September 12, 2016

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Vol XXVI No. 276

US marks 15th 9/11 anniversary

(L) Obama participates in a moment of silence during a ceremony at the Pentagon Memorial in Arlington, Virginia on Sunday. (R) A lady kneels down and pray at the memorial site on Sunday.

WASHINGTON, SEP 11 (AGENCIES): US President Barack Obama along with the American citizens on Sunday marked the 15th anniversary of the September 11 attacks by calling all citizens to embrace the nation’s character as a people drawn from every corner of the world, from every religion and from every background. He said extremist groups will never be able to defeat the United States.

At ground zero, hundreds of victims’ relatives and dignitaries gathered to hear the reading the names of the nearly 3,000 people killed under an overcast sky that shrouded the 1,776foot-tall top of One World Trade Centre, the centrepiece of the rebuilt site.

Obama spoke to hundreds of service members, and relatives and survivors of the attack that occurred at the Pentagon when American Airlines Flight 77 slammed into the Defense Department’s headquarters, killing 184 people. The youngest victim was only 3 years old. In all, about 3,000 people lost their lives that day as a result of the planes that crashed into New York City’s World Trade Center and in a Pennsylvania field.

The president said extremist groups such as the Islamic State group and al Qaeda know they can never drive down the US, so they focus on trying to instil fear in hopes of trying to get Americans to change how they live.

“We know that our diversity, our patchwork heritage is not a weakness, it is still and always will be one of our greatest strengths,” Obama said. “This is the America that was attacked that September morning. This is the America that we must remain true to.”

Obama spoke on warm, sunny morning, noting that the threat that became so evident on September 11 has evolved greatly over the past 15 years.

Terrorists, he said, often attempt attacks on a smaller, but still deadly scale, specifically citing attacks in Boston, San Bernardino and Orlando as examples.

In the end, he said, the enduring memorial to those who lost their lives that day is ensuring “that we stay true to ourselves, that we stay true to what’s best in us, that we do not let others divide us”.

“How we conduct ourselves as individuals and as a nation, we have the opportunity each and every day to live

up to the sacrifice of those heroes that we lost,” Obama said. Obama began and ended his remarks by quoting from the Book of Proverbs: “Let not steadfast love and faithfulness forsake you. Bind them around your neck. Write them on the table of your heart.”

Obama also marked his final September 11 observance as president with a moment of silence inside the White House to coincide with when the first plane hit the Twin Towers. Atop the White House, the American flag flew at half-staff. Obama invited governors, interested organisations and individuals to follow suit.

A decade after the attacks, al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was killed by US forces in a raid in Pakistan that Obama authorized. Obama noted that event as he spoke about how the nation has responded since 9/11 by delivering “justice” to bin Laden, by strengthening homeland security and by preventing attacks.

“We resolve to continue doing everything in our power to protect this country that we love,” he said, facing the crowd and the benches that are a hallmark of the Pentagon Memorial.

States get more NPPCL revival: CNSA questions HPCL, govt. freedom to spend funds under CSS threatens TO FILE PIL; APPROACH MINISTRY NEW DELHI, SEP 11 (PTI): Government has issued fresh flexi-fund guidelines that will give more freedom to states in spending money under the Centrally Sponsored Schemes (CSS) to meet local developmental requirements. Under the new norms, flexifunds in each CSS have been increased from the current 10% to 25% for states and 30% for Union Territories.

The flexi-fund component, the Finance Ministry said, will provide “flexibility” to states to meet local needs and requirements and pilot innovation to improve efficiency.

States can use the fund to undertake mitigation or restoration activities in case of natural calamities, or to satisfy local requirements in areas affected by internal security disturbances.

“States may, if they so desire, set aside 25 per cent of any CSS as flexifund to be spent on any sub-scheme or component or innovation that is in line with the overall aim and objective of the approved Scheme,” the guidelines said.

However, state governments will have to constitute a state-level sanctioning committee to avail of the flexi-fund facility.

“It may be noted that the name, acronym and the logo are the core feature of any CSS, which must be retained for the flexi-fund component as well. If the states change any of these core features, the central contribution will cease and the flexi-fund component will become a purely state scheme,” the Ministry said.

The flexi-fund facility is not for CSS which emanate from a legislation, like MNREGA. Based on the recommendations of the sub-group of chief ministers and consultations with stakeholders, Niti Aayog had issued instructions for rationalisation of CSS.

Villages in Coco SC to hear plea for appointment Gov, CM extend Idarea reels under of Ombudsman at Centre, states ul-Zuha greetings SEP 11 (NPN): total darkness NEW DELHI, SEP 11 (AGEN- the Lokayukta Act in consonance DIMAPUR, Nagaland Governor, P.B. Acharya has extended his

DIMAPUR, SEP 11 (NPN): Four villages in Coco area under Atoizu range have been reeling under complete darkness following the damage of the transformer on June 13, 2016.

In a press release, Coco area joint council GB chairman, Luhevi Shohe, GB secretary Khuheto Awomi and president Coco area students’ union, Vihuka H informed that the transformer had been replaced twice but was damaged within a span of two hours after it was installed.

They claimed that no technical officers were present during the installation.

It was “installed by lineman and jugali, who do not have proper technical knowledge”, the signatories stated.

They claimed that the villagers were facing immense hardships for the last three months in the absence of electricity.

The village leaders lamented that the worst sufferers were the students, who will be appearing in the upcoming selection exam.

Moreover, the economy has been badly affected and the prices of candle and kerosene have skyrocketed, where most of the villagers could not afford, they alleged.

Therefore, the signatories urged the authorities to look into the matter at the earliest lest public patience runs out.

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“Well, I don’t know if he wants to eat or to check what meat we’re offering on the table.”

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CIES): The Supreme Court will hear on September 14 a fresh plea seeking appointment of Lokpal and Lokayuktas at the Centre and in states as provided for in the central legislation passed in 2013.

A bench of Justices Ranjan Gogoi and P.C. Pant has put up for hearing the PIL which also seeks a direction to all the states to provide adequate budgetary allocation and essential infrastructure for effective functioning of Lokayuktas.

The PIL filed by advocate and Delhi BJP spokesperson Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay alleged that though the Lokpal and Lokayuktas Act, 2013, received Presidential assent on January 1, 2014, and came into force from January 16, 2014, the executive has not established the Lokpal.

“Section 63 of the Lokpal and Lokayuktas Act, 2013, envisages that every State shall establish a body to be known as the Lokayukta within a period of one year from the date of commencement of the Act, however, many States have not done so till date.

And many States have not passed

with the Lokpal and Lokayuktas Act 2013,” the plea said.

According to the petitioner, many state governments are deliberately weakening the Lokayukta by not providing adequate infrastructure, sufficient budget and workforce.

“Issue a writ or direction directing the Respondent 3 to 33, to establish an independent Lokayukta in spirit of Section 63 of the Lokpal and Lokayukta Act, 2013 expeditiously and provide adequate budget, infrastructure and manpower, essential for effective functioning of the Lokayukta,” the plea said.

Many state governments were deliberately weakening the Lokayukta by not providing adequate infrastructure, sufficient budget and workforce. They did not appoint superintendents of police in every district, while the prosecution wing, burdened with hundreds of cases, has one or two public prosecutors only.

Many states have not amended the Lokayukta Act in accordance with the Central Act till date, the petitioner claimed.

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“heartiest greetings to all Muslim brothers and sisters living in Nagaland and in the country on the happy occasion of Id-Ul-Zuha, a celebration with special prayers, greetings and gifts.”

Acharya in his greetings prayed that the occasion, irrespective of caste and creed, brings unity and communal harmony amongst the different community of peoples in the State. While wishing “happy Eid Mubarak to all” Acharya stated that “the joyous day delights everyone and brings peace prosperity to our land”.

CM: Chief minister, T.R. Zeliang has also extended warm greetings to the Muslim community in Nagaland and across the country on the occasion of Id–ul–Zuha.

While wishing all for a peaceful and harmonious IdUl-Zuha, Zeliang prayed that “the festival of sacrifice also bring different communities closer and usher in peace and prosperity in our lives”.

DIMAPUR, SEP 11 (NPN): Expressing serious concern over the delay in reviving the Nagaland Pulp & Paper Mill (NPPC) at Tuli, Central Nagaland Students’ Association (CNSA) has threatened to take the matter to the court by filing a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) or approach the concerned Ministry.

In a press note, CNSA president Charles Lotha and general secretary Yimlanger Jamir said CNSA would be compelled to take up further action unless and until the concerned authorities show sincerity in their works towards the speedy revival of the NPPCL. CNSA said it had sought information from the NPPCL and the directorate of Industries & Commerce on two occasions. However, as per the RTI reply from NPCCL, it said, out of the Rs. 100 crore sanctioned by Ministry of Heavy Industries as first installment in 2013, “only Rs. 34 crores (approx) was utilized towards various projects”.

In this regard, CNSA has questioned Hindustan Paper Corporation Ltd as to “why only Rs 34 crores was utilized out of Rs.100 crores in three years time (2013-2016)?”

CNSA also referred to Nagaland chief minister, T.R Zeliang’s statement published on May 31, 2016 that “out of Rs 100 crores released by the Ministry of Heavy Industries in 2013, Rs 60 crores was diverted by HPC Ltd”.

CNSA has sought details from HPCL and to declare how the Rs 60 crores had been utilized and said “if the money has not been utilized for NPPCL, it would initiate its own course of action, even to the extent of approaching the Ministry.”

CNSA said it was also dismayed by the RTI reply of NPPCL, seeking ‘exemption under Sec. 8 (1) (d) & (g) of RTI Act 2005’ not to divulge names of the ‘companies contracted for the revival of the NPPC-Tuli’.

While pointing out that NPPCL is a government project and the only heavy industry in Nagaland, CNSA was of the opinion that HPC Ltd was not serious about the revival of NPPCL if it felt that such queries were not in the “larger public interest that warrants the disclosure of such information”.

As three years have elapsed since the Government of India declared and sanctioned funds for revival work, CNSA expressed doubts over whether HPCL had “some hidden agenda or dirty politics being played to deliberately stall the much awaited revival of NPPCL, Tuli”.

CNSA also questioned the state government’s sincerity towards the revival of the NPPCL. It said the Industries and Commerce department response to the RTI query was that the state government had instructed various depart-

ments to undertake works like power supply, dam, roads etc.

However, CNSA said the state government could not provide the “hard copy of the project report, the amount sanctioned and the progress report of the projects entrusted to the different departments”.

In this regard, CNSA has demanded the state government to make it known to the public about the project reports and progress at the earliest.

CNSA said its members had also visited NPPCL, Tuli in 2015 and interacted with the officials. Though it was declared that NPPCL would be functional by 2017, CNSA said “the slow-paced work, the alleged diversion of Rs. 60 crores and the seeming insincerity of HPCL clearly indicated that the lofty promises of NPPCL revival was nothing but just a pipe-dream.”

Making it known that NPPCL belonged to the Nagas, CNSA said it would not tolerate such attitude at any cost and demanded the revival of the mill at the earliest.

It said NPCCL would not only bring in economical benefits, but employment opportunities for the Naga people, particularly the educated unemployed youths.

CNSA said “just because of the lackadaisical attitude of the HPCL, and the apparent negligence of the Nagaland government, the NPPCL revival works will never be allowed to be stalled or stopped”.

Several states faced with office of profit issue Staff Reporter

Dimapur, Sep 11 (NPN): Following the judgement of the Delhi High Court which quashed the appointment of 21 parliamentary secretaries of the AAP government on September 8, there is considerable interest over the fate of parliamentary secretaries in Nagaland and north east states. There are also other states where the appointments of parliamentary secretaries have been struck down by the high courts.

Following the court ruling AAP chief minister Arvind Kejriwal asked prime minister Narendra Modi why wasn’t the same yardstick applied to Haryana, Nagaland, Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan, Punjab, Gujarat and others who have parliament secretaries?

T h e A A P g o ve r n ment in Delhi had passed an amendment to the Delhi Members of Legislative Assembly (Removal of Disqualification) Act on June 24,2015 to exempt 21 AAP MLAs appointed as parliamentary

secretaries from the “office of profit” disqualification.

However since it did not have the nod of the Lieutenant Governor Najeeb Jung, the President rejected it.

Nagaland Legislative Assembly had recently on July 12, passed “The Nagaland Salaries, Allowances, Other Facilities of the Chief Minister, Other Ministers, Speaker, Leader of Opposition, Deputy Speaker and other Members of the Nagaland Legislative Assembly/ Parliamentary Secretaries and Pensions for Ex-Members Act, 2005 (Fifth Amendment)Bill,2016. “ According to sources, this was to protect the 24 parliamentary secretaries and five advisors from being removed for occupying “office of profit” since, as MLAs they continued to draw salaries and perks as admissible to such members.

Parliamentary secretaries are ruling party members appointed to assist ministers.

They are regarded for all practical purposes as deputy ministers having access to all

official files and documents.

Practice of appointing parliamentary secretaries is almost a century old.

In India, state governments have been appointing parliament secretaries from among MLAs, especially those who could not be included in the council of ministers as junior ministers because of Article 164 (1A) which limits the total number of ministers to 15% of the strength of the assembly (20% in the case with hill states like Nagaland having upto 60 MLAs) .

Three high courts-Himachal Pradesh, Bombay and Calcutta had quashed appointment of MLAs as parliamentary secretaries.

HP High Court had said the CM had no authority to either appoint or administer oath of office to parliamentary secretaries.

In 2009 Goa bench of Bombay High Court also struck down ordinances issued by the Digambar Kamat Government for appointing three Parliamentary Secretaries as it violated the constitu-

tional mandate under Article 164(1A). In June 2015, the Calcutta HC had struck down appointment of 13 parliamentary secretaries made by Mamata Banerjee government in 2013 despite these appointments being made under a 2012 law. Challenge to appointment of parliamentary secretaries in Punjab, Haryana and Rajasthan is pending adjudication in respective high courts. The SC has kept pending since 2005, the Himachal Pradesh government’s appeal against the HC decision quashing the appointment of parliamentary secretaries.

However, it had not stayed the HC judgment. Goa government did not appeal against the 2009 Bombay HC decision. But, the West Bengal government had appealed in SC against the Calcutta HC’s last year decision. That too is pending. Given the spread of the issue touching almost every state, the SC would soon have to take a decision about the appointments and what constitutes office of profit.

Govt seeks public views on desirability of simultaneous polls All cars to install airbags, NEW DELHI, SEP 11 (AGENCIES): Is it desirable to hold simultaneous elections? This question, along with some other queries related to the issue, have been posted by the government on its website MyGov.com to seek the views of “all interested people”, including common citizens, MPs, MLAs, MLCs, constitutional experts, academics experts, bureaucrats and social media influencers.

The last date for submitting the views is October 15.

The development comes against the backdrop of Prime Minister Narendra Modi floating the idea, which was subsequently articulated by President Pranab Mukherjee.

The questions asked are: Is it desirable to hold simultaneous elections? What are the pros and cons? If simultaneous elections are held, then for the first time what happens to assemblies whose scheduled tenure either ends before or after the proposed date of holding elections?

Should the term of Lok Sabha and assemblies be fixed? What would happen in case by-elections are necessitated in between terms What happens in case the ruling party or coalition loses majority in between term, either in Lok Sabha or in State assemblies?

“The desirability of holding simultaneous elections for the Lok Sabha and Vidhan Sabhas has been discussed at various levels. A considered view is that simultaneous elections will not only keep alive the enthusiasm of voters, but will also result in huge savings to the public exchequer as well as avoiding repetition of administrative effort,” said a note explaining the reasons for such queries.

“It is also expected to control the expenses of political parties. Simultaneous elections will also avoid repeated enforcement of the Model Code of Conduct which affects administrative actions by the government,” it added.

The noted pointed out that

several structural changes will need to be done in case a decision is made to conduct simultaneous election, including possibility of Constitutional amendments to Articles 83, 172, 85 and 174 to streamline the process.

Experts disagree

President Pranab Mukherjee’s support for holding elections to the Lok Sabha and legislative assemblies together may have come as a shot in the arm for Prime Minister Narendra Modi, but experts are skeptical about the proposal. The idea sounds desirable but isn’t feasible, they say.

For starters, achieving political consensus for simultaneous polls seems chimerical. The biggest opposition to the idea is expected from the regional political parties, says Sanjay Kumar, director at the Centre for Study of Developing Societies (CSDS).

“If a serious discussion were to take place, I suspect

the regional parties will be more opposed to the idea than national parties because there is always a tendency for voters to vote the same party in power in the state and at the Centre in case the Lok Sabha polls and a state elections are held together. Of course, some states will prove to be an exception … Forget simultaneous polls, if a state election is held within six months of Lok Sabha polls, even then there is a tendency to vote for the party which won at the Centre,” he told The Indian Express.

Incidentally, this widely held belief among politicians and election observers finds credence in an analysis of past poll results by researchers at the IDFC Institute, a Mumbai-based think tank.

A blog titled ‘Concurrent Elections, Concurrent Winners?’ by Praveen Chakravarty, posted on the IDFC website, notes that “there is a 77 per cent chance that the Indian voter will vote for the same party for both the state and

centre, when elections are held simultaneously.”

Chakravarty’s observation is based on the think tank’s analysis of electoral results since 1999. The researchers studied results of all states whose elections have coincided with the Lok Sabha elections since 1999. “The trend of choosing the same party (at state and Centre) has increased steadily from 68 per cent 1999 to 77 per cent in 2004 to 76 per cent in 2009 and 86 per cent in 2014,” the blog states.

Hence, the ability of voters to vote differently at state and centre, in case of simultaneous polls, is decreasing with time. This is not a scenario political parties, especially those in Opposition, would approve of, according to Kumar. As per the report of the Parliamentary Standing Committee, headed by Congress’ E.M. Sudarsana Natchiappan, the Congress, NCP, CPI, Trinamool Congress and AIMIM have rejected the proposal saying it isn’t feasible.

overspeeding alert system

NEW DELHI, SEP 11 (PTI): Government will soon make it mandatory to put an overspeeding warning system with beeps or continuous alarms and airbags in all cars, while cameras would be also installed on roads to check errant drivers. “We are going to make audio alerts in vehicles mandatory to check overspeeding and curb accidents,” an official told PTI. Once the vehicle crosses the speed of 80 km, there would be sounds of beeps alerting the driver, and in case the speed crosses 90 km, there would be continuous special beeps so that the driver and copassengers both are alarmed, the official said.

“The Road Transport and Highways Ministry has approved it and the file has gone for vetting to the Legal Department.

Once it is through, we will notify it within a fortnight,” the official said. Besides, the government is going to install

cameras to check overspeeding, the official said, adding another crucial step would be mandatory airbags in cars.

India accounts for as high as five lakh road accidents annually in which 1.5 lakh people die and another 3 lakh are crippled. A 2015 data showed that “owners of regular licences were involved in 79 per cent of about 5 lakh road accidents in which 1.46 lakh people died.”

Drivers’ fault accounted for 77 per cent of total road accidents, and a recent report found that “drivers exceeding lawful speed or overspeeding accounted for a share of 62.2 per cent and 61 per cent of accidents caused or people killed due to drivers fault.”

Road Transpor t and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari had earlier said that to check errant drivers, cameras would be installed on highways to monitor the speed of the vehicles and strict penalties would be imposed on violators.

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NSLSA ‘refresher trg’ for PLVs ends

(R-top) NLSA member secretary Alok Agarwa. (R-bottom) NLSA director Geetanjali Goel. PLVs and others at NLSA training.

DIMAPUR:Two-day “refresher training programme” of Para Legal Volunteers(PLVs) organized by Nagaland State Legal Services Authority (NSLSA) concluded Sunday at the Bookmarc Conference Hall, Dimapur.

National Legal Service Authority (NLSA) member secretary, Alok Agarwal and National Legal Service Authority (NLSA) director, Geetanjali Geol were the resource persons on the training.

Speaking at the valedictory programme, Alok Agarwal encouraged the para legal volunteers to work as bridges to fill the gap between the judicial system and the common people.

Alok Agarwal urged the PLVs to be thorough with the Acts and entitlement such as Domestic Violence Act, Juvenile Justice Act, Consumer

Protection Act, child trafficking and create awareness in their own locality.

He also encourage the PLVs to be well equipped and informed with the subject matter and to handle situations in an appropriate way. He gainsaid the PLVs to work sincerely and keep up the participation in various legal activities.

Alok Agarwal appreciated the various ambitious programme undertaken by the Nagaland state Legal Services Authority and express his delight over the well set efforts from the trainers of NSLSA. He also congratulated the NSLSA for spreading awareness programme in the weaker section of the society.

In his valedictory address, deputy secretary, Department of Justice & Law, Imtiakum Ao, termed the trained PLVs as royal soldiers who will fight against legal

illiteracy. He lamented that Nagaland is only in its second generation in legal field and also asserted that corruption in Nagaland was rising high because people are not aware about ones rights.

Imtiakum Ao urged upon all the PLVs to work with full dedication towards making Nagaland a legal illiteracy free state, which will in turn eradicate corruption from the State.

Meanwhile, remarks by chair on the vision of para legal volunteers were delivered by ex-officio member, Dimapur District Legal Services Authority Zhasakhoto Vupru and additional public prosecutor, Dimapur Sashi.

Later, various topics covering Welfare Schemes for Women & Child/Success Stories, Domestic Violence Juvenile Justice System/ NALSA Schemes: Role of

news in brief WRUK emergency meeting: Wozhuro DIC Chozuba informs: General Man-

Range Union, Kohima (WRUK) has convened emergency meeting on September 17, 1 p.m. at zonal council hall. All concerned have been requested to attend the meeting.

GHS Sungro joint meeting: Joint meeting

of all committee of Government High School (GHS) Sungro in commemoration of 50 years jubilee has been convened on September 23, 9 a.m. at the school. All the members of different committee have been requested to attend the meeting.

ager, District Industries centre Chozuba Phek, S. Moasashi has informed that interview for PMEGP 2016-17 under DIC & NKVIB would be conducted on September 22, 10 a.m. at DC conference Hall Phek.

Applicants have been requested to bring required documents in original, without which the candidates would not be entertained. DIC has informed that no separate call letter would be issued.

PLVs, Mechanism of Child Protection in the State, Mental Health Act Covering Disability: Role of PLVs, Role and Functions of PLVs/Success Stories was presented by TOT (panel lawyers) of NSLSA Akumla Longchari; NLSA director Geetanjali Geol; legal aid cum trainer Neingvotuo Krose; legal aid counsel-cumtrainer, NSLSA Limasenla Longkumer and TOT (panel lawyers (NSLSA) Cheliam Khiamniungan.

The programme was summed up by member secretary, NSLSA Nini Iralu and vote of thanks was extended by registrar, Gauhati high Court, Kohima Bench Y Longkumer.

Altogether 98 para legal volunteers from the 11 districts of Nagaland attended the training programme. The programme was chaired by TOT (panel lawyers) Tongpang L Jamir.

ANGPTA Bhandari informs teachers

teachers under SDEO Bhandari have been directed to submit their documents along with membership fee of Rs. 200. ANGPTA Bhandari Unit has also unanimously appointed Rhonthungo Ezung as convenor and M Samuel Ezung as secretary. For information one has been asked to contact at No. 8729998854 / 9615934254.

(L-R): Farmers and KVK officials after the training and demonstrations at Mon and Longleng.

Vegetable Cole Crops. SMS (Animal Science), Dr. Paihem Michui gave detailed lecture on rural poultry farming with dual purpose bird for family poultry production.

All the trainees were taken to the demonstration units such as pearl millet, soybean, maize, pigeon pea and poultry unit at KVK instructional farm. Altogether 32 farmers attended the programme.

KVK Longleng: Training programme cum demonstration on pulses was conduct-

ed by Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK), Longleng, Nagaland on September 6 at Shayanwali, Yongyah village of Longleng district. Programme coordinator, Dr. K. L. Meena gave brief introduction about the role of KVK for the development of farming community of the district through agri. and allied discipline. He suggested that after harvesting of rice, one could go in for second crop like pulses, oilseeds and vegetables as additional income for livelihood improvement. SMS

DIMAPUR: GDRN/NNC (Non-Accord) under the leadership of Kiumukam Yimchunger, has refuted the allegations made against its leader and clarified that the GDRN/ NNC (N/A) was “intact and running smoothly as before with constitutional rights.”

In a press note,GDRN/ NNC (N/A)MIP maintained that it was founded and formed by its president who, it stated, was known to the people and national leaders.

MIP termed the allegations made against its leader in recent days as “malicious” and an attempt to “downgrade the image of a true and reliable leader.”

GDRN/NNC (N/A) stated that the recent situation was created by some recently inducted workers who were given authority and opportunity by the government in good sense but lamented that they ended up attempting to topple the government.

“The erstwhile MIP kilonser, who was cared and respected by the government at all times, was misled by power mongers and irresponsible persons and is now following in their lines and succumbed to their flirty games,” the press note read. In this regard, GDRN/NNC (N/A) stated it has terminated the erstwhile MIP kilonser and has appointed Hetoi Chophy as kilonser in charge of MIP and that all government related matters should routed through him as authorised.

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Kohima Science College students receiving award at Techexpo IIT Guwahati.

DIMAPUR: Students of Kohima Science College, Jotsoma (autonomous) participated at Techexpo IIT Guwahati from September 1 to 4 wherein a working prototype “Tea Leave Cutting Machine” (TLCM) initiated by the KSC students was placed at top 5.

A press note by Kohima Science College Students Union (KSCSU) science club secretary, Khumeng T stated that three students represented KSC with an innovative machine- Tea Leave Cutting Machine, designed and mastermind by innovative idea of Zenwang Konyak, Kevisede Savino and Daniel Konyak of B.Sc 1st year.

TLCM aims for efficient, less energy, easy loco-

motion, eco-friendly, cost effective and reliable techniques as compared to the traditional methods in tea industry.

It stated that judges comprised of different personalities from different fields and discipline which included Frederick J Raab, Head, LIGO Hanford Observatory; Dr. Amit Sethi, department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering IIT Guwahati; Dr. Sachin Kumar, department of Bioscience and Bioengineering IIT Guwahati; Dr. Senthilmurugan S, department of Chemical engineering IIT Guwahati.

The release stated that Kohima Science College under the science club secretary Khumeng T and advisor Dr.

Chetan Kachhara department of Physics and the students’ union partially funded the project. The TLCM team was awarded with the certificates and a cash prize.

The team from Kohima Science College was the only one from Nagaland to represent the state at the expo and their achievement has brought laurels not only to the college, but also to the state, informed KSCSU. Techexpo is an annual techno-management festival and is a platform for all the young Indian students to showcase their projects, innovative products for bringing to light the technological advancement made by the youths of the country

NPF central team tour Jangpetkong, Alongtaki

DIMAPUR: Naga People’s Jangpetkong A/C party lead- presidents and general secre- system in the party set-up and

DIMAPU: All the primary Front (NPF) central team in ers from various units on Sep- taries out of 31 units. The con- urged them to work cohesively

KVK training, demonstrations in Mon, Longleng

DIMAPUR: Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Mon (Aboi) Nagaland organized one day training programme for practicing farmers and farm women under National Innovations Climate Resilient in Agriculture- Technology Demonstration Component (NICRA-TDC) at KVK office, Aboi on September 8.

In the training, Subject matter specialist (Plant Breeding), Dr. M.S. Sachan deliberated on management of groups under NICRA-TDC village and Nursery Raising of Winter

GDRN/NNC (N/A) clarifies

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(Agronomy) Dr. Manoj Kumar spoke on importance of pulses for nutritional security.

He encouraged to the farming community to cultivate pulses after harvesting of Jhum rice for increasing the cropping intensity,income and improving the soil fertility. He had also demonstrated on cultivation practices of pulses.

About 20 kgs of green gram and black gram seeds were distributed to the farmers.

Altogether 21 farmers participated during the programme.

charge of NPF party Mokokchung division toured 29th Jangpetkong A/C and 30th Alongtaki A/C .

The team was led general secretary Nchumo Kikon, secretary Yangerlemba and general secretary (Y/W) L. Senti Yanger, accompanied by president NPF Mokokchung division, Moasangba along with colleagues.

During the tour, a consultative meeting was held at Mangkolemba with 29th

tember 7. The house deliberated thoroughly to resolve the impasse in reorganization of 29th Jangpetkong A/C office bearers and decided that reorganization process of the concerned A/C office bearers would be completed before October 15. Another consultative meeting was held at 30th Alongtaki on September 8, wherein the 30th Alongtaki A/C unit was represented by A/C office bearers along with all frontal officers and 26 units’

sultative meeting was chaired by the A/C president, while invocation was delivered by advisor, 30th Alongtaki A/C, R. Chuba Walling. Many party leaders spoke and emphasized on various party issues in the meeting. Yangerlemba encouraged party leaders to unite and work harder in order to strengthen the NPF party and the need to prepare for the coming general election. Nchumo Kikon appraised the party men and women about the working

in the interest of their elected legislature, Dr. Benjongliba Aier. Mokochung division president, Moasangba, mainly focused on the importance of roles, duties and functions of the party leaders. 30th Alongtaki A/C also urged the central team and division office bearers to convey to the government about the problems faced by the public because of the deplorable road condition and poor connectivity in the entire constituency area.

NSCN- (R) SYO, SSU holds awareness on tobacco NSCN/GPRN Kyong Two-day seminar on tobacco awareness was region condoles discharges one; DIMAPUR: jointly organized by Sakraba Youth Organization (SYO) and Students Union (SSU) in collaboration with Sakraba DIMAPUR: NSCN/GPRN, warns imposters Sakraba Baptist Church, with district nodal officer, Tobacco Control Kyong region has expressed

DIMAPUR: NSCN/ GPRN (Reformation) through its MIP has informed that one Vino son of Lhoniu of Khukshe village has been discharged from the national service with immediate effect. NSCN (R) said Vino was found collecting tax in the name of other political group as the activity was anti-national and against the azha of the government. Meanwhile, NSCN (R) informed that ‘2nd lieut.’ Kahutos son of Nikhivi of Kuhuboto village and John, son of Enato Yeptho of Niuland village from GRPN/ NSCN was found collecting tax in the name of NSCN (R) in Kohima. Terming the activity as anti national, NSCN/ GPRN (R) has asked GPRN/ to look in to the matter seriously and take stringent action against their members at the earliest.

Programme, Dr. Reyosalu Lase Vizo from September 10 to 11. In the prohramme, key note address was delivered by general duty medical officer (NHM) Sakraba PHC Phek, Dr. Medo Kuotsu. The villagers in response to the awareness programme resolved to ban sale of tobacco related products in and around its jurisdiction. The programme was sponsored by VDB and village council Sakraba.

INTACH India Heritage quiz competition held at DABA

DIMAPUR: Final round of state level quiz “Nagaland INTACH India Heritage Quiz 2016” organised by Nagaland Chapter of the INTACH India Heritage was held on September 10 at Elim conference hall, DABA, Dimapur. A press note by Nagaland Chapter state convenor, Sentila T. Yanger stated that seven teams which had earlier won the district levels from Dimapur and Mokokchung made it to the state finals. Rohit Chhangani and Sungjemmenla L. Jamir from Hollotoli School, Dimapur was declared as the winners of the “Nagaland INTACH India Heritage Quiz 2016”; team of Yolü Nüvocho and Jitesh Sethi of Hollotoli School, Dimapur was placed at second position while third position was bagged by team of Jepenyula and Sunepienla of Ladybird School, Mokokchung.

heartfelt condolence at the untimely demise of its lecy (Kyong region) late Nchamo Kikon son of late Mhonthung Kikon of Tsungiki village on September 7 at Wokha town.

In a condolence note, NSCN/GPRN region secretary, Kyong region, P. Renthungo Odyuo described late Nchamo as a person of good repute who would be remembered for his simplicity and readiness to serve the people as an active and dynamic member among the Kyong regional staff. NSCN/GPRN, Kyong region has conveyed condolence to the bereaved family and prayed that the almighty Lord provide them strength, solace and comfort during this difficult time; it also prayed for the departed soul to rest in eternal peace.

Education institutes, others celebrate ‘International Literacy Day’

(L-R): Students and faculty of SASRD after the programme. Rotary Club of Dimapur members along with the awardees. Phek Government College faculty and students after the programme. Resource person Rozelle Mero.

DIMAPUR: Nagaland University, School of Agricultural Sciences & Rural Development (NU: SASRD) celebrated “50th International Literacy Day” on September 8, organised by the Students’ Union of SASRD. To mark the celebration, inter-class competition was held where the participants included the batches from B. Sc. (Ag) 1st year to Ph.D. scholars with the caption “reading the past, writing the future” as the theme under UNESCO’s official K

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declaration for the year 2016.

It comprised of different events such as an essay competition under the topic “ethical and informed voting for all round development”, followed by poetry writing, extempore, a debate under the trending issue “social networking sites and messaging applications – a reliable guide for the society”.

It concluded with a critique by dean NU: SASRD, Prof. R.C Gupta and a drama competition on the theme of the 50th international lit-

eracy day.

Panel of judges included associate professor, Dr. Pauline Alila, assistant professors Dr. Pankaj Kumar Shah and Moanungsang.

Assistant professor, Moanungsang stressed upon the importance of communal harmony through literacy.

The M. Sc (Ag) 1st year emerged as the overall champion class followed by the B. Sc. (Ag) 2nd year. Special title for the best debater was bagged by a Ph.D. scholar, Jonah Dakho and the best

actor for drama was awarded to B. Sc.(Ag) 1st year, Alemshilu Longkumer.

ROTARY CLUB OF DIMAPUR: Rotary Club of Dimapur celebrated “International Literacy Day” on September, 8 by felicitating and awarding five outstanding teachers of various Govt.

Schools at Rotary Centre, Midland, Dimapur.

This function was organized under ‘T-E-A-C-H’ program of Rotary India Literacy Mission (RILM). After the successful eradication

of Polio from India, Rotary India has taken up the task of eradicating illiteracy from India.

RILM certificates and Rotary 4-way test mementos were awarded to Temsunaro Jamir of Government High School, Lengrijan; Akato of Government Middle School, Zeliangrong; Esther of Government Primary School, Lengrijan; Yondella Ovung of Government Primary and Middle School, Duncan and Moala Panger of Government Middle School,

Midland.

PHEK GOVT. COLLEGE: In commemoration of “International Literacy Day”, Phek Government College conducted various literary activities such as quiz, extempore speech, slogan writing, essay writing, singing competition, etc. on September 8 at the college.

The following day, motivational talk on skill development was held with district employment officer, Phek, Gideon L Sumi, as the resource person followed by

interactive session at the end of the talk.

Earlier, assistantt Prof, Mhashevolu Medeo chaired the programme where the college Principal gave the welcome note and the concluding remark was pronounced by asst. Prof, Dr. Atoholi Sema. Attractive prizes were given to the winners at the end of the programme.

BTCP: Baptist Theological College, Pfutsero, (BTCP) celebrated its annual literary day on September

9, with managing director, The People Channel, Rozelle Mero as the resource person.

Mero expounded on the theme “express, educate, empower” and motivated the college community.

Oratory competition on Martin Luther King Jr.’s epic speech “I have a dream” and a debate on the topic “Church should allow divorce” were conducted.

Competitions on poetry writing, essay, sketching, and treasure hunt were also conducted.

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CS convenes AHoD, HoDs meeting in Kma DIMAPUR: A meeting of the Administrative Heads of Department (AHOD) and Head of Departments (HoDs) has been convened on September 14, 11 a.m. at the Secretariat conference hall, Kohima.

This was informed in a circular by chief secretary of Nagaland, Pankaj Kumar IAS. In this regard, all Administrative Heads of Department and Head of Departments have been infor med to attend the meeting.

According to DIPR report, following are the agenda items to be discussed: Review of the minutes of Administrative Heads of Department and Head of Departments meeting held on July 4, 2016; release of State Institute of rural development (SIRD) souvenir book; recent instructions of Personnel and Administrative Reforms (P&AR) department on ban on contract appointments etc.; requisitions to Nagaland Public Service Commission (NPSC) and revised rules of executive business, Planning and Finance departments issues, if any.

(L-R): Bishop of Kohima and children who received First Holy Communion at St. Paul Church Chiechema.

Section of the congregation during NCYMD celebration at St Xavier’s Church, New Reserve, Phesama.

DIMAPUR: St. Paul Church Chiechama celebrated the church feast on Sunday with Bishop of Kohima, Most Rev. Dr. James Thoppil as the main celebrant wherein 60 children received the sacrament of “First Holy Communion”.

In his homily, Bishop of Kohima based on the Gospel of the day (Luke 15:1-32) spoke of the mercy of God. He said there could be no deeper source of awareness of “our” worth than to trust Jesus and to believe that human beings are truly precious in the eyes of God. As the church celebrates the feast of patron saint, St. Paul, Most Rev. Dr. James Thoppil said the gospel must be used for self-reflection and assessment.

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ing, our moral laws, our church norms, we must be people of mercy willing to forgive and forget,” said Bishop.

Most Rev. Dr. James Thoppil also urged the community to pray for those who have fallen away from the grace of God so that divine mercy may reach out to them before it was too late.

Parish priest, Rev. Fr. Mathew Keemattam accorded the words of welcome. CYA Choir of St. Paul Catholic Church, Chiechama and St. Dominic Savio Church, Chiepbozou presented songs.

Viuonyü anchored the programme and Medo-u Mathew, president CU, delivered the vote of thanks.

The ser vice was attended by priests, sisters, invited guests from Kohima,

Lazami, Tseminyu, Tesophynyu, Longsa, Nerhema, Toupbema and other neighboring villages.

S A C YA : S o u t h e r n Angami Catholic Youth Association (SACYA) celebrated Nagaland Catholic Youth Movement Day (NCYMD) 2016 at St Xavier’s Church, New Reserve, Phesama with Reverend Father (Dr.) Anand SJ as main celebrant, Sunday.

In his sermon, Reverend Father (Dr.) Anand said youth are the great strength and that the future church lies on them. He then urged youth to pray for one another.

Reverend Father also expressed gratitude to SACYA for choosing New Reserve St. Xavier’s Church for celebration of NCYM Day. Guest speaker, former

vice president of Southern Angami Catholic Union (SACU), Vitsu Martin Rikha challenged the youth to be ready to face any good cause without hesitation.

He appealed to the youth to be humble, brave and maintain good character.

NCYM delegates also joined the SACYA in the occasion with greetings. The official also read out the president of NCYM Day message.

Avizo Titus presided the programme, while welcome addressed was delivered by secretary SACYA Pulenu Diana and vote of thanks was delivered by joint secretary of SACYA Kevisenu Agnes.

Delegates from different villages of SACYA attended the sacred service celebration.

ANCA resolves to promote ‘professionalism of counselling’ DIMAPUR: All Nagaland Counsellors Association (ANCA) held its general meeting on September 10 at the conference hall of SCERT, Kohima and resolved to promote “professionalism of counselling” in Nagaland.

ANCA stated that in the meeting the association also resolved to maintain good co-ordination with the state government departments like School Education, SCERT, Higher Education, NBSE, NSACS, etc. so as to promote professionalism of counselling in Nagaland.

ANCA in the meeting has encouraged the members of the association to practise counselling in schools and colleges. Outgoing president Dr. Zavise Rume also presented a new approach to a comprehensive school counselling

ANCA members after the general meeting. programmes in Nagaland.

He also thanked each and every member of the association for the successful completion of the ten years.

The house also resolved to observe its foundation day on October 12 at Christ King School, Kohima and constituted a constitution drafting committee and professional code of ethics drafting committee and resolved to register the association with the government of Nagaland. During

the meeting the house also elected office bearers for the next tenure led by Rev. Fr. C. Joseph as president and Ikali Chophy as general secretary along with eight others.

Newly elected president Rev. Fr. C. Joseph thanked the members for electing him as president of the association and requested members to extend the outmost cooperation towards achieving the future programmes of the association.

Ex-servicemen meet at 3 Corps Hqs DIMAPUR: Ex-servicemen members from various districts led by director ex-servicemen welfare Nagaland, Brigadier KK Roy Choudhury, Sm, VSM (Retd) attended a meeting with AVSM, SM, VSM, HQ 3 Corps commander Lt. General Abhay Krishna and his team of officers at the Service Officers’ Institute, Rangapahar Military Station.

During the interaction with the exservicemen, the Corps Commander displayed keen interest in the activities and welfare of the ex–servicemen community of Nagaland state. In his message, Lt. General Abhay Krishna impressed upon the ex-servicemen members to educate the new defence retirees on the importance of displaying maturity and

foresight in the management of their financial assets so as to provide a secure future for their families. He also emphasized on the need to relax the standards of the entry for recruitment into the Indian Army of candidates belonging to the state so that students from rural areas would also be eligible to appear for the recruitment program and thus mitigate the acute unemployment problem to some extent.

The Corps Commander and his team of officers were keen to provide support, rehabilitation and cooperation not only for the welfare and benefit of the ex-servicemen and their families but also for the needy citizens and public belonging to Nagaland.

ASUDGC organises ‘cultural seminar’ NPMHR commemorates 38th foundation day

Students presenting a special number during ASUDGC ‘cultural seminar’.

DIMAPUR: Ao Students’ Union Dimapur Government College (ASUDGC) organised a “cultural seminar” on September 10 at Lotha Hoho ki, Dimapur.

Speaking at the programme, Tir Yimyim Editor, K. Temjen Jamir said the present era should age of seeking government jobs for educated Naga youth but to opt for self employment for the reason that it is an age of creation of wealth through entrepreneurship.

In this era of wealth creation, government job should not be sole target of getting education for Naga students, rather one ought to utilize one’s education and skill to establish one’s own enterprise in creating wealth for the benefit of the people, he added.

Temjen elaborated that

there was a time when educational institutions were established to impart education in Nagaland with a single objective to seek for government jobs after acquiring educational degrees.

He said that this certainly was the only goal for the early Naga students and consequently almost all of them became government servants. However, Temjen asserted that it was high time for present generation of Naga youth and students to change that Naga mindset and go beyond the target of government services.

The aim of imparting education to serve the society is much more than government service. Temjen opined and that, “one should be job creators rather than job seekers”.

He said culture and tradition

was not inherent by birth but rather it was inculcated and imbibed during the course of one’s growth and was dynamic and progressive.

Temjen called upon the student community to know their ancestral lineage so they do not forget their roots and propagate the same values to the younger generation.

He saidthat this era was not the time to create enmity with others, but to maintain harmony and unity with one another for peaceful coexistence. Amongst the seniors, Imtiwapang Aier exhorted the students. Earlier in the second session, assistant professor Dr. Benjong spoke on teachers and students relationship. The students presented special number and participated in the talk on the value of mother tongue during the sessions.

DIMAPUR: Naga Peoples’ Movement for Human Rights (NPMHR) held its 38th foundation day on September 9 at Republic of Hiyo, Dimapur.

During the programme, homage was paid to the memory of late Ahu Sakhrie, one of the founding members with a minute of silence.

Reminiscing about the formation of NPMHR in Delhi, one of the founding members, Hokiye said “it began with small discussions in the hostels, meeting each other, coming across people concerned about the atrocities.”

NPMHR, one of the first organization in India to challenge the Supreme Court was formed after long deliberations and discussions, viewed Hokiye who further hoped that the movement would continue to create consciousness among Nagas.

Founding members Luingam Luithui and Dr. P.S Lorin also spoke of the establishment of NPMHR and its impact to the Naga society as well as outsiders.

A brief history of NPMHR was delivered by secretary general, Neingulo Krome who shared the efforts and sacrifices made by the founding members.

He pointed out how the atrocities in the Naga areas under militarization strengthened the movement for human

Members of Naga Peoples’ Movement for Human Rights after the programme.,

rights and the need to gather more support outside.

Prominent founding members namely Labu Sakhrie, Luingam Luithui, P.S Lorin, Gugs Chishi, Hokiye and a large number of NPMHR members from

South Sector and Delhi sector attended the foundation day.

Founding members Labu Sakhrie and Gugs Chishi shared their experiences of the movement in the initial days.

While Gugs Chishi enthralled

the gathering with his original composition “My Home Country”, Labu Sakhrie paid a tribute with a Trade Union Song called “Joe Hill” which was a popular song during the early years of NPMHR in Delhi.

Mass social work at D Block Kohima

Volunteers cleaning debris during a mass social work on September 10.

DIMAPUR: D Block Panchayat along with the D Block youth organization organized a mass social work on September 10 with active participation from colony members, teachers and primary school children.

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Minister for Forest, Environment and Climate Change, Dr. Niekiesalie (Nicky) Kire also participated. He encouraged and appreciated the colony members’ enthusiastic participation in the social work. Dr. Nicky

and family also provided the bamboo required in the social work.

Meanwhile, he D block panchayat also thanked the colony members and all who took part in the social work for making it a big success.

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Correspondent IMPHAL, Sep 11: Union minister for human resource development Prakash Javadekar, who is also election in-charge of Manipur BJP, and Assam’s finance minister Himanta Biwas Sarma would accompany BJP president Amit Shah’s two-day visit in Manipur.

BJP’s national president is scheduled to arrive in Imphal on September 14 for a two day visit in the poll bound state of Manipur. Manipur would go to poll by early part of next year.

As per the tentative programme of his visit available with the state BJP office, among others Amit Shah would address a party rally in Imphal’s Hapta Kangjeibung (Palace Compound) on September 14, to mark the start of the election campaign.

The party election rally would be followed by state executive meeting of party to

347 crimes against women reported in 2016

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IMPHAL, Sep 11: Manipur has registered 347 cases of crime against women during the current year ending August, according to a date of violence against women in Manipur compiled by Women Action for Development (WAD) on Sunday. Of the reported cases, sixteen women were raped and 10 murdered including one murder after being raped.

The data was released today during a “One-day discussion cum sharing program on human right violation with special reference to law’s related with crime against women and customary proactive in Manipur” held at Manipur Press Club, Imphal.

Three cases of attempt to rape, 10 murders, 16 attempts to murder and six suicide cases were reported from January 1 till August 31, 2016.

One suspicious death, one delivery death, seven molestations, 75 assaults, 53 missing, eight kidnapping, 47 trafficking, three cyber crimes, one medical negligence, one forced abortion and 91 crowd control assaults were also reported during the same period.

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be held at Sangai hall of Hotel Imphal.

State BJP general secretary N Nimbas Singh said that during the scheduled meeting, Shah would consult party leaders on poll strategies. The union minister for human resource development Prakash Javadekar and Assam’s finance minister Himanta Biwas Sarma would also be part of the discussion.

Sources in the state BJP said that party leaders are working hard in making arrangement for the visit of the bigwig. Leaders have also asked party active workers to ensure attendance of at least 10 members from each of the 2,794 polling stations of the state to the proposed rally.

Party leaders have already started mobilisation to all the nine districts to meet party workers of each polling booth and district leaders to ensure presence of maximum number of people in the rally.

In the hill districts of the

state, the district level party leaders are meeting with village chief and village authorities and convincing them to send villagers to the proposed rally.

The party is also holding a booth-level consultation programme in Ukhrul district today, the source added.

BJP is hoping for a better performance in Manipur, where Ibobi led Congress government has been in power for three consecutive five years term, after its victory in Assam.

Party leaders are confident of BJP doing good in the general elections after it made inroads in the civic polls winning 10 out of 27 seats.

The Saffron party has not able to open its account in the Manipur Legislative Assembly since 2001 until the by-elections in November 2015 where they won two seats. The two sitting BJP MLAs are Th Bishorjit and Kh Jaykishan.

Itanagar, Sep 11 (PTI): Two policemen were seriously injured when a mob attacked a police team that went to Silatoo Miri village in Namsai district in search of drug peddlers, an official said today.

The mob attacked the police team with machete injuring two including subinspector D Singpho during its raid yesterday, Additional Deputy Commissioner M K Deori said.

The injured policemen were shifted to a hospital at Dibrugarh in Assam in a critical condition.

The villagers also manhandled Namsai SP C K Mein and two accompanying officials who went to the spot on hearing the incident, the ADC said.

Later, police reinforcement reached the spot and brought the situation under control.

Namsai is one of the districts in Arunachal Pradesh which is badly affected by the drug menace.

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Vijaya Bank adopts girls to ensure education

Agartala, Sep 11 (IANS): Public-sector Vijaya Bank, which posted a profit of Rs 1,547 crore in the last fiscal, has adopted 632 girls to take care of their education, and 82 villages across the country to provide medical services, a top bank official said. “We have adopted 632 girls across the country to take care their educational affairs. We would bear all expenses of their education to fulfil these girls most aspirations,” Kishore Sansi, Managing Director and CEO of Vijaya Bank, told reporters on Saturday.

Felicitating Olympian gymnast Dipa Karmakar here at a function, he said : “If these girls want to learn abroad or conduct research work, Vijaya Bank would bear all their expenses.”

Sansi said that the Vijaya Bank already adopted 32 villages, including one in Assam, and is in the process to adopt 50 more villages including six in northeast India to provide high quality medical services to the people of these villages with the direct involvement of

expert physicians and medical practitioners.

Vijaya Bank MD-CEO said that the bank has posted a profit of Rs 1,547 crore in 2015-16 and targeted to make profit of Rs 2,000 crore in the ongoing financial year (201617).

According to Sansi, Vijaya Bank, which was nationalised in the second phase of nationalisation of banks during 1980, has a network of 1,900 branches in the country and over 3,500 customer touch points including 1,680 ATMs. The Bank’s total business is over Rs 2,17,000 crore with a diverse clientele base of over 14 million.

“In Vijaya Bank’s 85-year history, the bank had opened 1,000 branches till year 2007.

But in the last nine years, with aggressive banking operations, the bank opened 900 new branches -- almost 100 annually,” he said.

“Of the 350 new branches opened in the last two-three years, each branch has witnessed Rs 20 crore transactions,” he added.

‘Security forces acting as agent GU students seek varsity hospital upgrade to bring non-locals in Manipur’ Correspondent IMPHAL, Sep 11: Indian Army and security forces were acting as agent to convert Manipur into a land of “Mayang (people coming from Indian mainland)”, alleged Revolutionary People’s Front (RPF) in a statement issued on Sunday.

If the Indian army and security forces were sincere enough to safeguard the Manipuris as Indian citizens, they would have helped the people voicing for protecting the indigenous people, the statement signed by RPF’s publicity secretary Roben Khuman.

The RPF was reacting to detection of a large number of non-locals including recent 39 non-locals entering Manipur without valid documents during drive conducted on the Imphal-Mao section of NH-2 by pro-ILPS activists.

Mention may be made that the 39 non-locals picked out by the pro-ILPS activists along the NH-2 at Pheidinga Lamkhai were found to be brought by a contractor identified as Mani Singh alias Asutos for construction of Military Hospital at Leimakhong in Imphal. The instance showed the civic action programme of Indian Army and security forces “know your friend,” and

“know your army” was nothing but propaganda to eliminate the indigenous people of the region.

If they happened to conduct the programme with sincerity in heart, they (Army) might have engaged local labourers who were facing hardship to find day to day work, the RPF statement read.

This showed that Indian Army and security forces were trying to assimilate people of Indian mainland among the indigenous people under its hidden agenda of “accommodation of surplus population” in order to capture the economic and political powers of the indigenous people of the state, it stated. “These army people are sending out their agents to transport the non local people from outside the region to dominant the region and extend their suppressive rule,’ the statement alleged.

“Indian colonial” rule through its army and security forces were slowly occupying the land by sending their people in the name of working for project being undertaken in the state. This is nothing but a kind of war being underway against the indigenous people by the Indian army to wipe out the indigenous people of the state,” stated RPF.

G U WA H AT I , S ep 1 1 (Agencies): Lack of specialist doctors and irregular ambulance services have forced many students of Guwahati University (GU) to avoid the university hospital even during emergencies.

The Post Graduate Students’ Union (PGSU), the elected students’ organization of GU, has approached health minister Himanta Biswa Sarma seeking upgrade of the campus hospital.

The GU campus is located at a considerable distance from the heart of the city, making it difficult for patient to access the facilities available in

Guwahati in times of crises.

“Our first and foremost demand before the university authorities and the state government is recruitment of adequate specialist doctors to treat patients on the campus itself. At present, many cases are referred to other hospitals and students are forced to go out of campus for treatment. This situation adds to the plight of students,” said PGSU president Manab Jyoti Kalita. The hospital is meant for students and staff and it needs specialists in gynaecology, surgery and orthopaedics, Kalita added.

He stressed on the need

for the availability of all kinds of essential medicines 24X7 and two ambulances for shifting patients in case of emergency.

A PGSU delegation met Sarma over improvement of facilities at the hospital.

Sources said the health department has decided to take up the issue with the university authorities. “Various activities are held in GU throughout the year. Students and faculty members from other universities and colleges come here.

Absence of good infrastructure in the university hospital may cause trouble for the hosts,” said an university official.

BLS Haflong unveil 1st issue of periodical

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Haflong, Sep 11: Borail Literary Society (BLS) Haflong unveiled the first issue of periodical ‘Hakoo’ which deals with various subject related to diverse cultural values of the district at the residence of Deputy Commissioner, Haflong. Speaking on the occasion, Amarendra Barua, president of the society said that the main objective of Hakoo was to show the rich hidden tribal heritage of the hills district of Assam with legendry works, cultural values of

To our Dearest Akumtong A Jamir a.k.a Baekhyun, Happy 3rd Birthday to our greatest joy...You are a bubbly cute little boy with that adorable dimple that fill our hearts with laughter. May the good Lord bless you and keep you healthy. Love you to bits!!!

With Love from parents, grandparents, aunties, uncles, Luhan & Taohun.

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From Elivini,Vipito,& Anito.

Mother-daughter duo hacked to death in Assam

Guwahati, Sep 11 (Agencies): A mother-daughter duo was hacked to death, while another daughter was critically injured by unidentified miscreants in Morigaon in central Assam.

Reports received here today said that the body of the mother and one daughter were recovered lifeless, with clear injury

marks made by sharp weapons.

Another minor daughter was found injured and is currently undergoing treatment in a serious condition. The mother and her two daughters were alone in the house when the attack occurred last night. Police have launched investigation to nab the culprits.

Water woes plague Meghalaya

SHILLONG, Sep 11 (Agencies): Over the last few decades or so, Meghalaya has started facing ‘serious problems’ of surface and groundwater pollution due to indiscriminate discharge of untreated municipal effluents, industries, agricultural runoff, the latest report issued by the State Pollution Control Board said.

It was also reported that in order to obtain information regarding the overall health and general environmental state of the rivers and ground-water resources in the state, the Meghalaya Pollution Control Board has been monitoring the water quality in selected water bodies under the National Water Monitoring Dignitaries during the launching of ‘Hakoo’.

Programme on a regular basis. “The monitoring covers 20 rivers/ the communities living in the initiative to bring out the first streams, four lakes and seven springs/wells. A total of 54 sampling district which signify simplic- issue in a very short time. locations (47 of surface water and seven of groundwater) are beity and harmony in diversity.

It may be mentioned ing monitored on a regular basis,” the report read, adding that He also thanked the member here that Borail Literary Soci- the monitoring of water quality is a step towards control of water pollution as indicated in the Water Act, 1974. for contribution towards the ety was formed in 2016.

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Dalits to invite Bachchan, Mallya PMLA case: ED to attach fresh assets Need to empower backward Modi to feel ‘Badbu Gujarat Ki’ sections, says Chief Justice ing carcasses. Hundreds of cows are lying dead and stinking all over the place. Dalits continue to die in gutter, caste division and untouchability have made them suffer,” he rued.

“Now that we have given up disposing dead cows, we will invite Bachchan and Modi to come to Gujarat, spend some time and enjoy ‘badbu Gujarat ki’,” Mevani said. Following the Una case in which Dalits from Mota Samadhiyala village were brutally beaten up by self-styled cow vigilantes, the community members from the state pledged en masse to give up their traditional profession of disposing cow carcasses as a way of protest.

“This is about the conscience of Dalits to quit castebased occupation that caste system imposes upon them. In response, thousands of Dalits have pledged not to pick up cow carcass, and in hundreds of villages it has been given up.

This has also broken the myth that Dalits are solely dependent on this profession,” Mevani claimed. The Dalits were even attacked by upper caste members in many villages for not disposing cow carcasses, he alleged. Mevani also said that the situation in villages is tense because of this, but the government is still not ready to act on demands put up by Dalit community members.

Ocean warming to impact food production in India

Rajnath meets JK boy who tops BSF exam

RAIPUR, SEP 11 (PTI): Asserting that empowering the backward and downtrodden sections of society is part of good governance, Chief Justice TS Thakur on Saturday said tribal people should get the benefits of government schemes.

The CJI was addressing a workshop on ‘Protection and Enforcement of Tribal Rights’, organised by State Legal Services Authority at the campus of Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Raipur.

Chief objective of the National Legal Service Authority (NALSA) is to end discrimination between rich and poor, to make backward, weaker and uneducated people aware of their rights and provide them necessary legal aid for ensuring justice, he said.

“For this, NALSA has laid seven rules, which include protection and enforcement of rights of tribals and provision of legal services to workers of unorganised sectors, children, mentally ill people, addicts, victims of trafficking and commercial sex exploitation,” Mr Thakur said.

The CJI said tribal people are dwelling right from Kashmir to Kanyakumari, and constitute nearly 33 per cent population of

TS Thakur Chhattisgarh. “There are various rules including Schedule 5 and 6 of Constitution along with a number of schemes of Central and state governments for protection and enforcement of rights of tribal people.

“Objective of this workshop is to ensure that tribal people should get the benefits of these rules and schemes and any loopholes in this regard should be eliminated.

Empowering backward, weak and poor people is part of good governance,” he added.

The CJI said, “the way Chhattisgarh government is recruiting local people on posts of Grade-III and Grade-IV category, appointment of paralegal volunteers and panel

lawyers (under NALSA) should also be done from among tribals so that they may create awareness among their communities regarding their rights in a better way.”

Hailing the development of the state, the CJI said that people from other states look at Chhattisgarh as a poor and backward state, “but when you actually visit and see the smooth roads, tall buildings and national institutions taking shape, (it) will convince you that the state is marching ahead on the path of progress at an accelerated pace.”

Supreme Court Judge Abhay Manohar Sapre, Chief Justice of Chhattisgarh High Court Deepak Gupta, State Legal Service Authority chairman Preetinkar Diwakar and other dignitaries were present in the function.

Later, the CJI and Chief Minister Raman Singh laid the foundation stone of the nation’s first commercial court building in Naya Raipur.

The first commercial court, inaugurated in Naya Raipur by Supreme Court judge Madan B Lokur and Singh on July 2, is currently functioning in the building of Chhattisgarh State Planning Commission.

Ocean Warming will impact the yields of crops in India and other countries, a study shows.

KOCHI, Sep 11 (PTI): Food security of India and several other major key food producing countries are threatened by changing weather patterns due to warming of the oceans, which may well be the “greatest” hidden challenge for the present generation, according to a study.

Changes in ocean-focused atmospheric patterns have direct implications on food production as the yield is impacted.

“The consequences for society of changing weather patterns due to the warming of the oceans are considerable,” said the report titled “Explaining ocean warming: causes, scale, effects and consequences”.

The report released by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) said they involve a mix of food and water factors, and the evolution of various types of risk.

Noting that there have already been changes to precipitation patterns in a number of areas of the planet resulting from large-scale atmospheric teleconnections with ocean warming, the report said there can be increased rainfall in some mid-latitude and monsoon areas and decrease over various sub-tropical regions.

“Both will have impacts on the yields of crops over a range of important food producing areas such as Australia, North America and India,” it said.

The report said there were good correlations between wheat and maize yields with the NAO (North Atlantic Oscillation) and PDO (Pacific Decadal Oscillation), so changes in these ocean-focused atmospheric patterns have direct implications on food production.

Similarly, increasing temperatures tend to reduce maize

yields, if all other factors are held constant, it said.

“At sea, warming temperatures will cause changes to the abundance and range of marine species used for food, leading to implications for both the billion people who depend on fish for their principal source of protein and the fishing and aquaculture industries linked to this harvesting.”

It also warned that the changes in the ocean are happening between 1.5 and 5 times faster than those on land.

“Such range shifts are potentially irreversible, with great impacts on ecosystems. What this will result in, decades down the line, is less clear.

“It is an experiment where, rather than being a casual observer in the lab, we have unwittingly placed ourselves inside the test-tube,” it said, adding that ocean warming may well turn out to be the

greatest hidden challenge of our generation.

The report, launched at the just concluded IUCN World Conservation Congress held in Hawaii, said more than 93 per cent of the enhanced heating since the 1970s resulting from human activities has been absorbed by the ocean, and data show a sustained and accelerating upward trend in ocean warming.

“The scale of ocean warming depicted in the report is truly staggering: if the same amount of heat that has gone into the top 2 km of the ocean between 1955 and 2010 had instead gone into the lower 10 km of the atmosphere, the Earth would have seen a warming of 36 C,” says the report compiled for IUCN by 80 scientists in 12 countries.

Major changes caused by ocean warming and other stressors described in the report include impacts on entire ecosystems from polar to tropical regions, predicted to increase further in scale, stretching from accessible coasts to the deep ocean seabed.

The entire groups of species such as plankton, jellyfish, fish, turtles and seabirds could be driven by up to 10 degrees of latitude towards the Earth’s poles to keep within reasonable environmental conditions.

It also spoke about loss of breeding grounds for groups such as turtles and seabirds, and impacts on the breeding success of birds and sea mammals; and seasonality shifts by plankton, leading to potential mismatch between plankton species with fish and other marine wildlife.

New Delhi, Sep 11 (PTI): Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh today met a youth from Jammu and Kashmir who has topped the examination for assistant commandant in Border Security Force, saying his success story will inspire many in the state. Singh said he was immensely happy to meet Nabel Ahmad Wani, a young man from Udhampur in Jammu and Kashmir, who topped the BSF assistant commandant examination recently.

“The success story of Nabeel shows that youths in Jammu and Kashmir have lot of potentials and his success will inspire many young boys and girls in the state,” he said.

Wani was accompanied by Director General of BSF K K Sharma when he met the Home Minister, who also wished Wani success and bright future in life. The Home Minister also introduced Wani to top officials, including NSA Ajit Doval, Union Home Secretary Rajiv Mehrishi and others, who had come for a meeting with Singh during that time. Wani said that he felt unemployment was the biggest problem being faced by the youth which can only be solved by education.

Wani, who is currently serving as a junior engineer in Udhampur, said it was his dream to join the defence forces and serve the country which has now been fulfilled. “The more we get education the better and more jobs we will get. We cannot get education by taking to stones but by holding a pen,” Wani said.

tachment made by the agency in this case has now shot up to Rs 8,041 crore as it had attached assets worth Rs 1,411 crore a few months back. This is one of the largest attachment of assets made by ED in a PMLA case till now.

An attachment of assets order under PMLA is aimed at depriving an accused the benefits from their ill-gotten wealth and also works to make absconding offenders join probe as their resources are choked. Such an order can be appealed before the Adjudicating Authority of the said Act within a period of 180 days.

The agency has been wanting Mallya to join the investigation in these cases “in person” and has virtually exhausted all legal remedies like seeking an Interpol arrest warrant and getting his passport revoked.

Mallya had recently told a Delhi court that he wants to return to India but he is “incapacitated” to travel despite his “best intentions” as his passport has been revoked by the Indian authorities.

However, sources in the ED said Mallya or any other person whose passport has been revoked pending criminal investigations can approach the Indian High Commission or Embassy in the country they are in and get an “emergency or alternative travel document” issued in order to travel back.

Rape capital? No, Delhi is India’s ‘abduction capital’

Rijiju takes swipe at Left’s win in JNU polls

New Delhi, Sep 11 (IANS): With a whopping 21 kidnappings every day, Delhi recorded most “kidnappings and abductions” among all cities in the country in 2015, according to the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB).

Shockingly, Delhi is on the top among all 29 states and seven Union Territories with 37 kidnapping and abduction cases per 100,000 population in 2015, said the latest “Crime in India” report of the NCRB. The national rate in this category was 6.6 per 100,000 people. Of the 20,339 violent crimes registered in the national capital in 2015, kidnappings and abductions came on top with 7,730 cases.

In sheer numbers, Uttar Pradesh registered the maximum of 11,999 kidnappings and abductions in the country in 2015, followed by Maharashtra (8,255) and Delhi (7,730).

Bihar came fourth with 7,128 cases followed by Madhya Pradesh (6,778), West Bengal (6,115), Assam (5,831), Rajasthan (5,426), Haryana (3,520) and Odisha (3,236).

Delhi boy Afsar, now 10, was lucky to be reunited with his family on August 24 this year after his abduction in 2007 by a childless couple from a government hospital.

But kidnappings do not necessarily end on a happy note. In most cases, criminals target children. But elders too get kidnapped -- for ransom, murder, for taking revenge or for other reasons, the NCRB data showed. Some women were also abducted to force

them into marriage. Police sources admit that some cases of kidnapping never get reported to them as the affected families end up, at times, succumbing to the ransom demands of the criminals.

Kidnappings and abductions were followed by robbery (7,407 cases), rape (2,199), attempt to commit culpable homicide (1,003), attempt to commit murder (770), murder (570), arson (224), riot (130), dowry death (122), dacoity (75), culpable homicide not amounting to murder (58), attempt to commit rape (46) and making preparation for committing dacoity (5).

A senior Delhi Police officer told IANS that while the statistics do tell a story, “the reality is different”. “When parents complain that their child is missing, we immediately register a case of kidnapping.

In the case of the elderly, we register a case of missing until we feel there has been some foul play,” he said. Police sources say many children are either traced or return to their families on their own. “A total of 6,646 children were kidnapped in 2015. As always, tracing the missing children remained an important priority for Delhi Police. In each case of a missing child, an FIR (First Information Report) was registered promptly,” the officer said.

New Delhi, Sep 11 (PTI): The victory of Left candidates in the JNU was due to the students who were influenced by a “discarded” ideology “romanticised” by the Left leaders, Union Minister Kiren Rijiju today said.

Unlike JNU, in Delhi University which had embraced the ABVP, the students were “fresh minded” and insulated from the “obsolete” Left ideology, he said.

Rijiju’s comments came while reacting to results of the two premier educational institutions in the national capital where results of the students’ union elections were declared yesterday.

“Yes, bcause (sic) fresh minded DU students are insulated from getting romanticised by a faulty obsolete & discarded ideology,” he tweeted.

Rijiju also tweeted a picture of a newspaper headline which says that the Delhi University students embraced right wing Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad, the students’ body of RSS, and the Jawaharlal Nehru University students ensured victory of Left Unity (AISA-SFI alliance). AISA is the student wing of the Communist Party of India (Marxism-Leninist) and SFI is the student body of CPI-M.

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Ahmedabad, Sep 11 (PTI): Dalits protesting against the Una flogging incident have decided to launch a postcard campaign called ‘Badbu Gujarat Ki’ (stink of Gujarat), in response to the tourism department’s ‘Khushbu Gujarat Ki’ (scent of Gujarat) initiative spearheaded

by Amitabh Bachchan.

The Una Dalit Atyachar Ladat Samiti will launch the campaign from Kalol near Ahmedabad on Tuesday, when thousands of postcards bearing the tagline ‘Badbu Gujarat Ki’ will be mailed to Bachchan’s residential address in Mumbai, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi inviting them to the state.

The postcards will invite them to “visit Gujarat and get a taste of stink left by cow carcases which have not been disposed by protesting Dalits ever since they pledged against it following the Una atrocity incident,” Una Dalit Atyachar Ladat Samiti convener Jignesh Mevani said today.

Mevani alleged that Bachchan created a fake image of Gujarat to propagate Modi’s agenda. “Amitabh Bachchan came to Gujarat upon invitation from then Chief Minister Narendra Modi, and talked only about Gujarat having good things like greenery, scent, progressive culture,” he said.

“We have given up dispos-

those at overseas locations like South Africa, the UK and others.

It is understood that the agency has already got a dossier prepared in this regard of his shares in companies and other business commitments, and an order for attachment of assets under CrPC would be issued in some time.

While sources did not mention the estimated value of the assets that would be attached under the fresh order, it is expected to be worth a few thousand crores of rupees.

The agency, meanwhile, has also moved to add fresh charges against him in its existing request to Interpol for issuance of a global arrest warrant and that in the Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty (MLAT) between India and the UK which it wants to invoke in order to force Mallya to join the probe.

The ED had on September 3 issued its second attachment order for assets worth Rs 6,630 crore and seized his farmhouse, flats and Fixed Deposits in connection with its money laundering case against him and his associates.

The agency had also recently taken over investigation into the alleged loan default of Rs 6,027 crore availed from a consortium of nationalised banks led by SBI, in which a fresh case was also filed by CBI last month. The total at-

New Delhi, Sep 11 (PTI): Two days after beleaguered businessman Vijay Mallya told a Delhi court that he felt “incapacitated” to travel to India despite his “best intentions” as his passport has been revoked, the ED has started working on issuing a third attachment order worth a few thousand crore of rupees more against him.

The ED has already attached assets worth Rs 8,041 crore as part of its criminal probe against Mallya and this time the targeted assets would include those on foreign shores.

Officials said while the Enforcement Directorate has till now been effecting seizure of assets under the stringent provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), the next edition of attachments will be carried out under sections of the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC).

The agency had got a proclamation issued by a Mumbai court under CrPC against Mallya after he skipped multiple summonses to depose in its money laundering probe in the alleged bank loan frauds worth over Rs 9,000 crore.

With Mallya not joining ED’s PMLA probe till now, the agency, they said, will the third set of attachment orders for assets held “directly and indirectly” by him, including

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Nagaland Post Vol. XXVI NO. 276 Dimapur, monday, September 12, 2016

Challenging the status quo

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uch has been said about lack of quality education in Nagaland and how it is unable to deliver. The moot point is whether the popular lament about the need for quality education is based on several crucial factors? Should there be a call for quality education if the student is not capable of writing well or even communicating effectively?

It is not an easy concept to qualify since imparting quality education cannot be met simply by being assured that trained teachers would be able to do the job. What has to be defined is what does it mean in the first place? In technical terms, it means that the process first identifies learners’ cognitive development as the major explicit objective of all education systems. The second emphasises education’s role in promoting values and attitudes of responsible citizenship and in nurturing creative and emotional development. Everyone seems to be an expert on education and so the problems are amplified. What needs to be done however, is to try and analyse and understand what are the area that need improvement. It has been suggested that quality teachers can impart quality education; which uses the simple logic that one cannot expect oranges from a mango tree etc. There has also been a view that imparting quality education should begin from the primary level. Trained teachers (B.Ed etc) are necessary for getting jobs but it will be totally incorrect to suggest that trained teachers can impart quality education.

If there are good number of trained teachers in government institutions, then it will be only correct to expect that they provide quality education. As admitted by a senior government official, private institutions have larger number of untrained teachers than government educational institutions. Contrary to the notion, private educational institutions have been doing a great job in imparting better education than their government counterpart. It may therefore be concluded, that only quality teachers( instead of trained teachers) can impart quality education. It is generally accepted that a teacher who intelligently uses the school curriculum with a mix of practical knowledge that offer opportunities for the holistic development of individual pupils. Quality education enables the child to develop all of his or her attributes and skills to achieve their potential as human beings and members of society. The mission is to enable each, without exception, to develop all talents to the full and to realize the creative potential of every student so that he/she takes responsibility of their own lives and achievement of their personal aims. In these days of constantly evolving ideas, where onus is on student-centred, standards-based curriculum structures; there is greater focus on ‘life skills’. These can be broadly interpreted, and often assumed to include such topics as health, hygiene, etiquette, and vocational skills. An important subject that could be beneficial to both the student and society in Nagaland could be introduction of Peace education. This would seek to help students gain the ability to prevent conflict, and to resolve conflict peacefully when it does arise, whether on the intrapersonal, interpersonal, intergroup, national or international level. In short, teachers who possess practical and innovative ideas are best suited to bring the change because they challenge the status quo rather those possessing bookish knowledge.

DailyDevotion Missionary Weapons (2) If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet. —John 13:14 Ministering in Everyday Opportunities. Ministering in everyday opportunities that surround us does not mean that we select our own surroundings— it means being God’s very special choice to be available for use in any of the seemingly random surroundings which He has engineered for us. The very character we exhibit in our present surroundings is an indication of what we will be like in other surroundings.

The things Jesus did were the most menial of everyday tasks, and this is an indication that it takes all of God’s power in me to accomplish even the most common tasks in His way. Can I use a towel as He did? Towels, dishes, sandals, and all the other ordinary things in our lives reveal what we are made of more quickly than anything else. It takes God Almighty Incarnate in us to do the most menial duty as it ought to be done.

Jesus said, “I have given you an example, that you should do as I have done to you” (John 13:15). Notice the kind of people that God brings around you, and you will be humiliated once you realize that this is actually His way of revealing to you the kind of person you have been to Him. Now He says we should exhibit to those around us exactly what He has exhibited to us.

Do you find yourself responding by saying, “Oh, I will do all that once I’m out on the mission field”? Talking in this way is like trying to produce the weapons of war while in the trenches of the battlefield— you will be killed while trying to do it.

We have to go the “second mile” with God (see Matthew 5:41). Yet some of us become worn out in the first ten steps. Then we say, “Well, I’ll just wait until I get closer to the next big crisis in my life.” But if we do not steadily minister in everyday opportunities, we will do nothing when the crisis comes.

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Good decisions come from experience, and experience comes from bad decisions. ~ Author Unknown

Nagaland Post, Dimapur monday, September 12, 2016

New form liberalization at the cost of the poorest

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he Supreme Court judgment scrapping land acquisition in Singur and a report of the SN Dhingra commission on illegal and unethical land deal in Haryana brings to the fore that land remains the core to the economic and political realities of this country.

The SC judgment is significant for all future land acquisition. It establishes the basic norm that the state cannot acquire land for private body.

It also states that the court would stand by the most vulnerable section. It says that the weakest sections of the society alone cannot take the brunt for development.

The judgment is expected to go a long way to save fertile multi-crop land losing its farm character.

In both the cases, the state governments of Haryana and West Bengal were actively involved for purposes that had least to do with public good.

What the farmers are deprived of their land for a pittance, fetch the powerful almost eight to ten times to the wheeler-dealers. The Gurgaon land deal is unique as the purchaser, Skylight Hospitality, got Rs 7.5 crore as loan from

builder DLF. Its land use was changed and fetched him almost Rs 58 crore. Like Singur, it also took ten years to come in public domain.

In Singur, the court not only scraps the 1000-acre deal of 2006 but also finds the then Buddhadeb Bhattacharya government indulging in gross irregularities, misinterpreting public purpose to benefit a company. The SC said that the “hurried” acquisition process was anti-farmer and in violation of law.

What had happened at Singur in reality far graver than what happened in Gurgaon. In the name of public interest, the WB government had entered into a secret agreement granting largesse to Tata’s Nano.

It had given the 997 acre of land at annual lease rent of Rs 1 crore gradually rising to Rs 20 crore. It had also given a loan of Rs 200 crore to the company at nominal interest of one percent a year. Apart the state government had agreed to return the VAT that was to be paid on the sale of cars, to the company, which had virtually made no investment.

The choice of the land given a-la-carte to the Tatas,

was an act of overcompensa- will be rendered void ab initio tion. in law”.

Even the compensation Both in Gurgaon and to the farmers was paid by the Singur, one or more individuals state government and not the or a company with the backing Tatas. The SC now has allowed state power, was out to mint them to retain the compensa- tons without investing a penny. tion for loss to their ten years Indeed, it is a brand new form of livelihood. It is a blatant of liberalization at the cost of misuse of state power to ben- the poorest! In this context it efit a company, is to be notwhich was doShivaji Sarkar ed that large ing no charity. scale acquisiIts coffers are overflowing and tions and conversion of agrithe state power connived with cultural land as well as forest it to deprive 2200 “unwilling land for special economic zones farmers”.

(SEZs), mining, industries and No wonder the SC ob- urbanisation is taking place. served “if Singur land acquiLand acquired in the sition was termed valid, then name of SEZs and industrithere would be attempts by alisation is also often at unfair governments to justify any and terms, and is misused for real every acquisition of land of the estate purposes. The Comptrolmost vulnerable sections of the ler and Auditor General noted society in the name of public the non-utilisation of land earpurpose”. marked for SEZs. Out of a total The SC has gone beyond. of 45635.63 hectares of SEZ It says, “When the brunt of this land allotted till 2014, work ‘development’ is borne by the has begun in only 28,488.49 weakest sections of the society, hectares. The CAG found gross it is onerous duty of the state violations in 17 states of which government to ensure that the in Odisha 96.58 percent of SEZ mandatory procedures laid land remained unutilised. down under the Land AcquisiIn Odisha, over Rs 75,000 tion Act are followed scrupu- crore was raised by mortgaging lously”. It warns “otherwise such land illegally; in ten years the acquisition proceedings only two percent of projects

were ready to start. Most companies that sought captive coal mines — and associated land — never used them, except to boost their own value.

Several hectares of land acquired for SEZs invoking public purpose were later sold off or used for other purposes.

Among the groups that diverted land acquired for SEZs are Reliance Industries and Essar Steel.

Since the enactment of SEZ Act 2005, 576 formal approvals of SEZs covering 60,374.76 hectares was granted in the country, out of which 392 SEZs covering 45,635.63 hectares were notified till March 2014. Out of the 392 notified zones, only 152 had become operational, and SEZs had no noticeable impact on the national economy, the CAG said.

According to a calculation in the case of the DelhiMumbai industrial corridor which passes through six states there is the potential threat of loss of almost 7 lakh sq.km or 17.5 percent of all agricultural land in the country to forcible acquisition.

The proposed capital city of Andhra Pradesh will be built

over an area of over 7000 sq.km of fertile multi-cropped land.

In UP, it is estimated that more than 23,000 villages would be affected by ongoing acquisitions. In the case of Yamuna Expressway 1.43 lakh acres and another 37,362 acres for the Ganga Expressway are being acquired. Large tracts of land acquired for Yamuna Expressway has gone for golf courses, the Formula One Racing Track, and such projects with limited potential of creating jobs.

The proposed 100 smart cities will also lead to widespread displacement and land grab. Over 40 percent of agricultural land could face direct threat of forcible acquisition.

Land acquisition is thus emerging as a major source of primitive accumulation and transfer of wealth and resources from the people to the corporate world. The Singur judgment will be a landmark for that reason. No longer can the hands that feed be taken for a ride. The SC’s verdict is a reminder that in this seemingly harsh world, there is room for justice and fairness, and even the weakest won’t be taken for a ride in a democracy like ours.

Post-mortem

The ideals of Naga nationalism – a reflection

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very year on August 14, 2016, Nagas received doses of bland history on Naga nationalism from myriads of national leaders. History is our corner stone.

Therefore, it was in the fitness of occasion like Naga Independence Day to do justice by reflecting on the Naga history of independence.

Nevertheless, in this age of confusion, frustration and despair; young generation Nagas have developed aversion to such monotonous historical narratives. Young Nagas want to hear, not just history in narrative but also narrative exposition and interpretation in right perspective for better and greater enlightenment. They want applied nationalism that not only fits into contemporary global and domestic situations but also that will give new direction. They want to know where the Naga nationalist leaders are taking them. They want to see clear roadmap drawn for them because the future belongs to them. They want to be sure of their landing ground. They do not want to tread the path that cannot guarantee the security of their future. They want to come out of stagnancy and move ahead. They have developed the dangerous attitude of no matter what. Their expectation is reasonable. All national governments and leaders claim they are working for the future generation but the young Nagas are not convinced. They are fast losing hope in nationalism because of prevailing situation in Nagaland. They want new political, social and economic orders. They want an end to uncertainty. These thoughts are stirring the minds of young Nagas because over the years, nationalism is stuck in wilderness and people in comfort zone have taken greater control of our domestic affairs with the help of our opposing power. In recent years, Naga nationalism has been

put to harsh test. If nationalism has to survive the test of time and situation, it demands for an honest retrospection, introspection and serious appraisal of un-nationalist conducts.

Thousands had laid down their lives protecting the sovereignty of Nagaland. It is grossly unfair to write off their sacrifices by one stroke. It is tragic that many present day generation Nagas, particularly the educated class who are already in comfort zone, have no compunction to compromise nationalism principle and ready to sell off Naga right once again. A section of educated Nagas argue that Westphalian ideal type of Naga sovereignty is now outdated because it does not fit into global situation of interdependence. Wikipedia source defined Westphalian sovereignty as, (quote) “Westphalian sovereignty is the principle of international law that each nation state has sovereignty over its territory and domestic affairs, to the exclusion of all external powers, on the principle of non-interference in another country’s domestic affairs, and that, each state (no matter how large or small) is equal in international law” (unquote). They try to make their point that the past leaders were stuck in idealism and unable come into realism/pragmatism.

They blame the past leaders of being unable to adapt to global reality of interdependence, which they said is causing impediments to economic progress of Nagas.

The realist/pragmatist or rather the non-idealist blames the past leaders for landing Nagas into present state of confusion and hopelessness. That is because they can see Nagas only relative to India and not separate from India. To them, India is a giant and Nagaland, just a dot. They would argue that India has become economic and nuclear

superpower and that; Nagas are entirely dependent on India. They would question, “What can a tiny country like Nagaland do against India? How will Nagas sustain the country even if independence becomes reality?” A. Z. Phizo, in his fourteen point guidelines to Nagas said, “Only clerk-minded people think like that because they cannot see beyond their writing hands”.

Non-idealist also argues that present generation Nagas have lost taste for sovereign Nagaland and posterity/generation-next will be even worse. It is skeptically pre-mature to conclude that posterity will give up the ideal of sovereignty because the educated generation-next Nagas will be more resourceful than the past and present generations. As they advanced and opportunities diminished or saturated, new ideas will emerge. There will be soul searching which, in turn will lead them back to our history. Aspiration and inspiration will renew and history will repeat.

The most despicable thing is that, our generation, instead of appreciating our fore-fathers and fathers for laying the strong foundation of Naga nationhood have no inhibition to question their wisdoms. The pioneers founded modern sovereign nation state of Nagaland with clear mind and vision. Nationalism was the driving force. It was philosophy-inspired nationalism. They infused idealism into nationalism. Without an inspired idealism, Naga nationalism could have died with 16-PA. It was because of idealism that Naga nationalism had survived the test of time and came thus far. They held idealism dear to their hearts because they knew that without idealism, nationalism would be dead.

(To be concluded) Dr. K. Hoshi, Phek Town

Appeal to Divisional Railway Manager Lumding, NF Railway

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(Suggestions for infrastructure & service improvement of Dimapur railway station.)

write on behalf of Persons with Disability of Nagaland. As per Census 2011, there are 29,631 people with various disabilities in Nagaland. There is an urgent need to ensure that any infrastructure and service improvement work at the Dimapur Railway Station makes railway travel easier for disabled passengers of the state as well as those coming from other states.

Some of the most basic but urgent measures and facilities needed are: 1. Ramps with proper gradient and holding bars on both sides should be added at the entrance and all areas necessary to allow wheelchairs to enter and move around in the station easily 2. Based on variables such as number of trains per day, average daily passenger traffic at the station (5% of which can be assumed to be people with disabilities including Senior Citizens), etc, suitable solutions and devices should be provided for passengers to safely get into and off the train. Options here include low cost, foldable ramps.

3. Wheelchairs must be provided at the station which passengers who cannot walk long distances or stand for long periods can avail of. A booth/ counter must be set up where this service can be availed. Clear signboards and information must be put up at the booth/counter and also at strategic points, such as at the entrance area, to inform passengers of the service.

4. A designated area must be identified for boarding and de-boarding of passengers with disability. Porters with wheelchairs must be made available in this area or a wheelchair service booth set up nearby. This reserved area must be close to the disability reserved coach

and must have proper markings, display and colours for safety.

5. Electronic audio-visual signboards and announcements displays must be put up at the platforms and other areas of the station for passengers who are deaf or blind 6. One ticket booking window should have lower height for wheelchair passengers and people of short stature 7. Disability Parking: Some spaces close to the entrance must be reserved as Disability Parking for vehicles bringing or picking up passengers with disability 8. Accessible Toilets: Provision of reserved accessible toilets for both men and women with disability. This is very, very important and very urgently needed.

As stated above, these are just a few of the most basic measures and facilities that must be provided at the earliest. It doesn’t need to be a big deal or a big cost to the project. And Dimapur being a small station, it will not be difficult to make it as barrier-free and disabled friendly as possible – we only need to see it as an opportunity, not a problem.

I, along with my colleagues, am most willing to partner you in giving ideas and suggestions so that Dimapur can become a role model accessible Railway Station in the country. Please do get in touch for any further information or discussion.

We look forward to positive action that will make Dimapur Railway Station accessible and barrier free.

Diethono Nakhro, Disability Rights Advocate Nagaland, Member, National Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

India needs a formal rental market for ‘housing for all by 2022’ to succeed

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rying to rent a house is one of the most nerve wracking experiences one can go through. I have gone through it in three different cities (Mumbai, Pune and Hyderabad). The way the landlords look at you with pity, is a scene straight out of the movies. It’s like their way of telling you, what you haven’t even been able to buy a house? You loser, look at me.

Having found a house and then trying to handle the landlord on a regular basis takes your diplomatic skills to another level (I used to have a landlord once who used to land up every Saturday morning asking for stock tips and then spend a good three hours badgering me for them).

The entire system is built against anyone who wants to live in a rented accommodation or cannot afford to buy a home unless he moves so far away from the city (I am talking about the bigger metropolitan cities here) that the rest of his life is spent commuting to and from office.

The interesting thing is that the rental share of urban housing stock has gone down over the decades. As per the 1961 census it was at 54 per cent and by 2011 it had fallen to 27.5 per cent. This explains why finding a house on rent can be such a pain.

The proportion of homes on rent has fallen dramati-

cally over the years. This as urbanisation (or the number of people living in cities) has gone up. As per the 2011 census 31.2 per cent of the population lived in urban areas. This figure is expected to go up in the years to come.

Rental share of urban housing stock in India has progressively declined with urbanisation The fall in rental housing stock is a worrying trend. A major reason for this has been the rent control acts which are in operation in various cities across India. As KPMG points out in a research note titled Decoding housing for all by 2022: “Rent control policies aimed at protecting tenants have had their consequences of deterring investments in rental housing in India, causing the share of rental stock to decline from 54 per cent in 1961 to 27.5 per cent in 2011 which drove EWS/LIG households into slums.” (EWS = economically weaker sections. LIG = lower income groups).

In fact, as the Tenth Five Year Plan Document (20022007) points out: “The Rent Control Act, in fact, is the single most important reason for the proliferation of slums in India by creating a serious shortage of affordable housing for the low income families. Low and middleincome families typically live in rented accommodation all

over the world and the need for such accommodation in our cities will only increase as the economy modernises, labour mobility increases and urbanisation takes place.”

Further, India’s urban rental housing stock is low as per global standard.

The rent control acts lead to a shortage in rental housing in various ways. As the Five Year Plan document points out, it leads to: “Negative effect on investment in housing for rental purposes. • Withdrawal of existing housing stock from the rental market.

• Accelerated deterioration of the physical condition of the housing stock.”

Another impact of rent control is to give Indian cities a shabbier look in comparison to cities in other developing countries. With the tenants living under rent control, the landlord has no incentive in renovating the buildings. Just one walk around South and Central Mumbai tells us that very clearly.

In fact, Mumbai has had to bear the brunt of the rent control act. As Sahil Gandhi, Vaidehi Tandel, Shirish Patel, Abhay Pethe, Kabir Agarwal and Sirus J. Libeiro point out in a working paper titled Decline of Rental Housing in India: A Case Study of Mumbai: “There has been near universal consensus that rent controls of the kind seen in Mumbai, known as “first

generation rent control”, have a devastating impact on rental markets and, in general, housing and land markets in cities...

Rent control in Mumbai has been particularly damaging for the housing market, which is characterized by ownership dwellings constructed mainly for the upper middle class on the one hand and a high incidence of slums housing the majority of the population on the other.”

The point is that if the gover nment’s mission of “Housing For All by 2022” has to become a reality then rental housing needs to pick up in a big way. What is needed first and foremost for this dream to become a reality is a new rental law which is balanced “in favour of both the tenant and the land-lord could be drafted by the central government.” As KPMG points out: “A balanced rental law could help with the development of a formal rental market in India, and to some extent improve occupancy of the unoccupied houses estimated at about two crore.”

A new rental law put out by the central government will be the starting point. It will then have to be adopted by the state governments. At least that way some of the locked and unoccupied homes will start hitting the market.

But will that lead to Housing for All by 2022?

Only a little. The shortage in housing is at the lower end of the spectrum, as can be seen from the following table.

Housing shortage in urban India The unoccupied homes are more at the upper end.

Hence, for rental housing at the lower end to take off, the rental yield on homes needs to improve. This will only happen once prices come down to more realistic levels.

Currently, the rental yield is around 2-3 per cent (the annual rent as a percentage of market price). Nobody in their right minds is going to build homes for rent with a rental yield like that. For

rental yields to go up, the cost of constructing homes needs to fall. For this to happen, first and foremost, the cost of land in and around cities needs to fall.

For the cost of land to fall, the government needs to increase supply. This can be done by increasing the FSI allowed on buildings. Further, the government needs to increase supply of land by trying to sell some of the land that it owns in and around cities, land that it inherited from the British colonial administration. These will be the first few steps towards Housing For All By 2022.

Vivek Kaul

Reader’s Post

Poor BSNL service in Wokha

Sir,

Through your esteem column, I would like to draw the attention of the BSNL authority regarding the poor service of BSNL network in Wokha for the past few years. BSNL being a publicly own telecom operator, many officers and senior citizens still use BSNL service. However, the consistently poor service rendered by the operator is seriously affecting the normal lives and connectivity of the public in Wokha. Whereas, BSNL is introducing attractive plans to lure consumers throughout the country, the service in Wokha is becoming worse day by day. Therefore, the concerned authority is requested to restore normal service urgently in the interest of the general public.

Mhonbemo Lotha, Wokha Town

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.

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Jharkhand at bottom of Swachh Table 2016

RANCHI, Sep 11 (IANS): It’s an unclean state of affairs and the Jharkhand government is left red-faced. In the latest report, ‘Swachh Survekshan: 2016’, the state has been placed at the bottom of the table, showing that a lot more needs to be done to clean up Jharkhand. And the opposition is gunning for the Raghubar Das government even as it makes tall promises and issues advertisements on its ‘achievements’.

The survey -- which was conducted by the National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) between May and June 2015 covering 73,176 households in 3,788 villages across the country -- has placed Sikkim at the top of the list. Kerala, Mizoram, Himachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Haryana, Punjab, Uttarakhand, Manipur and Meghalaya make up the top 10 list.

The report was released

by Union Rural Development Minister Narendra Singh Tomar in New Delhi.

Sikkim has recorded 100 per cent in the category

Cow vigilantes terrorising Dalits, minorities: Yechury

Sitaram Yechury

Jaipur, Sep 11 (PTI): Communist Party of India (Marxist) general secretary Sitaram Yechury on Saturday demanded a complete ban on gauraksha samitis, or cow protection committees, saying they were terrorising Dalits and minority communities on the pretext of cow protection.

He said the National Democratic Alliance government was permitting these vigilante groups to promote communalism and polarisation.

This was deliberately being done with an eye on the Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh due next year, Mr. Yechury said at a press conference here.

of people using household/ community toilets and 98.2 per cent in the category of households having sanitary toilets. In contrast, Chhattisgarh has 21.2 per cent households having sanitary toilets with Jharkhand at the bottom having a mere 18.8 per cent.

Reacting to the findings of the survey, Jharkhand Congress spokesperson Lal Kishore Nath Shahdeo said in the last 20 months of the BJP rule, the state has failed to make progress in any area.

The only achievement of the government seems to be in issuing advertisements and installing hoardings featuring tall claims.

“The ground reality is far from the truth. The Swachh report is just an example that the government has been more interested in taking away the land of the poor and farmers by making changes in the land laws and giving them at throwaway prices to the corporate houses,” Mr Shahdeo said.

CPI(ML) legislator Raj

Kumar Yadav is more critical of the state government as he pointed out that even though Chief Minister Raghubar Das had promised to make a Swachh Jharkhand, the report indicated that the photo-ops with brooms and other socalled cleanliness drives were just publicity stunts.

The government is not worried about the villages but only cares for industrial houses and businessmen, Mr Yadav said, adding that all claims regarding rural development were just false.

Facing opposition charges, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party is finding it tough to defend the government. “This report is based on previous year’s assessment.

But the report should be considered seriously by the municipal bodies,” Jharkhand BJP spokesperson Pradeep Sinha told IANS. “The civic bodies should understand that such reports impact the state’s image and the government is making efforts to promote tourism and investments here,” he added.

Rahul launches fresh attacks No selfies when in air: DGCA to pilots on ruling SP ahead of UP polls L U C K N O W, S E P 1 1 (AGENCIES): Launching a fresh attack against BSP and the ruling SP in poll-bound Uttar Pradesh, Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi on Sunday said while the “elephant” has eaten all the money, the “cycle” is standing “punctured” in the state.

“Haathi saara paisa kha gaya. Hathi ko apne maar ke bhaga diya (elephant--the election symbol of BSP--ate all the money and then you chased it out),” Gandhi said while addressing a public meeting on the sixth day of his yatra. Phir aap cycle (SP’s election symbol) laaye.

Ye paanch saal se phansi hui hai, hil nahi rahi hai. Uska tyre puncture hai aur apko ration card nahi dila pa rahi hai (Then you voted for SP’s cycle which has been stranded for past five years.

It’s tyre is punctured and is not moving. The party could not provide ration cards to you),” he said attacking SP. Appealing to people to vote for Congress in the upcoming elections, Rahul said, “Now you should think about the hand (Congress’s election symbol) and then see what

Railways, IT, forest, finance, defence top litigants among central ministries NEW DELHI, Sep 11 (PTI): The ministries of Railways, Communications, Environment and Forest, Finance and Defence are the top litigants among various ministries of the Union government, latest data show. According to data available on Legal Information Management and Briefing System (LIMBS), while Railway Ministry has entered data related to 58,735 cases, the Communication and IT Ministry has keyed in details of 7,617 cases.

The Environment and Forest Ministry has entered 2,893 cases, the Finance and Defence ministries 1,375 and 792 cases respectively in a new network-centric system to streamline litigation-related data and make it available at a single point to prevent delay in dealing with upcoming matters in the courts.

But, at the same time, officials said these are the cases which have been uploaded by respective ministries and the actual figure may vary, though chances of such an

eventuality are rare. While a total of 41 ministries are active on LIMBS, 13 have been bracketed as “inactive”, including, AYUSH, Department of Atomic Energy, Minority Affairs, Shipping and Tourism.

The Legal Information Management and Briefing System conceived by the Law Ministry can capture information pertaining to different courts and tribunals and categorise them into various sets of management information system reports for officials concerned to take action.

LIMBS can send reminders through SMS to officials to provide alerts about particular cases coming up for hearing.

The system will be modified based on the feedback of officials involved in sharing the data, official sources said.

It was conceived sometime in September last and, as per the plan, it will be fully functional by the next financial year.

The Law Ministry had

urged Secretaries in various departments of the Union government to appoint a joint secretary-level officer as the project coordinator for implementing LIMBS. According to a status note on the National Litigation Policy pending before the Union Cabinet for approval, “government enjoys the dubious distinction of being the largest litigant in the courts involving a big draught on public exchequer.”

Though there are no official estimates, the Law Ministry believes government is a party to 46 per cent of the cases being contested in various courts, including tribunals. Most cases relate to service matters of employees or deficiency in service provided by government bodies.

Law Ministry handles several cases every month where the Department of Personnel and Training seeks to challenge judgements which go against the government and favours an employee.

we do about ration (cards) and farmers,” he said.

The Gandhi scion, who is on his 2500 km ‘Deoria to Dilli yatra’ to connect with the masses in the run-up to the 2017 state Assembly polls, resumed his yatra from Azamgarh and after holding series of meeting in Mau he will reach Ghazipur.

Azamgarh is parliamentary constituency of SP supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav Rahul had yesterday targeted Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his “frequent” foreign visits.

Modiji apni duniya mein mast rehte hain...jaisa mainey kaha tha ‘janata trast, Modiji mast’ (Modiji is happy in his own world. As I had said earlier, the public is in trouble but Modiji is happy)...his attention is either in America or Japan.

“He made tall promises that everyone will get Rs 15 lakh in their bank accounts, the youth will get employment and bullet trains will be run. When will they get Rs 15 lakh? When will the youth get employment and bullet trains? Even the regular train fares have been hiked,” he had said.

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A pilot poses with two friends in the cockpit area for a photo-op. (Facebook) N ew D elhi , S ep 1 1 (Agencies): The DGCA has issued an air safety circular against clicking of selfies in air.

Now if pilots are found doing so, the regulator can take ‘suitable’ action against them.

The regulatory action comes close on heels of several instances of pilots found to be clicking selfies. The regulatory action comes close on heels of several instances of pilots found to be clicking selfies.

Pilots will no longer be able to click selfies in cockpit while

airborne.

The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has issued an air safety circular against clicking of selfies in air as the regulator feels this is a distraction from the serious job of flying which could affect safety. “The new rule has been issued and it will soon be put online,” DGCA chief B S Bhullar said. Now if pilots are found doing so, the regulator can take ‘suitable’ action against them.

The regulatory action

comes close on heels of several instances of pilots found to be clicking selfies and then proudly putting them on social networking sites.

DGCA had last month grounded some pilots for a week for doing so and let several others off with a warning.

Several countries have already banned pilots from using PEDs for personal use while flying.

The American air safety regulator has banned commercial airline crew from using PEDs for personal workin cockpit.

J&K: 3 infiltration bids foiled, 4 terrorists killed SRINAGAR, Sep 11 (PTI): Four terrorists who were trying to sneak into India via the Line of Control (LoC) were killed today as Army foiled three infiltration attempts in Kashmir.

One infiltration bid was foiled in Naugam sector, another in Tangdhar sector and the third one in Gurez sector.

“Alert soldiers posted along the Line of Control in Naugam sector noticed some suspicious movement and challenged the intruders,” an army official said.

The militants opened fire at positions of security forces which was “effectively retaliated”, triggering a gunbattle, he said. Four militants were killed and war-like stores were recovered from the scene An injured being treated at the hospital in Srinagar on Sunday after fresh clashes between of the gunbattle, the official security forces and protesters in Karimabad Village of Pulwama district. (PTI) said. The operation is still in progress.

Operations in Tangdhar and Gurez sectors were also in progress but no casualty was reported so far, he said.

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“So, I see no reason why we shouldn’t be looking at a small rate cut this year.”

Giving reasons why she felt the four per cent inflation target was low, Bhattacharya said in her interview that 4550 per cent of the components in the Consumer Price Index comprised food items, which are very volatile.

Since a major weight in the index is also assigned to health, education and transport, it is also difficult to keep their inflation levels below two per cent, so as to average out the overall rise in the price line to four per cent or below.

Yet, she said, the upper limit of inflation of six per cent “is perfectly fine” as the prices are expected to ease in coming months.

“The Reserve Bank’s trajectory of five per cent is within the realms of possibility.”

After the government notified the annual, five-year inflation target of four per cent, plus or minus two percentage points, on August 5, bankers saw little scope in interest rate cuts.

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Mumbai, Sep 11 (IANS): State Bank of India (SBI) Chairperson Arundhati Bhattacharya says a 25 basis points cut in interest rates was in the offing and that an improvement in the financial health of India’s banking sector was closely linked to the overall performance of the economy.

In an interview to IANS, the 60-year-old banker also said the four per cent inflation target fixed by the government is a tad low in an emerging economy like India where food inflation has rarely fallen below six per cent in the past 60 years.

Nonetheless, she felt the current inflation level is set to fall due to a statistical play that could pave the way for a cut in interest rates by commercial banks -- which the central bank has been asking for, as and when it has itself cut interest rates.

“Inflation will start coming down because there was a base effect in the last two months, which was actually pushing inflation up. That effect will moderate in the coming months,” she said referring to the current impact of a lower movement in price indices in the previous year.

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New Delhi, Sep 11 (PTI): National Stock Exchange (NSE) will allow market participants to transfer collaterals placed in the form of cash and fixed deposit receipts from securities lending and borrowing schemes (SLBs) to other segments and vice-versa on an intraday basis from September 19.

The decision will facilitate participants in optimising the utilisation of idle collateral deposits.

Leading bourse NSE said in a circular that participants would be permitted to transfer collaterals placed in form of cash and FDRs “from/to SLBS to/from other segment on an intra-day basis”.

The facility of intraday transfer would be available for cash and fixed deposit receipts (FDR) provided towards margin deposit.

The exchange said the intraday transfer would be available subject to maintenance of minimum deposits as per the regulatory requirement.

“Participants can verify the details of the request for transfer and its status in CIM (collateral interface for member) under menu option ‘Collateral Release-New Request/ inquiry- Transfer Inquiry,” NSE said.

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(FAIC).

As per the practice, Finance Ministry gives concurrence to the rate of interest fixed by the CBT considering the income projections of a year. After its ratification, the interest rate is notified and credited into the accounts of subscribers.

An official said, “Finance Ministry’s concurrence is required to ensure that EPFO’s payout does not exceed its income and the body meets the fund requirement from its own resources.”

“Finance Ministry wants to bring interest rate to 8.6 percent for its small savings schemes like Public Provident Fund (PPF) in view of depleting yield of government securities and other saving instruments in the market.”

Trade unions have been of consistent view that Finance Ministry should not encroach on the decision of CBT as EPF is workers’ money and they get interest from the income earned on investments of their funds.

In the last fiscal, EPFO was in a position to provide 8.95 percent rate of interest on the basis of its income projection and it would have left Rs 100 crore surplus.

specified several conditions for setting up of direct selling business in the country.

“One main condition is that direct selling companies should not charge entry fee from its members and compel them to buy back unsold inventory,” the sources said.

Currently, direct sellers need to pay a registration fee as well as purchase some products for selling. Failing to sell the products imposes a burden on them.

As per the proposed guidelines, there should be a proper agreement between companies and direct sellers or agents. The companies will have to train direct sellers and maintain their complete details, sources said.

At central level, the Consumer Affairs Ministry will monitor the direct selling industry, while the states have to put in place a regulatory mechanism for the same, they added.

The guidelines also talk about obligation of direct seller, relationship between direct seller entity and direct seller as well as consumer protection.

Three IPOs to hit markets in Sep to raise Rs 7,000-crore

SBI mulls 25 basis point interest rate cut

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New Delhi, Sep 11 (PTI): Over 4 crore EPFO subscribers may get a lower interest at a rate of 8.6 percent on their PF deposits for current financial year as Labour Ministry is expected to toe the Finance Ministry line to cut the rate.

Employees Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) had provided 8.8 percent rate of interest on EPF deposits for 2015-16 despite Finance Ministry’s ratification for 8.7 percent.

“Finance Ministry has been nudging Labour Ministry to keep interest rate on EPF in line with other small savings schemes administered by it.

There is a broad consensus between the two ministries to fix 8.6 percent interest for this fiscal,” a source privy to the development said.

The source further said that EPFO has not worked out the income projection for the current fiscal. The Central Board of Trustees (CBT), EPFO’s apex decision making body, takes a call on interest rate on the basis of income projection.

The Board fixes the rate of interest for a financial year and it is approved by its advisory body Finance, Audit and Investment Committee

New Delhi, Sep 11 (PTI): The Centre has decided to bar direct selling companies such as Amway, Tupperware and Oriflame from charging any entry fee from agents or compelling them to buy back unsold stocks.

That apart, the companies will have to enter into an agreement with direct sellers or agents, and give full refund or buy-back guarantee for goods and services sold to them.

These are part of the new Direct Selling Guidelines, 2016 prepared by the Consumer Affairs Ministry and will be notified in a day or two.

“The new guidelines have been finalised and approved by the minister. These are model guidelines and state governments have been asked to issue as per their needs,” Consumer Affairs Secretary Hem Pande told PTI. In the proposed guidelines, the government has clearly defined legitimate direct selling and differentiates it from ponzi schemes to help investigating agencies identify fraudulent players, he said.

Among others, sources said, the government has

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Mumbai, Sep 11 (IANS): British telecom major Vodafone’s Indian subsidiary and state-run BSNL on Sunday signed a 2G intra-circle roaming agreement to use each other’s assets and network strength across the country, Vodafone India said in a statement here.

The agreement will help Vodafone expand its 2G network further, especially in rural areas, and also strengthens BSNL’s network reach in urban areas, the statement said.

“This strategic partnering will lead to improved connectivity and enhance the customer experience overall,” it added.

Vodafone India said it has over 1,37,000 transmission towers across the country, while BSNL has over 1,14,000 of these.

Commenting on the development, Vodafone India CEO Sunil Sood said: “We made significant investments to expand, enhance and upgrade our network, making Vodafone SuperNet our best network ever, world-class and future-fit.

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tal infusion are Bank of India (Rs 1,784 crore), Central Bank of India (Rs 1,729 crore), Syndicate Bank (Rs 1,034 crore), UCO Bank (Rs 1,033 crore), Canara Bank (Rs 997 crore), United Bank of India (Rs 810 crore), Union Bank of India (Rs 721 crore), Corporation Bank (Rs 677 crore), Dena Bank (Rs 594 crore) and Allahabad Bank (Rs 44 crore).

The capital infusion exercise for the current financial year is based on an assessment of need according to the compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of credit growth for the last five years, banks’ own projections of credit growth and estimates of the potential for growth of each PSB, it had said.

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley in his Budget speech for 2016-17 had proposed to allocate Rs 25,000 crore towards recapitalisation of PSU banks.

“If additional capital is required by these banks, we will find the resources for doing so.

We stand solidly behind these Banks,” he had said.

for occasional users, Rs 149 a month for low data users and Rs 4,999 a month for heavy data users.

With data prices falling to ultra-low levels, the company estimates an immediate five-fold increase of data usage by the end of the year on devices running its operating system.

Indus OS is currently available on smartphones from brands like Micromax, Celkon and Swipe, totalling over 40 smartphone models.

Indus OS, which claims to be the second most used operating system in the country after Android, said its users consume about 956 MB of 3G data per month. This is 30 per cent more than the Indian average of 735 MB of 3G data, it said.

“With more than 90 per cent of the Indian population being non-English speaking, the arrival of Reliance Jio translates into a big opportunity for Indians to experience the power of the internet, and for Indus OS to further our reach,” Indus OS co-founder and CEO Rakesh Deshmukh said.

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round of capital infusion of Rs 22,915 crore for 13 banks.

“75 per cent of the amount (Rs 22,915 crore)...Is being released now to provide liquidity support for lending operations as also to enable banks to raise funds from the market,” the Finance Ministry had said in a statement.

“The remaining amount, to be released later, will be linked to performance with particular reference to greater efficiency, growth of both credit and deposits and reduction in the cost of operations,” it had said.

The first tranche was announced with the objective to enhance their lending operations and enable them to raise more money from the market.

Out of the Rs 22,915 crore, State Bank of India (SBI) was provided Rs 7,575 crore followed by Indian Overseas Bank (Rs 3,101 crore) and Punjab National Bank (Rs 2,816 crore).

The other lenders, which have got commitment of capi-

New Delhi, Sep 11 (PTI): State-owned banks looking forward to the next round of capital infusion will need to fulfill a new set of criteria, including credit recovery, as the Finance Ministry has revised the recapitalisation norms.

The second tranche of capital allocation for the current financial year would be based on cost of operations as well as recovery and quality of credit on the basis of risk weighted assets, sources said.

Only those lenders that fulfil the criteria post third quarter (October-December) results of the current financial year will be eligible for the second round of funding, sources added.

The money was allocated last financial year on the twin principles of ensuring 7.5 per cent Common Equity Tier 1 (CET 1) at the end of the 2016 and growth capital to five major banks.

T h e g ove r n m e n t i n July had announced the first

New Delhi, Sep 11 (PTI): Reliance Jio’s entry and rapid expansion of 4G services by other telecom operators are expected to drive data traffic five-fold on its devices by the end of this year, Indian tech firm Indus OS has said.

Indus OS, which offers a regional language smartphone operating system, said users are expected to consume over 1 GB data per month as data gets cheaper.

“India’s current mobile data usage is still one-third of the global average of 957 MB, which is set to change...

With Jio’s entry, India is now expected to break the 1 GB per month usage barrier very soon and be amongst the top 10 mobile data consumers in the world by 2020,” Indus OS said in a statement.

Earlier this month, Reliance Jio said it will offer lifetime free voice calling and zero roaming charges to its customers.

Also, as part of a “welcome offer”, Jio customers will get free data services till December 31, following which it will offer 10 tariff plans starting at Rs 19 a day

actions,” said US envoy Kim on Sunday.

“In addition to action in the Security Council, both the US and Japan, together with the Republic of Korea, will be looking at unilateral measures, as well as bilateral measures, as well as possible trilateral cooperation,” he said, referring to South Korea by its official name.

South Korea’s top nuclear envoy also spoke to his Chinese counterpart late on Saturday by telephone and emphasized the need for fresh countermeasures including a new U.N. security council resolution during their call, the South Korean foreign ministry said in a statement.

South Korea said on Saturday that the latest test showed North Korea’s nuclear capability was expanding fast and that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un was unwilling to alter course.

Another KCNA report on Sunday said North Koreans were “delighted” by the nuclear test.

“The enemies can no longer deny the strategic position of our country as a nuclear weapons state,” Jong Won Sop, a teacher at the University of National Economy, was quoted as saying.

5.7 quake hits Tanzania; 14 dead, 200 injured

Toll from strikes on Syria’s Idlib jumps to 58: monitor

Residents clear debris after a 5.7 magnitude earthquake struck Tanzania on Sunday.

es demolished and electricity disrupted, the Red Cross said in a statement.

Bukoba’s main hospital was stretched to nearly full capacity and had limited stocks of medicine, the Red Cross said. “Telecommunications have been disrupted and we are trying to get a clear picture of the damage to hospitals and other essential infrastructure,”

Taliban militants kill anti-polio campaign doctor

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The Union would like to express its heartiest congratulations to the C. Khonbemo Odyuo, P/T GPS Phiro for being awarded the State Teachers’ Award 2016, under the Department of School, Education, Government of Nagaland.

The Union further wishes her success in all her future endeavors.

Mr. N. Mhabemo Tungu Gen. Secretary WRTWU

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The Youth's Association with immense pride and happiness, would like to congratulate – 1. S/o Lt. Mr Lanukaba and Mrs Tajungrenla, Mr Yutsungchaba, Principal of Model Higher Secondary School Mokokchung, for achieving "Best Reductionist Award" from Friendship Forum of India, New Delhi.

2. S/o Lt .Mr .Imtilepden and Mrs Imsulila, Mr Watingangshi of GHS Longkhum, for achieving "Sub Division Award" on Teachers Day the 5th Sept 2016.

This huge achievements through their hard work has brought laurels to the community.

The Association further wishes more success for their future endeavours.

Rongchenkaba Gen. Secretary, IYA

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Eastern Nagaland People's Union Diphupar Area (ENPUDA) would like to extend our heartfelt congratulations to Shri. B. Nyenghong Phom for being promoted to Joint Director Department of Agriculture, Government of Nagaland.

Union further wish him great success and pray that Almighty God may grant him good health and wisdom in his future endeavours.

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Kehoi, Head GB Village Council Chairman Lithsami

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L. Bomlen Menrahu Gen. Secy., ENPUDA

The Lithsami Village Council and general public would like to extend heartfelt gratitude and appreciation, gesture showed by Hon'ble Minister PHE Nagaland Shri. Tokheho Yephtomi, Hon'ble Parliamentary Secretary Shri. Shetoyi Yeptho, Chief Engineer PHE Nagaland and Shri. Kitoshe Aye, Executive Engineer Zunheboto for providing enough fund under National Rural Development Water Programme (NRDWP) scheme under which villages have now sufficient water supply. The Lithsami people pray and extend full hearted support in the leadership of the Hon'ble Minister and service to the department in their future endeavours.

LONGKHUM, NAGALANG

Pangchen President, IYA

New York, Sep 11 (Agencies): Hillary Clinton appeared wobbly Sunday and stumbled as Secret Service agents helped her into a van to depart the 9/11 commemoration ceremony early.

The Democratic presidential nominee felt overheated, her campaign said, when she left at about 9:30 a.m. ET and traveled to her daughter’s nearby apartment.

“Secretary Clinton attended the September 11th Commemoration Ceremony for one hour and 30 minutes this morning to pay her respects and greet some of the families of the fallen. During the ceremony, she felt overheated so

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BJP UNIT AKUMEN Mokokchung : Nagaland

REJOINDER This is a rejoinder to the September 10, 2016 publication in the advertisement section of Nagaland Post daily by Akumen Village Council where in it was mentioned that the “formation of BJP Unit at Akumen Village under 30 Alongtaki A/C was found to have been done by some unscrupulous person having vested interest.”

In response, the undersigned office bearers of the BJP Unit Akumen declare that the allegations levelled against the BJP workers is false and unfounded. The BJP Unit Akumen, which was formed on August 2, 2016 is represented by likeminded party workers of BJP with genuine concern for the welfare of the people and will remain steadfast as ever on its principle.

Further, this is also to clarify that there was no such resolution made during the September 9, 2016 public meeting at Akumen to unanimously stay united under the leadership of Dr Benjongliba Aier, Parliamentary Secretary, Agriculture & Chairman NSAMB as has been claimed. Nor did the meeting resolve to support any particular candidate or party in the upcoming election for that matter.

Therefore, instead of wasting time in feeding false information in the media, the BJP Unit Akumen makes this appeal to all concerned to make efforts to work collectively for the general welfare of the people.

M Chuba Langu President BJP Akumen Unit

Dhaka, Sep 11 (PTI): The death toll in the fire tragedy at a Bangladeshi factory that claimed at least 25 lives may go up with authorities today listing 11 people missing in the latest industrial accident to hit the country.

The fire yesterday broke out following a powerful boiler explosion at the four-storey Tempako Packaging Factory in Tongi industrial area, north of the capital Dhaka.

Eleven people still remained missing based on information from their relatives, said Fatema-Tuz-Zohra, an official of the control room that the Gazipur administration has opened.

About 100 people were inside the food and cigarette packaging unit when the explosion occurred and the fire spread quickly because of flammable chemicals stored in the building.

More than 24 hours after the tragedy, several relatives of the people missing in the accident gathered in front of the unit part of which was reduced to ashes yesterday.

Industrious Minister Amir Hossain Amu said that Bangladesh government will take strong action against anyone found guilty of

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negligence.

“The matter is being investigated and steps will be taken if anyone is found guilty,” Amu told reporters after visiting the site today.

He said his ministry has decided to launch an investigation in all factories to check out their equipment.

“We have instructed to check for leakages, electrical malfunction and the boilers.”

Low-cost manufacturing is the mainstay in Bangladesh, one of the world’s top garment exporters with a USD 27-billion industry. But a series of industrial disasters in recent years have raised questions about its safety standards.

Tighter controls have been introduced, but dozens of workers still die every year.

At least 13 people died in a fire at a plastic factory in Dhaka last year. In 2012, 112 workers died in a fire at a factory just outside the capital. The country suffered an even greater tragedy in 2013 when the Rana Plaza garment complex collapsed on the outskirts of Dhaka, killing 1,135 people, after another clothing factory building collapsed, trapping over 3,000 workers.

Prachanda’s visit to improve ties Kathmandu, Sep 11 (PTI): Nepal Prime Minister Prachanda has said he will not sign any controversial deal with India during his visit this week but would lay a “strong foundation” for mutual trust after bilateral ties went through “some bitter experience” over Madhesi stir during his predecessor’s tenure.

The Maoist chief, who became Nepal’s premier for the second time on August 4 taking the reign of the country from the pro-China K P Oli, said he was taking the four-day visit starting from September 15 as a “challenging opportunity.”

“I am confident that the visit (to India) would not only normalise the relations that

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Beirut, Sep 11 (AFP): The death toll in air strikes on the key northwestern Syrian city of Idlib has jumped to 58, a monitoring group said.

It was not immediately clear who carried out the raids, which hit a market and several neighbourhoods across the city.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said late yesterday the dead included 13 women and 13 children, but it was not immediately clear how many civilians were among the remaining victims.

The monitor said dozens more were wounded in the strikes, warning that the death toll could rise even further.

It could not identify who carried out the strikes, but the Syrian government and its ally Russia have regularly conducted raids in Idlib province.

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Peshawar, Sep 11 (PTI): A senior doctor, who was incharge of polio eradication c a m p a i g n i n P a k i s t a n’s northwest Peshawar city, was shot dead by two motorcycleborne Taliban gunmen in the latest attack on immunisation teams in the country.

Zakaullah Khan was attacked by the unidentified gunmen after he came out of a mosque after evening prayers yesterday.

He was rushed to a hospital where he succumbed to his injuries, police said.

A faction of the Pakistani Taliban, Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, has claimed responsibility for the attack.

Anti-polio workers have long been targeted in the country by Islamist groups, including the Taliban, which believes that the polio immunisation drive is a front for espionage or a conspiracy to sterilise Muslims.

In April, at least seven policemen were shot dead by unidentified gunmen in two separate attacks during a polio campaign.

Pakistan is one of only two countries - other than Afghanistan - in the world where polio remains endemic.

Andreas Sandin, Red Cross operations coordinator in East Africa and the Indian Ocean Islands, said in a statement.

Significant shaking was also felt in parts of nearby Uganda, western Kenya and Rwanda. “So far, no further damages have been reported in Kenya, and minor damages reported in Uganda,” the Red Cross said.

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Dar Es Salaam, Sep 11 (AFP): A 5.7-magnitude earthquake that struck Tanzania, close to Lake Victoria and the border with Uganda, has killed at least 14 people and injured 200, local authorities said today. Deodatus Kinawilo, district commissioner for Bukoba, the town close to the epicentre of the quake, said 14 people had been confirmed dead following the quake that struck yesterday.

The previous toll from local authorities was 13 dead and 203 injured.

A group of 15 boys who were secondary-school boarders in the worst-hit city of Bukoba, which is in Kagera province bordering Uganda and Rwanda, were believed to be among the casualties.

Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa is to join mourners at the Bukoba stadium later today.

The city suffered widespread damage, with 270 hous-

to contain.

A US special envoy met with Japanese officials on Sunday and said later the United States may launch unilateral sanctions against North Korea, echoing comments by US President Barack Obama on Friday in the wake of the test.

“The group of Obama’s running around and talking about meaningless sanctions until today is highly laughable, when their ‘strategic patience’ policy is completely worn out and they are close to packing

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North Korea laughed off the sanctions suggested by US and called them ‘meaningless’.

Seoul, Sep 11 (AFP): A defiant North Korea today restated its demand for recognition as a “legitimate” nuclear-armed state, as world powers pondered ways to punish Pyongyang for its latest and largest atomic test.

The North also vowed to increase its nuclear strike force “in quality and in quantity”, two days after its fifth test in a decade sparked international condemnation and moves for tougher UN sanctions.

In Japan, a visiting senior US envoy said Washington and Tokyo were seeking “the strongest possible” measures in response.

North Korea insists that its missile and nuclear tests are necessary to counter what it says is a US nuclear threat to its independence.

A statement today from a foreign ministry spokesman in Pyongyang mocked President Barack Obama’s “totally bankrupt” policy on the country.

“Obama is trying hard to deny the DPRK’s (North Korea’s) strategic position as a legitimate nuclear weapons state but it is as foolish an act as trying to eclipse the sun with a palm,” said the statement quoted by the official KCNA news agency.

Friday’s test came only eight months after the previous one and was almost twice as powerful, at an estimated 10 kilotons.

Most worryingly for the international community, the North claimed it had been a miniaturised warhead that could be mounted on a missile.

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departed to go to her daughter’s apartment, and is feeling much better,” Clinton spokesman Nick Merrill said in a statement.

A video of Clinton’s departure from the 9/11 event at Ground Zero in Manhattan, posted by Twitter user Zdenek Gazda, shows her clearly stumbling, with Secret Service agents helping her into the van in the motorcade. Leaving her daughter’s apartment a little before noon, Clinton told reporters she was “feeling great.”

“It’s a beautiful day in New York,” she added, while smiling and waving to supporters on the street before getting into her motorcade.

Prachanda went through some bitter experience in the recent past, but also build a strong foundation for mutual trust,” he told the International Relations and Labour Committee of the Par-

liament yesterday.

Later at an interaction on Indo-Nepal ties organised by Nepal Institute of International Relations, Prachanda said he would like to urge all to let him “take risk as a leader”.

“A leader should have the privilege to take risk,” the 61-year-old new prime minister said, adding that he would not sign any controversial deal with India during the visit.

“I urge all the people in the country not to dictate me and let me take risk in favou r of our national interest.”

Soon after he took over, Prachanda sent special envoys to India and China in a bid to improve ties with both countries.

PRESS NOTE CONGRESS MEMBERS JOIN NPF

Having lost faith in Congress party the following families from Kejanglwa Village and Jalukie Zangdi Village under Peren District Joint NPF 7 Peren A/C. to strengthen Chief Minister Shri. T. R. Zeliang and NPF President Shri. Shurhozelie Liezutsu.

From Kejanglwa Village 1. Paulamgum Unit Secy.

2. Gumrang 3. Kelakyineu 4. Igumlungbe 5. Hingdagong 6. Ilamsap 7. Lano From Jalukie Zangdi Village 1. Theyeviyi 2. Cusaro 3. Vesalu 4. Vethehu 5. Krosoyi 6. Avoto 7. Vezhalhu Rakho The NPF 7 Peren A/C formally accepted them into NPF fold on 7th Sept. 2016 in a short programme conducted at Jalukie Town in the residence of Shri. Gaubeu Rangkau.

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up to move out,” state-run KCNA news agency cited a North Korean foreign ministry spokesman as saying in a statement later on Sunday.

“As we’ve made clear, measures to strengthen the national nuclear power in quality and quantity will continue to protect our dignity and right to live from augmented threats of nuclear war from the United States,” KCNA added.

The UN Security Council denounced North Korea’s decision to carry out the test and said it would begin work immediately on a resolution.

The United States, Britain and France pushed for the 15member body to impose new sanctions.

Obama said after speaking by telephone with South Korean President Park Geunhye and with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Friday that they had agreed to work with the Security Council and other powers to vigorously enforce existing measures and to take “additional significant steps, including new sanctions”.

“We will be working very closely in the Security Council and beyond to come up with the strongest possible measure against North Korea’s latest

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CONGRATULATIONS St. John Higher Secondary Residential School, Dimapur congratulates all the St. John Students who were selected in the Joint Entrance Examination 2016. May the Lord Jesus Christ bless and guide your future.

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Obama’s push for sanctions ‘laughable’, says North Korea

TOKYO/SEOUL, SEP 11 (Agencies): North Korea said on Sunday a push for further sanctions following its fifth and biggest nuclear test was “laughable”, and vowed to continue to strengthen its nuclear power.

The isolated state on Friday set off its most powerful nuclear explosion to date, saying it had mastered the ability to mount a warhead on a ballistic missile, ratcheting up a threat that its rivals and the United Nations have been powerless

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inner of NSACS ‘Rock Aware’ Campaign, Avancer has released a new singles ‘Give it up’ after a brief lull in their musical journey.

The song which features ANTB guitarist Lima Mongro on the guitars was recorded by Jackto Wotsa, New Life Studio, Dimapur.

The song is an elec-

tro funk with a groovy beat which keep you connected to the song.

Lead vocals Opang work his way all through the song with catchy tunes as he speaks about letting someone break his heart and cites apprehensions of becoming a fool again.

The song is warm and kee pd you occupied all through the end.

ne of the longest running literary competitions in the state, the 24th Spero Meliora 2016 of Kohima Village under the theme, ‘Break the ice and steel a march’, was held on September 10, at Kohima Village Council hall. The event was jointly organised by the Dolphin Club Kohima and Kohima Village Students Union, supported by Parliamentary secretary Khriehu Liezietsu.

In the inaugural session, guest speaker IT, commissioner and secretary, government of Nagaland, Khriesalie Vizo, while exhorting the gathering with references from the rise and fall of human civilizations in the past and reminded why we need Fans can download the to value our cultural and trasong from the indigenous ditional virtues to prevent our music store ‘Indihut’ by typ- society from deterioration. ing the band’s name.

Avancer is an Indie rock band formed in 2009. The band has a Facebook page with over 5,000 likes. Besides the latest release, the band also has a number of songs which can be downloaded from Indihut.

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A slide show called ‘Spero Meliora down memory lane’ was presented by KVSU depicting competition scenes from the first edition till the present day, which was preceded by a recollection of the progression of the event from the pre-technology era to the hi-tech present era.

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Diego Costa (right) celebrates after scoring his side’s equaliser in an end to end encounter at the Liberty Stadium on Sunday.

already been cautioned.

Antonio Conte opted not to start new signing David Luiz in his back four as Chelsea named an unchanged line-up for the first time since February, while Guidolin lined up with a three-man defence and Fernando Llorente as a lone striker. Five minutes into the game, Willian rattled a shot at goal after being teed up neatly by N’Golo Kante and Fabianski was rocked by the power of the shot as he saved it with his fists.

Fa b i a n s k i p r e s e r ve d parity for Swansea again after 10 minutes, stretching to prevent Willian’s dangerous whipped cross from the right from reaching the onrushing Costa. Swansea were enjoying the majority of the early possession but their gameplan was disrupted when Federico Fernandez’s header dropped at the feet of Oscar and he squared the ball to Costa who side-footed it into the bottom corner.

The home side’s best chance came when Llorente laid the ball off for Sigurdsson,

who bent a shot narrowly wide of Thibaut Courtois’ goal, and Costa should have made it 2-0 when he failed to turn John Terry’s cross into an open net from close range.

Willian flashed a shot just wide of the post early in the second half and Chelsea seemed set to dominate proceedings as Costa and Hazard led a series of fast attacks, but a mistake

by Courtois allowed Swansea back into the match. Sigurdsson powered his way into the box and the Belgium goalkeeper attempted a slide tackle but clumsily brought the midfielder down. Sigurdsson slammed the penalty down the middle, giving Courtois no chance to redeem himself.

Three minutes later, referee Andre Marriner adjudged Fer to have robbed Cahill cleanly and he stabbed the ball past Courtois and into the net. With Swansea heading for a memorable victory, Chelsea laid siege to Fabianski’s goal and, after Branislav Ivanovic’s shot was blocked, Costa’s acrobatic finish levelled the match.

Nagaland U-19 wins One Day match

Nagaland and upper Assam U19 team at NCA stadium before the start of the one day match on Sunday.

Dimapur, Sep 11 (NPN): The Nagaland Under-19 cricket team today defeated Upper Assam from Jorhat by 5 wickets in the ongoing One Day Series at Nagaland Cricket Stadium, Dimapur.

Earlier, in another match on Saturday, Nagaland defeated Mizoram (U-19) team by 103 runs to win the first match of this

Inter-State trophy. This trophy is sponsored by Kingbird Sports and organized by the Nagaland Cricket Association to give the much needed match practice before the BCCI (U-19) Associate & Affiliate Members Trophy.

Score: Upper Assam: 125 all out in 39.1 overs.

Mata—26, Ajit Rai –19,

Kaif—11 Nagaho Chishi—2 wickets, Aneizo—4 wickets Nagaland (U-19) 128 for 5 in 36.2 overs Nagaho—31, Nipon—23, Tahmeed—18 n.o.

(Paul, Prashant, Bikram, Harpeet—1 wicket each) Result—Nagaland won by 5 wickets

Costa almost wrapped up a man-of-the-match performance with a hat-trick when he was put through by Hazard but Fabianski was equal to his shot and the points were shared.

On Saturday night Liverpool celebrated their newlook stadium by outclassing a flat Leicester City side 4-1 at Anfield. The Premier League champions have only earned a point at Anfield since there 2-0 victory in May 2000 and they found themselves behind in the 15th minute when Firminho cleverly finished past Kasper Schmeichel.

Jurgen Klopp’s side were causing the Foxes all sorts of trouble with their interchanging play and the pressure finally amounted when the move of the match which seen Jordan Henderson play a through ball to Daniel Sturridge before he layed it off with a wonderful flick to Sade Mane who tapped in.

Liverpool fans were in full voice and just when it looked like their team had the game in a stranglehold, a horrendous mistake from Lucas threw Leicester a lifeline, the Brazilian’s badly timed back pass finding Jamie Vardy who tapped into an empty net.

Claudio Ranieri’s side although looking a threat at times, found themselves 3-1 behind when Adam Lallana’s superb strike sunk the hopes of the Leicester fans. Two goals up and Liverpool started to express themselves with every opportunity and they clinched all three points when Firminho finished from close range in the 85th minute to bag his brace.

Liverpool will look to build on the win when they face Chelsea on the 16th of September, Leicester will look to bounce back when they face Club Brugge in the Champions League on the 14th of September.

Shooter Naresh finishes 44th at Rio Paralympics Rio de Janeiro, Sep 11 (IANS): India’s Naresh Kumar Sharma was knocked out in the qualification round of the mixed 10 metre air rifle prone shooting event of the Paralympic Games here on Saturday.

Sharma finished the event at the 44th spot as he managed a total of 606.5 points from the qualifying round at the Olympic Shooting Centre.

He started the round by scoring only 100.6 points from his first of the four series. In the second series, he could not improve his performance as he shot 101.9 points that got his total up to 202.5 points at the completion of the first two series. Virtually out of the competition after a below-par performance in the first two series, he could only manage a meagre 98.6 and 101.4 points from his third and fourth series respectively. Slovakia’s Veronika Vadovicova finished at the top spot with a tally of 636.7 points.

Mou blames players for derby defeat London, Sep 11 (Agencies): Jose Mourinho blamed his Manchester United players as the reason why his side suffered a 2-1 defeat against Manchester City.

Mourinho’s men were outplayed for long spells as Pep Guardiola’s side laid down an early marker with victory at Old Trafford. And afterwards Mourinho said “sometimes players disappoint their managers” when asked about United’s first defeat of the season in his post-match interview.

He told Sky Sports, “In the first half they were much better than us. We started the game bad.” “We started the game with some players really below their normal level in terms of their concentration and mental availability to play a game of this speed. You need to be sharp the way you think and the way you play.”

“One or two players were below that level and the team paid for it. Honestly, I have two or three players in the first half who, if the game is now and I know what is going to happen, I don’t play them, but this is football and sometimes players disappoint managers and sometimes players give us great surprises.”

MUFCN beat MTLT in friendly match

Players of Manchester United Fan club Nagaland (Red jersey) and Mokokchung Town Lanur Telongjem (dark blue jersey) before the friendly match.

M o ko kc h u n g, S e p 1 1 ( NPN ) : M a n c h e s t e r United Fan Club Nagaland (MUFCN) defeated Mokokchung Town Lanur Telongjem (MTLT) 5-3 in a friendly football match held at Imkongmeren Sports Complex, Mokokchung on Saturday.

Though the rain gods tried to play spoilsport, the enthusiasm from both the teams was overwhelming and the match played the full ninety minutes. Football lovers of Mokokchung also came to witness the friendly match which was played on the theme “Eu Et Vigilanter” (Football for vigilance).

The match was officiated

Aleix Vidal and Theo Hernandez fights for the ball during a La Liga match between Barcelona and Alaves on Saturday night.

Ba rc e lo na , S e p 1 1 (Agencies): Newly-promoted Alaves shocked La Liga champions Barcelona with a stunning 2-1 victory at the Nou Camp on Saturday night.

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Deyverson gave the visitors a surprise lead in the 39th minute with a predatory finish at the near post after stealing a march on Javier Mascherano and getting on the end of Kika Femenia’s superb cross.

victory over Osasuna earlier in the day.

The match started with the unusual sight of a starstudded substitutes bench consisting of Messi, Suarez, Iniesta and Alba as Enrique shuffled his pack after the international break and perhaps with one eye on the midweek Champions League clash with Celtic.

He instead relied on Sergio Busquets, making his 250th La Liga appearance for the club, to help pull the strings alongside Ivan Rakatic behind Neymar.

The gamble backfired when Deyverson silenced the Nou Camp but the lead almost evaporated as soon as it came but Neymar could only head wide from seven yards out when the net should have bulged.

Rakitic then found a yard of space inside the visitors’ box from an Arda Turan cushioned header but the Croatian lashed his left-footed effort high and wide.

The second half brought with it an improvement in Barcelona’s performance but neither that nor the introduction of their superstars could deny Alaves a famous victory 10 years since they were last in the top flight.

lant MUFCN walking out of the field with five goals under their belts.

However, two MUFCN players – Temsutoshi and Moasanen – were awarded yellow cards for foul play during the match.

MTLT president Imkummeren Jamir, during a brief certificate award ceremony after the match, expressed gratitude to the MUFCN team for playing the friendly match with the Mokokchung Town Lanur Telongjem. He also thanked all the referees, sponsors, the players and all those who have rendered their support towards the success of the match.

Mon inter high school meet concludes Dimapur, Sep 11 (NPN): the 5th Inter High School Meet 2016 tournament, organised by Mon Town Students Union concluded on September 10 at local ground Mon with Illika, SDO(c) Mon as the chief guest and Manlip, president Konyak Union as the special guest.

In football, Anghjong Mission High School and Government High School ‘D’ emerged as the winner and runner-up. In volleyball, Government Higher Secondary School ‘A’ emerged as the winner while Government Higher Secondary School ‘D’ bagged the runner-up position.

Anghjong Mission High School and Don Bosco School came winner and runner-up in basketball. Government High School ‘C’ emerged as the champion in boys sepaktakraw while Government Higher Secondary School ‘A’ bagged the runners up and in girls, category, Don Bosco School and Edith Douglas School emerged as the winner and runner-up respectively.

Speaking on the occasion, the chief guest urged the students to think seri-

Players of Anghjong Mission High School celebrates with the trophy.

ously and take sports beyond school life as a profession.

When encouraging students to take sports as a profession, she reminded the students to hold true values close to the heart. She said that they are privileged to be studying in the best schools of the district teaching by the best teachers.

She, therefore, called on the students to be respectful and disciplined and to take community forward.

Illika also reminded the

Golovkin eyes Saunders after stopping Brook

Barca humbled by new boys Alaves Barca struggled to find any rhythm in the first half but found their way back in the game when defender Jeremy Mathieu rose to head a Neymar corner past Fernando Pacheco soon after the break.

The French defender should have scored a second minutes later when the ball bounced his way seven yards out but he thrashed a wild volley wide of the post.

Luis Enrique threw on Lionel Messi and Andres Iniesta - who alongside first-team regulars Luis Suarez and Jordi Alba started on the bench - in search of a winner, but it was Alaves who found their own.

Ibai Gomez pounced on a Mascherano mistake in the 64th minute to slot past debutant goalkeeper Jasper Cillessen and send the 300 travelling supporters into animated celebrations.

The victory means Alaves remain unbeaten after drawing 2-2 with Atletico Madrid on the opening day of the season and claiming a 0-0 stalemate with Sporting Gijon.

Barcelona meanwhile looked a shadow of the team that put six past Real Betis in their league opener and fall three points behind rivals Real Madrid, who eased to a 5-2

by the Mokokchung District Referees’ Association using the international FIFA rules.

The Manchester United Fans completely dominated the first half of the match and scored the five goals.

The first half ended 5-1.

However, the MTLT team bounced back in the second half and scored two goals raising their goal score to 3 against MUFCN 5 goals.

The Manchester United fans also tried their level best to enhance their goal score; however, the bad ground condition hampered their attacks at the goal post. When the final whistle was final blown, the match ended with a jubi-

students not to forget cultural values as they are the future society and generation of the konyaks. She also urged the students maintain a balance between the old and modern values.

Also speaking during the closing ceremony, the special guest thanked the MTSU for organising the tournament for the students to upgrade the talent and skills in the field of sports.

He adds that such an

event is an opportunity to make good friendship. Manlip also urged the students not to neglect their academic career while involving with social activities but to be sincere and punctual in their school and studies.

The programme was chaired by Wanjen konyak, Nokong invoked God’s presence while Chemong delivered the welcome address and P. Santi Konyak presented special song.

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Costa rescues late point for Chelsea

London, Sep 11 (Agencies): Two-goal Diego Costa was the centre of attention once again as Chelsea came from behind to draw 2-2 against Swansea City at the Liberty Stadium.

The Spain striker gave the Blues the lead in the first half with a cool, side-footed shot and his second goal was a spectacular overhead kick.

Swansea had turned the game on its head inside three second-half minutes when Chelsea goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois brought Gylfi Sigurdsson down inside the penalty area and the Iceland midfielder converted the spotkick himself, before Leroy Fer robbed Gary Cahill of possession and put Francesco Guidolin’s side into the lead.

But Costa, whose afternoon was characterised by his trademark theatrics, heavy challenges and disputes with opponents, made sure the Londoners claimed a point.

Whether he should have been on the pitch is another matter after a lame dive when challenged

by Lukasz Fabianski having

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Gennady Golovkin took five rounds before the towel was thrown in to rescue Kell Brook from further punishment.

LONDON, Sep 11 (Agencies): The world’s top-ranked middleweight Gennady Golovkin wants another fight in Britain after stopping Kell Brook and is targeting a unification bout with Billy Joe Saunders.

Golovkin defended his World Boxing Council (WBC) and International Boxing Federation (IBF) titles with a fifthround stoppage at London’s O2 Arena on Saturday.

Golovkin’s punishingly accurate blows took their toll on Brook, whose corner threw in the towel. Brook was taken to hospital to be treated for a suspected fractured right eye socket Golovkin, whose WBA belt was not on the line, now wants to fight Brook’s fellow Briton and WBO champion Saunders before moving on to Mexican Saul “Canelo” Alvarez in a year’s time.

Saunders has the only world middleweight belt not held by WBC-WBA-IBF champion Golovkin, who made Brook his third British victim after Martin Murray and Matt Macklin “First of all Billy Joe Saunders, and then Canelo,”

Golovkin, 34, told a news conference. A fight against Saunders could be made for late this year or early 2017, though a mandatory WBA defence could delay those plans.

“My goal is to hold all the belts in the middleweight division. I would like Billy Joe Saunders first of all because he has the WBO belt. I would absolutely come back to the UK to fight. Absolutely I love the UK, I’m a big fan of London.”

Brook, the IBF world welterweight champion, had stepped up two weight divisions to fight the fearsome Kazakh.

The fighter from Sheffield boxed with immense courage against the naturally bigger man, perhaps edging the second round.

G o l ov k i n’s a c c u r a t e punches began to trouble the Briton from the third round.

Brook was blinking and his vision seemed hampered as Golovkin began to dominate.

In the fifth, Golovkin’s thudding blows turned Brook’s legs to jelly and, with visible damage to his right eye, the Sheffield boxer’s trainer Dominic Ingle wisely threw in the towel.

We, the family members of Late Vikheshe Assumi, D.B, V.K. Town, would like to express our sincere and heartfelt gratitude to each and every individuals, churches and different organisations who stood by us physically, financially and spiritually at the demise of our beloved father on 28th Aug. 2016.

Though we are unable to thank each one of you individually, it is our humble prayer that our Almighty God blessings be upon each and everyone of you.

Loving wife, children, grandchildren, in-laws and relatives

Remembering our beloved father LT. ALEMKABA AO

On his first death anniversary

Dearest Dad, It was on this day, the Twelfth of September 2015, you were called to be with our Lord. The way you gently and peacefully left for your heavenly abode consoles us and gives us the strength to live on.

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Kerber claims US Open women’s title

Angelique Kerber holds up the championship trophy after winning the women’s singles final of the U.S. Open tennis tournament. (AP/PTI) N e w Yo r k , S e p 1 1 (Agencies): Angelique Kerber won her first US Open title after beating Karolina Pliskova in three sets in New York. The German, who was assured of becoming world No 1 this week ending Serena Williams’ record-tying 186week stay at the top, lifted her second major title of the season with the 6-3 4-6 6-4 victory on Saturday.

She trailed by a break at 3-1 in the third set before taking five of the last six games against 10th seed Pliskova,

who had not been past the third round at a major until this tournament.

Kerber beat Williams for the Australian Open title in January, then lost to her in the Wimbledon final in July, with Pliskova eliminating the American in the semi-finals here after beating her sister, Venus, in the fourth round.

“Amazing to win a second Grand Slam in one year,” Kerber said. “It’s the best year of my career. It all started for me here in New York five years ago when I reached the

semi-finals and now I am here with the trophy,” she added.

“It’s incredible.” Pliskova double-faulted on the match’s first point and got broken from the start, making 17 unforced errors in the first set alone, 14 more than Kerber.

There were plenty of lengthy exchanges in the first set and Kerber tended to get the better of them, winning nine of 14 points that lasted at least 10 strokes.

On one that went 15 shots, Pliskova tried a drop shot that Kerber sprinted to reach before scooping a downthe-line forehand winner to a corner. The Arthur Ashe Stadium crowd roared and Kerber celebrated by raising her right hand and wagging her index finger in the air as she took the opening set.

However, Pliskova hung in and, after frittering away her first four break points of the match, she converted her fifth with a lob-volley winner that curled over Kerber and fell right by the baseline to lead 4-3 as she forced a final set.

As they went to the third set, both women began showing more emotion. Pliskova served out the second set and spiked a ball. Kerber got broken early in the third and bounced her racket off the court. Moments later, the German trailed 3-1.

But this was Kerber’s turn to show some mettle, breaking back to 3-3 and then once again to seal the victory.

Murray, Soares clinch men’s doubles title

Jamie Murray claimed his second men’s doubles grand slam crown alongside Bruno Soares after they clinched the US Open title by beating Pablo Carreno Busta and Guillermo Garcia-Lopez.

The Scot was playing his fourth major final in men’s doubles and has gone one step further at Flushing Meadows than last year, when he finished a runner-up alongside John Peers. Murray and Soares claimed their first major title together at the Australian Open in January and now have another to add to their collection as they sailed past their Spanish opponents 6-2 6-3. After Soares had sealed victory in Arthur Ashe Stadium with a crisp forehand volley, Murray and his partner embraced in celebration before holding their arms aloft.

It means Jamie and brother Andy have secured a combined three grand slam titles this year from five finals, but it is Jamie who finishes 2016 with the bragging rights after his two major triumphs.

Murray considered retiring after a poor run of results in 2012 but, as well as his grand slam success over the last 18 months, he has helped Great Britain win the Davis Cup and been doubles world No 1. Soares is undoubtedly an excellent foil for his talents and Murray saluted his partner in New York.

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Kohima Press Club sports event on October1

Dimapur, Sep 11 (NPN): The annual sports event of the Kohima Press Club would be held on October 1 in the premises of the club building. All the members of the club have been inMadrid, Sep 11 (Agen- formed to participate in the event. The disciplines for the meet are carrom (men/women), chess cies): Cristiano Ronaldo has (men/women), table tennis (men/women), Chinese checkers (women) and ludo (open). Regishit back at comments made by tration would be done on the same day and the competition would commence from 11.30 am.

Xavi Hernandez, reminding the Spaniard he has never won the Ballon d’Or. The former Barcelona midfielder last week opined Lionel Messi to be a clearly superior player to Ronaldo - his exact words were: “Ronaldo is a player of his time. The problem is that there is another who has been pretty much the best player in history. “Ronaldo is extraordinary but compared to Messi, for me and for everyone who likes football, there can be no comparisons.”

Ronaldo has, unsurprisingly, taken offence to Xavi’s remarks. “Xavi is playing in Qatar or I don’t know where,” he said. “Anyone who wants a front page talks about me. He has won it all, but never a Ballon d’Or.”

Penalty shoot-out tourney postponed Dimapur, Sep 11 (NPN): The Autumn Penalty Shoot-out Tournament 2016 scheduled to be held on September 13, 12 noon has been postponed due to unavoidable circumstances.

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The organisers has requested all the team registered for the tournament to bear with the inconvenience. For more information one could contact 9856776450 and 8014832326.

NSF Martyrs trophy from Sept 24 Praveen Kumar starts new innings as politician

Dimapur, Sep 11 (NPN): The 17th edition of the NSF Martyrs Memorial Trophy, organised by Angami Students’ Union, would be held from September 24 to October 22 at Kohima local ground, Kohima under the theme “Goal for peace”.

The champions of the tournament would receive a cash prize of Rs.1.20 lakh.

The runner-up would receive Rs.1 lakh while the third and fourth placed team would receive Rs.50, 000 and Rs.30,

000 respectively. Individual prizes with trophy, cash and citations would be awarded to the player of the tournament, best mid-fielder, best defence, best custodian and highest scorer.

Entry forms are available at ASU Office, Star Sports at BOC, Sports World and Zumvii Printex in Kohima town and also at SK Provisions Popular Bakery at Medziphema town and Kiran Sports in Dimapur. The last date for forms submission is September 20.

LUCKNOW, Sep 11 (PTI): Ahead of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls, cricketer Praveen Kumar on Sunday joined the Samajwadi Party.

“I have met CM and decided to join the party. I will do whatever is possible for the party,” he told reporters after meeting CM Akhilesh Yadav, who is also state president of Praveen Kumar SP. Asked whether he would contest the state assembly polls, to learn it (politics).” Heaping Kumar said, “I am a kid in praise on Yadav, Kumar, who this field. As of now I will try hails from Meerut, said, he has

done a lot for sportsmen and big stadiums are under construction at Lucknow and Saifai.

Besides sports, the rightarm medium-pace bowler said, the chief minister has done a lot of work for all round development of the state.

Kumar, who plays for Uttar Pradesh team in first class cricket, has been a part of the Indian cricket team in six Test matches and 68 ODIs, where he has to his credit, 27 and 77 wickets respectively.

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