82 years of service to the nation PUBLISHED SIMULTANEOUSLY FROM GUWAHATI & DIBRUGARH RN-1127/57 TECH/GH – 103/2018-2020, VOL. 82, NO. 215 www.assamtribune.com Pages 16 Price: 6.00 GUWAHATI, SATURDAY, AUGUST 8, 2020 p2 Rajapaksa clan registers p5 GMC squads to enforce p15 India’s COVID-19 management landslide win prohibition on spitting in public marked by rising recovery rate NSCN-IM unlikely to hold Akhil’s bail plea rejected talks with interlocutor Ravi GUWAHATI, Aug 7: The Special NIA Court, Naga peace talks Guwahati, today rejected the bail plea of NEW DELHI, Aug 7: The key grievances of the However, Muivah avoided the ter the approval of the Gov- KMSS leader Akhil The NSCN (IM) is unlikely NSCN (IM) against Ravi seem meeting citing ill health and ernor”. Gogoi in connection with to hold further peace talks to be his “misinterpretation” returned to the National Capi- In October last year, in a the case wherein he is with Nagaland Governor of the 2015 frame of agree- tal late last month. statement, Ravi had ruled out facing sedition charges. and Centre’s interlocutor ment and his letter to Nagaland In his June letter to the State a separate flag and constitution Gogoi had applied for bail in NIA Court, Guwahati RN Ravi as the Naga insur- government, asking it to rein government, Ravi had said the for the Nagas as demanded by on July 9. – Staff gent group has conveyed in “armed gangs”. “armed groups” were “chal- the NSCN (IM) and made it Reporter its “unhappiness” to the top The framework agreement lenging the legitimacy of the clear that the “endless nego- functionaries of the Central was signed on August 3, 2015, State government without any tiations with the insurgent TikTok ban government over his style by NSCN (IM) general secre- resistance from the State law- group under the shadow of WASHINGTON, Aug 7: of functioning, sources said tary Thuingaleng Muivah and and-order machinery and guns is not acceptable”. US President Donald on Friday. Ravi in presence of Prime “creating a crisis of confidence Ravi had said the NSCN Trump, citing India’s This comes as the top lead- Minister Narendra Modi to in the system”. (IM) has “mischievously” recent ban on Chinese ership of the NSCN (IM) has hammer out a final solution. While the letter did not dragged in the Framework social media apps, has signed executive orders arrived in Delhi for a fresh However, it is immediately not mention NSCN (IM), the Agreement and began imput- that would prevent round of negotiation with the known whether the Central group is believed to be deeply ing imaginary contents to it. TikTok and WeChat from Central government, possibly government has acceded to the upset with its content. The Framework Agree- operating in the US as with a new interlocutor. NSCN (IM)’s demand for re- Asserting his powers un- ment came after over 80 they threatened The NSCN (IM) has con- moval of Ravi as interlocutor. der Article 371A of the Con- rounds of negotiations span- America’s national veyed to the Central govern- Ravi was in Kohima on Fri- stitution, Ravi suggested that ning 18 years, with the first security and economy. – ment that the group would not day while the entire top henceforth “important law- breakthrough made in 1997 PTI hold any further negotiation NSCN (IM) leadership ar- and-order decisions like the when the ceasefire agreement III Also see page 2 with Ravi, who has been en- rived in Delhi. transfer and posting of officials was sealed after decades of in- Sushant case gaged in dialogue with the Sources said Ravi had in- entrusted with maintenance surgency in Nagaland which MUMBAI, Aug 7: Rescue operation underway after an Air India Express flight with passengers on board en route group since 2014, sources vited Muivah for talks when of law and order of and above started soon after India’s in- from Dubai skidded off the runway while landing at Karipur in Kozhikode on Friday. – PTI Actor Rhea Chakraborty, privy to the development said. the later was in Nagaland. the district level (will) be af- dependence in 1947. – PTI being investigated by the CBI on charges of abetting Sushant Singh AI flight Rajput’s suicide, NGT rejects OIL’s NEP foundation of appeared before the Enforcement Directorate crash-lands at (ED) here on Friday in connection with a money objections to report Karipur airport new India: Modi laundering case. Her KOZHIKODE, Aug NEW DELHI, Aug 7: ganised by the Ministry of “At a time when there is a business manager, Shruti Baghjan blowout 7: An Air India Ex- Prime Minister Narendra Human Resource Develop- flood of information and content, Modi, who also worked SIVASISH THAKUR recommendations of the expert ed while having a hearing press flight from Du- Modi on Friday said the new ment (HRD) and the Univer- it is important that we know for Rajput, also appeared panel on the issue of compensa- through video conferencing on bai skidded off the run- National Education Policy sity Grants Commission which information is necessary before the agency. – PTI GUWAHATI, Aug 7: The tion to the affected families. Thursday. way and broke up into (NEP) is not just a circular and (UGC). and which is not. We need in- III Also see page 3 National Green Tribunal “We have given due consid- It added that compensation two while landing at its implementation will be like “The NEP has given rise to quiry-based, discovery-based, Vaccine (NGT) on Thursday rejected eration to the objections. We to victims of categories (ii) the Karipur airport a mahayagya which will need a healthy debate and the more and analysis-based modes of NEW DELHI, Aug 7: the objections raised by the are unable to accept the same and (iii) would be subject to here tonight, police strong determination and col- we discuss and debate the teaching. This will increase the Serum Institute of India Oil India Limited to the find- at this stage for prima facie identification by the district sources said. lective efforts from all stake- more it will benefit the educa- interest to learn and participate on Friday said it has ings of the NGT-appointed view and interim compensa- administration which might AIE sources told PTI holders. tion department. It is palpable in class,” he said. entered into a new expert committee on the tion. The recommendations of be completed preferably that 184 passengers and Referring to the policy as the that questions will arise on how The NEP, which was ap- partnership with Baghjan blowout. the committee on the subject within one month. It also re- crew were in the flight. foundation of the “new India”, this huge plan will be imple- proved by the Union Cabinet international vaccine The panel had cited serious of compensation for three cat- quested the Assam State The flight – IX 1344 – he said the NEP focusses on mented. We all will together at a meeting chaired by the alliance Gavi and Bill & deficiency in OIL’s planning of egories of victims are accept- Legal Services Authority to landed at the airport at “how to think”, while the coun- implement it,” the Prime Min- Prime Minister last week, re- Melinda Gates Foundation critical operations besides ed with the clarification that the oversee the process. around 7.40 pm. try’s education system so far ister said. places the 34-year-old National to accelerate manufactur- An airline spokesper- ing and delivery of up to “mismatch between planning compensation already paid will The NGT said that it also emphasised on “what to think”. “Each one of you is directly Policy on Education framed in son said the aircraft ap- 100 million doses of and execution in site”. It be taken into account and ex- accepted the recommenda- “The new education policy involved in the implementa- 1986. – PTI COVID-19 vaccines for termed the environmental and cluded from the interim com- tion for interim compensa- parently overshot the is not just a circular. The job tion of the NEP. In terms of India as well as other low other damages caused by the pensation recommended by tion to the families who had runway. doesn’t end with the notifica- political will, I am totally com- JOCOSERIOUS and middle-income blowout as extensive. the Committee,” NGT Prin- moved out of the relief Malappuram SP Ab- tion of the policy, it has to be mitted and with you,” he said. countries. – PTI The NGT also endorsed the cipal Bench, New Delhi, stat- camps after the blowout of dul Kareem said there successfully implemented, for “A new round of dialogue May 27, 2020, and to the fam- could be casualties. which a strong determination and coordination with univer- ilies who had shifted to the Rescue operations are is needed from everyone. This sities, colleges, school educa- relief camps after explosion progressing. is like a mahayagya for build- tion boards, different States, on June 9, 2020. It had been raining ing the present and future of different stakeholders is about “The disbursement may be heavily at the time of the the country,” Modi said. to start from here. I am confi- made through the district ad- accident. He made the remarks while dent that in this conclave, bet- ministration by deposit to the Chief Minister Pi- delivering the inaugural ad- ter suggestions, effective so- bank accounts of the affected narayi Vijayan said police dress at the ‘Conclave on lutions will come out regard- families which may also be and fire force personnel Transformational Reforms in ing effective implementation overseen by the State Legal have been directed to Higher Education under Na- of NEP,” he added.