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Multiple approaches required to control use of tobacco

Police arrests 3rd suspect in gang rape of 2 teens

By Sandemo Ngullie

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innocent civilians are now Modi abolishes all GoMs & eGoMs victims of ‘armed conflict’

FILE - In this Aug. 24, 2013 file photo, photojournalists, with black bands around their mouth, participate in a protest against the gang rape of a female photojournalist in Mumbai, in Gauhati, India. The World Health Organization has declared violence against women an epidemic, calculating that one in three women worldwide will experience sexual or physical violence, most often from their husband or male partner. (AP Photo)

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Article 370 debate intended to change discourse: Malik

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Srinagar, May 31 (ianS): JKLF chief Yasin Malik, claiming that the design behind the article 370 debate raked up by a union minister was to change the Kashmir discourse from independence to centrestate relations, Saturday said his party would soon start a “Quit Kashmir” movement. “There is a design behind the Indian junior minister’s statement that article 370 would be revoked. There is a storm of debate over this in India and also in Kashmir. Everywhere in Kashmir people are discussing the fate of article 370,” said the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front chairman. “In the forefront of this debate are the pro-India political parties. (Chief Minister) Omar Abdullah has said Kashmir will cease to be a part of India if article 370 is scrapped,” he said. Malik contended that the Indian government or parliament does not have the legal power to revoke article 370. “This power lies with the state legislature and it has historically been this puppet legislature that has weakened article 370 and brought Indian laws and made them applicable to Jammu and Kashmir. “The new Indian government gave a questionnaire to Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to improve his conduct and then floated the balloon of article 370 to change the discourse of the pro-freedom movement in Kashmir to state-centre relations”. The JKLF chief announced that his party would soon start a “Quit Kashmir” movement to revitalize the local struggle for freedom.

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iMphal, May 31 (MExn): The North East Dialogue Forum (NEDF) has sent a memorandum to the Prime Minister of India drawing attention to the rising commission of crimes against women and children in the State of Manipur. Almost every day, it stated, “violence including the killing of innocent citizens over ransom demand, child trafficking, brutal killings of women and girls after gang raped, cases of suicide of young married women due to agonizing torture by their husbands” are prevalent in Manipur. Quoting reports by the

NEDF writes to PM on rising crimes against women and children Women Action for Development, Imphal, coordinator of the NEDF, Soraisam Dhanabir, noted that the number of recorded incidents/cases of violence against women in Manipur between January 2005 and May 2014 stood at around 1256, with cases including rape, rape and murder, attempt to rape/molestation/ murder, burnt, physical assault/injury, kidnapping, threaten, missing/abduction, abandon, complaint

and human trafficking. The Charter of Demands urged the Government of India to “Establish a special court to deal with cases concerning crimes against humanity and violence against women and children in particular.” Stressing on the repeal of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act, 1958, it asked for the establishment of a Legislative Forum on violence against women and children. Further, the NEDF

demanded the constitution of a “competent Advisory Committee to deal with prevailing situation of Manipur with due representation of prominent members from civil society organizations.” The NEDF maintained that today “innocent civilians” have become victims of armed conflict due to the proliferation of small arms and ammunitions in the State. All Armed Non-State Actors, it demanded, “should develop code of conduct to protect civilian population” and that proliferation of arms and ammunition in all the states of

North East India should be controlled. Political parties should incorporate in their stand “to protect innocent people from crimes and injustice as one of their election manifestoes.” A copy of the memorandum has been sent to the Home Minister, External Affairs Minister and DoNER minister of India. There are multiple cases of crimes committed against innocent citizens, particularly crime against women and children, unreported in the media or to the authority, it informed. However, the accused criminals/culprits involved in crimes have not been punished till date and “peoples’ rights for access to justice has been sabotaged.” The government’s efforts to take appropriate action against such “rampant crimes” are “not effective in spite of numerous legislations enacted by the State itself,” informed the NEDF. Citizens, it stated, are reluctant to approach existing courts of law as “Public Authorities” responsible for bringing justice are “corrupted.” “Above and all, effective measures and concrete policy of the government to protect the lives of innocents from crimes and injustices are not visible till date. If such heinous and nefarious crimes are not barricaded timely from its continuing pace, the prospect of our future generation will be fainted,” maintained the Forum, further highlighting that the failure of the existing criminal justice system in Manipur is “one of the causes that the citizens consider that they are not Indian.”

nEw DElhi, May 31 (ianS): Doing away with one of the relics of coalition politics, Prime Minister Narendra Modi Saturday abolished all 30 ministerial groups to ensure that his colleagues heading various portfolios take faster decisions with more accountability. There were nine empowered groups of ministers (EGOMs) and 21 groups of ministers (GOMs) in operation. They were to take decisions on various matters -- and several of them on matters seen as tricky -- before coming up before the cabinet for consideration. “This (the decision taken Thursday) would expedite the process of decision making and usher in greater accountability in the system,” an official statement from the Prime Minister’s Office said. “The ministries and departments will now process the issues pending before the EGOMs and GOMs and take appropriate decisions at the level of ministries and departments itself.” In a way, this decision also poses greater accountability on Modi himself as he will now have to adjudicate matters where there are differences among cabinet colleagues, rather than let a panel of colleagues deliberate on them first. The idea of such ministerial panels first cropped up and was implemented during the regime of National Democratic Alli-

ance (NDA) under Atal Bihari Vajpayee. More then were added under Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s United Progressive (UPA) Alliance government. Since neither the Bharatiya Janata Pary (BJP) nor the Congress party had the numbers to form governments of their own and relied on their allies, these ministerial groups were to let coalition leaders deliberate key matters before bringing them to the cabinet. Pranab Mukherjee, now India’s president, P. Chidambaram and A.K. Antony of the Congress party and Sharad Pawar of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) led the maximum of these ministerial groups -- that at one point had swelled to as many as 60. The EGOMs, in particular, were even bestowed with the authority to take decisions and a subsequent discussion and approval by any cabinet committee, presided over by the prime minister, was a mere formality. The subjects of the EGOMs included effective management of drought, pricing of natural gas and ultra mega power projects, while those of the GOMs included strategy for water management, national war memorial and administrative reforms. Many of them were dismantled after they served their purpose and new ones were added.

40 dead due to massive thunder storm, lightening Learning to Relearn with a Dyslexic Child

nEw DElhi, May 31 (pTi): At least 40 people were killed in north and eastern part of the country due to massive storm and lightning, while accompanying rains brought down mercury in most parts reeling under heat wave. The national capital witnessed pleasant morning as minimum temperature was recorded at 25 degrees celsius, three notches below the normal level, a day after the massive thunder storm. According to Meteorological department, the maximum temperature was 42.8 degrees celsius, 2 notches above normal. A massive thunder storm hit the national capi-

tal and several other states last evening and early Saturday morning. At least nine people were killed in Delhi and the NCR region in incidents of falling trees, collapse of walls and electrocution. In Uttar Pradesh, at least 14 people were killed due to thunderstorm which hit several parts of the state on Friday evening. Light rains also lashed several parts of the state leading to a drop in day temperature on Saturday. The highest temperature was 45.6 degrees celsius in Banda district. In Jharkhand, seven people were killed in a storm that raged across the state early this morn-

ing uprooting electricity poles and hundreds of trees. While in West Bengal, 10 people were killed and 28 others injured in lightning strike in three districts which experienced widespread pre-monsoon showers this morning, officials said. While five people died in Murshidabad district, three persons were killed in Purulia district and two others died in Burdwan district. Punjab and Haryana had no any respite from heat wave. Hisar in Haryana was the hottest place in both states as its maximum was 44.1 degrees celsius, Met department said here on Saturday.

Gariphema: Tobacco Free Village since 1993 Morung Express news Kohima | May 31

A first in the history of Nagaland, Gariphema village, a village in Northern Angami Region, commemorated the World No Tobacco Day by declaring Gariphema a Tobacco Free Village. The declaration which was organized by the Gariphema Village Students Union and sponsored by the Village Vision Cell was held on May 31 at the Village Council Hall. Dr. MC Longai, Deputy Director, NTCP was the resource person while R. Binchilo Thong, IAS, Principal Secretary, Irrigation & F. C, PHED, Government of Nagaland, graced the occasion as the Chief Guest . “We tend to take tobacco lightly because the effects of tobacco are a little slow but the consequences are heavy,” said

Dr. MC Longai, adding that 57 lakh people die every year because of the intake of tobacco. Dr. Longai also pointed out that the Government of Nagaland reimbursed Rs. 22 crore for cancer treatment alone in Nagaland, confined to people in the government services. For others in the informal sector, the cost of cancer treatment has to be borne by them, which often leads to bankruptcy and selling of one’s land. Dr. Longai pointed out how smoking is not just injurious to health but one’s property and family too goes up in smoke. Often the intake of tobacco starts with peer pressure among Naga youth, therefore Dr. Longai further encouraged students not to be afraid to make a difference even among their peers. Vibeilietuo Kets, Convenor Village Vision Cell, stated that

the banning of tobacco has had positive impact in the village. There are hardly any cases of people suffering from tobacco related diseases in Gariphema, he affirmed. R. Binchilo Thong said that the declaration was good news for Nagaland and that the initiative taken by Gariphema village is a first in Nagaland and most probably in India too. This achievement, according to Thong, is an outcome of the united efforts of the people of Gariphema, known for the harmonious coexistence between the Angamis and Semas, the “birthplace of the revival in Nagaland” and also rich in civic sense. It may be noted that the banning of tobacco and alcohol was resolved on 10 February 1993 by the Gariphema Village Council and the declaration is reaffirmation of the resolution.

Zanbeni Humtsoe Wokha | May 31

Mhathung is a 9th standard student, well-known among the students and teachers of his school for his playful spirit. Yet, many a time, this trait of his invites the ire of his teachers and parents alike. Since the first day he joined formal schooling, his parents have always been inundated with complaints from his schools. The nature of his teachers’ displeasure has always been the same - that he doesn’t pay attention in the classroom; that he is always fidgeting; that he is always disturbing the class by talking nonstop; that his academic performance is always poor despite being the first student to respond to questions asked in the classroom. His mother recollects being summoned to the Principal’s office at least thrice a year since his son started kindergarten. Mhathung’s parents were never told that their son had a learning disorder called Dyslexia. Perhaps, even the teachers and the school administrators themselves were unaware of Dyslexia in the first place. None of the three schools he has studied in so far ever mentioned about it to him or his parents. All they did was send frequent complaints. His parents, on the other hand, attributed his behavior to being given a fish as his first solid food (fishes being always on the move). In fact, very little is known about Dyslexia among school teachers in Nagaland. As a part of case study, a group of ten government middle school teachers (most of them graduates) were asked if they knew what Dyslexia

is. Only three replied in the affirmative, out of which one had adequate knowledge about it while the other two had just a vague idea. Of the seven who had no clue, one even asked how Dyslexia is spelled in the first place. Dyslexia is the most common reading and learning disorder, affecting 1 in 10 people worldwide. It is basically characterized by difficulty with learning to read fluently and with accurate comprehension despite normal intelligence. It consists of difficulty with spelling, phonological processing (the manipulation of sounds), and/or rapid visual-verbal responding. Individuals with dyslexia usually suffer from Attention DeficitHyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and Auditory Processing Disorder (Listening Disability). In a two-hour informal test conducted on him, Mhathung exhibited almost all the symptoms associated with Dyslexia. The most obvious one was ADHD. He showed poor level of concentration when made to study an English poem. He was easily distracted by noises coming from outside. He constantly fidgeted, and often interjected his study with random conversations. When asked if he found it difficult to copy from the blackboard, he replied, “always”. His mother had even taken him once to an ophthalmologist to get him a pair of glasses. Turns out, he did not need one. He was made to copy a stanza from a poem in his English textbook. On the one hand, he missed out words/letters, while on the other, he added. He repeated similar omissions and additions when made to read the particular poem out loud. He

could not read a simple poem fluently. He omitted ending syllables as well, e.g. ‘bounty’ became ‘bount’. He showed difficulty associating letters and sounds. A whatsapp ‘conversation’ then became ‘conservations’. It is important to remember that Dyslexia is neither a disease nor is it linked with intelligence. Hence there is no ‘cure’ for Dyslexia. Early childhood intervention is the best time to start dealing with the issue. However this can only happen if the parents and teachers have informed knowledge about it and are willing to accept the challenges that come with it. It is necessary to get acquainted with the symptoms in the first place so as to be able to identify a child as dyslexic. A simple interventional method to improve the reading and writing skills of a dyslexic is by trying to increase his/her awareness of correspondences between graphemes (letters) and phonemes (sounds), and to relate these to reading and spelling by teaching him/her to blend the sounds into words. Dyslexic individuals tend to be highly creative, intuitive, and excel at three-dimensional problem solving and hands-on learning. Hence, it is more important for parents to encourage their dyslexic child to pursue his/her interests rather than imposing their own will. Albert Einstein, John Lennon, Muhammad Ali, Walt Disney, Steve Jobs, George Washington, Anthony Hopkins, Stephen Spielberg, Marie Curie, Lewis Carroll, Agatha Christie, Andy Warhol, are just names of few famous people born with dyslexia.

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Kohima | May 31

Parliamentary secretary for planning & coordination, evaluation and monitoring cell Neiba Kronu today assured to provide political will to bring change in the functioning of the evaluation department in the state. He assured to address the much needed cadre review of the department and also stressed on the need to shift the directorate office from Lerie to New Secretariat site. He also assured to take up the matter for construction of District Evaluation Offices in the state. The parliamentary secretary also stressed on the need to formulate comprehensive policy to push the department forward. Paying an impromptu visit to the directorate of evaluation here this morning, Kronu said planning and coordination department is incomplete without evaluation and monitoring. He said the former have to function together cohesively in order to bring positive affairs of the government. Stating that evaluation is a small department but it has to play major role, he called upon the officers and staff to take bigger responsibility and response to the various tasks and challenges ahead. Kronu thanked chief minister T.R. Zeliang for allotting him the portfolio of planning & coordination, evaluation and monitoring cell and assured to do his M Y K

SDO (C) Sadar Kohima inform Kohima, may 31 (dipR): Sub-Divisional Officer (C) Sadar, Kohima, Wennyei Konyak has inform all the Village Council/Ward Chairman under Kohima Sardar (Kohima/ Chedema/ Chedema Model Village & Kohima Town) Administrative Circle to collect the Aadhaar Cards from the office of the Deputy Commissioner Kohima.

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Parliamentary secretary for planning & coordination, evaluation and monitoring cell Neiba Kronu. (Morung Photo)

best to serve the state well its purpose. Kevileno, ex-officio director of evaluation and OSD planning in her welcome address praised Kronu for visiting the directorate, adding that he is the first minister or parliamentary secretary incharge of evaluation department to have visited the directorate of evaluation. Earlier, joint director Chubala made a power point presentation on the activities and functioning of the department. She said evaluation department is an active organ of the state government and contribute positively to the government. The main function of the evaluation department, created in 1968, is to undertake independent unbiased evaluation studies of the various schemes/ programmes of the government and suggest ways and means to bring about improvement in their formulation and execution

Kohima, may 31 (mExN): Nagaland observed World No Tobacco Day 2014 along with the rest of the Country on the theme: “Raise taxes on Tobacco”. Organised by National Tobacco Control Programme, Department of Health & Family Welfare, Kohima the program was held at the Conference Hall, Directorate of Health & Family Welfare. Gracing the occasion, Dr. Neiphi Kire, Principal Director, Health & Family Welfare said that With India as the second largest consumer in the world next to China and the third largest producer in the world, Tobacco is not only a Regional problem but a threat Globally. The prevalence of Tobacco Use according to GATS (Global Adult Tobacco Survey) 2010, Smokeless Tobacco is more prevalent than Smoking. 8-9 lakhs of people die annually in India with an estimate of 2200 deaths every day. This

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shows that India shares the maximum burden of Oral Cancer in the world. Kire further lauded on WHO’s policy to Raise taxes on Tobacco globally which initially started way back in France in the year 1990 -2005 and

Morung Express news Dimapur | May 31

World No Tobacco Day 2014 under the theme, “Raise Tax on Tobacco” was observed at Holy Cross Higher Secondary School, Dimapur on Saturday with Taxes Commissioner, Government of Nagaland, Asangba Chuba Ao IAS as the chief guest. Speaking at the programme, Asangba said that the state government was trying to use tax on tobacco and its related products as a means to control the use of tobacco by the people. He pointed out that initially tobacco was tax free but that the government gradually increased the percentage

Remunerations to reserved polling personnel Kohima, may 31 (dipR): Deputy Commissioner & District Election Officer, Kohima, W.Honje Konyak has informed all the Kohima District Polling personnel who were kept in group Reserved (polling group Reserved) during conduct of Lok Sabha Election to collect their Remuneration on production of appointment order from Deputy Commissioner & District Election Officer Office Election branch from 2nd to 4th June 2014.

Imkonglemba (IAS) APC with outgoing students during the 20th parting social of SASRD, Nagaland University, Medziphema Campus held on May 31.

mEdziphEma, may 31 (mExN): Speaking at the 20th parting social of SASRD, Nagaland University, Medziphema Campus, as chief guest on May 31, Imkonglemba, Agriculture Production Commissioner said, “The state Domestic Growth Rate largely depends on agriculture which is 30 per cent therefore agriculture can

be Nagaland’s competitive strength if we all become serious about it. There is great scope for agriculture and there is no reason why Nagaland cannot rise to the challenge and compete in the lucrative market through agriculture.” However, he went on to say, “we need to be realistic and remove bottlenecks such as subsidies and soft

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An elderly man smoke a Bidi, a leaf hand rolled cigarette on World No Tobacco Day in Dimapur, on Saturday, May 31. The World Health organistan (WHO) and partners mark World No Tobacco Day on May 31, highlighting the health risks associated with tobacco use. (Photo by Caisii Mao)

emphasized on the role of parents, government and civil societies in raising voices against the use of tobacco and its harmful effects. Dr. Temjennungsang, specialist on tobacco control in his keynote address presented the global tobacco scenario and said nearly 6 million people die every day in the world due to tobacco use. He revealed that without urgent action, 1 billion people would perish to tobacco in the 21st century. Stating that tobacco was the world’s single leading preventable cause of death, Dr. Temjen said raising tax on the product was the most efficient way of reducing tobacco consumption.

On the occasion of World No Tobacco Day, 39 students from various schools participated in essay writing competition on the ill-effects of tobacco use. Mughakali Zhimomi of Christian Higher Secondary School bagged the first position with a cash prize of Rs 5000/and a citation. The second position went to Tomugha Chishi of St. Mary Montessori Higher Secondary School walking away with Rs 3000/- and a citation while Limasungla Imchen of St. Savio High School bagged the third position with a prize money of Rs 2000/- and a citation. Dr. M.A. Wati CMO and vice-chairman DTCC Dimapur also spoke at the programme.

‘Agriculture can be Nagaland’s competitive strength’ DEF Mkg organize Need to re-invent trust partnerships between Naga farmers and Agri technocrats debate competition

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brought down the sale of tobacco on a large scale and eventually declined in tobacco related deaths. In the NE States too, Nagaland stands second highest with 57% next to Mizoram with 67% of Tobacco Users. Hence IEC needs to play a major role in educating and informing the people through Aggressive IEC Campaign for behaviour change in our State. Power point highlights on the Prevalence of Tobacco Use, Burdens of Tobacco, Diseases caused by Tobacco, Socio-Economic burdens, Taxation on Tobacco and VAT on Tobacco in India was presented by Dr. Savino, State Nodal Officer, NTCP. Dr. G. Kemp, Director (Health) chaired the Program and Vote of thanks was delivered by Dr. James, Deputy Director. This was stated in a press release issued by IEC Bureau DHFW, Kohima.

of tax from 12.5% to 15% and then to 18% in January last year. However, the Taxes Commissioner was apprehensive that raising too much tax on tobacco products would lead to loss in revenue to neighbouring states especially Assam. He maintained that a multiple approach was necessary to control the use of tobacco and not merely raising tax on it or creating awareness. Addressing a gathering of scores of students from different schools, Asangba said solving the problem of tobacco usage should begin with young people who should avoid succumbing to peer pressure simply for ac- Taxes Commissioner, Asangba Ao IAS. ceptance in their group. He also (Morung Photo)

loans as these measures hamper real progress and change.” He advocated radical moves such as exchange programmes between urban and rural youths where students from the cities spend time in the village and vice versa and share ideas. Citing the example of Pant Nagar farmers he said Naga farmers can also

Kohima, may 31 (dipR): In continuation to the notification of Transport Department, the following Officials have been authorized to use red beacon/flag post/ designation plate while discharging Official duties. Red beacon with Flag Post and designation plate: District & Session Judges; The Registrar of High Court; PCCF & Addl. PCCF and Chairman and Members of the State Finance Commission Designation Plate: Commandant and equivalent rank in Police and Addl. Deputy Commissioner holding Independent charge and Majors/Captains of Assam Rifles on civil assignments. This was issued in an Addendum by Commissioner & Secretary to the Government of Nagaland, Neihu C. Thur, IAS.

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Funeral service of Late. Mrs. Dozuli Chishi w/o Late. Vikishe Chishi exGB of Litsami village will be held on June 1 at 9am at the village.

AOE NPWD elects office bearers

Kohima, may 31 (mExN): The General Session of the Association of Engineers (AOE), NPWD was held on May 30 in the NPWD Conference Hall, Kohima. Besides discussing various issues pertaining to the Association and the Department, a new team of office bearers have been elected during the Session which are as follows: President-E r. R.Temsutemjen; Vice President-Er. H. Kahuto Sumi; General Secretary-Er. S. Meru; Jt. Secretary- Er. Chengato Kath & Er. Tekachila; Treasurer-Er. M.Z.Akho; PRO-Er. Yanbemo Lotha; and Federal Council Members (FONSESA)-Er. Khupi Natso, and Er. Longzochang.

enhance their incomes through integrated crops, livestock and fish farming, thus infusing modern values with better understanding of rural issues. He urged the gathering to re-invent trust partnerships between Naga farmers and Agri technocrats so that a system where wealth/income generation is generated with

hard work, innovation, talent and enterprise. He exhorted the students to value excellence, innovation, entrepreneurship and integrity so that when they become policy makers in the near future they will become the catalyst for change through better policies and ideas. Watisenla Imsong, Asst Gen Secretary SUSASRD, chaired the function while Razouneizo Chalieu, Youth Director CRC said the invocation prayer. Prof. N. S. Jamir, Pro Vice Chancellor, SASRD, Nagaland University, gave the welcome address and Rovizelhou Kuotsu gave the Presidential Address. Andrew Chawang (PG) and Khrieketou Kuotsu (UG) gave farewell speeches while Motto S. Awomi spoke on behalf of the remaining students. Special numbers were presented by Thejaseto Terhuja and friends as well as by Azumi Sumi. The vote of thanks was given by Prof. L. Daiho, Students’ Welfare In Charge.

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Vikram M. Khalate, IPS, SP Mokokchung addressing the debate competition held on May 30.

moKoKchuNg, may 31 (mEXN): DEF Mokokchung held debate competition on the topic ‘human rights and social justice is devalued in Naga society’ on May 30 at ADC Planning conference hall Mokokchung. T. Yanrenthung Ngullie, NPS, Addl. S.P. Mokokchung in a press release said that debating relating to human rights issue is an annual event initiated by Nagaland Police on the direction of the National Human Rights Commission. He further stated that it is the moral responsibility of every citizen to respect human values and dignity in a progressive society. However, Police being the lawenforcing agency, many a

times the Police are the first to come in contact with the citizen. Therefore, in order to create better awareness among the police personnel and to appreciate human rights and values while discharging duties the debate was conducted. The debate started with a welcome address by Vikram M. Khalate, IPS, SP Mokokchung where he emphasizes on sensitization of police personnel on human rights issues in order to achieve better policing. The penal of judges for the debate competition included Vikram M. Khalate, IPS, SP Mokokchung, Chubawati Chang ADC Mokokchung, and Rajesh Soundararajan, IAS, SDO(C) Mokokchung.

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Theological scholars attend first NEISBS meet

moKoKchuNg, may 31 (mExN): The Clark Theological College hosted the first Northeast India Society of Biblical Studies (NEISBS) meet on the theme: Bible, Context and Theologies. The Seminar was organised and sponsored by the Clark Centre for Peace Research and Action (CCPRA), CTC. Total 26 scholars representing nine different theological colleges from the region attended it. There were six paper readers on various topics, which are as follows: ChumchanoOvung-Towards Understanding the Ancient Israelites Social Organisation: A Naga Tribal Reading; Lima Lkr - Interpretation of the Bible in the Context of Tribal Churches in NEI: Methodological Consideration; Bethel Zhimo- Re-affirming the Place of Women in the New Creation: A Tribal Women's Perspective; Rev. Dr. Hmuaka- The Unity of the Church in Ephesians: Making Known God's Manifold wisdom of the principalities and Powers through the Church; Chemtingla Sangtam- Reading Johannine Understanding of

Members of NEISBS representing 9 Colleges in Northeast India with members of CTC faculty during the first Northeast India Society of Biblical Studies meet held at CTC.

Atonement from the Eyes of Sangtam Rimutheh Cultural Practice of Sacrifice; Dr. Lallawmzula- Issues in Biblical Interpretation: towards a Tribal Biblical Hermeneutics. The formation of such a regional Society was conceivedin 2011 when several scholars shared their concerns for the development of emerging theologies in the region. It was felt that the role of Biblical scholars is indispensible in shaping and developing theologies. Thereafter, several consultations were held at Shillong before the

formation of the society (NEISBS) whichwas ultimately materialized in the formal inauguration of the same on May 29-30 at Clark Theological College. The society resolved to meet annually. The following office bearers were selected for the tenure 2014-2018. President: Rev. Dr. Zhodi Angami (Eastern Theological College, Jorhat); Vice-PresidentsRev. Dr. Takatemjen, Principal (Clark Theological College, Mokokchung), Rev. Dr. Peter Haokip (Orients Theological Seminary, Shillong), Rev. Dr. M J Hyn-

niewta (John Roberts Theological Seminary, Shillong), Dr.Imnanungshi, Principal (Harding Theological College, Tura); Secretary: Rev. Dr. Brightstar J Syiemlieh (John Roberts Theological Seminary, Shillong); Treasurer: Abeni Patton (Baptist Theological College, Pfütsero); Joint Secretary: Rev. L.C. Marak (Harding Theological College, Tura); Executive Members: Dr. Lallamzula (Aizawl Theological College, Aizawl), Shelly Swu (Trinity Theological College, Dimapur), Meyijungla (Witter Theological College, Wokha).

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REgional 3 Assam, M'laya to carry Fresh push for plan to take stock of influx joint ops to flush militants Sunday

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SHILLONG, May 31 (PTI): Assam and Meghalaya will be carrying out joint operations to flush out militant outfits that have set up camps in disputed areas along the border in both the states. The decision was taken at a meeting of nodal officers of both the states held at Guwahati today, official sources said. "Both the states, have agreed to go for a joint operations against armed miscreants or militants operating in the disputed areas," an official source told PTI. During the meeting, both states admitted that criminal activities are on the rise in the disputed areas between Karbi-Anglong, Jaintia Hills and Ri-Bhoi-

Kamrup areas, they said. At the meeting, the Meghalya delegation was led by the Commissioner and Secretary (Home) Jopthiaw Lyngdoh and the Assam team was led by the Commissioner of Border Areas Gyanendra Tiwari. The Meghalaya team also included the Deputy Commissioners and Superintendent of Police of Ri-Bhoi District, West Khasi Hills District and Jaintia Hills district and Assam had the Deputy Commissioners and SPs of Kamrup - both urban and rural - and from Hamren of Karbi Angling district, informed a source who attended the meeting. Meghalaya Director General of Police (DGP) Pe-

ter J Hanaman said that the meeting is part of the spade work to take the contentious issues to a higher level. In the meeting the officials agreed to fully ensure that the district administration interacted with each other to maintain the agreement reached by the two states on the disputed areas should be adhered, sources said. This is to ensure that the developmental programmes carried out by either of the two states should not be disturbed at any cost, they added. According to sources, the 'status quo' agreement will go a long way in addressing the old age disputes between the two neighbouring states.

NEW DELHI, May 31 (TNN): The new government has put special thrust on updating National Register of Citizens (NRC), a project launched in Assam to take stock of Bangladeshi influx into the state. The Centre recently released Rs 260 crore to the state for the project with a two-year deadline for completion. The project had been agreed to in 2005 and launched as a pilot in 2010 but ran into rough weather due to violence and protests in Barpeta district of the state. "The process of formulation of new guidelines for the project is complete and money has been released to the state government which has to implement the project. It is being seen as a priority at the mo-

ment," said a senior home ministry official. The NRC, which was being updated earlier based on the 1951 electoral rolls, will now include names present in the electoral rolls of 1966 and 1971 as well. NRC is an exercise to maintain a record of state's residents and the degree of influx from neighbouring Bangladesh. Illegal immigration from Bangladesh has been a major poll issue for the BJP during its poll campaign with Modi raising it in several of his rallies. The Assam government had earlier started a pilot project to update the NRC in Kamrup and Barpeta districts in 2010. But this was put on hold as the All Assam Minorities Students' Union (AAMSU) resorted to vandalism in Barpeta district follow-

ing the death of four AAMSU supporters in police firing. The state government in 2011 constituted a cabinet subcommittee to look into the issue and give recommendations on the guidelines and procedure to be followed for updating the NRC. After the 2010 fiasco, the guidelines for updating the NRC were changed. However, the process of updating the NRC was delayed because the state government hadn't replied to some queries of the Register General of India (RGI). The Centre's present guidelines say that the NRC will be updated to include names present in the 1951 NRC and in the electoral rolls of 1966 and 1971. However, of the 27 districts in the state, only the six districts of Dhubri, Goalpara, Nagaon,

Sonitpur, Karimganj and Hailakandi have the complete records of the 1951 NRC and electoral rolls of 1966 and 1971. In many districts, the NRC is partly available, while in others, all the three documents are only partly available. The updating of the NRC was agreed to in a tripartite meeting held between the Centre, the

state government and the All Assam Students' Union (AASU) in 2005. Following this, the Citizenship (Registration of Citizens and Issue of National Identity Cards) Rules, 2003, was amended based on the modalities received from the state government for updating the 1951 NRC in the state based on relevant records.

CHANGE OF NAME

A. Merenlila Pongener (Old Name) should be known as Merenlila Pongener (New Name)

A. Kilang Pongener (Old Name) should be known as Kilang Pongener (New Name)

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Vide Affidavit Regd. No:379/14, Dated: 31/05/2014

Journalist charged with sedition for editorial written 17 years ago IMPHaL, May 31 (NNN): A former journalist from Manipur appeared before a court in Imphal today for his editorials written some 17 years ago in his newspaper based in Imphal. The government accused the former journalist that his editorials "are seditious, inflammatory in language with a calculated design to excite feelings of disaffection..." The former journalist has also been charged that the editorials he wrote 17 years ago "promote feelings of contempt, enmity and

'Provide better infrastructure for education in NE' MaNGaLORE, May 31 (TNN): The Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) will urge the Centre to provide higher education facilities in North east so that students from that place need not move out of the state and face discrimination, said Sreehari Borikar, national general secretary of the Parishad. In an informal chat with media on Friday, after the conclusion of its four-day national executive council meeting on Thursday, he said they were concerned about North East students facing discrimination outside the state. Providing them good educational institutions with courses tailored to opportunities available in those states would be a better option, he said. ABVP is also conducting student's experience in inter-state living initiative, from last 60 years aiming to integrate North East with rest of India. Borikar said it is a cultural exchange tour and short stay in host families. Under this programme batches of students from one state, particularly from north eastern states, are invited by their counterparts in other states. The batches spend a few days in the host state. He said ABVP stressed on reforms in education, judiciary, administration, police and elections.

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hatred among the general public and different communities." On September 12, 1997, R.K. Ranendrajit, the editor of Imphal based English daily 'Freedom' had an editorial entitled 'Eclipse Month'. Reacting to that editorial, an FIR was lodged against the editor by the government. However, Ranendrajit took the anticipatory bail then. Later, sometime in the month of April/May the following year a charge-sheet against Ranendrajit was filed. Meanwhile, in a hearing to-

day at Cheirap Court here before Special Judge, Manipur East, A. Guneshwor Sharma, defence counsel, Khaidem Mani, in his argument before the Special Judge said that there was nothing antinational or seditious in the said editorial. Mani also said regarding the said editorial that they were fair comments. The defence counsel further said that after the Armed Forces Special Powers Act, 1958 was promulgated in the whole of Manipur in 1980 there have been issues of human

rights violations where people have been expressing their anger against the Act and that the editor was highlighting on this aspect in line with the right to constructive comment in the world’s largest democracy. "In this 17 years there is not a single case of bandh or protest instigated by the 1997 editorials of the editor," Khaidem Mani pointed out. Bimola, the counsel of the government, produced several editorials of Ranendrajit during the hearing today. According

Curfew relaxed in Meghalaya SHILLONG, May 31 (IaNS): Curfew was Saturday relaxed for eight hours in Meghalaya's West Garo Hills district, two days after it was imposed following mob violence over the death of a suspected militant in police custody, officials said. Witson Sangma was arrested on charges of supplying explosives to the outlawed Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA). He was found dead in police lockup

Wednesday. This was the second death in police custody this month. Balsan Marak, 20, accused of illegally confining, kidnapping and torturing 12 women, died at the Tura Civil Hospital May 20. Curfew was Saturday relaxed for eight hours from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. "The night was peaceful and there were no reports of any untoward incident in the curfew-bound areas," Additional District

'BJP will work to protect Arunachal's territorial integrity' ITaNaGaR, May 31 (PTI): BJP leader Sudhanshu Mittal today categorically said the party's stand on Arunachal Pradesh was clear and would work to protect its territorial integrity without any compromise. "Arunachal Pradesh is an integral part of India and will continue to remain so... The territorial integrity of the state is non-negotiable and we are committed to protect it," Mittal, who was central election observer said on party's strategy on the oft repeated China's claim over the state's territory during a press conference here. He said, Arunachal Pradesh being a strategically important state in the North East sharing borders with three countries, would get utmost attention from the BJP-led NDA government at the Centre. "The induction of Kiren Rijiju in the union Cabinet and providing the impor-

tant portfolio of the minister of state for Home is a clear indication of the BJP as well as Prime Minister Narendra Modi concerns for the state," he said. He said, even Rijiju had advocated for increasing the number of troops guarding the Indo-Sino border besides emphasising to strengthen infrastructure along the frontier in the state to match China. Rijiju yesterday while talking to media in New Delhi said that there has not been enough deployment of forces like ITBP which guard the Indo-Sino border and there is urgent necessity to increase the number and provide sophisticated arms, ammunition and communication gadgets. Mittal, however, exuded hope that with the BJPled NDA government in the Centre, the issue would be resolved through fruitful negotiations.

NAGALAND PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION KOHIMA Dated, Kohima the 31st May, 2014

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Magistrate T.G. Momin told IANS over phone. He said Sangma's body was Saturday handed over to relatives after the postmortem examination. Civil society groups, including the Garo Student's Union have announced a non-cooperation movement June 2 in the five districts of Garo Hills over the custodial deaths. The groups are demanding a CBI or a judicial inquiry into the deaths.

to the government counsel besides the editorial of September 12, 1997 there have been several editorials that are seditious and inflammatory in language which include the editorials of January 4, 1997, January 29, 1997, January 30, 1997, February 17, 1997, March 16, 1997 and April 27, 1997. Meanwhile, the Special Judge after hearing the argument from both sides, has said that 'charge hearing order' will be made on June 13.

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The management of Asufii Christian Institute invites application for the post of Boys Hostel Warden. Minimum Qualification: Bachelor of Divinity (BD) Salary: Rs. 10,000 with free Accommodation and Mess. Contact: Principal, ACI: - (M) 8414094369 Email: acimao@rediff.com

Felicitation The Lotha Gazetted Officers’ Association (LGOA) congratulates all the successful candidates of the recent combined examinations of Nagaland Public Service Commission (NPSC) in various categories of posts. The Association wishes them success in their future service careers.

The LGOA further welcomes the new Gazetted members of the community to the Association. Sd/RAMONGO LOTHA, IAS President, LGOA

Sd/JOHNNY HUMTSOE Joint Secretary, LGOA

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OPEN LETTER TO CHIEF SECRETARY NAGALAND Sir,

I have the honour to bring to your kind attention the following grievances to do Justice for public awareness, That on May 12th 2014, I have submitted to the PIO, of P&AR Department for information under RTI Act relating to Transfer and Posting of IAS/NCS and NSS Officers in Nagaland, and whether the Department has issued any retention of one Under Secretary Urban Development Department promoted to Deputy Secretary and posted to School Education Department in the Serial No-26. The Department replied that it did not issue orders for retention. On further enquiry, the Commissioner & Secretary, Urban Development has earlierrequested the Addl. Chief Secretary P&AR Department to allow the above Officer to join the new assignment after Financial Year 2014-15 is over, even after 2 Months of retention the Officer did not joined in the new place of posting, Therefore the P & AR Department has informed the Commissioner & Secretary, Urban Development to submit the reasons for Officer’s overstay in the same Department by 21/05/2014, The Urban Development Department replied that the Parliamentary Secretary, Urban Development Department has informed that he has written to the Chief Minister/ Chief Secretary and P&AR Department. However, the contents of the information is not make known to me. Most probably the Honourable Parliamentary Secretary might have inform to immediately transfer the Officer as he is overstaying in the same Department by cancelling four times orders. The Officer is the most inexperience in the rank of Deputy Secretary. I therefore request you to kindly look into the matter and relieve him by posting an experienced Deputy Secretary and protect the Rules of Executive Business for the interest of the Public Service. Dated: 31/05/2014 Place: Kohima.

Yours faithfully, (ASELE KEMAS) Kohima, Nagaland.

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IN THE COURT OF CIVIL JUDGE SENIOR DIVISION DIMAPUR : NAGALAND (Civil Original Jurisdiction)

Civil Suit No. 01 of 2014 Indisen Village & 2 Others

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The Union of India & 17 Others. To

. . . Plaintiffs. . . . Defendants.

SUMMON TO DEFENDANTS. Shri Neiu Sangtam, Former Deputy Commissioner, Dimapur, Nagaland. Resident of New Ministry Hill, Kohima, Nagaland.

Take notice that a suit has been instituted by the plaintiffs in the above noted suit against you and 17 others seeking relief for declaration of title and other related reliefs on specific landed properties. Therefore, you are hereby summoned to appear before this court on 27th June, 2014 at 10:00 AM without fail in person or through duly instructed and authorized pleader/ person able to answer all material questions and to file written- statement if any. Take further notice that in default of your appearance, the suit shall proceed, heard and determined ex-parte as against you. Given under my hand and seal of this court in Dimapur on this the 28th day of May, 2014. (INALO ZHIMOMI) Civil Judge Senior Division Dimapur : Nagaland.

ONLY 30 DAYS TILL THE 21ST SBS!!! “DANCING GENERATION” PSALM 150:4 Jointly organized by the Town Baptist Church and Christian Higher Secondary School, the 21st Annual Summer Bible School will be held from July 1 to 5, 8:00 am to 12:30 pm daily, at CHSS, Dimapur. Come join us as we teach the Word of God through daily fun filled Lessons, Workshops and Praise & Worship sessions as well as enjoy mouth watering refreshments prepared by loving TBC mothers. A 9 member team from USA will be joining us as Teachers who are renowned Worship Leaders and dynamic Youth Leaders. Registration forms will be available at TBC and CHSS from June 4th onwards for `. 200/- per form. Any student from Class 1 – 12 from any School/Church can join. Submit your filled up forms by June 25th. Hurry, take out your dancing shoes and get yourselves registered on time! Kumar Pillai Joint Director Summer Bible School

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Unacceptable Political Formula For Nagaland Thepfulhouvi Solo

OME Meat Sellers in Kohima Market have the uncivilized and indecent habit of forcibly making the Buyer accept pieces of Meat one has no desire to take: similarly on 28 May 2014, a News Paper of the Northeast, small circulation in Nagaland –The TELEGRAPH, carried a purported Plan to force NAGALAND and the incumbent Chief Minister Mr. TR. Zeliang to step down and make Chairman Isak Chishi of National Socialist Council of NAGALIM the Chief Minister of Nagaland within 6 Months, in line with the Pattern of political Settlement of Mizoram. Nothing is more irreverent, irrelevant and discordant than this Report is to Nagas of Nagaland and to the State of Nagaland. If this is the way the New

Government would force settle the Indo-Naga political dispensation, this humble Writer would be very discomfited. It is very disconcerting indeed to see India may consider it would do anything to Nagaland State to please the NSCN, IM. Nagas of NAGALAND would not like even to consider the News Paper Report; leave aside remotely of accepting it. The Telegraph Report is completely off the mark, it is a wild Guess of someone who has no touch with genuine political ground Reality in Nagaland. If not, it is the Report of someone who has no respect for Nagas of Nagaland or the State of Nagaland. Yes, Isak Chishi is as much a loved, acceptable prayerful Naga of Nagaland as TR or Rio are, but like the two, Isak must first have the mandate of the People from Nagaland

through a Democratic political process of a Party in an Election; otherwise Nagaland would not take him as ‘Chief Minister in Waiting’ even if he is the great Chairman of the great National Socialist Council of NAGALIM. I hope the Report has not germinated from any of the Chief Ministers of Nagaland thought Rio once, not long ago, said he is ready to step down if an honorable Solution to the Naga political Problem comes. Chief Ministers and Politicians have the habit of changing their demeanor faster than their followers can follow but since the said Proposal is too audaciously wild, it does not seem to have the smell any a Naga Sower. The Nagas of Nagaland would not like to easily accept the cerebral political Exercise germinated from outside the STATE of NAGALAND; from

Nagas or not. Nagaland does not vie to be in the queue for accepting a political settlement in the pattern of Mizoram. Anyone who thinks Nagaland would welcome the Mizoram pattern of political settlement in Nagaland is living in Fool’s Paradise. It would be like a Carpenter trying to drive in a 6 inches Nail into a very hard Wood with a Rubber Hammer: the consideration is irrelevantly a weird exercise! Nagaland would accept nothing less than Article 371A and alternative Arrangements comes nowhere near it. NAGALAND is a STATE forged out of the Agreement between the Naga People Conference of NHTA and the Government of India, with Special Constitutional provisions of Art 371A for Protection of its ‘Criminal Procedures, Land and its Resources’,

in accordance with the Traditional Customary Practices of the Nagas of Nagaland –erstwhile Naga Hills-Tuensang Area (NHTA)- and outside the purview of the Parliament of India, unless the State Legislative Assembly of Nagaland so decides. The Nagas of Nagaland would agree to nothing less than Article 371A they already have; they would not now allow themselves pushed around for others. Far too long have Nagas of Nagaland -Politicians, Civil Societies, young men and women, people who considered themselves somebody- have remained quiet, tolerant, accommodative, unassertive and serving others; the new generation of Nagas of Nagaland must no longer remain quiet, they must stand up and speak for their own Interest.

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“The Crucifixion” Mhao Kikon St. Joseph’s College Jakhama

Crowd jeering disgust upon; Knowing not a reason and pity, Anger in boundless mounds. Does it? Yet no faults amidst. But washed hands of innocence, The people’s Emperor; pondering for exits Yet! Had he a choice? Flogged, cursed, striped and betrayed. But wanting the blame is unraveled; Yet! Had he a choice? Exiling the troubled Lamb To drag wooden heavy. Putting Him in anguish; Oh! What a pain? What a pain? Excruciating were the wounds, And like a crippled bird He falls, Falls and again, For selfish and engrossed are mankind. He poured not a sweat but blood, In miserable pain to save, You and I. Sinners! Sinners! And forgives a foe in passionate keeping; The convict He cleanses all for conviction He had. Suffered to give forth reasons, To believe. So, are we??

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AirAsia India begins with a slash An MBA doesn’t mean big money: Report Chennai/ new Delhi, May 31 (BS): AirAsia India on Friday triggered a price war in the domestic aviation market, pricing tickets on its maiden flight from Bangalore to Goa on June 12 at a one-way all-inclusive fare of Rs 490. On the return leg, the allinclusive fare costs Rs 291. This is a part of a promotional offer to announce the launch of its operations from June 12. AirAsia on Friday announced that it was offering 15,000 seats at a basic fare of Rs 5 for travel on Bangalore-Goa and BangaloreChennai routes between June 12 and October 25. Tickets are available for sale till Saturday night. There will be a charge of Rs 199 on luggage of up to 15 kg on AirAsia’s domestic flights. When Business Standard tried checking on the BangaloreGoa route of June 12 it showed seats not available. Tickets for June 13 on the route were available for Rs 1,699, which included a basic fare of Rs 1,157. Tickets on the BangaloreChennai route are priced at Rs 490 each, inclusive of taxes, and the Chennai-Bangalore ticket is available at Rs 339. Earlier in the day, the airline had announced a fare of Rs

990 (later cut further as stated above) on its inaugural Bangalore-Goa route on June 12. Altering its originally stated plan, it also said it “may” shift its headquarters from Chennai to Bangalore or Goa, where the company believes the relationship with the state government is better. The Directorate General of Civil Aviation’s approved schedule says the airline will park its aircraft at Bangalore, though AirAsia had earlier stated Chennai would be the home and base. AirAsia India is a joint ven-

Currently, one-way tickets on SpiceJet and GoAir are available at an all-inclusive fare of Rs 2,058 on the Bangalore-Goa route. IndiGo has offered a base fare of Rs 1 on the BangaloreGoa route on June 12. Mittu Chandilya, chief executive, AirAsia India, said the cutprice fare would go on “for some time” but wouldn’t specify. The airline will offer “hot seats” with extra leg room on its flights but has desisted from opting for a two-class configuration, with business class seats for corporate passengers.

ture between Malaysian carrier AirAsia, Tata Sons, and Arun Bhatia’s Telestra Tradeplace. The airline got the DGCA’s nod earlier this month. Rival airlines have already cut fares in the Bangalore-Goa sector to take on AirAsia India. On Thursday, budget carrier SpiceJet announced special promotional fares on the ChennaiBangalore and Bangalore-Goa routes by offering tickets as low as Rs 1,499, excluding statutory taxes. This limited inventory offer is for travel dates from June 12 onwards, the airline had said.

MUMBai, May 31 (Tnn): A recent study has punctured the myth that a B-school degree guarantees a fat pay packet. The average annual salary offered to students during placements in close to 40% of B-schools across the country is less than Rs 3 lakh, it has revealed. Students from just 1% of the 4,500 institutes across the country — the top business schools that command Rs 1215 lakh as course fees — are offered an annual salary upwards of Rs 9 lakh during campus placement. The country's MBA dream, says the Crisil Research report, is fading fast as there is more awareness about the (lack of) quality, infrastructure and decreasing return on investment. Around 37% of the Bschools were placed in the bottom, with many failing sometimes failing to place a single student. The average annual salary for those more fortunate is Rs 3 lakh. The largest chunk of Bschools — around 52% — falls in the Tier-III category of the study with an average annual salary of Rs 3-5 lakh. That apart, just 60-80% of students in this category are offered jobs dur-

ing campus placements. For the study, Crisil categorized B-schools into four different categories based on parameters such as occupancy rate, number of students placed, average annual salaries offered and average course fees charged. The seat occupancy rate is the worst in the 37% institutes that fall in Tier-IV. It is understandable, given that many fail to place any student some years; some though, manage to place up to 60% of a batch. The report predicts an improvement in the occupancy rate in the next two years, though, as several "B-grade Bschools" are shutting shop. "The number of B-schools in the country swelled to an estimated 4,500 in 2012-13 from 3,000 in 2009-10. However, in recent times, there are fewer takers for MBA programmes, especially in Tier-III and TierIV B-schools. Consequently, several institutes have had to shut shop," stated the report. G D Yadav, vice-chancellor of the Institute of Chemical Technology (ICT), who also submitted a report on vacancies in technical institutes in the state, including engineer-

ing and MBA/ MMS courses, said the study is not at all surprising. "Students who lose interest in engineering are also going for an MBA degree. Therefore, there was a surge in demand and more institutes came up. But not all offered quality education. There will be only a handful of institutes that are good and most sought-after," said Yadav. A senior state government official refused to comment saying such an analysis is never done at the state level. But it is quite possible, said the official. The report said cutting size to improve the rate of utilization is the only solution for lower-rung institutes. "Due to low utilization, inadequate infrastructure, poor placements and unavailability of qualified faculty, we expect more Tier-IV institutes to shut shop in the near future... We expect the occupancy rate to improve to 70-72% by 2015-16 from the 68-70% in 2013-14," stated the report. It concluded by saying that B-schools that focus on quality and forging tie-ups with industry will continue to do well, the rest will have to reorient or shut shop.

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

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3rd USBPC from June 6-8 tuensang, May 31 (Mexn): The third United Sangtam Baptist Pastors’ Conference will be hosted by Tuensang Sangtam Baptist Church from June 6-8 under the theme “Biblical Model Leadership”. A press release from Pastor Apise, President Pastors’ Union informed. Further, the pastor informed that ‘Leadership Insights from the heroes of the Bible’ will be taken up by Chandrakumar. Oswal J Sander will take up ‘Spiritual Leadership’ while Mike Murdock will take up ‘Leadership Secrets of Jesus’. Preachers for the conference will be Rev. C. Lima, Executive Secretary, USBLA Yangli, Dr. Yanger, Pastor, Tuensang SBC, Alem, Principal, OTC Yangli, Longri, Associate Youth Secretary, Dr. Apise, Purana Bazaar SBC. Bible study will be expounded by Rev. Imtiba, Pastor, Kohima SBC, and Rev. Kingkha Tsadang, SBC. Pastor Tsosheju, Kpihire Village and Chumpong, OTC Lecturer will share book presentations on ‘Future Leadership’ by Dr. Viv Thomas, and ‘Extreme Righteousness’ by Tom Hovestol. Pastor Apise has requested all the pastors and associate pastors to attend the meet positively.

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19-year-old Omekali NPF Zunheboto division calls releases debut album for review of cabinet portfolios

Parliamentary secretary for Sericulture & Cooperation, Pukhayi Assumi, releasing Omekali’s (extreme right) debut album ‘Destiny’ Saturday night. Morung Express News Dimapur | May 31

‘Destiny’, the debut album of upcoming singer Omekali H Chishi was released Saturday night at a glittering function held in the residence of AK Zhimomi, Eralli Bill. Parliamentary secretary for Sericulture & Cooperation, Pukhayi Assumi, and project director, Music Task Force, Gugs Chishi, graced the release ceremony as chief guest and guest of honour respectively. The chief guest in his address said music is the universal language which is understood by all mankind

and all age groups. Pukhayi also said music has been instrumental is spreading messages of brotherhood, peace and freedom. He acknowledged the contribution of Cellar Trade Agencies (CTA) Group Entertainment in discovering a young talent like Omekali and giving her a platform to expose her singing gift. Commenting on Omekali’s talent, Gugs Chishi said the upcoming singer has “depth, character and a resounding voice. Chishi also gave credit to producer and managing director, CTA Group, Vikali A Zhimomi, for believing in Omekali and guiding her

all along. Famed Naga musician, Nise Meruno, who gave a review of the album said Omekali has a special gift to sing different genres of music and that the young artiste has given a breath of fresh air in her rendition of old songs. Producer of ‘Destiny’, Vikali who also wrote the lyrics of the title track said ‘Destiny’ was written to encourage and inspire all to fulfill their dreams and succeed against all odds. “The song Destiny conveys a message that the world is never unfair but always gives a person a chance to fight and race, to strive, to rise, to challenge the failures and to fulfil one’s desire”, she added. The 19-year-old artiste who has just enrolled herself to study Bachelor of Music at Patkai Christian College captivated the select audience with two of her original songs from the new album including ‘Don’t stop believing’ and ‘Destiny’. She also wowed the audience with a rendition of John Lennon’s evergreen song ‘Imagine.’ The songs were recorded at Tribes Music & Media Lab, Dimapur. Zonal manager, ETAN IAS (Assam and NE), Imdong Anar was the host of the programme. Earlier, Rev. Dr. Shiwoto Swu invoked God’s blessings.

Zunheboto, May 31 (Mexn): The Naga People’s Front (NPF), Zunheboto division has stated that it felt “apprehension and discriminated” in the process for allotment of portfolios in the present State cabinet. In an open letter to the authority concerned, NPF Zunheboto division through its president I Nikheto Jimomi and general secretary P Kiyelu Awomi stated that in the 10th NLA, all the six MLAs from Zunheboto district were a part of NPF led DAN conglomeration, and they were instrumental in ushering in a strong durable regional government in the state. In the 11th NLA, four out of six MLA strength-

ened the DAN conglomeration for a stronger regional front. And in the present ministry, three NPF members and one Independent member had extended their unflinching support for a stronger regional government, it added. However, the division lamented that, with the present reshuffling of portfolios, four members have been inducted in the government, “but embedded with a skeleton and fruitless departments, and in addition to this discrimination, the portfolios like Home, Soil & water Conservation, and Women Development were deprived from the people of Zunheboto district in particular.”

It further pointed out that “lucrative portfolios” have been allotted to other smaller districts, as published in the dailies and called it “very unfair and discriminative in nature.” The letter expressed that regionalism has still a long way to go in fulfilling the hopes and aspirations of the Naga people at large. “Instead the NPF leadership should have concentrated more in the line of long term policy and consolidation of stronger future prospects for a stronger regionalism taking along all concern with inclusive mentality,” it asserted. Therefore, “dwelling upon the present unfair political scenario in the

Meribeni Patton performing “Walk On” during the ‘Jesus Freak’ gospel concert organised by the Supremacy for Christ Ministry at IMC Hall, Dimapur on May 31. The concert was organised in aid of buying musical instruments for the Supremacy for Christ Ministry.

KohiMa, May 31 (Mexn): In order to facilitate better communication between the public and the police, the Kohima Police has issued co-operate mobile connections to all its important offices and posts. A press release from SDPO & PRO, DEF Kohima informed that this is also to ensure continuity of the contact numbers of the offices irrespective of the change of guard. The connection has been provided to all Police Stations, Check gates and Mobile Patrols so that the public can directly alert the concerned without wastage of time. This is also another step aimed at curbing the rate of car theft by alerting the Police without delay, it added. The contact numbers (in the box) will be operational from June 5, 2014 onwards.

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DiMapur, May 31 (Mexn): The Youth Organization of Ward No. 5, Dimapur – I A/C has expressed its views to the new government regarding exclusion of “Taxes” portfolio of Parliamentary Secretary Tovohoto Ayemi “not for political reason nor with the advice of any person.” In a press statement, the organization secretary Deitho Angami and president Neitho Khusoh stated

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that during the leadership of Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio, Tovihoto Ayemi was allocated the portfolio of IT&C, TE, Science & Technology, Taxes and Chairman DPDB. The youth organization acknowledged that Tovihoto being the parliamentary secretary of Dimapur – I A/C did much development for Dimapur and for the state of Nagaland in general in the short period

of time. “So we the Youth Organization of Ward No. 5 under Dimapur – I A/C were expecting the new government will give even better place to our most dynamic Naga youth leader…” Expressing belief that Tovihoto is a dedicated Naga youth leader with sincere, disciplined and hard working quality, the youth organization said it failed to understand why his portfolio was removed instead of

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Proprietors of Serrano Fusion Restaurant, Gilbert Humtsoe and Nivikhu Swu.

KohiMa, May 31 (Mexn): Serrano Fusion Restaurant, opposite Kohima War Cemetery here officially opened on May 31. The proprietors of the restaurant are Gilbert Humtsoe (one of the finalists of The Naga Chef) and Nivikhu Swu. The restaurant has a rooftop setting with a finedining concept which according to Humstoe is to let people walk in and enjoy a 'fine' kind of environment. The specialties of the restau-

rant are the mocktails and the continental food which aims to promote Naga fusion cuisine. One such fusion is the Hansturep Echo (Chicken wings with indigenous rozella) in the Serrano Fusion menu. Tongpang Ozukum, President, Naga Students' Federation who inaugurated the restaurant lauded Gilbert Humtsoe for making use of the best opportunity and taking forward his knowledge and skill and making it into a profession.

Khuzama Check Post new building inaugurated CAO UT NSCN (IM) lauds public support DiMapur, May 31 (Mexn): The CAO, UT, NSCN (IM) has lauded the village council chairman, GBs, elders and women association of Toluvi village for “fearlessly” protecting the rights of national worker on May 31 at 3:30 am, when 29 Assam Rifles “illegally” raided the residence of Khe-

Kohima Police personnel and others during the inauguration of newly constructed building at Khuzama Check Post held on May 31.

KohiMa, May 31 (Mexn): The Kohima Police inaugurated the newly constructed building at Khuzama Check Post on May 31. PF Zeliang, IPS, IGP (R), the chief guest of the inaugural function accompanied by Liremo Lotha, IPS, DIG (R) inaugurated the same in the presence of village elders and citizens. The newly constructed check post is fitted with CCTVs and amenities required

for the Police on duty. The CCTVs will enable the Police to keep track of all vehicles moving in and out of the State and help identify lost vehicles and culprits involved. These developments are viewed as a positive step towards fighting the menace of vehicle lifting in the state capital, Shouka Kakheto, SDPO, Kohima & PRO, DEF Kohima for Sr. Superintendent of Police, Kohima informed.

Public SPace District-wise literacy 2014

he HSLC Exam 2014 results as published by the NBSE (www.nbsenagaland.com) shows that a total of 21,083 students enrolled for the HSLC 2014 Examination. District-wise sequential literacy indicator was; Dimapur: 6413, Kohima: 3740, Mon: 1838, Mokokchung: 1672, Phek: 1546, Zunheboto: 1492, Tuensang: 1313, Wokha: 1205, Peren: 775, Kiphire: 662 and Longleng: 472. The above statistics reveal that the so-

called backward districts are not so anymore; in human resources. The statistics also showed that a total of 15097 students were from private schools and 5986 were from Government schools. In Dimapur 5537 students were from 121 private schools while 876 only were from 19 Govt. schools. In Longleng 250 students were from 7 private schools and 222 students from 11 Govt. schools. (Dominic Yazokie)

State,” the NPF Zunheboto divisional unit comprising of the entire district frontal wings, the respective area units and all ranks and files of the NPF has urged the authority concerned to review the allocation of portfolios by the criteria of seniority, major/minor tribes, district wise population, and assessment of party position etc. In this regard, a representation for redressal of the “grave injustice” rendered towards the people of Zunheboto district shall be submitted to the concern shortly for justification, the letter added. The NPF Zunheboto divisional unit held an emergency meeting on May 30.

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kuto Jakhalu, Secretary, Union Territory without any reason, warrant order and forced the UT secretary to go with them even when they could not find arms and ammunitions or illegal items in his possession. The CAO M Daniel Lotha in a press statement stated the action was purely against the cease

fire ground rules. According to the statement, the same AR also forcefully tried to enter the residence of Dy.Kilonser Kishore for random raids at Dhansiripar village on May 24. That time too, the statement said, chairman, GBs, Women association and peace loving public of Dhansiripar

area had played a great role, “hence, the authority has proved the mind of the Nagas still remain their support for the national workers.” The CAO has appreciated those who had supported and initiated to protect the Naga rights during the raids conducted by 29 AR.

giving him more important and higher place in the government. The Youth Organization has demanded the government led by TR Zeliang and NPF President Shurhozelie Liezietsu to assign Tovihoto Ayemi with better portfolio and look into the matter meticulously and redress the grievances for the benefit of the people of Dimapur – I A/C and people of Nagaland in particular.

GPRN/NSCN recovers vehicle DiMapur, May 31 (Mexn): GPRN/NSCN through its Crime Control Cell (CCC) has recovered a Maruti Suzuki WagonR: Registration no. AS-01 BC 9651, Engine no. F10DN4648595 and chassis no. MA3EED81S00823899. Therefore, GPRN/NSCN has informed the rightful owner to claim the vehicle with proper document within 7 (seven) days from the date of publication of this information, i.e May 31. For more details, contact Home Secretary at 9856775832 and CCC secretary at 8575721973.

Ex servicemen informed DiMapur, May 31 (Mexn): All ex servicemen living in and around Dimapur district have been informed that there will be an emergency meeting on Monday, June 2 at House No 220, Kacaharigaon (Phevima), near Rangapahar TCP Gate No 1. Chairman, Naga Ex Servicemen Association Col S Rengma has requested all the ex servicemen to reach the meeting venue by 9 AM without fail as important welfare agendas will be discussed.

Rainbow Choir headlines Peace Concerto

DiMapur, May 31 (Mexn): With an aim of spreading the message of peace through music, Peace Channel organized an open air ‘Peace Concerto’ at Borlingri L.P. School on May 29. The concerto was headlined by Rainbow Choir, a singing group which took part in India’s Got Talent, informed a press release. Delivering words of welcome, Anishe Yeptho, Peace Channel Coordinator of Dimapur district said that Peace Concerto is a humble effort of the Peace Channel Family in the mission of building peace in the state. Music has no language barriers and transcends borders that have been stumbling blocks to peaceful co-existence Rainbow Choir perform during the Peace Concerto organized by Peace Channel on among tribes, communiMay 29. ties, and societies, she as-

serted adding, “When words fail, music speaks.” According to the note, the Rainbow Choir mesmerized the audience with beautiful numbers which are beautiful mixtures of tribal, western and bollywood tunes. The objectives of the Peace Concerto resonated with that of the mission of the Rainbow Choir, it added. The concerto also witnessed a drum recital and a musical piece by the students of Peace Channel Institute of Music, Arts and Culture. Local bands and youth groups from Borlingri also shared the stage with the Rainbow Choir. Notwithstanding the fact that the performance was in a makeshift setting, the concerto witnessed a turnout of about 400 strong and enthusiastic audiences.

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Review Maya Angelou: A Hymn to Human Endurance Sunday

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Maya Angelou's Universal Struggle

Remembering a life of relentless creativity

Spencer Kornhaber | The Atlantic iar as salt to the tongue." But her life and her works have aya Angelou's power came, also become touchstones for those in part, from daring to tell her who fight against oppression of all own story. The poet, author, sorts—racial, gender-based, sexual, journalist, playwright, singer, dancer, religious, and otherwise. Speaking and speaker rose to fame through au- to The Atlantic earlier this year, Janet tobiography—her breakout 1969 work Mock, an activist for transgender I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings doc- rights, said that Angelou's example umented her first 17 years—and kept inspired her to write a memoir, as relating that story to ever-larger audi- Angelou helped found "this whole ences, until her death today at age 86. canon of women-of-color writers As a black woman raised in the who’ve written in first-person. But segregated South, abused by men I’ve never seen a trans woman of when she was young, her narrative color received in that same canon." spoke to a particular American strugUniversality was, in fact, part of gle. "The evil that Angelou witnessed" Angelou's message. "On the Pulse of in her early years, wrote Hilton Als in the Morning," the poem she recited a 2002 New Yorker piece, "was gen- at Bill Clinton's 1993 inauguration, erally directed at black women—the touched on the oneness of all peomules of the world, as Zora Neale ple. Here's a verse: Hurston called them. It shaped her There is a true yearning to respond days and, in large part, informed her to current public persona of fiery, lyri- The singing River and the wise Rock. cal dignity." Later, Angelou would So say the Asian, the Hispanic, the say that "A black person grows up in Jew this country—and in many places— The African, the Native American, knowing that racism will be as famil- the Sioux,

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hen Maya Angelou was 16 she became not only the first black streetcar conductor in San Francisco but the first woman conductor. By the time she was 40 she had also been, in no particular order, a cook, a waitress, a madam, a prostitute, a dancer, an actress, a playwright, an editor at an English-language newspaper in Egypt, and a Calypso singer (her one album is entitled “Miss Calypso.”) It wasn’t until 1970, when she was 41, that she became an author: her first book, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, told the story of her life up to the age of 17. That remarkable life story ended today (May 28, 2014) at the age of 86. In her last years Angelou’s work became associated with a certain easy, commercial sentimentality—she loaned her name to a line of Hallmark cards, for example—but there was nothing easy about her beginnings. She was born Marguerite Johnson in 1928 in St. Louis, Missouri. Her parents divorced when she was 3. When she was 7 her mother’s boyfriend raped her. She testified against him in court, but before he could be sentenced he was found beaten to death in an alley. Angelou’s response to the trauma was to become virtually mute – she couldn’t, or wouldn’t, speak in public for the next 5 years. She often cited this silent period as a time when she became intimately aware of the written word. Angelou eventually regained her voice, but her life remained chaotic. She became a mother at 17, immediately after graduating high school. She bounced from city to city, job to job and spouse to spouse (she picked up the name Angelou from one of her husbands; “Maya” was her brother’s nickname for her). She spent years living in Egypt and then in Ghana. By the time she was 40 her life story and her distinctive, charismatic way with words had her friends—among them James Baldwin—begging her to write it all down. She finally did. In I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Angelou describes herself as “a too-big Negro girl, with nappy black hair, broad feet and a space between her teeth that would hold a number-two pencil.” Although generations of high school students have been assigned it, the book’s unsparing account of black life in the South during the Depression, and of her

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The Catholic, the Muslim, the French, the Greek The Irish, the Rabbi, the Priest, the Sheik, The Gay, the Straight, the Preacher, The privileged, the homeless, the Teacher. They hear. They all hear The speaking of the Tree. In a 2000 O interview, Oprah brought up the fact that she'd seen Angelou throw someone out of her house for telling a racist joke. Angelou replied that it was her duty, as always, to speak up, for everyone. "I'm convinced that the negative has power," she said. "It lives. And if you allow it to perch in your house, in your mind, in your life, it can take you over. So when the rude or cruel thing is said— the lambasting, the gay bashing, the hate—I say, 'Take it all out of my house!' Those negative words climb into the woodwork and into the furniture, and the next thing you know they'll be on my skin."

Maya Angelou, Still She Rises Amy Goodman Commondreams

April 4, 1928 – May 28, 2014 sexual abuse, is not easy reading. It is Angelou’s tough, funny, lyrical voice that transforms her story from a litany of isolation and suffering into a hymn of glorious human endurance. That extraordinary voice—dense, idiosyncratic, hilarious, alive—brought novelistic techniques to the task of telling a life story, and its influence on later generations of memoirists, from Maxine Hong Kingston to Elizabeth Gilbert, is incalculable. (Angelou also mixed fact and fiction, unapologetically, long before James Frey.) The themes she expounded in Caged Bird, of suffering and self-reliance, would be braided through the rest of her long life’s work. “All my work, my life, everything is about survival,” Angelou said. “All my work is meant to say, ‘You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated.’ In fact, the encountering may be the very experience which creates the vitality and the power to endure.” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings was nominated for a National Book Award, and it was followed by a torrent of creative output in every possible medium. Angelou wrote five more volumes of autobiography and six books of poetry. She was nominated for an Emmy for playing Kunta Kinte’s grandmother in Roots. She wrote children’s books

“You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, and essays and the lyrics to a musi- You may tread me in the very dirt cal, King. She acted in movies and But still, like dust, I’ll rise” even directed one, Down in the Delaya Angelou wrote those ta. She took to the national stage in words in her poem “Still I Rise.” 1993 when she read a poem, “On the She died this week at 86 at her Pulse of Morning,” at President Clinhome in North Carolina. In rememberton’s inauguration. Angelou’s energy was enor- ing Maya Angelou, it is important to remous and her activity incessant. call her commitment to the struggle for equality, not just for herself, or for womThough her education stopped af- en, or for African-Americans. She was ter high school, she held a lifetime committed to peace and justice for all. professorship at Wake Forest and If growing up is painful for the collected honorary degrees from Southern Black girl, being aware of her 50 more colleges and universities. displacement is the rust on the razor She lectured 80 times a year. From that threatens the throat,” she wrote in 1981 on she lived in a brick house in the opening pages of her first breathWinston-Salem; despite her various taking autobiography, “I Know Why marriages she lived alone, and her the Caged Bird Sings,” which chronfirst child was also her last. A com- icles her childhood to the age of 17. manding figure at 6 ft. tall, she rose Born Marguerite Ann Johnson in St. at 4 or 5 every morning and went Louis, at the age of 7 or 8, she was raped to a bare room at a nearby motel by her mother’s boyfriend. He was to work, alone with a stack of legal killed shortly thereafter. As a result of pads, a Bible, a dictionary, a thesau- the trauma, she remained virtually silent for five years, speaking only to her rus, and a bottle of sherry. brother. She became a single mother at Her relentless creativity didn’t 17, and struggled to support her son as balk at her own obituary, and as she worked a variety of jobs, eventually usual she put it better than any- gaining success as a calypso singer. one else could have. “What I would She heard Martin Luther King, Jr. really like said about me is that I address the Harlem Writers Guild, of dared to love,” Angelou told an in- which she was a member, and joined terviewer in 1985. “By love I mean with a fellow performer to produce that condition in the human spir- and sing in “Cabaret for Freedom” in it so profound it encourages us to Greenwich Village, to raise funds for develop courage and build bridg- King’s Southern Christian Leadership es, and then to trust those bridges Conference. By some accounts it was and cross the bridges in attempts to King, or the legendary activist and organizer Bayard Rustin, who asked her reach other human beings.”

to take on a leadership role with the SCLC, which she accepted, becoming the group’s Northern coordinator. Maya Angelou became a supporter of Fidel Castro and the Cuban revolution. She met and fell in love with a South African civil-rights activist, and they moved to Cairo with her son. They stayed together for three years, but she stayed on in Africa, moving to Ghana, where she met Malcolm X. The two collaborated on the pivotal political project that Malcolm X was developing, the Organization of Afro-American Unity. She returned to the U.S. to support the effort, but Malcolm X was assassinated shortly after her return. That tragedy, and the 1968 assassination of her friend Martin Luther King Jr., devastated Angelou. It was in 1969 that she was encouraged by the author James Baldwin, among others, to focus on her writing. Thus was born her first of seven autobiographies and the phenomenal career for which Maya Angelou is known around the world. Reciting her poem “On the Pulse of Morning” at President Bill Clinton’s first inaugural in 1993 catapulted her into the mainstream consciousness. While some schools and libraries still censor her work for unflinchingly depicting the life she led, it was through my hometown library, while in my early teens, that I first saw Maya Angelou. The library invited her to speak, and speak she did—and danced, and sang, in a display of talent that made us laugh, cry and gasp as she moved her black and white audience of hundreds ... together. In commemorating Maya Angelou, none can speak as eloquently as she did herself about people who inspired her. At the Democratic Na-

Maya Angelou and her tale of the Caged Bird

Long before that day, as she recounted in Caged Bird and its five sequels, she had already been a dancer, calypso singer, streetcar conductor, single mother, magazine editor in Cairo, administrative assistant in Ghana, official of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and friend or associate of some of the most eminent black Americans of the mid-20th century, including James Baldwin, the Rev. Martin Luther King jnr and Malcolm X. Afterward (her six-volume memoir takes her only to the age of 40), Angelou was a Tony-nominated stage actress; college professor (she was for many years the

Reynolds professor of American studies at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem), ubiquitous presence on the lecture circuit, frequent guest on television shows, from Oprah to Sesame Street, and subject of a string of scholarly studies. In February 2011, Obama presented her with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the country’s highest civilian honor. Throughout her writing, Angelou explored the concepts of personal identity and resilience through the multifaceted lens of race, sex, family, community and the collective past. As a whole, her work offered a clear-eyed examination of the ways in which the socially marginalizing forces of racism and sexism played out at the level of the individual. ‘‘If growing up is painful for the Southern Black girl, being aware of her displacement is the rust on the razor that threatens the throat,’’ Angelou wrote in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Hallmarks of Angelou’s prose style included a directness of voice that recalls African-American oral tradition and gives her work the quality of testimony. She was also intimately concerned with sensation, describing the world around her - be it Arkansas, San Francisco or the foreign cities in which she lived - with palpable feeling for its sights, sounds and smells. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, published when Angelou was in her early 40s, spans only her first 17 years. But what powerfully formative years they were. Marguerite Ann Johnson was born in St Louis on April 4, 1928. (For years after King’s assassination, on April 4, 1968, Angelou did not celebrate her birthday.) Her dashing, defeated father, Bailey Johnson snr, a Navy dietitian, ‘‘was a lonely person, searching relentlessly in bottles, under women’s skirts, in church work and lofty job titles for his ‘personal niche,’ lost before birth and unrecovered since,’’ Angelou wrote. ‘‘How maddening it was to have been born in a cotton field with aspirations of grandeur.’’ Her beautiful, volatile mother, Vivian Baxter, was variously a nurse, hotel owner and card dealer.

aya Angelou was the memoirist and poet whose landmark book of 1969, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - which describes in lyrical, unsparing prose her childhood in the Jim Crow South - was among the first autobiographies by a 20th-century black woman to reach a wide general readership. In a statement, President Barack Obama said, ‘‘Today, Michelle and I join millions around the world in remembering one of the brightest lights of our time - a brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman,’’ adding, ‘‘She inspired my own mother to name my sister Maya.’’ As well-known as she was for her memoirs, which eventually filled six volumes, Angelou very likely received her widest exposure on a chilly January day in 1993, when she delivered the inaugural poem, ‘‘On the Pulse of Morning,’’ at the swearing-in of Bill Clinton, the nation’s 42nd president, who, like Angelou, had grown up poor in rural Arkansas. It began: A Rock, A River, A Tree Hosts to species long since departed, Marked the mastodon, The dinosaur, who left dried tokens Of their sojourn here On our planet floor, Any broad alarm of their hastening doom Is lost in the gloom of dust and ages. But today, the Rock cries out to us, clearly, forcefully, Come, you may stand upon my Back and face your distant destiny, But seek no haven in my shadow, I will give you no hiding place down here.

As a girl, Angelou was known as Rita, Ritie or Maya, her older brother’s childhood nickname for her. After her parents’ marriage ended, 3-year-old Maya was sent with her 4-yearold brother, Bailey, to live with their father’s mother in the tiny town of Stamps, Arkansas, which, she later wrote, ‘‘with its dust and hate and narrowness was as South as it was possible to get.’’ Their grandmother, Annie Henderson, owned a general store ‘‘in the heart of the Negro area’’, Angelou wrote. An upright woman known as Momma, ‘‘with her solid air packed around her like cotton’’, she is a warm, stabilizing presence throughout ‘‘I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.’’ The children returned periodically to St Louis to live with their mother. On one such occasion, when Maya was 7 or 8 (her age varies slightly across her memoirs, which employ the techniques of fiction to recount actual events), she was raped by her mother’s boyfriend. She told her brother, who alerted the family, and the man was tried and convicted. Before he could begin serving his sentence, he was murdered - probably, Angelou wrote, by her uncles. Believing that her words had brought about the death, Maya did not speak for the next five years. Her love of literature, as she later wrote, helped restore language to her. As a teenager, now living with her mother in San Francisco, she studied dance and drama at the California Labor School and became the first black woman to work as a streetcar conductor there. At 16, after a casual liaison with a neighbourhood youth, she became pregnant and gave birth to a son. There the first book ends. Reviewing I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Christopher Lehmann-Haupt called it ‘‘a carefully wrought, simultaneously touching and comic memoir’’. The book - its title is a line from ‘‘Sympathy,’’ by the African-American poet Paul Laurence Dunbar - became a best-seller, confounding the pervasive stereotype that black women’s lives were unworthy of memoir.

The next five volumes of Angelou’s memoir were Gather Together in My Name (1974), Singin’ and Swingin’ and Gettin’ Merry Like Christmas (1976), The Heart of a Woman (1981), All God’s Children Need Traveling Shoes (1986) and A Song Flung Up to Heaven (2002). Together they describe her struggles to support her son through a series of odd jobs. ‘‘Determined to raise him, I had worked as a shake dancer in nightclubs, fry cook in hamburger joints, dinner cook in a Creole restaurant and once had a job in a mechanic’s shop, taking paint off cars with my hands,’’ she wrote in Singin’ and Swingin’ and Gettin’ Merry Like Christmas. Elsewhere, she describes her brief unsuccessful stint as a prostitute and brief successful one as a madam. As her memoir continues, Angelou recounts her marriage to a Greek sailor, Tosh Angelos. (Throughout her life, she was circumspect about the number of times she was married - it appears to have been at least three - for fear, she said, of appearing frivolous.) After her marriage dissolved, she embarked on a career as a calypso dancer and singer under the name Maya Angelou, a variant of her married name. A striking stage presence - she was 182cm tall - she occasionally partnered in San Francisco with Alvin Ailey in a nightclub dance act known as Al and Rita. She was cast in the Truman CapoteHarold Arlen musical House of Flowers, which opened on Broadway in 1954. But she chose instead to tour the world as a featured dancer in a production of Porgy and Bess by the Everyman Opera Company, a black ensemble. Angelou later settled in New York, where she became active in the Harlem Writers Guild (she hoped to be a poet and playwright), sang at the Apollo and eventually succeeded Bayard Rustin as the coordinator of the New York office of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the organisation that he, King and others had founded. In the early 1960s, Angelou became romantically involved with Vusumzi L. Make, a South African civil rights activist. She

tional Convention in Boston in 2004, she spoke of Fannie Lou Hamer, who attempted, 40 years earlier, to gain recognition for the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. Angelou said: “In the most private part of the heart of every American lives a burning desire to belong to a great country. To represent a noble-minded country where the mighty do not always crush the weak and the dream of democracy is not in the sole possession of the strong.” Maya Angelou’s tribute two years later, on the passing of her friend Coretta Scott King, could be said of Angelou herself: “She was a quintessential African-American woman. Born in the small-town, repressive South. Born of flesh and destined to become iron. Born a cornflower and destined to become a steel magnolia.” In eulogizing actor and activist Ossie Davis at his 2005 memorial service in Harlem’s historic Riverside Church, Maya Angelou’s delivery was poetic as always. Her words of reflection on his death can serve as well as we note her passing: “When great trees fall, rocks on distant hills shudder. Lions hunker down in tall grasses, and even elephants lumber after safety. When great trees fall in forests small things recoil into silence, their senses are eroded beyond fear. ... Great souls die, and our reality bound to them takes leave of us.” Maya Angelou’s eloquence, in her poetry, lives on: “Out of the huts of history’s shame I rise Up from a past that’s rooted in pain I rise ...Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise I rise I rise.”

moved with him to Cairo, where she became the associate editor of a magazine, The Arab Observer. After leaving Make - she found him paternalistic and controlling, she later wrote - she moved to Accra, Ghana, where she was an administrative assistant at the University of Ghana. On returning to New York, Angelou helped Malcolm X set up the Organization of Afro-American Unity, established in 1964. The group dissolved after his assassination the next year. In 1973, Angelou appeared on Broadway in Look Away, a two-character play about Mary Todd Lincoln (played by Geraldine Page) and her seamstress. Though the play closed after one performance, Angelou was nominated for a Tony Award. On the screen, she portrayed Kunta Kinte’s grandmother in the 1977 television mini-series Roots and appeared in several feature films, including How to Make an American Quilt (1995). Over time, some critics expressed reservations about Angelou’s prose, calling it facile and solipsistic. Her importance as a literary, cultural and historical figure was amply borne out, however, by the many laurels she received, including a slew of honorary doctorates. Her other books include the volumes of poetry Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water ’fore I Diiie (1971), Oh Pray My Wings Are Gonna Fit Me Well (1975), And Still I Rise (1978) and Shaker, Why Don’t You Sing? (1983). She released an album of songs, ‘‘Miss Calypso,’’ in 1957. But she remained best known for her memoirs, a striking fact in that she had never set out to be a memoirist. Near the end of A Song Flung Up to Heaven, Angelou recalls her response when Robert Loomis, who would become her longtime editor, first asked her to write an autobiography. She demurred at first, still planning to be a playwright and poet. Cannily, Loomis called her again. ‘‘You may be right not to attempt autobiography, because it is nearly impossible to write autobiography as literature,’’ he said. ‘‘Almost impossible.’’ ‘‘I’ll start tomorrow,’’ Angelou replied. Angelou’s marriage in the 1970s to Paul du Feu, who had previously been wed to the feminist writer Germaine Greer, ended in divorce. She is survived by her son, Guy, three grandchildren and a great-grandchild.

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Corroded Theological Students

am aware this write up will be touchy-prickly for theologians and touchy-feely for the lay readers. Modest people will shy away from this, albeit the ill at ease, I deem this unlikable truth meritsour brief attention. My take is less on the unruly youths send to theological colleges deeming that will be the best place to change their lives and more on the ostensibly decent theological students. When the church and parents sends a person out of Nagaland to do theology, their anticipations are high and they profit pride in it. I am buying the seemingly obedient theological students who are DECENT at home and at church but are DECADENT when they are out of view. Surreptitiously, better known as ‘behind the scenes’, all unholy uncalled actions are exude by them but in the open view they sneak around ingratiating wellwishers and sponsors with their bogus humble good-at-all, know-it-all baloney. That said, this does not mean all decent theological students at home are decadent. The purpose here is just to let the populace know what is hidden. I deem the truth can prevent grievous mistakes in the future. It was time for us to go back home. Not bizarre, we usually book our tickets together for our return. I asked my friend, “Chal ticket akilogotekatilobo” (come we’ll book our tickets together).

Mezhiisevi Mark Ziitso

My nous on Nagas and the Bible

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

He gave me an answer that’s ostensible, “Ami thiknajane ho” (I am not sure). It was implicitly apparent that he had some ‘behind the scene’ agenda. He was a good friend, seems to be a prayerful one, good at preaching and counseling, does a lot of work in his church, he was respected among cohorts, excels in academics and blah blah… For good or for worse, it came to my knowledge later that he came home with a damsel and their journey was longer than typical because they were interested in holding for nights at all possible stations. One of my friend commented, “Tuijon Bangalore paraulaishe, hoilebi tin jon Nagaland tepun-

chishe” (two person started in Bangalore but three person reached Nagaland). When he reached home and church, what happen on the journey was behind the scene. His church and parents were blissful to see their wannabe Decent Pastor and Leader. He taught and preached his hoity-toity sanctimonious sermons in the church. He taught ethics and morality. He taught the youth, ‘true love waits.’ This story is just a small cut of the corrosion. I or any other sincere theological student for that matter can list numerous similar stories. Corroded theological students are one reason among many why some of

our churches are spiritual dry or even dead. Such students squander their time in the Seminary. They spent the prayerfully sent money on mere pleasures. They never do their homework. Prayer is not even a concern to many theological students when they are in the Seminary. But lo and behold, on the day of their graduation or a week earlier they become spiritual out of the blue. With their degree at hand, they come back home decent with a ‘Pharisaic Halleluyah” on their lips. They are appointed for different works in the church. The church reckons s/he is decent inside as he seems outside. Now, what in the world will this theological student offer to the church when s/he has nothing at hand to render. I have no plans to be a moral police or pleasuring in patronizing, but just lettering. Hypocrisy is loonyand can’t hoodwink God. I don’t buy and pricks me to behold others selling it. I marvel at the thought, “Our churches and leaders has been blasphemous enough why should the budding theological students profane further.” Simply to say, fellow theological students, if what I wrote resonates your situation and life. I got four words for you, “Stop being a hypocrite.” I will also appeal to Parents, Leaders and Churches to pray harder for theological students and even keep track of their happenings as much as possible.

Denzel Washington's ministry of movies

enzel Washington is one of America's most beloved and critically acclaimed actors. A two-time Academy Award winner, Washington this week received a Golden Globe nomination for his role in "American Gangster," which also was a nominee for best drama, along with Washington's most recent film, "The Great Debaters." His second directorial effort, "The Great Debaters" also stars Washington as Mel Tolson, a professor at a small African-American college in 1930s Texas who coaches the school's debate team to national prominence while also working as a union organizer on the side. Listed second on Beliefnet's "list, Washington also lent his voice to "The Bible Experience," an audio Bible featuring some of the country's top African-American stars. He spoke with Beliefnet about his relationship with God, a long-ago prophecy about his career, and why he made a film about a debate team.

The star tells us how he studies the Bible daily, prays every morning and night, and sees his films as a form of preaching.

You've talked about drifting from the church for a while and coming back. What did you do when you were drifting? Were you trying out other faiths? Trying out other things--Eastern philosophies, and you name it. But, yeah, just Eastern philosophies, reading the Qur'an, and sometimes not doing anything.

Michael Kress

And did you take anything with you from the searching in other religions as you came back? Is there some part of you that was changed by it? That's a good question. I think, even then, it was the search, it was the desire to find a--not to say just the meaning of life but some personal meaning and peace, inner peace. And I think all of those things led me right back to where I am.

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Why did you make a movie about a debate team? A good story is a good story. And this was a good one. It was one that moved me when I read it. It's sort of like "the little train that could," the "David against Goliath." It was just a positive and inspiring story that Oprah Winfrey's company [Harpo Films] had bought. They believed in it long before I got involved in it. And when I read it, I was equally moved and decided to do it--to direct it, and act in it.

Why was it so important to put spirituality in it? Because spirituality is important in every aspect of my life. I mean, that's why I'm here. That's what I've been blessed to do. When I was about 20 years old, when I first started acting, I was sitting in my mother's beauty shop. And a woman just kept looking at me. I was looking in the mirror, and I saw her across the room. And she said, "Someone give me a piece of paper." And she wrote down a prophecy. She said that I would speak to millions of people, and I would travel the world and preach to millions of people. And I didn't know what she was talking about. But this was March 27th, 1975, 32 years ago now, almost 33 years ago. When I was about 20 years old, when I first started acting, I was sitting in my mother's beauty shop. And a woman just kept looking at me. I was looking in the mirror, and I saw her across the room. And she said, "Someone give me a piece of paper." And she wrote down a prophecy. She said that I would speak to millions of people, and I would travel the world and preach to millions of people. And I didn't know what she was talking about. But this was March 27th, 1975, 32 years ago now, almost 33 years ago. So my work has been my ministry. In fact, I asked my pastor, years ago, "Do you think I should become a minister or a preacher? And he says, "Well, that's what you're doing already." And he felt, as I feel, that that's what she was talking about back then. I've always understood why I've been blessed to be put in this situation. And I'm more than happy to take advantage of it and to preach, if you will, about what God has done in my life. How did being the son of a pastor help you prepare for this career? I don't know. When I was young, actually, it was an obligation. You had to go. It wasn't necessarily what I wanted to do. But I lived in church morning, noon, night, weekends, Sundays, every day. So there was a time, between that time and as a young adult, where I moved away from the church because I was obligated to go. And I just found my way back, maybe 30 years ago, at 27--30 years ago, when I came out here.

And what brought you back to Christianity? God. I can't say "this" or a particular event. I just slowly worked my way back. The church I go to, West Angeles, a buddy of mine--I don't know if you know the actor and director, Robert Townsend--he had moved out to Los Angeles before me. And I got out here in about 1979. And he was attending West Angeles. And I started going with him. And been going ever since.

You play, in so many of your movies, these very inspirational figures. And then, in others, of course, you play the bad guy. To what extent do your faith and values play a role in choosing parts? Even in a role like "Training Day," the first thing I wrote on the script was, "The wages of sin is death." And it was important, actually, for me in making that film. They actually wanted the guy to live at the end. And I said no. I think the only way I could justify him living such an awful life, or living in the worst way, was for him to die in the worst way. I'm always looking for that--for some kind of a message. And sometimes I just choose not to do certain films.

In the movie, while arguing with the theologian Dr. Farmer, your character says, "Jesus was a radical." Is that a statement that you agree with? In a way, Jesus was a radical. The character's point being that he came in, cleaned out the temple. What role does Jesus play in your own life? I was raised in the church. My father was a minister for 60 years. And I've been a member of West Angeles Church of God in Christ for, now, about 27 years, since I've been out here in Los Angeles. I open the film with a prayer and end it with praise. The spiritual aspects of the film weren't even necessarily in the screenplay. But I added those. It was my desire to start the film with a prayer.

INSPIRATIONAL STORIES, MESSAGES, POEMS & SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCES

Denzel Washington

How would you describe the role of prayer in your life today? Even this film--every major decision I made, I made through prayer, about who I was picking to be in it, what it was I was trying to say, praying that the film was saying the right thing and that it would reach the right people. It's every aspect of it. Every aspect of it. It's how I start every day, and it's how I end every day. What sort of prayers do you say? There's a lot of thank you's. A whole lot of thank you's. I started, I don't know how many years ago, just reading the Bible from cover to cover. And started with the New Testament and went back to the Old Testament, and went back to the New Testament. In fact, today I just finished the Book of Acts, where Paul is back in Rome and living in Rome and preaching, teaching. So that's how I start my day every morning. Do you have a favorite biblical story or Bible book? I don't know if I have a favorite. Right now I'm with Paul. So, I'd say that's my favorite. Every year our pastor suggests that we start the New Year by reading the Book of John. So I think I'm going to do that the first of the year. But there's so many great stories. I couldn't pick one. Do you have a favorite prayer you can recite for us? One that we start the film with, that my mother always says, is: "Heavenly Father, we come before thee, knee bent and body bowed, in the humblest way that we know how." I always liked that. That's something that I've always remembered, and I promised her that I would share. So I'm proud to have the opportunity to share that. So my work has been my ministry. In fact, I asked my pastor, years ago, "Do you think I should become a minister or a preacher? And he says, "Well, that's what you're doing already." And he felt, as I feel, that that's what she was talking about back then. I've always understood why I've been blessed to be put in this situation. And I'm more than happy to take advantage of it and to preach, if you will, about what God has done in my life.

Because of the message it sends? Yes, or the lack thereof. Being in such a public position and getting the honors you get, do you feel a certain responsibility to be a role model? I think it's more of a personal decision. I think it's more of looking in the mirror. Can you live with yourself? "Role model" is something that's tossed around. And I do think it's important to try and lead a decent life, and a good life and set a good example. At the same time, I think this word "role model" is thrown around loosely, when I think it really starts in your home. Your role model should be your mother and father. And hopefully, they're both there. And people in your community or people in your church or people in whatever organizations you go to that you can talk to. The people that I saw on television or in movies when I was young, maybe, in some way, influenced me. But it was more about the people that are around me. But, at the same time, having said that, you never know how a person influences you. When I sign autographs, I always put "God bless" on that. And I remember watching the "Red Skelton Show." Red Skelton used to always say "Good luck" or he'd say "Good night and God bless." And I always liked that. And I don't know how many thousands, and hundreds of thousands, of autographs I've signed. So, in that regard, a small thing like that can influence you. "The Great Debaters" not only tells the story of the Wiley College debate team, it puts the story in the context of the racist, often violent, Jim Crow South. Why was that important to you? For me, it wasn't so much about [hostility between] the races, and even though that's obvious in the '30s and sometimes even now, but how you overcome it, how you get through it. What's the saying? "There's no testimony without a test." We all have tests and challenges that we have to get through, personal, spiritual, racial, a test that we have to overcome. The bottom line is that these young kids fought their way through it and ultimately were winners. And that's the message, that you don't have to give up. And you don't have to give in. What inspires you to overcome challenges in your life? I remember a couple years back, I was up for an Academy Award. I could see a lot of the politics and the things involved in it. And I just remember my mother saying, "Just remember, man gives the award. But God gives the reward." So I understand that what I've been blessed to do is a part of God's plan. And as long as I please Him, then I'm pleased.

‘Ethics is the soil on which every civilization is planted’ Alex Y. Vergara

Hayden Kho and Vicki Belo listen to world-renowned evangelist Ravi Zacharias.

ensuality is overrated! As far as Indian-born Canadian-American evangelist Ravi Zacharias is concerned, the graver threat to losing one’s soul isn’t lust, but pride. “We make the biggest deal out of sensuality,” Zacharias said. “It’s just one among many symptomatic issues facing us. Remember, what brought Lucifer down was pride, not sensuality.” Zacharias, 68, founder and CEO of Atlanta-based Ravi Zacharias International Ministries, flew to Manila recently as a guest of media personality Hayden Kho. He came with members of his team, including actor Stephen Baldwin. A leading light among Evangelical Christians in the field of Christian apologetics, Zacharias shared his thoughts, including the importance of ethics in public life, over lunch with journalists at the Makati home of Dr. Vicki Belo. “If you have beauty and freedom, you’ll always have the possibility of self-worship,” he said. “And one of the most painful things in a person’s life is to watch beauty fade.” Elvis Presley’s story Zacharias cited Elvis Presley’s “classic” story as told to him years ago by the American pop icon’s half-brother Rick Stanley. Now also a Christian preacher, Stanley was the last person to see the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll alive. A huge Presley fan while growing up in India, Zacharias couldn’t resist asking Stanley the real story behind why one of the richest, most talented and most admired performer in pop music history turned into a wasted junkie. “Rick, who was crying when he shared with me this story, said Elvis became addicted to fame way before he became addicted to drugs,” said Zacharias. “When he started losing his fame, he also started losing his way. He didn’t know how to handle it.” Because of Presley, Stanley and another halfbrother named David (he also became a preacher) were living luxurious lives in Graceland. All of that came to an abrupt end when their famous brother died. “It was when Rick lost his ‘king on earth’ that he began his search for the king of kings by giving his life to Christ,” said Zacharias. Pride, which the devil used to tempt Adam and Eve, is also responsible for mankind’s eviction from paradise, he said. “The day you shall eat of the fruit is the day you shall be as God—all-knowing of good and evil,” said Zacharias, quoting the devil. “To me, what it simply means is, why don’t you play God? Why don’t you define good and evil yourself? Why do you want God to define good and evil for you?” But one doesn’t have to be a superstar like Presley to fall victim to pride. Any calling that becomes an end in itself is capable of consuming anybody. “Trouble begins,” Zacharias warned, “as soon as we think we’re indispensable. A stroke can fell us in a second. Since we’re always on the brink of humiliation, it’s better to start with humility to avoid humiliation. There’s a big difference between the two.” Misplaced sense of love Pride, it seems, is also to blame for people’s misplaced sense of love. By itself, pride isn’t bad. But if one moves in the wrong direction, it might lead him or her to crave for feelings no human being could ever satisfy. That’s why love can’t be a “feeling,” said Zacharias. It has to be within the context of a relationship and a person. If one continues to chase a feeling, he or she is likely to end up feeling emptier than before. How come? Because no human being, no matter how brilliant or good looking, can ever have the capacity to fulfill that feeling. “You have to remind yourself that sensuality is a temptation you constantly have to live with,” he added. “Pleasure comes with a price. With true pleasure, you pay the price before. With false pleasure, you pay the price after.” But all this talk on pride shouldn’t make people oblivious to lust and greed, which the Bible also singled out as two of the greatest sources of temptation. Every normal human being, Zacharias said, will struggle with various forms of lust to satisfy an insatiable appetite for “essentially driven fulfillment.” Greed, another human weakness that has been around and will continue to be around, can be moderated, if not licked, if people learn to give more. “A generous heart comes from a grateful heart. It’s that same generous heart that builds gratitude in others,” said Zacharias. It has become inevitable as part of his work to spread the Gospels for Zacharias and his 110-person team to touch on four public arenas: politics, business, academics and the arts. “Academics comes to the front door of reason, while the arts come from the backdoor of the imagination,” he said. “Politics comes through law. Business comes through economics.” These areas are four converging lines that shape a culture. Although Zacharias touches on politics, he doesn’t go into politics per se by publicly taking sides. Instead, he prefers to appeal to a bigger audience by dealing with people from every political theory. What Zacharias shared about the importance of ethics and values couldn’t have come at a better time, when Filipinos today continue to struggle with the effects of wholesale corruption among their leaders. “We generally deal with ethics and values because without an ethical underpinning, no society can succeed,” he said. “Ethics is the soil on which every civilization is planted. You build on an immoral soil, and the buildings built on it will collapse. That’s why truth and morality matter, as is a person’s character.”

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Police arrests 3rd suspect in gang rape of 2 teens LUCKNOW, May 31 (aP): Police arrested a third suspect Saturday in the gang rape and slaying of two teenage cousins found hanging from a tree in northern India, as a top state official said he was recommending a federal investigation into a case that has triggered national outrage. The three suspects detained in the attack in Uttar Pradesh state are cousins in their 20s from an extended family, and they face murder and rape charges, crimes punishable by the death penalty, said police officer N. Malik. Two other suspects from the same village are also being sought, he said. Facing growing criticism for a series of rapes, authorities in Uttar Pradesh, which has a longstanding reputation for lawlessness, also arrested two police officers and fired two others Friday for failing to investigate when the father of one of the teenagers reported the girls missing earlier in the week. India has a long history of tolerance for sexual violence. But the gang rape and killing of the 14- and 15-year-old girls — which was followed by TV footage showing their corpses swaying as they hung from a mango tree — caused outrage across the nation. The father who reported the girls missing, Sohan Lal, has demanded a federal investigation. “I don’t expect justice from the state government as state police officers shielded the suspects,” said Lal, a poor farm laborer who refused to accept a payment for 500,000 rupees ($8,500) offered by the state government as financial help. He told reporters Saturday that he would accept no financial assistance until the Central Bureau of Investigation, India’s FBI, takes over the case. Such government payments are common in India when poor families face high-profile calamities, and Lal’s unusual refusal — particularly for a man living in desperate poverty — was

likely to focus attention on his demands for a federal investigation. With pressure mounting on the state government to act swiftly, Akhilesh Yadav, Uttar Pradesh’s top elected official, said he was recommending to the federal government a probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation. Under Indian law, a state can only make a recommendation, and it is then up to the federal government to ask the CBI to investigate. Rahul Gandhi, a leader of the opposition Congress party, visited the families of the two girls on Saturday and endorsed the demand for a federal investigation. “The state has a jungle rule,” said Rita Bahugana, another Congress party leader. Dozens of members of the All India Democratic Women’s Association marched Saturday through the streets of New Delhi, India’s capital, demanding the immediate arrest of the two fugitive suspects and justice for the victims. “Enough is enough. Women will not tolerate such atrocities any longer,” the protesters chanted, asking state authorities to take crimes against women seriously. Uttar Pradesh officials initially appeared caught off guard by the reaction to the attack on the two girls. On Friday, the state’s top official mocked journalists for asking about it. “You’re not facing any danger, are you?” Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav said in Lucknow, the state capital. “Then why are you worried? What’s it to you?” Ashish Gupta, a state inspector-general of police, pointed out to journalists that 10 rapes are reported every day in Uttar Pradesh, which has 200 million people and is India’s most populous state. Gupta said 60 percent of such crimes happen when women go into the fields because their homes have no toilets. The girls in the latest incident were attacked in the

UP govt agrees for CBI probe

Activists hold placards to protest against the gang rape of two teenage girls, in New Delhi, India on May 31. Police arrested a third suspect and hunted for two others Saturday in the gang rape and slaying of two teenage cousins found hanging from a tree in Katra village, in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, a case that has prompted national outrage. (AP Photo)

tiny village of Katra, about 300 kilometers (180 miles) from Lucknow. They disappeared Tuesday night after going into fields near their home to relieve themselves. Lal went to police to report them missing, but he said they refused to help. That infuriated his neighbors, who, once the bodies were discovered, refused to allow them to be taken down from the tree until the first arrests were made. The girls were Dalits, from the community once

known as “untouchables” in India’s ancient caste system. The fired policemen and the men accused in the attack are Yadavs, a low-caste community that dominates that part of Uttar Pradesh. The chief minister is also a Yadav. Also in Uttar Pradesh state, police on Thursday arrested three men for brutally attacking the mother of a rape victim after she refused to withdraw her complaint. The attack, in the town of Etawah, followed the

May 11 rape of the woman’s teenage daughter. The arrests were made after the mother filed a complaint with authorities. Official statistics say about 25,000 rapes are committed every year in India, a nation of 1.2 billion people. Activists, though, say that number is just a tiny percentage of the actual number, since victims are often pressed by family or police to stay quiet about sexual assaults. Indian officials, who for decades had done little

about sexual violence, have faced growing public anger since the December 2012 gang rape and murder of a young woman on a moving New Delhi bus, an attack that sparked national outrage. The nationwide outcry led the federal government to rush legislation doubling prison terms for rapists to 20 years and criminalizing voyeurism, stalking and the trafficking of women. The law also makes it a crime for officers to refuse to open cases when complaints are made.

NeW DeLhi, May 31 (ageNCieS): Under an all-round attack, Uttar Pradesh chief minister Akhilesh Yadav on Saturday decided to recommend a CBI inquiry into the gang-rape and murder of two sisters in Badaun. The cousins, who were 14-and 15-years-old, went missing on May 27 and were allegedly gang-raped and murdered. Their bodies were found hanging from a mango tree in Katra village on May 28. “The chief minister has decided to recommend a CBI probe into Badaun incident as demanded by family members of the victims,” an official release said. “The formalities in this regard will be completed soon,” it added. The family of the girls had demanded a CBI probe into the incident saying they had no faith in local police which was “hand in glove” with the accused. Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, who met the family on Saturday, also supported their demand for a CBI probe. A team of National Commission for Women (NCW) had also blames the

local police. Bahujan Samaj Party supremo Mayawati too had pressed for a CBI probe in the matter while demanding an imposition of President’s rule in the state over alleged failure of the Samajwadi Party government to maintain law and order. Union women and child welfare minister Maneka Gandhi had on Friday said that if family members of the girls want, she would recommend a CBI probe into the incident. All the five named in the FIR including constables Sarvesh Yadav, Chhatrapal Yadav and three brothers Pappu Yadav, Awadhesh Yadav and Urvesh Yadav have been arrested. The FIR was registered against seven including two unnamed. While services of Sarvesh and Chhatrapal have been terminated, subinspector Ram Vilas Yadav had been suspended. The chief minister had on Friday ordered that suspects be tried in a special “fast track” courts to ensure justice to the victims’ family and announced a compensation of Rs. 5 lakh each.

Social groups condemn police role in gang rape NeW DeLhi, May 31 (iaNS): Underlining the need for urgent and strict action by the state and central governments, various social groups Saturday condemned the insensitive role of police in the gang rape and murder of two girls in Uttar Pradesh’s Badaun district two days ago. The groups lashed out at the lackadaisical approach of police and insensitive comments of Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav, after the two girls were found hanging from a tree. The Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative

(CHRI) condemned the role of police officers in shielding the accused. “There can be no hope of preventing or minimising rape if our law enforcers are apathetic to it. A message must be sent that this kind of criminality will not be tolerated, particularly against minors, by ensuring that all the penal provisions on gang rape and murder are invoked, including the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012,” a statement said. As per reports, when the parents of the girls approached police to file a

complaint, the officials refused to do so and sent them away, asking them “not to worry”. Ruchira Gupta, founder and president of NGO Apne Aap Women Worldwide, echoed similar sentiments and stressed the need to hold police accountable. “To stop rape, we need police to be held accountable. As long as police are part of the problem, poor, low caste women have nowhere to turn to for justice from men who rape them, buy and sell them,” Gupta said in a statement. “Even police believe

that poor low caste women should be sexually available. There is an urgent need for police reforms and urgent need for section 166 A to challenge India’s rape culture,” she said, referring to the section in the Indian Penal Code that deals with a public official disobeying the law. The groups feel “police revamping” is necessary. “Unless there is a full examination of the chain of command and police is not revamped from top to toe, these tragedies will continue to occur,” said CHRI director Maja Daruwala in a statement.

NGO ActionAid hailed Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi’s quick response seeking a probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation and setting up of a “rape crisis cell”. “We welcome the speedy and sensitive response from Maneka Gandhi who has promised that a ‘rape crisis cell’ will be set up which has been a long standing demand of women’s rights groups,” Sehjo Singh, ActionAid India’s programme and policy director, said in a statement. Expressing concern on the low rate of conviction,

Singh said: “The extremely low conviction rates send out a signal to perpetrators that they are free to act with impunity and can deter women from reporting rape and other crimes of sexual violence.” “The number of reported cases does not reflect the true number of cases of rape and sexual assault, which are widespread throughout rural and urban India. This is particularly true for marginalised groups like the dalits who are often threatened not to report cases either by powerful castes or even by police,” she added.

Modi asks countrymen Priyanka Gandhi seeks withdrawal of to say ‘no’ to tobacco family’s special privileges at airports

NeW DeLhi, May 31 (PTi): On the occasion of World No Tobacco Day, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today asked his countrymen to say ‘no’ to tobacco and lay the foundation of a healthier India. “On World No Tobacco Day, lets pledge to spread awareness on the risks of tobacco consumption & work to reduce tobacco consumption in India,” he tweeted. “Tobacco not only affects those consuming it but also people around. By saying ‘no’ to tobacco, let us lay the foundation of a healthier India,” he added. Painting a grim picture of the loss caused by tobacco consumption, a recent statement by the health ministry had put the total economic costs attributable to all diseases caused by it in India in 2011 at a staggering Rs. 1,04,500 crore. The figure of 1.04 crore was more than the combined expenditure incurred in 2011 by the Central and state governments on health care, it had said.

Kamal Nath appointed Protem Speaker of L S

NeW DeLhi, May 31 (PTi): Former parliamentary affairs minister and senior Congress leader Kamal Nath has been appointed as the pro tem Speaker in the new Lok Sabha. A notification issued by the Lok Sabha secretariat said President Pranab Mukherjee has appointed him to perform the duties of the Speaker. The Narendra Modi government had recently conveyed its recommendation to Mukherjee to appoint Nath, who is the senior most member of the Lower House, as pro tem Speaker. The pro tem Speaker performs the duties of the office of the Speaker from the commencement of the sitting of the Lok Sabha till the election of the Speaker. Nath, who was minister for urban development and parliamentary affairs in the last government, won from his pocketborough of Chhindwara in Madhya Pradesh for the ninth term.

Yogendra Yadav resigns from AAP committee NeW DeLhi, May 31 (iaNS): Yogendra Yadav of the AAP Saturday resigned from the membership of the party’s political affairs committee taking responsibility for the poor performance in Haryana in the Lok Sabha election, a member said. The Aam Aadmi Party failed to bag a single Lok Sabha seat out of the 10 in the state. Naveen Jaihind, another leader and prominent face of the AAP in Haryana, also resigned from the membership of the national executive committee. Party leaders said they will try to convince the two leaders to reconsider their decision. Another AAP leader Dilip Kumar Pandey tweeted: “The resignation offered from PAC and NE (ONLY) are for constructive reasons, for betterment of Party and Nation at large.” Meanwhile, Yadav tweeted:”Rumours about my quitting AAP are baseless. I am very much with the party and committed to working for it harder than ever.”

NeW DeLhi, May 31 (iaNS): Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, daughter of Congress president Sonia Gandhi, has written a letter to Special Protection Group (SPG) chief, asking for the withdrawal of privileges at airports for her and her family. Priyanka’s letter, which came in the wake of media reports about removal of her husband Robert Vadra’s name from the list of VVIPs exempt from checks at the airport, said that “his inclusion on that list came about at the instance of your predecessors in the SPG/Delhi Police and not upon any request by either of us”. A copy of the letter is with IANS. “It was done ostensibly to facilitate the coordination of the two separate security agencies at the airport when we travelled together,” she said. “Ever since then, it has been a source of constant embarrassment for my husband who has asked me on numerous occasions to have it removed as, in any case, he goes through the full security check and proce-

dure from the normal channel every time he is travelling on his own,” Priyanka said. She said that she had verbally conveyed this to the previous officials incharge of her security detail on a number of occasions but no action was ever taken on it. “Since the government is now reportedly considering the removal of his name, I would like to inform you that I do not feel it will be correct for my children and me to avail of the facility of exemption of these checks while entering or exiting the airport when we are all travelling together,” she said. She said it was “only right for us to go through the normal channels at the airport and be frisked as per normal procedure at such times as you will appreciate that it makes no sense for a family travelling together to fall under different categories of exemption”. She said she would “appreciate if you could put this into practice as soon as the Activists dressed as skeletons participate in an awareness campaign on World No Togovernment order cancelling my hus- bacco Day in Kolkata, india on May 31. Banner reads “smoking is the other name for band’s exemption comes into force”. death.” (AP Photo)

‘US seeks transformational cooperation with India’

SiNgaPOre, May 31 (iaNS): US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel Saturday said he is planning to visit India later this year to drive “transformational cooperation” with the country which is playing an “active role” in strengthening security in Asia. Hagel, referring to India’s growing defence capabilities, said the United States looked forward to working with the new Indian government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. “We welcome India’s increasingly active role in Asia’s regional institutions, which strengthens regional order. We also welcome India’s growing defence capabilities and its commitment to freedom of navigation in the

Indian Ocean,” Hagel said in a wide-ranging policy speech at an international security conference, the Shangri la dialogue, in Singapore. To further strengthen US-India defence ties, he said he was directing the Pentagon’s Undersecretary for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics to lead the US-India Defence Trade and Technology Initiative with the Indian government. “I plan to play an active and very personal role in expanding this initiative because it is a centrepiece of America’s defence cooperation with India, and it should reflect the trust and confidence President Obama and I have in our nation’s relationship with

India.” “To reinforce this effort - and to drive even more transformational cooperation - I hope to visit India later this year,” he said, describing India as “one of the United States’ most important democratic partners and a country with historic influence across Asia.” In the speech, Hagel also sought to reassure allies and partners who have doubts about the sincerity of the Obama administration towards its “rebalance” of military and diplomatic attention to the Asia-Pacific. He said that US activity would increase and that US defence cuts would not come out of the region. Across the Asia-Pacific region, US plans to increase foreign military financing

in the region by 35 percent and military training and education by 40 percent by 2016, Hagel said. “The United States also remains committed to building the capacity of allies and partners in the region through as many as 130 exercises and engagements, and approximately 700 port visits annually.” Next month, the US will host its annual Rim of the Pacific exercise, the world’s largest maritime exercise that will feature for the first time a port visit by a New Zealand naval ship to Pearl Harbor in more than 30 years, and it will include Chinese ships for the first time. RIMPAC will include some 23 nations, 49 surface ships, 6 submarines, more than 200 aircraft, 25,000

personnel and a few highly trained sea lions. Hagel said the region will continue to receive some of the military’s best aircraft and ships, including the new Zumwalt-class destroyer, by 2018. He said a central premise of America’s strategy in the Asia-Pacific is our recognition that, in the 21st century, no region holds more potential for growth, development and prosperity than this one. Hagel highlighted four broad security priorities that the US is advancing in partnership with friends and allies throughout the Asia-Pacific: First, encouraging the peaceful resolution of disputes; upholding principles including the freedom

of navigation; standing firm against coercion, intimidation and aggression. Second, building a cooperative regional architecture based on international rules and norms. Third, enhancing the capabilities of our allies and partners to provide security for themselves and the region and, Fourth, strengthening our own regional defence capabilities. “Beyond capacitybuilding efforts, a stable and peaceful regional order depends on a strong American military presence across the Asia-Pacific region… a presence that enables us to partner with our friends and allies, and help deter aggression...Our interests lie in these partnerships and this region.”

North Korea gives missionary life sentence

In this February 27, photo, Kim Jung Wook, a South Korean Baptist missionary, speaks during a news conference in Pyongyang, North Korea. North Korea said on May 31, it has sentenced the South Korean Baptist missionary to hard labor for life for allegedly spying and trying to set up underground churches, the latest in a string of missionaries to run into trouble in the rigidly controlled North. The rival Koreas have different English spelling styles for Korean names, so the North called the missionary Kim Jong Uk, but Seoul has previously referred to him as Kim Jung Wook.(AP File Photo)

seOuL, MAy 31 (AP): North Korea said Saturday it has sentenced a South Korean Baptist missionary to hard labor for life for allegedly spying and trying to set up underground churches, the latest in a string of missionaries to run into trouble in the rigidly controlled North. North Korean state media said the missionary was tried Friday and admitted to anti-North Korean religious acts and “malignantly hurting the dignity” of the country’s supreme leadership, a reference to the ruling Kim family. The rival Koreas have different English spelling styles for Korean names, so the North called the missionary Kim Jong Uk, but Seoul has previously referred to him as Kim Jung Wook. Christian missionaries have been drawn over the years to totalitarian North Korea, which tolerates only strictly sanctioned religious services. North Korean defectors have said that the distribution of Bibles and secret prayer services can mean banishment to a labor camp or execution. North Korea said in a dispatch dated Friday but released early Saturday that Kim had defense counsel, but the details of the trial could not be independently confirmed. North Korea does not have an independent judiciary, does not provide fair trials and imposes rigid controls over many aspects of its citizens’ lives, including in religious matters, according to the U.S. State Department. The unidentified North Korean defense attorney said that Kim “sincerely repented of his crimes and apologized for them” and requested that the court commute the death sentence demanded by prosecutors. The North said that an expert produced “evidence such as religious books, memory cards, sex CDs and spying devices carried by the accused for criminal purposes.” Outside analysts have said that North Korea has previously used foreign detainees as bargaining chips in efforts

to receive outside aid and political concessions. The sentencing comes amid rising tensions on the Korean Peninsula, which is still technically in a state of war because the 1950-53 Korean War ended in an armistice, not a peace treaty. The rivals’ warships traded artillery fire this month near a disputed sea boundary, though no blood was shed. And Pyongyang has staged a series of missile and artillery tests, and its media have put out racist and sexist rhetoric aimed at the leaders of the U.S. and South Korea. North Korea said Kim was arrested last October after crossing into the country from China. Kim appeared on North Korean TV in February and said he received assistance from South Korea’s intelligence agency and apologized for committing “anti-state” crimes. Past detainees have later recanted after appearing at staged news conferences. South Korea has denied any spy links to Kim. Last year, North Korea sentenced American tour operator Kenneth Bae to 15 years of hard labor for committing “hostile acts” against the country. Bae, also a Christian missionary, was detained while leading a group on a tour of North Korea in 2012. Earlier this year, an Australian, John Short, was arrested in Pyongyang for allegedly trying to distribute Christian materials. He was later released after he apologized. Kim had been based largely in Dandong, in China, since 2007, according to a friend in Seoul, Joo Dongsik. Kim helped North Korean defectors get to South Korea via Thailand, Laos and other countries, said Joo, also a Baptist. In August 2012, a group of 12 North Korean women were caught by Chinese authorities while they were at Kim’s shelter and sent back to North Korea. His desire to find out what happened to them and learn about a North Korean food shortage led him to enter the country last October, Joo said. Kim was born in 1964, Joo said, making him 49 or 50.

‘Green tea daily reduces pancreatic cancer risk’ New yORK, MAy 31 (IANs): The cup of your favourite green tea is full of health benefits and now researchers have found that an active compound in green tea also reduces the risk of pancreatic cancer. In lab research, EGCG, the active biologic constituent in green tea, changed the metabolism of pancreatic cancer cells by suppressing the expression of the LDHA enzyme associated with cancer. The researchers also found an enzyme inhibitor, oxamate - known to reduce LDHA activity - operated in the same manner: It also disrupted the metabolic system of pancreatic cancer cells. “This study will open the door to a whole new area of cancer research and help us understand how other foods can prevent cancer or slow the growth of cancerous cells,” said Wai-Nang Lee, a lead researcher with Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute (LA BioMed). Using sophisticated metabolic profiling methods, the researchers found EGCG disrupted the balance of “flux” throughout the cellular metabolic network. Flux is the rate of turnover of molecules through a metabolic pathway. The researchers found the EGCG disrupted this balance in the same manner that oxamate, a known LDHA inhibitor did. “Both EGCG and oxamate reduced the risk of cancer by suppressing the activity of LDHA, a critical enzyme in cancer metabolism, thereby disrupting the balance in the cancer cells metabolic functions,” Lee explained. The study was published online in the journal Metabolomics.

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Thai forces out to stifle unrest

BANGKOK, MAy 31 (ReuteRs): Thai police and soldiers flooded downtown Bangkok on Saturday to pre-empt further protests against a May 22 coup after the army chief said a return to democracy would take more than a year. In a televised address late on Friday, General Prayuth Chan-ocha said the military would need time to reconcile Thailand’s antagonistic political forces and to engineer reforms. Prayuth, who ousted the government of Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra after months of sometimes violent protests, appealed for patience from Thailand’s international allies after outlining his reform plan to the Southeast Asian nation. But the response from foreign governments was to keep up the pressure on the ruling junta to call elections quickly. At a conference in Singapore on Saturday, U.S. Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel urged the Thai armed forces to release detainees, end censorship and “move immediately to restore power to the people of Thailand, through free and fair elections”. Australia scaled back relations with the Thai military on Saturday and banned coup leaders from travelling there. “We understand that we are living in a democratic world. All we are asking for is give us time to re-

A man, center, is detained by plainclothes police officers after holding an anti-coup sign outside a McDonald's restaurant in downtown Bangkok, Thailand on May 31. In his first address to the public since taking control of Thailand in a bloodless coup, army commander Gen. Prayuth Chan-ocha, the head of the military junta, said it could take more than a year for new elections to be held because peace and reforms must be achieved first. (AP Photo)

form,” Prayuth said in his address on Friday, seated at a table with flowers in front of him and portraits of King Bhumibol Adulyadej and Queen Sirikit on a wall behind him. “We believe that you will choose our kingdom before a flawed democratic system.” “Three, not five” At the heart of nearly a decade of political turmoil in Southeast Asia’s second biggest economy is conflict between the Bangkokbased royalist establishment dominated by the military, old-money families and the bureaucracy, and an upstart clique led by former telecommunication mogul Thaksin

Shinawatra which draws much of its strength from the provinces. Thaksin, who was ousted in a 2006 coup and has lived in self-exile since a 2008 corruption conviction, was the real power behind the deposed government of his sister, Yingluck. Security was tight around a normally trafficand pedestrian-clogged Victory Monument where protests flared earlier in the week. The closure of the overhead city rail station at the landmark reduced the number of people on streets and walkways. Security was being enforced predominantly by police, who had at least seven large trucks parked

nearby. Police stood taking photos of each other, chatting to a small group of soldiers standing around a Humvee with a loudspeaker strapped to the top. Trucks and police also lined the road near a central shopping mall where demonstrations took place a week earlier, but there was no sign of any rallies. A man was arrested and another fled when police thwarted their attempt to hold a protest at another downtown shopping centre. One of the men held up a sign before a media scrum that said “election only” for less than a minute before police pounced and bundled him into a police truck.

Later, three women sat on the steps of a McDonald’s restaurant and sang a song seeking the return to democracy. “There are only three of us, not five,” one of the women shouted at police, referring to a ban on gatherings of five or more people. Despite martial law and a ban on gatherings, small protests against the military takeover have been held almost daily in Bangkok. There has been no serious violence. Activists, spreading word through social media, had said they would hold a big show of opposition at the weekend to press for the restoration of democracy.

‘Time to reform’ Prayuth, in his speech of about 40 minutes, outlined a three-phase process beginning with reconciliation which would take up to three months. A temporary constitution would be drawn up and an interim prime minister and cabinet chosen in a second phase, taking about a year, he said. An election would be the third and final phase. He did not elaborate on reforms but Thaksin’s opponents want changes to the electoral system to end his influence. Thaksin’s appeal among poorer voters, especially in the populous, rural northeast and north, has ensured that he or his allies have won every election since 2001. The political crisis comes at a time of anxiety in Thailand over the issue of royal succession. The king, the world’s longest reigning monarch, is 86 and spent the years from 2009-2013 in hospital. The monarchy is Thailand’s most important institution. The struggling economy is a priority for the military. Prayuth has asked officials to look into the possibility of reducing a 7 percent value-added tax, deputy army spokesman Colonel Weerachon Sukondhapatipak said. Gross domestic product shrank 2.1 percent in the first quarter of 2014 as the anti-government unrest damaged confidence and scared off tourists.

As the world commemorate, the world “No Tobacco Day”, the O.J Modeling Grooming & Training Dimapur, Nagaland join hands and supports for the control of the tobacco. Nagaland is the 2nd highest users in tobacco and the victims are mostly the youths. The Agency aims to eradicate these vices through grooming class and spreading awareness to the youths that tobacco causes oral Cancer, care today to live with tobacco free.

Kelly Brook Drops Wedding Hint

ritish actressmodel Kelly Brook has sparked speculation she is a married woman after mentioning her “husband” in a cryptic online post. The Piranha 3D star dropped a number of hints about her relationship status in a series of cryptic messages posted on Instagram.com on Friday (30May14). In the messages, which were posted while Brook was onboard a Eurostar train between

London and Europe, she called her partner David McIntosh her husband and mentioned wedding celebrations In the messages, which were posted while Brook was onboard a Eurostar train between London and Europe, she called her partner David McIntosh her “husband” and mentioned “wedding celebrations”. She wrote, “Look how happy my husband looks... Eurostar France WeddingCelebrations”.Brook tagged two friends, who are due to marry on Saturday (31May14), in the post, suggesting she and McIntosh are on their way to celebrate their pals’ nuptials, but she did not explain why she called her fiance “husband”. The pictures she posted show the couple smiling and hugging on the train, and enjoying a lunch of pastries, chocolate, beer and cheese. The couple became engaged in March (14) after a whirlwind romance.

GOVERNMENT OF NAGALAND DIRECTORATE OF WOMEN DEVELOPMENT NAGALAND: KOHIMA

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Dated Kohima the 28th May 2014

NOTICE

The following beneficiaries under Promotion of Women in Innovation Enterprises Programme (PWIEP) of Women Development Department are hereby directed to report the Directorate of Women Development, Merima on 10th June, 2014 at 11:00 AM without fail. This meeting is being called specifically for beneficiaries who were absent during the 27th May Review Meeting. All are directed to bring relevant documents, including Pay in Slips/ Bank Transaction documents without fail. Sl. No.

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Even before WCup, England geared up for failure

LONDON, May 31 (aP): Never before has England traveled to a World Cup better prepared — for the post-tournament inquest. The search for answers to England's long-standing struggles began while the team coached by Roy Hodgson was still qualifying for its fifth straight World Cup. As Hodgson prepared for Brazil, a Football Association commission concluded in early May that England's World Cup hopes would be hampered by the limited opportunities for homegrown players in the Premier League. England's World Cup excuses are in earlier than ever before. "We are limited because some of the players we'd like to choose, and have chosen in the qualifying games, aren't always regulars in their team's starting line-up," Hodgson said. Just advancing from a group containing Italy and Uruguay would be an achievement. Even FA chairman Greg Dyke responded to the draw in December with a throat-slitting action that was caught on camera. Four-time world champion Italy, which beat England in the 2012 European Championship quarterfinals, is first up in humid Manaus, followed by 2010 semifinalist Uruguay in a Sao Paulo stadium that is as much a work in progress as the England team itself. By the time England travels to Belo Horizonte to face Costa Rica, the engines might already be warming up on the runway for the return home. England did go through qualifying unbeaten, but there was scarce encouragement from uninspiring performances with little attacking penetration. It hasn't been much better in World Cup warm-ups,

DDFA informs

DiMaPuR, May 31 (MexN): The Dimapur District Football Association (DDFA) has extended the date of registration of football players, clubs, teams and associations till June 2. The DDFA informed that those who are yet to register can avail registration forms from the DDFA office, DDSC complex and register the same between 10:00 am and 1:00 pm. Officials of the All India Football Federation alongwith the Nagaland Football Association will be visiting Dimapur on June 3, it was added.

England beats Peru in last home game before WCup

England's Gary Cahill, second left, competes for the ball with Peru's Alexander Callens, center, and goalkeeper Raul Fernandez, second right, during the international friendly soccer match between England and Peru at Wembley Stadium in London, Friday, May 30. (AP Photo)

with losses to Germany and Chile followed by an arduous 1-0 win over Denmark. Hodgson desperately needs Wayne Rooney, one of football's top earners at Manchester United, to justify his star billing. The match-turning moments of brilliance in the penalty area Rooney can conjure for United have been absent too often on international duty, especially when it comes to World Cups. Rooney failed to score at the last two tournaments in Germany and South Africa. "Maybe once or twice in the past he hasn't exploded

wards. Captain Steven Gerrard is one of five Liverpool players in the squad, including 19-year-old winger Raheem Sterling and striker Daniel Sturridge. Hodgson has also profited from Southampton's impressive season utilizing homegrown players, showing there are topflight opportunities for such talent without the FA overhauling the structure of English football. Forward Rickie Lambert, midfielder Adam Lallana and defender Luke Shaw only made their international debuts in the last year. The 26-year-old Lal-

lana, with his intelligent and energetic moves, has presented a strong case to start in Brazil. "He's been an under-rated player for many years," Hodgson said Lallana, who has risen with Southampton from the third division to the Premier League. "It's an unfortunate truth if you want to get recognized at the top level you have to be playing at the top level." But some of the best English players won't necessarily be at the World Cup. Hodgson didn't beg former captain John Terry to end a self-imposed international exile instigated

by a domestic ban for racist abuse, and 33-year-old left back Ashley Cole retired from England duty after being overlooked in favor of the 18-year-old Shaw. In doing so, Hodgson has overlooked past contributions to take one of England's youngest-ever squads to a World Cup, providing hope that it won't be a complete embarrassment in Brazil. "It's not going to be like sometimes it's been in the past that loyalty can be rewarded," Hodgson said. "You've got to be on the plane because I believe you have a role to play."

No Ronjan Sodhi in 30-member CWG AR Inter Sector Football Championship squad, Abhinav Bindra to spearhead

New DeLhi, May 31 (Pti): Owing to his run of poor form, Asian Games gold medallist Ronjan Sodhi has failed to break into the 30-member Indian squad for the upcoming Commonwealth Games, which will see top shooters such as Abhinav Bindra and Vijay Kumar gunning for podium finishes. The National Rifle Association of India`s selection committee picked the shotgun team that has 10 shooters competing in six events. The rifle/pistol team for the event, to be held in Glasgow from July 23 to August 3, was selected last month. The shooters were LONDON, May 31 (Re- chosen on the basis of uteRs): Lewis Hamilton scores in the selection trihas cleared the air with Mercedes Formula One team mate Nico Rosberg after the title-chasing pair fell out at last weekend's MuMbai, May 31 Monaco Grand Prix. The (Pti): The run-outs of Briton, who lost the overall Suresh Raina and Brenlead in the championship don McCullum saw Chento Rosberg on Sunday after nai Super Kings lose mothe German ended Ham- mentum when chasing the ilton's run of four wins in huge target set by Kings XI a row, took to Twitter on Punjab in the IPL QualiFriday to declare fences fier 2, said CSK`s coach had been mended. "We've Stephen Fleming after his been friends a long time side lost by 24 runs at the and as friends we have our Wankhede Stadium. ups and downs. Today we "We did not feel we spoke and we're cool, still were out of the game and friends #noproblem," declared the 2008 champion. certainly the first six overs The Tweet was accom- showed how good the pitch panied by a link to a photo- was. Tough chasing that graph of the two, together amount of runs over a peon unicycles and smiling, riod of time you are going from their teenage years. to get setbacks but there`s The Briton had been dis- no doubt those two runs tinctly unsmiling in Mo- outs were instrumental naco after Rosberg took a in our losing our momencontroversial pole posi- tum," said Fleming after his tion and went on to win side ended at 202 for seven the showcase race for the chasing KXIP`s ground resecond successive year. cord score of 226 for six. "We lost Suresh and the Hamilton had suggested after qualifying that Ros- run out of Brendon were berg had deliberately run two key moments of the wide in the final seconds, game, that`s why we stutbringing out yellow warn- tered during middle and ing flags and forcing him to later parts of the chase. slow when he might have They also bowled well, gone faster than the Ger- bang on target. It was tough man. "We are not friends, for bowlers as 420-odd runs we are colleagues," he had were scored. Their execution was betsaid after the race.

Hamilton says has cleared the air with Nico Rosberg

as maybe he has on our national stage, where we all accept him as being an outstanding player," Hodgson said. "This is your chance," Hodgson added in a direct appeal to Rooney. "This is the world stage, the perfect opportunity for him to prove to people in the world what we already know, that he is a very, very gifted footballer." While Rooney could arrive in Brazil a frustrated figure following a surprisingly miserable season with United, Liverpool exceeded expectations by finishing second — and England could reap the re-

LONDON, May 31 (aP): Underwhelming up front and uneasy at the back — but England still signed off with a victory at Wembley Stadium before the World Cup. Only one forward contributed a goal in the 3-0 victory over Peru on Friday, with Daniel Sturridge's deft strike in the first half breaking the dreary deadlock. But coach Roy Hodgson was still encouraged that his players managed to successfully exploit Peru's inability to defend set pieces to extend their lead in the second half. From two corners in a five-minute span, Gary Cahill and Phil Jagielka both netted in England's first friendly since the 23-man World Cup squad was named. "It didn't look as if it would be too comfortable in the first half, but as soon as Daniel scored that wonderful goal the game wasn't in doubt," Hodgson said. "To do it in front of 85,000 people was a great send-off, the atmosphere was a vote of confidence. "When you play against teams with 10 men behind the ball you have to be patient but I had no doubt we would win." England heads over the weekend to Miami to play friendlies against Ecuador and Honduras before flying onto Brazil. In the Florida sun, it will be Wayne Rooney in particular with a lot to prove after the striker failed to come close to scoring in north London. "We think we know where he is, how his fitness is being maintained or progressing," Hodgson said. "His attitude and commitment are first-class, even in a game of this nature. He has two more weeks to keep that going." Although England was in control in the first half, there were anxious moments due to sloppiness that provided openings for the ineffective Peruvians, who didn't qualify for Brazil. When Rooney conceded possession early on, Jean Deza was able to unleash a dipping shot that Joe Hart saved, one of several openings for the winger on his debut. And in the second half, defender Glen Johnson gave the ball away too easily inside his own half, allowing Andre Carrillo to break forward and release Deza to shoot. Peru goalkeeper Raul Fernandez at first had little to do, with the hosts taking until the 19th minute to come close to finding the target, with Sturridge dragging a shot wide. The match was so dreary that England fans made paper airplanes out of the cardboard used for a pre-match mosaic. But Sturridge produced a goal out of nowhere with England's meaningful effort in the 32nd. A throw-in from Glen Johnson reached his Liverpool teammate, who placed the ball high into the net beyond Fernandez. That aside, throughout the first half Fernandez didn't have a save to make, while Hart was called into action just before the break, coming off his line to deny Luis Ramirez with his left boot. This wasn't the rousing send-off England fans had hoped for, with the creativity missing and anxious moments. But the pair of goals from defenders added gloss to the win. Cahill first met Jagielka's corner in the crowded penalty area, planting a header into the net in the 65th.

als held earlier this month at the ISSF Shotgun World Cup in Almaty. "The pair events have been deleted from the program of Commonwealth Games 2014 and this has brought down the number of medals in the Commonwealth Games 2014, compared to Commonwealth Games 2010," the NRAI said in a statement. "Moreover, two pistol events, Centre Fire Pistol and Standard Pistol events have also been deleted and women Double Trap and Skeet women events have been added on the program of Games 2014 in place of these two events," it added. The team also has recent ISSF World Cup win-

ner Manavjit Singh Sandhu, Heena Sidhu and London Olympics bronze medallist Gagan Narang. In the last Commonwealth Games at home, Indian shooters won 14 gold, 11 silver and five bronze medals. Shooting alone contributed 30 out of 101 medals won by India. Team: 50m rifle 3 Position men: Sanjeev Rajput, Gagan Narang. 50m rifle Prone men: Gagan Narang, Joydeep Karmakar. 10m rifle men: Abhinav Bindra, Ravi Kumar 25m rapid fire pistol men: Vijay Kumar, Harpreet Singh. 50m pistol men: Jitu Rai, Gurpal Singh. 10m pistol men: P N

Prakash, Om Prakash. 50m 3 rifle position women: Lajja Gauswami, Elizabeth Susan Koshy. 50m rifle prone women: Lajja Gauswami, Meena Kumari. 10m rifle women: Ayonika Paul, Apurvi Chandela. 25m pistol women: Rahi Sarnobat, Anisa Sayyed. 10m pistol women: Heena Sidhu, Malaika Goel Trap men: Manavjit Singh Sandhu, Mansher Singh. Double Trap men: Mohd Asab, Ankur Mittal. Skeet men: Mairaj Ahmad Khan, Baba PS Bedi. Trap women: Shreyasi Singh, Seema Tomar. Double Trap women: Shreyasi Singh, Varsha Varman. Skeetwomen:ArtiSinghRao.

Col. N. K. Narayan with the Champions

DiMaPuR, May 31 (MexN): Headquarters 9 Sector emerged victors of the Assam Rifles Inter Sector Football Championship. In a tense and pulsating final played at Shokhuvi Football Ground, 9 Sector beat 5 Sector 2-0 to claim the

championship. 12 teams representing the 12 Sectors participated in the tournament which got underway on May 21 and concluded on May 30. A press release from the PRO informed. Col. N. K. Narayan, Deputy Commandant, ARTC & S, presented the coveted

DGAR Soccer Championship Trophy and Runnerup Trophy to the teams and Gold, Silver & Bronze medals to the players. 27 Sect finished in 3rd position. Rifleman D Chunga of 22 Sector was awarded the Golden Boot for scoring the highest number of goals.

Run-outs of Raina, McCullum saw CSK lose momentum: Fleming ter than us," said the former Kiwi skipper after his side failed to make it six out of seven finals in IPL history. Raina belted 6 sixes and 12 fours in a knock of 87 in 25 balls before he was run out brilliantly by rival captain George Bailey off the first ball post powerplay, which yielded 100 runs. New Zealand captain McCullum, who is known for big hitting, was run out six overs later for 11 and from then on the Super Kings were left to play catchup though captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni tried his best making an unbeaten 42 in 31 balls that narrowed the margin of defeat. "We lost wickets at regular intervals once we lost Suresh (Raina). It`s very hard, the pressure of chasing a big target and you really need a big partnership of substance and a very big score. 85 (in fact 87) was a wonderful score, but we probably needed 140 out of Suresh and the other guys to bat around them. He could have won the match for us quite easily if he been around for 3-4 more overs," he added.

Suresh Raina of The Chennai Superkings after getting run out during the 2nd qualifier match of the Pepsi Indian Premier League Season 2014 between the Kings XI Punjab and the Chennai Superkings held at the Wankhede Cricket Stadium, Mumbai on May 30. Photo by BCCI

Fleming praised Virender Sehwag`s stupendous knock of 122, which came off just 58 balls and contained 8 sixes and 12 fours, and said his players had talked about his amazing ability in the run-up to the

make or break game. "Unfortunately it was very good. He gave me lot of headaches when I was captain of New Zealand and I thought those days were gone. That was vintage Sehwag today, wasn`t it? He

was wonderful. "The boys have been talking about him, were wary about him. On a good pitch he is still a very dangerous player. Today he rolled back the clock, ran hard be-

tween the wickets, hit the ball cleanly. "I was very impressed with the innings he put together and the length of the innings as well. He was instrumental in giving them that big score." Fleming was candid to say this season Kings XI batsmen had the wood on his team`s bowling attack and in fact relished it. "Looking at the games played against KXIP, they have taken a liking to our bowling. They have been very aggressive this year and done well against us, (Gkenn) Maxwell twice and Sehwag once. It can happen in a tournament like this. "In some ways we expected a high-scoring game especially at this ground which has seen some big scores. In the last game played here 190 was scored in 14 overs." Fleming explained the promotion of Jadeja ahead of Dhoni and said the team wanted to have a left-right combination to tackle the rival spinners at that stage. "They had a leg spinner (Karanveer Singh) and a

left-arm spinner(Akshar Patel). For the left hander it`s a distinct advantage when you are playing aggressively. Jadeja`s role was to upset the leg spinner which he did and continue the momentum of the game so that they have to change their tactic and we could maintain a left-right combination (at the crease). "It`s not an uncommon tactic to use. If you had watched the IPL most teams do it. Because it`s easier to have a spin bowler having to adjust to a left and right hander and left hander has more success against a leg spinner and a left arm spinner." Fleming said the IPL has seen big innings and scores when the batsmen have played with freedom in achieving specific targets. "It?s amazing isn`t it when the guys put their minds to it, just play with that freedom. We saw some great play in the games where teams needed to get the runs in certain amount of overs and that seems to free up the players.

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Heat beats Pacers to enter NBA Finals

MIAMI, MAy 31 (AP): For the entirety of the regular season, the supremacy of the Miami Heat in the Eastern Conference was brought into serious question by the Indiana Pacers. Then came the playoffs. And the question was answered — emphatically. The Heat became the third franchise in NBA history to reach the title series in four consecutive seasons, a laugher of a conference-title finale getting them there again Friday night. LeBron James and Chris Bosh each scored 25 points, and Miami eliminated the Pacers for the third straight year with a 117-92 romp in Game 6 of the East championship series. "I'm blessed. Very blessed. Very humbled," James said. "And we won't take this opportunity for granted. It's an unbelievable franchise, it's an unbelievable group. And we know we still have work to do, but we won't take this for granted. We're going to four straight Finals and we will never take this for granted." Dwyane Wade and Rashard Lewis each scored 13 points for Miami, which trailed 9-2 before ripping

Miami Heat forward Chris Andersen (11) blocks a shot to the basket by Indiana Pacers forward Chris Copeland (22) during the second half Game 6 in the NBA basketball playoffs Eastern Conference finals on Friday, May 30 in Miami. Heat forward Rashard Lewis (9) looks on. (AP Photo)

off 54 of the next 75 points to erase any doubt by halftime. The Heat set a franchise record with their 11th straight home postseason win, going back to the final two games of last season's NBA Finals, leading by 37 at one point. "The group loves to

compete and loves to compete at the highest level, and be pushed to new levels," Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said. Indiana led the East for much of the regular season, one where the Pacers were fueled by the memory of losing Game 7 of the East finals in Miami a year ago. So

they spent this season with a clear goal: Toppling Miami as kings of the East. The Pacers were two games better in the regular season. They were two games worse in the postseason. Game 7, this time, would have been in Indianapolis. The Pacers

Tennis players Serena Williams, left and Caroline Wozniacki pose with Miami Heat's Greg Oden and the NBA basketball Eastern Conference championship trophy, Friday, May 30, 2014, in Miami. (AP Photo)

just had no shot of making it happen, not on this night. "It's bitterly disappointing to fall short of our goals," Pacers coach Frank Vogel said. "It's bitterly disappointing to lose to this team three years in a row. But we're competing against the Michael

Jordan of our era, the Chicago Bulls of our era, and you have to tip your hats to them for the way they played this whole series." Paul George had 29 points for Indiana, David West scored 16 and Lance Stephenson — booed all night — finished with

11. "No regrets. All of us played hard. They were just the better team, and they won," Stephenson said. So now, the Celtics and Lakers have some company. Until Friday, they were the only teams in NBA history to reach the Finals in four straight years. The Heat

have joined them, and their quest for a third straight title starts in either San Antonio or Oklahoma City on Thursday night. "It's all about 15 special men and what they've been able to accomplish these last four years," said Heat managing general partner Micky Arison, who handed the East title trophy to Greg Oden. "Just a little bit more work to do, but I'm really proud of the incredible job that these guys have done." The way they played in Game 6 made a prophet out of Bosh, who predicted Miami would play its best game of the season. The numbers suggested he was right, and then some. Miami's largest lead at any point this season, before Game 6, was 36 points. Indiana's largest deficit of the season had been 35 points. After a layup by James with 3:39 left in the third, the margin in this one was a whopping 37 — 86-49. James' night ended not long afterward. "It was just one of those games that we want to play from beginning to end," Bosh said. "Here on our home court, we wanted to make a statement."

Kuznetsova downs Kvitova in French Open marathon Halep cruises, Ivanovic ousted in Paris

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PArIs, MAy 31 (AFP): Svetlana Kuznetsova won a threehour 13 minute thriller to defeat Petra Kvitova 6-7 (3/7), 6-1, 9-7 and reach the French Open last-16 Saturday as the tournament lost the fourth of its top five seeds. In the longest match of the women`s tournament, 2009 winner Kuznetsova capitalised on fifth-seeded Kvitova`s 65 unforced errors and 10 double faults to set-up a fourth round clash with another Czech, Lucie Safarova. Former Wimbledon champion Kvitova, a semi-finalist in 2012, had enjoyed a 3-0 career edge over the Russian going into Saturday`s clash, but her efforts were undermined by twice needing medical timeouts to treat a back injury. She saved two match points in the 12th game of the decider but the inconsistencies which continue to plague her bighitting game saw her twice fail to serve out the tie in the 10th and 14th games of the third set. Kuznetsova, playing in her 12th consecutive Roland Garros, will next face Kvitova`s Fed Cup teammate Safarova who put out Serb 11th seed Ana Ivanovic, the 2008 champion, 6-3, 6-3. It was left-handed Safarova`s fifth successive victory against Ivanovic as she booked a place in the last 16 in Paris for the first time since 2007. Fourth-seeded Simona Halep, the highestranked woman left, made the last 16 for the first time as the Romanian continued to escape the Roland Garros carnage. The 22-year-old brushed aside Spain`s Maria-Teresa TorroFlor 6-3, 6-0 and next tackles 15th seeded American Sloane Stephens. Halep, 22, has lost just 11 games in three rounds in Paris. In contrast, the failure of Serena Williams, Li Na and Agnieszka Radwanska to get beyond the third round marked the first time in the Open era that the top three seeds had gone out before the last 16. Halep, relegated to Court 2 for her third round match, finished off Torro-Flor in just 64 minutes. "I feel stronger now than last year, and I started to play more aggressive like I did in juniors when I won here in 2008," said Halep, who has collected all of her seven career titles since the start of 2013. "So I found my good way to play, and I found a way to be relaxed on court and just to take the pleasure without pressure." Stephens, 21, reached the fourth round for a third successive year thanks to a 6-3, 6-4 win over Russian left-hander Ekaterina Makarova. Stephens had defeated Makarova in their only other previous meeting which took place in Paris in the first round two years ago. "I`m happy to get the job done early," said the American. "It`s

my third time in the last 16. Paris is awesome. Now I hope to go to the next step and get another win." Later Saturday, Serb sixth seed Jelena Jankovic, a three-time semi-finalist, plays Romania`s Sorana Cirstea, a quarterfinalist in 2009. Sara Errani, the Italian 10th seed who was runner-up to Maria Sharapova in 2012, faces Israel`s Julia Glushko. France`s Kristina Mladenovic, who put out Li Na in the first round, hopes to make the last 16 of a major for the first time when she faces German 28th seed Andrea Petkovic. Petkovic won their only other meeting just down the road from Roland Garros at the Paris Indoor event earlier this year. The winner of that match will face either Spain`s Silvia Soler-Espinosa or Dutch qualifier Kiki Bertens, the world number 148.

Russia's Svetlana Kuznetsova clenches her fist as she plays Petra Kvitova of the Czech Republic during the third round match of the French Open tennis tournament at the Roland Garros stadium, in Paris on May 31. Kuznetsova won 6-7, 6-1, 9-7. (AP Photo)

Nadal moves into last 16 at French Open

PArIs, MAy 31 (AFP): Rafael Nadal produced another imposing display of claycourt tennis at Roland Garros on Saturday to crush Argentinian Leonardo Mayer 6-2, 7-5, 6-2 and reach the last 16 of the French Open. Seeking to become the first man to win five straight titles in Paris and the first to win nine times at the same Grand Slam, Nadal has lost just 19 games in getting to the last 16. At the same stage last year en route to his eighth French Open title, Nadal had dropped two sets and lost 48 games. Mayer, ranked 65th in the world, had little to offer as Nadal led from the start and was able to play well within his limits and still race away with the match. The only blip came

in the eighth game of the second set when Mayer broke for the first time in the match to level at 4-4. But minutes later Nadal snuffed out any nascent threat to go two sets clear and the outcome was a formality after that. The Spaniard's record at Roland Garros since 2005 is now 62 wins for one loss, that coming against Robin Soderling of Sweden in a 2009 fourth round match. Next up for the Spaniard, who will turn 28 on Tuesday, is littleknown Serb Dusan Lajovic, who saw off American hope Jack Sock 6-4, 7-5, 6-3. Asked if he would asking for advice on how to tackle Nadal from fellow Serb Novak Djokovic, Lajovic wryly Spain's Rafael Nadal celebrates winning the third round replied: "Yeah, I will try to match of the French Open tennis tournament against Argentina's Leonardo Mayer at the Roland Garros stadium, in ask everybody some tips against Rafa. Paris, France, Saturday, May 31. (AP Photo)

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