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VOL. XVI NO. 255 | PAGES 12 ` 4/- RNI NO. NAGENG/2002/07906 DIMAPUR, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2017 NPF leader Zaku Tsükrü dies at 70 Rights forum alleges govt. Our Correspondent belief in the goodness of Kohima, Sep. 17 (EMN): the Naga people and their Naga People's Front (NPF) future’. vice president, Zaku Zach- “He never failed the ariah Tsükrü breathed his call of duty for his people, last on Sunday morning at he stood tall among us and financial misappropriation a private hospital in Kohi- carried out his responsibili- Dimapur, Sep. 17 (EMN): The lakh issued in favour of Kohima (N) suing double drawals and draw- ma following a brief illness. ties honourably, anytime Nagaland Public Rights Awareness  Hostel at Kiphire – Rs 35.50 Treasury. While the actual exist- als against non-existent projects, He was 70. and whenever duty called”, and Action Forum (NPRAAF) lakh ence of the hostels is yet to be as- the NPRAAF calls upon all con- Tsükrü, a student ac- Liezietsu emotionally said, has alleged the state government  Hostel at Gatashi, Zunheboto certained, the department did not cerned students’ unions, NGOs tivist-turned politician, is adding, “In his death, we of indulging in yet another case of – Rs 35.50 lakh specify as to which district Longsa and citizens to verify the physical said to have been a staunch have lost a pillar in the so- withdrawing fund twice for a sin-  Hostel at Meluri – Rs 36.00 falls under since there are two vil- existence of the mentioned hostels Naga nationalist who had Late Zaku Tsükrü ciety.” gle project. lakh lages in the state with the same in their respective jurisdiction and been associated with the Others who spoke at the A press statement from the  Hostel at Selouphe, Dimapur name in Wokha and Mokokchung fight for their rights,” it stated. Naga National Council. Former chief minister service included Rajya Sab- forum on Sunday stated that the – Rs 73 lakh district. In this case too, nothing CM Corpus Fund mess He had served as the presi- and NPF president, Dr. ha MP & NPF secretary state’s finance department had on  Hostel at Chen town, Mon – has been indicated in the DA as Between March 14 and 18th dent of the Naga Students’ Shürhozelie Liezietsu de- general KG Kenye, NPF July 11, 2016, released Rs 10.03 Rs 71 lakh under which scheme/programme this year, Rs 2.46 crore was re- Federation during the early scribed late Zaku Tsükrü as Kohima Division president crore for ‘construction of 17 hos- “However, since the same the government of India sanc- leased ‘for payment of financial 1970s and later on held the a true nationalist who gave Gonei-u Sirie, NSF presi- tels for scheduled tribes boys and amount with same break-up fund tioned the amount except merely assistance to various individuals/ influential post of the presi- his best for the welfare of dent Kesosul Christopher girls at various locations of the was drawn twice on different occa- mentioning, ‘the expenditure is to entrepreneurs under Chief Minis- dent of the Angami Public the Naga people since his Ltu, and representatives of state.’ sions under different DA and vide be classified under CSS against the ter’s Corpus Fund (CMCF) with- Organisation as well before student days. Zheri Krotho Kohima and However, on May 29 this year, numbers, the total amount comes sanctioned budget of the current out any list of the beneficiaries’, it he entered into full-time Acknowledging the St. Joseph Catholic Church the same authority had once again to Rs 2005.00 lakh (Rs 20.5 crore) financial year.’ alleged. politics. services he rendered to the Viswema. released the same amount for the for the same project. “Thus, a total amount of Rs “The drawal author- Hundreds of mourners Naga society and particu- Born in 1947, late Zaku same project “thus resulting in dou- “Such double drawals are 27.25 crore (Rs 20.05 crore + Rs ity was issued in favour of Ko- attended the funeral serv- larly to the regional politi- hailed from Viswema vil- ble drawals for the same project”, nothing but provides absolutely 7.19 crore) was released for con- hima (North) Treasury vide ice of late Tsükrü, which cal party (NPF), Liezietsu lage under Kohima district it stated. The NPRAAF listed the doubtful conclusion about the non- struction of hostels in Nagaland NO.BUD/8-27/2016-17/ was held at his private resi- stated that Tsükrü had led and leaves behind his wife, following projects against which transparent functioning of the gov- during 2016-17 and 2017-18. The TN/125 through DA no 57 (A) dence, and paid rich trib- the party with all his ex- two sons, one daughter and funds were withdrawn twice: ernment. This doubt is further at- Nagaland Public Rights Awareness of 2016-17 under demand no. 27 utes to the departed leader. periences and in his ‘firm a grandson.  Hostel-cum-auditorium at tested with non-existence of many and Action Forum (NPRAAF) de- – planning machinery and vide Pfutsero, Phek – Rs 107 lakh hostels indicated in the details of mands the concerned departments NO.BUD/8-27/2016-17/QC/311  Hostel at Zuketsa EAC hq at- hostels and break up of funds”, it (sic) to clarify on this issues with through DA no 72 of 2016-17 un- tached to GHS Phek – Rs 75 stated. complete details including names der demand no. 27 – planning ma- Assam Rifles arrest 7 NSCN (K) members lakh “Arabil, Dimapur is a place of contractors/firms, time taken chinery. Dimapur, Sep. 17 (EMN): identified as self style (sic) ing the operation troops of  Hostel at Mokokchung – Rs which NPRAAF has never heard for completion of hostels since “When the Finance depart- The Assam Rifles on Sun- Sergeant Hoshito Ayemi Assam Rifles intercepted a 37.50 lakh of except Eralibill, Khushiabill etc the release of amount indicates ment issues such drawal authori- day claimed to have ‘bust- son of Nizheto Ayemi resi- suspected vehicle in gen-  Hostel at Thongsu village at- in Dimapur. Such concocted no- that works have been completed, ties, it is supposed to show the list ed an extortion racket’ dent of Vill - Vekuho, Dist eral area Naga Bazaar, tached to GHS Tseminyu Ko- menclatures only give rise to strong whether any additional fund was of all those beneficiaries. However, ran by NSCN (K) cadres - Zunheboto, PS - Zun- bye pass road (sic) and ap- hima District – Rs 68 lakh suspicion about corrupt activities released etc. no such lists were shown in the in Kohima, and arrest 7 heboto, L Majingmong prehended four cadres of  Hostel at Tenyiphe, Dimapur in the state government.” “The concerned department two DAs which is a strong enough members of the banned Thiipori (civil wing) son NSCN (K),” it informed. – Rs 72 lakh The forum also cited another (sic) is also urged to furnish copies reason to describe it as dubious re- outfit during operations of Lingchingmong, resi- The arrested persons  Hostel at Naga United vil- instance in which the state govern- of the government of India sanc- leases only to be embezzled among conducted on September dent of Phokhungri , Dist were identified as: Benni- lage, Dimapur – 109 lakh ment had released Rs 718.58 lakh tion for construction of hostels. It few people unless the department 15 and 16th. - Phek, PS - Meluri, and lo Bukh, Adeo Kiewhuo,  Hostel at Wokha Town – Rs (Rs 7.19 crore) on June 16, 2016 also questions whether the plan- comes out with crystal clear and A press release from LinpingthuPachuri (civil Neiktoula Kenguruse and 73 lakh for construction of four ‘new hos- ning department is qualified to unblemished proof and evidence,” the force’s public relations wing) Son of Y Asang Thejavinuo Theja. “The  Hostel at Arabil, Dimapur – tels for 400 ST girls’. Locations for take up construction works such it stated. officer stated that person- Pachuri resident of Vill - items recovered from the Rs 36 lakh construction of the four hostels as hostels. Is construction the plan- The Forum has demanded the nel of 3 AR ‘along with Phokhungri , Dist - Phek, individuals included six  Hostel at Noklak, Tuensang – are: ning department’s subject matter department concerned ‘to disclose police representatives’ had PS – Meluri.” extortion challans. Rs 33 lakh  Botsa – Rs 170.17 lakh beyond choking (sic) out plans for the list of all those beneficiaries apprehended three NSCN On September 16, the The apprehendees (sic)  Hostel at Jalukie, Peren dist –  Chumukedima – Rs 142.41 the state? Is there no implement- with complete details in public (K) cadres ‘in general area 3 AR launched yet anoth- along with the recovered Rs 68 lakh lakh ing department for such works/ domain within a reasonable time- PHQ and PR Hill’, in Ko- er operation ‘along with items were handed over to  Hostel at TM School, Kohi-  Longsa – Rs 172.79 lakh projects? frame failing which the forum will hima on September 15 last. police representatives in OC North police station ma – Rs 37.50 lakh  Noksen – Rs 233.21 lakh Since the state government approach appropriate authorities “The three appre- general area High School Kohima for further inves-  Hostel at Longleng – Rs 35.50 “The drawal authority was has a questionable history of is- in the larger interest of public’. hended individuals were junction’, Kohima. “Dur- tigation.” 'Power-mongering' NPF has failed to defend Frame policy to curb celebratory firing–Delhi HC New Delhi, Sep. 17 (PTI): The The plea, moved by the father numbers of deaths are increasing. Nagas from communal forces, says Therie Delhi High Court has asked the of a girl who died in April 2016 as It had said "carrying of a gun are not being paid in time and the Centre and other authorities a result of celebratory firing that in a marriage procession is illegal reason for BJP government levy- to frame a policy within three took place during a marriage pro- under Arms Act, 1959 and Indian ing sky-high excise rates on fuel months to curb the practice of cession, had contended that the Penal Code, 1860 and terms of and lifting subsidies on petroleum celebratory firing. act at weddings and other func- the licence also forbade the taking products despite price of interna- A bench of Acting Chief Jus- tions, is an "obnoxious practice" of the gun to public assemblage." tional crude oil falling to less than tice Gita Mittal and Justice C which "causes terror in the gen- The petition had further half compared to Dr. Manmohan Hari Shankar told authorities that eral public". sought direction for the home Singh's time.” the plea for stringent norms to The petitioners, Shyam Sun- ministry to devolve a robust He said power mongering in the curb the practice is certainly not der Kausal and NGO Fight for mechanism to ensure that these li- NPF party has resulted in ‘multiple adversarial and is in public inter- Human Rights had sought direc- cences are not misused and cancel defections and four chief ministers’ est. tions to the Ministry of Home Af- the licence of anyone who does. within a single term. "This is an important issue. fairs to "frame stringent policy/ It had also sought direction to “Addressing a huge gathering The authorities shall treat the rules/ guidelines to curb obnox- the ministry to "impose heavy fine in Longleng, Therie said the people petition as a representation and ious practice of celebratory fir- on the person who misused his li- of the district have suffered the un- notify effective policy on it. The ing". censed arms and pay compensa- believably bad roads long enough same be done in three months," Kausal's counsel Akash Vajpai tion to the every injured person and given opportunity, Congress the bench said and disposed of had said that the practice is not or person who dies because of the government would give the district the PILs. under check and consequently the celebratory firing". a 2-lane all weather road till Mon. “Speaking at Zunheboto, The- NPCC President K Therie speaking at one of the public rallies held rie recalled the journey of the Naga recently. political movement with Pt. Jahar- Formula for success: lal (sic) Nehru, Indira Gandhi and rise early, work hard, Dimapur, Sep. 17 (EMN): of India, religion, culture, Rajiv Gandhi and said that today, strike oil. Maintaining its offensive customs and traditions every citizen yearns for peace. He J. Paul Getty on NPF and BJP, the Na- of the Naga people. He reminded that it was the Congress galand Pradesh Congress said that despite the BJP's PM PV Narasimha Rao that (sic) Committee (NPCC) has threat to eliminate Chris- offered talks without preconditions Mirror Takes once again accused the two tianity from India by 2021 at Dimapur on 22nd Feb.,1996 and parties of conspiring to re- and to plant the Trishul said Congress would continue to place the Naga way of life in Nagaland by 2019, not uphold the policy of non-violence with that of the Hindutva one voice was raised by the by endeavouring to solve the politi- culture. MLAs against the BJP's cal problem through peaceful and An NPCC press re- Hindutva, uniform civil constitutional means without com- lease on Sunday reported code or the growing intol- promising basic human rights, in its chief, K Therie as hav- erance across the nation line with the forerunner of NPCC, ing made this announce- propagated by BJP forces the NNO's resolution of 1972 at ment during public rallies towards minorities and Pfütsero. of the party’s ‘district tour anyone who voiced against “At Wokha, Therie recalled programme’ at Longleng, them.” the Lotha leaders and said that the Zunheboto and Wokha re- Growing negative in- community has been blessed with cently. ternational trade resulting abundance of not only resources “Addressing the public from the BJP's intolerance but also with tall leaders. Add- meetings, NPCC presi- towards Christianity and ing that the community has pro- dent, K Therie said the re- other religions has left few- duced one of the highest number gional parties have failed to er resources for allocation of bureaucrats who are educated, ~ Arien defend the people of Naga- to pay for CSS and other he called upon the people to help I've already filed the RTI but I land from communal forc- social schemes, Therie was have received nothing yet... I'll rescue Nagaland by wisely elect- pay back your ten rupees once I es that will erode the spe- reported as saying. ing stable leaders who can deliver AP/PTI get some returns. cial provisions like Article “He said this was the welfare and development to the Ferrari driver Kimi Raikkonen, right, of Finland collides with teammate Sebastian Vettel of Germany at the start of the Singapore 371 under the Constitution reason that CSS funds district.” Formula One Grand Prix on the Marina Bay City Circuit Singapore on Sunday. 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Max: Min: KOHIMA 24° 18° Mokokchung to host ‘scrabble crossword competition’ DIMAPUR 34° 25° RF: RH: Dimapur, Sep. 17 (EMN): In a first of its kind, a ized since playing ‘scrabble’ or ‘crossword puzzle’ ganisers has (sic) kept the competition on an ‘open itage Publishing House would be sponsoring the KOHIMA 8mm 97% group of ‘crossword puzzle enthusiasts’ has organ- is one great way of improving one’s writing style. basis’ where anyone (or any participant) irrespec- prize money while the oldest vernacular newspa- DIMAPUR 0mm 91 % ised a ‘scrabble crossword competition’ dubbed as “The organizers – who are mostly teachers tive of age or gender or qualification might get to per in Nagaland, Ao Milen, would provide the * Rainfall (RF) * Relative humidity (RH) ‘Ultimate Scrabble 2017’ scheduled to be held on and journalists – believe that having a rich vocab- play with anyone (sic). A senior citizen might get scrabble boards, and free advertisement. Temperature in State Capitals September 23 next in Mokokchung town. ulary is one of the greatest attributes of a good to play with a seven-year old or vice versa. It’s all “The organizers invite all scrabble enthusiasts Max. Min. Max. Min. Aizawl 26° 21 ° Itanagar 30° 23° The competition, according to a press release writer and playing scrabble or crossword is one of about learning from each other over a cup of cof- to come and be a part of once in a lifetime com- Agartala 32° 25° Shillong 23° 19° on Sunday, was open to all irrespective of age, sex the best ways to enrich one’s bank of vocabulary,” fee. At the end, it is our hope that all the partici- petition and meet and juggle with English words. Gangtok 25° 15° Delhi 36° 26° or community. “The competition, which will be it stated. pants would be a walking thesaurus on that Sep- For further details, once can refer the Ao Milen Guwahati 32° 26° Kolkata 32° 26° held at one of most popular restaurants in Mokok- The organisers went on to state: “Keeping in tember 23, 2017.” daily for registration forms or contact 8732082077 Imphal 25° 21° Chennai 34° 26° chung town – Same ol’ Place – and is being organ- mind that English language has no barriers, the or- The organisers have also informed that Her- for further details.” EastErn Mirror | Dimapur, Monday, September 18, 2017 2 STATE Governor urges to promote indigenous games Army holds motivation Dimapur, Sep. 17 (EMN): Speaking on the impor- lecture for Naga youth Impressed with the presen- tance of one’s identity, he Dimapur, Sep. 17 (EMN): qualifying written, physical tation of Naga indigenous said ‘Our dialect, the cloths A motivational lecture to and medical examinations. games, State Governor PB we wear and sports we play join the Indian army both as A total of 623 young Acharya urged the young make our identity and we officer and soldier was con- boys, girls and teachers at- artistes to promote such should be proud of it and ducted by Col MK Singh, tended the lecture. indigenous games, which promote them.’ Army Recruiting Office, The school principal, Fr. form an integral part of the The indigenous games Rangapahar, at Carmel Johnson, thanked the team rich culture and tradition as of various tribes of Naga- Higher Secondary School, from 3 Corps, Rangapahar, well as their identity, hand- land demonstrated at Raj Dimapur, on September 15. for giving an insight into the ed down by the forefathers. Bahavan included Naga He had highlighted vari- noble profession of solder- The Governor said this wrestling (Naga Kene), ous job avenues, perks, privi- ing for the budding young after witnessing a dem- Spear target throw (Otsso leges in the Indian army and kids of the nation and Na- onstration of Naga indig- Chenta), Strength chal- the required standards by galand in particular. enous games at the lawns lenge (Peseum Petpu), of Raj Bhavan, Kohima, on Cane sliding (Cheli/fula), September 16 organised by Naga go-carting (Sei the Department of Youth Bagei), Jumping competi- Comfiesta ‘17 held Resources and Sports. tion (Puxa-Kuxu), Touch The Governor stated and catch (Pipeei-be), Stilt that such indigenous games bamboo walk race (Kara at Tetso College should be promoted as it tsung/ jangtok) and Bam- forms integral part of our Governor Acharya and his wife witnessing the strength challenge of the Konyak tribe during a demonstration of Naga indigenous games at boo sieve (Zharu-ruthou). culture and tradition. He Raj Bhavan, Kohima, on September 16. The Youth Resources said such ancestral inherit- and Sports team was lead ance should not be forgot- The Governor also felt and would keep the body big ground or space and the gathered to continue by its Director, Linda Solo, ten as it identify of who that most of the indigenous fit and healthy. Stating that were easy to understand playing such games and to and other department of- we are. games were good exercises the games do not need the rules, he encouraged promote them. ficials. ABCD hoists ABAM’s clean election flag MGM College

celebrates first Students participating at the choir competition during the Comfiesta ’17 at Tetso College on September 16. fresher’s social Dimapur, Sep. 17 (EMN): The 2nd Comfiesta ‘17, Naga- Dimapur, Sep 17 (EMN): MGM Col- land’s largest Commerce Stream festival was held at Tetso lege organised its fresher’s social pro- College on September 16 at Tetso arena. gramme on September 16, which was Altogether 9 institutions including Unity College, hosted by Limatula and Weching. Dimapur Government College, City College of Arts and The programme began with an in- Commerce, Pranab Vidyapith Higher Secondary School, novation said by Imlijungla. C-Edge College, Ram Janaki Higher Secondary School, St. Mary’s Higher Secondary School, National Institute Members of Ao Baptist Church Diphupar hoisting the clean election flag at the church premises on September 10. The college principal, Rev. Fr. Shibu Varghese, in his welcome speech, em- of Technology and Tetso College participated in the event. Dimapur, Sep. 17 (EMN): In election campaign by accepting bring down the walls of Jericho expressed confident that if this phasised on how such opportunities The host college Tetso College with 37 points emerged compliance with the resolution the flag and hoist at the roof to ground zero. flag is raised in their homes, could lead one to become a good lead- the overall champion followed by Unity College. Prizes adopted by Ao Baptist Pas- top or in a proper place of their As a mark to stand against people will not come to bribe er. Speaking about the beauty of college included gift vouchers, cash awards and trophies. The tor’s Fellowship (ABPF) under homes. crooked election system, it them with money or send cor- life, he said every student should enjoy sponsors included Acer Point, Hillstar, IACT, Bangkok the Ao Baptist Arogo Mung- While stating that to uproot urged all believers to accept this rupted money, give liquor, in- his/her college life in a positive way. Café and Cuisine, National Academy of Performing Arts, dang (ABAM), the Ao Baptist corruption, which has been weapon (flag) and hoist at their vite them to form small groups He encouraged the students to Synergy system, M/S AV Agencies, and IIHT. Church Diphupar (ABCD) rooted deeply for more than 40 respective homes. It was hope- and ask money from the can- decorate their mind and have faith in This year’s events ranged from online gaming DOTA hoisted ABAM clean elections years may not be an easy mis- ful that the wall of corruptions didates. God and also inspired the students to 2, choir competition, marketing events and more. flag on September 10. sion from the human perspec- will fall down soon like the With the ensuing State as- visualise the aesthetic sense and learn Considering that the tive, yet it expressed optimism wall of Jericho and the banner sembly election, he appealed from their mistakes. CORRECTION present awful condition of the that clean election flag will be of peace and prosperity will be all to accept the clean election Anglem Konyak spoke on behalf Apropos news report under caption ‘NPF CEC meet time land is the reflection of corrupt like a weapon to fight against raised in the land when every- flag as a symbol of pledge to of freshers. Karan Dholi and Niana rescheduled’ published on September 17 of this local election system, ABPF prayer- injustice and corrupt election one resolved to work towards fight against the crooked and Sharma were crowned Mr and Miss daily, the meeting scheduled on September 19 at Nousi fully invited all the believers in system in Nagaland just as clean election. corrupted election system in Fresher. Pithunglo delivered the vote Auditorium, Niathu Resort, Dimapur, should be read as 5 Christ to participate in clean God gave Israelite the plan to Lipok Jamir, pastor ABCD, the land. of thanks. p.m. and not as rendered. State BJP observes Modi’s jayanti Phek PLVs sensitise CM and others condole children and donated rice, sugar and milk towards the prisoners on legal rights Charity Home. Zaku Tsukru’s demise Speaking on the oc- TR Zeliang: Chief minister, TR Zeliang, has condoled casion, BJYM president, the demise of Zaku Tsukru who passed away at Bethel Vikohu Dominic, thanked Medical Centre, Kohima, on September 17. Describing the Charity Home manage- him as a tall leader who remained a strong regionalist ment for taking care of the till his demise, Zeliang said Zaku Tsukru had served the differently-abled people. society in several capacities including president of the An- In a similar programme, gami Public Organisation (APO) and the Naga Students’ State Bharatiya Janata Ma- Federation (NSF). Zeliang said his passing away is a great hila Morcha (BJMM) organ- loss to the Naga society. ised a social service at the He has further conveyed condolence to the bereaved District Hospital, Dimapur. family members and prayed for the departed soul to rest State BJMM president, in peace. Sanuo Ngullie, along with Shurhozelie: Also condoling the demise, NPF her colleagues cleaned the president Dr. Shurhozelie Liezietsu has described Zaku hospital complex. They Tsukru as one of his close confidantes who was always were accompanied by the there with me through thick and thin. Describing him as State BJP Minority Morcha a thorough gentleman, he party men and women looked president, Mukib and his up to him as a fatherly figure of the NPF party. BJMM pose for a group photo after conducting a social work at District Hospital, Dimapur, commemorating colleagues and other party the 67th birth anniversary of the Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, on September 17. Shurhozelie also termed him as a man who stood members. steadfast on his beliefs, principles and ideologies and Meanwhile, BJMM never hesitated to speak out the truth. Dimapur, Sep. 17 (EMN): have observed the 67th birth BJYM celebrated with the president has thanked the He lamented that on his death NPF has lost a tower- Nagaland unit Bharatiya Ja- anniversary of the Prime residents of Mother Teresa hospital staff and the Medi- ing personality, whose contributions to the party were nata Yuva Morcha (BJYM) Minister, Narendra Modi, Charity Home, Dimapur. cal Superintendent for mak- PLVs along with the Jail officials during visit to Phek District Jail on immense and immeasurable. and the Bharatiya Janata on September 17. The members also distrib- ing the programme a grand September 16. He has further conveyed condolence to the bereaved Mahila Morcha (BJMM) To mark the occasion, uted sweets to the special success. Dimapur, Sep. 17 (EMN): With the objective to sensi- family and prayed for the departed soul to rest in peace. tised jail inmates of their legal rights, altogether 5 Para Rio: Lok Sabha MP and former chief minister, Neiphiu Legal Volunteers (PLVs) of Phek District Legal Services Rio, while condoling the demise of Zaku Tsükrü, recalled ATMA Chen block holds BFAC meet Authority visited the District Jail on September 16. the time he had worked together as youth leaders in the During a brief programme, PLV Sekukho spoke on United Democratic Front party in the mid 70s. Dimapur, Sep. 17 (EMN): members also shared their ex- the rights of prisoner and said that the prisoners are Despite parting ways, Rio said they continued to ATMA Mon under Chen periences and problems faced entitled rights as any other citizens. work for the people through various platforms and dif- Block conducted a Block at the field level. Highlighting few points on the rights of the prisoner, ferent political parties. Rio has described him as staunch Farmers Advisory Commit- Mhachamo Ngullie also PLV Diezekho said that the prisoner have the right to be regionalist, a man of principle, simple and upright, who tee (BFAC) meeting and dem- presented hands-on demon- in the open air for at least an hour a day. He said prison- worked wholeheartedly for the common cause. onstration programme on stration on preparation of liq- ers have the right to be provided with food to maintain Rio lamented that Nagas have lost a committed September 15 at Chenwetnyu uid dish wash. He encouraged the health and well-being. leader in his death, whose vacuum would be difficult to village. the participants to try their Besides, PLVs pointed out that prisoners also have fill. He has further conveyed condolence to the bereaved During the meeting, Mha- hands on such activities which the right to medical care, the right to receive atleast family members and prayed for the departed soul to rest chamo Ngullie, BTM, high- are simple and affordable in one visit an hour each week, the right to take part in in peace. lighted on ATMA activities order to generate income. educational programmes in the prison. and role of the BFAC. Various The programme conclud- Altogether 21 prisoners including one female at- ASU: In a separate statement, Angami Students’ Union activities that need to be taken ed with distribution of liquid tended the prpgramme (ASU) has condoled the demise of its former president up at different villages under wash dish kit to all the 10 Participants pose for a group photo after BFAC meet in Meanwhile, the PLVs have thanked the Deputy Su- Zaku Tsükru. The union has shared sadness at the demise the block were discussed. The participants. Chenwetnyu village on September 15. perintendent for allowing them to visit the jail. of a sincere and dedicated person, who had rendered invaluable and immeasurable services to the Angami community in particular and the Nagas at large. The union president, Visako Rino, in a condolence message, prayed to God Almighty to grant solace and Agri. dept conducts training for field functionaries comfort to the bereaved family members and for the departed soul to rest in peace. Dimapur, Sep. 17 (EMN): farmers for higher crop pro- In an effort to sensitised duction. AYO: Angami Youth Organisation (AYO) has also the field functionaries and During the training, condoled the demise of Zaku Tsükrü, who had served equipped themselves with various topics on crop pro- the Naga societies in capacities. The Organisation has the modern crop produc- duction covering packages acknowledged his steadfast visions and commitment for tion technologies and pest and practices for commer- the uplift of the Naga society. management techniques, cial crops, integrated pest While lamenting the loss of a fatherly figure, the Department of Agriculture, management techniques, organisation president, Neiguvoto Krose, conveyed con- Tuensang division, organised vermicomposting, organic dolence to the bereaved family members and prayed for a two-day refreshers training farming, types of farming the departed soul to rest in peace. on September 14 and 15. and cropping system, pest Subject Matter Specialist management, rodents man- NSF: Naga Students’ Federation (NSF), while condol- (SMS) Menungchetba, in his agements and SRI methods ing the demise of Zaku Tsukru, fondly reminisced his inaugural speech, urged all etc were highlighted by the contributions and sincere dedication towards the Naga the trainees to be sincere dur- resource persons. people during his tenure as its president from October ing the training in order to Agriculture Officer, 1973. gain proper knowledge and Chingmak, chaired the inau- It particularly mentioned that during his tenure that understanding. gural session and the valedic- NSF faced the most challenging times and overcome all Besides, he exhorted that tory function was chaired by the odds. the field functionaries to be Chollen. Altogether, 20 of- NSF president, Kesosul Christopher Ltu has termed well equipped with modern ficers and field staff from the his demise as a great loss for the people. He has conveyed agriculture technologies and district and sub- division at- condolence to the bereaved family members and prayed disseminate the same to the Field functionaries of the Agriculture Department pose for a group photo during the refreshers training in Tuensang. tend the training programme. for the departed soul to rest in peace. EastErn Mirror | Dimapur, Monday, September 18, 2017

C M Y K STATE 3 Break-in case: ZPO warns that Lions Club announces ‘peace poster’ contest Dimapur, Sep. 17 (EMN): Lions Clubs ceive US $ 5,000 (or local equivalent) “and International is organizing its 30th poster an award,” the updates stated. Two family drawing contest on the theme “the future members (one being the winner’s parent or it will take law in own hands of peace” at the Lions Club in Dimapur legal guardian) and the sponsoring Lions on Monday, October 2. The event will Club president or a club member (as desig- Dimapur, Sep. 17 (EMN): The into the residence of a secretary to breaking into the private residence enforcing agency, which seems as commence from 9.30 am, a press release nated by club’s president) will accompany Zeliang People’s Organisatio-Na- the government. of Kelei Zeliang, secretary to the encouraging those anti-social ac- from the organisers informed on Sunday. the winner to the award ceremony, the galand has warned that the com- The organisation issued a press government of Nagaland attached tivists,” the press release stated. Interested schools or youth groups in press release stated. munity will take law into own release to the local media on Sun- to the chief minister of Nagaland The organisation has urged the Dimapur district are requested to submit The award ceremony is planned in hands if the authorities fail to take day noting that even though it has and ‘warning him of dire conse- authorities to immediately book to the undersigned the names of three par- March 2018. Further, 23 multiple-district action against the goons responsi- been ‘almost about a month now,’ quences without any rhythm or the culprits involved in the incident ticipants from their respective institution. merit award winners each will receive US ble for breaking into a government the ‘goons the culprits’ are ‘roam- reason.’ and “intimate action taken” on the They are to be from the age group 11-13 $ 500 (or local equivalent) and a certificate official’s residence and threatening ing in the streets as nothing has “It’s almost about a month matter, the organisation stated. years as of November 15, i.e., born “in be- of achievement with a plaque. The criteria him. happened.’ now, but seems nothing has been Should they fail to do so, the tween 16th Nov’04 to 15th Nov’06.” for the award are originality, artistic merit The organization has demand- The Zeliang People’s Organisa- done on this matter and the goons press release warned, the society will Lions Clubs International has been or- and expression of the theme. ed that the “district administra- tion reminded the ‘district adminis- the culprits are roaming in the take law into owns hands “for which ganizing the peace-poster contest around Locally, there will be cash awards of tion,” not specified, and the law en- tration’ and law-enforcing agencies streets as nothing has happened the law enforcing agency shall be the world annually “wherever a Lions Rs.5,000, Rs. 3,000, Rs.2000, and Rs.1,000 forcement start acting against the “on the progress and action taken” to which the ZPO feel a lackadai- solely held responsible for any unto- Club is in existence.” The motto of the for the top-four winners respectively be- antisocial responsible for breaking against the antisocial involved in sical attitude on the part of law ward incident in the future.” contest is to foster the spirit of harmony, sides certificates for the schools and the tolerance and international understanding winners. The project is jointly organized amongst the youths in particular, thereby by Lions Club of Dimapur and Lions Club giving a message of peace to all the sec- of Dimapur Blue Vanda. Hostellers given a discourse about ill effects of tobacco tions of the society, the updates stated. The During the previous year, the organis- contest will be held on four levels namely ers stated, Chokjenchila T. Jamir (first) and presentation, Kamsuan local Lions Club, district, multiple and in- Tsuzolu Rhakho (second) of Livingstone pointed out some deadly ternational level. Foundation Higher Secondary School; effects of tobacco: diseas- The international grand prize winner Sashienla Longchar (third) of Maple Tree es of the mouth, tongue will receive a free trip to the award cere- School were the winners of the Dimapur and teeth; cancer on the mony venue. At the ceremony, they will re- contest. lip, wind-pipe, and throat; damage of blood vessels; heart attack and stroke. In the second session, Dimapur school gets a taste of ‘smart class’ Kamsuan encouraged the students to do their daily Dimapur, Sep. 17 (EMN): A resource and evolving innovative solutions to ad- normal duties with enthu- group called the Smart class Educational dress these problems.” siasm and to have a clear Services Private Limited addressed the The vision is that of a transformative vision of what they want substance of n-CAT and Computational learning enabler including all the essen- to become after five or ten Thinking & Innovation Labs (CTI Lab) as tial components that learners, teachers, years down the line. part of the 50th anniversary commemo- parents, and educators need to make an The participants con- ration of Christian Higher Secondary effective transition into new age learning. sisted of 20 boys and 4 School in Dimapur on Fri. Sep.15 at the Equipped with a powerful vision, the com- girls of classes 10-12 took institution. pany is engaged in the business of educa- Dimapur, Sep. 17 (EMN): about the ill effects of to- ment. Lecturer Daisin- conducted on Sep. 17, a a pledge to say no to to- (SESPL) describes itself to be a com- tion services, updates on Sunday stated. Hostellers of Holy Family bacco by members of Sale- lung Sebastian Kamsuan press release from the or- bacco and help other peo- pany that aims to “redefine 21st century The company is offering complete edu- at Theheku in Dimapur sian College of Higher was the resource person ganisers stated on Sunday. ple to live a healthier life, education with a focus on understanding cational solution ‘keeping in mind the re- were given a discourse Education’s youth depart- for the event which was In his multi-media the updates stated. the present and future education barriers, quirement of schools.’ Dimapur legal services give one for consumer rights Public hearing at Mon and Peren on MGNREGA Dimapur, Sep. 17 (EMN): A public hearing for the Mahatma Gandhi Na- tional Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNRE- GA) for five villages was conducted on Sep. 15 in Jalukie. Addressing the public hearing, the state training co-ordinator for social au- dit Dr. Kedise Pucho ex- plained the major keys of social audit under MGN- REGA to the five villages, namely old Jalukie village, Nkwarew village, Peletkie, Deukaram and Beisumpu- ikam village. Updates on Sunday informed that the speaker highlighted the impor- tance of social audit for the Further, he said that all been clarified by the block ministration, nongovern- MGNREGA. He said that social audit reports will be officers that they were ‘dou- mental organisations, in every gram panchayat submitted to the state gov- ble entries and was given Block staffers and officers Members of the Dimapur District Legal Services Authority such audits should be con- ernment and also to the justification accordingly and the media, the updates ducted at least once in six ministry of Rural Devel- during public hearing.’ stated. The findings of the Dimapur, Sep. 17 (EMN): The Di- Nathaniel Kevichusa, retainer gramme, the press release stated. months for verification of opment. During the public Mon social audit team were pre- mapur District Legal Services Au- with the DDLSA, was resource per- Summing up the programme, quantity and quality of hearing, DRPs/VRPs pre- The first social audit and sented by the SAU team thority (DDLSA) conducted a “legal son for the event, the updates stated. Ajongba Imchen, secretary of the workers at different stages sented their findings from public hearing of the and tabled for discussion. awareness” programme on Naga- Kevichusa spoke about the Nagaland DDLSA, reminded the village coun- of implementation. This the social audit. On issues MGNREGA for Mon dis- All the findings were thor- land State Legal Services Authority Village Council Act; Temjensoba, cils that they had a statutory man- is to promote transparency pertaining to villages, the trict was held on Sep. 15 at oughly deliberated and ‘re- (NSLSA) schemes and consumer Moatila, Visheli and Dzuvinuo, date to act as an auxiliary to the dis- and accountability, the up- team found ‘some minor the DRDA resource centre solved satisfactorily’ with Rights on Sep. 16. The programme panel lawyers, spoke about various trict administration. He encouraged dates stated. He said that errors’ in the MIS record, in Mon. The programme the relevant documents was conducted at the Mediziphema topics such as the objective of legal the participants to discharge their social audit was not about the updates stated. How- was attended by village produced by the respective DB’s hall, a press release informed services, NALSA schemes, women’s duties keeping in mind the welfare fault finding but fact find- ever, according to available functionaries from five au- BDOs and staff, the up- on Sundday. rights and consumer rights at the pro- of the public. ing, the updates stated. information, the issue has dited villages; district ad- dates added. Kripa to conduct HIV/AIDS workshop in Kiphire Youths taught how to be catalysts for conflict resolution Dimapur, Sep. 17 (EMN): various resource persons, organised by Kripa Foun- Nongovernmental organi- the updates stated. dation, 14th NAP(IR) sation Kripa Foundation The workshop will Kiphire, NSACS and FHI. will be conducting a work- also be addressed by a In partnership with shop on HIV/AIDS with community representa- the Nagaland State AIDS the 14th NAP (IR) on Sep. tive from the Kiphire Dis- Control Society and the 19 at the Battalion’s Unit trict Network of People Family Health Interna- Church. The event is part living with HIV/AIDS tional (FHI), the Kripa of Kripa’s Project Sunrise KDNP+) too. Altogether Foundation had con- Initiative, a press release 250 police personnel and ducted a state-level work- from the organisation stat- some of their family mem- shop following which ed on Sunday. bers are expected to attend district-level workshops Lakha Koza, com- the workshop, the organis- were conducted in Phek, manding officer of the ers stated. Zunheboto, Mokokchung, battalion, will attend the During the course of Wokha, Tuensang, and program as the guest of the workshop, the organ- Dimapur, the organisers honor. The workshop will izers will be distributing stated. The workshop at comprise various techni- IEC materials relating to Kiphire will be a follow- cal presentations on topics HIV/AIDS, Drug and al- up to a workshop that was such as HIV/AIDS in the cohol and also copies of conducted the previous district, AIDS manage- the Nagaland state sub- year with the establish- ment with ART; and drug stance abuse prevention ment of the superintend- and alcohol abuse. The and treatment policy 2016. ent of Kiphire police, the topics will be presented by The program is jointly press release stated.

Participants and moderators of a training program about conflict resolution that was conducted for youth leaders on Sep. 16 at the Oriental College in Kohima town. Dimapur, Sep. 17 (EMN): A each individual encounters daily identity.” Peace Channel, spoke about the training program on conflict reso- “within oneself, fighting through Further, the updates stated theme of the event. She told the lution, peace-building, life skills, our own opinions.” She talked that she encouraged the youths to participants about the need to and mediation for youth leaders about how it was important to preserve their identity by “mak- ‘come together as one by respect- was held on Sep. 16 at Oriental understand and respond to it ing a new innovation, stand on ing each other, have concern for College in Kohima town. The positively which she said would one’s own feet make a difference everyone’s safety and live a dig- programme was organised by lo- ‘defuse the tension and irritation, because peace will not come from nified life,’ which she said would cal capacity-building resource, and enhance peace within one- external forces but peace comes bring peace to the society. the Peace Channel of Kohima self and in the society.’ from within.” “Stressing on the present situ- district, and conducted with the Also, speaking about the im- Conflicts are natural and in- ation of our state where most of theme, “Together for peace: Re- portance of culture and tradition evitable but it can be resolved us are so individualistic, we are spect, safety and dignity for all,’ Yhome said, “We are losing the through dialogue, she said. She losing the sense that we belong to updates in a press release stated real values of our culture, tradi- concluded her discourse by chal- each other. She concluded, chal- The Dimapur Anti-tobacco Squad has seized a consignment of tobacco products on September 14. The on Sunday. tion and language because we are lenging the youth to “walk for lenging the participants to make authorities have lodged a complaint under relevant sections of IPC, COTPA 2003 and FSSAI. A press A resource person, Vilanuo so much engross with the western peace, run for peace, talk for a firm decision by taking one release on Sunday informed that two persons understood to have been detained in this connection Yhome, president of the Na- ideas that we follow or copied peace, eat for peace and give step each in our everyday life in have been identified to be one Salim Uddin and a Rafique Uddin. The products were headed for galand Catholic Women Asso- their lifestyle and imply it in our peace a chance.” a journey towards peace and be Manipur, the press release from the authorities added. ciation (NCWA), talked to the day to day living, which in reality Also, Sedekieno Rino, Ko- the change we want to see in the gathering about the conflict that we are in a trap, losing our own hima District Coordinator for world,” the press release stated. EastErn Mirror | Dimapur, Monday, September 18, 2017 4 REGION Three suspected militants killed in Manipur Mizoram govt-HPC (D) peace Our Correspondent militants at a designated camp of to oversee the situation for further for residential purpose. Imphal, Sep. 17 (EMN): Three UTLA, an armed group currently steps. The injured persons have been talks to resume on Thursday persons including a woman under Suspension of Operations It may be mentioned that four evacuated to a nearby hospital in Aizawl, Sep. 17 (PTI): Peace talks the government’s proposal to hold talks with suspected to be militants were killed with state and central government persons sustained injury when Imphal. Later state chief minister between the Mizoram government and the the HPC (D) faction led by Lalhmingthanga in a firing incident at Muktakhal forces at Muktakhal area around unidentified persons exploded N Biren accompanied by the state Manipur-based Hmar People’s Convention Sanate during the last part of August. area under Manipur Jiribam district 12.30 pm, sources said. a hand grenade at a residential officials visited the injured persons (Democratic) are scheduled to resume The proposed talks with the Sanate bordering Cachar district of Assam The deceased have been complex at Mantripukhri in Imphal who are identified Zaffar Seikh on Thursday next, a senior state Home faction fizzled out after the state government in the intervening night of September identified as lady Hatsei (25), East district on Saturday evening. (44) of Assam, Bijoykumar(49) of department official said. Additional Secretary rejected the conditions set by the outfit - 16 and 17, reports reaching here Ngamboi (22) and Mangmimlen The incident occurred in the lawn West Bengal, Chunchun Prasad in the Home department, Lalbiakzama told creation of separate autonomous district said. (20), the source claimed. But the of a five storey building of one (41) of Jharkhand and Tapa Kumar PTI that the talks scheduled to be held this council for the Hmars and inclusion of a The firing incident took place reason behind the incident is yet to Mukesh K Sharma at Mantripukhri Bardhan (50) of West Bengal week would probably be the last official level senior official from the Centre in the talks. when some unidentified armed be established. The Jiribam police at around 5 pm. The building is .According to doctors, all of them talks, after which the talks would be elevated The HPC (D) was formed by Sanate persons attacked the suspected have also visited the incident site occupied by private company staff sustained minor injuries. to political level. Lalbiakzama expressed the immediately after the erstwhile underground hope that the coming talks would finalise the HPC cadres surrendered arms following the framework agreement already deliberated. agreement signed with the state government NEIGHRIMS asked to submit DIET employees This round of parleys was delayed due to in 1994. proposal for air ambulance to hold indefinite One killed at Tamenglong district, Shillong, Sep. 17 (PTI): can also be collected for Medical College Building, The Centre has asked investigation at the super the Hostel and the Nursing strike from Sep. 18 students’ association condemns the North Eastern Indira speciality hospital. College is on at the institute Our Correspondent Autonomous Council Dimapur, Sep. 17 (EMN): The Thadou team of Police led by Superintendent of Diphu, Sep 17 (EMN): Gandhi Regional Institute Thappa further said that premises at a cost of Rs 280 ( K A A C ) , T u l i r a m Students’ Association, Jiribam and Police, Jiribam District wherein all arms The District Institute of of Health and Medical the institute is proposing to crore. Ronghang”. Tamenglong Branch (TSA-J&T) has and ammunition in the camp were seized. Education and Training Sciences (NEIGHRIMS) involve the RIIMS Imphal Established in 1987 On Aug. 16, 2017, a condemned the brutal attack and killing Subsequently, the camp was attacked this (DIET) employees, Karbi here to submit a proposal to take care in respect and declared an ‘Institute memorandum was also at Peniel Peace Camp, a camp of UTLA/ morning by unidentified gunmen, killing Anglong are experiencing for air ambulance. of states like Nagaland of National Importance’ submitted to KAAC, UTLF at Tatbung, Tamenglong district on three people who were staying at the camp without receiving their “The institute has a n d M i z o r a m w h i l e by Prime Minister Atal Executive Member in charge Sep.17, 2017 at around 12:10 am. on the spot. Such attack is inhumane, salary for the last 17 months. been asked to prepare a NEIGRIHMS will look Bihari Vajpayee in 2000, higher Education, Jagatsing The UTLA/UTLF under the leadership uncivilized, barbaric and unwarranted”, the The employees retaliated proposal for having air after Meghalaya, Arunachal the institute was also Engti. However, till date no of SK Thadou had signed a Memorandum students’ organisation maintained. to go for indefinite pen ambulance services in the Pradesh and Tripura. declared as an “Institution positive response has been of Understanding with the Govt. of India The UTLA/UTLF being a surrendered down strike from Sep.18 region,” NEIGRIHMS Informing that the of Excellence” by an Act made so far from the higher and Govt. of Manipur on July 17, 2013 and group, the government should have provided as there was no positive director Dr DM Thappa state government s role of Parliament in 2007, the authorities. Recently on they surrendered all their arms and weapons adequate rehabilitation, safety and security response from the higher told PTI. is also important, he said only Medical Institute that Sep.11, 2017, memorandum to the government, stated a press note from to the cadres and their families. In light of the authorities regarding the He said NEIGRIHMS that the Centre is also has been given such a status was submitted to KAAC, the TSA-J&T. To maintain the law and above circumstances, the government must long pending salary. One of would act as a nodal emphasising the need for in the country. Principal Secretary, Jayshree order is the responsibility of the government provide ex-gratia to the deceased family and the employees informed to point for air ambulance the medical team of the The institute was set Daulagupu regarding the and whoever abrogates the state of peace take up immediate stern actions to prevent this reporter said “several dispensary system whose state government to be part up with an aim to provide long pending salary of DIET and tranquillity by killing, murdering, arms recurrence of such preventable incidents in times we have submitted services can reach out to the of the process. training and fill the vast gap employees, the employees movement, etc. must be strictly dealt with by future, appealed the students’ organisation memorandum to the higher far flung areas of the region. A c c o r d i n g l y, t h e of doctor - population ratio. lamented.Agitated over this the government, it stated. in a press note. authority regarding their The NEIGRIHMS helicopter would also be This ratio is 1:5000 as lukewarm response from the If the trend continues to be like this, none The gruesome incident would have pending salary. On Jul. director said patients in required to be equipped compared to the national higher authorities, the DIET of the armed revolutionary groups will come not occurred had the government been 28, 2017 a memorandum medical emergencies can with medical facilities, he average of 1:2000 where employees have decided forward for negotiation and the trust deficit committed to the Memorandum of was submitted to Chief be brought to the institute said. a population of about 40 to go for an indefinite pen with the government will escalate. Understanding it had signed with the group E x e c u t i v e M e m b e r for treatment besides The construction of the million is covered by only down strike to claim their “Mention may be made that the Peniel for a peaceful solution to the problem, it (CEM), Karbi Anglong medical samples of patients Regional Cancer Centre, the about 400 hospitals. rights. Camp was raided on July 27, 2017 by a further added. Northeast father-daughter duo creates magic Munin Barua awarded lifetime achievement at 5th Brahmaputra Valley Film Festival Dimapur, Sep.17 (EMN): After two successful days of the 5th Brahmaputra Valley Film Festival, 2017, day three started with the screening of some brilliant short films from across the country. Actor turned filmmaker Konkona Sen Sharma’s directorial debut ‘A death in the Gunj’ was showcased in the afternoon. Well known director Gauri Shinde who made ‘English Vinglish’ and ‘Dear Zindagi’ was present on day three of the film festival, informed a press note. Raja Narzary for his film ‘From Nowhere’ was the winner of the Brahmaputra Valley Short Film Contest. Kendo Maibam for Dimapur, Sep.17 (EMN): stated. state as well as in the U.S. music ranging from old and ‘Leipaklei’ bagged the 1st runner up Mumbai-based, Guwahati- Created by Samujjal He has three solo albums contemporary Bollywood and Anubhav Mahanta for his film born singer-songwriter Kashyap’s ‘Kadambari encompassing 27 songs of songs to ghazals, folk and pop ‘Bathau Dorja Khol’ won the 2nd Prarthana Choudhury’s Creations’, this music- Dr. Bhupen Hazarika, titled songs. Her latest Assamese runner up. latest collaboration, ‘Ek Pyar video celebrates the special ‘Dr. Bhupen Hazarika’s Voice single, ‘Mur Monor Aakaxot’ The winners will be awarded Ka Nagma’ with her father bond that we share with in Violin’, alongside songs of was released by Zee Music prizes of over Rs 2.5 lac. in addition – popular violin player and the ‘special’ people of our ‘Rupkonwar’ Jyoti Prasad early this year. Prarthana has to the opportunity to work with a well-known academician Dr. lives – our parents, lover, Agarwala and ‘Kalaguru’ been a finalist of TV reality production house of national repute. Satyendra Kr. Choudhury, is spouse, friends, children .... Bishnu Prasad Rabha. He shows and has delivered The jury members for the Short fast stealing people’s hearts and the list is endless. The is known to mesmerise the public-shows across India. Film Contest included experienced on the internet, maintained a video portrays the beautiful audience by playing both old Prarthana is an approved filmmakers Dr. Santwana Bardoloi, press note received here. relationship between a father and new Bollywood songs artist of All India Radio and Sanjeev Hazorika, Roopa Barua, I n t e r e s t i n g ly, t h e and a Daughter, and shows on the violin, with equal élan has sung for Bollywood and Reema Kagti, Bobbeeta Sharma and Films screened during Day 3 were: song is an outcome of an the duo taking a walk-down- and expertise. Assamese movies. She has Ronnie Lahiri. impromptu jamming session the -memory-lane, through Prarthana Choudhury sung for several Assamese The Lifetime Achievement • Cine Basket - Short Films between the father-daughter the song. was honoured with the audio & video albums. Her Award was awarded to Munin Barua, • Large Short Films duo and the live recording Artiste brief profile: ‘Best Female Singer’ Award latest solo Assamese singles filmmaker and cultural icon from the • The Endless Note- Folk Instruments of Sikkim; Director: Palzor was only incidental. The A renowned academician at the 5th Artist Aloud include, ‘Tumi Bujanu Northeast. Munin Baruah, in his Bhutia; State: Sikkim father-daughter duo has of Assam, Dr. Satyendra Music Awards held in Kiman’ and ‘Aamaar Gaaor’ acceptance speech stated “money • A Death in the Gunj; Director: Konkona Sen Sharma; Hindi, delivered this cover-version Kumar Choudhury is equally Mumbai in 2016, for her released by Hungama Music. will come back to producers when English, Bengali of the popular Bollywood known for his prowess in own composition, ‘Kaisi Prarthana is the voice behind people go to watch their films so we • The Black Cat; Director: Bhargav Saikia; State: Assam (English) classic- Ek Pyar Ka Nagma playing the violin. He has Khudgarzi’. Prarthana the popular Marathi song, need to make good quality films such • Antardrishti; Director: Rima Das; State: Assam (Assamese) in their own fresh style, it performed all across the sings in various genres of ‘Sakhya Saajana’. as ‘Pa’ and ‘Cheeni Kum”.

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A grain EastErn Mirror | Dimapur, Monday, September 18, 2017 STATE/BUSINESS 5 NEWS IN BRIEF DCCI lauds NWHD NPF central convenes meet KDLSA imparts legal Dimapur, Sep. 17 (EMN): the prescribed parametres President of the Naga People’s Front (NPF), Dr. Shurhoze- Dimapur Chamber of while undertaking such lie Liezietsu has convened a consultative meeting of the Commerce and Industry surprise checking. It said central office bearers, central executive council members, (DCCI) has applauded the DCCI is always ready office bearers of all frontal organisations including divisional awareness to students the good work done of the to cooperate with the ad- units of the party on September 20 at the party central Naga Women Hoho Di- ministration and social Dimapur, Sep. 17 (EMN): mapur (NWHD) in con- organisations. headquarters, Kohima, at 11 a.m. This was stated in a press Kohima District Legal release issued by NPF central Media & Press Bureau. ducting surprise checking D C C I p r e s i d e n t , Services Authority (KDL- on the sale of tobacco Akashe Zhimomi, and the SA) has organised a legal products within 100 me- general secretary, Sanjay CCRCFA to hold seminar awareness programme Chakhesang Christian Revival Churches Fathers’ Association tre parameters of some Sethi, have also warned with the Sunday School prominent schools and the shopkeepers and pan (CCRCFA) has announced to conduct a seminar (Pederuchu) students and teachers of on the theme “U mhicie kenyi puo-u” from September 29 colleges in Dimapur. shops to refrain from sell- Sumi Baptist Church Ko- DCCI has affirmed ing tobacco products with- to October 1 at CRC Yoruba. The resource persons for the hima (SBCK), Kenuozou seminar will be Secretary BOM, Kevisilie, and Pastor CCRC continued support on in 100 metre of any school colony, on September 17. such initiatives to prevent and college, adding selling Upper PWD Kohima, Z David Koza, while the speakers will Zheviholi Swu, KDL- be Executive Secretary CCRC, Rev. Vevozo Khamo; NCRC young school and college of tobacco products to SA panel lawyer, spoke going students to refrain minor is an offence. Mission Atlarge, Ado Kezo; and Missionary to Itanagar, on cyber crime, merit and Arunachal Pradesh, Zaseyi Veswuh. The music secretary, from eating or chewing It further cautioned demerit of social media, tobacco products. that strict action would be Zalecuyi Nyekha, has informed all the churches to send offences and punishment atleast 5 members each. While considering the taken against defaulters under IPC, IT Act. She interest of business com- by the concerned compe- AR donates sports items also highlighted on the munity, DCCI has request- tent authorities as per the aims and objectives of le- ed NWHD to maintain relevant provision of law. Troops of 7 Assam Rifles presented sports items to Zisaji gal aid services, free legal KDLSA panel lawyers with the SBCK Sunday school students and teachers during the legal awareness Presidency College in Kiphire district on September 13. services/ assistance ren- programme on September 17. The sports items were provided to assist the students in dered to the public. their upcoming sports meet. Presentation was made to the Aketoli J Yepthomi, dren. ness programme with the dents, teachers as well as PVBC installs new pastor Principal in presence of staff and students. O the occasion, KDLSA panel lawyer, also While chairing the Sunday school depart- the parents. 7 Assam Rifles urged the students to say no to drugs/ HIV& spoke on Juvenile Justice prog ramme, Khekani ment. She further request- The gathering was en- AIDS and adopt a healthy lifestyle by way of sports. Act, Right to Education, Shohe, Sunday School ed KDLSA to organise thralled with a special Fundamental Rights, and teacher, thanked KDLSA such legal awareness from song presented by Jessica Lions Club eye camp concludes special provision for chil- for organising legal aware- time to time with the stu- and Khulu. A 2-day free eye camp organised by Lions Club of Dimapur in association with Jorhat Lions Eye Hospital concluded on September 17 in which a total of 719 patients were screened during the two-day camp out of which 179 were recommended for IOL cataract surgery. Those recom- AHSS organises awareness on HIV/AIDS mended for IOL surgery will be sent to Jorhat Eye Hospital AIDS cum tobacco. in a phased manner. Meanwhile, Project chairman, Pawan Reputed medical prac- Maheshwari has thanked all the club members and Leos for titioner and resource per- their cooperation in making the camp a success. son, Dr. Lolen highlighted on the origin of HIV/ AIDS and how to prevent WEATHER FORECAST IN OTHER DISTRICTS it. He said the only way Max Min DP RH RF of prevention is through self – awareness and edu- WOKHA - - - - - cation. He encouraged the ZBT 33.8 17.3 19.5 88 2 students to go out and MON 29 22.2 22.7 93 NIL spread awareness so that the uneducated people TUENSANG 21 18 17.4 91 17.1 can be made aware of it. MKG 26 21 21.3 88 NIL He also made the students aware of the harmful ef- PHEK 29.8 19 18.8 96 1.2 fects of consuming to- EM Images (L-R) Rev. Nyanchumo Lotha, LBES Executive Secretary; outgoing pastor KIPHIRE 28 20.4 21.3 98 1 bacco and clarified all the doubts and queries of the A Rapvuo Odyuo and the newly installed pastor Rev. Dr. L Tsanso. SECHÜ ZUBZA 29.5 21.5 21.8 91 NIL Resource person along with the faculty members and students of Assisi Higher Secondary School during students. Our Correspondent and Male voice Kohima. LONGLENG - - - - - the awareness programme. Basing on the theme, members of Science Club Wokha, Sep 17 (EMN): Earlier in the pro- TSEMINYU 28 22 21.1 88 4.8 Dimapur, Sep. 17 (EMN): under the aegis of the Sci- pal, Sr. Benny Fernandes preformed a skit on drug A native of Pongitong gramme, the invoca- Assisi Higher Secondary ence Club and the guid- conducted an awareness abuse which was an eye village, Rev. Dr. L Tsanso tion was said by Rev. JALUKIE 25 14 19.5 76 NIL School (AHSS), Dimapur, ance of the school princi- programme on HIV/ – opener for the students. was today installed as the LK Tsanglao, pastor of new pastor of Pongitong Longsa Baptist Church, MANGKOLEMBA 33 26.8 27.6 91 NIL Village Baptist Church while the offertory prayer *Dew Point (DP) *Relative Humidity (RH) * Rainfall (RF) (PVBC) by replacing Rev. was said by O Thungben, A Rapvuo Odyuo of Phiro pastor of Wokha Village Source: Department of Soil & Water Conservation, Nagaland village, who had served Baptist Church. James the church for the last ten Ezung delivered a report IMPORTANT NUMBERS years and nine months. on search committee for WOMEN HELPLINE: 181 The event was solem- pastor, while Yanphamo, nised by Rev. Nyanchumo PVBC treasurer, acknowl- DIMAPUR (STD CODE: 03862) Lotha, LBES Executive edged the works and Bethesda Ambulance Service 9615053217, 9615520007 Secretary, while Rev. Dr. achievements of Rev. A CIHSR 242555, 242533 Mong Lotha shared the Rapvuo Odyuo. Police Control Room 7085055050 gospel message, the art of Rev. Dr. L Tsanso and Dimapur District Hospital 232224 love and forgiveness. Rev. A Rapvuo Odyuo The installation pro- speaking on the occasion Diphupar PS 7085055032 gramme was attended by thanked the church and East PS 7085055030 the villagers, neighboring other guests for their pres- Faith Hospital 248912, 9436004220 villages and well wishers ence in the programme. Fire Station (Chumu) 282777 from different villages and The programme was Fire Station (Dimapur) 7085378850, 232201 towns. also attended by represent- Special numbers were atives from Lotha Hoho, GRPS 7085055031 presented by choirs from Lotha Eloe Hoho, Lotha Medziphema PS 7085055033 Pongitong Baptist Church, Students’ Union and Dr. MH (Metro) Hospital 227930/231081 Deputy Commissioner, Dimapur, Kesonyu Yhome, along with the department officials, teachers and students at culmination programme of the Wozhuro Range Wokha, T M Lotha, Advisor of Mobile Unit Commander 7085055046 15-day Swachhta Pakhwada on September 15. The DC gave away prizes to the winner in different disciplines. Wokha Town Pongidong Treasury and Accounts. Nikos Hospital 248285, 232032 Niuland PS 7085088035 Sub-Urban PS 7085055036 Traffic Control -1 7085088038 Penalty from accounts NAGAWRESTLEMANIA-6 Traffic Control -2 7085088039 West PS 7085055034 (King of The Ring Series 2017) Women Cell 7085055037 to partly fund Aadhaar 26th to 28th October 2017 at Kohima Local Ground Zion Hospital 231864, 224117, 227337 KOHIMA (STD Code: 0370) REGISTRATION FORMS AVAILABLE AT Bethel Nursing Home 2224202 linkage costs–SBI 1. 3E Office, Dzevi Building, near Kohima Local Ground Chiephobozou PS 8575045506 Officer-in-Charge 8575045516 New Delhi, Sep. 17 (IANS): State Bank of ated with savings bank accounts,” he said. 2. Sportsworld, Taxi Stand, Kohima Childline Kohima 1098 India (SBI) expects to collect Rs 2,000 crore The largest public lender said it also 3. Orchid Store, Razhu Point, Kohima as penalty on savings bank accounts which invests heavily in technology requirement Chiephobozou PS 8575045506 4. Life Centre, Pfutsero Officer-in-Charge 8575045516 have failed to maintain a minimum balance, to take care of the transactions made in the a sum which may be used to partly cover the savings bank accounts. Fire Stations 2222952 costs incurred on the linking of accounts “For maintaining savings bank ac- Registration fees: Juniors - Rs. 200/- & Seniors - Rs. 500/- IRCS Ambulance Service 2244350 with Aadhaar. counts, there are certain costs. We have to LAST DATE OF REGISTRATION - 14TH OCTOBER 2017 K-1351 Kezocha PS 8575045549 The recent directive of the government invest heavily in technology. Our cost on Officer-in-Charge 8575045538 to link all savings bank accounts with Aad- technology every year is very high and that Khuzama PS 8575045505 haar by December 31 was a “very costly is more to take care of the transactions in Officer-in-Charge 8575045515 affair” as lenders were already facing high (savings) accounts,” he said. DECLARATION costs in maintaining such accounts and “The penalty realised, we will use it to Regd. No: 1575/17 Date: 1/9/17 NHAK 2222916 complying with the KYC (know your cus- recover our outgo on ATMs. On business I, Shri. Vijay Kumar Pradhan, S/o Late Bhairab Pradhan, aged about 48 years, permanent resident North PS 2222222, 8575045501 tomer) requirement, says SBI Managing correspondents (BCs) channel, SBI incurs Officer-in-Charge 8575045510 of Village- Kadamtala, PO - Kadamtala, PS - Matighara, District - Darjeeling State - West Bengal - Director Rajnish Kumar. a loss of more than Rs 400 crore. We are 734011 and presently residing at 3 (NH) Battalion Assam Rifle, Pin-932003, C/o 99 APO do hereby Oking Hospital 2290080, 2290146 To recover such costs, including the incurring a cost of almost Rs 2,000 crore solemnly affirm and declare on oath as follows:- Police Control Room 100/2244279, 8575045500 lender’s costs on ATMs and business cor- on business correspondents channel and 1. That, I am by profession an army personnel bearing No. G/37391 Rank - Hav/GD and presently South PS 2222111, 8575045502 respondents, the bank expects to realise over ATMs per year. At least we should be able stationed at 3 (NH) Battalion Assam Rifles, Pin-932003, C/o 99 APO. Officer-in-Charge 8575045520 Rs 2,000 crore in the current fiscal from to recover that (from the penalty),” he said. 2. That, my birth and correct name is “Vijay Kumar Pradhan”, my spouse’s name is “Sita Tseminyu PS 8575045507 account holders as penalty for failing to From April 1, SBI made it mandatory Pradhan” and her date of birth is “01.01.1972”. Officer-in-Charge 8575045517 maintain minimum balance in their savings for savings bank accounts in metropolitan 3. That, however, due to some inadvertent error and/or oversight in my Service record/book, my Zubza PS 8575045508 accounts, he said. cities to maintain Rs 5,000 as minimum name, my spouse name and her date of birth were wrongly entered/recorded, which I want to Officer-in-Charge 8575045518 “Maintaining savings bank accounts balance, Rs 3,000 in urban areas, Rs 2,000 rectify as follows: MOKOKCHUNG (STD Code: 0369) and complying with KYC requirement is in semi-urban areas and Rs 1,000 in rural not an easy task. Now the government has areas, failing which a penalty is levied. Sl. Particulars Name in the Service Name to be corrected in the Chopper Service 8974151974/ 9615776811 said that you have to link Aadhaar to each He said that the rest of the penalty re- No Record/Book Service Record/Book Christian Hospital, Impur 2262214 and every account by December 31. So I alised would go to recover the bank’s other 1. My Name Vijaya Kumar Pradhan Vijay Kumar Pradhan Dr. Imkongliba Hospital 2226216/2226394 have to look at (SBI’s) 40 crore (savings costs, including Aadhaar linking. 2. Spouse Name Sita Devi Pradhan Sita Pradhan Faith Hospital Ambulance 9436004220, 9856051827 bank) accounts and it is a very costly affair,” According to an RTI query, SBI realised 3. Spouse date of birth 05-07-1968 01-01-1972 Fire Station 2226225 he told IANS. Rs 235.06 crore as penalty till June-end from 4. That, I further declare that both my parents Late Bhairab Pradhan (father) and Late Shanti Pradhan Hope Ambulance Service 8415827895/9856277674 According to the government’s man- more than 60 million savings bank accounts. date, all existing bank account holders will “Out of 27 crore (270 million) savings (mother) expired in the year 10.02.09 and 05.04.11 respectively. Hotel Metsuben 8014587442/ 2226373 have to submit Aadhaar card numbers to bank accounts which are required to comply 5. That this affidavit is signed and sworn before the competent authority so that it may be treated/used IRCS Ambulance Service 09402993002 banks by December 31 this year, failing with the minimum balance requirement, as a piece of evidence for any rectification/correction regarding the names and date of birth of my Lifeline Ambulance 9436439707/ 9862447893 which the accounts will become invalid. there may be about 20 per cent accounts that family members in case if any rectification/correction arises and henceforth, it shall be used for all Mokokchung PS 1 2226241 Kumar said that the process would add have not maintained the balance. We have my future records, purpose and correspondence. 6. That, the statements made herein above in paragraphs 1 to 5 are true to the best of my knowledge Power House 2226221/2226293 to the costs of banks as it involves a process given them enough time and notice. These and belief and nothing material has been concealed or suppressed thereupon. Sewak Gate PS 2 2226213 and making changes in the IT-backend as charges were applicable from April 1. Those well. who couldn’t comply, we recovered penalty And I sign this Affidavit on this day the of September, 2017 at Kohima, Nagaland. Traffic Control 9485232691 “It (Aadhaar linking) is a costly affair in June,” he said. DEPONENT Tuli Police Station 9485232693 because you have to contact the customer, Kumar said that the bank is, however, Signed and sworn before me by the Deponent at Kohima on this day the 1st of September, 2017. Women Cell 9485232692 you have to do the process, you have to thinking of exempting senior citizens’ and Woodland Nursing Home 2226263 make changes in IT. There are costs associ- students’ accounts from such penalty. MAGISTRATE/ NOTARY PUBLIC K-1352 6

EastErn Mirror Dimapur, mONDay, SEpTEmBEr 18, 2017 Preachers of change Gloomy Characters: The Melancholic Aspect in Literature a “temperamental antipathy” towards pleasant take the donkey Eeyore from “Winnie-the-Pooh”. t was during the eighties that many Naga preachers, not neces- Vikas Datta | iaNS weather and a “temperamental affinity” towards Living in the southeast corner of the Hundred sarily religious, made use of the pulpits to expound the need sleet, hurricanes, earthquakes and plague. Acre Wood, in an area labelled “Eeyore’s Gloomy for reformation of the Naga society. It is said that it became he human race displays an infinite Take the Marshwiggle from C.S. Lewis’s “The Place: Rather Boggy and Sad” (as per the book’s Ipart of almost every speech, address or sermon especially capacity for dividing itself into various Silver Chair” (of the Narnia series), who shows map), he is pessimistic, and depressed, but also directed at the youth in the state. Some went up to the extent of categories -- justified or not. But one his outlook right from his introduction, telling caustic and sarcastic, who doesn’t think much saying “Revolution not Reformation”. Looking back it sometimes Trather interesting differentiation is in his human companions: “Puddleglum’s my of the other animals. He also doesn’t expect raises the question as what could have been so bad during the eight- the (figurative) eyeglasses people use to see their name. But it doesn’t matter if you forget it”, or too much of himself and therefore remains ies in Nagaland that prompted so many of those speakers, or say world, with their lenses’ colour ranging from Confederate cavalry officer Dusty Fogg’s sergeant quiet for most of the time despite being quite preachers of change, to say so. Although there was instability in the rose to jaded (or being particularly effective major Billy Jack (in J.T. Edson’s Civil War novels) knowledgeable. government especially in the later part of the decade that resulted sunglasses). It may be a matter of opinion if the who is utterly convinced every mission is doomed But the outstanding representative is Marvin in newer forms of politics being played out in the streets, the scene cheery or gloomy outlook is better, but the latter and/or he will be killed or badly injured (...Likely the Paranoid Android from Douglas Adams’ cult was incomparable to the present times. There were no sudden scores higher in one respect at least. I’ll be dead from my hurts come morning”). “Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy” series. shootouts between the security forces and the armed Naga Nation- That is in literature, where being melancholy Let us take three of the most famous, from The robot aboard the starship “Heart of alist groups. There were no factional fights among the Naga Politi- is a more alluring and desirable trait. A character Shakespeare to science fiction. Gold”, he was one of prototypes of Sirius cal Groups; in fact there were only two distinct groups the Naga displaying a melancholic mien strikes a better From the Bard’s quill, it can only be Cybernetics Corporation’s Genuine People National Council and the National Socialist Council of Nagaland chord, due to appearing more realistic -- given “Melancholic” Jaques of “As You Like It”. As per Personalities technology, which succeeded too those days. The tension may have been brewing from then on but it what we know of fortune’s fickleness, the essayist William Hazzlitt, he is “the only purely well -- for he suffers from severe depression and was still not out on the streets, unlike the decade the followed. It is indifference of nature, and the perils of hope -- contemplative character in Shakespeare. He boredom, having a “brain the size of a planet” agreed that Naga Nationalism had still not died down even among and more immune/immured to the big and small thinks, and does nothing. His whole occupation but is never allowed to use it, being used for the members of the public and the internal tussle existed. One betrayals of life. is to amuse his mind, and he is totally regardless mundane activities. group genuinely trying their best to make Nagaland State work For every happy-go-lucky Pollyanna, there of his body and his fortunes. He is the prince of Suffering vicissitudes galore, including being while the other group only too eager to state that the flow of “In- is a Holden Caulfield (from “The Catcher in philosophical idlers; his only passion is thought; abandoned, rusting and ending up 37 times dian money” is out to finally finish the Nagas. Nonetheless chances the Rye”) who, at one stage, feels any positive he sets no value upon anything but as it serves as over the planet’s age, Marvin is pretty vocal of some from both the camps who played their roles more the rest sentiments are “phoniness”; or Sherlock Holmes, food for reflection...” about it with some snarky comebacks apart his are likely. The eighties witnessed the killing of two school kids at who at the onset of one of the sordid cases he Jaques gets some of the best lines, whether he catchphrase “I think you ought to know I’m Kohima during a Naga Students’ Federation sponsored rally that deals with, observes: “But is not all life pathetic is declaiming what is rendered as “Seven Ages of feeling very depressed”. became violent. The eighties also witnessed the do or die attitude and futile?... We reach. We grasp. And what is Man”, or “And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and Asked how he was, he responds: “Oh fine, if of the state’s lawmakers to form governments. It is reported that left in our hands at the end? A shadow. Or worse ripe/And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot;/ you happen to like being me, which personally I the culture of keeping MLAs isolated, very much akin to the Ka- than a shadow -- misery.” And thereby hangs a tale”, and best, that cynical don’t”, or to “What’s up?”, says: “I don’t know. ziranga camps started in the eighties. The only difference then was And then are many more across all possible parody of “Under the Greenwood Tree”: “If it I’ve never been there.” that mostly the MLAs were housed within Army/Police camps. genres. Be it the old Transylvanian count who do come to passe, that any man turn Ass: Leaving But the best is: “Life, loathe it or ignore it, you At one point the tussle in the government formation led to the as- tells his young English visitor: “I am no longer his wealth and ease, A stubborn will to please, can’t like it.” sassination attempt on the life of the Speaker of the House. It also young; and my heart, through weary years Ducdame, ducdame, ducdame: Here shall he see, Did Marvin know something we don’t or cannot be denied that the eighties witnessed the unprecedented of mourning over the dead, is not attuned to gross fools as he, And if he will come to me.” want to think about? flow of money and alcohol during elections which resulted in the mirth”, or another of that irrepressible raconteur Asked what ducdame means, he quip its a forceful introduction of the total prohibition Bill in the Assembly MrMulliner’s innumerable, problem-stricken (VikasDatta is an Associate Editor at IANS. Greek invocation to summon all fools into a The views expressed are personal. due to the pressure from the church bodies and the women groups. relatives in “Portrait of a Disciplinarian” (of circle. Those who were in the ruling party those days still point their fin- “Meet MrMulliner”), who ruminates that he had Being melancholic is not just an adult trend -- He can be contacted at [email protected]) gers to the then opposition of playing a big hand in the NLTP Act. Also, at one point some new radical group like the Naga Youth Liberation Front also was in the scene for a short while. Whether the storm was still brewing within or was hastened by the calls of reformation and revolution, the Nagas instead faced the worst case of tribalism starting from the nineties. It seemed that along with Expressive Writing May Keep Stress at Bay the call for change the sermons for bettering one’s own especially o you get worried, stressed and trying to monitor and suppress work less hard on upcoming stressful curacy and reaction times. the tribe may have happened in almost all the nooks and corners and anxious when your boss your worries at the same time tasks, which is what worriers often get Before the task, about half of the of the state. The rise of so many associations and unions and those entrusts a task to you? There “Our findings show that if you get ‘burned out’ over, their worried minds participants wrote about their deepest groups locally christened as Common Platforms, for reforming and is, however, a way to han- these worries out of your head through working harder and hotter,” added Jas- thoughts and feelings about the upcom- revolutionising the state was the breeding ground of segmentation D dle the task efficiently without placing expressive writing, those cognitive re- on Moser, Associate Professor at MSU. ing task for eight minutes; the other and divisions. The church was also not left far behind. Nepotism yourself under undue stress. sources are freed up to work toward the “This technique takes the edge off half, in the control condition, wrote therefore finally became a virtue, the one evil that is strangling the Expressing your feelings on a sheet task you’re completing and you become their brains so they can perform the task about what they did the day before. Naga society slowly. The split of the Naga Political Groups into of paper can cool your brain and help more efficient,” said lead author Hans with a ‘cooler head’,” Moser explained. While the two groups performed so many factions is therefore not be a big surprise as the public you perform the stress-inducing task Schroder, doctoral student at Michigan For the study, published in the at about the same level for speed and themselves are so divided. Therefore it may be concluded that ei- more efficiently, finds a study. State University (MSU). journal Psychophysiology, college stu- accuracy, the expressive-writing group ther the preachers of the eighties though were correct their mission According to researchers, worrying Previous research has shown that dents identified as chronically anxious performed the flanker task more effi- got hijacked. It may also be concluded that the preachers then had takes up cognitive resources. Due to expressive writing can help individuals through a validated screening measure ciently, meaning they used fewer brain a rough idea of a goal but not a roadmap. It might also be that the worrying, you are constantly multi- process past traumas or stressful events. completed a computer-based “flanker resources. some were even misled by men with greater influence. So the call tasking because you are doing one task “Expressive writing makes the mind task” that measured their response ac- Source: IANS for change, reformation or revolution still exists today but except for the benefits of the new technologies and development brought about with the advancement in the world the Naga society seems yet to find the true meaning of change, a change from within. It has ReadeRs’ Mirror Views & reViews become all the more pertinent for the public especially the silent majority to be taught how to logically analyse the many preachers of change that exists in the society at present. Pangsha Public Expresses Appreciation to the 15 AR Personnel at ITC Dan Phangsa on behalf of the Pangsha would tense situation within the locality. positive concern for the public will any sources. The public of Pangsha like to acknowledge the 15 AR Despite the exchange of firing help build more stronger relation- therefore, appeal both security and personnel and the responsible the 15 AR Personnel were apprehen- ships between the security and the faction groups to maintain peace I authority for the considerate sive for protection and safety of the public. and tranquillity within the locality in DAILY action during the incident where public by guiding and helping safe The ITC Dan being the livelihood near future. NSCN(K) attacked the 15 AR at ITC passage during worst situations. The resources for the public and the bor- P. Shingnya Dan Pangsha on 11/09/17 where 3 good gesture shown is acknowledged dering states public movement and Chairman PATH security jawans were injured creating by the public of the Pangsha and the economy should not be hampered by Village Council New Pangsha Suggestion for Renaming Govt. High School Changki Watch the Conductor read, on the 15th Sept, 2017 instant, in the already honoured my late father by proposing Anniversary, I should think that making his laudable Eastern Mirror, that the Naga- that a Sports Stadium there be named after my fa- birthday (28th January) a ‘red letter’ day in the BiBle ReaD: Hebrews 12:1–3 land State School Education Department ther. The authorities of Impur at least had the de- Govt. of Nagaland’s official calendar and name ThoughT foR ToDay: (NSSED) has proposed to re-name the cency to request my mother, Mrs.TAo (widow of it “Dr.T.Ao Day” or “Naga Youth Day”, should Let us run with perseverance the race marked out Govt. High School, Changki, Mokokc- Dr.T.Ao) for that honour. My mother gave them suffice. It won’t cost the Nagaland Govt. any- hungI after my father, (late) Dr.T.Ao. It is indeed the permission to do so, with her blessings, but it thing over the margin. for us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and commendable that such honour should be be- has yet to materialise due to financial constraints. However, let the NSSED do as it deems fit perfecter of faith. stowed. However, if the said department did a We are not the public, per se, but Dr.T.Ao’s and proper. ~ Hebrews 12:1–2 little research, I believe that that honour should own flesh and blood and are not objecting to the And in the observation of the witty, honour- be given to my ‘Abazumba’ NoksangyubaN- said proposal. But I believe that credit should be able and insightful ‘uncle’ Thepfulouvie Solo ingdangri. While in service, it was he who was given where it is due. And that the said Govt. (rtd.IFS) : I hope that I have not over-dosed or pivotal in establishing the said High School in High School should be named after my ‘Aba- under-dosed but have given the right dose. Changki. zumba’, the late Noksangyuba. If the NSSED A. Tally, The Impur Mission Centre, Mokokchung, has wishes to commemorate my father’s 100th Birth Late Dr.T.Ao’s son Naga Indigenous: Minority-in-Waiting Generation ... continued from previous issue cils, church and community buildings. I should say children, if we stop recruiting Miya adults in national Census India 2011 data revealed an increase of the key is in your hands. If you foresee the dangerous service, if we stop Miya Dada Act, if we stop employ- 24% Muslim population in the country. One of the minority-in-waiting generation, kindly insist on the ing them and most importantly if we stop sheltering suspected reasons of the abnormal growth rate of must-have documents. Many forgery cases have been them. The US, UK and European Governments had 24% could be due to continuous inflow of illegal im- detected in the past, therefore, please take trouble to announced years back that the landlords as well as em- orld-renowned violinist, Joshua Bell, has an unusual way migrants. Particularly in Assam state, about 10 to 12 cross-check with the issuing authority for authentica- ployers of illegal immigrants will be equally booked tion. A responsible house owner wouldn’t shelter un- for violation of Law. Present day Nagaland Govern- of leading the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, a forty- districts have been covered by Bangla speaking peo- ple. Census 2011 reported that out of 27 districts, 8 of lawful non-Naga tenants. You could be the best player ment is confined to political fight. They concentrate Wfour-member chamber orchestra. Instead of waving a ba- these districts registered a rise in the decadal popula- once the residential and commercial buildings are only on party affairs, money and power. Nagaland is ton he directs while playing his Stradivarius with the other violinists. tion growth rate ranging from 20% to 24%. The popu- withdrawn from illegal immigrants. Can our Govern- sold at few hundred bucks by police personnel man- Bell told Colorado Public Radio, “Even while I’m playing I can give lation growth of 24% is much higher than the national ment suggest the building owners on what documents ning check gates. Many officers heading department to insist? considers tribal line more important than future Naga them all kinds of direction and signals that I think only they would average of 18%. When we compare the length and breadth of It is time for Nagaland to swallow the truth no interests. HOHOs are not playing their expected understand at this point. They know by every little dip in my violin, Assam state with that of Nagaland, a tiny state like matter how sweet or bitter the pill is. Government’s roles. Tribal fights are no less with public leaders and or raise in my eyebrow, or the way I draw the bow. They know the ours would be swallowed in no time. Manipur and tortoise act on illegal immigrants issue shows how ig- NGOs. The last time we saw in the media about the sound I’m looking for from the entire orchestra.” Meghalaya wish to come on the same scale but they norant and irresponsible the ruling government could illegal immigrants issue was when only the NSF & be. How many times should the NSF & CNTC appeal NTC raised concerns but no follow-up was noticed Just as the orchestra members watch Joshua Bell, the Bible in- are not as fortunate as Nagaland, Mizoram and Aru- nachal Pradesh. We are protected by Law, the BEFR to your ministry? How many times do the pressure thereafter. We really need Naga unity rather than structs us to keep our eyes on Jesus our Lord. After listing many Act 1783 and so the RAP & ILP applies. Inspite of groups like Survival Nagaland submit representation tribal card to fight this battle. History revealed that heroes of the faith in Hebrews 11, the writer says, “Therefore, since being equipped with tools such as these, it is so sad and meet Government functionaries especially in the Indian rulers were not united during the 18th century. we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw that Nagaland Government cannot even protect the last few years? Have you even given a thought on SN’s This was one of the factors responsible for showing appeal to bring in Dimapur district under ILP? Now a bad signal to the world that our country was weak off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And land and its people. We talk about the electoral roll of first Nagaland assembly election prepared in 1963 that India considers Rohingya crisis as a threat to na- and the foreign traders eventually took over India. At let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, fixing our as a base where the descendants of those enrolled are tional security, what will happen to ‘No ILP Zone Di- this pace, doomsday is eminent and the Indigenous eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith” (Heb. 12:1–2). considered legal citizens. We never know how many mapur’? Is it really necessary to spoon feed our Gov- Nagas are the Minority-in-waiting. A land fertile for Jesus promised, “I am with you always, to the very end of the manipulated descendants have increased by now ernment and beg for intervention on alarming issue the illegal immigrants to set up base and annihilate plaguing the state? Can we at least follow Ministry the indigenous population who will finally end up a age” (Matt. 28:20). Because He is, we have the amazing privilege of through affidavit papers; remember illegal people are wiser than we are. I mean the level of preparedness. of Home Affairs’ August 13, 2017 directive “to set minority in their own land. Is this the future we want keeping our eyes on Him while He conducts the music of our lives. To rent out space and buildings, landlords prefer up a task force at district level to identify and deport to leave behind for posterity? illegally-staying foreign nationals”? Concluded Lord, our eyes look to You this day so we may follow Your direc- Miyas over Nagas. I understand our people’s short- comings (Naga tenants) but still blood is thicker than I personally believe triumph over Flush Out Mis- tion and live in harmony with You. sion would be a reality only if the Government starts Vikali Shikhu water. Buildings mostly belong to politicians, officers, Unity Village, Dimapur contractors, public leaders, Municipal & Town Coun- immediate intervention, if we stop adopting Miya Let us keep our eyes on Jesus our Savior as He directs our lives. The contents of articles in this page do not necessarily reflect the Editorial view or policy of the paper. EastErn Mirror | Dimapur, Monday, September 18, 2017 7 Mithun in Nagaland –A Comparison With Arunachal Mithun ithun is consider as the “Cattle on free choice basis and providing them salt/ 2) poll (in head): Poll is less prominent Comparision of livestock Census: As per Due to practising of jhum cultivation in some of Mountain” as they are reared other food once in a week or in a month or in Naga Mithun (Nagami) while poll is more 2003 census, Arunachal has a Mithun popu- part of Nagaland resulting in deforestation mostly by mountain living peo- after every 2/3/4 months interval. prominent in Arunachali Mithun. lation of 184343, as per 2007 it was 218931 where animal’s freedom and habitat are de- Mple and also the animal adapted Mithun, Bos frontalis, is known to be ‘the 3) body conformation: Head is broader while in 2012, it was 249000. As per 2003 stroyed. 3) Due to some nutritional deficiency quite well in mountainous type of around 500- pride of Nagaland’. Mithun also called as and less stumpy in Nagami, whereas Aru- census, Nagaland has a Mithun population of occurrence unattended or not known by the 3000 mm above sea level. Mithun plays a very Nagami by some people and BUICHANG/ nachali (Mithun) is short and stumpy. 40452, as per 2007 census it was 33385 while rearer. vital role in the income of farmers as well in BUICHIU by the Zeliang tribe. Nagaland has The similarities of Mithun in nagaland in 2012, it was is 34871. Why is the popula- Therefore, improvement in the population the social & cultural lifestyle of the people. For the 2nd highest Mithun population in India with that of Arunachal are:- tion of Mithun (Nagami) in Nagaland declin- of Mithun in Nagaland can be achieved by en- some, Mithun serves as the daily livelihood to as per livestock census 2012 which is next to 1) Rearing and feeding system which is ing from 2003 -2012 (though a bit increase couraging the rearer, by replacing Jhum cul- survive & brings their family to stability. Arunachal. mostly free range system, so Mithun feed on from 2007 to 2012), though most of the rear- tivation with some other forms of cultivation, In Arunachal, Mithun are used in ritual The differences of Mithun in nagaland free choice basis. ing, controlling and feeding system is similar encouraging more people to rear Mithun, and also in marriage. Both for Nagaland & with that of Arunachal are:- 2) Controlling of Mithun: Either by ty- with that of Arunachal (which is increasing in proper diseases control and vaccination. Arunachal, Mithun serves as a vital role in 1) Coat colour: In Nagaland, most pre- ing rope on their nose or neck or head (tying Mithun population)? Kekungwi Newmai, 5th Semester the life of the people.The rearing system of dominantly found colour coat are black or horn). The possible reasons for the decline can College of Veterinary Sciences & Mithun by most people of Nagaland & Aru- black-brown while in Arunachal white patch- 3) Slaughtering system: Mostly by gun or be: 1) Due to some disease occurrence or can Animal Husbandry nachal in traditional way are similar as Mit- es on body coat are commonly found. by spear or by Dao. be due to some injury left unattended by the hun are let loose in the forest letting them fed rearer since it is reared in free range system. 2) Aizawl, Mizoram. Commuting By Subway? What You Need to Know About Air Quality

air had higher levels of air pollu- particulate matter is sourced from viruses), and air from the outdoors, open the windows, such as in Ath- Fulvio Amato, Teresa Moreno | The Conversation tion than in trams or walking in the moving train parts such as wheels and driven through the tunnel sys- ens, concentrations can be shown our more major Indian in reducing outdoor air pollution street, but slightly lower than those and brake pads, as well as from the tem on turbulent air currents gen- generally to increase inside the train cities will soon have their in large metropolises by helping to in buses. Similar lower values for steel rails and power-supply materi- erated by the trains themselves and when passing through tunnels and own metro lines, the coun- reduce motor-vehicle use. subway environments compared to als, making the particles dominant- ventilation systems. more specifically when the train en- try’s government has an- Large amounts of breathable other public transport modes have ly iron-containing. Comparing platforms ters the tunnel at high speed. F been demonstrated by studies in To date, there is no clear epi- nounced. On the other side of the particles (particulate matter, or Monitoring stations Himalayas, Shanghai is building PM) and nitrogen dioxide (NO2), Hong Kong, Mexico City, Istanbul demiological indication of abnor- The most extensive measurement its 14th subway line, set to open in produced in part by industrial emis- and Santiago de Chile. mal health effects on underground programme on subway platforms Although there are no existing le- 2020, adding 38.5 km and 32 sta- sions and road traffic, are responsi- of wheels and brakes workers and commuters. New York to date has been carried out in the gal controls on air quality in the tions to the world’s largest subway ble for shortening the lifespans of subway workers have been exposed Barcelona subway system, where subway environment, research network. And New Yorkers can city dwellers. Public transportation Such differences have been attrib- to such air without significant ob- 30 stations with differing designs should be moving towards realis- finally enjoy their Second Avenue systems such as subways have thus uted to different wheel materials served impacts on their health, and were studied under the frame of tic methods of mitigating particle Subway line after waiting for al- seemed like a solution to reduce air and braking mechanisms, as well no increased risk of lung cancer IMPROVE LIFE project with ad- pollution. Our experience in the most 100 years for it to arrive. pollution in the urban environment. as to variations in ventilation and was found among subway train ditional support from the AXA Re- Barcelona subway system, with its In Europe alone, commuters But what is the air like that we air conditioning systems, but may drivers in the Stockholm subway search Fund. considerable range of different sta- in more than 60 cities use rail sub- breathe underground, on the rail also relate to differences in meas- system. It reveals substantial variations tion designs and operating ventila- ways. Internationally, more than platforms and inside trains? urement campaign protocols and But a note of caution is struck in particle-matter concentrations. tion systems, is that each platform 120 million people commute by choice of sampling sites. by the observations of scholars The stations with just a single tun- has its own specific atmospheric them every day. We count around Mixed air quality Key factors influencing subway who found that employees working nel with one rail track separated micro environment. on the platforms of Stockholm un- 4.8 million riders per day in Lon- Over the last decade, several pio- air pollution will include station from the platform by glass barrier To design solutions, one will derground, where PM concentra- don, 5.3 million in Paris, 6.8 mil- neering studies have monitored depth, date of construction, type systems showed on average half need to take into account local con- tions were greatest, tended to have lion in Tokyo, 9.7 million in Mos- subway air quality across a range of ventilation (natural/air condi- the concentration of such particles ditions of each station. Only then higher levels of risk markers for cow and 10 million in Beijing. of cities in Europe, Asia and the tioning), types of brakes (electro- in comparison with conventional can researchers assess the influ- cardiovascular disease than ticket Subways are vital for commut- Americas. The database is incom- magnetic or conventional brake stations, which have no barrier be- ences of pollution generated from sellers and train drivers. ing in crowded cities, something plete, but is growing and is already pads) and wheels (rubber or steel) tween the platform and tracks. The moving train parts. The dominantly ferrous parti- that will become more and more valuable.For example, comparing used on the trains, train frequency use of air-conditioning has been Such research is still growing cles are mixed with particles from important over time – according to air quality on subway, bus, tram and more recently the presence or shown to produce lower particle- and will increase as subway operat- a range of other sources, including a United Nations 2014 report, half and walking journeys from the absence of platform screen-door matter concentrations inside car- ing companies are now more aware rock ballast from the track, biologi- of the world’s population is now same origin to the same destination systems. riages. about how cleaner air leads directly cal aerosols (such as bacteria and urban. They can also play a part in Barcelona, revealed that subway In particular, much subway In trains where it is possible to to better health for city commuters.

ReadeRs’ Mirror Views & reViews The Naga Council Dimapur’s Assets,(Whom Does it Belong to Anyway?) t may sound like a dark sarcasm but rooms to non- Nagas has been taken by a many young Nagas have started feeling that workshops on right livelihood earning or water bodies in the hearts of the Dimapur it’s the truth. The only place the Naga lot of young Nagas that NCD is the chief the present mess they are in is not of their opening employment avenues at local level, town like the pond near the East Police Sta- Council Dimapur (NCD) has a place propagator and patroniser of the outsiders creation but has been created by the lead- opening up skill development centers for tion, adjacent to the Zeme Baptist Church Ifor the Nagas is after their death and and doesn’t give a hoot for the indigenous ers and elders. Most young Nagas feel be- young school and college drops outs and yes, and the Hazi Park Pond for more construc- that place is the Old Naga Cemetery. This Naga youths. The two actions of the NCD trayed and consider themselves a generation giving out its premises to our young Nagas tion purposes. Infact the NCD should have line of dark joke goes along with one of the have made every Nagas started questioning wronged; and waiting for a change, which who are our own children. Aren’t you their developed these water bodies to beautify many comments by one angry youth over on its image and credibility. The NCD, as seems to be so elusive still at present. parents? Isn’t it your bounden duty to look the town as well as create atleast as a sort the growing resentment and bitterness gath- an organization, was looked upon by every On the allotment of all the rooms to after the plight of our own children when of a recreational parks for the denizens of ering in momentum on this organisation. Nagas and other non- Naga organizations non- Nagas, the NCD may have its own rea- they are in distress? Or should we look the Dimapur since it doesn’t have any sort of Scores of countless outbursts have been too alike as one apex umbrella organiza- son for doing so but it has sent a very wrong other way when a hefty amount of money such facilities except for the two little film thrown out by the younger lot all over the tion in the cosmopolitan town of Dimapur. message to many unemployed youths and comes our way? Isn’t it the bounden duty of halls and the famous Mela Bazaars where social media during the last few days on the It was one few remaining respected apex young Naga entrepreneurs who find no ac- any dutiful parent to uplift and uphold our ear-piercing blaring loudspeakers that comes NCD’s room allocation of their new build- body consisting of Nagas from every bloc, commodation here in our own land that own children’s welfare rather than strangers’ along with it. NCD should focus more on ing at the Nyamo Lotha Road Dimapur. union or federation. Until recently it pub- we call our own. From some unconfirmed well-being just to earn some more cash? As welfare duties for the Dimapurians rather Flooded with questions like, “Is the NCD licly came out with its decision to boycott sources, it was said the NCD took an ad- leaders, we need to walk the extra mile and than becoming more like a construction truly for the Nagas? What work has it done the ACAUT Rally on the 25th August at the vance amount for the construction of the go any distance where the government can- firm or real estate agents which is more in- for the young Nagas so far? Are they to serve Supermarket – Market Dimapur. That was building so it had no choice but to allot the not reach out. Reaching out to the masses terested in building shopping complexes to or just to make some money at the cost of when the tinder box was scratched. Declar- rooms to them. But then again questions are and bringing solutions to the ever emerging mint more money and garner more revenues the Nagas? Do the members of the NCD ing their unwillingness to join the movement being asked like whether the money paid by concerns around us and confronting our for itself. Dimapur with such narrow con- have any fore-thoughts or after-thoughts against corruption in the public domain set we Nagas are different from other’s money? everyday life should be our priority as lead- gested roads, they should have atleast build about our young Nagas and their plight? the windmill of queries churning which There are many national and commercial ers. If not, our motive as leaders is question- a parking lot for the shoppers and motorists. Does the NCD know why extortions and snowballed into a myriad of analysis which banks also that are ready to dole out any able and people have every right to cast their Everywhere around Dimapur, one of the anti-social acts among the huge unemployed left many scrutinizing into their motive of amount to an organization like the NCD for doubts the reason why we are sitting on the most common thing we see is the sign of Naga youths are on the rise? Does the NCD the boycott call, especially by thousands of construction purposes in a prime location chairs and enjoying the privileges. The NCD ‘No Parking’ or ‘Parking Only for Custom- know or care atleast even a bit about the the young Nagas. What matter of internal like the present one. Nagas at the same time if it wants to win back the hearts of the young ers’ on every side of the road. In the ever growing rate of unemployment among the discord or personal dispute might have pre- must also introspect why all commercial Nagas, they should do some soul-searching busy traffic-jam area like that of the Nyamo Nagas and is any step taken by them as a vailed amongst the NCD or ACAUT mem- spaces and business complexes are preferred .It is not only the district administration and Lotha Road, the NCD should have better remedial measures being a mass based or- bers, why go public in boycotting the rally? to be given to non- Nagas by owners or or- the police who should do the round the clock build a Parking Lot in the ground floor so as ganisation?” etc. etc. seems to be floating all That seems to be the question of the mo- ganisations. Maybe it is our attitude and the vigil, but the NCD should question its own to relieve the public by easing the congestion around in the minds and mouths of many ment. An avalanche of questions came roll- style of dealing with others that make others conscience why things like fuel adulteration, and at the same time earn revenue from the young Nagas. The NCD must realize that ing down in the likes of “Was it to demoral- not wanting to let out their premises. Most rice scam were taking place under their very parking tax. Or doesn’t the NCD, compris- the young Nagas are no longer naïve, dumb, ize, discourage and dishearten the ACAUT? common ones are the non-payment of rents nose when it could have acted like a Watch- ing of seasoned and elderly leaders, sees this blind to all the going-ons in their land as in Or just to dampen the people’s desire for in time, khushi-khushi- style, delay in clear- dog and could have prevented to atleast town in dire need or drastic requirement of the past. What our elders and leaders do a change? Can the NCD call a rally where ing dues, start acting like the malik after some extent in Dimapur. Maybe the scant a parking lot by any means? Many would from behind, they want it to be laid on the they can match the number that attended the being given the space etc. The reasons are regard of its existence didn’t bother the anti- like to see them more welfare oriented, fu- table and serve it hot and fresh. Things are rally? Forget about half, even a quarter of aplenty which are obvious to all of us. Even socials but made some ‘famous’ citizens of ture oriented and community friendly rather altogether different these days. the number?” Their boycott call and making if it is given to us, we sublet it to others and Dimapur to carry out those broad daylight than money oriented. The NCD, as a mass-based organization, it public about it sure didn’t go well with the to earn some extra money. The best exam- robberies for so long. Had the NCD acted in The writer does not have any personal was held in high esteem and was a respected Naga populace, both young and old alike. ples are the DMC Millennium Building and all its fatherly figure, acted as a guardian of grudge against the NCD but as a concerned one until recently. The aura it once held has They should have rather maintained their the Naga Shopping Arcade more popularly the town, maybe such scheming and under- citizen is voicing out as one of many voices dimmed recently by its boycott call on the dignified silence. Even the boycott of the known as the Super- Market. So at the same hand dealings in this town could have been of our young Nagas and wishes the NCD ACAUT Rally. As if the dent on its image ACAUT rally too seems to have not been time, it will be wise to look at the both sides controlled atleast to some extend even if not make good start again and start acting like was not enough, the latest allotment of all its received well by some units as they were not of the coin. all. But when we want to bask in the sun and the dutiful father and a faithful guardian of new building rooms to non – Nagas, a pleth- taken in confidence about its decision ac- NCD can do a lot better than what enjoy only the fruits on our trees outside, Dimapur. Otherwise it will be like one of the ora of negative vibes and much ire has been cording to some reliable sources. they are doing at present. Many would like things inside our homes start getting chaotic, many redundant, obsolete and the irrelevant spilled over the NCD by hundreds of Naga Many have started casting doubts upon to see the NCD doing some humanitarian disordered and rotten. With so many assets organisations which have filled Nagaland youngsters. They could have atleast done a the credibility and integrity of the NCD works besides the others social works they and ample revenue in its hand it is not too and that people have scant regard of their 50-50 share of allotment for Nagas and non- after this incident. Nagas no matter from undertake around the cosmopolitan town late for the NCD to bring some positivity for existence no matter how much they try to Nagas. In this way everybody could have what background or profession one maybe of ours like repairing of potholes, standing the denizens. prove themselves to be worthy. been well satisfied. The allotment of all the ,are ready to support a good cause today as up against unabated extortion, organizing The NCD has filled up the only two Jonah Achumi

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The contents of articles on this page do not necessarily reflect the Editoral view or policy of the paper EastErn Mirror | Dimapur, Monday, September 18, 2017 8 nation Nation pays homage On his 67th birthday, Modi dedicates BJP’s Alwar MP Mahant Chand Narmada dam to the nation Nath loses fight with cancer at 61 Jaipur/New Delhi/Ro- departed soul. Earlier, his to Marshal Arjan singh htak, Sep. 17 (PTI): BJP body was kept at the Math MP from Alwar Mahant to enable people to pay their New Delhi, Sep. 17 (PTI): Square near Naraina in the mense contribution as the Chand Nath, who was bat- last respects. President Ram Nath Kovind national capital. All three Air Chief during the 1965 tling an “aggressive thyroid On September 13, Nath and Prime Minister Naren- service chiefs and many top India-Pakistan war, the first cancer”, passed away at a was brought to the Apollo dra Modi led the nation functionaries of the govern- major air battle of the IAF Delhi hospital in the early Hospital in New Delhi in a today in paying tributes to ment are expected to attend after independence. hours today. “very bad shape”, according Marshal of the Indian Air the funeral. “It was to his credit that Nath, head of the Baba to a senior doctor. Force Arjan Singh, the hero Earlier President Ram despite initial setbacks, we Mastnath Math in Rohtak, “He was battling an ag- of 1965 India-Pakistan war Nath Kovind, who is also were able to overcome and was laid to rest in Samadhi gressive thyroid cancer for and one of the country’s the supreme commander overwhelm the enemy and at the Math premises with the last two-and-a-half years. legendary fighters. of the armed forces, visited spoil their design to annex full state honours. He was He had already undergone Modi drove straight to Singh’s 7, Kautilya Marg Jammu and Kashmir,” Air 61. chemotherapy and radio- Singh’s residence in the na- residence. Chief Marshal Dhanoa told Prime Minister Naren- therapy and was undergoing tional capital on his return The three service chiefs reporters. dra Modi condoled his immunotherapy,” the doctor from a day-long visit to Gu- --Air Chief Marshal Bi- Arjan Singh’s daughter, death. told PTI. jarat, and paid his respects render Singh Dhanoa, Naval Asha Singh, and other mem- “Saddened by the de- The doctor said that to Singh, the only Air Force chief Admiral Sunil Lanba, bers of the family, including mise of LS MP from Alwar, Nath survived longer only officer to have been accorded Army Chief General Bipin his niece and actor Mandira Mahant Chand Nath ji. He because he was “mentally the five-star rank. Rawat -- as well as Minister Bedi, were present at the of- AP/PTI will be remembered for his tough” and “very positive”. The prime minister also of State Housing and Urban ficer’s residence, where his Prime Minister Narendra Modi offers prayers to Narmada River during the inauguration of Sardar Sarovar rich social work. My deep- “His cancer was ag- wrote a message of condo- Affairs, Hardeep Puri were mortal remains lay in state. Dam at Kevadiya in Narmada district on Sunday. est condolences,” Modi said gressive in 2015 only. It lence at Singh’s residence also present. His son Arvind Singh is in a tweet. just tore through his body and interacted with his fam- Among other dignitaries expected to arrive later this Kevadia (Gujarat), Sep 17 (PTI) Prime less than a week after he hosted Japanese Haryana Chief Minister, but his toughness made ily members. who were seen streaming in evening from Arizona, US. Minister Narendra Modi today dedicated to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in the state and Manohar Lal Khattar and him battle it for much “My tributes to the brave were Union Finance Min- The tricolour will fly at the nation the Sardar Sarovar Dam, almost launched the bullet train project. his Uttar Pradesh and Rajas- longer,” he said. soldier who had a fighter’s ister Arun Jaitley, MoS for half mast at all government 56 years after its foundation stone was laid. Earlier, the Prime Minister had stressed than counterparts Yogi Adit- Nath had won the Alwar qualities of valour and cour- External Affairs and former buildings in the national cap- Modi, who turned 67 today, unveiled that the project will start a new chapter of yanath and Vasundhra Raje, seat in the 2014 Lok Sabha tesy. His life was dedicated Army chief V K Singh, ital tomorrow in the honour the plaque dedicating the dam to the nation, prosperity for Gujarat. were present when Nath was polls defeating former Un- to Mother India,” Modi former defence minister A of the military legend.The after performing a puja at the site here in the Chief Minister Vijay Rupani had called laid to rest in Rohtak. ion minister Jitendra Singh, wrote in Gujarati in his mes- K Antony and Congress MP IAF patriarch will be given Narmada district. the project as “Gujarat’s lifeline”, noting that Thousands of Nath’s who was the Congress can- sage in the condolence book Karan Singh. a state funeral at 9.30 am Union minister Nitin Gadkari, Gujarat the agricultural income and production by followers paid tributes to the didate. at Singh’s residence. Former Indian Air Force tomorrow at Brar Square, Chief Minister Vijay Rupani were among farmers in the state had more than doubled Defence Minister Nir- (IAF) chiefs S P Tyagi, N C Sitharaman told reporters. the dignitaries present on the occasion. because of it. mala Sitharaman said Singh Suri and Anil Y Tipnis as The gun carriage with The dam on the river Narmada has been The delay in the completion of the News iN Brief will be accorded a state fu- also several decorated offic- mortal remains of Singh described as ‘Gujarat’s lifeline’ by the BJP dam was due to numerous reasons. Medha neral, and if weather per- ers who served under Arjan will leave his residence at leaders. Patkar-led Narmada Bachao Andolan took Nothing political should be read mits, a flypast by military Singh during the 1965 war 8.30 am. The foundation stone of the dam was the government to the Supreme Court over into Aaditya-Amit’s meet:Sena aircraft will be given to him. were present. Arjan Singh’s family has laid on April 5, 1961 by the country’s first environmental and rehabilitation issues, and Mumbai, Sep. 17 (PTI): A day after Yuva Sena She said he had played a piv- Army Chief General also planned a ritual for the prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru. obtained a stay in 1996. chief Aaditya Thackeray and his estranged uncle otal role in transforming the Bipin Rawat described the funeral. However, it took 56 years to finally com- The court allowed resumption of work Raj Thackeray’s son, Amit were seen together at a IAF into one of the leading five-star ranking officer as “a An icon of India’s mil- plete its construction due to court cases and in October 2000. programme here, the Shiv Sena today sought to play air forces in the world. legend, an icon, a pilot-chief itary history, 98-year-old protests by the affected villagers. The height of the dam was recently down their coming together. The photographs of Sitharaman said the state who led from the front and Singh breathed his last at Modi’s visit, which has added sig- raised to 138.68 metres, which will allow yesterday’s meeting of Aaditya, son of Shiv Sena chief funeral will be held from a philanthropist to the core”. an Army hospital here yes- nificance as assembly elections are due in maximum ‘usable storage’ of 4.73 million Uddhav Thackeray, and Amit went viral amid a buzz 9:30 am onwards at Brar He recalled Singh’s im- terday. Gujarat by the year-end, is the second in acre feet of water. that the two engaged in some political talks. The Shiv Sena in a statement clarified that Aaditya had gone to attend a programme where Amit was also present. “Aaditya’s appointment was sought by organisers of a Facing child abuse, bad touch? Meaningless to talk to Pakistan until sports event, as he is a chairman of Mumbai District Turn to NCERT books’ back page Football Association. it stops aiding terrorism —Rajnath Four children, including three New Delhi, Sep. 17 (PTI): he said. Nizamabad (Tel), Sep. 17 (PTI): ceasefire agreements. world can weaken India,” he said. Amid rising cases of abuse of “So from the next session, Union Home Minister Rajnath “It started sending terrorists into The period between August 15, girls, drown in pond children, the NCERT wants the the inner side of the back cover Singh today ruled out talks with our country. It violates ceasefire 1947 and September 17, 1948 was “a Mahrajganj (UP), Sep. 17(PTI): Four children, students to recognise the differ- of all NCERT books will have Pakistan until it stops aiding cross- agreements. I want to assure you black chapter in the Indian history” including three girls, drowned while taking a bath in ence between ‘good touch’ and certain guidelines in easily com- border terrorism aimed at destabilis- that we will end terrorism, extrem- as some parts (of present-day Telan- a pond near Kuwadhari village here the, the police ‘bad touch’ and look up to their prehensible language. It will also ing India. ism and Naxalism too,” he asserted. gana, Maharashtra and Karnataka) said. The deceased have been identified as Sabeena books to know what they should have certain illustrations about Speaking at a public meeting The situation on the border remained under Nizam’s rule even (10), Rubeena (10), Ruksar (10) and Arman (8), do if they face abuse. good touch and bad touch,” he here as part of Telangana Liberation has changed as India began giving after India’s Independence, he said. Superintendent of Police R P Singh said. “The incident The National Council of told PTI. Day celebrations, Singh said India befitting reply to the enemy, which While Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel took place this afternoon, when the children had gone to Education Research and Train- There will be helpline num- has a policy of maintaining cordial has “set an example in country’s achieved political unification of the take a bath in the pond,” he said. Bodies of all the four ing, which suggests the Centre bers where students or parents relations with neighbours. history”, Singh said. country, Dr. B R Ambedkar achieved children were fished out with the help of villagers and and state governments on school can report such cases or seek “Some people suggest that we Recalling an incident where five social and constitutional unity, he police officials, Singh added. curriculum and text books, has any help or counselling. There should engage in dialogue with Indian civilians were killed in cross- said. He said the BJP-led NDA said all its books from the next will be a brief about the Protec- Pakistan. I would like to say that border firing by Pakistan, the home government has zero tolerance for session will carry a list of dos to tion of Children Against Sexual we are ready to talk to anyone. But minister said he had a conversation corruption and there was not a single Two arrested for kidnapping 11-yr deal with such cases. Offences (POCSO) Act and Pakistan is unable to understand this with a top official of the Border Se- such allegation against it. old for ransom It will also have certain hel- NCPCR, he added. thing, till Pakistan does not stop its curity Force in 2014 where he asked He also hailed Prime Minister Ghaziabad, Sep. 17 (PTI): Two persons have been pline numbers, brief about the The move comes in the attempts to destabilise and weaken the official to act tough on intruders Modi as a pro-poor leader. arrested for allegedly kidnapping a 11-year-old boy for Rs POCSO Act and the National backdrop of concerns about the India by encouraging cross-border and Pakistan’s anti-India activities. The people of the country would 10 lakh ransom earlier this month, the police said today. Commission for Protection of safety of students in the wake of terrorism, holdings talks with it has “I told the BSF DG not to show never forget September 17 as it hap- They were arrested from the Bhopura intersection here Child Rights (NCPCR). killing of a seven-year-old boy no meaning.” He also referred to the ‘white flag’ (signal for talks) next pens to be Modi’s birthday, and also last night after an encounter in which a police officer and N C E R T D i r e c t o r on a private school campus in oath-taking ceremony of the Modi time but give them a befitting reply.” the day when this region was liber- one of the accused was injured, Senior Superintendent of Hrushikesh Senapathy said the Gurgaon and the rape of a five- government in 2014, when premiers Singh also cautioned people ated (from the Nizam rule, in 1948), Police H N Singh said. The third person accused in the case Ministry of Child and Women year-old girl by a school peon of all neighbouring countries, includ- against those trying to divide the he said. managed to escape and a man hunt has been launched to Development had approached in Delhi. ing Pakistan, were invited. country on the basis of community, Speaking at the event, Minister nab him, the officer said. “Sunil, who was injured in the them with the suggestion and The CBSE had last week “The idea was that we wanted to caste and language. of State for Home Affairs Hansraj firing, has confessed to the crime. He and senior sub- “we have accepted it”. asked schools to conduct psy- build good relations with all of them. “Today, the (Telangana) Libera- Ahir paid tribute to Sardar Patel, say- inspector Jitender Singh have been hospitalised,” the Teachers do make an ef- chometric evaluation as well as We invited them not just for shaking tion Day, we have to take a pledge ing that because of him Telangana SSP said. The boy was kidnapped on September 7 for Rs fort to educate students to dif- police verification of their teach- hands, but to maintain cordial rela- that we will ensure that the country was merged into the Indian union. 10 lakh ransom and was rescued the following day. The ferentiate between ‘good and ing and non-teaching staff. tions,” the home minister said. will not be divided on the lines of But we will give it importance. accused then had managed to escape, Singh said. bad touch’, but they, as well as Union HRD Minister Pra- The government is determined community, caste and language. This is our duty. There is no politics parents, are often clueless about kash Javadekar had also sug- to stop all sorts of destabilising ac- Those who try to weaken the coun- in this. PM Narendra Modi has also what to do in such situations gested hiring women drivers for tivities in the country, he said, and try are anti-national forces. I want conveyed his wishes to you on this Woman, minor son found hanging in UP and where to report such cases, school buses. alleged that Pakistan is violating to assure you that no power in the day,” Ahir said. Lakhimpur Kheri, Sep. 17 (PTI): A 24-year-old woman and her minor son were found hanging in their hutment in Devipurwa village today, the police said. The deceased have been identified as Sudha and Vikas(2), they said. Rohingya Muslims: Don’t send us back, say the nowhere people Bhauraha police station in-charge Brijesh Tripathi said, “The woman and her son committed suicide. Family New Delhi, Sep. 17 (PTI): It worried about my brother and feud is said to be the reason behind the gruesome step was late one night in the summer his family because they haven’t taken by her.” Both the bodies have been sent for post- of 2012 that Noorul Islam’s life reached Bangladesh yet,” said mortem, the police official said. changed forever, sealing his fam- Abdul, who fled from Myanmar ily’s fate as refugees from Myan- nine years ago. School principal beaten to death; mar s Rakhine state. He said he is shocked by the Noorul was then just seven, but government s plan to deport cash, jewellery looted remembers in detail how militants them. “I would rather die here Bareilly, Sep. 17 (PTI): A school principal was allegedly attacked their home in Rakhine. than go back to my country beaten to death and his wife injured by around six people He also remembers their escape where people are facing atrocities who barged in their rented accommodation and fled with from death and the early days of and violence.” cash and jewellery, the police said today. SSP Bareily struggle in Bangladesh from where Hoping for some interven- Jogendra Kumar said, “At 2.30 am, around six people they were turned out and made tion, Shabeer, who works with the entered the rented accommodation in Nava Nagla where their way to India. Rohingyas Human Rights Initia- Subhash Chandra (45), a principal of a primary school “Our situation was really bad tive (ROHRIngya), has written a and his wife Shalini Gupta (40) were residing with their because my father didn’t have letter to External Affairs Minister three-year- old daughter.” “They beat up the couple and enough money to support us. We Sushma Swaraj. fled the spot after looting Rs 50,000 in cash and jewellery went hungry for days until we ar- “We wrote a letter to the for- worth Rs 10 lakh,” the SSP said. rived in India and my father started eign minister on August 23 and are selling fish to earn a living, he said, waiting for a reply. I want to ask the tears welling up at the memory. government here why they want to Miscreants hurl bomb at Utkal Noorul’s family is one of the deport us, he said. University campus 70 staying in a camp in Shaheen AP/PTI He speaks for thousands of Bhubaneswar, Sep. 17 (PTI): Miscreants today hurled Bagh, tucked away in a corner of Rohingya Muslim refugees of Myanmar offering prayers at a camp at Kelambakkam in Chennai. Stand alone feature on Rohingya other Rohingyas who dread the refugees as they try to lead their day to day lives. a crude bomb near a hostel in Utkal University campus south Delhi. prospect of being sent back from here ahead of students’ union election but nobody was They are the nowhere people, India. injured in the incident, police said. The miscreants fled the Rohingya Muslims, considered when he says he would never want me, said Sabikun Nahar. it difficult to make ends meet. But The government told Parlia- the spot after hurling the bomb, apparently after a scufle by the UN to be the most perse- to go back to his homeland. “They burnt our house and Nahar shudders at the thought of ment on August 9 that more than between two groups, police said. As a precautionary cuted minority in the world. For him, home is a small make- forced us to follow Buddhism. being sent back. 14,000 Rohingyas, registered with measure, prohibitory orders under Section 144 of CrPC There are about 1,200 Rohing- shift tent next to huge piles of We were even banned from “The situation has worsened the UNHCR, are at present staying have been imposed and security tightened in the area, a yas in the national capital, some in garbage and school is the nearby going to the local mosque and we since 2012. I want the whole world in India. senior police officer said. “The situation is now under Shaheen Bagh and the others in a government one in Jasola. were so scared that we wouldn t to support us. I wanted to call my However, activists estimate control and police personnel are maintaining a close vigil camp in Madanpur Khadar. “I am happy here and I love go- sleep at night, she said. parents who are now in Bangla- that around 40,000 Rohingyas are to prevent any further trouble,” he said. With hundreds of thousands of ing to school. I would never like to The 21-year-old had left her desh to Delhi but with the govern- living in India illegally, mostly in Rohingyas, mostly Muslims, being go back to my homeland because village in 2012 and moved to Bang- ment here thinking of deporting us Delhi-NCR, Jammu and Hydera- forced to flee from Rakhine this the military kills children there. I ladesh with her relatives. She lived how will I call them,” she asked. bad and parts of Haryana, Uttar 18,123 cases disposed off at Lok month and take refuge in Bang- want to request the government with her parents in the camp for a Constant worry -- about their Pradesh and Rajasthan. Adalat in Gautam Budh Nagar ladesh, their plight has hit global not to send us back to Myanmar,” year but extreme poverty and no present, their future and the well- Union minister of state for headlines. UN secretary general he said. employment avenues drove her being of their families in Myanmar home Kiren Rijiju had earlier said Greater Noida, Sep. 17 (PTI): As many as 18,123 cases Antonio Guterres has said the Ro- The others in the camp are to India. or in Bangladesh -- is the subtext of the Rohingyas were illegal immi- were disposed off at a National Lok Adalat held today hingya Muslims are facing a cata- equally fearful at the thought of In 2013, Nahar found herself all their lives. grants and stand to be deported. at various courts in the Gautam Buddha Nagar (GBN) strophic humanitarian situation. returning to the country that was in the Shaheen Bagh camp. Abdul Rahim, 35, who runs a Tomorrow, the Supreme Court district. District Legal Services Authority (DLSA) But those in India face their once their home. She is now married to Moham- small grocery shop in the camp and will hear a plea challenging the secretary Neelu Mainwal said that a these 18,123 cases own share of anxieties with the “I don’t want to live as a refu- med Zubair, 30, a fellow refugee in earns about Rs 300 a day, has been government’s decision to deport included 293 pre- litigation cases, 11,725 court matters government threatening to deport gee my whole life. But even if I the camp who works with an NGO desperately trying to get in touch illegal Rohingya Muslim immi- and 6,105 revenue court matters. According to Mainwal, them. think of going back to my village in the city. with his brother back home. grants back to Myanmar. 206 Negotiable Instruments Act cases were taken up All of 12, Noorul talks with the in Myanmar, those nightmarish He earns about Rs 12,000 “There are many relatives who Their future might well take and out of these 162 cases were disposed off with a wisdom of someone much older memories of military attacks haunt every month and the couple finds are still stuck in the country. I am another decisive turn tomorrow. settlement amount of Rs 2.01 crore. EastErn Mirror | Dimapur, Monday, September 18, 2017 WORLD 9 US says it will withdraw from Paris accord without more favorable terms Montreal, Sep. 17 (PTI/AFP: ment,” the European Union’s House spokeswoman Sarah Everyone agreed that the boosted by global warming. Change (COP23), in Bonn in cut to its emissions by 2030 The White House pushed back top climate official Miguel Arias Huckabee Sanders said in an environment and the economy Nearly 200 countries agreed November. -- will also shortly put forward at a European suggestion it was Canete said. email. go together, they are linked. in Paris in December 2015 to “We need a rule book to be a proposal to member states on softening its stance on the Paris Canete said there would be a “As the president has made You cannot grow the economy curb carbon dioxide emissions able to monitor and verify and slashing carbon emissions in the climate accord, insisting Wash- meeting on the sidelines of next abundantly clear, the United without taking care of the envi- with the aim of limiting the rise compare emissions of all the transportation sector, European ington will withdraw from the week’s UN General Assembly States is withdrawing unless we ronment,” Catherine McKenna in average global temperatures parties and see how far we are Commission President Jean- agreement unless it can re-enter with American representatives can re-enter on terms that are said at the end of the summit, to 1.5 degrees Celsius by 2050, towards the targets,” Canete Claude Juncker said this week. on more favorable terms. “to assess what is the real US more favorable to our country,” attended by more than half the compared to preindustrial levels. said, with a goal of having those And Canada -- as the world’s The remark came as envi- position,” noting “it’s a message she said. G20 members as well as some When Trump decided in rules in place in time for the sixth-largest oil producer -- in- ronment ministers from some 30 which is quite different to the Called by Canada, China of the nations most vulnerable June to withdraw, Canada, China COP24 meeting in Katowice, sists it is “committed to its inter- countries gathered in Montreal one we heard from President and the European Union, the to climate change -- from the and the European Union imme- Poland in late 2018. national climate obligations,” seeking headway on the Paris Trump in the past.” summit took place 30 years to low-lying Marshall Islands and diately reaffirmed their respective Key player China -- the which it hopes to reach by mas- climate accord, which President The US observer was not the day after the signing of the Maldives to impoverished Mali commitments to the pact, which world’s largest car market -- sively investing in “clean en- Donald Trump had pulled out immediately available for com- Montreal Protocol on protect- and Ethiopia. the Group of 20 declared “ir- brings to the table a potentially ergy” technologies. of in June. ment and the White House ing the ozone layer -- which “Changes are real, extreme reversible” the following month. major advance in transportation China’s special representa- At the summit, which was insisted the United States would Canada’s environment minister weather events are more fre- Time is ticking, Canete told after announcing its intention to tive to the talks, Xie Zhenhua, attended by a US observer, the withdraw from the Paris climate hailed as a multilateral “success quent, more powerful and more AFP, as ministers work to nar- ban gasoline and diesel-fueled said Beijing considers the Mon- US “stated that they will not accord without more favorable story” by governments, NGOs distressful,” she told the gather- row their differences and better cars, following decisions by treal Protocol to be a “very renegotiate the Paris Accord, terms. and ordinary citizens jointly ing, pointing at the devastation understand how to implement France and Britain to outlaw effective and efficient” example but they (will) try to review “There has been no change tackling a major global threat. wrought by mega-storms such as the ambitious accord -- with less their sale from 2040. of multilateral action on the the terms on which they could in the United States’ position We “committed to full imple- Harvey and Irma which many than two months to go until the The European Union -- environment -- largely because be engaged under this agree- on the Paris agreement,” White mentation of the Paris Accord. climate scientists believe are next UN Conference on Climate which is targeting a 40 per cent it rested on a broad consensus. B’desh begins building 14,000 shelters for Rohingya refugees Second arrest in UK Tube bomb attack ment said the refugees have “They should stay in the London, Sep. 17 (PTI): A second man has Friday. been told not to take shelter designated camps until they been arrested by Scotland Yard s Counter- Following the first arrest yesterday, Met at their friends’ or acquaint- return to their country... Terrorism Command in connection with the Police counter-terrorism specialist firearms ances’ in Bangladesh, and They cannot travel from one bombing at a London Underground train, officers had evacuated buildings as they neighbourhood residents place to another by roads, police said today. began searches at a residential address in have been asked not to rent railways or waterways,” it Officers arrested a 21-year-old just before Sunbury, Surrey, south-east England. houses to the refugees. said. midnight in Hounslow, West London. The search remains ongoing as it This is the second arrest after an 18-year- emerged that the home belongs to an elderly old man was arrested by Kent police in the British couple honoured with an MBE by port area of Dover on Saturday morning. Queen Elizabeth II in 2010 for their efforts UN chief urges Suu Kyi to halt Both suspects are being held under Sec- at fostering hundreds of refugee children. tion 41 of the UK s Terrorism Act and are The 18-year-old arrested is believed to being questioned at a south London police have been one of the children fostered by offensive against Rohingyas station. 88-year-old Ronald Jones, 88, and 71 -year- “The Metropolitan Police and its part- old Penelope Jones. United Nations, Sep. 17 25 when Rohingya rebels ners across the Counter Terrorism Policing Meanwhile, the UK terror threat level (IANS): Myanmar’s de attacked police checkposts Network have been working around the remains ‘critical’, meaning an attack is ex- facto leader Aung San Suu and killed 12 security per- clock and through the night to identify, pected ‘imminently’. Kyi has “a last chance” sonnel. locate and arrest those responsible for this The Islamic State (ISIS) group has said AP/PTI to halt an Army offensive Suu Kyi, a Nobel Peace cowardly crime,” Neil Basu, the Met it was behind the bomb but Met Police’s Rohingya Muslims, who crossed over from Myanmar into Bangladesh, use a makeshift footbridge near that has forced thousands Prize laureate, is facing Police’s Senior National Co-ordinator Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley said Balukhali refugee camp, Bangladesh, Sunday, Sept. 17, 2017. Bangladeshi authorities on Sunday took of the Rohingya Muslims growing criticism over the for Counter Terrorism Policing, said in a it was “very routine” for ISIS to claim the at- steps to restrict the movement of Muslim Rohingya refugees living in crowded border camps after fleeing to flee to Bangladesh, UN Rohingya issue. statement. tack, whether in contact with those involved violence in Myanmar, while that nation’s military chief maintained the chaos was the work of extremists Secretary General Antonio She will not be attend- “At this stage we are keeping an open or not. seeking a stronghold in the country. Guterres said. ing the UN General Assem- mind around whether more than one person The blast, which is being described as a Guterres told the BBC bly in New York which will Dhaka, Sep. 17 (PTI): is targeting civilians. the initiative is to prevent the is responsible for the attack and we are still “bucket bomb” sent a “fireball” through the on Saturday night that Suu begin from Monday and has pursuing numerous lines of enquiry and at a Tube causing burn injuries to many com- Bangladesh today began Bangladesh has been refugees from fanning out Kyi had a last chance to claimed that the crisis was constructing 14,000 new overwhelmed by the exodus and handle the crisis prop- great pace,” he said. muters. stop the offensive. being distorted by a “huge Thirty people are known to have been The main device, which had been fitted shelters for the more than and struggling to house the erly,” disaster management “If she does not reverse iceberg of misinformation”. 400,000 Muslim Rohingya refugees in the shelters being and relief ministry secretary injured during the attack in which an im- with a crude timer using shop-bought fairy the situation now, then I She said tensions were provised explosive device was detonated on lights, failed to detonate, meaning hundreds refugees fleeing violence in built with assistance from Shah Kamal said. think the tragedy will be being fanned by fake news neighbouring Myanmar to UN and other international Bangladesh authorities a Tube train at Parsons Green underground of people were spared death and serious absolutely horrible, and un- promoting the interests of station at around 08:20hrs local time on injury. ensure they remain confined organisations. have restricted the Rohingya fortunately then I don’t see terrorists. to an area and do not fan out “Work to construct the refugees from leaving the how this can be reversed in Guter res’ war ning across the country. 14,000 temporary shelters border areas, fearing it might the future.” comes after Bangladesh The refugees have been began today at Kutupalang,” get difficult for the authori- The Secretary General said it was now limiting fleeing to Bangladesh for a disaster management min- ties to identify them later. reiterated that the Rohingya the movement of more Pak PM approves proposal to three weeks to escape a mili- istry spokesman told PTI, The police headquarters should be allowed to return than 400,000 Rohingya tary crackdown in Myan- adding the army has been in a directive to local ad- home. who have fled from My- mar’s Rakhine state, which asked to build them in 10 ministration asked them to He also said it was clear anmar. increase civilians’ share in ISI the UN has said amounts to days. monitor the movement of that Myanmar’s military The Rohingya, a state- created for civilians from ethnic cleansing. Kutupalang, near the the refugees. Police last week Islamabad, Sep. 17 (PTI): cording to the office order “still have the upper hand” less mostly Muslim minor- the Defence Intelligence Myanmar says the crack- southeastern Cox’s Bazar detained 20 Rohingya refu- Pakistan Prime Minister issued by the PM Office on in the country, putting pres- ity in Buddhist-majority Services (DIS) cadre. down is a response to last city, is one of the areas gees in central Manikganj Shahid Khaqan Abbasi has September 15. sure “to do what is being Rakhine, have long experi- According to a former month’s deadly attacks on where Bangladesh is setting district, about 450 kilometres approved a proposal to in- When contacted, Par- done on the ground” in enced persecution in My- ISI official, it was in 2005 police by militants in the up the shelters. from Cox’s Bazar. crease the civilians’ share liamentary Secretary for the Rakhine state where the anmar, which says they are when Gen Pervez Mushar- northern state and denies it “The prime objective of The police in a state- in the senior hierarchy of Cabinet and Establishment crisis broke out on August illegal immigrants. the country’s powerful spy Division Raja Javed Ikhlas raf approved the posting of agency - the Inter-Services termed the order “a routine a civilian as DG ISI in grade Intelligence (ISI). matter”. 21 for the first time. The Abbasi on September An official of the mili- process for the promotion of Seven killed in Pakistan blast Iran’s top leader warns against 15 approved the proposal tary’s media wing - Inter- civilian ISI officers was slow, to increase the number of Services Public Relations since there was only one DG Islamabad, Sep. 17 (IANS): At least when the roadside bomb went off as directors general (DGs) the - did not comment on the slot, he said. seven people were killed on Sunday a security forces’ vehicle was passing US breach of nuke deal highest civilian post in the development, but said that However, with the addi- in a remote-controlled explosion in in the Loi Mamond area, reports agency from one to four, since the prime minister tion of seven grade 20 and Pakistan’s Bajaur Agency, police said. Xinhua news agency. The victims Tehran, Sep. 17 (IANS): Iran’s pressive and bullying manner,” Dawn reported today. was the competent author- three grade 21 posts, the The blast took place at 12.30 p.m. included a government official. Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali he was quoted as saying by The post of civilian DG ity, as the ISI worked under official hoped that promo- Khamenei on Sunday warned Press TV. in the ISI is a grade 21 posi- the PM Secretariat, it was tion of civilians, especially against any “wrong” move by Khamenei noted that “the tion, equivalent to a serving his prerogative to increase young DIS officers working the US which aims at breaching Iranian nation is standing firmly major general of the armed the sanctioned posts in the in “hard areas”, would be US, S Korea to maximise economic, Iran’s 2015 nuclear deal. and any wrong move by the forces. Previously, there was agency. accelerated. “They (US administration) hegemonic system concerning only one civilian DG post in Formed in 1948 as an in- In June 2013, some have shown wickedness and the JCPOA would receive the the intelligence agency. dependent unit to strengthen ISI officials had petitioned diplomatic pressure on N Korea malicious behaviour with regard Islamic republic’s reaction”. Abbasi approved the the country s intelligence the Islamabad High Court Washington, Sep. 17 (PTI): US Presi- Korea s launch of the latest ballistic to the JCPOA (nuclear deal) and On regional issues, he noted summary sent to the PM network, ISI was formerly against the slow pace of their dent Donald Trump and his South Ko- missile, the second such launch over the US regime is truly a vicious that the reasons behind inse- Office by the Defence Min- part of the Intelligence Bu- promotions. The petition rean counterpart Moon Jae-In vowed Japan in less than three weeks. devil,” Khamenei said, referring curity in the Middle East can istry, proposing four civilian reau (IB), which handled stated that there were over today to maximise economic and “The two leaders noted that North to the chain of sanctions by be traced to the “wicked and DGs in the ISI. intelligence-sharing between 300 officers in grade 17 to 21 diplomatic pressure on North Korea Korea continues to defy the inter- the Donald Trump administra- mischievous interventions” by In addition, the prime different branches of the in the five cadres of the ISI, following the latest missile test by the national community, even after the tion against Iran, Xinhua news the US. minister has also enhanced military, as well as external including the Surveillance reclusive nation. United Nations strongly condemned agency reported. After years of tension with the number of deputy direc- intelligence gathering. (field intelligence) cadre, Vet- Trump spoke over phone with North Korea s repeated provocations During the negotiations with the West, Iran struck a deal with tors general (DDGs) from Its headquarters was ini- ting cadre, Joint Intelligence Moon two days after North Korea fired twice in the past week,” the White the world powers in 2013-15, Britain, China, France, Russia eight to 15. tially located in Rawalpindi, Miscellaneous cadre, Minis- a missile over Japan. House said. “the country’s officials reached and the US plus Germany in The same summary but was later moved to Is- terial cadre and DIS. In a twitter post after the call, Trump and Moon committed to the conclusion that they should July 2015, under which Iran recommended the creation lamabad. The petition was dis- Trump referred to North Korea’s leader continuing to take steps to strengthen negotiate and ignore some of agreed to limit its uranium- of seven additional DDG In 1950, ISI was offi- missed by IHC Chief Jus- Kim Jong-Un as “Rocket Man”. deterrence and defence capabilities and their rights so that sanctions enrichment activities in return posts for civilian officers in cially given the task of safe- tice Mohammad Anwar “I spoke with President Moon of to maximise economic and diplomatic would be removed”, he said. for the lifting of western and grade 20. guarding Pakistani interests Khan Kasi in September the South Korea last night. pressure on North Korea, it said. “However today, we see international sanctions. “The prime minister has and national security, inside same year, saying that the Asked him how Rocket Man is do- The two leaders noted that they will that despite all agreements and The international agreement seen and is pleased to ap- and outside the country. aggrieved officials should ing. Long gas lines forming in North continue their close consultations when promises and many discussions is facing a serious threat of col- prove the proposal at para During the Soviet-Af- approach the Federal Serv- Korea. Too bad! Trump said in a tweet. they meet on the margins of the United during the negotiations, the US lapse as tensions mounted be- 5 read with the views of ghan war, ISI was strength- ices Tribunal, which was In a readout later, the White House Nations General Assembly this week, treats these negotiations and tween Washington and Tehran Establishment Division and ened and re-organised, with the relevant forum for such said the two leaders discussed North said the White House. their outcome in a totally op- recently. of Finance Division,” ac- a handful of posts being petitions. Hamas agrees to hand over Sharif’s wife in close contest in Lahore by-poll:Early results Lahore, Sep. 17 (PTI): Pakistanis including one from the Milli Muslim seat is seen as a test for the PML-N The Election Commission had Gaza to Abbas government today voted for the parliamentary seat League, a new party backed by Hafiz party also because it comes ahead of prohibited Yaqoob from using Saeed’s being contested by ousted prime minis- Saeed-led Jamaat-ut-Dawa (JuD). the 2018 general election in Pakistan. picture during the campaign. Gaza, Sep. 17 (IANS): The Hamas guidelines for reconciliation. ter Nawaz Sharif’s ailing wife in a test Nawaz recently underwent cancer Pakistan Army personnel were Saeed is the mastermind of the movement, which has ruled the Gaza The agreement, signed by the 11 of support for the family after the Su- treatment in London and has been supervising the polling process. 2008 Mumbai terror attacks and carries Strip since 2007, announced on Sunday Palestinian factions but which was nev- preme Court dismissed Sharif from the recuperating in the British capital. Earlier today, the turnout at polling a USD 10 million bounty on his head. that it was ready to hand over the terri- er implemented, required the admin- office in the Panama Papers scandal. Her daughter Maryam Nawaz stations picked up in the afternoon after He remains under “preventative deten- tory to the consensus government of istrative power be run by the Palestine The NA-120 seat in Lahore is said managed her campaign. remaining low through the morning tion” in Pakistan. Palestine President Mahmoud Abbas. National Authority (PNA), although to be a stronghold of the Sharif family. The Coalition for Election and hours. Long queues of people waiting Imran Khan had urged the resi- Hamas announced the dissolution Hamas would likely retain control of It fell vacant after the apex court on July Democracy (CED), an alliance of to cast their votes were witnessed at the dents of the constituency to give a of the administrative committee created security and policing in the Gaza Strip. 28 dismissed Sharif on grounds that he registered independent civil society polling stations. verdict against “Godfather” Nawaz in March 2016 to manage the territory Other points included the establish- was dishonest. organisations, in its exit-poll survey Some voters complained about Sharif. and invited the consensus government ment of joint monitoring of border But the results announced by the showed a slender lead for Nawaz. the delay they experienced before they And Maryam Nawaz said the led by Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah posts and the absorption of Hamas Election Commission after counting The survey was conducted with were able to cast their votes and also people of Lahore will elect her mother to arrive in the Gaza Strip to carry out security personnel into the new police at 23 centres showed that Kulsoom a sample size of 1,433 voters and the that their names were missing from and “reject the court’s decision against the mission, an official statement said. force that is to be formed. Nawaz was locked in a neck-to-neck responses were recorded at 55 sampled polling list, while others rued inad- my father.” She said the results would Hamas also agreed to an election, The latest announcement by Ha- contest with Yasmin Rashid of Imran polling stations out of the total 220 equate facilities, such as the lack of be an informal referendum on the which has failed to take place in Gaza mas puts Palestine on the path of Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) such stations, the CED said. electricity at the stations. disqualification of her father by the since 2006 as a result of the division reconciliation, with the statement party. “The survey results show that Minor clashes were reported be- Supreme Court. between Fatah and Hamas, reports announcing the group was “respond- Nawaz had managed 5,700 votes PML-N bagged 46 per cent of the votes tween PTI and ruling PML-N workers. The constituency, with more than Efe news. ing to the generous Egyptian efforts, against Rashid’s 5,500. against the 40 per cent by closest rival However, no one was injured. 320,000 registered voters, has thrice It also expressed its willingness to which reflect the Egyptian desire Sharif’s wife was fielded by the Pa- of the PTI,” it said, adding that the The activists of the JuD and its elected Sharif as Pakistan’s prime min- accept Egypt’s offer for talks with Fatah to end the split and achieve recon- kistan Muslim League- Nawaz (PML- Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) could another front Falah-i- Insaniat (FIF), ister since 1990. Sharif had won the in order to implement the Cairo Agree- ciliation, and based on our desire to N) party for the by-election against capture only 1.9 per cent votes. campaigned for their candidate Sheikh National Assembly (NA) seat for the ment, signed in 2011, that lays down achieve national unity”. Rashid, and 42 other candidates, The election to the parliamentary Yaqoob. first time in 1985. EastErn Mirror | Dimapur, Monday, September 18, 2017 Miley Cyrus doesn’t want to get married Singer-actress Miley Cyrus says she still has too many things to experience before she thinks about getting married. The “Malibu” singer is very happy with her fiance and actor Liam Hemsworth -- who she dated on and off from 2009 to 2013 -- before rec- onciling in late 2014. “I don’t envision marriage. I’m 24. I hope I get to live a little bit Mirror more. I have too much living to do before I get married,” femalefirst.co.uk quoted Cyrus 10 as saying. She is “stunned” by how well things are going in her life. In an interview to Grazia magazine, Cyrus said: “Three years ago, if you’d asked me if I’d be here, this happy with this man, I’d have been stunned. I’m just riding this out. In some relation- ships, you lose yourself by being with someone else. Actually, it made me find myself ENTERTAINMENT more. “I have no idea what the next three years will bring, but if it’s possible to get even happier, I’ll take it.” (IANS) Alobo Naga performs at Music Woman given 9,000 pounds by Matters 2017, Singapore George Michael delivers baby boy woman weeks ago and even lis- McDermott long time manager of who was tened to Michael’s songs Linkin Park and many other names given 9,000 during her labour and as from the music industry were part pounds by she cuddled Seth for the of the crowd, it stated. late singer first time. Jonny Yeow, Alobo Naga’s tour GeorgeA Michael has given “I hope he’s looking manager stated that many produc- birth to a boy. down smiling, knowing ers, music labels and artiste came Lynette Gillard I have what I’ve always forward to meet the celebrated spent 13 years battling to longed for,” she told the Naga musician/composer and ap- conceive. She even went Sun newspaper. “He preciated Alobo’s music and styles. on “Deal Or No Deal” in believed in me and gave Alobo Naga performed his last gig 2008 to see if she could me hope to keep trying at The Stage pub on Sep. 13 to end find the money for vital even when I felt it was his tour. He performed an hour set IVF treatment through useless.” mix of his old and new originals. that - a decision that Lynette went through For the last 11 years, the Music would result in Michael nine rounds of IVF in Matters Live festival has been the watching her episode and total thanks to George’s pioneer in creating music connec- anonymously donat- generous gift, which he tions between Asia pacific with the ing 9,000 pounds to her gave on condition that he rest of the world, cementing itself by tracking her down would remain the anony- as the gateway for a dynamic line- through Channel 4 bosses. mous benefactor through- up of local and international artists Now Gillard, 38, is out his life. looking to break into the world’s a proud mother to Seth Last year Lynette and lobo Naga represented Alobo Naga performed his first most populated region. Logan George Hart - who her partner Nathan Hart start their final round. up, Seth will look up to India along with other gig at Barber Shop by Timbre on Alobo Naga will be releasing his carries the singer’s monik- decided to have one last “I found out I was George as an inspiration.” four artistes/bands at Sep.11, performing his new songs second solo album titled “KINI” er as his middle name, try at IVF treatment - but pregnant on the day he The singer died in the “Music Matters” from his upcoming album “KINI”. on Sep. 26, 2017 at Hard Rock reports mirror.co.uk. fell pregnant naturally just died,” Lynette added. December last year. Live, Asia’s premier in- The second show was at Chijmes Cafe, Worli Mumbai. The music is She gave birth two before they were due to “I’m sure when he grows IANS Adependent music festival produced on Sep.12, one of the top venues for produced by Moto, featuring artiste in association with Apple Music live music in Singapore. like Andrea Tariang, the actress which was held from Sep. 9 to the Some of the top producers like from the movie Pink, Big Deal, BK, 13th, 2017 for its seventh edition for Chris Craker, Jim Digby, produc- Patkai Choir and may more. five nights of music discovery. tion manager of Linkin Park, Rob EMN Bono speaks up Kevin Hart apologizes Lady Gaga sends on U2’s St. Louis to wife, kids prayers to Gomez show-axing ctor-comedian Kevin inger Lady Gaga has sent 2 frontman Bono is deeply saddened Hart has issued a “prayers and love” to “warrior over the cancellation of the band’s public apology to his princess” Selena Gomez after show in St. Louis after failing to get pregnant wife Eniko learning of her kidney trans- enough police to monitor the event. Parrish and children plant. The singer released a statement on Aafter admitting to getting involved SGomez, 25, revealed on social media U2’sU Instagram account commenting on the cancel- with a woman that led to an at- this week that she had to undergo the op- lation of the Saturday show, reports variety.com. tempted blackmail. eration after her kidneys were damaged Live Nation said the St. Louis Police Depart- According to TMZ, a woman by the autoimmune disease Lupus, which ment would not have sufficient personnel to moni- has allegedly demanded money she has long battled. tor the concert due to unrest in downtown St. Louis from the comedian over a video Gaga, 31, sent her love and support to after a not-guilty verdict against ex-police officer in which the two are engaged in the star as she continued to recover after Jason Stockley in a murder case. “sexually suggestive” conduct. you’re her best friend, actress Francis Raisa, The concert at the Dome at America’s Centre Without directly addressing the wrong 29, donated one of her organs, reports was cancelled because the band said it could not alleged footage, he said he had put and there’s no excuses dailymail.co.uk. risk its fans’ safety. himself in an “environment where for your wrong behaviour. At the Gaga tweeted: “Prayers and love “As much as we regret having to cancel, we feel only bad things can happen - and end of the day, man, I’ve simply got to Selena Gomez. You are a warrior it is the only acceptable course of action in the cur- they did”, reports mirror.co.uk. to do better.” princess. What an inspiration.” She’s not rent environment,” U2 said. Appearing on the verge of tears, The comedian, who wed Parr- the only star to wish the “Fetish” singer. IANS he shared: “I am at a place in my ish last year, revealed that someone Singer Nick Jonas wished her well too. life where I feel like I have a target was attempting to make a financial IANS on my back and because of that I gain from his “mistakes”, reports should make smart decisions and mirror.co.uk. recently I didn’t. “But I’m also not going to allow “I’m not perfect and I’m not a person to have a financial gain off Mel B pens emotional note to late father going to sit here and say that I am my mistakes in this particular situa- or claim to be in any way, shape tion that’s what was attempted and inger Mel B has written Belafonte. or form and I made a bad error in I said I would rather ‘fess up to my an emotional note to her In the the post, Mel says her judgement and put myself in an mistakes,” he added. late father, saying she father’s death gave her the “clarity environment where only bad things He wrote alongside the video: hopes he forgives her for and strength to set my life on the can happen and they did.” “Sending so many apologies to her mistakes. right track” and hopes he can He said he had apologized to my wife and kids. I got to do better SThe singer, currently em- forgive her for her past “mistakes”. Parrish and his two children who and I will. I’m not perfect and have broiled in a bitter divorce dis- “I’m so thankful of this he has with his first wife Torrei Hart never claimed to be... I love you pute with ex-husband Stephen awakening from March 4th when and admitted there’s no excuse for all.” Belafonte, poured her heart out he died... I now live in my truth his behaviour. A representative for the actor on Instagram on Saturday night, to correct with no shame the life Kevin continued: “During that told TMZ: “Someone tried to reports mirror.co.uk. every girl/daddy’s girl should live, I know I’m going to hurt the people set Kevin up in a failed extortion Mel lost her father Martin and that’s a life with no fear or closest to me who I have talked to attempt. As law enforcement is in- Brown to cancer in March. It was disrespect.” She went on to say and apologized to - being my wife volved, we cannot comment further said at the time that it was the loss that she would now only live by and my kids. as it could affect the investigation.” of her father that caused the singer those rules. “It’s a moment when you know IANS to “re-evaluate” her marriage to IANS Reformed criminals must get a chance, says Farhan Akhtar eformed criminals must to our laws, a person who commits a common threads between Gippy and be given a chance to start crime, goes to jail and, based on the Farhan, but the rest of the actors have their lives afresh, says severity and brutality of his crime, he diverse backgrounds. multi-talented Bollywood serves a sentence -- and comes out as a Farhan said the creative collabora- celebrity Farhan Akhtar, reformed individual. tion was quite easy. Rwho essays the role of a prisoner in his “We have to understand they are “The best part is that they came latest film “Lucknow Central”. all normal people and that the crime not just from different creative back- The movie, which released on (may have) happened in a moment of grounds but also from different parts Friday, is the tale of four prisoners who madness. So, accepting these people of the country. While Rajesh Sharma form a music band. in the mainstream of society could is renowned in Kolkata’s theatre Farhan, who also sings in real inspire many not to attempt crime and world, Ravi Kishen stars in Bhojpuri life, is of the opinion that criminals, if we can build a better society.” films, Gippy is into Punjabi film reformed, must be accepted in society There are prisons which give voca- and music, Deepak and Inaa- once they are out of the prison. tional training to prisoners, and Farhan mulhaq are extremely good Asked if, as an individual, he feels what they learn must be put to performers. would be open to employing a former better use. “So when you are prisoner in his company, Farhan told “If we create a system where we performing with them, you IANS here: “Well, we have to look at give criminals a chance in jail to be also have to be on the top the larger picture. Yes, tomorrow if trained in different vocational activities of your game. 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11 am 8 pm: Simran 2 pm: Patel Ki Punjab Shadi 5 pm: Mission China EastErn Mirror | Dimapur, Monday, September 18, 2017 SPORTS 11 Six-goal Manchester City go West Indies humble England top; Liverpool held by Burnley in one-off T20 by 21 runs London, Sep. 17 (AFP): sealed Southampton’s 1-0 Manchester City stormed win at Selhurst Park. to the top of the Premier Former England boss League as Sergio Aguero’s Hodgson was taking charge hat-trick inspired a 6-0 de- of Palace for the first time molition of Watford, while following his appointment Philippe Coutinho’s return on Tuesday as successor to couldn’t lift Liverpool in a the sacked Frank de Boer. 1-1 draw against Burnley on But Hodgson couldn’t Saturday. inspire an immediate up- With previous leaders turn in Palace’s fortunes, Manchester United not in with Davis’s goal condemn- action until Sunday’s clash ing the Eagles to a piece of with Everton, City had a unwanted history. chance to move three points Palace sit bottom of the clear of their title rivals. table after becoming the Aguero ensured they first English top-tier team did just that as the Argen- to lose their opening five West Indies’ Chris Gayle hits a six during the T20 International cricket match between England and West tine forward maintained fixtures without scoring a Indies at The Emirates Riverside, Chester-le-Street in north east England on Sept. 16. his mastery of Watford at single goal. Vicarage Road. Jamie Vardy rescued London, Sep. 17 (AP): Adil Rashid (3/25) needless reverse sweep Pep Guardiola’s side Leicester City as his second West Indies successfully and Liam Plunkett (2/27) off Narine and was caught took the lead in the 27th half penalty secured a 1-1 defended 176 by bowling put the brakes on West at short third man as Eng- minute when Aguero draw at Huddersfield Town, out England to win their Indies’ run spree once land slumped to 68/4 in headed in from Kevin de who took the lead through one-off Twenty20 by 21 Gayle was run out in the the eighth over. Bruyne’s free-kick for his Manchester City’s striker Sergio Aguero (2R) scores the team’s first goal during the English Premier League Laurent Depoitre in the runs on Saturday. seventh over. Jos Buttler (30) and seventh goal in five games football match against Watford on Sat. Sep. 16. 47th minute. After being put in to Gayle hit three fours Jonny Bairstow (27) add- against the Hornets. Jamaal Lascelles was bat, West Indies finished and four sixes in his typi- ed 50 runs before Wil- Aguero wasn’t finished pleted his 10th City treble lona. “It’s our fault. We were Newcastle United’s hero nine down after a whirl- cally aggressive knock. liams broke the stand in inflicting pain on Marco with nine minutes left. Brazil forward Coutin- dominant but only scored again as he clinched a 2-1 wind start by Evin Lewis West Indies was 106-1 in the 15th over when Buttler Silva’s men and he struck There was still time for ho missed the first five one goal.” win over Stoke City at St and Chris Gayle. the 10th over but fell away holed out in the deep. again four minutes later, Raheem Sterling to win games of the season with Tottenham Hotspur James’ Park. Captain Carlos Brath- and lost eight wickets for Bairstow left England tapping in after Watford and convert an 89th-minute a back injury before com- failed to win for a third Rafael Benitez’s side waite (3/20) and Kesrick 70 runs. England lost Ja- reeling at 129/8 when he goalkee per Heurelho penalty to cap City’s swag- ing on in Wednesday’s 2-2 successive league match at took the lead through Chris- Williams (3/35) then un- son Roy off the very first was caught at backward Gomes couldn’t hold David gering display. Champions League draw Wembley as Swansea City tian Atsu and Xherdan dermined England’s re- ball of its run chase when square leg in the 17th over. Silva’s cross-shot. “It was so good. Espe- against Sevilla. held on for a 0-0 draw. Shaqiri equalised for Stoke. ply. Spinner Sunil Narine he was dismissed by Je- Plunkett narrowed the Having notched his fifth cially after an away game But despite his return, After a midweek Cham- Newcastle captain Las- picked up 2/15 and Eng- rome Taylor. margin of defeat by hit- goal of the season, Aguero in the Champions League. Jurgen Klopp’s team were pions League victory over celles, who also bagged the land was dismissed for However, Alex Hales ting two boundaries in his turned provider in the 38th The way we played as a rocked when Scott Arfield Borussia Dortmund at winner at Swansea City last 155 with three balls to (43) smashed eight fours knock of 18. minute, slipping in Gabriel team, we are so happy,” put Burnley in front in the Wembley, which serves as weekend, earned the hosts’ spare. and a six and took Eng- “Bowling at a pair like Jesus for a nonchalant fin- Guardiola said. 27th minute. Tottenham’s home while third successive victory with “We had a good start land to 64-1 inside the first Lewis and Gayle was a ish. “I was lucky to man- Liverpool drew level White Hart Lane is rebuilt, a 68th minute header. and fell away but then batting powerplay. Then huge opportunity to test It was City’s 12th goal age Barcelona with many three minutes later through Mauricio Pochettino’s team West Bromwich Al- the way we finished the England lost three wickets ourselves and we didn’t of a memorable week that outstanding performances Mohamed Salah’s cool fin- were frustrated as Harry bion midfielder Gareth game it was fantastic,” in three overs. bowl that well,” England also included a 5-0 thrash- but this week has been a lot ish from Emre Can’s pass, Kane hit the woodwork, Barry equalled the Premier Brathwaite said. Lewis Brathwaite ignited captain Eoin Morgan ing of Liverpool and a 4-0 of goals. We have found our but the Reds couldn’t find a while the hosts also had League appearance record and Gayle smashed 72 the collapse when he had said. “We were happy win at Feyenoord. game.” winner with Coutinho sub- three penalty appeals turned in a 0-0 draw against West runs off 39 balls for the Hales clean bowled off chasing but I think losing Nicolas Otamendi add- At Anfield, with Sadio stituted in the closing stages. down. Ham at the Hawthorns. opening wicket before a straight delivery, then three quick wickets cost ed to that tally when he Mane suspended, Coutinho “I’m not happy, I’m Historic low Barry, 36, is now level West Indies lost its mo- Joe Root (17) caught in us.” headed in the fourth from made his first Liverpool angry with the result but Roy Hodgson was unable to with Ryan Giggs’ mark of mentum. Lewis made 51 the next over off Ashley The one-day inter- Silva’s cross in the 63rd start since his failed attempt pleased with the perfor- stop Crystal Palace hitting a 632 games, having made off 28 balls and Gayle 40 Nurse. national series starts on minute before Aguero com- to force a move to Barce- mance,” Klopp said. historic low as Steven Davis his top-flight debut in 1998. off 21 balls. Ro o t a t t e m p t e d a Tuesday at Old Trafford. Pogba could be out for Bounasr, Beyene claim France, Australia edge closer to berths in Davis Cup final Lille (France), Sep. 17 three months – report titles at Beijing Marathon (IANS): France and Austra- lia each moved within one B e i j i n g , S e p . 1 7 “I came here for the victory away from reach- (IANS): Salah Eddine win and I am glad to ing the final of the Davis Bounasr became the accomplish the goal.” Cup tennis competition with first Moroccan man to Defending cham- doubles victories over Serbia win the 37th edition of pion Mekuant Ayenew and Belgium respectively. the Beijing Marathon Gebre of Ethiopia only Playing on clay at Pierre here on Sunday while managed a seventh fin- Mauroy Stadium here on Melesech Tsegaye Bey- ish. Saturday, the French dou- ene extended Ethio- In the women’s bles duo of Pierre Hugues- pians’ winning streak r a c e, B e ye n e, 2 3 , Herbert and Nicolas Mahut in the women’s race to claimed the title in cruised through the first two four years. 2:27:44. Kenya’s Re- sets before wrapping up a Bounasr, 26, win- becca Kangogo Che- 6-1, 6-2, 7-6 (7-3) victory ner of the Guangzhou sir, runner-up at the Paul Pogba over Nenad Zimonjic and Marathon last year, Vienna Marathon this Filip Krajinovic in just one timed 2 hours, 11 min- year, took second in hour and 48 minutes to give AP/PTI London, Sep. 17 (AFP): French international Paul Pogba utes and 18 seconds to 2:30:31. Rahma Tusa Australia’s John Peers, left, and Jordan Thompson celebrate after winning against Belgium during a Davis could be out of action for three months, the Sunday Times the hosts a 2-1 lead in the tie, Cup World Group semi-final doubles tennis match in Brussels on Sat. Sep. 16. win the IAAF Gold Chota of Ethiopia was reports Efe. reported on Sunday, dealing a huge blow to Manchester Label Road Race. 2014 third in 2:33:22. United. The hamstring injury suffered by the 24-year-old The statistics reflected ever, righted the ship in time when he takes on 80th- Playing with Thommo and winner Girmay Birha- “It’s very nice, very the French team’s total -- an £89.3 million ($121 million, 105 million euros) signing nu Gebru of Ethiopia good,” said Beyene, to seal the victory in the ranked Dusan Lajovic in in front of this crowd and from Juventus last year -- after just 18 minutes in Tuesday’s domination in all phases as tie-breaker. the fourth rubber; if Lajovic perform the way we did is trailed in 2:11.26 while runner-up of the Bar- Hugues-Herbert and Mahut Champions League match with Basel is worse than was Stephen Kwelio Chem- celona Marathon in “They were trying to pulls off the upset, the tie just incredible,” Peers said. thought originally according to a club source. struck 37 winners to 21 for play with my nerves or will come down to a match Australia leads 2-1 lany of Kenya finished March. their opponents while also The source said he faced sitting on the sidelines of any- third in 2:11:50, re- “It’s a little bit something, they were test- between 22nd-ranked Lucas heading into first the re- thing from six to 12 weeks. making fewer unforced er- ing me. They had these per- Pouille and 95th-ranked verse singles match on Sun- ports Xinhua news hot. I didn’t expect to rors (18 versus 23). “The injury is really bad,” a United source was quoted as agecny. win, but I am really fect two sets, three sets, 5-2 Laslo Djere. In other Davis day between 12th-ranked saying by the newspaper. However, the club believe Pogba’s The Frenchmen’s return with two breaks ... and the Cup semi-final action on Belgian David Goffin and “It is a little bit happy. This is my first game was particularly im- injury was a result of the player overdoing his personal train- hot today. I tried my time coming to Beijing next thing we know it’s 5-5, Saturday in Brussels, played 20th-ranked Australian Nick ing outside of the club’s supervision. pressive as they broke serve but we had a good reac- on red clay at Palais 12 sta- Kyrgios. best in the race but Marathon. They city twice in each set. They also “It’s not normal for a player respecting our training pro- still could not break is very good, amazing. tion in the tie-break so I’m dium, the Australian team Kyrgios can clinch the gramme,” the source said. were dominant on serve relieved,” French captain of John Peers and Jordan tie for Australia with a win. 2:09 (the minimum I hope I can come here through the first two sets and According to the newspaper, Pogba is keen to go to the requirement for the full next year.” Yannick Noah said. France Thompson eased past the But if Goffin emerges United States to undergo treatment and rehabilitation with a half, although the match will now look to clinch a Belgian duo of Ruben Be- victorious, a berth in the prize money),” said Some 30,000 run- took a strange twist midway a group of personal trainers he used while on holiday there Bounasr, who was not ners took part in the berth in the Davis Cup final melmans and Arthur De final will be decided in in the close season. Should United’s worst fears be realised through the third when Ser- in Sunday’s reverse singles. Greef 6-3, 6-4, 6-0. a match-up pitting 77th- considered a favou- 37th edition of the Bei- bia reeled off four straight Pogba would miss five Champions League games plus Pre- rite before the race. jing Marathon. World No. 18 Jo-Wil- “We had a job to do to- ranked Belgian veteran Steve mier League meetings with Liverpool, Tottenham Hotspur, games to grab a 6-5 lead. fried Tsonga will be favoured day, and we came out and Darcis against 185th-ranked Chelsea, Arsenal and Manchester City. The Frenchmen, how- to get the tie-clinching win did it from start to finish. Australian John Millman. Golovkin retains middleweight titles in thrilling draw with Alvarez Driver Narendran crowned Las Vegas, Sep. 17 (AFP): Gen- a few surprises and the former nady Golovkin retained his three two-time champion Alvarez didn’t world middleweight titles Sat- disappoint. national racing champion urday, fighting to a draw with In the fourth round Alvarez Chennai, Sep. 17 (IANS): Coimbatore- Bengaluru’s Deepak Paul Chinnappa (Race Mexican star Canelo Alvarez in tried to press the attack, but he paid based Arjun Narendran chalked up his fifth Concepts) by 12 points. As such, Narendran a showdown for middleweight for it as Golovkin got the better of win in a row and clinched the title in the needed to finish third to annex the title, but supremacy that lived up the hype. those exchanges. Premier Indian Touring Cars class at the he did much better by winning the race and The 35-year-old Golovkin, The 27-year-old Alvarez’s MMRT track as the curtain came down on thus defending his crown. making his Las Vegas debut, kept best round was the 10th, when he the fifth and final round of the MRF MMSC The race itself, it was a bit processional after hold of the World Boxing Council, stunned Golovkin with a vicious FMSCI Indian National Championshiship Narendran eased past the two front-row pair World Boxing Association and right hand to the head. Alvarez here on Sunday. of B Vijayakumar and Vidya Prakash in the International Boxing Federation tried to finish him off but Golovkin Anindith Reddy from Hyderabad (Formula second lap. Once in front, Narendran barely belts in front of a crowd of 22,358 survived and once he shook off the F1600) and Arya Singh (Formula LGB 1300 turned a wheel wrong and won as he pleased at the T-Mobile Arena. cobwebs the two continued their National and Rookie) had sealed the titles with team-mate Ashish Ramaswamy finish- Judge Dave Moretti scored the brawl on the ropes and in the centre on Saturday while Karminder Pal Singh of ing second ahead of Vidya Prakash. tense battle 114-114. Dan Trella of the ring. Delhi won the championship in the Volkswa- Championship leader coming into the final saw it 115-113 for Golovkin but By the time it reached the 12th gen Ameo Cup finishing 138 points ahead of weekend, Chinnappa who conceded his Adalaide Byrd had it one-sided, round, both boxers looked ex- Chennai’s Sandeep Kumar. advantage on Saturday when he finished 118-110, for Alvarez. hausted. The names of champions in the Saloon car seventh following a brake failure and started Byrd’s lopsided score didn’t re- Alvarez charged out of his cor- categories -- Indian Junior Touring Cars, Su- today’s race in the same position, had too flect the explosive drama of a bout ner looking for the knockout and per Stock and Esteem Cup -- are being with- much to do. He got caught in traffic, had a Canelo Alvarez (L) connects with a left hook against Gennady Golovkin (R) during their held pending post-race scrutiny. Anindith spin and came in fourth, but still clocked the in which Golovkin moved forward WBC, WBA and IBF middleweight championship fight on Sep. 16, 2017 in Las Vegas. Golovkin finished the round with a aggressively while Alvarez was the Gennady Golovkin retained his three world middleweight titles, fighting to a draw with wild flurry of lefts and rights. Reddy, who did not have the best of week- fastest lap of the race. He finished second in counter-puncher with fast hands. Mexican star Canelo Alvarez in a showdown that lived up the hype. Alvarez moved to 49-1-2 with ends in the triple-header with one non-finish, the championship behind Narendran. “It has “This was a real drama show,” 34 knockouts and Golovkin re- a second and third spot, is now eligible for a been a tough season. We had some issues Golovkin said. “I want to thank all the fittest athletes in boxing, but Golovkin established himself mained undefeated at 37-0-1 with ticket to the Mazda Road to Indy shootout with the car in the first round at Coimbatore, my fans for supporting me. Alvarez was also well-prepared for early with his stinging jab, all the 33 knockouts after a fight that was in the United States later this year. and it took us a while to set things right. At “Of course I want the rematch. a fight which both needed to vali- while effectively cutting off the two years in the making. Chennai’s Sandeep Kumar dominated the one stage, I was trailing Deepak Paul (Chin- This was a real fight.” date their places in history. ring. Boxing fans will be hoping the MRF F1600 class winning all the three races nappa) by some 49 points, but back-to-back Asked if he thought he won, Golovkin won most of the There was no feeling-out pro- contest is the launching point of over the weekend for a total of six this season, wins here made a huge difference. “I am Golovkin said, “Look I still have early rounds but then got ham- cess in this one as both fighters an extended rivalry like those of but finished second in the championship be- happy that everything came together during the belts and I am still the cham- mered a few times with Alvarez’s came to fight from the opening bell Manny Pacquiao and Juan Manuel hind Reddy who too won six outings. Much the second half of the season, and of course, pion.” uppercuts and right hands and and tried to land big punches early. Marquez, Erik Morales and Marco of the focus on Sunday was on the Indian I am thrilled to have won back-to-back cham- The baby-faced champion with seemed to be the more tired of the Golovkin said he expected Antonio Barrera and Micky Ward Touring Cars race with defending champion pionship,” said Narendran who last season the steel jaw is considered one of two near the end. Alvarez’s game plan to include and Arturo Gatti. Arjun Narendran leading his closest rival had won eight of the 10 races. EastErn Mirror | Dimapur, Monday, September 18, 2017

C M Y K 12 SportS Sindhu conquers Okuhara Pandya's all-round effort floors Australia in first ODI Chennai, Sep. 17 (IANS): India rode on to clinch Korea Open title Hardik Pandya's all-round brilliance to Seoul, Sep. 17 (PTI): In- to the net and then saw the thrash Australia by 26 runs by Duckworth- dia's Olympic silver medal- shuttle sail over the base- Lewis method in a rain-truncated opener of list shuttler P V Sindhu on line. World no. 7 Okuhara the five-match One-day International series Sunday exacted sweet re- made a roaring comeback at the M.A. Chidambaram Stadium here venge of her World Cham- in the second game after on Sunday. pionship heart-break as Sindhu got buried in a heap After guiding India to safety with a she defeated Nozomi Oku- of unforced errors. career-best 83 off 66 balls, the 23-year-old hara of Japan in a thrilling Right from the first Pandya starred with the ball, picking the key summit clash to clinch the stroke when she smashed wickets of Australia skipper Steve Smith (1) women's singles title at the long, Sindhu continued to and Travis Head (5) to enable the hosts go Korea Open Super Series struggle with her length and 1-0 up in the series. here today. precision even as Okuhara Chasing a revised target of 164 from 21 The 22-year-old Indian grabbed the shuttle early overs after a spell of heavy showers trun- overcame eighth seeded to dominate the proceed- cated play, Australia were reduced to 29/3 Okuhara 22 -20 11-21 20- ings of the second game with debutant opener Hilton Cartwright (1), 18 in yet another energy- completely. Smith and Head back in the pavilion. sapping contest that lasted The Olympic bronze Such was India's domination in the sec- an hour and 23 minutes ond innings of the match that only three of medallist Japanese led 11-6 PTI to win the USD 600,000 at the break and continued the visiting batsmen could manage to reach India's Hardik Pandya waves to the spectators to tournament. to extend her lead with double-figures and Australia were restricted celebrate his half century during the first India- Sindhu had lost to Oku- Sindhu struggling with her to 137/9. Pacer Jasprit Bumrah drew first Australia One Day International (ODI) cricket hara in the World Cham- strokes. In fact, it looked blood by cleaning up Cartwright's off-stump match being played at the M A Chidhambaram pionship final in Glasgow like the Indian had given before Pandya joined the party. stadium in Chennai on Sunday. last month in an epic bat- up the fight as Okuhara After surviving a leg before scare, Smith Earlier, contrasting half centuries from tle which was described took the match to the de- mistimed the next delivery and ended up all-rounder Hardik Pandya and Dhoni by experts as the best in cider when Sindhu's return top-edging it high in the air which Bumrah helped India recover from a precarious 87/5 many years. On Sunday, got buried at the net once brilliantly pouched at short fine. In no time, to post a healthy 281/7. she turned the tables on again. Head, too, was back after feathering a nick Pandya (83 from 66; 4*5, 6*5) and Dhoni the Japanese to become In the decider, Sindhu, to stumper Mahendra Singh Dhoni. (79 from 88; 4*4, 6*2) forged an 118-run the first Indian to win this who looked a tad dispirited Seasoned opener David Warner (25 sixth wicket stand to help India recover after Korea Super Series. in the second game, got her from 28 balls; 4*2) offered some resistance skipper Virat Kohli won the toss and elected Expectations of yet AP/PTI bearings right as she once but the introduction of chinaman Kuldeep to bat. The 23-year-old Pandya meted out another edge-of-the-seat India's Pusarla V. Sindhu poses with the gold medal and trophy during the awards ceremony after again led 11-5 at the break Yadav brought his downfall, comfortably special treatment to Adam Zampa, taking thriller were raised after beating Japan's Nozomi Okuhara during the women's single final match at the Korea Open Badminton in when Okuhara went wide. caught behind by Dhoni. the young leg-spinner to the cleaners on three Sindhu and Okuhara set Seoul, South Korea, on Sun. Sep. 17. The rallies continued to get Reduced to 35/4, the visitors were left consecutive occasions to get to his third ODI up a summit clash for the China Super Series Pre- a long rally at 6-5 which 14. The duo kept fighting fiercer as the duo battled high and dry until the big-hitting Glenn fifty off 48 balls before falling to the same second time in little over mier and India Super Se- Sindhu won with a straight and in another thrilling ral- hard for each point. Oku- Maxwell (39 from 18; 4*3, 6*4) arrived and bowler, later in the innings. three weeks and after the ries and Syed Modi Grand smash. ly, Sindhu had to resort to hara displayed tremendous milked 22 runs from Kuldeep's third over, Dhoni, at the other end, provided stabil- end of the final on Sunday, Prix Gold this season, thus However, the Indian continuous smashes before defensive skills and tight including three consecutive maximums. ity with a patient 75-ball 50 but more impor- Sindhu was left exhausted dashed Okuhara's bid to lost the advantage when Okuhara finally sent one to net play to reduce the defi- Maxwell managed to bring the mount- tantly carried on after the loss of Pandya to and elated at the same time. win her third straight title Okuhara reeled off four the net to make it 17-17. cit to 16-18. ing required run-rate down but leg-spinner forge another healthy 72-run seventh wicket It did not go the dis- after winning the Australian points, showing her prowess A simple return going to Sindhu was then left Yuzvendra Chahal's flighted delivery did stand with Bhuvneshwar Kumar (32 not out tance like the marathon Open and the World Cham- to fight back to grab a 9-7 net made Sindhu hung her lying on the floor after an- the trick for India, as the Australian holed from 30; 4*5). World Championship final pionship. lead. A smash at Okuhara's face in frustration. Then, other physically and men- one to Manish Pandey at long on. India, too, were off to a forgettable start that had lasted an hour The win also helped backhand helped Sindhu the Indian went wide and tally draining rally which Kuldeep immediately got rid of the with three of the top four batsmen back in and 50 minutes but Sun- Sindhu to level her head-to- make it 9-9 but the Japanese long to hand over two game the Indian won after Oku- next man, Marcus Stionis (3) with a floater the hut with only 11 runs on the board. day's summit clash had all head record against Oku- ensured that she has the point opportunities to Oku- hara found the net. A tired which substitute fielder Ravindra Jadeja Pacer Coulter-Nile made a stunning the ingredients of another hara, making it 4-4 in eight advantage at 11-9. hara. The Japanese, how- looking shot went to net but comfortably latched on at deep mid-wicket. comeback to 50-over cricket by claiming thrilling contest as the duo meetings between them. Sindhu played an at- ever, could not make use Sindhu produced a good Tottering at 76/6, all-rounder James opener Ajinkya Rahane (5), and skipper battled in long and intense Sindhu led 2-0 early in tacking rally and sealed it of the chances as her back- net return to have three Faulkner (32 from 25; 4*1, 6*1) played a Virat Kohli and Manish Pandey (both for rallies at the SK Handball the first game but Okuhara with a smash at 9-12. In hand flick near the net went match points at 20-17. lone hand but kept losing his partners as noughts) for the scorecard to read 11/3. Stadium here. was quick to erase the defi- fact, she grabbed five of the wide and then she made an Sindhu could not reach stumper Matthew Wade (9), Pat Cummins India opener Rohit Sharma (28) and Ke- S i n d h u d i s p l aye d cit. The Indian once again next eight points after the error in judgement at the the forecourt after another (9) and Nathan Coulter-Nile (2) failed to dar Jadhav (40) brought some solidity with dogged determination and moved to a 5-3 advantage break to turn the tables at baseline to allow Sindhu rally as Okuhara saved a rise to the occasion. For the hosts, Chahal a 53-run fourth wicket stand before the last great stubbornness to lay with Okuhara commit- 14-13. claw back at 20-20. match point but the Japa- was the pick of the bowlers with figures of recognised batting duo of Dhoni and Pandya claim to her third super ting unforced errors. The Sindhu once again Sindhu walked away nese sent the shuttle wide 3/30, while Kuldeep and Pandya contrib- got their act together to deliver the needed series title of her career. first glimpse of the epic dished out another intense with the opening game that next as the Indian sealed uted with a couple of scalps. The pace duo stability. The men-in-blue will now face the World no. 4 Sindhu, World Championship final rally and produced a precise lasted 28 minutes when the match and lifted her of Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Bumrah also Kangaroos at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata who had clinched the 2016 was visible when they had over head smash to lead 15- Okuhara sent a return serve arms in celebration. picked one wicket apiece. on Thursday. Hamilton wins Singapore GP; extends c'ship lead Singapore, Sep. 17 (PTI): decided to start the race on Lewis Hamilton benefited time with all on wet tyres immensely from a chaotic barring the top six. start to win the rain-affected The start was sensational NAGA PEOPLE’S FRONT NAGA PEOPLE’S FRONT SingaporeNAGA Grand Prix, ex - PEOPLE’S FRONTwith Raikkonen and Ver- NAGA PEOPLE’S FRONT tending his championship stappen making contact at lead to 28 points with a hat- the first corner, also taking GENERAL CONVENTION 2017 GENERAL CONVENTION 2017 trick of victories.GENERAL CONVENTION 2017out Vettel and Fernando GENERAL CONVENTION 2017 The front row was Alonso out of the race. 20th Sept. 2017 | 11:00 am | DDSC STADIUM, DIMAPUR 20th Sept. 2017 | 11:00 am | DDSC STADIUM, DIMAPUR wiped20 out that theSept. first corner, 2017 | 11:00 am | DDSC STADIUM, DIMAPURVerstappen and Raik- 20th Sept. 2017 | 11:00 am | DDSC STADIUM, DIMAPUR taking out polesitter Sebas- konen were out instantly tian Vettel and Max Ver- while radiator damage on  NPF REAFFIRM THE COMMITMENT TO FACILITATE TOWARDS SECURING  NPF REAFFIRM THE COMMITMENT TO FACILITATE TOWARDS SECURING stappen NPF after REAFFIRM both contacted THE COMMITMENT TO FACILITATE TOWARDS SECURINGthe other Ferrari proved  NPF REAFFIRM THE COMMITMENT TO FACILITATE TOWARDS SECURING A NEGOTIATED SETTLEMENT OF THE INDO-NAGA POLITICAL PROBLEM A NEGOTIATED SETTLEMENT OF THE INDO-NAGA POLITICAL PROBLEM withA Kimi NEGOTIATED Raikkonen. SETTLEMENT OF THE INDO-NAGA POLITICAL costly PROBLEM for Vettel, who even- A NEGOTIATED SETTLEMENT OF THE INDO-NAGA POLITICAL PROBLEM The incident allowed tually spun to be out of the ACCEPTABLE TO THE PEOPLE AND TO FULLY SUPPORT AND CO-OPERATE IN ACCEPTABLE TO THE PEOPLE AND TO FULLY SUPPORT AND CO-OPERATE IN Hamilton,ACCEPTABLE who started TO fifth, THE PEOPLE AND TO FULLY SUPPORT AND CO-OPERATErace. Alonso IN retired on lap 9 ACCEPTABLE TO THE PEOPLE AND TO FULLY SUPPORT AND CO-OPERATE IN THE PEACE PROCESS. THE PEACE PROCESS. to takeTHE the PEACE lead and PROCESS. he was with irreparable damage to THE PEACE PROCESS. able to maintain that till the his car. 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BASED ON JUSTICE, PEACEtook the AND lead after start- OF COMMUNITY, CASTE OR RELIGION BASED ON JUSTICE, PEACE AND Valtteri Bottas complet- ing fifth on the grid. Perez HARMONY. HARMONY. ed aHARMONY. smooth drive to take Jolyon Palmer of Re- s healthy 9.6 seconds lead jumped to fourth from 12th HARMONY. the last podium spot after nault too came up with a over Ricciardo. Despite the on the grid.  NPF SHALL CONTINUE TO WORK TOWARDS UPHOLDING THE DECLARED  NPF SHALL CONTINUE TO WORK TOWARDS UPHOLDING THE DECLARED starting NPF fourth. SHALL CONTINUEspirited TO drive WORK to finish TOWARDS sixth, constant UPHOLDING pressure, Hamil THE- DECLARED"I was probably too con-  NPF SHALL CONTINUE TO WORK TOWARDS UPHOLDING THE DECLARED POLICY: “PEACE FOR DEVELOPMENT AND DEVELOPMENT FOR PEACE”. POLICY: “PEACE FOR DEVELOPMENT AND DEVELOPMENT FOR PEACE”. 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Heavy rain lashed the pected to finish first and came home fifth from 12th The last of the safety city through the day and third considering Ferrari on the grid, maintaining his car period came on lap 37 returned an hour before the topped qualifying and Red 100 points scoring streak when Marcus Ericsson hit start of the race. The down- Bull were dominant in free here. the wall, negating Hamilton pour continued and officials practice.

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