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By Sandemo Ngullie

I don`t care who won. I want to know why I lost.

Model Code of Conduct ends KOHIMA, MAY 20 (MExN): The office of the Nagaland CEO has informed that the Election Model Code of Conduct has ceased to be in operation from immediate effect. The Model Code of Conduct has been lifted as results for all parliamentary constituencies in India have been declared and “Due Constitution” notification has been issued as per directive of the Election Commission of India.

Naga Hoho informs DIMAPUR, MAY 20 (MExN): A consultative meeting of Naga Civil Societies and Coordination Committee of Border Protection Karbi Anglong and Karbi Peace Forum will be held on May 23 at Hotel Acacia Dimapur from 11:00 am onwards.A press note from the Naga Hoho directed the Naga Students’ Federation, Naga Women Hoho Dimapur, Naga Council Dimapur and Naga Peoples’ Movement for Human Rights to attend the same positively.

DEO Kohima notifies KOHIMA, MAY 20 (MExN): The District Education Officer, Kohima has informed the beneficiaries/ Head of Govt/ Private Schools under Kohima District to collect the PreMatric Minority Scholarship for the session 2013 along with a copy of 2013 result sheet within the month of May 2014. The press note issued by Senthang, District Education Officer, Kohima added that the office will not entertain any beneficiaries after the expiry date.

Forced labor: US$150 billion a year business

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GENEVA, MAY 20 (AP): Trafficking, forced labor and modern slavery are big business generating profits estimated at $150 billion a year, the U.N. labor agency said Tuesday. The report by the International Labor Organization finds global profits from involuntary workers — an estimated 21 million of them — have more than tripled over the past decade from its estimate of at least $44 billion in 2005.

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Thai army declares martial law, denies coup

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‘An era of responsibility has begun’

NEw DElHI, MAY 20 (IANS): An era of responsibility and hope has begun, said PM-designate Narendra Modi who became emotional while addressing the party’s newly-elected MPs after being unanimously elected leader of the BJP parliamentary party Tuesday, a formality that set in motion a constitutional process that will culminate in his forming a new Indian government next week.

Addressing the party MPs and other leaders in the Central Hall of parliament, which he visited for the first time and where he went down on his knees to touch his forehead to the steps leading to it in reverence to the ‘temple of democracy’, Modi said the majority given to the BJP in the Lok Sabha was “a vote for hope and faith.”

“A government should be one that works for the poor and this is why the new government is committed to the poor of the country and dedicated to the youth of the country as well as our mothers and daughters,” said Modi, adding: “The celebrations, excitement will go on but the era of responsibility has begun.”

Modi’s name was proposed by party elder L.K. Advani and seconded by other senior leaders including Murli Manohar Joshi, M. Venkaiah Naidu, Nitin Gadkari, Sushma Swaraj and Arun Jaitley.

There was excitement in the air in the Central Hall as newly-elected BJP MPs arrived early and greeted each other with hugs and

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Past Prime Ministers of india of better days

India’s next prime minister and Bharatiya Janata Party leader Narendra Modi displays the letter from the Indian President inviting him to form the new government, outside the Presidential Palace in New Delhi on May 20. Modi met with President Pranab Mukherjee after he was formally chosen by his party as the next prime minister. (AP Photo)

Narendra Modi will be sworn-in India’s 14th prime minister Monday, May 26. The following is the list of the past prime ministers: 1. Jawaharlal Nehru (Aug 15, 1947-May 27, 1964/ Four terms) 2. Lal Bahadur Shastri (June 9, 1964-Jan 11, 1966) 3. Indira Gandhi (Jan 24, 1966-March 24, 1977; Jan 14, 1980-Oct 31, 1984/Four terms) 4. Morarji Desai (March 24, 1977-July 28, 1979) 5. Charan Singh (July 28, 1979-Jan 14, 1980) 6. Rajiv Gandhi (Oct 31, 1984-Dec 2, 1989) 7. Vishwanath Pratap Singh (Dec 2, 1989-Nov 10, 1990) 8. Chandra Shekhar (Nov 10, 1990-June 21, 1991) 9. P.V. Narasimha Rao (June 21, 1991-May 16, 1996) 10. Atal Bihari Vajpayee (May 16, 1996-June 1, 1996; March 19, 1998-May 22, 2004/Three terms) 11. H.D. Deve Gowda (June 1, 1996-April 21, 1997) 12. Inder Kumar Gujral (April 21, 1997-March 19, 1998) 13. Manmohan Singh (May 22, 2004-May 17, 2014/ Two terms) Source: IANS

President appoints Modi as PM, to take oath on May 26

NEw DElHI, MAY 20 (AGENcIES): President Pranab Mukherjee Tuesday formally appointed Narendra Modi as the next prime minister of India after the latter met him, along with senior leaders of his party and the National Democratic Alliance, and staked claim to forming a government. He will take his oath next Monday, May 26, as India’s 14th prime minister. embraces. As soon as Modi arrived, he was thronged

by MPs wishing to congratulate him. As Modi spoke, he was repeatedly cheered with thumping of desks.

There were moist eyes with Advani also admitting that he was overwhelmed by the occasion. The BJP is returning to power after ten long years.

The BJP parliamentary party meeting was followed

“Narendra Modi, Leader of the BJP parliamentary party, called on the president today. As Narendra Modi has been elected leader of the BJP Parliamentary Party and BJP has the majority support in the House of the People, the president appointed Narendra Modi as the Prime Minister of India and requested him to advise the names of others to be appointed members of the coun-

by that of the party-led National Democratic Alliance in which several of the 29 allies felicitated Modi.

Modi later met President Pranab Mukherjee and staked claim to forming the government. The Modi-led BJP won a staggering 282 seats in the 545-member Lok Sabha, becoming the first non-Congress party since Independence to get a majority on its own. The

cil of ministers,” a communique from the Rashtrapati Bhavan, the presidential palace, said.

Speaking to reporters after the short meeting which lasted some 15 minutes, Modi said: “The president has given me a letter (of appointment)... the oath-taking ceremony will take place here (Rashtrapati Bhavan) on May 26 at 6 p.m.” “I thank all of you,” he told the hundreds of

Congress fell to an embarrassing tally of 44 seats, its lowest ever.

Referring to his humble origins, Modi said it was due to democracy in the country that he was “in the Central Hall today”. Modi said he never felt dejected.

“Only optimistic people can enthuse others. We have to leave pessimism.”

“Responsibility given by the organization has to be

media persons gathered in the Rashtrapati Bhavan forecourt, and showed the letter that he had received from the president. The oath-taking will take place in the expansive forecourt of Rashtrapati Bhavan and will be telecast live to the nation. It would be the first time, as Modi himself pointed out, that someone from the post-Independence generation would lead the country.

performed with a sense of purity,” Modi said and added that he had done the same when he was declared prime ministerial candidate of the party in September last year. Calling himself a disciplined soldier and vowing to work for the “poorest of the poor”, Modi said he would present his government’s report card in 2019, exactly five years from now.

He added it would be for the first time that the government would be formed under the leadership of a person who was born in Independent India.

“We did not get the chance to die for the country but people have given us a chance to live for the country. Every second and each part of the body should be used in the service of the country,” he stated.

for north east DIMAPUR, MAY 20 (MExN): MP elect from Nagaland state and current Chief Minister, Neiphiu Rio today expressed hope for “better days ahead” for the people of the North East, while speaking at the NDA parliamentary meeting in New Delhi on Tuesday.

Rio, who was introduced to the house by BJP senior leader, LK Advani, remarked: “It is a proud moment for me to be a part and parcel of this great alliance.” The Nagaland CM informed that he had decided to contest for the Lok Sabha seat from Nagaland state after meeting with the Prime Minister in waiting Narendra Modi.

Rio expressed optimism that he would be able to take on bigger responsibilities “for my state, the North East and in building the nation,” and asserted that the NPF is committed to the NDA alliance. He recalled how former Prime Minister, Atal Bihari Vaypayee had granted many packages and lamented that the NDA’s loss in 2004 had proved detrimental to Nagaland.

Rio further called upon leaders at the centre to focus on the NE and address problems faced by people in the region. “We would not like to be a liability to the country but a contributor in building the nation,” he added. The Nagaland CM also accompanied the NDA delegation led by Modi to meet the President of India. The delegation submitted a letter to the President stating that Modi has been elected as President of the BJP parliamentary party.

empowering women Nagaland vehicles left Public apprehend ‘tax stranded; bandh lifted collectors’ at Doyang at the grassroots level Our Correspondent

Chiephobozou | May 20

A door of opportunity has been opened to the Naga women through the platform of Poorna Shakti Kendra (PSK), launched this year by Nagaland Governor, Dr. Ashwani Kumar, along with the rest of the country.

Marking the formal start of Mission Poorna Shakti in Nagaland, Social Welfare Secretary, Bei-u Angami inaugurated the Block Convergence & Facilitation Centre (BCFC) and Village Convergence & Facilitation Centre (VCFC) here this morning in the presence of officials from Nagaland State Social Welfare Board (NSSWB), State Resource Centre for Women (SRCW) and several other dignitaries.

Chiephozobou block, 26 km away from state capital Kohima has been chosen as PSK pilot project in Nagaland. It will cover 10 villages - Nerhema Model Village, Chiechama, Teichuma, Gariphema, Seiyhama Bawe, Seiyhama Basa, Botsa, Tuophema, Tsiemekhuma Bawe and Tsiemekhuma Basa.

Bei-u expressed optimism that the PSK will push womenfolk forward and strengthen their position in the areas of education, socio-economic and health care. Stressing on the need for inclusive growth, he challenged the gathering to have an action oriented approach to translate the mission into a reality. He maintained that dedication, sincerity and loyalty are requisite for successful implementation of this pilot project.

BCFC at Chiephobozou will identify the gaps and review the whole gamut at the block level while VCFC in all 10 villages will act as information dissemination kiosk to get the villagers acquainted on women’s welfare schemes and programmes of the vari-

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oorna Shakti Kendra (PSK) is the focal point of action on ground through which the services to women at grassroot level would be facilitated. The mission aims to provide a common platform to facilitate convergence of benefits under the programmes of the various ministries and departments of the central government. The mission will facilitate synergy in implementation of these programmes through their convergence at the state, district and block levels.

The ultimate objective is to achieve inter-sectoral convergence of all pro-women and women centric programmes across various departments of the government and place the women’s empowerment concerns at the heart of public policy and governance. PSK under National Mission for Empowerment of Women (NMEW) was launched by the Government of India in 2010 with the view to empower women holistically.

ous departments, said SRCW mission director Daisy Mezhur. The Centre will also figure out the suitable projects and on the need base, she added.

NSSWB chairperson Bano Vinito urged the women leaders of the respective villages to make a good start, adding that the success of this pilot project would determine the further expansion of the PSK’s wing to other districts of the state. The formal process and activity of the Mission Poorna Shakti will start from today with the inauguration of the BCFC and VCFC, she said. SRCW assistant state coordinator Avinuo Kire stated that 10 line departments will be connected to Mission Poorna Shakti in Nagaland.

Chiephobozou, ADC Bodeno also encouraged the women folk to come forward and derive maximum benefit from this mission.

DIMAPUR, MAY 20 (MExN): Several vehicles from Nagaland were stranded for hours on Tuesday in the Dimapur-Assam border, as Assam Police prevented the vehicles from entering the Assam side of the border. A 72 hour bandh called by the Karbi People’s Liberation Front (KPLT) on May 17 was scheduled to end at 5:00 am, May 20. However it was informed that a “miscommunication” between the KPLT command and its cadres compelled Assam Police to prevent the Nagaland vehicles from proceeding towards Assam due to safety concerns.

Sources from Dimapur Police stated that the KPLT General Secretary had previously informed that the bandh would end as scheduled. However, owing to a “communication gap” between the cadres and the high command, the bandh could not be lifted at the scheduled time. By late afternoon, it was informed that the situation was resolved and that the stranded vehicles were allowed to enter Assam. The KPLT had called for the 72 hour bandh as a mark of respect to six of its cadres, who were killed by security forces on May 14.

DIMAPUR, MAY 20 (MExN): Two persons, who were collecting taxes from commercial vehicles, were apprehended by the public at the Merapani-Wokha road, Doyang on May 20. According to reports from Wokha, the duo were assaulted before the police intervened and took them into custody.

Two other accomplices are reported to have escaped.

But the incident did not stop there as an angry crowd later gheraoed the Wokha Police Station demanding that the duo be handed over to them. The situation calmed after the district administration and NGOs intervened.

According to a report from the

Wokha police, the duo was apprehended by members of the All Commercial Vehicles Association (ACVA), Wokha District at around 5:00 pm and handed over to the police. The day’s incident was the result of the All Commercial Vehicles Association (ACVA), Wokha District responding to the frequent menace of extortion along the Merapani-Wokha road.

The report stated that one revolver along with 5 rounds and demand notes were confiscated from the possession of the duo. According to the police, they were identified as Wonthungo Ngullie and Amento Sema, both cadres of the NSCN (IM).

2004 BoMB BlAsts triAl: Camp TR may meet Another Defendant dies in jail Nagaland Gov soon Morung Express News Dimapur | May 20

It has been a year now since police filed charges in court against nine people accused of complicity in the 2004 Dimapur twin blasts. Initially, ten suspects were rounded up by the SIT probing the blasts.

However now, only eight remain.

One of the accused passed away in April of this year whereas the other had reportedly committed suicide while in police custody in 2010.

The accused who passed away in April 2014, identified as Hukum Ali, died of natural causes in jail, the Jail Authority informed.

The officiating in-charge of Jails, Nagaland, ADGP (Ops), Lungriading stated on May 20 that as per the report, Ali died at the Sub-jail

in Dimapur in February following an illness. Post mortem could not be conducted due to his family’s refusal, it was informed. The deceased Ali, according to the report filed by the SIT, was the leader of the group that planted the bomb at the railway station in October 2, 2004.

Meanwhile, court hearing of the case is yet to go past the witness examination stage. A hearing on May 20 had the Deputy Commissioner, Dimapur and the Investigating Officer deposing as the prosecution witnesses at the District Sessions court. Prosecution witnesses failing to turn up at hearings are slowing the pace of the trial. As many as 23 witnesses are set to be examined as the trial progresses.

KOHIMA, MAY 20 (NEPS): Newly elected leader of the NPF Legislature Party and Minister for Planning and Coordination, TR Zeliang, who was in Delhi accompanying newly elected Nagaland MP and Chief Minister, Neiphiu Rio since May 17, has rushed to Kohima to allay fear of restless MLAs loyal to him.

The concerned MLAs, numbering about 37, have been holed up at Hotel Japfu since then. Apart from 27 NPF MLAs, other MLAs from its allies BJP and JD (U), including NCP and Independent MLAs are also present at the hotel.

According to highly placed sources, TR Zeliang, along with MLAs supporting him, may meet the Nagaland Governor, Dr Ashwani Kumar in the next two or three days for formation of the next government in Nagaland state under Zeliang’s leadership. It is also reported that more than half of the current Nagaland Cabinet Ministers may not find Ministerial berths in the next government. However, some senior Ministers, who are key and crucial, may be retained. “This is extremely essential in view of the delicate political situation,” said one high profile legislator, who refused to be named.

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Our Correspondent Kohima | May 20

A customer purchases pork from a market at Purana Bazaar, Dimapur. The prices of pork and beef timely reviewed and fixed by DMC are seldom implemented by the butchers making the ignorant customers shell out Rs. 10 to Rs. 30 more per kilo of meat.

DMC has actually never been able to control the rate charged by the butchers. Naga Rice Hotels Union, Dimapur has recently raised this issue that is supported by the Nagaland Hotel & Restaurant Association and urged the DMC to instruct butchers to display the rate fixed by it. In many places outside Nagaland, shops selling pork, beef, chicken etc are required to display the rates outside the shops. Many shops display the rates in a small slate/black board written with chalk. (Photo by Imojen I Jamir)

MEx File DEOs and SDEOs informed KOHIMA, MAY 20 (MExN): All DEOs and SDEOs have been directed to order every school under their respective jurisdictions to put in place safety measures and mechanisms and also a contingency plan in the event of any eventuality and submit the Action Taken Report to the Directorate of School Education on or before May 31 without fail. The order was issued by Kesonyü Yhome, IAS, Principal Director, Directorate of School Education. It added that the provision of safe, clean and uncontaminated food to school children under Mid Day Meal Scheme is paramount and cannot be compromised under any circumstances.

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DIMApur, MAY 20 (MExN): The Dimapur district excise personnel manning Chumukedima check gate seized 41 cases of rum and two cases of canned beer from a Maruti Gypsy (U/R) on May 20. In this regard, one accused identified as Alemba (23) has been arrested and booked under NLTP Act 1989. According to a press release issued by superintendent of excise & prohibition, Dimapur KY Sangtam, the vehicle was travelling from Dimapur to Kohima. KY sangtam, the superintendent has lauded the effort of the excise personnel manning the Chumukedima check gate under the command of Jungti Jamir, AIE.

Mary Help of Christians Parish to celebrate silver jubilee

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Donation of animals increases at Nagaland Zoological Park

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KOHIMA, MAY 20 (MExN): The Mary Help of Christians Parish, Cathedral Kohima will be celebrating its Silver Jubilee on May 24 and 25. Most Rev. Dominic Lumon, Archbishop of Imphal will be the main celebrant for the event. The program will start on May 24 at 5 pm with the unveiling of the jubilee monolith by the main Celebrant which will be followed by Marian Procession and will end with benediction. The program on May 25 will start at 9 am with the laying of the Foundation Stone of jubilee hall

by Most Rev Dominic Jala, Archbishop of Shillong. Introductory speech will be given by His Lordship, Most Rev Dr. James Thoppil, Bishop of Kohima Diocese. High Holy Eucharistic Mass will be celebrated by the main Celebrant, Most Rev. Dominic Lumon. A felicitation program will be followed including the release of souvenir and presentations followed by the Jubilee feast.

There is increased awareness among the public for donation of animals to the zoological park in Dimapur mainly because of the massive conservation awareness initiatives taken up through social media.

According to the annual administrative report of the state’s department of forest, ecology, environment & wildlife, the zoo received hundreds of different species of wild animals as donation in 2013, many of which were released in the wilderness within the park after some scientific study of their habitats.

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Public become active supporters of wildlife conservation in Nagaland logical Park is located in Rangapahar which is an initiative for ex-situ conservation and protection of our biodiversity. Several captive wild animals among which include a number of threatened and endangered species are exhibited in the park for education, research and recreational purposes apart from serving as a centre for conservation of wildlife in the region.

The zoo also has a deer park safari where spotted

deer are being kept as free ranging animals. Some of the unique species of birds and animals presently displayed are the endangered Hoolock Gibbon, Slow Loris, Forest Eagle Owl, Fish Owl and four species of Hornbill namely, Great Indian Hornbill, Oriental Pied Hornbill, Rufus Neck Hornbill and Wreathed Hornbill.

The report stated that awareness creation by the department for conservation of “our” wildlife

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wealth has been of immense success which is reflected from the positive response of the public.

The zoo has been enriched and the animal collections diversified mainly from animal donations by the public and different organizations who have become active supporters of wildlife conservation, the report stated, adding that many rare endangered wildlife particularly species subjected to illegal trade were rescued and donated to the zoo as a means to protect them.

The number of animal acquisition through public donation from January 2013 to January 2014 stands at 121, the report stated.

JFMC Old Jalukie selected for India Biodiversity Awards 2014

JAluKIE, MAY 20 (MExN): Joint Forest Management Committee (JFMC) Old Jalukie village has been selected for India Biodiversity Awards 2014 under the co-management category. The award ceremony is scheduled to be held on May 22 at Port Blair, Andaman & Nicobar Islands.

Range Forest Officer, Jalukie Range, Rampaukai Mpom in a press release informed that the India Biodiversity Awards instituted by the Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of India and UNDP (United Nations Development Programme) recognizes outstanding models of biodiversity governance and importantly the central role played by communities that are at the heart of any effort to conserve biodiversity. The award recognizes people, communities and agencies from across the country who has led effective models of biodiversity governance

including community-run institutions, local self-governance bodies, joint forest management committees and protected area management agencies engaged in preserving designated protected areas.

According to the note, JFMC Old Jalukie village was nominated by Peren Forest Division, seeing the committed effort rendered by the community for preservation of their village forest against all odds and against the backdrop of a fast diminishing biodiversity in the district due to over exploitation of forest resources. “In fact, the Old Jalukie community biodiversity reserve was locally declared by a village council resolution way back in 1986 and later on signed a MoU with Forest Department on 15th June 2012, stands tall as one pioneering community conservation initiatives in the region,” stated the release. “During the last few years of its effort, the community had successfully

merged the traditional system with the ethics of conservation, whereby certain governance systems were evolved that blend well with the traditional life of the community and some innovative practices for reduction of pressure on forest and alternative livelihood models were introduced.”

The conservation model, it said, has started a chain of policy change at many levels today; where many villages have come forward and set aside conservation areas in their respective villages as well as the District Planning & Development Board (DPDB) Peren successfully imposing total ban on hunting and fishing with poison in the district. Rampaukai Mpom acknowledged that this year’s award to be given to JFMC Old Jalukie is “indeed a deserving case and it surely is going to have a positive impact on run for biodiversity conservation in the State and the world at large.”

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Traditional escort: Nagas are well known for good hospitality rendered to their guests visiting villages or towns for any kind of occasion. Seen here are Chakhesang youth in traditional attire acting as escort during a certain occasion at Pfutsero in Phek district recently. (Morung Photo/Chizokho Vero)

Advocacy programme on HIV/AIDS held at Lotsu village Great Commission Kids Academy upgraded

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Nicky Kire to inaugurate directorate complex of employment & craftsmen training KOHIMA, MAY 20 (DIpr): The new directorate complex of Employment & Craftsmen Training, Nagaland located above High School junction here will be inaugurated on May 23 at 9 am by Parliamentary Secretary, Labour & Employment, Land Revenue and Law & Justice, Dr. Neikiesalie (Nicky) Kire. The programme will be chaired by Secretary to the Government of Nagaland, Labour & Employment Department, Wepretso Mero. Brief report on construction of the office complex will be given

by Executive Engineer CAWD, Er. Sungtiba Amer. Special number will be presented by I.T.I trainees and vote of thanks will be proposed by Director, Employment & Craftsmen Training, Muthingnyuba Sangtam.

DPRO Wokha visits Bhandari WOKHA, MAY 20 (DIpr): DPRO, Wokha officially visited APRO office Bhandari on May 10. He inspected the office, PA equipment and also had discussion with the staff of APRO Bhandari with regard to water supply and electricity which are the primary necessities at the department’s office at Bhandari. He also requested the staff to sincerely devote the time for the welfare of the department’s service.

WOKHA, MAY 20 (MExN): Legislators’ Forum on AIDS (LFA Nagaland) in collaboration with Center for Youth and Social Action (CYSA, Wokha) conducted a one day advocacy programme on HIV/AIDS at Lotsu village in Wokha district on May 14. The programme was attended by village leaders, church leaders, women leaders and several other institutional heads of seven different villages, informed a press release.

State-Consultant, LFA Nagaland, Dr. Vinito L. Chishi highlighted the basic information of HIV & AIDS and STI through PowerPoint presentation.

He urged upon the participants to give more effort to prevent HIV & AIDS in their own respective areas, as the leaders present could do much to stop the spread of the virus. Taking about stigma and discrimination, he emphasised that church and community should

join hands to encourage the drug users and sex workers to come out openly and get their blood tested from the health centres and also with the help of ICTC van provided with testing facilities attached with CYSA. He stated that community leaders and churches should closely work together and help them to develop health seeking behaviour without discrimination and judgemental attitude.

Welcome address was

delivered by VDB Secretary, Lotsu Village. A brief history and activities of LFA Nagaland was given by Project Assistant, LFA. Further, DAPCU Supervisor – Wokha gave a presentation on HIV/ AIDS scenario in Wokha district. Chairman Lotsu Village council, thanked the LFA Nagaland and CYSA for organizing the programme, and requested more programmes to be conducted in the area in near future for the benefit of all.

Commissioner and Secretary, School Education and SCERT, M Patton during the inauguration of Great Commission Higher Secondary School on May 20.

DIMApur, MAY 20 (MExN): The Great Commission Kids Academy inaugurated its higher secondary in Science stream as Great Commission Hr. Secondary School at Naga United village, Dimapur.

A press release informed that M. Patton, Commissioner and Secretary for School Education and SCERT, Nagaland graced the inauguration as the chief guest. Meanwhile,

Kuthoku Shijoh, VCC, Naga United Village extended thanks to Nagaland government and the chief guest on behalf of the community. Rev. Dr. Rabi Pame, Principal, UCTM invoked God’s blessing and Rev Dr. N. Toshi (Rev K. Luruo, State Chaplain) said the benediction. The inauguration was attended by church leaders, public leaders and well wishers, the note added.

Social welfare secretary inaugurates BCFC & VCFC at Chiephobozou ACKNOWLEDGMENT

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KOHIMA, MAY 20 (DIpr): Secretary, Department of Social Welfare, Bei-u Angami inaugurated the Block Convergence and Facilitation Centre & Village Convergence and Facilitation Centre of Mission Poorna Shakti Kendra at Chiephobozou Block, Kohima district on May 20.

Speaking on the occasion, Bei-u Angami urged all the women participants to work harder so as to bring their status at par with men. The government has initiated different schemes for the uplift of women in our society and this Poorna Shakti is one such scheme where every woman could avail the opportunities in the area of health, education, social or economic sectors, he Secretary of Social Welfare department speaking during the inauguration of said. Chiephobozou Block being BCFC & VCFC at Chiephobozou on May 20. the first block in Nagaland to have

started Mission Poorna Shakti should set an example to other districts, he added. The Poorna Shakti Kendra was started under Chiephobozou Block on a pilot project which covered 10 villages.

Chairperson, NSSWB, Bano Vinito delivered keynote address while Assistant State Coordinator, SRCW presented PowerPoint presentation on Poorna Shakti Kendra. Mission Director, SRCW, Daisy Mezhür highlighted on how the mission would move further. ADC Chiephobozou, Bodeno Colo also spoke on the occasion. Research Officer, SRCW, Meneno Vamuzo chaired the programme while invocation and vote of thanks were proposed by Catechist, St. Dominic Church, Duoneilie and Block Coordinator, BCFC, Ruokuosalie Rülho respectively.

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The members of the Cherry Blossoms Society and the school management would like to acknowledge and extend its sincere Gratitude to Smti. Kavita Datta, Lady Wife of Brig Monish Datta of the 5th sector Assam Rifles for distributing 15 sets of iron desk and benches to the school on 19th May. It is also to be mentioned that the Assam Rifles had been supporting the school on many occasion in the past for which the management shall ever remain grateful. May the Good Lord continue to Bless You.

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“Satan Worshiping” reportedly rising in NE Newmai News Network Shillong/Dimapur | May 20

Reports of alleged Satan worshiping are increasing by the year in the North East region. It was in Mizoram and then in Nagaland and now in Meghalaya. The East Khasi Hills district administration in Meghalaya has even went to the extent of clamping Prohibition Act such as Section 144 CrPC prohibiting 'devil worship' in the whole district.

Last month in Garo Hills in Meghalaya, some residents of Tura had seen young people indulging in Satan worship. Sources said these young people often loiter in the grave-yards

or other secluded places.

It can be recalled here that last year, church workers in Nagaland had experienced a harrowing time 'exorcising the devils' from the society.

A prominent church leader in Nagaland had commented last year on the purported rising number of Satan worshippers in the state, the alleged distribution of membership forms in the state has even fueled unnerved for many Christians in the state.

Early 2013, Rev. Zotuo Kiewhuo, a senior pastor and founder of Koinonia Baptist Church, Kohima had said that there were around 3000 devil worshipers in the state capital Na-

galand alone.

Amid intense speculations, a membership form of a group called "Awakening the Horror" was made available to Newmai News Network by a church pastor in Dimapur as recent as in the first week of July, 2013.

To be a member of this group, one has to submit the form after necessary descriptions are mentioned in the form along with Rs 20. The form says that the members of "Awakening the Horror" should help each other and fight jointly against anyone who attack any of the members.

Meanwhile, the church pastor who did not want to be identified told NNN that

these members of "Awakening the Horror" would meet once a week at a place in Chumukedima in the outskirt of Dimapur just around midnight. However, NNN attempted hard to ascertain the development but to no avail.

Meanwhile, to thwart the purported rise in the number of Satan worshippers, a ‘Transformation crusade’ was held last year in April with the theme ‘Arise and shine’ at Khuochiezie local ground in Kohima. Churches across Nagaland are also giving special times to pray so that the supposed Satan worhippers are done away.

Also last year in Mizoram sometime in Sep-

tember, one Lalrinmawia of Champhai Kanan Veng of Mizoram who identified himself as a worshiper of Satan and also a swindler, was arrested by Bawngkawn and Vaivakawn police.

Sources speculated that the kind of Satan which Lalrinmawia worshiped was much powerful and mightier than the evil worshiped by majority of Mizo youths. According to Lalrinmawia, they had a group of follower called 'DARK OF PRINCE' and there are only around 10 members in Mizoram among them includes female worshipers.

They usually worship Satan and practice its cult on first Wednesday of every month.

Wednesday 21 May 2014

ItANAgAr, MAy 20 (PtI): Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Nabam Tuki has cleared the implementation of the Lokayukta Bill which the state Assembly had passed in March. "This is a gift to the people of Arunachal Pradesh from a responsive government," sources quoted Tuki as having said after he signed the Bill yesterday on his first day in office following Congress's re-election in the state.

Passage of the Lokayukta Act was a commitment made in Congress's election manifesto this year, official sources pointed out today. Lokayukta is a quasi-judicial body which would act as a watchdog to pinpoint wrongdoings of the administration, look into complaints of victims of corruption and suggest measures to improve the efficiency of the government.

NPF Manipur submits complaint letter to ECI IMPHAL, MAy 20 (NNN): The Naga People's Front (NPF), Manipur State has submitted a complaint letter yesterday to the Chief Election Commissioner of India (E-ECI) that there were about 40-45 unclosed EVMs since April 9 to May 16 thereby flouting the prescribed norms and procedures of counting of votes by the Returning Officers (ROs) concerned of the Outer Manipur Parliamentary constituency during the 16th Lok Sabha election 2014. The NPF complaint letter mentioned each and every EVM number that were displayed INVALID but counted.

The complaint letter signed by NPF Manipur State general secretary Athuan Abonmai said there have been prima facie evidences that EVMs used in the polling of the 16s Lok Sabha election 20L4 of the seven assembly constituency segments of Thoubal district which are included in the Outer Manipur Parliamentary Constituency were found not closed till the morning of May 16 i.e., the counting day.

The NPF Manipur State complaint letter to the ECI said that around 40-45 EVMs were found to be in 'abnormal' condition. When the EVMs were opened for counting and we found those EVMs displaying 'INVALID' after the result button was pressed.

"On being objected, the RO concerned and his official staff warned our counting agents not to disturb the counting and then they bulldozed the count-

ing and the closed buttons were pressed in the morning of the counting day itself". It said the counting went ahead for more than 40 unclosed EVMs without listening to their objection.

"Therefore, we demand the ECI to declare the counting results of those polling stations of Thoubal district null and void, and, revisit those EVMs used during the polling of the 16th Lok Sabha Election 2014 particularly of those seven assembly constituency segments of OuterManipur Parliamentary constituency in Thoubal district and dispense justice in the matter," NPF Manipur unit stated.

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SHILLoNg, MAy 20 (IANS): Five UALA rebels were killed and a police officer was injured in a gun battle Tuesday, even as security forces foiled a terror plot in Meghalaya, a police officer said. A police spokesperson said three AK rifles, one pistol, five magazines and 108 rounds of ammunition were seized from the site of the encounter, while United Achik Liberation Army (UALA) chief Singbirth Marak alias Norrok X Momin managed to escape. The gun battle broke out at the UALA's hideout in Chiokgre area, 10 km from Williamnagar, the district headquarters of East Garo Hills, police officer Davies N.R. Marak told IANS. "Five UALA rebels died on the spot after the Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) and Combat Battalion for Resolute Action (CoBRA) commandos retaliated to indiscriminate firing from

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Secondly, our heartfelt congratulations to Shri.T.R Zeliang for being chosen as the next Chief Minister to head DAN III.As the Chief Minister, the union look forward to crucial economic and infrastructural development in all parts of the state. Furthermore, the Union request that in your capacity as the Chief Minister, the local contractors be favoured and supported. Lastly, the union wish you and the Government under your stewardship the very best.

With Shri. Neiphiu Rio moving to the centre and Shri. T.R Zeliang taking over as Chief Minister of our State, we look forward to a new symbiotic relationship between the Centre and the State Government, At this significant juncture, the union prays for meaningful cooperation amongst the DAN legislatures as a united party is a stable and formidable entity.

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The dead militants have been identified as Kalam R. Marak, Batnagar R. Marak, Dikdik Momin, Sengnang Sangma and Walle N. Marak from their identity cards.

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UALA is a splinter group of the breakaway faction of the Achik National Volunteers Council (ANVC-B) and is fighting for a separate Garoland, seeking that a state be carved out of Meghalaya comprising the five impoverished districts of Garo Hills.

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Modi may push ahead with diesel price deregulation

New Delhi, May 20 (PTi): Narendra Modi’s landslide victory gives him the mandate to deregulate diesel prices as well as raise natural gas rates with a clear road map towards free pricing to cut subsidies and shrink the budget deficit.

With the biggest election win in 30 years, the Modi-led National Democratic Alliance is expected to maintain the reforms momentum, ICICI Securities said in a research note.

While the outgoing United Progressive Alliance government had taken baby-steps towards freeing diesel prices by way of 40-50 paise a litre monthly increases since January 2013, it said “a clear majority should encourage the government to fast forward deregulation process through more frequent hikes (fortnightly or weekly). It can be more or less implied that deregulation is for sure.”

The Congress-led UPA had in June 2010 freed petrol prices and rates have largely moved in tandem with costs.

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any years ago in 1968 – Some time in March late Mr. R. Suisa (former MP, Manipur outer constituency and later advisor to the vice president NFG-NNC) addressed the school (mock) parliament of Tolloi Academy Manipur – delivering a marathon lecture of over 2 hrs. A man with impeccable integrity and outstanding oratory gift – he kept us spellbound and reactive. During interaction, I as the Prime Minister of school parliament asked Mr. R. Suisa whether the slogan (in the process of discussion then) “Nagaland for Christ” was a blasphemy or a healthy spiritual slogan to make the Nagas Christ conscious. Because I saw as a young man many national workers not living God-fearing lives. Mr. R. Suisa composedly replied, “Let us henceforth live for Christ”. However, down the years and till date- Naga national workers – overground and underground lived in Christianity but not in Christ! Lifestyle is too compromised and murky and in no way worthy to be the

and kerosene continue to be controlled. After 15 increases since January 2013, the retail price of diesel in Delhi is Rs 4.41 a litre short of costs.

This loss as well as those on domestic cooking gas (LPG) and kerosene are met through government subsidy and doles from oil and gas producers including Oil and Natural Gas Corp. Freeing diesel prices (linking them to costs, obviating the need for subsidy) would have trimmed the Rs 140,000 crore fuel subsidy in FY14 by about 36 percent.

The BJP had in its election manifesto promised to revive the economy from the slowest pace of growth in a decade and expedite foreign investments.

“As diesel deregulation becomes a certainty, the NDA might consider lowering the cap on LPG cylinders back to nine (from the current 12 bottles per household in a year),” ICICI Securities said.

On the UPA’s controversial decision to almost double natural gas prices to spur investment in stagnant oil and gas

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Marks & Spencer plans to open 100 stores in India

double-digit growth. The strong perforNew Delhi, May 20 (PTi): UK fashmance of our lingerie and beauty offer presion retailer Marks & Spencer has seen 13% ents us with an exciting growth opportugrowth in India sales compared to last year nity,” said Venu Nair, managing director of and plans to go up to 100 outlets in two Marks & Spencer, India. Overall, the group’s years, even in the backdrop of an overall depre-tax profit dropped 4% to 623 million cline in consumer spending. Globally, the pounds. International sales, however, rose group’s annual profit fell for a third year in 6.7%, with 23% of sales through the online row due to a drop in clothes’ sales. medium. In Europe, it grew by 3.9%.

The chain has 40 stores in India and China and India are key growth regions plans to go to 100 by 2016. Of the 55 stores for the company, which closed many stores the company opened globally last year, 10 in Ireland. M&S plans to aggressively exwere in India,, indicating its interest in this pand in China with its flagship centrally locountry where M&S operates in a joint vencated stores to open in Shanghai, Beijing and ture with Reliance Retail. Making a break from metros and big cities, M&S entered ucts in Mumbai amd is expected to roll out as Guangzhou. The company has 455 stores some tier-II locations last year, such as Ko- many as 20 outlets in that category by 2016. globally and operates across 54 countries. In chi, Kanpur and Surat. It recently launched a “During the year, our stores in India de- February, it opened its largest international dedicated store on lingerie and beauty prod- livered a good performance, with strong store in Kuwait, spread across 72,000 sq ft.

exploration and production, it said the NDA “might go ahead with the gas price hike (may tweak the formula) and also provide a road map towards free pricing.”

The Cabinet last year approved a formula suggested by a panel headed by C Rangarajan for pricing all domestic gas. The rate, which according to this formula would have risen to about USD 8.3 per million British thermal units from the current USD 4.2, couldn’t be notified due to the elections and the government under Modi is expected to decide on the matter.

“NDA government is expected to pay heed to concerns from E&P players for a road map towards free pricing of gas,” ICICI Securities said. “Considering many of deepwater gas discoveries are unviable even at USD 8 price levels, the government might consider a more practical approach towards pricing, maybe based on dynamics of fields - differentiating among deepwater, shallow water and onland fields.”

Bank unions to protest against Nayak panel’s recommendations CheNNai, May 20 (iaNS): Five bank unions will hold a nationwide protest Friday opposing the Nayak Committee recommendations, said a union leader. Members in their individual capacity will also voice their views before the Reserve Bank of India (RBI).

“Five unions will demonstrate across the country Friday against the Nayak Committee recommendations,” All India Bank Employees Association (AIBEA) general secretary C.H. Venkatachalam told IANS Tuesday. The four unions besides

AIBEA are All India Bank Officers’ Association (AIBOA), Bank Employees Federation of India (BEFI), Indian National Bank Employees Federation (INBEF) and Indian National Bank Officers Congress (INBOC).

The RBI had constituted an expert committee under the chairmanship of P.J. Nayak, former chairman of Axis Bank, to review governance of boards of banks in India. The committee submitted its report recently and the RBI asked for comments from the public on it by June 12, 2014.

Venkatachalam said the committee recommended reduction of government holding in public sector banks to less than 50 percent, merging government banks, keeping out government banks from the ambit of Central Vigilance Commission and Right to Information Act, transferring government’s holdings to an investment company and repealing the Bank Nationalisation Act. He said the main challenge before the banks is the increasing bad loans (more than Rs.5 trillion today).

“Bulk of these bad loans are

Nagaland for Christ! Where is it heading?

light (contrasting with darkness) and salt (to be dissolved and lost in the service and welfare of the people). Their living testimonies are on the verge of Psalms73: 6 - 9 – which may not be out of contact/misplaced. * Pride serves as their necklace; violence covers them like a garment. * Their eye bulge with abundance; their greed earns them more than heart can desire. * The policy of oppression and deceit, their chief joy. * Their loft speeches touch the height of the skies. * Their tongue lashings swipe the earth unrestrained (my modified language for comprehension). Humble living and truthfulness strangers to them. The people whom they claimed to liberate and serve – live under the crushing bondage of poverty, sickness and want.

The last Nagaland assembly election was one of the most

expensive according to many local news runnings. Liquor, muscle power/gun power and money power unashamedly displayed – all in professed Christian society. However, memory at best is labile and short. So let us go with the current affairs. Mr. Neiphiu Rio got elected as MP of Nagaland.

It was apparently a clear mandate. However, was it all clean?

I leave that to God and the people of Nagaland. Manipur outer parliamentary election – NPF candidate Mr. Soso Lorho failed to get elected in spite of sound political logics: 1. Cong (I) fielded a weak and non-performing candidate for whom no grass root workers were enthusiastic.

2. BJP candidate eroded the counter balancing vote bank of the valley and relevant issues pertaining to the Nagas in Manipur could have united the Nagas.

3. Many especially the young generation were itchy/edgy

for change.

4. Nagas had every advantage of geography and size of vote bank.

In spite of all these advantages – NPF candidate was defeated. Using simple common sense, the defeat was a good possibility. The NPF leaders in Nagaland who decided the affairs, implicitly and explicitly ignored the groundswell that was developing. The trumpets of the people were ignored and insulted by high command culture/dictator’s hand in the gloves of sham democracy. Well before the voting, I wrote through Morung Express dated 23rd March 2014 under the caption “Naga leadership – where is it heading, where is it leading? “, I did say clearly and loudly – NPF leadership have nominated the “wrong horse” and however good the cart, it will not go/work. I didn’t write that as a prophet but as a laity who glean nuggets of wits and wisdom from the word of God. Above everything else, people

who live in the soil of Nagaland were supposedly giving divine like instructions to vote both for Mr. Mani Charenamai and Soso Lorho – Blindness/Madness?

The information flow is such no leave rustles without the wind!

Nothing goes unnoticed – even the most humble villagers live abreast of all events, especially emotive electoral issues. This is the second consecutive loss for the Nagas in Manipur. Accountability is called for. Don’t simply rub away by blaming the Naga voters. Learn from the Hindustani Party- Cong (I) Mrs. Sonia Gandhi, the President and Mr. Rahul Gandhi, theVicepresident (being family owned party), solely and completely owned the responsibility for the utter routing of the party in the last Lok Sabha election. Why the NPF top brass – Mr. Neiphiu Rio and Mr. TR. Zeliang passing the bug?

Well let us forget the past loss. Let us look forward. Let me quote Psalms 106:15 – So He

gave them what they asked for; but sent a wasting disease upon them. Our Heavenly father is so bountiful and tolerant- puny human being is sometimes allowed to arm twist and to deceive – but He is a just God! Deceit and arm twister never enjoy His blessing. Mr. Neiphiu Rio may be given a cabinet (DONER?) berth in DAN government though he forfeited one of his hands. Mr. TR. Zeliang’s style of walking unto the chair of CM of Nagaland is at best is inglorious. Hopefully he doesn’t have a surviving mother. Because when the Christian world was celebrating Mother’s Day on 11th May 2014, Mr. TR. Zeliang and his supporting MLAs were picnicking of all the places – in Kaziranga (Christian centre or Hindu Centre?). To my simple mind it was a blatant insult to all the mothers. Kaziranga campers owe apologies to their mothers. Upcoming generations forgive them for they are your rulers but not role models.

amounts due from private corporate houses, business enterprises and industrial houses.

It is not wise to hand over the banks to the very same private sector responsible for the huge bad loans in the banks,” he said.

Queried about the new National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government, he said we have seen its actions. He said the earlier NDA government had proposed to amend the Bank Nationalisation Act to bring down its stake in banks to 33 percent.

Seeing all the forebodings I am tempted to quote the lamentation of King’s designate of Mr. David on the day king Saul and his Jonathan were killed by the Philistines IISam 1: 19 & 20. * The beauty of Israel is slain on your high places.

How the mighty have fallen! * Tell it not in Gath (non Christian world) proclaim it not in the streets of Askelon (Delhi, Mumbai etc.)

Lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice; lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.

Nagas for Christ? Is Christ amongst the Nagas? Is the glory of the Lord upon the Nagas? Nagaland for Christ not a blasphemy? Are our leaders for the Lord? Are they leading us to Christ? Time to examine or else we may face the fate of living without the glory amidst us.

I never regretted asking late Mr. R. Suisa whether “Nagaland for Christ” was a blasphemy.

Dr. Nelson Vashum CHSRC, Hamleikhong Hungpung Ukhrul District, Manipur

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SP Kiphire requests public to share information KiphirE, may 20 (mExN): The Superintendent of Police, Kiphire has requested the public to come forward without any hesitation to “share any information regarding any crisis taking place in any part of the district.” The general public can also approach the Police for any information or assistance in any form at any time without hesitation, he added.

In a press release, SP H Kuhovi Sema also extended gratitude to the public of Kiphire district in general, and particularly the civil societies, NGOs and VGs for their co-operation and support in conducting the recent Lok Sabha Elections smoothly and without any violence or disturbance in the entire district. “The Kiphire District Police looks forward for such co-operations from the general public, NGOs and civil societies for tackling any situation in the district even in the days to come,” it added.

For any information or assistance, the public can contact the officers at the following landline/ mobile numbers: SP – 03863225532(0)/8729803393; ASP – 894957782/ 9436434929; SDPO – 8416055389; OC PS Kiphire – 9862121924; 2nd OC PS Kiphire – 9612537553; OC PS Pungro – 8974583275; I/C OP Seyochung – 9862458920; THC Seyochung – 8974845912.

LOCAL GOc-in-c eastern command visits Nagaland

21 May 2014

GVYO adopts resolutions

AR apprehends four with arms Kire Chienuo honours successful students

PVSU lauds upgradation of Govt High School

DimapUr, may 20 (mExN): Personnel of the Assam Rifles, in three separate incidents, apprehended four persons in possession of arms and ammunition.

A press note from the PRO, Assam Rifles informed that on May 18, an operation was launched in the Purana Bazaar area by troops of the 29 Assam Rifles under the aegis of HQ 6 Sector, Assam Rifles. The troops tracked and intercepted one Atoka Zhimomi (30) and recovered three .22 pistols along with magazines. The apprehended individual was later handed over to the East Police Station, Dimapur.

On May 16, the AR personnel apprehended two NSCN (K) cadres from Phom Colony, Changtong-

GOC-in-C Eastern Command, Lt Gen MMS Rai with the governor during his visit to Kohima.

Officer had wide rang- development projects be- The Governor, the release ing discussions with the ing undertaken by the se- said, conveyed his appreGovernor to include the curity forces in the State. ciation to the GOC-in-C

ya. They have been identified as Pvt Lima Akhham (25) and Pvt Takaitaba Ao (28). One Muzzle Loading Rifle (Country Made) and “incriminating documents” were recovered from the apprehended persons. They were then handed over to Changtongya Police Station.

In another incident on May 18, troops of the 46 AR apprehended one NSCN (K) cadre at Zunheboto Track (03 Km East of Bn HQ, Phek), while the individual was travelling from Kotisu Basti to Phek Town.

The cadre has been identified as Sergeant Beduzo Venuh (21). One 9 mm pistol with magazine and three live rounds were recovered from the cadre’s possession.

He was later handed over to Phek Police Station.

and urged the public to use the tube well optimally. Acknowledging the magnanimity and generosity of the department, ADC Chozuba, Polan John, on behalf of the Adhoc Town Committee, Chozuba expressed gratitude to the Director, Jt. Direc-

tor, Geologist, Engineers and the entire team of the Geology & Mining Department for providing the tube well.

The programme was chaired

by Dr. Chisoi, Joint Director.

Joint Director, A. Temjentoshi stressed on the technical aspect of the project.

Kohima, may 20 (mExN): Kire Chienuo of D. Khel, Kohima village today organized a felicitation programme for the successful candidates of HSLC and HSSLC here at Oriental College, Seikhazou.

Speaking on the occasion, Dr. Keyiekhrie Kire, IFS, Conservator of Forest congratulated all the successful candidates and advised them to have a strong

determination while pursuing their academic career.

Pointing out that India civil services is one of the topmost competitive examinations in the world, he said, to be successful in civil service examinations, the candidates need to give best effort and should have enough general knowledge.

He also stressed on the need to focus on hard work,

perseverance, planning and good guidance to succeed in life.

GB Luo-o Kire also exhorted the gathering. The function was chaired by Dr Kikrukuolie Kire while Khriezosietuo Kire, Pastor, CRC High School Area, Kohima prayed for the programme. The function concluded with vote of thanks

by Kire Chienuo president Ruokuo Kire.

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and GOC 3 Corps for the outstanding performance and contribution of the Assam Rifles towards maintaining peace and tranquillity in Nagaland.

The Army Commander also complimented all ranks of HQ IGAR (N) for their dedication and devotion to duty. He also conveyed his appreciation and gratitude to the populace, civil administration, NGOs, church and media for their continued cooperation with the security forces in the State.

Kohima, may 20 (mExN): Lt Gen MMS Rai, AVSM, VSM, General Officer Commanding-inChief (GOC-in-C) of the Eastern Command visited Kohima on May 20 and reviewed the security situation in Nagaland. The General Officer called on Dr Ashwani Kumar, Governor of Nagaland wherein he discussed the steps being taken to further consolidate the security situation in Nagaland, informed a press release received here. The General

Tube well commissioned at Chozuba Town ChozUba, may 20 (Dipr): Director, Geology & Mining Department S.K. Kenye commissioned a tube well at Chozuba Town, Phek district on May 19. Speaking on the occasion, the Director stressed on the importance of water as a precious resource

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Kohima, may 20 (mExN): Gariphema Village Youth Organization (GVYO) has totally banned, within its jurisdiction, usage of air rifles, poisonous chemicals and machines, batteries, generator etc on fishing, burning jungle /forest fire, hunting and collection of medicinal plant in the reserved forest, use of gun by under age (Below 18 years). This was resolved during the first executive meeting of the newly elected GVYO office bearers for the tenure 2014-16. In a release, GVYO Press Secretary Kezhangulie Kire further requested the visitors to the village to seek prior permission and approval while conducting camp from the action committee of the village youth body. The GVYO also vowed to protect the flora and fauna in the village for “our better tomorrow.” The youth organization cautioned that violator(s) of the above mentioned rules will be punished in accordance with the GVYO resolutions.

Kohima, may 20 (mExN): Pungro Village Students Union (PVSU) has lauded the Government of Nagaland, Department of School Education for upgrading the Government High School Pungro to Secondary School (GHSS) which it said is a dream come true for the people of Pungro area. PVSU further appealed to all the staff of newly upgraded school to impart quality education and further called upon the students and people of the area to make best use of it. K. Joseph, Education and Statistic Secretary and Akamba K, President further added that a career guidance programme was organized for all the successful candidates of HSSLC and HSLC 2014 at the Council Hall Pungro village where David Deshelen was the resource person.

Ungma Baptist Church celebrates 100 years of Christianity UNgma, may 20 (mExN): Ungma Baptist Arogo (Ungma Baptist Church) is celebrating its hundred years of Christianity at Bapu Tzubu amphitheater. The programme which started this evening is being attended by thousands of Ungma village citizens and others.

The centenary celebration (1914-2014) is being held on the theme ‘My Lord Jesus Christ’, and it will culminate on Wednesday, May 21.

Formally opening the grand centenary celebration, executive secretary of

The main programme will be held on Wednesday where prominent people will address the c o ng re gat i o n . C h i e f among them is former chief minister and present governor of Odisha Dr SC Jamir who hails from Ungma village.

The main speakers at the centenary celebration are Rev Noklen Longkumer, Pastor of Ungma Baptist Church, Sentisashi Aier, The Jubilee choir during the Ungma Baptist Church centenary celebration on May 20, Associate Pastor of Kohi2014. (Morung Photo) ma Baptist church, and L Ao Baptist Church coun- God’s blessings on Ungma memorating the 100 years Bendangla Jamir, Chaplain cil (ABAM), Rev Dr Mar Baptist Church. He also of Christianity at the Ung- of White Memorial Hostel, CBCNEI Guwahati.

Atsongchanger invoked unveiled the plaque com- ma Baptist Church.

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or much too long, the Nagas have been made to bear the cross of "rampant uncontrolled taxation" of the NPGs and the "unsparing commission regime" of the State Government. The abject fear for the guns pointed at the people by the NPGs on the one hand and the deafening silence of many of the motivated self indulgent NGOs the Churches and intellectuals on the other, completes the decadent canvas of our society. It is this passive silence of the masses that has emboldened the powers that be to openly carry out their illegal money harvesting occupations, casting all caution to the wind. What Edmund Burke said ages ago that "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing" rings so true today. The time of complaining within the four walls of our kitchen must come to an end. This pretentious shadow of living in the so-called civilised society without the rule of Law must be resisted by all conscience bearing Nagas and say "enough is enough"! Our coming generation must be given their fair share of opportunity to grow in a healthy honest environment.

Having returned from a gruelling trip from Pfutsuro, Phek, Meluri, Kiphire and Zunheboto with the ACAUT team bearing the message of "One Government, one tax", it is a heart warming reward to see the exemplified reawakening of the citizens of Phek as an immediate reaction of the masses to tyranny in its aftermath. People of Phek, you have kept your promise! You have affirmed the message of ACAUT by your action loud and clear! Way to go PCCI, PTYS and ACAUT, Phek!

Way to go citizens of Phek! You have made the Nagas proud this day! May this little spark, a manifestation of your collective courage, get the fire going and reverberate in each and every town and village across all the Naga inhabited areas! May the NPGs learn the ultimate lesson that their guns will have no effect in the face of a united people standing up together against injustice, extortion and threats. They must instead seriously revisit and reconsider the reconciliation agenda of FNR for one united house of the Naga National

The Impossible Dream Movement. Their unity will surely rejuvenate the Nationalistic spirit that still lives in the hearts of every Naga.

Let greed and ego amongst the NGPs not stifle this sentiment.

ACAUT has thus far been listening to and clarifying a lot of confused but honest questions being raised by genuinely concerned citizens concerning its slogan "One Government, one tax". Many have said that they have heard and read sketchy information about ACAUT but have no comprehensive idea as to what ACAUT really is and what it wants to achieve. Questions like: Is it an Non Govt. Organization?...One tax for which Government?...If FNR is working for the unification of the NPGs, should ACAUT not join FNR and work together hand in hand instead of running a parallel campaign?... Our District/ our area is paying one tax to only one faction, so is this not what ACAUT is campaigning about?

Even the NPGs have not spared ACAUT with their own brand of questioning...Which Faction is ACAUT campaigning in favour of, for the payment of this one tax?...

Does ACAUT know the history of the Naga struggle for independence to acknowledge and support the politically correct group who have not surrendered and has been keeping the Naga flag flying high?...Why is ACAUT getting involved in Naga political issue that does not concern them?...Why is ACAUT campaigning against the NPGs with this 'one tax' slogan and strengthening the hands of GoI by diluting and weakening the status of the NPGs?... Does ACAUT have a hidden motivated agenda of acting as the agent of India to undermine the peace talk? A question such as this has been superimposed with a conclusive threat that if the present peace talk fails, ACAUT will be held directly responsible! {Curtsy... NSCN (IM)}. There are questions galore and should we list them all, there would be less space for answers, so let's leave it at this.

To begin with, Against Corruption And Unabated Taxation (ACAUT) is NOT an NGO, NOT affiliated to any Political Party and CERTAINLY NOT a motivated group with a 'hidden agenda' as an Indian

Agent. It is simply and uprightly a Movement of the people of Nagaland crying out for survival and justice... that includes every citizen of Nagaland...that includes you and that includes me at the receiving end of a tyrannical oppression in the hands of both the NPGs and the corruptive system of the State Government... nothing more, nothing less...period.

It is absolutely transparent without any hidden agenda and stands true to the national cause.

The Nagas began their political journey in fear of foreign taxation as amplified by our first generation elders to the Simon Commission in 1929. Late Mr. A.Z. Phizo galvanized this subject into the hearts of every Naga which culminated into the Plebiscite of 1951 on which the legitimacy of the Naga National Movement was founded as free people.

This solid house on a solid foundry was hit by the deadly Shillong Accord tsunami in 1975 and the once united house of the Nagas called NNC/ FGN disintegrated beyond honourable recognition. Wisdom seemed to have deserted the Naga leaders at this critical juncture of our history. Late Mr. Phizo played his silent fiddle as Nagaland burned...by failing to condemn the Shillong Accord. Instead of first making a sincere effort to opt for a legitimately available legal course of action by impeaching the NNC President for his phenomenal National failure and condemning the Accord through a decree of an existing Naga National Parliament as the supreme body, (way above the signatories who signed the Accord under duress), which could have kept the Naga House intact and the National Flag flying high, Mr. Isak, Mr. Muivah and Mr. Khaplang unfortunately opted to form a Chinese indoctrinated socialistic parallel organization called the NSCN. It is obvious to all that this laid the foundry for further compounding the Naga problem. A dispassionate, unbiased analysis would render this step taken as another blunder adding to the unfortunate plight of our Naga history because there was a positive choice to right the wrong but was not taken. Population explosion then followed with this NSCN further giving birth to more NSCN siblings, with each of them mercilessly

trampling upon the lives of the common man day in day out with their tax demands at gun point, under the guise of searching for sovereignty in our own backyard,... with the exception of NSCN (IM) engaging the GoI for a solution. The Nagas are paying a high unbearable price for this careless indiscretion today. No faction is completely free of mistake(s)...each have leopard spot(s)...therefore reconciliation should be a possibility if each of the factions acknowledge this fact and place the greater good of the Nagas in the fore in the name of 'Nagaland for Christ'. FNR has been making sincere effort to bring all the NPGs together to form a united house through Christian spirit of forgiveness and reconciliation. However, one gets the distinct impression that MONEY is the most serious distracting roadblock apart from the equally detrimental ego factor. Each NPGs have their independent tax collecting authority they would not to want to compromise by uniting. So the high lofty national and historical principles are invoked as a basis of reconciliation and would rather wait for Zungki river to flow upstream before agreeing to reconcile on a common platform of give and take. The principle of "taking" and "not giving" is a negative attitude of sitting on a reconciliation table and FNR will be hard pressed to achieve the desired end result under these circumstances. FNR's Christianly approach to the subject of reconciliation is the best option by far but ACAUT realises that as long as the NPGs enjoy a fluent independent income through taxation, they would be less inclined to unite.

Therefore while the objective is the same...to unite the NPGs... ACAUT has adopted the financial route which FNR cannot technically address. No organization can survive without revenue...neither can the masses be expected to continue to bear the burdened of their uncontrolled irrational self-indulgent taxation forever.

Therefore, ACAUT is not campaigning in favour of any one group but has been accentuating the need for a "One House" strategy of all the NPGs. Some Districts had expressed their 'one tax' support for 'one faction only' as an equation to ACAUT's "one Govt, one tax" slogan. This is a gross mis-

conception that does not serve the end result that ACAUT is angling for.

As long as each faction continue to get their revenue from one district or the other, each is assured sustenance and therefore would not feel the compulsion for unity. Look at the scenario carefully: even if one district supports only one faction, other districts are also supporting another 'one faction only' which is as good as encouraging factionalism. This being the ground reality, ACAUT is campaigning for stoppage of all revenue resources for all the factions until they unite. Once they do, Nagas would be prepared to pay 'one tax' to this united house of 'one NNM' with complete moral support as a bonus. Both the roads of FNR and ACAUT therefore, lead to the same house of unity amongst the NPGs. ACAUT has been appealing to all our NPG leaders to understand that without the support of the masses, the fragmented NNM will further disintegrate to a vanishing point.

The following historical truth is crystal clear to every Tom, Dick, Harry, Khumutsa and Akhakhu ...The Naga political journey that began in fear of 'foreign taxation' has now reverted to a fear of 'domestic taxation' from our own kind instead. The fear for guns in the hands of our aggressors has reverted to the fear of guns in the hands of our own brothers who ruthlessly squeeze out 'national tax' from the common man to quench their 'national thirst' in some dingy 'national bars', for their 'national selfperpetuation' and their 'personal national comfort zones'. Sovereignty is no longer in their sight. There was a time when the National workers were doing a yeomen's service for the community by taking the errant gamblers and drunkards to task. In Zunheboto, a group of young men caught gambling were made to literally eat the cards they were playing with, at gun point...it included the spectators. One of the 'card eaters' was supposed to have commented afterwards that the 'joker' tasted the bitterest of all the cards in the pack he ate. The wheel of fortune has spun a full circle and the pendulum of social indiscretion amongst the civil society in the past, now swing above the heads of battalion after battal-

Khekiye K. Sema IAS (Rtd) Forest Colony, Kohima; ions within each factional cadres absolutely qualified to eat all the jokers in each and every pack of cards in Nagaland. It is a known fact that the adulteration and bootlegging operations are being patronised by some of the NPGs even as they sanctimoniously make prohibition noise once in a while for public consumption.

Nevertheless this has not deterred anyone, and the habitual drinkers sit side by side with the cadres that proclaim prohibition and continue to drink the patronised adulterated liquor. At this point in time the public are thoroughly fed up with the hypocrisies they see in our NPGS day in day out, unlike the days gone by.

ACAUT is only focused on unburdening the common man from the clutches of 'out of control taxation'. It can only happen if the NPGS unite. Asking them to harness the strength of unity is not an act of AntiNationalism. ACAUT is not responsible for all the divisions within the NPGs and it is up to them to clean up the mess they have deliberately created. There is no political motivation within ACAUT other than the motivation to create a fair breathing space for the masses. The clarion call is for all the NPGs to unite and streamline the tax collection norm that has crippled every family alive in Nagaland and garner the support of the masses as they did before.

Nagas can then address the issue of self-determination together from a position of strength and cause a final solution to this vexed problem.

It seems like a tall unachievable, impossible dream...but you do know that the public felt the same when Abraham Lincoln set out to liberate the black slaves in America. You do know that the majority felt the same when Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. set out on a march for civil rights for the American blacks.

Above of all, you do know that the most unbelievable miracle was the culmination of Martin Luther King's dream in Obama becoming the first Black American President.

Faith can move a mountain, so join the ACAUT movement with your heart and soul and make the impossible happen. May God help us all to do the right thing to achieve this impossible dream.

The Morung Express is introducing “Public Space” as part of our intention to provide deliberate space for the opinions of the people to be expressed and heard through this newspaper. Nonetheless, The Morung Express points out that the opinions expressed in the contents published in the “Public Space” do not reflect the views and position of the newspaper or the editor.

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The Future of the State

n the 21st century, it has become pertinent to dialogue around the future of the modern State. While seeking alternatives, Lisa Schirch points out that control over the state system will be an “ongoing battle between people’s movements who long for real democracy and elite corporate interests who want a façade of legitimacy while they control state structures.”

While acknowledging the continuing struggle to redefine what the State is, Schirch pointed out the need to identify the difference between a “citizen-oriented state” and those that primarily serve corporate interests. She notes that “most governments do not want to let people have a robust participation in decisions that impact their lives” as they are made up of an elite group of people “who think they know what is best for others or who deny the interests and needs of some parts of their public.” Hence, the future state needs to involve radical changes in the state structures which facilitate different forms of governance with less absolute boundaries.

In this context, the primary value principle is focused on legitimacy. In other words, it needs to include the mandate of the people being governed. After all, the expressed will and desire of the people is fundamental.

Therefore, replacing the centralized form of governance which is derived through coercive forms by a different form of governance as a legitimate expression of people’s will is a step towards a future system. This will require considering inclusive orientations that emphasizes human solidarity as desirable and possible. It needs to challenge the present existential limits of human community and to envision a future based on the relevance of dreams that are self-organized and nonhierarchical, which should be based on the principle of free association of individuals and collectives, and to enable and empower the emergence of a just and compassionate order.

To further contemplate a shared future beyond the Westphalian perspective of the modern state it is important to think about the concept of common interests, which needs to be conceived dynamically rather than statically. This will require creating, nurturing, empowering and involving the support and critical solidarity of transformative entities. In essence, a critical imagination is needed to realistically analyze the present world realities and stimulate widespread hope to look ‘beyond’ a world shaped that is increasingly being defined by the Westphalian realities. For struggling people like the Nagas, it has become imperative to start an internal dialogue on issues of structures and governance.

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Seth Borenstein AP Science Writer

Wildfires worse due to global warming

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he devastating wildfires scorching Southern California offer a glimpse of a warmer and more fiery future, according to scientists and federal and international reports.

In the past three months, at least three different studies and reports have warned that wildfires are getting bigger, that man-made climate change is to blame, and it's only going to get worse with more fires starting earlier in the year. While scientists are reluctant to blame global warming for any specific fire, they have been warning for years about how it will lead to more fires and earlier fire seasons.

"The fires in California and here in Arizona are a clear example of what happens as the Earth warms, particularly as the West warms, and the warming caused by humans is making fire season longer and longer with each decade," said University of Arizona geoscientist Jonathan Overpeck. "It's certainly an example of what we'll see more of in the future."

Since 1984, the area burned by the West's largest wildfires — those of more than 1,000 acres— have increased by about 87,700 acres a year, according to an April study in the journal Geophysical Research Letters. And the areas where fire has been increasing the most are areas where drought has been worsening and "that certainly points to climate being a major contributor," the study's main author Philip Dennison of the University of Utah said Friday.

The top five years with the most acres burned have all happened in the last decade, according to federal records. From 2010-2013, about 6.4 million acres a year burned on average; in the 1980s it was 2.9 million acres a year.

"We are going to see increased fire activity all across the West as the climate warms," Dennison said.

That was one of a dozen "key messages" in the 841-page National Climate Assessment released by the federal government earlier this month. It mentioned wildfires 200 times.

"Increased warming, drought and insect outbreaks, all caused by or linked to climate change have increased wildfires and impacts to people and ecosystems in the Southwest," the federal report said. "Fire models project more wildfire and increased risks to communities across extensive areas."

Likewise, the Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change noted in March that wildfires are on the rise in the western U.S., have killed 103 Americans in 30 years, and will likely get worse.

The immediate cause of the fires can be anything from lightning to arson; the first of the San Diego area fires, which destroyed at least eight houses, an 18-unit condominium complex and two businesses, seemed to start from sparks from faulty construction equipment working on a graded field, said California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection spokeswoman Lynne Tolmachoff.

But the California fires are fueled by three major ingredients: drought, heat and winds. California and Arizona have had their hottest first four months of the year on record, according to National Weather Service records. Parts of Southern California broke records Thursday, racing past 100 degrees Fahrenheit (38 degrees Celsius). For the past two weeks the entire state of California has been in a severe or worse drought, up from 46 percent a year ago, according to the U.S. drought monitor.

"With the drought this year, we're certainly going to see increased frequency of this type of event," Dennison said. "Because of the drought the fuels (dry plants and trees) are very susceptible to burning."

Another study last month in Geophysical Research Letters linked the ongoing drought to man-made climate change.

Other scientists say that is not yet proven.

Scientists will have to do a lot of time-consuming computer simulations before they can officially link the drought to climate change. But Overpeck said what is clear is that it's not just a drought, but "a hot drought," which is more connected to man-made warming.

The other factor is the unusual early season Santa Ana winds, whose strength is a key factor in whipping the flames. So far, scientists haven't connected early Santa Ana to climate change, Dennison said.

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C O M M E N T A R Y

Ché Ramsden

SAfrica after Mandela: Beyond the Rainbow South Africa is one of the world’s most unequal countries, home to a generation of disenchanted ‘born frees’. The ANC’s recent electoral victory stems not from being the party of Liberation but of the Welfare State

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wenty years ago, South Africa made a peaceful transition from apartheid to democracy, a particularly impressive feat given the contemporary global climate, which included the Rwandan genocide and ethnic cleansing in the former Yugoslavia. At the time, the ‘Rainbow Nation’ was a symbol of hope across the world, reflecting the new democracy’s aspirations for its future.

To mark South Africa’s 20 years of democracy and its 5th democratic elections in May this year, and to explore the legacy of South African liberation from apartheid, the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) held an event in London on 12 May, where Tim Gibbs discussed ‘South Africa after Schoolchildren walk past a newspaper placard reporting the election victory of Jacob Zuma's African National ConMandela: beyond the rainbow.’ gress (ANC) party, as the children leave after making a visit to the former house of the late South African President Nelson Mandela, in the Soweto township of Johannesburg, South Africa on May 9, 2014. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis) Beyond the Rainbow In his 1994 inaugural address, Nelson Mandela af- pothesised that the ANC won such a resounding vic- must be more grounded, and that the aspirations of firmed that, following newfound political emancipa- tory in the latest elections (just over 62% of the vote) political parties must also be rooted in their grasstion, South Africa must focus on liberating all people not in spite of what it has failed to achieve in the past roots should they wish to see electoral success. from ‘the continuing bondage of poverty, deprava- 20 years, but because of what it has achieved.

The ANC will retain its political stronghold over tion, suffering, gender and other discrimination.’ The The ANC vote was highest in the poorest and most the next two general elections, Gibbs predicts, par‘rainbow nation’ he referred to was not simply one rural provinces, where 40% of South Africans live. One ticularly due to the rural poor who are in receipt of in which people of different ethnicities could live in person in attendance at the IPPR event raised the point welfare benefits and continue to make up a signififellowship as equal citizens with equal suffrage, but that middle-class South African commentators seem cant proportion of the country’s population. Howevan expression of hope that arched over a progressive to patronise poor voters; however, Gibbs insists that the er, he points to economic growth as a deciding factor struggle for economic, social and cultural rights. poor have a nuanced understanding of the political sys- in the ANC’s continued success at the ballot box – not At the IPPR headquarters in London last Mon- tem, not least because their livelihood (welfare grants) least because, without growth in GDP, redistribution day, Tim Gibbs examined how the unfulfilled ex- depend on it. He recounted the story of one woman, of resources will be finite. Since 1992, there has been pectation of the Rainbow Nation was reflected – or who explained why she would be voting ANC: ‘my an average 3.2% growth in GDP per annum, falling might come to be reflected – in popular expres- children go to school for free, they receive a free meal short of the 5% needed for effective redistribution to sions of politics in the current political climate in at lunch, I live in a government-built house…the ANC last and to see a maintained rise in economic activity South Africa, notably at the ballot box. did nothing wrong, it’s the local deployees,’ referring to and employment. ‘The underlying story is not about About half the overall population was registered party cadres deployed by the ANC to local municipali- governance,’ Gibbs concldues, ‘but growth.’ to vote in the most recent elections, with turnout at ties, with responsibility for service delivery.

He suggests that the National Development Plan 73% – down from 77% in 2009 and 2004, 89% in 1999, Gibbs described a new popular process form- – a more centrist proposal from the ANC to tackle and 87% in the seminal 1994 elections. This most ing in South Africa, a top-up to the systematic vot- unemployment, mining strikes, electricity shortagbasic (and, in the South African context, iconic) ex- ing which takes place every 5 years. It is one in which es, and service delivery on housing and sanitation ercise of political rights is seemingly still one which angry citizens, disgruntled with the pace of change – might give the government the growth it needs to holds value, despite only a third of the newly-eligi- and with the politics of clientelism from which they secure successive ANC victories. However, in this ble-to-vote ‘born free’ generation (those born after are excluded, stage (sometimes violent) service de- context the trade union alliance with the ANC might the end of apartheid), registered to vote. livery protests. These protests culminate in the sack- collapse, leading to another more radical, leftist parGibbs conceded that low registration among the ing of local officials, their replacement with a more ty on the political landscape, with alternative strate‘born frees’ may be due to their lack of loyalty to the agreeable alternative, until the cycle of clientelism gies for economic growth and social development. process of liberation (and, therefore, to the ‘liberat- and poor service delivery begins again.

When asked about alternatives to the ANC, Gibbs ing party’, the ANC) and their disillusionment by corIn the time between elections, people might feel pointed to the existing opposition – notably the DA: ruption. Weeks before the election, for example, an they have no alternative to the ruling party they had it needs to start thinking carefully about where it investigation took place into the misuse of taxpayer’s elected, and so stage protests to continue popular po- wants to be in 10 years’ time to be viable opposition money in funding part of President Jacob Zuma’s litical involvement beyond the election cycle, however, to the ANC. Particularly, he said, it needs to build up R238m (£16.6m) renovations to his family home. when it comes to the ballot box, there is not a signifi- its grassroots base, focus more on the poor, and court Gibbs also pointed to their disenchantment with cant protest vote against the ANC. In urban centres, the the next generation of voters from this vantage point. the political system due to the lack of realisation of Democratic Alliance (DA, a mixed alliance of Thatcher- It has been a ‘party of alliances’ since 1994 – starting economic and social rights which were supposedly ite liberals and social democrats) has gained ground by with the New National Party and more recently it had their birthright. Despite spending the largest portion starting to focus its attention on the black middle class a short-lived coupling with Agang – but it needs to of all government expenditure on education (21% (its vote went up 7 points to 22% in the latest election). forge its own identity and know its audience. in 2012/13), only 20% of school leavers have the But the DA fails to court grassroots support from the By contrast, the EFF seems to know its audience grades to go on to tertiary education. The expanded poor, and the fact of the matter is, says Gibbs, ‘the ANC and is increasingly gaining support from ‘key ideounemployment rate is 35% and a further 30% of the builds houses more quickly [than the opposition].’ logues coming out of the black middle class.’ Should workforce – including the miners at Marikana – have On the other hand, the other key players, judging the ANC push through with the National Developinsecure jobs. Its GINI coefficient (around 0.80 be- from this election, are the Economic Freedom Fighters ment Plan, the EFF’s radical agenda might become infore social security grants are taken into account ) (EFF). They are led by Julius Malema, one-time ANC creasingly attractive to the Left. Gibbs is quick to point makes South Africa one of the most unequal coun- darling who was subsequently expelled from the party out, however, that the party-political landscape might tries in the world; while the black middle class has for his divisiveness. They won 6% of the vote, buoyed by be very different in 5 years’ time, with the potential of increased tenfold in the two decades since the end support from the platinum belt and radical youth fac- another leftist split away from the ANC in the form of of apartheid, now averaging 3 million, half of the ing a future of poverty and unemployment. These are the trade unions, a new ANC presidential candidate, population lives on less than $2 a day. the people who are not seeing the fruits of redistribu- and potentially five years of successful economic Yet Gibbs also pointed to the fact that, despite tion, and so are not tied to the ANC in the same way that growth behind the Party of Liberation-cum-Welfare. these failures, the ANC is not only the Party of Lib- pensioners and those in receipt of child welfare grants Changing political landscapes are part and parcel eration, but in government has been the Party of are. Their proportion of the vote is not big enough to for democracy. This might seem to be happening at a the Welfare State. break the ANC stronghold, but do send a message to slow pace in South Africa, with the majority of the group the ANC about where it is losing support: broadly, the at the IPPR event questioning whether there was any Explaining the ANC election victory real alternative to the ANC. Yet Gibbs reminded us that middle class, the platinum belt, and the youth.

16m (of 51m) South Africans are in receipt of a govSouth Africa (and indeed the ANC) beyond the ideernment grant; the number of children going to bed Beyond the ANC alised rainbow is not a country with no hope, but one hungry has halved. South Africa also has the largest If the past 20 years have failed to reach the aspira- with very real aspirations, and popular impetus to push housing programme in the world, albeit one in which tions of Mandela’s rainbow, what hope is left? Gibbs forward for progressive change. How exactly that will several new builds have been defective. Gibbs hy- suggested that South African hopes for the future happen is not yet clear, but, said Gibbs, ‘give it ten years.’

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ome dates will forever remain etched in memory.

It was around 6.30 p.m. on September 9, 2001, when the first pictures came in of a burning World Trade Centre tower, followed soon after by the image of an airliner crashing into the second tower. Some two hours later, the first of the towers collapsed and then the second came down. In the frenzy that a newsroom is in during such tumult, the total focus is on reporting the event and related issues.

It was only past midnight, comfortably ensconced in my sofa at home, a stiff drink in hand and watching the rerun on TV did the reality sink in: The world had changed. And how!

A little over a month later, a US-led military coalition swept into Afghanistan, where it still remains. A new expression was coined: Homeland Security. What till then had been FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) in the US transformed into the Department of Homeland Security.

The world quickly played catchup and expositions focussed on homeland security quickly blossomed along with the sundry DefExpos that had almost become blasé.

India, in no way, lagged behind.

Cut to May 13, 2004. The ruling BJP had called general elections a tad early, hoping to cash in on its "India Shining" media blitz. Just the opposite hap-

When the world changed Vishnu Makhijani IANS pened. The Congress stormed back to power after eight years in the wilderness and cobbled together an alliance of 335 of the 543 elected members of the Lok Sabha.

Once again, the import of the moment sank in only at home. The world had changed. And how! The true benefits of the economic reforms initiated

by Manmohan Singh as the finance minister in 1991 began to be felt by the burgeoning middle class. For once, one felt proud to be an Indian - forget the fact that the global economic slowdown began just four years later in 2008.

Now, come to May 16, 2014. For close to two years, it had been widely believed that the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance had little chance of being returned in the 16th general elections. Would the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance return? The answer was extremely iffy and the general feeling was that the verdict would be fractured. In fact, there was even talk that Pranab Mukherjee, then the government's principal trouble-shooter

and the effective No.2 in the cabinet, was elevated to the presidency as the services of an astute politician, acceptable across the spectrum, would be required after the election verdict.

Then came the December 4, 2013, elections to the Delhi assembly and the Aam Aadmi Party, whom no one gave a chance, emerged with 28 seats in the 70-member house, just eight short of a majority. Not surprisingly, its government lasted a mere 49 days, but not before it declared its intention of contesting over 300 Lok Sabha seats.

This seemingly upset the apple cart - but for just about a month. Till polling began April 7 in the 10-phased general election, the situation remained unclear - remember the talk of a Third Front or a Federral Front - though it was widely believed that the BJP could somehow pull it off.

Thus, the exit polls on the evening of May 12, when balloting ended, did little to remove the suspense as the numbers differed widely. Only one got it right.

When the verdict came on May 16,

WRITE-WING

giving the BJP 282 of the Lok Sabha's 543 elected seats, it was clear that the world had changed - due to the sheer scale of the victory and the implications this would have for the Congress dynasty.

For the first time since 1984, when the Congress, riding a sympathy wave under Rajiv Gandhi, following the assassination of then prime minister Indira Gandhi, won a huge 414-seat majority in the Lok Sabha, India is looking at a stable government that could govern on its own without having to look over its shoulder due to the compulsions of coalition politics.

Does the BJP victory also mean that India, which set the trend of dynastic rule in South Asia, would be one to buck this? What delightful possibilities this raises!

Do I detect a skeptical note that there were only three defining moments for me in the 21st century? I never said that. There have been any number of moments when my world changed but that was my world.

All too often, as journalists, we tend to take a limited view of things. We tend to forget that we have a larger role to play - that of social scientists chronicling the times.

The job of a journalist is not to merely report but record events for posterity. By that yardstick and from the Indian perspective, those were the three days that changed the world.

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21 May 2014

NEWS ANALYSIS, FEATURE AND DISCOURSE

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arendra Modi, the incoming Indian prime minister, has kept his first promise to supporters: win in a landslide victory in Indian general elections and reduce to rubble the majority of the Indian National Congress (INC) led by the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty.

With over 330 seats won (272 are enough to win the majority of the 543-seat lower house, the Lok Sabha), the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) coalition led by the Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has secured the best election result of the past 30 years.

In contrast, with only about 60 seats, the coalition led by the INC, the United Progressive Alliance (UPA), has recorded its worst electoral performance ever.

Only a few people doubted the BJP would triumph in this election. Too little had been done by the INC during the last years of their government to earn a third term. A long series of corruption scandals and the failure to adopt structural reforms have slowed gross domestic product growth to below 5%, a rate insufficient to absorb a labor force in constant expansion.

The Congress campaign led by Rahul Gandhi was unable to reverse a "saffron wave" of Hindu nationalism. The decision of the Indian National Congress not to announce the name of a candidate for leadership of the government has been read as an attempt to preserve the scion of the Gandhi dynasty. However, many believe the party will soon task the charismatic Priyanka Vadra, Rahul's younger sister, with reviving its electoral fortunes.

The anti-corruption Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), a group led by the activist Arvind Kejriwal, also performed weakly. Founded as recently as November 2012, the AAP has not had enough time to put down political roots within the country and therefore failed to steal support from the two major parties.

Well supported by media, the Modi campaign had seemed on an unstoppable ride towards the corridors of power. In recent months, the leader of the BJP has travelled 300,000 kilometers and held 457 rallies across the country to spread its political message, which is the idea that building a new India - less corrupt and more meritocratic - is possible.

With a metaphor full of symbolism, Modi has promised the Indians that he wants to restore the purity of the Ganges River just as he will revive a nation sullied by corruption and stalled by mismanagement and bureaucratic sloth.

The economy has played an absolutely central role in the election campaign of the nationalist leader, although his program remained, in many cases, built more on a series of slogans able to captivate the population rather than on concrete proposals.

Thanks to his long and successful experience at the helm of the state of Gujarat state, Modi has been able to provide a factual basis to his pro-market claims. During his tenure, Gujarat's GDP has grown at an average rate of nearly 10%, consistently above the national average.

Counting only 5% of the total Indian population, this state currently covers about 16% of the manufacturing output and 25% of the national total exports. Among the major successes claimed

by Modi, is infrastructure development (in par-

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hen I was in my 20s, a girlfriend surprised me by saying that we didn't have to worry about overpopulation because technology would make sure we always had what everyone needed. Of course, economists have been saying this for decades.

And of course, billions of people today don't have what they need.

Because such people as my old girlfriend and economists presuppose that unlimited economic growth is necessary and also believe adding billions more humans to the world is desirable, I would like to share some thoughts about such thinkers, whom I'll call "Growthers."

Why do Growthers think we should add billions more humans to the world?

Do they want more consumers? Or is it something deeper, more biblical, more fruitfully multiplied? All of the above?

Whatever their impulse, compulsive craving for "no limits" to economic growth and human numbers is irrational. A finite planet comes with limits.

The United Nations expects the population to grow to about 9.6 billion people by mid-century; that's two more Chinas. That worries me. Yet in The Wall Street Journal on Saturday, April 26, Matt Ridley expressed these views when he reassured us, "There are no limits because we can invent new ways of doing more with less." He doesn't see that this very acknowledgment undermines his premise. If limits don't exist, why would we need to do more with less?

He continued: "Oil and gas ... will run out one day, but only in the sense that you will run out of Atlantic Ocean one day if you take a rowboat west out of a harbor in Ireland. Just as you are likely to stop rowing long before you bump into Newfoundland, so we may well find cheap substitutes for fossil fuels long before they run out."

Is it possible to think more incoherently about matters of such importance? And as a mariner I must point out -- if only for safety -- that a rowboat far in the open ocean is a frail and vulnerable craft.

Another big blind spot in the unlimited growth view is the fact that

Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party leader and India's next prime minister Narendra Modi speaks after performing evening rituals on the banks of the River Ganges in Varanasi, an ancient city revered by millions of devout Hindus in India on Saturday, May 17, 2014. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)

Sample quality counts, says pollster Aditya Kalra

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hile most exit polls forecast that Hindu nationalist Narendra Modi would become the next prime minister, only one little-known outlier accurately predicted the scale of his overwhelming election victory.

The secret recipe of New Delhi-based Today's Chanakya group was careful interview selection, ensuring that its survey accurately represented the demography of any given constituency in the world's largest and most diverse democracy. "In India, when any poll is released, everyone talks about the sample (size) numbers ... no one asks about the quality of the sample," V.K. Bajaj, chief executive officer at the polling group, told Reuters. "Every state has some caste combinations prevailing ... we tried to make the sample as representative as we could."

With an electorate of 815 million people, the election was phased over several weeks in different parts of the country, and pollsters released their exit polls after the final phase on the evening of May 12, and the results were announced on May 16.

Bajaj's polling group predicted the Modi-led coalition would win 340 of the 543 parliamentary seats, with an error margin of 14 seats, and 291 seats for the Hindu nationalist BJP alone. The alliance won 336 of the 543 seats in the lower house of parliament, with the BJP itself managing to cross the halfway mark with 282 seats. All other post-poll analyses forecast that Modi's coalition would win fewer than 300 seats. Exit polls have a patchy track record in India, exaggerating the BJP's seat share in the 2004 and 2009 elections. In both cases, the Congress party formed coalition governments.

Today's Chanakya, part of a family-run research firm started two decades ago, interviewed 38,984 voters. Some 250 field representatives worked with its 175-strong team to arrive at its prediction, Bajaj said. None of the polls taken before and during voting had predicted the scale of the BJP victory. A poll conducted by Hansa Research for the NDTV news channel came closest, predicting BJP and its allies would win a narrow majority of 275 seats.

ticular, the electricity grid) and the simplification of bureaucratic procedures, resulting in a reduction of corruption.

An increasing use of e-governance (through, for example, the organization of an online auction) has allowed the BJP leader to significantly increase the level of transparency and reduce, in parallel, time and costs of government programs.

This is why both the Indian and the international economic community are placing a lot of confidence in Modi. On November 2013, the USbased Goldman Sachs upgraded the rating of Indian bonds from "underweight" to "marketweight", also in view of his possible election at the head of the national government.

Between February and March, there has been a significant increase in the stream of foreign investment, which has also favored the gradual strengthening of the rupee. In recent months, the stock indexes showed significant gains, compared to the general weakness of the other emerging markets.

Few people would have bet on the rise of Modi at the helm of the national government when, in 2002, in "his" own Gujarat, the death of 59 people (mostly Hindu pilgrims) in the burning of a train triggered the massacre of more than 1,000 people who were mostly Muslims.

The train set on fire was returning from the town of Ayodhya, a place where in 1992 militants of the nationalist Hindu group Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sang - an ideological branch of the BJP - demolished the Babri Mosque, a holy place built on the ruins of an ancient Hindu temple.

During a press conference, Modi said that the arson represented an act of terrorism, thus contributing with his statements to unleash violence against Muslims. Accused of not having taken the necessary measures to stop the massacre, the leader of the BJP was later acquitted by a special committee appointed by the Supreme Court.

However, it was not enough to erase the suspicion that the incoming prime minister of India did not want to act in the interests of a minority that accounts for about 15% of the total population. His harsh words against immigrants from Bangladesh, followed by the murder in May in Assam of 41 Muslims of Bengali origin, have fueled fears of a country increasingly divided on religious lines. Even if similar incidents are quite common in this area of the country, there is the fear that the invective launched a few days before

by Narendra Modi against them could have, in some way, galvanized attackers.

However, the overwhelming majority of the Indian population has decided to look beyond this, driven by a strong desire to achieve higher levels of wellbeing. There are many obstacles that the government of Modi will have to overcome in order to realize the promises made.

The clear mandate delivered by the population will deprive the government of any alibi. However, the upper house of parliament (Rajya Sabha) - still dominated by the Indian National Congress - may try to thwart what has been announced as an unstoppable process of reform aimed at making India more attractive to foreign investors.

"India has won. Good times ahead," said Modi on hearing the election results. Of course there will be in the short term a wave of enthusiasm that will bring some benefits to an economy that is currently struggling, but it would be wrong to underestimate the risks that the election of such a controversial figure could entail for the country.

This Planet Comes with Limits Carl Safina Common Dreams with us. But other creatures pay for our growth. Meanwhile, populations of fishes, amphibians, mammals, reptiles and birds are all declining worldwide.

Species are going extinct about 1,000 times faster than the natural rate -- in other words, the rate it would be if humans weren't around.

North America's pursuit of growth obliterated the tall prairies, exterminated the continent's most abundant birds and marginalized many mammals. An Africa of unlimited human growth will lose free-living elephants, apes and cats, natural landscapes and free-flowing rivers. It happens when farms and towns replace plains and forests.

Would farming Africa like we've farmed the Plains solve Africa's problems? Food isn't Africa's only problem.

Already, Ethiopia's planned dams threaten the nation's own people and Kenyans who rely on Lake Turkana for water and food. Competition and conflict always shadow the broad edges of humanity's tent, and a bigger tent tends to inflame tensions. Like all continents, Africa focused on growth would still have poverty, hunger and conflict. Better to focus on reducing poverty, hunger and conflict.

Growthers and I agree that it's great that farmers can grow more food on fewer acres than in the past. We disagree utterly on why it's great. Growing food with increasing efficiency could solve human hunger and the need to give space back to other animals who need it -- if humanity doesn't continue to grow.

But no-limits people want more food to feed more mouths. That keeps civilization on an endless Red Queen treadmill of running faster to stay in place. It means that more efficient food-growing accomplishes nothing. It means that more food will not end hunger.

food production problem of its time.

It did not solve hunger because we did not achieve the family planning revolution needed with it. Had we stayed for the main event -- stabilizing population -- the whole world might have reached a wonderful sweet spot in nutrition, health and security. What we got was billions more people and, consequently, more people living with hunger and poverty.

That keeps civilization on an endless Red Queen treadmill of running faster to stay in place. More efficient technology and fewer people could help. But more people erase the benefits of technological efficiencies.

We are forced toward more efficiency precisely because we're scraping deeper into an emptying barrel. Petroleum once ran out onto the ground in Pennsylvania. People collected it; they didn't even have to drill. Hydraulic fracturing for shale gas wasn't considered viable a decade ago because it's difficult and expensive.

Economists and Growthers say, "Look, we haven't run out because technology saves us." Well, look, fracking is a symptom of hitting limits. Technology is forced to keep up with the pace at which we are running out. That you still have some checks left doesn't mean you're not going bankrupt.

Fracking is postponing the switch to clean energy while the planet warms and oceans acidify. Shouldn't we work now on what's needed next?

Digital tech saves us time. It doesn't save elephants and apes, lions and tigers, bears and eagles, salmon and rivers, orchids and forests, giraffes and pandas, coral reefs and turtles. Human growth dooms the animals we paint on nurseryroom walls. Different kinds of growth --

Daniele Grassi is a writer based in Rome

people -- doom them differently.

Economists can feel enthused about boosting unlimited growth only if they're not worrying that our accomplishments continue to come at the expense of forests, grasslands, coral reefs, the ocean, other creatures, and native peoples.

And what are the accomplishments of growth? Has the doubling of world population in my lifetime caused the world to become more peaceful and secure, kinder and more humane? Do we have computers and digital cameras and smartphones and Ibuprofen because there are billions more people than half a century ago? No. We have them because engineers improve technology over time, not because the population has doubled.

Quantity isn't the same as better.

Life improves with qualities such as health, safety, love, family, community, and compassion. More stuff, more crowding, more competition, more profiteering -- and let's be plain, profiteering is what economists' growthmania is always about -- isn't what makes life worthwhile.

It's only fair to poor people to let them in on the main secret of wealthy, educated and successful people: smaller families mean larger lives. In the happiest of coincidences, the thing that brings fertility down fastest happens to be the same thing that brings down poverty: educating girls.

Illiterate women bear three times as many children as do literate women, and their children tend to stay poor.

Meanwhile, each year of schooling raises women's earning power by 10% to 20%.

And when people are a little better off, they desire fewer children. Gender and justice is always a good combination.

For any pie, the biggest slices get cut at the least-crowded tables. The easiest, least expensive and most efficient way to have a bigger slice of the pie is to limit the number of guests you invite.

Most of us know that the secret to a big life is a small family. It works on a global scale, too. If you love your children, humanity and the world, you want to take the best possible care of them, not crowd them out of the house.

Growth for the sake of growth? I

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We live in a society of many rules, prohibition and banning of all kinds of things like ghutka, alchohol, taxation and prostitution. Invariably, more laws ultimately mean more lawbreakers. Interestingly, the bans and laws seem to have little effect in actual implementation and impact in real life scenarios. The reason is probably culture and habit. Our Naga people adapt quickly and the way we work, the way we dress is changing drastically. Our identity as a people is changing and it is having a cascading effect in the way we do a lot of things and even seems to be changing things politically in some respects. Sadly this change can destroy traditional culture without many of us even realising it

POPULAR CULTURE: CHALLENGING OUR TRADITION? Tatongkala Pongen, Asst. Professor, Dept. of History

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ulture is about the ordinary things of life. No other culture is greater or higher than any other culture. Popular culture, as we know it, is the culture of the masses. It is a mass culture like theatre, music, fashion, food, and so on where there is a popular participation of people. Popular culture was created to entertain the masses while the elite ruled.

The idea of a mass culture is evident from the 1920s and 1930s onwards. Popular culture means seeing things from the point of view of the people rather than from those who have power over them. Popular forms of entertainment always existed which is very popular with the common folk.

The consumption of popular culture is going around us every day. In our Naga society, popular form of culture is not a new phenomenon. In fact, it seems to be playing an important role in creating an identity of the people. So, why is popular culture so popular? And what happened to the so called ‘high culture’? It is so popular because it connects the people under one platform. It gives a sense of belonging to the common folks.

When popular culture began to spread and grow, those people who were the torchbearers of the high culture started to follow and participate in the so called ‘popular culture’. Along with the canonical text they began to read comics, novels etc. From listening to the classical music they shifted their taste to rock and roll, rap music and so on. According to Alan Bloom, a patron in the field of popular culture studies, this change from a liberal-arts tradition of Culture to the adoption of popular culture marked the end of Western dominance in the world.

Although, in the case of the Nagas, it is the western influence that marked the beginning of popular culture. Today, social media and advertisements have both redefined the way we connect and reshape our identity. Almost everything in this century that people come to know is through some form of mediation. Television, internet and other modern technologies offered a new public domain that could reconnect people to some form of culture. Celebration of high culture (traditions) is not at odds with the culture of the people and that could go hand in hand with youth culture of its time. Style choices can be looked upon as a message about ourselves that we send to others and to ourselves to help establish an identity. In our Naga society, looking at the present scenario, the Korean as well as the Japanese wave have become an influential element of our identity.

Korean popular culture has taken such a hold in our society that young people throughout the region started sporting Korean hairstyles, makeup, and fashion. In a land of rich folk songs and music, rock music is gaining more popularity and the people, especially the younger generations seem to enjoy it more than the traditional songs and music. Contemporary festivals such as Hornbill festival is bounded by the processes, patterns and actions of social change. Contemporary cultural diversity like non-indigenous cultures of Nagaland such as rock contest, selling of foreign goods, fashion night, beauty contest, etc. as displayed in Hornbill festival are gaining more popularity and they represent an important image and appear to contribute to a sense of Naga identity. Today, with all the major forms of mass communication; entertainment, leisure activity and hobby have become a part of our culture. This dominant culture is now the popular culture which is also called the ‘youth culture’, as this culture is well- liked, especially among the younger generations. With the transformations and rise of popular culture in our Naga society, the younger generation seem to first take in the change and only then go back to their roots. The contemporary Naga society today presents a highly westernised culture in appearance, and at this pace it would be more difficult for the future generations to remember their past cultural traditions.

Society is a process rather than an abstract system. And with the rise in popular culture, it is a challenge for our culture and tradition. At the same time, traditional cultures are not wholly dismissed or ignored by the Nagas. There is a mixture of tradition with the notion of popular cultural forms. Looking at the present scenario where the globalizing factors have great impact on any society, the Nagas are not lacking behind.

In all aspects, the Nagas are going through the historical phase of change where the old is being replaced by the new. No matter how the change may occur, every society will remain under the realm of its cultural ethos. Change is inevitable to the way of life but do not let this change uproot our identity completely. Instead, let us find ways to create awareness among the people to preserve and restore our cultural aspects and to employ those values and elements for the enrichment of our current and future generations. Revisit our roots and try to preserve the least of what is left because the moment we shy away from our roots, we lose our identity.

“Degree of Thought is a weekly community column initiated by Tetso College in partnership with The Morung Express. Degree of Thought will delve into the social, cultural, political and educational issues around us. The views expressed here do not reflect the opinion of the institution. Tetso College is a NAAC Accredited UGC recognised Commerce and Arts College.

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Modi fights tears in first address to parliament

New Delhi, May 20 (ReuteRs): Narendra Modi fought back tears in an emotional first address to his party in parliament on Tuesday, after the Gujarat chief minister swept to power in an election that has changed the face of politics in the country.

Modi will be India’s next prime minister after leading the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to a historic victory in a ballot that ended on Friday. He is likely to take his oath of office to lead the world’s biggest democracy on Monday.

The win handed the BJP its first parliamentary majority and reduced the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty’s ruling Congress party to 44 seats, the lowest ever tally for a party that won independence and has ruled for most of the 67 years since. Modi, 63, choked up and stopped his speech to drink water during his inaugural appearance in the round, colonial-era building.

He addressed BJP lawmakers filling more than half the seats of Lok Sabha with uplifting words that commentators immediately contrasted with the often wooden addresses of his predecessor Manmohan Singh. “It is proof of the strength of our constitution that a man from a poor family is standing here today,” said Modi, who sold tea on a railway platform as a child before entering politics. For the past 12 years he has governed the state of Gujarat.

“This government (will be) one which thinks of the poor, which listens to the poor, a government which

US stands ready to work with Modi: John Kerry washiNGtON, May 20 (iaNs): Secretary of State John Kerry Tuesday said the US stands ready to work closely with India’s next Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the new government to promote shared prosperity and strengthen security.

“The friendship between the world’s oldest democracy and the

world’s largest democracy is absolutely vital...” Kerry said in a statement congratulating the Bharatiya Janata Party on its “resounding victory” in the Indian elections and Modi on his election as prime minister.

The US, he said, is “deeply invested in our strategic relationship. We look forward to strength-

ening our partnership based on common values, shared democratic traditions, and the binding ties between our peoples”. “We look forward to strengthening our partnership based on common values, shared democratic traditions, and the binding ties between our peoples,” Kerry added.

Modi can resolve border row: Chinese daily

India’s next prime minister and Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Narendra Modi, left, hugs party leader Lal Krishna Advani, as party President Rajnath Singh watches during the BJP parliamentary party meeting in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, May 20, 2014. Advani, the most senior party leader, nominated Modi for the prime minister’s post, and the lawmakers gave their approval by thumping desks and raising slogans. (AP Photo)

lives for the people,” said Modi, who kissed the steps of the pink sandstone parliament building before his speech. His comments appeared designed to counter criticism that his record of business-focussed government and fast economic growth in Gujarat did not do enough to lift people from poverty.

Congress has traditionally cast itself as India’s champion of the poor and downtrodden.

“LONG LIVE MODI!” Modi faces a huge task in meeting the sky-high expectations of India’s 1.2 billion people, who hope

he can drag the country from economic torpor, tackle corruption and cut red tape in order to create enough jobs for its burgeoning youth. With thunderous applause and shouts of “Long live Modi!” the 282 BJP members, who comfortably make up a majority in the 543-seat house, officially chose him as their parliamentary leader, one of several formalities before he is sworn in.

Modi was later due to visit President Pranab Mukherjee, who has little political power but, as head of state, has the task of formally appointing the prime minister. The

parliamentarians, who travelled from as far afield as the icy Himalayan plateaus and the palmfronded southern tip of the subcontinent, included dozens who, like Modi, are first-time MPs. Dressed in clothes ranging from multi-coloured Rajasthani turbans to bright saris and white cotton pyjama suits, the members listened as Modi paid homage to party elders he pushed aside in his rise to power. He also avoided criticism of the outgoing Congress party, saying all of India’s governments had worked for the good of the country.

Party president Rajnath Singh was less conciliatory, saying that Modi’s victory meant the BJP had replaced Congress as the natural party of government in India. “With pride we can say that we are members of a party that is now bigger than the Congress in stature. Before the 2014 elections, politics used to be BJP versus Congress, now it’s BJP versus the others,” said Singh.

Modi also cast his view forward and promised to repeat his tireless campaigning in five years’ time to take the BJP to an unprecedented two full, consecutive terms in office.

BeiJiNG, May 20 (iaNs): Saying he could become India’s ‘Nixon’, a Chinese strategic thinker Tuesday said India’s prime minister-designate, Narendra Modi, can help resolve their dragging border dispute.

An opinion piece in the influential Global Times also referred to Modi’s chief ministership of Gujarat since 2001 and said his “governance style and philosophy are very close to Chinese practices”.

Describing the Sino-Indian border dispute as “the biggest obstacle in bilateral relationship”, the commentary by Liu Zongyi said: “The Sino-Indian border issue was generated under the leadership of then Congress leader Jawaharlal Nehru. Modi and the BJP have no historical burden over this, which may help solve the thorny issue.”

Liu, a research fellow of Shanghai Institutes for International Studies, added: “As a right winger in Indian politics, Modi is more likely to become India’s ‘Nixon’ who will further propel the China-India relationship.”

The opinion piece gave wholesome credit to the BJP veteran for the party’s stunning victory in the Lok Sabha battle. “This is Modi’s victory,” Liu said, at-

tributing some of the reasons for this as “his resolute governance style, clean image, outstanding record as well as his ‘low caste’ background which sharply contrast with his counterparts from the Congress”.

Referring to criticism that Modi doesn’t care for others’ views, the opinion piece said the BJP’s lack of majority in the Rajya Sabha would not let him become an “autocrat”. If Modi needs to make India “strong” in the next decade as he has stated, then he “needs a peaceful and stable neighbourhood to facilitate domestic economic development”.

It said a section of the Western media was trying to foment discord between China and India. “They portrayed Modi as ‘India’s (Shinzo) Abe’ who will take a tough stance against China. “Modi acted indeed aggressively on the SinoIndia border issue during his election campaign.

He also vowed to establish a ‘web of allies’ by strengthening strategic cooperation with countries on China’s periphery such as Japan, Vietnam and Russia.

“But Modi is unlike to act as vehemently as Abe as it would be of no benefit to India’s economy at all.”

Cong promises structural changes Anandiben to succeed Modi as Gujarat CM While the BJP has not once elected by the legislaMay farewell meeting held in his but does not outline any roadmap GaNDhiNaGaR, 20 (iaNs): Prime Minister- honour by the BJP legislators. made an official announce- tors, will stake claim to form

New Delhi, May 20 (iaNs): The Congress Monday promised a thorough organisational revamp and structural changes as measures to win back confidence of people after the party’s worst defeat in a Lok Sabha election but did not spell out the way it will be accomplished.

Both the resolution adopted at the Congress Working Committee meeting here and Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s speech gave the party’s disconnect with the voters as reasons that led to the party just winning 44 of 543 Lok Sabha seats.

Party sources said that there could be a reshuffle of All India Congress Committee office-bearers in the coming weeks. The party has little time for recovery as it has to face assembly elections later this year in Maharashtra, Haryana, and Jammu and Kashmir and possibly Delhi.

While an admission of failures is likely to go down well with the workers, who wanted the leadership to do some plain-speaking, there is still no clarity about the kind of change that will be brought about in structures of the party, its scale and its timeline.

Party vice president Rahul Gandhi has been advocating direct elections to fill various posts and opening up the organisation and the resolution indicated the

party could go in that direction as it talked about creating “opportunities and structures that will pave the way of a thorough revamp of the organisation at all levels”.

Union minister Kamal Nath has suggested that CWC members should also be elected and not nominated by the Congress president. However, a section of the party is not satisfied with the outcome of Rahul Gandhi’s moves to usher in internal democracy in Youth Congress saying that it had brought in a crop of leaders who were not adept in agitational politics.

While the resolution and Sonia Gandhi’s speech talked about the party having failed to read the profound changes that had taken place in the country during the ten years of UPA government, there was no indication from the party how these will be addressed in the coming days. Sonia Gandhi said party should ponder why its support base has eroded and if the party was in tune with the aspirations of the youth and keeping pace with the change. She also said the party needed “clear-headed and fresh thinking that will help us correct our shortcomings” but did not elaborate.

The CWC meeting did not discuss any individual leaders according to Congress general sec-

retary Janradan Dwivedi though there has been a feeling among Congress workers that Rahul Gandhi had not been properly advised by key member in his team. There is also palpable discontent among workers against many Congress ministers for “not paying them due regard” while in office.

Most of the ministers lost the election. There was also expectation among party workers of general secretaries being held accountable for the party’s poor performance in across states. The Congress could not reach double digit mark in any state and failed to open its account in many. Sources said that general secretaries offered to be held accountable at the meeting but the common refrain at the meeting was for “collective responsibility”.

Rahul Gandhi led the party campaign that was heavily built around the UPA regime’s achievements though there was a sense of dejection among voters on issues of price rise and corruption - which Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, speaking at the meeting, termed the ones which the government failed to communicate with the people. Sources said that most members “harped upon” lack of proper communication during the last few years.

Girls outshine boys in Class 10 CBSE exams

New Delhi, May 20 (iaNs): Girls once again have outperformed boys in the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) Class 10 examinations, the results of which were declared Tuesday.

“Girls have done better this year as well. The girls have a pass percentage of 99.06 percent, compared to the boys, which is 98.74 percent,” CBSE public relations officer Rama Sharma told IANS. The overall pass percentage was 98.87 percent - a marginal increase from last year’s 98.76 percent.

A total of 1.32 million students appeared in the examination this year, which is an increase by 5.51 percent over 2013. In the national capital, boys recorded a pass percentage of 97.88 percent, while girls recorded a pass percentage of 98.81 percent.

Delhi’s total pass percentage was 98.31 percent.

Of the 317,534 registered candidates in the national capital, 3,17,163 appeared for the examination and 311,818 passed. The highest pass percentage, 99.96 percent, was from Thiruvananthapuram where girls recorded a 100 percent pass percentage while the boys’ pass percentage was 99.94.

Guwahati at 92.63 percent had the low-

est pass percentage of students. A total of 93.1 percent of girls passed their examinations while the figure for boys was 92.19 percent. Of the 4,348 candidates who appeared in the examinations in Guwahati, 7.37 percent appeared for re-examination, which was the highest in the country.

Delhi was second as 1.63 percent of the 5,160 candidates who appeared for the examinations, gave a re-test. The lowest percentage was recorded in Thiruvananthapuram at 0.03 percent. The CBSE is the national board of education for public and private schools and conducts final examinations for Class 10 and 12.

The CBSE also launched the second phase of its counselling Tuesday which aims to address the psychological problems of students. Students can dial a toll free number - 1800 118 004 - from any part of the country to get centralised access to the CBSE helpline.

Chennai recorded four cases of cheating - the highest in the country followed

by Panchkula with two, and one each in Thiruvananthapuram, Allahabad, Dehradun and Bhubaneshwar. Patna, which had the maximum cases of using unfair means last year, had the cleanest slate this year, recording not a single incident this year.

elect Narendra Modi will submit his resignation as Gujarat chief minister to the governor at 3 p.m. Wednesday, party sources said.

Before he submits his resignation, Modi will attend a

Party sources said that after Modi submits his resignation, BJP legislators will hold a meeting to elect the successor to the PM-elect, appointed as such by President Pranab Mukherjee Tuesday.

ment about who will succeed Modi, party sources said that Anandiben Patel, the revenue minister, was set to be the next chief minister of the state.

The new chief minister,

the government at 6 p.m.

Wednesday. Soon after, Modi will resign as the legislator from Maninagar.

The new chief minister will take oath on May 22 at 12.39 p.m.

Eighteen killed in two Jammu road accidents JaMMu, May 20 (iaNs): Eighteen people were killed and at least 44 injured in two road accidents in the Jammu region Tuesday, officials said. One person was killed and 17 were injured in the first road accident in Kathua district, about 65 km from Jammu, police said.

Four passengers, who were injured in the accident that occurred when a bus going from Batal village to Bilawar town fell into a gorge, are in a serious condition. In the second road accident, 17 people were killed and 27 injured when their bus fell into a deep gorge in Ramban district, 170 km from Jammu, an official told IANS here.

The accident occurred when the bus driver lost control of the vehicle at Digdol on the Jammu-Srinagar highway. “Seventeen passengers have died so far, while 27 are injured,” the official said, adding that the seriously injured were air-lifted on helicopters to Jammu. Most of the passengers in the bus were youths going to the Kashmir Valley from Poonch and Rajouri districts for a recruitment rally. A few other passengers were from Gujarat.

Kejriwal meets LG, Cong not to prop up AAP govt

New Delhi, May 20 (iaNs): AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal Tuesday met Delhi Lt. Governor Najeeb Jung even as the Congress made it clear it will not help the party form a government in the city. After the Lok Sabha polls, the Aam Aadmi Party and the Bharatiya Janata Party began exploring possibilities to form the government in Delhi, which has been under President’s rule since Feb 17.

“Kejriwal held a meeting with Jung and the issue of government did figure in the talks,” a party source told IANS. The development occurred on a day when the Congress reiterated that it will not support the AAP to form a government in Delhi. Some news reports had surfaced that three Congress legislators reportedly expressed their desire to extend outside support to the AAP. The AAP has 27 legislators and the Congress has eight in a house of 70. With 31 legislators, the BJP emerged as the single largest party in the Delhi assembly polls. It has the support of one legislator from the Akali Dal, its ally in the National Democratic Alliance. “We will not support the AAP at any cost. When we gave them the opportunity, they ran away. We are ready for fresh elections,” Delhi Congress chief Arvinder Singh Lovely said here.

“There is consensus in the party over this issue. It is up to the BJP to form the government,” Lovely told reporters. Meanwhile, Congress general secretary Ajay Maken tweeted: “Under no circumstances the Congress will support the AAP to form a government in Delhi.”

Earlier, a section of AAP legislators - not in favour of re-elections - wanted the party to form the government with the help of the Congress. The AAP officially declined to do so.

An Indian passenger who was injured after a private bus plunged off a mountain road into a deep gorge in the Indian portion of Kashmir is brought for treatment at the government medical college hospital in Jammu, on Tuesday, May 20. (AP Photo)

Akhilesh sacks 36 minister-rank leaders; but won’t quit himself luCKNOw, May 20 (Pti): Rattled by Samajwadi Party’s rout in Lok Sabha polls, Uttar Pradesh chief minister Akhilesh Yadav on Tuesday sacked 36 leaders with the status of minister of state in his government but ruled out his resignation.

Party sources said among those who got the axe were six leaders of minority community, adding Akhilesh might sack some cabinet and state ministers too after the poor performance in the Lok Sabha polls, where the SP managed to get just five seats.

Amid demands for his resignation, Akhilesh, however, indicated that he was in no mood to quit and said reasons behind SP’s poor show were being reviewed.

“The political equations of all the states are different... one state cannot be compared to another,” he said in response to questions on whether he would follow his Bihar counterpart Nitish Kumar, who resigned after his party’s poll debacle.

The chief minister who on Tuesday presided over the first cabinet meeting after the completion of the polls said the reasons behind his SP’s poor show are being reviewed in detail by the party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav.

Prominent among those who have

been removed are Narendra Bhati and Surendra Mohan Agarwal, who had tasted defeat in Gautam Buddh Nagar and Kanpur seats respectively, RLD turncoat Anuradha Chowdhury, traders’ body leader Sandeep Bansal, former Agra mayor Anjula Mahaur, Surabhi Shukla, Ranjana Bajpai KC Pandey, Kamlesh Pathak, Ashu Malik, Satish Dixit and Manoj Rai. Those from the minority community included Anis Mansori, Mohammad Abbas, Iqbal Ali, Haji Iqram and Kamruddin.

Raja Chaturvedi and Ram Singh Rana, former student leaders, were also sacked.

The ruling party got five out of 80 seats in the Lok Sabha polls, just two years after it got a spectacular mandate in the assembly elections.

BJP and its ally Apna Dal clinched 73 while Congress got two seats.

Among the five seats, Mulayam Singh Yadav alone won two seats, Mainpuri and Azamgarh. The remaining three are Kannauj, Badaun and Firozabad clinched by his daughter-in-law Dimple Yadav and nephews Dharmendra Yadav and Akshay Yadav respectively.

The sacking came a day after the party held a meeting of party candidates to review its performance.

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Thai army declares martial law, denies coup BANGKOK, MAy 20 (AP): Thailand’s powerful army declared martial law before dawn Tuesday, deploying troops into the heart of Bangkok in a dramatic move it said was aimed at stabilizing the Southeast Asian country after six months of turbulent political unrest. The military, however, insisted a coup d’etat was not underway.

The surprise operation, which places the army in charge of public security nationwide, came amid deepening uncertainty over the nation’s fate and one day after the caretaker prime minister refused to step down in the face of long-running anti-government protests.

Although soldiers entered multiple television stations to broadcast the army message, life in the vast skyscraper-strewn metropolis of 10 million people remained largely unaffected, with schools, businesses and tourist sites open and traffic flowing as usual.

On a major road in front of one of the country’s most luxurious shopping malls, bystanders gawked at soldiers in jeeps mounted with machine-guns who briefly diverted traffic. The mood wasn’t tense; passers-by stopped to take cell phone pictures of the soldiers. Acting Prime Minister Niwattumrong Boonsongpaisan called an emergency Cabinet meeting to discuss the situation at an undisclosed location.

Justice Minister Chai-

Thailand under martial law and what it means Thailand’s army has declared martial law to “bring back peace and order” amid growing concerns of violence after six months of political protests in the capital. So far, they have announced these bans or measures on national television: • Protesters gathered in Bangkok cannot march outside of their protest sites.

• Ten politically affiliated satellite and cable TV stations, including those funded by pro- and antigovernment protest movements, are asked to stop broadcasting until further notice.

• TV and radio stations should interrupt any regular programming for army broadcasts.

• Any broadcast or publication that could “incite unrest” is banned.

• Police should hand over reinforcements to the military if requested.

Thai soldiers are reflected in a mirror while guarding the Thai police headquarters Tuesday, May 20, in Bangkok.

Thailand’s army declared martial law before dawn Tuesday in a surprise announcement it said was aimed at keeping the country stable after six months of sometimes violent political unrest. (AP Photo)

kasem Nitisiri told The Associated Press the army had not consulted Niwattumrong beforehand, but he played down the move and said the caretaker government was still running the country even though the army was now in charge of security. “Security matters will be handled solely by the military, and whether the situation intensifies or is resolved is up to them,” he said. “There is no cause to panic.”

Thailand, an economic hub for Southeast Asia, has been gripped by off-andon political turmoil since 2006, when former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra was toppled by a mili-

tary coup after being accused of corruption, abuse of power and disrespect for King Bhumibol Adulyadej.

The army, which is seen by many as sympathetic to anti-government protesters, has staged 11 coups since the end of absolute monarchy in 1932.

The military statement was issued Tuesday by army chief Gen. Prayuth Chan-Ocha, who cited a 1914 law that gives the authority to intervene during times of crisis. He said the military took action to avert street clashes between political rivals which he feared “could impact the country’s security.” “The Royal Thai Army intends to bring back

peace and order to the beloved country of every Thai as soon as possible,” he said. We “intend to see the situation resolved quickly.”

Prayuth later called on government leaders and the country’s powerful independent oversight agencies to meet in the afternoon.

The latest round of unrest started last November, when anti-government protesters took to the streets to try to oust thenPrime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, Thaksin’s sister. She dissolved the lower house of parliament in December in a bid to ease the crisis, and has led a weakened, caretaker government with limited powers

since then.

Earlier this month, the Constitutional Court ousted Yingluck and nine Cabinet ministers for abuse of power, but the move has done little to resolve the political conflict that pits the rural poor majority who support Yingluck and her opponents that largely come from the urban middle and upper class. Competing protests in Bangkok have raised concerns of more violence, which were heightened by anti-government protesters who set a Monday deadline for achieving their goals of ousting the remnants of the government. An overnight attack last week on

MH370 conspiracy theories re-emerge 58 countries urge UN “Someone is hiding something. It is not KUALA LUMPUR, MAy 20 (AFP): The to refer Syria to ICC fruitless MH370 search has breathed new fair that MAS and Malaysia should take the life into conspiracy theories on the plane’s fate, with a book, two films and even a former prime minister pushing ideas ranging from diversion by the CIA to an accidental shoot-down.

A host of wild theories including a Taliban hijack or meteor strike had emerged to fill the information vacuum in the days following the plane’s disappearance on March 8 with 239 aboard as authorities across Asia scrambled to figure out what happened. The speculation abated after Malaysia said in late March the plane was believed to have gone down in the Indian Ocean for unknown reasons, but has revived due to the failure of an international search effort to find any trace of the plane.

In a blog posting on Sunday, former Malaysian premier Mahathir Mohamad put his weight behind online rumours that the Boeing 777 had a feature allowing the plane’s controls to be taken over remotely.

The still-influential Mahathir, 88, said the US Central Intelligence Agency might have taken control of the American-made plane after it was commandeered by terrorists, adding it was possible “the plane is somewhere, maybe without MAS (Malaysia Airlines) markings”. “Can it not be that the pilot of MH370 lost control of their aircraft after someone directly or remotely activated the equipment for seizure of control of the aircraft?” Mahathir wrote.

‘Someone is hiding something’

blame. For some reason the media will not print anything that involves Boeing or the CIA,” wrote Mahathir, who is known for his anti-western rhetoric.

Similar allegations were floated previously by a newspaper controlled by Malaysia’s ruling party, which was under fire over a perceived bumbling and secretive handling of the crisis. The suggestion of American involvement was dismissed at the time by the US embassy in Malaysia.

Two films about MH370 were touted on Sunday to potential distributors at the Cannes Film Festival in France, with a trailer for one of them, “The Vanishing Act”, showing terrified passengers and a gun being brandished.

The film was pitched as “the untold story of the missing Malaysian plane”.

One of the first books about MH370 went on sale Monday, suggesting it could have been shot down during a military drill in the South China Sea and the incident covered-up. London-based author Nigel Cawthorne said there had been a joint Thai-US military exercise at the time and which was to include live-fire exercises.

“Say a participant accidentally shot down Flight MH370. Such things do happen.

The cruiser USS Vincennes shot down Iran Air Flight 655 over the Persian Gulf in 1988,” he wrote. “No one wants another Lockerbie, so those involved would have every reason to keep quiet about it,” he added.

UNITED NATIONS, MAy 20 (AP): Nearly 60 countries urged the U.N. Security Council on Monday to refer the war in Syria to the International Criminal Court for investigation of possible crimes against humanity and war crimes.

France, which drafted the resolution, has called for a vote Thursday and Russia’s U.N. Ambassador Vitaly Churkin has already said Moscow - Syria’s closest ally - opposes the measure, which means an almost certain veto. China, which also supports President Bashar Assad’s government and has joined Russia in vetoing three previous Syria resolutions, could make it a fourth double veto.

Nevertheless, the 58 countries appealed to all 193 U.N. member states to show their support by co-sponsoring the resolution that would authorize the world’s permanent war crimes tribunal to investigate allegations of heinous crimes by the Syrian government, pro-government militias, and armed opposition groups. The countries said they want as many nations as possible to join in sending “a strong political signal ... that impunity for the most serious crimes under international law is unacceptable.” They condemned “the widespread violations of human rights and international humanitarian law committed in a pervasive climate of impunity by the Syrian authorities and pro-government militias as well as by non-state armed groups.”

Switzerland’s U.N. Ambassador Paul Seger, who coordinated the effort, stressed to The Associated Press that the resolution does not target one side. “We believe the least we should be asking for, and the least the victims should be asking for, is justice,” Seger said. “That’s also the reason, from a moral and legal perspective, this resolution is worth supporting.” Syria is not a state party to the Rome statute that established the International Criminal Court so the only way it can be referred to The Hague, Netherlands-based tribunal is by the Security Council.

China warns US cyber charges could damage ties

BEIJING, MAy 20 (AP): China on Tuesday warned the United States was jeopardizing military ties by charging five Chinese officers with cyberspying and tried to turn the table on Washington by calling it “the biggest attacker of China’s cyberspace.”

China announced it was suspending cooperation with the United States in a joint cybersecurity task force over Monday’s indictments, which accused the officers of stealing trade secrets from major American companies.

The testy exchange marked an escalation in tensions over U.S. complaints that China’s military uses its cyber warfare skills to steal foreign trade secrets to help the country’s vast state-owned industrial sector. A U.S. security firm, Mandiant, said last year it traced attacks on American and other companies to a military unit in Shanghai.

The charges are the biggest challenge to relations since a meeting last summer between President Barack Obama and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, in Sunnylands, California.

U.S.-Chinese relations already were under strain from conflicts over what Washington says are provocative Chinese moves to assert claims over disputed areas of

the East and South China Seas.

Beijing complains the Obama administration’s effort to shift foreign policy emphasis toward Asia and expand its military presence in the region is emboldening Japan and other neighbors and fueling tension.

Beijing has denied conducting commercial spying and said it is a victim of computer hacking, but has given little indication it investigates foreign complaints.

“The U.S. accusation against Chinese personnel is purely ungrounded and absurd,” said a statement carried by the official Xinhua News Agency and read on the state TV midday news.

The Foreign Ministry summoned American Ambassador Max Baucus on Monday night to receive a formal protest.

The Ministry of Defense warned that the U.S. accusations would chill gradually warming relations between the two militaries. “The United States, by this action, betrays its commitment to building healthy, stable, reliable military-to-military relations and causes serious damage to mutual trust,” it said. Also Tuesday, the Cabinet’s Internet information agency said Chinese networks and websites have been the target of thousands of hacking attacks from

computers in the United States.

“The U.S. is the biggest attacker of China’s cyber space,” Xinhua said, citing a statement by the agency.

“The U.S. attacks, infiltrates and taps Chinese networks belonging to governments, institutions, enterprises, universities and major communication backbone networks.”

Monday’s indictment said the People’s Liberation Army officers targeted U.S. makers of nuclear and solar technology, stealing confidential business information, sensitive trade secrets and internal communications. The targets were Alcoa World Alumina, Westinghouse Electric Co., Allegheny Technologies, U.S. Steel Corp., the United Steelworkers Union and SolarWorld.

The Justice Department said the charges should be a national “wake-up call” about cyber intrusions. American authorities have previously announced details of cyberattacks from China but Monday’s indictment was the first accusation to name individuals. In announcing the suspension of its work with the cybersecurity group, the Chinese government warned of further retaliation “as the situation evolves.”

The working group was established in April 2013, following the

publication of allegations of spying by the Chinese military and held its first meeting last July. The new indictment attempts to distinguish spying for national security purposes — which the U.S. admits doing — from economic espionage intended to gain commercial advantage for private companies or industries.

The United States denies spying for commercial advantage, though documents released by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden said the NSA broke into the computers of Brazil’s main state-owned oil company, Petrobras. Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff said if that was true, then the motive would be to gather economic information.

The indictment says the Chinese hackers stole proprietary information from the companies and the labor union, including design specification for Westinghouse pipes and pricing and strategy information from SolarWorld.

Working from a building in Shanghai, prosecutors say, the hackers in some cases gained access to networks by sending emails to company employees that looked authentic but that actually contained a link to malicious code.

Typically, under martial law soldiers also have authority to enter and search private property and make seizures in the name of keeping peace. the main anti-government protest site left 3 dead and more than 20 injured. It raised the toll since November to 28 dead and drew a strong televised rebuke from the army chief.

“This week looked ominous,” said Thitinan Pongsudhirak, director of the Institute of Security and International Studies at Bangkok’s Chulalongkorn University. “There was a strong likelihood of violence and turmoil.”

“Martial law is intended to impose peace and order, but the key will be the army treatment of the two sides,” Thitinan said. “If the army is seen as favoring one side over the other, then we

could see the situation spiral and deteriorate. If the army is seen as even-handed ... we could actually see the situation improving.”

Throughout the morning, the army issued multiple edicts. In one, they asked TV and radio stations to stop broadcasting their regular programs and air live roadcast from the army channels when asked. At least 10 politically affiliated private TV stations from both sides ceased broadcasting — after armed soldiers entered and requested they do so.

The leader of the progovernment Red Shirt movement, Jatuporn Prompan, said his group

could accept the imposition of martial law, but said they “won’t tolerate a coup or other non-constitutional means” to grab power.

“We will see what the army wants,” he said, warning that the undemocratic removal of the country’s caretaker government “will never solve the country’s crisis and will plunge Thailand deeper into trouble.”

Red Shirts had been massing for days on the outskirts of Bangkok, and Jutaporn said his supporters were being “surrounded.”

More than 100 soldiers deployed near the rally venue with coils of barbed wire to block roads; they appeared to be taking over control of the area from police and took positions on roads leading to the protest site. U.S. State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki said the U.S. was “very concerned about the deepening political crisis in Thailand.”

We “urge all parties to respect democratic principles, including respect for freedom of speech,” she said. “We expect the Army to honor its commitment to make this a temporary action to prevent violence, and to not undermine democratic institutions.”

On Monday, Thailand’s acting prime minister insisted his government will not resign, resisting pressure from a group of senators who are seeking ways to settle the country’s political crisis, and from anti-government protesters who are demanding an appointed prime minister.

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Chelsea's Ashley Cole (AP File Photo)

LONDON, MAy 20 (AgeNcIeS): Former England defender Ashley Cole has tweeted that his eight-year spell at Stamford Bridge is almost certainly over and he will not be playing for Chelsea next season.

Cole, who called time on his 107-cap England career

earlier this month after being offered a standby spot in Roy Hodgson’s squad for the World Cup, will be out of contract next month.

“I am weighing up my options for playing next season with my agent and sadly it does not look like chelsea will be one of them,” the

33-year-old posted. “Thank u Chelsea FC for making my 8 years there a pleasure to work all the staff and players, we’ve been through a lot, good and bad.

“And now I’ll be looking for another journey in my life hope it can be like my others full of fun and of course WIN something.” Although a divisive figure in England because of some of his off-field antics and pronouncements, Cole was considered one of the best left backs in the world at his peak.

Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho has said he would like to keep Cole for next season even though he preferred Spaniard Cesar Azpilicueta in his defence for much of the recently concluded campaign. Cole joined Chelsea from Arsenal for 5 million pounds (RM27.5 million) and William Gallas in 2006 and has won one Premier League title, four FA Cups, a Europa League as well as the 2012 Champions League with the west London club.

Pele fears protests will hurt World Cup

HUIXQUILUcAN, MAy 20 (AFP): Brazilian football legend Pele expressed concern that social protests in his country could prompt nervous fans from abroad to cancel their trips to the World Cup. Pele, speaking at a press conference in a Mexico City suburb, said he had no doubt that demonstrations that have reemerged in recent weeks would affect the tournament if they continue. "We already know that 25 percent of foreigners who were going to Brazil are worried by the protest movement, and I think they have cancelled," said the 73-year-old honorary ambassador to the tournament. "This is a great loss for the country," said Pele, who won his third World Cup in Mexico in 1970.

With less than a month to go until the first kick-off on June 12, Brazil is facing a new wave of protests from people angry at the cost of

the World Cup and lackluster spending on public services. Some protests have turned violent, but they are smaller than the demonstrations that brought one million people to the

streets last year during the Confederations Cup, a warm-up to the World Cup. Pele, who was criticized last year for urging Brazilians to leave the streets and focus on football, said he agreed with the protesters' grievances, like the need for more schools and hospitals. But "O Rei" (King)

Pele said the Brazilian national team should not have to pay for "the corruption and politics." "We have nothing to do with corrupt politicians and thieves. It is not our fault," the former Santos great said, arguing that players should not be lumped together with "the thieves who stole to make stadiums."

Pele also voiced dismay that some of the 12 World Cup stadiums have yet to be finished 24 days from the first game. Turning to the national team's chances of winning its sixth World Cup, Pele said he saw weaknesses in the attacking side and voiced concerns about putting too much pressure on young star forward Neymar.

"We have confidence in the Brazilian team. The only problem I see is that Brazil has more World Cups than everybody else and people think it is obligated to win" at home, he said.

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Spurs rout Thunder in series opener

Oklahoma City Thunder's Russell Westbrook (0) is defended by San Antonio Spurs' Tim Duncan (21) as he drives to the basket during the first half of Game 1 of a Western Conference finals NBA basketball playoff series, Monday, May 19, 2014, in San Antonio. San Antonio won 122-105. (AP Photo)

SAN ANTONIO, MAy 20 (AP): The San Antonio Spurs were planning to attack the lane whether Oklahoma City big man Serge Ibaka was playing or not. The fact that the Thunder's athletic defender was absent only made things easier for them.

Tim Duncan scored 27 points as San Antonio took advantage of Ibaka's absence to dominate the paint, beating the Oklahoma City 122-105 on Monday night in the opener of the Western Conference finals. Tony Parker did not appear limited by a hamstring injury, scoring 14 points and having 12 assists in 36 minutes.

The Thunder got their usual offensive outputs from All-Stars Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook, who scored 28 and 25 points respectively. But Oklahoma City's remaining starters, Nick Collison, Thabo Sefolosha and Kendrick Perkins, combined to score five points with 13 rebounds and one assist. But it was defensively were the Thunder struggled without Ibaka, who will miss the remainder of the postseason after injuring his calf muscle in Oklahoma City's se-

ries clincher against the Los Angeles Clippers.

The Spurs had 66 points in the paint and shot 58 percent from the field. It was the highest shooting percentage allowed by the Thunder in the postseason since relocating from Seattle. "We're a no-excuse team," Oklahoma City coach Scott Brooks said. "Serge is out.

He's not coming back. We have to play better. If we expect to beat one of the best teams in basketball, and a very good offensive team, we have to play and we're not going to make an excuse."

The Spurs fed Duncan early with Ibaka out, and the veteran responded by shooting 6 for 7 in scoring 12 points in the opening quarter. Parker, who picked up a mild hamstring strain in San Antonio's series clincher against Portland, drove the paint and dished to Duncan early before looking for his own shot midway through the quarter.

"That's part of our game plan," Duncan said. "He knew that they weren't going to let him shoot the ball like he did in the last series.

They were going to try to take that

away from him, so he knew he was going to have to be an assist man."

Parker scored all but two of his points in the first half as the Spurs beat the Thunder for the first time this season. Even though San Antonio improved to 7-1 at home in the playoffs, winning their past five games by an average of 20.6 points, Monday's victory was not easy.

The Spurs also still remember what happened in the 2012 conference finals, when the Thunder won four straight to rally from an 0-2 deficit. "It's great to have an appropriate fear," Parker said. "They played great against us in 2012, and we know that we have to be perfect. They're younger than us and more athletic, and so we have to be more perfect." San Antonio played nearly perfectly offensively and still rallied to take a 76-75 lead on Westbrook's 17-foot jumper with 5 minutes left in the third quarter.

"We don't believe in moral victories," Durant said. "Third quarter was obviously our best quarter, but we didn't close it out well. It's Game 1, we've got to make adjustments and be better for the next game. We're not taking no moral

victories out of it." Despite missing his first four shots, Westbrook continued to bull his way into the lane and it paid off as the game wore on. Westbrook had 12 points in the third quarter, continually driving past Parker and the Spurs before they could settle in defensively.

With the exception of a pair of free throws by Derek Fisher, Westbrook and Durant scored all of Oklahoma City's points in a 23-22 third quarter. The extended efforts exerted by the Thunder's two AllStars eventually took a toll, especially with the Spurs bench coming to life. Westbrook and Durant were limited to seven points in the final quarter.

Durant and Westbrook were a combined 19 for 40. Durant was 1 for 4 in the fourth quarter. "That's the key with Kevin," Popovich said.

"You're obviously not going to stop him, but making him work hard is certainly the plan. It's everybody's plan, no matter who he plays against, they're going to make him work hard. I thought Kawhi was good, didn't foul, but I think the team did a nice job behind him, helping him."

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Jennifer Lawrence shares hiccups cure ctress Jennifer LawA rence says has discovered unique way to overcome hiccups. The 23-year-old drinks water and does a hand exercise, reports contactmusic. com. The only thing that ever works for getting rid of hiccups for me is when I drink water and raise my arms over my head and lower them very slowly, said Lawrence.

I still try to impress my wife: Seth Rogen

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ineapple Express' star Seth Rogen admits he always cracks jokes to make his wife Lauren Miller laugh. The 32-year-old actor, who has been married to Miller for three years, said he is more in love with her than ever and enjoys trying to impress her, reported Contactmusic. "I still try to impress her. I just try to be funny. She's an easy person to make laugh," he said.

When asked if the couple would be trying to have children any time soon, he replied, "We're not yet ready to really start a family. We both work a lot." Rogen married writer and actress Miller, who he co-starred with in the film '50/50', in a ceremony in California in October 2011. The actor will be seen next in new comedy 'Neighbors' with Zac Efron.

Maroon 5 to release new album

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to release the fifth studio album called `V` on September 2 this year, reportedly.

The recording was done in LA over the past year with producers Max Martin, Benny Blanco, Ryan Tedder, Shellback and Sam Martin. `V` witnesses the reunion of Maroon 5 with long-time keyboardist Jesse Carmichael who took a hiatus while the band recorded `Overexposed`.

A new single which is set to be released this summer will precede `Overexposed`. In addition, the band led by Adam Levine has signed a worldwide tour deal with Live Nation for a tour to be announced in the coming weeks.

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harlize Theron has opened up about her 'effortless' romantic relationship with longtime friend Sean Penn in Vogue's new June issue.

The 38-year-old actress, who was chosen to star on the cover, strikes a pose against a palm tree, wearing a navy blue dress with cut-out shoulders, her blonde pixie haircut styled in beach-swept waves.

'It just kind of naturally happened,' she said of her blossoming relationship with the actor, 53. 'And before I knew it, I was in something that was making my life better - the people who really love me can see the effect it has had on me.'

For Charlize's sixth ever Vogue cover, she was photographed in the Florida Keys, posing on the beach in a silver metallic bikini

and riding the waves on a jetski. The mother-of-one, who adopted son Jackson in 2012, has spent the past few years happily single, and she says the love she has with Sean came somewhat unexpectedly.

'I know so well what I want to fit in my life. And the simple answer to that is: Unless he can make my life better? My life is really pretty f****** good. 'What I guess I am trying to say is: A friend kind of stepped into that role, and I really didn't see it coming... We were just really good friends.'

And the pair have certainly been looking rather loved up recently.

At the Los Angeles premiere of her new film A Million Ways To Die In The West, Charlize couldn't help but smile brightly as she stood next to her beau -

even though at 5ft 10in and in heels, she towered over his 5ft 8in stature.

And they made a very elegant couple indeed at the Met Gala last week, coordinating in matching monochrome. But while they may be over the moon to have finally found each other, Charlize says a wedding is most definitely not on the cards.

'Let's put it this way: I never had the dream of the white dress,' she explained. 'And watching other people getting married? I think it's beautiful for them, but to be quite honest, usually I'm sitting there just devastated. 'It's supposed to be this night of celebrating love, and all you see is a couple separated all night making sure everybody else is okay,' she elaborated. 'It just

looks like a lot of work.'

In any case, the South African-born former model - who famously never married actor Stuart Townsend during their nine-year relationship - is certainly in it for the long haul. And judging by how Sean acts around her and Jackson, he is just as committed. The three were pictured on the beach in Hawaii in March, with Sean playfully wading in the surf with Jackson.

If Sean has managed to earn the love of her son, there's no doubt he's won her over as well. During her interview with the magazine, she took a moment to watch as Jackson played with a group of boys on the beach. 'My son. Right?' she said, tearing up proudly.

'It's amazing how life turns out. I have turned into the biggest mush.'

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Iranian actress's Cannes kiss sparks ire back home ‘He offered to buy it outright’ One Direction's Zayn Malik proves himself to be the perfect son-in-law by buying Perrie Edwards' mum a HOUSE

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he One Direction h e a r t t h ro b h a s proved himself to be the perfect future son-inlaw by reportedly splashing out more than £200,000 on a new abode for the Little Mix singer's mum Debbie in Dorset. After hearing Debbie was keen to relocate from South Shields, Tyne and Wear, to the southern county, Perrie, 20, was going to help her out with footing the bill for a mortgage - before generous Zayn, 21, stepped in.

A source told The Sun newspaper: 'Debbie has been saying how she's got a new house. Perrie was going to get the mortgage for her and then Zayn offered to buy it outright. 'She is just moving stuff in now. It costs more than £200,000 and is a new build.' Zayn and Perrie have been dating for two

years after meeting when One Direction performed on The X Factor - which Little Mix eventually went on to win - with the Bradfordborn singer popping the question in August 2013.

The source added: 'He's a really nice chap for buying the house. It's a lovely gesture ahead of their wedding. He gets on really well with her family.' But it's fair to say the What Makes You Beautiful hitmaker has a fair amount of cash to splash at present after he and his One Direction bandmates - Harry Styles, Niall Horan, Louis Tomlinson and Liam Payne - were recently named the richest boyband in British music history.

According to The Sunday Times Rich List, the chart-topping quintet have amassed a staggering com-

bined fortune of £70million since shooting to fame on The X Factor back in 2010.

And it isn't just Debbie who Zayn has been scouring the property market for; the kind-hearted musician splashed out on a new family house for his doting mum, Trisha, in his hometown of Bradford.

In One Direction's movie, This Is Us, Trisha is seen breaking down in tears as her millionaire son presented her with the keys to her plush new pad.

She said: 'I know that you always used to say, "I’ll get you a house one day when I’m older". But thank you for what you’ve done for us.

I’m so proud of you.' Representatives for Zayn Malik and Perrie Edwards declined to comment when approached by MailOnline.

Michael Jackson

Leila Hatami kisses Gilles Jacob at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival.

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ranian actress Leila Hatami on Sunday angered authorities in Tehran by kissing the Cannes film festival’s president on the cheek, an act seen as affront to the “chastity” of the Islamic republic’s women.

A photograph carried

by Iranian media shows Hatami kissing Gilles Jacob at the opening of this year’s festival.

“Those who attend intentional events should take heed of the credibility

and chastity of Iranians, so that a bad image of Iranian women will not be demonstrated to the world,” Deputy Culture Minister Hossein Noushabadi said, quoted by the website of state broadcaster IRIB. “Iranian woman is the symbol of chastity and innocence,” he said. Hatami’s “inappropriate presence” at the festival was “not in line with our religious beliefs”.

Born into a family with a background in cinema,

Leila Hatami at the opening ceremony and the screening of Grace of Monaco at the 67th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Wednesday, May 14. (AP Photo)

Hatami gained worldwide fame for her role in Asghar Farhadi’s “A Separation,” which won the 2012 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

She is on the jury this year at the annual Cannes festival in southern France but lives in Iran.

According to Iran’s interpretation of Islamic (sharia) law, in place since the 1979 revolution, a woman is not allowed to have physical contact with a man outside her family

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A hologram of Michael Jackson could be set to tour the world after a successful performance at the Billboard Music Awards.

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show `Entertainment Ke Liye Kuch Bhi Karega`.

On the show`s set, he left judges Anu Malik and Farah Khan mesmerised by handing them an atlas and requesting them to ask any question regarding world geography, history and current affairs. He answered them with utmost confidence. Later, he joined host Krushna Abhishek and danced with him on the song `Lungi dance`, said a source from the set of the channel.

The upcoming episode of `Entertainment Ke Liye Kuch Bhi Karega` will see a kids` party theme with entertaining performances from the young brigade.

Krushna will be seen performing with the children on the song `Tai tai phish`.

he late King of Pop, who was resurrected onstage at the Billboard Music Awards on Sunday night (18.05.14) thanks to advanced technology, could wow fans across the globe again five years after his death. The producers behind the special effects extravaganza want to take their show on the road for a two-year tour and are predicted to make half a billion dollars.

A source told the Daily Star newspaper ''It's only a matter of time before a hologram like this goes on tour. Public appetite for Michael Jackson's music has never been greater and this is a unique way of experiencing his magic.'' The hologram performance at the Billboard Music Awards follows the success of a new posthumous Michael Jackson album, 'Xscape', which recently topped the charts in the UK. John Branca, the executor of the singer's estate, added ''It's so important to experience Michael Jackson in a live setting. We wanted a live performance in front of a live audience.''

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It took four months to put together the lavish special effects show, which saw Michael's hologram gyrate and moonwalk on stage

to new song 'Slave to the Rhythm'. The late singer's choreographers, Rich and Tone Talauega, were behind the dance moves.

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SRH win against RCB opens up fourth place playoff hunt India's Saina Nehwal returns a shot to Thailand's Ratchanok Intanon during their women's singles match of the Uber Cup Badminton in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, May 20. (AP Photo)

New delHI, May 20 (PTI): Saina Nehwal produced one of her finest performances in recent times to guide Indian women's team to a comfortable victory over Thailand and catapult the hosts to the top of Group Y in the Uber Cup badminton tournament here on Tuesday.

Star shuttlers Saina and PV Sindhu notched up comfortable victories in the first two singles and then Commonwealh Games gold medalists pair of Jwala Gutta and Ashwi-

ni Ponnappa completed the drubbing with another gutsy win to put India 3-0 ahead at the Siri Fort Sports complex here.

It was vintage Saina on display here as the Indian rode on her array of shots and better court coverage to stave off the challenge from World champion Ratchanok Intanon 22-20, 21-14 in the first singles to give India a brilliant start against Thailand.

Malaysia Grand Prix Gold winner, PV Sindhu then resisted determined fightback by Porntip

Buranaprasertsuk from 11-14 to 19-19 in the first game to eventually prevail 21-19, 21-14 in a 37-minute match in the second singles to swell India’s lead to 2-0.

2011 World champions bronze medallist pair of Jwala and Ashwini, who recently won the bronze at Asian Championship last month, came up with another superb show to thrash Duanganong Aroonkesorn and Savitree Amitrapai 21-16, 21-13 in a 33-minute doubles match here.

Hyderabad, May 20 (PTI): Shikhar Dhawan led from the front with 50 and David Warner scored 59 as Sunrisers Hyderabad chased down RCB's score of 160/6 with 2 bals to spare.

A clinical performance by the Sunrisers Hyderabad top order ensured a sevenwicket victory against Royal Challengers Bangalore, which kept them in the hunt for the playoffs in the seventh edition of the Indian Premier League here on Tuesday.

Chasing a target of 161 riding on Virat Kohli’s (67) first half century of the tournament, Sunrisers knocked off the runs in 19.4 overs as Shikhar Dhawan returned to form with a stroke-filled 50. While Shikhar started the chase in right earnest, David Warner, back in the opening slot, smashed his way to 46-ball 59, it was skipper Darren Sammy, who smashed a six off the penultimate over by erratic Varun Aaron, who decisively turned the game.

Both Sunrisers and RCB have 10 points from

12 games each but Virat Kohli’s men are a place ahead at fifth with a better net run-rate.

During the chase, Dhawan’s 39-ball innings had seven fours and a six, while Warner hit three fours and four huge sixes. The opening duo sealed the match with a 100-run stand in 12.3 overs. It was Dhawan, who attacked from the onset with some flowing cover drives and a hooked six off Aaron. The 50 came in the last over of the Powerplay as Warner took off after that.

Out of his sixes, the first was a charge to Muttiah Muralitharan followed by a couple of clean hits off the half-trackers that Yuzvendra Chahal had on offer. The fourth six off Abu Nechim Ahmed was over long-off.

Warner was out off a full—toss from Aaron but Naman Ojha (24, 2x6), along with Aaron Finch (11 no) and Sammy (10 no) saw to it that there were no hiccups in the end.

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Shikhar Dhawan captain of the Sunrisers Hyderabad plays a shot during match 46 of the Pepsi Indian Premier League Season 2014 between the Sunrisers Hyderabad and the Royal Challengers Bangalore held at the Rajiv Gandhi Cricket Stadium, Hyderabad, India on the 20th May 2014. Photo by BCCI

Kohli was back in form at the nick of time as Royal Challengers Bangalore scored a respectable 160 for six after opting to bat on a difficult track.

Kohli struck his first half century of the seventh edition with a free—stroking 67 off 41 balls studded with four boundaries and as many sixes. AB de Villiers (29, 17 balls) and Yuvraj Singh (21) made small contributions. It was largely due to Kohli’s contribution that RCB scored 112 runs in the back 10 having crawled to 48 for two in the first 10 overs.

‘Purple Cap’ holder Bhuvneshwar Kumar again was the prime performer

for the Sunrisers with two for 27 in four overs.

Perveez Rasool, playing his first game of the tournament replacing Amit Mishra, also had more than a decent outing with figures of one for 26.

The first half certainly belonged to Kohli, who came early after Parthiv Patel was caught plumb in front by Bhuvneshwar.

He took a few balls to settle down but then played some signature shots through the off—side. Out of his four sixes, two were hit off one over from Karn Sharma. Kohli charged down the track and hit him over straight boundary for a six while the other one

was an inside out over extra cover for the second six.

The other two sixes came off Darren Sammy and Irfan Pathan.

The two significant partnership that Kohli was involved were 57 for the third wicket with Yuvraj and more importantly 61 in only 5.1 overs with De Villiers. Kohli’s highest score this season till the current match was 35. He got to his 50 off 34 balls. He was finally out in the 18th over trying to hit Irfan Pathan out of the ground and was caught by Dale Steyn. De Villiers also followed suit but Sachin Rana (12 no) hit a couple of boundaries to take the score to 160.

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PreTOrIa, May 20 (aP): Oscar Pistorius will start a period of psychiatric evaluation at a state institution next week, the judge at his murder trial ruled on Tuesday as she postponed court proceedings until June 30.

Judge Thokozile Masipa took just a few minutes to read out her ruling that the double-amputee Olympian must present himself at 9 a.m. on Monday and every weekday after that at the Weskoppies Psychiatric Hospital in Pretoria.

Pistorius will be treated as an outpatient, Masipa ruled, and will be allowed to leave the facility in the South African capital each day at 4 p.m. or when "formally excused" by hospital authorities. His period of evaluation will be for no more than 30 days, the judge said, and will depend on how long a panel of four mental health experts needs to compile a report for the court.

Pistorius, who is charged with premeditated murder for fatally shooting his girlfriend last year, stood in the Pretoria courtroom with his hands crossed in front of him and looked at the judge as she explained her decision.

A psychiatrist called by Pistorius' defense lawyers testified at the murder trial last week that she believed the runner had an anxiety disorder from childhood which may have contributed to him killing Reeva Steenkamp last year. That prompted the chief prosecutor to apply that he be sent for psychiatric tests.

Masipa said Tuesday that the panel of psychiatrists and psychologists would now determine whether any mental illness may have affected Pisto-

Oscar Pistorius, right, accompanied by his uncle Arnold Pistorius arrives at the high court in Pretoria, South Africa, Tuesday, May 20, 2014. Pistorius is charged with murder for the shooting death of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on Valentine's Day in 2013. (AP Photo)

rius' capacity to be "criminally responsible" for killing Steenkamp. She said the panel would evaluate "whether he was capable of appreciating the wrongfulness of his act or of acting in accordance with an appreciation of the wrongfulness of his act."

Pistorius, 27, claims he shot Steenkamp, 29, by mistake through a toilet stall door in the pre-dawn hours of Feb. 14, 2013, thinking she was an intruder. Defense witness Dr. Merryll Vorster, the psychiatrist, testified that Pistorius had generalized anxiety disorder and his apparent fear of violent crime and his vulnerability as an amputee may have contributed to the killing.

Prosecutor Gerrie Nel then asked the court to send him for mental evaluation to establish if he had a genuine disorder that could have affected his actions when he shot Steenkamp multiple times through the toilet door

with his 9 mm pistol.

Pistorius could be acquitted on the grounds of mental illness. It could also be used by his defense team to argue for a lighter

sentence if he is convicted of murder. The world-famous disabled athlete faces 25 years to life in prison if found guilty on the premeditated murder charge.

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