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Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio receiving a cheque of INR 5 lakh from the representatives of BitChem on Thursday. The PRO to the chief minister, Rusemtong Longkumer is also seen.

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Some of the medicines that can supposedly ‘cure serious ailments’ like blood cancer, asthma, polio, diabetes and many other diseases, being sold opposite on the roadside in Dimapur.

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Our CorrespondentKohima, Sep. 13 (EMN): A state police of-ficer, posted at Pfutsero town in Phek dis-trict, has gone missing since September 7.

Inspector Neiphretuo Metsie-o from Chiechama village, posted with the C-Company of the 5th NAP battalion in Pfut-sero town, was said to have been travelling to his place of posting from Kohima after a brief period of leave from duty. However, he neither reported for work since then nor returned to his home in Kohima; and his mobile phone is inaccessible.

Metsie-o’s wife has filed a first infor-mation report (FIR) at the North police station in Kohima on September 11 stat-ing that her husband’s whereabouts were unknown since he left for Pfutsero on September 7 at around 6.30 am. He was said to have been driving his vehicle, a Mahindra Scorpio (white), bearing regis-tration number NL 07C 2743.

Sources said it was confirmed that he reached till Zuketsa, near Pfutsero, but there was no clue as to where he went from there.

Police said efforts were on to trace the officer; however, they were unable to make any breakthrough yet. Both Kohima and Phek police are involved in the search operation, assisted by the public.

On Thursday, the Chiechama village council and youth organisation were said to have carried out a search and inquiry along with the police, while on Friday, another team of Chiechama village lead-ers and Pfutseromi youth organisation will be joining the administration force in carrying out a search operation in several locations.

There were reports that the missing cop was seen travelling with three others, but this could not be confirmed. The mat-ter is being treated as a ‘missing case’ but nothing could be ruled out at this point of time unless there is a breakthrough of some sort, a police source said.

Meanwhile, the Northern Angami Youth Organisation (NAYO) is said to have appealed to the police authori-ties to strengthen the investigating and search teams.

Eastern Mirror DeskDimapur, Sep. 13: In an attempt to persuade the Nagaland government to check the possible influx of ‘illegal immigrants’ into the state, the Naga Student’s Federation (NSF) is organ-ising a public gathering on September 14 at the clock tower in Dimapur at 11 am.

The rising fear of leav-ing 40 lakh people stateless in the second draft of the Assam’s National Register of Citizens published on July 30 had put the state of Nagaland on red alert as-suming for possible influx of immigrants. Various organi-sations including the NSF had pressured the state gov-ernment to tighten of Inner Line Permit (ILP) system and the Bengal Eastern Fron-tier Regulation Act of 1873. The federation initiated in detecting the ILP checking zones including the Chu-mukedima check gate and has been actively involved in this issue since then.

The Naga Students’ Fed-eration (NSF) president, Kesosul Christopher Ltu told Eastern Mirror that the main reason for the rally was to press the au-thority concerned on the issue of ‘illegal immigrants’, demand strict implemen-tation of Inner Line Permit (ILP), and inclusion of Di-mapur under the ambit of ILP.

Giving background in-formation about the fed-eration’s initiative on the issue this year, Christopher said: “In the first phase, we

started with the verification of ILP holders. The second phase was on August 24 where the federation sub-mitted a memorandum to the chief minister through a public gathering. The third phase will be this rally.”

When asked about the government’s initiative of forming a committee earlier last month to streamline the system of ILP and the influx of illegal immigrants, he said that the NSF does not feel the need to form such a committee.

“Through the govern-ment approval, a commit-tee was agreed upon to be formed in 2015. Likewise, in 2016, the committee was headed by the then commissioners including deputy commissioner (DC) Kohima, DC Dimapur, su-perintendent of police Ko-hima and deputy commis-sioner of police Dimapur, and secretary of justice and law. They submitted a final report and the finding of that,” said Christopher.

“So, the necessity for forming under committee or even the setting up of the committee on the preven-tion of illegal immigrants, when the state government has already formed a com-mittee to do case study the ILP system in Mizoram and Arunachal Pradesh, the need to form another com-mittee does not arise.”

The NSF has requested the citizens to extend sup-port and cooperation to-wards the proposed public gathering.

Dimapur, Sep. 13 (EMN): A three-member delegation of the Eastern Nagaland Legis-lators’ Union (ENLU) com-prising S Pangnyu Phom, minister of Health and Fam-ily Welfare; Toshi Wungtung, advisor to SCERT and IPR; and Bongkhao Konyak, ad-visor to DUDA met Dr. Rajiv Kumar, the vice chairman of Niti Aayog at New Delhi on Thursday.

Na g a l a n d g ov e r n -ment officials, according to a statement from the ENLU, accompanied the legislators. The delegation expressed the desire of the people living in the eastern districts of Nagaland for development.

Pangnyu expressed hope that the commitments made by Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his visit to Tuensang in Feb-

ruary this year to develop Eastern Nagaland “would be taken up by the govern-ment of India with all seri-ousness.”

Wungtung informed the Niti Aayog vice chair-man that project proposals have been identified on certain thrust areas ‘as per urgency’. “Highlighting the dismal state of affairs in the four districts which also happen to be among the most remote districts in the state, Wungtung appealed to the vice chairman to take up the issues expedi-tiously.”

Kumar asked the del-egation to submit detailed project reports on thrust areas so that the NITI Aay-og can ‘take it up with line ministries’. He assured to extend all possible help, it informed.

Our CorrespondentKohima, Sep. 13 (EMN): The fear of a possible short-age in supply of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) has sent residents of Kohima town into panic mode even as the Northeastern Packed LPG Transporters Associa-tion has stopped transpor-tation of cylinders to LPG agencies across the North-east since September 9.

Subsequently, the All Indane Distributors As-sociation of Kohima had on September 11 informed that there will be no supply of LPG cylinders due to the ongoing indefinite strike by the association.

The association had stopped transportation of cylinders to the LPG agen-cies across the Northeast since September 9 protest-ing the alleged alterations in the terms and conditions of the tendering process by

the Indian Oil Corporation Ltd authorities and subse-quent reduction of profit margin by 20% besides alleged shifting of the op-erations of the IOCL head office from Guwahati to Kolkatta.

Speaking to Eastern Mirror, Kuolacalie Seyie, advisor of All Indane Dis-tributors Association of Kohima while admitting the thinning of LPG stock in Kohima, also said there is not a single filled-cylinder in Kohima as the transport-ers have stopped transport-ing the cylinders to the agencies across Northeast, including Nagaland.

He informed that the association and the IOC officials were yet to arrive at an agreement. According to him, the demand of the as-sociation was genuine and transportation expense has become very high with

Washington, Sep. 13 (PTI): A resolution has been passed in the US House of Representatives asking countries like China, South Korea, Vietnam and India to end the slaughter of dogs and cats for human con-sumption, saying there is no place for such practises in a compassionate society.

In a non-controversial voice vote, the US house also passed a bill to ban American people from slaughtering dogs and cats for human consumption.

The Dog and Cat Meat Trade Prohibition Act, 2018, imposes a fine of USD 5,000 (over Rs 3,50,000) for each violation.

In another resolution,

the house has urged all countries including China, South Korea and India to end the dog and cat meat trade.

"Dogs and cats are meant for companionship and recreation. Tragically, more than 10 million dogs are killed for human con-sumption every year in Chi-na," said Congresswoman Claudia Tenney.

"There is no place in our compassionate society for these practices. This bill is a reflection of America's values, and sends a strong message to all nations that we will not stand for this inhumane and cruel treat-ment," she said.

The act was sponsored

by Republican Vern Bucha-nan and Democratic Alcee Hastings, both of Florida.

"Dogs and cats provide love and companionship to millions of people and should not be slaughtered and sold as food," Bucha-nan said.

The resolution urges the governments of Chi-na, South Korea, Vietnam, Thailand, the Philippines, Indonesia, Cambodia, Laos, India, and all other nations to adopt and en-force laws banning the dog and cat meat trade.

Consumption of dog meat is common in some parts of the Northeast India mostly Nagaland, Mizoram and Manipur.

Dimapur, Sep. 13 (EMN): A construction company, BitChem Asphalt Technolo-gies Limited, on Friday do-nated INR 5 lakh towards the Chief Minister’s Relief Fund.

According to a state-ment from the chief minis-ter’s office, a three-member team from the company led by its director of sales and marketing, Chandermohan Attri donated the money to Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio in New Delhi.

“The director apprised the chief minister that their company was not only about doing business but also serving the commu-nity. On his part, the chief minister thanked the com-pany for their concern and appreciated their humani-tarian gesture,” the state-ment read.

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Eastern Mirror DeskDimapur, Sep. 13: It is not uncommon to see quacks selling potentially harmful medicines on the sidewalks and roadsides in Indian cities but such makeshift tents usually do not remain for long as the authori-ties restrict it. Surprising-ly, such dubious tents are seen in Nagaland too and its number is swelling by the day.

The state’s commercial hub Dimapur is home to several makeshift stalls on roadsides where possible quacks, who claim to be medical practitioners, sell medicines. They offer treat-ment for all sorts of ailments such as impotency, blood cancer, paralysis, asthma, diabetes, polio, kidney stone, high blood pressure and more but the veracity of their practice is questionable.

One such practitioner by the name Baidhji, who sells medicines in his make-shift stall opposite Hillstar Digital Cinema, Dimapur, told Eastern Mirror that he has been practicing ‘medi-cine’ for the last 7-8 years and has cured many ail-ments of famous actors and politicians. He failed to produce a permit of regis-tration but instead showed ‘certificates of appreciation’ from well-known Indian ac-tors and personalities sup-posedly given in recognition of his treatment.

However, Eastern Mirror could not independently verify the authenticity of these ‘certificates of ap-

preciation’. Baidhji claimed that he brings these herbs and plants from the forests of Ladakh, and has not re-ceived any complaint so far.

“I travel by myself to and fro from Ladakh which takes me many days and get these herbs for making the medicines,” said Baidhji.

However, quacks have become a menace in the country. The recent death of a patient after going for regular dental checkups to a quack and subsequent sui-cide attempt by the quack in the Bargarh district of Odisha has sparked a big controversy with doctors now campaigning to end such unethical practices in the state through an anti-quackery law.

According to the Su-preme Court of India, any practitioners posing as qualified doctors and administering potentially dangerous and hazardous medicines to people are defined as ‘quacks.’ It struck down on quacks in a recent ruling by dismissing Kerala Ayurveda Paramparya Vaid-ya Forum’s plea to let it prac-tise indigenous medicine after the Travancore-Cochin Medical Practitioners Act, 1953 came into force. The apex court said that people with no recognised and ap-proved qualifications ‘com-mit blunders’ and precious lives lost. What doctors have to say on quacks The Chief Medical Officer (CMO) of Dimapur, Dr. K

Vikato Kinimi revealed that there have been a few inci-dences where unregistered and unqualified practition-ers were caught.

“There was a bone spe-cialist just outside the Civil Hospital in Dimapur and we found it fishy, so we went and ask for his registration permit. The person didn’t even know how many bones the human body has when asked and eventually shut

down the shop,” Kinimi told Eastern Mirror.

He said that few peo-ple were caught in a rural part of Nagaland without registration but had been practicing for many years. He added that since it has been practised for genera-tions and they already had partial knowledge in the medical field, he gave them training for 6 months and made sure they registered

themselves if they wanted to practice further.

“There are many legal steps involved when one needs to get registered for such practices,” said Ki-nimi, informing that these quacks are also called indig-enous medical practition-ers (IMP). He informed that any person or organisation having a medical practice in Nagaland must register themselves under the Naga-land Health Care Establish-ment Act.

Kinimi said that there are rules to be followed and under section 14 (i) of the Nagaland Health Care Es-tablishment Act, any person who knowingly establish or maintain a health care establishment, which is not duly registered and in con-travention of the provisions of this Act or rules made there under, shall on con-viction be punishable for a term which may extend up to one year imprisonment or fine that may extend up to INR 5,000 or both. In case of second or subsequent offences, an imprisonment for one year or with fine which may extend to INR 10,000 may be given.

He said that no case has been registered as a fall-out of taking medicines prescribed by the quacks so far but urged the public to report if they face any health setbacks after taking such medicines. “Public support and participation is required,” said the CMO adding that if such com-plaints come then a drug

inspector would be sent to verify such IMP and test the “medicines.”

A doctor from Zion hos-pital said that these quacks should not be permitted to openly sell the medicines and put risk to the lives of the people.

“They shouldn’t be al-lowed to practice and pre-scribe medicines without any registration to people as we do not know the ori-gin, source and contents of these medicines in the first place,” the doctor said.

DMC promises actionThe administrator of Di-mapur Municipal Council (DMC) told Eastern Mirror that no trade licence or per-mits have been issued to the quacks to set up their shops on the roadside.

“We will get it checked and take up necessary ac-tion if found illegal,” he as-sured.

Across the country an estimated 10 lakh quacks are practicing allopathic medicine, out of which 4 lakh belong to practitioners of Indian medicine, accord-ing to the Indian Medical Association. It has regretted that there is an acute lack of awareness among the state governments on quacks.

“The health of the gul-lible people including poor, critically ill, women and children are at stake. There-fore, there is a greater need to act against quacks wher-ever any of us come across them,” according to the association.

the hike in fuel prices, and GST levy.

Seyie said the present rate the transporters were getting was not sufficient and not enough to cover fuel expense, taxes and wages.

While the transporters association is demanding 50% hike, Seyie said that the Kohima distributors wants more than 50% hike: “we want 80-90% hike”. Citing some examples, he said the cost of loading and unload-ing cargo at Dimapur costs INR 900, Kohima INR 1500 and in Jakhama INR 1500-2000.

The total cost of trans-porting LPG cylinders from bottling plant to Kohima covering a distance of 140 km (back and forth) comes to about INR 25,000 includ-ing fuel, labour charge etc., but the amount of INR 7900 the transporters get was not sufficient, he explained.

Once the IOC officials agree to increase the profit margin by 50% as demand-ed by the association, Seyie claimed, everything would go back to normal.

Rotary Club Dimapur awards nation builders Longleng contributes to CM’s Relief Fund

NST announces city bus stops, fares

2EastErn Mirror | Dimapur, Friday, September 14, 2018

The recipients of the Rotary Club’s Nation Builders Award along with the members of the club in Dimapur.

The principal and students of MGM College are seen taking oath on cleanliness at the college premises, on Sep. 12.

CM Chang along with forest officials and village functionaries during the awareness campaign on human- animal conflict mitigation programme in Sanis under Wokha district on Sep. 11.

Dimapur, Sep. 13 (EMN): The Rotary Club of Di-mapur celebrated world literacy day by awarding 5 teachers from various government schools, the Nation Builders Award. The awards were conferred according to the guidelines set by Rotary International

Literacy Mission (RILM). The teachers were

selected on a evaluation based on marks given by students and head teachers of the respec-tive schools. The name of the awardees are Talikala, GPS Lengrijan, Tialemla Mar, GPS kevijau Colony,

Arenla Ao, GMS Signal Bosti, Holikali, GPS Y Zhi-mo Colony and Megono Chase, GPS Ward 20 Im-konglenden.

Club literacy chairman Sanjay Jain said that the club had been recognising outstanding teachers for last several years. Rotary

club president Dr Nitin agarwal also added that club was looking to do various projects in gov-ernment schools includ-ing providing safe drink-ing water, hand washing stations, setting up li-brary and making happy schools.

Dimapur, Sep. 13 (EMN): Longleng district has dis-cussed and agreed upon to contribute to the Chief Minister’s Relief Fund by collecting money from all government employ-ees, students, business-men, NGOs, civil soci-eties, village councils, religious groups, and well-wishers from the district. The collected amount would be sub-mitted to the deputy commissioner’s office on or before September 20 2018.

According to a press release from the depart-ment of IPR, the decision was taken during a coor-dination meeting com-prising administrative officers, head of depart-ments, churches, head of educational institutions, chamber of commerce & industries, NGOs, and civil societies held on Sep. 12 at the deputy

commissioner’s confer-ence hall in Longleng.

The updates informed that the Deputy Commis-sioner, John Tsulise Sang-tam, expressed gratitude to the members for their concern to render their helping hands to affected families. He reminded that Nagaland had wit-nessed unprecedented rainfall causing major disaster which affected normal life of the people in various parts of the state.

In the updates, Sang-tam has urged for the donation to reach in time so that donation could be handed over to the CM’s Fund at the right time. He appealed to all to contribute generously in rebuilding the lives of the affected families. “We must share and show our solidarity with our people affected by the flood,” Sangtam said.

Peren prepares for vaccination campDimapur, Sep. 13 (EMN): The 2nd District Task Force meeting for measles and rubella vaccination cam-paign, Sep. 11 at deputy commissioner’s confer-ence hall, New Headquar-ters, Peren.

The programme was chaired by Deputy Com-missioner (Chairman, Dis-trict Task Force Commit-tee) S. Tainiu.

Officials of various departments from Chief Medical Office, School Education, Social Welfare, District Public Relations Office and administration attended the meeting.

C h a i r i n g t h e p r o -gramme, S. Tainiu wel-comed all the members and expressed her sincere appreciation. She said that the outcome of the meet-ing should impact the over-all performance of the pro-gram that is to be carried out. She also highlighted that misconceptions, false rumors during and after the campaign are very im-portant issues that needs to be taken care of.

Dr. Nukshisangla, DPO,

RCH/UIP expressed her sincere appreciation to all the members. She gave a power point presentation on Measles and Rubella Vaccination Campaign held across the District; highlighted about the re-cap of the 1st DTFI meet-ing minutes. She also ac-knowledged the various departments for their help and support. In her pres-entation she highlighted the MRVC preparedness activities completed so far, and the District target ben-eficiaries. The presenta-tion included the ongoing activities: parent teachers meeting, teacher student interactions sessions and capacity building meetings at the health units. She also requested the DC if letters could be send out to all the village councils for miking, one or 2 days prior to the campaign. She also added saying if the administra-tion could assist during the launching of the Campaign for administering the first vaccines.

Attending the meet-ing, Dr. Ushma, RRT WHO,

Peren suggested concen-trating on some few big schools where parents could also be sensitized regarding the MRCV and clear their doubts and que-ries, during which medi-cal officers need to attend such meetings.

She also stressed on the importance on how to organize and handle situations during the vac-cination sessions in the schools and that over-crowding should be avoid-ed and requested to re-sensitise all the schools regarding this.

The deputy commi-sioner suggested that all vaccinators should be trained on AEFI. She also assured instructions and information will be sent out to all the village coun-cils for miking and also to inform all the VDB’s to inform the villages to ac-cept immunisation so that immunization coverage is 100% in their villages. She also extended full coop-eration and support from the administration for the inauguration day.

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Satoi village elects new office bearers The Satoi Village Welfare Dimapur (SVWD) elected a new office bearers for the tenure 2018-2020 during its general meeting held on Sep. 8 at Union banker residence. The new team of office bearers will be led by: Lhosheto Ayemi as chairman; Shikheto Awomi - vice chairman; Bovito Aye - general secretary; Ghovishe Aye - asst. secretary; and Kiyevi Aye as banker.

Tolic informs dept. heads, officials on Hindi fortnight closing ceremonyTown Official Language Implementation Committee (TOLIC), Kohima is organising Hindi Fortnight closing ceremony on Sep. 14 at 1:00 pm in the office premises of the Pr. Accountant General, Nagaland Kohima. Satya Prakash Tripathi, IFS, Chief Wildlife Warden, Nagaland will grace the occasion as the guest of honour along with co-chairman, secretary, TOLIC, Kohima and all HODs of central government offices, Central Bank, para-military forces, PSUs and concerned officials located at Kohima. Therefore, all concerned HODs and Officials are request-ed to attend the function.

ENPO public rally for separate state A public rally by the Eastern Nagaland Peoples’ Organi-sation (ENPO) will be held today at the public ground in Tuensang district. The ENPO public rally is being called for’ reaffirmation of the demand for separate statehood (frontier Nagaland)’ with participation from the six tribal bodies- Konyak Union, Phom Peoples’ Council, United Sangtam Likhum Pumji, Yimchunger Tribal Council, Chang Khulei Setshang, Khiamniungan Tribal Council, Eastern Nagaland Dobhashi Union, Eastern Nagaland GBs Union, Eastern Nagaland Students Federation and Eastern Nagaland Women Organisation.

NEWS IN BRIEFIn conflict: Understanding human-animal relationship from a modern perspective

Eastern Mirror DeskDimapur, Sep. 13: An awareness campaign for conservation of forest and wildlife to mitigate human elephant conflict and wild-life crime was organised by the Dimapur Wildlife Divi-sion, Nagaland Forest de-partment, at Hajang Baptist Church, Sanis in Wokha on Sep. 11, with participation of 150 persons.

According to a press release by the department, the minister for Environ-ment, Forest and Climate Change, and Parliamenta-ry Affairs, CM Chang, stat-ed that protection of forest and wildlife had been rec-ognised long back in the Indian Constitution and the directive principles of the state policy.

“Our forefathers were hunters in the past. The state government of Na-galand had implemented the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972, since Dec. 18 1981, considering the impor-tance of forest and wildlife for our survival,” he said.

He appealed to the people to protect ele-phants and come forward for declaring their land and forest for elephant based community reserve and avail benefits under the Wildlife Protection Act of 1972.

He then illustrated an example of protection of amur falcons by the peo-ple of the state which, as a result, the state has been recognised as the capital of falcons by the world com-munity.

The principal chief conservator of Forests (wildlife), Satya Prakash Tripathi, briefed on the genesis of human-ele-phant problems in Wokha district and highlighted the policies of the state gov-ernment and the ministry of Environment, Forest, and Climate Change for addressing the issue.

He also shared about the existing sanctuaries and the national park in Nagaland – Intanki Na-tional Park and gave a slideshow presentation on the concept of Commu-nity Reserves and Human-Elephant Conflict was also elaborated.

During a telephonic conversation with Eastern Mirror, Tripathi narrated that the migration route of the elephants falls un-der 46 villages in Wokha, four in Zunheboto, and two in Mokokchung dis-trict. “As it migrates the elephants destroy crops and human habitation, and inflict injury includ-ing death. At the same time, the elephants are also under threat from humans, he said.

He stated that such awareness among the people is needed since the elephants can neither be killed nor be translocated.

He explained that simi-lar programmes will be conducted in other of Wok-ha and further, all over the state along with the minis-ter for Environment, For-est and Climate Change, and his colleagues. “The

information and proposals collected during the aware-ness will then be forwarded to the ministry of Environ-ment, Forest, and Climate Change,” he assured.

Tripathi mentioned that ‘department nei-ther get resources from the state government nor the finance commission.’ “We totally dependent on the ministry of Environ-ment, Forests, and Climate Change,” he divulged while lamenting that the depart-ment are not in a position to address the villagers’ problem adequately.

Tripathi also remarked that the government is concerned about this issue and remedial steps are also on the process to prevent the elephant menace.

He appreciated the ef-forts put by the state gov-ernment in notifying all

community reserve areas into community reserves by the state government and subsequent funding by the ministry for the ben-efit of the department as well as the communities owning the areas.

D u r i n g t h e p r o -gramme, Wokha deputy commissioner, Dr. Man-azir Jeelani Samoon, la-mented how people are responsible for destroying elephant historical corri-dors and are only to blame themselves for the current situation.

In this regard he ap-pealed all to come up with alternative ways to miti-gate the problem. He stat-ed that National Disaster Management Authority has recognized elephant problem in Wokha district as the state/local disas-ters’ activity. He stated

that there is potential for developing Wokha dis-trict as a tourist spot as there are good number of wild elephants and good number of amur falcon visiting Pangti village eve-ry year. “The area can be developed on landscape level for which coordina-tion among Forest de-partment, Land Resource department and other allied departments are essentially required,” he stated.

He also made an em-phasis on opening Aad-haar linked bank accounts in order to avail benefits under different schemes of the government.

Meanwhile, Mhathung Yanthan, advisor for Horti-culture department, spoke about the current gravity of the elephant problem in most parts of Wokha

district. He opined that the department should domesticate and tame the wild elephants, if there are means, in order to mini-mise the conflict.

He also advised the vil-lagers under his constitu-encies to come up with el-ephant based community reserve at the earliest.

Superintendent of Po-lice Wokha, Manoj Kumar, in his brief speech high-lighted the fundamental duties of every citizen as laid out by the Constitu-tion of India, Article 51A (g) to protect and con-serve flora and fauna. He also stated that since 2015, every district has a coordinated unit ready to tackle wildlife crime. He appealed to the peo-ple to protect elephant to mitigate human-elephant conflict and wildlife crime.

RS Dy. Chairperson to grace JPN birth anniv. Dimapur, Sep. 13 (EMN): Deputy Chairperson of Rajya Sabha, Haivansh Naryan Singh will be gracing the 116 birth anniversary of 116 birth anniversary of Jaya Prakash Narayan on Oct. 11 2018 at Dimapur under the aegis of the Jaya Prakash Narayan Trust.

A statement from the JD (U) media cell, mentioned that the party has convened a consultative meeting on Sep. 12 at Ura Hotel Kohima with regard to this matter. It informed that the the party will be giving awards to three renowned personalities in the society who have made a mark in the field of peace and socio-political scenario in the society.

It stated that a search committee has been set up to shortlist the award contenders and after thorough scru-tiny the awardees would be selected.

The release further stated that the JD (U) party members resolved to initiate humanitarian service by extending any possible help to Kiphire and other severely affected areas by the recent monoon rains in the state.

MGM College conducts Swachhta Pachwada cleanliness drive

ANSTA informs govt. schools to partake in spelling bee

Dimapur, Sep. 13 (EMN): As part of a 15 day Swachhta Pachwada cleanliness drive, the 3rd semester students of MGM College, Dimapur along with Principal and faculties conducted the drive in Midland Colony.

The students donated Dustbins in the junction and in front of the Government Primary school, Mid-land.

Apart from cleaning the areas, student leaders gave awareness to the shopkeepers to provide dustbins in front of their shops and not to sell tobacco products.

The Principal of the college Fr. Shibu Varghese informed that 1st semester students will be lead the cleanliness drive from Kerala Sa-majam area to PWD junction from 8:20 – 9:30 am on Sep. 14.

Seeing the enthusiasm of the college students, local youths and shop keepers also joined with MGM students and appreciated them by offering refreshments.

On Sep. 12, there was a mass oath taking ceremony conducted at college auditorium. Students of 1st and 3rd semester along with Prin-cipal and faculties participated in the program.

Dimapur, Sep. 13 (EMN): The All Nagaland Teachers’ Associ-ation (ANSTA) ANSTA on Thur. urged all the selected govt. schools to take active part in the 7th Nagaland Spelling Bee Competition 2018 organised by Fountain Club Kohima in partnership with SCERTon Sep. 27 and 28 at Capital Con-vention Center, Kohima.

A press received from AN-STA stated that the selected government schools have al-ready been intimated with all necessary information by the organiser.

“Since, the forthcoming competition is organised in order to enrich the knowledge of the students and upgrade their learning abilities, the ANSTA urges all the selected Govt. Schools to take active part in the competition with well preparation,” the release stated.

Dimapur, Sep. 13 (EMN): The Nagaland State Transport (NST) has announced its proposed bus stops and tentative fares of the city bus service tfrom Dimapur to Chumuke-dima that will be launched in the next few days.An official notification from the agency stated that the serv-ice will start from Sep. 15, 2018.

The Service will originate from Dimapur NST Station at 6:00 AM and terminate at 6:00 PM at Dimapur NST Station from Monday to Saturday of the week.

Issued in public interest

1. Bus stops: 1. Dimapur Station NST 2. Burma Camp 3. Zion Hospital Jn. 4. Hollohon Petrol Pump5. Naharbari Jn. 6. Padumpukhuri Gate 7. Aoyimti Jn. 8. ARTC Gate 9. Chekiye village Gate 10. Airport Jn. 11. Diphupar Village Gate12. Central Jail Jn.13. Green Park Jn. 14. Unity Village

15. Bamboo Mission16. Sovima Village Gate 17.7th Mile 18. Tenyiphe Gate19. Shokhuvi Gate 20. Chumukedima Bazar 21. 2nd Gate Chumukedima 22. 1st Gate Chumukedima

2. Tentavive Fare: 1 Upto 2 km Rs. 5.00 2 Upto 5 km Rs 10.00 3 Upto 10 km Rs. 15.00 4 Upto 15 km Rs. 20.00 5 Above 15 km Rs. 25.00

The Federation of Nagaland State Engineering Service Associations (FONSESA) cordially invite all Engineers to attend the celebration of 51st Engineers’ Day.

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LFA Executive Committee Meeting on 18th September 2018

The Hon’ble Speaker has convened the Executive Board Meeting of Legislators’ Forum on AIDS on 18th September 2018, in the Conference Hall of Assembly Secretariat.As the Board Members are newly nominated for the 13th Legislative Assembly 2018–2023, representing each district, it is requested for all nominated members to attend. The meeting will commence soon after the meeting of Legislators’ Forum on Naga Political Issue is over.

Chief Minister Chief PatronSpeaker Patron & ConvenorLeader of Opposition Co-ConvenorMembers from each DistrictsKohima Dr. Neikiesalie Nicky Kire Dimapur Shri. Tovihoto AyeTseminyu Shri. R. Khing Phek Shri. Kuzholuzo NienuWokha Dr. Chumben Murry Zunheboto Shri. Tokugha SukhaluMokokchung Shri. Temjen Imna Along Mon Shri. NokeTuensang Shri. Toshi Wungtung Peren Shri. Namri NchangKiphire Shri. V. Kashiho Sangtam Longleng Shri. S. Pangyu PhomNoklak Shri. H. Haiying

The names of the Hon’ble Members are given below:-

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EM ImagesWongthungo Tsopoe, interacting with students at TMGHSS, Kohima.

Zhaleo Rio inspecting a work site at Balijan.

Chief Secretary, R Binchilo Thong, IAS addressing the AHODs and HODs meeting at the Secretariat Conference Hall, Kohima on Wednesday, September 12.

‘State prepared for the measles vaccination campaign’

Bhandari police nabs two with drugs

State’s chief secretary addresses meeting

NVBDCP review meeting underway

Crime update:Dimapur police nabs ten persons

Multi-skill vocational course launched in Nagaland

Zhaleo Rio inspects several sitesEastern Mirror Desk

Dimapur, sep. 13: With massive ongoing state-wide awareness campaigns on measles-rubella vacci-nation programme sched-uled to be launched on October 3, department of health and family welfare today exuded confidence success of the programme.

Speaking to Eastern Mirror, National Health Mission director Dr. Kevi-chusa Medikhru expressed confidence that the cam-paign will be a success. “Yes, we are prepared,” he affirmed and called upon every parent to be ready for the vaccination of their children assuring them that it is safe and has been scientifically proved.

The state has been undertaking preparatory works for the mega MRVC in all the districts for the past months which will cover lakhs of children all over the state.

The mega campaign will be officially launched by the chief minister, Neiphiu Rio, on October 3, 2018.

Mentioning that the campaign aims at vacci-nating every child from five months to 15 years in the state, he said that the campaign could go on for two to three months until every child is vaccinated. “The vaccination will be carried out to children from nine months to 15 years. I want to assure all the par-

ents that the vaccination is safe, which is scientifically proved and that parents should get their children vaccinated without any fear,” he stated.

When queried about the complaints from 25 school students in Assam of developing nausea, stom-ach ache, and fever after being administered with measles vaccine, the direc-tor maintained that it was all to do with anxiety and fear which led to the de-velopment of such cases. Medikhrü added that other children developed the same problems as they already had preconceived fear about contracting the same sickness.

The MR vaccination

aims to rapidly build up immunity for both measles and rubella diseases in the community so as to pre-vent the disease.

Regardless of the previ-ous immunisation status of measles or rubella vaccine, or whether the children have got measles or rubella, the children aged between nine months to 15 years are eligible for MR vaccination during the campaign.

Measles and rubella are air borne disease. The infection can spread from person to person through contact with droplets from an infected person’s sneeze or cough.

The best way to protect children from infection is to get vaccinated.

Eastern Mirror DeskDimapur, sep. 13: Contin-uing with its drive against illegal activities, Bhandari police arrested two per-sons with huge quantity of contraband drugs from Bhandari check post on September 12 night.

The two accused were intercepted by a Wokha police basing on specific information about smug-gling of the contraband drugs.

The Bhandari SDPO and APRO, Yambemo Humtsoe identified the two arrested persons as Rhanpenthung Enny (36) of Makharung village and Zimik Zingkhai (28) of Ukhrul village in Ma-nipur. Both are perma-nent residents of Baghty town.

Humtsoe said the duo were intercepted while coming from Merapani to Baghty town. Police recovered 3256 capsules of Spasmo proxyvon and 100 capsules of Nitrosun from their possession.

The seizure was said to be worth approximately INR 50,000 in the market.

The two accused are in the custody of Bhandari Police Station, Humtsoe said.

Dimapur, sep. 13 (eMN): A meeting of all the administrative heads of departments (AHoDs) and heads of departments (HoDs) was held on September 12 at the Secretari-at Conference Hall in Kohima. The meeting was presided by the State Chief Secretary, R. Binchilo Thong.

According to a press release from the information cell of the secretariat, the chief secretary sensitised the AHoDs and HoDs about matters pertaining to assem-bly questions, especially for those who had taken over their office assignments recently. He explained about the rules of procedure and conduct of business in the legislative assembly. He briefed on starred

and unstarred questions and explained about the format of questions and answers to be put forward. Thong also explained that AHoDs and HoDs should be prepared with at least 2-3 supplementary notes. He also added that ministers or advisors should be briefed with likely supplemen-tary questions.

The meeting approved the purchase of a TB detector machine from the chief secretary’s welfare fund for testing of pa-tients for tuberculosis (TB) to be installed at Tobu. The principal director, Health and Family Welfare expressed that with the procurement of CB-NAAT for the said area it would bring great relief to patients.

Dimapur, sep. 13 (eMN): A two-day state review meet-ing of the National Vec-tor Borne District Control Programme (NVBDCP) got underway in Kohima at Ho-tel Japfu which is scheduled to be held from September 13–14. The deputy director of NVBDCP, Dr. Neisakho Kere expressed hope that the deliberations under-taken in the two days meet-ing will be helpful given the state’s goal of malaria elimination by 2030.

A press note received here on Thursday informed that an overview of the pro-gramme was presented by

Dr.Talitemsula Jamir,the state programme officer of NVBDCP.The release stated as Jamir saying that there has been a sharp decline malaria positive cases dur-ing the past three years.

She mentioned that Di-mapur district was contrib-uting maximum number of malaria cases in the state. Also, she added that 95% of dengue cases were from Dimapur besides Kohima, Peren, and Mokokchung.

According to the up-dates, Dr. Kevichusa Medikhru, mission direc-tor of National Health Mis-sion stressed on malaria

elimination and said that the programme was doing a commendable job.

He encouraged the dis-tricts to not be complacent but work harder to become the first state in Northeast to eliminate malaria.

Programme implemen-tation in the districts was also given by district of-ficials.

The updates informed that, in the second day on Sep. 4, the meeting will also see a similar agenda in which programme imple-mentation in the districts will be discussed and re-viewed.

Dimapur, sep. 13 (eMN): Dimapur police, on September 6, appre-hended three persons identified as Thsepichem Langkithonger (38), Lithangba Anar (31), and Edward Yeptho (34) and recovered 200 cap-sules of Spasmo proxyvon, 88 tablets of XL- Pam 0.5 from their posses-sion. The police have also seized one Maruti Alto.

Case in this connection has been registered at Diphupar police sta-tion and investigation is going on, informed the Dimapur Police PRO.

On September 3, Dimapur police apprehended one person identified as Temjenyanger Ao (23), a resident of Railway Bazaar, Dimapur, for illegal collection of tax. Police recovered INR 550 from his possession. Case in this connection has been registered at Sub

Urban police station and investiga-tion is on, PRO said in a statement.

On September 4, Anti Extortion Team (AET) apprehended one person identified as Yevukhu Yepthomi (50), resident of Burma Camp in Dimapur, for illegal collection of tax in the name of NSCN (U) from truck drivers.

The team recovered INR 1,200 from his possession. Case in this con-nection has been registered at East Police Station for further investiga-tion.

On the same day, Dimapur police apprehended one extortionist identi-fied as Alfred Jamir (33), resident of Naga United Village, Dimapur, for illegally collecting money from shops at New Market in the name of NSCN (U). Case in this connection has been registered at West Police Station for

further investigation, the release added. On September 9, Highway Patrol team arrested three persons identified as Rokovoto, Seyiesato and Keveizoto, all from Piphema vil-lage, while trying to extort from truck drivers plying on NH-29. Case in this connection has been registered at Medziphema Police Station for fur-ther investigation.

The release also stated that Anti Extortion Team (AET) under Zone - II apprehended one person identified as Vikiqhe Sumi (45) of Wezhu New Village and a resident of Lama Bosti, Dimapur, for collecting money from butcher shops at Sub-Jail Junction area in the name of NSCN (U).

It added that case in this connec-tion has been registered at West Police Station for further investigation.

Our CorrespondentKohima, sep. 13(eMN): School education de-par tment in col labo -r a t i o n w i t h S a m a g re Shiksha, Nagaland, and Lend A Hand India (LAHI) officially launched its first phase of vocational education course, Multi-Skill Foundation Course (MSFC), for high school and higher secondary schools in Nagaland.

Speaking at the MSFC inauguration program held at Thinuovicha Memori-al GHSS on Wednesday, the director of school edu-cation, Wonthungo Tsopoe lamented Nagaland has a department for industries and commerce when the state do not even have cot-tage industry. T

herefore, he called upon the students to take education seriously, be trained the vocational edu-cation for a better future.

He also asked the par-ents to encourage their children to opt for this vo-cational subject and instill the importance of dignity of labour in their life.

He also stated that edu-cation is more than textual knowledge and a certificate but lamented that Nagas still have time to realise it.

The director, however shared his optimism that through the introduction of vocational courses in the education system, the state will produce more skilled and self-sufficient youths in the future.

State mission director, RMSA Limawabang Aier in his address, said the work culture in Naga society is waning away but intro-duction of vocational and skill-enhancement courses can steer it back to the right track.

He also said that 99% of the state resources are flowing out of the state

Dimapur, sep. 13 (eMN): Deputy Speaker of Naga-land Legislative Assembly, Zhaleo Rio on Thursday inspected sites where works were being execut-ed especially the Balijan bridge which was washed away by flash floods this year.

A press release is-sued by the Media Secre-tary NDPP 5 Ghaspani-I I A / C , T h e j a n g u k h o Yalietsu informed that the Deputy Speaker, accom-

panied by Miathou Krose, Chairman, NHHDC, and a host of officials, inspected various sites where works were being executed, par-ticularly in his constituency on Sept. 13, 2018.

The release stated that the ‘reconstruction process of the steel girder bridge which is 3 m wide and 12 m long, began in August’ and would be made pliable soon.

The release, while stat-ing that the construction

work had been contracted to Rokolhou Angami of Naagaamii Infratech Pvt Ltd. to construct bridge, said that the legislator also visited Ghokuto village and assessed ongoing develop-mental works.

It stated that the MLA, after inspecting the areas, also inspected the lower Balijan bridge between Suhoi and Hoito village and referred it for further renovation.

The Deputy Speaker

also took a firsthand assess-ment of the hanging bridge over Chathe river near Khughovi village ‘which is in a precarious condition due to erosion caused by flood currents’.

It stated that the dy. speaker asserted that pub-lic grievances are his top-most priority and added that he would extend all possible help and make necessary arrangements for repairing the hanging bridge.

like a river because of our ignorance and laziness, ‘so Nagas should start build-ing a lake to contain our resources with the pool of skilled and informed youths educated with such vocational courses’.

He s a i d t h a t f o u r schools were funded un-der CSR resources and for Kohima district, the MSFC has been implemented in TM Government Higher Secondary School (TM-GHSS) and Dr.Neilhouzhü Kire HSS while in Dimapur district it has been imple-mented in Diphupar-A GHSS and Purana Bazaar GHSS.

Aier further said that seven schools have al-ready been approved un-der vocational education for 2018-19 namely; GHSS Chumukedima, GHSS Medziphima, GHSS Cho-zuba Phek, GHSS Pungro Kiphiri, GHS Athibung in Peren district, GHSS Tizit Mon and GHSS Tuli under Mokokchung, in the next

academic session.The state project offic-

er of LAHI, Parvin Yadav, interacting with media persons on the sidelines

of the programme, said the MSFC program will be jointly overseered by LAHI and school educa-tion department for five

years and after after which RMSA will take up the program.

He added that the pro-gram was for students from standard eight to standard twelve. He further said that students can opt out of the program after completion of the foundation course in class IX and X and still get a certificate, even if they do not opt for sector specific specialization in class XI and XII.

It should be mentioned that MSFC course includes engineering, electrical training, gardening, ag-riculture, food process-ing, welding, carpentry, plumbing, healthcare and renewable energy. Trainees will be taught by two voca-tional trainers, appointed by LAHI for Kohima dis-trict.

NBSE will be the certi-fication authority for those who compete the founda-tion course.YouthNet is col-laborating with the project as a training partner.

Itanagar, Sep. 13 (PTI): Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu on Thursday said the security situation in the North East has improved considerably due to development initia-tives by the Centre.

Khandu, who was ad-dressing the 25th annual conference of DGP, IGP and heads of central police organizations of North East region here, applauded the role of the Centre in increasing the number of people from the region in the central paramilitary forces and in Delhi police.

He encouraged youths of the region to join the central paramilitary forces and urged the police or-ganisations to carry out awareness programme in this regard.

Development packages for the region, including police modernisation, have improved the security situ-ation in the area, he said

Guwahati, Sep. 13 (PTI): With LPG cylinder carriers on an indefinite strike in Assam, Indian Oil Corporation Thursday said it is considering supplying 5 kg cylinders to dis-tributors for sale at the gates of its bottling plants.

The North East Packed LPG Transporter Association (NEPLTA) began an indefinite strike from September 9 with several de-mands regarding the latest tender floated by the PSU giant.

NEPLTA operates around 3,000 trucks to transport LPG cylinders from IOC’s six plants at North Guwahati, Sarpara, Bongaigaon, Duliajan, Gopanari and Silchar to various distributors across Assam.

“Due to the strike, stocks at distributor points have almost dried up. We are trying to handle the situation so that common people

are not affected. We are now considering to give the 5 kg free trade LPG units to distribu-tors, who will sell them at the plant gates,” Indian Oil Corporation Chief General Man-ager (IndianOil-AOD) Uttiya Bhattacharyya told PTI here.

“Besides, we will make available these non-subsidised small cylinders at retail fuel stations. It will be slightly expensive, but our effort is that the kitchen should continue to run at homes,” Bhattacharyya said.

When contacted, NEPLTA President Niranjan Mahanta said the union will con-tinue with its protest unless their demands are met.

“There has been no concrete effort from the IOC to solve the issues. We have three simple demands -- shift the tender process from Kolkata to Guwahati, hike the rates by

50 per cent from the existing contract and there should not be any priority given to the distributors,” he added.

Countering the arguments given by the association, a senior IOC official looking after LPG business in Assam said the rates offered in the new tender process are at par with the existing rates.

“The period of contract has been in-creased to five years from three years at present. This will give more benefits like less amount of EMI and longer periodicity of business. On shifting of tender process, it is immaterial because this is a complete online system. No physical presence is needed at all,” the official informed.

He also refuted NEPLTA’s allegation that preference is given to distributors to enter into the transportation segment, saying that

the LPG transporters can ferry cylinders from bottling plants to any distributor, whereas the distributor transport only a few cylinders required for their consumers.

“The entire strike is to prevent entry of new blood into the business. These existing people want the nomination system so that only they can reap the benefit from IOC. We want new blood and that is why we have introduced this transparent online tender process,” the senior official said.

The Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs Department Secretary held a meeting Wednesday with the senior officials of IOC to take stock of the situation and discussed the issues raised by the association.

“Necessary instructions in this regard have been sent to DCs and SPs of Kamrup, Tinsukia, Cachar, Chirang and Dibrugarh

with information to DGP, Assam, request-ing them to take necessary action in order to ensure that the entry points/ gates to the LPG bottling plants under their respective jurisdiction are kept open, enabling smooth passage of the vehicles/employees/workers to the bottling plants,” an official release had said last night.

Further, they were also requested to take appropriate steps for maintaining law and order and ensuring uninterrupted supply of LPG packed cylinders to the consumers, it added.

This was also taken up with Additional Chief Secretary (Home and Political) to en-sure that picketers are not allowed to carry out blockade of the bottling plants and pre-vent distribution of LPG packed cylinders to the consumers.

Agartala, Sep. 13 (PTI): Tripura gov-ernment has identified over 60000 counterfeit ration cards and 2,90,776 fake PDS consumers in a digitization drive by the state government, its Law Minister Ratan Lal Nath has said.

The government is focussed on digitization and e-government services as part of its move to end corruption and bring accountability in public services, he said here on Wednesday.

“We conducted a verification through a digitization drive and found that 62,340 ration cards and 2,90,776 PDS consumers are fake,” Nath said.

In Tripura a ration card is given to a family and not an individual and includes names of all members of the family.

There were a total 9,62,046 ra-tion cards registered during the erstwhile Left Front government. But the incumbent BJP-IPFT government which assumed office in the state on March 9 this year found only 8,99,706 cards among them genuine, the min-ister said.

In the case of PDS a total 39,40,277 beneficiaries were registered under it during Left regime. The figures came down to 36,59,501 during the digitiza-tion drive, he added.

Itanagar, Sep. 13 (PTI): Union min-ister Kiren Rijiju said on Thursday that police officers must be calm and conduct themselves in a decent way.

People expect a lot from the police and so tend to be demanding and even abusive at times towards the force, he told the 25th annual confer-ence of DGP, IGP and heads of central police organizations of North East region here.

“Police can play positive role in promotion of tourism by conduct-ing themselves in decent and helpful way,” Rijiju said at the convention which would deliberate on improving

law and order situation in the region and formulate strategies to deal with new challenges.

Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu while speaking on the occasion said peace and order as the ‘prerequisite’ for development and economic growth of the state.

Security and development has to go together, and such goals cannot be achieved without the state police being efficient, he said.

“Though Arunachal has no home grown insurgency three eastern dis-tricts of the state is affected by it,” he said.

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Security in NE has improved considerably — Khandu

Mnp. Gov. launches innovative mobile app ‘Heiya’

IOC mulls giving 5-kg cylinders to distributors to counter carriers’ strike in Assam

Over 60000 fake ration cards identified in Tripura

Rijiju asks police officers to remain calm in tense situations

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Manipur governor Dr. Najma Heptulla lighting a lamp at the launch of the innovative mobile app ‘Heiya’ in Imphal, on September 12.

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Pema Khandu

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ACROSS 1. The compass point midway

between east and southeast 4. Woman (French) 7. Geopolitical division in the US 12. Pestilence 13. The longest division of geological

time 14. Pertaining to the poles 15. Southern US state 17. The Muse of lyric and love poetry 18. 60s term for fashionable 19. A waterproof raincoat made of

rubberized fabric 21. Angry 22. Egyptian goddess 24. A hard steel cutting tool 25. An open skin infection 26. Shallow container made of metal 27. A bottle with a stopper 29. The first event in a series 31. Feeling mild pleasurable

excitement 35. Ended 37. Referee stops contest (boxing) 38. German river 41. Radioactivity unit 42. Provide nourishment 43. A group of aquatic mammals 44. The 13th letter of the Hebrew

alphabet 45. Earned Run Average 46. Hindu caste member 48. Rippled 52. Magadhan language of India 53. Honorable title (Turkish) 54. Japanese fish 55. An official who carries a mace

of office 56. Small monetary unit of Japan 57. Time units (abbrev.) DOWN 1. Environmental Protection Agency 2. The god of the sun in ancient

mythology 3. Consider in detail 4. Made of fermented honey

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adding the North East must be looked on as one entity when dealing with the se-curity aspect, Khandu said.

“Though Arunachal has no home grown insurgency but the three eastern dis-tricts of the state are af-fected by it,” he said and expressed confidence that

the police, para military forces and the Army would efficiently tackle the situ-ation.

Khandu said that the Assam Police have a pivotal role to play in the security of the state since it shares borders with almost all the states in the North East.

Peace and order are the ‘prerequisite’ for de-velopment and economic growth of the state and security and development have to go together. With-out the state police being efficient such goals cannot be achieved, he said.

Union Minister of State for Home Affairs Kiren Ri-jiju said police officers must be calm and conduct them-selves in a decent way.

People expect a lot from the police and so tend to be demanding and even abusive at times towards the force, he said.

“Police can play a posi-tive role in promoting tour-ism by conducting them-selves in decent and helpful way,” Rijiju added.

The two-day conven-tion would deliberate on improving law and order situation in the region and formulating strat-egies to deal with new challenges.

Our Correspondent Imphal,Sep. 13 (EMN): The Manipur Governor Dr Najma Heptulla on Wednesday launched a multitasking mobile ap-plication named “Heiya” at the Manipur State Film Development Society (MSFDS) Auditorium at Palace Gate in Imphal.

Attending the function as chief guest, Dr Heptulla congratulated Royal Apps Inc. for their tireless ef-forts invested in develop-ing the application “Hei-ya” which much needed platform for minimising unemployment problem in the state.

She was impressed that the mobile applica-tion launched had two modules – Job and Enter-tainment , and such in-novation will help to open a gateway to all people regarding modern tech-nology, she added.

Dancers performing during the inauguration of NEATOFEST, North East Adventure Tourism Festival organised by Indian Institute of Entrepreneurship, at Bogamati in Baksa, Thursday, Sept 13, 2018.

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The Governor also said that there had been no end to the explosion of apparatus in informa-tion technology and such

advancement in informa-tion technology had made people self reliable.

She also cautioned that people especially the

young minds should be careful in putting a proper system of using advance technology so that it is not misused.

IN THE COURT OF DEPUTY COMMISSIONER DIMAPUR DISTRICT HEADQUARTER, CHUMUKEDIMA, CAMP: DIMAPUR: NAGALAND

Dt.Dimapur the 29th August 18

Sd/-Deputy Commissioner

Dimapur, Nagaland

NO.M-369/18/4189-92 Notice is hereby given that Shri C.John -Vrs- Smti. Pangerlemla Aier resident of Kashiram Town/Village in the District of Dimapur, Nagaland under Rule 50 & 51 of Assam land Revenue Regulation 1886 have applied for Mutation of land described in the schedule below :-The undersigned under Rule 52 of the said Rules do hereby invites claims/objections concerning to the said land, if any & should be submitted to this court in writing on or before 13/10/18. SCHEDULED OF LAND AND BOUNDARYName of Patta Holder : Shri. C. JohnVillage/Block No : 9, Patta No : 1621Dag No : 275/1784, Area : 00B-01K-05LsNorth : Approch Road, South : Plot of Ashie SoloEast : Plot of Limong Konyak, West : Plot of Tiamongla Aier

NOTICE

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IN THE COURT OF DEPUTY COMMISSIONER DIMAPUR DISTRICT HEADQUARTER, CHUMUKEDIMA, CAMP: DIMAPUR: NAGALAND

Dt.Dimapur the 13th Sept 18

Sd/-Deputy Commissioner

Dimapur, Nagaland

NO.M-410/18/4929-30 Notice is hereby given that Shri/Smti Vidikuonuo Solo, Vibeinuo Solo & Mary Solo -Vrs- Aten and Takotemjen Phom resident of Imkonglenden Town/Village in the District of Dimapur, Nagaland under Rule 50 & 51 of Assam land Revenue Regulation 1886 have applied for Mutation of land described in the schedule below :-The undersigned under Rule 52 of the said Rules do hereby invites claims/objections concerning to the said land, if any & should be submitted to this court in writing on or before 14/10/18.SCHEDULED OF LAND AND BOUNDARYName of Patta Holder : (1) Shri. Vidikuonuo Solo (2) Vibeinuo Solo & (3) Mary Solo, Village/Block No : NagarjanPatta No : 727, Dag No : 787/1052, Area : 00B-01K-14LsNorth : Approach Road, South : Rita AngamiEast : Kashiper, West : Approach Road

NOTICE

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IN THE COURT OF DEPUTY COMMISSIONER DIMAPUR DISTRICT HEADQUARTER, CHUMUKEDIMA, CAMP: DIMAPUR: NAGALAND

Dt.Dimapur the 13th Sept 18

Sd/-Deputy Commissioner

Dimapur, Nagaland

NO.M-409/18/4927-26 Notice is hereby given that Shri/Smti C.H. Phuba -Vrs- Shri. Mairigambo Chawang resident of UNB-Naga,Burma Camp Town/Village in the District of Dimapur, Nagaland under Rule 50 & 51 of Assam land Revenue Regulation 1886 have applied for Mutation of land described in the schedule below :-The undersigned under Rule 52 of the said Rules do hereby invites claims/objections concerning to the said land, if any & should be submitted to this court in writing on or before 14/10/18. SCHEDULED OF LAND AND BOUNDARYName of Patta Holder : Shri. C.H. PhubaVillage/Block No : 11, Patta No : 1527Dag No : 26/1708, Area : 00B-01K-15LsNorth : Nilo Rengma, South : ElunghambeEast : Elunghambe, West : Approach Road

NOTICE

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IN THE COURT OF DEPUTY COMMISSIONER DIMAPUR DISTRICT HEADQUARTER, CHUMUKEDIMA, CAMP: DIMAPUR: NAGALAND

Dt.Dimapur the 13th Sept 18

Sd/-Deputy Commissioner

Dimapur, Nagaland

NO.M-408/18/4925-26 Notice is hereby given that Shri/Smti Anthony Rongmai -Vrs- Shri. Atombo Sumi resident of UNB-Naga, Burma Camp Town/Village in the District of Dimapur, Nagaland under Rule 50 & 51 of Assam land Revenue Regulation 1886 have applied for Mutation of land described in the schedule below :-The undersigned under Rule 52 of the said Rules do hereby invites claims/objections concerning to the said land, if any & should be submitted to this court in writing on or before 14/10/18. SCHEDULED OF LAND AND BOUNDARYName of Patta Holder : Shri. Anthony RongmaiVillage/Block No : 11, Patta No : 1803Dag No : 25/637, 1332/1991, Area : 00B-01K-04LsNorth : Titus, South : LungkingbaEast : Approach Road, West : Khekato

NOTICE

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IN THE COURT OF DEPUTY COMMISSIONER DIMAPUR DISTRICT HEADQUARTER, CHUMUKEDIMA, CAMP: DIMAPUR: NAGALAND

Dt.Dimapur the 13th Sept 18

Sd/-Deputy Commissioner

Dimapur, Nagaland

NO.M-412/18/4915-16 Notice is hereby given that Shri/Smti Amongjon -Vrs- Imtisangba resident of Dimapur Town/Village in the District of Dimapur, Nagaland under Rule 50 & 51 of Assam land Revenue Regulation 1886 have applied for Mutation of land described in the schedule below :-The undersigned under Rule 52 of the said Rules do hereby invites claims/objections concerning to the said land, if any & should be submitted to this court in writing on or before 13/10/18. SCHEDULED OF LAND AND BOUNDARYName of Patta Holder : AmongjonVillage/Block No : Kuchiabill, Patta No : 873Dag No : 212/1035, Area : 00-01-01North : Watila, South : Approach RoadEast : Alongba Ao, West : Approach Road

NOTICE

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NAGALAND UNIVERSITY(A Central University Established by the Act of Parliament No.35 of 1989)

Campus :: MedziphemaSchool of Agricultural Sciences & Rural Development

Medziphema Campus - 797 106(Nagaland)Ref.No.:NU/SASRD/ADMN/B-24/17- 2251 Date: 13.09.18

Applications are invited for filling up the below mentioned posts under STINER-CFC (Science and Technology Intervention in NER - Common Facility Centre) at Nagaland University, SASRD, Medziphema Campus - a project of Ministry of DoNER, Govt. of India through CISR-NEIST, Jorhat. Interested candidates should submit a brief CV and photocopies of relevant documents and experience certificates to the office of the Pro Vice Chancellor, NU, SASRD, Medziphema Campus on or before 27.09.2018.

1. Shortlisted candidates will be called for interview. 2. No TA/DA will be admissible to the candidates appearing for the interview. 3. Above posts are purely temporary and co-terminus with the project. Sd/-

T. LANUSOSANG Pro Vice Chancellor

Sl. No. Name of the post No. of post Educational qualification Monthly emoluments

1 Project Assistant 04 M.Sc.(Ag.) in Food Processing/ Horticulture/Agronomy/Animal Husbandary

Rs.25,000/- + 8% HRA

2 Office Assistant 01 Graduate with computer knowledge & office management

Rs.20,000/- consolidated

3 Mechanic 01 Diploma in mechanical engineering Rs.20,000/- consolidated

4 Technical Assistant 01 Degree in vocation/skill on agri and allied disciplines Rs.20,000/- consolidated

5 MTS 07 Matriculation with experience in the field of machinery handling and repairing, Agriculture / Horticulture and Animal farm related works

Rs.13,110/- fixed + Rs.25/- VDA

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GOVERNMENT OF NAGALAND OFFICE OF THE DEPUTY COMMISSIONER

KOHIMA::: NAGALAND

Whereas Smti. LAXMI BEHERA W/o LT. KAILASH BEHERA, Mali, D.C. Office Kohima attached to Chief Secretary, Nagaland, Kohima resident of Officer’s Hill Colony, Kohima has applied for issue of Succession Certificate under the Indian Succession Act 1925, Part X to draw/ withdraw/ operate/ transfer his/her Late Husband- Pension, GIS & other Service Benefits entitled. Bank A/C No. 11349775573 SBI Bhanjanagar Branch. LIC Policy No. 570818633, 573698135, 570507256, 570806720 L.I.C. Bhanjanagar Branch. Who expired on 01-08-2018.

Now therefore, public are hereby asked to file claims/ objection if any within 1 (one) month from the date of issue of this notice. Sd/- (LITHRONGLA TONGPI RUTSA)

Additional Deputy CommissionerKohima: Nagaland

OBJECTION NOTICEN0.JUDL/SUCC/99/2018-VI Dated Kohima, the 5th Sept, 2018

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GOVERNMENT OF NAGALAND OFFICE OF THE DEPUTY COMMISSIONER

KOHIMA::: NAGALAND

Whereas Smti. SOLECHONU RICHA W/o LT. KEVIZOTO, Driver (INT-CID) Deptt. Of Police, Nagaland, Kohima resident of Jakhama Village, Kohima has applied for issue of Succession Certificate under the Indian Succession Act 1925, Part X to draw/ withdraw/ operate/ transfer his/her Late Husband- Pension, GPF, GIS, Leave encashment, Gratuity, NPRIS & other Service Benefits entitled. Bank A/C No. 30308158411 SBI Bazar Branch Kohima. LIC Policy No. I No-42827701 SBI Life – Smart Money Back Gold. Who expired on 14-08-2018.Now therefore, public are hereby asked to file claims/ objection if any within 1 (one) month from the date of issue of this notice. Sd/- (LITHRONGLA TONGPI RUTSA)

Additional Deputy CommissionerKohima: Nagaland

OBJECTION NOTICEN0.JUDL/SUCC/99/2018-VI Dated Kohima, the 12th Sept, 2018

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IN THE COURT OF DEPUTY COMISSIONER DIMAPUR DISTRICT: NAGALAND

Dt.Dimapur the 11th 09’ 18

Sd/-Deputy Commissioner

Dimapur, Nagaland

NO.REV-1/90-D/ /Notice is hereby given that Shri/Smti Alemla Lkr resident of Dimapur who has applied for issue of mortgage clearance concerning to Patta No. 908 Dag No. 542/988 measuring an area 00-01-14 located at Block No/Village 107 Mouza No 02 which has been mortgage in the Maharastra Bank.

Claims & Objection if any on the aforesaid land may be submitted in written in the Court of the undersigned on or before 18-09-18.

NOTICE

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AFFIDAVITI, Mr. Akhum David Longkumer, aged about 33 years, Son of late Supongwati Longkumer, Resident of H.No. 545 AFC, Agri Farm Colony, Kohima, Nagaland, do hereby solemnly affirm and declare as follows:-

1. That I am a bonafide citizen of India and a resident of the above referred address.2. That I am applying for my lost academic documents for Mount Hermon School,

North Point, P.O. Darjeeling – 7341404.3. That I appeared my Indian Certificate of Secondary Education Examination

(ICSEE) for Class-10 in the year 2001 with Academic Card bearing Index No. T/407/044, Sl. No.21757 and statement of Marks No. TV 3491497.

4. That in the year 2003, I appeared my Indian School Certificate Examination (ISCE) for Class-12 and have lost the original copy of the Pass Certificate bearing Index No. B/8393/075.

5. That inspite of my best efforts, the said documents could not be traced.6. That I declare this Affidavit to swear that I have lost my original Admission Card

bearing Index No. T/407/044, Sl. No. 21757, Statement of Marks No. TV 3491497 for class 10 and further, my Pass Certificate bearing Index No. B/8393/075 for class-12 issued by the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations, New Delhi.

7. That the statements in this Affidavit are true to my knowledge and nothing material is concealed therein.

And I sign this Affidavit on this the 13th day of September, 2018 at Kohima. DEPONENT

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Regd. No. 0208/18 Date: 13.9.18

Ministry of Ayurveda, Yoga & Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homeopathy (AYUSH)

Applications/nominations are invited from Ayurveda experts for the National Dhanwantari Ayurveda Award 2018. The awards has been instituted by Ministry of AYUSH, Government of India to be conferred on Ayurveda experts possessing qualifications included in II, III, IV schedule of IMCC Act, 1970 and having profound contribution to the field of Ayurveda. The awardees shall be felicitated with the award on the occasion of 3rd Ayurveda Day to be celebrated on Dhanwantari Jayanti (Dhanteras). The details may be accessed on http://ayush.gov.in/

The applications/nominations in the prescribed format along with necessary supported documents should reach the Ministry on the e-mail ID: awards-ayush@gov.in by 05.30 PM, 5th October, 2018. Applications received only through e-mail within the prescribed time & date shall be entertained for the award.

DAVP 17201/11/0014/1819

NO. PHQ(B-I)1/C-RECRUITMENT/2015 Dated Kma, the 13th Sept’ 2018.

In continuation to the Press Release of even No. PHQ(B-I)1/C-Recruitment/2015/2272 dated. 11.09.18, the following information is hereby issued in connection with the Registration slip issued to the candidates during submission of application with reference to advertisement of even no. NO. PHQ(B-I)1/C- Recruitment/2015/2027 dated 09.08.2017.

Any candidate(s) who has lost/ mutilated his/ her Registration Slip are hereby directed to obtain the same from PHQ by producing 1 (One) passport photo with his/her details on or before 18.09.08 during office timing.

(SANDEEP M. TAMGADGE) IPSInspector General of Police (Hqr)

Nagaland : Kohima

GOVERNMENT OF NAGALANDOFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR GENERAL OF POLICE

NAGALAND : KOHIMA

PRESS RELEASE

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New York, Sep. 13 (PTI): Technology giant Ap-ple has unveiled new iPhones, including one that is its largest and the most expensive one, and the products will be avail-able in India next month.

I n o n e of the com-pany’s signa-ture launch events at its headquarters in Cupertino, C a l i f o r n i a Wednesday, Ap p l e C E O T i m C o o k unveiled the i P h o n e X s and iPhone X s M a x , t h e m o s t a d v a n c e d iPhones ever.

The 5.8-inch iPhone Xs and 6.5-inch iPhone Xs Max feature Super Retina displays, a faster and im-proved dual camera sys-tem, the first 7-nanom-eter chip in a smartphone among other features. The company said the new iPhones would start at USD 750, USD 1,000 and USD 1,100. Last year, the starting prices were USD 700, USD 800 and USD 1,000.

iPhone Xs and iPhone Xs Max will be available for pre-order beginning Friday, September 14 and in stores beginning Fri-day, September 21.

“iPhone Xs is packed with next-generation technologies and is a huge step forward for the future of the smart-phone,” Apple’s senior vice president of World-wide Marketing Philip Schiller said.

He said iPhone Xs is not one, but two new i P h o n e m o d e l s , a n d iPhone Xs Max offers the biggest display ever in an iPhone with the biggest battery ever in an iPhone, delivering up to an hour

and a half more battery life.

iPhone XR wil l be available in 64GB, 128GB and 256GB models in white, black, blue, yellow, coral and red starting at Rs 76,900 through Ap-

ple authorised resellers. Customers will be able to pre-order iPhone XR beginning October 19 with availability begin-ning October 26 in more than 50 countries and territories including Aus-tralia, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, New Zealand and US.

iPhone Xs and iPhone Xs Max build on the all-screen design of iPhone X and feature the sharpest displays with the highest pixel density of any Apple device, the company said. iPhone Xs and iPhone Xs Max come with iOS 12, the world’s most ad-vanced mobile operating system.

Apple also introduced the Apple Watch Series 4, redesigned and re-en-gineered to help users stay connected, be more active and manage their health in new ways. While retaining the original iconic design, the fourth-generation Apple Watch has been refined, com-bining new hardware and software enhancements into a unified form.

The Series 4 watch

5EastErn Mirror | Dimapur, Friday, September 14, 2018

BUSINESS

Gold eases on muted demand; weak global cuesNew Delhi, Sep. 13 (PTI): Gold fell marginally by Rs 25 to Rs 31,600 per 10 gram at the bullion market Thursday, dampened by scanty demand amid weak global cues. Silver too shed Rs 10 at Rs 37,900 per kg due to reduced offtake by industrial units and coin makers. Traders said be-sides easing demand from jewellers and retailers at domestic spot market, a weak trend overseas, main-ly led to the decline in the precious metal prices.

Globally, gold fell 0.11 per cent to USD 1,204.80 an ounce and silver by 0.07

Apple unveils largest, most expensive iPhonewith watchOS 5 includes revolutionary health ca-pabilities, including a new accelerometer and gyro-scope, which are able to detect hard falls, and an electrical heart rate sensor that can take an electro-

cardiogram (ECG) using the new ECG app, which has been granted a classi-fication by the US federal agency Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

“The completely re-designed Apple Watch Series 4 continues to be an indispensable com-munication and fitness companion, and now with the addition of groundbreaking features, like fall detection and the first-ever ECG app offered directly to con-sumers, it also becomes

an intelligent guardian for your health,” Apple’s chief operating officer Jeff Williams said.

Beginning September 14, Apple Watch Series 4 (GPS) will be available to order in 26 countries and territories and Apple Watch Series 4 (GPS + Cel-lular) will be available to order in 16 countries and territories. Both models will be available in stores beginning September 21.

Apple explained that the Series 4 watch ena-bles customers to take an ECG reading right from the wrist using the new ECG app, which takes ad-vantage of the electrodes

built into the Digital Crown and new electrical heart rate sensor in the back crystal.

With the app, users touch the Digital Crown and after 30 seconds, re-ceive a heart rhythm clas-sification. It can classify if the heart is beating in a normal pattern or wheth-er there are signs of Atrial Fibrillation (AFib), a heart condition that could lead to major health complica-tions. All recordings, their associated classifications and any noted symptoms are stored in the Health app in a PDF that can be shared with physicians, Apple said.

per cent to USD 14.23 an ounce in Singapore.

In the national capital, gold of 99.9 per cent and 99.5 per cent purity weak-ened by Rs 25 each to Rs 31,600 and Rs 31,450 per 10 gram, respectively. The precious metal had gained

Rs 175 in yesterday’s trade.Sovereign however re-

mained steady at Rs 24,500 per piece of eight gram.

Tracking gold, silver ready eased by Rs 10 to Rs 37,900 per kg and weekly-based delivery by Rs 120 to Rs 37,285 per kg.

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DIMAPUR, FRIDAY , SEPTEMBER 14 , 2018

EastErn Mirror

Monsoon Will Come Every Year, What Do We Do?I

t’s heart-warming to see aids pouring in from all quar-ters for Kerala which was devastated by the worst flood it has faced in a century. The government of India took stock of the situation and almost all the states came

forward to help the flood-stricken state both in cash and kind. Even foreign countries offered financial assistance though it didn’t materialise after the central government denied permission to accept such help. Popular national television channels and newspapers covered the crisis ex-tensively for days, and the new media offered live updates to online readers. People cutting across boundaries tried to help the flood victims through relief materials. May be the amount of aid the state has received is just a fraction of what it actually needs to get back on its own feet but the amount of love people from all walks of life have showered on them should help in overcoming the trauma they have gone through.

Amid the catastrophic natural calamity in Kerala, there was another state — Nagaland — located in the extreme edge of north east India that was reeling from a similar situation, but almost unheard of by the people in the mainland India. It appeared like the desperate calls made by the local newspapers bounced back at the nar-row “chicken’s neck” or Siliguri Corridor. Popular media houses got drowned down south but when it took a U-turn and tried to pay some attention on this far-flung state of India, it was too late. Not a single Indian state offered help. So, the people of Nagaland had to suffer alone, ex-cept for some assuring voices from a few like actor Sush-ant Singh Rajput who donated INR 1.25 crore. The fact is that this year’s monsoon rains have not only taken some precious lives and damaged homes of many but also has cut off several villages from the rest of the state following dozens of landslides that have completely washed away roads, the main life-line of the people. The road to recov-ery will be long considering the topography and difficult terrains of the region. On top of that, the state has received just a meagre amount of about INR 2.33 crore (including Rajput’s contribution) through the chief minister’s relief fund while the state government has put the cost of dam-age at INR 800 crore.

Now, the challenge lying before the state government is to find ways to help the flood victims get back to normal life and reconstruct dozens of roads and bridges damaged by the floods and landslides. But is it possible? The an-swer is a resounding yes, provided everybody — govern-ment, opposition parties, head of departments, officials, contractors, leaders, and public — leave their differences behind and work relentlessly for the common good. The state government also needs to come up with a long-term strategy to deal with natural calamities because monsoon will come every year and there are chances of rain gods getting wilder every time it return due to climate change.

Only God will satisfy our spiritual hunger.

As we distributed snacks for children at a Bible School program, we noticed a little boy who devoured his snack. Then he also ate the leftovers of the children

at his table. Even after I gave him a bag of popcorn, he still wasn’t satisfied. As leaders, we were concerned as to why this little boy was so hungry.

It occurred to me that we can be like that boy when it comes to our emotions. We look for ways to satisfy our deepest longings, but we never find what fully satisfies us.

The prophet Isaiah invites those who are hungry and thirsty to “come, buy and eat” (Isaiah 55:1). But then he asks, “Why spend money on what is not bread, and your labor on what does not satisfy?” (v. 2). Isaiah is talking about more than just physical hunger here. God can satis-fy our spiritual and emotional hunger through the promise of His presence. The “everlasting covenant” in verse 3 is a reminder of a promise God made to David in 2 Samuel 7:8–16. Through David’s family line, a Savior would come to reconnect people to God. Later, in John 6:35 and 7:37, Jesus extended the same invitation Isaiah gave, thus iden-tifying Himself as the Savior foretold by Isaiah and other prophets.

Hungry? God invites you to come and be filled in His presence.

Father, I long to know You more. Only You can satisfy my deepest desires.

Assam is the only state that has the NRC, which was first prepared in 1951. PTI

Surajit Das | IANS

Atasi Ghosh | thewire.in

How IoT and Predictive Analysis Will Impact the Indian Transport Industry

What We Talk About When We Talk About Citizenship in IndiaIt is entirely possible for millions of rightful Indian citizens to be lost in the labyrinths of the documentation process and be unable to produce the necessary documents that prove their

citizenship, thereby being rendered non-citizens.

A report in the Wall Street Journal predicts that India’s combined workforce will increase by 12 million each month, making it

the youngest working population in the world by 2022.

Sixty-five per cent of India’s popu-lation already falls in the working-age bracket, which means that a consider-ably large group of commuters from across the country travel long distanc-es using personal vehicles and public transport. In doing so, they often battle with ill-maintained roads and insur-mountably heavy traffic. A more specific viewpoint, focusing on commuters us-ing company-sponsored cab services, reveals that these professionals spend hours traveling to and from work, with ill-planned routes and delayed pick-ups hampering their health and workplace productivity.

Therefore, several path-breaking companies are leveraging the potential of modern-day technologies to bridge the existing gaps in India’s transport sector.

This is where the role of Internet of Things (IoT) and predictive analytics in ride-sharing comes in. The objec-tive of every ride-sharing start-up is to find a solution to optimize travel. They use IoT and Artificial Intelligence (AI) to identify demand and supply patterns for transportation within the city, based on historical data. The final objective of commute-focused start-ups is to under-stand how the traffic from commercial hubs interacts with the rest of the city and identify a way to alleviate the hassle of ride-sharing within that context.

The Indian transportation industry can leverage predictive analysis and data mining to draw insights and patterns from the vast pool of big data pertain-ing to transport and traffic conditions in particular areas. Using these patterns, systems powered by AI can plot the fastest routes for commuters, factoring in multiple pick-ups and drops on the way. Such systems rely upon AI to create routes for corporate commutes and club the employees who plan to commute at similar times, thus ensuring that they take the shortest route possible.

Predictive analysis tools can also

alert drivers and passengers about im-pending bottlenecks and congestion. Such systems will reduce travel time for employees, while helping corpo-rates save the large sums of money they spend on organising company-spon-sored commutes.

Technological intervention can also bring about safety and security as far as public transport and employee com-mute services are concerned.

Corporates with 24-hour rotational shifts are obliged to provide cab services to their employees to ensure their safety. Connected services such as transport automation systems, driven by AI and IoT, can ensure that employees travel safely by collecting and storing relevant data about drivers, including their back-ground verification information and prior criminal records. Additionally, through robust mobile applications, pas-sengers can provide feedback pertaining to their experience with their drivers at the end of each trip. Advanced systems that use mobile phone sensors can also identify instances of rash driving.

Beyond the workforce commute, predictive analysis can be applied to a

holistic urban mobility scenario. It can improve public transport by forecast-ing weather conditions, determining ar-rival times of buses, and predicting the number of drivers travelling each day.

Further, advanced analytics will be able to provide data regarding the im-pact of road maintenance, signal fail-ures, accidents, and vehicle breakdowns on the overall traffic conditions, in addi-tion to circumnavigating mobility bot-tlenecks by mapping the shortest routes in real-time. This will help people in reaching their destinations as quickly as possible.

The future of transportation in India, if it continues along the technologically-enlightened path that it has embarked upon, could be smoother and less cha-otic in the near future. On the back of rapid technological advancement, the transport sector has the potential to transform itself into a well-oiled ma-chine. Commuters and travelers are advised to just sit back, fasten their seat belts, and enjoy the ride.

Surajit Das is Co-Founder and CEO of Routematic. Views expressed are

personal

The release of the final draft of Assam’s National Register of Citizens (NRC), on July 30, has opened a Pandora’s box in the

state. Although the Supreme Court has directed the government not to take any coercive action against those whose names do not figure in NRC final draft, the threat of deportation hangs like Da-mocles’s sword over the heads of almost 40 lakh people. The sheer number of people being rendered stateless makes it one of the biggest human rights issues in post-independence India.

In these volatile times, when ques-tions of citizenship and nationality frequently become fodder for identity and electoral politics, several questions – some immediate and others far-reaching – have cropped up pursuant to the release of the final draft: Who are these people? What will happen to them eventually? Will they be deported, and if yes, to where? Will they be put in deten-tion camps? Why are these people not citizens, and if they are not, then who is? What makes an individual a citizen or national, or stateless?Citizenship and nationalityFor many, the term ‘citizenship’ implies one’s national identity determined by birth, ancestry, ethnicity, culture and upbringing. Citizenship and nation-ality are often used interchangeably without realising their differences, with current right-wing, immigrant-bashing movements worldwide even construing citizenship as nationalism. So to under-stand who those left out of the Assam NRC are or what will happen to them, it is imperative to understand the nu-ances of the concept of citizenship itself and other concepts that are routinely conflated with citizenship.

Whereas citizenship and residency are legal concepts, nationality is an ethnic or

racial concept, which implies a membership of a state a person

acquires by birth, adoption, marriage or descent.

Legally speaking, citizenship in-dicates the relationship between an individual and a nation-state. Citizen-ship confers upon an individual certain rights such as protection by the state, right to vote and right to hold certain public offices, among others, in return for the fulfilment of certain duties/ob-ligations owed by the individual to the state. Countries around the world have established different systems and rules that govern the attribution of citizen-ship, the major ones being by birth, by naturalisation or by marriage. Most countries follow one of the two follow-ing systems: jus soli or jus sanguinis. Jus soli is a Latin term meaning law of the soil. Many countries follow jus soli, more commonly known as birthright citizenship. Under this concept, citi-zenship of an individual is determined by the place where the individual was born. So a child of an immigrant is a citizen as long as he/she is born in the country of immigration. The US follows the jus soli system to determine citizen-ship. Therefore, whoever is born in the US and is subject to its jurisdiction is au-tomatically granted US citizenship.

Jus sanguinis is when a person ac-quires citizenship through descent, i.e. through their parents or ancestors independent of where he/she is born. For example, a child born in India must have at least one parent who is an In-dian citizen to be conferred citizenship.

Prior to an amendment to the Citizen-ship Act, 1955 on December 3, 2004, people born in India were given citizen-ship regardless of the citizenship held by parents. After the commencement of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2003, anyone born in India must have at least one Indian parent to get citizenship by birth. A person born outside India can obtain citizenship by descent through parents and a foreigner married to an Indian citizen can obtain Indian citi-zenship after being ordinarily resident in India for seven years before making the application.

One cannot change nationality but can change citizenship upon compli-ance with legal formalities of the coun-try whose citizenship one seeks to ac-quire. An individual is a national of the state he/she is born in, can be a citizen of another state and be a resident of a third state. One can be a resident of a state and still not be a citizen. Even though legal residents enjoy many rights akin to citizens, such as the right to work, travel or study within that country, there are certain rights which are exclusive to citi-zens only (such as the right to buy prop-erty or to vote in the India context). For example, an Indian national, i.e. an in-dividual born in India, can be American citizen (holding a US passport) and Brit-ish resident (British residence permit). Many countries permit dual citizen-ship, thereby allowing their citizens to acquire citizenship of another country.Citizens and non-citizens in IndiaAre India’s 1.3 billion people then ‘citi-zens’ under the law? How does one prove one’s citizenship? Under the Citi-zenship Act, 1955 the Central govern-ment may maintain a national register of Indian citizens and issue national identity cards to every citizen. To com-ply with this law, the Citizenship (Regis-tration of Citizens and Issue of National Identity Cards) Rules, 2003 framed by the Central government made it man-datory for the registrar general of citizen registration to establish and maintain a national register of Indian citizens (NRIC) and issue national identity cards to every citizen whose particulars are entered in the NRIC. However, succes-sive governments in India have failed to implement these provisions.

With the government now finalising the Assam NRC draft, the next step that is likely to follow is the preparation of the NRIC. In the absence of any national identity card, the need of the hour is for the government to specify which docu-ments can serve as proof of citizenship as the Citizenship Act, 2003 is silent in this regard. In a country like India, where documentation is restricted to a privi-leged few, proving that one’s parent is an Indian citizen to claim citizenship is an uphill task for millions. So, it is entirely possible for someone to be considered a non-citizen for lack of documents al-though she/he is a rightful citizen.

This brings us to the question: do non-citizens have any rights before the courts of law? A simple answer to this is, yes. The Indian constitution guarantees certain fundamental rights to citizens and non-citizens alike. The framers of the constitution envisaged certain rights to be inalienable human rights and therefore the constitution guarantees such rights (Article 14: right to equality; Article 20: right to protection against punishment for retroactive laws, double jeopardy and self-incrimination; Article 21: right to protection of life and liber-ty; Article 22(1), (2): right of protection against arrest and detention in certain cases; Article 24: prohibition of employ-

ment of children in factories, mines and hazardous employment; Article 25: right to freedom of religion) to all persons ir-respective of their citizenship status.

Those who do not make it to the final NRC in Assam will not be able to appeal directly to the Tribunal; they can present their case only when the government

makes a reference of the matter to the Tribunal.

What remedy does somebody who is declared a non-citizen have against the all mighty state? In exercise of the powers conferred by the Foreigners Act, 1946, the Central government made the Foreigners (Tribunals) Order 1964 un-der which tribunals were constituted to decide whether a person is or is not a foreigner. Under the existing law, only the government or the registering au-thority can move an application before the tribunal against a person suspected to be illegally staying in India. Individu-als cannot by themselves move the For-eigners Tribunals and present their case that they are not staying illegally.

Those who do not make it to the fi-nal NRC in Assam will, therefore, not be able to appeal directly to the Tribunal; they can present their case only when the government makes a reference of the matter to the Tribunal. The only ray of hope for non-citizens is, therefore, the fundamental rights discussed above that are conferred on all persons irre-spective of citizenship status. Deporta-tion or detention without following the due process of law will tantamount to violation of the constitution. Since In-dia is a party to the International Cov-enant on Civil and Political Rights, the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Wom-en and the Convention on the Rights of the Child, it cannot deport the millions in Assam who have failed to make it to the NRC or render them stateless. Such actions would be inconsistent with the spirit of Article 51(c) of the Indian con-stitution, which mandates that India should foster respect for international law and treaty obligations.Rights of immigrants and refugeesWhat rights do people who cross bor-ders illegally have? Should they be sent back simply because they are non-citi-zens, without acknowledging how and why they were made non-citizens in the first place? Article 15 of the Univer-sal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948 (UNDHR) confers upon every individ-ual the right to have a legal connection with a state. It mandates that “Everyone has the right to a nationality. No one

shall be arbitrarily deprived of his na-tionality nor denied the right to change his nationality.”

The 1951 Refugee Convention builds on Article 14 of the UNDHR, which rec-ognises the right of individuals to seek asylum from persecution in other coun-tries. An asylum seeker who is granted leave to remain in a country gets the status of a refugee. A refugee may enjoy certain rights and benefits in the host country in addition to those provided for in the Refugee Convention.

Many states all over the world contin-ue to prosecute and render their citizens stateless regularly. The Myanmar crisis last year, when thousands of Rohingya were persecuted and chased from their homes, led to a huge influx of refugees in the subcontinent, including in India. The Indian government has resisted taking the refugees in, and even con-tended before the Supreme Court that the Rohingya refugees living in India are a potential threat to national security. The Centre could possibly take the same stance with those who will eventually fail to make it to the final NRC.

India has remained a destination of legal immigration, especially for immi-grants and refugees from Bangladesh into the states of Assam and West Ben-gal. The second half of the past century itself saw India welcoming, sometimes actively and at other times reluctantly, refugees from Tibet, Pakistan, Bangla-desh, Bhutan, Sri Lanka and Myanmar, among many others. India has signed neither the 1951 United Nations Refu-gee Convention nor its 1967 Protocol, but it continues host a significant popu-lation of refugees and stateless persons taking into consideration the humani-tarian dimension of such problems.

So far, the Indian government has been unable to deport the Rohingya refugees because of a petition before the Supreme Court challenging the pro-posed deportation as a gross violation of the fundamental rights contained in Article 14 (right to equality before the law) and Article 21 (right to life) of the Indian constitution. As the NRC debate raises political mercury levels in Assam and beyond, it is imperative for the Cen-tral and state governments to ensure that India continues to follow in the path that its constitution’s framers en-visaged for it: a tolerant, liberal country that values human rights and equality of all persons before the law.

Atasi Ghosh is an advocate at the Calcutta high court. She holds law

degrees from the University of Calcutta, the University of Cambridge and the

University of Law, Leeds.

DAILYPATH

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BIBLE READ: ISAIAH 55:1–7 THOUGHT FOR TODAY:

Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you who have no money, come, buy and eat!

~ Isaiah 55:1

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ARIES (MAR 21 - APR 19): New beginnings and promising new opportunities may ap-pear from a distant state or foreign country, Aries. Your adventurous side is excited and

enthusiastic, but the side of you that wants to stay set-tled could put up some resistance. Don’t feel you have to jump into anything. Get all the facts and assess the situation objectively. Think seriously about it all. What do you most want?

TAURUS (APR 20 - MAY 20): A financial windfall might open new doors for you, Tau-rus, and you could consider making some major changes in your life. You might think

about moving to a nicer home. Romance is definitely on your mind. If you aren’t already involved in a do-mestic situation, you might consider it seriously right now. Change can be frightening, but these changes are good. Don’t hesitate.

GEMINI (MAY 21 - JUN 21): Expect some positive changes in a current partnership, Gemini. If this is a business partnership, a new agreement between you shows promise

of success and good fortune. If this is a romance, you might be so perfectly compatible that you’re consider-ing moving to the next level of commitment. Any new partnership begun today should be promising and bring you whatever you hope to gain.

CANCER (JUN 22 - JUL 22): Have you been working out, following a new di-etary program, or both, Cancer? If so, today you could look in the mirror and

for the first time see some tangible and positive results. You’re probably looking and feeling great. Don’t abandon your efforts. You’ll want to contin-ue the progress. Keep the energy flowing by going for a run or other workout, then treat yourself to a small indulgence.

LEO (JUL 23 - AUG 22): Have you been think-ing about relocating, Leo? The siren song of distant states or exotic lands may play con-stantly in your ears. Foreign cultures could

inspire you artistically, spiritually, and personally. This is actually a time when few things are out of your reach. If you’re serious about this, look into it. You can decide once you have all the facts.

VIRGO (AUG 23 - SEP 22): Expect something new to take place regarding your home today, Virgo. Someone could come for a visit or even move in. You could be redecorating, land-

scaping, or buying new furniture. There is always the possibility that you’re moving. Whatever the changes, they’re likely to be positive despite the messy and dis-ruptive process of making them. You’ve got a lot to look forward to!

LIBRA (SEP 23 - OCT 22): Some wonder-ful news could come to you, Libra, possibly from a sibling or neighbor. It might involve money or a new opportunity that’s opening

up nearby. A group event concerning a subject you’re very interested in could also take place. You might feel you have a lot of phone calls to make and plans to think about. The future looks bright. Enjoy!

SCORPIO (OCT 23 - NOV 21): An opportu-nity to bring in extra income might arrive today, Scorpio, possibly through a female friend. Another Scorpio might be involved.

This probably involves a special, temporary project, but it could prove enjoyable and profitable. A love partner might want to participate, too. Think about it before committing. Talk to people who have done this before. It’s worth a try, anyway.

SAGITTARIUS (NOV 22 - DEC 21): This is a day of fresh beginnings for you, Sagittarius. Accomplishments in the past foster a new sense of self-confidence, along with opti-

mism and enthusiasm for the future. Travel lies ahead, and possibly advancing your education in some way. Romance also looks promising. Go for a facial or mas-sage today, or buy some new clothes. Start the new cycle by making your appearance match what you feel inside.

CAPRICORN (DEC 22 - JAN 19): If you’ve never tried your hand at the arts, Capri-corn, this is the day to do it. Your imagina-tion and ingenuity are flying high, and your

aesthetic sense is acute right now. If you aren’t already involved with such activities, look online or in the pa-per and see what classes or workshops are offered in your area. Get a friend to go with you. You’ll probably have a great time!

AQUARIUS (JAN 20 - FEB 18): You could en-counter a potential romantic partner today, Aquarius. You’ll probably meet this person at a group event and hit it off immediately.

This person is likely to be bright, physically attractive, kindhearted, and sensitive. If you’re single and avail-able, don’t pass up this opportunity. Take advantage of the event to get to know each other. Who knows where this might lead?

PISCES (FEB 19 - MAR 20): A lot of changes could be taking place in your life now, Pi-sces. Even though most of them are posi-tive, the upheaval can be unsettling right

now. Don’t give in to panic. Nothing needs to be done that you can’t handle. Take each task one step at a time. As you vault each hurdle, the road ahead seems that much smoother. When you arrive, all will be well. Keep going!

Today’s ASTRO-PREDICTION

Out of NowhereDoes everything in the world boil down to basic units – or can emergence explain how distinctive new things arise?

Paul Humphreys | Aeon

If you construct a Lego model of the University of London’s Senate House – the building that inspired the Min-istry of Truth in George Orwell’s novel

Nineteen Eighty-Four – the Lego blocks themselves remain unchanged. Take apart the structure, reassemble the blocks in the shape of the Great Pyramid of Giza or the Eiffel Tower, and the shape, weight and colour of the blocks stay the same.

This approach, applied to the world at large, is known as atomism. It holds that everything in nature is made up of tiny, immutable parts. What we perceive as change and flux are just cogs turning in the machine of the Universe – a huge but ultimately comprehensible mecha-nism that is governed by universal laws and composed of smaller units. Trying to identify these units has been the focus of science and technology for centuries. Lab experiments pick out the constituents of systems and processes; factories assemble goods from parts composed of even small-er parts; and the Standard Model tells us about the fundamental entities of modern physics.

But when phenomena don’t conform to this compositional model, we find them hard to understand. Take something as simple as a smiling baby: it is difficult, per-haps impossible, to explain a baby’s beam-ing smile by looking at the behaviour of the constituent atoms of the child in ques-tion, let alone in terms of its subatomic particles such as gluons, neutrinos and electrons. It would be better to resort to developmental psychology, or even a nar-rative account (‘The father smiled at the baby, and the baby smiled back’). Perhaps a kind of fundamental transformation has occurred, producing some new feature or object that can’t be reduced to its parts.

The notion of emergence can help us to see what’s going on here. While atomism is all about burrowing down to basic build-ing blocks, emergence looks upward and outward, to ask whether strange new phe-nomena might pop out when things get sufficiently large or complex. The author Raymond Chandler captured elements of emergence in his novel The Long Goodbye (1953): ‘A man who drinks too much on occasion is still the same man as he was sober. An alcoholic, a real alcoholic, is not the same man at all. You can’t predict any-thing about him for sure except that he will be someone you never met before.’

Emergence was popular in philosophy of science more than a century ago. Repu-table figures such as John Stuart Mill, Hen-

ri Bergson and C D Broad suggested that chemistry and biology would struggle to account for the origins of life; perhaps life could only be said to ‘emerge’ from these domains, demanding its own special laws and explanations. Beginning in the 1930s, though, advances in quantum chemistry and the discovery of the structure of DNA and RNA showed the potential of atomis-tic approaches. Soon enough, a cloud of suspicion formed over emergence and its scientific potential.

Nowadays, the concept is often in-voked by quantum mystics, believers in souls, and advocates of the inscrutable na-ture of consciousness. These are the fuzzy approaches to emergence, and we should avoid them. But emergence shouldn’t be judged on the basis of its dubious friends. Long disdained, emergence can still be a valuable addition to our ways of under-standing the world. The trick is to capture what is interesting about emergence with-out lapsing into an attitude of awed mysti-cism.

Serious approaches to emergence fall into two main categories. One of these is reasonably easy to defend: it posits that when systems get very complex, it’s im-possible to reliably predict their future states. As a result, some phenomena re-quire new, non-reducible concepts and theories to capture and account for them. Because this has to do with how we know the world, let’s call it epistemological emergence (‘epistemology’ is the study of knowledge).

In recent years, epistemological emer-gence has been associated with complex-ity theory and non-linear systems, such as the stock market and the weather. To un-derstand the difference between simple and complex systems, imagine you want to know how far a toy boat will travel when you let it loose in a free-flowing river. It is easy to calculate how far the craft will go by using the speed of the current and the time since you set it adrift. The motion of the river is linear, so the location of the boat can be deduced from the interaction of two (or more) variables. But if you let the boat go in the non-linear, turbulent waters that churn around the pillars of a pier, its ultimate location will be much harder to pinpoint, because you cannot break down a whorl or vortex into simpler component variables. The system is com-plex and must be treated as a whole. Its final state cannot be determined from the initial, underlying conditions, but only modelled statistically – that is, in a higher-order, emergent fashion.

Epistemological emergence doesn’t

threaten atomism at the fundamental level; it does not dispute that the world is ultimately made of smaller parts, but sim-ply claims that the way those pieces be-have isn’t amenable to perfect prediction. Suppose that a baby laughs and her father smiles. In principle, a strict atomist would say that all of this could be captured at a much finer-grained level of description, if we had measuring devices and computers that were powerful enough. But even the atomist would probably admit that this would be a magnificent folly. By moving to a different level of description – in this case, looking at the events in psychologi-cal terms – we can do a better job at ex-plaining our systems of interest.

A much more controversial kind of emergence can be called ontological (a philosophical term of art related to the na-ture of being). Ontological emergence sug-gests that certain features and objects are actually part of the world, not just a result of our limited theories and predictive abil-ities. This tends to upset atomists, because it undermines the view that the world is wholly compositional.

The laughing baby is an event that lies above the level of fundamental physics

Earlier emergentists separated two fundamental questions about ontological emergence. The first was: what is it about the structure of a system that underpins an emergent property? The answers led to what is called synchronic emergence. Here, the emergent thing exists simul-taneously with the things from which it emerges. For example, it might be that the conscious experience of the colour red in a person’s mind occurs at the same time as the firing of neurons from which it emerges. The idea is that consciousness might depend upon certain neural proc-esses, but that consciousness itself has real but nonphysical properties, such as awareness. (In truth, our understanding of consciousness is in its infancy, and we’re not really in a position to assess whether or not it’s ontologically emergent.)

Synchronic emergence appeals to a hierarchy of different levels of objects and properties. Biological properties, for example, can be said to occur at a higher level than chemical properties, which in turn occur at a higher level than physi-cal properties. But this hierarchy poses a potentially fatal problem for synchronic emergence, via what is known as the ex-clusion argument, brought to prominence by the Korean-American philosopher Jaegwon Kim.

Suppose you hold, as most synchronic emergentists do, that when an event oc-

curs at a level above the most fundamental, there is always a set of events lower down that fixes the simultaneous higher-order event. Recall our laughing baby, an event that lies above the level of fundamental physics. Although the chortling can’t be re-duced to physical processes, there are fun-damental physical states and structures that fix the biological and psychological states; so whenever exactly similar physi-cal processes and structures are present, a baby laughs. If you also believe that eve-rything that happens in the world goes on at the level of fundamental physics, then it follows that any causation that seems to occur at the higher level is redundant. The baby’s laugh does not cause the mother to smile, because her smile is wholly depend-ent for its existence upon a very complicat-ed set of fundamental objects, processes and structures. Nor does the laugh cause anything physical, because the domain of the physical is causally self-contained. (If you reject this view about the causal pri-macy of the physical, by the way, you are already an emergentist.)

Note how devastating this objection is to synchronic emergence. It turns all chemical, biological, psychological and other properties that don’t belong to fundamental physics into mere epiphe-nomena – features of the world that play no causal role in how the world devel-ops. However, by switching to diachronic emergence, we can avoid the exclusion problem. Diachronic emergence asks a different question: what processes over time have led to the emergent feature ap-pearing?

Consider the dynamics of mobs, where the enraged behaviour of a group of oth-erwise reasonable people seems to be a holistic property of the whole. While mobs are composed of individuals, the mob it-self exhibits features that appear to be more than just the aggregate of individual actions, and consequently to be governed by laws specific to sociology rather than to psychology.

This way of looking at mob behaviour falls prey to the exclusion argument: even when it is not discernible from the outside, deep down, everything can be explained by more basic physical processes. But there’s a different way of framing the ex-ample. Individuals who are part of a mob are significantly different after they enter the mob. They behave irrationally and display high levels of violence. In short, they have been transformed – losing fea-tures we believe are essential to civilised human beings, becoming something else entirely. (Fortunately the process is usu-

ally reversible.) The group dynamics are then an aggregate of the behaviour of the transformed individuals, rather than an ir-reducible property of the mob as a whole.

Were all the laws of nature in place at the origin of the Universe, or did they emerge through a transformation?

If you are thinking that there’s a re-ductionist riposte to this example, you are right. Ultimately this isn’t a persuasive example of transformational emergence, because the disciplines of psychology and neuroscience could eventually advance so as to explain mob behaviour at a more fundamental level. But other instances of diachronic emergence occur within phys-ics that are not so easily accommodated.

Recall the Senate House made of Lego blocks. A key feature of atomism is that the building blocks are immutable. The things we consider fundamental must be able to retain their essential properties across time; when embedded in larger units, they have the same essential prop-erties as they do in isolation. These blocks can change with respect to certain nones-sential properties, such as their position, but not with respect to those features that make the atoms the kinds of things that they are.

However, what counts as a building block has changed over the years. Our current basic units are not hydrogen, he-lium, sodium and so on, but the entities in the Standard Model of particle physics. So consider what happens when muons – one type of fundamental particle – trans-form into an electron, an electron neu-trino, and a muon neutrino. Each of those three products of the transformation is itself a fundamental particle. What has happened, it seems, is that the noncom-posite muon has been transformed into distinctively different types of noncom-posite fundamental particles – in a way that is analogous to mob members, but now there is nothing more fundamental with which to explain it away.

Thinking about emergence opens up a set of questions that are quintessentially philosophical, even though the answers might require substantial scientific input. For example: were all the laws of nature in place at the origin of the Universe, or did they emerge through some kind of trans-formation? If so, does this imply a set of ‘superlaws’ to explain how and why such transformations occurred? Such ques-tions do not arise naturally within an ato-mistic ontology – but guided by a careful approach to emergence, we might make headway and free the concept from the clutch of mystics.

Climate Change Will Increase Deaths By SuicideFrancis Vergunst, Helen Louise Berry and Massimiliano Orri | The Conversation

Extreme heat has gripped the north-ern hemisphere in recent months, and the year 2018 is on track to be among the hottest ever recorded.

Higher global temperatures are expected to have detrimental effects on our natural environments and our physical health, but what will they do to our mental health?

New research from an international team of scientists suggests that one of the most tangible impacts may be an increase in suicide rates.

Suicide is already among the leading causes of death worldwide. For people aged 15-55 years, it is among the top five causes of death. Worldwide nearly one million people die by suicide each year — more than all deaths from war and murder combined.

Using historical temperature records from the United States and Mexico, the researchers showed that suicide rates in-creased by 0.7 per cent in the U.S. and by 2.1 per cent in Mexico when the average monthly temperatures rose by 1 C.

The researchers calculated that if glo-bal temperatures continue to rise at these rates, between now and 2050 there could

be 9,000 to 40,000 additional suicides in the U.S. and Mexico alone. This is roughly equivalent to the number of additional su-icides that follow an economic recession.Spikes during heat wavesIt has been known for a long time that suicide rates spike during heat waves. Hot-ter weather has been linked with higher rates of hospital admissions for self-harm, suicide and violent suicides, as well as in-creases in population-level psychologi-cal distress, particularly in combination with high humidity. Another recent study, which combined the results of previous research on heat and suicide, concluded there is “a significant and positive associa-tion between temperature rises and inci-dence of suicide.”

Why this is remains unclear. There is a well-documented link between rising tem-peratures and interpersonal violence and suicide could be understood as an act of violence directed at oneself. Lisa Page, a researcher in psychology at King’s College London, notes:

“While speculative, perhaps the most promising mechanism to link suicide with high temperatures is a psychological one.

High temperatures have been found to lead individuals to behave in a more dis-inhibited, aggressive and violent manner, which might in turn result in an increased propensity for suicidal acts.”

Hotter temperatures are taxing on the body. They cause an increase in the stress hormone cortisol, reduce sleep quality and disrupt people’s physical activity routines. These changes can reduce well-being and increase psychological distress.Disease, water shortages, conflict and warThe effects of hotter temperatures on sui-cides are symptomatic of a much broader and more expansive problem: the impact of climate change on mental health.

Climate change will increase the frequency and severity of heat waves, droughts, storms, floods and wildfires. It will extend the range of infectious diseases such as Zika virus, malaria and Lyme dis-ease. It will contribute to food and water shortages and fuel forced migration, con-flict and war.

These events can have devastating ef-fects on people’s health, homes and liveli-hoods and directly impact psychological health and well-being.

But effects are not limited to people who suffer direct losses — for example, it

has been estimated that up to half of Hur-ricane Katrina survivors developed post-traumatic stress disorder even when they had suffered no direct physical losses.

The feelings of loss that follow cata-strophic events, including a sense of loss of safety, can erode community well-being and further undermine mental health re-silience.Building resilience through communityScientists caution that there are no quick fixes.

Vigorous greenhouse gas reduction strategies will reduce the chance of dan-gerous runaway climate change and help mitigate the worst effects of climate change on mental health, but these efforts may not be sufficient.

Installing more air conditioning units, for instance, may not significantly reduce suicide rates or mitigate the effects of ex-treme heat on health and well-being. Ad-aptation, including substantial investment in mental health services, will be essential.

Unfortunately mental health services remain woefully underfunded and over-burdened in most parts of the world. While government budgets are stretched to cope with front-line disaster relief, communi-ties will bear the burden of responding to

these challenges.Building resilience through increased

social connectedness within and between communities will be vital.Research is a matter of life and deathMental health problems have diverse manifestations that vary across contexts and throughout a lifetime. They are the re-sult of long and intricate causal pathways. Climate change is not an isolated cause of suicide, but one of several factors.

Integrating these pathways into a con-ceptual framework — for example using systems thinking — is a crucial step toward developing public policy, practice and re-search that will equip us to respond to cli-mate change.

Climate change is a daunting global public health challenge without ready solutions and we have been far too slow to take the risks seriously. We have also missed promising opportunities to use cli-mate change as a mechanism to promote improved mental health.

There is an urgent need for research that informs our understanding of the mental health consequences of climate change so that we can prepare for the chal-lenges ahead. For some, it really is a matter of life or death.

8 NATIONEastErn Mirror | Dimapur, Friday, September 14, 2018

Battle-lines drawn as Cong., BJP draw swords over Vijay Mallya

Seven militants killed in Kashmir

Breaking barriers: Hindus, Muslims unite for dev.

Banning 328 FDC a step towards rectifying ‘grave’ situation of pharma market — AIDAN

Over 150 engineers join Punjab Police as constables

J&K parties demand Tushar Mehta be kept off Article 35-A hearing

Madhya Pradesh MP booked for ‘inaugurating’ medical college before CM

Mayawati ruffles Cong. feathers by blaming UPA for fuel price

PTI

Security forces personnel near the house where terrorists were holed up during an encounter in the Kakriyal area of Reasi district in Jammu, Thursday.

Vijay Mallya (File Photo)PTI

Mayawati (File Photo)PTI

New Delhi, Sep. 13 (PTI): The Congress and the BJP on Thursday were locked in a fierce war of words over the Vijay Mallya case with Rahul Gandhi openly ac-cusing the finance minister of lying and allowing the billionaire tycoon to flee the country. The BJP threw a counter punch, claiming that the Gandhi family tried to help Mallya’s flounder-ing Kingfisher Airlines in 2011-12.

A day after the former Kingfisher Airlines boss said in London that he met Arun Jaitley before leaving India and offered to settle his dues -- a charge the finance minister denied as “false” -- the battle-lines were firmly drawn.

Seeking to back his ac-cusation, Congress presi-dent Rahul Gandhi said party MP P L Punia saw Jaitley sitting with Mallya in Parliament’s Central Hall on March 1, 2016 and held an elaborate 15-20 minute meeting with him. Punia added that he had seen Jaitley and Mallya talking discreetly when he was in the Central Hall of Parlia-ment. “On March 3, we heard from the media that he (Mallya) fled the country on March 2. I have clearly stated about this in each of my interview with the me-dia. There are CCTV cam-eras, we can all see that for proof. If I am wrong, I will

resign from politics,” Punia said at a press conference.

Stepping up his attack, Gandhi asked Jaitley to re-sign and challenged Jaitley to get CCTV footage of the day. “Mr Jaitley is lying, the government is lying on Rafale and the government is lying on Vijay Mallya. A meeting was held with Mr Arun Jaitley and Vijay Mallya. The logistics of Mr Mallya leaving the coun-try were discussed in that meeting,” Gandhi alleged, bringing in the Rafale fighter jet deal. He went on to say that Mallya was given free passage out of the country by the finance minister. Describing it as an “open and shut case of collusion”, he alleged there was some deal between Jaitley and Mallya. “The

criminal had told him, ‘I am going to run away to London’. The finance min-ister has accepted publicly that he has been told by a criminal that he is going to run away and the finance minister has not done any-thing, has not informed the CBI, and has not informed the ED,” Gandhi said.

The BJP hit back with equal ferocity, blaming the UPA government of giving a “sweet deal” to Kingfisher Airlines to keep it afloat and suggesting the airlines was perhaps owned by the Gandhi family.

“There is a series of let-ters between the RBI (Re-serve Bank of India) and the SBI (State Bank of India). These letters show us how the previous dispensation under Sonia Gandhi was

biased, partial and kept all norms and regulations at bay to give a sweet deal to Kingfisher Airlines,” party spokesperson Sambit Patra told reporters, showing a bunch of documents.

“Sometimes it seems the airline was not owned by Mallya, but by the Gan-dhi family in proxy,” Patra added.

Union minister Piyush Goyal joined the chorus of protest from the rul-ing party and said Rahul Gandhi should explain the relations between his fam-ily and Mallya.

The now-defunct King-fisher Airlines was given loans bypassing all norms, laws and regulations, Goyal said.

Countering Rahul Gan-dhi’s demand for Jaitley’s resignation, he said the Congress president should instead quit all the posts he holds. Mallya, he as-serted, had no credibility as he was under the “glare of law” and was a criminal. He could not be taken seri-ously, Goyal added.

His party colleague Subramanian Swamy also spoke on the issue.

“We have now two un-deniable facts on the Mallya escape issue: 1. Look Out Notice was diluted on Oct 24, 2015 from ‘Block’ to ‘Report’ departure enabling Mallya to depart with 54 checked luggage items. 2.

Mallya told FM in Central Hall of Parliament that he was leaving for London,” he said on Twitter.

Immediate ly a f ter Jaitley’s sharp rebuttal Wednesday, Mallya had appeared to tone down the seriousness of his com-ments, saying it was “not fair” to create a controversy over this issue as it was not a “formal meeting” and he only “happened to meet” the finance minister.

The 62-year-old former liquor and aviation baron, who had appeared before a London court in the case regarding his extradition to India to face the trial on fraud and money launder-ing charges, was asked by reporters if he was “tipped off” to leave the country.

“I left because I had a scheduled meeting in Geneva. I met the finance minister before I left, re-peated my offer to settle with the banks. That is the truth,” he responded.

Jaitley, who was finance minister in 2016 when Mallya left India, said in a Facebook post that he had not given Mallya an appointment to meet him since 2014. Jaitley said Mallya had “misused” the privilege of being a Rajya Sabha MP to catch him in corridors of Parliament on one occasion while he was walking out of the House to go to his room.

Srinagar/Jammu, Sep. 13 (IANS): Seven militants were killed and eight secu-rity personnel injured on Thursday in three separate gun battles in Jammu and Kashmir, with three dying close to the Line of Control (LoC), authorities said.

While three militants were killed in Kupwara dis-trict, two each were shot dead in Reasi and Sopore, military officials said.

Soldiers from the Jam-mu and Kashmir Rifles noticed suspicious move-ments along the LoC in Dat Gali area of Kupwara’s Ker-an sector and challenged a small group trying to sneak into India, triggering a gun battle.

“Three terrorists were killed. Their bodies are lying close to the border fence and have not been recovered yet,” a Defence Ministry source said. The area was still being searched.

Two militants were killed in Arampore area in

Sopore town.Police said the security

forces, including Rashtriya Rifles, the Special Opera-tions Group and the Cen-tral Reserve Police Force (CRPF), cordoned off the area in the morning after being tipped off about the gunmen. “As the cordon was tightened, the militants opened fire,” a police of-ficer said.

Two others were killed in Reasi district after an Army operation that began early in the day, General Of-ficer Commanding (GOC) Major General Arvind Bha-tia said. Eight security per-sonnel, including a Deputy Superintendent of Police, were injured in the fighting in Kakriyal village near the Mata Vaishno Devi Uni-versity.

The dead were among the three militants who had opened fire on the Jammu-Srinagar highway in Udhampur district from a truck before escaping on Wednesday.

The Army, police and CRPF tracked down the militants using drones, helicopters and other sur-veillance gadgets in the forests of Jhajar and adjoin-ing areas.

Those injured in the Wednesday militant attack included a CRPF trooper.

Once the militants were discovered, the villagers were evacuated before the final assault on the mili-tants was mounted.

A villager earlier told the security forces that on Wednesday night the three armed militants entered his home, changed their clothes, took away biscuits and water and left.

Traffic on the nation-al highway between Na-grota and Jhajar Kotli was suspended on Thursday. Schools in the area were also closed.

The police on Wednes-day detained the driver and helper of the truck. An AK-47 rifle and three maga-zines were recovered.

Lucknow, Sep. 13 (PTI): Hindus and Muslims in Jalaun district of Uttar Pradesh have transcended communal barriers to help the local administration in relocating some religious structures which had held up building of a flyover for 14 long years.

In all, two temples, sev-en mazaars (tombs) and a mosque have been relo-cated, while a portion of a boundary wall of a dargah (the grave of a revered reli-gious figure) was removed to facilitate construction of the flyover.

Superintendent of Po-lice, Jalaun, Dr Aravind Chatur vedi , to ld PTI Thursday, “On the Kanpur-Jhansi National Highway, the stretch between 242-km landmark and 244-km landmark is called Kalpi Khand. The National High-ways Authority of India (NHAI) had to construct a 1.5 km long flyover for

smooth movement of traf-fic”.

“But the NHAI faced a grave problem when it had to lay a service road (almost 5.5 metres wide on either side of the flyover) before they commenced the main construction in Jalaun, 220 kms from the state capital Lucknow” he said.

“It was on one of these stretches of service road (from Kanpur to Jalaun) that there were two tem-ples, seven mazaars and one mosque, leading to the problem which existed for almost 14 years,” the SP said.

The current district administration and police machinery held a number of rounds of meetings with the stakeholders --both Hindus and Mus-lims.

“It was then agreed by all that for development, these religious structures have to be relocated. The

task was undertaken on September 8,” he said.

“A Shiva temple has been relocated, while the sanctum sanctorum of a Durga temple will be shift-ed along with the idol as soon as the new temple is ready. The area where the new temple will come up has also been identified,” he said.

Chaturvedi said that in the past 5-6 years, more than 100 persons, mostly school-going children, have lost their lives in acci-dents, which had occurred on this patch.

“Apart from this, seven mazaars have been relo-cated. One mosque was also relocated,” the SP said, adding the entire work was done under “Operation Sahyog”.

It was also agreed upon that a very old mazaar, which falls outside the ambit of the service road, should remain intact.

Currently, the NHAI is doing some beautification work of the Durga temple and the centuries-old ma-zaar, the SP said.

When contacted, Dis-trict Magistrate of Jalaun, Mannan Akhtar, told PTI, “The shifting of the reli-gious structures located on the Kanpur-Jhansi National Highway was undertaken on September 8 and com-pleted that day itself. There was cooperation by major-ity of the people.”

“Till now the Kanpur-Jhansi National highway was virtually single-lane for the past 14 years,” the district magistrate said.

Akhtar said the dia-logue process with all stakeholders took almost 5-6 months and a number of meetings and back channel talks were held with them to resolve the matter amicably.

“We made everyone agree on this,” he said.

New Delhi, Sep. 13 (PTI): Laud-ing the government’s decision to ban 328 fixed-dose combination (FDC) of drugs and restricting another six, a group of NGOs Thursday said it was a step to-wards rectifying the “grave” situa-tion of the pharma market which they alleged was brimming with innumerable irrational FDCs.

All India Drug Action Network (AIDAN), a network of NGOs that work to increase access and im-prove the rational use of essential medicines, said the people have been supplied with unsafe medi-cines for far too long.

The health ministry has banned the manufacture, sale and distribution of 328 fixed doze combination (FDC) of drugs with immediate effect and restricted another six. Among the brands which may get affected by the ban are popular drugs including painkillers like Saridon.

“It reinforces our constant demand for approval, and use, of only rational medicines in India. Rationality needs to be demon-strated by safety, efficacy and therapeutic justification. None of the FDCs meets the criteria of a rational and safe FDC.

“The people of India have been made the consumers of unsafe medicines for too long and this is one step towards rec-tifying the grave situation of a pharma market brimming with innumerable irrational FDCs,” the network said in a statement.

According to reports, other brands which may get affected include skin cream Panderm, combination diabetes drug Glu-conorm PG, antibiotic Lupidiclox and others.

The network said when the ban on FDCs was notified, phar-ma companies in court cases questioned the locus standi and powers of the Central govern-ment to ban drugs in India.

The Health Ministry, through its notification published on March 10, 2016, had prohibited the manufacture for sale and dis-tribution for human use of 349 FDCs under Section 26 A of the Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940.

But the matter was contested by the affected manufacturers in various high courts and the Supreme Court.

Complying with the Supreme Court verdict in December last year, an expert panel formed by the Drugs Technical Advisory Board (DTAB), in its report to the Centre, stated that there is no therapeutic justification for the ingredients contained in 328 FDCs and that these FDCs may involve risk to human beings.

AIDAN said the important re-maining issue of the 344 plus five FDCs has finally been resolved, save for the 15 FDCs that were excluded, in compliance with the December 15, 2017 Supreme Court verdict, pending formal notification by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.

“With this development, In-dia’s regulatory system and its judicial system stand redeemed,” it said.

“We urge the government to take swift action on the 15 FDCs that were excluded from the noti-fication on the basis of safety and efficacy considerations,” it added.

The network noted that the FDCs under scrutiny account for approximately Rs. 2,500 crore in sales and represent only the tip of the iceberg.

“In our estimation, the market of unsafe, problematic FDCs in India is at least one fourth of the total pharma market valued at Rs. 1.3 trillion,” it said.

The task that remains is com-bating the continued prevalence of a very large number of FDCs of doubtful scientific validity which have somehow slipped through the net and been approved wrongly by the Central Govern-ment, it pointed out.

“Review of all such FDCs in the market is required in the interest of patient safety. Such a review had also been recom-mended by the Kokate Commit-tee. Only then can India’s pharma regulatory system hope to gar-ner respect across the world,” it added.

The network also said they were “appalled” at the pharma industry’s disinformation and claims that the recommenda-tions of the sub-committee will deal a huge blow to it.

Kapurthala, Sep. 13 (PTI): Over 150 candidates with M Tech and B Tech degrees have opted for the post of constable in the Punjab Police, a senior officer said Thursday.

These engineering graduates were recruited as constables in the IT and intelligence wing of the Punjab Police, and they com-pleted their nine-month training on Thursday, Commandant (training centre) Rajpal Singh Sandhu said here.

IG (intelligence) Ram Singh participated in the passing out parade of these trainees and took the salute at march past from contingents of 257 trainees.

Ram Singh advised the constables to discharge their duties honestly and uphold the dignity of the Punjab Police.

He said the training centre has imparted training in physical exercises, drills, weapon handling and shooting, besides teach-ing subjects like law, IT and intelligence to over 60,000 constables since its inception in 1993.

Srinagar, Sep. 13 (IANS): Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Min-ister Omar Abdullah on Thursday said the All-Party Meeting that was held in Srinagar demanded that Additional Solicitor General (ASG) Tushar Mehta be kept away from the Article 35-A proceedings in the Supreme Court.

Omar Abdullah said the par-ties at the meeting made the de-mand because Mehta “has been going beyond his brief”. At the last hearing of the case in the apex court, the ASG had said that “it cannot be denied that there is an aspect of gender discrimination in Article 35-A”.

“Even the state government

has accepted this. So we don’t trust him. We have all decided that Mehta should be taken off the case when this comes up for hearing in January,” Omar Abdullha said.

The former Chief Minister said Mehta was sent to defend the state and Article 35-A and he was representing the government. However, “we don’t trust him any-more. The meeting took place at the residence of Member Parlia-ment and former Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah on Gupkar Road in Srinagar. The parties also de-manded that the case should not be taken up for hearing till Jammu and Kashmir has an elected gov-ernment.

Ratlam (MP), Sep. 13 (PTI): Congress MP Kantilal Bhu-ria has been booked by the police for ‘inaugurating’ a government medical col-lege here a day before Mad-hya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan was scheduled to launch it, an official said on Thursday.

Bhuria, a former Union minister, represents the Ratlam-Jhabua Lok Sabha seat.

In a game of one-up-manship ahead of the up-coming Assembly elections in the state, Bhuria reached the Government Medical College at Banjli in Ratlam along with his supporters and a priest and held a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Tuesday.

After the district ad-ministration was alerted about it, officials were rushed to the spot and police personnel were de-ployed there.

“A case under section 144 of CrPC (prohibiting assembly of more than four people in an area) and IPC sections 188 (disobedience to order duly promulgat-ed by public servant) 448 (punishment for house-trespass) was registered against Bhuria and 15 oth-

ers based on a complaint given by the college ad-ministration in this regard,” Ratlam Superintendent of Police (SP) Gaurav Tiwari said.

On Wednesday, Chou-han formally inaugurated the medical college build-ing that has been con-structed at a cost of Rs 350 crore.

“After 1964, no new medical college was es-tablished in the state. But after I became the chief minister, we decided to set up a medical college in Sagar and five years back in Ratlam. Now the state has a total of 17 medical colleges, including 11 government ones,” he added.

E a r l i e r , M a d h y a Pradesh used to produce 600 doctors annually, but now 2,600 medicos will be available every year in the state. This will also help us in serving the rural areas, Chouhan said.

According to him, a 750-bed hospital will also be constructed at the col-lege for the people of the region.

Assembly elections in the state are scheduled to be held by the end of this year.

Lucknow, Sep. 13 (PTI): BSP president Mayawati’s remarks holding the previ-ous UPA government and the BJP equally responsible for the steep hike in fuel prices has ruffled many a feather in the Congress rank and file whose leaders feel it will once again raise a question mark on attempts at striking Opposition unity ahead of the 2019 Lok Sab-ha polls.

The BSP chief’s views on fuel price hike came a day after her party stayed away from the “Bharat bandh” call given by the Congress on the issue.

“These remarks, at a time when the need for unity among Opposition parties is being felt clearly among all partners, could send a wrong signal both to the public and the rul-ing party which is already doubting our strength,” a Congress insider said Thursday requesting ano-

nymity.“Party workers are

not happy with the BSP president’s observations and they are very scepti-cal about her intentions,” he said, adding the Cen-tral party leadership surely needs to take note of it.

A senior Congress lead-er said her views on the topic needs to be viewed as her bargaining tactics for more seats in the Assembly

polls in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh.

“Although the founda-tion of the intricacies of the alliance for the Lok Sabha polls will be set much be-fore in the Assembly polls in these states, the party needs to be clear that its ne-gotiations on seat sharing should not be at the cost of the party and its workers as Congress is the stronger party in these states,” he

said.Speaking on the fuel

price hike, Mayawati has stated both the NDA and the UPA had disregarded the interest of the farmers and the poor.

The previous United Progressive Alliance (UPA) regime had brought fuel out of government control and the ruling National Democratic Alliance (NDA) continued with the policy, she had said, adding that after coming to power in 2014, the NDA had deregu-lated diesel, which had hurt the interest of the poor.

Mayawati’s statement is largely being viewed in the political circles as a dent in opposition unity against the BJP ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.

She had also criticised incidents of violence in some states during the pro-test, saying her party had always desisted from such acts.

9WORLDEastErn Mirror | Dimapur, Friday, September 14, 2018

Reuters pair in Myanmar not jailed because of journalism — Suu Kyi

SUMMON FOR SETTLEMENT OF ISSUE(ORDER - V, RULE- 1, 5, 20)

IN THE COURT OF W.V. Patton Civil Judge JR DivisionDimapur Nagaland

Suit No M.S. No.443/18Plaintiff STATE BANK OF INDIADefendants Robin ODYuoToShri. Robin OdyuoLonglangba Complex, Ward - 6, ChumukedimaDimapur - 797103: NagalandWhereas the plaintiff has instituted a suit against you for realisation of Rs 34,771.00/-You are hereby summoned to appear before the court in person or by pleader duly instructed and able to answer all material questions relating to the suit on 5-10-18 10:00 a.m. without fail.Take notice that in default of your appearance on the date mentioned the suit will be heard and determined in your absence.Given under my hand and the seal of the court 31st day of August, 2018.

Civil Judge JR. DivisionDimapur: NagalandD-5968

SUMMON FOR SETTLEMENT OF ISSUE(ORDER - V, RULE-1, 5, 20)

IN THE COURT OF W.V. Patton Civil Judge JR DivisionDimapur Nagaland

Suit No. M.S. No. 444/18Plaintiff. STATE BANK OF INDIADefendants. Vizoyou PFUKHAToShri. Vizoyou PfukhaS/o Vitshelie PfukhaN. Noone Ki, Ward: 06, Chumukedima Dimapur 797103Whereas the plaintiff has instituted a suit against you for realisation of Rs 36,494/-You are hereby summoned to appear before the court in person or by pleader duly instructed and able to answer all material questions relating to the suit on 5-10-18 10:00 a.m. without failTake notice that in default of your appearance on the date mentioned the suit will be heard and determined in your absenceGiven under my hand and the seal of the court 31st day of August, 2018.

Civil Judge JR. DivisionDimapur: NagalandD-5969

SUMMON FOR SETTLEMENT OF ISSUE(ORDER – V, RULE-1, 5, 20)

IN THE COURT OF W.V. Patton Civil Judge JR DivisionDimapur Nagaland

Suit No. M.S. No. 445 of 2018Plaintiff. State Bank of IndiaDefendants. Talisunep WallingToShri. Talisunep WallingPopular Print House Ward-7Chumukedima, Dimapur, NagalandWhereas the plaintiff has instituted a suit against you for realisation of Rs 44,364/-You are hereby summoned to appear before the court in person or by pleader duly instructed and able to answer all material questions relating to the suit on 5-8-18 10:00 a.m. without failTake notice that in default of your appearance on the date mentioned the suit will be heard and determined in your absenceGiven under my hand and the seal of the court 31st day of August, 2018.

Civil Judge JR. DivisionDimapur: NagalandD-5970

IN THE COURT OF DEPUTY COMMISSIONER DIMAPUR DISTRICT HEADQUARTER, CHUMUKEDIMA, CAMP: DIMAPUR: NAGALAND

Dt.Dimapur the 13th Sept 18

Sd/-Deputy Commissioner

Dimapur, Nagaland

NO.M-413/18/4913-14 Notice is hereby given that Shri/Smti Achano -Vrs- Moanaro resident of Dimapur Town/Village in the District of Dimapur, Nagaland under Rule 50 & 51 of Assam land Revenue Regulation 1886 have applied for Mutation of land described in the schedule below :-The undersigned under Rule 52 of the said Rules do hereby invites claims/objections concerning to the said land, if any & should be submitted to this court in writing on or before 13/10/18. SCHEDULED OF LAND AND BOUNDARYName of Patta Holder : Achano Village/Block No : 04, Patta No : 1097Dag No : 1304, Area : 00-01-06North : Approach Road, South : VisakhonoEast : P.shilu, West : Imtiachilba

NOTICE

D-5975

OFFICE MEMORANDUM Dated Kohima, the 16th August, 2018

NO.LR/LAND-PLCY/5-26/2011: Inspite of repeated directions from the State Government, many departments are not adhering to The Government Rules/Policy with regard to land donated by individuals, communities, villages, etc. with the conditions for employment to government service or contractual works or other facilities on landownership basis.

All concerned/departments are once again reminded to take note of the following and to strictly comply with the laid down Rules/Policy. 1 (a) It has been laid down vide Notification No. LR/4-3/KOH/2003 dated 26.07.2005

that no land shall be acquired free of cost and all land shall be acquired on payment of full compensation as determined by law. No further condition for employment in service or contractual works should be entertained. Therefore, in case any Department has entered into any agreement with the landowners in deviation of the laid down policy on or after 26.07.2005, such agreement shall be treated as null and void. The Department concerned shall take necessary action accordingly to nullify such agreement.

(b) In case the Department concerned is of the view the agreement should not be declared null and void, it shall refer it with relevant details giving justification to the Department of Land Revenue for examination and advice in consultation with P&AR and Justice & Law Departments and thereafter submit the matter for consideration and decision of the Cabinet.

2. Old cases where Administrative headquarters and Block headquarters were set up in various parts of the State on lands donated freely by individuals, villages or people of that area should not be reopened for compensation or for employment or other facilities in consonance with the policy brought out vide Memorandum No. LR/2-135/76 dated 20.06.1977.

3. (a) In other cases prior to 26.07.2005 and subsequent to setting up of Administrative and Block headquarters on freely donated land, where a specific written/oral agreement exists providing for employment or other facility to the landowner, the claim of landowner for employment or other facility, the Department concerned shall refer the matter to the Deputy Commissioner of the District concerned who shall examine such claim carefully including whether any employment or any other facility including contract or supply order has been given in the past. Written statements from the witnesses, that is, Government officials of the department concerned, District Administration and village functionaries present at the time of such written/oral agreement should be taken by the Deputy Commissioner. The recommendation of the Deputy Commissioner should be referred with relevant documents/explanations to the Department of Land Revenue for examination and approval.

(b) It is also clarified that it is not the policy of the Government to provide employment or other facility to the landowner in perpetuity. The employment or other facility of landowner, if permitted by a verifiable and valid agreement, is limited to the person first appointed as landowner in Government service and does not entitle his descendents for further employment or other facility on his retirement from service/vacates the post. After the appointed landowner retires or vacates the post, the vacancy will be filled up through open advertisement in consonance with the existing government policy giving equal opportunity to all applicants.

(4) Any government official acting in contravention to the government Rules/Policy shall be liable for disciplinary action as per the provision laid down in “The Nagaland Government Servants Conduct Rules, 1968”.

Sd/-(TEMJEN TOY) IAS

Chief Secretary

GOVERNMENT OF NAGALANDLAND REVENUE DEPARTMENT

Issued by DIPR KG-2

804

GOVERNMENT OF NAGALANDOFFICE OF THE COMMISSIONER OF STATE TAXES

NAGALAND: DIMAPURNO.CT/ESTT/624/2018/755 Dated Dimapur, the 13th September 2018

ADDENDUMIn partial modification to this office advertisement of even No. dated 30/8/2018,

regarding recruitment of 14 (Fourteen) posts of LDA-Cum Computer Assistant. (District) under the department of State Taxes, the following addendum is hereby made as below:-1. The Written Exam will consist of 2 (two) Parts: a. Part-I General Studies b. Part-II Basic Computer Knowledge 2. The total Marks will be 300. a. Written Exam - 265 Marks. i. Part-I General Studies - 230 Marks. ii. Part-II Basic Computer Knowledge - 35 Marks (Candidate must

compulsorily secure a minimum of 12 marks in this paper). b. Viva Voce - 35 Marks. 3. Syllabus. i. Part-I a. English. e. Indian History. b. Mathematics. f. Indian Constitution. c. Everyday Science. g. Basic facts of Nagaland. d. Indian Geography. ii. Part-II Basic Computer Knowledge 4. A graduate in Computer Engineering need not produce Diploma Certificate in

Computer Application. 5. Issuance and Acceptance of Application Forms shall be done during all office

working days from 11:00 AM to 3:00 PM. 6. Physically Handicapped applicants must submit relevant certificate obtain from

the competent authority. Sd/-(Y Mhathung Murry)

Addl. Commissioner of State Taxes Nagaland : Dimapur.DG-784

Hanoi, Sep. 13 (PTI/AFP): Myan-mar’s de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi said Thursday that two Reuters journalists jailed for in-vestigating a massacre in Rakhine state were not convicted because they were journalists but because they broke the law.

Wa Lone, 32, and Kyaw Soe Oo, 28, were each imprisoned for seven years last week for breach-ing the country’s hardline Of-ficial Secrets Act while reporting atrocities committed during the military crackdown in Rakhine.

The sentence prompted a storm of global outcry as an as-sault on freedom of speech, while erstwhile rights champion Suu Kyi came under intense pressure for failing to speak up for the pair.

She broke her silence on the issue on Thursday during a dis-cussion at the World Economic Forum, robustly defending the court’s decision to jail the duo.

“They were not jailed because they were journalists” but because “the court has decided that they had broken the Official Secrets Act”, she said in her first direct comments on the issue.

Challenging critics of the ver-dict -- including the United Na-tions, rights groups who once lionised her and the US Vice Presi-dent -- to “point out” where there has been a miscarriage of justice, Suu Kyi said the case upheld the rule of law.

“The case was held in open court... I don’t think anybody has bothered to read the summary of the judge,” she added.

Army-led “clearance opera-tions” last August drove 700,000 Rohingya into Bangladesh, car-rying with them widespread ac-counts of atrocities -- rape, mur-der and arson -- by Myanmar police and troops.

The Reuters reporters had

denied the charges, insisting they were set up while exposing the extrajudicial killing of 10 Rohingya Muslims in the village of Inn Din in September last year.

This week, the UN rights office accused Myanmar of “waging a campaign against journalists”.

It decried “the instrumentali-sation of the law and of the courts by the government and military in what constitutes a political campaign against independent journalism”.

Suu Kyi, who has so far bristled at foreign criticism of her country and defended the crackdown against “terrorists” from the Mus-lim minority, also addressed the army’s handling of the crisis.

“There are of course ways (in) which, in hindsight, the situation could have been handled better,” she said in rare comments on the crackdown.

Myanmar has come under

Accra, Sep. 13 (PTI/AFP): World leaders past and present, traditional rul-ers and global royalty on Thursday joined the fam-ily of Kofi Annan, as the former UN secretary gen-eral’s state funeral took place in his native Ghana.

Hundreds of dignitar-ies, most of them dressed i n b l a c k m o u r n i n g clothes, gathered at the Accra International Con-ference Centre, to mark the end of three days of national mourning for the respected diplomat.

Annan’s casket was centre stage at the reli-gious service and sur-rounded by flowers and candles.

The current UN Sec-retary General, Antonio Guterres, led mourners from the diplomatic corps, while there were repre-sentatives of the African Union, the West African bloc ECOWAS, and presi-dents from across Africa and beyond.

Royalty included Prin-cess Beatrix, the former queen of the Netherlands, and her daughter-in-law Princess Mabel, who were close friends of Annan.

Annan led the UN from 1997 to 2006 and was the first from sub-Saharan Africa to do so. He died on August 18 aged 80 at his home in Switzerland after a short illness.

intense diplomatic pressure in recent weeks, with the UN rights office singling

out its powerful military chief for his role forcing the Rohingya from the country.

AP/PTI

Myanmar State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi arrives for the opening session of the World Economic Forum on ASEAN at the National Convention Center Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2018 in Hanoi, Vietnam.

Final farewell to UN’s Kofi Annan at Ghana state funeral

EastErn Mirror | Dimapur, Friday, September 14, 2018

10ENTERTAINMENTMirror

Various artists along with the organisers pose for lens after the concert- An evening with local artistes which was held at Council Hall in Mon district on Sep. 8. The concept of the concert was to promote and support the local artists of the district.

Actress Julia Roberts, who is new to Instagram, has disabled her comments, but that hasn’t stopped her from shutting down trolls. Attending the Toronto International Film Festival over the weekend, one fan decided to draw a comparison photograph of Roberts in her Dsquared2 dress and the late Joan Crawford for their similar looks and ask followers “Who wore it better?” While the response was split, one user opted to attack the 50-year-old actress over her “black ugly nail polish”, reports dai-lymail.co.uk. “Joan Crawford looks way better in my opinion more classic and refined and Julia is wear-ing ugly black nail polish,” the comment read. Roberts took to the social media platform to correct the user over her manicure selection. “It is in fact a navy polish with garnets crystals as a grounding accent,” she said. “In case you would like to edit your comment from ‘ugly black nail polish’ to ugly navy polish with garnet crystal. Just saying,” she continued. Roberts previously called social media “sticky like cotton candy” but that didn’t stop her from opening her Instagram account in June. (IANS)

Julia Roberts hits back at troll

Actor Mel Gibson’s attor-neys have accused the producer of American-Irish drama film “The Professor and the Mad-

man” of seeking to swindle Irelands tax authorities.

Gibson is engaged in a legal battle with producer Voltage Pictures over the film, which tells the dark origin story of the Oxford English Diction-ary, reports variety.com.

The director, Farhad Safinia, first accused Voltage in July of trying to inflate expenses on the film, which would result in a larger tax rebate from the Irish government.

Gibson, who co-produced and

starred in the film as lexicographer James Murray, filed an answer to a cross-complaint on Wednesday, in which he joined in the accusation.

Gibson’s attorneys have alleged that producer Zev Foreman offered a $1.3 million fee to Safinia, on the condition that Safinia then rebate $1 million to Voltage under the guise of buying a literary property.

“Mr. Foreman also indicated he had perpetrated similar fraudulent transactions in connection with Volt-age’s production of films in the State of Louisiana to obtain tax credits there,” Gibson’s attorneys stated.

The filing states that Warren Dern, Safinia’s lawyer, asked Fore-

man for a letter from a recognised law firm stating that such an arrange-ment would be legal. No such letter was provided.

Safinia previously said that he rejected the deal. The new filing also asserts that Voltage made a similar offer to Vicki Christianson, the Chief Operating Officer and Chief Finan-cial Officer of Gibson’s company, Icon Productions. She also rejected it, the attorneys state.

Voltage’s attorney, Jeremiah Reynolds, previously said that the tax scam allegation was fabricated. Voltage declined to comment on the latest claims.

IANS

As reports of his exit from DC Extended Universe as Superman were circulating on social media, actor Henry

Cavill responded to it and found it ‘exciting’.

Cavill on Thursday took to In-stagram and posted a funny video in which he can be seen wearing a “Krypton Lifting Team” tee shirt, who is staring at the camera with

a stony expression as a Superman figurine enters and disappears from the frame.

He captioned the video as “To-day was exciting, Superman”.

According to holly-wooodreporter.com, Cavill, who portrayed the superhero in films “Man of Steel”, “Superman V Batman” and “Justice League”, is parting ways with DC Universe after contract negotiations broke

down for a “Man of Steel” cameo in Shazam.

Following the rumours, a representative from Warner Bros. said: “We have a great relation-ship and great respect for Henry Cavill that continues to remain unchanged. Additionally, we have made no current decisions regard-ing any upcoming Superman films.”

IANS

Gibson accuses ‘Professor...’ producer of film scam

Henry Cavill responds to reports of his Superman exit

Serenading for one’s own

Little did we knowMusic is something the world would be lost without! We feel it, we breathe it, we love it! Eastern Mirror’s - Rhythm of Love- connects our readers to music through conversation with artists as they share their experience with their love …… MUSICMusic moves us, opens our emotions - passing all barriers. Music is a piece that we can all connect to so Readers get connected with your favorite artists every Friday with Rhythm of Love.

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Thunglamo Ngullie, remembered as a

finalist on Naga Idol 2012 is a member of Zowe Madrigal. Ngullie is also a vocal teacher at

various institutes, namely Musik-A, The Institute for Music Education, Pilgrim school and Octet school of Music

and Milestone.With his soulful voice, Ngullie believes in touching

lives through music; read on to know what he shared with EM’s Rhythm of Love.

EASTERN MIRROR: Tell us about your early phase in the music industry? How would you describe your sound/music?Thunglamo Ngullie: I started singing like everyone else....since my childhood (hahaha). I never thought I would take it on as a career. Even-tually, graduation and involvement in Church activities made me realise that music was more than a hobby...and that’s how I became more serious with music and that’s how the real music came into my life after graduation.

My kind of music began as church music and later progressed to commercial.

EASTERN MIRROR: How did Naga Idol happen? How has your life changed since Naga Idol? What were the vital experi-ences and lessons you took with you from Naga Idol?Thunglamo Ngullie: It was not planned and I made a decision in a month after coming across an advertisement and auditioned for Naga Idol 2012. I never thought I’d make it to the finale and the feedback that I received was really encouraging. I concentrated more on music after Naga Idol and it shaped me to be a performer at the same time. I also realised that choice of song is really important along with how to maintain professionalism. Valuably, it helped me meet other musicians and talented people.

EASTERN MIRROR: You are a part of Zowe Madrigal. How did that happen? How did it change you musically and artis-tically?Thunglamo Ngullie: Zowe Madrigal hap-pened to me during my stint on Naga Idol where Nise Meruno was also the Judge. I remember him

telling me to come and take formal training from him. After taking a month break I called him up and underwent training under him at Hope Centre. Right after Grade 8 in classical music and contemporary rock, Meruno invited me to join Zowe Madrigal.

Zowe Madrigal changed my life to another level because through ZM I was able to travel around the world share our story of folk music and music talent that we have. The most impor-tant thing after Naga Idol was Zowe Madrigal. I was planning to be a solo artist but being a part of Zowe Madrigal made me realise that there is so much to be learnt about music when in a group, through exposure and from each other.

EASTERN MIRROR: Who do you con-sider to be your most significant musical influences?Thunglamo Ngullie: I have no one in particular one but of course the Church which has provided platform to me has been a major influ-ence. As an artist Whitney Houston and R Kelly have been an influence.

EASTERN MIRROR: What are the unidentified challenges faced by the music industry of Nagaland?Thunglamo Ngullie: The music market in Nagaland-although somehow it is picking up, there is no market to sell our music. The musicians make a living only during specific seasons and to survive we turn to teaching other than performing. Na-galand has produced a lot of talent and the music industry has become competitive which is challeng-ing as well although the market opportunity is few. Another challenge is Musicians fail to maintain consistency, mostly due to the poor market.

EASTERN MIRROR: You are working as a vocal teacher at various music institutes. What are the challenges and rewards that come from working as a music tutor?Thunglamo Ngullie: Music is a slow proc-ess and we Nagas want things to happen rapidly and the same expectations come from parents. As a tutor, we try hard to meet those expectations and in the process we miss a lot as a teacher. We are not inquisitive as well and take time to open up. Only recently proper courses have been introduced in music schools and we don’t get all facilities and necessary info especially for teachers, which is chal-lenging. Helping students realise their calling as some are pushed into this field is also another big factor that we go through as a teacher.

As a music tutor, seeing students improving not only in music but in their personality through music is a satisfying reward.

EASTERN MIRROR: What are some common opinions people have about music as a profession?Thunglamo Ngullie: Years back people con-sidered music as a time-pass and not a profession but now people are realising that one can make a living through music which is encouraging. Hav-ing said that-earning through music should come along with hard work. Music is also a trade and I am positive that five years from now, the industry will change.

EASTERN MIRROR: Do you think com-petitions are helpful for young musicians?Thunglamo Ngullie: We do not have any proper visual Channel so I will be honest that com-petitions, in a state like ours is not encouraging because contestants end up spending more money

than what one receives through selling of votes. Such system will drain a person’s resources instead of helping realise one’s talent. Voting through money is not competition so I will not encourage anyone to participate in shows that have voting through cards.

EASTERN MIRROR: What are your plans for the future with regard to your music?Thunglamo Ngullie: My strength is in teaching and performing more than recording. Although I have a few originals which are not recorded, composed schools and event anthems, I have no plans to release originals. My interest is more into perform-ing and teaching and I am looking forward to doing my masters in music.

11SCIENCE & TECHEastErn Mirror | Dimapur, Friday, September 14, 2018

Srinagar, Sep. 13 (India Science Wire): The majestic mountains in the Himalayas, besides being abode of ice, snow and freshwater, are also hotbeds of natural calami-ties and disasters like earthquakes, flash floods, landslides and snow avalanches.

The roads that crisscross high mountainous regions are prone to heavy snow avalanches, which at times result in loss of life and property. Geologists, geographers, sedimentologists and environ-mental experts are studying snow avalanches in order to be able to predict their formation and occur-rence with accuracy and precision.

A scientific investigation into the avalanche that occurred on January 5, 2018 on Chowkibal-Tangdhar road in Kupwara district of Jammu & Kashmir has revealed important insights into such dis-asters.

The study by scientists from Snow and Avalanche Study Es-tablishment (SASE), Chandigarh,

involved running computer simu-lations to get insights into its vari-ous aspects including the charac-teristic features of snow mass as well as probable cause behind the formation and occurrence of the avalanche.

In the accident, a vehicle was swept away in the snow cloud and got buried under avalanche debris resulting in death of ten passen-gers. The Chowkibal-Tangdhar road is among the most vulnerable ones in the region where snow ava-lanches occur at a high frequency especially during winters.

The researchers simulated for-mation and movement of snow avalanche and then studied its various characteristic features including mass, speed and pres-sure. It was observed that most of the area of this avalanche zone is facing south and south-east with an average slope of 42% and 37% respectively. Computer simula-tions revealed various parameters like velocity, flow and pressure of

the avalanche. The region has scanty tree cover

which in turn contributes to the av-alanche formation as well as their frequent occurrence. It seems the vehicle which got swept away was parked wrongly in the avalanche path, due to road blockade. It was also found that there was such an intense pressure and momentum accompanying the snow cloud, that the vehicle simply got swept away with the moving mass.

The driver and passengers were unaware about the standard op-erating procedures to be followed while travelling in avalanche-prone areas. The study points to the fact that there is lack of aware-ness among the people especially those who live in avalanche prone regions. Thus general awareness and rigorous scientific forecasting of snow avalanches are key to effi-cient avalanche risk management.

According to Dr H.S. Gusain, lead researcher of the study, “ac-cidents related to snow avalanches

can be avoided if travelers know Standard Operating Procedure and for that there should be mass awareness campaigns to make people aware about this informa-tion and educate them about do’s and don’ts of travelling on vulner-able roads.”

Jammu & Kashmir, Himach-al Pradesh and Uttarakhand are among the most avalanche vulner-able regions in India. In Kashmir valley, every year snow avalanch-es occur in Drass, Gurez, Keran, Machhil, Pahalgam, Gulmarg, Naugam and Banihal. Avalanches are triggered due to specific topo-graphical and snow pack condi-tions, with formation zones gener-ally sloppy accompanied by barren hills with scanty tree cover.

The research team included Hemendra S. Gusain, V.D. Mishra and D.K. Singh from Snow and Avalanche Study Establishment, Chandigarh. The study has been published in journal Current Sci-ence.

United Nations, Sep. 13 (PTI): More than 18 million new cases of cancer are expected this year and it is estimated that 9.6 mil-lion people will die from various forms of the disease in 2018, the UN’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) said.

According to IARC, a spe-cialised cancer agency of the World Health Organisation, the disease is a growing global health threat. One in five men and one in six women world-wide develop cancer during their lifetime, and one in eight men and one in 11 women die from it, IARC’s Global Cancer Observatory said on Wednesday in its first report since 2012.

“These new figures high-light that much remains to be done to address the alarming rise in the cancer burden glo-bally and that prevention has a key role to play,” IARC Director Christopher Wild said.

“Efficient prevention and early detection policies must be implemented urgently to com-plement treatments in order to control this devastating disease across the world,” Wild added.

In India, the number of new cancer cases in 2018 among male and female and in all ages stood at 1,157,294. Of this, 587,249 were women diagnosed with cancer.

The risk of developing can-cer before the age of 75 years was 9.81 per cent for males and 9.42 per cent for females. The number of cancer deaths in the country stood at 784,821. The risk of dying from cancer before the age of 75 years was 7.34 per cent for males and 6.28 per cent for females. The top five most frequent cancers for both male and female in India are breast, lip and oral cavity, cervix and uteri, lung, stomach.

The report said that globally

the increasing cancer burden is due to several factors, includ-ing population growth and ageing as well as the changing prevalence of certain causes of cancer linked to social and economic development. This is particularly true in rapidly growing economies, where a shift is observed from cancers related to poverty and infec-tions to cancers associated with lifestyles more typical of industrialized countries, it said.

Effective prevention efforts may explain the observed de-crease in incidence rates for some cancers, such as lung cancer and cervical cancer. However, the new data show that most countries are still faced with an increase in the absolute number of cases being diagnosed and requiring treat-ment and care.

Global patterns show that for men and women combined, nearly half of the new cases and more than half of the cancer deaths worldwide in 2018 are estimated to occur in Asia, in part because the region has nearly 60 per cent of the global population.

The report said that six years ago, there were an estimated 14.1 million new cancer cases and 8.2 million cancer-related deaths, compared with 12.7 million and 7.6 million, respec-tively, in 2008.

Europe accounts for nearly a quarter of global cancer cases and one-fifth of cancer deaths, although it has only nine per cent of the global population.

The Americas have more than 13 per cent of the global population but account for 21 per cent of cancers and some 14 per cent of global mortality.

In Asia and in Africa, cancer deaths (57.3 per cent and 7.3 per cent respectively) are higher

than the number identified (48.4 per cent and 5.8 per cent). This is because these regions have a higher frequency of cer-tain cancer types that are as-sociated with poorer prognosis, and higher mortality rates, IARC says, in addition to limited ac-cess to diagnosis and treatment.

Lung cancer is a leading cause of death for both men and women and is the leading cause of cancer death in women in 28 countries, IARC says.

The highest incidence rates of this form of the disease in women are in North America, Northern and Western Europe - notably Denmark and the Netherlands - China, and Aus-tralia and New Zealand; with Hungary topping the list.

The findings suggest that many countries have much more to do to prevent smoking-related cancers, although a sig-nificant number have adopted measures to reduce smoking and exposure to second-hand tobacco smoke.

“Given that the tobacco epidemic is at different stages in different regions, and in men and women, the results high-light the need to continue to put in place targeted and ef-fective tobacco control policies in every country of the world,” IARC’s Head of the Section of Cancer Surveillance Freddie Bray said. In addition to cancers of the lungs, those that target the female breast and colorectal areas, are the most common types. They are also among the five most dangerous forms of cancer, representing one third of all cancer incidence and mortality worldwide, accord-ing to IARC’s GLOBOCAN 2018 database, which provides esti-mates of incidence and mortal-ity in 185 countries for 36 types of cancer.

Mumbai, Sep. 13 (India Science Wire): Every time an extreme weath-er event like the Kerala floods oc-curs, there is a great demand for information on its causes. The ques-tion uppermost in public discourse is if such events can be attributed to climate change and global warming.

Detection and attribution are the foundations of climate change science. Climate change can be de-tected either as long term or low-fre-quency changes such as warming, sea level rise or mean precipitation changes. Climate or weather ex-tremes are not uniformly definable but the magnitude of events and their frequency or return period are typically used as indicators.

Attribution means either quan-tifying the change in risk or prob-ability of an extreme event that can be attributed to human influence on climate or quantifying specific ther-modynamic and dynamic patterns that contributed to the extreme.Thermodynamics in this context is conceived in the warming, humidity increase or sea level rise. Dynamics corresponds to changes in winds and circulation patterns which can be decomposed into natural vari-ability and changes due to human activities.

The monsoon and El Niño rep-resent natural variability in climate. Separating the ‘forced’ component due to human impact can be like finding the needle in a haystack but with rising greenhouse gas emis-sions and the associate temperature,

humidity and sea level rise, human impact has clearly emerged beyond natural variability.

The human impact on climate can be captured in the changing radiation balance at the top of the atmosphere. Increased greenhouse gases warm the planet and perturb the balance between incoming solar energy or the shortwave radiation and the outgoing longwave or infra-red energy from the planet. This ra-diation balance is the net forcing of the climate including the extremes while the earth’s natural variability acts as the noise separating the hu-man impact on extremes.

While the increase in tempera-ture and humidity due to increased radiative forcing of greenhouse gases can be easily computed and understood, deciphering the re-sponse in precipitation is a serious challenge. Warmer temperatures and increased humidity provide favorable conditions for building atmospheric instabilities which should lead to more rainfall. How-ever, the heat and humidity also alter winds and circulation of the atmosphere and hence the oceans. This leads to changes in the loca-tion and amount of evaporation and the total amount, intensity and frequency of rainfall.

For example, the total amount of monsoon rainfall may be reduced but at the same time the frequency of the number of rainy days can be reduced much more. This means, when it rains it pours. Clearly, it can-

not pour everywhere since the mois-ture supply is finite. Thus it rains cats and dogs in one place while another place will lose its rain. For instance, if it floods in Kerala, then there can be a reduction in rainfall over Ma-harashtra.

In order to separate natural variability in climate from changes occurring due to human contribu-tions, one needs uniform data at sufficient spatio-temporal scales. In the absence or paucity of such data, attribution science relies on climate models.

Model simulations of the real world scenario are neededto sepa-rate thermodynamic and dynamic contributions. But this separation is only possible by comparing to a world where human influence does not exist - so-called ‘counterfac-tual’ world. Simulating the counter-factual worldrequires running a coupled ocean-atmosphere model in the absence of greenhouse gas emissions due to human activity. Such coupled climate model simu-lations require massive computing facilities.

When the real world and the counter-factual world are simu-lated with enormous computing resources, the natural variability needs to be subtracted to extract the human-contribution to the observed extreme event. Model shortcomings in capturing natural variability (monsoon and El Niño) can affect the differences in the actual and counterfactual worlds

simulated by the models. That’s why attribution studies have to rely on multiple models to increase our confidence in their conclusions.

The posing of the question about human contribution can also lead to counter-intuitive attributions. For example, the heatwaves of Russia in 2010 and Texas in 2011 were not altered in their magnitude because of global warming, leading to a con-clusion that they were not a result of human activity.However, their return period or the probability of occurrence was found to be clearly influenced by global warming.

Attribution studies of Kerala floods or other extreme weath-er eventsin India will have to ask similar questions. Were the rainfall amounts over parts of Kerala during August enhanced by global warming or were their probability increased or both? Such attribution studies typically take months to complete. The Bulletin of American Meteoro-logical Society publishes the State of the Climate each July tabulating the previous year’s climate anomalies and extreme events including some attribution studies.

The growing demand for at-tribution information has now led to efforts towards developing ‘Operational Attributions’. In this approach, the highest percentiles orthresholds(e.g., rainfall rates of more than 150 mm per day) and the associated circulation patterns are kept ready based on past events for a given location. For example, an im-

pending El Niño and the expected droughts, floods or winter storms can be pre-computed along with the contributions from local warming and/or circulation changes due to global warming.

If an extreme event does occur, then these pre-computations allow for rapid attributions in near-real time. Another approach is to gener-ate extremes based on model fore-casts of sea surface temperatures.These allow for near real-time attri-butions which are now in more and more demand from communities, governments and businesses such as insurers.

A few attribution studies are available on the Indian monsoon and streamflows, increase in wide-spread floods, heatwaves, and hy-dro-climatology of major river ba-sins. Attribution of climate extremes isan essential and effective tool for India, given its high vulnerability to natural disasters and regional dis-parities in these vulnerabilities.

The money invested in weather and climate prediction is clearly yielding results as seen in the accu-rate forecasts of many heavy rainfall events in the last several years. Climate scientists also need to have pre-computed thresholds and circu-lation patterns to issuewiseguesses in the immediate aftermath of ex-treme events to satisfy the demand for information. Such information, once confirmed from operation at-tributions, will also guide policy and disaster mitigation efforts.

San Francisco, Sep. 13 (IANS): Google is set to shut down its alternate mailing app “Inbox” in March 2019, giving users time to shift to the traditional Gmail by then, the company has said in a blog post.

Launched in 2014, “Inbox” was intro-duced as an innovative new email app that lived alongside Gmail and served as an ex-perimental platform for Google to try newer mailing features that could be incorporated in Gmail later.

However, it could not gather enough user base and updates to justify its existence.

“We want to take a more focussed ap-proach to help us bring the best email experi-ence to everyone. As a result, we’re planning to focus solely on Gmail and say goodbye to ‘Inbox’ at the end of March 2019,” Matthew Izatt, Product Manager at Gmail, wrote in a blog post late on Wednesday.

“Inbox” came with provisions for snooz-ing emails to later, trying latest artificial intel-ligence (AI)-powered experiences like Smart Reply, Nudges, high-priority notifications along with gesture and bundling features to manage the messages.

“We know change is hard, so we’ve cre-ated a transition guide to help you switch from Inbox to the new Gmail with ease,” Izatt added.

Earlier in 2018, a revamped version of Gmail was introduced with newer features like “Smart Compose” that helps users draft emails faster and several other features were picked up from “Inbox.”

San Francisco, Sep. 13 (IANS): Facebook-owned Instagram is rolling out a new “prompt feature” that would pop-up if users try to find substance abuse related recovery and treatment services or look to buy drugs illegally on the platform using certain hash-tags such as “opioid”, the media has reported.

“Instagram says people are using hash-tags to find addiction support and commu-nities as well as illegal drugs. This prompt is an attempt to help people who are indulging in or fighting against addictions like opioid and other drugs,” The Verge reported late on Wednesday.

The prompt comes with three options to choose from -- “get support”, “see posts anyway”, and “cancel”.

“The new pop-up features aims to solve some of the platform’s drug issues, even if it doesn’t address the actual substance sales. It does at least give users a place to go if they’re searching for help,” the report added.

The user can reportedly seek to get support resources that the photo-sharing platform has developed with the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Adminis-tration, the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence and the Partnership for Drug Free Kids.

The feature is currently available in the US with an international roll-out coming soon, according to Engadget.

The Facebook-owned company previ-ously rolled out a similar feature for users who search for hashtags related to self-injury and eating disorders.

Washington, Sep. 12 (IANS): NASA is set to launch its Ice, Cloud and land Eleva-tion Satellite-2, or ICESat-2 -- that will track Earth’s melting poles and disap-pearing sea ice -- on Saturday.

The satellite with a three-year mis-sion is scheduled to launch at 8.46 a.m. EDT on September 15, with liftoff aboard a Satellite Delta II rocket from Space Launch Complex-2 (SLC-2), the US space agency said in a blog post late on Tuesday.

ICESat-2 is the NASA’s most ad-vanced laser instrument -- the Advanced Topographic Laser Altimeter System, or ATLAS.

It measures height by precisely tim-ing how long it takes individual photons of light from a laser to leave the satellite, bounce off Earth and return to the satel-lite.

The satellite will provide critical ob-servations of how ice sheets, glaciers and sea ice are changing, leading to insights into how those changes impact people where they live, NASA said.

ICESat-2’s orbit will make 1,387

unique ground tracks around Earth in 91 days and then start the same ground pattern again at the beginning.

While the first ICESat satellite (2003-09) measured ice with a single laser beam, ICESat-2 splits its laser light into six beams making it better to cover more ground (or ice).

The arrangement of the beams into three pairs will also allow scientists to assess the slope of the surface they are measuring, NASA said.

Further, the ICESat-2 will zoom above the planet at 7 km per second (4.3 miles per second), completing an orbit around Earth in 90 minutes. The orbits have been set to converge at the 88-degree latitude lines around the poles, to focus the data coverage in the region where scientists expect to see the most changes.

All of those height measurements result from timing the individual laser photons on their 600-mile roundtrip between the satellite and Earth’s surface - a journey that is timed to within 800 picoseconds, NASA said.

Washington, Sep. 13 (IANS): NASA has successfully completed the final test to qualify Orion’s space capsule’s parachute system for flights with astronauts, ahead of its mission to send humans to the Moon and beyond, the US space agency said.

Engineers evaluated the performance of Orion’s parachute system during nor-mal landing sequences as well as several failure scenarios and a variety of potential aerodynamic conditions to ensure astro-nauts can return safely from deep space missions, over the course of eight tests at the US Army’s Yuma Proving Ground in Arizona.

“We’re working incredibly hard not only to make sure Orion’s ready to take our astronauts farther than we’ve been before, but to make sure they come home safely,” Orion Programme Manager Mark Kirasich, said in a statement.

“The parachute system is complex, and evaluating the parachutes repeatedly through our test series gives us confi-dence that we’ll be ready for any kind of landing day situation.”

During the final test, which took place on September 12, a mock Orion was pulled out from the cargo bay of a C-17 aircraft flying higher than 6.5 miles.

The protective ring around the top of Orion that covers the parachute system was jettisoned and pulled away by the first set of Orion’s parachutes, then the remaining parachutes were deployed in precise sequence.

The Orion system has 11 parachutes, a series of cannon-like mortars, pyro-technic bolt cutters, and more than 30 miles of Kevlar lines attaching the top of the spacecraft to the 36,000 square feet of parachute canopy material.

In about 10 minutes of descent through Earth’s atmosphere, everything must deploy in precise sequence to slow Orion and its crew from about 300 mph to a relatively gentle 20 mph for splash-down in the Pacific Ocean.

The parachute system is the only sys-tem that must assemble itself in mid-air and must be able to keep the crew safe in several failure scenarios, such as mortar failures that prevent a single parachute type to deploy, or conditions that cause some of the parachute textile compo-nents to fail.

Orion will first fly with astronauts aboard during Exploration Mission-2, a mission that will venture near the Moon and farther from Earth than ever before, launching atop NASA’s Space Launch System rocket -- which will be the world’s most powerful rocket. The parachutes for Orion’s upcoming uncrewed flight test -- Exploration Mission-1 -- are already installed on the vehicle at Kennedy Space Centre in Florida.

The knowledge gained through the Orion programme has enabled NASA to mature computer modelling of how the system works in various scenarios and help partner companies understand certain elements of parachute systems.

Avalanche forecasting, public awareness can save lives

More than 18 mn. new cases of cancer expected this year — UN study

Linking weather extremes with climate change in real-time

Google’s mailing app ‘Inbox’ to discontinue from March 2019

Instagram rolls out new feature to help users with drug issues

NASA to launch satellite tracking Earth’s melting ice on Saturday

NASA’s Orion aces final parachute test ahead of Moon mission

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Vitoho and Helito win SVEEP half marathon race

Open chess championship from Oct. 2Dimapur, Sep. 13 (EMN): Vi-

toho from Mukalimi village and Helito from Iphonu village were declared winners of the half-marathon race in the senior men and women categories conducted in Gathashi town on September 13.

The half-marathon race was conducted under the Sys-temic Voters Education and Electoral Participation (SVEEP) programme of the ECI was or-ganised by the DEO Pughoboto, which witnessed active partici-pation not only by the residents of Gathashi town but also from the neighbouring villages, a DIPR report stated.

Boskha from Mukalimi and Vikashe from Mukalimi village were declared second and third winners in the senior men’s cat-egory, while Lovini from Iphonu and Mishili from Iphonu village were declared second and third winners in the senior women’s category.

In the junior boy’s category, Kumsuto from Ghatashi town was declared the first winner, while Vipito from Iphonu village

and Viyeto from Ghatashi village were declared second and third winners respectively.

In the junior girl’s category, Linovi from Ghatashi village bagged the first prize, while Helivi from Heboli village and Nishebo from Mukali bagged the second and third prizes re-spectively.

SDO (C) and SVEEP nodal officer, Pughoboto, Tiayanger Jamir, appealed to the partici-pants and the people of Ghatashi area to value their votes stating that a vote can bring change in the society.

“Do not participate to win the competition but participate to convey the message of my vote, my right, my responsibili-ty,” he exhorted to the residents. He further urged the voters to implement the message by vot-ing in all the democratic elec-tion so that India democracy can grow into a healthy, inform democracy.

ADC and DEO Pughoboto, Phulushe K Yepthomi, flagged off the marathon with the mes-sage of ‘One man one vote’.

Dimapur, Sep. 13 (EMN): Sumi Chess As-sociation Nagaland (SCAN) under the aegis of Nagaland Chess Association (NCA) has announced to organise Tokuho Awomi Me-morial All Nagaland State Open Chess Cham-pionship 2018 from October 2 to 4th at Tourist Lodge, Dimapur.

According to the organising secretary, Mughato Awomi, the championship will be conducted on open category, under 17 years category, and under 14 years category.

The category players are requested to compulsorily produce birth certificate reg-istered within 1 year of birth for age group prizes as per AICF & FIDE norms. Students are requested to come with their school uniform on the first day and last day of the championship.

All non-Naga players residing in Nagaland are asked to produce government office ID card/ registered certificate from their colony/ area chairman /GB respectively.

The organisers have decided to charge en-try fee of INR 1000 for open category and INR 500 for age category players. Interested per-sons are requested to pay entry fees at Tourist Lodge, Dimapur, on or before October 1.

Organisers have announced a total of INR 115000 cash prizes for the championship.

Vijay Hazare Trophy 2018 fixtures for NagalandSL.

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MATCH VENUE DATE REMARKS

I Bihar Vs Nagaland Gujarat 19/09/18 Anand

2 Meghalaya Vs Nagaland Gujarat 21/09/18 Nadiad

3 Sikkim Vs Nagaland Gujarat 23/09/18 Vadodra

4 Uttarkhand Vs Nagaland Gujarat 24/09/18 Vadodra

5 Puducherry Vs Nagaland Gujarat 28/09/18 Vadodra

6 Manipur Vs Nagaland Gujarat 30/09/18 Nadiad

7 A.P Vs Nagaland Gujarat 02/10/18 Anand

8 Mizoram Vs Nagaland Gujarat 06/10/18 Anand

Yhanshalo Kemp scores four as Vanguard FC rout United FC 7-2 to enter quarter-finalOur Correspondent

Kohima, Sep. 13 (EMN): Yhanshalo Kemp scored four goals as defending champions Vanguard FC trounced United FC Phek 7- 2 to enter the quarterfinals of the ongoing Capt. Kenguruse Memorial Football Tourna-ment (state level) here at the Kohima local ground on Thursday.

Longleng District Club and Xavierite FC, Peren district also booked their quarterfinal berths after win-ning their respective matches, while Tiyi Guardians Wokha district won their first match and entered the pre-quarterfinal of the tournament.

The skipper of Vanguard FC Yhanshalo Kemp helped the team to maintain their perfect start in the campaign to defend their title again. He has now six goals to his name in two matches.

Vanguard FC will take on Kohima district cham-pions Khriekesa FC in the quarterfinal match on Sep-tember 17.

In the match, an own goal from Kudahu handed Vanguard FC the lead within the introduction of the match in 45 second. The fastest goal scored in the tour-nament by an own defender.

Kemp later scored in the 6th minute and Rhitsho Mero tapped in the second goal from a cross in the 20th minute. The captain went on to score his second goal in the 36th minute to make it 4-0.

Phek team pulled back a goal in the 37th minute through Senowe from a defensive error to make it 4-1 in the first half.

In the second half, Phek team couldn not stop Van-

Dimapur, Sep. 13 (EMN): Nagaland is all set to make its maiden entry in to the first class Indian cricket scene with the participa-tion of its senior team in the Vijay Hazare limited overs tournament of the BCCI, to start from Sep.19 in Gujarat.

The Nagaland Cricket Association in a statement said that the team will leaving for the tourna-ment on Sep.14. The team includes experienced players that also include three guest players chosen on "quota" system.

The three guest play-ers are KB Pawan from Karnataka who has played about 50 Ranji Trophy matches, Abrar Kazi from Bengaluru, who played in the Ranji Trophy for Karnataka and in the IPL for Royal Challengers Ban-galore and Pawan Suyal, who has played in the IPL for Mumbai Indians and Ranji Trophy from Delhi.

Sumi Boys and Vidima youths enter finals of Altura tourneyDimapur, Sep. 13 (EMN): The Sumi Boys Club and Vidima Youth Organi-sation entered the final of the ongo-ing Altrura Open Football Tourna-ment after winning their respective matches at Chümoukedima Town Local Ground today.

In the first semi final, Sumi Boys Club defeated FC Pegasus by two

goals to one.Seimin(12) of FC Pegasus opened

the account in 6 min, however the Sumi Boys equalised through Anato (14) in the 18th min. Then in the 36th min Athalo(4) scored winning goal to guide Sumi Boys club to the final.

In the second semi-final, Vidima Youth Organisation beat CABA Youth

Ministry 1-. The first session ended in a goalless draw and both the teams stepped up their attack in the second half. Within 3 minutes in to the sec-ond half, Yanger(5) scored the lone winning goal to take Vidima youths to the final.

The final will be played on Satur-day Sep.15 at 2 in the afternoon.

Yhanshalo Kemp (in black jersey) fights for the ball against a United FC player during their pre-quarterfinal match at Kohima local ground on Thursday.

The Nagaland contingent for the Vijay Hazare Trophy with the coach and NCA officials during a photo-op that was released to the media on Thursday Sep. 13.

Tanya, Mansi impress as Indian women beat Sri Lanka, clinch series

Galle, Sep. 13 (PTI): The In-dian women's cricket team Thursday held its nerves in pressure situations to beat Sri Lanka by seven runs in the second ODI, taking an unassailable 2-0 lead in the three-match series.

India also earned two additional points as the match is a part of the ICC Women's Championship.

Batting first, India were all out for 219 in 50 overs on a slow track where young wicketkeeper Tanya Bha-tia's 68 off 66 balls turned out to be a match-winning knock.

In reply, the visitors bowled out the hosts for 212 in 48.1 overs with seamer Mansi Joshi taking 3/51 and left-arm spin-ner Rajeshwari Gayakwad chipping in with 2/37.

Earlier, put into bat, the Indians failed to get going primarily due to slow bat-ting from veteran skipper Mithali Raj, who consumed 121 balls to score 52 with four boundaries.

Mithali simply couldn't keep the scoreboard tick-ing as she failed to find the gaps during the middle overs. Coming to bat in the fifth over, she was finally dismissed in the 39th over, after which the Indian in-nings gained some mo-mentum.

It was youngsters Tanya and Dayalan Hemlatha (35 off 31 balls), who propped up the scoreboard, taking the team closer to the 220-run mark.

It could have been more but India lost four wickets in the final over

with part-time seamer Chamari Atapattu taking three for 42.

Opener Atapattu (57, 95 balls) and Shashikala Siriwardene (49) added 89 runs for the fourth wicket to keep the islanders afloat.

However, Siriwardene was run-out and Mansi took a return catch to dis-miss Atapattu, as Sri Lanka were reduced to 134 for five from 129 for three.

In the lower order, Damayanthi De Silva (31 off 19 balls) kept their hopes alive, hitting two fours and two sixes, while adding 40 runs for the eighth wicket with Kalua Prabodhani (7).

At 205 for seven in 46.3 overs, Sri Lanka needed 15 runs from 21 deliveries with three wickets in hand.

But Gayakwad cleaned up Prabodhani and Mansi got Damayanthi to edge one to Tanya behind the stumps to make it 207 for nine.

With only eight re-quired off the last two overs, Mithali asked off-spinner Deepti Sharma to bowl the penultimate over. Last batter Inoka Ranaweera was stumped by Bhatia as she went for a wild slog, giving India victory.Brief Scores: India 219 in 50 overs (Tanya Bhatia 68 off 66 balls, Mithali Raj 52 off 121 balls). Sri Lanka 212 in 48.1 overs (Chamari Atapattu 57, Shashikala Sriwardene 49, Rajeshwari Gayakwad 2/37, Mansi Joshi 3/51). India won by 7 runs.

Indian women cricketers celebrate their victory over Sri Lanka by seven runs in their second one-day international cricket match in Galle, Sri Lanka, Thursday, Sep. 13.

I. Jonathan Rongsen 2. Hokaito Zhimomi 3. Tahmeed Rahman 4. Mughavi Wotsa 5. Inakato Zhimomi 6. Imliwati Lemtur 7. Paras Sehrawat 8. Ravi Maurya 9. Toni Chishi

10. Sedezhalie Rupreo 11. Nitesh Lochab 12. Shamwang Wangnao 13. Oren Ngullie

Guest Players 1.KB Pawan 2. Abrar Kazi 3. Pawan Suyal

The team also includes Hokaito Zhimomi, former Ranji Trophy player from Assam, Jonathan Rongsen,

former Ranji Trophy play-er for Railways along with youngsters like Sedezalie Rupereo who represented

the NE Under-19 team in 2016-17 and young off-spinner,Tahmeed who has recently captained the

Zonal NE and Bihar Un-der-19 team of the BCCI.

T h e t e a m w i l l b e trained by Kawaljit Singh,

a veteran of 111 caps in the Ranji Trophy and a Level-C coach from Hy-derabad.

guard from scoring as Kemp headed home the fifth and sixth goal in 47nd and 52nd minute.

Phek goalkeeper Huveku denied Kemp a goal after he saved his penalty kick but minutes later a blunder from the goalkeeper handed Nyithong Magh a goal in the 57th minute through a long range kick.

Kezo scored the second goal for United in the 73rd minute but that was all as Vanguard won their match 7-2 by the final whistle.

In the second match, Longleng District FC over-came Nagnimora FC Mon through a tie breaker of 4-1 after the match ended in 2-2 draw and entered the quarterfinal of the tournament.

Chingshen (11th) and Shepa (80th) scored for Long-leng FC while Pongyang (26th) and Bulom (60th) scored for Nagimora FC during the stipulated time.

Longleng team will now take on the winner of IGAR (N) and Green Club in the quarterfinal match.

Meanwhile at Tseise Basa ground, Tiyi Guardians Wokha beat Legend Club Kiphire by 4-0 to enter pre- quarters.

Chenio’s brace and a goal each from Lanso Yanthan, Sulanthung Ngullie helped the team to win the match for Wokha team.

Xaverite FC Peren overpowered Donching Yangmei FC Tuensang 4-1 to book their quarterfinals berth.

Tiyi Guardian’s will take on Naga Terriers in the sec-ond round on September 15 and the winner will take on Xavirite FC in the quarterfinal match on September 17.

While the organisers have informed that there will not be any matches on Friday.

Capt. Kenguruse Memorial Football Tournament

Support Staff 1. Kawaljeet Singh - Coach 2. Dinesh Suvarna - Trainer 3. Mowalong Kichu - Physio 4. A. Rahman - Manager

Nagaland Senior Cricket Team (For Vijay Hazare Trophy 2018-19)