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longwa rising With NAIP underway, Longwa breathes with new agricultural practices and cottage industries. A promise of a better future. Sidrah Fatma Ahmed Longwa | June 27
All the cells are taken by the local accountants. Lock him up in the garage.
Kaito briefs HM on law and order Indian army soldiers rescue a woman at Pindari Glacier, in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand, Thursday, June 27. Authorities in northern India on Thursday conducted mass cremations of hundreds of people who were killed by devastating floods and landslides that struck nearly two weeks ago. (AP Photo)
Minister urged to learn Naga history Nagaland Home Minister, G Kaito with Union Home Minister, Sushil Kumar Shinde at New Delhi.
‘Nagas have our own political identity’ Christian College, Dimapur. According to a press note issued by the MIP, the Minister had “naively appealed to the students to spread the message that Nagaland is an integral part of India” and thereby “forgetting that Nagas have its history and its customary law and therefore we have our own political identity”. It was also pointed out that during the IndoNaga Political talks the government of India had also come to acknowledge the history of the Nagas as per Amsterdam Joint Communiqué on July 11, 2002. “In a vulnerable position and novice in politics as the youngest minister he should have stayed away from touching sensitive political issue”, stated the MIP note while adding that the “occasion and his position as minister must have carried him away but history is a living testimony that Nagaland was never an integral part of India”. The MIP note also stated that “the ongoing IndoNaga Political talks is getting closer to declare Naga political solution but NSCN negotiating team under Isak Chishi Swu & Th. Muivah as the Chief Negotiator have never conformist the sovereignty of the Naga people”. Therefore, it stated that the Minister “should also at least learn the Naga History before attempting to comment on Naga political issue.”
DimaPuR, June 27 (mexn): Nagaland Home Minister, G Kaito Aye called on the Union Home Minister, Sushil Kumar Shinde at his office in New Delhi and briefed him on the law and order situation in the state. A press note from the PRO of Nagaland House, New Delhi informed that Kaito appealed for the Union Minister for an early solution to the on-going Indo-Naga Political talk between the Government of India and underground groups. Further, Kaito requested the Union Minister to support better infrastructure development for the Nagaland State Police. The note informed of Shinde’s assurance that the Centre is seriously working on for the early solution of the on-going peace talk. He also said that if need arises, the Centre would support an additional force to the State for law and order. He also advised the State to maintain the ceasefire ground rules to all the underground groups.
DimaPuR, June 27 (mexn): The NSCN (IM) has termed it as “a matter of discomfort to follow the speech of Merentoshi Jamir, Minister for Youth Resources and Sports” as reported in a leading local daily on 23th June 2013 on the occasion of NCC Special Integration Camp at Patkai
2 killed, 3 injured in road mishap ‘Nagas recognized by Myanmar to administer or own land’ School, Dimapur identified as Sunep Imsong, son of Yapang Imsong of Unger village, Mokokchung. The other was identified as Lipoklong Longchar (20 years), son of Limasashi Longchar of Sungratsu village, Mokokchung and a BA-II student of Emmanuel College, Dimapur. Both were residents of Oriental Colony, Dimapur. Two of the three injured were twin brothers identified as Limatemjen and Kilang. The third was identified as Khari. All three hail from Longjang village in Mokokchung district and are residents of Oriental colony. They were admitted to Zion Hospital & Research Centre. The car (NL 01C 5567) in which they were traveling skidded off the highway and fell around a hundred feet into the Chathe river instantly killing two of the passengers. One of the bodies was recovered at around 6:00 am down river towards Chumukedima Block-III, while the other was found at the site where the illfated car made landfall. The funeral services for Sunep Imsong and Lipoklong Longchar were held at 3:00 pm and 1:00 pm respectively at Oriental Colony today.
Manpoh Konyak (35) is a resident of Longwa, Mon District and like many others in the village he lives by farming. For side income he has opened a shop in the village which fulfils the little needs of a village life; items like oil, rice, sweets and biscuits. It also adds a little money to Manpoh’s pocket. After all farming techniques in Longwa do not produce surplus to make income. One produces only enough to eat, and a little to trade for other household items. In the past, Manpoh had been growing millet and maize. Last year, he was familiarized with Cardamom plantation. The practice was taught to him under a project undertaken by School of Agricultural Sciences and Rural Development, Medziphema in association with Indian Council for Agricultural Research. It is a National Agricultural Innovation Project, one of the many being run in the country. The projects encourage fast and sustainable transformation of Indian agriculture, in order to help poverty alleviation and income generation. Since Cardamom is not
A young woman weaves a makhela in Longwa. The machine is shared amongst a group of women, so they visit other’s houses to continue the work daily.
a spice popular in Naga cuisine, the cultivation of it was looked upon apprehensively. Villagers were skeptical if it would generate profits at all, explains Medo, Research Associate to the project. But, slowly as its farming started benefitting lucratively, it was
quickly taken up by the farmers. “Cardamom is an easy spice to cultivate. The first year I produced 27 Kgs of Cardamom. I sold every Kg for Rs. 500. This year I am expecting double or more of what I produced last year”, says Manpoh. Continued on page 5
ENSA office bearers from Khamti, Mayanmar with Nagaland Chief Minister, Neiphiu Rio; Advisor to the Nagaland CM, Chingwang Konyak and Minister for Forest and Border Affairs, Y Patton in Kohima on June 24.
The mangled remains of the ill-fated car after it was pulled out from the Chathe River.
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Kohima, June 27 (mexn): A protest rally against the indiscriminate firing on a Naga Students’ Federation official is scheduled to take place on June 28 at the Old MLA Hostel Junction, Kohima from 10:00 AM. NSF President Tongpang Ozukum will deliver the keynote address while a speech on behalf of seniors will be delivered by K. Inaka Assumi, former General Secretary NSF. Solidarity speeches will be delivered by representatives from Naga Hoho, Naga Mothers’ Association, Naga People’s Movement for Human Rights, Eastern Naga Students Federation, Angami Public Organization and Angami Youth Organization. The function will be chaired by Ejanthung Ngullie, former general NSF.
DimaPuR, June 27 (mexn): Two students were killed on the spot and three others injured in a tragic car mishap on Thursday. The accident occurred between Chumukedima police check post and the Patkai Bridge, NH 29, at around 3:00 am. The deceased included a 17 year-old student of Little Star Higher Secondary
‘naga music scene is going to grow’ Morung Express News Dimapur | June 27
DimaPuR, June 27 (mexn): The Eastern Naga Students’ Association (ENSA) office bearers from Khamti, Myanmar met with the Chief Minister of Nagaland, Neiphiu Rio at his office in Kohima on June 24 and highlighted the present situation in Myanmar, particular of the Naga Self-Administered zone. Stating that the Nagas in Myanmar are “inevitably
made to get involved” in the process of transition that the country has undergone recently, the ENSA on behalf of the Nagas in Myanmar sought suggestion and intervention “from any leaders who has a heart for us.” A press note informed that the ENSA also narrated the “historical right of Nagas in Myanmar.” It added, “We don’t come across any north-east Indian state
having even a piece of land, whereas Nagas are recognized by the government of Myanmar to administer our own land, respecting the history of the Nagas”. At the same time, the ENSA requested all right thinking Nagas to be far-sighted and broad in every pursuance. It said, “Recognizing each other does not mean, Nagas from outside will come pack and baggage and stay
down in present Nagaland.” The ENSA claimed that whether in Myanmar, Manipur, Arunachal or Assam, “every Naga has their own ancestral land, recognized by the respective governments.” It stated that recognition hence is a message to the world that Nagas are an international community. The ENSA extended an invitation from the Nagas of Myanmar to the Nagaland CM, who assured to visit Myanmar within this year. In the meeting, Advisor to Chief Minister, Chingwang Konyak and Y. Patton, Minister Forest and Border affairs were also present. The ENSA team comprised of President, Michael Kaita, General Secretary, Y. Khomong Khiam, Vice President, Mankhat Konyak and Executive Secretary, Elijah.
Naga music scene is going to grow, according to Jack Thomas, Director of Rockschool India which is part of an international music exam board from the UK. Thomas is a member of the team that conducted a workshop cum seminar at the Hope Centre for Excellence in Dimapur today. This is the second time that a delegation from this board has visited Nagaland. With the recent surge of enthusiasm in the Naga music scene, Thomas informed that 250 students had registered with Rockschool in 2012. This was more than the number of students who registered in Delhi, when the board first ventured into India. He hoped that the number would increase this time around. The team
Bhaskar Gurung performing in the workshop conducted by ‘Rockschool’ at the Hope Centre for Excellence, Dimapur on June 27.
consists of Jack Thomas (Guitar), Bhaskar Gurung (Guitar), Rueben Narian (Drum) and Prabir Shekri (Keyboard). In a conversation with the Mo-
rung Exrpess, Thomas expressed his admiration for the passion that young Nagas have towards music. He, however, pointed out the lack of avenues for musicians as a
major obstacle. “Ultimately musicians want to perform,” he stated. Commenting on the local scene, he expressed optimism that with the abundance of musical talent and the sprouting of music institutes like the Hope Centre for Excellence, a formidable music industry would develop. When asked as to whether a certificate is needed to become a composer or a songwriter, Thomas affirmed that songwriting skills are innate. He added that the purpose of Rockschool is to facilitate the honing of individual talent and to make musician aware of their technical proficiency. Thomas informed that contrary to what the name denotes, ‘Rockschool’ is not a school in the literal sense, but a board that provides internationally recognized accreditation to musicians. Continued on page 5
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Changtongya fumes over poor bsNl connectivity Changtongya, June 27 (Dipr): Members of SDDCF Changtongya headquarter blamed the authority of BSNL for their poor performance in both land line connection and mobile services to consumer for long period of time, in and around Changtongya during its monthly coordination meeting held at SDEO office building, Changtongya. The meeting was held under the chairmanship of SDO (C) MS Tungbang on June 26. After deliberating at length, the chairman SDO (C) had directed the BSNL Changtongya incharge Supong Ao to attend their duties faithfully and then give written report to their higher authority with all factors that cause malfunctioning of BSNL services for improvement. He also added that a copy each of every report should be given to SDO (C) office for supportive action to be taken hand in hand. Other important agendas such as urgent need for repairing/maintain of both the road to CHC/Hospital and to GHS road, and the necessity for opening of SBI branch at Changtongya headquarter were deliberated with supportive manner in the meeting. Words of appreciation with students body in Changtongya town and its adjoining villages for their good will initiations towards improvement of roads and telephone services in Changtongya town was expressed by the departmental officers during the meeting. The meeting therefore resolved to invite student leaders of Changtongya town and its adjoining villages in the next Changtongya SDDCF meeting scheduled on July 31.
Governor visit villages affected by natural calamity in Mon AwArds 8 yeArs old for brAvery The Governor of Nagaland Dr Aswani Kumar awarded Ngepwem, 8 years old girl of Chaoha Chingnyu for her bravery in risking her life to save her minor brother and sister from the inferno ignited by the lightening strike at her house when their parents were away in the field. VDB funds indicates that there is transparency and accountability in the management of the development schemes in the village. Asserting that peace must prevail in the society for progress, he appealed to the civil societies, the churches and the village authority to shun all forms of violence in the society to pave way for development. In order to progress he said, “Collective effort with converged mind of both the contemporary and the elderly people is required to bring change and development in the society.” He also advised the gathering to give highest priority to education sector for overall development of the district. The Governor also visited the tourist guesthouse at Angphang and planted a tree sapling there along with his wife to mark their visit to the village. Parliamentary Secretary for Rural Development, CL John expressed gratitude to the Governor for personally inspecting the developmental activities of the region, and said that it reflects the love and concern of the Governor for the common people. He also thanked the Governor for showing solidarity to the Natural disaster victims despite bad weather and pathetic road condition. Deputy Commissioner, Mon, Angau I Thou stressed on the concern of the Governor for quality education in the district for change and to be at par with the rest of the State. Although the education system in the State is communitized, she asserted that Government officers have a role and duty to shape and mould the child to become decent citizens and to provide quality education. She admitted that unless there is quality education the district will not go forward. The Governor was accompanied by the legislative members of Mon E.E. Pangteang; C.L. John; Paiwang and N. Thongewang, Heads of Department and NGOs of Mon district.
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MEx File AYO calls to attend NSF rally Kohima, June 27 (mexn): The Angami Youth Organsiation (AYO) has directed all the range youth office bearers and colony youth organisation of Kohima Town to positively attend the NSF rally on June 28 at Kohima Local Ground at 10:00 am without fail. AYO press secretary Tsoto Sale in a press release also informed that the AYO and the youth range presidents will have an emergency meeting right after the rally at APO complex in connection with the June 25th incident.
Hindi teachers meeting on June 29
Dimapur, June 27 (mexn): All the Hindi teachers appointed under central sponsored scheme (CSS) 2012-13 who have not got their salaries for the last two months are called for a meeting on June 29, 2:00 pm at Government Higher Secondary School (auditorium), Half Nagarjan, Dimapur. All effected teachers are requested to attend the meeting without fail.
IPR officers’ conference today
Governor Dr Ashwani Kumar interacting with one of the victim whose house was damaged by landslide at Chaoha Chingnyu village on June 26. (DIPR Photo)
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mon, June 27 (Dipr): The Governor visited Chaoha Chingnyu village affected by natural calamity, Angphang village and later on the way back halted at Longching town junction, and interacted with the local leaders on his final day of visit to Mon district on June 26. At Chaoha Chingnyu village, the Governor said that he sincerely desired to visit the village on learning that a natural calamity had occurred on
DC Phek informs on NPSC application form
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pheK, June 27 (Dipr): In pursuance to the Government Notification, it is conveyed to all outpost officers that NPSC application form can be availed from the district headquarter. According to press release by the DC Phek Neposo Theluo the office room of the EAC headquarter DC office Phek will be open as a facilitating counter for issuing of State Civil Service application form from June 24 onward.
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Dimapur, June 27 (mexn): The Nagaland Contractors and Suppliers union has requested all heads of departments to check and verify that the contractors and suppliers union identity card holders are up to date before issuing any work order or supply. It further urged all HOSs to immediately stop table tenders. It informed that the union had reminded the same to the state government “but till today some of the departments continuously practice table tender without inviting open tender.” It added that this practice is illegal. It cautioned that if such cases are detected, the NCSU would challenge the defaulters in the court of law. The NCSU in a press note by its President Pele Khezhie and its Secretary, N Neilo Koza invited all interested persons willing
NCsU urges Hods to Workshop on Activity and stop table tenders Competency Learning concludes to register in the union to contact the head office in Kohima. It informed all registered members including class 1 contractors who are yet to renew their identity cards to bring the old cards to the office on any working day. The union informed that it would issue new smart cards from July 1, hence all members have been urged to submit their old cards at the NCSU head office in Kohima and receive the new smart cards. The NCSU has warned all registered class 1 contractors with NCSU identity cards to stop exchanging their writing pads to government servants, non locals and unregistered members. It cautioned that if there is any such case detected by NCSU officials of the action committee, the defaulter would be expelled from the union without further information.
June 4, wherein one house was gutted down by lightening and many affected by landslide damaging houses and fields. Referring to the memorandum submitted by the village, the Governor reiterated that he along with the elected representatives of the district would do their best to fulfill the aspiration of the people. Deeply impressed by the development of the Angphang village with com-
plete construction of the roads with paved stones within the village, sanitation, cent percent CGI Sheet roofing and constitution of audit committee, the Governor said, “Angphang is the most developed and clean village he ever saw in the entire State of Nagaland.” He lauded the Minister of Tourism, Art & Culture, EE Pangteang and the workmanship of the village authority. He said that the existence of audit committee to check
Kohima, June 27 (Dipr): Parliamentary Secretary for IPR, Printing & Stationery, Er. Kropol Vitsu will grace the inaugural session of the IPR Officers conference at the IPR Citadel Conference Hall, Directorate of IPR on June 28 as the chief guest. Director IPR, Imokokba will give an overview of the department while Commissioner & Secretary IPR, M.K. Mero will exhort the officers. The programme will be chaired by Additional Director IPR, Pausui Zeliang. Deputy Director IPR, Dzüvinuo Theünuo will speak on Changing Role of IPR in the present age during the II session.
ANPTA general meeting today
Kohima, June 27 (mexn): The All Nagaland Polytechnic Teachers’ Association is holding a general meeting on June 28 at 2:00 PM to discuss various issues pertaining to the Association. The meeting will take place in the conference hall of the Government Polytechnic Kohima. All the members have been requested to attend the said meeting positively.
BJP Kohima dist meeting today
Kohima, June 27 (mexn): The BJP Kohima district informed all the district ex-office bearers and all the mandal, district BJYM, Mahila, frontal chief and all the party workers that there will be a meeting on June 28 at the party office at 11:00 AM. In this connection, all the party workers have been requested to attend the said meeting fail.
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SP Phek informs public on test firing
pheK, June 27 (Dipr): The Superintendent of Police Phek has informed to all general public that DEF Phek is conducting test firing on June 28 at firing range (Police New Reserve) Phek for NGOs and NCOs starting from 7 a.m. Therefore, all concerned are requested to note the information for safety of the public.
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SCERT Director Vipralhou Kesiezie along with Activity and Competency Learning officials and staffs during the workshop at DUDA guest house Kohima.
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Dimapur, June 27 (mexn): PWD Field Workers’ Association (Dimapur Unit) has stated that the proposed employee’s deduction of the work charge association for identity card and employee verification purpose is unauthorised as the same has no government official order. Hence, PWDFWA (Dimapur Unit) will not pay the proposed deduction amount as the Association is affiliated with All Nagaland PWD Field Workers’ Association. Thus, paying to two associations under the same department is impossible. Further, the Unit president Khekuto Sema in a press release stated that the work charge association will have to consult or inform all the unit president before conducting such deduction from the salaries of the work charge directly from the officials concerned.
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Dimapur, June 27 (mexn): The Dimapur Ao Baptist Church (DABA) youth ministry will be organising a three-day ‘Youth Spiritual Carnival’ with the theme ‘Soak in His spirit’ from June 28 to 30 at DABA main building, Duncan Basti. “This spiritual carnival focuses on getting from head knowledge to heart revelation as to who God the Father is; Trying to go deeper into dealing with the issues our young people. The Church look with a deep hunger to see people’s lives being transformed by Soaking in His Spirit, that the Spirit of the Mighty will touch the lives of our youth, changing the spiritual climate of the day,” said Toshi Longkumer, to people who are “spiritually dry, start something new and need the youth director, DABA YM. The youth director has ex- looking for fresh vision and direc- Lord's strengthening, searching tended invitation to all especially tion in life, hurting inside, about to for an answer to a problem or situ-
DABA ‘Youth Spiritual Carnival’ from today
Kohima, June 27 (mexn): An 8 day workshop on development of Activity and Competency Learning (ACL) cards, charts and materials for government school teachers organized by SCERT Nagaland and sponsored by SSA Nagaland concluded on Tuesday, June 25 at DUDA guest house Kohima. Director, SCERT Vipralhou Kesiezie in his address as the chief guest commenting on the workshop said that the activity should be friendly and enjoyable to the children as they learn in the class room adding students’ activities in ACL should be relevant and practicable in our community and society. Emphasizing on the importance of employable through their knowledge Kesiezie said it must be helpful and meaningful for the students stating that 50% Indian graduates are not employable due to lack of applicable ability. He en-
couraged the teachers to be felicitators in the process of learning and also to evaluate time to time progress of the students. while advising the teachers to choose the activity wisely according to the need and capability of the children. He also encouraged the teachers to go beyond the syllabus and prescribed course for the benefits of the students while taking ACL classes. Member secretary ACL Thungchibemo in his brief report of the workshop said ACL earlier called activity based learning (ABL) which stress the importance of competencies as goals and now called ACL in the state. He said ACL is a system where children learn at their own pace and better participation is ensured and the teachers’ role was to provide learning situation and opportunities where students are not chained to text book alone. He shared the de-
tail implementation of ACL (plan of action), experimental phase, extension phase, evaluation phase and others. The programme was chaired Kevi Liegise team leader ACL, special song was presented by B. Nyakhung ACL pilot teacher Longleng, sharing on behalf of the trainees by Kahili TOT EBRC Zunheboto and L.Alemtemsu Ao coordinator EBRC Mokokchung. Around 25 teachers from all the districts participated in the workshop. The subjects taught were Mathematics, English, Environmental studies and Social studies for the standard 111. The team leader informed that ACL was already implemented in 137 government schools in the state and have planned to expand more. He said last year the workshop was conducted for standard 11 and next year will be for standard four it will continue till class 5
Dimapur, June 27 (mexn): The UGC-NET Exam on June 30 will be held at Patkai Christian College (Autonomous) Chumukedima-Seithekema, Dimapur. The timing of examination are as follows: Paper-I: 9:30 A.M. to 10:45 A.M; Paper-II: 10:45 A.M. to 12:00 Noon; Paper- III:1:30 P.M. to 4:00 P.M. Those candidates who have not submitted hard copies of application form and attendance slip are here by informed to bring two copies of their Admission Card, one copy of it must be submitted to the invigilators after completion of the examination. Roll numbers of such candidates are uploaded in University website. This was stated in a press release issued by Dr. B. Kilangla Jamir, Coordinator, UGC-NET Exam Nagaland University.
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BAC to finalize provisional prog for assembly session
Kohima, June 27 (mexn): Nagaland Legislative Assembly (NLA) speaker Choitisuh Sazo, who is also the chairman of Business Advisory Committee, has convened a meeting on July 4 at 11:00 am in the assembly committee room to finalize the provisional programme for the ensuing second session of the Twelfth Assembly to commence from July 16. All the concerned committee members have been requested to attend the meeting.
CANSSEA informs
Dimapur, June 27 (mexn): The Confederation of All Nagaland State Services Employees Association (CANSSEA) in a press note has requested all the Government employees within Dimapur District to submit the annual membership fee for the year 2010 to 2013 at Rs. 50 per head and also Rs 200 per head once collection towards the forth coming Silver Jubilee 2013 on or before August 31, 2013. All DDO’s and cashier of head offices are requested to deduct the amount while disbursing salary and submit to the following persons: T.Hekuto Zhimomi, Registrar Directorate of Land Records & Survey near DC Office Dimapur and Temjentoshi Jamir, Joint Director Geology and Mining, backside of DC office Dimapur.
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ation” to attend the carnival. The timing schedule is as follows: on Friday at 4:00 pm; on Saturday first service at 10:00 am and second at 1:00 pm; on Sunday first service at 1:00 pm and second service at 4:00 pm. The speaker will be Rev C Teyong Kichu, missionary; ‘Sangro’ will be the carnival singers while the praise and worship will be lead by DABA YM Worship Team. In all the services and programmes, counselors will be available for prayer and counseling. Meanwhile, with the vision to encourage young people and their talent in music, and to promote singing original worship songs in the church services, the worship team of all the eight fellowships under DABA YM will be presenting one song each composed in Ao dialect during the carnival.
Dimapur, June 27 (mexn): The ICFAI University has informed that the last date of submission of admission form to MBA, BBA, BA and B. Com courses in extended to June 28 to July 28 due to shifting of the University campus from Nepali Basti to Sovima, 6th Mile, Dimapur. This was informed in a press release issued by ICFAI University Nagaland Registrar, Makhan Chetia.
Info on Annual administrative report
Kohima, June 27 (mexn): The 2nd session of the 12th Assembly will commence from July 16. All the government departments who failed to submit their annual administrative report during the 1st session of the 12th Nagaland Legislative Assembly are requested to submit their report to the Assembly Secretariat on or before July 10 positively.
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Lost and found
A wallet containing two ATM cards and some cash belonging to one Mughato H Zhimomi, Satakha was found in Khermahal area near Friends Cinema Hall, Dimapur on June 26. The rightful owner may contact 8575315993.
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Panel raises doubt over operationalization of Assam Waterways neW DelhI, June 27 (pTI): A Parliamentary panel has expressed apprehensions about the implementation of the proposal to develop Barak river's 121-km stretch in Assam as country's sixth National Waterway, saying the government has brought a Bill for it at a time when two such projects are pending for over five years due to fund crunch. "The Committee is at loss to find that two of our National Waterways No 4 and 5 are pending for the last five years to be operationalised mainly due to lack of funds. "The Government has brought a Bill for yet another waterway. It raises genuine apprehensions about the operationalisation of this waterway," the Standing Committee on Transport, Tourism and Culture said in a report. The National Waterway (Lakhipur-Bhanga stretch of the Barak River) Bill, 2013 was introduced in the Rajya Sabha on March 22 to declare the Barak river stretch as the sixth National Waterway and was referred to the Committee, headed by Sitaram Yechury for examination. The Committee, however, said that Parliament had passed the law to create Kakinada-Puducherry canals with rivers Godavari and Krishna as National Waterway No 4 and the East Coast Canal with Brahmani river and Mahanadi delta rivers as National Waterway No 5 in 2008. However, the projects are yet to be operationalised. At the same time the panel was of the view that if operationalised, lots of time and resources, which are wasted in transporting oversized cargo to the North-East, would be saved. Recommending extending the Waterways to Chittagong to provide a hassle-free movement of such cargo, it said, "To have a water protocol with Bangladesh would open immense possibility of cargo movement from India particularly from North Eastern region." The Committee said it is also "surprised to see that that even though the Committee had submitted its Report on the previous Bill on March 4 2008, the Ministry of Shipping has taken more than 5 years to bring back the same Bill before Parliament". It said during this period, there has been an escalation of about 34% in the project cost. Expressing "anguish over this inexplicable delay", the Committee said it hopes that the Shipping Ministry will give development of waterways the priority it deserves. The Bill aims at unified development of waterways for shipping, navigation and transportation of cargo to the north-eastern region and upon enactment would particularly benefit Assam, Nagaland, Mizoram, Manipur, Tripura and Arunachal Pradesh by facilitating cargo movement there.
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Tripura top cop awarded life term agaRTala, June 27 (Tnn): A Tripura court on Tuesday convicted SP (HQ) Manik Lal Mazumder and sent him to prison for life for grave dereliction of duty, suppression of an official report, destruction of evidence and favouring a person involved in corruption. Additional district and sessions judge Kripankur Chakraborty gave the verdict. This is for the first time in Tripura that an SP rank police officer was convicted under sections 409, 201 of Indian Penal Code (IPC) and 13 (II) of Prevention of Corruption Act. The court will hand down the punishment on Thursday. While working as Additional SP (CID) in 1998, Mazumder had been entrusted with the responsibility for investigating a serious case of corruption against the then superintendent in the food department, Aparna Das, who had forged the signature of her senior colleague to illegally renew some food licenses in lieu of a hefty bribe. While investigating the case, Mazumder got involved in an affair with Aparna Das and hid all papers recovered from the food department office implicating Aparna in the case, said special public prosecutor of the case, Lutfur Rahaman Khadim.
Sadhus or Hindu holy men release a sky lantern to signify world peace at the end of the annual Ambubasi festival in Guwahati, Assam on Wednesday, June 26. The annual Ambubasi festival began Saturday where hundreds of tantric Sadhus, holy men from an esoteric form of Hinduism, gather to perform rituals at the temple. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)
Centre for sealing border with Myanmar to prevent PRRS aIzaWl, June 27 (pTI): The Centre is of the view that the north eastern states, especially Manipur and Mizoram, should seal their border with Myanmar to ensure that the dreaded swine fever, Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome (PRRS), infected pigs were not imported to India. Dr L.B. Sailo, director of the Mizoram Animal Husbandry and Veterinary department, who attended a meeting of the expert committee on tackling PRRS in New Delhi told PTI today that the Centre was alarmed over the detection of PRRS cases in the north eastern state. Sailo said that while Mizoram also banned import of pigs from Myanmar, the Centre felt that deployment of para-military forces was warranted to ensure complete sealing of Mizoram's 404-km-long international border with that country. "Myanmar was the only country having PRRS till some swine in India's north east were found to be infected with the dreaded disease," he said. At least 3,800 pigs died dur ing March and April this year in Mizoram and many of them were found to be infected with PRRS by ICAR's laboratory in Barapani, Shillong which was confirmed on June 21 by High Security Animal Disease Laboratory, Bhopal.
Northeast Briefs Exodus continues, Assam workers return home guWahaTI, June 27 (Tnn): Kapiluddin Sheikh, the sole bread earner of a family of six, is distraught since he and 10 other fellow coal mine workers left Nangalbibra in Meghalaya's South Garo Hills district on Monday, a day after eight workers were killed by armed miscreants in the area on Sunday. "We somehow managed to hire a car and left Nangalbibra in the evening. There was so much tension among the coal mine labourers following the killings that we couldn't risk our stay," Kapiluddin, a resident of Mancachar in Assam's Dhubri district, said. "Leaving our place of work was a big loss for us financially. We run our families from the money we get by working in Garo Hills coal mines. But when we saw other labourers leaving the place in hordes, we couldn't muster the courage to stay behind," Kapiluddin, who earns about Rs 10,000 a month, added. The killing of a labourer last week following rumours of rape of a mentally challenged woman and the Sunday mayhem, created panic among migrant workers. Sunday's incident triggered exodus of migrant workers and over 3,000 people have left Garo Hills since then. The exodus is still continuing. With workers leaving Garo Hills for their homes in Goalpara and Dhubri districts, tension has mounted on the Assam side of the inter-state border too. The two districts share a border with Meghalaya and the Assam side also has sizeable Garo population. Goalpara DC Pritam Saikia said vigil along the inter-state border areas have been stepped up. "We are working with Meghalaya government to prevent escalation of violence. Army is also on alert," Saikia said. "We have seen many cars packed with workers from Garo Hills entering Assam on Tuesday," a police officer at Kukurkata along the Assam-Meghalaya border said. The All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF), however, accused both the Meghalaya and Assam governments of creating a similar situation
BJP for immediate implementation of ILP Imphal, June 27 (pTI): The BJP has demanded immediate implementation of Inner Line Permit (ILP) system in Manipur by passing a separate legislation in the state Assembly. Enforcement of ILP system in the state was possible without the consent of the central government by passing a legislation in the House, party spokesman S Tikendra told reporters here last evening. Mizoram and Meghalaya have enforced the system by passing their own legislations in the respective state Assembly, he said. Various social organisations and students' bodies have been demanding introduction of ILP in the state for quite a long time. Official sources said the state Assembly had passed a resolution in the ongoing session some days ago to urge the central government to initiate steps for implementation of the ILP system in the state. A spokesman of the Joint Action Committee on ILP system, which has been spearheading the stir for implementation of the system, said outsiders had outnumbered the total tribal population in the hill districts of the state. 'We are not against the people from other states but steps must be taken to protect the identities of the indigenous people in the state,' he said.
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Meghalaya rebel injured in jail scuffle ShIllong, June 27 (IanS): Jailed Garo National Liberation Army(GNLA) chief Champion R. Sangma was injured in a scuffle with four other inmates of Shillong Jail Wednesday, a prison official said. The state prisons chief was removed after the incident. Champion sustained head injuries after inmates hit him with sticks. "He (Champion) has been admitted to a hospital after he became unconscious at the operation theatre to nurse laceration in his skull and an ear. Doctors suspect spinal injury," hospital official L.L. Sawian told IANS. The other four injured prisoners identified as Sankyntiew Decruse, Suresh M. Sangma, Milstone D. Sangma and Pulop D. Sangma were released after first aid. Prisons Chief Kulbir Krishan, who ordered a probe soon after the incident, was removed from the post in the evening. "Krishan has been removed as prisons chief and he has been replaced by F.D. Sangma with immediate effect," a government official said. Champion, a rogue police officer now lodged in Shillong Jail, was booked for waging war against the government after his arrest July 30, 2012 near the India-Bangladesh border in Meghalaya. He has also been booked for kidnapping for ransom and murder.
Imphal, June 27 (pTI): A 20-year old girl student of National Institute of Technology (NIT), identified as Jakitri Diwangkar from Chhattisgarh, was found hanging at her hostel in Imphal West district, police said on Thursday. Police said her friends called her from outside her room which was locked from inside yesterday as they had to go for the examination together and some of her friends looked through the window and found her body hanging. Immediately police were informed, sources said adding that police sent the body to nearby Regional Institute of Medical Science and Hospital for post mortem. Diwankar was a first year student of B.E (Electrical), NIT authorities said.
ShIllong, June 27 (pTI): Taking cognizance of the scuffle inside a high security area of a jail here, the Meghalaya government Thursday removed Director-General, Prisons Kulbir Kishan and appointed Inspector-General F D Sangma in his post, though on a temporary basis. State home minister Roshan Warjri said, "We have relieved Kishan from the post he held as DG Prisons.” Kishan, who was among five senior IPS officers tipped to take over as state Director-General of Police, will however, continue to hold charge of Home Guards and Civil Defense. The 1977 IPS officer has had a tumultuous time during his four year charge of the Prison department during which several lapses were unearthed. The worst was when seven prisoners escaped from the century-old jail here in 2009.
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MuMbai, June 27 (PTi): Government’s proposal to increase domestic gas prices to USD 6.77 per unit will result in 56 per cent rise in fuel cost to Rs 3.41 per unit for natural gas-based power generation, leading to an additional burden on consumers and utilities, India Ratings said today. The rise would translate into an increase of 9 paise per unit on the total power generation of 912 billion units, leading to an additional burden of Rs 7,800 crore towards gas cost on the gas-based power generation of 65 billion units. “The burden, also contributed by the fall in rupee, would ultimately have to be either recovered from consumers or borne by state power utilities,” India Ratings said in a release. If gas prices were to increase from the current levels, gas-based power plants would further decline in the merit order dispatch schedule, thus raising off-take risks, it said. “The benchmark cost of generation from a domestic gas-based power plant could be 53 per cent higher at Rs 5.41 per unit compared with a coal fired domestic plant operating at benchmark parameters,” India Ratings said. The note for the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) has proposed new gas price between USD 6.77 and 10.84 per unit as calculated by different government departments after tweaking the Rangarajan formula. The Rangarajan panel has suggested a simple average of producers’ net back price for Indian imports and world average producers’ net back price, thus arriving at a price of USD 8.8 per unit. The Planning Commission, on the other hand, has suggested a price of USD 10.8 per unit. The government has also appointed a committee headed by Vijay Kelkar to work out a road map for switchover to market determined gas pricing at the end of 12th Plan. The Kelkar committee is expected to submit its report to by September. India Ratings further said the recent moves to allow pass-through for price hike in imported coal and higher fixed cost per unit of newly commissioned plants due to higher capex costs are likely to increase power purchase costs for distribution companies.
Govt’s move to hike KPLT ultimatum to Rengma Naga’s baseless Opinion of gas price may result n ultimatum is served to an oppo- as the Mikir’s burned their dead. pealed to withdraw ultimatum is not to Langpangkong on nent to fulfil the later demands. Today, just because one community end the problem but it is a call for pavIn other words it is a threat to the more advanced than the other, one can- ing way for negotiation base on the hisin rise in fuel cost opponent Foot Hills Road if noncompliant. Conflict and not take advantage and twist the his- tory which can bring lasting answer to
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misunderstanding between the two groups of people is parts of human history but at present every government / NGO’s is making great effort to bring peace to any warring societies. Human civilization is moving exceptionally fast and every ethnic group/ community love to live in peace as they recognize the importance of interdependence for development and prosperity. The ultimatum served to Rengma Nagas living in Assam by the so called Mikirs/Karbi People Liberation Tigers (KPLT) is shocking and beyond human tolerance. Such act is unfortunate and unexpected from people like Mikirs who were living peacefully with the Rengma Nagas since generations. The ultimatum by Mikirs/ Karbi People Liberation Tigers (KPLT) is very satirical as no human in sound mind can do so to son of soil. The dogma of KPLT is unacceptable and can be termed as high degree of nuisance in the present world. Since time immemorial, the Rengma Nagas has inhabited the plains of Assam much before the arrival of Ahoms. The Mikirs who were living under the suzerainty of the Jaintia king migrated northwards due to constant harassment by their masters and some group entered Ahom territory for protection. The term ‘Mikir’ has been derived from Rengma dialogue which means ‘burning of body’ here is no substitute for hard work’ is a common saying. But, does it apply to students in schools where Non-detention Policy is in place under S.S.A? The answer is quite doubtful since the child is now clever and taking undue advantage over it. This is a matter of concern for all. As our country cannot afford to remain ignorant and illiterate, the Govt. of India finally launched a comprehensive and holistic program for education of the country under the theme of Serva Shikhsha Abhyan (S.S.A) which primarily aims to provide free and compulsory elementary education to all children up to 14 years of age. To achieve this ambitious aim, S.S.A has formulated certain policies and rules which include-Non-detention till completion of elementary education, No caporal punishment or mental harassment, No capitation fee, Admitting a child into a class appropriate to his/her age for non-starter,
ribal Peoples’ Organisation, Manipur is primarily formed basing on the principle of non-violence and peaceful co-existence among the Tribal Peoples’ of Manipur to achieve all round development of Tribal areas in the state of Manipur. Several consultative meetings of the organization were held in different districts such as Senapati, Churachandpur, Imphal, Chandel, Kangpokpi etc. after inviting all the Tribal Presidents and the functionaries / resolutions conceived through such meetings have been duly communicated to the respective Tribal Presidents. The last meeting of the Organisation along with Tribal Church Leader’s was held at KCC, Imphal, hosted by Rev. Dr. T. Lumkin Kuki on 19-02-2013. It is categorically stated that T.P.O.M has been formed solely under the constitutional rights guaranteed by Art. 244 A, 275 (1), (2) & 371 (c) of the constitution of India and independent from any outside/ external influence like UPF, NSCN (IM) etc. Joel Lorho President T.P.O.M Head Office Tadubi, Senapati District, Manipur
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Teachers in Dilemma under new Educational Policy Continuous and comprehensive evaluation system incorporating re-teach and re-test and so on, on the academic aspect. With the inclusions of those provisions in our educational system, a paradigm shift has been made from teacher-centred method to child-centred approach making our children completely free from stress and tension. It has reduced all barriers thereby making education accessible to every children irrespective of whatever they are under the slogan of “Read All, Progress All”. As a result an enormous increase in enrolment is being witnessed even in our state. However this scheme is also not free from its demerits. Earlier, our researcher pointed out that Naga students are by nature easy-going, quite irregular, lack of hard working and satisfied with simple pass despite having enough inborn capabilities. Notwithstanding this, the new policy of education has rendered our students more passive, lazier and complacent than ever in their endeavour. This practice is more prevalent with rural students. Many parents (who are also illiterate) never bother about their children .They totally dependent on the school for all round development of their children which is almost impossible. Those irresponsible parents instead of sending their children to school cause them to be absent in the class by engaging them in looking after their siblings, working in the field and other domestic works. In addition to that, pupils stray from school with the main reason to escape Class Test or Re-teach-Re-test (C.C.E) process by keeping in mentality that they would not be detained. All these irregularities not only creating trouble in the class and adding extra burden to teachers but also causing time constraint when the teacher is struggling to complete the four quarterly assessments on one hand and on the other to cover up the
tory nor can they revise history or serve unnecessary ultimatum to son of soil. As any revolutionary group, KPLT will have their own aims and objectives and I’m afraid this ultimatum is not a part of that. Threatening landlords, going up to the extend of killing the whole community and impose tax is never acceptable. It is beyond modern human imagination of how such an idea is born in civilized leaders mind? Refer to the revolutionary history ahead of us, many strong revolutionary groups has come and gone but none has served such ultimatum to landlord nor have they succeeded. Just like the Mikirs have KPLT, Rengma Nagas also have Rengma Hills Protection Force (RHPF) to protect their rights which has been deprived for long. What authority dose a militant group have over others serving ultimatum to surrender before them? The KPLT should give the reason for taxing the Rengma Nagas in Assam and under what authority they have served the ultimatum. Let us keep in mind that any Government / organisation have the right to tax people if they are living under their protection or inhabiting / cultivating in their land and the same goes with the ultimatum. The Government and NGO’s has condemn immature act of KPLT and has requested them to withdraw ultimatum. This ap-
the present conflict. Until the ultimatum is withdraw and both the parties discuss the pros and cons of the problem peace initiative is at stake. In the modern world, leaders lacking knowledge of their ancient history can make a blunder which may ultimately expose the whole community at stake. It is very unfortunate that the so called KPLT failed to understand “who is who” in the present context and the age old relation of the two communities. Rengma Nagas settled in Assam has taken the right decision by moving out of their village for time being. This movement shouldn’t be misjudged or taken as a witness by any group rather it should be viewed as conflict management. Serving threaths to indigenous people at gun point can never serve the selfish motive of any group. If there is any misunderstanding, it is always wise to bring to negotiation table for mutual benefit. The ultimatum by Mikirs/Karbi militant group to ‘son of soil’ itself is the exposition of the visionless leaders. In the near future, before taking any drastic steps, leaders / policy makers should carefully study their ancestral history. As a matter of fact, Nagas under no circumstance can compromise their history. Dr. Soyhunlo Seb Tseminyu Town
lengthy syllabus. Lack of home study is another major problem especially for slow learners or nonstarters who cannot cope up with the normal class teaching, who require special attention. Under these circumstances teachers are left in dilemma as to whether promote the student by compromising quality education or detain him and face the situation. It can be agreed that educational goals can be achieved only through joint action of the teachers, students, parents and the community/Govt. Therefore, the need for having such joint responsibility should be well emphasised to one and all and at the same review the policy to suit our local requirements or else the present S.S.A Policies cannot be applied to all Children. Vechovoyi Asst Teacher G.M.S. Sekruzu
e are very grateful to the state government of Nagaland learning that the survey works for construction of the foot hills road has been started. However, we are in a confusion that whether the govt, officials are intending to construct a numbers of connectivity roads to facilitate some particular range people or an important main foot hill road along the border areas diverting Assam state road with a view of facilitating the whole communities of Naga people living in Wokha, Mokokchung, Longleng and Mon district. The opinion of the Langpangkong range people is that the survey for construction of the road should be along the foot hills area starting from Dimapur Neulang via Merapani, Bandari, Changpang, Longnak, Longto, Yajang C, Tuli Paper Mill, Yonglak, Namha, Naganimora, Tizet Town of Mon district without diverting to any top hill range. Diversion of the foot hill road towards some top hill ranges would be against the long cherish dream of Naga people living in the foot hill ranges of Wokha, Mokokchung, Longleng and Mon district along the Assam Nagaland border which may create misunderstanding and disunity among the people of different ranges and tribes on the issue of foot hill road. The lower ranges people of Mokokchung and Longleng district had co-operated with the Ao Senden facing untold suffering impact of the indefinite bandh imposed by the Ao Senden in a good faith that the Ao Senden leaders are working hard to facilitate common Naga people of all the different ranges and tribes. But if the direction of the foot hills road is diverted to a short cut leading to some top hill range without touching the lower ranges along the Assam Nagaland border it will be a great Himalayan blunder on the part of the Nagaland state government and the Naga people who are living along the lower ranges of Assam Nagaland border will remain silent spectators. The unanimous voice of the Naga people on the demand of the construction of foot hills road along the Assam Nagaland is not only to facilitate a particular ranges nor a particular tribe but to fulfill the immediate needs of all the people of different Naga tribes living in the central and eastern Nagaland. The demand of the Naga people for the construction of the foot hill road along the Assam Nagaland border area is not a new issue but since last about 40 years back based on many reasons of historical events. No individual governmental authority nor a particular group of people should therefore develop selfish motive to divert the old age proposed foot hill road map directions starting from Dimapur Neuland area to Mon district. This opinion of Langpangkong range people is released in order to avoid chaotic situation among the Naga people on the issue of the common demand for immediate construction of the foot hill road along the Assam Nagaland border area. T Nukshi Yaden President, Langpangkong Tzukong Mundang
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Friday 28 June 2013
Dimapur
Naga soldier’s mortal remains brought home
The mortal remains of Moanungsang Walling which arrived Nagaland on Thursday, June 27.
Dimapur, June 27 (mexn): The mortal remains of Moanungsang Walling was brought home today. It was flown by air from Srinagar reaching Dimapur by an Air India flight at around 12:30 pm. Twenty-seven year-old Naik Walling was one among eight soldiers who were killed in an ambush by terrorists in Srinagar on June 24. Senior officers from the Army’s 3 Corps, the Dimapur district administration, relatives and well-wishers received the coffin at the airport where a brief memorial service was held. MLA, Dr. Longrinuken and former minister Chubatemjen were the dignitaries present. Following the memorial service, the body was later taken to his native village – Khar in Mokokchung, where the last rites will be conducted. CM announce ex-gratia Meanwhile, the government of Nagaland has announced monetary gratuity to the family of late Moanungsang Walling. The ex-gratia amounting to Rs. 2 lakhs was announced by the Chief Minister.
Closing ceremony of Chinese course at UCTM NIDA condemns Wokha bomb blast Dimapur, June 27 (mexn): The Nagaland In-Service Doctors Association (NIDA) has condemned the bomb blast at the residence of CMO Wokha on the night of June 26. A press note from the President of the NIDA, Dr Puse Liegise and its General Secretary, Dr Zathung urged all right thinking people, Public leaders and NGOs of Wokha District to condemn the incident. The Association conveyed its grati-
Kohima, June 27 (mexn): Minister of Youth Resources & Sports, Merentoshi R. Jamir, in his first meeting with the District Sports Officers and Youth Resources Officers held on June 25, 2013 at the Directorate Conference Hall, shared his vision to uplift and expand the activities of the Department. He pointed out that the Department has a crucial role in harnessing the vast pool of talents and channelizing the energies of the youth in the nation development. The Minister, who recently attended the National Conference of State Ministers and Secretaries of Youth Affairs & Sports in New Delhi disclosed that construction of indoor and outdoor stadiums in all the 74 Block HQs will be taken up soon under the new PYKKA scheme.
Merentoshi tells his officers to be proactive and sensitive
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MEx FILE ACAUT clarifies on ‘taxation list’ Dimapur, June 27 (mexn): The Action Committee Against Unabated Taxation (ACAUT) has clarified that in regard to the taxation list on import of pigs published in all the local papers, dated June 26, the list should read as MVE=Rs. 1000/- per truck and not as MVI= Rs. 5000/- monthly,. However, ACAUT asserted that irrespective of the amount or nomenclature, such taxations are illegal and therefore, the bodies concerned have been urged to desist from such practices immediately. A press release issued by ACAUT Co-convenor, L Supong Ao and Secretary, Solomon stated that none of the entity listed by ACAUT in the taxation list has the authority to collect even single paise. Therefore, ACAUT has also urged the government to take necessary action. ACAUT further pointed out that UGs are still collecting “Godown tax” which it said “signals that the latter is least bothered with civil society’s concerns”.
Merentoshi R. Jamir, Minister, Youth Resource & Sports (first left) at the meeting on June 25.
Again, under the scheme of “Identification and Nurturing of Sports Talent” (INSTAL), one district level sports school will come up in every district. Many productive programmes for unemployed youths skill and entrepreneurship development, vocational training for self- employment and setting up of such centers in partnership with reputed companies are in
the pipeline. The District Officers were asked to be mentally prepared to carry out all the developmental programmes of the department in their respective districts. The Minister also encouraged the Districts Officers to be pro-active in terms of providing services and be sensitive to the problems being faced by various sports associations
and youth in the district. He urged them to responsibly discharge the assigned duties and to ensure transparency and accountability in the implementation of schemes. In the three long hours of interactive session and threadbare discussion, certain important points and innovative ideas were shared by the district officers so as to re-position and re-strengthen the department. The Director, Youth Resources & Sports, Kelei Zeliang expressed his optimism in the leadership of young and dynamic Minister and hoped for a positive change in the department and urged the Minister to take the Department forward. Further, he also apprised the minister about the urgent needs and genuine requirements of the Department.
DDTDU denies any tax levied by the union
Dimapur, June 27 (mexn): In response to the article published by the Action Committee Against Unabated Taxation (ACAUT) on June 27 in the local dailies, the Dimapur District Truck Drivers Union (DDTDU) has clarified that it does not levy any tax upon the trucks ferrying pigs as alleged, or any other trucks carrying goods in Dimapur district. A rejoinder issued by DDTDU through its President, Kaiho Zhimomi and General Secretary, Suren suggested that if there were any such assorted unions or people collecting tax in the name of DDTDU or the said “Truck Union”, appropriate law enforcing agencies should take stern action against such alleged unions or persons.
Ezonmontsu Rui condemns attack
tude to the District Administration and the Police Department in Wokha for their timely intervention and requested them to apprehend the culprit at the earliest. The Association also expressed unhappiness to “know that the functioning of the CMO Office is being obstructed by some group, whereas the solution to the present problem is clearly beyond the jurisdiction of the office CMO Wokha.”
ENSF & AASA's second phase counselling held
WoKha, June 27 26 night as disturbing. The su Rui will not tolerate any (mexn): The Ezonmontsu Union condemning the act “diabolical/ sinister design” Rui of Wokha district has called upon the perpetra- aimed at threatening any described the “dastardly tors to come to the office of its members. The Union and cowardice act of some of the Ezonmontsu Rui and further called upon the law disgruntled persons”, who place any agenda if there enforcing agencies to inveshurled IED at the residence are any grievances. Also, tigate the matter in all seStudents pose for a photograph with Dr Peter Lim and Dr Karen Quek. of Dr. NM Kithan, Chief Med- the perpetrators have been riousness, so as to nab the Dimapur, June 27 (mexn): Unit- course which started on June 17, 2013, ical Officer, Wokha on June warned that the Ezonmont- perpetrators at the earliest. ed College of Theology and Missions informed UCTM principal Dr Rabi Pame. (UCTM) will conduct the closing ceremo- The highlights of the programme will ny of the Chinese language and culture include a choir piece from Town Baplearning course at its campus on June 28, tist Church, short speech from Chinese 2013 at 2:00 pm with Thejakhrielie Sek- teacher, address by guest of honor, conhose, Joint Director, SCERT, as the guest ferring of certificates, and commission- Dimapur, June 27 (mexn): One per- body which was recovered from Seithekie of honor. Dr. Peter Lim and Dr. Karen ing prayer by Tsuknungsangba, Princi- son was today shot dead by unidentified Basa village on June 25 has been estabassailants in Dimapur. The shooting oc- lished. The family of the deceased claimed Quek were the resource persons for the pal, Servanthood Bible College. curred in the wee hours of Thursday. The the body a day after it was found, sourcdeceased identified only as Zhehuto was es said. According to the sources, the depicked up from somewhere in Purana Ba- ceased, identified as Inavi Jimo (27 years) zaar and his body was later found at Thil- of Khehoi village, was a ‘section officer’ in ixu. According to police, the deceased was the GPRN/NSCN. The body was found at bred fish before, but on a smaller scale. Af- a ‘joint secretary, finance’ in the NSCN-K. a forested area on Tuesday last near Seiter this project we learnt better practices thekie Basa with hands tied and signs of of upkeep. For example, before putting the Dead body identified strangulation on the neck. Other injury With the village’s successful step into fishling in the pond you have to treat the The identity of the unclaimed dead marks were also found on the body. Cardamom plantation, buyers from Aspool with limestone so all insects die, othsam directly started coming to buy the erwise the small fishling will be eaten up”, produce. says Khampei. The fish is then sold to the Under the NAIP project, an individual was identified from every household. villagers, and the SHG can buy the produce Roughly, 500 locals from the village were a cheaper rate. The villagers are also taught how to divided into 25 Self Help Groups. Later, maintain the SHG bank accounts. Every with the success of some, 7 more groups group has a chairman, a secretary and a were put together. Every SHG was assigned one good practice researched and treasurer. They insure that proper records led by expert faculty of SASRD. Some prac- are maintained. The positions are rotated tices include Weaving, Knitting, Tailoring, in the groups so that everyone has an opPiggery, Dairy, Bee Keeping, Poultry and portunity of being a leader. In many villages in Nagaland, like Fishery. Under Horticulture, some include Longwa the economies are perched on agMushroom, Potatoes, and Cardamom. Cultivation of Passion fruit and Orange riculture. The plus point is that there are though tried, failed to give good produce no landless farmers here like in other parts due to climatic conditions. The project is of the country. It’s a head start at concenbeing funded by the World Bank and has trating all the energy at teaching farmers been in effect at the village since Septem- better techniques to fully utilize their land. ber, 2007. “It was to go on for 5 years, but If the expected degree of development is noticing the need of the village it’s been attained in Longwa, such projects should A cylinder blast injured a family of four this evening around 7:00pm along the New Road, opposite Hotel Blue Lagoon. No incident of fire was however reported at extended for another year”, says Prof M be started in other villages too. With farm- Sectt. the scene. Police and paramilitary forces along with fire tenders also reached the spot ers earning better, it will have a direct ef- to assess the situation. (Morung Photo) Aleminla Ao, Dean SASRD. K. Phamsa, is the Secretary of the Knit- fect on education and quality of life. In case ting SHG. Phamsa resonates the talent and of Longwa, there is a government school voices of many other women of Longwa. and a foreign funded missionary school. She is good at hand work. She divides her But, villagers believe quality education time between her household and making can be found only in Mon town. Manpoh beaded jewelry, shawls and makhelas. She with his successful cardamom farming in lends to the running of the household with the future plans to send his son Apon, now the money she earns. 2 years old to a school at Mon. Other villagIt is to clarify that the Fire fighters staers and overcrowded the fire area There are three knitting SHGs and each ers also have plans like such for a brighter tioned at Kohima Fire Station received a which rather obstruct the fire tengroup has been provided with a knitting future for their young and a better stan- fire call on 11/6/2013 at 22:30 Hrs and ders and fire fighters to reach the machine under the project. “Before the dard of living for their families. the Fire fighters reached the fire spot (Kerdesire fire site which ultimately demachine, we would use our hand. It would etsunuo’s clan building) near P.W.D junclay the firefighters to execute timely take us a week to knit a baby suit. Now it tion, Kohima at 22:35 Hrs, where 35 Fire action which is very crucial. barely takes us a day. It saves a lot of our IV) Using derogatory language, such fighters alongwith 5 (five) Fire tenders time”, says Phamsa. The money the womas ‘stupidly and callousness’ may were pressed into service and the fire was en make out of the produce is also very It also does not deal exclusively with controlled at 0230 hrs.12/06/13. The unkindly be used only after ascertainwholesome. She explains the economics rock music, but with various other genres dersigned would like to clarify on following the facts. of it. A Kg of wool costs Rs.350. Every 1 Kg, like blues, jazz, pop etc. “We deal with all ing points : It is to appreciate that, in most of the 4 baby suits can be made. Every baby suit genres of music except classical,” he added I) When the pump of Fire tender is fire incidents the Assam Rifles water tanksells for Rs.250. A small labor price is ex- with a smile. used at its peak, it can empty 4000 er’s turn up to show their concern. Howcluded from the profit for the women, and At the workshop, participants were ltrs-5000 ltrs within 2 ½ -3 min- ever, it is to clarify that, this tanker’s are the rest is deposited in the bank account first given an introduction to the board, only drinking water tank and not fire fightutes. of the SHG group. The money saved in the after which they were divided into groups II) Fire Service truck has to be parked ing tender. At the most, it can be used to fill bank account is used to buy more wool according to their choice of musical inwithin reasonable distance from buckets to fight fire in a conventional way. and would later be used to buy more ma- struments. Separate workshops were The department will always apprecithe fire site to avoid fire hazards on chines. It would aid self sustenance once conducted for Guitars, Drums and keyate constructive criticism and strive to the fire engines. the project is seized from the village. boards by different members of the team. III) Whenever fire broke out, the pub- serve the public in a better way. Tonghi and Khampei two young men Bhaskar Gurung on Guitars, Reuben NarNeilasa Sopfii lic out of their concern/enthusiDIG (F&ES) are part of the Fishery SHG. Under the ian on Drums and Prabir Shekri on keys asm drag the hose pipe of firefightKohima project, a common fishery pond has been enlightened students on achieving techbuilt for the villagers. The group is provid- nical adeptness of different instruments. 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 ed with fishlings of Common Carp, Grass The team is scheduled to visit the Note through this newspaper. Nonetheless, The Morung Express points out that the Carp and Rohu to breed in the pond. Pro- Grid School of music, Dimapur on June opinions expressed in the contents published in the “Public Space” do not reflect fessor N Savino, SASRD taught the SHG the 28. Thereafter, they plan to conduct workthe views and position of the newspaper or the editor. nuances of successful fish breeding. “We shops in Kohima, Shillong and Darjeeling.
Kohima, June 27 (mexn): The second phase of the counselling program for students interested in technical and medical studies in Hyderabad initiated by the Eastern Naga Students’ Federation (ENSF) and the All Assam Students Association (AASA) was held today at DUDA Guest House, Kohima. The expenditures of the selected students would be paid through various scholarship schemes available to students through Government and private establishments. Students who avail these schemes are required to have a minimum of 55% aggregate marks in their semester exams in addition to 75% attendance failing of which their scholarships will be cancelled. The ENSF and AASA have also started 5 hostels for NE students with wifi and library facilities.
Phek district open badminton tournament
Naga cadres killed in Dimapur
Kohima, June 27 (mexn): The Phek District Badminton Association will organize Phek District Open Badminton Tournament cum selection for Nagaland Inter District Tournament 2013 from July 4 to 6 in Phek Town. Categories to be conducted include: Girls under 19 and senior (double), boys under 16, under 19 (double), open (single/double), sub veteran doubles. The last date for submission of participating names/ categories will be July 2. For further information, contact 9436640155 or 9436071228.
NGSEF formed
Longwa Rising
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Dimapur, June 27 (mexn): A new forum under the nomenclature of ‘Nagaland Government Senior Employees Forum’ (NGSEF) was formed on June 25 following a meeting of “some senior employees from the government” at Hotel Japfu, Kohima. NGSEF convenor Ruovihulie Angami has informed in a press release that the next meeting will be held on June 29, 2:00 pm at the conference hall of Hotel Japfu, Kohima. All senior government employees of the department who are immediately affected by the 2009 Retirement Act from Public Services have been invited to attend the meeting positively.
NACF summons
Dimapur, June 27 (mexn): The Niuland Area Citizen Forum (NACF) has issued a statement that some unauthorized unknown person(s) have been illegally using the name of media and publicity wing of NACF Niuland for their “own vested interests”. According to the president of NACF, Isak G Zhimomi a purported notice dated 24/6/13 was circulated by media and publicity wing NACCF Niuland without any name or signature of any official. The president warned that these kinds of unauthorized and illegal activities are being severely viewed. Meanwhile, the unknown author of the notice has been directed to appear at the residence of the NACF banker Niuland Town on June 29, 2013 at 10:00 am. All office bearers have also been requested to attend the meeting.
ANCSU cautions NU on declaration of results
Fire & Emergency Services clarifies
PubliC SPaCe
Dimapur, June 27 (mexn): The All Nagaland College Students Union has informed all college students to wear black badges during class hours as a sign of protest against Nagaland University authority from June 28 to July 2 for failing to declare the BA result as per the UGC norms. The ANCSU has cautioned the NU authority that if the university authority fails to clear the BA result on or before July 2, the union would take its own course of action and that the NU authority would be held solely responsible. This was stated in a press note appended by the ANCSU General Secretary and Secretary Education.
‘Naga music scene...
NAME - SS.Leiut. Amento Kiba (30yrs) GPRN/NSCN S/O - Izhekhu VILL - Asükhoto PO/PS - Zunheboto DIST. - Zunheboto P/A - Kohima Town Command.
wanted
The above noted accused person is wanted in connection with Kohima South Police Station C/No. 0036/13 (firing incident at Lower Chandmari Colony, Kohima on 25th June 2013). In this connection public are requested to be on the look out for the accused. Any information leading to arrest of the accused will be suitably rewarded. Any body with information may contact through Kohima South P S. Phone- No. 03702222111, DEF, Control No - 0370-2902068. Sd/Superintendent of Police Kohima, Nagaland
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The Morung Express FrIDAy 28 JunE 2013 vol. vIII IssuE 175
The Power of Truth
IN-FOCUS C O M M E N T A R Y
THE EDIT PAGE
Bertil Lintner | AsiaTimes Online
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Bureaucrats must reflect
Consulting Editor
ll of us are aware that in the area of governance the executive is largely responsible to see to it that it functions accordingly i.e. to get the job done. The legislature and the judiciary is there to put a check on any abuse of power that may take place and all three are the organs of the government. The executive consists of the permanent officials under whom the large scale administrative task is assigned. Then we have the political executives who are the de-facto power. They are the ones who run the affairs of the government assisted by the permanent executive or the bureaucracy. The kind of relationship between the two set of executive is vital because both are essential and one cannot do without the other. The permanent executive is the one who is professionally appointed based on a merit system and he or she is a career civil servant whose job is permanently secured. On the other hand the political executive (Minister) is elected and enjoys the mandate of the people and therefore that person is empowered to take decisions based on his wisdom and discretion. But unlike the bureaucrat, the politician can be voted out of power and replaced. So some would argue that the politician is at least accountable to the people (during elections) but the bureaucrat is not accountable to anyone and enjoys job security. However not all bureaucrats may agree with this and some may question instead as to why politicians are not being held accountable? This was precisely the resentment brought out by the top bureaucrats in Andhra Pradesh who were complaining against the manner in which the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) had arrested IAS officers and questioned many of them in connection with a slew of corruption scams. In an interesting development in Nagaland, a ‘breach of privilege motion’ was moved against a Secretary (bureaucrat) by the Opposition Congress party during one of the Budget Session of the Assembly in the last term of the NPF led DAN government. The fault of the Secretary was that certain information was withheld related to an un-starred question asked by one of the Opposition MLA. Now the question is where does the buck stop: at the desk of a Minister or that of the bureaucrat who signs the files? In the case of the breach of privilege it is quite obvious that the Secretary was merely obeying what his political master was directing him to do. Even if the government servant signs on a file or order, it is the political executive who makes the decision. So there is every possibility that if a major scam is unearthed it is not the politician who will be held accountable but rather the bureaucrats will be hounded. And hasn’t this happened in Nagaland also? And so it is also a good time for the civil servants to reflect on their code of conduct and whether they should be merely following orders and making compromise with the political executive. The bureaucrats in Nagaland should become more conscious of their due assigned role and duty. We need officers who are independent, fearless and having a mind of their own. Otherwise people should not be blamed if they equate bureaucrats with the corrupt political class. In the end, the kind of relationship between the politician and the civil servant is therefore very crucial in determining the outcome of day to day government and its functioning. The relationship must be one of honesty, transparency and equals and not one of secrecy, corrupt mindset and servitude. (Feedback can be send to consultingeditormex@gmail.com)
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Rain For Myanmar's Peace Parade in the efforts to establish peace in Myanmar. Unyielding position In spite of all these difficulties, the government's position has remained unyielding: it demands that the country's ethnic armies accept, at least in principle, the 2008 constitution, which paved the way for a general, but blatantly rigged, election in November 2010 and the appointment of Thein Sein, a general who served as prime minister in the previous military junta's cabinet, as the president of a new quasicivilian government. That constitution is not federal in character and gives far-reaching powers to the military, including the right to take over power if so requested by the president. During recent talks with rebel armies, government negotiators have stated that they must transform themselves into proper political parties, take part in elections and, if elected to the national assembly, then raise their grievances and suggestions for constitutional change through parliamentary processes. In an interview with the Washington Post on January 19, 2012, Thein Sein stated bluntly that the ceasefire procedure "requires the two sides to sign an agreement and [for ethnic armed groups to] return to the legal fold without carrying arms." But even if the ethnic rebels became parliamentarians and pressed to change the constitution, it would entail a complicated procedure where no substantial progress could be made without the consent of the powerful military. The first chapter of the new constitution states specifically that the "Defense Services" shall "be able to participate in the National political leadership role of the State". That provision allots 25% of the national parliament's seats for soldiers. The charter's Chapter 12 delineates complicated rules for constitutional amendment, which effectively gives the military veto power over any proposed changes to the present power structure. Minor constitutional changes may be considered by the bicameral parliament if 20% of MPs submit a bill. However, a tangle of 104 clauses mean that major charter changes cannot be made without the prior approval of more than 75% of all MPs, after which a nationwide referendum must be held where more than half of all eligible voters cast ballots. Constitutional change is even trickier in outlying regions and states, which through the 2008 constitution now have their own local assemblies. However, one-third of all assembly seats are reserved for the military and the legislative bodies are subjected to perhaps the most curious of clauses in the 2008 constitution, namely number 183, which states: "Although there are vacant seats, the Region and State Hluttaw [assemblies] shall have the right to carry out its functions. Moreover, the resolutions and proceedings of the Region and State Hluttaw shall not be annulled, notwithstanding the acts of some person who was not entitled to do so sat or voted or took part in the proceedings are later discovered." In plain language, a group of imposters could legally enter local assemblies, sit on their benches and vote and nothing could be done to undo their actions even if it was later discovered that they were not elected. One international human rights lawyer who spoke to Asia Times Online describes this as "the weirdest clause I've ever seen in a constitution." The only plausible explanation for this clause is to prevent local assemblies in ethnic minority areas to pass decisions and regulations that would give them more rights and jeopardize the state's current centralized power structure. Now, that can be thwarted by blocking some elected local assembly persons from voting, and sending in "some persons" to vote in their stead. Efforts to establish lasting peace in Myanmar have been further hampered by the involvement of a host a rival foreign peacemakers with huge budgets, overlapping agendas and, it seems, little understanding of the complexities of Myanmar's ethnic problems. According to Tom Kramer, an analyst from the Transnational Institute, a Netherlands-based thinktank, who has studied the problem for years: The present peace process is top-down, lacks civil society involvement and still has to move from making new ceasefires to a political dialogue. Concerns and criticisms from local organizations on the peace process, including on the role of international organizations, have not been properly addressed and sometimes even ignored ... in the meantime economic reforms - especially the new land and foreign investment law - coupled with the new ceasefires have opened up the flood gates for local and international companies to enter ethnic borderlands and buy up land - pushing local communities off their ancestral lands. The experiences from the Kachin ceasefire - which were followed by large-scale unsustainable resource extractions - should serve as a clear warning signal. Concessionary peace During the 17 years the KIA had a ceasefire agreement with the government, vast tracts of forest land in the far north of the country were denuded, with the majority of the timber exported to neighboring China. Minerals were also extracted at rapid rates, and Kachin State saw an unprecedented influx of businessmen from China as well as southern Myanmar. Many KIA leaders were involved in those businesses, which over time caused the group to lose much of its popular support. Only after hostilities resumed in June 2011 did the Kachin public rally behind the movement, as some of the old leaders were sidelined and a new generation of rebel leaders took over. As Kramer argues, the same pattern may soon be repeated in other ethnic areas. After signing a ceasefire agreement with the government, KNU leaders were also awarded major business concessions. For example, top KNU officials have been given licenses to import cars from Thailand, and the sons of one KNU leader are reportedly running a human smuggling network and fake ID business. During recent talks in Naypyidaw between Thein Sein and Yawd Serk, the leader of SSA (South), permission to establish rubber plantations in Thai border areas was a main topic of discussion, as was the possibility of mining concessions. The government is evidently using economic incentives to neutralize ethnic minority demands for political change, as it did with the KIA in the 1990s. According to a wellplaced source familiar with the situation: "The peace process is a protection racket for vested interests, financed by the international community." The so-called peace process is thus unlikely to result in the transformation of Myanmar into a federal union of empowered ethnic states. According to sources close to the armed forces, the country's powerful military is staunchly opposed to any move towards federalism, as top generals fear it would eventually lead to the balkanization of the country. The military has always viewed itself as the sole protector of the country's territorial integrity. After fighting ethnic rebels for decades, new, more sophisticated strategies are being deployed to suppress, not accommodate, the demands of Myanmar's ethnic minorities. While Thein Sein claims to be pursuing national reconciliation, his government's policies aim to divide the country into "135 national races". In Kachin State, where community leaders have for years made efforts to unite tribes and linguistic groups in the area, the government has divided them into nearly a dozen different groups, of which most are more accurately described as sub-tribes, clans and extended families. "This is pure divide-and-rule policy," said a community leader in Myitkyina. The same could be said about the Shans and others, which have been subdivided into numerous smaller entities that can not reasonably be classified as distinct ethnicities. A more realistic estimate would put the number of distinct ethnic groups in Myanmar at between 20 and 30. While declaring peace and reconciliation, the government is simultaneously bolstering its military presence in the Kachin, Shan and Karen states. Although fighting has reduced in Kachin State since the inconclusive talks held in Myitkyina in May, armed clashes continue in northern Shan State as the Myanmar Army advances against Shan, Kachin and Palaung - another ethnic group - rebel positions. The July ceremony in Naypyidaw will undoubtedly be a grand display of self-touted government successes, an announcement many foreign governments and international peacemaking groups involved in the peace process will be eager to celebrate and recognize. But it will not herald an end, or even the beginning of the end, of Myanmar's decades-long ethnic strife. And the quest for what the country's various ethnic groups yearningly refer to as a "genuine federal union" will be as elusive as ever. Bertil Lintner is a former correspondent with the Far Eastern Economic Review and author of several books on Burma/Myanmar, including Burma in Revolt: Opium and Insurgency Since 1948 (published in 1994, 1999 and 2003), Land of Jade: A Journey from India through Northern Burma to China, and The Kachin: Lords of Burma's Northern Frontier. He is currently a writer with Asia Pacific Media Services.
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Running for president comes with risks
The halo slips
SUALLY she coyly evades the question. On June 6th Aung San Suu Kyi at last answered it: “I want to run for president and I’m quite frank about it.” As by far the most popular politician in Myanmar, daughter of its independence hero and the leader of its opposition, the ambition is understandable. Moreover, in 2015, the year of the next election, she will turn 70. It may be then or never. But many obstacles stand in her way. Removing them requires political skills that may be at odds with her record of saintly probity. The biggest blockage on her road to the presidency is a constitution written in part to prevent her ever getting there. Imposed on the country in a farcical referendum in 2008, it bars her from the office, as the widow of a foreigner and mother of two others. And it gives the army a permanent 25% of seats in parliament, just enough to block constitutional changes. Perhaps the army would welcome the boost to Myanmar’s international standing her presidency could bring. But amending the constitution will raise other problems—such as demands by some of the country’s ethnic minorities for a fully federal system. Miss Suu Kyi seems to be doing her best to reassure the generals. This month she has spoken of the “special place in the hearts of our people” held by the army, which kept her in various degrees of confinement for two decades. This perturbs some of her supporters, who have endured jail and torture at the army’s hands. But many will accept that, in order to complete Myanmar’s transition to something approaching true democracy, the generals have to be stroked and placated. Carping about her professed “fondness” for the army, however, is a reminder that as a presidential candidate she will face scrutiny and criticism of a sort she never endured as a persecuted opposition icon. This comes even from younger members of her own party, the National League for Democracy, some of whom grumble about the autocratic decisionmaking that devotion to Miss Suu Kyi has allowed. Criticism is even coming from some foreigners. When Shinzo Abe, Japan’s prime minister, visited Myanmar with a suitcase full of aid commitments last month, his meeting with Miss Suu Kyi went badly. She seemed uninterested, the Japanese felt, and lectured them irrelevantly on health issues. A recent party of foreign businessmen was similarly unimpressed, bewildered at her argument that Myanmar needs horticulture more than garment factories. The country had a promising garment-export industry in the early 1990s that was hit by sanctions and consumer boycotts. It could be rebuilt without abusive labour conditions. American policy wonks have been appalled at the ignorance displayed by her economic advisers. Miss Suu Kyi’s halo has even slipped among foreign humanrights lobbyists, disappointed at her failure to make a clear stand on behalf of the Rohingya minority, Muslims in the country’s west, who suffer terrible discrimination. But in an example of the fine line she must tread, some Burmese were upset when last month she spoke out against a ban on Rohingya families near the Bangladeshi border having more than two children. Miss Suu Kyi, however, has one unassailable strong point. She may be misinformed, misguided, even high-handed. But nobody questions her fundamental integrity, nor her desire to do the best for Myanmar’s people. One long-time supporter in Yangon blames any criticism on “bad press fed by the other side”. Most would share his analysis: “The people hold faith in the party and still believe in her.”
hen politics is mingled with religion, nothing could be more dangerous than this, in a country like India. This is because that religionists who are fanatical are bound to come in the picture. Politics and religion should be studiously kept out in a secular country. Religion, is essentially private, but when religious bodies get interfering to talk about political matters and make interventions there, this is not only unjust, it can lead to bloody situations. I am saying this because over the years this has been happening in the country. Sant Bhrindanwale was encouraged by politicians, but when it was necessary to search the Golden Temple, which had become a hunting ground for militants, the exercise in fact back fired and led to riotous things, including the grisly murder of our then Prime Minister. Secondly look at what happened in Assam, it was given a religious ethnic colouring right from the beginning, and fanatics seized the opportunity to create fear and pandemonium among the people of North East India, residing elsewhere. In that manner one must be really fair to the Leftist Parties, who clearly but firmly dissociated the two and came down with a heavy hand on trouble makers who were hell bent to create trouble in the name of religion. On
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grand ceremony is expected to be held next month in the Myanmar capital of Naypyidaw, where a nationwide ceasefire with various ethnic resistance armies will be announced to an audience of United Nations representatives and other foreign dignitaries. Ten of Myanmar's 11 major ethnic rebel groups who have signed individual ceasefire agreements with the government will be highlighted at the high-profile event. The one main rebel outlier, the Kachin Independence Army (KIA), has not yet reached a ceasefire agreement. The most recent round of talks between KIA and government representatives in the Kachin State capital of Myitkyina held between May 28-30 failed to yield the deal government authorities anticipated. The two sides agreed only to a seven-point agreement stating that "the parties undertake efforts to achieve de-escalation and cessation of hostilities" and "to hold a political dialogue" - though no firm commitment was made concerning when such talks would commence. The "peace" celebrations will nonetheless go ahead, government officials have indicated. But will the announcement really lead to an end to Myanmar's decades-long civil war and is it really the KIA who is the spoiler of the event? Behind the peace hype and reconciliation rhetoric lie fundamental problems which the different ceasefire agreements have wholly failed to address. All the ethnic armies and legally allowed ethnic political parties still demand that federalism replace the current militarydominated centralized power structure, which as constructed leaves only negligible powers to Myanmar's seven regions and seven ethnic states. During interviews in Myitkyina, church leaders and community activists expressed the same view. More than a dozen rebel armies, with or without ceasefire agreements with the government, make up the United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC), which, as the name suggests, are in favor of federalism. Within the UNFC, the KIA sits together with Shan, Karen, Mon, Karenni, Pa-O, Chin and several other ethnic armies. In November 2012 and January this year, the Shan Nationalities League for Democracy, the main legal political party among the Shans, reiterated its call for "genuine federalism". Nor are most of the touted ceasefire agreements actually new. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, ceasefire deals were reached between the central government and about two dozen ethnic resistance armies. The present government, led by Thein Sein, has reaffirmed the most important of those agreements and added two more, including with the Shan State Army (South) (SSA-S) in December 2011 and the Karen National Union (KNU) in January 2012. A ceasefire agreement was also reached with the KIA in 1994 but broke down in June 2011 when the government renewed attacks in the northern state. Despite all the hype, little actual progress towards has actually been made during Thein Sein's tenure. In Shan State, the Shan State Army (North), which has had a ceasefire agreement with the government since 1989, has also come under renewed attack from government forces. The SSA(N) has recently received support from the powerful United Wa State Army (UWSA), a heavily armed ethnic militia that fears it will be next in the government's line of fire if the KIA is defeated militarily or forced to surrender. Like the SSA(N), the UWSA has had a ceasefire agreement with the government since 1989. But the rebel group has refused to lay down its arms and is demanding a separate state for the ethnic Wa people (at present, the Wa Hills are part of Shan State.) The UWSA consists of anywhere between 20,00030,000 armed fighters and is equipped with modern weaponry obtained from China, including artillery, man-portable air-defense systems, armored vehicles and, according to Jane's Defence Weekly, even a small number of transport helicopters. Pictures of armored vehicles flying Wa flags have appeared in the media, including Asia Times Online. Two helicopters are reportedly stationed at a remote location near Pangwei in the northeastern Wa Hills, far from prying eyes. China's position is clear: it is losing its previously dominant role in Myanmar to the West, and it wants to maintain leverage inside the country. China is showing that it can impact the situation inside the country in a way that the United States and European Union cannot. And China's role in this development is much more important than awkward and often misguided efforts by a host of Western interlocutors who have become involved
religion And Politics Ananya s Guha Even if they come out of such an experience, they cannot be the same, and may later on be perpetrators of violence themselves. Nothing could be more tragic and ghastly than this. In India in Godhra and Gujarat the same was the case, religion intruding into politics at the behest of politicians, or those religious ideologues, who have been influenced by the politics of hatred against particular religious communities. This calls for a ban on politicians who have anything to do with religious bodies, and the reverse. At least that would be the first step to keep at bay inimical forces commingling the two for reasons of sheer hatred, and nothing else. We have to fine tune dichotomies of religion, what is called culture and politics. Intermingling three can have dangerous overtones or undertones and very often these are exploited by leaders both political and spiritual. Religion is essentially very private and a matter of the heart. Making it too public or too organized can have danger-
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the aftermath of the Babri Masjid riots, in 1992, Jyoti Basu made it certain that West Bengal was largely free from the mayhem, which affected the rest of the country. The Leftist parties have a clear mandate against fanaticism of this kind, and they make pretty sure, that it is left out of party politics. Politics and religion, spells danger against eclectic forces operating in the whole world. The Islamic West divide, is largely due to interventionist politics of the US in Islamic countries, appearing as saviour of Nations. Once that thinking is in, then stereo types assault the world, and there are clear divisive forces, anti West, pro Islamic etc. In the process we have seen Afganistan and Iraq as clear cases of violence torn countries, where living every moment is not only a ghastly experience, but is the trauma of living day in and day out in the shadows of putrid violence, where a person may be killed any time. Children especially encounter fear, morbidity and trauma in their lives.
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ous consequences. In a secular country there is the freedom to practice any religion or to adopt it, but it must remain both essentially and quintessentially private. The moment public leaders talk about religion in order to whip sentiments then there can be chaos or disharmony. The point is how do we keep religion essentially a quiet affair devoid of public trappings and a matter of spiritual solace or rest. The same happens to culture. Religion and culture again are separate entities. The fact that Tagore’s compositions are the national anthems of two countries and one of them a Muslim country is an indication of how religion and culture can go untouched without commingling the two. Many a time we talk about Hindu culture when we in fact mean Hinduism per se. What we actually mean is that Hinduism is perhaps more a philosophy, a way of life than an organized religion. The intermix of religion and politics is dangerous for any professedly secular nation. Vote banks should not make their interference here, nor should the body politic of a nation be entangled with religious questions or issues which are covertly or for that matter overtly political. Religion, politics and that entity called culture which in turn is a complex issue are largely apolitical. Let us leave it at that.
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PERSPECTIVE NEWS ANALYSIS, FEATURE AND DISCOURSE tion that causes difficulty in seeing near objects. It tends to run in families (hereditary). Hypermetropia is caused by the eye being too short from front to back, so that images are not clearly focused on the retina. Mild or moderate hypermetropia in the younger ages are overcome by accommodation, which brings the point of focus forward to produces a clear image. Hypermetropia can be corrected by placing a convex lens before the eye to focus the rays on the retina.
Causes Of Blindness & Impairment Of Vision– Series 1 Burma's Fallen Idol dr Sushil daniel, Md (Ophthalmology) Department of Ophthalmology, CIHSR THE EYE The human eye is the vital organ of vision. Eye, is the wonderful sensory organs, through which we are see this amazing world, protect ourselves from accidents and express our feelings. Eyes are the organs that detect light and convert it to electro-chemical impulses in neurons. In humans the eye is a complex optical system which collects light from the surrounding environment, regulates its intensity through a diaphragm- iris and the pupils, focuses it through an adjustable assembly of lenses- cornea and the lens, to form an image on the retina, and converts this image into a set of electrical signals, and transmits these signals to the brain through complex neural pathways that connect the eye via the optic nerve to the visual cortex and other areas of the brain The two eyes work in co-ordination under the control of the brain, aligning themselves on an object so that clear image is formed on each retina and if necessary the eyes sharpen images by altering focus in an automatic process known as accommodation. The eyeballs lie in pads of fat within the orbits that has four walls namely the upper wall or roof, lower wall or floor, lateral or temporal wall and medial or nasal wall. The bony eye sockets provide protection from external injury. Each eyeball is moved by six delicate muscles, the action of these muscles for both eyes being co-ordinated by a nerve network in the brainstem. The Eye consists of the following parts. Sclera is the white part of the eye, a tough covering with which the cornea forms the external protective coat of the eye. Cornea is the transparent circular part of the front of the eyeball. It refracts the light entering the eye onto the lens, which then focuses it onto the retina. The cornea contains no blood vessels and is extremely sensitive to pain. Iris regulates the amount of light that enters the eye. It forms the colored, visible part of the eye in front of the lens. Light enters through a central opening called the pupil. million rods, which are necessary for seeing in dim light. Cones on the other hand function best in bright light there are between 6 and 7 million in the eye - they are essential for receiving a sharp accurate image; cones can also distinguish colours. The retina works much in the same way as film in a camera. Rod cells are one of the two types of light-sensitive cells in the retina of the eye. There are about 125 million rods, which are necessary for seeing in dim light. Cone cells are the second type of light sensitive cells in the retina of the eye. The human retina contains 6-7 million cones; they function best in bright light and are essential for acute vision (receiving a sharp accurate image). It is thought that there are three types of cones, each sensitive to the wavelength of a different primary colour - red green or blue. Other colours are seen as combinations of these primary colours Macula is a yellow spot on the retina at the back of the eye which surrounds the fovea. This is the area with the greatest concentration of cone cells, and when the eye is directed at an object, the part of the image that is focused on the fovea is the image most accurately registered by the brain. Fovea forms a small indentation at the centre of the macula and is described as the area with the greatest concentration of cone cells. Optic disk is the visible (when the eye is examined) portion of the optic nerve also found on the retina of the eye. The optic disk identifies the start of the optic nerve where messages from cone and rod cells leave the eye via nerve fibres to the optic centre of the brain. This area is also known as the 'blind spot’. Optic nerve leaves the eye at the optic disk, and transfers all the visual information to the brain.
b. Myopia (Short Sight) It is an error of refraction in which near objects can be seen clearly while those in the distance appear blurred. It is also commonly called as shortsightedness. Myopia is caused by the eye being too long from front to back. As a result, images of distant objects are focused in front of the retina. Myopia which tends to be inherited usually appears around puberty and increases progressively until the early 20s when it stabilizes. Myopia that starts in early childhood often progresses into adult life and becomes severe. Myopia is caused by the combined power of the cornea and the lens being too great in relation to the length of the eyeball. If myopia is detected during vision test, concave glasses or contact lenses may be advised to sharpen distant vision. These days myopic cases are treated surgically by radial keratotomy or by LASER treatment with Excimer Laser (LASIK) c. Astigmatism A condition in which the front surface of the cornea does not conform to the normal spherical curve. Although the eye is perfectly healthy, the corneal surface has discrepancies in its curvature, with the result that power in one direction is of greater focusing than that in the other direction. A minor degree of astigmatism is normal and glasses are not necessary to correct it. More severe astigmatism causes blurring of lines set at a particulars angle and causes headache. A person with astigmatism may see horizontal lines clearly but vertical lines are blurred, or the blurring may occur in oblique meridian. Correction of astigmatism is done with cylindrical lenses at a precise angle.
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t's been quite a week for the abuse of democratic principles by putatively democratic leaders. Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan used riot police to clear Istanbul's Taksim Square of peaceful demonstrators, whom he has denounced as "a few looters" and "a few bums." Egypt's upper house passed a law restricting the operation of non-government organizations which Egyptian civil society groups assert "lays the foundation for a new police state" by the democratically elected President Mohamed Morsy. Hundreds of thousands of Brazilians have taken to the streets to protest practically everything -- though there the government has professed bafflement rather than outrage. What the events in Egypt and Turkey have in common is a particular kind of perversion of democracy -- electoral authoritarianism. Both Erdogan and Morsy treat their followers -- who probably do not in either case constitute an absolute majority of the country -- as "the people" in whose name they rule, while treating their opponents as enemies, flotsam, non-citizens beholden to foreign ideas or foreign sponsors. And they are hardly alone. Russia's Vladimir Putin has installed a dictatorship on behalf of his nationalistic electoral base, as did Venezuela's Hugo Chávez before his death. The difference is that no one mistakes Russia or Venezuela for democracies; the tumult in Turkey and Egypt threatens something precious, or at least hopeful. Neither Erdogan nor Morsy have gone remotely as far as Putin or Chávez, though Morsy came close when he issued an edict last November exempting his own decisions from judicial review, and thus temporarily combining all executive, legislative, and judicial power in his own hands. (He was forced to backtrack the following month.) But both men seem sincerely persuaded that they, and they alone, incarnate the will of the people. "[They say] Tayyip Erdogan is a dictator," the Turkish prime minister said of himself in the third person in a televised speech. "If they call one who serves the people a dictator, I cannot say anything." Playing with populist fire -- but very adroitly -- Erdogan provoked pro-regime demonstrations even bigger than the ones in Taksim Square where opponents
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Pupil is the circular opening in the centre of the iris through which light passes into the lens of the eye. The iris controls widening and narrowing (dilation and constriction) of the pupil. Lens is a transparent structure situated behind the pupil of the eye and it is enclosed in a thin transparent capsule. It helps to refract incoming light and focus it onto the retina. A cataract is when the lens becomes cloudy, and a cataract operation involves the replacement of the cloudy lens with a man made plastic lens. Choroid is the middle layer of the eye between the retina and the sclera. It also contains a pigment that absorbs excess light so preventing blurring of vision. Ciliary body is the part of the eye that connects the choroid to the iris. Retina is a light sensitive layer that lines the interior of the eye. It is composed of light sensitive cells known a. Hypermetropia (Long Sight) as rods and cones. The human eye contains about 125 Commonly called long sightedness, it is an error of refrac- A- Emmetropia B- Hypermetropia C- Myopia D– Astigmatism
UNCORRECTED REFRACTIVE ERRORS Refractive errors (myopia, astigmatism and presbyopia) result in a blurred retinal image and, if uncorrected at higher levels, cause vision impairment and blindness. Spectacles are the most common and the least expensive method of correcting refractive errors.The two other options are contact lenses and refractive laser surgery. Refractive errors are the main cause of visual impairment and the second most common cause of blindness for both distance and near vision. Uncorrected refractive errors can result in lost educational and employment opportunities, lower productivity and impaired quality of life, creating a disability that pushes millions of people into poverty On World Sight Day in 2006 WHO revealed that 153 million people over the age of five are visually impaired due to uncorrected distance refractive error, amongst whom approximately eight million are blind. A further 517 million people have significant near vision impairment and near blindness as a result of uncorrected presbyopia – making a total of 670 million people overall. Globally, uncorrected refractive error is the main cause of visual impairment in children aged 5–15 years with up to 60% of Asian and other younger populations around the world not having access to spectacles Normally in every individual, the parallel rays of light entering the eyes are focused on the retina to form circle of least diffusion and such a state of refraction is called Emmetropia. When these light rays are not focused on the retina, the eye suffers a situation known as ametropia or refractive error. Refractive errors included in ametropia are myopia, hypermetropia, astigmatism, antimetropia and presbyopia. Antimetropia means one eye with myopia and the other eye being hypermetropic, an error which is advantageous because the individual uses on eye for distance and the other for near vision. The normal length of the eyeball is about 23.4mm and for every 1mm shortening of the eyeball in its anteriorposterior axis brings 3D of hypermetropia and every 1mm lengthening of eyeball, 3D myopia is introduced. It is understood that in majority of the cases, error is due to the change in length of eyeball. But however, these errors may be due to the changes in the curvature of refractive surfaces such as cornea or lens or both or changes in the refractive indices of various medias.
d. Presbyopia Flexibility of the capsule of the crystalline lens decreases with the advancement of age (40 yrs). This results in gradual loss of accommodation. When age advances, somewhere nearing 38 years, the near point recedes beyond the distance at which the individual is usually accustomed to read or work. The decrease in accommodative power due to age is called Presbyopia. This state is the result of a physiological process which affects every eye, and must not be considered as a disease or a disability. The feeling of presbyopia is first felt in reading small prints, needling the thread etc particularly in the evening. The individual has to keep the object at a little more distance that the usual distance or has to hold his head back. The complaints are visual failure or dancing of letters, blurring of near vision, tiredness of eye and slight headache. Treatment of presbyopia is by providing the individual with appropriate glasses after making a through test not only for reading but for distance also.
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assailed him as a budding autocrat. Erdogan and Morsy, Chávez and Putin -- all are megalomaniacs who cannot or will not distinguish between "the people's will" and their own. But this is also a disease of young democracies, where the stakes are so high that both ruler and opposition often see compromise as a betrayal of the national interest. This was true even in the first decades of the American republic. John Adams's rivals accused him of trying to restore monarchic rule; and when Adams's son, John Quincy Adams, served as president, both his great rival, Andrew Jackson, and Vice President John C. Calhoun insisted that he was planning to subvert the Constitution and impose dictatorial rule. Adams and his allies were convinced with almost equal certainty that Jackson, if elected, would destroy the Union. The concept of legitimate difference of opinion was very slow to take hold. Nations lucky enough to have a Nelson Mandela or a George Washington receive a lasting lesson in the democratic uses of power. And when, as in Eastern Europe after the fall of the Berlin Wall, democracies emerge from a series of bargains between reformers and the ruling elite, everyone gets the chance to learn the arts of compromise. But when power must be seized through revolutionary action, as in Egypt and elsewhere in the Arab world, the one rule people know is that the winner takes all. How, then, do leaders learn to represent a whole people rather than just the faction that elected them? They don't, naturally -- but voters can teach them a lesson. Serbs united in 2000 to defeat the authoritarian populist Slobodan Milosevic, who had forged a political majority out of virulent nationalism. But this requires a united and purposeful opposition, which cannot be said either of Turkey's oldline pro-Ataturk Republican People's Party or the deeply fragmented opposition to Egypt's ruling Muslim Brotherhood. It's not just the ruling party, but the entire political culture, of new democracies which often enables electoral authoritarianism. Culture matters; and so do rules. In Pat-
terns of Democracy, political scientist Arend Lijphart argues that democratic governments come in two basic models: majoritarian, like the British, with strong single-party cabinets dominating decision-making, or "consensual," with power exercised through coalitions. Lijphart observes that while in homogeneous societies all citizens can feel reasonably represented in a majoritarian system, the same model in nations deeply divided by class or identity "spells majoritarian dictatorship and civil strife." He argues for electoral rules which guarantee a measure of proportional representation, coalition governments, an empowered and truly bicameral legislature, decentralization. Lijphart claims that the consensual model maximizes democratic legitimacy without sacrificing effectiveness. Electoral rules help explain the difference between the way Turkey and Brazil, two dynamic young democracies, have reacted to mass street protest. While Erdogan has demonized his foes, President Dilma Rousseff of Brazil has praised protestors for waking the country to its shortcomings. Brazil, too, faces a crisis, but not a crisis of representation, as Turkey does. Larry Diamond, a leading democracy scholar at Stanford, points out that both Rousseff and her Erdogan-like predecessor, Luiz Inacio "Lula" da Silva, had to do far more political bargaining than Erdogan because they rule through coalitions while Erdogan controls a parliamentary majority. And the reason for this, in turn, is that Turkish law excludes parties from parliament which do not win more than 10 percent of the national vote. The Turkish system enables Erdogan's worst impulses. Working with rival parties might force him to learn a few hard lessons. Democracies become consolidated through some combination of good rules and good habits -- constitutions and culture. But they often fail before they reach that point, and a whole subset of the academic literature anatomizes cases of backsliding. (Mali would be the most recent example.) It's hardly impossible to
imagine a scenario in Egypt in which the army re-takes command after the nonstop conflict between Morsy, the secular opposition, and the judiciary provokes even more chaos, violence, and economic paralysis than it already has. In effect, everyone's high-handed behavior licenses everyone else's high-handed behavior, democracy fails and Egypt's returns to a new version of the status quo ante -- as Pakistan, for example, has done several times. But that's not the likeliest scenario in Egypt, and certainly not in Turkey. The era in which citizens will accept a return to autocracy, much less clamor for it, is drawing to a close. What we really see in the mass demonstrations in Egypt, Turkey, Brazil and elsewhere is an unwillingness to accept an implicit compact in which democratic citizenship is limited to voting -- and a paralyzed political class which does not know how to respond to these demands. "Every four years we hold elections and this nation makes it choice," Erdogan lectured his people. Wrong. Electoral authoritarianism won't work the way it used to because too many people won't accept that transaction. The dictatorship of the majority, or the hypothetical majority, will continue in a few places, like Russia. But its days are numbered in Venezuela, and I can't see it happening in Turkey. The real problem is that unresponsive democracies will provoke more protest, which will provoke more reaction, and the sense of hopefulness and common purpose in nations like Brazil and Turkey will give way to rancor and division, leading to a drop in investment and productivity, and thus more rancor and division. In the Arab world, only Tunisia seems to be bridging the divides among groups to forge a workable new order; Egypt and Libya are heading for different forms of democratic dysfunction. These countries need time to learn new habits, and to devise better rules. The political thinker Samuel Huntington observed that democracy in the United States wasn't fully consolidated until the Republican Adams lost to the Democrat Jackson, after which the Jacksonians in turn gave way to the Whigs. Change of regime is tonic for a democracy. And that, we hope, is where Erdogan and Morsy will prove that they are not Putin or Chávez.
ears ago, during a brief break in Aung San Suu Kyi's long years of detention, a fellow congressional staffer and I visited Burma's democracy leader at her lakeside home in Rangoon. It was the late 1990s, not quite 10 years after her party the National League for Democracy (NLD) and its ethnic allies won a smashing victory over the ruling junta's party in a parliamentary election. Soon after our meeting, the generals cut her off from the world again. It would be more than another 10 years before she emerged from house arrest. My colleague, unlike me, said he did not embrace an American policy closely tied to Aung San Suu Kyi, her views on sanctions (she was strongly in favor), and her determination to see the NLD's electoral victory respected. Anyway, he said, democracy just brings another set of problems. "I'd like to have those problems," Aung San Suu Kyi replied. Now she does -- and her response to them, particularly the surge in anti-Muslim bigotry and violence, has tarnished her image abroad while raising concerns about the future of Burma's tentative political reform. One year ago, riots, arson and murder targeted Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine (Arakan) state after three men from the community raped and murdered a Buddhist woman. This mainly spontaneous violence was followed, according to Human Rights Watch, by a more orchestrated campaign in October. Since then, religious violence has spread across Burma, targeting Muslims more integrated and less vulnerable than the Rohingya, a population that has endured longstanding discrimination. A report by Physicians for Human Rights describes a March pogrom in Meiktila, in central Burma, in which 100 people died and armed groups destroyed homes and mosques. On June 20, 12 of Aung San Suu Kyi's fellow Nobel Peace Prize laureates issued a statement calling upon the Burmese government to prevent violence against Muslims and other ethnic minorities. Given the Buddhist teachings of compassion and non-violence, Burma seems an unlikely, even inhospitable place for bigotry and racial hatred. In fact, however, experts fear that the anti-Muslim prejudice is deeply rooted there. "Buddhist kings drew their legitimacy from their institutional support for the monkhood and from a cosmology that presented the well-being of the Buddhist community as an indicator of the strength of the nation," writes Matthew J. Walton, a scholar at George Washington University. "Thus, threats to Buddhism also function as threats to the nation." After Yugoslavia and Iraq, we are no longer shocked when long-suppressed religious and ethnic conflicts complicate democratic change. The problem is not only that these fault lines exist, but also that quite often they are accepted as innate human phenomena. In Indonesia, as President Suharto was faltering, some policymakers were quick to suggest that Indonesia's ethnic and sectarian divisions made Suharto's authoritarianism a better option than a democratic transition. "'Amok' is a Malay word" some tutted at the time, although in the event, Indonesia never experienced the instability and blood-letting so many predicted. Among the instigators of the anti-Muslim campaign is U Wirathu, a radical, Mandalay-based monk, who has shot to prominence for his racist sermons, calls for anti-Muslim laws, and association with the "969 campaign," which urges boycotts of Muslim businesses. The number 969 refers to important components of Buddhism and, according to Walton, may serve as "a symbolic counter to the number 786, a numerological shorthand for Islam used among some Muslims in Asian countries." The response from the prominent pro-democracy figures has ranged from weak to worse. Aung San Suu Kyi seems to speak about human rights abroad, and about her admiration for Burma's army abroad. On a visit to Burma last August, expecting a youth's idealism on race, I ventured my surprise at this to a young activist in his early 30s. Instead, he said he too had ugly things to say about the Rohingya. (I didn't pursue it.) The Human Rights Watch report was challenged by prominent members of the 88 Generation Students Group, which Human Rights Watch has spent years supporting. One of them, Min Zaya, called the report "an insult to the nation." Another young dissident told me that he held more tolerant views, but expressed respect for U Wirathu's religious stature. While Aung San Suu Kyi and her fellow democrats have hung back, some monks have stepped forward. "I deeply denounce these religious, racial and commercial conflicts with no exceptions," the revered monk Sitagu Sayadaw told an audience in Rangoon on March 30, 2013. "I firmly believe other religious denominations share the same concept, and no god prescribed conflict of any kind." Ashin Issariya, a religious leader who enjoys considerable respect for his prominent role in the 2007 protests against the military junta, belongs to a network of monks and monasteries that provided aid and shelter for displaced Muslims. In the past few days, a conclave of monks has met to reject the violence and shunted aside U Wirathu's proposal to outlaw inter-religious marriages. The euphoria that comes with the beginnings of freedom and democracy are bound to give way to frustration and cynicism as the problems suppressed and festering under dictatorial rule come to the surface. I recall reading that after his release from a Burmese jail, a political prisoner expressed a yearning to return to prison, just for a few days, to regain the clarity of purpose that enabled him to survive. During her years of struggle, Aung San Suu Kyi was awarded prizes named for human rights heroes the world over: the Sakharov prize, the Wallenberg prize, the Gandhi prize. In 1991 she also won the Nobel Peace Prize, though she was unable to go to Oslo to receive it. When she finally picked it up last year, she spoke movingly of the "oneness of humanity," and how she had passed her time in isolation reflecting on the Burmese concept of peace, describing it as a "beneficial coolness that comes when a fire is extinguished." It would be good to hear Aung San Suu Kyi give a speech like this again. She may judge that the realities of her political situation require something else. I believe the opposite is true. Today, Burma needs a Tolerance Prize. How sad to think that, if such a prize existed, Aung San Suu Kyi would not even be on the shortlist.
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DehraDun, June 27 (agencies): While the Uttarakhand government said on Friday that 3000 people were still missing across the state, the National Disaster Management Authority and the Ministry of Home Affairs sources said that the rescue operations in the flood-ravaged hill state were likely to be over by Friday. Confirming that the official death toll is 560, NDMA Vice Chairman M Shashidhar Reddy said “2232 houses have been damaged in the calamity”. “While 1495 people were evacuated on Thursday, a total of 1829 are still stranded,” he said. Sources in the Ministry of Home Affairs also said the rescue efforts were likely to be over by Friday and that the government will now focus on missing people and the locals who have been affected by the floods. Accompanied by Reddy, Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde is likely to visit Uttarakhand on Friday to take stock of the relief work in the hill state. Army Chief General Bikram Singh is also heading to Uttarakhand on Friday. He will visit Gauchar and Joshimath from where most of the rescue missions were undertaken and discuss the situation with the state Governor and Chief Minister Vijay Bahuguna. Meanwhile, rescue efforts continued in various parts of Uttarakhand. The IAF said more than 1250 people - 600 each from Badrinath and Harsil -were rescued by 2 pm on Thursday and all bodies had been recoveredfrom thechopper crash in which 20 security forces personnel died on Tuesday. “We were able to pull out 1,341 people from various sectors. From Badrinath, which is a key focus area, we could only pull out 350 because the weather gave an hour’s opportunity, and we made use of that. The Harsil operation is likely to finish on Thursday,” Air Commodore Rajesh Issar said in Dehradun. As many as 14 choppers were being kept ready to fly to Badrinath to evacuate pilgrims, another IAF officer said. “The moment the weather clears up, we will resume the operations for Badrinath Dham,” he said. Army Commander Central Command Lt Gen Anil Chait also accompanied 500 people, who were moving by foot from Badrinath to Joshimath. But about 2500 people are still expected to be stranded in Badrinath. Medical teams are in Kedarnath to collect DNA samples and photograph the bodies. Amid fears of epidemic outbreak, the mass cremation process in Kedarnath, which was worst-hit in the Uttarakhand flash floods, was expedited on Friday. Bahuguna has said that the focus is now on providing relief material to the locals. “Our plan is to stock food in villages that can last for two months at least. Now we are worried about the locals. Most of the stranded pilgrims and tourists have left now and the remaining will also be rescued and sent to their respective cities,” Bahuguna said. Huge challenges remain in terms of relief and supplies for the survivors. A few villages still remain completely cut-off and haven’t received any relief aid in the past eight days. The fear is that more lives will be lost. Over 5,000 people still remain stranded across Uttarakhand and at least 400 people are officially missing.
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Over 1,800 people still stranded new Delhi, June 27 (ians): Around 1,800 people are still stranded in Uttarakhand but would be evacuated by Friday, the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) said Thursday. It put the toll in the floods in the hill state at 560 while another 344 people were missing. “Approximately 1,829 are still stranded all over Uttarakhand and we are hopeful that the rescue operation would be over by Friday,” said NDMA vice chairman M. Shashidhar Reddy here. According to NDMA, a total of 104,095 people have been evacuated from the state till Thursday. It said that 560 people have died, 463 were injured and 344 missing in the floods. Around 2,000 houses are damaged and 154 bridges damaged. Reddy also said that several roads, closed due to the rescue operations, have now been opened. The roads from Uttarkashi to Gangotrri, Joshimath to Badrinath and a few roads going towards Rudryaprayag are still closed as they are damaged and repair works are on. He said that all over the hill state 1,520 roads were damaged. Reddy told IANS that the mass cremations were continuing. “Till yesterday (Wednesday) over 300 bodies were cremated but today’s figure is yet to come,” he said, adding that DNA samples of all the bodies have been taken. “The teams of National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) have been asked to assist the local administration to recover the bodies from under the debris,” Reddy said. He said the state government is giving Rs.2,000 as ex-gratia to the people who have lost their luggage and money in the floods. Reddy said a guard of honour would be accorded Friday to the chopper crash victims in Dehradun. NDMA will request the government to provide the financial assistance soon to the families of the victims. Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde would also be going to Dehradun Friday.
new Delhi, June 27 (ians): The union health ministry Thursday said no disease outbreak has been reported from any part of floodravaged Uttarakhand. Three public health teams have been posted to Uttarakhand and eight additional teams have been kept on standby for being sent on short notice, a senior health ministry official said. He said district units of Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme (IDSP), of the National Rural Health Mission is conducting health surveillance in all affected districts. Though there have been some diarrhoea cases in Haridwar, Uttarkashi, and Rudraprayag, no outbreak of water-borne, food-borne, air-borne or direct contact diseases has been reported from the affected areas yet, the official said. A threemember high-level committee from
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the ministry is in Dehradun to review the public health situation with the state health authorities, while a specialist from National Vector Borne Disease Control Programme has been placed with the state government for providing assistance. Apart from this, the Indian Red Cross Society has deployed a twomember team to Uttarkashi and another team to Pithoragarh. A highlevel team also visited the state for assessment and coordinating relief work with the state Red Cross unit. The Red Cross has provided seven truckloads of relief material that includes tents, family packs, kitchen sets, blankets and lanterns. A total of 1,100 bags for carrying dead bodies have been arranged through the Red Cross. An additional 500 bags have also been procured by the health ministry, the official said.
Government bans popular diabetes drug and analgin Journalist sacked for sitting health and family welfare has suspended the manufacture and sale of all three drugs under Section 26A of the Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940 with immediate effect, through a notification issued on June 18, informed sources told TOI. While the ministry has been dillydallying on withdrawing analgin and deanxit for years now, despite pressure from a parliamentary panel, the decision on the diabetes drug pioglitazone has taken the industry completely by surprise. The decision to ban pioglitazone and its combinations will hit the Rs 700-crore market for such drugs and adversely impact a clutch of companies including Abbott, Sun Pharma, USV, Lupin, Ranbaxy and Wockhardt. Pioglitazone combination is a bigger market than plain pioglitazone itself which is has posted a strong double-digit growth, with over 30 companies marketing the drug. The top-selling brands of posiglitazone include Pioz MF G and Pioz (USV), Gemer P (Sun Pharma), Tribet (Abbott), Tripride (Micro Labs) and Gluconorm PG (Lupin). (See chart) Popular pain-reliever analgin is a relatively small market with brands like Baralgan and Novalgin (Sanofi Aventis), as most companies fearing a ban have already pulled out from the market, industry experts said. The third drug, a combination of Flupenthixol and Melitracen sold as Deanxit (Lundbeck), Placida (Mankind), Franxit (Intas) and Restfull (Lupin) is facing a ban because deanxit is prohibited for sale in Denmark, its country of origin, and also, the combination is not sold in major countries. Under the Drugs and Cosmetic Rule 30-B, the import and marketing of any drug the use of which is prohibited in the country of origin, is banned in India. A parliamentary panel report on health earlier this year had rapped the government for dilly-dallying on withdrawing deanxit and analgin, which are not sold in markets globally. The family of ‘glitazones’, used for blood glucose lowering properties, has been mired in controversy since the beginning, with many drugs under the class having already been banned globally, and in India. Three years back, another drug from this family, rosiglitazone, marketed by a host of companies including GSK India was banned, following a decision taken in Europe. In the case of pioglitazone too, France has already taken it off the shelves, while in the US it is sold with a boxed warning. The warning emphasizes that it may cause or worsen heart failure, and its use for over a year may be associated with an increased risk of bladder cancer. Doctors here in India had said in a study last year that more robust data on use of pioglitazone on Indian patients was needed. Till that time, the patient should be adequately informed about this adverse effect and the drug should be used in as small a dose as possible, with careful monitoring and follow up. Earlier this month, the ministry had suspended sale of dextropropoxyphene, sold as Wockhardt’s Proxyvon, a widelyused pain-killer.
MuMBai, June 27 (Tnn): The government has banned three popular medicines—the widely prescribed anti-diabetes drug pioglitazone, painkiller analgin and anti-depressant deanxit—in the wake of health risks associated with them. While it’s believed that pioglitazone can cause heart failure and increases the risk of bladder cancer, analgin has been discarded the world over on grounds of patient safety. Deanxit, on the other hand is a harmful combination, which has been long banned even in Denmark, its country of origin. This decision comes in the wake of a strong stand by the government on suspending marketing of all drugs prohibited for sale in other countries like the US, the UK, EU and Australia. The ministry of
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new Delhi, June 27 (agencies): Taking note of advertisements published in national dailies offering degrees through various franchisee programmes conducted by private universities, the University Grants Commission (UGC) on Wednesday warned students against getting influenced by such advertisements. It has also taken a serious view of these ‘misleading’ advertisements appearing in various newspapers. These private establishments claiming to be study centres or learning centres of different universities enrol students for various degree programmes and also claim to be responsible for teaching and the conduct of examinations. The faculty and the infrastructure belong to these private agencies and the concerned university, except providing syllabus and teaching materials, has no mechanism to monitor and maintain the academic standards of teaching being imparted at these centres, a statement issued by the UGC said. “This blatant compromise with the standards of education has led to widespread criticism,” it added. It has asked students not to take admission in unapproved study centres, off-campus centres, franchisee institutions, colleges/institutions claiming to be affiliated with private universities or deemed universities. The UGC has said a Central or State government university could conduct courses through its own departments, its constituent colleges and/or through its affiliate colleges. A university established or incorporated by or under the State Act should operate only within the territorial jurisdiction allotted to it under the Act. Similarly, private universities and deemed universities could not affiliate any college or institution for conducting courses leading to the award of its diploma, degree or other qualifications. The UGC further said no university — whether Central, State, private or deemed — could offer its courses through franchising arrangement with private coaching institutions, even for the purpose of conducting courses through long distance. All universities have been authorised to award only such degrees as are specified by the UGC. Importantly, the M.Phil/Ph.D course could not be run under distance mode and had to be conducted on only regular mode by any university, including private or deemed universities, and as specified under the Minimum Standards and Procedure for Award of M.Phil/ Ph.D Degree, Regulations 2009.
UGC warning: watch out BJP challenges Omar Abdullah for unauthorised courses for public debate over Article 370 JaMMu, June 27 (agencies): BJP today accused Chief Minister Omar Abdullah of playing to the gallery by raising the issue of Article 370 during the Pir Panjal tunnel inauguration ceremony in Banihal. Insisting that the Chief Minister was factually incorrect in saying that BJP takes up the issue of Article 370 only close to elections, BJP national executive member and state chief spokesperson Jitendra Singh said, “It is the other way round.” “While BJP has consistently fought for abrogation of Article 370 for over 60 years, National Conference raises the bogey of so called autonomy only close to elections or when it is out of power,” he alleged. “BJP does not follow the policy of opportunism like NC, nor does it seek votes by resorting to separatist jargon,” Singh said. People of Jammu and Kashmir have now understood this “trick” and can no longer be fooled by such rhetoric, he said. Insisting that Article 370 has done more harm than good to the people of the state, the BJP leader said, “We are ready for
new Delhi, June 27 (ians): A new survey shows that changing lifestyle has exposed women to the risk of cardiovascular diseases, shattering the popular belief that oestrogen hormone protects them from such ailments. The survey, ‘Visualising the Extent of Heart Disease in Indian Women’, revealed that 65 percent doctors believe that oestrogen’s deficiency due to changing lifestyle and other co-morbid conditions are among the top five reasons responsible for younger women developing cardiovascular diseases. According to the survey, 55 percent cardiologists observed 16-20 percent growth in cardiovascular diseases among women in the last five years, while 41 percent of the doctors claimed 10-15 percent growth in such diseases among women in the age group of 20-40 years -- the category which was earlier considered protected from heart ailments. “Quite contrary to conventional medical ideology that due to oestrogen hormone women, especially
Women no more safe from heart troubles menstruating ones, are safe from heart diseases. But lately, there has been a significant rise in number of female cardiovascular patients,” said J.P.S. Sawhney, senior cardiologist at the Sir Ganga Ram Hospital here. “The trend may be attributed to changing lifestyle which is bringing such drastic hormonal changes that heart protecting effect of oestrogen hormone is getting nullified,” Sawhney added. The survey showed that due to changes in lifestyle not only have the risk factors for the cardiovascular diseases like stress, smoking and drinking increased considerably, but co-morbid conditions like obesity, hypertension and diabetes have also gone up. But despite the threat, 83 percent of the doctors believed that Indian women are ignorant about heart diseases, while 76 percent observed that women die of heart diseases as they get late in going to hospitals. Sixty-six percent said that cardiovascular disease-related deaths among women are due to late diagnosis. “Women often overlook symptoms and discomfort pertaining to heart diseases, and rarely consult an expert. Even if they opt for consultation, more often than not, they discontinue the treatment as soon as they get symptomatic relief. The compliance rate is comparatively poor among women,” Sawhney said. The survey also revealed a striking contrast between working and non-
an open debate with facts, figures and evidence to prove that Article 370 has done more harm than good to the people of the state including those of Kashmir Valley.” “It has deprived the state of industrial investments, denied the youth of potential job opportunities and also denied protection or reservation to some sections of society,” Singh contested. He added that the Chief Minister’s utterances in the past two days have only “exposed his insecurity” in the wake of his party’s declining popularity.
DehraDun, June 27 (agencies): Hindi news TV channel News Express Wednesday sacked its Dehradun reporter after a video clip showing him reporting sitting on the shoulder of a victim went viral on the Internet and sparked outrage. The reporter, Narayan Pargaien, however, claimed that the people he was covering in Dehradun’s Bindal area insisted he ride on one of their shoulders as they did not want Pargaien to cross a river on his own. “Such an act by the reporter, Narayan Pargaien, was not just inhuman but was also against the culture of our esteemed organisation,” the channel said on its website. “News Express channel did not broadcast this video of Narayan Pargaien but it was uploaded by someone we don’t know. Pargaien was working as a retainer... and on Tuesday... this channel terminated Pargaien with immediate effect, as such an act by the reporter is a grave misconduct.” Pargaien admitted that he had got on to the shoulder of a flood victim but the footage was deleted from his report. He claimed a friend had “betrayed” him and uploaded it on YouTube as part of a conspiracy to damage his career. “I had crossed the water on my own. The locals shared their problems and I ensured availability of rations for them. I gave a patient hearing to their problems,” Pargaien told The Indian Express. “They forced me to ride on the shoulder of a local. They told me they won’t allow me to cross the river on my own,” he said, adding that he could not refuse them.
working women in terms of awareness and risk factors. While 81 percent of the doctors believed that working women are more conscious about their heart health, majority of the doctors still noted that heart diseases are on the rise in working women. “Considering the fact that working women juggle between home and work responsibilities, they are more likely to get exposed to stress and unhealthy lifestyle and, therefore, may be more prone to cardiovascular diseases as compared to non-working women,” said Chandrakant S. Pandav, head of department, Centre for Community Medicine, All India IMS. “Nevertheless, due to huge burden of household responsibilities and lack of self-care, non-working women cannot be considered to be at lesser risk,” he added. The survey covered covered about 600 cardiologists and general practitioners from both metro and non-metro cities and was based on subjective and objective questions.
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MOSCOW, June 27 (AP): Moscow’s main airport swarmed with journalists from around the globe Wednesday, but the man they were looking for, National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden, was nowhere to be seen. The mystery of his whereabouts only deepened a day after President Vladimir Putin said that Snowden was in the transit area of Sheremetyevo Airport. There were ordinary scenes of duty free shopping, snoozing travelers and tourists sipping coffee but no trace of America’s most famous fugitive. If Putin’s statement is true, it means that Snowden has effectively lived a life of airport limbo since his weekend flight from Hong Kong, especially with his American passport now revoked by U.S. authorities. Adding to the uncertainty, Ecuador’s foreign minister said it could take up to two months to decide whether to grant asylum to Snowden and the Latin American nation would take into consideration its relations with the U.S. Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino compared Snowden’s case to that of Julian Assange, the founder of anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks, who has been given asylum in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London. “It took us two months to make a decision in the case of Assange, so do not expect us to make a decision sooner this time,” Patino told reporters during a visit to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. However, later in the day he said on Twitter that the decision could happen “in a day, a week, or, as happened with Assange, it could take two months.” Snowden, who is charged with violating American espionage laws, fled Hong Kong over the weekend and flew to Russia. He booked a seat on a Havana-bound flight Monday en route to Venezuela, but didn’t board the plane. His ultimate destination
Snowden mystery deepens: All eyes on airport gray chairs, others sipping hot drinks at coffee shops or watching through giant windows as silver-blue Aeroflot planes landed and took off. An Asian girl, about 10 years old, slept peacefully on her father’s lap. A middleaged mother and her teenage daughter tried out perfume samples at a duty free store, while a woman in a green dress picked out a pair of designer sunglasses. A pilot was buying lunch at Burger King. Putin insisted Tuesday that Snowden has stayed in the transit zone without passing through Russian immigration and is free to travel wherever he likes. But the U.S. move to annul Snowden’s passport may have severely complicated his travel plans. Exiting the transit area would require either boarding a plane or passing through border control, both of which require a valid passport or other documentation. Hordes of journalists armed with laptops and photo and video cameras have camped in and around the airport, looking for Snowden or anyone who may have seen or talked to him. But after talking to passengers, airport personnel, waiters and shop clerks, the press corps has discovered no sign of the leaker. Russian news agencies, citing unidentified sources, reported that Snowden was staying at a hotel in the transit terminal, but there was no sign of him at the zone’s only hotel, Air Express. It offers several dozen capsule-style spaces that passengers can rent for a few hours to catch some sleep. Hotel staff refused to say whether Snowden was staying there or had stayed there in the past. “We only saw lots of journalists, that’s for sure,” said Maxim, a waiter at the Shokoladnitsa diner not far from Air Express, who declined to give his last name because he wasn’t allowed to talk to reporters.
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This June 23, 2013 photo shows a TV screen shows a news report of Edward Snowden, a former CIA employee who leaked top-secret documents about sweeping US surveillance programs, at a shopping mall in Hong Kong. US intelligence agencies are scrambling to salvage their surveillance of al-Qaida and other terrorists who are working frantically to change how they communicate after a National Security Agency contractor leaked details of two NSA spying programs. It’s an electronic game of cat-and-mouse that could have deadly consequences if a plot is missed or a terrorist operative manages to drop out of sight. (AP File Photo)
neW YORK, June 27 (ReuteRS HeAltH): People with heart failure are also more likely to be diagnosed with cancer, according to a new study that followed older adults with and without heart problems. The findings don’t prove that heart failure, when the heart can’t pump enough blood to the rest of the body, causes cancer. Researchers said more studies are needed to determine what might explain the link. “People have not really considered any association of heart failure and cancer together, at least not developing cancer after diagnosis,” said Dr. Adrian Hernandez, a cardiologist at the Duke University School of Medicine in Durham, North Carolina. But Dr. Sudhir Kushwaha, who worked on the study at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, said the association makes sense, because a lack of blood and oxygen could create problems in many organs. “The (heart failure) patient should be aware or alert to any new
‘Heart failure tied to higher cancer risk’ symptoms that might develop,” he told Reuters Health. Close to six million Americans have heart failure, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Symptoms include trouble breathing and fatigue. For the new study, the researchers matched 961 newly-diagnosed heart failure patients with people of their same age and gender that didn’t have the disease. A similar proportion of those participants - 22 to 23 percent - had already had cancer. There were 596 cancer-free study pairs, who the researchers then followed, starting when participants were an average of 73 years old. Over the next eight years, 244 people still in the study were diagnosed with cancer, including colon cancer, prostate cancer, breast cancer and blood cancers. After accounting for certain disease risks such as people’s weight and whether they smoked, Kushwaha and his colleagues calculated that heart failure patients were 68 percent more likely to be diagnosed with cancer than their heart failure-free pairs. Although people with heart failure were sicker in general - with more diabetes and high blood pressure, for example - that didn’t explain their greater cancer risk, the study team wrote in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. Kushwaha’s group said there are a few possible explanations for the link, all of which need more study. Certain heart drugs could increase cancer risks, or stress and inflammation from heart failure itself might play a role, as could lack of oxygen. It’s also possible the link can be explained by people with heart failure seeing their primary care doctors more often and thus getting more screening tests, researchers said. “Sicker people tend to be seen in medical encounters all the time … they get more lab tests, more people ask them whether they want to be screened,” said Dr. Jersey Chen, a cardiology researcher
was believed to be Ecuador. Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa shot back at critics on Wednesday, taking special aim at a Washington Post editorial that described him as “the autocratic leader of tiny, impoverished Ecuador” and accused him of a double standard for considering asylum for Snowden while stifling critics at home. “The shamelessness of the century: Washington Post accuses Ecuador of double standard,” Correa said on his Twitter page. As a contractor for the NSA, Snowden gained access to documents that he gave to the Post and the Guard-
ian to expose what he contends are privacy violations by an authoritarian government. Correa complained that the international press “has managed to focus attention on Snowden and on those ‘wicked’ countries that ‘aid’ him, making us forget the terrible things against the U.S. people and the whole world that he denounced.” An Associated Press reporter entered the transit area where Snowden is purportedly staying by flying from Kiev, Ukraine. It serves both connecting passengers traveling via Moscow to onward destinations and passengers departing from Moscow who have passed
border and security checks. The transit zone unites three terminals: the modern, recently built D and E, and the older, less comfortable F, which dates to the Soviet era. Boarding gates line one side of the transit and departure area, and gleaming duty free shops, luxury clothing boutiques and souvenir stores selling Russian Matryoshka dolls are on the other. About a dozen restaurants owned by local and foreign chains serve various tastes. Hundreds of Russian and foreign tourists awaited flights on Wednesday, some stretched out on rows of
CAnBeRRA, June 27 (AP): Kevin Rudd has wrenched back the job of Australian prime minister from the woman who had maneuvered him out three years ago, possibly just in time to soften a crushing defeat that his party likely faces in upcoming elections. He was sworn in Thursday and urged fellow lawmakers to be “a little kinder and gentler” toward each other following the internal coup that ousted Julia Gillard, the country’s first woman prime minister. Rudd, a Mandarin-speaking former diplomat, forced Gillard out Wednesday in nearly the same way she ousted him in 2010. Each faced a party leadership vote in the face of a revolt from Labor Party lawmakers, but while Rudd did not contest Gillard’s earlier challenge, she went ahead with a vote that she lost 57-45. Gillard tendered her resignation Wednesday night. In a brief statement to Parliament two hours after he was sworn in as national leader, Rudd praised Gillard’s “major reforms” on issues such as industrial law and school literacy testing, as well “her great work as a standard bearer for women.” Rudd’s ouster had created a rift in the Labor Party and endless infighting. He had tried twice previously to oust Gillard, last year and in February. Many took the fact that he never posed for a Parliament House portrait, as other former prime ministers had done, as a sign that he never gave up on returning. “As we all know in this place, political life is a very hard life; a very hard life indeed,” Rudd told Parliament. “Let us try — just try — to be a little kinder and gentler with each other in the further deliberations of this Parliament,” he added. Markets reacted calmly to the change in leadership, which is not expected to affect Australia’s economy or its strong dollar. Amid global financial instability and after years of growth fueled largely by a mining boom, the nation’s economy has cooled. Rudd’s way back to leadership was paved with the Labor Party’s dismal opinion polling under Gillard, ahead of elections she had set for Sept. 14 but that Rudd could schedule as early as Aug. 3. Australians favor Rudd over Gillard,
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from Kaiser Permanente’s MidAtlantic Permanente Research Institute in Rockville, Maryland. “That may explain why the difference seems to be this high,” Chen, who wasn’t involved in the new research, told Reuters Health. Kushwaha, however, said that explanation was unlikely - both because the difference in cancer rates took a couple of years to show up, and because people without heart failure still saw their doctors regularly. According to Hernandez, who didn’t participate in the study, the next step will be to follow people with and without heart failure, taking into account exactly how many tests they receive. Chen agreed that type of data is needed to figure out the underlying association. “I wouldn’t make patients worry about this, that either they have a higher risk of cancer right now or that they should change their medications or treatments,” he said. “I think it’s way too preliminary to invite those kinds of clinical changes.”
Did humans learn to throw two million years ago? propose, is that when the arm is cocked, it stores energy by stretching tendons, ligaments and muscles crossing the shoulder. It’s like pulling back on a slingshot. Releasing that “elastic energy” makes the arm whip forward to make the throw. That trick, in turn, was made possible by three anatomical changes in hu-
The departure and transit area is huge and has dozens of small rooms, some labeled “authorized personnel only,” where someone could potentially seek refuge with support from airport staff or security personnel. And security forces or police patrolling the area can easily whisk a person out of this area through back doors or corridors. There are also a few VIP lounge areas, accessible to business-class passengers or people willing to pay $20 per hour. Snowden was not seen in those areas. Sheremetyevo’s press service declined to comment on Snowden’s whereabouts. Hong Kong officials said they allowed Snowden to leave for Moscow because the U.S. government got his middle name wrong in documents it submitted seeking his arrest. Hong Kong immigration records listed Snowden’s middle name as Joseph, but the U.S. government used the name James in some documents and referred to him only as Edward J. Snowden in others, Justice Secretary Rimsky Yuen said. The U.S. also did not provide his passport number and did not respond to requests for clarification, Yuen said. Meanwhile, WikiLeaks gave a terse update on Snowden, saying he was “well” in a post on Twitter. WikiLeaks says one of its staffers, Sarah Harrison, is traveling with Snowden, but the statement gave no indication if the update came from her, from Snowden, or from some other source. WikiLeaks spokesman Kristinn Hrafnsson did not immediately return a call and a text seeking further comment. In a conference call with reporters on Monday, Assange said that he was limited in what he could say about Snowden due to security concerns. He denied reports that Snowden was spending his time at the airport being debriefed by Russian intelligence officers.
neW YORK, June 27 (AP): Scientists say they’ve figured out when our human ancestors first started throwing with accuracy and fire power, as only people can: Nearly 2 million years ago. That’s what researchers conclude in a study released Wednesday by the journal Nature. There’s plenty of skepticism about their conclusion. But the new paper contends that this throwing ability probably helped our ancient ancestor Homo erectus hunt, allowing him to toss weapons — probably rocks and sharpened wooden spears. The human throwing ability is unique. Not even a chimp, our closest living relative and a creature noted for strength, can throw nearly as fast as a 12-yearold, says lead study author Neil Roach of George Washington University. To find out how humans developed this ability, Roach and co-authors analyzed the throwing motions of 20 collegiate baseball players. Sometimes the players wore braces to mimic the anatomy of human ancestors, to see how anatomical changes affected throwing ability. The human secret to throwing, the researchers
man evolution that affected the waist, shoulders and arms, the researchers concluded. And Homo erectus, which appeared about 2 million years ago, is the first ancient relative to combine those three changes, they said. But others think the throwing ability must have appeared sometime later in human evolution.
DIRECTORATE OF TECHNICAL EDUCATION NAGALAND::KOHIMA Governor-General Quentin Bryce, left, poses with newly commissioned Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, second from left, his wife Therese Rein, right, and his granddaughter Josephine Tse, at Government House in Canberra, on June 27. Rudd was sworn in as prime minister three years and three days after he was ousted from the same job in an internal government showdown. (AP Photo) NO.DTE/ESTT-108/2013 Dated, Kohima, the 10th June,2013.
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and while the conservative opposition is still favored to win the next election, Rudd’s leadership could help avoid a landslide defeat. Rudd had warned that Labor was facing its worst election defeat under Gillard’s leadership in the 111-year history of the Australian federation. Gillard lacked Rudd’s charisma, and although many Labor lawmakers preferred her style, her deepening unpopularity among voters compelled a majority to seek a change. Opposition leader Tony Abbott demanded an explanation from Rudd of why Gillard was deposed with elections looming. Abbott also called for an election date to be confirmed. “Politics is a tough business and sometimes it is far more brutal than it needs to be,” Abbott said. “This is a fraught moment in the life of our nation. A prime minister has been dragged down; her replacement owes the Australian people and the Australian Parliament an explanation,” he added. Rudd’s office could not immediately confirm whether Rudd would replace Gillard in a
visit to Indonesia that had been scheduled for next week. Governor-General Quentin Bryce commissioned Rudd as prime minister on Thursday, what is likely to be Parliament’s last day before elections. Anthony Albanese was sworn in as deputy prime minister and Chris Bowen was sworn in as treasurer during the same ceremony. Rudd has yet to say when he will announce his complete Cabinet after seven ministers resigned following Gillard’s ouster. Rudd faces a potential no-confidence vote in Parliament. He probably would survive it, but a loss could trigger an election as early as Aug. 3. Gillard said after her loss Wednesday that she was proud of her government’s achievements, including the introduction of an unpopular carbon tax paid by the biggest industrial polluters. She had been dogged by her pre-election promise never to introduce such a tax. Gillard’s gender was a focus several times during her tenure, and she made international headlines for calling Abbott a misogynist.
Applications are invited from interested candidates belonging to indigenous scheduled tribes of Nagaland to undergo 1(one) year training at Vision University College of Jeongju, South Korea, in the branches of Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering and Automotive Engineering, under the following criteria laid down: Eligibility : Diploma with 3 years/Degree(4 years) pass out from recognized institute approved by AICTE, in the relevant branch with 55% pass percentage and above. Age limit :18 -25years Selected students will have to undergo 6(six) months Korean language training at Dimapur, starting from July, 2013. Candidates should be willing to serve any where in the world after one year training at Korea. The total cost for the training including to & fro flight fare from Dimapur to South Korea per head is Rs.3,47,000/- of which 25% of the fees is to be borne by the students. Application with complete bio-data, correspondence address with Tel/mobile, email etc, along with attested Photostat educational qualification certificates from HSLC onwards should reach the Deputy Director, Technical Education, Nagaland, Kohima latest by 8th July, 2013, during office hours. (A. Kathipri) Director.
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Dimapur, June 27 (mexn): The Nagaland Motorcycle Club is not just about riding Royal Enfield’s and touring places or participating at different rallies but the club is also involved in charity works too. Today, June 26, 2013, the club members of Dimapur chapter led by its president Atsung Changkija visited Prodigals Home and donated foodstuff. This initiative was carried in relation to International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking. The club since its inception in its little way has been doing charity service and has admitted that it wants to continue as a part of the Club’s Members of Nagaland Motorcycle Club regular activity. The club hopes to visit orphanages The club members also people often assume. “… We have a heart, we care in days to come. Earlier Hospital, where they gave acted with the in-patient tively and to be strong. “We at Prodigals Home and en- hope to see you all doing said that they are bikers people usually think we are for people,” Adding that it in January, the club had food to patients. The members inter- couraged them to live posi- something better in life.” with a heart and not as how rowdies but it is not true. has vision to help the socivisited Dimapur District
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miami, June 27 (ap): LeBron James has this summer on his mind, and is already starting to plan for the next NBA season. The summer of 2014, that can wait. James says he's not thinking about the possibility of becoming a free agent in 12 months, though he did acknowledge that the prospect of competing with Dwyane Wade, Chris Bosh, Erik Spoelstra and Pat Riley for several more championships with the Miami Heat is more than a tiny bit intriguing. "That's the goal," James said. "That's the ultimate finish. And we all hope that can happen, obviously." James' final interview session of this season on Tuesday
James not thinking about 2014 yet Kiphire dist Taekwondo c'ship underway revealed plenty in 17 minutes, including that he's already feeling an itch to get back on the basketball court after just a few days off, that he'll stop at nothing to give longtime girlfriend Savannah Brinson anything she wants on their wedding day in a couple of months, and that he's making no secret of his hope that the Heat bring back at least the majority of this year's championship roster. The most interesting news, however, was when he spoke of his short- and long-term plans. First, he's vowing to come back better next season, which is no small promise from someone with four MVP awards, two Finals MVP awards and who carries the tag of "best player in the world." And then next summer, it certainly sounds as if he's going to give the prospects of staying in Miami a good, long look. "This is what we came here for, so that would be the ultimate," James said. "But you can never ... I don't know, life changes, things happen, and we have to be prepared for that. But this is what we all want to be here for, that's to be able to compete for a championship each and every year. And if we can do that, then it'd be awesome." James scored 37 points in Game 7 of the NBA Finals against the San Antonio Spurs, carrying the Heat to their second straight championship in a season where he picked up his fourth MVP award. The team gathered for physicals on Tuesday, and began the process of scattering for vacation and other business. James will make his annual trip with Nike to China next month, not long after Wade does some business there. And already, James sounds like he's missing the group that he spent the past nine months with. "It's like, 'Damn, I wish we could come back in the locker room, have another practice, take another flight, have another bus ride with those 15 guys,'" James said. Longmatra/Kiphire 27 June (mexn): 85 participants from 10 clubs are taking part in the 6th Inter district Taekwondo championship organized by the Kiphrie district Taekwondo association under the theme friendship through sports at Longmatra with Hopps. S Thonger Personal secretary to Parliamentary secretary Power as chief guest today. Speaking at the occasion as chief guest Hopps. S.Thonger said that the society we live in needs to change and to bring that change, “we have to come together and extend helping hand to each other so that change is visible in our society.” Congratulating the Longmatra Town Taekwondo Association for hosting the championship the chief guest said, “this is a historic event for the people of Longmatra” and also encourage them to take the game forward so that youngster take up this as livelihood. The chief guest while acknowledging the hardship taken up by the pioneers to bring the game to this level said, “the fruit of the hardship you have taken few years has made the district to witness the 6th inter district championship” and assured of his support to see the game grow. Later the chief guest declared the 6th inter district taekwondo championship open. Speaking at the occasion Tsilise President Kiphire district taekwondo association said, “amongst marshal art Taekwondo is the best game” and also added Kiphire district always stood second or third in state level and even in national level the district has represented and brought prizes. He also stressed on the need of having taekwondo stadium for the participants. Mark Marekiu, chief coach who also addressed the gathering said, “the district has produce 32 black belt and 9 national player and the strength of the district have gone up to 300 students which is the sign of improvement.” Taekwondo demonstration was displayed Pungro Taekwondo association and Longmatra town taekwondo association.
ety in every possible way. To which the members said that they are planning for a pothole filling mission in Dimapur. Also, few days back the Royal Enfield Riders participated at the World Music Day concert at Dimapur. Mention may be made that in the month of March; around 10 club members took a ride to Mechuka in Arunachal Pradesh and went up till Indo-China border. The other upcom ing events are NE Riders’ Meet, which will be held at Aizawl in October 21-26 and the Rider Mania (RM) at Chennai in January 2014. RM is an event hosted by Brotherhood of Bulleteers Motorcycling Community (BOBMC) Member clubs in India every year. It is the annual gathering of Indian Royal Enfield motorcycle owners.
212 participates in art exhibition at Dimapur
Urban Development notifies on derecognition of sector at Longleng
Boundary description of Longleng Town Council Area North : New Town Site (Oukokcham) East : New Circular Road (Shayung Colony to Naga Junction) Paintings displayed at St. Mary’s Montessori School auditorium during the art exhibition South : Police Reserve Field programme on June 23 and 24. West : Lengkha Area The programme was programme concluded Dimapur, June 27 (mexn): Chitrakala Art inaugurated by the chief with the prize distribu- Boundary Description of Ward No. 11 (Leinak Ward) Centre, Euro School of Fine guest, Neena Dutta, Prin- tion ceremony where the North : Tungnyu Nullah Arts & Netaji Subash Kala cipal St. Mary’s Montessori chief guest awarded all the East : St. Joseph School Kendra jointly organized School also graced by the winners of the Art Exhibi- South : Tuensang School a two days art (painting) presence of other guest of tion the trophies. Along West : Longleng Aboi Road exhibition programme on honour Leo Sumeet Jain, with this the Tripura Art In exercise of the powers conferred under Section 6 June 23 and 24 at the St. Vice-President Lions Club, Society also awarded nine Mary’s Montessori School Dimapur along with Sou- Gold Medals to the best (3) of the Nagaland Municipal Act, 2001, any inhabitant auditorium where 212 mick Nath, Executive Board students of the session of the specified area desiring to object to this Notificaparticipants from differ- Member of Tripura Art So- 2011-2012 examination tion should submit his/her objection in written, to the ent schools and colleges of ciety & Rajdeep Choudhary, in the entire North Eastern Government through the Deputy Commissioner, LongRegion conducted by the leng, within 30 (thirty) days from the date of issue of this Dimapur participated with an Artist TAS. notification. On the second day, the Tripura Art Society. great enthusiasm.
Kohima, June 27 (Dipr): Commissioner & Secretary to the Government of Nagaland, Mhonbemo Patton has in a notification dated 21st June 2013 stated that the Governor of Nagaland has de-recognised Oushok Sector from Ward No – 11 (Oushok Leinak Ward) of the Longleng Town Council vide Urban Development Department (Municipal Administration Cell) notification No-TC/ HOME-34/2003 dated 30/08/2012. Consequent upon the de-recognition, the boundary limits of the Longleng Town Council area notified vide Notification No. TC/HOME-7/2001 dated 19/12/2003 and that of Ward No. 11 notified vide Notification TC/ HOME-34/2003 dated 24/08/2004 have been subsequently altered. Therefore, the Governor of Nagaland is pleased to notify his intention to re-specify the boundaries of the Longleng Town Council and that of the affected Ward No-11 as defined in the Schedule below:
Zunheboto District Open Badminton Championship
Parliamentary Secretary for Irrigation and Flood Control, Y. Vikheho Swu (third from right) participated in the inaugural exhibition match of the 2nd Zunheboto District Open Badminton Championship on June 27 at Zunheboto. (DIPR)
IETC students undertake study tour
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Exhibition cum sales day held at Kuhuboto
Suruhuto, June 27 (Dipr): The 2nd Zunheboto District Open Badminton Championship started on June 27 with Parliamentary Secretary for Irrigation and Flood Control, Y. Vikheho Swu as the Chief Guest. The Chief Guest thanked the former Deputy Commissioner of Zunheboto for taking initiative in building the Badminton stadium in 2012 where the championship is being held. He said that sports persons are the most fortunate people in
the world, be it in physical or social life as through sports one makes friends with each other and urged the players to be good sports men and women for the well being of the society. He encouraged the competing players by taking the example of Joshep Swu who is the No. 1 ranked badminton player in Nagaland and said that in reflex games as badminton Nagas can compete in the International level. He added that the DAN government is emphasis-
ing on sports and music for the youths and that the young should take full advantage. He pointed out seriousness of the Government on the youth by appointing a young and energetic Minister for Youth Resource and Sports in the befitting person of Merentoshi Jamir. The championship is a three days long event which will end on 29th June with Deputy Commissioner Zunheboto, Akato L. Sema as the guest of honour.
Dimapur, June 27 (mexn): Agriculture Field Assistant trainees (IETC) Medziphema undertook a three days study tour from June 17 to 19, 2013. The team was led by two officers from IETC A. Temsu, SDO and Keneisezo, AO-II and comprising of 50 students. A press note issued by
Agriculture Field Assistant trainees with officers from IETC during the three days study tour held from June 17 to 19.
IETC Principal and Director SAMETI, Ahovi Sema stated that on first day the team visited the State Agriculture Research Station under Mokokchung district. The trainees were taught on low cost water harvesting techniques, watershed cum bio-diversity and landscape, experimental organ-
ic framing etc. The team also visited Wokha KVK Central under NE region where the trainees got first hand knowledge about scientific management technique of fruits, vegetables, pulses and cereal crops. On third day the team visited the exotic canning factory at Mao gate Manipur.
Kohima, June 27 (mexn): Malaria is a very ancient disease that has moved to be one of the most dangerous and deadly disease in the world. It is one of the major causes of loss of income and absenteeism in schools. During monsoon and post monsoon months, the risk of malaria increases manifold because of increased breeding of mosquitoes, which spread malaria and other vector, borne diseases. The month of June is therefore, observed as ‘Anti Malaria Month’, before the onset of monsoon prior to the transmission season since 1977. A press note received here stated that in order to create awareness among the school students, National Vector Borne Disease Control Programme (NVBDCP), Directorate of Health & Family Welfare, Nagaland has organised an essay and painting competition on June 24 at Hotel Japfu. The essay topic and painting theme was ‘Invest in the future: Defeat Malaria’ and ‘Where do the mosquitoes breed’. 12 schools from Kohima have participated and 80 students competed in the two discipline. Under the essay and painting category, the winners were Medeno Peseyie from Fernwood School and Painting Zhiipuo from Model Higher Secondary School respectively. The winners won a cash prize of Rs 4000 each.
ATMA- Dimapur officials with the participants at the exhibition cum sales day on June 25 at Kuhuboto.
Dimapur, June 27 (mexn): The Agricultural Technology Management Agency (ATMA) Dimapur organized a one day exhibition cum sales day on June 25 at Kuhuboto Block for the SHGs. A press note informed that the exhibition cum sales day was inaugurated by S Bendangtemsu, DAO and PD ATMADimapur. He inspected all the
stalls set up by the SHGs and products that were on display for sale. The exhibition cum sales day was organized to help the SHGs of Kuhuboto Block in providing a platform for their exposure and also to help them market their products. Altogether 12 progressive SHGs of Kuhuboto Block participated at the exhibition cum sales. The items on display and
for sale were various products like handicrafts, vegetables and fruits, pickles, mushroom, pork, fishes, poultry, ducks and many other products. Dissemination of Technology through literatures on Agri & allied departments were also distributed. The note informed that the event attracted a large number of visitors at the ATMA stalls
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apper and singer Hard Kaur, who has turned music composer with Atul Agnihotri`s upcoming home production ‘O Teri’, is super excited about her new role. She says now she can give chance to the new and budding artists. "I am very happy that I have turned music director and now I can give chance to other aspirants, new and budding artists," Hard
Susan Sarandon to play Indira Gandhi Simon Cowell to launch reality
Kaur said here Tuesday during shooting for the title song of ‘Zaalim Dilli’. She has crooned the number with Punjabi singersongwriter Jazzy B. In "O Teri", Hard Kaur has sung the song "Follow karda", which she has composed as well. The rapper is known for peppy numbers like "Ek Glassy", "Talli", "Move your body", and "Char baj gaye".
Together again: The Backstreet Boys AJ McLean, Howie Dorough, Nick Carter, Brian Littrell and Kevin Richardson posed together on Wednesday in New York City outside The Late Show with David Letterman
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Ozzy Osbourne stole as a youngster Black Sabbath rocker Ozzy Osbourne has admitted he tried to become a thief when he was younger but had to abandon his life of crime because he was terrible at it. zzy Osbourne was a hapless thief in his youth. The Black Sabbath singer revealed he had little success when he tried to venture into a life of crime because he was a ''fing idiot''. He told Shortlist.com ''I wasn't exactly the great train robber; I was a fing idiot. ''I was nicking this TV once, and I got it over the wall, but I fell down and the TV landed on my chest. ''I couldn't get the fing thing off me. So, I had to lie there until they caught me. I wanted to be on television, but the television was on me.'' The 64-year-old rocker admitted he ''kept getting nicked'' as a robber, which he attempted because he needed an escape route from his home town in Birmingham, UK. He said ''I tried being a thief, which I wasn't any good at. I kept getting nicked. ''I broke into one shop and I had my thumb out of the fing gloves. That's how fing clever I was. I stole anything I could sell baby clothes, old-age pensioners' stuff. I looked great in a pub with a bag full of babies' vests 'Anyone want these'.
atty Kumar, director of the 2011 film, 'Tum Ho Yaara', is working on a biopic on Indira Gandhi and he wants Oscar-winning Hollywood actress Susan Sarandon to play the role of the late Indian Prime Minister “It has been a long-cherished dream to make a movie on the life of Mrs Gandhi," said Kumar. Tentatively titled Iron Lady Indira Gandhi, the film will be made in English, Hindi and Tamil and according to the director, Sarandon is perfect for the role. The Hollywood actress, who won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1995 for her performance in Dead Man Walking, is best remembered for her powerful performances in The Client, Thelma & Louise, Bull Durham and Stepmom.
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ACKO’S daughter Paris tried to kill herself because she hates living with her oppressive gran, a cousin claims. Tanay Jackson said Paris, 15, slashed her wrists and took pills after rows with 83-year-old Katherine over her Jehovah’s Witness beliefs and strict rules. Her cousin spoke out as Superior Court Judge Mitchell Beckloff ruled yesterday he will make no changes to her guardianship. He told attorneys for Jackson’s estate: “I’m taking no further action.” Tanay said earlier: “Paris wasn’t happy living with my grandma and was under a lot of stress. There are rules in the house and not everyone wants to abide by them.” Tanay, daughter of Jacko’s brother Tito, added: “I understand her torment. I understand what it’s like with my father’s family.” Paris and brothers Prince, 16, and Blanket, 11, have lived with Katherine in Calabasas, California, since Michael died of a drug overdose in 2009. But she has grown close to her biological mum, Jacko’s ex-wife Debbie Rowe, 54 — who may now fight for fulltime custody. Paris has been in hospital since her suicide attempt two weeks ago.
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Justin Bieber's new love interest Jordan Ozuna is 'still married'
The Portuguese superstar's muscles rippled in the Indonesian sunshine during the digging session at a tree preservation at Tanjung Benoa bay, Bali. Wearing a tight-fitting t-shirt and sporting new blond highlights in his quiff, the 28-year-old proudly planted a mangrove tree named after him. Real Madrid ace Cristiano has branched out from football to become an ambassador for the 'Save Mangrove, Save Earth' campaign. The charity visit comes as a nice detraction from all the transfer speculation linking Ronnie with a move back to his old club Manchester United. Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and his wife Ani appeared delighted with their superstar visitor and Susilo could barely stop grinning as he presented Ronaldo with his certificate.
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ustin Bieber is reportedly dating a married woman. Days after the pop superstar was snapped kissing and cuddling Las Vegas waitress and model Jordan Ozuna, it’s emerged the 22-year-old is still wed to her childhood sweetheart. That’s according to Jordan’s estranged mother-in-law Kim, who claims she tied the knot with her son Daniel as soon as the couple came out of high school. Kim says their marriage only lasted a couple of years and they have filed for divorce. She told Celebuzz.com: “She’s still married. They’ve been separated a good year. “They were very young when they got married. They’ll figure it out on their own. “They’re probably in the process of getting divorced.” Asked what she thought of Jordan’s relationship with Justin, Kim replied: “I’m not surprised.” Teen titan Justin and model Jordan first sparked romance speculation on June 16, when they were spotted behaving intimately during a group trip to Las Vegas Indoor Skydiving. Kim believes her son – who now serves in the Coast Guard – is unlikely to be aware of the rumours. Meanwhile, it’s been reported that Justin has been banned from the Vegas skydiving centre he attended with Jordan. It’s claimed the singer and his entourage left the venue in a total mess and refused to pay for their session. He was allegedly given the choice of paying fees of £1,000 or plugging the centre on Twitter. However, Justin apparently failed to do either – prompting bosses to blacklist the star.
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BELO HORIZONTE, JuNE 27 (AP): Brazil's players wept with joy inside the stadium, and Brazilian protesters were sprayed with tear gas outside it as the country's national football team reached the Confederations Cup final despite another wave of mass demonstrations on the streets. Brazil beat neighbors Uruguay 2-1 with an 86th minute header from Paulinho in a performance that failed to reach the commanding heights of earlier games. As thousands of antigovernment protesters clashed with police nearby, inside the Mineirao Stadiujm, Brazil's footballers reached Sunday's final in Rio de Janeiro with a patchy display. Security was high at the semifinal as protesters, in part angered by the billions of dollars spent on World Cup preparations, targeted this high-profile semifinal in the latest in a series of demonstrations that have taken place in Brazil during the Confederations Cup. They were met by tear gas and rubber bullets during clashes with police, but the match itself was unaffected by the protests. Protests have already been announced for Sunday's final at the Maracana Stadium. "It's a new team and this is going to help us grow for the World Cup," Brazil goalkeeper Julio Ce-
Brazil beat Uruguay to enter Confed Cup final sar said. "We know that we can face a very difficult opponent (and win)." Cesar prevented Uruguay from taking the lead in Belo Horizonte, saving a penalty kick from Uruguay striker Diego Forlan in the 13th minute. The save turned out to be decisive. Just as they later did for the winner, Paulinho and Neymar combined to help set up Brazil's opener just before halftime. Neymar brought down Paulinho's high ball and, after his initial shot was saved by goalkeeper Fernando Muslera, Fred pounced on the loose ball to score. Although Edinson Cavani seized on sloppy defending to equalize for Uruguay three minutes into the second half, Brazil finally started to click as an attacking force and now either Spain or Italy stand between the host nation and a third consecutive Confederations Cup title. "We are not ready yet," Brazil coach Luiz Felipe Scolari said. "We have to go through this, through all these situations so we can grow and evolve ... and reach the World Cup in better shape." "What I have to show them is the progress that they made. This is how I make them selfconfident," he said. Inside the stadium, animosity was directed from the start at Uruguay captain Diego Lugano, who enraged Brazil
Brazil's Paulinho, right, scores his side's 2nd goal during the soccer Confederations Cup semifinal match between Brazil and Uruguay at the Mineirao stadium in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, Wednesday, June 26. (AP Photo)
Wild day at Wimbledon: Federer, Sharapova lose lasted all of 15 minutes, stopping in the third game after hurting his left knee. Federer, Sharapova and Azarenka were three of seven players who have been ranked No. 1 that departed in a span of about 8½ hours. They also were among 12 seeded players heading home. Most remarkable of all, of course, was Federer's 6-7 (5), 7-6 (5), 7-5, 7-6 (5) loss to 116th-ranked Sergiy Stakhovsky in the day's last match on Centre Court. Federer hadn't been beaten this early at a Grand Slam tournament since the first round of the French Open on May 26, 2003, back before he owned a single trophy from any of the sport's most important sites. Now his collection is 17 total, with seven from Wimbledon, including last year's. "This is a setback, a disappointment, whatever you want to call it," Federer said. "Got to get over this one. Some haven't hurt this much, that's for sure." In addition to the hard-to-believe results and the slew of injuries, there was all manner of sliding and tumbling on the revered grass courts, prompting questions about whether something made them more slippery. "Very black day," summed up 10th-seeded Marin Cilic, who said a bad left knee forced him to pull out of his match. One had to wonder what Thursday might bring. The Day 4 schedule featured defending champion Serena Williams, who took a 32-match winning streak into the second round against Caroline Garcia; last year's runnerup, No. 4 Agnieszka Radwanska; 2011 Wimbledon winner Novak Djokovic; and 2009 U.S. Open champion Juan Martin del Potro. They were to take the court knowing that after three days of the two-week tournament — merely halfway through the second round — a total of five of the 10 highest-seeded women were gone, along with four of the top 10 men.
by accusing Neymar of diving on the eve of the match. The crowd was even more incensed when Luga-
no won a penalty in the 13th minute, although there was little to dispute David Luiz's tugging of the defender's
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shirt. Facing a wall of noise, Forlan struck low and Cesar dived correctly to his left. It was the fourth penalty out
of eight in the tournament so far to be missed. Forlan was the most potent attacking threat on the pitch
as Brazil struggled to impose itself on the game. The swagger and verve the Brazilians had rediscovered to
open the tournament with three group-stage victories was missing in an edgy start by the hosts.
SILVERSTONE, JuNE 27 (REuTERS): Mark Webber will leave champions Red Bull and Formula One at the end of the season to join Porsche's new Le Mans sportscar programme, the Australian driver announced on Thursday. "I'm very much looking forward to this new challenge after my time in Formula One. I can hardly wait to pilot one of the fastest sports cars in the world," he said on his website (www.markwebber. com). Porsche said he had signed a multi-year contract. Red Bull said a decision on his replacement would not be made until later in the season.
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fourth successive title. Lotus driver Kimi Raikkonen, the 2007 world champion with Ferrari, has been strongly tipped to take Webber's place. That move would replace one of the sport's most outspoken drivers with the most taciturn and, at 33, second oldest after Webber. In a separate statement, Red Bull thanked Webber for his extensive contribution in his The oldest driver on the seven years with the team starting grid, who will be 38 and their three successive next year and is in his 12th constructors' crowns. season, Webber has yet to win a race in 2013 but has a good chance to rectify that at this weekend's British Grand Prix. The straighttalking Australian - who drives a Porsche for private use - has won two of the last three races at Silverstone, including last year's, and has finished on the podium at what amounts to a home race every year since 2009. He has won nine grands prix, all for Red Bull, since his debut with Minardi in 2002 but has been eclipsed in the championship by German team mate Sebastian Vettel who is chasing a
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Maria Sharapova of Russia speaks during a news conference following her defeat in a Women's second round singles match to Michelle Larcher De Brito of Portugal at the All England Lawn Tennis Championships, Wimbledon, London, Wednesday, June 26. (AP Photo)
LONDON, JuNE 27 (AP): The day began, oddly enough, with word that Roger Federer's orangesoled shoes did not conform to Wimbledon's allwhite dress code and would need to be replaced. It ended, shockingly enough, with Federer losing in the second round at the All England Club, his earliest Grand Slam exit in a decade, ending his record streak of reaching at least the quarterfinals in 36 consecutive major tournaments. And in between? Oh, there was so much more to this unpredictable Wednesday, including four-time major champion
Maria Sharapova's loss to a qualifier, and the injuries that forced seven players to leave because of withdrawals or mid-match retirements, believed to be the most in a single day at a Grand Slam tournament in the 45-year Open era. In that group: secondseeded Victoria Azarenka; sixth-seeded Jo-Wilfried Tsonga; Steve Darcis, the man who stunned 12-time major champion Rafael Nadal in the first round; and 18th-seeded John Isner, who will forever be remembered for winning a 70-68 fifth set in the longest match ever, more than 11 hours. This time, Isner
OKING HOSPITAL AND RESEARCH CLINIC, KOHIMA IN COLLABORATION WITH STYKER INC. USA WILL BE CONDUCTING JOINT REPLACEMENT SURGERY OF THE HIP (THA) AND KNEE (TKA) IN THE MONTH OF JULY 2013. OPERATING SURGEONS: - Dr. B.D. Chattarjee, M.ch (Ortho), FRCS (UK). DATE OF REGISTRATION AND SCREENING: 29/6/13 – 9 am onwards. 30/6/13 – 1 pm onwards. WHO NEEDS THA/TKA? : - ANY ADULT INCLUDING OLD PEOPLE SUFFERING FROM ARTHRITIS (JOINT PAIN/SWELLING/DEFORMITY, WHO HAS PAINFUL WALKING, ETC) OF THE HIP JOINT OR MOST COMMONLY THE KNEE JOINTS. CONTACT: 0370-224339 (OKING HOSPITAL).
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