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R-Jio stirs market with ‘free calls forever’ MUMBAI, SEP 1 (IANS): In a path breaking, taking the current price war and competition in India’s telecom space to a new level, Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani on Thursday announced that domestic phone calls from the Jio network will be free forever, and unveiled a four-month introductory offer for everyone of a zerotariff voice and data services, beginning on September 5. Reliance Jio customers will get free voice calling (including STD) and roaming services, bundled with data access for Rs 19 onwards, making the offering one of the “lowest” globally. The company has introduced 10 tariff plans from one-day plan at Rs 19 for occasional users going all the way up to Rs 4,999 a month for heavy data users. The pricing, which analysts are terming as a “knockout punch” are estimated to be as low as one-tenth of the prevailing data rates depending on the customer’s data usage. “The era of paying for voice calls is ending,” Ambani told the 42nd Annual General Meeting of the company at an overcrowded Birla Matoshree Auditorium here. “No Jio customer will ever have to pay for voice calls again,” he added, devoting around an hour of his 90minute speech to Jio -- which he named 169 times.

In effect, the announcements on Thursday point to a commercial launch from January 1 next year even though no specific mention was made in this regard. This was also keenly awaited since Reliance Industries has invested as much as $21 billion on Jio -- its largest ever capital expenditure on a single project. The company would seek to have 100 million cus-

KPLT calls for 24-hr Subsidised LPG rate KA bandh on Sept 3 up by `2/cylinder

Correspondent

DIPHU, SEP 1: Karbi People’s Liberation Tiger (KPLT) has called for a 24-hour Karbi Anglong bandh on September 3, 2016 from 5 a.m. According to reports, the bandh has been called by the outfit as a mark of protest against the killing of its defense secretary, Sering Ringa by security forces. Indian army and Assam police in a joint operation killed the defense secretary near Bordikharu, a preferred picnic spot, under Dokmoka police station. Security personnel also nabbed a militant and recovered two 9 mm pistols, ten rounds live ammunition, extortion notes from the area.

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This is it!

“It’s time that we use tablets instead of books for study. That’ll cut costs including tuition fees.” K Y M C

NEW DELHI, SEP 1 (AGENCIES): The price of subsidised cooking gas (LPG) was on Thursday hiked by about Rs 2 per cylinder, while the jet fuel price was cut by 3.8%. This is the third straight increase in subsidised cooking gas since July when the government decided to go in for a small hike in rates every month to cut down subsidies. In case of kerosene, the government has allowed stateowned oil companies to raise the price by 25 paise a litre each month for 10 months. Simultaneously, oil firms cut prices of non-subsidised LPG, which consumers buy after exhausting their quota of 12, by Rs 20.5 per 14.2-kg cylinder. Priority for hilly states: Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas has extended the benefits under Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana to the people of all Hilly States including North-East States. Ministry will be treating them as ‘Priority States’ and release LPG connections to the eligible beneficiaries, reports TOI.

tomers in the shortest possible time as it builds out its 4G network across the country. The Chairman said the data plans will also reflect the affordability for customers, with an effective base rate of 5 paise per MB or Rs 50 per GB. “Jio will have a base rate which is more than 90 per cent discount over the industry,” he said. He said based on the usage, the data tariff could go to

as low as Rs 25 per GB -- and in a format which common people can understand. He said the free domestic voice calls will also come with free roaming while international ones too will be affordable. “We Indians have come to appreciate and applaud Gandhigiri. Now, we can all do ‘Data-giri’, which is an opportunity for every Indian to do unlimited good things with unlimited data.” The announcements came against the backdrop of a series of discounts and freebies offered by existing layers like Airtel, Vodafone and Idea during the past month, ostensibly to ensure customers stay with them, even after the commercial launch of Jio. Reacting to the Jio plan, Bharti Airtel said: “We welcome Reliance Jio’s entry to the digital world and wish them the very best. We also welcome Jio’s call to leading operators to work together. As a responsible operator we will fulfill all our regulatory obligations as we have always done.” During the speech, Mukesh Ambani also appealed to incumbent operators not to block Jio calls and ensure adequate points of interconnect. “In the last week alone, Jio customers suffered over five crore call failures to other networks because of insufficient interconnect capacity provided by incumbents.”

Strike by 10 trade unions to hit banking, transport today NEW DELHI, SEP 1 (AGENCIES): Essential services such as banking, public transport and telecom may be hit on Friday as 10 central trade unions (CTUs) will go on one-day nationwide strike against government’s “indifference” towards their demands and effecting “anti-worker” changes in labour laws. The unions have claimed that this year’s strike will be bigger as the number of striking workers is expected to swell to as much as 18 crore, larger than last year when around 14 crore workers participated. The CTUs will strike work protesting against what they call the government’s apathy towards their 12-point charter of demands, including a monthly minimum wage of Rs 18,000, controlling price rise and assured minimum monthly pension of Rs 3,000. “This time strike will be bigger than last year as over 18 crore workers from formal and informal sectors would

come on streets to protest against government’s indifference to their 12-points charter of demands and unilateral anti-worker labour law amendments,” Trade Union Coordination Committee (TUCC) General Secretary SP Tiwari told PTI.

Postal strike today

DIMAPUR, SEP 1 (NPN): Postal Employee’s Union, Nagaland Division along with the rest of the country would go on a one-day nationwide strike on September 2, 2016. The strike has been called by the All India Trade Union and endorsed by the National Federation of Postal Employee, New Delhi against the “anti-worker and antipeople policies” of the government. I n a p r e s s r e l e a s e, AIPEU-P III Nagaland Division divisional secretary Daniel Domeh stated that all the public transaction in the post office across Nagaland would remain closed on that day.

‘Solution must be based on situation of Nagas’ DIMAPUR, SEP 1 (NPN): Naga Scholars Association (NSA) has adopted a communiqué on the ‘Framework Agreement’ stating that “solution to the Naga-India political issue must be on the unique history and situation of the Nagas.” NSA had organized a three-day workshop on ‘NagaIndia Framework Agreement’ at Delhi University from August 13-15. A statement issued by NSA president Dr. Zuchamo Yanthan, organizing committee convenor, Dr. Walunir and organizing secretary Dr. Kamei Aphun stated that the association along with 17 other participants adopted the ‘Communiqué’ during the workshop. NSA said that the communiqué was adopted in order to present the concerns and aspirations on the ongoing Naga-India political dialogue While acknowledging the ‘Framework Agreement’ signed by the Naga collective leadership and the Central government, the participants reminded that the Naga-India conflict was “quintessentially a

geo-political issue between the two entities.” In this regard, they maintained that the solution to the Naga-India issue must be “political, based on the rights and aspirations of the Nagas and based on the unique history and situation of the Nagas”, as recognised by the Government of India. They further noted that the ideology of modern sovereign Naga nation rooted in shared socio-cultural experience, political aspiration and self-determination was made known to the world for the first time through the Memorandum of the Naga Club to the Simon Commission in 1929. In pursuance of the conviction for self-determination, NSA said Nagas, under the aegis of Naga National Council declared Independence on 14 August 1947, a day before India was declared Independent. The Naga declaration of independence was reaffirmed in the Naga Plebiscite of 1951 to dispel the manoeuvres and undermining elements of the Government of India and Government of Burma (Myanmar)

on the legitimacy of the declaration of Naga independence in 1947. They however reminded that Nagas had “never entered into any treaty for merger with or annexation to any state, be it India or Burma (Myanmar)”. Nagas were divided through different divisive instruments - Treaty of Yandabo (1826) signed between BritishIndia and the King of Burma; 16-Point Agreement (1960) and Shillong Accord (1975), the communiqué stated. As such, the communiqué asserted that the ongoing initiative for the Naga-India political settlement between the National Socialist Council of Nagalim and Government of India “should therefore take cognizance of the political realities and aspiration of the Nagas for self-determination”. Territorial integration of the contiguous Naga areas should be part of the settlement, the communiqué stated, adding “the rights and aspiration of the Nagas to live together under one government is a political right”. (Cont’d on p-5)

Experts now expect a shakeout and a push in the data market. “Reliance Jio may look to disrupt some of the prominent geographies of existing operators, leading to a re-distribution of the market share which is concentrated among the top three operators, in 2016-17,” said Tanu Sharma, Associate Director with India Ratings and Research, a Fitch Group company. “For a price-sensitive market like India, launch of affordable data services and free voice calls is indeed a welcome step. This is expected to drive greater data adoption across segments,” noted Prashant Singhal, Global Telecommunication Leader, Ernst and Young.

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YAA to shut down GHS Chessore DIMAPUR, SEP 1 (NPN): Yimchungrü Akherü Arihako (YAA) on Thursday informed that as part of phase-I agitation it has resolved to shut down the government high school (GHS), Chessore, under district education officer (DEO) Tuensang starting from September 2, 2016 as the school education department has failed to deploy the math and science teachers at GHS Chessore. In a press release, YAA acting president Mosa KVZ and Joint Secretary Z. Kumcho Yimchunger stated that decision was taken at an emergency meeting held on September 1, 2016 at Shamator H.Q. YAA pointed out that it has earlier submitted representation dated May 6, 2016 to the school education director for immediate posting of science and math teachers at GHS Chessore. Subsequently, the government had forwarded the matter to the department through Ref. Vide No. DSE/ ESTT/TSG/1-88/2016 dated June 13, 2016 to submit a proposal for posting of the said teachers to GHS Chessore before July, 2016. However, YAA said even after a month the demanded subject teachers were not posted at the school. (Cont’d on p-5)

Naga Hoho, NMA meet HM; discuss Naga issue

Naga Hoho and NMA members during the meeting with Rajnath Singh in New Delhi on Thursday.

NEW DELHI, SEP 1 (PTI): A delegation of Naga Hoho and Naga Mothers’ Association today met Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh and discussed with him present situation in Nagaland. The delegation, led by the Hoho president Chuba Ozukum and Naga Mothers’ Association president, Abeiu Meru briefed the prevailing situation in the North Eastern state and desire of the civil society. The delegation sought the Home Minister’s intervention for early conclusion of the ongoing peace talks with NSCN (I-M) for bringing a lasting solution to Nagaland, sources said. Singh assured the delegation to sympathetically look

Students will be able to get 25 per cent more data on Jio’s main tariffs A target of 100 million customers in the near future Data usage of 250 core GB a month The Jio bouquet of apps free will end next calendar year Coverage of Jio to extend to 90 per cent of population by March 2017 Free Jio apps worth Rs 15,000 annually free till December 31, 2017 Jio digital fund of Rs 5,000 crore to incubate startKOHIMA, SEP 1 (NPN): Tobu-Mopongups Longching Area Joint Committee (TMLAJC) for NH-702 and 702B, which had been opposing purported diversion of NH702 and NH 702B, has stated that the minister of PWD (National Highways) has assured in principal to go ahead with the work as per the report of the agencies studying feasibility and also to prepare the detail project report (DPR). In a press release, committee convener, DIMAPUR, SEP 1 (NPN): Tuli Area Joint Council Fo- Aknyu Konyak, co-convener, A.M Kaiba rum (TAJCF) has decided Konyak and secretary, Hongnaw H.A Konyak, to temporarily suspend the stated that the minister gave assurance during indefinite road blockade the joint sitting on August 31 at his official resi(Mokokchung to Mariani) dence in the presence of the engineers. The committee expressed gratitude to the following the assurance made minister of NPWD (NH) and the engineers of by the chief minister that the the department for understanding the grievTuli paper mill revival issue had been take up with the Prime Minister. In a press note TAJCF president O. Benjung Jamir and secretary M. Mar Lemtur informed that the council held a joint meeting with the DC and SP Mokokchung wherein the DC “produced a letter from the chief minister written to the Prime Minister” requesting the latter to take early action for revival of the NPPCL. TAJCF said another letter was received from the commissioner & secretary Industries and Commerce, urging TAJCF “to suspend the agitation for a few days, to see the action taken from PM level”. In this regard, the Tuli Area Joint Council Forum stated that the forum agreed to suspend the proposed agitation for a “short period”. The forum however appealed to the state government to take the matter seriously, stating that the suspension was not permanent.

into their requests, sources said. The Naga civil society delegation also discussed with the Home Minister about the ‘Framework Agreement’ signed on August 3, 2015 which settles the political parameters of the final solution. The pact was signed by NSCN (I-M) general secretary Th Muivah and Centre’s interlocutor for Naga talks R N Ravi in the presence of the Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the Home and National Security Adviser Ajit Doval here. The signing of the agreement came after over 80 rounds of negotiations that spanned 18 years with first breakthrough in 1997 when the ceasefire agreement was sealed.

NH projects diversion issue settled: TMLAJC

TAJCF temporarily suspends road blockade stir

ances of the people to construct the proposed two NH in its areas. According to TMLAJC, the government admitted the error made in the item notification inviting tenders (NIT) where NH-702D was wrongly recorded as NH-702B and assured to make the hard copies available with the corrected version. Meanwhile, the committee has assured all possible help and co-operation with the state government and the implementing agencies. Further, TMLAJC also appealed to the Konyak Union, intellectuals and all stakeholders to stand by the “dedicated and competent” minister and the department with unconditional support and work together while executing the project.

Power outage at New Market, NL Road Dmu DIMAPUR, SEP 1 (NPN): Department of Power has informed that due to burning of a 500 KVA 11/0.4 KV inside New Market, Dimapur on August 30, the power supply to New Market and parts of NL Road has been affected. In a press statement, Electrical Sub-division No.1, Dimapur SDO, Er. Namheu Khate, said the location of the said sub-station was not viable as there was no vehicle approach road for transportation and maintenance work. In the event of relocating and re-constructing of a new sub-station, SDO said the restoration of power would take some days. The department has requested the consumers to bear the inconveniences. K Y M C


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