Imphal Times Supplementary issue 4 National News NIA Amendment Bill 2019: Rajnath Singh pays tributes to martyred Opposition parties betrayed soldiers at Kargil War Memorial in Drass people-Popular Front IT News NIA to be hollow. With which claims to represent the Agency while ago.Later in the afternoon, Imphal, July 20, existing powers, it has proved persecuted Muslim New Delhi July 20, Defence Minister will inaugurate highly partisan and prejudiced community to convey two bridge projects on the rivers Popular Front of against Muslims and weaker community’s true sentiment Defence Minister Rajnath Singh Ujh in Kathua district and secretary Abdul Wahid Sait in sections in the country. It often by voting against it. Sadly, it today paid tributes to martyred Basantar in Samba district of a statement has said that the served the interests of those chose to be on the wrong side soldiers at the Kargil War Jammu division. These two passing of NIA Bill in both in power and has been and proved its impotence Memorial in Drass as part of the bridges are significant for border houses with nominal incompetent in dealing with when it came questioning week-long celebrations of 20th security and connectivity. The opposition is a proof that cases of Hindutva attacks in authoritarian agenda. Anniversary of Kargil Vijay Defence Minister is Kathua and also connect series of programmes that will Indian parliament is getting the country. The present Abdul Wahid Sait appreciated Diwas. He also signed the accompanied by Minister of neighbouring state Punjab with showcase the tales of bravery of tuned to authoritarian agenda amendment conferring the courage expressed by Visitors Book at the War State, in the Prime Minister J&K . Basantar Bridge in Samba soldiers as well as police and of deep state. Only a few had additional powers to such a parliament members belonging Memorial. Mr Singh, in his Office, Dr. Jitendra Singh. district of Jammu Division has paramilitary personnel. BSF will the courage to question and corrupt agency is therefore not to AIMIM, CPI, CPM and message in the Visitors Book, AIR correspondent reports that been constructed by BRO at organize a weapons display vote against highly merely a concern of minorities, National Conference who wrote that on the historical these two bridges are significant an estimated cost of 41.70 crore event and camel safari for the objectionable NIA but a concern of the whole upheld their principled stand occasion he salutes all those for border security and rupees . These two bridges will youth so that they can be Amendment Bill 2019. The nation. by voting against the Bill. It warriors of Kargil War who connectivity for locals. About prove a boon for the people of inspired to join these forces and opposition parties were tamed By voting in favour of the Bill, takes moral courage and true sacrificed everything for the sake One-kilometre long Ujh Bridge the border districts of Samba serve the country. and intimidated regarding the parties like Congress, SP and sense of democracy to tell of the nation. The courage and in Kathua district has been and Kathua as they will now The Kargil war was declared over Bill with the warning of Home BSP have betrayed people truth even when you are valour of the martyrs is a lesson constructed at an estimated cost get improved connectivity with on 26th July 1999, after Indian Minister under the pretext of who voted for them. Indian massively outnumbered. to all Indians today, he added. of 44 crore rupees . Its their district Headquarters. soldiers pushed back the national security. Union Muslim League Abdul Wahid Sait added that The Defence Minister interacted construction work was started The border guarding forces like Pakistani troops, a bulk of them The track record of National decision to abstain from the the stand taken by opposition with troops and reviewed the in 2016 . The bridge will connect the Indo-Tibetan Border Force drawn from the neighbouring Investigation Agency is voting on the Bill was also parties in the parliament is situation along the Line of Actual numbers of the border villages and Border Security Force today country’s Northern Light Infantry, enough to prove Amit Sha’s highly irresponsible. It was an enough to question their claim Control (LAC) with China a short with two districts of Samba and launched a week-long special from the captured peaks. assurances against misuse of opportunity for the party as the real alternative to BJP. Punjab CM Amarinder Singh accepts Mizoram also demands NRC Navjot Sidhu’s resignation Agency wake of several non- Household Registers Bill, Aizawl, July 20, governmental organisations in 2019, Chief Minister Agency received at his Chandigarh but he refused to take over, government department for the Mizoram demanding an NRC Zoramthanga said the bill was Amritsar, July 20, residence in his absence, and forcing Amarinder to himself party’s “poor performance” in Except the Congress, all the to detect illegal immigrants necessitated by “the influx of take a d ecision. The letter, monitor his ministry’s work Punjab’s urban areas in the Lok local parties in Mizoram are after Assam published the final foreigners into Mizoram Punjab Chief Minister however, was just a single during the ongoing crucial Sabha elections. demanding introduction of draft of the NRC in July last through its porous borders”. Amarinder Singh has accepted sentence resignation, with no Paddy season that has seen the Sidhu had responded by National Register of Citizens year. “In many cases the benefits Navjot Singh Sidhu’s one-line explanation or elaboration, said power demand rise to accusing Amarinder of unfairly (NRC) in the Christian- The NRC, first published in of development and welfare resignation and forwarded the the spokesperson. unprecedented levels in an “singling” him out for the poor dominated state which shares Assam in 1951, is being programmes are found eaten same to the Governor. Sidhu had claimed to have sent unrelenting summer. show. He had said that he border with Bangladesh and updated as per directions of away to a large extent by such An official spokesperson his resignation on June 10 to Sidhu’s resignation is the latest “cannot be taken for granted” Myanmar. the Supreme Court to foreigners,” reads the bill’s disclosed that Amarinder, who Congress president Rahul in a series of events widening and was only “answerable to The ruling Mizo National Front segregate Indian citizens statement of objects and had been indisposed for the Gandhi and tweeted the same his rift with Amarinder Singh. the people of Punjab”. After he (MNF), i n its manifesto for the living in Assam from those reasons, signed by the chief last two days since arrival from more than a month later on July Sidhu, Last month, was was reshu ffled, Sidhu, even met Assembly elections in who have illegally entered the minister. Delhi, saw the resignation letter 14. Thereafter, he formally sent stripped of his portfolios of Rahul Gandhi in Delhi. November last year, had state from Bangladesh after Union Home Minister Amit this morning before sending it his papers to the chief minister’s Local Bodies, Tourism and Several issues, including Sidhu’s promised that it would initiate March 25, 1971. Shah, while speaking on the to Governor VPS Badnore to official residence when Capt Culture ministries after he visit to Pakistan, where he hugged the exercise of NRC in the state On May 18, the Mizoram NRC issue in Parliament last complete the formalities. Amarinder was in Delhi. skipped a cabinet meeting. Pakistan army chief General on the lines of Assam. Assembly unanimously Tuesday, favoured such an The chief minister had earlier, Sidhu had been allocated the Amarinder Singh had earlier Qamar Javed Bajwa and denial of The MNF is a constituent North passed a bill to create a exercise across the country. in Delhi, said he would see the power ministry in a reshuffle blamed Sidhu’s “inept Lok Sabha ticket to Sidhu’s wife East Democratic Alliance, a BJP- register of all households in The government would resignation letter, which was post the Lok Sabha elections handling” of the local Navjot Kaur from Chandigarh are floated grouping of non- the state. deport illegal immigrants from said to be behind the souring of Congress parties. While introducing the “every inch of the country’s Army monitoring Chinese activities relations between the two leaders. The MNF pledge came in the Mizoram Maintenance of soil”, Shah said in the House. in Doklam: Defence Ministry report Sport News Agency groups operating from interactions during such New Delhi July 20, territories under its control and instances. dismantle infrastructure “(But) the Indian Army is India and China have reduced operated by them. continuously monitoring ‘India to open athletics account in Tokyo their presence on the Doklam It said India will continue to take Chinese activities in the area plateau post the disengagement “robust and decisive” steps to and is adequately prepared to Olympics with 3 medals’ in 2017, but the India Army is ensure its national security. re spond to any contingency,” monitoring Chinese activities in Following the disengagement the defence ministry report said. Agency world class athlete and a bright have to have qualified coaches. sold now. It is our duty to shape the area and is adequately on August 28, 2017, after a 72- It note d that the situation along New Delhi, July 20, prospect for Indian athletic’s The AFI cannot keep on doing it,” he said, sharing timelines for prepared to respond to any day standoff at Doklam, Indian the India-China border has elusive medal in athletics. all these, don’t depend on AFI the Olympic Games in Tokyo contingency, the Defence and Chinese troops were remained peaceful. The Athletics Federation of The 20-year-old Sreeshankar for everything,” he said. (2020), Paris (2024) and Los Ministry said in a report. redeployed away from their There are a few areas along the India is hoping to win three jumped 8.20m last year, which “The target should be for Angeles (2028). In its annual report 2018-19, the respective positions. border where there are differing medals in 2020 Olympics with is the national record, though example 200 top javelin Herrmann, who took charge on ministry also said that Pakistan This year, the number of Chinese perceptions of the Line of the likes of star javelin thrower his season’s best so far is 7.97m. throwers, 400 top runners July 1, emphasised on the need should take “credible and transgressions have Actual Control. Both sides Neeraj Chopra and long jumper He is currently ranked 21 in the competing in 400m race like that, to place greater stress on irreversible” steps to stop considerably reduced, so has patrol up to their respective Murali Sreeshankar emerging as world. The gold, silver and not only a few athletes at the quality of training rather than supporting terrorists and terror the faceoffs, aggressive perceptions of LAC, it added. strong prospects, its deputy bronze winners in the 2016 elite level in each event. Only quantity. He also presented a chief coach Radhakrishnan Nair Olympics had jumped 8.38m, then we can achieve these case study of Sreeshankar and said on Friday. 8.37m and 8.29m respectively. targets for the Olympics,” he said that the Kerala long jumper In a presentation during AFI’s The deputy chief coach also said. is a bright prospect at the International National News Annual General Body Meeting predicted better performance Newly appointed High Olympics as he can come in the here, Nair claimed that India’s by Indian athletes in the 2022 Performance Director Volker range of 8.40m if he is groomed US will ensure that steps taken by athletes could and Herrmann of Germany also made properly and given right clinch 1 silver and 2 bronze in Commonwealth Games as a presentation where he coaching. next year’s Olympics in Tokyo. compared to 2018 editions. stressed on using scientific Meanwhile, India’s lone World Pakistan against terrorist outfits are He also projected India to get 1 The medal target in the 2022 training methods, building Championships medallist long gold, 2 silver and 2 bronze from Asian Games is 10 gold, 8 silver strong foundation of athletes, jumper and irreversible & sustainable: White House athletics in the 2024 Olympics and 8 bronze as against 7 gold, imparting correct coaching former 800m national record in Paris. 10 silver and 2 bronze won in according to the age of athletes, holder Sriram Singh launched Agency official, ahead of Prime official also ruled out lifting When he was later asked about 2018 edition in Jakarta. avoiding early specialisation the Indian athletics team New York, July 20, Minister Imran Khan’s first suspension of security aid to the events from which India can The medal target for 2022 and providing nutritious diet. uniform, which predominantly meeting with President Pakistan unless it sees win medals in Tokyo Games, he Commonwealth Games is 5 “Indian athletics is like a raw, has royal blue colour and Donald Trump. He added that sustained, decisive and said, “We can win medals in gold, 5 silver and 5 bronze as uncut diamond of immense stripes that incorporate saffron, The White House has said the US wants to send a irreversible action against men’s javelin, men’s long jump, against 1 gold, 1 silver and 1 value but one that cannot be white and green. that United States will ensure message to Pakistan that the terrorist and militant groups. mixed 4x400m relay and some bronze in the 2018 edition in that Pakistan’s steps against door is open to repairing He added that US will chance in men’s and women’s Gold Coast. terrorist outfits are irreversible relations, if Islamabad consider changing that 4x400m relay races.” AFI’s Planning Commission Voter ID card Lost and sustainable and not just changes its policies with suspension on certain items, The 21-year-old Neeraj, who is Chairman Lalit Bhanot said that I, the undersigned, have lost my voter ID Card bearing window dressing. A statement regard to terrorists and if Pakistan meets our security recuperating from an elbow these medal projections can be EPIC No. MPT0242800 on the way between Canchipur to issued to this effect said, the militants. The official said the concerns both in Afghanistan surgery, is currently ranked realised only if the state Singjamei on July 15, 2019. US is not taking at face-value, US remains concerned about and with regard to some of the ninth in the world. He won gold associations take more Finders are requested to hand over it to the Pakistan’s actions against terrorist groups that continue externally focus groups like medals in both the Asian Games responsibility in finding and undersigned. terrorists outfits, including the to operate in Pakistan, such as Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e- and Commonwealth Games last grooming athletes, instead of Sd/- arrest of Mumbai attack Jaish-e-Mohammed, Lashkar- Mohammed. year with efforts of 88.06m — depending on AFI alone. Bandana Wangkheimayum mastermind Hafiz Saeed. e-Taiba, and the Haqqani The Pakistan Prime Minister national record — and 86.47m “The state units will have to be Singjamei Thongam Leikai The statement came from a network. is scheduled to meet Trump respectively. pro-active. You should find out Imphal- West senior Trump Administration The senior administration at his Oval Office on Monday. He has emerged as a truly a the talents and groom them, you Contact No. 9856731964

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