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NPF Zunheboto division clarifies

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ZUNHEBOTO, JUNE 27 (MExN): The Zunheboto division of the Naga Peoples’ Front (NPF), while reacting to a news item published in this newspaper, has informed that the representation submitted to the Nagaland Chief Minister on June 26 was “not for the eyes of the entire masses but for the eyes of the concerned authority only.”

Zunheboto NPF President, Nikheto Jimomi and General Secretary, P Kiyelu Awomi, in a press note, stated that the representation was an “appeal to the concerned authority for reviewing the recent portfolio allocations and also to take up remedial measures for justification,” which it stated “is still anticipated.”

However, it clarified that “it was never intended to warn or serve ultimatum to the central leadership.”

It further alleged that “some vested interested person (s), with an attitude to disrupt the unity of the NPF, malign the divisional officials and to create untold problems for political instability, has without authorization published the news item…”

It condemned what the division termed as an “act of treason and hypocrisy committed by those vested interested person (s).”

It further informed that an enquiry committee will be set up within the divisional unit for “clarification and disciplinary action,” and that subsequently an FIR will be filed in the police station “so that the culprit will be booked and punished as per the law of the land.”

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Tension ran high at the NPF Mokokchung Division office when party workers tried to prevent a proposed meeting called by the NPF Mokokchung Division incharge, Nuklotoshi Longkumer, who is also Minister for National Highway & Mechanical, at the party office at 11:00 AM here today. Police had to resort to lathicharge to disperse the crowd and the district administration, in order to contain the situation, imposed prohibitory orders under Section 144 of the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC) with immediate effect till July 4, within the limit of Mokokchung town.

The district administration imposed the prohibition apprehending grave law & order situation in the town following what it termed was a “confrontational situation caused within the parties of NPF Unit, Mokokchung” thereby endangering “human life and property”.The order was issued by the Additional District Magistrate, Mokokchung.

The NPF Mokokchung Division in-charge, through a notification on June 26, had invited NPF legislators under Mokokchung district, NPF Central Executive Council members, NPF Assembly Constituency Unit office bearers and frontal units to a meeting at the NPF Division office at 11:00 am Friday. The reason for the meeting was not mentioned; however certain sections of the NPF Mokokchung Division suspected that the meeting was called to reconstitute a new team of office bearers for the NPF division.

The proposed meeting sparked off a chain reaction, as a new body, the Mokokchung District NPF Forum, came into existence on June 26 and declared “to totally ban the proposed party formation of the district on June 27, 2014 which is against the wish of the party men…”

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Security Forces prevent members of the Mokokchung District nPF Forum from marching up to the Mokokchung NPF division office on June 27. (Morung Photo)

Forum instead called another meeting of all units under the district at the NPF Mokokchung Divisional Office on the same day at 9:00 AM, two hours ahead of the meeting called by the Mokokchung Division In-charge – Nuklutoshi.

An open confrontation ensured thereafter, compelling heavy security, comprising of the Nagaland Police and IRB, to be deployed. Police and district administration barricaded the routes leading to the NPF Mokokchung Division Office.

Party workers under the aegis of the newly formed Mokokchung District NPF Forum prepared a banner and placards and tried to march to the NPF Mokokchung Division office. However, security personnel prevented them from proceeding, leading to escalation of tensions. The Mokokchung District NPF Forum asserted that they are also NPF members and

that they have a right to attend the meeting at the Division office.

Tight security was provided at the Mokokchung Division office, amidst the clamor from party workers to enter the premises.

Subsequently, the district administration clamped CrPc 144 at 11:07 am, and ordered the crowd to disperse. When the crowd refused to leave, police and IRB personnel resorted to a lathi charge. The crowd after retreating up to the road resorted to stone-pelting. However, no injuries were reported.

Meanwhile, the proposed meeting called by the NPF Mokokchung Division In-charge commenced. Minister Nuklutoshi Longkumer, while speaking at the meeting, clarified that he along with the Central Executive Committee members had come to Mokokchung not for ‘formation’ of the party, but to assess the situation in the wake of the bomb-blast at the

NPF Mokokchung division office recently. He said that the dissolution of the Mokokchung NPF parent body was taken as per the recommendation of the Disciplinary Action Committee (DAC) and added that the office bearers were not expelled but only suspended.

He further declared that the formation of the NPF Mokokchung Division will come as per the directive of the NPF central office. Nuklutoshi further maintained that there is no question of discrimination on the part of the Chief Minister or the NPF party whatsoever.

Vice-President NPF Central Office In-charge Mokokchung Division, Lepden Lkr; Advisor NPF Central, TN Mannen; General Secretary NPF Central Office In-charge Mokokchung Division, Anungba Imsong; NPF Nagaland Farmers Wing President, Lanukaba and former MLA Toshipokba attended the meeting.

Mkg nPf forum questions the action of security forces

MOkOkcHUNg, JUNE 27 (MExN): The Mokokchung District NPF Forum today said that it had “no option but to democratically agitate the action of security forces,” that had “cordoned off” the NPF Mokokchung Divisional Office on June 27. The forum, in a press note issued by its Sessional Chairman and Sessional Secretary, stated that its members were “denied entry in spite of repeated requests.”

It alleged that the a team led by Minister for Highway and Mechanical and Soil Conservation, Nuklotoshi “came up and entered the office complex where a verbal argument started and vandalized the party divisional office, at which the minister, unable to control his temper, threatened the members with his hand gun and challenged them

physically.” The forum further informed that Dr Benjungliba, Minister for Agriculture and Dr Longri, Parliamentary Secretary for Labour and Employment had also come to Mokokchung. “But maybe good sense prevailed in them and they did not come up to the NPF Mokokchung Divisional Office,” it added.

It informed that “in the midst of the scuffle,” arrest warrants were issued to five members of the forum but were “withdrawn within minutes.”

“How was it that those names went to the hands of the police and for what reason was it issued is a serious issue to be questioned,” stated the forum.

It further questioned the action of the security force in cordoning off the NPF Mokokchung office and asked whether there was “a hidden agenda.”

NPF Mkg division to ‘stand firm’ with NPF Central Office

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he Naga Peoples’ Front (NPF) Mokokchung Division has resolved to “stand firm” with the directives of the NPF Central office. A press note from the NPF Mokokchung division expressed “gratitude for reposing their faith upon the new Minister in-charge, Mokokchung division NPF and central office bearers in-charge, Mokokchung Division to look after the interest of the party until alternative arrangements are made.”

It resolved to urge upon the central office of the NPF to “re-arrange” the division so as to “strengthen the party in the district at the earliest.” It further appreciated the induction of the new Cabinet Ministers, Parliamentary Secretaries, Advisors and Chairmen of various government departments under the DAN III government for Mokokchung district.

TR Zeliang calls for stable govt rnsU demands ‘immediate action’

kOHIMA, JUNE 27 (MExN): Nagaland state Chief Minister, TR Zeliang today assured to pay close attention towards the development of “rural areas” and encouraged party workers to work hard and keep the party strong at the grassroots level for stability. The Nagaland CM stated this while interacting with NPF leaders from Longleng in Kohima on June 27. The CM stated that “a stable government can only provide progress and development.”

During the interaction, President of NPF Longleng Division, Bushi Phom, apprised the Chief Minister that the party workers along with their elected member, Pangnyu Phom took a unanimous decision on June 11 to support the leadership of Chief Minister TR Zeliang and NPF

President Shurhozelie Liezietsu.

A press note from the CM’s office informed that the Chief Minister was requested to undertake development activities in Longleng district, though, due to the recent political development in the state, the NPF MLA from Longleng could not be accommodated with a ministerial berth.

Bushi stated that the Longleng NPF office is now running smoothly and that all differences have been sorted out. He also added that Longleng has a long history with the regional party and will continue to support and cooperate in keeping the regional party strong. The NPF President Longleng was accompanied by the Vice President, Central office; Secretary, Central office and other party members.

Krishan Kant Paul appointed as acting nagaland Governor DIMAPUR, JUNE 27 (MExN): The President of India, Pranab Mukherjee today accepted the resignation of Dr. Ashwani Kumar as Governor of Nagaland state. A communiqué from the Press and Information Bureau informed that Governor of Meghalaya state, Dr. Krishan Kant Paul has been appointed to discharge the functions of the Governor of Nagaland, in addition to his own duties. Paul will act as Nagaland Governor until regular arrangements for the office of the Governor of Nagaland are made. Kumar had filed his resignation on June 25, Wednesday.

The president also appointed Tamil Nadu Governor K Rosaiah to take

charge of Karnataka and Mizoram Governor Vakkom Purushothaman to discharge the functions of the governor of Tripura.

Analysis Wing (RAW). Paul led the police investigation that linked former South African captain Hansie Cronje to the one of the biggest match-fixing scandals in international cricket. He was also the Superintendent of Police, when the infamous serial killer Charles Sobhraj was arrested from a south Delhi hotel for drugging about 60 French students.

A Ph.D holder, Paul has over 42 years of experience in Administration, Law and Order and Security Intelligence at top levels in the Indian Government including holding a Constitutional position as Member UPSC where he served for over five years and six months.

President accepts resignation of Dr. Ashwani Kumar These arrangements were made as Karnataka Governor HR Bhardwaj and Tripura Governor Devanand Konwar complete their terms Saturday.

KK Paul has served as the Commissioner of Delhi Police and as the Chief of Arunachal Police. Paul has experience working in the Intelligence Bureau (IB) and the Research and

for rengma nagas in Karbi Anglong

DIPHU, JUNE 27 (MExN): The Rengma Naga Students’ Union (RNSU) has asked the Karbi Anglong Autonomous Council (KAAC), Karbi Anglong district authorities, and the Government of Assam to take immediate actions to ensure the well being of Rengma Nagas in Karbi Anglong, Assam.

The RNSU, in a press note demanded that farming tools and food and civil supplies for a year be provided to violence affected Rengma people of Karbi Anglong. It further urged for proper construction of PWD roads connecting the affected villages. It said that no drains are provided beside the roads, no bridges have been constructed and sand graveling has not been done.

The RNSU also asked for a primary heath care unit in at least two areas—Jongpha and Phentsero (Phancherop) and for provisions of clean drinking water. The union has called for the security forces to move out of school buildings and into separate camps. Stating that no electrification of Rengma villages in Karbi Anglong has been taken up till date, the RNSU called for setting up of infrastructure for the same and also demanded setting up of mobile phone towers.

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• Security forces should move out of school buildings • Seeks food and civil supplies for a year • Demands clean water, proper roads and electricity

pealed for all Karbi civil bodies and human rights organisation of Karbi Anglong to initiate KarbiRengma peace talks during the month of July, 2014.

“The misunderstanding between the two tribes needs to be resolved at the earliest, restoring the bonds of brotherhood and peace,” it added. The RNSU stated that without the support of the Karbi people and the other listed Sixth Schedule Tribes of Karbi Anglong, the Rengma people of Karbi Anglong “will remain helpless onlookers to their plight and continue to remain vulnerable.”

The RNSU had visited the “trouble torn areas of the Rengmas living in Karbi Anglong,” to observe the union’s 53rd Foundation Day on June 11 at Phentsero (Phancherop) village, under the Naga Rengma Mouza. It stated that from March 2014 onwards, Rengma Nagas living in Assam started returning to their respective villages from the relief camps under Borpathar PS Nilip Block, where they were lodged since December, 2013. However, it lamented

that government promises of providing ration, security and a “normal life,” have not been met. The union added that promises made based on demands by Karbi and Naga civil bodies on January 14, 2014, have not been adhered to either.

The RNSU nonetheless acknowledged the Government of Assam for compensating the families of six killed during the attacks— Rs. 3,00,000 per family. It informed that the government had also provided Rs. 22,800 and three bundles of CGI sheets to families whose houses were burnt (barring two families in Borlangso) and properties damaged.

The government has sanctioned the construction of the PWD road from Bogamati to Richangari and from Chokihola block till Borlangso, it added.

Despite this, the RNSU observed that the roads have not been properly constructed, due to which basic amenities cannot reach the affected areas, especially food and civil supplies, medical aid, house construction material etc.

It informed that no primary health care units have

been set up, badly affecting women and children.

“The doctor who accompanied us informed that many have contracted malaria, diarrhoea, jaundice, viral fevers, and a number of water borne diseases.

Pregnant mothers are suffering,” it added. The RNSU informed that “children are going hungry and falling increasingly sick.”

The RNSU stated that while fleeing their homes, the Rengma Nagas left their cattle, poultry, farming tools etc., as a result they now have “nothing left with them” to plough their fields this season. Informing that granaries and seeds, particularly in Khowani, Chongilashunyu and Borlangso, have been destroyed, the RNSU said that the people lack even farming tools, posing serious threat to their food security.

It further said that children in the area are unable to continue their education. The lower primary and ME schools are now occupied by state security forces, and classes have not been conducted in the past 6 months, informed the RNSU.

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Imparting traditional knowledge & art forms to youth

Our Correspondent Kohima | June 27

Students from Chang tribe with the resource persons and NEZCC official during the Tribal Community Learning Programme held at NEZCC, Dimapur.

DiMaPur, June 27 (Mexn): 25 students from Chang community have completed their training at the ongoing series of Tribal Community Learning Programme designed by North East Zone Cultural Centre (NEZCC) to address the challenges posed by the advent of modernity and the resultant impact created in the society, especially on the urban youth. The students along with three re-

source persons completed their training programme on June 27.

The training culminated in a simple function at NEZCC where the students performed various forms of art and traditional knowledge they gathered during the training period related to their community. They also shared their experiences as to how they had benefitted from such a creative activity, informed Talinok-

cha, Jt. Director, NEZCC. Lipokmar Tzudir, Director, NEZCC in his brief address stressed that “the greatest strength of our nation lies in the diversified accumulated knowledge of its inhabitants, and hence its preservation and continuity is a prerogative for the progress of the present and future.” He thanked the resource persons and the Chang community leaders for their support and coop-

eration extended in making the training programme a success. He also gave away the certificates to the participants.

In this series, the next group of three experts and 25 students from Khiamniungan community will commence their learning programme for the next ten days beginning June 28 at the same venue. The programme is free entry for anyone interested.

Two Amur Falcons reach Inner Mongolia

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KohiMa, June 27 (Mexn): Two of the three satellite-tagged Amur Falcons which were released from Nagaland on November 7, 2013 have reached Inner Mongolia. M. Lokeswara Rao, Principal Chief Conservator of Forests and Head of Forest Force in a release informed that the two birds Naga and Pangti are expected to visit Doyang roosting site in October 2014.

After reaching South Africa, Naga and Pangti had journeyed over Somalia crossing Arabian sea, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Meghalaya,

KohiMa, June 27 (Mexn):DirectorateofLand Resources organized a fourday training programme for Data Entry Operators (DEO), Assistant Programme Coordinators (APC), and Accounts Assistants (AA) at the directorate conference hall, Kohima from June 24 to 27.

Altogether 40 trainees from the 11 districts attended the training. This training was specially designed for preparing the trainees to update themselves with the necessary skills and knowledge to perform their duties more effectively, informed a press release.

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DC Mkg reiterates ban on fire crackers MoKoKchung, June 27 (Mexn): Deputy Commissioner of Mokokchung, Murohu Chotso has issued an order to strictly comply to the strictures on the sale and use of the fire crackers with immediate effect till further order. The DC stated that whereas there is a standing order of ban on sale and using crackers in the vicinity of Mokokchung Municipality, complaint has been lodged by the police/ NGOs for sale and use of fire cracker in Mokokchung town. "Past experience also shows that certain section of the public is not adhering to the total banning order which may create unwanted situations if continued," he added.

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satellite tag with antenna and with solar panel on the back of the bird.

The satellite tag weighs only 5 grams.

Nagaland was earlier declared as the Falcon capital of the world. Nearly one million Amur Falcons had roosted in Doyang last year. Further, the communities’ participation in protecting the birds received worldwide recognition. M. Lokeswara Rao has called for preservation of the “natural heritage”. “Like we have natural heritage of Tigers and Rhinos, we have natural heritage of Amur Falcons.”

Minister for health & family welfare P.Longon, minister for forest Dr. Neikiesalie Kire and others during the inauguration of Kohima Urban PHC on June 27 at Seikhazou, Kohima. (Morung Photo)

the top among the smaller state category.”

Maintaining that our doctors, nurses and paramedics are second to none in their technical knowledge, professional skills and humane dedication to their profession, he congratulated them for their significant achievement and urged upon them to work harder to be more dedicated in their profession.

The minister said the responsibility of the community is vitally important for ensuring delivery of quality health care services in the PHC. “ The community, whether in villages or towns, cannot continue to be by-

standers. The proper functioning and management of PHC rest heavily on the interest and development shown by the community,” he said, adding that it is the community that should suggest corrective measures and improvements wherever required.

“While the government may make every effort to address the health care problem, we cannot achieve our objectives unless the initiatives are supported by the communities and also take advantage of the available opportunities in all sincerity,” he said.

Minister for forest Dr. Neikiesalie (Nicky) Kire called upon the people to

make full use of the newly inaugurated urban PHC. He also urged the doctors and staff to be punctual in their duties, and at the same time to be regular in their postings.

Parliamentary secretary for land revenue, VGs, DB & GB affairs L. Khumo, commissioner secretary for health & family welfare Sentiyanger Imchen and several other dignitaries were also present on the occasion.

The function was chaired by Dr. Neiphi Kire, principal director, health & family welfare while vote of thanks was proposed by Kohima Village Council chairman Neivor Rutsa.

Training held for Land Resources officials Mon observes Int. Day against Drug Abuse & Illicit Trafficking

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Manipur, entered Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam, China and finally reached Inner Mongolia.

The third bird Wokha is still in South Africa, according to the release.

“As per the website, the bird is still active, there may be two possibilities, the bird might have died, there are no movement of bird and the satellite tag of the bird might have come out of bird and fallen on the ground and bird might be still alive flying without satellite tag,” it added.

The three birds were fitted with

Minister for health & family welfare P.Longon today inaugurated Kohima Urban PHC here at Seikhazou, the first urban PHC in Nagaland state under National Urban Health Mission (NUHM).

With this, the denizens of Kohima can now access the urban PHC for related health care services.

“The setting up of this Kohima urban PHC is making history in the health sector as this will be the first urban PHC in our state. I extend my deepest appreciation to the department on this achievement,” Longon said while unveiling the plaque of the urban PHC. The minister stated urban growth has led to rapid increase in number of urban poor population, many of whom live in slums and other squatter settlements.

In order to effectively address the health concerns of the urban poor population, the National Urban Health Mission (NUHM) was launched to lighten the distress and duress of the urban poor in seeking quality health services.

He expressed happiness that the health indicator of the state is better than the national average and “our health care delivery system is recognized as

Director, Land Resources while welcoming the trainees defined their roles and responsibilities and encouraged them to be sincere and dedicated and learn from the experts and utilize the knowledge gained from the training. He also briefly highlighted about Integrated Watershed Management Programme (IWMP) which is a flagship programme of the GOI, MoRD, DoLR being implemented by Department of Land Resources in Nagaland.

Meanwhile, Hoto Yeptho, Addl. Director, urged the trainees to be computer literate in the present world

WoKha, June 27 (Mexn): Online School Data Management (OSDM) has opened its first office in Wokha. The online software company, which started early this year, has started to roll out its online school software open for any school to join.

They have chosen to setup their company in Nagaland because of their close relation with this Indian state, stated a press release received here.

OSDM is a newly started online school software company that is developing software that has not been seen in India before.

The owner who is from Nagaland has teamed up with her husband who is from the Netherlands to make a new in its kind software.

The software will serve schools to help in their ad-

ministration, but also in maintaining the student data, publish mark sheets in printing and online, communicate with parents through SMS or email and even receive school fees online through the parent portal. All this has come together in one platform where the principal, administrator, teacher and parent can login to access that part of the software assigned to them.

The developer of the software, Arie said, “I have tried to bring together the Dutch administration and the Indian school system. At the same time because of our relationship with Nagaland we really want this company to be setup in this state. We are hoping that Nagaland will pick up this software so that we can sell this NagaSoftware all over India.”

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Espoir holds advocacy program

of technology and further reminded them this was a very important training which was especially organized for them.

The Training consisted of both theory and practical. Topics covered during the training were Computer Basics, Management Information System (MIS), Accounts procedure like book keeping and maintenance of Stock Register, Worksite Entry (Near Realtime Online GIS Monitoring), GPS, Geo Mapping and Photography. C. Vanchamo Ngullie, Deputy Director was the coordinator for the training programme.

Office of Online School Data Management opens in Wokha

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NGO members, Assam Rifles, and Police and Excise Department during the observance of International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking in Mon on June 26.

Mon, June 27 (Mexn): Various organizations in Mon jointly observed International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking on June 26 under the theme “Make Health Your ‘New High’ in Life, Not Drugs”. The organizers were District AIDS Prevention & Control Unit (DAPCU), Mon Users’ Network, Evergreen Welfare Society, Shansham Org, Konyak Students’ Union, MSF, 33 Assam Rifles, Police and Excise Department.

Longyim Tzudir, District Programme Officer, DAPCU in his short speech stated that the Day is observed to raise awareness and to create a society free of illegal drugs and drug abuse.

He further called upon all sections in the society for continual support towards promoting awareness of dangers associated with illicit drugs and to mobilize community support for drug control.

Further, Nagaland Users Network (NUN) urged the State government to address the following points: (i) Enact the Nagaland State Drug Policy, (ii) Make available life saving drug “Naloxone” in Health Centres (both private and govt set up) to manage Drug overdose, (iii) to provide Drug User Friendly programme and Ensure Quality Drug Treatment programmes at all levels, (iv) Introduce State Level award presentation to individual for

ACAUT rally held at Medziphema DiMaPur, June 27 (Mexn): The Medziphema Mechü Krotho (MTMK) organised an ACAUT rally at Zero point, Medziphema on June 27, which was attended by people from all walks of life including neighbouring villagers as well as members of Against Corruption and Unabated Taxation (ACAUT) Dimapur.

Speaking at the first-of-its-kind ACAUT rally in Medziphema, Joel Nillo gave a descriptive account of the people’s movement against corruption and unabated taxation while Dr. Khekugha Muru highlighted facts on business taxation and corruption, informed a press release issued by MTMK secretary Zhavikuolie Kehie. Other ACAUT members Hekhevi Achumi and Tia Longchar delivered speeches on ACAUT’s messages and slogans and publicity & ACAUT movement and vision in Nagaland today.

“All the visiting guests made it loud and clear that ACAUT is not an organisation but rather a mass movement against evils prevailing in our land today,” stated the release. The rally was chaired by Vichütuolie Mere, VP, MTMK, while Kevichülie, Pastor, TBC Medziphema invoked God’s blessing and V. Salie Chüsi GB extended the welcome address. Ako Kuotsu proposed the vote of thanks and concluded the rally.

their outstanding contribution in the field of drug abuse prevention and treatment, and (v) provide resources for prevention/ awareness, testing and treatment of Hepatitis C. Sashi, Vice President of NUN and Secretary, MUN acknowledged the various departments, organizations and individuals for their kind participation in observing the daylong event. The leaflets and badges provided by NSACS and Nagaland Users’ Network were distributed to the general population in the streets within Mon town as part of the campaign. This was informed in a press release issued by Longyim Tzudir.

With DIPR inputs

Pfutsero, June 27 (Mexn): The Espoir, a community based organization under Rukizumi Welfare Society Pfutsero conducted an advocacy program in commemoration of International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking at Pfutsero Town Council Hall on June 26.

Kozo-u (Cole) Lasuh, spoke on the theme, ‘Make Health Your New High In Life, Not Drugs’.

She pointed out that drug users have for a long time neglected their health which is the reason many lives have been snatched away and many families torn apart. “Negligence has led to many health complications amongst the drug users and eventually when an individual is affected, a family is affected and the whole society is affected,” she asserted. The speaker also challenged the gathering to make responsible contribution towards the control of drug flow while stressing on deceasing the demand.

Earlier, Atole Kazhie, Women Secretary, CBCC pronounced the invocation prayer and Mutukhruzo, Pastor of Immanuel Church said the benediction. The program was attended by public leaders, church leaders, NGOs, and Drug Users Community.

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Excise pledge against illicit trafficking

DiMaPur, June 27 (Mexn): The Commissioner of Excise and all the rank and file of the State Excise department joined in the commemoration of International Day against Drug Abuse & Illicit Trafficking on June 26 at the Excise directorate. A press release informed that Excise Commissioner Maongwati Aier exhorted the officer and field staff on the significance of the day. The main highlight of the day was declaration of pledge against illicit trafficking. L Wati Jamir, Assistant Commissioner of Excise (Admin) also spoke on the occasion. The program was chaired by Pitongse Sangtam, Dy Commissioner of Excise (NC).

New DC bungalow Kohima inaugurated KohiMa, June 27 (DiPr): The new deputy commissioner’s bungalow, Kohima was inaugurated on June 27 by Parliamentary Secretary, CAWD, R. Tohanba.

Speaking on the occasion, R. Tohanba thanked the contractor, Dzuzienei-o Belho for the job well done and for coordinating with the CAWD against all odds and completing the work as per the full satisfaction of the engineers and the nodal user department. He hoped that the bungalow would serve the purpose of the district administration and the people of Kohima.

Principal Secretary & Commissioner, Nagaland, Temjen Toy in his short speech urged upon the present deputy commissioner and all the future DCs to maintain the heritage building and to keep it respectable.

A brief report on the construction of the residence was presented by Executive Engineer, CAWD, Er. Sungtiba Amer where he said that the building was conceptualized during 2007 and subsequently designed by ‘Century Builders’ as

Parliamentary Secretary R. Tohanba, Nagaland Commissioner Temjen Toy, DC Kohima W Honje Konyak and other officials at the inaugural of the new Kohima DC bungalow on June 27. (DIPR Photo)

per the requisite requirements of the Deputy Commissioner, Kohima. The revised estimate amounted to Rs. 321 lakhs. The building was designed having a basement and ground floor with

a total plinth area of 6908 sq. ft.

The programme was chaired by deputy commissioner, Kohima, W. Honje Konyak. He will also be the first occupant of the new heritage bungalow.

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8 killed in Assam landslides, electrocution

Guwahati, June 27 (ianS): At least eight people, including three members of a family, were killed here due to landslides and flash floods triggered by incessant rain since Thursday night, officials said Friday.

Four persons were killed due to landslides in two places while another four died due to electrocution in four different locations, the officials said.

Another person remained missing after he was washed away by the surging waters of the Bharalu river.

"Three members of a family Kanak Barman (45), Pratima Barman (12) and Tulasi Barman (8) lost their lives in a landslide that took place Thursday night in Narakasur area," said Rajib Prakash Baruah, deputy commissioner in-charge of Kamrup (Metro) district.

He said another woman died in Bamunimaidam area due to landslide.

Baruah said Bhaskarjyoti Das (48), Dinesh Das (55), Prafulla Das (46) and Suren Bharali (57) died due to electrocution.

The district administration announced an exgratia of Rs.10,000 each to the families of the victims.

Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi, who visited the inundated areas of the city Friday to assess the situation, said the state government would pay adequate compensation to the families of the deceased.

Members of India’s National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) ride an inflatable boat as they rescue flood affected people in The flash floods submerged the MLA Hostel Gauhati on Friday, June 27. Several people were killed due to electrocution and landslides triggered by incessant rains in India’s and the houses of some ministers. northeastern state of Assam, according to local reports. (AP Photo)

Heavy rains affect life in Arunachal

itanaGar, June 27 (Pti): Torrential rains for the past few days at Khonsa and its peripheral areas in Tirap district have left a trail of destruction at many places in and around the district headquarters town.

Roads have been washed away at various locations while the main road from Khonsa to Longding was blocked for the past few days due to a massive landslide near the Sweet Fall, Tirap information and public relation officer D Bosai said today.

The road is the lifeline for both the Tirap and Longding districts, while the the Longding-Kanubari road was also not in good shape.

The district administration and the highway department were toiling had to restore normal road communication, Bosai said.

A number of houses,

both government and private were on the verge of collapse, the DIPRO said.

Tirap DC Kamlesh Kumar Joshi has been supervising the renovation work at the affected places, Bosai said. The small streams and rivulets get inundated by rain water thereby threatening the residents residing near such streams and rivulets. The rain was likely to continue till first part of August, he said.

However, Bosai said most of the problems were man-made as people have construct houses, roads, garages, shops etc flaunting all rules. They cause blockage of drains thereby allowing the rain water to flow on the roads.

Most of the landslides are due to unscientific jhum cultivation and collection of boulders from the streams, he added.

HR Activists in Manipur hold convention NEC discusses regional plan for power sector imPhal, June 27 (mexn): A one day Convention on 'Human Rights of Human Rights Defenders of Manipur', was jointly organised by Human Rights Law Networks Manipur Unit, Human Rights Initiative, United NGOs Mission and Centre for Research and Advocacy Manipur at Manipur Press Club on June27. A press release received here stated.

The convention was organized in the backdrop of increased human rights attacks on human rights activists of Manipur. The latest being the attack on Laimayum Shivananda - an advocate, Phulindro Konsam - Chairperson, Committee on Human Rights, U. Nobokishore - Secretary, United NGO’s Mission, Manipur, and Maibam Nganbileima - victim of Lamphelpat Yaipha Lekai Eviction victim.

The participants of the convention in a resolution strongly condemned the increased targeting of human rights defenders from human rights organizations, Media, Legal fraternity. The participants also condemned the vilification campaign unleashed by the Intelligence Bureau on activist and NGOs in the name of deterring development by using foreign funds.

The resolution further called on the Government of Manipur and Government of India to recognize human rights and ensure protection of all human rights defenders striving for the protection and realization of human rights and fundamental freedoms at all levels, as also outlined in Article 1 of UN Declaration on Human Rights Defenders, 1998.

It further asked the state and central governments to stop targeting hu-

man rights activists to threats and direct physical attacks. It called for investigation and punishment of those involved in the torture, arbitrary detention and killing of all human rights activists in Manipur.

The resolution also called on the state and central governments to fully implement the recommendations of the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders, Margaret Sagakya in February 2011 during her visit to India.

Amongst others, the resolution also called for the repeal of all emergency laws, Armed Forces Special Powers Act 1958, Unlawful Activities Prevention Act 1967, National Security Act 1980 and other legislations that facilitate violations of human rights in Manipur, and further called for the unconditional release of Irom Sharmila.

Kohima, June 27 (DiPr): The Regional Plan for the Power Sector was discussed on June26 at the NEC HQs under the chairmanship of M P Bezbaruah, Member, NEC. Offices from all states of the region i.e., NEEPCO, NERPC, CWC and PGCIL attended the meeting.

The major issues brought out were in the generation stage wherein NEEPCO indicated that the Kameng power plant will be commissioned only in the month of March 2017 as against March 2016 indicated earlier. The holding up of Lower Subansiri power

plant due to various social agitations was viewed with concern as this could have far reaching implications.

The States raised their concern regarding the transmission and distribution network of 66 and 33 KVA being handed-over to the PGCIL for execution which is against the policy.

A concern was raised by the PGCIL and other States regarding Indian Electricity Act wherein the purchase of land for the right of way for any transmission is not allowed and this is causing delays in the construction of transmission lines apart from the issue of forest clearance.

‘Tribal Families & Clans at the Crossroads’ NWU calls for peace Guwahati, June 27 (mexn): A seminar organised by North Eastern Social Research Centre (NESRC), Guwahati, in collaboration with Tribal Study Centre, Eastern Theological College, Jorhat, at INSPIRATION, Joypur, Guwahati, on June 26 and 27. A press release received here informed.

It reflected on the situation of clans and families in tribal societies of the North East in the context of the various changes that have taken place in the North East. The Seminar brought together many social scientists and Christian theologians to deliberate on the theme.

The key note address

was delivered by Patricia Mukhim, Editor, The Shillong Times. She lauded the effort of the forum to engage with the topic of family and clans within tribal societies. However, she cautioned that the terms ‘Family’ and ‘Tribe’ were western concepts and need to be judiciously used in the case of tribal societies in the North East. Hence, she pointed out, the need for ‘participative definitions’ evolved from within communities. She also asked whether Christianity could provide these communities the tools to grapple with the challenge of a dichotomous world where, on the one

hand, tribal institutions can retain their identity, and on the other, needs of modern societies can be addressed.

Clans and families are important institutions even at present - apart from ensuring continuity, they are the foundations of identity for a tribal individual. At the same time, changes have taken place. A common feature of the changes among the tribes is the gradual emergence of the autonomous or independent nuclear family. This implies a weakening of communitarian living and support from

kinsmen in family living, upbringing of children and in crisis situations. In general, the family in the tribal communities in the North East is in transition or at the crossroads. Some feel that it is even facing a crisis.

In response to these lived realities, Christian theologians who participated in the Seminar argued the need to make tribal Christian families truly tribal and Christian at the same time. Some of them pointed out the need to recapture the core values of the traditional tribal world view.

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2. That my correct and official name is Keneileo Neikha.

3. That inadvertently my name was written as Keneileo.

4. That both the names Keneileo Neikha and Keneileo refer to one and the same person and can be used as interchangeable.

5. That however for all official purposes my name shall be entered and recorded as Keneileo Neikha.

6. That this affidavit shall be used as a piece of evidence for all official purposes and correspondence address to me.

Deponent Solemnly sworn before me by the deponent above named on this the 23rd June 2014 at Kohima Notary Public, Kohima: Nagaland

tahamzam, June 27 (mexn): The Naga Women Union (NWU) has stated that it is greatly disturbed by the violent exchange of firing on June 24 between Makhan Union Villages and Maram Khullen Circle Villages at Kashi/Naojai Village resulting in two persons being injured and damaging seven houses including a Church building. A statement from the union’s Publicity Wing stated.

NWU further stated that it condemned any form of violence and appealed to all concern to refrain from violence. “We urge the par-

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Ameising Luikham, Secretary, NEC also reviewed the on-going power projects in North Eastern States.

NEC has been funding the Hydro Power Projects in past but at present NEC is funding only under the system improvement schemes in NE States that include construction of transmission lines, augmentation and improvement of existing transmission and distribution system, construction of 33kv express lines, construction of sub-stations, renovation and modernization of sub-stations, electrification of tribal villages etc.

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Given under the hand and seal of the court this 24th day of June 2014.

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(Incharge of: Arunachal, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Tripura & Sikkim)

SOLIDARITY & COMMENDATION TO MINISTER ROAD & BRIDGES Shri. Kuzholuzo (Azo) Neinu, Hon'ble Minster of Road & Bridges and Parliamentary Affairs - We extend a genuine and sincere gratefulness for your "Multi- dimensional" development approach.

Just in the recent past Nagaland's Commercial Hub, Dimapur road condition was horrible dusty and bumpy, but by your magnanimity and zeal, the road have returned to normally and smoothness.

The Hon'ble Minister work ethics shows his visionary leadership qualities because most portion of the roads in Dimapur comes under National Highway, Central purview, in spite of the you have put your best effort for public good form state Government's machinery.

For a long timeline, Dimapurians have suffered like hell due to the worst road condition especially during the monsoon season but off-late even drainage system is about to be embedded, which will hopefully stabilize the roads and control flash-flooding.

A very "Special Commendable Part" is when the work was in progress, Shri. Azo has taken initiative to personally Supervise the various improvement sites- and take stock of quality control measures, which is indeed highly appreciable because it has contributed to guarantee a "good quality workmanship".

Nagaland youth population below the age of 40 years must be around 70% of the total population considering such a huge reserve of youth's and the un-employment factor making major roads improvement in Dimapur area's a golden way forward to nation building.

Where there are good roads in town/city that area can hope to improve and generate employment.

Mention may be made that todays youths are looking for development, employment and are deadly against corruption. So on behalf of all the youths in Nagaland and North East such a good record must be exemplary model to current and aspiring young leaders.

In closing remarks, we pray to our Almighty God to grant him more wisdom and strength to carry-on his onerous duty and also thank Almighty for putting such a "dynamic, young, visionary, efficient and strong leader. Azo is one such leader who truly deliver goods to the people, the glaring and shining testimony are during his tenure as Minister Agri, which already have been recognised as "successful model" in the entire country and brought so many new technologies and innovation Agri sector i,e, Agri-Expo and also as Health Minister the department adjudged the best performance in Health sector in India because of completely revamping and introducing high-tech quality medical equipment and super-speciality hospital.

To become a leader age/seniority should not be the criteria but the parameter should be development vision, right focus, humbleness, working capacity, balance attitude and a unifier.

Mention may be made of the gratitude for DAN leadership under former C.M. Shri. Neiphiu Rio for standing beside Hon'ble Minister Road & Bridges, and Parliamentary affairs Shri.

Kuzholuzo (Azo) Neinu.

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Poverty eradication: Developed nations must give extra funds

Nairobi, JuNe 27 (PTi): Terming as “stark” the wide gap in per capita incomes of developed and developing nations, India has asked the West to pledge “additional and predictable” funding to developing nations for eradication of poverty.

Speaking at the first UN Environment Assembly, Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar also said that the developed countries need to “urgently” fulfill their commitment of providing a certain percentage of gross national income (GNI) as official development assistance (ODA) for developing countries.

“Sustained and inclusive economic growth is a key enabler for achieving poverty eradication. The developing countries requiring assistance to implement poverty eradication policies and programmes have to be assured of predictable, additional and adequate international financing,” he said.

“The developed countries need to not only urgently fulfill their commitment to provide 0.7 per cent of GNI as ODA for developing countries but also pledge additional and predictable funding considering the ambition levels for post- 2015 development agenda,” he said.

Noting that eradication of poverty requires much more “proactive and concerted” ac-

tion, the Environment minister reiterated his earlier remarks that efforts to put the global economy on a sustainable path “cannot be and must not” be on the backs of the poor.

Javadekar, who also interacted with key principals and stakeholders on the sidelines of the First United Nations Environment Assembly at Nairobi, said that India will remain committed to energy and resource efficient development.

Javadekar had bilateral meetings with European Commissioner for Environment Janez Potocnik and Executive Director, UNEP Achim Steiner.

Javadekar also met with BRICS Environment Ministers during an informal dialogue hosted by the Chinese Environment Minister Zhou Shengxian.

The minister emphasised that the developing countries ought to be assisted in technology needs assessment, adaptation, rollout and human and institutional capacity building in order to meet the vast requirements of sustainable development.

Javadekar said that eradicating poverty and reducing inequality has to be the overarching priority for achieving sustainable development.

Giving out figures, he said that an estimated 1.3 billion peo-

ple, living mostly in South Asia and Sub-Saharan African countries, survive on per capita income of less that USD 1.25 a day.

“The wide gap between the per capita income of people living in developed and developing countries is stark,” he said.

Noting that there is a wide variation in the per capita energy consumption level in the world, Javadekar said that all this points towards unsustainable and wasteful consumption patterns in developed countries.

“It makes it imperative for them (developed nations) to take lead to shift towards sustainable consumption and production patterns,” he said.

He said that the principles of “common but differentiated responsibilities” and “equity” must continue to be the bedrock of the ongoing and future global discourse on sustainable development.

Giving further data, the environment minister said 1.3 billion tonnes of food produced is wasted every year, amounting to over one-third of all food produced.

He said that the wastage of food at consumer level alone in industrialized countries is nearly as much as the total food production in sub-Saharan Africa.

“Food waste has been often

clubbed with the issue of postharvest losses in developing countries, which is a flawed approach,” he said.

He expressed his satisfaction that out of various focus areas being considered for developing Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by the Open Working Group (OWG) established by the UNGA, the first proposed goal relates to ending poverty in all its forms everywhere.

Javadekar also had comprehensive discussions with Assistant Secretary for Environment and leader of delegation of USA to UNEA, Daniel A Reifsnyder, Robert D Pickersgill Minister of Water, Land, Environment and Climate Change Minister, Jamaica and Masoumeh Ebtekar, Vice President of Iran.

Javadekar specifically outlined the new initiatives related to integrated coastal development, forest conservation, combating desertification, island development and cleaning Ganga River.

He also apprised the officials regarding India’s National Climate Action Plan with eight missions - missions on solar energy, energy efficiency, sustainable habitat, water, Himalayan eco-system, Greening India, sustainable agriculture and strategic knowledge for climate change.

Amazon app store on a roll in India, offers $100 worth freebies for 48 hours

In this Nov. 19, 2010 file photo, a man shows his cigarette package covered by a warning that reads in Spanish “Smoking, you stink,” top, and “Smoking causes bad breath” in Montevideo, Uruguay.

The warnings, which showcase gruesome close-up images ranging from rotting teeth and cancerous lungs to open tracheotomy holes and corpses, are an effort to highlight the risks of health problems related to smoking. (AP File Photo)

New Delhi, JuNe 27 (Fe): Amazon.com is going for the kill in India. Bouyed by the growing popularity of its app store among Android users, they will be giving away 31 premium apps worth $100 free on June 27 and 28 under the Free App of the Day programme.

The package includes tops games like Sonic the Hedgehog 2, Real Shanghai Mahjong and Sudoku 10,000 Plus as well as productivity apps like 2Do:TodoList and MobiLearn Talking Phrasebook as well as office apps like acalendar+ and MyBackup Pro. Parag Gupta, Country Head, Amazon Appstore told indianexpress.com that a lot of Indian Android users were coming to Amazon for its curated experience. “Our Free App of the Day programme is hugely successful

and makes users come back to us. We just want them to continue using our store and that is where bundling of apps is also coming popular,” he said in a telephonic interaction.

The Amazon app store has been around for a while, but it was only in May 2013 that it opened up globally, allowing users in 200 countries to download apps.

“We now have 240 million active users,” explained Gupta. “So we have users on our global platform, but purchasing apps using their local credit cards,” he said, underlining that this extended reach has made the store more lucrative for app developers.

Gupta said India is among the top markets for Amazon app store, beyond the locations where it had dedicated apps stores.

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If it is hard for the righteous to be saved, what will become of the ungodly and sinner? 1st Peter 4:18 he mysteries of God will only be revealed to His lovers and every men and women who has God in them will experience the mysteries of God. When God created the earth there was no sin but when sin crept into us, the entire human race became a slave to it. The powers of it used sinners to entice sinners to destroy the soul of every sinner. No one was found fit to live but everyone was found deemed to be destroyed. The powers of it created havoc in the lives of the sinners and the salvation of the sinners became a far cry. The powers of darkness reigned before Christ but when Christ came into the world, the powers of hell shook and the foundations of it were destroyed and cursed. The conflict which Christ started against the powers of darkness continues to this very day and only the ones who survives till the end will make it to the next life. The doctrine of life and death is all about heaven and hell and anyone who fails to receive the life of Christ will be pushed into the lake of fire along with all lovers of sin.

The truths of God’s Word are all coming to pass and unless we have the power of it in us, the powers of hell will welcome us to hell. The roads to hell are as smooth as the sinner’s parks are and the men and women of hell are as numerous as the sins of the world are. The truth is that sinners will exist till the day of the Lord but God calls every sinner to repent and to return to Christ.

The elders of our churches will not save us, neither will the Church save us but sinners will only be saved through Jesus who is the way the truth and the life (John 14:6 ). In the preceding verse Jesus told His disciples “ If you love me you will obey what I command ( V15 ).

These words of Jesus will either save the unsaved or condemn the condemned.

The scripture will never contrast with the Word of God but the works of the devil will always be in contrast with the Word of God. I warn every sin-

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ner to repent of their evil lest they smell the stench of rotten flesh in hell. A day will come when all sinners will be judged and the future of the wicked cut off. The days of the sinners are numbered because the Day of the Lord is at hand and destruction will come swiftly as the labour pains of a pregnant woman. The signs of it depict the accuracy of the written prophecies and as the days unfold God’s wrath shall ultimately destroy the created order of the world and replace it with a new world order. Sinners of this generation may have the liberty to experience the sinful pleasures of the world but they will not have the liberty to do what they do now in hell. God forbids that anyone should experience the torments of hell. The truth needs to be revealed now and forgiveness needs to be sought now. The ways of the world will only get from bad to worse and anyone who follows the world will be destroyed with the world.

The Day of the Lord is at hand and in a little while, the wicked will be slain by the anger of God’s wrath. The Word of Life states “See the Lord is coming with thousands upon thousands of his holy ones to judge everyone and to convict all the ungodly of all the ungodly acts they have done in the ungodly way, and all the harsh words ungodly sinners have spoken against him”.

(Jude 14-15). The truths of it has opened our eyes to see all that God intends us to see and the powers of it has created new life, new opportunities and new paths to righteousness. Unless our righteousness surpasses those of the sinners we will only experience miseries here on earth and in hell.

The point is that unless we strive to survive till the end, all that we prayed for and all that we worked for will be in vain. The scripture exhorts us to work out our salvation with fear and trembling and it assures us of eternal life when we hold on to the gift of it till the end (Philippians 2:12-13) ( Emphasis added ). God has not denied us salvation but we will be denied access to it if we continually live to gratify the

desires of the flesh. The scripture does not say all sinners will be saved but it radically states that the number of the redeemed will be as limited as the numbers of the righteous.

The harsh question put forth is that, will you be among the redeemed or will you prefer to spend your whole eternal life with sinners in hell? The answer you give to this question will determine where you spend eternity. The truth is that you are either headed to heaven or to hell. God does not want you to lose all that He has for you and He wants us to do all that He expects of us. For this reason make every effort to add to your faith goodness, and goodness to knowledge; and to knowledge self-control; and to self control perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness and to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, love. For if you posses these qualities in increasing measure they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in our knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. But if anyone does not have them, he is short sighted and blind, and has forgotten that he has been cleansed from his past sins. Therefore my dear brothers, be all the more eager to make your calling and election sure. For if you do these things you will never fall, and you will receive a rich welcome into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ (2nd Peter 1:5-11 ).

This is being written and said to redeem the unsaved and to edify the redeemed. God calls us to repentance now and our present acts of repentance will become the memories for the future. I would rather see you smile in heaven than to let you perish in hell. The God who saved sinners still saves. If you can’t be saved while you are alive, you will never be saved when you die. The last days are on and God wants us to remain spotless, blameless and pure till the coming of Christ. This is a message from Christ.

Ambrose.J.Chakre Founder President Ambrose Foundation in Christ Ministries Kohima Nagaland

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Burning of effigy is alien to Naga culture: NPF Women Wing Kohima, June 27 (mexn): The NPF Central Women Wing has expressed deep pain and anguish at the burning of NPF president Dr. Shurhozelie Liezietsu’s effigy and portrait by NPF Mokokchung division and stated that burning of effigy is alien to Naga culture and unheard of in Naga history.

“Cursing the party president for dissolution of Mokokchung division parent body is a grave misdeed and a disgrace on themselves as the decision is not a one man show but a collective decision from the party central office,” stated NPF Central Women Wing general secretary Sapralu Nyekha in a release.

The Women Wing has appealed to all the rank and file of the NPF office to stay grounded and remain loyal and refrain from committing any action that would be detrimental to the party at any point of time. It further prayed for good health, wisdom,

and divine strength to the president and assured that the wing will always abide by the decision of the party with absolute trust in the wisdom of the party president “as nothing can go wrong with a fatherly figure heading and steering the party as the captain of the victorious ship.”

NPF 10th Northern Angami (I) A/C condemns Meanwhile, reacting to the burning of Dr. Shurhozelie Liezietsu’s picture and NPF flag by the party men in Mokokchung, NPF of 10th Northern Angami (I) A/C has strongly condemned the act. “Such acts are neither in the nature of the Nagas nor of our custom and no regional party act in such manner,” stated the constituency's NPF general secretary Keduolhoutuo Rutsa. The 10th Northern Angami (I) A/C NPF further requested everyone concerned not to use “this type of disruptive acts which is practiced by the mainland Indians.”

Saturday 28 June 2014

‘Need to examine customary law’

mon, June 27 (Dipr): Chairperson of the Nagaland State Commission for Women (NSCW), Dr Temsula Ao today appealed for traditional leaders to examine the present customary law with sympathy towards women, who she stated are their own people. She stated this while speaking at a seminar on ‘Marriage, Divorce and Inheritance’ at Council Hall, Mon on June 27.

Dr Temsula said that people who remain adamant to change the present customary law were going backwards. Women

are the index on human development, she added. In her introductory remarks, she stated that Nagaland State is in need of applying the constitutional law on “equality before law” rather than customary law.

She said that the customary law took an advantage in disfavoring women folk on equality.

During the seminar, circulation of the guidelines issued by the Supreme Court in Writ Petition (C) No. 559 of 1994, RD Upadhyay vs State of Andhra Pradesh and others was circulated.

The English and Konyak versions of the ‘Statutory Rights of Women,’ produced and published by the Nagaland State Commission for Women, was also distributed. The booklet included topics on Constitutional rights of women; the Domestic Violence Act 2005; rape; sexual harassment at workplace; what women & girls ought to know when your modesty is abused, assaulted and raped; child marriage; abortion; trafficking; legal provisions of trafficking; dowry; rights of women at the time of arrest;

free legal aid and penal laws for protection.

Lomei, President of the Konyak Nyupuh Shuko Khong (KNSK) delivered the welcome address, while the invocation was pronounced by Reverend Tinwang, District Chaplin. An interaction hour was also conducted with moderation, which was followed by summing up of the session. Konyak Nyupuh Shuko Khong enthralled the participants with a folk song, which was followed by a felicitation ceremony and lunch.

Khriehu Liezietsu meets union minister in Delhi Our Correspondent Kohima | June 27

Parliamentary secretary for youth resources, new & renewable energy and music task force Khriehu Liezietsu met union minister of state (Independent charge) youth affairs and sports, entrepreneurship skill de-

velopment Sarbananda Sonowal in Delhi on June 25 last.

In the meeting with the Union Minister who hails from neighbouring state of Assam, Liezietsu discussed various issues including Khriehu Liezietsu with Sarbananda Sonowal, union the sports and youth pominister of state (Indepen- tentials in the state of Nagaland as well as the North dent charge) in Delhi.

East region.

He apprised the minister regarding the on-going sports infrastructural projects being undertaken in the state and also proposed some new projects.

He was accompanied by principal secretary Rajiv Bhansal and other officers of YRS department.

Control of illicit drugs advocated at Chare IGAR (N) visits Peren, assures help to locals tuensang, June 27 (mexn): With the rest of the world, DAN TI Chare observed International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking at Chare on June 26 along with the stakeholders of the surrounding villages comprising church members, GBs, OST clients and HRGs from IDU and MSM community with the theme “Health”. The event was observed to create awareness on illicit drug trafficking and drug abuse in the area along with the rest of the world, said a press release.

The theme speaker Kyupise S. Sangtam, Project Director, DAN TI, Longkhim Chare stated that established by the United Nations General Assembly in 1987, this day serves as a reminder of the goals agreed to by Member States of creating an international society free of drug abuse. The United Nations

Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) selects themes for the International Day and launches campaigns to raise awareness about the global drug problem.

“Health” is the ongoing theme of the world drug campaign. He also asserted that June 26 is a unique occasion to take a stand against a problem that affects our society. He challenged the participants to give their constant support to make this pro-health campaign a success. He further stated that illicit drugs continue to pose a health danger to humanity.

“That’s why drugs are, and should remain, controlled.”

The speaker also encouraged all to participate and give their commitment and unequivocal support to control illicit drugs. He stressed that despite DAN’s continued and increased efforts, the drug problem continues to con-

stitute a serious threat to public health, especially in the area, the safety and well-being of humanity, particularly young people, and that it undermines socio-economic and political stability and sustainable development.

Meanwhile, Mangyang, President, OST Miracle Union Chare Town in his speech stated that, “this day is in fact our day to create more awareness to the community and the village elders irrespective of all denominations to come forward to support this illicit drug abuse from our society.” He stressed on giving more lessons and awareness to “our fellow friends” to keep themselves away from taking illegal drugs so “we can bring a vital change in our society.”

About 50 participants from different villages, OST Clients, PHC Staff and HRGs attended the program.

Agri dept conducts training in Akuluto

Farmers during the one-day training and seed distribution programme held at Alaphumi vllage on June 26.

aKuluto, June 27 (mexn): A one-day training and seed distribution programme was held at Alaphumi vllage on June 26 by the Department of Agriculture, Akuluto sub-division under NMOOP (oilseed) 2014-2015. Inato, Head GB of the village, chaired the programme. Cultivation

practices of soya bean was presented by Shitovi, Agriculture Field Assistant (AFA) while inter-cropping and mixed cropping in jhum cultivation was highlighted by K. Olem Jamir, SDAO Akuluto.

Earlier on June 24, soya bean seed was distributed among the Lumami villagers by the department in the presence

of village council chairman.

The department during the training also identified Atuighoki and Sungalibo areas for compact area cultivation of soya bean which falls under Lumami and Alaphumi villages. Altogether 84 farming families were covered under this programme within an area of about 50 hectares.

peren, June 27 (mexn): The IGAR (North) during his visit to Peren district held a series of meeting with the village council members and village heads of Heningkunglwa and Jalukie in Peren district on June 24 and 25. The Inspector General Assam Rifles (N) was accompanied by president, Assam Rifles Wives Welfare Association (ARWWA), IGAR (N). The dignitaries interacted with villagers at Heningkunglwa, Vocational Training Centre Jalukie and at Bn HQ 18 Assam Rifles. The event was organized with a view to present an opportunity to the locals to

have first hand information about various projects being undertaken for their welfare and also ascertain their general requirements for the projects to be undertaken in future, said a press release issued by Assam Rifles.

While speaking to the gathering, the IGAR (North) emphasized on the fact that Assam Rifles is completely involved for the betterment of life of locals and the organisation would constantly endeavour to help and support the common people in all means possible, according to the note. He also asserted that Assam Rifles has been extending a helping hand

with activities like MCA projects, Op Sadbhavana and Op Samaritan and by providing support to locals in organising events of cultural and social importance.

Meanwhile, president ARWWA also met local NGOs who were involved in efforts towards uplift of women of the area. She met a group of Kuki women from Athibung VTC, members of Catholic Women Organisation, and children from Orphanage Home Christian Servanthood Ministry, Peren, added the note. She spoke to the groups at length about their challenges and assured them of continued support.

NFHRCC's demand unconstitutional and illegal, says NPF Phek division pheK, June 27 (mexn): The NPF Phek division has stated that the demand of Nagaland Foot Hill Road Construction Committee (NFHRCC) to allot contract works on their “own whims and wishes” is “trying to overtake the government which is totally unconstitutional and illegal.”

“No doubt NFHRCC as an NGO though not yet registered is also a people’s body, but that doesn’t mean that they got the ticket to run the government by going even to the extent of allotting contract works to their people and interest which is not permissible by the law and which has never happened in the history of India that the govt works allocation being done by an NGO,” stated a release jointly issued by NPF Phek general secretary and

vice president.

While pointing out that NFHRCC had wanted to allot the contract works to AN Konyak and Yashitsungba Ao, NPF Phek stated “that is not permissible because allotment of contract work is the sole responsibility and prerogative of the government.” The government, it said, “has done justice to the people by rightfully allotting the work to the bonafide contractors following all the laid down NIT rules enabling every competitor to participate in the tendering process which all the public should appreciate.”

It further suggested that “NFHRCC should be only acting as a mediator between the public and the government for smooth functioning of the project because when an NGO like

NFHRCC takes the power from the government, the meaning of democracy will be crushed, and it will jeopardize the government system in future.”

At the same time, the statement asserted that the general public is happy and appreciative of the present PWD minister Kuzholuzo Neinu “who in his short stint as minister has done a yeomen work especially in Dimapur…”

Referring to the bandh to be called by NFHRCC, the NPF Phek also stated “unless it is selfish or tribal politics, banning Dimapur or any common people’s city has no genuine ground for justification.” Moreover, “Dimapur city should not be taken for a ride by this chronic bandh culture by every Tom, Dick and Harry.”

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MEx FILE GPRN/NSCN welcomes ‘homecomers’ Dimapur, June 27 (mexn): The GPRN/NSCN has accorded warm welcome to the nine “homecomers” who recently joined its fold from NSCN (K), Phom Region. “We hope that your joining to the 'Mainstream' will be fruitful as we join hands and work together for the 'Common Cause',” stated GPRN/NSCN through its MIP. The nine “homecomers” are: Mokshing Phom, CCM (Tatar), Shingnyei Phom (CCM), Shingjeih Phom (Leacy), Angshet Phom (Leacy), S.Ponga Phom APO (Asstt. Political Organiser), T.Pamong Phom OA (Office Asstt), M.Chingmo Phom (Region Staff), Captain H.Yanshan Phom, and Sergeant K.Nganlang Phom.

Kohima police seize drugs Dimapur, June 27 (mexn): Kohima Police on June 26 intercepted a vehicle (Santro) bearing registration number MN04A-3080, near SKV Petrol Pump, and recovered approximately 25,000 capsules of banned Spasmo Proxivon concealed inside a compartment of the vehicle and arrested three persons. A press release from the office of the Superintendent of Police Kohima identified the arrested persons as Zakir Hussain @ Akthar (33) from Churachanpur, Manipur, Md. Ramijuddin (30 yrs), from Thoubal, Manipur, and Nityanan Singh (43) from Nalanda, Bihar. In this connection, a case has been registered at North Police Station, under Drugs and Cosmetics Acts for investigation, the release added.

ENPUK offers condolences Kohima, June 27 (mexn): The Eastern Nagaland People’s Union Kohima (ENPUK) has deeply mourned the sudden demise of Aoyemen Chang, executive member of ENPUK, president of Chang Union Kohima and assistant director of Industries and Commerce, Govt. of Nagaland. “Aoyemen was an able and energetic leader who always voiced for the aspiration, uplift, and betterment of the society. His death is a huge loss for ENPUK and Chang Union Kohima,” stated ENOUK general secretary in a condolence message. ENPUK further conveyed condolences to the bereaved family members and prayed for the departed soul to rest in peace.

714 bottles of liquor seized at Chumu check gate Dimapur, June 27 (mexn): During the month of June 2014, Excise Mobile Squad stationed at Chumukedima Excise check gate Dimapur detected and seized 714 bottles of assorted liquor. In this connection, 19 persons were arrested and penalized under relevent section of NLTP Act '89. The seized articles are kept at MS Malkhana for future destruction. The teams were led by Chingten and Lanuyanger, both Assistant Inspectors of Excise. This was informed by the office of the Superintendent of Excise (Mobile Squad) in a press release.

DPC meeting on July 1 Dimapur, June 27 (mexn): All members of the Dimapur Press Club (DPC) have been informed that there will be a general meeting on July 1, 11 am at Breeze Restaurant, Church Road, Dimapur. The meeting will discuss on activities to be taken by the Club. All members who have not claimed the identity cards have been particularly asked to come and collect the same in the meeting. Identity card of those members failing to claim the same will be forfeited, informed a press release. Lunch will also be provided to the members attending the meeting.

The district administration of Kiphire along with police, magistrate and DBs on June 25 destroyed 371 cans of beer at Pungro junction. The liquor was seized by 46 AR few days back. A case has been registered in this regard.

Public SPace The Woes Of Nagaland Roads

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s monsoon sets in, all conscious road users are worried about the condition of our roads. Many writers have voiced their concern, especially on NH 29. This write up is just a supplement, suggesting some steps for solution that were not touched by preceding writers.

Historically, if not all; most NHs were earlier General Supply roads; popularly known as G.S. Roads. During war times, G.S. Roads were constructed, especially in border areas to give accessibility and maintain supply chain to Indian armies, particularly the infantry. Many of those G.S roads came to be re-designated as national highways and Asian highways in peace times of today. It is very obvious then, that the primary objective of constructing G.S. roads were to serve the purpose of nation-

al defense and security. Public utility objective was secondary. In the past, the BRO had stationed its laborers on regular basis throughout the length of G.S. roads. Any blockage was cleared promptly taking into consideration the importance of security and strategic concerns. These are peace times.

So, who cares? As long as Nagaland’s development objective change from military standpoint to humane approach, things will not change, no matter how much money is sanctioned by the Central Govt.

The BRO is the agency that is assigned to take care of most national highways in Nagaland.

The condition of BRO maintained roads in recent years need no further introduction.

They are simply not motorable. Over the last decade or so, BRO’s reputation has plummeted to even below Nagaland

PWD. They are callously taking the gullible Nagas for granted.

The blame-game for the deplorable road goes like this.

The first finger points at the BRO; being the implementing and maintenance agency for its apathy. The second finger points at the government of the day, particularly the R & B and NH Ministers for their failure to take up the matter with the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH).

Surprisingly, the R & B Minister heaped praise on BRO for a few yards’ road repair in Dimapur. This raises doubt as to whether they are all conniving at the cost of the public. The third finger however points at the complacent public. Our so-called mass-based, money oriented NGOs that are expected to be the watch-dog of the society and work as pressure groups have preferred to

maintain silence because they have become government NGOs. Which public organization had raised its voice on bad road conditions?

This being the situation, I may like to make the following humble suggestions for action by different agencies.

1. The public should demand that the Ministers of R & B and NH take up the issue with the MoRTH on regular basis. They should obtain all available information on the fund allocation to BRO for all NHs assigned to them in Nagaland.

This should be made public and updated to enable people to keep vigil on BRO. 2. Condemning the BRO’s lackadaisical attitude in print media alone is not enough.

Public should take up the issue in an organized manner.

Sadly, when it comes to taking up public issues in organized

manner, Nagas are still way behind neighboring State like Manipur. Besides, Nagas have become very individualistic.

This is killing us, especially in socio-economic terms. The people should stage all forms of democratic protest in organized manner.

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Another option is for road users/vehicle owners to sponsor Public Interest Litigation (PIL) case against the BRO in the court of law. BRO should be dragged to court to compensate for injuries and deaths caused by accidents and damages done to vehicles from deplorable road conditions.

Handing over the NHs to NPWD may not be the solution so long as the culture of Minister/Parliamentary Secretary-Contractor occupation is stopped. Who does not know that many of our Ministers and Parliamentary Secre-

taries are themselves the contractors for road constructions and other civil works in different departments? The day light example is the case of the ongoing road up gradation work in Phek town. Let it be in any firm’s name. But who can deny that the R & B Minister is the real contractor? From what is learnt, the sub-contractors have not been allotted any work order. Payments have been made directly from his bag. Threaten me with defamation suit? Go ahead. I am prepared to go to jail for public interest if I’m proved wrong after a thorough probes.

Where is the quality control board of Nagaland PWD? Does it exist in paper only?

How many times have they inspected the quality of workmanship of the ongoing projects? May I invite them to Phek town to see the ongoing work?

Why blame the undergrounds for threat, intimidation and taxation? Isn’t that a law and order problem? Who is supposed to enforce the rule of law? Is it not the State Govt?

How can the government of the day stop others from deductions and commissions when the government itself is slicing out a total of 18% from the total sanctioned for each project? Who will stop the commission culture? Isn’t that partly the reason that has led to Nagaland Foothills road construction imbroglio?

Informal gathering of concerned citizens somewhere in Dimapur or Kohima will be a good start. Don’t we have social media for connection? It’s now or never. It is a situation of either we act together or continue to suffer in silence. Is there any taker for the proposal?

Dr. K. Hoshi

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

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Beleaguered farmers favour debt waiver Tejaswini Pagadala Las Source: aljazeera

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political pledge to waive the debts of hard-pressed farmers who need credit to survive has proved popular among rural voters in southern India but sparked a debate about who really benefits.

Many see waivers and subsidies as the only way to prevent the collapse of an agricultural system dependent on loans as soaring land prices threaten to turn farming into a dying profession.

According to the National Commission on Farmers, 41 percent of farmers in India have shown a willingness to leave agriculture if they get an alternative source of income.

"If agrarian distress continues and farmers aren't supported, you will hardly find any farmers in the country in the next 10 years," said farmer Done Veeranjaneyulu, who believes waivers and subsidies are the only way forward.

Rural distress A 2004 Report on Farmers' Welfare by Jayati Gosh revealed that heavy debt burdens are the most acute cause of distress in the Indian countryside.

According to National Crime Records Bureau, between 1995 and 2012 the country witnessed the suicides of 284,000 farmers. Much of the stress they face relates to spiralling debts, with policy analysts and bankers saying most farmers borrow money from informal lenders, with the share of institu-

Costly policy to write off agricultural debts in two states seen as only way to prevent collapse of small farming tional sources just 20 percent.

"If a farmer borrows 10,000 rupees ($167) from the bank, he or she will repay that loan by borrowing it from another informal source at an interest rate of 30 percent or above. Hence, the burden keeps mounting," S Venkateshwara Reddy, general secretary of the All India Regional Rural Banks Association, told Al Jazeera.

Against this stark backdrop, the promise of hefty debt waivers helped bring the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) and the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) to power in this year's state elections in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh.

Aware of the mounting problems faced by many farmers and seeing a potential vote winner, the chief ministers of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh states, K Chandrasekhar Rao and N Chandrababu Naidu respectively, promised to waive debts.

In the state elections, the TDP gained control of the residuary state of Andhra Pradesh after 10 years on the promise of writing off loans amounting to about Rs76,000 crore ($12bn).

The TRS, which won the elections in the state of Telangana that has recently been carved out of Andhra Pradesh, also promised to waive crop debts worth Rs40,000 crore ($6.7bn).

the produce in wholesale market and makes a profit of Rs10,000 per acre. But, due to constant market fluctuations and the manipulation of prices by government agencies and markets, losses mount to Rs15,000 ($248) per acre.

"If I have to cultivate another crop in the Kharif season, I will need fresh credit [from the bank]," he said, checking for pests on his crops. "So, if a farmer relies only on one crop, he cannot survive the debt burden."

Soon after taking over as the chief minister of Andhra Pradesh on June 8, Naidu set up a committee to review implementation of the policy.

"Despite Andhra Pradesh facing a budget deficit, loans will be waived off as promised.

There is no doubt about that," the chief minister told Al Jazeera.

Telangana's Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao curtailed the debt exposure by announcing that loans up to only Rs 100,000 ($1,658) and those availed between 2013-14 would be waived.

Telangana state cabi-

net minister KT Rama Rao told Al Jazeera: "The government is still working on the modalities of the scheme."

Dying tradition The debt waivers are seen as one of the only ways to tackle the mounting problems facing small producers like 35-year-old Done Veeranjaneyulu of Errapalem village, Mangalagiri, who believes farming is a dying tradition.

He borrowed Rs100,000 in November 2012 and is among hundreds of thousands of farmers in Andhra Pradesh awaiting the crop

loan waiver.

Plucking fresh moringa drumsticks in his farm, he says farmers are selling off their lands due to skyrocketing prices.

"Soon after the chief minister of Andhra Pradesh announced that this town would become the new state capital, land prices have shot up," he said. "It is better for farmers to sell off agricultural lands at current prices than to repay loans," said the burly farmer who cultivates onions, paddy and drumsticks on a sevenacre plot. "One acre of land which was earlier Rs4-5m ($66,362-82,953) now costs

Rs3 crore ($499,000)."

Veeranjaneyulu lives with his wife, two children and his mother and is the "Adarsha Rythu", a model farmer appointed by the state government who guides other farmers in the town. Walking casually in his two-acre farm, Veeranjaneyulu says he voted and campaigned for the TDP because of the debt waiver promise.

On an average, he invests Rs35,000 - 40,000 ($580-663) on one acre of onions. Pesticides, seeds, transport and agriculture labour cost him an extra Rs10,000 ($165). When there is demand, he sells

Opposition to waiver Country's central bank, the Reserve Bank (RBI) and the Indian Banks' Association (IBA) have both opposed the massive debt waivers in both states saying it would affect the structure of the entire credit system and encourage wilful defaulting.

Andhra Pradesh’s agricultural credit is already one of the highest in the country, and according to its State Level Bankers’ Committee, total agricultural advances stand at Rs1,27,546 crores ($21.19bn), constituting about 27.04 percent of total credit against a regulatory norm of 18 percent.

India's first debt waiver took place in 1990 and a subsequent waiver took place in 2008 under the Agricultural Debt Waiver and Debt Relief Scheme (ADWDRS).

A report by the Comp-

troller and Auditor General (CAG) pointed to loopholes in implementing the 2008 waiver and said several ineligible farmers were favoured while a large number of deserving small farmers left out.

The development economist Devinder Sharma says loan waiver schemes benefit repeat defaulters.

Sirinedi Murali Krishna, 62, sugarcane farmer from Kuchipudi village of Krishna District in AP, said he benefited from the 2008 debt waiver scheme. "This time, I voted for TDP. And, I expect a waiver on my loan of Rs300,000 (about $5,000)," he said.

PSM Rao, an agriculture policy analyst, believes there may be other ways of tackling the debt burden. "Why aren’t we looking at the root cause of the problem?" he said.

"Farm loans can be designed in a way that the farmer repays the loan only when the market prices are optimal and when there are no production losses." "In other circumstances, whatever is produced can be procured by the government and the loan can be treated as fully repaid."

This means a complete revamp of credit policy in India where agriculture can be made profitable and sustainable, adds Sharma. However, Nookala Samrajyam, 34, who cultivates cotton and red chilli in Guntur, feels farmers will always ultimately be the losers. "Every government takes us for granted. In this muddle of debt relief schemes, we become non-bankable" she said.

England too insular for Media exaggerated horror tale at Irish orphanage World Cup success Shawn Pogatchnik associated Press

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n many ways, it's a head-scratcher: the country that invented football and which has the richest, most watched and, many would agree, best league in global football is also one of the worst performers at this World Cup. How can that be?

We are, of course, talking here about England — that self-important nation which is no longer very good at football but is quite brilliant at marketing it.

And that, right there, is part of its problem.

The argument goes like this and by now is familiar: Because the Premier League is so good at selling itself, its wealthy clubs can pay huge salaries to attract the best footballers. These foreign imports then elbow aside young Englishmen who don't develop as they should because they don't play enough. The resulting weakening of the English game, according to this logic, helps explain why England is now flying home winless from Brazil. Twenty years ago, two-thirds of players who started Premier League matches were eligible to play for England. Now, just one-third are, the Football Association said in a report released before this World Cup debacle, sounding the alarm and getting its excuses in early.

In short, the pool of top English talent is becoming too shallow. But there's also another reason that the English don't talk about: their players are too English, too insular, and they're failing to use the globalization of football to better themselves, as other nations are doing with such spectacular results at this World Cup. Many protagonists at this tournament are play-

ers who had to move overseas to further their careers.

Faced with a choice of learning to become better footballers with clubs abroad or staying close to friends, family and familiarity at home, they chose football. Too few English players make that same choice.

Take Luis Suarez, scorer of both Uruguay goals that sent England packing. At 19, he moved to the Netherlands to play football and improve. Edinson Cavani, whose delightful cross set up Suarez's first goal against England, also hadn't celebrated his 20th birthday when he moved to Italy.

Mario Balotelli, the scorer of Italy's winner against England, moved to Manchester. Costa Rica, which stunned everyone except itself by qualifying top of the England-ItalyUruguay group, got its first goal in Brazil from welltravelled striker Joel Campbell, who before his 22nd birthday later this week has already played for clubs in France, Spain and Greece.

England players, by comparison, are stick-inthe-muds. All but one of Roy Hodgson's squad of 23 play in England. The exception, reserve goalkeeper Fraser Forster, didn't stray far: he's with Celtic in Scotland. This is surely part of the reason why England players often seem to travel so poorly compared to more worldlywise rivals with broader horizons from other nations.

The English island mentality was also on display in the FA's proposals for arresting the decline of the national squad. Pulling up the drawbridge, it proposed stricter limits on the numbers of foreign players coming to England.

But here's an alternative idea: If English players are struggling to get enough games with teams in England, then why don't more

of them pack their bags and try their luck overseas, just as so many non-English players do?

The FA report noted that the Champions League group stage this season featured 47 Brazilian players, even though that is a European competition. That is just one indication of how readily players from other countries move overseas.

Historically, the English as a people have been intrepid travelers. In the Amazon city of Manaus, where England played its first match of this World Cup, English engineers left behind a sewage system, among other things. But the list of English footballers who have made names for themselves abroad is a short one.

"It would be positive, I think, if they are not getting the chance to play in the Premier League with their club team, if they are able to find a good team abroad that would give them that experience, a chance to play regularly. Of course it would be very positive," Hodgson said after England played a drab 0-0 draw with Costa Rica on Tuesday to end its forgettable World Cup, yet another one.

Hodgson is a prime example of how foreign experience can enhance a career in football: he previously managed an array of foreign clubs and the Swiss national team. He gave a compelling reason why more English players don't follow his lead: money. In England, players might not develop as well as they might if they got more regular games with foreign clubs, but at least they're well paid.

"Quite a few of our young players will already be on salaries which maybe some of these foreign clubs might find hard to match, because there is literally no comparison," Hodgson said. "Our salaries are so much higher."

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evelations this month that nuns had buried nearly 800 infants and young children in unmarked graves at an Irish orphanage during the last century caused stark headlines and stirred strong emotions and calls for investigation. Since then, however, a more sober picture has emerged that exposes how many of those headlines were wrong.

The case of the Tuam "mother and baby home" offers a study in how exaggeration can multiply in the news media, embellishing occurrences that should have been gripping enough on their own.

The key fact is that a researcher, Catherine Corless, spent years seeking records of all the children who died in the orphanage in County Galway during its years of operation from 1925 to 1961. She found 797 death records — and only one record that one of the youngsters had been buried alongside relatives in a Catholic cemetery.

The rest, Corless surmised, were likely interred in unmarked graves on the orphanage grounds, including in a disused septic tank. She and other Tuam residents called for a statefunded investigation to identify remains and give the children a proper memorial.

The reports of unmarked graves shouldn't have come as a surprise to the Irish public, who for decades have known that some of the 10 defunct "mother and baby homes," which chiefly housed the children of unwed mothers, held grave sites filled with forgotten dead.

The religious orders' use of unmarked graves reflected the crippling poverty of the time, the infancy of most of the vic-

A statue of the Virgin Mary adorns the site of a mass grave for children who died in the Tuam mother and baby home, in Tuam County Galway Wednesday June 4, 2014. The Catholic Church in Ireland is facing fresh accusations of child neglect after a researcher found records for 796 young children believed to be buried in a mass grave beside a former orphanage for the children of unwed mothers. The researcher, Catherine Corless, says her discovery of child death records at the Catholic nun-run home in Tuam, County Galway, suggests that a former septic tank filled with bones is the final resting place for most, if not all, of the children. County Galway death records showed that the children, mostly babies and toddlers, died often of sickness or disease in the orphanage during the 35 years it operated from 1926 to 1961. (AP Photo)

tims, and the lack of plots in cemeteries corresponding to the children's fractured families.

Until recent weeks, nobody had put a precise number on the fatalities at Tuam. Corless spent months — and more than 3,000 euros ($4,000) of her own money — buying copies of death certificates and organizing them.

Her list of the dead shows that nearly 80 percent were younger than 1; two died within 10 minutes of birth and never received first names. Ninety-one died in the 1920s, 247 in the 1930s, 388 in the 1940s, 70 in the 1950s, and one more child in 1960. The most common causes were flu, measles, pneumonia, tuberculosis and whooping cough.

Contrary to the allegations of widespread starvation highlighted in some reports, only 18 children were recorded as suffering from severe malnutrition.

While publicly available records are incomplete, sporadic inspection reports indicate that the orphanage's population exceeded 250 throughout

the worst years of child mortality, when overcrowding would have encouraged the spread of infection.

When Corless published her findings on a Facebook campaign page, and Irish media noticed, she speculated to reporters that the resting place of most, if not all, could be inside a disused septic tank on the site. By the time Irish and British tabloids went to print in early June, that speculation had become a certainty, the word "disused" had disappeared, and U.S. newspapers picked up the report, inserting more errors, including one that claimed the researcher had found all 796 remains in a septic tank.

The Associated Press was among the media organizations that covered Corless and her findings, repeating incorrect Irish news reports that suggested the babies who died had never been baptized and that Catholic Church teaching guided priests not to baptize the babies of unwed mothers or give to them Christian burials.

The reports of denial of

baptism later were contradicted by the Tuam Archdiocese, which found a registry showing that the home had baptized more than 2,000 babies. The AP issued a corrective story on Friday after discovering its errors.

Brendan O'Neill, editor of the London-based online magazine Spiked, said journalists worldwide "got a whiff of Corless's findings and turned them into the stuff of nightmares."

He noted that several top newspapers in the United States stated that 800 baby skeletons had been found in a septic tank, and that commentators fueled by a "Twitter mob" mentality compared the deaths to Nazi-era genocide.

The Irish Times in Dublin interviewed Corless about why she thought the former septic tank could have become a bone repository. She explained that her assertion was based on the study of old site maps and the 40-year-old recollections of two local men who, as boys, had found an underground chamber on the site containing skeletons.

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It had sounded to her like the tank could be the location.

But the newspaper spotted discrepancies in Corless' maps, and found records showing that the actual septic tank remained in use until the late 1930s, which meant it could not have been used as a burial spot. Other analysts pointed out that the decommissioned septic tank would be too small to hold many bodies. And the two men who had reported seeing skeletons in 1975 said, on reflection, that they doubted more than 20 were inside the concreted hole.

Ireland last week announced it would open a judge-led investigation into the care of children in Tuam and nine other defunct facilities, and the handling of their remains. Whether the fact-finding effort will include excavations at any of the former homes or DNA analysis of remains has yet to be decided.

In an editorial, the Irish Times said Ireland was suffering "self-induced amnesia" given that historians already had documented "staggeringly high mortality rates in some mother and child homes."

It noted that Tuam's mortality rate appeared lower than others, and predicted the upcoming inquiry into the entire system would be painful.

"Learning from the past can be a disturbing process," it said. "It involves an examination of failures and the acceptance of hurtful conclusions. It means making amends for past societal wrongs. It should establish why certain things happened, rather than heap blame on those who implemented policy. An examination of current discriminatory practices would also help. As a society, we have an uncomfortable road to travel."

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28 JuNE, 2014

How supportive parenting protects the brain Olga Khazan

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he other day, a mother of a 15-month-old walked into Andrew Garner’s office, oozing frustration.

“Is it normal for them to never sit still?” she asked.

Garner, a pediatrician in Westlake, Ohio, leapt on the remark as a teachable moment.

“He doesn’t sit still?!” he said, “That’s a compliment to you! You want him to do that.”

At 15 months, he explained, children are itching to explore, and then toddle back, and then wander off again. It’s a sign the baby is developing apace.

The goal is to make the woman feel confident in her mothering abilities. If he builds up her self-esteem, Garner hopes, she’ll be more invested and engaged as a mom, and the child will grow up smarter and healthier as a result. Garner bases this chain of events on a spate of recent studies that have shown that supportive parents breed better-off children.

So, now, on top of taking measurements, asking about sleep and food habits, and giving vaccinations, Garner devotes part of the visit to checking up on mom. Particularly if the family comes from a harsh environment or if the mother shows signs of depression, he tells her to make sure “you're smiling at your baby, you're being aware of your emotions, and using positive discipline techniques.”

“I tell them things like that tantrums are emotional overload and not how they feel about you,” said Garner, who is also an associate professor of pediatrics at Case Western Reserve University. “Or at 12 months, I spend a lot of time talking about the fact that they’re soon going to want to prove they can do stuff.”

Garner knows that if the mom gets angry about the child's normal behavior, she might develop a negative attitude toward parenting. And that could be poisonous in a very real way.

Pediatricians are growing increasingly alarmed about the dangers of socalled “toxic stress”—certain kinds of childhood experiences, like turmoil, violence, and neglect, that, when chronic, can alter brain structure and chemistry and hurt a child’s chances of long-term success. Harsh parenting by itself won't necessarily doom a child, but when combined with other stressors, it might.

“When bad things happen early in life, whether you remember them or not, the brain doesn't forget,” Jack Shonkoff, a professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, said at a recent conference in Washington, D.C. When we experience everyday stress, our bodies kick into high gear by releasing adrenaline and cortisol. When the stress goes away—or if, as children, we’re comforted by trusted adults—our bodies return to normal. But if there is no adult around, or the stressors are ongoing, the response system stays activated. This chronic, “toxic stress” throws the brain into a permanent state of high alert, weakening the neural connections that are essential for learning and cognition.

“It's not black and white. It’s not like the baby gets hosed for life if

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you're not smiling at it,” Garner said.

“But our brains and our genome are very plastic early in life. They're taking in cues to prepare us for what's coming.”

Experience influences which genes get switched on and the way our brains anticipate the future. A child tumbling through the toxic stress cycle might have a brain that’s ready for “a dog-eat-dog world. That child will be more hypervigilant, anxious, on edge and less likely to learn as easily as another child will,” he added.

Studies show that children who are exposed to toxic stress fare worse over the course of their lives.

Family poverty is strongly correlated with lower cognitive test scores, even when controlling for the mother’s education and other family factors. Children who are neglected have worse executive functioning, attention, processing speed, language, memory, and social skills. People who are mistreated as children are more likely to suffer from heart disease as adults. Our brains and genomes are particularly sensitive during so-called “critical periods”—the times during early childhood when the brain is rapidly changing.

Poverty is the most common reason why Garner’s patients' moms have a harder time mothering. Maslow’s Hierarchy dictates that if food, shelter, safety, and other essentials aren’t in place, there will be a dearth of brain space for bedtime stories and positive affirmations.

Still, other moms might flag in supportiveness because their jobs are too demanding or because they have postpartum depression. Garner says he’s even seen the reverse of poverty turn harmful: Two uber-successful parents spending their free time twiddling on their phones rather than attending to their newborn.

About 10 years ago, Joan Luby, a psychiatry professor at the Washington University School of Medicine, invited 92 children between the ages of four and seven to a lab in St. Louis.

The kids took a test that measured whether they were depressed—some were, and some weren’t. One by one, the children and their primary caregivers (in most cases, the mom) were invited into a room that contained a brightly wrapped gift with a bow on top. A research assistant told the children they could have the gift if they waited patiently for eight minutes. In the meantime, the mother was told to fill out a daunting stack of complicated forms. Annnd ... go!

As expected, the kids went bon-

kers. They begged. They whined. They stretched their tiny hands toward the box. They, being kids, yearned for nothing more than to rip it open.

But the researchers’ eyes were on the parents. Some of the moms were supportive, telling their little eager beavers “that they knew it was hard to wait. Or they touched them or said something reassuring, might have even given them positive feedback for being patient,” Luby told me.

The other moms were too overwhelmed by the forms to be comforting. They were unresponsive to their child’s pleas and they didn’t reassure them. Some snapped at or hit their child for being annoying.

When Luby and her colleagues conducted an MRI four years later, they found that the non-depressed children whose mothers had not been nurturing had smaller hippocampuses than the kids who were depressed but had levels of high maternal support. In other words, it was better for the kids to be depressed, with supportive moms, than not depressed, with unsupportive moms. Since the hippocampus governs things like memory, cognitive function, and emotion, the smaller hippocampal volume suggested to Luby that the children with the non-supportive moms were doing worse both cognitively and emotionally.

“What was exciting about this finding is that it showed that early nurturance was having a material effect on tangible brain outcomes,” Luby said.

It’s this type of evidence that led the American Academy of Pediatrics to announce this week that all parents should read aloud to their children from birth—the first time the group has ever weighed in on early literacy.

The recommendation was based in part on findings that wealthier people hear millions more words than lowincome people do as children, and that this verbal difference translates to a big gap in school test scores.

Of course, all the good advice in the world won’t help a parent who is scraping by financially, doesn’t have a safe home, or is otherwise strained. Denise Dowd, who works at Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri, mentors mothers who are victims of poverty and domestic violence. “You can’t imagine what they’re going through,” she told me “We're talking about not just sexual abuse, but your mother selling you into prostitution, your mother shooting you up for the first time when you're 12 so you can get through your first tricks okay.”

In the words of these mothers, “you can never give what you never got.” Many of them think it’s sufficient just to keep their children safe, dry, and fed. One told Dowd didn’t know she was supposed to talk to her baby.

And as a result, the kids are also “dysregulated,” as Dowd puts it. “You have 3- and 4-year-olds who have no ability to sit still, who will curse you out, who give you finger.”

“The very resources the moms need to handle those stressors—the ability to predict, the ability to remain calm and think through a set of problems—that's the prefrontal cortex and that really takes a hit when you've been exposed to abuse and neglect,” she added.

Most babies start to smile at their moms at six weeks. Garner said he tries to tell moms to smile back. But it’s hard—they might be clinically depressed or just too tired to be happy.

“Those first six weeks are pretty brutal for the mom—the babies are peeing, pooping, sleeping blobs,” he said. “You're exhausted, you’re sleep deprived, there are hormonal changes, and you have expectations for motherhood that are not being met.”

So he tries to explain to parents how reinforcing their kids’ happy behaviors can lead to an easier time of parenting down the road. “Every time the baby tries to get your attention with a happy sound, give them your eyes,” he said. “At 18 months, they're like little scientists. If every time they make a happy sound, moms gives me her eyes, I’m going to make happy sounds. But if the only time mom gives me attention is when I scream bloody murder ...” scream is just what the baby’s going to do.

Dowd tries to show moms how resilient they are—“what’s strong about themselves." The hope is they'll want to defy their own bitter upbringings by raising kids who are functional and happy.

Garner said the U.S. should also increase spending on social services and better integrate social programs into the healthcare system. As political science professor Kimberly Morgan wrote in Foreign Affairs last year, “In Australia, more than a third of direct public spending goes to meanstested programs, and in Canada and the United Kingdom, almost a quarter does.” In the U.S., however, the figure is 7 percent.

The final hurdle is that there are very few ways ensure the mothers practice the good parenting practices they learn after they return home.

Services likeText4Baby can send mothers safety tips and appointment reminders, but there’s not an app for “I’m so stressed out because I just got laid off and my toddler won’t stop crying.”

Garner says what vexes him and other pediatricians is trying to find the delicate balance between getting to “good enough” parenting without coming off as condescending, all while environmental factors work against doctor, mom, and baby alike.

“I'm not saying there's only one way to parent,” he said. “This isn’t about values or character. This is about skill formation. What are the essential skills we need to model and teach and nurture in our children so that they have a shot?”

Lets Do It Best The Naga Way

agas can be easily set apart from the rest of the people of the world. No one on earth has the integrity and simplicity of the Nagas. Nagas are known for their resilience, bravery, fortitude, humility, civility, observance, honesty, hospitality, simplicity, fairness, humaneness and compassion. You can always trust the friendship of the Nagas such as you would also to the Japanese.

Nagas are very proud of themselves and there is nothing on earth more divine than the term “Naga” for them. Like the Americans, Nagas are deeply patriotic and the word “Naga” comes first before anything on this earth and nothing is too worthy to sacrifice for it. So never insult the term “Naga” and the soil of their country.

There is no master, nor servant and no caste, or class in the Naga society. Except, the elders are deeply re-

spected. Everyone is equal, woman and man are equal.

In the land of the Nagas, you cannot offend their women.

Everyone in a Naga family has his own share of chores to perform. Thus, like the Americans, very few Naga families have maids, cooks or servants in their kitchens.

But kitchen is the most practical room for the Nagas and they spend most of their time in their kitchens like the Germans.

Naga women raise polite and honest children. Naga women are the most selfless, caring and generous women on earth. They take tough decisions and confront tough situations alongside men. You can always compliment them in the streets, ‘You are pretty’, such compliment may be a comeon for the American women, but for the Naga and French la femme, it only means you always find them attractive.

But you might at your own

risk tease Naga women as fat because Naga women never get fat and Naga women don’t talk to such rude rustic boys.

Rice beer is the favourite drink of the Nagas and every household knows how to brew it. Nagas love meat and they eat almost all kinds of meat like the Germans. You talk of meat, the wilder it is, the tastier it is. Perhaps, the peppery and the pungent are their favourite recipes like the Chinese. So do not ever miss the great Naga brews, cuisines and recipes.

It is a waste of time to doubt the hospitality of the Nagas. Your journey is sufficient trouble for you and let your safety and security be the worries of your host.

No one will violate your person as any violation on your person for the Nagas is a direct attack on your host and no Naga does that. You don’t even need to lock your luggage, there are no monkeys

at home. Even if you lost any, worries are too luxurious because someone will surely find you back.

You can freely meet and talk with any Naga passersby in English. English is their favourite language and ridiculously a pride for them.

But do not misinterpret their openness, friendliness and cordiality. A generous smile on the roadside as in the streets of London is not an invitation to flirt. But it is simply because every passerby is a neighbour and a brother for the Nagas and Nagas would least hesitate to even endure for that stranger if it is for a good cause.

But if you are invited for a public meeting or dinner, do not think that your punctuality in America and England is admired here. Just as you would in France, the courtesy here is to give you a 30-minutes-time ahead of the intended schedule. So always come at least 30 minutes late

and never come alongwith Indians, because Indians are the last person on earth that a Naga would trust.

Nagas are very fair and straight people like the Germans. They consider themselves as the only trustworthy people on this planet. No matter who you are, never betray or mistreat a Naga. A man betrays, a man dies, a beast betrays, a beast dies.

Betrayal and unfair treatment are the last thing that a Naga would tolerate. Man to man and fair dealing, gentlemen agreement and honour flow in their genetic blood.

A word spoken cannot be taken back and nothing is more sacred than a promise uttered from a man’s mouth.

Perhaps, Nagas can never be any less proud of themselves. So let your yes be yes and no be no.

Sira Kharay Advocate Delhi High Court

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The Foothill Bandh

Hekato Yepthomi: I don't understand what it has to do in shutting down Dimapur for 12 hours just because a certain group of people didn't get the most out of THE GREAT FOOTHILL road.

I feel the department's justification was fair enough. After a fair tender process was done, just because the NFHRCC committee had referred some group and that group didn't get it . You can't keep blaming on the department. The tribal Hohos should also understand and digest the fact. Just to please someone they cannot crucify the Department and imposing a bandh does not solve the problem. Just to satisfy a few greed infested people they cannot put into jeopardy of many lives who depends on the daily market. I feel this bandh culture should rather be banned.

Jamir Toshi : When will we do away with BANDH culture? What good does it bring to a society? A total BANDH means no work no play? Everytime a BANDH is called for its Dimapur first that comes to every Nth organizations in the state? Why is Dimapur the lollipop of the state that everyone has to just lick it every now and then? The foothills road doesn't even fall in Dimapur. Is Dimapur the scapegoat of NAGALAND that everytime something bad or unfortunate happens that Dimapur alone has to face the knife or gets slaughtered? Foothill road is becoming a big headachehillroad for the people of NAGALAND. The minister concerned as well as the departments concerned needs to pull up their socks before the monsoon season brings you another excuse that foothill road finally ended up being a treacherous hill road. Hopefully it gets resolved soon and hope the minister concerned as well as the department is a responsible authority.

Solia Hegeu: Funny State with funny self centered people: If there is opposition even when the contract was alloted via open tender (NIT ), do you think there would be peace when the State Govt. allot contract via backdoor, favouring a few NFHRCC contractor/s?

I mean they have the right to voice out if the contract was allotted with any foul play. But BANDH just because their favoured contractor was denied the job is heights, ridiculous.

Nagaland Road Show

Concerns to be rendered to the people of Mount Tiyi college colony by the administration concerned. Flood at the MTC and ETC junction! Photographed by Tumbemo Kikon.

Sam Achumi: My observation whenever I travel this so called highway, there are no side drainage in the whole stretch of Wokha town, which can be maintain by every individual living near the roadside. Stop complaining & start digging side drainage which you filled up. Once the Govt./Dept makes/construct anything, it is the responsibility of the user to maintain it. Don`t expect others to do your job. By LAW OF NATURE water always flows down. My suggestion/advice to residents of Wokha town & neighbouring areas, give chance to water so that it can leave your roads/highway if not start making boat, raft and enjoy this delayed monsoon.

Kohima Roadshow at Kenuozou colony

The Govt. had once used the word 'Road Show' to hold expensive festivals at Local grounds withot anything relating to road but here it is the real road show in the state capital begins.

Kahoto J Yepthomi: 20 years back BRO/GREF use to sell diesel and cement below my house. And people from my town often throng the place as it was said to be cheaper and better quality.

One fine day i asked my Dad to get a bag of cement from there and he simply replied "even if they give me for free i will not take from them". As a matter of principle, can we Nagas stop encouraging this form of Corruption even though we may have to shell out some extra bucks buying from the market?

K.k. Paul Rutsa: Went to Manipur last week with my friends on a motorcycle. From Imphal to Moreh it’s about 120 kms and we covered it in 1hr 45 minutes, the road was just toooooo good.

Don't think anyone can finish Kohima- Dimapur which is 74kms in 2 hours Take a look at the Imphal-Moreh road, the whole 120+ road surface is like this.

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15 burnt alive in GAIL pipeline blast in Andhra Rs.25 lakh ex-gratia relief for GAIL blast victims

H y d e ra b a d / N e w delHi, JuNe 27 (iaNS): Fifteen villagers were burnt to death and 30 injured Friday as a huge fire and deafening explosions caused by a suspected leak enNew delHi JuNe 27 gulfed a GAIL gas pipeline (iaNS): The government in Andhra Pradesh, officials Friday announced an exsaid. The central governgratia payment of Rs.25 ment ordered a probe and lakh to the next of kin of announced ex-gratia paythe deceased in Friday’s ment of Rs.2 lakh each to the GAIL pipeline explosion next of kin of those killed. in Andhra Pradesh. ComAs flames several meters pensation for the injured high leapt from the pipeline was also announced after passing through Nagaram Petroleum Minister Dharvillage in East Godavari dismendra Pradhan visited trict, several of the villagthe accident site along ers jolted out of sleep by the with Andhra Pradesh blasts failed to escape the Chief Minister N. Chanblaze.The dead includethree drababu Naidu. women and three children.

“The total ex-gratia Officials said the fatalities payment to the next of could rise as the condition of kin of the deceased will 15oftheinjuredwassaidtobe be Rs.25 lakh. Of this, Rs.2 critical. lakh will be provided from The fire, caused by susthe Prime Minister’s Repected leakage from the 18lief Fund, Rs.3 lakh from inch pipeline of GAIL India the Chief Minister’s Relief Ltd, devastated the village Fund and Rs.20 lakh from near the Tatipaka refinery of GAIL (India) Limited,” a the Oil and Natural Gas Corp petroleum ministry state(ONGC), about 550 km from ment said.

Hyderabad. “The fire caused massive losses. Coconut ter Y. Ramakrishnudu. trees and other crops in over Most villagers were 10 acres were reduced to asleep when the disaster ashes,” said Finance Minis- struck. Fire tenders rushed

“For the permanently disabled, Rs.5 lakh will be deposited as fixed deposit in their name by GAIL (India) Limited,” it added.

All other injured people will be given an ex-gratia of Rs.100,000, the ministry said. Assuring the best possible medical care for the injured, the ministry said GAIL will bear all expenses on treatment.

The injured have been shifted to hospitals in nearby Amalapuram and Kakinada towns. As many as 15 people were killed and 30 injured when the fire erupted at about 5.30 a.m. The ministry said GAIL will compensate damage to property and crops at market value.

“All thatched houses in the affected village will be converted into pucca (brick-and-mortar) hous-

to the village to douse the flames. The dead include the owner of a hotel and five of his family members.

es through CSR funds of GAIL and ONGC,” the statement said.

“A world-class skill upgradation centre will be established near the site of the accident through CSR funds of GAIL and ONGC,” it added. Earlier, Andhra Pradesh Finance Minister Y. Ramakrishnudu reported massive losses caused by the fire.

“Coconut trees and other crops in over 10 acres were reduced to ashes,” the minister said.

The fire is suspected to have been caused by leakage in the 18-inch pipeline of GAIL near the Tatipaka refinery of the Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC), about 550 km from Hyderabad. The petroleum minister has ordered a high-level inquiry to find the cause of the fire.

People gather at the site of a pipeline explosion in Nagaram village, India on June 27. A state-owned gas pipeline exploded and burst into flames Friday, killing at least 15 people, destroying homes and forcing the evacuation of neighboring villages in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, authorities said. (AP Photo)

President Pranab Mukherjee, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Congress president Sonia Gandhi joined leaders of Andhra Pradesh to express grief over the deaths. The president said he was “extremely saddened” to learn about the accident. Modi added: “My thoughts are with the famiAngry villagers attacked lies of those who lost their the Gas Collection Station lives.” The prime minister near the village and dam- has announced an ex-gratia payment of Rs.2 lakh each aged a few vehicles.

to the next of kin of those killed. This is in addition to the assistance given by the petroleum ministry and GAIL India.

An ex-gratia payment of Rs.50,000 has also been announced for those seriously injured in the accident. Cutting short his visit to Delhi, Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu along with Union Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas Dharmendra Prad-

Anthrax infects 15 tribals in Odisha ‘Over 1 million children in India are not in school’

bHubaNeSwar, JuNe 27 (iaNS): At least 15 people, including a 14-year-old girl and two women, were infected by anthrax in Odisha after eating contaminated meat, an official said Friday. The incident took place in Koraput district, about 500 km from state capital Bhubaneswar.

Fourteen of them are being treated at home, while one person was admitted to a hospital, Additional District Medical Officer Arun Padhi told IANS. All victims showed symptoms of the illness after eating contaminated meat early this week.

A laboratory test confirmed they were infected by anthrax, he added.

Padhi said while nine people, including two females, were infected in Bisarbandha village, six people, including one female, were infected in Lugum village, about 150 km away from Birsabandha.

Bisarbandha has a population of about 80 and the people had eaten the rotten meat of a buffalo. In tribal populated Lugum, which is home to about 215 people, the victims got infected after eating the rotten meat of a goat, he said.

Health and veterinary officials have rushed to the affected villages and carried out measures to prevent the spread of the disease, he said. Rotten meats have been seized and destroyed and cattle have been immunised, he said.

An awareness drive has been launched in other vulnerable places of the district, he said. Anthrax is a bacterial disease that mostly affects animals and at times passes to humans if they eat contaminated meat. Antibiotics often cure the disease if it is diagnosed early.

More centre-state cooperation to combat Maoism: Rajnath Singh

New delHi, JuNe 27 (iaNS): Home Minister Rajnath Singh said Friday there will be increased centre-state cooperation in dealing with Maoism.

“The central government will respond positively to the suggestions of the states in overcoming this problem (Maoism) in a coherent and cohesive manner. There will be better co-ordination between the centre and states through the confidence and commitment of all concerned,” the home ministry quoted Rajnath Singh as saying.

The minister who chaired a high level meet of chief secretaries and DGPs of Maoist-affected states, assured that the projects relating to road connectivity and telecom connectivity through mobile towers should be taken up on a priority basis. He asked state governments to designate

their nodal officers for better co-ordination with the central government and other states in tackling left wing extremism.

He added that young, bold and courageous district magistrates and superintendents of police may be posted in initial years of their posting in Maoistaffected areas to provide better administration and leadership.

“The surrender and rehabilitation packages may be revised to make it more attractive for the militant

and Jan Militia cadres,” he said, hinting there may be talks between the government and such Maoists as were willing to give up arms.

Chief secretaries and DGPs (directors general of police) of Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Bihar, Odisha, West Bengal, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana and chiefs of paramilitary forces like CRPF and BSF and top officials of the home ministry attended the meeting, chaired by Rajnath Singh.

CBI quizzes West Bengal governor in VVIP chopper deal

New delHi, JuNe 27 (iaNS): The CBI Friday questioned West Bengal Governor M.K. Narayanan as a “witness” in connection with its ongoing probe into the procurement of AgustaWestland VVIP choppers for 556.262 million euros (Rs.3,726.96 crore). Narayanan, 80, was quizzed in the Kolkata at the office of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).

He was asked to appear before the agency to record his statement in connection with the deal as he was part of the group which had gone into the tendering procedures before the helicopters were purchased, CBI sources said.

The questioning took place after Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi, in response to a clarification sought by the government after the CBI expressed its inability to question Nara-

yanan as he occupied the constitutional office of governor, gave an opinion that the investigating agency could go ahead, according to law ministry sources.

Narayanan was the National Security Adviser in 2005 when Indian officials decided to amend technical specifications for the 12 helicopters the UPA government wanted to buy for use by the president and the prime minister, among others VVIPS. The CBI is also expected to record the statement of Goa Governor B.V. Wanchoo and he has been asked to appear before the agency as he was the chief of elite Special Protection Group (SPG) guarding the prime minister before he was appointed governor.

The agency had sought permission to record their statements as part of its probe that was scrapped by

the government in December last year.

The CBI had registered a case against former IAF chief, Air Chief Marshal S.P. Tyagi, along with 13 others, including his cousins and European middlemen, in the case. The allegation against the former air force chief was that he had reduced the altitude at which the VVIP helicopters could operate so that Anglo-Italian firm AgustaWestland was included in the bidding process.

The defence ministry had concluded a contract with AgustaWestland in February 2010 for supply of 12 AW-101 helicopters for the IAF’s elite Communication Squadron, which ferries the president the prime minister and other VVIPs. Three helicopters were received between November 2012 and February 2013.

uNiTed NaTiONS, JuNe 27 (PTi): India, Indonesia and Pakistan each have more than a million children out of school, according to a UN report which said the global number of unschooled children aged 6 to 11 is still as high as 58 million, showing little overall improvement since 2007.

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco) report said that India had 1.4 million children out of school in 2011 but the country is among 17 other nations that have managed to reduce the number of out-of-school children in the past decade.

“Combined with Unesco’s recent news that aid to education has fallen yet again, the lack of progress in reducing out of school numbers confirms our fears — there is no chance whatsoever that countries will reach the goal of universal primary education by 2015,” Unesco directorgeneral Irina Bokova said in a statement.

Pakistan had 5.4 million children out of school in 2012 while the figure for

New delHi, JuNe 27 (iaNS): A two-monthold baby died after she was mauled by a stray dog in her home here, police said Friday.

The baby - Sagun - was lying on a bed when a stray dog entered her room on the third floor of the house in central Delhi’s

Indonesia was 1.3 million.

Unesco’s policy paper said that positive change is possible, spotlighting success in 17 countries that have reversed that trend over the past decade.

The 17 countries, including Burundi, Yemen, Ghana, Nepal, Rwanda, India, Iran and Vietnam, accounted for about onequarter of the global outof-school population in 2000. But they managed to reduce their out-of-school numbers by 86 per cent, from 27 million to less than four million, in little over a decade.

The Unesco Institute for Statistics, which produced the policy paper, said that 15 million girls and 10 million boys, constituting around 43 per cent of those out of school, are unlikely to ever get access to primary education if the current situation remains the same.

“We cannot meet this news with further inertia.

On the contrary, we must sound the alarm and mobilise the political will to ensure that every child’s right to education is respected,” she said.

The lack of global prog-

ress is largely due to high population growth in subSaharan Africa, which is now home to more than 30 million out-of-school children. Most of them will never start school and those who do are at risk of dropping out. The paper also shows critical gaps in the education of older children aged 12 to 15.

Globally, 63 million adolescents were out of school in 2012.

Numbers have fallen by nearly one-third since 2000 in south and west Asia, the region has the largest population of out-of-school adolescents at 26 million.

According to the Unesco paper, abolishing school fees, introducing more relevant curricula, devoting increased attention to ethnic and linguistic minorities and providing financial support to families in need could have a positive role in promoting and extending the right to education to every human being.

Bokova stressed that progress is possible and that many countries have been key examples in driving positive changes in education for all.

han and senior officials of GAIL and ONGC visited the accident site. Expressing grief at the loss of lives, Naidu consoled the families of the victims and assured all possible help. He said action would be taken against those found negligent. Naidu and the others later called on the injured at a hospital at Kakinada.

Earlier, Pradhan ordered a high-level probe into the incident. He also

Tiger leaps onto boat, snatches man

KO l KaTa , JuNe 27 (aP): A Bengal tiger snatched a man off a fishing boat in eastern India, dragging him away into a mangrove swamp as his children looked on in horror, the man’s son said Friday.

The attack happened Thursday as Sushil Manjhi and his son and daughter were crab fishing in a stream in the Sunderbans National Park. The tiger leaped aboard the boat and clamped its jaws on Manjhi’s neck, said Sushil’s son, Jyotish.

The tiger “quickly flung my father on his back and gave a giant leap before disappearing into the forest,” Jyotish said by telephone from his village of Lahiripur in West Bengal state. He said he and his sister tried to beat the animal with sticks and a knife, but the thrashing had no effect. His father was dragged away and was presumed dead.

The attack underlines the difficult existence

Dog mauls baby to death in Delhi

Nabi Karim area at about 9.30 p.m. Thursday and attacked her head, a police officer said. Nabi Karim comes under the jurisdiction of the North Delhi Municipal Corporation that says there are about 1.5 lakh dogs in its area.

At the time of the incident, the baby’s fam-

ily members were not present in the room, the police officer said. “A neighbour saw the dog attacking the baby and raised an alarm. By the time the victim’s parents reached, the baby had succumbed to her injuries,” the officer added.

Meanwhile, angry

called for setting up of a statutory body for formulating safety measures for the oil and gas industry.

Deputy Chief Minister N. Chinna Rajappa blamed the alleged negligence of GAIL officials for the disaster. Union Minister for Urban Development M. Venkaiah Naidu apprised Modi of the incident. Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhara Rao also condoled the deaths.

neighbours killed the dog. When contacted, the North Delhi Municipal Corporation officials were unaware of the incident. “A plan for opening dog sterilisation centre is pending due to several hurdles, including no clearance for land,” said a corporation official.

of millions of poor Indians who make a living by scavenging in forests and rivers, often at risk from wild predators. Many villagers fish for crabs in the Sunderbans — even though it’s illegal in the protected reserve — because they fetch a good price at markets in nearby towns.

The national park is one of the largest reserves for the royal Bengal tiger.

Thursday’s attack was the fourth deadly assault by a tiger this year in the Sunderbans, wildlife officials said. India has more than half of the 3,200 tigers believed to be left in the wild in the world.

But as the country undergoes breakneck development to accommodate the growth of its 1.2 billion people, tiger habitats have been shrinking. The big cat’s numbers have also dwindled because of rampant poaching to feed a flourishing market for tiger organs and bones in China.

According to corporation statistics, this year three people have died due to rabies while 25 deaths were reported in the past two years. The corporation is running a drive under whihc as many as 9,448 stray dogs have been sterilised from July 2012 to February 2014.

DU relents, goes to three-year course

New delHi, JuNe 27 (iaNS): Delhi University Friday gave in to a UGC diktat and scrapped the yearold four-year undergraduate programme (FYUP), bringing cheer to lakhs of aspirants. The varsity also constituted a committee of principals to devise the modalities for admissions, which can begin immediately only if DU calls the meeting of statutory bodies and takes approval for the three-year programme.

Speaking for the first time on the issue, Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister Smriti Irani made it clear that the interests of students needed to be protected at all cost. Making the announcement about the rollback, Vice Chancellor Dinesh Singh said that the university had decided to scrap the FYUP, ending days of tussle between the varsity and the University Grants Commission.

“The University of Delhi recognises the need of the hour. It is of paramount importance to protect the inter-

est of the students by ensuring the start of the admission process,” Singh, who was behind the FYUP programme, said in a statement.

“In line with the directive of the UGC, the university has decided to roll back the FYUP. Consequently the admission process shall be conducted under the scheme of courses that were in force in the academic session 2012-13 in all the colleges of the university of Delhi,” he added.

The varsity appointed 12-member committee of principals, chaired by Deen Dyal Upadhaya College principal S.K.Garg, to chalk out the road map for admissions.

“The vice chancellor has appointed a committee of principals, which will devise the modalities for admissions and monitor all admissions related issues in colleges so that the process of admissions is completed in shortest time and in a smooth manner,” DU Registrar Alka Sharma said in a statement.

The announcement ended the deadlock be-

tween the UGC and the DU over the FYUP which had led to the admission process to 64 of its 78 affiliated colleges being put on hold Tuesday.

It was the UGC’s directive to the varsity to admit students to the earlier threeyear course which prompted the colleges to defer the admission process. Around 2.7 lakh applicants have applied for admission to 54,000 seats this year in Delhi University, one of the oldest and the best in the country.

As the impasse ended, the HRD minister tweeted: “I respect autonomy of institutions. However institutions were created to serve people of the nation within ambit of law. “This is the time for statesmanship which leads to resolution.

Don’t sacrifice interest of students at altar of prestige,” she said, adding that she has asked all players not to stand on “prestige”.

University sources told IANS that the focus will be on starting the admissions.

“The modalities for reverting back to the threeyear course can be done even after the admissions begin. The main point is to begin the admission process,” the sources told IANS. mSources said admissions will begin after the academic and executive council meets and gives a go-ahead to the three-year programme.

Expressing delight at the rollback, Bhumika Thukral, a student of B.Com (Hons) said: “One, two, three. And yes I am a graduate!” “I am extremely delighted that the VC has rolled back the four-year degree course. I believe that the FYUP was useless,” Mukund Sharma, 17, a DU aspirant told IANS. St. Stephen’s College principal Valson Thampu said that now “peace will return” to the university campus. m“The students should not worry, surely the university is a body that will ensure to protect the interest of the student,” Thampu said. Students

outfits like All India Students Association (AISA) and Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) - against the FYUP - welcomed the move.

“This is one of the historic days for us. The unity across political lines helped us win.

VC is responsible for the delay,” AISA president Sunny told IANS. The Delhi university Teachers Association (DUTA) who were the first to raise a voice against FYUP “welcomed” the move.

Though the rollback has been announced, there are a lot of practical issues in reverting back to the threeyear course. Under the four-year programme, new courses were introduced, while some were scrapped. mThe trouble has not ended, at least for the students who have completed a year under FYUP. The B.Tech students are planning to protest outside Prime Minister’s Office Saturday as there course could also be reverted to three-year. The students want four-year course with a B.Tech degree.

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Ukraine signs historic trade pact with EU

Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko, center, poses with European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, left, and European Council President Herman Van Rompuy, right, during an EU Summit in Brussels on June 27. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has signed up to a trade and economic pact with the European Union, saying it may be the "most important day" for his country since it became independent from the Soviet Union. (AP Photo)

BRUSSELS, JUnE 27 (AP): Ukraine’s new president signed a trade and economic pact with the European Union on Friday, pushing his troubled country closer into a European orbit and angering Russia, which warned of unspecified consequences.

A beaming President Petro Poroshenko called it “maybe the most important day for my country” since its independence from the Soviet Union in 1991.

European Union lead-

ers, meanwhile, decided not to immediately impose new sanctions on Russia for destabilizing eastern Ukraine. In a statement, however, the leaders said new sanctions have been prepared so they could be imposed “without delay” and listed several demands for Vladimir Putin’s government and the proRussian rebels in eastern Ukraine.

Poroshenko’s pro-Moscow predecessor, Viktor Yanukovych, backed out of

signing the agreement in November and the bloody protests that followed toppled his government, sparking an insurgency in the east and Russia’s annexation of the mainly Russian-speaking Crimean Peninsula.

Agreements signed Friday let businesses in former Soviet republics of Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia trade freely in any of the EU’s 28 member nations without tariffs or restrictions, as long as their

goods and practices meet EU standards. Likewise, goods and services from the EU will be sold more easily and cheaply in the three countries.

Closer ties between Ukraine and the EU have long been overshadowed

by Russian opposition.

Moscow is loath to see its historic influence wane in its strategic neighbor, which it considers the birthplace of Russian statehood and of Russian Orthodox Christianity.

“There will undoubtedly be serious consequences for Ukraine and Moldova’s signing,” Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin said. Georgia has already lost chunks of its territory and Black Sea coast to rebels backed by Russia after a brief war with Russia in 2008.

Putin did not immediately comment on the trade pact, but in recent days has signaled that he wants to de-escalate the conflict ahead of talks later Friday by the EU’s heads of state and government on whether to ramp up sanctions against Russia over its conduct toward Ukraine.

“The most important thing is to guarantee a longterm cease-fire as a precondition for meaningful talks between the Kiev authorities and representatives of the southeast (of Ukraine),” Putin said Friday.

The EU leaders gave the Russian government and the rebels until Monday to take steps to improve the situation in eastern Ukraine, including agreeing on a way to verify the cease-fire, returning three border checkpoints to Ukraine, releasing all captives and launching “substantial negotiations” on Poroshenko’s peace plan.

A second round of talks was being held Friday in eastern Ukraine between representatives of the mutinous regions and the Kiev government, also involving envoys from Russia and the EU, Russian news agencies

quoted rebel leader Andrei Purgin as saying.

Poroshenko’s office confirmed that a weeklong cease-fire, which both sides have accused each other of violating, was set to expire at 10 p.m. local time.

Interior Minister Arsen Avakov told Ukraine’s Fifth Channel that at least 20 servicemen had been killed since the rebels agreed to the cease-fire, although he did not elaborate. He said the government would respond “harshly and adequately” to all rebels who did not put down their arms by Friday evening.

An overnight battle for a National Guard base in the eastern city of Donetsk left rebels in control early Friday.

All servicemen were set free but the commander was taken captive, according to the National Guard’s website.

In Brussels, Poroshenko made no mention of the cease-fire as he triumphantly signed the agreement. “What a great day!” he said. “Maybe the most important day for my country after independence day.”

A rally was scheduled to be held at Kiev’s Independence Square, the site of the protests that toppled Yanukovych, but the mood was still subdued Friday after Poroshenko’s signing. A trickle of people filed by votive candles and portraits of the so-called “Heavenly Hundred,” the protesters killed — many by snipers — near the square in February.

Andrei Berezov, a 30-year-old driver who

lives in a Kiev suburb, said he favored Poroshenko’s decision to bring Ukraine closer to Europe. “I have lived and worked in Madrid, there’s no comparison, it’s black and white,” he said. “There’s no corruption, paying a policeman 50 hryvnias, it wouldn’t happen there.”

Svetlana Kosenko, an 18-year-old student from Ukraine’s western regions, said she didn’t believe the country would change overnight. “I think it will take a long time,” she said.

“As they say, hope dies last, and for now we hope things will be good.”

The U.N. said Friday that 110,000 Ukrainians had fled to Russia this year and another 54,000 fled their homes but stayed in Ukraine as the government fought with separatists in the mostly Russian-speaking east. Long lines of cars stuffed with belongings backed up at the border heading into Russia this week.

European Commission experts estimate the deal will boost Ukraine’s national income by 1.2 billion euros ($1.6 billion) a year. Ukraine won a 15year transition period during which it can use tariffs to support its domestic auto industry from competition. Moldova will gradually eliminate protections for its dairy, pork, poultry and wine producers over 10 years, while the EU placed limits on imports of chicken from both countries.

Perhaps more important than the trade clauses is an accompanying 10year plan for Ukraine to adopt EU product regulations. Such rules ease the way for international trade beyond Europe.

The trade deal also demands that Ukraine change the way it does business. Adopting EU rules on government contracts, competition policy and copyright for ideas and inventions should improve Ukraine’s economy by reducing widespread corruption and making it more investor-friendly.

Amanda Paul, a policy analyst at the Brussels-based think tank European Policy Center, said Russia has levers to inflict serious economic pain on Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia through trade restrictions, cuts in energy supplies or the deportation of migrant workers from those countries. In Brussels, Poroshenko reminded EU leaders of the Ukrainians who died opposing Yanukovych’s government and in the ongoing battle against the pro-Russian insurgency in the country’s east. He said Ukraine “paid the highest possible price to make her European dreams come true.”

He asked EU leaders to take a further step and formally pledge that one day Ukraine can join the EU as a full-fledged member. That “would cost the European Union nothing,” he said, “but would mean the world to my country.”

‘MH370 passengers China official says respects Taiwan’s choices Obama seeks $500M to arm select Syrian rebels likely suffocated’ SYDnEY, JUnE 27 (REUTERS): The passengers and crew of the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 most likely died from suffocation and coasted lifelessly into the ocean on autopilot, a new report released by Australian officials on Thursday said.

In a 55-page report, the Australian Transport Safety Board outlined how investigators had arrived at this conclusion after comparing the conditions on the flight with previous disasters, although it contained no new evidence from within the jetliner.

The report narrowed down the possible final resting place from thousands of possible routes, while noting the absence of communications and the steady flight path and a number of other key abnormalities in the course of the ill-fated flight.

“Given these observations, the final stages of the unresponsive crew/hypoxia event type appeared to best fit the available evidence for the final period of MH370’s flight when it was heading in a generally southerly direction,” the ATSB report said. All of that suggested that the plane most likely crashed farther south into the Indian Ocean than previously thought, Australian officials also said, leading them to announce a shift farther south within the prior search area.

The new analysis comes more than 100 days after the Boeing 777, carrying 239 passengers and crew, disappeared on March 8 shortly after taking off from Kuala Lumpur bound for Beijing.

Investigators say what little evidence they have to work with suggests the plane was deliberately diverted thousands of kilometres from its scheduled route before eventually plunging into the Indian Ocean. The search was narrowed in April after a series of acoustic pings thought to be from the plane’s black box recorders were heard along a final arc where analysis of satellite data put its last location.

KAOHSIUnG, JUnE 27 (REUTERS): China’s top official in charge of relations with self-ruled Taiwan said on Friday that he understood and respected the choices of the island’s people, as he was met by noisy protests in the traditionally anti-China far south of Taiwan.

Zhang Zhijun, director of China’s Taiwan Affairs Office, is making the first trip ever by the head of the body to Taiwan, a visit marked by a highly unusual meeting with an opposition party stalwart and mayor of the pro-independence southern port of Kaohsiung, Chen Chu. Protesters waved placards deriding Zhang as a “communist bandit”. While Chen has previously visited China and met Zhang there, spearheading efforts by the Democratic Progressive Party to engage with Beijing, such high-level meetings in Taiwan with opposition figures are almost unheard of.

“We know that Taiwan people cherish very much the social system and the life style they have chosen,” Zhang said after meeting

Chen. “We in mainland China respect what Taiwanese people have chosen.” China welcomes people from all parties to help improve relations across the Taiwan Strait, Zhang added, calling his talks with Chen “pleasant”.

Beijing claims Taiwan as its own, to be taken back by force if necessary, though the two have been ruled separately since defeated Nationalist forces fled to the island in 1949 at the end of a civil war with the Communists.

China says it will not countenance a de jure independent Taiwan. Many Taiwanese look with nervousness, if not fear, at China, where the ruling Communist Party remains unmoved by calls for political liberalisation. Taiwan is a freewheeling democracy after undergoing a democratic transition in the 1980s.

Taiwan’s pride in its democracy helps reinforce the unwillingness of many to be absorbed politically

by China. The sentiment is felt particularly keenly in Kaohsiung, one of the main heartlands of Taiwanese

cultural identity and where, in 1979, rights activists held a pivotal rally which helped spark Taiwan’s eventual democratic transition. “It’s been a very difficult journey that Taiwan has gone through in the past few decades,” Zhang said.

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Chen, who was deeply involved in Taiwan’s struggle for democracy, said she explained to Zhang that the protests he may have witnessed were part of Taiwan’s political system “I told director Zhang that as soon as he arrived at the airport, he may have heard very different voices and protest. I said this is a very normal part of Taiwan’s democracy. I appreciate if he can understand that,” Chen said.

In 2009 China reacted angrily at plans to show a documentary about exiled Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer, a woman China labels a dangerous separatist, at the Kaohsiung film festival, sparking a boycott of the city by Chinese tourists.

Chen at the time shrugged off China’s complaints, say-

ing it would harm Kaohsiung’s commitment to human rights if it gave in to Beijing.

Underscoring the depth of feeling in southern Taiwan, Zhang was met by hundreds of protesters at Kaohsiung’s high speed train station, waving placards reading “Communist Zhang Zhijun, get the hell back to China”. A much smaller group of protesters also met him when he flew into Taipei on Wednesday.

The once heavily industrialised Kaohsiung has lost many of its companies and factories to China, drawn away by a massive population and low manufacturing costs, and it has struggled economically in recent years.

Zhang’s unusual charm offensive stands in contrast to its ties with several countries in Asia where territorial rows have flared over maritime boundaries.

China has also denounced people in Chinese-run Hong Kong, where hundreds of thousands have been pushing for greater democracy His trip comes at a sensitive time.

‘Iraq militants executed 160 captives’ BAGHDAD, JUnE 27 (AP): Iraqi insurgents executed at least 160 captives earlier this month in the northern city of Tikrit, Human Rights Watch said Friday, citing an analysis of satellite imagery and grisly photos released by the militants.

The U.S.-based rights group said militants from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant killed between 160 and 190 men in two locations in Tikrit between June 11 and June 14. “The number of victims may well be much higher, but the difficulty of locating bodies and accessing the area has prevented a full investigation,” it said.

After overrunning large swaths of northern Iraq and capturing the cities of Mosul and Tikrit earlier this month, the Islamic extremist group posted graphic photos on a militant website that appeared to show fighters loading dozens of captured soldiers onto flatbed trucks before forcing them to lie in a shallow ditch with their hands tied

behind their backs. A final set of photos shows bodies.

“The photos and satellite images from Tikrit provide strong evidence of a horrible war crime that needs further investigation,” Peter Bouckaert, emergencies director at Human Rights Watch, said in a statement.

Chief Iraqi military spokesman Lt. Gen. Qassim al-Moussawi confirmed the photos’ authenticity on June 15, after they first surfaced, and said he was aware of cases of mass murder of captured Iraqi soldiers in areas held by the Islamic State.

He told The Associated Press at the time that an examination of the images by military experts showed that about 170 soldiers were shot to death after their capture.

Captions on the photos showing the soldiers after they were shot say “hundreds have been liquidated,” but the total could not be verified.

The massacre appeared to be aimed at instilling

fear in Iraq’s demoralized armed forces -- which melted away as militants seized much of the north in a matter of days -- as well as the country’s Shiite majority, whom the Islamic State views as apostates.

“This is the fate that awaits the Shiites sent by Nouri to fight the Sunnis,” one caption read, apparently referring to Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.

The rapid advance of the Islamic State and allied Sunni militants has ignited sectarian tensions, with heavily armed Shiite militias vowing to defend Baghdad and revered shrine cities to the south.

On Thursday a bombing killed 12 people in a Shiite neighborhood of Baghdad that houses a revered shrine, and police found the bullet-riddled bodies of eight Sunnis south of the capital.

Prominent Shiite leaders are meanwhile pushing for the removal of al-Maliki, who has come under mounting pressure to reach out to the coun-

try’s disaffected Sunni and Kurdish minorities and rapidly form a unified government following April’s parliamentary elections.

Even al-Maliki’s most important ally, neighboring Iran, is said to be looking at alternatives.

A senior Iranian general who met with Shiite politicians in Iraq during a 10-day visit this month returned home with a list of potential prime minister candidates for Iran’s leadership to consider, several senior Iraqi Shiite politicians who have knowledge of the general’s meetings told The Associated Press on Thursday.

The general, Ghasem Soleimani, is expected to return within days to inform Iraqi politicians of Tehran’s favorite, they said, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss the internal deliberations.

The rapid advance of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant in the north as well as the restive western Anbar province has plunged Iraq into its worst

crisis since U.S. troops withdrew in 2011 and raised fears of a region-wide conflict. The radical group has carved out a self-styled Islamic state straddling the Syrian-Iraqi border, where it has imposed a brutal version of Shariah law.

Russia’s U.N. ambassador said Thursday that there is a real prospect of a terrorist state springing up from Syria’s second-largest city Aleppo to Iraq’s capital Baghdad.

Vitaly Churkin, the current president of the U.N. Security Council, said he told the 14 other council members that a terrorist state “is a very, very serious prospect” that the council needs to address “because really we are lagging behind ... in our responses.”

He argued that Russia’s support for President Bashar Assad’s government in Syria was aimed at preventing the Islamic State from taking over.

The United States is also looking to Syria, with President Barack Obama requesting $500 million to

arm and train moderate Syrian rebels in the hopes of opening up a new front against the Islamic State, which has been at war with other Islamic and secular rebel groups since the start of the year.

The rebel groups turned on the Islamic State because of its alleged brutality toward rivals and activists. Massacres like the one depicted in the online photos from Iraq could alienate some Sunnis while emboldening the armed forces and Shiite militias.

Human Rights Watch said that using satellite imagery from 2013 and publicly available photos taken earlier, it was able to pinpoint the execution site in a field near a former palace of the late dictator Saddam Hussein, next to the Tigris river.

It said satellite imagery of the site from June 16 did not reveal bodies but showed indications of vehicles and earth movement consistent with the two shallow trenches visible in the photos.

WASHInGTOn, JUnE 27 (AP): President Barack Obama is seeking to bolster U.S. efforts to train and arm select members of the Syrian opposition, a move that comes amid increased U.S. concern that the conflicts in Syria and Iraq are becoming an intertwined fight against the same Sunni extremist group. Obama sent Congress a $500 million request Thursday for a Pentagon-run program that would significantly expand previous covert efforts to arm rebels fighting both the Sunni extremists and forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad. If approved by lawmakers, the program would in effect open a second front in the fight against militants spilling over Syria’s border and threatening to overwhelm neighboring Iraq.

Obama has long been reluctant to arm the Syrian opposition, in part because of concerns that weapons may fall into extremist hands. But administration officials say the U.S. has grown increasingly confident in recent months about its ability to distinguish the moderate rebels from the more extremist elements that include the al-Qaida-inspired Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, which has stormed into Iraq and captured much of the northern part of the country. The risk of U.S. weapons and ammunition falling into the wrong hands appears to have only heightened now that ISIL has strengthened.

But Obama’s request to Congress appeared to indicate that tackling the crumbling security situation in Syria and Iraq trumped those concerns. White House spokeswoman Caitlin Hayden said the military assistance “marks another step toward helping the Syrian people defend themselves against regime attacks, push back against the growing number of extremists like ISIL who find safe haven in the chaos, and take their future into their own hands by enhancing security and stability at local levels.”

The Syria program is part of a broader, $65.8 billion overseas operations request that the administration sent to Capitol Hill on Thursday. The package includes $1 billion to help stabilize nations bordering Syria that are struggling with the effects of the civil war. It also formalizes a request for a previously announced $1 billion to strengthen the U.S. military presence in Central and Eastern Europe amid Russia’s threatening moves in Ukraine.

The president’s cautious approach to Syria has come under increased criticism as the civil war, now in its fourth year, spills across the border into Iraq, with Obama opponents arguing that the president’s reluctance to arm the rebels gave ISIL the space to grow stronger. Like the more moderate Syrian rebels, ISIL is seeking to push Assad from power. The group seeks to carve out a purist Islamic enclave across both sides of the Syria-Iraq border.

With ISIL gaining strength, U.S. officials say Assad’s forces launched airstrikes on extremist targets inside Iraq on Monday. The U.S. is also weighing targeted strikes against ISIL in Iraq, creating an odd alignment with one of Washington’s biggest foes. Obama has ruled out sending U.S. troops back into combat in Iraq. But he has dispatched nearly 600 U.S. forces in and around Iraq to train local forces and secure the American Embassy in Baghdad and other U.S. interests. The White House has been hinting for weeks that Obama was preparing to step up assistance to the Syrian rebels. In a commencement speech at West Point on May 28, he said that by helping those fighting for a free Syria, “we also push back against the growing number of extremists who find safe haven in the chaos.”

Officials said the administration would coordinate with Congress and regional players on the specific types of training and assistance the U.S. would provide the opposition.

One potential option would be to base U.S. personnel in Jordan and conduct the training there. mThe Senate Armed Services Committee already has approved a version of the sweeping defense policy bill authorizing the Defense Department to provide “equipment, supplies, training and defense services” to elements of the Syrian opposition that have been screened. The Senate could act on the bill before its August recess. In addition to the covert train-and-equip mission, the U.S. also has provided nearly $287 million in nonlethal assistance to the moderate opposition. mThe military program would be supplemented by $1 billion in assistance to Syria’s neighbors — Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey and Iraq to help them deal with an influx of refugees and the threat of extremists spilling over their borders.

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FICA disappointed with Srinivasan elevation, NZC backs him

MELBOuRnE, JunE 27 (PTI): The Federation of International Cricketers Association (FICA) today said it was disappointed with N Srinivasan`s appointment to the post of ICC Chairman even as New Zealand Cricket Director Martin Snedden backed the controversial Indian administrator`s elevation to the top job.

FICA`s outgoing President Paul Marsh said the world body should have waited for the allegations surrounding Srinivasan to be resolved before making him chairman of its board.

"We`ve seen in recent days significant changes at ICC level, which represent a new era in terms of the administration and leadership of world cricket," Marsh said. "FICA`s position on this is well known.

Our strong preference was for the controversy involving Mr Srinivasan in India to be resolved before the ICC made a decision on the chairmanship. "While

it`s disappointing that this did not occur, we can`t let this distract FICA from its responsibility of helping shape cricket`s future."

Srinivasan was formally anointed ICC Chairman after the world body`s council agreed to a contentious revamp of the administrative structure which vested executive decision-making authority with India, England and Australia.

However, Srinivasan found support from Snedden, who said allegations against Srinivasan have to be proved first. "(They are) allegations that we know nothing about made by people that are highly incentivised to get rid Srinivasan," he told `New Zealand Radio`.

"The (Indian Supreme) court has said that they`re untested and no inference is to be taken from the fact that they`ve asked for them to be investigated. "But in three or four months time, that investigation will be complete, the results will be given to the court, they`ll be made pub-

lic. If, at that point, there is a problem, then the ICC can deal with it then." Snedden also felt that there was nothing wrong in handing more power to the `Big Three` of international cricket. "Having India inside the camp is a huge about-turn from where it`s been throughout the time I`ve been involved in the ICC," he said.

"India`s been an outlier, they`ve caused all sorts of havoc and uncertainty from time to time and it`s made it extremely difficult for other countries -- New Zealand`s been on the receiving end of that, so have a number of other countries.

"As a result of what these (big three) countries have done, yes, they`ve used their collective advantage in some ways, but at the same time, what they are doing is providing the overall international cricket community with a lot more certainty," he added. Meanwhile, the Australian media reacted sharply to Srinivasan`s appointment with newspapers here saying that the move is a fresh attack on cricket`s credibility. "Even if, as Srinivasan says, he is proven to have done nothing wrong, the fact that other members of the ICC endorsed him for the chairmanship hardly inspires confidence in their collective desire to stamp out corruption from the sport," wrote The Age newspaper.

"Srinivasan`s very presence at the Melbourne conference as the ICC`s newly inaugurated chairman was a fresh attack on cricket`s credibility."

US ready to take on Belgium in WC

Alex Dubin, 17, center top, reacts with other United States fans while watching the 2014 World Cup soccer match between the United States and Germany at a public viewing party in San Francisco, Thursday, June 26. (AP Photo)

RECIFE, JunE 27 (AP): Now that the U.S. has survived the so-called "Group of Death," it's time for sudden death: the knockout phase of the World Cup. The Americans play Belgium on Tuesday night in the round of 16, hoping to show they're better than the U.S. team that lost in overtime to Ghana in the second round four years ago.

"By no means are we satisfied with just getting out of the group," midfielder Graham Zusi said Sunday after the Americans advanced despite a 1-0 loss

to Germany. "We want to keep going and make some history." Belgium eased past the Americans 4-2 in a May 2013 exhibition at Cleveland on two goals by Christian Benteke (currently sidelined with a torn Achilles tendon), and one each from Marouane Fellaini and Kevin Mirallas.

Two years earlier, Belgium won 1-0 in Brussels on Nicolas Lombaerts' halfvolley in the 55th minute in Jurgen Klinsmann's first road game with the U.S. "They're a top team. Everyone around Europe will

Carrot and stick needed to change Suarez

Fans of Uruguay's national soccer team await the arrival of Uruguay player Luis Suarez at Carrasco International Airport in the outskirts of Montevideo, Uruguay, Thursday, June 26. The Uruguay forward, widely regarded as one of the best players in the world, was banned by FIFA from all football for four months on Thursday for biting an Italian opponent in an incident that marred the team's victory and progression to the second round. (AP Photo) John Leicester AP Sports Columnist

How is it that footballers are among the few who've not had much to say about the bite seen around the world, now punished with an appropriately tough ban?

Luis Suarez's peers surely can't all be fearful that he might chomp them next if they voice an opinion about his penchant for man-flesh. Some of his teammates and his latest victim, Giorgio Chiellini, told their (conflicting) sides of this bizarre story.

But other players are too busy trying to win the World Cup to worry themselves with the Uruguay striker, what football should do about him and whether the punishment FIFA meted out Thursday fits his crime. Their broad silence, punctuated by few exceptions, has been deafening when the rest of planet football talked and tweeted up a storm about Suarez fanging the Italian defender's shoulder and now being sent home.

FIFA, a deserved target for criticism on so many other levels, did well with its swift, measured justice in this case. Excluding the man-toddler from the rest of the World Cup means football can get back to fo-

Chiellini calls Suarez ban ‘excessive’

MILAn, JunE 27 (AP): Giorgio Chiellini believes Luis Suarez has been harshly punished by FIFA for biting his shoulder during their decisive World Cup match.

Suarez was banned from all football activities and stadiums for four months, suspended from Uruguay's next nine internationals, and fined.

"Now inside me there are no feelings of joy, revenge or anger against Suarez for an incident, which happened on the pitch and is done," Chillieni wrote in his blog for Sportlobster. "There only remains the anger and the disappointment about the match. At the moment, my only thought is for Luis and his famcusing on the fabulous play at its showcase tournament and less on Suarez's psyche and need of a pacifier/ muzzle.

Instead of blindly closing ranks, trying to defend the indefensible and pretending he is the victim of a conspiracy, now is the time for teammates and Uruguay officials to sit in a semi-circle around Suarez and one after the other explain how he is letting them and himself down. Peer pressure might be more effective than simple punishment in moderating his behavior. They could help themselves by helping him stop ruining what should be a glorious career, given his skills with a ball.

ily, because they will face a very difficult period. "I have always unequivocally considered the disciplinary interventions by the competent bodies, but at the same time I believe the proposed formula is excessive. I sincerely hope he will be allowed to stay close to his teammates during the games, because such a ban is really alienating for a player."

Uruguay's football federation said it planned to appeal the ban.

This is the third time Suarez has been banned for biting an opponent, following similar incidents in the Dutch and English leagues. He has also faced a ban in England for racial abuse.

FIFA's four-month ban from "any kind of footballrelated activity," fitting given his history as a repeat offender, plus a nine-match international ban should hopefully have the smelling-salts effect of hurting Suarez's income.

Smart sponsors should cut him off as they eventually did with Lance Armstrong. If they don't, then, by association, they are encouraging his behavior. Buyers who've sniffed around Liverpool to test whether the club will part with the Premier League's top scorer last season also should look elsewhere.

Handing over squillions for Suarez now would make them complicit and allow

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him to believe that club bosses don't care if he bites opponents just so long as he beats them.

But Liverpool should both publicly condemn and stand by Suarez, as it did in the past, and again show that its motto — "You'll never walk alone" — means just that. Educate Suarez by offering him a carrot to go with the sting of FIFA's stick. Make Liverpool's support conditional on him accepting counselling and understanding his behavior from his victims' perspective.

If he hasn't already, he should be made to meet with Otman Bakkal, Branislav Ivanovic and now Chiellini to hear how unpleas-

ant it was to feel his teeth sink into their bodies. Liverpool should do all this to show that football doesn't tolerate bad behavior but also won't tolerate leaving players alone with their demons. Ostracizing Suarez would feed mob cravings for a hanging but alone won't save this conflicted talent.

Understandably, players have cut themselves off to minimize distractions in Brazil. Distractions don't come any bigger than man eats man. A standard reaction when asked about Suarez was that of Mamadou Sakho: the France defender and Suarez's Liverpool teammate laughed, motioned to zip up his mouth and walked away.

"I saw what happened, I think everybody has seen it by now," Brazil midfielder Willian said before FIFA announced its punishment. "But it's not up to us to judge him. There are other people who will do that. We have to keep focused on the national team and on our match against Chile. We can't think about anything else."

Modern footballers are a disenfranchised lot, spoken for in the sport's corridors of power by retired players, bureaucrats and mostly older men.

Their union, FIFPro, usually so quick to jump on issues involving football governance, said little on Suarez's bite. It would be wrong to think that footballers don't have an opinion. But most aren't asked or paid for them until after they've retired and become media pundits. And some truly won't care. Some won't see Suarez's behavior or anything beyond winning the next game as being their business.

Among the few active players to express an opinion was Brazil striker Fred.

He acknowledged that Suarez "made a mistake" but called FIFA's punishment "too severe."

"On the field, players are on the edge, there's tension, everyone is fighting for space," he said.

"I've talked to some people and most think it was fair, but in my opinion it wasn't, because it's a punishment that can end a player's life (career)."

tell you how good they are," American goalkeeper Tim Howard said. "They've got so many good players, young players, strong, fast, good on the ball. I actually think because of that we match up well with them, but we'll see."

Howard was a teammate at Everton last season with Belgium's Romelu Lukaku and Mirallas, and played on the Toffees with Fellaini before the bushyhaired forward transferred to Manchester United last summer. The Red Devils, seeded in December's draw and ranked 11th, are

at their first major tournament since the 2002 World Cup, where they lost in the second round to eventual champion Brazil.

While the U.S. defeated Ghana 2-1 and drew Portugal 2-2 to advance on a goal-difference tiebreaker against the Portuguese, Belgium beat Algeria 2-1, Russia 1-0 and South Korea 1-0. "It gives us so much confidence to get those nine points with only 10 men and prepare for the Americans in that mood," defender Jan Vertonghen said Sunday after scoring

the only goal as Belgium finished a man short.

The U.S., which reached the knockout stage of consecutive World Cups for the first time, returned to its Sao Paulo base Thursday night and looked forward to four days off before playing the Belgians in Salvador. The winner advances to a quarterfinal against Argentina or Switzerland.

"We're excited about trying to go further than we did last World Cup and getting past this first game (of the knockout rounds)," captain Clint Dempsey said.

Mokokchung badminton open championship

MOKOKCHunG, JunE 27 (DIPR): The 28th Mokokchung District Badminton Open Championship from 27 to 28 June began today at Indoor Multi Stadium.

Vice President & Convenor (Technical Committee) Mokokchung District Badminton Association (MDBA), Lipok, in his in-

troductory speech encouraged the young players saying that it is the time to exhibit one’s potential keeping in mind that this is the first step for many tournaments in the future.

It may be mentioned that a 10 –day Badminton Coaching Camp organized by MDBA from June 16 to 26

was attended by 67 players from the district. Officials from MDBA informed that coaching would continue for those players selected during the ongoing open championship as part of the training for the forth coming Inter-District Tournament which begins form August 5 at Mokokchung.

Saina in Semis; Sindhu bows out of Australian super series

SYDnEY, JunE 27 (PTI): Ace Indian shuttler Saina Nehwal reached the women's singles semifinals with a comfortable straightgame win, but compatriot P V Sindhu failed to cross the quarterfinal hurdle in the USD 750,000 Star Australian Super Series, here today. While Sindhu, seeded eighth, lost 17-21 17-21 against Carolina Marin of Spain, sixth seeded Saina got the better of Eriko Hirose of Japan 21-18 21-9 in 47 minutes to set up a clash against world no. 2 Chinese shuttler Shixian Wang in the last four stage of the tournament.

Saina enjoys a 4-3 record against two-time All England champion Wang but the last couple of times they met, the Chinese had won on both the occasions.

The London Olympics bronze-medallist Indian got off to a fine start today against her Japanese oppo-

nent, as she straight away opened up a 4-0 lead and quickly widened the gap to 8-2. But Hirose fought her way back to make it 10-10.

Although Saina always held an upper hand and maintained a slender lead, Hirose once again came from behind to make it 18-18.

But World No. 8 Saina held on to hold her nerves and was quick to take the next three points to wrap the opening game. A dominant display in the second game

by Saina left the Japanese girl gasping for breath. And the only time Hirose even came close to the shuttler from Hyderabad was at 2-3.

"Won a tough quarter final against Hirose. I play Wang Shixian in the semi final tomorrow. Keep supporting me friends," Saina wrote on her twitter handle after winning the quarterfinal match. Sindhu, world no. 10, fought her heart out

for 47 minutes but could not overcome the challenge posed by the 11th ranked Spaniard.

Opening game was a closely fought affair with the two shuttlers exchanging leads time and again.

The game kept oscillating from one end to another till it was tied at 17-17. At this stage, Carolina broke off and reeled four consecutive points to seal the first game 21-17 in her favour.

Sindhu tried hard to make a comeback in the second game, and put up a good fight. But it lasted only till 7-7. The Spaniard bagged a couple of points to surge ahead and then capitalised on the advantage to maintain a slight edge. At 20-15, when Carolina was serving for the match, Sindhu managed to save two match points, but eventually went down to crash out of the competition.

Pakistan, India agree on 6 series from next year

ISLAMABAD, JunE 27 (AP): Pakistan and India will revive cricketing ties next year after agreeing on Friday to play six series from 2015 until 2023.

Pakistan toured India in late 2012 for a short limited-overs series, but they have not played in a full bilateral series since the Mumbai terrorist attacks in 2008. India last toured Pakistan in 2006.

The Pakistan Cricket Board said it will host India in December 2015. The United Arab Emirates, Pakistan's "home" since 2009, will likely stage the series.

No foreign cricket team has toured Pakistan due to security concerns since gunmen attacked the Sri Lanka team convoy in Lahore in March 2009. Since then, Pakistan has hosted almost all its home series in the UAE cities of Sharjah,

Dubai and Abu Dhabi. "We are delighted to announce the revival of Pakistan-India series, which we wish to hold on a regular basis," PCB chairman Najam Sethi said in a statement. Officials from both countries met on the sidelines of the International Cricket Council conference in Melbourne, and signed a memorandum of understanding. Pakistan agreed to constitutional changes in the ICC on condition it will play more frequent bilateral series against India which could generate more than half of its $300 million expected revenue from 2015-23. No other contest in world cricket was as exciting as India vs. Pakistan, BCCI secretary Sanjay Patel boasted. "These tours," he said, "promise to be one of the most anticipated sporting events in the world."

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ctor Salman Khan, also known for his is Salman’s charitable organisation charity work, is now set to help his which works for the underfans and others find jobs through his site privileged. beinghumanworkshop.com. He took to Twitter Wednesday and posted Appna Face book is not just for time pass, use it to find work. beinghumanworkshop. com #Beinghumanjobs. Kaam ki cheez.

Everyone on my fb page who dn’t hve a job, I’ve spoken to my frnds to hire n employ them, obviously u need to fulfill the requirement, the Dabangg star further tweeted.

Salman said he took the step as many fans shared their unemployment stories with him. Lots of fans hv been saying that they don’t hv any job, so thought of this, superb if it works n u get jobs. Vil b v happy for u all, he wrote. Being Human

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Filafi Fithu, Naga shoe designer opens store in Italy Founder of Filafi Fithu seen in her new Store in Italy.

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he 70-year-old actor took a break from shooting ‘The Intern’ in Brooklyn on Thursday (26.06.14) to watch the USA play Germany in the World Cup after finding a group of fans in a nearby house who were hosting a viewing party. Executives on the movie had originally asked officials at a nearby apartment building to help the movie legend be able to see the game in his trailer.

An email was sent which read ‘’Our lead actor, Robert De Niro, would very much like to watch the World Cup game,

today at 12 pm. ‘’Would it be possible to place a small portable satellite on the building rooftop ASAP and run a cable to the street to help facilitate this request’’ However, following the request, a resident stepped in to invite the ‘Taxi Driver’ star to watch it with them. A neighbour told the Business Insider ‘’We got another email from a neighbour saying he talked to the crew and apparently he found a house of people watching it and joined them.’’

Production was halted for two hours so the legendary actor could enjoy the game.

KOHIMA, JUNE 27 (MExN): In less than a year since she launched her own range of designer

shoes in Delhi, Filafi Fithu has opened her first overseas store at Desenzano del Garda, a town in Lom-

holiday destination famous for its beautiful landscape, beaches and exciting nightlife. The store was opened on June 19.

Filafi Fithu, a Naga shoe designer, launched her own range of designer shoes branded “Filafi Fithu” at one of the posh areas in New Delhi at Greater Kailash last October.

The designer said the collection in the newly bardy, opened Filafi Fithu Italy by Store in Italy is the famous slightly different lake of Garda and a top than in India, consider-

ing the taste of the people there. However, it may be recalled that the high end Filafi Fithu Shoes available in India are also manufactured from Italy.

Meanwhile, a more affordable range of shoes exclusively under her brand name are being manufactured from Romania for an economy line called t-r-en-d-z.

Adding another feather to her cap is the upcoming Italian movie- L’uomo Volante (The Flying Man) starring Adelmo Togliani and Bianca Guaccero, featuring Filafi Fithu Shoes.

Italian star Bianca Guaccero in between rehearsals for the movie in Filafi Fithu Shoes.

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ared Leto and Ellen Page have been named the world’s sexiest vegetarians. The Oscar winner has topped Peta’s list of men and Juno star Page beats out Ariana Grande and Laura Prepon for the female title. Vegan Mad Men star Jessica Pare, Sarah Silverman, Joaquin Phoenix, Samuel L. Jackson, Peter Dinklage and Woody Harrelson also made the annual list.

Previous winners of Peta’s Sexiest Vegetarian Celebrity contest include Kristen Bell, Harrelson, Jessica Chastain, Kristen Wiig, Russell Brand, Olivia Wilde, Carrie Underwood, Prince, Natalie Portman, Shania Twain, Leona Lewis, Andre 3000, Tobey Maguire, and Alicia Silverstone.

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ollywood actress Mallika Sherawat is not pleased with her link-up with Hollywood actor Antonio Banderas. After being held responsible for his split from wife Melanie Griffith, she says don`t pry into her personal life. Mallika, who entered the Indian film industry in 2003 with ‘Khwahish’, was recorded on video dancing with the ‘Des-

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“I remember when they danced and they had a lot of PDA (Public Display of Affection), he had a lot of public affection with Mallika,” Los Angeles stylist Ivan Bitton was quoted as saying. “He was saying ‘God you’re so beautiful,’ like a horndog would do talking to a prey,” he added. After the report, the ‘Murder’ actress tweeted, Thursday “LEAVE ME ALONE!” When contacted by another international site on her relationship with Banderas, who along with Griffith recently announced that they were ending their marriage after 18 years, Mallika said Antonio Banderas is a wonderful man, a great dancer and an acquaintance of mine.” I did not go on any vacation with him, and I`m sorry he`s going through a divorce,” she was further quoted.

She went on to say that Bitton was hired only for the international film festival. Ivan Bitton is not my best friend. I hired him as a stylist at Cannes and then fired him. I`m sure he released the video.

I don`t know what he`s even talking about now. I haven`t been in touch with Ivan since I fired him. Whatever he`s saying about me is ridiculous,” she said.

Hailing from Rohtak in Haryana, Mallika went international with Jackie Chan-starrer 2005 film ‘The Myth’, and then did Jennifer Lynch`s ‘Hisss’ and William Dear`s

‘Politics of Love’.

Her first visit to the Cannes fest was with Jackie Chan for the promotion of ‘The Myth’.

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Man United seal big money Li Na knocked out of Wimbledon deals for Shaw and Herrera Djokovic through to Wimbledon last 16 after injury scare

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MANCHeSTeR, JuNe 27 (AP): England defender Luke Shaw became the world's most expensive teenage player on Friday and Manchester United's second signing in 24 hours following its worst English Premier League campaign.

The 18-year-old left back joined United from Southampton, reportedly for more than 27 million pounds ($46 million), straight after returning from his first World Cup with England.

Southampton confirmed the deal made Shaw

"the most expensive teenager ever," which would eclipse fees of around 26 million pounds ($44 million) that saw Wayne Rooney joinManchester United in 2004 and Marquinhos sign for Paris Saint-Germain last year.

Shaw signed a four-year contract, with an option to extend for a further year if he continues to develop as one of the most exciting youngsters in football.

"I want to continue to progress my career and joining United is the ideal place for me to do that,"

Shaw said in a statement.

The record 20-time English champions are spending early in the summer transfer window after dithering last year in the post-Alex Ferguson era led to an alarming, and costly, slump on the pitch. David Moyes was fired just before the season ended with United going from 2013 champions to seventhplace finishers last month.

Another big money signing Ander Herrera from Athletic Bilbao became a Manchester United player on Thursday, the first recruit since Louis van Gaal took charge of the struggling club.

The 24-year-old Herrera will join on a four-year contract after he receives an international transfer certificate. United says it trigged a buyout clause in Herrera's contract.

Herrera will be tasked with helping the 20-time English champions return to the Premier League's top four to qualify for the Champions League after finishing in seventh place last month.

United's dire form in the first season following Alex Ferguson's retirement led to David Moyes being fired as manager. Van Gaal was hired last month, but won't take charge until completing the World Cup with the Netherlands.

Ryan Giggs, who stayed on as a temporary stint in charge as assistant manager, said Herrera was signed for his "great energy and creativity." "We believe him to be one of the brightest young prospects in Spain," Giggs said. "I'm looking forward to seeing him in action on our summer tour to America."

The Czech player thought she had won the match and went to the net to shake Li's hand after a forehand was called out.

But Li challenged the call and the ball was ruled in, continuing the match -until Li double-faulted on match point. "I was so happy already that the match is over, and then suddenly she took the challenge and I had to get back to my concentration," Zahlavova Strycova said.

In other matches, French Open finalist Simona Halep and former No. 1 Caroline Wozniacki won their matches after rain delayed the start of play for about 30 minutes.

Halep, who lost the Roland Garros final to Maria Sharapova, advanced with a 6-3, 4-6, 6-4 win over Lesia Tsurenko of Ukraine in a second-round match.

Wozniacki moved into the fourth round following a

6-3, 6-0 win over Ana Konjuh of Croatia.

No. 22-seeded Ekaterina Makarova of Russia beat Caroline Garcia of France 7-5, 6-3, and Belinda Bencic of Switzerland defeated Victoria Duval of the United States 6-4, 7-5.

In other men's play, No. 19 Feliciano Lopez of Spain beat Ante Pavic of Croatia 6-4, 7-6 (4) 7-5 in a secondround match and Kevin Anderson beat Fabio Fognini of Italy 4-6, 6-4, 2-6, 6-2, 6-1 to reach the fourth round.

Anderson, who won 10 of the last 11 games, is the first South African to advance to the fourth round at Wimbledon since Wayne Ferreira in 2000. He's reached the fourth round of his last three Grand Slams. In a second-round match carried over from Thursday due to rain, Santiago Giraldo of Colombia beat No. 30 Marcel Granollers of Spain 4-6, 7-6 (2), 1-6, 6-1, 7-5.

li Na of China plays a return to Barbora Zahlavova Strycova of the Czech Republic during their women's singles match at the all england lawn tennis Championships in Wimbledon, london, Friday June 27. (AP Photo)

LONDON, JuNe 27 (AP): Australian Open champion and secondseeded Li Na was eliminated 7-6 (5), 7-6 (5) on Friday

by Barbora Zahlavova Strycova in the first major upset at Wimbledon.

Li looked out of sorts for most of the third-round match on Court 1 and blew a set point in the second set. In men's play, topseeded Novak Djokovic overcame a hard fall in the third set to advance to the fourth round with a 6-4, 6-2, 6-4 Centre Court win over Gilles Simon.

Leading 3-2 in the third set and with Simon serving, Djokovic lunged for a forehand shot and fell hard to

the grass, rolling over and grabbing his upper left arm and grimacing in pain. But after taking a medical timeout and receiving treatment by a trainer, he recovered to play out the final four games of the match, breaking Simon's serve in the final game, his seventh break in the match.

"It was a sharp pain," Djokovic said. "It was an awkward fall. I was just hoping there is nothing really bad with the joint.

Luckily there is nothing damaged. I could play. Just the muscle was quite sore because of the impact. All in all I'm just glad to get through."

Djokovic will play Jo-

Wilfried Tsonga, who beat Jimmy Wang of Taiwan 6-2, 6-2, 7-5, in the fourth round on Monday. Due to rain delays, Tsonga has played on all five days of the tournament. "There is two days off, I'm going to try to recover and get ready," Djokovic said. Zahlavova Strycova called her win over Li the biggest of her career. Li won the first of her two Grand Slam titles at the French Open in 2011 and had reached the quarterfinals at Wimbledon three times.

"When you go on court you have to believe in yourself," the 43rd-ranked Zahlavova Strycova said. "I thought I could do it and I was pushing myself a lot."

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