parts of the national capital brought the mercury down by up to six notches below the normal levels but waterlogging in several areas inconvenienced people.

The Delhi Traffic Po l i c e i s s u e d r e g u l a r advisories to people on water-logging through twitter.

The Safdarjung weather station recorded a rainfall of 20.2 mm till 8.30 am while observatories at Lodhi Road, Palam, Ridge and Ayanagar received 24.2 mm, 3.8 mm, 17.9 mm and 15.7 mm of rains respectively, during the same period.

Flood situation in Assam remained critical in four districts with 38,000 people still affected, even as it showed signs of improvement in some areas.

According to a Assam State Disaster Management Authority report, 1,01,809

A house damaged due to a landslide triggered by heavy rainfall in Guwahati. people are affected in Lakhimpur and Karimganj districts. It said 100 villages are under water, while 783 hectares of crop land have been damaged.

Authorities are running 16 relief camps and distribution points, where hundreds of people have taken shelter as Jia Bharali and Kopili rivers are flowing above normal levels.

The 300-km J-K national highway was closed for traffic after rains triggered landslides at Bali Nallah and Panthiyal areas.

Over 200 vehicles were stranded at various places.

GOVERNMENT OF NAGALAND OFFICE OF THE ADDITIONAL, DEPUTY COMMISSIONER MELURI : NAGALAND No. CA-JUD/SC-6/2016/ 661 PUBLIC NOTICE

Whereas Shri. K. Dapang of Akhegwo Village has applied for issue of Succession Certificate under the Indian Succession Act 1925 in order to claim dues against Zurüthsü.

Therefore public are hereby invited to file claims/objections if any within 30 (thirty) days from the date of issue of this notice. If no objection is received from the public within the stipulated period, Succession Certificate shall be issued in her name.

Dr. Tinojongshi Chang Additional Deputy Commissioner, Meluri, Nagaland K-2035

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Date : 19/6/17

I, Army No-14827784N LNK/MT Hugade Shashikant Arun, resident of Hq Coy, 5003 ASC BN C/o 99 APO Pin 905003, Dimapur, Nagaland do hereby solemnly affirm and declare on oath as follows :1. That I am citizen of India.

That, my wife's correct name is Sawant Gitanjali Vitthal, and my daughter's correct name is Hugade Trishna Shashikant.

2. That, my wife name is wrongly recorded as Gitanjali, and my daughter name as Trishna in my service documents due to inadvertent clerical mistakes in place of my wife actual name as Sawant Gitanjali Vitthal and daughter's correct name should be Hugade Trishna Shashikant.

3. That I swear this affidavit only to declare that my wife's correct name is Sawant Gitanjali Vitthal and daughter's name is Hugade Trishna Shashikant, if any false information given by me mentioned above then I shall be fully liable.

Verification : That I verify that the above statements made in para 1 to 4 are true and correct to the best of my knowledge and belief.

Deponent Solemnly sworn before me.

NOTARY PUBLIC DP-6456

Heavy rains, which have lashed districts in the Jammu region, also caused water-logging and flooding in some areas.

Light to moderate rains at several places in Punjab and Haryana kept the maximum temperatures below the normal limits in the two states for the third day today.

Meanwhile in Odisha, three persons were killed and two others injured when lightning str uck them in the Raighar Block of Nabarangpur district.

Police said the incident occurred when they were working in a paddy field yesterday.

M e a n w h i l e, t h e monsoon advanced further into Bihar bringing moderate to heavy rainfall in North-East and NorthCentral parts of the state. However, weather remained mainly dry in rest of the state, a MeT bulletin said.

The weathermen has forecast thunderstorm with rain for tomorrow and the day after.

IN THE COURT OF DEPUTY COMMISSIONER DIMAPUR DISTRICT : NAGALAND NOTICE

NO.REV-1/90-D/

Dt. Dimapur the 21/06/17

Notice is hereby given that Shri/Smti Wilson Ovung resident of Dimapur who has applied for issue of mortgage clearance concerning to Patta No. 510, Dag No. 687 measuring an area 00-0-17 located at Block No/Village 03 Mouza No 01 which has been mortgaged in the SBI Bank/Society.

Claims & Objection if any on the aforesaid land may be submitted in written in the Court of the undersigned on or before 28/06/17.

Deputy Commissioner, Dimapur, Nagaland DP-6431

IN THE COURT OF DEPUTY COMMISSIONER DIMAPUR DIMAPUR : NAGALAND NOTICE

NO.REV-2/93-D/Pt/2527-28 Dtd. Dimapur the 3rd June, 2017 In the matter of petition submitted by Shri. Mhombemo Ngullie, S/o Shri.

Chandemo Ngullie resident of Kyong Colony for change/rectification of name and father's name in his land Patta booklet bearing Patta No-655 under Dag No-754 at Block No.-9 of Mouza No-2.

Now the said land Patta/Jamabandi is proposed to be change/rectify basing on the Affidavit dtd.-22/5/2017 as Mhombemo Ngullie, S/o Chandemo Ngullie and not Mhonbemo Chandemo, S/o Nnio Ngullie as recorded in the Jamabandi.

Seen said Affidavit sworn before the Notary Public vide Regd. No.5783/17, dtd.-22/5/2017.

The undersigned hereby invites claims/objections concerning to the said plot of land and if any should be submitted to this Court in written within 1 (one) month from the date of issue of this notice.

Sd/- Kesonyu Yhome, IAS Deputy Commissioner, Dimapur : Nagaland DP-6438

Nagaland Post, Dimapur thursday, june 22, 2017

Assam tribal woman files case against Adityanath

Yogi Adityanath

Guwahati, Jun 21 (Agencies): A tribal woman from Assam has filed a complaint against Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and Assam Lok Sabha MP Ram Prasad Sarma accusing them of posting her bare photograph on social media. The photo was taken during a stir in Guwahati ten years ago, reported the Outlook.

Laxmi Orang filed the complaint in the court of sub- divisional judicial magistrate court under various sections of the Indian penal Code and the Information Technology Act. She filed the case against Adityanath for allegedly posting in his social media page on June 13 her bare picture, taken during an agitation by All Adivasi Students Association of As-

sam (AASAA) at Beltola in Guwahati on November 24, 2007 without blurring.

The woman filed the case against Sarma for allegedly sharing the post in his social media page.

Sub-divisional judicial magistrate A Sattar recorded Orang’s statement during the day and fixed the next date of hearing on June 22.

Later, Orang told the media that she was not present at the rally on behalf of any political party as claimed by Adityanath in his post but to press for the demand for scheduled tribe status for the Adivasi community.

“Yogi Adityanath, without knowing any fact, commented in the social media that the rally was on behalf of the BJP and

the Congress workers attacked it. “When Prime Minister Narendra Modi is campaigning for Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao at the same time his party Chief Minister (Adityanath) is doing this type of work. Is this democracy?”

When contacted, Sarma said “it (the stripping) was a fact and a true incident during that time. I shared it so that people know that an unfortunate girl was a victim and no justice has been given to her till now.

“I have not given any comment with the shared post,” Sarma said adding he had asked Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal a few days ago to reopen her case so that she gets justice.

“Now I am writing an official letter to the chief minister for the case to be reinvestigated as the culprits of the 2007 Beltola incident need to be punished.” Meanwhile, Additional Director General of Police (Special Branch) Pallab Bhattacharya said investigations have revealed that the Facebook account in which pictures of Orang, stripped of her clothes and being beaten during the Beltola violence, were posted was a fake one created in the name of the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Aditya Nath.

100-hr bandh in Dima Hasao

Haflong (Assam), Jun 21 (PTI): The 100hour Dima Hasao bandh called by the Indigenous Peoples Forum (IPF) from today morning affected normal life in the district. The bandh, which began from 5 am this morning, was called in demand of bifurcation of Dima Hasao district into two autonomous districts with creation of separate independent council. The IPF also demanded that the findings of the CBI investigation of the Rs 100 crore scam in the district public be made public and arrest of all the culprits. Business establishments, educational institutions, markets, banks, post offices, transportation remained closed during the day.

Militant held with weapon

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IMPHAL, Jun 21: An overground worker of Kangleipak Communist Party (KC)- People’s War Grouphas been arrested by a team of Manipur police commandos and recovered a small weapon and live rounds from his possession. Police source said that Aribam Rikesh Sharma alias Tingku (24) of Imphal’s Brahmapur Thangapat Mapal presently working under the command of Mathoi @ Thoi Luwang @ Subashchandra of Hiyanglam was arrested during an operation early this morning.

HC moots suo motu PIL on city cleanliness SHILLONG, Jun 21 (Agencies): The High Court of Meghalaya on Tuesday mooted a separate suo motu PIL to address the issue of cleanliness and hygiene in parts of the city in absence of monitoring by authorities concerned.

According to Shillong Times, during the hearing of the pending case related to hawkers in the city on Tuesday, the Division Bench of the High Court comprising Chief Justice Dinesh Maheshwari and Justice P. Vaish stressed on the need for a suo motu PIL as there is lack of positive steps on the part of the State Government, the KHADC and other agencies to ensure cleanliness in the city.

The PIL will be taken by the court for consideration on Wednesday.

Following the earlier order of the court, the State Government had reconstituted the Supervisory Committee to oversee and monitor the management of cleanliness in and around Shillong.

As per the additional affidavit of the joint secretary, Urban Affairs Department, the Committee met three times under the chairmanship of the chief secretary.

“The minutes of the Committee show that seri-

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GJM Mizoram unit Meghalaya CM slams Centre for holds sit-in protest not including Sugar under NFSA for ‘Gorkhaland’ A m pat i ( M e g h a laya), Jun 21 (PTI): Meghalaya Chief Minister Mukul Sangma Wednesday slammed the Centre for not including sugar under the National Food Security Act, 2013 and said the state will provide one kg sugar to every household in the state.

“The Centre has failed to listen to us and discontinued the distribution of sugar from the programme (NFSA). But we have decided to work out the modalities from our own resources to continue providing sugar apart from rice,” he said while addressing at a public meeting here.

“Though we will not be able to provide 3 kg per household, we will continue to give sugar at 1 kg per

ous attempts are now being made to ensure synergy of the different role players to maintain cleanliness in the city and to attend to all the tasks related to it.

However, it appears that there are still several aspects that need to be constantly monitored,” the court said.

The court was also annoyed over lack of response from the KHADC as it had shown least respect to the requirements of the government appointed committee.

The secretary of the KHADC had remained

absent in the meetings of the committee though he has been included as a member of the panel.

“This approach on the part of the KHADC remains seriously questionable and calls for appropriate orders,” the court said.

Having taken note of various requirements of the tasks related with management of cleanliness and hygienic conditions in and around Shillong which, according to the court, “is indisputably found wanting in several areas and scores”.

The court said it appears appropriate to independently deal with the matter in a separate suo motu PIL. The court also asked the office to register the PIL on the issues relating to efficient management of cleanliness and hygienic conditions in and around the city.

The court made the chief secretary representing the State Government, CEO of Shillong Municipal Board, secretary, MUDA, CEO, Shillong Cantonment Board and secretary of the KHADC as respondents.

Aizawl, Jun 21 (PTI): The Mizoram unit of the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) staged a demonstration in Aizwal on Wednesday, demanding a separate ‘Gorkhaland’ state carving out of West Bengal.

Members of the state committee of the GJM in the sit-in demonstration displayed placards in support of ‘Gorkhaland’ comprising Darjeeling hill region, Siliguri, Terai, Dooars and surrounding areas.

GJM leaders said that the Gorkhas living in India became Indian citizens in accordance with the Treaty of Sugauli, 1874. “We the Gorkhas are always mistaken as foreigners due to the fact that we do not have a separate state of our own in the country,” they said.

GUWAHATI, Jun 21 (Agencies): BJP allies in the state, the Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) and the Bodoland Peoples Front (BPF), will extend their support to NDA’s presidential nominee Ram Nath Kovind, said North East Democratic Alliance (Neda) convener amd state finance minister Himanta Biswa Sarma here on Tuesday. The two regional parties, which are part of the coalition government

led by BJP in the state, were consulted before announcing Kovind as NDA’s presidential nominee, the minister added.

“BJP national president Amit Shah has discussed the matter with AGP and BPF prior to the announcement of the name of NDA’s presidential nominee. He communicated with the regional parties seeking their support for the NDA’s nominee during the upcoming presidential

M’laya: BJP backs Cong resolution on cow slaughter

Forest guards find carcass of adult rhino

Shillong, Jun 21: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday supported a resolution opposing the ban on sale of cattle for slaughter in Meghalaya’s Khasi Hill Autonomous District Council.

Lone BJP member Neil Antonio War, who is also Executive Member in the ruling People’s Democratic Forum’s executive council supported the resolution moved by opposition Congress opposing the ban on sale of cattle for slaughter.

Ve t e r a n C o n g r e s s council member and Leader of Opposition in KHADC, Manstudy Nongrem, said that the rules have far reaching and wide impact on the people. He also called upon the House to unanimously resolve to oppose the rules by urging the executive committee to write to the Central government conveying its strong opposition. “Since the resolution is now the property of the House, this House unanimously resolved to oppose the ban on sale and slaughter of cow,” KHADC chief Pynshngain N Syiem told the House.

The resolution was passed unanimously by members of the House from both sides.

Guwahati, Jun 21 (PTI): Carcass of an adult female rhino with its horn missing was recovered today in flooded Kaziranga National Park by forest guards.

The carcass of the rhino was noticed by the forest guards during routine patrolling in areas under Gendamari Camp of the Park’s Bagori Range, Divisional Forest Officer KNP, Ruhini Ballav Saikia told PTI. The DFO said the rhino had died due to natural causes and this was the first death of a rhino in the current first wave of floods in the state. This year two rhinos were killed by poachers in the Kaziranga National Park, a world Heri-

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tive support and partnership of different stakeholders, particularly the wholesalers and fair price shop dealers,” he said.

According to the Chief Minister, the programme is a mark of acknowledgement by the government for their hard work and all the hardship they have to undergo in lifting, handling and transporting the commodities to make them reach to the beneficiaries.

Terming the National Food Security Mission as the biggest Food Security Programme in the world, the Chief Minister said it is a commitment of the Government designed for the needy which has been mandated by a law which is binding on the authorities to take care of the citizens.

Himanta vouches NEDA support for Kovind

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The newly constructed Gauhati High Court, Shillong Bench Building in Shillong, but not as per Model displayed during the Foundation Stone laying ceremony 2/3 years ago at the same place in Shillong.

household from the state’s own resources”, he said.

Meghalaya is the only state in the country to provide 3 kg packaged sugar under the National Food Security programme, but the distribution of sugar has been recently withdrawn by the Central Government.

The Chief Minister also distributed certificates of appreciation to wholesalers and fair price shop dealers here as a token of the state government’s appreciation for their contribution in successfully implementing the National Food Security Act (NFSA), 2013.

“The state government has been able to address the challenges of implementation of the Act in terms of distribution through the ac-

election,”said Sarma, who heads the Neda, a vital alliance of non-Congress parties of the northeast.

He added that CM Sarbananda Sonowal and parliamentary affairs minister Chandra Mohan Patowary would call for support of all MLAs of the state assembly to ensure victory for Kovind. Alongside other BJP leaders, Sonowal will also be present during the nomination filing of Kovind.

tage site in February. Stating the National Park has 170 anti-poaching camps, Forest officials said five poachers were killed in encounters and another 64 arrested during 2016.

Last year 18 rhinos were killed by poachers in Kaziranga National Park and their horns were also taken away.

Meanwhile, Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal has issued a series of instructions to Kaziranga National Park authority, Golaghat

Sources in AGP and BPF said there is no rift between the two key allies, with whom the BJP is continuing its coalition despite having differences on certain crucial issues pertaining to the interests of the two regional parties.

In the recent Karbi Anglong Autonomous Council (KAAC) election, AGP fielded its own candidates even after being in the alliance with the BJP in the state government.

and Nagaon district administrations to ensure safety and security to the animals in the Park during the monsoon season. Sonowal has directed the Park authorities as well as Deputy Commissioners and Superintendents of Police of the two districts to ensure safety of the animals during the flood season.Sonowal also reviewed the progress of construction of the highlands in the Park and the anti-poaching measures taken up by Park authorities.

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opinion/EDITORIAL

Nagaland Post

Between The Lines

Vol. XXVII NO. 196 Dimapur, thursday, June 22, 2017

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Revamp needed

f there is any proof needed to understand the nadir that the Nagaland Police has reached, it is certainly the multi-crore Pillai Scam that has been exposed and laid bare by the Income Tax (Intelligence & Criminal Investigation)team in Kochi, Kerala. How the police department has become a hub of sorts for vested interests as manifested by theft of arms and ammunition, siphoning of huge amount in crores of rupees meant for the jawan and modernization, favouritism in transfer and posting and allegedly over two thousand backdoor appointees is simply baffling, shocking and insulting. The falling standard of police in Nagaland can be blamed on the quality of recruits and officers who have landed where they are because politicians and top officials only want their own selfish interests to be met. To ease the process so that politicians get contracts or jobs for their kith and kin and officials get whatever needed, middlemen come in very handy to process the demands. The factors that have led the downslide among policemen needs to be identified and remedial measures undertaken and which would need a “political will”.

This may not be easily done since it affects the nature of political influence and ability for misuse of the police and which has been in evidence. It is time to revisit the concept of community policing in order to help the law become more effective in a place like Dimapur which has been billed as the crime capital of the state. Community policing is a partnership between police and community where the current atmosphere as prevalent in Nagaland does not exist-plethoria of gun toting elements of all hues and who have gained legitimacy due to the kind of symbiotic politics and the fear of public and authorities in effecting the rule of law since by compromises, many laws of many governments exist. Community policing was widely used in the late sixties and early seventies as an answer to demands to promote an interactive process by which both police and community members( or residents of colonies) are able to jointly address and seek solution to problems. What has driven the state government to seek some solutions to rising crimes in Dimapur appears to have been a feeling that there was lack of cooperation between police and the citizens, especially victims of kidnapping or extortions. The public are willing to cooperate but the police have to also exhibit its intent and purpose for cooperation. There is need to build up trust between the two-public and police- without which enforcement would be impeded. Community policing sounds good but as always, the taste of the pudding is in the eating.

If public don’t trust police then it means the force has lost its direction and professionalism. Community policing cannot solve the problems of the police nor can it be a panacea to tackle crimes.

However, it is not an option but a necessity. Police does not come from another planet and so it would make sense if enlightened citizens and NGOs attempt to hold a series of contact meetings. Perhaps that alone is one of the problem faced by the police- which has become the victim of its those above. And unfortunately, it is the public who suffer in the end.

DailyDevotion The Ministry of the Inner Life You are…a royal priesthood… —1 Peter 2:9 By what right have we become “a royal priesthood”?

It is by the right of the atonement by the Cross of Christ that this has been accomplished. Are we prepared to purposely disregard ourselves and to launch out into the priestly work of prayer? The continual inner-searching we do in an effort to see if we are what we ought to be generates a self-centered, sickly type of Christianity, not the vigorous and simple life of a child of God. Until we get into this right and proper relationship with God, it is simply a case of our “hanging on by the skin of our teeth,” although we say, “What a wonderful victory I have!” Yet there is nothing at all in that which indicates the miracle of redemption. Launch out in reckless, unrestrained belief that the redemption is complete. Then don’t worry anymore about yourself, but begin to do as Jesus Christ has said, in essence, “Pray for the friend who comes to you at midnight, pray for the saints of God, and pray for all men.”

Pray with the realization that you are perfect only in Christ Jesus, not on the basis of this argument: “Oh, Lord, I have done my best; please hear me now.”

How long is it going to take God to free us from the unhealthy habit of thinking only about ourselves? We must get to the point of being sick to death of ourselves, until there is no longer any surprise at anything God might tell us about ourselves. We cannot reach and understand the depths of our own meagerness. There is only one place where we are right with God, and that is in Christ Jesus.

Once we are there, we have to pour out our lives for all we are worth in this ministry of the inner life.

Quotes

Smile in the mirror. Do that every morning and you’ll start to see a big difference in your life. ~ Yoko Ono

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HE Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) cannot hide its anti-Muslim fangs. Instead of building consensus behind the candidature of Hamid Ansari for presidentship, the party has appointed its top three leaders to find a candidate who commands the consent of most political parties.

I cannot understand what is wrong with vicepresident Ansari. He has handled the Rajya Sabha extremely well and before that he made the Aligarh Muslim University a really thriving academic institution during his tenure as the vice-chancellor. His erudition is beyond doubt and his commitment to secularism is without any blemish.

The non-BJP parties have come together to adopt vice-president Ansari who is acceptable to all parties. It would be embarrassing for him to be the opposition candidate when he is the country’s vice-president.

Dr Abdul Kalam, former President, was the popular choice of several opposition parties for a second term but had to face a similar predicament before pulling out. So, all that he got was the re-naming of the Aurangzeb Road as Dr Abdul Kalam Road.

Nagaland Post, Dimapur Thursday, june 22, 2017

Criterion for Presidents

The BJP is ultimately going to tick the choice of the RSS. It has indicated that it would keep in mind the secular ethos of the county.

But it is neither here nor there because when it comes to selecting a person for the top constitutional post, a Muslim candidate would be far from the thought of the RSS. It would ultimately depend on Prime Minister Narndra Modi to nudge the party to choose a person of his choice. And from the speeches made by the BJP president, Amit Shah, quite clearly indicated that the person thus chosen would be anybody but a Muslim.

He has been touring the different parts of the country, including the southern states, and exhorting that the choice of a presidential candidate should be someone who is acceptable to the ruling party.

The two houses of parliament and the state legislatures which comprise the Electoral College suggest that the BJP will have its way. The BJP’s appointment of a three-member committee—Rajnath Singh, Arun Jaitley and Venkaiah Naidu—who are part of Prime Minister Modi’s cabinet, makes it clear that

the party’s top leadership will ultimately decide who should go to Rashtrapati Bhavan.

Speaker Sumitra Mahajan, who was initially, supported by the ruling party has been dropped.

She is not being considered by either the DMK or the AIADMK. Understandably, the person has to be acceptable to the southern states like Andhra, Telangana, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Kerala.

Even L.K. Advani looked like the candidate of the BJP. Kuldip Probably, the court verdict on Babri masjid demolition may have forced the party to look elsewhere as he has been charged as part of a conspiracy to destroy the masjid. Over the years, the rough ends in Advani had been rounded off and he is more like a person who went to Karachi and laid a wreath at the mausoleum of Qaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah.

If one were to look back, controversies between the President and Prime Ministers have not been rare. Of the seven previous presidents, only Dr Zakir Hussain and Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed left office without

any public confrontation.

Zakir Hussain, who died in harness, confined himself to scholarly pursuits while Ahmed was one of the most pliable heads of state India has ever had. It was during his tenure that the Emergency was declared and he signed the proclamation without verifying whether it had the Cabinet approval or not.

Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and Dr Rajendra Prasad had many constitutional run-ins. Dr S. Radhakrishnan had even succeeded in Nayar getting defence minister Krishna Menon sacked after India’s debacle at the hands of the Chinese in 1962. In 1967, Radhakrishnan embarrassed the ruling Congress by allowing the Swatantra Party to parade its MLAs in Rashtrapati Bhavan to prove their majority in the Rajasthan assembly.

Even V.V. Giri, a prominent trade unionist who was elected with the help of Mrs Indira Gandhi then Congress President to the presidency, often expressed his reservations over antilabour legislation. Thus he objected when the Centre wanted to dismiss striking

Railway employees. He also registered his protest over the supersession of Supreme Court judges.

Then acting president B.D. Jatti, who succeeded Giri temporarily, proved m o r e a s s e r t ive. W h e n requested by the Janata government to sign the ordinance dissolving nine assemblies in states ruled by the Congress, Jatti prevaricated, pleading that the Centre had no powers to prematurely dissolve dulyelected assemblies without proper reason. Then Prime Minister Morarji Desai was forced to hold out the threat of his resignation if Jatti delayed the ordinance and the Janata Party even organised angry demonstrations against the President.

Matters hardly improved even after the Janata Party installed Sanjiva Reddy. Reddy and Desai could not get along and the latter prevented the President from going abroad even on ceremonial visits. Reddy, nursing a grouse against the Janata government, made constitutional history when he invited Charan Singh to form a government after Morarji Desai lost his majority in the Lok Sabha.

Reddy set yet another precedent when he dissolved the

Lok Sabha on the advice of a prime minister who could not prove his majority.

Even Zail Singh installed Rajiv Gandhi soon after Mrs Gandhi’s assassination even before he was elected to the parliamentary party.

It is another matter that both Zail Singh and Rajiv Gandhi were at loggerheads more often than not.

I wish Pranab Mukherjee had utilized his term to erase the decision which he took during the emergency.

He was the right-hand man of Sanjay Gandhi, an extraconstitutional authority.

Hence, his name will not go down well in the history.

Like his predecessors, he too was mired in controversies particularly when he published the book while in office. He could have waited for his retirement to pen down experience at Rashtrapati Bhavan.

Meanwhile, the present government at the centre must explain how secularism can survive when softHindutva is spreading in the country. By elevating Ansari as President the BJP would have assured the people that the country’s ethos cannot go astray and do things which do not fit into the idea of India: democratic and secular.

Post-mortem

Cherry picking: How the mighty have fallen

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y attention is drawn to an article (NPCC responds to Kahuto Chishi Sumi; Nagaland Post:-21/6/17) written by one party called the Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee in which it purports to address a number of issues I had raised in an earlier letter. Allow me to address each and every thing they allegedly seek to highlight.

1. I am surprised that the NPCC, after decades of breaking the law, while they were in power, realise that there such things as laws; and that the freedom of expression is one of them. I would like to remind them that the freedom of expression does not absolve any person of liability to prosecution on charges of defamation; so please feel free to charge me in a court of law instead of wasting precious newsprint on spewing your venom on me.

2. The origin of the term, “a loose cannon”, lies in the fact that in the early days of naval warfare; cannons, on ships, had to be tied down with ropes because the movement of the vessel would cause the cannon to fire in directions other than the target. I aimed for you and your response proves that I hit my mark. So, far from being a loose cannon, I have proven that I am, “a straight-shooter” 3. There is an ocean of a difference between an error and a lie; I may have made errors, but I have never deliberately lied in any of my letters to the Editors/ Editress of our daily newspapers.

As to half-truths, I request you to kindly detail any or all that I have indulged in, instead of relying on the hope that, “A lie, repeated a hundred times, becomes a truth”; for I accuse you of being the ones spreading lies, half-truths and calumny in your vain attempt to seek relevance in the eyes of a society which has rejected you and your ilk.

4. During the recent ULB imbroglio, I downloaded the Nagaland Municipal Act 2001 from the internet, which consists of some 300+ pages of PDF files; I went through it and wrote my letter in a matter of a few hours.

It did not register in my mind that the parts on women’s reservation was a later amendment to the original act, NOR did I realise, until it was pointed out to me by my friend, Mr. Shehoto Yesca, that you were in power in 2001, and therefore you were the real culprits.

5. You lie through your teeth and spread half-truths when you try to ascribe to the women’s reservation issue all the blame for the ULB unrest. I, along with the majority of Nagaland, would have you know that we were eitherlukewarm or undecided on the issue of reservation for women in our ULBs. It was the clauses on Property Taxes that saw All Nagas rising up in arms against the ULB Polls.

6. I made a mistake in blaming you for 2 deaths when in actual fact it was 3. If it was the issue of women’s reservation and not the Property Taxes that caused all the unrest; how do you explain away the fact that it was in Longleng, where there was no objection to the polls, that the first protest and death occurred? I reiterate the fact that you drafted the clauses on property taxes, so you, in the ultimate analysis, are responsible for their deaths.

7. I never absolved the State Government of any blame in the ULB mess, all I ever stated was they were guilty of attempting to harvest the dirty fruits of the evil seed that YOU had planted.

8. I admit, unreservedly, that I exposed the evil intention behind the insidious act that YOU drafted, but you lie when you say it was exaggerated, and you show your stupidity when you think that the people of Nagaland are still as gullible as we were in the past, when you were in power.

9. I prefer the spinelessness of the NPF led NDA government to your corkscrewed, twisted and bent spines; for a spineless thing can be moulded and formed into pleasing shapes, whereas a twisted form can only be broken and discarded.

10. I have levelled a good number of charges, not allegations, against you. Don’t make matters worse by cherry picking one in which I made an error and ignoring the others to which you have no answer. Ignore all or answer all. If my charges are baseless, absolve yourselves in a court of law or, failing that, at least in newsprint.

11. If you seek pity because you no longer occupy the seats of power, then remain quiet on the side lines, instead of jumping into the limelight, seeking attention. The limelight exposes your ugly face.

12. There may be method to my madness, which means there may be substance underlying my madness; but there is madness to your method, which means everything you do is insane.

13. Your political opponents do not accuse you of anything because you are the black pot and they, the black kettle, but you lie when you say my charges, not allegations, are baseless. You have pointed out that freedom of expression does not give one a licence to lie, I remind you that being in the opposition does not give you the right to shoot off your mouth and spew nonsense about amendments and discarding laws; thereby attempting to confuse and misguide the people of Nagaland.

14. Do not try to mislead people by saying that the past and present are different. Everything that happens today is because of or due to what happened in the past. If you weren’t here yesterday, how can you be here today? It is precisely because I have a stable

mind that I recognise that there is no harvest without seeding.

15. When did I abuse my Sumi tribesmen? And you must have access to one of our praying visionaries if you knew I did it merrily. My apology is for my tribesmen to accept or reject, but at least I apologised for a wellintentioned act of mine which was ill received. But I ask you to shave off your hair, cover yourselves in sackcloth and ashes, and beg forgiveness from, not only the Sumis, but God in Heaven and ALL Nagas for your evil intentions and wilful acts of robbery, deceit, hypocrisy and lies for a span of 20 years. Whether I damaged the reputation of the Sumi tribe in the eyes of the world is for the world to decide; not for a political party, and certainly not the NPCC, to do so.

16. I remind the NPCC that blaming the present NPF led DAN government for 15 years of corruption does not absolve you of your past crimes against Nagaland committed during a span of 20 years. It would behove you to listen to people like me, whose rusted minds recognise right from wrong, and who understand that the corruption and decay of today is built on the solid foundation of the corruption you started yesterday. And that you enjoying the fruits of your past corruption is precisely what encourages us to corruption today. Repent first, confess your crimes and atone for your sins, then you’ll see us repent and atone. Do not point at the filth of people while you lie wallowing in the mud of yesterday.

There is one thing I agree with you on, inspite of everything else. I stooped low in putting forth my charges (not allegations, mind you) against you. I searched for the NPCC, I searched for them high and low, I found them low, buried under layers of lies, hypocrisy and theft; and when I stooped to hurl my charges against them, I had to stoop so low that I pulled my back. I am of the firm belief that every political party is comprised of a more than generous helping of sycophants, hypocrites and hacks, with a sprinkling of good people.

It seems that the NPCC has been bereft of the few good men they had and is left with nothing but incompetents.

Nagaland has more important and pressing matters to attend to than the dying gasps of a political party that Nagaland no longer seems to have a use for. If the NPCC wishes to further raise this issue, I will not waste precious newsprint answering them; readers may look up The Naga Mirror and other blogs on Facebook that I am a member of.

GOD SAVE OUR NAGALAND Kahuto Chishi Sumi Akukau (G.B.) Hevishe Village, Khaghaboto Range, Dimapur, (Kahuto107@gmail.com)

Failing networks & struggling rural people

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he Digital India campaign by the Govt. of India leads many States towards modernized work culture and many departments in our State Nagaland too make use of the technology for the betterment of the public. The National Scholarship Portal launched by the Govt. of India with the intention of ensuring the benefits of various scholarship schemes reaching each and every eligible student in the country is a milestone in this regard. Even though the users faced technical hardships at the beginning, subsequently the portal has incorporated user friendly measures and the exercise has become simple at the later stage. Many premier educational institutions of higher learning in our country has been accepting applications for admissions to various courses through online mode and most of the job recruitments in the public sector are done through online registration processes. The Nagaland Board of School Education has also introduced many online submission facilities for the easy and better management of the education system in our State. All the above online services expect net connectivity of reasonably good speed and here comes the real issues of Digital Rural Nagaland. Neither the Govt. operator BSNL nor the private operators care for providing quality services to the rural areas for reasons best known to them. I have been serving in Bhandari Sub Division of Wokha District for the past 5 years and I do not remember getting the BSNL Nagaland network for more than 3(three ) days during my entire service period. I had reported the matter to few high ranking officers of BSNL at Dimapur in the year 2012 and later gave up my hope as it appeared that the main objective of BSNL(NE Circle ) is providing better business prospects to the private mobile operators and not proving better connectivity to Rural India.

Of course the private operator Airtel was initially offering satisfactory 2G services and for a short period of time they offered better 3G services as well. The same was with few other operators such as Vodafone. But now a days the mobile

services provided by all the private mobile operators have reached the worst stage and the internet services has almost vanished from Bhandari.

I am a postpaid subscriber of Airtel and have taken up the matter with the Customer Care Services many times.

Once in the year 2016 they deputed few Service Engineers from Dimapur to rectify the issues. But this year their standard reply is that there are some issues with network up-gradation and their engineers are working on it. No one knows how long they will keep on working on it.

The process of submitting online scholarship applications have begun recently and the school authorities of rural areas will now have a tough time to deal with. They cannot simply inform the students to do the submission by themselves as majority of students and parents do not have access to internet services. They are expected to help the students in the submission processes and also required to complete the Online Institution Verification Process. The major problem one encounter with the National Scholarship Portal is that the page will not get loaded in low speed internet connections and at times one has to try repeatedly for hours together for submitting one application form.

With the frequent power failures and the worst net connectivity at rural areas the School Heads are left with no option other than camping at towns having better connectivity and complete the online works.

The connectivity issues are complicated and it is very difficult for common men to win over the powerful private operators. They make everyone depend on mobile services and switching over from one operator to another in rural areas has no use at all as all the operators are same in this matter. The only solution seems to me in this regard is the Govt. of India prescribing minimum net connectivity speed for rural areas before granting licenses to the mobile operators and ensuring proper implementation of the regulations.

Nellayappan B, Bhandari, (bnellayappan@gmail.com)

Reader’s Post

Sir,

Appeal to department of RD

The undersigned would like to bring to the knowledge of the concern department officers in relating with the RURBAN Mission. The government of Nagaland has selected only 6 (six) villages under Peren district to undertake the RURBAN Mission in the first phase as cluster project ie, Pedi Cluster for the first time ever in Nagaland. The RURBAN Mission was launched on 7/03/2017 at Ngwalwa Village Peren district. The launching program was graced by TR Zeliang (chairman Democratic Alliance, Nagaland (DAN) as chief guest and CL John (minister for RD & REPA Nagalan) as guest of honour and with a host of ministers. But the sad part is that till now the government intended villages are only hearing the story, waiting to how and when to start. As per the ministry of rural development government of India through it letter No. J-12011101l2016-RURBAN(SL.No.17) dated 30.Dec. 2016 had already released RS. 4.05,00,000( four crore five lacs only) as first installment for pedi cluster under RURBAN Mission. Therefore the undersigned would like to request the concern department officers to look in to the matter and take up the project in the proper channel for the welfare of the public.

Kiepe Zehuny, Ngwalwa Village Peren

Reader’s note: Articles or letters published in any of the columns do not reflect the view of this newspaper nor that of the Editor in any manner.

National/state

Nagaland Post, Dimapur thursday, JUNE 22, 2017

GJM offers 12-hr ‘window’ to schools

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gal where the situation remained tense due to the indefinite bandh called by Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) demanding separate statehood.

As of now, there is no need to intervene, official sources said today.

They said there is interaction with the state government authorities on the day-to-day basis to know the latest situation.

The bandh has crippled the normal life in Darjeeling which is frequented by a large number of tourists from across the country and also from abroad.

The state government has already sent its report to the home ministry, in which, it had suggested forthcoming elections to Hill Council and involvement of militants from the northeast among the reasons responsible for the unrest in Darjeeling.

The agitators, who are mainly from the GJM, are demanding a separate state of Gorkhaland.

The report suggests that elections to Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA), that includes Darjeeling and other neighbouring areas, could be a reason behind the ongoing violence.

Bimal Gurung headed

GJM dominates the GTA. In 2012, the GJM secured all the 45 seats--22 in Darjeeling sub-division, 10 in Kurseong and 13 in Kalimpong--under the GTA. As many as 24 cases have been registered by police. A total of 49 security force personnel have been injured in the violence, the sources said.

A total of 11 companies--about 1,375 personnel—are stationed in the region. Of them, one is an all-woman company.

Darjeeling hills had seen a violent movement for a separate Gorkhaland in the mid 1980s under Subhash Ghisingh.

The movement ended with the establishment of a semi- autonomous administrative body in 1988 called Darjeeling Gorkha Hill Council (DGHC), which was headed by Ghisingh.

As Ghisingh’s influence waned over time, the GJM launched another movement for a separate state of Gorkhaland. In 2011, the GJM signed an agreement with the state and central governments and another semi-autonomous administrative unit GTA was born replacing the DGHC.

New Delhi, Jun 21 (Agencies): The Delhi Police has been placed on high alert after receiving an intelligence tip-off warning of a terror attack on crowded public spaces, a report said on Wednesday.

Around six to seven terrorists are believed to have entered into the national capital with the intention of carrying out a Londonstyle attack. As per sources, terrorists are planning to launch an attack in Delhi anytime before Eid. “The Delhi Police Spec al cell has issued an advisory to all security agencies across the country to beef up the security measures at interstate bus terminals, railway stations, five-star hotels, malls and markets, religious places, embassies of western countries, metro stations, airports, stadiums, and tourist places or other sites visited by foreign nationals,” an officer had told news agency IANS on Monday.

The advisory comes close on the heels of recent terror attacks in the UK and other European countries.

The security agencies have also been directed to keep a tab on suspicious articles, if found, in vehicles and to conduct proper checking on interstate borders.

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People carry a patient to hospital as security personnel stand guard during GJM Indefinite Strike at Chawk Bazaar in Darjeeling on Wednesday. (PTI)

UNITED NATIONS, Jun 21 (PTI): India’s population could surpass that of China around 2024, two years later than previously estimated, and is projected to touch 1.5 billion in 2030, according to a UN forecast.

The World Population Prospects: The 2017 Revision, published by the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs, said that currently China with 1.41 billion inhabitants and India with 1.34 billion remain the two most populous countries, comprising 19 and 18 per cent of the total global population.

“In roughly seven years, or around 2024, the population of India is expected to surpass that of China,” the report said.

The 2017 Revision of World Population Prospects is the 25th round of official UN population estimates and projections.

In its 24th round of estimates released in 2015, it was projected that the population of India will surpass that of China’s by 2022.

The new estimates released here today said that in 2024, India and China are expected to have roughly a population of 1.44 billion each. After that, India’s population is projected to continue growing for several decades to around 1.5 billion in 2030 and approach-

to leave safely,” senior GJM leader Binay Tamang told reporters here.

He said barring school buses, no other vehicle would be allowed to leave the hills during the 12-hour “window”.

An indefinite bandh was called in the hills by GJM on June 15.

With supplies running out and the vacations to start shortly, the renowned boarding schools of Darjeeling are facing a harrowing time due to the shutdown. Darjeeling is home to some of the oldest and renowned boarding schools in the country, but with the GJM-sponsored

ing 1.66 billion in 2050, while the population of China is projected to remain stable until the 2030s, after which it may begin a slow decline.

India s population may eventually see a decline in the half century after 2050 to 1.51 billion by 2100 but it will still be the most populous country in the world.

In India, life expectancy at birth will be 71 years in 2025-2030, growing to 74.2 years in 2045-2050. The under-five mortality rate will decline from 32.3 deaths under age five per 1,000 live births in 2025-2030 to 18.6 in 2045-2050.

The report said the current world population of 7.6 billion is expected to reach 8.6 billion in 2030, 9.8 billion in 2050 and 11.2 billion in 2100.

“With roughly 83 million people being added to the world s population every year, the upward trend in population size is expected to continue, even assuming that fertility levels will continue to decline, it said.

Ten countries are expected to account collectively for more than half of the world s projected population increase over the period 2017-2050: India, Nigeria, Congo, Pakistan, Ethiopia, Tanzania, the United States, Uganda, Indonesia and Egypt.

indefinite shutdown over the demand of a separate Gorkhaland entering its seventh day today, the school authorities are at their wits’ end as regards how to send the students home once the vacation starts next week. “We are facing two problems presently. One is of the supply of food stock and another is of sending the students home,” Rabindra Subba, the principal of Himali boarding school, said.

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The Centre is closely monitoring developments in Darjeeling in West Ben-

Among the ten largest countries worldwide, Nigeria is growing the most rapidly. Consequently, the population of Nigeria, currently the world s 7th largest, is projected to surpass that of the US and become the third largest country in the world shortly before 2050.

Further, large and persistent economic and demographic asymmetries between countries are likely to remain key drivers of international migration for the foreseeable future. Between 2015 and 2050, the top net receivers of international migrants (more than 100,000 annually) are projected to be the US, Germany, Canada, UK, Australia and Russia.

The countries projected to be net senders of more than 100,000 migrants annually include India, Bangladesh, China, Pakistan and Indonesia.

The report said that in 2010-2015, around 46 per cent of the world s population lived in intermediatefertility countries, where women have on average between 2.1 and 5 births over a lifetime.

Intermediate-fertility countries are found in many regions, with the largest being India, Indonesia, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Mexico and the Philippines.

In 2045-2050, it is expected that slightly less than a third of the world s population will live in countries with fertility in this range.

By that time, most of the world’s population will be living in countries with relatively low levels of fertility, where women bear fewer than 2.1 children on average. The report highlights that a reduction in the fertility level results not only in a slower pace of population growth but also in an older population. Compared to 2017, the number of persons aged 60 or above is expected to more than double by 2050 and to more than triple by 2100, rising from 962 million globally in 2017 to 2.1 billion in 2050 and 3.1 billion in 2100.

“Population ageing is projected to have a profound effect on societies, underscoring the fiscal and political pressures that the health care, old-age pension and social protection systems of many countries are likely to face in the coming decades, it said.

Substantial improvements in life expectancy have occurred in recent years. Globally, life expectancy at birth has risen from 65 years for men and 69 years for women in 20002005 to 69 years for men and 73 years for women in 2010-2015.

CHANDIGARH, Jun 21 (PTI): A Hindu can never be a terrorist and there cannot be any term like “Hindu terrorism”, senior Haryana minister Anil Vij said today, debunking that the 2007 Samjhauta Express train blast was the handiwork of a group having right-wing leanings.

The outspoken Health Minister alleged that the former Congress-led central government had engineered a “political plot” in the blast case to show that “Hindu terror exists”.

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Khango also appealed to the youth and public he will be for all and therefore sought cooperation from people across Naga society.

He also reiterated that the sacrifices of thousands of Nagas for many decades would not go in vain but that he would steadfastly pursue the just cause and aspiration of Naga still his last breath under NSCN/ GPRN with the pledge “Nagaland for Christ.”

New Delhi, Jun 21 (PTI): Urban Development Secretary Rajiv Gauba was Wednesday named as the next Home Secretary as part of a major top-level bureaucratic reshuffle effected today. He will succeed Rajiv Mehrishi, who completes his term on August 30.

A total of 16 secretaries have been appointed to various central government departments. The government has changed portfolios of a few secretaries in this rejig.

Gauba, a 1982 batch IAS officer of Jharkhand cadre, will take over as Officer on Special Duty (OSD) in the Union home ministry with immediate effect, an order issued by the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) said.

He has served in the home ministry as joint and additional secretaries where he looked after crucial Naxal division, among other responsibilities.

Durga Shanker Mishra will replace Gauba as the Urban Development Secretary. He is the Additional Secretary in the same ministry.

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K Sinha will be the new Information and Broadcasting Secretary in place of Ajay Mittal, who has been appointed as the DoPT secretary. DoPT Secretary B P Sharma retires this month-end.

Senior bureaucrat Subhash C Garg, Executive Director in World Bank, will be the new Department of Economic Affairs Secretary, a post that had fallen vacant after the retirement of Shaktikanta Das. Aruna Sundararajan will be the new Telecom Secretary. She is at present the Secretary, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY).

and a pouch have been found at the encounter site, the official said.

At around 6 pm, a gunbattle broke out between security forces and militants in an area of Pulwama district of south Kashmir, police said.

Security forces launched a cordon-andsearch operation in Kakapora area of Pulwama following information about presence of militants there, the police said.

As the security forces were conducting the searches, they were fired upon by some hiding militants, he said.

The security forces retaliated, triggering a gunbattle which was going on till last reports came in, the official said.

The exact number of militants holed up was not immediately clear but there were reports of two ultras being there.

An Army officer suffered minor injuries in the encounter, according to the latest information.

A mob pelted stones at the security forces to distract them from the operation, the police official said.

Ajay Prakash Sawhney will be the new MeitY Secretary in place of Sundararajan.

NHAI chief Yudhvir Singh Malik has been appointed the Road, Transport and Highways Secretary. Deepak Kumar, at present the Director General Employee’s State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) will be the new chairman of National Highways Authority of India (NHAI).

Ajay Kumar Bhalla will be the new Power Secretary. He is at present the Director General of Foreign Trade. Bhalla, a 1984 batch IAS officer, will take over the new charge from P K Pujari, who retires on June 30.

Food Processing Industries Secretary Avinash Kumar Srivastava will be the Secretary, Department of Consumer Affairs in place of Jagdish Prasad Meena who has been appointed in his place.

New and Renewable Energy Secretary Rajeev Kapoor has been named the Secretary, Department of Chemicals and Petrochemicals.

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“The central committee of our party has decided to offer a 12-hour window, from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. on June 23, to the schools in the hills to evacuate their students.

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(PTI): Security forces Wednesday gunned down two Hizbul Mujahideen militants in an encounter in an area of north Kashmir and cornered two more in another part of the valley hours later.

In Sopore township of Baramulla district in north Kashmir, two militants were killed in an encounter that had begun last night, a police official said.

The slain militants were identified as Basit Ahmad Mir, a resident of Indergam Pattan, and Gulzar Ahmad, a resident of Brat Sopore.

Following intelligence inputs about the presence of militants, security forces had launched a cordonand-search operation in the area last night, the official said.

The search operation was halted for the night but the forces maintained the cordon to stop the militants from escaping, a police official said.

He said the operation resumed this morning and the gunfight started after the trapped militants opened fire on the forces.

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Mumbai, Jun 21 (PTI): Gold prices rebounded at the bullion market here today, in line with a firming trend overseas and on scattered buying by local jewellers.

However, silver eased further by Rs 155 to Rs 38,405 per kg.

Standard gold (99.5 purity) rose

by Rs 35 to close at Rs 28,585 per 10 grams from Tuesday’s closing level of Rs 28,550.

Pure gold (99.9 purity) also moved up by a similar margin to conclude at Rs

28,735 per 10 grams from Rs 28,700.

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by Rs 155 to settle at Rs 38,405 per kg against Rs 38,560 earlier.

Globally, gold rose from a five-week low in the previous session as a slump in oil prices pushed down stock markets and US bond yields, while the US dollar weakened, making bullion cheaper for holders of other currencies.

Spot gold was up 0.3 per cent at USD 1,246.86 an ounce at early trade.

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disruption. Instead, many FinTech innovations are being launched to sustain or improve existing products, making them attractive for both new entrants and existing banks. Therefore, as long as incumbent banks are incentivised to adopt these solutions, rather than ignore them, disruption could be less of a factor,” the study stated.

“But this does not mean disruption is impossible, particularly if FinTech entrants are able to scale up from a foothold in an underserved market,” it added.

Whether FinTech entrants or incumbent banks, individual organisations must make a careful assessment of the disruptive and sustaining potential of innovations in their respective industry, said report co-author Subhajit Das. “Doing this will enable them to stay ahead of their immediate competition and thrive in this period of change,” he added.

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New Delhi, Jun 21 (IANS): Retail banking faces significant threat from entrants in Financial Technology (FinTech) space who are using simpler and less expensive services and depending on their scalability, could even prove disruptive for the traditional banks, a study said on Wednesday.

Despite retail banking being a tech-intensive industry, FinTech providers - having few similarities to traditional banks - are attacking virtually every product category in banking, said the joint study by Tata Consultancy Services and Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation. New FinTech entrants use technology and innovative business models to provide less expensive, simpler and more accessible services, it said.

“In each product category, new entrants pose a competitive threat to banks, but the conditions are not always ripe for

commence of these rules, and get the exchange value thereof by credit to the account such Bank, Post Office, or District Central Cooperative Bank, as the case may be, subject to the satisfaction of the Reserve Bank of the conditions specified in the said Notification and the reasons for non-deposit of the specific bank notes within the period under that notification”.

Officials said the deposits would be accepted in pursuance of an assurance given to the Supreme Court by the government that proper verification of each account would be done before any decision was taken.

Such a verification was done between January and May this year and it was found that the accounts complied with the Know Your Customer (KYC) norms, the officials said.

about the recent round of farm loan waivers are the conditions attached. Most states require that loan should be waived only up to a specified threshold limit (mostly Rs 1 lakh), and any amount over that will have to be paid. Some southern states have come out with similar schemes in the past.

“To that extent, we can expect that there may not be a significant worsening of credit culture and hence we can get back quickly to trend growth for the agri sector,” the report said.

We, the income tax payers, are still alive. We will take the burden of non-taxpayer’s loan waiver scheme. These politicians will ruin our country. Last week, a research report by Kotak had warned against copy cat waivers by state governments. “Obviously, the structure of the schemes will vary across states. We estimate that around Rs 1.6 lakh crore of farm loans (0.9% of GDP) could come up for waiver.

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Sena backing for Kovind, a former Bihar Governor.

“Was the midnight notification perfectly timed with garnering support for Presidential candidate?” the Congress leader tweeted.

The notification also allows banks and post offices which had collected demonetised currency prior to December 30, 2016 to deposit them with the RBI. The deposits can be made under Specified Bank Notes (Deposits by Banks, Post Offices and District Central Cooperative Banks) Rules, 2017.

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by UPA, agri NPAs dipped in FY09, before rising for majority of the states. In fact, the NPAs kept on increasing on an average for four years before witnessing a decline. For the central and southern states, the problem persisted for five years,” said Soumya Kanti Ghosh, chief economist, SBI. Apart from increasing probability of future defaults, farm loan waiver will lead to worsening state finances. “The impact on Punjab will be maximum, with state fiscal deficit jumping by an additional 4.8% of gross state domestic product (GSDP).

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Even in that case, we will see some worsening of fiscal deficit for some states,” Ghosh said.

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loans to farmers in the current crisis situation in the state.

Maharashtra’s district cooperative banks had Rs 2,771.86 crore in old notes as of March 18, 2017. The figure was Rs 5,458.59 crore on November 14, 2016.

The demonetisation was announced on November 8 night.

T h e D C C B s we r e barred from accepting the old notes after November 14.

The gazette notification says the DCCBs can now deposit the demonetised currency, collected during the five days between November 10 and November 14 after demonetisation, within a month starting on Tuesday.

Also on Tuesday, former Finance Minister P. Chidambaram suggested that the decision on DCCBs may be linked to the Shiv

MUMBAI, Jun 21 (Agencies): State Bank of India has said that the past farm loan waiver had resulted in worsening of repayments on future loans.

The country’s largest bank also said in a research report that state finances are going to be adversely hit due to farm loan waivers, which come on the back of revenue losses due to prohibition in some states and financial pressure from restructuring of loans to state electricity boards under the Uday Scheme.

The report states that the total cost of farm loan waivers to states that have announced them adds up to Rs 1.31 lakh crore. Of this, the largest (Rs 36,359) is by Uttar Pradesh followed by Maharashtra (Rs 30,500). Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Punjab are the remaining three states (see graphic).

The bank has said that loan waivers have a negative impact on repayment culture. “After the announce-

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New Delhi, Jun 21 (IANS): The government on Tuesday allowed the RBI to accept demonetised notes collected by District Central Cooperative Banks (DCCBs) immediately after the note ban, a long-time demand of the BJP’s ally Shiv Sena.

The gazette notification came on a day the Shiv Sena made a U-turn and announced its support for the NDA Presidential candidate Ram Nath Kovind, just one day after saying that his choice amounted to caste appeasement.

Maharashtra minister Diwakar Raote of the Shiv Sena had demanded last week that over Rs 2,770 crore in junked notes lying with the DCCBs be accepted by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI).

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi performs yoga during a mass yoga event in Lucknow. Army Jawans participate in a yoga session on the ocassion of 3rd International Yoga Day at Cobra Ground in Jabalpur on Wednesday. (PTI) with a healthy mind amidst the ups and downs of life,” said Modi, visibly happy with the heavy turnout at the sprawling Rambai Ambedkar Maidan despite inclement weather since early morning.

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Cong urges Amitabh Bachchan to withdraw from GST campaign

Amitabh Bachchan MUMBAI, Jun 21 (PTI): Senior Congress leader Sanjay Nirupam Wednesday urged Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan to withdraw from the GST campaign to avoid getting targeted by traders later.

The government has roped in Bachchan to promote the Goods and Services Tax (GST), ahead of the scheduled July 1 roll out of the sweeping tax reforms.

The Central Board of Excise and Customs will be making the 74-year-old actor brand ambassador for the GST. A 40-second video featuring him has already been shot and is being circulated.

“The GST was a brilliant idea thought of by the Congress. It is another story that the BJP opposed it all the while it was in the opposition. But after coming to power, it started diluting the basic concepts of the GST, and that was not acceptable to us,” Nirupam told reporters here.

While the Congress sought GST as a single tax for the entire nation, the

BJP introduced four tax slabs and three different sub-types of GST, he said.

“It has become very complicated now. Traders and service providers are required to fill three long forms every month. Thus, the basic purpose of the GST is defeated. This is unlike the way the GST has been implemented in other countries,” he said.

“Some people are creating a confusion that we are opposing the same GST that we passed. But this is not true. We have always been for the GST but not in this format.

“We tried for three years to get our reservations noticed by the government but they (the BJP) then started maligning us so we had to pass it,” Nirupam said.

“That is why I am suggesting Amitabh Bachchan should not be a party to every foolishness of the BJP. You (Bachchan) are a known person and have a wo n d e r f u l r e p u t a t i o n which may get maligned if there is a backlash from traders,” he said.

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come up in large numbers in the past three years and demand for yoga teachers has also grown.

“Youth are preparing themselves in yoga institutes, accepting yoga as a profession... there is a demand for yoga teachers in all the countries... a new job market is being created through yoga in which the people of India get top priority,” he pointed out.

“Unlike the earlier times when people used to practice yoga as per their own ways, there is now an effort both in the country and outside to perform yoga in a scientific manner by standardising it,” he said, adding that once it was only

Yoga not religious, fosters brotherhood globally: Naidu New Delhi, Jun 21 (PTI): Yoga is neither political nor religious and it fosters brotherhood globally, Union Minister M Venkaiah Naidu said here on the occasion of International Day of Yoga on Wednesday.

Addressing a gathering of nearly 10,000 people at Connaught Place, he extolled the benefits of yoga.

The minister also performed asanas at the event along with other dignitaries, including NDA’s presidential candidate Ram Nath Kovind and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal.

“Yoga is not political and it is not religious. It is a traditional Indian art and has been practised in the country from times immemorial,” he said at the event.

Naidu also expressed happiness at the fact that yoga has become popular globally and credited Prime Minister Narendra Modi for it.

“Many countries are celebrating the International Day of Yoga. It brings unity and peace. It brings brotherhood in the entire world,” he added.

He suggested that people should take to practising yoga as part of their daily routine since it takes care of one’s health.

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D I M A P U R , J UN 2 1 (NPN): In a rarest case, Yashoda Group of Hospitals Hyderabad has successfully carried out a “heartlung transplantation”- an operation where both the heart and the lungs are transplanted to another person from the same patient.

The transplantation was done by a team of doctors led by Dr.P.V. Naresh Kumar senior cardiothoracic and transplant surgeon at Yashoda Hospital Secunderabad. The organs of a 27-year old housewife and mother of three children, who was pronounced brain dead because of an intracranial fluid bleeding were a match to Nitisha (13) of Nizamabad district.

The school going girl was diagnosed with lifethreatening Primary Pulmonary Hypertension (PPH) a rare disease where both heart and lung get damaged.

The doctors had pronounced that only the transplantation of heart and lungs would ensure her long-term survival. On March 25 night, the organs were harvested after a three-hour-long surgery where they were removed simultaneously. The organs were then transported from a local hospital in the city to Yashoda Hospital with the help of local police, who set up a green corridor and ensured there was no delay.

New Delhi, Jun 21 (IANS): Anti-hunger activist Ankit Kawatra, who has been committed to solving hunger and malnutrition in India, is all set to receive the prestigious Queen’s Young Leaders Award with 60 others from all 53 Commonwealth countries.

Kawatra, 25, will be honoured by Queen Elizabeth II at a ceremony to be held in the Buckingham Palace on June 29.

In 2014, Kawatra quit his corporate business job and founded a not for profit organisation Feeding India that works towards solving problems of hunger, malnutrition and food wastage, mainly by redistributing extra food from restaurants, canteens, households, corporates etc. to help people in need.

He started working for the cause after witnessing massive amount of extra food being thrown away in a wedding and feels that his mission is to end hunger in his lifetime.

“India wastes 67 million tones food every year which is more than the national output of Britain.

If no one else was working on it, I had to take the first

Showcasing policy initiatives for defence production in India, Defence Minister Arun Jaitley today invited Russian firms to join hands with Indian companies in developing high-end military platforms and weapons systems.

In an address at a leading forum for technological development, Jaitley said Russian defence majors which already have a long experience of working in India are well placed to take advantage of the policy changes effected to encourage tie-ups between Indian and foreign companies. Jaitley, here on a three-day visit beginning today, asked Russian companies to come forward with proposals for technology transfer to Indian companies and facilitate manufacturing of advanced military platforms.

“We have initiated a series of policy and procedural changes to facilitate tie-ups, including joint ventures and technology partnerships between Indian and foreign companies.

“Russian companies, which already have a long experience of working in India and working with India are well placed to take a leading role in this process,” he said.

In a major step towards defence indigenisa-

ment last month unveiled a “strategic partnership” model under which select private firms will be engaged along with foreign entities to build military platforms like fighter jets, submarines and battle tanks.

“In the days to come, we hope to fully harness the energies, entrepreneurial spirit and enterprise of the private sector in the area of defence manufacturing. “Here again, Russia as India’s largest, oldest and most trusted partner in defence hardware and equipment, would have a comparative advantage in partnering with Indian companies for realising ‘Make in India’ potential in defence production,” Jaitley said in his address at the plenary of TECHNOPROM 2017.

The defence minister said Indian companies are already gearing up by developing capabilities for design and development of military systems.

“I invite Russian companies to come forward with proposals for technology transfer to Indian companies and facilitate manufacturing of more advanced components/parts and subsystems. This can start with platforms of Russian origin where the requirement is in large numbers and is recurring in nature,” he said.

Ankit-kawatra step to channelise the excess food,” Kawatra said in a statement on Wednesday.

Starting from a team of five, the NGO today works in 43 cities with 4,500 volunteers and has served more than 8.5 million meals to vulnerable individuals such as children, women, old age citizens, disabled people etc.

“Getting the award is a great honour, something that I could not even dream of. I believe that this is a landmark for both countries, especially since UK and India have a shared history on so many fronts,” Kawatra said.

Earlier this year, the best of British and Indian

culture was celebrated by the Queen at a glittering Buckingham Palace reception attended by the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge to launch the UKIndia Year of Culture 2017.

According to Kawatra, an Indian’s presence at the Buckingham Palace today “symbolizes the long way the two countries have come, and proves once again, how we can do so much more if we work together peacefully”. Kawatra will also participate in a 10 day residential programme before receiving the award.

He will stay at the University of Cambridge for the first few days as a part of different learning workshops and exercises and then travel to London to network with some of the world’s leading business heads and philanthropists at political events.

“Through the residential week, I want to highlight the importance of solving hunger and encourage people to take action towards the 725 million people around the world who do not even have basic food and nutrition,” he said.

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New Delhi, Jun 21 (Agencies): In yet another move aimed at helping the acid attack victims, the central government has now decided to give them reservation in central government jobs and promotions.

According to PTI, a draft proposal in this regard has been prepared by the the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) in which it has proposed vacancies, promotion quotas and an age relaxation for those with disabilities.

The above benefits will also be extended to persons with autism, mental illnesses, intellectual disability besides victims of acid attacks.

The DoPT’s proposal may face some legal hurdles as the matter relating to reservation in promotion for persons with disabilities is pending before the Supreme Court of India.

The vacancies earmarked will be for the posts of office assistants to Indian Administrative Service officers, according to the DoPT proposal.

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yoga,” said 66-year-old Modi, who was attired in a white T-shirt and loose trousers.

Recalling as to how the United Nations gave its nod for the International Day of Yoga, he said there might not be any country where yoga-related programmes are not held or attraction or awareness towards it has not grown.

Along with Modi, Uttar Pradesh Governor Ram Naik and Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and several dignitaries performed various yogic asanas.

Stressing on the relevance of yoga in employment too, the prime minister said yoga institutes have

performed by the “munis and rishis” in the caves of Himalayas.

“UNESCO has given nod to yoga as the heritage of human culture... today in many states of the country yoga has been adopted as part of their education so that future generations get apprised of this science of ours to help it become the part of their lives,” he said.

Speaking on the benefits of yoga, Modi said the importance of wellness is more than being healthy and yoga is an easy way to acquire this wellness.

“There is no question mark on yoga anywhere in the world...yoga has been evolving with time and generations and it has been developing... on this important occasion, I urge people of the world to make yoga a part of their lives... whether we become masters of yoga or not, achievers or not, but we need to become its practitioners...,” Modi said.

Nearly 5,000 yoga enthusiasts from the Muslim Rashtriya Manch - the Muslim wing of RSS - participated in yoga day activities throughout the state.

“In Lucknow alone, around 2,000 office bearers and workers of the Muslim Rashtriya Manch (MRM) took part in yoga day activities at Ramabai Ambedkar Maidan,” Raees Khan, MRM’s UP and Uttarakhand in-charge said.

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Lu c k n ow, J u n 2 1 (PTI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi Wednesday led over 50,000 yoga enthusiasts in performing ‘asanas’ here amid showers on the International Day of Yoga as he underlined the importance of the ancient practice in connecting India with the world and promoting wellness.

Yoga, he stressed, has the power of health insurance at zero cost. “We can save the people from many problems if 1.25 billion countrymen achieve this through healthy body, mind and intelligence,” he said.

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ICAR organises field visit to Jalukie

ICAR Nagaland Centre, Medziphema officials during field visit to Jalukie.

DIMAPUR: Animal science division of ICAR Nagaland Centre, Medziphema, conducted a field visit to Jalukie and surrounding villages on June 15. The team comprising of Dr. Mahak Singh, scientist (Animal Science) and Dr. R Talimoa Mollier, research associate, and in co-ordination with Ranglia, covered beneficiaries of mega seed project on pig and poultry seed project under Gaili, Ngwalwa, Heningwalwa and Jalukie.

During the visit a total of 61 pigs belonging to beneficiaries were vaccinated against classical swine fever and anthelmintics were distributed among farmers.

The farmers were made aware of the benefits of rearing improved breeds of pig and poultry supplied from ICAR Nagaland Centre, Medziphema.

The pig breeding units of Hampshire and Ghongroo crossbreds have been supplied primarily

with the aim of introducing improved germplasm and popularizing artificial insemination among the villages and the scientist further exhorted the farmers to avail the facility of artificial insemination for their pigs from ICAR which are available at very cheap rates of just Rs.75/- per dose to improve their herds and get higher number of piglets per farrowing.

Under mega seed project on pig, pig breeding

units have been supplied to farmers in the year 2016-17 and some of the farmers have already done artificial insemination successfully and produced good numbers of piglets per litter.

Under poultry seed project large numbers of improved varieties of poultry chicks like Vanaraja and Srinidhi have also been supplied to farmers for backyard rearing and the farmers have started getting eggs from the birds.

DIMAPUR: Kohima Liangmai Baptist Church (KLBC) celebrated Father’s Day on June 18 at their church premises with Liangmai Baptist Association (LBA) women department president, Akengiu as the resource person. In her message, Akengiu described fathers as the first heroes of the family and a guiding light whose love shows the way. She said it was important to celebrate father’s day to make a father feel special.

The women department of Kohima Liangmai Baptist Church also presented gifts to all the fathers who attended in the father’s day programme.

ATMA Chessore block conducts trg

DIMAPUR: Agricultural Technological Management Agency, ATMA Chessore block Tuensang conducted training and demonstration on June 21 at Kuthur village. The resource persons were Sunep Ajem BTM and Wapang ATM and the topics covered were disease and pest management of rice (paddy), preparation of Bordeaux mixture and soil solarization. Altogether 27 farmers attended the programme.

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NCC annual training camp underway in Mokokchung

NCC cadets with the speaker and others at the ongoing camp.

D I M A P U R : Te n - d ay camp at Mokokchung for NCC has been witnessing various activities for the cadets. The cadets have under gone a traffic rules lecture cum practical class. The classes were conducted by sub inspector C Patton and his team.

Patton spoke to cadets about what cadets must adhere to once out of their house with respect to their documents, their duties on

the road and how NCC cadets can contribute in making people aware of road safety, and decongestion of traffic during peak hours in respect of towns in Nagaland. He also emphasized on the volunteer duties given to SD cadets during major festivals in the town.

Blood donation camp started on June 20 under First Officer Nokpang Konyak and 3/O Imtilepba

I . Three SD cadets donated blood and the rest will follow up.

The firing practice with an aim “Shoot To Win” is also being carried out under First Officer Tzuwar, 3/O Hontin Konyak and 3/O Indenmongba in presence of PI staff Hav Rajan. Second Officer Nurul Islam is training the drill squad for selection for RD parade Delhi.

AGLCK organises seminar on preservation KROSCAA organises meritorious programme its church premises.

Resource person of the programme, Chozhule Kikhi (Rtd.) deputy director of horticulture department demonstrated on preservation of fruits and vegetables.

She remarked that one should not seat idly and waste time instead one should work hard.

She encouraged the gatherings not to waste surplus fruits and vegetables but learn about processing & preservation as the products have been earn through hard work that we put into the soil.

E a r l i e r, t h e p r o Participants of AGLCK seminar on fruit and vegetable preservation. gramme was chaired by DIMAPUR: Assembly of hima (AGLCK) women inar on fruit and vegetable AGLCK women pastor God Lotha Church Ko- department organized sem- preservation on June 15, at Renbeni Kikon.

WAYO condemns assault on volunteer

NDRF and 12th Bn Doimukh team perform mock exercise.

DIMAPUR: National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) team of 12th Bn Doimukh (Arunachal Pradesh) conducted joint mock exercise on June 19 at NEEPCO DHEP Doyang playground and in the campus of Vivekananda Kendra Vishyalaya,

Doyang.

The CISF and Assam Rifle personnel were also associated with National Disaster Response Force team during the exercise under the supervision of assistant commandant of CISF unit DHEP Doyang, Wokha (NL), Pushpendra

Kumar.

DGM/HOP Prossenjit Phukon and DGM (HR) J. N. Singh with other NEEPCO officials, Vivekananda Kendra Vidyalaya staff and students, Nagaland police and civilians were also present and benefited from the exercise.

Excise Dimapur seizes drugs, IMFL DIMAPUR: Basing on intelligent tip-off, Dimapur district excise personnel led by Mainshila Aier AIE, Kheno H/C, Tsuknung, Leihong and Kavito apprehended one Metemongla Pongener (24) daughter of Yangshangla Pongener resident of Bor-lengri with 279 capsules of Spasmo proxyvo at Notun Bosti, Dimapur.

Excise has informed that the arrested person has been booked under relevant section D&C Act 1940.

In a separate incident, Excise mobile squad special surveillance team seized 120 bottles of assorted liquor on June 20, at 1st mile Dimapur and apprehended one individual identified as Akum son of Mar. Excise said Akum was arrested and booked under relevant section of NLTP ACT, 89 and seized articles were kept at unit Malkhana.

DIMAPUR: KROS College Alumni Association (KROSCAA) organized its first meritorious programme on June 20 at the college campus to celebrate the achievements of the newly graduating students.

Principal of the college Imsuinla Imti exhort-

ed the students to work harder and be a source of motivation and inspiration.

She said “Money may be stolen and strength may fail but education can never be stolen”.

Asst. professor of Commerce, Kelühol Tase in his speech stressed on

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the importance of making the Krosian family stronger and contribute.

The prog ram was chaired by Kemesano Rhetso Batch of 2014, invocation by Mimi, welcome speech by Soniya Chung president Alumni Association.

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student presented a special song and musical piece by Yanpothung & Co. Vote of thanks was delivered by Agwalo Tep Alumni batch of 2014.

Khongalou Rosü and Chenithung Kikon were awarded as the best graduating student in honours and general respectively.

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With immense pride and honour, we would like to extend our heartiest congratulations to Dr.C.Zupeni Tsanglao (IFS), D/o Chichamo Tsanglao & Mrs Nzolo Tsanglao on being promoted from Assistant Conservator of Forest (ACF) to District Forest Officer (DFO),Tuensang.

We further wish her the best and success in her future endeavours.

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The Sumi Baptist Akukuhou Kuqhakulu (SBAK-NM) acknowledge the Veterinary Department of Zunheboto for rendering their valuable service.

SBAK-NM wishes and pray for the Department for their future endeavour.

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The Dimapur Waromung Senso Telongjem (DWST) with immense pride and joy extend our heartiest congratulations to Dr. Meyajungla Longchar, Daughter of Shri. Temsuyanger Longchar from Waromung village on being conferred Doctor of Philosophy in Anthropology on the topic "Women Entrepreneurship" the case study of the Aos of Dimapur under the supervision of Dr. Upala Barua, Cotton College, Guwahati University.

While acknowledging the laurels that brought to the village, the DWST further wishes and hopes that your great academic achievements will usher in a new era of women emancipation in our society.

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Joint mock exercise on disaster management at NEEPCO DHEP Doyang

KROSCAA members and others along with meritorious students after the programme.

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The Konyak Nyupuh Sheko Khong Dimapur would like to convey our heartiest congratulations to Miss. Jennie W. Yanlem, D/o T. Wocknyei Yanlem, from Delhi Public School, Dimapur for securing Top 9th position in Cl. XII (Arts) with 86.6% in AISSCE 2017. The KNSKD is proud of her achievement and wishes her more success in her future endeavours.

The KNSKD furthermore congratulates all the successful candidates of CBSE, HSLC, HSSLC examinations 2017 and wishes them success in all their future endeavours.

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We the 'Dimapur Lizutomi Union' would like to appreciate and congratulate with honour and pride to the successful meritorious candidates of CBSE and Degree examination of 2017.

1. Miss. Liza B. Achumi, D/o Mr. Bohoto Achumi B.Sc Geology Honours. CGPA-6.10/7 Overall Grade-A 2. Miss. J. Donica Achumi, D/o Mr. James Achumi CBSE Class-10 1st Div. Subject Distinction : English, Hindi, Security The Union further encourages them to work harder to achieve greater heights in their future endeavours.

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attack on any of its members and has demanded that the concern authority take appropriate action against the culprits.

WAYO also stated that it would be best for the culprits to confess their crime and seek apology lest they were “apprehended sooner or later on NH 29”.

WAYO further wished the victim a speedy recovery and also urged the Kiruphema Youth Organisation to continue their selfless service for the welfare of the people.

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was on duty to ease the traffic in the landslide area. WAYO stated that the volunteer was also verbally abused and later “one of them brandished a pistol, pulled the volunteer aside and assaulted him, hitting him in the head several times with the pistol butt”.

WAYO asserted that such senseless assault on volunteers who had been working for the welfare of travellers along the landslide areas on NH29 should be condemned by all. The organisation further cautioned that it would not tolerate such senseless

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DIMAPUR: Western Angami Youth Organisation (WAYO) has strongly condemned the assault on a volunteer of the Kiruphema Youth Organisation by “gun toting antisocial elements” on June 15 along the National Highway 29 at Peducha.

WAYO in a condemnation note by president Neidilhoutuo Sechü and general secretary, Nijasielie Terhüja stated that on enquiry, it was found that two miscreants in a “big dark SUV with no registration plate refused to co-operate with the volunteer” who

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Assam Rifles organise various programmes across the state

9 AR interacts with GBs at Chizami.

DIMAPUR: Assam Rifles under the aegis of Headquarter Inspector General Assam Rifles (North) has been organising various programme across Nagaland.

9 AR: 9 Assam Rifles held an interaction pro-

gramme with village council chairman and Gaon Burahs (GBs) of villages under Chizami sub division on Jun 21. Lecture cum discussion on development, education, international yoga day, health & hygiene, ill effects

40 AR with village leaders at Monyaksho village, Mon district.

of drugs abuse on human body, individuals & the society and prevention of HIV & AIDS was conducted to generate awareness among the people. The programme also focused on liaison between the locals and security forces

to foster peace and harmony in Chizami region.

40 AR: 40 Assam Rifles: 40 Assam Rifles constructed a water supply scheme (Borewell) at Monyaksho village, Mon district and handed over the same to Monyaksho

village authorities on June 17. Construction of water supply scheme will alleviate the problem of availability of potable drinking water of the villagers.

28 AR: 28 Assam Rifles carried out a joint

C-Edge College conducts workshop

ICDS day observed at GHSS-A Wokha

Students of C-Edge College along with the resource person and faculties after the workshop.

DIMAPUR: One day workshop on academic and business project organised by the department of Management Studies, C-Edge College was held on June 21, attended by the BBA students as well as the BA Honours students

from 3rd & 5th semester.

The resource person for the workshop was Toina Yeptho, an MBA graduate and a visiting faculty of the college.

The workshop was organised with the aim to hone the skills of project

making, both academic and business-wise for students of BBA and BA Honours, as an important part of their academic curriculum. The workshop will be one of the steps towards preparing the students for the future,

for e.g. starting their own ventures. Additionally, the workshop also comprised of management games and activities on team building, leadership skills, creativity, time management and interpersonal skills.

DIMAPUR: Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) project Wokha observed ICDS day on of June 15 at the Anganwadi centre GHSS-A. Press release by child development project officer, Wokha stated that the day was observed by showcasing ICDS schemes and services, spot feeding and distribution of supplementary nutrition. Locally available fruits like banana and cucumber contributed by the community to the Anganwadi Centres were also distributed to the beneficiaries. In the programme, anganwadi worker, Nzanbeni Jungio along with the beneficiaries demonstrated various activities to the community present. Government Higher Secondary School Eloe Hoho, chairperson, Oreno Kikon thanked and appreciated the department for effectively implementing the duties assigned to them.

She further encouraged the department to keep up the good work for the betterment of our society.

Supervisor Erenbeni Kikon acknowledged Eloe Hoho for participating in the ICDS programme. She further added that it was very encouraging to see the community participating and the co-operation extended to the department while implementing its various schemes and services.

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One of the speakers addressing the gathering.

DIMAPUR: Sub Divisional Education Officer (SDEO) under Peren along with the EBRC, Tening conducted one day sensitization cum-workshop on Mid Day Meal (MDM) scheme implementation to all the VEC chairman and secretaries under Tening block.

The programme was attended by SDEO, MDM co-ordinator, project assistant co-ordinator (DMA), field officer (Cooperative Bank) and 54 members of VEC.

counseling with district authorities on Drug abuse/ Immunisation on June 20, at the Chief Medical Officer’s office, Wokha. The unit senior medical officer and regimental medical officer attended the coun-

seling along with the deputy chief medical officer and representatives from United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and district health officials.

Assam Rifles unflinching commitment towards the

noble mission and promised to conduct more in-depth presentations, screening of documentary films and joint campaigns with civil authorities and nodal agencies of the district towards this cause.

OMHYO adopts various resolutions DIMAPUR: Old Ministers’ Hill Youth Organization (OMHYO) held its meeting on June 17, at its colony Panchayat hall and adopted various resolutions for the welfare of the colony and the community under its jurisdiction: In the meeting, OMHYO resolved that all the shops under the jurisdiction should be close by 8 p.m. and all the shops, schools and hotels have been directed to put up proper sign boards with their names and correct addresses.

OMHYO resolved that every household or inhabitant including shops, hotels and schools under the jurisdiction should not throw

wastes and rubbishes improperly; sanitation measure should be taken around its area. Any student found under alcoholic influences or in possession of intoxicated things will be strictly dealt according to the constitution.

OMHYO also resolved that double parking around the colony will not be allowed from 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. for the smooth flow of vehicle passage.

Any organization, group or party organizing any event or program under the jurisdiction should give prior information to the colony youth president or the chairman of the colony

for the smooth conduct and the welfare of the people, stated OMHYO. For any assistance within the colony, the general public has been asked to call helpline number, Metevi at 9436001384, Roko at 7005605794 and Metenozo at 9402717927.

OMHYO has also convened mass social work on June 24 from 6 a.m. to 9 a.m. and has informed every household to send one member from each household compulsorily.

Further, OMHYO has requested all general public and its colony member to co-operate for peace and welfare of the colony.

SDAO Niuland conducted farmers training-cum-seeds distribution under NMOOP (MM-I) on June 19 at office premises.

DIMAPUR: Kandi Students’ Union (KSU) reaffirming its stand on total ban of tobacco and staying vigil against the malpractice of selling of expired food products, conducted a surprise checking on June 9 in all establishments under Kandi jurisdiction.

In pursuance of its resolution, the union seized banned tobacco related products and a huge pile of expired goods.

KSU said the defaulters in possession of PBC Mon organised father’s camp on June 17 to 18, 2017 with Rev. Yamyap F/Secy tobacco and expired goods were penalized a sum NBCC. of Rs.1000 and Rs. 500 respectively.

The seized items worth thousands of rupees were destroyed at different points in the presence of the KSU executives and the public.

KSU has further warned of stern action in case of second offence and cautioned all shopkeepers to refrain from such malpractices which may have negative implications particularly on the student community and the public in general.

Members of Kandi Students’ Union along with the seized items.

Workshop on MDM scheme at Tening

Counseling organised by 28 AR in progress at Wokha.

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Karnan in Kolkata jail; fails to get SC reprieve

Kolkata/New Delhi, Jun 21 (PTI): Former Calcutta High Court judge C S Karnan was today lodged in a Kolkata jail even as he failed to get any lastminute reprieve from the Supreme Court after being on the run for six weeks.

The 62-year-old Karnan, who was arrested in Tamil Nadu last evening, earned the dubious distinction of being the first sitting high court judge to be sent to jail.

He has been evading arrest since May 9 when a seven-judge bench of the Supreme Court handed down a six-month prison term for contempt of court.

Karnan, who retired as Calcutta High Court judge on June 12, was arrested by the West Bengal CID from a private resort at Malumichampatti, about six km near Coimbatore, where he was “hiding” for the past few days.

The former judge was taken to Presidency correctional home (jail) straight from the airport in Kolkata after he was brought from Chennai by a team of West Bengal state CID officers by

Former Calcutta HC judge C S Karnan at the airport in Chennai while he was being taken to Kolkata by a team of West Bengal Police on Wednesday. (PTI)

an Air India flight, a senior police officer said.

Dressed in a fullsleeved white shirt and pants, Karnan came out of the airport escorted by policemen in civil dress.

He was whisked off by the police when reporters tried to approach him.

“His medical tests were completed at the airport and the judge was taken straightaway to the jail,” he said.

Tight security arrangements were made at the airport where senior police officers, including Kolkata Police

Commissioner Rajeev Kumar, were present.

A senior official at the Presidency jail said that Karnan complained of chest pain soon after he was taken inside and a team of doctors from the jail hospital was examining him.

“He is old and seems to be unwell too. We do not want to take any chance. An ECG was done on him,” he said. The official said Karnan might be moved to a state-run hospital if anything wrong was found in his medical report. Karnan, who in the past has said he was targeted for being a

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Phase-I of air connectivity under UDAN by Sept

dalit, was brought to Chennai from Coimbatore by a private airline past midnight yesterday and later accommodated in the retiring room in the airport complex amid tight security.

Three police teams from Kolkata were camping in Coimbatore and traced Karnan on the basis of his mobile phone calls with the Tamil Nadu Police providing technical support to trace his whereabouts, a senior local police officer had said.

Karnan failed to get any last-minute reprieve after the apex court refused to entertain his plea for interim bail and suspension of the six-month sentence.

The apex court said it was duty-bound by the seven- judge bench’s order in the case and “cannot override it.”

“The matter has been heard by a seven-judge bench and order has been passed. The order is binding on us. We in vacation cannot override it. It is nothing we can do,” a vacation bench of Justices D Y Chandrachud and S K Kaul said.

Chennai, Jun 21 (PTI): The government expects to connect 33 destinations on 128 routes by five airline operators under the UDAN scheme by September, Union Civil Aviation minister P Ashok Gajapathi Raju said Wednesday.

With the Regional Connectivity Scheme (RCS), also called UDAN or “Ude Desh Ka Aam Nagrik”, the government aims to connect 45 unserved and under-served airports and make flying affordable by capping fares at Rs 2,500 per seat/hour. Five airlines were awarded 128 routes under the scheme in March after a bidding process.

Prime Minister Narendra had on April 27 inaugurated the maiden ShimlaNew Delhi flight under the RCS. “By September, we are expecting that the 33 destinations will be connected,” he told reporters here. Noting that Salem airport in Tamil Nadu is inoperative, the minister said it is for the state government and airline operators to decide on providing regional connectivity.

Under UDAN, the government has also extended subsidy in the form of viability gap funding to the operators flying on these routes.

Benami land deals: Misa Bharti quizzed by IT officials New Delhi, Jun 21 (IANS): Income Tax officials on Wednesday quizzed Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad’s daughter Misa Bharti for five hours in connection with an over Rs 1,000-crore benami (proxy) land deals case, an official said.

After skipping the department’s summons twice earlier this month -- on June 6 and 12 -- Bharti appeared before the officials on Wednesday. Her husband, who also skipped the summons on June 7 and 12, accompanied her to the IT office here.

Bharti’s appearance before the IT officials comes a day after the department attached over 12 properties of her relatives, including husband Shailesh Kumar, brothers Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav and Health Minister Tej Pratap Yadav, and others under the Benami Transactions Act, 1988.

The IT Department had on Tuesday attached two assets of Lalu Prasad’s kin in Delhi and several properties in Bihar after the department issued a provisional order under the 1988 act, which came into force on November 1 last year.

“She (Bhar ti) was asked about her company Mishail Packers and Printers Pvt Ltd, which is believed to be a shell company. She was also asked about the various loans she had taken, without any collateral security, to buy various companies,” the IT officials said.

He, however, declined to share any further details.

The department’s action came in the wake of the May 16 searches at 22 places in and around Delhi in connection with the alleged benami property deals involving RJD chief and his children Tejashwi Yadav, Tej Pratap Yadav and Misa Bharti.

Besides Lalu Prasad’s residence, IT officials carried out searches at the residence of party MP P.C. Gupta as well as several businessmen and real estate agents in Delhi and Haryana’s Gurugram and Rewari.

Allegations of corruption against Lalu Prasad’s wife former Chief Minister Rabri Devi and their children were raised by senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and former Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi.

24 nominations filed for presidential poll New Delhi, Jun 21 (PTI): Twenty four persons have filed their nominations for the presidential poll till today, whereas no candidate backed by political parties has filed the papers for the top constitutional post so far.

On the seventh day of nominations today, two persons submitted their papers. Agni Sriramchandran from Dharmapuri and Lalu Prasad Yadav from Saran were the two who filed their nominations.

Out of the 24 persons, 8 nominations were rejected due to want of documents.

According to rules, every candidate who files a nomination for the post must attach a copy of their entry in the electoral roll of the parliamentary constituency in which the candidate is registered as a voter.

The candidates are also liable to be rejected if they do not have the mandatory signatures of 50 proposers and as many seconders from the list of electors.

Elected members of the Lok Sabha, Rajya Sabha and of state legislative assemblies constitute the electors.

Top officials of three states Opposition split wide open; JD-U to back Kovind meet to discuss joint naxal ops of Madhya Pradesh and maoist activities have been continuously reported in this area.

Meanwhile, the senior security adviser also congratulated Rajnandgaon police for the success in the recent encounter in Aundhi police station area wherein three naxals, including two women, were killed, the official said.

In the meeting, Additional Director General of police (anti-naxal operations) of Madhya Pradesh Sanjiv Kumar Singh, ADG (anti-naxal operations) Maharashtra D Kanakratnam, IG (Durg Range) of Chhattisgarh Dipanshu Kabra and other senior officials were present.

Security personnel inspect the site of an explosion in a Maoist-affected area in Latehar on Wednesday. (PTI)

VIJAYAWADA, Jun 21 (Agencies): BJP minority morcha national president, Abdul Rasheed Ansari observed that triple talaq is being misunderstood and the present usage of it by Muslims in the country is against the true spirit of Islam.

“When misunderstandings crop up among a couple husband can seek separation. It will take at least three months from first talaq utterance to separation. After the first utterance one has to wait for next moon and then another moon before the second and third utterance.

Meanwhile, both can go for reconciliation with religious heads and other

elders. But nowadays it is not being followed which is against the true spirit of Islam,” Rashid said in Vijayawada on Wednesday.

Talking to reporters, Rashid explained that the BJP led NDA government has launched many innovative schemes to uplift minorities both socially and economically.

He pointed that Muslim madrasas are being developed in a scientific manner by including subjects like science and mathematics so that the students will be industry-ready when they pass out of a madarsa.

He reiterated that there was a wrong perception that minorities are not with BJP.

DYNAMIC KIDS CAMP

"Even so it is not the will of your father which is in heaven, that one of these little ones should perish" (Mathew:18:14)

Dynamic Kids Camp conducted by Jesus Calls Prayer Tower from 6th to 8th July 2017.

Time : 9:00 AM to 12 Noon Place : J.T. House 2nd Floor, near Lotha Baptist Church, City Tower, Dimapur

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The Yeza Kughuko Kuqhakulu Dimapur will celebrate the advance Tuluni on 1st July 2017 at 3:00 P.M in the residence of Mr. & Mrs. Tokheho Achumi, Excise Supt. Retd. Supply Colony, Dimapur, Nagaland whose family is graciously hosting this Tuluni Festival. All are requested to pray and attend this festival positively to make it a grand success.

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(Tovishe Richard Achumi) President Yeza Kughuko Kuqhakulu Dimapur (YKKD) Nagaland

BJP’s presidential candidate Ramnath Kovind meeting senior party leader L K Advani at his residence in New Delhi on Wednesday. (PTI)

to Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Soon after the BJP had announced Kovind’s candidature on Monday, Nitish Kumar had good words to say about the former Bihar Governor on whom, he also made a courtesy call. Nitish Kumar is known to take independent decision like his welcoming the demonetisation decision and surgical strikes last year and the JD-U voting for UPA candidate Pranab Mukherjee while sharing power with BJP in the state. The JD-U decision came as a shock for the 17-party front led by

Congress which is meeting in New Delhi on Thursday to decide on its strategy in the Presidential election, most probably putting up a candidate in what the Left parties called an “ideological battle”.

It remains to be seen whether BSP, which has also said that it cannot oppose a Dalit candidate unless the opposition has a more popular Dalit nominee, attends the opposition meeting.

For the record, the Congress said the question whether they would be putting up a candidate against

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SANIS TOWN BAPTIST CHURCH B.P.O Sanis Town, P.O. Wokha - 797112, Nagaland

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I on behalf of the Sanis Town Baptist Church Deacons and Development Committee members heartily appreciate the present H.O.P (DHEP) Doyang and his colleague for awarding us R.C.C Toilet Construction under C.S.D&R Scheme 2016-17. The work was completed in time. With the help of the said project we managed to renovate the 53 year old church building.

The Committee members also appreciate and thank the former H.O.P (DHEP) Doyang, Mr. D.S. Rai and former D.C Wokha, Mr. A. Robin Lotha who germinated fruits for the welfare of the congregation.

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We have a meeting tomorrow. Let us see how many parties are going to attend,” he said.

The names doing the rounds as possible opposition candidates include former Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar and former Maharashtra Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde, both of the Congress and both Dalits.

The names of Meira Kumar and Shinde have been floated to counter the NDA so that parties like the BSP would have no problem going against the NDA Dalit candidate.

The NDA, including Shiv Sena and the PDP of Jammu and Kashmir, which has extended support to Kovind, commands the support of 48.93 per cent in the electoral college made up of MPs and MLAs. With the backing of parties outside the alliance like TRS (2 per cent), AIADMK (5.39 per cent), YSR Congress (1.53 per cent) and BJD (2.99 per cent), the NDA’s support would cross the half way mark comfortably to reach nearly 63 per cent in the July 17 battle, with JD-U contributing 1.91 per cent.

WOZHURO RANGE UNION

The Kushiabill Sumi Kiphimi Kuqhakulu (K.S.K.K) would like to felicitate Miss. Kainoli K. Jimomi, (D/o Mr. Kakheto G Jimomi) for her outstanding performance in Class XII (Arts) CBSE Exam 2017 by securing First Division (91.2%) with distinction in 4 subjects from Delhi Public School, Dimapur.

The Union further congratulates all the successful students of HSLC, HSSLC and Graduate examination, 2017 from Kushiabill. We wish them the very best in their future endeavour.

(Viboto Kiho) Vice President (K.S.K.K)

Kovind will be known only after Thursday’s meeting.

H o w e v e r, C P I - M General Secretary Sitaram Yechury was more clear when he said there would be a “strong candidate” against Kovind.

“The question is of a political battle -- whether the basics of our Constitution would be protected or RSS would convert the country into a Hindu Rashtra (nation),” Yechury said.

Samajwadi Par ty President Akhilesh Yadav, whose father Mulayam Singh Yadav is toeing a different line, said that his party would go with the opposition led by Congress.

“There should be no talk about whether a Dalit should be there (be a President)... caste or religion.

Whoever would be the protector of the Constitution should be above caste and religion,” he said adding that his party would attend the opposition’s meeting on Thursday. CPI leader D. Raja acknowledged that the JD-U move, if correct, was a setback to the opposition.

“17 paties came together on the issue of Presidential election and if some parties take a different decision...

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inter-state borders against naxals and directed to continue the same approach in future, he said.

During the meeting, the strategies were also devised to thwart naxal activities on the bordering area through joint efforts of police from the three neighbouring states, he added.

Besides, strengthening of information network was also discussed in the meeting where officials suggested for preparing a special action plan for the exchange of secret information between them, he said. Notably, a major portion of Rajnandgaon district is bordering Gondia and Gadchiroli districts of Maharashtra and Balaghat

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Rajnandgaon, Jun 21 (PTI): Top police officials from Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh today held a meeting in Rajnandgaon district of Chhattisgarh to discuss extensive joint operations to be undertaken against maoists.

“The meeting was chaired by senior security adviser in the Ministry of Home Affairs K Vijay Kumar here,” a senior police official said.

Chhattisgarh’s Special Director General of Police (anti-naxal operations) DM Awasthi was also present on the occasion. The senior security adviser took stock of the operations being carried out jointly on the

Patna/New Delhi, Jun 21 (IANS): The opposition on Wednesday suffered a big blow with JD-U deciding to back the NDA candidate Ram Nath Kovind in the President’s election boosting the numbers for the ruling side while the rivals made it clear that they will put up a candidate.

The setback for the opposition came at a meeting of JD-U legislators and MPs in which Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and several MLAs expressed their opinion that the NDA candidate and his credentials are good given that he hails from a Dalit community and has a humble background. With possible support of JD-U, the vote share of NDA in the electoral college go up to almost 63 per cent.

“The party has decided to support Ram Nath Kovind. As the party has decided to support Kovind, there is no need for it to attend the meeting of opposition parties being held in New delhi,” said JD-U spokesperson Rajiv Ranjan.

He also said his party’s decision has been conveyed to Congress President Sonia Gandhi and RJD chief Lalu Prasad.

Earlier, JD-U Chief Whip Ratnesh Sada told reporters in Patna that the party has decided to support Kovind.

Wednesday’s decision yet again confirms Nitish Kumar’s style of taking decisions on his own irrespective of his allies’ position and his political opposition

Mr. B.Y. Lotha Pastor Sanis Town Baptist Church Wokha District

KWRU would like to acknowledge the following members, who generously contributed towards the Union, where a series of meeting was held at different locations 13th May,2017 and 3rd June, 2017 executive meeting Kohima and Wozhuro Town Head Quarter Wokha General meeting.

1. Wonthungo Tsopoe Rs. 16,000/2. A.Wopen Lotha Rs. 10,000/3. W.H. Patton Rs. 5,000/4. Likomo Ovung Rs. 5,000/5. Zanbemo Ngullie Rs. 5,000/6. Dr. John Khuvung Rs. 5,000/7. Zubemo Tsanglao Rs. 5,000/8. Vandanshan Rs. 4,000/9. Tsurenthung Odyuo Rs. 4,000/10. Dr. Etsemo Khuvung Rs. 3,000/11. Y.Abemo Lotha Rs. 3,000/12. Myanthung Patton Rs. 3,000/13. Lirenthung Khuvung Rs. 3,000/14. Yanrenthung Patton Rs. 3,000/15. Loyivani Khuvung Rs. 2,000/16. Dr. Phyantsuthun Rs. 2,000/17. Tsolow Ovung Rs. 2,000/18. Yanbamo Khuvung Rs. 2,000/19. Thunglamo Ovung Rs. 2,000/20. Thungjanpemo Ezung Rs. 2,000/21. Etsorhomo Khuvung Rs. 1,000/22. Wonchio Odyuo Rs. 1,000/23. Yantsso Khuvung Rs. 1,000/24. K.R. Odyuo Rs. 1,000/25. A.Y.Odyuo Rs. 500/26. L.S. Lotha Rs. 300/Sd/General Secretary, KWRU K-2029

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QE-II unveils govt agenda in scaled-down Parl opening

Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Charles sit in the House of Lords at the official State Opening of Parliament in London, Wednesday, June 21, 2017. (AP/PTI) LONDON, JUN 21 (PTI): Queen Elizabeth II today unveiled the government’s agenda in her speech dominated by a host of proposed new laws designed to prepare the UK for a “smooth and orderly” divorce from the EU amidst the political uncertainity after Prime Minister Theresa May’s poll debacle.

At a scaled-down State Opening of Parliament, the Queen’s Speech, which is prepared by the government of the day and read out by the monarch, laid out the legislative priorities for parliamentary proceedings.

The scaled down version, minus the usual royal procession and pageantry, is a result of the rushed preparations following the

snap general election earlier this month.

This year’s speech was dominated by Brexit and will cover a two-year period instead of one to give MPs time to deliberate on laws needed to leave the European Union (EU) – irrespective of the final deal agreed with Brussels.

A host of proposed new laws designed to prepare the UK for a “smooth and orderly” departure from the EU have been announced.

Of 24 bills, eight relate to Brexit and its implications for key industries.

As well as a bill to convert EU rules into UK law, there are measures on trade, customs, immigration, fisheries, agriculture, nuclear and sanctions.

At the heart of this is the so-called Great Repeal Bill, which will repeal the 1972 European Communities Act and end the jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice. It will also copy existing EU legislation to the UK statute book, and Parliament will decide which bits to retain.

As part of the dressdown version of the grand State Opening, the 91-yearold monarch arrived in a car instead of a carriage and wore a day dress instead of her traditional robes.

She was accompanied by son and heir Prince Charles rather than husband Duke of Edinburgh, after he was admitted to hospital as a “precautionary measure” last night.

There was no mention of US President Donald Trump’s proposed state visit to the UK later this year, appearing to confirm suggestions it has been delayed.

The main non-Brexit bills include a domestic violence and abuse bill and a data protection bill.

Meanwhile, May led Conservatives are still trying to agree terms with the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) to secure their support for a minority government after the snap general election failed to win a majority for the ruling party.

“The election result was not the one I hoped for, but this government will respond with humility and resolve to the message the electorate sent. We will work hard every day to gain the trust and confidence of the British people, making their priorities our priorities,” May said in the lead up to the Queen’s Speech.

Her ministers have said some parts of the Conservative party manifesto would have to be “pruned” following the election result.

Opposition Labour party and the Liberal Democrats each plan to put forward alternative versions of the Queen’s Speech.

“They have got the right to bring forward their own programme, but I don’t believe, actually, that they are legitimate in the sense that they have got a mandate that they asked for,” Labour’s shadow chancellor Jon McDonnell said.

Yoga mats spread across world on Yoga Day UNITED NATIONS/ LIMA, JUN 21 (PTI): From Peru’s historic citadel of Machu Picchu to the UN’s sprawling lawns in New York, yoga mats were spread at iconic landmarks across the world as yoga practitioners today performed ‘asanas’ to mark the third International Yoga Day. Top UN diplomats, officials, envoys, yoga practitioners and people from all walks of life attended a grand event organised by India’s Permanent Mission to the UN to mark the day at the world body’s headquarters in New York.

Hundreds of specially designed yoga mats were spread across the UN’s sprawling north lawns, facing the imposing UN General Assembly hall and the UN Secretariat building, as people from all walks of life descended on the UN headquarters to participate in the ‘Yoga Session with Yoga Masters’.

Chants, hymns, prayers and the sound of “Om” reverberated across the UN as leading yoga practitioners led the gathering through sessions of yoga and meditation to celebrate the traditional wellness regime that originated in India.

The UN also issued special stamps commemorating the Yoga Day. The UN postal agency, UN Postal Administration (UNPA) issues the new special event sheet to commemorate the day that has been marked annually since 2015.

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Brussels attacker identified as Moroccan with nail bomb

Belgian Army soldiers patrol near Central Station in Brussels after a reported explosion on Tuesday, June 20, 2017. (AP/PTI) B RU S S E L S, J U N 2 1 (AFP): Belgium said today a Moroccan man carried out a foiled terrorist attack with a nail bomb at a busy Brussels train station, the latest in a wave of attacks to hit Europe.

The 36-year-old man, identified only as O Z, shouted “Allahu Akbar” and tried to detonate a suitcase in a group of passengers at Brussels Central station before a soldier shot him dead yesterday.

The suspect, from the largely immigrant Brussels neighbourhood of Molenbeek which has been linked to a number of previous attacks, was not known to police for terrorism offences.

“It could have been much worse,” Belgian federal prosecutor’s spokesman Eric Van Der Sypt

told a news conference. “It is clear that he wanted to cause more damage than he did.”

Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel said a “terrorist attack has been prevented” in the city that hosts the EU and NATO headquarters.

But he said that while security would be stepped up, the country’s terror alert level would be kept stable.

“We are not allowing ourselves to be intimidated by terrorists,” he added.

The blast came a day after a man mowed down Muslims near a mosque in London, and a suspected Islamist on a terror watchlist rammed a car laden with weapons into a police vehicle in Paris.

Brussels has been on high alert since suicide

bombers struck Zavantem Airport and the Maalbeek metro station near the EU quarter in March 2016, killing 32 people and injuring hundreds more.

The Islamic State group claimed the attacks, which were carried out by the same Brussels-based cell behind the November 2015 suicide bombings and shootings in Paris which left 130 people dead.

In yesterday’s incident, the man failed to cause any casualties.

He entered the station and twice approached a group of around 10 passengers, the second time standing in the middle of them, prosecutors said.

“He grabbed his suitcase while shouting and causing a partial explosion.

Fortunately nobody was hurt,” Van Der Sypt said.

ruling Republican wins Georgia election, blow to anti-Trump effort Saudi King names son as crown prince leftRomania sinks own govt

Released by the Saudi Press Agency, SPA, Saudi King Salman, right, and Defense Minister and Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman wave as they leave the hall after talks with the British prime minister, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.(AP/PTI) RIYADH, JUN 21 (IANS): Saudi Arabia’s King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud on Wednesday dismissed his nephew Mohammed bin Naif as crown prince and replaced him with his son Mohammed bin Salman as first in line to the throne.

According to Saudi TV news channel Al Arabiya, 31 out of 43 members of Saudi Arabia’s Allegiance Council voted in favour of Prince Mohammed bin Salman as the new crown prince.

Mohammed bin Salman, 31, was also appointed as Deputy Prime Minister and will continue to hold his post of Defence Minister,

according a royal decree cited by the state media.

The royal reordering removed Prince Nayef, 57, both from his place in the line of succession and from his post as Interior Minister.

He has pledged allegiance to the new crown prince, news agency SPA reported.

Prince Nayef was the kingdom’s security chief for many years and was known for his strong stance against Islamist militants. He was widely respected by Saudis and their foreign allies for dismantling Al Qaeda’s networks inside the kingdom.

A young and relatively unknown prince, Abdulaziz

bin Saud bin Nayef, was named the new Interior Minister.

King Salman, 81, acceded to the throne in January 2015 after the death of his half-brother Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz.

He announced his first major cabinet reshuffle a few months later, appointing Prince Nayef as crown prince and Prince Salman as deputy crown prince, BBC reported. As Defence Minister and deputy crown prince, Prince Salman led Saudi Arabia’s war in Yemen and oversaw the kingdom’s energy policy.

He also spearheaded the development of a wideranging plan for the country’s future, called Saudi Vision 2030, which seeks to decrease Saudi Arabia’s dependence on oil, diversify its economy and loosen some social restrictions inside the kingdom. Prince Salman visited the US in March, where he had lunch at the White House with US President Donald Trump. He praised the country’s relationship with the US, saying that without American influence “we would have ended up like North Korea”.

Prince Salman also voiced support for “freedom of expression” and “human rights”.

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BUCHAREST, JUN 21 (AFP): Romania’s government fell today after the ruling party took the unusual step of passing a no-confidence vote in its own prime minister following internal power struggles.

The left-wing Social Democrat party (PSD) filed the motion against premier Sorin Grindeanu barely six months after winning an election. The PSD unexpectedly withdrew its support for Grindeanu on June 14, accusing him of “delays” in implementing reforms in the European Union’s secondpoorest country.

Grindeanu however refused to resign and denounced powerful PSD boss Liviu Dragnea for seeking to “concentrate all the power in his hands”.

The 54-year-old, who led his party to a thumping poll victory in December, is barred from running for office because of a voter fraud conviction. Nonetheless he continued to pull the government strings behind the scenes once Grindeanu became premier in January.

At first Grindeanu complied but recently began asserting his independence, which reportedly led to the current crisis.

WASHINGTON, JUN 21 (AFP): Republican Karen Handel won a high-stakes, closely-watched special congressional election, salvaging a seat in traditional conservative Georgia where Democrats had hoped to strike a blow against Donald Trump’s presidency.

Handel, an establishment Republican and former state secretary of state, defeated Democratic challenger and political novice Jon Ossoff by about five percentage points, multiple US networks projected, denying Democrats their first election victory of the year.

Her win marked an impressive rebound from polling that showed her narrowly trailing her rival in the run up to the vote, and signalled that Republican disillusionment about Trump was not as deep as Democrats were counting on.

The result no doubt comes as relief for Republicans who had grown concerned about whether their party, buffeted by the scandals that have plagued the Republican president, could hold the seat in Georgia’s sixth district that became the most expensive congressional race in US history. “Congratulations

A voter casts his ballot in Georgia’s 6th Congressional District special election at a polling site in Sandy Springs, Ga., Tuesday, June 20, 2017. (AP/PTI) to Karen Handel on her big win in Georgia 6th. Fantastic job, we are all very proud of you!” tweeted Trump, who had publicly implored Republicans to troop to the polls to back Handel.

While the White House had played down the national importance of the Georgia race, Trump had gone all in on Handel, and the Republican Party no doubt sees the victory as a shot in the arm as it prepares to fight to preserve its control of Congress in next year’s mid-term elections.

“Tonight, the people

of Georgia’s sixth district overwhelmingly voted not only for Karen, but also for President Trump’s agenda of replacing our broken health care system, reforming an outdated tax code, and prioritizing infrastructure investment,” Republican National Committee chairwoman Ronna McDaniel.

Trump’s party also claimed victory in another congressional race Tuesday, in neighboring South Carolina. Both contests were held to replace lawmakers who vacated their

seats in order to join the Trump cabinet.

Democratic candidates also lost earlier races in Republican-held districts in Kansas and Montana.

The victories gave Trump a chance to gloat.

“Well, the Special Elections are over and those that want to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN are 5 and O! All the Fake News, all the money spent = 0,” he tweeted. The opposition Democrats had painted each of the races as a referendum on Trump’s scandalplagued presidency.

“We dodged a bullet tonight,” Georgia-based Republican strategist Chip Lake told AFP. “We’re still going to be on the defense in November of 2018,” with Trump a likely “liability,” he added.

But while Republicans were facing a sobering reminder of their president’s poor approval ratings, Handel steadied the ship in a district that only narrowly backed Trump in last November’s vote.

In conceding the race, Ossoff, a filmmaker and former political staffer, signalled Democrats could learn from these races and prepare for the larger battle for control of the US Congress in 2018.

MARAWI (PHILIPPINES), JUN 21 (AFP): Islamic militants occupied a primary school and took hostages in a southern Philippine village today, a few hours drive from a city where other jihadists were fighting a monthlong war, authorities said. Hundreds of gunmen initially attacked a lightly guarded military outpost at dawn, with about 30 then taking over the school and using civilians as human shields, the military said. “As of now they are in the school holding the civilians. They are using them as human shields,” Captain Arvin Encinas, spokesman for the army division with responsibility for the area, told AFP by phone. Encinas said the gunmen had planted improvised bombs around the school, a small building in a rural area, and that soldiers had surrounded it. There were about 20 hostages taken from houses nearby, but no students, Antonio Maganto, the region’s education spokesman, told AFP, although he said the exact numbers could not be confirmed. The unrest occurred in Pigkawayan, a farming town about 160 kilometres (100 miles) from Marawi city where fighters linked to the Islamic State (IS) group have been battling troops for a month in a conflict that has claimed hundreds of lives.

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The Students of Sociology Department of J.N. Aier College, Diphupar, Dimapur assisted by the Assistant Professors Ms. Khenili Kiho and Ms. Susila Basnet visited DIMUL Industry located at 7th Mile, Dimapur on 21st June 2017 as part of the study relating to Industry. Er. Meyieu Mero, the Manager of DIMUL gave an explanation on the functioning of DIMUL and on the processing of milk and the milk products.

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Thousands flock to witness WMD 2017 Dimapur

(L-R) State Planning board deputy chairman Kuzholuzo Nienu speaking during the event, MTF directort Gusg Chishi, Alobo Naga, Thunglamo Ngullie and some other solo performers. (NP)

(L-R) Hope Centre for Excellence representors, The Gluttones, a section of the crowd and Aria band. (NP)

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usic lovers, artistes and professionals came together to celebrate the World Music Day 2017 along with the rest of the world during a mega open air live concert held at State Stadium, Dimapur on Wednesday.

People of all age groups numbering over 7,000 gathered at the venue to witness some of the most happening, renowned and promising artistes in the state.

Catering to the need of a host of taste for different genres, more than 25 artistes performed some of the most popular songs, pieces and instrumentals all on a single stage which

in itself was a great accomplishment taking into consideration the huge amount of resources, manpower, technical capability and artiste management put into action.

The event will go down the annals as one of the most memorable moments for all the music lovers and artistes alike.

Much to the organizers and the gathered music fans, the unpredictable monsoon weather paved a pleasant way for the show to be held interrupted as it stretched to over 3 and a half hours.

Midway through the concert, chief guest for the event and Deputy Chairman, State Planning Board,

Kuzholuzo Nienu, MLA in a short speech greeted the gathered youth on the account of the global event.

He also said he was representing the state government to be part of the worldwide event.

The organizers, heaping a huge praise for the MLA, said he was one leader who had always been available especially to the youths. They also informed that Azo was the only politician willing to be part of the event when approached and came forward forgoing all his prior engagements and taking part in an activity which the youths were most interested in.

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n the occasion of World Music Day obser ved worldwide today, a social media, facebook group, “Medziphema Echoes” also solemnly acknowledged the day by organising a minishow at CYO Hall, Medziphema.

A number of voluntary, local artistes participated in the event organised through charity.

The music show was a free concert where youngsters as well as veterans took to the stage.

Licha Thosum wins ‘best national costume’ during FBB Femina Miss India 2017 In a glittering ceremony packed with the best and renowned people from the industry last night in Mumbai held the FBB Femina Miss India 2017 national costume competition. The winner for the “Best National Costume” was none other than Northeast Pride

rector, Gugs Chishi who was also present at the event performed a classic hit by Neil Young adding more colour and glamour to the event and also playing the role of a guiding force for the music aficionados.

As informed by the organizers, a freewill donation drive was made during the event where a total sum of Rs 17,885 was collected from the crowd which will all proceed to sponsoring underprivileged kids.

During the donation drive all the performing artistes collaborated to perform one of the most globally known song, “We Are The World” written by Michael Jackson and Lionel

Richie. The song perfectly matched the atmosphere of the goodwill gesture initiated by the organizers to lookout for even the less privileged kids.

Music schools including Great Commission Music Academy (4th Mile), Musicians Academy (Purana Bazaar), Soloist Workstation (Duncan), The Institute for Music Education (Duncan), has come forward heeding to the call for sponsoring underprivileged kids given by the organizers.

Solo artistes who performed during the event included Alobo Naga feat. DJ Amar, Renbeni Odyuo feat.

DJ Sumika, Abel Assumi, Jano Nyekha, Thunglamo

Owl City explains reasoning behind confusing ‘Fireflies’ lyric

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This national costume for Licha Thosum was created ace designer from Arunachal Pradesh Nabam Akaa, an inspiration from the rich colorful culture and tradition of Arunachal

Pradesh. Designer Nabam Akaa is versatile and creative designer who has showcased her collection at “London Fashion Week” in 2015. The grand finale of FBB Femina Miss India 2017 will be held on June 25.

d a m Yo u n g h a s done the math on the line “‘Cause I’d get a thousand hugs/ From 10,000 lightning bugs/ As they tried to teach me how to dance” Owl City has revealed the mathematical reasoning behind one of the confusing lyrics from his 2009 hit ‘Fireflies’.

Owl City – aka Adam Young – shot to prominence nearly eight years ago with the single, which went six times platinum worldwide and spent three weeks at the top of the UK singles chart.

Young has only now spoken out on one especially unclear lyric from ‘Fireflies’, where he sings: “Cause I’d get a thousand hugs / From 10,000 lightning bugs / As they tried to teach me how to dance.”

Having bamboozled fans for years, Young has now clarified his take on the maths that the lyrics invoke

after being asked on Twitter to explain whether “each firefly hugs you 1,000 times, or do only 1/10th of the bugs give you a hug?”

“I was the recipient of 1,000 hugs from 10,000 lightning bugs for a grand total of 10,000,000 hugs,” Young explained in reply. “As the lyrics of the song clearly state, the average layperson would not believe their eyes if 10,000,000 fireflies were to illuminate planet Earth, nor would the average person conclude by natural instinct that 10,000 lightning bugs, acting as a collective group, are capable of embracing a human being 1,000 times without difficulty.

Ngullie, Meribeni Patton, Samuel Lotha, Muno Shiu, Moatungit Jamir and Khochamo Kikon.

Six bands including The Gluttones, Brainstorm Island, Aria, Yellow Beacon and Demon Arch and Nean in House performed while music schools including Nagaland Conservatory, Joey’s Studio, Mountain Music Academy, Hope Centre for Excellence and Soloist Workstation sent their representatives to participate in the event.

Thanks to the responsible and concrete initiative taken up by Sky Entertainment, Crescendo Events and Time Institute of Music Education (TIME) along with tech and gear

Jano Nyekha and friends. (NP)

support from Shiu Lights, Encore, A.J Power, Action Powerline and Crescendo, the artistes and music lovers seemingly had a terrific time.

The event was also

supported by Fusion, 1 Outer, Barefoot, Heritage Publishing House, Uniglobe Enterprise (Royal Enfield), Aier’s Enclave and Liberty Tent.

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First Step Dance Academy wins ‘You Got the Talent’

Winners of You Got The Talent, First Dance Academy along with the show organizers and judges during the grand finale.

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irst Step Academy from Chumukedima was declared the winner of the event ‘You Got The Talent’ during the grand finale held at Town Hall Dimapur organized by A.B Entertainment.

The judges for the fi-

nale included Naga Film Industry actor and director Munna Yadav, All Assam Dance competition winner Pritam Shing and SnF frontman Albert Ginger.

First Dance Academy was adjudged as the most talented group from among

the top 9 finalists which comprises of participants from different genres of art and entertainment. A cash prize of Rs 50,000 was handed over to winners by AB Entertainment president Aakki Dimasa and general secretary Ajit Gogoi.

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he much awaited Nagaland Fashion Week Season-1 organized by the Nagaland Designer Association kick started today at Hotel Theja Fort Dimapur where many young K

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The event will present the creative collections of the designers which are mostly Spring Summer collection. People will witness

the creativity of the young talent from our state who are ready to take on the fashion industry.

Tickets will be available at the Venue.

The participating de-

signers are Dosolou, Sanjeev, Yosana & Mephruwe-u, Inaka & Anitoli, Vilhousa, Hivi & Veseye, Amini & Anikali, Rosenle, Kathimen, Mhayani and Jordina Basu.

ishing all music lovers on the occasion of World Music Day on Wednesday, some of the Indian musicians say the celebration of music should not be restricted to one day since the “world breathes music, every moment, everyday”.

While legendary sarod player Amjad Ali Khan gave his blessings to all music enthusiasts, fusion group Midival Punditz shared a song from their archives on social media. Here is what musicians had to say: Amjad Ali Khan: A day in honour of Music.

Wish all music lovers a very peaceful World Music Day. God Bless.

Midival Punditz: One from our archives. This was a recording we did in 2006, on World Music Day. Ayaan Ali Bangash:

To be a musician is in itself a blessing as you are really not answerable to anyone but yourself.

Amaan Ali Bangash: Wish you all a very Happy World Music Day! Pa p o n A n ga r a a g : Wishing everyone a very happy world music day.

Though every day should be a music day! Leaving for Spain to perform at IIFA Rocks!

Prosenjit Chatterjee: The music is not in the notes but in the silence in between.

Rekha Bhardwaj: Celebrating World Music Day today!

Zaeden: Happy World Music Day. What are you currently listening to?

Amit Trivedi: Happy world music day to all you lovely people who love music. Music forever

Harshdeep Kaur: Aaj Bhangra paun nu jee karda (Today I feel like dancing) Celebrating World Music Day with friends!

Kailash Kher: Happy world music day to all my awesome fans and music lovers listen and dance to the beats of your soul.

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Surbiton challenger event last week, raced through the second to the general surprise of the 10,000 crowd.

“Andy`s the world number one -- I`ve looked up to him and that`s definitely the biggest win of my career. I took each point at a time. I didn`t expect it to be winning in straight sets,” he told the BBC. “I was sitting around yesterday hoping to get a match. Here I am, I got in the draw and I was so lucky to be here. I don`t know if I can say my immediate thoughts.”

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LONDON, Jun 21 (Agencies): Boris Becker was declared bankrupt by a British court on Wednesday after the former tennis player failed to pay a long-standing debt.

A lawyer for the six-time Grand Slam champion pleaded with a Bankruptcy Court registrar in London for a last chance to pay a debt that Becker has owed to private bankers Arbuthnot Latham & Co. since 2015.

The registrar, Christine Derrett, said there was a lack of credible evidence that his debt would be paid soon. She refused to adjourn the case for a further 28 days and announced a bankruptcy order.

Dimapur, Jun 21 (NPN): Dimapur District Badminton Association (DDBA) would be conducting selection of players to represent the district in the forthcoming 41st Inter District and State Open Badminton Championship 2017 to be held from July 11-14 at Chumukedima.

DDBA president Vikhugha Chophi informed that the selection for veterans players will be held on June 26 at 8 a.m. and junior players on June 23-24 at DDBA indoor stadium, United colony, Nagarjan.

Interested players affiliated under DDBA have been asked to report to the venue on time.

Tuluni volleyball tourney

DIMAPUR, Jun 21 (NPN): V.K.Area People’s Organization would be organizing the 31st Tuluni Volley Ball Trophy (All Simi) at V.K. Town from July 4-7. Interested teams have been asked to register with a fee of Rs. 3000 per team. Details can be contacted at 8729971703/ 8575653775.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT We, the bereaved family of Late Süzülemla, W/o Late Sayangkaba (Longkhum), would like to express our heartfelt gratitude to each and every individual who stood by us and shared our grief and supported us physically, materially and with prayers.

We regret our inability to thank you individually but we pray that the Almighty God bless you all abundantly.

Loving Children, grandchildren, great grandchildren & family members

3rd DEATH ANNIVERSARY of Lt. M. Chemnyei

Born : 9th April 1977 – Died : 22nd June 2014

It's been three years on this day, the 22nd June 2014 God took you home, gone forever but your memories will always remain the same.

We miss you.

Late Süzülemla

(1922 to 14-06-2017)

Loving husband, son, daughter & family members

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT 7-10-1940 to 18-06-2017

We the family members Late Yehoto Zhimomi, GB Shoixe Village, would like to acknowledge our heartfelt gratitude to all those who stood by us and shared our grief and sorrow and supported us financially, spiritually, physically and materially during his prolonged illness till his demise.

We convey our special thanks to :1. G. Kaito Aye, Minister for Highway and Political Affairs, Nagaland 2. Er. Ghukhuyi Zhimomi, Irrigation and Flood Control Kohima 3. Hokhupu Zhimomi, Head G.B Chekiye Village 4. Toyikhu, G.B Chekiye Village 5. Hotopu Zhimomi, Head G.B Ikishe Village 6. Kakheho Aye, DGM (NIDC) 7. Khevishe Yepthomi, SDEO Electrical 8. Henizhe Awomi, Chekiye Village 9. Shoixe Ghami 10. Zhekiye Ghami 11. Kiyekhu Ghami 12. Sukhalu Ghami 13. Sheyipu Ghami 14. Aghuyito Ghami 15. Satakha Ghami 16. Friends and relatives from Satakha Town.

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Born : 1920 – Died : 12.06.2017

We the bereaved family members would like to express our deep gratitude and appreciation to each and every individual, churches, organisations, neighbours, friends and well wishers who stood by us and extended physical, material, moral support and prayer at the sudden demise of our beloved mother Lt. Nepuni Eshia Chalai on 12.06.2017. Though we are unable to express gratitude to all of you personally, we pray that the Almighty God will bless each and every one of you abundantly.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT We t h e b e r e a v e d f a m i l y members of Shri. Late Z. Vishito Zhimomi, would like to express our sincere gratitude to all the relatives, friends, churches, neighbours and all well wishers who stood by us and supported us physically, materially, financially and most importantly in prayer at the sad demise of our beloved father on 23.05.2017.

We would like to convey our 1930 – 2017 special thanks to :1. Shri. G. Kaito Aye, National Highway and Political Affairs Nagaland.

2. Shri. Kuzholuzo (Azo) Nienu Deputy Planning Chairman and Advisor to Chief Minister Nagaland.

3. Doctors and Nurses, Y. Rochill Clinic Zunheboto.

4. Rev. Fr. George Parish priest and his colleagues St. Anthony Church Zunheboto Town.

5. Rev. Pastor Dr. Daniel, Zunheboto Town Baptist Church SBAK (Aizuto) 6. Zunheboto Town Baptist Church SBAK (Aizuto) 7. Amiphoto Colony Youth Department SBAK (Aizuto) 8. Amiphoto Colony Prayer Fellowship SBAK (Aizuto) 9. Project Colony Prayer Fellowship SBAK (Aizuto) 10. Satoi Area Public Forum Zunheboto Town.

11. Staff of RNTCP Section Directorate of Health & Family Welfare Kohima.

12. Satoi Area GB Association.

13. Pastor Khehoi and Family, Hokiye Baptist Church 14. Hokiye Baptist Church Youth Department 15. Hokiye Baptist Church General 16. Hokiye Village Baptist Church Women Dept.

We regret our inability to acknowledge each individual by name however, it is our fervent prayer that our Almighty God will bless each and everyone of you in manifold for sharing your love, kindness and good deeds.

Initially he had been scheduled to face fellow Britain Aljaz Bedene but 23-year-old `lucky loser` Thompson stepped in after Bedene withdrew with a wrist injury.

Murray had lost only one match on grass since the summer of 2014 -- to Roger Federer in the 2015 Wimbledon semi-finals -- but looked uncomfortable on the slick surface as the errors flowed from his racket, especially off the forehand.

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Temperatures, which had reached 38 degrees on court during the day at the west London club, were still sizzling when Murray took to court for his first grasscourt match of the season, having reached the semi-finals of the French Open.

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L o n d o n, J u n 2 1 (Agencies): The top three seeds withered in the baking Queen`s Club sunshine with five-times Aegon Championships winner Andy Murray following Stan Wawrinka and Milos Raonic through the exit door on Tuesday.

By far the biggest shock was number one seed Murray`s abject 7-6(4) 6-2 defeat to Australian world number 90 Jordan Thompson -- a late call-up who only knew he was playing shortly before stepping on court against the defending champion.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT “I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.”

2 Timothy 4:7

The family of Late Reverend Luhezu Yeptho expresses sincere and profound gratitude to each and every individual, family, social organisations and church organisations for sharing our deepest grief and sorrow. We thank you for all the heartfelt condolences showered upon us. All your material, financial, physical, moral and prayer support will always be appreciated and remembered.

Our loving Dad is with us no more as he has left to be with God. We will continue to cherish all the wonderful memories which our dearest dad has left behind and continue to emulate his legacies. We believe that our dad’s humble and faithful service towards God and humanity shall be richly rewarded in Heaven. It is our humble prayer that the spiritual seed which our dad has sown for many individuals and churches will truly and meaningfully bear fruit. May his life continue to bless and inspire us more with the passing of each day. May his soul rest in peace.

We would like to acknowledge the following : 1. Executive Secretary and staff, SBAK, Nito Mount, Zunheboto 2. SBAK Ordination Board, Nito Mount 3. Sumi Baptist Church, Zunheboto 4. Executive Secretary and staff, SBAK, Aizuto 5. Principal, staffs and students of Anderson Theological College (ATC), Aizuto 6. Dr. Ikheto, Nikos Hospital, Dimapur 7. Sumi Settsu Baptist church 8. Sumi Settsu Union, Mokokchung 9. Sumi Settsu Union, Zunheboto 10. Sumi Settsu Union, Dimapur 11. Head G.B, Asst G.B, Sumi Settsu village 12. Village council Chairman and members, Sumi Settsu 13. Sumi Settsu Jubilee Planning Board 14. Sumi Settsu Church Leaders Fellowship 15. Amalimi & Amulimi, Sumi Settsu 16. Septuagenarian’s Fellowship, North Point, Zunheboto 17. Ungma Baptist Church 18. Ao Settsu Baptist Church 19. Ao Settsu Village Council 20. Longkhum Baptist Church 21. Tenyimi Baptist Church, Zunheboto 22. United Revival Fellowship, Zunheboto 23. Akuluto Baptist Church 24. Akuluto- VK Area, Church Leaders Fellowship 25. Akuluto Area Union, Zunheboto 26. Sumi Baptist Church (A), Mokokchung 27. Sumi Baptist Church (B), Mokokchung 28. Vishepu Baptist Church

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We are unable to thank each and everyone of you in personally but it is our prayer that our Good God in all His abundance will bless each and everyone of you.

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Portugal beat Russia at Confed Cup First open volleyball tourney in Wokha

Cristiano Ronaldo celebrates after scoring a goal during the Confederations Cup, in Moscow, Wednesday. (AP/PTI)

M o s c o w, J u n 2 1 (Agencies): Cristiano Ronaldo set aside his legal troubles to score the winning goal for Portugal on Wednesday in a 1-0 victory over hosts Russia in the Confederations Cup. Ronaldo headed Portugal in front in the eighth minute at Moscow’s Spartak

Stadium. The European champions struggled to kill off the game despite several chances and could have conceded when Georgy Dzhikiya headed narrowly over in stoppage time.

A day after Ronaldo was summoned to court in Spain over allegations relating to a complex tax

fraud, his goal was simple.

He found space on the right flank and crept in behind defender Fyodor Kudryashov to head in Raphael Guerreiro’s lofted cross at the far post.

It could have been 2-0 in the 50th if not for Russia goalkeeper Igor Akinfeev, playing his 100th

international game, and his acrobatic one-handed save to keep out Adrien Silva’s header. Guerreiro limped off injured in the 65th.

Russia failed to register a shot on target, though Fyodor Smolov should have done better when he sliced a shot wide from a good position shortly before half-time.

On a chilly Moscow evening, Russia coach Stanislav Cherchesov set up his team defensively, putting rightback Roman Shishkin into a midfield role, but his plans were upended after just eight minutes when Ronaldo headed in Portugal’s opener. Portugal outplayed Russia comprehensively for the rest of the half but created no clear-cut chances, Ronaldo going closest.

The Russians barely made it into the Portuguese half for long periods of the opening 45 minutes, and only came remotely close to scoring with Smolov’s mishit effort off Alexander Golovin’s cross.

Besides the Silva header saved by Akinfeev, the Portuguese also threatened to score a second when Ronaldo headed wide in the 63rd and blasted a shot over the bar shortly after.

The Russians made attacking substitutions and pushed forward, testing the Portuguese defense with balls over the top, but often left themselves open on the counter. Guerreiro had to be substituted in the 65th after limping off for medical treatment. Russia threw men forward in search of a late equalizer, but came no closer than Dzhikiya’s header over the bar.

(L) Dr. Chumben Murry speaking at the programme. (R) Action in the match between United Boys (pangti) and Rachan club Wokha town at local ground, Wokha on Wednesday.

DIMAPUR, JUN 21 (NPN): Fifteen teams including three women teams are competing in the open Volleyball tournament which got underway at local ground, Wokha on Wednesday.

In the opening match, United Boys Pangti beat Rachan Club Wokha town.

The first of its kind was organized by Etsutchukha Youth League (EYL) under the theme “unity through sports”.

Former minister Dr. Chumben Murry graced the opening ceremony as chief guest. He encouraged the participants to maintain fairness while taking part in the event so that the coming together of players from various backgrounds would be meaningful. Maintain-

ing that peace was essential part for the society to progress, he urged the gathering to be a part of the peace process.

He also touched on clean election and called upon every village, khel and colonies to come forward and support the cause, and be an agent of clean election.

President Lotha Students’ Union Libemo Tsopoe in his brief speech said, to be a winner one should accept defeat. He also termed sports as the only medium to bring closer and unity in this technology era.

Chairman Lotha Hoho Mhao Humtsoe termed sport as a game of discipline and urged the gathering to maintain discipline not only in sports but also in every sphere by

quoting that all cannot be “master of all trade”.

The oath taking ceremony was led by games and sports secretary (EYL) Nzanthung Mozhui.

Earlier, the opening ceremony chaired by Ayingbeni S. Jami began with an invocation by association pastor WTBC, Rev Yilow Lotha. Lobeno Tungoe (Winner of the voice of Wokha 2017) presented special song.

EYL president Chanbemo Humtsoe delivered the welcome address. On June 23, the match patron would be Addl SP Wokha, Tokavi Achumi.

The closing ceremony on June 24 would be graced by Wokha Dist.

Entrepreneurs’ Association (WDEA) president Z. Ponathung Kikon as chief guest.

M Kom in Mongolian tourney QFs Australia Open: Saina, Srikanth, Sindhu advance Sydney, Jun 21 (IANS): It was a mixed day for Indian shuttlers as defending champion Saina Nehwal, P.V. Sindhu, Kidambi Srikanth and B. Sai Praneeth advanced while Parupalli Kashyap, Ajay Jayaram and H.S. Prannoy bowed out of the $750,000 Australia Open Superseries here on Wednesday.

World No.15 Saina defeated fourth-ranked South Korean player Sung Ji Hyun 21-10, 21-16 in a match which lasted only 38 minutes. In another match, Rio Olympics gold medallist Sindhu edged past Japanese Sayaka Sato 21-17, 14-21, 21-18 in a 65 minutes gruelling match.

In men’s singles category, 14th-ranked Praneeth came back from one set

down to oust Tommy Sugiarto of Indonesia 10-21, 21-12, 21-10 in 47 minutes while Guntur player Srikanth comfortably brushed aside Kan Chao Yu of Chinese Taipei 21-13, 21-16 in just 27 minutes.

Among other shuttlers, Jayaram was eliminated by Ng Ka Long Angus of Hong Kong 21-14, 10-21, 9-21 in a match that lasted around 42 minutes. Parupalli Kashyap bowed out of the tournament, going down to top seed Son Wan Ho of South Korea 18-21, 21-14, 15-21 in a match that was very competitive for its entire duration of 65 minutes.

Prannoy also put up a dismal performance and bowed out of the meet. The Indian shuttler was defeated

by Rajiv Ouseph of England

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Cash awards flow in for Pakistan cricket champions

NEW DELHI, Jun 21 (PTI): Five-time world champion MC Mary Kom (51kg) got a bye into the quarterfinals as India were off to a good start at the Ulaanbaatar Cup boxing tournament with two wins on the opening day in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia on Wednesday.

Mary Kom, returning to competitive action after a one-year hiatus, will take on the winner of the bout between Russia’s Anna Aedma and Korea’ Chol Mi Bang on Thursday.

Strandja Memorial silver-medallist Mohamed Hussamuddin (56kg) and King’s Cup bronze-medallist Rohit Tokas (64kg) were among the winners in the men’s draw. Hussamuddin

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defeated Kyrgyzstan’s Almanbet Alibekov to enter the quarterfinals. He will face China’s Ma Xin Ming on Thursday.

Rohit defeated Russia’s Dorjo Dakhaev to also enter the quarterfinals. He will now face Chinzorig Baatarsukh of Mongolia.However, Jaideep (75kg) bowed out after losing his opening bout to China’s Zhan Chao Feng.

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and Asian Championships silver- medallist L Devendro Singh (52kg), King’s Cup gold-medallist K Shyam Kumar (49kg) and Asian youth silver-medallist Ankush Dahiya (64kg) advanced to the quarters after getting firstround byes.

Devendro will face Russia’s Yusupov Dimitrii, while Shyam Kumar will be up against face Enkhmandakh Kharkhuu of Mongolia in his last-eight stage contest. Ankush will also be squaring off against a Mongolian in Dulgunn.

D u r yo d h a n S i n g h (69kg) has also made the quarterfinals straightaway because of the small size of the draw. He will take on Mongolia’s Byamba-Erdene Otgonbaatar.

Anil’s tickets were booked for Barbados. His wife was also supposed to join him but he knew it was over,” the official added.

Asked if he could be more specific, the official said: “Let’s put it that Virat felt that Anil is entering an area which was his domain.

For Anil, who has been a decorated player and an India captain, he has his own beliefs and ideas but the final call always stays with the captain,” he said.

Captain Virat Kohli along with coach Anil Kumble during a practice session in Mumbai on Tuesday ahead of the 4th test match against England.Anil Kumble has stepped down as the coach of the Indian team. (PTI)

New Delhi, Jun 21 (PTI): The BCCI top brass had an inkling that all was not well but they were taken aback when they came to know that captain Virat Kohli and chief coach Anil Kumble were not in talking terms for the “last six months”.

Another impor tant thing that has come out in the open was that the Chief Advisory Committee, comprising Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly and VVS Laxman, also didn’t straightaway give the green light to Kumble’s extension.

“There had been reports that the CAC had okayed Kumble’s extension.

They had okayed his extension but with a rider.

They had said that Kumble should be retained provided all pending issues

are resolved,” a senior BCCI official, who was present in London during the whole episode, told PTI. Post the ICC Champions Trophy final, there were three separate meetings at the Indian team’s hotel.

The first was where Kumble met the BCCI top brass and members of CAC followed by Kohli meeting them. The last and the most “eventful” meeting was when Kohli and Kumble were made to sit across the table. The talks failed completely as there was no communication.

“The two had stopped talking to each other since December when the England Test series got over.

There were problems but it was like shocking that the two didn’t have any proper communication for the past

six months. On Sunday evening after the final, they were made to sit across table and they both agreed that it’s not working out.”

When asked what was the problem, the source said: “When we spoke to Anil separately and specifically asked him if there’s any problem, he said he has ‘no problems with Virat’.

He was also told about the specific areas where Kohli has reservations about his functioning, while Anil said these were non-issues.”

The official sounded helpless. “Look, if one of the two protagonists feel that there are issues which seemed to be non-issue to the other one, only these two can then sort out. Once they sat across the table, both realised after coming out that it has gone beyond repair.

BCCI to invite more applications for coach’s post

The BCCI has decided to invite more applications for the post of Indian team’s coach to give Cricket Advisory Committee (CAC) a wide range of options for picking a suitable candidate.

The cricket Board’s move came following Anil Kumble’s acrimonious exit from the job.

Kumble on Monday refused extension of his contract till the West Indies tour, citing captain Virat Kohli’s reservation over his ‘style’ of functioning.

A top BCCI official associated with the process told PTI that another 7-10 days may be given for fresh applications so that other interested candidates with suitable qualification and stature can apply for the top job. “Look, when we had invited applications last time, Anil was an automatic entry.

Saina Nehwal

Kidambi Srikanth

P.V. Sindhu

19-21, 13-21 in a 37 minute match.

In the mixed doubles, Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Ashwini Ponnappa were defeated by Hong Kong’s Lee Chun Hei Reginald and Hoi Wah 13-21, 17-21. In men’s doubles, the Indian duo of Francis

Alwin and Kona Tarun was also eliminated by Indonesia-Malaysia pair of Hendra Setiawan and Boon Heong Tan 17-21, 15-21 in a lopsided match. Manu Attri and B. Sumeeth Reddy were also beaten by Japanese pair of Takeshi Kamura and Keigo Sonoda 20-22, 6-21

in a 34 minute match.

Ashwini Ponnappa and Reddy N. Sikki brought some good news in the women’s doubles category defeating the Australian pair of Hsuan-Yu Wendy Chen and Jennifer Tam 21-11, 21-13 in 29 minute match.

Islamabad, Jun 21 (IANS): The emphatic ICC Champions Trophy title win has turned the young Pakistan cricketers into millionaires almost overnight.

Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has announced a cash reward of Rs 10 million ($95,378) for every Champions Trophy winning team member and Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Shaharyar Khan has offered Rs 1 million ($9,537) to each member of the squad.

In addition, a bonus of Rs 29 million ($2,76,598) will be divided and distributed among all members of the squad according to their ceilings in central contracts.

The Sarfraz Ahmed-led side clinched their maiden Champions Trophy crown, defeating India by 180 runs at The Oval in London in Sunday’s final. Pakistan’s Minister of State for Information Marriyum Aurangzeb said the Prime Minister announced the awards as the national team had lifted the spirits of the nation.

She added that the Pakistan team outclassed their opponents in all departments -- batting, fielding and bowling. “For showing an outstanding performance, the team deserves appreciation,” she was quoted as saying by the Dawn newspaper.

She added that the reward would be helpful in uplifting sports in the country.

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