{"id":6150,"date":"2008-08-26T23:49:55","date_gmt":"2008-08-26T23:49:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/151.106.38.4\/2008\/08\/26\/news-in-brief-24\/"},"modified":"2008-08-26T23:49:55","modified_gmt":"2008-08-26T23:49:55","slug":"news-in-brief-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2008\/08\/26\/news-in-brief-24\/","title":{"rendered":"NEWS IN BRIEF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\/old_site\/>Congress refutes news item<br \/>\nDIMAPUR: District Mahila Congress Committee (DMCC) has refuted the article that appeared under the caption &#8216;DMC Cong Mahila Youth displeased over ticket issue&#8217; and clarified &#8216;no persons by the names as mentioned&#8217; existed.<br \/>\nRequesting readers not to be misled by &#8216;some persons trying to gain cheap political mileage&#8217;, a joint release issued by Ayangla president and Asangla general secretary, DMCC stated the claims are by &#8216;some fictitious persons&#8217; as the names mentioned are not registered in the congress party under ward no 13 of Dimapur Municipal Council.<br \/>\nMeanwhile, Congress Party workers of ward no.13 have also clarified that the names Amenla and Temsu Imchen are neither active nor primary members in the congress party.<br \/>\nA release issued by Aosanen Longkumer, president, ACCI clarified, after immediate enquiry Temsu Imchen was found to be a government employee and not a party worker, &#8216;spreading propaganda to distract the mindset of the colony public.&#8217; Requesting colony voters not to take serious note of such articles, the president said, the party general body has selected the right candidate for the forthcoming DMC by-election and appealed the public to co-operate with congress party for over all development of the colony.<\/p>\n<p>KEH supports NSWC<br \/>\nDIMAPUR: Kyong Eloe Hoho (Lotha Women Hoho) has expressed &#8220;strong support&#8221; to the Nagaland State Women Commission (NSWC) on 33% reservation of seats for women in municipal and town councils.<br \/>\nStating that amendment of the municipal act 2006 was passed by the Nagaland state assembly, KEH president, Zuchobeni Ezung, and secretary, Amongi Tsanglao in a release said it should be implemented in letter and spirit.<br \/>\nMeanwhile, Eloe Hoho has also condemned the frequent harassment meted out to the fairer sex including &#8220;gruesome murder&#8221; of a house wife by her own husband on August 11 at Kohima and rape and murder of Carmel higher secondary school girl on August 17.<br \/>\nThe Women Hoho has demanded responsible authority to award befitting punishment to the &#8220;culprits&#8221; according to the law of the land.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress refutes news item DIMAPUR: District Mahila Congress Committee (DMCC) has refuted the article that appeared under the caption &#8216;DMC Cong Mahila Youth displeased over ticket issue&#8217; and clarified &#8216;no persons by the names as mentioned&#8217; existed. Requesting readers not to be misled by &#8216;some persons trying to gain cheap political mileage&#8217;, a joint release [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[679],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nagaland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}