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Naga groups told to stop factional violence; asked to desist the path of self-destruction Our Correspondent Kohima | June 28

Current scenario in Nagaland...

One drowned kohIMA, June 28 (Mexn): A Class VIII student, aged between 14 to 15 years of age drowned while two others were rescued at around 2:30 PM from Tizu River, towards Sohomi village near Phek town today. Source said that the incident occurred when nine children (age10-15) went for fishing in the Tizu area.

Petrol price hiked

by Rs. 1.82 a litre

new DelhI, June 28 (IAnS): Petrol prices will go up by Rs.1.82 per litre, excluding taxes, from midnight Friday due to the fall in the value of the rupee and hardening of crude prices in international market, state-run Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) said.

“Since the last price change, the downwards slide of rupee has continued and USD-INR exchange rate has deteriorated to Rs.58.94 per the US dollar during the fortnight. Further, international MS prices have also increased since the last price change,” the country’s largest oil marketing firm said. This is the third increase in petrol prices this month. The fuel price was hiked by Rs.0.75 per litre June 1, 2013 and Rs.2 per litre June 15, 2013. According to IOC, the depreciating rupee coupled with high international MS (motor spirit) prices have also resulted in rise of underrecovery incurred on sale of sensitive products like diesel, LPG (Liquefied petroleum gas) cylinder and kerosene. “Estimated under-recovery of the corporation (IOC) on sale of these three sensitive products is expected to be around Rs.63,000 crore for the fiscal 2013-14,” it added.

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Mokokchung, June 28 (DIPR): As intimated by the Additional District Magistrate of Sivasagar, Assam, and the Additional Deputy Commissioner of Mokokchung, Chubawati Chang, it has been informed that a night curfew has been reinforced from dusk till dawn in the 5 km belt of Assam side bordering Nagaland and Arunachal Pradesh to detect movement of antisocial elements. The Order is scheduled to be in force for a period of 60 days with immediate effect. Civil Officials deployed on duty are exempted from the purview of the prohibitory order.

secretary K. Inaka Assumi reminded the cadres of the factions that political struggle is not for area domination or taxation and asked them to stop divisions and groupisms. He said that if they really want to work for the public, they should strive for a violence free and peaceful society.

He said no solution would be resolved with violence, adding that targeting and harming innocents is a crime.

Expressing solidarity, Angami Public Organization president Keneingunyu Sekhose said “Enough is enough.” He called upon the people to rise up and work together for peaceful coexistence. Naga Mothers’ Association vice president Sarah Nuh also strongly voiced “No more tear, shed no blood anymore.” The NMA representative stated that any kind of violence is not acceptable.

DIMAPuR, June 28 (Mexn): Nagaland Chief Minister, Neiphiu Rio today underscored the need for setting up technical and job-oriented institutes in a state like Nagaland, which is solely dependent on largesse from Delhi.

Even as Nagaland prepares to celebrate 50 years of statehood, the CM said not a single national, regional or technical institute worth the name has been established in the state. “In these 50 years we have been dealing with the political issues, insur-

gency issues, the militancy and we had neglected so much on the institutions”, Rio said.

The CM was addressing the inauguration programme of the new campus at the Institute of Chartered Financial Analysis of India (ICFAI) University, Nagaland, in Sovima.

Taking a conservative estimate, Rio said about 25,000 Naga students pursuing higher or technical studies outside the state spend an approximate Rs. 1.5 lakh per student in a year, which would come to

a whooping Rs. 360 crore expenditure yearly.

“We have no resources of our own, we are not a producing society, we are a consumer society and we are not exploiting our natural resources. So our society is literally a ‘salary economy’ and if such amount is drained out for studies, then for our other needs, essential commodities and all the materials that comes into our land, whatever money is given from Delhi is taken back”, Rio said.

Protestors brave the rain in Kohima at a protest rally against factional clashes on June 28. (Morung Photo)

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‘enough is enough’ Hundreds of people rallied today in protest against the indiscriminate firing on a Naga Students’ Federation official on June 25 in Kohima. The event was held at the Old MLA Hostel Junction and was organized by NSF, who denounced the act and condemned factional clashes.

Strongly condemning the life attempt on Kesosul Christopher Ltu, NSF Assistant General Secretary, the NSF president Tongpang Ozukum said the rally was a sign of showing resentment. He questioned the safety of the common people when even a social worker like an NSF official was targeted.

The president declared that the NSF will fight back against any element disturbing the innocent people, and called upon all Nagas to jointly fight for justice and for a better tomorrow. Urging the public to stand united, he said “We will stand firm and stand for Nagas.” He pointed out that despite continuous appeal by civil societies to stop gunfight in populated areas, the president lamented that clashes among cadres continued.

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‘total bandh’ on July 1 • No vehicular and pedestrian movement • Admin, security, medical and media exempted DIMAPuR, June 28 (Mexn): The Naga Students’ Federation has informed of a “total bandh” in all Naga inhabited areas on July 1 from 6:00am to 6:00pm as a follow-up action to the public rally held on June 28. A press note from the Auditor General of the NSF, Jungithung Yanthan and its Finance Secretary, Shikavi Achumi stated that the bandh is to express “resentment against the life attempt on an NSF official, against the incessant clashes and killings amongst the underground factions, imposition of illegal taxation by the Naga UGs and arbitrary harassment and endangering the lives of innocent civilians by our Naga national workers.”

The NSF appealed to all Tribal Hohos, Women Hohos and the Naga

people for support and cooperation. It also appealed to all government establishments, educational institutions and the business community to remain closed as a sign of solidarity to the students’ community. The proposed bandh will be strictly imposed upon vehicular and pedestrian movement, government and private functions/ programs or any other related events. However, it was informed that administration, security personnel, medical and press media would be exempted from the preview of the bandh.

Meanwhile the Diphupar Naga Students’ Union has appealed to all institutions/ schools and commercial establishments within Diphupar village to participate and extend their solidarity.

NSF demands befitting punishment

DIMAPuR, June 28 (Mexn): The Naga Students Federation has submitted an ultimatum to the President of the GPRN/ NSCN with regard to what it termed as an “attempt to assassinate the Assistant General Secretary of the NSF by one of your cadres on June 25.”

The ultimatum appended by its President, Tongpang Ozukum and its

General Secretary, Esther Rhakho demanded that befitting punishment be awarded to Lieut. Amento Kiba involved in the shootout and stated that the “GPRN/NSCN should clarify the intention of the assassination attempt on the life of the federation official.” It demanded that armed cadres should be confined to the designated camp and that movement of

armed cadres in civilian areas should be immediately stopped. The ultimatum sought assurance to “desist from committing such inhuman act in future.”

It added that the recent incident is detrimental to society and that such unabated occurrences have “defied the very basic foundation of Naga national movement by replacing it with acts of violence, in-

timidation and destroying the people whom you profess to stand for.” The federation urged the GPRN/ NSCN to deliver justice to the students’ community on the above stated charter of demands within 7 days with effect from July 28. The NSF cautioned that failing to do so would force them to take further course of action till the legitimate demand is fulfilled.

DIMAPuR, June 28 (Mexn): A fourteen yearold minor abducted from Dimapur was rescued from a brothel in Mumbai on June 22. The girl, a non-Naga, went missing on December 2012 but a police complaint was lodged only on June 14 by the girl’s father.

The minor was rescued and brought home by a team of Dimapur police led by OC Women Cell, Tingbem Thomsong, UBSI Ramokla, and constable Achila and assisted by UBSI Joseph Zeliang of East Police Station.

SDPO, Dimapur, Relo T. Aye, briefing the media, said that the father had tried searching for his missing daughter on his own but was not successful until he received credible inputs from a source in Dimapur.

The source turned out to be a woman (name withheld), who was also a victim of human trafficking but had managed to escape and return home. The woman, also a non-Naga, had landed up in a brothel in Pune in June 2012 after she was lured by one man identified only as Farokh

on the promise of marriage. Months later, in April of 2013, she managed to escape from the brothel in Pune, where she was sold, and found her way home.

While in the brothel, the woman got in touch with a young girl from Dimapur, who turned out to be the missing fourteen year-old.

After the woman reached Dimapur, she was able to locate the girl’s father, who finally lodged a missing complaint based on the information provided by the woman.

Immediately after the complaint was received,

a police team was constituted to locate the missing minor. The team headed for Pune on June 22 where they spent the first two days scouring Pune’s Budhwar Peth red light district, where the missing minor was initially believed to be located. The minor was eventually traced to a brothel in Mumbai and rescued. It is suspected that the minor was lured by the same man identified as Farokh. The police are now on the lookout for the man whose real identity remains sketchy.

CM underscores need for technical institutes Abducted minor rescued from Mumbai brothel

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the true dignity of labor Longrangty Longchar Mokokchung | June 28

Imagine a life dedicated to cleaning garbage in town barehanded, without a facemask or proper footwear for the past twentynine years. Such is the life of a Municipal solid waste worker in Mokokchung who entered the job way back in 1984.

Dilpa Gurung alias Lambu is a non-assuming person just like any ‘Municipal Solid Waste Worker’; he doesn’t know how old he is. He is illiterate, married with five children – two sons and three daughters – all grown up now; two of the daughters have married off. He occupies a one room building allotted by the Mokokchung Municipal Council which he partitioned into a kitchen and a bedroom.

He was a cowherd

Dilpa Gurung alias Lambu in front of the MMC Garbage disposal truck in Mokokchung.

(Morung Photo)

looking after a farm belonging to a local person earning Rs 200 per month plus food and accommodation. Then he joined the PWD and worked in a stone quarry earning Rs 300 before he finally landed as a ‘solid waste dispos-

al worker’ in 1984. When he first joined the ‘Mokokchung Town Committee’ (back then it was not a Municipal Council) as a solid waste worker, he earned Rs 400 per month. They would load the garbage on a tractor and dispose it

at town’s outskirt. Today he earns a fixed salary of Rs 4000 per month, plus a rent free one room place, doing the same old job.

However, life remains the same for him and other workers.

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ACAUT reiterates stand against multiple taxation

DIMAPuR, June 28 (Mexn): The Action Committee against Unabated Taxation (ACAUT) under the aegis of Naga Council, Dimapur has again appealed to the NSCN (IM) higher authority with regard to its memorandum submitted earlier on the issue of multiple taxation and dealership system.

According to a press note from ACAUT Co-Convener, L. Supong Ao and Secretary, Solomon L. Awomi, some “NSCN-IM functionaries of market in-charge” had been forcibly collecting multiple taxes and Godown taxes from the market and not even sparing footpath vendors.

The press note disclosed that the “field staff of tax collectors were even demanding Godown taxes from those shops which do not have Godown including from pan shops.” In this regard, the ACAUT for what it described as “the betterment of our Naga society” requested the concerned higher authority to look into the matter and check immediately. It was reminded that as per the ACAUT’s resolution, it had made known to the general public and the businessmen not to pay any form of taxation to any groups till the issue is resolved.

The ACAUT has also drawn the attention of the higher authority looking after

law enforcement on the rampant collection of illegal taxation at new field check gate by police personnel. The press note termed it as “very sad and hurting to know that the officer in-charge” at new field check gate had been asking Rs 15000/- (fifteen thousand) from “personnel whoever wants to be at gate and used to collect the same amount from the personnel at gate as commission by the officer every month”.

“It is often seen that the state department instead of using judicious authority is being mislead by few vested bureaucrats in the state machinery”, it alleged and pointed out that the ACAUT wanted stern action against those officers and personnel’s involved. Stating that the ACAUT had stood up for public interest to fight against all kinds of illegal taxation by the different groups of underground and state agencies, the press note strongly urged the State Government to address this “urgent call to abrogate the taxation at gates and DMC toll tax in its jurisdiction immediately before any unwanted situation arise and to avoid anti-social element Industry”.

ACAUT also clarified that the June 27th publication in the local papers where it had mentioned DMC (Vet cell) should instead be State Veterinary Department.

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'Update & create better interface with concerned audiences’ Kohima, June 28 (DiPR): Parliamentary Secretary for IPR and Printing & Stationery, Er. Kropol Vitsu stated that the Department of IPR is the mouthpiece and nodal agency of the Government.

“IPR disseminates information on various activities of the Government to the people through the media and providing feedback to the government on important matters reflected in the media,” he said addressing the inaugural session of the IPR Officers Conference today at the IPR Citadel, Conference Hall, Directorate of IPR as the chief guest.

Stating that the IPR department being the image building department of the government, the role of the department is to create a favourable link between the government and the public, he said that this can be achieved only when proper importance and publicity to the various government activities in the State are given and added that IPR officials have the responsibility to perform an effective role in empowerment of people by provid-

Need for better office infrastructure emphasised

Parliamentary Secretary for IPR and Printing & Stationery, Er. Kropol Vitsu addressing the conference of IPR officers at the IPR Citadel, Conference Hall, Directorate of IPR. (DIPR Photo)

ing free flow of information through press, publication and advertising. He also reminded the officers that IPR is the linkage between the government machinery and the people and further said that the department in political circles, known as the press secretary to the government. Asserting that

IPR is a technology enabled department, he called upon all officers to update themselves to create a better interface between the concerned audiences and to work with dedication for the government.

Commissioner & Secretary IPR, M.K. Mero exhorting the officers said that

IPR department is one of the most important organs of the State Government in reflecting the image of the Government to the people.

He also said that with the change in time the activities and responsibilities of the officers of the department are increasing, he therefore called upon the

officers to be sincere and keep the pace with time.

Director IPR, Imokokba while giving an overview of the department said that the department of IPR commits in providing responsive, value base information to the people and the media and dedicates itself to the cause of promoting better

7th amendment of NPF Dimapur gets first Sports Constitution released Lifestyle showroom in NE

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Naga problem is a common problem: Dr. Shurhozelie

Our Correspondent Kohima | June 28

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The 7th amendment of the Naga People’s Front (NPF) Constitution was released by NPF president Dr. Shurhozelie Liezietsu during the central executive council meeting of the party held on June 26.

Dr. Liezietsu said that this amendment was necessitated because of the party activities extended to Manipur and Arunachal Pradesh. “To be a leader in this party I request all of you to be well equipped with the various provisions of our constitution,” he said, adding that if our division and unit leaders are well conversant with the provision of the constitution, there will be no

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Dr. Liezietsu said that the main objective of the NPF party is to strive to work for an honourable political solution to the vexed Indo-Naga problem which is more than six decades old now.

“Naga problem is a common problem but it is unfortunate that some time our adversaries throw wild allegation against us like, for example, they have been repeatedly saying that DAN have promised to solve the Naga problem in three months time when we first took over the reign of power in 2003,” he said and termed it as wild allegation which demonstrate their frustration.

NPF neither have the magic wane nor solution cannot emerge out as a magical conjecture, he said adding that the role of the party is to mediate which “we will pursue vigorously as a continuing process.”

Commissioner & Secretary to Chief Minister, L. Kire inaugurating Sports Lifestyle Showroom in Dimapur on Friday. (Morung Photo)

DimaPuR, June 28 (mexn): Adding to the ever increasing showrooms in Dimapur, another showroom exclusively dealing with the game of Badminton was inaugurated at Bank Colony, Dimapur by Commissioner & Secretary to Chief Minister, L. Kire.

Proprietor of the Sports

Lifestyle showroom, Taliakum said unlike other businesses, the showroom dealing with Li-Ning goods offers discount on all items ranging from 10% to 30% throughout the year. Stating that it was the first LiNing goods showroom in the northeast, he said the products are better in terms

of both quality and price. LiNing products are manufactured from China and has its head office in Singapore.

Talking about his communication with Li-Ning office in the country, the proprietor said the company was willing to start its own academy in the state if the response is good.

departments and Government. Calling on the need for inclusive and shared information, he emphasized the need to let news and useful information about various Government Welfare schemes percolate to the grassroot level. Suggesting the need to highlight more local activities, the Director Engineering said that Media organizations should constantly evolve so as to effectively disseminate information to the grassroots by

simplifying technicalities and “globalizing’ information and communication, which will cater to local needs.

AIR, News Editor, Subharanjan Buragohain suggested the need to come out with a new Morning English Bulletin. He said this new initiative will cater to the needs of listeners who do not have access to local dailies. The News Editor also added that the Morning English news will also sub-

stantiate the local dailies.

Presenting the departmental activities report H.K. Chishi, Production Assistant and DDK Kohima representative opined that more representation of key implementing departments and agencies will be productive as they can propose publicity requirements to various media houses on focus issues. Officials from AIR, Kohima, DDK Kohima, DFP, PIB and Defence PRO attended the co-ordination meeting.

IMPCC Nagaland Chapter holds meeting

Kohima, June 28 (DiPR): The Inter Media Publicity Coordination Committee (IMPCC) Nagaland Chapter held its monthly meeting with the media Heads of Central government departments at Regional Office of the Directorate of Field Publicity, Kohima on June 27, 2013.

Addressing the meeting, Director Engineering AIR, Kohima said that the IMPCC was a good platform to highlight the activities of various

Kohima, June 28 (DiPR): The need for better infrastructure in the districts was emphasised during the IPR Officer’s conference held today at the DIPR conference hall. Speaking of behalf of the district officers, DPRO, Mokokchung, Chuba Walling gave an overview of the district and its subordinate offices which are mostly in a run-down condition.

Most of the buildings are old and had been constructed during the 60s and the 70s and are currently in a dilapidated state.

He requested the department officials to draw up an action plan to undertake construction and renovation of at least office buildings in Sub-Divisions and Information Centres since many of the office buildings are currently in bad shape and reflects poorly on the department. He further requested Parliamentary Secretary, IPR, Kropol Vitsu to use his good office in bringing redressing the issue which is plaguing the department. understanding between the government and the people.

He also hoped that the department will move further forward under the leadership of the recently inducted Parliamentary Secretary.

DPRO, Mokokchung Chuba Walling while speaking on behalf of the District Officers said that

Civil Defence specialist visits CTI Toluvi

DimaPuR, June 28 (mexn): Col. J. R. Kaushik, who is a Senior Specialist (Civil Defence) working under National Disaster Management Authority, New Delhi has visited Central Training Institute, Toluvi on June 28. This was stated in a press note issued by M. Pienyu, Senior Staff Officer, Civil Defence & Home Guards Kohima.

The note informed that Col. J. R. Kaushik inspected the ongoing training activities at the CTI and facilities available there. He expressed satisfaction with the activities carried out at the CTI. State officials from the Civil Defence & Home Guards briefed the Specialist on the activities and trainings conducted at the CTI. It was stated that Col. Kaushik was also apprised on the problems and inconveniences faced by CTI in terms of revamping of civil defence, training and recruitment facilities, disaster management related and most importantly fund constraints from the centre. In response, Col. Kaushik assured to take up the matter with Delhi.

The note mentioned that CTI Toluvi provides technical support to the Nagaland State Disaster Management Authority in conducting trainings for local populace on how to respond to disasters.

“Community being the first responders in any disaster before external help arrives, it is imperative that communities are trained on first responder methods and techniques in order to reduce loss of life and property. The CTI will continue to render its sincere services to the community,” further stated the note.

Funeral service for late Moasangba held

DimaPuR, June 28 (mexn): The funeral for late Moasangba Imchen, who went missing in Bendolo, Malaysia on May 24, was held today at his family residence at Borlengri, Dimapur. After more than a month, the mortal remains of Moasangba reached Nagaland today from Malaysia.

Moasangba was working as a crew member of an Indian overseas navy merchant vessel.

Addressing the people gathered at the funeral, Moasangba’s father expressed immense gratitude to everyone who had lent support in the month long investigation for the body of his son. Sharing their son’s tragic short lived life, Moasangba’s parents narrated that he was born premature at just seven months and passed away at a young age of 25. The parents also reflected that their son always

Friends of late Moasangba bid adieu with a song at the funeral held at the deceased residence at Borlengri, Dimapur. (Morung Photo)

had a love for ships, and was always found drawing ships on his school book covers, making ships from banana trunks and paper.

A representative from the Borlengri Ao Tribal Council also expressed gratitude for the help and support rendered by different groups, individuals

and family members, while also extending condolence to the bereaved family. He also extolled the qualities of late Moasangba saying that although living a short life, he lived like a shining star. “We are proud to say he possessed many noble qualities and his whole life should be an example to

many,” he said.

The Youth Director for DABA Youth Department, in his address, remembered the deceased as a talented young man, who was loved dearly by his friends. Having had a close association with late Moasangba, he stated that the deceased was active in vari-

ous Church groups and activities, and was found to be hard working and sincere.

“Moasangba had many talents for which he was loved for, but I will miss his singing the most for he was a gifted singer,” he said.

Mongchen Union President also remembered the deceased as a cheerful young man who was always ready to serve people. He said, “Such a notable and lovable child, we are unlucky he is no more. We mourn the sudden demise of this great soul”.

Representatives from different Unions, family members and neighbors also shared testimony to the young man’s life. Friends of late Moasangba and well wishers attended the funeral and laid wreaths and bouquets of flowers. The mortal remains of late Moasangba was laid to rest at Naga Cemetery, Dimapur.

public relations officers in the districts are anchors for the District Administration in creating and building up the image of the administration. He also requested the Parliamentary Secretary to draw up an action plan to undertake construction and renovation of at least office buildings in

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Sub-Divisions and Information Centre since many office buildings are currently in bad shape and reflects poorly on the department.

Additional Director, IPR Pausui Zeliang chaired the programme while Joint Director IPR Limawati delivered the vote of thanks.

The newly selected APRO’s through NPSC were also present at the programme.

The second session was attended by Officers of the department where Deputy Director IPR, Dzüvinuo Theünuo spoke on the topic ‘Changing Role of IPR in the Present Age’. She said that IPR officials should be well informed with all the policies and projects of the government and should be ready with all the information’s regarding the government. She said that communication is the driving force of the IPR department and also emphasized on the communication model effective for IPR Nagaland. She also stressed on the strengths of the IPR, its objectives and strategy, and also dwelled on the guiding factors for an IPR official.

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7th National Statistics Day today Kohima, June 28 (DiPR): Along with the rest of the State, the Directorate of Economic & Statistic Nagaland will be observing the 7th National Statistic Day under the theme ‘Labour & Employment Statistic’ with Parliamentary Secretary Economic & Statistic, Legal Metrology & Consumers Protection, T. Torechu as the chief guest. The programme will be held at the Conference Hall of Directorate of Economic & Statistic on June 29, 2013. National Statistics Day is being observed to mark the birth anniversary of Late. Prof. P.C. Mahalanobie, in recognition of the contribution made by him in the field of Economic Planning and Statistic.

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DC calls for relief meeting

DimaPuR, June 28 (mexn): In view of the disaster at Uttarakhand, the Deputy Commissioner of Dimapur, N Hushili Sema has requested five members from different organizations to report for a relief meeting at 9:00 am on June 29 at the office complex of the DMC. A press note from the Dimapur DC informed that the organizations whose representation are sought include Naga Council, DNSU, Red Cross, Rotary Club, Lions Club, Dimapur Muslim Council, Marwari Community, Bengali Samaj, Gurkha Union, Kerala Samajan, Town GB Union, DCCI, Rotaract Club, Leo Club, Marwari Yuva Manch, DDCF, Bihari Community, NMDA and Muslim Council Youth Wing. It was also informed that any civil society or organization is invited to join the donation drive. Individuals or parties who want to contribute financially have been directed to call the DC, Dimapur at 9436609825, CEO DMC at 9436629779, SDO (Civil) Sadar at 9862141351, Chandu Agarwal at 9436003651 or Hanan Tapadar at 8794143366.

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DPDB Mokokchung meeting deferred

moKoKchung, June 28 (DiPR): The monthly meeting of Mokokchung District Planning and Development Board which was scheduled on July 8, 2013 has been deferred to July 9, 2013. Deputy Commissioner Mokokchung, Moruho Chotso has informed all members to take note of the re-scheduling of the meeting.

Sumi Totimi Hoho Silver Jubilee

Kohima, June 28 (mexn): The Sumi Totimi Hoho Kohima will celebrate Silver Jubilee on July 5 at Sumi Baptist Church, Daklane. A press note issued to the media stated that Parliamentary secretary for Cooperation, Sericulture and Women Development, Pukhayi Sumi will be chief guest and Secretary Finance department, Y. Kikheto Sema will be the guest of honour. The jubilee would also be addressed by President of Sumi Totomi Hoho Nagaland, Kitoli Naje, president, Sumi Hoho Kohima, Edward Zhimomi, Kughazhe Yeputhomi, Director Arts and Culture department and other prominent Sumi leaders. There will also be special songs, traditional couple show competition and release of souvenir.

Technical edu informs students

Kohima, June 28 (mexn): All the “bonafide students” undergoing degree / diploma courses in technical and other professional courses, selected for award of Nagaland State Technical Scholarship and Merit-cum-Means Based Scholarship under Ministry of Minority Affairs are informed to fill up the format “Know Your Customer” and submit to their respective banks. This is in pursuance of the new policy being implemented by banking Institutions and is necessary for crediting scholarships to student’s personal bank accounts, informed Director of Technical Education, A Kathipri. Also students who had opened their bank accounts when they were below 18 years of age and have since attained 18 years have been advised to report the matter to their respective branches for removal of such restrictions.

BLOs informed to collect remuneration Tuensang, June 28 (mexn): All the Booth Level Officers (BLO) of Tuensang district have been informed by the Deputy Commissioner Tuensang, T Mhabemo Yanthan to collect their remuneration of Rs. 2880 from Election Office, Tuensang on July 1, 2013.

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NWU for probe into cold blooded murder, rape ‘Enough is enough’

DIMAPUR, JUNE 28 (MExN): The Senapati based Naga Women’s Union (NWU) has vehemently condemned what it described was the cold blooded murder of six NSCN (K) cadres by the 10 Assam Rifles (AR) at K. Songlung on 22 June 2013. The NWU in a press note issued by its Publicity Wing has claimed that all the cadres were dressed in civil clothing and carried no weapons when they were invited for a friendly discussion and taken away by the Major of 10 AR. “The merciless killing of the cadres in cold blood is very inhuman and gross violation of human rights. No one is given license to kill – whether army, civil or armed groups”, the NWU stated while pointing out that there was “no war in Manipur and NSCN (K) is under ceasefire with the Government of India” and as such, the killing of the six cadres by the 10 AR “is against the law of the country”.

The NWU demanded that the perpetrators should be booked and given befitting punishment for committing crime against the innocent cadres and also demanded that the concerned authorities should make proper investigation of the incident and deliver justice to the victims and their families at the earliest.

It was also pointed out that women’s security and safety has been severely threatened in the society today where women are continuously targeted and crimes committed

against them is on the rise. “Women have no security everywhere whether at home, in the markets, learning institutions, offices, jungles, on the road, in the field and so on”.

The NWU has in this regard, denounced crimes against women and strongly condemned the rape of an old aged Tangkhul woman 68 years of K. Somrei Village, Ukhrul District by Muhammad Sanayai 30 years son of Ibothem of Mayai Keithel, Heirok, P.O. Yairipok, Thoubal District in the jhum field. It also stated that the rape victim was robbed of Rs. 9,000/-.

Another rape of a 17 year old girl from Yairipok Changamdabi, Mathak Leikai who was abducted from the gate of Universal College, Yairipok, Thoubal District by unidentified persons and gang raped on 19 June 2013, was also brought to light. The girl had gone to college to get her admission form, it was informed.

In relation to the cases, NWU urged the Government to do proper investigation of the cases, give befitting punishment to the culprits for the crimes committed, to compensate the victims and deliver justice at the earliest.

The NWU regretted that there had been several cases of rape and Violence against Women and that many of the rape survivors were left without any rehabilitation and compensation. NWU further demanded the concerned authorities to speed up trail for all pending cases.

Police use teargas on students in Manipur

IMPhAl, JUNE 28 (PTI): The police on Friday used teargas to prevent agitating students in Manipur from marching to the state Assembly demanding immediate implementation of the inner line permit system in the state.

The police said the students were trying to march to the Assembly complex at Chingmeirong on the outskirts of Imphal from three different points. At least four

students suffered minor injuries in a lathicharge on the students near Churachand Higher Secondary School in the city, the police said.

Official sources said a resolution was adopted in the ongoing Assembly session on June 13 urging the Centre to take steps for implementation of the ILP system, while various social organisations and Joint Committee on ILP System (JCILPS) said the ILP sys-

Five Assam districts bear brunt of floods

GUwAhATI, JUNE 28 (IANS): The flood situation in Assam remained grim in at least five districts on Friday, as reports came in that more villages were being submerged with rising water levels in the Brahmaputra and several other rivers. According to the Assam State Disaster Management Authority (ASDMA), a total of 8,000 people have been affected by floods in the past 24 hours.

The Central Water Commission (CWC) has indicated that the situation might deteriorate, as the rising river waters in the Brahmaputra, already flowing over the danger mark in some areas, still shows a rising trend. No human casualty reported from anywhere the state so far, ASDMA officials said on Friday. At least 90 villages in the five districts have so far been affected. Twenty villages in Dhemaji district have been affected in the last 24 hours.

Besides, villages in Golaghat (37 villages), Kamrup (four villages), Karimganj (19 villages) and 10 in Jorhat have so far been hit by the floodwaters, ASDMA officials said.

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CM underscores need for technical institutes

a one way traffic.”

Given the scenario, the CM said it is imperative that Nagaland have private universities and technical institutes to impart technical and job-oriented skills to the youth, which would in turn generate employment and build human resources.

“Today’s economy is knowledge-based driven economy. You need to build your skills which fits into the market...Then we can come up with an industrial culture”, Rio said.

Noting the infrastructure of the university, the CM expressed optimism that the university would become a centre of excellence where students can get quality education and become responsible citizens, contributors and promoters of “our society and our economy.”

Guest of honor and Parliamentary Secretary for Higher Education & SCERT, Deo Nukhu, in his address lauded ICFAI University for focusing on management courses and said it is a boon to Naga society. Nukhu also hoped that the university would facilitate needy students to compete their studies. Earlier, Vice Chancellor, ICFAI University, Dr VRK Prasad delivered the welcome address and briefed the CM and other dignitaries on the planned layout of the campus.

ICFAI University, Nagaland, was established by an act passed by the state government in 2006 for a new university in Nagaland and the university started functioning in 2008. There are five ICFAI universities in the North East Region (Tripura, Mizoram, Sikkim, Meghalaya and Nagaland).

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The Municipal Council has given waste workers a navy blue uniform to be worn on duty. However, since it is only one piece, they have to wear other clothes on duty while their uniform is being washed and dried. Their only implement are shovels and spades.

“They (Mokokchung Municipal Council) once gave us facemasks, rubber hand gloves

tem could be implemented He added, “That is why our progress is by enacting a legislation in very slow, we lack in human resources and the Assembly. A spokes- because we don’t have institutes we go out to man of the JCILPS, said study but nobody comes to us for studies. It’s they in consultation with various social organisations and students' bodies would intensify their 'dem- LoST noTIcE ocratic' agitation. "We are I, Miss Neizokhrienuo Virie 1. VERITO. G4 not against any non-Maam applying for duplicate copy Mfd, Year 2011 19400 km of both HSLC and HSSLC Rs. 3,30,000/nipuri in the state, but we mark sheet as I have lost it.

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She called upon all factions to desist the path of self destruction and said, “If these factional killings continue, the entire Naga society will perish.” She said that Naga people do not want freedom by losing their husbands, sons, brothers and relatives in the hand of Naga freedom fighters.

Naga Peoples Movement for Human Rights representative Kenneth condemned the “senseless, materialistic and inhumane action of some cadres of national workers, who have lost humanity to kill any human without hesitation.” He appealed to all groups to shun interfactional clashes.

Eastern Naga Students’ Federation president Likhumse Sangtam said that due to interfactional clash among the national workers, the Naga political rights and identity is in peril. He added that Nagas have not given their mandate to the national workers to kill their brothers.

Also strongly condemning the incident, the Angami Youth Organization president Medo Yhokha said that it will stand to protect the citizens of Kohima and called upon the youth and the citizens to stand up and get ready for any eventuality. Yhokha called upon the NSF and other civil societies to take the inter-factional clash as ‘national emergency’ and deal with it immediately.

Placards displayed at the rally read: “Don’t try to divide the Nagas anymore,” “Stop killing innocent people,” “Stop harassing people,” “Are you here to protect us or kill us,” “Voice of the people mightier than guns and bombs,” and “Enough is enough.”

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and gumboots, but they got damaged within a few days. And so we have to work without using them,” said Gurung. The Municipal Council had also given them helmets to be worn on duty, but the workers don’t wear it because “the helmets hinder their work.”

Interestingly, he showed a brand new gumboot which was given by the District Hospital authority with a condition: the waste workers have to wear the gumboots given by the hospital only while they clean the garbage in the hospital and must submit the boots to the sweeper in the hospital.

“We said it was impossible and therefore, we are taking the boots home,” said Gurung pointing to the gumboots which were packed in a polythene bag. He could not disclose as to how many tons of waste is being produced in Mokokchung town every day. However, he said that the waste workers, six in number make three rounds of garbage disposal on Mondays and Tuesdays on two MMC trucks. On other days, except Sundays, they make two rounds.

Earlier there were eight of them working as waste workers, but two suddenly left the job and therefore, they divide into three workers for each truck.

On being asked about their health, Gurung said that he has not contracted any disease so far and added that he is up for work every day. He has no complaints at all and is satisfied with his job.

Perhaps, people like Gurung and many others in different towns and cities are given to a life of filth and dirt. Perhaps, they are just doing their job. But somehow, basic needs like hand gloves, facemasks, gumboots and all weather uniforms should be provided so that they can work more efficiently. And perhaps, if people take a moment and look at the work and life of these workers in our neighborhood, then they might understand the need to properly of dispose garbage in proper garbage dumps. After all, there is someone who takes pains to collect the garbage strewn here and there, for a paltry sum of money as their salary.

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Senapati District consumers' club (SDcc) condemn the caF/PD Minister's statement The Senapati District Consumers' Club (SDCC) in an emergency meeting held on 24th June 2013 at Hotel Blue Hill, Senapati Bazaar, discussed on the ongoing tussle between the CAF/PD and the Club regarding the rice scam and the statement of Shri M. Okendro, Hon'ble Minister, CAF/PD, on the floor of the ongoing Assembly regarding ration card holders. The Minister informed the house on Friday the 21st June 2013 that in Manipur State the numbers of ration card holders are 240'593 APL, 120'400 BPL and 63'600 AAY and total household of 407'152. If these data were true where could be the ration cards of the three Assembly Segments of Senapati namely 47-Karong A/C, 48-Mao A/C and 49- Tadubi A/C? The fact is that no ration cards were issued to the people of these three Assembly segments till now and the State Vigilance Department is fully aware of it. The Minister is answerable and duty bound to trace out the whereabouts of these essential cards and reach it to the deserving people rather than making false information which is not only misleading the people but also encouraging malpractices in high places. Hence the Club condemns the Minister's statement and demand public apology from him or step down from his office on moral grounds to purge the rotting system in Sanaliepak.

The Club also wonders what gagged the mouths of the three representatives of people (Dr. Alexander Pao, Hon'ble MLA of 47-Karong A/C, Shri Francis Ngajokpa, Hon'ble Minister RD&PR of 49-Tadubi A/C- and Shri L. Dikho, Hon'ble MLA of 48-Mao A/C) from reacting or countering the CAF/PD Minister's statement in the Assembly in the interest of their affected electorates and people in general. Are they scared, ignorant, non-chalant or pro Minister? They are equally answerable to the people.

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Gas price hiked due to low domestic output: PC

New Delhi, JuNe 28 (iANS): Finance Minister P. Chidambaram Friday said the government was forced to almost double the gas prices due to low domestic output and difficult macroeconomic situation. “Decline in domestic production is resulting in rise in import of LNG. We have to produce more gas,” Chidambaram said while addressing a media conference here.

The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Thursday approved a proposal to hike gas price for the first time in three years. Chidambaram said due to decline in domestic output and rising consumption, oil import bill was becoming unsustainable. The finance minister emphasised the need for creating a conducive environ-

ment to promote investments in boosting domestic gas production.

He said high gas price would help attract investments in the sector. “The gas pricing will promote investment in the sector and there is no reason to assume that prices will always increase,” he said.

Chidambaram emphasised that the government has not taken the decisions under pressure from the private sector. “We are not being influenced by anyone... We are influenced by the economic reality to produce more gas,” he said. Chidambaram said that the concerns of power sector due to increase of gas price will be addressed. “The government would consider helping the power and fertiliser industries to cope with the doubling of domestic gas prices from April 1,” he said.

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read “To set the matter straight” by NSCN (IM) (26th June 2013; Nagaland Post; Morung Express) with a great deal of depredation. At the height of warfare, when the whole population of Nagaland were desperately dodging the zipping bullets there was no time to express an opinion. The citizens of this great land however expressed their opinion in action by staunchly and prayerfully standing behind the National Workers and made supreme sacrifices in the face of great hardships both from the hands of Indian Army and the National Workers. Why would the people of Nagaland do that? They believed that the Naga cause was just. They believed that the Nagas had a God sanctioned right for self-determination.

The Nagas were not backing the National Workers for the establishment of a restrictive Freedom; or are we struggling for sovereignty so as to lose our individual freedom?

What is the rationality in this? It is about time that the National Workers begin to understand that the times have changed and we should try and change with it. Reason and not threat must now be the civilized norm of interaction.

Threat is counter-productive and demeans the Organization.

It is obvious that the attitude of the past difficult times have still not been overcome where threats was the norm of sorting out an argument. I have had my share of differences with the views expressed by Kaka Iralu and Thepfulhouvi Solo and therefore those differences from my point of view have been ventilated in the public domain. I have not read what Kekhrie Yhome has written but the principle applies. It is for the readers to disseminate the information being shared and make their call. The truth however gets diluted and instead causes doubt if it is laced with

a threat. Why let our baser instinct cloud our judgment?

The Moral Rearmament used to present a song that said “when you point a figure at your neighbour there are three more pointing back at you”. How true. I would gladly concede that circumstances do dictate our actions. Be that as it may, a line of decency has to be drawn somewhere. It would be much too presumptuous to think that NSCN (IM) is the sole custodian of the Naga opinion and expect everyone to conform to their ways of thinking.

There are gray areas that generally concern our future for which the people want answers which are not forthcoming even from them.

In a sense this is anti people. It would be proper for them to remember this and moderate their aggressive stance. It certainly is not right to dub every expression that is made as antinational and a crime against the Naga people.

While appreciating the efforts being put in by them, the Organization is not sacrosanct and blameless where their own action is concerned in some sectors that could be read as anti-Naga.

We need to accept the fact that the world is a diverse place where diverse points of views are bound to get expressed. Why insult your position with threats just because you hold the Gun? Replace that gun with brains. We may not necessarily agree with all that is said but in a civilized society the brain is given sway over the brawn. Information that are considered questionable should be rectified by clarifications with facts and leave it to the perception of the readers to ascertain the truth. We firmly believe that truth will prevail in the end. That is the positive and constructive way of thinking to bridge the gap.

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TPO rejoinder to “Nagaland Tribes: The Latest Bone Of Contention”

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agaland Tribes: The Latest Bone of Contention” by Thepfulhouvi Solo appeared in The Morung Express on 09.06.2013. Tenyimi People’s Organisation (TPO) is compelled to respond, after careful analysis, as the article calls for certain clarifications for public interest on the historical stand of the Tenyimi family of Naga group through this rejoinder.

In 2009 also the said writer seemed to have tried to confuse the Tenyimi family, by saying some of the tribes wear loin cloth while others are kilted, meaning that they are not from the same genealogical lineage. It is not the dress but the blood lineage and affinity that bind the Tenyimi family together. TPO Research Committee was constrained to give a rejoinder which appeared in the local dailies on 30.11.2009.

It is the considered opinion of the TPO that if the writer first understood the important features of family, clan and tribes based on blood and culture line, he would never advocate for the disbanding of the Tenyimia people’s family. As far as TPO is concerned, we uphold the fact of our history handed down to us through generations of our forefathers that the generations of Tenyiu are known as Tenyimi or Tenyimia and Tenyima. The TPO is an organization of ge-

nealogical lineage without political agenda, reorganized after a gap of many generations with utmost commitment to their affinity, wrestling culture, promotion of their Tenyimi language, literature, cultural values, traditional heritage and customary practices.

TPO units are spread over three states viz. Nagaland, Manipur and Assam. Recognition to each other is a continuous behavioral attitude in Tenyimi family before and during the British regime. For instance, traditional wrestling was a common sport of all Tenyimi, organized during the construction of the Naga Civil Hospital Kohima. The same wrestling culture of Tenyimi goes on till date. We are a group of people who grew and multiplied through blood-lineage, cultural affinity and Tenyimi is a canonized term that everybody knows. To the TPO, Mr. T. Solo’s suggestion to disband the Tenyimi family is a serious uncalled for insult. Before he asks for such a wild suggestion, he would better disband his personal family to prove his sincerity to Naga unity, if the disbanding of a family can bring about harmony and unity to a society. If any Naga tribe takes TPO as a casually formed, artificial or farcical organization then it only reveals their ignorance. Naga society is uniquely made up of clans and khels at the base and the com-

munity at the higher level in terms of socialization. Charity or unity begins at home and not otherwise.

Another significant feature is the family and clan based on blood relationship of male line. Evidently, a clan spread over to many villages and several tribal communities. As per the initial representation of the report of the Research Committee of TPO, many common religious practices are revealed amongst the Nagas in sub-fields of cultural study. Certain clans of Sumi, Ao and Lotha communities are also from the Tenyimi lineage. However, those datas are yet to be authenticated and needs more data analysis. The writer’s unprovoked call for the disbanding of the Tenyimia Union for future good of the Nagas is in itself an attempt to destabilize the long tradition of the priceless Naga social fabric which is cherished by all Nagas. TPO has never and ever attempted a policy to dislodge the harmony of any tribal identity so associated till today by claiming that such clan belongs to Tenyimi group, so as to maintain the unity of the big Naga family.

Our objective and attempt is to authenticate the inter-relationships that exist for historical reconstruction and a closer intimacy between various Naga tribal com-

munities. In terms of language and culture variations, TPO agrees that all TPO units have different labels of languages, however, our languages are not distinct from each other at all levels. The main activities of the TPO at hand are those conducted by Ura Academy: promoting Tenyimi language, an Institute of World Languages for study of different languages, protection and preservation of our natural ecosystem, organizing and promoting the heritage of our wrestling culture, etc.

TPO is not a fabricated organization with opportunistic motivation for political gain. It is the apex body of the Tenyimi family striving to get to know one another better, to co-operate to deepen their unity, drawing strength and wisdom from their shared roots, originality, identity and common lineage. Every Naga has multiple-identity from personal to family, to clan, to village, and the wider Naga family gradually becoming a people. The said writer will have a wild goose chase if he thinks that TPO will bow down to his perverted version of distortion and destructive intention.

Keku Zeliang President, TPO Z. Vasa, Vice President, TPO

Open letter to Home Minister

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hrough this esteemed column, we the Philimi Youth Front (PYF) would like to draw your kind attention to the appalling condition of sub-police station at Atoizu town. That Sir, with the full support of the Philimi Village authorities, GBs and the public, the PYF has been engaged in cleansing the village of drug addicts and sellers, alcoholism and various other social menaces. Whoever is found indulging in these social menaces are handed over to the Atoizu Police for the law to take its own course of action.

On earlier occasions, the PYF has arranged transportation on our own to hand over the offenders/culprits at Atoizu. Unable to do the same every time, we approached the Atoizu police to come to our village and take away the offenders/culprits. However, we learnt that the Atoizu police station has only one Motorcycle to carry out its official duties. There are 23 villages under Atoizu area and it is impossible for the particular police station to cover such vast area with only a Motorcycle as pool vehicle.

Therefore, the PYF appeals your kind office to look into the problem and allot proper vehicle to the particular police station on emergency basis so that it could cater to the services of Atoizu area.

The NGOs like the PYF will continue to extend our fullest support and cooperation to the administration and police for the good of the society.

President Philimi Youth Front Hutovi Swu

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he office of the District Transport Officer, would like to clarify on the issue of illegal collection of tax as per the caption published on 28’n June’2013. The Enforcement personnel of Motor Vehicle Department are appointed and assigned to perform enforcement duties in the field as per the provisions of Motor Vehicles Act 1988 and Central Motor Vehicle Rules 1989.

Due to the absence of proper check gate, the Enforcement Personnel performs road side checking and compound fees on Govt. receipts from the Motor Vehicle offenders/ violators of Motor Vehicles Act & Rules, such as Invalid/incomplete documents, expired documents etc. The Compounding fees realized are later deposited as Govt. revenue through Treasury Challan. In spite of the shortage of manpower, the Enforcement personnel had detected 2754 cases of Motor vehicle defaulters against which a total amount of Rs. 16,72,200/was collected as compounding fees and deposited to the Govt. Treasury during the period April’2012March’2013..

Hence, illegal tax collection of Rs. 1000/- per truck by the Enforcement personnel does not arise and may kindly be brought to the notice of the proper authority for further clarification, since the enforcement wing of the Motor Vehicle Department collects compounding fees and not Tax to the Motor Vehicle defaulters as per Motor Vehicles Act and Rules.

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The Morung Express

Saturday 29 June 2013

Dimapur

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Four NDFB recruits AMEUW continues Children Summer Camp underway at OBC, Yimyu caught in Dimapur protest in Wokha

The four NDFB recruits who were apprehended by Dimapur Police on June 27 are seen with their contact person.

Dimapur, June 28 (mexn): Four National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) recruits were apprehended by Police in Dimapur on June 27. The four, identified as Pranab Kumar Basumatary (26 years), Prajib Narzary (25 years), Rajesh Kolabari (24 years) and Sobhoraj Borgoya (19 years) had arrived in Dimapur from Kokrajhar by train at around 12:30 am, June 27.

According to the SDPO, Dimapur, they were scheduled to head for Mon by road with the help of a contact person based in Dimapur. The contact, a woman identified as Karim Babi (35 years), hailing from Sonitpur district in Assam, was also arrested. It is suspected that their objective was to cross over to Myanmar via Mon for training, the SDPO added. Further, cash amounting to Rs. 50, 000 along with five mobile phones were confiscated from their possession.

Dimapur, June 28 (mexn): The Aggrieved Medical Employees Union Wokha while condemning the bomb blast at the residence of CMO Wokha on June 26, expressed its displeasure on the “immature remark by Nagaland In service Doctors Association (NIDA) that functioning of the of the CMO office is being obstructed by some group, whereas the solution to the present problem is clearly beyond the jurisdiction of the office of CMO Wokha.”

A press note from the President of the AMEUW, Thungjanbeni Lotha and its General Secretary Ludemo Lotha stated that the NIDA “should know that staging a protest is not in our interest, nor we are doing

it willfully as we also have children and families to take care.”

It added that, “since we are left with no option other than to “starve and beg” the AMEUW chose to stage democratic protest at the CMO office as it is the legitimate platform to take our grievances to the government.” It added that the AMEUW does not have the manpower, resources or competence like the NIDA to take its matter on a higher level. It stated that until a solution arrives from the government’s side, the AMEUW would continue with its peaceful and democratic protest for the injustice meted to its members.

It may be noted that the AMEUW protest continued for the fifth day.

AYO summons the accused in Kohima firing

TWUD joint meeting

Dimapur, June 28 (mexn): The joint meeting of Tenyimi Women’s Union Dimapur (TWUD) and different units will be held on July 2, 2013, 10:00 am at the office of Tenyimi Union, Dimapur. TWUD president K Leigise informed that the meeting will be held between Tenyimi Women’s Union office bearers, TWUD advisors, TWUD legal cell committee members, TWUD subordinate committee members, Tenyimi Tribe Unit Women presidents and Tenyimi women Welfare Thinkers.

DLMC Tuensang visits Sangsangnyu

Dimapur, June 28 (Dipr): As part of the ongoing Economic Census, the Tuensang District Level Monitoring Committee (DLMC) Chairman and Deputy Commissioner Tuensang, T. Mhabemo Yanthan visited Sangsangnyu town on June 25, 2013. The Deputy Commissioner was accompanied by R. Thsanso Yim, DSO Tuensang, Member Secretary DLMC and L. Lamnyah, DPRO,Tuensang, Member DLMC. The team along with the enumerator Narola Chang visited Sangsangnyu EB002, House No.139 and recorded the details. The team also checked the entire recorded list and asked the enumerators to carefully check the details while filling up the forms. The Deputy Commissioner stated that if any error occurs it will not only affect Sangsangnyu Block but will affect the entire Tuensang district as a whole and the State in general during the next Five Year Plan.

Economic census enumerators informed

Dimapur, June 28 (mexn): Chief Executive Officer DMC & Charge Officer 6th Economic Census, Dimapur Urban Area has issued a statement saying some of the enumerators have not been carrying out the census work properly. Therefore, he has directed all the enumerators to be efficient and complete their tasks within the stipulated period, as it is a time bound programme.

Further, all the supervisors have been asked to check the works of their enumerators, so as to collect an accurate data within the time frame.

CORRIGENDUM

Apropos a “Wanted” notice for the Kohima shooting incident accused, which appeared on June 28 issue of local dailies, Dy Superintendent of Police (Trf) & PRO DEF Kohima, Melite Kapfo clarifies that SS Lieut. Amento Kiba is from Asukhomi village as per the crime record and not as published earlier. The Dy SP has expressed regret for the error.

With reference to a “Wanted” notice, released by Superintendent of Police, Kohima which appeared on June 28 issue of this newspaper, the Students’ Union Asukhoto Town has clarified that there is no such person with the name SS Leiut. Amento Kiba (GPRN/ NSCN), S/o Izhekhu from Asukhuto town as published.

moKoKchung, June 28 (mexn): A two-day children summer camp is underway at Ongpangkong Baptist Church, Yimyu Ward on the theme ‘Jesus my superhero’.

Altogether, 265 children are taking part in the summer camp which will conclude on Saturday, June 29, 2013. The children have been divid-

ed into three houses and different activities like painting, clay modelling, singing competitions and other activities are being taken up at the summer camp besides biblical teaching to the children.

The main speakers at the summer camp are Child Education Director of OBC Aienla Jamir and Sunday School

teachers Watilemba, Sashitemjem, Nukshitemjen and Yanger. The summer camp is a regular feature of the Ongpangkong Baptist Church which is being organised with an aim to bring up the children in a positive Christian environment so that they can become responsible Christian citizens in the society.

Gospel songs by local artists released ANCSU observes “Black Badge Day”

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Kohima, June 28 (mexn): Pertaining to the June 25 firing incident in Kohima, the Angami Youth Organization (AYO) has impressed upon the district administrator/law enforcing agencies to bring to book all the accused who are still at large and book them under NSA. “After thorough investigation and corroboration of the eye witnesses on the incident, it is confirmed that SS Lieut Amento Sema of GPRN/NSCN is the main culprit, who had made the assassination bit on the life of Kesosul Christopher Ltu,” stated a press release issued by AYO president Medo Yhokha and its general secretary, Rokoketou Sechu. Meanwhile, the release has informed the villagers and family members of the accused that as per the emergency executive meeting resolution of the AYO held on June 28, the case and matter of the “murder attempt” of Kesosul will have to responded and settled as per the customary laws and traditions of the land.

Therefore, AYO has demanded that the accused respond to them on or before one week’s time from the date of this publication. Reiterating the standing resolution of the organization, AYO also declared non-cooperation to the GPRN/NSCN till the matter is resolved.

Children taking part in an activity during the two-day Summer Camp at Ongpangkong Baptist Church on June 28, 2013.

In this image, K. Temjen Jamir (Middle) is seen along with the Pastor of Moayimti Baptist Church, Moa Aier (R) and Rev. C Walu Walling.

Dimapur, June 28 (mexn): A DVD of gospel songs by local band Samaro and Comedy played by renowned local comedians Chujang and Purniken was released by the Editor, Tir Yimyim, K. Temjen Jamir on Friday in Dimapur. The DVD was produced to raise

fund in aid of Moayimti Baptist Church building construction at Tzürangkong under Mokokchung District.

Speaking at the event, Jamir maintained that church building are significant because it not only brings believers together

and strengthens the congregation through unified work, but also beautifies the area with consecrated landmark structure.

Asserting that Nagaland churches should not forget their foremost calling as a mission ministry, which is to reach the unreached people through the gospel of Christ, Jamir said church bodies should never compromise with their mission work by spending all resources in the construction of mighty church buildings.

Meanwhile, lamenting that many churches devote on construction of the main building for the congregation and utterly sideline the building for Sunday schools, Jamir reminded that spiritual edification of children through Sunday schools is the most important aspect of a church. “If we neglect them now, we will see an empty church in the future.”

Students wear black badge in protest against delayed result declaration on Black Badge Day.

Dimapur, June 28 (mexn): The All Nagaland College Students' Union (ANCSU) has stated that despite the reminder, ultimatum and appeal served to Nagaland University to affirm the undeclared BA result, it has ignored their demands and appeal and called on for more time.

Terming it as unacceptable, a press note issued by ANCSU Atopu V. Achumi, Speaker, U/A, stated that showing resentment, it proposed a Black Badge Day, in which a black badge was distributed to some college asking the students to wear the black

badge till the results were declared.

ANCSU in the note stated, “It is a big negligence on the part of Nagaland University, because the students career are being hampered and as per the UGC norms the Universities have to declare the result within 60 days of the exam which was very much in conflict with the Status quo of the NU.” ANCSU also stated that it will not remain silent, but will press on more till the results are declared and will take aggressive action and further added, “The blame which will go to the University.”

State NGO appeals for more rehab centres

Training on professional skills development held

Dimapur, June 28 (mexn): Two-day training on professional skills development was conducted for the Nagaland Baptist Church Council (NBCC) staff by Youthnet on June 26 and 27, 2013 at the Kenneth Complex, NBCC Office.

A press note issued to the media stated that Talichila Imchen was the facilitator for the training. The topics covered were professionalism in the work place, effective communication, assertive communication, conflict management and organizing skills. The note mentioned that the training was conducted with a design to help the staff hone their professional skills which will enable them to handle work related challenges and carry out responsibilities more effectively.

Dimapur, June 28 (mexn): An interface between national representatives of NGOs and officials from the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment (MSJE), Government of India was held at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi during the Stake Holders meeting in conjunction with the observance of International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking on June 26, 2013. MSJE partner NGOs from Nagaland also attended the meet, informed president of N Naga DAO WC Humtsoe.

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Dr. Rev.T. Nyekha of Youth Mission (first right), WC Humtsoe, President, N Naga DAO (third right), and K Ela of Prodigals’ Home (extreme right) with Union Minister of State, MSJE Manikrao Hodlya Gavit (third left).

Naga DAO had appealed to the Union Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment to provide adequate attention to run an Integrated Re-

habilitation Centres for Addicts (IRCA) at least one in each district headquarters, and a Women Specific Rehabilitation Centre in the State.

It also appealed the ministry to expedite timely release of Grant in aid to the ongoing IRCAs so as to enhance efficacy to NGOs led intervention to curb the rampant substance and alcohol abuse in the state, stated the note. Currently Nagaland has five rehabilitation centres sponsored by the Ministry in only two districts of Kohima and Dimapur respectively - Bethesda Youth Welfare Centre, Dimapur, Kripa Foundation, Kohima, Prodigals’ Home, Dimapur, Shalom Rehabilitation Centre, Chumukedima and Youth Mission, Kohima.

SBI donates Speaker leads social service in Assembly complex ceiling fans to GHS Thahekhu

Dimapur, June 28 (mexn): The State Bank of India, Old Market Branch, Dimapur donated ceiling fans to Government High School, Thahekhu under Corporate Social Responsibility Scheme. L.Gangte, Branch Manager handed over the fans to Vitohe Chishi, Chairman of the School in presence of the Village authorities, School Management Committee members and teachers of GHS, Thahekhu at a function held on June 25 at the School premises.

At the function, L.Gangte highlighted the Bank’s responsibility towards educating and spreading financial literacy, especially to the students and the rural mass. He encouraged the villagers and the students particularly in the secondary standard to open bank accounts and avail the banking facilities, and for which he assured to facilitate by making the process friendly and accessible. Hukiye Yeptho, Head GB of Thahekhu Village, on behalf of the village and the School, thanked the SBI, Old Market officials for showing generous gesture towards the School particularly for the welfare of the students. He also expressed his hope that the SBI would continue to undertake such noble works for the students even in the coming days.

Also, Commemorating State Bank Day, L.Gangte, Ujjal Borah, Assistant Branch Manager, V. Kharacho, Assistant Branch Manager, SBI, Old Market, Dimapur along with the students planted tree saplings in the School compound.

Kohima, June 28 (nepS): In view of the upcoming Nagaland Budget Session beginning July 16, the staff and officers of the Nagaland Assembly Secretariat led by Assembly Speaker Chotisuh Sazo carried out a massive social service in and around the Assembly complex today.

Over hundred Assembly staff and officers including Assembly Secretary AE Lotha led by Speaker Sazo cleaned the main road from the main gate to the Assembly Complex and Legislatures’ Home, besides cleaning weeds and other bushes thickly covered in tree growing sites.

“We have still plenty of areas on both sides of the road leading to complex and

also surrounding the Complex where we are planning to plant plum fruit trees,” said Speaker adding they wanted to declare the Assembly areas as “Green Zone” while also planning to declare the areas as “no plastic use zone.”

The Speaker, while inspecting the Assembly areas during social service, also shared his planning to come up with various developments and facilities for the legislators who stayed in the Legislatures’ Home and also for the officers and staff of the Assembly who also stayed in their residential quarters here near the Assembly Complex. “We are contemplating to provide a “shopping mall, multi-

purpose hall and other recreational facilities at the earliest,” so that legislators and the Assembly officers and staff and their family members should not have hassles of going to towns which are far away from their residential quarters. At the same time, they would also develop healthy and peaceful lifestyles during their stay here, he stated.

“We have also already proposed to establish a school here so that children of the legislators, officers and staff of the Assembly will not worry for their children,” Sazo stated. “My main intention is I want to give them comfortable and peaceful stay in these areas and also live like others.”

'Community participation key for development'

DC Mon, Angau I Thou

mon, June 28 (Dipr): Deputy Commissioner, Mon, Angau I Thou formally inaugurated Government Middle School and community hall at Longsen Town on June 27, 2013.

In her inaugural speech, Angau I Thou asserted that the Government has empowered the

community under communitization programme and urged upon the people to remove negative attitudes and stop pointing fingers at the Government for lack of any development.

She said the responsibility of development of a town or a village lies with the citizen of that place, and without community participation there is no room for development. Therefore she appealed to the people to have consolidated effort of the citizen and the Government with equal responsibility, and to have a sense of ownership of protecting Government properties. She said unity, peace and consensus of the people are required for change and development in the society.

Stressing on quality education at the primary level to

improve the literacy rate of the district, she said the future of a child lies in the hands of the parents, and encouraged them to send their children to school. She also appealed to make Longshen GMS a place of learning quality education and produce a decent citizen of the area and the district. She also informed that the EAC Office and staff quarters are in dilapidated conditions and would be dismantled soon for new proposal after constituting a committee.

SDO Civil, Phomching Pakon Phom in his short speech said Longsen town is situated in a beautiful location with viable environment suitable for any business establishment.

He encouraged the people to be economically strong to at-

tract outside entrepreneurs for growth and development of the township. DEO (Education), Mon Rongsenlila appealed to the teachers to impart quality education to the students. A representative of Urban Development office also spoke and exhorted the people to have unity and peace for progress.

It may be stated that GMS building was constructed under SSA 2010-11 while the community hall was constructed under UIDS 2010-11 and 2011-12.

The programme was chaired

by Mannyoi Konyak, Chairman TEC Longshen Hq. Longshen is an EAC headquarter under Phomching sub-division of Mon district with a household of 92.

Longshen EAC post was established in the year 1981.

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People, life, etc...

Saturday | 29 June, 2013

hus, the events of history witnessed and testified that the Rengma Nagas were already present in Rengma Hills, Assam many centuries hence. When the Ahoms forayed into the hinterlands of Assam, the Rengma Nagas were already established in the hills and had a well organized defence system against any external threats. The Rengmas had a powerful and independent Chieftainship system, where the entire inhabitants of the Rengmas Hills were under a Chieftain. Keyhan Phukon was one such powerful Chieftain who was said to have supernatural powers. It is said that he could appear at two different places at any given point of time. During the Burmese invasion of Assam in 1816, 1819 and 1821, Keyhan Rengcho protected Ahom refugees against the mighty Burmese Army and gave them shelter for many years till the Burmese were defeated by British in 1824.

For this act of bravery and sacrifice, Keyhan was given the hereditary title of “Phukon” by the Ahom king, Purander Singha. On 10th Dec 1845, Capt. John Butler in his “Travels and Adventures in the Province of Assam” narrated that he met a group of Rengmas at Jenhangri (Deopani) who “In the afternoon…visited us, and presented a fowl and a little rice, for which civility we gave them a bottle of spirituous liquor which they price more than money or any other remuneration.” The Rengmas were widely known for their prowess in war and they continued to maintain this tradition until they were brought under the revenue system of the British in the 19th century Migration of Mikirs into Rengma Hills The original home of the Mikirs was Khasi and Jaintia Hills. When the Mikirs lived in Khasi Hills, they were the slaves of the Khasis. Mikirs slaved as the bonded labourers of the Khasi Chiefs and were ruthlessly tortured by their masters. In a usual routine, early in the morning, every Mikir had to queue before their master’s house for their daily work assignment. Thereafter, the Khasi masters with their long, pointed sharp dao (machete) would slice their slaves’ foreheads and count-Wei, Ar, Lai, Saw, San, Hynriew, Hynniew, Phra, Khyndai, Shilphew… and so on till the last slaves had been counted with blood profusely trickling down their faces. Interestingly, the Khasi labourers were counted from the blunt edge of their dao while the Mikir labourers were counted from the sharpened edge and this atrocious and inhuman act made the Mikirs’ lives miserable in Khasi Hills. While the Mikirs were still living in Khasi Hills, there lived a family in Rongpher Village, the wife’s name being Rongpharpi Rongbe and her husband Bere Resebong. During this time, the Mikirs caught a tiger cub and presented it to a Khasi Raja so as to please him and maybe get compassion from him. Soon, the Raja was in dilemma as to how the cub should be fed. The Mikirs suggested that milk be fed. Seizing another opportunity to oppress his subjects, the Raja ordered that milk for the tiger should be collected from every breast feeding Mikir women early in the morning before their own children had been fed. This humiliating process continued for years. One fateful morning, when Rongpharpi Rongbe went to collect firewood in the jungle, a milk collector came running after her and began to collect milk from her breast. In an instance of fury, she killed the milk collector with her axe whereupon she hurriedly rushed home and narrated the incident to her husband. To escape the wrath of the Raja, Rongpharpi Rongbe and her family set off from the village and moved towards the north-east direction along the banks of Kopili river through dense jungle in quest of human habitation.

In those days, the Rengmas were living in Nchiben-habing (present Doboka) when this Mikir family entered the soil of Rengmas for the first time. A Rengma family working in the field was taken aback when these strange Mikir people appeared in the fields. They bore tattoo marks on their faces with blackened teeth, wore long tails made of cotton suspended up to the knee, and also prominent perforation of ears filled with silver coloured cone earrings called ‘Nothengpi’. The Mikir man was wearing a short woven jacket and the wife a short woven petticoat.

The family consisted of husband and wife and a boy and girl. The family was tired and famished. Meanwhile, the youngest son was crying out of hunger and her mother asked for food from the Rengma family and tried to communicate saying An, An, An… along with sign language since they could not communicate with each other. The Rengmas understood and food was offered. The Mikirs were brought to the village and the entire village men received them with courtesy. In due time, a house was con-

Saga Of Rengma Nagas Of Assam structed in the village for the Mikir family and they were offered clothes, food and other household items. They were treated with great hospitality by the villagers and were also allotted a plot of land for cultivation.

Shortly, the youngest son died and the mother wept bitterly over the loss. The entire village comforted the bereaved family and a grave was dug to dispose off the mortal remains of the dead boy. However, the bereaved family insisted on cremating the body according to their tradition. At this, the Rengmas named the immigrant family “Mikironyu” which means “men who burn their dead.” In March 1824, when the British expeditionary force came in contact with the Rengmas at Nchibenhabing (Doboka), they asked the Rengmas, “Who are the people living next to your village?” The Rengmas then replied “Mikironyu” which the British officials, Col. Alfred Richards and Capt. MC Moraine noted down in their diaries as “Mikir.” Such was the origin of the term “Mikir”, a derivative of the word “Mikironyu” in Rengma. Thereafter, the British government used the word Mikir in all their official records but after 1970s, the Mikirs re-named themselves as “Karbi”, which means “Hill-men”, and they also re-named “Mikir Hills District” into “Karbi Anglong” on 14th October, 1976.

In due course of time, the enchanting Rengma Hills convinced the Mikir family to settle down permanently in Rengma country. Bere Resebong went back to Khasi Hills and narrated the prosperity of the land and the hospitality they received from the aboriginal people to his Kinsmen. Gradually, the entire Mikir population living in Khasi and Jaintia Hills, North-Cachar Hills and Arunachal Pradesh swooped down to Rengma Hills and occupied south and west of the hills comprising of present Dokmoka, Rongkhang, Hamren and Duar Baguri.

Meanwhile, the Rengmas slowly abandoned the western hilly tracts and pushed towards the north while the Mikir immigrants came in myriad numbers and occupied the whole area abandoned by our Rengma ancestors. During the British period, the Mikir Hills with a total area of 1810 sq.km was formed encompassing Hamren area. It is bounded by Rengma Hills on the North and East, Nowgong on the west and North Cachar Hills, Khasi and Jaintia Hills on the South.

Creation of Rengma Hills The Rengma Hills was created vide the political proceedings section 79 to 80 on 18th April 1841 with a total area of 10,434 sq.kms. When Naga Hills district was created in 1866 with its headquarters at Samagudting, Rengma Hills became a part of Naga Hills district and its administrative centre was Samagudting. Thus, the Rengma Hills and the Naga Hills district were administered under one administrative unit till 1898 even after the district headquarters was shifted to Kohima. Traditionally, the territorial boundary of Rengma Naga Hills lies between Bora Dikharu Nallah and Ban-inkhuparbat and Tarapung Nallah on the North, the Jumuna river and Diphu river on the South, course of Bora Dikharu and Hora Dikharu on the West and in the East it’s contiguous with Naga Hills.

Revenue settlement with Rengma Nagas, 1847: In 1847, out of the 52 Rengma villages in Rengma Hills, 32 villages agreed to pay revenue of Rupee 1/- per household to British Govt. at Nowgong. Accordingly, 12 Rengma village chiefs paid their revenue into the Collector’s treasury at Nowgong and the remaining 20 chiefs paid their revenue to the treasury at Golaghat. However, against the protest from the Political Officer of Naga Hills District, the Chief Commissioner of Assam issued a notification transferring Rengma Hills from Naga Hills District to the adjoining districts of Nowgong and Sibsagar in 1898 without the consent and knowledge of the Rengma Nagas which was purely for collection of revenue and administrative convenience. To this effect, the Chief Commissioner of Assam issued a notification order for transfer vide letter No. 5646R dated Shillong the 9th December 1898.

The transfer of Rengma Mouza from Naga Hills District to Nowgong and Sibsagar district was completed by Notification No. 1436P dated 11th April 1901 and Notification No. 988R, dated 24th February 1903.

Deletion of Rengma Hills from Nomenclature of United Mikir & N.C. Hills district:

After the Independence of India in 1947, both the Rengmas and the Mikirs jointly moved for the creation of a separate district comprising of Rengma Hills and Mikir Hills. The Rengma Nagas gave their fullest support, physically, financially and morally. The Rengmas were given assurances that they’d be given an equal share and opportunity on par with Mikirs if a district council was created. However, to Rengmas utter dismay, when the Autonomous District Council was declared in 1951, the nomenclature of the Council was given as United Mikir and North Cachar Hills District Council and the term Rengma Hills not included in it, thus openly betraying the Rengma community. The Rengmas did not get even a single seat reservation in the council. Thus, the entire Rengma Hills was merged with Mikir Hills and the Council excluded Rengmas from the political and physical map of Assam. The Rengmas are still deprived of government services and other benefits in the district; the original inhabitants of the Hills, the Rengma Nagas, are considered as refugees and second class citizens in their own land.

Distortion of Rengma Naga history and records After the creation of Mikir Hills District Council, the name of the hills, peaks, rivers and places given by the Rengmas were systematically re-named into Mikirs or Assamese in order to wipe out any cultural influence of Rengma Nagas. This is tantamount to denying the existence of Rengmas in Assam.

HILLS 1. Rengma Hills into Mikir Hills.

2. Chenkenhishong to Singhason.

3. Chambajong to Lumbajong.

4. Thugwen Rencho to Bhalu Parbat.

5. Keyhan Rencho to Kala Pahar.

6. Terulashong to Tokopahar.

RIVERS 1. Tekrong into Doigrung.

2. Kulia into Kaliani.

3. Nengbu into Nambor Nadi.

4. Jenhenri into Deopani.

5. Dipfu into Diphu 6. Chongpvuri into Lumbri.

7. Hiphenri into Langroso.

8. Choterudi into Alongbeti.

9. Dikeru into Dikharu.

PLACES 1. Nchiben-habing into Doboka and Dokmoka.

2. Pore-pong into Barpung.

3. Nkhenlari into Khanari gaon.

4. Guzenlanyu into Khuwani gaon 5. Phentsero into Bepari gaon.

6. Kente phen into Borpathar.

7. Kaji Kehang into Kaziranga (means red earth) In 1861, the British Government divided the Rengma Hills into two administrative units; East Rengma Mouza and West Rengma Mouza and appointed Rengmas as the Mouzadars of these two units who were given charge of revenue collection. These two Rengma Mouzas were created under the revenue proceedings in February 1861, under section 116-118 and such continued till the end of British rule in India. After the Independence of India, the Mikir Hills District Council took over the two Mouzas and allotted the collection of revenue to Mikirs. Moreover, the East Rengma Mouza was divided into three zones, namely: 1. Jamunapur Mouza (Diphu) 2. Borpathar Mouza 3. Sarupathar Mouza The West Rengma Mouza was also divided into three zones: 1. Langlokso Mouza 2. Langhing Mouza 3. Langpher Mouza.

Cultural Genocide: The entire Rengma Hills is covered with graveyards and monolith stones erected by Rengma ancestors living in the hills from time beyond memory. Thousands of abandoned Rengma Naga villages are still found on the summit of the hills, ridges and the foothills of Rengma Hills territory. It is estimated that lakhs of Rengmas have perished in the hills due to encounters with wild animals,

mosquitoes, enemy raids, climate and natural forces.

Heavy toll on lives often visited the country in the shape of famines and plagues. The ancestors of the Rengmas occupied the Hills through blood, sweat and toil. When the Burmese invaded their country, gallant Rengma warriors defended their country against the occupational forces and the Burmese army was forced to seek peace by offering food, clothes and weapons to the Rengmas. The presence of Rengmas in the hills always created terror for the invading enemies and the hills was secure from marauding tribes. However, when democracy invaded their country, the Rengma Nagas lost their prestige and status before an alien population. Their hard earned land is laid waste before them and they have become slaves in their own native land. Men who have never trodden the path of war, shed their sweat and blood or sacrificed their lives have become masters of the land. Ironically, it’s the democratic form of government which has recognized the refugees as the dominant group and trampled the minority who are but aboriginal people, the sons of the soil.

Mikirs now grip the sharpened-shaft of a dao whereas the handle originally belonged to Rengmas. The relationship between the Rengmas and the Mikirs is akin to the Hermit’s story who (the hermit) rescued a snake from the flood but was later killed when bitten by the snake he had resuscitated.

It is the custom and tradition of the Rengmas to erect monoliths in front of his house or outside the village if a man offers a series of feasts to his village men. A man is entitled to drag a monolith during the feast of prestige by killing good numbers of cattle and pigs to be feasted upon by the villagers. Another Rengma tradition is to erect megaliths or boulders around the grave ten days after the burial of a body. Therefore, Rengmas had a thriving megalith culture where erection of monoliths and megaliths around grave-yards were signs of our rich culture in Assam. However, it is regrettable that most of the monoliths and grave-yards in Rengma Hills are being randomly demolished or destroyed by an alien people and government conspiratorially pushing to deny the existence of Rengmas in Assam and thus remove us from the pages of history. The demolition of Rengmas historical monuments and ancient remains is a direct insult and challenge to Rengmas everywhere. Article 49 (A) of the India Constitution guarantees the protection of historical state of every monuments or place, objects of artistic historical interests declared by or under law made by the parliament; and destruction, removal, disposal or exports as whatever the case may be is illegal. Rengmas shall vigorously pursue all means to book individuals who have willfully destroyed our historical monuments.

The Mikir Hills District Council came into existence in 1951 but development in Rengma Hills is still non-existent. There is no road, transport and communication.

Rengmas have been groping in the dark without electricity for many centuries till date. In the entire Rengma Hills there’s not even a single dispensary, not to talk of hospitals.

The Rengma Hills is also one of the highest malaria prone zones in the North-East, and many people die of malaria each year when monsoon sets in and epidemic breaks out.

However, the government does not even bother to send medical teams. General backwardness, non-availability of medical facilities, lack of proper immunization programmes and life saving drugs and lack of schools has led to depopulation of Rengma Hills. The attitude of the Karbi Anglong government is “Since Rengmas are Nagas, let them rot in their backwardness.” This communal mindset and attitude has always governed their mentality. Once the Mikirs have free access to Rengma Hills taking advantage of the general backwardness of its people, the Rengma chapter in Assam would be closed once and for all.

Conclusion: However, if the Naga people can understand the recorded history of Rengmas of Assam, tackling the contentious Nagaland-Assam border issue and other myriad issues facing Nagas today can be resolved in our favour.

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Sd/Sawathang Kez-Seb, President, Rengma Hoho, HQ Tseminyu Kelesha Kath, President, Rengma Mothers’ Association, HQ Tseminyu Gwachung Chung, President, Rengma GBs Association, HQ Tseminyu Nnolo Tep, President, Rengma Village Council Chairmen Forum, HQ Tseminyu

Health Care and Drug Abuse : A Reflection

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ake health your 'new high' in life, not drugs". This is the theme for International day against drug and abuse and illicit trafficking this year. Every one of us wants to be fit, healthy, and live a long active life. Well, we all know that a healthy person doesn’t smoke, is at a healthy weight, exercises and eats healthy. Sounds simple, but those who have tried changing their habits know how difficult it could be. Some people decide to make drastic changes, but when they face the difficulties, they just lack motivation and give up.

So it is a hard decision that one needs to make in order to make health a priority in life. The secret to healthy life is simple that is small changes lead to big results. Start today and you will have a healthy and hearty life.

Every year the United Nations’ (UN) International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking falls on June 26 to raise awareness of the major problem that illicit drugs represent to society. This day is supported by individuals, communities and various organizations all over the world.

The aim and purpose of this day is created awareness on the harmful effects drugs and its impact on the communities and societies at large. It is an endeavor that has made many individuals and communities to take strong actions against the menace of substance abuse. As an expression of its determination to strengthen action and cooperation to achieve the goal of an international society free of drug abuse. In the words of Kofi Annan, UN Secretary-General, "Illicit drugs destroy innumerable individual lives and undermine our societies. Confronting the illicit trade in drugs and its effects remains a major challenge for the international community."

Last year the theme was "Global Action for Healthy Communities without Drugs" is the theme of this year's world drug campaign. According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), nearly 200 million people are using illicit drugs such as cocaine, cannabis, hallucinogens, opiates and sedative hypnotics worldwide. The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) leads the international campaign aimed at raising awareness of the major problem that illicit drugs represent to society and especially to young people. The goal is to inspire people and mobilize support for drug control. The use and abuse of illicit drugs harms individuals, families and society at large.

Drugs control the body and mind of individual consumers. The drug crop and drug cartels control farmers, trafficking and crime control communities.

Teenagers and young adults are particularly vulnerable to using illicit drugs. The prevalence of drug use among young people is more than twice as high as that among the general population. At this age, peer pressure to experiment with illicit drugs can be strong and self-esteem is often low.

Also, those who take drugs tend to be either misinformed or insufficiently aware of the health risks involved. According to Secretary-General Ban Kimoon, "Our efforts to promote development and fight drugs and crime will be more effective if they are rooted in partnerships with the young, civil society, governments and the international community. Working together, we can alleviate the suffering of millions and break the hold of drugs and crime on countries, communities and families."

According to medical sciences the habitual use of or dependence on harmful substances like liquor / alcoholic drinks, tobacco, bidis / cigarettes,

drugs (for other than prescribed medical treatment) called substance abuse or addiction. As the range of addictive substances continues to expand, more and more persons particularly, in the younger age groups get addicted. There are many factors that are responsible for pushing the young as well as adults into the trap of substance abuse. These factors include peer-pressure, nonconducive family environment and stress. The risk is that many of our youth are not aware of these factors and get into these habits.

Our parents have to be considerate to children, particularly during their transition from childhood to adolescence and adulthood, when many changes occur in their physique. Adolescents are naturally curious, they are exploring new worlds, ideas, behaviors and relationships. In the process, some are exposed to drugs. Unless their environment, families, schools and friends educate them about the ill effects of using drugs, they are likely to be trapped. Drinking and smoking are the most common as well as harmful addictive actions. It is the duty and responsibility of civil societies to promote healthy life styles to avoid harmful habits.

Drinking or intake of liquor /alcohol is a very serious problem in our society today. The easiest pastime is to drink and many of our young people are lured into this menace. The youth think that it is a good pastime and also to forget worries, frustrations and other hardships of life, even though it is only temporary. If they cannot afford the standard variety, which is expensive, they go for the cheap variety. At times they drink even the poisonous things. After drinking, they lose their senses. Sometimes it results in death or permanent disability.

The use of tobacco is on the increase. Smoking is a habit which is very harmful to health, even more than drinking. Not only does it harm the smokers themselves, but also the people around them who are affected by the smoke in the atmosphere. If we respect the rights of others, then we should not smoke public places like buses, trains, markets, offices etc. Smoking is a major cause of pollution and develops deadly diseases like cancer, heart diseases, breathing problems etc. Many of our young people are not aware of the consequences of this nicotine and abuse them without restrictions.

No country or state can progress unless it pays adequate attention to the development of children and youth. A child is the future citizen of our state and the development of the state is the responsibility of every youth.

Only those children and youth who grow in a healthy atmosphere can contribute to the development and strength of our state and our country. Our country has a large population of children and youth. It is our duty to make sure that they are provided with the opportunities for good health and education. During adolescence, young people experience profound physical changes, rapid growth and development, and sexual maturation, in addition to psychological and social changes. This often leads to issues with personal identity, sense of self and emotional independence. In an attempt to cope with the complex changes and challenges of development, they may engage in behaviours considered to be experimental and risky.

Addressing the positive development of young people can decrease these problems by facilitating their adoption of healthy behaviors and helping to ensure a healthy transition into adulthood. Youth development, the

process of growing up and developing one’s capacities, happens no matter what we do. The challenge is to promote positive youth development and plan quality experiences with young people. Our programmes and plans have to stimulate, challenge, and encourage youth and adults as they work together to plan, conduct, and evaluate quality experiences. Whether you are a parent, teacher, volunteer, youth development professional, or teenager, this planning guide will help to work with youth. Youth development, then, is a combination of all of the people, places, supports, opportunities and services that most of us inherently understand that young people need to be happy, healthy and successful.

Supports: Motivational, emotional and strategic supports to succeed in life. The supports can take many different forms, but they must be affirming, respectful, and ongoing. The supports are most powerful when they are offered by a variety of people, such as parents and close relatives, community social networks, teachers, youth workers, employers, health providers, and peers who are involved in the lives of young people. Services: Services in such areas as education, health, employment, and juvenile justice which exhibit relevant instruction and information, challenging opportunities to express oneself, to contribute, to take on new roles, and be part of a group, and supportive adults and peers who provide respect, high standards and expectations, guidance and affirmation to young people. Our churches and other social units have to mould the youth with these visions.

Opportunities: Chances for young people to learn how to act in the world around them, to explore, express, earn, belong, and influence. Opportunities give young people the chance to test ideas and behaviors and to experiment with different roles. It is important to stress that young people, just like adults, learn best through active participation and that learning occurs in all types of settings and situations. Our educational institutions shall become the epitome of learning for life through practical knowledge.

A young person will not be able to build essential skills and competencies and be able to feel safe; cared for, valued, useful, and spiritually grounded unless their family and community provide them with the supports and opportunities they need along the way. Thus youth development is a process in which family and community must actively participate. Our body is our temple, and we need to take care of it to have a healthy life. We need to maintain it with proper care and support. Love your bodies and make sure you remain healthy. Life is beautiful and you don’t want to bog yourself down with unnecessary health problems. Today, your vital organs (kidney, heart, lungs, gall bladder, liver, stomach, intestines, etc) may be working well, but they may not be tomorrow. Don’t take your good health today for granted.

Take proper care of your body. Good health isn’t just about healthy eating and exercise – it also includes having a positive mental health, healthy self-image and a healthy lifestyle because they are going to be vital in living a healthier life. On this day let us all unite together to promote good health and make our youth free of substance abuse and lead a healthy and happy life.

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

Fr. Joe Mariadhas Asst. Professor and Counsellor St. Joseph’s College Jakhama - Nagaland

Morung Youth Express

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THE MORUNG EXPRESS

29 June, 2013

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All the trappings of victorious headhunters

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The New York Times

t would be hard to imagine a more misleading title than “Fiercely Modern: Art of the Naga Warrior,” the name of a show at the Rubin Museum of Art. The Naga, a diverse collection of peoples speaking similar languages and residing in a mountainous area in northeastern India, certainly were fierce. Headhunting was one of their prized pursuits.

But they were far from modern by present-day standards. In fact, the culture of the Naga was nearly destroyed by modern Europeans.

First came mid-19-century subjugation by the British, who wanted to stop the irritation of headhunting raids on neighboring Indian territories. Then American Baptist missionaries invaded, eventually succeeding in almost totally suppressing the Naga’s “satanic” practices and converting nearly all of the population to nominal Christianity.

Including clothing, jewelry, weapons and ceremonial objects, the Rubin’s exhibition serves more as an enticing introduction than a deep and wide exploration of its subject. It was drawn from a collection assembled in the 1930s by the anthropologist Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf and now owned by the Welt Museum Wien in Vienna (previously the Museum für Völkerkunde).

The exhibition’s most attractive objects are those worn by warriors, including bracelets, chest pieces and elaborate ceremonial headdresses made from metal, beads, feathers, animal bones and teeth, dyed hair and fur. Many are extraordinarily beautiful and positively flamboyant. Wonderfully imaginative hats rigged with extensions from which hang feathers, hair and other richly colored materials have a surrealistic and sometimes comical appearance that might have inspired Dr. Seuss.

To contemporary Western eyes, however, the most sophisticated works are the shawls and wrap skirts, which, in the Naga’s strict division of labor, were woven exclusively by women. (Basketry was the men’s purview, and the show includes some impressive examples of that craft.) With their stripes, grids and zigzagging lines producing rhythmic geometric patterns, the textiles on view look as if they were designed by a mid-20th-

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century Modernist like Anni Albers.

The Naga were not just aesthetes, however. The things they made were loaded with codified meanings. Motifs woven into shawls and skirts could be read by others as indicators of identity, status, family relations and notable accomplishments. A striking example consists of gridded red and black squares and stripes.

The museum label explains: “The large black boxes on each end represent the dark side of life, which could be made brighter only through headhunting and hosting feasts of merit. The red squares represent the parts of flesh distributed to the community after a successful headhunt, and the red on the edges commemorates the blood that has been spilled.”

For a modern viewer it is hard to fathom that something so lovely should be designed to celebrate such an abhorrent practice. The grisly style of a “Head Trophy” on display seems more appropriate.

It consists of a series of woven rattan spheres hanging in a line ending at the bottom with a pair of human skulls, one of which has bull’s horns attached to each side.

The horns, notes the museum label, were supposed to make the victim “deaf to the calls of his own

community asking for the name of the man who had killed him.”

While this head trophy has a bracing and disturbing ugliness, what is more shocking is that headhunting was so thoroughly woven into the fabric of Naga culture at every level. Successful headhunters were like star athletes, admired by all and especially attractive to women. “A young man who had yet to bag a head would be teased by the girls in his clan, and simply ignored by those in other clans,” notes the introduction to “Naga Identities: Changing Local Cultures in the Northeast of India,” a book of scholarly essays sold in the museum bookstore and a must for anyone who wants to know more about the Naga. (There is no catalog for this show.)

More important, the Naga believed that bringing home heads would ensure the prosperity and general happiness of their village.

It was important, for example, to consecrate with fresh heads the giant dugout log drums they made and used as musical instruments and as communication devices. On the other hand, daily life was not oriented around headhunting. It was an occasional activity pursued when villagers felt a need for community uplift. An

old, former headhunter quoted in “Naga Identities” said, “Headhunting, that was like Christmas!”

Mostly the Naga devoted themselves to the less sensational practices of farming and constructing mountainside villages of considerable complexity. Old photographs in “Naga Identities” show big thatched-roof houses outfitted with monumental wooden sculptures. The Rubin’s show gives but an intriguing glimpse of how highly developed Naga culture was.

Since World War II, Nagaland has been rived by continuous violent conflicts between the Indian government and groups seeking independence and, internally, between radical and conservative factions. To the extent that the old Naga culture survives today, it is in the form mostly of nostalgic revivals catering to tourists. Younger Nagas generally are more interested in assimilating into Western consumer and entertainment cultures than in connecting to their precolonial roots. As it does everywhere in the world, modernity rolls on, fiercely.

“Fiercely Modern: Art of the Naga Warrior” runs through Sept.

16 at the Rubin Museum of Art, 150 West 17th Street, Chelsea; (212) 620-5000, rmanyc.org.

The war on misguided youth and other Indian euphemisms

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Aditya Sinha|India Ink

f the “War on Terror” had been undertaken by the government of India, it probably would have been called the “War on Misguided Youth.” That’s because in the 1980s and ’90s, when New Delhi was trying to suppress separatist movements in Punjab, Kashmir and Assam, each official speech and classified document used the euphemism “misguided youth” to refer to young men who had rejected the idea of India and had taken to arms.

Such a tame euphemism conjures images of sulky teenagers falling into bad company at the school playground, rather than the reality of politically active young people challenging the existing order. Undoubtedly, by understating the movement’s potency, the euphemism also served to undermine it.

As India’s government did not send in a battery of guidance counselors to settle grievances but instead sent in the Indian Army to subdue the “boys,” India’s war on terror might even have been called “Befitting Reply to Misguided Youth.” The army likes to talk in terms of giving fitting and befitting replies; it not only gives a sense of the other guy having started it, but it also sounds gentlemanly, as if war were cricket and it was now the home side’s turn at bat.

The Indian Army isn’t much different from the Pentagon in using euphemisms that seek to give a clinical gloss to the essential job of militaries, which is killing. The only difference is that where the Pentagon is Orwellian in its language, the Indian Army is Wodehousian. Thus the government never tires of declaring to its citizenry: “Our armed forces are prepared for any misadventure,” as it did in its response to the fourth war with Pakistan in 1999 in Kargil in Jammu and Kashmir. A lethal battle on the disputed border is routinely described as a skirmish. Perhaps, then, the war on terror would correctly be called, in Indian officialese, “Befitting Reply to Misguided Youth’s Misadventures”.

After the reply comes the reconciliation.

Especially if the government believes that the problem is solved, as New Delhi apparently does nowadays with regard to Kashmir. Reconciliation includes forgiving. Or, as the government of India puts it, it’s time for an “amnesty scheme.”

In India a scheme is not an underhanded

plot, or a piece of seamy intrigue; it is on par with a countrywide macroeconomic plan or a national developmental mission. In this usage, Indians follow their former colonial masters, the English, though the latter are sparing in their schemes.

So, in India, the largest Keynesian intervention to generate work for the rural poor is titled Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, a title so wordy that it sounds like a misadventure. There is also the Indira Gandhi National Widow Pension Scheme and the Rajiv Gandhi National Rural Electrification Scheme, but the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission leads me to believe that some secret subversive in government is determined that anything that is named after a Gandhi is necessarily a scheme.

In a proper English classroom, “amnesty scheme” is an oxymoron, and bound to fail.

What does stick in the public mind is the possibility of an amnesty scheme for those with black money. Such a scheme is in fact a desperate plea by government to dishonest businessmen, corrupt politicians and cunning bureaucrats: a plea to bring their stash home and pay a token tax on it. Ever since the 1997 Voluntary Disclosure of Income and Wealth Scheme unearthed about $10 billion (at prevailing exchange rates), various finance ministers have been under pressure to announce another “black money amnesty scheme.” It has not happened, probably because this form of amnesty has been cacophonously denounced by lawyers, tax experts, politicians and the media, as an officially sanctioned money-laundering scheme.

You could thus say that the government was in a difficult position, or that the blackmoney amnesty had left it compromised. But in India, you could not say that the government was in a “compromising position” because a police party would then land up at the next Cabinet meeting brandishing handcuffs.

In India, anyone caught in the act of intimacy, be it cuddling on the lawn of a public park or behind the bushes at a national monument is said in official parlance to be a “compromising position.” The euphemism, when published in newspapers, leaves a lot to the imagination of the reader, which probably helps the beat constable who, more often than not, in every nook and corner of the country, aims to extort middle-class youngsters or middle-aged adul-

terers.

If you asked someone in government to change its police’s position on “compromising positions,” he would probably decline, citing “the national interest,” a euphemism that has to come to mean anything but what is in India’s interest. Its provenance is the era when the government thought it had a monopoly on deciding what was best for everyone and so shoved its policies down the country’s proverbial throat with the paternalistic justification that these policies were in the interest of the newly independent yet vulnerable nation.

Under this line of reasoning, anyone opposed was unpatriotic. Indeed, anyone disagreeing with the government was routinely accused of stoking “fissiparous tendencies”, which was presumably invoked to scare people about the potential balkanization of young India. However, when you consider that “fissiparous” is itself a tendency to break apart, “fissiparous tendencies” would actually mean “tendencies to have a tendency to break apart” which is somewhat less sinister. And lest you think that “national interest” and “fissiparous tendencies” are euphemisms of a bygone era, then think again: both figured in discussions last month of the states’ chief ministers over the federal government’s proposal for a National Counter-Terrorism Center.

I could keep giving example after example of clunky Indian officialese, but then this piece would start sounding like the prime minister’s Independence Day speech at Red Fort.

You have to wonder why it is that Indians love a good euphemism, because it doesn’t just appear in official-speak, but also in corporate memos as well as in the posts and tweets of online India. So what lies behind this euphemism euphoria? Perhaps a sensitive government tries not to offend the ethnic, linguistic, religious, class or caste groups that populate the Indian mosaic.

Or it may simply reflect the government’s continuing conceptual confusion. It could even be part of a larger scheme: India’s zombification of the English language — killing words and phrases, and then bringing them back to life in a brain-dead disfigured form that seeks out healthy humans as prey. Whichever way you look at it, you have to admit: giving a befitting reply to misguided youth whose fissiparous tendencies threaten the national interest sounds a lot jollier than “war on terror”.

Yanpvuo: The time has come for the Nagas to unite irrespective of tribe, organization, union, denomination, religion, young or old! How long do you wish to live under the barrel of a gun?

In the name of Freedom? Killing our own brothers, Extorting and Threatening your own people, Recruiting Illegal Bangladeshis and non-Nagas in the name of our sacred NAGA NATIONALISM?? Threatening and Causing fear and panic in the minds of your own people BUT LIVING and DYING for the Money of your so called enemy!

In the name of FREEDOM, you OPENED FIRE in the heart of our capital Kohima just above Mezhur Higher Secondary School! My uncle’s car and garage was filled with bullet holes and luckily the students had summer holidays or else imagine the trauma and misery your irresponsible behaviour would have caused!

In the name of LIBERATING OUR PEOPLE, you ATTEMPTED THE LIFE OF OUR NAGA STUDENTS FEDERATION leader Christopher Ltu. He was in his Bolero with his aunt and her daughter, you took out your gun and shot straight through his windshield, shattering the glass on the innocent lady and our student leader. By the grace of God, they are alive today! It is a shame to call myself a NAGA when our own so called Liberators turn their barrels at us! How long do we keep on yapping in our kitchens and our virtual groups? EVERYONE WHO IS A TRUE NAGA, leave aside your DIFFERENCES, Tribalism, Groupism and disunity, COME OUT AND JOIN THIS MOVEMENT IN UNITY TO LIBERATE OURSELVES TODAY, or else we are headed to our own doom!

Vi No Ka: Every time an innocent civilian becomes a victim of factional clash in our state, all the frontal organizations get into the rallying act and comes up with memorandums and resolutions. What happens to those that there is a recurrence of such violence and threat to the public life every now and then? Today’s rally was just another protest rally or different, only time will tell.

Here’s a list of innocent civilian lives lost in the factional clashes since 2008 in Zunheboto district. So many memorandums and resolutions have been passed with no fruitful results or outcomes as the street battle continues to be waged in civilian populated areas of our district in factional turf war.

1. DAINEL SUMI Age: 24; Village: Viyilho, Aghunato Area; Year: 2012 Circumstances leading to his 'killing': Killed without any rhyme or reason by GPRN/NSCN cadres deserting their camp with weapons to NSCN (K) camp at Suruhuto. Rally held at Centre Point Zunheboto under the aegis of Sumi Hoho.

2. TOCKY AYE Age: 19; Village: Ghukhiyi, Satakha Area; Date: May 29; Year: 2012 Circumstances leading to his 'killing': Factional clash which broke out at South Point colony, Zunheboto claimed his life as he was hiding under the bed in his room.

Rally held at Centre Point Zunheboto under the aegis of Sumi Kiphimi Kuqhakulu (SKK).

3. IGHAPU Age: 11Months 27 days old; Village: Aghulito, Aghunato Area; Date: First week of July; Year: 2012 Circumstances leading to his 'killing': Apparently a loaded gun went off accidentally as one GPRN/NSCN cadre bent down to pick up the little boy, at South Point Colony near vehicle servicing centre.

No rally was held. Comments from a relative, name withheld: “What saddens me most was, the pig his parents reared for his first birthday (since his birthday was 3 days away when he was killed) was used in his funeral. Secondly, I did not like the way Sumi Hoho handled that incident. They said, the boy's parent sells alcohol and that’s how they diverted the subject by blaming that selling alcohol was also the factor behind the killing. I was aghast and angry but the outcome/settlement was done by them. Even though we didn’t agree, we had no choice but to heed to their settlement. The funny part was the UGs were made to pay 50,000 bucks by Sumi Hoho which was refused by the parents/relatives.”

4. THAHEZU Age: 50 years; Village: Xukhephu, Zunheboto area; Year: 2012 He was shot dead while going home after attending a meeting for Platinum jubilee celebration on Sunday after devotional service inspite of the fact that the villagers informed and requested both the warring factions, NSCN/GPRN and NSCN K about the meeting, and to not disturb the peaceful atmosphere in the village. They were even fed in morning with the food that was purchased by money set aside for jubilee.

5. ATOKA ASSUMI Village: Limtshami, Akuluto area; Date: 12 June; Year: 2013 Circumstances leading to his 'killing': NSCN K cadres came to his home at Akuluto, and shot him dead. Motives unknown.

(Researched facts, courtesy ‘BEING SUMI’).

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(The Naga Blog was created in 2008 by Yanpvuo Kikon. This column in The Morung Express will be a weekly feature)

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

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China says ready to break new ground on border talks with India

BEiJiNg, JUNE 28 (Pti): China on Friday said it was ready to “break new ground” with India to resolve the boundary dispute as the Special Representatives of the two countries held 16th round of border talks to find a solution to the vexed issue. “I stand ready to work with you to build on the work of our predecessors and break new ground to strive for the settlement of the China-India boundary question and to make greater progress in the China India strategic an cooperative partnership in the new period,” newly appointed Chinese Special Representative Yang Jiechi said here.

Former foreign minister Yang, who took over from the long-standing Chinese Special Representative Dai Bingguo, welcomed his Indian counterpart National Security Advisor Shivshankar Menon, saying “the two Special Representatives have a lofty mission and heavy responsibilities”.

This is the first meeting of the border talks after the new leadership took over in China in March. India asserts that the dispute covered about 4,000 km, while

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, right, talks with Indian National Security Adviser Shivshankar Menon, left, at Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing, China on June 28. (AP Photo)

China claims that it was confined to about 2,000 km to the area of Arunachal Pradesh, which it refers as Southern Tibet.

“First of all let me warmly welcome you to come to China for the 16th round of the Special Representatives meeting on the China-India boundary question,” he said, stating that “over the years you have made important con-

tribution to the growth of China-India relations in various capacities.” “You and I have known each other for a long time. We are very familiar with each other and established a good working relationship and personal friendship,” Yang said. He also complimented Dai for the work done in the last decade.

Yang recalled the recent visit of Premier Li Keqiang

Gangster Abu Salem attacked: 4 cops suspended, lawyer to seek repatriation MUMBai, JUNE 28 (Pti): A day after gangster Abu Salem was shot at in Taloja jail, four security personnel were today suspended pending a high-level probe even as his lawyers are planning to move Portuguese authorities for his repatriation. An attempt to murder case was also registered against his assailant Devendra Jagtap alias JD. State’s Home Minister R R Patil said Additional Director General (Prisons) Meeran Borwankar will hold an inquiry into the incident and officials found responsible for the lapse would face action, including dismissal from service.

“Responsibility for the incident will be fixed and stringent action, including dismissal from service, will be taken against those found guilty,” Patil said. Jagtap had allegedly fired two rounds with a country-made revolver at Salem, an accused in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts who was extradited from Portugal on November 11, 2005 after a prolonged legal battle.

Police are, however, so far clueless about the motive behind the attack.

“Two rounds were fired with a gun

that was smuggled into the jail some days before the attack,” A K Sharma, Navi Mumbai Police Commissioner, told reporters. Meanwhile, the jail authorities have suspended four security personnel including a jailor and three constables for dereliction of duty on the basis of a preliminary inquiry. “We have suspended an officer and three cops,” said Borwankar, adding those who faced action were on duty at the gate and in the prison’s high-security zone. Those suspended are jailor Sanjay Sable and constables Chandrakant Pathare, Nitin Sawant and Gitesh Randhive.

Borwankar admitted that security at the entrance of the jail had been breached. Meanwhile, Salem’s lawyer Saba Qureshi has said they would approach Portuguese authorities seeking the extradited gangster’s repatriation. “One of the conditions of extraditionwasthatAbuSalemwould beprotected.Thisconditionstandsviolated as he has been attacked inside the jail. So, we plan to seek intervention of authorities in Portugal to have Salem repatriated,” She said.

to India stating that it was an important event coming after the meeting between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Chinese President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the BRICS summit in Durban in March. Li’s visit “injected fresh and strong momentum into the further development of our bilateral relationship,” he said. “The China-India relationship has developed

good momentum of development. The Special Representatives meeting is an important exchange and cooperation mechanism between our two countries,” he said.

On his part, Menon expressed his pleasure to hold talks with Yang. “You are an old friend and in India you are known for your various contributions you have made to the positive development of our bilateral relations,” Menon said.

“As you have said we are meeting at a moment when India-China relations have achieved a momentum and are moving in the right direction. It is our conviction that we are at a moment of strategic opportunity for this relationship,” Menon said. During his two-day stay in Beijing, Menon is due to meet Premier Li and Foreign Minister Wang Yi. Menon’s talks with Chinese leaders is also expected to focus on recent intrusion by Chinese forces in India’s Depsang Valley in Ladakh region. The border talks are currently in second stage of the three stage process which has been agreed in the beginning. The first stage was to

do the guiding principles which resulted in 2005 agreement on the political parameters and guiding principles for boundary settlement. The second stage is aimed at working out a framework for boundary settlement. Once a framework was in place the countries will proceed to actual business of drawing boundary.

Besides border negotiations, the Special Representatives are designated to discuss all most all aspects of the relations between the two countries which meant that a host of issues from river waters, trade deficit as well as strategic issues including mutual concerns over their neighbourhood policies were expected to figure in the talks.

The deteriorating situation in Afghanistan ahead of US troops withdrawal was also expected to come up. China, in surprise move, had earlier held talks with India on how to deal with the Afghan situation considering its own concerns over the impact in its volatile Muslim Uygur majority Xinjiang province. China held similar talks with Russia and Pakistan.

Centre okays laboratory network to tackle epidemics, natural calamities

NEw DElhi, JUNE 28 (Pti): The Centre today approved two health ministry proposals for setting up of a network of laboratories for managing epidemics and natural calamities in the country and for setting up research units in 80 government medical colleges for promoting research. Finance Minister P Chidambaram said the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) cleared the proposal to establish 10 regionals labs, 30 state level labs and another 120 labs in medical colleges in the country to manage epidemics and natural calamities.

“The initiative will greatly help in building capacity for handling viral diseases in the country in terms of early and timely diagnosis, development of tools to predict viral disease outbreaks beforehand, continuous monitoring and surveillance of existing as well as new viral strains and handling viruses with a potential to be used as agents of bio -terrorism,” he said. The move will help in smooth data flow from across the sites of epidemics, creation of efficient knowledge management network for policy interventions like quick deployment of resources and measures like introduction of preventive strategies and new vaccines.

The proposal involves a total expenditure of Rs 646.83 crore, of which the Centre will entail an expenditure of Rs 485 crore and the remaining around Rs 162 crore as states’ contribution in setting up

‘Dialogue with Pak after new govt settles down’ salman khurshid

sRiNagaR, JUNE 28 (Pti): India today said the composite dialogue with Pakistan will be resumed after the new government there settles down, and pending confidence building measures between the two countries are implemented. “It is not good that we say everything right at the outset. The atmosphere is good at the moment. Let it improve further to be conducive for talks,” External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid told reporters here.

“Let them (the new government in Pakistan) settle down and understand their job, then we can resume it. However, there are some issues on which both the government and people expect some progress, and we will get some satisfaction from it. Then things can move on smoothly from there,” he said. The focus of the government, at present, is to resume sectoral dialogue, whereby progress can be made on certain issues, Khurshid said after addressing Congress workers at the PCC office here.

“Our formulation at the moment is to start a sectoral dialogue. The issues on which we can make forward movement, we will do that. There are some issues on which expecting some quick progress is not possible,” he said. The External Affairs Minister said there are some confidence building measures which are to be implemented by both the countries to further improve the atmosphere. “There are confidence building measures like the most favoured nation status (to India) which they had decided earlier, but has not been implemented yet and the new visa regime which we have announced and will enable travel of more people across the border is to be implemented. We can move forward one step at a time,” he said.

such laboratories. Chidambaram said CCEA cleared another proposal for establishing/strengthening of multi-disciplinary research units in government medical colleges during the 12th Plan.The project, involving a total expenditure of Rs 503.85 crore, will encourage and strengthen an environment of research in the government medical colleges; bridge the gap in the infrastructure which is inhibiting health research in the medical colleges, with a view to improve the health status of the population by creating evidence based application of diagnostic procedure, processes and methods.

He said there was an urgent need to provide assistance to medical colleges to set up research facilities to promote and encourage quality medical research in the country as majority of them have confined themselves to routine patient care and are not pursuing newer methods of investigation for understanding the pathological diagnosis, treatment and management practice.

The proposal includes setting up 35 such units in this year and another 45 in medical colleges during 2014-15. On the setting up of regional, state and medical college-level labs, while the Centre will bear full expenditure on regional labs, that on state labs will be shared between Central and state governments in the ratio of 75:25 in plains and 90:10 in the northeastern hill states, including Sikkim and Jammu and Kashmir.

Retirement homes in vogue as Indians live longer and prosper

PUNE, JUNE 28 (REUtERs): The Athashri retirement community offers the over-55 crowd Western-style amenities such as a clubhouse, gym, library and pool but with a distinctly Indian twist: a temple on site where residents worship Ganesh, a god followed by many Hindus in Maharashtra. The 180-unit development in Pune, which enjoys better weather and less bustle than nearby Mumbai, overlooks open fields and hills and is set in lush gardens an appealing escape from the crowds and grime of India’s mega-cities.

Retirement communities like this one are just beginning to gain traction in India, where the multigenerational “joint family” structure endures despite rampant modernisation.

The concept of housing for the elderly still carries a social stigma in the country, which accounts for less than 1 percent of the $25 billion senior housing industry worldwide. But rising incomes, longer life expectancy and the rise of nuclear families as more people relocate for jobs are driving demand for retirement homes in Asia’s third-largest economy, and attracting developers and investors.

Paranjape Schemes Ltd, which manages Athashri, is among a handful of companies tapping the burgeoning senior living sector including Max India

Aruna Gokhale (L), 81, watches as her husband Vidyadhar Gokhale, 84, plays guitar in their flat at the Athashri retirement village in Baner, the outskirts of Pune on June 18. (REUTERS)

Ltd (MAXI.NS), backed by Goldman Sachs Group Inc (GS.N), LIC Housing Finance Ltd (LICH.NS), The Covai Group and Ashiana Housing Ltd. Tata Housing Development Co Ltd, part of India’s biggest conglomerate, launched its first senior housing project in May in Bangalore, and plans at least four more, catering to independent retirees looking for better security and services than what is available in ordinary housing.

“A significant section of seniors today are independent, financially stable, well-travelled and socially connected, and as a result have a fairly good idea of

how they want to spend time after retirement,” said Brotin Banerjee, CEO, Tata Housing, which expects revenues of 950 million rupees from its 700 million rupee project investment over three years. While India is much younger than Japan, China or the United States, the number of people over age 60 is expected to more than double to 173 million by 2025. Real estate consultant Jones Lang LaSalle estimates current annual demand for senior homes across 135 Indian cities at 312,000, far outstripping supply of 10,000 to 15,000 new homes now in the pipeline.

YOUNG AT HEART After spending two decades in Houston looking after their grandchildren, Vidyadhar and Aruna Gokhale returned to India last year and moved into a retirement home. Developers view such Indians returning from overseas, the vast and often prosperous diaspora known as nonresident Indians or NRIs, as a key target market. “Nobody needs us there so we thought we should live our lives the way we want to because we are young enough to be able to enjoy it,” Aruna Gokhale, 81, said in her apartment at Athashri in Pune, where she and her husband, now 84, grew up.

Most of India’s retirement homes are targeted at urban middle- and upperincome buyers who can afford to pay between 3 million and 6 million rupees for an apartment, which is cheap by Western standards but beyond the reach of the average Indian. Max India is building a project in Dehradun that aims higher, with villas priced above 10 million rupees. Unlike the United States, where retirement housing is typically rented, providing recurring annual income for investors, in India people prefer to own.

That suits developers as well because it means less capital tied up. Investing in Indian retirement homes generates returns of about 25 percent annually for developers, less than the 35 percent that is

typical for comparable ordinary housing in the country, Jones Lang LaSalle said.

That is partly because the retirement communities include more open, communal space. Developers are also keen to keep prices affordable for middle-class buyers who normally must pay cash as Indian banks rarely offer mortgages to seniors.

Developers expect economies of scale to bring down costs as the industry grows, and they hope eventually to be able to charge more for amenities such as food and facilities. “There is a margin to be made but today the returns are not as good and we would like to improve that,” said Ankur Gupta, joint managing director at Delhi-based Ashiana, which has built three retirement home projects in India.

SOCIAL STIGMA The biggest challenge for the emerging senior living sector is the social stigma associated with elderly family members living on their own. “Twenty years ago the social fabric of India was very different as we were still a closed economy,” said Abdulla Kagalwalla, chief financial officer at Texas-based Signature Senior Living, which in 2010 tied up with Covai to build and manage retirement homes in India.

“As the economy opened it brought about a great so-

cial change, and an increase in the education and remuneration of middle class families caused a dramatic shift in thinking.” Later this year, Pune-based Paranjape, which operates the Athashri project and three others in the city, will open a home in Bangalore and start building three more in south India.

GOVERNMENT OF NAGALAND

DIRECTORATE OF TOURISM NAGALAND: KOHIMA

NOTIFICATION Dated Kohima, the 28th June 2013

NO.TOUR (T&S)-3/2011-12/ 54 This is to notify all applicants who have applied to undergo various professional I (one) year residential training in the field of Hotel Reception/Travel/Restaurant Service/Housekeeping/Food Production, sponsored by the Ministry of DoNER, Govt, Of India for North Eastern candidates that the date of interview is scheduled to be held on 29th June 20I3, Office of the Directorate Conference hall at 10.30 am, Sl.No Name of applicant 16 Manisha Khapangee 1 Yapangtoshi Pongen 17 Filika Chishi 2 Lekhol Kera 18 Along Besting 3 Thungjano Kikon 19 Dzutsu-o Nakro 4 Botoka Sumi 20 Chingsubam Biru Singh 5 Zhitnoka Zhimomi 21 Hito Chishi 6 Hoto G.Swu 22 Osenthung R.Yanthan 7 Alakla 23 Apong Yimchunger 8 N.Amentoli Chishi 24 Athrongla Sangtam 9 Eshenthung Odyuo 25 K.Hotovi Sema 10 Zuchobeni Kikon 26 Khriekhoto Chuse 11 Tseyani Ezung 27 Kezhalenuo Viluo 12 Vikani Kheko 28 Kerhenuo Mepfhii-o 13 Kaihak Konyak 29 Wetnhelo Kapfo 14 Lendilong Longkumer 30 Hamito Sumi 15 Yithatu 31 Colie Luho (KT,Thomas) Joint Director, Tourism

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Vatican monsignor arrested in 20M euro plot

An undated photo of Monsignor Nunzio Scarano in Salerno, Italy. A Vatican official already under investigation in a purported money-laundering plot involving the Vatican bank was arrested Friday, June 28, 2013, in a separate operation: (AP Photo)

VATICAN CITY, JuNe 28 (AP): A Vatican cleric and two other people were arrested Friday by Italian police for allegedly trying to smuggle 20 million euros ($26 million) in cash into the country from Switzerland by private jet. It’s the latest scandal to hit the Holy See and broadens an Italian probe into its secretive bank. Monsignor Nunzio Scarano, already under investigation in a purported money-laundering plot involving the Vatican bank, is accused of corruption and slander and was being held at a Rome prison, prosecutor Nello Rossi told reporters.

Scarano’s arrest came just two days after Pope Francis created a commission of inquiry into the Vatican bank to get to the bottom of the problems that have plagued it for decades and contributed to the impression that it’s an unregulated, offshore tax haven. Prosecutor Rossi said the Swiss operation involved three people, all of whom were arrested Friday: Scarano, a recently suspended accountant in the Vatican’s main finance office, Italian financier Giovanni Carenzio, and Giovanni Zito, who at the time of the plot was a member of the military police’s agency for security and information.

Rossi detailed a remarkable plot — uncovered by telephone wiretaps — in which the three allegedly planned to bring into Italy some 20 million euros in cash that financier Carenzio held in his name in a Swiss bank account without paying customs at the airport, as would be required. Scarano’s attorney, Silverio Sica, said his client was something of a middleman: The 20 million euros belonged to friends who had given the money to Carenzio to invest but wanted it back. The plot would presumably enable them to avoid paying customs fees or having any

Endangered languages converge on Mall

WASHINGTON, JuNe 28 (AP): They traveled far from the Tuva Republic, a predominantly rural region of Russia, to the United States in hopes of saving their culture from slow extinction.

The group of eight musicians and craftsmen speak Tuvan, one of more than a dozen endangered languages represented by native speakers at the annual Smithsonian Folklife Festival on the National Mall in Washington.

The festival’s program, “One World, Many Voices,” focuses on drawing attention to dying languages around the globe, bringing speakers of languages on the verge of extinction to Washington to explain the challenges to passing their linguistic heritage to younger generations. Other themes presented this year include exploring Hungarian heritage roots and a look into African-American diversity, style and identity.

“It’s dying because urban kids, they start to forget their language, our language, and even older generations, lots of people from Soviet time, they have lost their language,” said Tuva native Aldar Tamdyn, 38. As he spoke, he worked with his hands to build an igil, a two-stringed, bowed musical instrument used in his traditional Tuvan throat-singing band.

According to Smithsonian curators, about half of the world’s 7,105 languages are reported as endangered. Of those, 3,524 languages are spoken by fewer than 10,000 people each. “These people are under a lot of social and economic and political pressure to abandon their languages and to switch over to global languages,” said K. David Harrison, co-curator for the Smithsonian Institution’s endangered languages program.

Nearly half the world speaks one of the top 10 languages, which include Mandarin, Spanish and English. Tamdyn said he tries to resist using languages other than his native tongue but has often found himself using mainstream languages out of convenience. “Even I have started to use lots of other words from other languages. Lots of words from Russian languages,” Tamdyn said. “It’s very upsetting.

When talking to the younger generation (in Tuva) I always correct them.” The speakers all brought with them a talent or skill from their area of the world in an attempt to educate festival goers about their culture as a whole. Conrad Nolberto, a native Garifuna speaker from Dangriga, Belize, took a break from drumming on hollow turtle shells to educate school-age children about his language, walking them through simple pronunciations.

“Our language is our life,” said Nolberto, who is a member of the Libaya Baba

drumming and dance group from Belize. “I got the privilege to come to the States and help my kids, and that’s why I’m here. And I brought my culture with me, and I thank the Smithsonian for giving us the chance to share our culture with the American people.”

Festival coordinators expect more than 1 million

people to attend the free event, which began Wednesday. It runs through Sunday and resumes July 3-7 with special concerts most evenings. The daily event schedule can be visited on the festival website, http://www. festival.si.edu, or by downloading the Smithsonian Institution Folklife Festival smartphone app.

paper trail of such a large amount of money entering Italy.

Rossi identified the friends as members of the Italian shipping family d’Amico and suggested that the money was being held in Switzerland to avoid paying Italian taxes. An email seeking comment from the family’s Rome-based company, the d’Amico Societa di Navigazione SpA, wasn’t immediately returned. According to prosecutors, Zito, the agent, called in sick to his job one day in July 2012, rented a private plane and flew with Carenzio to Lucerne, Switzerland.

There, Carenzio was supposed to withdraw the cash from his bank account and hand it over to Zito to bring back to Italy. The plan was so detailed there was even to be a car and driver waiting at the airport to bring the money to Scarano’s apartment in Rome, Rossi said. The money could have been transported relatively easily because euros are issued in high denominations. If the cash had been withdrawn in the largest denomination — 500 euro notes — it would have weighed 44 kilograms (97 pounds) and fit in a suitcase. But at a certain point in Lucerne, the deal fell through and Carenzio made excuses that the bank couldn’t come up with the money, Rossi said. He declined to identify the bank.

Zito returned to Rome empty-handed but still demanded from Scarano his fee of 600,000 euros for the operation. Scarano cut him one check for 400,000 euros which he deposited. He gave him a second check for 200,000 euros, but in a bid to prevent the check from being deposited, reported it as missing, the prosecutor said.

That put a block on the check and resulted in Scarano being accused of slander for filing a false report knowing that the check was in Zito’s hands, Rossi said.

Scarano, as well as the other two, are also accused of cor-

ruption. If they are indicted and convicted, they could face up to five or six years in prison, prosecutors said. Sica, the lawyer, said Scarano had no immediate comment on the charges. The Vatican bank, known as the Institute for Religious Works, or IOR, is cooperating with Italian authorities and its lay board has launched an internal investigation, spokesman Max Hohenberg said. Rossi, the Italian prosecutor, described the operation as one branch in a “mosaic” of investigations targeting the IOR, which has long been a source of scandal for the Holy See. That said, the Swiss investigation didn’t immediately appear to directly involve the IOR. The checks Scarano wrote to Zito, for example, came from an Italian bank account, prosecutors said. They declined to say if Scarano received any payment for his role in the plot, or if his IOR account was used at all. Rossi’s team of prosecutors in 2010 placed the top two Vatican bank officials under investigation for allegedly violating anti-money laundering norms during a routine transaction involving an IOR account at an Italian bank. They ordered the 23 million euros in the transaction seized. The money was eventually unfrozen but the two men remain under investigation.

Rossi’s team is also working with prosecutors in Salerno on a separate money-laundering investigation involving Scarano and his IOR account. According to Sica, the lawyer, Scarano took 560,000 euros ($729,000) in cash out of his IOR bank account in 2009 and carried it out of the Vatican and into Italy to help pay off a mortgage on his Salerno home. The money had come into Scarano’s IOR account from donors who gave it to the prelate thinking they were funding a home for the terminally ill in Salerno, Sica said.

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spain vs Brazil: The dream final FORTALEZA, JUNE 28 (AP): The Confederations Cup has got the final that nearly everyone wanted.

The World Cup holder against the five-time champion. The two-time European champions against the tournament host. Spain's passing wizards vs. Brazil's new star Neymar.

Spain came through an exhausting encounter by winning a penalty shootout 7-6 over Italy in the semifinal on Thursday and will face Brazil in Rio de Janeiro's Maracana Stadium on Sunday to cap the World Cup warm-up tournament.

"I think everybody was waiting for this Confederations Cup final to be Spain vs. Brazil," Spain captain Iker Casillas said. "I think the two teams that deserve to play the final are actually playing it."

Jesus Navas scored the decisive penalty in the shootout after extra time ended 0-0 in a draining match that was made more difficult by heat and thick humidity. Nobody missed in the shootout until Italy defender Leonardo Bonucci shot over the bar to give Navas an attempt at the winner. The recently signed Manchester City midfield-

er cooly beat goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon to end a top-class battle and send Spain to another major final.

While calling his squad "lucky" to win, Spain coach Vicente del Bosque was not about to concede the final due to fatigue, even though Spain has one less day of rest than Brazil, which beat Uruguay 2-1 Wednesday.

"We have to now consider what we have to do in the three days to recover. And we will definitely stand up to Brazil in the Maracana," the manager said. "The players should feel just as happy as kids playing in the Maracana. They have won a lot, but they want to win in the Maracana.

It will be the fourth major final Spain will play in five years, while Brazil is hoping to rekindle its glory under Felipe Scolari, who led the Selecao to the 2002 World Cup title. "It will be a special match for the Brazilians, and also for the Spanish team to play in the Maracana," Casillas said.

"This is something very enticing and it whets our appetite." Against Italy, Spain was pushed to the limit in an intense match from start to finish that saw each side hit the woodwork in extra

time. Emanuele Giaccherini smashed a shot off the post in the 93rd minute and Buffon deflected a shot from Xavi Hernandez off the post in the 115th.

In a rematch of the Euro 2012 final, which Spain won 4-0, Italy threatened early on even without the injured Mario Balotelli, relying on counterattacks, while Spain relied on its usual game of short passing and ball possession. "We played a great match. We created and we conceded but we were always in the match," Italy coach Cesare Prandelli said. "They're still ahead of us but we're improving." Before kickoff, about 5,000 anti-government protesters battled police about 2 kilometers (1 mile) from the stadium.

More protests are expected at Sunday's final of the World Cup warm-up tournament. Thursdays' were the latest in a series of massive, nationwide protests that have hit Brazil since June 17. Demonstrators are angered about corruption and poor public services despite a heavy tax burden. Protests are also denouncing the billions of dollars spent to host the World Cup and the 2016

Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.

Sunday is the fourth major final Spain will play in five years, having won the 2008 and 2012 European Championships plus the 2010 World Cup. Inside the Fortaleza stadium, which appeared full, there was overwhelming support for Italy from local fans, who were perhaps afraid of facing Spain in the final. Spain was booed early on every time it took the ball.

Christian Maggio had the best chance of the first half in the 36th with a header inside the box that Spain goalkeeper Iker Casillas did well to block. A minute later, Xavi Hernandez set up Spain's only real chance early on but Fernando Torres shot wide.

Reverting to a three-man defence, Prandelli made another tactical move to start the second half, replacing centre back Andrea Barzagli with midfielder Riccardo Montolivo and putting De Rossi at the centre of the defence. Seeking to inject some energy into his squad, Spain coach Vicente Del Bosque sent on Navas for David Silva in the 52nd and Navas had the first significant chance of the second half six minutes later with a low effort that Spain's Jesus Navas celebrates after scoring his side winning penalty against Italy during the soccer Confederations Cup Buffon controlled. semifinal match at the Castelao stadium in Fortaleza, Brazil, Thursday, June 27. (AP Photo)

armstrong: i'm still record Pistorius starts 'low-key' track routine Tour de france winner

Lance Armstrong. (AP File Photo)

PORTO VECCHIO, JUNE 28 (AP): The dirty past of the Tour de France came back on Friday to haunt the 100th edition of cycling's showcase race, with Lance Armstrong telling a newspaper he couldn't have won without doping. Armstrong's interview with Le Monde was surprising on many levels, not least because of his long-antagonistic relationship with the respected French daily that first reported in 1999 that corticosteroids were found in the American's urine as he was riding his way to the first of his seven Tour wins. In response, Armstrong complained he was being persecuted by "vulture journalism, desperate journalism."

Now seemingly prepared to let bygones be bygones, Armstrong told Le Monde he still considers himself the record-holder for Tour victories, even though all seven of his titles were stripped from him last year for doping. He also said his life has been ruined by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency in-

vestigation that exposed as lies his years of denials that he and his teammates doped.

The interview was the latest blast from cycling's doping-tainted recent history to rain on the 100th Tour. Previously, Armstrong's former rival on French roads, 1997 Tour winner Jan Ullrich, confessed to blood-doping for the first time with a Spanish doctor. French media also reported that a Senate investigation into the effectiveness of anti-doping controls pieced together evidence of drug use at the 1998 Tour by Laurent Jalabert, a former star of the race now turned broadcaster.

Not surprising in Armstrong's interview was his claim that it was "impossible" to win the Tour without doping when he was racing. Armstrong already told U.S. television talk show host Oprah Winfrey when he finally confessed this January that doping was just "part of the job" of being a pro cyclist. The banned hormone erythropoietin, or EPO, wasn't detectable by cycling's doping controls until 2001 and so was widely abused because it prompts the body to produce oxygen-carrying blood cells, giving a big performance boost to endurance athletes.

Armstrong was clearly talking about his own era, rather than the Tour today. Le Monde reported that he was responding to the question: "When you raced, was it possible to perform without doping?" "That depends on which races you wanted to win.

The Tour de France? No. Impossible to win without doping. Because the Tour is a test of endurance where oxygen is decisive," Le Monde quoted Armstrong as saying. It published the interview in French. Some subsequent media reports about Le Monde's interview concluded that Armstrong was saying doping is still necessary now, rather than when he was winning the Tour from 1999-2005.

JOHANNESBURG, JUNE 28 (AP): Oscar Pistorius returned to light training and was "overcome with emotion" as he pulled on his carbon fiber blades for a session at his usual practice facility on Thursday, his agent told The Associated Press. Agent Peet van Zyl said on Friday he was contacted about a week ago by Pistorius, who expressed a desire to return to a regular track routine for the first time since the Feb. 14 shooting death of girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.

"I think it's huge for him," said Van Zyl, who went with Pistorius to the University of Pretoria for the

session. "He (Pistorius) was overcome with emotion when he put on his blades." Pistorius described the experience as "bittersweet" to Van Zyl after the track session, the agent said, who also described Pistorius' first formal session in around five months as "really emotional."

Van Zyl said there were still no plans for Pistorius to run competitively and his return to the track involved "light stuff" that would help give Pistorius' life a routine as he awaits a murder trial for the killing of Steenkamp. Van Zyl went to the track with Pistorius while his regular coach, Ampie Louw, is away on

holiday. In television footage of the session released by Pistorius' family, the double-amputee Olympian is seen in a blue hooded sports top pulling on his blades while sitting on a chair on a sunbathed track. A bearded Pistorius does some light jogging in his blades, and then wipes his face with both hands as he walks off track. "The actual word he used to me was bittersweet," Van Zyl said of Pistorius' training. "He can't be happy because of what's happened."

Pistorius' next court appearance is on Aug. 19, when prosecutors may indict him and a date could be set for

the start of his murder trial, possibly in September or October. Pistorius denies murder in Steenkamp's killing, saying he shot her accidentally in the pre-dawn hours of Valentine's Day because he thought she was an intruder in his bathroom.

The 26-year-old Pistorius faces a life sentence with a minimum of 25 years in prison if he is convicted of premeditated murder. In a statement on Pistorius' website, his family confirmed he decided to resume running on track for a few hours a week for his own mental process.

It was "not aimed at preparing for competition," they said.

SILVERSTONE, JUNE 28 (REUTERS): Kimi Raikkonen could be in pole position to replace Mark Webber at champions Red Bull, after the Australian announced on Thursday that he was leaving Formula One at the end of the season, but both sides face difficult decisions. The Finn, world champion with Ferrari in 2007, is out of contract at Lotus at the end of the season and has been strongly tipped to become triple world champion Sebastian Vettel's team mate next year.

Speaking to reporters after Webber made his decision known, Raikkonen did not rule out a move but nor did he talk up his chances. "Obviously people will be more talking about the chances but it doesn't really change what I will do next year or what my decisions are - even if there is obviously an open place," he said in his usual monotone when asked about the day's big news.

"I have nothing to inform people until there is something certain on paper and I will tell immediately because then everyone stops asking the same question. But until I have something done I cannot answer." Raikkonen said being in the same team as Vettel would not be an issue: "I have no problem to race with anybody. I have never been in the position to choose who I drive with, so it doesn't change anything."

The Finn has been backed by Red Bull in the past, notably when he took two seasons out to go rallying in 2010 and 2011, but he played down those links. "There was a Red Bull sponsor at Sauber when I was there, and I had drinking bottles from Red Bull when I was in Ferrari," he said. "It doesn't mean there is something for next year (because of) what I had in the past." Red Bull also have a young driver pro-

gramme, with young Australian Daniel Ricciardo and Frenchman Jean-Eric Vergne the leading lights at sister team Toro Rosso and hoping for the chance of a lifetime. The team now have to decide whether their young talent has what it takes or look outside for proven success.

On paper, Red Bull might appear an obvious choice over Lotus for Raikkonen given that they are engine provider Renault's favoured development partner and designer Adrian Newey - with whom he worked at McLaren - has produced a steady stream of winning cars. But Raikkonen, 33, is the clear number one at Lotus - a status he would not have at Red Bull where 25-year-old Vettel has long been considered the favourite.

The team have humoured the Finn's renowned dislike of media and sponsorship activities, giving

him more freedom than any team he has driven for to date and playing up his "Iceman" image. They too have provided him with a winning car, with the hugely popular driver triumphant in the Australian season-opener and challenging for the championship. "It has been perfect," said Raikkonen. "Without them I wouldn't be back in F1. For sure they also got some good things out of it, so I have no complaints.

"Obviously there are certain things that have to improve but I have a great time with the team and that is why, whatever the decision will be will be difficult." Ricciardo, now set to be the sole Australian driver in Formula One next year, and Vergne both hoped they could secure the seat - just as Vettel did when he moved up from Toro Rosso at the end of 2008 - but accepted they had competition.

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Organizations condemn June 25 firing incident CondolenCes pour in

NASU: The Northern Angami Students’ Union (NASU) has condemned the alleged life attempt on assistant general secretary of Naga Students’ Federation Kesosul Christopher Ltu. NASU while questioning the motive behind targeting a “responsible” student leader and putting his life at stake, appealed to the competent authority to nab all those responsible at the earliest. It further assured full co-operation and support to the ASU and NSF in fighting the case.

GSUNZ: The Garo Students’ Union Nagaland Zone has strongly condemned the June 25 shooting incident in Kohima where the NSF assistant general secretary Kesosul Christopher Ltu was also injured. In a statement released to the press, the GSUNZ through its president Biplab K Sangma has termed the incident as very unfortunate and ugly considering the fact that it happened in broad daylight and in the State capital. The president also stated that it was an attack on the students’ community and the democratic ideals of the society. The GSUNZ has also extended its wholehearted support to the NSF and wished the injured an early recovery.

KCSU: The Kohima Chakesang Students’ Union (KCSU) has condemned the June 25 shooting incident and the alleged target life attempt on NSF asst. general secretary, Kesosul Christopher Ltu. The union in a press release stated such “uncivilized and barbaric act was the worst crime.” KCSU further urged the law enforcing body to nab the

culprit(s) responsible for the incident and award port to the NSF protest rally against the incident befitting punishment. scheduled on June 28. Meanwhile, the Panchayat clarified that the incident took place at Lower PWD NCSU: The Nagaland Contractors’ & Suppliers’ and not Lower Chandmari as published earlier.

Union (NCSU) Head Office Kohima while strongly condemning the June 25 firing incident in Kohima SKK: The All Sumi Students’ Union (SKK) has said the incident was “intolerable for the public vehemently condemned the June 25 incident in and it shows direct challenge to the civil societies.” Kohima where Assistant General Secretary of A press release issued by NCSU Vice President Nt- NSF Kesosul Christopher Ltu was fired upon by senthung Tungoe and Secretary Hoshito Assumi unidentified gun man, terming the act as savstated the Naga civil societies and general public agery, unfit for civic society. The Apex student are yearning for peace in our soil, whereas the body has extended its “unflinching support” to national workers are killing among themselves the proposed rally on June 28, 2013 called by taking their shelter among peace loving general NSF while appealing to all the Sumi community public. Therefore, it appealed “the peace loving living in and around Kohima town to participate people and the general public to think seriously at the rally and show their resentment to those and stand together for our better tomorrow.” The violent activities.

NCSU meanwhile affirmed its support and co-op- TSUD: The Tenyimi Students' Union Dimapur eration to the Angami Youth Organization (AYO) (TSUD) has strongly condemned the firing inand Naga Students’ Federation (NSF) for the pro- cident at public places in Kohima saying many test rally to be held on June 28 at Local Ground civilians could have become victims. “It seems Kohima and the proposed bandh on July 1, 2013 the factions are not bothered about peace which to flush out such incidents in the near future at is longing by the Naga people,” stated TSUD in civilian areas. a press release issued by its General Secretary Rukusuto Ltu and President Jenpu Rongmei.

Panchayat Lower Chandmari Colony: Terming Further, condemning the target on student leadthe firing at Lower PWD junction, Kohima on June er, the Union urged the Naga factions to be re25 as unfortunate, the Panchayat Lower Chand- sponsible and justify the incident as demanded mari Colony has condemned the incident and by various other organizations. TSUD also apcalled it barbaric and unacceptable in a civilized pealed to all the Naga factions to shun violence society. Stating that blind shootout in public areas, among brothers and cautioned if it continued taking advantage of innocent public as defense is the Naga movement will be just a dream. It also biggest crime, the Panchayat fully extended its sup- wished the student leader a speedy recovery.

SI Jamir

President of the NPCC and MLA, SI Jamir has expressed sadness over the demise of SK Dutta. A press note by the MLA informed that Dutta was the founding member of the Congress in Nagaland and was also its Treasurer for a long time. “His contribution to the congress party especially in its nascent stages will be long remembered,” he added. On behalf of the NPCC, Jamir extend his heartfelt condolences to the bereaved family.

dolences to the bereaved family.

NCP president condoles

Nagaland State NCP president, Neiba Ndang, has expressed shock and sorrow over the demise of noted social worker, late SK Dutta, with whom Ndang had worked very closely as co-workers.

Ndang in a condolence message said Late Dutta was a sincere and dedicated elderly man who had genuinely loved the Nagas and contributed much for the people of Nagaland in various capacities. The state DPON The Dimasa Public Organization, Na- NCP president conveyed his deepest congaland (DPON) has expressed grief at the dolences to the bereaved family members. demise of SK Dutta, popularly known as Kaloo Dutta, a social worker and one of CPO condoles the pioneers of model town of Dimapur. A The Chakhroma Public Organization note by DPON president K Naben stated (CPO) has expressed shock to learn of the that Dutta’s demise on June 25, 2013 is demise of Hosal Tsukru on June 25, 2013 at not only a loss for the family, but for the the Holy Redeemer Hospital, ChumukediDimapurians in general. ma. A condolence note issued by CPO stated that Late Hosral Tsukru was a dedicated soIRCSN cial worker and has rendered immense serThe state Managing Committee and vices in numerous organizations in different Staff of the Indian Red Cross Society, Na- capacities. Till his death, he was an executive galand State Branch expressed its shock member and a member of the Nomination and pain at the sudden demise of S.K. Committee of the CPO and was also the servDutta. A press note from the General Sec- ing Vice President of the Chakhro Angami retary of the IRCSN acknowledged Dutta Kuda Union Dimapur. The President and as an upright man with high moral integ- his colleagues in the note conveyed sincere rity. It further conveyed the society’s con- sympathies to the family members.

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Talented artist Jeffro Uitto makes unique sculptures from salvaged wood One of Jeffro Uitto's larger-than-life wooden animals, complete with flowing mane and tail

A project like this huge driftwood giraffe can take years to make as the artist has find all the right pieces of wood in nature

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Standing from left to right are Jack Thomas (Director, Rockschool India), Reuben Narian (Jazz Drum Educator from Berklee College of Music),Longden Longkumer (Proprietor, Note Grid School of Music) ,Bhaskar Gurung(Electric Guitar Educator) ,Prabir Sekhri (Classical and Contemporary Piano Educator)

n their second day in Dimapur, Rockschool UK conducted a workshop cum seminar at the Note Grid School of Music, Dimapur today .The Rockschool team was led by Jack Thomas, Director of Rockschool India. With him were Reuben Narian, a jazz drums educator and performer from Berklee College of Music; Baskar Gurung, a grade 8 graduate in electric guitar

from Rockschool London and Prabir Sekhri,,a classical and contemporary piano educator.

The team had previously conducted an intensive workshop on June 28 at the Hope Centre for Excellence, Dimapur.

The workshop was attended by more than 100 music enthusiasts and high profile musicians and institutions like Hill’s Praise Music Academy led by its proprietor,

Manen Jamir, members of the band Clueless Attention, Incipit, Melodrama, Frozen Heart,Urban desire and by senior working musicians like Sosang lkr (Crystal Studio) and Raj(Native Trax) along with the renowned musician trainers of the school.

The Proprietor of Note Grid School of Music, Longden Longkumer, expressed his gratitude to Rockschool

UK for associating with the school as the school is committed to imparting standardised integrated and intensive music training and to nurture and promote artistic talent in the state. He however added that there is a need for due recognition of music institutions by the state government and necessary assistance for further growth and improvements.

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Alobo Naga & The Band from Nagaland, winner of “Best Indian Act” MTV Europe Music Awards 2012, will be performing for American rock band Hoobastank at the Polo grounds, Shillong, Meghalaya today June 29.

Also, performing at the event are Pip Of The Fourth Mother from Shillong, Girish And The Chronicles from Gangtok, and BK Hrangkhawl

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The Alternative Rock Band Hoobastank from America is best known for their hit number ‘The reason’, which ranked number two at the ‘Billboard hot 100’ list in 2004, the band will perform in the Meghalaya capital on June 29 in an event being organised to celebrate the sixth anniversary of city-based magazine ‘The North East Today’.

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Laura Robson delivers rare success for British women Laura Robson of Britain reacts after scoring a point against Mariana DuqueMarino of Colombia in their Women's second round singles match at the All England Lawn Tennis Championships in Wimbledon, London, Friday, June 28. (AP Photo)

Maria Sharapova of Russia, center, applauds as her boyfriend Grigor Dimitrov of Bulgaria faces Grega Zemlja of Slovenia during their Men's second round singles match at the All England Lawn Tennis Championships in Wimbledon, London, Friday, June 28. (AP Photo)

Angry Dimitrov crashes out as Sharapova looks on

LONDON, JuNe 28 (AFP): Grigor Dimitrov staged a temporary sitdown protest to register his anger at court conditions on Friday before he lost a five-set Wimbledon thriller.

The Bulgarian 29th seed, watched by superstar girlfriend Maria Sharapova, who was knocked out on Wednesday, went out 3-6, 7-6 (7/4),

LONDON, JuNe 28 (AFP): Laura Robson, the last British woman standing at Wimbledon, made it through to the third round for the first time on Friday, beating Colombian qualifier Mariana Duque-Marino in straight sets. Robson, 19, the world number 38, traded breaks with her 117-ranked opponent in the first set but rolled her way through the second to win 6-4, 6-1 in 73 minutes before an ecstatic Centre Court crowd.

She faces New Zealand's Marina Erakovic in the third round on Saturday. "It's a big win for me, any match on Centre Court is a big one. It was a great atmosphere out there and the roof being closed just made it louder. It was very exciting," Robson said.

"I was kind of feeling nervous, but luckily I've played on Centre a couple of times before." Australian-born Robson, who lived in Singapore until she was six, was the only British woman to make it to the second round. Robson's Grand Slam best was reaching the fourth round at the 2012

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US Open, the first British woman since Jo Durie in 1991 to reach that stage of a major. Robson and Duque-Marino were due to play on Court 2 on Thursday before rain stopped play for the day. The match was moved under the Centre Court roof, though the rain later cleared up enough for play on the outside courts.

Duque-Marino broke in the third game but Robson broke straight back and broke again for a 4-2 lead in the first set. After holding serve Robson had a set point in the next game but her 23-year-old opponent held. After seeing out the set, she raced through the second, breaking in the second game and did not look back from there. The match was watched from the Royal Box by England Test cricket captain Alastair Cook, and two of his predecessors, Andrew Strauss and Geoffrey Boycott. England's 1966 World Cup-winning footballer Bobby Charlton, the Manchester United legend, was also in the crowd.

3-6, 6-4, 11-9 to Slovenia's Grega Zemlja in a second round match suspended due to rain on Thursday.

When the tie resumed on Court Three after a two-hour delay caused by more rain, the 22-year-old Dimitrov, watched by the sunglasses-wearing Sharapova, slipped and fell in his service

action at 8-9 to give up the third match point of the tie.

He then stomped off to the sidelines and sat in his courtside chair.

The umpire and tournament referee then decided to wait out the drizzle before play resumed 10 minutes later. But it didn't change Dimitrov's luck as Zemlja took victory on a sixth

match point with a fine forehand passing shot. Dimitrov, long touted as a future star of the sport, paid a heavy price for converting just two of 18 break points. Zemlja, the first Slovenian to make the third round at Wimbledon, goes on to face Argentina's eighth seed Juan Martin del Potro for a place in the last 16.

Ricciardo quickest in rain at Silverstone India guards against C Trophy hangover

Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton of Great Britain, rounds Club Corner during the first practice at the Silverstone circuit, England, Friday, June 28 The Formula 1 teams make preparations ahead of the British Grand Prix at Silverstone on Sunday, June 30. (AP Photo)

SILVeRSTONe, JuNe 28 (AFP): Australian Daniel Ricciardo topped the times in his Toro Rosso on Friday, as heavy rain reduced opening free practice for Sunday's British Grand Prix to a minimum of track action.

Standing water and the dangers of aqua-planning meant only 10 drivers ventured out to clock times with Ricciardo, a possible contender to replace compatriot Mark Webber at Red Bull next year, demonstrating courage and competence in the appalling

conditions.

He was fastest with a best lap of 1min 54.279sec ahead of nearest rival German Nico Hulkenberg of Sauber by 0.794sec.

Venezuelan Pastor Maldonado was third in a Williams, 1.1sec adrift and local favourite 2008 winner Briton Lewis Hamilton of Mercedes fourth 1.2sec slower than Ricciardo.

Most of the leading drivers including defending triple world champion German Sebastian Vettel and his Red Bull team-mate Webber, Ferrari's two-time

champion Spaniard Fernando Alonso and the 2009 champion Briton Jenson Button of McLaren chose not to enter the fray.

Webber announced on Thursday that he will leave Red Bull and Formula One at the end of the year to go sportscar racing with Porsche. In the atrocious and treacherous conditions, it was remarkable that only one driver crashed -- Frenchman Charles Pic of Caterham -who slid off the track at the exit from Club corner and smashed into the barriers,

India's cricket team captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni speaks during the launching of the Tri-Nation cricket tournament in Kingston, Jamaica, Thursday, June 27. The series between India, Sri Lanka and West Indies starts on Friday. (AP Photo)

KINGSTON, JuNe 28 (AP): India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni says the expectation of the team's fans means there will be no post-Champions Trophy hangover when the team contests a triangular one-day series against the West Indies and Sri Lanka in the Caribbean. There has been no let-up for India after winning the trophy in rainy England, moving directly to the tropical heat for two weeks to contest the Celkon Mobile Cup. "The demands remain the same. The expectation when it comes to the Indian cricket team has always been the same," Dhoni said at Thursday's series launch. "If it's moving, it only moves in one direction - it goes up. It doesn't matter whether we have won the last series or lost or what has happened on the field."

Dhoni's side, No. 1 on the ICC rankings, now hold both main ond-day titles following their triumph in the World Cup on home soil two years ago. "I'm fortunate to have the players

in the side to really soak up the pressure," Dhoni said.

"What we have done really well is we have enjoyed each others' success and that has really contributed to the side winning most of the games," the wicketkeeper batsman added.

"If I'm happier than the person who has actually scored a century or a fifty, you understand that's the kind of atmosphere that you want, because at the end of the day, what we play is a team sport."

Dhoni said the fierce contest for places in the Indian team has not been permitted to spill over into personal rivalries.

"It's important that the guys sitting out just to wait for their chance, not think that if this guy does badly I will get a chance. They can use that period to improve themselves and whenever the chance, whatever the reason may be, fitness or form, they try to earn that place in the side." "We have been able to create that kind of atmosphere and it's really reflected in the performances that we have given."

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