October 12, 2018

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Vol XXVIII No. 307

NCD appeals to power deptt

DIMAPUR, OCT 11 (NPN): In view of the proposed replacement of new electric poles in various localities of Dimapur, the Naga Council Dimapur (NCD) has appealed to the department of power to consult all the GBs, chairmen and various colony councils to avoid obstruction and hindrance to work.

In a press release, NCD vice president (admn), K Ghokheto Chophy, said NCD would also be assisting the power department and the district administration in carrying out the work.

The council stated that “this monumental exercise” for the betterment of Dimapur town would be taking place after a gap of nearly 40 years. It has, therefore, appealed to all citizens and colony authority to fully cooperate and allow the work in their respective localities.

NCD has appreciated the chief engineer power department for taking up the initiative for the betterment of the Dimapur town.

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NESO asks HM to resolve NE problems Nagaland to get two chopper services WARNS OF INTENSE AGITATION IF CENTRE FAILS TO DELIVER

GUWAHATI, OCT 11 (AGENCIES): North East Students’ Organisation (NESO) has through a memorandum to Union home minister, Rajnath Singh drawn the attention of the Centre towards several critical issues currently affecting the Northeast region.

The issues proposed in the memorandum included an education policy relevant to the people of the region, repeal of punitive legislation such as the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA), 1958, acceleration of ongoing dialogue with different armed groups for an early settlement, curbing infiltration of illegal migrants and a comprehensive policy, implementation of National Register of Citizens (NRC) for Northeast besides opposition to Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2016 and long term visa.

NESO comprises Khasi Students’ Union (KSU), All Assam Students’ Union (AASU), Naga Students’ Federation (NSF), Mizo Zirlai Pawl (MZP), Twipra Students’ Federation (TSF), All Manipur Students’ Union D I M A P U R , O C T 1 1 (AMSU), Garo Students’ (NPN): Department of Health & Family Welfare (DoH&FW) Thursday informed that 1,85,481 children have been successfully D I M A P U R , O C T 1 1 vaccinated in the ongo- (NPN): Of the 100 gw of ing Measles and Rubella solar power targeted to be Vaccination Campaign generated in India by 2022, 40 gw is projected to be (MRVC).

In a press release, Dr. generated from rooftop soG.R Rio, medical officer lar (RTS) system, and NaUIP, H&FW directorate, galand has been given the said that a total of 1919 target of generating 50 mw school sessions and 321 through RTS. This was stated outreach sessions were by Yuvaraj Dinesh Babu conducted in Nagaland till Nithyanandam, team leader October 9, 2018, without of the agency tasked with implementing SUPRABHA any untoward incidents.

The department stated under the Ministry of New & that despite various ru- Renewable Energy (MNRE), mours against vaccination during a workshop-cumon social media it has been seminar on RTS held at Homoving forward and ex- tel Japfü here Thursday.

Organised by World pressed determination to Bank in coordination with achieve the target set forth in the remaining 29 days of MRVC. Thanking all the parents, children of the target groups, health workers development partners, the DoH&FW has appealed to all parents to cooperate NEW DELHI, OCT 11 and come forth to get all (PTI): Three states includchildren between 9 months ing Nagaland were yet to to 15 years immunized appoint State Chief Inwith MR vaccine and be formation Commissionprotected with the life- ers (CIC). There has been threatening Measles and no appointment of State Rubella diseases.

Chief Information CommisFurther, the departsioners (as on October 10, ment expressed gratitude to the religious leaders, 2018) for Andhra Pradesh, organizations and individu- Jammu and Kashmir, and als for coming out openly to Nagaland, a study released dispel the misinformation Thursday by the NGO-and doubts spread through Transparency International various channels to protect India (TII). Over 30 per cent of posts of Chief Informafuture generations. tion Commissioners and Information Commissioners are lying vacant across the country, TII said.

It said more than 2.5 crore RTI applications were received by all public authorities-- central and state government departments under the ambit of the Right to Information (RTI) Act -- during 2005 and 2016, it added. “Out of the 156 posts of Chief Information Commissioners and Information Commissioners at the Union/State level, around 48 posts are vacant, i.e. 30.8 per “Who can believe that cent vacant posts in Central even after 50 years of Information Commission statehood, we still don’t and State Information Comhave piped water?.” missions,” the study said.

MRVC: 1.85 lakh children vaccinated

Union (GSU) and All Arunachal Pradesh Students’ Union (AAPSU), representing eight major students’ movements of the seven NE states. The memorandum also highlighted issues such as economic and infrastructure development vis-à-vis the Act East Policy, employment policy for Northeast, India-Bangladesh land swap deal (2011), stapled visa, settlement of the inter-state boundary issue and special Constitutional status and separate time zone for Northeast.

Acknowledging the positive steps taken by the Centre, the NESO said that the government should not turn away from its responsibility on the issues raised.

NESO warned that if the issues are not addressed in the right earnest, it would be bound to register its protest and initiate a nonviolent aggressive, peaceful agitation, in a manner it deemed fit, until an acceptable solution is found.

“The issues/matters require immediate corrective action since they are long pending matters impacting overall inclusive growth,

holistic and sustainable development of the region – its peoples, land, natural resources, environment, biodiversity, economic empowerment, culture and tradition,” the memorandum stated.

NESO demanded that recruitment and admissions in established central universities and institutions should be safeguarded so that people of the region and in states where they are set up are not marginalised and discriminated upon for studies and employment. “Liberal and proper funding and grants should be given to universities in the Northeast so that they can excel and compete globally...,” it stated.

With regard to legislations, NESO said “Time and again, voices have been raised, representations have been made and peoples’ movement have been continuing against enforcing such laws in the region with previous governments but most unfortunately, they had fallen on deaf ears.”

NESO, therefore, appealed to the Union home minister to take cognizance and rectify anomalies and

repeal legislations such as the AFSPA, 1958, The Assam Disturbed Areas Act, 1955, The Assam Maintenance of Public Order (Autonomous District) Act, 1953, The National Security Act, 1980 and The Punjab State Security Act, 1953.

Further, it said that present problem facing the region was multi-dimensional but a great part of the crisis relates with unabated influx of illegal migrants which has brought a serious demographic change in the region in particular and other parts of the country in general.

NESO also called for settling inter-state boundary issue immediately by setting up an Inter State Boundary Commission. “Almost all the states in the region have boundary disputes.

Nagaland, Meghalaya, Mizoram Tripura, Arunachal Pradesh have boundary issues with Assam while Manipur has a boundary dispute with Nagaland. This is due to the fact that decisions were taken unilaterally and the people living along the border were not taken into confidence” it said.

Nagaland given target to produce 50 mw solar power

Mmhonlumo Kikon with NRE officials, resource persons and engineers. (DIPR)

the State directorate of new & renewable energy, the workshop was aimed at giving a better understanding about RTS technology and begin its implementation in Nagaland.

Speaking about Sus-

tainable Partnership for Rooftop Solar Acceleration in Bharat (SUPRABHA), Nithyanandam said MNRE had provided technical assistance to around 17 States so far, while World Bank had been tasked to look

after capacity building in the entire North-eastern region. He remarked that SUPRABHA’s proposed engagement with Nagaland was aimed at developing an exclusive solar rooftop (Cont’d on p-7)

G l o b a l Ve c t r a H e l i c o r p B e l l 4 1 2 E P h e l i c o p t e r.

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KO H I M A , O C T 1 1 (NPN): Centre has sanctioned an additional helicopter service under the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) subsidy scheme for 1,200 flying hours in a year.

In a letter to commissioner and secretary Transport on October 10, deputy secretary to Government of India, A Radha Rani stated that in addition to the service of one helicopter service that was flying 480 hours per year, Nagaland would now have two chopper services flying 1,200 hours annually with the current approval.

The ministry also directed the State government to ensure that competitive

bidding process was strictly followed before hiring the additional helicopter.

The ministry asked the State government to furnish certain information details to enable the former to obtain approval of Standing Finance Committee (SFC) regarding hiring of an additional service.

The details to be furnished include type of helicopter proposed to be used, proposed routes, expected annual utilisation of flying hours, passengers fare to be fixed, expected revenue generation on account of passenger fares and estimated annual expenditure to incurred in hiring of an additional helicopter, worked out on the basis of details provided in respect of the above requirements.

3 get award for peace, socio-political service DIMAPUR, OCT 11 (PTI): Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman, Harivansh Narayan Singh, Thursday conferred the first ‘Award for Peace and Socio-Political Service’ to three personalities of Nagaland.

The recipients are Rev Shihoto Swunhetho (posthumous) and Rev V K Nuh for peace initiatives and Chingwang Konyak for socio-political service to the people of the State.

Singh handed over the awards at a programme organized by Jayprakash Narayan Memorial Trust,

Nagaland here at Rhododendron Hall.

Addressing the gathering, Singh said Jayprakash Narayan talked about the Nagas and the problems of the Nagas in various parts of the country.

Nagaland Minister for Agriculture and Cooperation, G Kaito Aye. maintained that Jayprakash Narayans participation and contribution towards “resolving” the Naga political conflict has been one of the most significant chapters in the history of Naga political movements.

It directed the State government to furnish the details latest by October 26 this year.

M e a n w h i l e, S t a t e transport minister P Paiwang Konyak lauded the prompt response of MHA and thanked Union Home minister Rajnath Singh and his deputy Kiren Rijiju for their timely intervention.

Speaking to Nagaland Post, Konyak said the two choppers would facilitate medical evacuations, VIP sorties and air travel for the people, especially during natural calamities like the one faced by the State this monsoon.

He said, as per the MHA directive, bidding process would be done soon.

It may be recalled that chief minister Neiphiu Rio and Konyak had met Singh in September and urged him for providing additional chopper service, considering the severe challenges faced by Nagaland during this monsoon season as some district headquarters were completely cut off from rest of the State.

Currently, the State gover nment was using chopper service of Global Vectra Helicorp Limited.

NPSC declares final results

DIMAPUR, OCT 11 (NPN): Nagaland Public Service Commission (NPSC) Thursday declared the final results of NCS, NPS, NSS & Allied Services Examination 2017.

In a notification, NPSC controller of examinations, Thepfurienyu George Kire, stated that the provisional results have been declared on the basis of marks obtained in the Main Written Examination, Viva-voce and Medical & Police Fitness Tests and options exercised by the candidates.

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WEATHER FORECAST October 12

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R. Binchilo Thong and Vasudha Mishra with other officials at the concluding day of the Regional Conference on Good Governance Initiatives on Thursday. (DIPR) DIMAPUR: The two-day “Regional Conference on Good Governance Initiatives” with the sub-theme “Capacity Building/Technology/Best practices by Aspirational Districts” concluded at Hotel Vivor here on Thursday.

DIPR reports that while addressing the participants at the valedictory session, chief secretary, R. Binchilo Thong observed that since South East Asia begins from the North Eastern States, its ethnic composition could make the trade and commerce interface smoother. He also called for extending the four-lane highway between Dimapur and Kohima to cover the Kohima-Imphal road by 2022 and also the

proposed rail link between Dimapur and Zubza to facilitate future trade.

Listing a series of issues as the primary reasons for backwardness of Nagaland, the chief secretary was of the view that the greatest challenge today was ensuring that young people were educated and trained on par with their western peers.

Calling for successful implementation of Village Development Board (VDB) and Communitisation Act, Thong suggested reviewing the existing system and its effectiveness to enable these institutions to be active partners in achieving the State’s vision of sustainable development strategies.

PDNCSU extends support to NCSU DIMAPUR: Phek District Nagaland Contractors & Supplier’s Union (PDNCSU) has extended its support to NCSU’s demand to end table tenders and to invite tender in all contract and supply works.

In a press release, PDNCSU president, Kuzhoseyi Alex and general secretary, Razou Lohe, has urged all government departments to put an end to such malpractices so

that qualified and deserving contractors are allotted the works.

The union has also asked the public to report such cases to its office so that defaulting officials could be dealt with accordingly, especially in works that concerns Phek district.

PDNCSU has also asked the minister in-charge of PWD and PWD department to look into the grievances of the local contrac-

tors. It said that the criteria spelt out in the NIT by the department should be made more local-friendly rather than inviting other mega companies from outside the state.

The union has also thanked the state government for the assurance to reconstruct all division roads in due time and has urged all contractors and public to play an active role in bringing change to the society.

As a part of ongoing efforts of Assam Rifles to create awareness and to motivate youth to join the Security Forces, Mon Battalion of Assam Rifles under the aegis of HQ IGAR (North) conducted a Weapons Display for students of Government High School, Mon on October 10. Apart from this, career counseling was also organized.

170 students and six teachers attended the event. (PRO, Assam Rifles)

SRCW International Day of the Girl Child

DIMAPUR: State Resource Centre for Women (SRCW) under the aegis of the Nagaland State Social Welfare Board (NSSWB) organised a program on October 11 at Mt. Hermon Higher Secondary School Kohima to commemorate the “International Day of the Girl Child” under the theme, “With Her: A Skilled Girl Force”.

A press release by SRCW stated that its state coordinator, Gracy Aye, introduced the “Beti Bachao Beti Padhao” (Save the Girl Child; Educate her) and the Nagaland Adolescent Girls’ Club (NAGC) and she spoke about the different forms of violence that were taking place every day against girls and women. A topic on Child Sexual Abuse and Protection of Children from Sexual Offenses Act 2012 (POCSO) was highlighted by Ajabu Tungoe of SRCW. Giving a briefing on the importance of the Act, Tungoe cautioned that child sexual abuse could occur anywhere including the schools, at home or in the streets. Renthunglo Kikon, K

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Students at the SRCW and NSSWB International Day of the Girl Child celebrations on October 11.

of 181 Women Helpline, while deliberating on safe sex and healthy lifestyle said one should not shy away from attaining information on sex education.

Cerina Belho, of Women Helpline, explained to the girls the importance of health and personal hygiene and the developmental changes they undergo during the adolescent stage. A brief introduction on 181 Women Helpline, a 24 hour emergency response service and Sakhi- One Stop Centre that provides integrated support for women affected by violence was presented

by Chothalü Phesao and Toli K Assumi respectively.

A short demonstration on sexual abuse was shown to the students on how the Women Helpline and SakhiOne Stop Centre functions.

The act further exhibited how cases were tackled and referred to appropriate agencies. The research officer of SRCW, Meneno V, chaired the program and elaborated on the theme while the associate director of Mt. Hermon Higher Secondary School, Wunchipem Raman, thanked the SRCW for conducting the special workshop for students.

Addressing the participants, additional secretary of Department of Administrative Reforms & Public Grievances (Darpg) Under Union Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions, Vasudha Mishra expressed happiness that Nagaland agreed to host the 30th Regional Conference.

Mishra said she was happy that the States were taking interest in the Aspirational Districts program and added that this was the golden period for development of the districts. She also called upon DCs of the districts to form a team and deliberate on the problems and issues to be solved.

She also informed the participants that the

Government of India had instructed all public sector undertakings to adopt districts that the DCs would help them identify, and with whose consultation a plan of action for development would be made.

Earlier in the day, PLN Raju, director of North Eastern Space Application Centre under department of Space Government of India, gave a slide-show presentation on the geoportal on north eastern district resource plan.

Mon DC, K Thavaseelan also gave a slide-show presentation on “Good Governance - Perspectives from a Remote and Backward District.” The program was chaired by Hiazu Meru and Hovithal Sothu.

Nagaland Post, Dimapur FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2018

news in Brief DMC informs: Dimapur Municipal Council (DMC) administrator has informed all colony chairman/GBs that the department of Health & Family Welfare will be coming up with Wellness Centres in two Urban Primary Health Centres (UPHCs) Dimapur, where colony-wise GPS mapping and disease profile has to be submitted. All colony chairman/GBs have been informed that there will be a meeting on October 16, 12 p.m at Tourist Lodge Dimapur, where they are to bring names of 15 youth volunteers for the survey. All have been requested to attend the meeting.

ANHTU silver jubilee: The All Nagaland Hindi Teachers Union (ANHTU) will celebrate its silver jubilee on November 22 in Kohima. Venue and time will be intimated later. ANHTU has informed unit presidents to submit the corrected copy of every respective unit’s brief history and office bearers list on or before October 25 to B.P. Philip HEO (Hindi) DSE Kohima souvenir committee convenor at bpphillip64@gmail.com.

Unit presidents have also been asked to complete their jubilee fund collection on or before October 20 without fail.

NEAN emergency meeting: The NHM Employees Association of Nagaland (NEAN) has convened an emergency meeting of its executives, along with two members from each district unit, for October 13, 11:30 am at LCS Building to deliberate the one day cease work on October 25 called by All India NHM Karamchari Sangh.

DBA general body meeting: The Dimapur Bar Association (DBA) has convened its general body meeting for October 17, 2 pm at DBA Hall to deliberate on important and urgent issues pertaining to the DBA. Attendance of all members is mandatory.

MITE graduation day: Modern Insti-

tute of Teacher Education (MITE) 6th graduation day will be held on October 13, 10 am at the college auditorium. The student-teachers of 2016-17 batch have been invited to the event.

FGN, NNC to observe 67th Martyr’s Day: The Naga National Council (NNC) and Federal Government of Nagaland (FGN) will be observing 67th Martyr’s Day of the Naga nation on October 18, 10 a.m. at Transit Peace Camp (TCP) Kohima, Nagaland. FGN has extended an invite to all to the functionaries to pay homage to the martyrs.

DoSE directs GHSs and GMSs: Directorate of School Education has notified all heads of GHS, GMS to depute their mathematics teachers to attend a three day training workshop from October 15 to 17 to be held at Ura Academy Kohima. All the trainees are to report to the training venue on October 15, 9 a.m for registration.

4th Bn. NAP golden jubilee: 4th battalion NAP will be celebrating its golden jubilee on October 15, 10 a.m, Durbar hall at 4th Bn. NAP camp, Thizama.

DGP, T. John Longkumer will be the special guest on the occasion.

State Specific Rule on HIV & AIDS to be finalized: A State Consultation on HIV & AIDS (Prevention and Control) Act, 2017 for finalization of State Specific Rule will be held at Hotel De Oriental Grand, Kohima on October 16 at 10:30 am. The program will be organized by Nagaland State AIDS Control Society in collaboration with NACO, FHI360 and KRIPA Foundation. (DIPR) Inception Workshop on SSAP in Kohima: Inception workshop on State Specific Action Plan (SSAP) under National Water Mission for Nagaland State will be held at the Conference Hall of the chief secretary, Kohima, Nagaland, 12 p.m (noon) on October 12. (DIPR)

AKIDA responds to NVCO, AKMWP allegations

DIMAPUR: All Kohima Indane Distributors Association (AKIDA) has responded to the allegations of the Nagaland Voluntary Consumers’ Organisation (NVCO) that the shortage of LPG in Kohima has led to a proliferation of the black market and also the allegations of the Association of Kohima Municipal Wards Panchayat (AKMWP) that Seyie Gas Service was issuing LPG only once a week, making the customers queue from 1 am but still unable to get a single cylinder, which encouraged black marketers to shoot up the LPG price to Rs 2,000 per cylinder.

A press release from Kuolachalie Seyie, presid e n t o f A K I DA a n d proprietor of Seyie Gas Service, stated that there was definitely shortage of LPG, due to road blocks caused by the natural calamities, in addition to North Eastern States LPG Bandh and government holidays.

This, AKIDA said, had caused a tremendous backlog for the LPG demand in Kohima. It re-

quested LPG customers to be patient for few more weeks until the situation normalizes.

On the allegations of black-marketing, it said that the LPG Distributors of Kohima had repeatedly informed the customers, NVCO, and denizens of Kohima, through various means that blackmarket LPGs should be seized and the source of these cylinders should be traced with the authorities’ help. “... to our surprise and dismay they would never try to catch those alleged black marketers whom they claimed to have known except blaming the LPG distributors of Kohima again and again. This is not helping anyone” AKIDA asserted.

Pointing out that black marketrs were not hard to catch, the association said that in the tracing process, if the cylinders were found to be issued against proper booking and genuine cards, the distributor(s) is not at fault but the customers who lend their LPG cards to the middleman for the

HSS appeals on Puja celebrations DIMAPUR: Hindu Seva Samiti (HSS) has issued a list of appeals to Puja Committees, in relation to the upcoming Durga Puja celebrations, as per guidelines issued by the office of the Commissioner of Police and Nagaland Pollution Control Board.

A press release from the HSS president asked all puja pandals to ensure cleanliness around pandals in accordance with “Swach Bharat Abhiyan”.

HSS also asked that posters of the Measles & Rubella Vaccination Campaign be put up at the puja pandals for awareness, which are available at the CMO’s office. It stated that the directive also instructed celebrators to maintain public peace & tranquillity and also further instructed Puja Pandals to use sound systems in a controlled manner to avoid disturbances.

Further, officer bearers of all Puja Committees have been directed to be present in their respective Puja pandals in maximum numbers and maintain law & order to avoid any untoward incidents

during the holy festival. In view of the administration’s caution regarding anti social activities and treat perception, all the office bearers of Puja Pandals, volunteers and devotees have been directed to keep close vigil on any unclaimed articles, vehicles, etc., and take the help of Police when required immediately. It asked that one of the committee member’s contact number be given to the nearest police station for coordination. On October 19, all the Puja Pandal’s vehicles have been requested to line up with the idols at Clock Tower Junction from where they will proceed to the Immersion Ghat at 8:30 a.m.

To avoid traffic hassles all Puja Committees have been directed to control their volunteers and any dance which can disturb or block the traffic has been banned. In case any committee violates directives, the Police will take stringent action, and for which Hindu Seva Samiti will not be held responsible, the release asserted. HSS further wished a Happy Durga Puja to all.

purpose of black marketing were.

In this case, the customers and the middleman are the culprits, it said. It added that if, instead, the grey cylinders were found to be from some other LPG distributors outside Kohima city, proper legal action can be taken against such black marketers.

The LPG Distributors of Kohima will support such moves whole heartedly, it stated. The association further added that if the cylinders are found to be pilfered, then the culprits should be arrested immediately instead of accusing each other within eachother’s comfort zones without doing anything.

“We need to take action together to solve the problem and not play the blame game for every problem we face on the daily” AKIDA said.

Coming to Seyie Gas Service, it assured consumers that the agency had never delivered any LPG cylinder without checking the weight and gas quality since its inception, calling it their duty to deliver the

full IOCL specified quality, delivered on time, and at the right control price always. “We are issuing LPG cylinders once in a week at P.R. Hills (sic) and once in a month at the D. Block, the rest of the LPG cylinders are regularly taken for colony deliveries for the welfare of the customers to avoid high cost of transportation charges and traffic problems and this is going on smoothly” the release stated.

Admitting that presently the queue was long at P.R. Hill as claimed because sufficient colony deliveries cannot be done in time due to the aforesaid backloads, it, however, asserted that whosoever was in the queue were either given filled cylinders or a token card for delivery in the same week and no one had ever been sent back empty handed “as wildly claimed.”

The association claimed that distributors were facing high expenditures and risks having to change transport means halfway to Kohima, late at nights due to traffic

restrictions.

Adding to these to these miseries all the Kohima LPG distributors face heavy financial losses because they are compelled to transport their own LPG loads to Kohima from Dimapur Bottling Plant and back to the Plant, at the “Dimapur local LPG transportation rate” which is just Rs 7, 900 for both ways, which does not cover the cost of fuel, load and unload charges and gate taxes, instead of the present minimum market rate of “Rs 25, 000 for a COWL, PS 4, 16/15, TC, Tata Truck.”

In spite of these huge financial losses, it said that the distributors were still trying their best to serve the customers to the best of their capacity.

Stating that the distributers had not lost anything to the allegations, which they said they think were unfair and miscalculated, the release said that it had given them an audience to bring to light the LPG situation in Kohima and move closer to a solution.

GMS Botsa first Green School in Nagaland

DFO Kohima, department officials and students at GMS Botsa under Chiephobozou sub-division.

KOHIMA: Government Middle School (GMS) Botsa was declared a “Green School” on October 10 under the initiative of Kohima Forest Division’s Green Initiative Program which mainly focuses on schools and their commitment to green activities.

DFO Kohima, Rongsenlemla Imchen in a release stated that the Green Initiative Program has two components, namely Green Future Nursery and Plastic Free School programs, which aim to create awareness about planting more and reducing plastic pollution respectively. She said

GMS Botsa already has a Green Future Nursery under this program and with the school being declared ‘Plastic Free’ on October 10, the school has become the first Green School in Nagaland.

During the program, the DFO highlighted the importance of the role of students in fighting plastic pollution and reminded the gathering that plastic free does not necessarily mean zero use of plastic but reducing the plastic footprint, especially with regard to ‘single use plastic’ items.

She thanked the school authority and the students

for their active participation towards the initiative. Forest ranger Sanchu spoke about the effects of plastic pollution on the environment and the responsibilities of the students towards fostering a plastic free lifestyle. On the occasion, the students and faculty made plastic free commitments through taking a pledge administered by forest ranger Pezaneinuo.

To mark the occasion, “eco friendly waste bins” were also given to the school. The school authority thanked the department for the initiative and assured it to continue with their green commitments.

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Officials of Manipur social welfare department receiving the national award for Poshan Abhiyan in New Delhi.

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IMPHAL, Oct 11: Manipur social welfare minister Nemcha Kipgen Thursday lauded officials of the department on receiving the national award for Poshan Abhiyan in two categories - Field Functionary Awards - AAA(A++) Award and Leadership

Award (District Level).

The minister credited the achievement to department officials, staff, and AWW for their commitment, dedication and team work, and also the deputy commissioner of Chandel district for the Leadership Award.

Kipgen said that this was the second national

award bagged by the state Social Welfare Department (SWD) this year and the awards were a proof of the exemplary contribution of the state government under the leadership of chief minister N Biren Singh.

Altogether, six persons from the state also received the award in three different categories - Leadership

Award, Field Functionary Awards - Individual Excellence and AAA(A++) Award.

They were Anganwa d i Wo r k e r ( AW W ) W Warthangam, ASHA Bongkhamsel, ANM Regika, DC Chandel Krishna Kumar, ANM Dimkhanman Hangsing and ASHA ST Naoting Vaiphei. The nodal ministry for the National Nutrition Mission/ Poshan Abhiyaan, Union ministry of women and child development, recognized outstanding works at all levels and across ministries/departments during the Poshan Maah as part of the Poshan Maah Award Ceremony held in New Delhi on October 10.

The awards distribution ceremony was graced by vice-chairman Dr Rajiv Kumar of NITI Aayog and Dr Vinod K. Paul, secretary Rakesh Srivastava of ministry of WCD and various high ranking officials of various ministries.

Director of state social welfare Jaspreet Kaur and joint director Oinam Sonia attended the award distribution ceremony.

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HC steps in to restore normalcy in MU; appoints administrator Correspondent

IMPHAL, Oct 11: Putting an end to the 134 daylong crisis in the Manipur University, the Manipur High Court on Thursday has appointed former chief secretary of Manipur, Jarnail Singh, as administrator of the University.

A division bench of the court comprising of justice N Kotishow and justice Nandakishore passed the order after hearing two separate PILs filed by Chongtham Nimai Singh and Hemanta Ningomba, editor of Manipuri daily Huiyen Lanpao.

While appointing the retired IAS officer Jarmail Singh, the court also suspended an order regarding appointment of prof K Yugindro Singh as pro-vice chancellor issued by VC AP Pandey.

The court also suspended the order related with the appointment of prof W Vishwanath Singh to look after the office of VC issued by AP Pandey on August 1, 2018 and appointment of Shyamkesho Singh and Sh Dorendrajit

as registrar in-charge of the varsity.

The visitor of the university and concerned Union ministry of human resource development were also asked to ensure not to revoke the suspension of AP Pandey as VC of the varsity.

“We, hereby, appoint a neutral person as an Administrator who is fully empowered to discharge the functions of the vice chancellor as provided under the Manipur University Act, 2005 and such other relevant statues, whose primary duty and responsibility is to bring normalcy to Manipur University,” the order of the court stated.

The court ordered Jarnail Singh to immediately take over charge and start discharging his duties and functions as the VC. While giving the mandatory authority and power to bring normalcy in the varsity, the court said that the administrator will have the liberty to approach the court for any clarification of the order or seek any further order or directions from the court.

Dearest Shreesha, You are naughty little 1 year old, but that is forgotten because you are just too adorable and have brought much joy in the lives of everyone around you. Happy 1st Birthday little Baby Shreesha !!

Regards, Maa, Baba, Ayush, Mishtu n loved ones.

Happy 2nd birthday to our little champ Mhasheve Rosetso, We celebrate your life everyday, Thank you for being our sunshine.

Oku Meren & Longer To our little bundle of Joy, Mhasheve Rose, May you grow up to be all that we pray that you will be. You are absolutely the sweetest melody of our life. We love you.

Apuo, Azuo & all your loved ones Inga Diu, We always thank God that He gave us your life on this day(12th Oct).

Happy birthday to you, May our good Lord bless you abundantly in the years to come.

Frm :- Dad, Mom,brothers & sister.

To Maneo, It is your b’day, which brings a special chance to leave aside all worry. So I am advising u to smile as much as possible because in the next u may not have all teeth.... may ur troubles be as few and far between as ur “Grandmother Teeth”.

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British Council, NEC sign MoU on US ambassador visits CoSAAP strike ‘illegal’: Arunachal govt educational, cultural collaboration Tripura, meets CM

S hillo n g, O c t 1 1 (IANS): British Council India and the North Eastern Council (NEC) on Thursday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to strengthen educational and cultural cooperation.

Alan Gemmell, OBE, Director British Council India and NEC’s Director (HRD & E) K.H. Siile Anthony inked the MoU to support the knowledge ambitions and economic growth of the eight North Eastern Indian states.

As a result of this agreement, artists and the cultural community of the northeastern states -- Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mi-

zoram, Nagaland, Sikkim and Tripura -- would get the opportunity to share culture, creativity and ideas with the UK. Government school teachers and faculty members of higher education institutions would also gain access to English language learning, quality education and internationally benchmarked assessments, a statement said.

“We’ve been inspired every day of the last 70 years by the artists, students, scientists and policy makers we’ve worked with in India and the northeast...

By signing a MoU with the NEC, we are able to make an impact across eight states

simultaneously, and I hope it will enable more young people to realise their aspirations in education, skill development and arts and culture,” Gemmell said.

The pact will work towards improving English communication of state civil servants, developing capacity-building initiatives in state governments, supporting improvements in the teaching of Mathematics and Science, capacitybuilding programmes for faculty and senior administrators of higher education institutions. It will seek to increase student and academic mobility for all eight states of the region, the statement said.

Agartala, Oct 11 (PTI): The U S Ambassador to India Kenneth Juster, who paid a two-day maiden visit to Tripura, met its chief minister and governor and visited the tourist spots in the state during his stay, official sources said Thursday.

Juster met Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb at the state secretariat Wednesday after his arrival and discussed business, connectivity and Indo-US relations.

The ambassador also met Governor Kaptan Singh Solanki. He visited Neermahal, the water palace of the Tripura king Bir Bikram Kishore Manikya Bahadur in Sipahijala district, about 60 km from here, besides the

Cong fields 12 new faces for Mizoram Assembly polls

Aizawl, Oct 11 (Agencies): Thursday’s declaration of Congress candidates for the November 28 Mizoram polls saw 12 new faces, however candidates for four constituencies were not announced, Northeast Now reported.

At a candidate declaration ceremony held at Lal Thanhawla auditorium in Aizawl, the congress president and present chief minister Lal Thanhawla said the older generation of the Congress party has given way for the younger Con-

gress generation. The list of candidates saw younger entrants like former student organisation leaders like Anggu Lalhmachhuana, James Thanghmingmawia and PC Laltlansanga, they are former presidents of the Mizo ZIrlai Pawl.

Among the 12 new entrants, a former IPS officer LT Hrangchal will contest from Chalfilh AC, Mizoram Rajya Sabha member Ronald Sapa Tlau’s younger brother Sangzela Tlau will contest from Tuikum AC. The Congress has also named Joseph

Gorkhas in Assam not to be sent to Foreigners Tribunals: MHA New Delhi, Oct 11 ( Ag e n c i e s ) : U n i o n Home Ministry on Wednesday told the Assam government that members of Gorkha community living in the state can neither be sent to detention centres nor their cases on citizenship status be tried at various Foreigners Tribunals, The Indian Express reported.

N a m e s o f ove r 1 lakh of nearly 2.5 million Gorkha people residing in Assam had not found their names in the updated draft list of NRC published on June 30.

In its communication, the MHA said members of Gorkha community, who were Indian citizens at the time of commencement of the Constitution, or those who are Indian citizens by birth, or those who acquired Indian citizenship by registration or naturalization in accordance with the provisions of The Citizenship Act, 1955, were not “foreigners” and therefore, such

cases could not be referred to Foreigners Tribunals.

“Any member of the Gorkha community, holding Nepalese nationality and who has arrived in India by land or air over the Nepal border even without a passport or visa and staying in India for any length of time, shall not be treated as an illegal migrant if he/she is in possession of any of the identity documents namely the Nepalese Passport, Nepalese Citizenship Certificate, voter identification card issued by the Election Commission of Nepal, limited validity photo-identity certificate issued by Nepalese Mission in India when deemed necessary and for children between age group of 10 and 18 years, photo identity issued by principal of a school, if accompanied by parents having valid travel documents as per the provisions of India-Nepal Treaty signed in 1950,” the statement said.

Ralte who was the candidate of Zoram Nationalist Party from Tuirial AC in the last election toppling the sitting MLA Hmingdailova.

Mizoram Pradesh Youth Congress president Dr Lalmalsawmna Nghaka, who lost to the MNF candidate Lalruatkima in the last election is being given the second chance to contest against MNF’s Lalruatkima.

A n o t h e r n ew f a c e former Aizawl councillor Rosiamngheta will take on the former Congress vice-

president and former home minister R Lalzirliana who was recently expelled from the party at Tawi AC, the home turf of the ex-minister for the past twenty years.

Fo r m e r M i z o Z i r lai Pawl president James Thanghmingmawia will be up against the second in command of the MNF Tawnluia at Tuichang AC. The youngest Congress candidate Anggu Lalhmachhuana will contest from Serlui AC, the sitting Congress MLA Lalrinthanga is among the left outs.

NOTICE INVITING OTHER CLAIMANTS TO REPRESENTATION TO COME FORWARD (SECTION 375 OF INDIAN SUCCESSION ACT 1925).

In the Court of Shri. Albert Ezung Additional Deputy Commissioner, Dimapur District, Nagaland Whereas application under Succession Act 1925 for grant of Succession Certificate for the estate of Late Shilem Khiamniungan Deceased, has been filed by Smti. Hainrene, relation wife, R/o W/No. 9 Chumukedima to draw his/her Family Pension, Bank Acct, etc, who expired on 27.9.18.

Notice is hereby given that any person having interest in the administration of the estate of the said deceased, may if he/she so desire may appear in this court within 30 days, on the said day of 12.11.18.

Given under the hand and seal of the court this 11 day of 10/18.

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500-year-old Tripurasundari Temple in Gomati district on Thursday.

ONGC Tripura Power Company-run Palatana gas thermal power plant also in Gomati district.

Deb tweeted Delighted to meet the Ambassador of the United States of America to India, H.E. Amb. Kenneth Juster in Agartala today.

On behalf of the 37 lakh people of Tripura, I extend my best wishes to US Embassy in India for a pleasant stay in our beautiful state.

The US diplomat tweeted thanking Deb for an excellent discussion on business, connectivity, and US-India relations”.

OFFICE OF THE

NAGALAND DOBASHI ASSOCIATION HQ. KOHIMA : NAGALAND

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This is to inform all the DB's of every district to submit the yearly membership fee within this month i.e, before 31st Oct' 2018. Also, as resolved in the executive meetings, all the districts are directed to submit 10,000/(Ten thousand) only with the above stated membership through Finance Secretary A/C No. 30775108410.

against non-fulfilment of various demands.

The CoSAAP has been demanding the 7th Central pay commission allowances in toto, along with other service benefits for the employees.

Besides housing rent allowance (HRA) and tough location allowance (TLA), the CoSAAP has been demanding the government to provide non-practicing allowance for doctors, children education allowance, transport allowance, non-teaching allowance for teachers. Meanwhile, the CoSAAP general secretary Gonya Riba claimed the strike was successful and functioning in state government offices in the state were affected due to the strike.

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Nagaland University invites sealed tenders for Supply of Equipments to the Department of Botany, Nagaland University, Lumami under DPT sponsored Advance Level Institutional Biotech Hub. Interested parties may download the tender documents from the University website: www.nagalanduniversity. ac.in and submit their quotations along with tender fees of Rs. 1,000/- (nonrefundable) in the form of DD in favour of Registrar, Nagaland University, Lumami in sealed envelop superscript on the cover “Tender for supply of Equipments to the Department of Botany, Nagaland University, Lumami under DPT sponsored Advance Level Institutional Biotech Hub” and addressed to the undersigned on or before 31st October, 2018 up to 4:00. P.M.. No tenders will be accepted beyond this date and time.

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ceedings under CCS (CCA) Rules and other relevant Act/Rules,” the government order said.

The Cabinet has recently decided to grant the House Rent Allowance (HRA) and Tough Location Allowance (TLA) despite the ‘precarious’ financial condition of the state, it said. “The decisions were taken by the state cabinet keeping very sympathetic view towards the members of the Confederation in spite of the fact that it will involve an estimated financial implication of approximately, Rs 90 crore per annum,” a government notification said.

The CoSAAP has called the two-day strike from Thursday in protest

Quotations are invited from interested parties for supply, installation & maintenance of Large Video Wall/Electronic Display Board with Desired Software Integration System at Gauhati High Court, Kohima Bench. Details may be downloaded from http://nagalandtenders.gov.in (Mr. Neiko Kanuo), NJS Registrar-cum-Central Project Coordinator, E-Courts Project, Nagaland, Gauhati High Court, Kohima Bench DC-1731

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Itanagar, Oct 11 (PTI): The Ar unachal Pradesh government has termed the two-day pen and tool down strike called by employees under the banner of Confederation of Service Associations of Arunachal Pradesh (CoSAAP) as ‘illegal’, officials said Thursday.

The state government in an order on Wednesday termed the strike as ‘illegal and said stern action would be taken against employees taking part in the strike, the official said.

“Any government employee taking part in the pen/tool down strike shall be in gross contravention with CCS (Conduct) Rules, and such employees will be liable for disciplinary pro-

Headquarters : Lumami-798627

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NOTICE INVITING TENDER

Nagaland University invites sealed tenders for Supply of Equipments to the Department of Botany, Nagaland University, Lumami under DPT sponsored Twining R & D Project. Interested parties may download the tender documents from the University website: www.nagalanduniversity.ac.in and submit their quotations along with tender fees of Rs. 1,000/- (non-refundable) in the form of DD in favour of Registrar, Nagaland University, Lumami in sealed envelop superscript on the cover “Tender for supply of Equipments to the Department of Botany, Nagaland University, Lumami under DPT sponsored Twining R & D Project” and addressed to the undersigned on or before 31st October, 2018 up to 4:00. P.M.. No tenders will be accepted beyond this date and time.

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Nagaland Post, Dimapur FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2018

Cyclone Titli leaves eight dead in AP

People make their way as Cyclone Titli hits the city, starting with surface wind effect reaching speeds of 126 kmph at Gopalpur, in Ganjam, Thursday. (PTI) A m a r av a t i ( A P ) / Bhubaneswar, Oct 11 (PTI): Cyclone ‘Titli’ made landfall on the eastern coast of the country early on Thursday claiming eight lives and wrecking havoc in Srikakulam and Vizianagaram districts of Andhra Pradesh, while causing widespread damage in neighbouring Odisha.

While no loss of lives were reported in Odisha, the “very severe” cyclonic storm left a trail of destruction in Gajapati and Ganjam districts of state, uprooting trees, electric poles and damaging hutments.

According to the India Meteorological Department (IMD), Cyclone Titli made

India lost $80 bn due to disasters in last 20 yrs: UN report New Delhi, Oct 11 (Agencies): At a time when Odisha and Andhra Pradesh are facing the wrath of cyclone Titli, the United Nations in a report has said India lost $80 billion to natural disasters over the past 20 years, India Today reported.

The report was released on Wednesday by the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) ahead of the International Day for Disaster Reduction on October 13.

The report says that in the past 20 years, the overall direct economic loss from climate-related disasters across the world has witnessed a 151 per cent increase.

The report has been jointly prepared by UNISDR and the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED).

It is titled ‘Report on Economic Losses, Poverty and Disasters for 1998-2017’, and ranks India among the top five countries that have suffered losses due to disasters.

At $944.8 billion, the United States has suffered the greatest losses due to disasters in the past 20 years. This is followed by China ($492.2 billion), Japan ($376.3 billion), India ($ 79.5 billion) and Puerto Rico ($ 71.7 billion).

its landfall near Palasa in Srikakulam district, south west of Gopalpur in Odisha with an estimated maximum sustained surface wind speed of 140-150 kmph gusting to 165 kmph between 4.30 am and 5.30 am.

The Andhra Pradesh State Disaster Management Authority (SDMA) said the cyclone caused widespread damage in Srikakulam and Vizianagaram, and threw normal life out of gear as heavy to very heavy rains lashed the two north coastal districts districts since late Wednesday night.

While a 62-year-old woman died at Gudivada Agraharam village after a tree fell on her, a 55-year-

old man died in a house collapse at Rotanasa village in Srikakulam district, the SDMA said.

The Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister’s Office (CMO) said the six others killed were fishermen who had ventured into the sea.

Of the 67 fishing boats that had gone into the sea over the last few days from Kakinada in East Godavari district, 65 had returned to the shore safely, the CMO said, adding efforts were on to bring back the remaining two boats.

The road network in Srikakulam district suffered extensive damage, while the power distribution network was also severely affected.

More than 2,000 electric poles were uprooted by strong winds.

The Eastern Power Distribution Company, that caters to the electricity needs of the north coastal districts of Andhra Pradesh, reported that the distribution system for 4,319 villages and six towns in Srikakulam district was affected.

In Odisha, Cyclone Titli led to very heavy rainfall in Ganjam, Gajapati and Puri districts and caused minor damage to power supply and communication.

In all, eight districts -Ganjam, Gajapati, Khurda, Puri, Jagatsinghpur, Kendrapara, Bhadrak and Balasore -- have been affected by the cyclonic storm, Special Relief Commissioner B P Sethi said.

“There has been no major destruction or report of casualty from any part of the state so far. Some damages like uprooting of trees and electric poles and damage to hutments were reported from Ganjam and Gajapati districts,” he said.

Power supply and telephone links got disrupted, and road communication snapped due to uprooted trees at many places in Gajapati district, Sethi said, adding efforts are now on to clear the blocked roads and to restore power supply in affected areas.

Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik reviewed

Editors Guild condemns raids New Delhi, Oct 11 (Agencies/IANS): The Editors Guild of India has expressed its concern over the raids by Income Tax officials at the home and office of media owner Raghav Bahl in Noida this morning, NDTV reported.

“While the tax administration is within its rights to make inquiries in compliance with the relevant laws, it should not exercise those powers in a way that could be seen as an intimidation of the government’s critics,” said the top body of editors representing the media industry.

Mr Bahl informed the Editors Guild that while he was in Mumbai, “dozens of IT officials descended on my residence and The Quint’s office for a ‘survey’”.

The Editors Guild said it is “perturbed over” Raghav Bahl’s statement that he had spoken to the officer on his premises and requested him, strongly, to not try and pick up or see any mail or document that was likely to contain very serious or sensitive journalistic material.

“The Guild believes that motivated incometax searches and surveys will seriously undermine media freedom and the government should desist from such attempts,” Edi-

tors Guild said.

Mr Bahl said he was heading back to Delhi.

“We are a fully tax compliant entity, and will provide all access to all appropriate financial documents,” he said.

He also said that his wife and mother were confined to their home and were not being allowed to speak to anybody. “I have got little else to go on right now,” he said in a statement to the media.

The searches were in connection with “tax evasion”, news agency Press Trust of India quoted officials as saying. Searches are being carried out on a few more people as part of the Income Tax Department’s investigation of tax evasion by business professionals, PTI said.

Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad, asked about the raids and whether they were an attempt to suppress the media, said: “We believe in freedom of press and democratic values. If any media house is involved in corruption, they have to answer.”

The searches triggered a number social media posts questioning the independence of media. Senior journalist Shekhar Gupta, who is also the president of the Editors Guild, said on Twitter that the raids looked like intimidation of media critical to the

government.

Raghav Bahl, one of the biggest names in Indian media, is the founder of The Quint and the Network18 group.

Tax raid on media house attack on free press: Amnesty

Calling the income tax raids on a news portal office “a clampdown on free press”, Amnesty India on Thursday said the authorities are attempting to silence anyone expressing views critical of the government.

“The Income Tax Department’s search on Quintillion Media Private Ltd, which runs a news website ‘The Quint’, and the homes of its owners, Raghav Bahl and Ritu Kapoor, indicates a clampdown on the free press,” Aakar Patel, Executive Director of Amnesty India, said in a statement.

“It raises disturbing questions on whether the news website is being targeted for speaking truth to power. It appears that the authorities are attempting to silence anyone expressing views that are critical of the government,” he said.

Income Tax officials on Thursday carried out “surveys” at the residence and office premises of Bahl over alleged tax evasion.

It’s for MJ Akbar to speak on Me Too row: Irani Mumbai, Oct 11 (PTI): Amid sexual harassment allegations against her ministerial colleague M J Akbar, Union minister Smriti Irani Thursday said it was for him to respond to the charges even as she favoured justice for the “ladies who are speaking out”.

As the #MeToo campaign gathered momentum, some women journalists have come out and accused Akbar, Minister of State for External Affairs, of sexually harassing them during his stint as editor in two newspapers.

“The gentleman concerned would be better positioned to speak on this issue,” Irani, the Union Textiles Minister, told re-

Smriti Irani (File) porters here while responding to questions over allegations against Akbar.

Akbar, whose resignation from the government is being demanded by opposition political parties and various others, has not reacted to the allegations so far.

“I appreciate that the media is accosting his (for-

mer) female colleagues but I think it is for the gentleman concerned to issue a statement (and) not for me because I was personally not present there, Irani said.

She urged people not to mock the women who are speaking out against the harassment meted out to them.

I have said again and again on this particular issue, especially about women speaking out that anybody speaking out that in no way should be shamed, victimised or mocked. That is my only appeal to everybody who is witnessing this surge of outpouring of emotion, of anger on the internet and offline also, she said on the sidelines of an event here.

Irani, a former TV actress, underlined that women don’t go to work to be harassed but to work to live their dreams and earn a respectable living.

So, I will say here today it must be very difficult for women to come out and talk about whatever happened in their professional lives. It is extremely an important part in time in our society where more and more women are getting the support, so they can speak out.

“I feel there are enough instruments in our judicial and police systems to deliver justice and I am hopeful that all these ladies who are speaking out get, due to due process, the justice that they deserve, Irani said.

the situation in the state and instructed officials to expedite restoration efforts once the situation improves.

He also directed the officials concerned to provide relief materials to cyclone-affected people.

“The chief minister gave instruction to send two more teams of NDRF to Gajapati where extensive damage has been caused to roads, hutments, electric and telephone poles,” Chief Secretary A P Padhi said.

Thirteen teams of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and Orissa Disaster Rapid Action Force have been deployed in affected areas along with fire brigade personnel.

“The damage is less than what we had feared,” the chief secretary said.

Padhi said the state government on Wednesday evacuated over three lakh people to safe places, which helped avoid loss of life in the natural calamity.

T h e e va c u e e s a r e housed in 1,112 shelters where food and sanitation facilities are available, he said. Traffic on the ChennaiKolkata National Highway was hit at places due to uprooted trees.

According to East Coast Railway sources, train services between Khurda Road in Odisha and Vizianagaram in Andhra Pradesh remained suspended since 10 pm Wednesday.

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‘Ganga activist’ GD Agarwal, on fast for nearly 4 months, dies

In this photo dated Oct 10, 2018, is seen environmentalist G D Agarwal, who was on fast unto death since June 22 for a clean River Ganga, being forcibly taken to the hospital after his health detriorated in Haridwar. Agarwal passed away on Thursday. (PTI) NEW DELHI, Oct 11 (Agencies): Activist GD Agarwal, who was on an indefinite fast since June 22 to urge the government to clean river Ganga, has died at the AIIMS hospital in Rishikesh, NDTV reported.

He was 87.

The noted environmentalist reportedly had a heart attack. He was reportedly demanding a law that would protect river Ganga and maintain its uninterrupted flow between Gangotri and Uttarkashi in Uttarakhand.

GD Agarwal, also known as Swami Gyan Swaroop Sanand, was shifted by

the police from Haridwar to AIIMS in Rishikesh yesterday after being on fast for 109 days.

Reports suggest the ‘Clean Ganga’ activist was only consuming water mixed with honey during his fast. Two days ago, he had reportedly also given up water after talks on his demands failed.

GD Agarwal was once a professor at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. He had also served as a Member-Secretary of the Central Pollution Control Board or CPCB. He had previously too held fasts for the protection of rivers.

His fast in 2009 had led to the construction of a dam on river Bhagirathi being stopped.

Lawyer and activist Prashant Bhushan tweeted to say GD Agarwal’s pleas to clean Ganga were not acted upon. “GD Agarwal, our leading environmentalist who fasted 109 days to save the Ganga, was forcibly picked up by the Uttarakhand police&hospitalized yesterday.He passed away today after his pleas to save the Ganga fell on Modi’s deaf years. RIP Dear Sir. This world is not for pure souls (SIC)” Mr Bhushan tweeted.

NAGALAND PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION NO.NPSC/CON-35/2009

KOHIMA

NOTIFICATION

Dated Kohima, the 11th October, 2018

In pursuance of the Commission’s Advertisement No. NPSC-2/2017 dt. 05.08.2017, Addendum dt. 20.09.2017, Addendum dt. 05.03.2018 & Corrigendum dt. 24.08.2018, the Commission conducted Written Main Examination and Viva-voce for NCS, NPS, NSS & Allied Services 2017.

On the basis of marks obtained in the Main Written Examination, Viva-voce and Medical & Police Fitness Tests and options exercised by the candidates, the Commission is pleased to declare the provisional results for the following post(s) under the Government of Nagaland.

Item No. 1: 12 (Twelve) posts of Extra Assistant Commissioner (Cl-I Gazetted, 25th SAMUEL AKHO KONYAK P 1785 BT Konyak Junior Grade), under Personnel & Administrative Reforms Department.

1800 BT Yimchunger 26th T JONGSEN Rank Name Roll No Remarks 1753 BT Zeliang 27th TEULUNG PAME 1st N ORENTHUNG KIKON 1789 28th LUSA KATIRY 1336 BT Pochury 2nd ZERÜTSO KESIEZIE 1792 1761 BT Sangtam 29th S ADIBA SANGTAM 1335 3rd KETSINLE TEP 1636 BT Phom 30th N JOSEPH 1122 4th MOLOSANGLA OZUKUM 31st TSADILA THONGER 1781 BT Sangtam 5th IMLIJUNGLA LEMTUR 1730 32nd KHRIESELHOUNUO RUPREO 1895 Phy.Handicapped 6th ANE KHIEYA 1295 1429 BT Chang 33rd KAIMANG CHOLEN 1755 7th SEYIEVILIE PFUKRI 1475 BT Khiamniungan 34th POHOI 1334 8th RUOKUOSETUO TETSO Item No. 5: 2 (Two) posts of Assistant Jailor (Cl-III Non-Gazetted), under 9th WETSHO LASUSHE 1516 BT Chakhesang Prison Department.

10th M KHENPA 1631 BT Konyak Rank Name Roll No Remarks 1433 BT Khiamniungan 1st YANSHUMTHUNG JUNGIO 1704 11th PUHAN KHIAMNIUNGAN 12th I YENTINOUNGBOU 2nd T CHANGCHINGMAK 1023 BT Chang 1261 BT Chang Item No. 2: 12 (Twelve) posts of Deputy Superintendent of Police (Cl-I Item No. 6: 2 (Two) posts of Labour Inspector (Cl-III Non-Gazetted), under Labour & Employment, Skill Development & Entrepreneurship Department.

Gazetted), under Home Department, Police Establishment Branch.

Rank Name Roll No Remarks Rank Name Roll No Remarks 1st MEDEMKALA TZUDIR 1706 1st KEVILHOUBEI THEUNUO 1749 2nd SEYIECHULHOU 2nd L YONGYO 1727 1757 BT Konyak 3rd AYANGLA S PONGEN Item No. 7: 3 (Three) posts of Technical Assistant (Cl-III Non-Gazetted), 1210 Employment & Craftsmen Training Department.

1680 4th KEVISEZO SIRIE th Rank Name Roll No Remarks LUNSO 1747 5 1st VIZOVOLIE VIVIAN SOLO 1214 6th SENTIWAPANG 1530 1241 2nd YILOBEMO Y KITHAN 1788 7th AVIKISHE SEMA rd th 3 GUACHE KREO 1422 BT Chakhesang 8 KHETILO SEB 1103 Item No. 8: 1 (One) post of Research Assistant (Cl-III Non-Gazetted), 1367 9th KIHIKA SUMI CHISHI under Administrative Training Institute.

1292 BT Chakhesang 10th SHETA LOHE Rank Name Roll No Remarks th 11 SANGTHING KHIAM 1622 BT Khiamniungan st 1 KANGYILE THOU 1046 BT Zeliang 12th SAO CHINGMAK 1681 BT Chang Item No. 9: 1 (One) post of Assistant Archivist (Cl-III Non-Gazetted), Item No. 3: 2 (Two) posts of Block Development Officer (Cl-I Gazetted), under Art & Culture Department. under Rural Development Department.

Rank Name Roll No Remarks Rank Name Roll No Remarks 1st TEMJENJUNGLA 1450 1st LINES RHI 1776 Item No. 10: 3 (Three) posts of Assistant Research Officer (Cl-II nd 2 EZAO L EZUNG 1291 Gazetted), under Art & Culture Department. (One each reserved for Item No. 4: 34 (Thirty four) posts of Secretariat Assistant (Cl-III Non- Zeliang, Sumi and Yimchunger) Gazetted), under Personnel & Administrative Reforms Department.

Rank Name Roll No Remarks Rank Name Roll No Remarks st 1 AHIKA SHOHE 1862 Sumi 1st LILY Y ROCHILL 1732 2nd MOSES NEWMAI 1773 Zeliang nd 2 BENDANGJUNGLA WALLING 1690 rd AKAM P 1326 Yimchunger 3 3rd VINYUHU KESIEZIE 1798 Item No. 11: 7 (Seven) posts of Inspector of Taxes (Cl-III Non-Gazetted), 4th SASHIRENLA 1066 under Taxation Department. th IMOTEMJEN JAMIR 1626 5 Rank Name Roll No Remarks 6th VIMEZO METHA 1539 1st LANURENLA I IMSONG 1802 7th MOASANEN IMSONG 1402 2nd MUGHAPU SWU 1741 8th TUMBENTHUNG Y HUMTSOE 1604 1672 3rd NGULLIE AARON M MHONBEMO 1298 9th YAPANGKALA LONGKUMER 4th VIKAVI Z ASSUMI 1777 10th KUVILI ZHIMOMI 1712 5th ELINYILOU THOPI 1115 BT Chakhesang 11th VIZOSIEU RUPREO 1714 6th HAUHJAM HOPONG I CHANG 1149 BT Chang 1542 12th ABENI JAMI 1790 BT Khiamniungan 7th M TSUWING KHIAMNIUNGAN 13th ZEWEPRE THELE 1245 Item No. 12: 9 (Nine) posts of Junior Divisional Accountant (Cl-III NonGazetted), under Treasuries & Accounts Department.

1804 14th CHONGPHE ANGH Rank Name Roll No Remarks 1503 15th YIMKUM I OZUKUM 1st C TSALIMSE SANGTAM 1557 1563 16th KOTE KOZA 2nd MERANGTEMSU WALLING 1274 17th METAO Y JAMI 1555 1031 3rd AMIKALI JIMOMI 1861 18th KUZHOCU CUKHAMU 1739 4th NGANGA EZUNG 19th KAKUGHA SUMI 1311 1434 5th MOATEMSU CHANGKIJA 1168 20th KEVILETO RHETSO 6th WIDINTHUILIU 1008 Zeliang 21st IMTIKUMZUK JAMIR 1594 1531 Phom 7th THEANG PHOM 1684 BT Chakhesang 22nd VELHUPRA RHAKHO 8th LIKOKBA 1056 Sangtam 23rd S N ENYUH PHOM 1551 BT Phom 1523 Yimchunger 9th RIKUM S TIKHIR 1337 BT Konyak 24th AWANG KONYAK H Note: 1. Any selected candidate intending not to accept the post for which he/she is selected may submit a Non-Acceptance Letter within 7(Seven) days from the date of issue of this notification.

2. 1 (One) post of Secretariat Assistant (Cl-III Non-Gazetted) reserved for BT Sumi (Kiphire), under Personnel & Administrative Reforms Department shall be re-advertised as backlog vacancy.

3. The results are purely provisional subject to verification of antecedents and documents and consequence of Non-Acceptance Letter submitted by recommended candidates.

THEPFURIENYU GEORGE KIRE Controller of Examinations, Nagaland Public Service Commission, Kohima DC-1729

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Nagaland Post Vol. XXVIII NO. 307 Dimapur, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2018

Factors against progress

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hough development in Nagaland had undergone a series of changes during the past five decades or so, yet it has failed to maintain the desired momentum. There are various factors responsible in their own way and the net effect has led to progress grinding to a slow halt. Development concept comes to the fore and in line with the progress in human resource and the information and technology revolution.

The challenges of change comes to meet the growing needs of increasing population, improvement of education and demands for more consumer goods. All these need scientific and specific strategies to ensure maximisation of results with optimum investments.

Merely focusing on maintaining the status quo cannot lead to growth. There is need to spur growth in order to overcome the immense pressure for growth. Nagaland has been recipient of generous central funds from the late sixties and till the early 90s during which, development had swung from progressive to regressive. Whatever little progress has been overwhelmed and overcome by corruption and extortion, which have taken centre-stage. Infrastructures that were so taken for granted like good road connectivity, uninterrupted power, water and health services suffered as a consequence. The same fate has also befallen, the most vital and necessary infrastructures such as road communication and power. Nagaland has made some meaningful progress during the seventies to eighties in the era of peace and progress. It was largely due to the enthusiasm and commitment of the bureaucracy and the public’s intense desire to move forward along with the rest of the country. After the amazing progress, the pace gradually slowed down from the mid-90s when the system began to give in to various pulls and pressures and all of which resulted in loss of purpose and inadequacy in matters of management. After having tried its best to promote trade and industry, the state suffered on account of poor governance and this resulted in grinding halt to government corporations such as the paper mill, sugar mill, veneer mill while rumour and crime mills mushroomed. There are lessons to be learnt from these experiences. The failures have only added to the problem of growing unemployment which should be taken seriously, otherwise the problems will multiply. The problem of unemployment is not as scary as the sixty to seventy thousand registered as educated unemployed but the much greater number of unregistered drop outs and their finding ‘employment’ under various crime syndicates. The problem is also not only the lack of economic foundation, where no viable industry exists nor the fact that most of the unemployed lack basic skills that make them unemployable; the issue lies with the system. If employment is only about job then it goes no farther than saying that all those with jobs are productive and which would be like mistaking the wood for trees. What affects the economy is when the climate is vitiated and this calls for creation of a growth climate and removal of roots of extortion, lawless elements, corrupt system. Somehow and quite disturbingly, the current social syndrome seems to suggest that people have to pass through a few more decades while the refiner’s fire brings out the best.

These, in effect, impede development instead of only lack of investors.

DailyDevotion God’s Silence— Then What?

When He heard that he was sick, He stayed two more days in the place where He was. —John 11:6 Has God trusted you with His silence— a silence that has great meaning? God’s silences are actually His answers. Just think of those days of absolute silence in the home at Bethany! Is there anything comparable to those days in your life? Can God trust you like that, or are you still asking Him for a visible answer? God will give you the very blessings you ask if you refuse to go any further without them, but His silence is the sign that He is bringing you into an even more wonderful understanding of Himself. Are you mourning before God because you have not had an audible response? When you cannot hear God, you will find that He has trusted you in the most intimate way possible— with absolute silence, not a silence of despair, but one of pleasure, because He saw that you could withstand an even bigger revelation. If God has given you a silence, then praise Him— He is bringing you into the mainstream of His purposes. The actual evidence of the answer in time is simply a matter of God’s sovereignty. Time is nothing to God. For a while you may have said, “I asked God to give me bread, but He gave me a stone instead” (see Matthew 7:9). He did not give you a stone, and today you find that He gave you the “bread of life” (John 6:35).

A wonderful thing about God’s silence is that His stillness is contagious— it gets into you, causing you to become perfectly confident so that you can honestly say, “I know that God has heard me.” His silence is the very proof that He has. As long as you have the idea that God will always bless you in answer to prayer, He will do it, but He will never give you the grace of His silence. If Jesus Christ is bringing you into the understanding that prayer is for the glorifying of His Father, then He will give you the first sign of His intimacy— silence.

Quotes

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear. ~ Nelson Mandela

Nagaland Post, Dimapur FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2018

Post-mortem

Why an efficient financial system is crucial to consumption ecosystem

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ccess to financing of the right quality and quantity is critical for the growth of companies, industries and economies. In benign financial markets, the aphorism “A rising tide lifts all boats” holds. It is only when market volatility appears that the quality of various businesses can be truly deciphered.

For India to truly boost its consumption-driven economy on the back of a growing middle class, a robust financial system is essential. Recent events, such as emerging markets volatility and decline in share prices, point to the need for companies to pay more attention to their “capital structure”.

India has seen growth across the consumption spectrum. Everything from healthcare, consumer goods and financial services has seen growth over the last few decades, especially since 1991.

While the economy has grown extensively, and consumption patterns have seen remarkable changes, there are still significant gaps in the economy that make for attractive investment opportunities.

For instance, the hospital beds per person in India is still abysmally low at 0.9 per 1,000 people versus a developed economy such as the US which has 3.1 hospital beds per person. There is a need for more hospitals to provide both secondary and tertiary care.

There is also an urgent need for educational institutions to impart requisite skill-sets to doctors and nurses. Moreover, rapid urbanisation has led to a rise in chronic diseases. Facilities that can cater to all the above needs create opportunities for investors, regulators and the public alike.

The most critical aspect of the healthcare ecosystem is that

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market and a secondary market for loans are critical, these will all take time to evolve.

The structural changes needed most urgently are twofold. India needs to reassess the credit rating framework. Unless we find a more robust and foolproof mechanism to reflect credit risk through constant changes to credit ratings, market disruptions through the jump to default scenarios will be unavoidable. There is a need for a more transparent credit rating mechanism from the various agencies that can be a better indicator for embedded credit risk.

Additionally, as regulators mull over new regulations for NBFCs, there is scope to limit what sort of an asset-liability mismatch NBFCs can undertake.

An NBFC that borrows from the wholesale market to lend to credit markets needs to be restricted regarding how much short-term borrowings can finance long-term lending. The eventual aim is to create a functional “securitisation” market, whereby the NBFCs can pass on some of the term risk and premium to the institution lending to the NBFC. A more robust credit rating system along with restrictions that lead to better management of “term risk” is essential for the financial system to deliver value.

Structural changes that can create financing and flow of credit across the ecosystem are the need of the hour, especially with an eye on boosting the consumption-driven economy. Each component of the ecosystem merits attention. (heads Development Tracks, an infrastructure advisory firm.

The views expressed are personal.

He can be contacted at taponeel. mukherjee@development-tracks. com or @Taponeel on Twitter) Taponeel Mukherjee

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he biggest weakness we human face in this present world is lack of spiritual quotient. We as the top among the food chains has conquered almost every aspect of nature but still we remain invariant to the Mother Nature as if she allows us to play with her for some time and furnishes our desire to some extend and then with time destroys our advancement towards the fulfilment of our meagre desires.

The thing is that, our lust for materialism has planted within us discrete thinking and thus our opinion differs towards the world, and our consciousness about our supremacy allows us to describe good and bad, beauty and ugly to our inferior surrounding, which is actually not the truth.

And because of our judgemental attitude we give risk to ego, clashes, and in huge term we bring war.

“Beauty lies in the onlooker’s eye”. The statement is rich in every information about life and ourself. So simple it may look to us but it has profound dimension upon which the backbone of humanity is created. If we believe in the divinity of supreme we have the blessing to admit that there is Lord and we are his creation, than we will realize that everything in this earth is beautiful as they are created to serve certain purpose by the almighty. When he created everything, he was not touched by ego, anger I agreed as he is the unmanifested and his nature is not contaminated with material nature. So we call him, Lord of all senses as he do justice to even the ants and at the same time to the beasts that crawls in the dust of the earth.

And we are blessed by many of his personality, i.e. we can express ourself, we can serve the nature, we can also rule the nature, we can kill and we can save. The power of attorney is given to us, but due to lack of spiritual quotient and contamination by materialistic urge we fail to realize the eternal capacity of our soul, which dwells I every creature whether, human or hogs, each has the same soul which is eternal and infinite, dimensionless and concentrated to zero senses. And our senses are just the mirrors that blocks the eternal view of the earth by hiding our soul from mind.

Once we are able to channelize our senses upto the soul we will find everything beautiful, we can then see that happiness and distress are same and one should be indifferent to them as they are just like changing of season, we will then learn this truth that beauty is just a concept that depends upon our view of the universe and has nothing to do with reality.

Those, whose heart is divinity connected will see no difference between good and evil neither participate to be good or evil in the material earth, because beauty is actually n the eye of onlookers. So our senses should be non-discriminating, non-judgemental towards others but it is not that we should commit sin and take it equal to goodness as we should judge ourself with sincerity. If we can do this then there is a way that upto some extent we will realize the precious meaning hidden in these statement, “Beauty lies in the onlooker’s eye”.

Mughato Swu, Midland Colony, Dimapur

So much genetic testing, so few people to explain it to you

hen Dan Riconda graduated with a master’s degree in genetic counseling from Sarah Lawrence College in 1988, the Human Genome Project was in its very first year, DNA evidence was just beginning to enter the courts, and genetic health tests weren’t yet on the market. He found one of the few jobs doing fetal diagnostics for rare diseases, which often meant helping young families through the worst time in their lives.

What a difference 30 years makes. Today, with precision medicine going mainstream and an explosion of apps piping genetic insights to your phone from just a few teaspoons of spit, millions of Americans are having their DNA decoded every year. That deluge of data means that genetic counselors—the specialized medical professionals trained to help patients interpret genetic test results— are in higher demand than ever. With two to three job openings for every new genetic counseling graduate, the profession is facing a national workforce

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financing is needed for both infrastructure creation as well as for facilitating consumption.

For instance, from a healthcare perspective, financial markets need to provide the right amount of capital and the appropriate capital structure to create hospital infrastructure. Also, financial instruments and financial markets need to help the end-consumer access healthcare.

Thus, the entire ecosystem needs to function efficiently. Infrastructure creation, insurance markets and consumer-lending markets need to perform in unison for the multiplier effects to accrue from healthcare.

If adequate capital is available for creating hospital infrastructure but access to healthcare for end-consumers is restricted due to a lack of financing options, then the hospital infrastructure will both struggle from an investment perspective and fail to deliver economic value in the long run. Thus, for schemes such as “Ayushman Bharat” to indeed provide value, the entire ecosystem needs access to the optimal level of financing.

The need for a robust financial backbone is not limited to the healthcare sector alone.

All consumer-driven industries function on the same dynamics, implying that commercial banks, Non-Banking Financial companies (NBFCs) and other financial market participants are critical for economic growth.

While short-term solutions to address immediate needs are critical, the greater focus must be on long-term structural changes. The issues that NBFCs specifically, and credit markets in general, face point to the need for creating a robust wholesale finance market.

While a deep corporate bond

‘Beauty lies in the onlooker’s eye’

n this modern world where there is overflow of info and data, ‘Proper What If analysis’ is the mantra and the buzz word.

However is it that analysis of data or info is only required or can the what if analysis also be applied to the sociometric world and answers to the challenges prevalent in our times be sought. Let us begin with applying the what if analysis to arrive at a certain scenario and crystal gaze. What if the Naga society is united and everybody starts working in unison for the State. Naturally the Political solution will become a reality and voila! We will have the Naga accord which will be welcomed by one and all. What will happen

shortage.

That’s where folks like Riconda come in. He was recruited by Baylor College of Medicine to lead the school’s first class of genetic counseling students.

Baylor runs one of 11 new accredited programs in North America (10 in the US and one in Canada) that have launched in the last three years, increasing the total number of training programs on the continent by a third. There are at least a dozen more in various stages of development.

“There’s been a surge in the number of new programs in a relatively short period of time,” says Riconda. This year, there were 406 slots available for new applicants to genetic counseling programs, up from 378 the year before.

“It reflects the greater opportunities available today that didn’t exist when I first entered the field.”

In the clinic, genetic testing has expanded from its origins in prenatal and reproductive health to cardiac and cancer care. Dozens of treatments now work by targeting specific tumor

mutations. But the opportunities outside the clinic are growing even faster.

Pharmaceutical and lab testing firms are routinely hiring genetic counselors to make sure new screening technologies for these targeted drugs are developed in an ethical way. According to a 2018 survey conducted by the National Society for Genetic Counselors, a quarter of the workforce now works in one of these non-patient-facing jobs. A smaller study, published in August, found that onethird of genetic counselors had changed jobs in the past two years, nearly all of them from a hospital setting to a laboratory one.

One place that isn’t welcoming new counselors is consumer testing companies like 23andMe. “I would love students to have more opportunities in the consumer-driven space,” says Ashley Mills, the program director at the Keck Graduate Institute in Claremont, California, which welcomed its first genetic counseling class earlier this fall. “The unfortunate thing is you really don’t have any

The what if poser

then !! Will the people who have passively listened for decades and followed with indifference to the omissions and commissions of the powers to be, wake up and fight for their fundamental right of good quality of living, good infrastructure and basic medical amenities. Is it that automatically these things will fall into place or the situation will turn from bad to worse. Will the young generation which is suffering from the anathema of drugs and HIV uplift itself. 1.15 percent of the State population is suffering from HIV /AIDS and we rank third in the dubious Standings.

Will the general attitude of lethargy and abstinence for hard work or indulgence in

genetic counselors working there for students to shadow.” Earlier this year, 23andMe’s CEO, Anne Wojcicki, penned an opinion piece in Stat titled “Consumers Don’t Need Experts to Interpret 23andMe Genetic Risk Reports.” A “free-the-data” evangelist, Wojcicki argued that people should be empowered to make their own decisions with their DNA, without a trained intermediary.

The federal government seems to agree. In 2017 the US Food and Drug Administration allowed 23andMe to release disease risk reports to customers for 10 health conditions.

In March of this year the company got the green light to add breast cancer to its list. More approvals for 23andMe and its competitors are likely to follow soon.

Genetic counselors are already feeling the strain. “In southern California there are a number of genetic counselors with private practices who are mostly seeing patients bringing them 23andMe results,” says Mills. Since

entrepreneurship be overcome by our youth. Will we start becoming dynamic and a force to reckon with in the North east dynamics and a force to reckon with in the North east region. Will our society start recognising our women as equal members in the right earnest. Will the Stigma of corruption be washed away from the society? Will it make the common man really free from the extra burden which he has to carry in all walks of life? These are few of the basic questions which we must pose to ourselves and answer. My take on the above posers is that nothing will change even if the ‘Inclusive Solution’ is inked and is a success. So what is

2007, more than five million people have had their DNA tested with 23andMe; in the last year the spit kits have become a bestseller on Amazon. To teach students about working with this kind of data, Mills has invited those private practice counselors to host workshops on the topic.

Helping worried customers navigate their results is, after all, very different from the way genetic counseling has worked for decades, with doctors referring patients to counselors before testing, to guide the process.

But with the shortfall in genetic counselors, there also aren’t enough professionals to train the up-andcomers. Most programs can only accept 8 to 12 new students per year, because accrediting standards require each student to handle a certain number of clinical cases. Yet there are only so many supervisors to go around, says Amanda Bergner, president of the Accreditation Council for Genetic Counseling.

Counselors have also left the clinic for higher-paying jobs in other branches

more important; Shouldn’t we endeavour to wash and cleanse the Fabric of our society as fast as possible rather than just waiting for a solution which may satisfy our political rights, which are important, but may do little for what the common man yearns For!!

What If poser points to the actions which each one of us should take; particularly the youth. Let us unite for attaining the above and as they say, the rest will follow. Unity forged for a fight against these scourges of our society shall lead us to the attainment of our rights, even political ones, and not the other way round.

Khumlamo Lotha, Wokha

of the healthcare industry.

Genetic counselors make less than other medical professionals with similar training—averaging $77,500 per year, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That shrinking pool of clinic-based workers ends up limiting the number of new counselors who can be trained to take their place.

Which is one reason why Sheila O’Neal, the executive director for the American Board of Genetic Counseling, isn’t sure all the new programs will be enough to provide adequate patient care in the coming decade. The other is the sheer speed with which new genetic tests are reaching the market, about 10 every day by one recent analysis in Health Affairs. “We’ve outstripped the estimates on the supply side,” says O’Neal. “Whether or not we actually meet demand is hard to say; it’s a moving target.” There might be more ways to decode your DNA than ever before, but interpretation is still a scarce commodity.

Megan Molteni

Reader’s Post

Orphans deserve due respect Sir,

Orphans, our respected grand-parents and mentally unstable person are second to none in our society. They command our due respect and deserve first class treatment from us.

They deserve to have freshly cooked first-hand food items and so on. My own thoughts are that - treating them with seized food items and other seized things from footpath vendors, is highly disrespectful. As equals, they, too, would love to taste KFC, Domino Pizzas and Coffee Day. If only my pockets were warm enough, would have sweetened their taste buds from mama’s own kitchen. Will someone do a favour? Thanks!

C Akum, (akumba_c@rediffmail.com)

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

Nagaland Post, Dimapur FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2018

PM Modi is corrupt, says Rahul; BJP rejects charges

New Delhi, Oct 11 (IANS): Turning up the heat on Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the Rafale deal, Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Thursday called him “corrupt” and asked him to quit following revelations that inclusion of an Indian private defence partner was an “imperative and obligatory” condition for awarding the contract.

Rebutting Gandhi’s allegations, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party accused the Congress President of belittling national security and spreading lies.

Gandhi’s latest salvo came following French website Mediapart on Wednesday reporting that Reliance Defence was given to Dassault Aviation, manufacturer of the Rafale jets, as an “obligatory” offset partner for the deal announced by Modi in April 2015.

“The Prime Minister of India is corrupt,” Gandhi said at a special media briefing here.

Questioning Modi’s “deafening silence” , despite allegations of corruption directed at him, Gandhi said the Prime Minister must resign. “Allegations of corruption are being directed at him and the Prime Minister is silent. He should resign if he cannot respond (to the charges),” he said.

Gandhi also read out excerpts from Mediapart report, which quoting Das-

Rahul Gandhi (PTI)

sault’s Chief Operating Officer Loik Segalen, said that the choice of the Indian private entity was a “compensation” for the purchase of the fighter jets.

“What is he being compensated for,” asked Gandhi alleging that “Modi put Rs 30,000 crore in his industrialist crony’s pockets.”

“Ex-President of France (Francois Hollande), no less, has said that India’s PM is corrupt, now the company which got the contract, its senior executive is saying that India’s PM is corrupt,” said Gandhi, pointing to the French website’s earlier report quoting Hollande as saying that India had proposed the Indian private entity as the partner for the deal. Gandhi said it was a “clear-cut case of corruption” against Modi and ridiculed the BJP government for shying away from a Joint Parliamentary Committee probe (JPC) into the deal.

On Dassault reiterating that it “has freely chosen to make a partnership with

India’s Reliance Group”, Gandhi said the jet manufacturer was “sitting on a huge contract and will say what the Indian government wanted it to say”.

Gandhi also questioned the motive behind Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s three-day visit to France, alleging that there was a “huge cover-up going on” and the “media was being pressured”.

“The great Rafale cover-up has begun. To try and show the deal is legitimate, Raksha Mantri will need to generate minutes of imaginary meetings held between the French and our Ministry of Defence and both sides will need to agree on a common story to be spun to the media,” said Gandhi about Sitharaman’s visit beginning Wednesday.

He said the country will soon realise the “truth about Modi” who came to power on the expressed promise of fighting corruption.

Alleging massive irregularities in the deal, the Congress has twice petitioned the Comptroller and Auditor General of India for a special and forensic audit and also moved the Central Vigilance Commission seeking a probe and seizure of relevant documents pertaining to the deal. It has also been persistent in demanding a JPC probe.

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Met office forecasts rain across NE

SC puts Amrapali directors under police surveillance, initiates contempt action

GUWAHATI, OCT 11 (AGENCIES): Northeast will experience enhanced rainfall activity in the runup to Durga Puja. Regional Meteorological Centre at Borjhar in statement Thursday informed that the current meteorological analysis and numerical model guidance suggests a significant increase in the spatial coverage as well as the intensity of the rainfall activity at most places over Assam, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram and Tripura

in the next two days with slight reduction thereafter.

According to the MET analysis, “The very severe cyclonic storm “Titli” over North coastal Andhra Pradesh and adjoining South Odisha has moved west-northwestwards with a speed of about 13 km per hour during the past six hours and lay centred at 8.30 am on Thursday over south Odisha, about 90 km west-southwest of Gopalpur and 60 km southsoutheast of Phulbani.”

Dimapur Airport toilet upgradation DIMAPUR, OCT 11 (NPN): A major upgradation of toilets at Dimapur Airport is being planned so as to provide a cleaner environment and enhance passenger facilities. In a press release, Airport director, Mughavi Zhimo, said the work that is being taken up at the cost of Rs. 1.3 crore would begin from October 15, 2018. In the first phase, toilet upgradation would be taken up in the arrival and security and thereafter the public concourse and new toilet in check-in area.

In this regard, the Airport authority has requested the arriving passengers to use the toilet in the concourse or portable toilet placed before the arrival gate.

Departing passengers have also been requested to use the toilet of the concourse before proceeding for security check. It has been informed that an alternate portable toilet was also being provided in the barricaded portion of gate No 1. Further, passengers have been requested to bear with the Airport authority for some time to enable it to provide enhanced facility.

UNICEF, WHO say India remains polio-free, vaccine safe NEW DELHI, Oct 11 (PTI): In the backdrop of some oral polio vaccine vials being found contaminated with the type-2 polio virus, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the World Health Organization (WHO) today reiterated

India’s status as a poliofree country.

In a joint statement, the UNICEF and the WHO said the risk of children getting vaccine derived poliovirus was “minimal” in India because of a high routine immunisation coverage in the country.

New Delhi, Oct 11 (PTI): In yet another big setback to three directors including CMD of beleaguered Amrapali Group, the Supreme Court on Thursday initiated contempt proceedings against them and directed that they be placed under police surveillance for the next 15-days.

The top court had on October 9, directed that the Chairman and Managing Director Anil Kumar Sharma and directors Shiv Priya and Ajay Kumar be taken into police custody till they hand over all the documents of the group’s 46 firms.

It clarified today that they will not be kept in police lockup for the night and instead be taken to a hotel in Noida, where their phones will be seized.

The three directors were released last night from police custody after nine properties of Amrapali Group, where bulky documents of group companies are stashed, were sealed in compliance with the top court’s order.

A bench of Justices U U Lalit and D Y Chandrachud allowed the three directors to stay in their home for tonight but asked them to present themselves before Station House Officer (SHO) of Noida Sector 62 tomorrow before 8 AM. The top court fixed a 15-day limit for forensic auditors to collect, collate and catalogue the documents from 2008 till now with regard to the 46 companies

Amrapali group CMD Anil Sharma accompanies police personnel at an Amrapali Corporate office at Sector 62 with regards to its sealing, in Noida, late Wednesday. (PTI)

of the group from the nine properties situated in Noida, Greater Noida of DelhiNCR and Rajgir and Buxar district in Bihar.

“During the entirety of operation of cataloguing of documents of Group companies, the applicants (three directors) shall remain under police surveillance...We direct the SSP of Noida to see that after the operation is over for the day, they be brought to the Hotel Park Ascent in sector 62, Noida and taken the next day to the properties, where documents are kept,” the bench said.

The court, while issuing notice of contempt to the three directors for prima facie violating court’s order and thwarting the course of justice, asked the registrar of the apex court to register a separate suo motu case against them. “We therefore issue formal notice of contempt against directors of Amrapali Group and direct

the registrar of the Supreme Court to register a separate suo motu contempt case to be listed on November 20. Reply to be filed in four weeks”, the bench said.

The court directed that the three directors shall not use cell phones during their stay in hotel at night without the express authorization of police but granted them liberty to use the phones during the day time, when they will be assisting in collating the documents of 46 Amrapali Group companies.

The court said that three directors including the CMD shall remain present for the next 15 days at the properties where the documents are being catalogued from 8AM to 6PM every day.

“The concerned police officer SHO of sector 58, Noida shall personally supervise and see that seals are open at sharp 8AM and re-sealed at 6PM in the evening.

Ph.D scholar Nagaland given target to produce 50 mw solar power ADMISSIONS OPEN FOR 2019 of solar photovoltaic (PV) NERC, electrical inspecamong 2 militants (From p-1) policy, capacity build- technology and its capacity torate, PWD, urban develRAINDROPS ACADEMY generate electricity from opment and NRE – would killed in J&K ing – training of utility engi- tosolar power beyond the benefit from this workshop.

Regarding RTS, he said the State government had proposed setting up of small solar parks with 23 mw capacities, but was facing problems, especially in funding for infrastructural development.

Kikon added that once the funding for infrastructural development was in place, the government would invite independent power developers and investors to develop the project or go for a joint venture. This was stated in a DIPR press release.

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He further added that along with hydroelectric projects in the State, the rooftop solar PV would act as an enabling agent for a “Green Nagaland”.

Meanwhile, adviser to chief minister on information technology, science & technology and NRE Mmhonlumo Kikon thanked World Bank for providing support and hoped that all stakeholders – engineers from power department,

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Srinagar, Oct 11 (IANS): Two Kashmiri militants, including a Ph.D scholar, were killed in a gunfight with security forces on Thursday in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kupwara district, police said.

The fighting took place in Shatgund village.

The police have not confirmed the identities of the militants.

Hizbul commander Manan Bashir Wani, a Ph.D scholar of Aligarh Muslim University who joined militancy in January, was trapped in the cordon along with another Kashmiri militant and died, police officials said.

Wani belongs to Lolab area of Kupwara.

A boy too was injured during intense street clashes between protesters and the security forces as news of the gun battle spread following the cordon and search operation in the village.

The boy with a gunshot injury in his leg was shifted to a Srinagar hospital, a police officer said.

Authorities have ordered closure of all educational institutions and suspended mobile Internet services in the district.

Classes in degree colleges of Bandipora, Baramulla, Pulwama and Srinagar districts have also been suspended as a precaution.

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Rupee recovers after slumping to record low Mumbai, Oct 11 (PTI): The rupee climbed 9 paise to end at 74.12 per dollar Thursday after tumbling to a fresh lifetime low in intraday trade amid a sharp selloff in global markets.

Softening crude oil prices and the greenback weakening against other currencies provided support to the home unit, brokers said.

Asian and European equities sank deep into the red after US markets reeled due to concerns surrounding global growth and rising bond yields.

At the Interbank Foreign Exchange (Forex), the rupee opened lower at 74.37 and lost further ground to hit a record intra-day low of 74.50 against the US dollar on strong demand for the American currency from importers amid unabated foreign fund outflows.

However, the rupee clawed back lost ground and finally settled for the day at 74.12, up by 9 paise, posting a gain for the second consecutive day in an otherwise volatile market.

On Wednesday, the rupee rose by 18 paise to

74.21.

“Rupee gained due to falling oil prices and slide in domestic bond yield. Oil prices declined in expectation of increased production and if this trend continues, the rupee may find some stability,” Geojit Financial Services Head of Research Vinod Nair said.

Brent crude was trading at USD 81.54 per barrel, down 1.87 per cent.

The BSE Sensex slumped over 750 points to end at a six-month low, while the NSE Nifty ended below the 10,300 mark Thursday as global indices witnessed across-the-board losses.

Meanwhile, domestic institutional investors (DIIs) bought shares worth Rs 1,892.94 crore, while foreign institutional investors (FIIs) pulled out a net Rs 1,096.05 crore Wednesday, as per provisional stock exchange data. The FBIL set the reference rate for the dollar at 74.3875 per dollar. The reference rate for euro was fixed at 85.9012 and for the British pound at 98.2961.

The reference rate for 100 Japanese yen was 66.29.

New Delhi, Oct 11 (PTI): Jet fuel or ATF prices were Thursday cut by 2.6 per cent following the government decision to lower excise duty on the fuel. Aviation turbine fuel (ATF) is now cheaper than petrol and diesel.

ATF in Delhi was cut

by Rs 1,962 per kilolitre, or 2.6 per cent, to Rs 72,605 per kl (Rs 72.6 per litre), according to a price notification issued by state-owned oil firms. It costs Rs 72,225 per kl in Mumbai, down from Rs 74,177.

Even at the reduced price, ATF is at its highest level since March 2014. The government had Wednesday cut excise duty on jet fuel to 11 per cent from 14 per cent previously to give relief to the aviation industry that has been in recent weeks hit hard by rising fuel prices and plummeting rupee.

The move came after jet fuel prices this month hit their highest level since January 2014. Rates had risen by 9.5 per cent since July, and over 58.6 per cent

since July last year.

While the ATF has been cheaper than petrol before, the fuel used in aeroplanes is cheaper than even diesel now. Petrol in Delhi costs Rs 82.36 per cent and diesel is priced at Rs 74.62.

Just last week, the government had cut excise duty on petrol and diesel

by Rs 1.50 per litre and asked state-owned oil firms to subsidise the fuel by another Re 1 a litre. That step was matched by BJP-ruled states cutting local sales tax or VAT by an equal proportion to give customers hit by high auto fuel prices a relief of about Rs 5 per litre.

While the twin moves on auto fuels had led to a drop in price of petrol from a record high of Rs 84 per litre to Rs 81.50 in Delhi and that of diesel from an all-time high of Rs 75.45 to Rs 72.95 a litre on October 5, rate hikes on subsequent days have pushed prices upwards.

Petrol has risen by 86 paise per litre since then and diesel by Rs 1.67, negating

Gold climbs Rs 130 on festive demand

Workshop on mobile securities held Market crash erodes over Rs 3L cr from investor wealth

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The workshop was attended by students of Nagaland University, St. Joseph University, students and teachers of Hollotoli School and Delhi Public School Dimapur along with faculty members and students of ICFAI University.

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Other important guidelines are using anti-virus software, turning off data connections when not needed and uninstalling apps which are not in use.

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Dimapur, Oct 11 (NPN): A one-day workshop on Mobile Securities and Android Apps Development, organized by the Department of IT, ICFAI University, was held at ICFAI University Nagaland on October 6.

Speaking at the workshop, resource person Kamal Hussian said that there are five misconceptions about mobile security among mobile users i.e. EMM/MDM can protect mobile phone, secure container can protect mobile, mobile phone security is not any priority,

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Mumbai, Oct 11 (PTI): As the BSE benchmark index plummeted over 1,000 points during the morning trade Thursday, investor wealth got eroded by over Rs 3 lakh crore.

The BSE benchmark Sensex Thursday crashed over 1,000 points to slip below the key 34,000-mark in early trade, tracking a global sell-off.

Led by the sharp carnage in equities, the market capitalisation of BSElisted companies slumped Rs 3,05,625.87 crore to Rs 1,35,59,695.82 crore in late morning trade.

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New Delhi, Oct 11 (PTI): Gold advanced by Rs 130 to Rs 31,980 per 10 gram Thursday following uptick in festive season demand from jewellers and retailers at the domestic spot market despite a weak global trend. However, silver met with resistance at prevailing levels and declined by Rs 200 to Rs 39,000 per kg.

Bullion traders said gold prices spurted due to surge in festive demand.

Globally, gold fell 0.15 per cent to USD 1,193.60 an ounce in Singapore. Silver too eased 0.14 per cent to trade at USD 14.34 an ounce. In the national capital, gold of 99.9 per cent and 99.5 per cent purity rose by Rs 130 each to Rs 31,980 and Rs 31,830 per 10 gram, respectively. Meanwhile, silver ready fell by Rs 200 to Rs 39,000 per kg and weeklybased delivery traded higher

by Rs 180 to Rs 38,470 per kg on speculative buying.

the entire excise duty reduction in less than a week.

Petrol in Mumbai costs Rs 87.82 per litre and diesel is priced at Rs 78.22.

The excise duty cut on ATF came after the government’s move to raise customs duty on the fuel and 18 other non-essential import items last month, in a bid rein in current account deficit and shore up the rupee.

Basic customs duty of 5 per cent was imposed on ATF. It previously attracted nil duty. This led to an increase of Rs 2,000 per kl in prices. The government had in 2016 hiked excise duty on ATF to 14 per cent from 8 per cent.

ATF like petrol and diesel is not covered by the goods and services tax (GST) regime that on July 1 last year amalgamated 17 different central and state taxes.

The central government currently charges 14 per cent excise duty on ATF. On top of this, states charge up to 30 per cent sales tax or VAT.

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Clashes between IS, US-backed fighters in Syria Damascus, Oct 11 (Agencies): U.S.-backed fighters braved a sandstorm to battle the Islamic State group in eastern Syria on Thursday in heavy clashes that killed several fighters on both sides.

The U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, a Kurdish-led group, said it was fighting to retake the village of Sousah, where the extremists took advantage of the poor visibility to launch a counteroffensive.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the fighting began Wednesday and killed at least 10 U.S.-allied fighters, with the fate of 35 others unknown. It said 18 IS militants were killed.

The IS-linked Aamaq news agency reported 18 deaths among the SDF fighters and posted photos online of what it said were some of the bodies.

In recent years the SDF, with U.S. air support, has driven IS from much of northern and eastern Syria.

The extremists have also suffered a series of defeats at the hands of Syrian government forces and Iraqi forces, losing virtually all the territory that once made up their self-styled caliphate.

PM Mahathir Mohamad’s alliance, which won a stunning election upset this year, had promised to uphold human rights.

Amnesty International said the move would be a major advance but urged the government to “completely abolish the death penalty for all crimes, with no exceptions.”

Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad’s alliance won a stunning election upset on May 9, ousting a scandal-tainted coalition in the first change of government since independence from Britain in 1957. Its promises included eradicating corruption and bolstering human rights.

Hurricane Michael kills 2 in US

Wrecked boats sit near a pier after the arrival of Hurricane Michael in Panama City, Florida.

Miami, Oct 11 (IANS): At least two people were killed as Hurricane Michael, one of the most powerful storms ever to hit the continental the US, slammed into the state of Florida, unleashing a trail of destruction by flooding beach towns, peeling off roofs and snapping trees before advancing to the Carolinas.

Two people, including a child, were killed by falling debris, the US media reported on Thursday. Hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses were left without electricity in Florida, Alabama and Georgia.

Michael made landfall on Wednesday around 2 p.m. near Mexico Beach, Florida, dashing homes into

Egypt condemns 17 to death for church attacks

pieces, swallowing marinas and leaving piles of rubble where shopping centres once stood, CNN said.

It was the strongest to hit the continental US since Hurricane Andrew in 1992.

“Hurricane Michael is the worst storm that the Florida Panhandle has ever seen,” said Governor Rick Scott of Florida, where 375,000 people were ordered evacuated.

Now, having weakened to a tropical storm, Michael was on its way to the Carolinas. However, the National Hurricane Centre (NHC) said that winds picked up at certain points along the Georgia and South Carolina coast. Large parts of

Georgia, the Carolinas and southeastern Virginia could still see deadly flash floods on Thursday and remain under a tropical storm warning, it said.

Storm-surge warnings were in place between Panama City Beach and Keaton Beach in Florida, and between Ocracoke Inlet and Duck in North Carolina.

According to officials, one person was killed on Wednesday after a tree fell on a house near Greensboro, Florida. The second death was reported in Georgia’s Seminole County early Thursday, apparently caused by debris crashing through a mobile home and killing a child inside, the Washington Post reported.

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With great pride and honour, the Kohima Chuchuyimlang Senso Telongjem would like to extend its heartiest congratulations to Dr. L Temsu Jamir on being promoted to the Rank of Addl. Director, Department of Animal Husbandry & Veterinary Services Nagaland, Kohima.

The Union wishes and prays that the Almighty God continues to bless him with good health, wisdom & success in his future endeavours.

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Cairo, Oct 11 (AFP): An Egyptian military court on Thursday sentenced 17 people to death over a series of suicide bombings of churches claimed by the Islamic State group that left dozens dead.

Another 19 people were handed life prison terms and 10 were sentenced to between 10 and 15 years, judicial and security officials said. Seventy-four people were killed in the attacks in 2016 and 2017 in Cairo, Alexandria and the Nile Delta city of Tanta targeting Coptic Christians, who make up about 10 percent of Egypt’s predominantly Sunni Muslim population.

Christian sites of worship across Egypt have been repeatedly targeted in attacks claimed by IS, prompting the authorities to impose a state of emergency.

The Egyptian army is waging a major operation focused on the Sinai Peninsula aimed at wiping out the jihadists.

The Malaysian human rights group Lawyers for Liberty praised the government’s decision, saying the death penalty is barbarous and pointless as it has never been proven to deter serious crimes. Its adviser, N Surendran, said the new government has shown that “it is a force for moral good, and an example for the region and the world.”

Many Asian countries such as China and Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam still impose capital punishment.

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Washington, Oct 11 (PTI): US President Donald Trump has said that India would soon “find out” if the punitive CAATSA sanctions apply to it over its USD 5 billion deal with Russia to purchase the S-400 Triumf air defence system.

The Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act or CAATSA is a US federal law that imposed sanctions on Iran, North Korea and Russia.

In Russia’s case, the act primarily deals with sanctions on Russian interests such as its oil and gas industry, defence and security sector, and financial institutions, in the backdrop of its military intervention in Ukraine and its alleged meddling in the 2016 US Presidential elections.

India last week inked a deal to purchase the S-400 Triumf air defence system from Moscow. The mega deal was sealed in New Delhi during the visit of Russian President Vladimir Putin for the annual summit with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Asked about the agreement between India and Russia, Trump while interacting with reporters in the Oval Office of the White House on Wednes-

Morocco key partner for EU: European leaders Paris, Oct 11 (IANS/ MAP): Morocco has all the assets to contribute effectively to the development and progress of the Euro-Mediterranean region, European leaders have said at a summit on terrorism and migration in France’s Lyon city.

Moroccan Interior Minister Abdelouafi Laftit participated in the European G6 summit on terrorism and migration earlier this week, along with the Interior Ministers of six major EU countries -- France, Germany, the UK, Spain, Italy and Poland.

The US was the other non-EU country participating in the summit, the news agency reported on Wednesday. “Morocco and the EU must not only continue to cooperate together but also work together to deal with the difficult situation that the entire Euro-Mediterranean region is facing in terms of immigration and security,” said European Commissioner for Migration, Home Affairs and Citizenship, Dimitris Avramopoulos.

waiver to India.

Under the CAATSA sanctions, which was amended early this year, only Trump has the authority for the presidential waiver to India on weapons deal with sanctions-hit Russia. Last week, the White House had said that the US presidential waiver on weapons deal with sanctions-hit Russia is intended to “wean” countries like India off the Russian equipment.

“The (CAATSA presi-

dential) waiver is narrow, intended to wean countries off Russian equipment and allow for things such as spare parts for previouslypurchased equipment,” a White House National Security Council Spokesperson had said after the conclusion of the S-400 contract. The US embassy spokesperson in New Delhi had said that the CAATSA was aimed at Russia and not intended to damage the military capabilities of its “allies and partners.”

Disclose China debts: IMF’s pre-condition to Pak on bailout NUSA DUA, Oct 11 (IANS): International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Christine Lagarde on Thursday said that a bailout deal with Pakistan would require “absolute transparency” of its debts, many of which come from China’s landmark Belt and Road Initiative.

“In whatever work we do, we need to have a complete understanding and absolute transparency about the nature, size, terms of the debt that is bearing on a particular country,” Lagarde said at the IMF and World Bank Group annual meetings in Bali, Indonesia.

She added the IMF needed to understand the extent of the position of the debt, including lending from sovereign governments and from state-owned enterprises, so that officials could determine a country’s debt sustainability, Efe news reported.

Her statements indicated that Pakistan could be forced to disclose the full extent and terms of Chinese lending it received

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The union is immensely proud of her achievement and wishes her ultimate success in all her future endeavours.

G. Secretary, KVSU President, KVSU ALOKALI ZHIMOMI BONOKA V. YEPTHO

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day, said, “India will find out. Aren’t they?”

“India is going to find out,” he said.

Asked when, he said, “You will see. Sooner than you think.”

Secretar y of State Mike Pompeo was also in the room when Trump answered the question on CAATSA sanctions.

Pompeo was scheduled to meet the president later.

Pompeo and Defence Secretary James Mattis had earlier argued the case for a

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All the Village Council Chairmen are informed to attend the program without fail.

President Donald Trump boards Air Force One for a campaign rally in Erie, Pa. on Wednesday at Andrews Air Force Base, Md. (AP/PTI)

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Kuala Lumpur, Oct 11 (AP): Malaysia’s new government said it will abolish the death penalty for all crimes and halt all pending executions, a rare move against capital punishment in Asia that human rights groups hailed Thursday as a major advance.

More than 1,200 people are on death row in Malaysia, which mandates hanging as punishment for a wide range of crimes including murder, drug trafficking, treason, kidnapping and acts of terror.

Law Minister Liew Vui Keong announced Wednesday that the Cabinet had agreed to abolish the death penalty and that amendments to laws with capital punishment were expected to be presented when Parliament resumes Monday, local media reported.

Communications Minister Gobind Singh Deo on Thursday confirmed the Cabinet’s decision. “This is part of our election pledge and also in line with the move away from capital punishment in the rest of the world,” he said.

J a k a rt a , O c t 1 1 (IANS): At least three persons died and four more were injured in Indonesia after an earthquake measuring 6-magnitude on the Richter scale shook the Bali Sea early on Thursday, official said.

The sea is located between the islands of Bali and Java. Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, spokesperson for the Indonesian Disaster Prevention Agency tweeted images of several destroyed buildings that the victims were found in the Sumenep district of Java.

The US Geological Survey (USGS) said the hypocentre of this tremor was located about 10 km deep and below the ocean floor, Efe news reported.

The quake struck at 49.5 km northeast of Panji in eastern Java and 157 km northwest of Denpasar in Bali.

The latest tremor occurred on the same day that the Indonesian authorities planned to conclude the search for victims of the earthquake and the subsequent tsunami which shook Sulawesi Island in the central region of the country almost two weeks ago.

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Christine Lagarde in recent years as part of its participation in the Belt and Road Initiative, China’s vast global infrastructurespending programme.

Earlier this week, Pakistan said that it would be seeking a loan from the IMF. The country has a ballooning trade deficit, falling currency and is quickly exhausting its foreign-exchange reserves. Experts say the country needs about $12 billion to cover its imports and meet upcoming debt payments.

Lagarde said she didn’t meet Pakistan’s Finance Minister Asad Umar or received a formal request for

IMF assistance yet. But she said that the IMF will meet the Pakistani delegation on Thursday and that the IMF was “available to its entire membership”.

Pakistan’s requirement for an IMF loan has already been complicated by its ties to China. It has been the largest recipient of funding under Beijing’s Belt and Road Initiative. In July, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo warned that Washington didn’t want to see any IMF lending to Pakistan “go to bail out Chinese bondholders or China itself ”.

The US has accused China of “debt-trap diplomacy” by lending countries money to pay Chinese companies to build infrastructure that the recipients can’t afford. Pakistan’s new government of Prime Minister Imran Khan had suggested it might try to avoid working with the IMF, but the recent turbulence in its stock and currency markets left it no choice, officials said.

PUBLIC INFORMATION

This is a general information to all concerned that any individual and or society other than bonafide citizens of Kangtsung Village who have purchased land (both residential and forest) within its village jurisdiction is hereby informed and directed to report to the undersigned on or before 31st day of January 2019 for registration of land in their respective names. If any individual or Society do not adhere to this information and directives on the stipulated time, the same shall be doing so on their own perils.

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OFFICE OF THE

ALIBA UNION MOKOKCHUNG AND ALIBA FELLOWSHIP MOKOKCHUNG FELICITATION We would like to extend our heartfelt Congratulations to the following individuals for their achievements in their respective fields.

1. Dr Imcharenla, D/o Mr & Late Mrs L. Kati Kichu, on her confirmation of Ph.D on the topic “Work Participation and Economic Status of women in Nagaland” from Nagaland University.

2. Dr Temjennungsang, S/o Late Mr & Mrs Rongsentemsu Jamir on his confirmation of Ph.D in Animal Nutrition on the Topic “Effect of Feeding Palm Oil (Elaeisguineesis) sludge as a partial replacement of Growing-Finishing Pigs” from Central Agriculture University, Selesih, Aizawl, Mizoram.

3. Dr Purtula Jamir, D/o Late Mr & Mrs Bendangwati Jamir on her confirmation of D.Min (Doctor of Ministry) on the topic “A manual for counseling Parents of children with Disability in a multi-faith context” from American University.

4. Mrs Imchanichetla, D/o Late Mr & Mrs Bendangwati Jamir on her promotion to the post of Commandant, 6th NAP battalion, Tizit.

5. Miss Imtiwapangla, D/o Mr & Mrs Lipokmeren Kichu for securing the top fourth position in B.A (Hons) Geography from NEHU, 2018.

6. Miss Nekshinaro Imchen, D/o Mr & Mrs T. Yanger Imchen for securing Gold Medal in B.A (Hons) Music from Patkai Christain College 2018.

7. Miss Imnanaro, D/o Mr & Mrs Lolenningsang Pongen for winning the Miss Ao 2018 title.

You fill our hearts with pride and we pray that the Almighty God bless you all in your future endeavors.

Mr L.Rongsensangba Moatoshi President Fellowship In-Charge Aliba Union, Mokokchung Aliba Fellowship, Mokokchung

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Eugenie reveals who will be at her wedding to represent causes close to her heart

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rincess Eugenie has revealed that modern slavery victims and teenage cancer patients will be at her wedding to represent causes close to her heart.

Representatives from 13 charities - including The Salvation Army's Stop Modern Slavery campaign and the Teenage Cancer

Tr ust - are among the 1,200 members of the public invited to join the celebrations in the grounds of Windsor Castle tomorrow.

A further 850 guests, including the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex and celebrities like Robbie Williams

and his wife Ayda Field, will attend the hour-long service inside St George's Chapel.

Photos taken today reveal the extensive preparations being carried out ahead of the high-profile event, with police dog handlers sweeping the streets and local officials erecting crowd control barriers in

anticipation of the influx of visitors tomorrow.

Residents are also getting into the spirit of the big day, with snaps showing bunting, flags and bunches of balloons being strung across the streets.

Following the lead of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, who married at St George's Chapel in May, Eugenie and Jack invited members of the public to apply to join the celebrations in the grounds of Windsor Castle.

They sifted through the roughly 10,000 applications and sent out 1,200 invitations to deserving charity workers, community leaders, Royal Household staff and pupils from Princess Eugenie's former schools.

Making the announcement on the Duke of York Twitter page, a spokesperson said: 'The Wedding of Princess Eugenie and Jack Brooksbank takes place tomorrow!

(Mailonline)

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Shekhar Kapur makes Want to do an action short film on water crisis film: Manushi Chhillar

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hekhar Kapur’s “Paani” might not have seen the light of the day, but that hasnt deterred him from making a film on water crisis.

The filmmaker has collaborated with WaterAid to create a short animation “Brides of the Well”, adapted from a story written by Kapur himself. It highlights water scarcity issues and how it impacts on women and girls globally, read a statement.

Narrated by “Bend it like Beckham” star ParminderNagra, “Brides of the Well” tells the story of Saraswati and Paras, who are forced into child marriage and a life of servitude, centred around walking long distances to collect water for their aging husbands. It launched on Thursday to mark the International Day of the Girl.

Though fictional, Kapur’s film highlights the plight of young girls across India who -- like those depicted in his animation movie -- are bound to a life dominated by walking long distances to collect water.

“Water is one of the world’s most precious resources.

But for those who live with water on tap, it can be difficult to imagine how life would be if water wasn’t so accessible,” Kapur said.

“That is why I wanted to tell the story of Paras and Saraswati and show how people across the world live every day without water, dictating their futures, dreams and prospects. It is a great injustice that 1 in 9 people still live without access to clean water around the world.”

V.K. Madhavan, Chief Executive at WaterAid India, added: “The burden of fetching water is predominantly borne by women and girls, preventing them from reaching their full potential. This affects their education, health and livelihood opportunities. This must change.”

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iss World 2017 Manushi Chhillar says if she gets an opportunity to work in the film industry, she would love to do a project in the action space.

“I would like to do an action movie, and in which I am doing the action. I don’t want to be a damsel in distress. I want to be a superhero. I would love to do that,” Manushi said here on Wednesday at the Big FM radio station when she was present to celebrate women power.

There were reports that filmmaker Karan Johar was keen to launch Manushi

under his banner when she won the Miss World title, but there isn’t any development on that front.

Asked when she will feature in movies, she said: “I don’t have a production house, so I can’t tell you that when my film will come. In life, all things have come to me as a surprise and I didn’t have any plans to do films.

So let’s see how it goes.”

Manushi went on to win the title of fbbFemina Miss India Haryana in April 2017. She represented the state of Haryana in annual Femina Miss India competition and was crowned Femina Miss India 2017 in the finale held on 25 June 2017, later going on to win the Miss World crown.

Manushi was pursuing medical studies. She took a break from her studies for the preparations of the Miss World title.

Asked when will she be able to treat patients, she said: “I hope people never get a need to visit a doctor, but people can come to Dr.ManushiChhillar after three years when I will complete my medical studies.”

(IANS)

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the airspace in his town by defeating Kali, a mysterious kite.

‘Ek Tha Bhujang,’ directed by Mohinder Pratap Singh, tells the story of a 10 year old Muslim boy wanting to play the role of Krishna, the Hindu god in the school drama.

‘Karamati Coat,’ directed by Ajay Kartik,

revolves around Raju, a poor rag-picker and his magical coat with a secret attached to it which changes his life.

‘Nani Teri Morni,’ a Nagamese film by Akashaditya Lama is based on the real life story of National Bravery Award 2015 winner, Mhonbeni Ezung.

The Directorate of

Information and Public Relations (DIPR) productions on Disaster Awareness, Mobile Etiquette, Protection & Caring of Government Properties (Responsible Citizen) and Rules & Ethics of Driving were also screened on the third day of the Film Festival.

(DIPR)

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The Tsiepama Nyiseno Kuotsu Krotho praise God and extend our heartiest congratulations to Dr. Rovizelhou Kuotsu, S/o Vicha Kuotsu on being conferred with the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D) in Agriculture Chemistry and Soil Science on the topic "Response of Soybean (Glycine Max L. Merill) to organic source of nutrient" from Nagaland University, School of Agricultural Science and Rural Development, Medziphema, under the supervision of Dr. A.K Singh.

We pray that Almighty God grant you much success in all your future endeavors.

Zhavozo Kuotsu President

Rokovor Kuotsu General Secretary

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BLESSED 25TH WEDDING ANNIVERSARY of

Mr. Kakiye Khujumi and Mrs. Inaholi Aye The Phesama Youth Organisation, with immense joy, pride and honour would like to extend our heartiest congratulations to Shri. Videlalie Zashu on being promoted to IPS Rank 2018.

We wish him the very best in his future endeavours and pray that the Almighty God continue to use him and his family to make a difference and serve the humanity.

VITO-O KUOTSU VIKEHIETUO CHUSE President, PYO General Secretary, PYO

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he #MeToo movement will work only if people listen to the victims, says actress and former Miss Universe Sushmita Sen. Sushmita, who is known for raising her voice for social issues, told IANS here: “Though the (#MeToo) movement is copied from the West, it doesn’t mean we will overlook it. It feels great that women are coming out and speaking about the harassment.

“As a part of society, people should listen to their stories and not judge them.

Instead of ignoring them, we should encourage them.

This movement will work only if we start listening to the victims. “ The 42-year-old was in the capital to walk the ramp as a showstopper for designers Bhumika and Jyoti at the Lotus Make-Up India Fashion Week on Thursday.

The actress donned a free-flowing green coloured gown and completed her look with her hair neatly tied, and minimal nude make-up. Her presence on the runway left spectators in awe of her as she walked with a huge smile on her face. Sushmita has aced the fashion ramp game, but says she still feels nervous before walking it.

Bhumika and Jyoti’s collection showcased ensembles in shades of green and white, promoting nature’s theme. They set up the ambience of a forest for the show here.

(IANS)

With immense joy and honour, the Medzipheju Nyisenso Krotho praise God and extend our heartiest congratulations to Dr. Rovizelhou Kuotsu, S/o Vicha Kuotsu on being conferred with the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D) in Agricultural Chemistry and Soil Science on the topic "Response of Soybean (Glycine Max L.Merill) to organic source of nutrient" from Nagaland University, School of Agricultural Science and Rural Development, Medziphema, under the supervision of Dr. A.K Singh.

We pray that Almighty God continually guide him in his future endeavor.

Asazo Kuotsu Visakholie Kuotsu President General Secretary

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undreds of students from Kohima attended the third day of the Children’s Film Festival at Regional Centre of Excellence in Music and Performing Arts (RCEMPA), Jotsoma on October 11. According to DIPR, films like Gattu, Ek Tha Bhujang, Karamati Coat and Nani Teri Morni were screened on the third day of the film fest.

‘Gattu,’ a film by Rajan Khosa dubbed in Nagamese was screened on the third day. It tells the story of a wayward child who yearns to conquer

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for the fact that I do this every day,” Soha said here.

She said the couple had even thought of adopting a child earlier.

“It’s not about biology. When I was thinking about having a child and wasn’t sure whether we would have a biological child and we were open to adoption... That time I spoke to a friend of mine and she said the question is not are you ready to be a mother or be pregnant or have a child.

“The question is are you ready to be a parent? Anyone can be a parent whether you have a biological child or not. And parenting is where the reward, love, and care is,” added Soha, author of “The Perils of Being Moderately Famous”.

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ctress Soha Ali Khan says since she became a mother, she has developed more respect for her own mother and thinks that parenting is where the real reward, love and care is.

Soha interacted with the media at a special screening of a Touch Of Care campaign by Vicks here on Wednesday. She was joined on stage by cricketer GautamGambhir and actress Shriya Saran.

“I always thought what it’s like to be a mother. When you become a mother, you respect your mother so much more. For the first time last week, I left my daughter Inaaya alone with my husband Kunal (Kemmu) and he called me up at the end of the day and said he has so much respect

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NSF Martyrs’ Memorial Trophy

PYO, MVYO enter qtr finals

Volleyball running trophy at Akuluto DIMA P U R , OCT 1 1 (NPN): The 40th Open Volley Ball Running Trophy, sponsored by the Black Panthers Club Akuluto, will be held from October 18 to 20 at Akuluto. Teams/players only from Sumi tribe are eligible for participation.

The winner of the tournament will receive Rs.60,000 while the 1st, 2nd and 3rd r unners-up will receive Rs.30,000, Rs.15,000 and RS.10,000 respectively. Entrance fee has been fixed at Rs. 3000. For more information, contact 9612627926, 7005069511, 8730014553 or 7005718248.

Peren legislators’ football trophy

The match between Charoi Chiru Naga FC (green) and Phesema Youth Organisation at Kohima local ground on Thursday. (NP)

Correspondent

Kohima, Oct 11 (NPN): Phesema Youth Organization (PYO) and Meriema Village Youth Organization (MVYO) qualified for quarter finals after defeating their respective rivals at the ongoing 19th NSF Martyrs’ Memorial Trophy played at Kohima local ground.

Playing the third prequarter finals, PYO booked its last eight spot by defeating Charoi Chiru Naga FC Manipur by 5-2. Neisaleto Kuotsu scored the first, second, fourth and fifth goals in the 28th, 31st, 64th & 76th minute respectively while Theja Chuse netted the third goal in the 56th minute. Both the goals for Charoi Chiru Naga FC Manipur were scored in the

second-half injury time by Thangawar and Kenneth.

Ropfükolie Seleyi, Abei Kar of PYO and Asif, Kennedy of Charoi Chiru Naga FC were cautioned with yellow cards for foul play while Johnson of Charoi Chiru Naga FC was sent off in the 77th minute of the play for unsporting behaviour.

In the second match, Meriema VYO registered for the quarter-finals by defeating United Brothers FC 4-1. MVYO opened the account in the 21st minute through a spot kick taken by Kelhouneizo Üsou. MVYO extended the lead when Kevizhakie Ciesotsu found the net in the in the 62nd minute and 7 minutes later, Vikeduolie Lhousi made it 3-0. The fourth goal came through the boot of Keviya-

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bei-u Keditsü in the injury time. The lone consolation goal for United Brothers FC came through a spot kick conversion from Jaa Jaa Solo in the 74th minute.

During the match, seven players were penalised with yellow card for unfair play which includes Kevirütuo Üsou, Kikrubeizo Keditsu, Vizotuolie Lhousi, Keneingütuo Yaotsu of MVYO and Neihetuo Linyü, Vilazo Linyü, Kisan Chettri of United Brothers FC. Meriema VYO will clash with Phesama VYO in the quarter-finals.

Today’s matches First match: 12 noon Centurion FC Vs Rangers Second match: 2:00 pm Kohima Eagles Vs St. Joseph’s College Jakhama

SPHSS annual sports meet kicks off Staff Reporter

DIMA P U R , OCT 1 1 (NPN): St Paul Higher Secondary School (SPHSS), Dimapur kicked off its annual sports meet with a vibrant opening ceremony on Thursday. Secretary, finance and land resources, Y Kikheto Sema graced the occasion as chief guest while SDO, (PWD), Research Lab Cell, M John Lotha was the guest of honour and director of land resources, Hoto Yepthomi declared the annual sports open.

In his address, Y Kikheto Sema emphasized that games and sports should not be an option but made compulsory in the future so that students develop more interest in it.

Citing western countries as an example, he said education in those countries was not only confined to classrooms as sports formed an integral part of the curriculum.

Stating that sports and vocational training is im-

Invitees join tiny tots in a dance performance during the opening ceremony of St Paul Higher Secondary School, Dimapur on Thursday. (NP)

perative to build students in totality and a holistic manner, he said that it is not good for students to be only confined to classroom and teachers back and fro from the blackboard. He added that outdoor activities are necessary for good health and a sound mind.

SDO, (PWD), Research Lab Cell, M John Lotha, in his address as the guest of honour, urged students not to take sports for granted. Recalling his days as a student, he said that

D i m a pur , O c t 1 1 (NPN): The 12th Peren District Legislators Trophy will commence from November 13 at the Peren town local ground. The winner of the tournament will pocket a cash prize of Rs. 1,00,000 along with running trophy while the runners-up will get Rs. 50,000 and running trophy. The entry fee is Rs. 3500 and last date for submission is November 7. For further information, contact 7085969573 or Results of Individual events (1st round) 9402815188.

GIRLS SINGLES UNDER 19 Debahuti Lahun beat Saroj Khan 21-12, retired Isharani Boruah beat Atmajayita Ray 21-9,21-8 Sarika Rai beat Unice Konyak 21-14,21-18 L Diana Devi beat Kapu Rumi 21-13,21-16 D i m a pur , O c t 1 1 Laidingpui beat I Kharbani 21-11,21-4 (NPN): 28 AR battalion Dolma Tamang beat Imnksungla 21-14,21-13 organised a friendly vol- Lalnghasngi beat Binita Rai 21-13,21-9 leyball match on the theme Devi Kashmaheshwari beat Barisur Shyrkon 21-1,21-1 “Sports friendly Nagaland” BOYS SINGLES UNDER 19 with local youths of Chuki- Sonam Tamang beat Shankaraj Datta 21-2,21-8 dong range at Chukidong, Leihong Konyak beat Rituraj Nag 21-8,21-4 Wokha on October 10. Y Punishiba Singh beat Pranav Sarkar 21-12,21-11 More than 100 youths from Iman Sonwal beat Raju Thapa 21-10,21-18 the range witnessed the Rituparna Bora beat Faizam Ahmed 21-11,21-10 match which was played Ringngheta VL Joseph beat Debashish Chakma 21-9,21-6 between the AR team and Bidyasagar Salam beat Uttam Jindal 21-8,21-10 local players.

Laa Takum beat Zahakuo Seyie 21-16,21-9

WOMENS SINGLES Megha Monchana Bora beat Pinki Karki 21-11,20-22,21-11 Sunandita Bista beat Sangeeta Singh 21-11,21-19 Ekumyala beat Atmajayita Ray 16-21,22-20, 15-21 Angita beat Lalrinzuali 21-17,21-5 F Lalnunzuami beat Shekhotolu Puro 21-17,21-13 Devi Kashmanheshwari beat Tashi Tamang 21-1,21-4 Suzan Buragohain beat Eranecles Syiem 21-5,21-7 Laa Yajum beat Rupashree Nath 21-11,21-17 MENS SINGLES Orijit Chaliha beat Amison Singh 21-13,21-18,21-15 Lalremuata Sailo beat Ambita Sonam 21-10,21-12 Mabenkar Shullia beat Ankur Rai 21-15,21-12,21-17 L Unikumar Singh beat Zarzokim 21-6,21-10 Bentilo Kath beat Amon Rai 21-11,13-21,21-16 Debraj beat Biplow Thapa 21-14,21-16 Hirajyoti Neog beat Akshay Raito 22-20,21-16 Nabendu Das beat Prasenjit Dey 21-9,21-4

AR conduct friendly volleyball match

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT FOR TO ME, TO LIVE IS CHRIST AND TO DIE IS GAIN Philippians 1:21

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leyball Trophy by defeating Changtongya Volleyball Association here at the Multi-Purpose Sports Complex, Mokokchung on Thursday.

Chief patron of the final match, chief engineer, department of Water Resources, Er. Tsuktinungsang lauded the Mokokchung District Volleyball Association for honouring Imchaba by hosting the tournament in his name, whom he described as a renowned teacher, leader and a sportsman.

During the closing ceremony, a special song was presented by Talipokum and the vote of Chief patron, Er Tsuktinungsang with the champion team and MDVA officials. thanks was proposed by MOKOKCHUNG, OCT Memorial Club, Chun- Imchaba Master Memo- MDVA president Lakhi 11 (NPN): Sakutemjen gtiayimsen retained the rial Nagaland Open Vol- Longkumer.

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Of Our Beloved Father

Late Kora Aier Mopungchuket 12.10.2018

It has been 3 year since you left us for your heavenly abode on this day, yet your loving memories always linger in our minds and we deeply miss you in every moment of our lives.

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Loving wife, children, grand children, relatives.

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D i m a pur , O c t 1 1 (NPN): Vetao Aye blanked Homers FC 4-0 at the ongoing 26th Loyem Memorial Trophy at Tuensang on Thursday. Ratobe opened the account for Vetao Aye in the 6th Minute of the first half. Langshi, Thangpong and Muthiu added three more goals.

In the second match, Hügel Hifliers FC won comfortably by a margin of 5-0 over Laiket Lembou Seadogs.

The first hat-trick of the tournament came through Hopong of Hügel Hifliers FC. His goals came in the 1st, 38th and 40th minute of the match.

Among and Khaosai scored a goal each to complete the rout.

Today’s matches 1st match: 12:00 noon DEF Tsg Vs Foothill United FC 2nd match: 1:30 pm Settle FC Vs Oziepik FC

thanks by Sylvester Lakra and inspection of house tents thereafter.

The other highlights of the programme included prayer dance, welcome song, guard of honour, unfurling of the school flag, lighting of torch, oathtaking ceremony, drill display, Naga cultural dances, dance performances by tiny tots and primary students, semi classical dance, a presentation of the ill effects of mobile phones by Mime, and a choreography.

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Loyem Trophy: Vetao Aye, Hügel Hifliers FC win

education and sports was not merely about getting certificates but character building. He told students that sports will help them to listen observe, monitor and act, and that one should not only compete to win a prize but to win hearts.

The programme began with scripture reading and invocation prayer by SPHSS headmistress, Rev Sr Amala followed by the welcome address by principal, Rev Sr Ranit, and concluded with a vote of

We, the bereaved family of Lt. Cholongse Sangtam would like to express our heartfelt gratitude and appreciation to each and every individual, unions and churches, who stood and supported us physically, financially, materially and spiritually during his prolonged illness till he breathed his last at Naga Hospital, Kohima.

We specially would like to express our gratitude to: 1. Sangtam Baptist Lithro, Kohima 2. Sangtam Baptist Lithro Kohima, Women Ministry 3. Sangtam Baptist Lithro Kohima, Youth Dept.

4. Yangzitong Fellowship Kohima 5. Sangtam Union Kohima 6. 10th NAP IR ‘B’ Coy Zhadima 7. Police Baptist Church 10th NAP IR Bn Zhadima 8. Police Baptist Church Women Dept. Zhadima 9. 10th NAP IR Bn ‘B’ Coy, ENPO 10. 10th NAP IR Fellowship, Zhadima 11. Delta Coy 10th NAP IR Zhadima 12. Seyochung Area Union Kohima 13. AST Kohima Unit 14. Seyochung Village Union Kohima 15. Doctors, Nurses & Staff, Naga Hospital 16. Mr. Y. Lipongse, Deputy Director, Industries & Commerce 17. Mr. Y. Selichum, Deputy Secy. Finance 18. Mr. Kiritong, Secy. NDPP, Nagaland 19. Mr. T. Darhü Zavame & Family We regret our inability to mention each and every individual but we sincerely pray that your caring gesture bestowed upon us will never be forgotten. May God’s abundant blessings be upon you all.

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06-06-1988 to 06-10-2018 We the bereaved family would like to express our profound gratitude to all those who stood by us physically, financially and with unceasing prayer support from far and near at the sad demise of my beloved Husband Late Longertoshi Ao, 5 NAP, Bn. in St. Stephens Hospital Delhi.

Words seem inadequate but thank you all from the bottom of our hearts. We convey our special thanks to: 1. 5 NAP Bn. Phek 2. 5 NAP ‘F’ Coy Delhi 3. 6 NAP Bn. Delhi 4. 1 NAP Bn. Delhi 5. 7 NAP Bn. Delhi 6. Mr. & Mrs. Chuba Chang, Asst. Commandant ‘F’ Coy 5 NAP, Delhi 7. 5 NAP Bn ‘F’ Coy Fellowship, Delhi 8. Shri. Salie Angami Inspector 5 NAP Bn. Delhi 9. Mr & Mrs. Imnuk Nokpo Nagaland House, New Delhi 10. Shri. Bendang Ao, Chaplin St. Stephen Hospital, Delhi.

11. Delhi Ao Senso Telongjem 12. Delhi Ao Student Union 13. Delhi Ao Baptist Church Pastor & Women Leader 14. Shri. P. Meren Jamir, 1st Class Contractor, Tzudikong Town 15. Shri. L. Temjen, Ex- MLA 16. Wameken Baptist Arogo 17. Wameken Yimsen Fellowship 18. Wameken Mejensanger Putu We regret our inability to thank each and every one of you individually, but it is our humble prayer that our Lord bless you all abundantly for your kind deeds.

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