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DAN to kick off campaign on March 27 KOHIMA, MARCH 11(MExN): In a round-up to the Lok Sabha polls scheduled for April 9 in Nagaland, the election campaign for Democratic Alliance of Nagaland (DAN) consensus candidate will officially kick off from Dimapur on March 27 at 11:00 am. DAN, comprising of the NPF, BJP and JD (U) has already endorsed Nagaland Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio as the DAN consensus candidate for the Lok Sabha polls in Nagaland.

DAN convenor and NPF president Dr. Shurhozelie Liezietsu told media persons on the sidelines of a book release function here that the party’s election manifesto will be similar to that of the previous Lok Sabha polls.

Dr. Liezietsu also stated that this time the NPF will not put up a party candidate for Lok Sabha polls in Arunachal Pradesh but it will set up a party candidate in the forthcoming Legislative Assembly elections there for which necessary arrangement is going on.

‘Nagaland Day of Prayer’ on March 15 KOHIMA, MARCH 11 (MExN): The Nagaland Baptist Church Council (NBCC) organized ‘Nagaland Day of Prayer’ will be on March 15, Saturday, at Union Baptist Church, Kohima. All Nagaland legislators & their wives, all the Head of Departments and their spouses, officers of frontal organizations, various establishments and Naga Ordained Ministers of all the denominations in Nagaland have been invited to pray and fast together for “our land.” The program will be held from 8:00am to 12 Noon. The NBCC has requested those interested to come without food and be seated by 7:45 am.

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After a brief lull, a factional clash between NSCN (K) and GPRN/NSCN re-emerged today. One cadre of GPRN/ NSCN was injured in a shootout today in Kohima. Sources said a cadre of GPRN/NSCN, identified as one N. Angami from Viswema village, was injured in the leg. The incident occurred at Minister Hill, Kohima around 11:00 am. The sources stated that the GPRN/NSCN cadre saw some cadres of NSCN (K) loitering around when the former tried to open fire but his gun did not fire. The NSCN (K) cadres opened fire injuring N. Angami in his leg.

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Maoists strike in chhattisgarh ‘foothill road project 15 security men and one civilian killed in attack

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RAIpuR, MARCH 11 (IANS): Fifteen security men and a civilian were killed Tuesday when Maoists sprang a deadly ambush on a patrol in a thickly forested area of Chhattisgarh, a short distance from the spot where 27 people were gunned down last year.

An estimated 300 guerrillas ambushed with indiscriminate fire and bomb attack a patrol of 50-55 men from the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and police on a remote stretch of a forested road in Gheeram Ghati.

The Maoists then walked away with AK-47 assault rifles of the slain security personnel. “It was a deadly ambush,” Additional Director General of Police Mukesh Gupta told IANS. He said the ambush site in Sukma district, about 500 km south of Raipur in the Bastar region, appeared to be near the place where Maoists massacred 27 people, including Pradesh Congress Committee president Nand Kumar Patel, his son Dinesh, and former legislator Uday Mudaliyar, in May last year. Former central minister Vidya Charan Shukla too was injured in that attack and died of his injuries later.

There was confusion over Tuesday’s toll, with initial reports saying 20 security personnel were killed.

The toll figure was later revised down to 15 security personnel and one civilian killed. Gupta said even as the Maoist attack triggered a gun battle, the guerrillas also exploded bombs, caus-

will not be politicized’

NFHRCC appeals to HM, Minister R&B and Home Secy to stop “unauthorized works”

between the NFHRCC and representatives of Class-I contractors Union Wokha, NFHRCC had asked the contractors to cease their “unauthorized works” immediately. Reports, however, suggest that the “unauthorized works” continue as of Tuesday evening.

Chief Engineer of PWD (R&B) D Mero said, “as of today the department has not issued any work order or authorized any firm other than M/S Trident Enterprises” to carry out construction works in Wokha sector. M/S Trident Enterprises is owned by contractor P Imty Ao. Mero also informed that the Department was in receipt of a letter from the Executive Engineer of Baghty division reporting the construction of Foothill Road in Wokha sector “by other contractors.” He assured to act on the report.

On the Committee’s part, it assured the Department officials, as well as contractor P Imty Ao, that “the committee will defuse the pressure from the higher ups.” The NFHRCC has appealed to the Home Minister of Nagaland, the Minister for Roads and Bridges and the Home Secretary to direct the district administration concerned to immediately stop the “unauthorized” construction works.

It also resolved that P Imty Ao alone should finish the fresh-cutting project as agreed upon on January 18 last and that the Committee would not allow any other contractor to take up the same. The NFHRCC will convene a joint meeting of all apex bodies of the ten constituent tribes on March 20. All tribal hohos involved has been requested to depute at least two representatives each to the meeting.

DIMApuR, MARCH 11 (MExN): The Nagaland Foot Hill Road Coordination Committee (NFHRCC) on Tuesday named an MLA of the Nagaland Legislative Assembly as the political figure behind interruption in the construction works of the Foothill Road in the Wokha sector.

The NFHRCC’s decision to publicize the name of the politician was arrived at after a nearly six-hour long meeting with the officials of PWD (Roads & Bridges), led by Chief Engineer D Mero, here today.

“It is the cardinal principle of the NFHRCC that the Foothill road project will not be politicized in any manner whatsoever. And the same was reaffirmed on July 23, 2013 with the ten Border MLAs.” “However despite of which, unfortunately, the honorable MLA Mhonlumo Kikon is blatantly violating the said resolution. Therefore the Committee is of the view that in the event of the ongoing construction works (in Wokha sector) being jeopardized, the MLA and his group shall be held liable,” the NFHRCC resolved on Tuesday.

It was informed that the Chief Engineer D Mero and contractor P Imty Ao were “pressurized” to sublet the contract works to Class-I contractors of Wokha. A direct conFILE - In this April 13, 2007 file photo, Maoist rebels exercise at a temporary base in the sequence of this, NFHRCC officials said, has Abujh Marh forests, in the central Indian state of Chattisgarh. Maoist rebels ambushed a been the execution of construction works group of paramilitary soldiers in a brazen daytime attack Tuesday, March 11, 2014 killing by the Class-I contractors of Wokha without 15 troops and sparking a gunbattle in central India, police said. (AP Photo) consent from the NFHRCC or work order(s) from the department concerned. ing more damage to the se- it was. the official told the media.

On March 8 last, after a joint meeting curity patrol that was passIt was not clear if any Normally, Maoist guering through the area. of the attackers, who were rillas carry out well-planned Union Home Minister from the Communist Par- hit-and-run attacks on secuSushilkumar Shinde said in ty of India-Maoist, were rity forces, using the topogNew Delhi: “Eleven CRPF also killed. The authorities raphy to their advantage. people have died and four rushed reinforcements to The sprawling interior of NEw YORK, MARCH 11 kind study to examine how policemen from Chhattis- the area and helicopters Chattisgarh, which is heav- (IANS): Do you often play children behave with adults garh (were killed). One ci- were flown in. A senior po- ily forested and populated games, check emails or re- on phones, researchers vilian has died...This is the lice official said that they by poor tribals, has been the spond to office calls on your from Boston Medical Censecond (attack) in the same had received inputs of the stronghold of the Maoists cell phone while with fam- tre studied 55 parents while area.” “We will fight against massing of Maoists. “Some since the 1980s. The CPI- ily on a dinner? This phone they had food at a restauNaxal movement,” he said, naxals were from odisha. Maoist is known to run a vir- addiction can damage your rant with children. They adding it cannot be imme- Operations were launched tual parallel administration emotional bonding with found that one in three kids soon. In a first-of-its- parents used their phones diately said “whose failure” from Sukma and Jagdalpur,” in these areas.

Cell phone addiction may damage parent-child bond almost continuously during the meals. “Parents who were highly absorbed in their devices seemed to have more negative or less engaged interactions with children,” Jenny Radesky, a behavioural pediatrics expert was quoted as saying.

NSF asks SSA teachers and DSE to ‘put heads together’ KOHIMA, MARCH 11 (MExN): The Naga Students’ Federation (NSF) has expressed “serious concern” for “non-payment of salary to 2730 SSA teachers which has forced the SSA teachers to show their resentment in the form of agitation resulting in disruption of normal functioning of schools in all districts.”

A press release from Assistant General Secretary of NSF, Christopher Ltu, and NSF Secretary Education, Bangdi Chawang, informed that the Federation officials met Department of School Education (DSE) and SSA officials on March 11, where they were told that “the department is expecting the release of 2nd installment of SSA funds within 2-3 weeks time from the centre.” The Federation, as per the release, urged the DSE to give a time-bound assurance to the

Nagaland SSA Teachers’ Association (NSSATA) for the release of their pending salary, based on which “the NSSATA should also resume their normal classes in the interest of the students.”

“At this juncture, blaming one department or the other for the delay in processing the SSA file in the MHRD or for the inability in releasing salary to the teachers will not going to solve this grieve problem,” the NSF observed. It advised the stakeholders to “put their heads together and clear the mess they themselves have created.” It asked for the department concerned to solve the problem at the earliest, “failing which the department should be answerable for spoiling the careers of thousands children.”

The NSF also urged the Education Department to “expedite the exercise

of mass re-deployment/rationalization process and to implement from this academic year since there are many schools running without the required number of teachers, particularly in remote areas.”

Normal functioning of schools affected

KOHIMA, MARCH 11 (pTI): The normal functioning of government schools in Nagaland State has been affected for the second day today as over 2700 teachers under SSA are on agitation till March 22 demanding early release of their pending salaries since November 2013. The Nagaland SSA Teachers’ Association started agitation in the form of boycotting the schools since March 10 demanding that the Nagaland State Government release the pending salaries.

JAC seeks CM’s intervention on border issue

Calls for 144 CrPC to be withdrawn; deploy at least one IRB/NAP company

DIMApuR, MARCH 11 (MExN): A Joint Action Committee (JAC) has sought the “immediate intervention” of the Chief Minister of Nagaland on the matter of the “land dispute issue raised by Mikhirs (Karbis).” The JAC comprises members from Nagaland’s border villages of Rangapahar S. Hukavi Zhimomi Colony, Sangtamtila Village, Muruse Village, Thahekhu Village and Thahekhu Block-7.

In a representation to the Chief Minister of Nagaland, the JAC reminded that “government of both Assam and Nagaland had made an agreement that the Nagaland-Assam border was a dispute land and duly made the joint declaration in 1971, which was further re-affirmed in 1979. The matter is lying pending in the court and not decided as yet.”

In the meantime, according to the JAC, “the Karbis, the Gurkhas and the Bangladeshis have established more than 40 (forty) villages in and around the dispute land.” They alleged that “the dense forest under dispute, left under the supervision of Assam for-

est, has been completely destroyed. As a matter of fact, the entire dispute land has been occupied by these groups of people, leaving no empty/free space. The above activities are being carried out under the patronage/protection of Assam police and government.”

In the light of this, the JAC has appealed to the Chief Minister to “give directives to withdraw the promulgation of 144 CrPC immediately and instead deploy at least one IRB/ NAP company in the dispute area as Assam government has also deployed Assam police, so as to protect the Nagas from constant

harassment by the Assam authorities.” Otherwise, the JAC has suggested that neutral forces be deployed to man the dispute area “as per the agreement made between the Nagaland and Assam government.”

In case of failure to address the appeal/request, the JAC has stated that it will be compelled to take its own course of action, which it defines as “flushing out these groups of people living within Nagaland and in dispute area owing to the fact that these outsiders (Gurkhas, Bangladeshis, and Mikhirs/Karbis) have no locus standi to claim or to occupy the land mentioned).”

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Nagaland’s Health & Family Welfare Principal Director Dr. Neiphi Kire said the state does not have its own ‘Nagaland Nursing Council’ even after attainment of the 50 years of the statehood and still follows Assam Nursing Council.

The state needs its own nursing council for the welfares of the nurses, he said during the general body meeting of Nagaland InService Doctors Association (NIDA) here last week.

In the absence of the state nursing council, he said that the state is compelled to rush to Guwahati to take permission for taking examination and the regis-

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tration fee has to be paid to Assam Nursing Council.

In this, he stressed on the need to own the Nagaland Nursing Council. He said all the neighboring states own it except Nagaland.

He stated that due to some technical concern nursing service have been stagnant and many were retiring without seniority benefits.

Stating that after doctor, it is the nurse responsible for taking care of the patient 24 hours, he said that nurse as a profession is much sought-after these days and many young people, especially women, want to study nursing, however there is no enough nursing institutes to accommodate the aspir- An elderly woman sits along as another weaves a traditional shawl at their residence at Thetsumi in Phek district. Several women earn their livelihood through weaving activity in the rural areas in Nagaland. (Morung Photo/Chizokho Vero) ing candidates.

Writ petition challenges constitutional Empowering rural women validity of Nagaland govt. notification through integrated farming

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Kohima, march 11 (mExN): A writ petition filed in the Gauhati High Court (GHC) by Deputy District Education Officers (DEO), who belong to the Higher Secondary Education Cadres, has challenged the constitutional validity of “the eligibility condition prescribed in serial no. 16 of Notification dated 21.07.2011 issued by the Governor of Nagaland wherein 100% post of DEO have been reserved from the officers from Secondary School Education Cadre.”

According to an observation made by the Judgment & Order (CAV) from the Kohima Bench of

the GHC on March 5 by Justice P.K. Saikia, the said clause of the Notification puts the higher secondary education cadre in an unfair position vis-à-vis their promotion. It termed serial no. 16 of the Notification “illegal and unsustainable in law” as the (bureaucratic) arrangement so made “violates the principle of natural justice as well as the fundamental rights incorporated in the Constitution of India.” The petitioners have sought, among other things, quashing of the said clause.

A press release/public notice from the petitioners, that is the

Deputy DEOs of the Directorate of School Education (Higher Secondary Section), Nagaland, has welcomed interested or affected persons to oppose the writ petition of the petitioners, which is slated to be heard next by the GHC on March 21.

This is in pursuance of the direction of the GHC, on March 5, in the matter Rowainla Ao & Ors. Vs. State of Nagaland & Ors. to issue a public notice informing person/s having interest in the proceeding of WP(C) No. 193 (K) of 2013 to participate in order to place their views on the prayer made by the writ petitioners.

SDFN to observe World Water Day 2014

Kohima, march 11 (mExN): Sustainable Development Forum Nagaland (SDFN) in collaboration with Regional Centre of National Afforestation and Eco-development Board, Shillong, Department of Soil and Water Conservation, and Department of Power will observe World Water Day on March 22 at Hotel Japfü, Kohima under the

theme, “Water and Energy”.

The event will be organized with an objective to raise awareness about the inter-linkages between water and energy; contribute to a policy dialogue that focuses on broad range of issues related to the nexus of water and energy; highlight to decision makers in the energy sector and water domain that integrated

approaches and solutions to water-energy issues can achieve greater economic and social impacts; identify policy formulation and capacity development issues in which the respective state agencies can offer significant contributions; and identify key stakeholders in the water-energy nexus and actively engage them in further developing the water-

energy linkages respectively.

The key messages for World Water Day-2014, Kohima are: Water requires energy and energy requires water; Supplies are limited and demand is increasing; Saving energy is saving water.

Saving water is saving energy; and Improving water and energy efficiency is imperative as are coordinated, coherent and concerted policies.

ZuNhEboto, march 11 (mExN): ICAR is promoting integrated farming system with the aim of improving the nutritional security and employment generation round the year.

To sensitize the rural women about importance of integrating agriculture, animal science and horticulture together, two days training programme on nutritional security and income generation through integrated farming system approach was conducted by ICAR RC NEH Region, Nagaland Centre, Jharnapani under Tribal Sub Plan on March 6 and 7.

Thirty-two women farmers from 13 SHGs of Rotomi and Atoizu villages of Zunheboto district participated in the training programme. Deliberation of theory and practicals on different aspects of improved maize production technology, poultry and pig breeding, artificial insemination in pig, citrus and kiwi fruit cultivation and home scale mushroom production techniques were delivered by a team of experts. The team comprised of Dr. Rakesh Kumar (Agronomy), Dr. M.K.

Patra (Animal Reproduction) and Dr. A. Thirugnanavel (Horticulture) and Tasvina R Borah (Plant Pathology).

Dr. Bidyut C. Deka, Joint Director, ICAR Nagaland centre for promoting agriculture and allied intervention for empowering the rural women in Zunheboto district of Nagaland appreciated the efforts taken by the scientists and technical officers of the centre.

The valedictory program was graced by Hon’ble MLA, Picto Shohe, Atoizu constituency as chief guest, Dr. Akali Sema, Professor (Horticulture) and Kehio Shohe, LR department, GoN, Dr. Bidyut C. Deka, Joint Director and Dr. Anamika Sharma, PC, KVK Dimapur. Following the training programme, critical inputs like maize seeds, mushroom spawn were given to each beneficiary to begin income generation activity and assurance was given for establishing pig and poultry production unit at each SHGs in future. The program concluded with vote of thanks delivered by Dr. A. Thirugnanavel.

Youths called to be vanguard of society SBAK conducts Youth Sports Evangelism

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moKoKchuNg, march 11 (mExN): Youth leadership and personality development training programme was conducted at AKM coaching centre, Mokokchung from February 10 to March 11 at Nehru Yuva Kendra, Mokokchung. Total 37 youths attended the training programme.

In the inaugural programme, Khrejakhreino EAC, DC Office Mokokchung was the chief guest. In her speech, she called upon the youth present to work hard and prepare for competitive events, as there is cutthroat competition. She appealed the youth present to avail the opportunities offered by Government and make the best use of it.

In the valedictory function, L. Jemti Longchar,

President, AKM asked to youth to be the vanguard of the society, embedded with vision, ideas, direction, inspiration and goals.

One should attain the goals by overcoming obstacles and hurdles in accomplishing the job. He also highlighted the characteristics of effective leaders where one should be able to communicate effectively, takes initiatives, be resourceful, assumes full responsibilities with creative and critical thinking skills. He stressed on the need to build personality development where one can develop self-confidence, self-esteem and positive attitude towards life. He appealed the youth to be agent of change and positive contribution to the society.

In keynote address,

John Makhabo, DYC, NYK, Mokokchung highlighted the aims and objectives of the youth leadership and personality development programme. The training was animated by Sanen, Lima lecturer, People’s College, Mokokchung, Samuel Sangtam, SMS (Agro) KVK, Dr. Chubasanen, VAS Department of Veterinary & Animal Husbandry, Pupen, floriculture, Entrepreneur, Department of Sericulture, Dr. Cressida, Nagaland BioResource Mission, Akummeren, Mokokchung, I/c Bio-Resource Mission, Dr. Rongsensusang, SMS (Animal Sc) KVK, Temsuienla, LTO Agri, Imotemsu Horti.

Officer, Uttam Kr. Kar, BM, SBI, Mokokchung, and John Makhabo, DYC, NYK, Mokokchung.

Large gatherings witness the SBAK Youth Sports Evangelism at Sumi Christian Center Aizuto.

aiZuto, march 11 (mExN): The youth department under the Sumi Baptist Churches Association (SBAK) conducted Youth Sports Evangelism from March 3-7 on the theme, “I belong to Jesus” at Sumi Christian Center Aizuto.

Hotoshe L. Awomi Principal Mount View English School Suruhuto brought greetings.

The evangelism speakers including Re. Mu-

lato Chishi Principal ATC, Rev. Vitoshe K. Aye Youth Secretary, Khekivi Awomi Youth Evangelist, Inakhu Chishi Vice Principal ATC. A press release issued by K. Nitoyi Awomi, Media & Communication, Literature in charge SBAK-Aizuto informed that total 76 teams participated in the sports week, 29 teams for football (Boys) 24 teams for wooden vehicle (boys) and 24 teams for volleyball (girls).

Car rally demonstrates support for women empowerment

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Kohima, march 11 (DiPr): Additional Deputy Commissioner & Electoral Registration Officer, Kohima and Nodal Officer for SVEEP (Systematic Voters Education and Electoral Participation) has convened a meeting of SVEEP Core Committee on March 12 at 10:30 a.m. at ADC & ERO Office Chamber. Therefore, all the Committee members have been requested to attend the meeting.

Press Conference today Kohima, march 11 (DiPr): A press conference with the Deputy Election Commissioner of India, Sudhir Tripathi will be held at 17:30 hours on March 12 in the Hotel Japfu Conference Hall. All media fraternity members are requested to attend.

Press conference on disaster drill Kohima, march 11 (DiPr): The Nagaland State Disaster Management Authority (NSDMA) shall be briefing the press about the Mega Mock Drill Exercise to be held on March 13. The members from the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) shall address the press on March 12 at 3 p.m. in the SIRD Conference Hall Kohima. A print/electronic media personnel are invited to attend the same.

Election authority letter for media persons Kohima, march 11 (DiPr): All media persons, both print and electronic desirous of reporting/coverage of the MP elections 2014; are requested to furnish the names to DIPR, on or before March 19 for onward action to the Election Commission. The Authority Letters shall be for two categories viz a) Polling Stations and b) Counting Centre. Details of names for persons and organizations should be signed and forwarded by their respective Proprietor/Administrator.

Disaster management mock drill in Dimapur DimaPur, march 11 (mExN): The public are informed that a mock exercise will be conducted by the District Administration on March 13. Dimapur Deputy Commissioner has informed in a press release that the exercise will be conducted simultaneously at 5 sites New market, PWD Colony, Khuda GHSS, Hotel Saramati and BSNL office. Further, public is informed do not be alarmed by sounding of sirens or movement of personnel and ambulances.

Kiphire mega mock drill exercise on March 13

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KiPhirE, march 11 (DiPr): Joining along with the North-Eastern State and the Nagaland State Disaster Management Authority (NDSMA), Kiphire Incident Response System (KDIRS) Unit would conduct a one-day mega mock drill exercise at the district headquarter on March 13, the mega mock drill exercise is for preparedness in time of emergency. Meanwhile, DC Kiphire Neposo Theluo who is also the Chairman of the KDIRS appeal to all the general public to extend full cooperation for the successful conduct of the said exercise.

Notification for police personnel on election duty Kohima, march 11 (DiPr): In pursuance of the provisions of Section 28 A of the Representation of the People Act, 1951 the Government of Nagaland has notified vide No. ELE/CDT-114/2012-14 dated 7th March 2014 that all police personnel including Home Guards of the Government of Nagaland from the ranks of DGP down to the level of constables, are designated as election related officials on duty with immediate effect till the completion of the 16th Lok Sabha election, Nagaland Parliamentary Constituency 2014. Henceforth, all Police officials on duty related to arrangements and performance of duties in connection with the conduct of elections are by law officers of the Election Commission of India on deemed deputation to it and are therefore subject to its control superintendence and discipline, they are answerable to the Election Commission for any acts of commission or omission on their part while performing their duties in any election related assignments.

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SDEO Dimapur informs on text books DimaPur, march 11 (mExN): Free text books under Sub-divisional Education Officer (SDEO) Dimapur will be issued at EBRCs from March 19 onwards. Therefore, SDEO S Atomi Swu has directed all the schools to collect the same from respective EBRC, namely, EBRC Medziphema, EBRC Doyapur, EBRC Nagarjan, and EBRC Kushiabill.

Unions illegally collecting tax DimaPur, march 11 (mExN): The All Nagaland Taxi Association Dimapur Unit today alleged in a press release that unauthorized organizations called ‘Transport Trade Drivers’ Union’ and ‘Surface Transport Eco and Environment Society’ are illegally collecting tax of rupees fifty. It further stated that identity cards are also being forcefully issued at Phesama to the taxis between Dimapur and Imphal. The ANTA Dimapur Unit president Tohozhe Awomi and general secretary Ahoshe Chophi has therefore requested the authorities concerned to look into the matter and check such illegal collection and book those involved according to law.

NSSATA Zunheboto Unit formed

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Participants of the special Women’s Car Rally held at Kohima on March 8.

Kohima, march 11 (mExN): The Department of Women Development, Nagaland State Commission for Women, Nagaland State Social Welfare Board and the Nagaland State Resource Centre for Women, organized a special Wom-

en’s Car Rally on March 8 at Kohima to mark the International Women’s Day under the theme ‘Inspiring Change.’

Parliamentary Secretary, Women Development & Sericulture, Pukhayi flagged off the rally out-

side the Secretariat Gate, which then proceeded towards the Raj Bhavan to receive the Governor, Government of Nagaland, who was the chief guest for the programme. Along with the Governor’s motorcade, the rally continued towards

the Khuochiezie Kohima Local Ground where the programme commenced thereafter.

Women from all walks of life including government employees, entrepreneurs, scientists, lawyers, homemakers, NGOs, students

etc, joined the car rally. “It was also heartening to have the menfolk turn up for the demonstration, showing their support for the movement of Women’s empowerment,” stated a press release.

The Nagaland Motorcy-

cles Club contributed to the success of the event by leading the Rally. Over 100 participants in about50 vehicles and 20 bikes participated in this significant Rally, actively showing their support and celebration of International Women’s Day.

ZuNhEboto, march 11 (mExN): The SSA Teacher under Zunheboto district held a general meeting on March 11 and formed its district unit as Nagaland SSA Teachers Association Zunheboto unit (NSSATA Zunheboto Unit) for interim period of six months. The house inducted following executives: Convenor- Vinoka Chophy (8014056647); Secretary- Pikali Zhimomi (9089722115); Finance Secretary- Piketoli; Executive Members- Puloto, Aboto and Jetovi. The house also resolved to collect Rs. 200 per SSA Teacher appointed 2010/2012 batch as membership fee where Rs. 100 is to be submitted to central body and Rs. 100 for district welfare. While adhering and co-operating to the NSSATA resolution of boycotting classes since March 10 till 22nd of march 2014, it reminds its members to fully co-operate towards the same and request the students to bear genuine inconvenience. It will continue to fight against the concerned department/government till justice is delivered to the affected Teachers.

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Energy surplus NE can power India Power Company limited (OTPC) to set up the Rs.10,000-crore Palatana power plant in southern Tripura.

The 726 MW capacity combined cycle power project is the first commercial power project of ONGC, which found huge gas reserves in Tripura. The first unit of the Palatana power project was inaugurated by President Pranab Mukherjee June 21 last year. Dube said that to remove the power transmission logjam, the state-run Power Grid Corporation of India Limited (PGCIL) has been raising High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) transmission lines from Biswanath Chariyalli in Guwahati to Agra in Uttar Pradesh. "The under construction power transmission corridor would be commissioned by this year-end or next year. After that, the problems of evacuation of power from the northeast to the national grid would be sorted out considerably," said the power engineer.

Dube said that to move power from the Palatana power project a 400 KV high transmission double circuit power line (661 km) is being drawn up to Silchar in southern Assam from Palatana at a cost of Rs.2,200 crore to connect with the Bongaigaon na-

SSA teachers to abstain from poll duty in Arunachal

Newmai News Network presidents of regional and frontal organisations held Senapati | March 11 on December 15, 2011.

"Any political party or Political parties and candidates whose manifestoes, individual, who either in agendas or activities that speech, written statement, confront the Naga aspira- visual display or in action, tion will be considered an- opposing the established ti-Naga, asserted the Unit- and registered position of the Nagas will be deemed ed Naga Council (UNC).

In relation to the forth- to be anti-Naga," one resocoming Lok Sabha elec- lution of the UNC states.

It also said the polition, the UNC today reaffirmed in Senapati its cies, programmes and December 15, 2011 resolu- activities of any politition where it says that any cal party which does not candidate or political party subscribe to the estabopposing the 'established lished position of the Naand registered' position of gas will not qualify for the the Nagas will be consid- support of the Naga people in any manner whatered anti-Naga.

The presidential coun- soever. "The Naga people cil of the UNC held today are therefore informed at Senapati reaffirmed the that the above position positions resolved in the will have to be adhered to joint meeting of represen- in letter and spirit in the tatives of political parties, ensuing Lok Sabha electhe UNC, tribe presidents, tions," the UNC stated.

Assam's AGP to fight for existence in Lok Sabha polls guwahatI, March 11 (IanS): The Lok Sabha polls in Assam will not be a mere battle of the ballot for the state's most prominent regional party Asom Gana Parishad (AGP). The party will actually be fighting a battle for its very existence in the state.

Born out of the sixyear-long anti-foreigners agitation between 1979 and

1985, the AGP is battling for its survival following its dipping popularity among people in the last few years.

The party, which came to power in 1985 mainly by assuring to rid Assam of illegal Bangladeshi migrants, however, did nothing in this regard despite running governments for two terms -- during 1985-1990 and 1996-2001.

"The party has failed

to fulfill the aspirations of the people of Assam. Lack of political farsightedness, proper leadership, political vision and attitude of some top leaders of the party are responsible for the party's debacle," said former AGP vice president Apurba Kumar Bhattacharyya.

The AGP has also been suffering due to splits engineered by its leaders. Many

prominent leaders have already left the party to join other political parties in the last three years.

Former party president Chandra Mohan Patowary and senior leader Hitendra Nath Goswami resigned from the party recently and joined the BJP Monday. Patowary is likely to contest the polls from Barpeta on a BJP ticket.

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aIzawl, March 11 (PtI): The proposed calendar of the coming Mizoram Legislative Assembly session was on Tuesday changed by the business advisory committee (BAC) deciding that the session would be only for three days. Sources in the Assembly Secretariat told a news agency that the session would begin on March 18 and continue till March 20 as against the earlier proposal of the session for 13 days (from March 18 to April 3). State Governor Vakkom Purushothaman would deliver his annual gubernatorial address to the Assembly on the first day of the session and the Supplementary Demand for grants for 2013-2014 would be presented by the Finance Minister Lalsawta who would also seek a vote-on-account on the same day. The motion of thanks on the Governor's An Indian farmer waters his paddy field in Mayong village, about 45 kilometers (28 miles) east of Guwahati, Assam. (AP Photo) address would be discussed on March 19 and other businesses would also be taken up. The Supplementary Demand and the Vote-on-account would be deliberated and expected to be passed on March 20, the officials said.

'Tortured' in school, class V girl immolates self

agartala, March 11 (PtI): North East Electric Power Corporation (NEEPCO) today said that commissioning of 101 MW gas-based thermal project at Monarchak in Sipahijala district has become uncertain due to delay in gas supply by ONGC. "We would like to clarify that erection of the gas turbine unit of the Monarchak plant has already been completed in September last year and since then NEEPCO authority has been waiting for ONGC to supply gas so that the plant could be put on operation," Monarchak project head S R Biswas said.

"It is further put on record that ONGC was required to commence gas supply to the project from March 2013.

In spite of regular enquiry from NEEPCO, ONGC has been silent as to when they will be able to commence supply. This has made the commissioning of the project uncertain," he said. V P Mahawar, manager of ONGC's Tripura Asset, had recently told reporters the company would start supplying gas to Monarchak plant by December this year as seven to eight months would be required to complete technical works. The Monarchak project is incurring a loss of Rs 3.5 crore per month.

Two killed in accident in Mizoram aIzawl, March 11 (PtI): Two persons were killed and 13 others were injured when a truck rolled down to a deep gorge near Tuipang in Mizoram's southernmost Saiha district last night. Police said that driver of the truck Beithalo and his helper Thadi were killed. The injured people were taken to the Tuipang rural hospital.

A majority of those in the truck were returning from a wedding in Laki village. The cause of the mishap was not known as the driver was killed, police said.

MuMbaI, March 11 (Dna): A class V girl committed suicide by immolating herself after she had failed to cope with alleged mental and physical torture by a lady teacher in school.

The victim, Nibedita Dey, was a student of the English-medium Sophy Mercy School in eastern Assam's Sivasagar town, some 400km from Guwahati. Her father is a college lecturer.

Recently, the school au-

thorities found an 'objectionable letter' in the girl's school bag. The authorities then asked the girl to inform her parents to come to school. But the girl kept the matter to herself as she was afraid of punishment from parents.

So when she went to school the next day she was allegedly tortured, both mentally and physically allegedly by the principal. She set herself on fire at home

on Saturday when no one was around. On hearing her screams the neighbours rushed to her house and took her to a local hospital.

Later, she was shifted to a hospital in Dibrugarh where she succumbed to her burn injuries on Sunday.

In her statement in the hospital, the 12-year-old girl expressed innocence saying she was falsely implicated.

An FIR has been lodged

Cases against Assam chief minister, revenue minister guwahatI, March 11 (tnn): Dispur Police on Monday registered cases against Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi and revenue minister Prithivi Majhi on a complaint filed by wife of Pranab Boro, the man who self-immolated in front of the state secretariat on January 24 in protest against the state government's refusal to grant land patta to those occupying government lands.

Boro's wife, Purnima, lodged an FIR at Dispur police station on the same day

against Gogoi and Majhi and held them responsible for her husband's death. Police received her complaint but did not register the case till it received instructions to do so from the Kamrup (Metro) chief judicial magistrate on Monday.

Dispur Police have been maintaining that were no cognizable evidence against the two political leaders and so they did not register the case. Boro died later in Guwahati Medical College and Hospital. He was a member

of Krishak Mukti Sangram Samity (KMSS), which is spearheading the movement for land rights for the people living illegally on forest and wetlands around the city.

"We have received the court's directives and accordingly we have registered the case against the chief minister and the revenue minister. We have already informed the CM's office. The court has also asked why it took so long for police to act on the matter," said a senior police official.

Meghalaya's power dues touch Rs 473.85 crore ShIllong, March 11 (PtI): Meghalaya has dues of over Rs 470 crore to be paid to 11 public and private power companies, including an outstanding of over Rs 363 crore due to the NEEPCO alone, compounding the power-crisis in the state, Chief Minister Mukul Sangma told the assembly today.

"The total outstanding dues against power purchase from 11 power companies have touched Rs 473.85 crore as on February 28 last," Sangma said while replying to a call attention motion moved by Garo National Council legislator

Clifford R Marak.

T h e a p p ro x i m a t e monthly power bill against power purchase from these companies is about Rs 34.73 crore, he said, of which the state government has cleared payments of only Rs 159.41 crore till March 5.

According to the Chief Minister, the accumulation of the outstanding dues was because of huge supplementary bills raised by the central power sector units, consequent upon the final tariff order issued by the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission in accordance with their tariff regulation from 2009 - 2014 with

retrospective effect.

He also said the state suffered a transmission loss of about 30 MW for which the government has to bear losses during power transfers.

North Eastern Electric Power Corporation Ltd (NEEPCO) has the highest outstanding due against power purchase from Meghalaya which has nearly touched Rs 364 crore, followed by Power Grid Corporation of India Limited whose due is Rs 28.39 crore followed by NTPC at Rs 24.65 crore and National Hydro Power Corporation at Rs 21.23 crore, the Chief

Minister said.

There were other smaller companies too whose payments were outstanding, he said.

The state government is yet to pay Assam Electricity Board Rs 14.6 crore for wheeling charges during which the transfer of power to the state was made through their grid.

The Chief Minister also informed that the Meghalaya Electricity Corporation Limited has short term liabilities worth over Rs 440 crore which was eligible for reimbursement under Financial Restructuring Plan of the Government of India

whose last date of submission was July 31 last year.

Since the submission was not made on time, Sangma said the state government has pursued with the Union Power Minister to extend the deadline till June this year so as to enable the state to avail reimbursement of at least 25 per cent of the total liabilities.

The power scenario has been a cause of concern during the last few years.

The state has been facing a power deficit to the extent of 20-30 per cent of the demand, Governor K K Paul told the Assembly during his address last week.

with the police by the girl's parents against school authorities. The police have detained the accused teacher for questioning.

"It appears to be a case of suicide. However, we are still investigating the case," said Sivasagar superintendent of police Bijoy Kuligam.

The incident has sparked off protests in the district with a number of organisations demanding action against the erring teacher.

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On Monday, doctors took out a procession in Imphal condemning the assassination attempt. On Tuesday, teachers and students of the College of Nursing, located on the campus of RIMS, also staged a sit-in protest.

Talking to The Hindu, Dr. N. Damayanti, head of department of Anatomy and adviser to the College of Nursing, said it was condemnable that a senior lady professor who has been selflessly serving the people all these years was thus attacked.

Though three bullets were fired, only one had inflicted a superficial injury in her head.

Dr. Damayanti demanded beefing up of security on the RIMS campus where College of Nursing is also located.

She said that in every society, women are protected.

But in Manipur, this lady doctor was targetted in a reprehensible manner. Dr. Taruni has saved many lives but there is apparantely nobody to save her, she added.

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Bhattacharyya and Jagadish Bhuyan had left the party in the past.

Another prominent leader who had earlier left the AGP is present president of the BJP state unit, Sarbananda Sonowal.

Sonowal, a former AGP Lok Sabha member, resigned in 2011 due to dissatisfaction with the party's senior leadership.

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Itanagar, March 11 (PtI): Protesting against the non-release of their salaries for last six months, teachers under the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) programme in Arunachal Pradesh have decided to abstain from election duty in the ensuing Lok Sabha and Assembly polls. In a letter to Chief Electoral officer today, the All Arunachal Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan Teachers' Association (AASSATA) said that the decision was taken its several representatives had not been paid their salaries for the last six months. "From October last year to March this year, the state government has failed to disburse our hard earned monthly salary even when we pleaded with them many times for the same," the association said in the letter. It however, maintained that the decision would be revoked if the state government made the pending payment by March 15 next.

percent (1,200 MW) has been exploited till early this year.

NEEPCO also plans to generate at least 1,500 MW power from non-conventional sources of energy such as solar and wind power in the next five years. With a population of 45.50 million in the North East region, the per capita electricity consumption in the region is 257.98 kilowatt hour (kWh) against the national average of 778.71 kWh. According to an official document, 19 power projects, including twelve 3,918 MW capacity hydel power projects and four thermal power projects with an installed capacity of 5,595 MW, are now in various stages of commissioning and planning in the North East region by different organisations, including NEEPCO. NEEPCO currently operates five hydro and two thermal power plants across the North East region with a total installed capacity of 1,130 MW. The power plants would be set up in Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Meghalaya, Sikkim, Mizoram and Tripura. Three power projects totaling 1,344 MW would also be commissioned by private organisations in Arunachal Pradesh.

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tional grid to distribute electricity to various North East states.

But it would take some more months to complete the transmission lines up to the Bongaigaon national grid in western Assam.

"Northeastern India could be a power house of India, but inadequate transmission lines are the major impediment to evacuate the power from the region to other parts of the country," he pointed out.

State-run North Eastern Electric Power Corporation (NEEPCO) is also executing several power projects in different states of the North East region, which shares borders with China, Myanmar, Bhutan and Bangladesh. "Many hydel and thermal power projects are now at various stages of commissioning... Completion of the under commissioning and planned projects in different North East states would generate over 6,000 MW in the region," NEEPCO chairman and managing director (CMD) P.C. Pankaj told IANS. The hydro-power potential of the North East region is estimated at 58,971 MW, which is almost 40 percent of the country's total hydro potential, but only less than two

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"The current peak-hour demand of electricity in the seven North East states is 2,200 to 2,300 MW (megawatt). Now, the shortage of power during peak hour is around 100 MW but during off-peak-hour it is surplus by over 300 MW," energy expert Sudhindra Kumar Dube told IANS. He said that the industry-famished North East region of India would be a power surplus area even during peak-hour (6 p.m. to 10 p.m.) by June when the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation's (ONGC's) 726 MW power project in southern Tripura starts full capacity generation. "Due to inadequate capacity of transmission lines between the North East region and the rest of India, the surplus power could not be transmitted to other parts of the country," said Dube, who is managing director of ONGC Tripura Power Company (OTPC).

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India to slash Iran oil imports: sources

NEW DELHI, MarcH 11 (rEutErs): India has to cut its Iranian oil imports by nearly two-thirds from the first quarter after the United States asked it to hold the shipments at end-2013 levels, in keeping with the nuclear deal easing sanctions on Tehran, Indian government sources said.

India, with the increases already made in the January-March loading plans from Iran, has to cut its purchases of the crude to about 110,000 barrels per day (bpd) to drop its intake average to 195,000 bpd for the six months to July 20.

Under the November 24 agreement between Iran and six world powers, the OPEC member was to hold oil exports at “current volumes” of about 1 million bpd, and a message delivered by a top U.S. energy policy official to Indian ministries in February was the first clear sign of low tolerance for any increases.

Since the interim deal

An employee fills a vehicle with petrol at a fuel station in New Delhi. (REUTERS Photo)

was signed, purchases of Iranian oil by its top four buyers - China, India, Japan and South Korea - have been creeping up and together they have taken 1.25 million barrels per day (bpd) in January against a daily average of about

935,900 bpd for all of 2013.

“It is a fact that they (the United States) have asked us that Iran’s exports to India should not exceed 195,000 bpd between January to July and we have said that we’ll take care of that,” said one of the govern-

ment sources, all of whom requested anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue.

The U.S. official could not be reached for comment. Tehran and Western world powers are working through a landmark deal

that runs from January 20 to July 20 that requires Iran to curb its nuclear programme in return for a calibrated release of $4.2 billion it is owed in back payments for its oil.

Tough international sanctions over the past two years have cut Iran’s oil exports in half, measures that starved it of hard currency and helped lead it to the nuclear deal last November.

While relaxation of sanctions has made oil exports easier to arrange and buyers no longer have to keep reducing purchases, they were meant to keep import volumes unchanged from the end of last year.

India, though, is already on track to average crude loadings of 322,200 bpd from Iran in the first quarter, according to loading figures provided by one of the sources. The figures included lifting plans for 345,000 bpd during January. Tanker arrival data, meanwhile, compiled by Reuters put India’s January intake of crude

‘Women-owned businesses face significant financing gap’

NEW DELHI, MarcH 11 (PtI): The financing gap for womenowned MSME businesses in India is about Rs 6.37 lakh crore ($ 116 billion) or 73 per cent of their total demand, according to a study by World Bank Group member IFC. The study, in partnership with Government of Japan said that financial institutions (FIs) meet only 27 per cent of the financing demand of women-owned micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) in India.

“The total supply of formal finance to women-owned MSMEs in 2012 was around Rs 2.31 lakh crore ($ 42 billion). This resulted in a fi-

nance gap of Rs 6.37 lakh crore ($ 116 billion), or 73 per cent of total demand,” the report said.

FIs can meet the demand through products and services tailored for women entrepreneurs, it said.

The total financing demand was $ 158 billion (Rs 8.68 lakh crore) for women-owned businesses.

The formal sources of credit supply included public sector banks, non-banking financial corporations, and self-help groupbank linkage programs.

There are an estimated 3 million women-owned enterprises across industries, representing about 10

NEW DELHI, MarcH 11 (IaNs): Zimbabwe Tuesday invited Indian companies to partner it in “kick-starting” its agricultural development after a series of setbacks to the sector. “I’m advocating that you come and accompany some of our farmers in food production, in maximising the output from the land”, Zimbabwe’s Minister for Small and Medium Enterprises Sithembiso G. Nyoni said at a plenary here on “India Inc support in creating affordable food security in Africa” during the on-going 10th CII-Exim Bank conclave on India-Africa Project Partnership.

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Public community of Diphupar area in general and the Naga United Village in particular extend deep appreciation and thanks to the Diphupar Village Council for the good effort of development of public welfare. It is a sign of progress, transformation, modernization, and civilization. Broadening will sensitize other communities with a rippling effect. While appreciating the Council, the coopera- tion of the public and the land owners is acknowledged. It is good example and demonstration for generations to come.

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‘India halts plan to join global bond indexes, defers Euroclear’

NEW DELHI, MarcH 11 (rEutErs): India has put on ice plans to join major emerging market bond indexes that would require it to remove restrictions on foreign capital inflows, two sources said, signalling easing concerns about the rupee and the balance of payments. A separate plan to explore joining Euroclear, the world’s largest securities settlement system, has also been deferred until the next government takes charge after elections in April and May. That plan could have further opened up the market to portfolio capital inflows.

Finance Minister P. Chidambaram and Raghuram Rajan, Reserve Bank of India governor, initiated talks with index compilers including JP Morgan in the hope of attracting billions of investment dollars after the rupee tumbled to a record low last August.

“The plan for joining global bond indices has virtually been dumped over differences of abolishing investment limits on FIIs (foreign institutional investors) in government bonds,” a senior official with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters.

Initially, India had hoped to join the government bond indices by December, potentially attracting $20 billion-$40 billion in additional inflows over a year according to Standard Chartered Bank estimates, the source said. Confirming the failure of talks, another source said: “As regards the issue of India’s plan to enter into JP Morgan debt index and other global indices, no action is being envisaged.”

bwean minister said, pointing out that her country’s campaigns from early this century to expropriate colonialists’ lands, and the international sanctions on Zimbabwe during the decade had been big factors for declining agriculture.

She said 76% of Zimbabwe’s agriculture is in the form of small enterprises. Besides partnerships for the food production, Zimbabwe wanted partnering for value addition so that it could export, the minister said. Nyoni went on to offer specific partnership proposals whereby an Indian company can import mangoes from Zimbabwe RUPEE RECOVERY A global flight to the U.S. dollar last year, during the flowering season in India.

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being met through informal sources,” the IFC report added.

The study further said that FIs can tap this “profitable segment” with products and services tailored to the needs of women-owned MSMEs. It also said FIs should consider options such as advisory desks at selected bank branches to offer information on products and services tailored to women-owned enterprises.

Providing non-financial services (NFS) and training, along with access to financial products, will offer holistic growth opportunities to women entrepreneurs, it added.

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per cent of all micro, small, and medium enterprises in India and employing over 8 million people.

Collectively, these enterprises contribute 3.09 per cent of industrial output. Approximately, 78 per cent of women enterprises belong to the services sector.

Women entrepreneurship, the report said, is largely skewed towards smaller sized firms, as almost 98 per cent of the businesses are micro-enterprises.

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from Iran at 412,000 bpd, double the daily arrival average for December.

The sources said the loading increases mean Indian refiners have to cut their buys of Iranian oil to about 110,000 bpd over the April 1-July 20 period to meet the ceiling of 195,000 bpd. For the fiscal year to March 31, India’s oil purchases from Iran are likely to be down about a fifth to 214,300 bpd, according to the loading data, sharper than a 15% reduction requested by Washington to win a waiver on sanctions.

Private refiner Essar Oil will be the biggest Indian buyer of Iran’s oil this financial year, replacing stateowned Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemical. Essar will have lifted about 30% higher than its contract volume of 80,000 bpd, said another government source. A jump in Essar’s Iran oil imports comes as Iran is giving India a discount on crude and offering free delivery.

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driven by an expected withdrawal of monetary stimulus by the Federal Reserve, sent the partially convertible rupee sliding.

The current account deficit has since narrowed, and the rupee has recovered 8 percent since September, taking the pressure off the government to liberalise capital flows - a step supported by the central bank, investors and many policymakers.

A strong election campaign by opposition leader Narendra Modi, who has a pro-business record running Gujarat, has also boosted Indian assets. Investors such as hedge funds and sovereign funds have pumped huge funds into emerging markets like Brazil, Indonesia and South Africa’s sovereign debt in the last few years and held $768 billion as of June 2013, the IMF estimates.

Foreign holdings in Indian public debt are expected to decline to around 4 percent by end-March to $728 billion, from 5.2 percent two years ago.

EUROCLEAR PLANS ON HOLD Plans to join Brussels-based Euroclear bank - the largest provider of cross-border settlement services for securities trades - have also been deferred till the next government takes charge.

Settlement of locally-issued government bonds via Euroclear would have removed any regulatory barriers for foreign investors to invest in Asia’s third-largest economy. “We are not yet ready to join the Euroclear due to its tough conditions, on which the next government can take a decision,” the first source said, without giving details.

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Wednesday 12 March 2014

Jalukie celebrates Mleinyi festival

JaluKiE, march 11 (mExN): Mleinyi festival cum state level art exhibition was organized by Changers’ League in collaboration with Art & Culture department and sponsored by NEZCC in Jalukie on March 11. Mleinyi is a fire making festival of the Zeliangrong tribes. A press release from secretary, Changers' League informed that the exhibition was held to promote the potentials of the Nagas in developing and creating a culture of creative art as part of education.

Vilalhou Noudi, Art Executive, Art & Culture, Kohima asserted in his speech that it is important and we must encourage “our” people and students to develop creative mentality for positive change in the state. Stating that Nagaland is a land of vibrant culture known for its melodic folk songs, vigorous dances and intriguing visual arts comprising colorful attires and motifs, he said the varied art forms are the rudiments of “our” culture to regenerate “our” roots for a healthy

Organizers, participants and officials during the Mleinyi festival held in Jalukie.

growth. He further deemed the theme of the event - Culture Regeneration - befitting for the festival to kindle afresh creative passions, changes in the land.

Art is never static, he said. “It is a

continual process to inspire new thoughts, new ideas and new visions.”

Raitu Elu, president, Zeme Council Northeast India as chief guest exhorted that not only

“our” cultural dress, dances and food items, but also “our beautiful land” should be protected and preserved as our cultural heritage. Reminding the gathering on the significance of the festival,

he stated, the festival is observed in solemnity invoking God for showering good and prosperous year. He further added, regeneration doesn’t mean going back to the old ways of life, but “to go well with the good culture of the people without deviating the Christian principle…”

K. Akhang, former president of Zeliangrong Baudi (N) elucidated the significance of fire making culture. He appealed to the organizers to promote more of “our” people’s cultural activities, wearing cultural dresses.

He urged all public leaders and general public to come to every cultural festival with cultural attire. He also encouraged the people’s organization to direct the people to dress accordingly and as accustomed to different occasions.

Creative arts of many Naga artists were exhibited and dance troupes from Zeme, Liangmai and Rongmei troupes performed traditional dances during the event.

Dimapur

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EPIC card to be issued to IVR residents today Dimapur, march 11 (mExN): Head GB cum chairman of Industrial Village Razhuphe (IVR), TL Angami has informed that Booth Level Officers of 2 Dimapur-II A/C, polling station 11 and 12 has directed the villagers of IVR concerned to collect the EPIC cards from Senior Town Planning (STP) Complex on March 12, from 9:00 am till 12:00 noon. The chairman has requested all villagers under the above mentioned jurisdiction to collect their EPIC cards accordingly.

Dist level inter GHSSs and GHSs tournament Kohima, march 11 (mExN): The district level inter Government Higher Secondary Schools (GHSSs) and Government High Schools (GHSs) tournament will be held in the respective district headquarters from March 20 to 29. Principal Director, Directorate of School Education has informed in a press release that financial assistance will be provided by the department for organizing the tournament. Hence, all DEOs have been requested to collect the same from Physical Education Section (Room No 4), Directorate of School Education, Kohima from March 8 to 15 during office hours. Subsequently, the state level tournament will be held from April 15 to 17 in Mon. The newly upgraded GHSs are exempted from the tournament.

Naga youths to undergo beauty and Book by Dr. Shürhozelie released ID card found in Kohima Kohima, march 11 (mExN): A service ID card of wellness training at O2 Academy school education department in the name of one Kudu-

Dimapur, march 11 (mExN): More than 500 educated unemployed youth (females) desiring to become hairstylists, beauticians and spa therapists, who had registered at the job Mela organized by the Government of Nagaland in the month of November 2013 at Agri Expo, Dimapur, will undergo 6 months skills training in beauty and wellness at O2 Academy, Hyderabad.

The training is sponsored

by Ministry of Labour and Employment, Government of India under SDI Scheme (Skills Development Initiative) to provide employment opportunity to the educated unemployed youth of the country, especially the youth of Northeast India.

Under this sponsorship, over 125 students have started the training at O2 Acad-

emy in February 2014 and another 20 students from various districts of Nagaland will join the academy in the second week of March 2014.

Human Resource Executive for O2 Spa, Mathew Dangmei in a press release state that, while addressing group of students before leaving Nagaland on March 9, Additional Director of Employment & Craftsmen training, Kohima Vandanshan Lotha expressed his joy and appreciated the students for taking great interest and participating in the training. He encouraged the group by stating they are the lucky ones among thousands of youth in the state. He urged them to take the opportunity seriously and build their career in life so they can support themselves and their families.

Mathew Dangmei briefed

the students about O2 Spa and its academy, which is spread over 10 acres with integrated hostel, computer labs, hair & beauty labs and other recreational facilities.

He urged the students to give full interest, remain focused and work harder and take complete responsibility in shaping their career in beauty and wellness, which, he said is one of the fastest growing and booming industries in 21st century.

The representative staff of O2 spa, Nagaland further invited all the interested young educated unemployed youth (females) to come and register their names for the upcoming next batch in March/ April. For this, contact the following persons: Mathew Dangmei – 8415924004, Lovitoli Aye – 8415924043 & Thungreni Kikon- 8415938180.

voto Nyekha (Hindi teacher) has been found and kept at South Police Station, Kohima. The officer in-charge of South PS has informed that the owner may collect it from the Police Station.

NWVA meeting on March 13 Kohima, march 11 (mExN): Members of Nagaland Women Voluntary Association (NWVA) are informed that there will be a meeting on March 13, 3:30 pm at State Banquet Hall. The general secretary has requested all to attend the meeting.

Passes for fourth NLA session Dr. D. Kuolie releases a book entitled “Ketholeshü Rünako” written by Dr. Shürhozelie Liezietsu (extreme right) in Kohima. (Morung Photo) Our Correspondent Kohima | March 11

A BOOK entitled “Ketholeshü Rünako” written by Dr. Shürhozelie Liezietsu, president Ura Academy was released here this afternoon at Ura Academy Hall. The book was released by Prof. Dr. D. Kuolie, Department of Linguistics, Nagaland University

Amur Falcons spend winter in southern Africa

Dimapur, march 11 (mExN): The satellite tagged Amur Falcons – Naga, Pangti, and Wokha – are spending their winter in southern Africa. As of March 8, Naga was in Botswana, Pangti in Johannesburg, South Africa, and Wokha in Ladysmith, South Africa, stated a press release issued by M. Lokeswara Rao (IFS), Principal Chief Conservator of Forests and Head of Forest Force, Kohima.

The three Amur Falcons were released with a satellite tag in November from Nagaland. The local communities received global birds last year. Internation- the biggest congregation of Amur falcon roosted there. accolades for their move- al scientists declared Doy- Amur Falcons in the world Nagaland was also declared ment in conserving the ang roosting site as one of and nearly one million Falcon capital of the world.

and secretary general Ura Academy.

A brief programme for the same was chaired by Daso Paphino. The function was followed by meeting of the organizing committee for the forthcoming 75 years celebration of Ura Academy.

The 75th year celebration of Ura Academy is tentatively scheduled to be held in the last part of May this year.

PPP underway for educated young

During the Inaugural Kohima, march 11 (mExN): Administrative program, L.Youdang Jamir, Training Institute (ATI), Joint Director, ATI, exhortKohima is organising a ed the participants on the program on Public Private need to develop work culPartnership (PPP), which ture and realise who they really are. He also stressed started March 10.

The program focus- that youth should not live es on opening doors for luxurious lives before young educated unem- earning anything.

On the first day, Dr. RE ployed youth of Nagaland.

Different organisations Lotha, Deputy Director, including churches, or- Horticulture Department ganisations, and NGOs and Chubayanger, Project are participating in the Officer, Labour Departprogram, informed Dr Ho- ment highlighted their programs. vithal N Sothu.

Dr. Hovithal N Sothu Various departments including Labour, Horti- shared on ethical voting culture, Employment and as Christians and as young Craftsmen Training, Youth people.

38 young educated Resources and Sports, Industries and Commerce, people are participating in Land Resources etc will the program, which is behighlight their department ing coordinated by Dr. HoAny process for multiplying copies programs to the youth in vithal N. Sothu, State Coordinator, DMC. of a document, other than copying it by this program. hand, shall be deemed to be printing and the expression “printer” shall be construed accordingly. “Election pamphlet or poster" means any printed pamphlet, and bill or other document distributed Dimapur, march 11 (mExN): Usutomi Union for the purpose of promoting or prejudic- Dimapur Area (UUDA) has expressed deepest condoing the election of a candidate or group of lences over the demise of Shehoi, GB of Usutomi vilcandidates or any placard or poster hav- lage and father of Er. Yeqhevi Shohe, UUDA banker on ing reference to an election, but does not March 4. In a condolence message, the union stated include any handbill, placard or poster that late Shehoi served as GB for 25 years with honesty merely announcing the date, time, place and other particular of an election meet- and dedication. The union further conveyed heartfelt ing or routine instructions to election condolences to the bereaved family members and prayed for the departed soul to rest in peace. agents or workers.

Restrictions on election pamphlets, posters etc

Dimapur, march 11 (mExN): As per the direction of Election Commission of India, the office of Commissioner & Returning Officer, Nagaland, Parliamentary Election 2014 has informed that printing and publication of election pamphlets, posters, etc., are governed by the provisions of Section 127A of the Representation of the People Act, 1951.

The said Section, a release informed, states that no person shall print or publish, or cause to be printed or published, any election pamphlet or poster which does not bear on its face the names and addresses of the printer and the publisher thereof.

Further, no person shall print or cause to be printed any election pamphlet or poster - Unless a declaration as to the identity of the publisher thereof, signed by him and attested by two persons to whom he is personally known, is delivered by him to the printer in duplicate; and unless, within a reasonable time after printing of the document, one copy of the declaration is sent by the printer, together with one copy of the document. In case the document is printed in the capital of the state, the declaration must be sent to the Chief Electoral Officer. In any other case, it must be sent to the district magistrate.

UUDA offers condolences

IGNITE ‘14 begins at Yimkümmer House

Dimapur, march 11 (mExN): IGNITE, an annual Youth Spiritual Program for the students of Class X & XII, who have appeared exams began at Yimkümmer House on March 11 under the theme “Seek me and live” (Amos 5: 4). Chairman of Yimkümmer House, Allen Imsong in a release informed that the purpose of the event was to “help the students receive Jesus and seek God’s blessings as they start a new chapter in life.” Missionary Lima Imsong is the main speaker and Sunep Imchen the Camp Director. Altogether 82 participants are attending the camp which will conclude on March 12.

Kohima, march 11 (mExN): In view of the fourth session of 12th Nagaland Legislative Assembly to be held from March 20 to 24, car pass and official gallery pass will be issued from March 18 onwards as follows: Ministers/ parliamentary secretaries and AHODs are to collect car pass and gallery pass from the Special Secretary (Home), Nagaland. Meanwhile, MLAs/ HODs/ media are to collect car pass from Assembly Secretariat reception counter, Gate No- 1. NLA secretary AE Lotha in a press release informed that the passes may be collected in advance to avoid last minute rush.

3 arrested with banned drugs Dimapur, march 11 (mExN): The district excise duty party recovered 235 capsules of spasmoproxyvon from Signal Angami area Dimapur. Three accused, namely Ganesh Malakar, Raju Singh and Talitemsu were arrested. A case has been registered under the Drugs and Cosmetics Act ‘1940 and further investigation is on.

Superintendent of Excise & Prohibition Dimapur KY Sangtam has appreciated the cooperation extended by the people of Signal Angami area.

Chief Minister condoles Kohima, march 11 (mExN): Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio has expressed sadness at the demise of Margaret Sentila, superintendent of taxes, Kohima on March 11. The CM in a condolence messaged acknowledged that Margaret Sentila was a dedicated and hard working officer, who had willingly served wherever she was posted by the government. He remembered her as a warm hearted and sociable person. On behalf of the state government, the chief minister conveyed deepest condolences to the family of the deceased and prayed to God to give them strength and peace of mind in their hour of grief.

APTMS raid illegal electrical connection Dimapur, march 11 (mExN): Anti-Power Theft Mobile Squad (APTMS) checked illegal electrical connection under SDO (E) No.1 Dimapur on March 11 and caught 13 consumers using electricity without proper connection. According to a press release issued by subdivisional officer, electrical sub-division No 1, Er. Namheu Khate, the various offences included – motor direct, meter by-pass, line looping, direct line, hooking, seal tampering, meter seal missing, water pump direct.

Teachers for election duty Dimapur, march 11 (mExN): All teachers under SDEO Dimapur have been informed that the list of selected teachers for the 16th Lok Sabha election duty/ training has been pasted in the office premises. All teachers concerned have been requested to come and collect the detail information.

PVSU emergency meeting Kohima, march 11 (mExN): The Pangti Village Students’ Union (PVSU) has convened an emergency meeting of its executive on March 16, 10:00 AM at the residence of its president Thungchibemo Shitiri, Billy Graham road, Kohima. In this connection, all the executive members have been requested to attend the meeting positively.

Poumai Women Hoho condemns

Participants with main speaker Lima Imsong and Allen Imsong on the first day of IGNITE '14 at Yimkümmer House on March 11.

Dimapur, march 11 (mExN): Poumai Naotoumai Me (Poumai Women Hoho) Dimapur has strongly condemned the “kidnapping, forceful detention and rape of a 19-year-old girl by Takukaba of Yajang ‘C’ village posted as Havildar at DEF Mokokchung.” The Hoho in a press statement appended by its president has urged the authorities concerned to give strictest punishment to the accused, “who is supposed to protect the citizens, but committed the crime by taking the law into his own hands.”

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The Power of Truth

The Morung Express WEDnEsDAy 12 MArcH 2014 voluME IX IssuE 68

Dialogue of the Three Stones

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raditionally, when the fire is lit for cooking, threestones are set in place to provide stability and support for the earthen pot placed over the fire, and in order for the heat to be channeled and distributed evenly. The interconnected and interdependent relationship between the three-stones is critical in providing a stable foundation for cooking to take place. In the absence of any one of the stones, the harmonious stability would vanish, and cooking would become chaotic. In the same way that these threestones are the foundation of stability for the kitchen pot, it become a metaphor that extends to the dialectical interrelationship between the forces of history, geography and politics have shaped and defined a people’s existence.

In the course of human history when incompatible differences have emerged that inevitably led to confrontation, the harmonious relations are destabilized, and, as a result, no act is perceived to be neutral. In the destructive cycle of human affliction, we could benefit from rediscovering the three-stones; they are the stones of stability, sincerity and harmony between contradicting elements. In the context of protracted conflict, it may be meaningful to engage in a discourse on the three-‘re’ symbolizing the meaning behind the three-stones, namely: ‘resolution,’ ‘reconciliation’ and ‘reconstruction.’

The three-stones of ‘resolution,’ ‘reconciliation’ and ‘reconstruction’ make critical contributions when political structures and just-relations are experiencing transitions and undergoing transformation. These three elements share a dialectical relationship that relies and responds to the people’s wisdom. The avoidance of any of these elements would prevent a nation’s holistic growth. Resolution on its own is unsustainable and many not lead to systems’ changes; Reconciliation on its own many not fully address the politics of injustice; and Reconstruction by itself can not address the root causes of conflict. They depend on each other to bring out their fullest meaning and come to full completion.

Each one of these three-stones has its own complexities, and, yet, when they interface with each other they are rich in content. One may ask, so where do we start? The best possible option in a spectrum of answers is to address all these stones simultaneously. Recognizing that each one of the three-stones provides perspectives on different facets of the same problem makes it even more necessary that they are addressed together and not as separate components.

Resolution is fundamental in finding ways that address the core issues, Reconciliation is essential for healing wounds, and Reconstruction is vital for moving into the future with new beginnings. Perhaps the outcome of the three stones’ interaction is what people term as ‘sustainable peace.’

When Nagas are ready to accept these three-stones simultaneously, then we are on the way to a shared future.

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Rob Harris AP Sports Writer

Paralympians following Oscar Pistorius trial

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rom a court room in Pretoria to the snow and ice more than 7,000 miles away in Sochi, the Oscar Pistorius trial looms large over the Paralympic world.

As the fate of the icon of disability sport is determined, some of the athletes who aspire to match the global recognition of the "Blade Runner" hang on the verdict.

"I'm absolutely watching," Alana Nichols, who won silver for the U.S. in downhill sitting skiing on Saturday, told The Associated Press. "There is no way around talking about Oscar and what's going on in the trial."

Pistorius went from inspiring the world as the first amputee to run in the Olympics in the summer of 2012 to being accused of murder in February 2013.

"Of course we follow it, we are interested in the destiny of any athlete who has been through such a situation like me," Lyudmyla Pavlenko, who won gold for Ukraine in cross-country sitting skiing, said Monday through a translator. "We treat him like our friend and we respect him as someone who still strives for (sporting) success despite all their problems."

Pistorius admits to killing Reeva Steenkamp, but denies the premeditated murder charge, maintaining he thought his girlfriend was a dangerous intruder when he shot her through the door of a toilet cubicle in his home.

Before the trial in South Africa entered its second week, the Winter Paralympics began in Russia over the weekend.

"It's interesting the timing of it all," Nichols, who was hospitalized following a crash on Monday, said in an earlier interview. "And unfortunately the crisis in Ukraine and Oscar Pistorius court case are both really negative things that are taking the light from what is really positive about the Paralympic Games and us. I don't appreciate either of those things for that reason."

Pistorius is being knocked off some front pages by the Winter Paralympians. That was the case in Britain after Jade Etherington won silver in the visually impaired downhill.

And compatriots Kelly Gallagher and Charlotte Evans hope their gold medal triumph in Monday's Super-G also takes the Paralympic focus off the accused murderer.

"It's really great to be part of a happy news story at the moment," Gallagher said, with Evans adding: "This is the positive side." Indeed the global interest in Pistorius' sprinting debut at the Olympics in London generated unprecedented coverage of the subsequent Paralympics and encouraged some broadcasters to invest more time and resources on the Sochi Games.

The International Paralympic Committee doesn't hide its appreciation of Pistorius' contribution to raising its profile. "The movement hasn't moved on and forgotten about Oscar," IPC President Philip Craven said. "Oscar was, and is a great athlete and he has done wonderful things for the Paralympic movement. But now many more people have joined with Oscar doing that job. It's not a job, it's a love."

The outcome of the trial, though, could have a big bearing on how the IPC's work. "It's something that we are noting and observing and we are looking to further the Paralympic movement," Craven said. "I would say the verdict; we will be taking very close consideration of what that is."

To some Paralympians, the case has shown that they are as fallible as anyone else. "A lot of people might think Paralympic athletes are associated with that kind of behavior," Nichols said. "The bottom line is he's human, disabled or not."

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Christian Caryl Foreign Policy

The Young and the Restless Yes, young people are often a force for political change. But what kind, exactly?

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recently had the honor to participate in an online debate about democracy sponsored by the Economist. It was illuminating -- not least because my opponent was Professor Larry Diamond, one of the most respected scholars in the field of democratic transitions.

Our debate revolved around our assessments of the future of global democracy. Professor Diamond made the case for the optimists, arguing that powerful forces in the world are naturally pushing societies toward the embrace of democratic institutions. I was the pessimist, so I see the picture as a bit less encouraging. I think that there are many powerful forces working to undermine or even reverse democracy in much of the world.

One of our most interesting differences of opinion involved the role of young people. At one point Professor Diamond wrote that the monarchies in Jordan and Morocco, which have so far survived the challenge of the Arab Spring with surprising resilience, are doomed to fall. The reason: both countries have large cohorts of "tech-savvy youth." The implication seemed to be that monarchic systems, inherently awkward, inflexible, and old-fashioned, simply won't be able to resist large numbers of Internet-equipped, mobile-phone wielding activists once they get the bit in their teeth.

This assumption -- that young people embody an inherently progressive revolutionary potential, making them the natural enemies of autocrats -- is widespread.

It's been one of the major tropes of the Arab Spring: Remember all those cool young Egyptians using Twitter to trip up Mubarak? And the idea is still alive and well, informing coverage of countries ranging from Brazil to Cambodia. Autocrats tremble, apparently, at the mere thought of young people joining hands to challenge them.

Certainly there's some basis for the idea. Younger people aren't set in their ways. They're often idealistic.

They usually don't have the children, the mortgages, or the hoarded savings that tend to make their elders shy of radical change. Plus the young have plenty of energy (as we're reminded once again this week by the Olympics, that perennial showcase of youthful dazzle). For all these reasons, the idea of reckless twentysomethings joining forces to bring down tyrants has been a staple of western political thought at least since the French Revolution. (Disclosure: The author of this article is, well, middle-aged, shall we say.)

The problem is that this image of the youthful activist as a natural friend of freedom is a stereotype -and, like all stereotypes, it has its element of truth. Yes, young people often end up on the side of change. But that doesn't automatically make them "progressive," and it certainly doesn't mean that they're democrats.

The radical political movements of the twentieth

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or centuries, farmers in the fragile ecosystems of the high Andes have looked to the behavior of plants and animals to figure out what crops to grow and when.

If reeds dried up in the late summer, rainless weather lay ahead, they believed. If the Andean fox made a howling appearance, abundant rains were thought sure to come.

But increasingly erratic weather that scientists attribute to global warming is rendering their age-old methods less reliable, endangering harvests in a region where life is hard in the best of times.

Experts may scoff at such folk science, but the men and women who till the high mountain soil continue to swear by the traditional indicators, and Bolivia's government has even incorporated them into climate reports provided to farmers when it lacked modern data from meteorological stations.

"They work for me," assures Francisco Condori, 45, after checking the previous night's precipitation on a homemade rain gauge on Lake Titicaca's southern shore, the hills around him shining purple with flowering potato plants.

Condori is a well-heeded font of ancestral knowledge for fellow farmers in these treeless climes frequently punished by frosts, hailstorms and drought.

In the reeds on Titicaca's shore, he points out the height of the nests built by birds known as quilli quilli, a diminutive species similar to hummingbirds.

Farmers have long used the locations of those nests as measures of how much the lake will rise and the amount of rainfall to come.

"This year they initially built their nests about 40 centimeters (1.3 feet) above the water level. Then they dismantled them," Condori says. Twice, in fact, did the birds dismantle nests before finally reweaving them at nearly twice their original height.

"We knew it was going to rain a lot," he says.

And so it did, so much so that rivers in the Amazon basin have flooded their banks, submerging thousands of homes.

That rain augured well, by contrast, for this Aymara community's potato crop.

Landlocked and poor, Bolivia relies on a weak meteorological reporting system — with just 50 weather stations nationwide. Farming is also decidedly low tech in the mountainous part of the country. Ox-driven plows overwhelm-

century understood this very well. Both the Fascists and the Bolsheviks placed young people squarely at the center of their deeply illiberal programs. These totalitarians, knowing that the young were their natural allies in the fight against the old order, offered them quick access to power and careers -- and the young were generally happy to accept. (And yes, both the Soviet Communists and the Nazis were "tech-savvy," avidly embracing new technologies like radio and the movies, and capable of ferocious innovation in the realms of social policy and warfare.)

If we were to pick the most influential youth movement of the twentieth century, measured by sheer numbers and actual political effect on the lives of others, the title surely belongs to the Red Guards of Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution. When the Great Helmsman gave them official sanction to take bloody revenge on teachers, bureaucrats, and in some cases their own parents, millions of young Chinese responded with enthusiasm, unleashing a mass paroxysm of violence that remains without equal.

Young people often present their societies with great potential for destabilization -- especially when the young are male (charged up by testosterone and frustrated ambitions). The problem is compounded when there aren't enough jobs or career opportunities to go around. In the 1970s, the Shah's Iran produced enormous numbers of overeducated young men without creating corresponding opportunities for advancement. They were easy prey for the ideology offered by the new revolutionary Islamists, who offered the young an attractive mix of militant faith and career-enhancing rejection of the old elites.

The idealism of youth, in short, doesn't necessarily entail the embrace of liberal values. Young people can also satisfy their longing for purity in extremist identity politics. Most of the jihadis running around Syria and Iraq are young, though I doubt their vision of change is necessarily a kind of which Westerners would approve. (Pop quiz: Who's the world's youngest head of state? North Korea's Kim Jong Un, age 31.)

The "revolutionary youth" meme is limited in other ways, too. Revolutionary practice suggests that

young radicals are skilled at dismantling but not so great at building. Recent experience in Egypt and Tunisia offers good examples of this principle in action.

The young liberals who sparked the revolution in Tahrir Square in 2011 have wielded negligible influence on the political scene in the years since. In retrospect, their use of social media appears to have been relatively effective at marshaling demonstrators, but far less helpful at building positive political programs to challenge the organizational dominance of the old farts in the Muslim Brotherhood and the Egyptian Army. In Tunisia, the young people who once called the shots on the streets have long since yielded the initiative to gray-haired politicians.

Time and time again, history shows us that youthful charisma, aggression, and idealism are great qualities for starting a political career, but they aren't always enough to sustain one. We Americans, with our ingrained enthusiasm of youthful vitality, are particularly inclined to forget this. Our political journalists love charting "rising stars" -- but when was the last time you saw a listicle on "the 10 old people in Washington who actually make things happen"? Foreign correspondents and diplomats are fond of depicting political struggles in the countries they cover as battles between heroic "young reformers" and the forces of entrenched reaction -- a narrative that tends to overlook the many cases in which today's "young reformer" becomes tomorrow's geriatric dictator. (Colonel Qaddafi, it is worth nothing, seized power at 27.)

In short, it's understandable that we always expect change from the young. But you should never write off the political survivors. My book, Strange Rebels: 1979 and the Birth of the 21st Century, includes the stories of two of the last century's most transformative politicians. Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini was 76 when he presided over the Iranian Revolution, an event that turned the Middle East on its head (and continues to do so). Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping was 74 when he launched the economic reforms that have since turned his country into a global economic power.

Neither man would count as young. But if these two weren't revolutionaries, I don't know who is.

Age-old indicators under stress in high Bolivia carlos valdez Associated Press

In this February 14, 2014 photo, farmer and traditional meteorologist Francisco Condori measures rain water with a flow meter in Cutusuma, on Lake Titicaca's southern shore in Bolivia. Condori is a well-heeded font of ancestral knowledge for fellow farmers in these treeless climes frequently punished by frosts, hailstorms and drought. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)

ingly outnumber tractors, a far cry from the eastern lowlands, where highly mechanized rice and soy farming yields the bulk of Bolivian agricultural exports.

Condori says the "bio-indicators" he follows most closely have helped reduce agricultural losses 40 percent in Cutusuma and surrounding communities. Scientists, however, stress there are no empirical data to support the beliefs.

The indicators are catalogued in what are known as Pachagrama, registries whose name derives from "Pachamama," the native Andean word for "Mother Earth." Communities compile and share the registry information, which is especially crucial from September to November when the dry season ends and farmers need to know how soon to plant, when the rains will begin and how long they will last.

It's in that season they look for guid-

ance to the southern lapwing, a longlegged plover that likes grasslands. If the female drops her eggs on the crest of a furrow, a lot of rain is expected and farmers will plant potatoes rather than quinoa, which requires less water. But if she deposits them inside the furrow, it supposedly will be a dry year.

The size of the spots on the eggs is another indicator of whether to plant potatoes or quinoa.

"If the spots are big, it's potatoes. If they are small, it's quinoa," Condori says. Lately, however, the birds have been erratic in where they lay their eggs.

Other indicators Condori follows such as wind direction and cloud movement traditionally have told farmers whether frosts are imminent. A strong easterly breeze on March 13 indicates as much, he says.

Reading those signs has become

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more difficult as climate change alters everything from animal behavior to the weather. There are no scientific studies as yet on how climate change may modify animal behavior used as indicators.

"Yet it is also certain that these meteorological phenomena are occurring in an atmosphere that has warmed by 0.8 degrees (Celsius)," or 1.4 degrees Fahrenheit, since pre-industrial times, said Dirk Hoffmann, a German who heads the nonprofit Bolivian Mountain Institute.

Indeed, the observations of local indigenous coincide with scientific data that show the rainy season is both less predictable and begins later, Hoffman said. "Previously, the rainy period lasted four months. Now it's shorter but the amount of rain has not decreased," he said.

In Bolivia's drier southern high plains, farmers who follow one popular traditional indicator say they were misled this year when the Andean fox did not appear and howl full-throated from the hilltops in August or September.

That's a typical indicator of abundant rain, said Jose Luis Quiruchi, a Quechua community leader in the Potosi region, Bolivia's poorest.

Reeds also dried up at that time of year, another traditional indicator of drier weather ahead.

"We expected little rain, but instead the opposite happened," Quiruchi said.

Anticipating drier conditions, farmers planted potatoes in low-lying areas.

Now, they fear the tubers will become water-logged and rot.

Agronomist Nelson Tapia of the Universidad Mayor de San Simon in Cochabamba says climate change offers some benefits for high-altitude farmers.

They can grow certain fruits and vegetables at higher altitudes, with apricots and corn as well as citrus fruits now growing as high up as 3,000 meters (9,800 feet) in the Cochabamba valley.

However, the negative effects are greater, he said, with highland farmers losing crop variety and planting in shorter cycles.

The director of the government's risk management agency, Lucio Tito, insists the traditional indicators still have their value despite the changing climate.

"They should not be dismissed," he said. "They should be combined with scientific knowledge to form a strategy against climate change. That's what we're doing."

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Canada's Indigenous Awakening

Meet the Ambassadors from Indigenous Fossil Fuel Resistance In 1885, a revolutionary leader wrote, "My people will sleep for one hundred years" and then wake up. In the "genocidal" wilderness of Canada's tar sands, that renaissance has begun

It was possible for a short man like Napoleon to conquer Europe. A young man like Alexander the Great had old kings surrendering to his tactical prowess in battle when he expanded the Macedonian Empire. We also know about the biblical David who challenged the huge Goliath when the rest of the Israelites were cowering in fear. While all the people are from different cultures and different times, they became what they were because of their attitude. There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.

W. Clement Stone

Kristin Moe he debate over the tar sands has heated up once again in the United States, with nearly 400 students arrested in a protest at the White House last weekend. The arrestees were demanding that the Keystone XL pipeline be stopped.

But First Nations groups in the heart of Alberta, the Canadian province where the tar sands are being mined, have been mounting what may be the most formidable opposition to the fossil fuel industry yet: a series of lawsuits arguing that the projects violate Canada's constitutional obligation to consult indigenous people on matters that affect them, among other legal claims.

In January, two representatives from these First Nations traveled on a speaking tour through New England—where a fight over a proposed tar-sands pipeline from Montreal to Portland, Maine, is just beginning—to remind those of us south of the border that every major regional tar sands pipeline from the East Coast to Texas originates in their homeland.

Crystal Lameman from Beaver Lake Cree First Nation and Eriel Deranger of Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation come from a place where ecological devastation is occurring on an astonishing scale. They are ambassadors from the front lines of the indigenous fossil fuel resistance.

But there's another part of their story, one that provides critical context for the indigenous movement that's growing at resource extraction sites around the world. It's the story of a cultural revolution that's quietly transforming indigenous life and politics—a movement of decolonization and reclamation of language, land, and traditions. The tar sands fight is rooted in this reclamation, and therein lies its strength.

I spoke with both women on their tour through New England and was struck by the patterns and resonances in their stories. What follows is a pastiche, a composite of recorded conversations and excerpts from their talks to audiences in New Hampshire and Massachusetts. Lameman and Deranger have worked hard to create more public space for the voices of indigenous people and women in particular; this is an attempt to further enlarge that space.

The first and most important thing to understand, they say, is their people's relationship to the land.

Deranger: Without land, water, and culture, we are nothing.

The river systems are the life, and … grandmother moon, grandfather sun— everything is alive.

When you're raised with that relationship, that the foxes are your cousins and the eagles are your brothers, you start to have a totally different relationship and interaction with everything around you. And so much of humanity has lost that. But indigenous people have retained it somehow.

If you kill the land, the waterways, the air and culture of those people, you essentially kill those people. And that, in fact, is the definition of genocide.

Lameman and Deranger say that resource extraction on their traditional land is a continuation of the genocide that began when European settlers first came to North America and took different forms for different generations. Their parents' generation survived the residential school system—mandatory, government-run Christian schools known for brutal corporal punishment and designed to erase evidence of the "Indian" in native children.

Deranger: Our culture was only there by a thread.

Many of our people were totally oppressed and broken through residential schools. My parents were a part of that. … We lost a whole generation of our culture and identity. But there are still these little beacons of hope that escaped those forms of oppression, and they're the ones that are guiding us back to those places that we come from.

Lameman: We're doing our best with what we are given to break free of those cyclical abuses that have plagued our people: assimilation, segregation, oppression, residential schools. And then from there came the drug and alcohol addictions. … But we're still in the evolution of learning a whole different way. It's learning, and also breaking.

Deranger quotes the revolutionary leader Louis Riel, who in 1885 gave this prophecy: "My people will sleep for one hundred years. And when they awake it will be the artists who give them back their spirit." One hundred years have passed, she says, and the awakening has begun.

Lameman: We're involved in a revolution—an evolution—of the world's indigenous people. Everywhere, indigenous people are waking up.

We're bringing back ceremonies that haven't been [performed] in years. It's happening everywhere, not just in my community.

Deranger: Now our people are being educated. Now

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Retirement plans

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fter dinner one evening, my friend Ravi tried to explain how a big black telephone with a rotating-dial looked like.

“It used to have a rotating-dial, to dial the numbers, and the mouthpiece was separate from the base set, and was connected with a rotating wire”, said Ravi “If it didn’t have buttons on it, how did you send your text messages across?” asked my ten-year-old.

Seeing Ravi’s predicament, his wife, Asha, exclaimed, “How rapidly things change! To make our children understand how things were twenty years back, we might have to visit a museum very soon.”

“Agreed!” said my wife, nodding her head from left to right.

Amidst all this, my daughter came to the rescue, “Ravi Uncle, don’t worry, I’ll Google and see for myself”.

“I am already feeling like a dinosaur, and I am yet to touch forty”, Ravi said, conceding defeat.

“I wonder where will we be in our retirement years? I hope our children don’t throw us out of our homes like expired medicine”, Ravi said jokingly.

Technological advancement and its impact on the society and our lives are evident. There is another form of social change which is rapidly transforming our lives and the way we look at it. Our social security is dependent on the structure of the family. And till a few decades ago, a man in his sunset years used to rely on his sons and daughters. But now, with the world becoming a global village, providing us with unlimited opportunities, parents want their children to look for greener pastures and not worry about them.

Ravi added, “I have already started to save for my retirement, but with the back-breaking inflation, I don’t know if I am saving enough!”

“This question of saving enough pops up frequently whenever we keep aside the monthly savings”, Asha admitted. Although there are different methodologies used by a financial planner, today, I will explain a simple one.

For example, let us see Ravi and Asha’s household budget: Food : Rs. 10,000 Mobile/ Internet : Rs. 2,000 Electricity : Rs. 2,000 Entertainment : Rs. 4,000

Crystal Lameman (Left) and Eriel Deranger (Right).

How, then, did traditions get passed down—and how do you bridge the gap between tradition and the modern world?

Lameman: I'm fairly lucky, because I was raised by my kokum, my grandmother. … so I grew up with the old people. I grew up with the language around me. And that's where I differ greatly from a lot of people—in that I was raised in my culture, in my ceremony, in our ways of knowing and being.

I was brought up with those teachings. And to this day, those teachings are what guide me.

Deranger: I always say I'm a half a generation removed from the land because I spent half of my life being very connected to the land and half my life in the city. … I have one foot in modern society and one foot in where I come from… We are people of the land and I can't escape that.

Lameman and Deranger are both in their early thirties, both mothers of young children. In a place where the fossil fuel industry threatens every aspect of traditional culture—culture that has existed, as they say, "since time immemorial"—they're working to pass down that knowledge to their children.

Deranger: I choose to live in the city of Edmonton for one reason: I have children. What's incredibly sad is that I don't want to take them back to my traditional community. I don't want them to be at risk for getting cancer. I don't want them to have to see the destruction of their homeland. It's very difficult for me because I want them to have that, but right now, the current industrial development on my territory is putting my family at risk. I have cousins, I have aunts, I have uncles who have died, who have become sick.

Lameman: If these pipelines go through, your government is going to further assist in the raping and pillaging of the lands of my ancestors, while deliberately ignoring the basic human rights of my children.

My children have a basic human right to drink clean water and breathe clean air. … We all need to stop pretending, with our eyes closed and our blinders on, going by day by day, pretending this is not happening. Because it is. And I'm here to remind you about that. There are people over there, and we are human beings too.

Simplifying perSonal finance

Dipankar Jakharia

Children’s education Medical Hose & Car EMI Miscellaneous:

: : : :

Rs. 6,000 Rs. 1,000 Rs 20,000 Rs. 5,000

Total:

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Rs. 50,000

our people are starting to understand our rights. Now we're starting to have the confidence to assert those rights—and it's really only been in the last decade.

Indigenous people worldwide are in a process of decolonization, and reaffirming themselves as part of society. And that's what this indigenous uprising is all about.

Knowing where you come from is an important step for all of us, indigenous or not, Lameman says.

Every culture honors its connection with the land in a different way. Celebrating this connection, in whatever tradition you're a part of, is one way to avoid the tendency to appropriate indigenous traditions.

Lameman: Every single person is indigenous. They all come from somewhere. And all these people need to go and reclaim their roots because everybody has roots from somewhere. … So let those guide you, and at least know about them. So you at least have a feeling of "I belong somewhere. I have people somewhere. I have ancestors somewhere.

I have a history somewhere."

Where does your history end? You? How far back can you go? What can you tell me about your people? People always ask me that, but you?

So where are your roots? I know where mine are.

They're up there—in what is now known as northern Alberta. I know where I come from. And we all need to start doing that if we're all going to somehow get past these atrocities that have happened.

It's not only us that has to heal.

What part will people whose ancestors were settlers play in this process of decolonization? Both women say that in order to for the transition toward clean energy to be just and equitable, there need to be real partnerships between indigenous and non-indigenous people—and that while their First Nations are feeling the effects of tar sands mining most acutely, the long-range climate change effects will affect everyone.

Lameman: This is no longer an Indian problem. If you breathe air, and you drink water, this is about you.

Deranger: Indigenous people are in the process of finding themselves as well. A lot of people are in that process of decolonization—but you can also be a part of it. There's lots of non-indigenous people that are participating. It's about experiencing [the land] firsthand, understanding what it means to skin a rabbit, gut a fish. Experiential learning.

Appropriating the romanticized parts of indigenous culture is not the way to do that. One thing I always tell people is to go to a neighboring First Nations community and talk to them. It's not impossible… It's not like every native person has all the answers to the world. But we're really paying attention. Find those that do have that. Who are the traditional knowledge holders? There might be traditional knowledge holders in your own family; they exist everywhere in many different communities.

Hose & Car EMI Miscellaneous:

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Rs. 0 Rs. 2,000

Total:

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Rs. 16,500

If you compare the aforementioned lists, you’ll find a decrease in certain expenses and increase in old age-related expenses. This would be the figure considering today’s cost of living. So, what will be the cost at the time of their retirement, which is, say, twenty years from now? For this calculation, you will need a simple a calculator.

Monthly cost of living : Rs.16,500 Yearly cost of living: 16,500X12= Rs. 1,98,000 So, the couple will need nearly Rs. two lakhs per annum. Let’s assume an inflation rate of seven per cent for our calculation. Now, press 1.07 and the multiplication symbol (X) twice on your calculator. You will notice a small K appearing on the screen. Now, multiply it with 2,oo,ooo and press the “equal to” symbol (=). Don’t stop there, keep pressing the symbol for a total number of twenty times. The figure on the screen will give you a calculation of two lakhs compounding for twenty years at seven percent. And which is Rs. 7,74,000.

So, Ravi and Asha would be needing an amount of, say Rs. 7 lakhs, 75 thousand per annum at the time of retirement as living cost. If we convert this to a monthly ratio, it turns out to be around Rs. 65,ooo.

Now, on another reverse calculation, we find that if the couple has a corpus of Rs. one crore at the time of retirement, they will have a ready flow of the required monthly cost of Rs. 65,000 by simply putting the money in a fixed deposit and earning eight per cent per annum. It’s as simple as that!

All this calculations brought a smile on Ravi’s face.

Although Asha was still confused, she listened intently to Ravi.

“You know what? To achieve my target of Rs. one crore, I have to invest only Rs. 10,000 per month, with, an expected return of 12 per cent. And I’m already doing it!” he exclaimed with a smile.

So, monthly expenses of Ravi, who works in an MNC and Asha, a teacher in a government college, would amount to , say, Rs. 50,000. But, will they have the same expenses in their retirement days, which is more than twenty years from now? If they had to retire today, what would their monthly budget look like?

Food : Rs. 6,000 Mobile/ Internet : Rs. 1,000 The writer is the Principal Financial Planner Electricity : Rs. 1,500 at EconPenny. You can chat-twit-mail him at @ Entertainment : Rs. 1,000 dipankar.jakharia | @d_jakharia | dipankar.

Children’s education : Rs. 0 jakharia@ .com Medical : Rs. 5,000

Attitude: It Matters Anatoli Rochill, Assistant Professor, History

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ttitude as defined by psychologist as, “a mental state.

It is a point of view, which one holds towards a person, objects, task, or an idea.” It stimulates the behaviour of an individual towards a purposeful direction. It can further be explained as a state of mental preparedness. Attitude is a social trait, which gradually develops as a result of an individual’s experiences. The misconception about attitude is that it is quite closely used to terms such as opinion and belief. Opinion refers to the expression of one’s judgement of a particular set of facts, where as an attitude is a generalised tendency to react towards an object or concept. Differences can be made between attitude and belief: belief is the cognitive component of attitude which reflects the manner in which an object is perceived.

Attitude is of two types i.e. positive and negative attitude. Each one of us exhibits either a positive or negative attitude with regard to food habits, culture, religion, politics, subjects, etc. Our attitude defines our entire personality and depending on that, we either possess a strong or weak personality. Attitude, I would say, is dynamic. Attitudes can be impressionable, at the same time they can have a persuasive effect on others. Attitude also motivates an individual towards a particular goal or direction. They differ from individual to individual.

The nature of one’s attitude greatly impacts one’s approach to life, whether personal or professional. I’ve learned from my personal experience that students mostly adopt a readymade attitude towards subjects like history, political science and economics and treat them as difficult subjects.

Here, ‘readymade’ means the attitude which one picks up from someone else (friends, seniors, elders etc.). In this context, the student usually forms an attitude towards a subject even before they are introduced to their syllabus, and this attitude has a profound influence on their learning. It is therefore, advisable for a student to possess a positive attitude in respect to different subjects, as the amount of this attitude will motivate them to perform better. As a teacher, it depends on how much we can inculcate a healthy attitude in students with regard to the different subjects we teach.

For instance, in order to motivate my students, I teach history in the simplest and most understandable way by using the story telling method, which creates interest among the students. This method of teaching inculcates interest and directly leads to the kind of attention that I expect from them.

In this way, we can help the students form a positive attitude to specific subjects.

Teaching is a bi-polar process where both the teachers and the students have to participate actively otherwise, teaching becomes monotonous. A student should possess a positive attitude by developing the habit of asking questions, clarifying their doubts, responding, taking initiative in various activities, etc. However, in the absence of these positive attitudes, the teaching-learning process becomes boring and inefficient. As a teacher, one can inculcate the above positive qualities to the students by approaching them individually, asking questions and clarifying their doubts, etc. A teacher should have patience and sympathy in listening to the response of the students. If the student gives a wrong response, the teacher can correct it by using friendly feedback like ‘try harder’, ‘you almost got it’, and other such similar responses. It is advisable to avoid sarcastic remarks and offensive words. In case of a correct response, the teacher should use a positive reinforcement such as ‘well done’, ‘carry on’, ‘good job’, etc. In this way, the students will open up and express themselves more freely. They will clarify their doubts, difficulties, and learning problems which hinder their education. At the same time, the students get room to contribute their ideas and opinions. Classroom learning depends on the participation of both the teacher and the student. Verbal interaction which takes place between the teacher and the learner helps in moulding the personality of the students to a great extent.

An individual’s attitude is significant for satisfaction and success in educational and vocational fields. Development of a desirable attitude towards oneself and others, and participating in a variety of activities are some of the major objectives of education. Education plays a vital role in the formation of attitudes. It is possible to know the extent to which necessary attitudes have been developed among the students.

Attitudes also play an important role in the success of an individual in different vocations. Different types of professions require different attitudes. Attitudes determine the choice of career plans. An educational and vocational plan related to the child’s ability and aptitude may be out of reach for an individual because it may not be consistent with his/her attitude. Attitudes give clues regarding adjustment and personality. For instance, our attitude towards different situations determine our mode of reaction and adjustment in these situations. Thus, attitude is an important personality trait.

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Rahul accuses Modi of stealing farmers’ land

BaLaSINor, March 11 (PTI): In a hard-hitting attack on Narendra Modi on his home turf, Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday accused his government of “stealing” farmers’ land and charged the BJP with appropriating credit for schemes launched by the Congressled UPA. Without directly naming the Gujarat chief minister, Rahul Gandhi also alluded that Modi works like Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler and attacked him for retaining “corrupt” ministers in his state cabinet while talking tall of fighting corruption.

“What kind of chowkidari (guarding) is happening in Gujarat. Lakhs of acres of land are being taken away from the farmers and being given to industrialists. When farmers say something, their voice is ignored. “Is stealing the land of farmers chowkidari.

This is called theft and not chowkidari,” Gandhi said addressing a rally in Balasinor, the first destination of his tour programme. Modi has been saying in his rallies that he will work like a ‘chowkidar’ of the nation’s treasury if BJP government came to power.

Seeking to draw a parallel between BJP’s India Shining Campaign in 2004 Lok Sabha polls and its focus on Gujarat’s development under Modi, Gandhi said it is being publicised in

India’s ruling Congress party Vice President Rahul Gandhi addresses an election rally at Balasinor, in the western Indian state of Gujarat, on Tuesday, March 11. India will hold national elections from April 7 to May 12, kicking off a vote that many observers see as the most important election in more than 30 years in the world’s largest democracy. (AP Photo)

the whole country that Gujarat shines but its sheen is limited to few industrialists and the poor have not benefited from it. BJP had lost the 2004 polls and the India Shining campaign of the NDA not going down well with the electorate was attributed as one of reasons.

Accusing BJP of taking credit for programmes initiated by Congress, Gandhi said in a sarcastic tone that

the leaders of the opposition party will claim after a decade that they had also brought MNREGA and Right to Food, the flagship programmes of Congressled UPA. “There are two kinds of leaders. The first type belongs to those who go among people, have some ideology and believe in the knowledge of people.

He goes to them, asks them and learns from them. The

thinking of this kind of leader is that it is the people who are repository of knowledge. Such a leader wants to understand people and has no pride.

“Then there is another kind of leader, whose best example is perhaps Hitler.

Hitler thought there was no need to go to people. He believed entire knowledge of the world is only in his mind. That kind of leader

only talks that he did this and that. That leader does not require to go to people,” Gandhi said. The Congress vice-president had in the past also compared Modi to Hitler.

Maintaining that a true leader is one who goes to people, Gandhi said the job of a leader is not to give speeches but to listen to people. “That is what my effort has been. I want to

listen to you, understand you. This is what the UPA government did in last ten years. We brought land acquisition bill when you said that your voice is not heard in land acquisition,” he said, adding, “what people of India want is adhikar (rights) and not chowkidar”.

The Congress vicepresident also hit out at BJP for attacking UPA over corruption. “The leaders from BJP talk about corruption. Three ministers in Gujarat have gone to jail in corruption cases but they were not removed from the state cabinet. There was no Lokayukta in Gujarat till the Supreme Court intervened. “They will go to Chhattisgarh and will deliver speeches against corruption. Why don’t you tell your chief minister. They will say the same thing in Karnataka. Why did they bring back a (former) chief minister, who faced corruption charges.

Referring to NDA’s India shining campaign in the past and the party’s focus on development in Gujarat, Gandhi said, “Thousands of acres of land were taken but there is no employment.

The below poverty line figure is pegged at Rs 11 in Gujarat but it is being publicised in the other regions of the country that Gujarat is shining. Gujarat is indeed shining but not for the poor, the women here. “It is shin-

ing only for 10-15 industrialists. They are shining like gold but the houses of the poor in Gujarat are not shining,” he charged.

Interacting with the audience, Congress vice-president asked them whether they got employment after thousands of acres of land were taken from them. He also referred to the Nano car project of TATA, which shifted its base from West Bengal to Gujarat and asked them whether they are seeing the Nano on roads.

Gandhi said when Congress (Rajiv Gandhi) had talked about bringing computers in the country, two big leaders (Atal Bihari Vajpayee and L K Advani) of the BJP had said in Parliament that this will be damaging, take away jobs and will spoil the future of youths. “Ten years later, the same leaders — the number one and two in that party with Pramod Mahajan (then Telecom Minister) by their side said they brought the computer revolution in the country. The revolution by Amul was also led by us. BJP leaders were saying they did it,” he said.

“After 10 years from now, leaders from BJP will come and say that they had brought MNREGA and Right to Food. BJP has no ideology, no revolutionary thinking. They have only anger, which they will give you and pit you against

one another,” Rahul Gandhi said. He said UPA has worked for freight corridor projects, which are a big plan to boost infrastructure and employment. “BJP leaders will in future claim, these were also brought by them.”

Claiming that five crore people got jobs from MNREGA and 80 crore will benefit from Right to Food, he said when he raised the issue of food security in Parliament, the BJP leaders said money was being wasted. Reaching out to farmers, Gandhi said, “When your land is taken away and something is snatched from you, then there is no waste.

But it is wastage for them when you are given something, when the poor is given something.”

Reiterating his resolve for giving opportunities to 70 crore people falling in a category between the BPL and middle class, he said if the country has to be changed the status of the poor has to be changed. “We have the poor to the middle class level. We have lifted 15 crore people above the poverty line. Now a new class has emerged with the efforts of the UPA government. These 70 crore people, who are above BPL line and below the middle class category have to be brought above into the middle class group.

Our target is to convert them into middle class,” he said.

India & US can accomplish a lot together: Obama Black money in polls: EC creates waShiNgtoN, March 11 (iaNS): Welcoming new Indian ambassador Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, US President Barack Obama told him that the two countries could accomplish a lot together Obama also wished Jaishankar success in his responsibilities as he presented his credentials to the president at the Oval Office of the White House Monday, according to the Indian Embassy.

Jaishankar, in turn, conveyed warm greetings from President Pranab Mukherjee and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to Obama and Michelle Obama.

Jaishankar also assured Obama of his commitment to expand key pillars of the bilateral relationship,

including economic relations and trade ties, defence and security, energy, science and technology and global issues.

Jaishankar was second of the six ambassadors who Monday presented their credentials to Obama one by one in a traditional ceremony that marks the formal beginning of an ambassador’s service in Washington.

Although he formally presented his credentials to Obama only Monday, Jaishankar has spent the last couple of months since his arrival here on Christmas eve to put the India-US relations back on track after the diplomatic row over the Khobragade affair.

Jaishankar, who played a key

role in negotiating the landmark India-US civil nuclear deal and other initiatives, used his wide contacts within the Washington bureaucracy dealing with South Asia to defuse the crisis over the Dec 12 arrest and strip search of India’s then consul general in New York, Devyani Khobragade.

Coming to Washington after four years as the Indian ambassador in China, Jaishankar succeeded Nirupama Rao, whom he had replaced in Beijing too when the latter returned to New Delhi to become foreign secretary.

Son of India’s leading strategic thinker, the late K Subrahmanyam, Jaishankar comes to Washington with more than three de-

cades of diplomatic experience.

Joining the Indian Foreign Service in 1977, Jaishankar earlier spent three years from 1985 to 1988 as first secretary handling political affairs at the Indian embassy in Washington.

He has also served as India’s ambassador to the Czech Republic, high commissioner to Singapore and as head of Americas Division in the external affairs ministry. Jaishankar holds a PhD and MPhil in international relations and an MA in political science. He is a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London. Jaishankar is married to Kyoko Jaishankar and the couple has two sons and a daughter.

Empowering rural women key for kids’ nourishment New York, March 11 (IaNS): Mothers in rural India who participate in vocational training programmes get, in return, an increased bargaining strength at homes - thus significantly improving their children’s consumption of rice and dairy.

“There is evidence that if women have more bargaining power in the household - particularly in developing countries where cash is very tight - quite often more resources go toward the kids,” said economist Kathy Baylis from University of Illinois.

Some of the women initially said things like, “I never knew anybody like me could work outside of the home” and “I never knew anyone like me could stand up to her husband”.

“But after participating in the Mahila Samakhya programme,

even if they did not go out and use that vocational training in jobs, they felt that they had a little more right to exert more of a say over house-

After participating in Mahila Samakhya, women realised they have their own identity, they can work, they can influence household and community decisions hold resources,” Baylis explained.

“We went into homes with bowls and asked how many bowls this size of rice did your kids eat yesterday? Not only do we see evidence that more is going to kids, but more food is going to girls in particular,” she noted.

In India, over 40 percent of children under the age of five suffer

‘76 parliamentarians charged with serious crimes’

New Delhi, March 11 (iaN): Of the 162 parliamentarians involved in 306 criminal cases, 76 are charged with serious crimes like murder, attempt to murder and kidnapping, the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) and National Election Watch (NEW) said on Tuesday.

The analysis of the Lok Sabha MPs elected in 2009 comes a day after the Supreme Court directed that criminal cases against MPs and MLAs should be completed within a year from the date of the trial court framing charges.

After analysing the affidavits of the MPs elected in 2009, the ADR and NEW observed that some cases have remained pending for more than 20 years while the average number of years that the cases have remained pending is seven years.

“The analysis is of those cases for which the MP has provided the dates as most of the contesting candidates do not provide the relevant dates like the first information report, date of filing of chargesheets, date of convictions, etc.” the ADR said.

According to ADR and NEW,

from malnutrition. This is despite the fact that per capita income has more than doubled since the mid1990s and agricultural production

the longest pending case is against Guddu Premchand, Congress MP from Ujjain in Madhya Pradesh, booked for murder followed by Sisir Kumar Adhikari of the All India Trinamool Congress who represents Kanthi in West Bengal. A case of rioting and theft against him is pending for 28 years.

Similarly, a case of murder against Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) parliamentarian from Azamgarh, Uttar Pradesh, Ramakant Yadav has been pending for 25 years.

A total of 50 MPs have a total of 136 criminal cases pending against them for 10 years or more while 30 of them have a total of 58 serious criminal cases pending for the same period.

The ADR and NEW further said Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) MPs have 69 criminal cases against them followed by the BJP (55 cases), the Samajwadi Party (34 cases) and the Congress (30 cases).

“Kameshwar Baitha of JMM from Palamau, Jharkhand has declared 69 counts of serious cases against himself followed by Jagdish Sharma of the JD-U from Jahanabad, Bihar with 17 such cases.”

is at an all-time high, with large buffer stocks of cereals in government granaries.

In the study, 487 women were surveyed from six of 13 districts in Uttarakhand. Baylis said that the study shows that women who are more empowered, educated and mobile can actually change the village culture.

After participating in Mahila Sa-

makhya, women realised they have their own identity, that they can work if they want to and that they can influence household and community decisions, stressed the study.

According to Baylis, domestic violence is a huge problem here. “In several villages, we heard of support groups where women would go knock on doors and threaten to expose men if they did not stop the violent behaviour”. “The idea is to bring together women in villages with some training and set up a support group,” Baylis said.

This study is one of the first to study how peer networks affect female bargaining power and child welfare and one of the first evaluations of the Mahila Samakhya programme since it began in 1995 to educate and empower rural Indian women.

multi-agency intelligence grid

New DeLhI, March 11 (PTI): The Election Commission has created a multiagency grid of revenue and security intelligence agencies to regularly update it about suspected financial movements as part of measures to curb use of blackmoney in Lok Sabha and assembly polls.

In a first-of-its-kind measure, the EC has created a board of senior officials drawn from ten financial and security intelligence departments which will meet twice a week at ‘Nirvachan Sadan’, the EC headquarters here, to generate common leads and flag suspect money instances.

The agencies that have been pooled in for the task include income tax intelligence and investigations, Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU), Directorate of Revenue Intelligence, Central Economic Intelligence Bureau, Narcotics Control Bureau and

the snoop wings of border guarding forces of SSB and BSF and those of CISF and the Railway Protection Force.

“The officials in charge of intelligence in these respective departments will meet twice a week at the EC headquarters and take stock of all cases reported in view of the measures enforced by the poll body keeping in mind blackmoney instances,” a senior official privy to the development said.

This is the first time that these officials will be holding meeting sessions with the EC in comparison to previous times when they would only generate and send reports, the official said.

The EC has also asked these agencies to compile their respective information in a standard format so that the poll panel is updated about the use of illegal money and other inducements in the polls.

A man covers himself with a plastic sheet to protect from rain in Jammu, on Tuesday, March 11. The Kashmir valley was Tuesday cut off from rest of India due to heavy snowfall. (AP Photo)

BJP facing seat blues - despite poll trends

New Delhi, March 11 (iaNS): The BJP, notwithstanding the many straw polls showing it well ahead of its rivals, is having a fairly tough time internally in declaring seats for its top leaders as also in deciding about some alliances for the Lok Sabha polls, say party sources. “Not everything is hunky dory in the party on decisions concerning seats,” acknowledged a party insider. “Issues have to be sorted out including choice of seats for some top party leaders,” he said.

Among the issues facing the party is the decision on a parliamentary constituency for the party’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi.

The party also has to decide if he will contest from two seats including a constituency in his native Gujarat.

There is a strong pitch in party circles that Modi should contest from Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh to bolster the party’s prospects in the crucial state which sends 80 MPs to parliament. But there is also the

question of accommodating senior leader Murli Manohar Joshi, the sitting MP from Varanasi, if such a decision is taken.

Party sources said if Modi is fielded from Varanasi, Joshi would have to be accommodated on a seat he feels sure of winning. They said Joshi may opt for Kanpur which is held by the Congress at present. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) also has to weigh the option that Modi contest from two seats.

“Modi’s contesting from Varanasi will be beneficial for the party in Uttar Pradesh. It will also help the party in the adjoining state of Bihar. But there is also pressure on him to contest from Gujarat,” a party functionary, not willing to be identified, told IANS. He acknowledged that Modi contesting from two seats is likely to invite criticism from the party’s adversaries including the Congress and the Aam Aadmi Party about his being unsure of victory. “All the factors will be taken into account before a final decision is taken,” the functionary said.

Sources said that BJP chief Rajnath Singh is keen to move to Lucknow from his present seat of Ghaziabad but there is no firm indication yet of sitting MP Lalji Tandon having agreed to leave the seat for him. Tandon has, however, said that he would be happy to leave the seat for Modi if he desires to contest from Lucknow.

“There will be some clarity on the seats for senior leaders on March 13 when the central election committee is expected to meet. Ghaziabad will go to the polls April 10 and the candidate for the seat is expected to be declared early. An announcement may also be made about the Varanasi seat,” a party leader said.

The party has also not yet announced the seat of party veteran L.K. Advani though he is again likely to fight from Gandhinagar in Gujarat. Sushma Swaraj is also among the senior leaders whose name has not yet been formally announced. Congress general secretary Shakeel Ahmed took a dig at the BJP for the uncertain-

ty in the party over the choice of seats for its top leaders.

“There is this perception being created that a wind is blowing in favour of Modi. But the claim holds no water as a safe seat is being found for him not only in UP but in Gujarat also. The position of Rajnath Singh is also bad as there is talk of his moving to Lucknow. A safe seat is being found for him also. How is there a wind in favour of Modi,” Ahmed asked while speaking to IANS. Another issue facing the BJP is about alliances in states such as Haryana and Karnataka. Sushma Swaraj has opposed the proposed merger of BSR Congress with the BJP in Karnataka and has also objected to the possibility of former Congress leader Venod Sharma joining the Haryana Janhit Congress (HJC), an alliance partner of her party.

Though many in the BJP see a better winning combination with the Indian National Lok Dal in Haryana, the party is wary of it in the wake of the conviction of INLD supremo

Om Prakash Chautala in a teacher recruitment scam.

Also, the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena’s decision to field candidates and its declaration of support to Modi has caused some tensions in the BJP’s ties with old ally Shiv Sena.

BJP has struck an alliance with Ram Vilas Paswan’s Lok Janshakti Party in Bihar in the run up to the elections and is in talks for electoral tie-ups in Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu.

BJP leaders said there was consolidation behind the party and individuals were joining it after leaving other parties in several states. Party leader Arun Jaitley said in an article that the next few days were going to be extremely important “in terms of the BJP and NDA consolidating on the present situation” in the three southern states of Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu.

“These developments will add to the strength of BJP in eastern and southern parts of India where the BJP traditionally was not a strong political force,” he said.

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How can jet disappear? In the ocean, it’s not hard

KUALA LUMPUR , MARch 11 (AP): In an age when people assume that any bit of information is just a click away, the thought that a jetliner could simply disappear over the ocean for more than two days is staggering.

But Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 is hardly the first reminder of how big the seas are, and of how agonizing it can be to try to find something lost in them.

It took two years to find the main wreckage of an Air France jet that plunged into the Atlantic Ocean in 2009.

Closer to the area between Malaysia and Vietnam where Saturday’s flight vanished, it took a week for debris from an Indonesian jet to be spotted in 2007. Today, the mostly intact fuselage still sits on the bottom of the ocean.

“The world is a big place,” said Michael Smart, professor of aerospace engineering at the University of Queensland in Australia. “If it happens to come down in the middle of the ocean and it’s not near a shipping lane or something, who knows how long it could take them to find?”

Amid the confusion, officials involved in the search say the Malaysian jet may have made a U-turn, adding one more level of uncertainty to the effort to find it.

They even suggest that the plane could be hundreds of kilometers from where it was last detected.

Aviation experts say the plane will be found — eventually. Since the start of the jet age in 1958, only a handful of jets have gone missing and not been found.

“I’m absolutely confident that we will find this airplane,” Capt. John M. Cox, who spent 25 years flying for US Airways and is

Man with stolen passport on jet was asylum seeker

Members of the media scramble with their smart phones and cameras to photograph pictures of the two men, a 19-year-old Iranian identified by Malaysian police as Pouria Nour Mohammad Mehrdad, left, and the man on the right, his identity still not released, who boarded the now missing Malaysia Airlines jet MH370 with a stolen passports, held up by a Malaysian policewoman during a press conference, Tuesday, March 11, 2014, in Sepang, Malaysia. One of the two men traveling on a missing Malaysian Airlines jetliner was an Iranian asylum seeker, officials said Tuesday, as baffled authorities expanded their search for the Boeing 777 on the opposite side of the country from where it disappeared days ago with 239 people on board.(AP Photo

now CEO of Safety Operating Systems, said Monday.

The modern pace of communications, where GPS features in our cars and smartphones tell us our location at any given moment, has set unreal expectations.

“This is not the first time we have had to wait a few days to find the wreckage.”

Based on what he’s heard, Cox believes it’s increasingly clear that the plane somehow veered from its normal flight path. He said that after the plane disappeared from radar, it must have been “intact and flew for some period of time. Beyond that, it’s all speculation.” If it had exploded midair along its normal flight path, “we would have found it by now.”

Malaysian civil aviation chief Azharuddin Abdul

Rahman, whose agency is leading a multinational effort to find the Boeing 777, said more than 1,000 people and at least 34 planes and 40 ships were searching a radius of 100 nautical miles (115 miles; 185 kilometers) around the last known location of Flight MH370. No signal has been detected since early Saturday morning, when the plane was at its cruising altitude and showed no sign of trouble.

Azharuddin said the search includes northern parts of the Malacca Strait, on the opposite side of the Malay Peninsula and far west of the plane’s last known location. Azharuddin would not explain why crews were searching there, saying, “There are some things that I can tell you and

Crimea seeks to become independent state

KieV, MARch 11 (AP): The Crimean parliament voted Tuesday that the Black Sea peninsula will declare itself an independent state if its residents agree to split off from Ukraine and join Russia in a referendum.

Crimea’s regional legislature on Tuesday adopted a “declaration of independence of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea.” The document specified that Crimea will become an independent state if its residents vote on Sunday in favor of joining Russia in the referendum.

Western nations have said they will not recognize the vote as legitimate. But the move might be used as an attempt to ease tensions with Crimea existing as a self-proclaimed state without Russia moving quickly to incorporate it into its territory.

After a brief war between Russia and Georgia in 2008, some leaders sin Georgia’s breakaway provinces of Abkhazia and South Ossetia also asked to join Russia, but their request was never granted.

Meanwhile, Ukraine’s acting president on Tuesday called for the formation of a national guard and for the mobilization of reserves and volunteers into the country’s armed forces. Oleksandr Turchynov asked the national parliament to approve turning the country’s Interior Ministry troops into a National Guard “to defend the country and citizens against any criminals, against external and internal aggression.”

Turchynov said that the mobilization will include those who have previously served in the army and volunteers. Russian forces have

strengthened their control over Ukraine’s Crimea region in the run-up to a referendum set for Sunday on whether to split off and become part of Russia.

Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, who will fly to Washington to meet with Barack Obama on Wednesday, called on Western nations to defend Ukraine against a nation “that is armed to the teeth and that has nuclear weapons.” Meanwhile, Ukraine’s fugitive president, Viktor Yanukovych, accused the country’s new government of fomenting civil war.

Yatsenyuk asked Russia, the U.S. and European Union member Britain to abide by a treaty signed in 1994, in which they pledged to guarantee Ukraine’s security in exchange for giving up its Soviet-era nuclear weapons.

some things that I can’t.”

Malaysian Maj. Gen. Datuk Affendi Buang, who is helping oversee the ongoing search, said the search will take time.

“The only thing I could say is it’s difficult. There are so many examples of aircraft lost in the sea — you know it can take days, sometimes months, sometimes years,” he said.

Some aviation experts are already calling for airlines to update their cockpit technology to provide a constant stream of data — via satellites — back to the ground. Information about key system operations is already recorded on the flight data and voice recorders — the so-called black boxes — but as this crash shows is not immediately avail-

KUALA LUMPUR, MARch 11 (AP): A man traveling with a stolen passport on a missing Malaysia Airlines jetliner was an Iranian teenager trying to migrate to Germany, and is not believed to have any terrorist links, police said Tuesday.

The announcement is likely to dampen, at least for now, speculation that the disappearance of the Boeing 777 was linked to terrorism. Police said a second passenger also traveling with a stolen passport has not been identified.

Both bought their tickets in Thailand and entered Malaysia together. No debris from the plane has been found. On Tuesday, baffled authorities expanded their search to the opposite side of Malaysia from where it disappeared more than three days ago with 239 people on board.

The airline says the pilots did not send any distress signals, suggesting a sudden and possibly catastrophic incident. Speculation has ranged widely about possible causes, including pilot error, plane malfunction, hijacking and terrorism.

News that two of the passengers were traveling with stolen passports immediately fueled speculation of foul play. However, Malaysian police chief Khalid Abu Bakar told a news conference Tuesday that investigators had determined one was a 19-year-old Iranian planning to enter Germany to seek asylum. “We believe he is not likely to be a member of any terrorist group,” Khalid said. He said the young man’s mother was waiting for him in Frankfurt and had been in contact with police. He said she contacted Malaysian authorities to inform them of her concern when her son didn’t get in touch with her.

able. Such satellite uplinks would be costly and the benefit is debated.

Just about every major jet to disappear in the modern era has eventually been found. The rare exceptions didn’t involve passengers.

In September 1990, a Boeing 727 owned by Faucett Airlines of Peru was ditched into the North Atlantic after running out of fuel on its way to Miami. The accident was attributed to poor pilot planning and the wreck was never recovered.

More mysterious was the disappearance of another 727 in Africa. It was being used to transport diesel fuel to diamond mines.

The owners had numerous financial problems and one day, just before sunset, the plane took off without

a group that herds cattle and sometimes comes into conflict with elephants over access to water and grazing space. Occasionally, elephants are killed in clashes with Maasai men, and vice-versa. Other recorded voices were from Kamba men, who tend to be farmers or employees of the national park, and who rarely represent a danger to elephants.

Still other voices tested on the elephants included female Maasai speakers and young boys. All were saying the same phrase: “Look, look over there, a group of elephants is coming.” The recorded voices were played for hundreds of elephants across 47 family groups during daylight hours. When elephants heard the adult male Maasai voices, they tended to gather together, start investigative smelling with their trunks, and move cautiously away. But when elephants heard females, boys, or adult male Kamba speakers, they did

not show concern.

Discriminating between languages “The ability to distinguish between Maasai and Kamba men delivering the same phrase in their own language suggests that elephants can discriminate between different languages,” said co-author Graeme Shannon, a visiting fellow in psychology at the University of Sussex.

That is not the same as understanding what the words mean, but still shows that elephants can decipher the more sing-songy Maasai language from the Kamba tongue, perhaps based on inflections, use of vowels, and other cues.

“It is very sophisticated what the elephants are doing,” said Keith Lindsay, a conservation biologist and member of the scientific advisory committee of the Amboseli Elephant Research Project. “A lot of animals will take flight at just the general threat posed by people, but a smart animal

appeared to leave searchers with little to go on. Whether the plane broke up in midair or crashed into the water, there would be some debris.

If the plane broke up “for some aerodynamic reason, like the wing fell off or there was a depressurization, there’d be big chunks of wing and fuselage all over the place. So it’d be very unlikely that it would just be destroyed and turned to dust,” said Smart, the aerospace engineering professor.

He added that much of the wreckage may be at the bottom of the sea, which is 50 to 60 meters (165 to 195 feet) deep in the area where the plane was last detected.

The size of the debris field will be one of the first indicators of what happened, aviation experts say.

KUALA LUMPUR , MARch 11 (ReUteRs): Malaysia’s military believes a jetliner missing for almost four days turned and flew hundreds of kilometres to the west after it last made contact with civilian air traffic control off the country’s east coast, a senior officer told Reuters on Tuesday. In one of the most baffling mysteries in recent aviation history, a massive search operation for the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200ER has so far found no trace of the aircraft or the 239 passengers and crew. Malaysian authorities have previously said flight MH370 disappeared about an hour after it took off from Kuala Lumpur for the Chinese capital Beijing.

“It changed course after Kota Bharu and took a lower altitude. It made it into the Malacca Strait,” the senior military officer, told Reuters. That would appear to rule out sudden catastrophic mechanical failure, as it would mean the plane flew around 500 km (350 miles) at least after its last contact with air traffic control, although its transponder and other tracking systems were off. A non-military source familiar with the investigations said the report was one of several theories and was being checked. At the time it lost contact with civilian air traffic control, the plane was roughly midway between Malaysia’s east coast town of Kota Bharu and the southern tip of Vietnam. The Strait of Malacca, one of the world’s busiest shipping channels, runs along Malaysia’s west coast.

‘Proposed NSA reforms vindicate my data leaks’ AU s t i n, MARch 11(ReUteRs): Former security contractor Edward Snowden, addressing a sympathetic crowd at a tech-heavy event in Austin, Texas, on Monday from a secret location in Russia, said proposed reforms at the National Security Agency show that he was vindicated in leaking classified material. Snowden, who faces arrest if he steps foot on U.S. soil, spoke via a video link to a packed house at the annual South

by Southwest (SXSW) gathering of tech industry experts, filmmakers and musicians. He said the U.S. government still has no idea what material he has provided to journalists.

“I saw that the Constitution was violated on a massive scale,” Snowden said to applause, adding that his revelations of government spying on private communications have re-

sulted in protections that have benefited the public and global society. NSA officials declined to comment on the Snowden remarks.Last year, Snowden, who had been working at a NSA facility as an employee of Booz Allen Hamilton, leaked a raft of secret documents that revealed a vast U.S. government system for monitoring phone and Internet data.

The leaks deeply embarrassed the Obama administration, which in January banned U.S. eavesdropping on the leaders of friendly countries and allies and began reining in the sweeping collection of Americans’ phone data in a series of limited reforms triggered by Snowden’s revelations.

Major companies also tightened up safeguards.

But Snowden said the efforts are still not enough to protect privacy properly,

Elephants can differentiate between human languages

WAshington, MARch 11 (AFP): African elephants can differentiate between human languages and move away from those considered a threat, a skill they have honed to survive in the wild, researchers said.

The study suggests elephants, already known to be intelligent creatures, are even more sophisticated than previously believed when it comes to understanding human dangers.

African elephants (Loxodonta africana) are the largest land animals on Earth and are considered a vulnerable species due to habitat loss and illegal hunting for their ivory tusks.

Researchers played recordings of human voices for elephants at Amboseli National Park in Kenya to see how they would respond, according to a report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Some of the voices were from local Maasai men,

clearance and with its transponder turned off. It is believed to have crashed in the Atlantic Ocean. One theory, never proven, is that it was stolen so the owner could collect insurance.

“I can’t think of a water crash in the jet age that hasn’t been solved ,” said Scott Hamilton, managing director of aviation consultancy Leeham Co. The Malaysia Airlines jet had been headed from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. The 239 people aboard were mostly from China. In Beijing, passengers’ relatives have complained that the airline has not been forthcoming with information, and that they’ve had to rely on news reports.

Some of those reports, however, have led to dead ends. Those false alarms

MH370 last seen at Strait of Malacca

doesn’t do that,” he told AFP. “Their response to hearing Maasai men talking was to be alert, to move away, but not to run away in total fear,” added Lindsay, who was not involved in the study. “It is suggesting that elephants are capable of thinking, (of) recognizing that if Maasai men are talking, they are not likely to be hunting because if they were hunting, they would be quiet.”

Wiser with age Elephant groups with older matriarchs in their midst did best at assessing the threat from different speakers, further bolstering the presumed role of learning in the animals’ behavior. The elephants also did not act the same way as they did when recordings of lions were played, as was shown in a previous study.

In those scenarios, they bunched together so that juveniles -- those most at risk from a lion attack -- were in the center, and moved toward the sounds as if to scare the lion away.

When it comes to recognizing people, elephants may not be alone in this ability.

Other research has suggested that wild bottlenose dolphins in Brazil have become so familiar with humans that they engage in cooperative hunting with artisanal fisherman.

Great apes, crows and even prairie dogs have also been shown to differentiate between humans on some level. A separate study published last month in the journal PLoS ONE showed elephants even have specific alarm calls for when humans are near, suggesting the relationship between people and elephants has reached a troubling point and that conservation efforts are more important than ever.

“We have become a formal enemy of the elephants,” said Lori Marino, an expert on animal intelligence at Emory University. “They can not only make some distinctions between us, but we are now on their list of species to watch out for.”

calling for stepped-up encryption that would make mass government surveillance too costly to conduct.

“The government has gone and changed their talking points. They have changed their verbiage away from public interest to national interest,” he said, adding that this poses the risk of losing control of representative democracy.

He said the government’s priority has been an expansive and ill-executed system of massive information collection instead of protecting the vast amounts of intellectual property that support the U.S. economy. “We’ve got the most to lose from being hacked,” Snowden said.

Edward Snowden talks during a simulcast conversation during the SXSW Interactive Festival on Monday, March 10, 2014, in Austin, Texas. (AP Photo)

U.S. Representative Mike Pompeo, a Republican from Kansas, wrote to SXSW organizers, calling on them to withdraw the invitation to Snowden, who he

said deceived his employer and his country. “Rewarding Mr. Snowden’s behavior in this way encourages the very lawlessness he exhibited,” Pompeo wrote.

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Rest of India should emulate Mizoram KOLKATA, MArch 11 (TNN): Loads of talent and hard work characterized Mizoram's triumph in the 68th Santosh Trophy. Longterm planning, infrastructure development, effective development programmes at the grassroots level and the introduction of the Mizoram Premier League (MPL), all contributed significantly to Mizoram's success in the National Football Championship, thereby making the state a force to reckon with in North-East's rich football heritage.

Mizoram Football Association (MFA) secretary Lalnghinglova Hmar reckons the MPL played a key role in transforming the state's football landscape.

"Our triumph in the Santosh Trophy is a direct result of the MPL, which is now in its second season. We always had the talent but most of the players could not play regularly.

A few lucky ones got a break in I-League clubs but a significant number of equally good players had nowhere to showcase their talent. The MPL has given them that platform," said the 36-year-old Hmar, the man who is credited with ushering in a football revolution in Mizoram. "Shortly after we took charge of the MFA three years ago, we

Mama and his silent revolution

NEW DELhI, MArch 11 (TNN): In November 2005, a team from Mizoram lit up a sleepy Santosh Trophy qualifying cluster in Thiruvananthapuram with bold, attacking football.

The little Mizo men seemed to possess that special ability to turn it on at will and let the style simply flow. For many unaccustomed to witnessing such robust display by a team which did not belong to the country's footballing elite, made for riveting viewing as a lethargic Bengal among others twisted and turned in their wake.

Ever-running and standing no more than five-feet-five in his socks, the team's coach, leader and guide was Shylo Malsawmatulanga -'Mama' to the world of Indian football. He was just 21, already an East Bengal mainstay and easily the best left winger in Indian football then. Jerry Zirsanga, Vanlalrova, Robert Lalthlamuana, Malsawma and PC Lalhmingliana all looked up to the gentle word of Mama, and ran like he did.

While Bengal played their traditional put in place a system and a road map to take Mizoram football forward. We are delighted with the results.

Our senior as well as junior teams have won the national championship. This is a golden year for Mizoram."

Hmar also credits the state government for supporting MFA's grassroots development programme, which has been declared by All India Football Federation as the best in the country. "The grassroots develop-

ment programme that MFA has initiated in collaboration with the AIFF follows the FIFA model. Youngsters in the age-group of 6-12 are part of this programme."

Top Mizo players are already making their presence felt at many I-League clubs. Apart from the veteran S Malswamtluanga, the likes of Jeje Lalpekhlua, Lalrindika Ralte and Robert Lalthlamuana too have made their mark. Many more will follow. "I believe

what you are seeing now is just the tip of the iceberg," said Larsing Ming, the general secretary of Shillong Lajong FC, the first club from the N-E to feature in the I-League.

Lalbiakzuala, who was the manager of the Mizoram team in the Santosh Trophy and is the technical secretary of the MFA, sees a bright future for footballers from the state. "We are on the right track and if we can continue like this, Mizoram

will soon dominate Indian football," he said.

However, for that to happen, Lalbiakzuala feels there is a need for a club from the state to qualify for the I-League. At present there are two I-League clubs from the North-East - Shillong Lajong FC and Rangdajied United FC - and both are based in Shillong.

Asked how two clubs from Shillong managed to make it to the I-League, Larsing said, "Shillong is

the educational hub of the N-E region and is a cosmopolitan city. The two clubs have nurtured talents from the region. In fact, there are quite a few Mizoram players playing for Lajong."

Mizoram club, Aizawl FC, is the best bet to make a foray into the country's elite club competition. "Mizoram has made it mark but the most difficult part starts now - to maintain it. Our aim now is to improve and be consistent," Hmar concluded.

prima donna role at the tournament, it was a unique charm offensive from Mama's men. The team from the Christianmajority state would stand in prayer after each game - win, lose or draw. Then they would walk over to the rival penalty area and shake hands with each of their opponents.

Eventually, edged out from the main round in Kochi on a countback, Mizoram's players departed for their clubs and later as the Santosh Trophy rapidly lost out in importance, the team - and the idea seemingly fell off the map.

But the Mizoram experience in Kerala was not a mirage. Almost a decade later, they are national football champions and the man who kick-started it all continues to quietly ply his trade in his typically busy, hunched-over-the-ball manner. In a journey that began in 1998 with the Subroto Cup with Electric Veng Middle School via the Tata Football Academy, he's back to East Bengal after stints with Salgaocar, Mohun Bagan and Prayag United.

Mizoram declares state holiday Mizoram chief minister Lal Thanhawla has declared a state holiday on Wednesday to celebrate the state's history-making win. As soon as the Mizoram players held aloft the glittering trophy in Siliguri, fans roared their approval and Mizoram's capital Aizawl erupted in ecstasy.

Impromptu victory processions were taken out in various parts of the city and in many towns, and fans sang

and danced on the streets till well after midnight. A grand welcome awaits their heroes with Governor Vakkom B Purosothaman saying he would greet the team on their return. The Mizoram Football Association will hold a public reception in Aizawl. The MFA is expecting around 70,000 fans at the AR Ground and are appealing to people of Aizawl and adjoining towns to gather at Lengpui airport to show their support.

Clippers dominate to overcome Suns I'm not done yet: Harris LOS ANGELES, MArch 11 (AP): Blake Griffin scored 22 of his 37 points in the first quarter and made 14 of 16 shots before fouling out, and the Los Angeles Clippers beat the Phoenix Suns 112-105 on Monday night for their eighth straight victory.

Darren Collison scored 20 points and Chris Paul added 17 points and 11 assists for the Pacific Division leaders, who were 55.1 percent from the field and improved to 23-1 when shooting at least 50 percent.

Goran Dragic had 23 points and five assists during a foul-plagued 33 minutes for the Suns, who slipped a half-game behind idle Memphis for the eighth and final Western Conference playoff spot and are 1 1-2 behind Dallas. Phoenix hasn't made the postseason since 2010 under coach Alvin Gentry, now a Clippers associate head coach.

Gerald Green, who had a career-high 41 points for the Suns in last Thursday's 128-122 win over Oklahoma City, finished with 16 points after averaging 23.4

Phoenix Suns forward Marcus Morris, left, reaches in to steal the ball away from Los Angeles Clippers forward Danny Granger (33) during the second half of an NBA basketball game Monday, March 10, 2014, in Los Angeles. Clippers won 112-105. (AP Photo)

over his previous 13 games.

Miles Plumlee, playing his second game after missing the previous two because of a sprained right knee, had 12 points and nine re-

‘Neymar can handle World Cup pressure’

PArIS, MArch 11 (AP): Pele is counting on Neymar to lead Brazil to World Cup victory and erase the painful memory of the last time the football-mad country hosted the tournament.

Considered by many to be world's best player, Pele was only 9 years old when Brazil lost to Uruguay in the final match of the 1950 World Cup. Pele then led Brazil to the title eight years later, when he was 17, and again in 1962 and 1970.

With Brazil hosting the tournament this year, the pressure is on the 22-year-old Neymar, who scored a hat trick last week in a friendly against South Africa.

"Neymar is a great player. I know him very well, because he played for Santos and my son was goalkeeper there, and then coached in the youth teams," the 73-year-old Pele said a news conference at Paris City Hall, where the World Cup trophy has been on display since Sunday. "I think the pressure you speak of exists.

What's important is that he plays for Barcelona and the fact he left Brazil means that he gained in experience."

After a difficult start to his career in Spain, Neymar has shown glimpses of his potential, scoring a hat trick in the Champions League against Celtic and a further seven goals in 20 league

games. Pele thinks leaving the comfort zone of Santos will prove to serve Neymar, and Brazil. "In Europe it's more difficult and it's been a great experience for him to leave Brazil. The six months have been a great opportunity for him," Pele said through a translator. "So he will go to Brazil having gained in experience. But the pressure won't just be on Neymar, it will be on the whole of the Brazil team."

But much of the weight of a nation's expectation will rest on the slender shoulders of Neymar, who has scored 30 goals in 47 matches for his country.

"It's going to be very hard.

Brazil has a real football history. The only World Cup held in Brazil was when we lost against Uruguay, so the Brazilians still remember that," said Pele, who scored 77 goals in 92 games for Brazil. "It will be our chance for revenge. I really hope the final is against France and I really want to beat France.

It would be great because France has beaten Brazil the last three times they've played in the World Cup." Pele's mesmerizing performance in 1958 thrust him into the spotlight and, in a career where he scored more than 1,000 goals — most of them for Santos — he went on to become the game's first genuine superstar.

bounds as all five Suns starters scored in double figures.

Dragic came in averaging 20.5 points, third in the league among point guards behind Stephen Curry

(23.5) and Kyrie Irving (21.5). But he picked up his third foul 2 minutes into the second quarter and wasn't a factor until the fourth, when the Suns rallied from

a 19-point deficit with 8:11 remaining and got it down to 109-105 on Dragic's layup with 32.5 seconds to play.

But that was as close as they got, as Matt Barnes made three of four free throws to close it out.

Barnes finished with 13 points, just six days after scoring a season-high 28 — including six 3-pointers — and making 12 of his first 13 shots in the Clippers' 104-96 win at Phoenix. Things got testy with 5:28 remaining, as Griffin and P.J. Tucker began wrestling on the floor after they jockeyed for position in the paint on a missed 3-point shot by Barnes and Griffin fell on top of Tucker.

The two had to be separated, and the game was delayed while referees Bennie Adams, Jason Phillips and Matt Boland examined the video monitor to sort it all out. Tucker was charged with a loose ball foul and then ejected, while Griffin stayed in the game. But not for long. Griffin picked up his sixth foul on a charge under the basket with 3:23 remaining and the Clippers ahead 105-95.

SYDNEY, MArch 11 (rEuTErS): Australian fast bowler Ryan Harris, who bowled his country to a series victory in South Africa last week, is hoping knee surgery will prolong his test career through the 2015 Ashes at least.

The 34-year-old has been plagued by injuries since his debut in 2010 but was able to put together a run of 12 consecutive tests over the last seven months to help Australia wrest back the Ashes and beat South Africa 2-1 in an away series.

Harris played through the

pain to give Australia the victory on a dramatic final day of the third test against South Africa at Newlands last week before returning home for surgery.

"The 2015 Ashes and the series after that back in Australia are the goals for me if I'm bowling well enough and still in form," Harris told Melbourne's SEN radio.

"There's World Cup in between and I'd love to force my way back into that team as well. "I've read a few little comments here and there in papers that it could be the end of me, but I'm not done

yet. I'll be back."

While none has doubted Harris's ability as a bowler, his injuries had restricted him to just 12 tests in three years until he got on the plane for the opening Ashes series of 2013. He played four of five tests in that series in England, all five tests in the 5-0 triumph in the return Ashes series and all three tests against the Proteas.

Harris took 56 wickets at 21.66 in the three series but his most decisive intervention came in Cape Town last week when he removed Dale Steyn and Morne Morkel in one over to clinch a 245-run victory and the series triumph.

Having delayed surgery until after the South Africa tour, Harris will finally go under the knife this week. "It was obviously tough getting through those last two days but it's a job you just have to do," he said. "I can tell you now, the flight home has ruined (the knee) even more it's sort of locked up. "I really hope having this done and cleaned out, it gives me a bit more time."

Nadal and Sharapova out at Indian Wells

INDIAN WELLS, MArch 11 (AP): Defending champions Rafael Nadal and Maria Sharapova were upset in the third round of the BNP Paribas Open on Monday. First, Sharapova went down to qualifier Camila Giorgi, 6-3, 4-6, 7-5, giving the young Italian her first victory over a topfive player. Then, Nadal followed on the main stadium court, losing 6-3, 3-6, 7-6 (5) to Alexandr Dolgopolov of Ukraine.

Nadal staged a furious rally in the third. He won three straight games, including a break of Dolgopolov, to tie it at 5. Both players held serve to send the match into the tiebreaker.

They slugged it out from the baseline accompanied by a noisy soundtrack, with fans yelling and cheering. Los Angeles Lakers star Pau Gasol watched nervously from Nadal's box. Nadal led 4-2 before Dolgopolov won three straight points to take a 5-4 lead. The Ukrainian hit two forehand winners and came up with a big service winner.

"I had enough breaks to win the match, but I didn't play enough well from the baseline then to be solid with my serve," Nadal said. "I didn't go for the points. I played with too many mistakes."

Nadal evened it at 5-all, but he hit the ball long to set up match point. Dolgopolov served what he thought was an ace, but it was called

Maria Sharapova. (AP Photo)

out. He challenged the call and it showed the ball barely missed tagging the T. Dolgopolov put his second serve into play and produced a cross-court forehand that the world's top-ranked player couldn't return. "It's a moment for the people to be proud a little bit for someone from their country," Dolgopolov said, referring to the political upheaval going on between Ukraine and Russia.

"It's good to make some results and make the people forget a little bit and have

some happy moments in the news."

Dolgopolov had more errors (49) than winners (36). Last month, Nadal defeated Dolgopolov to win the Rio de Janeiro title. The Ukrainian has risen quickly in the ATP Tour rankings, going from No. 57 to 31st after a strong February, posting three wins against top20 players in Rio and made the semifinals in Acapulco.

Before Nadal was sent packing, Sharapova committed 58 errors in her first loss to a player ranked out-

Rafael Nadal. (AP Photo)

side the top 30 since Wimbledon last year. "She's someone that doesn't give you much rhythm," Sharapova said.

"She's quite aggressive, but some shots she hits incredible for a long period of time.

Sometimes they go off a bit. If I'm speaking about my level, it was nowhere near where it should have been."

Ranked 79th in the world, Giorgi made it through qualifying to play Indian Wells for the first time. She improved to 3-2 against top-10 opponents. The 22-year-old led 4-2 in the final set, but Sharapova

broke Giorgi twice to tie it at 5. "I was trying to just play my game, and maybe I accelerate more than the other set," Giorgi said. "I just play more aggressive."

Giorgi then broke Sharapova at love before serving out the match, overcoming her 11th double fault to set up match point.

Giorgi had 48 unforced errors and 24 winners. Awaiting Giorgi in the fourth round will be fellow Italian Flavia Pennetta, who beat No. 16 seed Sam Stosur 6-4, 3-6, 6-1. American Sloane

Stephens was to play Ana Ivanovic, and Tommy Haas took on Kei Nishikori of Japan in night matches.

Tied 4-all in the third, Sharapova was broken when her forehand was called long and Sharapova raised her arms. The chair umpire took the gesture to mean Sharapova was challenging the call, and the call showed the ball was out.

Sharapova argued she was only throwing her arms up as if to ask, "Who made the call?" But the umpire disagreed, and Sharapova retreated to her sideline chair trailing 5-4.

Australian Open champion Stan Wawrinka routed 29th-seeded Andreas Seppi of Italy 6-0, 6-2. Andy Murray outlasted Jiri Vesely of the Czech Republic 6-7 (2), 6-4, 6-4 in his second straight three-set match, and fourtime tourney champion Roger Federer defeated 27th-seeded Dmitry Tursunov of Russia 7-6 (7), 7-6 (2) with an ace on match point.

Murray had 47 of the 99 unforced errors during the nearly three-hour match in the 80-plus-degree heat of the Southern California desert. The third set featured six service breaks, with Murray taking the last two. Top-seeded Li Na defeated Karolina Pliskova of the Czech Republic 6-3, 6-4, while American Sloane Stephens beat 11th-seeded Ana Ivanovic 7-6 (3), 6-4.

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Real life Popeye doesn’t eat spinach Injects himself with a potentially lethal cocktail of oil and alcohol to grow monster arms

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odybuilders in Brazil are risking death by injecting themselves with a potentially lethal cocktail of oil and alcohol to pump up their muscles. Arlindo de Souza has grown 29in biceps - the biggest in Brazil - after injecting the filler into his body, where it causes appearance of swollen muscles. But even he admits it can cause dangerous infections. Some users have had their arms amputated. Others have died.

‘My friend Paulinho, he passed away from doing these things,’ said Mr de Souza. ‘I felt his death a lot. He took it, I took it, but he went beyond the limit. I advise no-one to take this oil. ‘I’ve stopped taking it, and other things as well, but there is always that will to start again. But I’m managing to control myself, to this day.’

The Arnold Schwarzenegger fan, nicknamed ‘The Mountain’ in his hometown, had already been taking a cocktail of steroids, hormones and horse vitamins to bulk up. Then a gym buddy offered him a ‘site enhancement oil’ to help pull ahead of his rivals.

‘The guy gave it to me. He said, “Take this, it will make you grow in days”,’ said Mr de Souza, who is single and lives with his elderly mother, Josefa Gomes de Souza, in Olinda on the coast of Brazil’s Pernambuco state. ‘I loaded the syringe, put it in my arm, injected it and it swelled me up right there and then. ‘To tell you the truth, I didn’t feel a thing. There was sometimes a

bit of dizziness but nothing apart from that.

‘I was working out the same so my strength stayed the same - nothing changed.

‘Most people who take it do not know how to apply it. They will use just any old blood vessel. Some will end up loosing an arm, another needs an operation, some may even lose their lives.’ Injecting site enhancement oils carry the risk of infection and of abscesses developing in the muscle. These abbesses can grow and spread within the tissue. Some users, when operated on, have been found to have arms full of pus and oil. Mr de Souza has fears for his own health and has visited a clinic for help.

But medics have so far refused to operate because ‘he did it to himself’.

Mr de Souza said: ‘If I get ill, if my arms burst, that’s when I can go and see the doctor. But for me that’s normal and something I’ve accepted.’ Since he began injecting two years ago, he has become the talk of the town, to the horror of his family.

His sister Marineide Gomes de Souza said the family were ‘extremely worried’ about him but still hoped he would settle down and have a family. ‘He is a good person, not a bad person. He is really friendly and does lots of favours for people,’ she said.

‘But there are some people who make fun of him. There are some people who find it interesting. And there are some people who think he is from another planet.’ But his brother Adriano Josi Jordco de Souza, 56, said the beefcake look is not without its advantages, especially so in its appeal to women. ‘The women around here and in other places admire him. They think he looks nice,’ he said.

The oil concoction Mr de Souza injected is believed to contain mostly mineral oil, which is similar to baby oil but unscented, and smaller amounts of alcohol and anaesthetic. Worryingly, he has said it can easily be bought online or under-thecounter at rogue pharmacies. And, though he has stopped using and warns others to stay away from it, he says it is continuing to sweep across body-conscious Brazil and South America. ‘To get a body like mine, it is very difficult if you are not taking anything. Some people take it but won’t admit it,’ he said. ‘Have you ever seen a guy as big as me claiming it is natural? He is lying, I tell you. At least I tell the truth. ‘It stopped for a bit because it was becoming too visible. But they are still using it, only they are using it undercover.’

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Heat beat Wizard for crucial win

MIAMI, MArch 11 (AP): LeBron James set the tone pregame. Dwyane Wade took over in the fourth quarter. And the Miami Heat got a win they desperately wanted. Wade scored 13 of his 22 points in the final period and led a critical 12-0 run down the stretch, James led all scorers with 23 points and the Heat clinched a playoff spot by beating the Washington Wizards 99-90 on Monday night to snap a three-game losing streak.

"We needed a win," Wade said. "We needed this win."

Chris Bosh scored 22 for the Heat (44-17), who moved within one game of Indiana (46-17) in the race for the No. 1 seed in the Eastern Conference and 1½ games behind San Antonio (46-16) for the league's best record. Ray Allen added 13 for Miami, which was coming off a trip where it lost at Houston, San Antonio and Chicago, the last of those coming in a late collapse on Sunday. Wade hasn't typically played back-to-backs this season. He did this time, and the Heat simply rolled with him in the final minutes on the way to avoiding what would have been their first four-game slide since 2011. "He made the right plays," James said.

Bradley Beal scored 18 points, Martell Webster added 17 and Drew Gooden scored 15 for the Wizards.

Marcin Gortat finished with 14 points and a career-hightying 18 rebounds — 10 of them in the first quarter alone. John Wall finished with eight assists for Washington. "I'm proud of our guys," Wizards coach Randy Wittman said. "They kept battling, working. We didn't shoot it the way we're capable of. We got some good looks. We shared the ball. We attacked the whole game."

Washington led 84-83 midway through the fourth, when Wade took over. A three-point play put Miami ahead to stay and he then had assists on Miami's next three baskets — a short jumper and then a 3-pointer from Bosh, then a layup by James.

Wade capped the run with a score of his own, on

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Washington Wizards players Marcin Gortat (4) and Martell Webster (9) watch as Miami Heat's LeBron James (6) dunks during the first half of an NBA basketball game in Miami, Monday, March 10. (AP Photo)

the way to his first 13-point, three-assist fourth quarter since Feb. 18, 2009. His 13 in the fourth marked his highest-scoring quarter this season, and came with him playing consecutive days for the first time since Jan. 4 and 5. It was only the third time all season he's appeared in both nights of a back-to-back. Both teams shot only nine free throws; despite being in attack mode, James didn't shoot one for the second straight game, just the second time that's happened in his career, the first coming in December 2003, early in his rookie season. "Very surprised," James said. James went scoreless for a stretch of nearly 15 minutes in the first half, and still easily led everyone with 19 points by intermission. The entirety of his first-half scoring came in two impressive spurts — three 3-pointers in as many tries over a span of 2:43 early in the game, then 10 straight Heat points in a stretch of 3:23 late in the half.

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