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Morung Express News Dimapur | April 12

Be updated with latest technology: President

NEw DELhI, APRIL 12 (IANS): President Pranab Mukherjee Saturday advised the Indian Information Service (IIS) officers to keep themselves updated with the latest technology in order to “critically appraise information” before it reaches the policymakers. Addressing a group of trainee officers of the IIS of 2011, 2012 and 2013 batches at the Rashtrapati Bhavan here, Mukherjee said the officers were a “crucial link” between people and the government as they circulated information about policies and programmes to the masses. “In this age, when there is uninterrupted flow of information, the IIS officers should analyse and critically appraise information before it reaches the policymakers so that it can serve as an important ingredient for the policy formation,” said the president. Acknowledging the “mind-boggling” pace of change in the field of information technology and social media, Mukherjee advised the officers to “continuously upgrade their skills” in order to match the “revolutionary changes in technology” so as to best use them in the service of the nation.

More than 150 families were rendered homeless in a fire at a congested neighbourhood in Rio colony, Signal Basti, Dimapur on April 12. The fire, the cause of which could not be ascertained, erupted at around 7:30am today and completely razed to ashes an unaccounted number of tin-roofed residential thatch structures leased out on rent. A Muslim prayer house was also destroyed by the flames.

It took 40 fire fighters, helped by local residents and neighbours, and more than four hours to bring the flames under control.

However, no human casualty was reported. The Fire & Emergency Services in Dimapur informed that eight (8) fire trucks were requisitioned, including two from Chumukedima Fire Station. The fire affected some 30, 000 square feet area.

Volunteers assist fire personnel fight the blaze at Rio Colony, Signal Basti, Dimapur on April 12. (Photo courtesy Aden Jamir) (More on page 2)

At least 3-4 LPG cylinders exploded as a result of the fire, which was suspected to have erupted from an unattended fireplace.

The affected families are mostly daily wage

earners and small-time businessmen. The Muslim Council, Dimapur (MCD) put the number of families affected at 158. The MCD and the Bengali Samaj, Dimapur, were on site with

relief material for the affected, it was informed.

The district administration responded with 20 bags of rice, while it was learned that more aid would be distributed on April 13.

AcAUt nagaland calls for arrest of culprit

DIMAPUR, APRIL 12 (MExN): The Against Corruption And Unabated Taxation (ACAUT) Nagaland has once against called for the NSCN (K) to take the incident on April 9 in Kohima “very seriously” in the “interest of public accountability.” With regards to the April 9 incident, wherein ACAUT Nagaland member, Abe Mero, another resident and some labourers were attacked by armed persons, the ACAUT Nagaland also made clear that “in view of the constant factional fights and taxation activities taking place in Kohima now and then, ACAUT concludes that the issue of public accountability involving NPGs is next to non-existent.”

While the ACAUT Nagaland appreciated the LONDON, APRIL 12 NSCN (K) for making a (IANS): There is another public declaration on the reason why you should not smoke, especially if you are fond of coffee and tasty food, as smoking harms taste buds, research has confirmed. Smokers do not enjoy their coffee despite the strong, bitter taste of caffeine being easily detected. It seems their ability to taste is impaired by toxic chemicals found in tobacco, even after they have quit smoking.

Abokali Jimomi As part of the study, scientists tested how well 451 Dimapur | April 12 volunteers could recognise the four basic flavours Women have been our of sweet, sour, bitter and community seed-keepers salty, as well as the inten- for generations passing sity of each taste. Research- down traditional knowlers found that whether edge through oral transthe volunteers smoked or mission: the selection and not did not affect whether storage of seeds such as they could recognise salty, millets, beans, rice, cucursweet or sour tastes -- but it did have an effect where bits, tuber crops and methe bitter taste of caffeine dicinal herbs. Native seeds was concerned. One in five possess the advantage of smokers and one in four evolving and adapting to ex-smokers could not cor- local climatic conditions rectly recognise the taste. and soil types over a periHowever, 13 percent of non- od of time; developing desmokers also failed the taste fense mechanisms against test. Researchers believe diseases and pests, needthe build-up of tobacco in ing low maintenance, and the body could stop taste crucial for continuance of buds renewing themselves a thriving local ecosystem, and so harm a person’s providing livelihood sourcability to recognise certain es for many. However, our tastes, even after they have stopped smoking. The find- age-old indigenous seedings of the study have been keeping system is in danger published in the latest edi- of vanishing forever due tion of the journal ‘Chemo- to market forces, changing climatic patterns and sensory Perception’.

Confirmed: Smoking ruins your taste buds

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fire renders over 150 families homeless citizens vote in india’s 40 fire fighters, volunteers and over four hours to control fire in Dimapur

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nsf condemns assault on AcAUt member KOhIMA, APRIL 12 (MExN): The Naga Students’ Federation (NSF) has “vehemently condemned” the assault on ACAUT Nagaland member, Abe Mero, another resident and some labourers on April 9 at Jail gate, Kohima by “some armed miscreants.” The Federation, in a press release from its vice president Joseph Ngouri and assistant general secretary Kesosul Christopher, has termed the act as “barbaric which has created an unlawful atmosphere by resorting to blank firing, traumatizing the general public.” The NSF also called the act unjustifiable “in the midst for expediting peace and reconciliation in the Naga society.” The Federation has appealed to the law enforcing agency to book the culprits and award “stern action as per the law” so that “such inhuman acts does not perpetrate on innocent civilians in the near future.”

April 9 issue, the former reiterated that “If the culprit has been discharged from national service as claimed, the NSCN-K should produce the termination order to back its claim.” This was mentioned

in a press release issued by ACAUT Nagaland’s media cell.

The ACAUT Nagaland stated that the NSCN (K) town command and the NSCN (K) leadership are “morally bound to arrest the

culprit since the culprit was collecting ‘Non-local’ tax on behalf of NSCN-K. The culprit, as admitted by NSCNK, is a habitual offender and according to police has been in and out of jail on several occasions and even booked under NSA.” Moreover, it also held the Kohima police and the district administration “duty bound to arrest the culprit at the earliest.”

ACAUT Nagaland viewed the “attempt on the person of Abe Mero” with utmost “seriousness” and established that “if the police is unable to arrest the culprit even after positive identification, ACAUT will have to conclude that the district administration and police cannot be trusted with the security of its citizens in the high security state capital and ACAUT will chart its own course of action.”

5th phase of ls polls

PANAjI/AgARtALA/ g A N g t O K / g U wA hAtI, APRIL 12 (IANS): Hundreds of thousands cast their vote Saturday in four states in the fifth phase of elections, marking the halfway mark in India’s 10-phase staggered polling.

Till now, over 170 million people have cast their vote across the country in 111 constituencies to choose from more than 1,500 candidates in the elections that began April 7 and will end May 12. Counting takes place May 16.

On Saturday, balloting took place in three constituencies of Assam, two seats of Goa, Tripura’s second Lok Sabha constituency and Sikkim’s lone parliamentary constituency.

Sikkim also saw assembly elections.

The voter turnout was high in all the four states and electioneering was largely peaceful.

Dhirendra Ojha, director in the Election Commission, said in Delhi that Tripura’s second Lok Sabha seat recorded a voter turnout of 81.8 percent, while Sikkim recorded 76 percent voter turnout.

Both of Goa’s seats and Assam’s three seats saw 75 percent balloting, said Ojha.

Goa, known the world over for its beaches, saw brisk polling with queues forming at the polling stations since morning.

Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar, after casting his vote, said the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) would win both seats and that voters have come out in large numbers to vote out the corrupt Congress-led United Progressive Alliance.

“Goa does not see lines like these in the Lok Sabha election otherwise,” he said. The state has over a million voters.

The main contenders for the North Goa seat are

sitting MP and BJP candidate Shripad Yesso Naik, Congress candidate Ravi Naik and Dattaram Desai from the Aam Aadmi Party.

Aleixo Reginaldo from the Congress and BJP’s Narendra Savoikar will fight it out for the South Goa seat, which the Congress has won in 10 out of 14 Lok Sabha elections.

Enthusiastic voter turnout was also seen for Tripura’s second Lok Sabha seat.

“Balloting took place in Tripura East (reserved) constituency with no untoward incident.... The polling was absolutely peaceful,” Tripura chief electoral officer Ashutosh Jindal told IANS. Long queues of men and women voters, including tribals, were seen in most of the 1,490 polling stations. Six of them are all women polling stations manned by women polling personnel only.

With majority tribals, over 1.13 million voters half of whom are women - were eligible to exercise their franchise to elect their Lok Sabha member from among the 12 candidates, including two women.

In Saturday’s polling, the main battle is between Communist Party of IndiaMarxist’s Jitendra Choudhury and Sachitra Debbarma of the Congress.

Others in the fray include Parikshit Debbarma (Bharatiya Janata Party), Bhriguram Reang (Trinamool Congress) and Karna Bijoy Jamatia (Aam Aadmi Party).

Since 1952, the Left has won the Tripura East seat 10 times while the Congress secured the seat five times. The CPI-M has been winning the seat uninterrupted since 1996.

In picturesque yet sparsely populated Sikkim, a good number of the 362,326-member elector-

ate turned up in good numbers to vote for the lone Lok Sabha constituency and 32 assembly seats.

The voter turnout was enthusiastic at most of 538 polling stations.

Six candidates are in fray for the Lok Sabha polls.

Sitting MP Prem Das Rai of the Sikkim Democratic Front is re-contesting, while Akar Dhoj Limbu from the Congress, Nar Bahadur Khatiwara from the BJP and Kaushal Rai of the AAP are hoping to give him a fight.

Only the SDF, Sikkim Krantikari Morcha and the Congress have put up candidates in all the assembly seats, while the BJP is contestinng 13 and the Trinamool Congress in seven. The SDF had made a clean sweep of all the seats in 2009.

In Assam, brisk balloting was recorded in Silchar, Karimganj and Diphu (Autonomous District).

State Chief Electoral Officer Vijayendra said polling remained peaceful in all three seats.

Of the 2,926,762 eligible voters in the three constituencies, 1,400,594 are women. For the second phase of polls, 37 candidates are in the fray. Polling for five constituencies was held April 7, while the third and last phase for the remaining six seats will take place April 24.

Sitting member Kabindra Purkayastha, Congress legislator Sushmita Deb and Kutub Ahmed Mazumder of the All India United Democratic Front (AIDUF) are in the fray in Silchar.

In Karimganj, 15 candidates, including BJP’s Krishna Das, Congress’s Lalit Mohan Suklabaidya and Radheshyam Biswas of the AIUDF are contesting.

Five candidates, including Congress’s sitting member Biren Singh Engti and the BJP’s Joyram Engleng, are fighting it out in Diphu.

naga women act as community seed keepers Naga women’s indigenous seed preservation knowledge key to biodiversity conservation

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changing socio-economic trends.

Farming is not the sought-after career choice for young people in Nagaland for many reasons. For us, a farmer is usually stereotyped as someone who is uneducated, “un-posh” and poor. Young people migrate to cities seeking better jobs. It is becoming a trend to hire “illegal immigrants” for farming jobs in many areas.

An Agriculture Science graduate said, “Hired farmers around Dimapur are producing large volumes of vegetables such tomatoes and cabbage that, during peak season, even cows refuse to eat… these are non-indigenous seeds, and one alarming factor is the unregulated use of pesticides and herbicides such as Roundup [Glyphosate, Monsanto’s controversial herbicide], nobody actu-

A farmer in Nagaland tends to her fruits-- women are active community seedkeepers

ally checks what and how much goes in. Moreover, these hired immigrants are cultivating just for profit.”

North East India falls under the Indo-Burma Biodiversity Hotspot.

Though it hosts a vast genetic resource pool, many species endemic to the region are under threat.

Humans, wildlife and vegetation are interdependent on each other; if the next

generations of Nagas completely leave farming, after this generation of farmers retires, then we are in danger of losing valuable knowledge of our region’s ecosystem -- our traditional knowledge systems mostly remaining undocumented till date.

For oral cultures like ours, if an elderly person dies, the traditional knowledge she possesses will

die with her. Loss of indigenous seeds would mean reduction of genetic diversity, loss of cultural practices, such as local culinary practices, and the unique indigenous ways of life that are essential to the survival of cultural biodiversity.

Alika, a young Naga woman said, “My mother preserves seeds we sow in the farm… after harvest, she knows which seed

to select and store. Like beans and garlic tied and hung above the fireplace; chili and pumpkin seeds in bamboo jars… she just knows how to do it, my grandmothers practiced this.” Alika is pursuing a different career path and may not learn this art. For a culture to live, it has to be practiced, but with many children of seed-keepers discontinuing farming, traditional knowledge could be lost, unless conscious measures are taken. Innovations can only sprout from the base of existing knowledge.

Professor Mandi, a scientist at the Bose Institue, Kolkata said, “NE India and Nagaland has to urgently document plant resources, but with authentic markers… the State Government must ensure that locals are the owners of this bio resource; Bio-Piracy is real.

Climate Change is another crucial reason.”

Nobel laureate economist, Joseph E. Stiglitz, who visited organic farmers in Bihar, said, “Indian farmers are better than scien-

tists,” and that their inspiring practices should be researched and replicated.

The same could be said for Naga farmers who are the guardians of our age-old, useful indigenous traditional wisdom.

Most seeds supplied to villagers through various government schemes and projects are non-indigenous varieties, but many Naga farmers prefer their local varieties: “look at this ‘Agri-ginger’ it is large but tasteless, nothing compared to our ‘originals’,” said a farmer. She added, “I tried this big non-local Brinjal, it feels abnormal… like pumped with air.”

More research and documentation has to be done in this area and inclusion of this knowledge in the education curriculum about local resources should become mandatory. Improved methods of sustainable farming, re-introduction of local varieties, and creation of community seed-banks are required for the environment, food security and safety of the region.

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Morung Express News Dimapur | April 12

(Left) A young girl holds to her school bag and breaks down watching inferno burn down her home (Right) A little boy hugs an umbrella while another looks to the opposite side with bags in his hands as fire raze houses in Rio Colony at Signal Basti early Saturday morning, April 12. Total 158 families were rendered homeless.(Photo Courtesy/Aden Jamir)

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Residents salvage their belonging after a fire gutted down many residential houses at Signal Bosti in Dimapur on April 12. Many were rendered homeless in the inferno that broke out early morning. (Photo by Caisii Mao)

‘Internodes’- House of Bamboo furniture and accessories

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DiMAPur, APril 12 (Mexn): As part of the marketing initiative of the Nagaland Bamboo Development Agency, an exclusive showroom for Bamboo furniture and bamboo accessories named ‘Internodes’ was formally launched by Khrienuo C. Metha, Secretary, GON and Team Leader, NBDA on April 12 at 4th Mile, Dimapur.

Pastor Chuba Ao of the Nagaland Pentecostal Church (NPM), Dimapur pronounced the invocation prayer. The launching pro-

gramme was also attended by Lanutoshi Pongen, Secretary and Kekhwetsii Head G.B. of the Diphupar Village Council, along with officers of the NBDA and well wishers.

“Internodes’ will cater to all types of bamboo furniture and sofas, and other bamboo accessories, which will be available for sale on any working day, informed a press release issued by Dr. Tolto Metha, Member, NBM-IT, Nagaland Bamboo Development Agency.

Youth volunteers filling up potholes near Signal Bosti evening bazaar on April 12. (Photo Courtesy/Aden Jamir)

“The Signal Bosti road is like our corrupted Nagaland government right now,” said a woman teacher residing in Signal Bosti.

She adds, “Words cannot express how bad it is. Not even a small part is smooth.

Don’t want to travel to market because of the road.”

Youths step out for repairing road It comes as no surprise to hear stories of people who have taken it upon themselves to repair or build roads- apparently tired of waiting upon government or any other authorities. Seeing no sight of any positive initiative or proposal from the authori-

ties concerned, a group of young people undertook the task of repairing the road in their locality.

Some youths of Signal Bosti under the banner of “Trinity House” pulled together around thirty-six members and filled up potholes in the stretch of road near the Signal Bosti evening-bazaar. “Trinity House” is one of the groups under Dimapur Ao Baptist Church Signal Fellowship for the youth ministry.

They collected no monetary fund but just construction debris from their homes and neighbors. Most of them are students and volunteers in the Church.

However, they contributed

from their pocket for the repairing work. Some people donated their vehicles and pulling-cart for transporting the materials collected for the road repair.

The repair comes as a quick fix to the problem but it would not last long once the rainy season sets in. The area is identified as one of the worst affected by flooding due to bad roads and poor or no drainage system.

The youth volunteers hope that through their small contribution they would be ready to sending out positive message to those in authority to roll in road construction in Signal Bosti.

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‘Lack of discipline, biggest drawback among Nagas’ First ATM Installed at Chozuba Sub Division Our Correspondent Kohima | April 12

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Bad road with numerous potholes features almost everywhere in the town as well as in the State. The woe of bad road seems limitless and no alleviation seems to reach some places.

There was great sight of hope when the department and authorities concerned repaired roads in some places in Dimapur early this year. However, residents of Signal Bosti, in particular were left disappointed when the road construction did not take the directions towards the area.

The residents have stopped complaining about bumpy rides, accidents and flooding. It is the same story or the worse every year.

Talking about the road condition one of the youth who travels through the road everyday for his office said, “Today I hit a rickshaw. The rickshaw driver could not paddle and came backward. He was very happy actually. For the first time, the aggrieved party was happy in an accident. It is truly a 21st century road!” He challenged saying, “Promise, I will pay you Rs.1000 if you can find black tar along the road.”

There is no disagreement from any individual on how dangerous the potholes are becoming for the commuters.

Tagging the road as “horrible” another man who comes to attend work at his office in Signal Bosti said, “They (department and authorities) have repaired almost all the roads in Dimapur but they have ignored Signal.”

“In today’s world there is absolutely no room for those who drag along, for those who follows and for those who are just satisfied with being average,” said Kesonyü Yhome (IAS), Principal Director, School Education, Government of Nagaland during the seminar on career guidance held at Kigwema Village on April 12. Under the theme, “Be Prepared”, the seminar was organized by the Kigwema Students’ Union (KSU) in collaboration with Centenary Education Committee (CEC), Kigwema Baptist Church.

The program started with prayers by Zakievoto Zakaria, Cathechist Kigwema Catholic church followed by a short speech by Jalesoü Yhoshü, Convenor (CEC). Teisovi Thorie, President KSU stated that the seminar was conducted for the young students who are in great need of guidance before they plunge into any profession in the future and to let them explore their interests, skills and aptitudes.

Kesonyü Yhome emphasized on three challenging issues Nagas are facing today namely lack of discipline, endurance and regularity. “The biggest drawback among Nagas is our lack of discipline. There is no question of achieving in life if there is no discipline. Discipline is important not only for your profession but to build your character,” said Yhome who asserted that if one’s foundation in discipline is strongly rooted then the rest comes easy.

Yhome also pointed out that for Nagas, our comfort zones is too precious which often becomes as stumbling block for us to be successful because our endurance level is very low.

“We are such a section of community who are terrible in time management. When it comes to our society, productivity is nil,” added Yhome while talking about punctuality which is often connected to productivity.

Theja Meru who spoke on Entrepreneurship defined entrepreneurship as,

“The business of dreaming, of imagining, taking bold steps, taking risks to create profit, to improve the quality of life and others around you,” Meru further exhorted the students that in order to get into entrepreneurship, the first step is to find one’s purpose, to build one’s personality and character and work hard saying that there is no luck in this world except hardwork.

Megoneitso Meyase, HOD Department of Botany, Kohima Science college, spoke on integrated farming where he focused on nursery, piggery, chicken rearing, fishery and organic farming fodder.

“Each one of you is extremely special in your own way, your own talent and aptitute. You have to start exploring yourself. Be adventurous. Venture out where people have not gone yet. Identify where your interests and aptitudes are and set a dream for yourself. If you don’t have a dream, you are a dead soul,” concluded Kesonyü Yhome while adding that the biggest challenge in pursuing one’s dream is none other than oneself.

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From L-R: Kapani.S.Kolakhe, M. Yoho (OC Chozuba), Paulan John (ADC), Novin Basumatary (BM), Chamelo K Joseph, Wanlang Rynjah, & MD Ansari.

KOHiMA, APril 12 (Mexn): The first SBI ATM was installed at Chozuba Sub Division on April 11, 2014 and was inaugurated by the ADC of Chozuba Sub Division, Paulan John. The ADC in his address, thanked the Branch Manager (BM) and his Staff for installing the first ATM in Chozuba Sub Division and also thanked the Regional Business Office (RBO) Dimapur for consenting to do the same, which, he said, was a long felt need for the Sub Division. He further asked the gathering to judiciously

use the ATM and avail the benefits of modern banking facility.

Also speaking on the occasion, the Bank Manager, Novin Basumatary extended his gratitude to the ADC for consenting to inaugurate the ATM despite his heavy schedule and also thanked his team for the hard work they put in towards installation of the machine. In the meantime, he called upon the public to use the ATM in a judicious manner and follow the etiquettes of the ATM Banking.

Economic Earthen Kitchen training held KLH conducts felicitation prog for NPSC successful candidates Our Correspondent Kohima | April 12

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Participants during the training on Economic Earthen Kitchen conducted at Pellhang Village under Peren district on April 11.

Peren, APril 12 (Mexn): One day training on Economic Earthen Kitchen (EEK) was conducted at Pellhang Village under Peren district on April 11 by the Department of Land Resources, Peren.

Altogether 45 villag-

ers including LRD Staffs turned up for the training.

Power Point Presentation was given where the trainees were informed about the benefits of EEK over the traditional Naga kitchen and were encouraged to practice EEK in their

homes.

Later, a demonstration on how to build EEK was done. Through the training programme the villagers were greatly benefitted and also appreciated for conducting such programme in their village.

The Kohima Lotha Hoho (KLH) today conducted a felicitation programme for NPSC successful candidates of the community here at the Zonal Council Hall.

Those who came out successfully in the NPSC exam 2014 and felicitated today by KLH included; Nchumthung Ezung (Longsachung) EAC, Tsenthungo E. Ngullie (Tsungiki)- EAC, Yanthungbemo Kikon ( Longsa)- EAC, Chumbenthung Murry (Okotso)- EAC, James Renbi Kikon ( Lakhuti)EAC, Mhachan N. Kikon ( Mekokla)- Inspector of excise, Osenrhoni Kikon ( New Ralan)- inspector of excise, Atheo Ezung (Lakhuti)- secretariat assistant, Rumbemo T. Kithan (Yikhum)- secretariat assistant, Sungchung Yanthan ( Lakhuti)- secretariat

Legislators and others with NPSC successful candidates during felicitation programme organized by Kohima Lotha Hoho at the Zonal Council Hall, Kohima on April 12. (Morung Photo)

assistant, Dr. Thungjano Odyuo ( Pangti)- secretariat assistant, Arhomo Yanthan (Sunglup)- secretariat assistant, Mhabeni Lotha ( N. Longidang)- inspector of taxes, Liyingbeni Kikon

(New Ralan)- inspector of taxes, Er. Mhayani Ngullie ( Tsungiki)- supervisor, social welfare, Y. Yanrenthung Ngullie (Niroyo)- junior divisional accountant and Merithung Ovung

(Hanku)- junior divisional accountant.

MLAs Dr. T.M. Lotha, N. Thomas Lotha and Mmhonlumo Kikon and several others shared words of encouragement to the

successful candidates. E. Mhonbemo Patton, commissioner and secretary also exhorted the gathering. The function was chaired by Dr. P. Ngully, psychiatrist, advisor KLH.

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IMPHAL, APrIL 12 (NNN): Re-polls in the six polling stations of Outer Manipur assembly constituency today were peaceful with big turn-out.

At polling station number 41/21 (Lambung) in Chandel district the turnout was 88% while the turnout at polling station number 42/26 (Molnoi village in Chandel district) was 94.75%. The turnout at the polling station number 44/2 (Sanakeithel) in Ukhrul district was 68.41% and that of polling station number 46/45 at Keihao Tangkhul village, Saikul in Senapati district was 80.98%. For the polling station number 47/5 at Katao village (Karong assembly constituency) in Senapati district the turnout was 84.5% and that of the polling station number 47/19 (Thaibung Khunou) in Senapati district was 92%.

Post poll violence claims one life in Arunachal Pradesh ITANAGAr, APrIL 12 (PTI): Post poll violence has claimed a life in Lohit district of Arunachal Pradesh while an official was attacked in East Kameng district, police said.

A worker of the People's Party of Arunachal (PPA) at Lekang in Lohit district succumbed to his injuries at Assam Medical College (AMC) in Assam's Dibrugarh district on April 10 after he was attacked by supporters of another candidate on April 9, the polling day, Lohit Superintendent of Police Tume Amo said today. Tension ran high in Lekang after the body of Manoranjan Taye, the PPA worker was brought here yesterday, the SP said adding the situation was fully under control after deployment of more forces. A case has been registered at Mahadevpur police station and five accused who were arrested in the case were given six-day police remand by the local magistrate. Reportedly, two of the accused were elder brothers of the deceased, the SP added.

GuwAHATI, APrIL 12 (PTI): At least 38 electronic voting machines have been replaced so far during the elections for three Lok Sabha seats in Assam on Saturday due to different types of malfunctioning.

According to the Returning Officers of Silchar, Karimganj and Autonomous District constituencies, maximum number of problems in the machines were detected during mock polling before the onset of the actual process this morning.

"We have so far replaced 21 EVMs from different polling stations across the constituency. Of these, 19 were changed during the mock poll in the morning," Silchar Returning Officer Gokul Mohan Hazarika told a news agency.

During the mock poll, the election authority has A Reang woman walks out of a polling booth after casting her vote in Khowai District, about 120 kilometers (75 miles) northeast replaced five machines in of Agartala, capital of the northeastern Indian state of Tripura on Saturday, April 12. The multiphase voting across the country Lakhipur, four each in Katigora and Dholai, three in runs until May 12, with results for the 543-seat lower house of parliament announced May 16. (AP Photo/Ramakanta Dey)

Apok Jamir in Manipur; lauds Ibobi Government IMPHAL, APrIL 12 (NNN): Former Nagaland chief minister SC Jamir's son Apok Jamir today said the regime of O Ibobi Singh in Manipur is much appreciated by the people. Apok Jamir who is also an MLA from Nagaland said O Ibobi has done lots both for the hills and the valley without any bias and he deserves to be the chief minister

in the next term too. O Ibobi is in his third consecutive term as the chief minister of Manipur.

Apok Jamir was speaking in an election rally held at Keishamthong in Imphal today attended by leaders of Congress party of Manipur.

Apok Jamir said that the hills and the valley districts have witnessed today much development

under the chief ministership of O Ibobi Singh.

Jamir termed Manipur as the 'destiny' of the North East. He also said peace, love and beauty are seen in Manipur. "This peaceful co-existence in Manipur is laudable by all," stated Apok Jamir. Jamir predicted that a Congress led government will come again at the Centre and more

ZUF welcomes four 'home-comers' TAMENGLONG, APrIL 12 (NNN): Zeliangrong United Front (ZUF) has claimed today four Naga militants from other underground organisations have joined the former outfit.

The four are: Solomom Phaomei (38 years) 'Khapur' of NSCN-IM, 1997 batch, s/o Kaningdai Phaomei from Luangrang (Nungnang) village, Nungba sub-division, Tamenglong district; Richard Thiumai (26) 'Corporal' of NSCN-IM, s/o Khamba Thiumai from Mantripukhuri, Imphal; Adai Kamei (28) 'Sergeant' of United People Party of Kangleipak (UPPK), s/o Meiganlung Kamei from Mahabali, Imphal;

and G D Adin (36) of UNPC/ MNPF, s/o G D Angam from Makhuam (Marangching), Tamenglong district.

According to A Dangmei, information secretary of ZUF, the outfit felicitated the 'home-coming of Zeliangrong comrades' on April 10 at its general headquarters, 'Dilung'. "The Zeliangrong United Front (ZUF) welcomes Zeliangrong comrades who have been working in different factions in the Northeast. This transition is indeed a great moment for the Zeliangrong to reaffirm our unity under one umbrella," ZUF said.

According to Dangmei, during the programme, Khapur Solomon Phaomei,

leader of the four cadres, mentioned that the NSCNIM neither faithfully works for sovereignty nor for the integration of the Nagas.

"The endorsement to United Naga Council (UNC)'s Alternative Arrangement for only Nagas of Manipur is an open secret of how they speak one thing and do another. At the same time, the NSCN-IM is always keen to participate in the petty politics and spoil the peaceful environment in the area of Zeliangrong and kin tribes. The recent involvement in the Parliamentary election has caused me to left from the NSCN-IM,"Phaomei was quoted by the ZUF.

Mnp: General Observer of Election dies IMPHAL, APrIL 12 (NNN): In a case that has the potential to kick up much controversies, a General Observer of Election died suddenly in Manipur today while in an 'unofficial' visit to the border towns Moreh and Tamu, over 100 km from Imphal.

Sources said the officer along with three other poll observers went to the border town without informing the authority concerned this morning, probably for marketing.

Chandra Bhanu (50), an IAS officer of 1993 batch (UP cadre) from Lucknow came to Manipur as a General Ob-

server of Election. He along with three others including one D P Yadav, also a General Observer of the Election, Kumar Das, Election Observer (Security) and Atul Hamad, Assistant Observer started from Imphal at around 6 am today for Tamu and Moreh in six vehicles including that of the security without informing the authority concerned, the sources said.

On the way, Chandra Bhanu became unwell and he was made to rest at a government bungalow at Moreh while the three others proceeded to Tamu. At around 2:30 pm the three returned to

Moreh after the marketing and picked up Chandra Bhanu. On the way back, Chandra Bhanu's condition worsened and on reaching Khudengthabi Assam Rifles post, they stopped and got examined the condition of Chandra Bhanu at the military hospital. The doctors there told that the officer's condition was quite serious and advised them to rush to Imphal. Around 4:30 pm, they reached Imphal and admitted Chandra Bhanu at Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Medical Sciences (JNIMS), Imphal but the doctors there de-

Cong MP from Mnp grows older by 11 yrs in 5 yrs IMPHAL, APrIL 12 (PTI): Strange as it may sound, but sitting Congress MP from Inner Manipur parliamentary constituency Thokchom Meinya grew older by 11 years in the past five years.

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seeking a third consecutive term as MP from the seat, declared his age to be 69 years. Interestingly, in his declaration to the EC for the 2009 general elections, he had submitted his age to be 58 years, which means the Congress leader has grown older by 11 years between 2009 and 2014.

A resident of Joypurkhul Khumbong in Imphal West

District, Meinya's date of birth, however, is listed as October 12, 1945, on Lok Sabha website's member profile.

When contacted, Meinya told PTI, "My date of birth is what is there in the Lok Sabha records. There was a clerical error while enlisting for the 2009 electoral rolls on the basis of which the nomination was filed then."

Sikkim monks vote to choose a lama as their MLA GANGTOK, APrIL 12 (PTI): Hundreds of monks from Buddhist monasteries in the Himalayan state of Sikkim on Saturday voted to choose a Lama as their representative in the state assembly.

The ‘Sangha’ seat is the only one of its kind in India which was created under Article 371 (F) of the Constitution to give monks representation in governance as was done during the rule of the Chogyals. The Himalayan kingdom had merged with India in 1975.

Dressed in their traditional flowing maroon robes, monks came out in large numbers in polling booths to stand in queue like other voters, election com-

mission sources said. “This is very unique to Sikkim as in other places you will not find a monk coming out to vote for another monk. They are very active, but very peaceful,” Sikkim’s Joint Chief Electoral Officer Urvashi Poudyal said.

Only monks could vote and contest in the reserved ’Sangha’ seat. There were 2,904 monk voters registered for the ’Sangha’ seat. Out of them only 45 were women.

Three Lamas were contesting for the seat - Palden Lachungpa for the ruling Sikkim Democratic Front (SDF), Sonam Lama for Sikkim Krantikari Morcha (SKM) and Tshering Lama for the Congress.

clared 'brought dead', the sources said.

The three officers accompanying Chandra Bhanu refused to give any comment to the media.

The chief minister of Manipur, the chief secretary, the diretor general of police, and high ranking officers rushed in to JNIMS on learning the news. Chief secretary PC Lawnkunga was believed to have sent a crash message to the Election Commission of India.

The Post Mortem is likely to be performed before 7 am on Sunday before the dead body is transported by a flight to Lucknow.

number of Congress MPs will be elected from the North East.

Also speaking on the occasion, Manipur chief minister criticised the Manipur BJP twin-manifesto releasing (one for the Inner constituency and the other for the Outer seat).

Ibobi said such unconventional way of releasing of manifesto by the BJP in Manipur will not work practically.

Udarband and one each in Silchar, Sonai and Barkhola.

"When the actual polling started, we received complaints from two booths in Katigora. So, we replaced the machines there," Hazarika said.

In the Karimganj Lok Sabha seat, 13 EVMs were replaced so far from different locations. "We have replaced 13 machines so far from different places across the constituency. These were changed during the

actual polling," Karimganj Returning Officer Sanjib Gohain Boruah said.

In Autonomous District parliamentary constituency, a total of four machines were replaced till now.

"All the four machines had some minor technical defects, but we did not want to take any chance.

Of these units, three were changed during the mock poll," Autonomous District Returning Officer Prasanta Kumar Buragohain said.

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ndia is the largest democratic country in the world (largest democracy in the world is a misnomer). But how democratic is the Indian elections in Nagaland? The experiences of the last two State general elections, two parliamentary elections and two state by-elections proved that we have a system that didn’t work. It is very sad that elections in Nagaland have become more of political gambling than philosophy. Plato, the great Greek philosopher, while decrying the convention of corruption in political system said; “The ills would never cease until philosophers became rulers or rulers philosophers”.

How fitting is this great saying in our time and place!

Let us see how democracy works in Nagaland during elections.

There has been always a conflict between the Naga customary laws (or rather jungle laws) and the Representation of People’s Act (RPA), 1951 in every election. RPA has never really worked in Nagaland as jungle laws always took precedence. Customary laws have been blatantly misinterpreted as village or community decisions by majority. Elections in Nagaland have been always under the thumb rule of ‘might is right’. Might come in various forms; most prominent of which are muscle power, money power, gun power and misuse of public organizations’ office.

Since 2003 State general election, majority in the village/community/social organization imposing to vote for one particular candidate against the will and wishes of the minority has become the corrupt convention. Such declarations as paid news in local dailies were in total contravention to the principle of secret ballot. It violates the laws of election as enshrined in RPA. Yet, no actions were taken against such candidates or the community making such declaration.

The only visible action was taking into account the cost

of paid news in the candidate’s expenditure. Punitive actions like disqualification of the contesting candidate and countermanding the election in the particular polling booth for making such declaration should not become a debatable issue but calls for an outright action.

Election observers and micro-observes act only on written complaint from opposing parties and hardly act on their own observations. The objective and purpose of deputing observes and micro-observers were thus defeated. The name observers or microobserves clearly suggest that they are to act on their own observations and not necessarily wait for written complaints. So long as election observers and micro-observers take their assignments as duty-bound and not the implementing agency of law, it is a national waste to spend so much money on them. India is one hypocrite country where we talk so much about system but soil it on by law makers themselves.

The onus of responsibility to ensure free and fair election rests largely on polling officials. Sadly, the polling officials prefer to practice more on compromise and understanding than act by the rule of law. In recent years, it has become a common practice for polling officials to summon the contesting party representatives a night before the polling day and ask them to strike-out a compromise.

The most common compromise formula in Nagaland is either to adopt ‘family head voting’ or ‘village/ community head voting’ for the entire voters in a booth.

It is grossly undemocratic.

‘One man, one vote’ nowhere finds mention in the discussion. The polling officials are satisfied in whatever form the voting should take place as long as incident-free polling is guaranteed by the representatives.

What we observe in every election was that, most genuine voters cast their votes before noon. Three to four

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hours were thus left open for malpractices or for political party agents to work out the formula for sharing proxy votes. In cases of disagreement, the majority party captures the booth by might. The polling officials instead of acting as per the rule of law, stands helpless and remain mute spectators. Besides, most polling officials have their inclination towards the ruling party. Therefore, the agents of the ruling party always get the edge. So long as the polling officials do not act, the corrupt system is there to stay and no matter what and how much guidelines are issued by the Election Commission, it comes to naught.

The distribution of voter slips by the Booth Level Officers (BLO) a day or two prior to the polling day was absolutely ridiculous because it renders meaningless, the presence of BLOs in the polling booths on polling day. Voter slips should be distributed on spot after verification of the identity. In the just concluded parliamentary election, in one village in 19th Phek Assembly Constituency, over 90% of the voter slips were collected by the Village Council Chairman, Head GB and NPF President of that village and kept in their custody on the contention that all those electorates had received their shares from Local Area Development Fund (LADF).

Thanks to the District Returning Officer (DRO) who took prompt action on formal complaint. LADF has nothing to do with election whatsoever but the ruling party shamelessly thinks it is a party fund meant for free distribution without work. The operational guidelines for LADF have been abused by the elected members as though it were their own wealth so much so that a pastor of one influential Baptist church was blessed with rupees ten lakhs every year from LADF for years together. He

thanked God and received it in the name of different aliases but against the same project. No wonder there’s a rash to become god man.

In the recently concluded parliamentary election, there were three polling stations in 19th Phek Assembly Constituency which were exclusively manned by women polling officials. CCTV was installed in all those booths.

The security within the polling perimeter in the town was also manned by Mahila personnel of IRB. The women polling officials proved their mantle as polling in those stations saw better co-ordination and discipline. Incidentally, the percentage of voter turn-out in those allwomen polling stations ranged between 40 to 55% only while in others, 75 to 80% was on the lower side despite distinctly low turnout. This went on to prove that either women polling officials were more efficient or the installation of CCTV had done its own magic. Proxy voting was the only logical explanation for the wide discrepancy in percentage of turn-out between polling booths with CCTV and without CCTV. Someone had rightly said that the Nagas don’t fear God but the machine. Thus CCTV installation in all the polling stations seems the only remedy to frighten the overzealous Naga voters.

In future elections, it will be good to notify the political parties of all-women polling stations so as to enable them to appoint women polling agents.

For the first time in Nagaland State, Electorate Photo Identity Card (EPIC) was used in this parliamentary election. The nation had invested thousands of crores of money on this nation-wide exercise. But going by the experience of the just concluded election, the value of EPIC was not fully realized given the fact that proxy voters could

still cast multiple votes with others’ EPIC. Irony of all was that, to act against proxy voting, the polling officials entirely left the voter identification to the polling agents and depended only on objection of the polling agents. With EPIC in place, the polling officials have no alibi to shy away from the responsibility of checking and cross-checking the identity of an electorate.

Election system in India has failed largely because of indifferent polling officials. The electorates may attempt for any malpractice but it is the polling officials who should apply the rule of law. The question of proxy voting did not arise should the Presiding Officer gives a ruling against it. It appears that the polling officials give undue emphasis on high turn-out percentage. It must not be forgotten that the low turn-out in those polling booths with CCTV were because the electoral roll had many double and multiple names. It is not only illegal but also ethically and morally wrong to turn a blind eye to the established law.

There should not be conflict of interest between conscience and an alibi for threat to life because law is there to protect the polling officials from all dangers.

Exemplary punitive action needs to be meted out on erring polling officials.

The church’s clean election campaign undoubtedly did some good like controlling mass feast.

Unfortunately, it couldn’t do much on free flow of liquor and money. In many places the church leaders were accused of distributing money and doing both overt and covert canvassing for one particular candidate. In my constituency, there was eye witnesses report that a Pastor of one particular church had summoned the teachers of a church run school to one politician’s house and solicited their support with attractive promises of help.

It is obvious that in such engagement money would be the only language. People

with liquor were caught red-handed by law enforcement agencies and identities of culprits were established. In one polling station in one constituency of Phek district, one prominent public leader was seen casting proxy votes five times excluding his own vote. Yet, the church didn’t consider it ethically and morally wrong, much less a sin, to be caught with liquor or proxy voting. If the church is serious in clean election, education alone is not enough. It should exercise its decree.

What is ethically and morally wrong could not be sinless. There’s a need for the church to recast on its hi-fi campaign strategies. When election comes, there’s a swarm of pollster prophets looking for their vulnerable preys to make the most out of it. Has the church lost control over them?

Since 2003 State general election, the Naga national workers had played a major role in deciding the fate of many candidates during elections. It is an open secret that none could deny it. Whether their roles were direct (by using gun power) or indirect (by soliciting votes for one candidate), it didn’t make any difference. Vote casting is just a symbolic expression of inner will participation. Indian election is for Indian citizens only. Therefore, those Naga national workers who had participated in Indian elections; whether by personally exercising his adult suffrage or by asking his family and friends or coerced others to vote for one or other candidate/ party; had forfeited his right as a national worker by betraying the national principle. But do we have national workers with national principle? With or without gun, the participation of Naga national workers in Indian elections will always be welcomed by the GoI because that is exactly what they want.

The list of election evils in Nagaland is endless. So much for democracy in a Christian State!

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G20 gives U.S. year-end deadline for IMF reforms Washington, april 12 (reuters): Finance chiefs from around the globe on Friday gave the United States until yearend to ratify long-delayed reforms to the International Monetary Fund and threatened to move forward without it if it fails to do so.

The inability to proceed with giving emerging markets a more powerful voice at the IMF and shoring up the lender's resources appeared the most contentious issue for officials from the Group of 20 leading economies and the representatives for all IMF member nations who met with them.

In a final communique, G20 finance ministers and central bankers said they were "deeply disappointed" with the delay.

"I take this opportunity to urge the United States to implement these reforms as a matter of urgency," Australian Treasurer Joe Hockey told reporters on the sidelines of the IMFWorld Bank spring meetings.

The reforms would double the Fund's resources and hand more IMF voting power to countries like the so-called BRICS - Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.

The U.S. Congress has refused to sign off on the overhaul, which was agreed to in 2010, and the failure overshadowed even the crisis in Ukraine and the spillover effects of ultra easy monetary policies in advanced economies in the discussions.

Some Republicans have complained the changes would cost too much at a time Washington was running big budget deficits. The reforms also ran afoul of a growing isolationist trend among the party's influential Tea Party wing.

If Washington does not ratify the reforms this year, the G20 advanced and emerging economies said

they would ask the IMF to develop possible next steps.

A source said Brazil had pushed for a harder line. It wanted to require the Fund to begin work now to determine options to be implemented if the United States failed to act, a notion that was floated in an early draft of the communique.

"The end of the year for me is the final limit," Guido Mantega, the Brazilian finance minister, said later through a translator. "Four years waiting for me is just too much."

U.S. elections loom There are a handful of ad hoc measures officials can take to achieve at least some of the governance overhaul for the global lender without formal U.S. approval.

But Singaporean Finance Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam, who is head of the IMF's policy committee, said it was too early to talk about alternatives.

"We have every reason to think the 2010 reforms will be passed by the U.S.," he said, adding that a failure to pass them would affect the Fund's credibility and effectiveness because, for now, it was relying on borrowed resources.

EarlieronFriday,Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanovsaiddevelopingnations may demand changes to the IMF's emergency borrowing mechanism if the United States does not approve the overhaul.

Still, giving the Americans until year-end puts the deadline beyond U.S. midterm elections in November, and some officials said the U.S. Congress would find it easier acting then.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew said the Obama administration would do its best to push IMF quota reforms through the U.S. Congress this year. "We will keep taking steps to get this done," he said at a news conference.

Readers may please note that the contents of the articles, letters and opinions published do not reflect the outlook of this paper nor of the Editor in any form.

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o, the TA/DA for me was Rs 750 and I was to be at Tsuremen village in Alongtaki A/C, Mokokchung – hardly the cost of a “Vote For” flex banner.

And the polling officials are supposedly as discounted as rags – bartered for Rs. 750. That’s a 750° contrast to the electioneering expenses. The ECI as well must be joking under Parliamentary elections puppetry.

It was about 7 hours to Tsuremen village – rocky slippery terrain, mosquitoes, dirty water and no power, yet cheerful people. It’s a 750° contrast to the complexes of the damned politicians and more so, the bureaucrats. Bonus gifts were – quite a good sum – promised to the villages with 100% votes or so.

That’s another 750° contrast to the so called ‘free and fair’ elec-

tion campaign.

Now, like in George Orwell’s Animal Farm, the village council, like Boxer, is always right as “Napoleon is always right” and votes for all. Like Squealer, Napoleon’s propagandist, the village council justifies every action convincing all the villagers that the ‘consensus candidate’ is making things better for the commoners – despite the fact that the commoners are cold, hungry, and overworked. Like the Seven Commandments of Animalism getting reduced to a single principle of “all animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others,” the village council is the “correct” one. Yet, looking in at the party of the candidates, political party workers, voters and village councils, from the farmhouse window of civility,

the commoner can no longer tell which are pigs and which are human beings. It is indeed an animal farm of sorts aplenty with cronyism, graft and embezzlement.

More than a century ago in the 1870s, Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall. He fell because he miscalculated the body-head weight ratio, probably by a 750° contrast to the recommended body-head weight ratio. All the king’s horses and all the king’s men were wasted for nothing.

Lesson: those with big heads fall. The present generation is fallen probably because of learning the story of Humpty Dumpty who miscalculated and fell. Strip the big-headed Humpty Dumpty story off the school syllabus. Besides, ‘London Bridge’ isn’t bridging anything either because it gives the

idea of falling down early on.

Dump the Dumpty, the emptyheaded and burn the ‘London Bridge,’ the dividing bridge. As long as Humpty Dumpties sit in the offices singing ‘London Bridge,’ all will have a great fall.

At least, the teachers can make Humpty Dumpties out of the candidates, village councils, voters and ECI by discarding the election duties and the voting. Time to ‘re-plan, re-teach, re-test’ the Humpty Dumpty rhyme if at all things have to be put together. Initiate a great fall for all in the electioneering process.

Then in a more fading reverie, I come across the line: “75% of the electioneering funding in India from ‘unknown sources’.” I wish but it’s not a dream, more so in my land. Lentina comes out from Prof Temsula

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DC Dimapur informs Ao’s book Laburnum for My Head and hands over a laburnum to me and smiles: “It’s the joy of seeing a laburnum on my headstone at least, though never got the chance to have one when alive.” Impressed, I might have a laburnum on my headstone not of embezzlement but of recompense at least, though might never get the chance to have one when alive. Then, Imchanok comes running towards me panting and shows the tuft of hair and says: “This is what I offered as a prayer of forgiveness to the ghosts of the preys I killed when they started to haunt me.”

I must ask for forgiveness for my people for whatever might have taken place.

For now, the TA/DA of Rs 750 is a call to live a resolute life with a 750° contrast to the ways of a kleptocratic world.

Dimapur, april 12 (mExN): Deputy commissioner & district election officer, Dimapur has informed the owners/ drivers of private vehicles requisitioned and detailed for elections duty to collect the hire charges and vehicle documents from April 15 to 17 between 11:00 am to 3:00 pm from the Election Branch, office of the DC/DEO Dimapur. The owners/ drivers have been asked to bring their duty slip in original.

Global Reach office launching in Kohima Kohima, april 12 (mExN): The Global Reach Kohima office will be launched on April 13 at 8:00 AM at Old Taxi Stand, Kohima. It will be inaugurated by Rolf Baum, Regional Marketing Manager, Intueri Education Group, New Zealand. The function will be followed by press conference. Set up in 1991, Global Reach, pioneered the concept of education counseling in India and currently manages the marketing and representation of over 350 accredited foreign universities and institutions from Australia, New Zealand, UK, USA, Canada, Singapore amongst other destinations. Global Reach has 18 offices spread across five countries.

Bike recovered, owner asked to claim Dimapur, april 12 (mExN): Secretary of the Union Territory, GPRN has informed that the staff of the UT has recovered a motor bike (Yamaha Fizer) with no registration number, engine number – 21CH04674, chassis number – ME121COH9D2046691. The rightful owner has been asked to claim the aforementioned bike within seven days from the date of this publication from the office of the secretary, UT GPRN with necessary documents. For further information, contact, 9436971965/ 8575659190.

Consultative meet on NFSA Kohima, april 12 (mExN): A consultative meeting of administration, ward panchayats of Kohima Town, Kohima Municipal Council and department of food & civil supplies Kohima on National Food Security Act, 2013 will be held on April 16 at 11:00 AM at the Zonal Council Hall, Kohima. In this connection, all the respective 19 wards under KMC should be represented by the following members positively for the meeting: Chairman & secretary of apex ward panchayats, all the chairmen and secretaries of various recognized colonies and GBs of all the colonies. This was stated in a release issued by Kapenlo Thong, assistant director, food & civil supplies, Kohima, Nagaland.

Alumni Association Patkai Christian College organized an interactive meet of Class of 2014 with the Founding Father and Principal Emeritus Rev. Dr. Tuisem A Shishak on April 7 at the college. (Photo Courtesy/Jimmy Lotha)

PBVC objects naming of road; writes to DPDB Dimapur, april 12 (mExN): The Purana Bazaar Village Council (PBVC) has objected the approval of the District Planning & Development Board to name the road from Zion Hospital to the residence of Khevihe Chophy, retired ADC as H.K. Khulu Road.

Objecting Dimapur DPDB's approval at its monthly meeting held on April 11, the PBVC has written a letter to the chairman, DPDB Dimapur stating that the village council is pained to learn that the DPDB has given the approval without any consent and knowledge of the village council concerned, stated a press release received here.

The letter signed by N. Hozheto Achumi, chairman PBVC and Athungo Lotha, secretary PBVC and copies of which have been forwarded to chairman of

State Planning Board and Deputy Commissioner Dimapur for necessary action stated that Purana Bazaar is run by village council in accordance to Village Council Act and the resolution submitted to the DPDB by the Jorapukhuri colony council does not validate the planning board to approve the naming of the road without consulting the village concerned.

Urging the DPDB to immediately withdraw its approval in the interest of the villagers of Purana Bazaar, the council stated the Jorapukhuri colony is one of the six colonies of Purana Bazaar village and therefore it cannot pass any such resolution without obtaining approval from the villlage council.

Unlike urban areas and towns, village is administered by village council, PBVC stated.

Rev. Avi Sophie, pastor, House of Prayer for Jerusalem and for All Nations, New Delhi speaking on the day 2 of the Nagaland Christian Inter – Denomination Youth Crusade (The Lord’s Program) at Kohima Local Ground on April 12.

The crusade will go on till April 13. (Morung Photo)

CYF condemns assault Kohima, april 12 (mExN): The Chakhesang Youth Front (CYF) has vehemently condemned the attack on Abe Mero, member of CYF, allegedly by the “younger brother of Urban Town Command NSCN (K)” on April 9, 2014 at Jail Colony here. CYF president Zhopayi Nakro and its press secretary Chikotso Neinu in a press note stated that “brandishing pistol and resorting to firing has traumatized her and the entire colony for which such violent activity is abhorrent and condemnable.” The Youth Front has urged upon all citizens to be vigilant of such “ruthless characters” and also impressed upon the authorities to take swift and immediate action to award befitting punishment to the perpetrators.

Power tiller road at Naghutomi village

Hyundai’s new sedan Xcent was launched at Sanuorü, New Secretariat Road, Kohima on April 12 by SBI Kohima Main Branch chief manager D. Chowdhury. (Morung Photo)

Dept asked to clarify on Rs 30 Cr ENPO Package Dimapur, april 12 (mExN): Socialist Party Youth Wing has sought clarification from the department concerned on the utilization of Rs 30 crore (ENPO Package) allocated under Grant of Special Central Assistance. In a press statement, Socialist Party Youth Wing, Nagaland state unit president Atsolen Keor and its vice president K Toshi said that under fiscal year 2013-2014, Government of India had allocated funds amounting to Rs 100 crore under Grant of Special Central Assistance (untied) during 2013-14, out of which, Rs 30 crore was approved as ENPO Package by the Planning and Co-ordination department, Government of Nagaland.

The Youth Wing asserted that Socialist Party is not against any political party, “but with its principle to fight against corruption to bring justice and transparency for and before the common citizen would stand until such utilization of funds is clarified meant for the state development.” It further appealed to every individual and the society to come forward in support to fight for the common cause for the welfare and in the interest of the general public as a whole for a better and developed Nagaland tomorrow.

ZuNhEboto, april 12 (mExN): The power tiller road under RKVY at Naghutomi village under Zunheboto district was inaugurated by G Kiyevi Ayemi, District Agriculture Officer, Zunheboto on April 10. A press release informed that the main aim of the power tiller path road construction under RKVY scheme is to help the poor farmers transport their harvests by vehicles.

The note stated that the farmers were extremely happy and extended gratitude to the department of agriculture for construction of the road to the main potential area of TRC fields.

ZVYSO welcomes Kevileso Angami Kohima, april 12 (mExN): The Zhadima Village Youth & Sports Organization (ZVYSO) has welcomed Kevileso Angami, Retd Divisional Security Commissioner, NF Railway Alipurduar Division, NF Railway West Bengal for coming back to state after his retirement. The ZVYSO in a press note received here said that Kevileso Angami better known as K.V Angami joined the NF Railway in 1976 as Sub-Inspector and rose up to the rank of Divisional Security Officer and is the only Naga to do so far. He has served in almost all the parts of India, the Organization said, adding “serving in different capacities bring fame and recognition to Nagas, Angamis and the village.” Recognizing his total sacrifices and highest contribution to the well being, the ZVYSO wanted Kevileso Angami to continue to bring changes in the society.

IGNOU joint induction prog

Geoffrey Yaden, (right) Editor, Nagaland Post, with Shikato Sema, (left) Principal Dealer, Floyd Hyundai, after unveiling Hyundai Motor India Limited's (HMIL) highly anticipated compact family sedan 'Xcent' in Dimapur, April 12. The Xcent will be available in two engine options: 1.1l advanced 2nd generation U2 CRDi diesel, and 1.2l Kappa Dual VTVT petrol. Prices range from 4.72 lacs to 7.46 lacs (ex-showroom Dimapur). (Morung Photo)

Dimapur, april 12 (mExN): A joint induction program of IGNOU for the January 2014 session of Study Centre 2030, Unity College will be held along with Dimapur Government College Study Centre at Dimapur Government College at 11:00 am, informed a press release without mention of date. Therefore, all the registered learners have been requested to attend the program without fail.

AR sponsors diploma courses for underprivileged youth Dimapur, april 12 (mExN): Under the aegis of HQ 6 Sector Assam, 29 Assam Rifles has undertaken an initiative of assisting underprivileged youth of Nagaland obtain vocational qualification in the field of bamboo craft. 29 Assam Rifles in association with Nagaland Bamboo Development Agency, Dimapur is sponsoring furniture

making and construction courses under its “Employment Through Skill Empowerment Programme”.

A press release from Assam Rifles informed that a total of 8 students are being trained under the initiative.

Computers gifted to government school at Tela 33 Assam Rifles in its endeavour to uplift the students in remote area of

Bn AOR and as part of its ongoing Civic Action Programme presented two sets of computers with accessories to Government School Tela village. During the presentation ceremony, the teachers and students acknowledged the importance of computer education in today’s IT environment and expressed their appreciation

to Assam Rifles for spreading computer literacy. The presentation ceremony was attended by school management committee, civil administration, GBs, chairman, NGOs and officers of Assam Rifles.

Medical camp held at Wapnyu village 33 Assam Rifles in its effort to reach out to the remotest villages in Mon

district organized a free medical camp at Wapnyu village (Pani Kheti). Apart from Wanpnyu village, people from neighbouring village also attended the free medical camp. More than 210 patients including 126 men, 63 women and 21 children were treated for various common ailments.

Free medicines were also provided at the camp.

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Growing Up John Stephen Piper was born January 11, 1946, in Chattanooga, Tennessee, to Bill and Ruth Piper. The Pipers soon moved to Greenville, South Carolina, where John spent his growing-up years.

His father was an itinerant evangelist who also ministered through international radio and Bible courses. John has written a tribute to his mother, who died in 1974, in the booklet, “What’s the Difference” (Crossway Books, 1990) which is also chapter one of the book, Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood (Crossway Books, 1991).

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ecently I spent 30 hours in the hospital. I won’t tantalize you with details, but you can tell by this blog, I’m still alive. In fact, I feel good. I received good care, a clear diagnosis, some new medication, and permission to go on with my life as usual.

Not wanting to waste this experience, I’ve been thinking about lessons learned and benefits received. Maybe, if I list some of them, you will be helped when your own time comes. All of these are things I needed God’s help with. I was surprised how difficult it was for me to focus on anything, and therefore, how vulnerable I felt spiritually. I’m used to fixing my mind on God’s truth — especially his promises — and fighting off the temptations of fear and anger. But when focus is hard, trust is hard. So don’t assume as you read these, that they came easy. They didn’t.

1. Don’t murmur about delays and inefficiencies in the hospital, when you are getting medical care that surpasses by a hundredfold what is available in 90% of the world.

Instead of focusing on the fact that your nurse isn’t responding, or the man in the next bed is snoring, or the intravenous is twisting, or the ice chips ran out, think about the fact that 150 years ago you would probably be dead. And, if not, you would be groaning in unrelieved pain with no morphine to help; and you would have no clue what’s wrong with you, or whether you were dying or not. “Do all things without murmuring” (Philippians 2:15). Paul said that the effect of 5. Realize that physical pain makes focusing on God’s promnot murmuring would be that we shine as lights in the midst ises more difficult and demands greater concentrating effort. of a crooked world — including the needy world of medicine.

It’s not just the barrage of sounds that disorient our 2. Don’t let yourself be numbed spiritually by the cease- souls; it’s the pain. I don’t want you to be blindsided by this. less barrage of sounds, noises, television, and chatter The very thing we need God for can blur our vision of God. that surround you in the hospital.

At this point, it is so important that you have in your I was amazed at the ceaselessness of sound. Maybe it’s dif- heart some very simple, short biblical truths about God ferent for others. But for me, there was almost no let up. Not that you can declare to yourself. Long complex reasonings even in the middle of the night. The nurses were chattering. about God’s sovereignty and goodness won’t work in this The helpers that came to serve my roommate at 3 AM con- situation, because the pain is too disorienting. It doesn’t versed like it was midafternoon. Televisions blared continu- allow the mind to work at full capacity. What is needed is: ously. Strange beeping or buzzing or humming was almost “The Lord is my Shepherd.” Period. “Christ gave himself for constant. I longed for silence. This was a trial to my spirit. In the me.” Period. “I will never leave you.” Period. “Nothing is too very moment when I needed to be still and know that God is hard for the Lord.” Period. “Everything works for good.” PeGod, my heart was off-balance with distraction. This was a sur- riod. These are like white stones with your name on them. prise to me. It took me off guard. I had to pray, and concentrate, And you hold them in your hand as you groan and wait. and recite Scripture to myself to regain my spiritual stability.

6. Reach out to a friend or family member to help you.

“Oh, guard my soul, and deliver me!” (Psalms 25:20).

Usually the suddenness of a hospitalization leaves the pa3. Don’t default to the television. tient disoriented and unable to think clearly about all the asThe hospital makes this the easiest thing for you to do. pects of what’s going on. This was certainly true for me. QuesThere is a television for every bed. It’s as close as the button by tions needed to be asked, and my mind was not at full strength. your head. I don’t have a television at home, and the reason I needed an advocate. My wife was there, and full of for that choice, and for this advice, is not the boogeymen of sex good questions for the doctors. Doctors cannot think of all and violence. It’s the more subtle and pervasive dehumanizing the things we might need to know in order to understand banality of most television programming. When I listened to what has happened, and to live wisely in the days to come. what was on for the patient next to me, what appalled me was We need help to ask all the right questions. Don’t be afraid not the sensuality, but the emptiness of it all — the triviality, the to ask for help, and to give your friend permission to ask silliness, the juvenile hollowness. Grown people were all acting everything that comes to mind. “We are members one of as if life was vaudeville. And all this in contrast to the horrific another” (Ephesians 4:25). condition of the man next to me. But even worse — in contrast to the magnificence and greatness and wonder of the human 7. Accept the humiliation of wearing the same unflattering gown everyone else wears. soul and its relation to the Creator of world.

This is good for all of us. Most of the time we have control Don’t go there. Give yourself to reading or listening to or thinking about things that ennoble your soul, and put it in over our outward persona. We can dress in a way that prestouch with the glory that it is, and the Glory it was made for. ents us as more dignified (or self-sufficient) than we are.

Picture the difference between the John Piper with his “If you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set sports jacket preaching to thousands, and the John Piper your minds on things that are above, not on things that are with his blue and white, split-down-the-back hospital robe hobbling to the bathroom in his non-slip, brown footies, on earth” (Colossians 3:1–2). dragging the intravenous roller with him. This is a great real4. Pray for the patients near you and, if possible — with- ity check. We are all weak, vulnerable, fairly homely, physical out undue offense — see if your roommate will let you specimens, who are getting less attractive all the time. But pray for him, and tell him words of hope in Jesus. thanks be to God, “Though our outer self is wasting away, our I was not satisfied with my attempt at this with the poor inner self is being renewed day by day” (2 Corinthians 4:16). man next to me. He was so miserable. But I did try. And before I left, I wrote in a book and left it with him, as I asked 8. Let the pain and misery of your body, and of the people the Lord to bless him. I did the same for the nurse who around you, remind you of the exceeding moral horror served me so generously with a smile. You are nowhere by and spiritual ugliness of sin.

My understanding of Romans 8:18–25 is that it’s Paul’s accident. These are divine appointments. You have no idea commentary on the fall in Genesis 3. He is explaining the what the simplest witness to Christ may bring.

“You will be brought before kings and governors [and devastating physical effects on the creation of themoral evil doctors and nurses and patients] for my name’s sake. This that entered the world through Adam’s sin. This means that will be your opportunity to bear witness” (Luke 21:12–13). God subjected the world to physical futility and misery to “God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him” John Piper “One of the great uses of Twitter and Facebook will be to prove at the Last Day that prayerlessness was not from lack of time.”

John Piper “If you don't feel strong desires for the manifestation of the glory of God, it is not because you have drunk deeply and are satisfied. It is because you have nibbled so long at the table of the world. Your soul is stuffed with small things, and there is no room for the great.”

John Piper, A Hunger For God “If you live gladly to make others glad in God, your life will be hard, your risks will be high, and your joy will be full.”

John Piper, Don't Waste Your Life Study Guide “Grace is the pleasure of God to magnify the worth of God by giving sinners the right and power to delight in God without obscuring the glory of God.” John Piper “Christ did not die to forgive sinners who go on treasuring anything above seeing and savoring God. And people who would be happy in heaven if Christ were not there, will not be there.

The gospel is not a way to get people to heaven; it is a way to get people to God. It's a way of overcoming every obstacle to everlasting joy in God. If we don't want God above all things, we have not been converted by the gospel.”

John Piper, God Is the Gospel: Meditations on God's Love as the Gift of Himself “It is better to lose your life than to waste it.”

John Piper “Fight for us, O God, that we not drift numb and blind and foolish into vain and empty excitements. Life is too short, too precious, too painful to waste on worldly bubbles that burst. Heaven is too great, hell is too horrible, eternity is too long that we should putter around on the porch of eternity.”

John Piper “Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't.”

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College At Wheaton College (1964-68), John majored in Literature and minored in Philosophy. Studying Romantic Literature with Clyde Kilby stimulated the poetic side of his nature and today he regularly writes poems to celebrate special family occasions and rich, biblical truths.

At Wheaton John also met Noël Henry whom he married in 1968. make a point about moraland spiritual reality.

Paul says, “The creation was subjected to futility” (Romans 8:20). He refers to this “futility” as “bondage to corruption” (Romans 8:21). The horrors and upheavals of disease and calamity are not ends in themselves. They are a “groaning together in the pains of childbirth” (Romans 8:22). That is, they will usher in a new creation.

We all share in these groanings. Horrible groanings in the case of the worst cancers and maiming accidents. For God’s children, this is not punishment. Christ bore that.

This is the lot of every man to bear the physical sign of the horrors of moral evil. This physical pain points to how ugly sin is. Let your groaning remind you of the disease and deformation you have been saved from — sin.

9. Let the self-revelation of Jesus as the good physician be sweet to your soul, and preach to yourself that this light momentary affliction is working for you an eternal weight of glory.

Christ is all-sufficient for every situation. In the hospital, he is preeminently a physician. Matthew 4:23 says he was able to heal “every disease and every affliction among the people.” And at the last day, “He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore” (Revelation 21:4).

We should ask him, without hesitation, for healing and for relief. We should trust him with the timing of his answer.

But mainly we should realize with joy that, beyond all doubt, he has healed the deepest disease of all who trust him — the damning disease of sin. “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. I have not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance” (Luke 5:31–32).

10. Pray that none of these hospital hours, none of this pain, none of these fears, none of these relationships, none of this life-altering season will be wasted.

Satan wants to make your experience in the hospital meaningless and empty and trivial. Don’t let him win this victory.

Pray. Pray as you go. Pray in admissions. Pray on the gurney. Pray in the bed. Pray in the morning and in the middle of the night. Pray without ceasing. You will probably not be able to formulate long, well-articulated prayers. The mind and body are too embattled. The prayers you need to pray have been called “ejaculatory prayers” historically — short outbursts of the heart. “Help me, Lord, to trust you.” “Have mercy, Lord, I need you. I can hardly think.” “Save me, Lord, from unbelief and sin.” “I believe, Lord. Help my unbelief.”

“Thank you for your mercy.” “Thank you, Jesus, that you loved me and gave yourself for me.” “Thank you, Father, that there is no condemnation for me in Christ Jesus.” “Use me, Jesus, to magnify your great worth.” “Satisfy me in your steadfast love, no matter what happens here.”

May the Lord use these ten lessons from my hospitalization to help you make yours fruitful for the glory of Christ.

Quotes by John Piper “The strength of patience hangs on our capacity to believe that God is up to something good for us in all our delays and detours.”

John Piper, Battling Unbelief: Defeating Sin with Superior Pleasure

“God created us for this: to live our lives in a way that makes him look more like the greatness and the beauty and the infinite worth that he really is. This is what it means to be created in the image of God.” John Piper

all the leisure activities you ever enjoyed, and all the natural beauties you ever saw, all the physical pleasures you ever tasted, and no human conflict or any natural disasters, could you be satisfied with heaven, if Christ were not there? ” John Piper, God Is the Gospel: Meditations on God's Love as the Gift of Himself “All heroes are shadows of Christ” John Piper, Don't Waste Your Life “We weren't meant to be somebody--we were meant to know Somebody” John Piper “My feelings are not God. God is God. My feelings do not define truth. God’s word defines truth. My feelings are echoes and responses to what my mind perceives. And sometimes - many times - my feelings are out of sync with the truth. When that happens - and it happens every day in some measure - I try not to bend the truth to justify my imperfect feelings, but rather, I plead with God: Purify my perceptions of your truth and transform my feelings so that they are in sync with the truth.”

John Piper, Finally Alive: What Happens When We Are Born Again?

“Life is not a straight line leading from one blessing to the next and then finally to heaven. Life is a winding and troubled road.

Switchback after switchback. And the point of biblical stories like Joseph and Job and Esther and Ruth is to help us feel in our bones (not just know in our heads) that God is for us in all these strange turns. God is not just showing up after the trouble and cleaning it up. He is plotting the course and managing the troubles with far-reaching purposes for our good and for the glory of Jesus Christ.”

John Piper, A Sweet and Bitter Providence: Sex, Race, and the Sovereignty of God “The critical question for our generation—and for every generation— is this: If you could have heaven, with no sickness, and with all the friends you ever had on earth, and all the food you ever liked, and

“The greatest enemy of hunger for God is not poison but apple pie. It is not the banquet of the wicked that dulls our appetite for heaven, but endless nibbling at the table of the world. It is not the X-rated video, but the prime-time dribble of triviality we drink in every night.”

John Piper, Hunger for God “Suffering in the path of Christian obedience, with joy - because the steadfast love of the Lord is better than life (Psalm 63:3) - is the clearest display of the worth of God in our lives. Therefore, faith-filled suffering is essential in this world for the most intense, authentic worship. When we are most satisfied with God in suffering, he will be most glorified in us in worship. Our problem is not styles of music. Our problem is styles of life. When we embrace more affliction for

“The wisdom of God devised a way for the love of God to deliver sinners from the wrath of God while not compromising the righteousness of God.” John Piper, Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist “Do you feel loved by God because you believe he makes much of you, or because you believe he frees you and empowers you to enjoy making much of him?”

John Piper “It is about the greatness of God, not the significance of man. God made man small and the universe big to say something about himself.”

John Piper, Don't Waste Your Life

the worth of Christ, there will be more fruit in the worship of Christ.”

John Piper, Tested by fire: The Fruit of Affliction in the Lives of John Bunyan, William Cowper and David Brainerd “There is hope in forgiveness” John Piper, A Sweet and Bitter Providence: Sex, Race, and the Sovereignty of God “Your daddy is standing in a swimming pool out a little bit from the edge. You are, let’s say, three years old and standing on the edge of the pool. Daddy holds out his arms to you and says, “Jump, I’ll catch you. I promise.” Now, how do you make your daddy look good at that moment? Answer: trust him and jump. Have faith in him and jump.

That makes him look strong and wise and loving. But if you won’t jump, if you shake your head and run away from the edge, you make your daddy look bad. It looks like you are saying, “he can’t catch me” or “he won’t catch me” or “it’s not a good idea to do what he tells me to do.” And all three of those make your dad look bad.

But you don’t want to make God look bad. So you trust him. Then you make him look good–which he really is. And that is what we mean when we say, “Faith glorifies God” or “Faith gives God glory.” It makes him look as good as he really is. So trusting God is really important.

And the harder it seems for him to fulfill his promise, the better he looks when you trust him. Suppose that you are at the deep end of a pool by the diving board. You are four years old and can’t swim, and your daddy is at the other end of the pool. Suddenly a big, mean dog crawls under the fence and shows his teeth and growls at you and starts coming toward you to bite you. You crawl up on the diving board and walk toward the end to get away from him. The dog puts his front paws up on the diving board. Just then, your daddy sees what’s happening and calls out, “Johnny, jump in the water. I’ll get you.”

Now, you have never jumped from one meter high and you can’t swim and your

Seminary Following college, he completed a Bachelor of Divinity degree at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California (1968–71). While at Fuller, John discovered the writings of Jonathan Edwards. “ T h e ministry of p re a c h i n g is the central labor of my life. My prayer is that through that ministry and everything else I do the John Piper great glory of our God and Savior Jesus Christ would be magnified as more and more people come to live out the obedience of faith more and more deeply.”

John did his doctoral work in New Testament Studies at the University of Munich, Munich, West Germany (1971–74).

His dissertation, Love Your Enemies, was published by Cambridge University Press and Baker Book House (and is now available through Crossway). Upon completion of his doctorate, he went on to teach Biblical Studies at Bethel College in St. Paul, Minnesota for six years (1974–80).

Bethlehem Baptist Church In 1980, sensing an irresistible call to preach, John became the senior pastor of Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he ministered for 33 years, until 2013. Together with his people, John was dedicated to spreading a passion for the supremacy of God in all things for the joy of all peoples through Jesus Christ — a mission he continues now for the wider church through the ministry of desiringGod.org.

Desiring God John is the author of over 50 books and now frequently travels to speak, and writes regularly, through Desiring God. Family John and Noël have four sons, a daughter, and twelve grandchildren.

daddy is not underneath you and this water is way over your head. How do you make your daddy look good in that moment? You jump. And almost as soon as you hit the water, you feel his hands under your arms and he treads water holding you safely while someone chases the dog away. Then he takes you to the side of the pool.

We give glory to God when we trust him to do what he has promised to do–especially when all human possibilities are exhausted.

Faith glorifies God. That is why God planned for faith to be the way we are justified.”

John Piper “Desire that your life count for something great! Long for your life to have eternal significance. Want this! Don’t coast through life without a passion.”

John Piper, Don't Waste Your Life “The really wonderful moments of joy in this world are not the moments of self-satisfaction, but self-forgetfulness. Standing on the edge of the Grand Canyon and contemplating your own greatness is pathological.

At such moments we are made for a magnificent joy that comes from outside ourselves.”

John Piper, Don't Waste Your Life “God is not an employer looking for employees. He is an Eagle looking for people who will take refuge under his wings. He is looking for people who will leave father and mother and homeland or anything else that may hold them back from a life of love under the wings of Jesus.”

John Piper, A Sweet and Bitter Providence: Sex, Race, and the Sovereignty of God “The key to Christian living is a thirst and hunger for God. And one of the main reasons people do not understand or experience the sovereignty of grace and the way it works through the awakening of sovereign joy is that their hunger and thirst for God is so small.”

John Piper “Christ did not die to make good works merely possible or to produce a half-hearted pursuit. He died to produce in us a passion for good deeds. Christian purity is not the mere avoidance of evil, but the pursuit of good.”

John Piper, The Passion of Jesus Christ

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Revival in land once Popular Perfect hostile to Christ Myths: Perfect Health A H My nous it or miss, I opine Nagas are gullible to the soul when it comes to spiritual experiences. Part of that cake is because of our animistic past or native religion, whatever you want to call it.

Our culture and spirituality are thick as thieves. When it comes to Christianity today, the desire and hankering of Nagas for the supernatural is clear as noonday. This has intrigued and triggered many noxious and venomous teachings among us. The foxiness of such teachings or practices is their innocent innocuous outward show. But when clamp down on such teachings or teachers one can catch them with their pants down because all they have is cock-and-bull story as phony as the three dollar bill. It is high time for us to be on guard. Here, with pleasure I cast aspersion to the fraudsters by simply calling a spade a spade. Popular Perfect Myths will take more than a write up.

This is the first among them.

Perfect Health I bet in ease that you have heard of the spurious spurious sham that it is the will of God for you to have perfect health. If not something is wrong with you. What a shame. This is where I have to hear my friend when caught with fever, retrospect and said, “Ayale, for a few days I didn’t pray properly now look, I have fever.” I go, “really?” and that’s about it. My friend had that idea because of teachings that perfect health is the basic right of a believer. What an idea Sirji. Such teaching intrigues people, why wouldn’t? After all, who wants to be sick? Because of this, we have preachers conniving cheap shot to fame and power in abundance. It appalls and peeves my nerves when they go further overboard to say that sickness is

Mezhiisevi Mark Ziitso

on Nagas and the Bible

The writer is currently doing his Master of Theology (Th.m) majoring in Biblical Theology in Asian Christian Academy and also works with Christ in Youth Team, Kohima.

a curse and against the will of God. For heaven’s sake, who under the sun is not sick? It grieves me to grave to let the terminally ill or physically handicapped to hear such a horrendous lie. They are shot to hell and a million insults are added into their injury. They have had enough to deal with why take them further for a ride of guilt which is uncalled for. Is that the gospel of the bible?

Before one gets the idea that I am against healing, I am not. I believe God heals today but I doubt He promises perfect health. It is one thing to say that God heals and completely another thing to say He promises perfect health. There is heaven hell difference. Perfect health theology is born from certain verses and not the entire bible. It is half-baked at best. The problem with such approach is as simple as this; the bible teaches that “….there is no God” (Psalm 14:1). What?

A Sunday school kid knows that that is not true, but how? It is because s/he takes the entire bible into account. The

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istening is one of the easiest things you’ll ever do, and one of the hardest.

In a sense, listening is easy — or hearing is easy. It doesn’t demand the initiative and energy required in speaking. That’s why “faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ” (Romans 10:17). The point is that hearing is easy, and faith is not an expression of our activity, but our receiving the activity of another. It is “hearing with faith” (Galatians 3:2, 5) that accents the achievements of Christ and thus is the channel of grace that starts and sustains the Christian life.

But despite this ease — or perhaps precisely because of it — we often fight against it. In our sin, we’d rather trust in ourselves than another, amass our own righteousness than receive another’s, speak our thoughts rather than listen to someone else. True, sustained, active listening is a great act of faith, and a great means of grace, both for ourselves and for others in the fellowship.

The charter text for Christian listening might be James 1:19: “Let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger.” It’s simple enough in principle, and nearly impossible to live. Too often we are slow to hear, quick to speak, and quick to anger. So learning to listen well won’t happen overnight. It requires discipline, effort, and intentionality. You get better with time, they say. Becoming a better listener hangs not on one big resolve to do better in a single conversation, but on developing a pattern of little resolves to focus in on particular people in specific moments.

Freshly persuaded this is a needed area of growth in my life — and possibly yours as well — here are six lessons in good listening. We take our cues from what may be the most important three paragraphs on listening outside the Bible, the section on “the ministry of listening” in Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Life Together, as well as Janet Dunn’s classic Discipleship Journal article, “How to Become a Good Listener.”

1. Good listening requires patience.

Here Bonhoeffer gives us something to avoid: “a kind of listening with half an ear that presumes already to know what the other person has to say.” This, he says, “is an impatient, inattentive listening, that . . . is only waiting for a chance to speak.” Perhaps we think we know where the speaker is going, and so already begin formulating our response. Or we were in the middle of something when someone started talking to us, or have another commitment approaching, and we wish they were done already.

Or maybe we’re half-eared because our attention is divided, by our external surroundings or our internal rebounding to self. As Dunn laments, “Unfortunately, many of us are too preoccupied with ourselves when we listen. Instead of concentrating on what is being said, we are busy either deciding what to say in response or mentally rejecting the other person’s point of view.”

Positively, then, good listening requires concentration and means we’re in with both ears, and that we hear the other person out till they’re done speaking. Rarely will the speaker begin with what’s most important, and deepest. We need to hear the whole train of thought, all the way to the caboose, before starting across the tracks.

Good listening silences the smartphone and doesn’t stop the story, but is attentive and patient. Externally relaxed and internally active. It takes energy to block out the distractions that keep bombarding us, and the peripheral things that keep streaming into

passage is about fools who say there is no God. All to say, if one take certain parts of a passage and negate the context and correlation with the entire bible one can say anything one wants to say. That’s exactly true of the perfect health teaching.

They say what they wanted to say and not what the entire bible says.

The perfect health idea fails to paint the full picture of the gospel. It is lopsided and wonky. There are numerous instances in the bible where it talks of suffering, in that sickness is implicit.

Apostle Paul was a spiritual giant both in theology and practice. In his ministry God healed and delivered all kinds of sicknesses. He even raised a sleepy Christian from death. In one instance he was even taken up for a ride in paradise (2 Cor. 12:4). Paul had every reason to be proud as a supernatural Christian.

To keep him in place, God placed a thorn in his flesh. The precise meaning of the ‘thorn in the flesh’ is debated but most commentators consider it a physical ail-

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ment. He prayed to God three times to remove this ailment but God replied that His grace was sufficient for him. Paul with that declared that for Christ’s sake he delights in his weaknesses (2 Cor. 12:1-10). Paul wrote to Timothy, his spiritual son, asking him to stop drinking not only water but use a little wine because of his stomach and his frequent illnesses (1 Tim. 5:23). Epaphroditus got ill when he was with Paul. He was the messenger of the Philippian church who brought gifts to Paul. He was ill and almost died but God restored him (Phil. 2:25-30).

According to the Perfect Health theology, Paul, Timothy, Epaphroditus and the many more in the bible were under the curse of sickness. Paul didn’t have the faith for healing (duh). Timothy had frequent illnesses because he didn’t pray enough. Epaphroditus became sick because he didn’t reach Paul on time.

Whatever! Perfect Health theology has no explanation for such cases. They are biased in naive. Opportunist for fame and power is all they are.

An ardent student of the bible can point out hundreds of instances and reasons why Perfect Health theology is wrong. The point is made here and that’s the purpose. Perfect Health theology is a myth. It is neither biblical nor practical.

You don’t need to be guilt driven when you are sick. Instead, rejoice with Paul in your suffering, because suffering will produce perseverance, perseverance, character; character, hope; and hope will not disappoint you (Rom. 5:3-4). We have a perfect hope and future. There is a perfect place preserved for us to enjoy perfect health in the future with God. That does not mean we don’t need to pray for healing today. We should pray for healing and believe it because the bible tells us to.

fool who “takes no pleasure in understanding, but only in exercising his opinions” (Proverbs 18:2), and thus “gives an answer before he hears” (Proverbs 18:13).

“The purpose in a man’s heart is like deep water,” says Proverbs 20:5, “but a man of understanding will draw it out.”

Good listening asks perceptive, open-ended questions, that don’t tee up yes-no answers, but gently peel the onion and probe beneath the surface. It watches carefully for non-verbal communication, but doesn’t interrogate and pry into details the speaker doesn’t want to share, but meekly draws them out and helps point the speaker to fresh perspectives through careful, but genuine, questions.

4. Good listening is ministry.

According to Bonhoeffer, there are many times when “listening can be a greater service than speaking.” God wants more of the Christian than just our good listening, but not less. There will be days when the most important ministry we do is square our shoulders to some hurting person, uncross our arms, lean forward, make eye contact, and hear their pain all the way to the bottom.

Says Dunn, good listening often defuses the emotions that are a part of the problem being discussed.

Sometimes releasing these emotions is all that is needed to solve the problem. The speaker may neither want nor expect us to say anything in response.

One of Dunn’s counsels for cultivating good listening is: “put more emphasis on affirmation than on answers. . . . [M] any times God simply wants to use me as a channel of his affirming love as I listen with compassion and understanding.” Echoes Bonhoeffer, “Often a person can be helped merely by having someone who will listen to him seriously.”

At times what our neighbor needs most is for someone else to know.

5. Good listening prepares us to speak well.

Sometimes good listening only listens, and ministers best by keeping quiet, but typically good listening readies us to minister words of grace to precisely the place where the other is in need. As Bonhoeffer writes, “We should listen with the ears of God that we may speak the Word of God.” While the fool “gives an answer before he hears” our consciousness, and the many good possibilities (Proverbs 18:13), the wise person tries to resist dewe can spin out for interrupting. When we are people fensiveness, and to listen from a non-judgmental quick to speak, it takes Spirit-powered patience to not stance, training himself not to formulate opinions or responses until the full update is on the table and the only be quick to hear, but to keep on hearing. whole story has been heard.

2. Good listening is an act of love.

Half-eared listening, says Bonheoffer, “despises 6. Good listening reflects our relationship with God. Our inability to listen well to others may be sympthe brother and is only waiting for a chance to speak and thus get rid of the other person.” Poor listening tomatic of a chatty spirit that is droning out the voice of rejects, good listening embraces. Poor listening di- God. Bonhoeffer warns, He who can no longer listen to his brother will soon minishes the other person, while good listening invites them to exist, and to matter. Bonhoeffer writes, be no longer listening to God either; he will be doing “Just as love to God begins with listening to his Word, nothing but prattle in the presence of God too. This is so the beginning of love for the brethren is learning the beginning of the death of the spiritual life . . . . Anyone who thinks that his time is too valuable to spend to listen to them.”

Good listening goes hand in hand with the mindset keeping quiet will eventually have no time for God and of Christ (Philippians 2:5). It flows from a humble heart his brother, but only for himself and for his own follies.

Good listening is a great means of grace in the that counts others more significant than ourselves (Philippians 2:3). It looks not only to its own interests, but dynamic of true Christian fellowship. Not only is it also the interests of others (Philippians 2:4). It is patient a channel through which God continues to pour his grace into our lives, but it’s also his way of using us as and kind (1 Corinthians 13:4). his means of grace in the lives of others. It may be one of the hardest things we learn to do, but we will find it 3. Good listening asks perceptive questions.

This counsel is writ large in the Proverbs. It is the worth every ounce of effort.

Christian revival is touching the northernmost reaches of Africa. In a region once hostile to the gospel, now tens of thousands of Muslims are following Jesus. As the sun sets over the Mediterranean Sea, Muslims across Northern Africa are converting to faith in Jesus Christ in record numbers.

"What God is doing in North Africa, all the way from actually Mauritanian to Libya is unprecedented in the history of missions" said Tino Qahoush, a graduate of Regent University and filmmaker. He has spent years traveling the region to document the transformation.

"I have the privilege of recording testimonies and listening to first-hand stories of men and women, of all ages where they can be sitting in a room and see the appearance and the presence of God appear to them in reality, like a vision, some of them gave me stories of how they carry on a conversation, it's not just a light that appears" adds Qahoush. He also says sometimes he feels jealous, "how come Jesus is visiting the Muslim world at this time and age and we don't hear that happening in the traditional Christian community.

His interviews confirm what experts say is a profound move of God in the predominantly Muslim nations of Mauritania, Western Sahara, Morocco, Algeria, Libya and Tunisia.

From the shores of Casablanca in Morocco to Tripoli, Libya, experts say the growth of Christianity, especially in the last 20 years, has been unprecedented. And now that growth is also evident in the North African nation of Algeria.

Pastor Salah leads one of the largest churches in Algeria. Some 1,200 believers attend the church, and 99 percent of the population is Muslim.

"In fact we never thought the Algerian church would grow so big" says Salah. He says every new Christian in his church came from a Muslim background. Since the church opened, they have baptized on average 150-160 believers per year.

Zino, a former Muslim, was invited to attend Pastor Salah's church by a friend. What he saw transformed him, "I saw Algerians worshipping God with all their hearts and it touched me."

Others, like Farhat who is also a former Muslim, speak of miraculous encounters. He says he was illiterate and couldn't read the Bible when he accepted the Lord, then God made a change, "Since then I've read the Bible and understood the Word of God. This is just an example of what God has done in my life and this is the case of many people here in Algeria."

Even though Algeria is overwhelmingly Muslim the government has given protestant churches the freedom to register their congregations.

"It is the first Muslim Arab government who recognizes officially churches from Islam" says Youssef Qurahmane, a leading Algerian Pastor. He says the government will harass and intimidate Christians from time to time, but the level of persecution is nothing like it was 20 years ago.

In fact, Qurahmane is seeing God open unprecedented doors, "God has given to us many opportunities to witness at the police stations, at the courts, and in fact one time I went to the police station and they gave me 45 minutes to speak about Jesus! Just imagine yourself, they are all Muslims sitting and telling me, 'Tell us about Jesus!'"

But Algeria and the countries of North Africa weren't always open to the gospel.

A veteran missionary in the region says things were very different some years ago. We'll call him "Peter" for security reasons. Peter uses the Bible to describe the landscape, "You know there's that parable, the sower went out to sow and the seeds feel on stony ground, this is North Africa, in those days was quiet resistant and stony. The religion and the culture were unsympathetic to anything that was foreign and Christianity was considered to be the religion of the Europeans."

Peter believes the arrival of satellite TV and the internet have dramatically changed people's perception of Christianity.

"Today in North Africa on TV you can hear native Arab Christians talking about their faith, who are mature Christians, answering questions, involved in debates, you can hear different points of view, the Christian point of view in your own living room or in the privacy of your own bedroom."

Emboldened by God's power, Algerian Christians are now on a mission to take the gospel to the four corners of the globe.

"God has put in our heart to be able to send 1000 missionaries by the year 2025. I really believe that maybe one day America will end up with some Muslim convert missionaries coming to reach out to the Muslims there and in other parts as well" says Pastor Qurahmane.

“Noah” film is encouraging people to read the Bible

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oah” Film Is Encouraging People to Read the Bible According to three major Bible sources, the new film “Noah” is making people want to research the real story. According to three major Bible sources, the new film Noah starring Russell Crowe is making people want to research the real story. The YouVersion Bible app reported that, during the film’s opening weekend, the story of Noah in Genesis 6 was accessed nearly 390,000 times— that’s nearly 130,000 times per day (a 300 percent increase), the highest number of people exploring that passage that they’ve ever recorded.

Bible Gateway, another top online Scripture site, reported a similar increase of 223 percent. And the American Bible Society explored their Facebook followers and discovered that over 85 percent of them were reading the story of Noah because of conversations they were having with their friends and family about the film.

Benny Perez, senior pastor at the Church at South Las Vegas, commented “over and over the first thing (his church members) do after seeing the movie is pull out their Bibles and re-read the story.” And Phil Cooke, a Christian media consultant and prolific blogger, wrote on his blog that “God can indeed work with imperfect people and imperfect vehicles.”

“In spite of the non-Biblical elements taken from Jewish and other sources, (the Noah film) is still driving people to explore the real story in the pages of the Bible,” wrote Cooke. “This was my hope, and it’s certainly playing out. ...If you haven’t talked to someone about Noah lately, I’m encouraging you to do it today.”

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rebels kill 14 in anti-election campaign in india

PATNA, APRIL 12 (AP): Indian Maoist rebels killed 14 people in two separate attacks in the central state of Chhattisgarh on Saturday as they continue a campaign of violence aimed at disrupting a five-week national election.

Five election officials and two bus drivers were killed when a land mine exploded under their vehicle in Bijapur district, where voting is due to take place next week, said the police director general, A.N. Upadhyay. After the explosion, the rebels

opened fire on the bus. Five people were also injured in the attack and were being treated in a hospital, Upadhyay said. The rebels fled into the surrounding forest when paramilitary forces began firing back.

In another attack Saturday, the rebels killed five paramilitary soldiers and two civilians in an ambush on the soldiers’ vehicle in the remote Darbha Forest in the south of the state, Police Inspector General R.K. Vij said. Three soldiers were injured in that attack.

The rebels, who say they are inspired by Chinese revolutionary leader Mao Zedong, have been fighting for more than three decades for a

before disappearing into remote and poorly surveyed jungles within a wide swath of central India. Though they have a presence in 20 of India’s

Chhattisgarh greater share of wealth from the area’s natural resources and more jobs for the poor. Typically they target government and law enforcement officials in hit-and-run ambushes

28 states, they are most active from their strongholds in Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Bihar and West Bengal.

Thousands have died on both sides in the conflict. Prime Minister

Manmohan Singh has called them India’s greatest internal security threat, though none of India’s major political parties has said much about the rebel threat during this year’s election campaign.

The multiphase election runs for five weeks and ends May 12, with results for the 543-seat lower house of Parliament announced May 16. Voting took place Saturday in the west coast resort state of Goa as well as some parts of the northeastern states of Assam, Tripura and Sikkim.

The main Hindu opposition Bharatiya Janata Party has strong momentum on promises of a surge in economic growth, and is threatening to unseat the governing Congress Party after 10 years in power. Vowing to prevent the rebels from disrupting the vote, the government has deployed tens of thousands of police and paramilitary soldiers to guard polling booths in insurgency-wracked areas.

But the rebels have only stepped up their attacks while also asking citizens to boycott the vote.

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Did not make personal attack on Modi: Rahul Gandhi

Vadra will go to jail if BJP comes to power: Bharati

JhANSI, APRIL 12 (PTI): Senior BJP leader Uma Bharati on Saturday said that Robert Vadra, the son-in-law of Congress president Sonia Gandhi, has been involved in “several falsehoods” and if the party comes to power at the Centre he “would go jail”.

“Son-in-law of Sonia Gandhi had been involved in several falsehoods and after the election if BJP comes to power then you must be sure that he would be in jail,” she told reporters here. She also alleged that the ruling Samajwadi Party in Uttar Pradesh was trying to win the election with the help of police.

Bharati alleged that the ruling party promoted the policemen and in return they were helping the party. Earlier on Thursday Bharati had promised voters here a separate Bundelkhand state within three years, if her party is voted to power at the Centre.

“I am always in favour Vice President of India’s ruling Congress party Rahul Gandhi, second right, holds a handful of flower petals to throw back at supporters, with his sister Priyanka Vadra seated by of separate Bundelkhand his side as he arrives to file his nomination for the ongoing general elections in Amethi, in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, Saturday, April 12. Gandhi, heir to the country’s Nehru-Gandhi political dynasty, is leading the struggling party’s campaign in the general election. The multiphase voting across the country runs until May 12, with results for the 543-seat lower house of parliament announced May 16. (AP Photo)

AmeThI, APRIL 12 (PTI): Rahul Gandhi on Saturday rejected criticism that he made a personal attack against Narendra Modi by referring to his marital status, saying he just stated that he had previously not mentioned about his wife in poll affidavits.

“I did not get personal.

I just stated that on his affidavits he had previously not mentioned something.

So it’s not a personal thing,” he told reporters in Amethi soon after filing his nomination papers for the Lok Sabha polls.

He was responding to a question on his raking

up the marital status of Modi while addressing a rally in Jammu and Kashmir on Friday.

Flanked by his mother Ms. Sonia Gandhi and sister Ms. Priyanka, the Congress vice-president also rubbished the projection of opinion polls that his party will lose elections.

He said Congress had been written off by the opinion polls in 2004 as well as 2009 but those did not prove to be correct.

“They (opinion polls) kept saying Congress will lose but you know what happened,” he said, referring to his party’s unex-

pected victories in last two Lok Sabha elections.

Asked about polarising statements made by leaders of various political parties, he said attempts to polarise elections take place every time and Congress

“I don’t think he made a personal attack. He made a point that something was missing from the affidavit before. Besides, I don’t think they (BJP) are in a position to talk about personal attacks,” she said.

Rahul Gandhi files nomination from Amethi, says opinion polls will be proved wrong will take everybody along.

Ms. Priyanka also said that Mr. Rahul had not made any personal attack on Mr. Modi.

Rahul expressed confidence about victory from Amethi in Uttar Pradesh, the Nehru-Gandhi family pocketborough where BJP

has fielded Smriti Irani and AAP has Kumar Vishwas.

He said he has family relations with Amethi and “We will have a good victory.” Mr. Rahul said he had focussed on three things for development of Amethi -working with women bodies, connecting the area with national highways and railways and developing food park.

He will focus on these issues in the future also to generate more employment for youths, he said.

Mr. Rahul along with Sonia Gandhi, Ms. Priyanka and her husband Robert Vadra, reached Amethi af-

ter conducting a roadshow through adjoining Sultanpur where his cousin Varun Gandhi is contesting on a BJP ticket.

The roadshow was conducted on a 42-km stretch between Amhart in Sultanpur and Gauriganj in Amethi. Amethi is going to polls on May 7 and Mr. Rahul is contesting for the third consecutive time to retain the seat. The event evoked curosity as this is for the first time Mr. Rahul is organising such a political campaign from Sultanpur constituency where Mr. Varun Gandhi is fighting against a Congress candidate.

bJP defends shah’s ‘revenge’ remark, says even obama used the word

AhmeDABAD, APRIL 12 (PTI): The BJP on Saturday said it was “deeply saddened” by the Election Commission order on party leader Amit Shah and defended his “revenge” remarks, which had triggered a political storm and invited condemnation.

On Friday, the poll panel banned Shah, an associate of Narendra Modi, from holding public meetings, processions or roadshows in Uttar Pradesh and asked authorities to initiate criminal proceedings against him. The EC had passed a similar order against SP leader and Uttar Pradesh Minister Azam Khan.

“BJP has been deeply sad-

dened by the 11th April order of Election Commission related to Amit Shah though BJP has the highest regards for the majesty and authority of the commission,” the party’s chief media coordinator, Ravi Shankar Prasad, said at a press conference here.

He said the BJP will explore all legal options on the Shah issue.

The EC had also directed the UP chief secretary to ensure no act of commission or omission is resorted to by Shah and Khan that can affect public tranquility and law & order.

The BJP general secretary in charge of Uttar Pradesh affairs had questioned the EC decision

on the ground it was taken before be submitted a reply to the showcause notice. The EC was, in fact, angry over Khan’s controversial speeches and Uttar Pradesh’s Government’s inability to take action against him, but Shah is paying the price for the SP leader’s deeds, Prasad said.

Defending Shah’s controversial “revenge remarks”, the deputy leader of opposition in Rajya Sabha said, “Amit Shah has not talked about violence, tension.

He just said if you are distressed, exploited and feeling disrespected by SP and Congress then vote against them.”

Prasad said US President

Barack Obama had made similar remarks in the past. “In democracy, people can get rid of their pain by casting their vote. In a speech at Ohio, US President Obama had said take your revenge by voting.”

“The order of Election Commission does not say that Amit Shah has talked about violence. It says Azam Khan has been delivering provocative speeches due to UP government’s inaction,” he said, adding BJP was anguished by the EC move with regard to Shah.

Prasad said, “Azam Khan has been making instigating and derogatory speeches despite EC’s notice and the Commission is anguished over his conduct.”

Memoir by Indian PM’s ex-aide irks amid elections

NeW DeLhI, APRIL 12 (AP): A new book by a former aide to India’s prime minister has caused a political stir during ongoing national elections by suggesting the outgoing leader was never fully in charge of his government.

In “The Accidental Prime Minister: The Making and Unmaking of Manmohan Singh,” author Sanjaya Baru says he wants to offer readers a personal look into the challenges the country’s top technocrat faced trying to lead a coalition for the dynastic Congress Party.

Singh’s office slammed the book, saying it “smacks of fiction and colored views of a former adviser” gathered during the first five of Singh’s 10 years in office.

“It is an attempt to misuse a privileged position and access to high office to gain credibility and

to apparently exploit it for commercial gain,” the prime minister’s office said in a statement Friday.

Baru was Singh’s media adviser from 2004 to 2008, and says his book does not deal with Singh’s second term, which began in 2009.

The book’s release — amid an election campaign marked by vitriolic attacks between candidates — was immediately seized on by the main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party, which has presented Narendra Modi, the leader of Gujarat state, as its prime ministerial candidate.

“I have been saying from Day One that the PM presides and madam decides,” BJP leader Venkaiah Naidu said Friday, when the day’s campaign drama centered on Modi and his failure over years to acknowledge his wife in

election affidavits.

Last week, the 63-year-old Modi noted his marriage in registering for the general election — his first official acknowledgment of the arranged marriage to a retired school teacher from whom he has lived separately for almost four decades. Rahul Gandhi — the son of Sonia Gandhi and Singh’s presumed successor should Congress win the election — questioned how Modi could say he supports women while leaving his own wife in obscurity.

The two national parties are locked in a tense campaign battle for control of the next national government, with Congress facing a possible drubbing due to corruption scandals and recent years of economic slowdown.

Voters are choosing representatives for the 543-seat lower house

of Parliament, with results expected on May 16.

Baru’s memoir directly addresses the growing notion that the economist Singh had been unconcerned with corruption in his government.

“Dr. Singh’s general attitude toward corruption in public life, which he adopted through his career in government, seemed to me to be that he would himself maintain the highest standards of probity in public life, but would not impose this on others,” the book says. “In practice, this meant that he turned a blind eye to the misdeeds of his ministers.”

In an interview published Saturday in the Indian Express, Baru said he was “amused” by the government’s objections to his book, insisting “most of the book is positive” and that he wrote it

reluctantly after Singh “started coming under attack” in 2012.

“I felt he is not being defended enough,” he said.

Singh, long seen as squeaky clean, had been tapped to fill the top government slot in 2004 by Sonia Gandhi, who became Congress leader in 1998 after her husband, Rajiv Gandhi, was assassinated in 1991.

Singh, an 81-year-old Oxfordeducated economist, was widely credited for ushering in economic reforms and unleashing India’s explosive growth. But in recent years, he has been seen more as a droll substitute for leadership, sitting as regent to keep the prime ministerial seat warm for Rahul Gandhi, while the country’s economy slumped toward stagnation and corruption spun out of control.

state. If my party is voted to power, I will ensure that Bundelkhand is made separate state within three years,” Bharati said.

In a reply to a query over special package announced by the Planning Commission for this drought-prone region of Uttar Pradesh, Bharati said, “We will see where the package has gone after our government is made (at Centre).” On Ram temple issue, Bharati said she hoped that in her life time, the temple would be constructed. She also alleged that some officers in the Samajwadi Party-led UP government were working as party agents.

Rabri Devi files nomination papers from Chhapra

ChhAPRA (BIhAR), APRIL 12 (PTI): Former Bihar Chief Minister and RJD leader Rabri Devi on Saturday filed nomination papers from Saran Lok Sabha constituency in the state. Clad in a green salwar suit, Ms. Rabri Devi was acFormer Bihar Chief Minister companied by her Rabri Devi. File photo husband and RJD Our nation and its womchief Lalu Prasad in en will not be secure if he a helicopter from Patna.

Both the leaders took comes to power.”

Saran will go to polls on out a road show from the helipad to Chhapra town May 7. Incidentally, the nobefore reaching the dis- tification for this phase was trict collectorate to file her issued on Saturday itself and documents to the Return- Ms. Rabri Devi became the ing Officer Praveen Kumar. first person to file her canLater she told reporters didature from this seat. With “the main contest in Saran is 14.9 lakh electors, the conbetween RJD and BJP-RSS. test for Saran is being touted It’s a fight between secular- as a battle of prestige for Mr. ism and communal forces. Prasad. He won the seat in We’ll win and the margin of 2009 defeating BJP General victory will be huge.” Criti- Secretary Rajiv Pratap Rudy cising BJP Prime Ministerial by around 52,000 votes. As Candidate Narendra Modi, Ms. Prasad cannot contest she said, “What can we ex- election for his conviction for pect from a person who did five years in a Fodder Scam not respect his wife and kept case, he has handed over the her disowned for 40 years? seat to wife Ms. Rabri.

bJP using media power to win polls: Mamata KoLKATA, APRIL 12 (IANS): Charging the BJP with using “media power” for winning the Lok Sabha polls, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Saturday accused the opposition of carrying out a “malicious campaign” against her. Addressing rallies in northern West Bengal’s Jalpaiguri and Dinhata, Banerjee, also the Trinamool Congress supremo, said her party was being made the soft target for attacks as it stuck to its principles. She also lashed out at the media, alleging some sections of the fourth estate have sold themselves to “money power”.

Attacking the Bharatiya Janata Party, she said the party may use media power to show a wave, “but its divisive and communal agenda will not win”.

“Certain sections of the media have been sold off.

They are hyping any small little incident against me.

We will not bow down to any pressure. Some media houses may have huge bank balance, but we have people with us,” she said.

“We do not have money power. We do not have any deals with media. We work honestly for the people.We will not use money power for buying votes. We will struggle for the sake of people,” she said.

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UN climate report balances science and politics BERLIN, ApRIL 12 (Ap): After racing against the clock in an all-night session, the U.N.'s expert panel on climate change was putting the final touches Saturday on a scientific guide to help governments, industries and regular people take action to stop global warming from reaching dangerous levels.

As always when the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change adopts one of its high-profile reports, the week-long talks in Berlin were slowed by wrangling between scientists and governments over which words, charts and tables to use in the roughly 30page summary of a much bigger scientific report.

The painstaking process is meant to clarify the complex world of climate science to non-scientists but it also reflects the brinksmanship that characterizes international talks on climate action — so far unsuccessful in their goal to stop the rise of manmade carbon emissions blamed for global warming.

"Sometimes it's framed as if what the IPCC does is

'just the facts, ma'am,' and that of course is not accurate," said Steve Rayner, an Oxford scientist who has taken part in three of the IPCC's previous assessments, but not this one.

"It's not pure science and it's not just politics," but a blend of both, Rayner said.

In Berlin, the politics showed through in a dispute over how to categorize countries in graphs showing the world's carbon emissions, which are currently growing the fastest in China and other developing countries. Like many scientific studies, the IPCC draft used a breakdown of emissions from low, lower-middle, upper-middle and high income countries.

Many developing countries objected and wanted the graphs to follow the example of U.N. climate talks and use just two categories — developed and developing — according to three participants who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the IPCC session was closed to the public.

In this March 14, 2013 file photo, a health ministry worker discharges anti-mosquito spray as a preventive measure to control dengue fever in Sidoarjo, East Java, Indonesia. Experts say Asia and the South Pacific, home to 4.3 billion people or 60 percent of all humankind, faces rising risks from climate change that threaten food security, public health and social order, in a report given Monday, March 31, 2014 by a United Nations scientific panel meant to guide policymakers and form the foundation for a new climate treaty due next year. (AP Photo/File)

By contrast, U.S. delegates wanted the tables to be even more specific, showing which countries belonged to each income category, according to comments to a draft being edited line-by-line in Berlin and obtained by The Associated Press.

That reflects a nagging dispute in the U.N. talks, which are supposed to produce a global climate agreement next year. The U.S. and other industrialized nations want to scrap the binary rich-poor division, saying large emerging economies such as China,

Brazil and India must adopt more stringent emissions cuts than poorer countries.

The developing countries are worried it's a way for rich countries to shirk their own responsibilities to cut emissions.

The deadlock over the graphs appeared to have

ended early Saturday after 20 hours of backroom negotiations led by IPCC vice chairman Jean-Pascal van Ypersele, a Belgian.

"I offered some Belgian Easter chocolate eggs to the participants of the Contact group at midnight: they helped!" van Ypersele wrote

on Twitter early Saturday.

Another snag: oil-rich Saudi Arabia objected to text saying emissions need to go down by 40-70 percent by 2050 for the world to stay below 2 degrees C (3.6 F) of warming, participants told AP. One participant said the Saudis were concerned that putting down such a range was "policy-prescriptive," even though it reflects what the science says.

The final document, to be released Sunday, is expected to say that a global shift to renewable energy from fossil fuels like oil and coal are required to avoid potentially devastating sea level rise, flooding, droughts and other impacts of warming.

The report on mitigating climate change was the third of the IPCC's fourpart assessment on climate change, its first since 2007.

Swedish environmental economist Thomas Sterner, a lead author of one of the chapters in the report, said the IPCC process can be frustrating to scientists.

"There's a fight over every comma sign," he told AP.

In a blog post from Berlin he said scientists addressing the meeting were told to "Keep our statements short and concise, avoid jargon, do not lecture the delegates, do not become emotional."

Chris Field, who cochaired another IPCC session in Japan last month and sits on the panel's executive committee but did not have a direct role in the Berlin session, said one way to think about the process is that scientists have control of a two-way valve and can move findings into or out of the summary for policy-makers.

The governments have a oneway valve and can only move things out of the document.

"The role of this one-way valve is important in thinking about why the findings of the IPCC always feel so measured and carefully couched," he said.

Many of the government interventions are "incredibly helpful" in making the text clearer, he added. "It is a pretty amazing process. But some of the interventions are not quite as time efficient."

Nepal govt urged to change amnesty plan Waiting for water: Myanmar villages left behind KATHMANDU, ApRIL 12 (REUTERs): Nepal's government faced calls on Friday from human rights and victims' groups not to grant amnesties over atrocities committed during the country's civil war for which nobody has been brought to justice.

Wedged between China and India, the nascent republic suffered a decadelong insurgency that pitted Maoist guerrillas against the army. More than 16,000 people died, hundreds disappeared and thousands were forced out of their homes.

Eight years after the conflict ended, the new government has proposed the amnesties as part of legislation to establish a reconciliation process modeled on the approach taken by post-apartheid South Africa.

"We want the government to change the draft and ensure that those who committed serious crimes during the conflict are not given an amnesty," said Janak Bahadur Raut, who says he was tortured by the

security forces during the conflict.

Raut, head of the Conflict Victims' Society for Justice, told Reuters that the planned bill ran counter to a Supreme Court decision and did not conform with international standards.

"We'll press lawmakers against it and urge them to bring necessary amendments before it is approved," he said, adding the victims could seek redress at the Supreme Court.

Both the security forces and the Maoist rebels committed widespread atrocities during the insurgency, human rights groups say, yet no one has been punished or tried in a civilian court.

Nepal's new centre-left coalition government on Wednesday proposed legislation to set up a Truth and Reconciliation Commission and a Commission on Disappeared persons to give justice to war victims and heal the wounds left by the conflict.

A similar bill drafted by

a previous Maoist-led government was rejected by the Supreme Court in January because it gave amnesty power to the commission.

Law Minister Narahari Acharya told reporters on Thursday there was no blanket amnesty plan in the draft legislation and any pardons would require the consent of victims.

Human rights lawyer Govinda Sharma Bandi, who heads the transitional justice unit at Nepal's Bar Association, said the commission could recommend amnesty for serious crimes: "It is very tactfully drafted to avoid accountability," he said.

On Thursday, 20 conflict victims and rights activists were detained for two hours after they protested against the plan outside a complex that houses the prime minister's office.

The parents of a teenage boy who was allegedly killed by the Maoists during the conflict are on a fast-onto-death protest demanding that the killers be arrested.

DALA, ApRIL 12 (Ap): Every afternoon, the long lines start to form, hundreds of men, women and children waiting to dip their plastic buckets into the lotus-filled reservoir just outside Myanmar's biggest city, Yangon.

It's their only source of clean drinking water, they say, and during the dry season, April and May, there is only so much to go around.

"It wasn't always this way," says 72-year-old Tin Shwe, one of the village elders, as he looks at the queue, some boys as young as 8 waiting their turn, yokes at their side. "It used to be only paddy fields. Only a few houses. There was enough water for all of us."

Myanmar only recently emerged from a half-century of military rule. Nascent democratic reforms implemented by the new civilian government since 2011 have resulted in a development boom, with the World Bank and others pouring billions of dollars into the country of

In this April 4, 2014 photo, 8-year old Ko Thu Ra carries drinking water in plastic containers from a natural water pond in Dala, suburbs of Yangon, Myanmar. “I’m only eight years old and it’s so tiring for me to carry water” said Thu Ra. During Myanmar’s annual dry season in April and May residents walk up to five kilometers (three miles) carrying buckets full of water from a natural pond, the only source for drinking water in this improvised neighborhood. (AP Photo)

60 million as it starts to open up to the world. But so far, it is the big cities that are seeing the benefits.

Even places like Dala township — just a 20-minute boat ride from Yangon — have so far been left out.

Authorities tell residents that maybe next year the government will start in-

Three little girls with cancer inspire thousands with their message of hope

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A heart warming photo of three young girls from Oklahoma who are fighting cancer has inspired thousands of people after it went viral online. The picture, showing Rylie, 3, Rheann, 6, and Ainsley, 4, was taken by Lora Scantling to raise awareness of childhood cancer.

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heart warming photo of three young girls from Oklahoma who are fighting cancer has inspired thousands of people after it went viral online.

The picture, showing Rylie, 3, Rheann, 6, and Ainsley, 4, was taken by Lora Scantling to raise awareness of childhood cancer. It shows the girls, who had never met before the photo shoot, hugging as they unite in their battle to beat the disease.

The owner of Scantling Photography in Bethany rallied the support of two children's clothing boutiques and Goodger Photography to provide everything she needed for the photo shoot. She said: 'I wanted to capture something that would speak a million words in a single portrait.

Bringing awareness to childhood cancer holds a special place in my heart.' The cause is particular poignant for Ms Scantling, whose stepfather Larry is fighting off stage 4 lung cancer. Her close friend also lost her one-year-old to leukemia.

The photographer has certainly achieved her aim, with the beautifully shot image under the banner 'Sometimes strength comes in knowing you are not alone'.

Ms Scantling told Mail Online: 'When we took these photos I knew they would be a big hit because of what they represented but never in a million years would I have imagined all this.

'I am so deeply honored that so many around the world have wanted to share their story and that it is touching so many lives.' She added: 'I can't tell you how many emails and messages I have received over the last few days just telling me how much the photo meant to them. 'It's a dream come true to have my photo be such an inspiration and to be reaching people all around the globe.'

The young girls who posed for the photo had never met before but Ms Scantling said they quickly became good friends. On the Scantling Photography Facebook page she wrote: 'I have never met 3

more beautiful little girls in my life - full of spirit and so happy and strong.' The youngest of the girls, Rylie, has just beaten kidney cancer; Rheann is still battling the rare form of brain cancer she was diagnosed with; and Ainsley is in remission from leukemia.

Their families love the photos and have been overwhelmed by the reaction to them on social media. Rylie's mother, Bridget Hughes, told News 9: 'When you think of cancer, you typically think of adults of having cancer. I'm glad that people are seeing that there are a lot of kids out there struggling and fighting.'

With the first set of picture being such a success Ms Scantling plans to use her talent to continue to raise awareness, and told Mail Online she can't wait to start her next project. More pictures and updates on the girls who featured in the images can be found on Facebook pages for Team Rylie and Ainsley Jane's Allies, and the Fight Like a Princess page for Rheann.

Fashion in Pakistan gets modern touch

inds of change are sweeping Pakistan's fashion ramps - from Pashmina kurtas, salwar-kameezes to shararas and ghararas in the past to off-shoulder gowns, sleeveless dresses and even backless outfits now. Off the runway, fashion may be conservative, but designers are attempting to lend a contemporary twist. Intricate embroidery, surface textures, architectural and graphic prints and lawn fabric have been synonymous with Pakistani fashion over the years.

The new-age designers are trying to give them a facelift to cater to the style demands of fashionistas.

Designer Sania Maskatiya, who is participating in the ongo-

ing seventh edition of the PFDC (Pakistan Fashion Design Council) Sunsilk Fashion Week 2014 here, says the sense of style in India and Pakistan is on a par. However, they prefer to play safe.

"India and Pakistan are no different. We share the same culture and sense of style and I love the way Indian designers play with fabrics and patterns. But being a little conservative, a girl can't afford to roam around in the market here wearing tight-fitting clothes.

"Since we (designers) serve the women here, it's our responsibility to give them options," Maskatiya told IANS. The designer believes Pakistan's distinct fashion, its prints and flared

outfits, have made their own space in the global fashion circuit.

"We have also become trendsetters in our own rights, thanks to fashion bodies like PFDC. The kind of prints that we use on our garments are known worldwide. Also, there are wide options in flared clothes that not only look sensuous but are also very elegant.

"The Fashion Week itself is one of the examples where you can see women flaunting the best of style," Maskatiya added.

True to her statement, one saw a bevy of women dressed prim and proper in knee-length dresses, sleeveless tops, flared trousers, high heels and natural yet stylish makeup. They also accessorised their

look very well.

Catering to this clientele of style-conscious gentry here are designers and labels like Sahar Atif, Gul Ahmed, Deepak Perwani, Ayesha Varsi, Saadia Mirza and Libas.

Their ensembles are known for a touch of the traditional amalgamated well with modern cuts.

One also witnessed such perfect amalgamation at the fashion gala.

Young designer Mohsin Ali, who made his debut at the fashion week with his "Crystal Macaroon" collection for the Libas label, focussed on quirky, cool and eclectic styles. His line was inspired from Paris in spring and was based in organza and silk in a variety of colourful pastels.

stalling pipes so that water can be delivered straight to their homes.

The water shortages began with a population boom in the 1980s, with the number of inhabitants jumping from a few dozen to more than a thousand in part because they wanted to be close to the big city.

With no restrictions on how much water each family could take, the natural, fresh-water pond started running low. Eventually, just a decade ago, it dried up entirely. With no offers of help from the government, men like Tin Shwe decided to step in, devising a rationing system as water started seeping

back so that residents could rely on it year-round.

Villagers have only one hour — between 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. — to get their water during dry season to limit its use. They are charged a tiny sum — 10 kyat for each bucket, or 10 U.S. cents. With so many takers it's enough money for small upkeeps, like fixing the fence that surrounds the reservoir or stringing up electricity for lights.

People walk for up to five kilometers (three miles) with their empty buckets. They are allowed to fill up two each. If they need more, they can get back in line. When they are ready they begin the long, hard trek home.

"I usually get three buckets," said 19-year-old Aye Thu Zar as she neared the front of the line. "There are seven in my family, so that's enough for drinking and cooking. But the walk home hurts my shoulders. My legs, too. I can barely sleep at night the pain is so bad."

Various artists and bands perform at JBC Live-MTF Series on April 11 at Jumping Bean Cafe.

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The Morung Express SPORTS 10 ISSF Shotgun World Cup: Ist Kohima Open Dart Tournament 2014 Manavjit Sandhu wins gold Dimapur

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neW DelHi, april 12 (pTi): India's Manavjit Singh Sandhu produced some excellent shooting to clinch the men's trap gold medal ahead of two-time Olympic champion Michael Diamond at the ISSF Shotgun World Cup in Tucson, USA. The 37-year-old Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna awardee shot scores of 121 and 13 in the qualification and finals, respectively, to finish on the podium with the yellow metal dangling around his neck.

It was some achievement by the former world number one Indian and world champion as he was up against Australia's Diamond, who had won the top prize in the 1996 Atlan-

ta and Sydney Olympics in 2009, besides winning five gold medals at the Commonwealth Games.

On Friday, Diamond shot 119 and nine in the qualifications and finals, respectively. Manavjit scored 14 out of 15 targets in the semifinals. The Indian sharpshooter had last won at the World Cup stage four years ago.

The bronze medal went to Alexey Alipov of Russia who shot 121 and 12. Ireland's Derek Burnett, who topped the scoring in the qualifications with 123, failed to replicate his form in the semifinals where six shooters competed.

"We had some of the world's best shooters competing today. Winning the

match against Michael Diamond has been definitely challenging but at the end you have to hit your own target, and the final score is what it is," Manavjit said after his win.

"I have prepared for this first World Cup throughout the winter season. We had several championships and trials in India in the last months. I never stopped shooting," the shooter, currently ranked 16th in the world, added.

One of the finest shotgun shooters in the country, Manavjit had last month clinched the Patiala Cup for the overall gross score in trap, double trap and skeet, at the Indian Shotgun Open here.

In the 2012 London Olympics, Manavjit finished 16th in the qualification round at the Royal Artillery Barracks and failed to enter the final of men's trap event.

But this win will warm him up nicely for the busy international calendar ahead, with the Commonwealth Games, World Championships and Asian Games all lined up from July to September.

As many as 64 quota places for 2016 Rio Olympics will be up for grabs at the World Championships, scheduled to be held later this year in Grenada, Spain.

The winners with the organizer, match officials, and participants of the 1st Kohima Naga Dart Tournament in Kohima on April 12. (Morung Photo) Our Correspondent Kohima | April 12

Metekhrielie Mejura today emerged to win the coveted championship title of the 1st Kohima Open Dart Tournament 2014 held here at the Indoor TT Stadium under the aegis of Naga Darts Association (NDA). Theja Meru gave away prizes to the winners at the valedictory function.

Rokovilie Seletsu stood runners-up. Metekhrielie Mejura and Vikhor Tepa also received special prize

for securing highest point (140 points) and highest finish (70 points) respectively.

NDA president Lima said the NDA will continue to organize darting event in the state, and added that although Nagaland is still in the nascent stage, “we see many potentials among the Naga darters here.”

He was optimistic that Naga darters will figure in the national and international level one day. Stating that darting events had already been conducted in

Heat rout Pacers to keep top seeding in sight MiaMi, april 12 (aFp): The NBA champion Miami Heat routed the Indiana Pacers 98-86 to position themselves to nab the number one seed in the Eastern Conference playoffs on Friday.

LeBron James scored a game-high 36 points, and while the Heat haven't locked up the top seed, they control their own fate with three games remaining in the regular season against the Atlanta Hawks, Washington Wizards and Philadelphia 76ers. "I would love to see us play with this identity, to our identity, (Saturday) night," was Heat coach Erik Spoelstra's only comment on the seedings race.

"If we do that," Spoelstra said, "the results take care of themselves." Meanwhile the Pacers, who trail Miami by one half-game for the top spot in the East, face a tough clash with Western Conference powerhouse Oklahoma City before ending their regular season at Orlando. The Heat, who were without Dwyane Wade for a ninth straight game because of a hamstring injury, used a lopsided third quarter to put the game away.

James scored 13 of his points in the period, in which the Heat built a

three-point halftime lead into a 23-point advantage.

Mario Chalmers finished with 13 points, five rebounds and five assists, while Udonis Haslem scored 11 points with nine rebounds in the convincing victory.

The defeat was just the latest in Indiana's late-season swoon. Paul George and David West were the only starters to score in double-digits, George scoring 22 points and West contributing 18.

Roy Hibbert was limited to five points on 2-of-6 shooting, and pulled down only one rebound. Elsewhere in the East, the New York Knicks kept their slim post-season hopes alive with a 108-100 victory over playoff-bound Toronto.

Carmelo Anthony scored 30 points with eight rebounds for the Knicks, who remain two games behind Atlanta for the eighth and final playoff spot in the East. Atlanta moved a step closer to punching their post-season ticket with a 93-88 victory over the Brooklyn Nets. Paul Millsap scored 27 points with 10 rebounds and Jeff Teague chipped in 22 points for the Hawks, who snapped the Nets' 15-game home winning streak.

Mokokchung, Dimapur and Kohima, he said the same would spread all over Nagaland. Further, he said All Nagaland Dart Tournament will be organized in November or December this year.

Altogether, 16 participated in the tournament.

The match officials included: Imjungmeren as referee, Akaty Chopi as score keeper, and Akielie as tournament director.

The sponsors of the tournament included: Teisobu Sekhose, ARKK Enterprise, Vuto Motors,

Traps, Touch Enterprise, Gear Heads, Star Sports, Synergy Group Enterprise, Guchin T- Shirt Printing, Metal Gear, Zumvü Printing Press, Central Cable, The Morung Express, NM Cable, Synergy System, Beyond Smile, Lima Lkr, Innovation, Sony Electronic Enterprise, Café Destination, Richard Belho, Sunep Jamir, Sashi Lkr, Rutsa Enterprise, Lechan Humtsoe Photography, Nagaland Table Tennis Association, Life Pro and Lineage Enterprise.

A source stated that NDA would collaborate and affiliate with recognized agencies and sponsors thereby facilitate committed opportunities for the darters to a higher level of competition. At present, NDA sustenance is through contribution from members and well-wishers. NDA aims to promote the sport by introducing at suitable places gradually throughout the state and identify darters to represent at national as well as international levels.

Kidambi Srikanth goes down fighting to Lee Chong Wei

Singapore, april 12 (ianS): India's rising shuttler Kidambi Srikanth went down in the men's singles semi-finals but not before giving a tough fight to Malaysian World No.1 Lee Chong Wei at the $300,000 Singapore Open Super Series here Saturday.

Despite putting up a strong showing against the top seed, the World No.25 Indian went down 19-21, 18-21 in 42 minutes at the Singapore Indoor Stadium. With the triumph, two-time Olympic silver medallist Lee has taken a 2-0 lead in career meetings over Srikanth.

The Thailand Open Grand Prix Gold winner started the last match of the day in superb fashion.

It was neck-and-neck affair as Srikanth gave a tough fight to the Malaysian in the first game. From 15-16 down, Srikanth used his brilliant smashes to good effect to take a 19-16 lead.

Almost on the verge of bagging the game, nerves got the better of Srikanth as he made a series of unforced errors to let go of the game. Lee made sure the bird remained in play while Srikanth, trying to finish the game as fast as possible, committed four consecutive errors to give Miami Heat's Udonis Haslem (40) shoots during the second the game away.

In the second game, half of an NBA basketball game against the Indiana Pacers, Friday, April 11, in Miami. (AP Photo) Lee, who won the India

K. Srikanth of India returns a shot to Lee Chong Wei of Malaysia during their semifinal match at the Singapore Open Badminton championship on Saturday, April 12 in Singapore. (AP Photo)

Open last week, opened up a big gap of 15-8 which he extended to 19-12. But Srikanth came out with a late burst of smashes which caught the two-time World Championship silver medallist off guard as the Indian clinched six of the next seven points.

But Lee came up with

a perfect bodyline smash as he gave no room to the unseeded Indian and proceeded to the final where he will take on Indonesian Simon Santoso. The No.1 has an impressive 9-1 headto-head against Santoso.

The Indian challenge came to an end in the tournament with Srikanth's loss.

exposes Red Bull appeal is first test of new era Prosecution weaknesses in Oscar

lonDon, april 12 (reUTer): The first big technical controversy of Formula One's new engine era has its day in court on Monday with champions Red Bull confident they have a strong case in appealing Daniel Ricciardo's Australian Grand Prix exclusion.

Ricciardo finished second in his home race last month, his debut for Red Bull, but was disqualified hours later when stewards ruled his car had breached the new fuel flow regulations.

In what is seen as a critical test of the regulations accompanying the V6 turbo engines and energy recovery systems, Red Bull will say the fuel flow sensors cannot be trusted.

"We have got a very strong case," principal Christian Horner, whose team needs every point

they can get after a troubled start to the season, said after last weekend's Bahrain Grand Prix.

"As more races have progressed, issues have become more evident - new evidence has come to light, or understanding has come to light - so hopefully we can present our case fairly and get the second place back that Daniel deserves."

Exactly what that evidence might be remains unclear, although Red Bull have experienced further problems with the fuel flow sensors since Melbourne and other teams - such as sister team Toro Rosso have also found them unreliable.

The appeal hearing at the Paris headquarters of the International Automobile Federation (FIA) is due to announce the verdict as soon as possible and certainly before Sunday's Chi-

nese Grand Prix.

McLaren will be among those following events closely, having benefited from Ricciardo's exclusion with Danish rookie Kevin Magnussen promoted to

second and Jenson Button to third.

Red Bull are sure to argue that a technical directive relating to the issue, and sent out by the governing body before the start of

the season to all teams, had no regulatory value.

"We are very confident that we can demonstrate that we complied with the rules at all times," Horner said after Melbourne.

"If you look at the facts, it's a very simple case. The rules are very clear. Technical directives are not rules.

Did we break the rules or not? It's as simple as that.

"Technical directives are opinions, they are not regulations. And that's what the confusion is with this. I think people are not understanding that the rules within the technical regulations are explicitly clear. We did not break those."

The FIA has expressed confidence that the sensors it provides to all teams are accurate.

In Melbourne, instead of relying on the official sensor provided by the

governing body Red Bull declared it too inconsistent and used their own measurements instead.

Ricciardo was then disqualified when stewards ruled his car had exceeded the maximum fuel flow limit of 100kg per hour - a breach which could have given a significant performance advantage over others.

The FIA says also that Red Bull ignored requests to reduce the fuel flow rate during the race. Ricciardo, who had been the first Australian to appear on his home podium before his celebrations were cut short, said he had put the controversy to the back of his mind. "Regarding getting the points back, I can't really think about it," he had told reporters last weekend before finishing fourth in Bahrain. "I have to drive as if I don't have them."

Pistorius' defence lonDon, april 12 (ani): The prosecution in the Oscar Pistorius murder trial has exposed some of the weaknesses in the defence of the Paralympic star in a tough interrogation process at the North Gauteng High Court.

After a weekend of respite, Oscar Pistorius will return to the witness box on Monday to face more questions under cross-examination for shooting and killing his model girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on Valentine`s Day last year. According to Sky News, the prosecutor Gerrie Nel has declared Pistorius` entire defence as a `lie, with his focus being on the crucial issue of why the athlete failed to realise his girlfriend was not in the bed when he went with his gun to investigate a noise coming from the bathroom.

Pistorius said he had

spoken to Steenkamp in the bedroom and asked her to call the police when he heard what he thought was an intruder and did not think it strange that she did not reply as he was `fixated on the noise`. However, Nel insisted that it was `unreasonable` to believe that, given that Steenkamp was in the toilet, she would not have shouted out to the runner who had been screaming `at intruders` just metres away, following which Pistorius was forced to admit that he might not have heard her because of the sound of the shots. The athlete insisted he `fired out of fear` after hearing the alleged noise and said that he did not have time to think although Nel repeatedly stressed that Pistorius approached the toilet with his gun held out and the safety catch off ready to shoot, even `wanting to shoot`.

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Tomohiro Ishii from Japan, right, and Kushida compete in a NJPW (New Japan Pro-Wrestling) match in Taiwan 2014 in Taipei, Taiwan, Saturday, April 12. (AP Photo)

Dipika fights her way into Texas Open semifinals

Houston (usA), April 12 (pti): India’s top squash player Dipika Pallikal earned a hard fought win over Nicolette Fernandes of Guyana to reach the the semifinals of the $50,000 Texas Open here.

Pallikal, with coach and five-time world champion Sarah Fitz-Gerald in her corner, had to resist a determined fight back by the unseeded Fernandes before prevailing 11-4, 11-6, 10-12, 10-12, 11-5 in the quarterfinal played on Friday.

The World No.12 from Chennai plays eigthranked Madeline Perry of Ireland in the semifinals later on Saturday.

In other matches, Malaysian favourite and top seed Low Wee Wern was stunned by Egypt’s teenage ‘giant-killer’, Nour El Sherbini. The 18-year-old

qualifier tamed the World No.7 11-3, 11-8, 10-12, 11-6 to progress in the Women’s Squash Association (WSA) Gold 50 event at The Downtown Club in Houston.

The Egyptian had produced one of the biggest shocks in recent times when she downed Malaysia’s world number one Nicol David at the World Championship last month to become the tournament’s youngest ever finalist.

Alexandria-based El Sherbini, who later this year could win the World Junior title for a record fourth time, now takes on third seed Camille Serme for a place in the final. French number one Serme, the World No.6, ended the run of Australia’s eighth seed Rachael Grinham beating the 37-yearold former world champion 8-11, 17-15, 11-6, 11-4.

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Stoke and Newcastle United players line up for a minute's silence in memory of the victims of the Hillsborough disaster before their English Premier League soccer match at the Britannia Stadium, Stoke, England on April 12. Matches in the top five divisions of English football this weekend are scheduled to kick off seven minutes later than originally planned in tribute to the 96 supporters who lost their lives in the Hillsborough disaster 25 years ago on 15 April 1989. Stoke won the match 1-0. (AP Photo)

Toffees move into fourth after hard earned victory

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sunderlAnd, April 12 (Agencies): The Toffees started well and had plenty of chances to take the lead early on. Gerard Deulofeu and Romelu Lukaku forced Sunderland keeper Vito Mannone into action early on and that set the tone for the majority of the first half.

The visitors really should have taken the lead when the in-form Steven Naismith found himself in the middle of the box 10 yards out but the Scotland international blazed his effort over the bar.

Roberto Martinez's men continued to dominate and create chances but failed to take any of them. The Black Cats slowly began to get back into the game and nearly took the lead just before half time when Ki Sung-Yeung flashed a header just wide of Tim Howard's left hand post after getting on the end of an Adam Johnson corner.

The second half proved to be a much more even affair with both sides having chances to take the lead. Wes Brown nearly put the Black Cats in-front just after

the hour mark but he failed to direct his header on target.

Straight after Brown's missed header Everton went down the other end nearly took the lead through Naismith, but the Scot failed to put the ball in an empty net after skipping past Mannone.

Everton began to pile on more pressure on Gus Poyet's side and it paid dividends in the 75th minute when Wes Brown put through his own net after accidentally getting on the end of a Deulofeu cross.

After taking the lead the Toffees had to endure wave after wave of Sunderland attack but they weathered the storm and held on for an important victory which moves Martinez's men into fourth place and a step closer to the Champions League.

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