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GST Bill Gets Assam has less to fear from militancy President's Approval, than from criminals of all sort now it’s a law 40 per cent human ET Bureau Guwahati, Sept 8

The much-awaited Goods and Services Tax now becomes a law with President Pranab Mukherjee signing the bill after 16 states ratified it.

The government plans to roll out the new indirect tax regime from April 1, 2017.

GST, the biggest tax reform since Independence, will create uniform market for seamless movement of goods and services with one tax rate.

This is a major step towards rolling out a new indirect tax regime, which the Modi government wants to come into effect from April 1 next year.

The passage of the Bill will pave the way for setting up a GST Council that will decide the tax rate, cess and surcharges.

WHAT GST WILL BE FOR CONSUMER? Amalgamating several Central and State taxes into a single tax would mitigate cascading or double taxation, facilitating a common national market The simplicity of the tax should lead to easier administration and enforcement The biggest advantage for consumer would be in terms of a reduction in the overall tax burden on goods, which is currently estimated at 25%30% Free movement of goods from one state to another without stopping at state borders for hours for payment of state tax or entry tax and reduction in paperwork to a large extent

Office Bearers resigned Nazira, Sept 8: Due to the alleged dictatorship type leadership of few leaders of the Brihattar Asomiya Youva Mancha, Nazira Regional unit Md.Mujibur Rohman, ex Organising Secretary of BAYM, Nazira resigned from the organisation along with other three members i.e.

Amor Sahu, Abhijit Dutta and Munu Bauri.In their resignation letter they said that they resign from the primary membership of the o r g a n i s a t i o n .

(Correspondent)

PTI Itanagar, Sept 8

Arunachal Pradesh on Thursday ratified the Goods and Service Tax (GST) Bill to simplify the taxation by implementing single tax rates across the country.

Deputy Chief Minister Chowna Mein, who also holds the Finance portfolio, moved the resolution for ratification of the Constitution (One Hundred and Twenty Second Amendment) Bill in the House which was unanimously passed by voice votes.

Today evening, the bill has got the President’s nod after it has been already passed by the both Houses of Parliament.

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ET CAPSULES

Arunachal Pradesh ratifies GST bill

Once known to be the hotbed of militancy, Assam today has less to fear from insurgents than from criminals of all hues.

With all major rebel outfits having joined peace parleys in the past decade, the state has managed to bring down militancy to a remarkable degree. This achievement, however, has been offset by a sharp rise in crime.

2010 - 63,493

In 2011, the number of crimes registered was 69,207.

The figure was 79,771 in 2012, 90,289 in 2013 and 99,027 in 2014. This year has not got off to an encouraging start either, with 52,316 crimes already being recorded till June.

2014 - 99,027

"Crimes against women, theft, kidnapping, cheating and violation of the Narcotic Drugs

GREP official missing, Rs. 50,000 award for any information KBM Hospital

Balbir Singh

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Namsai, 8 Sept: GREP has informed that an accident has occurred at about 1530 hrs on 31 Aug 2016 at Km 66.900(NEAR Tidding River) on Tohangam-Hayuliang road in which Mahindra Bolero BA No.10B-14940 driven by GS177428F MTDVR Gde-II Balbir Singh has met with accident while returning from sector visit by Devaki Nandan, EE (Civ) Officer Commanding 1444 BCC (GREF). Vehicle Bolero BA No.10B-14940 has been recovered in damaged condition. Also Officer Commanding Devaki Nandan, EE (Civ) has been recovered in injured state. But MTDVR Balbir Singh has not been found till date. MT DVR Balbir Singh belongs with sikh community and he was in khaki uniform. Though search operation is still going on in Lohit River. GREP request that if he is found to inform then to inform them at Major Singh Mob No 09417593573.

An amount of Rs 50,000/- will be awarded to the person, giving information regarding Shri Balbir Singh. (Bureau)

KBM Hospital opened at Kharsang today in presence of Bishop George, Diocese of Miao and Mr. R.K rai, Co kharsang alongwith dignitries from political fields and

governmental departments under mammoth gathering.

Prayers were offered followed by cultural programs and community feast. This Memorial hospital has been established against the vision put in by two matyred Missionaries Fr.Kerry and Fr. Corrie from france in late 19th

century. This hospital have been dedicated to St. Mother Teresa in her memory for serving humanity to its fullest extend who were awarded with various prestigious awards altogether with more than 700 awards from across the globe for her selfless services rendered during her lifetime.

The number of crimes committed against women has been increasing since 2010. A total of 11,498 such crimes were recorded in the state in 2010. In the subsequent year, the figure was 11,473. Since then, it has only escalated.

"In 2012, the figure was 13,493. This jumped to 17,392

RISE OF CRIME CASES

Assam Police, which dealt with 63,493 crimes in 2010, had a mammoth 1, 07,825 cases on their plate last year.

Kharsang gets KBM Hospital

Lomham Tangha Kharsang, Sept 8

In the latest data released by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), Assam has

the highest crime rate against women (148.2 crimes per one lakh women) in India.

2011 - 69,207

Agencies Guwahati, Sept 8

Assam and West Bengal account for 40 per cent of all crime related to human trafficking in the country,

Assam (population 3.22 crore) recorded the highest number (1,494) cases ---21.7 per cent of all cases recorded across the country in 2015 West Bengal (at 9.3 crore) and recorded 1,255 cases (18.2 per cent of all such crimes nationwide)

2012 - 90,289

Assam accounted for 1,303 cases and West Bengal for 1,003 cases related to the ‘procuration of minor girls below 18 years’.

2015 -1, 07,825 2016 (So far)-52,316 been labelled one of the most unsafe states for women in the country. The report, called 'Crime in India' and available online, lists the state as having

trafficking crimes occurred in Assam and WB

in 2013 and 19,619 in 2014.

Last year, there were 20,116 such cases in the state," state police records showed.

(Agencies)

reveals latest data released by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) Assam (population 3.22

crore) recorded the highest number (1,494) cases of human trafficking — 21.7 per cent of all cases recorded across the country in 2015.

Assam is followed by its neighbour West Bengal, which has three times the population of Assam (at 9.3 crore) and recorded 1,255 cases (18.2 per cent of all such crimes nationwide) pertaining to human trafficking in the same period.

Together, both states have recorded 2,799 cases of human trafficking under Section 370/ 370A of the Indian Penal Code, which is 39.9 per cent of the total number of cases recorded in this category. Tamil Nadu is next only to Assam and West Bengal, with 577 cases adding up to 8.4 per cent of total number of crimes under this category.

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Idol emersion carried out at Digboi Pak amidst resistance from the security forces Laxman Sharma Digboi, Sept 8

showing a big thumb to all the resolutions and provisions of earlier meeting held between the Puja Celebration committees and AOD management and civil administration centering round the much controversial and oldest emersion point located within the AOD jurisdiction near the AOD Centenery Park, more than sixty Ganesh Puja Celebration Committees within Digboi Police Station, finally carried out their emersion of the Ganesh Idol here at the AOD Centenary Park here this evening amidst huge religious fervor and enthusiasm.

Talking to the Eastern Today, an office bearer of the Puja Celebration Committee told that the people had no choice but to break into the gate of the Park forcefully resisting the security forces and carried out their emersion without any untoward incidence. According to the devotees, the AOD management has hurt the religious sentiments of the people of Digboi by erecting a huge water treatment plant at the emersion point that has

People had no choice but to break into the gate of the Park forcefully resisting the security forces and carried out their emersion According to the devotees, the AOD management has hurt the religious sentiments of the people of Digboi by erecting a huge water treatment plant at the emersion point that has been existing and being used by the people for than a half century

‘‘

It was very unfortunate for the people of Digboi that the Centenary Park –the Pride of the Region and an identity of the historic Oil town has been converted into a mess and a dumping ground’ – An AOD official been existing and being used by the people for than a half century. They further alleged that the AOD authority has trampled the public sentiments and has been carrying out several similar anti-people activities including obstruction to conduct Ram Lila in the AOD refinery field being used by the committees during Kali Puja for several decades, obstruction to Chhat Puja celebration committee to perform their religious rites along the banks of the Emersion Ghat.

Meanwhile, reacting strongly against the act terming it as trespassing, an AOD official source sources told that the act was committed forcefully violating the decision reached during the meeting held earlier where another option with all provisions were made available by the corporation.

‘It was very unfortunate for the people of Digboi that the Centenary Park –the Pride of the Region and an identity of the historic Oil town has been

converted into a mess and a dumping ground’, another AOD sources added regretfully. According to AOD management, the park belongs to the people and AOD authority expected the people to act as a guardian and preserve similar heritage centers for greater cause even at the cost of some sacrifices if demanded or by dint of amicable solution related to any such issues which affects the Oil City as a whole and its beauty.

However, the emersion was being carried out without any major incidence of violence or any accidents during the process till the filling of the report. Nevertheless, based on the present unpleasant developments during the emersion, apprehension persist among the people of various walks, what would be the nature of emersion during the Durga and Kali Puja which would witness double the devotees and more puja committees. Would the civil administration and AOD management be able to appease the aggrieve people finding solution to this effect or allow the time to take its own course?

Law and order situation in Arunachal deteriorating: Khandu PTI Itanagar, Sep 8

Chief Minister Pema Khandu today virtually conceded in the Assembly that law and order in Arunachal Pradeshwas deteriorating and said it would have an adverse impact on the state in the long run.

During short duration discussion on the subject, the Chief Minister told the Assembly, "Law and order is not related to police department alone ... All sections of the society are equal stakeholders."

Unemployment is the major cause behind in the rise in

crime in the state, Khandu said, adding that the government has adopted various measures for creating self-employment avenues for youth through skill development.

The lawmakers expressed grave concern over the situation and urged the government to take immediate corrective measures.

Accordingly, the government had discussed the issue with National Investment Council recently, he added.

"Growing numbers of educated youth have no jobs.

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PTI New Delhi, 7 Sept

and Psychotropic Substances Act (NDPS), 1985, were the five categories of crime which have seen a constant rise in the state during the past five years," a CID official said, citing records. The first category, in particular, comes as a shock in a state which was considered woman-friendly even a few years ago.

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BCPL creates health hazard by dis- Cattle smuggling charging industrial wastes in river rise in Dibrugarh A Staff Reporter Dibrugarh, Sept 8: The Brahmaputra Cracker and Polymer Limited (BCPL) is creating health hazard for the people residing nearby BCPL site. The locals alleged violation of effluent norms by the (BCPL) causing pollution of surrounding rivers and water bodies.

Assam Gas cracker Project also known as BCPL is the outcome of Assam agitation. BCPL has been discharging industrial wastes directly into nearby Sessa rivers without meeting the required specifications laid down by the Pollution Control Board.

The local people alleged that they are having skin diseases after the commissioning of the project. “The tress and plants of our area are dying because of the excess pollution causes by the industrial effluents,’’ a local of Lepetkata said.

“BCPL has been discharg-

Heavy smoke erupt from BCPL in Lepetkata ing effluent from its petrochemical plant directly into nearby rivers and water bodies through underground pipes without treatment. The contamination of

HOROSCOPE Aries

There are some powerful feelings at work at the moment and jealousy is likely to rear its ugly head as some stage today.

You may not be directly involved but watch out you don’t get caught in the middle – because then you will get it from both sides.

Taurus

Gemini

You are going through a fortunate phase at the moment but you must not let others tell you that you have been lucky or that you are unworthy of success.

In the greater scheme of things there is no such thing as chance. We get what we deserve.

Both family and work matters are under favorable stars at the moment and whatever you focus on over the next 24 hours will turn out well.

Just make sure your aims really are your aims and not the aims of loved ones and colleagues.

Cancer

It may seem as if someone is being deliberately obstructive, and maybe they are, but it does not mean they don’t have your interests at heart.

If they try to guide you in a direction you don’t want to go, go anyway. It may take you somewhere good.

Leo

water by toxic wastes has led to a spate in unusual death of fishes in the Sessa, Brahmaputra and Burhidehing rivers,’’ said Krishna Das, a local resi-

dent. He added that the lives of the aquatic animals are in danger because of the pollution into the river.

“Now no one wanted to eat Sessa river fish of it smells

bad and the taste was not like earlier and due to that the local fisherman who earns a good amount daily now having a rough times,’’ he said.

Project was commissioned by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on April 5 had dedicated the flagship project to the nation.

“It is a danger sings for the bio-diversity of the whole area and we an independent enquiry into the matter by an expert panel. The plant is also causing massive air pollution in the surroundings. People of nearby villages are suffering from skin and respiratory diseases,’’ alleged a student leader.

When the Correspondent contacted with the BCPL they denied the allegation.

An official said that Brahmaputra Cracker and Polymer Limited (BCPL) is operating its Petrochemical Plant at Lepetkata with utmost care and committed for the protection of environment.

National Children Science Congress held in Dibrugarh A Staff Reporter Dibrugarh, Sept 8: The District level Convention of the 24th National Children’s Science Congress of Dibrugarh held at DDR College, Chabua on September 2 with the participation of about 300 child scientists representing 38 schools of the district with 64 science projects on the focal themeScience, Technology and Innovation for Sustainable Development. During the Inaugural session, Dr. Bhupen Barman, Principal, DDR College welcomed the participants whereas Dr. Binod Ch Borah, Deputy Registrar (Academic) of Dibrugarh University inaugurated the Convention.

During two scientific ses-

sions, Dr. Saurabh Baruah of CSIR-NEIST, Jorhat and Dr. Pranab Jyoti Chetia of Jorhat Science Centre and Planetarium shared their experiences and views on Antarctic Expedition and Space Expedition respectively. Interacting with the children, Dr. Bharati Dutta, Prof. Kamaleswar Dutta and Dr. Basanta Kumar Goswami replied the queries on various science related issues. In the concluding session, Dr. Jitu Ranjan Chetia, the District Coordinator announced the 11 teams selected for participation in the State Level Convention of the National Children’s Science Congress scheduled to be held during October 13-16, 2016

at Dibrugarh University.

The selected teams are- the teams led by Ankur Gogoi, Lucky Begum and Dhiraj Konwar from Assam Bidyapith, Chabua, teams led by Gayatri Konwar and Jyotiksha Konwar representing Chabua Jatiya Vidyalaya, teams of Ritzy Borah and Ritusmita Baruah from Sampoorna Kendra Vidyalaya, Dibrugarh, the team of Munumoni Begum from Prerona Child Home, Dibrugarh, the team of Tingkhong Model Academy led by Geetawali Gogoi, team of Jyoti Ravidas from Dibrugarh Adarsha Vidyalaya, Bakul and the team of Parash Chetry representing the Montford School, Chabua.

Army Recruitment Drive

Make sure you deal only in facts today because if you say something that your rivals can prove is wrong it will make you look bad and may harm your reputation.

You don’t need to exaggerate to make yourself look big – you are big enough already.

Virgo

Five to six groups of gang who were associated with the cattle smuggling do their illegal business from Chalkhowa. According to sources, they divided into groups and search for stray cattle and if they found any stray cattle they picked up in their vehicle and sell them into market to earn money. The group has been very active and operating their illegal business during the night.

Sources said that recently the gang sold hundred cattle in Arunachal Pradesh.

The cattle trade on the India-Bangladesh border is worth $500 million annually. A major reason for the flourish-

ing trade is the export ban imposed by India.

The demand for beef in Bangladesh is quite high but the supply is limited. On the other hand, India is a cattle surplus country and the demand for beef is fairly low. Estimates suggest that about 20,000 to 25,000 cattle heads worth $81,000 from India are smuggled daily into Bangladesh. The primary motivation is of course profit.

ily flee. We have arrested many members from the group but later they released on bail,'' he said.

Sources said that there is a highly demand of cow meat in some places of Dibrugarh and the cattle smugglers picked the cattle’s from different areas of the district and slashed the cattle and sell them into the market where those meat have demand.

Most of them are also drug addict and when they did not find any cattle, they involved in all types of anti-social work.

The demand-supply equation keeps the price of cattle quite high in Bangladesh. A cattle head which fetches Rs 500 to 3000 in India gets as much as Rs 20,000 to According to police, Rs 40,000 in they kept long sword Bangladesh. along with them and when people wanted to resist them, they dared them with the sword.

Police said that many a “They were notorious times they chased the criminal and many time group but they fled we have arrested most away from the scene by of them for steeling taking the advantage cattle’s but later they darkness. “In their released on bail and group they always again associated with wanted expert driver in such illegal act. ,’’ an their gang because in officer at Dibrugarh potime of crisis they eas- lice station said.

Youth Congress in Margherita protest against price rise

You will need to spell out in simple language what it is you expect of other people today, because if you leave room for doubt they will pretend they are confused and not give you the assistance you desire.

Plain speaking is a must.

Libra

A Staff Reporter Dibrugarh, Sep 8: Cattle smuggling has been rising rampantly in Dibrugarh due to the demands of the meat.

Recently, Dibrugarh police arrested six cattle lifters from different locations.

Libra may be a cardinal sign but just lately you have felt anything but dynamic.

That has a lot to do with the Sun in the most sensitive area of your chart but with Jupiter moving into your own sign tomorrow your selfbelief will soon be soaring.

Scorpio

Be careful what you say over the next 24 hours because if you go too far in your criticism of other people you could find they hit back at you just as hard.

You are, of course, entitled to your opinions – but then so are they.

Sagittarius

There will be kind words from people in positions of authority today.

Even if you are the sort of Sag who doesn’t much care what others think of you it will be nice to get the kind of compliments that show your efforts are valued.

Capricorn

If you need to ask a favor of a friend or family member now is the time to speak up.

You don’t have to beg or make promises you may not be able to keep, you just have to let them know what you need – and you will get it.

Aquarius

With Jupiter about to move into one of the more positive areas of your chart you should be feeling quietly confident that your luck is about to change for the better.

The change could be dramatic if you resolve to be more adventurous.

Pisces

Something that has been worrying you for months will resolve itself to your complete satisfaction over the next few days and most likely you will kick yourself mentally for having allowed your fears to get out of hand. Don’t be too hard on yourself.

Tinsukia, Sept 8 : An Army recruitment rally for the youth of Assam is proposed

by ARO Jorhat from 01 Oct to 06 Oct 2016 at Mariyani Camp. Laipuli Army Camp

under the aegis of Dao Division is conducting preparatory class for physical training & written exam for local youth.

Desirous candidates are re-

quested to get registered on Army web www.joinindianarmy.nic.in and later approach to Laipuli Army Camp with documents.

Cinema

Youth Congress Committee today took out a Protest rally from Margherita Congress Bhawan to Margherita SDO(C) office

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Mithun Baruah Margherita, Sept 8: Margherita Assembly Youth Congress Committee today took out a Protest rally from Margherita Congress Bhawan to Margherita SDO(C) office against price rise of essential commodities in the state.

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Suman Khalen, the President of Margherita Assembly Youth Congress Committee blamed BJP government of price rise of essential commodities and said that it has paralysed the general people of Assam as the Chief Minister of

Assam Sarbananda Sonowal have failed to fulfil the promises which he have given to the people before the Assembly Election.

Suman Khalen demanded that the increase of price rise and other essential commodities should be control otherwise they would intensify more agitation in the coming days.

A memorandum regarding the same was also given to the Chief Secretary through the Margherita SDO(Civil).

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Assam posts big numbers for chronic ailments ET Bureau Guwahati, 8 Sept: Assam may have a low number of underweight, overweight and obese population and yet it has the highest number of individuals per 1,00,000 population with chronic ailments among the nine states with relatively high fertility and mortality which account for about 48 per cent of the total population in the country.

Assam has also recorded the highest absolute increase in the annual health survey for 2014 conducted by Registrar General of India and published recently.

The survey covered 284 districts (as per 2001 Census) of the eight empowered action group states of Bihar, Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Odisha and Rajasthan and

Assam.

The report stated that Nagaon district in Assam has the highest number of chronic illness cases (25,170) while Dantewada in Chhattisgarh has the lowest cases (1,542).

Assam tops the list with highest number of cases of hypertension (3999), arthiritis (2866) and cases of any chronic illness (15,651) per 1,00,000 population. The state has the second highest number of diabetes cases after Odisha. Bihar and Uttar Pradesh reported the highest instances of tuberculosis at 376 and 344 respectively, as well as of asthma at 1162 and 887 per 100,000 population.

The reports stated, "Of the 19 districts from Assam that are part of the list, nine are among the top 10, indicat-

ing high occurrences of chronic disease in the state.

Its Nagaon district recorded the highest prevalence at 25,170 per 100,000 population while Bijnor district of Uttar Pradesh recorded the lowest prevalence among the worst performing 100 districts at 9,514 per 100,000 population.

Contrary to the high number of population suffering from chronic illness, Assam has a different picture on the average body mass index (BMI) of its population, which is an index of weightfor-height that is commonly used to classify underweight, overweight and obesity.

According to the report, the percentage of population with BMI less than 18.5 (underweight) among 18-59 age-groups is highest in Uttar Pradesh (30 per cent)

and lowest in Chhattisgarh (15.4 per cent). Assam's percentage is 19.8 per cent.

Similarly the percentage of population with BMI greater than or equal to 25 (overweight) in 18-59 age groups is highest in Uttarakhand (21.6 per cent) and lowest in Chhattisgarh (6.3 per cent) and 10.1 per cent in Assam.

Also, percentage of prsons with BMI greater than or equal to 30 (obese) in the 18-59 age group is highest in Uttarakhand (4.7 per cent) and lowest in Bihar (0.6 per cent) while that in Assam is 1.3 per cent.

Among the elderly population (above 60 years) the in Odisha has highest underweight population (37.6 per cent), while Uttarakhand (20.6 per cent) tops the list in both overweight obesity prevalence categories.

Rich tributes paid to Bhupen Hazarika across state on birth anniversary ET Bureau Guwahati, Sept 8: People from all walks of life in Assam on Thursday paid rich tributes to their revered singer and musician, late Bhupen Hazarika, on his 90th birth anniversary.

Rising to the occasion, the BJP-led coalition government in Assam headed by chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal announced its decision to preserve Hazarika's residence at Kuthori in Kaziranga National Park (KNP) as a state’s heritage site. The house was used by the Bard of Brahmaputra to pen down some of his timeless numbers.

Not only that, the state government declared the cultural nerve centre of Assam, Majuli river island (the biggest inhabited river island on the planet), as a district upgrading its status from a sub-division of Jorhat district. It is construed as a fitting coincidence to declare the state’s cultural nerve centre a district on the birth anniversary of the state’s cultural icon.

People started thronging Bhupen Hazarika memorial in the city since morning to pay respects to the renowned singer who carved

President of Dibrugarh unit Anusuchita Jati Chatra Santha Ratul Das lighting a lamp in tribute to Dr Bhupen Hazarika on his 90th birth anniversary.

Hazarika was born on this day in 1926 at Sadiya located in remote eastern corner of the state.

Former Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi, after paying tributes, said Hazarika was truly a global citizen who through his songs and musical creations promoted the concept of universal brotherhood for achieving

global peace.

Adviser of All Assam Students Union (AASU), Samujjal Bhattacharrya, said Hazarika would always remain in the hearts of people of Assam despite his physical absence. “He was, is and will remain the fountainhead of inspiration for the people of Assam,” he said.

Hazarika’s birth anniversary is also celebrated in a big way in Dhaka in

Bangladesh under the aegis of Friends of Bhupen Hazarika which has invited several noted personalities, artistes and intellectuals from the state to join the celebrations there.

Writer Anuradha Sarma Pujari, who has gone to Dhaka to participate in the celebration, said she had been overwhelmed by the tremendous respect shown by the people from all ages and walks of life of Bangladesh to Hazarika.

Assam’s Majuli becomes the first island district of India PTI Majuli, Sep 8: Majuli, the seat of neo-Vaishnavite Bhakti renaissance, became India’s first island district on Thursday, with chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal inaugurating it as the 35th district of Assam.

“The long cherished dream of the people of Majuli has been fulfilled today. However, to give a fillip to the growth momentum of the district, a comprehensive approach is required,” he said, adding that the government is committed to propel Majuli into the “fast growth trajectory”.

The inauguration of Majuli as a district coincides with the 90th birth anniversary of music maestro and Dadasaheb Phakle awardee Bhupen Hazarika.

“If we want to usher in an era of development in Majuli, everybody has to render their concerted efforts. Emergence of Majuli as a full-fledged district on the birthday of Bhupen Hazarika is indeed a matter of joy, pleasure and pride”, he said.

“As Majuli is a treasure trove of potentialities and possibilities, the district has to tread the path of devel-

Dissatisfaction prevails in public of North Bank, Upper Assam on apathy by Railway Authority Vinod Kumar Singh Dhemaji, Sept 8: August 10, 2015 was the historic day for the people residing in the districts of North Bank of Upper Assam and Arunachal Pradesh capital along with most of its districts when Union Railway Minister flagged of one Guwahati Murkongselek intercity express and a Dekargoan bound passenger train, on video conference from Delhi, in presence of the then NF Railway General Manager R S Virdi Lakhimpur MP Minister of state in cabinet ministry present Chief Minister of Assam, Sarbananda Sonowal, and various other dignitaries of Assam and Arunachal Pradesh on Murkongselek railway station.

Rangiya - Murkongselek rail route which came to halt due to gauge conversation work came on railway map with Broad gauge rail route after seven years watch by the people of Assam and Arunachal Pradesh, is one of the important route from nation security view, since it shares major distance of Indo - China boarder and route caters the movement and army goods and personal from other part of the country. The route came into existence only after Chinese aggression 1962 the source added.

After some protest of various organisation for timing of train and long route train, railway authority stated a passenger train on alternate day from Rangiya to Murkongselek last month.

One of the passenger talking to the media today said, that Dekargoan bound passenger train do not cater our needs as its timing is not

a niche for himself in the global cultural arena before he died on November 5, 2011.

Majuli is home to a diverse mix of people, including the native Assamese population and several ethnic tribes. (File Photo) opment in tandem with the development initiatives taken in the fields of art and culture, PWD, tourism, rural development, health and sports, agriculture, water resources, soil conservation,” Sonowal, who represents it in the assembly, said at a function.

Elaborating on the development work of the government, he said the construction of Bogibeel bridge was at its terminal stage, while Dhola-Sadiya Bridge will be

commissioned in 2017.

He said Union road transport minister Nitin Gadkari had announced construction of a 122km road connecting Majuli, besides two other bridges on the Brahmaputra.

The proposed cultural university in Majuli will enable research and advanced studies of art and culture of the state, he said.

The cabinet meeting, which was held at Majuli for the first time outside Guwahati,

had decided that a Centre of Water Resources would be set up in the island to suggest remedial steps for the recurring flood and erosions there.

Paying rich tributes to Hazarika, the chief minister said, “His contribution is evident in every aspect of our life and his role towards giving Satriya dance (of Vaishnavite culture) national recognition as a classical dance form is really laudable”.

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NE Express demanded on the Rangiya Murkongselek route.

No new train sounded

by Rajen Gohain for area.

proper and appealed for daily service of alternate day train for Rangiya.

Ram Nath Sahu and Rohit Kumbang residents of Jonai (Murkongselek) in a chat with the media said that our children are studying outside the state and due to not having long route train we have to depend on the train moving from Guwahati as such the trouble which we faced earlier is as it was? We hoped that, we will receive facility of train for outside the state but in vain, Union Railway Minister of state, Rajen Gohain made announcement of train, and other facilities of which most of the projects are seen in South Bank, but only a train to Naharlagun, which can't fulfill the need of two Assam and five Arunachal Pradesh district, they added.

People of the area have to move outside for treatment and children studying outside.

Assam posts big numbers for chronic ailments ET Bureau Guwahati, 8 Sept: Assam may have a low number of underweight, overweight and obese population and yet it has the highest number of individuals per 1,00,000 population with chronic ailments among the nine states with relatively high fertility and mortality which account for about 48 per cent of the total population in the country.

Assam has also recorded the highest absolute increase in the annual health survey for 2014 conducted

by Registrar General of India and published recently.

The survey covered 284 districts (as per 2001 Census) of the eight empowered action group states of Bihar, Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Odisha and Rajasthan and Assam.

The report stated that Nagaon district in Assam has the highest number of chronic illness cases (25,170) while Dantewada in Chhattisgarh has the lowest cases (1,542).

Assam tops the list with highest number of cases of hypertension (3999), arthiritis (2866) and cases of any chronic illness (15,651) per 1,00,000 population. The state has the second highest number of diabetes cases after Odisha. Bihar and Uttar Pradesh reported the highest instances of tuberculosis at 376 and 344 respectively, as well as of asthma at 1162 and 887 per 100,000 population.

The reports stated, "Of the 19 districts from Assam that are part of the list, nine are

among the top 10, indicating high occurrences of chronic disease in the state. Its Nagaon district recorded the highest prevalence at 25,170 per 100,000 population while Bijnor district of Uttar Pradesh recorded the lowest prevalence among the worst performing 100 districts at 9,514 per 100,000 population.

Contrary to the high number of population suffering from chronic illness, Assam has a different picture on the average body mass index (BMI) of its population, which is an index of weight-for-height that is commonly used to classify underweight, overweight and obesity.

According to the report, the percentage of population with BMI less than 18.5 (underweight) among 18-59 agegroups is highest in Uttar Pradesh (30 per cent) and lowest in Chhattisgarh (15.4 per cent). Assam's percentage is 19.8 per cent. Similarly the percentage of population with BMI greater than or equal to 25 (overweight) in 18-59 age groups is highest in Uttarakhand (21.6 per cent) and lowest in Chhattisgarh (6.3 per cent) and 10.1 per cent in Assam. Also, percentage of prsons with BMI greater than or equal to 30 (obese) in the 18-59 age group is highest in Uttarakhand (4.7 per cent) and lowest in Bihar (0.6 per cent) while that in Assam is 1.3 per cent.

Among the elderly population (above 60 years) the in Odisha has highest underweight population (37.6 per cent), while Uttarakhand (20.6 per cent) tops the list in both overweight obesity prevalence categories.

People of Dhemaji, Lakhimpur and five districts of Arunachal Pradesh i. e East Siang, Siang, Upper Siang, West Siang and Upper Subansiri have strongly appealed for two trains one for Delhi and another for Chennai.

Few days back this correspondent while traveling in Kamakhya - Murkongselek intercity express met an Army personal who hailed from ITBP (Indo - Tibet Border Police) newly posted to Kimin camp near Lakhimpur on Assam Arunachal border from Kashmir said that due to break in communication he was late to reach destination.

Revenue collection on the route will exceed, if frequent checking is conducted though much passengers are seen in train but revenue becomes pocket money of

Tour Ticket Examiner the reliable source added and frequent news is seen in local papers. Further source added that sometimes no TTE's are seen checking tickets opening easy ways of travel without proper tickets. Even it came to the notice of the media that system of ticketing remains fail on the route at several stations compelling the travellers to pay to the TTE's.

Expressing deep concern a commuter of Arunachal Pradesh said to the media today at Silapathar Railway station, that he is traveling to Delhi where his son is studying but due to absence of long route train he will have to fetch NE Express from Rangiya.

People appealed and have also written to authority to introduce NE Express on the route, and have also threatened of protest if no long route train is given on earliest.

Assam Showing Declining Rate of Maternal Mortality Ratio

Agencies Guwahati, Sep 8: In an encouraging news for Assam, an Annual Health Survey (AHS) report has said that the maternal mortality ratio (MMR) has declined in the state. The Annual Health Survey report was released by the Registrar General of India and Census Commissioner on Tuesday.

to 27 and in 2012-2013 it further declined to 23. In 2010-11, Assam registered 381 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births and showed the highest maternal mortality ratio of 301 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births in 2012-13. A continuous decline in maternal mortality ratio over the period 2010-13 has been observed.

The AHS was conducted across nine states of India – Assam, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand.

The report said that rapid improvement across these states is critical to ensure overall social and economic development of the country. Altogether, 284 districts are covered under the survey that included 23 districts of Assam, 37 districts of Bihar, 16 districts of Chhattisgarh, 18 districts of Jharkhand, 45 districts of Madhya Pradesh, 30 districts of Odisha, 32 districts of Rajasthan, 70 districts of Uttar Pradesh and 13 of districts Uttarakhand.

According to the report, the MMR in Assam in 2010-2011 was 381 and in 2011-2012 it was recorded at 347 and in 2012-2013, it came down to 301. The maternal mortality rate in Assam in 2010-2011 was 31, in 2011-2012 it came down

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Arunachal Releases Vision Document to Boost Tourism

Book based on Arunachal wins UK award for historical fiction

Agencies Itanagar, Sept 8: A book, which tells the story of the Apatani tribe of Arunachal Pradesh during British India, has bagged the MM Bennetts Award for Historical Fiction 2016 in the UK.

ET Bureau Itanagar, 8 Sept: The Arunachal Pradesh government has released a vision document incorporating the promotion of indigenous culture to increase tourist footfall in the state. The document was modeled on the lines of the sustainable development goals of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has been drafted and one of the objectives is to increase tourist footfall to the state.

Apart from adventure, heritage and religious tourism, the document focuses on promoting the 26 major indigenous communities and over 100 sub-tribes of Arunachal Pradesh.

Arunachal Pradesh tourism secretary Joram Beda said that the government wants to increase tourist footfall to the state by at least 20 to 30 per cent.

He said that it will be possible only if there is a con-

certed effort to showcase the indigenous communities to the outside world. Beda added that the Arunachal government is looking at building tourism as a brand for which bollywood star John Abraham, who also owns ISL football club North East United FC was selected as the state tourism brand ambassador.

Arunachal Pradesh chief minister Pema Khandu had last month hinted that the

state government would completely overhaul the tourism sector while expressing confidence that it would be the future of the state in the years to come.

Under the chief minister’s tourism development scheme, the state government has embarked on setting up homestays across the state.

Apart from infrastructure development, heritage

and religious tourism also forms an integral part of the vision document with promotion of places such as Parashuram Kund, Malinithan and the Ta w a n g m o n a s t e r y.

Khandu had also recently appealed to the Centre to make the advanced landing grounds in the state, including one at Tawang, open for civilian use, which would boost connectivity and tourist footfall

“Into the Hidden Valley” was chosen for the award ahead of Helena Page Schrader’s “Defender of Jerusalem” and “Allegiance” by Kermit Roosevelt.

Stuart Blackburn was presented the award at the HNS Conference in Oxford for his novel “Into the Hidden Valley”.

The award is named in memory of writer-historian Bennetts who was a specialist in early 19th century British history and the Napoleonic wars.

The book, published by Speaking Tiger, looks into a little-known episode in the colonial history of British India. Blackburn vividly brings alive the world of the Apatanis.

The novel dramatises the colonial encounter with tribes by telling two stories, one of a British official and the other of a tribesman.

His exploration of what happens when this settled civilisation forcibly collides with British Empire sensitively portrays the impact of the forces of colonialism on both sides.

Blackburn says he first became interested in the Tibeto-Burman-speaking tribes of northeast India when he went to Arunachal Pradesh in 1999.

“I spent a large part of the

next decade researching the cultures and oral traditions of one particular group, the Apatanis, who live in the ‘hidden valley’ of the story.

Two of my monographs document their storytelling arts.”

US-born Blackburn spent two and a half years in the rice fields and villages of south India, where he learned to speak Tamil.

He is the author or editor of 16 books on Indian culture and folklore, mainly in south India (where his first novel “Murder in Melur” is set) and northeast India.

One book, a study of shadow puppet theatre in Kerala, won the runner-up prize for the UK Folklore Book of the Year, while a translation of an early Tamil novel won the A K Ramanujan Prize in the US.

Former DCM calls Law and order situation in Alo Libang elected Deputy on the Governor Speaker in Arunachal Assembly Arunachal deteriorating: Khandu ET Bureau Constitutional head of our Contd. from Page 1 For this a policy will be evolved soon to generate employment in various potential sectors to address the problems of the youth," Khandu, who is also the home minister, said.

Responding to various suggestions by the legislators, Khandu assured them of convening a special meeting soon involving community based organisations (CBOs) and legislators to discuss the issue.

He accepted lacunae in police department and said recruitments for 1170 sanctioned posts for it under various categories could not be made so far.

"The morale of police is down due to lack of promotion," he said and cited

time-bound promotion in Delhi Police for uniform recruitment rule which is different for civil police and IRBn in the state.

Khandu said though police modernisation process was on, lack of resources were hindering the process and urged the civil society to stand united to contain crimes.

There is no dearth of laws to contain crimes but for its implementation, it was essential for all CBOs and youth leaders to work in close coordination with police, he said.

(REOPENS CAL 3) The law and order issue was raised in the house by ruling Congress MLA Pani Taram during a short duration discussion. He referred to a memorandum submitted to Speaker Tenzing Norbu Thongdok by various CBOs

Arunachal Pradesh ratifies GST bill collected would go simultaneously to the Centre and the state Taking part in the government. discussion, Leader of Opposition Tamiyo He also advocated for Taga of BJP said the bill comprehensive training has already been for tax collectors of the ratified in 19 states of state to implement the the country and bill successfully. suggested that it be passed without Former deputy chief discussions. minister Kameng Dolo termed the Bill as one Senior Congress of the best since member Wanglin Independence which Lowangdong termed would remove the the bill as a confusion in taxation. transformation of the Indian taxation system Congress member to end numerous taxes Mutchu Mithi said GST and bring uniformity would facilitate growth and said the revenue process in the state.

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pleading him to convene a special session of the assembly to discuss the situation.

The situation in the state is alarming with reports of rape, extortion, murder increasing with every passing day, he said adding that until police department has adequate manpower and sophisticated arms, the crime rate would continue to rise.

"Efforts should be made to bring the public close to police and people should be made aware on the dos and don'ts of unlawful activities to bring crime under control," Taram suggested, adding that police officers who were not performing should be given voluntary retirement.

Interference of politicians in police, magistrate and judicial actions should be totally stopped, he said and urged the chief minister to draw up an effective policy to curb it.

Itanagar, 8 Sept: Former Deputy Chief Minister, Kameng Dolo on Wednesday called on Arunachal Pradesh governor J P Rajkhowa at the Raj Bhavan in Itanagar "It was only a courtesy call”, the former deputy chief minister informed that Governor has returned to the state capital after a treatment at a private hospital in Assam.

“I have the privilege of interacting with outstandingly wise individual who has a high respect and prestige for the institution of Governor” a longest Serving Legislator, Dolo said, His Excellency, Governor, Rajkhowa in Arunachal Pradesh have functioned not only as the

state, but also a mentor to the state government.

Disclosing his healthy time being shared and spent with the Governor, MLA, Dolo said, Governor has now fully recovered and found healthy, which he believed that still he has a full of energy and enthusiasm to serve our people.

Expressing his surprise over the decision to step down from the Constitutional post of Governor, Dolo with much disappointment said, he admired him as a gentleman, who has capability to guide and mentor the state like Arunachal Pradesh, which required a vast experienced person in the field of administration and can read the pulse of common mass.

GST Bill Gets President's Approval, now it’s a law

PTI Itanagar, Sep 8: The Arunachal PradeshAssembly today unanimously elected Alo Libang as the Deputy Speaker, a post which was vacant since Tenzing Norbu Thongdok was elected as the Speaker on July 20.

Congressmember Libang, who was the lone candidate to file nomination for the post, was supported by all the 11 Bjpmembers and two Independents.

His name was proposed by Tapuk Taku and seconded by Tatung Jamoh.

Congratulating Libang, the Speaker exuded confidence that he would discharge his duties according to the best Parliamentary traditions.

Chief Minister Pema Khandu, who escorted Libang to his

The GST is a single indirect tax, which will subsume most of the Central and State taxes such as the Value Added Tax (VAT), excise duty, service tax, central sales tax, additional customs duty and special additional duty of customs.

On August 8, Parliament passed the Bill, which was then circulated to the State governments seeking its ratification.

A Constitution amendment bill needs to be ratified by the legislative Assemblies of at least 50 per cent of the States.

The Bill was sent to the President’s Secretariat

after as many as 19 States, the BJP-ruled Assam being the first, ratified itl.

The other States that have passed legislation include Bihar, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Himachal Pradesh, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Delhi, Nagaland, Maharashtra, Haryana, Sikkim, Mizoram, Telangana, Goa, Odisha, Rajasthan, Arunachal Pradesh and Andhra Pradesh.

Revenue Secretary Hasmukh Adhia said recently that the government is ahead of schedule for GST implementation.

“Instead of 30 days kept for this (States’ ratification), it is achieved in 23 days,” he said in a tweet.

Now that the Bill has got Presidential assent, the government will notify the GST Council.

Headed by Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, the Council comprises state Finance Ministers.

The States and the Centre are working overtime and talking to stakeholders to draft the Central GST, State GST and Integrated GST laws, which are to be passed in the winter session of Parliament.

The CGST and IGST will be drafted on the basis of the model GST law. The States will draft their respective GST (SGST) laws with minor variation, incorporating State-based exemptions.

The IGST law would deal with inter-State movement of goods and services.

while discharging his duties by winning the confidence of all the members irrespective of party affiliations.

"He (Libang) is the fittest man for the post. He is a grassroot leader and was elected twice from the Tuting-Yingkiong constituency defeating former chief minister Gegong Apang," Khandu said.

Taking part in the discussion, senior Bjpmember Japu Deru said Libang, who represents the constituency bordering the Tibetregion of China, would fulfil the aspirations of the people living in the border areas.

Born on March 1, 1964 at Simong village in Upper Siang district, Libang hails from the Adi community.

An arts graduate from Jawaharlal Nehru College, Pasighat in East Siang district, Libang is married with a son and a daughter.

Besides Taku and Jamoh, state Industries Minister Tapang Taloh also spoke on the occasion.

Addressing the House, Libang said he would adhere to all the Constitutional procedures

Interested in travelling and social activities, he was first elected an MLA, representing the NCP, in 2009 from the constituency. He later joined the Congressin 2012.

In 2014, he was elected from the same constituency on a Congressticket.

He also served as the Parliamentary Secretary in the Nabam Tuki and Kalikho Pul governments.

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chair, said his name was proposed at the recentCongressLegislature Party (CLP) meeting.

Throughout the country, 6,877 cases were registered for crimes related to human trafficking in 2015.

Assam and West Bengal also record a high number of cases of under Section 366-A of the Indian Penal Code, which relates to the ‘procuration of minor girls below 18 years’.

Of the 3,087 cases under Section 366-A recorded across 29 States and seven union territories of the country, Assam accounted for 1,303 cases and West Bengal for 1,003 cases.

Together, Assam and WB account for 74 per cent cases recorded

across India in 2015 organised crime. The under 366-A of IPC. draft of the Trafficking of Persons (Prevention, Draft of Anti- Protection and Trafficking Bill ready Rehabilitation) Bill 2016 is ready and The figures assume suggestions are being significance at a time invited from different when the country has states and sections of earned the dubious the society, he said. distinction of having the highest number of Mr. Kant said that people in the world this situation has been trapped in one of the prevailing in Assam worst forms of human and West Bengal for slavery. quite some time, and the frequent floods in Rishi Kant, an Assam make people activist with Shakti most vulnerable to Vahini, an NGO that’s trafficking. involved in rescuing trafficked persons, However, the activist pointed out that the also pointed out that figures are coming at a the police are recording crucial juncture when cases under antithe Ministry of Women trafficking laws when and Child people go missing from Development is these states, which is a coming up with a silver lining for legislation to tackle tackling the issue. human trafficking as an (Agencies)

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MPCF, PPWC resolves to solve Beena Ghose Roy scheme for free education launched in Wakro power problem permanently Maksam Tayeng Pasighat, Sept 08: Tired and fed up over repeated power failures in the district a mass co-ordination cum consultation meeting of Mebo Power Consumers’ Forum (MPCF), Pasighat Peoples’ Welfare Committee, officials of Pasighat Power Division, Hydro (civil & mechanical) and general public was held at Mebo IB on Wednesday under the Chairmanship of Okom Yosung, President, PPWC to discuss upon the chronic power problem of Mebo in particular and East Siang as a whole.

The very objective of the meeting was to discuss at length upon the various problem faced by general power consumers of Mebo area in particular and East Siang as a whole where departmental shortcomings in delivering duties and most importantly to find out a solution of all these mess by constructing a mini/micro hydel in one or some of the rivers of Mebo area like Sirum, Sisar etc for permanent power solution. MPCF President, Osup Moyong and General Secretary Lining Pertin stretched upon providing enough men power in the villages across Mebo Sub-Division to look after the line/power fault.

The duo also urged the concern department to replace the defunct transformers and make necessary arrangement for overloaded transformer. Moyong and Pertin also proposed for constructing of a mini or micro hydro project in one or two of rivers in Mebo

Mass co-ordination cum consultation meeting of Mebo Power Consumers’ Forum (MPCF) at Pasighat area as the region have enough potentials.

Okom Yosung, Chairman of the meeting cum President, PPWC also spoke at length for permanent solution of power crisis in the district. While responding to the power crisis in the Lower Mebo area from Assam power supply in the absence of Ranganadi supply, Yosung said that, the 3 MW power allocation from Assam is too meager to meet the power demand of the district. So, now we are demanding for 5 MW power allocation from Assam, added Yosung.

Allen Perme, Chief Co-coordinator, Yalem Taga Burang, member PPWC, Kaling Lego, G.S. Ayeng Welfare Society all also urged the commissioner power to provide 5 MW of power from Assam. They have also demanded the recently formed District Power Monitoring Committee involving DC

Pasighat as Chairman to pursue upon compulsory completion of 132 KV line

by December as assured by CE, Transmission & Planning. They have raised apprehension that, they line may not get completed by the stipulated time.

On the part of department of power, EE, Er. Joram Lali clarified the effort of the department and said that, they are doing their best. After his coming in the division, he has mobilized and accelerated the men and machineries after which some improvement has been seen in the timely restoration of any fault. He has also said that, the maximum faults are occurring from beyond our jurisdiction like at Pangin, Aalo etc in Ranganadi supply and at Assam side in Assam alternative supply. Er. Lali, the man who was instrumental in implementation of infamous Prepaid Meter System in capital Itanagar to

International Literacy Day Observed Befittingly A Staff Reporter Aalo, Sept 8: The International Literary Day was observed was observed in the district headquarter in a befitting manner today. Teachers and students right from elementary to higher level representing different schools of Aalo town thronged the street in a procession was taken out this

morning.

Giving his goodwill message to teachers and Students on the auspicious occasion, West Siang DDSE, Tumto Lollen exhorted the teachers and students to build up teacher-taught relationship and appealed the teaching community to come up for the cause of

students with greater commitments and sincerity to enhance literacy rate of the district. All BEOs, District and Block Coordinators under SSA and RMSA should strive hard to launch various programmes initiated by the central govt. as per laid down norms and guidelines, he said.

Pasighat all set to host “Mega Solung” HK Roy Pasighat, Sept 8 : People of East Siang have a reason to be more jubilant over this year’s Solung Giidii (festival) celebration as air is filled with enthusiasm to reach new heights in grandeur marking the golden jubilee celebration. The fiveday mega event will kickoff on Sep-9 by the state’s Chief Minister Pema Khandu while Minister for RWD and Labour & Employment, Kumar Waii will take part as Guest of Honour. Dy. Chief Minister Chowna Mein, Union MoS Kiren Rijiju and many dignitaries will also grace during the five days celebration.

Organizing Chairman of Pasighat Mega Solung Celebration Committee (PMSCC) Kaling Moyong (Pasighat East MLA) has informed that preparations are in full swing to make the festivity an unforgettable experience for all. He exhorted the committee members not to leave any stone unturned for making the gala event a grand success.

Moyong expressed hope that it will be a source for social transformation and to bridge the rich culture with the outside world showcasing rich culture and tradition including hospitality of Adis to the people coming from outside.

According to the PMSFCC President Er. Aken Jongkey and Member Secretary Tabung Ering, every event’s success is dependent on a network of volunteers. All arrangements at Giidi

Notko (Main venue) are made upto the mark timely by untiring efforts of the committee members.

Twelve stalls have been installed for traditional dresses, delicious indigenous foods and handicrafts etc. This year’s celebration is not restricted to Pasighat township but the people of the entire district will take part with several activities.

One of the most tegral essence of the Adi community traditional Ponung will be performed. Amongst various crowd pulling items, there are football and volleyball matches, archery, marathon, tug of war and literary and cultural programs for students of all school and colleges. During ‘celebrity night’ renowned Bollywood singer Monali Thakur and singer and stage performer Meiyang Chang will enthrall audience on Monday night (Sep-12) while on the next day, committee is set to host ‘Miss Lune’ and traditional fashion design/show contest.

Solung is celebrated on 1st September and the beginning day is called Dogin yume (preparations / arrangement evening), 2nd day is Dorep or Ardo-Bado longe’ (starting or sacrifice day), 3rd day is observed as Binnyat, where rituals relating to Goddess of crops and prosperity Kine-Nane is performed, 4th day is known as Taktor / Ekoph (preparation of bows, arrows and war weapons) where arrows and bows were also fastened above the door of every houses

and the last day is called Miri yamlik (‘send-off’ ceremonial to Miri Abu) In this festival Goddess of crops and food grains KineNane, God of wisdom and knowledge Doying Bote and the god of domestic animals Dadi Bote GumteGamro are worshipped and offered offering in every house and field respectively by one of the family members of the household.

50 years ago (in 1967), Solung festival at Pasighat was celebrated “Centrally for the first in which architect of modern Arunachal Lt. Dr. Daying Ering and the then Adviser to Governor of Assam P.N. Malhotra had participated as Chief Guest and Special Guest respectively. The glorious golden jubilee celebration has been playing significant roles in carrying forward the rich legacy. The present PMSCC committee members have ensured that the celebration bears a traditional colour as well as religious touch and visitors feel welcomed and valued.

Security arrangement has been stepped up and social services are being conducted by various organizations and employees and businessmen to give a fresh look to the visitors. Let us hope that the visitors will also enjoy the beauty of lass green mountains, mighty Siang River and its people and rituals. No one should go back disheartened and disappointed but should carry fond memories and lasting impression of the people of the centurion town.

safe wastage of power, has felt that, Pasighat/East Siang despite being a resourceful district in the context of power generation has somewhere failed badly in using the resources.

While appreciating the proposal of MPCF for construction of micro hydel project, he suggested the people to be more future oriented as without power, now development can take place.

The Hydro department officials also spoke about the potentiality of producing powers from Bodak area, Rengging etc. The meeting finally ended with carrying out of a detail survey over river Sirum near Ayeng village and river Sisar between Mebo and Dambuk during coming winter where a hydro project will be proposed. To this regard, a mass meeting will also be conducted during that period to draw public support for hydro projects to general power.

ET Bureau Wakro, 8 Sept: Beena Ghose Roy Scheme was formally launched by Danish Ashraf, IAS, DC, Lohit and Isaac Pertin, IPS, SP Lohit. The scheme is an initiative by the Wakro based Anu Shiksha Seva Trust will provide free education to chilren in need of assistance. Named and started in gratitude to saintly mother Beena Ghose Roy the program is currently benefitting twenty one children.

Danish Asraf appreciated the ASSET for the noble initiative. SP Isaac Pertin while lauding the support received from well wishers from all over the country expressed his desire to contribute to strengthen the BGR Scheme.

ASSET thanked Mala Barua for the guidance and support who in turn appreciated Tamanna Bawa and Namrata Rynjah for their help to the cause. Mala who earlier visited Anugrah, Wakro with Saint Sri Sri Swami Anu, assured her lasting support to assist children in Arunachal Pradesh. Kunal Mullick, Dr Rakesh Tyagi, NG Bhattacharjee Memorial Trust, Nimish Sharma, Mystic Asia, Vikram Baidyanath, Aruna Makan, Gunjan Kaur, Kiran Chaddha, Monisha Singh, Binod Saharia, Chinmay Panth, Sourabh Agarwal, Sonai Bellai, Bapenlu Kri, Arvind Govindrao Deshpande, Dr Sanjay Sharma, Shashank Ambekar, Ashish Sinha and Divya Singh contributed

generously for the BGR Scheme. IOCL Chief Area Manager Saurav Chaliha and Dr Arindam Barthakur encouraged the rural Arunachal educational effort by contributing and closely interacting with the NGO members. Dr Arindam assured his lasting association to promote the cause further.

Deputy Chief Minister Chow Na Mein while attaching his signature to the document of formal launch of the BGR Scheme assured members of the ASSET that he and his office will always be available to support any welfare programs and that social entrepreneurs must feel free to approach him directly on phone or in person at any point of time. He further assuringly conveyed that the Arunachal Pradesh government is committed to strengthen the sector of social welfare alongwith health and education sectors.

MLAs Zingnu Namchoom, Chow Tewa Mein and Dr Mohesh Chai joined the Dy Chief Minister in signing for the BGRS launch. R K Sharma, DC Namsai and C K Mein, IPS, SP Namsai joined the legislators in signing the document. DC Sharma interacting with ASSET member appreciated the special project taken up. Sukeshi Mein, Sujata Mansai and Sujan Krisikro while appreciating the program joined public leaders and community leaders , Khapriso Krong, former Minister, Nakul

Beena Ghose Roy program is currently benefitting twenty one children.

Chai, former Minister, Sokio Dellang, Ex MLA, Smt Domi Shiba, Smt Nyami Tayang, Smt Aruna Tayang, Sobrang Tayang, Sotai Kri, Sutik Krisikro, Dr Ligu Tacho, Maya Murtem, Delong Padung, Bai Taba, Gichik Taaza, Gokia Kanu, youth leaders Sohan Krong, Achulu Yun, Ranjit Singh, Ram Babu Paswan, Shivum Chikro and Mantaw Bellai in signing for the launch of the Beena Ghose Roy Scheme. Sujata Mansai and Sukeshi Mein further assured their support for the noble initiative.

Aastha Lakshmi, IRS, and Dr B M Mishra, IAS also

lauded the ASSET for the program taken up to reach out to rural Arunachal children. SDO Hunli Jally Umpo identified a girl child beneficiary from Upper Dibang Valley to receive assistance under the scheme.

ASSET thanked administrator Jally Umpo for the help rendered. The Beena Ghose Roy Award for academic excellence was awarded to Kenra Tacha by Chinmay Panth in a simple function.

Eken Tacha, father receiving the award on behalf of the awardee thanked and also appreciated the ASSET for the encouraging gesture.

World Physiotherapy Day observed at Khonsa Gawang Sumpa Khonsa, 8 Sept: The world physiotherapy day was observed at Khonsa district hospital with the theme 'movement for health' with various programmes on 8th September. The Tirap district Deputy Commissioner Ravi Jha inaugurated the physiotherapy clinic amidst a huge gathering. In his inaugural address Jha while appreciating the DMO, DPO, NPCDCS and Physiotherapist, NCD Clinic underscored the importance of physiotherapy. He said that with the change in life style of the people the need of physiotherapy had increased manifold adding that physiotherapy was an extension of Yoga though more technical in nature.

The DC urged the people to take maximum benefit out of the physiotherapy clinic at Khonsa without being dependent on treatments at costly private hospitals in Dibrugarh, Assam and asked all the stakeholders to create awareness regarding the benefit of physiotherapy

The DC urged the people to take maximum benefit out of the physiotherapy clinic at Khonsa without being dependent on treatments at costly private hospitals in Dibrugarh. among the people. In her key-note address DMO Dr. N. Lowang threw light on the brief history of the origin of world physiotherapy day and said that the main objective of observing the day was to create awareness about the profession and the dedicated services of the trained professionals. She emphasized on the need of physiotherapy along with other medical treatments.

DPO, NPCDCS Dr. P. Rakshit highlighted the importance of physiotherapy against the backdrop of change in people's lifestyle and spoke on ill-effect of depending only on medication. He urged people to take the help of physiotherapists to cure various diseases. Samy Moyong, MPT, Neurological Disorder spoke elaborately on world physiotherapy day

through a power-point presentation.

She said that physiotherapy was a physical medicine and rehabilitation speciality that remediated impairments and promoted mobility, function and quality of life through examination, diagnosis, prognosis and physical intervention. She gave a brief history about the genesis of physio-

therapy and clarified the misconceptions associated with physiotherapy. She later conducted an exercise session in which officers and invitees participated.

Earlier, in his welcome address Dr. Khogen Socia, Medical Superintendent highlighted on the main aims and objectives of the day and thanked all the participants for their active participation.

Mega Solung football Tourney 2016

CCFC win the shootout over PSC ET Bureau Pasighat, Sept 8: Well Mega Solung football tourney turned up, what a day it was here at J.N. College football ground as CCFC’s long nursed dreams of first mega solung football gold medal were stretched thin, wrung out a little more and then finally delivered via Nguri Alin of CCFC’s winning kick in the decisive penalty shootout, as they enter in to the final match of the season. They are the greatest penalty taking club in the history of mega solung football tournament 2016, and this Capital Complex FC team did not fail as they dispatched Pasighat Sporting Club from mega solung football

back into the match but in the end, they didn’t have enough.

Gyamar Sankio , Goal Keeper of CCFC was adjudged as player of the match and awarded with a cash prize of Rs. 2000/only, sponsored by the faculty members of Jawaharlal Nehru College, Pasighat.

Kipa Takum, Councilor, IMC-cum-Vice Chairman, Arunachal Pradesh football Association gave away the cash award. tourney 2016 after in-out that finished at 10 minutes to 1700 hrs and saw more drama that it usually takes for the team to reach final of the tournament.

The match itself finished 00, and engrossing, decelerating affair was seen to settle for a position at the final leg of the season. Well that wasn’t the best game ever seen but it was prob-

ably the correct result in the end. PSC couldn’t stop CCFC from playing and it turns out that was their tactic. That moment of madness from Dunda Pui of CCFC gave them a way

In the final leg of the season Bogong Soccer Club will lock horns with Capital Complex FC on 10th September 2016 from 1400 Hrs.

EDITORIAL

DIBRUGARH, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9

Today's quote

“

The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.

Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships.

Start with the end in mind.

Stephen Covey

Majuli got recognition The country got its first river island district on Thursday when Majuli, the world's largest fresh water island, located in Assam, was upgraded from a sub-division to the state's 35th district.

The decision to elevate Majuli to a full-fledged district was taken in June at the first Cabinet meeting of the Sarbananda Sonowal government. The island, perched on the confluence of Brahmaputra and Subansiri rivers, was declared the world's largest river island by the Guinness Book of World Records a few days ago. Before the election in Assam, the BJP government has committed the people of Majuli for its development and now it's time to deliver.

The island's elevation to a district on Thursday coincided with the 90th birth anniversary of legendary singer-musician Bhupen Hazarika. The state cabinet, which met for the first time outside Guwahati on the island on Thursday, took a number of decisions towards its protection.

Erosion has been posing a huge threat to Island.

Its big time for BJP that how they will protect the people from the decade old problem. The biggest threat to the island is erosion.

The new government in Assam has plans to make Majuli a tourist hotspot and they are preparing a very strong dossier to seek Majuli's inclusion in the list of World Heritage Sites. Majuli is the centre of Assam's neo-Vaishnavite religion and culture and the satras are the Vaishnavite monasteries.

The satras promote the cultural and spiritual movement started by 15th century saint-reformer Srimanta Sankardeva.

During Bhupen Hazarika's tenure (1998-2003) as the chairman of Sangeet Natak Akademi, the sattriya dance was recognized as an Indian classical dance form.

The floods and erosion have hit the island hard over the past many decades, shrinking its size from 1246 sq km in 1853 to 650 sq km now, and bringing down the number of satras from 65 to 32.

Sarbananda Sonowal said that if they fail to protect Majuli then they would lose their identity.

Tackling Barua Former Ulfa self-styled commander-in-chief Paresh Barua, who now presides over the outfit’s breakaway faction - lfa(Independent) - is going great guns, indulging in belligerency and daredevilry. After having lain low for some time, his cadres in early August kidnapped the son of a BJP legislator in Upper Assam and then sent a notice demanding a ransom of Rs 1 crore for his release. A video clipping released by the banned outfit showed the boy surrounded by hooded gunmen. He is yet to be released. Then, just a day before Independence Day there were five explosions, also in Upper Assam; defying all belief it emerged that the Improvised Explosive Devices were planted by school kids at rebels’ prompting. The militants have to do something to arrest their fading image but no one expected them to stoop so low as to engage innocent children.

Their desperation is showing, and it is time Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal sent a strong message that his government will not submit meekly to intimidation.

While pro-talks Ulfa leaders have found virtue in settling demands through negotiations, Barua is still flexing his muscles to achieve what he calls swadhin Asom.

But to fulfil this he has to be with his people and not play truant.

A few weeks after Ulfa chairman Arabinda Rajkhowa led his team back home in December 2009, Barua said he would not be a party to any parley that did not include sovereignty. But a few months later Dr Hiren Gohain, who headed a forum of Assamese personalities, was quoted as having said he had received “some convincing informal feelers from Barua and if New Delhi showed sincerity he (Barua) would support the negotiation process”. It is still not clear why the Centre is not making any effort to secure Barua when it did everything possible to meet Rajkhowa’s demand for the presence of Ulfa general secretary Anup Chetia. One may ask who between Chetia and Barua is more an asset for lasting peace?

A final settlement will not be complete without taking into account the demands of Sulfas, those cadres who had surrendered in the aftermath of the September 1991 Army Operation Rhino.

Then chief minister Hiteswar Saikia allowed them to retain weapons for self-defence and now some of them are said to be living in penury with cases pending against 1,000 of them. Besides this, the Rajkhowa team has to satisfy the families of about a dozen influential Ulfa, Bodo and Kamtapur Liberation Organisation leaders who reportedly disappeared after they surrendered following the December 2003 Bhutan Army crackdown.

No one knows their whereabouts. How long will people watch and wait for peace?

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Reading the Past, Writing the Future Ranjan K Baruah

vention literacy and education.

One of the important event related to literacy is the celebration of literacy day .This year marks the 50th anniversary of International Literacy Day and UNESCO is celebrating it under the banner “Reading the Past, Writing the Future”. International Literacy Day 2016 celebrates and honours the past five decades of national and international engagement, efforts and progress made to increase literacy rates around the world. It also addresses current challenges and looks to innovative solutions to fur- ties, teachers, learners A literate community ther boost literacy in the and experts in the field. is a dynamic community, future. one that exchanges ideas This is the first year of and engages in debate.

Fifty years ago, implementation of the Illiteracy, however, is an UNESCO officially pro- 2030 Agenda for Susobstacle to a better qual- claimed 8 September In- tainable Development. ity of life, and can even ternational Literacy Day In this context the vision breed exclusion and vio- to actively mobilize the of literacy is aligned with lence. In last few years international community lifelong learning opporthere has been much and to promote literacy tunities with special fochange as education and as an instrument to em- cus on youth and adults. literacy from books are power individuals, com- Literacy is a part of Susmoving towards digital. munities and societies. tainable Development There have been much Now International Lit- Goal 4, which aims to progress and one need to eracy Day is celebrated “ensure inclusive and be literate digitally to worldwide, bringing to- equitable quality educamove ahead. Though gether governments, tion and promote lifethere are much focus in multi- and bilateral orga- long learning opportunidigital literacy we have nizations, NGOs, pri- ties for all”. The target lots to do related to con- vate sectors, communi- is that by 2030 all youth There is no shadow of doubt that education is a fundamental human right. When it comes to human rights and children, the first right they have is to get education.

No society can progress without education. It is vital and important for all round development.

It is important to eliminate poverty and hunger from the world. Literate societies are always ahead of others. We have seen the differences between developed and developing nation because of the literacy rate.

and a substantial proportion of adults, both men and women, achieve literacy and numeracy (SDG Target 4.6).

said by Irina Bokova, UNESCO’s DirectorGeneral on her message on the occasion of literacy day this year.

ciety. Some of the states in India are advanced while some needs to take more action and activities to promote literacy.

In a country like India and in South Asian region there are many social issues and challenges for the government and civil society.

Social problems can be solved when there is literacy in the region. Literacy rate has been improved in our country Literacy is a founda- but we have much more tion to build a more sus- responsibility to make tainable future for all”, 100% literacy in the so-

As the world is focusing on achieving SDGs, we must also take part and get involved in promoting literacy amongst all. This day is an opportunity for all of to relook at what we have done and what needs to be done for social change through education in the society. (Feedback may be sent to bkranjan@gmail.com)

“The world has changed since 1966 – but our determination to provide every woman and man with the skills, capacities and opportunities to become everything they wish, in dignity and respect, remains as firm as ever.

A real opportunity in Kashmir, let’s take it After the recent twoday visit of the parliamentary team led by Union home minister Rajnath Singh to Kashmir, the Centre has a real opportunity to address political questions relating to the Valley. The criticism that Kashmiris make is valid — that a similar conversation after the 2010 troubles led to a flurry of activity. Meetings were held, plans drafted, and reports prepared. But nothing left the drawing boards in the end. Such are the complications of this country that the minute the moment of emergency passes in one sphere, it crops up in half a dozen others, and all any government ends up doing is firefighting.

This time the approach has to be seen as manifestly different. Kashmir is no ordinary issue. It is linked to our territorial integrity. If the government is found to be serious it will find many tak-

pectations, that favoured receiving positive assurances to be followed by action.

ers.

The pro-Pakistan constituency in the Valley will find it is on shaky ground.

Ordinary Kashmiris have no interest in teaming up with Pakistan or its followers.

But they are cowed into submission as the Centre has been tardy in presenting the option of constructive politics that has the potential to fight the shadow of the gun. The Hurriyat Conference’s top leaders have practi-

cally been led by the nose by pro-Pakistan patriarch Syed Ali Shah Geelani, who is the charismatic leader of the Jamaat-eIslami cadres across the Valley although he was removed several years ago. But when Mr

Geelani and his cohorts spurned the efforts of some MPs to talk, in all likelihood taking the cue from Pakistan, with which India’s relations have lately hit a low.

They acted contrary to the public mood and ex-

A GLASS OF WATER The Professor began his class by holding up a glass with some water in it. He held it up for all to see & asked the students “How much do you think this glass weighs?

'50gms!/ 100gms!/ 125 gms' the students answered.

“I really don’t know unless I weigh it,” said the professor, “but, my question is: W h a t would happen if I held it up like this for a few minutes?

‘Nothing’ the students said.

‘Ok what would happen if I held it up like this for an hour?’ the professor asked.

‘Your arm would begin to

ache’ said one of the student “You’re right, now what would happen if I held it for a day?”

“Your arm could go numb, you might have severe muscle stress & paralysis & have to go to hospital for sure!”

Ventured another student & all the students laughed “ Ve r y good.

But during all this, did the weight of the glass change?”

Asked the professor.

‘No’ Was the answer.

“Then what caused the arm ache & the muscle stress?”

The students were puzzled.

“What should I do now to

Promises And Evasion

come out of pain?” asked professor again.

“Put the glass down!” said one of the students “Exactly!” said the professor.

Life’s problems are something like this.

Hold it for a few minutes in your head & they seem OK. Think of them for a long time & they begin to ache.

Hold it even longer & they begin to paralyse you. You will not be able to do anything.

It’s important to think of the challenges or problems in your life, But EVEN MORE IMPORTANT is to ‘PUT THEM DOWN’ at the end of every day before you go to sleep…

That way, you are not stressed, you wake up every day fresh &strong & can handle any issue, any challenge that comes your way!

Moral : So, when you start your day today, Remember friend to 'PUT THE GLASS DOWN TODAY!'

They are likely be the political losers in the end, especially at a time when street protests are being controlled by a hitherto unknown band of pro-Pakistan elements over whom the Hurriyat leadership may struggle to have control. This presents an opportunity for the Government of India to be seen to doing something new and different, and also presents an opportunity to outflank proPakistan opinion in the Valley. The Opposition MPs, who vainly tried to make contact with the Hurriyat leaders in an effort to hear all sections of public opinion in Kashmir, have helped to reconnect us with the ordinary people of the Kashmir Valley and forge an opportunity to try and do something constructive.

Sir, One wonders noting the yawning gap between the commitments of the Politicians and what exactly is noticed in reality.

Befooling the people by high falutin speeches and commitments by politicians is not new for the people of India. Can we imagine similar tactic of befooling by a Public Sector undertaking of the stature of ONGCL? If we remember right, Virappa Moily, the then Petroleum minister along with the then Chief-minister Tarun Gogoi laid the foundation of a Super Specialty Hospital at Rajabari near Sivasagar on November 17, 2013 assuring the people that the construction work would start in the first part of 2014, the ONGCL authority again declared that the work would start in 2015. Since then the gusto of the authority of the ONGCL for construction of the Super

specialty Hospital started waning and with the passage of time the very project is shelved. Thanks to the negative exertion of certain high-profile officers of the Assam assets in liaison with their counterparts in Dehradun office. These officers never want that Assam should get benefited from a resourceful organization like ONGCL, which flourishes from the crude oil extracted from the oil fields of Assam. The latest excuse proffered by the ONGCL authority is the oil fields of the Assam assets are drying. The authority should remember, he who pays the piper, has the right to call for the tune.

They cannot, as such, escape the ire of the people.

Yours etc.

Ashok Bordoloi Dibrugarh

DIBRUGARH, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9

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NORTHEAST

Nagaland, Tripura top in reducing NSCN (K) reacts to noninfant mortality among small states cooperation declaration IANS Agartala, Sep 8: The northeastern states of Nagaland and Tripura have topped among the small states in India in reducing Infant Mortality Rate (IMR), an official said on Thursday.

According to latest official data, the IMR in Nagaland is 17 per 1,000 live births (01 years) while in Tripura it is 21 against the national average of 40 deaths per 1,000 live births.

lished in all 102 delivery centres and eight new born stabilisation units set up in sub-divisional hospitals.

Yadav said that a special scheme "Mayer Ghar" (mother's house), under which the labour rooms will be equipped with all facilities, are being operationalised to reduce home deliveries in selected interior and tribal areas and thereby cut down on maternal and infant deaths.

"The best performing large states for decline in IMR award was given to Haryana and West Bengal.

In this category the best performing small states were Nagaland and Tripura," Tripura's National Health Mission (NHM) director Shailesh Kumar Yadav told reporters.

Union Health and Family Welfare Minister J.P. Nadda gave away the awards to

"The percentage of institutional delivery (delivery in hospitals and health centres) in Tripura is 89 per cent against the national average of 80," he said quoting the data of Health Management Information System under the union Health and Family Welfare Ministry.

Union Health and Family Welfare Ministry Secretary Bhanu Pratap Sharma in a letter to Tripura Chief Sec-

the best performing states at the third National Summit on "Good and Replicable Practices and Innovations in Public Health Facilities" at Tirupati in Andhra Pradesh last week.

The official said that to fur-

ther reduce the IMR, the Tripura government has adopted 13-point steps.

These include, 60 delivery centres were made into ideal delivery centres with upgraded labour rooms, new born care corners estab-

retary Yashpal Singh informed that the state government would be given one per cent incentive over and above the stipulated resource envelope for performing well in the last financial year (2015-16) in timely utilisation of central funds and in undertaking health sector reforms.

According to the National Family Health Survey (NFHS-4) 2015-16 report, IMR of less than 51 deaths per 1,000 live births took place in Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Goa, Haryana, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Meghalaya, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Tripura, Nagaland, Uttarakhand, West Bengal and Union Territories of Andaman and Nicobar Islands and Puducherry, with Andaman recording the lowest of 10 deaths and Madhya Pradesh recording 51.

Agencies Dimapur, Sept 8: Reacting to the non-cooperation move by Aghunato public, NSCN (K) MIP in a press note stated that the "public did not just converged by itself and declared non-cooperation to NSCN/GPRN for the latter's attack on Indian occupational forces".

MIP said some elements instead of focusing on the unresolved issue-- 70 years of Indo-Naga-Myanmar political conflict and the sacrifices made by NSCN for sovereignty, took advantage of the public's longing for peace and tranquility in the area and "manipulated the emotional situation and architectured the non-cooperation declaration".

MIP said "security forces in an unprovoked attack gunned down one innocent civilian and injured another civilian at Aghunato Area last year in November 2 in

which two NSCN workers were also killed".

MIP said despite offensive combing operations continuing in the area, the architectures of non-cooperation seemed to have ignored the actual sustained provocative actions of the security forces responsible for NSCN's retaliation.

It said over a dozen "NSCN workers were arrested, tortured, imprisoned and killed under Zunheboto district by security forces during the last 18 months". However, MIP said NSCN had been maintaining maximum restraint and avoiding confrontation in the district to ensure public safety.

This, MIP said had emboldened the occupational forces to adopt more aggressive posture in the area.

MIP noted that Aghunato area had been the bastion

Sikkim, Kerala top in Swachhta Trinamool demands Dipa Karmakar survey, Jharkhand at bottom be made India's sports ambassador IANS Gangtok, Sept 8: Sikkim and the Left Front-ruled Keralahave been ranked as top performing states in a Swachhta (cleanliness) survey conducted by the National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) while BJPruledChhattisgarhand Jharkhandhave been placed among the last on the table.

An official report released here by the Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation on Thursday also found Dungarpur in Rajasthan and Panchmahal in Gujarat among the low ranking districts, while Sindhudurg in Maharashtra tops having recorded 99 percent of houses having access to safe toilets.

"A large scale household survey was carried Nadia district in West Bengal has been ranked second fol-

lowed by Satara (Maharashtra) and Midnapur East (West Bengal).

Among the states, Sikkimhas recorded 100 percent in the category of people using household/ community toilets and 98.2 percent in the category of percentage of households having sanitary toilet.

Keralahas been ranked second, followed by Mizoram in third place and Himachal Pradesh in the fourth.

"A survey on Swachhta status was conducted by NSSO during May-June 2015 covering 73,176 households in 3788 villages across India," said the report entitled Swachh Survekshan - Gramin 2016.

The percentage figures have been derived by multiplying "the percentage of households having sanitary

toilets and the percentage of people using household/ community toilets of the people having access to toilets".

According to the survey, Chhattisgarhhas 21.2 percentage of households having sanitary toilet while Jharkhandhas only 18.8 percent.

Among the performing states besides Sikkimand Kerala, other states which show good results are Mizoram, Himachal Pradesh, Nagaland and Haryana.

The state of West Bengal has been ranked 12th while Jammu and Kashmir with 47.4 percent of households having sanitary toilet has been ranked 17th.

The report said that 75 districts including 22 from north east and special category states across the country were also

shortlisted on the basis of their performance on following indicators as per the data available with the ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation.

Mandi in Himachal, West Sikkimin Sikkim, Shimla in Himachal have been designated as the three best performing districts among the north east and special category states while Papum Pare and Anjaw in Arunachal Pradesh have been ranked at the bottom of the table.

"We hope this report will not only help districts to understand how they have performed, but also instil a sense of positive competition among them. This will encourage improvement in the level of cleanliness, sanitation and hygiene," a spokesman for the ministry said.

Anti-migrant activist CLP meet urges released on bail in party men to focus Manipur on welfare IANS Imphal, Sept 8: The district and sessions Courtjudge Imphalwest on Thursday ordered the release on bail of Khomdram Ratan, a former convener of the Joint Committee on Inner Line Permit System.

Judge M. Manoj also ordered to furnish a bail amount of Rs 100,000.

He said that Ratan cannot leaveManipurwithout first obtaining permission from the court.

On June 2, the government had declared Ratan an absconder and a reward of Rs 500,000 was announced.

The prosecution charge was that he was a member of the outlawed United National Liberation Front. One photograph purportedly showing him in an oath taking ceremony of the outfit was uploaded on social media. However, Ratan denied the charge.

While the High Courtof Manipurwas hearing his bail petition Ratan materialised from hiding on August 17 and participated in the relay hunger strike in his support by women and student activists.

In a midnight swoop po-

lice arrested him. The High Courtruled that the "wanted" tag be deleted.

The word "wanted" in the police press release be replaced by some words like "information".

Lawyer and former IPS officer A. Romenkumar told IANS that there are certain mandatory procedures like police raids, public notifications before a person is declared absconder. In case of Ratan these formalities were not observed.

JCILPS has been demanding introduction of the Inner Line Permit to regulate the entry and settlement of the "outsiders". However, the central government is not in favour.

The union Home Ministry informed the Manipurgovernment that the ILP now in force in three North Eastern states cannot be implemented in Manipur.

The three bills passed by the ManipurAssembly were also rejected by the President. While the valley dwellers are all for the ILP the tribals are dead against it. The tribals have not been claiming the bodies of nine persons killed in an agitation even after one year.

Agencies Shillong, Sep 8: The Congress Legislature Party and the Congressled MUA-II, which met here on Wednesday, asked all party men and independent MLAs who are supporting the government to demonstrate unity in fulfilling the promises made by the government to the people of the State.

Speaking to media persons after the meetings, Chief Minister Mukul Sangma said the meeting also discussed Bills like the Meghalaya Residents Safety Security Bill, 2016, enhancement of corpus fund and ratification of the GST Bill in the upcoming Assembly session.

Reacting to a query about the no confidence motion moved against Speaker A.T Mondal, Sangma said all members of the House must know their priorities and the important issues before the State and the time available to them in the Assembly must be utilized for the benefit of the State.

"If they think that their agenda is to help the State, I leave it to their wisdom to decide," he

IANS Agartala, Sep 8: The Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Thursday felicitated ace gymnast Dipa Karmakar and her coach and demanded that she be appointed sports ambassador of India.

The party said it would raise the issue in Parliament.

TMC all India vice-president Mukul Roy, accompanied by party Lok Sabha Member and ex-star footballer Prasun Banerjee and party's Salboni (in West Midnapore district) MLA Srikanta Mahato and state party leaders and legislators, felicitated Dipa and her coach Bisheshwar Nandi at a function at the gymnast's residence here.

"Dipa Karmakar must be appointed as sports ambassador of India. We would raise the issue in the winter session of Parliament beginning from November 9," Prasun Banerjee told reporters at the felicitation function. "'Golden girl' of India Dipa should be chosen as the brand ambassador of Indian sports for her incredible success in Indian gymnastics, without any proper in-

Dipa Karmakar. A file photo frastructure and with her personal initiative and zeal along with her coach," said Banerjee, who had represented India at the Asian Games thrice and also captained the country's national team on a number of occasions.

Banerjee, who is the brother of legendary footballer P.K. Banerjee, said that it is unfortunate that even after 70 years of India's Independence the country has no sports policy.

He said it is also very regrettable that Mamata Banerjee, when she was the sports and youth affairs minister of India, tried to formulate a sports policy in 1992 but the

then Congress led government's Human Resource Development Minister Arjun Singh did not allow her to go ahead.

Banerjee, an Arjuna awardee, assured all possible help to Dipa and said that she would surely win a gold medal for India at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

The 23-year-old Tripura girl, who had become the first Indian woman gymnast to qualify for the Olympics, scored 15.066 points, a mere 0.150 less than eventual bronze winner Giulia Steingruber (15.216) of Switzerland in the final of the women's vault event at the Rio Olympics.

said.

When asked about his expectations from the two newly inducted ministers - RV Lyngdoh and MM Danggo - in the upcoming session, Sangma said he has no reasons to doubt the duo's capabilities and good intention.

When asked about the short duration of the autumn session, he said it was the Business Advisory Committee that decided the duration of the session even as he added that the robust system of summoning the session as per the Constitution is practised throughout the country, including Parliament.

"There is no room to shift the blame on the Government for the short duration of the session," he said.

Meanwhile, the meeting was not attended by KHADC CEM P.N Syiem and a few other MLAs. However, the Chief Minister downplayed the issue saying many MLAs and some ministers had informed about their inability to attend the meeting on Wednesday.

Meghalaya opposition serves noconfidence motion against Speaker IANS Shillong, Sept 8: The autumn session of the Meghalaya Assembly beginning on Friday is expected to be stormy with the combined opposition MeghalayaPeople's Front (MPF) bringing in a noconfidence motion against Speaker Abu Taher Mondal.

The Congress-led MeghalayaUnited Alliance (MUA) government is to table a resolution in the Assembly session to ratify the Goods and Services Tax (GST) Act, 2014.

The government is expected to introduce theMeghalayaResidents Safety Security Bill, 2016, which will verify tenants and prevent criminals from finding shelter in the state and enhancement of corpus contingency fund from Rs 105 crore to Rs 205 crore to meet the increasing expenses of the state government during the five-day assembly session.

Opposition Chief Whip James Sangma told IANS that the opposition has served a no-confidence motion against the Speaker, as he had "failed in his post".

This motion - the second - against Mondal is likely to be taken up in the session. Earlier, on March 25, 2015, Mondal had survived a no-confidence motion.

"He (Mondal) has failed miserably as the head of the legislature to ensure that the legislative pillar of democracy is a vibrant strong, effective and productive institution," Sangma, of the National People's Party (NPP), told IANS. "The fact that Meghalayahas been constantly facing so many problems in terms of law and order, particularly crimes against women and children, fiscal mismanagement which has resulted in financial crisis that the state is facing and many other issues," he added.

The opposition Hill State People's Democratic Party (HSPDP), which has four members in the assembly, has decided to support the no-confidence motion against Mondal.

"We will support the noconfidence motion as the party has been maintaining its stand from day one against a non-indigenous

person holding the office of the presiding officer of the assembly," HSPDP legislator, Ardent Miller Basaiawmoit, said.

The Congress Legislature Party has already issued a three-line whip to all its 30 legislators directing them to be present during the session.

Chief Minister Mukul Sangma said all members of the House must know their priorities and the important issues before the State and the time available to them in the Assembly must be utilized for the benefit of the State.

"If they think that their agenda is to help the State, I leave it to their wisdom to decide," he said.

In the 60-member assembly, the ruling MeghalayaUnited Alliance comprises 30 Congress members, two of the Nationalist Congress Party and 11 Independents.

The MPF comprises eight United Democratic Party legislators and two from Nationalist People's Party.

The Hill State People's Democratic Party, which has four members and two Independents, also opposes the government but is not part of the MPF.

of Naga struggle and the first Naga's war of independence, the 1955 Indo-Naga battle was fought at Hoshepu, Aghunato as the people of Aghunato had stood by with the NSCN. "It shall come to pass and anti-national elements involved in the declaration shall be exposed and defeated," MIP stated.

Further, NSCN (K) said its army would "resist and encounter the occupational forces throughout Naga inhabited territories as long as the Government of India uses armed forces to suppress the Naga's struggle for sovereign Independence".

MIP said atrocities were being committed on innocent Naga civilians under the garb of AFSPA. This itself has demonstrated that Nagas were not Indians, MIP stated.

Manik leads peace march Correspondent Agartala , Sept 8: It was exactly the spot where a few days ago IPFT had held its much hyped march that led to riot like situation in the capital.

And on Wednesday chief minister Manik Sarkar led a peace march .

The march was called by Tripura Yudhya Birodhi Mancha and Mr Sarkar led from the front . So who were the ones who walked side by side with Mr Sarkar.

They were Gautam Das, Haribol Debnath, Krishna Rakshit, Sankar Dutta and Samar Chakraborty to name a few. Thousands followed them in a march that symbolised the sheer fact that people of the state want peace. They will not be swayed by the evil designs of the imperialists. They had banners and playcards in their hands.

The unique nature of Agartala to rise up against the evil designs of those who want to create communal trouble between tribals and non tribals lay shattered by this mammoth march on the streets of the state capital exactly 15 days after the August 23 carnage in the capital.

Mukul & Prasun felicitate Dipa on behalf of TMC Correspondent Agartala , Sept 8: The much hyped felicitation of Olympian gymnast Dipa Karmakar and her coach on behalf of Trinamool Congress took place on Thusday.

Mukul Roy arrived in the state with Prasun Banerjee to felicitate the duo. The highlight of the felicitation was Prasun presnting his Mohan Bagan Jersey to Bisweshwar and a replica of Ashok Stambha to Dipa with the hope that she will win gold in Japan Olympics.

There was air of unity in the TMC ranks and one saw all the top leaders including Sunu Dutta, Sudip Barman and young turks like Sushanta Choudhury and Viki Prasad coming together. Dipa was elated by the felicitation.

But Sudip was dejected as he could not cash in from the felicitation and draw mileage after Dipa declined to hold any rally in her honour. Soon after the felicitation Mukul left for Dharmanagar to address a rally organised by Biswabandhu Sen.

TECHNOLOGY

DIBRUGARH, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9

iPhone 7, iPhone 7 Plus Price in India and Release Date Announced by Apple

Apple unveiled the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus smartphones in San Francisco on Wednesday. iPhone 7 price in India starts at Rs. 60,000 for the new 32GB base variant, but there's no word on iPhone 7 Plus price in India, or the price of other iPhone 7 variants. Both new iPhone mod-

els have an India release date of October 7, Apple has confirmed.

As far as the price in the US is concerned, the iPhone 7starts at $649 (approximately Rs. 43,000) for the new 32GB entry-level variant, doing away with the 16GB model, while the iPhone 7 Plus start at $769

(approximately Rs. 51,000) for same 32GB storage.

Apple has also doubled the storage variant on other models, with 128GB and 256GB models now rounding up the lineup. Pre-orders open this Friday in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, China, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany,

Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, UAE, the UK, US Virgin Islands, and the US, with the iPhone releasing in these countries on September 13.

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Some dynamic features of latest iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus The latest iPhone models comes with a new design, doing away with the antenna lines at the back, and they will be available in two new colours: (matte) black, jet (glossy) black, in addition to gold, silver, and rose gold, seen earlier. The iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus also feature a redesigned home button which is now solid-state and force-sensitive. It uses Taptic vibrations instead of a physical click, just like the trackpad on the latest MacBook and MacBook Pro models. Apple has also added IP67 water and dust resistance, a first for the iPhone series.

There are camera improvements, with the iPhone 7 also getting optical image stabilisation (OIS). There's a new 6-element f/1.8 aperture lens with 12-megapixel sensor and quadLED with True Tone Flash. A new 7-megapixel front camera is included as well. The newest iPhone models come with a new image processing engine, which, Apple claims, delivers better, faster pictures.

The iPhone 7 Plus packs in the widely rumoured dual rear camera setup - one 56mm telephoto lens and the other wide-angle lens. The bigger iPhone is also capable of 2x optical zoom, with total zoom up to 10x.

Apple also introduced new AirPods for wireless audio experience, which will not be bundled with the iPhone models. They pair easily with your Apple devices, thanks to the W1 chip inside new Apple devices that's used for wireless communication. They are rated to delivery 5 hours of battery life, up to 24 hours with the included charging case that is also used for carrying them around.

The new iPhone model comes with a 25 percent brighter display with a wider colour gamut and improved colour management.

The iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus are powered by a new A10 Fusion 64-bit quad core chip, which is 40 percent faster than the A9, and more power efficient, which means the new models have the "best battery life ever" on an As expected, the iPhone 7 and iPhone. iPhone 7 Plus also ditch the headphone jack. Apple will use the LightThe speakers in iPhone 7 and ning port for audio. Each new iPhone iPhone 7 Plus are stereo - one at model will come with bundled Lightthe bottom, and one at the top, and ning EarPods, and a Lightning-totwice as loud as their predeces- 3.5mm audio adapter, so you can use sors. your old headphones.

ICICI Bank now uses robots India launches advanced weather 'Software Robotics' introduced by ICICI to power banking operation & CEO, ICICI Bank, said, "It is yet another proud moment for us as we bring forth the futuristic technology of 'Software Robotics'. We have re-engineered over 200 business processes which are powered by software robots across various functions of the Bank. This initiative marks a milestone in the banking innovation in the Indian banking industry as it joins a select group of overseas organisations which have deployed this unique state-of-the-art robotic technology in such a large way."

ICICI Bank today announced the deployment of Software Robotics in its internal operations across 200 processes. These software tools emulate repetitive human actions to automate high volume time consuming business tasks.

The bank is the the first in the country and in a select group of banks globally to have deployed such a technology for automation purposes.

These software robots are essentially programs that will reduced the response time to the customer by an average of 60% and out of all the processes that have been automated with these robots, there have been absolutely no failures. This definitely allows the bank to be more productive by taking mundane tasks from employees, allowing them to focus on more value-adding areas and customer-centric ideas. Recent advances in

The new A4 sedan is powered by a 1.4 litre petrol engine with a new 7 Speed transmission and has a top speed of 210 km/h.

German luxury car maker Audi launched its all new A4 sedan in India on Thursday priced at Rs 38.1 lakh to Rs 41.2 lakh (ex-show-

Machine Learning, Artificial intelligence, NLP and bots have been drawn upon to

create this technology platform for their internal usage.

Announcing the deployment of 'Software Robotics', Ms. Chanda Kochhar, MD

room Delhi) as it looks to cash in on the upcoming festive season.

"The Audi A4 has been among the volume drivers for us and we expect the all new A4 sedan to account for onesixth of our total sales," Audi India Head Joe King said.

The new car powered

The software robots at ICICI Bank are programmed to read and understand information from systems, recognize patterns and run

business processes across multiple applications to execute activities including data entry and validation, automated formatting,

by a 1.4 litre petrol engine with a new 7 Speed transmission has a top speed of 210 km/h. He said the Audi A4 has been a leader across the world and the all new version has been redeveloped and yet again defines the benchmark in the segment. Commenting on the festive season, King said with an overall positive sentiment in the market the company expects to do well. "There is also pent up demand in the DelhiNCR for our products like the Q7. So we are expecting good sales right across the segments," he said.

Audi India is planning to launch petrol versions of all its existing models in India by the first quarter of next year as

multi-format message creation, text mining, workflow acceleration, reconciliations and currency exchange rate processing among others. If you're wondering - Yes, the bots do fire up actual windows and work on them. So, by chance, if you are standing in front of one such terminal, you can see actions taking place without human intervention.

The bank has seen tremendous outputs with this technology change. Over 10% of their transactions are being handled by the Software Robots. In fact, about 10 lakh transactions are being done every single day. By the end of the year, ICICI bank plans to increase the number of processes cov-

ered by these bots to over 500. Who knows, maybe the next time you walk into the bank, you'll be greeting by robot bankers!

it tries to adapt to changing market demand due to pollution concerns over diesel vehicles.

The Supreme Court had imposed an eight months ban on diesel cars and SUVs with engine capacity of 2,000 cc and above in DelhiNCR, which has not been lifted. After the entry level A3 and A8 sedans, the new A4 is the other model to have a petrol variant. The company's popular Q series SUVs are available only in diesel options.

Audi sold 11,192 units in India last year with 3.14% growth over 2014 and it lost leadership position in the Indian luxury car space to rival Mercedes-Benz.

satellite in textbook style Sriharikota (Andhra Pradesh): India successfully launched its INSAT3DR advanced weather satellite in copy-book style on Thursday evening using its heavy geosynchronous satellite launch vehicle (GSLV-F05) rocket.

Around 17 minutes after liftoff from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre here at 4.50 p.m., the GSLV rocket slung the 2,211 kg satellite into a geosynchronous transfer orbit (GTO), from where it would be guided to its final geostationary orbit. The launch was delayed by 40 minutes as the fuelling of the third stage of the rocket took longer than expected.

With the launch of INSAT3DR, the Indian space agency has successfully launched three satellites weighing over two tonnes of the six satellites weighing over two tonnes it had flown in a GSLV rocket.

The successful flight of the GSLV rocket on Thursday gives the Indian space programme a much-needed boost as getting the third stage cryogenic engine right is important for its future space programmes as well as for commercial launches.

Indian space scientists have spent around two decades and around Rs 500 crore ($75 million)in conceiving and developing the cryogenic technology.

Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) scientists at the mission control centre were visibly happy.

They slapped each other on

the back and hugged each other once the rocket ejected the satellite, which can also aid in search and rescue (SAR) missions, into its intended orbit.

"Today we reached one more landmark, successfully putting the weather monitoring satellite into orbit," ISRO's Chairman A.S. Kiran Kumar said.

According to ISRO, the satellite incorporates technological improvements like: (a) imaging in middle infrared band to provide nighttime pictures of low clouds and fog, (b) imaging in two thermal infrared bands for better estimating sea surface temperature and (c) higher spatial resolution in the visible and thermal infrared bands.

Also on board the INSAT-

3DR is a satellite-aided search and rescue transponder that operates at 406.05 MHz to pick up and relay signals from distress beacons of maritime, aviation and land based users to the Indian Mission Control Centre located at Bengaluru.

According to ISRO, the major users of this technology in India are the defence services, the Coast Guard, the Airports Authority of India, the Directorate General of Shipping and fishermen.

The Indian alert service region includes a large part of the Indian Ocean region covering India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, the Maldives, Nepal, Seychelles, Sri Lanka and Tanzania.

The INSAT-3DR also carries a data relay transpon-

der (DRT) for receiving meteorological, hydrological and oceanographic data from remote uninhabited locations in the coverage area from platforms like automatic weather stations, automatic rain gauges and agro met stations.

The satellite's life expectancy is 10 years.

The GSLV is a three stage rocket. The first stage is fired by solid fuel and its four strap-on motors by liquid fuel. The second powered by liquid fuel and the third is the ISRO-developed cryogenic engine that is more efficient as it provides more thrust for every kilogram of propellant burnt.

ISRO is perfecting the crucial cryogenic engine technology to save precious foreign exchange by launching heavier satellites on its own.

ISRO currently relies on the European Space Agency's Ariane rocket to launch its heavy communication satellites.

India pays around Rs 500 crore ($75 million) as the launch fee for sending up a 3.5 tonne communication satellite. The satellite cost is separate.

ISRO can now launch satellites weighing around 2-2.5 tonnes till such time it readies an advanced GSLV variant -- GSLV-Mark III -- that can lug satellites weighing around four tonnes.

The year-end is expected to see the launch from here of the GSLV-Mk-III with the GSAT-19 communication satellite weighing around 3.2 tonnes -- the heaviest to be lifted by an Indian rocket.

Audi's A4 sedan launched, price starting at Rs 38.1 lakh

EDUCATION Learn about Fashion Designing

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Traditionally better known for its textile exports and manufacturing capabilities, India has emerged in recent years as a contender on the global fashion scene.

From a niche and rare career option, with the popularity of Indian designers both in India as well as on the international circuit, Fashion Designing is slowly emerging as a serious discipline, allowing more youngsters

to consider it as a viable career option. India has now grown into a centre of innovation, as far as the fashion industry is concerned.

beauty to clothing and accessories. Designing involves creating original designs which requires an indepth knowledge of the changing trends of the market. If one is creative and artistic enough to add some style to otherwise cognate items, one can take up a career in fashion designing.

Fashion design is the art of the application of design and aesthetics or natural

The major functional areas in the industry are de-

Before the nineteenth century, clothing design and creation was handled by largely anonymous seamstresses, and high fashion descended from that worn at royal courts. Fashion design is generally considered

to have started in the 19th century with Charles Frederick Worth who was the first designer to have his label sewn into the garments that he created. It is noteworthy that only clothing created after 1858 could be considered as fashion design.

Fashion these days has become more than just clothes; accessories can be used to Accessory transform an entire ensemble. As spending Designer: power increases, more people are investing in Fashion is accessories. Although accessories are a popular choice for women, men are not lagging more than shopping far behind as they use sunglasses, wallets, just clothes shoes and more. Due to its versatility, accessory designing is here to stay.

Course and Eligibility

Entrance Exams

signing, merchandising, popularizing and marketing of the various styles and products. Though Fashion Designing is usually associated with only garment designing, there are a plethora of specializations, namely jewellery designing, gemology, footwear technology and accessory designing which can be chosen as per the interest of the individual.

What is an Accessory Designing career?

An Accessory Designer creates accessories such as hats, jewellery, scarves, belts handbags and watches; all of the small details that complete a fashionable outfit. Jewellery and leather designing are a part of accessory designing. Fashion is increasingly becoming an all-rounder impact with more than just the clothes to give a trendy look. Accessory Designers have the freedom to work with a variety of materials: from metals to leather and beads to satin while still using their creativity.

Skills required

l Patience

l Accessory Designing courses are l Annual entrance exams for Ac- l Creativity and originality lGood communication available at Certificate, Diploma, cessory Designing courses are Graduate and Post-Graduate levels. held by various universities which l Artistic Skills lVisualisation skills test general knowledge, creativity l Eligibility for Under Graduate and basic artistic skills. After l An eye for detail courses is 12th pass with any stream clearing the written test, an interl Precision and eligibility for Post Graduate view is conducted. Having previous l Fashion knowledge courses require a BA degree in any knowledge of Computer Aided Desubject. sign (CAD) is an added benefit.

Where to study?

1. NIFT (Bangalore, Bhopal, Delhi, Shillong, Hydrabad, Kangra, Rae Bareli) B.Des. (Accessory Design) 2. NID- National Institute of Design (Ahmedabad, Gandhinagar, Bengaluru) PGDPD (Lifestyle Accessory Design) 3. DNADS Institute, Hyderabad Diploma in Accessory Design 4. Arch Academy of Design, Jaipur BTEC Lifestyle Accessory Design 5. Apeejay Institute of Design, New Delhi; Post Graduate Diploma in Acessory Design

Job Profile The work of an Accessory Designer is a lot like that of any other designer. The current trends and styles

are researched, materials, processes, and market are all studied and a design is made. When working under an employer his/her requirement is the basis of the design. After the approval of the design, sample pieces are produced and finally the end product is made. The resulting accessories are then sold.

Employment opportunity As an Accessory Designer there is a wide variety in employment opportunities, such as, Freelancing - designing and manufacturing accessories for independent sales Working with an export house for its designing requirements Retail Chains Fashion designers, for collaboration with their apparel

l Knowledge of raw materials

Fashion show organisers to design accessories required by various fashion designers Jewellery houses Leather companies Salary An entry-level accessories designer can expect to earn anything from Rs. 1.4 lakhs per annum to Rs. 5 lakh per annum, depending on the brand, company and location.

Famous personalities Sonali Dalwani Eina Ahluwalia Farah Khan Ali Rahul Popli Aruna Seth

Scope The scope of designing accessories is endless due to the versatility of the options in accessories and the increase in popularity of accessories. The increasing

spending power of the general population also aids the accessories market. A person can design anything from jewellery to shoes and is not limited to the use of only one medium. Indian ethnic accessories have a strong market both in India and internationally.

Textile Designing Textile Designing comprises both surface and structural designs.

Textile Designing is the most important aspect of the fashion industry. It comprises both surface and structural designs. Structural designs are made through weaving, knitting and crocheting while surface designs are carried out by dyeing, printing, textur-

ing or embroidering. Textile designing involves producing patterns for cloth used in clothing, household textiles and decorative textiles.

For those interested in pursuing a career in Textile Designing, it is pertinent to note that the textile industry is the second largest employer in India.

A textile designer can be employed in the garment, fashion, home furnishing and the interiors segment among other industries. Export houses also employ a good number of textile designers. There are also growing opportunities with government sponsored handloom, khadi, jute and craft development organizations. Experienced textile designers can work as freelancers offering their designs to different organizations.

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Career Path of an IAS Officer he career path of an IAS officer can be very interesting. Serving in the IAS, or Indian Administrative Service, is a job that offers lofty positions of power and status. No job is comparable to it. Even people with both IIT and IIM degrees fight hard to get selected for the merit list of the UPSC.

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An IAS officer may get the chance to work for people at the subdivision and district levels during the earlier part of his career.

First Training

Year:

The newly recruited IAS trainees are called to LBSNAA (Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration) for training. This academy is situated at the hill station Mussoorie, Uttarakhand.

During the FC (Foundation Course), all central groupA services officers selected through the Civil Services Examination are trained together for four months. After that, other trainees are shifted to their own training institutes, but IAS candidates continue to be trained in LBSNAA. The training is hard. There are studies and physical exercises too. The training ends with a long, all-India educational tour called “Bharat darn.” During this tour, the officer trainees see various parts of the country and also how the army, navy, and air force work.

Second Year: Probation

Where to study?

After training, the IAS officers are sent to their cadre regions on probation for a couple of years. IAS cadres are the regions where an officer is allocated. There are total of 24 cadres, like AGMUT, West Bengal, UP, Rajasthan, etc.

Institute of Apparel Management, Gurgaon and Mumbai

JD Institute of Fashion Technology, Mumbai

Garden City College, Bangalore ØGarden City College, Bangalore ØInstitute of Apparel Management, Gurgaon and Mumbai ØJD Institute of Fashion Technology, Mumbai ØMaeer's MIT Institute of Design, Pune ØDelhi Institute of Fashion Technology, New Delhi ØB D Somani Institute of Art and Fashion Technology, Mumbai ØIsituti Callegari Milano, Mumbai ØModart International, Mumbai ØVogue Institute of Fashion Technology, Bangalore ØInternational Institute of Fashion Design, Pune ØNational Institute of Fashion Technology (Bangalore, New Delhi, Chennai, Bhopal, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Mumbai)

Maeer's MIT Institute of Design, Pune

During the probation period, the officer will be attached to various government departments to learn how the government machinery works. The officer will have to keep a probationer ’s diary to record what he/she has learned. The probation period ends with an examination.

ØJunior Time Scale The newly recruited IAS officer starts at the Junior Time Scale salary. This is in the range of 15600 with Grade Pay 5400. The starting basic is 21000. There is also DA (Dearness Allowance) above the Basic Pay which is now 107% of the basic.

The officer stays in the JTS for four years. After completion of the probation period, the junior officer is posted as a SDO / SDM (Sub-divisional Officer / Magistrate) at the Sub-division level of a district. The SDM is the administrative head of a sub-division containing 7/ 8 blocks. Ø Senior Time Scale After four years of service, the IAS officer is promoted to Senior Time Scale with Grade Pay of 6600. The officer gets two extra increments during this scale up gradation. He is given various types of posts like that of the Additional District Magistrate (ADM), CEO, Zilla Parishad or Chief Development Officer at this stage. Ø Junior Administrative

Such an officer sees the implementation of the government policies at the grass-root level.

With seniority however, the officer will become more and more involved in policy framing. He goes from the districts to the capitals. He may go to the national capital. Read more to learn more about the career progression of a typical IAS officer.

The first thing one may wonder is what an IAS officer’s actual duties are.

Grade JAG officers get Rs 7600 as grade pay in the scale of Rs 15,600-Rs 39,100.

An IAS is promoted to this scale after 9 years of service. He also gets two additional increments.

After serving 2/3 years as the ADM, the officer is selected as the District Magistrate / Collector of a district. The collector looks after the development and law and order of the district.

The post has wide visibility, power and status.

ØSome of the officers are posted as a Joint Secretary of a ministry of the state.

The Joint Secretary is a very important position to hold.

If an officer goes to central deputation then he is given director post of a department. Ø Selection Grade The officer again gets two extra increments before being promoted to the next higher scale of pay, Selection Grade (Rs. 37,400-67,000 with GP 8700) after 12 years of service. He or She may remain a DM in the district or can become a Special Secretary of a Government department. Ø Selection Grade The officer again gets two extra increments before being promoted to the next higher scale of pay, Selection Grade (Rs. 37,400-67,000 with GP 8700) after 12 years of service. He or She may remain a DM in the district or can become a Special Secretary of a Government department. Ø Super Time Scale An IAS gets Super Time Scale (Rs. 37,400-67,000 with GP 10000) after 16 years of service. He /She will get the post of an Additional Secretary or Secretary of a department of a State Government. He may also become a divisional commissioner in field posting. In the Central Government, an officer of that seniority can get the post of the Joint Secretary of a ministry of the Government of India. ØHigher Administrative Grade With the selection in Higher Administrative Grade or HAG, an officer is entitled to officer to draw a basic in the scale of Rs.67000 to 79000. An of-

There is no specific duty for the IAS. It is a pure generalist service. The IAS should have multiple talents. He will have to do administrative jobs and development jobs during field postings. The IAS also maintains law and order as a SDO or DM. During secretarial postings, the officer should learn how to be more diplomatic. A Secretary or Addl/ Jt. Sec oversees the functioning of a department of a state or the Central Government. These officers are expert in policy framing and implementations. ficer should have an experience of 25 years to go to this position.

In states, an IAS of this grade can become a Principle Secretary of a department. If the officer works in the Government of India, then the rank will be of an Additional Secretary.

Ø Apex Scale An officer with a minimum experience of 30 years can get the Apex scale i.e. the fixed basic salary of Rs. 80,000. The Secretaries of various departments of the Central Government gets this scale. The Chief Secretary of a state also gets this scale. Ø Cabinet Secretary Scale The Cabinet Secretary is the highest position of a government employee in India. There is always only one Cabinet Secretary in the Central Government. There is state equivalent of this post. He draws a fixed basic pay of Rs. 90,000.

Deputation An IAS officer can go to the Central Government from the states on deputation. There are also many PSU and autonomous bodies where many IAS officers get deputation postings. These PSU postings can be immensely satisfying as the IAS officer gets the chance of running a professional company from the high managerial positions. There has been constant battle between IAS and other Group A services regarding share of such postings.

Some foreign deputations are also available for the IAS officers. There are various United Nations organizations, financial organizations like World Bank, IMF, ADB who offers deputation vacancies to IAS officers for foreign postings. He or she can also get the chance of working in the multilateral organizations like the Commonwealth, SAARC, WTO, International Court of Justice etc. Even NGOs with worldwide reputations like Red Cross or Ford Foundation also seeks the expertise of the IAS officers. The foreign postings are lucrative due to high salaries.

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Some top 10 coaching centers for IAS exam all over India 1. Rau’s Study Circle for IAS, Delhi 2. Brilliant Tutorials Pvt. Lmt., Chennai 3. Brain Tress India, Hyderabad 4. Elite Academy, Mumbai 5. Astitva I.C.S., Jaipur 6. Chanakya IAS Academy, Delhi 7. Alsias IAS Academy, Delhi 8. Carrier Plus, Delhi 9. Vajiram and Ravi’s IAS Academy, Delhi 10. Khan Study Circle, Delhi

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Rajnath Singh calls up Kerala CM Pinarayi Kashmir civil society urges President Vijayan over political violence Mukherjee to initiate dialogue

Rajnath Singh PTI New Delhi, Sept 8: Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday conveyed the Centre's concern to Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan over recent political violence in the state, where a BJP office was attacked on Tuesday and asked him to take necessary action in this regard. During a telephonic conversation, Singh discussed with Vijayan the incidents of political violence and the Chief Minister assured the Home Minister of effective action, officials said in Delhi.

Speaking to reporters in Thiruvananthapuram, BJP state president Kummanam Rajasekharan claimed Singh told the state government that the Centre "would not remain a mute spectator" if the state did not take steps

to end the frequent attacks, allegedly by CPI(M) cadres, on BJP workers in Kerala.

The Minister has also sought a report on the situation in Kerala from the Union Home Secretary, he said. A delegation of BJP MPs would visit Kerala and submit a report to party leadership. "Both the Centre and the BJP leadership have taken the issue in Kerala very seriously and effective steps to face it have already been initiated," Rajasekharan said.

A crude bomb was hurled at a BJP office in Thiruvananthapuram on Tuesday night with the party alleging that ruling CPI(M) workers were behind the attack. The bombing occurred around midnight shortly after Rajasekharan had left the

office for Kozhikode, where preparations are on for the three-day National Executive and Council meeting from September 23 which is being attended by senior party leaders and Prime MinisterNarendra Modi.

Though no one was injured, glass panes of the main entrance door were damaged in the incident.

Rajasekharan said BJP National President Amit Shah has been apprised of the situation. "The CPI(M) in the state is not even allowing BJP to conduct political activities freely. This is because CPI(M) is in power and Home portfolio is with Vijayan, also a senior CPI(M) leader," he alleged.

The BJP leader claimed that the law and order situation was worsening day by day and that the communist party was trying to gain political mileage through violence. "In no other state we see office of any political party being attacked or ruling party members unleashing violence against their political opponents. But, this is happening in Kerala," he claimed.

A BJP worker was attacked allegedly by CPI(M) workers in Kannur district on Tuesday night. Police also seized two bombs at Pallikunnu in the heart of Kannur, which has been witnessing sporadic clashes between CPI(M) and BJP workers since assembly polls in May this year.

Rahul Gandhi helping another 'yuvraj', alleges BJP PTI New Delhi, Sept 8: With Rahul Gandhi training his guns on Modi government during his UP campaign, BJP said on Thursday it was a case of one 'yuvraj' (prince) helping another, a reference to Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav, and accused him of trying to divert attention from the state's issues.

The party alleged that it was the "mental bankruptcy" of the Congress Vice President that he was not highlighting the 15 years of misrule of the Samajwadi party and BSP in the state even though people were fed up with lack of water, power and roads besides the dis-

Militants decamp with rifles of policemen posted allegedly at NC leader's residence in Kashmir PTI Srinagar, Sept 8: Militants attacked the guard post at the residence of National Conference leader in Kulgam district of Kashmir and decamped with rifles of policemen, police told PTI on Thursday. However, Omar Abdullah, former J&K chief minister, clarified that the leader has not been affiliated with the party since 2002.

The ultras barged into the residential compound at Begom in Kulgam late Wednesday night and took away four service rifles of the cops posted on guard duty of the political leader, a police official said. He said the militants decamped with two INSAS rifles, one SLR rifle and a 303 rifle from the the cops.

While a departmental inquiry has been set up to probe the incident, security forces have been put on alert in south Kashmir to track the militants who carried out the incident, he said.

Meanwhile, militants also fired a few rounds towards police station Pulwama Wednesday night but there was no damage due to the incident, the official said.

mal state of education and health sectors.

This is an unsuccessful attempt of one yuvraj (Gandhi) to help another.

The UPA government looted from farmers for 10 years and cheated farmers of their lands. Rahul Gandhi is himself out on a bail in a corruption case. "In UP, people had elected Akhilesh with high hopes after suffering under the misrule of Mayawati. Now they have been hit by poor law and order and corruption. Education and health facilities are non-existent and the common man lives in fear," its national secretary Shrikant Sharma said, alleging a tie-up between the two

young leaders.

He also took a dig at Gandhi saying Congress leaders were the ones who used terms like "chor" for those taking away cots from his rally but he was now blaming others.

"People in Uttar Pradesh are wise. Polls will be held on the deteriorating conditions in the state and won't let this conspiracy of Congress to succeed. They have made up their mind for a change and will elect BJP," he said.

Targeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the introduction of surge pricing in railways, Gandhi said his model is to rob the common man and provide relief to his industrialist friends.

PTI Srinagar, Sept 8: A civil society group in Jammu and Kashmir has written to President Pranab Mukherjee, seeking a "direct dialogue" with all stakeholders, including separatists, besides advocating repeal of laws like AFSPA and ban on the use of pellet guns as confidence building measures for starting talks.

While advocating direct dialogue, the group has dismissed Track II initiatives, saying such processes have rarely yielded any results. In a five-page letter to the President, the group comprising former bureaucrats, judges, top police officials, journalists and educationists sought his intervention to impress upon the Centre to hold talks for the resolution of the "Kashmir dispute".

"We‌implore and beseech Your Excellency, to impress upon the Government of

India to initiate and announce direct, immediate, purposeful and result-oriented dialogue with all the stakeholders especially those with whom such dialogue has been held in 2004 and 2007 for a lasting solution of 'Kashmir Dispute' within a reasonable time frame," the group said in the letter sent to the President on Wednesday.

"We sincerely believe that a lasting solution of the dispute through dialogue with all the stakeholders would be in the interest of people of the subcontinent in general and people of Jammu and Kashmir in particular," they said. The group also said that Track II initiative have rarely yielded any results.

"The experience teaches us that, Track II initiatives are time-consuming, rarely yield any results and therefore not an option. Direct

Heatwave in AP killed 723 people this year, Assembly told PTI Hyderabad, Sept 8 : 723 people died of extreme heat wave conditions in Andhra Pradesh in the last four months, Deputy Chief Minister N China Rajappa has said.

Replying to a question raised

by Telugu Desam member Modugula Venugopala Reddy and others in the Assembly today, the Deputy Chief Minister, who handles the Home and Disaster Management portfolios, said the highest number of 238 heat wave deaths were reported in Chittoor district followed by 134 in East Godavari and 115 in Vizianagaram.

This was the first time this season that the state government

officially announced the toll caused by heat wave.

"Last year, 1369 deaths were reported due to heat wave. The toll was 448 in 2014 and 861 in 2013," Rajappa said.

"A comprehensive heat wave action plan was adopted and being implemented in three phases from January.The government has undertaken an extensive awareness campaign on the precautionary measures to be followed by people," he added.

Most parts of the country sweltered under a blazing sun this summer with heat wave claiming dozens of lives in neighbouring Telangana and Odisha districts too.

4 killed, 10 injured as truck rams into stationary bus PTI Ahmedabad, Sept 8: Four persons were killed and 10 others injured when a speeding truck rammed into a stationary bus in Aravalli district, police said today.

The private bus was on its way to Surat from Rajsamand in Rajasthan when the driver stopped it on a roadside to repair a punctured tyre near a village on Modasa-Samlaji highway in Aravalli last night, they said.

Some passengers came out of the bus and were resting in front of it when a speeding truck hit it from behind. The bus driver had not put on the rear lights, police said.

"The bus, which was stationary, got moved with a jerk after being rammed by the truck.

It ran over some people sleeping or standing in front it, killing four and injuring 10 others," Modasa (rural) police sub-inspector R D Sagar said.

Most of the victims were from Rajasthan and on their way to Surat, Sagar said.

The deceased have been identified as--Dalchand Kalal (30), Dalchand Kalal (31), Ladulal Kalal (31) and Dharmesh Prajapati (30).

The injured were taken to Modasa civil hospital for treatment, he said, adding that drivers of both the vehicles were absconding.

Chikungunya cases jump to 423 borne disease across the country.

PTI New Delhi, Sept 8: Chikungunya cases in Delhi have shot up to 423, a massive rise in the figure released by civic authorities, who had reported just 20 cases till last week. According to a municipal report released today, 423 cases have been diagnosed in the national capital till August 27. Safdarjung Hospital has reported nearly 250 cases till August 29.

"Chikungunya cases have spiked in the city. We are getting more and more patients with its symptoms.

Till August 29, our hospital has reported 246 cases," Medical Superintendent of Safdarjung Hospital A K Rai told PTI. At the AIIMS laboratories, which get blood samples from Delhi and other parts of the country, 362 samples were tested positive for chikungunya during July to August 20.

"Out of 133 samples sent to our labs, 83 were tested positive in July and this month till August 20, out of 502 samples, 279 tested

Chikungunya cases in Delhi have shot up to 423, a massive rise in the figure released by civic authorities, who had reported just 20 cases till last week. positive for chikungunya," Department of Microbiology at AIIMS, Lalit Dar, had earlier said.

The South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC) which compiles the vector-borne disease cases report on behalf of all civic bodies, had pegged the total number of cases till August 20 at 20.

Chikungunya is a viral illness and its symptoms are similar to those of dengue, which include high-grade

fever, severe joint pain, muscle pain and headache and joint swelling.

It also causes rashes in patients but is not a threat like dengue in which there is a risk of bleeding due to abrupt fall in platelet count.

The sudden spike in chikungunya cases in Delhi and several other parts of north India, has come nearly 10 years after a big outbreak of the mosquito-

In 2006, over 13 lakh suspected chikungunya fever cases were reported across the country, according to National Vector Borne Disease Control Programme (NVBDCP).

This year till July 28, 9,990 suspected cases of the disease have been recorded, with Karnataka reporting 7,591 cases.

Health experts have attributed the rise to a possible "evolution" in the virus that carries this disease and change in weather factors like humidity.

"The disease is caused by the same aedes aegypti mosquito which causes dengue but the difference is that dengue virus has four strains while chikungunya has only one," NVBDCP Director Dr A C Dhariwal said.

"The joint pains last longer compared to dengue cases and especially elderly people find it extremely difficult. Though, people should not worry as it not a life-threatening disease like dengue," Dar said.

Protesters pick up stones to throws at a police vehicle during a protest in Srinagar against the recent killings in Kashmir. dialogue is the only way forward. An open dialogue with the representatives of those leading the ongoing movement and overall struggle for the realisation of political aspirations, without questioning the legitimacy of the leadership, is

imperative. A confusion, grossly misplaced, is being created regarding the identity of those leading the ongoing movement and overall struggle for the realisation of political aspirations and therefore required to be associated

with the proposed talks," they said.

The civil society members said previous central governments headed by Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Manmohan Singh had held dialogue at the highest level with important stakeholders. "The Government of India should resume that process by restarting dialogue at that level and follow it up broad-based institutional mechanisms for a holistic and lasting solution," they said while seeking a dialogue with all the stakeholders without any preconditions.

"Once the Prime Minister has signified his intention to initiate dialogue within the ambit of Insaniyat, a concept higher than any law and even Constitution, for a lasting solution of the dispute, there is no reason to make dialogue subject to any conditions," it said.

India, Canada discuss civil-nuclear cooperation PTI New Delhi, SepT, Sept 8: India and Canada have discussed a wide range of issues of mutual interest, including the civil-nuclear cooperation between the two countries.

The discussion was held during a meeting between Union minister Jitendra Singh and visiting Canada Minister for Natural Resources, James Gordon Carr, here yesterday.

The two leaders discussed a wide range of issues of mutual interest, including civilnuclear cooperation between the two countries, an official release issued said today.

As a country with large energy requirements, India looks forward to promoting nuclear energy production at a significant scale and the two nations can jointly work to achieve this, said Singh, Minister of State in Prime Minister's Office.

He referred to a common technological base of Pressurised Heavy Water Reactor (PHWR) in which India and Canada are global leaders and it is an area offering opportunity of potential bilateral cooperation between the two countries.

While recalling the traditional friendly relations between the two countries, Singh said the

Garphikal Represntion. most distinctive feature of Indo-Canadian relations was that these had been consistently compatible, without even a single intervening phase of bitterness or unpleasantness.

"This has helped the two countries to achieve positive collaboration in various sectors, including in the area of nuclear energy which is a success story," he said.

Singh referred to the visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Canada in April 2015 during which a long term uranium procurement contract was signed by Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India with the Canadian Uranium producer

CAMECO. Thereafter, the first consignment of Canadian uranium reached India in December 2015 and the second consignment is expected by November this year, he said.

Singh expressed satisfaction over the Canadian delegation planning a visit to Mumbai where it will get an opportunity to interact with the scientists at Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) and Department of Atomic Energy, the release said.

Carr said that he looks forward to greater growth in Indo-Canadian cooperation during the years ahead. He also extended invitation to Singh to visit Canada at a time of his convenience.

Kejriwal heckled by protesters at Delhi, Ludhiana railway stat PTI New Delhi, Sept 8: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal was today heckled by activists from BJP, its ally Akali Dal and Congress, who staged protests at railway stations over allegations of misconduct against AAP leaders, as he started his four-day visit to Punjab to give a push to the partys poll campaign in the state.

Activists led by Delhi BJP womens wing president Kamaljeet Sehrawat and party spokesman Praveen Kapoor raised slogans and waved bangles towards Kejriwal, who arrived at platform number 1 at New Delhi railway station to board a train for Punjab at around 7 AM. Some protesters jostled with the policemen and Kejriwal was caught in the melee.

They demanded that Kejriwal speak on the alleged "misconduct" of his MLAs and expel Ashutosh for his controversial blog defending Sandeep Kumar, who was sacked as minister over an alleged sex scandal.

Blaming Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Delhi Police for the alleged manhandling of the Chief Minister at the hands of women protesters of the

BJP, the Aam Aadmi Party said the law enforcement agency was a "mute spectator" during the "preplanned" episode.

BJP, however, denied any manhandling and said party activists resorted to political protest.

"It is sad and shameful that the those who once talked of daily dialogue with people today term political protest as an attack," Kapoor said.

As Kejriwal got down from the Delhi-LudhianaAmritsar Shatabdi express at Ludhiana railway station, he was again greeted by protesters from the ruling SADs youth wing and opposition Congress womens wing Youth Akali Dal leader Gurpreet Singh Gosha led by other party activists tried to give bangles to Kejriwal, claiming his government had failed on all fronts.

Congress women wings Ludhiana district president Leena Tapria, who also led a group of party activists, raised slogans like "Kejriwal Go Back".

As Kejriwal stepped out of the railway station, he faced another group of protesters, who claimed to be from a Hindu outfit. However, the Punjab police did not allow

any protester to come near the Delhi Chief Minister.

Police here said that they had deputed two Additional Deputy Commissioners of Police rank officers at the railway station besides deputing police personnel in strength to ensure there was no untoward incident.

Kejriwals visit today also coincides with the launch of a fourth front in the state by cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu ahead of 2017 assembly polls.

Sidhu is set to launch Awaaz-e-Punjab front along with MLA Pargat Singh and two Ludhiana MLA brothers Simarjit Singh Bains and Balwinder Bains. The AAP has been taken aback by the development as there was speculation that Sidhu could join the party after he parted ways with BJP and resigned from his Rajya Sabha membership.

The AAP, which has been projecting itself as a viable alternative to Congress and SAD-BJP in the state, has faced setbacks in the state including sacking of Sucha Singh Chhotepur as Punjab Convenor and Kejriwals visit is aimed at hearing the grievances of partymen and bringing the campaign back on track.

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India stands by new Myanmar govt: PM Modi Obama says South China Sea ruling 'binding' IANS Vientiane, Sept 8: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said India will always stand by the new National League for Democracy (NLD) government in Myanmar.

He said this during a meeting with State Counsellor and Foreign Minister of Myanmar Aung San Suu Kyi on the sidelines of the 14th India-Asean Summit and the 11th East Asia Summit here.

This was the first meeting between the two leaders since the Nobel peace laureate's NLD assumed power in Myanmar in March this year.

"Prime Minister complimented Daw Aung San Suu Kyi on the victory of the NLD in the elections," External Affairs Ministry spokesperson told media here after the meeting.

Stating that Modi welcomed Suu Kyi as an icon of de-

Aung San Suu Kyi (L) and PM Narendra Modi (R) mocracy, he said: "The Prime Minister said India would always stand with the government and people of Myanmar as the new government strives to fulfill the aspirations of the people."

Modi also said that he was looking forward to receiving Suu Kyi in Goa next month for the BRICS-Bimstec Outreach Summit.

India has assumed the chairmanship of BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) and has invited the leaders of the Bimstec (Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation) countries to the Goa summit.

Modi said that cooperation in disaster management

would be one of the important elements of the summit given that several countries in South Asia continue to face natural disasters, according to Swarup.

"Daw Aung San Suu Kyi thanked Prime Minister and said she was looking forward to visiting India where she had always felt 'at home'," the spokesperson said.

Suu Kyi spent a considerable part of her early life in India and was educated at Lady Shri Ram College in New Delhi.

The comments are sure to draw ire from Beijing, which Last month, Myanmar Presi- has taken an increasingly dent U Htin Kyaw was in belligerent stance on claims New Delhi on his first offi- in the strategically imporcial visit abroad after assum- tant waterway. ing charge.

Obama has urged China to In Thursday's meeting, Suu adhere to the rule of law and Kyi briefed the Prime Minister on the progress in the peace and reconciliation process in Myanmar even as both the sides positively assessed India-Myanmar security cooperation.

Addressing a conference on "Assessing South Asia`s Nuclear Security" organised by Center for International Strategic Studies (CISS) here, Chaudhry said, people of Pakistan are the owners of Pakistan`s nuclear programne which is meant only for its defence as a sovereign nation.

"Pakistan has always voiced its desire for strategic stability and urges all

regional partners to utilise resources for economic development instead of furthering nuclearisation in the region that in turn usher insecurity in the region," he said.

Pakistan is a responsible nuclear state and its nuclear assets are safe and regularised by an autonomous body which is Pakistan Nuclear Regulatory Authority, Radio Pakistan quoted him as saying.

He said Pakistan qualifies for the membership for Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) and has mobilised the member countries for supporting the cause.

The Foreign Secretary hoped that political and

commercial motives will not hinder Pakistan s membership for the NSG. Chaudhry said Pakistan has urged the international community and particularly the United States to shun discriminatory practices in the context of nuclear and defence ties as it jeopardizes the stability of whole region.

"Credible minimum deterrence remains our principle and as a sovereign country we take every step for the defence of our motherland if any strategic partnership or alliance threats our security and regional stability," he said.

Referring to recent US-India defence deal, he said we

not take unilateral measures that could raise tensions.

China in turn accuses the United States of interference and using the ruling to stoke confrontation.

"I recognise this raises tensions," Obama said referring to the ruling "but I also look forward to discussing how we can constructively move forward together to lower tensions and promote diplomacy and stability."

Even before Obama's comments, a dispute between the Philippines and China has overshadowed East and Southeast Asian summits in Laos.

Manila produced photos it said showed fresh construction activity at the

Barack Obama flashpoint Scarborough Shoal, an accusation that was denied by Beijing and played down by Washington.

Heavy fighting as Taliban breach southern Afghan city

Pak qualifies for NSG membership: Chaudhry PTI Islamabad, Sept 8: Describing Pakistan as a "responsible" nuclear state, Foreign Secretary Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry has said the country's nuclear assets are "safe" and it qualifies for NSG membership.

PTI Vientiane, Sept 8: US President Barack Obama warned today an international tribunal's ruling that China's sweeping claims to the South China Sea had no legal basis was "binding", after Beijing vowed to ignore the verdict.

"The landmark arbitration ruling in July, which is binding, helped clarify maritime rights in the region," Obama told a summit of Asian leaders in Laos.

have no comments for the bilateral relations of any country if "these do not undermine our security and stability of the region."

He said Pakistan is a staunch advocate of nuclear non- proliferation at international level and believes in amicable solution of all disputes.

In the context of India and Pakistan bilateral relations, he said both countries need to bolster the Confidence Building Measures (CBMs) to reach pragmatic solutions for their long standing disputes.

He said dialogue is the only way possible to keep the relations at a positive trajectory.

AFP Kandahar, Sept 8: The Taliban stormed into Tarin Kot Thursday, triggering heavy fighting around government buildings as panicked residents scrambled to flee the capital of southern Uruzgan province, the latest city to be targeted by insurgents.

The pitched battles prompted urgent calls from officials for reinforcements and air support, after the militants toppled security posts on the outskirts to breach the city gates.

"If reinforcements do not arrive the city will collapse into the hands of the Taliban," Karim Khademzai, head of the provincial capital, told AFP. The fighting comes as the

Taliban are threatening to capture Lashkar Gah in neighbouring Helmand province, and northern Kunduz, which the insurgents briefly seized last year in a stinging blow to Afghan forces.

"The Taliban have entered the city and are fighting to take over police and NDS (intelligence agency) headquarters, and we fear they will storm the prison to free captured insurgents," Haji Bari Daad, a tribal elder in Tarin Kot, told AFP. Sabir Menawal, a city resident, said Taliban fighters entered his house near the police headquarters and took up positions inside to fire at government buildings.

"The Taliban instructed us to leave the area im-

mediately," Menawal told AFP. "I fled with my family to a safer area of Tarin Kot, but we fear fighting could spread to this area too."

Tarin Kot's normally bustling streets were empty and shops closed as local residents sought to flee the city, which has practically been besieged by the Taliban for months.

President Ashraf Ghani's office, meanwhile, said the government will not allow "Uruzgan to become a sanctuary for terrorists".

"Reinforcements have reached the province, and the local police chief and provincial officials are on the frontline fighting the enemy," presidential spokesman Shahhussain Murtazawi said on Facebook.

The area is just 230 kilometres from the main island of the Philippines, where US forces are stationed.

China shuns Seoul security dialogue amid missile defense row AP Beijing, Sept 8: China is shunning a security dialogue in Seoul amid an ongoing row over South Korea's decision to deploy a powerful US missile defense system. The official newspaper Global Times quoted an unidentified Defense Ministry spokesman as saying China was not sending a delegation to this week's Seoul Defense Dialogue because of "reasons of work arrangement." It offered no other details.

China opposes the deployment of the US Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, or THAAD, whose radars it says will allow the US military to peer deep into northeastern China. Seoul and Washington say the system is intended solely to defend against North Korea's missile threat.

China elevated the issue on Monday, with President Xi Jinping expressing China's opposition directly in a meeting with his South Korean counterpart Park Geun-hye.

Tusk urges May to start Storm death China to probe Putin 'far more' of a leader than Obama: Trump Brexit negotiations toll climbs to airlines' racial five in Mexico

Donald Tusk and Theresa May IANS London, Sept 8: European Council President Donald Tusk on Thursday urged British Prime Minister Theresa May to begin Brexit negotiations as soon as possible.

Tusk, who met May ahead of the upcoming European Union Summit on September 16, stressed on the need for an immediate start to official Brexit discussions, EFE news reported.

"I'm aware that it is not easy but I still hope you will be ready to start the process as soon as possible," Tusk said, adding that the decision to move the process forward was now in "the UK's court".

Tusk tweeted that a quick initiation of negotiations was in "everyone's interest", and maintained that the EU's goal was to establish the closest possible relations with Britain.

Since the June 23 referendum result that saw British voters opt to leave the 28-member bloc, European officials have called on May to invoke

Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty, which would trigger the two-year negotiation process.

May, in turn, said she wanted a "smooth" exit from the EU, but warned that Britain would not trigger the article this year.

In the upcoming EU Summit in the Slovakian capital Bratislava, European leaders are expected to discuss the EU's post-Brexit future.

Britain is not scheduled to attend the summit.

Tusk told May that the summit members would not discuss future relations with the seceding islandnation and reiterated that Britain would need to submit its official request to exit.

This was the first bilateral meeting between May and Tusk since the British PM took office after the Brexit triumph led to David Cameron's resignation.

Tusk arrived in the UK from Ireland as part of a series of conversations with European leaders before the Summit.

AFP Hermosillo (Mexico), Sept 8: The death toll from tropical storm Newton has climbed to five in Mexico, authorities said, with the downgraded hurricane weakening as it traveled over the US state of Arizona.

The five victims -- all fishermen -- were killed when their shrimp boat sank Tuesday as the storm crashed into the Baja California peninsula with hurricane force winds, the government said in a statement.

Officials had previously reported two dead and three missing in the mishap, which occurred between the Sea of Cortez and the Pacific.

Newton swept into northwestern Mexico early yesterday as a tropical storm, weakening as it moved north into southeastern Arizona, the US National Hurricane Center said.

It uprooted trees and shattered windows in Baja California's Los Cabos resort area, where thousands of tourists rode out the storm in their hotels.

But the region managed to escape major damage two years after Hurricane Odile ravaged Los Cabos, killing six people and causing damage worth USD 1 billion.

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PTI Beijing, Sept 8: China today asked its flag-carrier Air China to investigate the racial comments found in its inhouse magazine advising London visitors to take 'precautions' when entering areas populated by "Indians, Pakistanis and black people".

"I have seen the report but I have no specific information on that," Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Hua Chunying told a media briefing here while replying to questions on the Air China magazine's comments.

"I have noticed that this morning Air China has already given response ot this issue. We hope air China will properly deal with it, Hua said.

Air China's 'Wings of China' has carried a long feature on visiting London. After a section on transport options and lifestyle and cultural activities in London, Wings of China has offered some "Tips from Air China".

"London is generally a safe place to travel, however precautions are needed when entering areas mainly populated by Indians, Pakistanis and black people," China's flagship carrier advises in the magazine.

"The position upheld by Chinese goverment is that all ehtnic gorups are equal.We are firmly

oppsoed ot any form of racial discmination and this position is clear and consistent," Hua said.

"For tips travelling in London, we will issue some specific travel warnings for people going to very dangeorus places but for london I have no specific tips for Chinese people there," she said.

Asked if the Chinese ambassador will get involved, Hua said, "I have seen report but no specific information on that.

As I said china's policy concerning different races and ethnic groups is very clear...we urge Air China to properly deal with thi issue and carry out a thorough investigation."

Indian-origin abour MP for Ealing Southall Virendra Sharma had tweeted yesterday, "This is offensive and I hope AirChina will remove this magazine and apologise immediately."

Sharma had demanded an apology from Air China for "blatant racism".

In a statement, Sharma had said, "Today I have written in the strongest possible terms to His Excellency Mr Liu Xiaoming, Ambassador Extraordinary & Plenipotentiary of the People's Republic of China, to raise my concerns about reports of racism in their inflight magazine.

Donald Trump. A file Photo PTI New York, Sept 8: Praising Vladimir Putin, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has said the Russian President was "far more" of a leader than US President Barack Obama and asserted that he would have a "very good relationship" with the Kremlin strongman if he comes to power.

"I think I would have a very, very good relationship with Putin. And I think I would have a very, very good relationship with Russia," Trump said at a 'commander in chief' forum on the decommissioned USS Intrepid, now a floating museum, here yesterday.

The forum hosted by NBC brought Trump and his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton together just weeks before they square off at the first presidential debate on September 26.

However Clinton and Trump did not come face to face at the forum as they were grilled back-to-back by the anchor.

Trump asserted that he would have a very good relationship with many foreign leaders, unlike President

Obama, who he said was not accorded a red carpet welcome when he went to China recently.

"I think it's very sad, when you look at Barack Obama, as an example, lands Air Force One in China, and they don't want to put out stairs to get off the plane.

And he has to use the stairs that mechanics use to get up and down to fix the plane. They wouldn't give him stairs," the 70-year-old real estate tycoon said.

"I think it's very sad, when he lands in Saudi Arabia, and he lands in Cuba, and there aren't high officials to even greet him. This is the first time in the history -- the storied history of Air Force One," Trump said.

Trump said while Obama and Putin do not get along, he will have very good relations with the Russian leader. "And I saw, just two or three days ago, they looked like they were not exactly getting along, but I looked at President Obama and Putin staring at each other. These were not two people that were getting along," he said.

"And, you know, the beautiful part of getting along,

Russia wants to defeat ISIS as badly as we do. If we had a relationship with Russia, wouldn't it be wonderful if we could work on it together and knock the hell out of ISIS? Wouldn't that be a wonderful thing," Trump asserted.

Asked if he would like to be complimented by a leader who "annexed Crimea, invaded Ukraine, supports (President Bashar) Assad in Syria, Trump said if Putin "says great things about me, I'm going to say great things about him."

"I've already said, he is really very much of a leader. I mean, you can say, oh, isn't that a terrible thing -- the man has very strong control over a country," he said.

Trump has made no secret of his admiration for Putin, who last year praised the US businessman as "very outstanding." Putin "has very strong control over a country," Trump said.

"It's a very different system, and I don't happen to like the system. But certainly in that system he's been a leader, far more than our president has been a leader."

"We have a divided country. We have a country where you have Hillary Clinton with her e-mails that nobody's ever seen where she deletes 33,000 e-mails, and that's after getting a subpoena from Congress. If you do that in private business, you get thrown in jail," Trump said.

On his plans to defeat ISIS, Trump said the generals under Obama and Clinton have not been successful.

"I think under the leadership of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, the generals have been reduced to rubble.

They have been reduced to a point where it's embarrassing for our country," he said.

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India Blue draw against India Green IANS New Delhi, Sept 8: India Blue paved its way to the final of the Duleep Trophy after the league against India Green ended on a draw at the Shahid Vijay Singh Pathik Sports Complex here on Wednesday.

With almost 1500 runs scored in the match, a draw was always on the cards as the Gautam Gambhir-led India Blue side fixed its date with Yuvraj Singh's India Red for the summit clash from September 10 to 14 at the same venue.

The final promises to be a star-studded affair with India stars -- opener Shikhar Dhawan, middle order bat Rohit Sharma and allrounder Ravindra Jadeja -being included in either side

to get some match practice before the gruelling three-match Test rubber against N e w Zealand starts on September 22.

In the third and f i n a l league match, India Blue produced a dominating batting performance in their first innings amassi n g 707 runs with centuries from opener Mayank Agarwal (161), Cheteshwar

Pujara (166) and Sheldon Jackson (105) while Gambhir (90) narrowly missed out on a century.

In reply, India Green could just manage a paltry 237 in their first innings, to trail by a whopping 470 runs.

But Gambhir did not allow a follow on and instead came out to bat as the India Blue side added another 298 runs in their second essay with notable contributions from man of the match Agarwal (58), Gambhir (59), Dinesh Karthik (57) and Jackson

(79).

Faced with a daunting task of scoring 768 runs, Suresh Raina-led India Green managed well to hang around on the final day, scoring 179/4 with notable contributions from opener Murali Vijay (73) and middle order bat Robin Uthappa (66), before both the captains decided to shake hands, ending the tie in a draw.

The day also witnessed India Green left-arm spinner Pragyan Ojha landing up in a hospital after being hit on the head while fielding during India Blue's innings.

Brief Scores: India Blue 707, 298 (Sheldon Jackson 79, Mayank Agarwal 58, Shreyas Gopal 4/53, Pragyan Ojha 3/90) vs India Green 237, 179/4 (murali Vijay 73, Robin Uthappa 66, Karn Sharma 2/68)

Nishikori stuns Murray in quarters IANS saying.

New York, Sept 8: Sixth- The match lasted three hours seeded Kei Nishikori of Japan and 57 minutes and went for outlasted world No.2 Andy five sets. The fifth and final Murray in the US Open quar- set started with three straight ter-finals, 1-6, 6-4, breaks of serve.

4-6, 6-1, 7-5, on US OPEN Tied at 5-5 with Wednesday.

Murray serving, "I had many up and downs, Nishikori scored another in the beginning I didn't start break and then served out well. It was tough but in the the match in the 12th game. end it was great tennis, so The last time Nishikori very happy," Xinhua news reached the semi-finals was agency quoted Nishikori as 2014, when he finally reached

his first Grand Slam final before losing to Croatian Marin Cilic.

"I definitely have great memories here," Nishikori added. "Two years ago, I made the final for the first time in the Grand Slams.

This is a great opportunity for me, to come in the semifinal here again. This is one of my favourite Grand Slams."

Dipa Karmakar. A file Photo

'Make Dipa Karmakar country's Brand Ambassador' PTI Agartala, Sept 8: Dipa Karmakar, the first Indian woman Olympian in gymnastics who finished fourth in the Rio Games, should be made the brand ambassador of India, former Indian football captain Prasun Banerjee said here on Thursday.

"She is the golden girl of the country who made all

Indians proud with her performance in gymnastics and she should be made the brand ambassador of our country. I would raise the issue in the next session of Parliament," Banerjee told reporters.

However, he did not elaborate on the brand ambassador issue.

Banerjee, also a Trinamool Congress MP, felicitated

her at her home at Abhoynagar here on behalf of the party.

Banerjee, an Arjuna awardee who played for the country in the 1970s and 1980s and also a former captain of Mohun Bagan team, handed over a green and maroon jersey of the club and a wooden relic of Ashokstambha to

Karmakar.

Vice-President of Trinamool Congress, Mukul Roy felicitated the gymnast on behalf of the TMC and gave her a plaque, an 'uttario', two sarees and a gold necklace in presence of Chairman of the Tripura unit of TMC, Ratan Chakraborty and Sudip Roy Burman, former leader of the opposition and an MLA.

Rohit included in Mumbai squad for visiting New Zealanders Advani eases into pre-quarters of HIGHLIGHTS 6 Red World Championship Andy Murray

Championship here today.

Advani maintained a clean slate in the group stage with an all-win record.

Having overcome the toughest challenge from Chinese heavyweight Ding Junhui, the Indian continued his fine form to topple established players of the UK-based snooker circuit.

The Indian defeated Welshman Dominic Dale, England's Robert Milkins, Ryan Thomerson from Australia and local talent Phaitoon Phonbun.

Pankaj Advani. A file Photo PTI Bangkok, Sept 8: Fifteentime world champion Pankaj

Advani stormed into the pre-quarterfinals at the SangSom 6 Red World

On qualifying to the Last 32 knockout stage, Advani whitewashed Germany's Lukas Kleckers 6-0. He now faces Yuan Sijun of China

for a berth in the quarterfinal.

Pankaj no longer participates in the English snooker circuit - his only stint being from 2012 to 2014. The ace Indian cueist chose to return home to represent his country and in a span of two years (2014-15) amassed a record seven world titles.

Out of those, two world titles came in back-to-back IBSF 6 red championships.

When asked how he felt about his performance thus far, he said, "I'm happy with the conditions here and feel I have more in me to do some damage. But in the short version of snooker anything is possible. It is tricky yet exciting."

PTI Mumbai, Sept 8: Rohit Sharma has been included in Ranji Trophy champions Mumbai's 15-member squad for the warm-up game against the visiting New Zealand side at New Delhi from September 16-18.

Another Test player, Ajinkya Rahane, however is not part of the team that will be led by wicket-keeper Aditya Tare, according to MCA's joint secretary and senior selection panel convener, Unmesh Khanvilkar.

Four other key players, batsmen Akhil Herwadkar and Shreyas Iyer along with medium pacers Shardul Thakur and Dhawal Kulkarni are also not in the team as they are with the India A side now touring Australia.

New Zealand, to be captained by Kane Williamson, are set to arrive

Saina Nehwal eyes December comeback PTI Hyderabad, Sept 8: India's leading badminton player Saina Nehwal says she wants to come back into competitive action stronger after recovering from a knee surgery and indicated that her best may be yet to come.

"I want to come back stronger", she said.

"I am confident that in the next two-three years I can do better than what I have done in the last fivesix years. I have to do better," the ace shuttler added.

Saina expects to recover fully by December if things go as planned.

"If everything goes right, I am keen to take part in Dubai World Superseries Finals during that month".

"I want to come back into competitive action only

after I become 100 per cent fit," she said.

Saina, a former world number one, failed to progress to the knock-out stage in Rio Olympics in a shock early exit from the competition and returned to India with unbearable pain in right knee.

She underwent surgery last month at the Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital in Mumbai for broken bone below kneecap. A physio is now working with her as part of rehab process, and a trainer would join later this month.

Saina last month dropped four places to be number nine in the latest world rankings. She would miss the coming Japan, Denmark and France Superseries, and it may impact her ranking ad-

Rohit Sharma has been included in Mumbai's 15member squad for the warm-up game against the visiting New Zealand side Another Test player, Ajinkya Rahane, however is not part of the team that will be led by wicket-keeper Aditya Tare New Zealand are set to arrive in the country later this month to play three Tests and five ODIs between September 22 and October 29

Rohit Sharma. A file Photo in the country later this month to play three Tests and five ODIs between September 22 and October 29.

MUMBAI SQUAD FOR

THE TOUR GAME: Aditya Tare (Captain), Rohit Sharma, Surya Kumar Yadav, Siddhesh Lad, Kaustubh Pawar Jay Bista, Sufiyan Shaikh, Arman

Jaffer, Parikshit Valsangkar, Vishal Dabholkar, Vijay Gohil, Balwinder Singh Sandhu (Jr), Tushar Deshpande, Roystan Dias, Harshal Soni.

Kashyap wins on return; Prannoy also in second round PTI Indonesia , Sept 8: Kashyap of India resumed his journey in international badminton by notching up a comfortable win, while HS Prannoy and Ajay Jayaram also advanced to the second round of Indonesia Grand Prix Gold here on Wednesday.

Saina Nehwal. A file Photo versely.

She agreed that slipping in rankings is a matter of worry, noting she became world number two in

2009 but took seven years to reach the top position.

Saina said she was very keen to do well in Rio but it turned out to be a "di-

saster" following the knee pain.

"May be God wished like this, may be I will become stronger", she said.

Kashyap, whose Rio Olympics dream was derailed by a series of injuries, spanked Nathaniel Ernestan Sulistyo of Indonesia 21-6 21-8 to sail into the second round, while seventh seeded Prannoy rallied to win 16-21 21-19 21-14 over Ha Young Woong of Korea and third seed Jayaram beat local lad Yehezkiel Fritz Mainaky 21-8 21-9.

B Sai Praneeth overcame Riyanto Subagja of Indonesia 21-18 13-21 21-13, but P

Prannoy Kashyap. A file Photo C Thulasi suffered defeat in women's singles to Xiaoyu Liang of Singapore 21-12 2115 at the Dome Stadium.

Tanvi Lad and Ruthvika Shivani Gadde also faced defeat in women's singles.

In other men's singles

matches, Harsheel Dani, Siril Verma, Abhishek Yelegar and Kaushal Dharmamer ended on the losing side.

The men's doubles pair of K Nandagopal and Sanyam Shukla lost their first round match.

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