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Vol. II

Issue 71

ITANAGAR IS THE HIGHEST DATA CONSUMERS IN THE COUNTRY, CM ASSURES SUPPORT TO VODAFONE

Dibrugarh, Saturday, September 24, 2016

PAKISTAN HAS BEEN ISOLATED OVER KASHMIR ISSUE: RAM VILAS PASWAN

Body of missing youth found Jorhat, Sep 23: A HS second year boy from Jorhat College was spotted floating in the Rajmao Pukhuri which is just 100 meter from the Sadar Police Station within the heart of the Jorhat city under Sadar Police Station here today.

The boy identified as Progyanjyoti Sharma who hails from Hem Baruah Path, Kakoty Gaon under Jorhat Police Station.

The boy was missing since Monday evening, said police.

Later police and SDRF personnel in presence of magistrate recovered the body and sent for post mortem to Jorhat College Medical college Hospital, while police investigation is on to find out the reason whether it was suicide or a murder.

According to his friends, there could be a triangular affair for which he had taken up the step to jump into the pond, said sources.

(Correspondent) Uri terror attack's shadow on BJP NC meet Kozhikode : The shadow of Uri terror attack looms large over the BJPNational Council meeting which started today with party leaders asserting that there can be no development without security.

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Army Recruitment rally organised at Jorhat Jorhat: Army recruitment rally will be organised at Pukhuria Army Cantonment in Mariani under Jorhat district for eight Upper Assam districts from 1st October to 6th Oct, 2016.

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AP legal services Authority visits Mental Health Centre Itanagar : The Arunachal Pradesh State Legal Services Authority (APSLSA) comprising of its member secretary Budi Habung, OSD Dani Belo, and project coordinator Rosy Taba, today visited the Mental Health Centre, Midpu to inspect facilities available for the mentally and physically chalP-4 lenged patients.

UNTABA slams Assam MP over his remark Guwahati : United Naga Tribes Association of Border Areas (UNTABA) has slammed BJP’s Lok Sabha MP from Assam, Ram Prasad Sharma, for his remark that the Assam government should reclaim Dimapur, even if it required force.

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Sensex slips 58 pts in early session amid profit-booking Mumbai : The benchmark BSE Sensex fell over 58 points in early trade today as investors engaged in profitbooking in recent gainers amid mixed Asian cues.

The 30-share Sensex declined 58.20 points, or 0.20 per cent, to 28,714.93, with sectoral indices led by banking, IT, auto, power and FMCG leading the fall.

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'Butcher of Kabul' pardoned in Afghan peace deal

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Kabul : The Afghan government has pardoned one of the country's most notorious warlords for past offences including terrorist attacks and alleged war crimes as part of a peace deal with his militant group, Hezb-i-Islami. P-8

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Assembly Speaker restores Sawin and Gabriel as MLAs ET Bureau Itanagar, Sept 23

Political drama revolving around the resignation of two Congress MLAs in Arunachal Pradesh came to an end today with Speaker Tenzing Norbu Thongdok restoring their membership in the sixth Legislative Assembly.

The Supreme Court, while disposing off a review petition filed by Congress MLAs Wanglam Sawin and Gabriel D Wangsu pertaining to their membership in the Arunachal Pradesh Assembly, in its order had on August 24 had stated that parties to the litigation have agreed to the effect that the matter can be remanded to the Speaker so that it can be decided afresh after hearing the concerned parties.

"We are sure that the Speaker shall decide the matter expeditiously, preferably within one month from the date of receipt of a copy of this order," the apex court had said in its order and directed both Sawin and Wangsu to appear before the Speaker on September 19 so that the date of further hearing could be decided.

The Speaker in his order today said, "After

The two MLAs Gabriel Denwang Wangsu and Wanglam Sawin had tendered resignations to the assembly speaker, Nabam Rebia, on September 16, which was accepted by the latter on September 30. The speaker subsequently issued a notification on However, Wangsu and Sawin, in separate letters to October 1 saying the two seats fell vacant and ECI Rebia withdrew their resignations stating that they were would be informed forced into it by the then chief minister Nabam Tuki and that the letters be treated as "invalid, null and void until accordingly. and unless submitted in person". the inquiry conducted by me by hearing the two MLAs on September 19 last and after careful application of mind to the material and law before me, I come to the conclusion that the resignation letters are not voluntary and are not genuine."

"I therefore reject the purported resignation letters of September 16, 2015. Sawin and Wangsu will continue as members of the Assembly from the date of their election as though nothing interrupted their membership in the House and they are entitled to their

salary, allowances, pension and other amenities from the date they were denied these pecuniary and other benefits," Thongdok said.

With the restoration of Sawin and Wangsu as members of the Assembly, the number of Congress candidates rose to three in a House of 60, while PPA has 43 MLAs, BJP (11) and two Independent members.

The Hayuliang seat fell vacant after Kalikho Pul committed suicide on August 9 last.

CM flags off 16 ambulances under IMR; efforts on to make state medical college functional by next year ET Bureau Itanagar, Sept 23

“Health sector and education is always a priority for every government and it should be,” asserted Khandu and added

Indian Army gunned down 6 militants belong to KPLT ET Correspondent Guwahati, Sept 23

Indian security forces gunned down six insurgents of the Karbi People’s Liberation Tigers (KPLT) in Assam’s Karbi Anglong district on Friday. Agencies reported that two of the slain militants were top leaders of the group.

Defence sources said the operation was carried out by the Army in collaboration with the Assam police. The encounter took place in a reserve forest area of Nambar in the early hours of Friday.

The KPLT is an insurgent group that broke away from Karbi National Liberation Front in 2011 after the latter group declared a ceasefire. Its objective is to carve out an autonomous Karbi state out of Assam.

Defence spokesman Col Suneet Newton told media that upon receiving a tip-off about militant movement in the Banipathar area under the Bokajan police station, the a

Dead bodies of the militants. joint team of the Army and the state police launched an operation on Thursday afternoon. Around 1 am on Friday, the troops came upon a camp of the insurgents in the forest. In the engagement that followed, four militants were gunned down. Two others who fled under the cover of darkness were chased down and shot dead.

According to him, the slain militants included a self-styled

Excelling all possible heights of commission of the crime, a horrible rape incident on a running BangaluruDibrugarh City Express on Friday morning in Tinsukia has caused enough sensation among the general people with various unanswered questions gripping common mind centering round security aspects even on a running train.

CM flags off 16 Ambulances. that providing health services in Arunachal is a very challenging task as the population is scattered and habitations are in remote places.

Despite such challenges

faced, he appreciated the efforts made by the previous Chief Ministers for their hard work to provide best health care and to bring quality education to the door step of the people.

“Health and education will

also be my top priority as was of my predecessors who during their tenure had initiated vast amount of development works in these sectors,” said the Chief Minister.

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'operation commander' and an 'area commander' of the insurgent outfit. A large quantity of arms, ammunition and provisions stores were recovered from the site.

Col. Newton said this was one of the most successful operations against militants in the Northeast in recent times.

It leaves the KPLT, the most prominent of the anti-national groups active in Karbi Anglong, decimated, he claimed.

Girl gang-raped in a running train, a rapist from Bordumsa arrested Laxman Sarma Digboi, Sept 23

Chief Minister Pema Khandu today flagged off 16 ambulances from Tomo Riba State Hospital (TRSH) purchased under Infant Mortality (IMR) scheme from the grant received by the State to reduce child mortality rate.

Appreciating the purchase of ambulances for the districts, the Chief Minister acknowledged the role of former health director Dr Tamut Taloh for being the architect for procurement of these vehicles. He hoped that the ambulances will of good service in the districts to provide good health services.

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Prabhat Chetry (22) a resident of Bordumsa Madhapur village was arrested

by GRP Tinsukia here this morning at New Tinsukia Junction after a female rape victim boarding off the same train at Tinsukia platform

Prabhat Chetry (22) a resident of Bordumsa Madhapur village was arrested

by GRP Tinsukia here this morning at New Tinsukia Junction

alleged Chetry of committing the beastly act that how a group of 3 youths on the train had bound her in between Tinsukia and Dibrugarh -Banipur station.

According to sources, the culprits along with his two absconding accomplices were coming from Bangaluru towards their home at Bordumsa in Tinsukia District and travelling with a girl (20) belonging to Philobari reportedly working as maid at Bangaluru became familiar as co-passenger which later proved heavily for the victim.

Reporting the matter to her brother waiting to receive his sister at the TSk Junction, who immediately took help of the GRP Tinsukia who arrested the culprit while two of the accomplices escaped.

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When Bogong market Inquiry ordered into Pengaree Dibrugarh police is in making, Tarani timber case involving 6 arrests Pulin Gogoi landowners’ cries foul police commandoes A Staff Reporter Dibrugarh, Sept 23

A Staff Reporter Pasighat, Sept 23

Expressing deep resentment over donation of lands near AYUSH medical and Sibo Korong (river) for “Giidii Notko” (general festival ground) and Bogong Market (New Market) by Bogong Banggo Kebang, the Rukbo Morang owners (land owned by Rukbo ancestors) has again submitted a letter to Dy. Commissioner, Pasighat recently seeking cancelation of land donation for the purposes.

In the letter, Omak Rukbo, a resident of Mirku Dapi Village representing his other two brothers, namely Ote Rukbo and Obyak Rukbo, both from Boying Village adjacent to Pasighat Township has said that, their ancestral lands are being given away for “Giidii Notko” and “New Market”.by Bogong Banggo Kebang (BBK) without taking proper consent from. Omak Rukbo also said that, the land stretching from Balek-Mirbuk

Chari-ali (near old Borang Sawmil) to College of Horticulture & Forestry, Pasighat to bank of Siang River along Sibo Korong (River) are their parents long owned lands which hasn’t been handed over to district administration yet. “Our fathers have already donated several hundred acres of land for Pasighat Township which comprises almost 65% of the Pasighat’s town today. But we can’t donate any more land for any purposes due to which we have been fighting a legal battle since more than a decade ago. We have also submitted the Court’s direction from Guwahati High Court to DC, Pasighat”, added Omak Rukbo.

Meanwhile, when contacted to Oyem Dai, President, Bogong Banggo Kebang over the opposition of their proposal by Rukbo clans, he termed the claims and objection of Rukbo clans as unjustified and misleading.

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SP Tinsukia denied it to be case of smuggling Laxman Sharma Digboi, Sept 23

Following the sensational issue concerning the involvement of commandos belonging to Assam Police temporarily attached to Philobari Police Station on Thursday afternoon allegedly carrying the anti-environmental activities including the felling of Hollong tress mercilessly and thereby verbal conflict of the erring police personnel on duty and the locals including the media persons and the forest staffs arising thereafter, the SP Tinsukia has ordered an departmental probe into the allegation.

‘The inquiry is being conducted by DSP HQ Tinsukia to ascertain the exact nature of the act and the alleged involvement of the six armed commandos on duty in carrying timber business in the Tarani

Reserve Forest under Khatangpani Reserve Forest’ informed Mugdha Jyoti Mahanta the SP Tinsukia.

Categorically defying the allegations of the people that the said commandos were involved into illegal log trading business, Mahanta told that commandos being new to the place could not handle the agitated mob effectively and might have resulted in commotion in the place and on being permitted by the forest department they had entered the forest as usual to collect fire woods for the police station.

However, assuring of appropriate legal and disciplinary action against the alleged erring commandos based on the report of the inquiry, he outright denied the act as an act of smuggling.

What is more astounding in the present context is the dump

strategy of the forest department that is yet to book the persons or bring them under the preview of investigations to ascertain the exact nature of the act or the crime whatsoever if committed. Ironically, even in spite of catching persons red handed with the loaded Hollong species of timber into the trucks, the forest department indicating their helplessness as yet surprisingly seems waiting for the command of the Forest Minister from Dispur to initiate steps to this effect.

Apart from reporting the matter to higher forest hierarchy, the concerned forest divisional officer is yet to file FIR into the police station or persecute the persons as per existing forest and environmental laws and provisions.

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The main accused of the suicide case Pulin Gogoi was today arrested from Pathalibam Dehingia Village under Moran Police station.

After the suicide of four members of a family, including a toddler, were found dead in a city hotel on Wednesday morning, Pulin Gogoi was absconding from that day.

A police official said that in the letter Prasanta claimed to have collected around Rs 77 lakh from 62 youths, promising them jobs in the police, state health department and Assam secretariat. He claimed to have given the money to one Pulin Gogoi who was supposed to arrange the jobs for the youths but had failed to do so. He was the main culprit behind the scene.

Dibrugarh SP Gautam Bora said that today at 1.30 am he was arrested from an abandoned house where he has

Pulin Gogoi

taken shelter. Bora said that he is a diabetic patient and his sugar level increases and he was immediately admitted at Assam Medical College and Hospital where he is undergoing treatment.

“Special investigating team which is doing the investigation is on their way from Guwahati, Contd. on Page 3

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AJYCP formed a Human Activist of ABKY with students union Chain to protest against burns effigy of Assam Excise Minister soil erosion and flood ET Correspondent Margherita, Sept 23: Activists of Assam Boro Kachari Youth and Students Union of Margherita regional committee today burnt the effigy of Parimal Shuklavaidya, Excise Minister of Assam at NH-38 near bus stand of Margherita Bazaar.

Sidharth Singh Tinsukia, Sept 23: The Asom Jatiyatabadi Yuba Chatra Parishad of Tinsukia formed a human chain at Guijjan Ghat of Dibru river, to protest against the failure to solve the problem of flood and soil erosion by the government here today.

“Flood and soil erosion has been creating havoc in the

areas of Guijan, Rongagora, Dirak-Sumoni, Dhola, Hatighuli by the River Dibru, Brahmaputra and Ananta nulluh and by BuriDihing river in the areas of Makum killa, Long-gaon, Maisung-pani, Rodduba of Margherita Sub division”, said one of the leader of AJYCP. The organisation has also stated that the problems of

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flood and erosion have been threatening to the very existence of the Dibru Saikhowa National Park which is a matter of great concern.

The organization has submitted a memorandum to the Chief Minister through the Deputy Commissioner demanding immediate action for permanent solution of the problems.

The Activists of Assam Boro Kachari Youth and Students Union shouted various slogans against Margherita Administration and Margherita Excise Department for not able to control the rampant illicit liquor sale and other intoxicant products at Margherita Sub Division.

Satyajit Boro, President of Assam Boro Kachari Youth and Students Union of Margherita Regional Committee alleged that Margherita region have become a safe haven for alcohol traders and drugs mafia where Margherita Administration and Margherita Excise Department is in deep sleep.

Satyajit Boro alleged that due to unholy nexus between Margherita Administration, Margherita Excise Department and alcohol traders and drugs mafia, illicit liquor sale and intoxicant products is rampantly sold at Margherita region

where in the coming days the new generation may become paralyzed.

shall intensify more agitational programme in the coming days”, said Satyajit Boro.

“We warned, if Margherita administration and Margherita Excise Department doesn't take any proper steps to control over intoxicant products, than we

A memorandum was given to Margherita SDO (C) with four demands such as to Control illicit liquor sale and intoxicant products at

Unabated pollution from Carbon Factory spark protest in Tinsukia a memorandum few days back to the Deputy Commissioner of Tinsukia districts due to pollution by the factory but the administration has not yet taken any action according to the organisation.

Sidharth Singh Tinsukia, Sept 23: All Tai Ahom Student’s Union of Tinsukia district staged a protest demanding an end to pollution from Digboi Carbon factory of Borguria which is under Tinsukia district yesterday.

The organisation took to streets and staged a sitin on the main road in front of the D.C. office for two hours. They protested against the factory owners and demanded installation of pollution

control devices.

The organisation said

that the people residing nearby the factory have been suffering im-

mensely for the last few years and their health have suffered due to the

Weapon display programme held at Dibrugarh University

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A Staff Reporter Dibrugarh, Sept 23: Under the theme of “Know your Army” initiative & spreading general awareness of Indian armed forces, a weapon display programme was organised at Dibrugarh University on Friday.

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The programme was conducted to generate interest and inspire students to take up career in elite Armed Forces and it was witnessed by 1200 students of the University as well as from other colleges.

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The students were very enthusiastic and showed keen interest in profession of arms, which made the event a success.

They also appreciated the role played by Armed forces in maintaining peace in disturbed areas and difficulties faced while guarding the borders.

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Sagittarius

Capricorn

Aquarius

Pisces

Indian Army conducting weaponry display at Dibrugarh University on Friday.

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Margherita Region, To stop Child labour at Margherita Region, To repair the roads of rural areas of Margherita Region which is in dilapidated condition and to take necessary steps at Margherita Civil Hospital where many anomalies have taken place for many years.

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Manch, Margherita lit candles and prayed for the 17 soldiers.

President and General Secretary of Assam Bihari Nagarik Bikash Manch Margherita along with many dignitaries present at the tribute programme.

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Small tea growers in Assam stage protest, demand undisrupted LPG supply Agencies Jorhat, Sept 23: Over 300 activists of the All Assam Small Tea Growers' Association (AASTGA) on Thursday blocked National Highway 37 at Jorhat for two hours from 11am demanding undisrupted supply of LPG. Hundreds of tea factories in Assam have been suffering from acute LPG shortage, leading to serious losses for the state's tea industries.

"We have demanded that the government take steps to provide LPG to the bought leaf factories in Assam

of the organization Durlov Borah said.

The organization sent a memorandum to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union petroleum minister Dharmendra Pradhan to take steps to ensure adequate LPG supply to tea factories at the earliest.

soon. Due to the shortage of gas supply in the factories, over 1.2 lakh small tea

growers have been incurring huge losses over the past one month," president

BSNL digital connectivity in over 1500 villages in Assam by this fiscal Agencies Guwahati, Sep 23: BSNL Assam is all set to bring 1,535 gaon panchayats (GPs) under Digital Assam by the end of the current fiscal, extending internet connectivity, boosting 'smart' governance and enabling a host of services.

The chief general manager of BSNL, Assam circle, MK Seth said, "Digital Assam is being created by BSNL, Assam Circle, with the help of various stakeholders including the Centre and the state government to provide services - like video, voice, data and internet connectivity - to even the most remote villages in the state."

Under the National Optical Fibre Network (NOFN)

project, 2000 km of optical fibre cable has already been laid against the target of 4800 km.

"We are going to complete this project by the end of this financial year. We are covering 130 blocks. A total of 1,535 gaon panchayats will be covered.

BSNL has already laid the fibre in 628 gaon panchayats," a spokesperson said.

The move will enable 'optimum utilization of human and natural resources, providing a bridge between industries and education', the spokesperson added and appealed to the state government and other departments and agencies to implement the project.

Elaborating on how it will

help the state, the spokesperson said, "It will boost tourism in this part of this country. It will provide direct and indirect employment. The business potential will be improved and will enhance the image of Assam in the whole world.

This will encourage industrialists to invest in this region through the vision of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to 'make Assam through Digital Assam' and 'Digital India'. This will also boost literacy by enabling access to e-education and online education."

The 'smartness' of governance will also receive a shot in the arm with sensors and devices to monitor various parameters, having a real-time impact on activities that are undertaken.

UNTABA slams Assam MP over his remark Agencies Guwahati, Sep 23: United Naga Tribes Association of Border Areas (UNTABA) has slammed BJP’s Lok Sabha MP from Assam, Ram Prasad Sharma, for his remark that the Assam government should reclaim Dimapur, even if it required force.

In a press release, UNTABA chairman Hukavi T. Yeputhomi and general secretary Imsumongba Pongen termed as “very unfortunate” the MP’s “outlandish comments” on the issue, which “the history are well defined.”

The association stated that inasmuch as the traditional,

ancestral and historical boundary between Assam and Nagaland was concerned, there was no dispute. UNTABA said the boundary was “clearly demarcated by the Kings themselves and maintain as such throughout the centuries”, adding it cannot be challenged by any individual or any group of people.

They said the comment was “not only an embarrassment” for the Central government and Assam government but also “inviting contempt of Court” since the issue was under active litigation process and was sub judice.

UNTABA said no individuals from both the states should involve in “uttering such unsubstantiated and cheap political rhetoric.”

UNTABA also stated that in the ongoing Indo-Naga political talk, the Naga people were “expectantly awaiting” the sincerity of commitment on the part of the Government of India to fulfil its past commitments.

UNTABA said it appreciated the unflinching efforts of the collective leadership of NSCN (I-M) in trying to bring about the “amalgamation of the Naga people and its lands” as their ‘legitimate right’ in the subsequent political settlement.

Life in Jorhat was disrupted due to the protest. Hundreds of buses to and from the upper Assam districts of Tinsukia, Dibrugarh and Sivasagar were stranded on the highway due to the blockade. Trucks and other private and public vehicles

were also stranded, affecting traffic in Jorhat.

"The tea industry is graded very low on the list of priorities when it comes to gas supply. It is rated eigth in the list of priority of gas supply to industries in Assam," Nasir Ahmed, secretary of the organization, said.

Over 1.2 lakh small tea farmers produce 60 crore kg green tea on 5.2 lakh bighas of land in Assam every year.

They give an annual business of Rs 1,541 crore to the state's economy and contribute to 33% of the total national tea production.

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Formal discussion between state govt. and AASU held at Guwahati A Staff Reporter Guwahati, Sep 23: An informal discussion was held in between state government and the representatives of All Assam Student’s Union regarding the implementation of the various clauses of Assam Accord.

The meeting thoroughly discussed the time bound implementation of Assam Accord and settlement of foreigners issue on basis of the Assam Accord.

The meeting was attended by VK

Assam government reshuffles four superintendents of police Agencies Guwahati, Sep 23: The state home department on Thursday reshuffled superintendents of police (SPs) of four districts, including the troubled Kokrajhar district.

According to the official notification, deputy commis-

sioner of police (operations) in Guwahati police commissionerate, Rajen Singh, has been transferred as SP, Kokrajhar district in place of Shyamal Prasad Saikia, who has been transferred as SP, Bureau of Investigation of Economic Offences (BIEO).

Former SP (BIEO) Prasanta Sager Changmai has been transferred as SP, Sadiya, in place of NV Chandrakam, who will now function as SP, Majuli, the state's youngest district and chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal's constituency.

Rights Commission serves notice to Assam govt. on Kaziranga killing Agencies Guwahati, Sep 23: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has issued a notice to Assam government taking suo motu cognizance of a media report that two persons lost life eviction drive conducted by the state authorities near Kaziranga National Park (KNP) in Assam.

Two persons -Anjuma Khatun and Fakhruddin -lost their lives when a near stampede situation after the police force resorted to fire tear gas shells to disperse the people protesting against the eviction drive at Banderdubi and Deochurchang villages following a Guwahati High Court order on September 19.

The notice was sent through Assam’s chief secretary and Director General of Police and asked to submit a detailed report in four weeks.

“They (state authorities) have also been directed to ensure that the rights of the people relating to their life, dignity and equality are not violated during the process of their eviction,” said a statement of NHRC. The commission has observed that it seems that the district administration and the police authorities have not acted in a sensible manner. “Due to their negligence, two persons have lost their lives. This amounts to violation of Right to Life of

the poor residents,” it said.

Besides, the opposition, students’ organizations and others have condemned the act of the government to kill the villagers in the name of eviction.

All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) slammed the eviction drive at the two villages near the national park.

Condemning the act of government, AIUDF general secretary Abdur Rahim Khan said that the process could have been done in a peaceful and democratic way.

“We condemn this barbarous act of the state government to kill innocent people who were seeking for their compensation before getting evicted. They must be provided the due compensation as per the order but the administration did not do that,” Khan said.

According to the AIUDF leaders the people of the two villages have all the valid land documents of 1960s and their names in voters’ lists in 1960s.

“These are the revenue villages and the Kaziranga National Park authorities never demanded for these villages for their expansion,” Khan added.

Khan said that the court was provided wrong information

by Mrinal Saikia, now an MLA, who filed a PIL in 2015 to take action against rhino poaching.

“We have nothing to say

against the verdict and we honour it. The high court has never said that these people shall not be compensated. Besides, Mrinal Saikia has provided wrong information to the High court. There was no hearing on that information from the victims. That means the order is ex partied,” said Rahim.

He said that an appeal has been submitted to the court but hearing is yet to be conducted.

AIUDF general secretary Aminul Islam said that the BJP led government is trying to spread communal hatred by launching an attack on Muslims.

Agencies Guwahati, Sept 23: The Guwahati Kabarsthan Committee (GKC) of the city's Athgaon area has appealed to Kamrup (Metro) deputy commissioner M Angamuthu to conduct an inquiry into the huge financial irregularities that crept in when the previous committee was in charge of administration.

Around Rs 80 lakh to Rs 1 crore of public money is unaccounted for by the previous committee, GKC adviser Nekib Iman Saikia said.

Deep was among one the finalist of ‘Let’s Design Season 5’, a reality show for fashion designers by Fashion Design Council of India. In addition to that, he is the founder of Eco Fab Textile, a venture of handloom products. Moving to Papli Gogoi, she is one of the youngest ambitious entrepreneur of the region.

She has designed costumes for many Assamese films of the region as well.

“By this event, we are

The Guwahati Kabarsthan comprises two graveyards Athgaon and Chabipool.

Athgaon covers more than 75 bighas and Chabipool covers over 20 bigha. The graveyard is one of the oldest in the city and has 106 business establishments on it land, according to official records till 2003. These business establishments were set up illegally by the previous committee, Saikia said. "There have been massive financial anomalies over the past

Chandrakam has replaced Amrit Bhuyan, who has been posted as SP, South Salmara, in place of Hare Krishna Nath, who will now function as deputy commissioner of police (operations) in the Guwahati police commissionerate.

A Staff Reporter Guwahati, Sept 23: The District Irrigation Plan (DIP) for Hailakandi under Prime Minister’s Krishi Sinchai Yojana (PMKSY) has been approved with an outlay of Rs 663.592 crore.

The outlay was fixed at a meeting of the District Level Implementation Committee of PMKSY chaired by Deputy Commissioner, Hailakandi, Moloy Bora here today.

Following detailed discussions, Bora asked the

Activists of Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti (KMSS), an influential peasants’ body have also joined the villagers in the protest and vowed to launch an even larger agitation in this regard.

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Reacting to the incident, the KMSS demanded for a CBI inquiry on the development.

“Both the people shot from a close range in front of the present people there. We demand at least Rs 20 lakh for the families of the deceased,” KMSS said in a statement

several years in the Kabarsthan. This is public property. All financial dealings have to be transparent," Saikia told the media here on Thursday.

"Normally, at least Rs 2 lakh is collected as rent from such commercial set-ups but the previous committee did not maintain proper accounts. We suspect the amount could go up to Rs 1 crore," he added. A committee has a three-year term in office. The irregularities go back to 2011 and a new committee was formed in 2013.

ET Correspondent Jorhat, Sept 23: Army recruitment rally will be organised at Pukhuria Army Cantonment in Mariani under Jorhat district for eight Upper Assam districts from 1st October to 6th Oct, 2016.

The day wise schedule for Mariani Rally will start from Oct 1st 2016 for the candidates of Sivasagar and Dhemaji district while Oct 2nd for the candidates of Karbi Anglong and Golaghat district, Oct 3rd for Lakhimpur district, Oct 4th for candidates of Tinsukia district, Oct 5th for Dibrugarh district and on last day Oct 6th is only meant for Jorhat district candidates.

The candidates may also log on to www.joinindianarmy.nic.in and as to carry all their testimonials, PRC along with all other official documents, which has to be submitted before the rally.

Candidates from Tinusukia, Dibrugarh, Karbi Anglong may take train route which is nearest to the Army cantonment from Mariani Railway Junction.

District Irrigation Plan (DIP) gets approval with outlay of 66.592 crore

“Even the minutes of the high power committee set up by the Gauhati High Court, say that land document holders and lawful residents of Banderdubi and Deochurchang revenue villages cannot be evicted,” Islam said.

Assam: Guwahati to host event Guwahati Kabarsthan committee alleges financial irregularities for aspiring fashion designers Agencies Guwahati, Sep 23: D&P to host ‘Preview’, a fashion show where some of the young talented aspiring designers will showcase their Off- The – Rack (Ready to Wear) collection on 24th September at Hotel Shoolin Grand, Guwahati. No doubt, Deepjyoti Baishya and Papli Gogoi are well known for their splendid contribution towards the fashion industry of India.

Pipersenia, Chief Secretary, Mukesh Sahay, DGP, Hrishikesh Goswami, Media Adviser to CM, P.K. Tiwari, Principal Secretary, Assam Accord Implementation, Sanjay Lohia, Commissioner and Secretary to CM, L.S. Changsan, Commissioner and Secretary Home, Political etc. and Samujjal Bhattacharjee Adviser AASU, Dipanka Nath, President AASU, Lurinjyoti Gogoi, Secretary AASU among others.

Army Recruitment rally organised at Jorhat

members of the committee to make some modifications regarding year wise outlay of the scheme. The DIP was finally approved by the committee after necessary modifications.

The meeting was attended, among others, by District Agricultural Officer cum Member Secretary, DLIC, PMKSY, Hailakandi, L. Hmar.

It may be mentioned here that the Department of Agriculture engaged NABCONS, a consultancy firm, for the purpose.

Dibrugarh police arrests Pulin Gogoi we will hand over Pulin Gogoi to them as soon as they reach in Dibrugarh,’’ Dibrugarh SP said.

“The bodies of Prasanta Kumar (32), a small-time businessman from Burha village in Sipajhar area of Darrang district in central Assam, his wife Pompi Kalita (26), their one-year-old daughter Meghna and

Pompi's sister Anamika Kalita (21), were found lying on a bed, their mouth covered with froth, in room number 102 on the ground floor of Hotel La Sun City at the Dispur end of Ganeshguri flyover on Wednesday morning”, said police.

On yesterday the case was handed over to Special Investigating Team of Guwahati for further investigation.

Inquiry ordered into Pengaree Tarani timber case involving 6 police commandoes Contd. from Page 1

On the other hand various organizations including, AATASU, Chutiya and Moran student bodies have been demanding of the seemingly indifferent forest department to immediately initiate steps for the sake of protecting and conserving the already depleted flora kingdom in and around the Tarani Reserve Forest.

It needs to be mentioned here that the local people of two forest ranges Pengaree and Doomdooma of the said Division have reported concerning several other irregularities and anomalies which the Eastern Today would carry forward to bring the serious attention and involvement of the Forest Minister for reformation and necessary rectification to this effect, if deem fit.

Girl gang-raped in a running train, a rapist from Bordumsa arrested Contd. from Page 1

trying to create a bridge between the designers and the people who are associated with the fashion industry. We are providing the designers a multi – brand designer boutique and moreover, two renowned e- com-

merce companies are been placed to trade their collections online and offline. Soon we are also going start a website where every upcoming designer’s work will be highlighted” Deepjyoti added.

Admitting the commission of the crime on the running train before the media persons, Mr Chetry told that he was coming home from Bangaluru and the act was committed by him intentionally.

However, sources informed that Mr Chertry and his fellow accomplices were also working at different private establishments at Bangaluru and the girl was also engaged in a similar job and they were returning home on Durga Puja leave.

What struck the common people and other passengers on the said train were the security lapses on the train. ‘Crime like rape was committed on a running train which is hard to believe ‘lamented a passenger who did not feel secured travelling on train in a present scenario

where the railway authority claims of improved system with strong security mechanism while such anti-social elements finds it easy to commit various social crimes like rape, theft, smuggling and suicide and murder too.

Meanwhile, talking to the Eastern Today, the Inspector GRP Tinsukia told that based on FIR a case has been registered at 23/2016 and the culprits was prosecuted u/s 376 IPC. Interrogation and investigation was being carried out till the filling of this report.

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BRO restores Joram - Koloriang road Itanagar is the highest data in record time following cloud brust consumers in the Country, CM A Staff Reporter KOLORIANG, 23 SEP :After a cloud burst that occurred on September 19 last between 3 to 6 AM caused heavy damages on the Joram-Koloriang road, the Border Roads Organisation (BRO) was put into action to, and managed to restore the road in a record time of three days.

caused. The chief minister too got involved sounding an alarm signal to HQ DGBR, New Delhi Comprehending the gravity of the situation, BRO personnel worked relentlessly through rough weather for three days and restored the road communication.

The road was thrown open to two wheelers traffic after two days, and four wheelers at the end of the third day.

The Joram – Koloriang between Kms 70 to 85, is the main lifeline for people of Lower Subansiri, Kra Dadi and Kurung Kumey districts, and had incurred a total of 24 major slides, 35 to 40 minor slides, washing away of three culverts and one 70-feet Bailey Bridge.

Traffic movement from both sides of the stretch of road came to a total stand still, causing inconvenience to the civilian population, and ITBP personnel.

The BRO immediately de-

Local political leaders, as well as the district administration expressed their contentment with the speedy restoration works carried out by BRO.

ployed two JCBs, one pay loader, 20 GREF personnel, and 90 labourers from 85 RCC ex 756 Task Force on both ends of the affected

stretch of road for restoration works.

According to reports, the District Administration of

Kurung Kumey and Kra Dadi districts, including local political leaders were in a state of disarray by the magnitude of damage

The BRO informed that complete restoration works are currently underway, and are estimated to be completed in all respects within the next one month.

CM directs Secretary of State AP legal services AuCivil Aviation to intervene to thority visits Mental Health Centre make ALGs functional soon ET Bureau Itanagar, Sept : The Arunachal Pradesh State Legal Services Authority (APSLSA) comprising of its member secretary Budi Habung, OSD Dani Belo, and project coordinator Rosy Taba, today visited the Mental Health Centre, Midpu to inspect facilities available for the mentally and physically challenged patients.

ET Bureau Itanagar, Sept 23 : Underscoring the importance of all Advanced Landing Grounds (ALGs) in the state to be made fully functional, Chief Minister Pema Khandu today directed the state Civil Aviation Secretary to personally intervene and coordinate with the Indian Air Force authorities to sort out all pending issues.

He sought a detailed report from the Secretary by October 30 next.

Speaking in a meeting with the IAF Chief of Eastern Air Command, Air Marshal C Hari Kumar here this morning, Khandu categorically said discussions should be result-oriented and not just a beginning for another round of discussion.

“We have had several meetings with the Indian Air Force (IAF) authorities regarding the ALGs in the past but few issues are still unresolved. We need to move ahead with concrete decisions so that all the ALGs are made functional for regular use as soon as possible,” he said.

Seven ALGs in Arunachal Pradesh were handed over to the IAF for making them functional. Of these five have been completed, which are at Ziro, Aalo, Pasighat, Mechuka and Walong. The other two – one at Tuting is scheduled to be completed by December this year and the other at Tawang by April 2017.

However, certain issues like encroachment and constructions around few of these ALGs remain a security concern that have to be resolved before fully operationalizing them.

The Chief Minister admitted these concerns raised by IAF that cannot be compromised and called upon all stakeholders, particularly the civil aviation department and local administrations to create awareness amongst the people and convince them to abide by the pre-conditions that would come with the much needed air-connectivity.

He sought special attention of the state government officials on the two ALGs – Ziro and Aalo – that have major issues of air safety and air-space, specifically for use of fixed-wing aircrafts, as raised by IAF due to presence of civilian population in the vicinity of landing strips.

Chief Secretary Shakuntala D Gamlin observed that confidence of the local populace, who have emotional and historical attachments with their habitations, has to be won and an amicable solution evolved in consensus with them.

To one of the major queries raised by the state government on use of the ALGs for civilian purposes, Air Marshal Kumar informed that the IAF has absolutely no

objection to it. In fact, he said, IAF will be more than happy to see civilian aircrafts land on these ALGs. “We make it clear that we have no objection to a civilian terminus in these ALGs. It is upon the state government, the Airport Authority of India (AAI) and the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) to decide how to go about it. Establishment and operationalization of civilian terminus and passenger/ commercial flights is at their sole discretion,” the Air Marshal informed.

cisions related to their health and provide support they needed by accessing their problems.

The team, along with N A Namchoom Ete, Psychiatrist and Dr Jatang Katang visited the wards and interacted with eight indoor patients, including UTPs. During the inspection it was found that some of the patients were reportedly left uncared by their relatives

Meanwhile, participating in the discussion Pasighat MLA KalingMoyong requested the IAF to keep at least 50% reservation for employment of local youths for manning these ALGs. To which Air Vice Marshal M Singh responded that IAF is open to employ local youths as much as possible. He said recruitment rallies are being conducted specifically for locals of Arunachal Pradesh.

“We are more than willing to have as many youths of Arunachal Pradesh as possible in the IAF,” the Air Vice Marshal added.

Parliamentary Secretary and local MLA of Mechuka, Pasang D Sona, IAF Group Captain S Arunachalam, Col N Mukerjee and top state government officials also attended the discussion.

On the occasion, the Commander of Aalo Military Station, West Siang SP Riba, Ado and Angu recalled the bravery of the great martyr from the tiny hamlet of Karo village un-

Stressing on mobilizing RBSK health team and district community mobilisers, he asked to sustain the counseling programme and keep motivating the consultant doctors and target groups to improve the performance.

educator programe performance has been received positively in the districts. However, she emphasized on the need to prioritize the counseling programme and establishment of adolescent-friendly clinics as adequate manpower and capacity building training was imparted in this regard already.

Nodal officer (MCH) Tana Natung also gave a power point presentation on RKSK.

Earlier, Nodal officer Amping Perme gave a power-point presentation on status report of RKSK, and informed that peer

Others members present in the review meeting included Director Family welfare M Lego, DMOs, and DRCHOs.

and for which it was decided that the state authority shall make an effort to locate their relatives for their early rehabilitation and adaptation in their parental homes.

Further, the state authority in view of the provisions under NALSA (NALSA Mentally ill and Mentally Disabled Persons) Scheme 2015, shall provide legal services clinics at the said mental hospital by placing a legal aid counsel and PLV to provide legal assistance to mentally ill and disabled persons and their families to address legal issues arising in view of such illness.

Later, the team also donated edible items and clothing to the inmates.

People of AALO commemorate the death anniversary of a Kirti Chakra Awardee Aalo, Sept 23 : The people of Aalo came together to commemorate the eight death anniversary of Amarveer N K Tape Yajo, Kirti Chakra awardee, in a befitting function held at Aalo Military Station on September 22 last.

The Amarveer Tape Yajo Dwar was inaugurated by his mother Yappen Yajo amid applause in the presence of family members, Superintendent of Police Mari Riba, former minister Doi Ado, Neru Memorial School Principal Goken Angu, host of public, BRTF, ITBP and military officers of Aalo Military Station.

State level review meeting of RKSK held in Naharlagun A Staff Reporter Naharlagun, Sept : A state level review meeting of Rasthriya Kishor Swastiya Karyakaram (RKSK) was conducted at the training hall of Naharlagun National Health Mission office on Friday.

Chairing the review meeting, Mission Director P N Thungon urged all district DMOs, and DRCHOs to be proactive in implementing the RKSK programe. He called on them to enable all adolescent of Arunachal Pradesh to realize their full potential by making informed and responsible de-

assures support to Vodafone

der Monigong Circle in West Siang district.

They said that such honour to the great soul would go a long way in bringing more such brave soldiers for Aalo and the nation in the years to come.

Public leader Kido Ingo spelt out the life and achievements of Kirti Chakra awardee Yajo.

Later, all the dignitaries strolled through the Dwar to Amarveer N K Tape Yajo Road, to visit his Bogdo residence, playing patriotic songs. The march congregated with a wreath laying ceremony.

On the occasion, school children also presented patriotic songs to befit the occasion and two minutes silence was observed on the day as mark of respect to the Indian army personnel who lost their lives in Uri incident. (DIPRO)

When Bogong market is in making, landowners’ cries foul Contd. from Page 1 “Yes, I agree, it was their land long ago, but it has been donated to BBK for onward donation for any development.

That’s why we had consulted the matter with the Rukbo clan during the initiation of the proposal. Ote Rukbo, senior member of the clan had also agreed and has put his signature for the proposal during our meeting (kebang)”, added Dai while clarifying the air. But in a separate letter addressed to President, BBK, made available to media, Rukbo clan have said that, the signature of Ote Rukbo was

just a meeting attendance signature, not a sale/gift deed agreement signature. Rukbo clan have also clarified the President, BBK in the letter that, they are not donating any portion of said land to BBK for onward donation.

Now it is to be seen what step BBK takes to convince the Rukbo Clan to get their proposal passed smoothly. At the time when New Market/ Bogong Market is almost in the making by the acceptance of the proposal by state’s Chief Minister, the opposition from the landowners are a big stumbling block to BBK and the new proposal for Pasighat Township.

Itanagar, Sept 23: Chief Minister Pema Khandu has assured Vodafone India, one of India's leading telecommunications service providers to support for expansion of their mobile and internet service across the state.

This assurance came when Business head of Vodafone called on the Chief Minister, accompanied by its HR head Arif Khand and CS Head Writuparna.

The Chief Minister was informed about Itanagar being the highest data consumers in the country surpassing even Mumbai.

In view of the growing data consumers, it was felt that the government would consider providing infrastructural support to the private telecom companies to meet the demands of the internet users.

Also to the Vodafone’s plan for expansion towards the remote places, the state government considered to provide means for power supply to the mobile towers for its operation.

Expressing the desire to digitized all government operations, CM Khandu requested the Vodafone to prepare mobile apps to be used for various services such as electricity bill payment.

Weeklong programme of Rashtriya Bhasha Vikas Samiti concludes today Ziro, Sept 23 : The weeklong programme of Rashtriya Bhasha Vikas Samiti, Ziro to encourage and develop the Hindi language culminated today with a Baal Kavi Sammelan and a colourful cultural program at Abotani Hall today.

Attending the programme, DMO Dr Tage Kemo encouraged the youths to learn and speak correct Hindi.

Stating that language binds us together DMO Dr Tage Kano, who is also the chairman of Apatani Language Development Committee said that India with its diverse culture and tradition needs a common language that gives us an identity, and Hindi gives us that identity.

“We need to learn Hindi not just to pass examinations

but also as a medium to be rooted to our rich culture and tradition and provide a uniform identity”, he added.

as essay writing and logo competitions were held during the week, the prizes for which were awarded today.

Also speaking on the occasion, DFCSO Tarh Takia who is also chairman of the samiti felt the need to encourage such celebrations across the state.

Among others, the programme was also attended by Rashtriya Bhasha Vikas Samiti Secretary Tage Opo, senior Hindi teachers from across the district and students.

(DIPRO)

Various literary events such

CM flags off 16 ambulances under IMR; efforts on to make state medical college functional by next year Contd. from Page 1 Acknowledging health as a very important subject that require full attention, CM Khandu said that the concerned Minister and Parliamentary Secretary holding health department has been limited to hold single department only. “I have requested them (Health Minister and Parliamentary Secretary for Health) not to ask for additional department, as health is a big subject and is a messed up department,” he said.

To revamp health sector, the Chief Minister requested Chief Secretary Shakuntala Gamlin to put best effort to make the department well organized and systematic. “For many years, the department has seen no departmental promotion committee (DPC) meetings.

There are shortages of doctors and staffs in various CHCs and PHCs across the state,” he lamented.

Speaking on TRSH, the Chief Minister lauded the contribution of Chief Secretary in conceptualizing the TRSH hospital and also appreciated the contribution made by late Jarbom Gamlin, former Chief Minister. Expressing his full confidence on her, the CM requested the health officials to work under the guidance and vision of Chief Secretary acknowledging her past commitment towards health

sector.

Also the Chief Minister announced to make all district hospital equipped with trauma centre, however, admitting that availability of qualified doctors was a big challenge. To meet such shortages, he stated that the early start of state’s first medical college was highly essential.

He informed that state government is putting best effort to make the medical college functional by next session of 2017-18. The bottleneck is the completion of new assembly building at Itanagar, which after its completion can the old assembly building be handed over for new medical college, said the Chief Minister.

“I have assurance from Speaker and Deputy Speaker that they are personally monitoring the works of the new assembly building. Also I have asked the Chief Engineer PWD to expedite the construction work and to submit report by December 2016,” informed Khandu and added that there will be periodical review of the work.

To fast track land acquisition for medical college, the Chief Minister informed that several meetings has taken place with the land management department to settle all land acquisition process for Arun Medicity in Pachin colony. Also the construction works for colony roads and other infrastructures

will be fast tracked, he assured.

The Chief Minister hoped that the works for medical college will see no hindrance with assured support of Prime Minister who has accorded health as a priority sector and has assured his full support for development of Arunachal.

Earlier speaking on the occasion, Health Minister Jomde Kena also assured full support of the state government in early start of the Tomo Riba Institute of Health & Medical Sciences (medical college).

Chief Medical Superintendent of TRSH, Dr Moji Jini briefed about the ongoing construction work of the 300-bedded state hospital and on the works for medical college.

The Chief Minister in his visit to the state hospital inspected the newly constructed OPD section, female ward, waiting room, nursing room, private ward, operation theatre, digital radiography simulator room, day care chemotherapy room and other installations. He also visited the newly constructed Tertiary Cancer Centre.

During the visit, the Chief Minister was also accompanied by Deputy Speaker Alo Libang, Parliamentary Secretary for Health Phurpa Tsering, Parliamentary Secretary for UD Techi Kaso and various other health officials.

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BUSINESS

Sensex slips 58 pts in early session amid profit-booking Mumbai, Sept 23: The benchmark BSE Sensex fell over 58 points in early trade today as investors engaged in profit-booking in recent gainers amid mixed Asian cues.

The 30-share Sensex declined 58.20 points, or 0.20 per cent, to 28,714.93, with sectoral indices led by banking, IT, auto, power and FMCG leading the fall.

The index had rallied 265.71 points in the previous session, tracking upbeat global cues after the US Federal Reserve left rates unchanged on Wednesday.

Also, the NSE Nifty was trading lower by 14.70 points, or 0.17 per cent, at 8,852.75.

Equity brokers said that apart from profit-booking in recent gainers, a mixed trend in other Asian markets as investors turned cautious after two days of gains, were

On its website on Thursday, Yahoo encouraged users to change their passwords but did not require it.

Although the attack happened in 2014, Yahoo only discovered the incursion after August reports of a separate breach. While that report turned out to be false, Yahoo's investigation turned up the 2014 theft, according to a person familiar with the mat-

Pic for Representation. mainly responsible for losses on the domestic bourses here.

Shares of Axis Bank, Tata Motors, Bharti Airtel, ICICI Bank, Infosys, SBI, GAIL, Hero MotoCorp, Lupin and Tata Steel succumbed to profit-booking, which dragged the indices down.

Shanghai Composite was quoting 0.15 per cent lower while Hong Kong's Hang Seng was up 0.32 per cent in their opening sessions.

Japan's Nikkei fell 0.12 per cent.

The US Dow Jones Industrial Average ended 0.54 per cent higher in yesterday's trade. (PTI)

ter.

Analyst Robert Peck of SunTrust Robinson Humphrey said the breach probably was not enough to prompt Verizon to abandon its deal with Yahoo, but it could call for a price decrease of $100 million to $200 million, depending on how many users leave Yahoo.

Steven Caponi, an attorney at K&L Gates with a practice including merger litigation, said that Yahoo's breach could fall under the "material adverse change" clause common in mergers allowing a buyer to walk away if its target's value deteriorates.

"That would give Verizon the opportunity to renegotiate the terms or potentially walk away from the transaction if it is a material change. Whether it is a material change will depend in large part on what kind of information was compromised," Caponi said.

Still, it is rare for mergers to fall apart over material changes. Verizon said in a statement it was made aware of the breach within the last two days and had limited information about the matter.

"We will evaluate as the investigation continues through the lens of overall Verizon interests," the company said.

Shares of Yahoo stock closed a penny higher at USD 44.15, while shares of Verizon, were up about 1 percent.

RISING ATTACKS The Yahoo breach follows a rising number of other large-scale data attacks and could make it a watershed event that prompts government and businesses to put more effort into bolstering defenses, said Dan Kaminsky, a wellknown internet security expert.

Retailers and health insurers have been especially

hard hit after high-profile breaches at Home Depot Inc, Target Corp, Anthem Inc and Premera Blue Cross.

"Five hundred of the Fortune 500 have been hacked," he said. "If anything has changed, it's that these attacks are getting publicly disclosed."

Three U.S. intelligence officials, who declined to be identified by name, said they believed the attack was state-sponsored because of its resemblance to previous hacks traced to Russian intelligence agencies or hackers acting at their direction.

Yahoo said it was working with law enforcement on the matter, and the FBI said it was investigating.

"The investigation has found no evidence that the state-sponsored actor is currently in Yahoo's network," the company said.

While the breach comprised mostly low-value information, it did include security questions and answers created by users themselves. That data could make users vulnerable if they use the same answers on other sites.

A former Yahoo employee said the Q&A were deliberately left unencrypted, which allowed Yahoo to catch fake accounts more easily because fake accounts tended to reuse questions and answers.

News of the massive breach at one of the nation's largest email providers may fan concern that U.S. companies and government agencies are not doing enough to improve cyber security.

Democratic Senator Mark Warner said in a statement he was "most troubled by news that this breach occurred in 2014, and yet the public is only learning details of it today."

Technology website Recode first reported Tuesday that Yahoo planned to disclose details about a data breach affecting hundreds of millions of users. (PTI)

Apple acquires third machine learning company in two years New Delhi, Sept 23: Apple has acquired a new machinelearning company, Tuplejump, based in India/US. According to a report by TechCrunch, this is the third machine-learning company Apple has acquired within a window of two years.

Though there hasn't been any official confirmation by the Cupertino giant, their response to the queries regarding the acquisition gives a clear indication that the deal has happened.

The company responded to the questions saying, "Apple buys smaller technology companies from time to time, and we generally do not discuss our purpose or plans."

Though Tuplejump's website has been taken down after the acquisition, a Wayback Machine capture reveals this was the companies introduction: "A few years ago people

SC cancels Subrata Roy's bail, orders that he be sent jail The Supreme Court today cancelled all interim relief including bail granted to Sahara chief Subrata Roy and two others and directed them to be taken into custody.

Yahoo's 500 million account hack may be world's biggest data breach Washington, Sept 23:Yahoo Inc said that at least 500 million of its accounts were hacked in 2014 by what it believed was a state-sponsored actor, a theft that appeared to be the world's biggest known cyber breach by far.

Cyber thieves may have stolen names, email addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth and encrypted passwords, the company said. But unprotected passwords, payment card data and bank account information did not appear to have been compromised, signaling that some of the most valuable user data was not taken.

The attack on Yahoo was unprecedented in size, more than triple other large attacks on sites such as eBay Inc, and it comes to light at a difficult time for Yahoo.

Chief Executive Officer Marissa Mayer is under pressure to shore up the flagging fortunes of the site founded in 1994, and the company in July agreed to a USD 4.83 billion cash sale of its internet business to Verizon Communications Inc. "This is the biggest data breach ever," said wellknown cryptologist Bruce Schneier, adding that the impact on Yahoo and its users remained unclear because many questions remain, including the identity of the state-sponsored hackers behind it.

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realised that the volume of data that businesses generate was becoming unwieldy. A new set of technologies to handle this huge amounts of data cropped up. We were one of the early adopters of these 'big-data' technologies. Having helped Fortune 500 companies adopt these technologies we quickly realised how complicated they were and how much simpler they could get.

to analyse new, heavy and complex data on the internet.

It seems machine-learning is the next big thing in the tech industry and Apple is gearing up for something big. The company's current bid at artificial intelligence, Siri, hasn't been very successful with consumers and on the other hand, Google is busy introducing new AI features and apps for its consumer base.

Thus started our quest to simplify data management technologies and make them extremely simple to use. We are building technology that is simple to use, scalable and will allow people to ask difficult questions on huge datasets."

The reason a company like Tuplejump was able to gain Apple's attention was because of one of its open-source project, FiloDB. This project aims at using machine learning

Allo, Google's new instant messaging platform comes with a built-in assistant which claims to get better with every user-interaction. This new assistant uses machine-learning to provide better contextual-information to the user. Though in its nascent stage, the feature is so impactful that the messaging platform can become a major threat to giants like WhatsApp and Messenger.

(PTI)

New Delhi, Sept 23: A bench headed by Chief Justice T S Thakur got infuriated when senior advocate Rajeev Dhavan, appearing for Sahara, said they have not been involved in the process of selling of properties by Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI).

"If you want to be heard, you go to jail. Don't tell us what to do. All interim arrangements stand cancelled. Condemners are directed to be taken into custody," the bench, also comprising Justices A R Dave and A K Sikri, said.

Dhavan said it was not a fair statement that they should be sent back to jail. "We have deposited Rs 352 crore already as per the last direction which is Rs 52 crore more. It is not a fair statement," he said.

Counsel appearing for SEBI said that 58 properties were

put on auction and they had sold eight of them raising Rs 137 crore. He also said that five of the properties were provisionally attached.

The SEBI counsel said the list of properties given by Sahara to them were those which were already attached.

To this, the bench told the Sahara counsel "You gave a list of properties which are already attached and you are not cooperating. It's better you if you go to jail." The bench asked Sahara chief to deposit Rs 300 crore to be allowed to remain on bail.

Dhavan then suggested that the matter be posted for hearing on September 30 when they would argue on it.

Soon after the bench passed the order directing that Roy and the others -- Sahara directors Ashok Roy Choudhary and Ravi

L&T Tech stock makes a decent debut to gain 8% against issue price New Delhi, Sept 23: Stock of L&T Technology Services on Friday made a decent debut on the bourses and gained 7 per cent on the NSE against its issue price of Rs 860.

The stock was listed at Rs 900, up 4.65 per cent on the BSE, and surged as much as 8.25 per cent to Rs 931.00.

On NSE, the scrip hit an intraday high of Rs 931.45, up 8.30 per cent.

The Rs 900-crore IPO of L&T Technology Services was oversubscribed 2.53 times during September 1215. Price band for the offer was fixed at Rs 850-860.

This is the second company from the L&T group to hit the market with an IPO since July, when L&T Infotech had launched a public offer.

The flagship Larsen and Toubro is already listed.

The firm, which provides innovative engineering as well as research and development services across sectors, has revenues of nearly $500 million.

L&T Technology Services also offers engineering analytics, Internet of Things and automation solutions.

The erstwhile L&T Integrated Engineering Services, carved out of parent L&T in 2010, was renamed as L&T Technology Services in 2012. Later, certain businesses of L&T Infotech, including telecom and high-technology product engineering services businesses, were transferred to L&T Technology Services.(PTI)

Rupee down 7 paise against dollar in early trade Mumbai, Sept 23: The rupee weakened by 7 paise to 66.73 against the dollar in early trade on Friday at the Interbank Foreign Exchange market on fresh demand for the American currency from importers.

Forex dealers said the strength in dollar against some other currencies overseas and a lower opening in the domestic equity market weighed on the rupee.

The rupee had soared by 36 paise, its biggest single-day gain in four months, to close at a twoweek high of 66.66 a dollar in Thursday's trade on easing worries of foreign fund outflows and narrowing of the country's current account deficit (CAD).

The benchmark BSE Sensex fell by 58.20 points, or 0.20 per cent, to 28,714.93 in early trade Friday. (PTI)

Subrata Roy. Afile Photo Shankar Dubey, be taken into custody, Sahara withdrew its counsel and apologised before the bench.

The Chief Justice said that some people play with the dignity of the court and there are some lawyers who are disrespectful towards the court.

Supreme Court had on September 16 extended the parole of the Sahara chief till

today, which was granted to him in May after his mother passed away.

The parole continued later to enable him arrange money to refund his investors. It had extended Roy's parole on August 3 till today with a condition that he has to deposit Rs 300 crore with SEBI. The apex court on September 2 had asked the Sahara Group to come clean by dis-

closing its sources from where it had raised Rs 25,000 crore and paid its investors in cash, observing that it is "difficult to digest" as such a huge amount "cannot fall from the heavens."

The apex court had granted parole to Roy on May 6 for four weeks on humanitarian ground following the death of his mother Chhabi Roy in Lucknow after prolonged illness.

Besides Roy, the court had also granted parole to the jailed Sahara directors Roy Choudhary and Dubey. It had said they were free to meet prospective buyers of properties and move within the country under police escort.

Roy has been lodged in Tihar jail since March 4, 2014 on the orders of the apex court in relation with a long running dispute with market regulator SEBI. (PTI)

Nitin Gadkari stresses on need for agricultural revolution in India Panaji, Sept 23: Union Minister Nitin Gadkari has stressed on the need for agricultural revolution in the country by providing electricity at low rates to farmers from pithead power plants.

"We need to start an agricultural revolution in India by providing cheap electricity to farmers from pithead power plants and urea produced using domestically available Coal Bed Methane (CBM) or coal gasification. Expensive urea imports from China would not be required," Gadkari said last evening.

The Road Transport, Highways and Shipping Minister was addressing the 17th Regulators and Policymakers Retreat organised by The Independent Power Producers Association of India in South Goa. "Innovation in water management, including de-silting of rivers, using innovative check dams for microirrigation rather than big hydro projects, are required," he said.

On the viability of power sector, Gadkari said, "How can coal prices vary without power prices correspondingly varying? The power sector would not survive."

"In the past, state governments have given too much importance on increasing the generation capacity without giving due importance to transmission and distribution segments in the power sector," the min-

Nitin Gadkari. ister said.

"With the advancements of new technology and innovations, significant growth is expected in the Indian power sector and the agriculture sector will be one of the beneficiaries of such growth," he said.

The need is to focus on agriculture sector and provide electricity 24/7 to rural areas at low prices, he added.

Expressing confidence in the government's plan to revolutionise the agriculture and irrigation sectors, he noted that some laws regarding environment and forests create hindrance in economic development.

The conference that began yesterday is based on the theme 'India Meeting the Aspirations?'

The event looks at the aspirations of young Indians keeping in mind the ways

of improving their living standards by benchmarking it with the western narrative of development.

Participating in the event through video conferencing, Railways Minister Suresh Prabhu explained how the country is undergoing massive transformation in power sector through a pro-active approach and better policies and regulations.

He said, "Rickshaw, taxi and train to be integrated in scheme for multi-modal transport."

Union Power Minister Piyush Goyal, in a pre-recorded message, said the UDAY scheme is the most significant step taken to remove financial constraints in the distribution segment and will bring efficiency in the workings of the state electricity distribution companies. (PTI)

Dollar gains against Japan curreny Yen but set for weekly losses Tokyo, Sept 23: The dollar gained in Asian trading on Friday but was on track to end a tumultuous week with losses after the Federal Reserve trimmed its long-term interest rate expectations and the Bank of Japan rebooted its monetary policy framework.

The dollar was up 0.4 percent at 101.09 yen, pulling away from a nearly four-week low of 100.10 touched overnight, though still poised to shed 1.1 percent for the week.

Markets in Tokyo reopened after a public holiday on Thursday, and digested Wednesday's news that the U.S. Federal Reserve left interest rates unchanged but signalled it could still tighten monetary policy by the end of this year.

The U.S. central bank also projected a less aggressive rise in interest rates next year and in 2018, and it cut its longer-run interest rate forecast to 2.9 per-

cent from 3.0 percent.

On Wednesday, ahead of the holiday, the BOJ shifted to targeting interest rates on Japanese government bonds as the focus of its massive monetary easing programme, dropping its explicit target of increasing base money.

BOJ's announcement initially sent the dollar up more than 1 percent to 102.79 yen, though the gains unravelled as investors realized that the overall

market impact was far from obvious.

"The build-up to Wednesday was large, with lots of anticipation, but everyone kind of walked away scratching their heads," said Bart Wakabayashi, head of Hong Kong FX sales at State Street Global Markets.

"We're defaulting to the levels where the market is comfortable. There wasn't enough to energize the dollar through 100 yen, or 103," he said.

Some analysts took heart at the fact that the dollar was able to pull itself off its overnight session lows above the 100-yen level, which remains a key technical point.

A break of that could open the pair's downside, said Yutaka Miura, a senior technical analyst at Mizuho Securities. The dollar's proximity to the 100yen did not escape the attention of Japanese authorities.

"We're concerned about recent extremely nervous moves in the currency market," Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga told a regular news conference on Friday, when asked about the yen's recent rise against the dollar.

Top currency diplomat, Masatsugu Asakawa, vice finance minister for international affairs, said on Thursday that Japanese financial authorities are watching for speculative currency market moves and

would respond if needed.

The yen, the euro gained 0.2 percent to 113.20 yen, down 0.8 percent for the week. It edged down 0.1 percent to $1.1197 EUR=, aiming for a 0.3 percent weekly gain.

The dollar index, which tracks the greenback against a basket of six major rivals, added 0.1 percent to 95.522, on track to log a weekly loss of 0.6 percent.

The British pound gave back some of the previous session's gains made after a Bank of England policymaker said she saw no case for a further cut in interest rates to boost the economy following Britain's vote to leave the European Union.

Slipping to a five-week low of $1.2946 on Wednesday, sterling climbed as high as $1.3121 overnight. It was last down 0.3 percent at $1.3040, up 0.3 percent for the week. (PTI)

EDITORIAL

DIBRUGARH, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24

Nothing cures like excess

Today's quote

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“However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?”

Gautama Buddha

Putin tightens his grip he outcome of Russia’s parliamentary election was never in question. The United Russia party of President Vladimir Putin has dominated the political landscape ever since it was founded in 2001.

Even so, the margin of the victory was unexpected. The September 18 elections were held against the backdrop of a protracted economic crisis, tensions between Russia and the West, and a war of attrition in the country’s neighbourhood. Lower oil prices and western sanctions have hit ordinary Russians hard. Russia’s economy contracted by 3.7 per cent last year and is expected to shrink further by 0.7 per cent this year. Conventional wisdom suggests that economic hardships trigger anti-incumbency sentiment. But in Mr. Putin’s Russia just the opposite has happened. When the results were declared, his party won more than three-quarters of the 450-member Duma. The Communist Party and the Liberal Democratic Party have retained some presence in the national Parliament, while the Yabloko and the Parnas, the two liberal parties critical of the Kremlin, failed to even enter the Duma. This could partly be because of the lack of a united opposition in Russia. The Communists and Liberal Democrats are hardly opposition parties, and agree with the Kremlin on most policy decisions. The anti-Kremlin parties have failed in, or been hindered from, building a broad base among the electorate. Alexey Navalny, the leader of the popular anti-government protests of 2011, has been barred from contesting elections.

Boris Nemtsov, another popular opposition leader, was shot dead last year in Moscow. At present, there is no opposition leader in a position to challenge the personality cult of Mr. Putin.

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In any case, memories of the anarchic pre-Putin era may still be prompting Russians to stick by him. Mr. Putin is largely credited with fixing the economy and providing a stable political leadership to the country.

Under his watch, Russia has come out of its self-imposed strategic retreat and started playing an active global role. Russia’s annexation of Crimea from Ukraine and a combative foreign policy in Syria and elsewhere have proved popular among his domestic constituents.

But the Russian economy continues to be heavily dependent on energy exports. If crude oil prices remain low for long, economic pain will persist. Though the muscular foreign policy is popular at home, Moscow has had to pay a heavy price for it. Whatever Mr. Putin had done in his first and second terms to rebuild ties with Europe, particularly with Germany, lies in a shambles in the wake of the Ukraine crisis. If Mr. Putin wants to rebuild Russia as a credible global power, a persistent economic crisis and stormy neighborhoods are not going to help.

The curious death of Ramkumar The alleged suicide of murder suspect P. Ramkumar in the high-security Puzhal Central Prison in Chennai has given rise to many questions and doubts. The claim that Ramkumar, the alleged lone assailant who stalked and killed young Swathi, took his own life by biting a live wire pulled out from a switchboard inside the prison is unusual. His lawyer alleges he was murdered. Even without questioning the suicide theory, it is clear that the prison administration has much to answer for. Ramkumar had suicidal tendencies, going by the police claim that he tried to slash his own throat when he was about to be arrested. Prison authorities say he was indeed under continuous watch by warders, and that he had been given psychological counselling. More ought to have been done to prevent the incident, as the case had become unusually sensitive, with the public debate assuming strong caste and communal overtones. It is surprising that the closely watched suspect had easy access, at a moment when he was conveniently alone, to a switchboard near the prison dispensary. It also so happened that the CCTV cameras installed in the modern prison did not cover that particular area where he chose to end his life. If he did commit suicide, there has been undoubted lapse in monitoring his movements.

Prison suicides set off questions about the conditions of incarceration in our jails, often seen as overcrowded and understaffed. Suicide by electrocution is rare, as it is not difficult to deny prisoners any form of access to live electrical cables. There is truth in the theory that it is difficult to prevent a person determined to commit suicide, even if some correctional psychologists disagree. There ought to be an initial evaluation of incoming prisoners to identify those with a high risk of suicide. Thereafter, periodic assessments of their state of mind should be made. While continuous watch is inescapable, designing ‘suicide-resistant cells’ and auditing jails to identify and remove possible anchoring points for attempts to die by hanging are other necessary measures. When Ramkumar was arrested there was a sense of reassurance among the public, even though a few demanded a CBI investigation based on a few purported lacunae in the police version. The police were expected to put an end to all speculation about whether he was the ‘real culprit’ by bringing him to trial. It is a pity this did not happen. The Tamil Nadu government should order a judicial probe in order to credibly allay any impression, false though it may well be, that the case was sought to be closed extrajudicially.

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The heavy home season of Tests is an opportunity a TRP-driven BCCI can ill-afford to miss Abdus Salam Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore, circa 1987. A snake pit of a pitch. Iqbal Qasim and Tauseef Ahmed, of whom we didn’t hear much before or after, were lapping up wickets as only South Asian dust-bowl specialists can. At one end, however, a diminutive man held firm, fishing on the odd occasion, presenting a dead bat on most others, and unleashing delectable drives as only he could. Some seven months down the line, the same man would run amok in uncharacteristic fashion as he raced his way to a career-first hundred in One-Day Internationals (ODIs), the last tournament of his career. For millions of cricket connoisseurs, Sunny Gavaskar’s epic 96 against Pakistan on a crumbling wicket in his final Test match puts his unbeaten 103 in 88 balls against New Zealand in the Reliance World Cup in the shade any day.

Doomsday prophets say the great game is now dying — Test cricket, that is.

The purist’s delight. The ultimate contest between bat and ball. And no matter how many open-heart surgeries they perform, from pink ball to day-night matches and coloured clothing to a World Test Championship, the audience has bolted.

Cricket must bow to the zeitgeist of instant entertainment and embrace its new pint-sized normal, Twenty20.

Hope from T20 But in the rise of the twenty overs’ format lies hope for the longest, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) willing. Look beyond the sound and fury of its current opposition to the International Cricket Council’s (ICC) two-tier Test system; the BCCI is projecting it as rallying to the defence of weaker cricketing nations, but the proposed system is also linked to a proposal for centralised marketing of global broadcast rights of bilateral series, as also the fact that a former Board president now heads the ICC and has turned on the current Board administra-

tion. Truth be said, the commercialisation of Indian cricket under the aegis of the BCCI has had not a small role to play in relegating Tests to an afterthought.

As the pecuniary potential of the ODI, and subsequently the T20, dawned on the Board from the early 1990s through the 2000s, it refused to upgrade Team India’s calendar for Test cricket. Sample an icon whose career overlapped with this transition, Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar.

When he made his debut in November 1989, cricket was largely played in white flannels; England, with its lucrative country cricket structure, was still the game’s financial leviathan.

By the time he walked out at the Wankhede stadium in November 2013, the transformation was complete: India was dictating terms to the cricketing world, leveraging its financial muscle of multimillion-dollar broadcasting and sponsorship rights and as hosts of that consummate entertainmentsport jamboree, the Indian Premier League. Over the course of a 24-year career

in which he sat out only a handful of matches due to injury, Tendulkar played 200 Tests — 8.3 Tests a year on average. Contrast that with a near-contemporary, Australian Ricky Ponting.

In a 17-year career starting 1995, Ponting ended up playing 168 Tests until he bowed out of the game in 2012 — or 9.9 Tests a year on average. Another nearcontemporary, Jacques Kallis of South Africa, notched up 166 Test caps over 18 years, at 9.2 matches a year. In a career of just 10 years, current England Test captain Alastair Cook has played 133 matches, or 13.3 Tests a year.

The point is, unlike cricket’s new financial numero uno, the other Big Three — Australia, England and South Africa — have demonstrated a higher commitment to Test cricket. If those ballpark figures via careers aren’t enough, sample this.

Since Tendulkar’s retirement, India has played 25 Tests as opposed to Australia’s 28 and England’s 32. Public memory is short but it is the

same BCCI, now wallowing in its packed itinerary this season of 13 Tests as proof of its commitment to the five-day game, that allowed Mahendra Singh Dhoni, then the ODI skipper, to sit out of a Test series in Sri Lanka in July-August 2008 because of ‘fatigue’ — this, after featuring in all 16 of the Chennai Super Kings’s matches en route to the final of the inaugural IPL between April and June that year.

As history is made As India plays its 500th Test against New Zealand at Kanpur on Thursday, what the doomsday prophets are overlooking is the rapid redundancy of the ODI. It was an innovation for its time, and struck a refreshing contrast to the five-day game after officials hastily organised the first ODI between England and Australia at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on January 5, 1971, to compensate audiences for the third Ashes Test getting washed out. As the adrenaline of a mandatoryresult contest gets accentuated in a three-and-a-half-

hour format, the ODI increasingly battles its long middle, of uneventful hours before the plot thickens in the death overs. While its popularity still persists, partly because of the quadrennial World Cups, the likelihood of the ODI yielding diminishing financial returns going forward is high.

Test cricket, on the other hand, has shaken off of its stupor of dour draws in recent years, with more and more matches ending in a nail-biting finish. If variety were the yardstick to predict sustainability of spectator interest, the bet is it will coalesce around the ends of the spectrum, with ODIs as the unviable halfway house.

With the heaviest home season of Tests beckoning since 1979-80, India is poised to not only supplant Pakistan as the top Test team but consolidate its place, a fact that is likely to bring back the in-stadia spectators and television viewers. It’s an opportunity a TRP-driven BCCI can illafford to miss. It failed Tendulkar; it must not fail Virat Kohli.

Donald Trump, a contrarian view India has an old love affair with the Democrats in the United States, but the Republican Presidents and legislators have done more for India-U.S. relations than Democrats in recent years.

John F. Kennedy and Bill Clinton and their wives conquered hearts in India, but they did not transform the relationship as the younger George Bush did. Mr. Clinton initiated the process of normalisation with India, but came down on India like a ton of bricks when it tested nuclear weapons in 1998.

In the days following the tests and sanctions, many close Democrat friends of India, even the Chairman and members of the India Caucus in the Congress, deserted us, except for Congressman Frank Pallone. The State Department was not on talking terms with us. It was a statement by former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger that he could understand India’s concerns as it was in a “tough neighbourhood” that changed the bleak atmosphere for India in Wash-

ington. Again, it was Senator Sam Brownback, a Republican, who whittled away the sanctions against India over a period of time.

heights. Despite all his camaraderie with the Indian Prime Minister, he spared no occasion to lecture India on the merits of religious tolT.P. Sreenivasan ea r ann c de Though nuclear fiDemocratic presidential delity. Many tricky issues candidate Hillary Clinton remain even as we call was once referred to as ourselves a major defence “the Senator from Punjab” partner of the U.S. by her detractors, there is no evidence of her having Republican presidential gone out of her way to candidate Donald Trump favour India. She has remains an enigma maintained a friendly face wrapped in mystery, with towards India, but her con- his confusing pronouncecerns about China and Pa- ments on domestic and kistan were all too evident foreign policy. He has during her term as Secre- been accused of having tary of State. As President, neo-fascist tendencies. she is likely to continue But his positions are the ambivalence. evolving. He seems to have abandoned the idea Barack Obama started of banning Muslim immioff as a hot favourite in gration, building a wall India, but appeared disil- between the U.S. and lusioned after his visit in Mexico and stopping all 2010, when he failed to migration and win the nuclear and the outsourcing. fighter aircraft contracts.

His initial opposition to He has realised the the nuclear deal did not value of the North Atlanstand in the way of its tic Treaty Organisation, implementation, but he even though he still beextracted a price for every lieves that the partners step he took with should pay for the services Narendra Modi to take the they receive. But he is carelationship to greater pable of thinking out of

the box and this may well be the reason why he is still neck and neck in the race with Ms. Clinton today.

Positions that align with India’s Terrorism is the recurring theme in every speech that Mr. Modi makes and that is a measure of India’s most important preoccupation today. Mr. Trump’s agenda is identical and India can rely on him to fight terrorism in all its forms, whether it is the Islamic State, al-Qaeda, Taliban or the Pakistansponsored outfits. “Pakistan is probably the most dangerous country in the world today. The only country that can check Pakistan is India,” he said in September 2015. No Democratic President, not even Ms. Clinton, will take such an unequivocal position on Pakistan and terrorism.

As a businessman, Mr. Trump has been an admirer of India to the extent of encouraging investment in India. Two Trump Towers are in the making in Mumbai and Pune in

What About These Situations For example, how many times have you been driving to work when another motorist has cut you off, made a dangerous lane change without signalling, or nearly rear-ended you because they were tail gating you? I'm sure this has happened to you. How did you react?

Did you react emotionally by blowing your horn incessantly, speed up to catch them and give them a rude gesture, or did you just sit there boiling over? In other words, did you take this action by the other driver personally? Well, at one time or another, we have all probably felt this way and allowed this inconsiderate motorist to ruin the rest of your day. So, what have you done? You took their actions

personally.

What about the technological marvel of the modern day computer that

quits responding, or develops a glitch so that you cannot get to that critical assignment? Do you think that this inanimate object was designed to foul up your day just when you really needed to get that task done for the boss? No. It's just a piece of machinery - it has no mind, it has no soul, it has no personality. So, if you take its'

failing as personal, you have made it human. Do not take it personally. Realize that you are assigning power to this computer it does not have - you again have given it power that it does not possess. You have given it power to control your emotions.

And, what about that colleague who is never wrong, and where you are never right? Is this kind of person telling you more about yourself, or are they really making an unconscious statement about who they are, and their own need for ego enhancement?

Do not take his or her actions personally or you are allowing someone else to tell you who you are and what you are worth.

partnership with Indian entrepreneurs. He has gone on record as saying that after the installation of the Modi government, India has become a “top place’ for investment.

In January 2016, Mr. Trump complimented India for “doing great” and expressed surprise that nobody was talking about it.

Since he puts his money where his mouth is, as President, Mr. Trump is likely to embrace India. As a businessman President who has pledged to bring prosperity to the U.S, he may find a valuable partner in Mr. Modi.

Mr. Trump’s admiration for Russian President Vladimir Putin and his championship of Brexit may well be signs of his wanting to be different from others. But neither of these, even if taken to their logical conclusion, will hurt India’s interests. On China, Mr. Trump has been ambivalent. His main criticism about China is on trade and currency matters. In fact, his anticipated “trade war” with China could wipe out $420 billion off China’s

exports, according to Kevin Lai, a Hong Kong economist. Mr. Trump has also had some good words to say about China, but his distrust of Beijing is obvious and he is not likely to act against our interests.

The Democratic optimism about China being a responsible nation that can be entrusted with looking after stability in South Asia is not likely to be shared by Mr. Trump.

In the middle of September, barely two months before the polls, Ms. Clinton may have a slight edge over Mr. Trump but the matter is not settled as yet. Mr. Trump has begun to lead in critical “battleground states” like Ohio and Florida, where Ms. Clinton was leading till recently.

If the Americans take a leap into the dark on account of their frustrations about the economy, terrorism and China, as the British did in the case of Brexit, we may end up with Mr. Trump as President. India has fewer reasons to be uncomfortable about such an eventuality than generally feared.

Tall Talks And Misrule Sir, A report published in media makes us laugh in our sleeves which suggests that congress will make a house to house survey on the promises made by BJP. Long 15year misrule by congress itself is enough to transpire how corrupt the party has become over the years after independence. More important, congress members started thinking that India belongs to them. Almost all the important places, institutions are named after the members of the Gandhi family. Now, time has come to rename these places and institutions.

We fail to understand, why the party still thinks itself as indispensable to Indians. When the likes of Tarun Gogoi, Ripun Borah, Akon Borah talk of Principles, of the price-rise, it sounds like devils chanting scriptures. Will these leaders be kind enough to explain why congress has been reduced to a Lilliputian stature in Lok Sabha?

Why the party has been gradually decimated from one state after an-

other? We firmly believe that the recent suicides that rocked the entire state are direct fall-out of the corruption of the previous government led

by Tarun Gogoi. First, it was the case of the businessman who left out a suicide note accusing Jatin Mali, the ex M.L.A of Palashbari. Subsequently, it transpired that some heavy weights of congress too are embroiled. Then the heart rending suicide of Ganeshguri Hotel came involving four persons including a oneyear old infant. The suicide note was pointed to one Putul Gogoi who is reported absconding but has been nabbed from Moran. Further investigations by the Police will surely unveil the truth. Bribing for jobs and other favours reached the zenith during congress regime which hopefully is ebbing now under the present ruling dispensation.

Yours etc.

Ashok Bordoloi Dibrugarh

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NORTHEAST Ban on entry of non-locals into Manipur Guwahati High Court withdraws judges from Lunglei in Mizoram

DIBRUGARH, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24

Agencies Imphal, Sep 23: Demanding protection of indigenous people’s right, Joint Committee on Inner Line Permit System (JCILPS) on Thursday announced that entry of non-locals, including national leaders, in Manipur will be banned beginning September 23.

“Entry of non-locals in the state will be banned from September 23. National leaders visit to the state is also boycotted. The committee’s decision, however, is not against India or the non-locals but to make the state government realise the need to protect the rights of indig-

People of Manipur (Image for representational purpose) enous people in the state”.

JCILPS convenor, BK Moirangcha said.

JCIPLS has urged all political parties to take a definite stand on the Inner

Line Permit System and publicise it in their manifesto.

“JCILPS’s boycott on non-locals does not apply to non-local government

servants in the state” Moirangcha said.

The committee also declared to ban street vendors without valid license from Friday.

Warning of strong protests, Moirangcha said if the government failed to take necessary actions within seven days, the committee will impose strong agitations in the form of office picketing and storming MLAs residents.

“If the government fails to call an assembly, within seven days to pass a bill for the protection of indigenous people’s right, the JCILP will resort to strong agitations like government office picketing, storming

MLAs residents and other forms of protest”.

Moirangcha said.

Meanwhile, JCILPS Women’s wing stormed the Raj Bhawan on Thursday evening.

However, the women’s wing was stopped by police, saying they had not submitted a memorandum or sought prior permission from the governor.

JCIPLS convenor incharge Women wing TH Apabi condemned the police and the governor and said the womenfolk was there to appraise the governor the need to protect the rights of the indigenous people.

Guv may issue notification State bureaucrat for by-election next week deputed to Delhi Agencies Shillong, Sep 23: The Congress has cleared the names of candidates for the by-election to the seven District Council seats.

The seats fell vacant after the State government brought the amended dual posts Act that barred MLAs from being MDCs. The Congress candidates to contest the seats are Lamdibok Sumer (WarEast), Lamborsing Nongrum (Nongkrem), Nathaniel Osbert Rymmai (Nongspung-Sohiong), Lambok Nongrang (Mairang), Kimfa Marbaniang (Myriaw Rambrai), Ioanis Lyngdoh (Pariong) and Moon Lyngdoh (Laban-

Mawprem).

While Sumer is the former JHADC chief, Rymmai is the son of Home Minister HDR Lyngdoh, who had represented NongspungSohiong as MDC before the dual posts Act came into existence. Another candidate, Nongrang, is the president of the Mairang Block Congress Committee.

A statement issued by MPCC general secretary in charge election Polycarp Marak said the MPCC election committee met at the official residence of party president DD Lapang on Thursday to decide the candidates.

The committee scrutinised the list of applicants as recommended by the dis-

trict election committee before announcing the names.

Earlier, speaking to reporters, District Council Affairs Minister Prestone Tynsong said since the Governor is out of station, notification for holding the by-polls is likely to be issued next week.

The Supreme Court had cleared the way for holding the polls on December 13.

To a query, Tynsong reiterated that MLAs who wish to contest the bypolls would do so at their own risk since the amended dual posts Act, which came into effect from October 1 last, is valid.

Horticulture export gains popularity after mining ban Agencies Shillong, Sep 23: The NGT ban might have stymied coal mining in the State but a new avenue, and a less controversial one, has opened up for local entrepreneurs. Export of horticultural products is taking up pace after the mining restrictions, shows government data.

An official source of the Department of Horticulture told The Shillong Times, “After the ban on coal mining, it appears that there is a shift towards horticultural products as there is a lot of potential in exports.

People are more aware that it is not only coal that can give them economic benefits.”

The issuance of ‘Phytosanitary certifi-

cate’, a mandatory document for export of horticultural products, by the Department has increased, said the official.

“The certificate is to be issued by the Director of Horticulture only which will certify that the exported product is fit for human consumption,” the source said.

familiarised with exporting horticultural goods and get acquainted with the Department that will provide them a platform to start doing business through fair means. “Import-export will improve revenue generation in the State as well,” the source added.

“In the previous years, fewer certificates were issued. However, this year many certificates were issued that signifies a changing trend of more entrepreneurs getting into the export of horticultural products,” the source said adding that ginger and tomato is exported to Bangladesh.

The official source has urged people to get

Elaborating on the certification process, the official said, “The importerexporter will have to take their sample to Kolkata for the Radioactivity Test Certificate, which will then be sent to the Department. Based on the test certificate, the Director of Horticulture issues the Phytosanitary certificate to show that the goods can be exported.”

Party defends Opp move to withdraw no-confidence Agencies Shillong, Sep 23: The United Democratic Party (UDP) has defended the move of the Opposition to withdraw the no-confidence motion against the State government in the recently concluded autumn session of the Meghalaya Legislative Assembly.

have.

While maintaining that the intention of moving the no-confidence motion against the government was not to topple the government but to expose it on all fronts, Lanong said the no-trust motion brought a lot of discredit to the government and UDP would continue to do that in future.

Speaking to media persons here in the city on Thursday, UDP working president Bindo M Lanong said he would have done the same since the moving of the no-confidence and toppling the government depends on numerical strength which the opposition does not

Reacting to a query if members of the Treasury might have supported the no-confidence motion, he said they could not stand against the government both inside and outside the House since the government had issued a whip and any member

supporting the motion would have been disqualified.

The Opposition had jointly moved a no-confidence motion against the government in the recently concluded autumn session and after a six-hour marathon debate, the Opposition withdrew the motion after Chief Minister Mukul Sangma requested the Opposition to withdrew it.

The Opposition had maintained from the beginning that the idea behind bringing the motion was not to topple the government but to get its attention to the important issues in the State.

Agencies Shillong, Sep 23: Additional Chief Secretary in charge Mining and Geology, Y. Tsering, has been deputed to follow up the pending issues related to coal mining with the Centre.

Chief Secretary K.S Kropha said on Thursday that the official is camping in Delhi to take up issues related to mining plan and guidelines with the central ministries concerned.

While the Ministry of Environment and Forest has already submitted the ecological restoration plan related to coal mining to the National Green Tribunal (NGT), the State government has given the mining guidelines to NGT and the ministries of coal and mines. However, the final reports of these ministries are yet to be submitted to NGT. But the hurdles for the government is to get exemption from the Coal Mines (Nationalisation) Act, 1973, and the Mines

and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Act, 1957, even after NGT gives clearance to mining in the State.

As per the Coal Mines (Nationalisation) Act, 1973, the ownership in relation to the coal mines will vest with the Centre. The State government had already moved the Centre to invoke Para 12 A (b) of the Sixth Schedule through a presidential notification to exempt the State from the purview of the central law.

Another area of concern is amendments to certain clauses of the Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Act, 1957.

According to the Chief Secretary, the Centre will be urged to relax the Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Act, 1957, to allow the State government to frame mining guidelines since the miners need not go to Delhi to get permission for mining.

State awaits response from Assam for border talks Agencies Shillong, Sep 23: The State government is awaiting a response from Assam to hold talks at the level of Chief Secretary and Chief Minister on border issues.

Chief Secretary K.S Kropha said on Thursday it was in August that separate letters were sent by him and the Chief Minister to their Assam counterparts to

hold border talks.

The official admitted that after the State government had submitted documents to claim the 12 areas of difference in the border, Assam government had not responded.

He also said the State government is yet to take a call on whether separate negotiation should be held to retransfer areas under Block 1 and Block II.

HDR to visit Garo Hills before Puja Agencies Shillong, Sep 23: With the spurt in cases of kidnapping, Home Minister HDR Lyngdoh will visit Garo Hills before Durga Puja to assess the ground situation.

Lyngdoh told reporters on Thursday that he would visit Garo Hills to review the security situation in the region and also to ensure that there is

peace before the Puja celebrations.

After a lull, suspected GNLA cadres have abducted three traders since Monday from parts of Garo Hills.

Moreover, the execution of a GNLA deserter by an armed group of the outfit has also sent shockwaves throughout the region.

PTI Aizawl, Sep 23: Guwahati High Court on Friday withdrew all the judges in south Mizoram's Lunglei district following mob violence in court premises on Thursday and attached them with the district and sessions judge, Aizawl.

The Registrar General of Guwahati High Court H K Sharma issued the order withdrawing Lunglei District and Sessions Judge R. Thanga, Additional District and Sessions Judge Helen Dawngliani and Civil Judge-cum-Judicial Magistrate First Class R. Malsawmdawngzuala.

The order also directed Lawngtlai district Senior Civil Judge-cum-Chief Judicial Magistrate Laldinpuia Tlau not to hold circuit court in Lunglei until further order.

The order came after irate mob belonging to Zohnuai locality of Lunglei attacked

Guwahati High Court district court buildings with stones and bricks on Thursday and also ransacked the official residence of the civil judge.

Local people of Zohnuai gathered in front of the district court demanding to see the face of Stephen Lalchawiliana (26) who was to be produced before the court for allegedly killing C. Lalsawmliana (33) of Zohnuai locality of Lunglei

on August 27 night.

The crowd turned into an unruly mob after learning that the accused was already remanded in judicial custody for a further period by holding a camp court inside the district jail.

Police arrested 17 people for unlawful assembly and they were remanded to judicial custody just before the judges were withdrawn.

UDP plans ‘smart city’ negotiation with Centre Agencies Shillong, Sep 23: The United Democratic Party (UDP) on Thursday slammed the State government for failing to make Shillong eligible for the ‘Smart City’ scheme and said it would write to the Centre to consider its decision.

Speaking to media persons here on Thursday, UDP working president Bindo M Lanong said the State government has failed to prepare and present its case in a proper manner before the Centre as a result of which Shillong could not qualify for the project even in the third list.

Pointing out that Shillong city is smart and is the oldest capital among cities in the region and the country with several establishments of importance,

Lanong said Shillong was the capital under three successive governments of the British raj, the Assam government and now the Meghalaya government.

“Many pre-conditions like funding pattern of 90:10 for the project can be bargained and we can fight our case. Shillong deserves to be qualified for the project,” Lanong said.

According to Lanong, the Centre should relax the funding pattern since Meghalaya is a small State and the issue of funding pattern could have been presented before it.

The UDP working president accused the government of mismanaging urban affairs for which the State is facing several issues of congestion, and now Jowai and Tura towns are more congested than Shillong.

“The State government has failed in every department, whoever is in power. If it cannot redress the grievances of the people, then such a government does not have the right to govern,” he added.

UDP vice president Allantry Franklin Dkhar asserted that mismanagement of urban agglomeration could be the reason that Shillong did not qualified for the project even as he blamed the government for the lack of civic amenities within the Shillong city.

Lamenting that the rivers Wahumkhrah and Umshyrpi are still bearing the brunt of human onslaught, he said Umden, which is the beginning of River Umiam, has now become the second stage of Marten as all the garbage from the Marten flows into it.

Pondit Sangma rubbishes money swindling allegation Agencies Shillong, Sep 23: Former legislator Francis Pondit R Sangma, who has been accused of swindling close to Rs 6 crore, broke his silence on Thursday and rubbished all allegations levelled against him.

Sangma has been accused of inking an agreement worth over Rs 6 crore for coal extraction with a firm without giving the dues to the Rongding clan members in West Khasi Hills.

In a statement issued here on Thursday, Sangma said those who have filed the FIR do not belong to the Rongding clan. Sangma said one Anni Rongmuthu Sangma, who is the mastermind behind the FIR, does not belong to the clan.

The clan members who filed the FIR at

Mendipathar police station said the land at Reangdim A’king in West Khasi Hills, which was allotted to them, was leased out to Divyansh Power Gen Pvt. Ltd in April 2012 for 30 years and as per their understanding, each member of the clan was to get Rs 3.7 lakh. But Sangma gave only Rs 20,000 each to some members keeping with him around Rs 5.8 crore. As many as 166 Rongding clan members further alleged that Sangma had taken an advance of Rs 6.1 crore from the firm for the land, but the money was not disbursed to the actual land owners.

Denying the allegations, Sangma said on Thursday that in 2012, the Rongding clan gave him the power of attorney to execute an agreement with Divyansh

Power. “As per the agreement, the company was allowed to extract coal from Kulang Abri at Reangdim village. But after the agreement was executed, the company started disturbing the genuine clan members for one reason or the other,” Sangma said.

The former MLA also said all evidence will be placed in the right forum and in the Mahari meeting if necessary.

The firm had earlier signed an MoU with the State Government to start a 240 MW thermal power plant in 2010.

When contacted, North Garo Hills police said the FIR filed in Mendipathar police station has been transferred to Shallang police station since the matter belongs to that area.

Govt approves two more EMs in GHADC Agencies Shillong, Sep 23: The Garo Hills Autonomous District Council (GHADC) will now have two additional executive members (EMs) after the State government approved a resolution passed by its current nine-member Executive Committee.

The NPP-led Garo Hills Progressive Alliance (GHPA), which is currently running the Council, had raised the issue of ‘under representation’ of the Executive Committee before the State government and the Governor.

The Executive Committees of KHADC and JHADC have 11 members for the last several years. The additional posts bring GHADC on a par with the other two Councils.

“A resolution passed by our Council was forwarded to the District Council Affairs Department and the Governor, who gave his approval last week,” said chief executive member (CEM) Denang T Sangma.

Sitting NPP member and Wageasi MDC Sengnal N

Sangma, and former Congress and now NPP MDC from Naguapara, Dhormonath Ch Sangma, are likely to join the new posts.

Sengnal had defeated Congress heavyweight and sitting MDC Freederson Sangma from Wageasi constituency in Baghmara while Dhormonath Sangma who had won on a Congress ticket from Naguapara defected to the NPP in August.

Sengnal is currently the chairman of resource mobilisation for the GHADC.

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INTERNATIONAL

'Butcher of Kabul' pardoned in Afghan peace deal Human Rights Watch describes deal with Gulbuddin Hekmatyar as 'an affront to victims of grave abuses' Kabul, Sept 23 : The Afghan government has pardoned one of the country's most notorious warlords for past offences including terrorist attacks and alleged war crimes as part of a peace deal with his militant group, Hezb-i-Islami.

The agreement, signed on Thursday after months of negotiations, paves the way for a return to public and possibly political life for Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, who holds an almost unparalleled record of human rights abuses.

These include indiscriminate shelling of civilians, targeted assassinations of intellectuals and disappearances of political opponents. Hekmatyar's followers are accused of throwing acid at women and of running an underground torture prison in Pakistan.

In a central, upper-class Kabul neighbourhood, a group of young activists organised a protest against the pardoning of the man known as the Butcher of Kabul, coinciding with the signing ceremony less than a mile away. Placards picturing Hekmatyar with blood spilling from his mouth and a rocket through his nose read: "We will never forgive the executioner of Kabul."

The accord also allows for the release of Hezb-i-Islami prisoners, and obligates the Afghan government to pay for security in two or three locations inside Afghanistan where the group can choose to settle its leader-

PRECIFAC concludes probe on Hambantota Port ceremony Colombo, Sept 23: The Presidential Commission of Inquiry to Investigate and Inquire into Serious Acts of Fraud, Corruption and Abuse of Power, State Resources and Privileges (PRECIFAC) has concluded its investigations regarding alleged financial irregularities in the "Karadiyawara Mangalaya," the inauguration ceremony of the Hambantota Port.

A spokesman for the commission said that the relevant report on the investigation is scheduled to be presented to President Maithripala Sirisena.

Former Chairman of the Sri Lanka Ports Authority (SLPA) Dr. Priyath Bandu Wickrama and veteran actor Jackson Anthony arrived at the commission today (23) in order to give statements in connection with the investigation.

Meanwhile former Minister of Economic Development Basil Rajapaksa has also been summoned before the commission at 2.00pm today.

He is expected to give a statement pertaining to the ongoing investigation into allegations that he misused aircraft operated by the Sri Lanka Air Force for his personal travels within the country while serving as a minister under the former government.

(Agencies)

Gulbuddin Hekmatyar giving an interview in 2001. He has now committed to not supporting terrorism.

ship.

Human Rights Watch called the deal "an affront to victims of grave abuses". "[Hekmatyar's] return will compound the culture of impunity that the Afghan government and its foreign donors have fostered by not pursuing accountability for the many victims of forces commanded by Hekmatyar and other warlords that laid waste to much of the country in the 1990s," the organisation said in a statement.

Others see the inclusion of the armed opposition as a necessary step towards peace. In a working-class Kabul neighbourhood, where residents during the civil war were allied with Tajik commander Ahmad Shah Massoud, one of Hekmatyar's foes, opinions were split.

"It is not a solution to keep fighting," said Abdul Samad, a middle-aged worker at a flour wholesale

shop who lived through the civil war shelling. "Everybody wants peace. Not just humans. Even the animals want peace."

His 25-year-old colleague, Mohammad Zarif, was of a different view. He was too young to remember the civil war, but said his uncle was killed by a Hezb-i-Islami rocket.

Advertisement "I don't want Hekmatyar to come to Kabul," he said. "He is not honest. He will train suicide attackers, and if his supporters become parliamentarians, they will release suicide attackers from the prisons."

Not only will Zarif face the return of Hekmatyar. He and other taxpayers will also help fund the insurgent leader's security. The bill for residences, vehicles and guards for Hezb-i-Islami leadership have been reported to be as high as $4m (ÂŁ3m).

Hekmatyar, who has been in

hiding since 1997, has not yet returned to the capital.

Neither he nor the country's president, Ashraf Ghani, were present at the signing ceremony. Instead, the deal was inked by national security adviser Hanif Atmar, head of the High Peace Council Pir Sayed Ahmad Gailani and a Hezb-i-Islami delegation led by senior member Mohammad Amin Karim.

Reading the peace accord aloud, the only female representative in the negotiation process, Habiba Sarobi, said Ghani and Hekmatyar will ratify the deal later.

Hezb-i-Islami's military significance has waned in recent years. In 2013, the group conducted a suicide bombing that killed 10 Afghans and six American troops, but by then, that was a rare occurrence. Politically, however, loyalists of the movement have grown increasingly influential, and the peace accord permits them to run for office.

The agreement had been discussed for months. The main sticking point, according to a western security official, was an article concerning the withdrawal of foreign forces. Hekmatyar has long refused to sign a deal as long as foreign troops are present in Afghanistan. The accord now stipulates that the two parties disagree on the matter, but that Hekmatyar commits to not supporting terrorism.

The deal also obliges the

Afghan authorities to work to have Hezb-i-Islami removed from the United Nations' list of foreign terrorist organisations.

Hekmatyar was designated by the US as a "global terrorist" in 2003 and blacklisted at Washington's request by the UN the same year.

Ibrahim Sadruddin, a young soldier in Kabul on leave, said inviting Hezb-i-Islami over to the government side would strengthen the security forces, weaken the morale of the Taliban and Islamic State, and show insurgents that entering the peace process could pay off.

In that sense, Thursday's peace accord can perhaps provide a blueprint for future negotiations with the country's main insurgent group, the Taliban. Despite concerted efforts from the government, peace talks with the Taliban are dormant, and the militants show no sign of appeasement.

After being embroiled in more than three decades of armed conflict, many residents believe continued fighting is futile.

"During the civil war, no side was innocent," said Karima, 39. "Hazaras, Uzbeks, Tajiks, Pashtuns - everybody committed crimes."

She said the only solution was for long-time enemies to sit down and negotiate.

"Of course it is difficult, but we have to accept them.

There is no other way."

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Pakistan's GEO TV journalist Hamid Mir tweets: 'F-16 planes flying over Islamabad' New Delhi, Sept 23 : Amid the strain in relations between Pakistan and India, GEO TV journalist Hamid Mir caused a minor stir on Twitter Thursday night when he posted that F-16 planes were seen flying over Islamabad around 10:20 pm. "F-16 planes flying at 10:20 pm over Islamabad," Mir tweeted. Mir's post quickly drew reactions from fellow Pakistani Twitter users as a few had come forward claiming to have seen or heard the fighter jets.

One user wrote that the "thunderous sounds" made by the jet forced her to seek the safety of her hostel rooms. "Scary sounds really. I was sitting in the lawn of hostel with friends but now we moved to the rooms due to thunderous sounds,"

"F-16 planes flying at 10:20 pm over Islamabad," Hamid Mir tweeted.

Moazzama Ali ?tweeted.

However, Mir appeared to have hinted that it was a military drill carried out by the Pakistani Air Force amid heightened tensions with India. He retweeted a post that read: "dont worry it is just to assure people of islmabd that our forces are

5.1 magnitude quake jolts southwest China An earthquake of 5.1 magnitude on the Richter Scale hit Litang County, Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Garze, in southwest China's Sichuan Province in the wee hours on Friday.

Netanyahu invites Abbas to speak at Knesset in UN speech New York, Sept 23 : Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu invited Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to come "speak to the Israeli people at the Knesset in Jerusalem," during his speech to the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Thursday, In return, he offered to "gladly come to speak peace with the Palestinian parliament in Ramallah."

"The road to peace runs through Jerusalem and Ramallah, not New York," Netanyahu said.

In reiterating his persistent call for direct negotiations with the Palestinians, Netanyahu rejected any possible United Nations plan to unilaterally impose a solution to the conflict.

"We will not accept any attempt by the UN to dictate terms to Israel," Netanyahu said.

"I call on President Abbas: you have a choice to make. You can continue to stoke hatred as you did today or you can finally confront hatred and work with me to establish peace between our two peoples."

Netanyahu began his UN address by slamming the international body for consistently condemning Israel, calling it "a disgrace" and "a moral farce."

He also called the UN Human Rights Council a "joke" and UNESCO a "circus."

"The sooner the UN's obsession with Israel ends, the better.

The better for Israel, the better for your countries, the better for the UN itself," he said.

Nonetheless, he predicted that change will come soon."Ladies and gentlemen, one message for you today: Lay down your arms, the war against Israel in the UN is over," the prime min-

ister told the member states.

"The change will happen in this hall because back home your governments are rapidly changing their attitudes toward Israel, and sooner or later that's going to change the way you vote at the UN," he told the assembled representatives.

"More and more nations see Israel as a potent partner.

"World leaders increasingly appreciate that Israel is a powerful country with one of the best intelligence services on earth.

Because of our unmatched experience and proven capabilities in fighting terrorism, many of your governments seek our help in keeping your countries safe."

Netanyahu stressed that "Israel's diplomatic relations are undergoing nothing less but a revolution," especially in its relations with Arab countries in the region, which he said have started to "recognize Israel not as their enemy, but as an ally" in the fight against radical Islam and terrorism.

As for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Netanyahu said that while settlements are an issue that needs to be solved, they are not - and have never been the core of the problem.

The source of the conflict, rather, is "the persistent Palestinian refusal to recognize the Jewish state in any boundaries."

"The real settlements Palestinians are after are Haifa, Jaffa and Tel Aviv," he declared. "Israel is ready, I am ready to negotiate.

But one thing I will never negotiate is our right to the one and only Jewish state."

Netanyahu also discussed Palestinian incitement to hate and said "hundreds of thousands of Palestinian children are being in-

doctrinated with hate every day, every hour.

"This is child abuse," he continued.

"How can any of us expect young Palestinians to support peace when their leaders poison their minds against peace?"

But he also said he wished to make clear he has not given up on peace and on the two-state solution, and that changes now happening in the Arab world provide a good opportunity to advance peace.

At the same podium an hour earlier, Abbas vowed to submit a resolution to the UN Security Council against Israeli settlements and "the terror of the settlers against the Palestinian people."

He said the Palestinians will support all efforts for a UN Security Council resolution on Israeli settlements, and pointed to the US by saying he hopes such a motion will not be met by any veto.

"I call on you to declare 2017 the year to end the Israeli occupation of our land and our people," he told the plenum.

In his speech, Abbas also called on Britain to apologize for the 1917 Balfour Declaration and claimed that as a result of Britain's endorsement of a Jewish homeland in the Holy Land, Israel "since 1948 has persisted in its contempt for international legitimacy" and seized more than the land additionally allotted for the Jewish state.

In his speech, Netanyahu ridiculed the Palestinian leader for these claims.

Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon also criticized the PA president's speech.

"Abbas chose to use the UN pulpit to represent Palestinian terror. His dangerous words are sure to lead to even more terror attacks against Israel," Danon said. "The Palestinian youth listening to his speech today will be the terrorists of tomorrow.

Abbas's words are like a ticking time-bomb."

On Wednesday, Netanyahu met with US President Barack Obama and spoke on a number of topics including settlement expansion and the desire to reach an agreement on the twostate solution. Netanyahu also thanked Obama for signing a $38 billion, 10-year military aid package last week.

On Thursday, however, Minister- without-Portfolio Tzachi Hanegbi panned the US president as "naive and messianic" toward Israel.

The Likud lawmaker said that there had been an "improvement" in Obama's stance toward the Jewish state in his second term, however he also said that the US president was "not acting as the world's strongest man, but as an employee of the Clinton campaign."

Netanyahu will end his visit to New York on Sunday.(Agencies)

PM invites Abbas to address Knesset, slams "moral farce" of UN at speech to United Nations General Assembly; says "road to peace runs through Jerusalem and Ramallah, not New York."

Top US think-tank analyses 2 years of NDA government Washington, Sept 23 : Two years of the NDA government have instituted significant reforms including the passing of the GST bill in India but "cultural issues and saffronisation" have resulted in a slow incremental change instead of big bang reforms, according to a top American think-tank.

Noting that India has managed to combat inflation, the Hudson Institute said the country has the potential to hit double-digit growth rates if it focuses on modernising infrastructure, improving basic inflation,

PM Narendra Modi the Hudson Institute said the country has the potential to hit double-digit growth rates if it focuses on

modernising infrastructure, improving basic amenities and reducing red-tapism.

In its recent report 'Modi Two years On', the thinktank has analysed two years of the government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and said it has instituted significant reforms, with the most significant of them being passing of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) bill.

It said the bill, passed by the Rajya Sabha last month, will over time create a much needed pan-Indian market.

"India's economy can grow at double-digit rates if it can repair and rebuild its British era rail, road and air transport and port infrastructure, improve accessibility to basic amenities like electricity and water and untangle the Gordian knot of its complicated bureaucratic rules and regulations," it said yesterday.

The report, however, added that two years of the NDA government has not yet fulfilled the expectation of moving expeditiously to create a new India. (PTI)

According to the China Earthquake Networks Center (CENC), the earthquake occured at 1:23 a.m. Beijing Time.

Beijing, Sept 23:An earthquake of 5.1 magnitudes on the Richter Scale hit Litang County, Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Garze, in southwest China's Sichuan Province in the wee hours on Friday.

According to the China Earthquake Networks

Center (CENC), the earthquake occured at 1:23 a.m. Beijing Time, reports Xinhua.

The epicentre about 16 km deep was monitored at 30.10 degrees north latitude and 99.61 degrees east longitude. So far, no casualties have been reported. (PTI)

fully aware and ready to fight (sic)".

He quickly added that "war is not good for the poor people of South Asia".

"War is not good for the poor people of South Asia who are in majority let the majority unite and stop this war mongering," Mir wrote.

Russian forces arrive in Pakistan for first-ever joint military excercise Rawlapindi, Sept 23: Contingents of Russian ground forces have arrived in Pakistan to take part in the first of its kind joint military excersize, the Inter-service Public Relations said.

The military drills will begin on September 24 and continue till October 10, the ISPR said.

The military exercise 'Friendship 2016' will last for two weeks and approximately 200 military personnel from both sides will take part. The military exercise can be viewed a measure to increase bilateral relations between Pakistan and Russia.

Following the Uri attack in Indian Occupied Kashmir, several news outlets in India had said the military exercise had been called off. However, Russian diplomats and Pakistan's Ambassador to Moscow Qazi Khalilullah confirmed that there had been no change and the military exercise would be held as per schedule. (Agencies)

Aung San Suu Kyi makes first UN address as Myanmar's leader Former opposition icon pledges to promote human rights in Rakhine state but fails to name Rohingya, a persecuted Muslim minority in the troubled region United Nation, Sept 23:Aung San Suu Kyi has pledged to promote human rights in Myanmar's troubled Rakhine state as the Nobel laureate made her UN debut as her country's de facto leader.

In a scene unthinkable several years ago, the one-time opposition icon who was put under house arrest for years by a military junta took the rostrum of the United Nations on Wednesday to speak for Myanmar.

But some western supporters who long fought for Suu Kyi's freedom have voiced dismay as, now a politician, she refuses to recognize the Rohingya - a persecuted Muslim minority in the overwhelmingly Buddhist nation.

Suu Kyi did not mention the Rohingya by name in her address. It is a contentious issue among Buddhists in Rakhine, who consider the Rohingya to be illegal immigrants from neighboring Bangladesh and customarily call them "Bengali".

But she pledged to back a commission led by former UN chief Kofi Annan that was recently set up to advise on Rakhine state, where thousands of

Aung San Suu Kyi said she would back a commission led by Kofi Annan that was set up to advise on Rakhine state

Rohingya have spent four years in dire displacement camps.

"There has been persistent opposition from some quarters to the establishment of the commission," she said, referring to protests that have met the advisers.

"However, we are determined to persevere in our endeavor to achieve harmony, peace and prosperity in the Rakhine state," she said.

"I would like to take the opportunity to ask for the understanding and constructive contribution of the international community," she said. "By standing firm against the forces of prejudice and intolerance, we are reaffirming our faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human per-

son."

Before heading to New York, Suu Kyi met at the White House with Barack Obama, who agreed to scrap remaining sanctions against Myanmar.

US policymakers privately say that they recognize Suu Kyi faces intense domestic pressure in Myanmar, where the Rohingya are the target of widespread public derision and are not even considered citizens.

Suu Kyi, the daughter of independence leader Aung San, has a delicate relationship with Myanmar's generals. In her UN address, she referred to her country mostly as Myanmar and not as Burma, the usage insisted upon by her opposition party when she was under house arrest. (Agencies)

EDUCATION

DIBRUGARH, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24

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How to Survive — and Excel in — Your College Years Perhaps you were class president in high school.

Or perhaps you were a member of the honor society. You could have graduated in the top percentile of your graduating class; perhaps you were even valedictorian. Maybe your were in the honors program or the International Baccalaureate program. Actually, it doesn’t really matter what you did in high school as you make the transition to college. High school success (or lack of it) doesn’t automatically apply to college.

You start college with a clean academic slate, along with a lot of independence and a myriad of critical decisions as you begin the transition into adulthood. The decisions that you make and the actions you take during this first year of college will have a major impact on the rest of your college experience.

According to American College Testing (ACT), one in every four college students leaves before completing their sophomore year — and nearly half of all freshmen will either drop out before obtaining a degree or complete their college education elsewhere.

But wait! This article is not meant to scare you or take away any of the joy, excitement, and anticipation you feel about going to college. Quite the opposite.

This article is all about the things you need to do to not only survive your first year of college, but to thrive in college. And many of the tools, skills, and habits you develop through this article can not only be used to help you succeed in college, but in your future career as well.

The first few weeks on campus are extremely critical for all new students. It is during this time that you make critical decisions that will have an effect on the rest of your life. Some of these 25 tips are critical during your first weeks, while the others are meant for longerterm guidance and survival. Whatever you do, be sure to be yourself and try to enjoy your college ex-

perience as much as possible. Expect to feel some stress and homesickness, but don’t let these issues wear you down.

traced back to an illness that kept them away from classes for an extended period of time that led to a downward spiraling effect. Get enough sleep, take your vitamins, and eat right. If you haven’t heard the jokes about college food, you soon will. And without mom or dad there to serve you a balanced meal, you may be tempted to go for those extra fries or cookies. Stay healthy and avoid the dreaded extra “Freshman 15” pounds by sticking to a balanced diet.

at ease you’ll feel and the better prepared you’ll be when issues arise.

2.

Get to know your roommate and others in your residence hall. The people you live with, most of whom are going through similar experiences and emotions, are your main safety net — not only this year, but for all your years. You may change roommates after the first semester or you may stay roommates for all four years — just take the time to get to know your fellow first-year students.

3.

Get Organized. In high school, the teachers tended to lead you through all the homework and due dates. In college, the professors post the assignments — often for the entire semester — and expect you to be prepared.

Buy an organizer, use an app, or get a big wall calendar — whatever it takes for you to know when assignments are due.

4. Find the ideal place for you to study. It may be your dorm room or a cozy corner of the library, but find a place that works best for you to get your work done — while avoiding as many distractions as possible.

5.

Go to class. Obvious, right? Maybe, but sleeping in and skipping that 8 am class will be tempting at times. Avoid the temptation. Besides learning the material by attending classes, you’ll

8.

Get to know your academic adviser. This is the person who will help you with course conflicts, adding or dropping courses, scheduling of classes for future semesters, deciding on majors and minors. This person is a key resource for you — and should be the person you turn to with any academic issues or conflicts. And don’t be afraid of requesting another adviser if you don’t click with the one first assigned to you.

9. Seek a balance. College life is a mixture of social and academic happenings. Don’t tip the balance too far in either direction. One of my favorite former students always used to say her motto was to “study hard so she could play hard.”

10. Get involved on campus. A big problem for a lot of new students is a combination of homesickness and a feeling of not quite belonging. A solution? Consider joining a select group — and be careful not to go overboard — of student orga-

and then making sure you work as hard as you can to achieve them.

12. Take advantage of the study resources on campus. Just about all colleges have learning labs and tutors available. If you’re having some troubles, these resources are another tool available to you.

Another idea: form study groups.

13. Make time for you.

Be sure you set aside some time and activities that help you relax and take the stress out of your day or week. Whether it’s enlisting yoga techniques, watching your favorite television shows, or writing in a journal, be good to yourself.

14. Don’t feel pressured to make a hasty decision about a career or a major.

It doesn’t matter if it seems as though everyone else seems to know what they’re doing with their lives — believe me, they don’t — college is the time for you to really discover who you are, what you enjoy doing, what you’re good at, and what you want to be. It’s not a race; take your time and enjoy exploring your options.

15. Take responsibility for yourself and your actions.

Don’t look to place the blame on others for your mistakes; own up to them and move on. Being an adult means taking responsibility for everything that happens to you.

16. Make connections with students in your classes. One of my best students said his technique in the first week of classes was to meet at least one new person in each of his classes. It expanded his network of friends — and was a crucial resource at times when he had to miss a class.

also receive vital information from the professors about what to expect on tests, changes in due dates, etc.

6. Become an expert on course requirements and due dates. Professors spend hours and hours preparing course syllabi 1. Go to all orientations. and calendars so that you Do you really need to go will know exactly what is on yet another campus expected of you — and tour? Yes. The faster you when. One of the lamest learn your way around excuses a student can give campus — and around all a professor: “I didn’t the red tape — the more know it was due today.”

25 Strategies and Tips to Help You Survive and Thrive Your Freshman Year

7. Meet with your professors. Speaking as a professor, I can assure you there are only upsides to getting to know your professors, especially if later in the semester you run into some snags. Professors schedule office hours for the sole purpose of meeting with students — take advantage of that time.

17. Find the Career Services Office. Regardless of whether you are entering college as undeclared or have your entire future mapped out, seek out the wonderful professionals in your college’s career services office and get started on planning, preparing, and acting on your future.

nizations, clubs, sororities or fraternities, or sports teams. You’ll make new friends, learn new skills, 18. Don’t procrastinate; and feel more connected prioritize your life. It may to your school. have been easy in high school to wait until the last 11.

Strive for good minute to complete an asgrades. Another obvious signment and still get a one here, right? Remem- good grade, but that kind ber the words of the open- of stuff will not work for ing paragraph; while good you in college. Give yourgrades could have come self deadlines — and stick naturally to you in high to them. school, you will have to earn them in college — 19. Stay healthy/Eat Right. and that means setting A lot of problems firstsome goals for yourself year students face can be

10 Ways Leadership Roles Will Help You Succeed After College Student leaders have the unique opportunity to learn and lead during their college years - an experience not easily replicated after graduation.

Learn how individuals who serve in student leadership roles are poised to be successful in the workforce after completing college.

20. Learn to cope with homesickness. It’s only natural that there will be times when you miss your family, even if you were one of those kids who couldn’t wait to get away.

Find a way to deal with those feelings, such as You'll gain confidence. making a phone call or sending some email home.

Many student leaders are 21. Stay on campus as chosen or voted into their much as possible. positions by their peers.

Whether it’s homesick- Having your abilities recness, a job, or a boyfriend ognized by others is emor girlfriend from home, powering, and the work try not to leave campus you do in a leadership role too soon or too often. The is likely to be recognized. more time you spend on You can gain confidence getting to know the cam- in your leadership skills pus and your new friends, by starting a club on-camthe more you’ll feel at pus, writing for the school home at school. And why newspaper, organizing not take advantage of all sports rallies or serving as the cultural and social a tour guide for incoming events that happen on students. campus?

You can develop com22.

Seek professional munication skills help when you need it.

Most colleges have health Public speaking plays a and counseling centers. If you’re sick or feeling iso- major role in many calated or depressed, please reers today. As a student take advantage of the leader, you'll have to many services these of- speak with confidence fices provide students. You and poise to diverse don’t have to face these groups about your organization's mission issues by yourself. and goals. Diplomacy 23.Keep track of your skills and persuasion tacmoney. If you’ve never tics are applicable to alhad to create a budget, most any career. You can now is the time to do so. develop your communiFind ways to stretch your cation skills by speaking money – and as best you at school events, can, avoid all those credit mentoring incoming card solicitations you’ll freshmen or being part of soon be receiving. The a school's radio broadcast average credit card debt team. of college grads is staggering.

You'll gain responsibility 24. Don’t cut corners.

College is all about learning. If you procrastinate Student leaders aren't and cram, you may still do only responsible for well on tests, but you’ll themselves - they also learn very little. Even have extended responsiworse, don’t cheat on bilities that affect a wide range of people. Leaders term papers or tests. of a group must not only 25.Be prepared to feel make sure that tasks get overwhelmed. There’s a done, but that all memlot going in your life right bers of the organization now. Expect to have mo- are performing to the best ments where it seems a bit of their abilities. If sometoo much. As one student one doesn't follow says, be prepared to feel through on a task, leadcompletely unprepared. ers make sure that, ultiThe trick is knowing that mately, the task is comyou’re not the only one pleted. This responsibility feeling that way. can be a lesson on how to hold others accountFinal Words of Advice able. for First-Year College Students You’ve done all the prep work — you’ve gotten good grades in high school, scored well on a standardized test, and been accepted into the college you want to attend — so enjoy all your hard work while laying the groundwork for a successful college career. Don’t be a statistic; be determined to make it through your freshman year — and beyond. Take advantage of your network of new friends and professors, have fun while learning as much as you can, and get the most out of your college experience.

You can develop negotiation skills Most student groups work on collaborative projects that may have competing interests.

Student leaders must learn to establish priorities and compromise when necessary. Success occurs when the integrity of a project is maintained and everyone involved feels valued and empowered.

This form of negotiation is invaluable for helping any group meet its goals, including professional teams in the workforce.

To further develop your negotiation skills, consider taking a conflictresolution or cooperative learning workshop offered either on-campus or off-campus.

You'll be able to network Student leaders may communicate with many people that the average student doesn't typically interact with on a daily basis. In a leadership role, one can become familiar with school administrators, leaders from other campus groups, managers in off-campus partner organizations and other high-profile figures.

Building relationships with these people can yield valuable personal and professional contacts.

You'll gain management skills A strong leader is one whose management skills become second nature.

Leaders must oversee operational tasks, make budgets, prioritize workloads, build consensus and perform other executive duties as necessary. Practicing these skills in college can teach you how to use your personal talents for the overall advantage of your group. You'll likely make mistakes, but learning how to handle them now can better prepare you for the workforce.

You can hone problemsolving skills.

Student leaders have many obligations to meet while maintaining a full course load and attending to other personal responsibilities. It will take some creative problem-solving to get everything done and keep life in balance.

Leadership experiences allow you to hone multitasking abilities that future job and life responsibilities demand.

You'll discover new talents While student leadership involves delegating work and holding others accountable, leaders have to complete some tasks on their own. For example, if you're leading a small group, you may have to serve as an accountant or creative director for your organization's new marketing campaign. New tasks can be challenging, but they can also awaken undiscovered talents that may prove useful in the future.

You'll be recognized The student leader often becomes the face of the group he or she represents. If a leader is involved and successful, individuals from all fields of study may recognize the leader around campus, even when official business is not being conducted. Leaders are often approached with unique and engaging opportunities by other students and faculty members. Leadership work may also lead to school awards, which can add another distinction to your resume.

10. You'll improve your resume Employers recognize the responsibilities that student leaders take on, and they respect the initiative it shows to head a college organization. With leadership experience on your resume, you're more likely to get the attention of a hiring manager. A student leadership role is also a great talking point during interviews.

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Pakistan has been isolated over Kashmir issue: Ram Vilas Paswan

Uri terror attack's shadow on BJP NC meet

DIBRUGARH, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24

Panaji, Sept 23: Pakistan has been isolated in the world over the issue of Kashmir, Union Minister Ram Vilas Paswan today said claiming that Prime Minister Narendra Modi's foreign policy was now fetching results.

"The world is now convinced that Pakistan is a terrorist country. The foreign policy adopted by Prime Minister Narendra Modi is fetching results for India," Paswan claimed while talking to PTI on the sidelines of an event in South Goa. The Minister for Food and Public Distribution arrived here to address the 17th Regulators and Policymakers Retreat organised by Independent Power Producers Association of India.

He said the Centre is very

He said the people in Kashmir want normalcy as they want to move on with their lives. serious about the Kashmir issue.

"People of the country have full faith in the central government and also in the Prime Minister," he said.

He said the PM has adopted the right foreign policy by visiting various nations due to which India's relations with other countries across the world over have improved

drastically.

"The Prime Minister's foreign policy is the best (foreign policy) after Independence. The world is with India and it can be credited to the Prime Minister," he said.

"Pakistan has been now isolated over the issue of Kashmir. There is absolutely no two-way thinking on the issue of Kashmir on the side of India.

Kashmir is an integral part of India," Paswan said.

The Union minister said there is anger in the country after the Uri terror attack.

"The government government is working on a strategy to counter such attacks. The issue of terrorism is tedious. Terrorists are making innocent children as their shield in Kashmir," he said.

He said the people in Kashmir want normalcy as they want to move on with their lives.

"I was part of the delegation that went to Kashmir and what we saw was that it was absolute peace there. People want peace," the Lok Janashakti Party (LJP) leader said.

LJP is BJP's alliance partner at the national level.

"While on one side our mission is to eliminate terrorism, on the other hand, we are trying to establish peace in Kashmir," he said.

Paswan said the Prime Minister has toed the right line by talking about Pakistan-occupied Kashmir and Balochistan.

"First time, the reference was made to Balochistan by the Prime Minister from the Red Fort," he said.

India, France ink deal Samsung phone catches fire in aircraft; DGCA for 36 Rafale fighter jets summons company

Rafale fighter jets. A file photo New Delhi, Sept 23 : India and France today signed the Euro 7.87-billion (Rs 59,000 crore approx) deal for Rafale fighter jets, equipped with latest missiles and weapon system besides multiple India-specific modifications that will give the IAF cutting edge capability over arch rival Pakistan.

The deal was signed by Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar and his visiting French counterpart Jean Yves Le Drian sixteen months after Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced India's plans to buy 36 Rafale fighter aircraft in fly away condition during his trip to France.

The deal comes with a saving of nearly 750 million Euros, gained through hard negotiations by the Indian side, over the one

struck during the previous UPA government, which was scrapped by the Narendra Modi government, besides a 50 per cent offset clause.

The 50 per cent offset clause means that Indian businesses, both big and small, will gain work to the tune of over three billion Euros.

These combat aircraft, delivery of which will start in 36 months and will be completed in 66 months from the date the contract is inked, comes equipped with state-of-the-art missiles like 'Meteor' and 'Scalp' that will give IAF a capability that had been sorely missing in its arsenal.

The features that make the Rafale a strategic weapon in the hands of IAF include its Beyond

Jayalalithaa hospitalised for fever, dehydration, under observation

Jayalalithaa.A file Photo.

Chennai,Sept 23: Chief minister Jayalalithaa was taken to the Greams Road Apollo hospital late on Thursday for fever and dehydration. A press release from the hospital chief operating officer Subbiah Viswanathan said she was stable and under observation. Security was beefed up around the hospital.

"The honourable chief minister of Tamil Nadu was admitted to Apollo Hospitals, Chennai with fever and dehydration," he said in a release circulated to media by the state government in the wee hours today.

"The honourable madam is stable and under observation," Viswanathan said.(PTI)

Visual Range (BVR) Meteor air-to-air missile with a range in excess of 150 km.

Its integration on the Rafale jets will mean IAF can hit targets inside both Pakistan and across the northern and eastern borders while staying within India's territorial boundary.

Pakistan at present has only a BVR with 80 km range.

During the Kargil war, India had used a BVR of 50 km range while Pakistan had none.

However, Pakistan later acquired 80-km-range BVR, but now with 'Meteor', the balance of power in the air space has again tilted in India's favour.

'Scalp', a long-range airto-ground cruise missile with a range in excess of 300 km, also gives IAF an edge over its adversaries.

Sources said the "vanilla price" of just the 36 aircraft is about 3.42 billion Euros. The armaments cost about 710 million Euros while Indian specific changes, including integration of Israeli helmet-mounted displays, will cost 1,700 million Euros.

Associate supplies for the 36 fighter jets will cost about 1800 million Euros while performance based logistics will cost about 353 million Euros. (PTI)

A high-end Samsung smartphone caught fire inside a Chennai-bound IndiGo aircraft today, creating a scare among 175 passengers on-board but the plane made a safe landing.

New Delhi, Sept 23: The incident, concerning Samsung Galaxy Note 2 device, prompted the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) to ask all airlines to ban the use of this series of smartphones inside planes, while the company officials have been summoned by the aviation regulator on Monday.

The fire was reported inside the IndiGo aircraft coming from Singapore at the Chennai airport.

Passengers travelling on 6E054 flight from Singapore to Chennai noticed the smoke smell in the cabin this morning and immediately alerted the cabin crew on board, IndiGo said.

The crew found the smoke to be coming from the hatrack of seat 23C after which the pilot alerted the ATC of the situation on board.

"Taking the precautionary measure, the cabin crew on priority relocated all passengers on other seats, and further observed smoke being emitted from a Samsung note 2 which was placed in the baggage (of a passenger) in the overhead bin.

"The crew discharged the fire extinguisher which is as per the Standard Operating Procedures prescribed by the aircraft manufacturer,

and quickly transferred the Samsung note 2 into a container filled with water in lavatory," it said.

The airline said the aircraft made a normal landing and all passengers were deplaned as per normal procedure.

"This equipment (Samsung mobile) will be further examined by the concerned departments. IndiGo has voluntarily informed the DGCA," the carrier said, while adding that safety was of the utmost priority and at no time it can be compromised.

The watchdog had earlier banned the use of Samsung Galaxy Note7 onboard an aircraft following a series of incidents of the smartphone's battery exploding in various countries. However, this is the first incident of the Samsung device catching fire onboard in India.

No immediate comments was available from Samsung.

The regulator would now issue a fresh advisory about these devices, while it has already asked airlines to advise passengers to switch off their Samsung Galaxy Note phones while onboard.(PTI)

Israel offers to assist India in border fencing New Delhi, Sept 23:Israel today offered to India its expertise for strengthening border fencing, stressing that the two countries share "similar challenges" on many fronts, including cross-border terrorism.

The comments made by Israeli Ambassador to IndiaDaniel Carmon assume significance in the wake of last Sunday's terror attack in Uri, where the terrorists were believed to have come from Pakistan crossing the Line of Control.

The top Israeli diplomat said his country is following the development with concern and affirmed that cooperation on terrorism shall be a permanent feature of bilateral ties.

Carmon said Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh, during his last visit to Israel, was shown the country's preparedness level at the borders.

"Our message is, yes, Israel has the expertise, because it has been under threat. We do share similar challenges. We have the solutions. We can work together on the solution.

It also triggered a diplomatic dust-up with both India and Pakistan hitting out at each other at UN General Assembly.

Kozhikode, Sept 23: The shadow of Uri terror attack looms large over the BJPNational Council meeting which started today with party leaders asserting that there can be no development without security.

As top party leaders arrived at a picturesque resort, the venue of the first day of the three-day exercise in this Malabar town with its president Amit Shah chairing key meetings, they said the nation expects them to articulate the prevailing mood in the country.

"This party belong to the people and recognises the mood of the people. Prime Minister Narendra Modirecognises the mood of the people. We are waiting and the whole country is waiting to hear him," BJPspokesperson Shahmawaz Hussain told reporters.

While the party's 'garib kalyan' (welfare of poor) agenda will remain a key theme in the meeting of over 1,700 delegates being held in the birth centenary year of its ideologue Deen Dayal Upadhyay,

Army personnel in action inside the Army Brigade camp during a terror attack in Uri, Jammu and Kashmir. there is acknowledgement that it will have to address the concerns, especially of its cadres and nationalist constituency, in view of the terror attack.

"When we talk of development, security is important. There cannot be development without security," its National Secretary Sidharth Nath Singh said.

"The result will be there, the desired result will be there on Pakistan," he said when asked what action the government will take

against Pakistan.

18 soldiers were killed when Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorists attacked a highly-guarded army camp in Uri in Kashmir on Sunday morning, drawing outrage in the country.

The Prime Minister said that those behind the depicable act will not go unpunished.

The incident has also triggered a diplomatic dust-up with both India and Pakistan hitting out at each other including at the UN General Assembly.(PTI)

CM Arvind Kejriwal urges L-G Jung to reconsider canceling appointment of DERC chief New Delhi, Sept 23: Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Friday urged Lt Governor Najeeb Jung to reconsider his decision scrapping the appointment of Krishna Saini as chairperson of Delhi's power regulator DERC in public interest, saying all laid down procedures were followed by the AAP government during the selection process.

In his 27-page note to Jung, Kejriwal said cancelling the appointment of Saini will only lead to "serious problems" for the power section, and huge adverse impact on the consumer which could not been the "intention" of the Lt Governor.

The Delhi Chief Minister has also offered to meet Jung to personally request him to revoke scrapping of appointment of Saini as the chairman of power regulator body.

In the note, Kejriwal cited Transaction of Business Rules (TBR) and said all laid down rules were followed by the Delhi government while appointing Saini.

"The entire selection process was conducted in a fair and transparent manner and in full conformity with law while bearing public interest in mind.

There is not an iota of mala

fide, bias or other irregularity in the process," Kejriwal said in the note.

The LG's office had on Monday said Saini was appointed to the top post of Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission (DERC) in March without Jung's approval, as mandated under rules and procedures.

The Delhi CM said that since the AAP government has challenged the High Court order stamping the primacy of LG in the city administration, the matter is sub-judice and it would be appropriate to await the final orders of the Supreme Court.

The Kejriwal government had constituted a Selection Committee to appoint the Chairman of DERC this year. The CM said that the committee was headed by a retired High Court Judge and included the Chairman, Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC) and the Chief Secretary as Members.

The panel of the two names recommended by the committee was considered and a reasoned decision was taken for final selection of Saini, the CM said.

Kejriwal said the government had sent the copies of both the appointment

order of the Selection Committee and appointment order of chairman to Lt Governor office, adding that neither was any objection then raised nor the relevant files called by Jung.

"Lt Governor is aware, this is a curable defect, even if we assume that it was a defect. Thus, I would urge him to review his order in public interest," he added.

He also said that since Saini became the chairman of the power regulatory body, several decisions have been taken in public interest, including imposing a penalty on discoms for unscheduled power cuts, and a proposal to allow individual metering in co-operative societies so that individual consumers can avail the benefit of the Delhi Government's subsidy scheme.

The LG and AAP government have been at loggerheads over a range of issues including appointments and have even been fighting it out in court. The Delhi High Court had last month held that LG is the administrative head of Delhi following which the AAP government had challenged the verdict in the Supreme Court. (PTI)

Curfew, restrictions in Kashmir ahead of Friday prayers A file Photo.

"We have shown in other areas that we can cooperate and this might and should be the case here as well," Carmon said during a media briefing on the upcoming HLS and Cyber Conference in Tel Aviv.

Asked about the Uri attacks, which claimed the lives of 18 soldiers, Carmon said Israel's cooperation with India on a daily basis on anti-terrorism, defence and homeland security "is there, was there and will continue to be there".

"There is a need to confront terrorism. There is a tacti-

cal way to do this. There is an international, diplomatic way to do this and I am sure and confident that India knows exactly what it needs to do," he said.

Carmon said that Israel was willing to share conceptual and technological knowledge on how it was countering cyber threats, which he said can emanate from anywhere and not any particular country.

The conference will be held between November 14-17 where a number of Indian companies are expected to participate.(PTI)

Srinagar, Sept 26: Curfew was on Friday imposed in parts of Srinagar in view of apprehensions of law and order problems after Friday congregational prayers.

"Curfew has been imposed in five police station areas of downtown (interior city) and Batamaloo and Maisuma areas in the uptown," a police official said, adding restrictions on assembly of people would remain in force in the rest of the Valley.

He said curbs on the movement of people were imposed as there were apprehensions of law and order problems after the Friday prayers.

Normal life remained affected in the Valley for the 77th straight day due to restrictions and separatist sponsored strike.

The separatists, who are spearheading the current agitation in the Valley, have extended the protest programme till September 29 but have announced periods of relaxation in the strike on some days, unlike the previous week s protest programme where there was no relaxation.

They have called for marches to various tehsil headquarters across the Valley today.

Shops, business establishments and petrol pumps continued to re-

main shut in Srinagar and elsewhere in the Valley, while public transport was off the roads.

Schools, colleges and other educational institutions also continued to remain shut.

Mobile internet services also remained suspended, while the outgoing calls on prepaid numbers continued to remain barred across the Valley.

As many as 81 people, including two cops, have been killed in the unrest that broke out a day after Hizbul Mujahideen Commander Burhan Wani was killed in an encounter with security forces in South Kashmir on July 8. (PTI)

DIBRUGARH, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24

LIFE & STYLE

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Own a doll-sized version of yourself!

We cannot relive life but all that we can do is to capture those moments which make our life worthwhile.

Photographs and videos have made it easy to relive these moments. But how about holding a memory in your hands almost life-like?

Yes, Mini Klones does just that. The brainchild of Nikhil Kapur, Mini Klones has made it possible to hold your clone in your hands, forever!

The concept!

Though 3D printing was officially invented in 1984, the concept of copying and recreating something threedimensional still comes across to some as something that belongs in Star Trek. I have been working towards offering my clients these customised figurines since early 2015. This latest technology in 3D printing allows people to capture their own image in a miniature form. This fun and cool replacement for photographs basically means that you can own a doll-sized version of yourself. They are photorealistic miniature replicas of any person or object.

The idea for Mini Klone came to me, when I first saw, what was possible with 3D printing technology. As a professional wedding photographer, my endeavour is to make a memorable moment even more special for my clients by capturing it in photographs. 3D printing allows me go ten steps further by bringing to life that moment and creating a unique visual memory. It's a moment in time that you can literally hold on to.

The 360-degree effect There is actually no minimum and maximum size for the product. We can print really small figures as well as life-size figures. Anything larger than 14 inches will need to be printed in parts and then combined.

This gives a seamless product because all the joints have been generated on the computer and just need to be locked into place.

The only limitation is that we need to have 360-degree visual information of the person to be able to print an accurate replica. A lot of

people call us to gift these Klones but have just one single image to work with.

We have to then try and convince them to either click the picture and send us or find images from a social media account. We can work with any images as long as it helps us get all the information we need to create a three-dimensional image.

Best occasions for getting a portrait...

We offer our product to a variety of clients who are looking to preserve a mo-

Five Fashion Tips For Larger Men If you're big and heavy and you wish to dress nicely without having to spend a lot on your wardrobe, consider these six amazing tips for dressing up with a bit of suave. Although they are basic and easy to handle, if you put all of them together, they can have a considerable effect on the way you look.

1. Minus the Belt and Switch to Suspenders If you have a big round stomach, then belts would most certainly not work on you because of the shape of your tummy. The circular band of the stomach tapers would only make the belt slip. Just imagine fastening a belt on a basketball. Now, suspenders, on the other hand, eliminate the issue permanently and allow the trousers you are wearing to fall smoothly like a drape rather than clustering it up at the top.

2. Purchase Dress Shirts with Spread Collars If you have a broad face, then your first priority is to make sure that your shirt's collar matches your broadness.

Brands today assign a 90o division between collar points as a 'collar spread'. Collar spreads vary from brand to brand so make sure you find one that suits you. The benefit of wearing spread collars is that they add more proportion to your face. Plus, they also give you plenty of room to wear classy tie knots like the Windsor knot.

Remember to always tie a big knot when wearing a tie be-

ment for eternity in the most lifelike way possible.

Graduation portraits, corporate gifts, pregnant mothers, superhero figures with your face on the outfit, pets, wedding couples, cake toppers are just a few fabulous ideas of what can be done using the 3D printing process.

Proud parents can also convert their child's 2 dimensional drawing on paper into a 3 dimensional object.

Future plan is to showcase the potential of 3d printing technology across industries. The 3D market, a potential 2 billion euro in-

dustry, has a lot of room for growth in India's booming and changing lifestyle sector.

bone transplants

The country's online gifting industry alone is estimated to be US$30 billion - US$400 million. With diwali right round the corner, Mini Klone could make for a fun and quirky gifting idea.

The process is quite standard so usually things go quite smoothly. We had a tricky situation with one client who wanted to gift a Mini Klone to her brother and sister-in-law after their wedding. The image she gave as a reference was of the couple dancing, with the girl in a long flowing dress, as she's twirling around. We had to use various images from the wedding and create the digital file. Printing the file was a disaster the first time, because the dress needed extra support which we had not anticipated. The second time things worked out perfectly. The clients were extremely pleased with their Mini Klones!

The other thing that we can do with Mini Klone is creating figurines of children with their favourite superheroes.

Weddings are yet another good place to create your 3D selfies. Couples want to be immortalized with their young and beautiful wedding day appearances...it's better than a photograph.

Modelling buildings to create attractive models to show to real estate clients is another field that is great for 3D. 40% of the world's oral cancer is in India where people lose their jaw bones.

3D can be used in the medical field too, particularly

The most critical order till now...

Durability and care...

The product has an infinite shelf life as long as it's kept safely. It will shatter on impact. Apart from that it is just like any other ceramic show piece you would have at home.

The Rice-Cooking Trick That's Faster AND Better Than Boiling If you're like most people, when a recipe calls for cooking rice, you take out your saucepan and follow the 2:1 ratio. If you're feeling fancy, you might cook the rice in some chicken broth, maybe a little butter. But I have a new trick that will completely change how you cook the grain.

cause a big guy wearing tiny knotted tie looks a bit odd, don't you think?

3. Switch to Wearing Hats A hat can be worn with just about any outfit. That's why they are considered a classy add-on and by wearing one with a good outfit, you're displaying that you actually thought about what you should wear when you got up this morning and got dressed which implies that you are not a lazy person.

4. Try Some Bling On For a big man, proportion is everything. So, the bigger you are, the larger your accessories should be. For example, instead of clipping a normal plastic ballpoint pen to your pocket, get a heavier fountain pen. If you are into watches, get one which is has a large dial. Big accessories add power to your presence.

5. Don't Tuck Your Shirt In A flat plane of shirt material over your belly attracts no attention as compared to a waistband complementing your bulge when you tuck in your shirt. So, in short, untucked shirts won't accentuate your waistline. Consider getting your shirts tailored to your size and mass. Long-sleeved shirts which are designed with a collar do not need necessarily be tucked in, unless of course you are wearing one over a dress pant or a suit. But if you are wearing chinos or jeans, always keep your shirt out with your sleeves slightly over your wrists.

All in all, the fashion tips for a big man aren't much different than it is for a normal sized individual. As a matter of fact, it all depends on your personality, your taste in clothing and your acceptance of your body.

For a rice casserole, you can pretty

We Indians cannot really imagine life with onions, can we? Beyond its peculiar odour and unique flavour, onion is also highly nutritious, with each variety exhibiting potential health benefits. Here are a few of them.

Keeps your heart healthy Onions are rich in sulphur compounds like thiosulphinates, thiosulphonates, mono-, di- and trisulphides that help lower blood cholesterol levels and triglycerides. The antioxidant compounds in them reduces oxidative stress on the cells, preventing oxidation of cholesterol and plaque formation. They also prevent platelet aggregation and thrombosis, both of which contribute to heart disease development.

Helps control diabetes Apart from the sulphur compounds, onions are rich in flavonoids like quercetin that exhibits hypoglycemic effects. A study published in the journal Environmental Health Insights showed that ingestion of onions reduced fasting blood glucose by 89 mg/dl in type 2 diabetic patients. The study suggests that consumption of onions lowers blood glucose levels in both type 1 and type 2 diabetes patients.

Improves immunity Vitamin C, a powerful anti-inflammatory agent, is present in large quantities in onions that help improve immunity. Onions also boost production of interferons like TNF-? and IL-12 production that increases phagocytosis. They also increase the activity of natural killer cells, enhancing natural immunity against infectious agents.

Lowers stress Quercetin, a compound present in onions acts as a sedative which can help reduce pain, depression and anxiety. So, if you have had a hard day at work, try eating cut pieces of raw onion along with your food. Those suffering from insomnia will also benefit from eating it.

So what is this magical method? It works for when you're cool with having a beautiful mess for dinner, otherwise known as a casserole or rice bake-you know, the type of dish when all your ingredients coexist in one beautiful dish, blissfully bound by (lots and lots) of cheese.

This Cheesy Broccoli and Rice Bake is the perfect example (and a really delicious one; you should make it tonight). Rather than cook chicken and rice side by side in separate vessels, I like them to become closer friends, by cooking them together. Here's how: You cook chicken, prepped how you'll want it in the finished dish, so cubed, chopped, or in strips. You can sautĂŠ the chicken with onion and garlic and whatever seasonings you desire at this point. Once it's cooked through, you add your rice.

I like to divide them in the pan.

Then you pour over the liquids.

7 healthy reasons to eat more onions

Helps protects against cancer The potent antioxidant activity and high organosulphur content of onions has been linked to a reduced risk of several cancer like prostate cancer, kidney cancer, oral cancer, breast cancer and colorectal cancer. A study showed published in American Journal of Clinical Nutrition reveals significant reduction in cancer occurring at several sites with use of garlic and onion.

Keeps your skin healthy

much no go wrong with a combo of chicken broth and heavy cream, so I do 1 cup each.

Then you basically stir every 5 minutes or so (way low maintenance compared to risotto, am I right?) until the rice is creamy and tender, about 20 minutes for white jasmine or basmati.

Once it's cooked, go to town by adding vegetables and cheese. You can bake it for a few minutes so the cheese broils or just eat it right off the stovetop.

The antioxidants present in onions prevent your skin from getting wrinkles and fine lines which appear with age. Not only this, onions also help in the treatment of acne due to its anti-microbial, anti-bacterial and antiinflammatory qualities.

Boosts sperm health Did you know eating onions could be a good way to boost sperm count and quality? Antioxidants in onions have an essential effect on sperm health. The study carried out by Khaki A and colleagues showed that rats administered with onion juice had significantly increased sperm concentration along with increased sperm count as well as increased number of viable and motile sperms.

Why married Indian women have affairs It's not all about lust.

Kavita. 36. Warm.

Friendly. Highly accomplished. Doctor. Mother.

Married.

After ten years of marriage, three vacations and one child, Kavita realised that she needed more in life.

She went away on solo vacations, took up yoga, found herself in meditation and still needed more.

Madhuri She had so much energy.

That much love to give. And at 36, she could not waste it by sitting at home and waiting for her husband to figure out what she needed.

That's when David entered her life and she started having a rocking affair.

home with your husband and he's watching TV and you're trying desperately to make conversation. On a weekend you want to go on a date and he takes you to the movies. All the while he is on the phone checking his emails and chatting with someone else.

Husbands need to have a passionate weekend/ evening with their wives occasionally where the focus is on her and trying new things in bed to show how much they lust after her.

And if half the time he's travelling or Banerjee c o m e s h o m e late at night, a woman is bound to feel lonely. She feels there's no connection!

She will reach for the closest man in her life - a childhood friend, the funny colleague, her brother's best friend.

All it takes is for a man to ask her, "Have you eaten?

Are you ok?"

Why are so many married women having affairs? Here are 5 reasons:

It all starts with the thought, "I'm so lonely. I just want to be appreciated."

1. Loneliness - You're at

Husbands need to engage

3. Nurturing - All women need attention and if there's a man who's giving her some attention and cares about her feelings, the affair is bound to happen.

with their wives, not just fulfil their duty. They need to bring back some romance and not take their wives for granted.

2. Lust - All women have body issues. No one is com-

pletely happy with who they are. So if a woman has gone to a party and a man has paid her a compliment sincerely and had a great conversation with her engaging her mind, you can be sure she will be lusting for him.

He may not be very handsome or ideal for the long term but he's great for a good conversation and a shag maybe. It starts with the thought, "I need someone to be attracted to me."

Women are born nurturers and do a lot in the day that husbands take for granted. If a man takes control of looking after her, he will have her heart.

Husbands can truly care for their wives by helping with children, taking them out for dinners when she

doesn't feel like cooking, checking if she's okay intermittently through the day.

4. Intellectual High There are so many women who have affairs within their office or with men in creative fields. It's because they're attracted to intelligence, wit and creativity.

Most husbands refuse to share what's happening at their work place, or talk about how they're feeling and choose to let themselves lounge around at home saying they're "tired."

It becomes boring for the woman who ultimately will seek out interesting new men. And if this man finds her interesting too, then she feels she's matched to his creative energy and an affair happens.

No matter how dull the day was, it's important for a husband to share it with his wife and always listen to her positively about her day as

well.

5. Money & Power Several men like being in middle management. They are comfortable with going to work, earning enough and coming back on time.

Without any hobbies, interests or ambition, a man can wither away and take his relationship down the drain as well. A woman is attracted to a man with plans, who wants to earn more, who is driven and wants to go further with his life.

She is even more excited when this man asks her for her opinion and follows through with it. If he is already in a position of power, she feels an adrenaline rush if an important man thinks she's attractive!

Husbands should remember why their wives chose them in the first place and bring back that drive and ambition.

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2nd Thansen Wangchadong Memorial Football Tournament 2016, Tirap

Khunnu FC through to Semis

An action moment from the match between Khunnu Fc & Khonsa Fc. Pic - Dr. Changwang Mongchan

ET Correspondent Khonsa, Sept 23: In a one sided affair Khunnu Football Club defeated Khonsa Football Club 62 in the third quarter final of the second ongoing Thansen Wangchandong memorial Football tournament organized by W.Lowangdong and family in collaboration with Tirap district administration at Nehru Stadium in Khonsa here today.

Pongdi Huttu strikes the first blood for Khunnu FC in the 2nd minute.

Huttu converted a left flank pass off Maythak Katok and found the back of the net.

Midfielder Tikam Aboh collected a pass from the right flank shot and successfully netted the ball in the 39th minute.

Hochin Poakna with his

lone effort strikes the ball from the midfield in the 41st minute. Tikam scored the fourth goal in the 46th minute.

Khonsa FC got their first salvo in the 46th minute through Nguariat Tesia. Tesia came from the behind and scored the goal.

Tuwang Huttu of Khunnu FC scored the fifth salvo for his team in the 63rd minute.

Jonok Socia of Khonsa FC scored the second in the 67th minute.

Maythak Katok of Khunnu FC scored the final goal in the 88th minute. Khunnu FC dominated both the proceedings with their brilliant attacking technique. On the other hand, Khonsa FC showed sprit in the game but their players failed to deliver.

India’s Paralympic medallists to be recommended for Padma awards PTI New Delhi, Sept 23 : In a bid to give increased recognition to their achievements, the medallists from the Rio Paralympics will be recommended for the Padma awards this year by the Sports Ministry.

“Sports Ministry will recommend the names of our star #Paralympians to the Ministry of Home Affairs for the prestigious #PadmaAwards,” Sports Minister Vijay Goel announced on his Twitter page.

India won four medals – two gold, a silver and a bronze – at the Paralympics in Rio earlier this month.

Thangavelu Mariyappan (High Jump) and Devendra Jhajharia (Javelin Throw) won gold medals, while Deepa

Rio Paralympics silver medallist Deepa Malik with her family at her Gurgaon residence. Deepa and the three other medallists are to be recommended for the Padma awards by the Sports Ministry.

Malik (Shot put) had claimed a silver. Varun Singh Bhati (High Jump) had won a bronze medal.

The para-athletes were

welcomed warmly on their return from Rio and were hosted by Prime Minister Narendra Modi at his residence.

Mourinho’s dilemma: What to do with Wayne Rooney Manchester, Sept 23 : Jose Mourinho is facing the biggest question of his short reign as Manchester United manager: What to do with Wayne Rooney?

While most of United’s top players were benched or rested entirely for the English League game against third-tier Northampton on Wednesday, Rooney played the full 90 minutes — less than three days before a big Premier League match against champion Leicester.

There could be two explanations for this selection: Mourinho either wanted his captain out on the field to lead the team in a potentially tricky away cup tie; or there’s a chance Rooney could be left out at the weekend.

In a terse television interview before the

The Rooney dilemma — where to play him, if at all — is hanging over Mourinho and won’t go away, because it’s the most hotly debated issue in English football at present.

Manchester United’s Zlatan Ibrahimovic, right, and Wayne Rooney look dejected after Watford’s second goal during the English Premier League soccer match between Watford and Manchester United at Vicarage Road in London, Sunday Sept. 18, 2016.

Northampton game, Mourinho was twice asked what he wanted from Rooney. “Goals,” came the reply from the stern-faced Portuguese coach, both

times.

United won 3-1 but Rooney, who started the match as a central striker before dropping deeper in the second half, did not score.

Kidambi Srikanth loses, Indian challenge over in Japan Super Series found himself five points adrift of Marc at 10-15.

But the Indian changed gears and reeled off eight straight points from 1216 to surpass the German. Marc saved two game points before Srikanth grabbed the opening game to be 1-0 up.

Kidambi Srikanth was playing for the first time after the Rio 2016 Olympics.

Toyka, Sept 23 : K Srikanth fought hard before going down in a gruelling three-game men's singles quarterfinal against experienced German Marc Zweibler competition to draw curtains on the Indian challenge at the Japan Super Series badminton tournament in Tokyo on Friday.

The eighth seed, playing his first tournament after the Rio Olympics, suffered a narrow 21-18 14-

21 19-21 loss to World No. 15 Marc in a 58minute battle. Srikanth came into the match with a 2-1 head-to-head record, having beaten Marc the last time at the China Open but there was hardly anything to differentiate the two players as both fought tooth and nail.

Srikanth had to push himself hard right in the middle of the opening game when after an initial neck and neck battle he

In the second game, Marc broke off at 6-6 and kept his nose ahead despite some spirited fight from Srikanth to level the score at 1-1.

In the decider, it was another gruelling battle but Srikanth managed to keep himself ahead for most part after opening up a 62 lead. However, Marc produced a rearguard action to not only catch up with the Indian at 16-16 but turn the tables at 1816.

Marc managed to grab two match points at 2018. Srikanth saved one but the German sealed it at the next opportunity.

Rooney was restored to his favored No. 10 position by Mourinho for this season, after finishing last season as a central midfielder for United and England’s national team. But it remains questionable if he is doing enough to justify his place, and if this positional switch might be stifling the effectiveness of world-record signing Paul Pogba and new star striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic.

Pogba is being played as one of two deep-lying players in central midfield, with Rooney ahead of him, even

though the France international is better suited in a three-man midfield that allows him more freedom to attack and not be overly concerned with his defensive responsibilities — similar to how he played at Juventus. It seems strange to spend $116 million on a player and not adapt the team to his strengths.

Ibrahimovic, meanwhile, is a center forward who likes to roam where he wants, and he enjoyed huge tactical freedom at Paris SaintGermain, his former club.

But his tendency to improvise on a whim can also unbalance teams. For example, if Ibrahimovic is dropping deep to get more involved in play then that space is already being occupied by Rooney.

Argentina boss blasts Barcelona over Messi injury

Argentina's Coach Edgardo Bauza PTI Buenos Aires, Sept 23 : Argentina coach Edgardo Bauza launched a stinging attack on Barcelona on Thursday after losing star forward Lionel Messi for vital World Cup qualifiers against Peru and Paraguay next month.

Messi will be sidelined for the next three weeks due to a groin strain suffered in Barca's 1-1 draw with Atletico Madrid on Wednesday night. And that brought a furious rebuke of the Catalans from Bauza.

"They send us messages to look after Messi but they don't protect him. He plays every match," Bauza, who said his team would never-

theless cope, told Fox Sports.

"We've already played without Messi. Having him is an advantage for the problems he creates (for opponents). But for me as coach and for the team it's a challenge if we have to play without him."

Argentina are third in the South American World Cup qualifying group, one point behind leaders Uruguay.

They play Peru in Lima on October 6 before hosting Paraguay on October 11 in Cordoba.

Only the top four teams in CONMEBOL qualifying earn an automatic place at the 2018 World Cup in Russia.

The score did not change after as rain rendered the field unplayable.

Williamson and latham keep india at bay PTI Kanpur, Sept 23 : Indian bowlers toiled hard without much success as New Zealand came up with a resolute performance to be 152/1 before rain washed out the final session on the second day of the opening cricket Test here today.

Resuming at 291/9, India were bowled out for 318 in the morning session and in response, New Zealand captain Kane Williamson (65 batting) and Tom Latham (56 batting) struck defiant half-centuries to take the visitors to 152 for one at the stroke of tea when the heavens opened up.

The score did not change after as rain rendered the field unplayable. New Zealand are trailing by 166 runs.

The match could not be re-started in the absence of a super-sopper. To make up for the lost time, the third day's play will begin at 9:15 am tomorrow to ensure that 98 overs are bowled.

Before the downpour, however, the Kiwis exhibited steely resolve

with Williamson and Latham combining for a 117-run stand for the second wicket.

Williamson took 115 balls for his 66, that had seven boundaries in it while southpaw Latham faced 137 balls, hitting five shots to the fence in the process.

The two Kiwi batsmen were hardly troubled by either Ravichandran Ashwin or Ravindra Jadeja on a Green Park track which did not offer much assistance to the spinners.

Except for the last few overs, the two Kiwi batsmen remained untroubled even though they survived a few appeals and two specific incidents where they almost lost their wickets.

Williamson swept Ashwin often and also stayed on the backfoot, waiting for the balls to decide his stroke.

Latham also remained solid against both the spinners and pacers.

The visiting captain survived when he tried to sweep Ashwin, missed

the ball that hit him on the back of the helmet, taking off the flap, which hit the stumps but bails were not dislodged.

It happened in the 32nd over when he was on an individual score of 39.

With strike bowlers not making any impact, Kohli asked part-timer Murali Vijay to bowl his offbreaks. He almost got Latham on a full toss, which the batsman missed and was struck on the pads, but umpire shot down the desperate vociferous appeal for LBW. This was after Murali beat both the left-handed batsmen and wickerkeeper Saha with a turning ball to concede four byes.

There was more drama in the next over when Latham swept Jadeja from outside off stump and the inside edge bounced off his shoes to forward short leg fielder.

However, the TV umpire ruled him not out since the ball had touched the helmet grill before KL Rahul caught the ball.

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