15 Mar 2022

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Vol XXXII No. 98

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SPORTS, PAGE 12

Centre should reconsider AFSPA continuance in NE states: DMK MP

NEW DELHI, MAR 14 (PTI): Centre should reconsider the continuance of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) in the North Eastern states, DMK leader Tiruchi Siva said in Rajya Sabha on Monday.

He referred to the killing of 13 civilians by security forces in Nagaland in December and said that only Nagaland but all its neighbouring states are also suffering because of the AFSPA. “It’s high time.

The government has to reconsider whether this Act should continue,” Siva said while participating in a debate in the Upper House on the working of Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region.

Referring to Section 4 of the AFSPA, Siva said it gives special powers to commissioned officers in disturbed areas to fire upon and use force against any person who is acting in con-

COVID vax for 12-14 years from Mar 16

NEW DELHI, MAR 14 (PTI): Covid vaccination for children in the age group of 12-14 years will begin from Wednesday, Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya announced on Monday. The vaccine to be administered to 12-14 years age group would be Corbevax manufactured by Biological E. Limited, the health ministry said.

Tweeting the announcement in Hindi, Mandaviya said, “if the children are safe then the country is safe! I am happy to inform that the COVID vaccination of children in the age group of 12 to 13 and 13 to 14 is starting from March 16.

Also, everyone aged 60 years and above will now be able to get precaution doses.”

Mandaviya also urged the families of children and people in the age group of 60 years and above that they must get the vaccination done.

The Union Government after due deliberations with scientific bodies has decided to start COVID-19 vaccination for 12-13 yr and 13-14 yr age groups (those born in 2008, 2009 and 2010 i.e those who are already above 12 years of age) of the population from March 16, 2022, the ministry said in a statement.

According to official sources, around 7.11 crore children will be vaccinated under the new age group.

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travention of any law, arrest without warrant any person who has committed a cognisable offence or against whom reasonable suspicion exists that he has committed or is about to commit such an offence.

Section 6 of the Act says that no prosecution or other legal proceeding shall be instituted, except with the sanction of the central government, he noted. Siva said the previous speakers in the debate spoke on development and he was speaking about the safety of the people and their psychological and mental condition. “‘The unrest which is prevailing is not because of the issues only but because of such Acts also. When such an Act is there and armed forces are wandering with enormous powers with no control on them, the people will react in their own manner, because you know the hilly people...,”

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Inordinate delay in talks Tiruchi Siva

he said. “This is an appeal.

What is the necessity (for continuing AFSPA)? Why should the people be killed unnecessarily?’’ he asked.

There may be issues anywhere and people will rebel in a democratic country as they have got rights, the DMK leader said.

“But does it mean that they can be killed and they (security forces) cannot even be questioned?” he asked, adding that it is worrisome.

He said the Supreme Court had also observed that if an offence is committed even by an Army personnel,

Even six years after signing of the framework agreement between the NSCN and the government, there has been an inordinate delay in the peace talks, Siva said. “The government should find some other way to coordinate with the people and find a peaceful solution and the northeast region should flourish,’’ he said.

Siva said the region is facing a challenge for funds for infrastructure development and this has led to a slower pace of economic and social growth.

He said the region is rich in water resources and receives the highest rainfall.

This can be used for irrigation as organic farming is

getting popular in the region. This region should set an example for other parts of the country, he added.

MPs want more allocation for NE: Trinamool Congress MP form Assam Sushmita Dev on Monday pointed out that despite North East being a strategically important part of the country, the region lacked basic health and education facilities.

She said the budgetary allocation for the Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region in 2015-16 was Rs 2,360 crore and Rs 2,800 crore in 2022-23 and called for more budget allocation to the North Eastern States.

“They (government) should do a district-wise survey of the infrastructure deficit. Projects are being taken - which are in second and third priority. It must be need-based,” she added.

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Clamor for Rajya Sabha seat Spl. Correspondent

NEW DELHI, MAR 14 (NPN): Election to Nagaland’s lone Rajya Sabha seat has attracted many intending candidates even as hectic lobbying are taking place in Nagaland and New Delhi.

BJP is expecting to ensure that the party gets the lone RS seat from Nagaland in pursuance of the assurance made by the NDPP in lieu of support to the party during the Lok Sabha election.

The BJP was firm on setting up its candidate this time as it was a commitment made by NDPP in 2018 to support a BJP candidate in return for support extended to the NDPP candidate for the Lok Sabha.

Sources said that there are already over ten contenders seeking BJP ticket.

However, four names including a woman candidate have been reportedly screened and submitted for approval of the BJP Central high command.

According to reports, the BJP is mulling the set-

ting up of a candidate from ENPO area especially with an eye to the 2023 assembly election. The name of a former legislator is doing the rounds. There are 20 assembly seats under ENPO areas.

When contacted, a senior NDPP leader said that the BJP and the chief minister have also agreed in principle to support a BJP candidate this time.

On the other hand, there were also rumours about NPF contemplating to setup its own candidate. However, a senior NPF legislator said that there was no such plan. The legislator said that since they were now part of the United Democratic Alliance (UDA), the party will likely go by the consensus candidate set up by the NDPP-BJP. The NPF party has convened the NPF Working Committee meeting on March 18, after which this issue would be made known, the legislator stated.

Several leaders led by chief minister Neiphiu Rio, including deputy chief

minister and UDA chairman, TR Zeliang have been camping in Delhi for the past few days in connection with Rajya Sabha election.

The recent development over selecting a consensus candidate for the lone Rajya Sabha seat has dominated the focus since the last date for nomination is March 21, 2022.

NLA secretariat notifies RS poll

DIMAPUR, MAR 14 (NPN): Assembly (NLA) secretariat has fixed the conference hall, annexe room of the NLA secretariat as the place at which election by the members of NLA would be undertaken to fill one seat in the Rajya Sabha on the retirement of KG Kenye on April 2, 2022.

In a notification, additional secretary & returning officer Khruohituonuo Rio notified that nomination papers should be delivered by a candidate or his proposer to the RO or to ARO at Room (Cont’d on p-8)

WC, NNPGs remind UDA to not be another NPC Central initiatives to boost start-up ecosystem in NE

DIMAPUR, MAR 14 (NPN): Working Committee (WC), Naga National Political Groups (NNPGs) Monday maintained that the United Democratic Alliance (UDA), formed under the plea of facilitating “IndoNaga” political solution, appeared to be “traversing a dangerous uncharted territory” in the manner of Naga People’s Convention (NPC) of 1957.

WC, through its media cell said, that even now, Nagas were being reminded of the activities of NPC formed on August 21, 1957. WC said NPC negotiated with prime minister Nehru for Nagaland state in order to end bloodshed which was “the

crime of stealing people’s mandate” which has not been forgotten or forgiven.

Further, WC reacted to UDA chairman TR Zeliang’s purported remark reported in the media wherein he sought the “highest offer from the Centre. WC advised Zeliang to understand the meaning of “facilitator” as whether what he was doing was “facilitating or doing something else”.

WC said that each passing day, Zeliang’s utterances sounded more like “a third party negotiator in the IndoNaga political talks.”

WC said UDA chairperson with BJP in the oppositionless government must bear moral responsibility

should the October 31, 2019 declaration of conclusion of political talks by all negotiating entities, was kept in the backburner. It asserted that the onus lay with negotiators and government of India to fulfil people’s aspiration.

Reminding of an adage “too many cooks spoil the broth”, WC said that the “Indo-Naga” issue was not an antique jewellery to be auctioned in New Delhi.

Maintaining that negotiations have concluded between government of India and Naga negotiators, the WC said there were “better and greater” communication channels between government of India and WC, NNPGs. (Full text on p-6)

Rs. 74.77 cr sanctioned under NEVF Spl. Correspondent

NEW DELHI, MAR 14 (NPN): Union Minister for Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER) G Kishan Reddy has said that North Eastern Development Finance Corporation Limited (NEDFi) 36 proposals have been given in-principle sanction amounting to Rs 74.77 crore under North East Venture Fund (NEVF) in

ment through access to capital for scaling up their businesses had organised a Startup Investment Festival 2022 from February 15 to March 15, 2022.

The minister explained that the reason for organizing the event was to reach out to start-ups and firstgeneration entrepreneurs G Kishan Reddy of North Eastern Region healthcare, edu-tech, agri (NER) and boost the startand agri allied, tourism, up ecosystem in the North food processing, IT & ITES, Eastern region. etc sectors.

Informing this in a written reply in the Lok Sabha, Reddy said NEDFI in order to provide a platMeanwhile, Union form to local entrepreneurs to showcase their business DoNER minister G Kishan ideas and pitch for invest- Reddy, in a written reply

7 projects taken up under PM-DevINE

in Lok Sabha on Monday also informed that seven projects have been taken up in the Northeast under Prime Minister’s Development Initiative for North East (PM-DevINE), a new scheme which was announced in the Union Budget 2022-23.

To fund infrastructure in the spirit of PM Gati Shakti and social development projects based on felt needs of the region, the scheme will enable livelihood activities for youth and women by filling the gaps in various sectors, but it will not be a substitute for existing Central or State schemes. (Cont’d on p-8)

ASAN demands termination ‘Taking steps to provide relief’: Puri on fuel prices State logs 4 fresh DELHI, MAR 14 its introduction, and sought hovering around USD 109, Covid -19 cases of 2 JSCOs before March 30 NEW (PTI): Amid skyrocketing to know the progress been the minister said it is ema- D I M A P U R , M A R 1 4

DIMAPUR, MAR 14 (NPN): Agricultural Students’ Association of Nagaland (ASAN) has affirmed support to Combined Technical Association of Nagaland’s (CTAN) stand to curb “illegal appointment” in the soil & water conservation department and immediate termination of two junior soil conservation officers (JSCOs) on or before March 30.

ASAN through its media cell also demanded that the two posts, which the duo had been holding on contract, should be requisitioned for recruitment through NPSC. ASAN maintained that

the duo had been depriving the rights of the eligible candidates for a long period despite numerous representations submitted to the department to right the wrong.

However, ASAN said their “naked ambition and greed” had only been laid bare when the recommendation for regularization by the minister surfaced.

ASAN reiterated that the department consider the situation and expedite the matter at the earliest. ASAN affirmed to ensure that the careers of the hard-working aspirants would not be put at stake by “few corruptmongering people”.

global oil prices, Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri on Monday said the government will take all required measures in the coming months to ensure that consumers get relief from high fuel rates.

Replying during the Question Hour in the Rajya Sabha, the Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas also shared that a proposal to bring petroleum products under the Goods and Services Tax was taken up by the GST Council but it “did not find favour”.

India relies on overseas purchases to meet about 85 per cent of its oil require-

Hardeep Singh Puri

ment, making it one of the most vulnerable in Asia to higher oil prices.

Puri was responding to senior Congress leader Anand Sharma, who said it was agreed upon by the government and the opposition that petroleum products will be eventually brought under GST at the time of

made in this regard.

“States which are acquiring high revenue from the sale of petrol and petroleum products and if I may also add liquor are normally reluctant to reduce their revenue from these two sources,” said the petroleum minister.

However, Puri said “the government will in the coming months also take whatever measures we have to, to make sure that our consumer gets relief to the extent we can.”

Observing that oil prices had shot up from USD 19.56 a barrel to USD 130 at one stage and are currently

nating from a war-like situation, referring to the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict.

“But within that whatever space we have, vigour space, margin of persuasion, we should continue to exercise that in the interest of the Indian citizen and the consumer,” Puri told the Upper House.

Referring to accusations that the Centre is controlling fuel prices, he said these are determined by various factors and decided upon by the oil marketing companies. Puri also rejected claims of state elections influencing the decisions regarding fuel prices.

(NPN): Nagaland on Monday recorded four fresh Covid-19 positive cases while no deaths were reported in the last 24 hours.

Of the fresh cases, three were from Dimapur and one in Mokokchung, taking the total caseload to 35451.

PTI: India saw a further dip in daily COVID-19 cases as 2,503 new infections were recorded, the lowest in 680 days, while the death toll climbed to 5,15,877 with 27 fresh fatalities, the data updated at 8 am stated. India’s current active caseload (36,168) is lowest in 675 days, the ministry said.

Castor oil for all-round health benefits and how govt is promoting Correspondent

“When young people lead the party, veterans don’t have any place.”

there is no concept of absolute immunity from trial by a criminal court constituted under the Criminal Procedure Code.

Russia seeking military aid from China: US

KO H I M A , M A R 1 4 (NPN): Given the sedentary lifestyle now in society, body pains have become quite common these days. And it’s not the old. Even young people – some in their 30s – are increasingly becoming prone to body aches.

While traditional massages have existed for years now in the community, several kinds of oils and tonics are now recommended by traditional healers for relaxation of muscles and joints.

of Sericulture had opened a processing unit of castor oil and demonstration centre at the directorate here in 2020.

Speaking to Nagaland Post, deputy director Alemkumzuk said the purpose of promoting castor oil was that people tended to use massage oils from unknown sources.

He maintained that the unit served as a platform to local entrepreneurs and (L-R)Oil expeller machine used for extraction of oil and farmers to come and take packed castor oil on display. (NP) up marketing opportunity Hence, with an aim among local entrepreneurs as the product was known to promote value addition in the State, the department to have huge potential in the

global market. He said the department procured castor seeds from the farmers at Rs 100 per kg, after which oil was extracted from them.

The cakes or leftovers of the seeds, which were said to be filled with nutrients, were used as fertilisers and were in high demand among flower growers in the State Capital.

He mentioned that castor oil was also known for its anti-bacterial and therapeutic properties, which not only improved blood circulation but also was recommended for treating arthritis

and joint pains as well.

The department had extracted oil up to approximately 5,000 litres of castor oil, while Nagaland Packing Solutions, a private firm based out of Dimapur, looked after bottling and packaging and charged Rs 40 per bottle. These were then sold to entrepreneurs, who acted as the bridge between the department and shops. The products had been made available in stores like Made in Nagaland, Kiwi outlets, Naturally Nagaland, etc, the

deputy director explained.

Castor plantation is spread over 4,000 hectares across the State, especially in Tuensang, Kiphire, Dimapur, Nuiland, Tseminyu, Noklak and Zunheboto districts.

With presence of nutrients like calcium, magnesium, sulphur, iron, zinc and copper, etc, castor oil is beneficial for hair and skin, and also has massage benefits, besides boosting immunity and increase in the flow of circulatory system.

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4 adopted villages receive farming tools

DIMAPUR: ANMA Int e g r a t e d D eve l o p m e n t Association (AIDA)-Don Bosco, implementing SBI Gram Seva programme in Dimapur handed farm mechanisation equipment to farmers’ club of four adopted villages of Urra, Khriezephe, Bade and Diezephe on Monday.

A press release from AIDA informed that while flagging off the equipment, chief guest, deputy commissioner (DC) Dimapur, Rajesh Soundarajan stressed on the importance of farm mechanisation which help to improve agricultural yield and economic growth among farmers and reduce the need for manpower.

He lauded AIDA’s intervention in the field of socio-economic and livelihood intervention in the region.

Meanwhile, guest of honour, SBI AGM RBO Dimapur, Abinash Hembrom spoke on the importance of SBI foundation

DC Dimapur along with AIDA functionaries and others after the programme. and explained that SBI also initiated programmes and activities to reach out to people in general.

He added that Nagaland was “lucky” to have SBI Gram Seva programme, a SBI foundation flagship CSR implemented by AIDA-Don Bosco.

Executive director AIDA, Rev. Fr. Roy George SDB while welcoming the guests said that India was one of the top countries with

respect to agricultural production, but it was behind the world average in terms of farm mechanization.

He said in the first place, the marginal farmers believe that higher technology was complex and secondly, the higher cost of equipment required farmers to invest an amount that they could not afford.

It is in this context that the intervention of AIDA through SBI Gram Seva

programme enabled four of its farmers clubs from the adopted villages to have the equipment, he informed.

A request was also presented to the DC from all the adopted villages for scaling up of kitchen garden, mushroom cultivation, cuniculture and poultry development under MNREGA and for SBI Sanjeevani health facility offered to rural villages in and around Dimapur.

At the programme,

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NHHDC to conduct seminar

DIMAPUR: Nagaland Handloom & Handicrafts Development Corporation Ltd. Dimapur has informed that a seminar on “Awareness on the schemes of DC (H), GI Act, GeM portal, use of e-commerce platform and other marketing supports for the development

SAMETI functionaries and participants after the programme.

DIMAPUR: State Agricultural Management and Extension Training Institute (SAMETI) Medziphema in association with National Institute of Agricultural Extension Management (MANAGE), Hyderabad organised Skill Training of Rural Youth (STRY) programme on “organic farming” from March 7-12.

In a press release, SAMETI informed that in her

keynote address, principal IETC, Dr. Watimongla Jamir spoke about importance of implementing correct farming techniques to obtain maximum output with minimum input.

She encouraged participants to gain maximum technical and practical knowledge from the training programme and emulate the techniques in their own gardens and farms.

Resource persons for the programme were assistant professor, department of horticulture, SASRD NU, Medziphema, Dr. Sentirenla Jamir, assistant professor, department of entomology, SASRD NU, Medziphema, Dr. Waluniba, and AFA, biofertilizer laboratory, IETC

having ID card issued by office of the development commissioner (handicrafts), ministry of Textiles may apply to project cell, NHHDC Ltd, Half Nagarjan with Xerox copy of ID cards on or before March 23 for first batch; March 27 for second batch at office hours.

Rector of Don Bosco Dimapur, Rev. Fr. Nebu Mathew SDB said the invocation and blessed the equipment while a video presentation of intervention of SBI Gram Seva in five adopted villages was also presented.

Later, coordinator of AIDA for SBI Gram Seva, Mark Lanthou proposed the vote of thanks.

The farm mechanisation equipment included power tillers, tiller trolleys, grass cutters and lawn movers. It may be mentioned that farmers club are formed in each of the village who would take ownership of the farm equipment.

The farmer clubs put in their share of investment towards the purchase of the machines and under the responsibility and ownership of the farmers’ club, the machines would be rented out to other farmers in need to generate revenue and aid A special lecture on “The Importance of Gender Based Research Interventions in in better agricultural produc- Northeast India” by post-doctoral fellow (Funded by Swedish Research Council), Dr. Meenal Tula was conducted at Modern College Kohima (MCK) on Monday. tion.

STRY programme on organic farming held Excise Dmu seize 411 cases of IMFL Medziphema, Yavikhotuo Mechieo.

The training covered technical sessions on introduction, concept and principles of organic farming, insect pest management in important horticultural and field crops. Hands-on practical on seed treatment with bio-fertilizers, seed bed preparation, kitchen garden layouts, preparation of neem seed kernel extract (NSKE), etc., were also conducted.

Participants were also taken on a field visit to biofertilizer laboratory, IETC Medziphema where they learned about seed treatment of maize, ginger and onion with Azotobacter and Phosphotika.

Hands-on practical sessions on seed bed preparation and sowing of yard beans, French beans, bottle gourd and maize were undertaken at IETC demonstration farm.

The programme concluded with distribution of certificates, training handouts, seeds and bio-fertilizers to the participants.

of Handicrafts of North Eastern Region” would be conducted at Urban Haat, Dimapur under research & development scheme on March 24 and 29, sponsored by office of development commissioner (handicrafts), ministry of Textiles.

Interested artisans

Arrested individual along with seized IMFL. DIMAPUR: Excise Dimapur duty party manning Dellai checkgate arrested one Aboi Ringkangmai (23), resident of Kanglathongbi, East Imphal, Manipur on charges of possessing 411 cases of assorted IMFL on Monday.

According to superintendent of excise & prohibition, Tokuho Assumi, during routine checking, the duty party intercepted an Imphal-bound truck

bearing registration number NL01AF1713.

On frisking the vehicle, the excise team recovered 411 cases of assorted IMFL concealed under bags of medical utilities and paper bundles. The contraband IMFL was loaded at Nalapara Guwahati, Assam, Tokuho informed.

The arrested person was booked under relevant sections of the NLTP Act 89’.

NEWS IN BRIEF Governor institutes award on basic sciences: Governor of Nagaland has instituted an award to encourage students of Nagaland to excel in the study of basic sciences. The award known as “Governor’s Excellence Award in Science study of HSSLC Examination” would be conferred to six best students in science stream.

NNC, FGN to celebrate 67th ‘Republic Day’: Naga National Council and Federal Government of Nagaland has informed that the 67th “Nagaland Republic Day” would be celebrated on March 22 at Urra village, Chakhro sub-region, Angami Region, 11 a.m. All have been invited to participate in the function. All Midan Peyus, FGN and regional presidents, NNC of all Naga regions have been directed to celebrate “this historic day” in their respective regions, sub-regions and villages in accordance with their conveniences.

Police recover unidentified body: Dimapur police recovered one unidentified dead body of a non-local male (40-45 years) from Supermarket marketing shed, Dimapur on Monday. Deceased was later identified as Raja and on completion of all legal formalities, the body was shifted to Dimapur district hospital morgue for PM examination. Claimant of the deceased have been requested to contact the officer-in-charge, East PS, Dimapur at 7085055020.

2ND DEATH ANNIVERSARY

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

KLC observes ‘World Consumer Rights Day’

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The responsibility for the promotion and protection of consumer rights rests with all of us and more particularly with governmental agencies, Kezhokhoto stated.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

“Though He brings grief, He will show compassion, so great is His unfailing love.”

Lamentations 3:32

Year of Birth: 1922 – Died on 11 March: 2022 For none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself.

For whether we live, we live unto the Lord, and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord’s.

Romans 14:7-8.

We, the beloved family of Late Mr. Zapunyü Thorie, Senior Pastor, Nagaland for Christ Prayer Centre, Seithekiema Basa, Dimapur, would like to express our profound and earnest gratitude to all the people, neighbours, relatives, churches, prayer centres, friends and well wishers from near and far, who have shared in our grief. May the good Lord bless you all.

“TO GOD BE THE GLORY” Loving children, grandchildren, great grandchildren, in-laws and relatives k-504/22

B. SENTI IMCHEN

15th March 2020 Though you are no longer in our lives, Your fond memories linger in our hearts, Your genuine and selfless love are valued and cherished.

You were a blessing to us.

We pray to God for your soul to be in peace forever.

Fondly remembered & deeply missed. dp-1187/22

~Loving parents, brother, sisters & daughter~

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Late Tsuknungwati Sangtam 14th September 1965 – 5th February 2022 Retd. Sr. Para Medical Supervisor, Directorate of Health and Family Welfare We, the family of Late Tsuknungwati Sangtam would like to extend our heartfelt gratitude to all our close families, relatives, neighbors and friends for your help, support, sympathy & prayers in our times of grief and trials.

We would like to convey our special thanks to:- 10.Sangtam Baptist Church Mission Dept, Dimapur 1. Doctors and Staff of Faith Hospital, Dimapur 2. Threlimong Sangtam, Retd. Public Prosecutor, 11. Sangtam Baptist Church, Diphupar 12.Chungliyimti Fellowship, Dimapur Nagaland 3. H.Chiten Sangtam, Retd. Joint Secretary, Home 13.Chungliyimti Baptist Church 14.Chang Baptist Church, Dimapur Dept 15. Shekinah Glory Prayer Home 4. E. Y. Renthungo, Senior Advocate 16. Friends & relatives, Chumukedima 5. Thungdemo Humtsoe, Asst Director UD Dept 17. ICFAI University Faculty & Staff 6. Chungliyimti Suro Khong, Dimapur 18.Kevijau Village Council 7. Chungliyimti Village Council 19.Sematilla Colony 8. C.S.N.Y.L.T (Outside Union) 9. Sangtam Baptist Lithro, Dimapur

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DIMAPUR: Kohima Law College (KLC) on Monday observed “World Consumer Rights Day” with an aim to enable students to take part in the main function of world consumer rights day at St. Joseph’s College Autonomous Jakhama on March 15 to be organised by the department of commerce.

A press release from KLC media cell informed that while delivering the keynote address, Nagaland Voluntary Consumer Rights Organisation (NVCO) president Kezhokhoto Savi stressed on the importance of observing the day, especially in Nagaland as it created better awareness among citizens which was still lacking in the society especially in rural areas.

He informed in India, the Consumer Protection Act, 1986 was an important Act which was replaced by Consumer Protection Act, 2019.

The Act was made to provide for the better protection and promotion of consumer rights through the establishment of consumer councils and quasi-judicial machinery, he stated. He also exhorted that it was a time for promoting the basic rights of all consumers, for demanding that those rights were respected and protected.

We regret our inability to thank every one individually, but it is our sincere prayer that our Almighty God bless you all abundantly.

Loving wife, children, grandchildren, In-laws, family members and relatives.

Madangchaba Walling 29th March, 1985 –10th March, 2022 He was a supportive brother, a dutiful son and a great friend who touched everyone’s hearts with humility. He was goodwill of all whose lives he touched and shall be missed by all who love and know him dearly.

We, the family of lt. Madangchaba would like to thank each and everyone who stood by us at his demise.

“As long as there is love and memory, there is no true loss” Loving mother, in-laws & relatives db-197/22

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nagalandpost.com Poll Q.: If Russia continues heavy bombardment of Ukraine and causing civilian casualties, will NATO respond ?

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pattern, is it likely that 2022 could witness some drought?  Yes.  No.  Can’t Say.

WEATHER FORECAST MARCH 15

(Temperature in ºC)

Max Min

Agartala Hazy sun and very hot

37 17

Hazy sunshine and hot

32 14

Guwahati Hazy sun and very hot

37 16

Aizawl Imphal

Hot with hazy sun

34 13

Itanagar Hazy sunshine and hot

35 20

Shillong

Sunny and very warm

29 12

Kohima

A stray afternoon t-shower

28 15

Dimapur Mkg Tuensang Wokha

Very sunshine with hazy sun Hazy sun Hazy sun Hazy sun

36 32 24 29

Zunheboto Hazy sun

19 16 12 19

28 14

Officers and staff of F&CS and others at the launching programme.

DIMAPUR: Launching programme for sale of five kg Free Trade LPG (FTL) cylinders popularly known as “Chhotu Cylinder” through Fair Price Shops (FPSs) was held on Monday at M/s V. Phushika Awomi Fair Price Shop, Walford, Dimapur.

A press release from the department of Food & Civil Supplies (F&CS) informed that during the programme, director F&CS, V. Lovitoly Sema while launching the cyl-

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inders said that sale of the five kg FTL cylinder through FPSs’ was one of the ministry’s programme on transformation of FPSs. She informed that this was a new initiative to improve the viability of FPS for sustainability and effective delivery of targeted PDS at FPS level Through this scheme, the director disclosed that 78 selected FPSs under Dimapur Sadar would get mapped with the nearest

Gas Agencies of IOCL and the particular FPS would cater to the service of the public in the surrounding area or neighbourhood.

Keeping in mind the needs of the public including migrant population with no current address proof such as students, young professionals and households with limited LPG consumption, Lovitoly informed that the department tied up with IOCL.

She said the two had taken the initiative to launch the said scheme where in the first phase, the department launched the “sale of chhotu cylinder” under Dimapur Sadar and would be gradually rolled out in the rest of the districts.

In this regard, the director requested all FPS dealers in Nagaland to avail the facility provided for their additional income and also to make the LPG available to the public.

Meanwhile, a brief re por t on the scheme was given by manager (CC&LPG-S) Dimapur LSA-I, OICL, H. Thangzamuan who informed that Nagaland was the first state in the North East India to launch the said scheme and congratulated the department on the endeavour.

Earlier, the launching programme was held in the presence of the chairman, GB, NFSA beneficiaries of Walford colony, Dimapur along with officers & staff of F&CS. The programme was chaired by deputy director F&CS, I. Anungba Sanglir and vote of thanks was proposed by ADS, Dimapur, S. Kavito Aomi.

Media workshop ‘Vartalap’ held in Chümoukedima

Media workshop Vartalap in progress on Monday.

DIMAPUR: Press Information Bureau (PIB), ministry of Information & Broadcasting Kohima organised a media workshop on Monday, at Niathu Resort, Chümoukedima on the theme “Improving Information Dissemination in Nagaland”.

According to a DPRO Dimapur report, special guest, EAC Chümoukedima, Seyie Solo emphasised on the role and

importance of media in a democratic state like Nagaland where various policies, programmes and projects from different departments were being implemented.

He said there was a need for disseminating right information to the beneficiaries especially at grassroots level.

The guest speaker also talked about responsible and ethical journalism and

the need to distinguish between facts and opinions.

Meanwhile, assistant district program manager, Dimapur, Rural Development department, Yimok Phom highlighted the achievements, challenges and undertakings of the department in Dimapur.

Later, project officer, department of Tribal Affairs, Imsumeren highlighted various central schemes and projects in the state.

RBSK conducts screening camp AR conduct various activities

RBSK team along with health workers and children after the screening camp.

DIMAPUR: As part of the “National Deworming Day”, screening and awareness programme was conducted at government primary school, Molonsu under Wokha district on Monday.

A press release from the chief medical officer’s (CMO) office informed that during the programme, medical officer,

Rashtriya Bal Swasthya Karyakram (RBSK), Dr. Lirenthung Khuvung spoke on the importance of taking Albendazole tablets for overall growth and development of a child.

The Rashtriya Bal S wa s t hya K a r ya k r a m team screened school children for childhood diseases, development delays,

PYO bans hunting, firewood collection

Assessment camp for CWSN in Wokha

KOHIMA: Phesama Youth Organisation (PYO) has informed that in compliance with directives from Southern Angami Youth Organisation (SAYO) to ban hunting of wildlife and promote eco-tourism, it would be enforcing the same in all areas under its jurisdiction.

In a press release, PYO president Vizokho Zashümo and general secretary Viyie Kuotsu informed that any individual or group violating the laid rules under the jurisdiction of the village would be penalised with a fine of Rs. 30,000.

Meanwhile, PYO also informed the public that collection of firewood and vegetation, dumping of loose soil/mud and garbage, hospital waste into the rivers/streams was totally prohibited and defaulters would be penalised a fine of Rs. 20,000.

Further, the organisation appealed to the public to remain vigilant of unwanted activities and report to PYO for collective preservation of the environment keeping in mind the climate crisis over the few years.

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deficiencies and disabilities. Later, first aid and medicines were provided during the screening.

D r. K h u v u n g i n formed that Anganwadi workers and Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs) would distribute deworming tablets to children at Anganwadi centres and schools in the district from March 14-26.

DIMAPUR: Assam Rifles (AR) under the aegis of HQ IGAR (N) conducted various activities across the state.

Kohima battalion: Kohima battalion of Assam Rifles conducted a health checkup camp at Kikruma village under Phek district on March 12.

According to PRO IGAR (N), general health checkup of 143 villagers was conducted and necessary medical aid were also provided.

The camp commenced with medical aid to 102-year-old Pusazo who also inaugurated the event.

Ghaspani battalion: Ghaspani battalion of Assam Rifles commemorated “Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav” at Medziphema, by ARWWA Activities at battalion HQ where lecture on women empowerment, women education and good food habits under fit India movement were covered.

Jalukie battalion: Jalukie Battalion distributed sports items under Assam Rifles Civic Action Programme to inmates of

CWSN being assessed by medical experts during the camp on Monday. (NP)

Correspondent WOKHA, MAR 14 (NPN): An assessment camp for Children with Special Needs (CWSN)

including school dropouts and school students, both private and government under Wokha block was conducted here at Likya Community Hall, Wokha

Monday.

Altogether, 23 CWSN children between the agegroup of 6-18 years from various schools including school dropouts attended the camp and were assessed by medical experts.

They were also provided with appropriate aids and appliances by Samagra Shiksha Nagaland and the department of Health and Family Welfare (H&FW).

Meanwhile, senior SDEO Wokha & district project coordinator, Samagra Shiksha Wokha, A. Mhathung Humtsoe informed that the same camp would be conducted at Sanis Block and Bhandari Block respectively on March 15 and 16.

In this regard, Humtsoe has directed all heads of schools, both private and government under Sanis Block and Bhandari Block to identify and send Children with Special Needs including school dropouts between the agegroup of 6-18 years to be assessed by touring team led by joint mission director, Samagra Shiksha, Nagaland Dr. Chumbeni Kikon.

Alpha Orphan’s Ministry, New Jalukie under Peren district on March 11.

In an effort to motivate sportsmanship spirit among the youth in remote and underdeveloped areas, sports materials were also distributed and motivational speeches were delivered to orphans with regard to the importance of indoor and outdoor sporting activities.

Altogether, 25 orphans attended the event which was held to encourage participation in sports and to instill a healthy lifestyle.

Meanwhile, the Jalukie battalion in an effort to motivate students and cadets of Sainik Schools to join defence forces through exposure to military service weapon profile also organised a weapon display and interaction with boy and girl cadets at Sainik School Punglwa, Peren on March 12.

Commandant of Jalukie Battalion of Assam Rifles visited the school and addressed the cadets on joining the defense forces.

E-Waste management: E-Circle based in Dimapur, led by Sowete-u and Bendangwala collected IT equipment such as computer sets, PA, cameras, batteries etc., through E-waste management at DIPR Kohima on March 12. (DIPR)

Notun Bosti Council Dimapur (NBCD) conducted a mass social work within its jurisdiction on March 12.

Car passes for ensuing NLA session

DIMAPUR: In view of the eleventh session of the 13th Nagaland Legislative Assembly (NLA) to be held from March 19, commissioner & secretary (C&S) Dr. P.J. Antony has informed that car passes and official gallery passes would be issued from March 16

during the regular office hours (10:30 a.m., to 3:30 p.m.)

C&S has informed all ministers, advisors and AHoDs to collect car passes and gallery passes from special secretary (home), civil secretariat, Nagaland, Kohima; All MLAs, P.S/P.A

to the members are to collect car passes from reception counter gate No-II, Nagaland Legislative Assembly Secretariat and all HODs, IPR and media persons to collect car passes from reception counter, gate no-I, Nagaland Legislative Assembly Secretariat.

LFIC hosts inter-college EU fellowship

Faculty members of LFI College and other colleges with students.

DIMAPUR: Livingstone Foundation International College (LFI College) hosted an inter-college E.U fellowship on Monday.

A press release from LFI College informed that

during the programme, invocation was said by E.U Immanuel College, scripture reading by E.U St. John college and special number was presented by E.U LFI college and Yemhi

Memorial College.

Later, offertory prayer was said by E.U Unity college and vote of thanks was proposed by Dimapur Intercollegiate Evangelical Union (DICEU) president

Lima Meren.

The programme was attended by various colleges in and around Dimapur and Union of Evangelical Students of India (UESI) staff worker.

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Caretaker chief minister N Biren Singh taking oath as an MLA. (NP) by winning 32 seats in the 60-member house.

BJP’s erstwhile ally National People’s Party secured seven seats while Janata Dal (United) won six seats, the Congress and the Naga People Front bagged five seats each, Kuki People’s Alliance, a newly floated tribal based party, managed two seats and three Independent candidates also got elected to the Assembly.

For the first time in the electoral and parliamentary history of Manipur, five women members were also elected, including three of BJP and two NPP. The NPF,

JD (U) and an independent member announced to support the BJP government.

Biren Singh on Friday resigned from his post and the Governor asked him to continue in his office until the new government takes charge.

There is no confirmation yet as to when the next Chief Minister would be chosen, or when the new BJP-led government would assume office. Before the elections, the BJP had informally declared that Singh will be the party’s chief ministerial face and will head the next government.

MHA examining demand for ILP implementation in M’laya: CM

Cong will ‘go down’ if Gandhis continue to lead it: Himanta

IMPHAL, MAR 14 (IANS): In all, 59 members, including Chief Minister N. Biren Singh, on Monday took oath as members of the 12th Manipur Assembly for which elections were held on February 28 and March 5 and results were declared on March 10.

Protem Speaker Sorokhaibam Rajen Singh administered the oath to the newly elected members.

The r uling BJP retained power for the second consecutive term and for the first time in Manipur the saffron party got the absolute majority on its own

Akhil suspended from Assembly budget session GUWAHATI, MAR 14 (PTI): Independent MLA Akhil Gogoi was on Monday suspended from Assam Assembly for repeatedly raising the issue of employment to one lakh youths as promised by the BJP government during the address of Governor Jagdish Mukhi on the first day of the Budget session.

Speaker Biswajit Daimary asked Gogoi to leave the House for the duration of the Governor’s speech. Gogoi didn’t leave the House and showed a placard, following which Marshals dragged him outside. The Governor continued to read his 38-page speech. Mukhi said, “To fulfil one of the key poll promises, the government has set in motion the process to provide one lakh jobs to our youth.”

He then mentioned several steps being taken by the State government to recruit youths in various posts.

Apart from the one lakh employment to the youths, Gogoi tried to raise other issues like paddy procurement from farmers, land rights to indigenous people and corruption in water supply scheme while Mukhi was speaking. Every time, he sat down after the Speaker had asked him not to disturb the Governor’s speech.

GUWAHATI, MAR 14 (PTI): Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Monday said the Congress will “go down and won’t be visible even in panchayat elections” if the Gandhi-Nehru family continues to lead the grand old party.

The North-East Democratic Alliance (NEDA) convenor said it was up to Congress to decide whether it wants to revive or continue its losing trend with the Gandhis at the helm.

Sarma had joined the BJP from Congress in 2013.

“Successive defeats in elections have proved that the Gandhis cannot lead Congress to victory,” he told reporters.

“So, in my view, the Gandhis will take Congress to a situation where it won’t be visible even in panchayat elections in the days to come,” he added.

Arunachal Govt tables deficit budget for FY23 in Assembly

Over 65k Chakma, Hajong refugees in Arunachal: Kahndu

state. He said that the state government had also submitted a memorandum on the matter to Union Home Minister Amit Shah during his visit to Shillong on January 23 last year.

To a supplementary query of Sawkmie, the chief minister, however, said that the Meghalaya government plans to pursue the matter and convince the Centre to implement ILP in the state.

He asserted that the passage of the resolution in the House itself shows the seriousness of the state government on the issue.

Sawkmie urged Sangma to lead a delegation of all the 60 MLAs to Delhi to press for the demand, and cited how the Centre heeded Manipur’s demand for ILP implementation after they passed three resolutions.

The chief minister assured the House that the suggestion to take all 60 MLAs to the national capital will be examined.

Arunachal Pradesh Dy CM Chowna Mein presents the Annual Budget, during the Budget Session. (PTI) ITANAGAR, MAR 14 (PTI): Arunachal Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Chowna Mein on Monday presented a deficit budget for the 2022-23 fiscal in the assembly without proposing any new tax while laying emphasis on financial management, health, education and environment protection.

A deficit of Rs 644.81 crore was estimated in the budget, he said.

The state government projected total receipts of Rs 26,111.63 crore for the next financial year, which is 15.64 per cent higher than Rs 22,581 crore estimated in the 2021-22 budget, he said.

“In the budget estimates of 2022-23, we are projecting revenue receipts

of Rs 24,253.54 crore and capital receipts of Rs 1,858.09 crore,” Mein, who also holds finance, investment and planning portfolios, said in his speech.

“We have tried to assimilate our collective experiences from the Covid-19 pandemic in this budget as building blocks so as to make Arunachal futureready,” the deputy CM said.

He also mentioned that the state’s share of central taxes has been pegged at Rs 14,348.54 crore as per the Union Budget 2022-23.

“It is 10 per cent more than the revised estimates of 2021-22. In addition, we have projected state’s own tax revenue at Rs 2,090 crore while the non-tax revenue

has been estimated at Rs 935 crore,” Mein said. The state’s own revenue generation is estimated at Rs 3,025 crore for 2022-23 fiscal, which is a 10 per cent increase over the revised estimate of 2021-22, the finance minister said.

The government projected a revenue expenditure of Rs 18,201.55 crore for FY 23, as against the budget estimates of Rs 15,344.32 crore in 2021-22.

Mein also said capital expenditure, including loan components, was estimated at Rs 7,507.81 crore in the next fiscal as compared to Rs 6,968.68 crore in the current financial year.

“The focus of the government has been and will be on increasing capital expenditure to create socially and economically productive assets for accelerated development of the state,” he said.

For FY23, the Arunachal Pradesh government was able to keep the fiscal deficit at an estimated 2.20 per cent of Gross State Domestic Product, “which is not only within the norms of targets laid down in the Arunachal Pradesh Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management Act 2006 but also at almost the same level as BE (budget estimate) 2021-22,” he said.

Mnp post poll violence: Mob storm police station, demand release of NPP workers

900 CPI(M) offices built illegally bulldozed: Deb

the 16 workers were arrested in connection with March 11 violent fight between the workers of the two rival candidates.

The SP said that two FIR cases were registered in connection with the violent fight of the day at Porompat police station.

AGARTALA, MAR 14 (PTI): As many as 900 CPI(M) party offices constructed illegally on government land have been bulldozed since 2018, when the BJP came to power in Tripura, Chief Minister Biplab Deb said on Monday.

The CPI(M), on the other hand, questioned the act of bulldozing opposition party offices.

The chief minister, addressing a government function here, said that some of the party offices were two or three storey high, and were illegally built on government land. “This has happened during the last 25 years. What is their mindset if they encroach upon government land to build party offices at district and subdivisional levels? They are anti-people,” he said, referring to CPI(M).

The BJP rode to power in 2018 ending the 25-yearlong Left Front rule in the state. “The BJP is in power but we have not forcibly acquired any piece of government land to set up our party office. We have built district and subdivisionallevel offices on land duly purchased.

“We have been contemplating to construct a state party office but have not been able to do so due to unavailability of land,” he said.

Police fire tear gas to disperse the protestors. (NP) Correspondent IMPHAL, MAR 14: Police on Monday resorted to firing tear gas shells to control a crowd from storming a police station in Manipur’s Imphal East district.

The protesters were demanding release of 11 persons arrested from the residence of NPP MLA Sheikh Noorul Hassan from Kshetrigao AC of Imphal East district, in connection with a post-poll violence.

As police stopped them in front of the station, the crowd pelted stones. To control the situation, the police resorted to firing tear gas shells and mock bombs and arrested atleast 19 protestors. In the melee, a police woman sustained bleeding injuries after being hit by a stone while some protestors also sustained minor injuries. Police vehicles parked inside the police station premises were

also damaged. Earlier in the day, a combined team of Imphal East district police and special commando unit of the district rushed to the residence of the Sheikh Noorul Hassan and picked up 11 workers.

The locals alleged that before picking up, a drone (unmanned aerial vehicle) was seen flying above the house of the elected legislator who had taken oath as a member of the state Assembly along with other 59 newly elected members.

The police also picked up five workers of Nahakpam Indrajit Singh, who contested on the BJP candidate from the same AC. Altogether 16 persons (11 workers of NPP and five workers of BJP) were arrested in connection with a violent clash that occurred during a victory procession in the constituency on March 11. Imphal East SP Maharabam Pradip Singh said that

Notice of privilege motion

Alleging that the arrest of 11 persons from his residence was made while he was in the august house and during oath taking, NPP MLA Sheikh Noorul Hassan served a notice of breach of privilege against Imphal East SP, additional SP, OC of Porompat police station and OC of commando unit of the state police.

In the notice, Hassan alleged that the incident was very unfortunate that just after the oath was taken the incident was informed to him, which he said was harmful to the democracy and the dignity of the august house. “No prior information was provided to me before making the raid in my house and arresting some innocent persons from my residence,” the MLA wrote.

He served the notice for privilege under the provisions of the Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business in the Manipur Legislative Assembly.

BJP-led govt has failed to realise Vajpayee’s dream of NE: Bora NEW DELHI, MAR 14 (PTI): The BJP government has failed to realise the dream of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee for socio-economic development of the Northeast and removal of regional imbalances, Congress Rajya Sabha member Ripun Bora said on Monday.

However, BJP member Bhubaneswar Kalita hit back, saying the Narendra Modi-led government has “acted” rather than just “looking” at the region, with infrastructure development projects being completed at a much faster pace and by bringing better all-round development compared to what the Congress did.

In a discussion on the working of the Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region (DONER), Bora said the ministry was the brainchild of Vajpayee and was set up in 2001 as the nodal authority of the government to deal with matters related to the socio-

SHILLONG, MAR 14 (PTI): Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma on Monday informed the assembly that the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) is examining the demand for the implementation of Inner Line Permit (ILP) in the northeastern state.

He said that the state government is continuing to pursue the matter, and it will examine a demand to take all 60 MLAs of the state to Delhi to press for ILP implementation. “The MHA is examining the demand. We will continue to pursue it and hope that a conclusion will be reached,” the chief minister said while replying to a query of legislator P T Sawkmie.

The chief minister said that the Meghalaya government has sent multiple letters to the MHA since the assembly on December 19, 2019 unanimously passed a resolution urging the Centre to implement ILP in the

NAGALAND POST, DIMAPUR TUESDAY, MARCH 15, 2022

ITANAGAR, MAR 14 (PTI): As many as 65,884 Chakma and Hajong refugees reside in Arunachal Pradesh, Chief Minister Pema Khandu told the Assembly on Monday, citing a survey conducted by the government in 2015-16 in three districts of the state where they have settled -- Changlang, Namsai and Papum Pare.

Khandu, in a written reply to Congress MLA Wanglin Lowangdong, also said that the government allotted an area of 4,240.24 hectares to the Chakmas and Hajongs in Changlang district, besides 730.432 hectares in Namsai and an approximate 14 square kilometers in Papum Pare.

In Changlang, the refugees are mostly settled in Miao, Kharsang and Diyun.

Similarly in Namsai, they reside in three villages of Chongkham circle, while in Papum Pare, they are concentrated in ChangmaraMagoni and Chessa areas, the CM stated. Additionally, the refugees have encroached upon 5,819.88 hectares in Changlang, and 289.57 hectares in Namsai districts. No such encroachment has been reported from Papum Pare, Khandu maintained.

Ripun Bora economic development of the states of the region.

The basic purpose of the ministry was for accelerated development and to remove the regional imbalance of the Northeast region with the rest of India, he said adding that however, “this dream of Vajpayee has not been translated into reality by the BJP government”.

Citing the number of projects announced in various states of the region since the ministry came into existence, Bora said the Congress-led UPA took up more developmental projects with the involvement of the state

governments than what the present government has done. He said the UPA government “did enough” continuously from 20042014 to translate the dream of Vajpayee into reality. On the other hand, the BJP-led government has focussed on taking up more projects through “other agencies” in the region, he said and accused the Centre of undermining the northeastern states.

“Congress government never encouraged other agencies (for projects in the region). It gave priorities to the state governments but the BJP government has encouraged other agencies, undermining the state governments,” Bora said.

He said that out of the 1,495 projects sanctioned to the eight states in the Notheast since the inception of the DoNER ministry, 604 are still undergoing and most of these projects are from 2010-11 and not a single mega project has been

IN THE COURT OF DISTRICT JUDGE DIMAPUR : NAGALAND

NOTICE

LOA 8/2022

(SEC. 278 OF INDIAN SUCCESSION ACT. 1925 )

Whereas application under Section 278 of the Indian Succession Act. 1925 has been filed by Shri. Imtitongdang Ozukum, S/o Late Dr. Tarep, Resident of H/No. 66, Khermahal, Dimapur, Nagaland for grant of Letter of Administration in respect of landed property of his father Late Dr. Tarep, covered by : Patta No. 1012, Dag No. 1226, Mouza No. 1, Block No. : 3, measuring an area of 00B-01K-11Ls, Dimapur Town, Dimapur before this Court.

Whereas 04th April, 2022 has been fixed for the hearing on the matter.

Notice is hereby given inviting objection if any from the person having interest in the above named property to be furnished on or before the fixed date/ or appear in person.

Given under my hand and seal of the Court on this 01st March, 2022.

sanctioned in the region in the last eight years. “This is the sincerity of the BJP government for the all-round development of the Northeastern region,” he said.

Bora also accused the BJPled government of abolish-

ing the North East Industrial Investment and Promotion Policy (NEIIP) that offered 30 per cent capital subsidy on machinery to encourage big industries to come and invest in the region for a 10 year period from 2007-17.

AFFIDAVIT Regd. No. 106 (A) 2022

Dated : 02/03/2022

I, Mrs Aienla Ao, D/o Lt. Tekalepden, resident of H/No. 123, Molvom Village, Sub-Division, Medziphema, Nagaland do hereby solemnly affirm and declare that my correct name & official name is AIENLA AO, the same have erroneously entered as HATNEIHOI HOALAI and it refer to same & one person. Henceforth, I shall be called/known as AIENLA AO for all official records/documents.

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Office Of the

PheNDA ViLLAGe cOUNciL Dist. tseminyu, Pin 797109

tO WhOM it MAY cONceRN This is to certify that the name Shri. Zenlonyu Nsu and Shri Zenlonyu Ras is one and the same person and nothing is concealed therein via Affidavit Regd. No. 512, Dated: 14-03-2022.

(Daniel Kent) Chairman, Phenda Village Council K-507/22 In The CourT of PrInCIPaL DISTrICT & SeSSIonS JuDge KohIma: nagaLanD

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District Judge Dimapur, Nagaland

noTICe InVITIng oTher CLaImanTS To rePreSenTaTIon To Come forWarD (unDer ParT-X of SeCTIon 373 of InDIan SuCCeSSIon aCT 1925) Succession Case No. 77 of 2022 Where as application under Succession Act 1925 for grant of Succession Certificate for the estate of Lt. Kezehol Viswesul Pusa @ K.V. Pusa had filed by: Dr. elivil Pusa, S/o Lt. Kezehol Viswesul Pusa @ K.V. Pusa, R/o Old Minister’s Hill Colony, Ward No. 14, Kohima, Nagaland.

To Draw/Operate/Close/Transfer: Transfer of ownership of the deceased Land in his name i.e @ Land Located at Dimapur, Mouza No. 3 Nagarjan, bearing Patta No. 444, Dag No. 229/587 who expired on 02.01.2017.

Notice is hereby given that any person having interest in the administration of the estate of this said deceased may he/she so desire appear in this Court within 30 (thirty) days from the date of publication of notice.

Given under the hand and seal of the Court on this 14th day of March 2022.

Principal District & Sessions Judge Kohima nagaland.

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Regd. No. 132/2022 Date: 14-02-2022: I, miss Pezangunuo, daughter of Late Karna Bahadur Tamang, present resident of Kitsubozou Colony, Kohima, Nagaland, do hereby solemnly affirm and declare on oath as follows: 1. That I am a bonafide citizen of India and a present resident of the above mentioned address.

2. That I am the biological daughter of Late Karna Bahadur Tamang and Late Tika Maya Tamang, born on 05.01.1996.

3. That this affidavit is made to declare that in all my official documents and records my name, father's name and mother's name has been entered as Pezangunuo Kire, daughter of Dr. Meguosielie Kire and Dr. Avino Kire.

4. That now in order to avoid any further complication regarding my official name/surname, father's name and mother's name, I do hereby declare that I shall be known and addressed as Miss Pezangunuo, whereby relinquishing my former foster parents surname i.e. "Kire' 5. That this affidavit shall stand as a piece of evidence for any ratification/clarification if any complications that may arise with regard to Change/Correction of my name surname, father's name and mother's name and henceforth I shall at all times hereafter in all record, deed and in writing and in all proceeding, dealings and transactions private as well as upon all occasions whatsoever use and sign my name as Miss Pezangunuo, daughter of late Karna Bahadur Tamang and Late Tika Mava Tamang, born on 05.01.1996, and I expressly authorize and request all persons at all times hereafter to designate and address my name, by such assumed name accordingly.

6. That this affidavit is signed and sworn before the competent authority and herein it shall be used for all my official records, future references and future correspondence.

That the above statements made in Para 1-6 are true to the best of my knowledge and nothing material has been concealed herein and I signed this affidavit before the Competent Authority on 14th March, 2022 at Kohima.

Judicial magistrate Deponent

(Change of name & Surname) regd. no. : 134/22 Date 14-03/22 I, Shri. Longra Chungdok, son of Shri. Apisungba Phom, permanent resident of Pongching Village, District- Longleng and present resident of Sepfuzou colony, District- Kohima, Nagaland, do hereby solemnly affirm and declare on oath as follows: 1. That I am bonafide citizen of India hailing from the Phom Naga tribe and a permanent resident of the above mentioned address.

2. That in my service Book and records, GPF Statement, Bank Account, Diving Licence and Light Bill etc, my name has been entered and recorded with my alias name as ‘Longtok Phom’, ‘Longtok Dhom’ and ‘L.Phom’.

3. That for and on behalf of myself I hereby renounce/ remit/ relinquish and abandon the use of my former names ‘Longtok Phom’, ‘Longtok Dhom’ and ‘L. Phom’ and use my new name and surname as ‘Longra Chungdok’ as my official name and surname in place and in substitution of my former name and surname.

4. That whether my name has been entered and recorded as ‘Longtok Phom’ or ‘Longtok Dhom’ or ‘L.Phom’ or ‘Longra Chungdok’ it refers to one and the same person i.e. me and it indistinguishable and synonymous.

5. That this affidavit shall stand as a piece of evidence for any ratification/ clarification if any complication that may arise with regard to change of my name and Surname as Longra Chungdok, son of Shri. Apisungba Phom and henceforth I shall at all times hereafter in all record, deed and in writing and in all proceeding, dealings and transactions private as well as upon all occasions whatsoever use and sign my name as Longra Chungdok, son of Shri. Apisungba Phom.

6. That I expressly authorise and request all persons at all times hereafter to designate and address me, by such assumed name and my surname as Shri.Longra Chungdok, son of Shri. Apisungba Phom accordingly.

7. That this affidavit is signed and sworn before the competent authority and herein it shall be used for all my service records, Bank records, official records, future references and future correspondence.

That the above statements made in Para 1 – 7 are true to the best of my knowledge and nothing material has been concealed herein and I signed this affidavit before the Competent Authority on 14th March, 2022 at Kohima.

DePonenT magistrate

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SKM nationwide protest on Mar 21 against govt’s unfulfilled promises

NEW DELHI, MAR 14 (PTI): The Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) will hold a nationwide protest on March 21 to protest against the Centre for not fulfilling its promises, including setting up of a panel on MSP and withdrawal of cases against farmers, its functionaries said on Monday.

It was decided after a day-long closed door meeting was held at the Gandhi Peace Foundation at Deen Dayal Upadhyay Marg here.

SKM leaders and members reviewed the progress made so far by the Centre on the promises made to farmers, including setting up a panel on MSP. “There has been no progress in fulfilling the promises made by the Centre to farmers on the issue of forming a panel on MSP to make legislation on it, withdrawal of cases against farmers and expulsion of Union minister Ajay Mishra Teni from the Cabinet.

“So the SKM has decided to hold a nationwide protest at district and block level on March 21 against the central government for non fulfilling promises,”

SKM members Yogendra Yadav with others farm leaders during a meeting, in New Delhi, Monday. (PTI)

senior SKM member Abhimanyu Kohar told PTI. The SKM, an umbrella body of 40 farm unions, had spearheaded a year-long agitation against the Centre’s three farm laws.

It had suspended the stir on December 9 last year after the government revoked the contentious laws and agreed to consider its six other demands, including withdrawal of cases registered against farmers during the agitation, a legal guarantee on MSP and compensation for kin of farmers who died during the protest.

Later in a statement,

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the SKM said farmers will observe ‘MSP guarantee week’ from April 11 to 17 under its next phase of nationwide campaign.

The non-implementation of the assurances given by the government to the farmers’ movement, even after three months, exposes its anti-farmer intentions, the statement said.

“It was unanimously decided that between April 11 and 17, a nationwide campaign would be launched by observing MSP Legal Guarantee Week.

During this week, all the constituent organizations

associated with the SKM will organize demonstrations and seminars, demanding legal guarantee of MSP as recommended by the Swaminathan Commission,” the statement said.

The Morcha reviewed the written assurances given by the government to the Samyukta Kisan Morcha on December 9 and found that even after three months the government had not acted upon its key assurances, it said.

“There is no trace of the assurance of forming a committee on MSP. Except Haryana, the police cases registered against the farmers during the agitation in other states have not been withdrawn. Delhi Police has spoken of partial withdrawal of some cases but there is no concrete information about that as well.

“The SKM has decided to organize a nationwide protest on March 21, regarding the role of the government in the Lakhimpur Kheri incident, and the betrayal of the assurances given to the farmers’ movement,” the SKM statement said.

Councillors’ killings: BJP seeks reply from Mamata

Sitharaman presents Rs 1.42 lakh cr J&K budget in Lok Sabha

KOLKATA, MAR 14 (PTI): The BJP on Monday demanded answers from West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who also holds the home portfolio, over the killings of two TMC and Congress councillors on the previous day.

Congress councillor Tapan Kandu and TMC councillor Anupam Dutta were on Sunday evening shot dead in separate incidents in Purulia’s Jhalda and Panihati in North 24 Parganas district respectively. During Zero Hour, Siliguri’s BJP MLA Shankar Ghosh demanded answers from Banerjee over the incidents, following which saffron party legislators staged a walkout from the House.

They staged a demonstration on the steps of the assembly demanding immediate action.

Ghosh demanded a proper and quick investigation into the matter, and immediate arrest of the culprits. He wondered whether the killings have any connection with the ongoing selection of the chairman of various civic bodies in the state.

NEW DELHI, MAR 14 (PTI): Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday presented a Rs 1.42-lakh-crore budget for Jammu and Kashmir for the year 2022-23 in Lok Sabha, amid opposition accusations that the government was rushing the proposals through Parliament.

Sitharaman also presented the supplementary demands for the year 202122 totalling Rs 18,860.32 crore for the Union Territory and moved a motion seeking suspension of certain rules to allow the House to take up the discussion on the same day.

Opposition members objected to the government move to present the J&K Budget and discuss it in the House on the same day, contending that members will not get adequate time to study the proposals.

Congress member Manish Tewari and RSP member N K Premachandran objected to the motion moved by Sitharaman, alleging it was in violation of the rules of procedure of the House.

“Some rules are beyond the amending powers of the House,” Tewari, a Congress member from

Nirmala Sitharaman speaks in the Lok Sabha, during the second part of the Budget Session, Monday. (PTI)

Anandpur Sahib, said.

Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Arjun Ram Meghwal said the discussion will take place after two hours. Rajendra Agarwal, who was in the Chair, said the business for the day was approved by Speaker Om Birla during the Business Advisory Committee meeting.

Premachandran, the member from Kollam, said the minister had also sought a discussion on the budget proposals and the supplementary demand for grants together, which would go against the rules. Tewari and Premachandran sought a ruling from the Speaker Om Birla on the issue.

As the House re-assembled in the post-lunch session, Sitharaman said the

then UPA government had presented and discussed the Budget for NCT of Delhi in 2014 on the same day. “That time the Chair allowed it, and this time also the Chair may kindly allow, it is my appeal,” Sitharaman said.

BJD member Bhratruhari Mahtab, who was in the chair, noted the Speaker had rejected the contention of Tewari and Premachandran, saying that the supplementary demands for grants for J&K presented in Lok Sabha were for the 2021-22 and could be taken up together with the Budget for 2022-23.

Mahtab said the Speaker had also mentioned that it was not for the first time that budget for a state had been presented as discussed on the same day.

‘Stand behind Sonia, not supporting Puri slams Rahul for tank-up comment says sales went up 20% her now would be betraying ourselves’

NEW DELHI, MAR 14 (PTI): A day after the Congress Working Committee put its weight behind Sonia Gandhi and asked her to initiate necessary changes in the party, senior Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge on Monday said all the party MPs and leaders in states are responsible for the poll debacle and not the Gandhi family.

Kharge, who is the Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha, said the BJP/ RSS and the prime minister attack the Gandhis all the time and if all the leaders do not stand with them at this time, it would be “betrayal”.

“Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi have been fighting for a cause and have taken on the BJP/RSS head on. They have often been attacked by the BJP/RSS and the prime minister and

in such times, if we don’t stand with them, we would be betraying ourselves,” he told PTI. The senior Congressman said Sonia Gandhi has made several sacrifices for the party and devoted her entire life for building the Congress and none of the members of the Gandhi family have occupied any positions in the government for many years.

“She has never asked for any position. She built the party from the scratch and it is unfair if we still attack her. We all want her to continue to lead the party and we will stand with her.

We took a unanimous decision that she should lead from the front and reinforce our faith and win back the trust of people,” Kharge said.

He also said that all

CWC members told Sonia Gandhi that she alone is not responsible and every state leader and every Member of Parliament is responsible for this defeat of the party in the five states and not the Gandhi family. Kharge said there was “no question” of her resigning as the focus now will be on how to strengthen the party in the next round of elections.

“We will continue our fight against the BJP and its ideology. We will push our ideology and convince the people and win back their trust. We hope that in the coming elections, we will do much better,” he said.

“Whatever lapses and shortcomings are there, we will try to correct them and will take to the streets to reconnect with people at the grassroots level,” the former Union minister said.

NEW DELHI, MAR 14 (PTI): Oil Minister Hardeep Singh Puri on Monday slammed Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for his comments asking consumers to tank up in preparation for an imminent hike in petrol and diesel prices, saying that one statement led to “hoarding” of 20 per cent fuel.

Replying to supplementaries during Question Hour, Puri said consumption went up by 20 per cent following the comment.

Petrol and diesel prices hit the freeze button just as electioneering for five states including Uttar Pradesh picked up. The record 130day freeze was despite the cost of raw material jumping from USD 81 per barrel to USD 130 per barrel.

It was anticipated that once the elections are over, state-owned fuel retailers will start adjusting the prices, which was as much as Rs 12 a litre below cost. But the

Hardeep Singh Puri (PTI)

rates haven’t been changed even after the counting of votes ended, possibly not to give the opposition a handle before the beginning of the second half of the budget session on Monday.

“On 5th March, a political leader made a statement, saying, fill up your tanks quickly because petrol prices are going to go up as elections are over. And the consumption went up by 20 per cent,” Puri said without naming Gandhi. “It is a matter of shame that one statement led to hoarding of

20 per cent.”

On March 5, Gandhi had asked people to get tanks up as the “election offer” will end soon.

“Quickly get your petrol tanks full. The ‘Election’ offer of the Modi government is going to end soon,” Gandhi said in a tweet in Hindi and used a picture of a petrol pump saying “Hike” and “Coming back soon to fuel stations near you”.

The Congress has been accusing the BJP government of stalling the hike in fuel prices during elections and raising the prices soon after the polls are over.

The assembly elections in five states, including Uttar Pradesh, started on February 10, and ended on March 7. The counting of votes took place on March 10.

Puri said international oil prices had gone up from USD 19.56 per barrel in 2020 to USD 130 per barrel earlier this month and are

now down to USD 109 per barrel.

“Oil marketing companies will take their decisions (on fuel prices). They will proceed once they can no longer bear it. If they don’t have the margin or cushion, they will take the appropriate step,” he said.

Amid re peated interruption by opposition members who said he has sidestepped the original questions with his political statements, the minister said, “the decisions regarding increase are taken by companies.”

“I find it amazing that instead of celebrating that prices have not gone up, my hon. friend is lamenting that they have not gone up. Another one makes a statement, and hoarding takes place... So, what is it?

Should we be controlling prices or should we be making statements to encourage hoarding?”

On taxes being raised on petrol and diesel at the outset of the pandemic, Puri said they were raised for a particular purpose.

“The question is, raising of taxes, levying of taxes are done depending upon the situation at that point of time,” he said.

After the Union government’s decision to cut excise duty on petrol by Rs 5 a litre and diesel by Rs 10 per litre on November 4, 2021, all but nine states also cut local sales tax or VAT. “We are willing to take such steps as are necessary to control the price,” he said.

He said rates in India have gone up only by 5 per cent as compared to over 50 per cent in countries like the US, Canada, Germany, and the UK. “We should be rejoicing that. Instead, what we are hearing from the distinguished Member is why it has not gone up,” he said.

Order regarding COVID deaths ex-gratia payment ‘very clear’: SC Nitish lashes out at Speaker for questioning conduct of probe

NEW DELHI, MAR 14 (PTI): The Supreme Court Monday said its earlier order regarding ex-gratia of Rs 50,000 to the family members of those who lost their lives due to COVID-19 is “very clear” and the payment is to be made for each death.

The apex court said this while dealing with an application filed by the Assam which had sought a clarification whether each of the children of the deceased parents would be provided ex-gratia payment of Rs 50,000, in case there is more than one child.

“In fact, our earlier order is very clear and the exgratia payment of Rs 50,000 shall be qua each death,” a bench of Justices M R Shah and B V Nagarathna said.

“Therefore, it is observed and clarified that if

there is more than one child, only one child/family member, as the case may be, shall get ex-gratia payment of Rs 50,000,” it said.

The top court observed that in case both the parents have died, the child shall get Rs 50,000 qua each death, that is one for the deceased father and another for the deceased mother.

In an effort to provide some help to over 10,000 children who have lost both their parents to COVID-19,

the apex court had on January 19 directed all the state governments to reach out to those kids and pay them compensation.

During the hearing on Monday, the counsel appearing for Assam said they have filed an application seeking clarification on the issue as there are such families in the state where there are more than one children.

“Whether we are supposed to give it to both the children or should it be one

ex-gratia payment made to the family,” the counsel said. The bench observed that its order is very clear.

“It is per death Rs 50,000,” it said, while disposing of the application.

The issue had cropped up when the top court was hearing pleas filed by advocate Gaurav Bansal and some intervenors who have sought ex-gratia assistance to family members of COVID-19 victims.

While hearing the matter in January, the top court had taken note of the submissions that over 10,000 children have been orphaned due to COVID-19 and other reasons since the start of the pandemic and they be compensated.

It had said on October 4 last year that no state shall deny ex-gratia of Rs 50,000 to the next of kin of the

deceased due to COVID-19 solely on the ground that the death certificate does not mention the virus as the cause of death.

The court had also said that the ex-gratia is to be disbursed within 30 days from the date of applying to the district disaster management authority or the district administration concerned along with the proof of the death of the deceased due to coronavirus and the cause of death being certified as died due to COVID-19.

The top court had said that its directions for payment of compensation to the family members of the persons who died due to COVID-19 are very clear and there was no requirement at all of constituting the scrutiny committee to award compensation.

Govt formation: BJP appoints Shah, Rajnath as observers for UP, U’khand NEW DELHI, MAR 14 (PTI): The BJP on Monday appointed its top leaders, including Union ministers Amit Shah and Rajnath Singh, as central observers for government formation in the four states where it returned to power.

In the latest round of assembly elections, the BJP won Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Manipur, and on its own it touched the halfway mark in Goa. Punjab was Rajnath Singh and Amit Shah won by the AAP. The BJP parliamentary board, vice president Raghubar Das as its apex decision making body, co-observer.

Singh along with co-observer appointed Shah as the central observer for Uttar Pradesh and party Union Minister Meenakshi Lekhi

has been assigned to oversee the selection of the leader of the legislature party in Uttarakhand.

Union ministers Nirmala Sitharaman and Narendra Singh Tomar have been appointed as observers for selection of the leader of the legislature party in Manipur and Goa, the BJP said in a statement issued by its general secretary Arun Singh.

Union Minister Kiren Rijiju is the co-observer for Manipur and his cabinet colleague L Murgan is the co-observer for Goa. While it is all set that Yogi Adityanath will again be elected as the legislative leader in Uttar Pradesh,

the party has to take call on deputy chief ministers in the state, as one of the two in the previous government, Keshav Prasad Maurya, lost the elections along with 11 ministers.

In Uttarakhand it is not clear who will lead the government in the state as chief minister Pushkar Dhami lost the election.

In the backdrop of these circumstances and maintaining caste arithmetic in its favour, the BJP has appointed its heavyweights, former party presidents Shah and Singh, for ensuring smooth formation of government in both Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand.

PATNA, MAR 14 (PTI): A piquant situation arose in the Bihar assembly on Monday when Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and Speaker Vijay Kumar Sinha had a heated exchange over whether a matter being probed by the government which has also been referred to the privilege committee could be raised on the floor of the House “again and again”.

The chief minister rose to express his outrage when the speaker asked cabinet minister Bijendra Yadav to appraise the House, after a couple of days, of action taken on an incident in Lakhisarai, which also happens to be Sinha’s assembly constituency.

“The minister has been authorised to reply on behalf of the government.

When he has submitted that inquiry is underway, you ask him to come up with a fresh reply the day after tomorrow. This is against the rules. Please look at the Constitution”, Kumar said.

The privilege committee of the House has directed the DGP to conduct an inquiry into the alleged misbehaviour, with the speaker, of a Deputy SP in Lakhisarai and the SHO of the police station concerned a few days back.

The conflict between the speaker and the chief minister over the enquiry is also being viewed by

Nitish Kumar

some as a reflection of the strained relations between the JD(U) which Kumar leads and its ally BJP to which the speaker belongs.

It is for the government and the police to take action in such matters. The report of the investigation has to be submitted before the court, he said.

“Is the House empowered to intervene in the matter? I am serving my fourth term as the chief minister.

I was also a member of the assembly once. Never have I seen such a procedural anomaly. Please don’t run the House in this manner”, Kumar said.

Sinha began on a pacifying note, expressing the immense respect he had for the chief minister’s knowledge and experience, besides acknowledging the latter’s support “which helped my elevation to this Chair”.

“But please understand

my predicament. Initially, I had tried not to indulge any discussion in the matter after it was referred to the privilege committee. But members from the treasury benches and the opposition have created a ruckus again and again. After all, I am supposed to be the custodian of the House”, pleaded the speaker.

Notably, outbursts of Sinha over alleged wrongful arrest of a number of people in Lakhisarai for violation of prohibition law were in news last month.

The chief minister again rose upon the speaker’s statement and said, “I will inquire today itself into the progress in the investigation. The government will look into whatever recommendations the committee has made. But this matter must not be discussed on the floor of the House again and again”.

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Nagaland Post VOL. XXXII NO. 98 DIMAPUR, TUESDAY, MARCH 15, 2022

It’s a family affair

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hether the loyal remnant members of a rudderless Congress party, over whom sit sycophants making up the All India Congress Committee(AICC) whose duty is to wait for instructions from the party courtiers who make up the inner core of unelectable leaders who, in turn, make themselves indispensable to the ‘high command’ or the mother, son and now daughter trio. It was another futile brainstorming or ‘Chintan Shivir’ which the nation’s oldest political party, Congress which originated as a freedom movement, has been using since 2012. The Congress replicated the BJP’s ‘Chintan Baithak’ which the latter had conducted since 2009. The latest ‘Chintan Shivir’ of the Congress was held on March 13, Sunday to take stock of the defeat in all five state elections. In UP, Priyanka set up a whopping 401 candidates to the 403-member assembly. It was insane overconfidence or pure height of naivety for her to dream of achieving anything notable. This was borne out by the results in which Congress won only two seats, down from seven out of the 114 it contested in 2017.

The Congress lost power in Punjab where it was in a position to retain power but managed only 18 seats to the 92 seats won by the AAP in the 117-member assembly. Priyanaka and Rahul had a hand in the rout when they mishandled the internal crisis by humiliating sitting chief minister Capt. Amarinder instead of making him resign in order to placate Navjyot Sidhu. The Congress also succumbed to muscle and money power politics in Manipur where it could bag only five seats as against 28 it had won in 2017 to the BJP’s 21. In Goa, the Congress dreamt of being the single largest party but won only 11 to the BJP’s 20. In Uttarakhand the re-induction of Harish Rawat as the CM face did not help Congress regain the state as even he (Rawat) lost. In all these losses, what has been evident was the mishandling of the election strategy by the Gandhi siblings. No leader was given charge for campaigning except Rahul and Priyanka. It may be too harsh to squarely blame the Gandhi siblings for the party’s continued freefall since 2014 but then again, they are all-in-all with regard to appointments to top posts in the party. They chose who would be the party face in states going to elections. Therefore, for the inner courtiers to blame the ‘chosen ones’ for the disastrous defeats is unfair. A telling piece was written in a national media which mentioned Congress as a party that has lost over 40 elections and won just five in the last eight years. The report said Congress hasn’t been able to get even 10 per cent of the total Lok Sabha seats in the past two elections (2014 and 2019), failing to get even the Leader of Opposition’s status. Rahul had practically taken over Congress as president by 2013 and for the sycophants at CWC it was going to be “better days are ahead”. However it has been bitter and not better days ahead for Rahul and the rudderless and leaderless party. The Congress is surely going to be led by Rahul Gandhi when elections are held from August-September because no one would dare file nomination paper against him. In December 2013, after the Congress lost in Delhi, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, and Chhattisgarh, he promised to “transform” the party “in ways you can’t even imagine right now.” Well, when that promised transformation will come only after Rahul himself is transformed politically.

DailyDevotion Yielding …you are that one’s slaves whom you obey…

—Romans 6:16 The first thing I must be willing to admit when I begin to examine what controls and dominates me is that I am the one responsible for having yielded myself to whatever it may be. If I am a slave to myself, I am to blame because somewhere in the past I yielded to myself. Likewise, if I obey God I do so because at some point in my life I yielded myself to Him. If a child gives in to selfishness, he will find it to be the most enslaving tyranny on earth. There is no power within the human soul itself that is capable of breaking the bondage of the nature created by yielding. For example, yield for one second to anything in the nature of lust, and although you may hate yourself for having yielded, you become enslaved to that thing. (Remember what lust is— “I must have it now,” whether it is the lust of the flesh or the lust of the mind.) No release or escape from it will ever come from any human power, but only through the power of redemption. You must yield yourself in utter humiliation to the only One who can break the dominating power in your life, namely, the Lord Jesus Christ. “…He has anointed Me…to proclaim liberty to the captives…” (Luke 4:18 and Isaiah 61:1).

When you yield to something, you will soon realize the tremendous control it has over you. Even though you say, “Oh, I can give up that habit whenever I like,” you will know you can’t. You will find that the habit absolutely dominates you because you willingly yielded to it. It is easy to sing, “He will break every fetter,” while at the same time living a life of obvious slavery to yourself. But yielding to Jesus will break every kind of slavery in any person’s life.

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Every burden is a blessing. ~ Walt Kelly

NAGALAND POST, DIMAPUR TUESDAY, MARCH 15, 2022

Post-mortem

Neo-NPC on Indo-Naga political solution dangerous: WC, NNPGs

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o this day the Naga people are reminded of the activities of the Naga People’s Convention (NPC), formed under the presidentship of Dr. Imkongliba Ao, on 21st August 1957. The convention went on to talk with the Indian Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru and heralded in Nagaland statehood. Although these brilliant minds came up with a political proposal in the hope of ending conflict and bloodshed in Nagaland, the crime of stealing the people’s mandate and authority, right under the watchful eyes of Naga nationalist leaders, was neither forgiven nor forgotten as history records.

It was a harakiri individually and collectively.

To d a y, t h e U n i t ed Democratic Alliance (UDA), declaring oppositionless government to facilitate Indo-Naga political solution, appear to be traversing a dangerous uncharted territory, in the manner of NPC of 1957. Con-

ducting preemptive strikes in the corridors of power in New Delhi seeking, in their own words, “Highest Offer” in the impending Indo-Naga political solution goes against the principle of Agreed Position.

WC appreciates the Apex Tribal Hohos, NTC and its peace mediation committee, NGBF, ENPO, CNTC, the NBCC, Joint Christian Forum, Naga Mothers, students’ bodies and other civil societies for playing the role of proactive partners of WC, NNPGs in enabling WC and GoI begin political negotiations.

In essence, the declaration of conclusion of talks marks the end of facilitator’s role. The onus lies with negotiators and GoI to fulfil people’s aspiration. An old saying, “too many cooks spoil the broth” is worth a reminder. The Indo-Naga issue is not an antique jewellery to be auctioned in New Delhi. Negotiations have concluded between GoI and Naga negotiators. There are

better and greater communication channels between GoI and WC, NNPGs. Working Committee (WC) Naga National Political Groups (NNPGs) has always maintained a fine balance between Naga historical right and the practical reality of the present situation. The GoI has acknowledged the Naga people’s political aspiration. The vision of the pioneers, the sacrifices of thousands of patriots, the unrestrained emotional and sentimental value attached to the cause for over eighty years cannot be measured. Taking this stand, the Agreed Position was signed on 17th November 2017, in which, “... the GoI recognises the political and historical rights of the Nagas to self determine their future in consonance with their distinct history and identity” while recognising this fact of history, the Indo-Naga solution would also encompass contemporary political realities

for honorable and enduring peaceful relationship.

WC , N N P G s h a s maintained a set parameter in its diplomatic conducts with Nagaland government, aware that Nagaland state is a byproduct and agent of the Indian constitution and, therefore, always a party to Government of India’s (GoI) interlocutory on everything that is agreed upon between the WC, NNPGs and the GoI on negotiated matters. That members of the Nagaland Legislative Assembly, as elected representatives of the Naga People, definitely understands the sacrifices and commitment of the Naga populace as well as the National workers in the last eight decades. The imposed Indian electoral mandate and the sacrificial Naga people’s mandate for Naga political right are different subjects altogether.

Entire Naga people are aware that the then GoI Interlocutor Mr. R. N Ravi and Naga negotiators offi-

The inadequacy of opportunities at home

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cially declared the political negotiations as concluded on 31st October 2019. Two years earlier, the unconditional support of all Naga tribes, the Church, Peace mediation members, indigenous non Naga communities, Nagaland GBs and all Civil societies guided the WC, NNPGs into signing the Agreed Position.

In the 2018 Nagaland Assembly Elections, while the Naga people peacefully and unanimously endorsed non participation in the Indian elections, the BJP adopted the slogan “ELECTION FOR SOLUTION” which Mr. Ram Mhadav BJP spokesperson and NE in-charge declared to the Naga people. The WC, NNPGs too relented and elections were conducted.

If elections are announced in Nagaland without IndoNaga Political Agreement, there will be unprecedented reactions and harsh consequences from Naga people whom they betrayed.

The UDA Chairman

Mr. TR Zeliang, as reported in the media, has sought from the Centre Government the highest offer from GoI. WC, NNPGs would advice him to understand the word “FACILITATOR” and whether he is facilitating or doing something else.

With each passing day his media utterances sounds more like a third party negotiator in the Indo-Naga political talks!

The UDA Chairperson, with Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) as an ally in the oppositionless Nagaland government, must bear moral responsibility should the 31st October 2019 declaration of conclusion of political talks by all negotiating entities, is kept in the backburner. To hurt the Naga sentiment, ignoring the repeated appeal and demand of apex tribal bodies and civil societies, as history recalls, would invite the most painful humiliation for any leader.

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Ukraine war a testament to US hegemony

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rivalry within the capitalist world that now encompasses the US, Western Europe and Russia. The basis for the Cold War and for organizations like NATO is gone, even as weapons against rival capitalist countries. They remain as weapons of imperialism, that is, as weapons against the third world (including China though it poses no military threat), but not against the second world that no longer exists. Otherwise, their use can only be for serving the business interests of American monopolists.

Continental Europe is waking up to this fact, which is why it has been attempting to build bridges with Russia economically. The American effort to use the security argument to obtain monopoly control over the European market for oil and natural gas, by excluding Russia and Iran from it, seeks to thwart this European move. It makes little economic sense for Europe, however, to fall in line.

In this endeavour, the US needs to ‘provoke the bear’ by expanding NATO. It has the support of neo-Nazi elements of Ukraine whom it helped to overthrow Viktor Yanukovych, Ukraine’s constitutionally-elected president in 2014. Although the current government, elected in 2019, is run by a different, newly-formed, party, the Azov Battalion of neoNazis is now incorporated into the Ukrainian army. No matter on what terms the current war ends, the anomaly of using a security argument to prevent economic benefits to Europe will not disappear; and US resistance to challenges to its hegemony will only intensify those challenges: the imposition of sanctions, for instance, hastens the trend towards de-dollarization (trading without the use of dollars) that further undermines US hegemony.

Europe is unlikely for long to keep paying higher prices for gas just to keep a security arrangement going that it scarcely thinks is needed against Russia, despite Russia invading Ukraine.

The people of Ukraine are thus caught in a conflict far more consequential than appears at first sight. It is not just about Ukraine joining NATO; it is about American hegemony, about re-alignments within Europe, about shifts within capitalism that the US is trying to prevent. What the conflict does, however, is to accentuate the crisis within world capitalism. The decade before the pandemic witnessed the slowest growth-rate experienced by world capitalism since the World War. The revival promised by the Joe Biden administration has been running into a cul-de-sac because of the re-emergence of inflation in the US. Inflation will be compounded by the war in Ukraine; and even after this war is over, there will be a considerable lapse of time before any economic revival is attempted.

The world economy will be in crisis for quite some time; and India will be particularly hard-hit.

Prabhat Patnaik is Professor Emeritus, Centre for Economic Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi (As published in The Telegraph Online) 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.

s thousands of Indian students stranded in warhit Ukraine await evacuation, the popularity of countries like Ukraine, China, Russia, Georgia, and the Philippines for medical education among Indian students has emerged as a major talking point. On February 26, Prime Minister Narendra Modi alluded to the phenomenon and said that Indian students are going to “small countries for study, especially in medical education.”

Speaking at the inauguration of a webinar on Union Budget announcements in the health sector, he urged the private sector to enter the field of medical education in a big way.

While the Prime Minister did not refer to the students in Ukraine in particular, the country which is now under attack from Russia ranks fourth in Europe for having the largest number of graduate and post-graduate medical students, according to Ukraine’s Ministry of Education and Science. The Ministry’s data also says that there were around 18,095 Indian students in Ukraine before evacuation efforts began, and that in 2020, 24% of its overseas students were from India, according to IANS. And now, while many students are stranded in Ukraine, thousands who’ve returned from both Ukraine and China are dealing with an uncertain future.

The reason thousands of students go abroad for MBBS degrees is very straightforward, say experts: the shortage of seats in India, coupled with the relatively affordable fees in Ukraine and other countries when compared with private colleges within India.

Opportunities for medical education in India fall inadequate According to the Ministry of Health, there were 88,120 undergraduate seats in medical colleges in India as of December 2021. On the other hand, over 15.44 lakh candidates appeared for NEET-UG (National Eligibility cum Entrance Test - Undergraduate) in 2021, an exam which even students who wish to pursue a medical degree abroad are required to clear, in some countries. Around 8.70 lakh candidates cleared the exam last year. This means the number of undergraduate medical seats available (88,120) can only accommodate around 10% of the total qualifying candidates.

Pointing to the magnitude of the gap in demand and availability for MBBS seats in the country, education strategy specialist Ramachandran Krish says, “Even if we assume some of the candidates are writing the exam only out of parental pressure, even if only about 5 lakh candidates truly want to pursue MBBS, that’s still a huge shortage,” he notes.

The National Medical Commission’s website shows 43,310 MBBS seats available in 284 government medical colleges in India, and 41,065 MBBS seats

in 269 private medical colleges.

This means only about half of the already meager seats are in affordable government colleges.

And there’s a massive difference in the cost of studying in “small countries”, as PM Modi referred to them, when compared to private colleges in India.

Ramachandran says that the cost of the entire MBBS degree in countries like Ukraine and Russia can be as relatively low as one-third of the cost in a private college in India. Speaking to IANS, Omkar Jilla, a third-year medical student from Maharashtra studying at the Ivano-Frankivsk National Medical University in Ukraine, said, “Where we have to spend Rs 10 lakh to Rs 15 lakh per annum in private medical colleges in India, here it costs Rs 3 to Rs 4 lakh only.” Moreover, the quality of education at Indian private colleges can also be dubious at times, making students and parents opt for relatively affordable colleges abroad of similar or better quality, says Ramachandran.

On returning to India, students would still have to clear the Foreign Medical Graduates Exam (FMGE) for a license to practice medicine here. FMGE is now proposed to be replaced by the National Exit Test (NExT), an exam which is also likely to become a qualifying final exam for MBBS students who have studied in India, and also possibly replace the NEET-PG exam.

In the midst of the Ukraine crisis, Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi claimed that 90% of Indian students who study abroad don’t pass India’s qualifying examinations, a remark that was heavily criticised by the Progressive Medicos and Scientists Forum (PMSF).

PMSF slammed the “insensitive and inappropriate questions” being directed towards students facing the horrors of war in Ukraine, asking them why they go to “small foreign nations” to become doctors instead of studying in India. In a statement issued on March 1, Tuesday, the doctors’ forum pointed out: “Limited government MBBS seats and lack of affordable medical education in India forces thousands of MBBS aspirants to seek help from agencies that arrange their admission in medical colleges in eastern Europe, south east Asia and Oceania.” It also said that these countries, unlike India, have “relatively adequate number of medical universities, most of them entirely public funded,” and that they use their additional capacity “to train foreign students on a monetary basis.”

Can the private sector fix the shortage?

Speaking after the war on Ukraine commenced, PM Modi had said, “Our children today are going to small countries for study, especially in medical education … Can our private sector not enter this field in a big way? Can our state governments not frame good policies

for land allotment regarding this?” Incidentally, the PMSF in its statement said that by finding fault with the choice of students who study medicine abroad, the Government of India “is feigning ignorance from the rampant commercialisation of medical education and health care here in India.”

Although more private colleges can help meet the demand for medical education in theory, Paul Chellakumar, Chairman of Chennai-based overseas education consultancy Campus Abroad, notes that in the case of engineering and business education in India, quality of education has become increasingly unreliable with growing privatisation and lack of proper regulation of private colleges.

“Managements of private colleges are often not very invested in ensuring quality education, as they run these institutions like a business. With management quota seats being so expensive, many countries including Bangladesh are trying to attract students from India. If the demand leads to rise in private medical colleges, there has to be a proper mechanism for fees and quality regulation.

But in India, no one hesitates to pay a capitation fee, which has become very normalised as part of our culture, despite being illegal,” Paul notes.

At present, the number of medical colleges is hugely disproportionate across Indian states, with a large number of them concentrated in Karnataka (63 colleges with 9,795 MBBS seats according to NMC), Maharashtra (61 colleges and 9,600 MBBS seats), Tamil Nadu (69 colleges and 10625 MBBS seats), Telangana and Andhra Pradesh (34 colleges and 5,340 seats; and 31 colleges and 5,210 seats respectively), and Uttar Pradesh (67 colleges and 8,678 seats).

In October 2021, NITI Aayog member Dr Vinod K Paul had said that the Indian government aims to achieve the doctor patient ratio of 1:1000 as prescribed

by World Health Organisation (WHO) by 2024. Ramachandran says that if the National Medical Commission (NMC) were to take the scarcity of MBBS seats seriously, in order to provide enough opportunities for every student who aspires to a medical education in India, while also aiming to achieve the required doctor patient ratio in proportion with each state’s population, it would at least have to start adding around 30,000 MBBS seats every year if not more for the next few years, and funds would have to be allocated accordingly.

“Alternatives to the existing education system must be considered,” Ramachandran says, adding, “The NMC can consider adding a few colleges through a public–private partnership. The government could ask large hospital groups to set up colleges and provide incentives, while keeping the fees affordable.”

Jahnavi Reddy (As published in The News Minute)

he war in Ukraine is terrible; and the person who started it, Vladimir Putin, must be held squarely responsible for it. But this should not absolve us from examining what has led up to it. Just as the origin of the Second World War can be traced to the unfairness of the Treaty of Versailles, the roots of the war in Ukraine lie in American opposition to Continental Europe’s, especially Germany’s, attempt to develop closer economic ties with Russia.

For some time now, the United States of America has been expressing its opposition to the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline that would bring natural gas from Russia to meet German requirements, from heating up German homes to providing feedstock for the German fertilizer industry, which would link the German economy very closely with that of Russia. The argument used by the US has been that German security demands independence from Russia in this crucial area, for Russia can otherwise paralyze the German economy by simply withholding gas supplies; instead, for the sake of German security, gas imports should be from the US itself even though it would be much more expensive than Russian gas. Security concerns are thus pitted against economic benefits and accorded priority by the US. A hint of Germany’s lukewarmness about the American-led sabre-rattling against Russia that had preceded the actual Russian invasion was given by the pro-Putin comments of the German navy chief, Kay-Achim Schönbach. He had to resign for his indiscretion, but a military man of his seniority cannot be expressing only his personal views; they must be current within the German government. There is even a story going around that Russia and Ukraine had reached agreement at a meeting, also attended by Germany and France, over Ukraine’s ‘neutrality’ (like Finland’s) that would have defused the crisis; but Ukraine, having agreed, withdrew from it under US pressure (The Delphi Initiative, March 2).

The old Cold War had invoked the image of an aggressive Soviet Union which was baseless.

The Soviet Union that had lost 10 per cent of its population during the Second World War and had even adhered to the terms of the Yalta agreement by scrupulously not interfering in the Greek Civil war. It was in no mood to export communism, for which it even earned China’s derision; but this aggressive image had stuck because of its ideological appeal.

Western Europe did feel threatened by the Soviet Union, even as American aid poured into it to rebuild its devastated economies.

Thus, the security concern and economic interests of Western European countries coincided to dictate their alliance with the US that found expression in NATO. But today’s conjuncture is different. The Soviet Union is gone; the communist ‘threat’ has subsided; the globalization of finance has undermined the possibility of any enduring inter-imperialist

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NEW DELHI, MAR 14 (PTI): The BJP on Monday dared the Congress to announce in Lok Sabha that it would restore Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir if it comes to power.

Intervening in the debate on budget for Jammu and Kashmir in the Lower House, Minister of State in PMO Jitendra Singh said that the Modi government was allocating 63 per cent of the budget to the Union Territory to deal with the legacy of the Congress regime.

“Does the Congress party have the courage to say that it will restore Article 370 after coming to power...

You don’t say that. You want to beat about the bush and want to have it both ways,” he said. The minister said that Article 370, which was abrogated by the Modi government, had prevented the

Adityanath calls on President Ram Nath Kovind NEW DELHI, MAR 14 (PTI): Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Monday called on President Ram Nath Kovind during his first visit to the national capital after the BJP registered a thumping victory in the state assembly polls. Adityanath earlier also met senior BJP leader and Union minister Nitin Gadkari. “ Yo g i A d i t ya n a t h called on President Ram Nath Kovind at Rashtrapati Bhavan,” the president’s office tweeted and posted pictures of the meeting. The Uttar Pradesh chief minister had also met Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, party chief J P Nadda and other senior leaders here on Sunday.

Adityanath’s meeting with Modi had lasted for more than 100 minutes and he is believed to have discussed the broad contours of government formation and the structure of the new state cabinet. The priest-turnedpolitician is also likely to meet BJP’s poll in-charge for UP and Union minister Dharmendra Pradhan, and co-incharge and Union minister Anurag Thakur.

21.5 mn people in tourism sector lost Court sends NSE ex-MD Chitra their jobs since COVID outbreak: Govt to 14-day judicial custody

NARAYANPUR, MAR 14 (PTI): An official of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) was killed and two jawans suffered injuries in two separate incidents of Improvised Explosive Device (IED) blasts triggered by Naxals in Chhattisgarh’s Narayanpur district on Monday, a police official said.

One of the incidents took place around 8.30 am between Dondribeda and Sonpur villages when a team of the ITBP’s 53rd battalion was out on patrolling duty to ensure security to a road construction work, Inspector General of Police (Bastar range) Sundarraj P told PTI. When the patrolling team was cordoning off a forest patch, security personnel came in contact with the pressure IED, triggering an explosion, he said.

Assistant Sub-Inspector Rajendra Singh, hailing from Tehri in Uttarakhand was killed in the blast, while head constable Mahesh received injuries, he said.

The injured jawan was shifted to the district hospital, the official said.

NEW DELHI, MAR 14 (PTI): Around 21.5 million people, involved in the tourism industry, have lost their jobs due to the three waves of COVID-19 that first hit the country in early 2020, Union Tourism Minister G Kishan Reddy said on Monday.

Reddy said tourist arrivals in the country were down by 93 percent during the first wave of COVID-19 outbreak, 79 percent in the second wave and 64 percent during the third wave.

“We have conducted a study on the impact of the pandemic on tourism. As per the study, there were 14.5 million job losses during the first wave, 5.2 million job losses in the second wave and 1.8 million job losses in the third wave,” he said in Lok Sabha during Question Hour.

Reddy said 38 million people were involved with the tourism industry in the country before the pandemic hit the country.

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He, however, said with the administering of 180 crore doses of COVID-19 vaccines, the government was hopeful that there would be improvements in the tourism sector.

To help this sector, Reddy said, an interest-free loan of Rs 10 lakh is given to travel and tourism stakeholders and up to Rs 1 lakh to tourist guides.

“I appeal to all state governments to help the tourism sector in whatever way they can,” he said.

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to the pro-tourists initiatives of the Narendra Modi government, India’s rank in global tourist destinations has gone up by about 20 positions — from 52 in 2013 to 32 in 2019.

To encourage more international tourists, the government has already decided to waive the visa fee of the first five lakh arrivals, he said. He said after the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, till March 7, 2022, as many as 51,960 regular visas and 1.57 e-visas were given by India.

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implementation of welfare measures like the prohibition of child marriages, prevention of corruption, anti-dowry legislation, right to information and SC/ST reservation.

He wanted to know if the Congress had left ‘Ram Raj” in Kashmir that the opposition party was accusing the Modi government of “attempting to destroy’’.

Singh asserted that PM Modi has created a new political culture by honouring Mahatma Gandhi, Sardar Patel, Subhas Chandra Bose and B R Ambedkar and “Congress is now searching for icons”. The fact that Congress leaders are joining the BJP indicates that the ruling party was on the right path, he said, adding “we are doing what the Congress promised to do but did not do because of political reasons.” No political party can oppose the implementation of the welfare measures after the abrogation of Article 370, he said.

Referring to industrialisation in Jammu and Kashmir, the minister said that more than Rs 50,000 crore have been invested by large industrial houses in the UT.

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party’s shameful defeat,” he said.

People across the country had lost faith in the leadership of the Gandhis,” he said, referring to Congress president Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra.

On Monday, former Punjab Congress chief Sunil Jakhar also questioned the appointment of Channi as the Punjab CM ahead of the polls, mocking a senior party leader for reportedly describing him as an “asset”. In the just-ended assembly polls, the Congress got just 18 seats, and the Aam Aadmi Party romped home with 92 in a House of 117. Amarinder Singh claimed several senior leaders within the party were

NEW DELHI, MAR 14 (PTI): A Delhi court on Monday sent to 14-day judicial custody the former managing director and chief executive officer of National Stock Exchange (NSE) Chitra Ramkrishna in connection with the co-location scam case.

Special Judge Sanjeev Aggarwal ordered that Ramakrishna be physically produced before the court next on March 28.

The CBI produced the accused before court upon the expiry of her 7-day custody and urged it to remand her to judicial custody.

The probe agency had arrested Ramkrishna on March 6, a day after her

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blaming the infighting in Punjab Congress and the “anti-party” statements of Navjot Sidhu for its bad performance in the state.

“The party had dug its own grave in the border state the day they decided to back an unstable and pompous person like Navjot Sidhu, and naming a corrupt man like Charanjit Singh Channi as chief minister just months before the polls,” he said in a statement here.

The CWC leaders who were claiming that there was strong “anti-incumbency” against his government had conveniently forgotten that he had won every election for the party since 2017, including the civic bodies polls in February 2021, just seven months before his unceremonious removal, Singh said. “These leaders are just sycophants who are trying to shield the family by shifting blame and closing their eyes to the writing on the wall,” he said.

He claimed the Congress had no future under the present set-up.

family had the backing of the people over the years, right from Jawaharlal Nehru’s time.

“Majority of Lok Sabha members not only of the Congress Party but also other secular parties projected Sonia Gandhi to be the prime minister. But she chose the greatest economist ever produced by the country – Dr. Manmohan Singh.

Sonia Gandhi could have become the prime minister if she had chosen to,” he said, referring to the formation of the UPA government.

“Rahul Gandhi was also asked to become a minister by Dr. Manmohan Singh but he was not willing.

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Hailing the UPA rule, Moily said Sonia Gandhi headed the National Advisory Committee (NAC) as UPA Chairperson and provided the most progressive and revolutionary law like the Right to Information, Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, etc.

“Sonia Gandhi with the best of intentions formed the ‘group to look into future challenges’ under my chairmanship with prominent young leaders like Rahul Gandhi, Jyotiraditya Scindia, Sachin Pilot, Mukul Wasnik and Sandeep Dikshit. The said committee submitted its first report also. The Committee was not given chance to submit other reports,” he said.

“Sonia Gandhi convened two or three meetings for implementation of the recommendations. But again our leaders failed us and watered-down the recommendations of the group and it was not Sonia Gandhi but her advisors who failed us,” Moily said.

CHANDIGARH, MAR 14 (PTI): Amarinder Singh on Monday held the Gandhis totally responsible for the rout of the Congress in the assembly polls, claiming that the party was “comfortably placed” in Punjab before he was unseated as chief minister.

In a statement a day after the Congress Working Committee (CWC) took stock of the drubbing received by the party in five states, Singh took digs at the “pompous” state Congress president Navjot Singh Sidhu and the “corrupt” Charanjit Singh Channi, who replaced him as CM. After his ouster as CM last year, Amarinder Singh left the Congress and floated his own Punjab Lok Congress. He slammed the CWC for trying to put the blame for the Congress defeat in Punjab on him instead of “gracefully admitting” their “own blunders”.

“The Congress has not only lost in Punjab but also in UP, Uttarakhand, Goa and Manipur and the Gandhis are entirely to blame for the

Indian National Congress which compelled both Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi to take up the cause of the Congress party,” he said.

Moily said the Congress occupied the seat of power for over 60 years and it was the BJP or the Jan Sangh which suffered the drought of power for decades. ‘’We should remind ourselves of the famous quote of Mahatma Gandhi: ‘You must be the change you wish to see in the world’,” he said.

While the decision of the Congress Working Committee (CWC) to organise a “Chintan Shivir” is welcome, Moily said it has to be supplemented by introspection of the reasons for the debacles suffered by the party.

“Indira Gandhi always believed in building the party from the bottom to the top -- Block Congress, District Congress, Pradesh Congress and AICC exclusively with loyalists of the party. We find that opportunists have crept into the organisation,”

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“I am deeply concerned by certain comments made by our leaders and some quarters of the press on the debacle of Indian National Congress immediately after the announcement of results in five states and the earlier poll debacles,” Moily told PTI in an interview.

He said he is not worried about the loss either in Lok Sabha polls or the assembly elections, but is concerned about the remarks made by some of the party leaders who he claimed always targeted the top leadership of the party.

“When I was asked to sign the memorandum for revamping the Congress party, it was never intended to target the top leadership.

That is why I am not associating with them thereafter,” the former Union minister, who was known to be a Sonia Gandhi-loyalist, said.

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NEW DELHI, MAR 14 (PTI): A day after the Congress brainstormed over its electoral reverses, senior leader M Veerappa Moily on Monday said Sonia Gandhi should take “full control” of the party with a free hand to change non-performing leaders, and asserted that a “mere culture of tweets and social media propaganda” would not take the organisation forward.

Party loyalists have become a casualty as “opportunists” have crept into the organisation, he contended.

He stressed that introspection by the party on the reasons for the electoral defeat was needed, but added that “none of the Congress leaders or workers should become panicky and the unity of Congress cadres at this juncture is the need of the nation’’.

Moily, who was among the 23 leaders who had written to Sonia Gandhi for large-scale organisational reforms, distanced himself from the group (G-23) and said his intention was never to target the top leadership

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Gold prices declined with rise in US bond yields,” Tapan Patel, senior analyst (commodities) of HDFC Securities, said.

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The maximum limit on microfinance loans for such NBFCs (NBFCs other than NBFC-MFIs) now stands revised at 25 per cent of the total assets.

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Regarding limit on loan repayment obligations of a household, it said each RE should have a boardapproved policy regarding the limit on the outflows on account of repayment of monthly loan obligations of a household as a percentage of the monthly household income. “This shall be subject to a limit of maximum 50 per cent of the monthly household income,” it said.

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be subjected to supervisory scrutiny by the Reserve Bank,” it said.

Also, each RE has to disclose pricing-related information to a prospective borrower in a standardised simplified factsheet.

“Any fees to be charged to the microfinance borrower by the RE and/ or its partner/agent shall be explicitly disclosed in the factsheet.

The borrower shall not be charged any amount which is not explicitly mentioned in the factsheet,” it added.

The directions will come into force from April 1.

Further, there should be no pre-payment penalty on microfinance loans.

“Penalty, if any, for delayed payment shall be applied on the overdue amount and not on the entire loan amount,” the RBI said.

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MUMBAI, MAR 14 (PTI): The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Monday allowed microfinance lenders to fix interest rates on loans with a rider that those should not be usurious for the borrowers. A microfinance loan is defined as a collateral-free loan given to a household having an annual income of up to Rs 3 lakh.

Each regulated entity (RE) should put in place a board-approved policy regarding pricing of microfinance loans, said the ‘Master Direction – Reserve Bank of India (Regulatory Framework for Microfinance Loans) Directions, 2022’. In the past, the central bank used to announce the rates on quarterly basis.

“Interest rates and other charges/ fees on microfinance loans should not be usurious. These shall

Gold declines by Rs 362; silver tumbles Rs 612

Central initiatives to boost start-up...

(From p-1) An initial allocation of Rs 1,500 crore had been made as per Budget speech for 2022-23 and seven projects had been identified. The projects include-- Establishment of dedicated services for management of paediatric and adult haemotolymphoid cancers in North East India, Guwahati (Multi-State)- Rs. 129 cr; NECTAR livelihood improvement project (Multi-State)- Rs. 67 cr; Promoting scientific organic agriculture in North East (Multi-State)- Rs. 45 cr; Construction of Aizawl By-pass on Western Side- Rs. 500 cr; Gap funding for passenger ropeway system in West Sikkim- Rs. 64 cr; Gap funding for eco-friendly ropeway (Cable Car) in South Sikkim- Rs. 58 cr; Pilot project for construction of bamboo link road at different locations in Mizoram- Rs. 100 cr and Others (to be identified)- Rs. 537 cr.

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RBI allows MFIs to fix interest rates

Castor oil for all-round health...

(From p-1) Pouring castor oil after adding a pinch of baking soda in it in cysts, corns and moles helps in dissolving and removing them. Also, castor oil can be used as a natural hair mask after mixing one tablespoon of it with olive oil and lemon juice. Meanwhile, N Michael Dzuvichu, who practises physiotherapy, explained that castor oil helped in lymphatic drainage, leading the toxins and waste products from the blood and the serum from the lymph nodes to the kidney and through it throws these out of the body, thus purifying blood and the body. He claimed that castor oil relieved both mental and physical stress and recommended its use.

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18, 2018-19 and 2019-20 has already been paid to states. Since collections in the compensation fund are falling short of requirement, for 2020-21 and 2021-22, the Centre has borrowed funds worth Rs 1.10 lakh crore and Rs 1.59 lakh crore, respectively and passed it on to states as back-to-back loans.

The compensation cess, levied on luxury and demerit goods, will continue to be collected till March 2026 to repay the borrowings that were done in 2020-21 and 2021-22 to compensate states for GST revenue loss.

regardless of the parties that come to power in the region.

Talking about the budget of the North Eastern Council (NEC), Bhuyan said the budget allocated to NEC for eight states was Rs. 1,500 crores, while the budget for the state of Assam was Rs. 60,000 crores. “How will the NEC budget be distributed between eight states?” he asks, calling for increasing the budget allocated to the Council. V Vijaya Sai Reddy of the YSRCP also participated in the debate.

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compensation to states/UTs for 5 years as per the Constitutional provision.

To a query whether the government has received proposals from state governments requesting extension of compensation mechanism for another five years in view of difficulties caused by the pandemic, she said “Yes Sir. Many states have requested for extension of the compensation period during the deliberations in GST Council and in letters addressed to the central government”.

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NEW DELHI, MAR 14 (AGENCIES): N Chandrasekaran, the chairman of Tata Sons, has been officially appointed as the chairman of Air India, reported news agency ANI on Monday. The appointment was cleared at a board meeting held today by Air India.

Alice GeeVarghese Vaidyan, former CMD of General Insurance Corporation, will also be inducted as an independent director on board, reported Economic Times on Monday. Chandrasekaran’s appointment comes after former Turkish Airlines chairman Ilker Ayci, earlier this month, declined the Tata Group’s offer to be the chief executive officer and managing director of Air India as “some sections of the Indian media” have attempted to “colour” his appointment in an undesirable manner.

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associate Paytm Payments Bank to stop onboarding new customers with immediate effect. The bank was also directed to appoint an IT audit firm to conduct a comprehensive system audit of its IT system.

Paytm, in a statement on Saturday, said that RBI’s action does not impact any existing customers of Paytm Payments Bank, who can continue to use all banking and payment services without interruption.

“The bank is taking immediate steps to comply with RBI directions, including appointment of a reputed external auditor to conduct a comprehensive system audit of its IT systems. Paytm Payments Bank remains committed to working with the regulator to address their concerns as quickly as possible,” Paytm said It said the central bank’s direction will not have any impact on the services that Paytm provides in partnership with other financial services institutions.

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NEW DELHI, MAR 14 (PTI): Many states have requested extension of the compensation mechanism under the GST beyond June 2022, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Monday. Under the Goods and Services Tax (GST) law, states were guaranteed to be compensated bi-monthly for any loss of revenue in the first five years of GST implementation from July 1, 2017.

The shortfall is calculated assuming a 14 per cent annual growth in GST collections by states over the base year of 2015-16.

The 5-year period ends in June 2022.

The compensation amount to be paid from the compensation fund is arrived at by levying cess on top of the highest tax slab on luxury, demerit and sin goods.

In a written reply in the Lok Sabha, Sitharaman said the central government is committed to giving GST

(AGENCIES): Paytm Payments Bank on Monday rejected a media report which claimed that the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI’s) direction to the bank to stop onboarding new customers on its platform came because the bank was found to be sharing data with Chinese firms. In a tweet, Paytm Payments Bank called the report “false and sensationalist”.

“Paytm Payments Bank is proud to be a completely homegrown bank, fully compliant with RBI’s directions on data localisation. All of the Bank’s data resides within India,” it said.

Earlier today, Bloomberg, citing a person familiar with the matter, reported that the annual inspection by the central bank had found that Paytm Payments Bank’s servers were sharing information with Chinabased firms which indirectly own a stake in the bank.

Based on certain material supervisory concerns observed in the bank, the RBI had on Friday asked

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Many states for GST relief extension: FM

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N Chandrasekaran Paytm calls report on data (From p-1) appointed as Air leak to Chinese firms ‘false’ Independent Rajya Sabha MP for Assam, Ajit Singh said that people sitting in Delhi will not understand India chairman NEW DELHI, MAR 14 fintech company Paytm’s Bhuyan the culture and aspirations of the North Eastern people,

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Earthquakes shake Indonesia, Philippines; no tsunami threat

JAKARTA, MAR 14 (AP): Strong, shallow underwater earthquakes shook western Indonesia and the Philippine capital region on Monday, but no serious damage was reported and no tsunami warnings were issued.

In Indonesia, a magnitude-6.7 quake that was 16 kilometers (10 miles) deep struck about 169 kilometers (104.8 miles) west of Pariaman, a town in West Sumatra province, the US Geological Survey said.

The Indonesian Meteorology and Geophysics Agency said the quake was felt in many parts of the province but there was no

danger of a tsunami. It occurred just before dawn and was centered about 161 kilometers (100 miles) southeast of South Nias, a district in North Sumatra province.

Another earthquake of 6.4-magnitude shook parts of the Manila region and outlying provinces at dawn but there were no reported damages or injuries, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said. The offshore quake was set off by movement along the Manila Trench and its epicenter was about 110 kilometers (68 miles) west of Lubang island in Occidental Mindoro province,

which lies south of Manila, the Philippine institute said.

Its depth was about 28 kilometers (17 miles).

Indonesia and the Philippines lie along the Pacific “Ring of Fire” — the seismic faults around the Pacific Ocean where most of the world’s earthquakes and volcanic eruptions occur.

A 6.2 earthquake in Indonesia’s West Sumatra province last month killed at least 16 people and injured more than 400. Thousands of homes and other buildings were damaged by the tremors that were felt as far away as Malaysia and Singapore.

Shooting outside Chicago pizza shop leaves 7 men wounded

CHICAGO, MAR 14 (AP): A shooting outside a pizza shop on Chicago’s South Side has left seven men wounded, authorities said. The men were standing near the street Sunday afternoon when they were shot, police said. Initial information from police indicated two were in critical condition and the others were in good condition.

A car pulled up near the Little Caesars and someone inside the vehicle “almost immediately” opened fire, Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown said during a press briefing Sunday. It wasn’t immediately known whether there was an argument just before the shooting.

Fuel crisis severely impacts Sri Lanka C O LO M B O, M A R 1 4 (IANS): The fuel crisis, caused by the shortage of foreign exchange, has severely impacted the Sri Lankan society, worsening the country’s economic woes. Minister of Energy Gamini Lokuge on Sunday told journalists that at least seven months will be needed to end the current fuel and gas queues in the country, reports Xinhua news agency.

Long queues of vehicles lining up outside fuel stations is a common sight around the country. While Sri Lanka has managed to procure adequate supplies of petrol, used by most private motor cars, the country still suffers from diesel shortages. Diesel is used by buses, trains, power plants and many industries, and due to the shortages in diesel many industries are operating at a suboptimal level. In the first week of March, between 80 per cent to 90 per cent of private buses were not operating due to inadequate diesel.

Meanwhile, Sri Lanka has a number of diesel-run power plants that the country depends on to provide an uninterrupted supply of power during the dry season, between January and May.

“Whether it was a targeted shooting or an altercation, it’s unacceptable,” Brown said. A second vehicle may have been involved, Brown said. It wasn’t known whether more than one person fired shots at the men and Brown asked the public to share any information to help in the ongoing investigation.

No arrests were immediately made.

The men who were shot ranged in age from their early 30s to their 60s, police said.

The shooting came amid an increase in gun violence in the city. Last year, 797 homicides occurred in Chicago — more than any single year in the last quarter century.

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Congo freight train derailment kills 75 in south

China says India, Pakistan should hold talks

KINSHASA (CONGO), MAR 14 (AP): At least 75 people have died after a train derailed in Congo’s southern Lualaba province in Kinteta village.

The toll from the freight train derailment last week rose from 60 to at least 75 over the weekend, Lualaba’s provincial minister of interior Deodat Kapenda said. Those dead were likely illegal stowaways, according to UN Radio Okapi.

At least 125 people were also injured and have been taken to two hospitals in the region, Kapenda said.

The train derailed as it went up a hill and a number of wagons fell into a ravine, according to the provincial minister of social affairs Nathalie Lunda Ngandu.

President Félix Tshisekedi offered condolences to the relatives of victims in a tweet. Train derailments are common in Congo where rail lines and carriages are not well maintained. People will often hop on freight trains to travel long distances because of a lack of good roads and passenger trains.

Nine people died in October when a train derailed in the same province, in Kenzenze in the Mutshatsha area.

BEIJING, MAR 14 (PTI): China on Monday said India and Pakistan should hold a dialogue as soon as possible and launch a “thorough investigation” into the recent “accidental firing” of a missile from India which landed in Pakistan’s Punjab province.

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian, during a media briefing here, said that Pakistan and India both of them are important countries in South Asia and they share the responsibility to uphold regional security and stability.

Asked by a Pakistani journalist about China’s response on the “accidental firing” of the Indian missile,

ISLAMABAD, MAR 14 (PTI): Pakistan’s Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry on Monday urged the Opposition parties to withdraw their no-trust motion against Prime Minister Imran Khan and indicated that the government “will see what can be given in return” to them.

Last week, around 100 lawmakers from the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) submitted a no-confidence motion before the National Assembly Secretariat, alleging the Imran Khan government was responsible for the economic crisis and the spiralling inflation in the country.

Referring to the current political situation in Pakistan, Chaudhry, a close aide of Prime Minister Khan, said that the Opposition should withdraw the notrust motion as it had caused bitterness in the politics. He feared that the soaring political situation could harm the country.

“If the Opposition withdraws the no-confi-

Zhao Lijian

he said: “We have noted the relevant information”.

“We called on relevant countries to have dialogue and communication as soon as possible and launch a thorough investigation into this incident, strengthen information sharing and establish a notification mechanism in time to ensure the

dence motion, let’s see what can be given to them in return,” Chaudhry told Aaj News TV. The information minister said that since the Opposition parties formed the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM), “a lot of rancour has been created, hard statements have come forward and an environment is created ... a doctrine of unintended consequences becomes operative and a lot of things happen which both parties do not want.”

So much bitterness would be created in politics by the time voting on the no-confidence motion takes place in two to three weeks that it would damage

recurrence of such incidents and prevent miscalculation,” Zhao added.

On Friday, the Indian government said it accidentally fired a missile two days back that landed in Pakistan and that the “deeply regrettable” incident was caused by a technical malfunction in the course of its routine maintenance.

India’s defence ministry said that the government has taken a serious view of the incident and ordered a ‘Court of Enquiry’ into it, a day after Pakistan said a high-speed projectile launched from

India entered its airspace and fell near Mian Channu in Khanewal district of the Punjab province.

“On March 9, in the course of a routine maintenance, a technical malfunction led to the accidental firing of a missile. The government of India has taken a serious view and ordered a high-level Court of Enquiry.

“It is learnt that the missile landed in an area of Pakistan. While the incident is deeply regrettable, it is also a matter of relief that there has been no loss of life due to the accident,” the defence ministry said in a statement.

OFFICE OF THE

PHUVKIU VILLAGE STUDENTS' UNION

B.P.O. PUNGRO, DIST KIPHIRE-798611, NAGALAND

CONGRATULATIONS With immense pride and joy, the Phuvkiu Village Students' union extend our heartiest congratulations to Shri. Sukheamew, S/o Lt. Yutsumew on being promoted to the post of District Evaluation Officer, under the establishment of Directorate of Evaluation, Government of Nagaland.

The union further wishes him great success in his future endeavours.

Sd/(TELITHONG T) President, PVSu

Sd/(YETHONG) General Secretary, PVSu

KUHUBOTO GHAKHU SPORTS ASSOCIATION Kuhuboto Ghakhu Sports Association would like to express our profound gratitude towards those who stood by us physically and financially during the 14-u Sumi Hoho Trophy held on 02 to 09 March, 2022 at Suruhuto Town.

1. Viheto Swu, Hd. G.B. (Khughovi) - 20,000/2. Ashiho Achumi, G.B. (Khughovi) - 10,000/3. Kiyeto Yeptho (Henivi) - 15,000/4. Xekiye Village Sports Committee - 10,000/5. Phukavi Chophi, Adv. KGSA (Khehokhu) - 25,000/6. Inavi Chishi (Nihoto) - 20,000/7. Kakuho Assumi, Adv. KGSA (S. Hotovi) - 5,000/8. Suruhuto Sports Committee - 19,200/9. Kakheho Swu (Mudutsugho) - 2,000/10. Khezheto Rochill, KGSA President - 6,100/11. Niuland District Football Asso. (NDFA) - 5,000/12. Mughato Sumi, State Coach (Adv. KGSA) - 15,500/13. General Niki Sumi, (Retd) President, NSCN/GPRN - 10,000/14. Akali Swu (Nizhevi) - 3,000/15. Honito Rochill, Adv. KGSA (Kuhuboto) - 6,000/16. Kakheto Assumi, Adv. KGSA (Suhoi) - 5,000/17. Akihito Zhimo, President SGSA - 2,000/18. Mughato, Hd. G.B. (Henivi) - 10,000/19. Khekiye, President KGPO - 10,000/20. Pushika Zhimo, Hd. G.B. (Ghokito) - 10,000/21. Inaho Zhimo (S. Hotovi) - 10,000/22. Akaho Awomi (Khughovi) - 10,000/23. Mughavi Wotsa (Kuhuboto) - 2,500/24. Khuhepu Zhimo G.B. (Phukato) - 5,000/25. Xusheto Zhimo VP KGSA - 14,700/26. Village Donation - 2,10,000/27. Asheto, Kuhuboto - 5000/28. Western Sumi Sports Association - 5000/Sd/SHIKAHO SWU Asstt. General Secretary KGSA

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APPRECIATION NOTE

Date:14-03-22

The Kuki Students' Organisation Nagaland express our heartfelt gratitude to the Government of Nagaland through the Retd. Chief Engineer (D&R) Er. Indianoba Tally, incumbent Chief Engineer (D&R) and the current Executive Engineer, Electrical Division, Peren, Er. Tsiamchi Ndang for completing the construction work of 33kv transmission line from DC Complex, Peren to Ahthibung Town.

We also express our sincere gratitude in particular to the people who are behind this project, the former Chief Engineer (D&R) Er. Khose Sale and Er V. Kezo, Chief Inspectorate, Power Deptt., the then Nodal Officer for DDUGJY Scheme, for their dedicated effort towards this much needed developmental project in Ahthibung Sub-Division. There has been always a dire need for proper electricity supply in this area especially among the student community for their studies and this fulfilled project shall certainly benefit them in particular and the public of the sub-division in general.

(THANGJAMANG) President, KSON

H.Q. Kuhuboto Town, Dimapur-797112 : Nagaland

Sd/KHEZHETO ROCHILL President KGSA

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Pakistan, he was quoted as saying by the Dawn newspaper. Chaudhry said that in his opinion, a solution should be found through which the Opposition takes back the motion while “[we] will see what can be given in return.”

When asked what the government could offer the opposition in such a scenario, Chaudhry said there were a number of matters on which negotiations could be held with the Opposition, including electoral reforms, changes to the National Accountability Bureau laws and dates and processes of the next general elections.

“Whatever the opposition’s [concerns] are, discussions can be held with open hearts,” he said while cautioning “serious people” in the opposition that amid the impending vote on the motion, “we will keep doing politics for 2-3 weeks and when we look back, we will see that our economy has been damaged so much that it will be a problem to make it recover.”

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Ukraine has put China in a delicate spot with two of its biggest trading partners: the US and European Union. China needs access to those markets, yet it also has shown support for Moscow, joining with Russia in declaring a friendship with “no limits.”

In his talks with senior Chinese foreign policy adviser Yang Jiechi, Sullivan will indeed be looking for limits in what Beijing will do for Moscow. “I’m not going to sit here publicly and brandish threats,” he said Sunday, making the rounds of Sunday news shows.

“But what I will tell you is we are communicating directly and privately to Beijing that there absolutely

tion officials say Beijing is spreading false Russian claims that Ukraine was running chemical and biological weapons labs with U.S. support.

They say China is effectively providing cover if Russia moves ahead with a biological or chemical weapons attack on Ukrainians.

When Russia starts accusing other countries of preparing to launch biological or chemical attacks, Sullivan said Sunday, “it’s a good tell that they may be on the cusp of doing it themselves.”

Pentagon spokesman John Kirby, on ABC’s “This Week,” said “we haven’t seen anything that indicates some sort of imminent chemical or biological attack right now, but we’re watching this very, very closely.”

The striking U.S. accusations about Russian disinformation and Chinese complicity came after Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova alleged with no evidence that the U.S. was financing Ukrainian chemical and biological weapons labs.

OFFICE OF THE

SPORTS ASSOCIATION AKULUTO-VK AREA ZUNHEBOTO : NAGALAND

WORDS OF GRATITUDE The Sports Association Akuluto-VK Area with pride and honour would like to express our special thanks and gratitude to those who supported us financially, materially and through prayers during the 14th Sumi Hoho Trophy organised by Sumi Games & Sports Association held from 2nd March to 9th March 2022 at Suruhuto Town.

That SAAVKA, would like to put on record its appreciation and acknowledge the immense support of the following elders and wellwishers.

1) Shri Kazheto Kinimi, Hon’ble Advisor : ` 1,00,000/CAWD & NSDMA, Govt. of Nagaland 2) Shri. Niki Sumi (Retd. General) President, NSCN/GPRN : ` 10,000/3) Shri. Kuputo Achumi (BDO Akuluto) : ` 5,000/4) Shri Pitovi Kinimi (DSP 8th NAP Akuluto) : Transportation 5) Dr. Sukhai Jimo (M.O Akuluto) : ` 6,000/6) Shri. David Awomi (SDAO Akuluto) : ` 5,000/7) Shri. Vikiye Kinimi (President, AAYO) : ` 10,000/8) Shri. Nikato V. Chishi (Dimapur) : ` 10,000/9) Shri. Zhukheto Kiho (P.S. to Advisor) : ` 10,000/10) Shri. N. Hokato Aye (P.A. to Advisor) : ` 5,000/11) Shri. Hukugha Achumi (P.A. to Advisor) : ` 5,000/12) Shri. Katoshe K. Kinimi : ` 5,000/13) Shri. Xuwoto Awomi (G.B. Surumi Village) : ` 2,000/14) Miss. Mughali (SIS) and Rosy Yanthan (SK Akuluto) : ` 3,000/15) Shri. Khehoyi Aye (Suruhuto) : ` 2,000/16) Shri. Bokito Awomi (Akuluto) : ` 3,000/17) Shri. Inaka N. Assumi : ` 1,000/18) Shri. Swuka Assumi : ` 500/19) Organising Committee Suruhuto Area : ` 16,000/VISHEPU AYE President (SAAVKA)

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will be consequences” if China helps Russia “backfill” its losses from the sanctions.

Without giving details, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian said Monday that the “Ukraine situation will definitely be a hot topic” at the meeting, which had been scheduled before Russia invaded its neighbor.

Asked at a daily briefing about the reported Russian request for assistance, Zhao responded: “The US has been spreading disinformation targeting China recently over the Ukraine issue. It is malicious.”

“What is pressing now is that all parties should exercise restraint and strive to cool down the situation, rather than fueling the tension,” Zhao told reporters.

“We should promote diplomatic settlements instead of further escalating the situation.”

The White House said the talks will focus on the direct impact of Russia’s war against Ukraine on regional and global security.

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The prospect of China offering Russia financial help is one of several concerns for President Joe Biden.

A US official said that in recent days, Russia had requested support from China, including military equipment, to press forward in its ongoing war with Ukraine.

The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive matters, did not provide details on the scope of the request.

The request was first reported by the Financial Times and The Washington Post.

The Russians have seen significant loses of tanks, helicopters and other materiel since the start of the war more than two weeks ago.

Ukraine, while overmatched

by Russian forces, is wellequipped with anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles.

The Biden administration is also accusing China of spreading Russian disinformation that could be a pretext for Putin’s forces to attack Ukraine with chemical or biological weapons.

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WASHINGTON, MAR 14 (AP): A US official said Russia asked China for military equipment to use in its invasion of Ukraine, a request that heightens tensions about the war as top aides from the US and China governments met Monday in Rome.

In advance of the talks, White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan bluntly warned China to avoid helping Russia evade punishment from global sanctions that have hammered the Russian economy.

“We will not allow that to go forward,” he said.

Russia on Monday denied it needed China’s help.

“No, Russia has its own potential to continue the operation, which, as we have said, is unfolding in accordance with the plan and will be completed on time and in full,” said Dmitry Peskov, President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman.

Chinese state broadcaster CCTV said the talks with the US were underway around 11:50 a.m. Rome time (1050 GMT), but gave no details.

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St. John College organises Succession and Squid Game win music workshop and mini concert big at Critics Choice Awards 2022

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he 27th annual Critics Choice Awards were held on Sunday, March 13 at The Century Plaza Hotel. While Netflix’s Squid Game won the Best Foreign Language Series award, Will Smith took home the Best Actor award for King Richard.

In the Film acting honours, Jessica Chastain bagged the Best Actress win for her performance in The Eyes of Tammy Faye.

In the TV section, Succession star Kieran Culkin bagged the Best Supporting Actor award.

Full list of winners: Best Picture: The Power of the Dog B e s t A c t o r : Wi l l Smith King Richard Best Actress: Jessica Chastain The Eyes of Tammy Faye Best Supporting Actor: Troy Kotsur CODA Best Supporting Actress: Ariana DeBose West Side Story Best Young Actor/ Actress: Jude Hill Belfast Best Acting Ensemble: Belfast Best Director: Jane Campion The Power of the Dog Best Original Screen-

play: Kenneth Branagh Belfast Best Adapted Screenplay: Jane Campion The Power of the Dog Best Cinematography: Ari Wegner The Power of the Dog Best Production Design: Patrice Vermette, Zsuzsanna Sipos Dune Best Editing: Sarah Broshar and Michael Kahn West Side Story Best Costume Design: Jenny Beavan Cruella Best Hair and Makeup: The Eyes of Tammy Faye Best Visual Effects:

Dune Best Comedy: Licorice Pizza Best Animated Feature: The Mitchells vs. the Machines Best Foreign Language Film: Drive My Car Best Song: “No Time to Die” No Time to Die Best Score: Hans Zimmer Best Drama Series: Succession (HBO) Best Actor in a Drama Series: Lee Jung-jae Squid Game (Netflix) Best Actress in a Drama Series: Melanie Lynskey Yellowjackets

(Showtime) Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series: Kieran Culkin Succession (HBO) Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series: Sarah Snook Succession (HBO) Best Comedy Series: Ted Lasso (Apple TV+) Best Actor in a Comedy Series: Jason Sudeikis Ted Lasso (Apple TV+) Best Actress in a Comedy Series: Jean Smart Hacks (HBO Max) Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series: Brett Goldstein Ted Lasso

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Tali Angh (left) and others performing during the mini concert.

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he Music Club of St. John College, Dimapur organised a music workshop for the students followed by a mini concert on March 12 with contemporary Christian music artist, performer, singer-songwriter and worship leader from Dimapur, Tali Angh as the resource person.

During the morning session, Tali Angh interacted with club members and shared his wisdom and experiences as a professional musician. He advised that students should not live chasing fame and

trying to meet external expectations, but encouraged them to understand their own identity and be true to themselves to create authentic art.

Angh also spent time discussing character. He said that a person’s character is crucial and budding performers looking to make it must work hard, be diligent, be punctual and reliable so that people will be ready to work with them.

He went on to say that when the artist is true to themselves and they take pride in their work and

craft, and when their character is good, their reputation will grow authentically to a point where they will be able to make a living.

“Time, effort and dedication is required but only once the reputation is built, people will not argue with the fees an artist charges”, he added.

A mini concert was conducted with special performances by Tali Angh, KL Pamei and their friends from Prism Creatives. A few selected college students also performed to wow their peers.

(St John College Media Cell)

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ussia on Monday blocked Instagram for nearly 80 million users in the country, after its parent company Meta allowed posts with calls for violence against Russian soldiers and President Vladimir Putin on Facebook and Instagram in some countries.

The social media platform was inaccessible for the vast majority of the country’s population, according to internet monitoring service GlobalCheck.

Russian influencers on Instagram posted farewell messages to their followers, asking them to follow them on other social media platforms, or download VPN (virtual private network)

software to bypass the ban.

Instagram has also provided a platform for Russians to speak out against the war, including wealthy oligarchs and their families, reports The Verge.

Last week, the Russian government’s communication agency had announced that it would block Instagram in Russia beginning March 14.

Instagram Head Adam Mosseri said that over 80 per cent of people in Russia on Instagram follow accounts from outside of Russia.

“The situation is terrifying. We’re trying to do all we can to help keep people safe. We’ve made encrypted chats available to everyone in Ukraine and Russia.

We’ve encouraged everyone in the region to make their accounts private,” he had said in a video message. As Russia considered designating Meta as an extremist organisation for applying its policies to speech in the context of Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, the social network said that its decision was taken in “extraordinary and unprecedented circumstances”.

In a rare move, Meta allowed posts with violent speech towards Russian soldiers on Facebook and Instagram in specific countries, including calls for harm or even death of President Putin or Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko.

(IANS)

ark Western “The Power of the Dog” scooped the top two honours at the British Academy Film Awards on Sunday, winning best film and director for Jane Campion, while sci-fi epic “Dune” picked up the most prizes.

New Zealand filmmaker Campion wrapped up a successful weekend for her comeback feature film, after winning the top honours at the Directors Guild of America awards in Beverly Hills the day before.

Based on the 1967 novel by Thomas Savage, the critically-acclaimed movie set on a 1920s Montana ranch marks the return of Oscar winner Campion to feature films since 2009’s “Bright Star”. “Jane ... you are a visionary whose trail blazed through the last 30

years of cinema with stories about the silenced, the under-represented and the misunderstood,” producer Tanya Seghatchian said as she accepted the award on behalf of Campion, who was absent.

Campion later briefly appeared via a video call on the phone of one of the film’s producers during the winners’ press conference, and said she was “overwhelmed”.

Hosted by Australian actress and comedian Rebel Wilson, this year’s ceremony, known as the BAFTAs (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) returned as a usual glitzy red carpet event at London’s Royal Albert Hall, following a virtual event last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

There were references

Iain Canning, Tanya Seghatchian and Emile Sherman with their award for Best Film for “The Power of the Dog” at BAFTA.

to the war in Ukraine, with some nominees wearing ribbons and badges in the blue and yellow colours of the Ukrainian flag or speaking about the crisis on the red carpet and on stage.

“Dune”, a mammoth adaptation of Frank Herbert’s 1965 novel, had lead

nominations with 11 nods, mainly in the creative and technical categories. It won five awards.

“Belfast”, Kenneth Brannagh’s semi-autobiographical black and white comedy drama set at the onset of Northern Ireland’s three decades of conflict,

won outstanding British film. Steven Spielberg’s “West Side Story” remake won two awards, including best supporting actress for Ariana DeBose.

Fresh from his win at the Screen Actors Guild awards, Troy Katsur, who is deaf, won supporting actor for “CODA”, a coming-ofage story about the only hearing member of a deaf family. An absent Will Smith won the leading actor award for playing the father of tennis champions Venus and Serena Williams in “King Richard”, while Joanna Scanlan won leading actress for portraying a widow who discovers her late husband’s devastating secret in “After Love”.

(Reuters)

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Spanish Para Badminton: Joshi, B’desh beat Pak; script history in Women’s WC Pramod shine as India bag 21 medals

HAMILTON (NEW ZEALAND), MAR 14 (IANS): Debutants Bangladesh eked out a nine-run victory against favourites Pakistan to make history at the ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup, with Fargana Hoque and Fahima Khatun playing crucial roles to negate a fine century from toporder batter Sidra Ameen at the Seddon Park here on Monday.

Bangladesh’s Hoque scored a clinical 115-ball 71 batting first to guide her team to a competitive 234/7 in 50 overs. Khatun then took three crucial wickets to thwart Pakistan’s chase as the Bismah Maroof-led side suffered a fourth loss in as many outings despite a fighting 104 from opener Sidra Ameen.

It was a performance full of class as the fastimproving Bangladesh side successfully defended their score with a brilliant display of spin bowling. At one stage it looked like Bangladesh’s winning hopes were all but dashed, with Ameen scoring at will and on her way to Pakistan’s first century in Women’s World Cup. With Pakistan’s reliable skipper Ma-

Bangladesh players celebrate after taking a wicket.

roof controlling the tempo of the chase at the other end, it looked like Bangladesh were in for a heavy defeat.

The duo had catapulted Pakistan within sight of victory, needing a further 80 runs with nine wickets in hand and ample time still to bat.

B u t Fa h i m a K h a tun (3/38) and Rumana Ahmed (2/29) turned the game on its head, as Pakistan lost six wickets for just five runs to fall from a position of strength to going broke in no time. There

was still hope while Ameen was at the crease, but when she was run out in the 48th over, the celebrations began for the Bangladesh team.

The victory sees Bangladesh keep their semifinals hopes alive, while Pakistan’s chances look all but over as they languish at the bottom of the points table.

Earlier, a fine half-century from Fargana Hoque helped Bangladesh to their highest total at a Women’s World Cup and also their biggest ever in an ODI contest. Hoque paced Ban-

Pakistan bundled out for 148; Australia extends lead to 489

KARACHI, MAR 14 (AP): Mitchell Starc snapped up three wickets to help Australia take complete control against a tired Pakistan side on the third day of the second test on Monday.

Pakistan, replying to Australia’s huge firstinnings total of 556-9 declared, was bowled out for just 148 after having spent more than two days toiling in the field.

Australia, touring Pakistan for the first time since 1998, then decided not to enforce the followon as it raced to 81-1 in 17 overs by the close — a lead of 489 runs.

Marnus Labuschagne was unbeaten on 37 and first-innings centurion Usman Khawaja was not out on 35.

Earlier, last-wicket pair Nauman Ali (20 not out) and Shaheen Afridi (19) shared a stand of 30, the highest of Pakistan’s innings, before debutant Mitchell Swepson (2-32) trapped Afridi lbw with a

Mitchell Swepson celebrates with teammates after the dismissal of Babar Azam. (AP/PTI)

full delivery.

Starc didn’t take a wicket on a lifeless pitch in the drawn first test in Rawalpindi, but this time Pakistan was undone by some superb reverse swing from the left-arm fast bowler.

Captain Babar Azam (36) top-scored before holing out at long off against leg-spinner Swepson.

Australia was brilliant in the field. Labuschagne hit the stumps to run out Hasan Ali while Swepson

did likewise to remove Abdullah Shafique.

Starc removed Azhar Ali and Fawad Alam with successive deliveries, and also made a successful television referral against Sajid Khan after he edged to the wicketkeeper.

Pakistan lost six wickets between lunch and tea for just 62 runs.

Pat Cummins (34 not out) helped add a rapid 51 runs at the start of the day after Australia resumed on 505-8.

gladesh through the crucial middle overs with 71 from 115 balls, while skipper Nigar Sultana (46) and opener Sharmin Akhter (44) also made valuable contributions after Maroof won the toss and elected to bowl first.

Pakistan bowled well at times, with their spinners particularly impressive and left-armer Nashra Sundhu the pick of those slow bowlers with figures of 3/45.

Akhter and Shamima Sultana (17) provided Bangladesh with a solid start as they put on 37 for

the opening wicket and it wasn’t until spinner Nida Dar (1/45) was introduced to the attack that the initial breakthrough was made.

Sultana failed to handle a Dar delivery and could only pick out Fatima Sana at mid-on and Akhter was on her way shortly after when she miscued an attempted sweep shot and was bowled by Omaima Sohail. That brought Hoque and Sultana together and the pair batted well within themselves to put on 96 for the third wicket and lay the foundation for Bangladesh’s good total.

Sana made the vital breakthrough in the 40th over when she trapped Sultana LBW, but Hoque remained resilient as she ensured Bangladesh would post a competitive score that proved to be enough.

BRIEF SCORES: Bangladesh Women 234/7 in 50 overs (Shar min Akhter 44, Fargana Hoque 71, Nigar Sultana 46; Nashra Sandhu 3/41) beat Pakistan Women 225/9 in 50 overs (Nahida Khan 43, Sidra Ameen 104, Bismah Maroof 31; Fahima Khatun 3/38, Rumana Ahmed 2/29) by nine runs.

NEW DELHI, MAR 14 (PTI): Manasi Joshi and Nithya Sre claimed a gold each, while Tokyo Paralympics champion Pramod Bhagat secured two silver and a bronze as India bagged as many as 21 medals at the Spanish Para Badminton International in Cartagena, Spain.

World no 1 Joshi (SL3) and Sre (SH6) were among the six gold medallists, while India also secured seven silvers and eight bronze medals in the level I tournament, which concluded on Sunday.

Raja/Krishna (men’s doubles SH6), Raj/Parul (mixed doubles SL3-SU5), Chirag/Raj (men’s doubles SU5) and Nitesh/Tarun (men’s doubles SL3-SL4) also bagged the yellow metal. World no 1 Bhagat (SL3) secured two silver and a bronze, while world no 2 Sukant Kadam (SL 4) ended up with a bronze medal at the event.

Tarun Dhillon (men’s singles SL4), Krishna Nagar (men’s singles SH6), Mandeep Kaur (women’s singles SL3), Manasi/Ruthick (mixed doubles SL3-SU5),

Para shuttlers Manasi Joshi (left) with her coach and Pramod Bhagat.

Hardik/Ruthik (men’s doubles SU5) and Manoj/ Bhagat (men’s doubles SL3SL4) also won silver medals.

The bronze medal winners were Nitesh Kumar (men’s singles SL3), Manoj (men’s singles SL3), Nilesh Gaikwad (men’s singles SL4), Parul Parmar (women’s singles SL3), Bhagat/Kohli (mixed doubles SL3-SU5), Arwaz/Deep (men’s doubles SL3-SL4), and Prem Ale/Abu Hubaida (men’s doubles WH1WH2).

“It was a tough week and I couldn’t execute what I had planned for. I have identified my mistakes and

will start working on them immediately. I am going to head straight back in to training and focus on my upcoming tournaments,” Bhagat said.

Kadam lost to world no 1 Lucas Mazur from France 21-19 19-21 12-21 in the semifinal to settle for a bronze.

Mazur went ahead to secure gold medal defeating India’s Tarun 21-7 21-9 in the summit clash.

India had claimed 34 medals, including 11 gold, seven silver and 16 bronze, from the Spanish Para badminton International II event recently.

Sindhu shifts focus to All England Open H Y D E R a bronze each in ABAD, MAR 14 two consecutive (AGENCIES): Olympics besides For the double many more suOlympics medalper series titles inlist, P.V. Sindhu, cluding the BWF the focus shifts to World Tour finals the All England once, I honestly Championship aflook at All Engter a disappointland as just anothP.V. Sindhu ing outing in the er event,” Sindhu German Open last week. explained.

The 26-year-old Sind“As I always say, the hu is keen to move on and effort to keep improving is not get stuck by the odd dis- a continuous process. And, I mal shows in a major event, am really glad to work with Sportstar reported. my coach Park Tae-Sang “Yes, there is no point and hope to have a great in looking back and getting year which also features into a state of despair. We some of the big events inhave to look ahead, make cluding the Asian Games, the necessary changes for Commonwealth Games better results,” Sindhu said and the World championin a chat with Sportstar. ships,” she said.

“This has been my philosoAny specific areas of phy and that is how I was focus during training sesgroomed by my parents,” sions? “It is obvious that she said. most of my opponents don’t “Yes, definitely it will give me the freedom to go be great to win the All Eng- for those attacking shots land championship. But, it that easily any more. So, doesn’t mean it is the end there has been a conscious of all. Given the fact that I effort to shore up my dehave won five World cham- fence and I am pleased with pionship medals includ- the way I have improved in ing gold, and a silver and this area too,” Sindhu said.

Nagaland State team at the 1st Guwahati international open Grandmaster tournament to be held from March 14 to 20 at Guwahati on Monday.

GMS Botsa annual sports meet underway DIMAPUR, MAR 14 (NPN): The annual sports meet of Government Middle School, Botsa kick started on March 14 at Botsa Local Ground.

SDEO Chiephobozou, Kevizenuo Savino graced the meet as special guest The programme was compered by

Khovelu Naro while Class A&B gave a special presentation and Seyievinuo & Neisinuo of Class 8 presented a special song. The programme also witnessed a remarkable Physical Exercise Drill presented by the students of Class 1 to 8.

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The Lotha Hoho (LH) has taken cognizance of the imbroglio in the Administration within and without the Lotha Baptist Churches Association (LBCA) and the confusion among the Lotha Baptist churches. The LH, being the Apex Tribal Organisation, has therefore taken the responsibility to mitigate the ongoing imbroglio within the Lotha Baptist churches; by acting as a guardian of the Lotha community. The LH therefore, hereby convene a Meeting of all the leaders of the LBcA and the pastors of all the Lotha Baptist churches, for a meeting, with LH and frontal organizations, on the aforesaid matter, as per the details given below: date : 18th March 2022 Venue : Wokha district Village council & VdB conference Hall, Wokha Town.

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Alexander Bublik

L O N D O N, M A R 1 4 (AGENCIES): Andy Murray suffered a straight-set defeat by Kazakhstan’s Alexander Bublik in the second round at Indian Wells.

The Briton, 34, had won his two previous matches against world number 33 Bublik, most recently in Rotterdam last month.

But Bublik, 24, proved too strong for the former world number one on Sunday, winning 7-6 (11-9) 6-3 in California.

“I just didn’t take my opportunities today, and I feel that was an opportunity missed,” said Murray.

The first set went with serve but Murray, currently

ranked 88th, spurned three break points when leading 2-1 up, and another at 3-2 up.

Then in the tie-breaker, Bublik prevailed after saving three set points and Murray failed to take another two break points in the first game of the second set.

Bublik then really found his groove, going 4-1 up after claiming the match’s only break of serve.

Murray did well to hold on to his serve to make it 4-2 and continued to fight to stay in the match, but Bublik saw out the win to reach the third round.

That also left Murray without back-to-back wins since reaching the Sydney Classic final in January.

“Against players that have big serves and are not easy to break, you need to - when you get those chances - be ruthless,” added Murray, who earned a wildcard for the Masters event and enjoyed his 700th win on the ATP Tour in the first round.

“I just didn’t quite play well enough in those moments today and that’s the thing that obviously I want to turn around.”

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India beat Sri Lanka by 238 runs; win series 2-0

B E N G A LU RU, M A R 14 (IANS): Dimuth Karunaratne scored his 14th Test century on a difficult pitch but it was not enough to deny India a win by 238 runs on Day three of the second Test at M Chinnaswamy Stadium here on Monday.

With the huge win inside the first two sessions on Day three, the hosts have completed a 2-0 series sweep and pocketed 12 points as part of World Test Championship (WTC) tally.

Karunaratne put up a defiant show against a relentless India bowling attack as Sri Lanka began day three on a positive note. The visitors showed some fight in the start of day’s play as Karunaratne used his feet straightaway to take two boundaries off Ravindra Jadeja through the off-side. Runs began to flow for the visitors’ as Kusal Mendis glanced and lofted Ravichandran Ashwin for boundaries.

Sri Lanka’s aggressive and positive play continued as Mendis swept Jadeja through deep square leg while Karunaratne was lucky in surviving an inner edge off Ashwin. The positivity and decisive attitude in play resulted in Mendis

Indian players pose with the trophy after they winning the series by 2-0 during the third day of 2nd test cricket match between India and Sri Lanka at Chinnaswamy Stadium, in Bengaluru, Monday. (PTI)

reaching his 12th Test halfcentury off 57 balls.

The 97-run partnership, highest for Sri Lanka in this series, was broken

by Ashwin as Mendis was foxed by drift and dip from round the wicket angle.

Mendis danced down the pitch to counter the delivery but the ball went past the outer edge and was stumped from behind by Rishabh Pant.

One brought two for India as Jadeja bowled a quicker delivery to hit Angelo Mathews stumps through the gate. Ashwin then claimed his second wicket of the session as Dhananjaya de Silva was caught at forward short leg, enabling the off-spinner to go past Dale Steyn in the list of leading wicket-takers in Test cricket.

Amidst the wheels

coming off Sri Lanka’s resistance, Karunaratne stood tall and brought up his fifty in 92 balls. He then welcomed Mohammed Shami with a four whipped through mid-wicket and danced down the pitch to flick Axar Patel through the same region. Supporting him was Niroshan Dickwella, who has managed to hold fort against a relentless India bowling attack.

Karunaratne began the post-lunch session by using the pace of Patel to lap over leg slip. But Patel bounced back to get Dickwella stumped as the left-hander came down the pitch for a swing across the line but the ball went past outside edge and Pant behind did the rest. Patel took his second wicket of the day as Charith Asalanka flicked straight to leg slip.

After a reverse sweep off Patel took him into the 90s, Karunaratne then played a conventional sweep over square leg for four. He then raised his century by flicking through backward square leg off Jasprit Bumrah, becoming only the third Sri Lanka captain to score a Test hundred in India. Karunaratne followed it up by using Bumrah’s pace to steer a short ball over the slip cordon.

Karunaratne’s resistance ended at 107 as Bumrah got one to come back in and went through his gate to crash into the stumps.

In the next over, Ashwin beat Lasith Embuldeniya on the inside edge to trap him lbw in front of stumps.

Bumrah then clean bowled Suranga Lakmal and Vishwa Fernando holed out to mid-off off Ashwin to end Sri Lanka’s innings at 210, their highest total in the two-match series.

BRIEF SCORES: India 252 and 303/9 d in 68.5 overs (Shreyas Iyer 67; Praveen Jayawickrama 4/78) beat Sri Lanka 109 and 208 all out in 59.3 overs (Dimuth Karunaratne 107; Kusal Mendis 54; Ravichandran Ashwin 4/55, Jasprit Bumrah 3/23) by 238 runs.

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5 youth boxers clinch gold at Asian Youth & Jr C’ships

Nivedita Karki and Tamanna

NEW DELHI, MAR 14 (PTI): Previous edition’s medal winners Tamanna (50kg) and Nivedita Karki (48kg) were among five Indian women boxers who grabbed gold medals in the youth competition of the Asian Youth and Junior Boxing Championships in Amman, Jordan on Monday.

Shaheen (60kg), Ravina (63kg) and Muskan (75kg) were the other three boxers who also registered victories in the finals and bagged gold medals.

Nivedita provided India an ideal start for the day when she clinched a sensational 3-2 win over Uzbekistan’s Saidakhon Rakhmonova. Tamanna then handed the country a second gold with a win over another Uzbek boxer Robiyankhon

Bakhtiyorova by a similar margin. Both Nivedita and Tamanna won silver medals in the last edition.

Shaheen and Ravina then added two more gold medals to the country’s tally with dominating triumphs by unanimous decisions against their respective Uzbek opponents.

While Shaheen (60kg) outperformed Mukhlisa Tokhirova, Ravina thrashed Uzbekistan’s Sitora Bahodirova. Muskan also produced an aggressive show against Kazakhstan’s Aidasaribarov before referee stopped the contest in the first round and declared Muskan the winner.

However, Priyanka and Kirti suffered defeats in the final and concluded their campaigns with silver medals.

Messi, Neymar booed by PSG fans Ranji Trophy : Nagaland 130/4 in reply to Jharkhand 880 KOLKATA, MAR 14 (AGENCIES): Jharkhand rode on a 191-run 10th wicket partnership between Shahbaz Nadeem and Rahul Shukla to accumulate a mammoth 880 in its first innings in the Ranji Trophy pre-quarterfinal match against Nagaland at the Eden Gardens here on Sunday.

Even after being in a commanding position, Jharkhand, beginning from 769 for nine, continued its run glut for the third consecutive day, Sportstar reported. The last pair of batters added 111 runs more in two hours to help Jharkhand set a new highest team total in first-class cricket at the ground. It was the fourth highest aggregate on Indian soil.

In reply, Nagaland, which had a tough start to its journey in the Elite group, was at 130 for four at the end of the day’s play.

In the morning, Shukla guided Raja Swarnakar

to the point boundary to bring up the 100-run partnership for the 10th wicket and enable Jharkhand to go past the previous best total (791 for six declared) at the venue, posted by Karnataka against Bengal in 1990-91.

This was the fourth century stand for Jharkhand and the second one involving Nadeem.

On a placid track, Nadeem (177, 304b, 22x4, 2x6) relied on his placement to move past 150 and achieve another milestone.

Shukla (85 not out, 149b, 7x4, 6x6), dropped at square leg off Shrikant Mundhe on 44, reached his second half-century by spectacularly hammering Mundhe to fine-leg for a six. He pulled the Nagaland bowlers for a few more massive sixes.

Jharkhand’s marathon innings ended 25 minutes before lunch when Imliwati Lemtur, bowling round the wicket, trapped

Nadeem in front to break who got his fourth wicket, the second highest 10th- emerged as Nagaland’s wicket stand in Ranji Tro- most successful bowler.

Nagaland lost opener phy. The left-arm spinner,

Barca regain scoring touch; thrash Osasuna 4-0

FATD formed; trial for Dr T Ao Trophy on Mar 18

After world championships, Lovlina and Nikhat secure Asian Games selection

PARIS, MAR 14 (AGENCIES): Lionel Messi and Neymar were subjected to boos and jeers from Paris Saint-Germain fans in their first game since their dramatic Champions League collapse to Real Madrid on Wednesday.

Lining up against Bordeaux in Ligue 1 on Sunday, both players were relentlessly booed by the home supporters and their every touch jeered. Kylian Mbappe -- likely to move to Real Madrid on a free transfer in the summer -- escaped the home fans’ wrath.

At one point in the first half, the home fans booed as Messi and Neymar stood over a free kick, only to sarcastically cheer when Neymar hit his effort over the bar. Mbappe then put PSG 1-0 ahead on 24 minutes and the home support cheered his goal. Neymar then made it 2-0 after 52 minutes, but he was then roundly whistled and did

M A D R I D, M A R 1 4 (AGENCIES): It didn’t take long for Barcelona’s offense to regain its scoring touch.

After being held to a disappointing scoreless draw with Galatasaray in the first leg of the round of 16 of the Europa League, Barcelona scored three goals in less than 30 minutes Sunday en route to a comfortable 4-0 win over Osasuna in the Spanish league. Ferran Torres found the net twice and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Riqui Puig added a goal each to keep the Catalan club in third place.

It has the same 51 points as Atletico Madrid but leads on the head-to-head tiebreaker. Barcelona also has a game in hand compared to the defending champions.

Barcelona and Atletico trail second-place Sevilla by five points. League leader Real Madrid, which visits relegation-threatened Mallorca on Monday, is 12 points ahead of Barcelona and Atletico.

Madrid hosts Barcelona next Sunday at the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium.

Barcelona had scored 14 goals in its last four matches in all competitions before the 0-0 home draw

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not celebrate his goal. PSG won the match 3-0 against the league’s bottom club to move 15 points clear at the top and continue their march toward the Ligue 1 title.

PSG’s “Ultra” group, the Collectif Ultras Paris, released a statement on Twitter ahead of the match, blasting the club’s direction.

“Our Paris Saint-Germain deserves people who serve it, not people who are served by it. Against Bordeaux on Sunday, we

will show our displeasure and we ask everyone who loves this club, who will be present, to unite with our non-violent action,” it read.

PSG fans were left fuming in midweek when their club collapsed 3-1 amid a storming Real Madrid fightback in the round of 16. Leading 1-0 from the first leg, Mbappe then made it 2-0 to the Ligue 1 side before Karim Benzema scored a stunning hat trick to turn the tie on its head.

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Barcelona’s Ferran Torres in action with Osasuna’s David Garcia. (Reuters)

against Galatasaray on Thursday.

Torres opened the scoring Sunday by converting a 14th-minute penalty kick and added to the lead seven minutes later from inside the area after a nice through ball by Ousmane Dembele.

Dembele also set up the third goal by Aubameyang in the 27th, making a well-placed cross into the box from the right flank, and the fourth by Puig in the 75th.

Barcelona defender Gerard Pique, making his 600th appearance with the club, had a goal disallowed for offside in the 55th.

Xavi Her nandez’s team is unbeaten in 10 straight games, since a loss at Athletic Bilbao in the round of 16 of the Copa del Rey in January.

Barcelona women’s team, which clinched its third straight league title earlier in the day, was honored before the match at the Camp Nou Stadium.

Sevilla was held again in its pursuit of Madrid with a 1-1 draw at Rayo Vallecano on Sunday, and is seven points off the lead.

It was the second consecutive league draw for Sevilla, and sixth in its last eight matches in the competition. Julen Lopetegui’s

team extended its unbeaten streak in the league to 14 matches, since a loss at Madrid in November. It hasn’t won in four straight away games, drawing all of them.

Bebe put the hosts ahead early in the second half and Thomas Delaney equalized for Sevilla in the 63rd.

Sevilla had a penalty awarded in the second half but it was reversed by video review. It also had a goal disallowed by VAR early in the first half.

Rayo, sitting in 13th place, hasn’t won in its last nine league matches, with seven losses in that run.

KO H I M A , M A R 1 4 (NPN): Football Association of Tseminyu District (FATD) was officially formed under the motto “Teamwork, Grit and Honour”, on March 13 at New Terogvunyu village under Tseminyu district.

The association was endorsed and formed with the blessings of Rengma Sports Association. The eight-member team would be headed by BenloThyu as the acting president and Asao Seb as acting secretary.

The team will lead and facilitate the process of structuring and organizing its itself and also initiate affiliation to Nagaland Football Association and prepare ground works for participation in the upcoming Dr. T Ao Inter-District Trophy 2022 to be hosted by Mokokchung next month.

Meanwhile the association has informed that the selection trial for Tseminyu team will be held on March 18 and 19 at Rengma Sports Association Ground, Tseminyu Old Town. Details of the selection trials would be intimated by the Technical Team, FATD, the members informed.

Nagaland’s batter Sedezhalie Rupero gets clean bowled

by Jharkhand’s pacer Ashish Kumar, Monday. (PTI)

NEW DELHI, MAR 14 (IANS): Tokyo Olympic bronze medallist Lovlina Borgohain and 2019 Asian Championship bronze winner Nikhat Zareen registered convincing wins over their respective opponents to seal their spots in the Indian women’s boxing team for this year’s Asian Games to be held in Hangzhou, China.

Both Lovlina and Zareen registered identical 7-0 wins over Railways’ Pooja and 2019 World Championships silver medallist Manju Rani respectively in the finals of the Asian Games selections trials here on Monday.

While Lovlina qualified in the 69 kg category, Nikhat sealed her berth in the 51kg class.

Lovlina was very calculative in her approach and used tactical prowess to counter Pooja’s aggressive instinct. The Assamese boxer evaded Pooja’s counter-attacks and used her long reach to constantly pick up points.

In her final bout against Manju Rani, experienced Nikhat displayed a more clinical show technically and dominated all three rounds.

Sedezhalie Rupero when he was bowled by Ashish Kumar after lunch.

Yugandhar Singh was run out and captain Rongsen Jonathon was caught at slip off Anukul Roy as the team struggled at 43 for three.

Nagaland’s problem compounded when Hokaito Zhimomi was retired hurt with a hand issue.

Mundhe (39, 96b, 6x4) and Chetan Bist gathered 56 runs before the former miscued Nadeem to point.

Bist (46 batting, 123b, 2x4, 1x6) and Abu Nechim (13 batting) held the fort with a lot of ground to cover.

Scores: Jharkhand 880 in 203.4 overs (Kumar Kushagra 266, Shahbaz Nadeem 177, Virat Singh 107, Rahul Shukla 85 n.o., Kumar Suraj 66, Anukul Roy 59, Utkarsh Singh 36, Imliwati Lemtur 4/79, Khrievitso Kense 3/166) vs Nagaland 130/4 in 58 overs (Chetan Bist batting 46, Shrikant Mundhe 39).

Lovlina Borgohain and Nikhat Zareen secured their places for this year’s Asian Games in Hangzhou. (File)

Throughout the contest, Manju preferred to play from long range and tried to catch her rival off-guard with her sharp punches but Zareen was up to the task and controlled the pace of the bout.

Both the boxers had qualified for the World Championships last week with Zareen sealing her place in the 52kg category and Lovlina in the 70kg division.

The duo will join Manisha (57kg), Jaismine (60kg) and Saweety Boora (75kg) in the Indian boxing squad

for the Asian Games to be held in China from September 10 to 25.

With common weight c a t e g o r i e s f o r Wo r l d Championships and Asian Games, Manisha, Jasmine and Saweety had already qualified for both the events in a joint trial held last week. World Championships is scheduled to be held from May 6 in Istanbul.

ASIAN GAMES SQUAD: Nikhat Zareen (51kg), Manisha (57kg), Jaismine (60kg), Lovlina (69kg) and Saweety Boora (75kg)v

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