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Dibrugarh, Tuesday, September 29, 2015

Physician passes away Jorhat, Sep 28: Prominent physician, environmentalist, social worker, former chairman of Indian Red Cross society, chairman of Shiv Shankar Charitable Society and proprietor of Agarwalla Nursing Home Dr. Shiv Bhagawan Agarwalla passed away at his Babupatty residence following a heart attack here today. He was 75 and survived by his wife and his only son.

Dr. Agarwalla was widely known for his involvement in the social sector especially working for the poor and the downtrodden like street people, rag pickers helping them with free treatment and offering them with warm winter clothes before every winter season through his own foundation known as Shiv Shankar Charitable Trust. Through his trust, the Shiv Shankar Charitable Society, Dr. Shiv Bhagwan Agarwalla runs two charitable dispensaries one at Jorhat Engineering College road-Gormur, while the other at the premises of the Marwari Thakurbari-AT road. Apart from helping the poor and the needy patients Dr. Agarwalla and his co-doctor Dr. Dipak Chakraborty his right hand man used to hold free blood donation camps frequently for the poor patients of Jorhat Medical College Hospital and for Lions Club blood bank, Jorhat and organize health camp during flood in Majuli, Jhansimukh, etc. at various colleges, universities, institutions and in joint efforts with local organization. His final rites will be held at Gormur cremation ground tomorrow. (Correspondent)

Siram, Vice President, Arunachal Pradesh Congress Committee, Kamen Ringu, Chairman, CWC, People’s Party of Arunachal (PPA), Tame Papuk, General Secretary, PPA, Ringu Gautam, President, Youth Wing, PPA, Gicho Kabak, President, NCP State Unit, Nima Sange, Vice President, NCP State Unit, Techi Necha, Vice President, BJP State Unit, Vijay Sonam, Secretary, BJP State Unit, Bamang Tago, Political Secretary to CM. After a threadbare discussion, the attendees have taken a stand that the ChakmaHajong issue is a common

ET Correspondent Itanagar, Sep 28

An all party meet was held under the chairmanship of Chief Minister Nabam Tuki today on the Chakma-Hajong issue in the backdrop of the recent Supreme Court judgment with regard to grant of Indian citizenship to Chakmas and Hajongs and their permanent settlement in Arunachal Pradesh. The all-party meet was attended by Tanga Byaling, Minister for Home, Nikh Kamin, MLA, Bordumsa-Diyun Assembly constituency, Padi Richo, President, Arunachal Pradesh Congress Committee, Bosiram

AAPSU protest rally held against SC order to confer citizenship on Chakmas, Hajongs The Governor must resign: AAPSU ET Correspondent Itanagar, Sep 28

Arunachal CM Nabam Tuki (third from right, front row) with the other delegates at the all-party meet in Itanagar.

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Namsai demanding fulfillment of a Nine Point Charter of Demands within fifteen days, failing which the two organizations have vowed to start a massive democratic movement. The memorandum submitted on 21 September was in reality an ultimatum.

The two organizations drew attention of the district administration regarding the illegal

Indrajit Tingwa Namsai, Sep 28

The All Tai Khampti and Singpho Students’ Union (ATKSSU) and All Namsai Area Youth Association (ANAYA) have submitted a joint memorandum to the Deputy Commissioner, ○

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appointment from Itanagar in the departments of land management, tax and excise and transport of Namsai district by depriving the deserving local candidates. It also called for immediate revocation of the appointments.

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11thJuly, 2015 in the assault case involving two lady subinspectors even after the Judicial Magistrate First Class Namsai and the District and Sessions Court, Tezuhad directing the same and termed it as contempt of court and irresponsible and partial attitude of the police.

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Thansen Wangchadong Memorial Football Tournament 2015 Khonsa Nehru Stadium

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Nagaland Tourism cannot grow unless political issues comes at peace

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After a Court Order, Pakistan Will Have to Clamp Down on Climate Change

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Rai and Tapan Kumar Gogoi, who quit the All Assam Students Union yesterday, joined the BJP today at the party’s state head office at Guwahati.

Rai, former president of the influential AASU, and Gogoi, former general secretary of the AASU, quit the student body

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In a major shot in the arm for the BJP in Assam, ahead of the Assam state elections which is slated to be held early next year, two firebrand student leaders, Sankar Prasad

formally yesterday, and joined the saffron party today. Part of the Guwahati city almost came to an standstill, as traffic was struck following thousands of people accompanying both the former AASU leaders to the party headquarter.

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Rs.100 cr to be raised by Motherhood Hospital

Stressing on a peaceful environment for tourism, he cited the case of Sikkim, where its tourism industry

A Pakistani court set an important precedent this week when it ordered the country's government to enforce the 2012 National Climate Policy and

Motherhood Hospital plans to raise more than Rs.100 crore through series 'B' funding to meet its expansion plans. Motherhood, a speci-

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was growing by leaps and bounds but in the picturesque Kashmir, tourist trade has been adversely affected.

Likewise, he said Nagaland's efforts to promote eco and cultural tourism would not find many takers.

Framework. Basically, the court order holds the Pakistani government to the country's climate change law. According to recent reports, the court has ordered the government to establish a climate change commission to oversee the process of implementation.

ality hospital chain of Bengaluru-based Rhea Healthcare, provides women's healthcare and birth care services and has delivered more than 5,000 babies through its six hospitals in the last 18 months.

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ISRO’s ASTROSAT launch: India reaches for the stars Agencies New Delhi, Sep 28

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the orbit of Mars, and ISRO has crossed yet another important milestone.

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HPC Jagiroad production works halted Dalim Phukan Morigaon, Sep 28

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In what could be a major success in the wake of the continual efforts by Anti Drugs Committee of Adi Baane Kebang Women Wing East Siang Unit, a regular opium paddler cum addict, one Dalom Lego from Ayeng village under Mebo Sub-Division, some 14 Km from here was arrested on Sunday evening following a raid where 22 Kapin Kani along with a cash amount of Rs. 30300 was recovered from his house.

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Two militants suspected to be GNLA cadres were killed in an encounter in joint operation by Assam police and army at Salaibhi village at AssamMeghalaya border under Mancachar police station of Dhubri district in the wee hours today. Police recovered one AK56, one 9 mm pistol, two grenades and ammunition of AK56, 9 mm pistol, army fatigues, mobile handsets and many other documents from the slain

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A police source informed that acting on a tip-off stating that a group of seven militants entered into Salaibhi village at around 3 pm, they moved to the interstate border village but on seeing the security forces there, militants started firing at them.

“In retaliation, police and army also fired back in which two militants aged around 25 sustained serious injuries while the rest fled from. The injured militants were brought to Hatsinghimari Civil Hospital but both succumbed to injures”, police source said.

Kabir Mondal Dhubri, Sep 28

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Prasashan Karmachari Santha at his office at Assam Secretariat, Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi said that the Government has agreed on the demand of the Santha to grant an advanced increment with effect from January 1, 2016 considering their work loads and emergent nature of duties.

Moreover, Zila Prasashan Karmachari Santha was also assured honorarium for the Panchayat Election before Durga Puja.

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Officer-in-charge, Chapakhowa police station went around 30 kms deep inside Deopani reserve forest in Lower Dibang Valley district of Arunachal Pradesh and

Two firebrand student leaders join BJP

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Seized illegal drugs and an apprehended youth.

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Lakhimpur and Dhemji District which are situated on the Assam-Arunachal Pradesh border are fast turning into drugs hub with heroine, ganja along with medicinal drugs trade allegedly flourishing under the patronage of the administration. Silapathar under

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Dhemaji district is one of the business towns on the border of Arunachal Pradesh.

Silapathar has a population of 22,307. Males constitute 53% of the population while females 47%. Silapathar has an average literacy rate of 69%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 75%, and female literacy is 63%.

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napped' by a group of unidentified people from his business establishment cum residence on Saturday was rescued by a team of Assam Police in the wee hours today. The police team led by Ripunjoy Kakoty, DSP, Sadiya and Tilok Verma,

The production works at Jagiroad Paper Mill under Hindustan Paper Corporation (HPC) came to a halt yesterday incurring a huge loss of Rs. 15 crores per day. According to official sources, the

HPC, Jagiroad Paper Mill requires 600 metric tonnes of coal per day to run the production works. But, due to financial crunch there was a halt on coal supply to this one of the biggest Public Sector Industry of the country.

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Governor to visit DU A Staff Reporter Dibrugarh, Sep 28

Assam Governor Padmanabha Balkrishna Acharaya would visit the Dibrugarh University on Tuesday for a court meeting to be held on September 30 at Dibrugarh University. Acharaya will address all the faculty members, students, non-teaching staffat Ranghar auditorium at 5 pm on September 29. He will release a book on Late Jaganath Mahanta, an eminent Vaishnivate scholar published by the Jaganath Mahanta Smirita Sanrakhan Samiti and witness Parijat Haran, Ankiya Nat by the students of Dr. Bhupen Hazarika Centre for studies in Performing Arts.

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Growth in cars and two wheelers expected to outpace CVs: Report Pune, Sep 28

Even as demand currently continues to be tepid in the passenger vehicle and two wheeler categories, growth in both the segments is expected to outpace that of commercial vehicles (CVs) over the next five years.

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THE RACE IS ON ØThe Indian CV industry is expected to grow at a CAGR (compounded annual growth rate) of 7-9 per cent during FY15-20 to reach around 0.9 million units by FY20.

Ø Market growth is expected to pick up gradually and domestic PV sales to reach 4-4.5 million units by FY20 (CAGR of 9-11 per cent during FY15-20).

ØThe two wheeler industry is expected to grow at a CAGR of 8-10 per cent during FY15-20 and reach about 25 million units by FY20.

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Vinod Singh Dhemaji, Sep 28

After announcing steps to woo the poor and BPL populace in the state, the Tarun Gogoi led Assam government is all set to woo state government officials. In this connection, the Assam government has decided to grant an advanced increment to the employees of District and SubDivision administration from January 1, 2016. Chairing a meeting with a 14-member delegation of Sadou Asom Zila ○

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A 54 year old trader of Chapakhowa town in Sadiya sub division in upper Assam's Tinsukia district who was 'kid-

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Assam-Arunachal Pradesh border fast turning into drugs hub

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Samar Jyoti Gogoi Sadiya, Sep 27

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Jairampur it has been found that there is zero cultivation of Opium in Jairampur sub division excepting 2-3 villagers of the interior villages such Hetman and Borsatam under Manmao circle.

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A meeting was held under the chairmanship of Kento Riba, ADC, Jairampur with the two administrative officers

theme of the meeting was "Let's make Jairampur Subdivision a drug free zone".

Following detailed deliberations and feedback received from the school authorities, administrative officers of Nampong, Manmao and

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- SDO, Nampong, EAC, Manmao and principals/headmasters of Govt Hr. Secondary and Secondary schools of Jairampur sub-division, in attendance in the office chamber of Addl. Deputy commissioner, Jairampur today. The

Spl Correspondent Jairampur, Sep 28

Assam Govt to grant advanced increment to District and Sub-Division admin employees

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Three Miao-based organizations, Miao Sub-Division Youth Organization, Miao Mothers Association and APWWS Miao Unit today submitted a joint memorandum to the Additional Deputy Commissioner, Miao

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to register their protest against the Supreme Court verdict asking the Government of India and Government of Arunachal Pradesh to grant citizenship to the Chakmas and Hajongs within three months on 17thSeptember last.

Indrajit Tingwa Miao, Sep 28

'Abducted' Sadiya trader Meet on drug abuse, opium cultivation and its eradication held rescued from Arunachal

Shillong, Sep 28: The mortal remains of Late Hoping Lyngdoh were taken from Shillong to his home constituency Nongstoin today to enable his supporters to perform his last rites before taking to his home village Mawkyllei in West Khasi Hills district. The state funeral for Late Hopingstone Lyngdoh, a veteran politician and Hills State People‘s Democratic Party (HSPDP) legislator will be held on September 29 at his native village. The Meghalaya’s General Administration (A) Department (GAD) under-secretary has declared three days of state mourning on September 27th, 28th and 29th.

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highway (NH 52) compensation which has already been allotted by the executing agency and was at the disposal of the district administration and have at the same time questioned the varying rates of compensation.

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AAPSU (All Arunachal Pradesh Students Union).

Members of AAPSU including President Kamta Lapung who had gone to meet the Arunachal Governor J.P. Rajkhowa to tender a memorandum, expressed dissatisfaction when the latter turned down their request and said that he is engaged in other meetings.

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More than 4000 students took to the main road of Itanagar, capital of Arunachal Pradesh to protest against the recent ruling of the Supreme Court on the ‘ChakmaHajong citizenship rights’ issue. The protest rally was led by the main Students’ Organization of Arunachal,

ATKSSU, ANAYA petition DC Namsai

Lyngdoh mortal remains taken to his home constituency

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All party meet on Chakma-Hajong issue: Arunachal Govt to file review petition

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DIBRUGARH, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29

Mukul-Gogoi effigies burned on inter-state issue

Students seen going to school in one of the flood affected areas at Sivasagar Demowmukh. Pic - Firuz Ahmed

Sangma govt. all set to tender mining policies by this week Shillong, Sep 28: The Meghalaya Government is all set to submit the much awaited mining guidelines and mining policy to the National Green Tribunal (NGT) either on Monday or Tuesday. The two-day hearing of the NGT on rat hole mining will be held on Tuesday and Wednesday in New Delhi. However, there are no indications of relief being provided to the State during the NGT hearing.

Supreme Court Advocate and Counsel for the State Government, Ranjan Mukherjee said over phone from Delhi on Sunday that he will submit the two documents on mining guidelines and mining policy on Monday or Tuesday. The mining policy is basically the same as the Meghalaya Mines and Mineral Policy 2012, but some additional points were incorporated as per the NGT directives. "If the NGT clears the mining guidelines, the same will be sent to the Union Ministry of Coal for its nod and later, it will have to be approved by the State Cabinet. After the cabinet nod, the guidelines will be notified by the state government," Mukherjee said. Both the mining guidelines and

mining policy will have provisions for safe mining practices which will also ensure the safety of the environment and the workers.

Mukherjee said that the comprehensive mining guidelines and mining policy were prepared as per the law. As per the guidelines, the mine owners will have to apply for their mining plan which will vary from one mine to another.

The mining guidelines stipulate that the mine owners should submit the mine plan to the government and then only they will be permitted to mine, Mukherjee said. The lawyer said that in Meghalaya, the open cast mining is not appropriate.

Since the coal seams (layers) are thin, controlled rat hole mining by adopting safe and secure measures without the mishap of the workers, is the only way, Mukherjee said. He also clarified that no immediate relief is expected during the hearing. As far as the transport of extracted coal is concerned, while the last date for payment of challan is up to September 30, transportation of extracted coal will be allowed till November 30. (Agencies)

Extortionist’s bizarre demand Sushanta Roy Diphu, Sep 28: Tuli Ram Ronghang, Chief Executive Member of Karbi Anglong Autonomous Council, allegedly has become a common target for extortionists of late.

The latest extortion call is probably the third among a string of those when another extortionist was netted by Diphu police yesterday for demanding rupees one crore from the council chief. As claimed

by Inspector Raju

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Duwara the investigating officer of the case from Diphu town police outpost, one Hemanta Sing son of Kala Sing resident of Sarthe Terang village made this bizarre demand from the high profile public leader a few days back. The accused was picked up by police from the village which is located in between Diphu Manja road; till filing of this report police was grilling Hemanta Sing for more details.

HANM members burnt the effigies at the premises of the Additional Secretariat, Shillong on Tuesday shouting slogans of protest against these two leaders. HANM President Mr. Lamphrang Kharbani said that the burning of these effigies is a mark of protest against these two leaders who did not take up

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the matter seriously to resolve the border dispute between the states at the earliest even after 43 year of Meghalaya statehood.

"The HANM did not want to see these two leaders shower only sweet words with no action. They always fool people during election”, said Mr. Kharbani. He said that

many a time, they met with people in the government but their assurance did not materialize. “We will visit the border in the near future especially those parts that are disputed and after that we will remind the state government to take action and even then if no result comes about, we will be compelled to take an-

other course of agitation”, Kharbani said. According to the HANM leader, the dispute between these two states has wreaked havoc on the people residing in the border areas and in 2010, four precious lives were lost at Langpih besides harassment meted out by the Karbi militants.

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You will desire to do some creative work today. You will try to bring your inner creativity to the fore. The matters in which you lag behind people will be brought into focus today. You need to be more active in dealing with these issues to progress in life.

Your ability to keenly focus on things will reach its zenith today. You will enjoy your work and complete your tasks proficiently and quickly. An unexpected turn of events may take place later today, but it will not give you too much cause for worry. Physical intimacy will only enhance your love for your beloved.

You must pack your kit right and be ready to take on anything, as today promises to be an action-packed day. Most of this action might concentrate around your family members. Towards the afternoon, you may begin to feel weighed down by household responsibilities. But on the upshot, look forward to a new relationship that might develop in the evening.

Proposals of your choice will come your way today. You shall probably retreat into your shell in the afternoon. But the passing hours will bring out a different you. At work, you shall greatly impress your boss with sparkling results.

You shall push yourself to the limit to make sure your authority goes unquestioned. Colleagues and seniors will laud you for your commitment. Expect that wallet to get heavier as you receive some cash gains.

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G M Hospital ET Correspondent Golaghat, Sep 28: Chutia Development Council, Assam today distributed cheques at Moinapara Sadhani Bhawan in Golaghat.

The Council under its Dhanadesh scheme distributed cheques among beneficiaries of Chutia community. Today in a meeting presided over by Chutia Development Council, Assam President Jiten Saikia along with several other leaders distributed Dhanadesh cheques to meritorious students, widows, persons suffering from critical disease. Also cheques were distributed for constructing Sadhani Bhawans at different places in Golaghat.

Dmuising Khongjirem Shillong, Sep 28: The Hynñiewtrep Achik National Movement (HANM) burnt the effigies of both Meghalaya and Assam Chief Ministers Dr Mukul Sangma and Tarun Gogoi for alleged non-seriousness about resolving the interstate border dispute. The

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29-9-15 (TUESDAY) 5-35 A.M-Bhaktigeeti (Devotional Songs) 6-10 A.M-Swasthya Charcha (Health Programme) 6-25 A.M-Employment News 7-15 A.M-Aajir Dinto (Morning Information Service) 7-30 A.M-Geetanjali(Assamese Modern Song) 8-35 A.M-Surar Panchoi(Composite Programme of Assamese Film Songs) 9-05 A.M- Antara(Composite Programme of Hindi Film Songs) 12-15 P.M-Teachers' Broadcast 12-45 P.M-Sponsored Programme-"Ei Path Hoise Bikashar" 2-30 P.M-Western Music Programme 3-45 P.M-Programme in Miju Mishmi 4-05 P.M-Programme in Khamti 4-25 P.M-Programme in Wancho 4-45 P.M-News for Arunachal Pradesh 5-00 P.M-Programme in Idu 5-20 P.M-Programme in Tangsa 5-40 P.M-Programme in Nocte 7-15 P.M-Chah Shramikar Aasor 8-00 P.M-Hindi Film Songs 9-30 P.M-Sahitya Kanan 10-00 P.M-Classical Music,Artist-Pt. Mani Lal Nag Sd-/H.O.P

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Yapgo prayer and destitute centre distributes relief to Anpum-Loklung flood victims Spl Correspondent Pasighat, Sep 28: In a humane gesture toward the recent flood victims of Anpum and Loklung village under Lower Dibang Valley district, the Yapgo Prayer and Destitute Centre here under Deepak Nabam Ministry in Christ has distributed relief materials at the affected village today. Rice, shawls, potatoes, salts and shoes etc were handed over to the concerned ZPM for further distribution among the affected villagers. The items were first dropped at Loklung as Anpum is not properly

accessible, but people of Anpum were told to get it by reaching them on foot. Then a tractor was sent from Anpum to pick it, added the relief team returning from Anpum. However, it is also worth mentioning here that some leaders or families of affected village are not sharing the relief materials among villagers after receiving the items from donors.

As rumored if things are like this, then the situation need to be monitored by an assigned group from among the public or from the government.

Yoga camp for school children conducted Seppa, Sep 28: A three day Yoga Camp for school children under Innovation Activities (girls’ education) by District SSA Mission in collaboration with Art of living, Arunachal Pradesh conducted at Officers’ Club, Seppa was concluded yesterday. The Art of Living faculties from various districts imparted the yoga training to 650 students.

Swami P. Alexander from Banglore taught the students about yoga and its value in daily life. He said it as a good beginning which may also be conducted in other district. DC Sandeep Kumar Singh said that Art of Living can guide the students in doing away with smoking, alcohol and drugs. Adding that one should not discriminate the addicts rather should bring them to the mainstream to live a drug free life. He said

Meghalaya High Court orders demolition of all 24 illegal buildings in the city D a m u t s k h e m Khongjirem Shillong, Sep 28: Meghalaya High Court has passed an order ordering the Meghalaya Urban Development Authority (MUDA) to demolish all 28 illegal highrise buildings in Shillong within fifteen days.

In the hearing today, the Division Bench comprising Chief Justice Uma Nath Singh and Justice TNK Singh have also passed an order ordering the CBI to inquire into the officials of MUDA who have been involved in giving permission for these illegal highrise buildings in the city.

The illegal buildings which have violated the MUDA building bye-laws belong to Narayan Prasad Jhunjhunwala at Police Bazaar, Nilesh Tibrewalla at Thana Road, Satyabrato Baidya at Jail Road, Ajit Das Gupta at Jail Road, Bidur Das at Jail Road, Uday N Shukla at Oakland Road, Rajkumari Sinha at Bivar Road, Mentok RiProject Pvt. Ltd at Bivar Road, Maruf Elahi at Bivar Road, Beroline Khongshei at Laban, Mohendro Rapsang at Keating Road and Saini Pala at Motinagar, Sanjib Das, resident of GS Road, Police Bazar, Manchin Fincon Pvt Ltd, resident of Jail Road, Kenneth M Lyngdoh, resident of Bivar Road, Sanjay Jhunjhunwalla of Bivar Road, Modrick Nongkynrih of Bishop Cotton Road, BD Marbaniang

of Demseniong, Lamboklang Mylliemngap of Motinagar, TA Sohklet of Lummawrie, Allenwood Swer of Fire Brigade, Secretary of Islamia Secondary School, P Dkhar of Laban and Nicolas Wallang of Boyce Road.

The High Court directed the Registrar to send a copy of this judgment and order to the Secretary MUDA respondent, the Deputy Commissioner of the East Khasi Hills District, Shillong, the Superintendent of Police, East Khasi Hills District, Shillong, and also to the Union Home Secretary and the Director General of all the para-military forces stationed in Shillong for immediate compliance.

“The Court was of the view that that there is no alternative except to order demolition of the additional floors of the buildings above G+3 illegally constructed. Accordingly, all the additional illegal constructions beyond G+3 shall be demolished”, said

Arunachal Guv emphasises on economic empowerment of rural communities through BRLF Spl Correspondent Itanagar, Sep 28: Dr. Mihir Shah, Chairman, Bharat Rural Livelihood Foundation (BRLF), New Delhi called on the Governor of Arunachal Pradesh Shri JP Rajkhowa at Raj Bhawan, Itanagar today.

The Governor emphasised on development of villages throughout the State especially those in border areas and difficult districts to bring economic empowerment of the rural communities by value addition to agricultural and horticultural products and non-timber forest produce etc and sustainable livelihoods, including promotion and modernization of handloom and handicrafts, improved agricultural and horticultural activities, poultry, piggery, tourism, dairy farming, aquaculture etc. He suggested that BRLF should pay special attention to establishment of de-addiction and rehabilitation of drug addicts, planning of suitable schemes for alternative livelihood of farmers engaged in illicit cultivation of opium in several districts and special development of the districts of Tirap, Changlang and Longding under NEC sponsored NERCOMP (North Eastern Community Resource Management Project) and other opium-affected districts as well. The Governor stressed on

skill development and initiative towards integrated habitat improvement, including housing, drinking water, electricity, medical facility and sanitation etc. Earlier, Dr. Shah briefed that BRLF aims to facilitate and upscale civil society action in partnership with Government for transforming livelihoods and lives of rural households, with an emphasis on women, particularly in the tribal regions. It will provide financial grants to civil society organisations to meet their human resource and institutional costs for up-scaling of interventions and capacity building of professional human resources working at the grassroots. The Foundation is constituted as a partnership between the Central Government on the one hand and private sector philanthropies, private and public sector undertakings, under Corporate Social Responsibility on the other hand. Secretary to Governor Shri Kaling Tayeng, Prof. Ajay Dandekar, BRLF, Smti Indira Mallo, Secretary, Rural Development, Government of Arunachal Pradesh, Ms. N.B. Doye, State Mission Manager, Arunachal State Rural Livelihood Mission (ArSRLM) and Dr. Rakesh Srivastava, Core Committee Member, ArSRLM were also present on the occasion.

the Court’s order.

It had also directed that the MUDA during the course of demolition drive shall seek the assistance of the Deputy Commissioner (Revenue), East Khasi Hills District, Shillong and Superintendent of Police, East Khasi Hills District, Shillong and also, if the need be, para military forces, so as to carry out the direction of demolition of additional floors of the buildings above G+3 illegally constructed effectively and within a time frame of 15 days from today. “The entire expenses incurred in demolishing the illegally constructed floors should be borne by the private respondents.

Seals of the buildings of the private respondents are to be broken only for the purpose of demolishing the illegally constructed floors above G+3”, said the Court. It had also directed the Deputy Commissioner (Revenue), East Khasi Hills District, Shillong and Su-

perintendent of Police, East Khasi Hills District, Shillong should ensure maintenance of security as well as law and order during the demolition drive of illegally constructed floors above G+3 of the buildings in question.

“The MUDA should not issue Completion Certificates under Byelaw 9 and Occupancy Certificates under Byelaw 10 till the floors illegally constructed by the private respondents are completely demolished”, added the order of the Court. The Court was of the view that considering the rampant irregularities in granting the permissions for construction of buildings by the officials of the MUDA, it would not be in the public interest to let the erring officials go scot-free.

The records for granting permissions to the respondents have already been sealed by the Superintendent of Police, CBI, Shillong as ordered by this Court.

“The CBI shall thus register PE against the officers of MUDA who have granted permissions for constructions to the aforesaid respondents and by their acts of commission and omission benefited the said respondents and also others whose buildings could not be brought to the notice of the Court during the consideration of this case”, directed the Court.

The CBI should also proceed against such 123 builders and other persons who have been or were likely to be benefited by such acts of commission and omission on the part of the officers of MUDA during the course of enquiry/ investigation of the PE. The CBI is also directed to find out from the records of MUDA in how many more such cases of illegal constructions presently existing in the city of Shillong, the building owners/builders have been benefitted by the acts of commission and omission on the part of officers of MUDA. The report should be submitted to the Court on October 15th, 2015 to find out as to whether the said erring officers of MUDA and building owners/builders are required to be prosecuted in the interest of justice. However, on the point of criminal liability of officers and others, the office of this Court shall register a criminal petition which shall be listed on October 15th, 2015 before appropriate Court for consideration and appropriate orders.

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Informing about the arrest and the seizure to this reporter today, Joya Tasung Moyong Chairman ADC ABKWW said that, they have been trying to nab Lego red handed even earlier but didn’t succeed then. This time around, they received a reliable tip-off about Lego procuring opium worth Rs 1 lakh

from Assam and accordingly they conducted the raid with the help of Mebo police and ADC village member from Ayeng and found the opium at Lego’s home. As Lego was not at home during the raid, the team took the wife at PS Pasighat after which Lego surrendered. A case has been registered against him with Pasighat PS Case No.157/2015 U/

S 17 (A) NDPS Act 1985. As per Anti Drugs Committee sources, Lego has been into this illegal business from quite sometime and he sells this to the customers in Pasighat, Mebo, Siluk, Ngopok etc. Even some wealthy individuals and government employees from Pasighat are also said to have been visiting this man for opium at Ayeng, added a source.

Meet on drug abuse, opium cultivation and its eradication held Contd. from Page 1

Drug abuse/gutka consumption has been found amongst some senior students. School authorities informed that they are doing their best to organise parents/guardians meeting regularly in creating awareness and counselling in this connection and assured their continuous

efforts seeking support and help from the administration and police. It has also came up in the meeting that due to porous state and international boundaries, drug trafficking/peddling is taking place. ADC jairampur assured all necessary action to check drug trafficking/peddling by taking administrative actions. He also in-

formed conduct of similar meetings at all the administrative HQs involving public leaders, PRI leaders, GBs, parents and guardians of students time to time to create awareness amongst the youngsters to avoid such narcotics and dedicate themselves on studies for their own better future and make the subdivision a drug free zone.

that satisfaction in life can lead to happiness which is not co-related with money though money is required for existence. He advised the students to have proper education with good health.

ADC Pooja Jain advised the

students to maintain discipline and to do everything with proper planning for success. She explained about the demerits of child marriage and advised the students not to marry early before 18 years. The power

Point Presentation on life history of Sri Sri Ravi Sankar was also shown during the programme. Er. Pai Dawe Art of living teacher and Kata Rangmo DDSE also had spoken on the occasion. (DIPRO)

All party meet on Chakma-Hajong issue: Arunachal Govt to file review petition Contd. from Page 1

issue for all and all political parties will remain united on the unanimous stand taken in the interest of the state and its people.

The State Government as well as all political parties of the state is not against the grant of Indian citizenship to Chakmas and Hajongs but has reservations vis-a-vis their permanent settlement in Arunachal Pradesh and their exclusion from the ILP provisions, which will be in contradiction to inforce Acts and Regulations like the Bengal Eastern Frontier Regulation, 1873,

the Scheduled District Act, 1874, the Assam Frontier Tract Regulation, 1880, the Assam Frontier Forest Regulation, 1891, the Chin Hills Regulations, 1896 and the Assam Frontier (Administration & Justice) Regulation, 1945 (1 of 1945). The all-party meet unanimously authorized the state government to take legal and necessary steps with regard to the SC judgment of September 17 to safeguard the welfare and interest of the indigenous tribes of the state.

All Parties were also unanimous in denouncing the politicization of this particular issue by any individual or group. They

appealed all not to spread hatred and misconception or target any individual or community particularly through social media. The state government will wait for a correspondence from the Union Home Ministry with regard to the SC judgment of September 17 and take necessary action as deemed fit in interest of the state and its people.

Meanwhile, the state government, with advice and help from legal experts, will prepare to file a review petition objecting to permanent settlement of Chakma and Hajongs in the state and their exclusion from the provisions of ILP.

AAPSU protest rally held against SC order to confer citizenship on Chakmas, Hajongs Contd. from Page 1 “When the lives of the indigenous people are at stake, he is making excuse. If he cannot be the mediator between us and the central govt. then he is not fit to be the Governor of Arunachal. He has been appointed based on political motives. He cannot perform his duty as the constitutional head. He must resign,” AAPSU President said. “Our three MPs are of no use, if at all the State Govt. has seriously taken up this issue since the beginning, we wouldn’t have come this far. This is the sign of the failure of the State Govt. After this rally we are going to discuss with all political parties including the Chief Minister,” the President added. AAPSU Legal Adviser, Marto Kato said that a review petition will be filed by the organization against the Supreme Court ruling shortly.

“This recent order is contradictory with the previous judgment passed by the same court and it needed to be referred

back to the constitutional bench,” he added.

The WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) NO.510 OF 2007 says, “In the said case, the Union of India appeared before this Court and stated that decision to settle the Chakmas in the State of Arunachal Pradesh was taken after discussion between the Government of India and the NorthEast Frontier Agency (“NEFA”) Administration (Predecessor of the State of Arunachal Pradesh). The Chakmas were residing in the State of Arunachal Pradesh for more than three decades and had close social, religious and economic ties. As per joint statement issued by the Prime Ministers of India and Bangladesh in February, 1972, the Union Government took a decision to confer citizenship on the Chakmas under Section 5(1)(a) of the Citizenship Act, 1955 but the State of Arunachal Pradesh had reservations on this count. The Central Government was in favour of a dialogue between the State Government, the

Chakmas and all concerned to resolve the issue of granting citizenship while also redressing the genuine grievances of citizens of Arunachal Pradesh.

The stand of the State of Arunachal Pradesh was that it had provided basic amenities to the Chakmas but the State had a right to ask the Chakmas to quit the State. The State could not permit outsiders to settle within its territory as it had limited resources and the Union of India had refused to share its responsibility. The Deputy Commissioner of the area was to forward the applications for citizenship after due inquiry but no such application was pending. Further stand of the State was that settlement of Chakmas will disturb its ethnic balance and destroy its culture and identity.

The tribal of the State consider Chakmas as potential threat to their tradition and culture.”

Students’ union from every district attended the protest rally which started from Akashdeep Ganga Market at 9:30 and culminated at Raj Bhavan premises.

Organisations register protest against SC verdict on Chakma-Hajong citizenship issue Contd. from Page 1

The organizations representing the TangsaSingpho-Yobin tribes of Miao Sub-Division also expressed their resentment over the Supreme Court's observation that the Chakma-Hajong people need no Inner Line Permits to enter the state.

The memorandum also stated that if citizenship is granted along with ST status to the Chakma-

Hajongs, the demography of the state will be largely hampered with serious socio-economic and political implications. It also highlighted how the verdict has not only sent shock waves across the state but also infuriated, confused and suspicion has gripped the indigenous population.

The organizations have also stated that it will fight tooth and nail to make sure that the order is reviewed.

The memorandum was submitted with the aim of

conveying the sentiments of the indigenous populace to the central and state government. The organizations have also prayed for confinement of the Chakmas and Hajongs in their settlement blocks before granting citizenship while also reiterating that the governments both at the centre and state have the responsibility to make sure that the rights and privileges of the indigenous people are not affected.

ATKSSU, ANAYA petition DC Namsai Contd. from Page 1

The demands also include immediate posting of subject teachers at GHSS Lathao which had been upgraded in 2009 and having the 6th batch of 10+2 in the current academic session but no Senior Teacher has ever been posted.

The other demands include setting up of special team to tackle drug menace, checking land encroachment on government property, strict directions to education department for conduct of regular SMC meetings and strict action on derilicting staffs and teachers, Inner Line Per-

mit drive to check influx of illegal immigrants and stopping issue of Scheduled Tribe certificates to Non-APSTs. The organizations have also alleged involvement of staff from the concerned department while issuing ST certificates to non APSTs without proper supporting documents.

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AASAA protests non-implementation of tea garden minimum wage ET Correspondent Margherita, Sep 28: In a revisit to the minimum wage for tea garden workers issue, All Adivasi Students' Association of Assam (AASAA) Tinsukia District President Mathias Dhaan and Secretary Ramanus Lakra said that only after so many democratic movements against the Assam Government that through the Minimum Wages Advisory Board the decision to provide Rs 177 as daily wage to the Tea Garden Workers of Assam was promulgated on 29 July, 2015. However, even after two months have passed, it has not yet been implemented and in this connection AASAA has decided to intensify its agitation programme against the Assam Government. On 10 September 2015 AASAA submitted a memorandum to Tinsukia District Commissioner and on 13 September 2015, under the leadership of AASAA Central Committee Vice President Rajen Horo from Dhubri District they took out a cycle rally to Lakhimpur District and today on 28 September 2015, they have arrived at Tinsukia District at places like Dhola, Talap, Kardoiguri, Kakopather, Doomdooma, Makum, Digboi, Margherita, etc., said Ramanus Lakra. We demand both from the Assam Government and CCPA that the daily wages of Rs 177 as fixed be immediately implemented, said Mathias Dhan and Ramanus Lakra.

AJYCP gheraos MLAs' houses at Doomdooma ET Correspondent Doomdooma, Sep 28: The residences of six MLAs were gheraoed by the activists of Tinsukia district committee of Asom Jatiyatabadi Yuva Chhatra Parisad (AJYCP) demanding immediate steps to check the erosion caused by the rivers Brahmaputra and Noa-Dining at Hatighuli and Dirak Sumoni in the Tinsukia district. The

AJYCP workers gheraoed the residence of Doomdooma constituency MLA Dilip Moran and later submitted an aide memoire to him. A three hour sit in demonstration was staged on 21st of this month protesting against the government's inaction to check flood and erosion apart from submitting separate memorandums to the deputy commissioner of

Tinsukia district Puru Gupta, Union minister Sarbanand Sonowal and chief minister Tarun Gogoi through the revenue circle officer Nayan Jyoti Bhagwati of Doomdooma.

The threat posed by the erosion caused by the Brahmaputra river at Hatiguli and Noa Dining river at Dirak Sumoni continues to be a matter of serious concern.

7-day long book fair to be held at Demow Jaganath Gogoi Demow, Sep 28: A sevenday long book fair will be organized by Asom Jatiyatabadi Youba Chatra Parishad Demow Committee at Demow public playground from 2nd to 8th October 2015. The organizers informed the media that a host of programmes are

planned such as Art competition and students of class V to X, poem recitation, cultural programmes, interaction session on the subject “The exordium of modern and ancient generation for improve society”, discussion session on the subject “Responsibility of youth generation on

humanities” etc. Honorauble guests like Mr. Anil Kumar Day ex principal of Demow HS School, Mrs. Nandita Roy Gohain circle officer of Demow, Mr. Susanta Borgohain MLA of Thowra constituency, Mr. Biswjit Tipomiya secretary of AJYCP central committee shall be attending the programmes.

Boat carrying 300 people capsizes, 50 drown ET Correspondent Guwahati, Sep 28: In a major tragedy which once again have exposed the inefficiency of the district administrations in the state, at least 50 people were drowned and many more were missing when a country boat carrying 300 people capsized in the Kalshi River at Champupara area near Chaygaon in the Kamrup district today.. Officials of the district administration said that the boat was overcrowded and

was carrying over 200 people, and after the incident though about150 passengers managed to swam to safety, almost 50 others are still missing. Senior district administration officials have reached the spot and a search operation is on. “The motorized boat was carrying the passengers to a nearby boat race when its engine malfunctioned, leaving it to drift uncontrolled in the Kalshi river,” said Vinod Sachan, deputy commissioner

of the Kamrup district. The boat overturned when it hit the post of a bridge and then sank, Sachan added. Sachan however could not immediately confirm the number of survivors as many had fled to their homes as soon as they reached the shore, but he however added that a few of the survivors told him there were about 25 people below deck when the boat overturned. Till the filing of this report, rescuers were searching for survivors, and bodies.

Ering visits Lower Ramle Bango Sanctions relief for flood affected areas Pasighat, Sep 28: Loksabha MP Ninong Ering along with Nari ADC M Loyi and ZPM Kenyom Dabi carried out a whirlwind tour to lower Ramle Bango areas which have been ravaged by the recent flood.

Interacting with aggrieved people the MP expressed profound sorrow and pain for them. When a tragedy befalls, people who survive the tragedy are found to have suffered extreme pain and found to be very helpless, he added. At New Deka village, Ering while attending a public meet-

ing announced Rs 10 lacs for construction of Community Hall and Rs 6 lacs for two culverts. He also visited Nari, Telam and Name villages. At Name village he felt the place is being threatened by Depi river and gave sanction of Rs 15 lakhs for flood protection measures and immediate relief to the affected people. While visiting Pote village, the MP gave Rs 5 lacs for immediate restoration works and to tackle post flood situation. In his message at all places, MP Ering said that for a better fu-

Panya, faculty members and students of RGGP, supported by the members of NGOs namely Vivekanda Yuva Shakti, Arunachal Pradesh Society for Education and Development. The NGO’s have also donated wall clocks, dustbin etc for the schools.

The participants in the poster making competition were allowed to use the sheets recycled it the institute itself by the students under the guidance of Mr. Juju who is an Engineer by profession.

In the poster making competition on Arunachal Tourism the students of the institute Shri Markar Kato, Miss Nabum Dipung, Shri Vikash

Besides, the biggest paper mill of Asia situated in Jagiroad in Morigaon district is allegedly plagued with a plethora of problems due to alleged mismanagement of the HPC Authority based in Kolkata. Raw material supply and other supplies to the mill are controlled by the business lobby in Kolkota. The income made by this mill during the

last decade has come down in the last two years and now the mill is said to be in moribund condition. Local people have demanded a corrupt free HPC management so as to run the mill properly.

Mr. PK Bhuya, Chief Executive Officer, HPC, Jagiroad told this correspondent that the production units' of the mill came to a halt due to scarcity of coal and as per direction of the Kolkata office of HPC the local coal supply

Contd. from Page 1 rescued the trader Ram Avatar Sharma, owner of a popular sweet shop - Sharma Sweets - located in the Hos-

pital Charali area of Chapakhowa town. "The trader was abducted by a group of miscreants. We have rescued him successfully" Kakoty said. However, no arrests was made.

Sources said that the main motive of the abduction was some unfulfilled business deal by the trader's elder brother which the later had with some people in Arunachal. "They have

threatened me to bring my brother back, or they will continue to harass me and my family" the trader was quoted as saying before the police after his rescue. Dharma's elder brother is in Rajasthan.

Two firebrand student leaders join BJP Contd. from Page 1 The BJP leadership described the joining of these two leaders as a very signifi-

cant development, and said that this shows that a BJP wave is brewing in the state.

“The joining of these two leaders have already strengthened the party, and now we are

inching towards our mission 84 in the Assam assembly elections which will be held next year,” said Siddhartha Bhattacharjee, president of the Assam student of the BJP.

Both the leaders joined the saffron brigade at a function which was attended by several senior BJP leaders, including several of the party’s MPs and MLAs from Assam.

Assam-Arunachal Pradesh border fast turning into drugs hub Contd. from Page 1 In Silapathar, with 14% of the population under 6 years of age according to (2001 census ), is fast turning into drugs hub along with other illegal activities it being a border town. Within 3 days, 3 cases of Brown Sugar, Ganja and Medicinal Drugs

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Chief Minister Gogoi also told the delegation ture and to maintain the sanctity of nature it depends on us as to how we maintain the eco-

logical balance and keep the earth safe for generations to come. (DIPRO)

Miroh won 1st, 2nd and 3rd prizes in the senior group and Shri Gokia Bikap, Shri Yumlam Janu, Shri Jeevan Gyadi were adjudged 1st, 2nd and 3rd in the junior group. The prizes of the competitions were given away by Director Tourism Shri Karma Leki. The 2 day long programme concluded with a pledge to keep the surroundings clean. The programme was also celebrated at Pasighat by conducing tree plantation in the premises of Deputy Commissioner followed by felicitations to the trainees of Home stays. In Menchuka on the occasion of WTD, the Menchuka Eco-Tourism and Conservation Society co-

ordinated by TIO Menchuka Ms Kaveri Borua celebrated the day at Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya to foster awareness among local communities and students on the importance of tourism and its social culture and economic value.

An essay writing competition was held among the students of KGVB and Tsoyargay public school followed by a few cultural programmes.

The programme was graced by Hon’ble MLA cum Parliamentary Secretery Animal Husbandry & Civil Aviation Shri. Pasang Dorjee Sona and Addl. Deputy Commissioner, Mechukha Shri.

Tungge Loya.

HPC Jagiroad production works halted Contd. from Page 1

'Abducted' Sadiya trader rescued from Arunachal

were reported involving the youth at Silapathar whom the police apprehended but released without any action.

So, it is being suspected that the administration has a hand in this connection.

Business community dealing with the drugs, Ganja and Medicinal Drugs are either shopkeepers or medicine wholesalers from whom the

administration is allegedly collecting huge amounts. It is worth mentioning that 3 cases are recorded at Silapathar under Dhemaji Dist. involving 30 kg of Ganja the next day, a case registering 32 packets of Brown Sugar and the 3rd case involves 3 kg of Ganja on 27th September recovered from a student named Ankun

Kanko, studying in class IX at Basar (Arunachal Pradesh). Every small shopkeeper near the temples, schools and colleges are said to indulge in the drug racketeering under the shelter of Police along with the District Administration. It may be mentioned that the teenagers and the students are turning into drug abusers.

Assam Govt to grant advanced increment to District and Sub-Division admin employees

World Tourism Day-2015 celebrated with a difference Spl Correspondent Itanagar, Sep 28 : Joining the world in celebrating World Tourism day on 27th September 2015 on the theme: Millions of Tourist, Millions of Opportunity, the Department of Tourism, Govt of Arunachal Pradesh had organised a 2 (two) day long programme at Donyi Polo Mission for hearing impaired at Chimpu in a befitting manner. The highlights of the 2(two) day programme were screening of films on Arunachal Tourism, poster making competition (senior & junior), cleanliness drive and massive tree plantation followed by cultural programmes. The objective of celebration at Donyi Polo School for hearing impaired was to show the world that if a differently abled person can understand about Tourism and Clean surrounding, why cannot the abled one. The programmes were enthusiastically attended by faculty members and the students of the institute, the tourism department officials, the members of APTOA headed by John

Participants posing for a group photograph during a photography workshop organized by DHSK College at Dibrugarh. Pic - UB Photos

to the mill from Margherita coal field was stopped by the Kolkata lobby. Mr. Atanu Sarma, General secretary, Assam Unnati Sabha alleged that the Director Finance, HPC, Kolkata, Palash Goswami cancelled the earlier coal supply order from Margherita coal field and issued fresh order with a private farm which earlier supplied low quality coal to the Jagiroad HPC and it is the main reason behind the halt

of production work. Atanu Sarma said that if the Heavy Industry Ministry does not interfere in the matter then it is sure that that HPC will face closure. The Assam Unnati Sabha sent a memorandum to the Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking CBI enquiry into the alleged mismanagement of HPC Authority Kolkata, and demanded exemplary punishment for corrupt officers of this Public Sector Industry.

that the Government has been giving final touches to cashless health scheme for the State Government employees. Chief Secretary

VK Pipersenia, Additional Chief Secretary to the Chief Minister MGVK Bhanu, advisor of the Karmachari Santha

Nripen Roy, its President Nirmal Kalita and a host of top Government officials were present at the meeting.

ISRO’s ASTROSAT launch: India reaches for the stars Contd. from Page 1 attempt at setting up an observatory in space, a place from where it can study cosmological phenomena.

ASTROSAT, which is carrying five payloads, including an ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (UVIT), is being described as India’s version of the Hubble telescope that NASA had put in space in 1990 and which continues to be operational.

All the payloads and instruments on ASTROSAT are meant for observation of celestial processes, and the mission is aimed at obtaining data that will help in a better under-

standing of the universe. In some ways, ASTROSAT is a very different mission for ISRO and will add a new dimension to its capabilities.

Chandrayaan and Mangalyaan, the moon and Mars missions respectively, were essentially technologydemonstration projects, at least when they were planned.

This is not to say there was no science component in these, or that these did not add to our scientific knowledge.

Chandrayaan, in fact, confirmed the presence of water on the moon. But these missions were essentially building the foundation for India’s deeper exploration into space.

The various other satellites

that ISRO has placed in space over the last three decades were mainly geared at applications – remote sensing, communications, mapping, navigation and many others. Again, these are essential aspects of a country’s space programme.

But with ASTROSAT, ISRO is attempting to fulfil what is the core mandate of any space agency — study of astronomical phenomena. The study of the celestial process can be done from the earth as well.

Several observatories across the globe have powerful telescopes that can ‘see’ what is happening deep inside the universe. Still, there are merits in having a sky observatory. The atmosphere around the earth

interferes with the signals from space and changes their characteristics. What the instruments at earth receive are modified signals. These have to be adjusted to bring in accuracy. A space observatory on the other hand, receives pure signals because of which the readings by instruments are more accurate. Just like the case with many other kinds of space capabilities, the 1500kg ASTROSAT, which has a mission life of five years, will put ISRO in a very exclusive club of nations that have space-based observatories.

Only the United States, European Space Agency, Japan and Russia have such observatories in space.

Growth in cars and two wheelers expected to outpace CVs: Report Contd. from Page 1

While the long term prospects remain bright, there are short term challenges for some categories in the auto sector. The passenger vehicle (PV) industry has so far seen only a moderate recovery, while the two wheeler industry, particularly the motorcycle segment, has been hit by poor rural demand. But the commercial vehicle industry will continue to witness revival in demand over the near term, driven by economic recovery, urbanization and infrastructure development, according to a report by EY (Ernst & Young) India. However, automotive firms need to realign themselves as the market moves toward the next stage of evolution. “They also need to re-evaluate their strategy in light of upcoming regulations such as stricter emission and crash testing norms,” said Rakesh Batra,

Partner & National Leader – automotive practice, EY India. “The GST reform, in particular, is likely to change the transportation scenario, and industry players must start thinking about re-aligning their supply chain, and specifically the distribution network. This single reform will impact vehicle pricing, sourcing strategies, distribution costs and dealer profitability,” he added. In CVs, medium and heavy commercial vehicles in particular, growth is now is driven by replacement demand. However, the industry is likely to build on the growth momentum due to the lifting of mining bans, the government’s infrastructure push, increased freight movement and pent-up demand.

“We expect the Indian CV industry to grow at a CAGR (compounded annual growth rate) of 7-9 per cent during FY15-20 to reach around 0.9 million units by FY20,” Mr. Batra said. The report has recommended that CV com-

panies should prepare for regulatory changes such as the uniform bus body code and tightening emission norms. Also, they have to work on innovative sales and service formats to widen reach and reduce vehicle downtime and leverage telematics services and analytics to differentiate offerings. For PV industry, the growth is expected to be better than last year. But it is mainly driven by new model launches, low fuel prices and high discounts. “We expect market growth to pick up gradually and domestic PV sales to reach 4-4.5 million units by FY20 (CAGR of 911 per cent during FY15– 20),” said Mr. Batra. In PVs, new sub-segments will be created in line with the changing demands of the evolving Indian customers.

Niche sub-segments such as premium hatchbacks, compact sedans and multi-utility vehicles (MUVs) are gaining stronger ground and

will drive growth. In two wheelers, the overall growth is expected to be in single digit due to unfavourable rural demand and the base effect. Long-term growth would be driven by economic revival, urbanization and low penetration. The two wheeler industry is expected to grow at a CAGR of 8-10 per cent during FY15-20 and reach about 25 million units

by FY20. According to the report there will be an increasing number of product introductions and variants across models as product life cycle are getting shorter.

This is likely to result in increased production complexity and supply chain challenges, including forecasting, production planning and allocation. Further, the products must evolve with a focus on increasing safety requirements, higher electronic content and a move toward more feature-rich and fuel-efficient vehicles, it added. (Agencies)

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REGION

DIBRUGARH, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29

Nagaland Tourism cannot grow unless political issues comes at peace Nagaland chief minister, T.R. Zeliang highlighted the objective of 'World Tourism Day' (WTD) and its focus on transformative potential of one billion tourists for creating employment opportunities and on impact the economy of the country.

Kohima, Sep 28: Stressing on a peaceful environment for tourism, he cited the case of Sikkim, where its tourism industry was growing by leaps and bounds but in the picturesque Kashmir, tourist trade has been adversely affected.

Likewise, he said Nagaland's efforts to promote eco and cultural tourism would not find many takers, if the Naga political problem continued as the state was being projected as "insurgency-ridden". In the global context, Zeliang said that more than a billion tourists travel to pre-determined destinations each year and contributing to 10% of the global GDP and 6% of the world's total exports. He said tourists were broadly of two types- those loaded with resources and

those with limited resources.

Since Nagas were known for their traditional hospitality, "we should be able to make tourists feel at home without any difficulty", he

Ranchi tense after beef found in temple Ranchi, Sep 28: Clashes between two communities and a shutdown were witnessed here on Saturday after a piece of beef was found in a temple. The beef was found in a temple situated in Doranda locality on Friday night, prompting the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) and Bajrang Dal members to give a call for a shutdown with their supporters trying to forcibly close the shops. Clashes between VHP workers and others left a few people injured. Tyres were burnt at many places in Ranchi, police said. Parents were informed by schools to col-

lect their children from school because of the stone pelting and burning of tyres. Chief Minister Raghubar Das`s convoy, heading towards the airport to pick him up, was also stopped by the bandh supporters near Hino locality in Ranchi. When Das returned to Ranchi from Jamshedpur, he met people and assured them of taking necessary action and providing free treatment to the injured. The Chief Minister appealed to the people to maintain peace.

Prohibitory orders have been imposed in Ranchi. (agencies)

IB official abduction: police yet to find any clues Shillong, Sep 28: Police are still clueless about the whereabouts of the Intelligence Bureau official Bikash Singh even as South Garo Hills police has announced cash reward for anyone who provides information about the abducted IB official. The IB official was kidnapped along with a trader identified as Kamal Saha on the way from Rongara village to Baghmara on Thursday at around 8.30 am. There is also no information with the police on the whereabouts of the trader. While one re-

port from Delhi said the IB official was killed, another report suggested he was taken to Bangladesh by the kidnappers who are suspected ASAK militants.

"We are getting both the reports; we have told our personnel to open all their channels to trace out the IB official," a senior police official said. The worry for the police is that the kidnappers have not contacted anyone for ransom or other demand.

IGP (Law and Order) G.H.P. Raju is camping in Garo Hills to assess the situation.

(Agencies)

No internal differences in the party assures BJP Imphal, Sep 28: There are no internal differences within BJP Manipur Pradesh, claimed party president Th Chaoba, general secretary (administration) M Ashnikumar, core committee member Prof S Tiken and enrolment incharge Sh Shantikumar.

They claimed that due preparations have been completed to hold the party's organisational election transparently and in accordance to rules.

Speaking to media persons at their Nityaipat Chuthek office this afternoon, core committee member and senior spokesman Prof S Tiken claimed there are no internal differences within the party although former enrolment in-charge Prof Gangmumei Kamei has been replaced by Sh Shantikumar after the former was inducted as NEC Secretary. Booth level and mandal level elections would be held starting from September 28, said Prof Tiken who has been appointed as returning officer for the same elections. For Bishnupur district, the

elections would be held at Nambol and Thanga and for Imphal East at Khurai.

Present enrolment incharge and former president Sh Shantikumar too maintained that there are no differences in the party's State leadership.

General secretary (administration), coordinator and enrolment co-in-charge M Ashnikumar claimed that the party's popularity has been growing rapidly in Manipur. He said that BJP would bring about good governance in Manipur after toppling the incumbent Congress Government. He lamented that a negative image of the BJP State unit's leadership was projected to the public recently. Due arrangements have been made for holding party's internal election under the wisdom of the party president, Ashnikumar said. Th Chaoba said that the party's internal election is very important in view of the impending bye-election to two Assembly seats and Municipality elections. He also condoled the sudden demise of Governor Syed Ahmed. (Agencies)

said. He encouraged private parties to invest in the hospitality sector to enable individual families to participate in the endeavor by starting paying guest facili-

ties for tourists. Zeliang said tourists were not only important as source of revenue but also as ambassadors to tell the world about their experience with Naga soci-

ety. Zeliang also urged upon villagers to participate as a community to promote tourism and its related activities and to preserve the flora and fauna. He also called on the people to make their own goals in the context of this year's 'World Tourism Day' so as to promote tourism inflow all year through and not only during Hornbill Festival. Apok: Parliamentary secretary Tourism C. Apok Jamir said Nagaland was associated with uniqueness- politically, socially and culturally in which tourism needed to be harnessed for progress and development of the state.

He said a small state like Nagaland has no reputed industry nor revenue generating avenues to sustain development and also reached a saturation point

for employment. In this regard, Apok opined that the only means to generate employment, economic development and livelihood was to make use of natural resources available to create a peaceful atmosphere. Earlier, message of secretary general, United World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) Taleb Rifai was read out by secretary, tourism and art & culture, Angau I Thou. DC Peren, Peter Lichamo, NCS chaired the programme while vote of thanks proposed by director, Tourism Purakhu Angami.

Ministers-- Y Patton, Tokheho Yepthomi and Kipili Sangtam; Parliamentary Secretaries-- Tohanba, Jacob Zhimomi, Eshak Konyak, Dr Longri and Namri MLA besides a host of official dignitaries attended the programme. (Agencies)

Saakshar Bharat Award: CM lauds local bodies Imphal, Sep 28: Chief Minister O Ibobi Singh on Saturday lauded the efforts of Thoubal Zilla Parishad, Khangabok Gram Panchayat and officials of the State Adult Education Department for receiving the Saakshar Bharat Award 2015 on the occasion of International Literacy Day 2015 held at Bigyan Bhavan, New Delhi on September 8, 2015.

Chief Minister O Ibobi Singh handed over the Award to Adhyaksha of Thoubal Zilla Parishad Kh Surnalata Devi in a simple felicitation function held at CM office complex. It may be recalled that the Award was presented by the President of India Pranab Mukherjee and was received by the Education Minister M Okendra Singh on the International Literacy Day 2015 on September 8, 2015 at New Delhi organised by the National Literacy Mission Authority, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India. The

Religion, a non existent barrier Baitul, Sep 28: This is a story which may warm many hearts. Breaking all religious barriers, Razzak Khan Tikari, a follower of Islam and a resident of Chhattisgarh performed Hindu rites for his deceased friend, Santosh Singh.

Singh was suffering from critical health condition. He passed away on September 20 and is survived by his wife Chhaya and their eightyear-old daughter. Santosh belonged to Harda area and was living with his family in Baitul. His family was unable to arrange money to perform proper religious rites for him, as per reports in various websites. Razzak came to the rescue of Santosh helpless wife.

Razzak had been Singh's friend for years. Assuming all responsibility, Razzak carried out all the religious rites and cremated the body of his deceased friend.

Out of favour BJP MLA gets threatened over contesting Bihar polls Patna, Sep 28: An out of favour BJP legislator on Monday said she got a threat letter asking her not to contest the upcoming

Bihar assembly polls as a rebel candidate. Rashmi Verma, who was denied ticket by the BJP, told police: "I have received a threat letter in Hindi in which I was asked not to contest the polls as it will affect the prospects of others."

Verma, a legislator from Narkatiaganj assembly constituency, lodged a complaint with the Sikarpur police station after receiving the letter. The letter, according to her, also threatened that if she goes ahead and contests the polls, it will not be good for her children.

Verma suspects that criminal-turned-politician and BJP MP Satish Dubey and former BJP legislator Renu Devi, who is contesting polls as the party candidate from Narkatiaganj, were behind the letter, a police officer said. However, Dubey denied his involvement and said Verma was frustrated after she was denied ticket by the BJP. Renu Devi accused Verma of trying to create an environment in her favour. "If she wants to contest, who will stop her. She is welcome to contest."

(Agencies)

Two Dalit men beaten to death in Bihar Munger (Bihar), Sep 28: Two Dalit men were beaten to death allegedly by a group of people at a village in Munger district. The incident took place at Pachrukhi village last night as the two men, identified as Anil Pasi and Setho Pasi, were mercilessly beaten to death by some persons, Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Lalit Mohan Sharma

said. The assailants also slit the throat of the victims with sharp-edged weapons in a fit of rage, he said. The bodies have been sent for post-mortem, Sharma said, adding, a case has been registered in this connection and raids were being carried out to nab the assailants. The reason behind the murder was yet to be ascertained, the DSP added. (Agencies)

Bengal hooch toll rises to 10 Khangabok Part II, Mayai Leikai, Thoubal District, Manipur was awarded Saakshar Bharat Award for Best Performing Gram Panchayat along with four other Gram Panchayats from other states of the country.

This year altogether 11 Saakshar Bharat Awards

were distributed by the President of India to States, Districts, Blocks,Gram Panchayats, State Resource Centre(SRC) and Jan Shikshan Sansthan (JSS) for best performance in the field of adult education and skill development. Education Minister M Okendra Singh,

O Landhoni Devi, MLA Khangabok A/C, B B Sharma, Principal Secretary Adult Education, officials of Adult Aducation Department and members of Thoubal Zilla Parishad and Pradhans and members of Khangabok GP were present on the function. (agencies)

Kolkata, Sep 28: The death toll in Saturday's hooch tragedy in West Bengal's East Midnapore district on Monday rose to 10, police said. A group of people, who consumed liquor on Saturday under Moyna police station area, subsequently started showing

signs of nausea and began vomiting and had to be rushed to hospitals, a police officer said. "So far, 10 people have died and at least 14 others are undergoing treatment. We have arrested 16 people in this connection," said the police officer. (agencies)

GNLF takes out rally for sixth schedule status Kurseong, Sep 28: The Gorkha National Liberation Front (GNLF), on Sunday felicitated 13 of its supporters who have been working in the GTA as casual workers (erstwhile DGHC casual workers) with khadas (traditional scarf), at the Kurseong Motor Stand here. According to the GNLF, the workers had allegedly been transferred to other places and GTA departments in the hills, by the Gorkha Jan Mukti Morcha (GJMM) led GTA sabha and its leadership under a political vendetta. The felicitation ceremony was conducted in presence of hundreds of GNLF supporters, who had gathered for a GNLF rally to press for the de-

mand of immediately implementing the sixth schedule status for the Darjeeling hills. cTalking to reporters, GNLF spokesperson, Daya Dewan said that they had filed a case earlier in Kolkata High court against the issue of transferring the 13 workers, and claimed that the court had recently announced a verdict in favour of them. He added that after the verdict, the workers have been re-transferred to their previous positions, and hence to acknowledge the victory, they were felicitated on Sunday. Notably, compared to the recent GNLF rallies, a large increase in the number of participating people was seen in Sunday's march. Dewan

said that their central leadership held a meeting in Darjeeling to chalk out further programs of the party on Sunday, when asked about the party's plan on future political activities. "Be-

sides this, a GNLF delegation will leave for Delhi from Darjeeling on 4 October, to meet the central leadership in demand for a sixth schedule status for the Darjeeling hills," he

added. The GNLF spokesperson informed that another rally will be organized by the party in Kurseong on Sunday by the party's women wing, with various women supporters from all around

the Hills participating in it. Criticising the GJMM, Dewan said that the GJMM mislead the people of the Darjeeling hills for personal benefits, in the name of demanding 'Gorkhaland'. He added that their doubts over misappropriation of GTA funds have been strengthened by former GJMM leader, and Kalimpong MLA Harka Bahadur Chettri's recent statements with similar allegations. He said that the GNLF will soon submit memorandums to the Darjeeling district magistrate, and the various sub divisional and block divisional officers in the region, demanding a high level enquiry into the utilisation of funds for GTA undertaken projects. (agencies)

Families under IAY to receive shelter by the next two years Agartala, Sep 28: The Left Front government has set a target to provide land to landless families and dwelling hut to homeless people by next two years, said Revenue Minister Badal Chowdhury.

Those families who don't have dwelling hut would be provided accommodation facility under either Indira Awas

Yojana or Tripura State Housing Scheme, he promised.

"The government wants to ensure a piece of land and a dwelling hut to each family.

The government doesn't favour a few people to enjoy with all facilities while others will be left to suffer. A piece of land and dwelling hut will be provided at the

government's initiative", he said while speaking at a programme at Dukli Panchayat Samity hall here yesterday. Paschim Tripura Zilla Parisad's Sabhadhipati Tapan Kumar Das, District Magistrate (DM), West Tripura district Dr. Milind Ramteke, SDM Manik Lal Das and BDO Ratan

Bhowmik remained present in the patta and sewing machine distribution programme. Chowdhury also took at a dig at the country's horrible fate even after so many years of independence.

"The country's fate is really at the crossroads as price rise, unemployment, farmer suicide and division on the reli-

gion appear problems", he pointed out. Noting that the country is facing a social imbalance problem, he said the Central government favours big industrial players at the cost of downtrodden people. " Around 80 percent of country's total population is victimized by the wrong policies of the Central govern-

ment", he alleged. In his speech, the DM laid stress on attaining self employment.

"There is no alternative to self employment. So, there must be efforts for attaining self employment and the government will render all possible help in pushing self employment mission", the DM added. (Agencies)

NATIONAL & INTERNATIONAL

DIBRUGARH, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29

Congress jealous of PM Modi's popularity, says BJP New Delhi, Sep 28: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) today took a dig at the Congress Party by saying that it is jealous of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's popularity and cannot digest his popularity.BJP leader G V L Narasimha Rao said the Prime Minister's visits are completely trans-

Hooch death toll rises to 12 in East Midnapore District Midnapore (West Bengal), Sep28 : The death toll of the hooch tragedy has risen to 12 after consumption of spurious liquor in Tamluk of East Midnapore District of West Bengal .Earlier in the day, at least ten persons had died and four others had fallen sick .Sixteen people have been arrested so far in connection with the incident.Superintendent of Police Alok Rajoria said eight deaths had been reported from Narikeldaha and Kiyarana villages.

(ANI)

parent and events that are organised abroad are organized privately and the people attending the conferences make their own contributions to it."I think the Congress Party is basically jealous of the everraising popularity of the Prime Minister and they cannot digest the Prime

Minister's popularity," Rao told media."He does not go on personal, unexplained, inexplicapable visits that Congress leaders make all the time. The first family of the Congress is most of the time abroad. They have never disclosed to this country what they do," he added.BJP leader Sambit

Patra said that it is unfortunate that a senior politician like Anand Sharma is dragging the Prime Minister's mother in petty politics."Only Congress can do politics on mother and they will get an answer of this by the people of the nation," Patra told ANI. Former union minister Anand Sharma said "Prime Minister

did not even invite his mother to swearing-in ceremony. So, instead of crying abroad, he should be a responsible son.""The Prime Minister says his mother used to clean utensils in other people's homes. Sadly, this is a lie, He is insulting his mother," Sharma added.

(ANI)

PM Modi a drama king, says Congress New Delhi, Sep 28 : Reacting to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's breaking down emotionally while talking about his mother with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg inCalifornia, All India Mahila Congresspresident Shobha Oza said Modi

was a big drama king."On the one hand, he doesn't bother to meet his mother more than once a year, his wife has to make use of the RTI to know her own rights. A person who doesn't give his wife her rights, and who doesn't keeps his own mother in

the PM's residence speaks and sheds crocodile tears while remembering his mother, clearly shows how big a drama king he is," Oza told ANI.Former union minister Anand Sharma said "Prime Minister did not even invite his mother to swearing-in

ceremony. So, instead of crying abroad, he should be a responsible son.""The Prime Minister says his mother used to clean utensils in other people's homes. Sadly, this is a lie, He is insulting his mother," Sharma added. (ANI)

PM Modi's message on terrorism powerful, says Akbar New Delhi, Sep 28 : Praising Prime Minister Narendra Modi's address to the Indian community on Sunday, Bharatiya Janata Party national spokesperson M.J. Akbar said today that he had given a powerful message on terrorism, that there could not be any compromise with evil, and that those nations,

Swamy advises PM Modi to sack Rajan if bank rates are not decreased New Delhi, Sep28 : Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaderSubramanian Swamy has said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi must instruct Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Raghuram Rajan to eithercut rates or be ready to be sacked."PM must make clear to RBI Gov: Rate cut now or Rajan cut right away," said Swamy in a tweet.RBI today will announce its monetary policy and most market participants and the economist are hopeful of rate cut.Earlier last month at Jackson Hole, Rajan had mentioned that the Central Bank had cut interest rates thrice in the year and were still in an accommodative mode, this statement have fuelled their hopes of a rate cut. (ANI)

Nation remembers Bhagat Singh on his birth anniversary New Delhi, Sep. 28 : Nation has paid homage to freedom fighter Shaheed Bhagat Singh on his 108th birth anniversary today.A number of functions have been organised across the country to mark the occasion.Prime Minister Narendra Modialso remembered freedom fighter Bhagat Singh on his birth anniversary during his address to the Indian diaspora at San Jose in California."Today is September 28 in India and it is the birth anniversary of brave son of India, Bhagat Singh. I salute India's beloved martyred son," said Prime Minister Modi as he started his address at SAP center in California.Special functions would be held in at Khatkar Kalan his native village in Shaheed Bhagat SinghNagar district of Punjab. (ANI)

or people who would try to differentiate and nuance this, would be hurt badly because of their duplicity.Akbar said it was a very important message that Prime Minister Modi would repeat when he goes back to the United Nations in New York.When told that the Prime Minister's speech had made the Con-

gress Party angry, Akbar said, "The Congress gets angry because it is guilty. It has such a history of continuous, relentless and unimaginable corruption. Remember, the scale of 2G scam - 1.76 thousand crores, and coal mines corruption - 200 thousand crores of rupees, can you imagine just in two

such scams nearly 400 thousand crores of rupees was taken away by just one party - the ruling party."He, however, said the most important element of the Prime Minister's speech was the development of the nation and prosperity of every Indian.Reacting to Pakistan's effort to

internationalise the Kashmir issue, Akbar said, "Pakistan believes that by going back, it can also go forward, it doesn't happen. The fact that Kashmir is a bilateral issue is now a well-established Indo-Pak discourse, and Pakistan cannot hope to move forward by slipping back." (ANI)

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'Astrosat' launch is a great achievement for ISRO and India, says scientist New Delhi, Sep 28 : Spacescientist C. B. Devgun today described the launch of the Astrosat as a great achievement for the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and India, and deemed it a major commercial success"The satellite, which we have launched (Astrosat), is an observatory which is going to be in space like the Hubble Space Telescope.

We are the fourth country in the world to do it, so it is a great achievement for ISRO and for India," Devgun told ANI. Devgan said that ISRO has been performing quite successfully without any failure of their launchers."We have four other satellites from different countries launched along with the Astrosat. So, it is a kind of commercial success also," he added.The country's first

dedicated satellite for astronomical research, Astrosat, was successfully launched from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre today at 10 a.m today.The Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle PSLV-C30 is carrying the Astrosat along with six other co-passengers, one satellite each from

Abhay K appointed India's Deputy High Commissioner to Australia New Delhi, Sep28: Poetdiplomat Abhay K has been appointed as India's Deputy High Commissioner to Australia.He was earlier posted as the Director of the Nehru Centre, London in March this year, but due to the Nepal earthquake, he stayed back in Kathmandu.Now, he has been elevated to the rank of Deputy High Commissioner of India in Australia and is likely to take up his assignment

soon in Canberra.Abhay K is a widely published Indian poet-diplomat with six collections of poems and two memoirs to his credit.His edited anthology CAPITALS with contributions from Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott and Pulitzer Prize winners Mark Strand and Vijay Seshadri is to be published soon.

Earth Anthem written by him has been translated into two dozen global languages. (ANI)

Two teens arrested in connection with London mosque fire

8 ethnic Indians charged in prosecutor's murder in Malaysia Kualalumpur, Sep 28: Eight ethnic Indians, including a military doctor, were today charged in connection with the murder of a public prosecutor, who handled many high profile cases in Malaysia.Six of the accused have been charged with murder of Deputy Public Prosecutor Anthony Kevin Morais while two others, including the military doctor, have been charged with abetting the murder.Police had earlier said that Morais was the DPP in a case where military doctor Col Dr R

Kunaseegaran, 48, working with the pathology lab at the Tuanku Mizan Military Hospital, was charged with unlawful trade of medicines in December 2013.In September last year, Kunaseegaran, who was on a RM 100,000 bail, had claimed trial to two bribery charges involving RM 700,000 for allegedly recommending three companies to supply medicines and disposable medical tools to the hospital.G Gunasegaran, 47, R Dineshwaran, 23, Thinesh Kumar, 22, M Viswanath, 25,

S Nirmalan, 22, and S Ravi Chandran, 44, allegedly committed the offence on September 4, the court said.The seven suspects face the death penalty if convicted.A mechanic, A Murugan Arujalan, has also been charged with abetting Morais's murder.Magistrate Siti Radziah Kamardin has fixed November 30 for mention pending the postmortem and chemist reports.

Morais went missing on September 4 after leaving his residence for work in Putrajaya. He was abducted by several men during morn-

ing rush hour traffic.A DNA test performed on the body found in a cement filled oil drum on September 16 matched that of Morais.The oil drum was dumped at a swamp and one of the suspects arrested led police to the location of the oil drum.Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission director of legal and prosecution division Umar Saifuddin Jaafar has said that Morais, who was seconded to the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission for 10 years, handled many high-profile cases.

(Agencies)

SC rejects Somnath Bharti's anticipatory bail plea, asks him to surrender New Delhi, Sep 28: In a big setback to Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLA Somnath Bharti, the Supreme Court on Monday rejected his anticipatory bail plea and asked him to surrender before the court today itself."We want him to surrender before appropriate jurisdiction of the police by this evening. We don't intend to pass any further order," a bench comprising Chief Justice HL Dattu and Justice Amitava Roy said while posting the matter for hearing on Thursday.The bench rejected the plea of his counsel and senior advocate Gopal Subramaniam that Bharti, who is absconding from law, be given time till tomorrow to surrender."No, we will not give time. If you want your matter to come on Thursday, you have to surrender today itself," the bench said, while rejecting a further request that he be given time till 7 pm to surrender. Subramaniam sub-

mitted that the whole incident was an outcome of the matrimonial dispute in which, not only the couple, but their two children were also sufferers. The court should keep this in mind while hearing Bharti's appeal against the rejection of his anticipatory bail by the trial court and the Delhi High Court, he contended.However, the bench said it was not concerned with the issue at this stage and asked how should Bharti conduct himself as a responsible citizen after dismissal of his plea before trial court and the High Court."Not to say you have lost before two courts (trial court and High Court). You went for anticipatory bail before the trial court, you did not succeed. You went for anticipatory bail before the High Court, you did not succeed.

What is your duty as a responsible citizen," the bench asked."First you surrender, then we will see whether the matter should

be referred to mediation centre. We want family dispute to be sorted out but we can't be saying that we will be protecting an absconder. "We will find out from his wife whether she is ready to sit for mediation. We want families to live together. We don't want disruption in family life," the bench said, while making it clear it will not go into the merits of the matter unless Bharti surrenders.

Bharti had on September 23 moved the apex court seeking protection from arrest in the case and a direction to restrain Delhi Police from arresting him till his plea challenging the High Court order is decided.The High Court had dismissed his anticipatory bail plea, saying the allegations against him were backed by "documentary proof".Terming the allegations against former Delhi Law Minister Bharti by his wife, Lipika Mitra, as "very serious", Justice Suresh Kait of the high court had

said she has been tolerating his "cruelty" and "brutal assault".

Dismissing his plea for protection from arrest, the high court had said that being an MLA, he should have shown more "generosity and responsibility towards his wife and children". Lipika had filed a complaint of domestic violence with Delhi Commission for Women on June 10 alleging that her husband had been abusing her since their marriage in 2010. She had also given a complaint to the police in this regard.Delhi Police then registered an FIR against Bharti under sections 307 (attempt to murder), 498A (cruelty towards wife), 324 (voluntarily causing hurt by dangerous weapon), 406 (criminal breach of trust), 313 read with 511 (attempt to cause miscarriage without woman's consent), 420 (cheating) and 506 (criminal intimidation) of IPC. (Agencies)

Indonesia and Canada, and four nano-satellites from the United States.Along with the Astrosat, four identical nano-satellites of Spire Global Inc., the US, a micro-satellite from Indonesia and a nano- satellite of the University of Toronto, Canada also took off. (ANI)

Indian death toll in Haj stampede rises to 45 New Delhi, Sep 28 : The Indian death toll in Mina Haj stampede rose to 45 on Monday after Saudi authorities identified 10 more dead bodies.Haj Consulate in Jeddah today said that the deceased included three pilgrims from West Bengal and two each from Kerala and Jharkhand and one each from Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra.External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj had earlier said that the number of Indian lives lost in the Haj stampede was 35.She said that the Indian embassy was extending all the possible help to the families who have suffered due to the tragedySaudi authorities have put the total death toll from the stampede at 769 and the injury toll at 934. (ANI)

PM Modi arrives in New York ahead of bilateral talks

Lahore, Sep 28: Two teenagers have been arrested in London in connection with a blaze at a mosque which claims to be the largest in Western Europe.According to The Nation, ten fire trucks were sent to the site of the blaze in Morden, South West London.The

two teens, aged 16 and 14, were arrested on suspicion of arson.The boys are in custody at a south London police station, Scotland Yard headquarters said.The fire damaged half of the ground floor, part of the first floor and a section of the roof. (ANI)

New York, Sep28 : Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in New York from San Jose, California today, where he is scheduled to meet U.S. President Barack Obama, French President Francois Hollande and British Prime Minister David Cameron for the bilateral talks.PM Modi returned from the Silicon Valley, where during his weekend stay, visited the campuses of Tesla, Facebook and Google, and held a series of meetings with top Silicon Valley CEOs including Apple CEO Tim Cook.He also addressed the Indian community at SAP centre, a multinational software corporation, at San Jose, California, today.(ANI)

Man in Thailand hacks five children to death Bangkok, Sep 28: A man with a history of mental illness hacked five young children to death and stabbed a pregnant woman in a knife rampage in northern Thailand, police said todayThe mass murder took place on Sunday afternoon in a village in Chai Prakarn district of Chiang Mai province."Five boys were killed by a mentally ill man using a chopping knife," Police Lieutenant Colonel Sombut Kalasuk from Chai Prakarn police told media."The wounds were to their necks and heads -they were aged from five months to eight years old," he added.At least one of the children was related to the

pregnant woman, who was taken to hospital suffering from stab wounds but survived the ordeal.Three of the bodies were found inside the house while another was found dead next to a nearby fence. The fifth child died in hospital, police added.Sombat did not say what caused the unidentified man to turn violent.But he said he had previously been treated in hospital for an undisclosed mental health problem. He has since been arrested and taken to hospital.A doctor at Suanprung Hospital in Chiang Mai confirmed that the man had recently been released after receiving

treatment."He had been treated here for two weeks before he went home because he felt better," said Paritat Silpakit, the hospital director.Thailand provides universal healthcare but access can be patchy -- particularly in rural and remote areas - while the quality of mental health services still leaves much to be desired."Inconsistency of medication and the distance from patients` houses to hospitals is still a challenge", Panpimol Wipulakorn, deputy general director of the Department of Mental Health, Ministry of Public Health, told media. (Agencies)

Govt. to accelerate procuring equipment for Antarctica research New Delhi, Sep 28 : Union Minister of Science and Technology and Earth Sciences, Dr. Harsh Vardhan, said that government would speed-up the process of procuring all the required equipment for research at Antarctica.He also conveyed good wishes of Prime Minister Narendra Modigovernment to all the

scientists at the Bharati research station at Antarctica from the National Center for Antarctica and Ocean Research (NCAOR) in Goa."All the processes for procurement of all the required equipment for research at Antarctica will be expedited so that effective research is undertaken there," Harsh Vardhan said while speaking in a tele-

conference with scientists from NCAOR.The conversation also included the issue of increasing level of carbon dioxide in atmosphere and its impact on climate change over the years.The minister earlier had visited all the labs and facilities at the institute where various scientists briefed him of the research findings. (ANI)

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Pak's Haj stampede death toll jumps to 36 Islamabad, Sep 28: The death toll of Pakistani pilgrims in the Haj stampede today doubled from 18 to 36, even as scores of people are still missing after the worst incident in 25 years to strike the annual pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia.Religious Affairs Minister Sardar Mohammad Yousaf has said that 36 Pakistani pilgrims were killed and 35 injured in the stampede near Saudi holy city of Mecca on Thursday.At least 85 Pakistanis are still missing after the tragedy which killed at least 769 pilgrims from different countries, Yousaf told staterun television.He said that 217 Pakistanis who went missing after the stampede were traced and contacts have been established with them.Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has directed the officials to expedite efforts to trace the remaining missing pilgrims.Some of the relatives blamed government for failure to respond to the queries about the fate of the pilgrims."Nobody is helping us as both ministry of religious affairs and foreign ministry are not responding to our calls," a relative said. (Agencies)

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Indonesian stampede toll hits 41, officials race against time

Afghan Taliban seize 200-bed hospital in Kunduz city in north

largest annual Hajj quota from Saudi Arabia, this year receiving 168,000 places.

Other countries with substantial numbers of pilgrims killed in the accident include Morocco, Egypt and India.The Saudi Arabian interior ministry said it assigned 100,000 police to secure the Hajj and manage crowds at the event, which drew almost two million faithful. But pilgrims blamed the stampede on police road closures and poor crowd management in searing temperatures. For years, the Hajj was marred by stampedes and fires, but it had been largely incident-free for almost a decade after safety improvements and billions of dollars' worth of infrastructure investment. (Agencies)

Kabul, Sep 28: Afghan Taliban fighters today seized control of a 200bed hospital in Kunduz city in the north, a spokesman for the militants said.The Taliban launched a fierce offensive from three directions on Kunduz just after dawn, raising fresh fears parts of the provincial capital could fall into their hands.Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said in a post on Twitter that insurgent fighters had seized a hospital in a district in the south of the city.A police official, who declined to be identified, confirmed that a government-run hospital had fallen into insurgent hands but had no further details. (Agencies)

Jakarta, Sep 28: The number of Indonesians killed in a stampede at the Hajj rose to 41 today with scores more still missing, an official said, warning Jakarta faces a "race against time" to identify its citizens who died.The stampede on Thursday during a ritual stoning of the devil near the holy Saudi city of Mecca killed 769 people, the worst disaster to strike the annual Muslim pilgrimage in a quarter of a century. At least 144 Iranians died in the crush -the highest confirmed toll among foreign nationalities -- sparking a war of words between regional rivals Saudi Arabia and Iran.Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim-majority country, initially indicated only a handful of its citizens died in the stampede but the death toll crept up over the weekend, and the religious affairs ministry confirmed Monday that it

now stood at 41.In addition, 10 Indonesians were being treated for their injuries in hospital while a further 82 remain missing, although senior ministry official Abdul Djamil said it was not clear if they were caught up

in the stampede.He said that it was taking time to work out the number of Indonesian victims as Indonesian officials were only given access to morgues two days after the stampede, and the teams were

having trouble identifying bodies against their own records of pilgrims."This means we have to race against time because the longer we wait, the harder it is to identify the Hajj pilgrims who have died," Djamil said in a statement.

Many pilgrims' bodies were mutilated in the crush, and Djamil said that officials were identifying Indonesian victims through such methods as checking clothes and Hajj ID bracelets against their records."Our team has been working hard day and night to look for the pilgrims whose whereabouts are still unknown, and to identify the pilgrims who died," he added. Indonesia, home to around 225 million Muslims, gets the

10 Indonesians were being treated for their injuries in hospital while a further 82 remain missing, although senior ministry official Abdul Djamil said it was not clear if they were caught up in the stampede.

China Sept official factory PMI seen shrinking for second month Colombo, Sep 28: India's DMK leader M Karunanidhi has opposed a statement made by Vikas Swaroop, the Foreign Ministry's spokesperson, supporting a resolution accepted by Sri Lanka on the findings of the UN human rights probe panel on the atrocities on Tamils. Karunanidhi urged the Union government to support an international criminal investigation into the matter. The DMK leader said, "Supporting the US resolution will deny justice for war crimes, human rights violations and genocide of Tamils and the wound will remain unhealed in the hearts of Tamils.""A domestic investigation will not be impartial and a probe by the accused into the crimes will turn justice into a mockery. The Indian government should voice its support for an independent, credible and international investigation and introduce a resolution for it in the United Nations Human Rights Council", he added. The UN panel's findings show that all international laws had been flouted in the crimes against Tamils and they were deliberate and planned. Besides, the UN panel report itself has recommended a hybrid inquiry mechanism with the participation of international judges, lawyers and investigators. (Agencies)

Beijing, Sep 28: China's giant factory sector likely shrank for the second month in a row in September, a Reuters poll showed, a development that would add to fears of a sharper slowdown in the world's second-largest economy.The official manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) is forecast to inch down to 49.6 from August's 49.7, according to the median forecast of 29 economists in the poll.A reading above 50 indicates an expansion in activity while one below that signifies a contraction on a monthly basis.August saw the deepest contraction in factory activity in three years and if the September number is 49.6, it would be the lowest since August 2012.The weak PMI reading would strengthen bets that Beijing would roll out more support this year, including further cuts in interest

Kerry asks Sharif to take action against LeT, Haqqani network

New York, Sep 28: US Secretary of State John Kerry has asked Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to take action against terrorist groups like Lashkar-e-Taiba and the dreaded Afghanbased Haqqani network.Kerry commended Sharif's pledge to not distinguish between terrorist groups and "urged additional action against the Haqqani Network and Lashkar-eTayyiba," State Department spokesman John Kirby said following the two leaders' meeting here on sidelines of the UN General Assembly session."He acknowl-

edged the crucial role Pakistan has played in Afghan reconciliation talks and noted the importance of dialogue with India for fostering regional stability and economic integration," Kirby said.The two leaders discussed topics of mutual interest including counterterrorism, Afghan reconciliation, regional stability and economic cooperation, he said."They confirmed our long-term strategic bilateral cooperation based on joint interests and mutual respect. The Secretary underscored that the US shares an interest in a stable, democratic and prosperous Pakistan and

welcomed the Prime Minister's commitment to complete Pakistan's IMF program reforms," Kirby added.The banned Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist group had carried out the audacious 2008 Mumbai attack that killed 166 people.The Haqqani network, founded by Jalaluddin Haqqani, has been blamed for the Indian embassy bombing in Kabul in 2008 that left 58 people dead, a 2011 attack on the US embassy in Kabul, and several big truck bombing attempts in Afghanistan. It was designated as a terrorist organisation by the US in September 2012.

(Agencies)

rates, bank reserve requirements and higher infras t r u c t u r e spending."Conditions remain weak in China's economy but a sharper downturn would be un-

likely thanks to government supportive policies," said Hu Yuexiao, economist at Shanghai Securities in Shanghai.Last week, a separate, preliminary private survey showed flag-

ging demand dragged China's factory sector into its sharpest contraction in 6-1/2 years in September, fanning global concerns that the economy may be slowing more sharply than

earlier feared.Global investors and policymakers have been on edge over the health of China's economy this year, as it looks set to log its weakest performance in at least a quarter of a century. A plunge in China's stock market over the summer and a surprise devaluation in the yuan CNY=CFXS have roiled global markets, and raised doubts inside and outside China over Beijing's ability to manage its economy .Despite of a raft of stimulus moves, including slashing interest rates five times since November, recent economic data suggested China's economy lost further momentum over the summer. The official PMI factory numbers will be released on Thursday, Oct. 1, alongside the official services PMI. The Caixin/ Markit manufacturing PMI (final) and its services PMI will be released on the same day. (Agencies)

Nawaz Sharif raises Kashmir issue with Ban Ki-moon United Nations, Sep 28: Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif raised the Kashmir plebiscite issue with Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Sunday and wanted the United Nations Military Observer Group for India and Pakistan (UNMOGIP) strengthened, Pakistani media reported. However, here at the UN headquarters Ban`s spokesman only said in a statement that during their meeting "the secretarygeneral stressed the necessity for Pakistan and India to continue their peaceful dialogue". The statement said that they also discussed "the fight against terrorism and violent extremism" and that Ban also asked Pakistan "to continue engaging Afghanistan in

order to help stabilize the country". India considers the Kashmir dispute a bilateral issue and opposes any international involvement. However, when Sharif spoke soon afterward at the UN Summit on sustainable development goals, he focused on development and stayed away from bilateral or international issues. He said that "development strategies remain first and foremost national undertakings".

While most of the speakers stuck to development themes, a few like Presidents Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus, Nicolas Maduro Moros of Venezuela and Rafael Correa made anti-West statements. But Nawaz

passed up on bilateral issues. Nawaz will have another opportunity next week during the annual general debate of the General Assembly to raise the Kashmir issue. Sharif is listed as a

speaker on Wednesday during the debate, and traditionally that is forum for airing bilateral and other grievances. Every year Pakistan rakes up the Kashmir issue there. (Agencies)

Dalai Lama remains at Mayo Clinic for evaluation Rochester, Sep 28: The Dalai Lama remains at Minnesota's Mayo Clinic after canceling his US appearances for the month of October.A Mayo spokeswoman confirmed Sunday that the 80-yearold Tibetan Buddhist leader remains at the Rochester clinic for a medical evaluation. No other details were released.The Dalai Lama's office said Friday in a statement on its website that he has canceled his planned October US appearances after doctors advised him to rest. The statement gave no more details about the Dalai Lama's condition, and there was no update on the website as on Sunday.

The Dalai Lama lives in exile in India.Among the Dalia Lama's canceled appearances next month was a planned visit to the University of Colorado in Boulder as well as appearances in Salt Lake City and Philadelphia. (Agencies)

Bhaktapur locals picket Tinkune police post for letting off rape accused Kathmandu,Sep 28: Locals from Bhaktapur have picketed police Metropolitan Police Circle office in Tinkune for allegedly releasing a person accused of murdering a girl after rape.They blamed that police released the accused because of his political connection. They have been chanting slogans against the police administration demanding action against the guilty.

The unnamed girl from Bhaktapur was murdered after rape; they claim.Traffic movements have been affected in Tinkune due to the picketing. (Agencies)

Japanese one-fingered climber abandons Mount Everest attempt Kathmandu, Sep 28: A Japanese climber who previously lost nine of his fingers decided to end his at-

tempt to climb Mount Everest on Sunday, citing too much snow. Nobukazu Kuriki, 33, of Hokkaido, was

making his fifth attempt to reach the world's highest summit. On Sunday, as in each previous attempt, Kuriki was stopped at the South Col, just below the so-called "death zone," where climbers typically make their last push to the summit in air so thin and conditions so harsh, many have been killed."I tried hard taking all my energy, but it took too much time to move in deep, deep snow," he wrote on his Facebook page. "I realized if I kept going, I wouldn't be able to come back alive,

so I decided to descend."Kuriki lost nine fingers to frostbite during a previous attempt to climb Everest in 2012. This year he was the first climber trying to reach the summit since the earthquake in Nepal in April. The quake killed 8,900 people in the country and set off an avalanche at the mountain's base camp that killed another 18 people and abruptly ended the spring climbing season. Kuriki was attempting to summit alone and without oxygen.

Experts say climbing with-

out oxygen is dangerous and difficult. Also, trying to climb Everest in the fall is more dangerous than during the spring climbing season because of higher winds and lower temperatures. There have been three successful autumn summits on Everest in the past 15 years. Everest, at 29,029 feet, is the world's highest peak. New Zealander Edmund Hillaryand Sherpa Tenzing Norgay were the first to successfully climb the mountain 62 years ago on May 29, 1953. (Agencies)

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G4 Summit Will it be helpful to India?

India has pushed the envelope on behalf of G4 on the long pending issue of reforms in the 70-yearold United Nations and expansion of the Security Council by hosting the G4 Summit in New York after a decade. Prime Minister Narendra Modi put forth India's considered views on the important issue in his opening remarks wherein he underscored the need for expansion of the UNSC "within a fixed time frame". Clearly PM Modi, like his fellow G-4 summiteers German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Japanese PM Shinzo Abe and Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, is sensing a whale of an opportunity after the outgoing 69th UN General Assembly decided earlier this month to begin text-based negotiations on the issue. For the first time, the issue of UN reforms and expansion of the Security Council has gone out of an informal circuit of the Security Council to a formal text-based negotiations in the 193-member General Assembly.

PM Modi cited several reasons for seeking an urgent overhaul of the UN and inclusion of G-4 nations - India, Japan, Germany and Brazil - in the UNSC as permanent members with full veto powers. The reasons he cited for seeking the changes urgently are the vastly changed political, economic, demographic, social and economic realities and a complete transformation in the peace and security issues. Here is a relevant quote from PM Modi's opening remarks at the G-4 summit which flags the four aspirants' concerns on the issue: "We live in a fundamentally different world from the time the UN was born. The number of Member States has grown four-fold. Threats to peace and security have become more complex, unpredictable and undefined. In many ways, our lives are becoming globalized, but fault-lines around our identities are growing...The global economy is changed, with new engines of growth, more widely dispersed economic power and widening wealth gap. Trends in demography, urbanization and migrations are posing new challenges.

Climate change and terrorism are new concerns.

Cyber and Space are entirely new frontiers of opportunities and challenges." PM Modi bemoaned the fact that institutions like the UN continue to reflect the wisdom of the century the world has left behind, not the century we live in.

The important thing here is that by hosting the G-4 summit in New York India has signalled its arrival on the world's big stage. Hosting a Summit of leaders of Germany, Japan and Brazil under the G4 format, our PM said the UNSC "must include the world's largest democracies, major locomotives of the global economy, and voices from all the major continents" to carry "greater credibility and legitimacy". Besides, India has also managed to bring back Japan in the G-4 loop. Japan had for past few years turned cool towards the G-4. That explains why the G-4 summit is being held after a decade.

India, host of this summit, deserves credit for breathing a new lease of life in G-4 which had been moribund all these years. At the end of the summit, the G-4 leaders issued a joint press statement wherein they stressed that a more representative, legitimate and effective Security Council is needed more than ever to address the global conflicts and crises, which had spiralled in recent years.

Digital India Use of Information Technology Digital India is an enterprise for the transformation of India in a scale unmatched in human history. Nothing else will do in a country with 800 million impatient youths waiting for change. In his first major official engagement on the West Coast, on the second leg of his US trip, Prime Minister Narendra Modi told CEOs of tech majors in Silicon Valley that the Digital India initiative was an "enterprise for transformation... unmatched in human history". Silicon Valley's tech giants have evinced interest in Narendra Modi's Digital India and Smart Cities projects and committed to participate in them, during an interaction with the Prime Minister.Chipmaker Qualcomm announced a $150 million fund for start-ups in India and Facebook has started a project to enable Wi-Fi hotspots in rural India. The announcements came after Modi met top executives from these companies on Saturday. Later in the day, while speaking at the Digital India event in San Jose, California, Modi credited the technology firms for ushering in social change. Microsoft's plan is to partner with the Indian government to bring in lowcost broadband connectivity to 500,000 villages in India.

The project is slated for completion by 2019. A two-way platform will be created where both the service providers and the consumers stand to benefit.

The scheme will be monitored and controlled by the Digital India Advisory group which will be chaired by the Ministry of Communications and IT. It will be an inter-ministerial initiative where all ministries and departments shall offer their own services to the public Healthcare, Education, Judicial services etc. The Public-Private-Partnership model shall be adopted selectively. In addition, there are plans to restructure the National Informatics Centre. This project is one among the top priority projects of the Modi Administration. It has been felt that a lot more thrust is required to ensure e-Governance in the country promote inclusive growth that covers electronic services, products, devices and job opportunities. Moreover, electronic manufacturing in the country needs to be strengthened. In order to transform the entire ecosystem of public services through the use of information technology, the Government of India had launched the Digital India programme with the vision to transform India into a digitally empowered society and knowledge economy.

After a Court Order, Pakistan Will Have to Clamp Down on Climate Change A Pakistani judge, citing climate change as the most serious threat facing Pakistan, has ordered the government to act.

Ankit Panda A Pakistani court set an important precedent this week when it ordered the country's government to enforce the 2012 National Climate Policy and Framework. Basically, the court order holds the Pakistani government to the country's climate change law. According to recent reports, the court has ordered the government to establish a climate change commission to oversee the process of implementation.

The court order is the result of a public interest litigation case initiated by a farmer who claimed the the Pakistani government had neglected the implementation of its own climate policy.

Judge Syed Mansoor Ali Shah, the presiding judge at the high court, said that climate change "appears the most serious threat faced by Pakistan."

He additionally summoned Pakistani government offi-

cials to court to cite progress in the implementation of the 2012 framework. After seeing that the Pakistani government had neglected the implementation of the framework, the judge noted that "climate change is a defining challenge of our time‌ it is a clarion call for the protection of the fundamental rights of the citizens of Pa-

kistan‌ like the right to life which includes the right to a healthy and clean environment and right to human dignity."

The case is the first example of judicial activism in Pakistan on the issue of climate change. Dawn notes that the judge, in ruling on the case, invoked the principle of "climate change justice." Even

though Pakistan accounts for under one percent of total global carbon emission, it has considered emissions cuts for some time now. The government's 2012 policy, which highlighted the government's interest in proactively approaching the issue of climate change, nevertheless notes that Pakistan "has very low technical and fi-

nancial capacity to adapt to [the adverse impacts of climate change]."

Essentially, the new court order identifies a major discrepancy in what Pakistan has said it would do to address climate change and what it has actually done. It's unclear to what degree a court-mandated commission will be able to rally the resources and bureaucratic infrastructure necessary for implementing emissions cuts and other climate-friendly policies.

Pakistan, of course, faces a bevy of other problems that may seem more pressing, despite Judge Ali Shah's thoughts on climate change. Terrorism and poor national energy and water infrastructure are just two such issues.

The Pakistani judge isn't alone in his assessment of climate change as a major threat in the region.

Recent survey data collected by Pew Research showed that Indians also rate climate change as the

top challenge for their country. Of the Indians surveyed, 73 percent said they were "very concerned" about global climate change. For comparison, 49 percent cited global economic instability, 45 percent cited cyberattacks, and 41 percent cited ISIS. Additionally, the proportion of Indians who see air pollution as a "very big problem" jumped from 52 percent in 2014 to 74 percent in 2015.

Later this year, when world leaders convene for the Paris COP21 climate conference, Pakistan will present the extent to which it is vulnerable to the negative effects of rising global temperatures. Pakistan faces a range of threats from climate change, including intensifying flooding and droughts (extreme weather events), glacier recession (though some glaciers in the Karakoram range are actually accruing snowmass), increased health risks, and coastal degradation.

Time to Confront Iran's Human Rights Abuses "Silence on Tehran's abysmal human rights record is and must not an option."

Lord Maginnis of Drumglass Whether one supports the nuclear deal with Iran or not, one must accept that it is the new reality in which further Western policies toward Iran will have to operate.

With that in mind, anyone who is concerned about Tehran's behavior both within and beyond its borders should now be focused on the question of how to generate the strongest possible unity of purpose in confronting those issues diplomatically, economically, and if need be militarily. Regardless of how one feels about the nuclear agreement, it is time to put aside those differences in the interest of working together to the greatest extent possible with respect to the many non-nuclear threats that Tehran regime poses to the world community.

That nuclear agreement will put many people's lives at risk if its verification proves as unreliable as many critics think. Aside from threats it poses to the Iranian people, it could ultimately put the very existence of the state of Israel at risk. After all, Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei just this month expressed hope that within 25 years, the Jewish homeland will be no more. So the consequences of Iran's successful push for a nuclear weapon are extraordinary, but by most accounts they

are at least several months away.

By contrast, Iran's influence in Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Kuwait, and Bahrain, as well as its systematic repression of dissent and its enforcement of a fundamentalist view of law and governance put thousands of lives at risk every single day.

However, the presence of Iranian president, Hassan Rouhani at the UN General Assembly on September 28 provides an excellent opportunity to put the spot light on Iran's egregious human rights conduct.

Amnesty International and the UN Human Rights Council have repeatedly raised the issue of Iran's skyrocketing use of the death penalty. The per capita rate of executions in the country was already the highest in the world long before Hassan Rouhani took over the presidency of Iran amidst promises of broadbased moderation. Yet since then, the rate has climbed to an average of three executions per day, putting the Islamic Republic on track to hang well over 1,000 people in the year 2015 alone, most of them non-violent offenders.

Some of these victims are sure to be political prisoners, as well. The Committee to Protect Journalists routinely ranks Iran as one of the worst jailers of report-

ers in the world. More than 50 are known to be in custody today, and these constitute only a fraction of the overall population of prisoners who have been targeted simply for their affiliations, their public activities, or their privately expressed political and religious views. The Islamic Republic effectively retains carte blanche to execute these sorts of people by charging them with vague crimes like "enmity against God," which carries the death penalty in the theocracy's legal system.

This very charge was used, for instance, to justify last year's execution of Gholamreza Khosravi, whose only offence was donating money to the main Iranian opposition movement, the People's Mojahedin Organisation of

Iran (PMOI).

Other political prisoners may not be made subject to the death penalty per se, but this is no guarantee that their lives are not in danger whenever they are in custody of the regime. It is well known that Tehran utilizes torture in its interrogations, and a number of people have died as a result.

It also routinely denies essential medical treatment to some inmates. In the case of Afshin Baymani, another political prisoner with links to the PMOI, it has done so for 16 years, even as he has suffered chronic pain related to severe heart disease exacerbated by notably poor prison conditions.

Add to these deaths the immeasurable human costs of Iran's backing of the Assad regime in the Syrian Civil War, its connection to

a July 28 bombing in Bahrain that killed two police officers, and its constant supplying of terrorist groups with money and weapons, including a large cache that was seized by authorities in Kuwait in mid-August.

When viewed collectively, it is clear that these activities represent a more clear and present danger to regional stability and global security than a nuclear deal that has been handled poorly by the West, but has been handled nonetheless.

Debate and coordinated actions are still needed on that point, but they should never come at the expense of action on Tehran's human rights abuses and support for terrorism.

Whichever side you come down on with regard to the nuclear deal, you

should recognize that there are legitimate grounds for disagreement. But there are no such grounds for disagreement on the appalling human rights situation in Iran or Tehran's sponsor of terrorism.

Iran will receive at least 56 billion dollars once the deal is implemented, according to the Obama-administration. Some other experts and U.S. lawmakers estimate the actual number to be as high as 150 billion dollars. Nevertheless, there are some economic sanctions that will remain in place because they are specifically related to Iran's human rights record and regional behaviors. There is nothing to prevent Western governments from amplifying and aggressively enforcing these sanctions as Iran's human rights situation deteriorates and the number of executions increases.

What policy the West decides to pursue, silence on Tehran's abysmal human rights record is and must not an option. The West's adherence to its principled and moral values will come to a test next week at the UN General Assembly.

It is worth remembering that the world is watching, first and foremost the Iranian people who are true allies when it comes in formulating a viable policy on this strategic country.

Home Ministry In Slumber Sir, Despite much hullabaloo all through the state centering round the vexed question of cow-lifting, and exporting the same to Bangladesh illegally, that incurs loss of huge amount of revenue to the state and central exchequer. It is axiomatic that state 'Home' ministry is hand in gloves with the racket of the cow-lifters. The act of cow-lifting is allowed to continue unabated. In number of places like Dergaon, Golokganj,Dhuburi there have been instances of upheaval against the Police for the utter inertia shown to the cow-lifting. Whenever Police forces spot act of cow-lifting, they look to the other side and the misdoers can escape unnoticed. We presume, a clandestine agreement has been arrived at between the racket of cow-lifters and the state Police.

Else, how could such an abominable exercise continue? Bangladesh gains enormously in terms of foreign exchange at the cost of India. The NDA government's somersault after winning the Lok Sabha election makes the difference. It is really sur-

prising that BJP by its body language shows that it is not at all concerned about the well being of the indigenous people of Assam. The most interesting point to note is the union 'Home' Ministry, too is in deep slumber.

Yours etc.

Ashok Bordoloi Dibrugarh

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Dobin doke, self-made sportserson: an unsung hero?

Like most of the young Arunachallee boys of his age Dobin Doke spent his childhood roaming aimlessly in the emerald meadows near his village with a catapult in

his hands. He was born in remote Moba Doke village in West Siang district where, leave alone games and sports facilities, even the basic amenities were not available. As a child Dobin used to play mostly traditional games with the children of his sleepy village. However, he had the inherent urge to learn modern games and sports but sadly, his

wishes remained a distant dream. But with the establishment of a government Primary School in his village, the lone Assamese Teacher introduced football, volley-

ball, carom and other modern games that young Dobin had never seen before. Little wonder then, he was excited.

He was passionate about those games and excelled in all of them even as a child. When he grew up and reached higher classes he was exposed to many modern games and sports both indoor and outdoor. When he ventured out of his small

village to pursue higher studies outside, young Dobin started taking keen interest in badminton and Chess. His interest in these games increased when he started winning matches against established opponents.

The Lady Luck was with him when he was selected to undergo training as a Forest Ranger at the Eastern Rangers' Forest College, Kurseong in West Bengal. This was indeed a God-send opportunity for sports aficionado Dobin because the college offered ample opportunities for training in different sports. He started taking more interest in badminton and Chess as he loved these games profoundly. After a few months of his stay in the EFRC, Dobin started taking part in competitions held from time to time. His Teachers and colleagues had by then noticed the latent talent in him and they started encouraging him to participate in sports meets and represent the college. This did a world of good in honing the raw and hidden skills in him. Such an exposure also boosted his morale and strengthened his mindset and match temperament which are a

Denhang Bosai hallmark of a successful sportsperson. Dobin told the writer of this article, "I am eternally indebted and grateful to my Teachers and colleagues who recognized my talent, especially in badminton and Chess. I can never forget their encouragement and support. I attribute to them for whatever little I have achieved in sports."

Dobin never gave up his pursuit for sports even after joining as a Ranger. He was posted in different places in Arunachal Pradesh and wherever he went he made it a point to popularize badminton and Chess, especially among the youth. Not only did he continue to play these games with the same passion like before but also started teaching the young players about some of the nuances and intricacies of badminton and Chess. However, it was during his posting at Itanagar when Dobin's expertise in badminton and Chess was fully exploited and gainfully utilized by the state government. His was the most familiar face whenever

any badminton or Chess tournament was held at the state capital. It is needless to add here that the journey of Chess started with a humble beginning in Arunachal Pradesh. It was on the 18th of August-2007 when a meeting was convened by Dobin at Hotel Donyi-Polo Ashok in which a committee to run the ALL ARUNACHAL PRADESH CHESS ASSOCIATION was constituted. A number of Chess enthusiasts participated in the meeting and after a threadbare deliberation the ALL ARUNACHAL PRADESH CHESS A S S O C I AT I O N (AAPCA) was born with Dobin Doke as its President. Soon the AAPCA was registered and subsequently it was affiliated with the All India Chess Federation all thanks to the untiring effort of Dobin. He attended the conference of AICF in Chennai in 2008 to get AAPCA affiliated with AICF. In that meeting Dobin was appointed as the Coach of Indian Chess Team that participated in the

Asian Youth Chess Championship held at Tehran in Iran. Thereafter Dobin Doke had become a household name in badminton and Chess not only in Arunsachal Pradesh but in the whole country. Dobin is still today grateful to former chief minister late Dorjee Khandu who took great interest in promoting badminton in the state. Under late Khandu's support and patronage Dobin successfully conducted a number of badminton tournaments at Itanagar and in the districts that helped him in identifying the best players of the state.

The achievements of Dobin in badminton and Chess tournaments held at various places in the country read like a fairytale story. He won a Silver Medal in badminton open doubles in the 7th All India Forest Sports Meet held at Lucknow in 1999. He won another Silver Medal in open badminton doubles in the 2000 AIFSM held at Chennai. In 2011 Dobin won a Gold Medal in badminton (Doubles veteran) in the AIFSM held at Dehradun. In the same year he won a Gold Medal in badmin-

ton doubles open. Dobin won a Bronze Medal in Chess in the 17th AIFSM held at Chandigarh in 2008. He bagged the first prize in the All Assam Chess Championship held in Jorhat in 2001. In 2006 Dobin won the first prize in the All Assam open prize money Chess Championship (Tamdem) held at Narayanpur . He was adjudged the Champion in lightning game in the same tournament. He bagged the 3rd prize in the All Assam open prize money Chess Championship held at Dibrugargh in 2002. Today, Dobin Doke should proudly say that he has done his bit to promote badminton and Chess not only in his state but in the whole Northeast and the country. In his words, "I can say with great conviction. Our state and the Northeast have a great future in sports what we need are infrastructure, patronage from the GOI and the state government. Our tribal youths are naturally talented who are agile and possess inherent stamina which are the hallmarks of any successful sportsperson.

However, I appeal to our young sportspersons to

maintain self-discipline as no sportsperson can succeed sans discipline however talented he or she may be. The students should take a keen interest in games and sports apart from their studies. 'Teach 'em young' should be the mantra as the earlier the young people take up sports the better for them."

The old Hindi adage 'padoge likhoge banoge nawaab, kheloge, kudoge banoge kharab' is a thing of the past and is no longer applicable in today's ambience when sports and games are as important as studies. Today, the young people are taking sports seriously because many successful people have made a successful career in sports that are the sporting icons of the world. I am sanguine that this success story of my friend Dobin Doke will surely inspire our young sportspersons to achieve more sporting glories in their lives. The sky should be the limit for them. Unlike Dobin in his childhood, today's children have all the modern facilities at their disposal. (The writer is DIPRO, Tirap and can be reached at denhangbosai@yahoo.co.in)

Book Review: Two Years Eight Months And 6 Points That Tell You A Twenty-Eight Nights by Salman Rushdie Child Is Being Abused, And Book: Two Years Eight Months And Twenty-Eight Nights Author: Salman Rushdie Publisher: Hamish Hamilton / Penguin Pages: 304 Price: Rs 431 This sizzling allegory from the pen of Rushdie - Magic Realist with the M and R in ornate Gothic dropped caps - is meant to be read against the backdrop of a world set aflame by zealots and faithfuls, riven by climate change and sectarian conflict where the innocent, the naïve, the agnostic and the uncertain frequently wash up on indifferent shores. Caught in this violent contortion of history, which way does the artist, the chronicler, the auteur turn? Rushdie turns to storytelling as the tool that keeps the world in place, the emollient on festering wounds left behind by the conflict of ideas.

Rushdie has re-engineered the narrative frame of The Arabian Nights; the novel's name a simple reorganisation (by principle of the Gregorian calendar) of "thousand and one nights", one of several putative titles of that medieval tale. This rephrasing of the title is an early sign of an increasingly complex but minutely crafted novel where the stories fructify and multiply, some hung from the narrative superstructure while others emanate from the half a dozen or so characters dredged from history, both public and personal, but draped in myth, fables and magic. At the roseate heart of this layered gossamer yarn is Duniya, 'a great princess of the jinn' from Peristan and her transgressive and transgenerational) love for Ibn Rushd, the liberal philosopher, 'once the Qadi or judge of Seville' but now excommunicated from the court, his books banned and burnt, having lost the battle of ideas to his predecessor and intellectual adversary, the staunchly conservative theologian Ghazali.

Both Ibn Rushd and (Al) Ghazali are historical figures, philosophers and thinkers pivotal to the evolution of Islamic thought.

Some would find this autobiographical usurpation of Ibn Rushd by Rushdie simplistic or crude. But the feeling dissipates as the novel unfolds on an epic scale, flitting back and forth through recorded history, offering the reader a relentless sense of déjà vu, alluding to world art and pop culture but also to Rushdie's previous works, the literary fairground spectacle pulled off with the impish glee of a farceur at the height of his powers. The references are not only restricted to the great and the mighty of Western art and thought (there is Aristophanes' Lysistrata, Thomas Hardy, John Keats, Piet Mondrian, Salvador Dali, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, "Harry P." and Hogwarts, Stanley Kubrick, to name just a few) but also extends to the Bollywood kitsch of Karan Johar's Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna, and the chatter from the backstreets of Bandra where boys play French cricket and Sandras wink at them, funnelled in from Rushdie's

own fictiondom and life.

There is even a hilarious section where the composer Hugo Casterbridge, served with some sort of fatwa, has to deal with a London Met cop at his doorstep. As selfreflexive and self consuming as they come, stories in this novel fold back on themselves and end abruptly, in genuflection to the original inspiration of Hezar Afsana, before rearing up again without notice and suddenly come crashing down on the reader.

Duniya and Rushd's copious copulation bring forth their brood of children, half-human, half jinn, all marked by lobeless ears. This tribe is 'Duniayazat, "the people of the world" ' whose spread across the world - "the children of Duniya's children climbed into ships in Cadiz […] or walked across the Pyrenees, or flew in magic carpets, sailed the seven seas and climbed high mountains and swam mighty rivers and slid into deep valleys and found shelter and safety wherever they could, […] becoming a tribe that was no

longer a tribe, adopting every religion and no religion…" introduces the theme of the immutable permanence of migration - of people, their stories, ideas and identities, making this perhaps the most grandly ambitious novel of Rushdie. Migration itself becomes a storied narrative.

Duniya's fairy world, or Peristan, is no paradise.

There passions run high and the rough ride of jinn politics tumbles down to the earth below, fuelling the "strangenesses" that is engulfing the world. It is a world where Mr Geronimo, a gardener in New York (but "born Raphael Hieronymus Manezes in Bandra, Bombay, the illegitimate son of a firebrand Catholic priest"), finds himself levitating after a cataclysmic storm; the aspiring graphic novelist Jimmy Kapoor is confronted by his own fictional creation Nataraj Hero; a baby found abandoned in the New York mayor's office, swaddled in the Indian flag, has miraculous powers to detect corruption and a socialite with a fiery temper throws thunderbolts from her hands to kill the family of a lover who jilted her (for fans of the Iron Man film franchise, this has shades of Micky Rourke's Ivan Vanko). Elsewhere, in the country of "A.", Duniya's childhood friends turned foes, Zummurrud and Zabardast wreak havoc. These evil jinnies have created a "Foundation" and teamed up with "a murderous gang of ignoramuses […] the Swots [who] had studied deeply the art of forbidding things […] painting, sculpture, music, film, journalism, hashish, voting, elections, individualism, disagreement, pleasure, happiness, pool tables, cleanshaven chins on men, women's faces, women's bodies, women's education, women's rights."

But deep within the maze of a political novel, and quite literally bang in the middle of the book, pulsates the love story of Duniya whose jinni spirit now settles on Mr Geronimo, Ibn Rushd's lookalike and also a Duniazat, giving the book some of its most memorable passages, a transcendental

love scene where the lovers come together after centuries: "In that darkened room no news reached them of the mayhem being wrought on the city outside. […] There was only the act of love, and lovemaking had a surprise in store for them both. 'Your body smells of smoke,' she said. 'And look at you. When you're aroused you become blurred, smudged, there's smoke at the edges of you, didn't your human lovers ever tell you that?' […] But she was thinking with mounting excitement that it was his jinn self revealing itself, the jinn self that had come to him, down the centuries, from her. This was the sulphurous smokiness of the jinn when they made love.

And if she could release the jinn with him, then many things became possible.

'Geroinimo, Geronimo,' she murmured in his smokey ear, 'it looks like you are a fairy too.'

This grand narrative where the tropes of magic realism are pitted against the epic is sustained by the clever legerdemain one associates with film (such as jumpcuts) and photography (such as time lapse). The Duniyazats become the stories they want to write, they become the characters their words try to string together, where the frisson between the lived life and fictional lie is given a fresh twist at every turn by our very own Ibn Rushdie.

The book is a meditation on the permeability and impermanence of boundaries and lines drawn around ideas, philosophies, faiths, nations, genres and art forms and a celebration of the "erotic thrum" of the interstitial and in-betweenness, the "strangenesses" as Rushdie's narrator calls that luminous flux.

For all the allure of the book's majesty and magic, this is a hard book to read, which is perhaps more of readerly failure than a writerly one, ironically another sign of a world whose shrinking attention span now almost demands high art to be compressed in 140 characters, seconds, bytes or pixels.

What You Can Do To Help Pratiksha Mishra

Children are little buds that need a healthy environment to bloom, and the abuse that is done to them makes them go into a peevish cocoon and never venture out. It could be a scar that time would fail to erase. Child abuse is a form of corporal, emotional and psychosomatic mistreatment of children. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention defines child abuse as, "child mistreatment due to any act or series of acts of commission or omission by a parent or other caregiver that results in harm, potential for harm, or threat of harm to a child."

As you are reading this, I can assure you that 1 in every 5 girls and 1 in every 20 boys is a survivor of sexual abuse.

Well, if you haven't seen one within close quarters, you can try to place yourself in their shoes, and the very thought will make your skin prick.

Doesn't it?

Listed below are some of the pointers that we should trace while dealing with this delicate subject. " Strangers Are Not The Only Threat: Gone are the days where our family was a utopian set-up and pedophiles were supposed to be only strangers who would want to quench their thirst by playing with random kids. We are now at a stage where we see cases of family members abusing children for their amusement. Beware! " Good Touch

And Bad Touch: It is very important for a parent or caregiver to make the child understand the difference between the good touch and the bad one.

Children seek love from everyone around them; it is our duty to ensure that they receive only the right kind. " The Scar That Never Heals: The mind of a child is very fragile.

Once eroded, it is hardly ever possible to come back to the perceived 'normal' state. While being abused, they hardly realise its implications, but once the reality sets in, words like trust and innocence are gone forever. " Gauging The Indicators: The indicators of sexual abuse could range from difficulty in walking or sitting; torn, stained, or bloody underclothing, too unwilling to change for or participate in a physical education class. It could also be withdrawal, fantasy, or infantile behavior. As caregivers, it is our duty to keep a lookout for these signs and definitely, not at any cost ignore them. " The Importance Of Sex Education: It is

high time that we understand that sex education is as important in the Indian context as much as a history lesson is. The Indian education system is still in its nascent stage and deals with this topic in a hushed tone. If we want to provide a healthy and holistic environment for the next generation, this is where we need to begin. " Standing By The Child: Children have a very brittle mindset. It is to be handled in a subtle manner and an apt way. The child might not know what struck him/her; s/ he might have to live his entire life under the shadow of guilt and shame. You can change that by being a supportive caregiver with whom the child can open up and share his/ her experience without having the fear of being judged.

We now are standing at the junction where we have to decide to either take the train to a bright future or return to the hideous past. The choice is yours, so make a wise one. Help stop child abuse.

BUSINESS

DIBRUGARH, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29

IT hubs in India to be connected

by AI flights Connecting India New Delhi, Sep 28: Air India's New DelhiSan Francisco flight will offer a three-class cabin configuration, with eight seats in first class, 35 in business class and 195 seats in economy. San Francisco will become Air India's fourth destination in the U.S. Air India operates daily nonstop flights to New Yo r k , N e w a r k a n d Chicago, the national carrier said in a statement. Passengers from Bengaluru, Mumbai, Chennai, Hyderabad, Kochi, Ahmedabad and Pune, all IT hubs, will have seamless connections to the flight from New Delhi.

(Agencies)

Rs.100 cr to be raised by Motherhood Hospital Chennai, Sep 28: Motherhood Hospital plans to raise more than Rs.100 crore through series 'B' funding to meet its expansion plans.

Motherhood, a speciality hospital chain of Bengaluru-based Rhea Healthcare, provides women's healthcare and birth care services and has

delivered more than 5,000 babies through its six hospitals in the last 18 months.

The hospitals are located in Bengaluru (three), Hyderabad (two) and one in Chennai.

Mohammed Rehan Sayeed, Chairman, Motherhood Hospitals said: "Today we have six hospitals. Our bed strength in the

last 18 months has increased from 32 to 240. Our next step is to increase our presence in the South by building hospitals in the southern border cities, before stepping into the North. We have not closed in on any city, but, are looking for appropriate locations." In the first round,

A GOOD EFFORT Ø Motherhood Hospital plans to raise more than Rs.100 crore through series 'B' funding to meet its expansion plans. Ø The hospitals are located in Bengaluru (three), Hyderabad (two) and one in Chennai. Ø The bed strength of the hospital in the last 18 months has increased from 32 to 240. Ø It also plans to increase its presence in the South by building hospitals in the southern border cities, before stepping into the North. Ø In the first round, Motherhood raised Rs.85 crore from venture capitalists including Peepul Capital. Ø In the second round, it is seeking more than Rs.100 crore and is likely to finalise the deal within the next few days.

Ø Using the funds, the company plans to add seven to 10 hospitals, with an average capacity of 40-50 bed each, over the next two to three years. Ø From scratch the hospital is being built by the continous effort and hard work of its authorities and today, it has a valuation of over Rs.250 crore.

Motherhood raised Rs.85 crore from venture capitalists including Peepul Capital. In the second round, it is seeking more than Rs.100 crore and is likely to finalise the deal within the next few days. Using the funds, the company plans to add seven to 10 hospitals, with an average capacity of 40-50 bed each, over the next two to three years.

"From scratch we have built this hospital. Today, it has a valuation of over Rs.250 crore. First, we would like to establish a cluster of five hospitals in Bengaluru and add one or two in Chennai.

With the help of borrowed funds, we will raise the total number of hospitals to 16. We will think of going public only after establishing 20 hospitals. Four more hospitals will be built using internal accruals," he said.

Asked whether they have reached break-even, he said out of the six hospitals four had already achieved breakeven.

Chennai and Hyderabad would achieve it in the coming weeks.

(Agencies)

Airbags made a must for some car cos New Delhi, Sep 28: Toyota India recently removed stereo from some of its lower variants, not to boost profit margins but to save cost for installing airbags. The lifesaving safety equipment now comes as a standard fitment across all variants and models of the company, including the entry model 'Liva'. Some car companies are finally waking up to the cause of customer safety and are according it a top priority.

Companies such as Toyota, Ford and Volkswagen are increasingly adding safety features, even though this makes the vehicles expensive and sometimes uncompetitive to bigger rivals, who are yet to make the safety feature a standard fitment. The move, however, comes in the face of stiff resistance by the top car makers in the country such as Maruti Suzuki, Hyundai, Mahindra & Mahindra, Tata Motors and Honda, who have re-

fused to offer features such as air bags as standard even in new models. Many of them cite Indian laws, which are lax on the subject. Toyota says there can be no compromise when it comes to safety. "The alarming statistics on the number of accidents in India reinforced our commitment to ensure safety of our customers... Toyota

Safety first believes that we have to play a greater role than just manufacturing world class cars," said Naomi Ishii, MD of Toyota Kirloskar.

Ishii said while customers are increasingly paying emphasis to safety, the level of awareness still remains low. "Customers

initially would prioritize music system over airbags.

The consistent efforts by dealers and our extensive customer campaigns about safety measures paid off."

Ford also offers airbags as standard in their new cars such as `Aspire' entry sedan and `Figo'. "We have received such a positive feedback from our customers, including one

Sowing of Kharif crop crosses 1,026 lakh hectares Chandigarh, Sep 28: The total area sown under kharif crops as on September 24, 2015, registered a marginal increase of 1.18 per cent at 1,026.23 lakh hectares against 1,014.24 lakh hectare in the same period in the previous year.

Going through the latest figures furnished by the Ministry of Agriculture, total area under pulses accounted for a significant increase of 11.41 per cent.

While areas sown under coarse cereals and oilseeds recorded a rise of 2.65 per cent and 3.49 per cent re-

spectively, cotton saw a big fall of 8.39 per cent, followed by jute & mesta (4.06 per cent). There was a marginal increase in area under sugarcane at 0.21 per cent. With sowing operations for kharif season nearly coming to an end, the area under rice, the main kharif crop, remained almost flat at 374.09 hectares against 373.86 lakh hectares.

Pulses covered 113.45 lakh hectares against 101.83 lakh hectares. Under this moong dal accounted for a significant rise of 20.49

per cent in acreage at 25.56 lakh hectares against 21.28 lakh hectares. The area under arhar rose by 4.06 per cent stood at 37.64 lakh hectares (36.17 lakh hectares) and urad by 9.52 per cent at 27.83 lakh hectares (25.41 lakh hectares). Sugarcane covered marginal rise of 48.84 lakh hectares (48.74 lakh hectares). The area under cotton stood at 115.20 lakh hectares against 125.75 lakh hectares in the previous year.

The recently released first advance estimates of pro-

duction of major kharif crops for 2015-16 by the Department of Agriculture, Cooperation and Farmers Welfare revealed that total production of kharif foodgrains at 124.05 million tonnes a rise of 3.78 million tonnes over the previous year advance estimates of 120.27 million tonnes. However, compared to the fourth advance estimates of 2014-15, which placed kharif production at 126.31 million tonnes, there is a decline of 2.26 million tonnes (1.8 per cent). (Agencies)

BREAKING RECORDS Ø The total area sown under kharif crops as on September 24, 2015, registered a marginal increase of 1.18 per cent at 1,026.23 lakh hectares against 1,014.24 lakh hectare in the same period in the previous year. Ø Going through the latest figures furnished by the Ministry of Agriculture, total area under pulses accounted for a significant increase of 11.41 per cent. Ø While areas sown under coarse cereals and oilseeds recorded a rise of 2.65 per cent and 3.49 per cent respectively, cotton saw a big fall of 8.39 per cent, followed by jute & mesta (4.06 per cent).

Ø Pulses covered 113.45 lakh hectares against 101.83 lakh hectares. Under this moong dal accounted for a significant rise of 20.49 per cent in acreage at 25.56 lakh hectares against 21.28 lakh hectares. Ø The area under arhar rose by 4.06 per cent stood at 37.64 lakh hectares (36.17 lakh hectares) and urad by 9.52 per cent at 27.83 lakh hectares (25.41 lakh hectares). Ø Sugarcane covered marginal rise of 48.84 lakh hectares (48.74 lakh hectares). Ø The area under cotton stood at 115.20 lakh hectares against 125.75 lakh hectares in the previous year.

whose family survived a devastating car crash but was saved due to the air bags," Ford India MD Nigel Harris said. Companies like Maruti, Hyundai, Honda, Tata and Hyundai defended their stance after a questionnaire was sent to them over the issue, while M&M refused to answer. Maruti's defence came from Toshihiro Suzuki, the newly-appointed president & COO of Suzuki Motor Corporation. Speaking at the Frankfurt Motor Show recently, Suzuki blamed stray animals as well as pedestrians on the road for the rising accidents and fatalities. He said airbags and other safety devices are not sufficient to deal with road fatalities. Honda said its vehicles comply to Indian laws. A spokesperson for Hyundai India said it makes vehicles in accordance with Indian laws.

Tata Motors said it is actively working on safety solutions. (Agencies)

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Free pick up of documents launched by Mypacco

Mumbai, Sep 28: Mypacco, a Mumbai-based marketplace for courier and logistics service providers, has announced to get documents and parcels picked up free of cost and dispatch them through one of the couriers empanelled with it.

This unique service has been launched at Mumbai, Delhi and Surat. The startup has offered online booking and toll-free options.

Besides this a customer can use the service through an app, which will be launched next week. Parcels can be deposited at any of the 40 outlets of The Mobile Store

and some other retail chains in these three cities.

Available at three price points, the parcel can be sent in economy, express and surface modes, the company said. "The Indian consumer deserves to benefit from the conveniences of cutting-edge technology, while sending couriers too.

We have attempted to make it simple even for the lady of the house to send couriers immediately," said Vinay Bhartia, Co-Founder and CEO, Mypacco. He said the pick will be fast and efficient through the company's large team of

'Biker Buddies' on their motorcycles. "This unique combination of online and brick & mortar infrastructure helps offer total comfort to the user. We have also been extremely conscious of the cost and have kept it at par with any other courier offering reliable service," Mr. Bhartia added.

While the parcels can be sent to over 20,000 pincodes within India and over 2,000 cities across 200 countries, the pick-up services will be rolled out in phases across 25 cities within next one year, the company said. (Agencies)

Over Rs.65,000 cr to be spended by Nalco Bengaluru, Sep 28: Buoyed by 106 per cent jump in profit, aluminium giant NALCO is all set to invest over Rs.65,000 crore to launch ambitious projects in the country and abroad, besides undertaking expansion and diversification into power and mining sectors in a big way.

"Investment to the tune of Rs.65,000 crore is proposed to be made for a number of projects, including a greenfield aluminium smelter abroad," Chairman-cumManaging Director of the Navaratna PSU, T. K. Chand said. The company is exploring countries like Oman, Iran and Indonesia to set up the proposed smelter plant with an estimated investment of Rs.20,000 crore, he told reporters adding the location

would be finalised after examining factors such as availability of low cost power and infrastructure.

The smelter unit is sought to be of five million tonnes per annum (MTPA) capacity together with 150 MW captive power plant, Mr. Chand said adding though NALCO is ready to go for the project alone, it is open to a joint venture if a suitable partner comes forward.

While power is cheap in Oman and Iran, abundant coal is available at low cost in Indonesia. Port facilities would also be a major factor, he said. He said that NALCO's 106 per cent jump in profit in 2014-15 was a major achievement of the company which was made possible through a slew of measures including cost cutting. The company

clocked a profit of Rs.1322 crore in 2014-15 fiscal against Rs.642 crore during the previous year. In the current fiscal, NALCO targets to raise its total metal sales to 3.80 lakh tonnes from 3.26 lakh tonnes during 2014-15, he said. Referring to corporate social responsibility activities, Mr. Chand said said NALCO had submitted a Rs.300 crore plan to the Odisha Government. The company's CSR activities were focused on development of villages located within 15 km radius of the company's mines and other operations including refinery complex at Damanjodi, smelter and power complex at Angul and the proposed mining areas in Odisha and Guden and KR Konda in Andhra Pradesh. (Agencies)

5 lakh villages to be taken under Microsoft tech plans: Nadella Hyderabad, Sep 28: Intending to become a partner in the ambitious Digital India programme, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, said his company will take low-cost broadband technology to some five lakh villages across the country. Speaking at a dinner hosted in the honour of visiting Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Mr. Nadella said that Microsoft wants to make things and make things happen. In his remarks, Mr. Nadella said Microsoft's plan is to partner with the Indian Government to bring in lowcost broadband connectiv-

ity to 500,000 villages in India. "We believe that lowcost broadband connectivity coupled with the scale of cloud computing intelligence that can be harnessed from data can help drive creativity, efficiency and productivity across governments and businesses of all sizes," the first IndianAmerican Microsoft CEO said. This in turn, he argued, would drive more affordable products and services and access to opportunity to all of India. To that end, next week Microsoft would announce availability of its cloud services operating out of India's data

centers. "This is a big milestone. A key part of both Make in India and Digital India, bringing world class infrastructure into India, respecting India's digital security, sovereignty and privacy is a key milestone for us," Mr. Nadella said. India can "leapfrog" in the technology infrastructure space to drive the next level of productivity, efficiency and creativity for Indian government, businesses and consumers, he said. "Narendra Modi's vision is absolutely right and I think he is pushing the right agenda," he added. Citing an example, Mr. Nadella said Microsoft is working with

the Andhra Pradesh government to take the enrolment data of schools and using machine learning to understand which students and schools have higher dropout rates. Asked if he was worried about the regulatory hassles that often trouble multinational firms, Mr. Nadella said the the company has been present in India for over 20 years. "We are committed to the long term.

We understand the legitimate rights of each country, when it comes to digital security and that is one of the fundamental reason why we invested in cloud in India," he said. (Agencies)

SD Advisor Programme launched

by Snapdeal to assist sellers New Delhi, Sep 28: Online marketplace major Snapdeal launched its SD Advisor Programme, under which its two lakh sellers will get a personal advisor to assist them in business management on the platform. The programme, part of Snapdeal's USD 200 million investment for building the digital ecosystem for small and medium businesses (SMBs) in India, will provide free customised and multimodal training to sellers. "The programme has been launched to build personalised partnerships with our existing and potential sellers, understand their business and offer customised advice depending on the various stages of their business lifecycle," Snapdeal Senior Vice President

(Market Development), Vishal Chadha told. A single point of contact to provide market insights and offer options from various initiatives that Snapdeal runs for sellers, will help SMBs tackle technological, financial and other business challenges, he added. He, however, did not disclose the number of advisors the company would have on board for the programme. "Sellers who were a part of the six-month pilot programme witnessed a 50 per cent faster rate of growth in business volumes, vis-a-vis sellers who were not a part of this pilot," he said. He added that the trained SD Advisors will provide evolved sellers (Ace sellers) with support and personalised advice to enable them to

establish and grow their eCommerce business on Snapdeal. The SD Advisor will also help strengthen the processes for seller on-boarding, training, guidance in range and assortment planning, provide promotion advice and prepare joint business plans. They would guide businesses by providing market-related advice and insights gathered through data analytics, equip with consumer-engagement ideas and financial assistance for scaling up operations on the platform. SD Advisors will comprise of selected employees, who have undergone specialised training to help them hone their skill-sets and business acumen enabling them to develop their portfolio of assigned businesses, Mr. Chadha said. (Agencies)

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HEALTH & LIFESTYLE Diabetic? A high-protein diet can help you manage blood sugar

If you are a diabetic, you may want to load up on a high-protein diet as it improves blood sugar control, according to a new study.

The Charite University Medicine study shows that high protein diets, from both animal and plant sources, improve blood sugar control in patients with type 2 diabetes without any adverse effects on kidney function.

This new research compared the effects of two high-protein diets with the same number of calories, one from animal protein (AP) and one from plant protein (PP)--on metabolic functioning and liver fat.

The authors concluded that in diabetic subjects, the 6-week high-protein diet leads to an improvement in glucose metabolism and decrease in liver

fat independently from the protein source. The highprotein diet has no adverse effects on kidney parameters, moreover the kidney function actually improved in the plant protein group.

The authors say that longterm observational studies with a much bigger cohort are now needed to confirm their findings. They are now looking at the expression of key genes involved fat metabolism, glucose metabolism, inflammation in blood cells and in adipose tissue to see if there are any diet-induced alterations and to understand the effect of the higher amino acid uptake at the molecular level.

The study was presented at the annual meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD). (ANI)

How birth control pills may risk your heart

Ladies! You may want to avoid using oral contraceptives as a new study has suggested that birth control pills pose a small but significant risk of the most common type of stroke.

For healthy young women without any stroke risk factors, the risk of stroke associated with oral contraceptives is small, but in women with other stroke risk factors, the risk seems higher and, in most cases, oral contraceptive use should be discouraged, as per the Loyola University Health System study.

Strokes associated with oral

contraceptives were first reported in 1962. Early versions of the pill contained doses of synthetic estrogen as high as 150 micrograms.

Most birth control pills now contain as little as 20 to 35 micrograms. None contain more than 50 micrograms of synthetic estrogen.

Oral contraceptives increase the risk of ischemic strokes, which are caused by blood clots and account for about 85 percent of all strokes. In the general population, oral contraceptives do not appear to increase the risk of hemorrhagic strokes, which are

caused by bleeding in the brain.

There are about 4.4 ischemic strokes for every 100,000 women of childbearing age. Birth control pills increase the risk 1.9 times, to 8.5 strokes per 100,000 women, according to a well-performed "metaanalysis" cited in the report.

This is still a small risk; 24,000 women would have to take birth control pills to cause one additional stroke, according to the report.

But for women who take birth control pills and also smoke, have high blood pressure or have a history of migraine headaches, the stroke risk is significantly higher. Such women should be discouraged from using oral contraceptives, the report said.

Hormone replacement therapy with estrogen alone or combined with progesterone increases the risk of ischemic stroke by 40 percent; the higher the dose, the higher the risk, the report said. The study appears in the journal MedLink Neurology. (ANI)

Targeting exercise doesn't reduce effects of prolonged sitting A new study has found that targeting physical activity and increasing the level of exercise doesn't make any great difference to reduce prolonged sitting, rather one should concentrate on decreasing the sitting time.

The research conducted by the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience at King's College London examined the strategies that had been used to reduce prolonged sitting and observed that one who followed to reduce their sitting time had 60 percent more benefits in prolonged sitting com-

pared to ones who didn't reduce their sitting time and faced only 39 percent.

The researchers explained that some of the promising interventions could be like the provision of sit-stand desks at work, encouraging people to keep records of their own sitting time, setting individual goals for limiting sitting time, and using prompts and cues to remind people to stop them sitting.

Dr Benjamin Gardner at King's College London, said that their findings will be of interest to researchers and practitioners designing new ways to reduce

prolonged sitting, as well as to anyone looking to improve their health by reducing their own sitting time in their day-to-day lives.

The study suggested that sitting time should be viewed as a separate behaviour change target to physical activity.

Previous studies and reviews have shown that higher levels of sitting are linked with cancer, diabetes, heart disease and even an early death, independently of whether a person takes regular exercise.

The research is published in the journal Health Psychology Review.(ANI)

News worth toasting to: Red wine, dark chocolate can benefit Alzheimer's patients A compound found in grape skins and red wine called resveratrol is thought to impact Alzheimer's disease biomarker.

The largest nationwide clinical trial to study highdose resveratrol long-term in people with mild to moderate Alzheimer's disease found that a biomarker that declines when the disease progresses was stabilized in people who took the purified form of resveratrol, which is a naturally occurring compound found in foods, like red grapes, raspberries, dark chocolate and some red wines.

Principal investigator R. Scott Turner said that the results are very interesting and cautioned that the findings cannot be used to recommend resveratrol as it is a single study with findings that call for further research to interpret properly.

In the study, patients, who were treated with increas-

ing doses of resveratrol over 12 months showed little or no change in amyloid-beta40 (Abeta40) levels in blood and cerebrospinal fluid. In contrast, those taking a pla-

Serious liver disease goes `unnoticed` in type 2 diabetes patients A new research has revealed that Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NFLD) is a frequent finding problem in type 2 diabetes patients, but most of the time either this is neglected or goes unnoticed. The investigators used non-invasive imaging techniques to estimate liver fat and liver stiffness in multiple diabetes patients and observed the prevalence of NAFLD 65 percent in type 2 diabetes patients.

Dr. Rohit Loomba, the author of the study, said that screening asymptomatic diabetics could help prevent advanced liver damage and reduce liver-related complications and deaths. The research is published in Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics journal. (ANI)

cebo had a decrease in the levels of Abeta40 compared with their levels at the beginning of the study.

A decrease in Abeta40 is seen as dementia worsens and Alzheimer's disease

progresses; still, researchers can't conclude from this study that the effects of resveratrol treatment are beneficial, Turner explains.

He added that it does ap-

pear that resveratrol was able to penetrate the blood brain barrier, which is an important observation.

Resveratrol was measured in both blood and cerebrospinal fluid.

Turner says the study also found that resveratrol was safe and well tolerated.

The most common side effects experienced by participants were gastrointestinal-related, including nausea and diarrhea. Also, patients taking resveratrol experienced weight loss while those on placebo gained weight.

One outcome in particular was confounding, Turner notes. The researchers obtained brain MRI scans on participants before and after the study, and found that resveratrol-treated patients lost more brain volume than the placebotreated group. The study is published online in Neurology. (ANI)

Managing blood pressure can reduce cardiovascular disease deaths in older adults A new study has revealed that blood pressure management can reduce heart disease death. According to the study, cardiovascular disease morbidity was significantly reduced through intensive management of high blood pressure.

In the study, lead researcher Dominic Raj of the George Washington

University targeted a blood pressure of 120 millimeters of mercury, lower than current guidelines and found that adults 50 years and older also significantly reduced their rates of cardiovascular disease and cardiovascular events, such as heart attack and heart failure, as well as stroke, by almost a third.

Raj said that this research would have a significant impact on the way physicians treat patients with high blood pressure and thanked National Institutes for Health for their support. He added that patients over 50 with high blood pressure will receive potentially lifesaving treatment. (ANI)

Youths warned off sniffing Treat high blood pressure aggressively, urges deadly` new legal high Experts are warning that the new Ethyl Chloride spray that is meant to be sprayed on the skin ahead of minor surgery or to soothe sports injuries could be deadly as growing numbers of kids have been sniffing it to get high.

One user in his late 20s, who did not wish to be named, said that it makes him feel relaxed, while another anonymous user told of a near miss with the drug, which is on sale for 24 pounds online, recalling that a friend who used it one night ended up passing out.

Some drug users predict that the substance, which they have nicknamed "Ethel" or "Sniff," could soon become a replace-

'lifesaving' study

ment for so-called "hippy crack". New rules are set to block UK websites selling laughing gas for recreational use, forcing users to find another high. Legal highs expert Paul Skett, a pharmacologist

at Glasgow University, said that Ethyl Chloride, which is very similar to the effect you get from a solvent, actually acts as an anesthetic and sniffing a lot of it can make people go unconscious. (ANI)

A recent study has backed the need of more aggressive treatment for high blood pressure.

In a statement, American College of Cardiology President Kim Allan Williams, regarding the National Institutes of Health stopping the SPRINT trial early after demonstrating the positive benefits of lower blood pressure control targets, said about 70 million American adults have high blood pressure and only half of them have their condition under control.

"The preliminary data demonstrates why the cardiovascular community must continue to aggressively fight a condition that leads to stroke, kidney disease and heart problems for our patients," added Williams.

He noted that the details of the SPRINT trial will be a contributing factor to future guidelines on blood pressure treatment targets, adding that in the meantime, this data gives physicians more information to consider when working to improve outcomes for the patients with high blood pressure. (ANI)

Decorate your home with mirrors If mirrors fascinate you more than anything, here's how using mirrors differently can make your home look playful and classy at the same time.

Mirrors as art work Mirrors are not always a utility or random piece of decor that is just only used in wardrobes or dressing tables. Mirrors can be creatively used as artwork at home to lend an artistic look. You can either have a collection of small or different-sized mirrors, hung haphazardly to create an artsy look on the wall. You can also use a single statement mirror on a highlighted wall to add to its charm.

Brighten your living room with a mirror wall Since, space crunch is something we all face while living in a city, ideas that make the home look spacious are always welcome.

Living rooms make for a great place for installing a

super-large mirror; especially mirror walls, use one wall in your living room to install a simple wooden frame mirror, to open up the space with the entire reflection of the room.

Make sure you use a wall near the window, so that it also reflects enough sunlight to make your home look bigger and brighter.

A mirror cabinet for a bigger looking kitchen Using a mirror instead of tiles for your kitchen wall against the sink or the platform will help open up a small area. You can also use mirrors as a sliding door for your cabinets so that they do not look like one. Especially if you have an open kitchen, this mirror will help you talk to people in the living area without facing them as well as increase the brightness of the space.

Create optical illusion in the hallway If you always thought a hallway is something you

just quickly pass by, you got to think again. Adding mirrors to the space will open up the area so that you don't feel confined within it. If you creatively place them, they can also serve as hallway utilities, like the ones here. Drawers and cabinets with mirror doors in the hallway can make the home look lively and colourful, as they would reflect everything around it. No to mention, you can always stop by to have a good look at yourself while passing.

A statement mirror at the dining area Now, you would ask why do we need a mirror in the dining area? We say, why not?

As mentioned before, mirrors are not just an utility, it is a style statement. Using a statement mirror with a beautifully carved wooden or metal with filigree worked frame on one of the walls of your dining space, will add to the motif of the room without taking

away from the more interesting things, like food.

Although an attention-get-

ter, the mirror will only enhance the look of your enclosed dining area.

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"I was determined to get even with Peter (Gilchrist) after losing the point format final to him. A productive chat with my sports psychologist brother Shree and a good night's sleep did the trick.

We discussed my strategies and mental approach the night before the big final and it all panned out perfectly."

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Pullong FC and Khunnu Youth Football Club register wins Thansen Wangchadong Memorial Football Tournament C h a n w a n g Mongchan Khonsa, Sep 28: Pullong Football Club narrowly beat Tirap Badminton Club FC 10 in the Thansen Wangchadong Memorial Football Tournament here at the Nehru stadium, Khonsa.

Pullong FC's Pangang

Khoiyang scored the winner in the 55th minute by converting a corner. The Tirap Badminton Club FC showed great spirit in the game with some veteran players sweating and feeling all drained out due to the heat. It may be mentioned that Pullong FC

defensive technique saved the day for them while luck did not seem to favour Tirap Badminton Club FC as they missed several scoring opportunities.

Meanwhile, in a one sided affair, Khunnu Youth Football Club defeated Changnyak Football Club 3-0.

Pongdi Hutto of KYFC opened the account in the 11th minute by scoring with a shot from the left flank.

Hutto, again came into play with his brilliant attacking technique and scored his second goal in the 44th minute.

CFC players could not manage to capitalize on

a single chance to score. KYFC have dominated both the proceedings with their impressive defensive as well as attacking technique. Kiangwang Ngowa scored the third goal for his team in the 77th minute by converting a pass from the midfield.

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Rooney predicts `magical` Martial will be Man U's next big player

Results Pullong Football Club beat Tirap Badminton Club FC 1-0 Khunnu Youth FC defeated Changnyak FC 3-0

Today’s Matches Lainwang Katang FC ‘A’

Vs Deomali FC

1 pm Thingsa Soccer Club Vs Hunkan FC 3 pm

ANI London: Manchester United skipper Wayne Rooney has lauded teammate Anthony Martial , saying that the new appointee will provide his club with some magical moments and will turn out to be a big player in the future.

The 29-year-old said that Martial, who became world's most expensive football teenager after joining United, is a young man who has made an incredible start. After United's manager Louis Van Gaal denied talking about Premier league title talks, Rooney also said that it is too early to talk about this as there

are many more games to be played. Rooney further said that it feels quite nice to be at the top, adding that his team needs to keep progressing and improving if they want to sustain their place in the ongoing League. Earlier, Martial had helped Rooney by setting him up for the 'knee in' that ended his Premier League drought. With Rooney's first goal after 1000 minutes drought, United claimed a convincing 3-0 win over bottom club Sunderland at Old Trafford.

United is currently at top spot in Premier League table, having 16 points from seven games played.

Cueist Pankaj Advani pockets 14th World Billiards title

Khowang HS wins trophy A Staff Reporter Dibrugarh, Sep 28: Khowang Higher Secondary School today defeated Rameshwar Higher Secondary School, Barbarua 3-0 in the inter-school Arunodaya trophy 2015 organised by Arunodaya Unnayan Samity here today at the Chowkidinghee field. Altogether, nine teams participated in the tournament.

Indrajit Saikia of Khowang Higher Secondary School opened the floodgates in the 14th minute converting a pass from the right flank. In the 26th minute Indrajit Saikia came strongly and scored his second goal. In the post lemon break Khowang Higher Secondary School led with two goals on the board.

Rahul Gowala of Khowang Higher Secondary School scored the third goal for his team in the 53rd minute by converting a cross from the left flank. Khowang Higher Secondary School dominated proceedings in both halves and didn’t give any opportunity to the opponents to score against them. Fhip Tamang of Khowang HS School was adjudged best player of the tournament while Sudip Ghatowar of Khowang HS was given the best goalkeeper of the tournament award.

Pakistan clinch 13-run win over Zimbabwe in first T20 international 25 respectively for their side. Besides Wasim, Sohail Tanvir and Wahab Riaz also took a wicket each for Pakistan . Earlier, Shoaib Malik (35) and Mohammad Rizwan (33) provided substantial support to accelerate the Pakistan innings. Wasim was adjudged 'player of the match' for his brilliant performance. The two sides will play the next T20 match on Tuesday.

ANI Harare: Imad Wasim's four-wicket haul helped Pakistan claim a 13-run win over Zimbabwe in the firstTwenty20 international atHarare Sports Club. Replying to Pakistan's target of 137 runs for eight wickets, Zimbabwe could only score 123 runs within their allotted overs. Skipper Elton Chigumbura and opener Hamilton Masakadza scored 31 and

Bodybuilding competition held at Margherita ET Correspondent Margherita, Sep 28: Margherita District Physical Cultural Association on 27 September 2015 Sunday organised a Bodybuilding Competition at India Club. The events included 3rd Mr Margherita 2015 both senior and junior groups, Master Margherita of age 40+ and physically challenged Mr Margherita. At the beginning of the programme at 5:00 pm

lighting of lamps by Sushil Kalita was done. Veteran pugilist of Margherita Mr Sam Daniel was present as Chief Guest. Many distinguished persons of Margherita such as Indu Ranjan Baruah, Ramprasad Ambedkar, Manoj Dutta, Prashanta Chetia, Faizur Rehman, Gautam Nangia Baruah, Pradip Singh, Nigen Bora, Samiron Borthakur were present at the Bodybuilding Competition.

Competitors from Digboi, Margherita, Borgolai and Jagun and many competitors from various gyms also participated in the Bodybuilding Competition. Jibon Bora, Joint Secretary of this Bodybuilding Competition said that Bodybuilding Competition has been lost at Margherita but due to the efforts of some of our sports lovers of Margherita they since the last 3 years have been organising this Bodybuilding Competition at

Football match ends in a draw A Staff Reporter Dibrugarh, Sep 28: The match between Barekuri Football Club and Bodousa Sports Club ended in a 1-1 draw in the Tepitam Buragohain and Puneswari Buragohain Memorial Super Division Football League organized by Tinsukia District Sports Association at TDSA Stadium in Tinsukia today.

For Bodousa Sports Club, Naoba Singh scored the goal in the 49th minute converting a penalty shot. For Barekuri FC, Lohit Moran beautifully scored a goal in the

Super Division Football League 62nd minute of the match with a shot from the left flank. Both the teams toiled hard in the field and played cautiously wary of each other. In the post lemon

break Bodousa Sports Club led with one goal on the board. In the second half the Barekuri FC players came strongly and equalized the goal in

the 62nd minute.

Barekuri Football Coaching Centre have played three matches and won two with one draw earning seven points in the league.

Tinsukia Railway Divisional Sports Club has also earned seven points with two wins. Milan Sangha played four

Margherita. At the ending Parmeswer Tanti won the title of Mr Margherita Junior 2015.

Meanwhile, Hiteswer Tanti won the title of Mr Margherita Senior, Mr Rupankor Choudhary of Digboi won the title of Masters Margherita and Mukesh Mal of Digboi won the title of physically challenged.

Both Hiteswer Tanti and Parmeswer Tanti are products of Amit Power House Gym of Margherita.

matches and lost in all the four matches.

Barekuri FC earned six points while Bodousa Sports Club earned four points.

There is no match tomorrow. On Wednesday, Barekuri Football Coaching Centre will play Bodoiusa Sports Club. The team that garners the maximum points will be declared as the winner.

ANI Adelaide: India's most successful cueist, Pankaj Advani, bagged his 14th world title on Sunday, when he won the IBSF World Billiards Championship here.

Thirty-year-old Advani exhibited complete mastery over the three-ball game, demolishing Singapore's Peter Gilchrist by 1168 points. After lifting his 14th

world crown, Advani said, "I was determined to get even with Peter (Gilchrist) after losing the point format final to him. A productive chat with my sports psychologist brother Shree and a good night's sleep did the trick. We discussed my strategies and mental approach the night before the big final and it all panned out perfectly."

Kaba FC edge past Medo FC 4 - 3 after penalty 9th Chongkham Champions tourney draws large crowd

Indrajit Tingwa Chongkham, Sep 28: Kaba FC edged past Medo FC 4 - 3 to register a close victory in a match of the 9th Chongkham Champions Running Football Trophy which is currently on at the Chongkham mini stadium. The tournament featuring 37 teams is organised by the Chongkham Youth Welfare Association. The Chongkham camp of the army is helping the organisers in publicity of the tournament. In today's match, both the sides fought equally and despite various attempts by the

strikers of both the side, neither of the two teams could score any goal during the first half of the match. However, after the lemon break, the players came up with more aggressive play and Sony Manyu of Medo scored the first goal in the 55th minute. The opponents Kaba came up strongly and Bhubon Dai fired the equaliser within 5 minutes. The match later ended in a draw as none of the teams could add anything to their score. In the penalty shoot, Kaba FC scored 3 goals while Medo got 2 goals. Atho

Ngadong of Medo was adjudged as the player of the match today. Chow Kungmet Namchoom, President, Chongkham Youth Welfare Association said that the champions will be given a cash award of 50, 000/- while the runner up will be handed over a cash prize of 25, 000/apart from trophies and other gift items. He also said that the army has been approached for a trophy. In tomorrow's match, Namsai Reliance will play against Alubari FC. In Sunday's match, Chongkham Celta defeated Wakro Town Club 3 - 0.

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