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Matrix of violence against women Vibi Yhokha Kohima | July 17
On May 16, a Naga family of three was hacked to death which included two pregnant women. On May 25, a six year-old girl was raped by her father. On July 4, Nagaland saw the horrific murder of another woman, of violence unimaginable (with her pictures circulating all over social networking sites). On July 11, a minor was raped by a forty year old man. These recent violent crimes against women and the brutal way in which they took place, indicate an alarming reality of what our society is becoming. A look at the crime rates against women in Nagaland suggests that there is an increasing trend. In 2011, the registered rate of crimes against women was 37 in total while in 2012 it rose up to 42. Of these, sexual violence is the highest with a total of 60 rape cases registered between the year 2008-2009 and 34 cases of ‘outraging the modesty of women’. How did it all start and how do we stop it? Here is a look at the factors that have lead to this alarming trend and also focus on how to mitigate it.
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NLA session to resume today Kohima, July 17 (mExN): The ongoing second session of the Nagaland Legislative Assembly will resume on July 18. Thursday’s proceeding will be marked by questions, laying of reports and other papers, if any, Presentation of Supplementary Demands for grants for Regularization of Excess Expenditure for the Year 2006 2007, Presentation of Budget for the Year 2013 -2014, Presentation of Assembly Committee Reports and Presentation of C&AG Report for the year ended 31st March, 2012 (Report No.1 of 2013). The session is scheduled to go on till July 22.
Ao women urged to gather today at ADC Court at 9am
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DimaPuR, July 17 (mExN): In relation to the rape and murder of late Nungshilila Longkhum on July 4, the Dimapur Watsu Telongjem (DWT) has asked all Ao women residing in Dimapur to gather outside ADC Court Dimapur on July 18 at 9:00am in traditional attire. The DWT president, Alila Jamir and general secretary, Aoinla Jamir stated that the accused who is under police custody should not be granted bail till the court announces its final verdict.
Media explosion and alien culture “When a society is not really rooted in values, people get imbibed into such elements as a result of globalization and explosion of mass media. This media explosion has simply come alive and we have not sufficiently engaged ourselves on media education and its adverse impact.” says Rev. Fr. Sojan Xavier, Chancellor Diocese of Kohima. He adds that dignity of women is a pre-requisite for any society and violence occurs when this dignity is denied and violated. The advent of new foreign cultures, disappearance of old traditions and values and inability to balance both worlds is one factor that needs further emphasis. “The crimes we see today has a lot to with the violence we are exposed to, the portrayal by media where extreme violence is depicted,” says lawyer Ayo Jajo Aier Keviletuo Kiewhuo, Naga Hoho President says, “Today youngsters have become complicated because they have to cope up with numerous developments and advancements in the world especially in terms of technology. We are not able to adapt to alien cultures
SIT, Fast Track Courts and Martial Arts: Naga women’s memorandum to Governor
naga women take to the streets in protest against the increasing number of violence against women and children. (Photo by Caisii Mao)
or synchronize our culture with other cultures.” He laments that there is also an element of greed and selfishness to acquire money. Videlalie Zashiimo, SP Dimapur says, “Such crimes can be attributed to alien cultures, negative impacts of IT and internet. We think that we are very advanced but we are still
far away from civilization.”
Absence of strong social sanctions and the insensitive culture “Rape becomes a social stigma, so our women fear to disclose such violence,” says Rothihii Tetseo, SP Kohima. It may be noted that most crimes against women especially rape in Nagaland are
reported by non-locals. Society often fails to understand the victim’s trauma and tend to judge her moral character. As a result, many such cases go unreported. This may further empower the accused to continue such acts. “The absence of strong social sanctions is one factor that has increased crimes. Society does not
gress while referring to the police investigation report and the prosecution sanction sought from the NLA Speaker has also reminded the Speaker of the letter submitted on May 10, 2013, wherein it was mentioned that during the course of investigation, that facts and circumstances have been established and Speaker to immediately ac- the investigating officer will cord the same as required be submitting charge sheet for the law to takes its own against the accused to stand course of action. trial in the District Court. The opposition ConContinued on page 5
Kohima, July 17 (mExN): Joint Action Committee (JAC) on Delimitation in Nagaland has expressed optimism that the Supreme Court of India will finally pass judgement in its favour with regard to the writ petition (civil) filed by them (JAC) against the Union of India and five other respondents including State of Nagaland. Earlier in 2008, JAC filed the WP (C) challenging Union of India and five other respondents including State of Nagaland challenging Delimitation (Amendment) Ordinance, 2008, Executive/ Presidential Order dated Feb.
provide any deterrence” says Wabang Jamir, IPS.
Circulation of pictures It is not just the perpetrators but society that has turned insensitive towards violence against women. The circulation of pictures itself depicts the inhumane nature of today’s society. Continued on page 5
Kohima, July 17 (mExN): “The slow legal system in disposing cases is seen as one of the reasons why sexual offenders and murderers remain largely unpunished thereby encouraging other likeminded criminals commit horrifying offences without any hesitation. The House appeals for immediate setting up of ‘Fast Track Courts’ in every district in Nagaland,” said the memorandum submitted by the Naga tribal women organisations on July 13 to the Nagaland Governor Ashwini Kumar appealing for an immediate intervention in the “alarming rise of crimes against women and children in the state.” The organisation constituted of the Naga Mothers’ Association, Naga Women Hoho, Dimapur, Watsu Mungdang, Eastern Naga Women Organisation, Tenyimia Women Organisation and women activists The memorandum informed that a meeting was held on July 9, where members condemned the gruesome murder of Late Nung-
shilila Jamir and demanded for punishment of life imprisonment till death for the accused. It also urged the state government to set up a Special Investigation Team (SIT) on the case and complete the investigation within one month’s time. Further, it demanded that no bail warrant be given to the accused. The memo also sought attention for the Amendment of the State Women Commission Act so that it strengthens the Women State Commission which has only three members by accommodating more women members. And also set up Women Commission Cells in the districts with representatives of Tribal Women Organisation The need for more manpower in women cells and induction of women personnel in the force by fulfilling the mandatory 10% of women was also mentioned in the memo. Lastly it requested the Governor to make necessary arrangement for compulsory training of girls in martial arts for their safety and security.
gave three weeks time to the respondents to produce relevant documents pertaining to the case, a JAC member informed. He said that as per the case, if the Supreme Court gives its final verdict in favour of delimitation in Nagaland, the delimitation would be based on the 2001 Census. “We are fully optimistic that the case would reach a logical conclusion”, another JAC member said and added that the injustice of decades of uneven representation of districts and tribes in the state legislative assembly would finally be corrected.
Since the first hearing in 2008, the case has come up for hearing before the Supreme Court 15 times. According to sources, as per the Delimitation Commission recommendation in 2002, if redistricting/ delimitation is effected in Nagaland, districts which would gain additional assembly seats include Dimapur (2 seats), Wokha (2), Kiphire (1), Longleng (1), Peren (1) and Kohima (1). The 2003 delimitation exercise was carried out in all states except Assam, Manipur and Nagaland. The next country-wide delimitation exercise will take place in the year 2626.
NPCC concerned by Delimitation in Nagaland: JAC expresses ‘optimism’ ‘questionable delay’ 8, 2008, and Delimitation (Amendment) Act, 2008, which halted the 2003 country-wide delimitation exercise in Nagaland. JAC members in a meeting held Wednesday in Kohima informed representatives of tribes and districts which would benefit if delimitation is effected in Nagaland, that the Supreme Court last heard the arguments of both the petitioner and respondents on July 9 and 10. The apex court reportedly remarked that the WP was a “very important case” and cannot be adjourned any further. Accordingly, the apex court
DimaPuR, July 17 (mExN): The Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee has written to the Speaker of the Nagaland Legislative Assembly demanding for accordance of prosecution sanction against Imkong L. Imchen, former Home Minister and present Medical Minister. The NPCC in a press note issued by its President SI Jamir, expressed to the Speaker its deep concern and dismay over what it
termed as the “questionably delay in according the prosecution sanction” against the accused Minister and pressed upon the
DimaPuR, July 17 (mExN): A few days back, the rains arrived and people of Dimapur cheered at the much needed relief from the scorching summer heat. However, this source of respite quickly turned sour with floods ravaging several areas and landslides blocking off roads. Several low lying areas in Dimapur paid the price for inadequate drainage systems. Incessant rainfall on July 16 continued persistently for hours hampering normal life at Padum Pukhuri, Dimapur with massive flooding. The Padum Pukhuri Village Council informed that flood waters have affected about 120 families, with water levels rising not less than 7-8 feet in certain pockets. In some places, village approach/colony roads remained completely cut-off with the rising of water levels. Houses in the hundreds including playgrounds, offices etc were seen flooded till late afternoon. Village council mem-
Exposes poor planning, weak infrastructure and tests disaster response mechanism Entire state should be on alert: CM
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Torrential rain leads to flooding and landslides
(Left) A JCB removes debris at one of the landslide affected spots along nH 29 some 15 kms away from Dimapur on July 17. Photo by Caisii Mao (Right) A young man wades across his flooded room to recover personal items on July 17 as blankets and other household items are seen floating in the kitchen inundated by the torrential monsoon rain on July 16 evening at Lake View colony. Lack of proper drainage system in Dimapur has caused many houses to be partially submerged every year during the monsoon season. Photo by imojen i Jamir
bers led by chairman, Vitoka Katty and VDB secretary Wojamo Lotha along with Kakuho GB, Sumi Community and elders visited the submerged areas and took stock of the situation. Flooding of such level has never occurred in the vil-
lage before, stated the village authorities. Sensing the need for proper drainage, culverts and outlets, the village authority has resolved to review the drainage system of the village. The council has also informed villagers
to remove illegal structures and structures blocking the free flow of water. The council has also urged for the concerned authority to step in and assess the situation. At Unity Colony falling under Purana Bazar ‘B’, residents shifted their belong-
ings to safer places as water levels inside their houses rose to two feet. Some residents have locked their houses and entire families have been shifted to their relatives’ places, informed colony elders. It was reported that
cattle were also washed away by the rain water. Unity Colony Union members said this type of floods were an annual occurrence and appealed for the authority to take appropriate steps to prevent such disasters. Continued on page 5
Kohima, July 17 (DiPR): Nagaland Chief Minister, Neiphiu Rio today visited the two landslide affected areas at Phesama and Merema villages. The two landslides have cut-off access to Kohima, causing great hardship to commuters on both sides of the road. The CM called for the roads to be restored as early as possible and desired that the various Departments help and extend full support to ease the hardships of the people. He also urged that related departments like relief and rehabilitation, roads and bridges, disaster management authority, agriculture, forest and land revenue etc to make proper assessment of losses to property and cultivations and to come to the aid of the affected people. The CM further stated that the entire State should be alert for similar disasters during the monsoon season.
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Dimapur, July 17 (mExN): Office of the Development Commissioner, Government of India, Ministry of MSME New Delhi has invited the applications for National Award 2012 to the Micro, Small & Medium Enterprise in the categories of outstanding efforts in entrepreneurship in manufacturing, outstanding efforts in entrepreneurship in service, quality products, research and development efforts and product/process innovation efforts. Each category includes three national awards i.e. 1st, 2nd and 3rd with cash award of Rs.100000, Rs. 75000 and Rs. 50000 respectively with trophy and certificates. There will be also Special National Award for women entrepreneurs, Special National award to SC/St entrepreneurs and Special National Award to NER entrepreneur with cash prize of Rs.100000 each along with trophy and certificates. Interested MSMEs for applications and details may contact MSME development Institute, Old Industrial Estate Dimapur, call at 03862-248553 on any working days from Monday to Friday during working hours. The last date for receipt of duly completed application is July 31 The muddy road To developmenT… Passengers of a mini truck pushing the vehicle out of the muddy road in Longleng. A large portion of the 32 km road stretch between at MSME-DIs (formerly SISI). Changtongya and Longleng two-lane road remains in a deplorable condition for long, making vehicular movement a tough task. Often vehicles have to struggle hard while plying the road This was informed in a press release issued by Dy Dibetween Changtongya and Longleng, especially during the rainy season, as the road remains virtually covered with thick mud. (Photo Courtesy: Niksung Amer) rector Incharge Tali Longchar.
New health facilities in Mokokchung
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m o ko kc h u N g, July 17 (Dipr): SubDivisional Officer (C) Mokokchung, Theodore Yanthan has informed that as per the notification received from the department of Health and Family Welfare, Nagaland, new health facilities are being set up in phase manner across the State, in order to promote access to and universal provision of quality care. Accordingly, for setting up of new sub-centers, production of the Deed of Land Gift and undertaking as per the prescribed format in non judicial Court Stamp Pad (3 copies) by the Village Council and Landowners of the identified villages shall be mandatory henceforth. The site of the Gifted Land shall be within the human habitat and not in the outskirts of the village so as to provide easy access to the people and safety of ANM while the size of the Gifted Land must be at least 175sq meters. Nonproduction of the said Deed and Undertaking by the Village Council and Landowners shall be considered as refusal to set up the Sub Center in the village and therefore shall be relocated to other villagers.
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Imlong Place: The generosity of a pioneering family
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Perhaps one of the prominent landmarks in Mokokchung town, Imlong Place is one place which no one can miss while passing through the town. It is located adjacent to the main Police Point (also called as Town Square) and near the Mokokchung Town Baptist Church. This place features in the news quite frequently simply because if there is a rally, a mass programme or any other public activity in the middle of the town. Imlong Place is the only place provides such a location to the interested groups who want to hold the programme. Imlong Place, as the name suggested, belongs to the family of Imlong Chang, a Dobashi and one
of the earliest first settlers of the town. The place is a big commercial building in the middle of the town with a balcony overlooking the busy streets in the Town Square. This balcony serves as a stage during rallies or as a viable open space during sales day or other events. However, this important landmark is important only during programmes and the citizens apparently forgets about its upkeep after the events are over. Most often, the place remains dirty with spittle of paan, wrappers and so on. But, citizens opine that it is the public who should keep it clean. “People must have some civic sense. This place has become or less like a public property and the proprietors do not charge any amount for holding
kohima, July 17 (mExN): The Nagaland Baptist Church Council has stated that it is deeply shocked and grieved over the sad demise of Rev. Duporu Vasa who tirelessly worked for the cause of the Gospel till the end of his life. The NBCC in a condolence message remembered late Rev Vasa as “a great stalwart and a comrade in the ministry of the Gospel” who had immensely contributed to the growth of the ministry of the Council. He was one of the pioneers who worked wholeheartedly for peace and was in the forefront when NBCC launched the peace process during the turbulent times. Besides providing leadership to the Chakhesang Baptist Church Council in various capacities, he also worked relentlessly to promote mission work through his active involvement in the Nagaland Missionary Movement (1974-1978).
“He will be remembered for his great zeal and love for the Lord. Indeed, he was a humble and yet a towering figure in the service of the Lord. We salute him and his works,” the NBCC stated. With deepest sympathy, the NBCC also extends its heartfelt condolences to the bereaved family members during this time of bereavement. Rev Dr VK Nuh in another condolence message while expressing sorrow and pain of losing a dedicated senior church leader among the Nagas, also acknowledged his service for the Lord. “He was a pioneer Church leader among the Nagas. He served Chakhesang community in different capacities until his retirement. He was a great soul winner and hard worker. The Naga people miss him dearly,” Rev Nuh stated while conveying heartfelt condolence to the bereaved family.
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A view of Imlong Place in Mokokchung. (Morung Photo)
programmes or events. Therefore, a little civic sense on the part of the citizens who use the area will go a long way, in showing our gratitude to the proprietors of Imlong Place,” said Nungsang Jamir, Editor of Ao Milen. The place is not only a place for programmes or events. It is also a favorite place for hanging banners since it is situated in a very strategic location which can be seen from all places. Sometimes, banners put up by groups remain in the area even after the event is over, which in the opinion of some citizens, distort the beauty of the town. “We should be very grateful to the family of Imlong Chang. They have left a big space for the citizens of Mokokchung to hold programmes and events.
Otherwise, they could have brought up a constructed a huge room for commercial purposes and we would have been deprived of such a beneficial place,” said Tia Jamir, who works in the Ao Senden office. By and large, Imlong Place is quite clean as compared to some other places. But as some citizens opined to The Morung Express, that the public, especially those who use the place should sweep it and keep it clean after the event. It is the least that the public can do to show their gratitude to the proprietor for their generosity in letting the public use the space without any charges. “The public of Mokokchung should understand and respect the legacy of Imlong Chang while using the place,” added Nungsang Jamir.
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(Left) Customers browse through the Nans department store located at Darogapathar, 2 ½ mile, Dimapur. (Right) Proprietor Neena Jamir at the formal launch of Nans second outlet today. (Morung Photos)
Dimapur, July 17 (mExN): The department store ‘Nans’ synonymous for being the premier store for housing various local and imported food items has now launched its second outlet here in Dimapur. The store is located at Darogapathar, 2 ½ mile, adjoining the NRL petrol pump along NH 29. In a place where retail and shopping malls
are steadily developing, ’Nans’ existence has been a decade long in Dimapur. Nans is a modern mid-size department store which parallel any of the modern department stores in other parts of India and abroad. The first Nans store is located at Khermahal, Dimapur. Local entrepreneur Neena Jamir, who is the proprietor, stated that this new expansion is a wel-
come boon for residents around and beyond this area as it saves them time from travelling into the main town for their daily needs. Moreover, since the store is situated along NH 29, which is a lifeline of Nagaland and Manipur, it is a convenient drive-in store for travelers. It was also stated that the novelty of the store is that with everything available
under one roof, customers will be able to enjoy a unique retail shopping experience with its tranquil ambience and trained friendly staff. They can also avail clean rest areas with ample parking space and at the same time refuel their vehicles at the adjoining petrol station. Items available at the store include various local and imported food items such as pickles, spices,
sauce, varieties of canned and packed food, ready-toeat snacks, cereals, candies, frozen products, household items, health and personal products and many more. Varieties of more Indian and foreign brands are also in the pipeline to be made available to consumers. The launch event held at the store today was attended by family and well wishers of the proprietor.
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anSaM demands justice for rescued children SENAPATI, July 17 (NNN): The All Naga Students Association, Manipur (ANSAM) has urged the concerned authority for speedy delivery of justice to the rescued children. On March 12 this year, young girls and boys including minors from Manipur and Nagaland and elsewhere had been rescued after two children homes in Jaipur were raided by a joint team of the Tangkhul Shanao Long-Delhi, the State Commission for Protection of Child Rights, Rajasthan, social workers, activists and media persons. The homes were run by one Pastor Jacon John. On Wednesday, ANSAM said, "The startling revelation by the various local and national dailies in regards to the manner in which children from Manipur and Nagaland state were raped and sexually exploited,
has shocked the conscience of every sensible citizen.” While reposing our faith in the fairness of the judiciary, ANSAM impressed upon the concerned authority for swift delivery of justice to the traumatized children. Taking the cognizance of the heinous crime, a befitting punishment as deemed appropriate by the law of the land be given to the culprit, the Naga students' body demanded. ANSAM also urged the government of India to arrange necessary rehabilitation facilities, including education for the children. Mention may be made here that both the children homes are called ‘Grace Home’ which were illegally run by one Jacob John, flouting every norm and guideline laid by the Child Welfare Committee. He was arrested under the Indian Penal Code section
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344,366 and 370(5) and Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2000 section 23 and 28. Of the 51 children rescued from two children homes in Jaipur, Rajasthan, and 30 children are from Ukhrul district of Manipur. Of them, 22 are girls and 8 children are boys. Again on July 4, four more children from Manipur which included three girls aged 8, 12, 19 and one 15 year old boy were rescued from the 'home' of one Rajkumari Ronica Robinson in Jaipur, a former friend of Jacob John, where they were being exploited and kept in domestic servitude. FXB Surakha India rescued the four children, following which two members of Tangkhul Shanao Long, Delhi (TSLD) went to Jaipur to provide support and People collect drinking water from a public tap at a waterlogged area in Guwahati, Assam on to counsel the children. Tuesday, July 16. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)
NPO Census Meeting hints at ‘serious and massive agitation’
SENAPATI, July 17 (ThE horNbIll ExPrESS): Virtually sick of repeated attempts to push for inclusion into the Census record of India, the Naga People’s Organization (NPO) today held a meeting of its Census Committee. Participated and endorsed by District civil organizations including Tribe Hohos, SDSA, SDWA, KSTC, intellectuals, social workers and dignitaries, the meeting hinted at public outcry through mass agitation and at a last attempt representation to the Government of India and Government of Manipur. According to NPO Census committee which is
headed by A John, the house decided to call an NPO Presidential emergency meeting on July 24 and thereby decide the further the course of agitation as per the wishes of the people. It contended that the attitude of the Manipur Government in addressing the Census issue of the three sub-divisions of Mao-Maram, Purul and Paosmata has been neglectful and indifferent against the wishes of the people of the District. Moreover, even the re-verification process of the census conducted by RGI officials last year has been stalled without any reason. Repeated attempts to address the issue have been without
any positive result till today, stated one of the committee members. Not indulging into what type of agitation will be launched, the official said that, the agitation would be “serious and massive”. It may be remembered that, after repeated exclusion of the three sub-divisions in the 2001 and 2011 in the Provisional Census report published, the NPO Census Committee was formed to address the issue. The Committee has also pointed serious “tempering of Census documents” during census exercise conducted in 2011 by some supervisors and enumerators directed allegedly by high officials in State Census Department and
officials. The apex body also alleged that, the State Census Office was involved in tempering and cancellation of many existing names and illogical maintaining of certain limited percentage of the population record, despite its existing population recorded by Government appointed enumerators and supervisors during census operations. It has also filed a writ petition in the Guwahati High Court and then referred the case to the Supreme Court, which has undergone more than 10 hearings till date. As per the provisional census figures of 2001, the delimitation process if conducted was to benefit Senapati
District with three more Manipur Assembly seats at its population recorded at 379,214. Sadly, with the exclusion of the 2011 census again, the delimitation process seems to elude Senapati District and deny all political justice till today. Ironically, those Districts of Bishnupur, Thoubal, Imphal West and Imphal East continue to enjoy the assembly seats at the expense of Senapati, Ukhrul and Chandel Districts. The reverification process of the Census conducted by Registrar of India last year remain inconclusive and reasons as to why it could not continue the process is unknown to the people.
Arunachal governor wants better road connectivity Assam to have 126 model
ITANAgAr, July 17 (PTI): Arunachal Pradesh Governor Lt Gen (Retd) Nirbhay Sharma emphasised on the need for better road connectivity in the state for overall development. Addressing the 62nd plenary of the North Eastern Council (NEC) at New Delhi on Tuesday, the governor said that the Border Roads Organisation is assigned responsibility for implementation of roads in Arunachal Pradesh through Vartak, Bramkank, Udayak and Arunank projects, a Raj Bhawan communiqué said in Itanagar today. “A senior officer of the rank of additional director general of BRO tasked with responsibility of coordinating these four projects should be posted in Arunachal Pradesh for proper monitoring of these projects and coordination among project officers, the state government and the Union government,” he said. Urging the NEC to take a lead in developing the 160 km road from Pangsau (India) to Myitkyina (Myanmar) on the lines of Tamu-Kaleywa IndoMyanmar Friendship road, the governor said India’s Look East Policy holds immense potential for the region. “North East region is the lynchpin for success of this policy, with connectivity as its prime concern. Therefore the focus must be on developing the
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historic Stillwell Road,” he said. While sharing his experience of his visit to Changlang district, Sharma stressed on the need to formalise and improvise trade through Pangsau Pass, making trading a regular feature and Pangsau town a trading hub. To facilitate the initiative, he called for co-opting a senior officer from the external affairs ministry in the NEC. Raising the issue of the 2,000 MW Lower Subansiri project which was started in January 2005, the governor said construction work at the site has been halted since 20 December 2011. “So far, Rs 6,000 crores have been spent and the project is more than
halfway through and because of some issues between NHPC and the government of Assam, this is resulting in time and cost overrun causing huge loss to national exchequer. The issues between concerned parties need to be resolved urgently,” he said. The governor appealed to his counterpart in Assam and the chief ministers of both states, the Centre and the NEC to take steps to resolve these issues and get work started on the projects at the earliest. Emphasising strengthening infrastructure along the border, the governor said that the NEC “needs to lay special emphasis on development of border areas and supplement the resources of Border Area Development Project (BADP)”. He informed that the state government has submitted a proposal for three projects – connecting 22 unconnected administrative centres; providing drinking water facilities in border areas; and construction of porter tracks, log bridges and foot suspension bridges in border areas, for the locals as well as Army and paramilitary forces. He requested the NEC and the home ministry to allocate additional resources for these projects, the communiqué added.
Sarkar seeks early completion of infra projects
NEW DElhI, July 17 (PTI): Tripura today sought expeditious completion of crucial infrastructure projects to enhance connectivity with other parts of the country and urged the Centre to take proactive measures to re-establish rail, road, air and other links with Bangladesh. The issues were raised by Chief Minister Manik Sarkar at a meeting with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh here today. The Prime Minister gave a patient hearing and assured Sarkar that necessary steps would be taken on the issues raised by him, a state government spokesperson said. In a memorandum, the Chief Minister stressed that India 'needs to adopt a more proactive and ac-
commodative approach towards Bangladesh so that things can move faster,' as improved connectivity with the country would benefit the entire north eastern region. Maintaining that Agartala airport was the second busiest in the region after Guwahati, the state sought its upgradation and declaration as an international airport with connectivity to Dhaka, Chittagong and other foreign cities. It also sought operationalisation of airports at Kailashahar and Kamalpur. It wanted expediting the broadening of the only national highway NH-44 connecting Tripura with the rest of the country, saying it was in a 'bad shape' and
said a new national highway from Kukital to Sabroom should be constructed. Sarkar demanded expeditious clearance of major railway works, including broad-guaging of Lumding-Silchar section, besides a reliable telecommunication link for the state. He sought the Centre's help for the repatriation of 37,000 Reang refugees who migrated from Mizoram over 15 years ago due to ethnic violence, saying it was giving rise to socio-economic and law and order problems. He wanted Assam Rifles to vacate of part of land in the heart of Agartala occupied by it to develop a modern sports complex, without dislocating the paramilitary force.
'Arunachal has the most linguistic diversity in India'
KolKATA, July 17 (PTI): Boasting of more than 90 languages, the north-eastern state of Arunachal Pradesh has come out as the most linguistically diverse state in India. "So far we have documented at least 90 languages in Arunachal. This makes it the number one state in terms of number of languages," Dr G N Devy, chairperson of People's Linguistic Survey of India (PLSI), told reporters here today. The biggest ever linguistic survey conducted over a period of four years by a 3,000 strong team of linguists spread across the length and breadth of the country found that there are at least 780 alive languages in India. "India is ten times more richer than the whole of Europe in terms of languages," Devy said. The survey finds Arunachal is followed by
Maharashtra and Gujarat as they have more than 50 languages each. With 47 languages, Odisha is at the fourth spot while West Bengal lies at the fifth place having 38 languages. West Bengal is the richest state in terms of scripts. "At least 5 per cent of languages and 10 per cent of scripts found in India are from Bengal. This is a reflection on the society of Bengal which has given importance to languages," Devy said. The linguist opined that instead of crying over dead languages like Bo in Andaman islands, India should be celebrating its linguistic diversity. "Our survey tries to reflect that," he said, adding that in future they want to come up with a complete genetic map of Indian languages which would include its history, biography and genealogical information.
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guWAhATI, July 17 (PTI): The Assam government will set up 126 model hospitals in each of the assembly constituencies, 60 of which will start functioning from this fiscal, state Health and Family Welfare Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said today. Replying to a query of Bodoland Peoples Front's Pradip Kumar Brahma, Sarma said: "We are setting up 126 model hospitals in all the constituencies. Out of this, we have started work on 100 hospitals". The government is moving ahead as per its target and will open 60 hospitals during this financial year, he said. "We have already started the process for purchasing the equipments," he added. Talking about the appointments of the staff, Sarma said the process is likely to complete by November this year. "We have completed the Grade IV appointments. Next month, the interviews for Grade III will happen... We have 35,000
candidates for written examinations," he added. Assam Public Service Commission has also started the process to appoint doctors for the model hospitals, he informed the House.
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Rovio announces Angry Birds: Star Wars II NeW DelHi, July 17 (ageNcies): Finnish mobile game maker Rovio has announced a new addition to its Angry Birds franchise. The company announced the new game via a blog post and said that it will hit app stores on September 19. This new game, titled Angry Birds: Star Wars II, is the sixth game to be published under the franchise, which also consists of the spin-off Bad Piggies. Angry Birds: Star Wars II will introduce a new range of characters, with users being given access to 30 of them in game-play. Gamers who wish to play from the Sith Empire’s side will now be able to join the pigs’ side in the game. The company said, “We will not comment on rumours or speculation that Jar Jar Binks will be in the game.” Rovio has partnered with toymaker Hasbro to release a line of collectibles called Telepods. The post stated, “Placing these figures (Telepods) onto your
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‘Cut & paste’ job costs Tata company Rs. 2.28 lakh
MuMbai, July 17 (PTi): An erroneous ‘cut and paste’ job in updating its shareholding pattern has cost a Tata group firm, The Tinplate Company of India Ltd, an amount of Rs. 2.28 lakh as payment towards settlement of a case with the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi). Sebi, in a consent order dated June 28, has settled charges of takeover norms violation by TCIL after it paid Rs. 2.28 lakh. Besides, the market regulator said it will not initiate any enforcement action against the company. A consent order enables settling administrative or civil proceedings between the regulator and the party concerned. The company had been charged with delay in filing the shareholding details under Sebi’s takeover regulations for 2009 and 2010.
Besides, there was inaccurate disclosure regarding change in shareholding of the company between March 31, 2010 and March 31, 2011. However, “change in shareholding had never taken place but that the change in the shareholding which had actually taken place between March 31, 2010 and March 31, 2011 and had already been indicated in the relevant disclosures for that particular year had been repeated for the next year due to a ‘cut and paste’ error.” Consequently, the disclosures for the period between March 31, 2010 and March 31, 2011 indicated a change in shareholding pattern even though there was no such change. Also, there was no change in control of the company during the period. TCIL submitted an ap-
plication with Sebi in December 2012 following which their representatives held a meeting with the regulator’s internal committee on consent. After that, the consent terms were placed before the high powered advisory committee of Sebi. The committee recommended the case for settlement upon payment of Rs. 2.28 lakh towards settlement charges. The applicant (TCIL) has remitted the sum towards settlement fees. In a separate consent order, Sebi has settled charges of takeover norms violation by Ashok Alco-Chem Ltd after it paid Rs. 3.52 lakh. The company had not filed the disclosures regarding its shareholding details between 2001 and 2007 and 2009 within specific time-frame.
Now, human pee to charge cellphones
lONDON, July 17 (ageNcies): Pee power! In a world first, UK scientists claim to have developed a novel method to charge mobile phones - using human urine. Scientists working at the Bristol Robotics Laboratory have described the “breakthrough” finding of charging cell phones using urine as the power source to generate electricity. “We are very excited as this is a world first, no-one has harnessed power from urine to do this so it’s an exciting discovery. Using the ultimate waste product as a source of power to produce electricity is about as eco as it gets,” Dr Ioannis Ieropoulos from University of the West of England (UWE), Bristol, an expert at harnessing power from unusual sources using microbial fuel cells, said. “One product that we can be sure of an unending
supply is our own urine. By harnessing this power as urine passes through a cascade of microbial fuel cells (MFCs), we have managed to charge a mobile phone. The beauty of this fuel source is that we are not relying on the erratic nature of the wind or the Sun, we are actually re-using waste to create energy,” said Ieropoulos. He said so far the microbial fuel power stack that scientists have developed generates enough power to enable SMS messaging, web browsing and to make a brief phone call. “Making a call on a mobile phone takes up the most energy but we will get to the place where we can charge a battery for longer periods. The concept has been tested and it works - it’s now for us to develop and refine the process so that we can develop MFCs to fully charge a battery,” he said.
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regnancy-related complications are the main causes of deaths for 15-19 year old girls and mortality among adolescent girls under 18 years is several times higher than those aged 18-25 years. Children born to adolescents mothers also face higher risk of death, especially during the neonatal and prenatal periods. Pregnancy and childbirth carry more risk in adolescents than in adults because adolescent girl is yet not mature physically and emotionally for motherhood. The risk is high throughout the antenatal period, labour, childbirth and the post partum period. Babies born to adolescent mothers have a higher risk of being of low birth weight, making them predisposed to higher morbidity and mortality. Why are complications more common in adolescent pregnancy and childbirth? • Biologically, an adolescent’s body is still developing and not yet ready to take on an added strain. The pelvic bones are not fully mature and cephalo-pelvic disproportion could occur. Her body has special nutrient needs and when pregnancy occurs, it is a strain on already depleted reserves, especially if she belongs to low socio-economic background. The young girl may not be mentally prepared for motherhood with all its added responsibilities, etc. and this could give rise to mental health problem like depression. • Socio-culturally, pregnancy outside marriage bears terrible stigma and above situation worsens when the girl is not married, in which case she does not get the emotional support when she needs as well as support in terms of nutrition, rest, antenatal check-ups etc. • Shortcomings in service delivery deter adolescents from seeking timely medical help and intervention. At many health centers, pregnant adolescents who are unmarried are treated with none or very little respect by staff, some of whom may not be aware of the risk associated with such pregnancies. So, even if the girl is able to access health services of some kind, she does not necessarily get the benefit of a sensitive and technically competent check-up. This is the reason unmarried adolescents hide their pregnancies for as long as they can and medical help is delayed at great risk to their lives. • The situation is not unique to unmarried adolescents as the married ones may not be aware of the
importance of antenatal care. For various reasons, the adolescent woman is more likely to deliver at home. The older women in the home feel that a traditional birth attendant is equipped to carry out the delivery, her services cheaper and she is easily accessible. A trained birth attendant or a hospital is usually thought of when things get out of hand and complications have already set in. Adolescent’s pregnancy very often leads to unsafe abortion especially if the girl is unmarried. The consequences of this type of abortion can be life threatening. Although the abortion is legal in India, it is estimated that four million Indian women a year resort to illegal abortions because of social stigma, lack of awareness and lack of access to health facilities that offer technically competent services. Medical Termination of Pregnancy The Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act was passed in 1971. The Act was intended to grant women freedom from unwanted pregnancies, especially when there was social censure or medical risk involved. Apart from these benefits, it also ensured that abortion services became easily accessible. The aim of the Act is to allow for the termination of certain pregnancies by registered medical Practitioners. If a pregnancy is terminated by someone who is not a registered medical practitioner, it would constitute an offence punishable under the Indian Penal Code. According to the Act, abortion may be permitted only in certain cases: (a) Where the length of the pregnancy does not exceed twelve weeks or (b) Where the length of the pregnancy exceeds twelve weeks but does not exceed twenty weeks, if not less than two registered medical practitioners are, of opinion, formed in good faith, that, - The continued pregnancy would pose a risk of injury to the women’s physical or mental health; or - There exists a substantial risk that the foetus would suffer from a severe physical or mental abnormality; or - The pregnancy resulted from rape or incest; or - The continued pregnancy would significantly affect the social or economic circumstances of the woman; or (c) After the 20th week of the gestation period if a medical practitioner, after consultation with another medical practitioner or a registered midwife who has completed the prescribed training course, is of the opinion that
the continued pregnancy. - Would endanger the woman’s life; - Would result in a severe malformation of the foetus; or - Would pose a risk of injury to the foetus. As long as the above conditions are fulfilled, a doctor can terminate a pregnancy without fear of being prosecuted under the Indian Penal Code. Whose consent is required? A pregnancy can be terminated only with the informed consent of the pregnant woman; no other person’s consent needs to be obtained. In the case of a pregnant woman, less than eighteen years old, and in the case of a pregnant woman, more than eighteen years old but of unsound mind, the consent of her guardian must be obtained in writing. MTPs can be performed only at the centers certified by the government. These centers should be located in public or private sector. The rights of the pregnant woman Whenever a woman requests that her pregnant be terminated, she must be informed of her rights under the Act. Also, whenever a pregnancy has been terminated, the medical practitioner should record the prescribed information. However, the name and address of the woman, who has requested or obtained a termination of pregnancy, should be kept confidential, unless she herself chooses to disclose that information. Penalization If a person who is not a medical practitioner, who has not completed the prescribed training course, performs the termination of a pregnancy, can be convicted and penalized with a fine or imprisonment for a period not exceeding 10 years. The extent of problems related to unsafe abortion among adolescents varies from state to state and communities and depends on whether Reproductive health information and services are available and accessible to adolescents, early and safe abortion service are available and accessible, health care providers are sensitive and non-judgmental towards adolescents, community and societal norms permit frank discussion about sexuality matters in adolescents and national law and policy makers ensure the dissemination of adequate knowledge related to reproductive health information and services.
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NPCC asserts position on Article 371-A
DIMAPUR, JULY 17 (MExN): The Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee (NPCC) has resolved to put into record what it termed as “its profound tribute to the pioneers and signatories of the 16 Point Agreement, the first ever political agreement signed between the people and the GOI thereby the consequent adoption of matchless Art. 371(A) of the Constitution of India”. According to a press note issued by NPCC President SI Jamir, the Special Provision of Art. 371(A) guarantees extra-ordinary constitutional provision as well as “uninfringeable rights over inters alias, land and resources”. Taking cognizance of what it termed as “the unique background (Point No. 1) and the adoption of the special provision” the NPCC stated that it was registering its “strong observation that legal interpretation of the constitutional provision without simultaneous interpretation of the 16 Point Agreement will render Art. 371(A) infractuas in the days to come”. “Therefore, the NPCC hereby solemnly resolved to steadfastly safeguard the guaranteed
constitutional provision as a matter of political rights of the state”, stated the press note while adding that the ownership of land and resources “in the actual context of the Special Provision under Art. 371 (A) is a matter of recognised and guaranteed right and not a claim to be disputed”. Also considering what it described as the huge deposit of minerals including petroleum and oil resources in the State and the “high potency” of the produce, the NPCC observed that “assertion of right over the petroleum and oil resources should not be restricted to that of exploration and extraction only”. “The simple assertion of right without harvesting optimum benefit from exploring/ exploiting the rich but exhaustibly resources does not merit ownership in true sense of the term guaranteed by Art. 371(A). Therefore the NPCC resolved that oil refinery must be set up in the state so as to bring in maximum resultant benefit/employment opportunity to the people of the state”, it stated.
Dispute over Art 371 A should be resolved diplomatically: Therie Meanwhile K. Therie, former Finance Minister and member NPCC and AICC has also weighed in on the issue of Article 371 (A) pointing out that if there is any dispute in the usage and application of Article 371 A, it should be resolved diplomatically between the State and the Centre or otherwise, any one of them may move the Supreme Court for interpretation. Therie pointed out that “confronting will lead us nowhere unless we have our own resources to explore and set up refineries”. Also according to Therie, “if there is any doubt in the interpretation, we are fortunate to still have Dr. S. C. Jamir, one of the drafting committee members and signatory of the 16-Point Agreement from where Article 371 has been derived. If necessary, we may obtain his view”. During his time as Chief Minister, Therie stated that they had obtained the views of legal luminaries like former Supreme Court Chief Justice, M. Hidayatullah, Sr. Consular P. C. Sorkar, Senior Advocate to Supreme Court F. S. Nariman, former Attorney General of India Soli Sorabjee and even had verbal consultation with former Rajya Sabha Member Ram Jethmalani.
Old water pipeline pose serious DC Phek holds meeting for I-day celebration health risks at Mangkolemba
MANgKoLEMbA, JULY 17 (MExN): The Mangkolemba Ao Lanur Telongjem (MALT) has stated that unfiltered water coupled with rusted pipelines pose serious health threats to the citizens of Mangkolemba town. A press note issued by Imjong Longkumer, President, and Lanutemjen General Secretary of MALT, Mangkolemba stated that Mangkolemba, a sub divisional headquarter under Mokokchung district, is blessed with abundant water from a number of rivers and streams that flows around the town. However, the pipelines that bring water from the source/river to the town and the distribution network to
the households had been laid in 1964 by the Public Health Engineering (PHE) department. It stated that the pipelines are old enough to have rusted, thus making the water unhealthy for drinking. Furthermore, MALT in the note stated that the town does not have a filtration plant, or a water reservoir till date making the water supply vulnerable, especially during monsoon season. MALT on behalf of the citizens of the town, urged the PHE department to replace the water pipelines and also construct a distilling plant and a water reservoir in Mangkolemba at the earliest to benefit its people.
WACBCC men dept 2nd session held
A group participates during the Western Area Chakhesang Baptist Church Council men department 2nd session on July 13.
DIMAPUR, JULY 17 (MExN): Western Area Chakhesang Baptist Church Council men department held its 2nd session on July 13 at Toulazou Chakhesang Baptist Church on the theme ‘Lead with vision.’ A press note stated that about 500 men from 15 different churches in Dimapur area attended the session. The main speakers of the programme were Rev.
Dr. Vezopa Tetseo, Executive Secretary CBCC T. Chikri, Pfutsero and Husazu Epao, Principal Patkai Christian College. They spoke on the “Blessed Father and his Blessings” and “Men’s Role as godly stewardship” respectively, the in-depth deliberation of the topic by both the speakers was a great motivation and rejuvenated the fathers. The programme started
Matrix of violence against women Rev. Fr. Xavier says, “The recent case of circulation of pictures has reduced human dignity to such a point that there is no difference how they look at an animal and a human being” “The circulation of pictures shows corruption of the mind. How can a sane rational person in his right mind take such pictures? Any normal person will at least have the decency to look away.” says Keviletuo Kiewhuo.
with prayer and unfurling of flag by Rev. Dr. VK Nuh General Secretary, FNBA, the other highlight of the programme includes various competitions on theme song, indigenous group song, and indigenous quartet with instrument, bible quiz, and extempore speech. The programme closed with de-hosting the flag by Yevesu Vero, Vice Chairman, WACBCC.
Family and Society Globalization, media explosion, exposure to violence etc are factors that can be blamed, however at the end of the day it comes down to one factor- society’s responsibility-the family, the school, the supposedly closed knit community. Rev. Fr. Xavier states that the way people are brought up impacts society. “When we don’t respond to needs and realities, when values are not inculcated in people, such things are bound to take place.” Abei-ii Meru from Naga Mothers’ Association says that the alarming rise of violence against women cannot wholly be blamed on the accused. “We need to look through the background of the accused. We need to look at their relationships with their family, friends and the Church. Most “As a procedural requirement, prosof the accused are dropouts and come ecution sanction under 197CrPc needs to from broken homes,” she adds. [be] issued from your esteemed end, in orThe Solution der to ensure abundant caution, as the ac“When we look at the crimes, it’s not cused is a govt. servant/employee under collective criminalization,” says Keviletuo your establishment. Therefore, it is prayed Kiewhuo. He advocates the need to iden- to your competent authority to kindly actify people who have the tendency to be cord prosecution sanction against Mr. violent and counsel them. “We need Psy- Imkong L. Imchen then Home Minister & chologist and Psychiatrists who can ad- present Medical Minister, Nagaland as per dress their problems”, He adds. provision under section 197 CrPc”, stated Abei-ii Meru acknowledges, “Some- the letter to the Speaker.
NPCC concerned by ‘questionable delay’
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MEx FILE DBA elects new office bearers DIMAPUR, JULY 17 (MExN): The Dimapur Bar Association (DBA) held its general meeting on July 16 at DBA Conference Hall, Dimapur and elected new team of office bearers for the tenure 2013-2015. The team includes Imti Imsong-president, Hachumo Kikon-vice president, A Hukavi Zhimomi-general secretary, Chubayanger-Assistant general secretary and Z Khesheli Chopi-treasurer and ten executive members.
Dimapur water supply main pipeline damaged
DIMAPUR, JULY 17 (MExN): Water supply to Dimapur town, Chumukedima area and surrounding villages have been disrupted due to damage of main pipe line by landslide between Patkai bridge and Peren bridge on July 16. PHED EE T Imtiakum in a press release has requested all the consumers to bear with the inconvenience until the pipeline is restored.
DSO Longleng informs
DIMAPUR, JULY 17 (MExN): The DSO Longleng has informed all Charge Officers of 6th Economic Census under Longleng to receive all filled-in and blank schedules, updated layout map, abridged house list and all documents of EB wise from their enumerators and supervisors under their charge and submit it to District Statistical Officer, Longleng before July 25, 2013. This was informed in a press note issued by C.Hamyung Phom, District Statistical Officer, Longleng.
Kiyanilie to grace national painting competition DC Phek Neposo Theluo holds meeting with the head of office, establishments and institutes in Phek Hq at DPDB conference hall on July 17. (DIPR Photo)
PhEK, JULY 17 (DIPR): In view of the forth coming Independence Day celebration, a meeting was held in the DPDB conference hall on July 17 under the chairmanship of Deputy Commissioner, Phek Neposo Theluo. The meet-
ing chalked out various programme and entrusted works to different departments for the celebration of Independence Day in a grand manner. It was also decided to hold all departmental tournaments on the Independence Day evening
where attractive presentation will be awarded to all the participation. The meeting also decided to have a mass social work on August 10. The meeting was attended by all Head of Offices/establishments, Institute in Phek Hq.
World Population Day observed in Tuensang
DIMAPUR, JULY 17 (MExN): Along with the rest of the world Tuensang District Health department observed ‘World Population Day’ under the theme “Small family happy family” at CMO conference hall. A press note issued by Solomon Khiam, District Media Officer, DPMU, Tuensang stated that Deputy CMO Dr. PangJung Sangtam, and Dr. Akum Aier, Gynecologist, District Hospital Tuensang were the resource person. Speaking on the occasion, Dy.CMO Dr.Pangjung highlighted on the important of population stabilization through social mobilization and to understand contraceptive needs of families and the community
and ensuring access to contraceptive services. He also stressed on the need for education of women in the society and enable more couples to adopt the family planning method and safe motherhood which will contribute to individual and family well being. Dr.Akum Aier, (Gynecologist) spoke on Reproductive health care including family planning, adolescences pregnancy, Spacing method s and sterilization. The note also mentioned that Population Stabilization fortnight will be observed throughout the district from July 11 to 24, 2013 where free family planning service on both temporary and permanent FP will be provided in all health units.
Mao Union Kohima condemns
DIMAPUR, JULY 17 (MExN): The Mao Union Kohima (MUK) vehemently condemns the brutal killing of Late Ashikho Kreni (Aje) of Punanamai village on the night of July 16, 2013 whose lifeless body was found lying on the NH 29 near Kigwema ground in the early hours
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thing is really wrong with our society. We all need to step out. Don’t just leave it to the mothers or sisters. The fathers and brothers need to come. And the most important step starts from the family. Parents need to spend time with their children. They need to advice and correct their children.” Rothihii Tetseo says, “Nagas are good in initial protests but there is no follow-up. It becomes a one-time show. So there is a need to argue and pursue the case further.” Videlalie Zashiimo adds, “Awareness and sensitization to all classes of people is very crucial. Most of the accused are uneducated. These are people who hardly know the consequences and resentments.” We used to be a caring and humane society. We were the same people who left our doors unlocked, whose men were protectors and not murderers or rapists. We were the same people who put traditional shawls on dead bodies instead of circulating pictures of a brutal murder on the internet. What have we become? May these tragedies haunt us all. May it take us to the streets, the squares, the courts to fight against such wrongs. May it be the end of all tragedies because we do not want to relive this horror ever again. Because it could and can be anyone of us.
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of July 17. A condemnation note issued by D.Neli, General Secretary, Mao Union Kohima stated that such acts of barbarism has no place in a civilized society. The Union urged all right thinking people to condemn such senseless acts. The Union in the note also appealed to the law enforc-
The NPCC stated that despite “clear police report of having established facts and circumstances for the accused to stand on trial in the court of law”, it pointed out that the Speaker has not accorded the required prosecution sanction and two complete months have lapsed. “Under these circumstances the NPCC is implied to infer this inaction as not only a breach of the honored position hold but a deliberate subversion of the due process of law”, the letter stated. According to the letter, the Speaker should note with seriousness that the delay in granting prosecution sanction has become a “covert protection given to the accused and a blessing in disguise for the accused.” In this regard, the NPCC referred to the Supreme Court case of Vineet Narain &Ors. Vs Union of India in its judgment dated December 18, 1997 which had issued directions that the time limit of three months for granting prosecution sanction must be strictly adhered to and that an additional time of one month may be allowed for legal consultation. The same was reiterated according to the NPCC in January 2012 when the Supreme Court passed a judgment in the case of Dr. Subramanian Swamy Vs Manmohan Singh & another (Civil Appeal No. 1193 of 2012). “Justice A K Ganguly held that by causing delay in considering the request for sanction, the sanctioning authority stultifies judicial scrutiny and determination of the allegations against (a) corrupt official and thus the legitimacy of the judicial institution is eroded”. Having stated and referred the relevant Supreme Court judgments and CVC circular to substantiate its point of contention, the NPCC demanded from the Speaker for immediate sanctioning of prosecution. “This is not a favor sought but a constitutional duty demanded from the sanctioning authority who otherwise should uphold the dignity and integrity of
ing agencies to book the culprits and mete out the most befitting punishment to the perpetrators of this dastardly act at the earliest possible time. The MUK expresses sorrow to the bereaved family members at this time of grief and stated, “May the departed soul rest in peace forever”.
the highest institution in parliamentary democracy”, stated the letter. As such, the NPCC hoped the Speaker will accord the prosecution sanction within the time limit set by the apex Court. In the event of failure to do so the NPCC stated that it may be forced to take the matter forward for other course of action.
Torrential rain leads ...
They also appealed for relief measures to the affected residents. The rains also triggered landslides at three places along NH-29 between Patkai Bridge and Kukidolong were leaving hundreds of vehicles stranded. However, by Wednesday morning at around 8, traffic had resumed cautiously as clearance works were still carried out for the entire day with three JCBs working at the three spots. Even as the clearing process was carried out hurriedly, a thick layer of mud, nearly one foot deep was lying on the road at some spots till noon. Deputy Commissioner of Dimapur, N. Hushili Sema and Superintendent of Police Dimapur, VZ Angami were seen monitoring clearance works at one of the landslide spots near Chumukedima Police Check Post. The other two places were between Chumukedima Police Check Post and Kukidolong. NH-29 stretch is used by hundreds of vehicles everyday carrying essential commodities to other parts of the state and to neighboring Manipur. No casualty as a result of the landslide was reported. Meanwhile at Meriema village, rains caused landslides measuring approximately 150 feet along the Kohima-Wokha road last Wednesday. Vehicular movement was disturbed for a few days, however as of July 17, vehicles have been able to pass the stretch one at a time. According to a DIPR report, the Border Roads Organization and the local people have been pressed into action for clearance of the road.
KohIMA, JULY 17 (DIPR): Minister for Social Welfare, Kiyanilie will grace the prize distribution cum closing function of the National Painting Competition and Release of NCCW Silver Jubilee Souvenir as the Chief Guest on July 20 at the Indoor TT stadium, Kohima. The National Painting Competition is organized by Nagaland Council for Child Welfare, Kohima (NCCW) and sponsored by the Indian Council for Child Welfare, New Delhi. The function will be chaired by President, NCCW, Khevito T. Shohe while students of North Field School, Kohima will present a special song. Judges for the National Painting Competition include Senior Artiste, Lepden Jamir, Khevito T. Shohe and Bambi Kevichusa, Secretary Social Welfare, Nagaland, T. Kiheto Sema will be the guest of honor at the programme.
Kohima College informs
KohIMA, JULY 17 (MExN): Kohima College, Principal Chubatola Longkumer has asked the failed regular candidates of HSSLC examination 2013 of Kohima College intending to appear the next HSSLC examination 2014 to report to the College from August 1 to 9 positively to confirm about their status quo regarding internal/project work marks. Any candidates, who had failed to secure the minimum qualifying marks or had not, appeared in the internal/project works conducted by the College during the academic session 2012-201, failing to report to the College authority within the stipulated dates will not be allowed to fill up their application forms for HSSLC Examination 2014.
KTK & KLK joint jubilee committee meeting
DIMAPUR, JULY 17 (MExN): Joint Jubilee Committee meeting of NCRC Sumi Kulolau Totimi Kuposhukulu (KTK) and Kulolau Lhothemi Kuposhukulu (KLK) will be held on July 20, 2013 at 10:00 am at NCRC Sumi Purana Bazar Church. All the Jubilee Planning Board members, various sub-committee members and office bearers of KTK and KLK have been informed by KTK & KLK Joint Jubilee Planning Board Secretary Hosheto Awomi to attend the meeting positively.
NCSU appeals
KohIMA, JULY 17 (MExN): The Nagaland Contractors’ & Suppliers’ Union (NCSU) head office, Kohima has expressed deep concern over the massive landslide, which has cut-off road connectivity along Phesama and Kisama NH-29 since Friday last which is beyond repairable. The NCSU in a press release issued by its vice president KL Setuo Rutsa and general secretary John Kath has appealed BRO and State Government to immediately workout for reconstruction of road connectivity for the interest of the public. The Union urged the State Government to give special attention to clear up the affected areas immediately and compensate the loss of properties to the victims. The Union along with APO officials visited the affected areas at Phesama and Merema on July 15.
Teachers training rescheduled
DIMAPUR, JULY 17 (MExN): The in-service secondary teachers training under RMSA for five days have been rescheduled to be conducted at DIET Dimapur, informed District Education Officer, Dimapur Nungshila Sohe in a press release. Therefore, all the heads of GHSS/GHS under DEO Dimapur who are under RMSA flagship programme have been notified to depute the subject teachers concerned as per the following schedule: English – July 29 to August 2; Social Science – August 5 to August 9; Science – August 19 to August 23; Mathematics – August 26 to August 30.
Word Explosion Bible Camp from Aug 8
DIMAPUR, JULY 17 (MExN): The Naga Shisha Hoho Prayer Centre, Prüzie will be organizing Word Explosion Bible Camp from August 8 to 11 at NSHPC, Prüzie, Kohima with the theme, “Because greater is He that is in you than he that is in the world”- 1John 4:4. A press note issued by Word Explosion Bible Camp Publicity Committee has informed that free transport on August 8 will be provided from High School Junction to NSHPC, Prüzie from 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM. All are cordially welcome. For further information, contact the given numbers: 9436071614/ 9612574861/ 9436403278/ 9856491295/ 9436009312.
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With regards to the Page 5 MEx FILE report on ‘Naga entrepreneurs’ emergency meeting on July 20’, K Tia Longchar should be read as the Convenor of the Naga Business Owners’ Association, Dimapur District (NBOA-DD) and not as rendered. The inadvertent mistake is regretted.
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The Power of Truth
The Morung Express THursDAy 18 July 2013 vol. vIII IssuE 195 By Aheli Moitra
Capitalism and Article 371-A
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Andrew Boyd Source: YesMagazine
Don’t Wait for the Revolution- Live It
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he Nagaland state government, irrespective of who rules, is steeply inclined towards global capitalism. It interprets its position within the Naga society through this lens. If this was, for instance, North America, with its eclectic mix of communities, the lens could have worked. Jhum cultivation would have been redundant, fixed form of settlement and private ownership patters would be sought after and such things as food or human security would not bother as the state would pretend to make sure of this through taxes, policies and buying food from outside. Yet, the model does not work even in North America. Class divisions rampage American society; its economy (and that of others) that follow the model are currently in shambles. The American state is one of the most brutal in the world that holds power to coerce and manipulate its people to a great extent. To suggest that the Naga people should enter the market of global capital and seek to establish a share in this unjust system is setting a similarly brutal antecedent for the Naga people. The trickle down has not happened, and is unlikely to happen anytime soon. How does Article 371-A help this? It lets a bunch of people interested in maintaining status quo make policies and legislations that they will not bear the brunt of, being the wealthy class. It is a backward looking bunch, creating means and ways of Naga regression. The best instance of this is how the Nagaland state, under the shield of Article 371-A, twists the idea of customary law. It purports to defend itself by telling the centre that land belongs to the people. On the ground, the state upturns customary law by making itself a land owner. This comes with a flurry of problems well highlighted by observers. In the same breath, it disallows customary laws to evolve by blocking women from being represented in the state political structure, which is not a customary body in any sense. Land grab and marginalisation are two powerful markers of the regional application of capitalism. The extended deliberation on Article 371-A, without going into the details of its contradictory use, becomes unnecessary. What any resource mobilisation, habitation on, utilisation of or extraction needs in this region is a localized model. It is easy to forget for beings of the new market economy that human beings were not born to excavate, capture and destroy the earth on their whims—indigenous frameworks are meant to provide the world with an alternative to the destructive economy through sustainable livelihoods. Article 371-A seeks to secure the rights of the People of Nagaland, not the State of Nagaland. The quicker this is understood, and models changed, the more reasonable and just will be the entry of the Naga people as equal partners of the global polity. For the millions of people around the world who are alienated from their land and unjustly affected by industrial environmental damage, Article 371-A could help set precedents. This will hardly happen by looking west and copy-pasting global economic systems. For feedback and ideas, please write to moitramail@yahoo.com
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The Phantom of the Airport Looking for Mr. Snowden
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he petite blond woman next to me looked shocked: "What's going on, do you know?" She pointed at the crowd of several dozen reporters with furry microphones, cameras, and aluminum stairs, yelling at policemen. The journalists were crowded around a tiny spot by the wall in Terminal F of Moscow's Sheremetyevo International Airport. I explained that, after three weeks of hiding in the transit zone, Edward Snowden had invited a group of human rights activists and lawyers to talk about his potential asylum in Russia and that, at that very moment, the invited experts were walking through a door on the other side of the crowd. The woman didn't know who Snowden was or why he had to live in the transit zone for three weeks. "Total madness," she whispered. She was right, of course. Just a few minutes before our encounter, reporters had pounced on the group of visitors that was about to walk in for their parley with Snowden. "What do you think he'll say?" one reporter asked Tatyana Lokshina, from the Moscow office of Human Rights Watch. "I'm not sure," she said. "I'm not a fortuneteller." Lokshina sounded tired. She'd been answering the same question all day long, nonstop, on both of her cell phones, in front of cameras, and into microphones stuck in her face. For days now, journalists have been hunting Snowden's ghost around the airport. Some camped out in Burger King, where they watched men in suits buying burgers. Others went so far as to purchase tickets to Cuba in hopes of interviewing Snowden on the plane. And finally, today, the moment came. Snowden sent emails to Russian human rights defenders, lawyers, and even a Duma deputy. (It wasn't clear who drew up the list for him -- several of the invitees are rarely quoted in the Western press.) The email address he used, as well as the text of his letter, were immediately published and republished on Facebook. Dozens of reporters tried to get a response, but he wasn't ready to meet with them, not yet. Minutes before the meeting scheduled at 5 pm, a young man in a dark blue suit appeared. He quietly raised a piece of paper with "G-9" mysteriously written on it. The "G-9" apparently didn't stand for anything; it was a code, meant to attract the attention of those who were invited. The activists and lawyers chosen to see Snowden followed the man, like a group of tourists or kindergarteners, valiantly pushing their way through crowds of reporters. It was totally surreal. The airport continued to hum along, going about its regular business. Passengers strolled past the crowd of sweaty, aggressive reporters who were waiting for Snowden's visitors to come back and relate what he had to say. When they finally emerged, though, no one wsa much the wiser. "Snowden looked pale and nervous about his safety," said Sergei Nikitin, the director of Amnesty International's Moscow office. "He didn't want us to take any pictures of him. But I don't think he was under pressure from the [Russian] intelligence services."(Along the way, of course, a few interesting tidbits did make their way out. We learned, for example, that Snowden has decided to apply for "temporary political asylum" in Russia.) Several reporters decided to stay in the airport until the last 1 AM train to the city, hoping that Snowden would answer their emails and meet with them somewhere in a quiet corner of the airport. We don't know how long he's planning to stay there. As Nikitin observed, "he didn't mind loud airport announcements. He must be used to them by now."
The annual Burning Man event, where herds of bicycles rule a temporary desert city, is a place where people can test out ideas and experiment with the future in real time. (Photo: Bill Hornstein)
When pranksters and creative organizers create temporary utopias, the experience leaves us wanting more—and ready to work hard to get it
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e can’t create a better world if we haven’t yet imagined it. How much better then, if we are able to touch such a world, experience it directly, even live in it—if only to a partial degree and for a brief moment. This is the idea behind “prefigurative interventions,” actions that not only work to stop the next dumb thing the bad guys are up to, but also enact in the here and now the world we actually want to live in. These kinds of interventions come in all shapes and sizes, from modest artistic gestures like John and Yoko’s 1969 “WAR IS OVER! (If You Want It)” Times Square billboard, to utopian-flavored mass movements like Occupy Wall Street with its free libraries, communitarian ethic, and experiments in direct democracy. “You never change things by fighting the existing reality,” Buckminster Fuller advised. “To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” A brilliant insight, but he’s only half right, because the best direct actions—and social movements—actually do both. Consider the lunch counter sit-ins of the 1960s. They were not only brave acts of resistance against the racism of the Jim Crow South, but they also beautifully and dramatically prefigured the world the civil rights movement was trying to bring into being: blacks and whites sitting together as equals in public spaces. The young students didn’t ask anyone’s permission; they didn’t wait for society to evolve or for bad laws to change. In the best spirit of direct action, they walked in there and simply changed the world.
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dward Snowden’s heroic whistleblowing and the revelation that the USA’s National Security Agency (NSA) and its partners have been harvesting the ‘metadata’ generated by the users of US-based telephone and internet service providers in the absence of probable cause, meaningful due process or public oversight is a damning indictment of the culture and practice of mass surveillance. Privacy is not, however, the most important issue raised by PRISM. As Seamus Milne has reasoned, this dubious accolade goes to the power and the conduct of our most secretive organs of state. The USA-UK led international intelligence alliance has a long history of untrammelled surveillance and a proclivity for subverting democratically elected governments and countering protest and organised labour movements. Under the ‘war on terror’, protecting national security has included orchestrated kidnap (‘rendition’), torture (by proxy), internment (in Gitmo and in other ‘blacksites’) and assassinations (by drone). Despite the hope, the transition from Bush to Obama has been seamless. The USA is now the kind of country that people seek asylum from. Back in Europe, with the exception of a few honourable parliamentarians, the illegal acts committed by agencies on both sides of the Atlantic have barely raised a murmur in the EU institutions. This is hardly surprising: Council of Europe investigators accused 14 European states of collusion in the US government’s rendition and torture programme, and seven of ‘actual human rights violations’. With 11 member states in the frame, the EU was never going to take the USA to task, let alone reach for the domestic sanctions for ‘serious and persistent human rights breaches’ promised by article 7 of the Treaty on European Union. It is hard to be optimistic that this latest abject demonstration of wrongdoing will
At least for a few moments, in one place, they were living in an integrated South. They painted a picture of how the world could be, and the vicious response from white bystanders and police only proved how important it was to make it so. Many people at the forefront of the nonviolent civil rights movement were moved to action by their spiritual commitments. Be it the “Do unto others as you would have others do unto you” of the Golden Rule, or Gandhi’s call to “Be the change you want to see in the world,” the ethical traditions of many religions have a powerful prefigurative dimension. When people of faith try to live out their deep principles, actually walk their talk, they tend to come up against power in ways that can wake a nation’s conscience. Jesus himself (who promised that anyone who followed his teaching would always be in trouble) was one of history’s more brilliant prefigurative campaigners. He didn’t merely argue that true greatness comes from humbly serving others, he illustrated it by washing his disciples’ dirty feet. By socializing with outcasts, visiting lepers, and always raising up the “least of these,” Jesus didn’t simply prophesy a future beloved community, he made it manifest. With the dominance of market capitalism and its apologists proclaiming an “end of ideology,” provocations that stretch our political imaginations are more vital than ever. Social theorist Steve Duncombe goes a step further, arguing that we need to bring back utopian thinking. In his recent book, Open Utopia, he argues that even for reformers, utopian thinking is necessary, providing “a compass point to determine what direction to move toward and a measuring stick to determine how far one has come.” However, in an era of media saturation and distrust of the utopia-inspired disasters of the 20th century, this is increasingly hard to do via criticism alone. Using dystopian visions to sound the alarm— a more and more popular strategy—is just another form of criticism that leaves the status quo standing, Duncombe argues. What is needed instead are direct interventions that both embody and point toward utopian possibilities. Contemporary social move-
ments, it turns out, are chock full of them. Monthly Critical Mass bike rides prefigure future cities in which bicycles actually hold their own as traffic. PARK(ing) Day is a global day of action in which people put a day’s worth of coins into a parking meter and transform their parking space into a mini-park or jazz lounge or tiny public swimming pool. It prefigures a greening of urban space and a reclaimed commons. The Yes Men, probably the best-known political pranksters around today, are masters of utopian provocation. By impersonating the powerful via fake press releases, websites, and public appearances, and tricking the media into covering their announcements as real, they hoax us all into thinking—at least for a moment—that the WTO has abolished itself, that GE is actually going to give back the taxes it dodged, or that DuPont is finally going to do the right thing and compensate the 100,000 victims of the Bhopal chemical spill for decades of suffering. Before the hoax is revealed, we think, “Am I dreaming? Could I possibly be living in such a world?” By the time the gig is up, not only have DuPont and their ilk been forced to issue public denials explaining why they’re NOT going to do the obvious right and good thing, but the rest of us, having momentarily experienced as real this twilight world where power operates ethically, are left thinking, “Yeah, why don’t we live in such a world?” And we’re more motivated to go out there to make it happen. We tend to think of pranks as, at worst, meanspirited practical jokes, and at best, sudden surgical strikes that reveal the emperor has no clothes. But as the Yes Men have shown, pranks can also be positive and prefigurative. More and more, contemporary movements look not to religion, but to pranksters and artists—and their playful, ironic modes of intervention—to bring the utopian impulse back into the conversation. In 2006 members from a coalition of environmental groups posed as a government agency— the Oil Enforcement Agency—that should have existed, but didn’t. Complete with SWAT-teamlike caps and badges, agents ticketed SUVs, impounded fuel-inefficient vehicles at auto shows, and generally modeled a future in which government takes climate change seriously. Clever protest campaigns can bring little shards of utopia not just into the streets but also into our elections and even legislatures. When Jello Biafra ran for mayor of San Francisco in 1979, one of the planks in his platform called for beat cops to be voted on by the neighborhoods they patrolled. Once out in the open, this and other seemingly radical ideas were revealed as the reasonable proposals they were, and thousands of San Franciscans pulled the lever for Jello. Even legislation can be prefigurative. One of my pet projects, “What Would Finland Do?” aims to introduce a bill in the New York legislature to prorate traffic fines according to the net wealth of the driver. It wouldn’t pass, but a lot of New Yorkers might think: “Why the hell not?” and the long fight for greater economic equality might inch a tiny bit forward. (Finland, by the way, has such a law, and in 2004 the 27-year-old heir to a sausage fortune was fined $204,000 for driving 50 miles per hour in a 25 mph zone.) Whether religious or artistic, a playful thought experiment, or a serious attempt to be true to one’s values in the face of state violence, prefigurative engagement allows us to experience for ourselves (and demonstrate to others), that another world is necessary, possible—and maybe even beautiful.
After PRISM: on Power, Trust and Accountability Ben Hayes Source: TNI.org
Multinational corporations who dominate large parts of the internet have provided USA’s National Security Agency with massive amounts of their users’ intimately personal data. This is simply unacceptable in any democracy worthy of the name elicit the response it deserves. Like the USA, many European states permit their security services to operate in a shadow world: beyond the reach of the law, cloaked in secrecy and in contempt for the sovereignty of other nations. Given these pre-conditions, we shouldn’t be at all surprised that these agencies break the law (and the PRISM revelations came as little or no surprise to seasoned observers), only that we find out. Following such disclosures, the reflex of government is to defend the indefensible, pre-empting and effectively closing the door to much needed debates on how to bring the agencies under proper judicial and democratic control. This impunity is the lifeblood of criminal state enterprises like PRISM and the reason that agencies like the NSA and its UK partner GCHQ (and their misnomered ‘political masters’) are prepared to disregard people’s fundamental rights at the drop of a terrorist’s hat. And the longer the secret intelligence services have gotten away with it, the more the ‘intelligence-led’ approach contaminates the work of the ordinary police who, like the spooks, inevitably
end up bugging, snooping and surveilling just because they can.
Collusion and compulsion The staggering overreach of the NSA has been laid plain for all to see. But questions remain about the precise role that the companies whose data was the lifeblood of PRISM (in order of appearance: Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, PalTalk, YouTube, Skype, AOL and Apple) played in facilitating the mass surveillance of their customers. Their similarly worded denials of any wrongdoing or knowledge of PRISM rest on the premise that they did not provide the NSA with ‘direct access’ to their servers and that they only ever disclose data about their users in compliance with US law. Both of these claims are certainly true in the technical sense. As Chris Soghoian of the ACLU has pointed out, the NSA needs neither a ‘backdoor’ or ‘direct access’ to collect all of the data from all of the servers because there are other ways and means to do this. Regardless, the central tenet of the PRISM story remains: the multinational
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corporations who dominate large parts of the internet have apparently provided the NSA with massive amounts of their users’ intimately personal data and this is simply unacceptable in any democracy worthy of the name. As to the companies’ claims that they fully comply with US law, the Verizon leak shows that it was secretly compelled to provide the NSA with all of the metadata relating to all of the phone calls within, from and to the United States, rendering the relevant laws and their supposed due process a joke. And let’s not forget the most compelling testimony of all: that of Edward Snowden. Ironically, a growing coalition of internet behemoths had appeared to be pushing back, albeit modestly, on ‘lawful access’ regimes. Google was among the first to start issuing transparency reports showing which governments were asking for the most data and how often such data was released (though it never mentioned the NSA requests). The aim was to convince users that they were sticking up for their rights by holding governments to account and properly scrutinizing their every request. The mantra was old Silicon Valley: we will protect you from your governments (even if they won’t protect you from us). They even engaged with privacy experts to help produce a commendable set of principles for legitimate access to metadata by police and security agencies when combating serious crime. PRISM has left the Emperor with no clothes. In their defence the companies are legally compelled to respect the veil of official secrecy covering activities of the intelligence services. They maintain that they have ‘consistently pushed back on overly broad government requests for users’ data’ and requested the US government to allow them to disclose the number and scope of NSA requests ‘to help the community understand and debate these important issues’. Not exactly inspiring, but something has to give.
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uly 9 marked the twentieth anniversary of the largest indigenous land claim in the world, the Nunavut Claims Land Agreement between the Inuit and Canada. Covering one-fifth of Canada, if the Nunavut territory were a country it would be the twelfth largest in the world. I expect much will be written this week about the failure of Nunavut, the eclipse of Inuit culture, and the demise of the Inuktitut language. But what Nunavut's anniversary ought to throw into question is not the decline of an indigenous civilization. It's the rise of the first non-indigenous one. Let me show you what I mean with one simple question: "Where do you want to be buried?" Pause for a moment and think about it. Every indigenous civilization can answer that question. When I asked an Ottawa University class this question, only one student could answer. "My traditional territory," replied the woman from the Alexis Nakota Sioux Nation. The non-indigenous students sat silent. Just as I did. Here's another most of us probably can't answer: "Where will your grandchildren be buried? And their grandchildren?" That's only going six generations out. Representatives of almost all indigenous civilizations that I've come across say they have a variation of the axiom that says one must consider one's actions "unto the seventh generation." We can't even tell you where our third generations will be living.
Non-indigenous studies? Mature indigenous civilizations are with us and around us now. They are not weird or exotic. The only reason they feel that way to us is because we see so little familiar in their way of life. And that's not because they are aberrant, it's because we are. We non-indigenous are the weird and exotic ones. It's shocking to realize that although we study indigenous societies to death— "you're always putting us under the microscope" says my Inuk friend Tommy Akulukjuk—we don't have a single university department or textbook looking into this weird new invention: non-indigenous societies. Thanks to fossil fuels and our ideology of possessive individualism (en masse you might call it "capitalism"), we are the first civilization not enmeshed within networks of communities and relations with the land. The West's 200 year-old industrial civilization is the first to try to split itself off. This is a "stunning innovation in human affairs, the sociological equivalent of the splitting of the atom," according to anthropologist Wade Davis. "Ours is a new and original culture that celebrates the individual at the expense of family and community." There has never been a non-indigenous civilization on planet Earth before. It's even a bit of false flattery to call ourselves "settlers"—we don't actually settle anywhere. The numbers may be slightly better in the United States, but the average Canadian moves once every six years—we have to in order to find work. As Jack Turner writes in The Abstract Wild: We no longer have a home except in a brute commercial sense: home is where the bills come. To seriously help homeless humans and animals will require a sense of home that is not commercial. The Eskimo, the Aranda, the Sioux—all belonged to a place. Where is our habitat? Where do I belong?… We know that the historical move from community to society proceeded by destroying unique local structures—religion, economy, food patterns, custom, possessions, families, traditions—and replacing these with national, or international, structures that created the modern "individual" and integrated him into society. Modern man lost his home; in the process everything else did too. Every civilization throughout human history has been indigenous. Some inhabitants of the Americas prior to the arrival of Europeans continually occupied parts of the continent for over 13,000 years. Ethnologist and poet Gary Snyder describes these long dug-in communities as similar to climax ecosystems. Rooted. Responding to and belonging to a particular water and landscape. And those who are embedded tend to look after a place; those who are disembedded do not. A non-indigenous civilization is a complete rupture with the entire arc of human history. By the way, that doesn't mean all indigenous civilizations were saintly or nice. It just means they were rooted. They may have uprooted others, enslaved peoples, created empires, but every human civilization—Inuit, Roman, Egyptian, Mayan, Haudenosaunee, Anishinaabeg, and so on—has had a homeland somewhere. Every civilization has had a particular place on earth that generation upon generation felt beholden to. Until now. Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabeg leaders some-
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he Border Issue between Assam and the Nagas is 84 years old this year -2013; the Nagas have not shifted their Stand since 1929: its Stand is: Give back our Ancestral Land to us. Assam developed its stand in 1963 only after Nagaland was made a State in India. Assam says that every State in India has a constitutional Border and when ‘Naga HillsTuensang Area’ (NHTA) was constitutionally made a STATE, Assam gained a constitutional Border. Assam’s stand is: It has a constitutional Border and it would not take land from any other State, nor would it give any inch of its land to other State. Nagaland says that the land in question belonged to Naga Hills and was transferred to Assam only for administrative conveniences during the British colonial Administration. Nagas have been demanding its restoration to the Nagas since 1929 through 9-Point and 16-Point Agreements etc for the last 84 years. The original Nagaland Government Stand was solely of the Border but now Nagaland seems to have widened its talk. It now seems to be introducing new collateral matters into the monolithic Border Issue. The collateral matters included appear to be: i. Development of the disputed area; ii. Involvement of NGO’s in the Issue. iii. Peace Activities between Assam and Nagaland. iv. The GoI-Naga Political Issue. As a Forest Officer, the Writer has participated in many Inter-State, Center-State and other Joint or State Meetings since 1980 on the side of Nagaland and today he feels Nagaland appears to be shifting its approach slightly from Centre-Right to Centre-Left. The Border Issue has nothing much to do with other collateral mattes not related
PERSPECTIVE NEWS ANALYSIS, FEATURE AND DISCOURSE
NON-INDIGENOUS CULTURE: Implications of a Historical Anomaly Derek Rasmussen
Modern westerners often see indigenous people as weird or exotic. A look at history shows why they’re not the strange ones times refer to my people as having arrived here with Jacques Cartier and Samuel de Champlain in the 15th and 16th centuries, but that is being overly generous. We Euro-Canadians and Americans tend to falsify our ancestry, bandying about the "400 or 500 years" that we've been here. Actually, most of us cannot trace our arrival further back than four generations. According to historian Gabriel Kolko, the vast majority, 50 million of our ancestors, migrated to Canada, the U.S., and Australia after being uprooted from Europe between 1821 and 1932, a period ending less than 100 years ago. Fifty million in 111 years makes our ancestors the largest concentration of "displaced persons" in history. It would be bad enough if this was just existential angst, but this has practical social and environmental consequences. "He who is uprooted uproots others," warned French philosopher Simone Weil. "The white man carries this disease with him wherever he goes." We are not just non-indigenous, we are de-indigenizing everyone we meet because we want to take the stuff under their feet. Our placeless civilization needs more resources than a rooted one. In 1992, representatives of indigenous groups from around the world signed the Kari-Oca declaration, which reads in part: "We must never use the term 'land claim'… It is nonindigenous people who are making claims to our lands. We are not making claims to our lands." A system with no brakes What happens if you create a non-indigenous civilization, and let it parasitize the land and cultures of all the rooted indigenous civilizations? War, climate upheaval, environmental destruction. An "American Holocaust," according to historian David Stannard. We are passengers on a soaring de-indigenized jet plane burning up the accumulated linguistic, cultural, and biological diversity of the planet. The mature cultures look on at us in horror. To them our civilization looks like a lumbering juvenile delinquent on a binge. Arrogant, violent, and ignorant, we've stolen their wallet full of accumulated natural and cultural capital and we're spending like drunken sailors. Only now we're beginning to realize: our plane has no landing gear.
And no parachute. This system was only made to go up. We can plead all we like with the sweaty bloated captains of industry, but they don't know how to land the plane. Most of our "best and brightest" only know how to go faster and burn more. We have more B.A.s, B.Sc.s, L.L.B.s, M.B.A.s, and Ph.D.s than ever before in history; and yet the planet hasn't seen this many plant and animal extinctions since the last ice age. As Gary Snyder has written: The last eighty years have been like an explosion. Several billion barrels of oil have been burned up. The rate of population growth, resource extraction, destruction of species, is unparalleled. We live in a totally anomalous time. It's actually quite impossible to make generalizations about history, the past or the future, human nature, or anything else, on the basis of our present experience. It stands outside the mainstream. It's an anomaly. People say, "We've got to be realistic, we have to talk about the way things are." But the way things for now are aren't real. It's a temporary situation. (Emphasis in the original.) Fossil fuels and this new value system of possessive individualism allowed this one-time-only experiment: an entirely uprooted civilization with no loyalty to the land and no commitment to the seventh generation. The first civilization where the majority of people don't know where their children will reside, and whose citizens are not psychologically and socially connected to local lands and waters. We're such an unnatural phenomenon you'd think every university would have a department of de-indigenized studies. Have any of your teachers ever asked you where you will be buried, or what you are doing to protect the seventh generation? Mine never did. But I do remember reading how the poet Gary Snyder said we should look after the environment. His answer was two words long: "Stay put." That's the shortest, most unadorned answer. And it explains why more and more environmentally concerned ordinary Canadians are aligning themselves with indigenous folks. Not because we want to "be" Inuit or Cree, or insult First Nations by mimicking some imagined caricature of them. But because we're beginning to realize that we have no landing gear. A de-indigenized civilization is not designed to land. It's de-
signed to crash. Landing will mean asking questions about the earth. Questions like: what makes a people indigenous? I believe that the answer is: a non-indigenous people believe land belongs to them; an indigenous people believe they belong to the land. To what land do we owe allegiance? To what plants and animals do we owe a duty—and not just the two-legged ones? Can we commit to a place and to each other? Let's hope so, because our current civilization is a one-timeonly experiment. Once it has failed, we are all going to have to re-braid ourselves back into webs of "all our relations"—plant, animal, human. If there are future civilizations, they will be indigenous. Here are three ways we can get our civilization back on track with indigenous values:
1. Respect native lands If we're going to ally with our indigenous neighbors, we're going have to quit this business of stealing their land and fouling their backyards. "Cease to do evil, then learn to do good," said the Buddha 2,500 years ago. He was on to something: the order is important. As de-indigenized people, we tend to think we have some divine right to rush around rescuing the indigenous, without noticing that we were usually the ones who pushed them overboard to start with. The latest attack is Bill C-45 in Canada, which allows a sell-off of indigenous reserve lands, and guts protections for 2.6 million rivers and lakes down to just 87. Idle No More initially sprang up as an outcry against this law allowing the selling and soiling of indigenous land and water. Since non-indigenous government is showing no regard for future generations, "The First Nations are the last best hope that Canadians have for protecting land for food and clean water for the future," says Mi'kmaq professor Pamela Palmeter, in the January 9 issue of YES. "Not just for our people but for Canadians as well. So this country falls or survives on whether they acknowledge or recognize and implement those aboriginal and treaty rights. So they need to stand with us and protect what is essential." 2. Recognize and respect elders If we're going to stand with our indigenous neighbors, we'll have to start asking questions about whose land we're standing on. How many of us know that Canada's capital, Ottawa, sits on unceded Algonquin territory? If we're finally going to ask permission to make this place home, then we're going to have to seek out the elders, earn their trust, give respect, and seek their advice. The non-indigenous no longer have any formal role for elders. Can we relearn how to recognize the wise women and men among us as well as among our indigenous neighbors? When the Buddha was asked what the highest blessing was, he listed "nirvana" at ninth place. His first answer was: "Not to associate with fools; to associate with the wise; and to honor those worthy of honor." Honor gets a bad rap these days, but perhaps that's because we've been honoring fools instead of the wise.
3. Build embodied and authentic cultures One of our honorable elders was psychiatrist James Hillman. He said, "Nature dies because culture dies." Or as my friend Tommy Akulukjuk puts it: "You guys don't have a culture, not a real living culture that's in your bones, in your customs and practices, in your elders, in your language." Tough words, but can you see what he means? A culture is not made of commodities. Culture is not a bunch of static things to buy and sell. We invest a huge amount of time and faith in context-free knowledge frozen into paper and data. But we have almost no experience of the intergenerational wisdom and the oral traditions that have been the mainstay of rooted cultures. When Canadian government surveyors first ran across Gitskan people in their traditional territory, the Gitskan asked, "What are you doing here?" "Surveying our land," answered the surveyors. Incredulous, the Gitksan responded: "If this is your land, where are your stories?" If you ask Anishinaabeg elder Al Hunter what has sustained indigenous people over the centuries, he answers: "Language. Music. Stories." "That's what has sustained us. It has not been NGOs. It has not been organizations." Can we non-indigenous replace our plastic-purchase culture with stories, songs, and dances that weave us into environments? Can we join with our indigenous neighbours to build embodied and embedded living cultures? In addition to overturning racist laws that steal or destroy indigenous lands, maybe the most important response to myriad environmental crises lies in reversing James Hillman's advice, and saying: Nature thrives if culture thrives.
Nagaland Policy On Assam-Nagaland Border to the Land Dispute. The Border Dispute is a Border Issue and would do well not to be mixed with any other Issues unconnected with the Issue. Once the Border Issue is settled then all other things under Heaven may be dealt by Nagaland State Government in matters such as DEVELOPMENT on its own Area without outside Interference. PEACE is a Universal Issue that transcends Time and is not specific to the Border Settlement. It will come automatically once the Border tangle is settled. So would Assam also do the same in its own State Area? The Settlement of the Border is the Fundamental Issue. The Supreme Court has appointed Senior Judges of High Court as Mediators to suggest ways and means to settle the issue amicably. This is a very very welcome approach. The Settlement must be mutually Agreed between the two States. The Supreme Court Mediators have been visiting both the States and have had various interactions with both the Governments and various Bodies and Organizations of the two States for the last three years. This Writer was also present at the Mediator’s, perhaps last consultation visit, on Sunday the 23 June 2013 at Niathu Resort, Chumükedima and availed himself a short time to express some views from Nagaland the which have not been made known earlier for the awareness of the Naga Public; a portion of the Expressions in written submitted to the Supreme Court Mediators went like this: ESTEEMED Legal Minds of the Supreme Court: We are not here out to settle the Boundary between Heaven and Earth, We are here
Thepfulhouvi solo not out at settling the Boundary between Indian and the Chinese Civilizations. We are here to settle the boundary between Assam and Nagaland only. When I first met you here some years ago for the first time, I was very hopeful of you for the solution of the problem; today I feel a little less elated: You seem to be thinking about a few new Issues than before. I do not understand why we are taking so much Time. The Issue is very simple; it is just a border dispute of a few hundred KM, just like land disputes between two brothers or between two families, between two Clans or two Villages. ASSAM must first of all make up its DECISION to SETTLE the Issue: NAGALAND must make up the DECISION to SETTLE the Issue today: ONCE both the States make up their DECISIONS to settle the Issue , then 99.99 % the Problem is settled. Assam and Nagaland must first make up their Decision to settle the Issue. Assam’s Stand originates from Papers, Files, Cupboards and Tables of the British Colonial Government: Nagaland understands Assam’s Stand. Nagaland has a Stand too and expects Assam to appreciate Nagaland’s Stand also. Nagaland’s Stand is: ‘Return us our ancestral Land’ To resolve the Issue, we must first address ourselves: WHO OWNED THE LAND ORIGINALLY? The following clues indicate who owned the land originally: i. The names of the Forests are mostly Naga names of Rivers and Places,
ii. The Rights in the Forests were given only to the Nagas. iii. They were transferred for administrative convenience to Assam. iv. Inheritance Rights of Land Owners do not EXPIRE. All over the World; in Canada, in America, in Europe, in Australia in and New Zealand; lands taken away by the Colonial Power are now returned to the Native Inhabitants today, often with apology. The of INDIAN FOREST ACT never allows the Government to Declare RESERVED FORESTS, if the LAND is NOT OWNED by the Government. Only land AT THE DISPOSAL OF THE GOVERNMENT is put into Reserved Forest. To the best of my knowledge, “the Indian Forest Act of 1878 was repealed by Regulation 7 of 1891 as far as it relates to the Province of Assam”. All lands, Forests etc in Assam belonged to the Ahom Rajah; but the British annexed it to British India by the Supplementary Treaty of Yandabo in 1826 and by the British Government’s own declaration, it said: “Your (Ahom’s) Kingdom do not extend beyond the Northern Bank of the Dhansiri River”. (Supplementary to the Treaty of Yandabo, 1926) The Naga Hills was not part of the Ahom Kingdom and the Nagas had no Rajah, the British did not, by their own admission, enter into any Treaty Arrangement with any of the Naga Tribes. Contrary to the Land Tenure System in Assam; in Naga Hills, the Colonial Power did not take away land from the Nagas. All Lands, Forests, Rivers etc in Naga Hills
were in the possession of the People, -not the Government. The Government had no power to declare as Reserved Forest any Land it (Government) did not own; the Forest Act does not allow land not at the disposal of the Government, to be declared a Reserved Forest. The Constitution of India, Article 371A, continues to recognize the unique land Tenure System of the Nagas in Nagaland. In the State, it is not the Government but the People who owns the land. Mahatma Gandhi packed off the Colonial British from India by ‘Quit India Movement’: But what Nagaland tells Assam today is only: Let us settle the boundary Problem mutually in Peace on the basis of: i. Give and Take, and ii. On the basis of the ground realities. This is what India tells China on the border Issue between the Two. This is what Mr. Saikia, Chief Minister of Assam had already agreed decades ago in written Agreement with then Nagaland Chief Minister of Mr. SC. Jamir, under the Chairmanship of Mr. Misra, the dual Governor of Assam and Nagaland Learned Minds of the Supreme Court appointed MEDIATORS: What Nagaland appeals to you expert Legal Minds are: i. Your sense of deep Discernment on the Issue, and ii. Recommendation to the Supreme Court for Settlement of the Issue in Mutual Peace of the two ancient Neighbors, for all time to come on the Basis the Chief Minister Saikia of Assam and the Chief Minister of Nagaland Jamir Agreed decades ago. This Problem cannot be handed over to the next Generation; it must be settled now and here today; it can be settled: it must be settled in mutual in Peace.
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Bihar meal toll rises to 23, sick battle for life
PAtNA, JULy 17 (IANS): With 12 more children dying, the number killed by contaminated mid-day meal served in a school in Bihar rose Wednesday to 23 including a cook, authorities said. The deaths have triggered a war of words between the government of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, which blamed the supplier of foods for the tragedy, and an aggressive opposition including the estranged ally BJP. The unprecedented deaths, in Dandaman village in Saran, about 100 km from Patna, have also sparked off street protests in Bihar. At least 10 school students were battling for life in a Patna hospital after consuming the free food at their school as part of the mid day meal scheme Tuesday. The national mid day meal scheme is the world’s largest school feeding programme reaching out to some 12 crore children in 12.65 lakh schools and education centres across India. Hundreds have been protesting in Saran since Tuesday night demanding action against government officials who oversaw the mid-day meal scheme. A case has been registered against the school’s headmistress, Meena Devi, and other teachers. All of them are absconding. Amarjeet Singh, principal secretary in the education ministry, said he suspected the deaths occurred due to organo phosphorous poisoning caused by traces of insecticides. Over two dozen sick children have been brought to the Patna Medical College and Hospital after their condition deteriorated. “Ten children are still critical,” a hospital official said. Kanti Kumari, a student of Class IV, said at a Patna hospital: “The meal we got did not taste the same. That’s why many students didn’t eat. But we ate it after the teacher scolded us. “When I complained of stomach ache, the lady teacher told us to go home. As I stepped out of the school, I fainted.” Police said the children
Another 50 students fall ill after midday meal in Madhubani school MADHUbANI, JULy 17 (PtI): As 23 students died after eating midday meal in Bihar’s Chhapra, about 50 children of another government school were taken ill on Wednesday after they were served food under the scheme in Madhubani district of the state. The food was served to students of Navtolia Middle School, Bisfi, about 22 km from here. The students alleged that the meal had a dead lizard in it. Around 50 students complained of stomach ache and began vomitting after eating the midday meal. They were then rushed to Bisfi health centre, its medical officer in-charge A.K. Prabhat told reporters here. “All the students are out of danger,” he said. Except for seven children, the rest have been discharged from the health centre, he said adding seven students, five of them girls, are being administered saline water. District Magistrate Lokesh Kumar Singh and Circle Officer of Bisfi has reached the health centre to inquire into the matter.
Unwashed insecticides caused deaths
An Indian man mourns as he holds his dead daughter inside an ambulance, outside a hospital in Patna, in the eastern Indian state of Bihar, July 17, 2013. Officials on Wednesday blamed the presence of insecticide in a free midday meal after at least 20 children died and many more were sick after eating lunch at a primary school in the eastern Indian state of Bihar. The children are age 8 to 11. (AP Photo)
had been served rice with potato and soyabean. Central Minister of Human Resource Development M.M. Pallam Raju said in New Delhi: “It is very sad to know about ... food poisoning. We have taken serious note of what has happened.” He put the number of dead children at 20 and said the man who cooked the meal also died. Another 21 children were in hospital. Bihar officials said the death toll was 23 including the cook. Raju said: “It looks like contaminated food... but we are awaiting the forensic report.” Saran District Magistrate Abhijit Sinha said earlier that 10 children died after eating the meal at the Dharamsati Primary School in
Masrakh. Women who lost their children wailed in Dandaman village. “We did not realize that our children would not return home alive,” lamented a woman whose two sons, Prahlad and Rahul, died in the tragedy. A pall of gloom hung over Dandaman village where the students and the cook died. According to statistics, 22,102 government schools in Bihar that serve mid-day meals do not have kitchens. In 7,235 schools, the storage room is under construction. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) called Nitish Kumar insensitive. “The chief minister, instead of showing promptness in evacuating the children to a better medical facility, has
announced a ex-gratia amount of Rs.2 lakh for the children who died,” BJP’s Rajiv Pratap Rudy said. In Bihar, the mid-day meal scheme has often into controversy. In the past, dead lizards, frogs, insects and even a rat have been found in food cooked for the mid-day meal in schools. The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) Wednesday called for closer monitoring of the mid-day meal scheme. “It is deeply shocking that the mid-day meal scheme is taking children’s life. The government needs to closely monitor the scheme through regular inspections,” NCPCR chairperson Kushal Singh told IANS.
PAtNA, JULy 17 (AgENCIES): With the death of two more children, the toll due to consumption of spurious mid-day meal at a government primary school in Bihar’s Saran district rose to 22 on Wednesday. While 16 children, aged below 10 years and studying in Class I to V, had died in Chhapra itself, four others were declared dead on arrival at Patna Medical College Hospital (PMCH) late last night. Two died at the hospital this morning, official and PMCH sources said, as the tragedy triggered protests. A preliminary investigation suggests the food had traces of an organophosphate used as an insecticide on rice and wheat crops. It’s believed the food was not washed before it was served at the school. Organo-phosphorus pesticides have an effect on nervous system, respiratory tract and cardiovascular system. According to Bihar Education Minister PK Sahi, “It was not a case of food poisoning but poisoning. It is a matter of investigation now to check if the poison was added unintentionally or there were some malafide intentions involved”. “The food may not have been washed before it was served at the school,” he has been quoted as saying by a news channel. Amarjeet Singh, principal secretary, education, confirmed the toll and said he suspected the deaths occurred by organo phosphorous poisoning caused by traces of insecticides. A case has been registered against the school’s headmistress Meena Devi and other teachers. Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar expressed shock over the incident and announced a compensation of Rs 2 lakh to the kin of each of the dead school children. The deaths triggered a political row with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday calling Nitish Kumar “insensitive”. In Bihar, widespread corruption is reported in the mid-day meal scheme and government guidelines on food quality are ignored. In the past, dead lizards, frogs, insects and a rat were found in food cooked for the mid-day meal at schools, angering students and parents.
‘780 languages spoken in India, 250 died out in last 50 yrs’ Disclose probe reports on Rajiv Gandhi’s killing, CIC tells govt
KOLKAtA, JULy 17 (IANS): While people in India presently speak in 780 different languages, the country has lost nearly 250 languages in the last 50 years, an expert said here Tuesday. The People’s Linguistic Survey of India (PLSI) has completed a comprehensive linguistic survey of the country and would publish its reports in 50 volumes contained in 72 books in September. This is the first linguistic survey carried out in the country after Irish linguistic scholar George Abraham Grierson conducted the Linguistic Survey of India from 1898 to 1928. “Currently as many as 780 different languages are spoken and 86 different scripts are used in the country. While it surely is a fact to celebrate the diversity of the country, the sad part is we have lost
nearly 250 languages in the last 50 years or so,” PLSI chairperson G.N. Devy said here. The PLSI -a public consultation and appraisal forum- collaborated with 85 institutions and universities in the country to conduct the research which was completed in four years involving the services of more than 3,000 experts. “While the actual survey - the first such exercise undertaken in independent India - took four years, it took 17 years of prepatory work. So the reports are a fruit of 21 years of hard work that too without any governmental assistance,” said Devy The reports will carry various information about all the languages spoken in the country. “From their historical and geographical details, to their origin and grammar as well as literature and other artistic
Married or not domestic violence act binding: HC
KOCHI, JULy 17 (PtI): In a significant ruling, Kerala high court has held that a woman is entitled to get protection under the provisions of the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act even if she was in a live-in relationship. ‘What was intended under Sect 2(a) of the Act was a relationship of the same nature as marriage and nothing more’, Justice K Harilal said in his order on Tuesday while dismissing a petition filed by a man hailing from Cherthala in Alapuzha district against a complaint from his live-in partner seeking protection from domestic violence and compensation. According to Justice Harilal, “The couple must have lived together akin to spouses. That alone is sufficient. The legislature intent of the Act itself is to give protection to the women who were living with the husband in the nature of a marriage without a legal marriage.” The petitioner’s contention was that the complainant was not a wife as per Sect 2(f) of the act and there was no domestic relationship them.
BSP expels MP for praising Modi
LUCKNOW, JULy 17 (IANS): The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) Wednesday expelled Vijay Bahadur Singh, the party’s member of parliament from Uttar Pradesh’s Hamirpur constituency, for praising Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi. Vijay Bahadur Singh invited the ire of BSP chief Mayawati for lauding Modi for levying entry fee and tickets for his Hyderabad rally slated for Aug 11. Three days ago, he was warned to desist from showering such praises on the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader. On Tuesday, the Hamirpur MP appreciated the BJP Lok Sabha campaign committee chief for being “very innovative”. “In politics, one should be innovative and I have heard that Modi- ji is going to donate the funds collected at his rally for rehabilitation and relief work in rain-ravaged Uttarakhand,” Vijay Bahadur Singh said while explaining that he has done no wrong. Earlier July 14, he criticised all political parties for lashing out at Modi for his “puppy” statement during a television interview. He also slammed politicians for “unnecessarily dragging Modi into their petty vote bank politics”. Soon after this, while Modi is learned to have telephoned Vijay Bahadur Singh and thanked him for “understanding the real meaning behind my analogy”, BSP chief Mayawati warned the MP against making any proModi statements in future. At a press meet here Sunday, Mayawati said Vijay Bahadur Singh’s statements concerning Modi were his personal opinions. However, she warned that if he chose to continue making such statements, the party would not tolerate it. The Samajwadi Party alleged that Mayawati did not expel Vijay Bahadur Singh as she was hand in gloves with the BJP. The BSP has already decided not to repeat Vijay Bahadur Singh from Hamirpur in the forthcoming Lok Sabha polls. He is now said to be in touch of the BJP to resurrect his political fortunes.
and cultural works including folk songs would be available in the published work,” said Devy. Talking about West Bengal, Devy said, the state was the richest in the country in terms of number of scripts used. “While 38 different languages are spoken in the state, Bengal by far is the richest in the country when it comes to scripts. As many as nine different scripts are used here and efforts are on to develop several other scripts,” said Devy. Devy, though, said that of the 38 languages in Bengal, about 10 were endangered and needed urgent attention for their survival. Twenty two of the 780 languages are scheduled Indian languages. Of them, 122 have been declared by the census as spoken by a population exceeding 10,000 and the rest are spoken by less than 10,000 people.
The Supreme Court has also specially stated they must have attained legal age of marriage and they must have lived together as spouses for a significant period of time, the court pointed out.
Juvenile age to remain 18: SC
NEW DELHI, JULy 17 (PtI): The Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to reduce the age of juvenile from 18 to 16 years and dismissed a plea that minors involved in heinous crimes should not be protected under the law. A bench headed by Chief Justice Altamas Kabir said that interference in Juvenile Justice Act is not necessary and dismissed a batch of PILs which were filed in the aftermath of the December 16 brutal gang-rape and murder case in which a minor was also allegedly involved. “We uphold the provisions of the Act... Interference in the law is not necessary,” the bench said while reading out operative part of its judgement. The plea in the apex court was opposed by various child activists, including former chairman of Delhi Commission for Protection of Child Rights (DCPCR) Amod Kanth.
NEW DELHI, JULy 17 (tNN): The Central Information Commission (CIC) has allowed a plea by Rajiv Gandhi assassination convict Perarivalan directing the government to provide inquiry reports related to the former PM’s death. The Commission has asked for reports by Justice MC Jain and Justice JS Verma Commissions to be made public and also pulled up the home ministry for delaying their response. She rejected the home ministry’s argument that the files were untraceable asking them to provide the requisite information in a week. Information Commissioner Sushma Singh also directed the RTI appellate authority in VIP Security Wing to pass a speaking order within two weeks on whether file notings generated on these Commissions of inquiry could be disclosed. She said the official concerned must give a chance to Perarivalan, who is on death row after his mercy plea was rejected by the President, to present his case. Citing the issue of life and liberty, Perarivalan had sought certified copies of all the reports submitted by the Jain and Verma Commission besides terms of reference to these Commissions, copies of the action taken by the Government of India on the recommendations of the Commissions. But despite the provision of providing information within 48 hours if the matter relates to life and liberty of the appellant, all the divisions of the MHA said the matter does not concern them. The National Archives of India, however, said although it does not have the reports, 918 files are available with it relating to activities of the Commissions. During the hearing before the Commission, the home ministry said that it could not locate the files since the records pertain to the period 1991 onwards and the subject matter had been han-
dled in different divisions/sections in MHA. “However, as a result of sustained efforts, it has now been possible to locate some records pertaining to Justice MC Jain Commission of inquiry. However, complete records pertaining to Justice JS Verma Commission of inquiry are still not traceable,” the ministry said while trying to explain the delay in responding to application. The ministry also said that some of the files contain inputs given by the Intelligence Bureau and the CBI which are exempt organizations under the RTI Act and hence their views are also being sought. Taking adverse view of the delay in furnishing information to a death row convict, Singh said, “Instead of transferring the RTI application to all CPIOs of MHA, the nodal CPIO should have identified the concerned CPIO and marked the RTI application to him.” “The respondent is hereby directed to provide the copies of the Justice MC Jain Commission of Inquiry and Justice J S Verma Commission of Inquiry reports and also the action taken reports thereon within one week from the receipt of the order,” Singh said. Justice Verma Commission of inquiry was constituted on May 27, 1991 to look into the security lapses which led to the assassination of the former PM Rajiv Gandhi in Sriperumbudur in Tamil Nadu on May 21, 1991, by the LTTE cadres and to suggest systemic changes. Justice Jain Commission looked into the sequence of events leading to the assassination of Gandhi at Sriperumbudur. Perarivalan along with Murugan and Santhan was sentenced to death in the assassination case. His mercy plea was rejected by the then President Prathiba Patil in 2011. Their death sentences were confirmed by the Supreme Court in 2000.
Relatives of missing in Uttarakhand floods maintain hope
LUCKNOW, JULy 17 (AP): A day after the government said it would treat more than 5,700 people missing in floods in northern India last month as presumed dead, relatives said Wednesday they still held out hope that their loved ones had survived. The provisional death toll — officials said some of the missing still could turn up alive — would make the Uttarakhand floods the worst natural disaster in India since more than 10,000 people were killed here in the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004. The toll was worsened by the presence of tens of thousands of Hindu pilgrims visiting the state’s temples and the many vacationers who head to its cool hills to escape the summer heat. The government said it was presuming those missing for a month were dead so it could start giving compensation to their families. Anuradha Raizada, left her home in the state of Uttar Pradesh and went to the temple town of Kedarnath with her husband and two sons - Ashwal, 18, and Atharav, 16. She returned home alone. On June 16, a wall of water struck the hotel where they were staying. Her husband and one of her sons were swept
away. “There was a deafening noise of water and rain. I clung to my younger son, who had injured his leg and could not walk,” she said. The next day, when he complained of thirst, she left to fetch him water, but she got lost when she tried to return to him. That was the last she saw of him. She later stumbled across her husband’s dead body, recognizing him from the shirt he had been wearing. She still holds out hope for her children. She met Chief Minister Vijay Bahuguna, who assured her that every corner of Kedar valley would be searched for her two sons, she said. “I know my sons will return one day. They are safe somewhere in the hills,” she said. Since the flood, Manoj Jaiswal, 40, has not heard from his brother, sister-in-law or their two children, who had been on a pilgrimage in the area. He said the morning just before the flood, his brother called him to say they were staying an extra day. “This proved fatal for them,” he said. Jaiswal had gone to the area to search for his relatives. “The hotel where they were staying is badly damaged. Twentyeight people died in that hotel, but my
brother’s name is not there in the casualty list,” he said. The state government has been criticized for poor emergency preparedness in a disaster-prone Himalayan area, and chaotic development has been blamed for exacerbating the damage from mudslides and overflowing rivers. Bahuguna said the government would address those concerns. “We will devise a scientific system where a balance could be maintained between development and nature,” he said. More than 1,100 roads were damaged because of the rains and landslides and many of them remained cut off, said R.P. Bhatt, the chief engineer at the Public Works Department. Entire villages were buried in silt and debris. Ramesh Pokhriyal, a former chief minister of the state and a top official with the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party said many villages could not get food supplies and he feared people would begin dying of hunger if immediate action was not taken. Bahuguna said the government was working on alleviating the suffering. “Work is under way at a great speed to redevelop and reconstruct the affected areas and to
provide relief to those hit by the disaster,” he said. A report sent to Parliament by India’s top audit body in April, said the state was badly unprepared for disasters, even though it was vulnerable to earthquakes, landslides and torrential rain. One state body formed to deal with disasters has never met since it was formed in 2007. Another group, the State Disaster Management Authority, set no rules, regulations or policies since it was formed the same year. A disaster management plan was still being prepared, there was no early warning system in the state, communication infrastructure was inadequate, emergency service jobs were left unfilled and medical personnel were not trained to deal with disasters, the report said. “The state authorities were virtually nonfunctional,” it said. Nevertheless, army troops, paramilitary soldiers and volunteers rescued more than 100,000 people who had been stranded by the disaster. The air force and private companies made thousands of helicopter sorties to pick up people stuck on rooftops or marooned on hilltops and to drop off food and drinking water.
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Panama finds weapons on NKorean ship PANAMA CITY, JulY 17 (ReuTeRs): Panama seized a North Korean cargo ship it suspects was hiding missile equipment in a shipment of brown sugar from Cuba, after a standoff in which the ship’s captain tried to slit his own throat. The ship was stopped last week as it headed into the Panama Canal and authorities arrested the crew on Monday after finding undeclared missile-shaped objects - a potential violation of U.N. sanctions linked to North Korea’s nuclear program. “We found containers which presumably contain sophisticated missile equipment. That is not allowed. The Panama canal is a canal of peace, not war,” Panama’s President Ricardo Martinelli told local radio on Tuesday. Cuba said on Tuesday evening that the ship was loaded at one of its ports with 10,000 tons of sugar and 240 tons of “obsolete defensive weaponry,” according to a statement by the Cuban Foreign Ministry. Cuba said the weapons were being sent back to North Korea for repair and included two anti-aircraft missile batteries, nine disassembled rockets, two MiG-21 fighter jets, and 15 MiG-21 engines, all Soviet-era military weaponry built in the middle of the last century. In the statement, which was read out on the state TV evening news, Cuba said the weaponry was all required “to maintain our defensive capacity to preserve national sovereignty.” It added, “Cuba maintains its commitment to peace including nuclear disarmament and international law.” Cuba has maintained warm relations with North Korea, including military and economic cooperation. A high-level North Korean military
Military equipment lays in containers aboard a North Korean-flagged ship at the Manzanillo International container terminal on the coast of Colon City, Panama, Tuesday, July 16, 2013. A North Korean ship carrying weapons system parts buried under sacks of sugar was seized as it tried to cross the Panama Canal on its way from Cuba to its home country, which is under a United Nations arms embargo, Panamanian officials said Tuesday. (AP Photo)
delegation visited Cuba on July 1, according to official Cuban media reports. A photo posted on Martinelli’s Twitter page showed a long, green missile-shaped object with a tapering, conical end inside the ship, which he said was bound for North Korea. A security expert said pictures showed radar systems for Vietnam-era, Soviet-made surface-to-air missiles. The U.S. State Department praised Panama’s decision to raid the ship,
which it said had a history of involvement in drug smuggling, and warned the vessel would be violating United Nations Security Council resolutions by shipping arms. The United Nations has imposed a raft of sanctions on North Korea, including strict regulations on arms shipments, for flouting measures aimed at curbing its nuclear weapons program. Panama’s security minister, Jose Raul Mulino, said his government
had stopped the ship last Wednesday and had so far found two containers of military equipment. He did not specify whether the cargo contained actual missiles but said the search could last up to a week. When Panamanian officials began looking inside containers stuffed with over 250,000 100-kg (220-lb) bags of brown sugar, the captain became violent, Mulino said. The captain, a North Korean
citizen like the crew, tried to slit his throat with a knife, a police official said. The man was in hospital in stable condition, the official added, speaking on condition of anonymity. Ben Rhode, a North Korea security expert at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, suggested the captain’s suicide attempt might have been an effort to escape severe punishment by officials in North Korea for failing to carry out his mission. All 35 members of the crew of the ship, which is called Chong Chon Gang, were arrested after resisting Panamanian orders and are now being questioned at Fort Sherman, a former U.S. Army Base on the Atlantic end of the Panama Canal, the official added. Mulino, the security minister, said that Panama would consult with the United Nations to determine which agency could charge the crew members for smuggling illegal weapons. An official at North Korea’s U.N. mission said nobody was available to comment on the ship. A U.S. official said the most likely explanation for the cargo was that Cuba was sending missile system parts to North Korea for an upgrade, and sending sugar with them to pay for the work. A security official said Panama had asked U.S. experts to help inspect and identify the weapons. The weapons seizure drew a stinging response from some U.S. critics of the island’s Communist leadership. U.S. Representative Ileana RosLehtinen, the Florida Republican who heads the House subcommittee on the Middle East and North Africa, called on President Barack Obama’s administration to cancel migration talks with Cuba this week. North Korea is under wide-ranging sanc-
tions enacted by the United Nations, the United States and the European Union, including a U.N. ban on all arms exports, due to its nuclear program. “Shipments of arms or related materiel to and from (North) Korea would violate Security Council resolutions, three of them as a matter of fact,” said U.S. Ambassador Rosemary DiCarlo, president of the U.N. Security Council this month. “Obviously this shipment, if it’s confirmed to have what we suspect, would be of interest to the (U.N. North Korea) sanctions committee,” she told reporters in New York. Previous violations of sanctions included North Korean shipments of arms-related material to Syria in November 2010 and rocket fuses for Iran in 2008. The ship, built in 1977, was tracked leaving Port Vostochny, in Russia’s far east, on April 12, according to Lloyd’s List Intelligence, a maritime intelligence company. It was next registered arriving in Balboa, on the Panama Canal’s Pacific side, on May 31, and crossed the waterway the next day heading for Havana. It then disappeared from the tracking system and reappeared in Manzanillo, Panama, on July 11, according to shipping data obtained by research group IHS Maritime. IHS said there were indications it had changed cargo in the interim. In 2010, the Chong Chon Gang was stopped by Ukrainian authorities who found small-arms ammunition and narcotics aboard the vessel, according to Hugh Griffiths, an arms trafficking expert at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. A year earlier, the ship had stopped in Tartus, Syria, home to a Russian naval base, Griffiths added.
Rohingya exodus creating crisis across region Vladimir Putin aims to keep ties with US on track
JAkARTA, JulY 17 (ReuTeRs): Muhammad Muslim, 52, fled Myanmar in 1988 when the junta brutally suppressed a pro-democracy movement in the country then known as Burma. As a Rohingya from western Rakhine state, he had no passport. Myanmar’s government does not grant citizenship to the ethnic Muslims whom they consider illegal Bangladesh immigrants - even those whose families have been in the country since the colonial British brought them in during the late 19th century. Muslim left Myanmar illegally, so he has no other papers that tie him to his home country. He spent 17 years in Malaysia as an illegal immigrant, waiting in vain for legal refugee status. And now he waits with his wife, two adult children and 23 other Rohingya in a dank, no-star hotel near Jakarta’s grubby port, hoping to get that status with the U. N. refugee office in Indonesia. Since last year’s Buddhist-Muslim violence in Myanmar, the numbers of Rohingya leaving the country have spiralled - with many of them now heading to Indonesia and onward to Australia. Up until two years ago, hardly any Rohingya were making the perilous voyage in rickety fishing boats to Indonesia. Now the country is hosting nearly 850 of them, and immigration detention camps are filled with Rohingya. Refugees seeking asylum in Australia often set sail from Indonesia or Sri Lanka, heading for Australia’s Indian Ocean territory of Christmas Island in dangerous and overcrowded boats, with the help of people smugglers. Since 2001, almost 1,000 people have died at sea while attempting to reach Australia. Australia’s immigration department has recorded 337 Rohingya asylum seekers in the first half of this year, compared with 389 for all of last year
Stroke risk rises if blood pressure medications are not taken rightly
HelsINkI, JulY 17 (IANs): Hypertension patients who do not take their blood pressure medications systematically have a greatly increased risk of suffering a stroke and dying from it compared to those who take their medication correctly, a study has shown. A study of 73,527 patients with high blood pressure, published online Wednesday in the European Heart Journal, found that patients who did not adhere to their medication had a nearly four-fold increased risk of dying from stroke in the second year after first being prescribed drugs to control their blood pressure, and a three-fold increased risk in the tenth year, compared with adherent patients. “These results emphasise the importance of hypertensive patients taking their ant-hypertensive medications correctly in order to minimise their risk of serious complications such as fatal and non-fatal strokes,” Dr Kimmo Herttua said. Dr Herttua, the first author of the study, is a senior fellow in the Population Research Unit at the University of Helsinki, Finland. “Non-adherent patients have a greater risk even 10 years before they suffer a stroke. We have also found that there is a dose-response relationship. The worse someone is at taking their anti-hypertensive therapy, the greater their risk,” Herttua wrote. The researchers, including scientists from Finland and University College London, UK, used nationwide registers in Finland that give details of prescriptions, admissions to hospital and deaths, reports Science Daily.
and 100 in 2011. The Burmese Rohingya Community in Australia estimates a total of 2,000 Rohingya refugees are living in Australia. Many were allowed into Australia on bridging visas and receive around A$219 a week in welfare, but are barred from working until their status has been finalised, a process that can take years. Others face being sent to detention centres on Manus Island in Papua New Guinea, or the Pacific nation of Nauru. This is part of a reinstated policy aimed at deterring people smugglers by ensuring those who board boats have no better chance of living in Australia than those who apply through official channels. Myanmar could go a long way towards resolving the refugee crisis by providing Rohingya papers that give them “a legal basis for declaring their point of origin”, said Michael Vatikiotis, Asian regional director for Humanitarian Dialogue, a conflict-mediation organization. “Countries like Malaysia have plentiful jobs for legal migrant labour, but so long as the Rohingya arrive as refugees without legal status, they are prone to trafficking.” At the Jakarta port hotel, Muslim said he once hoped to go back to Myanmar. “Now I don’t anymore. Every day things are getting worse in Myanmar,” Muslim said, in fluent Malay. His family never hoped to catch a smuggler’s boat to Australia; he simply couldn’t afford the thousands of dollars per person for a berth. Muslim came to Indonesia because he heard a rumour that the UNHCR office in Indonesia processed resettlement cases much quicker than in Malaysia. When told that the Indonesia office still often took several years to process a resettlement case, Muslim sighed and said: “That’s fate.”
CHITA, JulY 17 (ReuTeRs): President Vladimir Putin signalled on Wednesday that he would not let former U.S. spy contractor Edward Snowden’s application for temporary asylum in Russia derail relations with the United States. Snowden, who is wanted by the United States for revealing details of
U.S. government intelligence programmes, has been in the transit area of a Moscow airport since June 23 and wants to be able to stay in Russia until he can find sanctuary elsewhere. Asked whether the affair would cast a shadow over a U.S.-Russia summit due in September in Moscow, Putin
told reporters: “Bilateral relations, in my opinion, are far more important than squabbles about the activities of the secret services.” Putin, visiting the Siberian town of Chita, did not say whether he expected Russia to grant temporary asylum to Snowden, but reiterated that Moscow had told the
American he must stop any activities that might harm the United States. Snowden, 30, says the United States has prevented him from flying to Latin America, where Nicaragua, Bolivia and Venezuela have offered to give him refuge, by putting pressure on other countries not to help him escape U.S. justice.
Prostate cancer hormonal therapy tied to kidney risks
NeW YORk, JulY 17 (ReuTeRs HeAlTH): Men who are treated for prostate cancer with hormone-targeted therapy have a higher risk of developing kidney problems, a new study suggests. The treatment, known as androgen deprivation therapy, lowers the risk of death among men with advanced, aggressive prostate cancer. However, researchers said it’s increasingly being used to treat possible recurrences among men with less advanced disease - for whom the benefits are less clear, and the risks more worrisome. “Our study does raise the concern that perhaps we should be more careful in prescribing androgen deprivation therapy in patients who do not have the clear indication for it,” said Laurent Azoulay, who worked on the research at McGill University in Montreal. For their study, Azoulay and his col-
leagues used UK data on 10,250 men who were diagnosed with prostate cancer between 1997 and 2008. The men were followed for an average of just over four years after their diagnosis. During that time, 232 of them developed an acute kidney injury - a rapid drop in kidney function. The researchers compared those men to 2,721 others from the study who were the same age and were not diagnosed with kidney problems. In total, just over half of the men were taking androgen deprivation therapy. Azoulay and his colleagues found that men taking hormone-targeted therapy were between 2 and 3 times more likely to have their kidneys stop working, once their other health conditions and medicines were taken into account. Unlike current use, past use of androgen deprivation therapy was not tied to a higher risk of kidney injury,
the study team wrote in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Azoulay said it’s possible that changes in testosterone and estrogen levels among men on hormonal therapy might affect kidney health and how the kidneys repair themselves after an injury. If the finding is replicated in other studies, he said doctors should consider checking men’s kidney function before prescribing androgen deprivation therapy. Dr. Vahakn Shahinian, who has studied risks of hormone treatment at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, called the findings “a bit of a surprise.” He told Reuters Health that it’s still not clear if a link between androgen deprivation therapy and kidney injury makes sense biologically. Still, he agreed with Azoulay that doctors should be cautious about prescribing hormone-targeted therapy.
Syria death toll hits 5,000 a month: UN
uNITeD NATIONs, JulY 17 (AFP): Five thousand people a month are dying in Syria’s war, which has now generated the worst refugee crisis since the 1994 Rwandan genocide, UN officials said on Tuesday. A host of top officials called on the divided UN Security Council to take stronger action to deal with the fallout from the two-year-old conflict, in which up to 100,000 people are believed to have died. “The extremely high rate of killings nowadays — approximately 5,000 a month — demonstrates the drastic deterioration of the conflict,” UN assistant secretary general for human rights Ivan Simonovic told a council meeting. “In Syria today, serious human rights violations, war crimes and crimes against humanity are the rule,” Simonovic declared. Nearly 1.8 million people are now registered with the United Nations in countries around Syria and an average of 6,000 people a day are now fleeing, UN High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres said. “We have not seen a refugee outflow escalate at such a frightening rate since the Rwandan genocide almost 20 years ago,” Guterres added. More than two million Rwandans fled the 1994 genocide, in which radical Hutus killed some 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus in a period of about three months. Guterres said the acceptance of refugees by Lebanon, Iraq, Jordan and other countries was “saving hundreds of thousands of lives.” UN humanitarian chief Valerie Amos said the international community may have to consider cross-border operations to get aid into Syria. Amos added that $3.1 billion was still needed for operations in and around Syria for the rest of the year. She said four million people inside Syria need assistance and
In this image taken from video obtained from Ugarit News, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows shelling of the Al-Qaboun neighborhood in rural Damascus, Syria, on July 15. After seizing the momentum in recent months in Syria’s civil war, President Bashar Assad’s forces are on the offensive against the rebels on several fronts, including in Idlib province along the border with Turkey. Government forces are in firm control of the provincial capital of same name, while dozens of rebel brigades control the countryside.(AP Photo)
“considerable restraints” have been imposed on aid agencies by the government and rebel groups. Amos highlighted the Old City in Homs, where the government has stepped up a siege in the past month. The United Nations estimates that 2,500 civilians are trapped there. “Opposition groups have so far not enabled them safe passage to leave, and the government of Syria has refused to allow agencies to deliver assistance into the Old City,” she said. Amos appealed for the lifting of bureau-
cratic obstacles but also the designation of “priority humanitarian routes” and prior notification of military offensives. Amos said there should be “humanitarian pauses” to allow aid access and “cross-border operations, as appropriate.” The Syrian government is opposed to any cross-border aid, as is Russia, a veto-wielding member of the Security Council and a key international backer of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Turkey, a staunch supporter of the rebels, backed the call for such aid. “The council needs to consider alternative
forms of aid delivery, including cross-border operations,” Turkey’s deputy UN ambassador Leven Eler said. Eler said the Syria crisis was turning into “the biggest humanitarian tragedy of the 21st century.” Lebanon’s UN ambassador Nawaf Salam told the meeting it was now “urgent” for the Security Council to act on the refugee crisis. “Increasing cross-border fire and incursions from Syria in Lebanon are threatening the security and stability of my country,” he told the 15 ambassadors on the council. In the latest such incident, mortar fire from inside Syria hit the Israeli-controlled side of the Golan Heights on Tuesday as Syrian rebels and regime forces battled nearby, an AFP correspondent reported. In a letter of protest, Israel’s UN envoy Ron Prosor warned that while Israel had so far shown “maximum restraint” over such incidents, it would “continue to exercise its right to selfdefense.” Salam said the UN has registered 607,908 refugees in Lebanon, but the government estimates the true figure at 1.2 million. He estimated the number would grow 20-fold during 2013. Lebanon has a population of about four million, and he said the influx was the equivalent of 75 million refugees flooding the United States. Syria’s UN ambassador Bashar Jaafari disputed the UN death toll as “unprofessionally sourced” and criticized the use of an American company to collect data. But Simonovic said that “rigorous” methods had been used to check a death toll of more than 92,900 given one month ago. He said each death was checked by name and date and cross-checked with at least three sources. UN leader Ban Ki-moon has since said that up to 100,000 people have been killed in Syria.
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BARCElONA, July 17 (AP): Lionel Messi is not worried about solving his tax problems or about the arrival of Brazil star Neymar at Barcelona. "I'm very relaxed," Messi said after training on Wednesday, adding he was at a distance from financial matters. "My dad and I have our advisers who handle these things and we trust them. I hope it gets solved. I don't understand any of this and that's why we have lawyers." Messi, one of the world's highest-paid
sportsmen, and his father Jorge have been ordered by a Spanish court to appear before a judge in September over allegations that they defrauded the Spanish tax office of 4 million euros ($5.3 million). Messi is rated by Forbes magazine as the world's 10th highest-paid athlete after reportedly earning $41.3 million to June this year, with $20.3 million coming from his club salary and $21 million in endorsements. Spain's state prosecutor alleges Messi
tuRIN, July 17 (AP): Andretti Autosport announced Wednesday it has signed on as the third team to compete in the environmentally friendly FIA Formula E championship, which will feature electric cars racing in 10 cities around the world beginning in 2014. Michael Andretti's two-car operation will join China Racing and Britishbased Drayson Racing as organizations already committed to a field that will have 10 two-car teams competing in each e-Prix. "We're in the business of racing and we've been looking for opportunities to diversify, and when we were contacted about this we felt it was something we needed to look into," Andretti told The Associated Press. "The more we looked into it, the more interested we got. We like the relevancy of the series because one of the problems auto racing is starting to face — and is going to face more of in the future — is relevancy. "I think relevancy is going to be addressed with the electric cars. It's a good way to hook our younger audience into racing, and I'm excited to be involved and be involved at the ground floor." Andretti plans to run one car for the championship, while his second entry could be a "star car" that uses well-known drivers such as IndyCar reigning champion Ryan HunterReay, Marco Andretti or James Hinchcliffe based on their availability. The races will be held September 2014 to June 2015 for a "winter season" on street courses that run through the heart of major cities around the world. Alejandro Agag, CEO of series promoter FEH, said there will be stops in Miami and Los Angeles on the 10-race schedule, making it important to have Andretti involved in the series debut. "Andretti is a great name in motorsport, and when we launched the championship, we said
we wanted to have a geographically diversified grid and for us, the U.S and China are our two key markets in the world," Agag told the AP. "In the U.S., we really need a strong team to lead the way and we think there is no better name than that for America that Andretti. And globally because it's very American, but at the same time it's a worldknown name. "Everybody knows Andretti everywhere, so for us it was really a priority to speak with Andretti and invite them into the championship." Andretti Autosport currently fields four IndyCar entries, and cars in Indy Lights, the Pro Mazda Championship and in the USF2000 National Championship. The team has won four IndyCar championships, to Lights titles, one USF2000 championship and its drivers have won two Indianapolis 500s. Michael Andretti raced more than 20 years in CART and Formula One, winning 42 CART races, which ranks third in American openwheel history. His father, Mario Andretti, ranks second with 52 victories. In Formula E, teams will have two drivers and four series-provided singleseater electric cars in the first season. Renault has signed on as the car manufacturer, but Agag said series officials expect three to five manufacturers in the second season based on current conversations. Michelin is the tire supplier. "A lot of the sponsors are saying we are looking for something that is going to tick the box on sustainability, and we're finding many big corporations are saying they need to go toward sustainability in sponsorship," Agag said of interest in the series. The car batteries will last up to 25 minutes at a time, so drivers will have to switch cars during the race while their batteries recharge. The driver will enter the pits, then get out of the car and run 100 meters to get into the freshly charged car.
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and his father used shell companies in Belize and Uruguay to avoid paying taxes on revenues from image rights. If charged and found guilty — barring an outof-court settlement — the 26-year-old star and his father could face fines amounting to 150 percent of concealed earnings and two to six years in jail. Messi, who until the alleged fraud problem arose had led a quiet life free of major scandal, has denied any wrongdoing. He has received the backing of Barcelona club president Sandro Rosell and predecessor Joan Laporta, who was in charge during the years of the alleged tax irregularities. Messi welcomed the arrival of Neymar, who was "a great player" who will have no problem adapting to Barcelona. "He's going to make a difference," Messi said. He said Neymar was the type of player who can unsettle opponents in one-on-one situations, and would give the team a lot. "We won't have problems off the field either," Messi said, adding, "he's a good guy."
PARIS, July 17 (AFP): Former world number one Martina Hingis is to make a competitive comeback playing doubles, six years after her second retirement. The Swiss star, who won five Grand Slam singles titles and nine in doubles, will play at the Southern California Open in Carlsbad from July 27 to August 4. She will partner Slovak Daniela Hantuchova, with whom she also played doubles in 2007 before her retirement. "I am very much looking forward to making a return to competitive play at the Southern California Open," Hingis said. "I remember winning the singles and doubles here in 1997 and winning the singles again in 1999. "I feel in good shape at the moment after playing World Team Tennis. My competitive spirit is still very much alive and I love being out on court." Hingis retired for the second time in 2007 at the age of 27 having just discovered she had tested positive for a banned substance during her third round loss at Wimbledon that year. She tested for benzoylecgonine, a metab-
olite of cocaine, and opted to retire rather than contest the results. Although she maintained her innocence, she was banned for two years by the International Tennis Federation. She had first retired from tennis for two years at the tender age of just 22 in 2003, citing injuries as the reason. By this time she had already won all her Grand Slam singles and doubles titles and spent a total of 209 weeks as world number one. In 1996 she had become the youngest ever Grand Slam winner when teaming up with Helena Sukova to win the Wimbledon doubles title at just 15 years and nine months. She followed that up in 1997 by becoming the youngest ever Grand Slam singles winner at 16 years three months in the Australian Open before becoming the youngest world number one in history a couple of months later. Her second career, from 2005 to 2007, was nowhere near as successful as the first part as she never went beyond a Grand Slam quarterfinal. Her second comeback comes hot on the heels of Newly inducted Tennis Hall of Famer Martina Hingis, of Switzerland, hits a tennis ball in the being inducted into the style of French tennis legend Suzanne Lenglen at a show court adjacent to the Hall of Fame Tennis Hall of Fame. Tennis Museum in Newport, R.I. (AP Photo)
English tutors for Indian hockey players!
Heat is on for Oz to level series at Lord's
BANGAlORE, July 17 (tNN): A remarkable turn of phrase may well dictate a hockey player's fortunes as much as his turn of speed if Hockey India's high performance director Roelant Oltmans has his way. In a first-of-its-kind move that is hoped will change the way Indians respond to foreign coaches and game situations abroad, Oltmans's longterm plan to improve the game in India will necessarily include English teachers working on players right from the junior academies to the national teams. Language skills will help them understand and express themselves better, he feels. Language barriers have racked the country's athletes for long with foreign coaches unable to get their ideas across effectively. Interpreters haven't been able to get the point across either with a lot lost in translation. Whether it was Gerhard Rach, Ric Charlesworth, Jose Brasa or Michael Nobbs, the dangers of improper communication were always there. Hence this move that plans to bring the coach and pupil closer. Says Oltmans: "I believe it's necessary for our players to improve their understand-
ing of English. It's not only because you need to interact with a foreign coach sometimes but also if you want to communicate with foreign players." Oltmans pointed to an instance at the World League semifinals in the Netherlands recently where the Indian team found it difficult to put its point across to the umpire after seeking a video referral. "We had a situation in Rotterdam where the umpires did not understand why we had asked for a referral. Even if you want to ask for a referral, you have to make sure people understand you properly. It is important to make your question clear," he said. Stressing that the language of the hockey world is English, the Dutchman said the exercise would help in personality development. "We need to do this to improve our performance. Players should not feel shy to speak the language. When you are training 4-5 hours a day, it is not difficult to have an hour of English lessons." The English lessons are likely to begin after the Asia Cup as Oltmans felt he did not have enough time to focus on any aspect other than the game now.
lONDON, July 17 (PtI): Former Australia captain Ricky Ponting has rated Brian Lara ahead of Sachin Tendulkar as he feels the West Indian batsman enabled his team win more matches. "Sachin and Lara were the two standout batsmen for me. Lara won more games for his team than Sachin probably has. I'd lose more sleep as captain knowing Lara was coming in to bat next day than I would with Sachin," said Ponting. "You always found a way to restrict Sachin if you needed to. Lara could turn it on in half an hour and take a game away from you. For me, it has never been about making hundreds, it is about winning games and series," Ponting was quoted as saying by the 'Evening Standard'.
Australia may have suffered an agonising defeat in the first Test against England but Ponting believes that the Aussies will win the series 2-1. "I said 2-1 to Australia at the start and nothing has changed for me, no," he insisted."We've got a lot of hard work to do but it seems like things are on the right track. It is a Test match lost but for the Aussies it will reinforce them to think just how close they are and may be there's not that big a gulf between the teams. "If they can take that away from the first Test it will do them good at Lord's this week. We have some very good young players. They are just starting to find their way and Ashes series tend to bring out the best in some," he added.
Ponting rates Lara ahead of Tendulkar
Australia's Captain Michael Clarke fields in front of the Pavilion during the nets session at Lord's Cricket Ground, London Tuesday July 16. The 2nd Ashes test match between England and Australia gets underway on Thursday July 18. (AP Photo)
lONDON, July 17 (REutERS): Australia will be greeted by blazing sunshine and a venue where they lost only once last century when they arrive at Lord's on Thursday for the second Ashes test against England determined to level the five-match series. Britain is engulfed in a heatwave which is forecast to last throughout the match and conditions for the first test at Trent Bridge were reminiscent of the Indian sub-continent. After heroic last-wicket stands in each innings, Australia eventually lost by 14 runs on Sunday. But they will be buoyed by the resilience and resource they showed at the midpoint of a horrible year in which they have been beaten 4-0 in India and failed to advance past the first round of the Champions Trophy. The touring side's cause was hardly advanced with news on Tuesday that their former South African coach Mickey Arthur, who was sacked 16 days before the Brazilian driver Lucas di Grassi steers a Formula E racecar Trent Bridge test, had alleged he was the victim of through Berlin, Germany. (AP Photo)
discrimination and was demanding reinstatement or $3.6 million compensation. Despite the narrow margin in Nottingham, England were ultimately deserved winners and James Anderson at the height of his powers produced the decisive deliveries of the game to account for two of his 10 wickets. Anderson removed captain Michael Clarke in the first innings with the perfect delivery, a ball which swung late into the batsman then evaded the outside edge to hit the top of the off-stump. The second key wicket was the final ball of the match which vice-captain Brad Haddin, whose gritty 71 had threatened to snatch victory from England's grasp, edged to Matt Prior. Australia will relish the sun and the surroundings at the home of world cricket. To recover from one-down and regain the Ashes, though, their top-order batting must fire and Usman Khawaja may come in at number three to replace the outof-form Ed Cowan. "He had a tough game,"
said new coach Darren Lehmann. "We've told Ed how we want him to play and how we want him to bat. That certainly hasn't changed from when he first came into the side. "He'll be disappointed with the shots. So are we. "We've certainly got to bat better as a top order, that's probably the key. We're going to bowl very well and we know we can control their batters. It's a matter of making more runs." Clarke, who enjoyed a wondrous 2012 with 1,595 runs at an average of precisely 106, failed in both innings after his buildup was hampered by a chronic back ailment. The only other Australian batsman of comparable pedigree is the highly gifted but perennially frustrating Shane Watson who contributed 46 to a second-innings opening partnership of 84. Australia urgently need an innings from Watson of a stature to match his talent and Lord's would be the perfect setting to shrug off the under-achiever's tag. But he will be under even
more pressure after it was reported in Australia that Arthur had claimed Clarke had described his former vice-captain as "a cancer" in the side. Another option is to drop a batsman and play five specialist bowlers with off-spinner Nathan Lyon joining Ashton Agar. Agar, who fell two short on his debut of becoming the first number 11 in test history to make a century, took two for 82 from 35 overs in the second innings with his left-arm orthodox spin. In contrast to Australia's fragile top order, England's key batsmen scored runs at critical times at Trent Bridge. Jonathan Trott contributed 48 to their modest first-innings 215 and captain Alastair Cook (50) laid a solid foundation in the second with Kevin Pietersen (64). The crucial innings came from Ian Bell, whose 109 in more than six hours was perfectly calibrated for a sun-baked pitch demanding intense concentration with its low, slow and sometimes unpredictable bounce.
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embers of Britain's royal family were "waiting by the telephone" for word of the imminent birth of Prince William and his wife Kate's first child, expected this week amid a heatwave in London and rising royal baby fever. Photographers and TV crews from Britain, the United States, Canada, Australia, Japan and China, have been outside St Mary's Hospital in London since July 1 waiting for the couple's first child who, regardless of sex, will be third-in-line to the throne. Royal officials have remained vague on the due date, only saying mid-July, but there was a noticeable rise in anticipation on Tuesday following remarks by Camilla, the wife of William's father and heir-to-thethrone Prince Charles.
"Hopefully by the end of the week, he or she will be there," Camilla said during an official visit in southwest England. "We are all just waiting by the telephone." As the days of waiting for the new royal heir have rolled into weeks, rumours have sped around the Internet and via Twitter where an account has been set up for the Royal Foetus and the hashtag GreatKateWait is widely used. The waiting game has proved a boon for bookmakers offering odds on the date of the birth and for public relations companies pulling royal-related stunts to capture the interest of bored journalists looking to fill the time and publication pages. One bookmaker sent four oversized toddlers with crowns to Buckingham Palace while U.S. TV station NBC stuck a sweepstake on a wall by the hospital for bets on the arrival date. On Tuesday, a photo of William and Kate lookalikes pushing a pram in a park splashed the front page of one British newspaper. The Washington Post has described the child of the popular royal couple who married in April 2011 in front of a global TV audience of two billion as the "world's most famous baby". "For us it's nice to be at the front seat of any historic moment,"
Johnny Depp to return as Mad Hatter in Alice In Wonderland 2
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ctor Johnny Depp will return as the Mad Hatter in Alice In Wonderland 2 after negotiating a deal with Disney. The 50-year-old Lone Ranger actor is set to sign a new deal with Disney to star in a followup to 2010's smash hit Alice In Wonderland directed by Tim Burton, while The Muppets director James Bobin will replace Burton as director of the sequel, Deadline reported. Depp played the Mad Hatter in Disney's 2010 adaptation of the Lewis Carroll classic which also starred Mia Wasikowska, Anne Hathaway and Helena Bonham Carter. It's not yet known whether his co-stars will reprise their roles in the film.
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Francis D'Souza, a TV anchor and reporter from CityNews in Toronto, told Reuters. "Canadians love the royals and ... especially love this couple. They're not old and stodgy and stuffy. Before this we were in Calgary, where people had lost everything in the floods. Here the tears are happiness." To celebrate the baby's arrival, the city of Toronto has announced plans to light up its CN Tower in pink or blue depending on the sex of the royal baby as has Niagara Falls. The gender of the baby, who will displace Prince Harry as third to the throne behind grandfather Charles and father William, is said to be unknown as the couple want a surprise. But bookmakers expect a girl and have made Alexandra the favourite for the baby's name, followed by Charlotte, Diana and Elizabeth. George and James are hotly tipped if it is a boy. Prince William, a helicopter search-and-rescue pilot, is on standby to join Kate for the birth at the hospital where he was born to the late Princess Diana 31 years ago. The baby will be future heir regardless of sex. The birth will be announced in the traditional way with an envelope containing the baby's details taken from the hospital to Buckingham Palace, where the news will be posted outside.
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since the 1980s. She left her first husband, musical partner Ike Turner, in 1978 after years of abuse.
Levine engaged to Prinsloo
dam Levine is engaged to Victoria's Secret supermodel Behati Prinsloo. Adam proposed over the weekend in Los Angeles after the couple recently reunited. Just last month The Voice judge was seen on holiday with Sports Illustrated beauty Nina Agdal after he and Prinsloo split shortly after the New Year. But it seems that the handsome tattooed rocker had a change of heart, and was quickly back in the arms of Namibian supermodel Prinsloo. 'Adam Levine and his girlfriend Behati Prinsloo are excited to announce they are engaged to be married,' Adam's rep told People magazine. 'The couple recently reunited and Adam proposed this weekend in Los Angeles.' The engagement comes after Adam was seen holidaying with Danish model Agdal in Mexico last month. He had been reportedly 'having fun' with the 21-yearold stunner since early
spring. 'It's still new,' a source close to the singer told Us Weekly when the romance was first reported. 'Behati was in and out, but they finally ended it. It wasn't an abrupt ending.' The rocker had split with Prinsloo in March this year after he was first spotted with the model in June 2012 on vacation in Hawaii. Levine has displayed somewhat of a penchant for romancing models. He dated Victoria's Secret star Anne Vyalitsyna for two years until April 2012, when she broke up the relationship, leaving him devastated. 'Adam's heartbroken,'
a friend of the singer told Us Weekly at the time, insisting the Los Angeles based Levine was 'blindsided' when Anna dumped him from New York City. Around a month later, Adam moved on to Prinsloo. He recently admitted he would like to get married in the future, saying: 'I'm a fan of marriage. People think that I keep pooh-poohing marriage, but I love it. I want to probably be married at some point.' He added: 'I don't feel pressure to get married. I think that when it's time, it's going to be obvious and I'm going to do it and I'm going to really enjoy it.'’
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rish rock star and antipoverty activist Bono received France's highest cultural award on Tuesday for his contribution to music while being praised for using his fame to battle for humanitarian causes. The frontman of the rock band U2 was presented with the Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters by French Culture Minister Aurelie Filippetti in a ceremony in Paris. "Beyond notes and beyond words, you committed yourself and dedicated your fame and career to wage some of the greatest wars of our time. Not for charity's sake but in the name of justice," Filippetti said in a statement. Bono, whose real name is Paul Hewson, said the award was a huge honour but it belonged to the band. "I've got the biggest mouth and the loudest voice but the music we make comes from each other," he said in a statement. Previous recipients of the award that dates back to 1957 include David Bowie, Sean Connery, Roger Moore, Bob Dylan, Bruce Willis and Shakira. Bono, 53, has received a list of awards for his music and campaigning since forming U2 about 37 years ago, including being a nominee several times for the Nobel Peace Prize. In 2005 he was named Time Magazine's Person of the Year and in 2007 he received an honorary knighthood from Queen Elizabeth.
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olling Stone magazine is in trouble with its readers who are outraged over the forthcoming August 3 issue which features Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on the cover. The image is a selftaken portrait of Tsarnaev in which he looks more like a rock star than a terrorist. He is identified simply as ‘The Bomber’ and the article promises to explain ‘how a popular, promising student was failed by his family, fell into radical Islam, and became a monster.’ The use of Tsarnaev as a cover star has caused an instant backlash on social media, with more than 2,500 people leaving angry comments on the magazine’s Facebook page.
Robert Downey Jr. leads Forbes' highest-paid actors
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ith estimated earnings of $75 million, "Iron Man" Robert Downey Jr. is Hollywood's highest paid actor, ahead of Channing Tatum and Hugh Jackman, according to Forbes.com. Downey, 48, starred in Disney's Marvel superhero films "The Avengers" in 2012 and "Iron Man 3" in 2013, each of which earned more than $1 billion at the box office, assuring him the top spot in the annual ranking of Hollywood's top acting earners. "Every studio in town would love to cast him, and now they'll pay big buck for the privilege," Forbes.com contributor Dorothy Pomerantz said about Downey on Tuesday. Forbes.com estimated his earnings between June 2012 and June 2013. New father Tatum, 33, who self-financed the male-stripper movie "Magic Mike" that made $167 million with director Steven Soderbergh, captured the No. 2 spot with estimated earnings of $60 million. Australian actor Jackman, 44, whose new movie "The Wolverine" opens in U.S. theaters next week, was not far behind with $55 million. Mark Wahlberg, 42, had a comedy hit with "Ted," a film that earned $550 million and pumped up his earning to $52 million to secure fourth place, and wrestlerturned actor Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson, 41, rounded out the top five with $46 million. Johnson starred in "Fast and Furious 6," which made $500 million at the box office in less than two weeks, and "G.I. Joe: Retaliation." Adam Sandler, 46, at No. 7, was the only comedian to make the top 10 thanks mainly to the animated hit "Hotel Transylvania, which grossed $347 million and helped bump his earnings up to $37 million. Denzel Washington, 58, took a cut in pay in exchange for a share of the profits for "Flight," which turned out to be a shrewd deal. The
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film made $162 million putting the Oscar winner in eighth place with earnings of $33 million. Last year, Tom Cruise, 51, topped the list with earnings of $75 million. This year, he dropped to eighth place with $35 million, gained largely from his international audience, Forbes said. Forbes. com compiled the ranking and estimated earnings by talking to managers, producers and agents.
'Glee' actor Monteith died of overdose
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lee" actor Cory Monteith, who had struggled for years with substance abuse and once said he was lucky to be alive, died of an overdose of heroin and alcohol, the British Columbia coroner's office said Tuesday. "There is no evidence to suggest Mr. Monteith's death was anything other than a most tragic accident," the office said in a statement. The 31-year-old was found dead in his Vancouver, British Columbia, hotel room on Saturday after he didn't check out on time. He was believed to be alone when he died. Hotel video and electronic records indicate he returned to his room by himself early Saturday. At a briefing Tuesday afternoon, police said they believe Monteith had been dead for several hours before he was found. They said the coroner's report didn't indicate the levels of heroin or alcohol in his system. They ruled out foul play. "Our belief is that when he took the heroin he was alone," said Vancouver Police Department spokesman Brian Montague. He added: "There was evidence in the room that was consistent with a drug overdose. We're not providing exactly what we found at the scene." Police said it was too early for the coroner's office to conclude whether Monteith was the victim of a bad
batch of heroin, which turns up from time to time in Vancouver. Monteith had talked bluntly about struggling with addiction since he was a teenager, calling it a serious problem and telling Parade magazine in 2011 he was "lucky to be alive." In that interview, he said he was using marijuana and drinking by age 13, and his drug use was "out of control" by the time he was 16. "Anything and everything, as much as possible," he said. "I had a serious problem." Monteith admitted himself to a treatment facility in April for sub-
stance addiction, a representative said at the time. He also received treatment when he was 19. He told Parade that his mother and friends had staged an intervention back then, afraid he "could die." However, he said, "I did the stint but then went back to doing exactly what I left off doing." Typically, the younger a person gets hooked on drugs or alcohol, the higher the risk of relapse. It's also more challenging for people addicted to multiple substances. "When an addicted person re-enters their environment, they have
a lot to negotiate" such as finding a sober network of friends and not giving in to cravings, said addiction expert Dr. Karen Miotto at the University of California, Los Angeles. Such pressures can cause a person to relapse. Gia Milani, who recently produced and directed a Canadian film featuring Monteith, this week said he "seemed healthy" when she last saw him four weeks ago in Los Angeles. "He looked super fit and he was energetic and excited," Milani said. She said Monteith showed no signs of a substance abuse problem while shooting the film a year ago. "Glee," with its catchy song-anddance numbers and high-profile guest stars like Gwyneth Paltrow and Britney Spears, became an instant hit when it debuted in 2009. Monteith served as the show's resident hunk with a heart of gold. The show's producers have called him an exceptional performer "and an even more exceptional person." The publicist for Monteith's girlfriend and "Glee" co-star, Lea Michele, released a statement Tuesday. "Since Cory's passing, Lea has been grieving alongside his family and making appropriate arrangements with them," it said. "They are supporting each other as they endure this profound loss together." The statement was first reported by People magazine.
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Miami Heat's forward player Chris Bosh answers a question during a news conference in Mumbai on July 17. Bosh is in the country on an NBA promotional tour. (AP Photo)
Narine, Bravo earn West Indies win over Pakistan
GEORGETOWN, JULY 17 (AP): Off-break bowler Sunil Narine returned to form with a four-wicket haul and Darren Bravo carved out a resolute half century on Tuesday as West Indies defeated Pakistan by 37 runs in their second one-day international to level the series 1-1. Narine had been wicketless in his last three ODIs, but his 4-26 helped West Indies dismiss Pakistan for 195 in 47.5 overs after Bravo set up a total of 232-8 by hitting 54. Pakistan opener Nasir Jamshed top scored with 54, surviving four chances, before completing his half century while Umar Akmal made 50 off 46 balls in a lost cause. Pakistan won the first match by 126 runs at the same venue Sunday. St. Lu-
cia will host the third of the five-match series on Friday. "This win means a lot to us, the team really needed this to get our confidence back," captain Dwayne Bravo said. "Narine had an off day in the first game. Saeed Ajmal also had a bad day, but Narine is the No. 1 bowler and he bounced back today." Captain Bravo juggled before dropping a regulation catch of Jamshed on zero and the lefthander was also dropped by Chris Gayle and Darren Sammy on 19 and 32 respectively. Wicketkeeper Johsnon Charles then missed an easy stumping on 46 before finally Kemar Roach had him caught when Kieron Pollard was introduced in the attack in 37th over. Pakistan batsmen
struggled to make progress on a slow-paced wicket, with Narine accounting for the key wickets of Mohammad Hafeez (20) and Shahid Afridi (5). He went on to dismiss Wahab Riaz and Ajmal in his last over. "That was a good total on this pitch as it got slower and slower ... it got lot more turn and full credit to them the way they bowled," Pakistan captain Misbahul-Haq said. "We went for big hits at wrong times and you need set batsmen to chase on such wickets." Earlier, Darren Bravo scored 54 off 81 balls with six boundaries and laid a solid platform by adding 79 runs for the second wicket stand with Charles (31) after hard-hitting Chris Gayle was caught behind in the first over.
HANOI, JULY 17 (AGENCIES): A first-half hat-trick from Olivier Giroud propelled Arsenal to their second victory of the Asia Tour at the expense of Vietnam's national side. Giroud struck twice in Jakarta on Sunday and he took his tally to five in just 65 minutes with three more expertly-taken goals - a fifth-minute opener and two just before the break. The goals continued to flow once the Frenchman had departed, with Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain curling in a sumptuous effort from distance and Chuba Akpom adding a brace before the hour mark. Ignasi Miquel got in on the act before a rapturously-received consolation for Vietnam, scored by substitute Tran Manh Dung. Giroud will take most of the plaudits from this performance and rightly so. He could have extra competition for his position by the time the season starts but he will be difficult to dislodge on this evidence. As for the bigger picture, this was an impressive Arsenal performance against a side that started brightly and forced the tourists to raise their game. That they were able to do so will please Arsène Wenger immensely. Wenger himself had lauded the growth of Vietnamese football ahead of the game and his words were vindicated as the home side dominated the early exchanges. Neat and industrious in possession, they hurried Arsenal into errors when the ball was lost. Pham Thanh Luong
pulled the strings in those opening minutes and Bacary Sagna - one of six changes from the game in Jakarta and stationed in central defence - was called into action on numerous occasions.
PSG signs Edinson Cavani for $84 million
PARIS, JULY 17 (AP): Paris Saint-Germain broke the transfer record in the French league on Tuesday by signing Uruguay striker Edinson Cavani to a fiveyear contract for a reported fee of 64 million euros ($84 million). The previous record belonged to Monaco, which recently paid Atletico Madrid an estimated 60 million euros ($79 million) for Colombia striker Radamel Falcao. It is the fifth most expensive transfer in history, behind Cristiano Ronaldo's move from Manchester United to Real Madrid, Zinedine Zidane's switch from Juventus to Real Madrid, Zlatan Ibrahimovic's move from Inter Milan to Barcelona and Kaka's transfer from AC Milan to Real Madrid. "Cavani's arrival is the proof that we're continuing our project of turning PSG
Striker Edinson Cavani of Uruguay display his new jersey during a press conference after he officially signed for the Paris Saint Germain (PSG) soccer team, at the Parc des Princes stadium in Paris, Tuesday, July 16. (AP Photo)
into the best club in Europe," PSG president Nasser Al-Khelaifi said. Cavani, who will wear the No. 9 shirt, was the top scorer in the Italian league
last season with 29 goals. He led Napoli to the Italian Cup title in 2012 and to a runner-up finish in Serie A this year. "I experienced three fantastic years at Na-
poli," Cavani said. "But I always wanted to try to go to the next level. I've been proposed a great project here at Paris Saint-Germain. "I never hesitated to
But while Vietnam were pretty, Arsenal were pretty effective. Their first real chance came in the fifth minute and it was taken by Giroud, who latched on to Tomas Rosicky's pass to score via
the far post. The Frenchman, already buoyant after a brace in Jakarta, would be a handful throughout the first half. Giroud and OxladeChamberlain went close with snap shots as Arsenal
wrestled control and Lukas Podolski should have converted a header after Serge Gnabry beat his man and stood up a tempting cross. Podolski did have the ball in the net halfway through the first half but was denied by an offside flag, and the Germany forward looked certain to score after collecting a defence-splitting pass from Gnabry but elected to pass instead of shoot with just the keeper to beat. Podolski's frustrating half continued when he crashed a shot against the post with his trusty left foot and Gnabry's followup was cleared off the line. For all their endeavour and tidy passing, Vietnam had yet to test Szczesny. Le Cong Vinh fired well over the bar but the home side had to wait until a minute before the break to go seriously close when Nguyen Trong Hoang's brilliant low cross found the sliding Nguyen Anh Duc at the far post, but the latter could not convert. By then Vietnam were two down thanks to that man Giroud, who latched onto a poor clearance to curl a beauty into the top corner from the edge of the box. And the in-form Frenchman completed a first-half hat-trick on the stroke of half-time with a clipped finish over Duong. Wenger brought on seven substitutes at the break with Per Mertesacker, Miquel, Ramsey, Gedion Zelalem, Ryo, Walcott and Akpom getting some game time. And the goals kept coming for the tourists.
come here when I saw the trust the club is giving me. This project is very ambitious, very motivating. They are among the top clubs in the world. They are among the few clubs that can win the Champions League." By making its first signing, PSG restored a bit of order at the club following Italian coach Carlo Ancelotti's departure for Real Madrid and Brazilian sporting director Leonardo's resignation last week. "The project is bigger than any person here," AlKhelaifi said. "Our objective is very clear: to win the Champions League hopefully in the next four years." Cavani's arrival takes some pressure off Zlatan Ibrahimovic's shoulders. Ibrahimovic was instrumental in PSG winning its first league title since 1994 last season.
F1 boss Ecclestone charged in bribery case
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LONDON, JULY 17 (AP): Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone has been charged by German prosecutors with alleged bribery in connection with the sale of a stake in the global racing series. Ecclestone has been under investigation since a German banker was convicted of taking an illegal payment from him worth $44 million. Ecclestone told the Munich state court he felt pressured into paying the cash in 2006 because he was worried that Gerhard Gribkowsky would report him to British tax authorities. The court said in a statement on Wednesday that Ecclestone had been charged with bribery and incitement to breach of trust in connection with Gribkowsky's management of BayernLB's stake in F1. It said the indictment was dated on May 10 and has since been translated into English and delivered to Ecclestone and his law-
FILE - In this April 19, 2013 file photo, Bernie Ecclestone, president and CEO of Formula One Management, talks to the journalists at the Bahrain International Circuit in Sakhir, Bahrain. Ecclestone says he has been indicted by German prosecutors for alleged bribery. Ecclestone has been under investigation since a German banker was convicted of taking an illegal payment from him worth $44 million in connection with the sale of a stake in F1. (AP Photo)
yers. "The lawyers have accepted an indictment," Ecclestone told The Associated Press. "It means they have to reply to the indict-
ment which they are strenuously doing." Ecclestone has yet to read the indictment, which the court said he has until
mid-August to respond to. "They are alleging I bribed someone," Ecclestone said, while insisting he did "nothing illegal."
Gribkowsky was in charge of managing the sale of BayernLB's stake in F1. In addition to taking the money from Ecclestone, Gribkowsky used BayernLB's funds to pay the F1 chief a commission of $41.4 million and agreed to pay a further $25 million to Bambino Trust, a company with which Ecclestone was affiliated, prosecutors maintained during the trial. Ecclestone told the court he deserved a commission for the sale, saying "I did a very, very good job." Gribkowsky, who largely admitted to the charges, was sentenced to 8 1/2 years in prison after being found guilty last year of corruption, tax evasion and breach of trust. Ecclestone's German lawyers, Sven Thomas and Norbert Scharf, said they will soon submit a "comprehensive response" to the court, and the central issue in that response will be "the varying 'confessions' of Mr. Gribkowsky."
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