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Left with no option to pay the rent, FPO board mem bers decided to convert the marketing shed into a rented residential area in order to pay the rent on time. The FPO has also con verted the market into a go down wherein farmers from Dimapur and other districts were allowed to keep their vegetables on rent basis. Some of the constructed thatched houses were also being used as godowns on hire basis and a few on rend, the sources added. Despite incurring losses, FPO con tinued to assist farmers as the venture was started for the welfare of farmers. The FPO has also con verted the two-room “Cool Chamber” inaugurated in 2018 by Horticulture adviser Mhathung Yanthan at the market into a storage room as facilities for cold storage were not provided. Sources claimed that they were left with no option but to con vert the chamber as cold storage facilities were not provided despite appeals. Asked about utilisation of pick-up truck donated by former governor PB Acha rya, the sources replied that FPO had been using the vehicle to help the farmers transport their produces to the market at a minimal rate.
NEW DELHI, AUG 21 (AGENCIES): New CO VID cases have jumped by 15% and deaths by 35% globally in the last few weeks, World Health Organ isation (WHO) has alerted and further noted, that more variants with such intense circulation will be seen in the coming“Futuredays.variants will be more transmissible, may have further immune escape but we do not know if they will be more or less severe.” Sharing some crucial data about the recent circu lation, WHO’s Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove said, millions have died from COVID19 since the start of this pan demic and 15000 are still dy ing each week. 15000 moth ers, daughters, fathers, sons, brothers, sisters, friends… people we love. “I know we are tired, but when did this become acceptable?” she questions. As per data, global ly, over the last 4 weeks, 26,722,228 new cases and 62,892 new deaths were reported to WHO. That’s a 15% rise in new cases & a +35% increase in new deaths over the reporting period. The WHO official pointed out that in the com ing day, the cases are likely to continue to rise ‘given the limited use of public health and social measures’. But COVID19 hospitalisations, deaths & Long Covid can be minimised.Efforts need to be made to strengthen the use of lifesaving interventions. We can do this AND live our lives, she said in another tweet. More new variants in the coming days: Currently, Omicron BA5 is the domi nant circulating variant but new variants are to emerge in the coming days, the of ficial said cautioning, “re duced surveillance, testing & sequencing globally is making our ability to track known & detect new vari ants much more difficult.” Speaking of the new variants, she said, there will be more variants with such intense circulation. This virus does not yet have a sea sonality or act predictably.
DIMAPUR, AUG 21 (NPN): Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee (NPCC) has said the present socio-economic and law and order scenario in Nagaland has reached a critical stage and that the only way out of the mess is for the govern ment of India to promulgate President’s Rule in the state. “It is a fit case to im pose President’s Rule and correct the mismanage ment,” Therie stated. Citing the present fi nancial crisis in Nagaland as fit case for President’s Rule, NPCC president K. Therie has claimed that Nagaland is saddled with a huge debtcrisis of around Rs.16,000 crore; whereas the state’s own revenue remained at around Rs.650 crore. He said this has led to a precarious shortfall of funds for pay ment of salaries with many departments not in a position to clear salaries for months. Therie alleged that the state’s financial mess began since present chief minister Neiphiu Rio has been hold ing the finance portfolio and despite generous financial as sistance from the Centre, the state’s financial woes con tinue. He recalled that during the UPA government, then prime minister Dr. Manmo han Singh provided special assistance of Rs.726 crore under Non-Plan and Rs.336 crore under Plan to make good the deficit for imple mentation of the 6th RoP. However, Therie claimed that the money was not used for payment to employees but their dues were placed under GPF and then funds were subsequently siphoned off and used for elections. Even as the union fi nance minister was to attend the programme in Kohima on corporate social respon sibility, Therie said financial institution and banks do not apply the same law that is applicable in all of India, to Nagaland.Hesaid even the MSME where Rs.20 lakh crore earmarked for invest ment as notified by the government of India and published in all newspapers, banks and financial institu tions have stated that these laws are not applicable in Nagaland. This meant that rules of the SBI and other financial institutions are different and they do not re spect the notifications issued by government of India. He also said there was no such thing as Credit Guarantee Scheme (CGS and neither such thing as Unsecured Loan (without security) and so there is no such loan for revival of sick industries. Therie therefore claimed that these show that all those announcements made by the prime minister of the finance minister are not applicable to Nagaland. He cited a report by an NGO- YouthNet which claimed that Rs.600 crore was the total expenditure for the 2008 election. Again, he said it was estimated that in 2013 over Rs.900 crore was spent while in 2018 the total amount spent by candidates was Rs.1,060 crore. On law and order, Therie said even the state Governor had declared that the law and order situation has completely failed due to uncontrolled multi-parallel insurgent governments who are extorting money ram pantly, while waiting for implementation of political solution when the prime minister announced to the nation, that the Naga issue has been resolved in 2015. Therie accused “the finance minister” of only seeking to earn commission out of every project of various departments and has little idea of improving the state’s finance make it self-reliant as other states. He also alleged that backdoor appointments have doubled and resulted in number of government em ployees rising from 76,000 to 1,45,000. The backdoor ap points have also led to depri vation of reservation policies in the state. He said such a huge work force is consum ing the bulk of state’s budget ary resources and shooting above the prescribed norms set by the Finance Com mission. Therie said after utilised huge chunk of the budget for salaries, the re maining funds meant for development is being shared between ruling politicians and insurgent groups.
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DIMAPUR, AUG 21 (NPN): NSCN (I-M) has reiterated that “it shall nev er deviate from the Naga National Principle at any cost and uphold and protect the Naga unique history.” In a statement through its MIP, NSCN (I-M) said it attached great importance to Naga national flag and constitution (Yehzabo) as part of Naga political so lution.“Time and again the National Socialist Council of Nagalim (NSCN) has taken the resolute stand that it shall never deviate from the Naga National Principle at any cost and uphold and protect the Naga unique history,” NSCN (I-M) stated. Hence, it declared that under no circumstances it could forego these core issues that symbolised the Naga national identity. NSCN (I-M) said the reaffirmation of its stand was based on the ‘Naga Na tional Decision’ declared during the ‘Emergency National Assembly’ held on May 31, 2022, jointly signed by chairman Q Tuc cu, vice-chairman Tong meth Wangnao and general secretary Th. Muivah.
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Nagaland under huge debt crisis: Therie FPO organic market in Dimapur converted into residential area
DIMAPUR, AUG 21 (NPN): The India Meteoro logical Department (IMD) has predicted fairly wide spread rainfall over North Eastern states including Nagaland during the next few days.According to IMD, moderate rain is very likely to occur at many places over Assam, Meghalaya, Naga land, Manipur, Mizoram and & Tripura and light rain very likely to occur at iso lated places over Arunachal Pradesh during the next few days.It also predicted thun derstorm with lightening very likely to occur at iso lated places over Assam, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Ma nipur, Mizoram & Tripura between August 22-23.
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DIMAPUR, AUG 21 (NPN): Union Minister of Finance and Corporate Af fairs, Nirmala Sitharaman, will be arriving Nagaland on Monday to inaugurate the Nagaland Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) & Investment Conclave 2022 in SitharamanKohima. will inau gurate the conclave at the NBCC Convention Centre at 4 p.m. and addressing the gathering.OnAugust 23, the minister is scheduled to visit Mon and dedicate the Axis Bank branch along with virtual dedication of three Axis Bank branches in Assam and one in Megha laya. She will also attend the Banker’s conclave and credit outreach programme at Capital Cultural Hall, Kohima. The minister will also launch various projects and schemes.During her visit to Dimapur on August 24, Sitharaman will hold a closed-door meeting with Nagaland Business Com munity at Rhododendron Hall, Police complex and later interact with the me dia and also to visit the Heirloom Naga, Sovima. The minister will also inaugurate a Dialysis Cen tre at District Hospital Di mapur, a CSR initiative. Conclave to be live streamed
Staff Reporter DIMAPUR, AUG 21 (NPN): A daily organic market set up in Super Mar ket area here under the initiative of a Farmers Pro ducers Organisation (FPO) to assist local farmers to sell their produces has been con verted into a residential area as it was running into losses. The market was spon sored by National Bank for Agriculture and Rural De velopment (NABARD) and inaugurated on September 4, 2018. Now, altogether 35 families are residing in rented houses in the area since the past one year. Earlier, various local produces such as bamboo shoot, tomato, bitter gourd, bitter eggplant, yam, orange, etc, sourced from various dis tricts of the State were sold at the market. Source informed Nagaland Post that since farm ers incurred losses, the FPO converted the market into a residentialSourcesarea.said it became difficult for FPO to collect Rs 5,000 monthly. The difficul ties faced by the farmers in selling their produces were also reported by this paper in November 2018. After the inauguration, FPO was allowed to utilise the market free of cost for one year by Development Authority Na galand (DAN) and extended due to Covid-19 pandemic. Sources said the organ isation later paid a monthly rent of Rs 70,000, including electricity dues, to DAN.
The state government has informed that the inau gural programme of the Na galand CSR & Investment Conclave 2022, scheduled to be held at NBCC Con vention Center, Kohima on August 22, will be streamed live on the official DIPR YouTube channel.
SHIMLA, AUG 21 (PTI): Union minister of state for home, Nityanand Rai on Sunday said the central government is making ef forts to increase the num ber of women personnel in police forces across the country.Addressing the inau gural session of National Conference of Women Police (NCWP) at Raj Bha van here, Rai said that the participation of women in the police across the coun try is increasing and the women are doing better in all theThefields.main focus of this conference is to address various gender specific is sues related to women in police, and to further de velop leadership quality among women, he added. The minister high lighted the roles, opportu nities and challenges faced by the women in police. “Our newly elected Presi dent Droupadi Murmu is a living example that now the country is progressing towards women empower ment,” he said. Rai also said that because of the vision of Prime Minister Narender Modi, women are getting opportunities in every field of life, be it governance, politics, sports and armed forces. “Infrastructure is being created to facilitate women in police forces as well as to address the grievances related to crime against women,” the min ister Moresaid. than 200 women police officers and person nel are participating in the two-day conference being held by the Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) and Bureau of Police Re search & Development (BPRD), in collaboration with Himachal Police.
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DIMAPUR, AUG 21 (NPN): Nagaland on Sun day recorded nil Covid cases and death while two more patients recovered from the infection.The State’s active dropped to 18-- four ad mitted to Covid hospitals and 14 under home isola tion. The total caseload and death toll remained unchanged at 35,888 and 776 respectively. PTI: India on Sun day recorded 11,539 fresh coronavirus infections that pushed its tally to 4,43,39,429, while the toll due to COVID-19 climbed to 5,27,332 with 34 fatali ties.
WHO alert on ‘new’ Covid variants in coming days amid rising cases NSCN (I-M) reaffirms stand on Naga flag and constitution
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NEW DELHI, AUG 21 (PTI/IANS): As the count down began for the election of Congress president, the party’s election authority on Sunday said it would stick to the schedule of electing a new chief by September 20. Chairman of the par ty’s Central Election Au thority Madhusudan Mistry said it was up to the Con gress Working Committee (CWC) to approve the final date for the election, which could be any day between August 21 to September 20. However, sections in the party did not rule out delay in the internal poll process, considering the reluctance of Rahul Gandhi in contesting for the top post and the current focus of the Congress on organ ising ‘Bharat Jodo yatra’ next month. The CWC had decided to hold elections for the top post between August 21 and September 20. “We will stick to the schedule. We have already forwarded the election schedule to the party lead ership and are awaiting a nod from the CWC which will fix the final dates for the Congress president’s election,” Mistry told PTI. Mistry said the Elec tion Authority is in the pro cess of finalising the AICC delegates who will vote in the crucial election for the top party post. “The exact date will be finalised by the Working Commit tee,” he said, adding that a meeting of the party’s top decision-making body will be held soon. Even as Mis try insisted that the election authority would stick to the poll schedule, the party appeared in the dark on potential candidates for the key race.Many names are doing the rounds like party loyal ists Ambika Soni, Mukul Wasnik and Kumari Selja. Some people are also float ing the name of Priyanka Gandhi, but there is no clarity since she is looking after the tough assignment of Uttar Pradesh, where the party performance is near zero. Also, the Congress, in the interim, is chalking out plan B to continue Sonia Gandhi as party chief and appoint a working president for eachAnotherzone. name doing rounds is that of Rajasthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot and Chhattisgarh chief min ister Bhupesh Baghel, who is also under active consid eration. But Gehlot has re portedly denied the top post. However, some sec tions in the party did not rule out delay in the internal poll process owing to the reluctance of Rahul Gandhi to contest.
NEW DELHI, AUG 21 (PTI): Litigation is like a bleeding wound and the more it is allowed to bleed, the more will the man suffer, Chief Justice of India-des ignate Justice Uday Umesh Lalit said on Sunday. Justice Lalit, also the Executive Chairman of National Legal Services Authority (NALSA), was formally launching the re cently-introduced Legal Aid Defence Counsel (LADC) system in 365 District Legal Services Authorities at a hybrid event organised at Vigyan Bhawan here. LADC, constituted under NALSA, intends to provide free legal assistance to the poor who are forced to hire private counsel to fight their criminal cases, and in the process, end up losing their Justiceassets. Lalit, who will take charge as the CJI on August 27, highlighted that over 70 percent of the popu lation is below the poverty line and only 12 percent opt for the free legal aid provided by legal services authorities.“What does the popu lation between 12 percent to 70% do?” he said, adding, “That means the difference between 12% and 70% not with us.
Litigation is like bleeding wound, says CJI-designate Nirmala Sitharaman (File)
“Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up in the clouds together with them to meet the Lord in the air; and so we will be with the Lord forever. Therefore, encourage one another with these words.” 1 Thessalonians 4:17-18 It’s been three years since you left us. On this day to be with our Lord Jesus Christ. We may never see you on this Earth, but still your sweet memories remains afresh in our hearts. We will always cherish your valuable Teaching, your sincere Love and your endless Sacrifices. Until we meet again, Oba, you will always be in our hearts forever. Loving wife, Children, Son-in-law, Grandchildren and Relatives
Y. THRONGSHI YIMKHIUNG DearTwentyDaddy,five long years have gone by since you left for Heaven's shore but you still reign our hearts as ever. Your loss is deeply felt by many even today which is a testament to the remarkable life you lived. We take pride and continue to reap the blessings of the legacy you left behind. In fond memory of the father whose exemplary life marked by altruism, courage and sacrifice transcended beyond family, friends and his community. Loving Wife and Children.
DIMAPUR: Patkai Chris tian College (PCC), depart ment of Geology on August 20 commemorated its silver jubilee at Bundrock Hall, PCC.In a press release, PCC media cell informed that resource person for the pro gramme was Joint Director Resource person, Dr. Chisoi speaking at the programme. (retd.), directorate of Geol ogy and Mining, Dimapur, Dr. Chisoi, and other dig nitaries.Speaking at the occa sion, Dr. Chisoi, who served 32 years in the geology and mining department in Naga land, shared his experiences in the field of geology as a scientist.He said, “Education is the best human resource development and the teach ers of the department fulfil that”, and encouraged and motivated students to be good geology scientists and to bring out studies on min erals in the Meanwhile,state. depart ment faculty, Dr. Rudhow helie Peseyie shared briefly the history of the depart ment. Dr. Peseyie shared how the department was first established in the year 1997 with just four students and one lecturer. He stated that back then, it was one of the smallest departments but over the years, it has grown to be one of, if not the biggest departments in the college.PCC principal, Dr. Thefuvilie Pieru in his ad dress shared a few words of encouragement whilst also appreciating and acknowl edging the department for its performance over the past years. Pieru also exhorted students to explore their talents, grab opportunities, and continue to dream big. Earlier, Dr. Kowete -U Sekhamo delivered the wel come address, PCC chap lain, Vichukho Ngukha said the invocation, and vote of thanks pronounced by Dr. T Devala Devi. Marking the occasion, M.Sc. final year students performed a special number.
NEALEAST conducts youth leadership training
Late Imsongmeren 16th Dec 1993 – 15th Aug 2022 The bereaved family of Late Imsongmeren , wish to express our profound gratitude and offer our heartfelt prayer to all who helped us spiritually, physically and financially at his sudden demise. We deeply regret our inability to thank and mention everyone individually. However, we pray that our Almighty Lord bless you and your family abundantly. Loving parents and relatives ACKNOWLEDGEMENT DP-3954/22 DC-909/22 K-1908/22
The programme was coordinated by Nimrudh Mandal, evangelist from Assam Valley Baptist Mis sion. During the training, trainees participated in vari ous activities and were giv en exposure to the churches and the city.
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Resource persons for the training along with trainees at YOC Dimapur.
3rd DEATH ANNIVERSARY OF Lt. MARTEMSU JAMIR K-1895/22
PCC Geology deptt. commemorates 25 yrs
25th Death Anniversary of our beloved Daddy
It may be mentioned that this is the second train ing offered by NEALEAST this year to youths of the Assam tea tribes.
09.08.2022 “If we live, we live for the Lord; and if we die, we die for the Lord. So, whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord.” Romans 14:8 We, the family of Late Kevibol Khatso, would like to express our sincere thanks and gratitude for the many expressions of love and kindness showered to us during the illness and passing of our beloved father. We offer our deepest gratitude to the many friends, neighbours and well wishers, churches, prayer groups and various organizations, for not only upholding us in your prayers but also offering emotional and practical support. We are forever indebted. It is our humble prayer that the Almighty Lord bless you all. Loving Wife, Children and Relatives IN GRATITUDE K-1911/22 (22.08.2019- 22.08.2022)
"For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord." Romans 8: 38-39
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DIMAPUR: Northeast Al liance for Leadership Edu cation and Social Trans formation (NEALEAST) Leadership Institute in its 13th session conducted a youth leadership training for Assam Valley Baptist Mission from August 19 to 22 at Youth Oasis Centre (YOC),AccordingDimapur.to a press release, Leadership,topicswereformation”TribestrainingconductedRev.ingRabiBlessingtur,training;thatTakatemjenNEALEAST,founder-president,Rev.Dr.AoinformedresourcepersonsfortheRev.MaongLemImliP.Lemtur,director,Ministry,Rev.Dr.Pame,andfounddirector,NEALEAST,Dr.TakatemjenAotheleadershiponthetheme“TeaforHolisticTranswheretraineesenlightenedonvarioussuchasDiscipleship,andMissions.
CPO: Chakhroma Public Organisation (CPO) has ex pressed shock and pain over the demise of Razhukhrielie Kevichüsa (Khrielie Kevi chüsa).In a condolence message from CPO president, Zhato Kimho and general secretary, Kevichatha Secü, the organisa tion stated that late Kevichüsa was a pioneer in transforma tion of the Naga society who served the Nagas in different capacities, and a noble soul who reposed his faith in God throughout his life. The organisation added by stating that he was a man of integrity who led by deeds not only in state government service but more so, in church and religious activities where he is renowned for his love of music and the songs that he composed over the years. At this hour of grief, Chakhroma Public Organisa tion prayed that God bless his family so that his legacy would continue to live and bear rich harvest in our society.
and HoFF Nagaland visits Intanki National Park MMC celebrates 6th Graduation Day
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DIMAPUR:Chang Students’ Union Di mapur (CSUD) has informed all Chang students pursuing academic courses in various institutions and residing in and around Dimapur district to register with the union.Inapress note, CSUD have also asked concerned guardian/guardians of the student/domestic help to kindly do the same for any untoward incident in the future.Forfurther queries and registration, one may contact CSUD Education and Statistical Secretary: 7005736264.
MMC 6th Graduation Day along with commencement speaker and others.
Sixteen of the workers from Morigaon were killed, while five were rescued in injured werehailingofconstructionataon,includingofmentRelieffromwerelakhreceivedworkersworkers.deceasedtomallyandChandraCabinetcondition.ministersMohanPatowaryPijushHazarikaforhandedthechequesthenextofkinoftheandtheinjuredThefamiliesofthewhowerekilledex-gratiaofRstwoeachwhiletheinjuredgivenRs25,000eachtheChiefMinister’sFund.TheAssamgovernhadcompiledalist26namesfromthestate,thosefromMorigwhowereengagedtheTupulrailwayyardsiteatthetimetheincident.Onlyfiveofthem,allfromMorigaon,rescuedalive. Min Agartala Cloudy with a stray t-storm 33 27 Aizawl Cloudy with a stray t-storm 27 21 Guwahati A morning t-storm in the area 35 27 Imphal A little morning rain 30 22 Itanagar A t-storm around in the a.m. 34 26 Shillong Cloudy with a stray t-storm 25 20 Kohima Cloudy with a stray t-storm 27 20 Dimapur A stray a.m. t-storm; cloudy 34 25 Mkg Cloudy and a stray t-storm 29 22 Tuensang Cloudy with a stray t-storm 24 18 Wokha A t-storm around in the a.m. 29 23 Zunheboto Cloudy with a stray t-storm 20
DIMAPUR: Principal Chief Conservator of For ests & Head of Forest Force (PCCF & HoFF) Nagaland, Dharmendra Prakash IFS, undertook a visit to Intanki National Park (INP) on August 20. A press release is sued by forest range offi cer (FRO), INP, R. Aaron Yimchunger informed that during his one-day visit to the National Park, the PCCF & HoFF inspected the facilities available at the protection camps from strong room to gymnasium, and other basic amenities for the well being of the protection forces. He also visited anti-poaching camps located within the National Park to see how monitoring and protection activities were being carried out. During the post noon session, the PCCF & HoFF interacted with staff, where he encouraged them to be proactive, to remain fit & healthy, and to stay away from intoxicating substances in order to give the best service which will be significant for the com ing generation. He also encouraged the staff to complete mandatory pro fessional training at the earliest to remove hassle on promotional avenues. Several other issues such as uniforms, ration allow ances, separate protection force service rule, posting in other forest divisions, etc wereMeanwhile,discussed. director, Intanki National Park, T. Aochuba IFS, thanked the PCCF & HoFF for taking keen interest in visiting the Park. During the interac tion, he briefed on manage ment issues of the Park and priorities to be taken up by the department for better management of the Park. The director also briefed about the present staff strength, Wildlife Habitat Management, alternative source of livelihood of the fringe communities to reduce dependency on forest and other exposure, and exchange programmes of the staffs with other well managed Parks of the coun try to improve protection and management practices of the Park. He concluded by calling upon staff mem bers to render their best and dedicated efforts in the conservation and protection of the National Park for the well being of the people of the state.
Chang Students’ Union Dimapur informs students
MYK C MYK C MORIGAON, AUG 21 (PTI): The families of 16 workers from Assam’s Morigaon district who were killed in a landslide in Ma nipur in June were handed financial assistance by the Assam government on Sun day. Those who were in jured in the same incident were also given monetary help by the state govern ment at a programme at Lahorighat in the district. Altogether 21 people from Morigaon district were engaged at a railway yard construction site in Noney district of the neighbouring state when a massive land slide hit the area on June 30.
PCCF & HoFF Nagaland, Dharmendra Prakash IFS, Director INP, T Aochuba IFS along with the staff of INP pose for lens during the visit.
Condolence messages on demise of Lt. Khrielie Kevichusa
Assam minister Pijush Hazarika distributing the financial aid to the victims of Manipur landslide
ITANAGAR, AUG 20 (PTI): The elders of the Wancho community in a re mote district of Arunachal Pradesh have taken up the task of recording their ageold folktales in digitised form with the help of a UK-based researcher. The researcher, Tara Douglas, who spent over three years even during the COVID-19 pandemic with the community elders and workers in Longding district to document the folktales, is helping them to digitally archive the folklores. The Wanchos have a rich tradition of oral sto ries, memories, and songs and Douglas was invited to assist them to make the recordings.“The knowledge of the ancestors that has ac cumulated over generations is a record of life as it has been lived for centuries in this little-known area of the Patkai“Ithills.isthe history of the cultural practices and ritu als, the precise knowledge of livelihood practices, of plants, animals, the climate and geography. It is the collective memories of the community,” Douglas said. The researcher was introduced to the commu nity when she first visited Kamhua Noknu in 2019 and has since been working with local project partners to record, translate and catalogue the material. The venture that began in 2019 has led to further visits to some of the vil lages of the Pongchau and Wakka circles of the district to record local stories. The Wancho tribe, with a population of nearly 57,000 members, inhabits mostly the Longding district that borders Myanmar. “The pattern of life is changing rapidly as the district becomes more in tegrated and accessible to the outside world. Younger people are acquiring new priorities for education and employment, and they have much less time than before to listen to the memories of their parents and grand parents,” Douglas told PTI. Before the demise of the tradition bearers of the village and the disappear ance of the knowledge that they hold, the elders are recording their memories, she said.Jatwang Wangsa and Banwang Losu, two teach ers who also run a local organisation, the Wancho Literary Mission, have been the interlocutors for Doug las, facilitating introduc tions to the storytellers and sitting patiently hour after hour with her to translate the recordings into English so that the videos can be subtitled.Thestorytellers whose memories have been ar chived include, Late Ngam chai Wangsa and Nyemnoi Wangsa, Tangkaam Pheam, Wanjay Losu, Phawang Wangham, Gamlong Gam pa, Wanghom Losu and Wanchan Losu from Ka mhua Noknu; Chaidang Dangam from Nyinu and Ngompha Wangsa from Longkai“Thevillage.archive will be expanded to include more stories from Kamhua Noknu and the neighbour ing villages,” Douglas, the secretary of Adivasi Arts Trust, a UK-based charity said. Arunachal Pradesh with recorded 26 major tribes, 110 sub-tribes, and many unrecorded sub-tribes is a research hub for anthro pologists.With the recommenda tion of Stephen Morey, a linguist who specialised in the study and documenta tion of various l anguages of the region, Douglas also stored the Wancho folk tales in the Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures (PARADISEC), a digital record of some of the small cultures and languages of the world.PARADISEC is a con sortium of three univer sities - the University of Sydney, the University of Melbourne, and the Aus tralian National University. Some of the folktales of the community archived include Folktale of the Story of the Gourd, Cul tural memory of death and the soul, Folktale of Tiger Man Cicada, Folktale of the Story of the Gourd, second version; Folktale of the story of the Stone and Memories of traditional rituals. Little is known about the rich oral traditions of the indigenous, tribal and Adivasi communities of India, the researcher said. These traditions, in creasingly overwhelmed by modern life, may even be forgotten entirely by the younger people, Douglas said. “I work relentlessly to record the stories from the elders of the village commu nities and then to translate these narratives into Eng lish. I also encourage local artists and I work with them to introduce digital tools to retell their stories in interest ing contemporary formats,” Douglas said.
Newlong-fingeredbatspeciesdiscoveredinIndia,SriLanka Miniopterus
Correspondent IMPHAL, AUG 21: Union minister of state for external affairs RK Ranjan on Sun day rubbished allegations hurled against him of re maining silent over disputes along the Manipur sector of Indo-Myanmar MPhurlingtorfencingManipurMyanmarderthecededchunkingstatebeenganizationspartiesOppositionborder.politicalandcivilsocietyorinthestatehaveallegingtheCentreandgovernmentofremainsilentevenasalargeofManipur’slandtoMyanmarduetoallegedshiftingofborpillarsalongtheIndo-bordertowardsandwhileerectingattheManipursecoftheinternalborder.AllegationswerealsoattheLokSabhafromthestatefornot doing enough to settle the dispute despite also being the Union minister of state for external affairs though he had aggressively high lighted losing of the state’s land to Myanmar during his electionSpeakingcampaigns.ataBJP func tion at Khundrakpam of Imphal East district, RK Ranjan was not remaining silent.He asserted that the Union external affairs min istry has nothing to do with the border dispute. The issue is to be dealt with by the Union ministry of home affairs, that too, after the state government brought up theWhenmatter.such an issue arises, the state govern ment has to enquire into the dispute by constituting a committee. Based on the finding of the committee, the state government has to lodge a complaint to the Union ministry of home affairs, he said. So far no such com plaint was lodged by the Manipur government to the Centre, he said. “I am not blaming the state government. But, I didn’t find a single com plaint lodged by the state government to the Centre,” he said. The Union minister added that a united voice of the masses is needed to achieve a goal. It cannot be achieved by only by MPs and MLAs raising their voice.People must come out and speak out against when the government failed to translate into action an as surance given to the people, he said.
SHILLONG, AUG 21 (PTI): An international team of researchers has found a new species of long-fingered bats in India and Sri Lanka, close on the heels of the discovery of a thick-thumbed bat species in Meghalaya, of ficialsThesaid.team led by Thar aka Kusuminda of Univer sity of Rohana in the island country named the new species of long-fingered bats as Miniopterus phil lipsi, Uttam Saikia of the Zoological Survey of India and one of the leading scientists in the research, told PTI.Itwas named after W W A Philips (1892-1981) in recognition of his con tributions to studies on the mammals of Sri Lanka and South Asia. The specimens for this species were col lected from Idulgashinna cave in Uva Province in Sri Lanka and are now deposited in the Natural History Museum of the neighbouring country. The initial research was carried out in Sri Lanka in 2019 and it took three years to be completed in both Sri Lanka and India. The discovery has been published in Acta Chiropterologica, an inter national scientific journal, on Friday, the researchers said.During investigations, researchers found that the population of long-fingered bats in Robber’s cave in Ma habaleshwar in the Western Ghats of India also belongs to this species which was earlier mistaken as Eastern bent-winged bats, Kusum inda Thesaid.long-fingered bats belonging to the family Miniopteridae are part of a large group comprising at least 40 species worldwide. They have similar morphology and overlap ping dimensions rendering species identification prob lematic, he added. To describe this new species, researchers have DNA barcoded the speci mens from India and Sri Lanka and compared them with all other Asian mem bers of this group and found strong evidence for these specimens as belonging to a distinct species, the scientistBesides,said. researchers also analysed the morpho logical and anatomical fea tures of the new species with the congeners occur ring in India and Sri Lanka and found that the new species is indeed distinct, Kusuminda said. “The Long-fingered bats are obligatory cave and tunnel dwellers living in large colonies and this new species is also no excep tion,” the researcher stated. While in Sri Lanka it is relatively widespread, more studies are needed to determine its exact distri bution range in India, the scientist said. At least 13 renowned scientists were involved in this particular research – six from Sri Lanka and one each from India, Russia, Switzerland, Hungary, the UK, and the USA. A team of scientists had recently discovered a new species of thickthumbed bat from a bam boo forest in Meghalaya and named it after the state. The discovery of Glis chropus meghalayanus was published in Zootaxa, a prominent taxonomic jour nal. phillipsi
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DIMAPUR: Mount Mary College (MMC), Chumuke dima celebrated its 6th Graduation Day for the batch of 2020, 2021, and 2022 on August 20 at col lege auditorium with direc tor, NIT Chumukedima, Prof. S. Venugopal as com mencement speaker. A press release by MMC media cell informed that commencement speak er in his address, encour aged the young graduates to plan for master’s degree and pursue research in their respective subjects. Venugopal shared some of his experiences and knowl edge on life and the road to success.Meanwhile, chairman, MMC, Dr. M. Chuba Ao in his address also shared valuable insights to the youngTheminds.programme was graced by managing direc tor, Dr. C. Teeya Imsong, director of IPCER, Dr. Nukshilemla, principal of Mount Mary Higher Secondary School, Nung shimongla, principal, Dr. T.K. Jana, faculty members and other guests. In the special awards category, P. University,jectnokthung,MCC2021,theawardedKonyak,Yimchunger,LelimthongP.NepeandRolanwere‘beststudentofyear’forthebatch2020,and2022respectively.alsofetedSupongSociologysubtopperunderNagalandbatchof2022.
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3STATE NORTHEAST NAGALAND POST, DIMAPUR MONDAY, AUGUST 22, 2022 Q.: Is the BJP govt at the Centre concerned for the religious minorities ? A Yes. 14% B No. 80% C Can’t Say. 6% 100%90%80%70%60%50%40%30%20%10%0% nagalandpost.com Poll A B C NEXT POLL Q: Is there likelihood of China laying military siege on Taiwan? Yes. No. Can’t Say. (Temperature in ºC) Max
No complaint on Indo-Myanmar border disputes from Manipur govt: Union MoS Arunachal’s Wancho community sets out to digitise ancient folktales
CAKU: Chakhro Angami Kuda Union (CAKU) has ex pressed grief over the demise of late Khrielie Kevichuisa. In a condolence mes sage, the union conveyed its sympathies, and prayed for strength and comfort to his wife, children, and loved ones. Chakhro Angami Kuda Union stated that Khrielie Kevichusa was a person ad mired by all, that the qualities he possessed would continue to serve as an inspiration to all, and that the Angami commu nity was blessed to have him. JCWF: Joint Council Welfare Forum (JCWF) Ward 3 & 22 extended its deepest condolences to the bereaved family of late Razoukhrielie Kevichusa who passed away on August 20. In a condolence message, Joint Council Welfare Forum prayed that the Almighty give strength and courage to the family members to face the days ahead.
DIMAPUR: More organ isations have conveyed con dolences over the demise of former chairman of the Na galand Public Service Com mission (NPSC), Lt. Khrielie Kevichuisa who passed away on August 20.
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GUWAHATI, AUG 21 (PTI): Assam Chief Min ister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Sunday launched the ceremonial distribution of scooters among ‘commu nity cadres’ of Assam State Rural Livelihood Mission’s (ASRL) ‘Sakhi Express’ scheme for the 2021-22 financialBeneficiariesyear. of ‘Sakhi Express’ include ‘Krishi Sakhi’, ‘Bima Sakhi’, ‘Pashu Sakhi’ and ‘Jivika Sakhi’ who work as ‘community cadres’ towards mobilising members of self-help groups in their fields. In financial year 202021, 4,238 scooters were dis tributed under the scheme, and 6,670 scooters will be given for 2021-22, an official releaseSpeakingsaid. at the event, Sarma expressed confidence that the ‘Sakhis’ who have been presented with the scooters will work more dedicatedly towards mobilis ing and motivating members of SHGs towards achieving financial self-sufficiency and independence.Hemaintainted that the members of female-run SHGs achieving success in their endeavour will be a huge boost towards trans forming Assam into one of the top states in terms of per capita gross state domestic product.Stressing the impor tance of credit inflow in business ventures of all magnitude, Sarma praised the state’s SHGs for timely repayment of their loan instalments to banks and other financial institutions. Referring to the depen dence of Assam for products such as milk, egg, edible oil, and cereals on other states, the chief minister said SHGs operating at even small magnitude in terms of activities should strive to transform their opera tions into production units of Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises (MSME), so that they can avail various benefits in terms of loan, and tax subsidy as formu lated by the government from time to time.
Mizoram logs 80 COVID-19 cases AIZAWL, AUG 21 (PTI): Mizoram reported 80 new COVID-19 cases on Sunday, 122 less than the previous day, pushing the tally to 2,36,050, an official said. The COVID-19 death toll remained at 717 as no new fatality was reported, he said.Lunglei district re ported 22 cases, followed by Aizawl district (16) and Champhai district (13), he said. The state now has 649 active COVID-19 cases, while 2,34,684 people have recovered from the infec tion so far, including 126 on Sunday.TheCOVID-19 recov ery rate now is 99.42 per cent. The state has tested more than 19.66 lakh sam ples for COVID-19 so far, including 399 on Saturday. A total of 17,05193 doses of COVID-19 vac cines, including 8,74,145 first doses, 7,36,176 second doses and 94,872 precau tion doses have been ad ministered till Saturday, according to the state health department.
CMs of M’laya and Assam to resolve remaining areas of
Correspondent IMPHAL, AUG 21: Top officials of Manipur sec tor of the Border Security Force (BSF) on Sunday paid homage visit to the fam ily members of one of its martyred personnel who was awarded Kiriti Chakra (posthumously) recently. In recognition of his sacrifice for the nation, India government awarded Kirti Chakra, a gallantry Indian military decora tion to Paotinsat Guite who served in the BSF as a sub-inspector rank, on the auspicious occasion of 76th Independence Day Celebration this year. Platoon commander Guite who hailed from Maphou Kuki village of Manipur’s Kangpokpi dis trict died in a firing to his team by Pakistani soldiers on December 1, 2020. DIG SHQ BSF CI (Ops) Manipur Sh Dinesh Singh Rawat today person ally paid a homage visit to the house of the braveheart at Maphou village in Kangpokpi district and interacted with the wife of the martyred personnel and his parents.Thesector DIG was accompanied by comman dant of 29 Bn BSF Sh So nam Chhering and officials of the force in the visit. The sector DIG and officials apprised the family members about the vari ous initiatives and welfare measures and schemes un dertaken by government of India, BSF and Manipur government for its martyred personnel in remembrance of the medal awardees. Late Paotinsat Guite, born in the family of Tongi Guite of Maphou Kuki vil lage of Kangpokpi district on October 26, 1994, joined the BSF after graduation from DM College of Arts, Imphal in 2015. After completing his training from BSF Acad emy, Tekanpur in Gwalior, he joined the 59 Bn BSF Rajouri and was posted at a post called 3 Bump Forward Post as a platoon commander.During his service in the battalion, as a deter mined soldier, he served the nation with utmost de votion and dedication, the BSF said, in a statement. The brave-hearts along with seven comrades laid ambush in Damakusha Bowl to ensure safe movement of the BSF troops from the enemy.On the fateful day (De cember 1, 2020), the am bush party led by Paotinsat Guite came under attack from Pakistan Army from close vicinity to infiltrate/ push terrorists into Indian soil. A heavy gun firing from the enemy was retali ated by Guite and his team with great valour, display ing heroic patriotism till his last breath.“Hesaved the lives of his fellow comrades who were fighting and foiled the enemy’s attempts of infiltration. During the heavy exchange of fire, he was hit by an enemy’s bullet and laid down his life for the nation without a hint of remorse or regret, the BSF said.
Arun Upreti files nomination papers for Sikkim Assembly Speaker’s post
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Assam: Bodies of woman, children found in pond AUGMORIGAON/NAGAON,21(PTI): The bodies of a 30-year-old woman and her two children were found in a pond in Assam’s Nagaon district on Sunday, policeNirusaid.Bordoloi and her two children were missing from their house in Madhya Tupakuchi village in Raha police station area since Saturday night, they said. The bodies were found floating in the village pond on Sunday, police said. “The bodies have been sent for post-mortem to Nagaon Civil Hospital. We have started an investigation into the deaths,” a police officer said. Homeguard kills self in Assam MORIGAON, AUG 21 (PTI): A homeguard of the Assam Police allegedly shot himself dead at the SP of fice in Morigaon district on Sunday, officials said. The incident happened around 12.30 pm at the of fice of the Superintendent of Police of the district, they Thesaid.homeguard, iden tified as Rantu Medhi, al legedly shot himself dead with his .303 rifle while he was on duty, an official said.
Arun Upreti submits his nomination papers.
Top BSF officials pay homage visit to Kriti Chakra recipient from Manipur Assam reports 119 new COVID cases, tally at 7,43,551 GUWAHATI, AUG 21 (PTI): Assam logged 119 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, pushing the tally to 7,43,551, a National Health Mission (NHM) bul letin Thesaid.coronavirus death toll remained unchanged at 6,679 for the fifth con secutive day. Besides, 1,347 other COVID patients have died due to comorbidities, it said.The northeastern state detected the new infections from 4,210 sample tests, with a positivity rate at 2.83 per cent.Of the fresh cases, Kamrup Metropolitan re ported 34 and Dhemaji 10. The state had logged 91 new infections with a positivity rate of 2.52 per cent on the previous day. Assam now has 3,039 active cases, while 7,32,484 patients have recovered from the disease, including 15 in the last 24 hours, the bulletinThesaid.state has so far conducted 2,86,42,979 sam ple tests for the infection. The NHM bulletin also said the state has administered 4,94,80,450 doses of CO VID-19 vaccines thus far.
Members of female Self Help Groups pose with their scooters. A candidate being checked before entering an examination centre to appear in the State Level Big Recruitment Commission exam. (ANI Photo)
AGARTALA, AUG 21 (PTI): Leader of Opposition Manik Sarkar on Sunday exhorted the Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI) members to stand by the oppressed people, which he said is the need of theAthour.ablood donation camp organised by the DYFI, a youth organisa tion of the CPI(M) in West Tripura district’s Jirania subdivision, to mark the 75th anniversary of India’s In dependence, Sarkar recalled the contribution of freedom fighters like Kshudiram Bose and Bhagat Singh in the country’s freedom struggle.“We have gained free dom from the British in exchange of martyrdom of several youths like BinoyBadal-Dinesh”, he stated. The former Tripura chief minister said about 85 per cent of the country’s people are facing a tough time. “There is no adequate arrangement of food, shel ter, health facilities and livelihood for the common people. The objective of independence is fading in the country”, he said. The CPI(M) politburo member urged the party workers to organize the peo ple and extend all possible help in order to engineer a change in the society. Sarkar also appealed to people to come forward for body and eye donation posthumously.“Wemust encour age body and eye donation alongside blood donation to uphold human dignity”, he added.
Manik Sarkar Paotinsat Guite Conrad Sangma and Himanta Biswa Sarma at Assam Secretariat, Dispur.
Mobile internet services across 25 districts of As sam were suspended for four hours on Sunday to prevent possible malprac tices as the state govern ment conducted written examinations for Grade-IV posts in its various depart ments.Besides, prohibitory orders under Section 144 CrPC were promulgated in the districts where the ex aminations were on, a top government official said. The principal of Cachar College in Silchar was detained by the police for alleged gross negligence of duty in conducting the examination.Policesaid the deputy commissioner of Cachar district had filed an FIR at the Silchar Police Sta tion this morning against the principal, Siddhartha Sankar Nath, after visiting the institution. The DC claimed that the princi pal had failed to conduct the examination as per the guidelines issued for the purpose. Nath was detained on basis of the complaint, police said. More than 14.30 lakh candidates are expected to appear for nearly 30,000 Grade-III and - IV posts, with the examinations scheduled for August 21 and 28, and September 11. While the Grade-IV examinations took place on Sunday in two shifts, tests for Grade-III posts will be held on the other two dates. All examina tions are being conducted by the Board of Second ary Education, Assam (SEBA).Senior officials of private telecom operators Airtel and Jio told PTI that internet services were sus pended in 25 districts for four hours as per directions of the Assam government. “Dear customers, as per government directive, mobile internet services are being temporarily stopped in your area between 10 am to 12 pm and between 2 pm to 4 pm,” read an Airtel SMS to its Similarsubscribers.messageswere sent by other operators to their customers across the state.On August 17, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said internet ser vices would be suspended during the examination hours to avoid possible malpractices during the recruitment “free,tovenuesaroundbeenSectionPoliceMeanwhile,process.Assamsaidinatweetthat144ofCrPChaspromulgatedinandtheexaminationforallthreedaysconductthetestsinafairandtransparent manner”.Asper an official order, the gathering of people within a radius of 100 metre of each exami nation centre other than candidates, scribes, and of ficials engaged in conduct and monitoring has been prohibited.Carrying mobile phones to the examina tion centres has also been barred.Prohibitory orders un der Section 144 of CrPC have also been imposed within a radius of 100 metre of the SEBA office at Guwahati till receiving, depositing, and scrutinis ing the answer scripts are over.
Manik Sarkar tells DYFI to stand by oppressed people Himanta Biswa Sarma launches scooter distribution programme
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Correspondent SHILLONG, AUG 21: Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad Sangma on Sunday resumed talks with his As sam counterpart Himanta Biswa Sarma to resolve the six remaining areas of dispute along the inter-state boundary between the two neighbouring states. Chief Secretaries of both the States and senior officers also attended the second phase of discussion held at Assam Secretariat, Dispur.Sangma said that in the next 15 days regional com mittees will formed to take forward the discussion on the remaining six areas of differences between Assam and Meghalaya.Healsoexpressed sat isfaction on the signing of MoU on the six areas of difference, which were taken up in the first phase of the talks between both the States and thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah. “Both Assam and Meghalaya had initiated the discussion in the process to resolve the border dispute that lasted between Assam and Meghalaya for over 50 years. We have taken the discussion forward and have carried out a very detailed discussion before singing of the MoU,” Sangma said. The MoU on the first six areas of difference was signed on March 29, 2022 in New Delhi by both the Chief Ministers in the pres ence of Home Minister AmitAtShah.present, the Survey of India in collaboration with both the States are working to demarcate the borders. Sangma said both the Governments are working together to ensure that the survey work completes at The remaining six areas of difference areKhanduli & Psiar, Block I & Block II, Borduar, Langpih, Nongwah- Mawtamur & DeshHeDoomreah.saidthe regional committees will be headed by cabinet ministers from respective States who will be made chairpersons. The members of Karbi Anglong Autonomous District Coun cils will also be made part of the regional committees. “Once the regional committees are formed, site visits, public consultation and consultation with stake holders will be initiated,” Sangma said, adding that he along with Sarma will be visiting certain areas to build confidence amongst the public in the areas of differences as a goodwill gesture.He further said that both the Governments are very serious to find a per manent and an amicable solution on the area of dif ferences between Assam and Meghalaya. border
Mobile data suspended in Assam to prevent cheating
GANGTOK, AUG 21 (PTI): Former minister Arun Upreti filed his nomi nation papers for the post of Speaker of Sikkim Legisla tive Assembly on Sunday. Upreti accompanied by Chief Minister Prem Singh Tamang along with SKM legislators and a few BJP legislators went to the Sikkim Legislative Assem bly Secretariat and filed his papers for the post of speaker.The post of Assembly speaker is now vacant as L B Das resigned from the post on August 16. The election for the new Speaker will be held on August 22. Upreti was elected from the Arithang constitu ency in the 2019 Assembly election. He was the Urban Development minister but resigned from the post on August 16. “Due to internal party arrangements I decid ed to tender my resignation from the state Cabinet”, Up reti told reporters after filling his nomination papers. “I have been loyal to the party, whatever post the party gives I think I can uphold it,” said Upreti, who is also secretary general of the ruling SKM. Chief Minister and rul ing Sikkim Krantikari Mor cha (SKM) supremo Prem Singh Tamang told report ers that the reshuffle (Upreti resigning from Ministry and LB Das from Speaker post) was an internal arrange ment within the party. This arrangement is only within the party. “The BJP has no connection regarding the reshuffle,” he told report ers, adding that the party decided for the reshuffle to give chance to LB Das to perform as a cabinet min ister. Tamang said, “Arun Upreti is very loyal to the party. It is a promotion for him and the decision was taken by the party.” The chief minister said till a new Urban Development minister is appointed he will he will look after the department.
Nitish could ‘strong candidate’ PM: Tejashwi Yadav Mufti
4. Interview date, timings & venue. Candidate must reach Jorhat at 1000 hours on 22 Sep 2022 for the interview to be held between 1100 to 1400 hours same day. Candidates must bring all the original certificates/mark sheets/degree of 10th/Matric, 10+2 and Graduation/ Post Graduation/Diploma/Course, work experience and discharge book, PPO, service records and 2x PP size colour photographs at the time of interview. No TA/DA is admissible. Only candidates meeting the qualitative requirements may apply. DC-951/22 NEW DELHI, AUG 21 (IANS): Upset for being ignored, Senior leader of the Congress, Anand Sharma has resigned from the Hi machal Congress steering committee.Sources close to Shar ma said he has sent his letter to the Congress President after being sidelined from the working of the state Congress which goes to polls this Rajeevyear.Shukla, the state in-charge for the Con gress, has not commented on the issue, and Congress sources said they did not know about the develop ment. The resignation comes after Ghulam Nabi Azad put in his papers after being appointed as the J&K campaign committee head. Both the leaders are part of the G-23.Senior Congress lead er Ghulam Nabi Azad on Tuesday quit as the J&K campaign committee head after being named by the party. He has conveyed his decision to the party leader ship, sources close to him said. However, there has been no official word from eitherAzad’sside. resignation has come as a surprise to many in the party as it was consid ered that he was consulted while making key appoint ments and was active in the party forums. He even took part in the Congress ‘Gaurav Yatra’ and addressed a press conference when Sonia Gandhi was summoned by the Enforcement Director ate in the National Herald newspaper case. Azad has been upset since being ignored for the Rajya Sabha after he retired as the Leader of Opposition in the Upper House. Sharma too is one of the prominent leaders of the G-23 group, which has demanded sweep ing reforms in the party. The Congress Presi dent had on April 26 ap pointed Himachal Pradesh state Congress chief, CLP leader and Chairman of Campaign Committee.
NEW DELHI, AUG 21 (PTI): Farmer leader Rakesh Tikait was Sunday detained by the Delhi Po lice at the Ghazipur bor der while he was trying to enter the national capital to take part in an unem ployment protest rally at Jantar Mantar. A Delhi Police official said Tikat, the national spokesperson for the Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) and a prominent face of the Sanyukt Kisan Mor cha (SKM), was stopped at the border around af ternoon. “Thereafter, he was detained and taken to Madhu Vihar police sta tion where police spoke to him and requested him to return,” Special Commis sioner of Police (Law and Order) Dependra Pathak said. The DCP said Tikait “agreed” with the police request and “he has been escortedSourcesback”.said Tikat was detained as the Delhi po lice was trying to prevent “undue gathering” in the nationalTikaitcapital.alleged the Delhi police was working at the behest of the Centre. “The Delhi Police working at the behest of the government cannot suppress the voice of the farmers. This arrest will bring a new revolution. This struggle will continue till the last breath. Won’t stop, won’t get tired, won’t bow down,” Tikait tweeted in Hindi. Delhi minister and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Gopal Rai con demned Tikait’s detention. “Farmer leader Rakesh Tikait was on his way to the employment movement but was stopped by the police at the border itself. This is very despicable,” Rai tweeted in Hindi. The SKM and other farmers’ groups are organis ing a ‘mahapanchayat’ at the Jantar Mantar on Monday and they will pass through the jurisdiction of outer district, which includes the Ghazipur border in Ghazi abad. “In this connection, adequate deployment of lo cal police and outside force will be made in the area of Outer District at Tikri border, major intersections, along the railway tracks and metro station to avoid any untoward incident. More over, a full proof law and or der arrangement has already been issued in this regard,” said Sameer Sharma, DC of Police (Outer Delhi). Rakesh Tikait after being detained by the police while entering the national capital to participate in a protest. (PTI)
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NEW DELHI, AUG 21 (PTI): As the countdown began for the election of Congress president, the party’s election authority on Sunday said it would stick to the schedule of electing a new chief by SeptemberChairman20. of the party’s Central Election Authority Madhusudan Mistry said it was up to the Congress Working Com mittee (CWC) to approve the final date for the elec tion, which could be any day between August 21 to SeptemberHowever,20. sections in the party did not rule out delay in the internal poll process, considering the reluctance of Rahul Gan dhi in contesting for the top post, lack of a ‘Plan B’ and the current focus of the Congress on organising ‘Bharat Jodo yatra’ next month.The CWC had decid ed that elections for block committees and one mem ber each of the Pradesh Congress Committee will be held from April 16 to May 31; district committee chiefs and executive will be elected between June 1 and July 20, PCC chiefs and AICC members between July 21 and August 20 and AICC president between August 21 and September 20. “We will stick to the schedule. We have already forwarded the election schedule to the party lead ership and are awaiting a nod from the CWC which will fix the final dates for the Congress president’s election,” Mistry told PTI. Asked if organisation al elections at the level of Block, District and Pradesh Congress Committees have concluded, he said the pro cess has been duly com pleted.However, Mistry said the Election Authority is in the process of finalising the AICC delegates who will vote in the crucial election for the top party post. “The exact date will be finalised by the Working Committee,” he said, add ing that a meeting of the party’s top decision-making body will be held soon. Even as Mistry in sisted that the election au thority would stick to the poll schedule, the party appeared in the dark on potential candidates for the key race, with former chief Rahul Gandhi continuing to display his unwillingness to contest.However, some sec tions in the party did not rule out delay in the inter nal poll process owing to the reluctance of Rahul Gandhi to Leaderscontest.added that the focus of the party is also on ‘Bharat Jodo yatra’ which is to commence on Septem ber 7, with Rahul Gandhi expected to flag the event from
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It is also a question of regional representation and social justice and develop ment issues at the level of states, Yadav said. “For all their talk of cooperative federalism, the BJP’s attempt has been to consistently ignore regional disparities. Bihar needs spe cial attention, nobody can deny it. But have we got anything from the Centre? Not quite.”Yadav dismissed the BJP’s attempt to spread the fear that “Jungle Raj” will be back with the return of the Mahagathbandhan gov ernment.“Jungle Raj” refers to the alleged state of lawless ness in Bihar when the RJD was in power in the state. It is a “tired discourse” and a “classic case” of “cry ing wolf,” he “Peoplesaid.understand and see through these tac tics to divert attention and mislead. Also, this is the age of social media and friends in mainstream media are not the only ones who control the discourse.”TheRJDleader under lined that regional parties and other progressive politi cal groups have to look be yond their narrow gains and losses and save the republic, asserting that it will be very difficult to rebuild if “we don’t stop the destruction in its tracksAskednow”.ifKumar is bestsuited to be prime ministe rial candidate for 2024 polls and if he could be the Op position’s nominee, Yadav said, “I leave this question for Honourable Nitish ji. I cannot claim to speak on behalf of the entire Opposi tion, however, if considered, respected Nitish ji definitely might be a strong candi date.”For the last 50 years, he has been a social and politi cal activist, having partici pated in JP and reservation movements, Yadav said, adding that “he (Kumar) has more than 37 years of vast parliamentary and ad ministrative experience and enjoys immense goodwill on the ground as well as among his peers”.Kumar’s decision to break ties with the BJP, his ally since 1996 except for the period between 2013 and 2017, has fuelled specula tion about his prime ministe rial bid.Asked about the sev eral adverse comments he had made about Kumar when the JD(U) leader was in alliance with the BJP, Ya dav said if one looks at the similarities and differences between them from a histori cal, national, contemporary and regional perspective, one will find a meeting of minds and objectives. “We have emerged from the same churn of socialist movements and broadly share the same val ues. Sometimes there have been issues but none that are irreconcilable,” he said. “Our comments against the previous gov ernment were made in the capacity of a responsive opposition. All the inter ventions made by me and my party colleagues were to make sure the government heard the people’s concerns and voices,” he asserted. Asked about BJP lead er Sushil Modi’s allegations against the new Mahagath bandhan government and calling him a de facto CM, Yadav said everyone is free to say what they want but it doesn’t mean that “we have to take such things seriously”.Onhis promise of 10 lakh jobs and the talk around it, Yadav said, “We have started in earnest, firstly, by deciding to fill up existing vacancies on a priority basis. Thereafter, we will have a programme that will focus on incentivising job creation in various sectors where Bi har has an “Whileadvantage.”wegeton with our work, I’ll appeal to the Union government again to give Bihar special consider ation -- the state has waited far too long. I want to re mind respected PM Modi of the promises he made to the people of Bihar before both the general elections and the assembly elections,” he said.
NEW DELHI, AUG 21 (PTI): Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar could emerge as a “strong candidate” for prime minister in 2024 if opposition parties agreed to consider him for the job, RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav said onKumar,Sunday.who recently swapped alliance partners by dumping the Bharatiya Janata Party and returning -- for a second time -- to the Rashtriya Janata Dal-led Mahagathbandhan in Bihar, enjoys “immense goodwill” on the ground, Yadav told PTI in an interview. The coming to power of the Mahagathbandhan, which now comprises the JD(U), the RJD, the Con gress and several small par ties in Bihar, “augurs well for opposition unity”, said Yadav who has made a comeback as deputy chief minister in Bihar’s new gov ernment.“Itsignals that most of the Opposition parties rec ognise the larger challenge before the country -- the hegemony of the BJP, where on the back of money, me dia, and leaderpoliticalsocietydiversitydeterminedmachinery(administrative)power,theyaretostampoutallfromtheIndianaswellasfromthespectrum,”theRJDtoldPTI.
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NEW DELHI, AUG 21 (PTI): Facing the heat in the excise policy “corrup tion” case, Delhi’s Deputy Chief Minister Manish Si sodia on Sunday claimed the CBI issued a Look Out Circular against him, but agency officials denied it and said the LOCs were only against eight ‘’private’’ persons named in the FIR. The Aam Aadmi Party mocked the Centre, accus ing it of playing the “CBIED game’’ every morning instead of focusing on prob lems of inflation and un employment, while the BJP claimed that Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal is getting nervous as the roots of the scam are leading to his doorstep.TheCongress de manded the resignation of Sisodia, saying the issue at hand was the liquor policy and AAP should stop “hid ing behind” the education policyClaimingdebate.
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AICC had also announced eight other committees, including a Steering com mittee with Anand Sharma as Chairman and Asha Ku mari as the convenor. A brief note shared by sources close to Sharma’s office said that the letter says, “The multiplicity of committees and overlapping of functions required clarity for functional purposes. I had requested GS (general secretary) organisation and AICC In-charge to clarify the mandate of the steering committee to delineate the mandate and role of the steering“Meetingscommittee.of core group of HPCC and senior leaders on Election Strategy and Preparations have since been held both in Delhi and Shimla. On 20th June meetings of Senior leaders including PCC President, CLP leader and Chairman Campaign Committee and those of other committees were held for Election prep arations.“On 7th & 8th of Au gust the In-charge and cen tral AICC Observers visited Shimla. Meetings of Core Group, senior leaders and HPCC General house were convened.
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the CBI found “nothing” during the raid at his residence on Fri day, Sisodia said the agency was doing a drama by is suing a Look Out Circular (LOC) against him when he is “roaming freely” in Delhi and asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi if he is un able to find Sisodiahim.is among 15 people and entities named in an FIR registered by the CBI in connection with al leged irregularities in the implementation of the Delhi exciseCBIpolicy.officials, however, said no LoCs have been issued against four public servants named in the FIR, including Sisodia and three former excise department officials.The CBI issued Look Out Circulars against eight private persons named in the FIR, they said, adding the agency had not felt the need for LOCs against public servants so far because they cannot leave the country without intimating the gov ernment.Inan interview to PTI, Sisodia said the Centre is trying to stop chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, who has emerged as a national al ternative to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, by sending the CBI after his cabinet colleagues. The AAP leader said that they are not scared of any investigation and as serted that the scams being alleged by BJP leaders are nothing but ‘’shagufe’’ (lies). The BJP and AAP have been attacking each other with a flurry of press conferences and tweets after the Central Bureau of Inves tigation on Friday raided 31 locations including Sisodia’s residence in connection with alleged irregularities in the Delhi government’s Excise PolicyAddressing2021-22. a press con ference, the Aam Aadmi Party’s chief spokesperson Saurabh Bharadwaj hit out at the Modi government over the alleged LOC. “The Narendra Modi government started the day by issuing a Look Out circu lar against Manish Sisodia and sharing the news with all the newspapers and tele vision channels. It is a very serious matter,” he said. Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal also slammed the Centre, saying it is “fight ing with the entire country” instead of working with state governments to address issues of unemployment and inflation. Kejriwal said every morning, the Centre starts “the game of CBIED”.The AAP had on Sat urday claimed that the CBI raids were being carried out as the BJP feared Kejri wal and the 2024 Lok Sabha polls will be a battle between the AAP chief and Modi. “No one is afraid of you Arvind Kejriwal ji. As the nodes of corruption are unravelling, the handcuffs are coming closer. Everyone knows how nervous you are,” BJP national spokes person Gaurav Bhatia said on Sunday, alleging Kejri wal was busy indulging in corruption when COVIDaffected people needed his help. “Roots of the excise policy ‘scam’ lead to the doorstep of corrupt Kejri wal. No one is above law, including Kejriwal, and no corrupt person will be spared,” he said at a press conference.BJPMP Parvesh Sahib Singh, meanwhile, dragged Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao into the ongoing row over the now-scrapped Delhi excise policy, claiming his family members attended meetings on its formulation at a fivestar hotel“Telanganahere.
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CM K Chandrashekar Rao’s fam ily members attended meet ings on the formulation of the Delhi excise policy at Oberoi Hotel. KCR’s family members got same the policy implemented in Punjab. They prepared a plan for Delhi along with Manish Sisodia and Arvind Kejriwal,” Verma alleged. There was no reac tion from Rao’s Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) on Verma’s allegations.
SRINAGAR, AUG 21 (IANS): For mer chief minister and president of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Meh booba Mufti was placed under house ar rest on Sunday in her official residence in Jammu and Kashmir’s Srinagar city. Suhail Bukhari, spokesman of the PDP told IANS that she was scheduled to go to Chotigam village of Shop ian district on Sunday where terrorists killed a local Kashmiri Pandit Sunil Kumar on August 16. Reacting to her house arrest, Mufti said on her Twitter page, “GOI wants to push the plight of Kashmiri pandits under the rug because its their callous policies that’ve led to unfortunate tar geted killings of those who chose not to flee. Projecting us mainstream as their enemy is why Ive been placed under house arrest today”. There has been no official word on Mehbooba Mufti being placed under house arrest.
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15th August is a red letter day in the history of India. This day marks the proclamation of Inde pendence from 200 years of British colonial rule and exploitation. On the other hand it’s a black day for Bangladesh as the Fa ther of the Nation Bang abandhu was massacred with his family by a mis led group of Bangladesh army personnel,ex army persons,ultra revolutionar ies and most importantly with the help of strong international conspiracy participated by forces who could not digest the emer gence of Bangladesh. We the Bangladesh is are ever grateful and respectful to the friendly Government of India for honouring our grief. In Bangladesh,no Indian rep resentative office holds any official party to rejoice the Great Independence Day. They observe the day by holding flag hoisting and other meetings to observe the significance of the day. Now,coming back to the black month of August,we must discuss another notorious activity which took place on 21Au gust,2004. Two daughers of the Father of the Nation Sheikh Hasina(the present PM) and her sister could sur vive the carnage of 15 Au gust being on foreign tour. They were not allowed to return to
O ne may shout from the rampart of Red Fort or climb up the roof-tops trumpeting about the progress and achievements and chant litanies of dos and don’ts, but one thing they must remember that India even after 75 years of independence has failed the Dalits and summarily betrayed them. As the celebrations of 75 years of Independence went ahead on a grand scale with a number of programs – pageants and gaiety across the country, two incidences that flashed in the print and visual media badly shaken those who believe in an egalitarian society so low making thinking Indians to get absolutely stunned and badly devastated. Inder Meghwal, a nine-year old school going boy from Surana village in Jalore, Rajasthan, took water to drink from a clay pot was slapped by a teacher for drinking water supposedly meant for the ‘casteist teachers. This incident occurred on July 20th 2022 at Sarswati Vidya Mandir, a private school located in the village. The teacher who slapped him with such force and ferocity that made the boy to fall down. He died on the 13th of August, 2022 as the treatment failed while in hospital. His parents did not know that the injury was internal as Inder Megh wal was continuously complaining of pain.in his ear. Acting on it he was taken to a hospital in Bagoda but was informed to take him to a hos pital in Udaipur and then on to a hospital in Ahmadabad and several more, and subsequently died. Inder Meghwal death also
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Blessed are the poor in spirit… —Matthew 5:3 The New Testament notices things that do not seem worthy of notice by our standards. “Blessed are the poor in spirit….” This literally means, “Blessed are the paupers.” Pau pers are remarkably commonplace! The preaching of today tends to point out a person’s strength of will or the beauty of his character— things that are easily noticed. The statement we so often hear, “Make a decision for Jesus Christ,” places the emphasis on something our Lord never trusted. He never asks us to decide for Him, but to yield to Him— something very different. At the foundation of Jesus Christ’s kingdom is the genuine loveliness of those who are commonplace. I am truly blessed in my poverty. If I have no strength of will and a nature without worth or excellence, then Jesus says to me, “Blessed are you, because it is through your poverty that you can enter My kingdom.” I cannot enter His kingdom by virtue of my goodness— I can only enter it as an absolute pauper. The true character of the loveliness that speaks for God is always unnoticed by the one possessing that quality. Con scious influence is prideful and unchristian. If I wonder if I am being of any use to God, I instantly lose the beauty and the freshness of the touch of the Lord. “He who believes in Me… out of his heart will flow rivers of living water” (John 7:38). And if I examine the outflow, I lose the touch of the Lord. Who are the people who have influenced us most? Cer tainly not the ones who thought they did, but those who did not have even the slightest idea that they were influencing us. In the Christian life, godly influence is never conscious of itself. If we are conscious of our influence, it ceases to have the genuine loveliness which is characteristic of the touch of Jesus. We always know when Jesus is at work because He produces in the commonplace something that is inspiring. P ublic sector banks (PSB) are critically needed today as they were in 1969 is virtually the message RBI has given. Its observation that privatisation can do more harm is almost a warning. Independent reports sug gest severe weakness in seven private banks - Fed eral Bank, Yes Bank, Karur Vysya Bank, Lakshmi Vilas Bank, Karnataka Bank, Dhanlaxmi Bank and South Indian Bank. The second largest bank ICICI has gone through many hiccups and its top officials put under probe. The HDFC is pe nalized for unethical prac tices. From 1969 onwards, a 2018 report says, 36 private banks, including ten during last 20 years, have been put under moratorium, due to mismanagement.TheRBIreport is al most an echo of the views Pranab Mukherjee ex pressed as finance minister in 2008 after the collapse of Lehman Brothers. He triumphantly said the coun try was able to weather the global financial crisis on the back of its strong banks. History proved that later the same government encour aged undue incentivisations of the corporate post 2009. It led to an avoidable critical NPA situation. The RBI is right that the banks are not at fault but extra-banking decisions have led to many crisis-like situations and unwanted write offs. The national psyche has yet to accept the move to privatise the banks. The bank employees went on strike a number of times during the past one year. The recent dilution of Life Insurance Corporation eq uities have only resulted in its share prices losing shin. The RBI paper is almost a counter to the policy paper of NCAER director gen eral Poonam Gupta former NITI Ayog vice-chairman Arvind Panagarya which recommended privatisation of all banks except SBI. The Narendra Modi government’s decisions like MUDRA, Skill India, Jandhan Yojana, trans ferring of PM Kisan and other direct benefits were deftly handled because the banks are in social control. Demonetisation would not have been possible had not the public sector banks ef ficiently managed it. The Indian financial sector underwent a tec tonic shift, when the Indira Gandhi government nation alized the 14 biggest com mercial lenders on July 19, 1969. The second volume of the official history of the Reserve Bank of India describes bank national ization as the single-most important economic policy decision taken by any gov ernment after 1947. Central bank historians say that in terms of the impact, even the economic reforms of 1991 pale in comparison. It may be recalled prior to the takeover, often one or the larger banks were rumoured to be facing moratorium. The RBI bulletin criti cally observes that public sector banks have given yeoman service to the sta bilization and growth of the different sectors. They have higher degree of market confidence, better financial inclusion objectives, labour cost efficiency and handled bankshockcovid19well.Theemployees, includ ing the unions linked to Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh have been protesting, oc casional strikes included, against the move to priva tise. In 1980, again 20 banks were bringing 90 per cent of the banking under the public sector. The banks were, economists observed, fiefdoms of big business. It got under social control. The common man, the poorest, students and the needy entrepreneurs got access to finance which the private house controlled banks had denied. It paid Congress political dividend in 1971 elections. People in general welcomed it but gradually aberrations set in as politicians could control the banking decisions. The first major loanwaiver by Janata Party government led by the then prime minister VP Singh cost the exchequer Rs 10000 crore yielding to the de mands of agitating farmers in 1990. The second one of Rs 60000 crore was by the UPA government in 2008. Thirteen states followed it in the subsequent years to give relief to farmers. It was criticised but there were wide support too as the write-off of big loans of the indus try too be came norm for decades.During the 2004-2014, the UPA government wrote off loans worth Rs 2.20 lakh crore. In subsequent years another Rs 19.2 lakh crore of large loans were written off. Banks say these are totally unrecoverable and excluded from bal ance sheets. Yes these have been problems. The PSBs suffered a grievous injury when they ended up with a huge amount of gross nonperforming assets (NPAs) or bad loans, which peaked at Rs 8.96 trillion in March 2018, 14.6 percent of total loans. This situation led a section in the government mull over privatising the banks starting with four ma jor banks Central Bank of India, Bank of India, Bank of Maharashtra and Indian Overseas Bank despite the latest recapitalization of Rs 15000Thecrore.premise that pri vate sector banks are doing better is being disputed by the RBI paper. It highlights that the private banks have failed to cater to the cus tomers of the rural and semi-urban areas to date and customers from such locations are relying heav ily on PSBs for banking. It turns out that even after bank nationalisation and with more stringent regula tion of the banking system by the RBI, private banks continue to fail. Some of the major reasons as identified by the RBI paper shows PSBs can serve the country better than private banks as they have better financial inclu sion, superior credit system, and better efficiency. The paper hints at possible convolution of financial engagement if the entire sector is privatised, as the NITI Ayog suggests. It says that private banks are oriented to profits while the public banks work on thin spread but serves a larger section and differ ent strata of the society. It implies that if the sector is privatised many govern ment programmes as well as social welfare aims might get hit resulting in social imbalance. It notes that despite weak balance sheet, resource utilization of the public sector had been more efficient and that gave them the edge in weathering the covid pandemonium shock remarkably well. Once privatised, the large social wealth would be beyond the reach of the people and the govern ment. This was the problem that the government faced most during the 1960s. If these are sold out again to similar people, many of whom are large defaulters, the countercyclical role of the banks would suffer the most. Apart it might cause severe fluctuations in lending rates affecting most government programmes and severe social imbalance. I t may not be good for the PSB themselves as abstract factors can affect their share price, market sentiment, valuation and may have three risks – inter est rate, regulatory, price-toearnings ratio and price-tobook value. For better social returns the public sector is the ideal and privatisation is not the panacea.
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hearing impairment. Since she was the main target waves of attacks followed from different directions. The leader was saved by a human shield of Awami Leage leaders and workers many of whim lost their lives,limbs or suffered bodi ly impairments. Famous Awami League leader Ivy Rahman(wife of later Presi dent of Bangladesh HE Zil lur Rahman) was severely injured and succumbed to her injuries a few days later. Sheikh Hasina’s dedicated bodyguard Mahbub took a bullet on himself making supreme sacrifice to save his leader.Ifnot for him,that bul let would have taken away the life of the Hope of Bangladesh.Inthe beginning the then Government was try ing to do a mockery of the case trying to involve tom,dick and jerries. Finally when Awami League came back to power,a proper in vestigation started. Charge sheet was prepared and a proper judicial process started . Many high ups of the Government were also brought under thr net of the huge plot. Finally in 2018, 19 of the accused were given the capital punishment. 19 others were sentenced to life and few others got other lighter sentences. The judgement is under appeal procedure currently. On this day we con demn the henious attackers and their plotter bosses. Show deepest respect to all the martyrs of the day who lost their life to bring back democracy and fight fundamentalism.Longlivethe Honour able PM who is leading the country towards develop ment. Long live Sheikh Hasina!Joy Bangla! Pradip Kumar Dutta
rips open once again the health system of our country especially for the Dalits as his parents had to run from pillar to post visiting seven hospitals in 23 days without any relief. He died two days prior to our 75th Independence Day. The other episode happened when the nation celebrated 75 years of independence on the Monday, the 15th August, 22, wherein many elected representatives hoisted the national flag in their respective lo cales such as government schools, taluk and district
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lage panchayats were not allowed to hoist the national flag in the past and did not have chairs to sit in their offices or access to of ficial files. The core of these two incidents that surface: a Dalit boy who was thirsty studying in a school wanted to drink water was slapped and then hospitalized and died in about twenty-plus days died; the other a Dalit elected as a panchayat president denied to hoist the national flag on the 75th Independence Day – negated the honor due to him. In 2022, humiliation, ridicul ing, denials, verbal and physical attacks keep happening to the Dalits in overt and covert ways. Amidst rising rage over the death of a Dalit boy in Jalore, Rajasthan, former Speaker and diplomat Meira Kumar lamented that caste system continues to be the bane of Indian society, despite the passage of 75 years of independence. Meira Kumar said she had herself faced caste discrimination, that too on a foreign land, as the pernicious prejudice based on birth knows no Elaboratingbounds.further Meira Kumar added “100 years ago, my father Babu Jagjivan Ram was pro hibited drinking water in school from the pitcher meant for Savarna Hindus. It was a miracle his life was saved”, but after seventy-five years Inder Meghwal died. When he was the deputy prime minister of India, he unveiled a statue somewhere in the North India, after which it was again cleansed and purified. In another incident, former President K R Narayanan on his official visit to France, the French newspaper flashed “A Dalit in Elysee palace”. This is the mental make-up of most of our Indians who can not digest the fact there are Dalits who have accomplished on par with others or beyond. If this is the level of casteist mind-set, what about those Dalits who live in the villages and on the margins of ur ban centers. As Indians we would be celebrating our independence year after year, but not mindful of caste violence and heinous ness of caste manifesting in its ugliest forms. 75 years passed by but India has not changed. The mindsets of Indians by and large are corroded with caste. A nine-year old boy wanted to drink water, but the corroded casteist mind-set of a teacher could not tolerate. The very sight of a Dalit drinking water angered him leading to thrashing resulting in death.Inanother case, though he is a panchayat president, the caste mind-set does not want to extend the due privilege of hoist ing the national flag on the most important day, but denied since he happened to be a Dalit. Caste is embedded is the psyche of major ity of the Indians and so it is part of theirThusDNA.farno political leader except BR Ambedkar dared to question and attempted to anni hilate the system of caste. Caste in India is patron ized, legitimized, promoted and protected by most of the Indians who live in India and outside. Meera Kumar in her exclusive interview said that when she was appointed as a diplomat in UK. she was searching for a house in London and like a house which belonged to an Indian by name Jacob. When she was negotiat ing the house owner Jacob asked whether she was a Brahmin for which she responded by saying she belonged to Scheduled Caste. Having heard that he refused give to her for rental. Despite living in London for number of decades his caste psyche has not change. A system such as caste that treats people in hierarchical fash ion and highly discriminatory is a sin and evil. Since it is patron ized by the casteist political class, socially privileged, economically advanced and cultural Those privi leged lots born in dominant castes do not want to change or give away their caste identity because caste offers them status, power, prestige, honor and host of others. Those who have been negated and denied their basic humanity want the system of caste to be changed., but on the ground level there is no political will, and so, we hardly see any possibility of change. The systems that deterred select categories of people from others based on color, creed and race have changed with the pas sage of times, but caste is intact for the last 3500 years. Nonethe less, the Dalits and those who are against a diabolic system of caste live in hope that caste by all means be annihilated and thus realize a casteless India which for all the Indians is the real free independent and inclusive India.. Dr. John Mohan Razu
21st August: another black day in the history of Bangladesh
AAP fault lines exposed Since 2012 the AAP had successfully placed itself on the lofty pedestal as a party that is clean and corruption-free and was almost looking to place itself to lead the disunited opposition in 2024 against the BJP. However, destiny had other plans as the AAP today has been shaken to its foundation when two of its senior most leaders- minister of home, health & family welfare and industries Satyendar Jain and deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia minister of finance, education, higher education, excise etc are now being probed by the ED and CBI. While Satyendar Jain is being probed for money laundering, deputy chief minister Sisodia, the most powerful AAP minister after chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, is being probed for alleged kickbacks in the liquor license case involving losses of around Rs. 2000 crores to the Delhi government’s exchequer. The scam case pertains to alleged corruption in the framing and implementation of Delhi’s excise policy 2021-22 which paved way for the entry of private firms into the retail liquor sector. The accusations involve extending undue favours to the licensees, waiver/reduction in licence fee, and extension of L-1 license without ap proval in return of bribes. It is said that the illegal gains from these acts were diverted to the public servants. According to the central agency, Sisodia and other accused public servants recommended and took deci sions pertaining to the excise policy 2021-22 without the approval of competent authority with “an intention to extend undue favours to the licensees post tender”. There are serious allegations made by those former permit holders who were not considered because they did not pay bribe to the ‘authorized agent’ while new applicants who paid bribes eventually got the licenses. Arvind Kejriwal has not defended his righthand man but only spoke about Sisodia’s achievement as education minister. Kejriwal realizes that improving educational institutions in Delhi is one thing and kick backs from liquor license is another. After the scam, Manish Sisodia, referred to as Money Sisodia did a sudden U turn by reverting back to the old liquor policy when he has been strongly defending his new liquor policy. Amidst all of these, Delhi Congress under Ajay Maken, looked confused and pathetic when it resorted to protests demanding Sisodia’s resignation instead of taking a politically matured stand in demanding probes to unearth facts. This way Congress would shown that its stand was principled and also left room for likely opposition unity for 2024. AAP has been fighting elec tions in several states besides Delhi such as in - Punjab where it came to power with a little bit of help due to miscalculations by the Gandhi siblings; Goa where it expected to win but fared disastrously; Uttarakhand where it again expected something big but ended with zero and UP where it failed to win even one after contesting in 403 constituencies. Fighting elections requires money and the AAP by contesting in so many states has only shown it has the money and perhaps Sisodia exposed the modus operandi to obtain funds. The recent liquor scam in Delhi also comes just as AAP was on campaign swings at Himachal Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Jharkhand and Karnataka. AAP has been merciless and at times slanderous in its at tacks on leaders of other political parties on corruption. Now AAP is tasting its own medicine and proving that, its self-created halo as corruption-free party was all bunkum and should remember that those who live in glass houses should not throw stones. Quotes Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
India’s cardinal sin: The curse of caste in the 21st Century
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Private banks to take clock back: RBI psbs serve society on low profits
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strengthening the party and finally after 21 years of black rule(against the basic principals for which Bangladesh was created) she succeeded in bringing the Awami League back to power. Anti Bangladesh powers never could stand or tolerate her. In fact,they wanted to destroy the whole family so that thr legacy of Bangabandhu does not return. They wanted the country to be run in the Pakistani line. The conspira cies started again. One after another attempts followed. Thete was no success yet. After a five year term from 1996 Sheikh Hasina was dislodged from power and during the rule of the next Government,with ap parently its full support,the strongest attempt on Ha sina’s life was plotted against her life in the same black month. 21st August was set as the D-day. A few days prior to that fundamentalist forces carried out a bomb attack on HE Anwar. whichleaderinjured24attackwerenadescocktails,handcombustibles,molotovArgestaltheLeaderSheikhthewashuge.criminalunderstandingAvenuetherangeddone.notBangladesh.ishChowdhury,theFortunatenthenBritHighcommissionertoFortunatelymuchdamagecouldbeAwamiLeaguearaprotestmeetingincapital’sBangabandhutoorganisepopularagainstsuchactivities.TheattendancewasWhenthemeetingbeingaddressedbyAwamiLeaguechiefHasina(thethenofOppositioninParliament),thebruattackcamedown.grenades,othermadegreandreportedlysnipersalsoused.Thesavagetookawaythelivesofpeople.Manymorewereanddisabled.Theherselfhadinjurieshascausedhersevere
NEW DELHI, AUG 21 (PTI): Amid the uproar over the death of a Dalit school boy in Rajasthan, senior Congress leader Meira Ku mar on Sunday stressed on completely eradicating the “illness” of caste system and adopting a zero tolerance approach against prejudice. In an interview with PTI, she said one should not get into which particular regime or political party is responsible for such atroci ties as it takes the focus away from the main issue, and asserted that such incidents are “soul-crippling’’.Overtheyears, the caste system has neither been diluted nor has it been eradicated, the former Lok Sabha speaker said. Her remarks come days after Indra Kumar (9) was beaten up by a teacher alleg edly for touching a drinking water pot at a school in Rajasthan’s Jalore district on July 20. He died during treatment in Ahmedabad earlier this month. The ac cused, Chail Singh, has been arrested. The Congress government in Rajasthan is facing heat over the death of the Dalit schoolboy. Asked if there has been lacuna on the part of the Congress gov ernment in handling alleged Dalit atrocities, Meira Ku mar said, “This is something everyone asks me. It is not that I am defending anybody or accusing anybody. I just want to say that yes the po litical class is responsible to some extent but the issue is social. Politics is a reflection of society.”“Tosay that this par ticular regime is respon sible, this particular party is responsible and that it has happened in this state, these are the statistics, in other states statistics are different because the party there is different, we should not re ally get into all this because then it diverts attention from the main issue,” she said. When people start talk ing about political angles then it dilutes the issue, Meira Kumar said. Every time an atrocity takes place eventually it gets entangled in whose fault it is, the former minister of social justice and empower mentTalkingsaid. about ways to move forward on eradicat ing the caste system, Kumar said there is a need for social will. “Society must come forward. This is a problem rooted in religion so what are the religious leaders saying...the young people, they always want change, they should come forward. Women, they are mothers, they have a major role in shaping the attitude of the child right from the moment the child is born,” she said. The Congress lead er called for talking about “zeroPrejudiceprejudice”.on the basis of caste, religion, skin co lour, economic background needs to be done away with, said Kumar who had re cently tweeted and recalled that 100 years ago her father Babu Jagjivan Ram was pro hibited from drinking water in school from the pitcher meant for Savarna Hindus.
Rahul Gandhi
Rahul says govt taxing common people more than corporates, BJP hits back
2 Guj ministers sacked months ahead of polls
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CBI arrests Lt Col, 3 others in Ambala Cantt bribery case
HC dismisses plea to disqualify arrested AAP Minister Satyendar Jain
NEW DELHI, AUG 21 (IANS): The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Sunday arrested a Lieutenant Colonel and a Subedar Major, both attached to Military En gineering Service (MES), Ambala Cantt, along with two private contractors in alleged bribery case of Rs 22.48Thelakh.accused were identified as Lieutenant Colonel Rahul Pawar, MES, Ambala Cantt, Sube dar Major Pardeep Kumar, private contractors Dinesh Kumar and Pritpal. A case was registered against the accused on the allegations of demanding bribe. The alleged payment of bribe was to ensure that most of tenders from Am bala Cantt are awarded to the private contractors. The CBI laid a trap and caught both the public servants and the private persons during transaction of Rs 22.48 lakh. Searches were con ducted at the premises of accused in Ambala, Kurukhetra which led to recovery of huge cash and incriminating documents. During searches, Rs 32.50 lakh was recovered from the premises of the Lt Colonel while an amount of Rs 16 lakh was recov ered from the possession of the private contractors. All the four arrested accused will be produced before the competent court.
“Both Trivedi and Modi are senior ministers in the government and hence, the people of Gujarat have every right to know about what exactly led the chief minister to remove them (from the key departments) so unceremoniously,” Gu jarat Congress chief spokes person Manish Doshi told reporters.AAP national joint sec retary Indranil Rajguru said the decision to take away the important portfolios from the two senior ministers is not a “personal matter” of the BJP and it affects the public at large. Hence, the government should let the public know what exactly were the reasons behind the decision, he said. “On behalf of the peo ple of Gujarat, I’d like to ask the BJP as to why you removed the ministers? Is it because of some differences between state BJP chief C R Paatil and the chief minister? Is the Gujarat government run from Delhi? People have every right to know,” Rajguru said. Doshi said if the gov ernment is clean, it should not hide the reasons behind removing Trivedi and Modi from the two departments. “The BJP came to power in Gujarat in 2017 with the promise to remove corruption, but continued to foster corruption. Not long back, the party changed the entire state cabinet but the process of corruption con tinued,” he “Changingalleged.two minis ters will not stop corruption in the state. Even changing the entire cabinet did not change the nature of loot,” he claimed.Ifthe government’s intention is clear, then it should let us know where Trivedi and Modi failed, DoshiRajgurusaid. said the state government’s move affects the administration.Boththeministers were likely removed either be cause they were taking deci sions in favour of the public or because of corruption, he claimed.Doshi claimed the rev enue portfolio that Trivedi had held was the “epicentre of corruption” and the min ister managed to get hold of the proof of corruption by senior BJP leaders that led to hisModiremoval.was removed because he used to favour people close to him in grant ing construction contracts rather than those whom he was asked to give the con tracts, the Congress leader alleged.Under the new ar rangement, CM Patel will hold the additional charge of both the ministries as of now, while Minister of State for Home Harsh Sanghavi has been given the addition al responsibility of revenue as itsMinisterMoS. of State for In dustries and Forest and En vironment, Jagdish Panchal, will be the MoS for road and buildingPateldepartment.replaced Vijay Rupani as the chief minister last September when the entire Gujarat cabinet was asked to resign by the top BJP leadership.TheGujarat Assembly elections are due in Decem ber this year. Rajendra Trivedi Purnesh Modi
Caste atrocities ‘soul-crippling’, need zero tolerance for prejudice: Meira Kumar Meira Kumar
NEW DELHI, AUG 21 (PTI): Government has firmed up a proposal to give specific names to all the AI IMS, including that in Delhi, based on regional heroes, freedom fighters, historical events or monuments of the area or their distinct geo graphical identity. Majority of the 23 All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AI IMS) have submitted a list of names, after the Union Min istry of Health and Family Welfare sought suggestions from them in this matter, of ficial sources told PTI. AIIMS, many of which are operational while oth ers being set up under the Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana (PMSSY), are known by its generic name and distinguished only by their location, an official explained.“So,the Union health ministry has drafted a pro posal to give specific names to all the 23 AIIMS, which include those fully function al, partially operational or under construction,” source said. In this regard, sugges tions were sought for assign ing specific names to differ ent AIIMS, which could be linked to local or regional heroes of prominence, free dom fighters, distinct geo graphical identity of the area where the institute is located and prominent historical events or monuments of the region,” source explained. Majority of these pre mier health institutes are learnt to have suggested 3 to 4 names along with an ex planatory note for the names suggested. Six new AIIMS -- Bihar (Patna), Chhat tisgarh (Raipur), Madhya Pradesh (Bhopal), Odisha (Bhubaneswar), Rajasthan (Jodhpur) and Uttarakhand (Rishikesh) were approved in Phase 1 of PMSSY and are fully functional.
NEW DELHI, AUG 21 (PTI): The Delhi High Court has dismissed a public interest litigation (PIL) seek ing to declare AAP leader Satyendar Jain, arrested in a money laundering case, as a “person with unsound mind” and disqualify him from being a Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA) here and a minister. A bench of Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma and Justice Subramonium Prasad said the court, based on averments in a writ peti tion, cannot declare Jain as a “person with unsound mind” and disqualify him from the Cabinet and the Assembly. The bench noted that the MLA is facing pros ecution for various offences and the Code of Criminal Procedure-- which deals with investigation, inquiry and trial-- caters to all con tingencies and it is for the prosecution/court to take appropriate steps in accor dance with law. “It is true that cases have been registered against respondent No.5 (Jain) and respondent No.5 is facing prosecution for various of fences under the Indian Penal Code, Prevention of Corruption Act as well as Prevention of Money Laundering Act. However, the fact remains that the Code of Criminal Proce dure, 1973 is a complete code in itself which provides a mechanism in respect of investigation, inquiry and trial. The Code of Criminal Procedure caters to all con tingencies and it is for the prosecution/court to take appropriate steps in accor dance with law,” the court said in its order dated Au gust 16. “This Court, based upon the averments made in the writ petition, in exercise of jurisdiction under Article 226 of the Constitution of India cannot declare the respondent No.5 (Jain) as a person with unsound mind and cannot disqualify him from being a member of the Legislative Assembly or the Minister in the Government of NCT of Delhi in the facts and circumstances of the case. Resultantly, the writ petition is dismissed,” said the court.
All 23 AIIMS to be named after local heroes, monuments
NEW DELHI, AUG 21 (PTI): Former Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Sunday accused the govern ment of imposing high taxes on common people and giv ing rebates to its “friends”. He also tweeted a graph suggesting the gov ernment is earning more revenue from taxes on com mon people than from cor porates.The BJP, however, ac cused him of fudging data to mislead the country. “It can only happen in Rahul Gandhi School of Economics where every data is fudged to mislead the country. The so called taxes from people and Corporate Tax combined does not total to 100%,” BJP IT depart ment head Amit Malviya said. Targeting the govern ment, Gandhi said, “Raise taxes on people, cut taxes for Mitron - the ‘natural course’ of action for suitboot-loot sarkar,” Gandhi said in his tweet, while shar ing theThegraph.graph gave a comparison of “less tax on people versus more tax on people”. It shows that corporate tax over the years has been coming down and tax on people is going up. The graph also showed that the percentage of rev enues collected by the gov ernment over the years is higher from people than from Thecorporates.graphshowed that in 2010 the revenue col lected through tax on cor porates was over 40 per cent against 24 per cent revenue from tax on people. In 2021, it showed, the revenue collected from tax on corporates has come down to around 24 per cent against around 48 per cent from that collected from tax on people.Malviya noted that indirect tax, a consumptionbased tax, which includes excise, customs, cess and a significant amount of indi rect taxes (including GST), is paid by corporations, trusts, governments and not only by Theindividuals.corporate tax col lection has seen a rapid growth of 34 per cent in the first four months of the fis cal year 2023 as compared to the corresponding period last year, he said, adding even when compared to collections of FY 2019 (preCOVID), the collections of FY 2022 are higher by over nine per cent. He added, “The growth in personal income tax has been robust in last few years and taxpayer base has been increased to 9 crore in 2021-22, against 5.7 crore taxpayers in 2013-14. This has been a result of various efforts of the Gov ernment of India to curb blackCongressmoney.” leader Jai ram Ramesh also shared a letter from Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot op posing the hike in GST on essential items and coun tered Finance Minister Nir mala Sitharaman’s claim that no state had opposed the GST on food items at the GST Council meeting. “The finance minister has been claiming that in the meetings of the GST Coun cil, the states did not oppose the imposition of GST on food items. This is a letter written to him by the chief minister of Rajasthan on 05.08.2022, which refutes her claims,” Ramesh said while sharing the letter. Ashok Gehlot had on August 5 written to the fi nance minister opposing the decision to impose higher GST on food items and urging her to reconsider her decision.
Litigation is like bleeding wound, says CJI-designate
NEW DELHI, AUG 21 (AGEN CIES): The Centre on Sunday said there are no plans to levy charges for making payments through Unified Payments In terface (UPI) while saying the service is a “digital public good with immense convenience”. The Ministry of Finance on Sunday said the concerns of service providers for cost re covery have to be met through other means, Business Standard reported.“UPI is a digital public good with immense convenience for the public & productivity gains for the economy. There is no consideration in Govt to levy any charges for UPI services. The concerns of the service providers for cost recovery have to be met through other means,” the minis try tweeted.Thiscomes days after the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) sought feedback from stakehold ers on the possibility of imposing gradual charges on payments made through UPI, based on dif ferent amount bands. A discussion paper floated by the RBI sought to streamline the framework of charges for differ ent payment services or activities, such as UPI, IMPS (Immediate Payment Service), NEFT (Na tional Electronic Funds Transfer), RTGS (Real-Time Gross Settle ment), and payment instruments including debit cards, credit cards, and prepaid payment instruments (PPIs).Even as the RBI has sought feedback on the proposal by Octo ber 3, the central bank reiterated it has neither taken any view nor has any specific opinion on the issues raised in the discussion paper. Currently, no cost is incurred by users or merchants in the case of payments made through UPI. On Sunday, the government said it had provided financial support for the digital payment ecosystem last year, and has an nounced the same for the ongoing fiscal to encourage further adop tion of digital payments, and pro motion of payment platforms that are economical and user-friendly. In the financial year 202122, the Centre had allocated Rs 1,500 crore for “promotion of digital payments” that is used to reimburse the merchant discount rate (MDR) for RuPay debit card transactions, and BHIM-UPI transactions up to Rs 2,000. For FY23, the Centre has set aside Rs 200 crore for promotion of digital payments in the Budget.
NEW DELHI, AUG 20 (IANS): Female participa tion in jobs has increased during the last few months. Gender-wise analysis of the latest EPFO data indi cated that enrollment of net female members has increased to 4.06 lakh in the current month from 3.43 lakh during last month, registering an increase of 18.37 per cent. It is also observed that participation of the female workforce in the organised sector has been the highest in the last 12 the18.36tionprovidentOverall,months.employeefundorganiza(EPFO)hasaddedlakhnetmembersinmonthofJunethisyear.Theprovisionalpay
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down from a 40-year high in June to 8.5 per cent in July on lower gasoline prices, indicating that the US Federal Reserve might be less aggressive in hiking interestHimanshurates. Srivastava, Associate Director - Man ager Research, Morning star India, said net inflows were driven by expectation that the recession which is expected to hit the US market may not materialise or its impact would be minimal.While the inflation continues to be at elevat ed levels, it has risen less than expected, which has improved sentiment, he pointedTheseout.positive senti ments have led foreign in vestors to take some bit of risk and invest in the Indian equityOnmarkets.thedomestic front, correction in the Indian equity markets provided investors a good buying opportunity.Inaddition, FPIs poured a net amount of Rs 1,673 crore into the debt market during the month under review.
NEW DELHI, AUG 21 (PTI): After turning net buyers last month, foreign investors have shown tre mendous enthusiasm for Indian equities and have infused close to Rs 44,500 crore in August so far amid softening of inflation in US and falling dollar index. This was way higher than a net investment of nearly Rs 5,000 crore by Foreign Portfolio Investors (FPIs) in entire July, data with depositories showed. FPIs had turned net buyers for the first time in July after nine straight months of massive outflows, which started in October last year. Between October 2021 till June 2022, they sold a massive Rs 2.46 lakh crore in the Indian equity markets. In the coming months, FPI flows are to remain volatile. However, with the fading concerns of rising in flation, tightening of mone tary policy and performance of first quarter earnings, inflows are likely to improve in emerging markets, said Shrikant Chouhan, Head - Equity Research (Retail), KotakTheSecurities.near-term trend in capital flows will be influ enced mainly by the move ment of the dollar, V K Vijayakumar, Chief Invest ment Strategist at Geojit Financial Services, said. According to data with depositories, FPIs pumped in a net amount of Rs 44,481 crore in Indian equities dur ing August 1-19. This is the highest investment made by them so far in the cur rent year.Sentiments in the eq uity market have turned bullish due to the sustained buying by FPIs. “The main trigger for the sustained buying has been the steady fall in the dollar index from above 109 in end July to around 105 recently. But on Au gust 19 the dollar index has again moved up and crossed 107. If this trend continues capital inflows might be impacted,” Vi jayakumar US.ingjoreconomyingpositiveChouhanKotakadded.Securities’attributedtheinflowtomounthopesthattheglobalmayavoidamadownturnamidsofteninflationlevelsintheUSinflationslowed
No plans to levy charges on UPI transactions: Finance Ministry (From p-1) He said contractors complain of receiving hard ly 30% of payments as 70% is deducted at sources and shared between ministers, parliamentary secretaries, advisers, officers and several insurgent groups. In addition, he said government department are forced to pay 24% of one month’s salary annu ally to insurgents. Even government departments such as Rural Development forces the VBDs and VCCs to sign on blank cheques. Even from NGNREGA’s 2020-21 funds of Rs.483 crore received, he alleged that Rs.60 crore was paid for wages at an average of 7 days instead of 100 man day wages.Therie said even upto to 70% of the cost of materi al component under MGN REGA was being deducted from the beneficiaries. He also alleged that there were numerous in stances where money was drawn without any work be ing done. He cited CAG re ports which exposed many unverifiable projects under Planning and Tribal Affairs department.Under Tribal Affairs department, in the name of Women Working Hostel, he said money for construction were drawn without works and projects were unverifi able. He also said water proj ects were not provided in Kohima and the commercial capitalOnDimapur.PMRYloan Therie said it is politicised and so the selected beneficiaries think that it is a political gift. He said beneficiaries are not chosen on the basis of skill, commitment and feasibil ity of their projects which are but copy pasted. This is the reason why politically selected beneficiaries do not return loans and a reason why banks blame public. Therie reminded that NITI Aayog has also graded Nagaland as the Worst Per forming state. He further said Rs. 200 crores of funds for Mon Medical college was released while works for the proposed Kohima Medical College was forgotten. Even the High court building construction is now being probed by CBI. The much hyped, Multi-Disciplinary Sports Complex at Dimapur has been under construction since 2005 and is today in an unfinished state looking like the Colosseum of Rome. He alleged that many departments have incom plete projects because funds were drawn without work. Due to such a situation of no progress, Therie said even Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma had rightly compared develop ment of Diphu district as being equal to or more than entire Nagaland as Diphu has a Medical College and Engineering College and Nagaland has none so far.
Elaborating on the LADC system, he said crim inal cases are pursued on behalf of the state by public prosecutors, and on the simi lar line, such cases would be fought for poor litigants through this mechanism whose funding will also come from the government through the NALSA route. He dubbed the situ ation where the poor are forced to hire private lawyers “malady of litigation” and said, in criminal cases, it so happens that the person accused is dragged into litigation.The success of the LADC system would lie in extending a hand of confi dence towards the people whose resources are eaten up in litigation and they get “sucked into this trap”, he added.He termed the LADC system an “initiative for transforming free legal aid, assistance and legal repre sentation in criminal matters in line with the Public De fender System by engaging full time lawyers working exclusively for legal aid beneficiaries”.JusticeLalit thanked those associated with the legal aid movement for their achievements in the last 15 months.
Female participation in organised sector rises funds from previous PF ac count to the current account instead of applying for final PF withdrawal.Thenew enrolment during the month is higher than the monthly average recorded during the last fiscal.Age-wise comparison of payroll data indicated that the age-group of 2225 years has registered the highest number of net en rolments with 4.72 lakh ad ditions during June, 2022. This shows that many first-time job seekers are joining the organised sector workforce in large numbers. State-wise comparison of payroll figures highlight ed that the establishments covered in the states of Maharashtra, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Haryana, Gu jarat and Delhi continue to remain in lead by adding approximately 12.61 lakh net members during the month, which is 68.66 of total net payroll addition across all age groups.
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(From p-1) They have solicited the engagement of private counsel… They must have sold their assets, they must have sold their jewellery, they must have mortgaged their properties, that is what the litigation brings in. Liti gation is like a bleeding wound. The more you let it bleed, the more will the man suffer,” he said. Legal aid needs to give confidence to such people that the system can lead them through this door to the “temple of justice” and that “it will be taken care of in the most professional manner”, he added.
roll data of EPFO released on August 20 highlighted that for the month of June, the net member addition has increased by 9.21 per cent as compared to the previous month of May. Year-on-year compari son of payroll data reflected that June registered an in crease of 5.53 lakh in terms of net member addition comparing the correspond ing month during last year in 2021.New member joining has shown a growing trend since April, Approximately2022. 7.82 lakh net members exited but rejoined EPFO by changing their jobs within the estab lishments covered by EPFO and opted to transfer their
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MOGADISHU, AUG 21 (IANS): The United Nations senior envoy in Somalia on Sunday called for lasting sup port for the victims in Somalia amid a surge in attacks by al-Shabab militants across the country.
Former minister Mi chael Gove became the most recent senior Tory grandee to warn that her plans were a “holiday from reality” as he endorsed Sunak’s focus on inflationAccordingbusting.toa report in the ‘Observer’ on Sunday, more former Cabinet mem bers from Truss’ own party have expressed “jitters” over the current Foreign Secre tary’sOneplans.unnamed former minister told the paper they were “worried” about the prospect of Truss being handed the keys to No. 10 Downing Street, adding: “Members are going one way with Liz, the country at large, the other.” “If she carries on with full-on culture wars and the anti-woke stuff, as well as the economic stuff, she will just come across as Boris without the charm. Then she will turn off people in the blue wall,” said another, referring to the northern England seats won over by the Tories from Labour in the 2019 general election.
OFFICE OF THE WESTERN SUMI HOHO H.Q. Chekiye Village Dimapur - 797112 : Nagaland
The Western Sumi Hoho (WSH) expresses our deep appreciation and gratitude to the Sumi Hoho, the Sumi Kukami Hoho, the Northern Sumi Hoho and the Eastern Sumi Hoho for responding to the call of the WSH and rendering not just invaluable insight but also being in the forefront of the fight for justice to Kiyevi Village. The call to the fight for justice to Kiyevi Village would have been rendered handicapped if not for the active support of all the Sumi legislators. The rock solid support that all the Sumi legislators gave to the WSH enabled us to unwaveringly stand our ground and bring justice to Kiyevi. WSH appreciates this unity and which will be specially recorded for posterity. Our gratitude to all the Sumi legislators. Words are inadequate to show our appreciation and gratitude to the Chief Secretary for taking up the damage compensation to Kiyevi Village issue on a priority basis. From the day since the issue erupted, the Chief Secretary, in close coordination with Commissioner, Nagaland, has objectively handled the issue with wisdom and clarity, and even in the face of intense pressure to withhold payment, going solely by the merit of the case, issuing the final order of justice awarding the damage compensation to Kiyevi Village. Equally, our gratitude and appreciation to Deputy Commissioner, Chumoukedima. His practical, pragmatic, down to earth style and approach to the concerns of the team of Sumi Hoho, Sumi Kukami Hoho, Western Sumi Hoho and the newly constituted Core Committee was, in itself, a testimony of his prowess as an administrator par excellence. Our salute to him. WSH exists because of its frontal organisations. It was the coming together of all the frontal organisations as a team that enabled WSH to function as a well oiled machine. WSH extends heartfelt gratitude and appreciation to all its frontal organisations. Here particular mention has to be made of the Aqahuto Tokukujo Kukami Kuqhakulu (ATKK) and the Aqahuto Area Youth Front (AAYF) for their exceptional service rendered towards the call to duty made by the WSH. Our gratitude and appreciation to all the volunteers who responded to the call of the WSH and braved the heat of the day and cold of the night to ensure the deliverance of justice to Kiyevi Village. To all those who contributed to enable the WSH to stand and fight for justice, we thank you so much. Last, but certainly not the least, our heartcore-felt gratitude to our Chief Minister. After all, the buck stops at the CM's table. May the Almighty God continue to bless your leadership. (SHIKAHO ZHIMOMI) (HETOVI YEPTHOMI) President, WSH Jt. Secretary, WSH DP-3956/22
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Antonio Guterres arrives at Zeyport to sail to a ship carrying Ukrainian grain, in Istanbul, Turkey Aug 20, 2022.
LONDON, AUG 21 (PTI): Two weeks before the UK’s Conservative Party leader ship election is set to draw to a close, finalist Rishi Sunak’s team are promoting a new campaign video cashing in on his “underdog” status with rival Liz Truss’ firm lead in the race to succeed BorisTheJohnson.video, first used to introduce Sunak at a hus tings event in Manchester on Friday night, shows the former Chancellor at a series of campaign events since the race began last month and addressing Tory members who are voting for a new party leader to take charge as British Prime Minister on September 5. “I’ll keep fighting for every vote until the final day,” Sunak tweeted with the video, which counts down 100 events in 30 days to reach 16,000 party mem bers on the campaign trail. The video shows the 42-year-old British Indian former minister interacting with voters and is also seen catching a quick power nap on a bench as a voiceover praises his efforts to “fight for every“Theyinch”.say beware the underdog, because an un derdog has got nothing to lose. An underdog fights for every inch,” the voiceover says. “They work harder, stay longer, think smarter; underdogs don’t give up, they’ll do the difficult things and they never, ever get complacent,” it adds. It comes as most recent surveys of Tory members casting postal and online ballots in the election and bookie odds strongly indi cate a Truss victory, who is campaigning on a taxcutting plan to address the economic crisis amid soar ing prices in the UK.
The DAYO congratulates Shri L. Mongkum Jamir President of Business Association of Nagas for being appointed as Member of the High Powered Monitoring Committee (HPMC) of the National Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe Hub (NSSH) Scheme under the Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME), Government of India. We hope that this prestigious position will be used for uplifting and nurturing ST/SC entrepreneurs especially for the youths of NEI & Nagaland in particular to develop the culture of entrepreneurship. DAYO also congratulates President Police Medals recipients Shri Renchamo Kikon Additional DG, Police Medal for Meritorious Service, Smt. Imcharenla, DIG (NAP) President’s Police Medal (PPM) For Distinguished Service and Shri. Kilangyanger Walling, DCP Niuland Police Medal for Meritorious Service on the occasion of Independence Day, 2022. Your selfless services above self for the citizens of Nagaland will always be acknowledged and these medals are a testimony of your dedication and hard work which will be an inspiration to all, especially the upcoming youths.May you all continue to be blessed in the service of humanity. DAYO wishes all of you more success and honour in future. Media Cell DIMAPUR AO YOUTH ORGANIZATION (DAYO) MOGADISHU, AUG 21 (AP): Somali authorities on Sunday ended a deadly attack in which 21 people were killed and dozens more wounded when gunmen stormed a hotel in the capi tal. It took Somali forces more than 30 hours to con tain the fighters who had stormed Mogadishu’s Hayat Hotel on Friday evening in an assault that started with loud Theexplosions.siege ended around midnight, police commissioner Abdi Hassan Hijar told reporters. “Dur ing the attack, the security forces rescued many civil ians trapped in the hotel, including women and chil dren,” he Healthsaid.Minister Dr. Ali Haji Adam reported 21 deaths and 117 people wounded, with at least 15 in critical condition. He noted that some victims may not have been brought to hospi tals. Police are yet to give a detailed explanation of how the attack unfolded and it remains unclear how many gunmen entered the hotel. Ismail Abdi, the hotel’s manager, told The Associ ated Press early Sunday that
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TOKYO, AUG 21 (IANS): The Japanese government wants to ex tend the range of its Type 12 surface-to-ship mis siles to at least 1,000km -- and modify them to be launched from vessels and aircraft and to strike ground targets -- in order to close the “missile gap” with China, local media reported.Animproved groundlaunched version of the missile is expected to enter service two years earlier than originally planned, sometime in 2024, Japa nese newspaper Yomiuri reported on Sunday, cit ing several government officials. The newspaper claimed that Tokyo even tually wants “more than 1,000” such missiles de ployed across the Nansei Islands.The reported missile plan is said to be part of what the newspaper called a “Taiwan contingency” initiative. Last December, Japan’s Self-Defence Forc es (SDF) and the US mili tary reportedly reached an agreement to establish an attack base on the Nansei Islands in the event of an “emergency”, should conflict break out between Taiwan and Beijing, RT reported.Tokyo officials cited by the country’s Kyodo News at the time said that if enacted, the plan would see US Marines stationed on the Nansei Islands at a temporary attack base, with the SDF providing support in the form of extra troops if a military threat to Taiwan was im minent.In order to justify such “counterstrike ca pabilities”, Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party previously indicated that it wants to revise and par tially classify the current National Security Strategy by the end of year, focus ing on whether Japan can acquire weapons to strike enemy bases. The matter is a sensitive issue, given Japan’s reported.plicitlyconstitution,defence-orientedwhichexrenounceswar,RT
ISTANBUL, AUG 21 (IANS): UN SecretaryGeneral Antonio Guterres visited Istanbul and inspect ed the efforts of the Joint Coordination Center (JCC) in bringing Ukrainian grain to international markets. He visited the JCC teams on Saturday who were inspecting a vessel an chored at the Marmara Sea and received a briefing about the inspection process, Xin hua news agency reported. “Getting more food and fertilisers out of Ukraine and Russia is critical to further calm commodity markets and lower prices for consumers,” said Guterres while addressing the JCC personnel and media at the JCC “Andcenter.the other part of this package deal is the un impeded access to the global markets of Russian food and fertiliser, which are not sub ject to sanctions,” he added, hinting at the possible start of the exports from Russia, which was agreed upon but not yetTogether,implemented.Russia and Ukraine account for a vast amount of the world’s ex ported grains and fertilisers. Following a landmark deal signed respectively by Russia and Ukraine with Turkey under the UN aus pices in July, the first grainladen ship from Ukraine passed through Istanbul’s Bosphorus Strait on Au gust 3.Up till now, 43 ships with more than 600,000 tons of cargo-carrying capac ity have been authorised to join the efforts to transport Ukrainian grain, according to the data by the JCC. s ecurity forces were still working to clear the area. No more gunfire could be heard after 9 am local time. Onlookers gathered outside the gates of the bad ly damaged hotel on Sun day morning, surveying the scene. The Islamic extremist group al-Shabab, which has ties with al-Qaida, claimed responsibility for the attack, the latest of its frequent attempts to strike places vis ited by government officials. Al-Shabab opposes the federal government and the outsiders who support it. The attack on the hotel is the first major terror inci dent in Mogadishu since So malia’s new leader, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, took over in May. Somalia’s previous president, Mohamed Abdul lahi Mohamed, avoided any major confrontation with al-Shabab. But Mohamud has said his government will take the offensive against the group’s thousands of fighters, with the backing of returning US Al-Shababforces.charged via its Andalus radio station that the attack on the hotel was in response to Moham ud’s assertion that he would eliminate the group from Somalia. UN SecretaryGeneral Antonio Guterres condemned the attack, ac cording to a spokesman’s statement that said the UN supports the people of So malia ”in their fight against terrorism and their march towards peace.” Al-Shabab remains the most lethal Islamic extremist group in Africa. The group has seized even more territory in recent years, taking advan tage of rifts among Somali security personnel as well as disagreements between the government seat in Moga dishu and regional states. It remains the biggest threat to political stability in the vola tile Horn of Africa nation. Forced to retreat from Mogadishu in 2011, alShabab is slowly making a comeback from the rural areas to which it retreated, defying the presence of Af rican Union peacekeepers as well as US drone strikes targeting its fighters. The militants in early May attacked a military base for AU peacekeepers outside Mogadishu, killing many Burundian troops. The attack came just days before the presidential vote that returned Mohamud to power five years after he had been voted out.
MOSCOW, AUG 21 (AP): The daughter of a Russian nationalist ideolo gist who is often referred to as “Putin’s brain” was killed when her car ex ploded on the outskirts of Moscow, officials said Sunday.The Dugina.incausedSaturdayMoscowCommitteeInvestigativebranchfortheregionsaidthenightblastwasbyabombplantedtheSUVdrivenbyDariaThe29-year-oldwas
COLOMBO, AUG 21 (PTI): Sri Lanka’s former president Gotabaya Ra japaksa has the right to return to the country, but he must be tried for allega tions of misuse of funds since he does not enjoy legal immunity, main Op position party Samagi Jana Balawegaya has Rajapaksa,said.73, fled the country and resigned last month in the face of a popular uprising against his government for mis managing the island na tion’s“Gotabayaeconomy. Rajapaksa is a citizen of this country and he has the right to return to his motherland. No one can deny this right. However, he should be tried for the allegations of misuse of funds,” Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) CEO Ajith P Perera was quoted as saying by the Daily Mirror newspaper. The Sri Lanka’s Con stitution allows privileges to former presidents, in cluding personal security and an office with staff. “There was a case against him for allegedly spending state funds for his parent’s monument. It is possible to make him face the trials and penalise him if is found guilty, as he does not enjoy a legal immunity as per the constitution,” Perera said while addressing the media on Friday.SJBhas accused Ra japaksa’s government of misusing the USD 1 billion loan facility extended by India as part of its finan cial assistance to help the cash-strapped island nation deal with its unprecedented economicAccordingcrisis.to a media report on Thursday, Ra japaksa may apply for a US Green Card as he was eligible to apply due to his wife Loma Rajapaksa be ing a US citizen. In 2019, Rajapaksa renounced his US citizen ship to contest the 2019 presidential andingwithwhonecessitiessixUSD22andtoeconomicmidstcrisis.ofeconomyrectingnowNovemberofPresidentwasRanilVeteranpolls.politicianWickremesingheelectedthestop-gapforthebalanceRajapaksa’stermuntil2024.Wickremesingheistaskedwithresurtheisland’sailinghitbyabalancepaymentandaforexSriLankaisintheofanunprecedentedcrisisthathasledsevereshortagesoffuelotheressentials.Theislandnationofmillionneedsabout5billioninthenextmonthstocoverbasicforitscitizens,havebeenstrugglinglongqueues,worsenshortagesofessentialsfrequentpowercuts.
I SLAMABAD, AUG 21 (IANS): Former Pakistan Prime Minister and Paki stan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan has been booked for openly hurling threats to senior most police officials, a fe male judge, the state insti tutions and bureaucracy during his public speech in Islamabad’s F-9 park. Imran Khan has been booked under the AntiTerrorism Act (ATA) for challenging judicial and law enforcement authorities un der offence, which falls un der Sector 7 of the terrorism act. “The State of Pakistan has lodged the complaint against the former PM for his extreme step against the judiciary and law enforcers, creating hurdles in perform ing their duties,” confirmed a source.During his public ad dress in Islamabad rally, taken out to protest against arrest of his chief of staff Shahbaz Gill, Imran Khan on Saturday night minced no words in giving out clear threats to police authorities, especially ID and DIG po lice, warning them of con sequences over the alleged mistreatment of Shahbaz Gill. “IGP and DIG! We will not spare you,” said ImranImranKhan. Khan also lashed out at Additional Ses sions Judge Zeba Chaudhry for keeping a biased position against PTI. Judge Zeba Chaudhry is the same judge who gave a two days physi cal remand order of Shah baz Gill and directed police authorities to move him to Adiala Jail, “Zeba!Rawalpindi.Beready, we will take action against you,” said Imran Khan giv ing an open threat to the female judge of dire conse quences. The statements of Imran Khan prompted the state to spring into action and lodge a First Investiga tion Report (FIR) against Imran Khan and book him under the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA).Pakistan Interior Min ister Rana Sanaullah said, “Imran Khan would be an swerable for threatening the judiciary and police officers, adding that he would be dealt with according to law.” Sources within the gov ernment also hinted towards constitution of joint teams of police commandos for the arrest of Imran Khan at the earliest.“The government is holding legal consultations on whether to file a separate case against Imran Khan for his provocative speech. This is all happening in continu ation from a campaign after Lasbela incident when six army officers were martyred followed by Gill’s attempt to incite army ranks to go against their top command and then Imran threatening a women judge and police officials for performing their duties as per law,” said Rana Sanaullah.
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Somali forces end hotel attack; 21 killed
OFFICE OF THE GOVERNMENT PRIMARY SCHOOL MONGSENBAI MOKOKCHUNG: NAGALAND ESTD: 2012 GRATITUDE With a deep sense of gratitude, the Government Primary School Mongsenbai acknowledges the financial aid provided by our respected MLA, Shri. Metsubo Jamir (Rural Development & SIRD Minister) towards the much-needed renovation of the school building.
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James Swan, the UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Somalia, urged that the victims and their families be provided both immediate and longer-term support, Xinhua news agency reported. “The UN stands in solidarity with all Somali victims and survivors of terrorism as they heal from their trauma, along with their families and communities,” Swan said in a statement issued in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, to mark the International Day of Remembrance and Tribute to the Victims of Terrorism. He said the voices of survivors must be heard and ac knowledged, and their rights upheld, noting that the week end’s terrorist violence in Mogadishu is a stark reminder of just how vital this is.
The school was in shambles and your timely financial support towards the school has indeed enabled a favourable teaching-learning environment for our teachers and students. Words do not seem enough to say how much we appreciate your support-both words of encouragement and financial assistances. Every member of the school (students and teaching staff) appreciates your donation and continued support. We remain ever indebted to you for your generosity. We thank God our Almighty for your life and for the service that you render to the people. God Bless you.
‘About Us’ performing in one of their tours. Winners with their photography.
T he Art Club of Nor man Putsure Col lege, Chümoukedi ma organized a photogra phy competition on August 19, in commemoration of “World Photography Day”. Gracing the occasion as the special guest, manag ing director, Pixel Stories, Atsen Murry, encouraged the students by sharing about his life experiences. He revealed that initially his interest was towards music but eventually he discovered his talent in photography and is now a professional photogra pher. Having been a part of about 400 weddings as a photographer, he stated that photography is a good career choice in the current scenario.Heemphasized that their present generation should let go of the ‘hive mentality’ and should not follow the crowd. But in stead discover one’s talents and choose suitable paths. He encouraged the students to have an eye for discover ing the dire needs of the society and to turn it into an opportunity to benefit the society as well as the individuals. He emphasized on the importance of finan cial knowledge and also encouraged the students to start investing early. He motivated the students to spend at least one hour in a day to learn something new. He further enumer ated basic photography tips to the students and also graciously judged the photography competition. Shibu Majumdar was de clared the winner of the competition, while Bwenlo Mesung and Yanchang Y Chang bagged the second and third position respec tively. The winners were awarded cash prizes and certificates.Theevent was offici ated by the students of the Art Club. Iloka Shohe was the host of the event. The invocation was pronounced by Achano, which was fol lowed by welcome speech by Litenkokla and a special song by Tsukian Lamhe ing. The event concluded with a vote of thanks by Orenvungi.
‘About Us’ to release ‘Right Now’ MV worldwide
gust 23 release is attract ing quite an interesting review from overseas’ viewers. One may check out the bands Instagram/ Facebook pages for fur ther information. It was revealed that the band, currently is working on their second album, which is expected to be released by 2023 end. However, little or no in formation is shared so far by band“Thismanagement.hasbeenquite a memorable journey so far and I hope that our audience will enjoy our music” hoped the manager. While thank ing all its fans for their support during the tour, the manager appealed to its fans to continue supporting them and ap pealed everyone to view the upcoming release.
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db-892/22 C ommemorating the “World Photography Day” and “World Tourism Day” 2022, the pho tography on tour exhibition is to be hosted in all the eight capital cities of all the North Eastern States of India as well as in the capital city of India –New Delhi. It is a month-long exhibition tour from August – September, which will be hosted in various Schools, Colleges, Universities, Visual Art Galleries as well as during the First Nagaland Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Investment and Banking Con clave 2022 at NBCC Conven tion Centre, Kohima from August 22 –“Photography23. on Tour” is titled “A Walk Into A Fad ing Heritage” by Donindra Yengkhom, Fading Heritage. An ethnography documentary photography exhibition tour. Fading Heritage, is a notfor-profit media production house based in Dimapur. Donindra Yengkhom is the founder-cum-managing direc tor of Fading Heritage. The media house is a pan North East India initiative cover ing all the eight States in the North Eastern region. It is an ethnography documentary project undertaken among the many indigenous and tribal communities of North East India.“A Walk Into A Fading Heritage” is a tour where many legendary stories from across the villages of North East India find listeners through a series of photo essays depict ing the many facets of “Our People, Our Place and Our Culture”. The tales of which have emerged out of Morungs, out of peoples’ bravery, and out of lands that are enchanted by the diverse cultural heritage and festivities which is fight ing the wave of modern-day evolution of urban living in a cosmopolitan society. Cultural heritage plays a pivotal role amongst many tribal and indigenous com munities particularly in the North Eastern States of India.
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‘Photography on Tour’ exhibitionis to be hosted in all NE state capitals Norman Putsure College Chümoukedima celebrates ‘World Photography Day’
A fter a brief hia tus, post ‘Rock on Top’ tour, India’s melodic hard rock band ‘About Us’ are back in the reckon ing much to the joy of all its fans. In a press communiqué issued by its manager K Edward Ngullie informed that the band’s record label will be re-releasing the label’s first music video “Right now” on August 23 thatonalbumdio)2022.forbands“Ourvideo‘Gimmethatworldwide.ItalsoinformedthelabelwillreleaseGimme’musiconSeptember14,Fairyland”(TheacousticversionJapan)onOctober13,Rockontop(Auandtheband’sdebutwillbereleasedNovember11,2022.ThereleasestatedtheteaserforAu
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Correspondent KOHIMA, AUG 21 (NPN): Kohima Dis trict Basketball Associa tion (KDBA) launched the team jersey at a pro gramme at Vivid Lounge, here on LaunchingSunday. the jersey, Nagaland Basketball As sociation, vice president, Medozhatuo Rutsa lauded Kohima District Basketball Association for their ef forts in trying to promote sportspersons in its own capacity.He observed that while there were many talented players in the State who has the potential to ex cel but failed owing to lack of proper infrastructure or support.He opined that State government should pro vide them with equal op portunity as it was promot ing the music industry. He pointed out that with a little support and encouragement from the government many players
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Members of NBA and others at the launching of team jersey on Sunday. (NP)
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Kohima District Basketball Association launches team jerseyLeeds stun Chelsea 3-0
LONDON, AUG 21 (AGENCIES): Leeds United continued their impressive start to the new season by smashing Chel sea 3-0 at Elland Road. Jesse Marsch’s outfit remain undefeated from their opening three Premier League matches after col lecting three big points on Sunday.They picked up their second home win of the season by beating their old rivals.Leeds opened the scoring in comical fashion when Brenden Aaronson pounced on an Edouard MendyHemistake.tappedhome from close range after intercept ing theRodrigogoalkeeper.doubled his side’s lead after guiding a brilliant header into the back of the net from a wonderful Jack Harrison free-kick.That’s now four goals in three games for the Span iard as he enjoys a prolific start to the new campaign. Harrison then got himself on the score-sheet in the second half after poking the ball home from closeItrange.went from bad to worse for the Blues as Kali dou Koulibaly was sent off late on after picking up his second yellow card. Leeds move to second in the table, level with Tot tenham on seven points. As for Chelsea, they’ve dropped points for the second consecu tive game following their 2-2 draw against Spurs last weekend. At this early stage, Thomas Tuchel’s side remain in the bottom half of the table.
Oleksandr Usyk celebrates with his team after winning his fight against Anthony Joshua. (Reuters) time representing a country fighting for its existence after a Russian invasion while Joshua was battling for his boxing future. Usyk appeared comfortably ahead as the final bell rang at the King Abdullah Sports City Arena but the American judge surprisingly awarded the fight 115-113 to Joshua. The British and Ukrainian judges decided 115-113 and 116-112 to Usyk. The victory took the 35-year-old’s professional record to 20 fights undefeated while Joshua, 32, suffered a third defeat in what could prove a watershed in his ca reer. Joshua, who had held aloft the Ukrainian flag with Usyk as they waited for the decision in what seemed an acceptance of defeat, then had an uncharacteristic melt down.He took two of the belts, dropping them as he left the ring and headed for the dressing room before turning around and stepping back between the ropes to take the microphone and address the crowd. “Usyk is one hell of a fighter. That’s just emotion,” declared the Briton. “For this guy to beat me tonight, maybe I could have done better but it shows the levels of hard work he must have put in, so please give him a round of applause as our heavyweight champion of the“Iworld.wasstudying Ukraine and all the champions from your amazing country. I’ve never been there. What’s hap pening there, I don’t know but it’s not nice … under those circumstances he’s managed to become cham pion.”
JEDDAH, AUG 21 (RE UTERS): Oleksandr Usyk turned his sights on rival heavyweight world cham pion Tyson Fury on Sun day after beating Britain’s Anthony Joshua on a split points decision to retain his WBA, WBO, IBF and IBO belts in TheJeddah.“Rage on the Red Sea” in Saudi Arabia was a rematch of a fight in London in September, which the Ukrainian won on a unanimous decision to take Joshua’s belts, but with more intensity and emotion. The pressure was on both former Olympic champions, with Usyk this Usyk targets
Correspondent KOHIMA, AUG 21 (NPN): Zunheboto, Peren, Tuensang regis tered wins while Kohima and Mon settled for a goalless draw in their respective matches at the football even of the Nagaland Olympic and Paralympic Games 2022 at IG Stadium, here on Sunday.In the first match of the day, Zunheboto defeated Wokha 4-2. In a neck to neck battle at the second Nagaland Olympic football event match, Peren beat Dima pur 1-0 while Tuensang blanked Shamator 2-0 and in the last match of the day, Kohima and Mon settled for a goalless draw.
Fury after beating Joshua on split decision
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GUWAHATI, AUG 21 (IANS): Army Green de feated NorthEast United FC (NEUFC) 3-1 in their Group D match of the Durand Cup 2022 at Indira Gandhi Athletic Stadium, here on GreensSunday.skipper P.C. Lallawmkima, got a brace of goals while Somesh Kothari struck the other, in a game completely con trolled by the Army team. Dipu Mirdha got a conso lation goal for NEUFC in stoppage time. It was the Green’s first game of the tournament and they now join Odi sha FC (OFC) with a 100 percent win record in the Group. OFC had beaten NEUFC 6-0 in the first Group D game on Thurs day and Sudeva FC of Delhi had played out a 1-1 draw against Kerala Blast ers in the Bothsecond.teams began in a lively fashion in the first half but it was the Army men who were decisive
Durand Cup: Army Green beat NEUFC 3-1 in the middle. They drew first blood in the 9th min ute through their captain whose run was found per fectly by an overhead pass from Sochin Lallawmkima,Chhetri.prob ably in an attempt to reach out and receive, ended up chipping keeper Nikhil Deka beautifully from a closeTherange.Greens stepped up the pressure post the goal with the young NEUFC side finding it difficult to contain the con tinuous attacks. Sochin Chhetri and Roel Lepcha were brilliant in the middle while Gautam Singh was proving to be a menace all across the pitch. The pressure resulted in the second goal. Somesh started the attack from the right and cushioned the ball to an overlapping Chabin Rabha whose shot was saved by the goal keeper but the rebound fell kindly back to Somesh, who headed it into an emp ty net.The drinks break saw some rejuvenation from NEUFC as they created chances that could not be converted by Dipu Mirdha. It was just flashed by the Highlanders as the 2016 Champions continued to pile on the pressure for the rest of the half. The experience and physicality of the Army men were too much to handle for the youngsters from NEUFC as they con tinued to attack. The Greens increased their lead in the 55th minute through Lal lawmkima yet again, who deservedly bagged the Man of the Match. A link-up play from the left by Somesh and Gautam found the skipper unmarked at the far post, who just had to tap in. Army Green continued with possession dominance and created chances while the Highlanders could not produce any clear-cut open ings and all their attempts were straight at the Army keeper Puia, who did not have to work much to keep them away .A consolation goal did come the Highland ers’ way in injury time when Dipu Mirdha got to the end off a through ball from Al fred, who fluffed a couple of chances in the match himself. Army Green Foot ball Team will face Sudeva Delhi FC on August 25 and NEUFC will be up against the Kerala Blasters on Au gust 27.
MONDAY’S MATCHES Mokokchung vs Tseminyu. 7 a.m. Phek vs Niuland 8:30 a.m. Chümoukedima vs Longleng 6 p.m. Team Kohima before the match against Mon on Sunday. (NP)
Army Green and NorthEast United players in action. (Twitter/Durand Cup)
