4 Mar 2022

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Vol XXXII No. 87

DIMAPUR, FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 2022 Pages 12 ` 5.00

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CM inaugurates state-of-the-art Cardiac Centre

Staff Reporter

DIMAPUR, MAR 3 (NPN): Nagaland chief minister Neiphiu Rio Thursday, inaugurated what was billed as the best equipped state-of-the-art Cardiac Care Centre (CCC) health care facility with the latest offerings in cardiac diagnostic and therapeutic services at Christian Institute of Health Sciences and Research (CIHSR).

Speaking on the occasion, the chief minister said that the addition of the much-needed cardiac centre was a boost for the state’s healthcare service.

Rio said CCC with the state-of-the art healthcare facility in cardiac diagnostics and therapeutic services, would cater to not only people from Nagaland but also neighbouring states.

He added that out of a total population of around 1.27 billion in the country, around 45 million were suffering from coronary artery disease.

The chief minister also lauded CIHSR as being one

(L) Neiphiu Rio speaking at the inaugural programme (R) a view of the Cardiac Catheterization lab. (NP)

of the best hospitals in the State, if not across the entire North-eastern region. Rio noted that after the hospital (earlier called Referral Hospital) was handed over to CIHSR in 2005, it had grown by leaps and bounds in collaboration with Christian Medical College (CMC), Vellore and Emmanuel Hospital Association (EHA) and the state government.

He also appreciated the entire CIHSR family for their outmost dedication

Govt has received FSL report on Oting incident, says Rio Staff Reporter

DIMAPUR, MAR 3 (NPN): State chief minister Neiphiu Rio on Thursday informed that the state government has received the Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) test report of the Oting incident Talking to media persons on the sidelines of the inaugural of the cardiac care centre at Christian Institute of Health Sciences and Research, Rio said that the report would be submitted to the court.

Asked if the report would be made public, he remarked that once the report was submitted to the court, it would automatically become public.

The chief minister, on Wednesday, had also informed the media that report of the special investigation team (SIT) set up to probe the Oting killings can be made public once the Central government gives permission to prosecute the accused persons.

While informing that the state government had received the SIT report, Rio said SIT will file a case for prosecution of the accused persons in the incident. “The SIT will now file a case for prosecution of the accused persons in the incident. It will require the permission of the Government of India and once it is done, the investigation report will be in public domain,” Rio said.

and work towards serving the people of the State, especially during Covid-19 pandemic.

Rio advised CIHSR to provide training to government nurses and other medical staff on how to take proper care of patients and on hospital maintenance.

He further suggested the institute to carry out more tree plantations, maintain roads in good condition with proper drainage and grow hedges along the roads

JCCV protest kept on hold DIMAPUR, MAR 3 (NPN): Joint Co-ordination Committee of Villages (JCCV) for Dimapur district has decided to put on hold the proposed protest against the “forceful merger” of Dhansiripar subdivision and some villages.

JCCV convener LK Swu and co-convener Tsithrongshe said the decision was made following the request of the Home department. Reminding that the deadline to rectify the December 20, 2021 government notification had ended on February 28, JCCV said it cannot wait for an indefinite period to get a positive response from the government.

JCCV said it was prepared to take extreme steps to make the government understand the public desire.

in the campus. He assured assistance from Road & Bridge and Forest departments in this regard.

The chief minister also urged upon CIHSR to establish a medical college, as many Nagas had to study medicine outside the State and even abroad.

In this regard, he cited the case of a few students studying medicine in Ukraine, who had to be evacuated due to the Russian-Ukraine conflict.

He said “If CIHSR comes up with a medical College, it will be a huge relief for those wishing to pursue medical studies in our State”. He said it would not only benefit Nagaland, but also the neighbouring states.

He also informed that the State government was trying its best to start a medical college in Kohima and that though infrastructure development was not a problem, yet the project was still struggling with the management of the hospital.

CIHSR’s cardiologist Dr Avitso Leigise, who will head the centre, informed that the super-specialty unit is among the best equipped cardiac centre in North East with some of the latest equipment and interventional machine. The centre has a Catheterization lab for Angiogram and Angioplasty, pacemaker support, 2D and 4D echocardiogram, Transesophageal Echocardiogram (TEE)-EPIQ 7C, Cardiac Stress Testing, 24 and 48 hours Holter Monitoring (Cont’d on p-8) etc.

German Cup: Leipzig storm into semis SPORTS, PAGE 11

Top Russian general killed in Ukraine MOSCOW/KYIC, MAR 3 (AP/ REUTERS): Maj. Gen. Andrei Sukhovetsky, the commanding general of the Russian 7th Airborne Division, was killed in fighting in Ukraine earlier this week.

His death was confirmed by a local officers’ organisation in the Krasnodar region in southern Russia. The circumstances of his death were not immediately clear.

S u k h ove t s k y, w h o was 47, began his military service as a platoon commander after graduating from a military academy and steadily rose through the ranks to take a series of leadership positions. He

Foreign fighters arrive to assist Ukraine

Maj. Gen. Andrei Sukhovetsky

took part in Russia’s military campaign in Syria.

He was also a deputy commander of the 41st Combined Arms Army.

A funeral ceremony will be held in Novorossiisk, but further details weren’t immediately announced.

Ukraine demands CF, safe evacuation of citizens Russian and Ukrainian negotiators met on Thursday and Kyiv said it would call for a ceasefire and humanitarian corridors to evacuate its besieged citizens, as the war entered its second week with Ukrainian cities surrounded and under bombardment.

Ukrainian negotiator and presidential adviser Mikhailo Podolyak tweeted a picture of the delegations at a conference table in an undisclosed location. The Ukrainians

wore battle fatigues and winter jackets; the Russians wore suits and ties.

Podolyak said Ukraine would demand an immediate ceasefire, armistice and “humanitarian corridors for the evacuation of civilians from destroyed or constantly shelled villages/cities.” Neither side has suggested it was expecting breakthroughs after a first round of talks held in Belarus on Monday led to no progress.

(Cont’d on p-9)

Nagaland medical college project delayed

Aerial view of the Nagaland Medical College complex, Kohima.

Correspondent

KOHIMA, MAR 3 (NPN): Even after eight years have passed since laying of the foundation for the first medical college (Nagaland Medical College) at Phrie-

bagei in Kohima district and despite umpteen efforts, the project appears to have run aground. It may be recalled that the foundation stone was laid by chief minister Neiphiu Rio on March 3, 2014. Nagaland has two

centrally approved medical colleges- one in Kohima and the other in Mon while CIHSR in Dimapur, which has all existing facilities has not been considered.

A delegation from Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) visited the site on Thursday and reviewed the ongoing construction work in addition to the under-construction 400-bed teaching hospital.

Speaking to Nagaland Post, IQVIA senior consultant Amit Saini said the Department of Health & Family Welfare (H&FW) proposed construction of a 400-bed hospital in 2018 and submitted a detailed project report (DPR) to the Union Ministry of Health & Family Welfare.

During a visit to Na-

galand Medical College at NHAK in 2018, Saini said Union health secretary Preeti Sudan saw the space constraints for expansion and proposed the 400-bed hospital at the proposed medical college.

Subsequently, engineers from the ministry visited the site, reviewed and assessed the college and forwarded the project to JICA. (Cont’d on p-8)

NMC to be renamed

Meanwhile, it has been learnt that the H&FW department was mulling renaming the proposed Nagaland Medical College to Nagaland Institute of Health and Medical Sciences, though this could not be confirmed till the filing of this report.

Union minister Sonowal in Nagaland on 2-day visit Govt rectifies OM on appt of Group D posts

Correspondent

KOHIMA, MAR 3 (NPN): Union minister of Ayush & Ports, Shipping and Waterways Sarbananda Sonowal on Thursday arrived Nagaland on a two-day visit.

The minister is scheduled to inaugurate the Integrated Ayush Hospital at Razha Chedema, Kohima and virtually lay the foundation stone of the Integrated Ayush Hospital at Tuli, Medziphema, and Kiphire on March 4.

State minister of transport and civil aviation, rail-

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(L&R) Sonowal with Rio in Dimapur and Paiwang in Kohima, Thursday.

ways and land resources, P. Paiwang Konyak Thursday briefed Sonowal on the TizuZungki inland waterway project, which has been declared as National Waterway-101.

Paiwang said that the

DPR for the waterways project, prepared by M/s WAPCOS, was handed over to Sonowal during his meeting at Hotel Vivor, Kohima.

He exuded confidence that the ministry would sanction fund to take up the

first phase of the project.

Senior state officials, chief engineer of Inland Waterways Authority of India S.V.K Reddy was also present at the meeting.

Earlier, Sonowal was received by minister Kashiho Sangtam, advisor Tovihoto, DC Chümoukedima and other officials at Dimapur airport. Sonowal also met chief minister Neiphiu Rio at his private residence in Sovima before leaving for Kohima. The minister will return to Dimapur on Friday and leave the same day for Dibrugarh.

DIMAPUR, MAR 3 (NPN): In a corrigendum issued on Thursday, the State government has rectified the procedure of filling up Grade IV posts as laid down vide office memorandum (OM) dated October 26, 2017 and March 24, 2018. It also said that the March 24 OM states that those applications for recruitment to the posts should be called through open advertisement.

Following difficulties expressed by various departments on account of the fact that in many

The first foreign fighters have arrived in Ukraine to help defend the country against the Russian invasion, according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

“Ukraine is already greeting foreign volunteers.

(The) first 16,000 are already on their way to protect freedom and life for us, and for all,” he said in a video address posted on Facebook Thursday. The Ukrainian government has called for people around the world to join the fight against Russia.

cases Group D posts such as chowkidars, malis and peons were filled up by landowners or on compassionate ground and locally at the district, sub-division or village levels, the matter was considered by the cabinet in its meeting held on February 9 and 22, chief secretary J Alam stated in the latest OM issued on Thursday.

“In order to remove such difficulties, it is hereby directed that the condition of advertisement is dispensed with wherever such difficulties are faced

by a Department, as long as a fair and transparent eligibility criteria and process is followed and in all such cases approval of the Government is obtained,” Alam said.

The OM specified that all requirements as laid down by State government with regard to compassionate appointment, appointment of landowners as well as reservations for Backward Tribes and persons with disabilities (PwD) should be adhered to while following the instructions contained in it.

ASTD to revamp Old Naga cemetery

DIMAPUR, MAR 3 (NPN): Ao Senso Telongjem Dimapur (ASTD) has informed that the union would be taking up the project to redevelop and transform the Old Naga Cemetery. This was decided at the meeting held between ASTD and the Naga Council Dimapur on March 1, 2022.

Since the union has taken up the noble project to maintain and safeguard the Old Naga Cemetery at Lake View Colony Dimapur, ASTD has asked individuals/parties whose family members or relatives are laid to rest at the cemetery to contact the help desk that will be activated from March 4, for a period of 15 days, at Prayer House- Old Naga Cemetery for any concerns or inclusion to be made.

Panel on Naga issue to meet on March 7

DIMAPUR, MAR 3 (NPN): Parliamentary affairs minister and member secretary of the Parliamentary Committee on Naga Political Issue, Neiba Kronu has informed all members of the core committee to attend the meeting scheduled to be held on March 7 at 2 p.m. at Rhododendron Hall Police Complex, Chümoukedima.

State logs 1 fresh Covid-19 case

DIMAPUR, MAR 3 (NPN): Nagaland on Thursday recorded one fresh Covid-19 positive case while no deaths were reported it the last 24 hours. The fresh case was reported from Dimapur, taking the total and vehicles seized, drug caseload to 35414. seizures by intelligence collection and naka checking, identification and destruc- D I M A P U R , M A R 3 tion of illicit cultivation of (NPN): Nagaland Legislanarcotics crops, check on tive Assembly speaker and trafficking of pharma drugs chairman of the Business and awareness initiatives on Advisory Committee (BAC), drug abuse to the public Sharingain Longkumer has Further, to improve ef- convened a committee meetficiency, the police had also ing on March 9 at 11 a.m. initiated capacity-building to finalize the provisional measures, especially in use programme for the Budof IT systems both in human get Session, scheduled to resources and technological commence from March 19. support systems to aid the Therefore, all members have police personnel in detection been requested to attend the of drugs. meeting.

State Police force intensify drive against drug abuse, trafficking D I M A P U R , M A R 3 Sl. Particulars (NPN): Nagaland Police No. made huge seizures of drugs 1 Opium and psychotropic substances 2 Heroine in the past one year follow- 3 Brown Sugar ing an intensive drive across 4 Ganja the State to tackle the men- 5 Spasmo Proxyvon ace of drug abuse and drug 6 Alprazolam 0.5 mg 7 Nitrazepam trafficking. (See table) According to Nagaland 8 Nitrosun Police PRO, altogether 309 9 Cough Syrup persons were also arrested 10 YABA Tablets 11 Simplex and 217 cases registered.

Under the leadership 12 MI 52 of director general of police 13 Tramadol Capsules (DGP) T John Longkumer, rying out enforcement duthe police had been relent- ties to curb the menace of lessly and aggressively car- drugs and contraband goods

couriered by drug peddlers.

Most of the opioid drugs 91.722 Kgs. 358 Nos. came to Nagaland via Ma8353.52 grams nipur and exited to Assam 17551.78 grams 2 Nos. through Dimapur. In this 2549.711 Kgs. 1040 Nos. regard, Nagaland Police 218757 Nos. 2690 Nos. had been intensifying efforts 3060 Nos. 29331 Nos. to track the backward and 99 Nos. 289 Nos. forward linkages too, the 51 Nos. 467 Nos. PRO added.

3411 Nos. 246 Nos. Anti-drug drives were 135427 Nos 800 grams conducted in all the districts 6490 Nos. on drug enforcement activi169 Nos. 48.14 Kgs ties as well as pre-emptive 240 Nos. 9990 Packets actions, activities to target from the society and for Nagaland was a transit absconding drug traffickers the well-being of younger route for smuggling of drugs and bailees not attending generation. and psychotropic substances courts, disposal of drugs Total Seized

Sl. Particulars No. 14 Dicyclomine Hydrochloride & Paracetamol 15 Clonazepam 16 Jagril Spas Tablets 17 SPASM Care 18 Superdol Plus Capsules 19 Phenergan 20 Cycloyas 21 Buprenorphine Sublingual Tablets 22 Crystal Meth @ ICE (Methamphetamine) 23 Gold Biscuit 24 Foreign Made Cigarette (ESSE Light)

Total Seized

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EF&CC deptt observes ‘Intanki National Park Day’

DIMAPUR: Department of Environment, Forests & Climate Change (EF&CC) observed “Intanki National Park Day” at Forest Protection Camp, Intanki National Park (INP) on Thursday with chief wildlife warden, Vedpal Singh as special invitee.

A press release from INP informed that the programme was organised to commemorate the day Intanki Forest was declared as Intanki National Park and to create awareness about the significance of the only National Park in the state.

Fringe village communities who were main stakeholders were also invited to discuss ways and means to how Intanki forest could be managed better with involvement of local communities.

Speaking at the programme, Vedpal Singh encouraged the participants to see how fringe communities were benefited by taking the example of some well managed National Parks

Vedpal Singh with INP officials and representatives from various villages after the programme.

in the country such as the Corbett Tiger Reserve and Kaziranga National Park.

He also spoke about how environment played a crucial role in the overall wellbeing of mankind.

Director, Intanki National Park, T Aochuba acknowledged fringe villagers for the positive response on the initiative to observe the day as Intanki National Park Day. He said that the idea to observe Intanki National Park Day was conceived in order to take fringe communities on board for protection and development of

the only National Park of the state.

He added that this would be a yearly event where more activities and initiatives would be included in the programme.

During the programme, representatives from fringe villages requested the department to help the villagers in employment opportunities in the Park and overall development of the area.

They also shared their concern about prohibited activities in the park and assured cooperation with the policies of the department

for protection of the Park.

Earlier, the programme was chaired by forest range officer Medziphema, Florence Sangtam while invocation was said by BSI pastor, Beisumpuikam.

Altogether eight villages Old Beisumpui, Manglumukh, Jalukiezangdi, Jalukiekam, Jalukieram, Lilen, Phaijol and Beisumpuikam attended the programme.

It may be mentioned that the day also coincided with “World Wildlife Day 2022” held on the theme “recovering key species for ecosystem restoration”.

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EBRC training held in Kiphire Correspondent K I P H I R E M A RC H 3 (NPN): DMA Samagra Shiksha Kiphire organised the Block Level Training for School Management Committee (SMC) and School Management & Developments Committee under EBRC Kiphire block was held at EBRC hall, here on Thursday.

Welcoming the gathering, district education officer (DEO) Kiphire, Deenabandhu Panda emphasised on community participation.

He said that without community participation, the school may only earn a failure. As children yearn for quality education, collective responsibility by teachers and community leaders such as SMC and SMDC should be involved, he stated.

Deenabandhu also requested the gathering to select SMC & SMDC members who were sincere as the failure and success depended on the said community.

He further appealed to the gathering to put their best effort to build quality education in their respective schools and villages.

Meanwhile, special officer for Inclusive Education

DEO Kiphire, Deenabandhu Panda speaking at the training programme. (NP)

(IE) Samagra Shiksha Nagaland, Vilvinu who delivered the keynote address said that the training was mainly to focus on new education system in Nagaland. She said that people saw a “lot of lacking in school development” and therefore, requested SMC and SMDC to use Communitisation Act judiciously for the improvement schools.

The special officer also said that school was for students and teachers and not for contractors. In this regard, she asked the community leaders to choose the right place for convenient of students and teachers in time of civil development.

and give all efforts in order to come out successful in the upcoming examinations.

While extending its best wishes to all the students who would be sitting for the upcoming HSLC and HSSLC examination 2022, the federation asked all concerned citizens to extend its cooperation and maintain a conducive atmosphere throughout the examination process.

ZYF(N) flays summons issued to members DIMAPUR: Zeliangrong Youth Front (ZYF) Nagaland said it was anguished over the summon issued by Jalukie Phumling Youth Organization (JPYO) to its president Josiah Zeliang and Pauriagumbe, an unemployed social activist, for seeking information under RTI regarding land compensation under package 2 of National Highway 129A. I n a p r e s s n o t e, ZYF(N) media cell asked JPYO president Azuna Hiakha and general secretary Keheiku Nring as to why it had served such notice and under what motive.

ZYF(N) asked JPYO to provide the provision of the RTI Act 2005 which bars/prohibits a citizen of India to lodge RTI to acquire information.

While advising JPYO to fully read and understand the provisions of the RTI Act 2005, ZYF(N) said it has resolved to initiate its own course of action if the situation further escalate.

It said a civil society organisation summoning RTI applicants to appear before them by serving show cause notice was completely in contrary to the RTI Act 2005.

As such, it said those individuals who had served the summon should tender unconditional apology to ZYF (N) failing which the front would be compelled to initiate its own course of action so that such vested individuals do not harass any organisation or individuals from performing its rights envisaged under the provisions of the law.

DIMAPUR: Indian Chamber of Commerce in association with Agricultural & Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA) organised programme on “Export Promotional Marketing Development of Organic Food Products from North East” on at Hotel Saramati, Dimapur on the theme “Governance for Growth”, on Thursday.

According to a DIPR report, principal secretary & agriculture production commissioner (APC), Y. Kikheto Sema said the region was blessed with all agro-climatic conditions and huge prospects of organic farming.

He said that the North East region had a total area of 18.37 million, out of which 5.5 million Ha was cultivated land.Kikheto however said organic farming covered only 3%.

He mentioned that APEDA being the forerunner for the organic sector in the country, immense progress was made in the past few years along with ICC. The APC informed that in organic AC market at Agri Expo, 235 MT i.e., 2.35 lakh kg of organic products

of vegetables were sold within a year, post-pandemic.

Farmer Hostel of 120 capacity at Agri Expo would be completed by the end of 2022 or early part of 2023 he informed.

He also disclosed that ginger was one of the best and huge production in Nagaland and that the Spices Board of India and the department had set a pipeline for ginger auction in Dimapur.

Meanwhile, joint director, ICAR Research Complex, Dr. Dipjyoti Rajkhowa said North East state was gifted with enormous resources, fertile land and rich bio-diversity, however, due to remoteness, marginality and inaccessibility up till now, sustain resources for economic upliftment were not met.

He said there was a need for strategic change in policies and approachable activities as a concern of hilly eco-system.

The farmers are facing the challenges of doing everything manually, not being aware of marketing, storage, or packaging, he pointed out.

Dr. Dipjyoti Rajkhowa said another concern was

certification mechanism, intervention of certification could export a large amount of production.

He mentioned that awareness should be of utmost strategy that needs to be implemented among educated youth and farmers.

During the technical session, resource persons were director, Department of Horticulture, Dr. E. Lotha; additional director, department of Agriculture, Nyenghong Phom; joint director, Industries & Commerce, Lipongse Thongtsar; joint director & HOO, MSME Di, ministry of MSME, Tali Longchar; senior field officer, Spices Board of India, Vevotalu Rhakho; senior marketing officer-in-charge (DMI), Tapash Bhattacharjee; regional head, Small Farmers Agri-Business Consortium, Santosh Das. Re presentatives of state and union governments, FPOs, progressive farmers, food processing entrepreneurs consumer organisations, organised industry buyers and experts policymakers conducted a brainstorming session during the seminar-cum-buyerseller meet.

DIMAPUR: Nagaland Handloom & Handicrafts Development Corporation (NHHDC) Ltd. Dimapur has informed that the “State Handloom Expo” would be held at Urban Haat, Dimapur, March 11-24.

In a press release, managing director Zakabo V. Rotokha has informed interested cooperative societies, Non Governmental Organisations, apex societies, Self Help Groups, etc., to apply at project cell, Nagaland Handloom & Handicrafts Development Corporation Ltd, Half Nagarjan, Dimapur along with ID cards issued by the corporation on or before February 8 during office hours.

Nagaland Handloom & Handicrafts Development Corporation has informed all participants to be COVID vaccinated and follow strict Standard Operating Procedures.

Stalls would be provided free of cost and lumpsum daily allowances would be provided to all the stalls.

Logos college observes 22nd Foundation Day

NSF appeals to power deptt Prog on export promotion of organic food

DIMAPUR: Naga Students Federation (NSF) has appealed to the Power department to ensure that stable electricity was provided across the state in light of the HSLC and HSSLC examinations.

In a press release, NSF vice president Atokiho Sumi and secretary education Medovi Rhi also appealed to all the candidates sitting for the exams, to work hard

Vilvinu also said that SMC/SMDC had the power to maintain school calendar, therefore the leaders and villagers should put their wisdom to function the school in their respective schools.

In the second session, the training was conducted by resource persons from Kohima where they imparted on school safety, participation of community, organising of mock during emergency, etc.

Similar training programme was also held at Pungro on Wednesday.

The programme was chaired by project assistant DMA Kiphire, L. Cholimong Sangtam.

NHHDC to organise state handloom expo in Dimapur

Students and faculty members of the college along with guests after the programme.

DIMAPUR: Logos College observed its 22nd foundation day at its campus, Sovima Razha Khel, Chümoukedima on March 1.

During the programme, founder president of Logos Ministries, Rev. Dr. Neikedozo Paphino addressed the congregation on the history and vision of the college where he highlighted about the humble beginning of its journey.

He reaffir med the emphasis of the ministry on the spiritual growth, evangelical practice, moral discipline and academic excellence.

In his speech, Sovima village chairman, Sebastian Zumvü encouraged the Logos community and stressed on the need of theological students to be involved not only in preaching ministry but also to render a hand

to the society in need by giving good education and health care.

He also pointed out that a good Christian should have the concern for the wrong things that were happening in the society.

He further concluded by saying that one should not remain a mute spectator and sit back without doing anything against corruption.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT “I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.”

2 Timothy 4:7

1 st DEATH ANNIVERSARY of Lt. PURTOSHI IMCHEN

Acknowledgement

Late Khriengulie Kenguruse

Born: 13.02.1950 Died: 20.02.2022 We, the family of Lt. T. Bendang Ao of Chuchuyimpang village, wishes to express our heartfelt gratitude to the families, friends, neighbors and well-wishers who stood by us following our loss. Your contribution made our loss more bearable. No amount of words are enough to thank everyone individually as it is beyond our reach but it is our earnest prayer that our Almighty God bless you all abundantly.

A special thanks to Eden Hospital Proprietor, Doctors and Nurses.

Loving wife, children, in-laws, grandchildren and relatives. mkc-74/22 K Y M C

04/03/2021 – 04/03/2022

It's been a year and not a day passes by when we do not feel your absence. It pains to know you are no longer with us, but we hold you close within our hearts and you will remain there until we meet again.

"Always remembered and deeply missed" dp-1015/22

From your loving wife, children, in-laws, grandchildren & family members

(10th April 1966 – 25th Feb 2022) “Although we loved you dearly, we could not make you stay.

A golden heart stopped beating, hardworking hands put to rest, God broke our hearts to prove to us, He only takes the best.”

We, the family members of our beloved father Late Khriengulie Kenguruse express our heartfelt gratitude to the churches, friends, relatives, neighbours, various unions and organisations, and wellwishers who visited our home, attended the wake service and burial.

For those who contacted us, travelled long distances, sent burial floral tributes and messages, we are truly grateful!

Your kind expression of sympathy and contribution in the form of prayers, finance, precious time and labour during our father’s illness till his last journey will always be remembered.

We regret our inability to thank each and everyone individually but it is our earnest prayer that our Almighty God bless you all abundantly! dp-1011/22

Loving wife and children K Y M C

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WEATHER FORECAST MARCH 4

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WSKH to conduct area tour of Western Sümi region DIMAPUR: Western Sümi Kükami Hoho (WSKH) held an executive meeting with area chairman and advisors at Western Sümi Hoho (WSH) office, Chekiye on Thursday.

WSKH president Phushito Aye and general secretary Shikheto Shohe informed that the house held a discussion regarding area tour of Western Sümi region from March 5-24.

WSKH tour would be carried out at 10 a.m at: Aqahuto area on March 5; East Dimapur, Highway area and Dimapur Sardar on March 7; Khaghaboto area on March 9 Aghünaqa area on March 12; Ato area on March 15; Kuhuboto area on march 19; Niuland area on March 22 and Sakipheto area on March 24. On WSH resolution passed on February 14, WSKH said “some individuals defying the WSH resolution released a press release against it”.

In this regard, WSKH a l o n g w i t h e x e c u t i ve members requested WSH to look into the matter and take appropriate action upon such individuals who were defying the Hoho’s decision.

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‘World Hearing Day’ observed in Nagaland DIMAPUR: Along with the rest of the country, Nagaland observed “World Hearing Day” on the theme “To Hear for Life, Listen with Care” on Thursday, to address the importance of safe listening as a means of maintaining good hearing across the life course.

The health department conducted screening camps at schools where medicines were also distributed.

Kohima: Office of the chief medical officer (CMO), Kohima along with Naga Hospital Authority, ENT department headed by senior specialist, ENT, Dr. Lozinu Peseyie observed World Hearing Day at Government Middle School, D. Khel Seikhazou.

A press release from the CMO office informed that while chairing the programme, primary teacher Melhouvonuo thanked the department for choosing their school to observe World Hearing Day. In her address, senior

Kohima

s p e c i a l i s t D r. L oz i nu Peseyie highlighted the importance of hearing and said that people who faced hearing loss tend to isolate themselves from the peer group.

She informed about WHO hearing impairment data and urged upon the students to come for screening as it was a preventable health issue.

D r. L o z i n u a l s o infor med the students that screening and free distribution of medicine

would be done.

Later, vote of thanks wa s p r o p o s e d b y M O ( AY U S H ) R B S K D r.

Medozhatuo Keretsü.

During the programme, students from Classes A-2 were screened.

Altogether, 63 students were screened and hearing problems were identified, out of which, 21 students were found with wax, nine were identified with conductive hearing loss, 12 students had hearing test of audiometry, wax was

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removed from six students and were called for a follow up at NHAK. The patients who required treatment were provided with free medicines, IEC materials more information on hearing loss programme.

The programme was attended by ZLO/nodal officer (NCD), Dr. Amenla Jamir, MO (RBSK) and staff, DPM and media officer.

Mokokchung: World Hearing Day was observed

Mad rush towards urbanisation: Rio Correspondent KOHIMA, MAR 3 (NPN): State chief minister Neiphiu Rio on Wednesday while stating that there was a mad rush towards urbanisation, said that the decadal urban growth in the State was 67.38%, which was double the national average of 31.18%.

Addressing the inaugural programme of the new office building of the Directorate of Municipal Affairs here on Wednesday, Rio said that even though there was a mad rush, many did not understand the concept of Urban Local Bodies (ULBs).

He explained that when there was heavy rush in towns, it was imperative that there should be proper regulations, including town planning and building by-laws, else he said the urban areas would become unliveable.

He recalled how Kohima town was once rated as India’s second most unliveable town, but it was ranked 27 recently, thereby showing tremendous improvement.

He mentioned that many changes had taken place in all towns, especially in district headquarters, while stressing that public awareness and participation had to go handin-hand.

Expressing concern over traffic congestion in the State Capital, the chief minister suggested the department to identify spaces where all localised events could be

held. Citing the instance of traffic jams throughout the town, he remarked that if markets were concentrated in one area, then citizens would have to rush to that particular area.

He also called for constructing farmers’ markets so that women vendors did not have to sit on the road side and where the farmers could bring their produce, sell and pay taxes for the facilities provided, which would ease traffic. He asked the department to identify government land, buildings or even buy land in this regard.

Urging municipal and town councils to develop assets, Rio directed the department to also work out a formula on how to use these else, he said these should be privatised to prevent them from becoming eyesores.

He also called for incorporating Naga designs and motifs in buildings, while hoping that the new building would boost the morale of employees and improve the working atmosphere.

He further asked the de par tment to work on waste management, improve cleanliness, enhance the liveability ranking and display proper signboards on roads.

He also suggested the department to ensure that old buildings were well maintained, identify a colour of the building so that different colonies could have different building colours

and constructed with Naga motifs, adding that would will be big eye-catcher for tourists while also preserve Naga identity.

In his address, Urban development & municipal affairs (UD&MA) adviser Dr Niekiesalie Nicky Kire hoped that with the inauguration of the new building, the officers and staff would be able to work more efficiently and effectively He also informed the gathering that the building had an emergency exit route for fire, lifts and ramps for differently-abled persons so that the office was more easily accessible for all sections of people.

Speaking on the occasion, additional chief engineer (urban engineering wing) Kevide Nakhro said the new three-storey building had 30 rooms, including a conference hall, mini conference hall, library and other utilities like public toilets, foyers, balcony, etc, in each floor.

He said the project was sanctioned under SPA during 2013-2014 at an approved cost of Rs 507.31 lakh with the funding pattern 90:10.

With incorporation of additional items, Nakhro said an additional fund of Rs 77.69 was required, making the overall cost Rs 585 lakh.

The building was constructed

by M/s K Nakhro and Sons.

UD&MA principal secretary I Himato Zhimomi chaired the programme.

at Gover nment Middle School, Alempang Ward, Mokokchung.

A press release from District Programme Management Unit (DPMU), NRHM Mokokchung informed that while chairing t h e p r o g r a m m e, D P O (NCD) Dr. Temsuyanger addressed the students and faculty members on the theme and the significance of observing the day.

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Imsongienla gave a short health talk on “deafness

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and hearing loss” where she stressed on the importance of hearing and educated the school on functioning of the ears, reasons leading to hearing loss, its symptoms and necessary prompt action to be undertaken. She also encouraged safe listening habits to safeguard against hearing loss.

The programme was followed by screening test and medical checkup for students. Altogether, 180 students were screened and treated with medical aid and

15 students were screened for hearing loss.

Longleng: In Longleng, World Hearing D ay wa s o b s e r ve d a t B a u t u n g G o ve r n m e n t Higher Secondary School.

A press release from CMO office informed that CMO Longleng, Dr. Obangjungla in her keynote address said that the day was observed every year on March 3 since 2007 with each year having different themes. She highlighted on having good hearing t h r o u g h o u t o n e ’s l i f e through ear and hearing care and common causes of hearing loss which could be prevented.

Medical officer (MO) D H L o n g l e n g , D r. P. Shamjei Phom also talked on impor tance of ear, hearing and safe listening.

Later, principal of the school, Henow Phom expressed gratitude to CMO Longleng for the taking initiative in observing World Hearing Day.

Training on banana extraction and handicraft

DIMAPUR: STINERT F C , S A S R D, N U, Medziphema campus along with department of agriculture, Mangkolemba sub-division under Mokokchung district and Nagaland State Rural Livelihood Mission (NSRLM) Longkhim block, Tuensang district collaboratively organised hands–on training programme on banana fibre extraction and basics on handicraft making on February 22 and 24 respectively.

The training was focused on creating awareness among the people to realise economic

values of banana plant and various avenues that could be generated through it.

Project assistant S T I N E R - T F C , D r.

Sentirenla Changiri emphasised on the importance of developing rich resources into e c o n o m i c ge n e r a t i n g activities.

Later, project assistant (STINER-TFC) Bikram Ghimere highlighted the importance and scope of vermi-composting.

A session on house hold generating avenues wa s a l s o c o n d u c t e d .

Altogether, 90 participants were sensitised through the training programme.

First ordained woman in NE celebrates 95th birthday DIMAPUR, MAR 3 (NPN): Rev Dr. Noksangchila Ao, the first woman to be ordained as Christian minister in the North East and the first Ao woman to receive an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree celebrated her 95th birthday at her residence in Chümoukedima, here, on Thursday.

The birthday celebration was a solemn and private affair with only her family members and a pastor present.

The programme was chaired by associate pastor of Chümoukedima Ao Baptist Church, Pastor Bendangsunep Imsong who read a passage from the Bible and thanked God for her long and fruitful life.

Speaking to Nagaland Post, when asked if she had a message for the youth o f N a g a l a n d , Rev D r.

Noksangchila Ao, “Most of our people are spiritually blind. The church should identify them and reach out to them.”

It may be mentioned that Rev Dr. Noksangchila Ao was born on March 3, 1927 at Yaongyimsen village K Y M C

Rev Dr. Noksangchila Ao at her 95th birthday programme on Thursday. (NP)

under Changtongya Tehsil and is a prominent Christian leader among the Nagas. She is the only surviving member of 13 siblings.

Some of the prominent awards bestowed on her are: Lifetime Achievement Award by the Department of Women Development, Nagaland for her pioneering role in guiding society and inspiring women; Dr. D.

W Mategaonkar Award for outstanding service to the healing ministry in 2007; Distinguished Senior Citizen Award by the government of Nagaland on International Day of Older Persons at Kohima on October 1, 2016; Distinguished Senior Citizen Award by the government of Nagaland on International Day of Older Persons at Dimapur on October 1, 2019.

The Girls Hostel at Christian Institute of Health S c i e n c e s a n d Re s e a r c h (CIHSR) at 4th Mile was also named after her as “Noksangchila Girls Hostel”.

Nonagenarian Rev Dr. Noksangchila Ao completed her primary and middle education from Government Middle English School in Chuchuyimlang and Government High School in Mokokchung. She completed matriculation from Golaghat Mission High school in Assam in 1954.

Soon after her matriculation, she pursued her Theological studies and completed Bachelors of Theology (B.Th) from Eastern Theological College in Jorhat, Assam in 1959; Bachelors of Religious Education (BRE) from

Leonard Theological College in Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh in 1966 and Masters in Religious Education (MRE) f r o m A n d ove r N ew t o n Theological College in Massachusetts, USA in 1976.

The honorary Doctor of Divinity degree was conferred t o h e r b y A c a d e my o f Ecumenical Indian Theology and Church Administration, Gurukul Theological College, Chennai.

Rev Dr. Noksangchila Ao served as a teacher in Impur Bible School, women evangelist and promotional secretary for ABAM, warden of Golaghat Mission Girls High school, junior lecturer at Eastern Theological College in Jorhat, associate women pastor at Police Baptist Church in Chümoukedima, chaplain of Christian Medical College and Hospital at Vellore, Tamil Nadu, and warden of CIHSR at 4th Mile, Dimapur.

She also held important positions in Nagaland Baptist Churches Council (NBCC) Nagaland Baptist Women’s Union (NBWU), Council of Baptist Churches in Northeast India (CBCNEI) and Northeast India Christian Council (NEICC).

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Mnp poll violence: houses, vehicles damaged Correspondent

IMPHAL, MAR 3: With two days left for the second and phase of polls on March 5, Manipur’s Thoubal and Kakching districts turned into battle ground after a spate of poll-related violence incidents were reported.

Though there was no human casualties reported, over a dozen of houses and vehicles were damaged across the two districts in the last 24 hours.

Miscreants suspected t o b e wo r k e r s o f t h e candidates in the fray also used guns and petrol bombs in what candidates termed as intimidations to their supporters.

In one of the violence incidents reported in Sugnu AC of Kakching district around 10.30 pm on Wednesday, suspected workers and supporters of BJP candidate from Sugnu AC smashed more than a dozen vehicles.

Reports said that two Gypsy vehicles, one each of

Vehicles damaged in pre-poll voilence incidents in Sugun AC of Kakching district.

Santro and Bolero, and as many as eight two-wheelers were smashed in the attack on polling camp and house of Congress candidate T Ranjit Singh. The attackers also allegedly fired several rounds of gun shots.

Congress candidate T Ranjit Singh, who is seeking re-election from the assembly constituency, strongly condemned the violence and urged people to shun violence and allow voters to use their franchise without any fear and intimidation.

In another poll-related violence, as many as five

houses reportedly belonging to workers of Congress candidates in WangjingTencha AC were attacked by guns, stones and other deadly weapons around 11.30 pm on Wednesday.

Strongly condemning the violence perpetrated by suspected BJP workers, advisor of the WangjingTentha Youth Congress P Sanatomba, appealed to everyone not to indulge in intimidation of workers and voters. “ L e t ’s a l l ow t h e voters to cast their votes in a free and fair manner.

Such kind of violence is

against democracy and is the attitude of being ruled by a dictator,” he added.

In yet another pollrelated incident in the same AC, two houses were damaged after miscreants hurled petrol bombs on them in the wee hours on Thursday.

Timely intervention by the villagers however saved the houses from being completely razed.

In Heirok assembly, three shops belonging to active workers of the BJP were vandalized by miscreants at Kakmayai village around 10.30 pm on

Wednesday.

The miscreants also re por tedly opened fire several rounds of guns in the air while carrying out arson.

Denouncing the vandalism and intimidation, villagers staged a protest on Thursday.

BJP candidate and sitting MLA Th Radheshyam who visited the damaged shops today blamed workers of his rival Congress candidate for the vandalism.

A public meeting after the protest also resolved to fix responsibility on the Congress if violence incidents occurred in the village further.

The second and final phase of the 60-seat Manipur legislative Assembly will take place on March 5 (Saturday) in which voting will be held in 22 Assembly segments spread across 10 districts of the state.

A total of 92 candidates are in the fray, with the ruling BJP fielding its candidates in all the 22 ACs.

NAGALAND POST, DIMAPUR FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 2022

ECI orders re-poll in 12 polling stations in Manipur on March 5 Correspondent IMPHAL, MAR 3: The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Thursday ordered fresh polls in as many as 12 polling stations across five constituencies in Manipur where polling was held in the first phase on February 28.

An official source in the state chief electoral officer (CEO) said that the re-poll in the 12 polling stations will be held on March 5, the same day polling in 22 Assembly constituencies will be held in the second and final phase of the state Assembly elections.

The 12 polling stations where re-poll will be held lie in Khundrakpam AC of Imphal East, Saitu AC of Kangpokpi, Thanlon AC, Henglep AC, and Singhat AC of Churachandpur district.The re-poll will be held on March 5 from 7am to 4pm. The proposal for repoll in these polling stations was recommended based

on facts and information received and re por ted from respective Returning Officers (ROs), the CEO said.

One of the main reasons for consideration of re-polling was connected to damage of EVMs by miscreants during and after the poll. The CEO further appealed to all electors of the polling stations to come out in big numbers to exercise their franchise and expressed regret for the inconvenience caused due the incidents aforesaid.

Meanwhile, the state police have arrested two persons in connection with the damage of the EVM on the poll day on February 28.

Churachandpur district police arrested a person identified as Onjalal Kipgen of K Phaijang village on Wednesday for causing damage to EVM with a hammer. He was the polling agent for Leinom polling station of Henglep AC. As per the FIR

registered at the district police, he damaged the voting unit around 3.45 pm while voting was in progress.

Such offence is in contravention to section 3 of the Prevention of Damage to Public Property Act, 1984, section 171-C, section 427 and section 506 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860, and is punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to five years and with fine, the state CEO said in a statement.

The other arrested by police in Kangpokpi district was identified as Manggoulun Haolai (19) son of late Lammang Haolai of Mollen of Ukhrul district.

He was arrested as per a complaint lodged by Returning Officer of Saikul AC for causing damage to VVPAT machines at around 11.40 am on the poll day at Leplen polling station by some unknown miscreants.

Investigation is also on to arrest the other coaccused persons.

‘BJP released funds to militants to influence Mnp polls’ 25 more Assam students arrive Six students from Arunachal

Jairam Ramesh

made a mockery of elections in 4 districts!”

Ramesh told reporters t h a t t h e o b j e c t i ve o f the instalment given on February 1 was to influence voting in Churachandpur and Kangpokpi districts, where elections were held on February 28.

He alleged that the payment on March 1 is to inf luence voting in Tengnoupal and Chandel districts on March 5.

Claiming that “the payment came from the home ministry and home

M’laya to release pending salaries of SSA teachers

Lahkmen Rymbui

SHILLONG, MAR 3 (PTI): M e g h a l aya E d u c a t i o n Minister Lahkmen Rymbui has assured teachers under the Sarva Siksha Abhiyan of releasing their two months’ pending salaries.

His comment came after educators had on Wednesday staged protests against the state government for not clearing their due salaries for five months from October last year.

A delegation of the Meghalaya SSA Schools Association met the minister and urged him to release their pending salaries.

Altogether, 12,541 teachers work in SSA schools across the northeastern state.

“I have assured that the government will try its best to release at least two months’ salaries of the teachers at the earliest,” Rymbui said on Wednesday.

According to him, around Rs 145 crore is required to clear five months’ salaries of the SSA teachers.

The government will clear the remaining three months’ pending salaries after the Centre sanctioned fund for the education scheme, the minister said.

He said the government will make efforts to resolve issues related to implementation of the SSA programme in the state.

Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan is the Centre’s flagship programme for the achievement of universalisation of elementary education in a time-bound manner.

department”, the Congress leader said it is “a complete violation of the Election Commission’s model code of conduct and is nothing but bribery, corruption.

“It shows the principles of the doubleengine BJP government.

These payments have taken place when the majority of state government employees have not received salaries for two months, mid-day meal cooks have not been paid for 18 months, majority of former state government employees have not received their pensions in the last six months and almost all pensioners have not received their retirement benefits.”

Despite attempts to contact Manipur government officials for reactions, comments were not readily available.

The allegation comes at a time when non -BJP parties were demanding

repolling in the districts of Churachandpur and Kangpokpi on grounds of booth capturing, destruction of EVMs at several polling stations and proxy voting by armed militant groups.

The Election Commission, during the day, ordered repoll in 12 polling stations of five assembly constituencies.

Earlier on February 23, Union Home Minister Amit Shah in a poll rally at Churachandpur had announced if the people voted for the BJP, the government would solve the Kuki insurgency issue On February 25, the Kuki National Organisation (KNO) had announced in a statement for those in “their operational area” to support BJP candidates.

Acting against it would be termed as going against the Kuki issue, the KNO had said.

in New Delhi from Ukraine

GUWAHATI, MAR 3 (PTI): Twenty-five more students from Assam stranded in war-tor n Ukraine have reached New Delhi, taking the total evacuees hailing from the state to 57, an official release said.

The students, evacuated by the Ministry of External Affairs, were received by officials of the Assam government at the airport.

The first batch of three students arrived late on Wednesday night, followed by ten others early on Thursday in three different flights while 12 others arrived later in the day, according to the release.

All the students have been taken to Assam House where they will stay till their air travel to Guwahati is arranged by the state

government officials.

The state government has a list of 212 persons from Assam stranded in Ukraine with the highest of 88 from Kamrup Metropolitan,17 from Morigaon and 10 from Kamrup.

Twenty-eight evacuated people have already returned to Assam which include 12 from Kamrup Metropolitan and three from Kamrup.

Meanwhile, Chief Secretary Jishnu Barua has directed the district administrations to reach out to the parents of those students who are still stranded in the war-ravaged East European country.

The Assam government is in constant touch with the Ministry of External Affairs to ensure safe return of all people from the state, who are stuck in Ukraine.

Hollongi airport ‘likely’ to be operational from Aug 15

File photo of construction of Hollongi airport under progress.

NEW DELHI, MARCH 3 (IANS): Centre on Thursday said that the Arunachal Pradesh’s Hollongi airport is expected to become operational from August 15.

The ‘greenfield airport’ in Hollongi is 15 km from the state’s capital Itanagar and is being developed by the Airports Authority of

India (AAI).

The airport is planned for operationalisation on August 15, the Ministry of Civil Aviation said in a statement, adding that the project, with an estimated c o s t o f R s 6 4 5 c r o r e, includes construction of airport pavements, airside

work, terminal building and city side works.

According to the ministr y, the proposed air por t is designed for operations of A-320 category of aircraft and future extension of runway by 500 metre length to cater A-321 type of aircraft.

Besides, the airport will

feature a terminal building that will be able to handle 200 passengers during peak hours.

“Equipped with eight check-in counters, the terminal building will have all modern passenger facilities,” the statement said.

“Development work is in full swing and almost 80 per cent of airside works is completed,” the ministry said.

F u r t h e r m o r e, t h e progress of construction of new interim terminal building is 30 per cent, it added.

As per the ministry, the terminal will be an energy efficient building provisioned with ‘Rain Water Harvesting’ system and sustainable landscape.

“The development work also includes construction of ATC tower cum technical block, fire station, medical centre and other ancillary works,” it added.

logs 14 Covid cases Multi-cr waterway project to be developed in Mizoram IArunachal TA NAG A R , M A R 3 two from Lower Subansiri

Union Minister of Ports and Shipping Sarbananda Sonowal reviewed ongoing projects in Mizoram.

AIZWAL, MAR 3 (PTI): A multi-crore inland waterway transport project would be developed across a 23km stretch on Mizoram’s Khawthlangtuipui-

Tuichawng rivers to cater to the needs of the southern districts, a senior official said.

The Centre has already sanctioned Rs 6.17 crore as

first installment of the Rs 22.93-crore project, he said.

The official said this at a meeting on Wednesday, where Union Minister of Por ts and Shipping

Sarbananda Sonowal reviewed ongoing projects in Mizoram. “... We must optimally utilise our rivers as economic, swift and ecologically sound means of transport. The economic potential of Mizoram as well as that of the northeast can be unlocked by developing our waterways and strengthening our logistical access to the world market,” Sonowal said.

He said the Centre is making efforts to improve coordination with Mizoram to develop inland waterway projects.

(PTI): Arunachal Pradesh on Thursday reported 14 new COVID-19 cases, two more than the previous day, with the tally rising to 64,453, a senior health department official said.

The death toll remained at 296, as no new fatality due to the infection was recorded in the past 24 hours, State Surveillance Officer Dr Lobsang Jampa said.

Twenty-one people recuperated from the disease during the period, taking the total number of recoveries to 64,065 people, he said.

Of the fresh cases, six were reported from Tawang,

and one each from West Kameng, Pakke Kessang, Le parada, Lohit, East Siang and Capital Complex Region, the official said.

T h e r e c ove r y r a t e among coronavirus patients in the state stood at 99.40 per cent, he said.

Ar unachal Pradesh currently has 92 active cases.

Over 12.64 lakh samples have been tested for the infection in the state so far, including 391 on Wednesday Jampa said, adding that the positivity ratio dipped to 3.58 per cent from 4.63 per cent the previous day.

arrive in New Delhi from Ukraine ITANAGAR, MAR 3 (PTI): Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu on Thursday said six students from the state, who were stranded in war-torn Ukraine, arrived in New Delhi, as part of the evacuation mission.

They were received by the state government officials at the airport in the national capital.

“Six Arunachali students who were stranded in Ukraine have just now arrived at the New Delhi Airport.

They were warmly received at the airport by the state govt officials,” Khandu said on Twitter.

Those who returned to India have been studying in various universities of the east European country.

The students will stay at Arunachal Bhawan in the national capital until they return to their homes, an official said, adding that arrangements are being made to bring them back to the northeastern state.

Khandu said the Centre is working tirelessly to evacuate Indians from Ukraine and the office of resident commissioner in Delhi has been reaching out to students who are stuck in the war-ravaged country.

The state government is coordinating with the Ministry of External Affairs for evacuation of the stranded students from Ukraine, the official said.

The administration has also given WhatsApp numbers and email ids, along with a web link for people, who are still stuck in the war-hit country, so that they can reach out to the authorities. “At least four more youths from Arunachal Pradesh are still in Ukraine,” the official said.

AFFIDAVIT

Regd. No. 202/14 Date: 5/7/2014 I, Mr. Vichongol, son of Viyietsal of Viswema village, presently residing at upper PWD Kohima, Nagaland, do hereby solemnly affirmed and declare as under:1. That I am a citizen of India, presently I am serving as Work Charge Fitter under the establishment of SDO Housing (PWD) Kohima.

2. That my correct name is Mr. Vichongol and father's name is Shri Viyietsal, which are recorded in all academic documents and other official purposes.

3. That, however, in my service promotion order my name and father's name are inadvertently recorded as Vichongol Khrei-o and my father's name as Tsabo Khrie-o which are bonafide mistake.

4. That, the name Vichongol and Vichongol Khrei-o are refer to one person, which is me and Viyietsal or Tsabo Khrie-o is my father's name.

5. That this affidavit shall remained a piece of legal document, proof of my names and father's name.

6. That the statements made in this affidavit are true to my knowledge, belief and nothing material has been concealed thereupon.

Signed and sworn before the competent court of law on this day the th 5 July 2014 at Kohima, Nagaland.

DEPONENT Notary Public

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IMPHAL, MAR 3 (PTI): AICC senior observer Jairam Ramesh Thursday accused the BJP-led government in Manipur of paying Rs 15.70 crore to some banned militant g roups under Suspension of Operations (SoO) to “ensure” the first phase of assembly elections in two districts on February 28 were “not free, fair and peaceful”.

An additional amount of Rs 92,65, 950 was also released on March 1 to influence the elections in the second phase on March 5, he alleged.

The Congress leader tweeted, “In a shocking violation of the Model of Conduct the Union Home Ministry & BJP State Govt in Manipur released ?15.7 crores on 1.2.22 & further ?92.7 lakhs on 1.3.22 to banned militant groups under Suspension of Operation(SoO). This has

GOVERNMENT OF NAGALAND

OFFICE OF THE DEPUTY COMMISSIONER TUENSANG : NAGALAND

NO.LR-2/2019-20/984

(GAB/LR Brunch)

Dated Tuensang, the 25th Feb' 2022

PUBLIC NOTICE

Whereas, this office has received related documents from District Land Record & Survey Officer, Tuensang for bifurcation of Site Permit No. 1109/TSG, Location at Old Medical 'A' Tuensang in respect of Shri. Thsapongse Sangtam and Shri. Yangrikokba.

Notice is hereby issued that objection if any, may be given in written within 30 (thirty) days time from the date of publication of this Notice by any claimant to the office of the undersigned, otherwise bifurcation of site will be taken up after the expiry of the above mentioned period/dead line.

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SD/- (Kumar Ramnikant) IAS Deputy Commissioner, Tuensang : Nagaland

IN THE COURT OF DISTRICT JUDGE DIMAPUR : NAGALAND

LOA : 12/2022

NOTICE (SEC. 278 OF INDIAN SUCCESSION ACT. 1925)

Whereas application under Section 278 of the Indian Succession Act. 1925 has been filed by Shri. Kesangulie Vupru, S/o Neizelie Vupru, resident of H.No. 211, Lane-5, Kuda Village "B" Khel, Dimapur, Nagaland for grant of Letter of Administration in respect of landed property of his brother Late Kedosie Vüprü, covered by : 1. Patta No. 106, Dag No. 104/225, Mouza No. 3, Measuring an area of 00B-01K-08Ls, Dimapur, Nagaland.

2. Patta No. 243, Dag No. 104/360, Mouza No. 3, Measuring an area of 02B-02K-13½Ls, Dimapur, Nagaland before this court.

Whereas 04th April, 2022 has been fixed for the hearing on the matter. Notice is hereby given inviting objection is any from the person having interest in the above named property to be furnished on or before the fixed date/ or appear in person.

Given under my hand and seal of the Court on this 02nd March, 2022.

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District Judge Dimapur, Nagaland

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Oppn trying to divide society for votes: Modi Cong rivals try to divide society on

JAUNPUR (UP), MAR 3 (PTI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi Thursday alleged the Opposition is trying to divide society for votes at a time when India needs to be strong to deal with “serious challenges” the world faces.

The possible reference to the war in Ukraine came during a poll meeting during which Modi also said the BJP’s victory in the ongoing Uttar Pradesh election is necessary to ensure the state’s journey on the path of development does not stop.

“The time is coming up with serious challenges for the whole world. So your vote is making India strong to deal with these challenges. On one hand, there are those who are busy dividing society for votes even at such times, while on the other side there are BJP and our allies who are devoting themselves wholeheartedly in the development of the country,” he said.

Taking a jibe at the opposition, he said that dynasts who only try to fill their ‘tijori’ (vault) can never fulfill the dreams of the poor. He claimed that voting in the state so far has

Narendra Modi confirmed the victory of the BJP alliance.

In the sixth phase of polling being held on Thursday, votes are being cast in favour of the BJP, the prime minister told the meeting.

“The BJP’s victory in the assembly elections is necessary because Uttar Pradesh is moving on the path of development and it should not stop now,” Modi said. “We have to ensure that the victory of the BJP is as grand as it was in 2017.”

Terming the previous Samajwadi Party government “mafiawadi” (those who help mafia elements), Modi said a BJP government was needed in the state to ensure Jaunpur is “mafia-free”.

Attacking the previous

Akhilesh Yadav government, the PM said, “Pariwarwadis’ (dynasts) can never fulfill the dreams of the poor. The way of these ‘mafiawadis’ to run the government is to loot Uttar Pradesh and crush the dreams of the poor. They never see your pain, your trouble.”

Referring to SP president Yadav, Modi said he used to send letters to the former Uttar Pradesh chief minister from Delhi, telling him time and again that the Indian government is giving money and “you can build houses for the poor”.

But they didn’t care about the life of the poor, the PM alleged “They had only one job to do -- fill their vault from

wherever they got chance.

They knew that Modi will ask for the account of money he is sending from Delhi and they will be caught. So they did not worry about the poor,” he said.

Under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana only one house was sanctioned in Jaunpur when Yadav was in power in Uttar Pradesh, Modi said, adding that in 2017 when the BJP government came, 30,000 houses were sanctioned here and 15,000 of them have already been completed.

Referring to encephalitis, a deadly disease that used to spread in the Purvanchal (east UP) region, he alleged dynasts left the Purvanchal to suffer the havoc of encephalitis But now a network of medical colleges is being created there, he said, adding the government taken “a very big decision” to reduce the fees for half of the seats in private medical colleges to bring them at par with that in government medical colleges.

“These dynasts had left the people of Purvanchal on their own. These people had tried their best to divide Uttar Pradesh on caste lines,

but the people of the state understood their designs and stood unitedly today.

The reason is clear --Niyat, Niti, Nishtha and Netritva’ (intention, policy, loyalty and leadership),” he said.

The BJP’s policy is that whatever schemes are made, they should reach every beneficiary and without middlemen.

He alleged that the people who are accused of burning the houses of Dalit families in Bhadethi village of Jaunpur are being blessed by the dynasts. “So the poor, downtrodden and backward classes need to be very careful with such people.”

On the Covid pandemic, the PM said, “Our government stood with you sincerely during the pandemic.

We sent money directly to the account of the poor.

When the poor, Dalit and backward families needed ration, we also started the scheme of giving free ration to all.”

He said that Covid vaccine was needed to protect everyone from coronavirus.

“So, we started a free vaccination campaign.”

Modi also attacked the Opposition on their stand on Covid vaccine.

caste, religious lines: Priyanka

S O N B H A D R A / CHANDAULI (UP), MAR 3 (PTI): Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Thursday accused rival parties of trying to divide society on the lines of caste and religion and said that due to this, people’s actual problems like inflation and unemployment are ignored.

Targeting the ruling BJP, she said it is the government’s duty to mitigate problems of the public but in Uttar Pradesh, the issue of stray cattle was created by the government’s policies.

Addressing a public meeting in Sonbhadra, Vadra said, “The elections are a time (for the public) to gauge which party should be brought to power to serve the people for the next five years. However, parties like BJP, BSP and Samajwadi Party try to divide society on the lines of caste and religion. Because of this, the actual problems of people like inflation, lack of jobs and lack of amenities are neglected.”

“The biggest strength in a democracy is vote, which can make or destroy

Priyanka Gandhi Vadra your future. Voters need to be aware and vote for people who are ready to work for you round the clock,” she said. The Congress leader said her party gave forest rights to tribals but now they are being forced to vacate their land using bulldozers.

She also mentioned the July 2019 Umbha massacre in which 11 tribals were killed and accused the administration and police of inaction.

Vadra blamed the policies of the Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath-led Uttar Pradesh government for the problem of stray cattle in the state. “It is the duty of the people in power to mitigate troubles of people but in UP, the problem of stray cattle was caused by the policies of the government. Our government in Chhattisgarh

has managed to resolve this issue,” the Congress leader said. Vadra said the BJP government did not provide jobs to people in the last five years and is only promising to do so now when the elections are here.

The BJP claims that it gives people free ration and deposits money in their accounts, she said.

“You need to understand the mindset that they (BJP) will never give you jobs. The government has not done anything to promote agriculture and small industries that generate a lot of employment. On the other hand, they didn’t even give government jobs in the last five years and are now promising you jobs,” she added. Vadra reiterated her party’s poll promises.

“We will solve the issue of stray cattle and provide compensation of Rs 3,000 per acre in case your crop is destroyed by stray cattle. We will buy sugarcane for Rs 400 per quintal. To generate employment for women, we will ensure 25 per cent reservation in recruitment for women in the police force,” she said.

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for Samajwadi Party for the Varanasi seat going to the poll in the last phase of assembly poll in that state on

March 7, had in reply said ‘Jai Hind’ after alighting from her vehicle, he said. “If a chief minister cannot be

Cong to form govt in U’khand with at least 40 seats : PCC PITHORAGARH, MAR 3 (PTI): The Congress on Thursday said it is going to form the government in Uttarakhand claiming it will win at least 40 seats in the 70-member state assembly.

“We are getting a minimum 40 and a maximum of 48 seats in the state with over 42 per cent vote share, 10 per cent more than what we got in 2017 elections,” PCC general secretary (organisation) Mathuradutt Joshi said here.

Out of the 29 seats of the Kumaon region, the Congress will get at least 18 seats while it will also get a major chunk out of 30 seats located in three districts of Dehradun, Udham Singh Nagar and Haridwar, he claimed.

“We are also doing well on seats located in the hilly districts of Garhwal including Uttarkashi, Pauri, Chamoli and Rudraprayag as people in these districts have voted for employment,” he said.

MVA devoted to fugitive don Dawood Ibrahim: Fadnavis

The Congress leader said the indicators which have emerged after the February 14 polling have shown that people have voted en masse for the Congress party.

“A f t e r t h e s e i n d i c a t o r s emerged, several BJP leaders have come to congratulate us, we are also getting feelers from senior bureaucrats in the state that Congress is forming government in the state,” said Joshi.

“Even pre-election indicators

favoured Congress party, as the gathering in Rahul Gandhi’s meeting was three times more than that the turnout at Narendra Modi’s in Dehradun. The gathering at Priyanka Gandhi’s rally was also spontaneous,” he said.

The Congress’ promises about removing unemployment, bringing down inflation and not letting the LPG cylinder price exceed Rs 500 appears to have worked in favour of the party, he said.

Directorate (ED) last week in connection with a money laundering probe linked to the activities of Dawood and his aides.

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Devendra Fadnavis MUMBAI, MAR 3 (PTI): Maharashtra Leader of O p p o s i t i o n D eve n d r a Fadnavis on Thursday alleged that the Maha Vikas Aghadi government was devoted to fugitive gangster Dawood Ibrahim, a key conspirator in the 1993 Mumbai blasts.

Speaking to reporters on the premises of Vidhan Bhavan here, Fadnavis claimed that there were enough documents to prove state minister Nawab Malik’s links with Dawood.

“The MVA government is devoted to Dawood Ibrahim. There are enough documents to prove Nawab Malik’s links with Dawood,” Fadnavis alleged, stating that the BJP will not let the budget session function till Malik is removed from the cabinet.

The BJP has been demanding the ouster of state Minority Affairs Minister Nawab Malik following his arrest by the Enforcement

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NEW DELHI, MARCH 3 (IANS): Over 53 per cent voter turnout was registered till 5 p.m. in the sixth phase of the Uttar Pradesh assembly polls, the Election Commission of India said on Thursday.

The Election Commission also said that 53.31 per cent of voter turnout figure was an approximate trend as the data from some polling stations takes time to reach.

As per the EC data, Ambedkar Nagar has registered 58.68 per cent, Balia 51.74 per cent, Balrampur 48.41 per cent, Basti 54.07 per cent, Deoria 51.51 per cent, Gorakhpur 53.86 per cent, Kushinagar 55.1 per cent, Maharajganj 57.48 per cent, Sant Kabir Nagar 51.14 per cent and Siddharthnagar recorded 49.83 per cent till 5 p.m.

The Ambedkar Nagar constituency has recorded the highest number of voter turnout (approximate trend) of 58.68 per cent till 5 p.m. while the constituency of Balrampur has recorded the lowest with 48.41 per cent so far.

The sixth phase of polling in 57 constituencies, spread over 10 districts, was held on Thursday. Over 2.14 crore voters were eligible to exercise their franchise. A total 676 candidates are in the fray.

PM Narendra Modi has named ‘Operation Ganga’ in election rallies in a bid to make it an election issue,” Chaudhary said. “I want to remind you all that three decades ago, lakhs of Indians were stranded in Kuwait during a war there.

They were taken to Jordan from Kuwait by buses and then brought to India by air.

The whole world had lauded our efforts and the evacuation found a mention in the Guinness Book of World Record also,” he said.

“No name was given to that operation then but now this evacuation has been given a name as it

Mamata Banerjee, Akhilesh Yadav and RLD Chief Jayant Choudhary during a public meeting in Varanasi, Thursday. (PTI)

given proper security in the (Lok Sabha) constituency of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, then we can well understand the situation in other parts of the country under BJP rule ... This is an insult to a woman,” Bhattacharya said.

The TMCP organised protest marches in various districts of the state against the incident. The black flag protest in Varanasi drew bitter criticism from TMC, the party which Banerjee founded and heads, in Kolkata on Wednesday.

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seems that those in power have an eye on the Ganga here (Varanasi) and on UP elections. They are not worried or bothered about Indians stranded in Ukraine,” the RLD chief claimed.

He added that he was hopeful that a “good name like Ganga” will ensure everything will be good in the end and the stranded Indians would return home safe.

Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav is holding a mega show of strength in Varanasi on Thursday through a joint rally with his alliance partners. Besides RLD, West Bengal Chief Minister and TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee has also joined him for the event. Keshav Dev Maurya of Mahan Dal, Krishna Patel of Apna Dal (Kameravadi), Shivpal Yadav of Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party, Sanjay Chauhan of Janwadi Party (Socialist), Om Prakash Rajbhar of Suheldev Bhartiya Samaj Party (SBSP), among others also joined the opposition programme.

kata on Wednesday afternoon, was on her way to the famous Dasaswamedh Ghat in the holy city to watch ‘Ganga Aarti’ when some people, alleged to be members of right-wing outfit Hindu Yuva Bahini, showed her black flags and chanted ‘Jai Shri Ram’ slogan.

“Mamata Baner jee was on a non-political programme when she was subjected to insults,” TMCP state president Trinankur Bhattacharya told reporters.

Banerjee, who is in Uttar Pradesh to campaign

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VARANASI, MAR 2 (PTI): Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) chief Jayant Chaudhary on Thursday claimed that the BJP-led Centre is trying to politicise the evacuation of Indians stranded in war-hit Ukraine in view of the Uttar Pradesh assembly polls.

Noting that the rescue mission of Indians from Kuwait three decades ago did not have any name, Chaudhary said here that the current operation in Ukraine has been named ‘Ganga’ by the government with “an eye on Varanasi and Uttar Pradesh polls”.

Speaking at a joint rally of SP alliance parties in Varanasi, the RLD president said the world is facing a troubled time at the moment and hoped global leaders understand the damage being caused to humanity due to the Ukraine-Russia conflict and work towards ending it soon. “I pray Indians stranded in Ukraine return to their homes safe.

There is a lot of show off.

KOLKATA, MAR 3 (PTI): The Trinamool Congress student wing Thursday held protests in Kolkata and other parts of West Bengal against showing of black flags to party chairperson Mamata Banerjee allegedly by supporters of a right-wing outfit in Varanasi.

The protesters of Trinamool Chhatra Parishad gathered in front of Presidency University many of them holding bowls of Ganga water before embarking on a march. Banerjee, after reaching Varanasi from Kol-

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Nagaland Post

Post-mortem

VOL. XXXII NO. 87 DIMAPUR, FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 2022

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Losing primacy

imapur is not only the commercial capital of Nagaland but also the gateway that is accessible from other parts of India by road, rail and air. Therefore, it is important that Dimapur grows economically as its population continues to grow. Since the mid-80s Dimapur City experienced a boom which catapulted it to the position as among the fastest growing cities after Guwahati City.

Unfortunately, the negatives have outweighed the positives. The boom was two ways- economic and criminal. It may be noted that this is not an exclusive phenomenon restricted to Dimapur; it exists in many other cities. Prices of every commodity has been on steady rise as a consequence and this is bad for business, economy and the people. Reams have been written about Dimapur’s infamous taxation cottage industry which have become deep rooted especially in the face of ever weakening of political will. As commented earlier, the overbearing manner in which multiple taxations are imposed, have also led to flight of business from Dimapur and which is gradually reducing the city into a sub-outlet of nearby towns of Assam. The other is heavy influx of migrants from within and outside, which has made Dimapur city to become densely populated with over two lakh inhabitants in the urban area alone and pushing basic civic amenities to the stretching point. The idea of extending development of the urban city by shifting of the office of the DC Dimapur to Chümoukedima months ago, has been permanently shelved due to protests. This also exemplifies the manifestations of unwillingness in sticking to decisions taken. It may seem like an appeasement policy but in reality, it could be a lack of clarity in decision making. The over inclination on holding consultations on crucial issues may sound impressive as they are billed as ‘wide consultations’ but it is debatable if most have achieved the goal. To be helpful towards achieving the desired goal, those involved are expected to be have in depth knowledge of specific subjects so as to have a meaningful discussion. The result of such consultations is to arrive at decisions but in reality, they fail as consensus are elusive and understandably so. There is need to change the environment with a long term objective. For progress, crime prevention should be at the top of the agenda, which criminologists consider in two senses. The first involves the ability of criminal law enforcement to make citizens law-abiding by deterring potential offenders and preventing further lawbreaking by apprehending criminals. The second refers to the efforts to correct fundamental social conditions and personal maladjustments which are assumed to be the “seed bed” of crime. Looking at the problem from a wider perspective, criminalisation of society has unfortunately destroyed peace and progress. The fight against growing crime is unending and it requires not only the police but also the judiciary, administration, media and various CSOs to attempt a joint effort to reverse the ugly trend. To fight crimes, like fighting a war, means that the frontline soldiers are given the best in terms of men and materials – to improve their ability, facility and mobility.

DailyDevotion His Commission to Us Feed My sheep. —John 21:17

This is love in the making. The love of God is not created— it is His nature. When we receive the life of Christ through the Holy Spirit, He unites us with God so that His love is demonstrated in us. The goal of the indwelling Holy Spirit is not just to unite us with God, but to do it in such a way that we will be one with the Father in exactly the same way Jesus was. And what kind of oneness did Jesus Christ have with the Father? He had such a oneness with the Father that He was obedient when His Father sent Him down here to be poured out for us. And He says to us, “As the Father has sent Me, I also send you” (John 20:21).

Peter now realizes that he does love Him, due to the revelation that came with the Lord’s piercing question. The Lord’s next point is— “Pour yourself out. Don’t testify about how much you love Me and don’t talk about the wonderful revelation you have had, just ‘Feed My sheep.’ ” Jesus has some extraordinarily peculiar sheep: some that are unkempt and dirty, some that are awkward or pushy, and some that have gone astray! But it is impossible to exhaust God’s love, and it is impossible to exhaust my love if it flows from the Spirit of God within me. The love of God pays no attention to my prejudices caused by my natural individuality. If I love my Lord, I have no business being guided by natural emotions— I have to feed His sheep. We will not be delivered or released from His commission to us. Beware of counterfeiting the love of God by following your own natural human emotions, sympathies, or understandings. That will only serve to revile and abuse the true love of God.

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The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

~ Lawrence Durrell

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A retired Russian general’s criticism may signal a larger problem for Putin

etired Russian Colonel-General Leonid Ivashov, the head of the All-Russian Officers Assembly, has gone public with a statement that calls for Russian President Vladimir Putin to resign over the confrontation involving Ukraine.

To remove any doubt as to his message, Ivashov, 78, followed the public statement with an interview on a liberal Russian media outlet, Echo Moskvy, insisting that he was speaking in the name of the assembly of retired and reservist Russian officers which he heads.

The collective statement was ironed out in internal discussions, Ivashov said, with some of the retired military men arguing for a softer line on Putin but others demanding even tougher words.

Ivashov, speaking in measured language, explained that active officers understandably are not free to speak their minds, and he made note of the fact that he was speaking to the small audience of EchoMoskvy.

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Ivashov is not some Putin critic or Russian dissident in the mold of a Boris Nemtsov or an Alexei Navalny. In the absence of an active marshal of the army — such as Marshal Georgy Zhukov, the celebrated Red Army general of World War II — a colonel-general would be the second-highest rank in the Russian army.

Ivashov served as a senior aide to the country’s defense minister and as the ministry’s chief of general affairs before the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991; he subsequently held other high-ranking military posts and commands before retiring — or, some say, being sacked by Putin — in 2001.

Those roles included numerous negotiations with NATO and the U.S. military.

Since then, he has written extensively on Russian military matters and geopolitics, from the perspective of a pro-Soviet, hardline nationalist. He even tried unsuccessfully to file as a presidential candidate in 2011. He has

Gen Leonid Ivashov criticized Putin frequently and has called repeatedly over the years for Putin to resign.

His may be the lone military voice speaking out publicly against Putin’s actions regarding Ukraine, but it is a significant voice, nonetheless.

As Michael McFaul, a former U.S. ambassador to Russia, tweeted: “This is a big deal.

At one time, General Ivashov was one of the most respected (and hawkish) leaders in the Russian [ministry of defense].

Russian generals don’t usually get involved in public policy

debates, especially ones like Ivashov.”

To be clear, Ivashov believes that NATO is a hostile power, but his experience has taught him that the NATO/U.S. threat is under control and no external threat is imminent from the Western powers.

The massive buildup of Russian troops on the Ukraine and Belarus borders, therefore, is not to deal with a threat from the West.

Rather, it is to divert attention from the internal health, demographic challenges, living-standards collapse and pervasive corruption that the Russian citizenry is suffering under the mismanagement of an incompetent Putin regime.

Ivashov points out that the Putin model has in no way demonstrated its superiority to Ukraine, to Crimea, to the two “separatist” Ukrainian republics or to anyone else. Under Putin, Russia has become an international “pariah,” he says. Its annexation of Crimea is not recognized by credible nations, and Russia is

Kukis are also stakeholders

he State of Nagaland was created on 1st December 1963 under the 16th Point Agreement as the 16th State of the Indian Union for the 16th Tribes of Nagaland ”.

The recent statements, analogy and assumptions that the state of Nagaland has only certain number of recognized Tribes and Stakeholders has come at the cost of hurting the sentiment and distorting of our rich historical background and of the existence of various tribes recognized by the Government of India as per the Constitution of India. The existence of such Tribe Indigeniuous to its Land and history and as old as the existence of the very concept of our Naga Nations and its movements is the “ KUKI ” Tribe of Nagaland. Kuki’s are also a Stakeholder within our state of Nagaland irrespective of how minor or lesser populations we may be, as a Stakeholder history has shown in our struggle for self-determination along with the rest of our other Naga brothers.

The Kuki’s of Nagaland has settled and living within the Naga Hills before and even after its attainment of its Nagaland statehood. The existence of Kuki are documented and historically noted even during the time of John Butler, who took a census of the Kuki’s of Naga Hills in 1872 and also drew a map, where there were 25 Kuki villages, with a population of 2599 people in 21 villages (4 villages not accounted for).

The Census of India 1901, also shows that there were about 26 Kuki villages with 128 persons per village approximately which brings the Kuki population in the Naga Hills to 3328.

The beginning of the 20th century saw the emergence of Naga Nationalism which led to the formation of Naga Club in 1918. The real birth of the Naga ‘Nation’ was ushered by the formation of the Naga Club where we the Kuki were part of it.

On 10th January, 1929, the Naga Club submitted a memorandum-SIMON COMMISSION- which sought that the Naga Hills be left out within the reformed scheme of India but be directly under the British government, Naga Hills district was declared as ‘Excluded Area’ in the Government of India Act.1935. Among the signatories from the six tribes, Lengjang Kuki (Head Dobashi) was one. It was not by accident that Lengjang Kuki signed for a Naga political document.

He was citizen of Naga Hills, a Naga in the generic sense, a name which loosely connected the diverse Naga tribes. The Simon Commission which is the ‘Bed Rock’ on which Naga politics stands and has been our magna carta in formation of our struggle for identity, sovergnity and foundation for all other negotiations in the days to come of our Unique history and kindling our self determination to be a free Nation.

Kuki’s during the NNC Era :-

Lengjang’s contribution to the Naga Club and his legacy was continued by the Kuki’s of Naga Hills with the feelings of being a Naga Politically sharing the dreams and aspiration like their other Naga bothers of different Tribes. Paochung Kuki, Dr. Lenjalal Kuki, Onpao Kuki, Jangkhusei Kuki, Subedar Khupjalet Kuki etc continued where Lengjang left. Two leading Kuki social and intellectual stalwarts of the time- Seikhohen Kuki and Jangkhosei Kuki- were elected as members of the Kuki Tribal Council under NNC. Sir Akbar Hydari, the then Governor of Assam visited Kohima in 1947. He had long discussions with the NNC and the following tribes were present: Western Angami, Eastern Angami, Kuki, Kacha Nagas, Rengmas, Semas, Lothas, Aos, Sangtams and Changs. The result was the ‘Nine Point Agreement’ between the governor and the NNC. Seikhohen Kuki was a member of the first Naga delegation to meet Jawaharlal Nehru for Naga independence and was one of the founding members of NNC. When NNC was first formed, every Naga citizen was supposed to directly contribute towards it but only seven tribes namely Ao, Sema, Eastern Angami (Chakhesang), Angamis, Lotha, Rengma and Zeliang-Kuki contributed to it.

During the Naga Plebiscite on 16 May 1951, the Kuki leaders of the time like Onpao Kuki (President, Kuki Union), Paochung Kuki (Chief of Khaibung), Dr Lenzalal Kuki (Chief of Bungsang, father of late Seikhohen Kuki) and Subedar Khupjalet Kuki pressed their finger and took the lead amongst the Kuki people and mobilized its people within Nagaland in favor of Naga independence.

The Kuki’s were part of the Federal Army in the NNC initiated by stalwarts like Vomkhothang, president of KUC and Hemjangul, secretary of KUC, and Simson Haolai. The initial Kuki leaders in Naga Federal Army were Kailet Singson, Henkho Haolai, Paokhoseh Chongloi, Tonglen Singson, Haokhoseh Kholhou, Haokholet Kholhou, Padal Kuki, Jacob Doungel etc.

Under the Federal Government, Semas, Kukis and Rengmas were under one district under the Patkai state of ‘Nagaland’ and called it SE-KURENG taking the first syllable of the name of each tribe.

When the Naga People’s Convention (NPC) was convened and started having parleys with the Government of India for settlement, Jangkhusei Kuki became a member of the Drafting member to prepare a draft for the Naga Political Settlement. The NPC had asked the Zeliangs and Kukis to be represented as Zeliang-Kuki Tribal Council in the NPC. Finally, when the 16 Point Agreement was signed between NPC and Government of India, Thinuowholie Leigiese signed as a representative of ZeliangKuki. Lutjakai Kuki went on to become the Kuki member in

the Interim Body.

Kuki’s after Nagaland Statehood:The declaration of full statehood for Nagaland on 1st December, 1963 led to the dissolution of the Interim Body and fresh elections were held for the 45 member State Legislative Assembly.

The Nagaland State Legislative Assembly of 1964 included two Kuki Member -Langkam Kuki representing Ghaspani and Lalkholam Kuki representing Tenning. In the 1982 Assembly election, Henlun Singson won from Tening Constituency and was the sitting MLA/Minister till 1989. Henlun Singson was also inducted into the Council of Ministers with the status of Minister of State (Independent Charge-Forest Department) but ever since then after the pogrom and mass killing and uprooting of the Kuki’s from their Villages and land we could not marshal our tribe into organized entity from the 1990’s.

Kuki’s during the NSCN Era:In the early 1990s, a POGROM was launched against the Indigeniuous Kuki’s of Nagaland where hundreds of innocent Children’s, women and people were massacred all over Nagaland along with burning and uprooting of several villages and its people. Altogether 15 Kuki villages were either fully burned or temporarily Vacated, Worse than that was the large scale migration of Kukis from Nagaland to neighboring states, scampering for survival since NO ONE or TRIBE(s) came to our rescue in time of our dire needs, we were left totally isolated and abandon by our fellow tribesmen from Nagaland due to fear of death and destructions that has fallen upon us.

Till the early 1990’s, a considerable number of Kuki’s were still there in the Federal Army/NNC. On 12th August 1992- 12 NNC cadres were killed in Chalkot Village. Kuki’s were still supporters of NNC then but this incident shook their beliefs and security when the NNC could not protect themselves and the people who supported the organization, the Kuki’s of Nagaland decided to join the NSCN-K lead by stalwart like the present Advisor to Collective Leadership-GPRN/ NSCN-Chungkhojang Singson (C.Singson), Luna ChongloiKilonser-GPRN/NSCN, Col. Lenglam etc, In the NSCN(IM) it is lead by Paohao Kuki-Member Steering Committee, Haolim Kuki-Executive Steering Member etc and many cadres from all over Nagaland, wearing the insignia of Naga Army proudly in their Uniforms and swearing by the principle of Naga Nation as we proudly did way back from the day of Simon Commission to the era of NNC. Till date there are more than hundreds of Cadres both in the Civil and Army set up in various factions of our Naga Political Group walking shoulder to shoulder with our other Naga brethrens in our quest for a

widely viewed as a rogue state because of Putin’s “criminal policy of provoking war.”

Ivashov distinguishes between Russia’s highly trained professional officers’ ranks and the Kremlin’s military “elite,” headed by what he considers to be non-entities.

If Putin’s policies —designed only to solidify his internal power — indeed push Russia into a “catastrophic war,” he adds, it won’t be Putin’s Kremlin soldiers who pay the price; rather, it will be the professional officers and the tens of thousands of young Russian conscripts who will be killed or crippled in the fighting.

Adding to Ivashov’s concerns is his fear that Turkey could join with Ukraine in a military alliance if war does break out. That, of course, would be an entirely different ball game for the Russians to confront. Ivashov’s solution: Fire Putin if he can’t be forced to resign and, if necessary, put him in prison for his “criminal policy of provoking war.”

Of course, all of that is

final honorable and respectable solution.

Conclusions: The Kuki’s of Nagaland from the time of Naga Hill, formation of Naga Club, submission of Memorandum to Simon Commission, being part of the NNC, part of the Historical Plebiscite, the Naga People Convention, Interim Government and became members of the first State Legislative Assembly with 2 MLAs and till date we the Kuki’s of Nagaland continued to be part of our Naga movement in various capacities whether it might be in Civil or in the Army.

The Kuki’s of Nagaland has always considered ourselves as Politically Naga’s from the day of the formation of Naga Club and has Stood with our brothers and sisters through the Historical evolutions of our time in determination to achieve our freedom and sovereignty in whichever forms we –Naga’s-believed. The recent development of alienations and sidelining of the Kuki’s in various platforms of discussions and consultations within the state of Nagaland by our brothers -read Tribes and not considering us-Kuki’s-as NonStakeholders, in the threshold of another historical landmark has found ourselves abandon and alienated in our own Land in Nagaland. The Kuki’s of Nagaland has been part of our Naga Movement right from the start GO whether it may be in the erstwhile NNC era or in the era of the NSCN lead movement. Kuki’s had always considered ourselves Physically, mentally and by deeds as Politically Naga’s, to undermine the contributions and participations of the Kuki’s of Nagaland is as good as undermining our Naga National movement itself-we were neither Johnny come lately or hunger for power and positions, we contributed as per our beliefs and convictions for an honorable and self-determined rules for our Naga people from the time of the formation of Naga Club till date.

Last but not the least I would appeal to the present Government of Nagaland not to Discriminate, alienate and treat US like a second class citizen and consider us as Nonexistence within our own state, I also appeal to my Kuki people to Forgive the government and its Leaders/Parties who has plotted to discriminate us “for they do not know their own state history and vows taken under the Constitution”, I also pray that the Tears, Bloods, discriminations and disappointment of the downtrodden tribe like the Kuki do not fall on this Leaders or their families.

I humbly pray that the Government of Nagaland take a corrective measures and start treating us like a fellow Christian human beings and acknowledge our undeniable presence and consult us too along with other stakeholders in matter relating to the state of Nagaland.

Lun Tungnung, Social Activist, Dimapur, Nagaland.

highly unlikely to occur.

And yet, according to Ivashov’s account, he is speaking for a significant portion of Russia’s professional military, the one institution most trusted by the Russian people.

If his claim is true, then those military men, retired or still in uniform, must feel very strongly or else they would have remained comfortably quiet, enjoying their pensions and privileges, rather than incurring the wrath and inevitable punishment of Putin.

Putin undoubtedly will find a way to punish Ivashov for his outspoken criticism, and perhaps other members of the All-Russian Officers Assembly as well. But he cannot wipe out all those who believe what Ivashov has said. Nor can he afford to alienate his professional military.

It just may be that with all his saber-rattling and gamesmanship over Ukraine, Putin may have created an opposition that he cannot silence so easily.

Paul Roderick Gregory (As published in The Hill)

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iscussion on Merit and Demerit of liquor prohibition will be endless. But a verdict can be drawn out when the father and mother in a family can give their observation, a medical doctor in a hospital gives his or her opinion, school teachers give their views, leaders of principle give their wisdom, and department secretaries and directors give their wish as they want disciplined people and attendants of loyalty. It is easy to advice our children saying, “Do not drink”. But the best policy is to keep the killer away.

Disadvantage of Prohibition includes loss of revenue, porous of illegal trades, and mechanism failure of implementation. Saving young brain, vitality and prospect of youth is incomparably more important than revenue at the expense of human value. At this point, Church and civil societies are armless moral and social wings in process of implementation while the government can functionally create armed-mechanism including imposition of heavy fine, rigorous imprisonment, and punitive measures under a slogan of ‘Safe Generation’.

Sacrifice of Church Leaders In process of intensive dry fasting and prayer, several church leaders were hospitalized during the full three day Sit-in in Kohima, 1989. When our spiritual leaders advocated and demanded for total liquor prohibition, it was a vision given by God to save and protect the generation from destruction by liquor. The move and demand for prohibition was based on analysis of factors such as better spiritual health, mental and psychological liberation, better economic condition, welfare of youth education, family stability, and social forwardness and peace.

The NLTP is historically a prophetic voice with solidarity of both the Church and the state without disputed opinions. Prohibition is beautiful and has brought many blessings to the people. Therefore, we must rethink before jumping over to revocation of NLTP as it is a divine conviction. Rather, we must thank God for such historic sagacity as clean foundation of Nagaland.

Merit of Prohibition since the Act The NLTP brought immense advantage and blessing to the society since its enactment. To the glory of God, the scenario of prohibition reflected the image of Nagaland as a land of Christians who believe what the Bible tells us including sanctity of human bodies, solemnity of family and decency of society. The merit of prohibition has been obvious, including *Serenity of schools and educational centers with peaceful and conducive atmosphere and environment. *Hospitals have far less rate of casualties from drinking related cases. *Police stations have less liquor related discipline problems. *Our streets on Christmas and New Days are decent and not messy. *Parent-children and family relationship stand normal. *Progress in education, economy and spiritual shalom grew fast. *Civil societies and NGOs rendered service to check liquor out. *Prohibition, as a legal act, creates a general and psychological awareness.

The scenario of the above beauty will reverse once the prohibition is reverted. Civil society and the Church should not be a part in lifting the promulgated prohibition under any circumstance, if it is to be lifted against the will of the society and the spiritual body of the land. It will be a self-defeat and eating one’s own vomit since the Act of NLTP was passed in the name of God by the Church and Christians in leadership. The Bible warns us when it says, “Gaining the whole world gains nothing when life is lost” (Luke 9:25). Instead lifting or relaxing the prohibition, the Act of NLTP should be fully implemented with stringent measure.

Grass-Root Education The need is laying grass-root foundation to develop far-reaching vision towards healthy generation now and even souls yet to be born. Young generation must cultivate a conscience of ‘good and evil of liquor effect’ in their education system. Beyond many good literatures, the Bible teaches us about morality, sanctity, purity, honesty, modesty, peace and tranquility. It is high time, if not getting late, for Nagaland to legislate the use of Bible or Bible literatures in schools for Christian boys and girls as they have every right to know and uphold the foundation of their faith. Besides science, social science and other studies, building spiritual foundation in the lives of our children is fundamental as the Bible tells us to lead our children in the right way (Proverbs 22:6; Matthew 6:33). In the long-run, the subject of NLTP will become an irrelevant subject when our youth come to a full understating of side effect of liquor that destroys human vitality.

God bless Nagaland!

Rev. Dr. Phuveyi Dozo.

Reader’s note: Articles or letters published in any of the columns do not reflect the view of this newspaper nor that of the Editor in any manner.

Jaishankar briefs consultative panel on Ukraine New Delhi, Mar 3 (PTI): The opposition stands united with the government, opposition leaders said on Thursday after External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar briefed the consultative committee of his ministry on Russia’s attack on Ukraine and the evacuation of Indians from the war-hit nation.

During the meeting, which was attended by nine MPs from six parties, including Congress senior leader Rahul Gandhi, the opposition members broadly supported the government’s stand of abstaining from voting in the UNSC on a resolution deploring Russia, sources said.

“Just completed a MEA consultative committee meeting on developments in Ukraine. A good discussion on the strategic and humanitarian aspects of the issue. Strong and unanimous message of support for efforts to bring back all Indians from Ukraine,” Jaishankar tweeted.

Thanking leaders for their participation, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said,”a national consensus on the importance of dialogue and diplomacy.”

Talking to reporters after the meeting, Congress leader Shashi Tharoor said,”we all are united.”

Later tweeting about t h e m e e t i n g, T h a r o o r

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar with Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) officials pose for photos after conducting a consultative committee meeting. (PTI) said,”Nine MPs attended from six political parties.@ INCIndia MPs present were @RahulGandhi, @AnandShar maINC & myself.

Frank discussions took place in an amicable atmosphere, a reminder that when it comes to national interests we are all Indians first and foremost.”

According to those present in the meeting, Rahul asked about the geopolitical impact of Russia’s attack on Ukraine and if what Russia is doing in Ukraine can become a template for China in its dealings with India, to which Jaishankar responded emphatically that “India is not Ukraine”.

Gandhi also raised the issue of increasing proximity between China and Pakistan and its impact on India.

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tion at the UN on Ukraine, some MPs including Tharoor expressed concern over the government’s stand especially which was mentioned in its first two speeches in the United nations, sources said.

Describing the meeting as “excellent”, Tharoor thanked Jaishankar and his colleagues for a comprehensive briefing and candid responses to the questions and concerns of members.

This is the spirit in which foreign policy should be run, he tweeted.

The meeting of the 21-member committee lasted for more than two hours and came amid opposition criticism of the government’s handling of the Ukraine crisis– evacuation of Indians and the UN vote.

Apart from being critical of the government’s

evacuation efforts, Tharoor had also raised questions over India’s abstention in voting against Russia at the

UNSC. “Our stand has been that we do not support invading other countries and regime change through violence and war… After our abstention, many regretted that India had placed itself on the ‘wrong side of history’,” Tharoor tweeted last week.

Shiv Sena MP Priyanka Chaturvedi described the meeting as “very good” and said, “we were well briefed and stand united with the government.”

“Attended the Consultative Committee meeting chaired by Hon Minister, @DrSJaishankarji. Foreign Secretary @HarshShringla

Scindia says IAF, Indian carriers to bring back 3,726 people in 19 flights Thursday

The IAF and Indian carriers will operate 19 flights to bring back 3,726 Indians from Ukraine’s neighbouring countries to India on Thursday, Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia said.

Under Operation Ganga, eight flights of the IAF, Air India and IndiGo will operate from the Romanian capital Bucharest to India on Thursday, he said on Twitter.

The Indian Air Force (IAF) is using its C-17 military transport aircraft for this evacuation operation.

India has been evacuating its citizens through special flights from Ukraine’s western neighbours such as Romania, Hungary and Poland as the Ukrainian airspace has been shut since February 24 due to the Russian military offensive. The minister said two flights of IndiGo will depart from Romanian city Suceava and one flight of SpiceJet will leave from Slovakian city Kosice on Thursday.

The IAF, Go First and Air India will operate five flights from Hungarian capital Budapest to India on Thursday, he said, adding IndiGo will operate two flights from Polish city Rzeszow to India the same day.

Student relieved to be back home from Ukraine; worried about others stranded

Union Minister for Minority Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi receives Indian nationals, who have been safely evacuated from Ukraine. (PTI) MUMBAI, MAR 3 (PTI): After spending nearly a week in transit while trying to move out of Vinnytsia in war-hit Ukraine and a snow storm on the Romanian border, medical student Shoaib Salim Attar is finally relieved to be back home.

But, he is still worried about scores of other students waiting to return to India from Ukraine.

“It’s God’s grace that I could make it,” Attar (21), who left Vinnytsia on the night of February 24, after Russia launched a military offensive in Ukraine, told PTI. He landed in Mumbai on Thursday in a special flight from Bucharest.

A third-year student of the Vinnytsia National Medical University, Attar had on February 22 booked a ticket for February 27 to fly back home to India.

On February 22, Russia had announced the recognition of Luhansk and Donestk as independent states, the rebel held territories of Ukraine As per Attar, who hails from Bengaluru in neighbouring Karnataka, the university’s dean then asked the students not to leave, saying “look, there is peace outside”.

“Although the Indian embassy in Ukraine issued advisories, they were of little help,” the student said.

The Indian Embassy asked the Indians to leave only if it was absolutely necessary, he said.

“In Ukraine, the universities require 100 per cent attendance. The university also did not allow us to leave. When we expressed our apprehensions that there may be an attack

on Ukraine, the university administration thought we wanted virtual classes,” he claimed.

By then, Attar had decided to leave the country.

“We took special care to book a ticket from Laviv, a city near the Poland border, so that even if a Russian attack takes place, we would be safe. But, then we got the message from the airlines that the flight has been cancelled,” he said.

Later, the Ukranian government shut down its air space, crashing hopes of taking a flight from the country. That’s when the battle started for Attar and many like him.

After the attack on Ukraine began on February 24, Russian aircraft started hovering the skies around Vinnytsia.

“There would be sirens

Modi interacts with students who returned from Ukraine Delhi riots: Court reserves order on Khalid’s bail plea

Pastor thrashed, forced to chant ‘Jai Shree Ram’ pastor alleged that on February 25, a group of men harassed him and forced him to chant ‘Jai Shree Ram’ when he was on his way to work after meeting one of his friends.

Tet alleged in his complaint that the men snatched his Bible and tried to tear it, the police said, adding that the pastor was also allegedly punched and kicked.

“They snatched my bag which had valuables and the Bible. They tried to tear it but could not. They accused me of conducting religious conversions forcefully. They punched me, kicked me and forcefully took me in their car, saying they were taking me to Maidan Garhi police station. They also threatened to break my arms and legs,” he alleged.

The pastor was allegedly taken to Fatehpur chowk where the men tied his hands with ropes and started punching and kicking him again on the roadside, the police said.

“Around 100 people were standing there as mute spectators. No one came to rescue me. They made videos and watched me being thrashed and assaulted. But no one came to help. They also tried to instigate the students who were returning from school to chant “Jai Shree Ram” and beat me up. This went on for around 45 minutes,” he alleged.

Tet alleged that he somehow managed to escape after the ropes on his hands loosened.

tests against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA), 2019, and the National Register of Citizens (NRC).

Besides Khalid, activist Khalid Saifi, JNU students Natasha Narwal and Devan-

gana Kalita, Jamia Coordination Committee members Safoora Zargar, former AAP councillor Tahir Hussain and several others have also been booked under the stringent law in the case.

Umar Khalid -- Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) -- in the case for being the “masterminds” of the February 2020 riots, which had left 53 people dead and over 700 injured. The violence had erupted during the pro-

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The incident took place on February 25 at South Delhi’s Fatehpuri Berri area but the pastor, Kelom Tet, filed the complaint two days later at the Maidan Garhi police station, they said.

In the videos of the purported incident, a group of men can be seen surrounding the pastor and heckling him.

Tet, who has been residing in south Delhi’s Asola for the last 18 years, recalled that he was targeted by another unknown group 15 years ago at Sanjay Colony here.

“Based on the complaint, we have lodged an FIR against unknown persons under sections 365 (Kidnapping or abducting with intent secretly and wrongfully to confine person), 323 (Punishment for voluntarily causing hurt), 341 (Punishment for wrongful restraint) and 34 (Acts done by several persons in furtherance of common intention) of the Indian Penal Code and an investigation is underway,” said Harsha Vardhan, Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police (South).

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NEW DELHI, MAR 3 (PTI): A Delhi court on Thursday reserved its order on the bail plea of former JNU student Umar Khalid in a case of a larger conspiracy in connection with Delhi riots during February 2020.

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and hail from various parts of Uttar Pradesh, official sources said.

The students shared their experiences with Modi, who is on a tour to the state as part of the BJP’s campaign for the assembly polls.

The Prime Minister represents Varanasi constituency in Lok Sabha.

The government has launched “Operation Ganga” to evacuate Indian citizens, mostly students, from Ukraine which has been attacked by Russia.

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Meanwhile, the dollar index, which gauges the greenback’s strength against a basket of six currencies, was trading 0.23 per cent higher at 97.63.

On the domestic equity market front, the 30-share BSE Sensex ended 366.22 points or 0.66 per cent lower at 55,102.68, while the broader NSE Nifty declined 107.90 points or 0.65 per cent to 16,498.05.

Global oil benchmark Brent crude futures surged 2.59 per cent to USD 115.85 per barrel. Officials from Russia and Ukraine are likely to hold their second round of talks in Belarus on Thursday.

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MUMBAI, MAR 3 (PTI): The rupee declined by 14 paise to close at 75.94 against the US dollar on Thursday, pressured by surging crude oil prices amid intensifying conflict between Russia and Ukraine. Persistent foreign capital outflows and subdued domestic equity markets also affected market sentiment, forex dealers said.

At the interbank foreign exchange market, the rupee opened strong at 75.76 against the American dollar but soon entered the negative territory as investors turned towards safe-haven assets. During the session, it swung between a high of 75.60 and a low of 75.98.

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Major export items from India to Russia include pharmaceutical products, electrical machinery and equipment, organic chemicals and vehicles.

In the past too, India had devised a mechanism to pay for imports from Iran, when sanctions were imposed on the Persian Gulf nation. The Russia-Ukraine war entered its eight day on Thursday, with fighting intensifying in Ukrainian capital Kyiv and other big cities.

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entities have to be processed by other mechanism rather than through the banking channel, sources added.

SBI operates a joint venture in Moscow called Commercial Indo Bank Llc, where Canara Bank is another partner with 40 per cent stake. The bank has not responded to e-mail seeking comment on the matter.

Russia is one of biggest suppliers of defence products and equipment to India mostly under government-to-government contract. Bilateral trade between India and Russia stood at USD 9.4 billion so far this fiscal year, against USD 8.1 billion in 2020-21.

India’s main imports from Russia include fuels,

H&FW Department would apply for National Medical Council (NMC) accreditation by June this year, which would be followed by the council’s inspection. If everything was found satisfactory, admission for the first academic session would start by mid-2023.

It may be also recalled that the government had earlier announced that academic session would begin by 2020-21.

Moanaro attributed the delay in completion of the college to Covid-19 pandemic that adversely affected the construction work despite putting all efforts for early completion.

She hoped that the college infrastructures would be completed by 2022 end, p r ov i d e d f u n d s we r e released on time.

The visiting delegation included JICA India’s principal development specialist Aditi Puri and JICA India representative Rio Ohguchi.

It may be recalled that, chief minister Neiphiu Rio, after several impediments, had stated during the 20212022 budget session that the first medical college would begin its academic session from 2022-23.

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NEW DELHI, MAR 3 (PTI): State Bank of India, the nation’s largest lender, has stopped processing transactions of Russian entities that have been sanctioned by the West over Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, sources said.

To effect this, SBI has issued a circular as it fears that any transaction with entities or sectors under sanction will invite sanction on it as well, sources said.

No transactions involving entities, banks, ports or vessels appearing on a US, European Union or United Nations sanctions list would be processed irrespective of the currency of the transaction, they said.

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(From p1) T h e r e a f t e r, S a i n i mentioned that the Japanese government had approved conducting a feasibility study in MayJune this year by sending a team of experts. Saini said the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) was already considering approving loan for the purpose.

He disclosed that the proposed loan would include Rs 177 crore for civil works and Rs 72 crore for medical equipment, while showing interest to fund Power and PHE departments.

E x e c u t i v e engineer, Er. Moanaro Longkumer informed this correspondent that so far five apartments, sports complex, administrative building, residences of medical superintendent and dean, boys’ and girls’ hostels and other external development were on the verge of being completed.

She said DPRs were already submitted to JICA and hoped that construction of the 400bed hospital would take off soon at the existing medical college site.

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reforms in the Special Economic Zone Act will provide a boost for exports.

Talking about reducing c o m p l i a n c e s, h e s a i d Common Spice Form and National Single Window System are examples where the industry is feeling the government’s developmentfriendly approach at every step.

The Make in India campaign is the need of 21st century India, and it gives an opportunity to show our potential, Modi said, adding that “we should work with full force to build a robust manufacturing base”.

India has to become self-reliant in the semiconductor segment as there is no choice and this sector has brought huge opportunities for Make in India and it is the need also for the country’s security, he noted.

Citing an example of iron ore, he said that the country would not gain anything from exporting raw materials.

“Manufacturers should see that the dependence of the country on the outside is minimised,” he said.

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for local’ goes well beyond buying ‘diyas’ on Diwali and the private sector should push the factors of ‘vocal for local’ and Aatmanirbhar Bharat in their marketing and branding efforts, the Prime Minister said.

“Take pride in the products your company makes and instil this sense of pride in your Indian customers as well. For this, some common branding can also be considered,” he stated.

Modi also highlighted t h e n e e d t o f i n d n ew destinations for the local products while exhorting the private sector to enhance spending on R&D and diversify and upgrade their product portfolio.

“The demand for millets is increasing in the world. By studying the world markets, we should prepare our mills in advance for maximum production and packaging,” he said, adding that new possibilities are there due to the opening up of areas like mining, coal and defence sectors and the industry should prepare a new strategy.

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importance of Make in India.

Positive factors like demog raphic dividend of young and talented population, democratic setup, and natural resources “encourage us to move towards Make in India with determination”, he said.

The Prime Minister asked the captains of the manufacturing sector to pick up some areas and work to remove foreign dependence on them.

Referring to his call for ‘zero defect-zero effect’ manufacturing, Modi said Indian products should not have any defect at all and in this competitive world, quality is the key.

“Aatmanirbharta is all the more important if we see

from the prism of national security,” he said, adding that manufacturing accounts for 15 per cent of India’s GDP, but there are infinite possibilities for Make in India and “we should work with full strength to create a robust manufacturing base in India”.

The Prime Minister also cited the examples of new demands and opportunities in sectors like semiconductors and electric vehicles where manufacturers should move with a sense of removing dependencies on foreign sources.

Similarly, areas like steel and medical equipment need to be focussed for indigenous manufacturing, he added.

He also pointed out the difference between the availability of a product and the availability of madein-India products in the market.

Modi expressed his dismay that many foreign products are supplied for India’s various festivals, which can be easily provided by local manufacturers.

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NEW DELHI, MAR 3 (PTI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said Make in India is the need of the hour and appealed to the industry to reduce dependence on imports and boost domestic manufacturing.

He urged the industry to take challenges and make efforts to cut imports of goods that can be manufactured in India.

“Today, the world is looking at India as a manufacturing powerhouse,” Modi said while addressing DPIIT’s webinar on ‘Make in India for the World’.

The Prime Minister added that the industry will have to maintain global standards and compete globally and it is not acceptable that a country like India ends up merely as a market.

He said that the Budget has many significant provisions for Aatmanirbhar Bharat and Make in India.

He pointed towards supply chain disruptions during the pandemic and other uncertainties to underline the critical

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Ukraine refugee count tops 1 million

KYIV, MAR 3 (AP): More than 1 million people have fled Ukraine following Russia’s invasion, in the swiftest refugee exodus this century, the United Nations said Thursday, as Russian forces pressed their assaults on the country’s second-largest city and two strategic seaports.

The tally the U.N. refugee agency released to The Associated Press was reached Wednesday and amounts to more than 2% of Ukraine’s population being forced out of the country in seven days.

The mass evacuation could be seen in Kharkiv, a city of about 1.5 million people where residents desperate to escape falling shells and bombs crowded the city’s train station and pressed onto trains, not always knowing where they were headed.

With a column of tanks and other vehicles apparently stalled for days outside the capital of Kyiv, fighting continued on multiple fronts across Ukraine.

A second round of talks aimed at ending the fighting was expected later

tial buildings.

A statement from the general staff of Ukraine’s armed forces didn’t address the strikes, saying only that Russian forces were “regrouping” and “trying to reach the northern outskirts” of the city. “The advance on Kyiv has been rather not very organized and now they’re more or less stuck,” military analyst Pavel Felgenhauer told the AP in Moscow.

A woman holds a child as she arrives with others at the At least 227 civilians station in Przemysl, Poland, Thursday. (AP/PTI)

Thursday in neighbouring Belarus — though the two sides appeared to have little common ground.

Britain’s Defense Ministry said Mariupol, a large city on the Azov Sea, was encircled by Russian forces.

The status of another vital port, Kherson, a Black Sea shipbuilding city of 280,000, remained unclear.

Russia’s forces claimed to have taken complete control of Kherson, which would be the biggest city to fall in the invasion thus far. Britain’s Defense Ministry said that was possible, though not yet verified. The mayor said there

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were no Ukrainian forces in the city — but he said the Ukrainian flag was still flying over it.

Overnight, Associated Press reporters in Kyiv heard at least one explosion before videos started circulating of apparent strikes on the capital.

Russia’s Defense Ministry said it had knocked out a reserve broadcasting center in the Lysa Hora district, about 7 kilometers (4 miles) south of the government headquarters. It said unspecified precision weapons were used, and that there were no casualties or damage to residen-

have been killed and another 525 wounded since the invasion began, according to the latest figures from the office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights. Earlier, Ukraine said more than 2,000 civilians have died, a figure that could not be independently verified.

The U.N. office uses strict methodology and counts only confirmed casualties, and admits its figures are a vast undercount.

UN says at least 227 civilians dead in Ukraine GENEVA, MAR 3 (AP): The UN human rights office says 227 civilians have been killed and another 525 injured in its latest count of the toll in Ukraine in the wake of Russia’s military invasion that began a week ago.

The office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights says the tally eclipses the entire civilian casualty count from the war in eastern Ukraine between pro-Russian separatists and Ukrainian forces in 2014 — which left 136 dead and 577 injured.

The rights office admits that the figures so far are a vast undercount. It uses a strict methodology and counts only confirmed casualties. Ukrainian officials have presented far higher numbers.

The rights office said in a statement late Wednesday that “real figures are considerably higher, especially in government-controlled territory and especially in recent days, as the receipt of information from some locations where intensive hostilities have been going on was delayed and many reports were still pending corroboration.”

Russian liberal radio station shuts down M O S C OW, M A R 3 (PTI): Ekho Moskvy, a liberal radio station and one of Russia’s leading media outlets, has been taken off the air over its critical coverage of Moscow’s attack on Ukraine, the head of the radio station said on Thursday.

Alexey Venediktov, the radio station’s Editor-in-Chief and one of Russia’s most prominent journalists, wrote on Telegram that “higher-ranking people” earlier had hinted to him that such a decision was under consideration.

“The Ekho Moskvy board of directors has decided by a majority to close down the Ekho Moskvy radio channel and the website,” he said.

The press ser vice of the Gazprom Media holding has confirmed the information to Russia’s state-run news agency TASS. Ve n e d i k t o v t o l d TASS that he planned to hold a meeting of the radio station’s journalistic staff later in the day.

Ukraine urges citizens to use guerilla tactics

A former Ukrainian soldier gives instructions on how to handle weapons in Lviv Thursday. (AP/PTI)

LVIV, MAR 3 (AP): As Russian forces advance on strategic points in southern Ukraine, Ukrainian authorities on Thursday called on compatriots to launch a guerrilla war against Russian forces.

In a video message posted online, Ukrainian presidential aide Oleksiy Arestovich urged men to cut down trees and destroy rear columns of Russian troops.

“We urge people to begin providing total popular resistance to the enemy in the occupied territories,” Arestovich said. “The weak side of the Russian army is the rear - if we burn them now and block the rear, the

war will stop in a matter of days,” he said.

Arestovich said that such tactics are already being used in Konotop in northeast Ukraine and Melitopol near the Azov Sea, which were captured by Russian troops.

He called on the civilian population to build barricades in cities, hold rallies with Ukrainian flags, and create online networking groups. “Total resistance ... this is our Ukrainian trump card and this is what we can do best in the world,” Arestovich said, recalling guerrilla actions in Nazioccupied Ukraine during World War II.

Ukraine demands CF, safe evacuation of citizens China denies asking Russia not to attack it. What do you want from us? Leave our land,” he said, addressing Putin.

Despite an initial battle plan that Western countries said was aimed at swiftly toppling the Kyiv government, Russia has captured only one Ukrainian city so far — the southern Dnipro River port of Kherson, which its tanks entered on Wednesday.

With its main assault force halted for days on a highway north of Kyiv, Russia has shifted tactics, escalating its bombardment of major cities. Swathes of central Kharkiv, a city of 1.5 million people, have been blasted into rubble.

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ing blames are very despicable,” Wang said.

The Times article cited a “Western intelligence report” considered credible by officials.

“The report indicates that senior Chinese officials had some level of direct knowledge about Russia’s war plans or intentions before the invasion started last week,” the Times wrote.

Ru s s i a n P r e s i d e n t Vladimir Putin met with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping in Beijing on February 4, hours before the Games’

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GENERAL MEETING This is to inform to all concerned citizens of Longsa Village that, the Annual General Meeting will be held on 5th March 2022, 9:00 AM at the Village Football Ground.

Therefore, all bonafide members residing outside and within Longsa are requested to attend the meeting positively.

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opening ceremony. Following that, the sides issued a joint statement in which they declared “friendship between the two states has no limits, there are no forbidden’ areas of cooperation.”

In that statement, China also endorsed Russia’s opposition to further NATO expansion and demand that it “respect the sovereignty, security and interests of other countries.” Russia, for its part, reaffirmed its support for China’s claim over Taiwan, the self-governing island Beijing threatens to annex by force if necessary.

Russia had launched an attack on Georgia during the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympic Games, angering some in the Chinese leadership and among the public.

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SATAKHAMI UNION DIMAPUR The Satakhami Union Dimapur with profound gratefulness to Almighty God express our heartiest congratulations to our esteemed member SHRI A. S. HOVUTO ZHIMOMI who has been promoted to the post of Project Director, Soil & Water Conservation Deptt.

Nagaland.

While felicitating him, the union prays that God Almighty guide him and grant him wisdom in discharging his service to the people and protect him through the journey of his service.

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The 6 (Six) Village Councils under Wokha District namely - Pongidong, Tsungza, Khumtsu, Shaki, Sankiton and Meriyan, in its joint meeting held on 18th Feb 2022 at Jutho River unanimously resolved to ban/prohibit all forms of fishing, except traditional/ indigenous ones, at its jurisdiction (Jutho-Nzhu River) for a period of 5 (five) years with effect from 1st March 2022.

Anyone found violating the said joint Resolution will be sternly dealt with and penalized with a fine of Rs. 10,000/- (Rupees Ten Thousand) only and the matter will be forwarded to the appropriate law enforcing authority for further action.

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as it investigates the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection. “The Select Committee also has a good-faith basis for concluding that the President and members of his Campaign engaged in a criminal conspiracy to defraud the United States,” the committee wrote in a filing submitted in U.S. District Court in the Central District of California.

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Ao Baptist Pastors Fellowship unanimously endorses the statement made by the Nagaland Baptist Churches Council the apex body. The NLTP Act of 1989 which was earlier passed at the Nagaland Legislative Assembly was made possible with churches, civil societies, unions and associations coming together with a discernible submission and sanctioning the government to act upon it. As such, the ABPF continue to endorse the same and request our government to keep the NLTP Act of 1989 intact and perhaps make more stringent Act against “backdoor lobbying”. Now and always, we will never support or remain a silent spectator to the agenda of partial lifting of the NLTP Act. No matter what, we hold on to the goodness of a free alcohol state and safe the individuals and families from this thirst of alcoholism.

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WASHINGTON, MAR 3 (AP): The House Committee investigating the U.S. Capitol insurrection said Wednesday night that its evidence shows former President Donald Trump and his associates engaged in a “criminal conspiracy” to prevent Congress from certifying the results of the presidential election, spread false information about it and pressured state officials to overturn the results.

The committee made the claims in a filing in response to a lawsuit by Trump adviser John Eastman. Eastman, a lawyer who was consulting with Trump as he attempted to overturn the election, is trying to withhold documents from the committee

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DAMASCUS, MAR 3 (IANS): Humanitarian needs in Syria have continued to rise with 14.6 million people in need in 2022 and an estimated 6.9 million internally displaced persons (IDPs), said a UN spokesman on Wednesday.

This is the largest number of IDPs in the world and they face high needs and limited access to basic services, said Stephane Dujarric, the chief spokesman for UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.

Ongoing hostilities, poor infrastructure and

BEIJING, MAR 3 (AP): China on Thursday denounced a report that it asked Russia to delay invading Ukraine until after the Beijing Winter Olympics as “fake news” and a “very despicable” attempt to divert attention and shift blame over the conflict.

Fo r e i g n M i n i s t r y spokesperson Wang Wenbin also repeated China’s accusations that Washington provoked the war by not ruling out NATO membership for Ukraine. “We hope the culprit of the crisis would reflect on their role in the Ukraine crisis, take up their responsibilities, and take practical actions to ease the situation and solve the problem instead of blaming others,” Wang told reporters at a daily briefing.

“The New York Times report is purely fake news, and such behaviors of diverting attentions and shift-

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PADUM PUKHURI VILLAGE COUNCIL DIMAPUR, NAGALAND

COUNCIL RESOLUTIONS DATED 25/02/2022 The following resolutions were adopted in the meeting dated 25/02/2022 for the larger interest of all concern. In this regard, Council office appeal all sensible citizens in the village to extend their utmost cooperation for smooth implementation.

1. ROADS: Reaffirmed previous council resolution to continue to maintain VILLAGE MAIN ROAD by 24+4 feet in breadth and 18+2 feet for APPROACH ROAD connecting different BLOCKS inside the village.

2. DRAINAGE: Major drainage 6 feet in wide and minor drainage minimum 3 feet.

3. For development of ROAD, DRAINAGE, ELECTRICITY AND SANITATION related, landowner shall be intimated by the council for cooperation. However, in case of any disagreement arise council shall issue directive in the larger interest.

4. GARBAGES/WASTE: It was resolved and made mandatory for all residents to clean up/burn off all kind of garbage/waste inside their own compound.

5. Any kind of plantation will not be allowed outside their compound/plot wall.

6. Residential/Compound main gate beside main/approach road should be minimum 7 feet inside from the said road.

7. Reaffirmed 08/11/21 Council resolution to continue to prohibit sell of illegal liquors within the village jurisdiction and penalty will be imposed as set earlier.

8. Except Pharmacies, no other shops will be allowed to open on Sundays.

9. No outside organizations/associations or underground faction will be allowed to collect any kind of tax within the village jurisdiction.

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Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky called on the West on Thursday to increase military aid to Ukraine, saying Russia would advance on the rest of Europe otherwise.

“If you do not have the power to close the skies, then give me planes!” Zelensky told a press conference. “If we are no more then, God forbid, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia will be next,” he said, adding: “Believe me.”

He called for direct talks with Russian leader Vladimir Putin, saying it was “the only way to stop this war.”

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“I want to say that the special military operation is going strictly according to schedule, according to plan,” he said, opening a meeting with his security council. “We are at war with neo-Nazis,” the Russian leader said, adding: “I will never give up on my conviction that Russians and Ukrainians are one people.”

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f you’re trying to eat more vegetables to improve your heart health, you may want to stick with raw produce instead of making lots of vegetarian casseroles and stir-fried dishes. That’s because a new study suggests that cooked veggies may not reduce your risk of developing or dying of heart disease.

The study, published February 21 in Frontiers in Nutrition, examined data on vegetable consumption among 399,586 adults in the United Kingdom who were 56 years old on average and had never been diagnosed with heart disease.

After 12 years of follow-up, participants experienced a total of 18,052 major cardiovascular events, such as heart attacks and strokes, and a total of 4,406 people died of cardiovascular disease.

Overall, participants consumed an average of 2.3 tablespoons (tbsp) a day of raw vegetables and 2.8 daily tbsp of cooked vegetables. When researchers compared people with the highest vegetable intake to those with the lowest

consumption, raw veggies were associated with an 11 percent lower risk of cardiovascular disease and a 15 percent lower risk of death by events like heart attacks and strokes.

There didn’t appear to be any heart benefit associated with cooked vegetables. And the study also found that most of the protective effect of raw veggies might be explained by differences in participants’ overall health, lifestyle habits, and socioeconomic status.

This doesn’t mean cooked vegetables are bad for us, or that they can’t be part of a heart-healthy diet, says Alice Lichten-

stein, DSc, a professor of nutrition science and policy and the director of the cardiovascular nutrition laboratory at Tufts University in Boston.

“Assessing the effect of an individual food, rather than an entire dietary pattern, does not provide the whole picture and may be misleading,” says Dr. Lichtenstein, who wasn’t involved in the study.

The people who ate the most raw vegetables in the study did a lot of other things that are associated with better cardiovascular health outcomes and that may have made the impact of veggies on their own seem much smaller. Partici-

50 Cent Threatens to Pull ‘Power’ Universe Off Starz: ‘Get All the Scripts, We Out!’

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0 Cent is threatening to take the “Power” universe off Starz because his latest offering, “Power Book IV: Force,” has not yet been renewed. The series debuted on Feb. 6 to record ratings for the cabler, but the hip-hop mogul says the show is sitting “in limbo.”

The “Power” executive producer shared his dismay in a string of Instagram posts Tuesday.

He began with a video of a man shoving items into a suitcase and included the caption: “This is me packing my stuff, STARZ sucks, my deal is up over here I’m out. They renewed ‘Hightown’ and ‘Force’ is the highest rated show [but] they have it sitting in limbo. If I told you how much dumb s— I deal with over here.”

While the hip-hop mogul’s

contract with Starz is ending soon, an individual with knowledge of the situation told TheWrap it’s not officially up until the fall.

50 Cent shared more photos of suitcases and in a second post wrote: “Hold my calls I’m traveling, getting the fvck away from STARZ.” “Force” star Joseph Sikora, who plays fan favorite Tommy Egan, replied to one of the posts with “Oh boy!”

As 50 Cent mentioned, “Hightown” was renewed on Tuesday for a third season. The crime series stars Monica Raymund as a National Marine Fisheries Service agent trying to get sober.

pants with the highest raw vegetable consumption, for example, were more likely to attend college, avoid smoking, get more exercise, get treatment if they had high cholesterol or high blood pressure, consume lots of fish and fruit, and minimize their consumption of red and processed meat.

It’s also possible that the cooking methods people used made raw veggies appear much healthier by comparison, says Nour Makarem, PhD, an assistant professor of epidemiology at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health in New York City.

“Cooked vegetables are often consumed with seasoning and oils, thereby increasing sodium intake and making them more energy dense, which could increase the risk of heart disease,” says Dr. Makarem, who wasn’t involved in the study. “Cooking can also alter digestibility and bioavailability of nutrients.”

One limitation of the study is that researchers lacked data on the specific

types of vegetables people ate, how foods were prepared, what proportion of participants’ diets came from veggies, or how many total calories people consumed.

In fact, the total vegetable intake people reported in the study was a fraction of what’s recommended by U.S. dietary guidelines: 2 to 3 cups daily for women and 3 to 4 cups daily for men. That’s a minimum of 32 tbsp for women and 48 tbsp for men; the average daily intake in the study was just 5 tbsp.

The study participants are in good company, however. Only 1 in 10 adults get the minimum recommended daily amount of vegetables, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

“The take-home is that we all need to eat more vegetables, whether they are raw, cooked, steamed, sautéed, pureed, or roasted,” says Samantha Heller, RD, a senior clinical nutritionist at New York University Langone Medical Center in New York City, who wasn’t involved in the study.

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new drug could help protect healthy babies from a common respiratory virus that can make them sick, according to the doctors and scientists studying the drug.

A late-stage trial published in the New England Journal of Medicine Thursday found nirsevimab, an antibody injection, cut the number of babies requiring medical attention for a respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection by about 75%.

RSV is the leading cause of bronchiolitis, an inflammation of the small airways, and pneumonia in babies under the age of one in the US, according to the CDC. In most cases, RSV

causes mild, cold-like symptoms lasting up to two weeks but one to two of every 100 children younger than six months require hospital treatment, the CDC said.

At present, there’s only one drug available — pavivizumab — that might prevent RSV. However, it’s reserved for babies at highest risk from the virus, such as those born prematurely or with underlying lung or heart conditions.

Pavivizumab’s protection lasts one month, which means infants need five injections throughout the season when RSV is most prevalent, which is during fall, winter and spring in most of the US. The latest

trial’s results, pending regulatory approval, suggest that nirsevimab might be used to protect healthy, term babies from RSV as a one-off shot for a season, the study authors said.

The scientists found RSV-associated infection requiring medical attention occurred in 1.2% of 994 infants that got nirsevimab, compared with 5% of 496 babies that got a dummy drug. This corresponds to an efficacy of 74.5%, the study authors said.

There were no serious adverse events related to the drug, they said. Dr. William Muller, study author and an associate professor of Pediatrics at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine said of the findings: “These exciting data show that nirsevimab has the potential to offer RSV protection for all infants, which would be a paradigm shift in the approach to this disease.”

Muller told Chicago news outlet WGN9, that RSV can be a “big problem” for “little babies, particularly under age 1”.

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Stonehenge may have been an ancient solar calendar, a new study discovers

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tonehenge may have served as a calendar to keep track of the yearly movements of the sun, suggesting a prehistoric link to sun worship in the eastern Mediterranean, according to new research.

A study published Tuesday in the journal Antiquity shows the largest stones at Stonehenge in southwest England may embody a solar calendar with 365¼ days each year — almost the same as the 365.2425 days used in modern solar calendars.

While some sort of calendar function has long been suggested for Stonehenge, none of the theories adequately explained how it might have worked — and

the new research is only possible thanks to a better understanding of the ancient site, according to Timothy Darvill, a professor of archaeology at Bournemouth University in the United Kingdom and the author of the study.

It seems Stonehenge was primarily aligned to the winter solstice in the Northern Hemisphere — Dec. 22, according to the modern calendar — when the sun rises and sets at its southernmost points, resulting in the longest night and the shortest day of the year.

By aligning Stonehenge to the solstice and then using it to count the days in a year, the ancient monument could have accu-

rately reflected the annual solstices and seasons for hundreds of years, Darvill said.

Stonehenge’s main circle now comprises 17

large stones known as sarsens — a word derived from the medieval English word “saracen,” which once referred to Arabs but came to mean anything pagan.

But empty sockets in the ground reveal it was built as a full circle of 30 sarsens; the others have been since hauled away, probably for other buildings or roads.

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t seems that Kanye West still isn’t over his ex Kim Kardashian’s budding relationship with Saturday Night Live star Pete Davidson.

On Wednesday the 44-year-old rapper, who recently changed his legal name to Ye, shared the music video for “Eazy,” his new song with the Game, and it appears to feature an unsettling tableau with a clay figurine of Davidson.

Clocking in at about four minutes, the video is filled with murky blackand-white imagery and animation. One sequence depicts a figure that resembles Ye putting a bag over the head of a figure that resembles Davidson, kidnapping him, and burying him up to his neck. Seeds are then planted and watered, and roses spring up around the Davidson lookalike’s head. Performance interludes also appear to portray Ye rapping while holding a severed head.

Representatives for Davidson did not immediately respond to request for comment.

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with Ye referencing his 2002 car accident and rapping, “God saved me from the crash, just so I could beat Pete Davidson’s ass.”

Ye also alludes to his and Kardashian’s divorce.

“We havin’ the best divorce ever / If we go to court, we’ll go to court together,” he raps. Referring to Kourtney Kardashian, he adds, “Matter of fact, pick up your sis, we’ll go to Kourt’s together.”

The “Eazy” video ends with a series of title cards that read: “Everyone lived happily every after / Except Skete you know who / JK he’s fine.” (“Skete” is a disparaging nickname Ye has recently taken to using to refer to Davidson.)

Davidson has been dating Kardashian, Ye’s ex and the mother of their four children, since last fall, following her hosting an episode of SNL. Ye and Kardashian were married in 2014, and she filed for divorce in February 2021. Kardashian was declared legally single the same day the “Eazy” video was released, and officially dropped “West” from her name.

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Leipzig’s Christopher Nkunku (R) scores his side’s first goal at the HDI Arena in Hanover, Germany March 2, 2022.

immediately punished by clinical Leipzig, as Dani Olmo’s through-ball found Nkunku, who finished the job from inside the box to open the scoring with 17 minutes gone on Wednesday night.

The visitors gained momentum and made it 2-0 just minutes later as Nkunku rounded goalkeeper Ron-Robert Zieler and tapped home into an empty net after benefit-

ting from Josko Gvardiol’s good build-up work.

Leipzig dictated proceedings on the pitch and should have established a bigger advantage, but Zieler defused Gvardiol’s shot from close range at the half-hour mark, while Benjamin Henrichs hit the side netting just before half-time.

After the restart, Leipzig retreated with its two-goal lead and handed

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over control to Hannover, who couldn’t do any damage.

Leipzig eventually took over again as the match progressed and tripled the lead with 67 minutes gone when Konrad Laimer exchanged passes with Andre Silva before drilling the ball past Zieler from a tight angle.

Hannover’s resistance was broken but Leipzig wasn’t done with the scoring and made it 4-0 six minutes later as Silva also got his name on the scoreboard, reports Xinhua.

Elsewhere, Freiburg advanced into the next round after overpowering resilient Bochum 2-1 after an extra-time decider from Roland Sallai.

Second division Hamburg rallied back from two goals down and edged Karlsruher SC 3-2 in a penalty shootout after a 2-2 draw in regular time.

Last Friday, Union Berlin bounced back to see off second division St. Pauli, as Sheraldo Becker and Andreas Voglsammer were on target to book a berth in the semi-finals.

Red Bull extend Verstappen’s contract till 2028

LO N D O N, M A R 3 (AGENCIES): Formula One champion Max Verstappen has signed a new deal that keeps him at Red Bull to 2028.

The 24-year-old Verstappen was rewarded on Thursday for beating Lewis Hamilton to win his first world championship last year, with another five years added on the contract that ran through 2023.

“Choosing to stay to the 2028 season was an easy decision,” the Dutchman said in a statement. “I love this team and last year was simply incredible. Our goal since we came together in 2016 was to win the championship and we have done that, so now it’s about keeping the number one on the car long-term.” Verstappen, who made his F1 debut at the age of 17, will open his title defense in Bahrain on March 20. “Our immediate focus is on retaining Max’s world championship title, but this deal also shows he is a part of the team’s longterm planning,” team principal Christian Horner said.

F1 terminates Russian GP contract

LONDON, MAR 3 (IANS): Formula One has terminated its contract with the Russian Grand Prix, confirmed the world body of sport on Thursday.

“Formula One can confirm it has terminated its contract with the Russian Grand Prix promoter meaning Russia will not have a race in the future,” the statement said. The race in Sochi scheduled for September 25 this year has already been cancelled.

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at the national level and bring laurel to Nagaland.

Er Ghokuto was the guest of honour of the programme, which was attended leaders from different communities in Dimapur.

Opening speech was delivered by Kabaddi Association of Nagaland (KAN) president Dr Amos Lkr and Immanuel Theological College & Seminary, Chumoukedima principal Dr. Lawrence Yanthan offered invocation. The opening ceremony programme was chaired by Pooja Das Paul.

A RTC G 7 t e a m emerged as winners of Senior Boys while Public Col-

lege of Commerce Team and Wolf Kabaddi Club, Dimapur finished second and third respectively.

Burma camp Kabaddi Club clinched Junior Boys title while HMC School and SD Jain School were adjudged first and second runners-up respectively.

KV Dimapur won the Girls Junior title with HMC School and SD Jain School finishing second and third positions.

Around 30 prizes, medals and 150 certificates were distributed by dignitaries in the presence of KAN chairman Bishnu Bhattacharjee and other officials.

NSCA discusses sport climbing

DIMAPUR, MAR 3 (NPN): Nagaland Sport Climbing Association (NSCA) has deliberated on working out strategies for highlighting climbing as a sport at a coordination meeting with the office bearers and climbing faculty.

In a statement, NSCA general secretary Bendangliba Lkr said the NSCA was already affiliated to the olympic association as well as the mountaineering association. The meet also discussed about how people could take up climbing as a sport, adventure, fitness, disaster management, or recreation.

Further, the association discussed various strategies to highlight sport climbing in the state and to contribute towards its growth.

Davis Cup: India firm favourite against Denmark NEW DELHI, FEB 3 (PTI): A tailor-made low bounce and fast grass court arranged for the home advantage, the Indian Davis Cup team will start as firm favourite but Denmark is still expected to present a good fight in the Davis Cup World Group Play-off tie, starting here on Friday.

India’s best player Yuki Bhambri is back in the squad and that changes the dynamics for the twoday rubber.

India terribly felt his absence when he was out of action in the last four years due to his knee injury.

India lost a few winnable ties but now with Yuki back in the mix, the team can bank on his immense talent and ability to pull off tight matches against a high-quality opponent.

The 29-year-old will know exactly what he needs to do on the opening day since it will be Ramkumar Ramanathan who will open the tie for India with the first singles against Christian Sigsgaard, the world number 824.

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court and on the ATP tour, it should not be much of a problem to go past the Danish player.

Yuki will play against 305th ranked Mikale Torpegaard, on whom much will depend how the tie goes. If Holger Rune (ranked 88) had not pulled out of the tie, it would have made it tougher for India.

Going by rankings, Indian team is strong but in Davis Cup the players usually manage to punch above their weight so it will come down to who plays better on the match day.

As of now, the Indian team looks sharp and completely acclimatised to the grass court. The players will have a feel of the Cen-

tre Court for the first time on Friday and skipper Rohit Rajpal is expecting it to behave as per the requirement of the home side.

“The idea is to keep it low and as fast as possible.

We will consult grass court experts and local gardeners to know how much rolling is required. Hopefully it will play well,” Rajpal said.

DIMAPUR, MAR 3 (NPN): The 14th Sumi Hoho Gold Cup got underway at Suruhuto town under Zunheboto district with PHED minister Jacob Zhimomi as special guest.

Speaking at the opening programme, Jacob expressed happiness that Sumi youngsters were showing interest in the field of Sports.

The special guest maintained that many Nagas think that getting government job was the only option to earn a living. However, Jacob said that such misconception needed to be eradicated from their minds because God has bestowed

different talents to sustain their livelihoods. The minister said that one needed to identify in which filed they were gifted so get could be groomed to become professionals in particular field.

He also said that Nagas have innate talents in the field of sports, but lamented that many did not take it as a profession and stop pursuing.

Earlier, speaking as chief host of the tournament, advisor tourism, art and culture, H Khehovi, lauded PHED minister Jacob Zhimomi for gracing the event and encouraging young players. Khehovi also appealed to the play-

ers to maintain sportsmanship and discipline. He also asked them to feel at home and walk back home with memories of nine-day long stay at Suruhuto.

In his short speech, Sumi Hoho president Nikheto challenged the Sumi players to come forward as professionals and bring laurel to the community in particular and the Nagas in general.

Some of the highlights of the inaugural function included folkdance by Khumishi village, Imunopi sujosujo by Surumi village and a special number by Mughavi K. Aye

Delhi’s poor outing in Ranji continue GUWAHATI, MAR 3 (PTI): Virtually out of quarterfinal race, Delhi’s disappointing campaign in the Ranji Trophy continued as Chhattisgarh posted 290 for four on the opening day of their elite Group H match here on Thursday.

Electing to bat, Chhattisgarh rode on half-centuries from Ajay Mandal (63 off 90 balls), Amandeep Khare (68 not out off 170) and Shashank Singh (75 not out) to pile up a big score in 90 overs and take their side to a strong position in the fourday contest.

Mandal and Singh stitched 147 runs for the unconquered fifth wicket to take Chhattisgarh forward. Besides, Sanidhya Hurkat (44) and skipper Harpreet Singh (21) also made useful contributions with the bat.

Left-arm spinner Vikas Mishra (2/65) was the pick of the bowlers for Delhi. Delhi are languishing at the last spot in the four-team Group H with just one point from two games and for the Pradeep Sangwan-led side, the tournament is as good as over and only seven points (including a bonus) in the ongoing match against Chhattisgarh will

Chhattisgarh batter Amandeep Khare raises his bat at ACA Cricket Stadium in Guwahati, Thursday. (PTI)

give them a slim chance in theory. Chhattisgarh, on the other hand, are leading the group with seven points from two games.

Tamil Nadu post 256 for 7 against Jharkhand Tripura fights back with Murasingh’s fifer against Punjab: Medium pacer Manisankar Murasingh picked up a five-wicket haul as Tripura bounced back after being shot out for 127 to reduce Punjab to 79 for seven at stumps

on day one of their Ranji Trophy Group F match here on Thursday.

Andhra bowls out Uttarakhand for 194, Rajasthan batters falter against Services: Pacers Bandaru Ayyappa and Prithvi Raj shared seven wickets between them as table-toppers Uttarakhand were dismissed for 194 in their first innings by Andhra Pradesh in a Ranji Trophy Elite Group E match here on Thursday.

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With immense pride and joy, we the College Students' Union Chi (CSUC) would like to congratulate Miss N. Zamyun Konyak, D/o Mr. & Mrs. Y. Nyemphoa Konyak on making it through NEET for pursuing MBBS (Gynecology).

She is the first among females from Chi Village to pursue MBBS. May your breakthrough be the source of inspiration and motivation for the people of Chi village in general and women folk in particular.

The CSUC further prays to Almighty God to grant good health, wisdom and success and also wishes you the best for your future endeavors.

Sd/Sd/Khumong Konyak C Chingkap (President, CSUC) (General Secretary, CSUC)

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SUMI COMMUNITY DIPHUPAR 'B'

The Thipüzumi Citizens extend our heartiest congratulations to Shri. Rothihu Tetseo, IPS, Commissioner of Police Dimapur on being conferred the President’s Police Medal for Distinguished service on Republic Day, 2022.

Wishing more success in your future. May God lead you.

CUVEZO RHAKHO ZHOVEYI ROSE VDB Secy. Thipüzu Chairman, Village Council Thipüzu

HAPPY 50th WEDDING ANNIVERSARY

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With immense pride and honour, we, the Sumi Community Diphupar 'B' take this opportunity to congratulate Er. Ghukhui Zhimomi for his appointment as a Member of Nagaland Staff Selection Board.

We are extremely pleased with his accomplishment and wishing him the very best for all the challenges to his new role will bring. May he being a blessing and inspire the community and Nagas in general through his achievements.

(Ghoipu Wotsa) Secretary, SCD 'B'

(Hotopu Shohe) Chairman, SCD 'B'

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DIMAPUR, MAR 3 (NPN): Nagaland 4th Senior & Junior (Boys & Girls) State Kabaddi Championship 2022, organised by Nagaland Kabaddi Association, was held at DDSC Stadium, Dimapur on March 3, 2022. 13 selected Kabadi teams participated in the tournament.

MCD working president and social worker, Ahidur Rahaman, who graced the opening ceremony as chief guest, lauded the effort of kabaddi association Nagaland. He said local youth and students should participate in Kabaddi so they could play

formed that entry fee was Rs. 2,500 per team.

For availing forms, one could visit Plaza Bakery, Razhü Point; Uptown fastfood, Lower Bayavü; M/S Northern Sports, Sepfüzou and Mobile House, near SBI Bazaar Branch, Old Minister Hill.

Club has set March 5, 2022 as last date of registration. On could contact organisers at 7005505787 or 9863314331 for more information.

PHED minister Jacob Zhimomi being accorded welcome at the 14th Sumi Hoho Gold Cup at Suruhuto town.

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Winners along with KAN members and others at the State Kabaddi Championship 2022 at DDSC Stadium Dimapur on Thursday.

DIMAPUR, MAR 3 (NPN): The Ologoc Club has informed that the 3rd edition of astro turf futsal tournament 2022 would be held on March 11 & 12, 2022.

According to the organisers, the winner of the tour nament would receive Rs. 30,000 while the runner-up would get Rs.15,000. It was informed that there would also be individual prize of sports merchandise. The club in-

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German Cup: Leipzig storm into semis

BERLIN, MAR 3 (IANS): RB Leipzig showed no mercy to second division Hannover after a 4-0 victory courtesy of Christopher Nkunku’s first-half brace in the German Cup quarterfinals. Leipzig needed time to gain a foothold into the clash as Hannover’s wellpositioned defence gave the Bulls a hard time in the opening stages.

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Mr. Nihoto Chishi & Mrs. Vinili Kappo 04th Mar. 1972 – 04th Mar. 2022

Because of you both, we knows truth and love exist. Keep these belief alive and cherish one another.

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Russians, Belarusians barred from Paralympics

BEIJING, MAR 3 (AGENCIES): Russian and Belarusian athletes were barred on Thursday from the Winter Paralympics in Beijing on the eve of the Games following threats of boycotts by other teams over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) said.

Belarus has been a key staging area for the invasion, which was launched a week ago.

The decision comes a day after the IPC gave athletes from the two countries the green light to participate as neutrals, saying that the governing body had followed its rules and that “athletes were not the aggressors.”

But that decision led to an outcry and threats from other countries’ National Paralympic Committees (NPC) to boycott the Games, IPC President Andrew Parsons told a news conference in Beijing.

“They told us that if we do not reconsider our decision, it is now likely to have grave consequences for the Winter Games,” Parsons said. “Multiple NPCs, some of which have been

Italy’s Matteo Remotti Martini moves in front of the Agitos outside the Paralympic Village in Beijing March 3, 2022.

contacted by their governments, teams and athletes, are threatening not to compete.”

Parsons said it was clear the situation put his organization in a “unique and impossible position” so close to the start of the Games, adding that an overwhelming number of members had been in touch and been forthright in their objections to Russia and Belarus taking part.

A 71-member Russian contingent and 12-member team from Belarus are

already in Beijing for the Games, which begin on Friday.

Parsons said the Russian and Belarusian athletes were victims of the actions of their governments.

“Athlete welfare will always be a priority for us,” he said.

“If Russian and Belarusian athletes stayed in Beijing, nations were likely to withdraw, and a viable Games would not have been possible. “The atmosphere in the Games village is not pleasant. The situation there

is escalating and has now become untenable ... The Games are not only about gold, silver and bronze, but also about sending a strong message of inclusion.”

Parsons said the IPC was likely to face legal consequences but was confident that the right decision had been made.

The IPC said earlier in a statement that following a specially convened meeting, its Governing Board has decided not to allow athletes from Russia and Belarus to take part.

Junior Boxing C’ships: Anand enters QFs

NEW DELHI, MAR 3 (PTI): Indian boxer Anand Yadav (54kg) produced a dominating show to enter the youth quarter-finals of the Asian Youth & Junior Boxing Championships in Amman, Jordan on Thursday.

Anand outclassed Kazakhstan’s Aslan Aslanov in a unanimous decision.

Later this evening, last edition’s silver-medallist Vanshaj will open his campaign in the 63.5kg youth men’s category against local boy Abdallah Almharat.

In the junior boys’ section, Ravi Saini put up a strong show against United Arab Emirates’ Alsedrani Ali Bader in the 48kg preliminary bout, played late on Wednesday night.

In the 52kg opening round bout, John Lapung went down fighting 2-3 against Kyrgyzstan’s Iasynov Nizamedin.

The continental showpiece, where both men and women in youth and junior category are competing, has been witnessing strong competition in the presence of 352 boxers from 21 countries, including Iran, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. The finals will be held on March 13 and 14.

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ISL: ATK Mohun Bagan defeat Chennaiyin FC, enter into semis

FATORDA (GOA), MAR 3 (IANS): ATK Mohun Bagan rode their talisman Roy Krishna’s first-half strike to sail into the semifinals for the second straight year, with a 1-0 victory against Chennaiyin FC in the Hero Indian Super League at the PJN Stadium, here on Thursday.

Krishna netted his fifth goal of the season and first this calendar year in the 45th minute and that proved to be the difference in the end as the green and maroons side moved to second in the table with 37 points from 19 matches.

They will take on Jamshedpur FC next on March 7 to potentially decide the team that will finish at the top of the table. Jamshedpur have two games in hand and are at the top with 37 points.

They take on Odisha FC on Friday.

ATKMB bossed the game from the first minute, bombing the Chennaiyin defence with constant attacks, the latter happy to sit back and try to attack on the counter. Roy Krishna gave early warnings after a Kauko through ball sent him clear as the veteran Fiji striker, back in the starting XI after an injury layoff,

Roy Krishna of ATK Mohun Bagan in action during ISL match at the Fatorda Stadium Thursday. (ISL/PTI)

found the post in his way.

There were no clearcut chances after that early opportunity but the Mariners looked the likelier to score before Chennaiyin started growing into the game and almost keeping ATKMB at bay despite all their adventures in the final third. But just before halftime, Kauko provided a similar pass for Krishna who, unlike at the start of the game, slammed home past a diving Samik Mitra in Chennaiyin goal.

Chennaiyin started

the second half on the front foot and almost got their reward three minutes into the hour-mark when a Reagan Singh effort deflected off an ATKMB shirt and came off the post. It was an open half but ATKMB defended well to see off the tie and grab important three points although one would have been enough to seal their semi berth. Chennaiyin, already out of the playoffs race after a forgettable season, finished their engagements with 20 points from the same number of losses.

Harden makes home debut, Sixers beat Knicks Erigaisi is new national chess champion

PHILADELPHIA, MAR 3 (AGENCIES): The Philadelphia 76ers superstar and NBA Eastern Conference team’s winter signing, James Harden, made his home debut as the Sixers beat the New York Knicks 123-108 in a Wednesday NBA game.

Harden, who appeared for the first time as a 76ers guard at Philadelphia’s Wells Fargo Center, missed a triple-double with 26 points, nine rebounds and nine assists.

But the Sixers stars were balanced in scoring against the Knicks.

In addition to Harden, Joel Embiid scored 27 points and took 12 rebounds.

Philadelphia guard Tyrese Maxey clocked up 25 points to contribute to the win. Knicks guard RJ Barrett was the game’s top scorer as he racked up 30 points for the visitors.

Barrett made seven assists as well. New York power forward Julius Randle added 24 points and

Philadelphia 76ers’ James Harden, center, goes up for a shot during the first half of an NBA basketball game Wednesday.

had six rebounds.

The game was 75-75 with five minutes and 21 seconds in the third quarter, but the Sixers made extended their lead to double digits near the end of that

period, 93-81.

In the fourth quarter, the Sixers did not let their opponents catch them as they secured their fourth win in a row.

The Sixers are in the

third position in the Eastern Conference standings, having a 38-23 win/loss record this season. The Knicks are going 25-37 to be 12th in the East, they are competing for the play-in.

KANPUR, MAR 3 (PTI): Grandmaster Arjun Erigaisi of Telangana won the 58th edition of Senior National Chess Championship here on Thursday, edging out fellow GMs of Tamil Nadu D Gukesh and P Iniyan in a tie-breaker after the trio finished on 8.5 points each.

The 18-year-old Erigaisi remained unbeaten in 11 rounds and ended up with a score of 8.5 points for his maiden Senior National title. He drew his final round game against former champion S P Sethuraman.

Gukesh had to settle for a draw against Aryan Chopra while Iniyan moved up to 8.5 points with a fine win over fellow GM Mitrabha Guha of West Bengal.

Defending champion Aravindh Chithambaram of Tamil Nadu finished fourth with eight points, while topseed and pre-tournament favourite B Adhinan ended a distant 20th.

Erigaisi and Gukesh began the day on eight points and both had a chance of laying their hands

Arjun Erigaisi (centre) flanked by runner-up D. Gukesh (right) and P. Iniyan.

on the top prize. Iniyan defeated Guha to make it an interesting battle for the title.

However, Erigaisi and Gukesh were held to draws, meaning a three-way tie for the top place with the former emerging victorious on the basis of a better tiebreak score.

Erigaisi has been in impressive form of late and recently won the Tata Steel Challengers title in Wijk

Aan Zee, the Netherlands.

The champion received Rs 6 lakh prize money.

Important Results of Round 11: Arjun Erigaisi (Telangana) (8.5) drew with S P Sethuraman (8), P Iniyan (TN) (8.5) beat Mitrabha Guha (7.5); Aravindh Chithambaram (TN) (8) drew with Aryan Chopra (Delhi) (8); V Pranav (8) drew with N R Visakh (8); Deep Sengupta (7.5) drew with Aravindh Chitham-

baram (8); Karthikeyan Murali (8) beat Aditya Mittal (7); Koustav Chatterjee (8) beat M R Lalith Babu (6.5); B Adhiban (7) drew with Himal Gussain (7).

Final standings (top 10): 1. Arjun Erigaisi, 2. D Gukesh, 3. P Iniyan, 4. Aravindh Chithambaram, 5.

Aryan Chopra, 6. Koustav Chatterjee, 7. Karthikeyan Murali, 8. N R Visakh, 9. S P Sethuraman, 10. V Pranav.

Chelsea’s Timo Werner in action with Luton Town’s Reece Burke on March 2, 2022.

LO N D O N, M A R 3 (AGENCIES): Three more Premier League sides joined Manchester City and Crystal Palace in the quarterfinals of the FA Cup on Wednesday, as Liverpool, Chelsea and Southampton were all victorious in the round of 16.

Luton Town 2-3 Chelsea: Chelsea came back from a goal down not once, but twice, to beat 6th-place EFL Championship side Luton Town at Kenilworth Road.

Perhaps no three players at Chelsea needed a goal more than Saul Niguez (his first for the club since joining in the summer), Timo Werner (chronically wasteful with

scoring chances during his Chelsea career) and Romelu Lukaku (running extremely hot and cold, both on and off the field, this season), otherwise known as Wednesday’s three goal-scorers.

The Blues fell behind after just two minutes, when Reece Burke made a nearpost run to glance a header across the face of goal and nestle the ball just inside the far post. Chelsea equalized through Saul just before the half-hour mark, but Luton Town went back ahead on Harry Cornick’s breakaway and finish in the 40th.

Werner, who also assisted Chelsea’s two other goals, equalized with an exqui-

sitely taken touch and finish on 68 minutes, and Lukaku slid in to turn his cross home 10 minutes later.

Liverpool 2-1 Norwich City: Takumi Minamino scored both goals for the Reds, as he afforded Mohamed Salah a rare rest by taking his place in the starting lineup. The Japanese international fired home twice in 12 first-half minutes, giving him three goals in the FA Cup this season, to go with four en route to winning the League Cup (nine in all competitions).

Southampton 3-1 West Ham: The good times kept rolling for Southampton as they improved to seven games unbeaten, with just one defeat in their last 13 games across all competitions, by beating West Ham 3-1 at St. Mary’s Stadium on Wednesday. Romain Perraud, James Ward-Prowse (penalty kick) and Armando Broja got the goals for Saints, with the final two coming after Michail Antonio’s 60th-minute equalizer, at which point it was a total toss-up who would go on and win it.

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