June 27, 2016

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Drug, liquor smuggling on the rise

(4th from right) Kiyanilie Peseyie along with others on Sunday. (NP) Correspondent

KOHIMA, JUN 26 (NPN): Despite stringent laws being implemented in the state-- Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act (NDPS) and Nagaland Liquor Total Prohibition Act (NLTP)-- Nagaland has recorded an increase in smuggling of illicit liquor and drugs to the state.

This was highlighted during the programme held at hotel Japfu conference hall to mark the “International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking” under the theme “Listen First”, organized by Kripa foundation Nagaland.

Speaking as the chief guest, minister of Social Welfare, Kiyanilie Peseyie informed that the cabinet has already cleared the deck for the “Nagaland State Drug Abuse Prevention and Treatment Policy” drafted by various

New category visa to attract tourists and boost trade New Delhi, Jun 26 (PTI): India may soon roll out a long- term multiple-entry comprehensive visa by merging tourist, business, medical and conference visas into one to attract more visitors and boost trade. Tourists, businessmen or people coming for treatment or to attend conferences or even for film shoots can be covered under the proposed new category, which was first mooted by the Commerce Ministry following a suggestion by the PMO to boost services trade.

The long-term, multipleentry visa is likely to be given upto 10 years but under this category the visitor will not be allowed to work or stay permanently, a government official, who is part of the deliberations, said. As per the proposal, if a foreigner is granted long-term, multiple-entry non-working or non-permanent stay visa and his or her stay is restricted to 60 days on a visit, the government may waive the visa fee as well.

However, the visitors have to give biometric details and fulfil certain security obligations, the official said. The Home Ministry is working on the proposal and, hopefully, it will be implemented soon, the official said.

The plan is part of the Commerce Ministry’s initiatives to boost India’s services trade. India is said to be missing out on a huge opportunity worth about USD 80 billion annually in terms of attracting foreigners and foreign exchange.

This is it!

“I don’t understand why doctors these days cannot diagnose without making us take so many tests?”

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Cases registered Year (Drug and Liquor Smuggling) 130 2012 244 2013 309 2014 306 2015 123 2016 (January to May) Seizure of IMFL 46,927 bottles in 2012 99,224 bottles in 2013 74,056 bottles in 2014 1,24,299 bottles in 2015 ] 52,799 bottles in 2016 (January to May) departments, NGOs, health and social activists. For this, Peseyie said that the Social Welfare department would act as the nodal agency to coordinate and implement the policy.

While stating that the government was responsible to keep check on drug and liquor menace in the state, Peseyie however maintained that the public could play a

major role to counter such issues. Coinciding with the ‘International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking’, the minister released the state Drug Policy.

Chief secretary Pankaj Kumar (IAS), who was the guest of honor, said government’s policies “are not the final word but statements of intent, where certain issues

Infra devp key to halt economic slowdown: FM

could be incorporated to make policies function better”.

Data: As per the data, the total number of cases registered in connection with seizure of illicit drugs and liquor for the past five years were shown as-- 130 in 2012, 244 in 2013, 309 in 2014, 306 in 2015 and 123 in 2016 (January to May). (See table) Addressing the gathering, IGP (Crime), I. Toshitsungba Aier (IPS) said it clearly indicated that “when there is demand there will be supply”.

On drug trafficking, he said there were two types/ fronts from where it was being smuggled, Eastern sector (Myanmar) and Western sector (Assam).

He said medicinal drugs are being brought by trucks through Assam from Namtola, Tizit, Mariani, Amguri and Bhandari. In the Eastern front, he said drugs are smuggled from Moreh, Thoubal, Imphal, Mao, Maram and Jalukie, Peren. Aier also informed that a new route has started at Tobu, Pangsha and Mimi side.

As per information he said there were mobile laboratories in Myanmar, while cultivation of ganja and opium has increased in Manipur.

Aier highlighted that the usage of opium especially in Mon and Longleng has seen a decline. However, he said Mokokchung, Dimapur and other districts have seen an increase in opium users.

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28 Manipur Cong Protest march: Delhi Dy.CM, 51 MLAs in dilemma AAP MLAs arrested and released

Correspondent

IMPHAL, JUN 26: With Congress facing a bleak prospect of holding on to its bastions in the North East, the Ibobi led Congress government in Manipur is under threat from 28 dissidents who plan to defect to BJP. Manipur chief minister Ibobi is however not new to dissidence and so far, he has maintained a stoic silence about the reported meeting of 28 Congress legislators with BJP national leaders including the North East Democratic Alliance (NEDA) Convenor and Assam finance minister Himanta Biswa Sarma in Guwahati. The Congress, under Ibobi won the 2012 election for its third consecutive term and got 42 seats in a house of 60 after defying a strong anti-incumbency factor. After merger with MSCP, the Congress raised its tally to 47.

The Congress rebels are four short of the required 32 MLAs to split the Congress legislature in Manipur to avoid disqualification under the Anti Defection Law. In Manipur, though the Congress dissidents are more than eager to jump to the BJP and want to in power even for a little over six months till elections are held next year; there has been lukewarm response to this from the BJP. BJP sources said the party was not keen in attempting to creep to power at a time when anti-incumbency against the government was strong. They said BJP will make all out efforts to come to power on its own or in alliance with like-minded parties.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP president Amit Shah have repeated the vow of “Congress-Mukht Bharat” (Congress-free India). Accordingly, the BJP has pursued the policy with determination.

The Congress government in Arunachal headed by Nabam Tuki was dismissed under controversial circumstances and the case is still to be decided by the Supreme Court. The dissident leader Kalikho Pul was made the chief minister and the growing number of dissidents later formed the PPA government.

Police detain Manish Sisodia and other AAP MLAs at Tughlaq Road Police Station during their march in New Delhi on Sunday. (PTI)

NEW DELHI, JUN 26 (IANS): Delhi’s Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia and 51 other AAP MLAs were detained on Sunday while marching towards Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s residence and freed after some four hours, police said. All the legislators were taken to the Parliament Street police station in the heart of Delhi after being stopped just over one kilometre from Modi’s residence. Accusing Delhi Police of arresting Aam Aadmi Party MLAs on fake charges, Sisodia said they wanted to go to Modi’s residence to offer themselves for en masse arrest.

“We will all go and surrender ourselves to Narendra Modi. There is an attempt by the BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party) to prevent the AAP government from working,” he said. “Every day they are arresting our MLAs.” “Since they are doing the politics of arresting and harassing us one by one, why not arrest all of us at one go?” he told reporters before setting out to the prime minister’s residence.

Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal

and some other AAP MLAs were not part of the group led by Sisodia. The AAP has 67 members in the 70-seat Delhi assembly. The AAP decision came a day after one of its legislators, Dinesh Mohaniya, was arrested from a press conference on charges of “sexual harassment” - a charge he has denied.

At the Parliament Street police station, the AAP MLAs dramtically began cleaning the complex, one of the MLAs said.

Eventually, just before 3 p.m., police released all of them.

“All the MLAs including Sisodia have been released,” Deputy Commissioner of Police Jatin Narwal told IANS. Sisodia later accused Modi of sabotaging the Delhi government’s bills including on regulating fees in private schools, increasing the wages of labourers and ending the no detention policy in schools. On Saturday, the president of the Ghazipur Vegetable Market Association here submitted a complaint against Sisodia, accusing him of intimidating traders during his official visit.

Declare undisclosed income by Sept 30: PM warns AASU threatens Centre on grant of New Delhi, Jun 26 (PTI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi Sunday asked people to declare their undisclosed income by September 30, making it clear that this is the last chance to avoid problems that will follow after the window of opportunity closes.

He said no questions would be asked about the source of the undisclosed income or assets if the declaration is made voluntarily by September 30.

“For those having undisclosed income, the government has provided a special chance to declare it by September 30,” Modi said in his monthly radio programme ‘Mann Ki Baat’.

He said by paying a penalty, those having undisclosed money can free themselves from various kinds of burden.

“I have promised that there will be no inquiry into the source of the undisclosed income and assets if the declaration is made voluntarily. That is why I am saying it is a good chance for becoming a part of transparent system,” he said.

“Let me tell the countrymen that this chance is till

September 30. Consider this as the last chance,” the Prime Minister asserted during the programme.

He said he has told BJP MPs that if anybody faces any problem after September 30 for not abiding by the rules, no help should be provided to them.

“It will be better that you take advantage of the window provided and save yourself from the difficulties that you can face after September 30,” he said.

Modi said there was a time when taxation rules were such that people would tend to avoiding paying taxes.

“But gradually, times changed. Now, for a taxpayer, it is not much difficult to abide by the government rules. Still, old habits die hard,” he said, adding there are still people who feel that it is better to avoid paying taxes.

“My plea is that by running away from rules, we lose our peace. Any small person can harass us. Why should we let it happen? Why not ourselves give correct information to the government about our income, about our wealth? For

Option in rly for sr. citizens NEW DELHI, JUN 26 (PTI): Eager to reduce its huge subsidy burden, the Indian Railway has now given senior citizens the option of foregoing concession on purchase of reserved class tickets. Besides, it has started printing the real cost involved in the train journey on the tickets to make passengers aware of the subsidy borne by the public transporter.

Subsidies cost the public sector behemoth about Rs 1600 crore in the last fiscal on account of concessions extended to passengers in various categories including senior citizens, sports awardees and cancer patients, among others.

There are 55 categories of passengers who are eligible for availing of concession on purchase of train tickets.

The maximum number of concessions are availed by the senior citizens which alone put a subsidy burden of Rs 1,100 crore on the transporter last year, said a senior Railway Ministry official. The senior citizen’s concession is 50 per cent for women passengers and 40 per cent for men. While

a female passenger is eligible for availing it at the age of 58, for men the permissible age is 60 years.

Earlier, a senior citizen would automatically get the concession upon filling up agerelated information in the form for buying tickets, but now they have the option of giving it up.

“Now there is an option being provided to a passenger before purchasing the ticket.

If anyone wants not to avail the senior citizen’s concession and is ready to pay the full fare, then he or she can do so. The software has been modified accordingly,” the official said.

Indian Railway recovers only 57 per cent of the cost of travel on an average in nonsuburban service and 36 per cent in the suburban segment.

This is now being reflected on passenger tickets purchased from counters or online, he said. Reserved category passengers constitute only six per cent of people travelling by trains. But this six per cent contributes about 60 per cent of the total revenue from passengers.

once, dispose off the baggage of the past. I appeal to my countrymen to get free from this,” he said. Referring to his recent interaction with officials of Income Tax, Customs and Excise here, the Prime Minister said he had told them that they should not consider the countrymen “theives” but should repose faith in them and “hand-hold” them to encourage them to become law-abiding citizens.

He said he told them to change their approach as it was important to create an atmosphere of trust. However at the meeting, he said, he was told that out of 1.25 crore citizens of the country, only 1.5 lakh people have taxable income of over Rs 50 lakh. “This cannot be digested by anybody. One can see lakhs of people with taxable income of over Rs 50 lakh in big cities.

“Before taking any tough step, the government wants to give the people a chance.

Therefore, my brothers and sisters, there is a golden chance to declare your undisclosed income. In other words, it is a way out of difficulties that will

NH condemns murder of Naga youth DIMAPUR, JUN 26 (NPN): Naga Hoho (NH) has condemned the murder of Jisietho Nyuwi of Meluri Village under Phek district, an employee of Telecom Department at Sunderbani in Rajouri district of Jammu & Kashmir on June 23, 2016.

In a press note, NH general secretary Mutsikhoyo Yhobu while sharing the grief of the family, appealed to Nagaland government to earnestly pursue the case with its Jammu & Kashmir counterpart so that the culprits are booked and ex-gratia payments made to the next of kin at the earliest.

It may be mentioned that Nyuwi was reportedly found dead in a pool of blood with head injury on Thursday last.

The deceased was reportedly working for a telecom company. As per Pochury Hoho, the deceased was a Hindi graduate and working part time in 4G internet installation in the Jammu region.

come after September 30....I don’t want that you should feel any difficulty after September 30,” Modi emphasised.

During the 30-minute programme, he also talked about Emergency which was imposed on this day in 1975 by then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and asserted that democracy is the country’s strength and it will have to be strengthened.

The Prime Minister said sometimes some people mock at his ‘Mann Ki Baat’ programme and even criticise it. This, he said, is possible because “we are committed to democracy”. He said that the democracy, which empowers every citizen, had been suppressed on this day in 1975.

“The morning of June 26, 1975, was such a black night when Emergency was imposed on the country. All rights of the citizens were taken away. The country was turned into a prison. Along with Jaiprakash Narain, lakhs of people and thousands of politicians were sent to jails,” he recalled.

citizenship for Bangladeshi Hindus

G U WA H AT I , J U N 2 6 (AGENCIES): All Assam Students Union (AASU) has threatened to hit the streets if the Modi government went ahead with the plan to grant Indian citizenship to hundreds of Hindu immigrants from Bangladesh by Independence Day, this year.

In keeping with its poll promises made to Bangladeshi Hindu immigrants in Assam to accord them refugee status, the Modi government has almost cleared the decks to eventually grant Indian citizenship to hundreds of Hindu immigrants from Bangladesh.

According to highly placed sources, the Home ministry was fine-tuning some changes in the vital clauses of the Indian Citizenship Act 1955 to enable these migrants to stay in the country. The entire task is expected to end before August 15.

If the amended Act is cleared in Parliament so that refugees from Bangladesh and

Pakistan would be able to stay in the state.

However, AASU has made it clear that it will not allow that to happen.

AASU president Dipanka Kumar Nath said if the Centre makes such a move before August 15, the students’ union would have no other option but to hit the streets.

“In case the Centre does make such a move, it will jeopardise the very existence of the state’s indigenous populace.

The Centre must immediately withdraw last year’s notification. Under no circumstances will Assam take additional burden of illegal foreigners who entered the state after 1971,” Nath said.

A statement issued by AASU, which led a six-year long anti-foreigners’ movement in the state, said as per the Assam Accord, all migrants, irrespective of religious affiliation, who had entered the state after March 24, 1971, will have to be detected

and deported. “The Centre’s notification to grant asylum and citizenship to illegal Hindu migrants from Bangladesh has already gone against the Assam Accord and is not acceptable to AASU,” the statement said.

The notification permits the stay of non-Muslim migrants from Bangladesh who entered India on or before December 31, 2014, without proper documents.

Former Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi, too, questioned the latest move of the Centre. “At a time when the Modi government is resorting to delaying tactics on the issue of granting ST status to six ethnic communities, it is showing unwanted urgency to grant citizenship to Hindu migrants from Bangladesh.

The Congress has no issue allowing such migrants to stay in India on humanitarian ground. But we have reservation on the issue of granting citizenship,” he said.

Virtual heart reveals new clues to heart failure

WASHINGTON, JUN 26 (AGENCIES): Congestive heart failure (CHF) is a leading cause of death.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), around 5.7 millionAmericans have heart failure.

About half of the people who are diagnosed with this condition die within 5 years of diagnosis.

Heart failure does not mean that the heart has stopped, or will stop, completely. It refers to a condition in which the heart is not able to pump enough blood for the body to function properly.

As a result of heart failure, fluid and blood can back up into the lungs, the person may experience tiredness, breathlessness, and edema, or a build up of fluid in the legs, ankles, and feet.

Heart failure can happen as a result of coronary artery disease, high blood pressure, and diabetes.

It is more likely to affect people over the age of 65 years, and especially those who are overweight. People

who have previously had a heart attack are more at risk. It tends to affect men more than women.

However, the mechanisms that cause it, including its electrophysiological (EP) mechanisms, are not well understood.

It is hoped that the new “virtual heart” could benefit the development of new drugs to treat the disease.

Tweaking an existing model gives insight into heart’s workings The researchers, from the University of CaliforniaSan Diego, CA, modified an existing model of a healthy rabbit heart to create their simulation. The model is able to simulate small changes in the heart, from the cellular and tissue levels, up to the whole heart.

An electrocardiogram (ECG) is a tool commonly used by doctors use to diagnose heart abnormalities.

The team hopes to use the numerical model they have created to link changes that occur at the cellular and tissue level when a heart fails

to a numerically computed ECG. This, they hope, will help to pinpoint what it is that triggers ventricular fibrillation (VF), and to identify the risk of VF. At the cellular and tissue levels, the model can replicate the heart’s reactions to changes in the levels and flow of calcium, sodium, and potassium. It also can take into account the speed at which the ion channels - which take in those ions - function.

At the whole-heart level, it can also show what happens in a healthy, working heart as a result of variations in the different critical chemicals and electrophysiologic components.

New insight into VF VF is a common cause of sudden death. During VF, the electrical waves that occur in the heart break up chaotically. When this happens, it affects the timing of the heart’s pumping action. The heart can no longer contract and pump blood to the rest of the body. Using the new model, researchers in the current study found that this fragmen-

tation and loss of coordination can be caused by a slowdown in cellular processes at the top of the heart. This can lead to heart failure.

To learn more about the causes of VF in a person with heart failure, the team set up a test that would simulate a person with heart failure performing physical exercise.

The results suggest that a patient with heart failure who experiences a fast heart rate and variable pacing will be more susceptible to VF. This, they say, is because of a newly identified mechanism that blocks conduction.

The researchers have shown that the model can be used to plan a new drug strategy to prevent the type of fibrillation that is associated with heart failure.

For patients with chronic heart failure, daily supplementation with vitamin D-3 may improve heart function.

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Meeting cum refresher training on NERP in Mon

Section of the gathering at district level meeting cum refresher training on NERP.

DIMAPUR: District level meeting cum refresher training on National Electoral Rolls Purification (NERP) for all AEROs, supervisors, VRECs assistant and newly appointed BLOs were held on June 24 at Deputy Commissioner (DC)’s conference hall Mon town.

DC and DEO Mon, W. Honje Konyak stressed on the sincerity of all officials and the need to gear up from AERO level down to BLO and also presented the performance report on NERP of each A/Cs and pointed out the areas for improvement.

Further, he asserted the need to improve door to door

activities of BLOs for possible duplicate, possible errors and also verification list of absent, shifted and dead electors.

The DC reminded the AEROs and supervisors to relook Electoral Population (EP) ratio of their respective A/Cs and supervise their subordinate officers’ accordingly. Besides this, important topic like non-local issues, test check of electoral roll and various directives of Election Commission of India was discussed.

He stated that, every day district office was receiving new instructions from the commission, and asked all

NNC/GDRN (Non-Accord) informs DIMAPUR: NNC/GDRN (Non-Accord) has directed all its members, from rezu peyu to tatar of both central and regional staff (through respective region chairman) and all Naga Army personnel to submit a photocopy of the first appointment order to ministry of kilo affairs on or before July 10. In a press note, MIP NNC/ GDRN (Non-Accord) informed that the exercise was being undertaken to ascertain the authenticity of every individual serving under the banner of NNC/GDRN (Non-Accord). It further warned that those failing to comply with the azha within the stipulated time shall be sacked from the government.

DCPU Mon holds sensitization

DIMAPUR: To enlighten people on ICPS, mechanism and community participation, District Child Protection Unit (DCPU) Mon organised a sensitisation programme at Mon, Phomching, Aboi and Tizit in the first week of June 2016 which concluded on June 14. The resource persons were programme officer Roko and accounts officer Joicy both from State Child Protection Society. The programme was attended by various leaders from the administration, villages, churches, NGOs, CCIs, Anganwadi workers and others.

DDGBA dedicatory prog held

DIMAPUR: Dimapur District GB Association (DDGBA) held a dedicatory cum inauguration program of new DDGBA office on June 25. In the programme, DDGBA expressed appreciation to deputy commissioner Dimapur Kesonyu Yhome for allocating a room to the association in DC’s office building.DDGBA in a press note by its information and publicity secretary, Akhu Gangmei informed that the office timing would be every Wednesday including first and third Saturday every month. Further, it informed that the Dimapur District GBs Association constituted of six units, namely Dimapur GBs Union (Sadar), Chumukedima GBs Union, Dhansaripar GBs union, New land GBs Union, kuhuboto GBs Union, medziphema GBs Union. This information has been given for correct official correspondence and necessary intimation in future, stated the association.

officials to be alert and execute all directives on time.

ADC and ERO Mon M.A. Shihab presented the overall aims and objectives of NERP-2016. He requested all to brush up their memories and to be focused on the goal of NERP so as to achieve desired target. AEO Mon, Aketo Shohe gave brief presentation on VRECs and demonstrated on how to fill the forms correctly.

Experiencing the benefit of the meeting/training, it was decided to carry out same “meeting cum refresher training” in all the nine A/Cs of Mon district.

state Church leaders attend global proclamation cong DIMAPUR: Fifteen church leaders from Nagaland participated at the historic conference called global proclamation congress for pastoral trainers held at Impact Centre, Bangkok from June 1522, 2016.

Coordinator for GCPNNorth East India, Rev. J. Thungjamo Lotha in a press note stated that more than 3000 church leaders, especially pastoral trainers from 120 countries participated at the aforementioned conference.

The theme of the conference was “accelerating church health worldwide” and it focused on the health of the pastors, churches and societies.

The congress was convened by the Ramesh Richard Evangelism and Church Health (RREACH).

Collaborators of this congress included Ramesh Richard Evangelism and Church Health (RREACH); Lausanne Movement; World Evangelical Alliance (WEA); Trainers of Pastors International Coalition ( TOPIC); One Challenge (OC); Dallas Theological Seminary; Langham Partnership; CRU.; Asia Access; World Reformed Fellowship; Leadership Resources; Biblical Education

by Extension (BEE World); Global Alliance for Church Multiplication (GACX); and International Council for Evangelical Theological Education (ICETE).

KVK holds trg distribution in Lumami and Longleng

(L-R): Participants of vocational training and input distribution at Lumami and Longleng respectively.

DIMAPUR: Three-day vocational training programme for rural youth skill development was conducted by Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Nagaland University (KVK, NU) at Lumami village.

At the training programme, SMS (Horticulture), Edenly Chishi imparted training and demonstration for income generation through cultivation of horticultural crops.

Home science, programme assistant, Narola Anichari, imparted training and demonstration on value addition of seasonal fruits and vegetables which will help the rural youth to generate income and make them self reliant.

Meanwhile, in the valediction session, village council chairman Hukato thanked the KVK for imparting training and demonstration for the benefit of Rural Youth.

He encouraged the youths to come forward to adopt the technologies so that they can be self employed.

Sr. Scientist & Head, Dr. Rakesh Kumar Chaurasia, in his valedictory message urged the youths to become messengers for transfer of technologies so that it has a multiple impact on the society and that the available natural resources can be converted into valued products.

Later, participants were provided certificates for attending the programme.

LONGLENG : KVK, Longleng ICAR RC for NEH region organised input distribution for TSP 2015-2016 under home science and plant protection discipline on June 22 at KVK, office.

Programme co-ordinator, KVK Longleng, Dr. K. L. Meena distributed the different inputs to the beneficiaries. For TSP on low cost mushroom, subject matter specialist, plant protection E. Lireni Kikon identified three villages, namely Oushok, Kangching and Hukphang villages comprising of one SHG and two individual farmers.

Low cost mushroom production unit was constructed and input materials

like spawn, polybag, sprayer, tekshi etc were distributed.

Training cum demonstration was also conducted for the target beneficiary the same day.

For TSP on food processing on community basis, programme assistant (H/S) Thungchano S Ezung conducted trainings on processing and value addition and input materials like OTG oven, Mixer/grinder for processing of soymilk, soya biscuit, cake and hand juice extractor for processing of different fruit beverages were distributed to number of interested trainees comprising of SHGs, individual practicing farmers covering 12 villages under Longleng district.

Mobilization of farmers group in Wokha NRLM launched in Tseminyu block

DIMAPUR: Ag riculture Technology Management Agency (ATMA) Wokha organized mobilization and capacity building of farmers’ groupcum-linkages with financial institutions for micro-credit in association with Nagaland State Cooperative Bank Wokha on June 23 at fishery training hall Wokha.

During the programme, BM NSCB, Masheto spoke on the topic micro-credit linkages and said that NSCB is a rural bank for the rural people.

He urged the SHGs/ CIGs to go to the bank instead of the money lenders as the latter has very high interest rate. Masheto said that having bank account was not only for safe keeping of the money but also earns interest and that one could also avail facilities from the bank through the account.

While applauding ATMA Wokha for organizing such meet of bankers and farmers

in the district, he further promised that a bigger financial literacy camp in collaboration with ATMA would be held in days to come. He also urged the farmers to open joint liability group and farmers club for availing micro credit loan.

In the technical session accountant NSCB, Khopen spoke on proper book account for better growth of a group and ATM, Mhonroni on group-led-extension.

The programme was followed by an interaction session farmer groups from Tseminyu block and Wokha and shared their group activities.

Highlight of the programme was given by PD, Dr.Mhonchan and short speech was also delivered by A.O Tseminyu, G.Kent. Earlier, F/ Inspector Mhomo chaired the programme while Sanchibeni welcomed the participants and vote of thanks was proposed

by ATM, Loreni. In another

programme, capacity building and appraisal for SHG/CIG, farm school was organized for Wokha, Chukitong and Wozhuro blocks on June 22 at fishery training hall Wokha.

While highlighting the programme, Dr. Mhonchan PD said that it is time farmers/ groups to come out with their success stories.

In the technical session SMS, Dr. B.L.Mhalo spoke on income generating activities for SHG/CIG and food inspector, Mhomo on management of groups and book keeping. In the interaction session, SHG/ CIG supported by ATMA were asked to give an appraisal reports and it was encouraging that CIG on spices Tsungiki village were exporting their value added products even to Shillong.

Earlier the programme was chaired by ATM, Nzanbeni Jami and ATM, Loreni proposed vote of thanks.

MVSU organises plantation drive

DIMAPUR: Coinciding with World Environment month and to commemorate the year of golden jubilee of Monyakshu Village Baptist Church, plantation drive was organised by the Monyakshu Village Students Union under the theme “Green Monyakshu” on June 21 within the village jurisdiction.

Various organisations of the village like the students, church members, village council

members, women organisation took part in planting more than 500 saplings provided by the district forest office, Mon. Meanwhile, MVSU president Phaiba Konyak and MVC chairman L Sangti Konyak has thanked DFO Mon T. Aochuba and the forest department for providing the saplings and DPRO Mon Hongpi for transporting the saplings to the village.

RES organises 3rd Art competition 2016

Chief guest Z. Nyusietho Nyuthe along with the participants and organizers after the programme.

DIMAPUR: Radiant Educational Society (RES), Kohima conducted its 3rd art competition under the theme “Child Rights Begins in the Womb” which was cosponsored by the state child protection society Nagaland at SIRD Auditorium New Secretariat on June 25.

Speaking as the chief guest, joint secretary social welfare and society director state child protection society, Z. Nyusietho Nyuthe said according to the United Nation Convention on the rights of

DIMAPUR: Kohima police personnel manning Peducha check gate on June 25 has seized 20 cases of banned IMFL from a Maruti 800 (NL-07-9423). According to SDPO and PRO, Kohima Police, the driver of the vehicle identified as Arron Zhimo son of Vito of Akuluto, Zunheboto, and resident of Khuwaboto colony was taken into police custody in this connection and a regular case has been registered against him.

and an act for cruelty to child and also encouraged the participants to express their view through their art and selfexpression to depict the right of the child.

Nyuthe further urged the participants to educate the society through their art and put their best effort in achieving their goals as children are the future generation.

RES Kohima chairman, Menuokhrietuo Marcus said the objective of the competition was to promote youngsters through art and to show-

case their inborn talents.

Earlier, welcome address was delivered by Menuokhrietuo Marcus while Kevisenuo proposed vote of thanks. Altogether 47 students participated from 14 schools.

The judges for the competition were senior artists, art and culture, Neivotuo Keyho, art expert art and culture, T. Yanger Ozukum and programme manager, state child protection society Nagaland, Raitale Zeliang. Every participant was given away a certificate of participation.

Some of the participants at the launching programme of NRLM in Tseminyu.

DIMAPUR: National Rural Livelihood Mission (NRLM) was launched at Tseminyu block on June 23 at town hall, Tseminyu.

Speaking at the brief launching programme, ADC Tseminyu, Vikhweno Meratsu urged the village representative to cooperate and ensure the success of NRLM by being sincere, transparent and proper maintenance of records.

Earlier, BDO cum BMM, Tseminyu

Block John Wesley Magh delivered welcome address while the concept and goals under NRLM was shared by COO-program NSRLM, Rollan Lotha.

The programme was chaired by block program manage, Tseminyu block, Vitsu Yhome and attended by village councils, VDB secretaries, women leaders and SHG members from 26 villages under Tseminyu block, Kohima.

Regional workshop cum launch of special outreach prog in Kma

KGUK condemns DIMAPUR: Kandi group union Kohima (KGUK) expressed its strongest condemnation and displeasure over the senseless and unlawful act of two miscreants trespass into the house of national BJP vice president (ST Morcha) Johnny G Rengma and manhandled him. KGUK in a condemnation letter said the two identified as Konri Tep son of Honbu Tep and Shayhunlo Magh son of Lt. Ndayhun Magh of Tesophenyu village, who claiming themselves to be members of NSCN (I-M) manhandled Johnny without any rhyme or reason on June 19 at Kandi station. The union has called upon all right thinking citizens and organizations to condemn such senseless and unlawful act and warned that such act should not be repeated in future by any individual or group.

the child, every child has the right to survival, right to development, right to protection and right to participation.

Nyuthe said that in Naga society, family is the best institution of the child and that every child has the right to protection. He also appraised that according to Juvenile Justice Act 2015, Article 74 prohibition on disclosure or published of identity of children if a child has been apprehended.

He also cautioned against illegal adoption of children, as it is prohibited

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DFO officials, resource persons along with participants after the workshop.

DIMAPUR: Directorate of Field Publicity, Ministry of Information & Broadcasting (N&M Region) organized a one day regional workshop cum launch of special outreach programme to highlight the two years achievement of the government of India under the theme “my country is changing – marching forward” at the conference hall of the Circuit House in Kohima on June 25.

Speaking at the programme as the chief guest, director of postal services, department of post, Kohima, R.M. Patel said that the role of service providing department, such as DFP, postal department and other similar department, were vital in ensuring the success of any government welfare schemes.

Pointing out that the central government has launched various schemes to cater to different sections of society including women and farm-

ers he asked DFP to create meaningful publicity so that the needy and the eligible beneficiaries were empowered.

Delivering speech as guest of honour, Modern College principal, Dr. H.P. Singh, underscored the need to empower youth with skills in order to meet the challenges of growing unemployment and poverty. He said that the need of the hour was to trained youth in various fields through skill development programmes.

Addressing the gathering as the president of the function, joint director, DIPR, Dominic Yazokie said that though information and publicity departments may not perform any tangible or physical development, their role was equally important as it empower the common people with information and knowledge.

In his keynote address, director DFP (Nagaland &

Manipur) region, Dr. Engam Pame IIS said that through valuable inputs from resource persons on various subjects and relevant themes, the workshop would effectively equip and educate field officers. He informed that DFP would be reaching out to the people living at the grass-root and micro level by carrying out intensive awareness campaign on the two years achievement of the central government in two states of Nagaland and Manipur region.

During the technical session, resource person Zubemo Lotha, assistant director Employment, Skill Development & Entrepreneurship, Daniel Domeh, System administrator department of postal services, Bino, district welfare officer, department of social welfare presented an overview of their respective departments and deliberated on the various central government schemes.

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Dimap ur: Soul Harvest for Christ Ministry (SHFCM) would be holding its 4th general convention from July 8-10 at Soul Harvest Church of the Living God Daklane Kohima.

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(3-L) DC Mon W. Honje Konyak and others destroying liquor on Sunday. (NP) Correspondent

MON, JUN 26 (NPN): As Nagaland wrestles to enforce Nagaland Liquor Total Prohibition Act 1989 stringently in the entire state, Deputy Commissioner (DC) Mon, W. Honje Konyak observed that a strong mechanism with effective strategies and action plan was the need of the hour to implement the same.

For this, the DC said state government agencies, churches, NGOs and civil societies should take the ownership of the problem and initiate a joint venture and be the driving force to lead that mechanism to tackle

the issues.

The DC was speaking in a programme commemorating the “International Day against Drug Abuse & Illicit Trafficking” observed under the theme “Listen First” at main bazaar junction Mon town, Sunday.

Despite various efforts and initiatives taken by the Church, NGOs and state government to implement the Act, Konyak lamented that drugs and liquor was still available in the state as the same was openly available in the neighbouring states and borders without restriction.

He lamented that the drugs and liquor were smug-

gled into the state by “our” brothers and sisters using various means of transportation.

Pointing out that usage of drugs was not a new thing for the people of Konyak, he recalled the initiative taken by the Konyak Students Union (KSU) against usage of opium and the initiative taken by KNSK against Indian Made Foreign Liquor (IMFL in the district which eventually led to creation of Nagaland Liquor Prohibition Act and which is still enforced in the state.

He then urged upon the students’ organization to take the lead to mould and shape

the destiny of the youths who are easily prone to drugs and opium.

The programme was jointly organized by the district administration, DEF, DWO, Excise, 33 Assam Rifles, World Vision India, KNSK, KSU, MTSU, DAPCU, Shamshan Organization and Mon Users Network (MUN).

To mark the occasion, illegal consignments like opium, SP & Nitro tablets, assorted IMLF worth more than Rs. 3 lakhs seized by the KNSK on various occasions were destroyed after the formal programme.

I n t h e p r o g r a m m e, Konyak Union (KU) president Manlip Konyak, head mistress Model School Nalini and KNSK president, Lomei Konyak also exhorted the gathering.

Earlier, the significance of the day was said by Dr. Ngampa, MO PMR District Hospital and Anti-Drugs Trafficking Act was delivered by N. Mannon Konyak, panel lawyer MDLSA, while life testimony was shared

by Athum of Mon Users Network.

Special numbers was presented by Wanmai and Chahwang of Mon Users Network, invocation was pronounced by district chaplain Rev. J. Tenwang, benediction by KBBB executive secretary, Chemyuh, vote of thanks by additional SP Mon and convenor of the programme Lanu Aier and the prog ramme chaired

by KNSK vice president Mongyo.

(L-R) Rev. Dr. Takatemjen. Choreography on ‘osangtajung inyakba’ being displayed. (NP) Correspondent

MOKOKCHUNG, JUN 26 (NPN): Mokokchung Town Baptist Arogo (MTBA) youth department celebrated its one day platinum jubilee celebration during MTBA Sunday devotional service under the theme “Go Ye” (Math 28:19).

The service was conducted with nostalgic jubilance with the attendance of many past and present leaders in the congregation.

While delivering his jubilee sermon, the first youth director of MTBA youth department Rev. Dr. Tatatemjen said that “Go Ye” was the final authority given by Jesus Christ to His followers to spread the Good News and save the sinners.

Rev. Dr. Tatatemjen said to embark on the mission, there must be a calling to serve Christ which he said would be “long term and costly” and that one should be committed immersed in His spiritual ar-

mour. Before embarking on the mission, Rev. Dr. Tatatemjen advised “clean your kitchen first and be the light in your family”.

National Director CEEFI and former youth director and pastor of MTBA, Rev. Bendang Longkumer also shared his experience with the church as its youth leader.

The platinum jubilee souvenir was released by former pastor MTBA, Rev. Luin Jamir and certificates were presented to the youth directors/youth evangelists and office bearers of the past 25 years to date by the jubilee planning convenor and associate Pastor, Bendangwati.

The jubilee choir harmoniously presented the hymnal “How Great Thou Art” and choreography was presented

by Alemla and friends. The service ended with the benediction by associate Pastor, P Toshi Pongen at the conclusion of the “Song of Prayer” composed by Arsashi.

Earlier, short speech was delivered by Kumlong Baptist Church Pastor, Rev. Lima and a special prayer for the youth was said by Pastor Rev. Ponen Longchar while the service was chaired by MTBA Y/E Temnameren. Invocation was said by associate Pastor (W) Rev. I Amenla and scripture reading by Temsutoshi Lkr while Praise abd Worship was led by the youth department Later in the second session, the youth were entertained by James Basnet and Band--nominee and award winner in the International Music and Entertainment Association (IMEA) in Contemporary Christian Music-2014. The band also received the Akademia Music Award 2014 and 2015, USA and is an official member of Grammy Awards. His popular songs are “Brand new day”, “Just the way you are (He loves you”.

His vision is to heal the hurt and reach out to the youth through music.

HPBWC undertakes cleaning campaign DIMAPUR: Hazi Park Businessman Welfare Committee (HPBWC) on Sunday undertook a cleaning campaign of the market area and cleared drains which had remained clogged over a long period of time and replaced broken slabs over the drainage.

A press note by HPBCWC president, Hukato V. Achumi said taking into account the importance of the market which was frequented by people from all over the northeastern region as well as other parts, HPBWC has been making all efforts to make this place comfortable for visitors.

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HPBWC memebrs laying slabs over the drainage.

its appreciation to the administrator DMC, Atokhe Aye and his staff for the material help and support extended for a cleaner Dimapur and

stated that it would continue to work for the people and look for the support and encouragement from the public in the near future.

KCSU organises one day seminar DIMAPUR: Kohima Chakhesang Students’ Union (KCSU) organized one-day seminar under the theme, “life skills and enhancing opportunities” on June 25 at Mt. Sinai Higher Secondary School auditorium hall with commissioner and secretary, Veterinary and Animal Husbandry MK Mero and managing director, The People Channel, Rozelle Mero as resource speakers.

According to a press release by KCSU, M. K Mero asserted that the education system in Nagaland was not job oriented expect for few and therefore “we” have to strive harder to fit ourselves into the job market.

Lamenting that Nagas were hungry for “easy money”, Mero said Nagas should also remember that “easy money goes easily”. He also highlighted various schemes and projects available in various government departments and encouraged the public to approach the authorities of various departments and avail the same.

Another speaker Rozelle also stressed on listening skill, speaking skill, analytical skill, managerial skill, reading skill and financial skill and asserted that flexibility was the required skill for the younger generation.

Saying that opportunities come in the most unlikely place, Rozelle said one should grab when it comes “our” ways. She also asked the participants to get out of the spoon feeding habits, as it was time that they should stand on their own feet and feed oneself.

The seminar was moderated by Ngapunyi Krocha.

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IMPHAL, JUN 26: Even as an all party meeting on Saturday suggested the government for introducing a new bill to address the ILP issue, protest and counter-protest continued to rock the state on Sunday.

The tribal people under the aegis of Joint Action Committee Against Anti-Tribal Bills (JAC), Churachandpur organised a mass mourning-cum-prayer progamme to mark 300th day of its protest against the three ILP bills, while several other organisations of the valley continued their stir in support of their demands for implementation of ILP in the state.

Hundreds of protestors gathered Sunday at Hiyangtam Lamka in Manipur’s Churachandpur district to mourn the nine people who died in violent protest against passing of three ILPS related bills by Manipur Assembly on August 31, 2015.

Notably, the mor tal remains of the nine “tribal martyrs” are still lying at Churachandpur district hospital till today.

The mass mourningcum-prayer ceremony to mark 300th day of movement for safeguarding the rights, lands and identity of the tribal people held at the hall of the Young Paite Association at Hiyangtam under the aegis of the JAC. The programme began with paying of homage to the nine tribal martyrs which was followed by keynote address

300th day of tribal movement observed

Mass mourning cum prayer to mark 300th day of tribal movement at Churachandpur on Sunday. (NP) by chief convener of JAC. P r e s i d e n t o f Tr i b a l Churches Leaders’ Forum Manipur, Rev Dr S Lalpi Vaiphei who is also the chairman of Evangelical Organisation Church (ECCI) exhorted the gathering to rise up and always look towards the “lord as we continued our struggle,” according to a statement of the JAC. Many other tribal leaders who addressed the gathering include Joshep Lalrothang of Hmar Inpui), Lalrinliana of Mizo People Convention, Vahchin of Thadou Women Association, B Dongzalian

KFA demands probe into corruption

DIPHU, JUN 26: Karbi Farmers Association (KFA) has demanded a high level probe in to the alleged corruption in Irrigation Department in implementing various centrally-funded schemes and programmes in Karbi Anglong district during Congress government.

A delegation of KFA has met Assam Irrigation Minister Ranjit Dutta in Guwahati and submitted a memorandum, where they alleged that the funds provided by the Centre for implementation of various schemes in the hill district were not utilised properly.

The Minister Dutta informed the delegation that the government has decided to constitute a probe panel to find out the truth. He also assured of taking action against the officials involved in irregularities in implementing the schemes.

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PCI team to visit Imphal from July 4

IMPHAL, JUN 26: A team of Press Council of India (PCI) will visit Imphal from July 4 to overlook the working condition of journalist in Manipur, All Manipur Working Journalists’ Union (AMWJU) president W Shyamjai informed on Sunday.

The three-member team comprised of Amarnath, Rajendra Kumar and Nayak (all members of the PCI) is expected to take first hand stock of the working condition of the journalists in wake of repeated threats from both state and non-state actors. The team will also meet with state chief minister, chief secretary and other concern top brasses of the state government during their camping in the state capital, Shyamjai added.

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Simte of Zomi Council and Gaidon Kamei of United Naga Council.

The JAC, in its statement, claimed that tribal people from hill districts, Ukhrul, Senapati, Tamenglong, Chandel and Sadar Hill of Senapati district, joined Churachandpur residents took part in the mass mourning-cum-prayer ceremony.

The programme ended with a mass prayer session

by Nianglian, convener of All Manipur Tribal Women Union.

The JAC also expressed its gratitude to the people for

their overwhelming response to the mourning and pass prayer programme.

On the other hand, people in valley area continued to stage sit-in-protest demanding immediate implementation of ILP and rolling back of wanted tag on the head of former JCILPS convener, Kh Ratan.

In one the protest staged at Thangmeiband area of Imphal West, sitting BJP MLA and his supporters attended.

The sit-in-protest was also staged at various places in Imphal East including Thambalkhong, Kongba, khongman Mangjil and Singjamei.

Acharya for law to regulate pvt edn institutions

Global bidding for State oilfields in July

JORHAT, JUN 26 (AGENCIES): Expressing concern over the ill effects of rampant privatisation of education in the State, Governor Padmanabha Balakrishna Acharya on Friday urged the people’s representatives and Government officials to take strong measures to control the situation.

Acharya was holding a meeting with the MLAs of Teok, Dergaon and Mariani, officials of the Jorhat district administration and representatives of NGOs, Assam Agricultural University (AAU) and some other Government institutions here. He suggested ways to improve government schools and implement Government schemes for the allround development of the district.

The Governor called for the enactment of a new law to regulate private educational institutions so that no student from a poor economic background is deprived of proper education in any institution.

As Acharya stressed the need of enactment of a new law to curb rampant privatization of education across the State, the three MLAs – Bhabendra Nath Bharali, Renupoma Rajkhowa and Rupjyoti Kurmi – showed a keen interest in the issue.

“Our society has many weak links. For overall social development, these links should be strengthened,” said the Governor. According to him, Government schools, tea garden workers, communities belonging to scheduled castes and scheduled tribes constitute such weak links, which need to be strengthened to usher in development of Assam.

Former Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi today opposed the Centre’s move to auction the 12 marginalised oilfields, reasoning that it would be better if the marginal oilfields are kept with the State’s own hydrocarbon setup, like the Assam Hydro Carbon and Energy Company Limited, as it has been done successfully in Gujarat.

Gogoi, at a press conference, claimed that by auctioning the small oilfields, the State is not going to gain anything.

“Besides, the State also has Assam Gas Company Limited and Assam Power Generation Co Limited to be considered, which would help the State in the form of increased revenue generation,” Gogoi said.

Gogoi also urged the Petroleum Ministry to ensure that Assam, too, gets oil royalty at par with Gujarat.

“As far as augmentation of refining capacity of NRL is concerned, the proposal was already there,” Gogoi said, referring to the Union Ministry’s proposal to augment the refining capacity of all the four refineries in the State.

The senior Congress leader also flayed the Centre for not showing keen interest in granting citizenship to post1971 non-Muslim Bangladeshi migrants, while intentionally dragging its feet on the issue of granting Scheduled Tribes status to the six indigenous communities of Assam.

“The Centre should show equal keenness in facilitating the Sixth Schedule status to the indigenous communities like it is doing on the issue of granting citizenship status to the refugees,” Gogoi said.

AG A RTA L A , J U N 2 6 (IANS): International borders of the northeastern states would either be fenced or sealed to check trans-border movement of militants and prevent infiltration and cross-border crimes, a top Union Home Ministry official said here on Friday.

“Government has different approach depending upon the northeast India’s borders with Bangladesh and Myanmar. We have concrete action plan for the management of the borders with Bangladesh and Myanmar,” Union Home Ministry’s Border Management Secretary Susheel Kumar told reporters.

“Government has already decided to seal Assam’s border with Bangladesh within two years. Most parts of Assam’s 263-km-long border with Bangladesh are riverine,” he said.

To a question the official said that topography, requirement and approach to manage

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restore the vital highway, but the situation have remained unchanged.

“When Tripura is crying for restoration of its only National Highway (NH-8) and taken all out efforts to convince both Central and Assam government about the dangerous position of the highway, both governments have remained indifferent,” Tripura Transport Minister Manik Dey told reporters here on Saturday.

“All the MPs from Tripura met several times and written many letters to Union Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari requesting to renovate the lone National Highway on a war

Pradhan launches road show for small oilfields’ auction, farmers’ body protests G U WA H AT I , J U N 2 6 (IANS): Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Saturday said that the central government will start the global bidding process for 12 small oil and gas fields in Assam along with 55 others even as Assam’s prominent farmers’ body Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti (KMSS) protested against the move and demanded the state fields be excluded.

Pradhan, who was on a tour of the state, also inaugurated a road show at a hotel here to attract bidders for the 67 oilfields across the country.

Close to 100 agitators shouted slogans outside the hotel against the Union Minister and the BJP central and state governments, demanded that the 12 discovered oil fields in Assam should be excluded from the bidding process and FDI in oil sector be stopped.

Police, however, later carried out a baton charge to disperse the crowd. Some of the agitators were also taken into detention to contain the situation but released later in the evening.

Pradhan, who interacted with the media after inaugurating the road show and interacting with over 200 industry leaders there, said that the 12 fields in Assam have been clubbed into eight clusters.

“The fields hold estimated reserve of 21 million metric tonnes (MMT) of oil and oil equivalent gas. The rest of fields are mostly spread across Mumbai offshore and Krishna-Godavari basin. These 67

fields, including the 12 from Assam, were discovered some 20-30 years back and are lying undeveloped with either the Oil India Limited (OIL) or Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited (ONGC),” he said.

The minister further highlighted that Assam contributed about 10 per cent of the country’s total crude Oil and Natural Gas production and within the present resources available, 44 per cent has been tapped, leaving an opportunity to establish and develop the remaining 56 per cent resource base in the region.

“The ‘Discovered Small Fields Bid Round 2016’ is an investor-friendly policy which offers 46 Contract Areas consisting of 67 different small fields across 9 sedimentary for extraction and exploration of oil and gas.

“Some of the key features of the policy include no upfront signature bonus, freedom in oil and gas pricing, no oil cess, custom duty exemption and graded royalty rates. Investors will access information dockets through the e-bidding gateway. Also, Physical Data Centers with Interpretation Facility would be set up in the DGH office and other international locations where prospective bidders can access the data,” Pradhan added.

Directorate General of Hydrocarbons (DGH) gave an elaborate presentation to highlight the features of the Discovered Small Field Round along with the details of the contract areas on offer and the bidding timelines.

Representatives from ONGC and OIL India gave presentations on the infrastructure and facilities available near the offered fields.

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NE’s intl borders will be fenced: Official the 1,640-km unfenced border with Myanmar are completely different from the Bangladesh border.

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

Susheel Kumar, who came here on Friday on a threeday visit to Tripura after meeting officials in Meghalaya and West Bengal, held a meeting with Tripura Chief Secretary Yashpal Singh, senior officials of the Border Security Force, District Magistrates and Collectors of different bordering districts besides senior state government officials.

“By December next year, Tripura’s 856-km border with Bangladesh would be completely fenced to check trans-border movement of terrorists, hostile

elements, prevent infiltration and check border crimes,” he said. “As per international norms, the barbed wire fencing is being erected 150 yards from the zero line of the borders.

Where there are problems, the fencing is being erected at the Zero Line after taking cognisance of the Bangladesh government,” he added.

The official, who will visit a few bordering areas during the next two days to assess border management, said that wherever the people’s perception is different about erecting the fencing, the concerned District Magistrate and Collectors have been asked to talk to the people.

India had started erection of a fence and putting up of floodlights all along the 4,096km India-Bangladesh border in West Bengal, Assam, Meghalaya, Mizoram and Tripura several years back to stop infiltration.

Rains, landslides block lone Tripura highway

AG A RTA L A , J U N 2 6 (IANS): Tripura’s lone National Highway (NH-8) was blocked after rains and waterlogging, severely hitting the supply of essentials, foodgrain and transport fuel for the past one month.

Thousands of goodsladden trucks and fuel tankers have been stranded for many weeks in between Lowerpoah and Churaibari on the AssamTripura inter-state border.

The Tripura gover nment, rulling and opposition political parties, MPs, trading bodies and NGOs have sent scores of letters, memoranda and e-mails to Union Ministers, concerned departments and the Assam government to

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footing plan. We have taken up the matter with the Assam government. But the situation going bad to worse instead of improving,” he added.

Tripura is fully dependent on the NH-8 for supply of essentials, foodgrain, fertilisers, petroleum products, construction materials and other commodities from different states of India besides ferrying passengers.

Following the shortages caused by the disruption of both rail and road traffic, prices of essential commodities has soared high in the state’s markets.

An official of the food and civil supplies department said that almost all the 60

petrol pumps are ruing dry for the past one week causing unprecedented problems to the people.

Tr i p u r a G ove r n o r Tathagata Roy after visiting the troubled areas, also wrote to the Union Road Transport and Highway Minister seeking his immediate intervention.

Rulling Communist Party of India-Marxist’s youth wing Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI) earlier this week sent several hundred e-mails to Union Road Transport and Highways Minister requesting to take steps to restore the NH-8.

“We did not get any reply yet to our hundreds of e-mails to the central minister. We are planning to organise bigger agitation on the issue,” DYFI Tripura state secretary Amal Chakraborty told reporters.

Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) Tripura state President Biplab Deb held a meeting with the Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal and Assam’s Public Works Department (Roads and Highways) Minister Parimal Shuklabaidya and both of them have assured him of all steps to restore road traffic in the region at the earliest, disrupted due to damage to the NH-8.

Tripura is the worst affected as the 585-km NH-8 -- its only connection with the rest of India through Assam and Meghalaya -- was severely damaged in Lowerpoah (Karimganj district of Assam) and Churaibari (in northern Tripura) adjoining southern Assam.

About a 20-km stretch of the NH-8 has turned into

a marshy field after the downpour, waterlogging and unfavourable soil condition.

The situation worseded, as the train services in between Tripura, Mizoram, Manipur and southern Assam and rest of India were cancelled for more more than 45 days due to the damage of railway tracks in mountainous Dima Hasao district (in Assam) due to rains and lanslides.

“We are trying to restore the rail line within a week.

Our workers and engineers are working round-the-clock to restore rail service,” Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) Chief Administrative Officer Ajit Pandit told IANS over phone.

He said: “We have roped in engineers from Austria as well as other parts of India to use their expertise at the trouble spots. We are using all options to open the vital railway route soon.”

After removal of debris and repair of railway tracks, goods trains from Guwahati to Tripura, Mizoram, Manipur and southern Assam were operated in two-three days on an experimental basis though conditions were still not conducive for running regular trains on the route.

“Clearing huge mudslides apart from boulders from a large portion of the tracks at Fidhing and 11 other places in Dima Hasao district (in Assam) is a huge task,” Pandit added.

Huge landslides damaged railway tracks first on April 27. Rail traffic was restored on May 6, only to be disrupted again from May 13 in Dima Hasao district.

Activists of Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti (KMSS) staging dharna to protest against Central governments alleged process to auction a dozen of Oil fields in Assam in Guwahati on Saturday. Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) Petroleum and Natural Gas, Dharmendra Pradhan was holding a meeting near by. (PTI)

Indo-Bangla border fencing to be completed AGARTALA, JUN 26 (PTI): Work for erection of barbed wire fencing along the IndoBangla International Border (IB) would be completed by 2017, a top official said today.

“India has set a target of finishing the barbed wire fencing along the Indo-Bangla international border by 2017,” Susheel Kuman, Secretary Border Management under the Union Home Ministry said.

Kumar, who arrived here on a three-day tour yesterday, is now visiting the barbed wire construction works in different parts of Tripura border with Bangladesh.

He reviewed the progress of the fencing works in a meeting with officials of the state government, including the Chief Secretary Y P Singh, DGP, K Nagraj, District Magistrates and all the implementing agencies and BSF yesterday.

Kumar said this issue was discussed with all the bordering state governments including West Bengal, Assam and Meghalaya earlier.

“Wherever fencing is required, it would be constructed and where riverine stretches are present, no fencing would be constructed because it worked as natural barrier,” he said.

Kumar said local problems would be sorted out through discussions and where fencing is required on the zero point of the border would be taken up with the Bangladesh government and the matters would be sorted out through negotiation.”

Hey!!! Happy Birthday Baby Yimso Keingru You may be just 2 year old, and we want to see you as a baby forever but, you’re growing up as you circle on and may your birthday and every day be filled with warmth of sunshine.

May God bless you and wish, you a many many happy returns of a day

Your loving, Grand mom, uncle and Aunty.

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Emergency was ‘darkest night’ for democracy: Modi

NEW DELHI, JUN 26 (PTI): Recalling the “black night” of Emergency imposed on this day 39 years back, Prime Minister Narendra Modi Sunday asserted that democracy is the country’s strength and said this commitment needs to be taken further.

He said the “shining example of democratic powers of a common citizen” was seen during mergency and “it should keep reminding the nation again and again.

Modi spoke about the Emergency imposed by then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi on this day in 1975 as he addressed the nation through his monthly radio programme ‘Mann Ki Baat’. “Sometimes some people mock at my ‘Mann Ki Baat’ programme and even criticise it. This is possible because we are committed to democracy,” he said. “.. today when I am talking to you on June 26, we should not forget that our strength is democracy, our strength is people’s strength and our strength is every citizen. We have to take this commitment further and strengthen it,” he added. He said that the democracy, which empowers every citizen, had been suppressed on this day in 1975.

“The morning of June 26, 1975, was such a black night when Emergency was imposed on the country. All rights of the citizens were taken away.

The country was turned into a prison. Along with Jaiprakash Narain, lakhs of people and

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thousands of politicians were sent to jails,” he recalled.

The Prime Minister said it is the strength of the countrymen that they have lived this democracy.

“When the newspaper offices are sealed and radio speaks only voice, people on the other hand make you realise the power of democratic forces. This is a big strength for any nation,” he said in apparent reference to the Emergency days.

He said there should be an attitude that people continue to realise their strengths.

“I keep saying that democracy does not mean that you vote and give contract of five years for running the country. Voting is a crucial part of democracy, but there are several other aspects too.

The biggest aspect is people’s participation -- the pulse of the people, the thinking of the people. The more governments associate with the people, the more is the country strengthened,” he said.

“It is the gulf between the people and the governments which is the cause of our ailments. It has been my endeavour always to take the country forward through people’s participation,” he said.

Referring to completion of his government’s two years, the Prime Minister said some “modern-thinking youth” had thrown a “kind of challenge” asking him to get his government’s performance assessed by the people.

He said when he mentioned this to his senior colleagues, they said it should not be done as in this age technology can be misused and the survey can be taken anywhere.

“They expressed concern. But I thought the risk should be taken. A try should be given.

Let us see what happens,” Modi said, adding the survey was subsequently carried out on ‘Rate my government-MyGov. in’ in different languages.

Three lakh people gave answers to all the questions, he said, contending that the sample size is bigger than the ones in surveys carried out after elections. He said he will not go into the result of the survey as he left it to the media to do so.

“So, did you see? There was a day some years ago when the voice of the countrymen was muzzled on June 26 and there is a time when the people themselves decide whether the government is performing well or badly. This is the strength of democracy.”

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national Over 9 lakh apply for 14,000 police jobs in MP BHOPAL, JUN 26 (PTI): Over nine lakh aspirants, including those with PhD, post graduate and engineering degrees, have applied for the post of about 14,000 police constables in Madhya Pradesh.

Of the 9.24 lakh candidates, 1.19 lakh are graduates, 14,562 are post graduates, 9,629 engineers and 12 with Doctorate of Philosophy (PhD), according to the data of Madhya Pradesh Professional Examination Board (MPPEB), which will conduct the examination.

The minimum qualification for the post is Higher Secondary. “There are candidates with PhD and engineering degrees who have applied for the post,” said Bhaskar Lakshakar, Director, MPPEB. He said the examination is scheduled to be held on July 17.

“Our job is to conduct the examination. The analysis of the profile of applicants is beyond our mandate,” Bhaskar said when asked to elaborate on the profile of these degree holders.

Over five lakh youth, who have passed Higher Secondary or Class XII, are also among the applicants. There are 3,438 diploma holders too.

There are about 2.58 lakh aspirants, belonging to Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, who have passed classes VIII and above as eligibility criteria for them is low.

The post offers a salary in the pay band of Rs 5,200 to Rs 20,200 with an additional grade pay of Rs 1,900 per month.

Headley liked Osama’s theory on women!

NEW DELHI, JUN 26 (PTI): Pakistani-American terrorist David Coleman Headley liked Osama bin Laden’s theory of having several women in one’s life but found Pakistani women to be cumbersome than those from Arab countries, says a new book.

Laden’s father, Mohammed bin Laden, had at least 54 children from 22 different wives. So while Laden was attending college, he and a friend decided they would each also take several wives and have large families.

Laden himself had over 20 children from six wives.

“Laden later developed a theory on the advantages of having several women in one’s life. Four was the optimal number, prescribed by the Prophet Muhammad himself, according to bin Laden,” writes investigative journalist Kaare Sorensen in his new book “The Mind of a Terrorist.”

“One is okay, like walking. Two is like riding a bicycle: it’s fast but a little unstable. Three is a tricycle, stable but slow. And when we come to four, ah! This is the ideal. Now you can pass everyone!” he says quoting Laden.

According to the author, Headley was, as usual, very excited about Laden’s thoughts, including those on women.

“Headley himself loved women. And he had many of them. He bragged to a group of friends that he had been with more black women than his entire class at the military academy combined. That was about one hundred students,”

David Coleman Headley

the book, published by Penguin Random House India, says. It contains Headley’s personal emails, revealing the psyche of the terrorist.

“But he (Headley) found Pakistani women to be cumbersome. They’d all seen too many Bollywood movies with big, dramatic romance scenes, and they didn’t want to live their lives as the third or fourth wife in a complicated marriage,” argues Sorensen.

“Arab women are much more understanding and open to it. They only ask that you be fair,” Headley wrote to his friends, he says. However, the author says Headley’s many women were also his Achilles’ heel.

“He could manage the American narcotics authorities; connections to the drug trade; heroin smugglers in Pakistan; major Iqbal from the intelligence service; and Pasha, Sajid Mir and the others in Lashkar, and he could juggle all his roles and opportunities at once - without everything coming crashing down to the ground.

“But when it came to women - wives, girlfriends, friends and his own mother

Yashwant flays PM Modi govt on Now AYUSH Ministry to certify yoga institutes NSG, says it is being ‘misguided’ NEW DELHI, JUN 26 (PTI): BJP leader Yashwant Sinha Sunday flayed the Narendra Modi government over its vigorous push to get NSG membership, saying there was no need for it as India stands to “lose and not gain” by becoming a member and alleged that people sitting in the government were “misguiding it everyday”.

The BJP veteran, who has often been critical of the Modi government after being sidelined in the party, said India should not have gone to the elite grouping as an “applicant” and should not accept NSG membership as it has already got what it needs.

“India which has shown so much keenness and desperation in getting NSG membership, it is not required at all.

We are comfortable outside NSG. If we become members of NSG, we will have more loss. There will be no gains for us.

“I say this strongly that

Yashwant Sinha

India should not accept the NSG membership. We should not go there as an applicant.

Whatever we had to get, we have got it,” 83-year-old Sinha said.

His comments come after India’s push for becoming a member of the NSG came a cropper at the plenary meeting of the 48-member Nuclear Suppliers Group recently as divisions persisted over admitting non-NPT members with China leading the opposition to it.

NEW DELHI, JUN 26 (PTI): Amid the Modi government’s push for yoga, AYUSH Ministry has decided to certify institutes imparting training in the ancient discipline for physical and mental well-being to ensure quality control and check mushrooming of centres which do not meet even the basic standards.

The ministry has asked yoga institutes across the country to apply for government certification by the end of this year.

The module for this scheme has already been prepared by the ministry.

“The scheme provides a mechanism to ensure the credibility and authenticity of the services provided,” AYUSH Minister Sripad Yesso Naik said. Secretary, department of AYUSH, Ajit M Sharan said, the Ministry is likely to issue guidelines in this regard soon.

The scheme applies to both wellness centres and institutes that offer training and diploma/degree courses in yoga. The various criteria for certification will include infrastructure of a given institute,

President Pranab Mukherjee presenting Best Integrated Rehabilitation Centre for Addicts (IRCA) award to Rural Health Organization, Naoremthong Laishram Leirak, Imphal, Manipur at the presentation of “National Awards for Outstanding Services in the field of Prevention of Alcoholism and Substance (Drug) Abuse-2016” in New Delhi on Sunday. (PTI)

French woman facing extradition to Chile granted bail by Delhi court

NEW DELHI, JUN 26 (PTI): A French woman, facing extradition to Chile for her alleged role in the murder of a senator there in 1991 and in judicial custody here since February last year, has been granted bail by a Delhi court which said the proceedings to extradite her would take time.

Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (ACMM) Shunali Gupta granted the relief to Marie Emmanuelle Verhoeven subject to furnishing of a personal bond of Rs five lakh and two sureties of the like amount.

The magistrate also ordered Verhoeven to surrender her passport and not leave the national capital without its permission.

The court ordered that its

decision be also forwarded to the Foreigners Regional Registration Office (FRRO) and the immigration department so that no fresh passport or exit permit is issued in her favour without its permission.

It directed that a fresh look out circular be opened against the French woman who is alleged to have participated in a conspiracy leading to the assassination of Chilean Senator Jaime Guzman Errazuriz on April 1, 1991.

Verhoeven’s challenge to the government’s decision to extradite had reached the Supreme Court which on April 28 held that there was a binding extradition treaty between India and Chile.

The woman had contended there was no valid

extradition treaty between the two countries.

She was arrested on February 16, 2015, from Uttar Pradesh on the basis of a red corner notice issued against her.

The Centre had opposed her bail on the ground that she would flee the country.

Seeking the relief, senior advocate Meet Malhotra and advocate Ramni Taneja, appearing for the woman, claimed she was languishing in jail for 16 months and was a “victim of political vendetta orchestrated by the government of Chile”.

The court noted in its order that the French embassy had in a note verbale sent to the Indian government sought release of the woman on humanitarian grounds.

- everything went wrong,” he says. Headley revealed too much and there was always one who talked; her name was Faiza Outalha, the author says.

“She was originally from Morocco, but she was studying medicine at a university in Lahore, and it’s not difficult to see why Headley fell for her.

In late February 2007, the two got married in Pakistan...Near the end of 2007, less than a year after they got married, his relationship with Faiza was on the verge of collapse,” the book says.

In December 2007, Faiza talked her way into the American embassy in Pakistan.

“She was angr y and loudly let the agents from the department of state’s security agency know that her husband, an American citizen, was a terrorist. He had stayed in Lashkar-e-Taiba training camps and sometimes spoke about suicide missions, she said. And he might be involved in some activities in Mumbai. “A few months before the Mumbai attack, Faiza went directly to Lashkar leader Hafiz Saeed and asked for help in saving their troubled marriage. Saeed then paid a visit to Headley, who downplayed the matter and explained that he had been busy with his Lashkar duties and hadn’t had much time to take care of wife number two,” the book says.

Faiza and Headley, however, got back together again, and that they watched the terrorist attack in Mumbai together on Headley’s TV in their house in Lahore, Sorensen writes.

Kidney racket: 4 other recipients identified by police NEW DELHI, JUN 26 (PTI): Days after the first recipient was arrested and four others identified in connection with the kidney racket unearthed at Apollo Hospitals here, Delhi Police will be sending teams to Jaipur, Jammu and Nagpur to arrest them. The Nagpur-based recipient is a businessman and he is believed to be in a severe financial crunch after paying for three (including his own) kidney transplants in his family. The recipients based in Jammu and Jaipur are small time entrepreneurs, said an official privy to the investigation. While a 22-year-old Ghaziabad-based man, identified as Ashutosh, who is the son of a DJB junior engineer, was arrested on Thursday, another recipient who had produced forced documents showing his address as Ghaziabad before the transplant has been traced in Delhi, the official said.

All four of them are absconding from their residences at the moment. While one team is looking out for the recipient traced in Delhi, teams will soon be sent to Nagpur, Jammu and Jaipur to arrest the others, the senior official added. DCP (southeast) M S Randhawa said, “Recipients in the first five cases have been identified.

In other five, we have leads but the identities are yet to be established. Efforts are on to arrest them at the earliest.” The police have arrested 13 persons, including several middlemen, personal assistants of senior doctors, donors, a recipient and the racket’s kingpin Rajkumar Rao, in this connection.

number of instructors employed, the period it has been in existence and the kind of courses it offers. An institute seeking accreditation will have to apply online with Quality Control of India (QCI). “We will put a detailed accreditation form on our website. There is a guidelines book that will be published and will be freely available to all institutions.

Institutes can then apply following which our assessors will visit them and decide whether they qualify to be certified by the Ministry of AYUSH,” QCI secretary general R P Singh said.

Secretary, AYUSH, Ajit M Sharan said the exercise has been necessitated because of mushrooming of yoga institutes which do not meet even the basic standards.

“Rishikesh has 300 yoga institutes. There have been instances when people have come from abroad and felt these institutes hardly have anything to offer. So there are instances of litigation and police complaints....Hence, there is a need to certify or give accreditation to these centres so that they

carry certain credibility. We are not regulating them but we are saying that these are the minimum required standards, if you meet them then we will certify you,” he said.

The Ministry had last year announced voluntary certification of yoga professionals in collaboration with QCI in order to certify the competence level of trainers. Around 10,500 yoga professionals have since registered with QCI and 300 of them have received the certification.

QCI secretary general Singh said,”We intend to homogenise the whole chain through which professionals and institutes are accredited so that there is a uniformity in the entire yoga curriculum.” He went on to add that eventually yoga centres, including those abroad, will get certified by QCI and AYUSH Ministry. The council has roped in prominent yoga exponents like ISHA Foundation’s Jaggi Vasudev, Art of Living’s Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, Ramdev, H R Nagendra and O P Tiwari, among others, who have helped design the module J&K Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti pays tribute to slain CRPF personnel at a wreath laying ceremony at Humhama, on the outskirts of Srinagar on Sunday. (PTI) of the scheme.

Woman kisses Karnataka Chief Minister in public

NGOs, their executives to give annual income details to Lokpal

BENGALURU, JUN 26 (PTI): A woman placed a peck on Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah’s cheek at a public meeting here today, leaving him visibly embarrassed.

The incident happened at a programme to felicitate newly elected members of zilla panchayats and taluk panchayats, organised by the Karnataka Pradesha Kuruba Sangha at palace grounds here.

Standing next to Chief Minister for a group photo, Girija Srinivas, who is Tarikere Taluk Panchayat member from Amruthapura in Chikmagalur district, all of a sudden in her moment of joy gave a peck on his cheek and walked away.

Siddaramaiah, visibly embarrassed by the incident, wiped his cheek with a big smile. The Karnataka Chief Minister hails from Kuruba community. Speaking to a TV channel, the woman said she was happy that the Chief Minister was also a Kuruba, and called him a “lion of the community”.

“I was overjoyed by the fact that I was standing next to him. My family and I have always called him “Appaji” (father).” She also clarified that placing a peck on Siddaramaiah’s cheek was not preplanned.

Srinivas hails from Varuna in Mysuru district which is Siddaramaiah’s assembly constituency. She is married to a man from Chikmagalur.

Speaking to reporters Siddaramaiah said, “that girl is like my daughter.”

NEW DELHI, JUN 26 (PTI): All foreign and domestic-funded Non-Government Organisations (NGOs) will be under Lokpal, which will initiate an enquiry against them in the event of their involvement in corruption. Besides, both the NGOs and their top executives will have to file details of income and assets before the proposed anti-corruption body.

As per the rules notified recently by Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT), NGOs receiving more than Rs one crore as government grant and donations above Rs 10 lakh from abroad will be under the ambit of the Lokpal.

Under the new rules, office bearers of such NGOs will be treated as “public servants” and charged under the anti-corruption law in case of financial irregularities.

These rules will apply to the NGOs, Limited Liability Partnership firms (LLPs)-which can be a law or real estate firm--or any such group partly or wholly financed by the central government. However, big corporates will be out of the ambit of Lokpal.

Anti-corruption activists have expressed concern over the government’s move to allegedly ignore private sector bribery by exempting such companies from the Lokpal’s jurisdiction.

“It is worrisome that the Lokpal Act and the recent notification of the DoPT relating to the monetary limit of government funding for societies, trusts, associations and LLPs to bring them under the jurisdiction of the Lokpal

for purpose of corruption does not include private companies registered under the Companies Act 2013,” said Venkatesh Nayak, Programme Coordinator, Access to Information Programme, Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative--an NGO. He said since India has ratified United Nations Convention Against Corruption and, as per its provision, it is the duty of the government to take measures “to prevent corruption involving the private sector”. Nayak said with several basic services such as power and water supply, telephone, education and health services being provided by the private sector or the increasing trend of relaxing FDI norms in crucial sectors such as agriculture, pharmaceuticals and even defence, it is imperative that private entities selling essential commodities or providing basic services to the public are also brought under the ambit of the Lokpal for the purpose of combating corruption.

As per the new rules, the Home Ministry has been made the competent authority to take action against executives of foreign-funded NGOs in case they are found misutilising overseas grants. Any person who is or has been a director, manager, secretary or any other officer of a society, association of persons or trust (whether registered under any law for the time being in force or not), wholly or partly financed by the government, and the annual income of which exceeds Rs one crore will be under the Lokpal ambit, the rules said.

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opinion/EDITORIAL

Nagaland Post Vol. XXVI NO. 199 Dimapur, monday, June 27, 2016

A serious condition

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n the night of June 23, some unidentified person(s) travelling in a Mahindra Scorpio, fired a shot near the office gate of Nagaland Post and sped away even as the security staff went to investigate. The Editors of four Nagaland-based newspapers (Morung Express, Eastern Mirror, Capi and Tir Yimyim) expressed deep concern the incident and cautioned, that any such attempt aimed at coercion, threat or obstruction of the voice of freedom of the press would only undermine freedom and democracy. The Editors urged upon the state government to ensure that a secure environment be created for a safe working environment of journalists. The incident further serves as a reminder about the environment in Dimapur. For the ordinary, helpless and unorganised citizens they continue to face similar, if not worse, situations. For lawless elements, freedom of expression, truth, fundamental rights of citizens mean nothing but irritants to their criminal life style. As for the government of Nagaland, it is inflicted with self-paralysis that prevents it from undertaking proactive actions to prevent crimes but only but engage in fire-fighting exercises. With nearly two lakh people including a large floating population, Dimapur has lost the momentum for progress and its commercial growth is being stunted by various factors that impede positive growth. Prices of almost all items are shooting up since there is no proper check on the market brought about due to rampant tax collections and manipulative trade practices imposed through a monopoly by sharks who have formed various syndicates. Dimapur has become the crime capital of the north east. There are many gangs involved in various nefarious activities from smuggling ganja, drugs, weapons, car lifting, sex trade, extortion, mafia networks and various illegal activities. Today, the infamous Mumbai underworld activity called ‘supari’(contract) killing is also no longer an unknown phenomenon. Insecurity among the public only indicates that the authorities are yet to deal with the crime syndrome. Many heinous crimes have yet to be solved, most unfortunately. Dozens of unions, associations including underground factions are preying on truckers entering Dimapur or plying within the city and the authorities doing precious little to end the menace that is literally bleeding the public due to abnormal increase in the price of every commodity. Leaving aside goods coming from outside Nagaland, even items produced within such as bricks or wood are also subjected to taxes from both ‘authorised’(with permits)’ as well as ‘unauthorised’(without permits but who care less). The mix up of various elements living above and beyond the law and who have forged several business syndicates, certainly work against the common public, who are the end-users but who have to bear the brunt of the “extra costs”.

The police commissionerate in Dimapur has been thrown the gauntlet and it will have to ensure that those involved including anyone behind the entire conspiracy are identified, arrested, booked and prosecuted. It is also hoped, that the judiciary would note that society is in need of a reprieve from criminal elements and it has to take a serious view of those accused of violent crimes. All the above paint a very unwholesome picture of criminalisation of society which lead to conclusion of a haven for criminals but a hell for other mortals.

DailyDevotion Drawing on the Grace of God— Now We…plead with you not to receive the grace of God in vain. —2 Corinthians 6:1 The grace you had yesterday will not be sufficient for today. Grace is the overflowing favor of God, and you can always count on it being available to draw upon as needed. “…in much patience, in tribulations, in needs, in distresses”— that is where our patience is tested (2 Corinthians 6:4). Are you failing to rely on the grace of God there? Are you saying to yourself, “Oh well, I won’t count this time”? It is not a question of praying and asking God to help you— it is taking the grace of God now. We tend to make prayer the preparation for our service, yet it is never that in the Bible. Prayer is the practice of drawing on the grace of God. Don’t say, “I will endure this until I can get away and pray.” Pray now — draw on the grace of God in your moment of need. Prayer is the most normal and useful thing; it is not simply a reflex action of your devotion to God. We are very slow to learn to draw on God’s grace through prayer. “…in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors…”

(2 Corinthians 6:5)— in all these things, display in your life a drawing on the grace of God, which will show evidence to yourself and to others that you are a miracle of His. Draw on His grace now, not later. The primary word in the spiritual vocabulary is now. Let circumstances take you where they will, but keep drawing on the grace of God in whatever condition you may find yourself. One of the greatest proofs that you are drawing on the grace of God is that you can be totally humiliated before others without displaying even the slightest trace of anything but His grace. “…having nothing….” Never hold anything in reserve.

Pour yourself out, giving the best that you have, and always be poor. Never be diplomatic and careful with the treasure God gives you. “…and yet possessing all things”— this is poverty triumphant (2 Corinthians 6:10).

Quotes

Every man’s memory is his private literature.

~ Aldous Huxley

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FDI to pour in new ‘open economy’

rime Minister Narendra Modi has virtually broken from the past and ushered in a new economy.

The NDA government has allowed 100 percent FDI in defence, civil aviation, greenfield pharmaceutical projects, broadcasting carriage services – cable TV, DTH, food product e-commerce and relaxed sourcing norms for up to five years for single-brand retail trading. It also brings in ‘labour reforms” through the textile package route.

It will help foreign defence firms, food marketing companies to enter India and opens up aviation sector with increased competition.

Now IKEA and Apple can have a sigh of relief as they can set up stores. Foreign pharmaceutical companies can now also set up their units in the country.

The Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) said the decisions will make “India the most open economy in the world for FDI”. Possibly that is correct as the country also prepares for mega telecom spectrum sale.

The decision to allow 100 per cent FDI in defence marks a major push to defence manufacturing under the

‘Make in India’ initiative. The government has dropped the requirement for ‘state of the art’ technology requirement to apply for FDI relaxation above 49 per cent.

This does not mean automatic approval for defence deals. Deals above 49 per cent still need government approval but now deals not involving ‘state of the art’ technology can also opt the route. It is now called ‘modern technology” While the government has been aggressively pushing global defence companies to set up manufacturing in India, one of the major limitations cited has been the 49 per cent FDI limit which meant the Indian partner holding a controlling stake in the joint venture. In the past, government has stated that relaxation above 49 per cent can be given on a case by case basis through the Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) for state-of-the-art technology and depending on the extent of technology transfer.

However in the past the major Indian corporate had opposed relaxation beyond 49 per cent arguing that Indian companies should be in control to build domestic

expertise. The new decision virtually puts Indian companies at par with the foreign manufacturers. There is apprehension that since the foreign firms have technologies, they would have an upper hand.

The new policy may force Indian companies Shivaji to re-look at their plans as it reduces the dependence of original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) on domestic manufacturers.

That may change business dynamics. But it is possibly a clever ploy so that no company gets undue advantage in business, security and political brinkmanship.

But the corporate largely sees this as a win-win situation for the country’s defence forces, local industries and international OEMs. The move, companies like Tata Motors aver, will also enhance overall R&D to develop and deploy country-specific solutions.

Opening up the skies, doing away with five-year operational requirement to fly abroad will help some of the new airlines set up as joint ventures. In the long run, it virtually clears the space for entry of any foreign airlines.

Competition is going to be

intense and only the fittest is likely to survive.

This should have been taken as an opportunity to close down, sale or lease out the Maharaja – Air India – that drains the exchequer continuously. It’s bleeding and no amount of Sarkar infusion of funds would help it. However, the new policy does not prevent that.

It would be wise on the part of this government to unshackle the Maharaja and let it decide its own fate.

Severe competition is also on the cards in the broadcasting sector – cable TV, mobile TV and DTH. It would also see investments pouring in. This sector hopes to have a large Indian market. Still many regions need services of various kinds. There is expectation that high-end clients may have tailor-made needs.

The market at the lower end has also scope for expansion.

There is circumspection too.

As the competition intensifies, possibly many groups can exit as well.

It is also to be seen how pharmaceutical companies bite the bullet. With the recent curbs on prices of scores of drugs, they may be a bit slow

to invest. They are used to high profits. Social service is not in their blood. But if they decide to come, it is possible that there would be price wars to the benefit of the consumer.

A major hitch for most foreign investors is the labour law, though mostly these are observed in the breach. Recently, India refused to accept WTO norms on labour.

It drew flak from Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh. The government has virtually introduced new norms as it announced the Rs 6000 crore textile package and expects creation of one crore jobs in the textile industry over next three years.

The Centre also plans to invest Rs 74,000 core in textiles.

It has allowed short-term employment of upto 150 days. Earlier it was for 240 days. But now these workers would get wages equal to those employed on regular basis.

Besides, the employees can opt out of Employees Provident Fund (EPF) scheme. The government would also bear the cost of EPF contribution and give relief to the employers. It also announced Rs 5500 crore duty drawback for giving a boost to exports.

Hardcore trade union-

ists would see it as dilution of the present norms. But in practice the industry has been doing this in different garb.

The new rules would at least ensure that all those working in the industry would be mentioned in muster roll and get the legally fixed wages.

The EPF norm dilution would ensure that there would not be deduction as most such cuts went into dead EPF accounts as such small contributions were difficult to claim.

The policies may attract the foreign investors, who were critical of stringent laws.

It also burdens the government with responsibility to protect the workers’ rights.

The policies apparently were formulated with precision over a period of time.

They were announced in phases as well so that the people could realize that government is in action mode.

But the industry and the government have to do more to have real investment.

Industry grapevines say for that strategies have to be sharpened. It is expected to have the impact in about three to five years. Followed up with élan it may change the face of India as a world manufacturing hub.

Post-mortem

Sovereignty is non-negotiable

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overeignty as the goal for Nagas, envisaged by our pioneer leaders was for distinct Naga nationality in her own Godgiven motherland with absolute power to govern by practicing her own time-tested laws, free from all dominions by external power(s).

Before the British advent in Naga territories, Nagas were sovereign in every aspect of their live within their village territories. When the British departure from Indian subcontinent was imminent, the Nagas refused to join Indian Union and decided to restore their independent status by declaring Naga independence on August 14, 1947, a day ahead of India’s independence. The August 14, 1947 declaration was ratified by a Plebiscite conducted by Naga National Council, NNC (the only mandated public institution) on May 16, 1951 wherein, 99% gave their mandate for independent Nagaland. Thus, the sovereignty of Nagaland was not just a birthright but also a declared right.

Those historic events were and are constants and not variables because history cannot be rewind. Suggestions and opinions expressed in favor of fresh referendum are unfortunate.

The Government of India, consciously or subconsciously acknowledged the legitimacy of Nagaland’s independence when it entered into a bilateral ceasefire treaty with the Federal Government of Nagaland officially, on September 6, 1964.

That was after the inauguration of Nagaland State on December 1, 1963, which in legal context stood annulled. Another peace accord, infamously called Shillong Accord came about in 1975 that brought split in NNC/FGN and NSCN/GPRN sprouted in 1980.

The GoI signed ceasefire agreements with all NSCN groups since 1997. The GoI-NSCN (IM) finally signed the Framework Agreement on August 3, 2015 at New Delhi. Ceasefire agreements were signed with the GoI to end the undeclared war in Nagaland that started since 1955. All those ceasefire agreements proved that Nagas had negotiated with India for peace only.

No country in the world

negotiates her sovereignty with another sovereign country. Nagas must be very clear that Nagas can negotiate with India for peace but not on sovereignty.

The sovereignty of Nagaland is non-negotiable as much as it is so with the sovereignty of India.

In recent years, many Nagas have started expressing opinions about permanent settlement/ solution with the GoI. Many had expressed their fears that Nagas may miss the bus again.

Nagas mandated for sovereignty as the ultimate goal. Therefore, as per the stated national goal, sovereignty alone will bring permanent peace between India and Nagaland. There is nothing to settle on sovereignty because Nagas had declared Nagaland as independent state 69 years ago. Nagas’ only demand from India had been to acknowledge and recognize the sovereignty of Nagaland and withdraw her occupational forces out of Nagaland. This may sound utopian in present context but those were historical and political facts. Had Nagas stuck to this ‘one stand in one voice’ all through, history might have been different.

It is a national tragedy that the educated Nagas are confused of the national stand and objective, and developed doubt on the stated goal. There seems to be complete confusion between peace and sovereignty. All these things have developed while trying to define sovereignty to suit one’s own philosophy. Yet, the universal definition of sovereignty is plainly clear that ‘sovereignty’ is absolute. The sovereignty of Nagaland is not relative to India and it is wrong to view from that angle.

It is a national shame that people think Nagas can negotiate with India for financial largesse, development package and administrative autonomy. For the sake of regional peace, Nagas may negotiate with the GoI on these issues but only on condition, that India respects the sovereignty of Nagaland as declared on August 14, 1947 and ratified by plebiscite on May 16, 1951. Nagas may accept peace deal but not at the cost of sovereignty.

Dr. K. Hoshi, Phek Town

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Myanmar in transition and India

t is two months since the government controlled by Aung San Suu Kyi took charge in Myanmar.

The elections that brought her to power were free despite western fears that the military regime would not allow freedom. The question being asked today is “to what extent will Myanmar change?” Amid what look like earth shattering events is there continuity with change? The military regime has ensured it by allocating to itself through the Constitution 25 percent of the seats in both the houses of Parliament and in the State legislatures. An amendment to the Constitution requires 75 percent plus one vote. Thus, no amendment is possible without the support of this bloc of unelected members. Secondly, the Ministers for Home, Border Areas and Defence are appointed by the Senior Military General and report to him, not to the president. Thus in practice there are two centres of power, the civilian president and the military general.

That limits the power of the civilian administration.

Despite this apparent continuity one sees many positive signs of freedom. Though the military regime imposed constitution prevents Suu Kyi from becoming President, the Parliament has created a post that gives her effective control over the civilian government. She has also been trying to control corruption that was rampant under the military regime. Amid these changes one can also ask whether her government is introducing all the changes required or is there continuity with change in this domain too? One tends to believe that it is the case. For example, her government has freed many political prisoners but retains the restrictions on freedom of assembly that the dictatorial regime had put in place.

Some analysts believe that while freeing the enemies of the old regime the civilian government is keeping its own enemies in jail. That should be verified.

Another area of concern is education that the military regime controlled. In fact, every fascist regime tries to take control of education. The Myanmar regime did it by nationalising all schools in 1965 with no compensation. It changed the curriculum to suit the needs of “one race, one language, one religion” imposed on everyone. Student

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propos “anomalies alleged in ISHDP beneficiaries lists” and subsequent withdrawal letter dated 09/06/16 both published in Nagaland Post dated 30/4/16 and 10/6/16 respectively, the Lengrijan village council feels constrained to respond.

That this is in reference to the accusation of Aokong and industrial estate colonies issued through their respective chairman and GB that out of 76 beneficiaries selected by the authority for integrated housing & slum development programme (IHSDP), under DMC ward No. 12, those selected from Lengrijan are bogus and against house numbers belonging to other owners, the accusers are false and denied of its veracity.

That benefits under the said scheme IHSDP is meant not for those who have their own residen-

tial buildings and houses, however, the scheme is meant to benefit those who could not afford to construct dwelling houses of their own or for slum dwellers. The house numbers assigned against the addresses of the applicants/beneficiaries are meant for addresses and postal communication only as because unlike others, they have no permanent dwelling houses.

Therefore, the selection made by the competent authority appears to be strictly in compliance with the criteria governing the selection for the benefits under the scheme.

Hence, the allegation of bogus beneficiaries is totally unfounded and also the accusation of against the house numbers of others is of no material question.

That the four signatories from Aokong and industrial estate colonies as well as their respective

council members were invited by the Lengrijan village council on two different occasions by letters dated 12.05.16 and 21/6/16 for personal discussion on the accusation for mutual settlement.

However, on both the occasions, they flatly refused to respond positively to the invitation letters.

Hence, after thorough deliberation, the Lengrijan village council has considered the attitude and conduct of the two colony councils as extreme case of insensitivity and unbecoming of human society, and resolved to impose social contact boycott with these two colonies with effect from 27/06/2016 till contrary resolution is passed to revoke the boycott.

Chairman N. Meren Imchen and secretary, Alitemsu Jamir, Lengrijan village council Dimapur

movements were banned. There was repression as late as 2015 and the president (vice-chancellor) of Yangon University supported it fully. He has now been made Minister of Education. Despite this apparent setback one hopes that there will be more freedom in education.

Religious freedom is one more area of concern. Most minorities feel more secure under the new government, with the exception of Muslims. They were hounded by the fundamentalist groups under the old regime. The State disallowed the name of “Rohingya” that they use for themselves. The usual accusations of them being illegal Bangladeshi migrants and terrorists were hurled at them. After anti-Muslim riots a large number of them are living in refugee camps, behind barbed wires in inhuman conditions, without basic rights.

Aung San Suu Kyi did not choose a single Muslim candidate for her party for fear that the fundamentalist groups would use them against her.

One expected change in this attitude after the elections. But the Minister for Religious Affairs has made statements that are not far from what the fundamentalist groups said in the past.

However, recently the government has appointed a committee to dialogue with the Muslims in the camps and one hopes that it will pave the way for towards religious equality.

Foreign policy is what matters in India. Though Myanmar is its next door neighbour and despite the “Look East Policy” India has not given it the importance it deserves. Dr Man Mohan Singh paid a successful visit to Myanmar and the President of Myanmar came to India. But Shri Narendra Modi has gone to Myanmar only for the India-ASEAN summit and has not paid a one-to-one visit to the country. As soon as Aung San Suu Kyi became its foreign minister her Italian, Canadian, Chinese and some other counterparts rushed to Myanmar to visit her but the Indian foreign minister is yet to pay her a visit. India seems to view Myanmar mainly as a place of competition with China and not as a neighbour whom it should court as a friend. Even some people in that country feel that India views it only as a place “Where India Meets China” which is the title of a book by U Thant’s grandson.

That seems to remain unchanged after the elections. India needs to

develop one-to-one relations with Myanmar without being obsessed with China. It has advantages that it can use to mutual benefit. The communities in the border areas of Mizoram, Manipur, Nagaland and Arunachal Pradesh that are separated by the international boundary consider themselves one. They have regular dealings trade, cultural and social exchanges across the border.

Inter-dependence is high among them. India should be encouraging such people to people exchanges in order to improve friendly relations with Myanmar. Instead, a month ago India banned barter trade on the border though official trade is moribund. As a result the people to people exchanges may be called smuggling.

India has other advantages too such as middle level technology that Myanmar needs. During its transition to a new economy Myanmar can learn from its 25 years of experience of globalisation. Indian democracy has survived many challenges. Its people enjoy religious freedom despite growth of fundamentalism in the country. Its vibrant civil society is involved in peace processes so it can be an asset when the new government of Myanmar is re-launching peace parleys with the ethnic minorities that have waged an armed struggle for autonomy for six decades. In its turn at a time when the Indian government is becoming hostile to civil society and is misusing its power to punish groups that disagree with it, Indian NGOs can learn from their Myanmar counterparts who have experience of being hounded by the State.

Civil society can thus play an important role in relations with the neighbour but they cannot do it without the government. State-civil society cooperation is essential to improve people to people relations too over and above official links.

Unfortunately the government seems to be concerned more about competition with China than with friendship with Myanmar. China cannot be wished away. But the best way of dealing with it is to treat Myanmar as a friendly neighbour whom we need as a link with China rather than as a competitor.

Dr Walter Fernandes is founder and Senior Fellow at North Eastern Social Research Centre, Guwahati

Reader’s Post

Tamlu, Yongnyah & Namsang Area Union (TYNA) appreciate DAN government Sir,

Tamlu, Yongnyah & Namsang Area Union (TYNA) comprising of 23 villages would like to express our deep appreciation to chief minister, T. R. Zeliang for approving site for the establishment of polytechnic institute at Yungho at EAC Hq, Yongnyah under Longleng district. This polytechnic institution is one among the major initiatives taken by the DAN government under the leadership of chief minister, T. R. Zeliang & chairman DAN, Dr. Shurhozelie to uplift the backward community in the state. The union also express our appreciation to the department of Higher & Technical Education for selecting the most feasible site for the establishment of such a major institution without any bias despite the complaints from various quarters. The union also conveys our great appreciation to the parliamentary secretary of Higher & Technical Education, Deo Nukhu, parliamentary secretary Land Resources & Excise, B. S. Nganlang, for constantly and selflessly working towards the up-liftment of Phom people in particular and Nagas in general.

The union assures continuous support and co-operation to the department for the smooth and uninterrupted execution of works.

B. Longai Phom, general secretary and S. Baungan Buchem vice president TYNA

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.

Nagaland Post, Dimapur monday, June 27, 2016

If Pakistan fires, we won’t keep an account of our bullets, says Rajnath

NEW DELHI, JUN 25 (PTI): Union home minister Rajnath Singh on Sunday came out strongly against Pakistan in the light of Saturday’s terror strike in Jammu & Kashmir’s Pampore in which 8 jawans were martyred while several were injured.

“We won’t fire first but if Pakistan does, we won’t keep an account of our bullets,” Rajnath said.

“An attempt is being made by these terrorists and our neighbouring country to destabilise India. I call upon Indian youth to stand up to face such forces and we should greet and welcome the bravery of our security people and the way they are working with such valour and courage,” Singh had earlier said without naming any country.

After the Pakistan-based terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba claimed responsibility for Saturday’s attack on a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) convoy in Pampore town of Jammu and Kashmir, Rajnath Singh said the Centre will be sending a two-member committee to find out the loopholes which led to the untoward incident.

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“All our security forces are fighting very bravely and efficiently and in this small span of time the numbers of terrorists they have gunned down is highly commendable,” he added.

Saturday’s attack was the fourth one on the security forces in Jammu and Kashmir this month. At least 17 security personnel were killed and several others injured in the last three major strikes along the Jammu-Srinagar Highway during the period.

Officials say infiltration has dramatically gone up compared to the previous year

with more than 50 terrorists crossing the border in the last five months. Last year, there was zero infiltration in the first four months.

The Home Minister said Indian youth should stand up to face forces which want to destabilise the country.

“An attempt is being made by these terrorists and our neighbouring country to destabilise India. I call upon Indian youth to stand up to face such forces and we should greet and welcome the bravery of our security people and the way they are working with such valour and courage,”

said Singh without naming any country.

The Home Minister said, “India cannot forget those security men who got martyred. They are not with us now and we pay our tributes to them.”

In the deadliest attack on security forces in recent years, eight CRPF personnel were killed and 21 others critically wounded yesterday when terrorists rained bullets on a bus carrying them at Pampore, in Kashmir.

The Minister stressed that the country needed brave and courageous people to face the current challenge.

“But this period is going on and we need brave people in this time like Banda Singh Bahadur who were ready to lay down their lives for the country and society. Such people can protect the nation,” he said.

He noted that people should take inspiration from people like Banda Singh Bahadur. “Today our country is facing many challenges and to win over these challenges, we can take inspiration from life of people like Banda Singh Bahadur,” he said.

Asha Kumari appointed AICC in-charge of Punjab

Referendum on Delhi statehood has no statutory backing: Experts

NEW DELHI, JUN 26 (PTI): Congress Sunday appointed party secretary Asha Kumari as its in-charge of poll-bound Punjab to succeed Kamal Nath days after he resigned following an opposition uproar but the choice triggered a controversy over her conviction in a land grab case. Kumari, who is an MLA from Dalhousie in Himachal Pradesh, was given one-year imprisonment by a Chamba court in February this year but is currently on bail.

Assembly elections are due in Punjab next year. Nath, a veteran Congress leader, had to quit as AICC in- charge of Punjab within three days after his appointment this month in the wake of an uproar by BJP, SAD and AAP over his alleged role in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.

Kumari has served in various capacities in the party.

Party sources had earlier said that in Punjab the leadership could make a temporary appointment of an existing general secretary till a decision is taken on induction of new leaders in the AICC secretariat. Kumari was convicted on February 26 in the land grab case by a Chamba court and sentenced to one year imprisonment, besides being fined Rs 8,000.

NEW DELHI, JUN 26 (IANS): The AAP government’s move to hold a referendum in Delhi for full statehood does not have a constitutional backing, say experts and also note that there was no provision for the Delhi assembly to summon the city’s Lt. Governor.

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, in reference to Britain’s referendum on leaving the European Union, said on Friday that Delhi will soon have a referendum on obtaining full statehood.

There also has been a move by the Delhi assembly’s Petition Committee to summon Lt. Governor

Najeeb Jung and Delhi AntiCorruption Bureau chief M.K. Meena before it for “no action” on the FIRs over alleged wrongdoings during the tenure of the Sheila Dikshit government.

Former Lok Sabha Secretary General Subhash C. Kashyap said that the proposal for a referendum on Delhi’s statehood and the decision to summon the Lt Governor before the assembly were a clear violation of the Constitution.

“These are not in accordance with the Constitution,” Kashyap told IANS. He said that the move to have a referendum on Delhi’s

statehood was guided by political considerations.

S. K . S h a r m a , w h o served as the Delhi assembly Secretary under four chief ministers, told IANS that there was no legal basis to the proposal to hold a referendum and the move to summon the LG before the assembly panel.

“As far as summoning Lt. Governor is concerned, I don’t think it is correct. Can parliament of India summon President? Assemblies are replica of parliament. If parliament can summon the President, then LG can also be summoned,” Sharma told IANS.

Drug, liquor smuggling on the rise (From p-1) Observing that the percentage of alcohol consumption were high amongst the youngsters, while women drinker were also on the rise, Toshitsungba said not more than 500 wine shops were open along the AssamNagaland border for “Naga customers”. He opined that unless NLTP Act is revisited “solution is not nearby”.

On drug menace, he said the issue has become “narco-terrorism”, as most insurgent groups were generating money out of the illegal business. As India has been fighting the drug menace at the Western front (Afghanistan via Pakistan to Punjab,

Gujarat and Rajasthan) and Eastern front (Golden triangle- Thailand, Myanmar, Laos and Cambodia), he noted that the ‘Golden Triangle’ was the main production center for South East Asia, that reaches upto Nagaland, goes to Delhi and even Europe and other countries.

Aier said according to National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) report 2014, the total seizures of drugs under the NDPS act were 1035168.07415766.54 Kgs and 175766.54 Liters. Meanwhile, short speeches were also delivered by former NMA president and Padmashree awardee, Neidonuo Angami and member secretary NSLSA, Nino Iralu.

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BHUBANESWAR, JUN 26 (IANS): Condemning the terrorist attack on a CRPF bus near Pampore in Jammu and Kashmir a day earlier, Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar on Sunday said it is an act of frustration and assured the government will deal with such incidents strongly.

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Calling it a very unfortunate incident, Parrikar said he had doubts if the standard operating procedure (SOP) was followed in the case.

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ry reasons for low participation of women in the labour force like lack of access to higher education among women, dearth of opportunities to work. Even lack of flexibility in working conditions tends to dissuade women from joining the labour force as they turn to their domestic duties,” Assocham said.

The FLFP rates during the period among BRICS countries was found to be - China (64 per cent), Brazil (59 per cent), Russia (57 per cent), South Africa (45 per cent) and India (27 per cent).

Moreover, the gap between rural male and female labour force participation in India in 2011 stood at about 30 per cent while in urban centres gap was more pronounced at around 40 per cent.

“This can be attributed to

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Patna, Jun 26 (IANS): Pulse prices have shot up as a result of their under-cultivation and inadequate domestic production, while the spike in vegetable prices have more to do with market forces than production, Chief Economic Advisor (CEA) Arvind Subramanian said on Sunday.

Adressing an international conference on social statistics here, Subramanian said inadequate production have led to a spike in pulse prices in a context of a shift in dietary habits, in which pulses have become the core of the diet among Indians people.

He said that with a view to increase production of pulses, the central government has incentivised their cultivation by raising the minimum support price (MSP), besides taking other measures to encourage farmers to produce these on preferential basis. Technology should have been put to better use to enhance pulses cultivation, he added. Referring to the recent surge in tomato prices, Subramanian said the fluctuation in vegetable prices was linked to market forces rather than cultivation.

New Delhi, Jun 26 (IANS): The participation of Indian women in the workforce fell 10 per cent in the past decade as India recorded the lowest female labour force participation rate, a joint industry chamber Assocham-Thought Arbitrage Research study showed on Sunday.

“There is an urgent need to create more jobs and entrepreneurship opportunities to promote women empowerment thereby making them economically independent as female labour force participation (FLFP) rate in India has fallen significantly by 10 per cent during the last decade, Aan Assocham-Thought Arbitrage Research study noted,” Assocham said in a release here.

Though there was a spurt in the number of working women in India during 20002005, increasing from 34 per cent to 37 per cent, the female labour force participation rate has reduced continuously thereafter and reached 27 per cent in 2014, the study said citing World Bank data, of the period when India’s economy was experiencing unprecedented growth.

“There are certain prima-

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elections and slowdown in Chinese economy which will have a positive impact on gold prices. Brexit will take two years to be completed as the process will be a long one,” she said.

Gold prices are likely to test USD 1,440 on the upper side and USD 1,220 on the lower side by the end of 2016, she said.

“In rupee terms, we are expecting gold to be at Rs 34,000-35,000 on the upper range and it will not fall below Rs 28,000,” she added.

G V Sreedhar, chairman of All India Gems and Jewellery Trade Federation (GJF) said the rising prices of gold is in line with market expectations and has created a positive consumer sentiment and the demand is growing.

“There is too much volatility in the market and the gold prices are expected to touch USD 1,400 by end of 2016 or mid-2017.

“In a week or two, it will settle down as both jewellers and consumers will adjust the rising prices. Good monsoons will also boost consumer sentiments and support in increasing the sale of jewellery this season,” he added.

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the potential to rise during times like this makes it more attractive compared to other risky assets,” he added.

Besides this, other risk events like the US election and Chinese debt levels are a matter of huge worry for investors, he said.

Angel Broking Associate Director - Commodities and Currencies Business, Equity Research - Naveen Mathur said the US dollar is likely to weaken going forward, which initially may be firm due to Brexit, making gold a safe haven for investors.

“Weaker US dollar, which is negatively co-related with gold, is likely to make it an attractive asset class. In the short term, gold may hold at Rs 31,500-32,500 levels and in the international markets, it is likely to be at USD 1,400 levels. Economic and political uncertainty will also keep gold bullish,” he added.

SMC Global Securities AVP, Commodity Research (Fundamental) Vandana Bharti said the ongoing geopolitical tension, good ETF (electronic traded fund) inflow and festive demand will support gold.

“There are ongoing geopolitical tensions, the US

“Our equity markets will continue to gyrate to the tune of global sentiments in nearterm,” he said. “Historically, these kind of global events have impacted Indian market disproportionately given the excessive dependence on FPI flows”.

With steady flows from domestic investors and improved macro fundamentals, our ability to weather these storms is relatively better,” he added.

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MUMBAI, Jun 26 (PTI): Gaining from safe haven buying post the Brexit referendum, gold prices are likely to remain firm and touch Rs 33,500 by the year-end due to factors like US elections, ongoing geopolitical tensions and volatility in currency markets, experts said.

“Post-Brexit, there is uncertainty that will be positive for gold. By December 2016, we expect gold to reach around Rs 33,500,” Commtrendz Research director Gnanasekar Thiagarajan.

Gold is expected to touch US$ 1,475 an ounce by December-end, he added.

Prices of the yellow metal surged by 8.2 per cent to US$ 1,319 an ounce on Friday after Britain voted to leave the European Union.

In India too, prices zoomed by over Rs 1,000 to rise over Rs 30,875 for 10 grams.

Thiagarajan said central banks in EU and the UK are expected to resort to monetary easing and stimulus packages to boost their respective economies.

“Such measures would boost gold prices, as the cost of holding gold decreases and

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off environment, bond yields are likely to soften,” SBI Mutual Fund Chief Investment Officer Navneet Munot said.

The data sourced from the depositories showed Foreign Portfolio Investors (FPIs) have sold debt securities worth Rs 6,189 crore (USD 918 million) till June 24, following an outflow of Rs 4,409 crore in the preceding month.

However, FPIs pumped Rs 4,429 crore in the equity markets so far this month.

banks - State Bank of Bikaner and Jaipur, State Bank of Travancore, State Bank of Patiala, State Bank of Mysore and State Bank of Hyderabad.

It first merged State Bank of Saurashtra with itself in 2008. Two years later, State Bank of Indore was merged with it.

In his Budget speech, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley had announced that the government will unveil a roadmap for consolidation of PSU banks who are expected to get an infusion of Rs 25,000 crore this fiscal year.

The gover nment has announced a revamp plan, ‘Indradhanush’, to infuse Rs 70,000 crore in state-owned banks over four years, while they will have to raise a further Rs 1.1 lakh crore from markets to meet capital requirements in line with global risk norms under Basel III. As per the blueprint, PSU banks were given Rs 25,000 crore in the last fiscal year and an equal amount is planned for the current fiscal year. For the next two subsequent years, Rs 10,000 crore each has been planned.

The gover nment has also said that more funds will be provided to PSU banks if Naharbari village council chairperson, Tokheli Kikon cutting the ribbon during the inauguration of “Home care solutions” at Naharbari, Dimapur on Saturday. needed.

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NEW DELHI, Jun 26 (PTI): Moving ahead with the operationalization of the interest rate setting monetary policy committee, the finance ministry has said it will notify the rules “within few weeks” and thereafter appoint three government nominees. “We are already working on it (on the rules). I think it should not take more than few weeks. Its a matter of weeks I would say,” economic affairs secretary Shaktikanta Das told PTI in an interview.

He was replying about the progress for setting up of the six-member monetary policy committee (MPC), which will determine the benchmark interest rates. Presently the rates are decided by the Governor of the Reserve Bank of India.

Das also said that the amendments to the RBI Act have already been notified, and now “once the rules are notified, then the government will take up the selection of the three names from the government side”.

The remaining three members would be from RBI with the Governor being the ex officio Chairperson.

where inequalities exist and the requirement of large number of economies world over is to fill up this infrastructure gap,” he said. Jaitley was addressing a seminar on “Infrastructure and Global Economic Growth” organised by China-sponsored AIIB along with finance ministers of many countries.

“Over the next decade the world needs trillions of dollars to fill up this gap. I think it is extremely important if the world is to be pulled out from the present slowdown phase, infrastructure development holds the key,” he said.

He also spoke of massive rural sanitation programme as

New Delhi, Jun 26 (PTI): Consolidation among public sector lenders is expected to happen only after the completion of merger between State Bank of India (SBI) and its associates, a senior Finance Ministry official said.

“Banks can consider merger and acquisition only when their financial strength improves significantly. Logically, the next round of mergers and acquisition may take place after consolidation of associate banks and acquisition of Bharatiya Mahila Bank with SBI,” the official said.

Banks can only make acquisitions when they have financial might which is subdued at the moment due to clean up exercise of balance sheet, the official added.

According to the official, post-March 2017, when the balance sheet clean up exercise is likely to be completed, the banks’ financial performance should consequently see an uptick.

The merger of SBI with associate banks is likely to happen towards the end of this fiscal year. Last week, the Cabinet gave in-principle approval for the merger of SBI with its associate banks and acquisition of Bharatiya Mahila Bank.

SBI has five associate

NEW DELHI, Jun 26 (PTI): Foreign investors have pulled out close to Rs 6,200 crore from the country’s stock markets so far this month, taking the total outflow to more than Rs 11,500 crore in 2016.

The outflow trend is expected to continue in the coming days following Britain’s exit from the European Union.

“While there could be some outflows from FPIs in Indian bonds amid global risk-

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part of India’s current infrastructure programme.

“In terms of highway construction this year alone our target is 10,000 kms. Our railway system is over 100 years old. We are going in for a massive modernisation,” he said.

Jaitley said the government is seeking private sector participation in converting railway stations into commercial hubs. The government plans to build more airports, sea ports and generate more power, particularly renewable energy which is ecologically also better from all points view, he said.

“These are all the emphasis areas we have undertaken,” he said. About arranging funding for the massive development, he said, “We realise that starting point is public finances. It is only when the public finances are put into it, you start attracting and the activity begins with a lot of private funds”.

At the same time, there are large number of developmental institutions like the World Bank, ADB which put in lot of money because infrastructure funding also brings in long-term returns on a sustainable basis, Jaitley said.

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Beijing, Jun 26 (PTI): Infrastructure development is key to halt the global economic slowdown, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said today as he made a strong case for global investments in India to fill the huge infrastructure gap which requires over USD 1.5 trillion in the next 10 years.

“We have been able to sustain growth in the face of global slowdown essentially on the strength of the infrastructure creation in India where the gap is huge,” Jaitley, who is in China to attend the Board of Governors of the Asia Infrastructure Investment Bank, said. “Over the next decade, we require over USD 1.5 trillion in India alone to fill up the infrastructure gap. We also use the additional resource which is available with us as a result of falling prices because that regime helps us,” he said, adding that the government intends to connect seven hundred thousand villages with roads by 2019 as part of a massive modernisation plan.

Jaitley underlined that infrastructure development is key to halt the global economic slowdown. “Infrastructure is

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Hilary Ben confidence over claims he was “lacklustre” and “half-hearted” during the EU referendum campaigning.

Labour MPs Dame Margaret Hodge and Ann Coffey had submitted a motion of no confidence against Corbyn to Parliamentary Labour Party (PLP) chairman John Cryer soon after the results of the EU referendum in favour of Brexit.

The motion has no formal constitutional force but calls for a discussion at the PLP’s next meeting tomorrow.

The chairman will de-

cide whether it is debated. If accepted, a secret ballot of Labour MPs could be held on Tuesday.

The Labour party campaigned for Remain during the referendum but it was widely felt that the party leader did not do enough to convince Labour voters after a 52-48 per cent result in favour of Leave.

In her resignation letter, Alexander said “Our country needs an effective opposition which can hold the government to account. As much as I respect you as a man of principle, I do not believe you have the capacity to shape

35 killed, 11 injured in China bus fire

Firefighters in action at the site of accident on Sunday.

BEIJING, JUN 26 (PTI): In a tragic accident, at least 35 people including two children were killed and 11 others injured when a tourist bus burst into flames after crashing into the side of a road in central China on Sunday.

The accident happened in Hunan province when the bus carrying 56 people crashed into the guardrails on a highway.

The ensuing oil leak may have caused the fire, the county government said.

Eleven people including four seriously injured have been hospitalised and rescuers are still searching the charred frame of the bus.

The police have detained the driver of the bus, staterun Xinhua news agency reported.

State Councilor Guo Shengkun, who is also public security minister, has ordered all-out efforts to save the injured, identify the cause of the accident, and to take measures to prevent similar tragedies from happening again.

State-run broadcaster CCTV showed a video in which thick smoke can be seen billowing out from the vehicle while passengers struggle to get out of the bus.

Traffic accidents are common in China and according to the World Health Organisation over 250,000 people die in road accidents in China every year.

China’s tornado toll goes up to 99

The death toll from China’s destructive extreme weather has climbed to 99 after a fierce tornado and storm struckChina’s Jiangsu Province two days ago leaving 846 others injured.

A powerful tornado and hailstorm pummeled the farmland and factories in Yancheng City, Jiangsu on Thursday, toppling houses, damaging wire poles and destroying a solar panel factory where hazardous chemicals had been stored.

The city government said in a press release that 1,591

homeless victims are staying in temporary shelters in two counties, and workers are rushing to repair electricity, water and telecommunication facilities.

Of the injured, 107 had been discharged from hospitals and 152 have sustained serious injuries, said Wu Xiaodan, vice mayor of Yancheng City.

Zheng Yongguang with the China Meteorological Administration confirmed that an EF-4 tornado with a wind speed of 73 meters/second was responsible for the damage, citing radar data and their on-site investigation.

EF-4 is the second strongest rating for tornados.

Zheng said cement ships hurled upside-down onto shore and twisted communication towers were seen, demonstrating the power of the tornado.

A primary school teacher also recorded a video of a funnel cloud, a keytornado indicator, using a smartphone, state-run Xinhua news agency reported.

the answers our country is demanding and I believe that if we are to form the next government, a change of leadership is essential.” A spokesperson for the Labour leader, however, said, “Jeremy Corbyn is the democratically elected leader of the Labour Party and will remain so.”

In a speech yesterday, Corbyn said: “I did all I could… Two-thirds of Labour voters voted for Remain in response to our party’s call for that. There are some people in the Parliamentary Labour Party who would probably want somebody else being the leader of this party, they have made that abundantly clear in the past few days.” Asked if he would stand again if there was a challenge to his leadership, he said: “Yes, I’m here, thank you.” This is the greatest threat Corbyn has faced to his leadership since he was elected leader of the Labour party just under a year ago.

3 million Brits want 2nd referendum :Meanwhile, a constantly growing online petition pressing for a second referendum on the UKs decision to quit the EU passed 3 million signatures today, all garnered in just 48 hours, signalling a major backlash against the shock Brexit vote.

Fallujah (Iraq), Jun 26 (AFP): Elite Iraqi forces today retook the Islamic State group’s last bastion in Fallujah, securing full control of the city after a month-long operation, a spokesman said.

“Today the commander of Fallujah operations Lieutenant General Abdelwahab alSaadi announced that the city of Fallujah had been cleared after counter-terrorism forces (CTS) took control of the Jolan neighbourhood,” the force’s spokesman, Sabah alNoman, told AFP. “Jolan was Daesh’s last stronghold in the city and Fallujah is now free of the threat posed by Daesh terrorists,” he said, using an Arab acronym for IS. “It did not take more than two hours for CTS to retake Jolan. Daesh

did not fire a single bullet,” Noman said.

“This proves that Daesh was defeated even before our forces got there.”

A spokesman for the Joint Operations Command coordinating the fight against IS said some jihadist pockets remained northwest of Fallujah.

“We still have an ongoing fight northwest of Fallujah.

We never made central Fallujah the ultimate goal of our operation... the aim is to clear the whole area,” the spokesman said.

The Iraqi security forces launched a major offensive on May 22-23 to retake Fallujah, one of IS’s most emblematic bastions, which lies only 50 kilometres (30 miles) west of Baghdad.

IS fighters launch new attacks in eastern Afghanistan; dozens killed

The fighting began late on Friday in the Kot area of the Rodat district in eastern Nangarhar province after a contingent of IS fighters attacked police check posts, provincial governor Salim Khan Kunduzi said.

Heavy fighting between Afghan forces and Islamic State fighters has killed dozens of people, officials said on Sunday, raising fears the militant group is staging a comeback months after Kabul said they had been defeated.

The fighting began late on Friday in the Kot area of the Rodat district in eastern Nangarhar province after a contingent of IS fighters attacked police check posts, provincial governor Salim Khan Kunduzi said. The interior ministry in a statement said at least 18 fighters had been killed and more than 40 others wounded so far, though Kunduzi placed the number of IS fighters killed as high as 36 and said at least a dozen security forces personnel and civilians had also died.

was led by Swarna Subba Rao, Surveyor General of India.

“The BWG meeting reviewed reports submitted before it by the SOC meetings and Joint Field Survey Teams (FST) and appreciated the progress made on the ongoing boundary works carried out at Nepal–India border,” the statement said. The officials decided that the completion of the “backlogged tasks from previous field seasons” will be given high priority, The Himalayan Times reported quoting the statement.

“Both the delegations reaffirmed the importance of effective boundary management. In this context, they emphasised the importance of making local authorities and people living along the border aware of the field works being conducted by joint field teams,” it said.

COLOMBO, JUN 26 (PTI): Former Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa Sunday accused the government of a political “witch hunt” against him and to wipe out the legacy of his regime that had ended the separatist war with LTTE with an aim to achieve reconciliation with the minority Tamil community.

Addressing a gathering in the rural Polonnaruwa, he said the current government under President Maithripala Sirisena is attempting to wipe off from public memory his legacy of ending the war waged by the LTTE. “I ended the war to achieve reconciliation,” Rajapaksa said, adding he in the last stages of his rule had begun to handover the Tamil civilian lands back to their owners”.

Trump says Muslim ban plan to focus on ‘terrorist’ countries

Reykjavik, JUN 26 (PTI): History professor Gudni Johannesson won Iceland’s presidential election with 39.1 per cent of the ballots, according to final results announced on public television channel RUV today.

The political newcomer only decided to run for the presidency after the so-called Panama Papers leak in April, which detailed offshore accounts and implicated several senior Icelandic politicians.

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Throughout the campaign, Johannesson rode a wave of anti-establishment sentiment, emphasising his non-partisan, independent vision of the presidency.

The victory was especially sweet for the academic as he celebrated his 48th birthday today. Businesswoman Halla Tomasdottir, also without party affiliation, came second with 27.9 per cent of the ballots. The president in Iceland holds a largely ceremonial po-

“I held elections and was taking action to achieve normalcy in the areas”, Rajapaksa said.

Rajpaksa also alleged that Sirisena’s government is wasting time on its current political “witch hunt” aimed at taking political revenge from him.

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Scotland, JUN 26 (PTI): Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said on Saturday that he wouldn’t characterise his immigration policies as including “mass deportations”, and rather than a blanket ban on Muslims coming to the US he’d focus on those from countries with links to terrorists.

Trump, in an interview at his golf course in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, also said he would toss out the work done over several years on the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a sweeping trade pact, and start from scratch.

The billionaire-turned-politician said his immigration policies would have “heart”, suggesting he may be shifting tone to transition into general-election mode after the bruising primary season.

“President Obama has mass deported vast numbers of people — the most ever, and it’s never reported. I think people are going to find that I have not only the best policies, but I will have the biggest heart of anybody,” Trump said.

Pressed on whether he would issue “mass deportations”, Trump answered: “No, I would not call it mass deportations.”

A year has gone since you have left us for your spiritual home on 27th June 2015. But still the fragrance of your memories lingers afresh in our hearts, which ache with sadness and silent tears. You will be always remembered in our midst dearly.

Loving wife, sons and family members.

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Lt. Yanben Kikon (27-06-2015) Those special memories of you Will always bring a smile If only we could have you back For just a little while Then we could sit and talk again Just like we used to do You always meant so much And always will do so The fact that you’re no longer here Will always cause us pain But you’re forever in our hearts Until we meet again Loving wives, children, grandsons & granddaughters

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“The government is wasting time on investigations without delivering the promises,” Rajapaksa said.

Rajapaksa’s government became unpopular with the the minority Tamil and Muslim communities. They backed Sirisena in defeating Rajapaksa in the snap presidential election called by the latter two years ahead of schedule.

Rajapaksa’s family has faced a string of investigations over alleged wrongdoing after he was thrown out of power.

The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) battled Sri Lankan forces for a separate Tamil homeland. A brutal military crackdown ended the 37-year conflict in 2009. Rights groups claim government forces killed nearly 40,000 civilians in the final months of the brutal ethnic conflict.

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Johannesson wins Iceland presidency sition, acting as a guarantor of the constitution and national unity, and more important legislative elections are due in the autumn.

Johannesson will now replace Olafur Ragnar Grimsson, 73, after 20 years as head of state. David Oddsson, a former conservative prime minister and central bank governor who had been Johannesson’s closest rival throughout most of the campaign, garnered just 13 per cent of votes.

But the outrage that fuelled mass street protests in April and led to ousting of premier Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson appeared to have dissipated somewhat in the final days of the campaign, as euphoria erupted over the Icelandic football squad achieving a historic feat in the Euro 2016 football tournament. A North Atlantic island of just 334,000 people, Iceland beat Austria 2-1 on Wednesday to qualify for the last 16 in its first major international competition, and will face England tomorrow.

“Once we have development and success in the local peace process, our drugs control process will strengthen.”

The government led by Aung San Suu Kyi’s pro-democracy party has a massive popular mandate following elections in November. She has promised efforts to end several simmering insurgencies.

But the government’s writ currently does not extend to many border areas where drug production is rampant.

Both rebels and the Myanmar army are accused of buying weapons with drugs produced in the so-called Golden Triangle, a zone around the intersection of Myanmar, Thailand and Laos.

While the heroin trade is worth billions of dollars to cross-border narcotics syndicates, opium farmers scratch a living at the bottom of the drug chain. A report released by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime said farmers in Myanmar’s poppy-growing villages make less money than other rural communities.

The struggle by villagers to make ends meet rather than greed was prompting the illicit cultivation, it added. According to the UN, global opium production plunged almost 40% last year but the drug remains easily accessible due to a supply glut.

Ended war with LTTE for reconciliation: Rajapaksa

Indo-Nepal border pillars to be GPS-enabled KATHMANDU, JUN 26 (PTI): Over 8,000 boundary pillars along the Indo-Nepal border will be equipped with positioning system using Global Navigation Satellite System, allowing authorities for the first time to effectively manage the more than 1,700-km-long porous boundary.

Nepal’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said the Nepal– India Boundary Global Navigation Satellite System (NIB GNSS) would be used for Nepal–India boundary pillars.

The decision in this regard was made at the third meeting of Nepal–India Boundary Working Group (BWG) which concluded here yesterday, a statement from the ministry said. Krishna Raj BC, Director General of the Survey Department, led the Nepali delegation during the three-day meeting while the Indian delegation

YANGON, JUN 26 (AFP): Myanmar police on Sunday torched drugs with a street value of nearly $60 million as authorities struggle to tackle the scourge of poppy cultivation and shut down pill laboratories in lawless border zones.

The impoverished nation remains the world’s second biggest producer of opium from which heroin is made, according to the United Nations. Decades of corrupt military rule and continuing civil wars with ethnic rebels are blamed for fuelling the drugs trade.

To mark the UN’s annual anti-drugs day, seized drugs and precursor chemicals were burnt in three places across Myanmar.

Over half a ton of opium and 80 kilograms (176 pounds) of heroin was torched along with 768 kg of methamphetamines and 10 million other stimulant pills, a police official told AFP, adding the haul was worth around $57 million.

At a ceremony in the capital Naypyidaw, vice-president Myint Swe conceded the battle to stem drug production was far from being won.

“People in very remote rural areas are trafficking drugs and cultivating poppies for a living,” he said urging greater development for the poor and conflict-hit border areas.

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Brexit: UK’s Labour in turmoil as key minister sacked,others to quit

LONDON, JUN 26 (PTI): Britain’s Opposition Labour party was Sunday thrown into turmoil after Jeremy Corbyn sacked his foreign secretary Hilary Ben while other members of the shadow cabinet are set to step down as divisions within the party emerged over the veteran socialist leader’s handling of the EU referendum.

Ben was sacked after he said he no longer had confidence in Corbyn’s leadership. Soon after, his colleague, shadow health secretary Heidi Alexander announced her resignation on Twitter.

Other members of Corbyn’s shadow cabinet are also expected to follow suit as many of the Labour MPs have been critical of Corbyn’s handling of Britain’s EU referendum.

The shock decision by the country to vote to leave the 28-member European Union was against the wishes of most Labour lawmakers.

“There is no confidence to win the next election if Jeremy continues as leader. In a phone call to Jeremy I told him I had lost confidence in his ability to lead the party and he dismissed me,” Ben said.

After Benn was sacked, other Labour MPs came out in his support. 67-year-old Corbyn faces a vote of no

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Dad, We fondly remember and salute you for having been a wonderful father to all of us. Our hearts need more time to accept what our mind already knows. You will always be, and forever remain, in our memories.

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James Basnet & Band peforming at MTBA Youth Department’s platinum jubilee celebration.

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ames Basnet, his family and his band of four other musicians, visited Mokokchung from June 2327. The four times international music award winner

visited Jubilee Memorial College, Nagaland Bible College, Nagaland Christian Revival Church (Youth Department), Clark Theological College and the MTBA Youth De-

partment’s platinum jubilee celebration. Over the few days James and his band lead the congregations in worship, shared the Word of God and James shared his powerful

look forward to more blessed times ahead.

Their visit to Mokokchung was initiated by Mr Limaonen Imchen and his wife Hannah Brown.

James Basnet released his first album “Brand New Day” in 2013. This went on to win 4 international awards. His song “Just the Way You Are” was released in 2015 and with this James was nominated for the Grammy Awards.

Basnet’s third album titled “Refresh” will be released in July.

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ilas Kikon, a popular Lotha singer, passed away on June 25 at Civil Hospital, Wokha.

He was laid to rest at his native village in Lakhuti.

Considered a doyen of Lotha music, Silas is popularly known for his evergreen love ballad “Ayo Choro Kupi Na (beneath the moon).” In his lifetime, Silas wrote, composed, and performed many popular Lotha songs. He is arguably the most popular Lotha artist, if not the best.

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testimony, inspiring many who heard it.

The team stated that the visit to Mokokchung was a great experience and they were truly blessed and humbled by the way they were so warmly welcomed with open arms.

“The young people here are so enthusiastic and so hungry for God. We believe they will reach greater heights as they continue to trust in God.” Basnet and his band said they want to thank each college and church they visited for the wonderful time and

Popular Lotha singer Silas Kikon passes away

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he’s a former Olympic swimmer and Princess Charlene of Monaco yesterday showed that she’s lost none of her prowess in the water by taking part in a paddle boarding competition.

The royal, 38, was spotted at the Riviera SUP Race 2016, a Stand Up Paddle board competition that spans three countries - Monaco, Italy and France.

The long distance race departed from Monaco yesterday and Princess Charlene’s doting husband Prince Albert, 58, was naturally there to support his wife and officially launch the race.

More than 80 competitors took part in the 14km race, and Princess Charlene - who was accompanied by her brother Gareth Wittistock - completed the course in two hours 52 minutes.

The royal represented South Africa at the Sydney Olympics in 2000 in the 3 x 100m medley relay, the same year she met Prince Albert at a swimming competition in Monaco.

She retired from competi-

tive swimming in 2007 and set up the Princess Charlene of Monaco Foundation foundation in 2012.

The foundation focuses on three key areas: learning to swim, water safety, and sport and education programs.

It also arranges arrange amateur sporting competitions which encourage healthy, active lifestyles, the value of friendships and team spirit.

In addition to her charity work, Charlene is also mother to her 19-month-old twins Prince Jacques and Princess Gabriella.

Last month, at the launch of the US arm of her foundation, she opened up about balancing motherhood with royal duties. ‘For now, I’m a full time mom,’ she said, according to People magazine. ‘I don’t know how long that will be for.

‘But yes, it is quite a difficult situation in comparison to the normal folk. We do have responsibilities and duties, and of course my son and my daughter are born into our responsibility. ‘So it’s quite something for me to accept that and to educate them.’

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he history of Mahatma Gandhi’s tenure in South Africa and the life of Nelson Mandela are to be recreated in Durban as experiences for tourists as part of a massive film studio project.

I n t e r n a t i o n a l ly a c claimed South African-Indian movie mogul Anant Singh announced today that this would be part of his development plans to make his company VideoVision’s Durban project as popular as the one that has been running successfully in Cape Town for several years now.

“If you look at Universal Studios or any of the international developments that are similar, they have the film side; but then they also have the historical side,” Singh told PTI. “What we want to do in Durban, like we have successfully done in our Cape Town development, is to build a Robben Island section on the mainland.

“So we’ll build Robben Island here, and also the Gandhi experience of his journey in South Africa from when he arrived and especially his activities in this province,” he said.

Robben Island was the prison where Mandela spent most of his 27 years as a political prisoner before becoming South Africa’s first democratically elected President following decades of white minority apartheid rule.

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his tenure in South Africa as a lawyer before returning to India and leading its independence struggle.

Although the emphasis will be on production by western filmmakers, Singh said the studios would also open up new opportunities not just for the Bollywood film industry, but also for local talent among the 1.4 million Indians living in South Africa, more than two-thirds of whom live around the Greater Durban region.

“Bollywood movies production are slowly coming to South Africa and they will have a nice incentive for local shooting which they have not utilised extensively, like the western filmmakers have,” Singh said.

“There is opportunity in Durban with the local population that we have got here, including the pool available of Indian dancers and actors. It is something that I feel can grow and develop,” Singh added.

The venture is expected to add to the popular tourism belt along the Durban beachfront, where the Durban film studios will be built right in the middle of existing tourism sites which starts with a huge arine aquarium and includes an entertainment casino complex that has the largest screens in South Africa showing Bollywood movies.

The project will get under way early next year with studio sound stages, with the liberation heroes’ attractions expected to be completed by the end of 2016.

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Colombia finish 3rd at Copa America

Colombia celebrate their third-placed finish at full-time.

Arizona, Jun 26 (Agencies): Colombia ended its Copa America Centenario campaign on a high after seeing off the United States 1-0 in Saturday’s thirdplace playoff.

Following unsuccessful semifinal fixtures, Carlos Bacca scored the only goal of the match in the 31st minute in Arizona as Colombia recorded its best performance at the Copa America since the side won South America’s premier tournament in 2001.

Bacca netted his 13th international goal after

scrambling the ball into the net from close range following a stunning through ball from captain James Rodriguez in a rematch of the Centenario curtain-raiser, which Jose Pekerman and Co. won 2-0 earlier this month.

T h e U S A d i d h ave chances, with Bobby Wood going close and Clint Dempsey’s set-piece forcing Colombia goalkeeper David Ospina into a fine save.

Both teams finished the clash with 10 men, following late red cards to Michael Orozco and Santiago Arias.

Johnson wins first title in Nottingham

Fed on quest for 8th Wimbledon title

London, Jun 26 (Agencies): Steve Johnson broke his ATP Tour title duck with victory in the final of the Aegon Open in Nottingham.

The American defeated Ur uguay’s Pablo Cuevas 7-6 7-5 in the final warm-up tournament before Wimbledon starts.

Sixth-seeded Johnson made the most of his three chances to break Cuevas’ serve, breaking him twice including in the decisive 12th game of the second set.

Serve had dominated the first set with Johnson winning it on a tie-break as the secondseeded Cuevas made costly mistakes at the wrong time.

Johnson, who pocketed £70,600 for his victory, will begin his Wimbledon campaign against Malek Jaziri of Tunisia.

“It feels really good, I’m not going to lie,” said Johnson who will move inside the world’s top 30 for the first time. “I had some ups and downs so far this year. To find my groove on the grass is fantastic. I had a good week at Queen’s Club and felt pretty comfortable on the grass.

Once I got here and played my first couple of matches, I knew I was definitely a contender to win this.”

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Jurgen Klinsmann made six changes in the wake of the 4-0 drubbing to Argentina, a couple enforced as John Brooks and Fabian Johnson succumbed to injuries with Matt Besler and Orozco their replacements.

Je r m a i n e J o n e s, B o b b y Wood and Alejandro Bedoya returned from suspension at the expense of Graham Zusi, Chris Wondolowski and Kyle Beckerman, while veteran keeper Tim Howard made his first appearance of the tournament.

Colombia, meanwhile, reinstated Bacca and Guillermo

Roger Federer

London, Jun 26 (IANS): Swiss icon Roger Federer starts his Wimbledon campaign on a quest to win his eighth title at the All England Club and his 18th major tennis championship.

The 34-year-old is taking to the grass courts at Wimbledon in a season that has been marred by illness, knee and back injuries, and surgery, reports Efe. He missed the French Open due to back injury.

Play starts at Wimbledon on Monday, with the men’s singles title clash on July 10.

“I felt like I got unlucky throughout the process with hurting my back again before Madrid, getting sick in Miami, so forth. I think I got into a tough spell there. I just felt I had to stop everything by not playing Paris, reset basically, essentially,” the Swiss great said during his pre-tournament press

Celis as Roger Martinez and Carlos Sanchez made way following the 2-0 semifinal defeat to defending champion Chile. The USA controlled most of the play from midfield early but Colombia looked more threatening in attack, highlighted in the 14th minute after a probing delivery from Arias forced Geoff Cameron into a diving headed clearance inside the six-yard box.

Colombia continued to threaten as the USA had its first real clear opening after Dempsey’s shot was scrambled away by the last-ditch Cristian

Zapata.

The deadlock was eventually broken just past the half-hour mark thanks to Bacca, though James’ through ball in the lead-up stole the show.

A clever chip over the top from James picked out Arias and the fullback headed the ball across the six-yard box to Bacca, who sliced the ball into the net on the goal line.

The USA went in search of an equalizer but was unsuccessful prior to the break, and came close early in the second half when Ospina produced a fantastic save to deny Dempsey from a free kick six minutes after interval.

It should have been 2-0 on the hour mark but Juan Cuadrado’s sublime chip from outside of the area hit the crossbar and the frame of the goal foiled players again, this time from the USA, after Wood’s shot cannoned off the post just minutes later.

Wood was in the thick of the action again, his tenacity forcing an opening but he overplayed his attempt as Dempsey pounced and sent the loose ball agonizingly wide of the post.

Both teams had further opportunities to score but neither could find the back of the net as USA lost another third-place playoff to Colombia after going down in 1995.

Orozco and Arias were involved in a tangle in stoppage time, resulting in red cards for both in a fiery finish.

Cibulkova lifts Eastbourne title

Dominika Cibulkova celebrates after winning the Eastbourne title.

London, Jun 26 (Agencies): Dominika Cibulkova beat Karolina Pliskova 7-5 6-3 on Saturday to claim her first career title on grass at the WTA Eastbourne event.

The Slovakian twelfth seed was competing in her fourth final of 2016 and now owns two trophies since April after her impressive straight sets victory over the in-form Czech who had ended home hopes with a win over Johanna Konta on Friday.

Pliskova has been in ominous form on the grass claiming the title in Nottingham a couple of weeks ago but Cibulkova neutralised her huge

serve to close out the win on her third match point.

The former Australian Open finalist is on her way back from an injury-plagued 2015 which culminated in achilles surgery and the victory will move her back to 19th in the world rankings with her second title in two months having won in Katowice.

Cibulkova adds a sixth career singles title to her collection but a first on the grass with the other five coming on outdoor and indoor hard courts.

“I’m so happy, I cannot believe that it happened today.

I played well in difficult (windy) conditions for both of us,”

said Cibulkova. “This is a very happy time, I won my first title on grass. This is my best week ever on grass. This has been such a great week, this is my second time here and I’ll be back for many more years.

I’m happy to win the title at least once.”

Pliskova is in confident mood ahead of Wimbledon and she added: “I’m pleased with how I’m playing on grass.

But the main event is coming now.

“I wanted to play as many matches as I could before Wimbledon. I’m feeling good on the surface. Now I’m gonna rest for a day and be ready for next week.”

Narang finishes 7th at ISSF WC 7th Summer cup cricket tournament underway

Baku, Jun 26 (IANS): London Olympics bronze medallist Gagan Narang reached his second World Cup final in four days after finishing seventh in the men’s 50 metres Rifle Prone event at the final Shooting World Cup (Rifle/Pistol/Shotgun) here on Sunday.

Gagan’s score of 621.1 in the qualifying round, which enabled him to become the seventh placed shooter out of eight to make it to the final, was below his best, but enough to get him another World Cup final match-up before Rio. The highest score registered in qualifying was 624.7.

Gagan started the final on a positive note, shooting into the second place after the first series of three shots. He was in fourth place till the eighth shot but a 9.9 in his ninth meant despite a 10.4 in the 10th, Gagan had to bow out in seventh position. The gold in the event went to Denmark’s Torben Grimmel, who picked up his third World Cup gold of

conference on Saturday.

“I don’t want to say ‘start from zero’, but just reset from there and make another push for Wimbledon, which was great.”

The seven-time Wimbledon champion has made the final at the All England Club the past two editions, losing to Serbian world No.1 Novak Djokovic both times.

“Clearly I’m not thinking of the title right away. It’s too far ahead. It’s too far. Regardless if even Novak (Djokovic) or Andy (Murray) would be in the draw, and they are in the draw, they are the big favourites in my opinion. They’ve had such a great last six months, last few years. To me they are the ones to beat,” Federer, who turns 35 on Aug. 8, said.

Federer, who has won a record 17 Grand Slam titles, won the championship at Wimbledon in 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009 and 2012. The Swiss star discussed the knee surgery he underwent earlier this year, telling reporters that the procedure had gone well. “I’ve always tried to avoid surgeries as much as possible just ‘cause I always felt like it was definitely not the thing you want to do as a professional athlete,” NE W D E L H I , J u n 2 6 Federer said. ( Ag e n c i e s ) : Fo r m e r Brazilian internationals, it seems, have developed a liking for India. After Roberto Carlos last season, there is now talk of another Brazilian great, Rivaldo “But this has been tough (in pic), coming to manage an for me, as two weeks after my Indian Soccer League (ISL) last fight I was straight back team in the upcoming season. into the ring. So now I look TOI has learnt that ISL forward to getting my break. I club Delhi Dynamos are in need some time off.” talks with Rivaldo and former Joshua wobbled Breazeale Italian footballer Ciro Ferrara in the second round with a right for the post of their marquee hook and again with a stinging manager for the third edition shot to the body. of the ISL. A cut and opened up The two are the leading above Breazeale’s swollen eye contenders for the job and in the third but the American the announcement is likely was still throwing punches, to be made within the next even if few of them found few days as all ISL clubs are their target. Joshua dominated required to announce the the fourth round, although names of managers by the Breazeale did connect with a end of the month. Rivaldo, straight right to the top of the 44, who often played as an champion’s head in the fifth, attacking midfielder or as a exchanging words with the second striker, scored 136 goals Briton at the bell. in 253 appearances for Spanish Breazeale drew blood club Barcelona from 1997-2002 from Joshua’s nose in the sixth and won back-to-back (1998and ended the round on the 99) La Liga championship and front foot but the Briton nailed the 1998 Copa del Ray with him in the seventh. them. He later joined AC Milan “I’m making waves in the for a two-year stint.

U.S. now and one day I’m sure After starting his (WBC holder) Deontay Wilder professional career in 1991, and I will get to experience he went on to win 74 caps for what each other are all about,” Brazil between 1993 and 2003.

Joshua, who wore white in The FIFA player of the year in memory of heavyweight great 1999 played a crucial role for Muhammad Ali, said.

Brazil when they won the 2002 “Ali is an inspirational World Cup. person, inside and outside of Ciro Ferrara, the other the ring. It will take time to candidate, is a former Italian get anywhere close to that, but footballer and manager. The 49all I can do is try. This is my year-old has previously coached moment and all I can do it take Juventus (2009-10) and the Italy national under-21 football advantage of it.”

Joshua’s fellow Britain team. As an assistant coach to Tyson Fury holds the WBA and Marcello Lippi, he won the WBO belts and was scheduled 2006 FIFA World Cup with to fight former champion Italy. His most recent position Wladimir Klitschko in a was as manager of Sampdoria. rematch on July 9 but pulled He spent his playing career as out because of an ankle injury a defender initially at Napoli and later at Juventus. suffered in training.

the year in the event. Kenneth Parr of Germany won the silver and Petar Gorsa of Croatia won the bronze medal.

This is Gagan’s fifth final event in the last two years and he has collected one medal from it, a bronze which he won in Fort Benning last year.

He had also reached the finals of the event in the Granada World Championships in 2014. On Thursday, Gagan also reached the final of the Men’s 10m Air Rifle event and ended sixth -- an event in which he had won the Olympic bronze. These are ominous signs from one of India’s most decorated shooters, coming as it is just 40 days before the Rio Olympics.

S a n j e ev R a j p u t , t h e second Indian in the Men’s 50m Prone, finished 14th with an overall qualifying score of 617.6. In the day’s other medal event, India’s Gurpreet Singh shot a score of 569 in the qualifying round of the Men’s 25m Rapid Fire Pistol to end in 26th spot.

Dimapur, Jun 26 (NPN): The 7th Summer Cup Cricket Tournament organised by Balijan Youth Club got underway Sunday at Balijan (A), Karbi Anglong under the theme ‘empower youth, build the nation’. The inaugural programme was graced

by Khatkhati SBI Branch Manager, Neeraj Shukla as the chief guest. Addressing the gathering, Shukla called upon the youth to work to bring about positive developments in the society. While calling upon the youth to channelize their energy in constructive works, Shukla urged the youth to inculcate team spirit which would become driving force to fight corruption, illiteracy and poverty in the region.

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Joshua retains IBF heavyweight title

British boxer Anthony Joshua holds up his belt fanned by his father Robert after defeating U.S. boxer Dominic Breazeale in their IBF heavyweight title bout at the O2 Arena in London, Sunday. (AP/PTI)

L ON D ON , J u n 2 6 ( Ag e n c i e s ) : B r i t a i n’s Anthony Joshua put on a devastating display to retain his IBF heavyweight crown with a seventh round knockout of American Dominic Breazeale at London’s O2 Arena on Saturday.

Unbeaten Joshua dominated from the start but the 30-year-old Breazeale proved a courageous opponent, absorbing some thunderous blows throughout from the 2012

Olympic super-heavyweight champion before succumbing to Joshua’s power.

There were signs that Joshua was beginning to get frustrated in the sixth round of his first title defence but he began the seventh with a tremendous barrage of blows that sent his opponent to the canvas.

Breazeale, also unbeaten prior to the bout, managed to continue but was floored again by a left and the referee waved

an end to the contest without counting. Joshua took his record to 17-0, all by knockout or stoppage, and his classy display offered more evidence to support the belief that the muscular 26-year-old could eventually unify the division.

“When you start catching them flush, you know they can feel the shots, and so he was tough,” Joshua, who won the title by beating Charles Martin in his previous fight, told reporters.

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BOSCO COLLEGE OF TEACHER EDUCATION DIMAPUR – NAGALAND. (Bosco B.Ed College)

Bosco College of Teacher Education (Bosco B.Ed. College) Dimapur congratulates the students of the college (2015 batch) who secured the top positions (Ranks) in B.Ed Degree Examinations, held in December 2015 under Nagaland University.

The Names, Roll Numbers and the Positions (Ranks) are given Below: Sl. No. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

Names THUNGYANI OVUNG RANA PH THEJASENO PESEYIE ARUNA MARY CHINNABATHINI POUDIATDAI PAUL KAMEI GRACE KENT PRATIMA LAKRA

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Griezmann double knocks Ireland out of Euro

LYON, JUN 26 (AGENCIES): Antoine Griezmann scored twice in four minutes as France came from behind to beat Republic of Ireland 2-1 and reach the quarter-finals of Euro 2016.

Ireland made a perfect start in Lyon as Robbie Brady converted a penalty in just the second minute after Paul Pogba’s clumsy foul on Shane Long.

It took France until the second half to respond, with Griezmann heading in an equaliser in the 57th minute and then scoring again shortly afterwards to put the hosts ahead.

Shane Duffy was then shown a straight red card for a last-ditch foul on Griezmann and France held on to book a quarter-final against either England or Iceland on July 3.

Neither N’Golo Kante or Adil Rami will be available for that tie after picking up bookings against Ireland.

But for a while it did not look like that would matter as Martin O’Neill’s side led for most of the first half, with goalkeeper Darren Randolph rarely troubled.

Having named an unchanged team to the one that beat Italy to qualify for the last 16, Ireland took the lead after two minutes, with Brady firing a penalty in off the inside of the post after Pogba fouled Long.

France pressed for a quick response as Griezmann headed over the bar from Pogba’s cross.

But it was Ireland who went closest as France looked unconvincing at the back from a throw-in and Daryl Murphy hit a volley across goal that Hugo Lloris dived to palm away.

The hosts struggled to mount any sustained pressure and suffered setbacks as both Rami and Kante received bookings that will see them suspended for the quarter-final.

Ireland threatened again as Duffy headed wide from a free-kick, before France finished the half with Dimitri Payet and Griezmann having shots blocked inside the box.

Olivier Giroud for a header, leaving Griezmann space to collect the loose ball and finish past Randolph.

It got worse for Ireland shortly afterwards as Duffy brought down Griezmann on the edge of the box and was shown a straight red card.

From then on it was largely one-way traffic with AndrePierre Gignac hitting the bar and missing a couple of decent opportunities to put the game to bed. The misses did not prove costly as France held out comfortably enough against a tiring Ireland.

Portugal enter quarters

Ricardo Quaresma, who was sent in quite late to replace Joao Mario, managed to break a scoreless Euro 2016 Antoine Griezmann (top) of France celebrates scoring his team’s second goal with pre-quarterfinal match in the his colleagues at the Stade des Lumieres in Lyon.

117th minute, enabling PortuKante was replaced at the back post, but Ireland also France got the breakthrough, gal to defeat Croatia 1-0 and break by Kingsley Coman and looked threatening as James Griezmann heading home from advance to the quarter-finals. the hosts raised the tempo.

McClean’s cross was turned Bacary Sagna’s cross.

Laurent Koscielny head- away by Lloris.

Just four minutes later it ed a good chance wide after Randolph then saved was 2-1 as both Ireland centrea free-kick was flicked to the from Blaise Matuidi before backs went up to challenge

In a seemingly endless and rather lackluster game filled with mistakes by both sides here on Saturday, it was finally Cristiano Ronaldo - in his only on-goal attempt of the match - who fired one that was deflected by goalkeeper Danijel Subasic right into the vicinity of Quaresma, who easily headed the ball into the unmanned net from pointblank range, reports EFE. It was an unusual match in that neither squad got a single accurate shot on goal all during regulation time and barely any more during the two 15-minute overtime periods at Bollaert-Delelis Stadium in Lens.

Although there were some good displays of ballhandling during the match, it was generally a featureless contest and only one yellow card was handed out to Portugal’s William.

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Athletes Anas, Srabani, Ankit qualify for Olympics

N e w D el h i , J un 2 6 (IANS): Quarter-miler Mohd.

Anas, women’s 200 metres specialist Srabani Nanda and long jumper Ankit Sharma have secured berths in their respective pet events for Rio 2016 Olympic Games.

Late on Saturday night, Mohd. Anas clocked 45.40 seconds (45.40s Olympics qualification) to qualify for the Rio Games. In the process, he also smashed his own national record of 45.44s in the men’s 400m at Poland National Athletics Championships at Bydgoszcz, Poland, according to Athletics Federation of India.

In Almaty on Sunday, the 2016 Federation Cup champion in 200m, 24-year-old Srabani from Odisha clocked 23.07 seconds to realise her Rio dreams in the 200 metres. The qualifying mark for 2016 Olympics in women’s 200m is 23.20s. Long jumper Ankit smashed the

existing national record with his best effort of 8.19 metres which ensured his passage to Rio at Almaty. “Earlier, Ankit produced a jump of 8.17m which was also better than the Olympics qualifying standard of 8.15m. The existing national record of 8.09m was created

by Kumaravel Prem Kumar at New Delhi on August 5, 2013,” AFI wrote on Facebook.

The 21-year-old Anas from Kerala seemed to be in que for qualifying for quite some time. Earlier, he clocked 45.44 seconds at the Poland Senior National Championships on June 24, which was a new national record and prior to that he clocked 45.75s at the 20th Federation Cup National Senior Athletics Championships 2016 on April 29, 2016. Rajiv Arokia, who was the previous national record holder with 45.47 seconds, finished second with a timing of 45.6s.

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