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J’khand crisis: MLAs hold back-to-back meeting as CM’s fate hangs in balance

NEW DELHI, AUG 27 (AGENCIES): Buses carry ing Jharkhand MLAs were on Saturday afternoon seen leaving the Ranchi residence of chief minister Hemant Soren, who had called a meeting of the UPA legis lators, amidst speculation about his possible disquali fication as an MLA in the state assembly for allegedly violating poll norms by ex tending himself a mining lease.The political crisis in Jharkhand intensified after a ‘sealed envelope’ from the Enforcement Directorate (ED) reached the Jharkhand Governor Ramesh Bais rec ommending the disquali fication of Chief Minister Hemant Soren as a Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) for violating elec toral norms in the illegal miningAmidcase.the political cri sis, reports have suggested that preparations have been made to shift ruling coali tion MLAs to “friendly states” like West Bengal or Chhattisgarh, if the need arises, to prevent poaching attempts by the BJP, mul tiple sources confirmed. The legislators of the ruling alliance held series of meetings in the chief minis ter’s residence to chalk out a strategy to deal with the emerging scenario. All the ruling MLAs had attended the meeting along with their luggage, they Governorsaid.Ramesh Bais is likely to send the order of disqualification of Soren as an MLA to the Election Commission of India (ECI) on Saturday, Raj Bhavan sources

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DIMAPUR, AUG 27 (NPN): BJP high command would take a final call re garding candidature for 20 Assembly constituencies as per the party’s seat-sharing deal with NDPP for the up coming Assembly election. This was disclosed by PHED minister Jacob Zhimomi to mediapersons on the sideline of inaugurating the BJP Di mapur district office at Bank Colony here on Saturday. Jacob said that the BJP high command will earmark the 20 seats and also decide who would be given tickets. On the other hand, some BJP sources informed that the party was likely to “review” the seat/ticket allocation , adding that it may not be based on the 2018 elections but based on winnability. There is likelihood of some BJP legislators being denied the party tickets, sources added.Meanwhile, addressing the gathering as chief guest at the inaugural programme of Dimapur district BJP of fice, Jacob Zhimomi compli mented party’s district officebearers for the new office and exhorted them to work for the welfare of people.

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NEW DELHI, AUG 27 (PTI): More than 130 former civil servants on Saturday wrote an open letter to the Chief Justice of India (CJI) against the premature release of 11 men who were jailed in the gangrape case of Bilkis Bano and requested him to rectify this “horrendously wrongTheydecision”.asked the CJI to rescind the order of remission passed by the Gujarat govern ment and send the 11 persons convicted of gangrape and murder back to jail to serve out their life sentence.

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Justice U.U. Lalit sworn in as 49th CJI NEW DELHI, AUG 27 (AGENCIES): Justice Uday Umesh Lalit, the senior-most judge in the Supreme Court, was on Sat urday sworn in as the 49th Chief Justice of India (CJI). President Droupadi Murmu administered the oath to Justice Lalit, who is the second CJI to be directly elevated to the apex court from the Bar, during a brief ceremony at Rashtrapati Bhavan.As the CJI, Justice Lalit will have a short tenure of 74 days and demit office on November 8. Justice D Y Chandrachud, the seniormost judge after Justice Lalit, is next in line to be the country’s top judge. Jacob and Tovihoto Ayemi with BJP functionaries after the inaugural of BJP Dimapur district office. (NP) during the August 9, 2022 public rally in Tuensang. (File) Hemant Soren (File) Justice Uday Umesh Lalit

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DIMAPUR, AUG 27 (NPN): Tamil Nadu government has officially handed over the land documents to Nagaland for construction of Patients Guest House, measuring 10,000sqft. The district collector of Ranipet handed over the documents to PWD (H) department on August 25, CMC connect convener Hosheto Achumi and co-convener Dr Aomangyang WallingCMCinformed.connect expressed grati tude chief ministers of Nagaland, Tamil Nadu, minister PWD (Housing) and officials for their untiring efforts in reaching this milestone. They said they looked forward to the early completion of construction of the guest house that would alleviate the plight of patients and their attendants travelling to Christian Medical College, Vellore.

DIMAPUR, AUG 27 (NPN): Dimapur Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DCCI) has condemned the firing incident in which one employee of TS Goods Car rier at Kalibari Road near Dimapur Municipal Council office here sustained injuries on August 26 evening. In a press release, DCCI working president V Shikuto Sema urged the law enforc ing agencies to conduct a thorough investigation into matter and book the culprits and award befitting punish ment so as to act as a deter rent for future incidents.

DIMAPUR, AUG 27 (NPN): Nagaland State Co-operative Marketing and Consumer Federation (NSCM&CF) Ltd chairman has denied indulging in illegal activi ties as alleged by Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee (NPCC), which it termed as ludicrous and condemnable. In a statement, NSCM&CF chairman M Chuba Ao clarified that it had procured some local areca nuts that were actually all waste products beyond hu man consumptions/use and meant for industrial purposes only, highlighting the fact that it was a marketing agency that focused on promoting local products and local people. It claimed that the areca nut in question was procured from the local vendors to help them dispose their unsold produce. Further, the tax that was paid was helping generate revenue for the State as the federation was trying to help the local growers and vendors to get a market and help them in economicUnfortunately,growth.M Chuba said the consignment was seized by Guwahati Railway Police in February this year due to a miscommunication, adding that it had already filed an appeal in local court to get the consignment released. The court had sought a forensic test of the areca nuts to determine whether these were of waste quality and the report was awaited. M Chuba, who is also the BJP national vice presi dent, accused NPCC of mak ing fabricated stories without any basis to keep itself in the limelight, noting that public support for Congress was al most nil and that it was stand ing on the verge of extinction both nationally and locally. M. Chuba said NPCC was known to resorting to such unethical tactics to dis credit and undermine the sincere efforts of development of other parties and their members.

Staff Reporter DIMAPUR, AUG 27 (NPN): Eastern Naga land People’s Organisation (ENPO) has thrown a span ner in the works by declaring a boycott to the scheduled State Assembly elections ex pected to be held in the early part of 2023 or speculated to be held by end of 2022. There are 20 assem bly constituencies under Tuensang- 4, Mon-9, Long leng-2, Kiphire-2, Noklak-2 and Shamator-1. The ruling NDPP (after 21 NPF legisla tors merged with it), has 15 MLAs while BJP has four and one Independent. If the boycott takes effect, it would mean a con stitutional crisis on one hand and also a big setback for the NDPP. However, in the pres ent political scenario, NDPP is the dominant party with a total of 42 MLAs in a house of 60. BJP has 12, NPF 4 and two Independents. The threat to boycott the assembly election is to press for the ENPO demand for a separate Frontier Na galand State. A decision to this effect was taken at a joint consultative meeting held on August 26 at Hotel Saramati Dimapur attended by ENPO functionaries, selected lead ers from Eastern Nagaland, Talk team members and seven tribal bodies and fron tal organizations.Inastatement issued by ENPO, the house, after a day-long deliberation on the issue of its demand for a separate state, unanimously resolved that “people of Eastern Nagaland shall not participate in any election process of the State and Cen tral” unless their demand for a separate State– “Frontier Nagaland” was fulfilled, as demanded by the people of EasternAccordingNagaland.to ENPO, the seven tribal bodies–Chang Khulei grassrootstoCouncilcilPumji,UnitedPhomCouncil,KhiamniunganSetshang,TribalKonyakUnion,People’sCouncil,SangtamLikhumTikhirTribalCounandYimkhiungTribalhavebeenendorsedmobilisesupportatthetoensurethatthe decision was implemented. It may be recalled that the ENPO during its joint consultative meeting held at Konyak Community Cen tre Dimapur on May 27, reaffirmed the October 13, 2021 representation to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to request him and Union Home Minister Amit Shah for approval and early decla ration of Frontier Nagaland in the event of the muchanticipated Naga political solution getting delayed or if there was any unexpected prolonged delay in the ne gotiations.Itmay also be men tioned that the ENPO on August 9 held public rallies across six districts-- Tuen sang, Mon, Kiphire, Long leng, Noklak and Shama tor to press for creation of ‘Frontier Nagaland’ state, and submitted memoran dum containing three-point resolution to the PM through their respective DCs..

“Like the overwhelm ing majority of people in our country, we are aghast at what happened in Gujarat a few days ago, on the 75th anniversary of India’s Inde pendence,” it said. Former Lieutenant Gov ernor of Delhi Najeeb Jung, former Cabinet Secretary K M Chandrasekhar, former foreign secretaries Shivshan kar Menon and Sujatha Singh and former Home Secretary G K Pillai were among the 134 signatories to the letter, written under the aegis of the Constitutional Conduct Group. Justice Uday Umesh Lalit was sworn in as the 49th Chief Justice of India on Saturday.OnAugust 25, the Su preme Court issued notice to the Centre and the Gu jarat government on a plea challenging the release of the 11 convicts and posted the matter for hearing after two weeks. The former civil servants said the release of the convicts has “outraged the nation”. “We write to you because we are deeply distressed by this decision

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Correspondent KOHIMA, AUG 27 (NPN): Anatomist, medi cal educationist and bio ethics expert Dr. Soumya Chakraborty has been ap pointed as director-cumdean of Nagaland Institute of Medical Sciences & Re search (NIMSR)-- erstwhile Nagaland Medical College, Phriebagie, andmedicaltingSoumyaofficialweekjoinDr.wasmentAsanglaHealthAccordingKohima.tosecretary&FamilyWelfareImti,theappointorderinthisregardissuedonAugust25andSoumyaofficerwouldofficeinthesecondofSeptember.TheinformedthatDr.wasinvolvedinsetupmultiplegovernmentcollegesatnationalinternationallevels.

Thesaid.BJP, the petition er in the case, has sought Hemant’s Soren’s disqualifi cation for violating Section 9(A) of the Representation of the People Act, 1951, which deals with disquali fication for government contracts.The ruling coali tion has 49 MLAs in the 81-member Assembly. The JMM, the largest party, has 30 MLAs, the Congress 18 legislators, and the RJD one. The main opposition BJP has 26 MLAs in the House. “It does not matter how vicious a circle the Centre of the BJP create. I am the son of a tribal. I am the son of Jharkhand. We do not fear, we fight,” Hemant Soren tweeted.

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LASU: Longmatra Area Students Union (LASU) has vehemently condemned the alleged physical assault on Atsoba T Sangtam.LASU president Tethsomong J and secretary Aliba T said the victim was an innocent and law-abiding person and that the atrocious and gruesome behaviour shown toward an innocent young man by 14 IR, E-Coy personnel was “an act of cowardice.” Pointing out that the jawans taking law into their own hands was “highly questionable” and condemnable, LASU asserted that it would not tolerate any cruelty in a peace-loving society. It also extended support to the ultimatum served by Longmatra Area Citizens Union Kiphire Town (LACUKT) dated August 23 and demanded that the law enforcing agencies leave no stone unturned and ensure that justice be given to the victim at the earliest.

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Correspondent MOKOKCHUNG, AUG 27 (NPN): As a prelude to its platinum jubilee celebration, Mangmetong Students’ Union, Mokokchung (MSUM) organised a career guidance seminar on the theme “quality education & skills for livelihood”, at Ongpangkong Salang with superintendent of police (SP) Mokokchung, Aotula T Imchen as guest speaker. In her speech, SP Aotula T Imchen said the key to a successful career in life was understanding self-responsibility.Shesaidpeer pressure would be prevalent but one should pursue the career one was passionate about with commitment and dedication.Encouraging the students to follow their dreams and not the people, the SP said education was the key to the future and that an educated responsible person was the future of the society. At the programme, introductory session was chaired by Alemchila while keynote address was delivered by Allen Imchen and invocation was offered by Fellowship in-charge, R. Among.Other resource persons also included GHSS Mangkolemba principal Sashikala, FAC assistant professor Dr. Temjensangla Pongener, deputy district education officer (DEO), Dr. Lanunochetla and Government ITI Mokokchung, principal, Er. T. Imlisunep Ao. The seminar was attended by students from classes VII till university level and all the educated unemployed youth residing in Mokokchung town under MSUM.

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‘Agniveer’ army recruitment rally: PRO (Defence), Kohima has informed that “Agniveer” army recruitment rally for all districts of Nagaland would be held from September 7-15 at Bhagat Stadium, Rangapahar Military Station, Dimapur. PRO has informed that admit cards for all candidates who have registered online for the rally have been generated and sent on email. PRO has also asked all those who have registered for the rally to carry two copies of admit card to the rally ground.

Dear daddy, a year has passed since you left us and the void created is always felt with each passing day. Our hearts mourn for we have lost someone special who moulded and nurtured us with warmth and affection. As we think of you in silence, our thoughts battle for we have to learn to live without you. But the sweet and countless memories spent with you will always be treasured in our hearts. We think of you resting in a place of warmth and comfort in God’s eternal paradise peacefully. We love you, daddy, and we will hold you in our hearts. We will always be grateful and remember you more and more each day. Gone from our sights, never from our hearts.

Hepatitis epidemic in state ST, LASU condemn Aug 22 alleged assault DIMAPUR: Sangtamlarü Thsingmüjang (ST) Longmatra Lihyung has strongly condemned the alleged physical assault on Atsoba T. Sangtam by 14 IR Bn. E-Coy personnel on August 22 at Kiphire village junction.STpresident, Tsolenthsi M and secretary, A. Florance claimed that Atsoba was physically assaulted by 14 IR personnel for parking his truck on the road side. ST said the prime duty of IR was to give protection and security to the public and not create “fear psychosis and hatred”. It then said, “the brutal assault by the so-called security personnel was unimaginable, disheartening and a serious threat to humanity”. Further, ST has appealed the law enforcing agencies to book the culprit and award appropriate punishment at the earliest as per the provision of law.

Wokha BS&G tour: Wokha district Bharat Scouts and Guides went on a study tour to Touphema Tourist Village. The tour was flagged off by Deputy Commissioner (DC) and president BS&G Wokha, Ajit Kumar Ranjan on August 27. Deputy commissioner NVHCP, Dr. Sandhya Kabra addressing the state H&FW officials. (DIPR)

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DIMAPUR: A team of 10 officials from the National Viral Hepatitis Control Program (NVHCP) under National Health Mission (NHM), ministry of Health & Family Welfare (MoHFW) led by deputy commissioner NVHCP, Dr. Sandhya Kabra visited every district of the state to address the growing hepatitis epidemic in Nagaland from August 21-25.According to a DIPR report, at the exit meeting, held in the conference hall, Hotel Vivor, Kohima on August 25, Dr. Sandhya Kabra said the conceptualisation of the programme was through consultative process involving all stakeholders, technical experts and community.Sheexplained that ensuring access across the country was focus on priority groups by identifying otheraboutcommoditiestrainingqualityintervention,appropriatesaddressingstandardisedandqualityandalsotheintegrationwithexistingmechanism

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NSDF informs on scholarship: Nagaland State Disability Forum has informed that Shishu Sarothi in partnership with Indus Towers Ltd has announced scholarships 2022-23 for 180 deserving students with disabilities from North-East India. NSDF has informed that online and offline applications commenced on August 25 and details are available at www.ssscholarship.org. For queries, students may call/SMS/ WhatsApp at 7086268549 (10 am-5 pm) on working days.

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Lt. Mr. Kevizakie Üsou 08/11/1983 – 20/07/2022 family members of Lt. Mr. Kevizakie Üsou would like to express our heartfelt gratitude to each and every individuals, relatives, neighbours, colonies and well wishers who stood by us spiritually, materially, financially and physically during the time of our grief and sorrow. We would like to express our sincere thanks to: Soul Harvest Church, Kohima Chiechama Basa Baptist Church Staff of Fire & Emergency Services, Kohima sincerely regret our inability to mention and thank every individual but it is our earnest prayer that Almighty God bless you all abundantly. family members

DIMAPUR: Deputy chief minister, Y Patton said BJP was a secular party and that any political party or individual branding BJP as anti-Christian was “spread ing rumours”.According to deputy CM media cell, Patton was addressing BJP Pughoboto 13 A/C BJP mandal and party workers on August 26 at Town hall Pughoboto. “There have not been any instances where our paths have been hindered in the name of religion af ter BJP became part of the government in Nagaland,” said Patton.

DIMAPUR: Nagaland Zeliang People’s Organisation (NZPO) has appreciated the decision of commissioner, Nagaland, in acknowledging the genuine landownership claim of Lamhai village over the erstwhile Kiyevi village while passing the August 20 order releasing damage compensation to structure owners. In a press note, NZPO president said that the order made it clear that the release of damage compensation, “to structure owners of illegal residents of erstwhile Kiyevi” was without prejudice to any claim/counter-claims over landownership issue that might arise in the future. NZPO further noted that the order was in line with the demand submitted by Lamhai Village Council to deputy com missioner (DC) Peren on August 18, 2022, the day DC summoned the village council for consultation regarding the objection to release of the damage compensation-- that the damage compensation could be re leased to the illegal residents on condition that they vacated the land upon receipt of the compensation. NZPO proclaimed that expansion and development of Lamhai Namdi village comprising of other Naga tribes, would continue unabated in the traditional land of Lamhai village in the vicinity and beyond Kiyevi village up to the river Tehaiki or Khovaru, which was the traditional boundary of Lamhai with Chümoukedima. It also said that any opposition to the expansion and develop ment of Lamhai Namdi on its own land by any “illegal encroachers” would not be tolerated.

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DIMAPUR: Urban Primary Health Centre Wokha under CMO Wokha in collaboration with DPO DAPCU, mobile ICTC, NUN LWS Wokha and DVBO (NVBDCP) Wokha organised an outreach health camp on August 26 at Etsu chukha colony, under Wokha district.The camp, which was led by Nyiro PHC medical officer, Dr. Thungjamo E Jungio with several healthcare workers con ducted random blood sugar test, HIV, HCV and other tests along with distributions of medicines.

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Members of Peace Channel along with speakers and various CSOs on Saturday. (NP)

DIMAPUR: Konyak Students’ Union Kohima (KSUK) and Wameken Vil lage Council (WVC) have condemned the alleged cus todial death of E. Henveih Phom, a retired Nagaland police personnel from Anaki village under Mokokchung district while in the custody of Assam police. KSUK: Konyak Stu dents’ Union Kohima has expressed shock to learn about the custodial death of Henveih Phom on August 21, “in the hands of law keepers.”KSUK president M Honli Konyak, executive chairman Nocklei M and general secretary Pangom W Kheman stated that this was “a matter of serious breach of human rights and fundamental rights” and that the Assam police “should be taught that there are some constitution provi sions guaranteed even to a person in custody.” The union appealed to the state government to take the case with utmost seriousness and initiate judi cial proceedings against the personnel involved. It also urged upon the state government to estab lish State Human Rights Commission as early as possible since it has already been 29 long years after existence of Protection of Human Rights Act, 1993.

Correspondent KOHIMA: A book on men tal health titled, “Out of the Woods’”, authored by Dr. Neikehienuo Mepfu-o was released at Kohima College, here, on August 26. Speaking at the pro gramme, Dr. Neikehienuo Mepfhu-o said it was a venture into Naga society’s perception and outlook on people with mental health issues.The author said with the progress to build greater mental health awareness in communities, the goal should be to “inform” and “not to offend.” She hoped that the book would help people empathise with peo ple and families dealing with mental health issues. Dr. Neikehienuo in formed that the novel was solely focused on sensitising people on mental illness.

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WVC: Wameken Vil lage Council has vehemently condemned the alleged cus todial death of E. Henveih Phom of Anaki C Village while in the custody of As sam metedbrutalityhensionwassecretary,Nungsangnote,police.InacondemnationWVCchairman,LkrTatarandBenMoasaiditbeyondhumancomprethatsuchanactofandsavagerywasouttoaneighbourin a borderWVCarea.said the act it self was “a test of patience of neighbouring villages which could ignite into a large-scale law and order problems amongst peaceful and friendly people of both states at the border”. Stating that such “high handedness” of Assam po lice was experienced “many times” in the area, WVC has appealed the government of Nagaland to take ap propriate action in booking the law perpetrators so that justice could be served to the bereaved family and concern community.

cha spoke on how the novel impacts the mind of readers and at the same time, was a challenge to the societal norms while also providing invaluable insights. She said mental health issues were so prevalent in Naga society and lauded the author for the courage shown in her writing.Nagaland Building & Other Construction Workers Welfare Board (NBOCEWB), Dr. Kekhrie Yhome also highlighted the significance of mental issues among Nagas and stressed on the importance of helping those people. The programme was chaired by HoD, Sociology department, Dr. Kekhries eno Christina, prayer by assistant professor, Politi cal Science department, Dr. Kethokhrieü and spe cial number by Visaleü Mepfhüo while a speech was delivered by assistant professor, Dr. Theyiesinuo Keditsu.

MYK C MYK C 3STATENAGALAND POST, DIMAPUR SUNDAY, AUGUST 28, 2022 Q.: Has the BJP shelved the promise of solution before election? A Yes. 37% B No. 59% C Can’t Say. 3% 100%90%80%70%60%50%40%30%20%10%0% nagalandpost.com Poll A B C NEXT POLL Q: Is Nagaland seriously taking up the recent custodial death issue with Assam?  Yes.  No.  Can’t Say. (Temperature in ºC) Max Min Agartala Some rain and a thunderstorm 31 25 Aizawl An afternoon thunderstorm 26 20 Guwahati Mostly cloudy with a t-storm 30 27 Imphal A t-storm around in the a.m. 26 22 Itanagar A couple of thunderstorms 30 26 Shillong A shower and thunderstorm 22 19 Kohima A shower and thunderstorm 23 20 Dimapur Rather cloudy with a t-storm 30 26 Mkg Mostly cloudy with a t-storm 25 22 Tuensang Mostly cloudy with a t-storm 20 18 Wokha A thunderstorm in spots 25 23 Zunheboto Mostly cloudy with a t-storm 22 19 FORECASTWEATHERAUGUST28 were searching for a domain that provided significance, security and recognition and asserted that “mere power sharing among na tion or political space” was not enough to bring peace. Stressing on the need for strong centralised lead ership with not only physi cal and political strength, but also moral strength, he said many divisions arose in Nagaland due to different levels of crises at national, state and village levels. Rev. Mazie said if there was a strong leader ship with strong vision, there could be a solution and people would not be in the condition they were presently living in. He also pointed out four pillars that played different roles in peacebuilding in a society which societymainthetralisedmedia.church,were—government,civilsocietiesandLackofstrongcenleadershiptoleadpeopleisoneoftheproblemsthatNagaisfacing,hestated.

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Ao Senden on August 26, visited the residence of late Henveih Phom where the visiting members met with parents and relatives of the deceased. Later, members of the Senden held a joint meeting with Anaki Village Council and Langpangkong Tsukong Mungdang.

‘Naga freedom move ment has been segregated’ In her address, Doi chong Phom pointed out that the Naga freedom movement has been seg regated, which was lead ing to division instead of freedom.She highlighted six core points—positive im pact of civil society and how it should empower all the people to speak up for their rights, be an initia tor for the key changes in the society; mobilise and represent people and their key issues.Doichong opined that civil societies should “chal lenge the top tier” by point ing out issues and needs of the people.Shesaid peace cannot be talked about without people’s participation and stressed on the need to cre ate an atmosphere where there was absence of fear with unity based on diver sity, justice, pluralism and peace based on justice. The speaker also high lighted various forms of violence faced by women and urged upon the organ isations to initiate similar programmes in each dis trict in order to spread the need for dialogues on problems that trouble the NagaEarlier,society.welcome note was delivered by director, Peace Channel & Princi pal, North East Institute of Social Sciences and Research (NEISSR), Rev. Fr. Dr. C.P. Anto. The panel discussion was followed by Q&A ses sion and group discussion among the participants on “role of youth in bridging the gaps among Naga civil societies”.The seminar was chaired by MSW student NEISSR, Zhovino Kechu, vote of thanks was pro posed by Peace channel & NEISSR, liaison officer Susan Lotha and benedic tion by NEISSR assistant professor, Dr. Toli H. Kiba.

Patton, who is also the BJP legislature party leader, said a secular BJP works for the upliftment of the wom en, STs, SCs and Dalits. He said the BJP government at the central under Prime Minister, Narendra Modi was keen to develop the North East and Nagaland. Patton urged the peo ple to take full advantage of this opportunity to develop every part of the state. On the candidature of Dr. Sukhato A. Sema, Patton said that he was a “capable and influential leader” from the area and that, 13 Pughoboto AC was reserved for BJP in 2018 elections.Ina short speech, Dr. Sukhato thanked Prime Minister, Narendra Modi for ensuring central assis tance and relief program to the corner most regions of the country including 13 Pughoboto AC. He also thanked the visiting team led by deputy chief minister. Others who spoke on the occasion were, Minister Kashiho Sangtam, advisors Kazheto Kinimi, Khehovi and Haiying. Host of sup porters, public leaders, party workers and villagers at tended the meeting.

Consultative meet discuses role of CSOs

DIMAPUR: Konyak Students’ Union (KSU) said that the “policy of downgradation of high schools” should not be applicable in Mon district as the concerned authority was “equally responsible for bringing out the worst results by not appointing subject teachers”. In a press release, KSU president, T. Noklem Konyak and general secre tary, A. Pangnan expressed strong resentment over the concerned department for “not paying heed to the deprivation faced by the students at grass root level”.KSU then appealed the authority to “work more on the upgradation of education at grass root level and for the deploy ment of adequate teach ers”.The union informed that it visited two Govern ment High Schools- Mon Village and Chen loisho Village on August 24 and August 26 respectively owing to its nil results in HSLC Examination 2022 and as part of its resolution “Education Reformation VisionDuring2021-23”.thevisit, KSU said it interacted with stu dents from both the schools and held a co-ordination meeting with the stake holders from both the vil lages.The union said it also learnt that both the high schools had inad equate number of subject teachers. KSU said GHS Chenloisho, which was upgraded in the year 2012, till date has not appointed English and Hindi teacher. It said GHS Chen loisho was functioning without headmaster and assistant headmaster while GHS Mon village also require one English and Maths teacher each. KSU said most teach ers in both the schools are under RMSA and that they have not received their sal ary for almost six months. The union then asked how an unpaid teacher would be motivated to produce the best in students? The union has also pointed out that the pri mary section in both the villages has been neglected thus far by the concerned authority by not deploying adequate teachers, which it said was another factor for students not acquiring quality education thereby resulting in nil result so far.

(L) Dr. Neikehienuo Mepfu-o at the launching programme of her second book. (NP)

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Staff Reporter DIMAPUR, AUG 27 (NPN): Peace Channel in collaboration with North Eastern Social Research Centre (NESRC) and North East Institute of Social Sciences & Research (NEISSR) organised a con sultative meet “the role of civil societies initiative in peace-building” at Peace Centre, 7th Mile, St. Joseph campus, Chümoukedima, on Saturday.Panellists of the meet included—Bright Horizon Chümoukedima, director Rev. Dr. Mazie Nakhro, Beti Bachao Beti Padhao (BBBP) Longleng district ambassador and Social & Cultural secretary, Eastern Naga Women Organisation (ENWO) Doichong Phom and NESRC Guwahati, Assam, director Rev. Fr. Dr. Walter Fernandes with Sha lom Rehabilitation Centre Chümoukedima, director Rev. Fr. Chacko Karinthayil as moderators. ‘Mere power sharing is not enough to bring peace’ In his talk, Rev. Dr. Mazie Nakhro said people

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The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chief would hold a series of meetings with state office bearers, leaders of frontal organisa tions, MLAs and members of TTAADC, ministers, BJP core committee members. He would hold sep arate meetings with the tribal MLAs and leaders of the BJP-ally Indigenous People’s Front of Tripura (IPFT).“Besides gearing up the BJP organisation of all levels, priority of Nadda’s visit is to further strengthen the tribal front,” the BJP leader told IANS refusing to be named.

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GUWAHATI, AUG 27 (PTI): The Internet Proto col (IP) address of the de vice that was being used to dupe people in the name of the Guwahati Police chief has been traced to Nigeria, the top official said on TheSaturday.IPaddress is used to define a number which is given to each computer when it is con nected to the CommissionerInternet. of Police Harmeet Singh said in a tweet that the phone number being used by some fraudster imper sonating him has been blocked and the IP ad dress has been located. “The scammer’s number was banned for violation of WhatsApp terms of service, in a cou ple of hours. IP address was traced to Nigeria. We’re working further with @WhatsApp on this,” he “Onsaid.alighter note - scammers got a good dose in reply to their mes sages from those they contacted. Pls be alert and don’t fall for such appar ent scams!” the senior IPS officerSinghadded.had on Friday said that messages were being sent out through a Whatsapp number with his photo as its profile picture.“Some scammer has copied my photo from the internet and is send ing WhatsApp messages. Request anyone who gets such a message to press the Report & Block but tons available in What sApp. @WhatsApp it’s time you woke up to this scam, which is rampant,” Singh had written on the micro-blogging site. He had also shared screen-shots of Whatsapp messages being sent from the scammer’s number with his photo as the dis play Thepicture.Assam Police had last month issued an advisory against ‘What sapp-based impersonation attacks’ following fre quent cases of unidenti fied fraudsters using pro file photos and names of known persons to collect money in the form of gift cards.Photos of a chief minister of a northeastern state and senior civil and police administration of ficers have been used by such fraudsters, it had claimed.

In a major setback for the ruling BJP in Tripura earlier this week,

Fraudster posing as Guwahati police chief traced to Nigeria Mobile internet services to be suspended in Assam Sunday for exam in govt depts When should I come to see your govt schools: Kejriwal to Himanta Nadda’s 2-day Tripura visit to kick off assembly polls’ preparations J.P. Nadda RSS chief in Tripura RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat during inauguration of Shanti Kali Temple in Agartala, Saturday. (PTI) NPP will not form alliance with any party, says Conrad Sangma Conrad Sangma AMSU observes 57th Hunger Marchers’ Day Students rally on 57th Hunger Marchers’ Day in Imphal on Saturday. Arvind Kejriwal and Himanta Biswa Sarma

NEW DELHI, AUG 27 (PTI): Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad Sangma on Saturday said the NPP will not forge an alliance with any party, including the BJP, for the upcoming assembly elections in the state. However, the National People’s Party (NPP) will continue to remain in the BJP-led National Demo cratic Alliance (NDA) at the Centre, Sangma said, adding that the two parties are ideologically not on the same page on various issues. Elections in Meghalaya are likely to be held early next “Weyear. are not going to contest next assembly elec tions in alliance with any one, including the BJP,” Sangma, who is the presi dent of the NPP, told re porters here after the party’s nationalSangmaconference.saidthe NPP has never had any pre-poll alliance with any party in any state, and underlined that the party would also contest the upcoming as sembly polls in Odisha and Chhattisgarh on its own. However, he also main tained that NPP will remain focussed on the state elec tion in Meghalaya, Naga land, Tripura, Mizoram and Arunachal Pradesh. The NPP had fought the 2018 assembly polls in Meghalaya alone. However, the party, which came sec ond to Congress, entered into an alliance with the BJP to form government in the state.With two legislators, the BJP is a minor ally in the NPP-led government in Meghalaya since 2018.

SHILLONG, AUG 27(PTI): Two Bangladeshi nationals have been arrested from near the Indo-Bangla desh border in Meghalaya’s East Jaintia Hills district, a senior police officer said on Saturday.Acting on inputs that a group of Bangladeshi nationals were spotted in the jungle adjoining the un fenced international border near Pyrtakuna village on Friday, a joint team of police and BSF apprehended the duo identified as Misba Ud din (31) and Badrul Alom (30) while the others man aged to flee back to Ban gladesh, Superintendent of Police, Jagpal Singh Dhanoa said. Both the arrested per sons from Darponagar vil lage in Bangladesh, he said. “We have arrested two Bangladesh nationals who were actively aiding and abetting the illegal infiltra tion of Bangladesh nationals to India in the past couple of months through KuliangRatacherra axis,” Dhanoa told PTI.

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AGARTALA, AUG 26 (IANS): Ahead of the As sembly elections in Tripura scheduled early next year, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat arrived here on a two-day visit to the BJP ruled state on Friday. Sources said that dur ing his stay in Agartala, the RSS chief would meet Tri pura Chief Minister Manik Saha, newly-appointed BJP President Rajiv Bhattacha rjee and selected leaders of the BJP and the RSS. Bhagwat, who visited the royal palace immedi ately after his arrival in Agartala and met the royal family members, would visit the Sarbong Ashram of the Hindu tribal com munity at Amarpur in southern Tripura on Sat urday and address a “small gathering”Bhagwatthere.would stay and meet people at RSS Tripura ritywhoofmadearrangementsafternoon.forThein‘Sevadham’headquartersatKhayerpurWestTripuradistrict.RSSchiefwouldleaveNewDelhionSaturdayElaboratesecurityhavebeeninthestateinviewthevisitofBhagwat,enjoys‘ZPlus’secucover.

GUWAHATI, AUG 27 (PTI): Mobile internet services in several districts of Assam will be suspended for four hours for the second time this month on Sunday for conducting free and fair written examination for grade III posts of various governmentProhibitorydepartments.ordersun der section 144 of CrPC have also been clamped near the examination cen tres to further strengthen securityChiefmeasures.Minister Hi manta Biswa Sarma on Saturday reviewed the preparations.Mobile internet ser vices had been suspended on August 21 in 25 districts of the state when the writ ten examination for grade IV posts was held in two shifts of two hours each to ensure that candidates do not indulge in cheating through electronic devices. The final phase of this recruitment drive will be held for a limited number of posts of grade IV on September 11 and no sus pension of mobile internet service on that day has been announced so far. A writ petition was filed in Gauhati High Court against suspension of the mobile internet service for the examinations. The court had on Friday refused to stay the government order.Section 144 of CrPC have been clamped near the examination centres on all examinationsAccordingdays.to an of ficial order, gathering of people within a radius of 100 metre of each ex amination centre other than candidates, scribes and officials engaged for conduct and monitoring has beenSarmaprohibited.chaireda meet ing of senior government officials via video confer encing to take stock of the preparations. He instructed them to ensure that nobody resorted to unfair means during the examination, an official release said. He asked the con cerned officials to take mea sures necessary to ensure Sunday’s examination is completed in the seamless manner as that for the grade IV positions test last week. The chief minister instructed the officials to ensure that traffic in their respective districts are un der control and do not cause any difficulty to the candidates in reaching their examination centres on time. Director general of police Bhaskar Jyoti Ma hanta, principal secretary (home and political) Niraj Verma and other officials apprised him of the steps taken to ensure smooth con duct of the inover,ofdepositingGuwahatitrewithinhavedertion,Boardaredates.scheduledGrade-IIIappearcandidatescountry,andonetransformingrunmachinery.ciencyanonwithgovernmentvacantSarmaexamination.saidthatifpositionsinthearefilleduppeoplechosenentirelymerit,itwouldleadtoenvironmentofeffiinthegovernmentInthelongitwillprovecrucialinAssamintoofthemostdevelopedprogressivestatesintheheadded.Morethan14.30lakhareexpectedtofornearly30,000andIVpostsforthethreeAllexaminationsbeingconductedbytheofSecondaryEducaAssam(SEBA).ProhibitoryordersunSection144ofCrPCalsobeenimposedaradiusof100meoftheSEBAofficeintillreceiving,andscrutinisingtheanswerscriptsareGuwahatiPolicesaidaseparateorder.

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AFFIDAVIT (Declaration of Name) Regd. No. 608/2021, Date: 01/03/2021 I, Smti. Chathavino Chielie, present resident of Ruleizou, Lhisemia Khel Sector A, Kohima District, Nagaland, do hereby solemnly affirm on oath and declare as follows:1. That I am a bonafide citizen of India. 2. That my correct and official name is Chathavino Chielie. 3. That however in my Appointment Order bearing No. HTE/ HE-APPTT/ 3-15- 2009 dated Kohima the 16th July 2014, my name has been entered and recorded as Chathavino Sakhrie Chielie and in all my Academic Records/Documents my name has been entered and recorded as Chathavino Sakhrie and also in my Driving Licence ID bearing DL No. NL01201O0034259 my name has been entered as Chathavino 4. That the names Chathavino Chielie, Chathavino Sakhrie Chielie, Chathavino Sakhrie and Chathavino refer to one and the same person i.e., myself.

NEW DELHI, AUG 27 (PTI): The Twitter spat be tween Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and his As sam counterpart stretched on to Saturday with the AAP chief asking Himanta Biswa Sarma when should he come to see the schools of the northeastern state. The argument between the two leaders in the virtual space began after Kejriwal had on Wednesday tweeted that a closure of schools is not a solution and there is a need to open more schools across the country, and shared a link to a news report claiming a “closure” of some schools in Assam. Both Kejriwal and Sar ma have exchanged several virtual verbal volleys in the past three days. On Saturday, the AAP supremo tweeted in Hindi, “There is a saying we have -- If someone asks ‘When should I come’ and they say ‘Come whenever you can’, then it means ‘Don’t come ever’. I had asked you -‘When should I come to see your government schools’, you didn’t tell me. Tell me, when should I come, only then I can come.” His fresh tweet came in response to the remarks made by Sarma on Friday on the microblogging site. In a series of tweets, he had shared some of the differences between Delhi and Assam, mocking Ke jriwal.“Dear @ArvindKejri wal Ji, Your ignorance is painful. Let me help you. Assam is 50 times bigger than Delhi! Our 44521 govt schools teach 65 lakh stu dents - against your 1000+ odd schools. Our army of dedicated teachers number 2+ lakh; Midday meal work ers 1.18 lakh. Fathom it?” he tweeted.Inanother tweet, Sar ma said, “And yes, when you’re in Assam, which you so desperately wish to, I will take you to our Medical Col leges, 1000 times better than your Mohalla Clinic. Also meet our bright Govt school teachers and students.” He added in Hindi “quit both ering about making India no.1, Modiji is doing that”. Sarma had taken to Twitter on Thursday to lash out at Kejriwal over the amalgamation of schools and asked him to “do his homework” before com menting.“Dear @Arvind Kejriwal Ji-as usual you commented on something without any homework! Since my days as Education Minister till now, please note, the Assam government has established/taken over 8,610 new schools,” he had tweeted.Hehad also asked how many schools did the Delhi government start in the last sevenTheyears.Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief had responded to Sarma’s tweet on Friday. “Oh, it seems you took offence. My intention was not to point out your faults. All of us are one country. We have to learn from each other, then only India will become the number one country,” Kejriwal said in a tweet in Hindi.

Correspondent IMPHAL, AUG 27: All Manipur Students’ Union (AMSU) on Saturday ob served the 57th anniversary of Hunger Marchers’ Day with a massive rally on the streets of AMSU,Imphal.theoldest stu dent body in the state has been commemorating the historic agitation by stu dents against the artificial food scarcity in the state on this day in 1965 as Hunger Marchers’LeadersDay.of the student body and CSOs who spoke at the main observation function held at the multipurpose hall of DM College, Imphal were sceptical that there were hidden policies to make Manipur dependent to others still on. AMSU president Hao bijam Challamba claimed that Manipur had produced food grains enough to feed its population until the erst while Kingdom was merged to Indian union. It was after the merger with the Indian union that Manipur became dependent on others, he said, express ing scepticism that there was a hidden policy to create artificial food scarcity in the state. He said non-availabil ity of fertilizers, particularly Urea during the peak season of paddy crop and failure of the paddy crops due to water scarcity, which farm ers are facing today was not a newTheone.AMSU president alleged that though these problems were a regular feature in the last few years, the state government did not come with a concrete long term plan to ease the problem.Instead of addressing the plights of the farmers, MLAs continued politics with the rice the Centre pro vided at Rs three a kg under National Food Security Act (NFSA), he added. “This is nothing but to create a sense that Manipur cannot attain self-sufficiency and have to remain depen dent on others,” the AMSU president said. The current artificial fertilizers scarcity being faced by the farmers of the state appeared to be an intentional one, he doubted. If the government was committed to making the state self-sufficient in food production, a concrete long term policy to ease the prob lems facing the farmers would have been imple mented, he said. Other yesteryear lead ers of the AMSU and CSOs echoed the same and said that the way the government treated the farmers made themIfinefficient.thepresent govern ment was sincere enough to get rid of food scarcity in the state, the people in governance should not delay in addressing the plights of the farmers, they added. All Manipur Students’ Union (AMSU) which was founded as fallout of the 1965 incidents has been ob serving the day as “Hunger Marchers’ Day” every year to remember the sacrifice made by the three students, Nabakumar, Chaobhal and Pramodini Devi and a driver of the AIR, Imphal Nila mani.The four were slain by police and security forces that fired gunshots towards students were agitating against artificial food scar city allegedly created by over export of rice of the state outside the Hundredsstate.of students from various schools and colleges who converged in Imphal’s Pishum Ch inga to pay floral tributes to the slain students also participated in the rally that marched on the streets in Imphal.The formal observance function began with the hoisting of the flag of the students’ body by its presi dent Haobijam Challamba at the student martyrs’ complex at Pishum Chin gamacha.

Man held with WY tablets worth Rs five crore in Manipur Correspondent IMPHAL, AUG 27: A 32-year-old man was appre hended with narcotic drug worth over Rs five crore in the international market as part the Manipur government’s ‘war on drugs 2.0 campaign. Police said that Sonkho hao Haokip (32) of Thing phai village of Tengnoupal district was arrested when a combined team of police in Tengnoupal district and troops of 21 Assam Rifles intercepted the contraband drugs in the vehicle he trav elled in Thealone.source said that the combined team recovered 11.755 kg of WY (World is Yours) tablets in the vehicle. The seized drug is estimated to be worth approximately Rs five crores in the international market.Acting on specific infor mation, the combined team opened a mobile vehicle check post at the inter-village road connecting Bongmol village and SitaTheyvillage.stopped the vehicle coming from Sita village side and on thorough search, WY tablets in 10 plastic bundles were discovered in a specially made compartment under neath the fuel tank of the vehicle.

AGARTALA, AUG 27 (IANS): BJP president J.P. Nadda will arrive on Sunday on a two-day visit to Tripura to kick-start the process of preparing the party for the election for the 60-member Tripura assembly which is still six months away. A senior BJP leader on Saturday said that Nadda during his two-day tour on August 28-29, would hold more than half-a-dozen meetings and also address a huge public gathering at the Tripura Tribal Areas Au tonomous District Council (TTAADC) headquarters at Khwumlung, 20 km from Agartala.

Azad, who named Ra hul Gandhi in his stinging resignation letter, said a “remote control model” had demolished the institutional integrity of the UPA govern ment and now the Congress party. He said decisions are taken by either Rahul Gandhi or rather worse by his security guards and PAs. “Ghulam Nabi ji bhai jaan, which PA or security personnel of Rahul ji took the decision to make you the Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha? Tell us this too,” former chief minister Digvijaya Singh tweeted while condemning Azad’s remarks.Indian Youth Congress president B V Srinivas al leged Azad had harmed the state units wherever he was the incharge and questioned why he did not quit the UPA government if he was un happy with Rahul Gandhi’s decisions.“Azad did not say any thing earlier because of his lust for power. He became angry only because he lost the chair,” he alleged. Sources said besides approving the polls schedule for the election of the next party president, the mem bers of the Congress Work ing Committee (CWC), the party’s highest decisionmaking body, could at their virtual meeting on Sunday also express confidence in the leadership provided by Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi in a bid to counter Azad’sAzadattack.was a member of the G-23 group that had written to Sonia Gandhi in 2020 seeking an overhaul of the party.Azad’s resignation had nothing to do with ideo logical differences with the party but was mainly due to personal reasons, CWC member Tariq Hameed Karra“Whensaid. he says he was not being taken onboard, he should remember he was onboard for the last 50 years. When he says sycophants were there, perhaps it would have been said about him also before,” he said. Why does Azad choose to show his resent ment whenever Congress

NEW DELHI, AUG 27 (PTI): Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Satur day claimed that the Centre did not have to impose GST on food items if the BJP had not spent a whopping Rs 6,300 crore on toppling governments of other par ties in the beenServicesKejriwalstates.downparties’rupeesthethethaton(AAP)“poach”petrolthroughiswalthestatethecomeKejriwal’scountry.remarksadayafterhecalledBJPa“serialkillerofgovernments”.DuringhisaddressinDelhiAssembly,KejrialsoallegedthattheBJPusingmoneycollectedGSTandhikeinanddieselpricestotheMLAs.TheAamAadmiPartynationalconvenorSaturdayalsoallegedthepeoplearefacingbruntofpricerisewithBJPspendingcroresofon‘poaching’otherMLAsandbringingtheirgovernmentsinInatweetinHindi,saidtheGoodsandTax(GST)thathasimposedoncurd,but termilk, honey, wheat, rice etc., will fetch Rs 7,500 crore revenue per annum to the central“Theygovernment.havespent Rs 6,300 crore so far on top pling governments. They would not have had to im pose GST on wheat, rice, buttermilk etc. if they had not toppled governments. People do not have to face inflation,” he claimed. The political slugfest between the AAP and the BJP has intensified since the CBI registered a case against Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia and others for alleged irregu larities in implementation of the Excise policy on the Lieutenant Governor V K

Police denies permission to Faruqui’s Delhi show

PANAJI, AUG 27 (PTI): The Goa Police on Saturday arrested a North Goa restau rant owner and a peddler, who had allegedly supplied drugs to the two accused held earlier in the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Sonali Phogat murder case, a senior officer said. With the fresh arrests, the number of persons in police custody so far rose to four.The drug peddler, Dat taprasad Gaonkar, and Ed win Nunes, who owns Curl ies restaurant where Phogat had partied before her death, were detained from Anjuna on Saturday morning. They were arrested in the afternoon, the officer said. Sudhir Sagwan and Sukhwinder Singh, arrest ed earlier in the case, had “confessed” in their state ment that they had procured drugs from Gaonkar, the officerGaonkarsaid. and Nunes have been booked under the Narcotic Drugs and Psycho tropic Substances (NDPS) Act, he Primasaid.facie, Gaonkar sold drugs to Sagwan and Singh who made the victim consume them while party ing. Nunes is held as the incident occurred on the premises of his restaurant. The police on Friday said Sagwan and Singh al legedly mixed some “ob noxious substance” in water and forced Phogat to drink it while partying at Curlies restaurant on the interven ing night of August 22 and 23, adding they have been charged with murder. The 42-year-old popu lar TikTok star was brought dead to St Anthony Hospital at Anjuna in North Goa dis trict on August 23 morning from her hotel. A court in Goa on Sat urday remanded Sagwan and Singh in police custody for ten days. Nunes had con firmed to PTI earlier that Phogat had come to his restaurant like any other customer. He, however, didn’t meet Phogat and the restaurant staff treated her like any other patron, Nunes had said.

Congress rule at Centre reminds of scams: Rajnath

Sonali Phogat case: Goa police arrest drug peddler, restaurant owner

Nadda slams TRS govt over graft, undemocratic prohibitory orders

WARANGAL (TELAN GANA), AUG 27 (PTI): BJP president J P Nad da on Saturday slammed Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao over alleged corruption, issuing of undemocratic prohibito ry orders on BJP’s political activity, among others, and said the people of the state would soon bid goodbye to this “Naya Nizam” (new Nizam).Addressing a public meeting here to mark the conclusion of the third phase of state BJP presi dent Bandi Sanjay Kumar’s ‘padayatra’, he said permis sion for the meeting was cancelled and the party had to knock at the door of the judiciary to get the nod. He said he could not be welcomed on his way to the venue as prohibitory orders under Section 144 were in Whenforce.he visited the State for the second phase of the ‘padayatra,’ he was told about the coronavirusinduced protocols and that he could not be allowed to go out of the airport. “What type of Telan gana it has become,” he asked. The people would keep Rao, also known as KCR, at home in the future and bring the BJP forward, NaddaThesaid.last ‘firman’ (or der) of the last Nizam of erstwhile Hyderabad State was that no public meeting can be held, among several other restrictions, he said. “I’d like to say that today’s Nizam KCR that his prohibitory orders will be the last,” he said. Nadda, who de scribed Rao as the “new Nizam”, alleged that the “Kaleswaram (project) has become the ATM of KCR”. Talking about cor ruption, he also said the scourge of corruption of has spread from here to Delhi.Citing some examples, he alleged that the TRS government is not releasing funds and diverting them if released without giving it to people though the Centre is allocatingAccusingfunds.the TRS gov ernment of not celebrating the day (September 17) the erstwhile Hyderabad State under Nizam rule merged with the Indian Union in 1948 under pressure from the Asaduddin Owaisi-led AIMIM, Nadda said the BJP, when elected to power, would celebrate the day. Earlier, Nadda visited the famous Bhadra Kali temple in Warangal before the publicDuringmeeting.hisvisit to the Telangana, the BJP presi dent interacted with former cricketer Mithali Raj and popular Telugu film hero Nitin in BJPHyderabad.sourcessaid the interactions are part of the outreach effort of the party. Addressing the public meeting, Bandi Sanjay Ku mar claimed that the Chief Minister got the show by stand up comedian Mu nawar Faruqui organised in Hyderabad recently to divert people’s attention from the allegations of cor ruption against his family members.Hehit out at the TRS government for allegedly providing security with 2,000 policemen to Fa ruqui’s show but denying permissions to BJP’s ‘pa dayatra’.Kumar said he is talk ing about development, but the CM is trying to defame BJP that it is trying to trig ger communal issues. He further claimed that the CM should tell the Hindu society if he is a true Hindu as to why he called Faruqui to Telangana who insulted Hindu gods. Sanjay Kumar an nounced taking up the fourth phase of his ‘paday atra’ from September 12. Meanwhile, state Min ister Errabelli Dayakar Rao said he is ready to debate on the welfare schemes being implemented in Telangana and the BJP-ruled states. The BJP is only trying to gain political mileage by highlighting communal is sues and is not interested in Telangana’s development, he alleged.

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NEW DELHI, AUG 27 (PTI): With Ghulam Nabi Azad’s exit casting a shadow on the meeting of the Con gress’ apex decision-making body, party leaders on Satur day slammed him for “tar geted personal vilification” of Rahul Gandhi while the BJP said the veteran leader has raised valid questions. Azad, who ended his five-decade association with the grand old party on Fri day, accused Rahul Gandhi of demolishing its entire consultative mechanism and also pi nned the blame on him for the 2014 electoral debacle. Congress leader Sachin Pilot said when the party is preparing to take on the “misgovernance” of the BJP government, the former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister had not fulfilled his responsibility.“He(Azad) held vari ous posts for over 50 years and now, when there is a need for the country and the party to raise people’s issues, this was uncalled for,” said Pilot.He said there was “tar geted personal vilification” of Rahul Gandhi in Azad’s resignationAskedletter.about Azad’s statement blaming Rahul Gandhi’s action of tearing up a government ordinance in “full glare” of the media for the loss of the Congress in the 2014 Lok Sabha polls, Pilot said it was wrong to single out an individual. “All of us in the Con gress were associated with and part of the UPA govern ment, including Mr Azad. So singling out a person for the defeat in 2014 would not be right,” he said.

LUCKNOW, AUG 27 (PTI): Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Satur day slammed the previous Congress government at the Centre for corruption, saying its rule reminds of scams.While under Prime Minster Narendra Modi, not even a single penny from the funds given by the Centre is being siphoned off, he claimed addressing a gathering“Wheneverhere. we think of 2G, 3G and 4G, we are reminded of scams of the Congress government,” Ra jnath said as he credited Prime Minister Modi with the elimination of corrup tion. Mentioning former prime minister Rajiv Gan dhi, Rajnath said he doesn’t want to criticise him but the leader had once said that of the 100 paise sent by the government, only 15 paise reach“Now,people.we can say that if 100 paise are sent from Delhi for the last person in society, not a single paise falls prey to corruption,” claimed the minister, who inaugurated and laid the foundation of 161 projects worth Rs 187.48 crore here.“Till the time we have Modiji as our prime min ister, nobody can attempt to indulge in a scam,” he added. This “magic” has been brought about by the prime minister, who has brought a change in the sys tem, Rajnath said.

president is not well, is hos pitalised, or outside for treat ment, he Accusingasked.Azad of con spiring against the Congress, Srinivas also said he chose to write to Sonia Gandhi on both occasions when the party president “was unwell”.Sonia Gandhi is abroad for medical checkups and Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra are accompa nying“Theher. internal situation of the Congress has been clear for many years now. But in the end, Ghulam Nabiji became free,” Union minister Jyotiraditya Scind ia, a former Congress leader who joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in 2020, said. Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said Azad raised valid points while exiting the Congress which is a “sink ing ship”.Speaking to reporters at the Nagpur airport, Fad navis said people who think the ship cannot be salvaged were leaving it now. leaders reject Azad’s criticism of Rahul

Prime Minister Narendra Modi tries his hand on a spinning wheel during ‘Khadi Utsav’ in Ahmedabad, Saturday. (PTI)

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AHMEDABAD, AUG 27 (PTI): Khadi was ignored after Independence but now it can become a source of inspiration for `Atmanirb har Bharat’, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said here on Saturday.Hewas speaking dur ing a `Khadi Utsav’ at the SabarmatiKhadiriverfront.(homespun) was ignored after Independence due to which weavers in the country suffered, he said. As a thread of khadi became inspiration for free dom struggle, it can also become source of inspi ration for developed and Atmanirbhar Bharat, he added. As many as 7,500 women khadi artisans cre ated a record on this occa Khadi can become inspiration for Atmanirbhar Bharat: Modi sion by spinning charkha (spinning wheel) at the same time and place, Modi noted in his speech.

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NEW DELHI, AUG 27 (PTI): Police have denied permission to stand-up comedian Munawar Fa ruqui’s show in Delhi to maintain communal har mony, officials said on Saturday, days after the Vishwa Hindu Parishad wrote a letter to the city police chief to cancel the programme.Asenior police officer said the central district police in its report to the licencing unit said the show will affect communal har mony in the area. The event was sched uled for Sunday afternoon (August 28) at the Kedar nath Sahni Auditorium, CBlock, SPM Civic Centre in centralAccordingDelhi. to the po lice, the central district police submitted its report to the licencing unit on Friday, following which the permission for the show was denied on the same day. While giving permis sion, it is already men tioned in the form that the programme/show will not affect the communal har mony in the However,area.ifthe licenc ing unit gets any input that it will affect the communal harmony, then the permis sion for the show is denied, the officer said.

BENGALURU, AUG 27 (PTI): Rahul Gandhi would be pursued to return as Con gress President as there is none in the party other than him who has a pan-India ap peal, veteran leader M Mal likarjun Kharge has said. The Leader of Oppo sition in the Rajya Sabha said anyone aspiring to lead the party should be known throughout the country and enjoy support from Kan yakumari to Kashmir and West Bengal to Gujarat. “He should be wellrecognised, accepted man to the entire Congress party”, Kharge told PTI here on Friday. “So, no body is there (in the party with such a stature). He recalled that all senior leaders had “forced” Sonia Gandhi to join and work for the party, and had requested Rahul Gandhi to “come and fight”. “You tell me the al ternative. Who is there? (in the party other than Rahul Gandhi)”, Kharge asked. On reports that Rahul Gandhi is unwilling to take up the mantle, Kharge said he will be requested and asked to take charge “for the sake of the party, for the sake of the country, for fight ing the RSS-BJP and to keep the countryKhargeunited”.alsoreferred to the party’s upcoming “Bharat Jodo Yatra”, and said Rahul Gandhi is need ed for ‘Jodo Bharat”. “We will ask him, we will force him and request him (to re tur n as Congress President). We stand behind him. We will try to pursue him”, the former Union Minister said. The Congress Work ing Committee (CWC), the party’s highest decisionmaking body, will hold a virtual meeting on Sunday to approve the schedule of dates for the election of the Congress president.

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Khadi Utsav (Khadi festival) is being organised as part of the Center’s “Aza di Ka Amrit Mahotsav”.

BENGALURU, AUG 27 (PTI): Veteran BJP leader B S Yediyurappa on Sat urday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi has agreed to his request of visiting Karnataka, where the party is aiming to come back to power, at least once a month, in the run-up to the 2023 Assembly polls. The former Chief Min ister who was in New Delhi on Friday to meet the party’s central leadership said, no force can stop the BJP from coming back to power in Karnataka. “I had a de tailed discussion with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, party national President J P Nadda. They tried to know about the political situation in Karnataka. I have re quested the Prime Minister to frequently visit the state and have assured him that the BJP will win more than 140 seats (out of the to tal 224) and come back to power,” Yediyurappa said. Speaking to reporters here on returning from New Delhi, he said the Prime Minister is visiting Manga luru on September 2 and a mega event is planned there by gathering lakhs of people. “I have requested Modiji to frequently visit, at least once a month, various parts of the state, and he has agreed to it. I have also spoken to Nadda in this regard. We will strengthen the party and put in all efforts,” he added.

The unfathomable agony of being Bilkis Bano

Viketo Nihokhe Sumi Purana Bazar, viketo06@gmail.comDimapur

In self-destruct mode India’s oldest and globally well-known political party– the Indian National Congress (INC)- has been on downslide since 2012 but became consistent since 2014 after the party seemed to be in free fall as the leadership went into a coma. Many renowned political commentators and veteran politicians have been giving valuable inputs on what is happening within the Congress after its disastrous defeat in 2014 and repeated by another devastating blow in 2019. Political analysts have also been commenting on the factors that had led Congress to face a string of defeats in assembly and parliamentary elections and the contributory factors. Congress was doing fine when Sonia Gandhi led the party organization with consensus through consultations. However, once she decided to hand over the baton to her son Rahul, the rot set in at a faster rate. Ghulam Nabi Azad, one of seniormost Congress leaders since Nehru, who rose through the ranks under Indira Gandhi and Rajiv and also under Dr. Manmohan Singh, has decided to get off the bus that is hurtling towards the abyss. Many other leaders of the Congress before Azad such as Punjab chief minister Amarinder Singh, Sunil Jakhar, Jyotiraditya Scindia, Sushmita Dev, party spokesperson Jaiveer Shergill Congress media in-charge, Haryana leader Kuldip Bishnoi, Kerala Congress leader Vijayan Thomas also quit. Earlier in 2019 Tom Vadakkan Congress spokesperson also joined BJP. Earlier this year in May, senior Congress leader Kapil Sibal, a prominent Supreme Court lawyer who fought cases for the party resigned from the party. RPN Singh, star campaigner for Uttar Pradesh resigned as he was ignored by Priyanka Vadra. Former Union Law Minister Ashwani Kumar resigned in February after giving 46 years of service to the party. Back in May, Gujarat Patidar leader Hardik Patel who was foisted to the party by Rahul, resigned. Former Goa Chief Minister Luizinho Falerio resigned in December 2021 and joined TMC. Other notable Congress leaders who left the party include- veteran Congress leader PC Chacko, UPCC chief Rita Bahuguna Joshi (2016), former Uttarakhand chief minister Vijay Bahuguna (2016), former Chhattisgarh chief minister Ajit Jogi (2016), Tripura leader Sudip Roy Barman (2016) and Uttarakhand leader Harak Singh Rawat (2016). Veteran Assam Congress leader Bhubaneswar Kalita and Assam Congress chief Ripun Bora also resigned. In Maharashtra, Narayan Rane, and Priyanka Chaturvedi joined BJP. Azad in his resignation letter, blamed Sonia for over turning a blind eye on every costly mistake by her son Rahul. He led the Congress to its epic disaster in 2014 but was rewarded when he as eventually elected unopposed as president in 2017. After leading the party to another humiliating defeat in May 2019, Rahul resigned in a huff in July 2019 but still continues to call the shots through remote control. For the Congress, the Gandhis are a symbolic link with the past but the family needs to play a more positive role as guardians instead of trying to run the party as a family firm. Even if a party president is elected, as Azad predicted, that the next president will only be a family puppet. The Congress has to come out of the shadows of the Gandhis but this can happen only if the family courtiers and sycophants are shown their place. But this is easier said than done and therefore, the Congress party will continue to be irrelevant till it is reduced to a small regional party or eventually fulfills BJP’s vow of CongressMukht Bharat. Quotes I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best. Living Your Theology Walk while you have the light, lest darkness overtake you… —John 12:35 Beware of not acting upon what you see in your moments on the mountaintop with God. If you do not obey the light, it will turn into darkness. “If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness!” (Matthew 6:23). The moment you forsake the matter of sanctification or neglect anything else on which God has given you His light, your spiritual life begins to disintegrate within you. Continually bring the truth out into your real life, working it out into every area, or else even the light that you possess will itself prove to be a curse. The most difficult person to deal with is the one who has the prideful self-satisfaction of a past experience, but is not working that experience out in his everyday life. If you say you are sanctified, show it. The experience must be so genuine that it shows in your life. Beware of any belief that makes you self-indulgent or self-gratifying; that belief came from the pit of hell itself, regardless of how beautiful it may sound. Your theology must work itself out, exhibiting itself in your most common everyday relationships. Our Lord said, “…unless your righteousness exceeds the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven” (Matthew 5:20). In other words, you must be more moral than the most moral person you know. You may know all about the doctrine of sanctification, but are you working it out in the everyday issues of your life? Every detail of your life, whether physical, moral, or spiritual, is to be judged and measured by the standard of the atonement by the Cross of Christ.

S ince I.S.B.T. (Inter State Bus Terminal) was built and stationed in Purana Bazar, Sir, I fear no Deputy Commissioners posted in Dimapur has ever graced their presence to even glance or peer around to know the mechanism deployed to service. I presume they felt no subjection nor any accountability in their job’s prospect, but I deem that they were bound by directive principle to know the functioning aspects of all major bodies under their province, on their fingertips. It is unconventional, Sir, to invite a District Head to look into the conditions of certain public stations through “public column” in local newspaper, but Sir, previous channels which were considered customary had futile outcome. In addition, I’ve expected law enforcers to right this infringing nuisance act of insubordination, but none are even intrigued. And henceforth, this unorthodox. Sir, through this reputed column, I am inclined to inform the abusive natures the highway to I.S.B.T. has been enduring under the unmindful Authority and as a result, it has become one of the worst impediment to the passengers commuting to bus station, and even worst for the people living in these areas who have to commute everyday through this discarded highway, full of upheavals.Sir,allow me to take you in this sojourn of bumpy corrugated ride, bit-by-bit. To begin, unlike I.S.B.T.s in other plain states, there is no definiteforked road that leads to the station from the highway. After you are eventually directed by helpful standbys, you come across potholes that are filled with blackish stagnant of human waste, channeled down from the petrol station that lies along the highway. The petrol station-master has taken the privilege to consider I.S.B.T highway for dumping ground of human’s urine and fecal matters. Since the pump’s public toilet is particularly and conveniently located where drivers of various public lorries assemble to procure business, also, since it is essentially located along NH29 for all people to utilize these units, station highway is always stagnant throughout the year with humanThenwastes.you shall come across a reinforced concrete drainage pipe of abnormal size - half buried under and half above the road. The outcome is ever presence of puddle ponds during rainy seasons. Whoever laid this pipe had the presence of mind to cover it with sand gravel, the upper half portion of the pipe that was visible to commuters’ naked eyes, hoping commuters are insane to notice his shoddy job. And then, you will come across series of buildingsand dealers stretching along the highway winding for I.S.B.T. This is absolutely absurd, and I don’t know whoever issued permits to these sand-dealers, enabling them to set up shops at the most inappropriate location, despite of ill assured consequences they could foresee. I cannot postulate if the actions of these dealers are the consequences of anarchy or if they are fearless rogues who heed no jurisdiction. I am haplessly biased to assume that no actions of penalty have been imposed since these acts haven’t come across our Administration’ sight. I prefer not to theorize the culpability is not the other way around.Sir,the presence of this sand dealers stocking sand along the road have been a total menace to the locals and passengers alike. Dissimilar to sand stockists along NH29, there is no drainage system that separates the sand stocks from the highway; and no settled open area between the highway and sand stocks. The stocks have literally covered one-third area of the highway. The aftereffect of this is, the metalled highway now lies few feet under the sand. It is a foregone truth that when you stock mountains of sands along the road without dividers, any natural effects of wind or rain coupled with gravity will bring down sands to lower altitudes. This is the aftermath here Sir. I.S.B.T Highway has become loading ground for these orderrevImuddyafrontmonsoonsuchbutallowanIstuckcarsrelativelymonsoons,depictunprovisionedsand-dealers.abusedpublicsincedrivepropertiessafeguardingareponderlorries.labourersroad,parkedabnormalsand-dealers.noncompliantItisnolongertoseeheavytrucksinthemiddleofthehorizontallywhileloadsandsontoIwonderifpeoplewhethertheregovernmentofficialspublicwhenevertheythroughthissectiontheywitnesshowroadisrampantlybythesewaywardTheseactssimplyandspellanarchy.Duringheavytheroadbecomesimpassableforcityastheytendtogetinthismuddyroad.haveencounteredsuchincidenttwice.Pleasemetorelateasatiricalamorbidironyofoneincident.Onceonamorning,mycar’swheelcouldn’tgettractiononknee-deephighway,andsohadtobackmycarandittothemaximumintoreachtheother end. Once I had crossed the hurdle, I stepped down from my car and barked at those dealers how they had turned a perfectly metalled road into a disaster and told them to rectify it. Few hours later, I found them dumping freshly dug earthly soil from dumper trucks and leveling it with backhoe. They didn’t realise that they were only compounding the issue. Poor salesmen wallas! They know that they don’t have a defining solution and all they can do is pour more oil into burning flames to assuage the irks of commuters.Now,inorder to know how deep the original road lies, you have to dig at least two feet below. Sir, I will not be able to let you know the severity of it through mental drawings unless you would kindly take the initiative to practically drive by once during dry day and another on incessant monsoon day. Sir, I believe, after your insightful inspection, that you’d comply if I plea to you to kindly shut down these sand-dealers and accommodate them along NH29 where all the sanddealers are functioning within the border of the law. And Sir, the once performing drainage system is at absolute loss. The drainage system that was implemented is now completely underground, covered in dunes of sand, responsible by defaulters. So I pray to you to kindly direct the responsible departments to avail much neededThisamenity.isnot an article to manifest the ignorance of past HODs of Dimapur district departments, Sir, but it is a humble imploration from a citizen, on behalf of the general population, to right what has been ignored or unknown by your predecessors, which I may term as genuine oversight. “It’s an emphatic truth that when an investigative person wants to substantiate if the government officials of any particular towns or cities are ardently overseeing public properties, often, his primary and foremost expedition is to inspect major public service stations such as bus stations, public hospitals, public schools and ensure that public roads are not encroached, inorder to get the gist.” I am truly remorseful, in advance, Sir, that my lines weight more towards discord, not remedied by former officials. Also, I would like to thank you, beforehand for being conscientious Head, obliging to the cries of the public in your province for legitimate reforms.

on ‘appropriate remedial measures’, the bench shot back saying, “Do you seriously think Parliament will debate regulating freebies? Which political party will debate this issue? No party will agree on curbs on freebies ahead of polls. Each of them wants it.” The Prime Minister’s remark on the ‘revadi culture’ had seemingly boomeranged. Of course, every party is going to tell the committee, “What they give are freebies, what we offer are not.” It will by no means be easy for the committee— which is likely to have representatives of the NITI Aayog, the RBI, the yet-tobe-constituted 16th Finance Commission, the Election Commission and political parties—to define freebies. While BJP might describe an opposition-ruled state’s freebies as a “drain” on its finances, the state might well defend it as legitimate welfare initiatives and an investment for the future. States will also assert their sovereign power to decide how much to spend and where besides deciding what is good or bad for its people. They will also certainly present a long list of freebies offered by the BJP and the Prime Minister himself. The line between welfare needs and poll sops has always been thin. It is equally certain that some members on the committee, economists and bankers, will offer a different view, driven by concerns on the impact of freebies on public finances and budget deficits. Making welfare schemes being the sole prerogative of elected governments, they can scarcely be told though which of the schemes they should drop. Experts might point to the poor state of finances of states and warn that they might find it difficult to sustain the schemes or repay their debts. But they can hardly ask states to drop welfare schemes which in their view might be wasteful. Time alone can be the arbiter in theseThecases. committee might end up offering broad guidelines on how to regulate spending by the central and state governments. A number of such guidelines already exist to enforce financial discipline. Some of these guidelines, such as Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management, are backed by laws. The SC committee might suggest some more ways to strengthen fiscal prudence.Atthe end of the committee’s exertions, therefore, we might be back to square one with economists, public finance experts and the RBI expressing fears of a “fiscal disaster” and elected governments arguing that they know best how to look after their people and manage their finances. Indeed, Tamil Nadu’s articulate and outspoken finance minister has pointed out that fiscal deficit in his state is far below the deficit of the Union government. The truth is that the revadi culture is unlikely to end anytime soon. The reason is not far to seek. It’s just that political parties are reluctant or unable to strike at the root of the problem. There are two sets of actors in the revadi culture: political parties and the people. Political parties distribute revadi to get votes of the targeted population. But why are people willing to barter their freedom of political choice for freebies? It is largely because they desperately need the freebies. Most people do not have a decent enough income to meet the needs of their families; or save enough for the future and live with dignity and with adequate financial security. Do upper and middle classes want freebies? No. They will undoubtedly feel insulted by the remotest suggestion of freebies. The revadi culture exists among the poor because poverty is widespread and economic disparities are increasing. No national employment policy appears to be addressing the highest unemployment rate in the last 45 years. In June 2022, as many as 44% of youth (20-24 age group) in the country were jobless. In number, that would mean at least 150 million youths. About 10 million workers who were laid off by the manufacturing sector during the pandemic have not been taken back. As many as 8 million people engaged in non-farm sectors lost their jobs in June and July 2022. Out of 220 million candidates who applied for central government jobs in the past eight years, only 722,000 or one per cent of the applicants got jobs. Can jobless and poor Indians be faulted for accepting freebies in lieu of their preciousRevadivotes?seeking is not limited to the jobless, though. Even those who have jobs desperately seek revadis. Why? The conventional wisdom is that if surplus labour moved from agriculture to non-farm employment, it would ensure economic growth, higher wages and better living conditions for the workers. But although there has been a shift from agriculture and migration of villagers to urban centres and despite economic growth, wages and living conditions of workers have not improved. Most of the urban workers (for example, gig workers) have casual, low-wage jobs, with no paid leave, medical reimbursement, social security, accident insurance, provident fund or pension. Can we fault them for trading their votes for revadis?Theonus for ending the ‘revadi culture’, therefore, lies on the Prime Minister, the Union government and all political parties and state governments. They need to ask why the lives of people do not show much improvement, the distress more in some states than others, despite all the tall claims, ambitious roadmaps and public expenditure. Unless a decent income is assured for all, they have little moral right to lecture people on freebies. Arun Sinha is an independent journalist and the author of ‘Against the Few: Struggles of India’s Rural Poor’ (As published in National Herald)

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W hen NarendraMinisterPrime Modi called for an end to the ‘revadi’ culture last month, he might not have bargained for the institution of a Supreme Courtappointed expert committee to “study the impact of freebies on taxpayers and the economy”. Or it might even have been a part of the script as he saw it. The Prime Minister was targeting opposition parties such as AAP (Aam Aadmi Party), the Trinamool Congress, the TRS (Telangana Rashtra Samithi) and the DMK (Dravida totheadvocatefreebies).seedscakes(literally,partiesThetoandwiderSupremeLankalikecountryrecentlyfreebiesBJPattackedpartiesKazhagam).MunnetraAllthesehavealsobeeninthepastbyleadersfordistributingandblamedmorefordrivingthetowardsa“Srisituation”.Onthefaceofit,theCourtwastakingaviewoftheproblem,notsomethingendemictheoppositionparties.courtobservedthatalldistribute‘revadi’sugar-coatedcoveredwithsesameandmetaphorically,WhenseniorKapilSibalsaidcourtshouldleaveitParliamenttodecide

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A s details are emerging about the fear gripping Bilkis Bano’s entire family after the release of her rapists, a strange irony hits: This hapless rape victim and her husband, children and relatives have been living in fear and moving from one place to another for the last twenty years, whereas the convicted rapists and murderers are getting garlanded by Hindutva outfits as though they have indulged in some heroic deed! Aren’t rape and murder heinous crimes? The fact is, Bilkis Bano has been terrorised by her tormentors. She was gang raped, her three-year-old daughter was killed by the rioters, seven of her relatives were also killed. To top it all, she and her family have been living in fear all these years. In fact, her tormentors ought to be booked under any of the terror acts, because she has been terrorised all through, all these twentyWeyears.must hang our heads in shame, for here is this woman who has suffered all these years and even now she and her family are getting hounded. If the political bigwigs of the country are being provided with security, why shouldn’t this hapless citizen, Bilkis Bano and the surviving members of her family? A connected reality Isn’t it time to document details of hundreds of women and their families who have been targeted and assaulted in Gujarat? Even today, the very word ‘Gujarat’ drags along images and details of the affected, either during the 2002 pogrom or even yearsForafter.the survivors of the riots, the trauma is still going on. Many have been living in isolation, cut off and bruised to the extent that they have lost all hope. Their lives have been completely destroyed and their emotions trampled upon.In fact, whilst keying in, I’m reminded of Ishrat Jahan, the 19-year-old college student who was killed in an ‘encounter’, in 2004, on a road between Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar in Gujarat, allegedly by the officers of the Ahmedabad Police Crime Branch led by D.G. Vanzara. Some years back, I had got in touch with Ishrat’s younger sister Musarrat Jahan and her mother Shamima, for a feature I was doing for Women’s Feature Service. Their voice carried strains of intense pain. It was more than apparent that this family had not recovered from the tragedy. And when I’d asked Musarrat whether there’d been any change in the realities they live with, she told me, “Ever since Ishrat’s killing, we have kept to ourselves and seldom move out. To this day we are wary of stepping out. Difficult for us to survive. I gave up studies… Forget about books and studies, even running the kitchen gets very difficult. Ishrat was the sole earning member of the family. After the death of our father in 2002 because of a brain tumour, the responsibility of the family fell on the eldest of the seven siblings, Ishrat. She took up part-time jobs so that we could survive. After her death, the situation has only been worsening for us. We have been suffering on all possible fronts; emotionally, socially, financially…can’t tell you our pain. We just keep to ourselves. We are fearful and somehow surviving.” For many, the very word ‘Gujarat’ drags along faces of all those sitting marginalised and bruised and at the mercy of the political rulers. To this day dark images stand out. There’s been no closure. There can’t be, with the tormentors, and culprits roaming aboutManyfreely.have given up all hope. Several want to fight for justice. I recall the words of Zakia Jafri, “I’m going to carry on this fight for justice, not just for myself but for all those killed in Gujarat... My husband, Ahsan Jafri, fought valiantly till he was killed by the Hindutva rioters. But till the end he did not give up. Like Hazrat Imam Hussain and his companions were martyred during the battle of Karbala, hundreds of innocent children and women and men were killed in that Gujarat pogrom.”

Humra Quraishi is a Delhibased writer, columnist and journalist (As published in National Herald)

“Azad is coming to Jammu on September 4 to hold consultations with his well-wishers before the launch of our new party,” Saroori, a former vice-pres ident of the J-K unit of the Congress, told PTI. Hours after his resigna tion on Friday, Azad said he would launch a new party soon and that its first unit would be set up in Jammu and Kashmir.“Iamin no hurry as of now to launch a national party but keeping in mind that elections are likely to be held in Jammu and Kash mir, I have decided to launch a unit there soon,” Azad, who hails from the Bhad erwah township of Doda district, had told PTI on FridaySaroori,night. who along with several former legisla tors met with Azad in New Delhi on Friday to extend their support, said the vet eran politician was going to announce the launch of the party within the next fortnight.“We are happy that he is returning to J-K where he served as chief minister (from November 2, 2005 to July 11, 2008). People view his rule as a golden era and want him back to pull out Jammu and Kashmir from the present situation,” he said, adding that his support base is spread across Jammu and Kashmir.Saroori said the new party would focus on de velopment, unity among all sections of the society, and would struggle for restora tion of the pre-August 5, 2019 Onposition.August 5, 2019, the Centre revoked the special status of Jammu and Kash mir under Article 370 of the Constitution and bifurcated the erstwhile state into two Union territories.

PATNA, AUG 27 (PTI): The Communist Party of India (CPI) has asked the Mahagathbandhan govern ment in Bihar, which it is supporting from outside, to use bulldozers against lead ers of the BJP in the state. CPI national secretary Atul Anjan also demanded that a “white paper” on the “ill-gotten” wealth of BJP leaders in the state be brought out to debunk the notion that “only other par ties are“Letcorrupt”.(CM)

VARANASI (U P), AUG 27 (PTI): Water level in the Ganga crossed the danger mark in Varanasi on Sat urday, inundating many agricultural and residential areas on the banks of the holy river and its tributaries. The district adminis tration, in a statement, said that 18 municipal wards and more than 80 villages have been affected by the floods in Ganga and its tributary Varuna in the district and 228.69 hectares of crops have been damaged in the district.According to the Cen tral Water Commission, the water level of the Ganga crossed the danger mark of 71.26 meters and reached 71.50 meters by 10 am on Saturday. Sud-divisional magistrate (Sadar) Hansika Dixit said that 68 villages of Varanasi Sadar have been affected by the floods and as many as 10,104 flood victims have been shifted to 18 reliefThecamps.Varanasi district has three tehsils - Sadar, Pindra and Rajatalab, All necessary arrange ments have been made to provide food and other ne cessities, the SDM said, adding that the teams of the district administration are continuously patrolling the affected areas to assist the trappedThepeople.SDM said that along with relief material and medical facilities, “dig nity kits” consisting of sani tary kits as well as soap etc. are being distributed to the women.Nandlal, a resident of Nagwa, told PTI that flood water has entered his house and he has shifted his family members and valuables to the houses of his relatives in the safer area, while he has taken shelter in a nearby house located at a height. There is also an increased risk of diseases because of flood waters, he feared. Rajan, a resident of Parshupur of Rajatalab teh sil, told PTI that the flood water has entered the agri culture fields in his village. “About 15 bighas of paddy crop of Parshupur village have been submerged in water. If water remains in the fields for a few days, then the crop will be spoiled,” he feared.According to SDM Rajatalab Girish Chandra Dwivedi, the situation is presently under control in Rajatalab“Sometehsil.crops have been submerged in water. If the water level of Ganga starts receding in a few days, the water will drain out of the field and the crop will not be harmed,” he said. Six relief camps have been set up in Rajatalab teh sil area but no one is living there now, he said.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday said the Narendra Modi government took all efforts to strengthen probe agencies such as the NIA and anti-terror laws in line with its policy of zero tolerance towards terrorism. The National Inves tigation Agency will have branches in all the states by May 2024, he said. The home minister was speaking at the inaugu ration of the office building of the NIA’s Raipur branch in Atal Nagar area of Nava Raipur.“The Modi govern ment has adopted zero tol erance policy against Left Wing Extremism, terrorism and other related crimes including fake currency and narcotics, and therefore we left no stone unturned to strengthen the NIA,” he said. The BJP-led Union government also strength ened anti-terror laws, shared terrorism-related inputs with state governments irre spective of the party ruling in a state, strengthened antiterror investigation agencies and increased conviction rate in such crimes, Shah added.“In line with this (poli cy), our government worked towards strengthening the NIA. I am happy that in the cases handled by NIA, the conviction rate has reached 94 per cent from 75 per cent in 2014,” he said. The government has tried to make Kashmir ter ror-free ever since it came to power, the Union minister said. “Peace is being wit nessed in Kashmir after the abrogation of Article 370 and today our agencies have succeeded in check ing terror activities there. It became possible because the NIA took stringent action against those involved in terror funding in 2018, 2019 and 2020.Atotal of 105 cases (of terror funding) were regis tered and 876 persons were arrested and in 94 cases charge sheets have been filed,” he added. The government has also pledged to uproot the Left Wing Extremism which is now restricted to only a few districts in the country, Shah claimed. “Earlier LWE’s influ ence was spread to 120 districts but it has now shrunk to only 46 districts. In Chhattisgarh there are some districts that are still struggling with the menace but I firmly believe that the Central and state govern ments will jointly eliminate it,” he said.

Modi govt ensured zero tolerance on terrorism: Shah ‘Viral disease behind stunting of paddy in Punjab’

Nitish Kumar and (deputy CM) Tejashwi Prasad Yadav instruct officials concerned to identify and raze struc tures belonging to BJP leaders which are found to be encroaching upon public land. Bulldozers should now be used against the party,” he told reporters on Friday.“If Nitish and Tejash wi baulk, we will take it as a lack of moral courage (nai tik saahas) on their part,” said Anjan.TheCPI leader said his party was still open to joining the cabinet in the state, unlike other Left parties -- the CPI(ML) and CPI(M) which have ruled out such a possibility. “But we have received no offer so far. And we do not want ministerial berths at the cost of unity among alliance partners,” he said. Replying to a query, the CPI leader said the par ty believes that Kumar will play an “important role” in forging unity among oppo sition parties in the country. He, however, evaded pointed queries about Ku mar being “prime minister material” saying, “We shall cross the bridge when we reach it. Let us not try to name the child even before it is born.”

Use bulldozers against BJP leaders in Bihar: CPI Atul Anjan Parliament panel grills Twitter officials over data security, privacy

PAU vice-chancellor Satbir Singh Gosal said that SRBSDV is the real cause behind stunt ing of rice. The PAU scien tists had received complaints of stunted rice plants from farmers.Preliminary reports about the occurrence of these symptoms started coming from the districts of Sri Fatehgarh Sahib, Pa tiala, Hoshiarpur, Ludhi ana, Pathankot, SAS Nagar, and Gurdaspur. Within one month, stunted rice plants were observed in almost the whole of Punjab and its ad joining states, said the PAU in a statement here.

CHANDIGARH, AUG 27 (PTI): The Punjab Agricul tural University has found southern rice black-streaked dwarf virus (SRBSDV), a viral disease, behind the stunting of paddy plants in many parts of Punjab. This is the first time that SRBSDV, which was first reported in 2001 from Southern China, has been detected in Ludhiana-basedPunjab.

Top Twitter executives, including Senior Director (Public Policy) Samiran Gupta and Director (Pub lic Policy) Shagufta Ka mran, deposed before the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Information and Technology chaired by Shashi Tharoor on Friday. The panel questioned them about the reports on former head of Twitter (se curity) Peiter Zatko’s al legations the microblogging site knowingly allowed the Indian government to place its “agents” on the company payroll where they had “di rect unsupervised access to the company’s systems and user data”. The Twitter of ficials denied any such thing having happened, sources in the panel said. The members also questioned the social me dia giant’s officials if their data security policies is in sync with local policies and with the single global pri vacy policy. They asked how does the microblogging site handles conflicts in national privacy policies of different countries, with the sources saying the executives didn’t give satisfactory replies.

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Water level in Ganga crosses danger mark in Varanasi

MUMBAI, AUG 27 (PTI): With Shiv Sena leader Aad itya Thackeray intensifying attack on the rebel faction by calling them ‘gaddars’ (traitors), the dissidents have broken their pledge to not target any member of the Thackeray family and dubbed the former minister a “Yuvraj”Legislators(prince).inthe camp led by Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde feel that Aaditya Thackeray has “crossed the line” and spreading lies against them and it was high time they hit back.On Thursday, the dis sident MLAs targeted Aad itya Thackeray, former min ister and son of Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray, by displaying a banner against him on the steps of the Vid han Bhavan on the last day of the legislature session. The banner reads: “Yu vrajanchi disha chukli” (the prince has missed his path). Aaditya Thackeray countered them by shouting “50 khoke, edum okay” im plying that the rebel MLAs got money to switch their loyalties, leading to the col lapse of the Uddhav Thac keray-led tripartite MVA government in June and Shinde taking oath as the chief Onminister.Wednesday, legisla tors of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Shinde loyalists staged a similar protest targeting for mer CM Uddhav Thackeray and Aaditya Thackeray. They carried banners with messages alleging cor ruption in the cash-rich Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), con trolled by Shiv Sena, and claimed the Thackerays compromised on Hindutva for power. Some banners read: “Raja (a reference to Uddhav) stayed indoors due to fear of COVID-19 while friends of the “Yuvraj” (a reference to Aaditya) looted the treasury.Theyshouted slogans like “standing committee che okay,”khoke...’Matoshree’allegingcorruption in the BMC with the support of the‘Matoshree’Thackerays.is the pri vate residence of the Thac kerays in suburban Mumbai. This is perhaps the first time since the MLAs revolt ed against the Sena leader ship in June that they have targeted the Thackerays. In the past, the rebel faction spokesperson Deep ak Kesarkar had said the dis sidents won’t attack Uddhav and Aaditya as they hail from the Thackeray family. Over the last few days, Aaditya Thackeray has been touring the constituencies of the rebel MLAs, dubbing them “traitors” and accus ing them of stabbing his father in the back when he was ill.

Shiv Sena rebel faction hurls ‘yuvraj’ barb at Aaditya Thackeray Aaditya Thackeray with other opposition leaders protests at Vidhan Bhavan on the last day of Monsoon Session. (PTI)

NEW DELHI, AUG 27 (PTI): A parliamentary panel questioned top Twitter officials over a whistle-blow er’s revelations on its India operations, and gave them a dressing-down as their replies on issues of data se curity and privacy were “not satisfactory”, sources said. The officials from the company, however, refuted the whistle-blower’s allega tions and denied there was any data security breach in India, the sources said.

Ghulam Nabi Azad to launch own party

A waterlogged residential area in Varanasi as the water level of the Ganga river continues to stay high. (PTI) Amit Shah

Ex- MLAs from J&K during a meeting with former Congress party leader Ghulam Nabi Azad, at his residence in New Delhi, Saturday. (PTI)

JAMMU, AUG 27 (PTI): Former Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad is all set to launch his own party and its first unit would come up in Jammu and Kashmir within a fortnight, his close confidant G M Saroori said on Saturday.Saroori asserted that the restoration of the preAugust 5, 2019 position of Jammu and Kashmir will be part of the party’s mani festo.A former minister who was among several prominent Congress lead ers of Jammu and Kashmir who resigned from the basic membership of the party in support of Azad, Saroori said their leader was ideo logically secular and there was no question of him working at the behest of the BJP.He also claimed that hundreds of senior Con gress leaders, Panchayati Raj Institution members and prominent workers have ten dered their resignations after the former chief minister ended his over five-decadelong association with the national party.

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CHANDIGARH, AUG 27 (IANS): Prime Minister Narendra Modi will virtu ally lay the foundation stone of Maruti Suzuki’s third plant at Industrial Model Township (IMT) in Khark hoda in Sonipat in Haryana on Sunday.Chief Minister Mano har Lal Khattar, Deputy Chief Minister Dushyant Chautala besides central ministers and MPs will be present at the ocassion. The Chief Minister said the foundation stone would prove to be a new milestone in the industrial progress of Haryana.

MUMBAI, AUGUST 27 (IANS): India’s forex re serves fell by $6.687 billion to $564.053 billion in the week ending August 19, the RBI’s weekly statistical data “India’sshowed.forex reserves dipped to USD 564bn as on August 19, lowest since October 2020. The main reason behind this fall is dip in foreign current as sets which the RBI has been using in forex market to cushion the fall in rupee. Since the start of this year, the geopolitical un certainities and back to back rate hikes by the Fed have led to weakening of emerging market curren cies including INR,” said Ritika Chhabra, Econo mist and Quant Analyst, Prabhudas Lilladher. In the week prior, during the week ending August 12, the country’s foreign exchange reserves had declined by $2.238 to $570.74 billion. The reserve had declined every single week barring the increase in the last week of July. It has fallen for 20 of the 26 weeks since Rus sia invaded Ukraine in late February.The drop in the re serves during the week ended August 19 was due to a fall in the Foreign Cur rency Assets (FCA) and the gold reserves, as per the Weekly Statistical Supple ment released by RBI on Friday.

Dr. S Chakraborty appointed NIMSR director-cum-dean BJP high command to take final call on candidature for 20 seats (From p-1) of the government of Gujarat and because we believe that it is only the Supreme Court which has the prime jurisdiction, and hence the responsibil ity, to rectify this horrendously wrong decision,” the letter read. Bilkis Bano was 21 years old and five months preg nant when she was gang-raped while fleeing the riots that broke out after the Godhra train burning in 2002. Her three-year-old daughter was among the sevenThekilled.former civil servants wrote, “The case was a rare one because not only were the rapists and murderers punished, but so, too, were the police men and doctors who tried to tamper with and erase the evidence to protect the accused and cover up the crime.”

All subsidised fertilisers to be sold under single brand ‘Bharat’ from Oct (From p-1) He called for strength ening BJP in Nagaland, not ing that Dimapur being the bastion of the party could assist in increasing party presence across the State. He urged all karyakatras to work together to strengthen the party so that it could form the government in future.Zhimomi appealed to the gathering to believe in the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the party’s central leadership, claiming that because of Central gov ernment’s people-centric schemes and plans, the party had been voted to power for two consecutive terms. Addressing the gather ing as chief host, Power De partment adviser Tovihoto Ayemi noted that BJP in Dimapur had grown from strength to strength and had also enrolled many people as members.Healso reminded the gathering about the prin ciple of BJP, which stood for the nation. With the inaugu ration of the new office, he hoped that all party workers would work with more zeal, enthusiasm and dedication.

Earlier, the programme was chaired by BJP district secretary Naro Sangtam, invocation by BJP Mah ila district president Avi Awomi, welcome speech by ST Morcha district president Khesheto Kiho, presidential address by district president Tokuho Suhoi Neho and special number by Ayala Jamir.

(From p-1) Dr. Soumya, who was in Nagaland, Friday interacted with Health & Fam ily Welfare (H&FW) minister S Pangnyu Phom and other officials in Kohima. With her experience of serving as dean/principal of several government institutions, Dr. Soumya’s appointment is expected to contribute in receiving letter of permission (LOP) from National Medical Commission (NMC) for starting the first medical college in Nagaland. NIMSR has already submitted an online application to NMC for LOP so that it could get functional from the academic year 2023-24. Advertisement for the post of director-cum-dean for NIMSR was pub lished in both local and national newspapers on May 10, Thereafter,2022.H&FW department re ceived applications from across the country and the candidates were evaluated as per NMC evaluation criteria by the Searchcum-Selection Committee under the chair manship of the chief secretary. On the recommendation of commit tee, Dr. Soumya was selected and appointed as director-cum-dean of NIMSR.

“MoCA proposes to seek an Expression of Interest (EoI) from air operators who can offer one single-engine or twinengine helicopter in an air ambulance role with EMS capability for a period of six months based out of a helipad at AIIMS Rishikesh,” it said. As per the document, the proj ect would be located at AIIMS Rishikesh for a duration of six months which may be extend ed on mutual consent basis.

“Today Haryana has become a major automobile manufacturing hub in the country. At present, about 50 per cent of the cars made in India are manufactured in Haryana. With Maruti Suzuki setting up another such plant, a new industrial hub is going to be developed in Haryana,” said Khattar. He said the state gov ernment has given all kinds of facilities to the industry due to which the state is progressing continuously as an industrial hub. Invest ment by big companies like Maruti has given a positive impetus to the industrial environment.TheChief Minister said that after Gurugram and Manesar, this is the third plant of Maruti Suzuki which will be set up in Hary ana. Along with Maruti car, the foundation stone of Suzuki’s bike manufacturing plant will also be laid here. This huge investment being made by Maruti and Suzuki is certainly going to open doors of employ ment and development for the state and in the coming times, Kharkhoda is certain ly going to come at par with Gurugram and Manesar. In May, a memoran dum of understanding was signed for the allotment of land to Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. and Suzuki Motorcycle India Pvt. Ltd. for setting up of this plant. A sum of Rs 2,400 crore was spent for the purchase of this land and more than Rs 20,000 crore are to be invested. Maruti’s new plants will be set up on an area of 900 acres.

After serving 15 years in jail, one of the accused, Radheshyam Shah, ap proached the Supreme Court with a plea for his premature release, the letter said. The Gujarat High Court, which had earlier been approached for this purpose, had dismissed his plea while observing that the “appropriate govern ment” to decide the case was that of Maharashtra and not Gujarat, it said. Radheshyam Shah then filed a plea in the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court, on Rad heshyam Shah’s plea, also directed that the application for premature release be considered by the Gujarat government within two months, and in terms of its policy dated July 9, 1992, it said. “We are puzzled about why the Su preme Court saw the matter as so urgent that a decision had to be taken within two months, as also by the Supreme Court ordering that the case should be examined as per Gujarat’s 1992 remis sion policy and not its current one,” the letter“Insaid.view of these glaring devia tions from established law, departure from government policy and propriety, and the chilling impact that this release will have, not just on Bilkis Bano and her family and supporters, but also on the safety of all women in India, espe cially those who belong to minority and vulnerable communities, we urge you to rescind the order of remission passed by the Gujarat government and send the 11 persons convicted of gangrape and murder back to jail to serve out their life sentence,” they wrote.

NEW DELHI, AUG 27 (IANS): Zomato has kicked off a pilot test of delivering groceries via Blinkit on its main app in Delhi-NCR, as the online food aggregator aims to “accelerate” the 10-minute delivery plat form’s journey to profitabil ity. The pilot test is currently being organised at select circles in Delhi-NCR, and after analysing the response, it will be expanded to other cities as well, according to companyCurrently,sources.those part of the pilot project can order for a minimum order value of Rs 150 via Blinkit on Zomato’s main app, while on Zomato, it remains Rs 49. Once the acquisition of Blinkit is closed, Zomato will experiment with cross leveraging its customers base for Blinkit and vice versa, its Founder and CEO Deepin der Goyal has stressed.

NEW DELHI, AUG 27 (PTI): All subsidised fer tilisers including urea and DAP will be sold under the single brand ‘Bharat’ from October, a move aimed at ensuring timely availability of soil nutrients to farmers and reducing the freight subsidy. Announcing the new initiative ‘One Nation One Fertiliser’ under the fertiliser subsidy scheme ‘Pradhanmantri Bhartiya Janurvarak Pariyojna (PM BJP)’, Chemicals and Fer tilisers Minister Mansukh Mandaviya said the compa nies are allowed to display their name, brand, logo and other relevant product infor mation only on one-third space of their bags. On the remaining twothirds space, he said the “Bharat” brand and PMBJP logo will have to be shown. The companies have been given time till year-end to clear their old stock. In the last financial year, the central government incurred a fertiliser subsidy bill of Rs 1.62 lakh crore. In view of a sharp rise in global prices in the last 5-6 months, the government’s subsidy bill is estimated to rise to Rs 2.25 lakh crore in the currentExplainingfiscal. the logic for introducing this scheme, Mandaviya said the govern ment subsidises 80 per cent of the retail price of urea, 65 per cent of Di-ammonium Phosphate (DAP), 55 per cent of NPKs and 31 per cent of Muriate of Potash (MoP) prices. Freight sub sidy is also provided in the range of Rs 6,000-9,000 croreAlthoughannually. the specifi cations of fertilisers manu factured by different com panies are same as per the Fertiliser Control Order 1985 across the nation, the products are manufactured and marketed under dif ferent brands in different states, he said. The minister said there is a criss-cross movement of fertilisers across states, caus ing delays in transportation of soil nutrients and putting a freight subsidy burden on the government.

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(From p-1) The trade body said the incident took place around 7 pm when three unidentified motorcycle-borne miscre ants resorted to blank firing at the employees, who were inside the office, injuring one in the neck. It added that the miscreants reportedly fired five rounds. DCCI felt that if this trend continued unabated, it would be difficult for the transporters to bring in their goods to Nagaland.

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Aviation Ministry plans chopper for medical emergency

NEW DELHI, AUG 27 (IANS): The Union Ministry of Civil Aviation (MoCA) has planned to develop a helicopter emergency medical service (EMS) to provide speedy treat ment to needy citizens. The Ministry believes that helicopters in an EMS role can provide a crucial service that can deliver emergency care quickly within the ‘golden hour’.In EMS parlance, golden hour is the time period where access to definitive care within an hour of occurrence of lifethreatening trauma can make all the difference between life and death.“Helicopters in EMS role can greatly expand the capabil ity by enlarging the medical outreach in an expeditious manner. It is later envisioned to incorporate a larger network to augment the land based ambulances to increase the accessibility of trauma care services to a wider population base across the country,” said the Ministry.Whileissuing an expres sion of interest, the Ministry said that it intends to undertake a pilot project implementation of utilizing helicopters in EMS role to explore the viability, benefits and risks, if any, so as to define the approach that can be adopted before larger resources are committed.

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TORONTO, AUG 27 (AP): NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg on Friday warned about Russia’s military buildup in the Arctic and China’s increasing interest in that part of the Duringworld.a visit to Canada’s north, Stoltenberg said the shortest path to North America for Russian missiles and bombers is over the North Pole. He said Russia has set up a new Arctic Command and has opened hundreds of new and former Sovietera Arctic military sites, including airfields and deep-water ports. “We see a significant Russian military build-up with new bases, new weapons systems, and also using the High North as a test bed for their most advanced weapons, including hypersonic missiles,” Stoltenberg said at a Canadian military base in Cold Lake, itrecentandmorechangeStoltenbergourpartnershipofthepracticalhaveprojectsinfrastructure,billionsandworld’sBeijing“nearChinaStoltenbergAlberta.alsonotedhasdeclareditselfaArctic”state.Hesaidplanstobuildthelargesticebreakerisspendingtensofofdollarsonenergy,andresearchinthenorth.“BeijingandMoscowalsopledgedtointensifycooperationinArctic.Thisformspartadeepeningstrategicthatchallengesvaluesandinterests,”said.HealsonotedclimateismakingtheArcticaccessibleformilitarieswelcomedCanada’sannouncementthatwillbolsteritsspending on defence. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who accompanied Stoltenberg, showcased some of the spending and activities that Canada is making in the north. Those include promises to allocate billions of dollars for new military equipment and capabilities, including plans to purchase new fighter jets and modernise North America’s aging NORAD early-warning system with Washington. “The ill-fated, unjustifiable decision of Russia to upend nearly 70 years of peace and stability of a rules-based order by invading a peaceful neighbour, has changed the way we need to look at the Arctic,” Trudeau said, alluding to the Russian attack on Ukraine.

RIYADH, AUG 27 (IANS): A Saudi court has sentenced a prominent former imam of the Grand Mosque in Mecca to 10 years in prison, Middle East Eye reported. The Specialised Criminal Appeals Court in Riyadh sentenced Sheikh Saleh al Talib to prison after overturning a previous acquittal, US-based rights group Democracy for the Arab World Now (Dawn) said. Saudi authorities first detained Talib in 2018 and gave no reason for his arrest, which came after he delivered a sermon criticising the General Entertainment Authority, a government body in charge of regulating the entertainment industry, according to activists, Middle East Eye reported. He condemned concerts and events that he said broke away from the country’s religious and culturalTalibnorms.has a global following, with thousands of people watching his sermons and recitations of the Quran on YouTube. His arrest comes as Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman continues his drive to reform Saudi society and diversify the Gulf kingdom’s oildependentSinceeconomy.MBS,as the Crown Prince is popularly know, assumed de facto power, rights groups say authorities have arrested dozens of several prominent clerics and imams who are critical of his reform agenda, Middle East Eye reported. Among those detained are Salman al-Odah, who called for the Saudi Arabian people to reconcile their differences with Qataris after Riyadh led a regionwide blockade of the Gulf country.Dawn, a group founded by the late journalist Jamal Khashoggi, confirmed Talib’s court sentencing on Twitter.Abdullah Alaoudh, a spokesperson for Dawn, condemned the prison sentence and said it was part of a growing pattern of clerics and imams facing imprisonment for speaking out against reforms pursued by MBS, Middle East Eye reported.“The sentencing of the Grand Mosque’s Imam Saleh Al Talib to 10 years for criticizing social changes and the sentencing of women activist Salma Alshehab to 34 years for calling for real social reforms is a stark irony that tells us that MBS’s oppression threatens every group,” said Alaoudh, whose father is Salman“Whatal-Odah.isin common between all political prisoners including Imam Al Talib is that they peacefully expressed their opinions and got arrested for it. This repression should stop against everyone (with) no exceptions.”

KYIV, AUG 27 (AP): Russian forces fired missiles and artillery on Ukrainian-held areas across the river from Europe’s largest nuclear power plant, authorities said on Saturday as concern persisted about safety at the Russiancontrolled plant after it was temporarily knocked offline. Grad missiles and artillery shells hit the cities of Nikopol and Marhanets, each about 10 kilometers (6 miles) and across the Dnieper River from the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, said Valentyn Reznichenko, governor of Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk region.Russian forces occupied the nuclear plant complex early in the war in Ukraine, and Ukrainian workers have kept it running. Each side has repeatedly accused the other of shelling the complex, raising fears that the fighting could trigger a FridaydistributingAuthoritiescatastrophe.beganiodinetabletstoresidentswholive near the plant in case of a radiationTheleak.move came a day after the plant was temporarily knocked offline because of what officials said was fire damage to a transmission line. Recent satellite images from Planet Labs showed fires burning around the complex over the last several days. The UNs atomic energy agency has been trying to send a team in to inspect and help secure the plant. Officials said preparations for the visit were underway, but it remained unclear when it might take Ukraineplace.has claimed Russia is using the power plant as a shield by storing weapons there and launching attacks from around it. Moscow, for its part, accuses Ukraine of recklessly firing on the nuclearUkrainiancomplex.

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BAGHDAD, AUG 27 (AP): Iraq’s caretaker Prime Minister Mustafa AlKadhimi warned Saturday that the political crisis in the country is threatening security achievements made in pastAl-Kadhimi’syears. warning is a clear indication of the dangers of one of Iraq’s worst political crises since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq. It is the result of disagreements between followers of influential Shiite cleric Muqtada alSadr and rival Iran-backed groups since last year’s parliamentary elections. Al-Sadr won the largest share of seats in the October elections but failed to form a majority government, leading to what has become one of the worst political crises in Iraq in recent years. His bloc later resigned from parliament and his supporters last month stormed the parliament building in Baghdad. AlSadr has demanded that parliament be dissolved and early elections held. “This political crisis threatens the security achievements and the nation’s stability,” alKadhimi said in a speech marking Islamic Day of Combatting Violence against Women in Baghdad. “Now, the solution is for all political parties to make concessions for the interests of Iraq and Iraqis,” said theexplosionspartswhenonroadsideandhittingtomilitantsingroupsincewitnessedinvaluable”andheralliesgroupsthemthenproteststoSadrwillshootingsthatfindpartyseniorcalledal-Kadhimi.Lastweek,al-Kadhimiforameetingofpoliticalleadersandrepresentativestoasolution.Hewarnedif“fightingerupts,thewillnotstopandremainforyears.”Earlierthismonth,al-calledonhisfollowersbereadytoholdmassivealloverIraqbutindefinitelypostponedafterIran-backedcalledforsimilarthesameday,sayingwantstopreservepeacethat“Iraqibloodistohim.IraqhasrelativestabilitytheIslamicStatewaslargelydefeatedthecountryin2017.Buthavecontinuedwageattacks,frequentlysecurityforcesmilitarytargetswithbombsandfiringconvoysorcheckpoints.DuringtheriseofIS,itcontrolledlargeofIraq,deadlywerecommoninoil-richcountry.

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WASHINGTON, AUG 27 (IANS: Former US President Donald Trump took an unpredictable victory lap over a heavily redacted affidavit that revealed the probable cause behind the search warrant served at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida earlier this month.On Friday, Trump took to TruthSocial, his social media app, to ostensibly rejoice that the document was “heavily redacted” before pointing out that “nothing mentioned on ‘nuclear’” and a “total public relations subterfuge by the FBI and DOJ”. He also condemned magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart, who ordered the redacted affidavit, saying he should “never have allowed the break-in of my home”. Of course, no “breakin” was allowed, but rather a search warrant to obtain classified information, possession of which would be a felony offence under a law that the former President had signed in 2018. “He (Judge Reinhart) recused himself two months ago from one of my cases based on his animosity and hatred of your favourite President, me. What changed? Why hasn’t he recused himself in this case? Obama must be very proud of him right now,” Trump added.Multiple media reports in the US were agog with his reaction and outbursts of his supporters led by Fox News. Trump’s reaction appeared to be nothing more than another page from the ‘best defence is a good offence’ playbook. If he was found to have top secret and highly classified information, then he could be in a world of legal jeopardy, some reports said, which felt the former President was well on his path to an Conservatives,indictment.that is the Republicans and Trump supporters, took to Twitter and went into a frenzy after finally seeing the heavilyredacted affidavit for the FBI raid.Earlier on Friday, a federal judge in Florida unsealed the redacted, 38page affidavit used to justify the search warrant executed on Trump’s Florida home. As Fox News Digital reported soon after the document was released to the public, “20 pages of the 38-page affidavit were either significantly or fully redacted”.After scanning through the affidavit and seeing how much was blacked out, the conservatives blasted the FBI, accusing the bureau of refusing to be transparent over the raid and not having provided clear and sufficient evidence that a raid on Trump’s home was warranted.The Daily Wire’s Twitter account tweeted a photo of one of the pages from the document that was fully blacked-out and sarcastically commented: “This is very helpful! Thank you!”Breaking out his own sarcastic take, Washington Times columnist Tim Young tweeted: “This affidavit is as revealing as we all assumed it would be,” while also sharing photos of sections of the document completely

NAIROBI, AUG 27 (AP): An airstrike by Ethiopia’s air force hit a kindergarten in the country’s embattled Tigray region, causing deaths and injuries on Friday, according to local broadcasters. It was the latest escalation of a conflict that has created a humanitarian crisis for millions of killedsaytheyoftoday’shasheartless,calledDimtsiinkindergartenaftermathdismemberedchildrenItTigrayanRedathequotedTigraypeople.TelevisionwitnessessayingafternoonattackhitkindergartencalledKidsParadiseinthecapitalofMekele.airedgraphicimagesofandadultswithbodiesintheoftheattack.Homesnearthealsowerehitthestrike,broadcasterWeyanereported.Tigrayanofficialstheairstrike“asadistic”assault.“Thisviciousregimeoutdoneitselfwithdeliberatetargetingachildren’sbuilding,”saidinastatement.Thatstatementdidn’thowmanypeoplewereintheairstrike.

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ISLAMABAD, AUG 27 (PTI): The Pakistan government has decided to call in the Army to help in the re scue and relief operations after many parts of the country were ravaged by the worst floods in more than a decade that has affected more than 33 million people, Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah said on Saturday. So far 982 people have been killed due to floods across Pakistan. As many as 45 persons died in the last 24 hours, according to the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA).Another 1,456 persons were hurt, with 113 injuries reported in the last 24 hours, it said. Interior Minister Sanaullah said the armed forces were being deployed in the wake of the biggest floods in more than a decade.He said the troops have been called in under Article 245 of the Constitution which empowers the government to summon the Army in aid of the civilian administration to deal with an emergency.Aformal notification issued on Friday read that the exact number of troops and area of deployment would be worked out by respective provincial governments in consultation with the military operations directorate and General Headquarters.“Thedate of derequisitioning of said deployment will be decided subsequently after mutual consultation among all stakeholders,” according to the notification.Thecalamity has badly hit the infrastructure of the country with the NDMA reporting that more than 3,161 kilometres of road were damaged and 149 bridges swept away, while 682,139 houses were totally or partially damaged in the floods.Floods triggered by unprecedented monsoon rains have submerged more than half of the country, leaving more than 5.7 million without shelter and food in 110 districts.

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President Volodomyr Zelenskyy said it was essential for International Atomic Energy Agency representatives to get to the plant as soon as possible and to help keep it “under permanent Ukrainian control.”“The situation remains precarious and dangerous,” Zelenskyy said in latest nightly address. “Any repetition of (Thursday’s) events, i.e., any disconnection of the station from the grid or any actions by Russia that could trigger the shut down of the reactors, will once again put the station one step away from Thedisaster.”deputy head of Russia’s delegation said the conference became “a political hostage” to countries that were trying “to settle scores with Russia by raising issues that are not directly related to the treaty.”The British government said Saturday that it was giving Ukraine underwater drones and training sailors to use them to clear mines from the ravaged country’s coastline. Mines laid in the Black Sea during the war have hampered seaborne exports of Ukrainian grain to world markets, although an agreement reached in July has allowed shipments to resume along a single corridor.More than 1 million metric tons of Ukrainian foodstuffs have been shipped since the start of August under the Black Sea grain deal, the United Nations said ElsewhereSaturday.inUkraine, one person was killed and another wounded in Russian firing in the Mykolaiv region, local government officials said. Mykolaiv city is an important Black Sea port and shipbuilding center.The governor of the eastern Donetsk region, Pavlo Kyrylenko, said Saturday that two people were killed in Russian firing on the city of Bakhmut, a significant target for Russian and separatist forces seeking to take control of the parts of the region they do not already hold.

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A view of a crater from a night Russian rocket attack in downtown Kharkiv, Ukraine, Saturday. People and vehicles navigate through flooded roads in Mingora on Saturday. (AP/PTI)

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PRAGUE, AUG 27 (IANS): Both chambers of the Czech Parliament have given their approval to NATO membership for Finland and Sweden, the most significant expansion of the Western defence alliance in years. The Chamber of Deputies voted nearly unanimously to endorse the accession of the two Nordic countries in an overnight session that ended early Saturday, reports dpa news agency. The Senate voted in favour earlier this month. The last step for ratification in the Czech Republic is the signature of President Milos Zeman. The 77-year-old supports the enlargement plans, according to his spokesman.Finland and Sweden declined to seek NATO membership for decades. But Russia’s invasion of Ukraine changed the political calculus as large majorities in both countries saw it as critical to their security. All 30 current NATO member states must ratify the proposed additions. Including the Czech Republic, two dozen have given the go-ahead so far.

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Y our immune system protects your body against diseases and infections. It is made up of organs including the spleen and thymus, immune cells such as white blood cells, and proteins called antibod ies. Immune system weak ness or immunodeficiency occurs when your body does not have enough im mune cells or antibodies. If your immune system is weak, it cannot protect your body from foreign invaders like bacteria or viruses. This can make you prone to infections and diseases. Causes of Immune System Weakness Chronic diseases such as AIDS destroy immune cells and weaken your body. The following causes can weaken your immune system:

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2. Frequent Infec tions If you have severe in fections more often, you need to boost your immune system. Frequent infections with symptoms like high fever, chills, or weakness are a sign of a weak im mune system. Also, if your symptoms persist and you need many antibiotic treat ments in just one year, you could have immune system weakness.Thefollowing signs indicate immune system weakness in adults: • Getting more than four ear infections in one year • Getting pneumo nia twice a year • Having chronic sinusitis, or blocked sinuses • Having bacterial sinusitis more than three times a year • Needing more than two antibiotic treat ment courses in one year 3. Digestive Problems Constant digestive problems like diarrhea, constipation, or gas can be a sign of immune system weakness.Studies have suggested that approximately 70% of your immune system lives in your digestive tract in the form of gut bacteria. The gut has beneficial bacteria that help your immune system protect your body fromLowinfections.levelsof gut bac teria can cause infections and inflammation, result ing in digestive problems. This can also turn your immune system against your own cells and cause autoimmune diseases like celiac disease.

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4. Slow-Healing Wounds If you get a wound such as a burn or cut, your immune cells quickly reach the wound site to protect it. Your immune system plays an important role in closing the wound and preventing infection. The immune cells also send signals to each other to heal the wound and repair your damaged skin. When you have im mune system weakness, your immune cells are slow and can’t repair the wound easily. Slow-healing wounds can result in persis tent infection, sepsis, and, in severe cases, amputation. Chronic conditions like type-2 diabetes can weaken the immune sys tem, prevent wound heal ing, and increase the risk of infection.

If you have any of the warning signs of im mune system weakness, you need to strengthen your immunity.Ifyou hav e any of the warning signs of im mune system weakness, you need to strengthen your immunity. The following steps can help you boost your immunity and prevent immune system weakness: nutrient-rich food a bal anced diet enough sleep regularly a healthy weight your hands regularly to minimize ex posure to germs your immuni zations or vaccines on time smoking your stress levels your gut bacteriaYour immune system is the key to your health. Make sure you protect it so that it can defend your body against invaders. Reviewed by: Poonam Sachdev, MD

K -pop PINKgrouppowerhouseBLACKhavebroken their own record for the third-largest music video debut in YouTube history with the release of new pop/rap track Pink Venom. Pink Venom is the lead single from BLACK PINK’s upcoming sopho more album, Born Pink, which is scheduled to drop on September 16. The re lease of BLACKPINK’s Pink Venom helped the group cement its position as the Most Subscribed Official Artist Channel of All-Time on YouTube, sur passing BTS’s official You Tube channel BangtanTV and the channels of Justin Bieber, Marshmello, Emi nem, Ed Sheeran, Ariana Grande, Taylor Swift, Billie Eilish and Katy Perry. The video for Pink Venom dropped on You Tube at midnight ET on Friday (August 19), gen erating 90.4 million views within 24 hours, according to YouTube’s tracker, a new gauge of overnight popularity.Thatmade Pink Ven om the most successful music video debut on the Google-owned platform so

1. Frequent Colds According to the CDC, even with an intact immune system, you are likely to catch two to three colds per year. Symptoms include sneezing, coughing, runny or stuffy nose, sore throat, or fever. Usually, you’ll recover within 7 to 10 days.But if you have colds more often or your symp toms last longer, your im mune system may be strug gling to keep up. Stressrelated immune system weakness can cause fre quent colds. Stress makes your immune cells weak and reduces their ability to fight infections like the common cold.

5. Constant Tiredness and Fatigue You’re bound to feel tired after an action-packed day or due to lack of sleep. But if you constantly feel tired and exhausted, your immune system may be giving you red flags. Your weakened im mune system tries to save energy to fight invaders, leaving less energy for you. This makes you feel fa tigued throughout the day. It can happen if you have a weak immunity due to chronic infections or auto immune diseases. Ways to Boost Your Immune System

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When I met Madhuri on ‘Jhalak...’ sets, it was like a reunion: Karan Johar about what new the audi ence is going to see in the show in this season. “The kind of talents are there this time it was never like in previous sea sons,” he said. “They are all very prepared and all 12 contestants look like trained dancers and earlier there used to be a jour ney on ‘Jhalak’ from nondancer to a dancer but now except Zorawar (Kalra, the Gurgaon-based restaura teur), who is a non-dancer all are trained dancers from the first day.”He added: “So, from new acts and choreography to perfor mance quality, this season has a lot more to offer.” The producer-director also shared the parameters by which he judges talent. “For me there are three factors -- efficiency in your performance, energy and the way you make others feel with your dance and the concept of entire per formance, I look at all these while judging the talent,” he concludes.‘JhalakDikhhla Jaa 10’ will be starting from September 3 on Colors. (IANS)

F ilmmaker Karan Jo har, who has been behind a number of hit movies, says that he is the biggest critic of his work and never gets satis fied. He shares: “I am never satisfied with my work and often others tells me it was good but I feel like I could have done better. I am my biggestThecritic”Dharma Produc tions boss is back on the dance reality show ‘Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa 10’ after a gap if five years as a judge along with Madhuri Dixit and Nora Fatehi. During the show launch, he shares with IANS about what the new season has in store for the audience.Headds: “It was the reality show I did in 2012. I judged it for five years. Now, it is coming after five years and the makers ap proached me saying there is a demand to bring the show back. So, Madhuri and I came along and this time there is a new twist to the show as Nora is there and it is very exciting. The first day when I met Madhuri on the sets, it was like a reunion.”Karan also talked

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BLACKPINK’s ‘Pink Venom’ sets record as biggest Youtube MV premiere of 2022 far thisBLACKPINKyear. are signed to South Korea’s YG Entertainment, but their recorded music is distributed in the US and other territo ries by Interscope Records / Universal Music Group. Pink Venom’s debut 24-hour views on YouTube toppled BLACKPINK’s previous record for How You Like That, which garnered 86.3 million views when it debuted in June 2020. That track, the girl group’s pre-release single from its first Korean-lan guage studio album, The Album, won numerous awards including Song of Summer at the 2020 MTV Video Music Awards and Best Dance Award for a female group at the 2020 Melon Music Awards and Mnet Asian Music Awards in Seoul. It also helped cata pult BLACKPINK and its members — Jisoo, Jennie, Rosé, and Lisa — onto the worldBLACKPINKstage. trail only their fellow Korean band BTS in terms of alltime music video debuts on YouTube. BTS’s Butter music video, released in May 2021, and Dynamite, which debuted in August 2020, continued to rank first and second in YouTube’s ranking of All-Time Top 24-Hour Music Debuts. Both Korean groups account for nine of the 10 music videos on the list, with Taylor Swift’s ME! (featuring Brendon Urie of Panic! At The Disco) the only Theoutsider.music video for BLACKPINK’s Ice Cream, featuring Selena Gomez (August 2020) ranks fifth, while LISA’s debut solo project, LALISA stands in seventh place, topping BTS’s Permission to Dance and Life Goes On, plus Taylor Swift’s ME!. In a poll by Billboard on August 19, music fans voted Pink Venom as last week’s favorite new music re leases, bringing in more than 85% of the votes, beat ing Demi Lovato, Panic! At the Disco, Zedd, Maren Morris & BEAUZ and more. NME gave the track a four-star rating, saying the song adopts a more “com paratively minimal – but no less audacious – sonic ap proach” like ‘Boombayah’ or ‘Ddu-Du

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Greece’s world num ber five Stefanos Tsitsipas welcomed the move, argu ing that it simply formalises an aspect of the game that has been going on for years. Defending US Open champion Daniil Med vedev was sceptical how significant the rule change will be.But American world number 12 Taylor Fritz is staunchly against the new coaching change, believing it undermines the individ ual problem-solving nature of theWomen’ssport. world num ber one Iga Swiatek was more“Icircumspect.understand that players say that it’s an indi vidual sport, and we should all solve our problems on court just by ourselves,” Swiatek“Butsaid.onthe other hand basically there’s coaching in most of sports. “In football coaches can shout, even though there’s 11 grown men on the field and they should know what to do. They probably know the tactics, but he’s still talking. There are breaks in basketball.”

Durand Cup: Blasters beat NEUFC 3-0 from a free-kick by Roshan Gigi, who found centreback Tejas Krishna free in the box.The defender headed the ball over the net. Blasters found the rhythm in their counterattacks and one such attack led to the first goal. Muhammed Aimen slot ted home from a rebound to score the first goal of the game. The second half began with the Blasters in attack mode. Ajsal’s shot was saved by the NEUFC keeper. He and Gaurav Kankonkar were brilliant throughout the game, as they linked up well and created problems for the NEUFC defence. The second goal came in the 55th minute through the wonderful link-up play between Gaurav, Ajsal and Azhar. Azhar it was in the end who found Ajsal on the edge of the box and the lat ter hit the top corner with his weaker right foot to double the advantage for Kerala. The third goal came as late as the 90th minute when the brothers Azhar and Aimen combined. Azhar’s defence-splitting pass for Aimen saw the latter round ing the keeper to score his second of the game. Blasters will next face Army Green FT on Wednes day, and NEUFC will lock horns with Sudeva Delhi FC.

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Players of Kerela Blasters FC (yellow) and NEU FC vie for the ball at IG Athletic Stadium, in Guwahati, Saturday.(PTI)

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NEW YORK, AUG 27 (AGENCIES): A longoverdue rule change that brings tennis into line with other sports, or a violation of the game’s traditions? The historic decision to allow coaching at the US Open for the first time has drawn a mixed response from players ahead of this year’sFourtournament.yearsago, Serena Williams erupted in fury during her US Open final defeat to Naomi Osaka after being penalised for receiving coaching from PatrickThisMouratoglou.year,however, the rule that sparked Wil liams’ spectacular melt down has been scrapped as part of a broader trial, meaning players can re ceive coaching advice from the stands.Verbal and non-verbal coaching will be allowed provided it does not inter rupt play or hinder the op ponent, with verbal coach ing only permitted when the player is at the same end of the court.

GUWAHATI, AUG 27 (AGENCIES): Kerala Blasters secured their first win of the 131st IndianOil Durand Cup, prevailing over NorthEast United FC (NEUFC) 3 – 0, in a Group D game played at the Indira Gandhi Athletic Stadium in Guwahati.Thisis the third con secutive loss for the High landers in the tournament and they are as good as out, with the Blasters still in with a slim chance, having picked up four points from their three games so far.

Muhammed Aimen scored a brace for the winners while Muhammed Ajsal scored the third.Kerala Blasters began by pressing high and show ing far more energy in the field. They were stitching short passes in the midfield and keeping the NEUFC defence on their toes. Vibin Mohanan and Muhammed Azhar controlled the mid field for the Blasters as they started to create chances in the opponent’s half. The first clear-cut chance came for the Blasters

Mrs. hukiula 5/12/1969 – 27/8/2022 Blessed are those who mourn for they shall be comforted. Matthew 5:4 A woman of faith, walked with gratitude all your life and now to rest in God’s Heavenly Kingdom for eternity. Your legacy will live with us in our hearts as we continue to keep you alive in our thoughts until we meetHeartfeltagain.gratitude and love to all our near and dear ones who stood by us through many ways and prayers at the demise of our loving mother and wife on 27th August 2022. It is our prayer that God will bless you. A special thanks to : 1. Chessore Village Baptist Church, Woman Department and Youth Department 2. Prayer Group Chessore Village 3. Chessore Village Council and Chessore Village Students’ Union 4. Family members, relatives and individuals 5. Police Baptist Fellowship Shamator 6. District Hospital and District Tuberculosis Centre Dimapur 7. Y. Rochil Clinic, Zunheboto 8. Govt. of India, Dept. of Ayushman Bharat, PMJAY 9. Dr. Khrutsozo and Dr. Shirley Thailikliu Leivon RT Dept. CIHSR Dimapur 10. Staff, Health Scheme Dept. CIHSR Dimapur 11. Eden Hospital Dimapur Loving Husband, Children and Families

If we live, we are living for the Lord, and if we die, we die for the Lord. So living or dying, we belong to the Lord. Romans 14:8

Acknowledgement MKC-310/22 DUBAI, AUG 27 (PTI): Afghanistan produced a dominating all-round dis play to thrash a below-par Sri Lanka by eight wickets and start their Asia Cup campaign on a resounding note here on Saturday. Opting to bowl, Af ghanistan first produced a sensational bowling effort to dismiss Sri Lanka for a paltry 105 in 19.4 overs. This was the first time Afghanistan bowled out a team without Rashid Khan (4-0-12-0) taking a wicket which underlined their show as a collective bowlingLeft-armunit. pacer Fazal haq Farooqi (3/11) rattled the top-order before spin ners Mohammad Nabi (2/14) and Mujeeb-UrRahman stifled the Lank ans in the middle overs. In reply, Afghanistan cantered home in just 10.1 overs to register a big win in their milestone 100th T20 fierybazbatterInternational.Youngwicketkeeper-RahmanullahGurgaveAfghanistanastart,smashingan18Asia Cup: Afghan annihilate SL by 8 wkts ball 40, while Hazratullah Zazai took the team over the line with an unbeaten 37 off 28 balls (5x4s, 1x6). The win also gave a big push to Afghanistan’s net run-rate (5.176) as they climbed to the top spot in Group B to brighten their Super 4 Groupchances.Balso features Bangladesh, who take on Afghanistan at Sharjah on Tuesday.The 20-year-old Rah manullah, who overturned an lbw decision after being given out for nought, was all class as he toyed with the Lankan bowling attack. Be it drives, pulls or lofted shots, Rahmanullah displayed an array of shots to take Afghanistan home comfortably.Hisflawless innings, however, came to an end when he stepped out to leg-spinner Wanindu Hasa ranga, only to be foxed by a slower one. But it was too little too late as Afghani stan had all the time in their hands with just 23 needed from 13.5 overs. The only blip in his sensational innings was when he was trapped in front and looked plumb but on review the ball tracking showed it was missing the leg stump.Earlier, Farooqi (3/11) did the damage at the top, including wickets off successive deliveries in the opening over. Sri Lanka had a horrendous start as they slumped to 5/3 inside two overs with Farooqi inflict ing a double blow in con secutive deliveries in the opening over. The only respite for the Islanders came from Bhanuka Ra japaksa who led their re covery with a stroke-filled 29-ball 38 (5x4s, 1x6). But two clumsy run-outs in two balls exposed the Lankans inexperience in the middle. First it was Nabi who came up with a direct throw to end Rajapaksa’s (3x4,actiontnethemoversofSritheMaheeshningandcounter-attackingbrilliantknockthenanothermadrunsawthedismissalofTheekshanainverynextballtoleaveLankatotteringat69/8.Theywereindangergettingalloutinside15afterNabireducedto75for9.ChamikaKarunarashowedtherearguardwitha38-ball311x6)totakethempast

Born on : 27-11-1989 | Died on : 09-08-2022 We, the family members of Lt. Mr. L. Wonchibemo Tsopoe S/o N. Libemo Tsopoe would like to express our deepest and heartfelt gratitude to all the individuals, groups and churches who stood by us mentally, physically and spiritually at his sudden demise. Although we are unable to thank you all individually, it is our prayer that Almighty God bless you all abundantly. Loving Dad, Mum, Brothers, Sisters and Relativesdp-4039/22 (21/06/1974 – 28/08/2021) As we celebrate your First Death Anniversary, you are deeply missed and remembered. We are still to accept you are no more with us. But the memories and presence you left behind is cherished forever. Loving Wife, Mother and Family Members FIRST DeaTh annIveRSaRy of Late Pangernungsang MKC-309/22

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Afghanistan’s Rahmanullah Gurbaz celebrates with Mohammad Nabi after the dismissal of Sri Lanka’s Maheesh Theekshana, in Dubai on Saturday (AP/PTI)

NEW DELHI, AUG 27 (PTI): The factional feud in the Indian Olympic As sociation resurfaced on Saturday with vice presi dent Adille Sumariwalla claiming he has been “ap pointed” its president by the executive council, only for secretary general Rajeev Mehta to term it “unten able” under IOA Constitu tion. In a letter to Interna tional Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach and IOA members, Sumariwalla said he has been “co-opted to be the Factional feud in Indian Olympic Association resurfaces Adille Sumariwalla Rajeev Mehta president of IOA by the ma jority of the members of the Executive Council... vide letters dated July 2022”. “The erstwhile IOA president Narinder Dhruv Batra resigned from the post on 18.07.2022 due to personal reasons which led to a vacancy for the post. Thereafter, 18 executive members out of 31 in ac cordance with clause 11.1.5 of the IOA Constitution co-opted the undersigned to fill the vacancy,” he said in the“Iletter.accept the post of president of IOA duly co-opted by the majority members of the executive council,” said Sumariwalla, one of the nine vice presi dents of the IOA and also the president of Athletics Federation of India. Mehta, on the other hand, said the executive council of the IOA is non existent since December 2021, when the elections of the office bearers were due and that only a senior vice president can fill the president’s post till the polls.

“The term of the ex ecutive council (of 2017-21) has ended in December 2021, then where is the question of majority of executive council appoint ing him (Sumariwalla)?” Mehta“Moreover,asked. we are tak ing permission from the courts even to have a formal meeting of the IOA to dis cuss the issues arising out of IOC letter as the case relat ing to the elections is pend ing at Delhi High Court and Supreme Court. I hope he is not hauled up by the court,” he told PTI.

Williams sisters accept U.S. Open doubles wildcard

NEW DELHI, AUG 27 (PTI): The Sports Ministry on Saturday set September 20 as the deadline for sub mitting online applications for National Sports Awards 2022. The notification in viting applications for the sports awards for the year 2022 has been uploaded on the website www.yas. nic.in. In a statement, the ministry said that the Indian Olympic Associa tion/Sports Authority of India/recognized National Sports tember,byPortalmustsportspersonsapplicationdbtyas-sports.gov.in.onlineofoutmittedawardinthroughvitedapplicationsintimatedandPromotionFederations/SportsBoards/StateUTGovernmentswereaccordingly.Thisyearonwards,arebeinginonlyinonlinemodeadedicatedportal.Theapplicantseligibleaccordancewiththeguidelinesarepertoself-apply,withtherecommendationtheauthorities/persons,onlyattheportal“Theoftheeligiblefortheawardbesubmittedatthedbtyas-sports.gov.in11.59pmon20thSep2022.Applications received after the last date will not be considered,” the ministry said in a noti fication. Sports Awards are given every year to recog nise and reward excellence in sports. Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award is given for the spectacu lar and most outstanding performance in the field of sports by a sportsperson over a period of four years, while Arjuna Award is bestowed for consistent outstanding performance for four ments.inoverallawardedAzadMaulanaandareaplayedandtosahansportsforastionalnersforAwardTheyears.Dronacharyagoestothecoachesproducingmedalwinatprestigiousinternasportsevents,whereDhyanChandAwardislife-timecontributiontodevelopment.RashtriyaKhelProtPuraskarisgiventhecorporateentitiesindividuals,whohaveavisibleroleintheofsportspromotiondevelopment,whileAbdulKalam(MAKA)Trophyistoauniversityfortopperformanceinter-universitytourna

Brief score: Sri Lanka 105 all out in 19.4 overs (Bhanuka Rajapaksa 38, Chamika Karunaratne 31; Fazalhaq Farooqi 3/11, Mohammad Nabi 2/14) lost to Afghanistan 106-2 in 10.1 Overs (Rahmanul lah Gurbaz 40, Hazratullah Zazai 37; Wanindu Hasa ranga (1/19) by 8 wickets

Serena Williams in fury during her US Open final defeat to Naomi Osaka.

NEW YORK, AUG 27 (AGENCIES): Serena Williams and older sister Venus have accepted a doubles wildcard for the U.S. Open, tournament or ganisers said on Saturday. The Williams sisters are two-times doubles champions at season’s final major, having triumphed together in 1999 and 2009. Together they have won 14 women’s Grand Slam doublesSerena,titles.40, and Venus, 42, are also competing in the singles draw.

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State chief minister Neiphiu Rio giving away trophy to Kohima team on Saturday. (NP) LAUSANNE, AUG 27 (PTI): Olympic champion javelin thrower Neeraj Cho pra believes India is “gradu ally” making a mark at the global stage of track and field and foresees a bright fu ture for the nation’s athletes in prestigious events like the Diamond League. The 24-year-old Cho pra, considered the trail blazer of Indian athletics’ unprecedented success in recent years, returned from an injury to become the first from the country to clinch title in a Diamond League meet by winning the Laus anne leg on Friday. “ I will be very happy to see more Indian athletes taking part in these competi tions and I will be delighted to participate along with my fellow Indian athletes at a stage like this,” Chopra said after his historic feat. “Avinash Sable and Sreeshankar also participat ed in the Diamond League this year, so gradually our country is reaching this level and if we will perform better here, then it will help Indian athletics do well at bigger stages.”Recently, long jumper Murali Sreeshankar and 3000m steeplechaser Avi nash Sable participated in the Diamond League though they did not finish in Neeraj Chopra becomes first Indian to win Diamond League I want to see more Indians doing well in top global events: Neeraj

The plan didn’t work –Leclerc joined from pit lane too late and had to hand position to his teammate partway down the Kemmel Straight – but Perez couldn’t improve with his second at tempt either, handing pole position to Sainz. It was the second pole of Sainz’s career, though the Spaniard was relatively subdued in acknowledge ment of Ferrari’s significant pace Verstappendeficit. and Leclerc will start 15th and 16th on tomorrow’s grid. The title leader was buoyed by his car’s domi nance and forecast that a podium was his minimum objective.Esteban Ocon was fifth quickest ahead of teammate Fernando Alonso, but the Frenchman will start 17th with power unit penalties. Alonso will start fourth. Lewis Hamilton and George Russell were a de spondent seventh and eighth for Mercedes, 1.8s and 2.1s off the pace respectively. They’ll start fourth and fifth on theAlexgrid.Albon had a sen sational run through qualify ing for Williams to end the session ninth fastest, and the Thai driver will line up sixth behind the Mercedes pair.

SOUTHAMPTON, AUG 27 (AGENCIES): Man chester United posted back-to-back wins and ended a run of bad form away from home with a 1-0 victory at Southamp ton in the Premier League on Saturday thanks to a second-half strike from BrunoUnited’sFernandes.second win on the bounce halted a seven-match losing streak on the road stretching back to last season and provi sionally lifted them to sixth place in the table after four games.With an unchanged lineup after their 2-1 win against Liverpool, United should have gone ahead in the 19th minute but were denied by Gavin Bazunu and Armel Bella-Kotchap, who kept out Anthony Elanga and Christian Erik sen from close range.

Kohima emerge champions of NOPG 2022 potential in field of sports and games, Rio encour aged the athletes to make best possible effort to trans late their potential into positive results. He stressed that better infrastructure in tune with modern needs, quality hu man resources in game de velopment, improvement in nutrition and increased exposure was the need of the hour.Acknowledging the positive response from the people, Rio called for tak ing these games as a be ginning of a new journey for the future of sports in Nagaland. He also said that the games acted as a platform for the athletes to showcase their hard work and efforts.Further, Rio lauded the athletes, volunteers, officials and organizing committee and Nagaland police for their hard work and dedication in success ful conduct of the event. NOA general secre tary, Abu Metha, in his closing remarks, stated that “the State’s biggest ever sporting event” wit nessed more than 4000 athletes from 16 districts, competing in 11 disciplines (Archery, Football, Athlet ics, Badminton Basketball, Boxing, Shooting Sport, Taekwondo, Table Tennis, Tennis and Wushu) for 347 medals.Metha said that the games were organized to showcase the talent and the ability of the people of Nagaland. He said NOA believed in the ambition of the young people and would aspire to work for them so their aspiration was achieved. Referring to the NOPG 2022 theme ‘Stron ger together’, Metha said that only through the pow er of sports the entire state was united and brought under one banner.

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Correspondent KOHIMA, Kohima team emerged as the champion of the Nagaland Olympic and Paralympic Games (NOPG) 2022, which was held from August 17-27, 2022 from three places— Kohima, Dimapur and jointly organised by the Nagaland Olym Association (NOA) and Youth Resources and Sports

AIFF apologises to Gokulam Kerala

Cross Country Champion ships as a member of the Nagaland Women’s Team and is a Gold medallist at the last North East Olym pics held in Manipur. The award for out standing sportsman was presented to Zhokoto Demo of Phek district under Archery discipline. He had won 5 gold medals in archery, winning 3 Indi vidual Gold Medals and 2 Gold Medals in Team Events. He qualified for the forthcoming National Games to be held in Gu jarat.

NEW YORK, AUG 27 (AGENCIES): Rafael Nadal said Friday he is sad dened by Novak Djokovic’s absence from the US Open as he returns to the tourna ment for the first time in threeTheyears.Spanish legend has not played in New York since defeating Daniil Medvedev in five sets to lift the 2019Nadaltitle.has added three more Grand Slam singles titles to his haul since that victory, taking his total to 22 -- the all-time men’s record.While the 36-year-old will be looking to add to that tally over the next fort night in New York, Nadal admitted on Friday that the absence of Djokovic left him “very Djokovicsad.”confirmed on Thursday he will play no part in the tournament after refusing to get vac cinated against Covid-19 -- placing him at odds with US government travel re quirements for interna tional“Fromvisitors.my personal perspective, it’s very sad news,” Nadal said. “It’s always a shame when the best players of top three. Sreeshankar had finished sixth in Monaco earlier this month while Sable ended fifth in Rabat, Morocco in June. “This win is very important for our country. I feel we shouldn’t be only focusing on the events that happen after four or two years. Competitions like Diamond League Meet or Continental Tour are re ally good opportunities for athletes.“Ithappens every year, and it gives us opportunities to do well...Performing well in these tournaments will also help Indian athletics,” said Chopra, who claimed the title with a first round throw of 89.08m -- his third career-best effort. His second throw measured 85.18m before a pass, foul, another pass and 80.04m in the final round. He pocketed USD 10,000 for the win.

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Top Indian discus thrower Navjeet Dhillon fails dope test Navjeet Kaur Dhillon

Carlos Sainz will start Sunday’s Belgian GP from pole positionafter Max Verstappen’s grid penalty.

Man Utd end poor away run with win at Southampton

NEW DELHI, AUG 27 (PTI): Top Indian discus thrower Navjeet Kaur Dhil lon has failed an out-of-com petition dope test conducted abroad by Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) before the World Championships last month. Dhillon had won a bronze in the 2018 Com monwealth Games in Gold Coast but finished eighth in the Birmingham CWG which concluded on Au gust 8.“Yes, she (Dhillon) has failed dope test conducted by AIU. If you try to cheat, you will get caught,” a source privy to the develop ment told PTI on the condi tion ofTheanonymity.27-year-old Dhil lon had won gold in Nation al Inter-State Champion ships (55.67m) in Chennai in mid-June and Qosanov Memorial Meet (56.24m) in Almaty, Kazakhstan on June 25. But she could only come up with a best throw of 53.51m in Birmingham. She has a season’s best of 58.03m and personal best of 59.18m which she achieved in 2018. The place where the AIU conducted the test is not confirmed but the sub stance found in Dhillon’s sample is said to be a banned steroid which should put her under provisional suspen sion.

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Djokovic absence from US Open ‘very sad’: Nadal the world are not able to play a tournament because of injuries or because of different reasons. “In this case, not hav ing one of the best players of the history in the draw of Grand Slam is always an important miss, no? Tough for the fans, tough for the tournament. In my opinion, tough for the players, too, because we want to have the best field possible.”Yetdespite Djokovic’s absence, Nadal is adamant that the tournament will not be diminished by the non-participation of the Serbian great, who is just one behind the Spaniard in Grand Slam singles titles with “I21.repeat what I said plenty of times: the sport in some ways is bigger than any player,” Nadal said. “I missed a lot of im portant events in my tennis career because of injuries, without a doubt. Last year I was not here. Two years ago I was not here. The tournament continues. The world of tennis keep going. “Even if is not a good news for everyone, the world continues and the tennis will continue af ter me, after Novak, after RogerNadal(Federer).”started 2022 in blistering fashion, win ning both the Australian and French Opens before an abdominal muscle in jury forced him to scratch from the Wimbledon semifinals.He returned from that injury at the Cincinnati Masters this month but exited in the second round. Nadal said Friday he had been protecting the in jury during his Cincinnati comeback.“It’sa tough injury because it’s dangerous, it’s risky,” he said. “When you have a scar, it’s a place that you put lot of effort when you are serving. “I take it very easy in the Cincinnati, too, in the practices. The match, I try my best without putting all the effort there on the serve.” Nadal, who opens his US Open campaign against Australian wild card entrant Rinky Hijikata on Tuesday, was cautiously optimistic about his prepa rations.“I am doing things the best way that I can,” he said. “I hope to be ready for the action, no? That’s the only thing that I can say. “Taking care with the serve, being honest. But in general terms, yes, I am practicing at high level of intensity.”

Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic

Max Verstappen dominated qualifying at the Belgian Grand Prix but Carlos Sainz will start from pole after an intriguing Saturday af ternoon at Spa-Francor champs.Verstappen, title rival Charles Leclerc and five other drivers started qualify ing carrying heavy grid pen alties for power unit changes that will send them to the back of the grid. The battle for pole therefore came down to a fight between Carlos Sainz and Sergio Perez, but nei ther was on Verstappen’s level.The Dutchman beat his would-be rivals by 0.6s with his first lap. It was a large enough margin that he didn’t bother to set a second time. Sainz and Perez slotted into second and third ahead of Leclerc, with whom Fer rari took a different tack, deploying the penalized Monegasque to generate a slipstream for his teammate to try to guarantee pole.

Bruno Fernandes (centre) being congratulated by Diogo Dalot after scoring against Southampton. RESULTS struck Scott McTominay on the arm before David de Gea made a superb reflex save to keep out a header from Joe UnitedAribo.boss Erik ten Hag turned to Cristiano Ronaldo and Casemiro, who arrived from Real Madrid earlier in the week, to see out the game, but the hosts did not go down without a Theyfight.dominated the ball in the closing stages and substitute Sekou Mara almost found an equaliser deep into stoppage time but his overhead effort was cleared off the line as United held on for the win.

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Sainz takes pole for Belgian Grand Prix after Max Verstappen penalty

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AWARDS The ‘spirit of Olym pics’ was awarded to Peren district for setting high standard of exemplary con duct in accordance with the Olympic Spirit of good humanitarian behaviour in Athletic & Basketball Women’sPhekteams.district was also conferred with ‘spirit of Olympics’ award for their exemplary initiative, wherein the entire team as sembled at IG Stadium to clean the Stadium and car ried out a cleanliness drive. The ‘Olympic Fair play Trophy’ for the most Disciplined District was awarded to Mokokchung district based on Medalthetohelpedand1500IndividualMedals--3ics.Noklakawardedingcompetitionstherecommendationsoverallofallassociationsinwhichwereheld.AwardforoutstandsportswomanwastoTsuchoiofdistrict–AthletShesecured5GoldGoldmedalsineventsnamely,meters,5000meters10,000metersandalsoherdistrict,Noklakwin2GoldMedalsinrelayraces.ShealsowonaBronzeatthe56thNational

Bella-Kotchap near ly gave Southampton the lead after bringing down a James Ward-Prowse corner only to blaze his shot over the bar on the half-hour mark.Eriksen was a lively presence with his pene trating through balls but United struggled to unlock Southampton, who had Bella-Kotchap to thank for his timely intervention when Elanga was through on goal after linking up with the Danish playmaker. United began strongly after the break and their pressure told in the 55th minute when Fernandes, leading the side in the ab sence of Harry Maguire, scored with a low volley from the edge of the box after being expertly fed by Diogo“ItDalot.wasa great ball (for the goal), even great play from behind. Everything was perfect. Someone runs, someone gets the space behind,” Fernandes told BT Sport.“We did two or three seasons ago not losing from home but we want to win every game. That’s what it’s about to play for ManchesterSouthamptonUnited.” had a penalty appeal turned down minutes later when a high ball appeared to have

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NEW DELHI, AUG 27 (PTI): Gokulam Kerala owner VC Praveen on Sat urday said that the AIFF’s “inefficiency” cost the club lakhs of rupees after the national federation apolo gised to the team for its removal from the AFC Women’s Club Champion ship owing to the 11-day ban by FIFA. Gokulam Kerala, the reigning Indian Women’s League champi ons, were the worst affected by the FIFA ban on the AIFF as the Kozhikodebased team was not al lowed to compete in the top-tier AFC club competi tion in“ItUzbekistan.islikepinching the baby and rocking the cradle. Because of their inefficiency we lost lakhs,” Praveen told PTI, hours after the ban on AIFF was lifted. The lifting of the ban on Friday will allow Indian national teams and clubs to play in competi tions under the aegis of AFC and FIFA, but it was a huge loss for Gokulam Kerala as they missed out a chance to rub shoulders with the best sides in Asia. They had finished third in the last edition in 2021.

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