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NEw DElHI, MAY 15 (IANS): The Election Comentre Job C land Nagaland in is all set to count FriNaga pmission g in n e created confusion to the whole of the Job O day some 550 million votes student’s community as to which is cast in the Lok Sabha polls that the competent authority to recognize are widely expected to return or de-recognize the Para Medical InD the BJP to power, a top official AN RCE stitutions,” the NSF stated, also quesAGAL COMME N F NT O IES & said Thursday.

RIAL NME USTR A UTO tioning whether these Departments OVER E OF IND D: KOHIM IME T G R P N and “We are fully prepared AT TOR NAGALA C are “serious enough in bringing out a E R DI geared up for the counting day KOHIMA, MAY 15 (MExN): The clear direction as it has already hamtomorrow... There is absoluteNaga Students’ Federation (NSF) pered the career of many students.” ly no problem,” Election Comhas appealed to the Indian Institute The Federation urged upon the missioner H.S. Brahma told of Para Medical Technology (IIP- Government to “stop the blame IANS. He said all data accruing MT) Kohima, Institute of Manage- game” and “expedite the matter as from the nationwide counting y ment of Medical Research, Health per the decision taken at the joint c n a process would on var bcatchupdated b be Science and School of Nursing Departmental Meeting held on the 2014 o J I`m leaving for Delhi today, o the poll panel’sF web site after (IMMRHSSN) Singrijan and Para 6th of May 2014 convened by the Text me the result ok? every five minutes. S CONTACT A Medical Training Institute (PMTI) Chief Secretary, Nagaland so as to IL A IM T H E FOR D R’S HILL KO 62of Around 66 percent 667159 the Industrial Estate Dimapur to with- solve the long pending issue as it has 8 E 9 / IC 8 OFF 97499817 o.:8 814 million electorate voted hold their admission processes un- greatly victimize the life and career Phone N between April 7 and May 12 til further notification is served. of many students.” It also cautioned across the country to pick a This was stated in pursuance “the institutions which did not fulfill DIMAPUR, MAY 15 new 543-member Lok Sabha. to the several representations and the required criteria and guidelines (MExN): An apparels shop Exit polls at the end of the stagmemorandum submitted to the laid down by the concern departwas gutted by fire at New Government of Nagaland to inspect ment that it shall not entertain under Market, Dimapur on May gered election have predicted the above mentioned institutes and any circumstances or condition.”

15. According to the Fire a win for the Bharatiya Janata to “make its position clear to clarify It was informed by the NSF that and Emergency Services, Party (BJP) and its allies in the the doubts and confusion of the stu- due to “delay tactics” of the GovernDimapur, the fire started National Democratic Alliance at around 7:45 pm inside (NDA).

A young boy clings to the leg of his mother who stands in a queue to cast her vote during a re- dents and the general public,” noted ment in bringing out a clear direcCounting at 989 centres polling of Indian parliamentary elections in Rehna village, in the northern Indian state of Haryana, the NSF in a press release from its ed- tion, IMMRHSSN Singrijan has “pubthe shop. No casualty was reported but the fire com- across the country will begin at Thursday, May 15. The Election Commission had ordered re-polling in some polling stations in the ucation secretary, Bangdi Chawang lished in the local Dailies on 7th May pletely gutted the mer- 8 a.m. Friday, an official state- state following complaints. Official election results are expected on Friday, but exit polls by at least and vice president, Joseph Ngouri.

2014 and subsequently on 14th of chandise in store. Electric ment said. A total of 8,251 can- six major Indian TV stations show the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party likely to win enough The Federation reminded the May 2014 inviting admission for varishort-circuit was suspect- didates, including 668 women seats to form a coalition government. (AP Photo) Government to “expedite with all ous courses.” The Federation urged ed to have caused the fire. and five transgenders, contest- BJP leaders Arun Jaitley (Am- without their mobile phones, the country and placed under seriousness and commitment basupon the people to be “more vigilant” Fire personnel responded ed the Lok Sabha battle. The ritsar), Rajnath Singh (Luc- and none of them will be al- heavy security. ing on the decision of the Inspecand advised aspiring candidates “not with four fire trucks and Tens of thousands of po- tion Committee Report constituted to seek admission until further notifiprevented the fire from contestants included 3,234 in- know), and AAP leader Arvind lowed to leave until the entire Kejriwal (Varanasi). process gets over,” the official lice and paramilitary person- by the Government.” cation from the government.” spreading to other shops. dependents.

Friday’s results will deterAlthough the vote count told IANS. nel are to oversee the countWhile, the NSF informed, the It has come to the knowledge It took about an hour to mine the political fortunes would start at 8, about one Initial trends will be avail- ing process Friday. Brahma Directorate of Higher Education, of the Federation, stated the press douse the flames. of India’s virtual who is who, million officials drawn from able rapidly. The final tally in expressed appreciation over Nagaland and the Directorate of release, that the Government has including BJP’s prime min- the central and state govern- the Lok Sabha will be more or the huge voter turnout in what Health and Family Welfare, Naga- directed the Directorate of Techniisterial candidate Narendra ments would assemble at the less clear by midday. But most is the world’s largest electoral land had been shifting “responsi- cal Education to serve Show Cause Modi (Vadodara, Varanasi), counting centres much be- results will be known only by exercise. “We are grateful and bility for recognition” of these Para notice to these institutions. While Congress leaders including fore that. “All those involved evening, one official said. As thankful to the voters for turn- Medical institutions at the initial KOHIMA, MAY 15 (PTI): Sonia Gandhi (Rae Bareli), in the counting have been told polling ended in various con- ing up in such large numbers,” stage, a new actor has now been appealing the said institutions to withhold their admission processes Repoll at five polling stations added to the imbroglio.

Rahul Gandhi (Amethi), SP to report by 5 in the morning stituencies spread over 10 Brahma told IANS. “We are exuntil further notification, the NSF under 39-Sanis Assembly “To our utter surprise, the Direc- cautioned that if admission processConstituency of Wokha Dis- leader Mulayam Singh (Main- tomorrow (Friday),” another rounds, the 1.72 million elec- tremely happy that such a high trict in Nagaland reported puri, Azamgarh), JD-U leader Election Commission official tronic voting machines (EVMs) voter turnout was registered torate of Technical Education, Na- es were proceeded with, the institugaland came in the midst which has tions shall be solely responsible. zero turnout today, a senior Sharad Yadav (Madhepura), said. “They will have to come were put in strongrooms across this time,” he said.

Election Commission official said. Polling officials waited for electorates since morning, but not a single electorate turned up, Returning Officer for Nagaland UNITED NATIONS, MAY 15 among the group who The report said conditions in dis- recovery and rehabilitation as part Temjen Toy said. Though sneaked in to Manipur to placement camps remain dire across of its mandate,” the report claimed.

(PTI): India at the end of last year there was no official comprint out 20 pamphlets of munication from the vot- had about 526,000 internally dis- the country. IDPs lack access to clean “A national policy or law on IDPs is the Plebiscite at the Ganwater, adequate shelter, food secumuch needed to address their protecplaced persons (IDPs), uprooted ers behind the ‘nil’ turnout, dhi Printing Press. “We Toy said that villagers were from their homes due to communal rity, clothing and health care, it said. tion and assistance consistently and were so scared we might resenting imposition of the violence and armed conflict, accord- Harassment and threats from villag- effectively, and to provide a frameget caught by the Manipur ers in IDPs’ home areas often hinder work for steps to facilitate durable ing to a new UN-backed report.

“Inrepoll and questioned on Police. But we escaped.” what grounds the EC or- dia continued to experience new and their efforts to return and the police solutions,” the report said. The govSale terms himself a dered it. Repoll was ordered protracted displacement during 2013 tend to be unwilling to protect return- ernments of Gujarat, Assam, Andhra follower of Phizo. Accordat 10-Lakhuti-I, 11-Lakhuti- as a result of communal violence and ees. Support for long-term solutions Pradesh and Odisha have made no ing to him, the influence of II, 13-Lakhuti-IV, 36-Lakhu- armed conflict with a total of at least varied significantly between states in efforts to assist IDPs, it alleged. The Phizo and the efforts of the ti-VII and 37-Lakhuti-VIII, 526,000 people displaced at the end 2013, the report said. report said India’s 526,000 IDPs likely people were so strong, it under sub section (2) of sec- of 2013,” the report titled ‘Global “Religious charities, madrassas, under-represents the real number of made the Plebiscite possition 58 of the Representa- Overview 2014 : People internally civil society groups and local com- people displaced since in India IDPs ble, as well as for the Naga tion of People Act 1951, statKievi Sale Janikhoü Savino people to unite. ing that the polls on April 9 displaced by conflict and violence’ munities took the lead in assisting tend to be no longer be counted once

by Internal Displacement Monitor- IDPs during 2013...India’s central official camps are closed, even if they Though sparse comwere void. government does not consider IDPs’ remain in displacement. ing Centre said.

Vibi Yhokha strengthen the declaration munication in 1951 made of Naga independence on organization difficult, Kohima | May 15 August 14, 1947. many Naga people turned “We may not have fully up to cast their vote. In “We have gathered here together in order to try to understood what ‘Plebi- some villages, a represenKOHIMA, MAY 15 convince India of our in- scite’ meant but we did it tative from each clan or (MExN): The Chief Electeachers, we find ourselves Our Correspondent herent right to be free and anyway. And because of unit gave a thumb imprestion Officer for Nagaland, in the healing process rath- equal to any other nation that our cause has greater sion.

Sentiyanger Imchen has inKohima | May 15 er than achieving good re- as a distinct people. Most meaning,” says 94-year“Our homes were formed that trends and results. Most of our students of the histories of human old Janikhoü Savino from burned not just once but sults, with regard to the 2014 “The Education departcome from broken fami- freedom were recorded in Khonoma village, niece of several times. Yet we built Lok Sabha Elections, will be ment has been in the news lies, rural areas and down- human blood. Most of the A.Z. Phizo, and one of the them again. We suffered made available to the pub- for the wrong reasons. trodden homes.” “People foundations of free na- few surviving Nagas who a lot for the Naga cause. lic from 8:00 am onwards And, we cannot shed the on May 16, at the website of responsibility and blame current problems the de- will not compromise with need to understand the re- tions were built on human lent their thumb to the If the Plebiscite had not the Election Commission it on others for our own partment is facing include the quality of education in ality of government schools bones and crushed skulls. Plebiscite Day. been done, the cause we instead of criticizing,” add- But we want our national http://eciresults.nic.in. mistakes. The department issues on absenteeism of the state.”

The Plebiscite, which suffered for would have needs to admit that it has teachers, proxy and boWhile discussing the ed, who stated that many independence to remain was recorded through lesser meaning,” says Safailed in many ways to in- gus teachers and serious problem of Non-detention times, instead of disciplin- holy and pure. We do not thumb impressions, in- vino, who believes that the spect thoroughly in the mismanagement of funds. policy in Nagaland, where ing students they have to want to mix freedom, and cluded Naga people of Plebiscite, done in “God’s grass root level,” stated Yhome asserted that the the Central policy has come use a different strategy that our independence, with both sexes above the age of timing,” ensured that the includes restoring some- human blood. We do 16, that is, those born be- suffering of the Naga peoKOHIMA, MAY 15 Kesonyü Yhome, Prin- shortage of teachers in spe- into direct confrontation one’s hope and vision. hope we shall not be com- fore 1935. An interesting ple did not go in vain, or as (MExN): President of the cipal Director for School cific fields, especially Math, with the ground realities Ketoho Luho, ADC Naga Peoples Front (NPF), Education, Government Science and Hindi, has be- of the state, Yhome pointpelled to live on a structure part of the Plebiscite is that she says in Tenyidie, ‘KeDr Surhozelie Liezetsu, in of Nagaland. He stated this come a pan-Nagaland phe- ed out that it is not easy on Planning and Member Sec- founded on human skulls Naga women not just par- methuo Mezhie.’ consultation with Chief while addressing the 6th nomena and that it is one of the part of the state to make retary DPDB stated that the and bones.” – A.Z. Phizo, ticipated but campaigned Both Savino and Sale Minister, Neiphiu Rio, has Felicitation of the HSLC the biggest problems fac- amendments and changes DPDB initiated the award May 16, 1951. for the cause. are concerned with the in central policy. There- in 2009 in order to encourcalled a meeting of Legis- Toppers 2014 in Govern- ing the department.

“We didn’t know day May 16, 1951, was the history which needs to age and boost the morale of ment Schools.

The event At present, 2000 Hindi fore, Yhome remarked that lature Party of the NPF and and night then.

We had day earmarked for the inbe clearly passed to the DAN at State Banquet Hall, was held on May 15 at Zon- teachers are required in there is a greater need for government schools, This auguration of the Naga meetings after meetings younger generation—the year’s awards were given Kohima on May 17 at 8.00 al Council Hall, Kohima Nagaland. Yhome stated discussion, sharing and Plebiscite, which con- in jungles and hideouts. history of the many Nagas am and 9.00 am respective- and was organized by the that there is a need to al- debate of ideas, proposals to Sunny Kumar Singh who tinued for three months There was no such thing who not just impressed ly. The meetings are being District Planning Devel- low non-local teachers to and suggestions regarding held the 7th Position from hence. Naga people gath- as an office at the time,” their thumb on paper apply for the post of Math the non-detention policy. Government High School convened to elect the new opment Board (DPDB).

Yhome stressed on the and Science in governSpeaking at the func- Botsa and Metsivilie Seyie ered at Khuochiezie (Kohi- says 89-year-old Kievi Sale but fought and died for a leader of the DAN Legislaneed to immediately adment schools because of tion, Kepelhoutuo Chüsi, who secured the 9th Posi- ma Local Ground) to give from Kigwema Village, one Naga nation. “Most of us ture Party. In this regard, Minister for Parliamentary dress certain pertinent is- the acute shortage of teach- Headmaster, Rüzhükhrie tion from RGHSS. The top- their thumb impression of the main campaigners are gone now,” say both as Affairs, Kuzholuzo Nienu sues in the Nagaland state ers in these areas. Although Government Higher Sec- pers were awarded with a to the independence of for the Naga Plebiscite in they reminisce the past, as has requested all NPF and Education Department. this issue may be contro- ondary School (RGHSS) cash prize of Rs. 15000 each the Naga Nation. The core the Southern Angami re- old age slowly erases their aim of the Plebiscite was to gion. Kievi Sale was also memories.

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NBCC Youth Leaders during the P4 Training at JMC, Kohima on May 14.

Kohima, may 15 (mExN): A leadership training called P4 training for youth leaders in Nagaland was held from May 12 to 14 at Jubilee Memorial Centre, Lerie, Kohima.

The Youth Department of Nagaland Baptist Church Council organized the program. About 45 youth leaders from different associations under NBCC attended the program.

P4 Training is design for a Youth Leadership Training by using P4 Modules, which stands for Personal, Programming, Planning,

and Pastoral. Resource persons for the training were Pheluopfhelie Kesiezie, Administrator, North Field School; Gugs Chishi, Project Director, Music Task Force; Vikuo Rhi, Secretary Youth, NBCC; Denny John; David Walling and Talichila.

Some of the topics dealt during the training were “Leadership Building by Using P4 Modules”, “Strategizing P4 Training,” “Responsibilities of a leader,” “Present problem and Discipline,” “Youth Culture,” Youth Leadership,” “Music and Society,” “Facilitating Meet-

ings,” and “How to teach.”

Evening worship services were conducted where Dr. Botoholi, Secretary, Education and Communication, NBCC and Sentiyabang Ao, Coordinator Media, NBCC shared on different topics. Stile Ministry led the praise and worship where as Experiential Games was led by Hamyan and Anamong.

Kohima Ao Baptist Church, Police Union Baptist Church, Phesama and Lerie Baptist Church Kohima participated through songs.

Kohima, may 15 (DiPR): All Nagaland Directorate & District Government Driver’s Union (AND&DGDU) has released its Constitution with the State Chief Secretary Banuo Z. Jamir IAS gracing the function as chief guest in the Chief Secretary’s Conference Hall on May 15. A representation on creation of the post of vehicle inspector in all directorates and district headquarter offices and issue of uniform to the government drivers also submitted to her.

Addressing the Union, the Chief Secretary said that the Conduct Rules and Guiding Principles should first and foremost be impressed upon as the government servant and that the welfare of the union, association, feelings of injustice etc takes the second place. Banuo made it clear that any Government’s Union, Association has to prioritize with the rules and principles of the government as government servants in exercising with their rights and further said that they cannot function

State Chief Secretary Banuo Z. Jamir IAS releases the Nagaland Directorate & District Government Driver’s Union Constitution on May 15. (DIPR Photo)

as Trade Union.

The Chief Secretary said that the drivers have big responsibility as the officers cannot function without the driver and vehicle adding if the driver fails to come and not report the officer would get into shame. However, speaking about good and responsible drivers she mentioned that in her 37 years of service she had good drivers attached to her and she made her drivers also as responsible to her

successful performances.

She further said that there should be total coordination of the officer and the driver and further said loyalty, confidence and secrecy should be maintained in between them.

Speaking to them, Banuo also said that the personal presentations of drivers should be attractive adding they should be clean, polite and respectful and regular in duties. She said they should also have the

knowledge of different parts of vehicle, which is the first professional requirement and she urged them to keep their skill update.

She also said though it was not made mandatory for medical check-up yet advised them to do it every year and further advised the Union to check for alcohol abuse amongst them where she said that should always be discouraged.

Citing examples of China and America where there are

female taxi drivers and public bus drivers Banuo told the Union that they could encourage female government drivers also in our state.

The Chief Secretary also said in public service proxy of any kind is very wrong further said it is worst still in drivers profession and therefore advised them not to do such malpractices.

Banuo congratulated the Union and wished them well in their endeavour.

The function was chaired by Povotso Lohe, Legal Advisor AND&DGDU, who was appointed as the Union’s Legal Advisor on February 17, 2014. Povotso as Chairman & Legal Advisor remarked that discipline, punctuality and hardworking are important for drivers. Scripture reading and prayer was led by Ngupelo Nagamese Fellowship, Kohima. Welcome speech was delivered

by Neiviseituo Angami President, AND&DGDU, presentation to the chief guest and others and vote of thanks was proposed by Imlikumba Vice President AND&DGDU.

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DimaPuR, may 15 (mExN): To expose the extension functionaries to the various technologies advances in the field of Agriculture and allied sectors and in turn to develop their creativity, ATMA-Dimapur organized an exposure tour to Bhutan for the official of Agri and allied department from May 6 to 12. The tour was also organised with the aim to familiarize the new practices, demonstration skill and to give an idea regarding the culture and custom of the people of Bhutan.

The DAO & PD (ATMA) S. Bendangtemsu led the team. The officials were welcome by the Department of Agriculture under the ministry of Agriculture and forestry, Bhutan. The team visited the Integrated Agriculture Technology Farm (IATF) at Wang

ATMA officials of Dimapur district along with the officials of Department of Agriculture (Bhutan) at the integrated Agriculture technology Farm, Bhutan (Thimphu).

Sinina. The area of IATF is about 28 acres of government land where different plots are allotted to the civil servants and co-operate employees to encourage the government officials of Bhutan to grow their own food and produce surplus vegetable for sale.

The team visited Agriculture Machinaries Centre (AMC), currently, AMC supplement machineries to the farmers on hire basis so the farmers can implement on their own locality at the initial stage. A short visit to the National Agricultural machineries museum was

made which was high-tech exhibits depicting the birth of agriculture and the important eras of mankind in relation to Agriculture.

The team also visited National Post Harvest Centre (NPHC) and National Seed Centre (NSC) at Paro.

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a press release stated that during the course of visit, the team visited inspection and quality control centre where its main function is to ensure that the foods are of good quality and safe for Human consumption. The team visited floriculture and amenity landscape project. This project was implemented to promote beautiful urban landscape and recreational areas and to encourage the farmers as an alternative livelihood source of income.

Apart from the official visits to various research and institution centre, the visiting team also visited Tasshichoe Dzong, Buddha Statue, Taktsang Monastery (Paro). The officials were benefitted by new innovative technologies during their visit and appeal to the ATMA to organize more of such programme.

staff crunch, poor infrastructure ZuNhEboto, may 15 (DiPR): The District Planning and Development Board meeting was held on May 8 under the chairmanship of DC Zunheboto L. Akato Sema NCS. During the meeting, Principal of Government College gave a power point presentation and apprised the members about the requirements of the college i.e. shortage of one lecture in the department of economics. He informed that 16 (sixteen) lecturers are teaching based on fix and temporary and who are needed to be regularised for smooth functioning of the institution.

About the infrastructure, the Principal said that construction of first floor need to be completed for the convenience of both

the teaching faculties and the students. He also highlighted on requirement of water supply facilities, fencing of college compound to provide safety for equipments of the college.

He further appraised on requirement of library room to accommodate a good numbers of students as well as spacious lounge for students. Considering all these points the members deliberated and decided to request the Government to assist through LADP 2014.

Concerning the requirement of computer, the members discussed the importance of computer as components of syllabus for Students.

Therefore, the members approved to request 5th Assam Riffles Zunheboto to assist in providing the

computers. PHED department was requested to make necessary arrangement to provide water facility as per the need of the institution.

Vinod Major 5th Assam Rifle Zunheboto while presenting a power point on recruitment of cadres which is to be held in Manipur said that the recruitment rally is being offered to facilitate the youths who are being wasted. However, as there is no special allocation of fund for this purpose, he requested the members to arrange the vehicles to transport the aspiring youths from Zunheboto to Imphal. The members deliberated and arranged two NST buses on hire basis. The meeting concluded with a vote of thanks from the chair.

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34th KU general session on May 29-30 m o N, m ay 1 5 (mExN): The 34th Konyak Union general session is scheduled on May 29 and 30 at Council Hall Mon HQ. The first day meeting on May 29 would be Executive Council meeting and to participate in the Executive Council meeting, the apex Konyak Union invites all Konyak legislatures, ex- parliamentarians, officers and retired officers, all KU unit president and secretary, all scholars and intellectuals, KU advisory board members to attend the scheduled meeting positively at 10:00 am.

The Second day meeting on May 30 would be general meeting and to participate in the general meeting the KU invites all Konyak village council chairman along with 2 (two) members, all 11 wards union officers from Mon Town and public leaders to attend the scheduled meeting positively at 10:00 am.

KU President S. Manlip Konyak and General Secretary Y. Hosea Konyak informs all Konyak citizens in around and abroad that the scheduled programme is already dispatched to every individuals, villages, KU units and to every concerned, despite all this efforts may not be possible to reach you out the programme. All responsible citizens are requested to attend the meeting as scheduled.

Legislators’ Forum on AIDS Nagaland Police advocacy campaign held Day observed

ZuNhEboto, may 15 (mExN): Legislators’ Forum on AIDS (LFA) organized one-day advocacy campaign on HIV/AIDS at VK Town under Zunheboto, in partnership with student body and VK Town Urban Station Committee on May 14. MLA Khekaho Assumi was the guest speaker.

A press note received here stated that eight villages with SDO Civil Akuluto, village council board, Goan Buras (GBs), church leaders, youth leaders, village elders, women groups, students and others attended the programme.

MLA Khekaho Assumi, highlighting on the exposure trip to Bangkok for ICAAP in 2013 said that the world has move ahead in addressing the issues of HIV/AIDS and many other related issues on human sexuality. He said that HIV is not an individual

issue but a community issue, and encouraged the community and church leaders to come forward in addressing the issue of HIV/AIDS. He argued the church leader to include the message of HIV/AIDS in churches. For prevention, he said, “abstinence is the best method but if it is unavoidable then Condoms are available as defense mechanism against HIV.” He emphasized that time has come for us to accept every individual irrespective of their sexual identity or HIV status and given equal opportunity to live a better and healthy life without the fear of stigma and discrimination.

For more information and treatment updates, he encouraged to take initiative, make use of the available services at the health centers, and avail the exper-

tise of District AIDS Programme Control Units (DAPCU) as they are ready and available to help as and when required. He highlighted on the importance of preventing mother to child transmission, said that it is preventable with proper treatment and care, and therefore encouraged the pregnant mothers to access the health facilities for timely treatment.

He said information dissemination about HIV/ AIDS and related issues should be a continued process, “Each individual should support and take up the responsibility of sharing information as prevention is a continuous process and not just one time activity or programme.”

The meeting concluded with Mobile ICTC Van where 44 people came forward for HIV testing.

moKoKchuNg, may 15 (mExN): DEF Mokokchung observed Nagaland Police Day on May 15 to celebrate the occasion when the then Governor of Nagaland, General KV Krishna Rao (Rtd.) first presented the State Police colours to Nagaland Police on May 15th 1985 on behalf of the President of India at Kohima local ground.

SP Mokokchung Vikram M Khalate, IPS in a press release stated that given in recognition of its achievements, Nagaland Police was one of the first State Police Forces to be given this honour previously conferred only on military units for their feats on their battlefield.

The design of the Nagaland Police colours consists of Sky blue and Red colours, a charging Mit-

hun and the Motto ‘Security, Service, Sacrifice’ inscribed underneath. Blue is one of the primary colours of nature. The blue sky signifies the heights that human beings can achieve and the ocean is also blue with its depth, vasfiress and serenity, containing immense resources and wealth yet to be tapped.

Red, also a primary colour in nature, signifies vigour, valour, vitality, energy and zeal. The charging Mithun facing the red colour in the flag signifies the determination and ability of Nagaland Police to protect the people and keep enemies away. The Moffo ‘Security, Service, Sacrifice’ indicates that in the service of the people and to ensure their security, Nagaland Police is willing to make any sacrifice.

Farmers club Amahator organize sales day Our Correspondent Kiphire | May 15

The Amahator Farmers Club today organized a sales day, sponsored by the Department of Land Resources Kiphire and was inaugurated by Deputy Commissioner Kiphire Neposo Theluo.

Inspecting the stalls put up for the sales day, the DC interacted with the villagers and encouraged them not only to make this sales day an event but to make it a process so that people in the district do not depend on other places for the supply of agri products especially vegetables.

The DC also encouraged the organizers to take up more activities such as

this so that the people in the district are aware and will participate more.

Ahozhe Sumi, DPO Land Resources while interacting with the farmers expressed satisfaction for bringing the product to the town for sale and mentioned that the department is ready to give technical support for the activities that the farmers are taking up. Items like green vegetables, agri products, wild fruit, orchids, foodstuffs, manure, steamed river fish etc were sold in the sales day.

DC Kiphire Neposo Theluo with others during the sales day organised by Amahator Farmers Club held on May 15. (Morung Photo)

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Kohima, may 15 (mExN): The Chedema Students’ Union (CSU) will hold its 16th HSLC felicitation programme on May 24 at APO Hall here. Therefore, all the successful candidates have been requested to attend the programme without fail along with their parents. CSU in a press release informed that “candidates should come wearing one traditional attire, decent outfit and a photocopy of mark sheet.” For further information, call 9089835019/ 8014789295.

FGN Sumi region informs ZuNhEboto, may 15 (mExN): FGN Sumi Region has informed all heads of departments, business establishments and general public under Zunheboto district that the taxation for the fiscal year 2014 to March 2015 will be dealt by the Midan Peyu (Chairman), Sumi region Vikihe Zhimomi. Therefore, all concerned have been directed not to entertain any one. For further information, one may contact the Midan Peyu at +91 9436266146/ +91 9615587588.

KPC new team takes over office Kohima, may 15 (mExN): The newly elected executive members of the Kohima Press Club (KPC) officially took over office on May 14 at a brief programme held for handing over of files by the outgoing office bearers at KPC conference hall, Kohima.

The programme was chaired by the outgoing president KPC, Kopelo Krome. The new team includes Xavier Rutsa as the president, Ketousielie Viluo as vice president, Alice Yhoshü as general secretary, Solomon Sha as Joint secretary and Rüülhoutuonuo Theünuo as treasurer.

KVSU to organize felicitation prog Kohima, may 15 (mExN): The Kohima Village Students’ Union (KVSU) will be organizing felicitation programme for HSLC/HSSLC/NPSC/UPSC successful candidates on May 17 at 11:00 AM at KVC Hall, Kohima Village. Kesonyü Yhome, IAS, principal director, school education will be the chief guest.

Greetings will be shared by Kohima Village Gazetted Officers’ Association. KVSU president Zedikuolie Kire will deliver welcome address. The programme will be chaired by KVSU finance secretary Kethoneizo Rutsa. Vote of thanks will be proposed by KVSU assistant general secretary Lhouliebeinuo Sachü.

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Tension prevails along Rat-hole mining stopped in Meghalaya Tripura-Bangladesh border AGArTALA, MAy 15 (IANS): Tension prevailed since Wednesday along the India-Bangladesh border in Tripura as Bangladeshi nationals, accompanied by border guards, prevented Indian farmers from cultivating their lands, officials said on Thursday.

"When a group of farmers Wednesday went to cultivate their lands at Mohanpur village in Tripura, Bangladeshi nationals along with the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) jawans prevented them from doing so," a North Tripura district administration official told reporters here.

Border Security Force (BSF) troopers rushed to the spot, 145 km north of Agartala, and protested the intervention of the BGB personnel.

"Subsequently, the Bangladeshi nationals were dispersed by the BGB troopers, following the protests by the BSF," the official said, adding that such border incidents often take place in various parts of India-Bangladesh border.

BSF's chief spokesman Bhaskar Rawat told a news agency: "We have asked the BGB officials to maintain status quo along the 1.2 km stretch of the bordering village till the survey officials of the two countries demarcate the areas. The controversy erupted after the Dhalai river changed its course."

"Border pillars along the disputed areas were also either damaged or are missing due to the change of the river's flow, which now runs along the borders," the BSF official

added.

There are paddy fields, rubber gardens and other cultivable lands on the other side of the Indian border as, according to international norms, the barbed wire fencing was erected 150 yards from the zero line along the India-Bangladesh border.

The Indian villagers, after taking permission from the BSF, go every day to their fields and gardens across the fence through specified gates, which are operated by the BSF for notified periods.

Tripura shares an 856km border with Bangladesh and some parts of the border area remain unfenced. The mountainous terrain and dense forests make the border porous and vulnerable to illegal migrants and intruders crossing over.

SHILLONG, MAy 15 (PTI): Following the interim order of the National Green Tribunal, transportation of coal using the primitive and unscientific method of rat-hole mining in the state has been stopped, Meghalaya Director General of Police PJP Hanaman today said.

"All SPs were directed to start implementing the orders of the NGT since May 9 when we received the order," Hanaman told reporters.

Since the ball is in my court (after being made one of the respondents in the order) I have no option but to implement it, he said.

The DGP said necessary instructions were given to the Sps to implement it in letter and spirit and ensure that no transportation of coal takes place anywhere in the state.

Hanaman believes that when there is no transportation, production of coal will automatically be

Miners transporting coal emerge from a rat hole in Meghalaya. (File Photo)

stopped in remote areas where the coal mines are located.

The state police chief will also file his compliance report with the NGT in Delhi tomorrow.

The NGT had on April 17 passed an ex-parte in-

terim order banning extraction of coal based on an application filed by the All Dimasa Students' Union and the Dima Hasao District Committee from Assam on April 2.

Protesting the NGT's interim order banning rat-

Assam medical student held for fellow student’s murder DIBrUGArH, MAy 15 (TNN): A 28-year-old postgraduate student of Assam Medical College Hospital (AMCH) was arrested on Wednesday for the last week's murder of a fellow student on campus.

On Friday, the body of Sarita Toshniwal, 26, a first-year PG student, was discovered on a bed inside the doctors' duty room in the ICU of the hospital's gynae-

cology department. A disposable surgical knife was found stuck on the left side of the neck. Ward boy Kiru Mech was arrested in connection with the murder.

On Wednesday, cops said they arrested Deepmoni Saikia, a second-year PG student of obstetrics and gynaecology department, based on the statement of the ward boy, and circumstantial evidence. Dibrugarh SP Rana

Bhuyan said the conspiracy to murder Sarita was hatched by Deepmoni a month ago after she spurned his advances.

Kiru said, "Deepmoni was the mastermind. He promised me a permanent job. He warned me that I should not take his name. In case, I was caught, he promised to take all the responsibility of my family and my legal expenses. But since my family is being ostra-

cised, I decided to come clean."

He also claimed that Deepmoni strangled Sarita when she was sleeping in the duty room and slit her throat with a surgical knife.

The SP said after committing the crime, the accused doctor removed the clothes of the victim and sexually assaulted her.

Sarita, who was from Sivasagar town, was engaged to her batchmate Roshan Agarwal.

Their wedding had been fixed for July 7.

Both the accused were produced in the court of the chief judicial magistrate, Dibrugarh, who remanded Deepmoni in seven-day police custody. Kiru has been sent to jail.

Deepmoni's mother, who arrived from Nagaon, denied the accusations and said it was a conspiracy to frame her son.

Assam govt not to allow victory processions in eleven districts GUWAHATI, MAy 15 (PTI): The Assam government will not allow victory processions in eleven sensitive districts of the state and announced strict enforcement of prohibitory orders.

A decision to this effect was taken at the State Level Crisis Management Group (SLCMG) in a meeting chaired

by Chief Secretary Jitesh Khosla. The districts are Kokrajhar, Baksa, Chirang, Dhubri, Goalpara, Barpeta, Nalbari, Bongaigaon, Kamrup, Udalguri and Darrang.

The meeting decided that helicopter surveillance would continue in all vulnerable areas of BTAD districts An Indian street vendor arranges fruits in Guwahati, Assam on Tuesday, May 13. India's stock market and currency and along the Indo-Bhurallied Tuesday on exit polls predicting election victory for a pro-business party and its allies. Official results are ex- tan Border, according to a pected on Friday. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath) press statement issued here.

Northeast Briefs Security beefed up for counting in Arunachal Manipur bandh today IMPHAL, MAy 15 (NNN): In protest against the disturbance created during the Meitei ritual proceeding of “Pakhangba Chenhongba" at Hannaba hill on Wednesday by a group of people, a 12-hour Manipur bandh has been called from 6 am of May 16. The bandh is also to demand the persons involved in the incident to be booked.

The bandh has been announced by Hannabaching Ibudhou Pakhangba Ibendhou Laisana Khubam Kanba Lup. On Wednesday, when Meitei priests and priestesses were performing a very important ritual at Hannaba hill in Heingang under Imphal East district, a group of people from Kairang area (nearby villagers) came and disturbed the ritual proceeding saying the area belongs to them. Addressing the media at Manipur Press Club today, Hannabaching Ibudhou Pakhangba Ibendhou Laisana Khubam Kanba Lup leaders demanded that the people involved in yesterday's incident be booked.

Community dialogue on NE residents of Delhi NEW DELHI, MAy 15 (MExN): A community meeting was organized by the Northeast India Forum against Racism (NEIFAR) in collaboration with Aman Birdari Organization and Delhi Police under the theme ‘Community Dialogue for Better Understanding Issues Facing Citizens of Northeast India.” A press note informed that the event was held at Air NCC Hall, New Delhi. The scope of the meeting was to highlight issues being faced

by NE residents living at Safdarjung Enclave and nearby villages. The broader aspect of this community dialogue was to bring both local residents and NE residents together to discuss and explore ways to sort out issues faced by the NE tenants. The dialogue called for better understanding and healthy discussion towards building up strong social organization. Around 90 people attended the community dialogue.

2 held with explosives in Assam GUWAHATI, MAy 15 (PTI): Two persons were arrested by security forces today after explosives were recovered from their possession in Assam's Baksa district. Acting on a tip-off, troops of Mahar Regiment apprehended the duo from Doulkuchi village of the district and recovered two grenades and few explosives from their possession, Army sources said here. The apprehended duo have been identified as Bimal Boro and Dhiren Boro. Baksa and Kokrajhar districts in Bodoland Territorial Area Districts (BTAD) had seen violent attacks on May 1 and May 2 in which 46 people lost their lives.

ITANAGAr, MAy 15 (PTI): Elaborate security arrangements have been made in Arunachal Pradesh for counting of votes on Friday for two Lok Sabha and 49 state Assembly seats. "We have deployed security personnel including central paramilitary forces (CPMF) and state police in all the counting centres for ensuring smooth and violence-free counting," IGP (Law and Order) Satyendra Garg told PTI. Additional CPMF personnel have been allotted to the state by the Centre as reinforcement to maintain law and order during counting and the period after it.

Garg said a three-layer security cover is in place and police barricades would be

put up 100 metres away from the counting halls on all sides as per the Election Commission orders. The whole process of counting would be videographed and district electoral officers have asked the magistrates to be strict and prompt in their action.

The fate of 143 candidates who contested from 49 assembly constituencies along with 11 candidates who were in the fray for Arunachal East and West parliamentary seats would be known during the counting tomorrow.

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Search operations for recovery of illegal arms and ammunition would be intensified and strong action taken against rumour mongers and anti-social elements.

Army would be kept on standby for quick deployment to deal with any eventuality, the statement said.

It was also decided that all emergency serviceswould be kept in readiness to deal with any situation. The meeting also reviewed deployment of security forces in the state.

More than 100 companies of Central Armed Police Force and State Armed Police have been deployed to deal with any situation in BTAD and adjoining districts while 141 fixed pickets and 35 mobile pickets have been setup.

hole mining in Meghalaya, coal miners in the state today called for a 12-hour state-wide strike on Saturday.

The decision was taken at meetings convened by the Jaintia Hills Coal Miners and Dealers Associa-

tion (JHCM&DA) held in Shillong and in East Jaintia Hills District today after the imposition of Section 144 CrPC banning transport and production of coal in all 11 districts.

"We have unanimously decided to call for a 12hour strike to be effective from 5 AM to 5 PM on May 17, to express our strong reservation against the order of the NGT banning coal mining in the state," Association President Balius Swer told PTI. The strike is likely to affect all business establishments and the movement of vehicles even as government offices and education institutions have been kept out of the purview of the strike, he said.

"The decision to call the strike is not against the state government or the NGT but we want to show our concerns since the order has affected our livelihood," he said.

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Speeches on Naga National Plebiscite Day Naga people should speak out for sovereignty

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vice of our Nation’s freedom.

May the Naga people once again rededicate our lives to our living God for the service and salvation of Naga freedom of sovereignty as we observe this National Day of ours today.

The Naga people had come across Indian Election of imposition once again in our dear Homeland but the Naga National Council as the Parent Body had rejected and condemned this Election in Toto.

But today,it is very sad to see that all other Naga Political Groups in the Homeland did not say even a word of rejection or condemnation of Indian Election but remained completely silent,this indicate that they have compromised their political stand for Naga sovereignty.

Those Naga Political Groups and NGOs who were shouting at the top of their voices for “Solution not Election” are completely silent today when the National Workers in par-

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on behalf of the Naga National Council salute to all the Naga people and the signatories who are alive till date in particular on this occasion of Naga National Plebiscite Day of 16th May 2014,today as we observe the Day with prayer and praise to God Almighty for His grace and mercy towards our Nation building.

Today, as we observe the Day, we the Naga National Council with prayer and dedication of our lives to our living God and the blessed Homeland we live in on this National Day of ours once again for the service of our political freedom.

We praise God for His will and purpose for the Naga people in this part of the world.

The Naga National Plebiscite Day of ours sixty three years ago on this Day has refresh and remind our mind and spirit of dedication to the ser-

ticular needed them to speak out politically for our rights of freedom at this stage.So this is a complete betrayal to the Naga people and Nation.

The Naga National Council have to say that the Naga people today should speak out for sovereignty or another Plebiscite (Referendum) for final political settlement in the Region instead of participating in the Indian Election which NNC rejected in the past as well as in the present time of imposition too by the Government of India.

When Kosovo and today Crimea could become sovereign Nations.Why not Nagas? If Ukraine region of Donetsk and Luhansk provinces could conduct referendum for sovereignty then the Naga people should and must do the same as we have every democratic right to do so for our sovereignty once again for the best political right and stand.

The Naga National Council is the mandated and grass-root

based people’s (Villagers) Political Institution (Parent Body) of the Nagas,so every one should respect and support for ultimate achievement of our goal of freedom for the whole and all of the Naga inhabited areas in the entire interest of the Naga people.

Today,the NNC must say that whatever agreement or concordant signed by only three Naga Political Groups will never be a successful one until and unless all the Naga National Political Groups come together for Naga National Unity for freedom.

The Forum for Naga Reconciliation work for Naga National Unity is half done without inviting or participation of the other Naga political groups for final Naga Unity.And this is a complete bias and look down upon attitude of FNR members in this serious matter of reconciliation work .They are responsible for half done and incomplete reconciliation and unity of all the Naga National Political Groups

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he Naga National Council (Non-Accordist) observes the 63rd anniversary of Naga Plebiscite day of 16th may 1951, which has been observed every year since our Naga National Plebiscite began once again, I heartily salute to all the Naga patriotism, National leaders who bravely bear up the great plebiscite that took place harmoniously and solemnly be plebiscited or thumbed at Lakhuti village on 16-5-1951, which signified as one Naga, one nation in which the result comes on 99.9% and on this plebiscite day, the Nagas took a consensus resolution that the Nagas shall continue to protect our freedom and liberty which were our birth right, in order that no any outsiders, be it, east or west, north or south, be allowed to suppress our forefather’s culture value and disturb our way of life in any manner.

In the year 1929, on the 10th of January a British team known as Simon Commission, led by Sir John Simon, came to Naga area to study the possibility of reforms in India. At that time the Naga club had presented a memorandum wherein the Naga Hills should not be included in the reformation scheme of the government of India. As a result of this demand

by the Naga club the British parliament decided to treat the Naga Hills as excluded area. By this agreement the Naga ills was excluded from the reformation on India, above that in the memorandum to the Simon statutory commission it asserted that we (Nagas) shall not live under any other nation. After which the British government therefore, declared Naga country as Naga Hills excluded area was on 1st April 1937.

The great Naga leaders have tried their best to solve the Naga issues in peaceful ways without any sort of violence, therefore the Naga leaders met with great Indian leaders like mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru and many other leaders but utterly naught.

Yet the talk processes were on, soon after the departure of the British Government, the Indian Government sent its army and occupied our land and began torturing both men and women, then tortured to death extent, and their execution became so hashed to an appalling rates, besides that, houses and granaries were burnt to ashes and the same atrocities continues till today in our land.

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to state that praising too much of British soldiers is a mockery to the Naga people because the British Government had betrayed the Nagas in the first place and till date not even a word is uttered in favor or support of Naga Cause as they were and are responsible for the political plight of the Naga people in particular.

They (British soldiers) must speak out in favor of Naga people basing on the 1935 Act of “ Naga Hills Excluded Area”, which was passed by the House of Lords (British Parliament) much before the invasion of Nagaland by the Government of India and its Army. This is what the agent of British Government can do for the Naga people if at all they remember the First World War and the Second World War helping hands of the Nagas’ sacrificial deeds for them.

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The Nagas constituted a Union known as Naga Club in October 1918. Aliba Imti was its first President. The desire of the Nagas to live as separate Nation is deserved and to proclaim this truth to the whole world found its passage through this club on 10/1/1929. This club submitted a memorandum to the statutory commission lead by Sir. John Simon as its Chairman with Clement Atlee, M.P. and E. Codegan as a member visited Kohima. In pursuance of this memorandum the whole Naga areas were left as Naga Hills excluded area.

Having presented the inspiration and given support to the sovereignty of the Nagas in formal function hoisted the Naga Flag on 1947 at Mission Compound Kohima. With this pride, on both the World Wars I & II we supported the world under the British Government by sending two strong contingents of (LC) Labour Corps consisting of 500 Labourers each. They returned to our land after the War is over.

The name of the Naga Club changed into NNC (Naga National Council). A. Z. Phizo occupied this August Office on December 1950 as its fourth President, prior to Indian Independence day in 1947. A.Z. Phizo headed a Naga delegation to meet Mahatma Gandhi the father of the Indian Nation in his Pangi Colony house in Delhi to reiterate the stand that the Nagas were and are sovereign people under British occupation and that when British left they wished to revert to this position without joining the Indian Union. Mahatma Gandhi assured them that Nagas were free to choose their political destiny and that no under circumstances would they be forced to joint Indian Union. The government of India refused to recognized Naga Independent alleging that the whole Naga territory under British occupation would be under Indian dominion in 1950 Indian constituent assembly invited the Nagas to join the Indian Union but it was rejected out rightly by the Nagas and conducted a plebiscite on 16th May, 1951 throughout Naga territories and voted to 99.9%

in favour of Naga sovereign independent this plebiscite result was sent both the President and the Prime Minister of India and the Secretary General of (UNO) United Organization May’ 16th every year commemorated as Red Letter Day of all the Nagas. A day of remembering the historical plebiscite day and paying respect to our great leaders who had courageously- lead and participated in this scared event. Present A. Z Phizo that his great plebiscite was conducted. At the same time one cannot ignore the decisive declaration of the Naga Independent on 14th/08/1947 from British occupied Naga territories under the pioneering leadership of NNC through eminent former President such as Aliba Unit. This declaration of Naga Independence on 14th August 1947 followed by the I6th May’ 1951 plebiscite and the Republic Day on 22” March’ 1956 laid foundation of our Nation and this uniqueness is known to the World. The Government of India taking the Advantage of the non-violent attitude of the Nagas, they forcibly conducted the first and the sec-

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great and happy day to come with firm faith on our Living God. We must work hard politically to achieve our desired Goal of Freedom sooner than later because the world political scenarios are changing rapidly and new development of political freedom is emerging out every now and then.

The NNC appeal to one and all in the Homeland to support the right and correct political stand of the Naga National Council the only Political Institution of the Naga people to further the Cause of the Nagas for peace and freedom.

Zechariah 4:6 - So he answered and said to me: “This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel: not by might nor by power but by my spirit,” says the Lord of hosts.

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about the Naga leaders, soldiers who sacrificed at the cost of their precious lives willingly for the cause of Nags birth right without giving up their commitment made basing on the Naga plebiscite which bound the Nags united either in death or in alive. We shall therefore always remember their great deed in the days to come and will also be recorded in the Naga patriotic history records.

Lastly, I would like to call upon all Naga nationalists, leaders, who love the Nation, come together and stand join handedly and take a good look at our near future with positive attitude or else the empty future looms ahead of us if not checked. My dear, Nagas therefore, now is the high time for us to realize and stand firmly and together nib the wrong buds that may readily be awaiting to destroy our common future. Now it is a good time for all Nagas to understand and reestablish our stand once again so that our next generation may live in peace.

for one Government.

But today,the biggest question confronting the Nagas for one Government is for Naga sovereignty or for some other arrangement for some people only.The Naga people and the Naga National Political Groups must be very clear about this serious political stand.Without knowing the head and tail of political stand of each and every Naga National Political Groups,the question of one Government cannot be implemented. And this is happening today as we have clearly seen.

Today, I must also say that the people of Jotsoma Village in particular,the Kohima Education Society and the State Government under the union of India have honoured and praised too much of British soldiers who came to inaugurate a monument built by the Jotsoma Village in honour of a Major General of Second World War at Kohima.In this connection,the NNC have

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ond general election in 1952 and 1957 where as the Nagas boycotted both the general elections. This led to invade the Nagas territories beginning from 1954 and sent large contingent of army to fight against the unarmed Nagas.

The government of Indian on the pursuit of political strategy convinced some Nagas opportunist to sign the Sixteen Points Agreements by which agreement curved out some portion of Nagas territories, the present so called Nagaland State in 1963. However, this was rejected between the Indian government and the Federal government of Nagaland in the initiatives of NBCC Rev. Michel Scot from the Great Britain Government to paved the way for talked yet ended in a dead lock in 1966.

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y dearest Naga brothers and sisters, I greet you all in the Mighty name of Jehovah on this historic day.

This day is indelibly impressed onto our memories due to the enduring significance it holds in our Naga History.

It was on this day that the older generation forthrightly and vocally swore with their thumb impressions which, today is known as the infamous PLEBISCITE of May 16, 1951. It is remarkable to note that the PLEBISCITE of May 16, 1951 demonstrated the unity of the Nagas in our demand for independence. It conveys the message of independence and the separation from India, the spirit and aspirations of the Naga people. We celebrate this monumental day to contemplate retrospectively with pride and remind ourselves that we are Nagas by choice and ruled over by India as her territory by force and might.

As India awaits the result of the world largest democratic election, it is strategic for the Nagas to call the attention of the rest of the world that the Nagas still continue to suffer in the hands of her taskmaster against her will. Civilization and modernism has failed to educate modern India that no people, group, big or small can be forced to live against her desire.

In the face of our sufferings and unfulfilled dream and aspiration to be a free nation, we can still remain proud and lift our heads high in dignity because it is on this day, sixty three years ago, the Nagas boldly stood up to the test of time and ideology of forced annexation by India. Our courage has been second to none because in the face of persecution and torture we have boldly stated plainly that Nagas are not Indians and we will never submit to the tactics of dirty politics against our prerogatives.

At times, we seem to have become people who have forgotten our past history. But on an occasion like today, it is a reminder that we are a group of people, a nation that is resolutely determined to be called Nagas. It would be ignominious to turn our back to the great event in history that took place on this day, where the citizens of Nagaland, from the mountain tops to the valleys, courageously registered themselves to live as free and independent nation.

Nagas spoke in action on this day to say that we will live as a nation unconditionally free from interference.

Nagas voiced out in action that we are a sovereign nation and will never be subjected to any power outside of us.

What we hope for may appear to be far from us but we must not give up on our historical rights because we are today closer to what we have longed for so long than yesterday. The Naga plebiscite on May 16, 1951 is one big plank on which our rights and aspirations are embedded and it will never perish.

May Almighty Jehovah who guided our people in the past and gave us courage to so boldly declare to the world that we are free and sovereign nation guide our path and instil the same desire in each one of us today as we celebrate this day the sixty fourth year of Naga Plebiscite.

KUKNALIM Brig. (Retd) S. Singnya, Kedahge, FGN

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Women SHGs excel under TLI project

KohIMA, MAY 15 (MExN): The Directorate of Women Development held a progress review meeting with the Transformative Livelihood Intervention (TLI) Project Divisional Societies on May 14 at the Directorate conference hall. Chairing the meeting, Director Neilavoü Keditsu explained that SHGs under the Project have been federated at different levels to build their capacities and empower them by embracing different responsibilities, learning management skills and taking up project implementing and supervisory roles. Moreover, registering themselves under the Societies Registration Act permits them easier

access to funds and other facilities from schemes and programmes of various ministries, departments and funding agencies, she added.

Assistant Director Vilone Sakhrie in a press release informed that 21 TLI Divisional Societies representing 1091 SHGs from all over the State tabled their reports which were discussed and reviewed thoroughly. As per their reports, the recovery rate of the revolving fund extended as loan to SHGs through the Societies to take up income generating activities stands at 100% in the first round.

While some Societies have re-loaned the recovered amount to SHGs under

candies, fruit juices, pickling, floriculture including setting up of a ‘rural mart’, procurement of land for orchard field and purchase of an auto-rickshaw which brings in approximately Rs. 4500 per month.

The Transformative Livelihood Intervention Project is the flagship programme of the Department which works for socio-economic uplift of women through networking of SHGs covering all districts of Nagaland. This project is part of the vision document of the Department in human resource development with special A Divisional Society Executive tabling her Society's report. focus on the socio-ecothem, some are already revealed that many SHGs loan availed with some of nomically marginalised in the third round of this under this program are them taking initiatives in womenfolk in the State, exercise. The reports also doing very well with the production of wild apple the note added.

‘Youth are looking for Pochury orgs condemn ‘unruly actions’ of security forces MAY 15 ganizations, in a pres note, the Tizu river.” “While flee- er authorities to immedidevelopment, employment’ DIMAPUR, (MExN): The Pochury Pub- informed that when Toku ing Toku fell into the river ately take action against DIMAPUR, MAY 15 (MExN): The BJP Yuva Morcha (BJPYM) North East today stated that major road improvement in the Dimapur area is “a golden way forward to nation building.” In this regard, the BJPYM, in a press note, lauded Nagaland Minister for Roads and Bridges & Parliamentary Affairs, Kuzholuzo (Azo) Neinu for what it termed as his “multi-dimensional development approach.”

The BJPYM pointed to the recent road works in the Dimapur area and stated that the Minister’s “work ethics show his visionary leadership qualities.” It added that despite most roads in Dimapur being under the purview of the centre, the Minister had put in his best efforts for the public good. The BJPYM pointed to incidences of Azo personally supervising the roadworks and stated that this has “guaranteed good quality workmanship.” Stating that even the drainage system is about to be embedded, it expressed

hope that this would stabilize the roads and control flash flooding.

The BJPYM said that the youth are looking for development, employment and “are deadly against corruption.” Stating that Nagaland has a hugeu youth reserve, it stressed on the need to address the issue of unemployment. “Where there are good roads in town/ city, that area can hope to improve and generate employment,” it added.

Heaping further praises on the R&B Minister, the BJPYM stated that he is “one such leader who truly delivers goods to the people,” referring to his tenures as Agri and Health Minister for the state. “To become a leader, age/seniority should not be the criteria but the parameter should be development, vision, right focus, humbleness, working capacity, balanced attitude and a unifier,” the BJPYM asserted. It further acknowledged the DAN leadership under Neiphiu Rio for “standing beside” the R&B Minister.

lic Forum (PPF), Pochury Students' Union (PSU), Pochury Mothers' Association (PMA) and Pochury Goan Buras' Union (PGBU) have condemned what it termed as the “unruly actions of the 46 Assam Rifles and the 164 Territorial Army (TA), posted at Akhegwo Junction” with regard to the treatment meted out to one Toku, a Central Council Member of the NSCN (K).

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had gone to pay a visit to his ailing mother at Akhegwo, “the combined Armed Forces surrounded his residence and attempted to nab him without any rhyme and reason.” However, the bodies informed, that before the security forces could surround the house, “Toku and his accomplice escaped and fled.” They alleged that the security forces “chased them upto 3 kms downwards towards

(Tizu River) and drowned,” it was stated. The villagers found Toku’s body in the river bed the next day.

The apex bodies have condemned the actions of the security forces and stated that this “was purely an act to attempting murder which was literally executed.” They demanded that the security forces “justify their actions for violating the Ceasefire Ground Rules” and urged the high-

those involved in the case and deliver justice to the bereaved family.

“Delaying justice shall be termed as justice denied and the apex bodies will do what is needful to acquire justice at any cost,” they stated. The press note was signed by Penthii Pochury, President, PPF; Abel Senwusingrii Thuer, President, PSU; Machii Joshury, President PMA and Nyupuchu Jorror, President PGBU.

DUDA advisor Naiba Konyak and others with the trainees during the valedictory function cum distribution of machines/ tools for vocational training on bamboo/wood crafts, tailoring and mechanized stone masonry under BADP capacity building programme organized by DUDA Nagaland at Pusa Craft Centre, Jharnapani, Dimapur. (Morung Photo)

“We consider capacitating 19 theological students and aspiring social workers as a big achievement and materialisation of a dream which we plan to continue if the colleges value the course and recommend to their students,” stated course director and assistant director of Prodigals’ Home, Maong Jamir.

The final session of the course was held on May 15 at Prodigals’ Home, NSCB Building, Dimapur with professor Alongla P. Aier of Oriental Theological Seminary as a special speaker.

Prof. Aier in her address highlighted the importance of evangelism and social action going hand in hand.

PFUTSERo, MAY 15 (MExN): Pfutsero town, one of the main towns of Phek District, hosted Against Corruption and Unabated Taxation’s (ACAUT) public rally on May 14 at Local ground.

The rally organized by Pfutsero Town Voluntary Organisation (PTVCO) attracted people from all walks of life and even from neighbouring villages, a press release from Weto Kapfo, Press Secretary, PTVCO informed. School students from classes 8 and above along with college students attended the rally while business establishments remained closed.

The rally began with a prayer by Rev. Dr. N. Cherio and a welcome address delivered by Vetsurayi Tetseo, President,PTVCO. The program was chaired by Tavezo Theluo, Assistant Professor, PGC.

Hokivi Chishi, DCCI President and ACAUT Finance Convener, gave a brief background of ACAUT, while Joel Nillo Kath, ACAUT Co-Chairman, spoke on the organic produce of Pfutsero but how the seasonal traders do not profit because of taxation syndicate system.

He also pointed out the seriousness of taxation from government agencies and civic bodies as well, PTVCO press secretary informed.

The press secretary further stated that Khekiye Sema (IAS Retired), Consultative Body member, ACAUT, briefly highlighted the history of the Naga political issue and the importance of “One Government, One Tax.” Tia Longchar, Public mobilization Convenor, ACAUT, emphasized the need for a strong base at every level. This was followed by speeches from leaders of Pfutsero,

Yiekuse Tureng, K.Ritse and Zhonelu Tunyi, who all expressed their support and solidarity with ACAUT. An interaction session followed where various grievances were highlighted besides enquiries on how to be a part of ACAUT. The rally ended with a note that a Consultative meeting would be organized to chalk out the course of action to be taken as per the need of Pfutsero sub -division, in line with ACAUT’s stands and principles, PTVCO press secretary stated.

PTVCO press secretary expressed gratefulness to members of ACAUT for creating awareness in trying to make our society a better one. It also extended its gratitude to all students of Pfutsero, Pfutsero Town Traders Union (PTTU), and individuals and groups for their solidarity and support physically and financially.

of human rights, which the Assam police have been repeatedly committing against the Naga people.”

“The Naga Hoho time and again has been appealing both the state governments of Assam and Nagaland to intervene into the situation before it intensifies further,” the press note stated.

The Hoho appealed to the Assam government to

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MEx FILE Leo’s Club Dimapur donates DIMAPUR, MAY 15 (MExN): Leo’s Club of Dimapur, along with Lions Club members on Mother's Day donated Rs. 25,100 to Anand Marge Children’s Home, Signal Bosti, Dimapur. The Club also constructed two bathrooms for the children home.

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refrain from killing innocent Naga public through its armed forces as it will “create more hatred among the two neighbouring States.”

The Hoho urged both the state governments to immediately intervene and act promptly so as to avoid further deterioration of the situation along the AssamNagaland border.

KohIMA, MAY 15 (MExN): The Workshops for 1st year (2014 batch) B.Ed students of IGNOU-PSC-2009/P in the State College of Teacher Education has been fixed w.e.f. June 10-21 and 2nd year (2013 batch) w.e.f.

June 24 - July5. A press release from the programmein-charge Runi Nakro, stated that the attendance in the workshop is compulsory and stated that printed letters will be dispatched in the students’ addresses.

Lotha Catholic Khumshum celebrates Mother’s day KohIMA, MAY 15 (MExN): The Lotha Catholic Khumshum, Kohima, celebrated Mother’s Day on May 11 at CAN conference Hall, Kohima. Jonas Yanthan chaired the programme and Samuel Ezung, Ex – Catechist, pronounced invocation. T. Elias Lotha CAN President spoke about the history and the meaning of celebrating Mother’s Day and challenged mothers to inculcate the good qualities of mother Mary. Rev. Fr. Philip Yanpvüthung spoke highly about the mothers’ contribution towards the family and the society while acknowledging that there are bad mother who does not care for the family and husband. Youths from DBS colony and Nzanbemo Yanthan presented songs and Zubeno Ezung spoke on behalf of the children about Mother’s love. Y. Abel Lotha (Catechist) pronounced the special prayers for the mothers and the benediction.

NSF informs DIMAPUR, MAY 15 (MExN): The Naga Students’ Federation (NSF) has informed all the Naga students who have secured Top 50 in the recent result declaration of HSLC examination 2014 to contact the office at the number 08575464015. A press release from the body’s Education Secretary Bangdi Chawang informed.

Notice for selected NEC nominee KohIMA, MAY 15 (MExN): NEC nominee selected through AICET 2014 for undergoing four years B.Sc (Agri) degree course at AAU, Jorhat, are informed that the admission process for the current academic session can only be done online. A press release from the Director of Agriculture N. Tekatushi Ao informed. The concerned candidate has to upload the requisite information on the AAU website www.aau.ac.in which will be made available by the end of May. Therefore, the candidate selected by the Department of Higher Technical, Government of Nagaland is informed for the same.

Further, it is informed that the interview cum counseling for NEC sponsored candidates has been fixed on July 16 and the academic session will commence from August 1, 2014. For further information, contact the Officer in charge or Superintendent, Training & Education, Directorate of Agriculture, Kohima at 9856162894.

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Naga Hoho condemns killing DIMAPUR, MAY 15 (MExN): The Naga Hoho vehemently condemned the killing of an innocent Naga youth, Ento Nyiekha, by the Assam Police at Sangtamtilla river, Dimapur, bordering Assam on May 13 last.

A press release from the Hoho’s General Secretary Mutsikhoyo Yhobu stated, “Such act is a total violation

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The students alongwith Prof. Alongla P. Aier (second row third from right) and K. Ela and others at the closing session of CCSCL on May 15. (Morung Photo)

cal College, Jorhat; Agape Bible College, Dimapur; Nagaland Bible College, Mokokchung; Trinity Theological College, Dimapur; Saku’s Mission College, IGNOU Dimapur took up the certificate course. “Social issues cannot be dealt in isolation by individuals, groups and churches alone. An understanding of the importance of collective effort is the need of the hour. (And) this course is a humble beginning in bridging the gap in communication, networking and partnership for a better society,” wrote K. Ela, director of Prodigals’ Home in the CCSCL 2014 brochure.

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DoYANG, MAY 15 (MExN): The 2nd general meeting of landowners of the 17 affected villagers was held on May 14 at NRC Building DHEP, Doyang, to conduct the election of new team of LOU, DHEP Officials. A press note issued by Kahuto Assumi, Secretary, Election Commission, LOU DHEP, informed that the house unanimously elected R. Yanthan as president, N. Zankhomo Jami as working president, and James Patton as general secretary for a period of 5 years from May 14, 2014 to May 14, 2019.

Nineteen students complete ACAUT public rally held at Pfutsero Prodigals’ Home CCSCL

DIMAPUR, MAY 15 (MExN): Nineteen theological students completed the Certificate Course on Social Concern and Leadership (CCSCL) conducted by Prodigals’ Home, Dimapur. The 15day course, which was first initiated in 2103, seeks to capacitate and orient potential church leaders and social workers, theological students in particular, on the social issues confronting the society today and other relevant issues not covered in the classroom.

This year, 19 students from Clark Theological College, Mokokchung; Serampore College, West Bengal; Eastern Theologi-

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Project Director, SCERT, Kevi Liegise, and ACL Member Secretary, Thungchibemo Lotha, with the SDEO Mokokchung, teachers, chairman and managing board members of Government Primary School Langa, Mangmetong ACL School. ACL is a very important innovative system of school education which incorporates all essential features of learner – centred education. The project has shown commendable progress over the last few years and now covers 137 schools across all districts.

The goal is to cover all Government Primary Schools in a few years. To achieve this, District ACL teams have been constituted and the Project team of SCERT is touring all districts for monitoring and supervision.

PUNGlwA, MAY 15 (MExN):The Sainik School Parents Association, Punglwa, would like to inform all the parents of Naga Cadets that the fund allocation by the State Government for the year 2014-15 has already been submitted to the State Government for approval on January 20, 2014, and will, sooner or later, be released to the School authority.

A press release from Zhasa Vupru, General Secretary, SSPA, Punglwa, stated that this information was being released after consulting the School Education Department. In view of the aforesaid, all the concerned parents are requested to bear with the inconveniences and to comply with the fee structure prepared and circulated by the School authority, which are to be paid in three installments till the fund is remitted by the State Government to the School authority.

For further clarification, the following office bearers may be contacted: President - 9612097418, Treasurer -9856083316, Gen. Secy. - 9402015498.

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Post-Poll Test for new regimes

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ow that the hustle and bustle of elections is over, it is time for government formation, distribution of responsibility (portfolio), skillful management of political affairs and most importantly putting in place a government that is accountable to the people. This will require a fresh perspective to run the country, especially in the backdrop of the outgoing Congress led UPA government, which had been embroiled in one scam after the other, not to forget the ‘policy paralysis’. The BJP, which is expected to get the mandate to form the next government after today’s results are declared, will do well to ensure an efficient, transparent and corrupt free government. Hopefully the new government headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be aware not to repeat the mistakes of the outgoing government, which in fact was the basis on which the BJP’s election campaign was centered on—the complete failure of the Manmohan Singh government to perform and deliver. With numbers on its side, it is expected that Modi will not face much of a problem when it comes to government formation and providing a stable government. However, the biggest challenge for the next government will be to fulfill the big expectation it has generated amongst people all over the country—towards providing speedy development and good governance. Supporters and critics alike will be carefully watching how the newly elected leaders, especially those in government will respond to the exercise of power, which will now be in their hands.

Similarly, the post-poll scenario in Nagaland will also be keenly watched more so because of the leadership change taking place in the NPF led DAN government. With Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio now almost certain to resign and move to Delhi as the next Lok Sabha Member of Parliament, the biggest challenge for the ruling NPF party and the next CM will be on how to sustain the unity of the party and the stability of the government. While the short but disturbing storm created within the ruling NPF on the question of finding Rio’s replacement appears to have subsided for now, the fissure within the NPF, which had developed in the recent power struggle, will perhaps take time to repair. In fact the very nature of the transition of power, which was marked by contesting claim between groups, would have led to suspicion, disunity in the ranks and created an unhealthy competition for power. Those who have supported the new CM would obviously seek favours in return, in the form of better portfolios, promotion and other incentives while those MLAs who were in the other camp, so to say, will feel threatened of being punished for their disloyalty or fickleness.

Obviously the NPF party and its leadership, including Rio, could have done better to ensure a smooth transition as was being done in Gujarat where a consensus has been reached to replace Modi. Nevertheless, now that an agreement has been reached on the next CM for Nagaland, the bigger challenge awaits the new government, which will be without its tallest leader Rio. The NPF party leadership along with the new CM TR Zeliang should sit down and work out an arrangement that will be best suited to ensure the unity of the party and the stability of the government. It will be interesting to see as to who will call the shots in the Nagaland government—the party President Dr Shurhozelie, Rio himself or the new CM. Perhaps Rio will have to don the role of a mentor in order to ensure some sort of continuity in the new ministry headed

by TR Zeliang. A fine balance will have to be formulated by the party leadership so that there is as little disturbance in the existing power arrangement while also giving the new CM his full due as the head of the government.

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MERS virus isn't an emergency _ yet

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he spread of a puzzling respiratory virus in the Middle East and beyond doesn't yet constitute a global health emergency despite a recent spike in cases, the World Health Organization said Wednesday.

The decision was made after a meeting of WHO's expert group on the Middle East respiratory syndrome, or MERS. Since 2012, MERS has sickened more than 500 people and killed 145, mostly in the Middle East. The vast majority of cases have been in Saudi Arabia, although the disease has spread within the region and to Asia, North Africa, Europe and the United States.

MERS often starts with flu-like symptoms but can lead to pneumonia, breathing problems and in severe cases, kidney failure and death. "Calling a global emergency in a world which has a lot of urgent issues going on is a major act," Dr. Keiji Fukuda, an assistant director-general of WHO, told reporters Wednesday. "You have to have really solid information to say this is a global emergency." Fukuda said there wasn't yet proof of the virus' sustained transmission among people.

Last week WHO did declare the world's widening polio outbreaks to be an international health emergency. Some scientists said while MERS technically meets the criteria for a global health emergency, declaring it as such could confuse the public. "People might think (WHO) is crying wolf because MERS is still primarily a problem in the Middle East," said Michael Osterholm, an infectious diseases expert at the University of Minnesota who has worked in the Middle East. "But if one of those infected people gets on a plane and lands in London, Toronto, New York or Hong Kong and transmits to another 30 people, everyone will have a different view."

On Wednesday, the Netherlands' National Institute for Public Health and the Environment announced its first case of MERS, a man who became infected during a visit to Saudi Arabia. He is now in isolation at a hospital in The Hague. Saudi Arabia's health ministry also reported five more MERS deaths on Wednesday. In the past 24 hours, the kingdom has identified 16 new cases in Riyadh, Jiddah and Medina.

Some experts say the spread of MERS is worryingly similar to the 2003 global outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome or SARS, which infected about 8,000 people in 2003, killing nearly 800. MERS is genetically related to SARS. Scientists are unsure exactly how people are catching MERS but suspect the disease is linked to camels. WHO recommends that people avoid contact with the animals, skip drinking camel milk or using camel urine in traditional medicines and only eat camel meat that has been well cooked.

Dr. Clemens Wendtner, who treated a German MERS patient in Munich last year, said the current spread of MERS should not set off a global alarm. He was not part of the WHO meeting. "I do not see an international threat or a pandemic (being caused) by MERS," he wrote in an email.

He said the spread of MERS to humans was still exceptional and that the disease was mostly affecting animals.

WHO said its expert committee would reconvene in several weeks to consider any new MERS developments.

he snow still lay thick on the ground outside the window on a March morning a few weeks ago as Saoirse struggled over her math lesson. Customarily quick to pick up on each progressive step in the syllabus, on that particular morning her brain had a mental block on decimals.

The muscles on her face were taut with frustration, and I feared the ferocity of her pencil scratchings would pierce through to my kitchen table.

“Let’s put it away for today,” I suggested. (Usually a popular proposition). “No.” The fingers around her pencil tightened until her knuckles were white.

I furrowed my brow. “Saoirse, sweetie, we’re both wasting our time today. Some days are like that. Let’s quit.” “I. Want. To. Finish.” She hissed the last word with such vituperation, I was hesitant to contradict.

The March sunlight poured in through the southern window, washing her shoulders and bathing her angry blonde head in a halo of late winter light. I tried again. “There’s no sense going through the lesson if it isn’t going to make sense to you today. You’re clearly not in the mood.” Her face turned slightly to meet the sunlight as it reached through the window toward her, then she whipped around to meet my gaze once more, fury and desperation pouring from every muscle in her body. “I don’t want to be sitting here doing homeschool when the snow melts!” Her blazing eyes suddenly softened and welled over with tears. But she continued. “And every day we don’t finish a math lesson is another day longer I have to stay in school.

And if I’m in school, then I can’t be at the farm. And I want to be at the farm. I want to help Pop Pop with lambing. I want to plant a garden. I want to weed it.

I want to work in it. I, I don’t want to be sitting here with a stupid math bo-ooo-k.”

She sobbed, allowing her shoulders to melt back into her chair, taking in the warmth from the rays.

I looked out the window. The snow was rimy and thick. The air was still cold enough for us to go skating on our neighbor’s pond, but the light had changed. There was no doubt about it. Saoirse’s body and soul were responding to the sun, making it impossible for her to concentrate on anything involving books, pencils, or paper.

I remember the first time that pull drove me to drastic measures. I had spent my last year as an undergraduate studying for the LSATs, determined to make my family proud and become a lawyer. What I didn’t anticipate was that the exams would fall on the first real spring day in late April. I entered the examination room with several hundred aspiring law students and managed to sit through less than 30 minutes of the exam before my palms were in a full sweat, my heart raced, and feverish streams of panic showered over my thoughts, breaking my concentration. I was sitting in a four-hour exam in a windowless room while the sun was shining.

In a flash, I saw my life before me if I finished that test—countless sunny days wasted indoors in windowless rooms. I walked out a few minutes later, choosing to follow the sun. Ultimately, it led me home to my family’s farm.

I smiled inwardly as I watched the sun make the same pull on Saoirse’s spirit. I like for my kids to understand math, but I like even more to see them drawn to immerse their bodies in the agrarian life that so many generations of my family have chosen.

We made a deal. We would accelerate the schedule, and lessons would be finished by the time the snow melted so she would be ready in time to help Pop Pop with lambing season.

We met our deadline, and Saoirse was standing in the barn on the sunny spring day last week when the first lambs chose to make their entry into the

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ay and November bring the most vicious cyclones to the Bay of Bengal rim countries in Southeast Asia. Local governments must scramble disaster mitigation measures, including food storage, cleaning cyclone shelters, stocking up water supply, sanitising infrastructure, and evacuating people to safety in all the regions bordering the bay. The cyclones are the harbinger of the monsoons that play out in various densities for months on end across the subcontinent, often putting lives and livestock at peril.

Risking rejection of culture-insensitive food distribution to the evacuees, the governments generally resort to survival rations that stress shelf lives and transportation logistics, often ignoring the native wisdom in nutrition balance and distribution that complements local agro-meteorological and hydro-geological conditions.

For example, in times of cyclones or unseaworthy weather, “the Great Andamanese resort to hunting and gathering,” said Anvita Abbi, a professor at the Centre for Linguistics, School of Language, Literature and Culture Studies in Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru University,who has deciphered the language of the Great Andamanese in the Andaman Nicobar Islands. “When a particular bird sings a song, they know it is time to go turtle hunting on the beach instead of fishing in the sea,” Prof. Abbi told IPS. The tribes defer to geomorphological conditions and respect Nature’s benevolence for disaster resilience. The governments’ panic might seem redundant to the tribes: no wonder they are at odds with the mainstream society and shun contact with a corrupted system that favours a few. The tribes’ traditional wisdom helps them literally coast to safety. “The Nicobarese and Jarawas switch to harpoon fishing in shallow waters during inclement weather. They have boats for deep sea fishing and dugout/outrigger canoes and catamarans for coastal fishing,” said A. Justin Superintending, an anthropologist at the Port

I made the choice to give up a career in law and return to my family farm.

Now, I wait to see if my daughter will do the same

world. Her skinny legs defied the gravitational pull of her oversized rubber boots as she ran back and forth from the house to the barn, reporting on each new birth, and the health condition of every lamb.

She talked nonstop on the ride home that day, brimming with details about which ewes had delivered a set of twins, which had given birth to triplets, which needed extra feeding, how wet the lambs were when they first came out, how she had learned to scan the flock to see who would go into labor next.

For two days, she lived outdoors, drinking in the spring sun as she welcomed each new lamb. And then the weather changed. Temperatures plummeted. Rain and snow fell from the sky and gray clouds oozed over the farm, commanding that our wood fires be lit once more.

But the lambs kept coming. Bob drew the barn door closed to block the wind, but the newest members of the flock fell to the barn floor and quickly became listless and hypothermic. Two days of the soul-nourishing work of guiding new lambs and mothers to nursery pens gave way to tube feeding, converting cardboard boxes and old towels into beds beside the wood stove, and the morose drudgery of carrying away the dead.

In years past, when the girls were younger, we consciously played down the deaths. One of us would scurry the bodies out to the compost before the girls noticed, breaking the news later when we were cozy in our kitchen that “They didn’t make it.” Simple. Detached. And the girls and I would get back to our homeschool lessons.

But the pull of the sun had brought Saoirse fully into the realities of spring this year.

She maintained her poise as she dutifully helped her grandfather find the hypothermic lambs and bring them indoors. She sat over them and rubbed their cold bodies with her hands, willing them to

live. But death’s victory was not shrouded for her this year. She watched her Pop Pop unceremoniously carry the lifeless bodies away to be tossed on the compost. She climbed into the car that night and burst into tears.

Then, behind the safety of the rolled up windows, she screamed, “I hate this farm!” We’ve all said it. We’ve all taken Sap Bush Hollow’s brutalities, shouldering our way through her harsh weather and her excessive demands for labor, daily confronting the effects her reckless nature has on our livestock and on our own spirits. It’s part of the business. We get used to it. In our own journey, Bob and I have learned that in one moment, all is bliss. In another, all is hell. But given a little time, things settle out once more, and bliss returns.

Lambs die. It’s true. In this business, there are cold calculations made around that simple fact. A certain percentage will live, a certain percentage won’t. If the calculations are correct, we’ll have an adequate crop survive to harvest age, and we will pay our bills. The premature deaths cause heartache, no matter how many lambing seasons we have seen.

But we grow adept at waiting for the next moment.

The one where you see a newborn’s tail wiggle furiously as it latches onto its mother for the first time; or where they nestle, their necks entwined with each other, for warmth; or frolic with each other and play king of the mountain on hay bales, or let their bodies soften into the pasture to drink in the sun.

Forty years on a family farm has taught me that Saoirse will either get over this or find a different path. If she stays on the agrarian path, she won’t grow callous to the daily tragedies. She will experience them as fully as the rest of us. But she’ll learn to watch for the next moment of bliss, and she will move toward it as naturally as she moves toward the pull of the sun.

I don’t dare say any of this as she expresses her anguish. Her emotions are real, and she must be allowed to feel them freely, in her own way. They may be old to her father and me, but they are new for her. We get home, and Saoirse and I go for a walk, our arms wrapped around each other. We skip supper and quietly climb the stairs to my bed, where we cuddle and read together.

Being a lawyer would have spared me from Saoirse’s heartbreak on this night. Studying decimal numbers may have protected her body from this day’s driving rain and snow; and it would have sheltered her heart from the sadness that ensued. But the gravitational pull of the sun is fierce. And when we surrender to it by way of an agrarian life, we surrender to all the elements of nature. The day I chose not to be a lawyer was the day I knew I would ultimately submit to the sun. There will come a point on Saoirse’s path when she will have to make a similar choice. I cannot push one way or another. I can only wait.

The next morning, she comes down the stairs to find me at my desk. She wraps her arms around me in greeting, her body once more in a state of bliss just to be alive and full of love. We gaze out the window, hoping to see a change in the weather. But the sky is gray, the ground is wet.

“Would you rather stay home today?” I must give her the choice. She looks around the room, and I watch her carefully noting the warmth of the fire in my office, the smell of the coffee Bob has freshly ground. I see her weighing her choice carefully. “I’ll go to the farm.” I hope the sun will shine for her.

Shannon Hayes is the author of Radical Homemakers: Reclaiming Domesticity from a Consumer Culture, The Grassfed Gourmet and The Farmer and the Grill. She is the host of Grassfedcooking.com and RadicalHomemakers.com. Hayes works with her family on Sap Bush Hollow Farm in upstate New York.

Traditional Wisdom to the Rescue in Cyclone Season Malini Shankar Inter Press Service Blair Regional Centre of Anthropological Survey of India.

The outrigger canoes and dugout boats are eco-friendly to coral reefs in shallows seas. “The people of Chowra are best known for making fishing boats. In return they barter other goods and services that money cannot buy in the tribal district of Nicobar Islands,” Justin told IPS. “The Great Andamanese shift their fishing activities to streams and rivers inland when the sea is rough,” added Prof. Abbi.

In Orissa, the tribes and people of the state use five different varieties of rice to complement the seasonal changes in the disaster-prone state.

Alternate cropping with complementary crops that can act as natural pesticide is another tradition of the Soligas in B. R. T. Hills in Karnataka in India. The Soligas also know the art of refrigerating food in bamboo stems.

The tribes of Ladakh refrigerate yoghurt in yak hide bags to make butter tea. “To cope with extreme weather in Ladakh’s cold desert, they consume fatty foods and drink lots of butter tea,” Chewang Norphel, a social worker in Leh, told IPS. “The tribal houses are made of sun-dried mud brick with mud plaster and low roof. Small sized door and windows facing the north side are other features of ecofriendly architecture.”

According to Dr. Avula Laxman, senior deputy director in the Division of Community Studies of National Nutrition Monitoring Bureau – National Institute of Nutrition, “Yes, tribals do adopt

coping strategies, especially during natural calamities like droughts/floods.

“They adopt different measures such as consumption of low cost foods, reduce food consumption, borrow food or cash depending on their socio economic status, seek assistance from Government or Administration, use stocked grains, or food stocks or rely on savings, may migrate for employment or sell assets to buy food” according to a survey conducted by the National Institute of Nutrition in Hyderabad, Laxman told IPS. The practise of communal cooking and communal eating is based on sharing resources, and individualism is anathema to tribal society. Another best practice that they have “transferred as a low cost technology” to modernised humanity is breast milk banks. Traditional wisdom has it that if a mother dies at childbirth and the child survives, any other lactating mother in the community or even in a hospital assumes the responsibility of breast feeding.

Even when a natural mother lacks enough breast milk, other nursing mothers take over to provide the infant essential nutrition and resilience.

In Jarawa society, in fact, every lactating mother breast feeds every newborn infant to foster a bonding in the newer generations, according to the book “Andaman and Nicobar Islands in the 20th Century” by Kiran Dhingra.

“Their kinship terms have evolved.

It is not surprising that lactating women who stay back in Strait Island get to babysit the kids of those away in employment

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in Port Blair. It is therefore not surprising that they breast feed another infant,” said Abbi. This tradition permeates a crosssection of Indian society, transcending barriers of caste and creed. This is the root of the concept that there are no orphans in tribal societies even if they have “precise linguistic expressions for bereavement of siblings and in laws,” according to Prof. Abbi. Laxman said that, “Tribals are trying to adopt urban and rural cultures, because of encroachment/migration of rural populations into tribal areas. The tribals’ unique culture is totally changed. “Because of the Public Distribution System programmes, the tribals are compelled to eat rice continuously, because rice is chiefly/easily available at fair price shops. They are changing their healthy lifestyles to modern unhealthy lifestyles. This was observed especially in Kerala tribal population, leading to high stress, insecurity in their lives, leading to high hypertension and high diabetes even among tribal populations.”

Call them fair weather friends but the hill tribes like “Gaddi and Lahauli tribes of Lahaul and Spiti in Himachal Pradesh India adapt to the geomorphological conditions in the avalanche-prone area to shift their livestock to greener pastures in the plains during summers and stock up food grains and dry rations for the long winters,” said forest officer Hira Lal Rana in Lahaul, Himachal Pradesh.

Prof. Abbi sums up the import of traditional wisdom for disaster resilience.

“Going by economists’ definition of supply and demand forces of the market, the Jarawas live in opulence because their demand and supply of their needs is favourably tilted towards the Jarawas. “The forests supply more than enough of what they need so they live in opulence. Economists say reaching an equilibrium point of demand and supply curve is the hallmark of development. This is met by the forests. They don’t need and they don’t want our system which creates subservience.”

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Manmohan Singh's legacy: A mixed bag for history to judge Source: iaNS istory will be kinder to me, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh stated at his final press conference earlier this year. As he ends his decade-long tenure as head of two successive UPA governments, his stock as a middle class hero stood severely diminished due to a floundering economy, shrinking opportunities and the acts of omission and commission of colleagues in the government and party.

Yet, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh stands out in eyes of those who worked with him and knew him closely as a visionary and statesman who pushed through policy moves that he felt were critical for the country in the long run, had a strategic conception of a rising India's place in the world while also keeping the shaky UPA boat afloat till the end, swallowing his own pride many a time in the process. He exhibited rare daring and passion at least twice in his public life -- once when as finance minister he sculpted India's economic reforms in 1991 in the face of a balance of payments crisis, and then, at the fag end of UPA-I, when as prime minister he determinedly pushed through the landmark India-US nuclear deal.

A key proponent of inclusive growth, whose economic ideology of combining development with social equity was shaped by his teachers at Cambridge, Manmohan Singh -- who also studied at Oxford and taught at the Delhi School of Economics -- piloted the key welfare initiative in the shape of the rural employment guarantee scheme.

The scheme that guaranteed a member of every rural poor household 100 days' employment in local infrastructure and development projects was a hit and helped the prime minister win a second term with 200-plus seats. But, according to his former media advisor Sanjaya Baru, the credit for the scheme was hijacked by the Congress party, which sought to showcase it as the achievement of Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi.

Baru says an attempt by him to play it up as the prime minister's birthday gift to the nation on Sep 26, 2007, fetched him an admonition from Manmohan Singh. "Let them take all the credit. I don't need it. I am only doing my work," he said, Baru recounts in his book "The Accidental Prime Minister: The Making and Unmaking of Manmohan Singh".

That line reveals Manmohan Singh's keenness to always remain in the shadows, behind party president Sonia Gandhi, never striving to project himself more than her or the Gandhi family. After all, the family appointed him prime minister in the first place over many other aspirants. "Dr Singh had a powerful story to tell about his achievements as prime minister, but he invariably shied away from telling it...'I want my work to speak for me'," Baru quotes him as saying in his book.

Though criticised at home and described by the opposition as "weak, indecisive and heading a government that was most corrupt", Manmohan Singh was a different person during his diplomatic trips abroad -- confident and in charge, not hobbled by the pulls and pressures of party and coalition politics.

B.K. Chaturvedi, who was cabinet secretary from 2004 to June 2007 and worked closely with Manmohan Singh, says that the "enormous respect which the global community, including China, USA, Russia and other major powers gave to India was due to his personality and enormous depth of knowledge of economic issues". "His quiet handling of the 2006 tsunami and other major disasters, his humility and enormous courtesy to his colleagues, coupled with depth of knowledge and his continuous emphasis on introducing reforms. He is a prime minister with great vision for India," Chaturvedi told IANS. Outlining his legacy, Chaturvedi said: "The prime minister's legacy to the government is, first, handling the nuclear apartheid of India and making it part of the international community, increasing per capita incomes three times during the last decade, sharp reduction in poverty, rapid increase in rural consumption, enhancing citizens' rights in governance, and bringing transparency through RTI, MGNREGA, Food Security and other legislation, large investments in social sector and a quantum leap in infrastructure investments in the economy."

Former foreign secretary Shyam Saran, who was closely connected with the negotiations of the IndiaUS civil nuclear deal, said Singh would be "remembered as one of India's most cerebral and visionary

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here is no question that Naga society has had a patriarchal social system since time immemorial. However, even in such a patriarchal society, people were not born carrying warriors, kings and queens in a carrier (even though they honored the warriors, kings, and queens in the village). If there were such a tradition of carrying honored people in any of the Naga tribes, then it could not be denied that the practice of hoisting great men and women in the Naga society emerged from within the Naga society rather than an alien idea or culture.

Before one reads this entire article, one can easily understand the meaning of the title, The Misinterpreted Gospel in the Naga Society, by observing the picture of the first American missionary carried by a man during their missionary journey in the Naga society; on the other hand the caption below the picture “MEM SAHIB IN HER “PULL-MAN”, itself, may give a quick indication to the title of the article. (For those who do not understand the meaning of ‘Mem Sahib’ it means wife or female elite in Hindi, it is not a Naga dialect.)

The Gospel which came in 1872 (V.K.Nuh. 2006) gradually spread to different parts of the places inhabited by Naga and is found to be the misinterpreted Gospel. It is the misinterpreted Gospel because the ideology of the American Baptist missionaries, along with the Gospel, hegemonized the innocence of the pre-Christianity Naga indigenous people based on Western ideas of “orientalism”. Edward Said describes such orientalism of the late eighteenth century as a Western style of restructuring, dominating, and having authority over the orient (Said. 1079). Put another way, externally imposed ideas about another culture with no legitimate authority, only assumptions fortified by a sense of superiority. Referring to Said in his description of orientalism, the American Baptist missionaries oriental-

Manmohan Singh's legacy Pluses 1. Nuclear Deal. Pushing through the Indo-US civil nuclear deal and determinedly garnering all the support it needed.

2. Rural employment. The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, a scheme to provide 100 days of employment to a member of every poor rural family a year, was said to have won his government a second term with 200 plus seats.

3. Poverty reduction. India reduced its number of poor from 407 million to 269 million, a fall of 138 million in seven years between 2004-05 and 2011-12.

4. Rights-based empowering legislation. Passing the Right to Information Act, the Right to Education Act and the Food Security Act to empower the poor and the powerless.

5. Polio eradication. Pushing through with India's polio vaccination drive to make the country polio-free.

6. Biometric identification. Launching the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) scheme in 2009 to provide every person residing in India with an Aadhar identity card.

7. DBT. Rolling out the direct benefit cash transfer scheme, in what was termed a game-changer for UPA II, to ensure that cash benefits directly reach the poor and underprivileged.

8. Foreign policy. Making friends with an adversarial China, by pushing trade to high levels and also inking a border defence pact for peace and tranquillity on the border. Made India's voice heard in global forums with greater respect, forged a strategic partnership with the US and elevated ties with Japan.

9. Infrastructure. The government has pushed for major infrastructure projects, including the Delhi-Mumbai infrastructure corridor. More than 17,000 km highways developed; greater reach of rural electrification, railways, telecom widened; infrastructure in the northeast boosted.

Foodgrain production reaches record heights.

Power capacity more than doubled to 243,000 MW in 2013-14 from 113,000 MW in 2003-04.

Minuses 1. Corruption. Biggest factor that has proved the undoing of the UPA government. Manmohan Singh, though himself impeccably honest, has been accused of turning a Nelson's eye to political and bureaucratic corruption and wrongdoings by several ministerial colleagues. The government was rocked by several scams, among them the coal mine allocation controversy, the telecom spectrum allocation controversy, 2010 Commonwealth Games controversy, alleged bribery in purchase of VVIP helicopters, cash for vote scam of 2008; and Adarsh housing society scam.

2. Policy paralysis. The government is seen as hesitating to take major economic decisions like introducing FDI in retail to revive flagging economy, largely due to pressure from allies and even resistance from his own party. He could not take his own ministers along on several decisions while many reformist measures failed to get parliamentary support.

3. Foreign Policy: Failure to sign the Teesta water accord with Bangladesh because of a state government's recalcitrance. Also criticised for mishandling relations with smaller neighbours, especially the Maldives and Sri Lanka. Failed to make much headway with Pakistan and got little time from his domestic problems to attend to other important regions, particularly Africa, the Middle East and Latin America.

4. Economy. India's slowing economic growth and persistent high inflation, coupled with a huge populace of youth with aspirations remaining to be fulfilled, have added to the growing dissatisfaction with the government as it misjudged the implications of the global slowdown on the economy and failed to act in time.

5. Communication failure. The government's inability - and the prime minister's personal reluctance - to communicate effectively to the people, challenge the propaganda of its critics and project even the good work it was doing, was one of its biggest undoings and showed how it it lacked a key element of modern governance.

leaders who carried his wisdom and intellectual brilliance with rare modesty." After the 2009 mandate, with the obstructive Left parties out of government, things should have looked up for the prime minister in the second term. Instead they deteriorated. The chipping away at the position of the prime minister by the other centre of power that existed, Congress president Sonia Gandhi who wielded the upper hand, led to the unravelling of UPA-II, according to many.

According to one of his technocrat advisers, the turning point for Manmohan Singh in his second term came when he underwent his second quadruple bypass surgery in 2009. "Thereafter, he seemed to be giving up. He lost his drive and he became completely non-confrontational and was unwilling to intercede in ministerial and official disputes," the adviser told IANS, not wishing to be identified.

Another official at the PMO, who was privy to cabinet issues, said in more instances than one, when ministers came to him to resolve policy disagreements between them, Manmohan Singh asked them to "resolve the problem between themselves" and refused to intervene. He even told a senior government functionary, who suggested that he talk to the media more often, that he talk to the media on his behalf. "He just seemed to be giving up at one time," recounted the aide.

In his latest blog, BJP leader Arun Jaitley sums up Manmohan Singh's position: "...He was literally a Prime Minister announced by Sonia ji. He had to function within that limitation." He adds: "...He never wanted to rock the boat. He knew that he was vested with limited power and on all major decisions he had to keep the party and its first family in good humour."

BJP spokesman Prakash Javadekar told IANS: "Manmohan Singh was a good man but, unfortunately, he was the head of a bad government. He allowed the demeaning of his own office, he failed to stop the country from being looted by his ministers, and was also responsible for policy paralysis."

But V. Narayanasamy, Minister of State in the

Prime Minister's Office (PMO), said the prime minister "will leave the legacy of a good administrator".

Calling Manmohan Singh an "upright and honest PM", Narayanasamy said he saw "the merit of every case before taking a decision".

On the opposition charges that the PM was "weak", and that this led to a "dual power center", Narayanasamy said it was "wrong criticism". "It is on the basis of the party's policy that the government came to power. The party matters and it cannot be ignored. The party's ideology drives the government and both are interlinked," the minister told IANS. The prime minister's recent communication advisor Pankaj Pachauri said that among his biggest acts was he kept the economy on good trajectory -- but for the past two years when the economy was affected by the global downturn -- and has written a new paradigm of inclusiveness. Describing the prime minister, Pachauri told IANS: "I have never seen him angry. He has a fine sense of humour. He is very down to earth and has good equations with all ministers and colleagues."

According to Baru, Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi's outburst last year when he publicly trashed an ordinance to save convicted legislators from disqualification as "complete nonsense", was part of a larger plan to replace the prime minister and anoint Rahul Gandhi. Baru had publicly said then that the prime minister should quit after the insulting remarks.

Former cabinet secretary T.S.R. Subramaniam, who held the post during 1996-1998, feels Manmohan Singh was "a good man" and was "chosen specifically to play second fiddle". "My own judgment is that he was not cut out for that job. Leadership's job is to take decisions. The prime minister is not supposed to be number two. I think it (the post) was too big for him," Subramaniam told IANS. "It is also important that the top man leaves the post in a better condition.

He (Manmohan Singh) has diminished that office.

The next prime minister will have to bring it back to its original (stature) and it is a difficult (task)."

‘No plan B’ Anando Bhakto

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he fallibility of exit polls notwithstanding, the BJP and the RSS seem to have taken the prediction of a simple majority for the National Democratic Alliance for granted and are tight lipped -- at least in public -- about any possible post-poll strategy including a reconsideration on the prime ministerial candidate if it falls short of the magic figure.

"We don't have any plan B or plan C... we are confident that the NDA will cross the 300-mark," BJP leader Ravi Shankar Prasad told IANS when it was put to him that at least one of the big surveys -- by Times NOW-ORG -- has ruled out the Bharatiya Janata Party-led coalition touching even the half-way mark of 272 when counting for the 2014 general election takes place May 16.

He dismissed speculations that the increased meetings between top BJP leaders and the RSS brass had anything to do with the arithmetic of new alliances in the 16th parliament.

"The BJP-RSS meeting was not for chalking out future strategy, as results will be in our favour. RSS workers were involved at the grassroots, so we went to meet them," Prasad asserted, overlooking the fact that exit polls have often over-estimated in favour of the BJP, most notoriously in 2004, when exit polls predicted an NDA sweep even as the then Atal Bihari Vajpayeeled coalition performed its worst in several years.

Some experts believe that BJP may in private be uncertain of a clear 272 for the NDA, but it is evading the possibility since any talk on assembling new allies - the Bahujan Samaj Party or the Trinamool Congress - would mean an inescapable debate on replacing the prime ministerial candidate.

While BSP supremo Mayawati has ruled out the possibility of supporting them with Narendra Modi at the helm, TMC chief Mamata Banerjee was involved in a bitter verbal spat with the Gujarat chief minister in her recent public addresses.

"The BJP wants to come to power anyhow. If they are within striking distance to the halfway mark, there may be a rethinking on Modi to attract either Mamata or Mayawati.

I would be surprised if they decide to sit in the opposition instead," Pradeep Kumar Dutta, political analyst and professor in Delhi University, told IANS. Interestingly, the BJP leadership has not once said on record that they would give up power rather than succumb to pressure from allies who may demand a person with softer public image replaced Modi. They have repeatedly ducked the question, saying it was not imperative for them to answer "hypothetical" queries.

A senior BJP leader even suspected the motive behind such questions.

The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, the ideological fountainhead of the BJP, too has been evading this question.

"Which exit poll is showing we will not get the numbers," asked RSS spokesperson Ram Madhav in reply to a question by IANS on whether the BJP-RSS meetings involved any discussion on an alternative leadership to placate likely king-makers if the NDA performed less emphatically than exit polls suggested.

But experts believe BJP president Rajnath Singh's meeting with Sushma Swaraj may be a step in that direction. While ABP news has predicted 281 seats for NDA, Headlines Today and CNN/IBN have said the saffron front would score 272 (+/- 11) and 270-282, respectively.

"BJP will go back to its tested model of having a soft person as prime minister and a hardliner as the deputy. In this case, (Lal Krishna) Advani or Sushma will be that soft person who may be inducted as prime minister if the potential allies are extremely insistent they would not back Modi," JNU professor and commentator Manindra Thakur told IANS. Datta seconded the thought and said giving up power will be a non-viable option for the BJP. "A lot of money has been pulled in for their (BJP's) campaign in the form of donations, and that is likely to have come from the corporates. The BJP will be under obligation to return the favour through policy initiatives favouring their donors. They can't decide to quit power over Modi," he said.

Experts also ruled out any rebellion from the Modi camp if he is kept out from the top job.

"BJP is being controlled by the RSS in a big way, and Modi will not assert himself beyond the RSS. Modi may eventually come to an understanding where Advani is the figure head of the government and the party network is controlled by him," Thakur said.

For now, BJP is hopeful, or at least putting up a pretence of it, that there would not be a situation where they have to hunt for more allies. "Politics is not a game of imagination. It is based on ground realities. The ground reality of the day is that there is a clear wave for Narendra Modi which will translate into a clear victory for the NDA," BJP leader Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi told IANS.

The Misinterpreted Gospel In The Naga Society ized the Gospel upon the indigenous Naga people according to the Western concept of power and hegemonic ideology in such a way that the Gospel was a means to serve the preacher as someone who brings good news to indigenous people. This Gospel inevitably is in contrast to the true meaning of the Gospel which means the Good News.

The same Gospel from the era of the picture above remains in the Naga society, yesterday and today. Many Christian church leaders in the Naga society maintain the ‘Mam/Sir Sahib’(which I term elite male/female) Gospel that expects followers to carry the goods of any preacher in times of any Gospel tour, church visits, inter-church activities, and so on. The continuity of such a Gospel contrasts the Gospel of Jesus Christ. The basic theology in the Gospel of Jesus Christ begins from cleaning and washing the feet of the disciples mentioned in the Gospel of John 13:4f-5 “So he got up from the meal, took off his outer clothing, and wrapped a towel around his waist. 5 After that, he poured water into a basin and began to wash his disciples’ feet, drying them with the towel that was wrapped around him” (The Holy Bible NIV. 1948).This passage vividly conveys the metaphor that the shepherd’s humility to serve the sheep is the primal goal and objective. A missionary or any church leader is not to be carried by the sheep.

One cannot blame the naïve Nagas who, in their innocence, accepted such a Gospel during those days when seeing a white man was akin to seeing the ultimate decision maker of their lives, both before and after death. Having this naïve and pure mind, the words of the white missionaries to “be saved” were accepted as the ultimate authority. Taking advantage of such naiveté of the early Naga people, the white missionaries raided the Gospel against

Lemwang Chuhwanglim Researcher and activist

Naga culture. The culture and traditions of the indigenous Naga people began to suffer and some Naga even ostracized their own culture and traditions as a result. It was not because the Gospel was literally against the Naga culture, but the Gospel was interpreted in such a way that was against Naga culture and way of life. Richard Niebuhr offers a significant study of “Christ against culture” in which Christians consider Christ as the Lordship of everything and the Gospel is interpreted as abandoning the world and loving Christ (Niebuhr, 1956).

Such a concept of obliterating the world and loving Christ was misinterpreted among the Naga indigenous people to leave their early culture and accept Christ. Anyone who follows the early culture was considered against the Gospel. Having a similar understanding of the Gospel, American Baptist missionaries threatened many Naga indigenous people to abandon many cultural and traditional practices. Comparatively speaking, very little was done by the white missionaries, but even more annihilation of culture was done by the Naga evangelists, missionaries and church leaders by using what I call a “copy paste (American Baptist mission) strategy”.

The Gospel, directly and indirectly, teaches to value names of anything in this world, but not to degrade and manipulate people by tagging exotic names which, actually, do not belong to anyone. It is instead the Gospel to save people from oppression – not to oppress people in speech and deed. Oppression does not meanonly a physical subjugation, but also by words. The American Baptist missionaries called Nagas a few incredible names which,

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whether by a missionary or not, should not be used to describe anyone. They called Nagas barbaric, uncivilized, wild people with savage oratory mannerisms, savage costumes, savage styles of worship, demon worshipers, heathens with annoying habits, and so on (M.M. Clark. 1978). Farid Esack referred to a similar kind of oppression as apartheid – a white ruling state (Esack, 1998) – when the whites oppressed the blacks in the context of Africa.

Although the issue between the Naga people and the American Baptist missionaries was not as much about skin color such as between the African and the white westerner, it did utilize the system of the Gospel according to the white man/woman being imposed upon the brown-skinned people. I call this the apartheid Gospel (oppressive Gospel) in relation to the context of the Nagas. Regardless of what any missionary from any developed or developing society may have said (or continues to say, in some form), freedom of speech is not to indoctrinate any indigenous people in any society and cannot be used to hegemonize any indigenous people with any exotic names which do not belong to any of the inside members. A believer (Christian) missionary cannot codify an unbeliever (Non-Christian) as a less privileged being, for the Gospel says all men and women are equal before Him. Civilization in the Naga society was already there before the American Baptist missionaries visited Nagaland. The amazing architecture, culture, and houses built artistically according to the Naga culture have proven the existence of an early civilization among the Naga society. If civilization did not take place among the Nagas, or if it appeared uncivilized when the American missionaries arrived, the white missionaries would not be

carried in a creatively made Pull-man. Like Antonio Gramsci says, society is inherently educational and every social activity is an intrinsic part of philosophy or vis-à-vis (Adamson, 1980). Naga indigenous people were inherently educated in a different level. Philosophy, wisdom and knowledge were parts of the social activities and that is why indigenous Naga are not too far from the other educated and indigenous people in the developed/developing world, yesterday and today.

Having said about the misleading, misused and misinterpreted Gospel in the Naga society, it is inevitable for every Naga to acknowledge the white missionaries for introducing schools, medical service and other vocational institutions in the Naga society, which are some of the most continuing basic needs in the modern Naga society. To see the positive side of the white missionaries who made memorable contributions to the Naga, one can agree with V.K. Nuh that despite the opposition from the Indian Government against the missionaries, the white missionaries have contributed a good amount to the Nagas.

Today, any Naga intellectuals must play a vital role to streamline the misinterpreted Gospel into a more contextualized enculturation between the Gospel and Naga culture and traditions, as well as the way in which the Gospel interacts with the Naga culture. Enculturation means a meeting point of religion and culture in the form of a dialectical approach rather than religious oppression of culture or religion relegating culture. Accordingly, Naga intellectuals can rethink, reframe, redefine and reinterpret the early American version of the Gospel to more fully contextualize the Gospel in the Naga society. Hence, one should avoid misinterpreting this article as to revive some noncontextual aspects of the Naga culture such as headhunting, preserving human skulls at home, or even hanging an enemy’s hair in a basket during cultural dances and festivals.

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

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Gandhi dynasty facing more than election defeat NEW DELHI, May 15 (REuTERS): The NehruGandhi dynasty that has defined Indian politics for nearly a century faces more than humiliating election defeat when results come out on Friday.

An expected triumph for opposition leader Narendra Modi could condemn the family to political oblivion.

Often described as a mixture of a royal family with the tragic glamour of the Kennedys, the dynasty gave India its first prime minister, the empire-beating barrister Jawaharlal Nehru.

His daughter, Indira Gandhi, and grandson, Rajiv, both held the post subsequently, and both were assassinated.

By some measures, the family was in decline long before the parliamentary election; it has not won a majority in decades.

Shy scion Rahul Gandhi’s bid to stay in power for a third consecutive term was called lacklustre even by allies, and his speeches at rallies up and down the country in recent months were a far cry from Nehru’s legendary rhetoric.

Compare that with overwhelming favourite Modi’s electrifying campaign, during which he re-

Congress sources said they were worried he planned to target their very existence in politics.

“We’re assuming this will be one of his priorities,” said a Congress strategist who is close to the Gandhi family. “The family is not worried, but the party is,” he said.

peatedly derided Rahul, 43, and his mother Sonia for keeping India poor, and the house of Gandhi looks vulnerable.

Few would write off the clan completely. Sonia, the power behind the prime ministerial throne occupied by Manmohan Singh, delivered Congress its worst result to date in 1999. She then led the party to victory in the next two elections.

Nonetheless, leaders of both the Gandhi’s Congress party and Modi’s Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) said they

believed Modi would seek to loosen the dynasty’s grip on India if he wins.

They pointed to his home state of Gujarat, where he has systematically purged rivals from institutions and won three consecutive terms, capitalising on his pro-business policies.

“He will defang them politically. Look at what he did in Gujarat: he has just reduced the Congress to a non-player,” said Kanchan Gupta, member of the BJP’s national executive committee.

Modi has questioned

Sonia’s non-native roots - the widow of Rajiv was born in Italy. On Thursday, a BJP ally called Rahul a “foreigner”, even though he was born in New Delhi.

During the election, Modi contrasted his humble past as the low-caste son of a tea seller with Rahul’s privileged and cloistered life in plush districts of the capital.

In one recent newspaper interview, Modi said the family’s leadership could come under threat if the party fails to win 100 of parliament’s 543 seats, as some polls predict.

REWRITING HISTORY The scale of Modi’s antipathy to the Gandhis was on display at the start of the campaign last year, when he launched the construction of the world’s tallest statue, a $338 million, 182-metre tall homage to Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, Nehru’s deputy and interior minister, who was often at odds with him.

Modi, a Hindu nationalist,seesPatelasasymbolofan India imagined without the dynasty, who would have led the country down a different, right-wing path if he had not beenthwartedbythesocialist and atheist Nehru.

“Every Indian regrets Sardar Patel did not become the first prime minister. Had he been the first prime minister, the country’s fate and face would have been completely different,” Modi said at the time.

The Congress party has lost power several times

since Nehru’s era. After his daughter Indira Gandhi led the party to a crushing defeat in 1977, the prime minister who replaced her humiliated the family with arrests and investigations.

But that caused a backlash of sympathy among the public that helped propel her back to power with a landslide majority three years later.

If elected, Modi is not expected to follow the same course of using tax and police agencies to harass the Gandhis. In a campaign speech last month, Modi said he did not believe in “vendetta” politics or witch-hunts.

“The Janata Party government was in too much of a hurry,” said Gupta.

“Modi is too savvy to be seen to be openly persecuting the dynasty. He has made it very clear that he is not going to be vindictive in politics.”

Going by his record in Gujarat, Modi prefers to move methodically against his opponents - often with the help of close aide Amit Shah, who held multiple posts in the Gujarat government and led Modi’s campaign in Uttar Pradesh, politically the most important state, during the election.

After Modi took office

SC judge recuses himself from hearing Sahara case

NEW DELHI, May 15 (PTI): In a sudden twist in the Sahara group case, Supreme Court judge Justice J S Khehar has recused himself from hearing the matter following which a new bench has been constituted. A “communication dated May 6, 2014 received from Justice J S Khehar was placed before the Chief Justice of India on May 7. On May 7 itself, the CJI has been pleased to constitute another bench to hear the matter relating to Sahara Group....,” Rakesh Sharma, deputy registrar of the apex court, said in a release on Thursday.

The release, read out by the official at a press conference here, said that Justice Khehar had written a letter the day when he and Justice K S Radhakrishnan decided a petition filed by Sahara group chief Subrata Roy. Justice Radhakrishnan, who retired on May 14, has gone on record saying

that the bench was under immense pressure in the Sahara case.

The SC official, however, did not disclose the details of the new bench which will now hear the petitions relating to Sahara group. The bench of justices K S Radhakrishnan and J S Khehar in its May 6 judgment had upheld its order jailing Subrata Roy and rejected his claim that rules of natural justice were not followed in the case.

65-year-old Roy, who has been in jail since March 4 for non-refund of over Rs 20,000 crore to depositors, was asked by the court to make a fresh proposal for paying Rs 10,000 crore to get bail. The court had passed the order on a petition filed by Roy challenging constitutional validity of its order passed on March 4 by which he was sent to jail for not complying with its order to deposit around Rs 20,000 crore of investors money with Sebi.

maestro Aneesh Pradhan; writer and director Anusha Rizvi; Hansal Mehta, writer and director; activist Javed Anand; Zoya Hasan, professor at Jawaharlal Nehru University; and singer-musician Shubha Mudgal, among others.

They said the “communal forces represented and endorsed by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Modi” also work against the interests and rights of cultural and linguistic minorities, tribals and women across communities. “The BJP, under Modi, has also threatened constitutional bodies like the Election Commission. Dissenting voices have been intimidated and asked to leave the country,” they said.

The eminent personalities expressed apprehension about the collusion of big corporate houses with communal and authoritarian

NEW DELHI, May 15 (IaNS): More than 70% of healthcare in India is provided by corporate houses as a result of which poor people are not able to afford the high cost of medical care provided by private hospitals, health experts have said.

"Corporates give good healthcare but charge a lot of money," M.V. Padma Srivastava of the department of neurology at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) said at a seminar at the India International Centre.

"Seventy percent of healthcare at present is given by corporates. Only 30% can afford it. So the others, that is the poor, cannot go anywhere," she said. "Doesn't this need soul searching within our policy experts," Srivastava questioned.

The seminar 'High Stakes of the Withdrawal of the state from Healthcare' discussed the role of state in proIndian workers prepare sweets anticipating election victory for the Bharatiya Janata Party viding healthcare to the people of the country. Srivas(BJP) at the party’s headquarters, in New Delhi on Thursday, May 15. Official results are tava observed that: "Health is not a luxury, it cannot be expected on Friday, but exit polls by at least six major Indian TV stations show the BJP is bartered. It has to be the state's responsibility". likely to win enough seats to form a coalition government. (AP Photo)

ideas, visible starkly in the election campaign, seeping into the structures of governance “if a Modi-led” NDA government is formed and warned that all opponents of this brand of politics will be hounded and hunted, as they indeed have been in Gujarat.

“It is only reasonable to anticipate that the policies of discrimination and ghettoisation practised

by Modi’s government in Gujarat will become the national norm.

Even more disturbingly, much of the mainstream media today is not only acting pliant, they are carrying a barrage of misleading facts to promote Modi, leading to legitimate fears that they may further abandon their watchdog role,” they said.

Under such “alarming scenario”, they directly called upon the secular elected members to ensure that

10-year-old writes to Raghuram, offers $20 to help the economy

MuMbaI, May 15 (agENcIES): When a 10-year-old resident of Gurgaon read about the RBI’s efforts to prevent the rupee from sliding further against the dollar, she decided she needed to do something about it. And Laila Indira Alva did just that -- she sent the RBI governor Raghuram Rajan $20 that she had saved as a contribution to the bank’s foreign exchange reserves.

The BBC reported that she enclosed the money in a letter to Rajan in which she wrote: “Dr Raghuram Rajan, please bring in some new ideas that will improve our economy. I want people to come to India and not to think it’s corrupt and a dump!”

But Alva was in for a surprise of her own. A few days after she sent the letter to Rajan, the RBI governor sent her a reply with her $20 bill enclosed inside and in-

Laila Indira Alva. (File Photo)

vited her to visit him. “I am deeply touched by your kind gesture,” Rajan wrote in his reply. “I am aware this is a challenging time for the country and I have no doubt the economy will emerge stronger. I am returning the $20 note you had sent with the assurance that we have adequate foreign exchange

reserves in RBI to manage the situation.” When Alva headed to meet Rajan a few days later, she had several questions in place, like why the RBI has never had a female governor. “He said maybe you can become one some day,” BBC quoted Alva repeating her conversation with Rajan.

SURVIVAL INSTINCTS While Modi may not press legal cases against the Gandhis or their associates for alleged corruption - a move some in his party would encourage - a resounding victory on Friday would help him make the

BJP India’s natural party of power, not Congress.

“We’re looking at being out of power for 10 years,” said the party strategist, when asked what the implication of a strong BJP majority would be for the Congress party.

Even so, Congress is unlikely to ditch the Gandhis any time soon, not least because the party has recovered from previous defeats.

In the hours after the exit polls came out, party leaders were quick to shift the blame for any potential loss away from Rahul Gandhi’s handling of the campaign.

“There are no leadership changes, there are no nights of the long knives, there’s no mindless recrimination, and as a political party that has known defeat before we work towards victory again,” said Mani Shankar Aiyar, a former minister and family loyalist.

And for many in the party who might be looking for fresh blood, the search ends with Rahul’s charismatic sister Priyanka, who had an important backroom role in the campaign.

“Party men would embrace her with both arms the moment she wants to join - in fact they’d grow a third arm to welcome her,” Aiyar said.

State goes missing in healthcare in India

Eminent personalities call for ‘secular’ govt at Centre MuMbaI, May 15 (IaNS): Around 900 eminent personalities from different walks of life Thursday called upon all secular parties to “ensure formation of a secular government” at the Centre after the Lok Sabha election results are announced Friday.

“We are alarmed by the divisive, abusive and violent Lok Sabha election campaign that has just been concluded. The BJP under Narendra Modi’s leadership has been especially virulent in ridiculing and insulting religious and sexual minorities, Dalits and people with disabilities through its campaign,” they said in a signed statement released here.

Some of the prominent signatories are: Kathak danseuse Aditi Mangaldas; documentary filmmaker Anand Patwardhan; tabla

in Gujarat in 2001, Shah, a former stockbroker, helped him consolidate power by squeezing Congress loyalists out of non-state institutions, such as the state’s banking and dairy cooperatives, which are economically powerful and influence the lives of millions of voters.

He also helped the BJP wrest control of the Gujarat state cricket association from Congress after 16 years, getting Modi elected to head the organization in 2009. Cricket is closely tied with politics in India, where the sport is hugely popular and politicians revel in exposure to it.

Modi is now the longest-serving chief minister in Gujarat’s history, a fact that has helped lure high profile defectors away from Congress ranks, another favoured tactic. In the last two years, hundreds of Congress workers have switched sides in the state, including some of its top leaders.

the Constitution, its values and the future of this nation are protected.

“There is nothing inevitable about the rise of Modi to prime ministership. The keys to forming government in Delhi are held by all of you. We now remind some of you of the promises you have made during this election campaign... We along with millions of citizens voted for you because of these promises. After all, secularism is not just a catchword in election manifestos. It is the backbone of our democracy,” they said.

“We appeal to you and all other secular parties to come together to ensure the formation of a secular government, and prevent the formation of a Narendra Modi-led BJP/NDA central government. We gave you our votes. We hope you will honour our trust,” they urged.

Goa church may approach UNESCO against garbage plant

PaNajI, May 15 (IaNS): Goa’s Archbishop Filipe Neri Ferrao will be roped in to join efforts to stop a garbage plant being set up near the Old Goa Church complex, a world heritage site endorsed by UNESCO. Fr. Visitacao Monteiro, a parish priest from St. Andre village which is in close proximity to both the dump and the 16th century church complex, has said the Archbishop would be asked to write to the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) to stop the BJP-led coalition government from going ahead with its garbage dumping plan.

“Yes, we will ask him to step in,” Monteiro told reporters at a press conference here Thursday to protest against the move.

“There is no garbage management.

The earlier sites which were acquired for its management have been turned into garbage dumps which have rendered

nearby areas unlivable,” Monteiro said.

“Having a waste management site within such an area will certainly cause nuisance to the tourists and create a bad image for the state. Besides, the Old Goa is a sacred place for all in the state, irrespective of their religious faiths,” he said.

The garbage management zone near the complex is likely to be notified by the state government soon, even as the City Corporation of Panaji has sought to identify the designated 1.18 lakh sq metre area as an industrial area, to facilitate the plant.

The city generates an average of 7-8 tons of non-biodegradable garbage and 25 tons of biodegradable garbage everyday.

The church, located 15 km from Panaji, is especially venerated because it holds the mortal remains of St. Francis Xavier who is known as the region’s patron saint.

Low representation does not deter Indian women from voting

NEW DELHI, May 15 (IaNS): They might not be getting their due when it comes to representation in parliament, but women have increased their participation in the voting process by nearly 10 percent in this general election, even surpassing men in eight states.

Comparatively, the male voter turnout increased to 67.17 percent from 60.24 percent last time.

A total of 65.31 percent of women voted in these polls as compared to 55.82 percent in 2009, the Election Commission said.

“Women surpassed men voters for the first time in eight states and union territories in the 2014 general elections. We see this as a result of our increased awareness drive for exercising one’s franchise,” Akshay Rout, Director General at the Election Commission, told IANS. The states and union territories where women voted in more numbers as compared to men are Arunachal Pradesh, Goa, Chandigarh, Odisha, Puducherry, Punjab,

Sikkim and Uttarakhand. The gender gap has reduced to 2.14 percentage points in 2014 from 4.42 in 2009. This comes despite the fact that women in india remain under-represented in parliament.

Women have a poor 11 percent representation in the Lok Sabha and 10.6 percent in the Rajya Sabha, making India 108th among 188 countries covered in the annual analysis of statistics on women members of parliament (MPs) conducted by the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) in November 2013. “Women’s participation has increased in voting majorly because of their presence in panchayats and local level politics,” CPI-M politburo member Brinda Karat told IANS. According to Ranjana Kumari of the Centre for Social Research, the increase in voting percentage shows that “women’s political aspirations are growing. They have also been mobilized by panchayat elections”. “The fact that they have 50

percent reservation in panchayats has helped mobilize them,” Ranjana Kumari said. However, she added: “The political parties are putting road blocks in the way of increasing women’s representation”.

She also said that women have started being affected by issues like increase in gas prices which has made managing kitchen budgets difficult. That might be one of the reasons why they have come out to vote in large number in these polls.

The Election Commission credits women’s higher participation to the targeted approach it adopted towards meeting the various gaps in registration and voting.

Besides enhancing electoral participation, a special programme of the EC worked to promote informed, un-intimidated and inducement free voting. In fact, states like Jammu and Kashmir set up women facilitation counters in villages and postcards were sent to all electors in a district.

“The gender gap has reduced

from more than 11 to 3 percentage point in the state,” Election Commission Director Dhirendra Ojha told IANS. Independent journalism educator and data analyst Ravi Chandransaid:“Isee this as ageneral trend, originating from politicization of women...there has been an increase in the role of women as active citizens, rather than them remaining confined to the household.”

“Also, they have increased political concerns, in particular increased security concerns.

Overall, this is an absolutely positive trend, which would eventually lead to better role for women in politics,” he added. Asked how does an increased voting percentage of women augur for the results, he said: “It is difficult to relate the increased turnout to any fixed pattern as the states where women voters surpassed men widely differ in terms of their social and economic structure. So we cannot say, it is necessarily the outcome of urbanization or better education”.

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Turkish families bury miners as toll rises to 282 SOMA, MAy 15 (AP): Women sang improvised ballads about the departed over freshly dug graves Thursday, even as backhoes carved row upon row of graves into the dirt and hearses lined up outside the cemetery with more victims of Turkey’s worst mining disaster.

Rescue teams recovered another eight victims, raising the death toll to 282, with some 142 people still unaccounted for, according to government figures. The disaster Tuesday has set off protests around Turkey and thrown Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s presidential ambitions off stride.

Blackening his reputation further, one of Erdogan’s aides was accused of kicking a protester on the ground.

At a graveyard in the western town of Soma, where coal mining has been the main industry for decades, women wailed loudly in an improvised display of mourning. They swayed and sang songs about their relatives as the bodies were taken from coffins and lowered into their graves. Pictures of the lost relatives were pinned onto their clothing.

“The love of my life is gone,” some sang, chanting the names of dead miners.

No miner has been brought out alive since dawn Wednesday from the Soma coal mine where

Family members cry during the burial of a mine accident victim in Soma, Turkey, Thursday, May 15, 2014. An explosion and fire at a coal mine in Soma, some 250 kilometers (155 miles) south of Istanbul, killed hundreds of workers, authorities said, in one of the worst mining disasters in Turkish history.(AP Photo

the explosion and fire took place. Many mourners said they spent their whole lives fearing something like this.

“The wives of the miners kiss their husbands in the morning. When they come back, even if they are five minutes late, everyone starts calling. You never know what is going to happen,” said Gulizar Donmez, 45, the daughter and wife of a miner and neighbor of

one of the victims.

Energy Minister Taner Yildiz on Thursday announced that a fire inside the mine was dying down, offering hope that rescuers would soon be able to speed up their search for those missing.

Erdogan, who is expected to soon announce his candidacy for Turkey’s presidential election in August, was not welcome

during his visit to the area Wednesday. He was forced to take refuge at a supermarket after angry crowds called him a murderer and a thief, in a reference to alleged corruption, and clashed with police.

Turkish newspapers Cumhuriyet, Milliyet and others on Thursday printed photographs they said were of an Erdogan aide kicking a protester who was on the

weekend beginning on Friday.

“We fear there will be more bodies inside the vessel and we cannot be sure of the number of passengers (on board),” Saiful Hassan Badal, Deputy Commissioner of Munshiganj district, told Reuters by telephone from the scene. Bangladesh has a history of ferry disasters, with casualties sometimes running into hundreds due to overcrowding and lack of enforcement of safety standards such as numbers of lifeboats.

Bangladesh Coast Guard diver Liton said he had pulled out the body of a child of around five and had seen several more bodies in the ferry. Some survivors were able to swim ashore despite strong currents and high waves. “There was a sudden storm and we requested the boatswain to anchor at the riverside but he ignored us ... the ferry capsized within a few seconds,” said Abdur Rahman, 50, a passenger who managed to swim ashore.

Thai protesters force acting PM to flee meeting

BANGKOK, MAy 15 (AP): Anti-government protesters in Thailand entered a military compound Thursday and disrupted a key meeting on the fate of controversial July elections, forcing the acting prime minister to flee for security reasons.

That followed an overnight attack on protesters that left three dead and at least 22 injured, the latest spasm of violence in Thailand’s political crisis.

Caretaker Prime Minister Niwattumrong Boonsongpaisan was meeting with the Election Commission at an air force academy outside Bangkok to discuss whether elections can be held July 20 or need to be delayed due to the political conflict.

Despite the presence of riot police and other security, about 100 protesters who marched from central Bangkok entered the compound through a side entrance, blowing whistles and waving Thai flags. Niwattumrong and several Cabinet ministers at the meeting were alerted to the protesters’ arrival and hastily ended the meeting, got into their cars and were driven away, officials said.

“The government called off the meeting for security reasons,” the Election Commission’s secretary-general Somchai Srisutthiyakorn told reporters. He said the government has suggested that future meetings be held by teleconference.

Thailand’s political crisis deepened last week when the Constitutional Court removed Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra for nepotism along with nine Cabinet members in a case that many viewed as politically motivated. Protesters say Yingluck’s removal is not enough, though. She was simply replaced by Niwattumrong, who was a deputy premier from the ruling party.

The protesters are pushing the Senate and the nation’s courts to intervene in the crisis to install a “neutral” prime minister, but the government says that is a threat to the nation’s democratic system and would be tantamount to a judicial coup.

WASHINGtON, MAy 15 (AP): Former President Bill Clinton said Wednesday his wife Hillary took six months to recover from a 2012 concussion, adding she is now “stronger than I am” as he dismissed Republican strategist Karl Rove’s comments about her health.

“I got to give him credit, you know, that embodies that old saying that ‘consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds,’” Bill Clinton said at a Washington conference. “First they said she faked her concussion. And now they say she’s auditioning for a part on ‘The Walking Dead.’”

The former secretary of state fell ill with a stomach bug in December 2012 after returning from a trip to Europe, leaving her severely dehydrated.

While at home, she fainted and fell, suffering a concussion. The illness forced her to reschedule her testimony to Congress about the deadly attack months earlier in Benghazi, Libya.

The New York Post reported Tuesday that Rove suggested at a private conference near Los Angeles last week that Clinton suffered brain damage. Rove disputed that he was referring to any brain damage. “I didn’t say she had brain damage. I said she had a serious health episode,” he said on Fox News.

Rove told Fox News, for which

he is a commentator, that Clinton had a “serious health episode” that would be a legitimate issue for her in a potential bid for the Democratic presidential nomination “whether she likes it or not.”

Clinton allies and the White House pushed back on Rove’s comments, and Bill Clinton said he was “sort of dumbfounded” by the remarks.

“Look, she works out every week, she is strong, she’s doing great. As far as I can tell, she’s in better shape than I am,” the former president said.

After Hillary Clinton’s concussion, doctors discovered a blood clot in a vein that runs between the skull and the brain behind her right ear and she was admitted to New YorkPresbyterian Hospital for treatment with blood thinners. She was released after a brief hospitalization.

Bill Clinton said it was serious and took her six months to recover. The former president also defended his wife’s response to the Sept. 11, 2012 Benghazi attack that killed four Americans, including U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens. His comments came as the House pushes ahead with a special select committee to investigate the attacks, U.S. security at the diplomatic mission, the military’s response and the Obama

Anti-China riots in Vietnam claims lives

HANOI, MAy 15 (ReuteRS): More than 20 people were killed in Vietnam and a huge foreign steel project set ablaze as anti-China riots spread to the centre of the country a day after arson and looting in the south, a doctor and company officials said on Thursday.

A doctor at a hospital in central Ha Tinh province said five Vietnamese workers and 16 other people described as Chinese were killed on Wednesday night in rioting, one of the worst breakdowns in Sino-Vietnamese relations since the neighbours fought a brief border war in 1979.

“There were about a hundred people sent to the hospital last night. Many were Chinese. More are being sent to the hospital this morning,” the doctor at Ha Tinh General Hospital told Reuters by phone.

Local media has, however, said only person was killed.

Formosa Plastics Group, Taiwan’s biggest investor in Vietnam, said its upcoming steel plant in Ha Tinh was set on fire after fighting between its Vietnamese and Chinese workers. One Chinese worker was killed and 90 others injured, it said in a statement in Taipei.

It was not immediately clear if the casualties were among those admitted to the Ha Tinh hospital.

The plant is expected to be Southeast Asia’s largest steel making facility when it is completed in 2017. No details of fire damage or financial losses were immediately available, the company said.

The Ha Tinh industrial park, estimated to cost more than $20 billion, is more than half complete.

When finished in 2020, it will have a port, a 2,100-MW power plant and six furnaces, Vietnamese media say.

MAINSTAY OF ECONOMY Such industrial zones are the backbone of Vietnam’s $138 billion economy. The country has 190 registered industrial parks employing about 2.1 million people. They manufactured products worth $38 billion in exports last year, or 30 percent of Vietnam’s total export revenue.

The anti-China riots erupted in industrial zones in the south of the country on Tuesday after protests against Beijing placing an oil rig in a part of the South China Sea claimed

by Hanoi.

The brunt of the violence has been borne by Taiwanese firms, mistaken by the rioters as being owned by mainland Chinese.

China expressed serious concern over the violence in Vietnam and urged it to punish criminals

country. In Istanbul and Izmir, authorities used water cannons and tear gas to break up the protests. Turkey’s largest trade union confederation, representing some 800,000 workers, joined a one-day strike by other unions to demand better conditions for workers.

Miners in Zonguldak, obeying the strike, gathering in front of a pit Thursday but did not enter it. In Istanbul, a group chanted antigovernment slogans and carried a large banner that read: “It’s not an accident, it’s murder.”

Yildiz, the energy minister, said the search for survivors had been hampered by a mine fire that had spread to a conveyor system — engulfing a 200 meter-long (650-foot) stretch — but progress had been made on extinguishing it. Rescue operations have been suspended several times as burning coal inside created toxic fumes and too-risky conditions for the rescue teams.

Authorities said the disaster followed an explosion and a fire at a power distribution unit, and most deaths were caused by carbon monoxide poisoning.

Yildiz said emergency crews had detected a drop in carbon monoxide levels “which means that the fire has gotten smaller.”

“God willing, in two or three hours if we are able to

extinguish this fire, we will be able to hasten our (rescue) work,” he said.

The government has said 787 people were inside the coal mine at the time of Tuesday’s explosion, and that 383 were rescued, many with injuries.

Tuesday’s explosion tore through the mine as workers were preparing for a shift change, which likely raised the casualty toll.

The death toll made it Turkey’s worst mining accident, topping a 1992 gas explosion that killed 263 workers near the Black Sea port of Zonguldak.

Mining accidents are common in Turkey, which is plagued by poor safety conditions. Erdogan promised that Tuesday’s tragedy would be investigated to its “smallest detail” and that “no negligence will be ignored.”

Hurriyet newspaper reported that a team of 15 prosecutors has been assigned to investigate the accident.

Turkey’s Labor and Social Security Ministry said the mine had been inspected five times since 2012, most recently in March, when no safety violations were detected.

But the country’s main opposition party said Erdogan’s ruling party had recently voted down a proposal to hold a parliamentary inquiry into a series of small-scale accidents at the mines around Soma.

Bill Clinton vouches for Hillary’s health

Bangladesh river ferry capsizes

DHAKA, MAy 15 (ReuteRS): A Bangladeshi river ferry with around 200 passengers on board capsized in a storm on Thursday, killing at least 12 people, and a rescue diver said he had seen more bodies inside the wreck.

Police said some 40 people had swum ashore as the M.V. Miraj-4 capsized in high winds and rain on the Meghna river near the capital Dhaka. Most of the passengers were city workers and students heading home for the

ground and being held by special forces police. The papers identified the aide as Yusuf Yerkel.

The prime minister’s office on Thursday distanced itself from the incident, with one official saying the issue was “his own personnel matter.” The official, who was not authorized to give his name to the press without authorization, confirmed there was

a “melee” as Erdogan entered a building but denied Turkish media reports that he had thrown a punch.

Turkish President Abdullah Gul, visiting Soma on Thursday, described the events in Soma as “a huge disaster.” “The pain is felt by us all,” he said. The mood was more restrained than during Erdogan’s visit, though locals angry at what they saw as the slow rescue operation still shouted jibes at him, demanding more should be done to reach possible survivors.

Erdogan appeared somewhat tone-deaf to residents’ grief Wednesday, calling mining accidents “ordinary things” that occur in many other countries after giving examples of 19th-century mine accidents in Britain.

Erdogan has made no secret of his desire to become Turkey’s first popularly elected president. His party swept local elections in March despite a corruption scandal that forced him to dismiss four government ministers in December and later also implicated him and family members. Erdogan denies corruption, calling the allegations part of a plot to bring his government down.

Protests broke out in Istanbul, Ankara and other cities Wednesday over the deaths and poor safety conditions at mines around the

and compensate victims. Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying suggested Hanoi had turned a blind eye to the protesters.

“The looting and stealing that has taken place at Chinese businesses and to Chinese people has a direct relationship with Vietnam’s winking at and indulging law breakers there.”

Although the two Communist neighbours have close economic and political ties, Vietnamese resentment against China runs deep, rooted in feelings of national pride and the struggle for independence after decades of war and more than 1,000 years of Chinese colonial rule that ended in the 10th century.

The dispute in the South China Sea has sparked anger on both sides.

Dozens of vessels from the two countries are around the oil rig, and both sides have accused the other of intentional collisions, increasing the risk of a confrontation.

Vietnamese are also angered by what they call exploitation of its raw materials and resources by Chinese firms, and say although bilateral trade is over $50 billion annually, Chinese investment in Vietnam is only around $2.3 billion.

China faces similar accusation in other emerging markets, especially in Africa. Some 85 percent of China’s exports from Africa are raw materials,

such as oil and minerals, and Beijing has been accused of holding back the continent’s economic development by ignoring the creation of local jobs and markets.

GETTING OUT Thousands of Vietnamese set fire to foreign factories and rampaged through industrial zones in Binh Duong and Dong Nai provinces near Ho Chi Minh City on Tuesday, officials said. Protests continued on Wednesday.

Hundreds of Chinese working in the zones have fled, most to neighbouring Cambodia and others by air. “Yesterday more than 600 Chinese people from Vietnam crossed at Bavet international checkpoint into Cambodia,” Cambodian National Police spokesman Kirt Chantharith told Reuters.

Bavet is on a highway stretching from Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam’s commercial centre, to Cambodia’s capital, Phnom Penh. At Ho Chi Minh City airport, scores of Chinese were arriving in large groups, queuing to grab tickets or get on the first flights to Malaysia, Cambodia, Taiwan, Singapore and China. “People don’t feel safe here, so we just want to get out of Vietnam,” said Xu Wen Hong, who works for an iron and steel company and bought a oneway ticket to China.

Former U.S. President Bill Clinton, left, and his wife former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton walk into a building entrance after they attended their daughter Chelsea’s Oxford University graduation ceremony held at the Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford, England, Saturday, May 10, 2014. Chelsea Clinton received her doctorate degree in international relations from the prestigious British university. (AP Photo)

administration’s explanation of what happened.

Hillary Clinton is certain to be asked to testify by the Republican-led panel. “In my opinion, Hillary did what she should have done, she impaneled a very high-level review committee,” Bill Clinton said.

He was referring to the Ac-

countability Review Board investigation by former diplomat Thomas Pickering and retired Adm. Mike Mullen, the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. “They looked into what was wrong, they gave 29 recommendations, she took them and started implementing them,” Bill Clinton added.

‘Nigeria won’t swap girls’

ABuJA, MAy 15 (AP): Nigeria’s government is ruling out an exchange of more than 270 kidnapped schoolgirls for detained Islamic militants, Britain’s top official for Africa said Wednesday.

President Goodluck Jonathan has “made it very clear that there will be no negotiation with Boko Haram that involves a swap of abducted schoolgirls for prisoners,” Mark Simmonds, British foreign office minister, told journalists in the Nigerian capital, Abuja. But Nigeria’s government will talk to the militants on reconciliation, Simmonds said, talking after a meeting with Jonathan.

“The point that also was made very clear to me is that the president was keen to continue and facilitate ongoing dialogue to find a structure and architecture of delivering lasting solution to the conflict and the cause of conflict in northern Nigeria,” Simmonds said. He spoke before Nigeria’s Defense Ministry announced that extremists had again attacked the remote northeastern town of Chibok, from which the schoolgirls were abducted on April 15.

The ministry said several insurgents and four soldiers were killed in the firefight Tuesday. Soldiers who were there told The Associated Press that at least 12 soldiers were killed, and that angry soldiers later fired at the car carrying a senior officer who came to a review of the bodies Wednesday. The witnesses spoke on condition of anonymity because they want to keep their jobs. The ministry said the soldiers fired into the air in protest.

Boko Haram abducted more than 300 schoolgirls from a school in Chibok in the northeastern state of Borno on April 15. At least 276 of the girls are still being held captive by militants who have threatened to sell them into slavery, sparking outrage at home and abroad over the government’s apparent failure to rescue then.

In a video released on Monday, Boko Haram’s leader says he will free the girls only if the government releases jailed members of his group. The footage was verified as authentic by Nigerian authorities, who said 54 of the girls had been identified by relatives, teachers and classmates who watched the video late Tuesday. Nigerian government officials have given conflicting responses to Boko Haram’s offer of a swap.

One senior official said on Tuesday that “all options” are now open — including negotiations or a possible military operation with foreign help — in efforts find the missing girls. It was not immediately possible to confirm Simmonds’ comments with Nigerian officials.

Reuben Abati, a spokesman for the Nigerian presidency, said in a statement late Wednesday that Jonathan met with Simmonds at the presidential palace in Abuja to discuss the missing girls and Britain’s role in trying to rescue them. The statement said Simmonds “reassured President Jonathan of Britain’s commitment to giving Nigeria all required assistance to find and safely rescue the abducted girls.”

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Messi needs WC win to join greats SWEIMEH, MAy 15 (REuTERS): Lionel Messi would trade all his Barcelona success for a World Cup winners' medal with Argentina to sit alongside the game's greats, according to compatriot Ossie Ardiles.

"That is how important the World Cup is for him," said Ardiles, who was in the Argentina team that won the 1978 World Cup at home in Buenos Aires. Ardiles, speaking to delegates at the Soccerex Asian Forum held by the banks of the Dead Sea, said that while Messi might be regarded by some as the best player the world has seen, a World Cup win is vital for his legacy.

Messi, 26, has claimed 21 club prizes with Barca and has also won the World Youth Cup in 2005 and 2008 Olympics with Argentina.

Next month's World Cup will be his third after being used sparingly as a substitute in

the World Cup but to win it."

Barcelona's Lionel Messi is seen during a Spanish La Liga soccer match against Elche at the Martinez Valero stadium in Elche, Spain, on Sunday, May 11. (AP Photo)

2006 and playing in 2010.

"Right now Messi might be regarded as the greatest player in the whole history of the game but he would give all the medals he has won with Barcelona just to win

one World Cup, that is how important it is for him," said former midfielder Ardiles.

"To be considered alongside the top, top guys like Pele and Diego Maradona and so on, he not only needs to be in

HOME ADVANTAGE Ardiles also said that he regarded Argentina as favourites to win the tournament in neighbouring Brazil, but joked he could not say anything else if he wanted to remain popular back home. On a more serious note he said that while Brazil clearly had a very good chance, home advantage was a lot less important than it once was.

"It is a fact that no European teams have won the World Cup in South America but after saying that it doesn't mean it is going to stay like that forever. "Three or four teams from Europe have a big chance in Brazil, but though Brazil are playing at home, being at home is not a big advantage anymore. Players play all over, things have changed. It is a lot less than it used to be.

pakistan agrees to 6 German coach Joachim series against india Loew cuts four players

Brooklyn Nets forward Paul Pierce, top, falls after being fouled by Miami Heat forward James Jones (22) during the second half of Game 5 of a second-round NBA playoff basketball game in Miami on May 14, 2014. The Heat won 96-94. (AP Photo)

NBA: HeAt rAlly pAst Nets to eAst fiNAls

MIAMI, MAy 15 (AP): LeBron James leaped onto a courtside table as the postgame celebration was starting, thumped his chest and punched the air.

Next stop: The Eastern Conference finals. Again. James scored 29 points, Dwyane Wade added 28 and Ray Allen delivered two huge plays in the final seconds as the Heat rallied to beat the Brooklyn Nets 96-94 on Wednesday night, winning the second-round matchup 4-1.

"It's always been like that for us," James said. "It's never easy. It's never easy for us." Sure looks easy, though. It was the 10th straight series win for the two-time defending NBA champions. "When we met the first day for prep we said the No. 1 key, overwhelmingly the No. 1 key in this series, was great mental stability," Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said. "That's what it was down the stretch ... incredible focus."

Incredible defense, too, when it was needed most. Down by eight with less than five minutes left, the Heat forced Brooklyn into nine straight missed shots while peeling off a 12-0 run to take the lead. Allen's 3-pointer off an assist by Mario Chalmers with 32 seconds remaining was the go-ahead moment, and the Heat wouldn't trail again.

Allen disrupted Joe Johnson's dribble on the game's final play, James then swatted the bouncing ball out of everyone's reach, time expired — and the Heat advanced.

"Give the Heat credit," Nets coach Jason Kidd said. "They were attacking there in the fourth quarter. We were attacking. Both teams were attacking. They made plays, they made shots and we didn't."

Chris Bosh scored 16 and Allen finished with 13 for Miami. Johnson had 34 points, Paul Pierce scored 19 and Deron Williams had 17 for the Nets. It's the sixth trip to the East title series in the last 10 seasons for Miami, which is bidding for a fourth straight trip to the NBA Finals — something only the Lakers and Celtics franchises have accomplished.

James is heading to the East finals for the sixth time in eight seasons, the first two of those trips coming with Cleveland in 2007 and 2009.

The Heat will next face either fifthseeded Washington or top-seeded Indiana. The Pacers lead that series 3-2, one win away from setting up a rematch with Miami that seemed like an absolute certainty for much of the season. "Obviously, we thought this was a game we should have won," Johnson said.

Brooklyn led 49-42 at the half, with Miami missing 15 of its first 16 tries from 3-point range. The Nets closed the half on an 8-0 run and the lone bright spot in the opening 24 minutes for Miami was Wade, who had 20 points — more than any other two players to that point combined — on 7-for-12 shooting.

"He has a way, right? He's a playoff warrior," Spoelstra said.

Eventually, barely, Miami broke through. But it took most of the second half to get there, since whenever Miami tried to put together a run Brooklyn found a way to keep things together.

• A layup from James late in the third got the Heat within three; a minute later, the margin was eight again.

• A free throw from James with 9:03 left cut Brooklyn's lead to 77-73; less than a minute later, it was 8273 after a 3-pointer by Pierce.

• A 3-pointer by Bosh made it a four-point game again; two Brooklyn possessions and zero Miami stops later, it was 86-78 after a sensational step-back jumper by Johnson. And when Johnson connected on another tough shot with 4:49 left, it was 91-83 and the Nets could sense that the night would be theirs.

ue." Pakistan was the last of the ICC's full member nations to conditionally agree to sweeping administrative and financial changes in the game's world governing body, accepting after India agreed to play the full bilateral series between the neighboring countries in the Future Tours Program.

Pakistan toured India in late 2012 for a short limitedovers series, but the archrivals have not played in a full bilateral series since the Mumbai terrorist attacks of 2008. India last toured Pakistan in 2006. No other test cricket nations have toured Pakistan since 2009, when gunmen attacked the Sri Lanka team bus at Lahore.

Pakistan is expected to generate $300 million over eight years by playing against nine other test playing countries, with the bulk of that revenue coming from hosting India. Ahmed also said that a minimum of two tests is planned in each of the six series.

BERLIN, MAy 15 (IANS): Joachim Loew cut four players from the provisional World Cup squad ahead of the training camp, the German Football Association (GFA) announced.

The four players, Schalke's duo May Meyer and Leon Goretzka, Hamburg's Marcell Jansen and Augsburg's Andre Hahn, will not travel to the training camp in South Tyrol May 21, Xinhua cited from a statement by the GFA Wednesday.

Loew also said Monchengladbach's Christoph Kramer has replaced Hahn.

"This had nothing to do with Andre Hahn's performance. We were pleased with the way he presented himself," Loew said.

"But we have some players in the midfield who were recently injured or have returned from long injury breaks. We, therefore, intend to take another option into the training camp to be prepared for any event," he said.

San Antonio Spurs' Danny Green (4) and Portland Trail Blazers' Robin Lopez (42) battle for a rebound as Tim Duncan (21) looks on during the second half of Game 5 of a Western Conference semifinal NBA basketball playoff series, Wednesday, May 14 in San Antonio. (AP Photo)

pared to 40 by the Spurs' throughout last postseareserves. After playing son, the Spurs had been with various injuries healthy in these playoffs

until Wednesday.

Parker, who missed 13 games during the regular season, exited in the first half with tightness in his left hamstring. After returning to the court with 9:46 remaining in the second quarter, Parker left the game exactly a minute later. He headed back to the locker room followed closely by San Antonio general manager R.C. Buford and team physician, Dr. Paul Saenz. Parker was scoreless in 10 minutes, missing his only two shots as Portland pushed to keep the All-Star point guard out of the paint. Manu Ginobili handled most of the ball-handling duties with Parker out.

Game 5 in San Antonio -- Spurs 104, Blazers 82: San Antonio guard Tony Parker (9) drives to the bucket against a pair of Portland defenders during the first half.

Soobum Im, USA TODAY Sports Even with Parker slowed, the Spurs still had another good start thanks to their hustle on the boards. Tiago Splitter had two offensive rebounds in the opening 3 minutes.

"Christoph Kramer has left an excellent impression during the training sessions and matches," Loew added.

Loew reasoned the cuttings of the young Goretzka and Meyer: "Especially players like Leon Goretzka and Max Meyer belong to the future. They are still young, they still have many opportunities to play big tournaments."

The omission of Hamburg's Marcell Jansen has different reasons as the full back suffered an ankle injury at a friendly against Chile. "He has not had enough play time to find his rhythm."

After the 10-day preparation in South Tyrol the " Nationalmannschaft" will encounter Cameroon and Armenia for international friendlies before they leave Frankfurt for Brazil June 7.

Five days ahead of the departure, Loew has to submit his final 23-men World Cup squad to the FIFA.

5 things to know about the FA Cup final

Then the Heat scored the next 12 points, and that was enough.

Barely, but enough. "For us, it was just about getting stops," Wade said. "We knew offensively that we needed to execute, but we knew we weren't going to win the game unless we got some stops."

For the Nets, more than $180 million in salary and luxury tax was supposed to bring a championship.

Instead, billionaire owner Mikhail Prokhorov got only a trip to the second round as his return on a massive investment.

spurs eliminate Blazers

SAN ANTONIO, MAy 15 (AP): Danny Green and Kawhi Leonard each scored 22 points, and the San Antonio Spurs overcame an injury to Tony Parker to close out the Western Conference semifinals with a 104-82 victory over the Portland Trail Blazers on Wednesday night.

Patty Mills scored 18 points and Tim Duncan had 16 points and eight rebounds for San Antonio, which had four blowout victories in the five-game series. It's the third straight conference finals appearance for San Antonio, which lost a heartbreaking seven-game series to the Miami Heat in last season's NBA Finals.

San Antonio, which had the NBA's best record, will await the winner of the series between Oklahoma City and the Los Angeles Clippers.

The Thunder have a 3-2 lead. LaMarcus Aldridge had 21 points for Portland, while Damian Lillard added 17 points and 10 assists. The Trail Blazers' bench contributed only seven points com-

ISLAMABAD, MAy 15 (AP): Pakistan will play six series against India in the eight years from 2015 as part of a deal which requires it to support Indianled changes to the International Cricket Council.

Pakistan Cricket Board chief operating officer Subhan Ahmed on Thursday said there will be up to 14 tests, 30 limited-overs internationals and a dozen Twenty20s across the six series. While Pakistan will be the nominal home team for four of the six series, the security situation in the country means those matches will be played at a neutral country if tours to Pakistan are deemed too dangerous.

Ahmed told The Associated Press that a clause was included in the memorandum of understanding "that in case the security situation is not conducive in Pakistan, we will host India either in the UAE or any other suitable neutral ven-

Arsenal's Jack Wilshere, centre runs with teammates, during a training session with his team, in London Colney, Hertfordshire, Wednesday May 14, 2014. Arsenal are playing Hull City in the FA Cup final on Saturday. (AP Photo)

LONDON, MAy 15 (AP): When Arsenal beat Manchester United in a penalty shootout to win the FA Cup in 2005, few can have imagined that Arsene Wenger's team would still be waiting for its next piece of silverware nine years later.

Yet that is the situation facing Arsenal ahead of its latest opportunity to end the trophy drought — an FA Cup final against Hull City at Wembley Stadium on Saturday.

The bookmakers have Arsenal as a huge favorite. The club has already planned its parade route through north London for Sunday. Hull has never won a major trophy in its 110-year history.

But as last year's final — when Wigan shocked Manchester City — proved, nothing can be taken for granted in this competition.

Here are five things to know about Saturday's final: ___ ARSENAL'S NEAR MISSES Since that win over United on penalties nine years ago, Arsenal has contested the Champions

League final in 2006 and reached the semifinals in '09, imploded when in a great position in a number of Premier League title races and lost the League Cup final to Birmingham in 2011 after a defensive mixup two minutes from time.

The list of near misses goes on, but could soon be at an end if Arsenal handles the weight of expectation this time round.

"No matter what the result will be, this club — and this is always most important — can deal with the consequences of any game," Wenger said.

"You don't play with the history, you play with your quality and your desire to play well."

According to Wenger, Arsenal wins a virtual trophy each time it qualifies for the Champions League — something the team has done for the last 17 seasons. ___ HULL SEEKS FIRST MAJOR TROPHY If Arsenal's time without silverware is often described as a "drought," spare a thought for Hull.

The northern club's only trophy came in 1966 when it won England's third-tier title and its best run in a cup competition came back in 1930 when the team reached the FA Cup semifinals.

When it comes to sport, the port city was arguably better known for its two rugby league teams — Hull and Hull Kingston Rovers — until 2008, when Hull was promoted to the top tier of English football for the first time in its history.

"Nobody expects us to win it and obviously they haven't won a trophy in nine years and they've got their posters up in London about their parade next week and credit to them," Hull midfielder David Meyler said.

"I'd rather be the underdog.

People are delighted when the underdog wins — I don't think many people want Arsenal to win." ___ ROUTES TO FINAL If Arsenal does go on to win a record-equaling 11th FA Cup, the team has done it the hard way this season.

The Gunners had to play

fierce rival Tottenham as well as Liverpool and Everton before even the semifinals, when they came from a goal behind against Wigan with eight minutes left to eventually win on penalties.

Hull, conversely, has played only one fellow Premier League opponent en route to the final — Sunderland in the quarterfinals.

Third-tier Sheffield United was the opposition for Hull in the semifinals, with Steve Bruce's team winning 5-3.

Arsenal has already done the double over Hull in the league with a 2-0 home win in December and a 3-0 away victory last month. ___ WENGER'S CONTRACT Out of contract this summer, Wenger says the outcome of Saturday's match will have no bearing on whether he decides to sign on for at least another year.

Arsenal chief executive Ivan Gazidis said in January that Wenger would be extending his stay at the club but the longer the Frenchman goes without putting pen to paper, the more concerned Arsenal fans will get. ___ ALLAM'S WISH Hull's Egyptian owner, Assem Allam, is so desperate to boost the club's marketing appeal abroad and attract investors that he has been campaigning this season to get the club's name changed from Hull City to Hull Tigers.

It hasn't gone down well with many fans and the English Football Association last month rejected his controversial bid for the name change.

It seems he has little chance of getting his wish in the future, so maybe the best way for Allam to see Hull's name beamed around the world and for the team to become more globally recognized is if it wins the FA Cup.

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understand the ‘I recommend everyone get checked!’ IImportance of Kenny Rogers shares image of bandaged face after getting skin cancer removed

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enny Rogers took to Instagram on Wednesday to reveal he has been fighting skin cancer. In a brave photo where he's wearing a bandage on the right side of his face, the 75-year-old country singer showed off what he looked like after having skin cancer removed. The star posted the photo to help raise awareness for Melanoma/Skin Cancer Detection and Prevention Month.

The I Can’t Unlove You hitmaker wrote in the accompanying caption: ‘Had a bit of skin cancer removed today — I recommend everyone go get checked, especially since May is National Skin Cancer Detection & Prevention Month.' He added: ‘Don't

worry though, I'm gonna look great in Knoxville this weekend!’ Kenny sported a blue New Balance T-shirt in the image, as he smiles pleasantly at the camera, his face shrouded in white hair and beard.

He stands before a mantel that is set with a framed portrait of what looks to be him and his wife, Wanda Miller. The Scarlet Fever crooner is following in the footsteps of Hugh Jackman, who has been sharing his encounters with skin cancer on social media. The 45-yearold actor had a basal-cell carcinoma removed last Thursday, sharing an image via Instagram with the caption: ‘Another Basel Cell Carsinoma. All out now.

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Arian. PLEASE! PLEASE! WEAR SUNSCREEN!’ This was the second time the actor has had a cancerous

the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum – having been inducted in last year. ‘Kenny Rogers redefined and elevated country music superstardom in every sense,’ museum director Kyle Young said in a press release. ‘He blurred traditional genre lines and substantially expanded the core demographics of country music’s audience, all by being true to his unique artistic vision.’

At the time, Kenny gushed to Radio.com: ‘I’m so glad it’s happening now rather than at the peak of my success because I’m not sure I could have appreciated it as much then. 'Hits come and go but the Hall of Fame growth removed.

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It`s one of the best/worst things that I have ever done. It was bittersweet. It was hard to say goodbye to that era, but I felt it changing. I felt music changing. And I felt myself changing, Timberlake said.

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he has enjoyed nearly four decades in the public eye with an illustrious career in modelling and acting. But Brooke Shields has revealed she is a geek at heart. The 48-yearold opened up to Untitled Magazine about the advantages of growing up in the spotlight and the struggles of today's models compared to the 80s era. 'I was such a nerd, a complete geek, but then I was lucky enough to have a fancy career, where I can be like "See, I'm not a nerd. Look, I'm in Vogue."'

Posing for the pages of their Spring/ Summer Legendary issue the actress exudes old Hollywood glamour in a variety of beautiful dresses. 'I know how hard it is to break in and I know how hard it is to decide who you want to be any older so it was sort of decided for me. I'm actually thankful because it did send me on a trajectory of an amazing life.

She added: 'I was the first child at four at a modelling agency so I had an advantage.' At 13 the model first met Michael Jackson.

Brooke Shields on growing up in the spotlight, her friendship with Michael Jackson and admiration for Natalie Portman role as a child prostitute in Pretty Baby in 1978 was met with both controversy and critical acclaim. And in 1983 Shields abandoned acting to gain a degree in French Literature from Princeton University. It's this mix of talent and education that helps her find inspiration from likeminded actresses.

The Suddenly Susan star said: 'I think someone like Natalie Portman did it right. And this has to be taken properly, because she was born in an era where she was allowed to be con-

sidered an actress, She continued: 'but I look at her in The Professional and I look at Pretty Baby and I look at how her next move, whether it was strategic or not, was Anne Frank on Broadway. 'Including the Ivy League education, she's the only person who did that. I think we're going to see really great things from her.' She concluded.

Comparing the modelling world of the 80s to today's modern era makes her doubt her strength.

The actress reflected that the current scene was a

Handshake concert 2014 to be held in Yangon, myanmar

Excellency U Yan Naing Oo - Director General Ministry of Culture Republic of The Union of Myanmar, Shri Sailas Thangal - Deputy Chief of Mission Embassy of India pose with Theja Meru and Ruguokhrietuo Kesiezie of Rattle and Hum Music society after their meeting to finalise plans for the upcoming Handshake Concert - Myanmar Edition to be held on June 28, at the National Theatre Yangon, Myanmar.

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he 'Mad Men' star was shooting new Disney movie 'Million Dollar Arm' with Boston Legal's' Lake Bell but struggled to cope with filming under the summer sun with temperatures topping 40 degrees Celsius. The 43-year-old actor was forced to ignore the advice of Bollywood stars - who refuse to film outdoors during the height of summer - and continued to film in the extreme temperatures due to time constrictions.

He told Collider.com ''It was a challenging shoot.

May in India is literally the hottest month. So much so that all the Bollywood movies basically shut down and move indoors. They don't even shoot outside in May. They were looking at us like, 'No, no, no.' No one shoots outside in May, you'll die, you'll melt, your camera won't work. But we were like we are going to do it because this is the time we have and it was challenging.''

Unfortunately for Jon and his 'Million Dollar Arm' team, the group struggled with more than just the heat during their stint in India, with many of the film crew falling ill with digestive problems over the course of the trip. He said ''There's a whole other culinary situation going on over there as well. Where if you are not careful you can have a situation in this part. We had a few guys go down with code brown.

Which was not so great. I fortunately did not. I was rock solid.''

A royally good look: Nicole Kidman posed for photographers on the red carpet for the opening ceremony and the screening of Grace of Monaco at the 67th international film festival, Cannes on Wednesday

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ten [when Twitter first appeared], so I've grown up with it. It's much more normal to me than it would be for a lot of people. I understand the importance of things like Twitter and people feeling like they know you and are emotionally invested in you as an artist and as a person.

It's cool. I like being able to share things with people.''

Meanwhile, the 'Royals' singer, who has a bumper schedule this summer with festival appearances and gigs, thinks press invasion is a small price to pay for the opportunities she is handed as a singer.

She said ''It still completely bugs me out that I get to play venues that are sold out in the craziest corners of the world. I couldn't point to that place on a map but these people know the lyrics to a song I wrote a long way away. I can't make that normal in my head. ''But I figure in terms of, you know, living with privacy, it's kind of a small sacrifice.''

"I would wake up every morning feeling this more and more of an urge to step out on my own. It was happening all around me: `Why wouldn`t you ride this out? You`re the biggest group in the world. Why would you walk away from this?," he added.

Saying of the friendship: 'I would give him whatever he needed on a child-like level and it was fine. I knew how to make him feel safe.'

Speaking of the pop stars life which was dedicated to performance and pleasing audiences: 'I didn't want a thing and he wanted me to have things. And I think it was hard for him to deal with, because he didn't know what to give. I wasn't asking for anything' Brooke was signed to Ford Models, one of the country's leading agencies, as a child model. Her first

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She told Britain's Stylist magazine ''I was

Leaving nSYnc was best/worst thing I have done inger-actor , who left popular boyband NSYNC more than a decade ago, says it was a bittersweet decision of his life.

The 33-year-old singer might have made a successful solo career with his chart topping singles but he insists that his decision to leave the

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'very weird thing. I don't think I would have survived as well if everything happened in this time' The mother of two also commented on how her priorities have changed as she's grown older, shifting from professional to personal. 'I don't like to leave my children for long periods of time. It's made me more picky about roles that are close especially on television.' The Blue Lagoon actress has two daughters, Rowan and Grier with husband Chris Henchy.

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Pippa's most recent piece for the Telegraph was published on March 29. It featured a recipe for a pasta dish, which she said was 'perfect for post-exercise recovery.' In another article called 'Pippa: turning crêped crusader for Pancake Day,' she explored London to find which restaurants make the best pancakes for Shrove Tuesday.

It's not the first time Pippa, who has been dating investment banker Nico Jackson for 18 months, has faced disappointing news regarding her literary efforts.

In 2012 she launched an entertaining manual called Celebrate, which had a slew of negative reviews. The book reportedly sold a mere 18,000 copies, and Amazon was forced to slash the price in a bid to shift copies. A spoof Twitter account called Pippatips was even created to mock the 'banal' party hints contained in Celebrate. The account has more than 51,000 followers. It was reported in February that her publishers at Viking Press dropped her shortly thereafter.

The Telegraph may have cut her short, but there are other ways readers can continue to enjoy Pippa's prose. Her work will still appear in supermarket magazine Waitrose Kitchen as well as Vanity Fair. She has also contributed to The Spectator magazine since December 2012.

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Sevilla players celebrate with the Europa League trophy after wining the Europa League soccer final between Sevilla and Benfica, at the Turin Juventus stadium, in Turin, Italy, Wednesday, May 14. (AP Photo)

TURIN, May 15 (aP): Penalty specialists Sevilla beat Benfica 4-2 in a shootout to win the Europa League after a 0-0 draw in the final on Wednesday, claiming another international title for Spanish football.

Sevilla goalkeeper Beto saved two spot kicks from Benfica forwards Oscar Cardozo and Rodrigo who failed to deceive with stutter-step approaches to the ball. Substitute Kevin Gameiro stepped up to score the decisive kick as the drama played out at the end housing Sevilla fans who have seen this story before.

Sevilla had ousted city rival Real Betis on penalties in the last-16 round,

and also won this competition in 2007 in a shootout.

The Portuguese champion had dominated regulation time yet failed to score, and extended its streak of losing European finals to eight matches over 52 years.

"The best team did not win," Benfica coach Jorge Jesus said. "Benfica players should be congratulated," Jesus said. "There is nothing I can criticize."

Sevilla had seemed destined to win a competition it entered only after UEFA denied two Spanish clubs places because of financial problems. It had also been seconds from elimination in the semifinals against another Spanish team, Valencia.

"We know how to suffer

and we know how to fight.

I think the result was fair," said Sevilla coach Unai Emery. "It's a very special evening." Sevilla, which won the competition for the third time in nine seasons, ensured Spain will sweep the season-ending European club competitions, with Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid meeting in the Champions League final on May 24.

Next month Spain will defend its World Cup crown in Brazil and seek to clinch a record fourth straight major international trophy after winning the European Championship in 2008 and 2012. Benfica, however, has not won a continental trophy since its greatest player, Eusebio,

inspired two straight European Cup titles in 1961 and '62. Four months after Eusebio died aged 71, the Lisbon club missed another chance to end the unwanted record.

Benfica returned to the scene of its semifinals triumph against Juventus and the match kicked off with patches of empty sets in the Italian champion's stadium. Three early opportunities for Sevilla broke down for Carlos Bacca's lack of finishing. The Colombia forward failed to shoot when collecting a pass across the goalmouth, drifted offside in a fast break started by captain Ivan Rakitic, and then could not connect with Rakitic's angled low cross.

TURIN, May 15 (aP): Spanish football wins.

Again. Sevilla added another title to the topranked country's recent roll of international honors Wednesday, beating Portugal's champion Benfica in a penalty shootout after the Europa League final finished 0-0 after extra time.

Since 2006, Sevilla has won this competition three times, Barcelona has won three Champions League titles and Spain has taken home three straight major tournament trophies.

Though Sevilla did not play with the precision passing made famous by the national team or Barcelona, its technique in taking and saving penalties was outstanding. Just as Spain's was when it ousted Portugal in a shootout in the Euro 2012 semifinals.

Victory here ensured Spain will sweep the season-ending European club titles on May 24 when Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid play in the Champions League final. Of course, next season's curtain-raising UEFA Super Cup in August will now also be allSpanish clash featuring the two club competition winners. Before then, the biggest prize of all could return to Spain. Spain will kick off its World Cup title defense in Brazil next month and seek to be the first backto-back winner since Brazil in 1962. That would also set a record of four consecutive top-level tournament triumphs following the dominant Euro 2008 and 2012 teams.

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Serbia's Ana Ivanovic returns the ball to Russia's Maria Sharapova during their match at the Italian open tennis tournament in Rome, Thursday, May 15. (AP Photo)

ROME, May 15 (agENCIES): Ana Ivanovic handed Maria Sharapova her first loss of the claycourt tennis season as she beat the Russian eighth seed 6-1 6-4 on Thursday to reach the quarter-finals of the ATP-WTA Rome Masters.

Sharapova had won back-to-back titles in Stuttgart and Madrid, compiling a dozen straight victories. Ivanovic, the 2008 Roland Garros winner and world number one, had won just two of ten previous meetings with the four-time grand slam champion, the last seven years ago at a Roland Garros semi-final.

The Serb next plays Spain's Carla Suarez Navarro. Earlier, Chinese second seed Li Na defeated Samantha Stosur 6-3 6-1.

Stosur, a 2010 Roland Garros finalist, had beaten world No.2 Li in all six of their previous meetings going back to 2007.

The victory was her second straight over an Australian opponent after defeating qualifier Casey Dellacqua in the previous round. But China's top female athlete made inroads against Stosur's one-way scoreline with her first victory, achieved in 68 minutes with five breaks of the 30-year-

old Stosur. "In the last six matches I tried to control the ball, but she was able to get a lot of chances," said 32-year-old Li. Li will play a quarter-final against Italian 10th seed Sara Errani, who beat Czech Petra Cetkovska 6-3 7-6 (7-3). Li finished Rome runner-up in 2012, holding a match point against eventual champion Maria Sharapova. Australian Open champion Li is looking for her third trophy of the season as she prepares for the French Open, which she won in 2011.

Men's third-seeded Monte Carlo winner Stanislas Wawrinka joined fellow Swiss Roger Federer on the Rome scrapheap after a 5-7 6-2 6-3 second round loss to German 15th seed Tommy Haas.

The 36-year-old has now won both of his matches with Wawrinka, a 2008 finalist at the Foro Italico. Haas ended with seven aces to eight for Wawrinka, who could not hold onto leads throughout the two-hour contest. The German produced 32 winners while Wawrinka struck 40 unforced errors. Haas broke in the third set for 5-3, then finished with an ace a game later on his first match point.

ManU to decide on Van Gaal next week Murray sets up potential Nadal clash

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MaNCHESTER, May 15 (aFP): Netherlands coach Louis van Gaal will have to wait until next week before being appointed as Manchester United's new manager, British media outlets claimed on Thursday.

Newspaper reports earlier in the day had suggested that the Dutchman's appointment was imminent, but the Press Association said that although a "broad agreement" had been reached, "no deal has yet been signed".

United refused to comment on the matter when contacted by AFP, but in a conference call to investors, executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward said that an announcement would be made "in due course".

Van Gaal, 62, quickly emerged as the favourite to become United's next manager after David Moyes was sacked last month and is reported to have held a meeting with player-coach Ryan Giggs in Holland on Wednesday.

Giggs, who was appointed interim manager following Moyes's dismissal, was pictured in Van Gaal's hometown of Noordwijk and is thought to have been offered the chance to work as his assistant. The Guardian newspaper reported that Giggs was invited to Van Gaal's home, where the pair held a discussion "lasting around three hours".

Van Gaal would not comment when approached by a reporter from British television station Sky Sports News as he left a book launch in Am-

ROME, May 15 (agENCIES): Andy Murray could meet Rafael Nadal for the first time in more than two and a half years after moving into the last eight of the Rome Masters with a 7-6(1) 6-4 win over Jurgen Melzer.

On the day he turned 27, Murray was broken in his first service game but recovered to take the set to a tie-break, which he eased through to win 7-1. After swapping breaks in the second set, Murray broke again for 4-3 and held onto his serve before seeing out the set. Murray will now face Nadal in the quarterfinals if the World No.1 can overcome Mikhail Youzhny. The pair last met in October 2011 in the final of the

Japan Open in Tokyo with Murray winning 3-6 6-2 6-0 and the Scot is relishing the opportunity of facing the Spaniard once again.

"I'd love to play against him," Murray told Sky Sports. "It would be a great match for me with the French Open just round the corner because I'll see exactly where my game is at and what I need to do to improve. "Also, I haven't played him for a long time regardless of the last time on clay - I didn't play him at all when Ivan [Lendl] was coaching me so I think it's been at least two-and-ahalf, three years since we last played. "So it would be good for me in case I had to play him at the French

Open to know the things that work and don't work against him because obviously both of our games will have changed in the last three years."

After an ignominious third-round exit to Santiago Giraldo at the Madrid Masters last week, Murray hinted he could step up his search for a new coach following his split with Ivan Lendl in March. And Murray feels he is still ironing out all the kinks on clay as he continues his preparation for the French Open, which gets underway on May 25. "There's obviously some things I'd like to do better," Murray added.

"It's a surface that takes me time to get used to, the

movements on it, there are still some mistakes on it in terms of sliding almost too early when I don't need to.

"A lot of people talk about sliding on the clay courts but you don't actually need to do it that much.

When you move up to the drop shots at the net, yes, and when you're pushed extremely wide but if you slide on the court too much it's not good. "A few times I was doing that when I didn't need to so I needed to work on that, but yeah, for the most part I moved pretty well and chased down as many balls as possible." Elsewhere, Stanislas Wawrinka suffered a shock defeat to Tommy Haas, going down 5-7 6-2 6-3.

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sterdam on Wednesday.

The straight-talking Dutchman, who has also previously coached Ajax, Barcelona, AZ Alkmaar and Bayern Munich, is currently preparing the Netherlands squad for a friendly game against Ecuador on Saturday. His contract with Holland means that he would not be able to join up with United until after this year's World Cup in Brazil, which would not be until mid-July if the team reached the latter stages of the tournament. If appointed, he will become the first manager from outside the British Isles to take charge of United. Van Gaal admitted his interest in taking up the role in an interview with the BBC last week.

"I would love the job," he said. "I hope that I shall be the one. It's the biggest

club in the world and it's a fantastic challenge."

However, he warned: "You (the media) are thinking I'm the man, but the most important thing is whether Manchester United are thinking that."

Giggs, meanwhile, has praised Van Gaal, who led a young Ajax team to glory in the 1995 Champions League and has also won league titles in the Netherlands, Spain and Germany. "He has a brilliant reputation," said the 40-year-old Welshman.

"He is a successful manager in different countries.

Obviously he has taken Holland to the World Cup. He has a fantastic pedigree." Giggs, United's record appearance-maker, is still to announce whether he intends to prolong his 23-year playing career until next season.

Speaking after coming on to make his 963rd appearance for the club in a 3-1 win at home to Hull City last week, he told reporters: "I've not decided yet. Nothing has changed. "I'll wait until the season has finished and then get a holiday and think about it in the next couple of weeks."

Former Everton manager Moyes endured a disastrous campaign after succeeding Alex Ferguson last year and was sacked in April. United went on to finish seventh in the Premier League and failed to qualify for Europe for the first time since 1989.

Despite their on-pitch struggles, United on Thursday announced a record 26 per cent rise in revenue to ÂŁ115.5 million ($193.5 million, 141.7 million euros) in their latest financial results for the period up to March 31.

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