June 5, 2016

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Vol XXVI No. 177

State to release Vision Document

DIMAPUR, JUN 4 (NPN): Nagaland government’s ‘Vision 2030’ document and website would be released by the Parliamentary Secretary for Planning & Coordination, Evaluation & Monitoring Cell and Taxes, Neiba Kronu on June 6, 2016, 11 a.m. at chief secretary’s conference hall.

According to an official bulletin, all the government officials and press fraternity have been invited to the event. On May 5, Nagaland chief minister T.R. Zeliang announced that the state government would come up with its exclusive “Vision Document” for the state in line with Centre’s ‘North East Vision 2020 and Act East Policy’ within twothree months.

Boxing legend Muhammad Ali dies

LOS ANGEL E S , J un 4 ( A gen cies): Heavyweight boxing legend M u hammad Ali, an icon of the 20th Century Md. Ali (File) whose fame transcended the sport during a remarkable career that spanned three decades, died Friday, his family said. The 74-year-old sports hero, who had been battling Parkinson’s disease for decades, passed away in a hospital in Phoenix, Arizona, where he had been admitted earlier this week suffering from respiratory problems. “After a 32-year battle with Parkinson’s disease, Muhammad Ali has passed away at the age of 74,” spokesman Bob Gunnell said.

ANSTA, NSSFOF protest temporarily suspended

Peace talks with NE ultras positive, says MHA official

AG A RTA L A , J U N 4 (IANS): The peace talks between the Centre and several militant outfits in the North Eastern region are moving positively and peace would be restored in the whole region soon, a top official of the Ministry of Home Affairs said on Friday.

“The Central government has been holding peace talks with several militant outfits in the North Eastern region. The talks are progressing positively,” Satyendra Garg, MHA’s joint secretary in-charge of NE told reporters.

After meeting Tripura chief secretary Yashpal Singh and state police chief K Nagaraj, he said: “Peace talks are going on with the NSCN (I-M), ULFA and many other militant outfits of several North Eastern states.”

The official said the government is hopeful that with the positive outcome of the on-going peace talks with the extremists’ groups, absolute peace would be restored in the entire NE region soon.

“Government’s policy is to hold talks with the militant groups that shun violent activities. The Centre is closely observing the situation in the northeast and bordering areas,” Garg said.

“Tripura and Mizoram are the most peaceful states in

the Northeast,” he said, adding that North Eastern states are in a strategic location adjoining five countries– China, Myanmar, Bangladesh, Nepal and Bhutan.

“India’s strategies for China, Myanmar, Bangladesh and other neighbours are different. For India, Myanmar is located in a significant position,” said Garg.

On Saturday Garg would scheduled hold tripartite meeting at north Tripura’s Kanchanpur with tribal refugee leader and officials of Mizoram government.

About 31,300 Reang tribals, who call themselves “Bru”, have been living in seven makeshift camps in northern Tripura’s Kanchanpur areas adjoining Mizoram for the past 18 years.

Intense speculations over Naga solution

DIMAPUR, JUN 4 (NPN): Against the backdrop of speculations of solution to the Naga political issue that has been doing the rounds for as many years, a report emanating from Manipur in the Imphal Times has only caused heightened interest.

The report in the newspaper dated June 4, 2016 had extensively carried what was purported to be an 18-point

DIMAPUR, JUN 4 (NPN): Wuzu Firing Incident Inquiry Commission, headed by retired District & Sessions Judge, Veprasa Nyekha clarified that the government was yet to attach “stenographer and driver for the chairman and appointment of lawyers as assessors” and not as stated.

He further said that despite repeated correspondence sent to the concerned authorities, no attachment and appointment was made so far.

This is it!

“Delhi has become the high command of all states. Nothing has changed much after 2014.”

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demand supposedly put forward by the NSCN (I-M) The crux of the demand pertained to setting the condition leading to the final agreement between the government of India and the NSCN (I-M).

Among the points (no.

6) was the creation of three states reportedly under ‘NIA’ such as (a) present Nagaland state having six districts; (b) ENPO covering four districts including Konyaks in Arunchal Pradesh and Myanmar (c) United Naga Council in Manipur.

The demand also envisages having three MPs representing the above territories.

Others include mandatory rules for recognition of a village and requirement for residency in Kohima or Dimapur.

The demand also includes ban on road shows and also on the practise of ‘chief guest’ system. Such speculative reports had appeared in the past but only to be dismissed outright by the NSCN (I-M).

There are also reports that political activity has been on the increase with one faction reportedly sending signal to the Government of India about its preparedness to hold talks for bringing about a broad-based solution.

DUCCF reminds on issuance of NOC DIMAPUR, JUN 4 (NPN): Dimapur Urban Councils Chairmen Federation (DUCCF) has reminded chairmen of all colonies and councils under the municipal wards area of Dimapur district (74 colonies) not to issue any NOC and residential certificates to non-Nagas without proper authentication of their place of origins.

In a press release, media cell, DUCCF stated that nonNagas from main land India must produce proper and valid documents of their Indian citizenship in order to get any NOC from the colony chairman. Asking the chairmen of colonies and councils to adhere to the DUCCF general meeting resolution adopted on June 24, 2015, the DUCCF said that the resolution was adopted specifically to check the suspected illegal Bangladeshis immigrants (IBIs) from procuring any legal documents.

The federation cautioned that if any colony chairman violated this resolution, DUCCF would take action and the same certificate would be cancelled.

Further, DUCCF has appealed to Dimapur district administration, ADHAAR registration cell, DMC, agencies issuing birth certificates, DTO and Banks not to entertain any certificates issued by colonies, which suspected IBIs may produce. It urged the above departments and agencies to contact DUCCF (9862660296) for verification of all colonies resident certificate produced by suspected IBIs.

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RH to begin NH-2 indefinite blockade

(Top) Members of RSZ take part in poster campaign.

(Bottom) Protest banner displayed along the NH-2.

Correspondent

Kohima, Jun 4 (NPN): Expressing resentment over the inaction of the government despite repeated appeals to repair the National Highway-2 that was left unattended for 13 years; the Rengma Hoho (RH) on Saturday announced that they would launch indefinite total bandh along NH-2 starting June 10.

Speaking at a press conference in Riga Thong Memorial Hall at Tseminyu town, the Rengma Hoho president Kenyuseng Tep said the bandh, which was being jointly called

with Lotha Hoho, would be imposed within their respective jurisdictions.

The hoho president said on numerous occasions in the last three years, the Rengma Hoho and Lotha Hoho were assured by the department that the work would start, however, nothing took place on the ground. He said during 2015-16 the central ministry of road transport and highways sanctioned Rs.338.88 crore for this road, but the department of state highway failed to prepare DPR to get that money released.

Affirming that the Hoho

Peren public close down PHE offices Gov calls for making a cleaner state

DIMAPUR, JUN 4 (NPN): All Nagaland School Teachers’ Association (ANSTA) and Nagaland Secondary Schools Field Officers’ Federation (NSSFOF) have temporarily suspended their indefinite total cease work after the government assured to constitute a high power committee headed by chief secretary within two weeks, i.e. on June 14, 2016 cabinet meeting, to sort out their demand. In a joint press release, NSSFOF convenor Mezhuu Hozoyeh, ANSTA treasurer Temjenyapang and core committee member Kekuolhouthie said the assurance was made at a joint meeting with Nagaland chief minister on June 3, 2016 at the residence of chief minister.

Besides ANSTA and NSSFOF representatives, the NSF officials were also present at the meeting.

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Wuzu incident Inquiry Commission clarifies

India for regional security framework to resolve disputes

EE PHE, Peren office closed down by agitated public.

DIMAPUR, JUN 4 (NPN): To protest against the PHE department’s failure to respond to its 15-day ultimatum, the public of Peren town on Saturday reportedly closed down the office of the executive engineer PHED, Peren at DC Complex, Peren New HQ and office of the SDO PHED at Peren town.

The irate public asserted that closing down of offices was not the end of their agitation, adding that the next phase campaign for permanent restoration of water supply would be taken up.

They also cautioned that PHE department would be held solely responsible in the event of any untoward incidents, arising out of the situation.

As part of their phase-I campaign against the department, the public of Peren town carried put a ‘Silent Public procession’ from Peren Main Bazaar to the office of the ADC, Peren on May 20 and submitted a 15-day ultimatum to the department of PHE to set up a ‘Special Investigation Team’ for restoration of water supply to Peren town.

The district administration reportedly assured to look into the matter. However, they said the department had ignored the issue except for temporary repair works and issuing a press statement through chief engineer, PHED, which was published in local dailies.

Earlier, some miscreants taking advantage of the ongoing “land dispute” between Peren Village and Tesen Village damaged the PHE Pipelines at Tesangki source.

March 2017, the fortnight of June 1-15, 2016 would focus on popular forest sanctuaries, reserved forest areas, parks and animal welfare establishments.

In an office memorandum, the state chief secretary Pankaj Kumar therefore informed that a special cleanliness drive would be conducted between June 1-15, 2016 in the state by the concerned departments/authorities with the following activities:- sensitisation drives in parks on safe disposal of animal excreta; sensitisation drives against littering in sanctuaries and forest areas; cleaning drives in parks and recreational places and setting up composting equipment in parks.

In this regard, the chief secretary stated that a “Swachh Parks Standard Operating Procedures (SOP)” could be used for maintaining standards of sanitation and cleanliness in places.

The Swachh parks SOP and Swachhta pledge are available in the website swachhbharaturban.gov.in Further, It has been informed that during the cleanliness drive, a mass Swachhta pledge be taken and photographs of the activities undertaken be uploaded on the swachhbharaturban. gov.in portal or furnish to the director, State government has notified Urban Development and state misthat as mandated in the calendar for sion director, Swachh Bharat Mission thematic cleanliness drives as part of (Urban) email directorud.ngd@gmail.

Swachh Bharat Mission: April 2016— com or secyudd@gmail.com.

DIMAPUR, JUN 4 (NPN): Nagaland governor, P.B. Acharya, on the eve of World Environment Day, has urged all the responsible to participate in the cleanliness drive around the vicinity of their homes, offices, surroundings, schools, colleges so as to make Nagaland a cleaner state thereby facilitating National Mission of Swacch Bharat.

In his message, Acharya called upon all to put a concerted effort for the future of the children and grandchildren by making the planet earth a safer, cleaner and beautiful place to live in.

World Environment Day is observed to help people know the vital importance about environmental issues and make sure that people around the world enjoy healthy environment and protect the earth natural resources from further deterioration.

Meanwhile, the governor has lauded the initiative of Nagaland Pollution Control Board in organising a cleanliness drive in the state to mark the World Environment Day 2016.

Special cleanliness drive

Inter-state kidney racket: Police conduct raids to nab kingpin NEW DELHI, JUN 4 (PTI): After Delhi Police busted an interstate kidney racket on Thursday, police teams conducted raids in Kolkata and Chennai in search of the kingpin of the kidney trading racket, and other members in connection with which five persons, including two personal secretaries of a Nephrologist in Apollo Hospital Delhi, were arrested.

While three of the arrested persons have been sent to judicial custody, two were today produced before a court which sent them on two days’ police remand, a senior official said.

A 25-member special investigation team has been formed to crack the entire nexus. The team is looking out for other members and the racket’s kingpin Rajukumar Rao, for which raids were today conducted at Kolkata and Chennai, a senior police official said.

Meanwhile, two more prominent private hospitals in the national capital and some more staff in Apollo hospital have come under police scanner.

It is suspected that the racket had operated with the same

modus operandi at two other hospitals here, which is being probed, the senior official said adding that no clean chit has so far been given to others in Apollo Hospital, which includes some prominent doctors.

From interrogation of the arrested persons, it has emerged that the racket was involved in at least 10 kidney transplants last year in Coimbatore alone. The racket is believed to be active in Punjab and Tamil Nadu, operating in prominent private hospitals there.

Five persons have been arrested on charges of running the kidney racket bringing donors from different parts of the country to the national capital.

The arrest of the five accused has also led to recovery of fake ID proofs such as voter photo identity cards, Aadhaar cards and laptops.

The entire documentation and verification process for organ transplant was bypassed by using forged papers related with agreement of donor, relationship with donor, id and address proofs, proof of marriage and clearance of case by Hospital Internal Au-

thorisation Committee.

All the necessary documents were made fraudulently by affixing donor’s photo showing the person as recipient’s relative using documents of a genuine relative.

Apollo Hospital denied involvement in the kidney racket emphasising that it was a “victim” of a well-orchestrated operation by the accused.

“The police in their investigation have identified secretarial staff of some doctors, who have been accused of being involved in the alleged racket. We reiterate that these are not employees of the hospital. While all due precautions were conducted, fake and forged documents were used for this racket with a criminal intent. The hospital has been a victim of a well-orchestrated operation to cheat patients and the hospital,” the statement by hospital stated.

The hospital also claimed that in order to ensure compliance with the law and diligence in process, it has an independent body with external members also for according consent for any transplant surgery.

Money trail to trace kingpin Police are investigating a money trail which can lead them to Rajukumar Rao, the alleged kingpin of the international kidney trading racket busted here, who was last traced at Agartala in Tripura.

An official privy to the investigation said that they have got vital leads from the two bank accounts of accused Aseem Sikdar and transactions to the tune of several lakhs can potentially lead them to Rao. The middlemen arrested in connection with the racket have disclosed that Rao never met them at Apollo hospital. He always preferred meetings at a prominent five-star hotel in the city and at times at a place opposite to the Jasola-Apollo metro station, the official said.

Rao, who is believed to be associated with several other kidney rackets in Nepal, Sri Lanka and Indonesia, was named in two similar rackets at Coimbatore and Jalandhar in 2013 and 2015 respectively.

Initially he himself lured slum dwellers, pavement dwell-

ers and vagabonds into selling off their kidneys for a price close to Rs 1 lakh, until he employed middlemen for the purpose and expanded his racket, the official said.

Rao is a native of Andhra Pradesh but shifted to Kolkata around 20 years back. He was last traced in Tripura’s capital Agartala, the senior official said, adding that he has switched off his phone.

Earlier today, teams were sent to conduct raids at Kolkata and Chennai to nab Rao and some of its associates. A team is also likely to be rushed to Agartala tonight for more input on Rao’s movements.

With the arrest of five persons, including the personal secretaries of a doctor in Apollo hospital here, Delhi Police had yesterday busted the kidney trading racket. Rao, who is at large, emerged as its alleged kingpin.

The arrested persons were identified as Aditya Singh and Shailesh Saxena (both secretaries to a nephrologist) and three middlemen -- Aseem Sikdar, Satya Prakash and Devashish Moulik.

would no more meet the authorities at Kohima as they have done enough before, he said if the government was serious then officials be sent to Tseminyu for any negotiation.

Rengma Selo Zi (RSZ) president Kenneth Kath said the deplorable condition of NH-2 manifested department’s negligence.

Kath also said the minister national highway assured the Hoho in September 2015 that the road would be repaired within two months, but nothing has happened till now.

RSZ action committee convenor Zentilo said that as per the police report 46 persons have lost their lives following road accidents in the last 12 years (2004-16) on this particular road.

On Saturday, the RSZ began poster campaign along the road some of which read “welcome to no concer n zone”, “please repair NH-2 to save lives”, “do not travel NH-2 if you do not know how to swim”, “road money for roads, not for palatial private residences” etc.

MP’s degree row: Hearing on June 26 DIMAPUR, JUN 4 (NPN): Human Rights Law Network co-ordinator, Dr. Rosemary Dzüvichu has informed that the hearing of the case pertaining to former chief minister and current Lok Sabha MP, Neiphiu Rio’s educational degree issue has been set for June 26 next.

Meanwhile, in a press note, Dzüvichu said she was constraint to react to the “misinformation given by Rio”, purportedly during a meeting in Delhi on June 3.

She claimed that Rio “had alleged that the legal case filed on the fake certificate issue has been done to equate him with the graduate degree controversy on the sitting chief minister, T.R. Zeliang”.

She clarified that the complaint filed against Rio, with regard to his educational degree issue, “has not been done with any vested interest on the political scenario, but as an academic and social activist”. (Full text on p-6)

AR nabs NSCN (K) def secy DIMAPUR, JUN 4 (NPN): A joint team of 37 & 33 Assam Rifles busted an NSCN (K) extortion racket and apprehended its defense secretary identified as Kughato Chishi, in an operation at Molvom area in Dimapur district on June 1, PRO IGAR (N) stated.

Based on specific inputs, PRO said the joint team launched an operation along Jharnapani-Molvom Road. Kughato Chishi The NSCN (K) functionary was intercepted and upon identification/interrogation, PTO said Kughato confessed that he was an active member of the civil wing. During search, several extortion documents were also recovered.

PRO said Kughato had also confessed that he had moved to Kohima from Dimapur (in Mar 2016) on orders of NSCN (K) finance secretary ‘brig.’ Akaho.

PRO said Kughato was tasked to carry out extortion from government departments based at Kohima. He had distributed around 20 extortion notes to various government departments, demanding payment of 24% tax of employees, within two weeks, PRO stated. PRO further claimed that Chishi was “directed to deposit the extorted money in an account which was to be informed by Khenlie Jumah w/o ‘brig.’Akaho Jumah”.

In addition, PRO said Kughato was tasked to carry out extortion along NH-29 (Kohima) from trucks plying towards Manipur.

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Nagaland Post, Dimapur sunday, june 5, 2016

‘World Environment Day’ observed across the state

(L-R) : Khriehu planting the first tree during tree plantation drive of KVYO. Members of officers club and Thamnan ward cleaning the Mon Town Monolith compound. (NP) DC Tuensang, Alem Jongshi, ADC, Ncumbemo Odyuo, HODs, Central Security Forces, GBs and ward representatives during the tree plantation drive at Tuensang. Denizens of Mokokchung participating at the mass social work on WED. (DIPR) Bethel Baptist school Dimapur.

DIMAPUR: Throughout the state of Nagaland, “world environment day” was observed by undertaking various activities.

Kohima : Ko h i m a village Youth Organization (KVYO) organized tree plantation drive from A.Z. Phizo Hill to medical college site Kohima with the theme “go green – advocating better environment” in commemoration with world environment day on Saturday.

The event was initiated and funded by parliamentary secretary YRS, MTF and lotteries Khriehu Liezietsu.

Liezietsu kicked off the tree plantation drive by planting the first tree followed by Kohima village chairman, Medoselhou Keretsii More than 2000 tree sapling were planted along the road leading to medical site at the stretch of 3km with the participation of hundreds of people from Kohima village.

Minister for forest Dr. Nicky Kire in his address at the medical site stressed the importance of planting trees and also nurturing till it grows up.

He encouraged the gathering to plant trees every year.

Dr. Kire also launched the new KVYO vehicles’ sticker on the occasion. President KVYO Medozhatuo Rutsa also address the gathering while KMK president Khriengu Kesiezie.

SHAMATOR: The Nehru Yuva Kendra Tuensang with the collaboration of Shamator town students union has organized a tree plantation drive on the eve of “World Environment Day” here at Christian high school campus Shamator town on Saturday.

At a brief programme, Chancham Yimchunger NYC Tuensang, highlighted about the world environment day to the gathering. He further encouraged to plant at least a single plant yearly for better environment. More than 250 different kinds of local tress saplings were planted by students, youths of Shamator town and staffs of NYK Tuensang.

MON: A mass social work was organised today by the district administration where all the govt. departments, educational institutions, churches, wards, and civil societies took part.

As allotted by the district administration, the denizens of Mon town actively participated by cleaning their respective compounds, neighborhood, roads, drainage, foot path, local ground, and the Mon town monolith compound. Tree saplings provided by the forest department were also planted along side road and Local ground area. (Correspondent) DPDB Kohima: In Kohima the DPDB during its mass social work also carried out tree plantation drive along the stretch of state assembly and secretariat road, Kohima, under the chairmanship of parliamentary secretary for Youth Resources & Sports, MTF and State Lotteries who is also the chairman of Kohima DPDB, Khriehu Liezietsu and deputy commissioner kohima and vice chairman of DPDB, Rovilatuo Mor, IAS. MLA Vikho-o Yhoshu as the chief guest kicked off the plantation drive by planting a tree sapling of Cryptomeria Japonica at the ‘Y’ junction of state assembly on behalf of the chairman and vice chairman DPDB; minister for Forest and Environment, Dr. Nicky Kire, other elected members of the district, DPDB members and all the other participants. Parliamentary secretary for YR&S and chairman DPDB Kohima, Khriehu Liezietsu also planted a tree sapling during the occasion.

Deputy commissioner Kohima and vice chairman of DPDB, Rovilatuo Mor, IAS while chairing the short programme welcomed all the elected members, DPDB members, officers from Higher Education department and Phezoucha Krotho for joining this venture to maintain cleaner and greener environment.

ADC Kohima and tree plantation committee convenor, Lithrongla Tongpi in her vote of thanks acknowledged all the participants for their contribution for the successful implementation of the plantation drive. Altogether 150 number of Cryptomeria Japonica tree saplings were planted by all the DPDB members and others while clearance of grass around the surviving trees and maintenance of new trees planted were also carried out.

Phezoucha Krotho new sectt.

IMFL seized

Truck recovered by GPRN/NSCN (I-M) DIMAPUR: One Tata truckAS01-GC-8897 (12 wheels)loaded with 700 bags of Star cement, has been caught by STF Battalion of GPRN/ NSCN (I-M) while conducting check on illegal activities at Singrijan, Dimapur.

In this regard, the rightful owner has been directed to contact- 8413811220- and claim the vehicle by producing the original documents in person within 15 days of this press release.

Seized bottles of IMFL.

DIMAPUR: Police personnel of Chiephobozou Police Station on June 3 seized 345 bottles of IMFL from a Hyundai Santro- NL 07-3210 which was abandoned by the bootleggers after a hot chase including personnel from both Chiephobozou Police Station and Tseminyu Police Station.

In a press note, SDPO and PRO, Kohima Police, informed that during routine frisking and checking of vehicles, personnel of Chiephobozou Police Station signaled the said vehicle to stop, however, the vehicle sped away towards Tseminyu ignoring the order of Police. This was reportedly followed by a hot pursuit and the information was relayed to Tseminyu Police Station to intercept the vehicle on approaching Tseminyu. The police team

area conducted grass clearance along the stretch of secretariat road during the social work cum plantation drive.

Medziphema: Mass social work was organized at Medziphema sub-division, wherein all district administration, departmental staff, educational institutions, local bodies and residents of Medziphema participated with full enthusiasm.

Dimapur: All government departments under Dimapur district undertook massive cleaning in their respective offices beautifying the compounds, clearing drainages, interior cleaning etc thereby giving a facelift to the district.

Shop owners and members from various colonies were also seen cleaning the areas under occupation.

Changtongya: Changtongya sub-division conducted mass social work and planting of trees during which people from all walks of life participated by cleaning their respective wards, colonies and government offices.

Akuluto: Mass cleanliness drive was carried out at Akuluto town wherein all the departments and the denizens of the town actively participated in cleaning the town and all the drainages, under the supervision of SDO ( C) Kikumsangla and the town GBs. Departments and the people of Akuluto town also expressed profound gratitude to parliamentary secretary, IPR, Khekaho Assumi who contributed Rs.50,000/- for the cleanliness drive.

Satakha: Social work cum plantation drive organised by administration and forest department was carried out after a brief programme at local ground where EAC, Nockpai Konyak spoke on environmental issues to the participants.

Eco club, Satakha, also contributed Rs 2,500/- each to every school under Satakha town for environment related activities.

Zunheboto: Commemorating the World Environment Day, Zunheboto Town carried out a mass cleanliness drive on 4th June from 6:00 am onwards in all the 11 Colonies/ sectors. Citizens from all colonies actively took part in cleaning the roads, drainages and

from Tseminyu P.S came from the opposite direction and the said vehicle was intercepted after the engine of the vehicle caught fire some half a kilometer away from Tseminyu Town. The driver and occupants abandoned the Hyundai Santro and fled away from the scene. Kohima police stated that on search of the vehicle, 345 bottles of Mc Rum were found concealed in modified compartments within the cavity of the vehicle.

In this connection, a regular case has been registered at Kohima Chiephobozou P.S for further investigation.

Meanwhile, the details of the seized Hyundai Santro was verified from the NCRB database and ascertained that, the registration No. NL07-3210 was originally allotted to a Mahindra Bolero by DTO Dimapur.

NNC Yimchungrii region clarifies

DIMAPUR: Yimchungrii Region NNC clarifies to all concerned about Kiumukum NNC N/A, as per the news items appearing in the newspapers.

A press note by Naga Army NNC, ‘brig.’ Kiusangth Yimchungrii and ‘raju peyu’ Jepang Yimchungrii stated that Kiumukum was officially expelled from the region since he had betrayed his own NNC members and jailed them just because of money and many other unwanted issues.

It stated that these were all published in the news daily in year 2011 and 2012, further stating that the Yimchungrii region was very shamed at his behaviour and has condemned Kiumukum NNC N/A party.

their surroundings. The work was supervised by town GBs in their respective wards.

ESD & E Kohima: Department of Employment, Skill Development & Entrepreneurship Nagaland, Kohima organised a clean-up day and plantation drive in the directorate complex, led by parliamentary secretary Mhonlumo Kikon and additional director Y. Vandanshan Lotha along with all the officers and staff from the directorate, regional employment exchange, Kohima & govt. Industrial Training Institute, Kohima.

Mon: District administration organized mass social work at district headquarter under the mission, “I love my Mon town”, led by DC Mon, W. Honje Konyak and his officers. Various govt. departments led by HoDs and staff wholly participated by mowing and cleaning up their respective office compound. The tree plantation drive was carried out in and around Mon town under forest department along with the administration and officers’ club. All the educational institutions, churches, the concerned DBs, ward GBs & presidents and the general public of Mon took active participation by cleaning their own institutions, church surroundings, their wards, homes and surroundings. Others like NGOs, 33AR, DEF Mon and local business community took part in the mass cleanliness drive.

Phek: Mass social work was held at Phek town, where people from all walks including the government employees and the students took part in cleaning their respect surroundings and colonies of Phek town.

Mangkolemba: To mark the day, a mass social work and tree plantation was conducted in and around the town and office premises in the entire administrative circle under the sub division. More than 5000 saplings of various trees and seeds were distributed for planting. All sections of people participated during the social work as the day also marked an activity for the yearlong celebration of 25 years of ADC Hq establishment in Mangkolemba.

Peren: In Peren during mass social work the blocked drainage were cleaned, road-

sides cleared and office premises, led by ADC Peren, S. Tainiu. Head of offices, colonies, Peren Town Women Welfare Organisation, (PTWWO) Peren Town Youth Organisation, (PTYO) participated in the mass social work. At Tening, Tsuvishe Phoji, ADC along with the respective ward chairmen, head of offices led the social work to clean up the town areas, office premises and drains etc. In Jalukie, the administration led by SDC (C), Rhosietho Nguori in collaboration with the Legal Services Authority, Peren and the forest department conducted the mass social work and also planted tree saplings in and around the town areas with school children. Mass Social work was also conducted at Athibung under the guidance of EAC, Lithrila.

Tuensang: In Tuensang the day cum Swatch Bharat Mission cleanliness drive was conducted at clock tower Tuensang. The celebration was attended by district head offices, central security forces, GBs and all the ward representatives. SDO (C) Dr. Manazir J Samoom IAS gave an introduction on World Environment Day and key note address was delivered by IFS DFO Tuensang, Dr. Sentitula.

DC Tuensang, Alem Jongshi gave away the tree saplings to the office establishments and the ward representatives of the district. He also gave away the prize to the winners of the painting competition on green environment conducted by the district legal service authority.

Two thousand plant saplings (2000) were planted.

Kiphire: Cleanness drive was undertaken where all eleven wards participated in the social work along with offices cleaning the respective premises. Kiphire conducted cleanliness drive in all the 11 wards of the town, led by DC, Kiphire, Sedevekho Khro.

Seedlings were also provided to all the wards by the wildlife division, Kiphire. School students from National Green Corps (Eco Club) turned out in good number wearing Tshirts which were provided by Nagaland Pollution Control Board.

Mokokchung: Mass social work was held in Mokokc-

hung town where all the 18 wards, educational institutions and all the departments participated in the social work by cleaning the surrounding, drainage, footpath etc. Forest department since April 2016 has distributed 16000 saplings in Mokokchung till date and would continue to do so till July 2016.

K S DV D : Ke m n b ay School Diphupar ‘B’ Village Dimapur (KSDVD) observed the day with chairman of the school Eco-Club, assistant teacher Kholi Hriizhiio speaking on the theme “join the race to make the world a better place”. Eco-club of the school along with the teachers and the students also planted trees around the village.

QMHSS Mokokchung: Queen Mary Higher Secondary School, Mokokchung conducted a cleanliness drive and planting of tree saplings in the school premises under the initiative of the Eco-Club. The principal along with the cocoordinator, Eco-Club, student members and teachers participated in the programme.

Fingerprint-Design & Events: Fingerprint-Design & Events in collaboration with Eco club of S.M College and Immanuel College celebrated the occasion in their respective colleges with resource person as Obed Swu ACF, NZP Rangapahar. Animal adoption certificate was presented to SM college by the resource person. Till date 41 animal has been adopted and a fund of 5,35,000/- has been collected through the animal adoption campaign initiated by fingerprint and castle group in collaboration with dept of environment, forest and climate change. Essay and Painting competition was organized on conservation of environment and climate change in Immanuel College where Ato Tzudir B.A. 3rd semester and Jianchuilung B.sc 1st sem were the winners respectively. The fingerprint team also distributed tree saplings to Signal Ao Baptish fellowship, Lhomithi Baptist Church, Signal Angami Baptist Church and Signal Phom Baptist Church.

C M H S S T. C h i k r i : Chakhesang Mission Higher Secondary School (CMHSS), T.Chikri, Pfütsero celebrated

the occasion with programme organized by the 9 Assam Rifles, Pfütsero.

During the program, post commander 9 AR, Pfütsero, major Kumar Gaurav, delivered a short speech on “the importance of protecting and preserving our environment”.

Drawing competition on ‘save earth’ was also organized in which 32 students of three categories participated. Three prizes of 1st, 2nd and 3rd were arranged and awarded.

VBS eco club: Vidhya Bhawan School on the occasion conducted various activities initiated by the Eco club teacher in-charge and its members in order to mark the significant day and also to create awareness to save environment. Principal VBS stated that the day started with a social work in and around the school in the early hours followed by pasting of stickers on the passing vehicles on the main road which read ‘think green, go green’. A signature campaign was also organized near the school campus under the theme, ‘greening the blue’; which was made opened by the headmaster of the school V.K. Shah. The event was followed by a quiz competition based on environmental issues.

DDLSA Dimapur: Dimapur District Legal Services Authority (DDLSA) in collaboration with Life NGO and Dimapur Government College (DGC) conducted mass social work with the students of DGC. Panel advocate DDLSA, M. Glory Sema spoke on environmental issues and highlighted various provisions of related laws. Other resource persons included researcher, Imyarila Changkire and journalist Yupangnenla Longkumer. The program was chaired by assistant professor/Eco Club convenor DGC, Ningshijungla Longchar, while the keynote address was delivered by chairman DDLSA/district & sessions judge Dimapur, Neiko Kanuo with vote of thanks by vice principal DGC, Louis Humtsoe. The program was followed by mass social work and plantation of tree saplings which were donated by the forest department.

NUTA & NUNSTA Meriema: Nagaland University Teachers‟ Association

(NUTA) and the Nagaland University Non-Teaching Staff Association (NUNTSA), Kohima Campus, Meriema undertook a massive tree plantation drive at the university campus. Pro-vice chancellor, Nagaland University, Kohima Campus, Meriema, Prof.

Pardeshi Lal addressed in his address, maintained that the importance of “environment” attracted the concern of the “global communities” since June 5, 1972 when the UN General Assembly organized a conference on human environment. About 400 trees were planted around the university campus by both associations to celebrate the occasion.

NWU club & IndiKRafT: New Wave United (NWU) Club and INdi-KRafT Group on the occasion visited St. Savio School & Cosmopolitan at Chumukedima . In a press release issued by NWU & INdi-KRafT GRouP stated that tree saplings were planted and distributed among those schools as well as to other likeminded individuals, organization for a better future of all.

NCCAF: Nagaland Community Conserved Areas Forum (NCCAF) made a fervent appeal to all concerned to be “agent of change” by way of saying “no to plastic” to bring a cleaner and safer environment to Nagaland.

Merangkong town: Nagaland Ecological and Sanitation Management Society (NESMS) organised tree plantation programme at Merangkong town in collaboration with forest department and Merangkong Town Baptist Church Youth Department (MTBCYD). During tree plantation ceremony around 30 members from the youth department participated in planting 200 saplings. Short speech was delivered by co-ordinator, NESMS, Temjennungsang, about various environmental issues. He encouraged the youths to provide environmental education to the common people from different societies and communities to actively participate. Programme was chaired by MTBC youth director, invocation by MTBC pastor, vote of thanks from the adhoc town committee Merangkong.

news in brief NNC/GDRN NA accepts: NNC/GDRN (NonAccord) has accepted the resignation letter tendered

by Kheniho Achumi,kilonser and.K. Avi Achumi, kilonser for Religious affairs from the govt with immediate effect from publication of this order, as stated by MIP NNC/GDRN (Non-Accord).

MMC informs on selling of fresh milk: ADC and administrator, Mokokchung, Bendanglila, has informed all milk sellers from nearby dairy farms who comes to Mokokchung Town for sale of fresh milk must be compulsorily registered in the office of Mokokchung Municipal Council (MMC) by June 30.

Mangkolemba DPDB:Mangkolemba sub Divisional Planning & Development Board meeting for the month of June would be held on June 6, 11 a.m at ADC office. All the departmental officers and NGOs have been requested to attend the meeting positively.

NSSWB fellowship: Nagaland State Social Welfare Board (NSSWB) would be organizing a centralize fellowship for Nagaland Adolescent Girls Club (NAGC) on June 8 at the durbar hall, 4th NAP, Thizama Kohima.

MOCK observes WED: Mount Olive College Kohima observed world environment day on June 4, which concluded with cleaning the campus, tree plantation and beautification of campus.

Free skill training on computer course inaugurated: Welfare Agency of Nagaland (WAN) inaugurated its free skill training program on computer course for under privilege, dropped out and disability on June 3 at Kohima Lotha Hoho conference hall. The event was inaugurated by chairman, Kohima Educational Society, Dr. P Ngullie.

Notice to beneficiaries of solar street light: Directorate of New & Renewable Energy, Nagaland has informed all the VDB/VC/GB’s who have applied for solar street light from 2011-14 to meet the DNRE officer-in-charge or see the beneficiary list on the DNRE office notice board on or before June 30 and deposit the beneficiary share of Rs

9,000/- per solar street light. The beneficiary villages have also been requested to furnish the village map, marking the spot where solar street lights are to be installed.

Notice from directorate of school education: Directorate of School Education, Nagaland has requested all schools and senior students to share their academic experiences on the ‘Narendra Modi Mobile App’ as part of prime minister Modi’s last “Mann Ki Baat” programme which urge students, teachers as well as parents to share their exam experiences to overcome exam stress. The App can be downloaded by giving a missed call on 1800 209 0920.

LSU consultative meeting: Lotha Students’ Union (LSU) has convened a consultative meeting with the seniors and former leaders on July 8, 11 a.m at the union office to discuss matters pertaining to the union’s 50th triennial general conference to be held at Chukitong tentatively in the month of January 2017. All the seniors/formers leaders have been requested to attend the meeting positively.

Award ceremony for BS&G: Governor’s secretariat has informed that the Rajya Puraskar award ceremony of Nagaland State Bharat Scouts & Guides would be held on June 9, 11 a.m at durbar hall, Raj Bhavan, Kohima. DIPR informed that there would be a rehearsal on June 8, 2 p.m. All the print, electronic and visual medias have been invited to cover the function.

KSUK’s half yearly meeting: Konyak Students’ Union Kohima has requested all the advisors, office bearers and institution representative (IR) of the union to attend half yearly meeting which will be held on June 11, 10:30 a.m. at union treasury, below Pine Wood High School Middle, PWD Kohima.

Regional conference of the north east domestic workers’ week: Regional conference of the North East domestic workers’ week would be held on June 11 at St. Joseph’s College, Jakhama in commemoration of the international domestic workers’ day.

There will also be a post card campaign on June 12,

9:00 a.m. at head post office, Kohima.

Thanks giving Eucharistic celebration of Rev. Fr.Lucas Mhonchan Ezung: St.Peter’s Church Longsa, Wokha would be celebrating thanks giving Eucharistic celebration of Rev.Fr.Lucas Mhonchan Ezung on June 11, 10 a.m at St.Peter’s church Longsa, Wokha. Meanwhile, the church has requested Lotha Hoho and Rengma Hoho to exempt the participants coming from Kohima and Dimapur for the programme from the purview stir.

Emergency meeting of KTC: KTC president has informed that there would be an emergency executive meeting on June 14, 10 a.m at KTC hall. All KTC executive members, former presidents, advisors and frontal organization representative under KTC have been requested to attend the meeting positively.

64th Phom day to be observed: Phom area and Phom people residing in different parts of Nagaland would celebrate its 64th Phom Day or peace day.

Dimapur Phom Union would be organizing prayer and fasting programme in different Phom churches and fellowship across Dimapur on June 6, 7 a.m to 8 a.m. Dimapur Phom Union has requested all the Phoms to participate at the programme as on this day the leaders from Phom tribe had gathered at Longleng town to shun the path of violence and declare peace all over Phom area.

Correction to NPCC public meeting at Chozuba town on June 1: NPCC media cell has informed that the programme was chaired by Velapra Shijoh, chairman, Sekruzu Area Public Forum while invocation was said by Vekusa Lohe, pastor, Chozuba Town Baptist Church and vote of thanks was proposed by Veduyo Kheso, vice chairman, ad-hoc town committee, Chozuba; and not as rendered earlier.

Corrigendum to ‘ANPHEDFSA meeting’: The emergency meeting convened on June 10, 10:30 a.m at Kohima secretariat gate, to discuss 30 years and above regularization matter should be read as published by All Nagaland Inter Departmental Field Staffs’ Association Joint Forum (ANIDFSAJF) and not as published.

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EAC Aitepyong, Imli Akum along with the village and school authorities.

Dimapur: Laudato Si Childrens’ Botanical Park at Don Bosco High School, Lakhuti was inaugurated by EAC Aitepyong, Wokha, Imli Akum coinciding with planting saplings in aid of ‘World Environment Day’ celebrations with the theme “plant for the planets�.

In a press release, DBHS principal stated that Laudato

Si Botanical Park was one hectare of replenishing green slope which caters to various kinds of flora and fauna of the region.

The botanical park was not just a place of rest but a destination for the students of environmental science.

It further informs that Laudato Si Childrens Botanical Park was the outcome of the

concerted efforts put in by the students, alumni, parents and the management. The park was named after St.Francis of Assissi, the patron saint of ecology who authored the Canticle which starts with the words “Laudato Si, mi Signore�

(Praise be to you, my Lord).

The civil leaders and parents joined the students in the ‘plant for the planet’ campaign.

DIMAPUR: All Nagaland PWD Field Workers’ Association (ANPWDFWA) PWD (R and B), Housing and National Highway, has requested all the HODs of the respective divisions and sub-divisions to immediately submit W/C incumbency list along with hard and soft copies on or before June 20 for solving the W/C salary problems, failing which the respective DDOs would be held responsible.

In a press note, ANPWDFWA further requested the presidents and secretaries of PWD Housing to collect the following details of the W/C employees (who have completed 30 years and above) of their respective division/sub-divisions and to submit the same during the emergency meeting which has been convened on June 10.

Particulars to be required as per P&AR Department direction: name; designation; date of birth; date of entry into service; date of completion of 30 years of continuous service; date of retirement; pay-scale and existing total emoluments; pay-scale admissible on regularization; total emoluments after regularization and; additional financial implications.

NPCSD holds consultative meeting

P. Andrew Gurung along with party workers.

D IMAPUR : N a g a l a n d Pradesh Congress Seva Dal (NPCSD) held consultative meeting on May 30, at DCC Office, Dimapur.

The main purpose of this meeting was to interact as well as build up the organization of Seva Dal Party.

Special guest of the pro-

gramme, All India Congress Seva Dal, incharge North East, organizer, P. Andrew Gurung, asked the party to build up political career by organizing social service, sports, training camp and seminars in Nagaland for atleast three to four days in the near future.

He also encouraged them to

appoint as many as member to strengthen the organization and work together for better country and better future.

Earlier the meeting was chaired by NPCSD state organizer, L. Manen Jamir and welcome speech was delivered by, NPCSD chief organizer N. Neilo Koza.

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Training -cum- workshop on ‘participatory springshed development’ held at Ziphenyu

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Er. Levi and others during ongoing workshop programme on “participatory springshed development� at Ziphenyu village on June 3.

DIMAPUR: Training -cumworkshop on “Participatory Springshed Development� under the aegis of land resources department Nagaland in collaboration with People’s Science Institute (PSI) Dehradun was held at Ziphenyu village under Tseminyu sub division of Kohima district on June 3.

Representative from 11 districts of the state attended the workshop. Field visit was also part of the workshop.

The workshop will culminate on June 4.

Parliamentary secretary for PWD (housing), Er. Levi Rengma who visited the training programme along with the government officials of Tseminyu sub-division appreciated the initiative and optimistic that the concept of springshed development would be very helpful to the state.

He said due to random deforestation and increase

in human habitation, water scarcity has been one of the worse affected and water scarcity has been reported in every districts of the state. He stressed on the urgent need to conserve water by developing natural water sources and rain water harvesting structures.

He was optimistic that the concept of springshed

development would fetch a huge impact to the declaration of the year 2016 as the “Year of rain water conservation� under Tseminyu division.

Topics being covered at the ongoing workshop at Ziphenyu includes; groundwater and its significance, basis scientific concepts of springs, ground water storage, hydrogeological mapping, community mobilization and participation, participatory planning process and principles, springshed planning & management, water quality testing etc. etc.

The resource persons of the workshop were water quality expert, Aukit Saxena-, Vargish Bamola, geologist, Sreedip Ghosh- geologist, all from People’s Science Institute (PSI) Dehradun.

Earlier, the function was chaired by Northeast Coordinator PSI, Khrolhiweu Tsuhah.

Staff and officers during the training programme of evaluation.

Dimapur: Two-day interactive in-house training and sensitization programme was organized on May 26-27 by directorate of evaluation to update the working knowledge of the officials on evaluation techniques, gender issues, tobacco control and egovernance.

During the training, the resource person were member NPSC, W.Chubala Aier on evaluation techniques, Juliana Medom on

gender issues, joint director, health & family welfare, Dr.Hotokhu Chishi on tobacco and its effects as part of tobacco control programme, district evaluation officer, Shellem on eGovernance.

The training included session on basic courtesy/office ethics for drivers and IV grade staff, while president ANDDGDU, C.K.Longchar was the resource person.

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2015. The police not only declared Ratan an absconder, but also announced a reward of Rs five lakh for information leading to his arrest. Retired IPS officer and now high court lawyer Ahanthem Romenkumar said a Facebook picture cannot be the basis of filing a first information report (FIR).

“The Karnataka high court had quashed an FIR based on a Facebook photograph since the veracity of the picture could not be established,” Romenkumar said.

“Besides in case of Ratan, police flouted procedures. At least two attempts should be made to arrest the accused. If they fail, the court should issue a public notice and 3 to 6 months should be given before declaring a person a proclaimed offender.” In Ratan’s case the matter was settled within 24 hours even though the accused was not fleeing the law but addressing press conferences, he said. “This arbitrary and discriminatory step could be challenged in a law court, Romenkumar said.

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) legislator Khumukcham Joykishan said the police must substantiate the charge against Ratan within seven days or he would launch an agitation.

Many people are of the view that the intention of the government is not to arrest Ratan who is very much around but to deflect the anti-migrant campaign.

The JCILPS has been demanding an inner line permit (ILP) system for Manipur which has been encapsulated in the three anti-migrant bills passed by the Manipur assembly that now await presidential assent.

Top officials urge Reang tribal refugees in Tripura to return home

Rs 10,000-cr liabilities for new Govt: Himanta

Sabha delegation meets Sonowal

G U WA H A T I , J U N 4 (IANS/PTI): As promised in his election campaign, new Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal has asked the Border Security Force (BSF) to undertake sealing of the India-Bangladesh border on a war footing.

The Chief Minister said this while chairing a meeting with the top brass of the BSF led by its Director General K.K. Sharma.

Sonowal asked the BSF to ensure erection of fencing expeditiously for a safe border with the neighbouring country.

The chief minister asked the BSF to make use of ‘smart technological solutions’ like laser walls and surveillance gadgets to maintain security at

the frontiers.

“Erection of fencing along the border including riverine areas has to be dealt with resolutely if we want to make our borders safe. It is a part of our pledge that we will completely seal international border with Bangladesh in order to keep infiltration and smuggling from across the border at bay,” he said.

Sonowal said the government would give all help to the BSF in carrying out the job, particularly along the 42 km stretch in Dhubri sector which the BSF described as challenging.

General Debraj Anbu Saturday called on Chief Minister Sonowal here and apprised him of the prevailing security scenario in the state.

The meeting with the GOC 4 Corps was the first since Sonowal took up office and the two held discussions on several dimensions of Assam’s security.

Anbu told Sonowal that the security scenario in Assam has improved remarkably and the situation “is well under control”, said a CMO release.

Sonowal sought GOC 4 Corps’ cooperation and also assured to extend his governhelp on all fronts for Sonowal holds discussion ment’s the progress and prosperity of with GOC 4 Corps Assam.

He also asked Anbu to General Officer Commanding 4 Corps Lieutenant extend the Army’s outreach

ILPS stir: College students boycott semester exams

An Asam Sahitya Sabha delegation called on Sonowal here and hoped under his leadership a new economic era would dawn in the state.

The seven-member delegation led by the president of the state’s apex literary body, Dhrubajyoti Bora met Sonowal yesterday and apprised him of its centenary celebration programmes at Jorhat in December this year and at Sibsagar in February next year.

Sonowal in his turn assured the Sabha of his government’s support and cooperation to make its centenary celebrations a success.

Bora requested the chief minister for budgetary allocation for grants-in-aid to the Sabha in the budget and also made a plea for release of last year’s grants-in-aid, a government release today said.

Sonowal also met a delegation of Shrimanta Sankardev Sangha headed by its ‘Padadhikar’ Bhaben Deka today, the release added.

AGARTALA/AIZAWL, JUN 4 (IANS): Officials of the Centre and two state governments on Saturday asked IMPHAL, JUN 4: College Reang tribal refugees, shelstudents Saturday boycotted tered in North Tripura district the BA, B Com and BSc 4th sefor the last 19 years, to return mester examinations demandto their homes in Mizoram ing release of the students who and take the benefit of the have been arrested in connecrehabilitation package. tion with the protest demandThe next phase of repaing implementation of Inner triation of 31,300 Reang tribal Line Permit System (ILPS). refugees is likely to resume afThe students also deter the monsoon in November. stroyed answer sheets of the “Union Home Ministry students appearing in the exam officials and top officials of at some colleges in Imphal.

Tripura and Mizoram govThe examinations could ernments in a meeting on not be conducted at GP WomSaturday with the leaders of en College, DM College of the Reang tribal refugees have Arts, DM College of Comasked them to return to their merce, Imphal College, NG homes in Mizoram and take College due to the violent prothe benefit of the rehabilitatest by the students. tion package,” North Tripura The exam was conducted district’s Kanchanpur Subundisturbed at DM College of Divisional Magistrate Nantu Science where a large number Ranjan Das told IANS over of police personnel were postthe phone. ed to foil any bid of the student He said: “Union Home to disrupt the exams.

Ministry’s Joint Secretary in charge of the northeast Satyendra Garg very sincerely requested the refugees to go home as per the road map finalised by the Mizoram government. After their return the demands of the refugees would be fulfilled.”

Das said that the Mizoram government officials told the meeting that they would make all arrangements to take back the refugees after the monsoon in November.

Garg, who arrived in Agartala on Friday from New Delhi, told the meeting that he would visit Mizoram next week to personally see the situation in Mamit district and adjoining areas where the refSchool students take out an awareness rally on the eve of World Environment Day, ugees would be rehabilitated after their repatriation. in Guwahati on Saturday. (PTI)

Stolen JCB recovered at Khatkhati BOKAJAN, JUN 4 (AGENCIES): In continuation of the series of operations, Khatkhati Police foiled a bid to smuggle a stolen JCB and arrested four persons late Friday evening.

According to the report, the police based on specific information, intercepted the JCB on NH 36 in Purna Lahorijan area along Assam-Nagaland border. The vehicle is believed to have been lifted from Hojai, Nagaon. The police have arrested Badrul Islam and Smile Ali from Doboka, Kamal Sharma from Hojai and Ram Krishna Das from Lumding in this connection. This is the 5th in stolen vehicle recovered by Khatkhati Police within this week. Earlier, on May 31, the police arrested a well to do business man Harichand Gupta of Bokajan Town and recovered three luxury SUVs. K

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The protestors under the banner of recently-formed College Student Council of Manipur (CSCM) had threatened to boycott the BA, BSc and B Com 4th semester examinations conducted by Manipur University which began from Saturday.

The CSCM has also forced to close down of administrative blocks of colleges since Friday as part of intensification of their agitations demanding unconditional release of the student leaders.

The agitating students even snatched and destroyed mobile phones of the teachers on duty before targeting the administrative block at GP Women’s College, Imphal.

They destroyed computers sets and other belongings of the college even as some section of students who wished to appear the exam opposed the move.

General secretary of GP Women’s College Student Union, Sarjulata Yumnam appealed to the agitating body to desist from disturbing the examination for the remaining papers.

In Thoubal district too, student locked down the administration blocks of Thoubal College and Waikhom Mani College ahead of the commencement of the exam.

On the other hand students of CC Higher Secondary School, Imphal, after a peaceful rally on the streets in Imphal’s Palace Compound, burnt the effigy of chief minister O Ibobi Singh at the concluding part of the rally.

A student leader, while demanding immediate release of the arrested students said that they will continue their protest including class boycott until their colleagues were released unconditionally.

The crucial meeting, which took place in Kanchanpur in North Tripura, came amid the Supreme Court’s directives favouring repatriation of the refugees and the Mizoram government submitting a proposal to the central government on how it plans to rehabilitate the displaced people.

Garg told reporters in Agartala that the Supreme Court had asked the Union Home Ministry and the Mizoram and Tripura governments to jointly work for the return of the tribal refugees to their homes in Mizoram.

The Mizoram government was represented in the meeting by Principal Secretary (Home) Renu Sharma, other home department officials and Deputy Commissioner (Mamit district) Lalbiaksangi.

The Tripura government was represented by District Magistrate (North Tripura) Sandeep Mahatame, Superintendent of Police Manik Lal Das and Sub-Divisional Magistrate (Kanchanpur) Nantu Ranjan Das. About 31,300 Reang tribals, who call themselves ‘Bru’, have been living in seven makeshift camps in North Tripura’s Kanchanpur areas adjoining Mizoram since October 1997.

They had fled ethnic violence in western Mizoram following the killing of a Mizo forest officer at the Dampa Tiger Reserve.

Despite several initiatives by the Mizoram government to bring them back, the refugees have been reluctant to go back to their villages unless their demands for food and security are met.

GUWAHATI, JUN 4 (AGENCIES): Assam Finance Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma today said that the new Government at Dispur has inherited a committed outstanding liability of over Rs 10,000 crore (approx) from its predecessor.

This includes committed liabilities of Rs 1,359.29 crore of Chief Minister Special Packages and Rs 1,039 crore (till May 2016) of Public Works Department. Sarma, while laying the ‘White Paper on Assam State Finances’ on the floor of the State Assembly this afternoon, highlighted that the internal resource generation growth, which stood at 24 per cent in 2005-06, came down to a mere 1.39 per cent in 2014-15.

“The 1.39 per cent growth was the lowest in the history,” Sarma told the House. The situation, as per the White Paper, improved to 3.39 per cent (percentage increase over previous year),” he added.

The Minister, however, assured the House that the new Government will effect a turnaround within a few months. “We have taken it as a challenge. The thatched house that we have inherited will soon be improved substantially,” the minister said. The Minister also said that compared to what the State had got during the last five years of Dr Manmohan Singh Government at the Centre, the Modi Government has already surpassed the rate of increase in just two years.

The White Paper also revealed that of the total budget of Rs 72,572.9 crore (Plan and non-Plan budget) in the year 2015-16, the State Government could spend only 49.80 per cent of it.

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Girl charred to death in AP ITANAGAR, JUN 4 (PTI): A four-year-old girl was charred to death in a fire that gutted her home in West Siang district of Arunachal Pradesh today, police said.

Kristina Yasak Tati was burnt alive in the fire that broke out in her home at Basar at around 6.30 AM, an official report said.

The cause of the fire is yet to be ascertained, it added.

Chief Minister Kalikho Pul has expressed sorrow over the death of the girl announced ex-gratia of Rs 4 lakh to her next of kin and Rs 1,01,900 to the house owner as per norms and instructed West Siang authorities to immediately initiate the process.

Governor J P Rajkhowa too condoled the death of the girl and echoing Pul appealed to the people to be more cautious and take precautionary measures to prevent fire accidents.

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We wish you success in your future endeavors and invoke the blessing of the almighty to bless you abundantly.

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Mnp lawyers protest police action against ILP supporters IMPHAL, JUN 4 (IANS): Manipur Police acted illegally in declaring anti-migrant campaigner Khomdram Ratan an “absconder” within hours of a supposedly incriminating picture appearing and when it could easily have arrested him, lawyers here said.

“It’s bizarre. While the police were issuing the public notice declaring him an absconder, he was very much in office addressing reporters and attending to official work.

Where’s the question of absconding,” Khaidem Mani, a high court lawyer and former president of the All Manipur Bar Association, told IANS. He said Ratan has been booked as a criminal on the basis of a Facebook photograph which is a “mockery of law”.

The picture, which went viral on Wednesday, purportedly shows Ratan taking an oath of allegiance with the flag of the United National Liberation Front (UNLF), a banned insurgent group that has been fighting for an “independent” Manipur.

Ratan, who has been the convener of the Joint Committee on Inner Line Permit System (JCILPS), said on Friday that the picture was doctored and was meant to sabotage the movement for enactment of a constitutional safeguard for protection of the indigenous people of Manipur.

He said he never took part in any gathering where he held the UNLF’s flag and pledged allegiance to the outfit.

Ratan also resigned on Friday as the convener of JCILPS which has been demanding the enactment of three antimigrant bills passed by the Manipur Assembly on August 31,

programme ‘Sadbhavana’ to establish its connection with the people of far-flung areas and ensure the state’s security in all spheres.

Chief Secretary V K Pipersenia, Assam Director General of Police Mukesh Sahay, Commissioner and Secretary, Home L S Changsan were also present at the meeting, the release said.

Sarbananda Sonowal with Chief Secretary V K Pipersenia and GoC 4 Corps Lieutenant General Devraj Anbu in Dispur city of Guwahati on Saturday. (PTI)

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HERAT (AFGHANISTAN), JUN 4 (IANS): India’s development assistance in Afghanistan scaled a new high on Saturday with the inauguration of the Salma Dam in Herat province, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Afghan President Ashraf Ghani pressed a button to open the sluice gates of the Rs 1,700 crore mega dam built

by India.

Modi, who arrived in Herat on Saturday, reiterated India’s commitment to the development of Afghanistan.

Modi was also conferred with Afghanistan’s highest civilian honour, the Amir Aminullah Khan Award, by President Ghani.

“Afghanistan’s success is a deeply held hope and desire of every Indian,” Modi said after the inauguration of the Afghan-India Friendship Dam, also known as Salma Dam. “It comes from the love and admiration for Afghans in our hearts,” he said.

“We want to see your democracy strike deep roots; your people unite; and, your economy prosper.”

Modi said his visit to Afghanistan’s Herat was not just about launching a project that would irrigate land and light up homes.

“We are reviving a region, restoring hope, renewing life and redefining Afghanistan’s future,” he said.

“The dam is a generator not just of electricity but also of optimism and belief in the future of Afghanistan.”

Apart from irrigating the fields of 640 villages in Chiste, Obe, Pashtun Zarghun, Karokh, Gozara, Injil, Zindjan, Kohsan and Ghoryan in Herat province in western Afghanistan, the hydro electric

Narendra Modi and Ashraf Ghani raise each other’s hands after inaugurating Afghan-India Friendship Dam in Herat, Afghanistan on Saturday. (PTI) project is expected to bring light to over 250,000 homes in the region.

“This dam has not been built by bricks and mortar, but by the faith of our friendship and the valour of Afghans and Indians,” he said.

Modi said India has partnered Afghanistan in building schools, health centres and irrigation facilities for rural communities.

He said that India’s investment in the Chahbahar port in Iran will give Afghanistan “a new route to the world and a new path to prosperity”.

India, Iran and Afghanistan last month signed a trilateral agreement in Tehran to develop the Chabahar port in the Gulf

of Oman for a trade and transit corridor through Afghanistan to Central Asia and beyond to Russia and Europe.

President Ghani, speaking at the inauguration, welcomed Modi to his “second home” Afghanistan and said that with India’s help a longstanding dream of Afghanistan has been realised after 40 years.

“The assistance of the people and the Government of India in constructing this splendid dam re-institutes the ancient ties of Herat and India,” he said.

“Our people identify India with roads, dams and over 200 small developmental projects.”

“Contrary to those who

Mercedes hit-and-run: Teen to face trial NEW DELHI, JUN 4 (PTI): In a first, a teenager, who allegedly ran over a 32-year-old marketing executive while driving his father’s Mercedes, will now face trial as an adult after the Juvenile Justice Board (JJB) Saturday said the offence allegedly committed by him was “heinous”.

The Presiding Officer of the JJB passed the order on the application of Delhi Police which had sought transfer of the case to trial court to try as adult the accused who turned major just four days after the April 4 incident.

It is the first of its kind case since the amendment in the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015, which allowed the Board to transfer cases of heinous offences by children to Sessions court.

As per section 2(33) of the Act, “heinous offences” include the offences for which minimum punishment under IPC or any other law for the time

being in force is imprisonment for seven years or more.

The police had on May 26 chargesheeted the juvenile in the JJB for the offence of culpable homicide not amounting to murder. The offence of culpable homicide not amounting to murder entails a maximum of 10 years jail.

The JJB had reserved its order yesterday after hearing for over an hour arguments by Special Public Prosecutor Atul Shrivastava who had said the boy belongs to the age group of 16-18 years and this offence comes under definition of “heinous crimes” so his case should be transferred to the trial court. The JJB today accepted the argument and allowed the plea of Delhi Police, Shrivastava said.

Initially, a case under IPC sections 304 A (causing death by rash or negligent act) was lodged against the teenager but later on he was booked for the alleged offence of culpable homicide not amounting to

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murder and sent to the reform home.

Police had said in its charge sheet that the boy had fatally run over victim Siddharth Sharma with his father’s Mercedes when Sharma was trying to cross a road near Ludlow Castle School in north Delhi on April 4.

The final report was filed for alleged offences under IPC sections 304 (culpable homicide not amounting to murder), 279 (driving on a public way so rashly or negligently as to endanger human life) and 337 (causing hurt by an act which endangers human life) against him. The Board had on April 26 granted bail to the youth who sought the relief to appear in entrance examinations.

Police had said that the car was being driven at a speed of at least 80 km per hour and Sharma was flung several feet into the air by the impact of the crash and landed around 15 metres away from where he stood.

spread chaos and destruction, we two countries have taken the joint decision to build and grow,” said Ghani.

Originally constructed in 1976 on the Hari river basin, the Salma Dam suffered extensive damage during the Afghan civil war.

It was built at a cost of approximately Rs 1,700 crore by 1,500 Indian and Afghan engineers, technocrats and other professionals.

Three turbines on the dam will produce 42 MW of electricity and the water will irrigate around 75,000 hectares of land.

The dam is a landmark infrastructure project undertaken by the Indian government and has been executed and implemented by Wapcos, an Indian government undertaking under the Ministry of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation.

The Salma Dam, which is 20 km in length and three km in width, started filling up its reservoirs in July last year, ahead of its completion.

The event had been widely heralded by grateful residents of Herat, who took out joyful processions, beating traditional drums. A group of local musicians had then gathered at the Indian consulate and sung Indian songs, including Bollywood number “Yamma Yamma”, and presented flowers to workers of the consulate -- marking their gratitude to see waters flowing in the dam again. In December last year, Modi had and Ghani had jointly inaugurated Afghanistan’s new Parliament building, built by India at Rs 170 crore -- another key development project undertaken by India.

AIIMS launches ‘adopt a patient’ policy NEW DELHI, JUN 4 (PTI): AIIMS Saturday launched ‘adopt a patient’ policy under which it seeks public donations for patients who are unable to continue their treatment or bear cost of buying equipment needed for rehabilitation at home. “Under ‘adopt a patient’ policy, people can donate for patients who are waiting for surgery because they don’t have money to buy equipment required for rehabilitation at home,” said M C Mishra, AIIMS Director.

“The policy was launched with a focus on patients with brain and spinal chord injuries who are left with huge and enormous disability require rehabilitation care to be independent partially. Quadruple amputees, paraplegics and paralytics will benefit from the policy,” Mishra said. About two lakh patients undergo treatment at AIIMS annually out of which 50 per cent are poor, Mishra said. And then there are cases where a patient does not have money for implants or their families abandon them and they are unable to bear cost of continuing their treatment.

2 policemen shot dead in Anantnag SRINAGAR, JUN 4 (PTI): Striking for a second time in less than 24 hours in South Kashmir, militants today killed two police personnel in poll-bound Anantnag from where Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti is contesting.

In a targeted action against security personnel, suspected militants opened fire at a police party in the main bus stand in Anantnag at 11.20 AM injuring Assistant Sub- Inspector Bashir Ahmad and Constable Reyaz Ahmad who were rushed to a hospital where they succumbed.

The attack comes in less than 24 hours when militants of banned Hizbul Mujahideen ambushed a BSF convoy at neighbouring Goriwan area at Bijbehara killing three of its personnel.

Today’s attack in Anantnag, 52 Kms from here, is seen as an attempt by the militants to scare the voters as Mehbooba is seeking her election to the state assembly from here.

The seat, where elections are now scheduled to be held on June 22, had fallen vacant after the death of former Chief Minister and her father Mufti Mohammed Sayeed on January 7. Mehbooba is among nine candidates in the fray.

Police and CRPF have cordoned off the area and were carrying out searches at various places to nab the culprits.

Opposition National Conference hit out at PDPBJP government and said “instead of making tall claims of improved ground situation on papers, the state government should do something concrete on ground and ensure safety and security of people”.

Maha minister Khadse quits; retired judge to probe charges

Eknath Khadse addressing to media after resigning following allegations of impropriety in land deal, at BJP office, in Mumbai on Saturday. (PTI) MUMBAI, JUN 4 (PTI): Facing a string of allegations including irregularities in a land deal, Maharashtra Revenue Minister Eknath Khadse Saturday resigned, the first casualty in BJP since the Narendra Modi-Amit Shah combine took over pledging zero-tolerance towards corruption.

Forwarding Khadse’s resignation to Governor C Vidyasagar Rao, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis announced an inquiry by a retired high court judge into the allegations against him, assought by the senior leader himself.

With his position becoming untenable after the central leadership sent a clear and stern message, the 64-year-old veteran from north Maharashtra drove this morning to Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis’s official residence to offer his resignation. Later, after a pointby-point rebuttal of allegations at a press meet, Khadse went to Fadnavis’s residence again to formally hand over his resignation.

“I have received Eknath Khadse’s resignation. I have accepted it and sent it to Gov-

ernor Ch Vidyasagar Rao. A Retired High Court judge will be appointed to probe charges against Khadse,” said Fadnavis.

The fate of Khadse was sealed two days back after Fadnavis briefed Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP President Amit Shah in Delhi about the development and its possible fallout on the image of the ministry.

Allegations against Khadse were leveraged not only

by Congress, NCP and AAP to embarrass Maharashtra’s first BJP-led government but even ally Shiv Sena had come out in the open seeking his ouster.

Considered “number two” in the Cabinet and in-charge of vital portfolios like Revenue and Agriculture, Khadse has been facing a series of allegations including irregularities in a land deal in Pune and of getting calls allegedly from fugitive Dawood Ibrahim’s residence in Karachi on his mobile phone besides the alleged bribe sought by a personal aide.

He is in a spot over the purchase of a three-acre Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation (MIDC) land in

Pune allegedly at a low price of around Rs 3.75 crore from its original owner in the name of his wife and son-in-law. The market value of the land is reportedly Rs 40 crore.

Rubbishing the allegations at a press meet with state BJP chief Raosaheb Danve, Khadse said he had been a victim of an “unprecedented media trial.”

Seen as the OBC face of the party with a massive following in northern districts, Khadse said, “For the last 40 years, I have been in politics and the party but had not experienced a media trial like this.”

Protests erupted in Khadse’s home turf Jalgaon and his constituency Mutainagar where people took to the streets in support of the stalwart. The Congress, however, said mere resignation would not do and a criminal case should be registered against Khadse.

“Mere resignation of Eknath Khadse with a simultaneous clean chit to him wouldn’t put the lid over or do away the need for an independent probe into alleged Dawood Ibrahim terror connection,” party’s chief spokesman Randeep Surjewala said in New Delhi. The state BJP leadership is expected to meet next week to decide on re-allocation of portfolios after Khadse’s exit and also to work out strategies to counter opposition onslaught over the development during the ensuing assembly session.

Elated over the departure of the first minister from the BJP-led cabinet under cloud of corruption, the Congress demanded a judicial inquiry into the allegations against him.

Mathura violence: Sect chief among dead: UP police MATHURA, JUN 4 (PTI): Ram Vriksh Yadav, the chief of the violent encroachers in Jawahar Bagh, is among those killed in the clashes, police said today as the toll mounted to 27 with three more persons succumbing to injuries.

Uttar Pradesh DGP Javed Ahmed said on twitter that the body of Yadav and some others have been identified by his associates and his family has been intimated for confirmation.

60-year-old Yadav was the leader of Azad Bharat Vidhik Vaicharik Kranti Satyagrahi, an outfit claiming to owe allegiance to Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose whose members had encroached on Jawahar Bagh area for two years and clashed with police on Thursday when they tried to evict them.

IG (Law and Order) H R Sharma said Yadav was among the 11 charred to death in the fire that was caused by gas cylinder explosions set off by the encroachers.

The death toll has risen to 27 with three more among the injured encroachers succumbing, IG (Agra) Durga Chandra Mishra said.

Chief Medical Officer Vivek Mishra said several other bodies have not been identified

as yet.

The bodies have to be kept for 72 hours in the mortuary, which will end tomorrow evening, and later post mortem will be done, he said. 18 bodies are in Mathura district centre and seven in Agra, he said.

Tight security arrangements remained in place with police preventing BJP MP from Mathura Hema Malini, who led a protest by the party, from entering the violence-hit area, citing ongoing probe and combing operation.

Sharma said the situation “is normal in Mathura and the ground has been cleared”.

Meanwhile, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav raised compensation to the next of kin of the two slain police officers from Rs 20 lakh to Rs 50 lakh even as opposition stepped up attack on him, questioning why he did not visit Mathura.

Mukul Dwivedi, Superintendent of Police and Santosh Yadav, Station House officer, Farah, were killed in the violence. The Chief Minister also announced extraordinary pension to their families and job to one member.

However, BSP chief Mayawati accused him of

not taking the issue seriously and demanded a judicial or CBI inquiry or a Supreme Court-monitored probe into the violence.

Attacking Akhilesh, who is on an official visit to Mahoba in Bundelkhand, she said, “Rather than touring Bundelkhand, he should have been visiting Mathura today.”

BJP president Amit Shah demanded resignation of Cabinet minister and the Chief Minister’s uncle Shivpal Yadav.

“If even a little bit of selfrespect is left in netaji (SP supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav), he should get the resignation of minister Shivpal Yadav immediately,” Shah said.

His attack came against the backdrop of BJP state chief Keshav Prasad Maurya alleging that the attackers were “goons of PWD minister Shivpal Singh Yadav”.

Congress spokeperson Randeep Singh Surjewala questioned why the Chief Minister did not visit Mathura.

BJP MP Hema Malini, who is facing flak for sharing pictures of her film shoot as violence erupted in her constituency, also sought to target the Akhilesh Yadav government over the incident, saying

it needs to look into the law and order situation.

Hema said police wanted to remove encroachments but were not getting orders from the state government to do so.

“They wanted to do it but they were not getting orders from the state government to remove this. This is state government’s issue. Why they are after me?,” she said.

City Magistrate Ram Araj Yadav said forensic experts were examining the area and nobody has been allowed to enter there till the investigation is completed.

“There was no ulterior motive to bar the MP from entering the area. Combing operations are underway and the area is being examined by police teams and experts,” an official said.

Police said that so far 67 persons have been arrested in connection with the violence and 310 apprehended for breach of peace.

India for regional security framework to resolve disputes

Villagers gather after a TMC leader Sk. Khilafat body found who was shot dead by unidentified gunmen last night, at Barora village under Khoirasole PS in Birbhum district of West Bengal on Saturday. (PTI)

Jat stir: 48 companies of paramilitary forces deployed Chandigarh, Jun 4 (PTI): Ahead of the proposed Jat quota agitation from tomorrow, security arrangements in Haryana have been tightened with the deployment of 4,800 paramilitary personnel and the administration is on high alert.

“Besides adequate deployment of police personnel, as many as 48 companies of paramilitary forces have been deployed at various places in the state keeping in view the stir call from tomorrow. We have asked for 15 more companies from the Centre,” Haryana Additional Chief Secretary (Home), Ram Niwas said to-

day. He said, “we are not taking any chance,” even though only one group was going ahead with the dharna.

He also said that police and paramilitary forces have been deployed to guard the Western Yamuna Canal in Sonipat district.

Protesters had disrupted water supply to the national capital by damaging the Carrier-Lined Channel (CLC) of Munak Canal during the earlier Jat agitation in February.

The administration has specified one spot in each district where people can peacefully hold dharna, officials said. However, officials said

they were wary of the fact that protesters may attempt to block national highways and rail tracks, like in February, and therefore they have put maximum security to prevent a repeat of the situation.

Haryana Police has cancelled leave of all personnel except in emergency cases till further orders.

Prohibitory orders under Section 144 of the CrPc have already been imposed in seven sensitive districts of Haryana barring gathering of five or more persons and paramilitary forces have been conducting flag marches during the past few days .

SINGAPORE, JUN 4 (PTI): India Saturday called for a regional framework for security management to peacefully resolve disputes, threat and use of force in the Indo-Pacific region, amid China flexing its muscles in the area to advance its maritime claims against its Asian neighbours.

“Regional framework for security management must enshrine a commitment to the peaceful resolution of disputes, the threat or use of force,” said Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar in his address at the 15th Shangri-La Dialogue here. He also called for collective efforts to tackle terrorism which remains the foremost challenge to the region.

“The security framework in our region still do not give enough attention to terrorism.

This must change,” Parrikar said. “Collective action and cooperation is the way forward to deal with the maritime threat, like terrorism, piracy and natural disaster,” said the minister, adding that such cooperation will build trust and confidence.

“We need to oppose terrorism resolutely everywhere,” said Parrikar, calling for resolute efforts by all to destroy the terrorism.

Terrorism remains the foremost challenge to the region. Networks of radicalism

Manohar Parrikar and terrorism as well as the whole structure in the region and beyond continue to pose a threat to all peace loving societies.

Noting sensitivities of disputes and concern about growing tension, Parrikar highlighted India’s blue economy initiative and prosperity of the region. “We are also building economic cooperation with maritime neighbours to reap the benefit of blue economy,” he said.

Parrikar said there is no doubt that the Indo Pacific region, from East of Suez to Asia Pacific shores, will remain the driver of global prosperity for decades to come.

“India’s contribution as the fastest growing major economy in the world, will be a significant factor in ensuring this”.

GOVERNMENT OF NAGALAND

OFFICE OF THE CHIEF ELECTRICAL INSPECTOR ELECTRICAL INSPECTORATE NAGALAND : KOHIMA

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Degree & Diploma candidate applied for Electrical Supervisor Certificate are requested to collect the Admit Card from this office on or before 10th June 2016 during office hours. All the candidates are asked to bring the original documents along with Admit card.

Er. I. V. Chishi, Chairman Nagaland Electrical Licensing Board, Nagaland : Kohima DC-1358

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uccessive losses in important states has already started the rumblings within the 131 year-old political party, which became louder after losses in Assam and Kerala-leaving it with only six states including Karnataka in its kitty. By next election even Himachal and Uttarkhand are expected to fall. No political party is expected to win all elections as much as ace cricketers Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Virat Kohli are not expected to hit a six with each ball or score a century in every inning. However, it would be a great concern, if Kohli and Dhoni continue to be out for ducks in a series of cricket matches. There is also no denying the fact, like experienced captains and coaches, which is a pre-requisite for a cricket team; political parties also need capable leadership. When there is lack of capability of leadership, it is not surprising, that India’s oldest political party is under attack from its own cadres but in hushed tones. After the humiliating defeat in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, the ‘high command’ ordered a post-mortem and promised to do the needful in order to correct the drift and revive the organisation at all levels.

For reasons best known, the revamp never happened and instead, the condition worsened. The woes of the Gandhi family appear to be mounting and severely testing the family in their worst ever crisis, after the brutal assassination of Rajiv Gandhi. After the poor performance of the party in the recent assembly elections, some senior leaders seem to be looking at Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi as the saviour and believe he should be given the mantle and power to bring changes and lead the party to ‘victory’. That the Congress continues to look at Rahul Gandhi as the saviour of the party when he hasn’t proved himself as expected is hardly much to talk about.

Rahul is like a reluctant heir apparent, who would be more happy doing some NGO work or leading an ordinary life. The so-called surgery is too late now as the party has lost that opportunity when large-scale desertions have hit it in various states.

Therefore, merely appointing some people now cannot help since it should begin afresh through a nationwide membership drive. Again, there are those who believe that Priyanka can revive the Congress and galvanise the dejected rank and file because the party faithful believe she has the looks that translates into qualities of her late grandmother Indira Gandhi. Rahul and Sonia have been tied down to the National Herald case by the acerbic Subramaniam Swamy. If ever, Priyanka were to lead the party’s campaign in UP, the alleged Vadra scams would certainly get the unwanted negative publicity. A national fortnightly, in a recent feature listed several plus and minuses that the Congress faces vis-à-vis its very survival as a national alternative to the BJP. The magazine had pitched for a lesser role for the Gandhis who could still play the role of guide to the party. Unfortunately, the Congress like the ostrich, does not seem to see that its leaders without followers is a futility. All these only lead to the conclusion that the bankruptcy of credible leadership qualities and relevancy in the Congress is only going to hasten the process fulfilling the ‘Congress-mukt Bharat’ vow of the RSS/BJP.

DailyDevotion The Never-forsaking God He Himself has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.” —Hebrews 13:5 What line of thinking do my thoughts take? Do I turn to what God says or to my own fears? Am I simply repeating what God says, or am I learning to truly hear Him and then to respond after I have heard what He says? “For He Himself has said, ‘I will never leave you nor forsake you.’ So we may boldly say: ‘The Lord is my helper; I will not fear. What can man do to me?’ ” (Hebrews 13:5-6).

“I will never leave you…”— not for any reason; not my sin, selfishness, stubbornness, nor waywardness. Have I really let God say to me that He will never leave me? If I have not truly heard this assurance of God, then let me listen again.

“I will never…forsake you.” Sometimes it is not the difficulty of life but the drudgery of it that makes me think God will forsake me. When there is no major difficulty to overcome, no vision from God, nothing wonderful or beautiful— just the everyday activities of life— do I hear God’s assurance even in these?

We have the idea that God is going to do some exceptional thing— that He is preparing and equipping us for some extraordinary work in the future. But as we grow in His grace we find that God is glorifying Himself here and now, at this very moment. If we have God’s assurance behind us, the most amazing strength becomes ours, and we learn to sing, glorifying Him even in the ordinary days and ways of life.

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To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks. ~ Ben Jonson

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World Environment Day 2016 (Go wild for life) O

rganized illegal wildlife across the world has undoubtedly threatened the existence of many wild species across the globe, and many animal species are pushed to the brink of extinction due to uncontrolled human greed. The menace of illegal hunting, poaching and trade of animal products is not confined to few countries alone; it is an international phenomenon, as such collective global efforts are necessary to curb the menace.

The preamble to Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild fauna and Flora (CITES) of which India is a party states that “wild fauna and flora in their many beautiful and varied forms are an irreplaceable part of the natural systems of the earth which must be protected for this and the generations to come;and that peoples and States are and should be the best protectors of their own wild fauna and flora.”

India has a comprehensive legal and policy framework to regulate and restrict illegal wildlife trade and activities. The Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972 amended in 2013 prohibits trade in over 1800 species of wild animals, plants and their derivatives. However, despite having such strong regulations, poaching and illegal trade are found widespread across many wild species including ivory, Rhino horn, deer antlers, skin, bones and claws of big cats, mongoose hair, snake skins, turtle shells, bear gallbladder, birds of different kinds, medicinal plants, timber and high value wood like sandalwood, rosewood etc. All these wildlife crime endangers many iconic animals like tiger, elephants, rhinos etc. all over the world.

Against such backdrop, “Go wild for Life” the theme for this year world environment day (WED) conveys message of zero tolerance for the illegal wildlife trade across the world. The theme alsoencourages citizens across the globe to take action and safeguard all species that are under threat due to habitat loss, ecological imbalances, territorial conflicts with humans, poaching, illegal trade, hunting for food etc. The Red List of threatened species published by the international union for conservation of nature (IUCN) reveals that 41 percent of amphibians, 33 percent of reef building corals, 34 percent of conifers, 25 percent of mammals and 13 percent of birds are threatened with extinction. The WED 2016 campaign, therefore, aims to raise awareness and encourages people to change their habits to reduce demand for illegal wildlife products, and to press friends, colleagues and officials to do what they can to stop the trade.

The UNEP-WED campaign observed that the booming illegal trade in wildlife products is eroding Earth’s precious biodiversity, robbing us of our natural heritage and pushing whole species toward extinction. The killing and smuggling activities are also undermining economies, fuelling organized crime, and feeding corruption and insecurity across the globe. Lamenting on the degrading natural environments, Julia M Lefevre, Director General of the IUCN, says “A

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am constrained to give this press release in view of the misinformation given by the Honble MP,Lok Sabha , Nagaland Mr.Neiphiu Rio , to his audience at the 3rd d June meeting held in Delhi ,whereby he had alleged that the legal case filed on the fake certificate issue has been done to equate him with the graduate degree controversy on the sitting Chief Minister Mr Zeliang.

The instant case of the fake and false certificate of BA Honours used by the Honble MP is a Criminal Complaint filed by me through my lawyers A. Zhimomi and other Advocates against Mr. N.Rio, the accused/respondent under sections 417,463/465/466/468/471 of the Indian Penal Code, read with section 125 A of the Representation of People’s Act, 1951,issue of process thereon and punishment of the accused /respondent in accordance with law.

The complaint is filed against Mr. Neiphiu Rio on the ground that he had filed false statements in the affidavit along with the nomination papers during the Election to the Lok Sabha which took place on 9.4.2014. It is stated that that he had obtained the fake educational certificate from Kohima College and used it to enhance his image in the public record and before the people of the state,thereby committing offences under sections 417,463/465/466/468/471 and 174 of the IPC ,r/w the section 125 A of the Representation of People’s Act ,1951. An application for condonation of delay has also been filed to meet the ends of Justice. Notice has been issued to the respondent and he has asked for time twice, which has been granted. The matter is fixed for 26th June.

This case has not been filed with any vested interest on the political scenario, but as an academic and social activist, it is a case of the law being applicable to everyone, irrespective of status, as far as false and fake educational certificates are concerned.

Dr. Rosemary Dzuvichu, Kohima

sustainable future cannot be achieved without conserving biological diversityanimal and plant species, their habitats and their genes- not only for nature itself, but also for all 7 billion people who depend on it”.

Illegal trade in wildlife is estimated to worth around $15-20 billion annually.

Many majestic animals have become victim of illegal traders and poachers.

Study shows that World tiger population has fallen by 97 percent from 1,00,000 to 3900 in the last century. As per the tiger census report released on March 2011 by the National Tiger Conservation Authority, India is home to around half of the world tiger population estimated at around1700.Orangutan numbers has also declined by 50 percent in the last 60 years, mainly because of habitat loss. Orangutans are born with natural ability to reason and think. This large, gentle red Ape is one of human closest relatives, sharing nearly 97% of the same DNA. Another close relative of humans, Chimpanzees, is now extinct in Gambia, Burkina Faso and Togo. Chimpanzees are the most social of all the apes and they are among the largest-brained, and most intelligent of primates. Around 6,000 chimpanzees are being killed and eaten by humans every year.

Rhino is another animal that is facing extremethreat due to illegal poaching. According to the IUCN,Poachers in Africa killed at least 1,338 rhinos in 2015. In Kaziranga National park Assam alone, 123 Rhinos have been killed by poachers between 2006 and 2015. The sanctuary, which hosts two-thirds of the world’s great one-horned rhinoceroses, is a World Heritage Site, and is abode to some 2400 Rhinos. Another majestic giant, the African Elephants, are under constant threat from illegal poachers and estimates shows that some 100,000 African elephants are killed between 2010 and 2012 out of a population estimate of 500,000. This enormous mammal is targeted mainly because both sexes are tusk bearing and its two elongated tusks can grow up to 9 feet in length.

Back home, the Intangki wild life sanctuary has been in the news recently with the Morung Express reporting that the Park in Peren district is fast diminishing under the axe of illegal logging.

Several syndicate groups having nexus with underground factions are said to be operating the lucrative illegal logging activities which has reportedly denuded major parts of the forests. Rangapahar reserve forest of Nagaland has been reduced to a mere 300 acres from the original 21,768 acres, reports the editorial of Nagaland Oost in its June 4th edition.

The shrinking of the reserve forests has been attributed to illegal encroachment by nearby villagers and citizens, weak and corrupt governance etc.

And despite the blanket ban on selling of wildlife products in the state, varieties of wildlife products are being sold in the streets and markets across the state. Kohima and Dimapur have become the haven for illegal trade of

wildlife products where wildlife products are sold at an exorbitant rate affordable only to the elite few. However, a behavioral change is also in the offing with the educated and concerned citizens choosing to act differently and to live sustainably.

The state government Ministers and MLAs have also decided not to accept wildlife gifts and presents. A small start but it certainly sends strong message to the general populace to keep the wild in the wild. Walking the talk, Er. Levi Rengma, the then deputy Speaker of NLA has donated two endangered civet cats and a barking deer, he received as a gift, to the Nagaland Zoological Park, as he feared that the endangered species could be killed for consumption had it land somewhere else. Such noble acts are being emulated and the conservation efforts in the state are gaining momentum day by day.

Amur Falcons, the honored guest of the state, were once slaughtered, killed, hunted and trapped in thousands. But for three years in a row since 2013, the birds can soar high in the state without the fear of being hit by a catapult or an air rifle, due to the conservation efforts of the state, NGOs and the villagers of nearby Doyang and Pangti. The success story of Amur Falcon conservation in the state testify to the fact that people have the power to change and to change for good, provided proper awareness are created under the control of the rule of law.

The Nagaland Baptist Churches Association has made three resolutions in February 2011 to initiate climate change adaptation strategies, and work closely with the community leaders for addressing the environment alarm; Abstain from using jungle meat during NBCC and churches gatherings. These resolutions bears significance as Nagaland is a Christian predominant state and Churches in Nagaland have ample opportunity and the platform to educate its members on numerous environmental issues. Pope Francis, the current Pope, has alsosend strong voice to the global community that “Climate change is a problem which can no longer be left to a future generation,” and further adds that “any harm done to the environment, therefore, is harm done to humanity,” Therefore, as the world celebrates world environment day,let us all celebrate the richness of the bio and species diversity which are the building blocks of nature and life. At the same time, let us look around us and ponder on the number of species that have become extinct in our generation, the vanishing of birds and animals, the rivers that have been cleansed by chemicals and explosives, the forests that have been degraded due to illegal logging and, if required, change our habits and behavior so that our collective efforts of conservation and sustainable lifestyles may bear fruits for the generations to come.

“Conserve to Sustain” N Janbemo Humtsoe, Director, Green Foundation & Climate Reality Leader

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ndustrial civilization polluted the world and environment has become anti-human beings. Trees were eliminated one by one. Not even a single tree under which we played tirelessly could escape the axe of humans. Today, there is no tree for the children to play under, nor dies any child want to play under a tree. Trees and plants and birds and squirrels and winds have no place in the lives of children. Humans and non-humans shared the fruits of the trees and it was a more or less sustainable way of living.

We have completely alienated ourselves from our surroundings, from the natural world. Rains play truant, temperature soars higher and higher, clean water supply depletes further and further and fresh air becomes a rarity. The world’s practice today is exactly the opposite for many to Gandhi famous quote, “The earth, the air, the land and the water are not an inheritance from our forefathers but on loan from our children.

So we have to hand over to them at least as it was handed over to us.” Due to human beings’ antienvironment activities drought, low precipitation, high temperatures, melting glaciers, increasing warm nights and rising sea levels are some of the consequences which are frequently occurring in the world. The universal drive for higher incomes in the face of mounting environmental destruction has heightened the expressed tension between fast growth and environmental protection.

The perception of a trade-off between the two goals rests on the view often held- wronglythat environmental protection, not environmental degradation, is the obstacle to rapid growth.

The reality, however, is that it will not be possible to sustain high growth in the coming years without environmental care.

The reason is that we are facing a twin crisis- economic and environmental – and the two are highly interlinked. The spike in food prices, signals in good measure, pressures on production that are exacerbated by the deleterious effects of environmental devastation and climate change. While some may set aside the global risks of climate change as being distant, recent extreme weather events point to changes that may already be upon us.

To be clear, sustained growth has been the most powerful means to reduce poverty, especially in China, India and elsewhere in Asia. China’s growth averaged 10 per cent yearly for the past 25 years, lifting some 400 million people out of poverty. Developing countries need to a grow deal: their average income are onefourth that of rich nations.

That said, climate change presents the greatest threat to sustaining high growth. In the past 100 years, the world economy expanded sevenfold, the global population increased from 1.6 billion to 6.5 billion and the world lost half of its tropical forests. Consequently, atmospheric corbon dioxide levels are now 385 parts per million (ppm) and rising fast National economies are already seeing the effects of climate on local agriculture. Natural disasters are on the rise: remarkably it is the hydro-meteorological events, notthe geological ones that have shot up, suggesting the ominious link to global warming.

The proximate reason for the doubling of wheat prices over the past year is the collapse of production in the former Soviet Union and elsewhere linked to unprecedented heat waves and floods.

The economic costs, including the losses caused by air pollution, water contamination and solid wastes as well as deforestation are estimated to amount to some three per cent of GNP in China as well as India, Argentina, Turkey and elsewhere.

Climate experts found that burning of carbon and its other products by industries and in vehicles injects huge amount of heat into the environment and in turn, affects weather pattern. They said the cyclical pattern of EI Nino and La Nina, have changed due to global warming.

Can we decide to switch off the refrigerators in our house for one hour a day? Can we make a conscious effort to make the maximum use of sunlight by switching off lights during the day? Can we sacrifice the air-conditioners in the car for at least two days a week (excluding Saturday/Sunday)? Can we walk when we can walk and not drive?

Could we be nice enough to ask neighbour to pool car for work?

Can we be bold enough to use the public conveyance for work once a week? Can we stick to the good old landing telephone and use mobiles only when absolutely necessary?

Can we keep the same mobiles for longer years, thereby reducing E-waste? Can we switch off the computer when we leave the table? The list could go on.... but, the question is whether we can. If you cannot, please do not expect that environmental degradation will get checked.

Should we do? If one person moves, nothing happens, but if a billion people act, the earth will move in the right direction.

Come let us try.

Prof. Mithilesh Kumar Sinha, NU Lumami

Judicial Inquiry Commission on March 5 incident

(From previous issue) (vi) Watch towers: Though it is very common to provide watch towers in all the corners of the jail campus their proper utilization has not been ensured. The security persons manning such watch towers are not provided with high tech gadgets, such as walkie-talkies, security alarms and DVR monitors etc. Providing all these equipments in the watch towers will help in controlling any untoward incident inside the jail campus. (vii) Riot control equipments: The incident of March 5, 2015 could have been prevented had there been sufficient number of water cannons, tear gas, grenade guns, rubber bullet guns, protective shields, helmets, bullet proof vehicles and batons with security personnel. From the evidence of the witnesses it appears that only one water cannon was available under Dimapur DEF but the said water cannon could not be sent to the site as the roads were blocked by the protestors. Similarly, the security personnel were also short of riot control equipments and non-use of available equipments for want of orders from senior police and executive officers.

It is different issue as to why there was no order for heavy lathi charge, continues bursting of tear gas shells and firing upon the crowd. Hence, storage of all varieties of “Riot control equipments” in limited number in all the police stations and also inside the jail campus is advisable for use in emergency. Such equipments may be used by jail staff and also by the security personnel to prevent sudden riot in public places and also in the jail campus.

B-Training Training to the government officers is as important as formal education to run the administration. Without continuous training the officers become weapons without ammunition. In such training courses and seminars the officers get an exposure to know how difficult situations can be dealt with. The officers also get the opportunity of viewing visual of riot control techniques adopted at other places and sometime practical demonstrations are also given.

As a whole, training gives different ideas to the officers to deal with violent mob/ crowd, which has become every day’s affair. Involving officers in the conferences and seminars boost the confidence and authority level of the officers and also educate them about the use of science and new technologies. Along with the training the officers can also be sent on deputation to other states, who can import new ideas for their home state.

During their oral evidence before the commission many officers admitted that they had on occasion to attend training and conferences and more particularly in the field of “crowd management”. The incident that took place at the central jail at Dimapur on March 5, 2015 could have been dealt with more professionally had the police and executive officers were given the opportunity to undergo correctional courses with regard to controlling mob violence. In comparison to large scale mob violence seen in other parts of the country the violent protest that took place at Dimapur March 5, 2015 can be termed as mini size protest, comprising of few thousand students of whom majority were girl students. Despite this fact, both civil and police administration of Nagaland failed to maintain law and order and despite availability of security forces in adequate strength they could not prevent the crowd in abducting the rape accused Sarif Khan from inside the jail. The executive officers and security forces appear to have surrendered before the small crowd for no valid reasons. They could not muster the requisite courage to exercise powers vested with them under the law. Had the officers given outside exposure they could faced the situation more professionally and efficiently.

Hence, the commission recommends that both executive and police officers should be given regular training to apprise them the development of law, technology, skills of crowd management, their powers and limitations to use force to disperse crowd in particular and also to get knowledge of high-tech gadgets and their effective use to deal with changing scenario in the form of organized and unorganized mob violence.

C-transfer policy of the officers What has transpired from the statements and oral evidence of the witnesses, the life of accused Sarif Khan could not be saved and the trespass of anti-social elements deep inside the central jail could not be prevented due to lack of devotion in the duty by the administrative and police officers. Though the protestors took more than two hours to reach the central jail from the City Tower and took more than three hours in breaking the jail gates and taking away the raped accused the government officers could not prevent them in violating the prohibitory order with impunity. In this way, the students and other hooligans made a mockery of the statutory order passed by the district magistrate under section 144 CrPc and the crowd also seems to have undermined and challenged the power and

authority of the government. and kill him in public view is not Both the executive and police a healthy sign in the context of officers seems to have surren- law and order of a state. dered before small crowd and (To be concluded) utterly failed to maintain law Veprasa Nyekha, Member, and order. Allowing a crowd Judicial Inquiry Commisto defy prohibitory order with impunity and enter a highly sion & Justice B D Agarwal (Retd), Chairman, Judicial secured place like central jail Inquiry Commission and forcibly snatching a prisoner

Reader’s Post

Imbroglio of education department

Sir,

It is disturbing that the problems simmering in the School education department is assuming ugly proportion. The ANSTA and NSSFOF may have some genuine grievances which need to be looked into but opposing the composite school policy and resorting to personal attack on the school education minister is, to me unfair.

Composite schools policy is going to solve the biggest problem faced by government schools in Nagaland that is the shortage of teachers.

The minister has a clear vision on this and he has put his weight behind it knowing fully well it is not going to be popular with some section but it is clear that there is no politic here. He should be appreciated for taking a bold step. Composite schools system has worked well in rural areas throughout the country and it has worked so well in all CBSE and ICSE schools and many NBSE schools in Nagaland. To my limited knowledge, the National school education policy there is elementary education for 6 to 14 years or class 1 to VIII and secondary education for 12 to 18 years or class IX to XII and if any bifurcation is to be effected it has to be in that linebut right now the time is not just right. Modalities need to be worked out first according to our situation and it is not a thing to be done under pressure. Forsure, bifurcation is not the answer to the ills that is afflicting the government schools ratherit will deprive the students their right of good education. Moreover it will create more chaos as more schools are upgraded because the number of schools will not remain static.The students in government schools have suffered enough for no fault of their own and by infighting we are rubbing salt into their wounds which they don’t deserve at all from the teachers.

The school is there because of the students and not because teachers are appointed.The composite school system whether it is up to class X or XII is the best bet available at the moment which will improve the dismal performance of government schools. The advantage of composite school system is that the teachers in the secondary section can cover the lapse in the primary section and even vice versa and this should not be considered as interference. There is no turf war here but the interest of the student is paramount.It appears that there are some serious flaw in the service rules pertaining to promotion and cadre management as pointed out by ANSTA on 25th issue of Nagaland Page and also by NGHSSE on 3rd June issue of Eastern Mirror. The deparment should be able to address these issues short of bifurcation. I feel that it is high time that the NSF and other tribal students unions take a stand on the composite school policy before this important initiative become politicised.

Dr. C. Tetseo, 4th Mile Dimapur

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 sunday, June 5, 2016

‘People becoming intolerant due to differences between places’

to be raising any words of convenience were treated as ignored,” she said. “We will have to keep the tolerance.

We cannot allow the intolerance of the rich dictate the way we design our new and our old world.” Discussing on government achievements in terms of environmental protection, Narain slammed Modi government, for doing nothing in terms of building air quality monitoring stations in the past two years.

“Delhi has 17 stations to monitor air quality. Gurgaon, Noida and Ghaziabad does not have even a single monitoring station. For two years this government has been talking about improving monitoring but not a single new station has come up. And if we build, we do not have people to run it.

We do not have the technical capacity,” she said.

Narain’s new quasi-autobiographical collection of writings, the book is a case for environmentalism of the poor and asserts they must be at the core of the sustainable development agenda.

Commenting on the book, Chengappa said it is a work of genius as Narain has deal with A to Z of environmental issues like asking troubling questions, challenging the establishment and demanding a new sustainable order.

Sunita Narain

the world, that we are actually becoming more and more intolerant, Narain said.

Explaining intolerance, she said it has become difficult to put forth an inconvenient message as people today live in a “bubble wrap” where they only listen to what they want. “Today we are more and more ‘bubble rapped’ in the views that we would like to listen and that is all we want to listen. The world conversation has changed in such a manner that it is almost difficult to get an inconvenient message out,” she said. The intolerance was also evident during the recent Paris Climate Change meet where countries including India who tried to voice inconvenient messages were demeanised, she claimed. “At Paris any narrative which was inconvenient was not there at all. Countries who were seen

BSEB cancels result of Class 12 science toppers

FOR CLASS XI & XII LADIES ADMISSION OPEN

DEEHA: Joint council of DEEHA (Dubagaon, Ekranipathar, Eralibill, K. Hollohon Colony & Aoyimti village) in its emergency meeting at Eralibill village deliberated at length the illegal and unauthorized raid carried out at the residence of Akashe Z. Zhimomi GB, by personnel from East Police Station and IRB. A press release by DEEHA chairman, N. Meren Yaden and secretary Shekishe Achumi stated that the forum while taking a serious note over the raid conducted at the residence of a responsible GB who was also a social worker has questioned the manner in which the raid was carried out.

It stated that the joint council in the course of discussion reminded the concern that Akashe K. Zhimomi GB was a banker of a forum whose healthy contribution towards the society was beyond immeasurable.

It further adopted a resolution condemning the ruckus/raid while also wondered as to how a responsible law enforcing agency without any warrant could behave in such an inhuman way by forcefully entering the house and searching for a responsible person who does not have any adverse remark or criminal records.

DEEHA has vehemently condemned the act of law enforcing agency in carrying out the raid in the absence of Akashe k. Zhimomi and his wife thereby creating fear psychosis in the

minds of the family members and the general public at large.

The joint council further appealed to the government to take appropriate action/suspend the responsible officer under whose command the raid was carried out without delay in order to prevent any further untoward incident.

EVC: Eralibill Village Council (EVC) has condemned the “high handedness” of the personnel of East Police Station and IRB jawans involved in raiding the house of GB Eralibill, Akashe K. Zhimomi, on June 3 without warrant and without any information to the village authority.

In a condemnation note, EVC stated that Akashe was a respectable and law abiding citizen with a clean image in society, and demanded to know the reason behind the raid and under whose command it was carried out.

Maintaining that the raid had defamed the GB and the image of Eralibill village in general, the council voiced its concern over the safety of general public when the GB’s residence could be raided in such manner.

Further, EVC demanded from the concern authority to suspend the responsible officer immediately to avoid untoward incident for sending wrong message to the general public and for causing unnecessary harassment.

“Such action of law abiding agency

should be condemned by every right thinking citizens,” EVC maintained.

HRUD: Hoshepu Range Union Dimapur (HRUD) has condemned the police raid on its chairman’s, Akashe K. Zhimomi, residence at Eralibill village Dimapur.

In a condemnation note, the union demanded from the Government to clarify the informer and position of the personnel of East Police Station who raided the house in the owner’s absence.

The union also questioned the motive of the law enforcement agency who carried out the raid without a warrant.

Further, the Union appealed to the concerned authority to take necessary action without delay.

AAUD:Aghunato areami union (A.A.U.D) has condemned the action of a police officer and his jawans from east police for barging in and ransacking the residence of one of its bonafide member and banker of AAUD, GB Eralibill, Akashe Zhimo, on June 3 around 5 p.m.

In a condemnation note, The AAUD questioned the officer as to who gave the search order without any search warrant and also barging in the absence of the both the parents.

In this regard, AAUD appealed the higher authority to give befitting and stern punishment to officer involved.

Digitalization of cable TV- internet broadband launched in Mkg DIMAPUR: Digital Cable TV and internet broadband service was formally launched in Mokokchung Town on June 3, thereby bringing Mokokchung District into the map of Cable TV digitalization in the country.

According to DIPR report, even though the schedule for phase III digitization of Cable TV networks in all urban areas in the country was set on December 31, 2015 as the last date, yet the mammoth exercise could not be completed on schedule.

At the launching programme, I. Temsu Jamir, owner of Mokokchung channel and local cable operator, said it was just a starter towards digital cable T.V in Mokokchung and expressed apprehension that there must

be teething problems initially.

He, however, was optimistic of overcoming hurdles through joint efforts of Symbios, Global Chapter, and Mokokchung Channel.

Delivering the key note address, managing director, Symbios Private Ltd, Mongkum Jamir said Symbios was the only broadband internet service provider other than BSNL in the state who have laid optic fibre cables for the purpose. He said Symbios was looking forward to make joint efforts in the IT fields for the welfare of customers. The digital cable T.V and internet Broadband service was formally launched by president, Mokokchung Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Tsukti Lkr. Mokokchung Channel presented a Set Top

Box and Broadband internet router to the Mokokchung Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

Launching of digital Cable TV in Mokokchung town would enable efficient utilization of the spectrum bandwidth available on Cable and would drastically enhance the capacity to carry channels on cable. It also brings in transparency as the signals of the cable operator

were encrypted and could be received only through a Set Top Box (STB) after authorization from the service provider.

It may be mentioned that the digital cable T.V and internet Broadband service in Mokokchung Town became a reality following collaboration between Symbiosis Private Ltd, Global Chapter, Dimapur and Mokokchung Channel.

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(From p-1) They said a written assurance was sought from the chief minister, but he assured the members that “they were going back with the chief minister’s package.” The two associations have, however, warned that in the event of failure on the part of government to address the issue within the stipulated time as assured, with NSF team being the witness, they would resume the agitation “in an intensified form” without further information.

Meanwhile, ANSTA and NSSFOF have informed all the responsible members to resume their duties from June 6, 2016 onwards. The central executives and the core committee have expressed gratitude to all the members for taking part in the phase-I and phase-II agitation.

and third topper Rahul Kumar have been cancelled by the board on the basis of result of the re-test. Both have failed in the re-test,” he said.

The Bihar government on Saturday received a report on a re-assessment of 13 of 14 toppers of Class 12 examination which was meant to find out if they really deserved their high grades or had cheated their way to the top.

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ANSTA, NSSFOF protest temporarily suspended

PATNA, JUN 4 (IANS): Bihar School Examination Board (BSEB) on Saturday cancelled the result of first and third toppers in the science stream as both failed their re-test and decided to give another chance to the arts topper to appear for a re-test on June 11, officials said.

BSEB chairman Lalkeshwar Prasad told media here that the government has also cancelled the recognition of Vinshu Rai College in Vaishali district where the two toppers, who failed in the re-test, were students.

“Result of Class 12 Science topper Saurabh Shreshtha

ference (USSC) has temporarily suspended its ongoing phase wise agitation following written assurance from minister of school education and SCERT. In a press release, USSC executive secretary Yangdipi Sangtam stated that the minister has assured to take up with utmost priority the issue of SDEO office at Longkhim in restructuring and revamping of department, which was already in progress. Meanwhile, the USSC has expressed appreciation to the minister for understanding the reality of demand and having concern for Longkhim sub-division and Sangtam community.

Organisations condemn raid at GB’s residence

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BENGALURU, JUN 4 (PTI): Holding out warnings of strict action and promises to meet their demands, Karnataka government today thwarted a planned protest by constabulary to go on a mass leave. Police personnel who had threatened to go on leave protesting alleged “harassment” by senior officials, lesser pay and no proper leave were in attendance for work, officials said.

CAPF appeals

DIMAPUR: Informing that the Government High School Chessore (GHSC) has been rendered almost “defunct” due to lack of teachers, the Chessore Area Public Forum (CAPF) has expressed strong resentment towards the Department of School Education (DoSE) for ignoring their genuine demand for deployment of required teachers at GHSC. In a press note, advisor, CAPF, Wongdong, and general secretary, k.keyoungkhum, stated that despite persistent appeals through media representation, DoSE did not take any action to their demands.

Stating that the institution was facing acute shortage of teachers for a long time owing to “immense transfer”, retirement, and non-deployment of teachers thus far, CAPF claimed students’ career were at stake as not even a single chapter has been started for maths and science for the forthcoming midterm exam. “The lackadaisical attitude of DoSE has a great impact on the HSLC poor result of GHSC,” CAPF added.

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NEW DELHI, JUN 4 (PTI): Environment activist Sunita Narain Saturday questioned the government’s smart city project, saying it is being implemented in areas which are already developed and argued that people are becoming increasingly intolerant due to enormous differences created between places.

Taking up the case of Lutyens Delhi, which will be developed as one of the smart cities by the government, she said 30 per cent of its land area is forest and is biggest gated community of the country.

She was speaking at a panel discussion participated panelist including Niti Ayog Member Bibek Debroy, India Today Editorial Director Raj Chengappa and NDTV’s Ravish Kumar. “I called it ‘Lutayan’ (Lutneys) Delhi.

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Whereas Smti. Heshili Sumi wife of Late Nikheto Sema, Hd. DB of Yangzitong Village has applied for issue of Succession Certificate under the Indian Succession Act 1925 in order to draw/receive the payments of movable/immovable properties of her husband Late Nikheto Sema, Hd. DB under the establishment of Additional Deputy Commissioner Office Pungro, Nagaland, who expired on 21/05/2016.

Public are hereby asked to file objection/claim if any within 30 (Thirty) days from the date of issue of this order. If no objection/claim is received within the given time, Succession Certificate will be issued in favour of the applicant.

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GOVERNMENT OF NAGALAND OFFICE OF THE DEPUTY COMMISSIONER PEREN : NAGALAND OBJECTION NOTICE NO.PRN/JUD-5/SC/PT-I/2016/18 Dated Peren the 25th May 2016 Smti. Keleule W/o Late Peiding has applied for issue of Succession Certificate in her name to draw pension P.P.O. No - 111608440/SBI Account No. 11596926359.

Public are hereby invited to file claims/objections within 30(Thirty) days w.e.f. date of publication in local papers. If no objection is received from the public within the stipulated time, the Succession Certificate shall be issued in her name.

(Zarenthung Ezung) Deputy Commissioner, Peren : Nagaland

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GOVERNMENT OF NAGALAND OFFICE OF THE DEPUTY COMMISSIONER LONGLENG : NAGALAND

Dated Longleng the 2-6-2016

NOTIFICATION

Center Point Girl’s Hostel

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at Vidima Village

At Kiyeto Village about 1 Km from Razhaphe Basa gate, 100m away from main road, 30 mints away from 7th Mile, Chumukedima New D.C Court - 100000 S/F, Rs. 20 per S/F. Phone No : 8974642198.

No. 2799 Yesterday’s solution No. 2798

Contact : 8415834199 8257945793

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LAND FOR SALE

No. 8177 Yesterday’s solution No. 8176

For Ladies (Students & Employees)

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Drive Away

1st Floor Near Oking Hospital Phoolbari, Kohima

Near Axis Bank Half Nagarjan

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ADMISSION GOING ON FOR DRIVING CLASSES

No : 03702241006/9856072086 &

VILU'S PAYING GUEST

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KOHIMA

Contact : 8730864111

Mero Complex, Basement Opposite PHQ, P.R. Hill,

Newly Opened BEERSHEBA WORKING WOMEN HOSTEL/PAYING GUEST

COLLEGE GOING, TRAINERS & WORKING WOMEN Contact : 08415084943 09856794302 DP-2892

ADMISSION OPENED FOR B.Ed

Pharmacy Staff

Trendz Hair & Beauty Salon

For Girls @ Midland, Dimapur With Good Hygienic Food.

Ph:+919089353673/9856320713

LAND FOR SALE at Khushiabill Village, Dimapur near Sumi Baptist Church with boundary wall and gate no earth filling require 155 p/sq ft.

No Broker (Price Negotiable) Contact : 8014533846

LAND FOR SALE at Padum Phukri

5 (Five) Bighas 180 Sq. Ft. 80 x 80 & Rs.15 lakhs Contact No : 8794324453 8794142943

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I, Smti. Lhoucalieü am applying for duplicate copy of Pension Payment Order Book Bearing No. 44236 as I have lost it.

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I, Shri. Mhonyamo W Kithan am applying for a duplicate copy of HSLC Marksheet, Admit Card and Passed Certificate as I have lost them.

Name : Mhonyamo W Kithan F/Name : Wochumo Kithan D.O.B : 14/10/1987 Roll No : 06-0770209EN33 HSLC : Year 2017 Result : Passed Position : 3rd Div. School : GHS Sungro Contact : 9862287227

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KOHIMA, JUN 4 (NPN): Basement Empire (BE), an event management organization based in Kohima was launched by former chief secretary, Alemtemshi Jamir, IAS retired at the Heritage, Old DC bungalow, Saturday evening.

Speaking at the launch Alemtemshi lamented on the lack of economy and industrial sector in the state. He opined that “vision for Nagaland” would be to start from scratch by moving towards commercial productivity then to packaging and to small-scale industry.

Alemtemshi further underlined on the potential of setting up IT service sectors for time being in order to boost the state’s economy, before agri and allied sector come up.

While congratulating the proprietor of BE, he hoped that more young people would venture into entrepreneurship.

Proprietor BE, Imtizulu Jamir appraised that the organization deals with event management in a multi-cultural manner based on trending activities.

He said that BE was launched with the specific agenda to overcome lack of entertainment in the society through event organization of various forms. Jamir informed that pop-culture summit 2016 in December is in the pipeline. The organization would also be organizing sub-events such as cosplay, seminar on environmental and political awareness, art and fitness exhibitions, food sales, talk shows, athletic programs, gaming tournaments etc.

at 4th Mile, Dimapur Contact : 8415983322 9612729738 DP-2832

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Finder may please Contact : 8415893512 8974190991

NOTICE

Circuit House Colony Near Super Market FREE ADMISSION

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20 % DISCOUNT On Services : 1. Straightening/Perming 2. Hair Colouring 3. Facial 4. Body Spa & Body Polishing

New & Free

Hostel & PG Accommodation

Near Rotary Club, Midland, Dimapur.

Seat Booking : 8413939729/8414045052

I, Mr. O. Tiakümzxük Phom P/Teacher, have lost my bag containing documents A/C, Book, ATM Card and Driving License, while proceeding Dimapur.

GOVERNMENT OF NAGALAND OFFICE OF THE DEPUTY COMMISSIONER KIPHIRE : NAGALAND NO. DC/KPE/JUD-11/2012-13/291 Dated Kiphire, the 2nd June' 2016

# 094351-08119, 090851-41429, 094351-40489, 0361-2465225.

NEWLY OPENED PAYING GUEST

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For New Learners at

NEIHAS, GUWAHATI

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PHONE : 1. 9856761882 2. 9856326344

ADMISSION OPEN

Correspondent

SALT CHRISTIAN COLLEGE OF TEACHER EDUCATION

100% job oriented - UGC/AICTE/ Govt. Recognised/10 th Year/29 th Batch/ Approved Curriculum; LABORATORY T E C H N O LO GY ( C M LT / D M LT ) / PHYSIOTHERAPY(CPT/DPT)/ X R AY ( D M R I T ) / N U R S I N G / ECG/OPTOMETRY/RMP(AM) Fa c i l i t i e s : E x p e r i e n c e d Fa c u l t i e s / Integrated Campus/Separate Hostels/ Book Bank/Hospital Training/Placement Cell/150+ Nagaland students/Govt.

Scholarships.

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Alemtemshi Jamir and Imtizulu Jamir. (NP)

EDUCATION Admission for Degree/Diploma Engineering Course-Civil.

(Eligibility10th/12th PCM/PCB) (MHRD/AICTE/UPSC/Govt. of Nagaland)- Sankardev Institute Of Engineering & Management, Jalukbari, Guwahati-14# 09864780306/095080-24488

IMPORTED DESIGNER WEDDING GOWNS

THREADS BOUTIQUE

Permitted by Govt. of Assam Affiliated to Dibrugarh University

A house maid has been missing since June 3, around 10 pm from Chekiye Village, Dimapur. Any information regarding the missing person will be appreciated.

Name: Saholi Age: 22 Height: 5 ‘2 Complexion: Dark Last seen in red blouse and black pants.

Kindly contact at 9436009672 for any information.

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Alemtemshi launches ‘Basement Empire’

India would be utilised for the welfare of the people of both India and Bangladesh.”

Stressing the need for Multi-Model Transport Connectivity, the Bangladeshi minister said that the natural resources of northeast India with their value addition can boost the economy of both sides.

The Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry (Assocham) in association with the Tripura Industry Department organised the day long Investment Summit.

Amu in his written speech in Bengali said that there is enormous scope for setting up of many hydelpower projects in northeast India, and that this power could be exported to Bangladesh or other parts of India via Bangladesh.

“The Bangladesh government is also keen to set up joint venture hydel power plants with India,” he said, adding that all problems in increasing trade and business ties between India and Bangladesh must be removed.

Accra, Jun 4 (IANS): Africa’s $1 trillion agriculture sector is seeking suitors and a report has already been drawn up on how India can benefit.

“The agricultural sector is regarded as one of the most critical industries for the African continent due to economic potential and is projected to become a $1 trillion industry in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) by 2030,” a Price Waterhouse Coopers (PwC) report said.

It came following a survey of respondents, 58.8 per cent of whom consider “investment in Africa as an opportunity for their businesses to expand”.

They named the top four countries they are planning to invest in as Zambia, Botswana, Tanzania and South Africa which all fall in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region. And, as the Exim Bank of India is keen to direct more Indian investment to the SADC region, it looks like more emphasis would have to be put on agriculture and agribusiness. The study has also identified natural resources, agriculture, manufacturing and infrastructure as holding potential for Indian investors in the SADC region.

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said that Bangladesh imported goods worth of $6 billion from India in 2013-14 while it exported to India commodities valued at $456 million in the same year.

In 2014-15, according to the minister, Bangladesh imported goods worth of $5.8 billion from India and exported 98 items including fish, egg, milk products, electrical goods, horticultural and agricultural items, fruits, plastic and ceramic goods worth $527 million to India.

Amu said: “Bangladesh imported over 3,000 items from India. If India increases its imports from Bangladesh with duty friendly regime then the friendship between the two neighbours would go to new heights.”

“Bangladesh has already taken many steps to improve its rail and road connectivity and setting up of higher diplomatic missions in northeast India”.

“The untapped vast natural resources available in the northeastern region of

Africa’s $1 tn agri MISSING sector opportunity for Indian investors

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Ag a rta l a , J u n 4 (IANS): Bangladesh is keen to develop its industries in a joint venture with India and boost bilateral trade, Bangladesh Industry Minister Alhaz Amir Hossain Amu said here on Saturday.

“India can be an effective, important and liberal partner of Bangladesh in setting up of modern technology-based medium and heavy industries,” the minister said while addressing an industrial investment summit here.

He said if Indian businessmen and investors come forward to set up industries in Bangladesh, the ongoing trade imbalance between the two neighbours would be reduced to a large extent.

Quoting the facts of the Bangladesh Investment Board, Amu said: “There are 98 direct investment and 212 joint investment projects, with the total volume of investment of $3,084.46 million operational in Bangladesh, making scope of employment of 63,300 people.”

The visiting minister

Nagaland Post, Dimapur sunday, june 5, 2016

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B’desh keen on industrial joint ventures with India

business

Whereas, Smti. Chingtoi of Orangkong village/town has applied for issue of Succession Certificate to operate/draw/transfer/ withdraw the Debts & Securities in respect of Late Shri. H. Honglong, who expired on 04-02-2016.

Now therefore, public are hereby asked to file claims/objections, if any within one month from the date of issue of this notice.

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Regd. No. 14(3)

Y. Denngan Avennoho Phom Deputy Commissioner Longleng : Nagaland.

DECLARATION

Date 11.4.16

I, Smti. Latongliu of Jalukie Town under Peren District, Nagaland do hereby solemnly affirmed and declare before the Magistrate on this day, the 11 April 2016 as follows.

1. I am the legal guardian of Jenifer who is also known by Thoidamwiliu.

2. And the legal daughter of Lt. Zianglikamlakbo. Ex. NP. 3. That the name Thoidamwiliu is entered her School records and Jenifer in her late father pension documents.

4. That the name Jenifer and Thoidamwiliu refers to one and the same person.

5. That the above mention declarations are true to the best of my knowledge and belief and signed in the declaration in sound mind and robust health.

Declarant Solemnly declared before me on the 11th day of 04 2016.

Magistrate First Class Peren : Nagaland

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AFFIDAVIT

Date : 4/6/14

I, Shri. Arenkaba Imsong, R/o Padumpukhuri Village, Dimapur : Nagaland do hereby solemnly declare and affirm as follows : 1. That I am a citizen of India resident of the above mentioned address.

2. That I am the legal father of Master Temsumongba Imsong, student of Class-X Pine Mount School, Padumpukhuri, Dimapur : Nagaland.

3. That in all my son's schooling/educational certificate my Title/clan which is Imsong and my wife Title/Clan as Imchen was missed out and entered/ recorded as Arenkaba and as Chubainla.

4. That in my son's Aadhaar Card bearing No. 592848400108, his name was entered as Temsumongpa instead of Temsumongba and without Title/clan Imsong, and my name (Father's name) as Arenkaba Ao. 5. That henceforth my (father)s name shall be used as Arenkaba Imsong and my wife name shall be Chubainla Imchen and my son's name be entered/ recorded as Temsumongba Imsong, in all his educational and official correspondences.

VERIFICATION I, hereby verify that the statements made in paras 1-5 are true and correct to the best of my knowledge and nothing material is concealed herein.

Solemnly sworn before me.

Notary Public DP-2893

IN THE COURT OF MAGISTRATE/NOTARY PUBLIC DIMAPUR : NAGALAND AFFIDAVIT I, Shri Prem Bahadur Chhetri alias Prem Bahadur Kunwar son of Ilak Bahadur Chhetri alias Bal Bahadur Kunwar permanent resident of Village Rengmapani, P.O Dimapur, Dist. Dimapur - 797112, and presently posted at 33 Assam Rifles C/O 99 APO, Nagaland do hereby solemnly affirm ad declare on oath as under :1. That I am a citizen of India and resident of above stated place.

2. That my actual name with title is Prem Bahadur Kunwar but I am also known as Prem Bahadur Chhetri which was entered in my service record.

3. That Prem Bahadur Chhetri and Prem Bahadur Kunwar refers to my name and of one and same person only.

4. That the name of my father is Ilak Bahadur Chhetri but he is also known as Bal Bahadur Kunwar.

5. That Ilak Bahadur Chhetri and Bal Bahadur Kunwar refers to the name of my said father and of one and same persons only.

6. That the name of my mother is Dilli Maya Chhetri but she is also known as Dilli Maya Kunwar. Dilli Maya Chhetri and Dilli Maya Kunwar refers to one and same person only.

7. That my wife was earlier known as Pratima Chhetri now she is known as Pratima Kunwar and Pratima Chhetri and Pratima Kunwar are one and same person only.

8. That the name of my son is Anand Chhetri but he is also known as Anand Kunwar and Anand Chhetri and Anand Kunwar refers to one and same person only.

9. That henceforth I shall be known as Prem Bahadur Kunwar my father shall be known as Bal Bahadur Kunwar and my mother shall be known as Dilli Maya Kunwar, my wife shall be known as Pratima Kunwar and my son shall be known as Anand Kunwar for all purposes and intents.

10. That the statements made above are true and correct to the best on my knowledge and belief and belief and no material fact is concealed therein.

Deponent Solemnly sworn and declared before me on this 2nd Day of June' 2016.

Notary Public Regd. No. 1056/16, Date 2/6/16 DP-2880

Washington, Jun 4 (AFP): The head of the World Health Organisation (WHO) has asked a panel of experts to consider whether the Rio Summer Olympics should be held as scheduled due to concerns it could spread the Zika virus.

The WHO sent teams of senior scientists to Brazil four times “to gather first-hand data on the current situation and assess the level of risk to the large number of athletes and spectators expected to attend the Olympic Summer Games,” Director-General Margaret Chan wrote in a letter dated June 1.

She was responding to a request by US Senator Jeanne Shaheen to evaluate the public health hazards of holding the Games in August.

Shaheen posted Chan’s letter online yesterday.

“Given the current level of international concern, I have decided to ask members of the Zika Emergency Committee to examine the risks of holding the Olympic Summer Games as currently scheduled,” Chan said.

The WHO chief said the experts were due to meet “shortly,” and vowed to post their advice online “imme-

Margaret Chan diately.”

“The Olympic Games draw athletes and spectators from every corner of the globe and it’s important that we understand the global health implications,” Shaheen said in a statement after receiving Chan’s letter.

Experts say Zika is to blame for a surge in cases in Latin America of microcephaly - a serious birth defect in which babies are born with unusually small heads and brains.

WHO said today the emergency committee meeting had already been planned for June, since it was required to do so within about three months of its last gathering,

on March 8.

The exact date of the meeting should be published by the end of next week, spokeswoman Nyka Alexander told AFP in an email.

She pointed out that the experts’ job was to “provide public health advice and technical guidance to the government of Brazil and the Rio 2016 Local Organising Committee on the public health risks of hosting a mass gathering such as the Olympics, and the recommended health systems that should be in place to host a safe and healthy event.”

“WHO does not decide on whether to hold, cancel or postpone the Games,” she said.

The WHO had previously rejected a call from more than 200 international doctors to change the timing or location of the Rio Games, saying shifting the Games would not substantially alter the risks of Zika spreading globally.

But concerns have been mounting since host country Brazil has by far been the hardest-hit since Zika began spreading in South America last year, with nearly 1,300 babies having been born there with irreversible brain damage since then.

Mainak Sarkar Los Angeles, Jun 4 (AP): The kindly professor whom the gunman blamed for his ruin had, in truth, quietly seen to his academic success.

As a shy graduate student struggling to secure his Ph.D., Mainak Sarkar had bristled at the doubts expressed by professors at UCLA’s engineering department. His dissertation, they told him, simply was not good enough.

Sarkar’s mentor had his own doubts, but after Sarkar submitted a new document professor William Klug asked his colleagues to wave his student through to graduation.

“We could easily have said, ‘It’s not enough, you need to do more,’” said professor Jeff Eldredge, Klug’s colleague and close friend. “We just said, ‘Ugh, let’s get him out of here.’”

That was 2013. This week, Sarkar returned.

After killing his estranged

wife in a Minneapolis suburb, Sarkar packed two guns, drove from Minnesota to Los Angeles, parked in his old neighbourhood, took a bus to campus and shot Klug in the professor’s office Wednesday before taking his own life.

Though Sarkar seemed to have genuine affection for his mentor while in school, more recently an animosity grew. In March, Sarkar posted online that Klug had “made me really sick” after stealing computer code from him. Colleagues said only a deranged person could conclude someone of Klug’s character would defraud a student.

“That’s what’s so frustrating about this. He turned into a completely different person in these last few days or weeks or whatever,” Eldredge said.

Sarkar’s descent may go back further than that.

He held his last known job in 2014 — the same year he separated from his wife, Ashley Hasti, according to Hasti’s grandmother. Sarkar, 38, had entered mid-life with a foundation of success, a wall’s worth of academic degrees from top universities and a new wife in his chosen country. He came to the US on a student visa in 2001 after earning a degree in aerospace engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology at Kharagpur.

UN expresses concern over killing of Congolese in India

Masonda Ketada Oliver

promote tolerance and inclusivity in every country,” Secretary General Ban Ki-moon’s Deputy Spokesman Farhan Haq told reporters here yesterday when asked about the murder of Masonda Ketada Oliver, 29, from Congo on May 20.

Haq said the UN weighs in on instances of fight against racism and xenophobia wherever it occurs.

“We have always tried

Paris floods stabilise as Seine recedes Paris, Jun 4 (AFP): The rain-swollen River Seine in Paris receded today for the first time in a week after nearing its highest level in three decades, triggering a scramble to save artworks in riverside museums.

The Seine stood at 6.06 metres above normal levels at 8:00 am local time, down from a high of 6.10 metres overnight, the environment ministry’s Vigicrues flood watch website said.

The level was the same as that recorded yesterday afternoon, when the river rose to levels last seen in 1982, prompting emergency measures.

The famed Louvre and Orsay museums shut their doors in a race to move art treasures from their basements, some metro stations were closed and Parisians were advised to stay away from the Seine.

But by today, as authorities were counting the cost of

over a week of flooding in central and northern France, the spectre of devastating floods in the city had begun to ebb.

“We’re now in the stabilisation phase, even if we could still get one or two centimetres more,” said Bruno Janet, head of modelling at Vigicrues.

The environment ministry yesforecast that the Seine would remain high throughout the weekend -- but still far off a 1910 record of 8.62 metres -- before starting to subside.

Across Europe, at least 17 people have been killed in floods that have trapped people in their homes and forced rescuers to row lifeboats down streets turned into rivers.

The City of Paris said it had opened two gyms to provide shelter for the homeless.

Pieces of driftwood, plastic bags and other flotsam

today swirled in the muddy waters which had inundated the city’s famous tree-lined riverside walkways, a popular haunt of strolling couples.

Firefighters warned people to keep away from dangerous parts of the river, but crowds gathered undeterred on Pont Neuf and other iconic bridges to snap pictures of the fast-flowing waters.

“It is a reminder that nature is more powerful than man and we cannot do anything, only wait,” said Gabriel Riboulet, a 26-year-old entrepreneur, as he took in the scene.

A small number of basement flats in the capital were flooded yesterday and a campsite in the Bois de Boulogne forest in the west of the capital was cleared but there was no order yet for any Parisians to evacuate.

Several metro stations were closed and workers piled sandbags on platforms to hold back the water.

to push for programmes that encourage tolerance and understanding. And a lot of the efforts by the educational parts of the UN system, whether it’s the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) or the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF), promote those messages of tolerance.

“And we would do that in India, as we do elsewhere in the world,” he said.

Herat, Jun 4 (PTI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on a brief visit to Afghanistan, was today conferred with Amir Amanullah Khan Award, the country’s highest civilian honour.

He was awarded the honour by Afghan President Ashraf Ghani after the inauguration of the landmark Afghan-India Friendship Dam. “A true brotherhood is honoured. PM is awarded the Amir Amanullah Khan Award, Afghanistan’s highest civilian honour,” External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Vikas Swarup tweeted along with a photo.

During his 25 minutelong speech after inaugurating the dam, Modi also invoked Chisht-born Sufi saint Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti who settled down in Ajmer and is venerated by thousands of people visiting his shrine.

Two years have passed since that sad day, when one we loved was called away; God took him home, it was His will, within our hearts, he liveth still.

Loving Family members & relatives

Through this column, we would like to express our heartfelt gratitude to each and everyone who stood by us physically, financially and through prayers at the sudden demise of our beloved father Lt. L. Ongthai Shepahu on 25.05.2016.

We would also like to thank the following :1. Yongnyah Union Dimapur.

2. B.S. Nganlang, Parliamentary Secretary, Land Resource & Excise.

3. B. Longei APO Longleng.

4. Y. Tauhong, CDPO Longleng.

5. Yongnyah Hongnyu Villagers.

6. Mon Bosti Council 7. Nepali Welfare Society Mon Bosti.

8. Nepali Women Society Mon Bosti.

9. Rev. D. Vangpong Phom.

Although we could not convey our gratitude to each and every individual. We pray the Lord Almighty God bless you all abundantly.

By. Daughters, sons-in-law, grand daughters, grandsons & relatives

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

We the family members are indeed very grateful to each and everyone who stood by us at this time of grief and pain by supporting us physically, financially and through prayers.

We regret that we did not get the chance to speak with everyone but we are so pleased and honored that you all were part of such a special day.

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Y M C

23-03-1987 to 31-05-2016

LT. MARTEMJEN TSUDIR

AC K N O W L E D G E M E N T

Lived short yet sweet Gone from us that smiling face, The cheerful pleasant ways, The heart that won so many friends In bygone, happy days.

A life made beautiful by kindly deeds A helping hand for others needs, To a beautiful life, Comes a happy end, She died as she lived everyone’s friend.

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of our beloved son

OF LATE LIMAWATI (NOKPU)

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Miss. Imlibenla Longkumer

Loving parents and family members

very productive thing to do,” he said.

“We have a large number of projects we are working on together which will be developed and launched in coming months” elaborated Carter, adding that he had recently visited India’s aircraft carrier INS Vikramaditya.

“Our laboratories are working together on a joint research and development projects technology, military equipment. There are many many things we are doing together,” he said.

C a r t e r ex p e c t s t h e ‘Make in India’ policy and US’ technology policies to come together in the same way that the America’s rebalance and India’s Act East policy have come together.

“There is a lot going on and a lot more will be developing in the policy in the coming weeks and months,” said Carter.

He also highlighted the US-India military relationship, saying it is as close as it has ever been.

“Through our strategic handshake – with the United States reaching west in its rebalance, and India reaching east in Prime Minister Modi’s Act East policy – our two nations are exercising together by air, land, and sea.

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United Nations, Jun 4 (PTI): In the wake of the killing of a Congolese national in India and a spate of attacks on African students in recent days, the UN has voiced concern over the incidents saying it encourages tolerance and inclusivity in every country.

“Well, we would be concerned of any information if that were the case. But...what we try to do wherever we go is to encourage messages to

Narendra Modi

Singapore, Jun 4 (PTI): The US is working “very hard” on changing its “outdated” export control policy on India as the two strategic partners seek to continue working together on a large number of projects, including in the military sector, Defence Secretary Ashton Carter said today.

“The United States is working very hard on changing India’s status in the US export system which is also somewhat outdated,” he said in response to a question on what was expected from Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the US next week.

He said he along with his Indian counterpart Manohar Parrikar would “identify new ways” to co-operate in defence sector in advance of Modi’s visit.

The US and India are committed, as part of our growing security coverage, to co-development and coproduction of military capabilities, Carter said at the 15th Shangri-La Dialogue here.

“That is something we have not had since the birth of the modern Indian state, and we had two systems which grew up apart and we are trying to bring them together – that would be

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Born : 20.11.1986 – Died : 05.06.2014

Two years have passed since you left us for heaven, but as they say, those we love don't go away, they walk beside us every day. Unseen, unheard, but always near still loved, still missed and every dear.

You are forever in my heart.

Loving dad, Sri. Imlimeren Tsudir (Yimjenkimong)

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Born in 1941 – Died on 01/06/2016 With profound gratitude we the family members would like to extend our heartfelt indebtedness to those who stood by us physically, financially and prayerfully during the prolonged illness and at the sad demise of our beloved mother Lt. Sukhali Z. Achumi.

We deeply regret our inability to thank each and everyone of you but the selflessness and humanity shown shall always remembered and may Almighty God shower tenfold blessing for your act of kindness and unconditional love.

Loving husband, children, grandchildren and relatives DP-2904

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Born on : 26.06.1964 – Died on : 26.05.2016

We the bereaved family members of Late Atovi A. Aye would like to express our heartfelt gratitude to each and every individual who stood and support us through prayer, financially, physically, materially etc at his sudden demise.

Special thanks to : 1. Sumi Baptist Church Purana Bazar.

2. Sumi Council Purana Bazar.

3. High School Colony Purana Bazar.

4. Aichisaghemi Community Dimapur.

5. Dream Foundation of Nagaland.

6. Asu Hezukhu ti-kughuko kighini muqo.

7. Khriezephe Village Council.

8. A.G Church Diphupar 'B'.

9. Aichisaghemi Baptist Church Nito Mount.

10. Aichisaghemi Community Zunheboto.

11. PHED Staff Zunheboto.

12. South Point West Prayer Fellowship Zunheboto.

We regret our inability to mention everyone but it is our humble prayer that Almighty God grant His blessing upon you all.

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With profound heartfelt gratitude, we the family members and relatives of Late Ghoshivi Awomi who passed away on 28th May 2016, would like to extend our appreciation to all the well wishers who stood by us at the time of our difficulties, thremendously helped us in different ways.

We deeply regret our inability to thank each and every individual personally but we pray that the Almighty God bless you all abundantly.

We convey our special thanks to : 1. East Dimapur Sumi Baptist Akukuhou Purana Bazar.

2. Tsaphimi Baptist Akukuhou.

3. Tsaphimi Village Council.

4. Tsaphimi Students' Union 5. Tsaphimi Union Dimapur.

6. Tsaphimi Union Kohima 7. Ghokimi Kuposhukulu Dimapur.

8. Kitami Union Dimapur.

9. P. Vihoto Baptist Akukuhou.

10. High School Colony Purana Bazar.

11. East Dimapur Business Association.

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Neil Zaza excited to come to Nagaland

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xcitement is in the brewery as legendary American instrumental melodik guitarist Neil Zaza who is scheduled to visit Nagaland has expressed his anticipation to be coming back to the state for the second time.

He will be the resource person for a workshop at hotel Acacia, Dimapur on June 20 followed by being the guest artist during a World Music Day Concert at Agri Expo, Dimapur on June 21.

Apart from being a terrific performer Zaza’s approachability attitude has definitely made him work with some of the greatest musicians across the globe who are featured in his albums, here are a few of them: Jordan Rudess - keyboard player from Dream Theater appears on his “When Gravity Fails CD”.

Michael Anthony - bass player from world famous Van Halen and Chickenfoot appears on his “When Gravity Fails”

and his current studio project in progress.

Steve Smith and Ross Valory - from Journey appeared on his “Staring at the Sun”. He has also shared the stage with notable guitarists such as Joe Satriani and Michael Angelo

Batio.

In an exclusive interview with Sky Entertainment (SE), Zaza voiced strict regulation as an artist himself to abstain from drug or alcohol in order not to dilute the talent he was gifted with.

Here is an excerpt from the interview: SE: How excited are you coming back to Nagaland for the second time ?

Zaza: I am so excited to come back to Nagaland for the second time. Ever since I was there last year I felt like it was sort of a home for me.

I can’t wait to get there and play some songs from my new CD, Peach.

SE: How did you achieve this career?

Zaza: I was always very serious about my music and never cared for anything that didn’t help me in my music. I never got distracted by things that would hurt me. I never do drugs or drink or disrespect the talent I am given. It is about staying focused and loving what you do. I love to play and perform music!

SE: what is your advice in touring?

Zaza: My best advice for touring is to be ready for anything. Every day is different

and you music enjoy each day for what it is. Some days are harder than the last, but the important thing is getting on stage and playing your music for your fans!

SE: What personal advice would you give for someone pursuing music as a career?

Zaza: The most important thing is that you love what you do. It is always about the music. You must find what YOU want to sound like and play. Don’t worry about sounding like someone else. There is already that person! It’s about being yourself and expressing truth through your music.

People can feel that.

SE: What do you want the young artist to take away from this workshop and this trip?

Zaza: I want them to see someone that loves to play music and that they can do it as well. It is about committing to something in your life and enjoying.

(Aneila Seyie Keretsü)

Nagaland Post, Dimapur Sunday, June 5, 2016

Obama proclaims June 2016 AfricanAmerican Music Appreciation Month

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n an official document published on May 31, Barack Obama proclaimed June 2016 African-American Music Appreciation Month.

In the proclamation, Obama calls African-American music a “vital part” of America’s heritage and declares June a month to honour artists who, through their music, “bring us together, show us a true reflection of ourselves, and inspire us to reach for the harmony that lies beyond our toughest struggles”. Back in 1979, the 39th US president Jimmy Carter dubbed June Black Music Month.

With the more up-to-date moniker, Obama hopes June will be a month of celebration and a chance for people to “recognise the performers behind this incredible music, which has compelled us to stand up — to dance, to express our faith through song, to march against injustice,

and to defend our country’s enduring promise of freedom and opportunity for all.”

Obama finalises the proclamation with: “I, Barack Obama, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim June 2016 as African-American Music Appreciation Month.”

You can read the official proclamation in full on The White House website.

Last month Obama was joined at The White House by rapper Macklemore during the president’s Weekly Address.

Macklemore was there to discuss opioid addiction in the States. “I take this personally,” the rapper stated in the video.

“I have abused prescription drugs and I have battled with addiction. If I hadn’t of got the help that I needed when I needed it, I definitely would not be here today. I want to help others facing the same challenges that I did.”

‘Tall and Slender’ to showcase Naga ethnic attires in global fashion

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he Planners in association with Blue Wings and Sulimi will has organized an event ‘Tall and Slender’ to be held under the theme; “Promotional showcase of Naga ethnic attire in global fashion.”

This show would be focused mainly on promoting our local designers and our rich cultural and traditional attires in our modern age.

The organizers expressed hope that through these kind of events the present generation could better understand the need to remember our culture and traditions which is fast depleting because of the ever growing western culture and technological advancements.

The organizers were also focused at preserving the rich culture and traditions, creating new avenues for the young creative designers, and a small step in preserving our traditional ways of weaving and knitting and a humble attempt through fashion to bring all ethnic groups and tribes under one umbrella.

Special guest artist would include Alobo Naga, Shalo Kent, Joseph Konyak and many more.

Show Stoper of the programme would be Veineinem Singsong former Miss Nagaland and also the reigning jewel queen.

Taylor Lautner late comer on Instagram!

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he ‘Twilight’ star Taylor Lautner, who has an official account on Facebook, has now joined photo-sharing app Instagram recently.

In his first post, the 24year-old actor uploaded a sixty second video, featuring Adam Sandler and David Spade with a caption, “Hello Instagram!

It only took me until the year 2016 to finally join, sorry I’m so late to the party haha Huge thank you to my buds @adamsandler and @davidspade for helping me introduce my page, People magazine reports.

In the video, the actor could be seen trying to decide what kind of post he should do for his first Instagram with Sandler.

However, when Sandler declines doing a cameo in the video, he turned to Spade for

ideas and persuaded him by offering Taylor Swift’s phone number.

“I’ll give you Taylor Swift’s cellphone number,” he said.

Later, the ‘Abduction’ actor expressed his gratitude to his buddies for helping him introduce his new account to his fans.

National School of Drama invites proposals

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heatre in Education Company, National School of Drama invites proposal for participation in Jashnebachpan-2016, its international theatre festival for children which will be held in New Delhi in the month of November 2016.

The festival will feature works of directors, theatre groups and drama institutions from Indian and abroad and will showcase outstanding productions for children or by children that have been performed for the target audience before the submission of application.

Application are to be submitted in the prescribed proforma (details are available on the NSD’s website) along with a clear recording of the production CD/DVD. Only one entry from a group will be accepted. The decision of the selection committee will be final and binding upon all.

Applications should be addressed to: The Chief of Theatre-in-Education Company National School of Drama, Bahawalpur House Bhagwandas Road, New Delhi 110001.

The last date for the receipt of applications will be July 25 2016. For more queries one may contact: 011-2338-9054 or 011-2303-1168. Or send email to ndstie@gmail.com or tiensd@rediffmail.com. Or one may visit www.nsd.gov.in for proforma and other details.

Paris floods: Louvre and Orsay close to protect exhibits

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top floor. The Orsay’s website said it was likely to be shut “at least until Monday”, while the Louvre did not give a reopening date.

“Due to the level of the river Seine, the Musee du Louvre will be exceptionally closed to the public on 3 June to ensure the protection of the works located in flood zones,” it said.

More downpours are forecast for the weekend across a band of central Europe from France to Ukraine.

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otices outside the Louvre explained the decision to close to visitors.

Two museums in Paris have been closed to protect exhibits after the River Seine was predicted to hit a peak of up to 6m (19ft).

The Louvre and Orsay museums have moved works to higher floors as a precaution.

The Louvre’s most famous painting, The Mona Lisa, has not been moved as it is housed on the museum’s

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DARWIN, Jun 4 (PTI): Indian eves returned emptyhanded from the four-nation invitational tournament here after losing 1-2 to Japan in the bronze medal play-off match on Saturday.

India started the game on a bright note, pushing Japan onto the backfoot immediately, and penetrated the opponent circle several times in the first five minutes. Japan got the first real chance of the game but were denied by a brilliant diving save from Savita in front of the

AKIPIMI KUKHU KIYE

(Er. Vihokhe Sema) Akiyetou, SOUD.

(Er. Ghukhuyi Zhimomi) Alakhu Mpeu, SOUD.

FELICITATION The Sukomi Kukhakulu Dimapur congratulates its members who had cleared the recent HSLC, HSSLC

and AISSCE Examination 2016. We express profound happiness and gratefulness to the following outstanding students.

1. Ms. Abigail J. Aye, D/o D. Jambo Sema 94.4% (AISSCE) Arts (Dist. in all the subjects) 2. Mr. Bonoto G. Chophi, S/o Z. Ghoshito Chophy 1st Div. (HSSLC) Sc. (Dist. in Chemistry & Biology) The SKD further prays and wishes them success in all their future endeavours.

(G. Akheto Chophi) Chairman

With immense joy and pride, the SITIMI VILLAGE UNION DIMAPUR (SVUD) convey our heartiest congratulations to all the successful candidates of Class 10th and 12th (NBSE/CBSE) Exams 2016.

May the Almighty God blesses them with bright and successful future.

Amenka Chishi Press Secretary, SVUD

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

We the family members of T. John Murry YIkhum Village would like to express our sincere and heartfelt gratitude to the 5 Sector Brigade Commander of 28th Assam Rifles for arranging all the possible help for blood donor (0-ve) a very rare blood group), from his end, and indeed proven that Assam Rifle are, “Friends of the Hill People” And to the doctors, nurses and staff of MMDH Wokha for their tireless effort and service dedication during critical surgery which was successfully operated in saving the lives of both mother and child.

Even after a hard fought effort made to save the child, destiny of life lies at the hand of God. Through this column we once again deeply express our heartfelt gratitude to all our friends, relatives and well-wishers who supported us physically, financially and through prayer support during the illness of the mother and at the demise of our beloved son Late Shanchobemo J. Murry (27/05/2016 to 31/05/2016).

We convey our special thanks to;1. Sepoy Anil Kumar No. 2851861 Rfn/GD 28th Assam Rifles (Blood Donor 0-ve) 2. Shri. S. Mhathung Ngullie S/o. Lt. Shanpan Ngullie, Tsumang Colony Wokha (Blood Donor 0-ve) 3. Yikhum Baptist Church 4. Kohima Lotha Baptist Church Though words are inadequate to thank each and everyone of you personally, we pray Almighty God to bless you all abundantly.

From loving ; Father, mother, children and relatives.

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1. Chairman – Khuwoto Chishi 2. Vice Chairman – Dr. Khashepu Chishi 3. Secretary – Er. Vikishe Chishi 4. Jt. Secretary – Toluvi Chishi 5. Treasurer – Tokiho Chishi 6. Information Secretaries – 1. Er. Hekuto Chishi 2. Er. Khevito Chishi 3. Kakheho Chishi 4. Avito Chishi 7. Banker – Sukhavi Chishi G.B Thilixu Village.

8. Executive Members – 1. Shikato L. Chishi 2. Ghusheto Chishi 3. Huto Chishi 4. Tokato Chishi 5. Ihoshe Chishi 6. Shikato Y. Chishi 7. Hutovi Chishi 9. Advisor Board Members – 1. Nitovi Chishi G.B.Diphupar ‘B’ 2. N.Y.Chishi 3. Dr. Kiyekhu Chishi 4. Er.Honito Chishi 5. Nitovi Chishi (Asukho) Mainwhile the meeting has convened on 11/06/2016 at 10.00 AM at the residence of its banker Shri. Sukhavi Chishi G.B Thilixu Village, Dimapur. Therefore all the Office bearers, Executive members and Advisory board members are requested to attend the meeting positively.

Khuwoto Chishi Chairman, # 9436438849

Er. Vikishe Chishi Secretary, # 8014314235

OFFICE OF THE

NIHOTO VILLAGE STUDENTS' UNION FELICITATES

We the Nihoto Village Students' Union would like convey our heartiest congratulations to all the following students for their achievements in NBSE and CBSE examination 2016.

HSSLC 1. LINO SWU Dist. in Edu.

HSLC (i). KHEVIKA SWU Dist. In Sc, S/S, B/K

CBSE (I). Apulo Shohe 1st Div.

2. AKALI SHOHE (ii). WESLY AWOMI 2nd Div. Dist. ENGLISH

The Union further wishes them grand success in their future endeavors.

Mr. VITO AYE Publicity Secy, NVSU.

Mr. KAIHO CHISHI GEN. SECY., NVSU.

OFFICE OF THE

NIHOKHU VILLAGE COUNCIL Dimapur : Nagaland

Dimapur : 797112, Nagaland

FELICITATES

The Dimapur Süngratsü Senso Telongjem, Students' Union, Tetsür Telongjem and Dimapur Süngratsü Fellowship would like to extend our heartiest congratulations to Miss. Amenla Aier D/o Dr. Maongwati Aier & Tiabenla Longkumer for excelling in the recently declared AISSCE Examination 2016 (Class - X) from Delhi Pubic School Dimapur by securing CGPA 9/10 and place in the toppers list.

The Senso takes immense pride in your achievement and prays that Almighty God continue to bless and guide you in your further studies.

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This is an information to all concerned that Shri. Rajkumar Dey. LIC Agent from Dimapur, Nagaland, has been absconding since February 2, 2016. Henceforth, all the esteemed policy holders are directed not to make any monetary transaction with him.

The undersigned will not be held responsible for any such transaction in any manner in future.

Manabendra Dey LIC Agent, Dimapur

And A Book Fair

Nihokhu Village Council (NVC) extends our profound gratitude and warm appreciation to Composite Regional Centre (CRC) GMCH Campus, Guwahati led by Dr. Nilo Kiba, Neurologist Dispur Hospital Guwahati and team for conducting free Medical Camp at Nihokhu Village on 31.05.2016. About 150 patients were offered free consultation and medicine.

NVC further appreciates the selfless service rendered by the entire team and prays that our Almighty God continue to bless you all.

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Ghosuho Zhimomi Chairman

By Dr. Easterine Kire Time : 10:30 a.m Date : 6th June 2016 Venue : College Auditorium, SMC Organised By : Department of English, Sakus Mission College * Interested English Teachers from colleges are invited along with their English Honours students (Maximum 5 students).

DECLARATION I, Shri. Yihamo Patton, Seasonal Chairman of Yankhum Village in presence with the registered members of Yankhum village solemnly affirm and authorize Shri Limhathung Murry of Wokha Village to oversee all the working system regarding recognition and developmental affairs of the Yankhum village. Thereby, He should execute his assignments according to my directions and he should update and intimate to me about all the current proceedings relating to Yankhum village, failing which it will be nullified or cancelled unconditionally. This declaration is made as per the decision taken in the meeting on 17/07/2015 and also an agreement made on 7th February 2016 between my family members and Limathung Murry and his father. This authorization has been empowered to him with good faith and understanding on account of my ill-health and old age.

Further, I have authorized my families to under-go a comprehensive study about Yankhum village from 2004 till to the present date based on available documents. Henceforth, it shall remain effective from the day of its publication dated the 4th June 2016.

(Yihamo Patton) Seasonal Chairman Yankhum Village

CLARIFICATION TO 24/05/2016 (TUESDAY) - PRESS STATEMENT IN REGARD TO OLD AREE VDB SECRETARY.

DIMAPUR SUNGRATSU SENSO TELONGJEM

R Sosang Lemtor General Secretary, DSST

INFORMATION

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Mr. VINATO CHISHI President, NVSU

decide on June 17 whether to readmit Russia.

Asked if he hoped Russian athletes would be allowed to compete at Rio, Bach said: “I’m not living in the world of hopes.” The Rio Games have been beset by a range of challenges, including a political crisis that led to the suspension of president Dilma Rousseff and an epidemic of the mosquitoborn Zika virus.

Concerns have also been raised about unfinished venues, ventilation issues at the swimming pool and pollution in the bay that will host Olympic events. Bach said he was “very confident” of the city’s readiness following a presentation from Rio organising committee chief Carlos Nuzman.

The IOC president also said he had a reassuring telephone conversation with Brazil’s interim president Michel Temer and planned to visit him in the coming weeks.

The political crisis has sparked major protests by opposing camps, but Bach voiced hope that the Games could offer a chance for the country to come together.

“Now, in this divided Brazil, the Olympic Games are the one project which really unite the Brazilians,” he told journalists.

A talk on Writing in English from Nagaland

OFFICE OF THE

I Amongba Aier President , DSST

LAUSANNE, Jun 4 (Agencies): The Inter national Olympic Committee wants to catch “as many dopers as possible” before the Games in Rio de Janeiro start in two months, president Thomas Bach warned on Friday. Confronted with a fresh series of doping scandals, many centred on Russia, the IOC has reinforced its testing programmes in an 11th-hour bid to keep drug cheats away from the Games in August.

“We have been taking decisive actions and we will not hesitate to sanction everybody within our reach,” Bach told reporters following a three-day IOC executive board meeting in Lausanne, Switzerland.

At the heart of those actions is the re-analysis of samples from the Beijing Games in 2008 and London 2012, which has already produced 53 new doping cases.

Russia has confirmed that 14 of its athletes are implicated, while the IOC has warned that more could be snared and that past medal winners are the main target for future retests.

Russia’s athletics federation has been suspended after the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) accused Moscow of “state-sponsored” cheating.

The IAAF, athletics’ world governing body, will

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We the Lotha Ekhung Ziekezou, Kohima have the privilege to congratulate Miss. Orenvungi Ngullie D/o Mrs. & Mr. Albert Ngullie for securing the 16th Position in the HSLC result 2016 as well as securing 100% in Science from North Field School, Kohima. The Ekhung while wishing her a bright future expresses its displeasure towards Nagaland Board of School Education (NBSE) for not including her in the toppers list while declaring the result.

(Kheshito Aye) General Secretary

FELICITATION

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C. Nribemo Shito Gen. Secretary Lotha Ekhung, Ziekezou Kohima

Indian goal.

Japan secured their third penalty corner in the second quarter but India defended stoutly as both the teams failed to break the deadlock at half time.Japan equalised soon through Motomi Kawamura and then took the lead in the 42nd minute through Minami Shimizu.

India earned a penalty corner in the dying minutes of the game, but failed to convert as Japan held on to the lead to emerge winners.

Dimapur, Jun 4 (NPN): The first ever Green Marathon, organised by district administration, Pungro in collaboration with the forest department and NEIDA Pungro unit, was held at Pungro town on Saturday.

Sorila from Government High Secondary School and Tanriba from Christian High School emerged as the winners in women and men category respectively. Altogether 156 runners from different schools and citizens of pungro town participated in the programme.

During the short formal programme, ADC Pungro, Wennyei Konyak emphasised on the importance of conservation of forest and wildlife to protect nature and the planet earth. Pungro Sub-Division, which is blessed with rich biodiversity, can be an important hotspot for eco-tourism said Konyak, and challenged the participants to take positive environmental action by conserving nature, protecting wildlife.

The programme was attended by NGOs from Pungro Sub-Division, community health centre Pungro, police and 14 NAP (IR), village guards from Tekivong village and Pungro town.

The programme was chaired by Chonpenthung Ezung, EAC Pungro while the vote of thanks was proposed by Samuel Thyug, EAC Kiusam.

IOC chief fires fresh warning to drug cheats

The KUKHUPU CHISHI LIMI KUPOSHUKULU (KUKHUPU CLAN) has elected a new team of members for a tenure of 5 years (2016-2020) in general meeting held at its welfare’s banker on 21/05/2016 as under :-

CONGRATULATORY MESSAGE

R.N. Yanthan Chairman Lotha Ekhung, Ziekezou Kohima

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Atsala 28 Mozaqhi 2016 lo Sumi Officers’ Union Dimapur (SOUD) lo kihikusumi Ino Tokiho J.E no Ino Tokishe G.B Thilixu ki-kha no akukupuna shive keu piputha ani.

Kiu-kiu kukupuna aghi namu akiviu lono kuthakulu shiveno akipimi qhitsu kileve penike SOUD no akiyeh lono qhuinju akeu kiye yelu ani.

LOTHA EKHUNG ZIEKEZOU

Chatrier Court. “Today we have completed a team Slam.

Martina, you are a fantastic partner, I love you like crazy.

You cover most of the court.

You are a real champion.”

Hingis, a five-time singles champion at the majors in her prime, now has five mixed and 12 women’s doubles titles.

She won a first mixed title with Mahesh Bhupathi at the 2006 Australian Open.

Hingis and Mirza had also won the last three women’s doubles at the Grand Slams but were knocked out in the third round at the French Open. They slumped to a shock 6-3 6-2 loss to Czech pair Barbora Krejcikova and Katerina Siniakova.

Indian eves lose to Japan in bronze medal game

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London, Jun 4 (Agencies): England manager Roy Hodgson has defended Wayne Rooney after the Three Lions’ unconvincing 1-0 win over Portugal, and maintains that his captain can play anywhere on the pitch.

Rooney ended the season with Manchester United in midfield, playing a key role as the club beat Crystal Palace in the FA Cup final at Wembley, but the 30-year-old was deployed in a central striker’s role in England’s final Euro 2016 warm-up friendly on Thursday.

Jamie Vardy and Harry Kane, who scored 49 Premier League goals between them for Leicester City and Tottenham in 2015-16, were subsequently pushed wide to accomodate Rooney but Hodgson has launched a robust defence of the United forward, and insists his selection dilemma is a good thing.

“I’m not prepared to make this the Wayne Rooney show,” Hodgson, who bristled at repeated questions about the player, told reporters.

“You’re talking about the player who has played 111 games for England and scored 53 goals so perhaps his best position is anywhere on the field. It’s a good problem to have, shoehorning in attacking players.

I don’t think for a long time that I’ve had that, a lot of good attacking players to shoehorn so you won’t find me complaining about that.”

“You would find me complaining if we weren’t defending as a team, conceding lots of goals chances and every time we played we needed to score three to win a game so I’ve seen no evidence of that.”

England face Russia in the opening game of Euro 2016 on June 11, and fly out to France on Monday.

palmed away by David Ospina.

Rodriguez was later replaced, nursing an apparent shoulder injury, while Carlos Bacca crashed an effort against the bar for Colombia with 13 minutes remaining.

Costa Rica take on Paraguay in Orlando in the second game in Group A on Saturday, before Group B gets underway with Haiti v Peru in Seattle and Brazil v Ecuador at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena.

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from a free-kick as the hosts pushed for an equaliser.

Former Fulham forward Dempsey had another shot which flew just wide as the half drew to a close before Rodriguez delivered the killer blow on 41 minutes from the spot.

DeAndre Yedlin was adjudged to have handled Farid Diaz’s cross and, while there were doubts over the decision, there was none from Rodriguez, who fired into the bottom left corner of Brad Guzan’s net.

The United States tried to force their way back into the game in the second half and came close when Geoff Cameron saw a header cleared off the line by Perez on the hour mark.

F ive m i nu t e s l a t e r, Dempsey’s curling free-kick from 25 yards was superbly

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California, Jun 4 (Agencies): Colombia kicked off the 2016 Copa America with a 2-0 victory over hosts United States in California on Friday.

America, hosting the competition for the first time on its 100th anniversary, fell behind on eight minutes in Santa Clara when Cristian Zapata volleyed home.

Real Madrid playmaker James Rodriguez then added a first-half penalty in front of a crowd of 67,439 at Levi’s Stadium to secure the 2001 champions all three points in the Group A opener.

A bright start from Jose Pekerman’s side was rewarded when Zapata expertly converted Edwin Cardona’s corner from 10 yards.

Clint Dempsey, who saw an earlier overhead kick attempt fail, then struck the wall

Paris,Jun 4 (Agencies): Martina Hingis and Leander Paes completed the mixed doubles Grand Slam on Friday with a 4-6 6-4 10-8 win over Sania Mirza and Ivan Dodig in the French Open final. Paes, 42, and 35-year-old Hingis had already won the Australian Open, Wimbledon and US Open in 2015.

It was Paes’s eighth mixed doubles title in all at the Slams to add to his 10 men’s doubles wins in a run stretching back to 1999.

He had already completed the men’s doubles Grand Slam. “I won my first Slam here in 1999 on this court,” Paes told a shivering handful of hardy fans inside Philippe

Green marathon held at Pungro

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Sebastian Perez of Colombia (right) controls the ball in front of Geoff Cameron of the USA as the pair battle for possession.

Paes completes mixed doubles career Slam

Abeto Swu Secretary

As per verbal directive/order of Shri. Chilow Humtsoe Hd GB of Old Aree Village, the nomination of Women VDB Management Committee representative and selection of VDB member were scheduled on 21st April 2016, 8:00 am at GBs Court Aree Village, where the VDB members were selected and approved by the house.

On 26th April 2016 election was scheduled (Timing-8:00-9:00 am filling of nomination, 9:00-10:00 am scrutiny and 11:00 am onwards voting), for which Shri. Peter Kikon had filed his nomination papers for the post of VDB Secretary and the same was received and accepted by Shri. Chilow Humtsoe Hd GB of Aree Village without any complaint in the presence of 6 (Six) GB’s, 1 (one) DB deputed by SDO (C) Sanis, Council Secretary and Ex Chairman, on that same day (i.e. 26/04/2016) but all of a sudden Shri. Thungjamo Humtsoe S/o Shri.

Chilow Humtsoe had provoked unwanted action and controversy against the GBs demanding clearance report for the post of VDB Secretary for which the “election of VDB Secretary is postponed” by the head GB saying date and time will be reschedule later and concluded the meeting.

With much aspiration and hope waiting for the day of election of new VDB Secretary for Old Aree Village, but instead, the head GB through a press release declared Shri. Thungjamo Humtsoe VDB Secretary elected in newspaper (Nagaland Post dated 24/05/2016) for the tenure 2016-19 which is not accepted by the party who had a strength of 5 (five) members out of 9 (Nine) members.

It may also be mentioned that, as per the press statement - no meeting held on 1st May 2016 (Sunday), then how the Hd GB issue press statement stating Shri. Thungjamo Humtsoe elected as VDB Secretary of Old Aree Village without the knowledge of the 4 (Four) GBS out of 9 (Nine) and the other intending VDB Secretary? And how election of VDB Secretary has conducted without the presence of VDB Management Committee representative and not even finalized the VDB Women Management Committee representative? Such actions are unethical and undemocratic acted by respected Hd GB of Old Aree Village “habitual liar never say I am a liar”.

As per VDB Model Rules 4 (a), Shri. Thungjamo Humtsoe is not a VDB member because he pays “”NO HOUSE TAX” to the Government. Respected Hd GB do not be too fool, check 2015 & 2016 Old Aree Village resolution passed Sl. No.2 (two) stated that any bonafide member of Old Aree residing within and outside the Village has the right to participate in VCM and other communitised and local bodies.

It may also be mentioned that there is no such names called Chilon Humtsoe and Thungjemo Humtsoe in Old Aree Village (Ref. Nagaland Post dated. 24/05/2016).

Furthermore, the undersigned GBs of Old Aree Village appeals the concern and law abiding authorities not to entertain Shri. Chilow Humtsoe (Head GB) undemocratic actions and kitchen statements which is unaccepted and counted as “null and void”.

Mhonchumo Kikon, GB Old Aree

Kishamo Kikon, GB Old Aree

Zhuphio Murry, GB Old Aree

Ekyimo Ngullie, GB Old Aree

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Muguruza lifts French Open title Greatest to Greatest; Muhammad Ali’s tryst with India

Garbine Muguruza with the French Open trophy after her victory over Serena Williams in the final.

Paris, Jun 4 (Agencies): Garbine Muguruza upset Serena Williams in the French Open final to deny the world No 1 equalling Steffi Graf ’s Open era record of 22 Grand Slam titles.

The top seed and world

No 1 had been out-of-sorts all week in the cold, damp conditions that have dogged the tournament and could not match the fourth seed in the power department as Muguruza claimed a sensational 7-5 6-4 victory.

Williams fought bitterly to hold onto her crown, saving four match points in a dramatic penultimate game, but Muguruza was not fazed.

When her final outrageous lob was deemed to have landed on the line, Muguruza collapsed to the dirt while Williams applauded.

Muguruza became the first Spanish winner of a Grand Slam title since Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario in Paris in 1998.

“I am so excited to play the final of a Grand Slam against one of the best ever players. It’s the perfect final and I am so happy,” said the Venezuelan-born Spaniard.

“Serena is a very powerful player and I just tried to fight as hard as I can.”

Williams once again

failed to make tennis history at Roland Garros and move level with the great German after falling short in the Australian Open final to Angelique Kerber in January.

With weather conditions improving after one of the rainiest Roland Garros tournaments on record, it was a different, more focussed Williams that got the final underway with a love service game.

Her opponent replied as two of the biggest and best servers in the women’s game went toe-to-toe.

Williams remains the clear world No 1 and will certainly be the favourite to retain her Wimbledon title but overtaking Margaret Court’s alltime record of 24 slam crowns no longer seems the inevitability it did 12 months ago.

NEW DELHI, Jun 4 (PTI): Indians had an opportunity to see legendary boxer Muhammad Ali in action in 1980 when he visited the country for exhibition bouts titled ‘Greatest to Greatest’, the reference being to him and to Indira Gandhi , who had just returned to power after a humiliating defeat in the Lok Sabha elections after the emergency.

Ali played exhibition bouts in New Delhi, Mumbai and Chennai when he visited the country at the invitation of London-based NRI industrialist Lord Swaraj Paul, who paid glowing tributes to the boxer on Saturday saying, “He was truly a legend. Crowds in India were thrilled to see him in action.” Even more thrilled were the boxers who got a chance to interact and exchange a few blows with the American, who

Muhammad Ali

was revered not just for his skills inside the ring but also his bold stand on issues related to civil rights.

One such boxer was Tamil Nadu’s Randolph Peters. Peters says he still cannot forget the surprise on Ali’s face when he asked him for a “bit of shadow boxing” after being

among the “lucky few” who were formally introduced to the enigmatic great.

“I was the Railways featherweight champion at that time. All of 25, I clearly remember, one by one we shook hands with him. When my turn came, I requested him for a session of shadow boxing,” recalled Peters while speaking to PTI. “He was very surprised and said ‘you small man, you want to fight me? I will throw one left hook and you would go flying out of the stadium’.

“I could only smile at that and went back to my seat after the introductions. After the exhibition bout (against former heavy weight champion Jimmy Ellis ), he called out the local guys for some fun,” he said.

“He saw me and gestured me to come forward. I went up

and we probably sparred for two minutes...,” added the now 63-year-old.

Ali breathed his last at a hospital in Phoenix, where he was admitted owing to respiratory complications. The three-time world heavyweight champion was among the most influential sporting icons in the world.

Born as Cassius Clay on January 17, 1942 before converting to Islam, Ali is survived by nine children, including daughter Laila, a world champion boxer; and his fourth wife, Lonnie.

In 1960, Ali won an Olympic gold medal as a light-heavyweight. After turning professional, he defeated Sonny Liston by KO in the seventh round and became the world heavyweight champion in 1964.

IOC announces refugee team for Rio Olympics Judoka Avtar Rio de Janeiro, Jun 4 (IANS): Ten refugees will participate at this year’s Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro by representing a new flag for athletes who have fled conflict-riven countries and regions, the International Olympic Committee has said.

“They will form a team unlike any other that has competed in the Olympic Game before... giving hope to people displaced by war and social unrest all over the world,” the official Rio2016 website said on Friday, Xinhua news agency reported.

The team includes five runners from South Sudan,

two swimmers from Syria, two judokas from the Democratic Republic of Congo and a marathon runner from Ethiopia. They will be a part of the first ever Refugee Olympic Team (ROT).

Former marathon world record-holder Tegla Loroupe of Kenya will be the team’s chef de mission, while Brazilian Isabela Mazao will be her deputy.

The ROT delegation will also include five coaches and five other officials.

IOC President Thomas Bach said the initiative would send a powerful message of hope to asylum seekers around

the world. “It is a signal to the international community that refugees are our fellow human beings and are an enrichment to society,” he said.

Refugee Olympic Team: Rami Anis (Syria), Yiech Pur Biel (South Sudan), James Nyang Chiengjiek (South Sudan), Yonas Kinde (Ethiopia), Anjelina Nada Lohalith (South Sudan), Rose Nathike Lokonyen (South Sudan), Paulo Amotun Lokoro (South Sudan), Yolande Bukasa Mabika (Democratic Republic of the Congo), Yusra Mardini (Syria), Popole Misenga (Democratic Republic of the Congo).

UEFA fine Barca for Catalan separatist flags

Catalonia, Jun 4 (Agencies): Spanish champions Barcelona said Friday they have been fined 150,000 euros ($170,000) by UEFA after separatist flags were flown in the Camp Nou during Champions League games last season. In a statement the Spanish champions said that they would do everything to overturn a punishment which they described as “totally unjust and...opposed to the exercise of the freedom of expression.” Of the fine, 50,000 euros

will be suspended if there is no repeat offence in the next two years.

European football`s governing body considers it a political symbol and fined Barcelona 40,000 euros after it was flown during a Champions League group game against Bayer Leverkusen last September.

The club was also fined 30,000 euros in July 2015 after it was flown during the Champions League final.

qualifies for Rio

New Delhi, Jun 4 (PTI): Top Indian judoka Avtar Singh has qualified for the 2016 Rio Olympics in under90kg weight category, the national federation said on Saturday.

As per the list released by the International Judo Federation, Avtar has qualified for the Rio Olympic under the continental quota, Judo Federation of India President Mukesh Kumar said in a release.

Avtar, who hails from Gurdaspur in Punjab, is presently working with the Punjab Armed Police.

Avtar won a gold in South Asian Games held in Shillong in February and a bronze medal in Asian Junior Judo Championships in 2011.

He also won gold medals in Senior National Judo Championships in 2013-14 and 2014-15.

In the Asian Judo Championships in April in Uzbekistan, Avtar finished fifth after beating judokas from China and Iran.

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