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Dimapur VOL. IX ISSUE 60

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nagaland medical college breaks ground Chizokho Vero Kohima | March 3

The long felt desire for a medical college in Nagaland took a significant step today with Nagaland Chief Minister, Neiphiu Rio laying the foundation stone for Nagaland Medical College at Phriebagei, Kohima.

Rio expressed hope that the college will enable people in the state to avail quality healthcare and improve the state’s credentials. “A medical college for Our ministers, what do they the state has been a long do for a living? felt need,” Rio informed. stated that the first conThe Morung Express He crete step towards this was POLL QUESTIOn taken with the signing of a Vote on www.morungexpress.com MoU with CMC, Vellore and SMS your answer to 9862574165 Emmanuel Hospital Association by the state govOver the last 50 years ernment in January 2005. of Nagaland Statehood has corruption become Thereafter, concerted efmore widespread? forts were made to obtain funds for the proposed medical college. “A DPR for Yes no Others the purpose was prepared, and submitted in 2012 to the Ministry of Health, GoI for setting up of a medical college into referral hospital which is now known as DIMAPUR, MARCH CIHSR, Dimapur,” he added.

3 (MExN): A conglomRio disclosed that while eration of NGOs, spearthis proposal is being acheaded by the All Assam tively pursued by the state SC Union of Titabor Subdivision, has called for a government, the present 12 hour total Titabor (in Jorhat district) bandh on March 4 (from 6:00 am to 6:00 pm). The bandh is being called in protest against non fulfillment of their demands by the government. The Coordinator of the BPCC Abokali Jimomi (AN) has advised travelers from Nagaland not to Dimapur | March 3 use the Dhodarali road in the Mariani-Titabor- Not all consumers in Nagaland are aware of where Golaghat road stretch. most of the imported pork they eat comes from.

For the Nagas, pork is mandatory for any important occasion and for laboMON, MARCH 3 rious physical work in the (DIPR): The Deputy field. “We work in groups Commissioner of Mon especially during planting has informed all DBs, and harvesting, that way GBs and village council we exchange labour in each chairmen of Mon district to remain vigilant other’s farms… it would be regarding Under Trial shameful if I don’t provide Prisoners (UTPs) who pork when it is my turn to escaped Mon Sub Jail host the group; we usuon the night of Febru- ally buy Supply Pork,” exary 26. The DC has also plained a woman farmer.

An MBA graduate from directed the village authorities to inform their Kohima said, “We always respective administra- buy pork from butcher tive officers and police shops… I have not really stations regarding any thought about where it clues/tip offs, which may comes from.” lead to the arrest of the Tracing the origin of absconding UPTs. The Supply Pork entering Naprisoners are identified galand took Naga veterias Manpha Konyak (19), nary doctor, Simon Ao, to s/o Phongnon Konyak of Shangnyu village under villages and pig markets of EAC Shangnyu; Yeang- Uttar Pradesh and markets kup Konyak (26), s/o bordering Dimapur.

His investigations rePhongnon Konyak of Shangnyu village under veal that in Uttar Pradesh, EAC Shangnyu; Tahlem villagers rear pigs in their Konyak (30), s/o Wang- backyards with animals toa Konyak of Longlem let loose for scavenging village under ADC Tizit; in the open. Owners with Taoshing Konyak (27), large number of pigs (15 s/o Chinge Konyak of to 40) herd their animals Wanching village under in groups in open fields for SDO (C) Wakching and daily feeding. “Therefore, Versing Tangkhul (17), the production cost is cons/o Ramyo Tangkhul of veniently reduced,” noted Yeeamson village, Ukhrul District, Manipur. The the report.

Usually, middlemen DC further cautioned that any village found maximize such situations, sheltering/harboring so it is uncertain if villagers the escapees or conceal- in UP are benefitting out ing the whereabouts of of this. The report, for inany one of them will be stance, shows that “Invoice penalized as per the pro- of Consignment for Dimavision of law. It will be pur, Nagaland,” marked as the responsibility of the originating from “Rajakiya village council to ensure Pasu Palan Samittee,” Bethat their “good citizens” war, Mainpuri, UP, has no do not harbor these anti Piggery Farm and “Kisan social elements of soci- Pig Farm,” Bidhuna (Auraety, the DC added. ya, UP) does not exist.

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medical college has come up under a new scheme of the Government of India, called “Upgradation of District Hospitals to Medical College.”

A key condition under this new scheme is that the hospital should have more than 200 beds and should be a government hospital.

At present, Kohima district hospital (NHAK) is the only hospital in the state to fulfill this criteria, Rio said. To begin with, Rio said that the medical college will have an intake capacity of 100 MBBS students, out of which 45 seats would be reserved for Nagaland.

The funds are to be contributed in the ratio of 90:10 between the Centre and the State. The total cost of the establishment of the new medical college is estimated to be around Rs. 189 crores.

At present, Rio said, the health care delivery system in Nagaland is handicapped by the lack of a medical college and other specialized institution at the tertiary level. “As a result, thousands of patients are being referred outside the state for necessary medical investigation and treatment.”

nagaland state needs 407 more doctors: rio Our Correspondent At present, Nagaland has 417 serving doctors; we need 407 more doctors as per the Indian Public Health standard, stated Nagaland Chief Minister, Neiphiu Rio. “As the population grows and more and more diseases are invading the world, the need for doctors will keep on increasing,” he added, while unveiling the foundation stone for Nagaland Medical College.

Rio expressed happiness that during the last few years, the department of health and family welfare has improved its performance considerably. It is notable that important health care indicators like the Infant Mortality Rate (IMR) has been brought down from 27 in 2009 to 18 in 2012.

“This indicates the improvement of socio-economic status, availability, accessibility and effectiveness of the health care services in the state,” Rio said.

He also approved of the recognition that Nagaland has been adjudged as having the best health care delivery amongst the small category states, according to the survey conducted

by India Today for the year 2013. He also announced that the World Bank has approved a 60 million US $ project called the “Nagaland Multi Sectoral Health Initiative” for the improvement of the health sector in the state.

“I am therefore, confident that in the health delivery, we will make further progress in the days to come,” the Chief Minister said.

On fulfilling the long felt need of a Medical College in Nagaland, Rio thanked the Government of India, President of India, Pranab Mukherjee; Nagaland Governor, Dr Ashwani Kumar; Health and Family Welfare Minster, Imkong L Imchen; the department of Health and Family Welfare; the entire medical fraternity and the people of Kohima Village, especially P Khel.

On the morning of February 28, one person was reported to have been arrested on the Assam side of the disputed Dimapur-Karbi-Anglong border. The person was reported to have intruded into the disputed area, falling under Dhansiri outpost of the Assam Police, and was detained. Later that day prohibitory orders under section 144 of the Cr.PC was clamped on the Karbi-Anglong side of the border.

Reports later emerged that the arrested person is an employee of the Nagaland government. Though there was no official confirmation from the Nagaland Seen here are pigs feeding on garbage in nirvana Slum, Uttar Pradesh, one of the places side, Assam Police sources from where pigs are supplied to nagaland. A report has revealed how unfair trade prac- asserted that the arrested

person was from Nagaland and that he was “apparently a (Nagaland government) employee...” No further details were disclosed.

The arrested man remains in the custody of the Assam police and will be forwarded to the court, the sources added.

In another development on March 1, work to set up a temporary shelter for NAP (IR) personnel patrolling the affected area had to be stopped following intimation from the KarbiAnglong administration, stating that the proposed site for the shelter fell within the purview of the Karbi-Anglong Autonomous Council. The site located near Rilan Yan village was proposed to house one company of the NAP (IR).

MUMBAI, MARCH 3 (PTI): The Reserve Bank of India on Monday granted an additional nine months for the public to exchange currency notes printed before 2005, including Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 denominations, and set a deadline of January 1, 2015. “RBI has also advised banks to facilitate the exchange of these notes for full value and without causing any inconvenience whatsoever to the public,” the central bank said in a release. It clarified that the public “can continue to freely use these notes” for transactions and can unhesitatingly receive these notes in payment as all such notes remain legal tender.

DIMAPUR, MARCH 3 (MExN): Five persons, accused in the armed robbery and gang-rape of a married woman at Darogapathar on January 18 2014, have been arrested by Dimapur police.

Police have further identified another three accomplices and are on the lookout for the co-accused, who are at the moment, evading arrest, informed a press note from the Addl. Superintendent of Police who is also the PRO, Dimapur Police.

Police informed that all the arrested accused have admitted to the armed robbery and rape of the victim, after tying up her husband in another room of the house. The five arrested have been identified as Rajib Ali alias Manik Ali (24), Rahul Ali alias Akbar (19), Feroz Ali (18), Atabur (35) and Naseer Uddin alias Sanu (20).

According to police, the accused revealed that on January 18, the gang members had hatched a plan to rob the victim’s house. At around 9:30 PM the gang armed with a pistol and with their faces covered with scarves, knocked on the door, which was opened by the husband. Police informed that the accused persons forcibly barged into the house and began assaulting the husband.

The manager of the nursery, where the victims work and who lives in the adjoining room, was also assaulted, when he went to enquire, on hearing the cries of the victims for help. The husband and the manager were tied up with scarves and confined in one room, which the armed intruders locked from outside. The armed intruders then took the wife to an-

other room, where she was raped, stated the police.

Thereafter, the accused stole Rs 12500/- in cash, jewellery worth Rs 15000/- and two mobile handsets and fled from the scene.

Police said that the accused are part of a gang of criminals who were earlier arrested along with a 9 mm pistol with 4 (four) rounds of ammunitions on February 9, 2014 by Dimapur police for hijacking a Manipur bound truck and abducting the driver and handyman for ransom. The gang was also involved in the abduction and murder of an Auto rickshaw driver, whose body was recovered on February 7 from Khughovi village under Niuland Sub-division. The gang is further suspected to be involved in a number of other crimes in Dimapur, informed police.

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Chief neiphiu Rio and others after unveiling the foundation stone for nagaland Medical College on March 3. (Morung Photo)

“It is particularly painful to note that thousands of cancer patients have to be referred outside the state due to lack of treatment facilities in the state.

The expenditure of the government on account of medical reimbursements as well as the expenditure incurred by the public for treatment outside the state are tremendous,” Rio said adding that as per the records available the state government spent around Rs. 23 crore during 201112 alone, on account of medical reimbursement,

attendance, travel and lodging etc. Also, many poor patients do not have the resources to avail expensive treatment facilities outside the state.

He added that the Government of India has also approved the much needed specialized hospital for cancer patients- Tertiary Cancer Care Centre for Nagaland, which will be attached to the medical college.

Rio called for a concerted effort from the political executives, the bureaucrats, the technocrats and contactors to make this venture a

successful one. He stated that the project must be implemented keeping in mind the interest of the poor patients, on a no profit no loss basis, and without cost and time overrun.

Earlier, a brief introduction of the Medical College was given by Commissioner & Secretary for Health & Family Welfare, Sentiyanger Imchen, while a vote of thanks was proposed by Minister for Health & Family Welfare, Imkong L Imchen. Chief Secretary Banuo Z. Jamir, IAS chaired the function.

economics of Pork in nagaland: Dmp-KA border dispute Garbage Scavenging Pigs imported Arrested person a govt employee

Mon DC cautions after five prisoners escape

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Morung Express news Dimapur | March 3

tices and lack of hygiene mark the quality of Supply Pork in nagaland.

This raises grave concerns if the government’s regulatory mechanisms are actively functioning to screen domestic food imports in ensuring fair trade practices in India and what roles are they playing to guarantee food safety for the public?

In UP, the feeding areas were found filthy and unhealthy with the villagers relieving themselves in the open and pigs feeding in the open. In photos available with Dr. Simon, pigs are seen scavenging in open fields and on garbage piles: roadsides of Naini, Nirvana Slum, garbage dumps in the city and villages; pigs seen everywhere, even rummaging through waste on the banks of the Yamuna.

Uttar Pradesh is one of the most populous States of India. NGO Safai Karmachari Andolan’s report to the Supreme Court published in a national daily in 2012 stated, “Uttar Pradesh had 3.26 lakh dry toilets which were cleaned by manual scavengers, which is more than 41% of the national

aggregate. It also had the highest number of insanitary toilets (80,291) ‘serviced by animals’.”

Nagaland is on the receiving end of these scavenging animals, posing serious public health risks.

We can see why their cost of production is low, gaining an undue price advantage at the expense of Naga public, who, if uninformed, and pushed to the margin with low spending capacity, will opt for lower rates of essential food items.

Naga farmers working on organized piggery businesses in Nagaland are challenged with high feed cost.

Local farmers use a combination of Maize, Wheat Barn, Oil Cake, Rice Polish, Dry Fish Powder, (most of which are not processed locally) green leaves and crops such as Colocassia, Casava and Sweet Potato as feed. In villages, the feed is usually maize, with greens collected from the forest.

Obviously then, the current method of raising pigs in Nagaland is much better than of those imported

from Uttar Pradesh.

Infrastructure development and technological innovations for livestock rearing and farming still need to scale up in the State; output is low without economies of scale. It is rare to find Naga piggery units with more than 200 pigs.

According to Dr. Ao’s report, many locals in order to avoid Supply Pork frequent neighbouring markets such as Delai Gate, Bokajan Bazar, Old Golaghat Road, Market Near Mariani, Assam (towards Mokokchung) and Halluadin, Assam, on the way to Tuli.

These markets are generating high revenue from Naga customers. How can our immediate neighbours produce more than our local farmers? What is their cost of production and technological know-how?

We do not know, but it is necessary to research about pork in Nagaland focusing on health risks, types of diseases caused by contaminated pork, and market monopoly issues for consumers’ awareness.

Deadline to exchange pre-2005 currency notes extended: RBI

Darogapathar gang rape: Police arrest five persons

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Ko h i m a , m a r c h 3 (mExN): The Nagaland State Rural Livelihood Mission (NSRLM) is all geared up for phased implementation of the programme in the nine NRLM districts in the State. NSRLM will begin work in nine identified Intensive Resource Blocks in each district where sensitization with stakeholders has already been completed. As a preparatory move before actual groundwork, a team of 17 professionals from OMPLIS, Andhra Pradesh, National Resource Organisation (NRO) visited the State from February 24 to March 2. The team was led

by Y.B. Sreedhar Reddy, State Project Professional, Society for Elimination of Rural Poverty (SERP), Department of Rural Development and Training Co-

ordinators Rajashekar and Mahesh of OMPLIS. The team comprising of Community Resource Persons (CRPs)and Professional Resource Persons (PRPs)arranged into two groups and visited the NRLM districts of Mon, Longleng, Kiphire, Mokokchung, Zunheboto, Wokha, Phek, Dimapur and Kohima, particularly the Intensive Resource Blocks of Mon, Longleng, Kiphire, Changtongya, Satakha, Chukitong, Pfutsero, Chumukedima and Jakhama respectively.

The groups led by State Project Managers Imonenla Imkong Phom and Sentinaro Longkumer and Program Managers Visakono Sakhrie and Khriezovonuo Lhoungu visited selected villages in the Intensive Blocks and interacted with Self

Help Group (SHG) members.

The basic idea of the visit was to observe the structure and function of pre-NRLM SHGs in the State with a diagnostic approach. Household surveys on socio-economic conditions were conducted in some villages and interactions were held with Internal Community Resource Persons identified from the Intensive Blocks.

A debriefing session on the visit was held on March 2 at Dimapur with Motsuthung Lotha, Mission Director, NSRLM, and Additional Secretary and Visasolie Lhoungu, Chief Executive Officer, NSRLM. The CRPs and PRPs gave presentations on the visit. Based on observations during interaction and surveys held, a major point of concern found by the resource persons is that SHGs in Nagaland lack basic training in areas such as bookkeeping and record maintenance. Among other observaA household survey being conducted by a PRP with a woman in her kitchen hearth in a village and ob- tions made, the team also found that there is lack of knowledge served by a NSRLM field officer.

NStCB Ltd inaugurates PR Hill Branch new premise Our Correspondent Kohima | March 3

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“We Nagas think we are very rich but economically we are very weak,” said chief guest Abao Kire, BOD, Nagaland State Cooperative Bank Ltd (NStCB) during the inauguration of the new premise of PR Hill Branch Kohima on March 3.

“The shifting of the branch was a necessity for improving customer service,” BK Thadanni, Special Officer, NStCB Ltd said who gave the keynote address and further added that the branch is now technically equipped to serve the customer and client’s needs. Rev Dr Vevo Phesao invoked prayer while P P Bose, Branch Manager, NStCB Ltd P R Hill Branch, gave the vote of thanks. Abao Kire further asserted that Nagas need to their lavish lifestyles with no savings which has become a way of life and start investing their money.

NStCB is the only State sponsored bank sponsored by the Government of Nagaland. The P R Hill branch which was opened in 1987 is a model branch of the bank whose employee business is among

Abao Kire, BOD, Nagaland State Co-operative Bank Ltd inaugurating the new premise of PR Hill Branch Kohima on March 3. (Morung Photo)

the highest in branch business of the bank. During the financial year 2012-13, it earned a profit of Rs. 79.93 lacs.

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Doctors examining patients during Health Mela at Pihekhu village on March 2.

Dimapur, march 3 (mExN): A multi-speciality health mela was successfully concluded at Pihekhu Village under Niuland Block, Dimapur district on March 2. The Health Mela was organized by the Department of Health & Family Welfare under the aegis

of National Health Mission at Government Middle School building at Pihekhu village.

During the Mela, specialist doctors from various health programmes such as National Vector Borne Diseases Control Programme, National Programme for

Control of Blindness, National Leprosy Eradication Programme, District Aids Control Programme Unit, Universal Immunization Programme, Reproductive & Child Health, Revised National TB Control Programme, Gyneacologist, Paedetrician and general

Kohima | March 3

“In the Nagaland context, it appears that our people are still quite ignorant about the wide ranging impact of Intellectual Property Rights in our day to day lives,” said K D Vizo, ITS Commissioner Secretary, IT & Communication He was addressing the one-day workshop on Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) organized by the National Institute of Electronics and Information Technology (NIELIT), Kohima was held on March 3 at NIELIT Auditorium.

The resource person for the workshop was Professor Manas Sanyal, HOD, Department of HRM, Bengal Engineering and Science University who spoke

Medical Officers and Laboratories Technicians were available to examine the patients. According to a press note family Planning services such Sterilization and Copper-T insertions were performed.

A total of 539 patients availed the services provided during the Mela. 10 laproscopy ligation, 5 Copper-T insertion and 2 Medically Terminated Pregnancy were also performed.

40 Children were also immunized, 12 ANCs and 40 blood tested by ICTC during the Mela. Interpersonal Communication on Safe motherhood, Diarrhea, Exclusive Breastfeeding, Family planning and New Borne Care were carried out. Screening of Public Service Advertisement and documentaries on Health services were aired besides distribution of IEC materials in local dialect.

Free Medicines were also distributed to patients and compensations were paid to those beneficiaries opting for permanent method of Family Planning. Pastor Khuvito inaugurated the Health Mela with an invocation prayer.

Workshop on Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) held at NIELIT Auditorium Kohima on March 3. (Morung Photo)

on the topic, ‘Introduction ticipants on IPR, the need also asserted that the proto Patents and IPR.’ Profes- for IPR and the legislative tection of IPR encourages sor Sanyal briefed the par- measures of IPR where he innovation and safeguards

HIV AIDS advocacy campaign on Mar 6

Dimapur, march 3 (mExN): Christ for the Downtrodden Ministry is organizing an advocacy campaign on HIV/ AIDS at Industrial Village Razhuphe council hall on March 6, 10:00 am, which is supported by the Legislators Forum for AIDS. A press release from the Christ for the Downtrodden Ministry president informed that MLA SI Jamir will grace the programme as speaker and the guest of honour, and Dr. Kadambari Bhagat, IAS, ADC Dimapur will give a short speech on behalf of the administration. The resource persons for the programme will be Dr. T Temsu, senior specialist at District Hospital Dimapur, DAPCU, and DNP+. The president of the ministry has appealed all the GBs, VCM, VDB members, mothers’ unit, Vigilant Committee, youth and villagers to attend the meeting.

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about basic principles and dynamics of SHGs and repayment of loans is poor. While highlighting these aspects, the resource persons stated that homogeneity is a plus point of SHGs in Nagaland and the practice of taking up collective activities such as cleaning the village and planting trees are exemplary and need to be encouraged.

The visit is a precursor to a phased implementation programme by NSRLM under the Department of Rural Development, Government of Nagaland, where CRPs have been identified from among active women members of SHGs in the Intensive Blocks in Nagaland and they will be undergoing training at the national resource organisation institute. These trained Internal CRPs along with CRPs from the NRO will be stationed at villages to train SHGs, both existing and new ones, and monitor activities of the SHGs so they can eventually become NRLM compliant.

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intellectual creations. KD Vizo spoke on how IPR has become essential even to a remote state like Nagaland with the arrival of globalisation. With our skills in music, literature and cultural activities, IPR has to be obtained to protect such skills and innovations. In his welcome address T P Singh, Director, NIELIT Kohima stated that NIELIT organized the workshop to spread awareness among the mass who are still ignorant of IPR. An introduction to IPR was briefed by Surendra Nath, Director, MSTECH. The workshop was followed by an interactive discussion and distribution of certificates.

IPR refers to the protection of an individual’s invention such as designs, layout, copyrights, trademarks.

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Rio activates Emergency Operation Centre in capital

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Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio and others during the inauguration of SEOC in Kohima on March 3. (Morung Photo) Our Correspondent Kohima | March 3

Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio today inaugurated the State Emergency Operation Centre (SEOC) here at the office premises of the Nagaland State Disaster Management Authority (NSDMA) under home department. NSDMA is located at Old Secretariat Complex. Minister for home Kaito Aye, minister for PWD (Roads & Bridges) and parliamentary affairs Kuzholuzo (Azo) Nienu and several others also present on the occasion.

The state EOC will be the nerve center of NSDMA officials and other nodal department heads to assemble, take stock of a disaster situation and coordinate responses emergencies.

It is repository of all the information and decision support systems. The role of the EOC is to provide a central location from which the government at any level can provide inter-agency coordination and prompt executive decision making for effective incident response. Decisions made at the EOOC affect the incident response as well as public response. The decision made at the EOC are not tactical decisions. Tactical decisions are made by the Incident Commander and the Command Staff at the incident spot. The EOC carries out coordinating function through information collection and evaluation, priority setting and resource management.

The EOC plays a criti-

cal role in support of the on-site response and is a well-managed operating system. However, EOCs can help meet the incident command’s critical needs in a coordinative way by establishing policy or resolving conflicting policies that may arise between the coordinating nodal departments/ agencies, provide communication and messaging support, providing and prioritizing our resources since resource at hand will be limited, managing the public information as well as media since media will play an important role during and after disaster, authorize emergency expenditures to facilitate the on-going disaster recovery and to provide a better picture of how the incident is being taken care of. “Failure to do so in any of these areas can severely hamper the response efforts that may be going on during a disaster,” NSDMA source said.

The functions of the EOCs also include: Helping to establish a common operating picture that would help us tackle different disaster/crises, facilitating long term operations as well as a short term operations, improving continuity, collect information, analyse data received and give it to the right people, processing accurate information, differentiating between ‘good’ and ‘bad’ information, providing ready access to all available information as and when required, simplifying information analysis and verification and co-

ordinating and promoting resource identification and assignment.

On role of SEOC on occurrence of disaster, the SEOC will function to its fullest capacity on the occurrence of disaster. The District EOC will be fully activated during Level O and Level 1 disasters. The activation would come into effect either on occurrence of disaster or on receipt of warning. On the receipt of warning or alert from any such agency which is competent to issue such a warning, or on the basis of reports from the deputy commissioner of the occurrence of a disaster, all community preparedness measures including counter- disaster measures will be put into operation.

As per the Government of India national framework for disaster management, the states were being assisted to set up control rooms/emergency operations centres at state and district level. Assistance for this was being given under the GOI-UNDP during Disaster Risk Management (DRM) project 200009. Equipment was also provided for these control rooms under the DRM to the selected states, of which Nagaland was one.

In partnership with the National Bamboo Mission Application, Government of Nagaland entered into agreement to set up Emergency Operation Centres at the state level and in all 11 districts of Nagaland using Bamboo prefab materials.

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Holiram Bordoloi case: NHRC seeks status report Dimapur, march 3 (NNN): The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) today directed the Union Home Secretary, Government of India to submit status report on the missing mercy petition of death row convict Holiram Bordoloi of Assam within four weeks.

According to the Asian Commission for Human Rights

(ACHR), as per the RTI reply of the Inspector General of Prisons, Assam, the mercy petition of condemned prisoner Holiram Bordoloi was forwarded to the President of India vide letter No.PRI.826 dated 18.04.2005 and to the Judicial Department, Government of Assam on June 17, 2005. Though a reply received from office of the Inspec-

tor General of Prisons, Assam vide letter dated 09.07.2013 states that the mercy petition is still pending with the President of India, the "list of mercy petition cases since 1981" received by the President of India from the Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India vide letter dated 28.03.2013 does not bear the name of Holiram Bordoloi.

This establishes that the mercy petition of Holiram Bordoloi had been lost and was not considered at all in the last nine years, ACHR added.

“The loss of mercy petition of condemned prisoner Holiram Bordoloi once again establishes the absolute callousness of the Government of India while considering the mercy pleas. This

blatant abuse of power given to the President of India must be adjudicated by the judicial and quasi-judicial bodies. Further, accountability for gross dereliction of duty and shameful acts such as losing mercy petitions must be established," stated Suhas Chakma, Director of Asian Centre for Human Rights.

"The death sentence of Holi-

ram Bordoloi must also be commuted to life imprisonment in the light of the judgement of the Supreme Court of India on 21 January 2014 in the case of Shatrughan Chauhan & Anr Vs. Union of India & Ors (Writ Petition (Criminal No. 55 of 2013)," further demanded Chakma.

Holiram Bordoloi was one of the accused in connection

Manipur People's Party responds to UNC statement

imphaL, march 3 (NNN): Reacting to the comment of the United Naga Council (UNC) that Nagas and Meiteis should peacefully part ways as they can never live together, the Manipur People's Party (MPP) said wondered how is it possible in the modern world for a single community to survive.

According to the MPP, there are over 30 different communities in Manipur and the UNC's singling

out of Meitei community does not hold any substance.

The MPP then blamed the Congress led Governments both at the Centre and in Manipur for such situation which has prompted the United Naga Council (UNC) to give such statement. "The Governments at the Centre and in Manipur have not handled the Manipur situation properly and now we see the problems," alleged the

Manipur regional political party.

Driving home its point, the MPP cited the 2010 episode where the State Government of Manipur had forcibly conducted the Autonomous District Council (ADC) elections in the hill districts, which were opposed fervently by the United Naga Council. The UNC wanted that the ADC polls could be held in the hill districts of Manipur but only after certain amend-

ments to the ADC Act were done.

The ADC polls were held in a year marred by violence resorted to by Naga frontal organisations. Immediately after the ADC polls were done, the UNC had started demanding that Nagas could no longer live under the Manipur Government. Hence, the demand for the Alternative Arangement outside the Manipur Government cropped up.

ZYF (AMN) seeks attention for Khoupum dam project

imphaL, march 3 (mExN): The Zeliangrong Youth Front (Assam, Manipur & Nagaland) has expressed concern at the “lackadaisical perfunctory and casual approach of the State government towards the Khoupum dam project.” As a result of which, the Khoupum dam project has remained as a mere bauble inspite of being the first ever earthen dam in the hill areas of the north east region of India, stated the ZYF (AMN) in a press note.

The Khoupum dam project was inaugurated by the then Chief Minister, Yangmaiso Shaiza on July 26 1978 and the khoupum dam project canal system was commissioned by the then Chief Minister Rishang Keishang in the year 1982-83. The dam was constructed with a view to provide irrigational facilities to the farmers covering an area of 750 hectares of arable lands encompassing more than 30 villages of the khoupum area.

The front alleged that ever since the commissioning of the dam “the State government. has landed a blind eye and deaf ear towards the maintenance and renovation of the said dam.” As a result, it stated that this has led to deteriorating and worsening con-

Tripura tops list for giving rural jobs for fifth year

agartaLa, march 3 (iaNS): Tripura has kept its top position for the fifth consecutive year for offering 66 person-days so far in the current fiscal in executing the central government's flagship rural jobs scheme MGNREGS, a minister said here Monday. "Tripura has been providing the highest average employment for the past five years under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA)," said Rural Development Minister Jitendra Chaudhury.

"Tripura provided 66 days of work till Feb 20 (in the 2013-14 fiscal) under the MGNREGS against the national average of 39 person-days." "Tripura has retained the top position since the 200910 fiscal in terms of person-days generation. "In 2012-13, Tripura provided 87 person-days, highest in the country," Chaudhury said. The state also has the leading position in India in participation of tribals in MGNREGS with 45 percent against the national average of 16. A total of 48 percent women got rural jobs directly in Tripura against the national average of 54. The minister said Tripura also expects a rise in its allocation for the coming fiscal for MGNREGS.

dition of the khoupum dam project.

ZYF further stated that the Khoupum Area Farmers Welfare Assocaiton has brought the matter to the State government in the form of representation, memorandum etc. but failed to evoke any positive response from the State government.

The Secretary, Ministry of Water Resources, Govt. of India, V.K. Duggal, the present Governor of Manipur directed all the Chief Secretaries of the State for restoration of water bodies that are directly linked to agriculture on August 13, 2004.

In that guideline, project proposal consideration can be made for backward/weaker sections.

The IF & CD, Govt. of Manipur submitted a project proposal for restoration of lost irrigation potential of 1000 hec. of khoupum dam project 2004-05 to the Ministry of Water Resources, Govt. of India.

However, the project proposal was not approved by the Ministry of Water Resources,government of India citing reasons that the State government failed to provide matching funds to other three ongoing projects, viz: Loktak lift irrigation project, Cluster of 8 M.I Project and Singda Multi Purpose

Project under CADWM, stated the ZYF. In response to the pressure of various organizations, the IF &CD Govt. of Manipur had prepared ERM of Khoupum dam project for the year 2011-12. However, the ZYF lamented that the IF & CD under demand No. 40, estimates of the amount required for the year ending 31st March, 2014 included the khoupum dam project under non-plan.

As a result of which most of the contractors who had undertaken works at the khoupum dam project are sufferings due to non ail Ret

release of fund till date, it added. The front said that now, all the local contractors are not either in the position to take up new works or not willing to execute the works.

As such, it urged that State government to give special attention to the ever deteriorating condition of the Khoupum Dam Project and that the Project be converted from non-pan to Central plan and also take necessary measures to ensures availability of funds for execution of various works in the best interest of the local farmers.

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with the killing of three persons at Nayagaon under Boribazar Outpost in Morigaon district in Assam on November 26, 1996.

He was tried by the Sessions Judge, Morigaon in Sessions Case No. 47/99 and 47A/99 found guilty of various offences punishable under Sections 147, 148, 436, 326 and 302 read with Section 149.

"This Alternative Arrangement demanded by the UNC is the creation of the Congress led Government," accused the MPP. It added that the Government only started the appeasement policy when the UNC had already raged with anger for conducting the ADC polls. "Should the Government had timely addressed the situation things would have been different by now," stated the MPP.

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FELICITATION On the 2nd of March 2014, Rev. Wati Kichu son of Late Aomeren from Khensa Village was ordained as the Reverend at the Dimapur Ao Baptist Church (DABA) by the ABAM Ordination Council. Rev. Wati Kichu, currently serving as the Associate Pastor at DABA has stood in commitment before the congregation and God and ordained for greater works.

We celebrate together with Rev. Wati Kichu and his family for the significant attainment Rev. Wati Kichu in the service of the Lord. Your hard work and dedication to the church, as well as your diligent study and reflection is to be commended.

The Dimapur Khensa Union (DKSU) on behalf of the Dimapur Khensatsür Telongjem, Dimapur Khensa Fellowship and Dimapur Khensa Students Union congratulates and also wishes you and your family for more achievements in the incredible opportunity to minister for the greater expansion of God’s Kingdom.

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India wants BIMSTEC to focus on five key areas naY PYi taw, March 3 (ians): India Monday outlined five focus areas for the seven-nation BIMSTEC to realize the full potential of the regional grouping of 2.5 billion people with a combined output of $2.5 trillion.

“In today’s inter-linked and inter-dependent world, commonalities between us provide opportunities to enhance our cooperation,” Foreign Minister Salman Khurshid told the ministerial meeting ahead of the summit.

“BIMSTEC is privileged to have a full and active membership committed to its priorities,” said the foreign minister, who is part of the delegation accompanying Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for the summit in this Myanmar capital.

The foreign minister highlighted five focus areas for BIMSTEC, the Bay of Bengal Initiative for MultiSectoral Technical and Eco-

nomic Cooperation comprising Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Nepal and Bhutan: * Providing connectivity for seamless movement between India’s northeast, Myanmar and Thailand on one side and with Bangladesh, Bhutan and Nepal on the other. * Facilitating economic development as a strategic imperative and promoting technology and innovation, while providing better livelihood to the people of the region. * Addressing energy security concerns blessed with natural resources with cooperation in the use of gas, hydro-power, renewable energy sources and grid interconnections for mutual benefit. * Working to address the security concerns of the difficult neighbourhood that has a high incidence of terrorism and other

Myanmar President Thein Sein, right, raises the glass along with India Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, left, during the Gala Dinner marking for the third Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) summit at Myanmat International Convention Centre (MICC) in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, on Monday, March 3. (AP Photo)

transnational crimes. promoting tourism and * Encouraging people-toyouth exchanges, among people links, which is other facets. Khurshid by far the strongest link said India was keen to in bringing together the make this happen. cultural experiences of “We are committed to the seven countries by developing our organiza-

tion and promoting a strategic perspective to our common efforts such that our region and our peoples can take advantage of the opportunities in this new century.”

Low-cost clean methanol Apple launches iPhone voice control for drivers hope for cheaper fuel

new York, March 3 (ians): Here comes a potentially clean and low-cost way to convert carbon dioxide into methanol - a key ingredient in the production of plastics, adhesives and solvents and a promising fuel for the future.

Scientists have identified a new nickel-gallium catalyst that converts hydrogen and carbon dioxide into methanol with fewer side-products than the conventional catalyst.

“Methanol is processed in huge factories at very high pressures using hydrogen, carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide from natural gas,” said Felix Studt, a staff scientist at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, US. We are looking for materials than can make methanol from clean sources under low-pressure conditions, while generating low amounts of carbon monoxide, he said.

“Eventually we would also like to make higher alcohols, such as ethanol and propanol, which, unlike methanol, can be directly added to gasoline today,” added co-author Jens Norskov, a professor of chemical engineering at the Stanford University.

Once the team understood

FrankFurt, March 3 (reuters): Apple makes its next move in hands-free smartphone technology for car drivers when it unveils a new, integrated iPhone voice-control system at the Geneva Motor Show this week.

The U.S. company’s CarPlay makes its debut in Ferrari, Mercedes-Benz and Volvo vehicles at the show, demonstrating the software system that allows drivers to control their iPhones via touch and voice, Apple said on Monday.

Carmakers have already enabled some access to smartphones via bluetooth technology, but Apple’s latest offering aims to integrate iPhone functionality more seamlessly with dashboard-mounted display and speaker systems.

CarPlay enables drivers to access to contacts stored on the iPhone, make calls, return missed calls or listen to voicemails without taking their hands from the steering wheel.

Drivers can also use maps, listen to music and access messages “with just a word or a touch”, Apple said. Drivers will also be able to read messages and dictate responses via Apple’s voice-activated Siri software.

Apple said that CarPlay will also be available in cars from manufacturers including BMW, Ford, General Motors, Honda, Hyundai, PSA Peugeot Citroën, Subaru, Suzuki and Toyota Motor Corp.

methanol synthesis at the molecular level, they began the hunt for a new catalyst capable of synthesising methanol at low pressures using only hydrogen and carbon dioxide.

The most promising candidate turned out to be a little-known compound called nickel-gallium. The team turned to a research group at the Technical University of Denmark.

The Danish team carried out the task of synthesising nickel and gallium into a solid catalyst.

In lab tests, nickel-gallium produced more methanol than the conventional copper-zinc-aluminium catalyst and considerably less of the carbon monoxide byproduct.

“You want to make methanol, not carbon monoxide. You also want a catalyst that is stable and does not decompose. The lab tests showed that nickel-gallium is, in fact, a very stable solid,” said Ib Chorkendorff from the Technical University of Denmark.

The ultimate goal is to develop a large-scale manufacturing process that is non-polluting and carbon neutral using clean hydrogen, the authors said in the study that appeared in the journal Nature Chemistry.

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CBI to probe bribery charges in $1.2 billion Rolls-Royce deal

new Delhi, March 3 (reuters): The defence ministry said on Monday it had ordered a bribery investigation over state-run Hindustan Aeronautics Limited’s (HAL) purchase of jet engines from Britain’s RollsRoyce Holdings in a deal worth at least $1.2 billion.

The Central Bureau of Investigation, the country’s top crime-fighting agency, will look into more than 5 billion rupees in alleged kickbacks in the deal that was signed in 2011, a ministry official told Reuters.

No comment was immediately available from Rolls-Royce’s office in India.

Suspicions of corruption in India’s defence procurement programme have for years delayed the modernisation of the armed forces of the world’s most populous nation that continue to rely heavily on outdated Sovietdesigned equipment.

The air force has been dogged by a series of crashes of its Russian-built MiG fighter jets, while an accident aboard a Soviet-made

submarine that killed two officers last week led the navy’s chief of staff to resign.

The Congress party-led government is keen to be seen as tough on graft before parliamentary elections due by May. The party, lagging in the polls, has faced rising public anger over a string of corruption scandals in its current term.

The probe into the HAL deal follows the arrest in Britain last month of Indian-born businessman Sudhir Choudhrie and his son in a bribery investigation by the Serious Fraud Office into Rolls-Royce’s dealings in China and Indonesia.

Both men denied any wrongdoing and have been released on bail, their spokesman said last month. While there was no indication that the latest probe was linked to the Choudhries, newspapers reported that HAL’s “vigilance wing” had raised the alarm after hearing allegations that Rolls-Royce had hired consultants to advise on the deal.

Such lobbyists are explicitly banned under India’s defence procurement system. The Rolls-Royce aero engines were being procured to power Hawk advanced jet trainers, used to prepare Indian defense force pilots to fly next-generation fighter jets.

India had ordered a total of 123 twin-seater Hawks from BAE Systems so far, with 24 to be supplied directly and the rest made under licence by HAL, according to the British defence and aerospace group.

The probe deals another blow to Rolls-Royce, the world’s second largest maker of aircraft engines behind General Electric, which said in February that U.S. and European defence cuts mean that a decade of profit growth will come to an end this year. RollsRoyce has since outlined plans designed to maintain its long-term dominance in large aircraft engines, showcasing two new models that could improve efficiency by up to 10 percent.

SMS alert service for waitlisted rail passengers launched

new Delhi, March 3 (Pti): Now you will no longer have to dial 139 or visit the rail website to check the status of your waitlisted ticket as the railways will now send booking status messages to passengers on mobile phones, if the tickets get confirmed before the journey. “For the last 10 days the trial was going on and today we formally launched the SMS alert service for all passengers whose waitlisted tickets get confirmed,” Minister of State for Railways Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury said here.

He said everyday about four lakh passengers will get SMS alert on their mobiles about the status of their waitlisted tickets. The software for the SMS-based service has been developed by CRIS, the technological arm of railways.

“The status of the waitlisted tickets will be communciated through SMS on the passenger mobile phone number given at the time of booking ticket. So now you will get status alert on your mobile once the waitlisted ticket becomes reservation against cancellation (RAC) and also when it gets finally confirmed,” Chowdhury said.

This was a Rail Budget proposal and the government was a committed to providing it to passengers free of cost, he said after launching the SMS Gateway service. “Passengers want to know about the status of the ticket and the new service is certainly going to benefit passengers and also help reduce load on the railway website,” Railway Member (Traffic) DP Pandey said.

Pandey said not only the status of the ticket, passengers will also get the exact position of the coach and

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berth number. “Passengers will get the status alert three hours before with their coach number and berth number.” He, however, clarified that if the waitlisted ticket becomes RAC or confirmed then only a passenger will be informed through SMS and not otherwise.

The facility is expected to reduce the last minute enquiry rush on the rail websites and call centre as well as reduce the crowding near the notice board of pasted chart locations on platforms.

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5 Public SPace/lOcal On The Questions Of Naga National Principle And Naga Sovereignty Tuesday

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any of our national leaders have oft and on harped on the word “national principle.” This harped national principle has been made the condition for Naga reconciliation as well as Naga Unity. But though many Naga writers have challenged our leaders to tell us the meaning of this national principle, none of them have ever replied or defined to the Naga public what they mean by the Naga national principle.

I hope that by unity or reconciliation under “The Naga national principle”, our leaders are not talking about a Naga unity or reconciliation under so-

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cialist principles or democratic principles. As far as I am concerned, the only national principle that all Nagas must unite under is the principle that Nagas are a nation and that the land of the Nagas which is 120000sq.km.belongs to the Nagas only. Any Naga civil society or even self acclaimed national organizations that have deviated or are ready to compromise on this national principle have become anti-Naga in nature and character. Therefore, any political organization or even professed national groups that has merged Naga territories with that of any foreign territory

as a state or even trying to join India as a federating unit, has committed treason against the Naga nation and its national principle.

In actual fact, Nagas have always been a democratic nation in human history. This democratic nation declared their national independence on 14th August 1947. Now, in the context of nations and the declarations of their independence, provided that a nation has a record of its own national history and lands, no nation needs the consent of any other nations in declaring their own national independence. Nagas are therefore

here is only one Creator of the heavens and the earth. He is the only God, Lord, Father, King, Saviour and Redeemer. He is holy , righteous, just, perfect, loving kind and infallible. He is the truth and he hates sin. By His life, wisdom and power He created the universe. His characteristics are perfect.

There is only one Lord and there are not many Lords. There is only one way and there are not many ways. There is only one Truth who is the Creator. All human beings who are towards the truth are towards peace and order with fellow men and

women. All human beings who are not on the track towards the Truth are towards the state of affair of disorder and chaos.

Seeking the true Creator is forsaking all untrue and superstitious beliefs.

So seeking God together is seeking peace and order together. The hope of the world for peace is seeking the Creator together.

So seeking God is seeking for the love of the people together.

The law of relationship with God which is human ethics of relationship with God “ KNOW GOD, BELIEVE IN HIM, FEAR HIM AND OBEY HIM,” is the only way

of overcoming the world and peaceful life. So each and every human being is to examine and ask himself or herself , “ Do I really know God, believe in Him, fear Him and obey Him ?”

So human beings individually and corporately, Governments and institutions are to be built up on the foundation of relationship with the Creator. The Almighty God who is the Creator of the heavens and the earth is the all perfect God and all men and women who sincerely seek Him will be nearer to Him which will be nearer to perfection towards fellow human beings.

ZuNhEboto, march 3 (mExN): Expressing shock over the “recent gang rape and flesh trade” committed on a mentally challenged woman at Zunheboto town by “some anti-social elements,” GPRN/ NSCN, Regional Administrative Officer (RAO), Sumi Region, Huveto Yepthomi has stated “raping and flesh trading is a sinful act no doubt, but executing it on a person that cannot speak for herself is even more jolting for a human mind to comprehend.”

A press statement issued by Ministry of Information & Publicity, GPRN/ NSCN expressed that the “satanic act of these people should not be regarded or mulled over as something that can easily be forgotten or forgiven.” It asserted that the GPRN/NSCN working under the banner of Nagaland for Christ “considers this act as one of the most

heinous crimes that humans can ever commit and condemns the same.” And this incident, it declared, will be looked upon, and befitting punishment will be meted out to the people responsible.

It advised the state law enforcing agencies taking up the case to pass stringent punishment to the culprits. No leniency in any form should be shown or acted upon, it added. If such actions are found, the GPRN/NSCN cautioned it will take its own course of action. It further cautioned any individuals, family or organisation against bailing out the perpetrators.

“GPRN/NSCN will not tolerate such acts, and if found, those concerned people will also be labelled as anti-social elements and be held responsible of the incident, and punished according to the National yezahbo,” it affirmed.

Kaka D. Iralu not asking their independence from India or the UN. Far from it, Nagas are only asking India and the UN to recognize their declared independence.

But as far as Naga political sovereignty is concerned, their political sovereignty has been suppressed by India when Indian troops invaded Nagaland in the early 1050’s.

To quote their own words, this is how B. N. Mullick, the then Personal Secretary of Nehru and former Director of the Indian Intelligence Bureau put it: “Troops moved into Tuensang by October

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1955, and the war with the Nagas started from then.” (B.N. Mullick, My years with Nehru, p308).

As a result of this invasion of Nagaland, today the national flag of India flies over our lands and we have been politically oppressed by Indian troops under heinous laws like The Armed Forces Special Powers Act 1958 and many other similar laws.

But in spite of all these political facts and reality, when it comes to the question of our political sovereignty, our own leaders both in the Indian state as well as the national govern-

ment have again and again parroted that “political sovereignty lies with the Naga people.” I therefore want to ask these Naga leaders what they mean by this statement that political sovereignty still lies with the Naga people.

Is political sovereignty some sort of gas or clouds that hangs in the air and therefore is still with the suppressed Nagas because they are all breathing this air in Nagaland?

How can we follow national leaders who are asserting that sovereignty is still with us when over two hundred thousand Nagas lie buried under our feet

defending that sovereignty and the whole nation has been under Indian Military rule from 1958 to the present? Are these leaders who have already joined Naga lands to India as a state in India and others who are desperately trying again to join the same Naga lands to India under a Federal structure, trying to please their Indian masters by proclaiming false political slogans to the Naga people? After all, can the Naga nation be still enjoying political sovereignty when the very right to rule ourselves have been surrendered by some self appointed Nagas to an Indian Governor under arti-

cle 371 A (b) in 1960? How can these leaders deny these implications when Article 371A (b) clearly states that “The Governor of Nagaland shall have special responsibility with respect to law and order in the State of Nagaland.?”Can we indeed still be having political sovereignty when the special responsibilities of the Indian Governor in the same section include even such sweeping powers as “… the decision of the Governor shall not be called in action on the ground that he ought or ought not to have acted in exercise of his individual judgment?”

in any upstream operations connected to petroleum exploration and extraction.

The first phase is the exploration phase where seismic data are gathered and the Geologist or Geophysicist will interpret the data generated through this exercise. According to the interpretation of the Geologists the drilling engineers will make random drilling in an area believed to contain Oil bearing shelf or basin. This is to confirm the findings of the Geologist. The second phase is the development phase, where the company will install drilling rigs and other support structures

for the production of crude oil. The third phase is the Production phase which involves the actual extraction of crude oil and the collection of such crude oil from different rigs in one place called as the Group Gathering Station (GGS).

In all these three phases a company is required to enter into three separate agreements and then obtain three separate license from the Government and the affected landowners.

However, the most crucial issue to be addressed before the start of the upstream operations is the company’s policy or pro-

gramme regarding SUSTAINABLE PRODUCTION. The implication of this policy is that if a company undertakes extraction of crude oil at a very fast pace in order to curtail production cost, the operation will damage the Oil basin or Shelf beyond repair and no further extraction can be done in the future. This kind of extraction is done by oil companies who enter into the operation with the motive of making maximum profit with minimum loss. In the process they end up destroying our reservoir of precious natural resources.

The production process should be planned in such a way that the crude oil is extracted at a slow and steady pace in order to prevent the collapse of the oil shelf or basin. In the light of the above facts, I wonder on what strength or expertise were the oil companies shortlisted by the Nagaland state government and now allotted license for oil exploration in our state.

Lastly, on what weakness or grounds were some of the reputed oil companies who are members of the Association of Oil and Gas Operators (AOGO).

Seeking God together is seeking peace together Feasible exploration and extraction of Petroleum and Natural Gas in Nagaland

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he Process of Oil exploration and extraction is so complex and delicate that it takes a well established and experienced company to undertake these upstream operations. If any company wants to undertake such an operation it requires three Core Units, viz. Drilling, Production and Geology/Geophysics. Any Company that do not possess all or any one of these Core Units of upstream operations cannot carry out feasible activities related to Crude oil exploration and extraction.

There are three phases

Dimapur, march 3 (mExN): Note Grid School of Music and Media Studio, Dimapur awarded certificates to its 45 students during a felicitation programme held in the school on March 3. A press release stated that the students were felicitated for their meritorious performances at the Trinity Guildhall London Grade Examinations and Rockschool UK Grade Examinations conducted in the months of October 2013 and November 2013

respectively.

The students appeared and passed the music examinations in the principal instruments Piano, violin, and classical guitar under Trinity College London, and drums, guitar and vocals under Rockschool UK. Note Grid School of Music and Media Studio is a recognized exam centre for the two International Exam Boards and offers practical and theory music training in all principal instruments.

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Auto fares revised, drivers asked to display chart Dimapur, march 3 (mExN): Auto rickshaw fares in and around Dimapur have been revised. Deputy Commissioner & Chairman, Regional Transport Authority, Dimapur, N Hushili Sema has in an order directed the auto rickshaw drivers to display a copy of the revised fare chart in their vehicles for public convenience. For school students in uniform, there will be a concession of 15% and for physically challenged persons, there will be a concession of 25% from the actual fare. Noncompliance of the order will be strictly dealt with as per the provisions of law, stated the order, a copy of which was released to the media. The revised fare will come into force with immediate effect.

Naga musicians sing on the first day of Spring Festival underway in Dimapur on March 3. The Festival being organized by North East Zone Cultural Centre (NEZCC) at its complex promises gamut of music, movies, dances, traditional games, food, children activties et al. It will end on March 9. (Photos by Manen Aier)

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NNC Youth Federation warns irregular employees Kohima, march 3 (mExN): The Naga National Council (NNC) Youth Federation, Chakhesang Region (CR) has warned all the irregular officers and employees of the department(s) under District Headquarter, Phek and subsequently asked them to be in station and regular in their as-

signed duties.

The NNC Youth Federation, CR president Kuduve Kapfo in a press statement stated that many officers and employees were found irregular and out of station almost all the time and was drawing their hefty salaries without satisfactory performance. The federation fur-

ther stated that, the absence of the officers was indeed creating chaos for the people of the villages “when they come travelling all the way to town from villages spending energies, money, time etc. could not meet their needs even after waiting for 3 to 4 days and even a week and return their home all in vain.”

The federation warned that, from now on, if any such irregular and extreme out station officers and staffs are caught, a stern action as deemed fit would be initiated against those employees by the federation for the larger interest of the people of the area and the community.

moKoKchuNg, march 3 (mExN): In order to recognize and protect the rights of farmers in respect of their contribution in conserving, improving and providing plant genetic resources for development of new plant varieties and to upgrade the skills and knowledge of citrus growers to increase fruit production with enhanced quality, National Research centre for citrus, Nagpur, Central Institute of Horticulture (CIH), DAC, GoI, Medziphema and Department of Horticulture, Nagaland had jointly organized trainings. A press release informed that a one-day training cum

awareness programme on protection of plant varieties and farmers right Act 2001 with special reference to citrus, and a twoday training on ‘production technology of citrus for NEH Region’ were held at Town Hall, Mokokchung on February 26 and February 27-28 respectively.

Deputy Commissioner of Mokokchung, Murohu Chotso graced the inaugural programme for both the trainings on February 26.

Speaking as chief guest, he stated that the training was being conducted at the very right time with relevant topics, particularly in context of Mokokchung as citrus is grown on a large scale in the

years stating that it was because of their support BASN could successfully organize Miss Nagaland pageant. The reason behind the meeting was to build relationship, to share views and opinions and discuss issues pertaining to the district contests, it added.

The president recalled how Miss Nagaland pageant started in 1989 and Beauty & Aesthetics Society officially came into being in 1991. BASN has called for continued support from all district organizers and

well wishers towards the success of the event of 25 years of Miss Nagaland and BASN's jubilee in 2016.

The treasurer of BASN, Theja Therie during the discussion hour pointed out that affiliation of district organizers with BASN could be taken into consideration if permanent organizers can be identified in each district. Besides, many other issues and views were discussed and suggestions were taken from the district organizers, the release stated.

district, but there is decline in its production.

The resource persons for the technical session for both the trainings were Dr. Lallan Ram, Director CIH, Medziphema; Dr. I P Singh, Pr. Scientist, NRC for citrus Nagpur; Dr. A K Das Pr. Scientist, NRC for citrus Nagpur; and Dr. C N Rao, Sr, Scientist NRC for citrus, Nagpur. As a part of the training, field visit & practical hands on demonstration was conducted at citrus orchard of C Imli, a progressive farmer at Chuchuyimpang village.

During the valedictory programme, participants were given certificates. Altogether, 230 orange growers from Mokokchung, Phek, Wokha, Kiphire, Tuensang, Mon and Dimapur districts participated.

Note Grid students get certificates Upgrading skills & knowledge of citrus growers for meritorious performances

Students of Note Grid School of Music and Media Studio, Dimapur pose with their certificates during the felicitation programme on March 3.

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BASN to celebrate 25 years of Miss Nagaland Kohima, march 3 (mExN): Beauty & Aesthetics Society of Nagaland (BASN) will celebrate 25 years of Miss Nagaland in 2014. The president of BASN, Asenla informed this during the meeting of organizers of district level beauty contests with BASN at Hotel Jafpu, Kohima.

A press release informed that the meeting was first of its kind. President of BASN, Asenla welcomed and acknowledged the organizations for their support throughout the

Kohima, march 3 (mExN): All the office bearers of Nagaland Pradesh Youth Congress (NPYC) and the president of District Youth Congress have been informed that there will be a meeting on March 5, 11:00 am at Congress Bhavan, Kohima. Therefore, general secretary (Admin) of NPYC, Yanchamo (Lima) has requested all concerned to attend the meeting without fail.

ANPSTA, Kohima Unit meeting

Kohima, march 3 (mExN): All Nagaland Pre-Service Teachers’ Association (ANPSTA), Kohima Unit has informed all its members that a general meeting will be held on March 6, 10:00 am at NSF conference hall.

All members have been requested to attend the meeting without fail as some important matters are going to be discussed. The unit general secretary, Ajabu Sorhie and information secretary, Lucy Kent in a press release informed that an amount of Rs 450/- will be collected from each member.

SAYO cautions against hunting in its jurisdiction

Kohima, march 3 (mExN): Southern Angami Youth Organization (SAYO) has stated that as per the directive of Angami Youth Organization (AYO) on prohibition of hunting, the season/ period for hunting is over from the month of February. A press release appended by SAYO general secretary, Neiba Bio and Action Committee convenor, Khisanol Viswentso reiterated SAYO’s stand and requested the public to restrain from all sorts of hunting and burning of jungles within the jurisdiction of Southern Angami areas, failing which, it cautioned, defaulters will be penalized accordingly as resolved in the house.

SP Wokha informs

WoKha, march 3 (mExN): In support to the issue raised by Action Committee Against Unabated Taxation (ACAUT) Nagaland against illegal taxation, Superintendent of Wokha, Limasunep Jamir, has informed that sign boards stating “No money to be paid at Police Check Gate” has been displayed at Police Check Gate.

The SP in a press statement has directed the public to abide by the stricture.

AR apprehends 2 GPRN/NSCN cadres

Dimapur, march 3 (mExN): Personnel of 29 Assam Rifles and 142 CRPF Bn, on March 1, arrested two GPRN/NSCN cadres in the Chainejan area near Kulajan. A press note from the PRO to the Assam Rifles, Lt Col AS Chauhan identified the cadres as one Leacy Chumbemo Kikon and one Robema Yanthan of the GPRN/NSCN. One .22 Pistol with magazine, seven

als for illegal tax collection near Gholapati, “based on information of illegal tax collection by UG groups in the area.” A press note from the PRO informed that Rs 15,030 was recovered from the possession of the apprehended persons, whose identities were not disclosed. The ap2 held for illegal prehended persons, along tax collection In a separate operation, with the recovered items, personnel of the 29 AR ap- were handed over to West prehended two individu- Police Station, Dimapur. .22 mm live rounds and five 5.56 mm live rounds were recovered from the cadres.

A case has been registered at Police Station Bhandari and the cadres along with the recoveries were handed over to the police.

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Relevance of Naga Diplomacy

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or the past several decades, the use of Naga diplomacy in both internal and external modern politics has been disappointing, and its role is underutilized if not undermined. Having a vibrant Naga diplomatic corps is another significant component to the range of options necessary for peacebuilding at various levels in our culture. Its presence has the potential to stop conflict situations from escalating. However, in the absence of diplomacy the use of force and violence has been used as a means for resolving conflict. Naga diplomacy has become stagnant, rigid and ineffective, and its failure to develop and modernize has ironically strengthened the rationale that violent responses are acceptable because they appear to work. Unfortunately, this mistaken belief has been counterproductive and has further weakened the role of Naga diplomacy in the area of peacemaking.

The lack of intent to develop an effective and relevant Naga diplomacy has proven costly for the Nagas, and differences which could have otherwise been resolved through diplomatic and non-violent means have become acutely polarized with the potential to turn violent and harmful. The absence of diplomacy also indicates the lack of safety nets that can prevent situations from becoming violent.

In the fast developing world of modern polity, diplomacy is at the forefront of global affairs; and it is imperative for nations to develop their own art and principles of diplomacy. It is difficult to imagine how Nagas can effectively interact and foster political regional and international relations unless and until Nagas develop its own art of diplomacy in protecting and furthering its rights and interests. This would raise the Naga visibility to another level on the world stage.

Recovering and developing an art of Naga diplomacy is more urgent than ever. It is a significant means of forming relationships based on trust and communicating with the broader community and to resolve situations. These relationships could span from government officials, as well as reaching to the grassroots and organizations and institutions. Again, it is one of the ways to strengthen peacebuilding efforts through nonviolent means and offers the potential for mid-level leadership that will connect across groups throughout Nagaland. The Naga society at large and particularly the civil society would greatly benefit from developing diplomacy as a means of reaching out both within and without.

Diplomacy is a means through which the Naga worldview and aspirations can be represented and acknowledged. Developing an expanded understanding and use of diplomacy can enable and empower the Nagas towards a dynamic praxis of action and reflection that is essential to coexisting harmoniously.

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friend once sent me a text message from the top of Pen y Fan in South Wales. Mostly he just wanted to show off about his new phone, which he called a “video-enabled hypertrinket”, but I remember how excited he was by the famous walk that rises from the Neuadd reservoirs near Talybont and follows ridges round the summits of Corn Du, Pen y Fan, Cribyn and Fan y Big before dropping back to the dam and the Taf Fechan conifer plantations. I’ve wanted to walk the Brecon Horseshoe ever since.

A December morning: dense, low cloud, and a misty rain that seemed to hover rather than fall, as if water were simply a facet of the air. In waterproofs, hood up, I climbed to the ridge called Craig Fan Ddu behind a squad of soldiers on a training exercise, day-glo yellow and orange panels shining on top of their backpacks.

The soldiers peeled away to the west as the sky cleared.

Peat and moss underfoot put a spring in the step. There were no birds. Wind tore across the ridge from the east.

Ahead, one cloud hid the tops of Pen y Fan and Corn Du like a shower-cap.

That cloud soon dispersed, revealing the billiardtable summits. More than 250,000 walkers come here each year, which means you can read the line of the path far ahead, the horseshoe arcing back along the ridge to the east, across the valley. To prevent erosion, the National Trust has built a stone-pitched path up and down the hills, and in the sensation and sound of my boots on that rough, stepped pavement was the week I spent as a conservation volunteer at 18, building a path just like this one up the flank of Ingleborough in the Yorkshire Dales. I thought of camp beds in the village hall in Horton-in-Ribblesdale, Sarah from Leeds doing her Duke of Edinburgh’s Award, Ryan from Connecticut in his mullet and Guns N’ Roses t-shirt, the older couples, the way we took it in turns to ride with the park wardens on the Kawasaki ATV, or walked each morning up Ingleborough to dig the path tray, find stones for pitching and fit them snug against each other, using the biggest for anchors and edges.

So for a while I was half on Pen y Fan and half on Ingleborough, feeling the worlds inside and outside my head as corresponding pressures. Then a raven croaked, a birdwatcher sitting among tussocks bit into a pasty. The ground fell away north from Cribyn and Fan y Big in sheer scarps, the U-shaped valleys of Cwm Sere and Cwm Cynwyn so neatly contoured in their glacial scoopings that they resembled relief maps of themselves. I looked west across Forest Fawr to the Camarthen Fans, and east to the Black Mountains, the steep drop of Hay Bluff like a graph someone had given up on. To the north, beyond the white-flanked houses of Brecon, cloud shadows moved across mid-Wales like the pages of an atlas turning.

The horseshoe curved back towards the reservoirs, down off the summits along Craig Cwmoer-gwm. A snipe detonated itself out of the moorland, flying away from me behind its hypodermic bill. At three o’clock, the sun eased behind the ridge: a shadow encroached across the valley like a book closing. Coming back to the car in the near-dark, I was thinking about arriving, driving on the A40 towards Talybont—how, near Scethrog, a pair of swans had risen from the River Usk in incandescent whiteness among soggy December greens and browns, a broad-winged candlepower that lit up the whole morning.

William Fiennes is the author of "The Snow Geese" and "The Music Room", and founder of the charity First Story

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IN THE WAKE OF MODI’S UTTERANCE UNMASKING DEMOCRACY, GOVERNANCE AND DEVELOPMENT

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uman histories are filled with diverse contours. Even now some of the cruel and ruthless governance surface and prevail as against the will of the people.

We see some shades of these in different parts of the world. In all these regimes the citizens have been treated as objects of their benevolence and dictates. Those who governed and governing have failed to recognize that the power of the people keep assuming that they are not the subjects and makers of history and their destiny, but their objects of charity. Through different forms and modus operandi, the anti-people regimes/governments changed. The will of the people has also prevailed supreme and absolute. The Lok Sabha 2014 shall certainly show to those who consider the masses as mere vote banks and sheer objects of benevolence.

Notionally, democracy sounds good, but practically speaking, there must be some mechanism available for the people to participate in the decisionmaking and policy-evolving processes. They should have the right to call back their representatives who do not perform. The government technically speaking remains in power only as long as the people wish it to be in power. The Constitution provides this guarantee.

The Constitution lays down the basic structure of the political system of our country for both those who govern and governed. It has three main organs, the Legislature, the Executive and the Judiciary, which defines their powers, demarcates their responsibilities and regulates their relationship with each other and with the people. The Preamble of the Indian Constitution which opens with the following words: “We, the people of India, having solemnly resolved to constitute India into a Sovereign, Socialist, Secular, Democratic Republic and to secure to all its citizens: • Justice (social, economic and political); • Liberty of thought, expressions, belief, faith and worship; • Equality of status and opportunity, and to promote among them all fraternity assuring dignity of status and of opportunity and to promote among them all fraternity, assuring the dignity of the individual and the unity and integrity of the nation … 1949, do hereby, enact and give to ourselves this Constitution.”

thority vested in it by the citizens.” Governance in this sense is a contractual obligation between the citizens and the public actors. In recent times in India good governance is highlighted in political discourses. For example,

Reforms could help to come out of the morass of problems that our country faces, which includes bureaucratic inertia and inefficiency, corruption, public services and delays in delivery of justice.

There is a need for the state to encourage private capital initiatives, and build capabilities rather than redistribute wealth … increased development effectiveness through improved public service delivery and better-informed policy design.

The right to good governance is an essential part of citizens’ rights that one can expect from the government.

It is apparent that democracy is the basis for good governance. Good governance stands on vibrant and dynamic democracy. Does Modi’s conception of governance fall within this frame? Modi is eulogizing in the past few weeks, “It is not government, but governance”! What does he mean by that phrase?

When Modi uses the term “Democracy”, he does not mean constitutional frame, rather the majority should have the absolute right. For those who believe constitutionally based democracy, will disagree with Modi’s conception of ‘democracy’. It is an ambiguous term that contains a number of loopholes. It promises but at the same times fails in its promises and takes for granted the masses to give freedom, liberty, equity, and equality. Further, it can strangle the smooth functioning of the three organs of democracy. In such scenario a ruthless dictator manipulates and takes over the reins of governance by stating that he/she would deliver goods without a democratic frame.

Nevertheless, given the plural and heterogeneous character of our Indian society, democracy could hold the country together by providing sufficient space for its diversities to co-exist.

But Modi’s brand of democracy is something different. Therefore, there is no clear discourse on these issues. Invoking ‘governance’ for the sake of votes will not suffice, unless Modi adds flesh and blood to it. The country’s strength lies in democracy which is premised on diversity. But the mutual co-habitation and co-existence are undermined by Modi’s conception of democracy, governance and development. The ultra-fundamentalist forces tend to mix religion with politics arousing communal passion and frenzy, creating a vertical divide among the people. If Modi becomes and elected to the profile he is vying for, it could lead to,

The opening words of the Preamble are – ‘we, the people of India,’ which simply means that the Constitution has been declared in the name of the people who are the main constitutive subjects and thus the ultimate source of all power is the people and vests with the people. For a democracy to work or function effectively, it is the people who are the fulcrum, the base, the centre, the means and the The lack of accountability in governing instituends. Therefore, democracy is the base of govertions and individuals is a great bane. The other nance. major deficiency is the lack of transparency in the ‘Governance’ as a concept is almost a recent decision-making processes. An impression has one. Since the last decade of the twentieth century, gained ground that criminals with recourse to remany have started to use the term at the expense sources and influence can remain out of the reach of the concept of government. As an alternative of legal processes. There is a question mark also to government this concept is being used and reabout the proper enforcement of our criminal mains as an exclusive prerogative of technocratic justice system. It is only through commitment to and elite discourse, and has yet to find its space in constitutional objectives that we can bring prothe popular vocabulary of politics. Over and above, bity back into the system. this concept needs more clarity as Modi is uttering There is no better alternative to parliamentary quite often. In the context of the Lok Sabha polls democracy with adult franchise and a federal setand as against the background of Modi’s usage of up. Parliamentary symbolizes the ethos of our the term i.e.,, ‘governance’ we need to unpack it. country. It mirrors the country as a whole. It em‘Governance’ is a ‘post-political’ connotation for bodies and articulates the urges and aspirations effective regulation, accountability, transparency of the people. Over the years, Parliament has and efficiency as against corrupt, inefficient, and come to be identified, both in theory and practice, unaccountable governments, bureaucracies and as the pivot of our political system. The responquasi-governmental agencies. It goes beyond the sibility for providing direction, momentum, and conventional forms of democratic government or institutions for social engineering has been with posits newer guidelines to stereotype features of our Parliament. democracy. Does Modi mean all these facets as part of ‘governance’?

In a Parliamentary Democracy, there is the In the wake of Modi utterances, the concept Legislature to express the voice of the people, of governance assumes greater importance. For there is the Executive, which is subordinate to example, the Legislature is bound to obey the Legislature, and there is the Judiciary to control both, within Conventionally, governance encompasses the manner in which the state and its various in- the prescribed bounds. Parliamentary Democstitutions negotiate and mediate with people, racy has the marks of a popular government duly markets and civil society, through laws, poli- elected by the people, of the people and for the cies, regulation and finance. Today governance people. However, the democratically elected govis overarching with many dimensions includ- ernments have failed to address the socio-ecoing institutional and political manifestations. nomic disequilibria even after 60 years of free Governance refers to decision-making and the India. Therefore, we have two Indias under the process through which power is exercised to garb of democracy, one for the rich and the powutilize economic and social resources for devel- erful and the other for the poor and the vulnerable. If the present democracy fails to address the opment.

The concept of governance, over the last 15 years, divides, there is all the possibility of the forces of has evolved to transcend to the conventional area religious fundamentalism taking over the counof the nation-state or government. Market forces try.

The usage of development is value-loaded, as well as civil society processes and citizens’ iniand therefore entails, economic, political, social tiatives have increasingly started influencing the process of governance today. Many civil society and religio-cultural aspects. The discourse on organizations (CSOs) strongly believe that gover- ‘development’ ought to go beyond the convennance is not just the effective management of eco- tional notions of ‘trickle-down’ and ‘economic growth.’ In recent times, development has benomic resources. come a shapeless amoeba-like world. Modi The above quotation clearly shows that the should clearly spell out what he means by ‘decitizens have the right to demand accountability, velopment’. Gujarat model of development canand public actors are obliged to be accountable to not be taken as a development paradigm for the citizens. So, democracy operates with this funda- whole country. His development model does not mental principle. In this direction the civil society unfold anything because its contents are blurred organizations empower and strengthen the capaci- and ambiguous. For Modi development might ties within government to make public institutions mean market and its fundamentals. But there more responsive to citizens. Hence, “democratic are millions who live outside the market. The sogovernance underlines the spirit of a contract – called ‘development,’ ‘progress,’ and ‘prosperity,’ that rulers and people were bound by each other by can never be measured only through economic reciprocal obligations … that entails accountability parameters, but also does include non-economic of the government to the citizens in lieu of the au- parameters too.

The general perception is that the poor are almost charity cases, and should sit and wait for the “mythical trickle-down effect” to pour wealth.

Modi’s conception and contents of development to a larger extent is premised on “trickle-down” theory. Can growth and equitable distribution of wealth and resources go together? Even if it is possible, can market regulate its processes, so that the combination of equity and market fundamentals keeps the momentum going? In most parts of the two-thirds world, the combination of re-distribution and neo-liberal policies has hardly worked. As a result, sustained economic development and productive economic initiatives failed to take off. Instead there are many spinoffs.

In the absence of productive economic activities, one can hardly expect sustained economic development. In a world of market-backed free liberal economics, a sizeable capital is invested in speculative areas and service sectors, where returns are instantaneous and not employmentoriented, but profit-maximizing. Those who are excluded by the market forces have fallen into “inequality traps” and in the process pushed to poverty, especially feminization of poverty, migration, redundancy of labor leading to unemployment, suicides, debts, and so on. Modi’s discourse will have to be on these, not simply saying he for ‘development’, ‘progresses and ‘prosperity’. How is he going to realize these?

With imperfect markets, inequalities in power and wealth, translate into unequal opportunities, leading to concentration of wealth and resources in the hands of a few while the majority have no choice, but to voluntarily opt for mass suicidal attempts. In sum, it is nothing but a genocidal project.

Every day we keep reading, listening, and witnessing shocking stories of the inequalities in income, opportunities, and life chances, faced by communities within and between regions. There is no clarity on these issues. Modi is not expanding on these and fails to enter into discourse on impending issues that confronts commoners.

People are fed up and lost their patience on false promises. They will not wait and keep listening to false rhetoric any more. As said: “In the long run people are dead”. It is again a myth that the sharing of wealth and opportunities more equally and equitably is not possible in a highly demarcated and hierarchised Indian society.

Masses have the determination, resolve and resolute exercise their franchise to those who could deliver goods in the coming Lok Sabha elections.

Apparently, the civil society should move towards, Actually, in front of the kind of fervent imaginations and political passions that revolutionary dreams evoke, the imagery of civil society is tame and practically bland. It promises no dramatic or radical change in the lives of people. What it does do is proclaim that ordinary men and women have the political competence to make their own histories in small but sure ways. By engaging in an activity called politics in a free civil society, they realize their selfhood and recover agency, even as they acquire the political confidence to bring the non-performing and non-responsive state to order and hold it accountable. The argument also excites the hope that a vibrant civil society, inhabited by concerned and ethically motivated citizens, may be able to restore the same political ardor that had roused masses to action during the anti-colonial struggles.

But history has its own way of playing tricks with well-meaning projects and inspiring concepts...

The grammar of development, governance and democracy that fits all the citizens is not the one Modi is talking about. BJP via Modi’s ideological and political connotations of development, governance and democracy are totally different. Hindutuva forces under the aegis of Modi frequently use ‘democracy,’ ‘governance,’ and ‘development.’

In the name of these three concepts, they are trying to woo the masses. All these concepts are value-load and thus political in character. Beware of these terms. They have clear underpinnings and ideological moorings. As a note of caution, one should be clear with regard to the ideological and political accent and content.

If we give in, there is every possibility of getting subsumed and eventually sucked into Modi’s jargon.

Therefore, it calls for careful interrogation and introspection of these terms before one decides to vote.

Modi and its hindutuva bandwagon keep claiming many things as if they are the custodians of democracy, governance and development. In order to bring these three they may even use metaphors, symbols, and idioms. The question is: Can Modi be trusted for democratic, prosperous, transparent, and accountable good governance? It is indeed the question for all of us before exercising our franchise.

For Modi, ‘democracy’ is another name for “Development of the Majority” and “Governance of the Majority”. Therefore, Modi’s understanding of development is lop-sided and topsy-turvy.

He is least bothered about bridging the social and economic inequalities and inequities of our society. What we hear from Modi is nothing but jargons and slogans. Hence, it is imperative that the concepts namely democracy, governance, and development ought to be freed and thus be and de-mystified. Words are important, since they are political in nature, ideologically loaded, given twists and turns, and thus nuanced.

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'12 Years a Slave' Rises Up Jake Coyle

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ollywood named the brutal, unshrinking historical drama "12 Years a Slave" best picture at the 86th annual Academy Awards.

Steve McQueen's slavery odyssey, based on Solomon Northup's 1853 memoir, has been hailed as a landmark corrective to the movie industry's virtual blindness to slavery, instead creating whiter tales like 1940 best-picture winner "Gone With the Wind." ''12 Years a Slave" is the first best-picture winner directed by a black filmmaker.

"Everyone deserves not just to survive, but to live," said McQueen, who dedicated the honor to those, past and present, who have endured slavery. "This is the most important legacy of Solomon Northup."

The normally reserved McQueen promptly bounced up and down on stage, later matter-of-factly explaining his joy physically took over: "So, Van Halen. Jump."

A year after celebrating Ben Affleck's "Argo" over Steven Spielberg's "Lincoln," the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences opted for stark realism over more the plainly entertaining candidates: the 3-D space marvel "Gravity" and the starry 1970s caper "American Hustle."

Those two films came in as the leading nominee getters. David O. Russell's "American Hustle" went home empty-handed, but "Gravity" triumphed as the night's top award-winner. Cleaning up in technical categories like cinematography and visual effects, it earned seven Oscars including best director for Alfonso Cuaron. The Mexican filmmaker is the category's first Latino winner.

"It was a transformative experience," said Cuaron, who spent some five years making the film and developing its visual effects. "For a lot of people, that transformation was wisdom. For me, it was the color of my hair." To his star Sandra Bullock, the sole person on screen for much of the lost-in-space drama, he said: "Sandra, you are 'Gravity.'"

But history belonged to "12 Years a Slave," a modestly budgeted drama produced by Brad Pitt's production company, Plan B, that has made $50 million worldwide — a far cry from the more than $700 million "Gravity" has hauled in.

Ellen DeGeneres, in a nimble second stint as host that seemed designed as an antidote to the crude humor of Seth MacFarlane last year, summarized the academy's options in her opening monologue: "Possibility number one: '12 Years a Slave' wins best picture. Possibility number two: You're all racists."

DeGeneres presided over a smooth if safe ceremony, punctuated by politics, pizza and photo-bombing.

Freely circulating in the crowd, she had pizza delivered, appealing to Harvey Weinstein to pitch in, and gathered stars to snap a selfie she hoped would be a record-setter on Twitter. (It was: Long before midnight, the photo had been retweeted more than 2 million times and momentarily crashed Twitter.) One participant, Meryl Streep, giddily exclaimed: "I've never tweeted before!"

But in celebrating a movie year roundly considered an exceptionally deep one, the Oscars fittingly spread the awards around. The starved stars of the Texas AIDS drama "Dallas Buyers Club" were feted: Matthew McConaughey for best actor and Jared Leto for best supporting actor.

McConaughey's award capped a startling career turnaround, a conscious redirection by the actor to tack away from the romantic comedies he regularly starred in, and move toward more challenging films. "It sort of feels like a culmination," he said backstage.

Leto passed around his Oscar to members of the press backstage, urging them to "fondle" it. The longhaired actor, who has devoted himself in recent years to his rock band 30 Seconds to Mars, gravely vowed: "I will revel tonight." Cate Blanchett took best actress for her fallen socialite in Woody Allen's "Blue Jasmine," her second Oscar. Accepting the award, she challenged Hollywood not to think of films starring women as "niche experiences": "The world is round, people!" she declared to hearty applause.

Draped in Nairobi blue, Lupita Nyong'o — the Cinderella of the awards season — won best supporting actress for her indelible impression as the tortured slave Patsey. It's the feature film debut for the 31-yearold actress. "It doesn't escape me for one moment that so much joy in my life is thanks to so much pain in someone else's, and so I want to salute the spirit of Pat-

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here are we today? What have we become of? What kind of modernity? What is yet to happen? These are some of the little question that vex our mind and yet we remain ignorant of the reality. History of ours has not been very impressive and has been interpreted in different ways from within and from without. we are also been tested to our limits and as we continue to struggle the diverse forces that ranges from political, socioeconomic to cultural. The essence and beliefs of our pristine nature is been destroyed and distorted ,we have become immune to certain things what was once considered to be evil and bad that are regulated and forbidden by the society. We are also exposed to the global culture and remains no longer isolated that were once scattered on the hill top with fear and conserved. Without much difficulty we had experience different phases of modern civilization, to put in short, today we have become modern and a civilize race. In fact, no society would like to remain traditionally bounded in the 21st century there is freedom, equality and liberty that every individual whether illiterate or literate would like to have as a basic rights for her or his survival and as a democratic society every process of our life is shape by such ideals and set of beliefs . one rightly agrees to the fact that such sets of beliefs have allowed us to explore, to question and to challenge many things that pose threat to the individuals or any institutional growth which implies not only to what is politically legal but to such aspects of mental, psychologi-

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Director Steve McQueen, left, speaks while he and the cast and crew of "12 Years a Slave" accept the award for best picture during the Oscars at the Dolby Theatre on Sunday, March 2, in Los Angeles. (Photo by John Shearer/Invision/AP)

sy for her guidance," said Nyong'o. She also thanked director Steve McQueen: "I'm certain that the dead are standing about you and they are watching and they are grateful, and so am I." John Ridley won best adapted screenplay for "12 Years a Slave," shifting praise to Northup: "Those are his words. That is his life." Spike Jonze took best original screenplay for his futuristic romance "Her," the category Russell had the best chance of winning.

Though the ceremony lacked a big opening number, it had a steady musical beat to it. To a standing ovation, Bono and U2 played an acoustic version of "Ordinary Love," from "Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom." Pharrell Williams had Streep and Leonardo DiCaprio dancing in the aisles with "Happy" from "Despicable Me 2."

Pink was cheered for her rendition of "Somewhere Over the Rainbow," part of a 75th anniversary tribute to "The Wizard of Oz." And Bette Midler sang — what else? — "Wind Beneath My Wing" for the in memoriam segment — an especially heartfelt one, considering the deaths of Philip Seymour Hoffman, Harold Ramis, James Gandolfini and others.

Best documentary went to the crowd-pleasing backup singer ode "20 Feet From Stardom." One of its stars, Darlene Love, accepted the award singing the gospel tune "His Eye Is on the Sparrow": "I sing because I'm happy/ I sing because I'm free."

Disney's global hit "Frozen" won best animated film, marking — somewhat remarkably — the studio's first win in the 14 years of the best animated feature category. (Pixar, which Disney owns, has regularly dominated.) The film's hit single, "Let It Go," won best original song.

"We're all just trying to make films that touch people," said co-director Chris Buck backstage. "Once in a while, you get lucky."

Though the Oscar ceremony is usually a glitzy bubble separate from real-world happenings, inter-

national events were immediately referenced. In his acceptance speech, Leto addressed people in Ukraine and Venezuela. "We are here and as you struggle to make your dreams happen, to live the impossible, we're thinking of you," said Leto.

Russian state-owned broadcaster Channel One Russia said it would not broadcast the Oscars live because of the necessity for news coverage of Russia's invasion of Ukraine's Crimea peninsula. It will instead transmit the Oscars early Tuesday morning, local time.

Venezuelan protesters, via social media, urged Oscar winners to bring attention to their plight. Antigovernment protests have roiled the country in recent weeks.

Italy's "The Great Beauty" won the Oscar for best foreign language film. In accepting the award for his rumination on life and Rome's decadence, director Paolo Sorrentino thanked his heroes, including Federico Fellini, Martin Scorsese and soccer star Diego Maradona.

In her opening, DeGeneres gently mocked Hollywood's insularity, referring to the headlines that have swamped the Los Angeles area lately with a slightly less serious news event. "It has been raining," said DeGeneres. "We're fine. Thank you for your prayers."

ABC, which aired the ceremony, hoped the drama of a razor-thin best-picture race would be enough to entice viewers. The show last year drew an audience of 40.3 million, up from 39.3 million the year before when the silent-film ode "The Artist" won best picture.

There was a sense of deja vu Sunday. As she hit the red carpet, "American Hustle" star Jennifer Lawrence briefly collapsed in a heap of laughter, just as she tripped ascending the stairs last year to accept best actress for "Silver Linings Playbook." "If you win tonight," said DeGeneres, "I think we should bring you the Oscar."

No delivery was needed, as the night belonged to "12 Years a Slave."

The Cry of a Modern Man Thepfusalie Theunuo Email id: thepfusalietheunuo@ymail.com

cal and physical wellbeing of a society . Therefore, the question remains unanswered. To what extend we have interpreted and is practice is of paramount important if we as a modern society is to progress and wants to change for the better. Nevertheless, are we Modern and Civilize? Are we modern because of education, is it because of technology, or is it the democratic way of life that is often been misunderstood. Yet, we still define ourselves modern (interpreted in various dimensions) and democratic when our society is been stratified and confused with fear, when benefits are cornered to a few pockets of luxury and truth is silence by the fear of death . I say such society like ours is not modern nor civilize nor traditional but a society that floats for the fear of sinking. Conventionally, one can understand modernity and civilization in many perspectives but I say modernity, such as ours is a state sponsored modernity. Where the social, economic, and political process of our life are control and directed by the centre/state in which we solemnly pledge to follow and depend for survival. What we are today (refers to all process of our life not particular) is just simple and are lucky enough to jump into the race without evolution of the self. Even though we are continuously adapting and assimilating into a global culture; be it Art, mu-

sic, or lifestyles it has become quite dangerous for our society. If we are, so much concern of our identity and contribution than the whole map our social structure needs to be redrawn and rethought. It has become inevitable for any human society neither to remain isolated nor to remain irrational in the present century.

However, even if we are expose to the global phenomena of change and transformation the foundation of our society should be rooted deep in the institution in which we evolved. The urge for power and wealth which has in one way planted the seeds of corruption , mistrust, loyalties and antagonism between people and the increasing stratification between groups of people have distorted the fabrics of our society. No element in the structure of our society is untouched by such fleas of disease. In such scenario, No matter what norms and values we try to create and promote by inventing or by adopting policy we will further be confused and sink deeper unless the priority of individual human beings are realised. It is scientific and rational that no single cell in a human body can sustained life nor maintained equilibrium unless there is a functional unity between the different cells and organs that plays an equally significant role. Thus, it is similar for a human society that every institution is given due importance if a

young society like ours wishes to grow and develop with stability. Many would agree with me that informal institution in our society has not been given due importance. Political institution as such is one area of concern that dominates every process of our life even though politics can be understand as way of life.

Politics should not be the prior concern nor the church par se, but we glory politics and wealth in the name of church.

Thus, if religion is use as a tool to gain power and acknowledged the profane (act which is considered sinful) than such ends is determined by selfish and individualistic act which cannot sustain the structure of a society. At a same time cultural values, beliefs and practices should evolved and not be adopted since values and norms are deeply rooted from where individuals evolved in society, such functional unity should not be separated. Power and wealth should not be an ends for a state/society rather it should only be a part of an elements which functions along with other elements on the other hand culture should not be used as a means for production but as a means to maintained and sustain a society , only then there can be a self- evolution of modernity rather than a project to modernize.

To conclude with Wallerstein thoughts “ we live in an imperfect world, one that will always be imperfect and therefore always harbour injustice . But we are far free from helpless before this reality. We can make this world unjust; we can make it more beautiful ; we can increase our cognition of it.”

counsellor and assistant Professor St. Joseph’s college, Jakhama

erhaps the road most travelled by people in Nagaland would be the National Highway No 29 between Kohima and Dimapur. Many of us come to the capital for some purposes or work etc... at different times. I am one of the many who travel on this road most of the times for my ministry calls for it. I was travelling with my friend on the 13th February 2014 from Jakhama to Dimapur and we were engaged in conversation on different topics as we journeyed. When we reached the landslide area below Kohima town, the road was full of dust because of the vehicles passing and the road condition was not good as we all know and you would agree with me. This inspired me to think that almost all of us travel on this road in spite of its bad conditions whether the road is good, bad, dusty, narrow or dangerous. We undertake the journey because it is our need to reach our destination even if the road conditions are not good. I would like to reflect our life to these road conditions as we all travel on good times, bad times, dangerous times and whatever times we may name it. Our lives are full of experiences that can ignite our minds into inspirations in our journey of life. In our lives too we have to make this life journey to achieve our goals in spite of all hardships, hurdles and challenges because we know the reward is assured for everyone who endures these trials and turbulent times of life ‘Success’. Here are a few points that can help us to reach our goals and become successful in life. The idea is to enjoy the journey of life as happiness is to be found not at the end of the road but along the road.

Desire: All of us have a desire to be the very best, to do things excellently, and to experience a sense of fulfilment, competence, self confidence and a goal to achieve in all levels of our lives and existence. Our goals are not always known nor are they sufficiently clarified until we have achieved are experienced for it is a life long journey. Many of us do not know the purpose of our existence, nor do we have any vision for the future. We just exist and move on day after day not knowing at times where we are going. In the last few decades there is a great loss of human excellence in many spheres of life, a gradual deterioration of what is excellent in our cultures, values, society and religion. We need to bring a desirable transformation in the entire society and lead our society and humanity towards its development and excellence.

Now is the time that we all become motivated to share with our society, the inner resources, talents and skills, learning and experience, wisdom and insights, values and outlooks, visions and dreams for an enlightened and happy humanity.

Inspiration: Inspiration is the process of being mentally stimulated to do or feel something, especially to do something creative. Most of the world’s leaders have been a great inspiration to their generations and that changed the course of the history. This is because they conceived the ideas and nurtured them with care and delivered them diligently to the audience and inspired and motivated them towards achieving the goals. It is possible. Inspirations are similar too they come and knock at our mind doors through instincts, if we respond they take life and shape and if we don’t respond they vanish into eternity. It is time for us to pay attention to these little musings that may not come all the time but definitely will come at different times in life. Can we positively respond to these instinctive calls to explore, expand, enrich, enable and empower ourselves with knowledge, wisdom and the capacity to handle life pressures. Because knowledge comes from learning while wisdom comes from living and we need both for living our lives in the best way.

Motivation: Motivation is defined as the process that initiates, guides and maintains goal-oriented behaviours. Self-motivation is a key life skill that everybody interested in personal development should think carefully about. Motivation pushes us to achieve our goals, feel more fulfilled and improve overall quality of life. People who are selfmotivated tend to be more organised, with good time management skills and have more self-esteem and confidence. Being self-motivated means being ready for driven, focused discussion and behaviours. It also means being sharp and smart enough not to be manipulated and to be open to positive learning. Understanding and developing our self-motivation can help us to take control of many other aspects of our life.

Knowledge knocks on the door of action. If it receives a reply it stays otherwise it departs. It is pertinent for all of us to realise that desire, inspiration and motivation are keys to success in life.

It is a clarion call to realise that growth means change and change involves risks and the one who steps from the known to the unknown achieves the goal. Let us be passionate about everything we do. Let us become clear about our destinations and the purpose of our travel on this earth as long as we live. It is sad that once we acquire material comforts, we forget about the basic needs of life like humour, cheerfulness and socialising.

In a desperate bid to achieve success, everyone seems to thwart other's efforts. Jealousy, hatred and hypocrisy have become part of our life. Affluence should not be the prime goal of life. Instead, be happy and make others happy should be our motto. Be a change to change the world.

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NDA set to expand: Narendra Modi

MuzaffarPur, March 3 (iaNS): The Bharatiya Janata Party-led NDA is set to expand further, BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi said Monday, and accused Congress of raising the bogey of secularism in the run-up to the Lok Sabha elections. Addressing an election rally here, the Gujarat chief minister, who began his speech in Bhojpuri, said more political parties would join the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) after Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) leader Ram Vilas Paswan decided to return to the NDA fold.

“Many more parties will join the NDA after the LJP joined it,” Modi said, sharing the stage with Paswan, who had quit the multi-party alliance following the 2002 Gujarat riots. “NDA is expanding,” Modi said. “NDA is not just the National Democratic Alliance but the National Development Alliance.”

Modi also lashed out at the Nitish Kumar government in Bihar, accusing it of being soft on the issue of fighting terror. “Due to its vote bank politics, the Bihar government is not prepared to act tough against militants,” he said, adding that militants were finding it easy to get hiding places in Bihar.

The BJP leader said the dream of coming to power should not come in the way of fighting terror. Without naming Nitish Kumar, Modi accused him of hypocrisy in

Want to see Narendra Modi as future PM: Ram Vilas Paswan

MuzaffarPur, March 3 (ageNcieS): Days after his party returned to the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance, Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) chief Ram Vilas Paswan on Monday said that he wants to see the Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi becoming the prime minister of the country.

“I congratulate Narendra bhai for coming to Bihar again after he was welcomed by blasts in Patna. You (crowd) are here not only to welcome Modi, but to strengthen the NDA and bring a change in nation under his leadership. I want to see Narendra bhai as the future PM.” The LJP chief made these remarks while addressing a huge gathering of supporters during the “Hunkar Rally” called by the BJP where he also shared the dais with its BJP leaders, including Narendra Modi.

Drawing comparisons between the governments in Gujarat and Bihar, the LJP chief praised Modi’s model of governance and said, “Winds of change are blowing in India.” Paswan also categorically rejected Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi, left, and Lok Janshakti Party leader Ram Modi’s criticism over communal riots in Vilas Paswan shake hands during a public rally in Muzaffarpur, in Bihar state, on Monday, March 3. (AP Photo)

his political actions. Nitish Kumar had taken exception to the publication of a photograph showing him holding hands with Modi in 2010 while he was still part of NDA. “People can forget mistakes but not hypocrisy,” Modi said. He said that nearly 8.5 lakh people had registered for employment in Bihar in 2012 but the state government could give employment to only 2,000 people. Without naming the Congress, Modi

said there were political parties which raised the bogey of secularism to escape accountability on issues such as price rise, unemployment and problems of the poor.

“The attempt is to mislead people and come to power,” he said. “For them, secularism is appeasement and justice for none, for us it is appeasement of none and justice for all. For them, it is religion first, for us it is India first. For them, secularism is a political weapon,

for us it is an article of faith,” he added. Modi said an NDA government will ensure that every citizen has a house by 2022.

The BJP leader also said the coming decade will see improvement in the living standards of the poor.

“The coming decade will be a decade of development for the poor and the downtrodden.” Modi took a dig at his opponents, saying they were more concerned about tackling him rather than the nation’s problems.

“Our priority is to find a solution to the problems of the country. Their priority is to find a solution to Modi!”

He also underlined the value of maintaining peace in the country. “Without peace, harmony and unity, the country cannot develop.

Unhappy over Paswan, some BJP leaders skip Modi rally Unhappy over the BJP’s decision to ally with Ram Vilas Paswan’s LJP for the Lok Sabha election,

some senior BJP leaders kept away from Narendra Modi’s rally here Monday.

They included Bharatiya Janata Party national vice president C.P. Thakur, former minister Ashwani Kumar Choubey, Giriraj Singh and MP Kirti Azad.

Thakur and Giriraj Singh belong to the Bhumihar community and are otherwise vocal supporters of Modi, the BJP’s prime ministerial candidate. Both are reportedly upset after the BJP joined hands with

Gujarat by saying, “Riots happened in Gujarat 12 years ago, nothing has happened there since then, but here in Bihar, it happens every year.”

Taking a dig at former allies Congress and the RJD led by Lalu Prasad Yadav, Paswan said, “Both Nitish ji & Lalu ji used to praise me. They said they would like to see me as Chief Minister of Bihar, now I have entered an alliance so have become bad for them.”

“I was a friend earlier, suddenly I turned into villain after forging an alliance with the BJP, ” Paswan said on his criticism for joining hands with the BJP after 12 years. Justifying his party’s decision to re-enter the NDA fold twelve years after quitting it over the 2002 communal riots in Gujarat, the LJP chief said, “No one follows coalition dharma the way BJP does.”

The senior Dalit leader also sought people’s good wishes for his son Chirag Paswan, who is supposed to have played a key role in the alliance between the LJP and the BJP in Bihar. “My son Chirag has come to seek your blessings,” Paswan said.

the LJP and the Rashtriya Lok Samata Party of Upendra Kushwaha in Bihar.

Paswan is the most prominent Dalit leader in Bihar.

Choubey, a legislator from Bhagalpur, and Azad, elected from Darbhanga, are Brahmins. They too are opposed to the alliance with the Lok Janshakti Party.

Choubey has publicly declared that the alliance would prove suicidal for the BJP. Choubey is also a known supporter of Modi.

Giriraj Singh and Choubey,

however, claimed they did not attend the rally due to personal reasons. “My brother met with an accident. So I postponed my visit to Muzaffarpur,” Giriraj Singh told IANS. Choubey said he skipped the rally due to health reasons.

In the 2009 Lok Sabha polls, the BJP won 12 of the 40 seats while the Janata Dal-United, its ally, bagged 20 seats. The alliance of the two parties has since collapsed.

Arvind Kejriwal seeks Let all shades of view have free expression Supreme Court notice Delhi, March 3 during their campaigns. ties and candidates should is always subject to reasonon discrimination guidelines on opinion polls New (iaNS): The Supreme Court Justice Lodha, declin- swear an affidavit that they able restrictions and if an New Delhi, March 3 (iaNS): AAP leader Ar- Monday said India was a ma- ing to entertain the plea will not indulge in hate individual is given power to against HIV children vind Kejriwal Monday urged the Election Commis- ture democracy and there by petitioner M.L.Sharma, speech during the election- enforce reasonable restricwas space for all shades of said: “We are a mature eering. Sharma has sought tions then entire freedom sion to ensure a code for the telecast and publication of opinion polls ahead of the Lok Sabha election.

In a separate letter, the former Delhi chief minister asked the News Broadcasting Standards Authority to probe the role of some news channels in broadcasting manipulated opinion polls.

“The AAP demands that the Election Commission should issue clear guidelines to organisations conducting these polls, and to the media which intends to publish/telecast such polls for fixing the accountability of the job done by them, so that those indulging in frivolous activities don’t get away easily,” he said.

Kejriwal said the Aam Aadmi Party does not favour a blanket ban on opinion polls. “But (it) would like to request the Election Commission (to ensure) that there should be a code of conduct ... for the telecast/publication of opinion polls,” he said.

The letters follow a sting operation conducted by a Hindi television news channel that indicated a conspiracy to manufacture and manipulate public opinion before the election through opinion polls.

Kejriwal said the sting operation represented a “dark hour for the Indian media” and “strikes at the very root of our country’s democracy”. “The sting operation shows that the heads of some of the well-known polling organisations are willing to manipulate pre-poll survey results for monetary considerations,” he wrote in his letter to Justice (retired) R.V. Raveendran, chairperson of the NBSA. “There are serious allegations about many news channels being willing partners to this manipulation. It shows that some political parties have been buying favourable surveys, often using black money,” he added. Kejriwal demanded a criminal investigation into such manipulation.

opinion during the election campaigning before people make a final choice.

“Let all shades of opinion come and people will decide,” said a bench of Justice R.M.Lodha and Justice Dipak Misra while dismissing a PIL seeking that all political parties and the candidates should file affidavits at the time of filing nomination papers to undertake that they would nor resort to hate speech

direction to the Election Commission to launch the prosecution of people under section 153A of the Indian Penal Code for making hate speeches.

The section seeks to punish those who promote enmity between different groups on ground of religion, race, place of birth, residence, language, etc., and do acts prejudicial to maintenance of harmony.

“The freedom of expression

will go,” the court said.

Brushing aside the plea, the court said that instead of protecting the freedom of speech, the petitioner was seeking to curb it. “Who will decide the reasonable restrictions, will it be decided by M.L.Sharma,” it asked. The PIL had also sought direction that of the none of the candidates contesting elections would avail foreign funds or services.

Corruption, Lokpal to be key poll issues: Google

New Delhi, March 3 (iaNS): Corruption and Lokpal are likely to be the two decisive factors on which young people are going to vote in the Lok Sabha polls, search engine Google has said. After a three-month survey, Google concluded that the Lok Sabha elections have evoked unprecedented interest among online users who want to know about the various issues influencing national politics.

“These elections are unique be-

Educating the criminal mind: Tihar jail shows a way out

New Delhi, March 3 (iaNS): Criminal behavior can be changed by imparting education. Towards this, the capital’s Tihar Jail, one of the largest in Asia, is vigorously conducting a literacy campaign among its teeming inmates, 20 percent of whom are unlettered and a staggering 65 percent have not even studied till Class 10.

Observing that the “lesser the literacy the more the crime seems to be the trend,” prison authorities are conducting various education programmes to raise the awareness level of its inmates and broadening their mental horizons away from their criminal past.

“As per data compiled, the majority of the prison population (around 65 percent) has education below Class 10, thus providing the linkage between educational standard and criminality,” an official of Tihar Jail told IANS. The official added that the illiterate population of 20.68 percent would have been much higher but for the jail’s literacy programme. Most of the prisoners in the illiterate category are newcomers. The prison administration has set up centers of the National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS) and Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) to impart education to prisoners.

The official said that adult education classes are being conducted in the 10 sub-jails in the prison that has 13,552 prisoners. Among the convicts and un-

democracy. Freedom of speech is a precious right given by the constitution.

Don’t suggest steps to restrict it.” The court said that India was a country of 126 crore people and all should be allowed to express their opinion and then people will make their choice.

Sharma said that he was not asking for something that was not there in law but was only asking that all the political par-

dertrials, the maximum number are accused of rape and murder. Over 33 percent convicts, and over 24 percent undertrials are in jail in murder charges, while over 13 percent of both categories are in jail for rape.

According to Tihar data, at the time of admission, more than 19 percent of the males and 36 percent of females were illiterate, while 44 percent of males and 34 percent females have not passed Class 10.

However, around five percent of the males and six percent of the females are graduates while one and three percent in each category are postgraduates.

“The prison administration in 2013 started stenography courses and foreign language classes in French, Spanish and German, as well as in Hindi and English to build self- confidence among the prison inmates,” said Director General of Prisons Vimlaa Mehra. The prison inmates are also being trained in hotel management in collaboration with the tourism ministry.

Mehra said that campus placements are also being organised to provide job opportunities to the qualified inmates to help them earn a respectable livelihood and keep them away from crime after their release.

Jail officials also encourage inmates to participate in activities like poetry and essay writing to bring out their creativity, she said.

cause for the first time, it’s a clash of personalities as much as it is about ideology and party affiliations.

The battle lines are drawn primarily between Narendra Modi on the one hand and Rahul Gandhi on the other,” the survey said. “These elections are also unique because of the unprecedented interest that’s been generated online, the war for votes is being fought online as much as it’s being fought on the streets and in mainstream media.”

The survey said the Adarsh Society scam followed by the coal scam and the 2G scam were among the highest number of online searches.

Other political developments driving search trend results include Rahul Gandhi’s recent TV interview, along with Aam Aadmi Party’s win in Delhi. “Issues such as the 1984 anti-Sikh riots and the 2002 Gujarat riots are also matters that the people have taken interest to know,” the survey said.

‘..HIV positive school children should not be discriminated against for admission to schools or turned out...’

New Delhi, March 3 (iaNS): The Supreme Court Monday issued notice to the central and all state governments on a petition seeking framing of guidelines to ensure that there is no discrimination against HIV positive children during school admissions. The notice has also been issued to the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights.

A bench of Justice B.S. Chauhan and Justice J.Chelameswar issued notice after NGO Naz Foundation (India) Trust urged it to issue directions that HIV positive school children should not be discriminated against for admission to schools or turned out after their HIV positive status is revealed.

The PIL has sought directions that no child affected by HIV would be denied admission, suspended, segregated or expelled on the basis of their

HIV status or the status of their parents or guardians. It has further sought directions to the government to frame guidelines under the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009 to ensure non-discrimination in schools in this regard.

The Naz Foundation has also sought direction that children affected by HIV be notified as a “disadvantaged” group under the act, as it would put the central and state governments as well private schools under further obligation to ensure their such children’s right to education without discrimination.

Seeking directions to the government to take steps for the elimination of discrimination against HIV positive children, the PIL has invoked the fundamental rights to life, education and equality guaranteed under the Indian constitution.

The PIL referred to March 2011 statement of Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad in parliament that in 2008-2010, 61 HIV positive children were removed from school.

‘Fire in cables led to INS Sindhuratna mishap’

New Delhi, March 3 (Pti): The fire in submarine INS Sindhuratna, which resulted in the death of two officers and severely affected seven other sailors last week, was caused due to problems in the cables of the vessel. The Board of Inquiry (BoI) into the February 26 mishap has found that the fire in INS Sindhuratna was caused due to problems in the cable and not the battery compartment, as was being feared earlier, Navy officials said.

The investigations are still going on into the incident and other two mishaps involving the Kilo Class submarines of the Navy in the last seven months, they said.

The battery pit has been found to be fully safe and the fire took place in the compartment above it, Navy officials said. Former Navy Chief Admiral DK Joshi resigned after the mishap involving the Sindhuratna taking moral responsibility of the ten mishaps involving maritime force’s assets.

The Sindhuratna is one of the navy’s fleet of nine Kilo class submarines. A tenth submarine, the INS Sindhurakshak exploded and sank in the naval dockyard on August 14, 2013 killing 18 crewmen on board. The Sindhuratna was moored nearby and suffered minor fire damage when the Sindhurakshak exploded.

We’re sailing in a bomb, said Navy officer hours before death

New Delhi, March 3 (iNDia toDay): As an Indian Navy board of inquiry investigates the February 26 disaster on board Kilo-class submarine INS Sindhuratna, a shattering twist has surfaced throwing up enormous questions for Navy and government leadership and their culpability. Just 96 hours before the accident, navy officer Lieutenant Manoranjan Kumar, one of two officers who per-

ished on board, had spoken to seniors about how operating the INS Sindhuratna and her sister submarines was like ‘sailing on a bomb’. A serving Indian Navy officer, one of the last to speak to Lt Manoranjan on shore before he departed on his final voyage, has blown the whistle on that final, disturbing conversation in which the ill-fated young officer is stated to have ruefully accepted his

fate as a young officer with no choice but to set out to sea on a submarine that could well be his tomb. The officer, whose identity is being protected for obvious reasons, currently serves at the Western Naval Command, and has written in detail about his chance encounter with Lt Manoranjan on Feb 22 at the Naval Officers’ Mess, an e-mail currently doing the rounds within the Indian Navy.

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Pro-Russian troops takeover Crimean borders KIEV, March 3 (aP): Ukraine’s military admitted Monday that proRussian troops have surrounded or taken over “practically all” its military facilities in Crimea — a move that Russia’s foreign minister defended as a necessary protection for the ethnic Russians on the Black Sea peninsula.

“This is a question of defending our citizens and compatriots, ensuring human rights, especially the right to life,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in Geneva, where he was attending U.N. meetings.

There have been no reports, however, of any hostilities toward Russianspeaking in Ukraine during the country’s four months of political upheaval.

The Russian Foreign Ministry also issued a statement saying that Moscow believes Ukraine must honor its Feb. 21 agreement to form a new national unity government.

In Kiev, Ukraine’s new prime minister admitted his country had “no military options on the table”

A pro-Russian activist waves the Russian state, upper, and Russian Navy flags outside an entrance to the General Staff Headquarters of the Ukrainian Navy in Sevastopol, Ukraine, Monday, March 3, 2014. Pro-Russian soldiers seem to further cement their control over the strategic region — that also houses the Russian Black Sea Fleet — by seizing a ferry terminal in the Ukrainian city of Kerch about 20 kilometers (12 miles) by boat to Russia, intensifying fears that Moscow will send even more troops into the peninsula. It comes as the U.S. and European governments are trying to figure out ways to halt and reverse the Russian incursion. (AP Photo)

to reverse Russia’s military move into its Crimea region.

While Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk appealed for outside help and insisted that Crimea still remained part of his country,

European foreign ministers held an emergency meeting on a joint response to Russia’s military move that could include economic sanctions.

“Any attempt of Russia to grab Crimea will have no

success at all. Give us some time,” Yatsenyuk said at a news conference with British Foreign Secretary William Hague.

But he added that “for today” there were “no military options on the table.”

He said his country was “urgently” asking for economic and political support from other countries.

New reports of Russian moves came in rapid succession Monday. In addition to seizing barracks and border posts, troops also controlled a ferry terminal in the Ukrainian city of Kerch, just 20 kilometers (12 miles) across the water from Russia. That intensified fears in Kiev that Moscow will send even more troops into the peninsula via that route.

The soldiers at the terminal refused to identify themselves Monday, but they spoke Russian and their vehicles had Russian license plates.

In the meantime, Russian forces were clearly cementing their control over strategic Crimea, home to 2 million mostly Russianspeaking people and landlord for Russia’s critical Black Sea Fleet.

Border guards spokesman Sergei Astakhov said the Russians were demanding that Ukrainians transfer their allegiance to Crimea’s new pro-Russian

North Korea deports Australian missionary

BEIJING, March 3 (aP): North Korea on Monday deported an Australian missionary detained for spreading Christianity in the country, saying he apologized for his anti-state religious acts and requested forgiveness.

Authorities in North Korea had arrested John Short for secretly spreading Bible tracts near a Buddhist temple in Pyongyang on Feb. 16, the birthday of late leader Kim Jong Il, the North’s official Korean Central News Agency said. The report said that Short, 75, admitted he committed a crime that hurt the Korean people’s trust in their leaders and that he apologized for his behavior.

“I now realize the seriousness of my insult to the Korean people on February 16th because I made the Korean people angry and for this I truly apolo-

gize,” Short was quoted as saying in a written apology, according to separate KCNA report. “I am willing to bow down on my knees to request this tolerance of (North Korea) and the Korean people.”

KCNA said North Korea decided to expel him in part out of consideration for his age. Short arrived later Monday on a flight to Beijing, where he declined to speak to reporters saying he was too tired and was escorted to a vehicle from the Australian Embassy.

“Clearly this is welcome news for Mr. Short, his family and his supporters,” Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade said in a statement. “Australian consular officials stand ready to provide assistance to Mr. Short to ensure he can return to his home in Hong

Kong as soon as possible.”

North Korea’s constitution guarantees freedom of religion, but in practice only sanctioned services are tolerated by the government. Defectors from the country have said that the distribution of Bibles and secret prayer services can mean banishment to a labor camp or execution.

North Korea typically frees foreign detainees after they’ve admitted their crimes, but many say after their releases that their confessions were given involuntarily and under duress. Last week, North Korea presented to the media a detained South Korean Baptist missionary who apologized for allegedly trying to reach Pyongyang with Bibles, Christian instructional materials and movies in October.

North Korea has been

holding a Korean-American missionary, Kenneth Bae, since November 2012. Bae, sentenced to 15 years of hard labor for hostile acts, held a similar news conference to apologize his behavior. KCNA on its website posted video showing a calm-looking Short, dressed in a black jacket, reading what appears to be his written apology before taking a quick bow at a room.

Kim Jong Il’s birthday and that of his father and North Korea founder Kim Il Sung are the nation’s biggest holidays. Kim Jong Il died in late 2011 and his son Kim Jong Un took over power. Short, from Barmera, South Australia state, has been arrested multiple times while evangelizing in mainland China, according to a biography on a Christian website, Gospel Attract.

Suicide bombers kill 11 in Islamabad

ISLaMaBaD, March 3 (aP): A group of armed men, including two suicide attackers, stormed a court complex in the Pakistani capital on Monday in a rare terror attack in the heart of Islamabad that killed 11 people and wounded dozens.

There were conflicting reports on how many attackers were involved in the incident. Initial reports suggested two men wearing explosive vests rushed into the court complex, threw hand grenades and started shooting, then blew themselves up, said Islamabad Police Chief Sikander Hayat.

He put the death toll at 11 as did another police official and a hospital spokeswoman where the dead were taken. “It was certainly an act of terrorism,” Hayat said in televised comments to reporters. One of the attackers blew himself up outside the office of the lawyers’ union president and the other outside the door of a judge’s office, said Hayat.

The explosions sent lawyers and judges running in fear for their lives as police stormed in. Hayat said police subsequently searched the entire complex and found no additional attackers. Other officials and a lawyer on the scene said there were more than two attackers. Police official Jamil Hashmi said there were about six to eight attackers who spread into different areas of the court complex.

“One of the attackers entered a courtroom and shot and killed a judge,” Hashmi said. “We are searching whether there

local government.

“The Russians are behaving very aggressively, they came in by breaking down doors, knocking out windows, cutting off every communication,” he said.

He said four Russian military ships, 13 helicopters and 8 transport planes had arrived in Crimea in violation of agreements that permit Russian to keep its naval base at the Crimean port of Sevastopol.

Now, fears in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev and beyond are that Russia might seek to expand its control by targeting and seizing other parts of Ukraine, especially in its pro-Russian east.

“The world cannot just allow this to happen,” Hague said, but he ruled out any military action.

“The U.K is not discussing military options. Our concentration is on diplomatic and economic pressure.”

“Crisis diplomacy is not a weakness, but it is now more important than ever for us not to fall into the abyss of a military escalation, not to blunder into this abyss,” German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter

Steinmeier said.

Market reaction to the Russian invasion of Crimea was immediate Monday.

In European trading, gold and oil rose while the euro and stock markets fell. The greatest impact was felt in Moscow, where the main RTS index was down 12 percent at 1,115 and the dollar spiked to an all-time high of 37 rubles.

Russia’s central bank hiked its main interest rate 1.5 percentage points Monday to 7 percent, trying to stem financial outflows.

Gazprom, the Russian energy giant, was also big loser, its share price down 13 percent as investors worried about how it would get its gas to Europe if hostilities kept up, since much of it goes through Ukrainian pipelines.

Tension between Ukraine and Moscow rose sharply after Ukraine’s proRussian President Viktor Yanukovych was pushed out by a protest movement made up of people who wanted closer ties with the European Union. Yanukovych fled to Russia last month after more than 80 demonstra-

tors were killed near Kiev’s central square but insists he is still president.

Since then, troops that Ukraine says are Russian soldiers have moved into Crimea, patrolling airports, smashing equipment at an air base and besieging Ukrainian military installations.

Outrage over Russia’s military moves has mounted in world capitals, with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry calling on President Vladimir Putin to pull back from “an incredible act of aggression.” Kerry is to travel to Ukraine on Tuesday.

Putin has defied calls from the West to pull back his troops, insisting that Russia has a right to protect its interests and those of Russian-speakers in Crimea and elsewhere in Ukraine. His confidence is matched by the knowledge that Ukraine’s 46 million people have divided loyalties — while much of western Ukraine wants closer ties with the 28-nation European Union, its eastern and southern regions like Crimea look to Russia for support.

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He was banned from entering China for nearly two years after his second arrest in 1996. Authorities later let him back in and he was arrested several more times for “speaking out about the brutality against Chinese Christians,” said the site.

Short has lived in Hong Kong for 50 years. According to his written apology published by the KCNA, Short said he also visited North Korea in August 2012 to spread Bible tracts.

OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR GENERAL OF POLICE, NAGALAND KOHIMA

NO.PHQ (D.II)CLOTHING/2014/1343

Dated Kohima the 3rd Feb '2014

PRESS RELEASE

With reference to this office advertisement of Tender Notice of even no. dated 04.02.14 and No.PHQ(D-I) 15/2013 - 14 dated 07.02.14 regarding submission of tenders for Clothing & Equipments and Centrally Purchased Ration Items for Nagaland Police for the Financial year 2014-15,the opening of Tender fixed on 04.02.14 at PHQ is hereby deferred till further notice.

Further, the tender for supply of wet rations Items to different NAP Battalions and IR Battalions for the year 2014-15, also fixed on 05.02.14 at different HQs are also hereby deferred.

Further decision in this regard will be intimated in due course.

Sd/(BESESAYO KEZO)IPS Director General of Police, Nagaland: Kohima.

GOVERNMENT OF NAGALAND

TRANSPORT DEPARTMENT OFFICE MEMORANDUM Dated Kohima the 28th February, 2014

NO, TPT/SPL/603/13: Where as, it has come to the notice of the Government that, many Government vehicles which have already been condemned and allotted to private individuals are still using State Registration numbers.

Therefore, it is now hereby brought to the attention of all the concerned allottee of the vehicles condemned and allotted as listed at "Annexure A" under Transport Special Pool and various Department of the State that; 1. Government vehicles already condemned and allotted should discontinue using State Registration numbers.

2. The allottee concerned shall apply for re-registration from respective RTO/DTO and convert it to Private Registration within 30 (thirty) days from the date of issue of this Office Memorandum.

3. Non-compliance of the State Government's directive shall attract seizure of the vehicle wherever detected in the State.

Sd/-NEIHU C.THUR, IAS Commissioner & Secretary to the Government of Nagaland

List of Vehicles Condemned Under Transport Special Pool during 2012 & 2013

Pakistani police officers look for evidences at the site of a suicide attack in a court complex,on Monday, March 3, in Islamabad, Pakistan. Two suicide bombers blew themselves up at the court complex, killing 11 people and wounding dozens in a rare terror attack in the heart of Islamabad, officials said. (AP Photo)

are any other attackers or some wounded people needing help.” Lawyer Murad Ali said he saw several attackers walking toward a courtroom, brandishing weapons. “They had automatic weapons. They had hand grenades,” he said. “I saw them shooting a female lawyer.” His hands were splattered in blood that he said came from helping remove four dead bodies.

The dead included two judges and five lawyers, said Dr. Altaf at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences in Islamabad where the dead and wounded were taken. Altaf, who spoke to television reporters and only gave his family name, said most of the victims had bullet wounds. He said 25 were wounded, five of them

critically.

The area where the attack occurred is a warren of walkways filled with judges’ chambers, lawyers’ offices and restaurants and businesses catering to the legal community. The walkways are filled with copying machines for clerks and clients to make copies of legal documents, and prisoners wearing chains can often be seen walking through the complex on their way to and from court. Families of suspects on trial also often stand around the area, waiting for their loved ones to appear in court.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, which came as a shock to a city that has enjoyed a respite from the frequent bombings and

shootings prevalent in other Pakistani cities like Peshawar near the tribal areas or the port city of Karachi. The attack is sure to complicate government efforts to negotiate a peace settlement with militants in the country’s northwest who have waged a bloody war against the government for years.

The Pakistani Taliban said Saturday they would implement a one-month ceasefire in an effort to revive a foundering peace process. A spokesman for the militant organization said in a telephone call to an Associated Press reporter that the group was not involved in the Islamabad attack and restated his group’s commitment to the ceasefire.

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La Liga race tightens after Real draw

Training for 2014 National Shooting Competitions DIMAPuR, MARch 3 (MexN): The Aries Rifle & Pistol Shooting Academy will be starting training for 2014 National Shooting Competitions in 10 meter air rifle and 10 meter air pistol from March 6 at the indoor shooting range at NST colony, Dimapur. Interested members as well as new shooters can register on or before March 5. The training will be conducted by M Kanta Meetei, a National shooter from Imphal, Manipur. Two days free training will be given to interested shooters, both boys and girls, under the youth category (below 18 years of age).

An advanced training will also be conducted in 10 meter air rifle and 50 meter .22 free rifle- three position and prone position from March 6 to 8 by Abemo Kikon, who participated at the 54th Grand Prix of Liberation Plzen Czech Republic in 2012, and scored 594/600 in the small bore event .22 free rifle prone position and has already won 8 medals in the National Shooting Championship Competitions in 10 meter air rifle, 50 meter .22 free rifle and 300 meter big bore events since 2007. Shooters registration form can be downloaded at www.ariesfoundation.com. For further information call 9436010820 and 8974008760.

NDA launches subsidiary in Mkg Real's Cristiano Ronaldo, centre, celebrates his goal during a Spanish La Liga soccer match between Atletico de Madrid and Real Madrid at the Vicente Calderon stadium in Madrid, Spain, Sunday, March 2. (AP Photo)

Barcelona scores crucial win against Almeria

MADRID, MARch 3 (ReuteRs): The threehorse race for the La Liga title tightened on Sunday when leaders Real Madrid drew 2-2 at city rivals Atletico and Barcelona won 4-1 at home to Almeria.

Real needed a Cristiano Ronaldo goal eight minutes from time to rescue a point at Atletico's Calderon stadium in a typically feisty Madrid derby, before Lionel Messi became only the third player to reach 230 La Liga goals in Barca's victory at the Nou Camp.

With 12 matches left, Real lead on 64 points, with champions Barca, chasing a fifth title in six years, second on 63 and Atletico, who are mounting a genuine challenge for the first time

since they last won La Liga in 1996, third on 61.

Atletico recovered from conceding in the third minute to lead Real 2-1 at halftime and were closing in on a first home win against their neighbours in nearly 15 years before Ronaldo pounced on a loose ball and fired low into the corner. It was the Portugal forward's 23rd goal of the campaign and helped extend Real's unbeaten run to 28 matches, stretching back to a 2-1 reverse away to Barca at the end of October.

Atletico forced their way back into the game with the trademark intensity and aggression instilled in them by coach Diego Simeone but Real's superior quality proved decisive in the second half and earned them a deserved point.

"The draw leaves us feeling a bit disappointed because in the second half we were clearly dominating and deserved another goal or two," Real captain Sergio Ramos said in an

interview with Spanish television broadcaster Canal Plus. "We are still three points clear and we need to keep improving and collecting points," added the Spain centre back.

The fans had barely settled into their seats when Real took the lead after Karim Benzema stole in and poked a cross from Angel Di Maria past Thibaut Courtois from close range.

Benzema and Ronaldo, the league's leading scorer, each tested Courtois before clever work from Atletico's Turkey playmaker Arda Turan led to the equaliser in the 28th minute.

After twisting and turning on the edge of the Real penalty area, Arda threaded a pass through to Koke and his powerful low shot flew into the corner past Diego Lopez. Captain Gabi scored the best goal of the game moments before halftime to put the home side ahead, with a 30-metre screamer that seem to deceive Lopez in flight as it rocketed

into the net. Real gradually turned the screw as Atletico tired in the second half and it was little surprise when a defensive lapse led to Ronaldo's late equaliser.

BAD TASTE "I am coming away with a bad taste in my mouth," Gabi told Canal Plus. "It was a very open match, with chances for both teams, and I am proud of Atletico Madrid," he added.

"We wanted to show this intensity and desire to the fans and I think that's what we did." Recent matches between Real and Atletico have been soured by bad blood between some of the players and there was plenty of gamesmanship and play-acting on display.

Pepe threw himself theatrically to the ground after tangling with Atletico's Diego Godin late in the first half and the referee booked both centre backs.

The match official then sent German Burgos from the bench in the second half for

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Tajen (middle) flanked by the other Nagaland state players at the 38th Masters National Badminton Championship 2013-14n at Bhopal on Sunday night.

DIMAPuR, MARch 3 (MexN): The Nagaland Badminton Association (NBA) led by its president, Parliamentary Secretary for Irrigatin & Flood Cntrol, Y Vikheho Swu has congratulated Tajen for becoming the first player to win a national level tournament in the discipline.

Tajen, a Nagaland Po-

lice player emerged as singles runners up in 35 plus age category the 38th Masters National Badminton Championship 201314 organized by BHEL at Bhopal from February 26 till March 2nd, 2014.

The NBA has lauded the laurels brought by Tajen and has expressed confidence that the trail

blaze left by Tajen would encourage more shuttlers to scale greater heights both at the national and international levels in the days to come.

The association has also urged the players to take Tajen’s success as an eye opener and work towards winning more laurels for the state.

son has been defending set pieces and Almeria pulled a goal back when Angel Trujillo headed in from a corner in the 26th minute.

Almeria did well to keep Barca at bay until seven minutes from time when Messi headed against the bar at a corner and captain Carles Puyol volleyed in the rebound and Xavi bent in a fourth in the 89th. Villarreal and Real Sociedad lost ground on fourth-placed Athletic Bilbao, who won 4-0 at home to Granada on Friday and are six points clear in Spain's fourth and final Champions League qualification berth.

Villarreal drew 1-1 at home to bottom side Real Betis, while Sociedad, who beat Barca 3-1 in San Sebastian last weekend, lost 1-0 at Sevilla. Villarreal have 44 points in fifth, one more than sixth-placed Sociedad, Sevilla are seventh on 38 and Valencia slipped SET PIECES to ninth below Levante afBarca dominated pos- ter they were beaten 1-0 at session as usual but one of second-from-bottom Rayo their weaknesses this sea- Vallecano.

Focussed on getting bonus point against Afghans: Kohli

MIRPuR, MARch 3 (PtI): Trying to keep his and the team's focus away from the mathematical calculations which give India a slight chance at reaching the Asia Cup finals, skipper Virat Kohli said he is solely aiming on a bonus point win against Afghanistan in their last league match. India now need a miracle to progress to the final as they will have to Viseyie Koso from the 9 NAP (IR), attached to DGP Sports Co, NAPTC (fifth from left), is seen win by a bonus point against with the other Indian Sepaktakraw Team members before leaving for Kualalampur to participate in the International Sepaktakraw Federation World Super Series from March 3 to 9. Afghanistan and hope that Sri Lanka lose both their remaining matches, one of them against Afghanistan on Monday.

DIMAPuR, MARch 3 (MexN): 'The Nagaland Tennis Association has informed If both teams have the that the 25th All Nagaland Tennis Championship will be held from March 24 to 29, to same number of points, it's be held at Chavinuo Peseyie Indoor Complex, Kuda village, Dimapur. Juniors section will be held from March 24 to 26 and the men’s competition will be from March 27 to 29. Interested players may contact 9612901593, 9436261009.

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protesting a decision and the Atletico assistant coach lost his cool and had to be restrained by players and coaching staff. Atletico beat Real 1-0 at the Bernabeu in September and were looking to do the La Liga double over their neighbours for the first time since 1951.

Sunday's draw means they have a superior headto-head record, which will be used to separate the pair should they end the season level on points. At the Nou Camp, Barca appeared to be cruising after Alexis Sanchez opened the scoring in the ninth minute and Messi curled in a long-range free kick in the 24th. It was the Argentina forward's 230th La Liga goal, putting him only four short of former Real forward Hugo Sanchez, who is second on the all-time list, and closer to record marksman Telmo Zarra on 251.

MOKOKchuNG, MARch 3 (MexN): The Naga Dart Association, Kohima formally launched its subsidiary dart association here at Mokokchung Saturday night at Cosmos Lounge. The launching of the dart association here in Mokokchung was made possible through the efforts of the Naga Dart led by its officials in collaboration with the proprietors of Cosmos Entertainment, Wati Imchen and Bendang Walling.

Naga Dart president Lima said that the association was formed in Kohima by likeminded people who loved the dart game. Formation of Naga Dart was followed by launching two subsidiary associations, first in Dimapur and now here in Mokokchung. He went on to add that Naga Dart plans to introduce this game in all the districts in the state and followed by organizing tournaments. He also added that efforts are on to affiliate Naga Dart with the national body AIDA thus paving the way for the Naga players to take part in the higher levels of tournaments. He also explained about the basics of dart game and the various formats of the game. The launching program was followed by exhibition dart games. The Naga Dart also gave a dart board and some darts to Cosmos lounge to start off with.

the net run rate that will come into count as per the Asian Cricket Council playing conditions.

"I've personally stopped putting my money on the games that are left in the tournament. All we can do is put up a strong performance in our game, try and get a bonus point, and then see. We'll know by March 4 what happens," Kohli said after the one-wicket loss to Pakistan which has severely jeopardised India's chances of making the final of the event.

"We're just looking to improve our cricket and correct our mistakes," Kohli told reporters. Citing the

2011-12 tri-nation Commonwealth Bank series in Australia when Sri Lanka beat Australia to progress into the final, Kohli said: "In Australia as well, we were watching another game, and Sri Lanka almost beat Australia and we could have made the finals, but that didn't happen."

"Last time in Asia Cup as well we were hoping Sri Lanka to beat Pakistan or Bangladesh, either of the two, but that didn't happen." Having suffered consecutive losses, Kohli said his inexperienced team was making quite a few mistakes.

K. Obed Khiamiungan, has been selected from Nagaland to represent the Asian world championship Taekwondo-D under 51-57 kg category, which is going to be held April 18 to 23 at Kathmandu Nepal. Obed is the second son of Khuming Khiamniungan, village of Sanglao under Tuensang district of Nagaland, presently he is a BA student at Tetso College Dimapur. According to the official Taekwondo institute, Chumukedima K Obed is leaving for Delhi in the first week of March for special coaching for a month at Taekwondo association of India head quarter Delhi. He has received more than 40 silver and gold medals along with certificates, while representing Nagaland in different parts of the country. He also received a certificate for Best Fighter (BF) and was selected to represent the Asian World Championship in Bangalore in December 2013 December.

Juventus shows dominance with win at AC Milan

ROMe, MARch 3 (AP): Fernando Llorente and Carlos Tevez scored either side of halftime as Juventus asserted its dominance in Serie A with a 2-0 win at AC Milan on Sunday. Striding toward its third consecutive title, the victory moved Juventus 11 points ahead of second-place Roma. "Only a tank could stop Juventus," new Milan coach Clarence Seedorf said. "They showed their strength and Tevez provided the difference.

He's a great player."

Milan, which was starting to gain momentum under Seedorf, dropped to 10th, six points adrift of the European places. Milan started strongly with Kaka and Andrea Poli threatening in the first half but Juve took control when Llorente collected a pass from Stephan Lichtsteiner in the 44th to score from the edge of the box and highlight Milan's porous defense.

Then in the 68th, Tevez was left alone to find the target with a shot from 25 meters (yards) that crashed in off the underside of the crossbar. It was Tevez's 15th

Juventus forward Fernando Llorente, of Spain, left, scores during a Serie A soccer match between AC Milan and Juventus, at the San Siro stadium in Milan, Italy, Sunday, March 2. (AP Photo)

goal of the season, putting him atop the Italian league's scoring chart, one ahead of Fiorentina's Giuseppe Rossi, who has been out injured since January.

Milan sorely missed Mario Balotelli, who is still recovering from a right shoulder injury. Making matters worse, midfielder Poli was taken to the hospital after getting hit in the face during a collision with Juventus defender Martin Caceres in the 51st. Earlier,

third-placed Napoli was held to a 1-1 draw at relegation-threatened Livorno without its standout forward Gonzalo Higuain.

Belgium midfielder Dries Mertens converted a penalty for Napoli in the 31st but Livorno equalized when a backheel effort from its 19-year-old Senegalese defender Mbaye Ibrahima resulted in an own-goal by Napoli goalkeeper Pepe Reina in the 39th. Still, Napoli moved seven points

ahead of fourth-placed Fiorentina in the race for the final Champions League spot.

Fiorentina, which was missing two key suspended midfielders in Borja Valero and David Pizarro, lost 1-0 at home to Lazio. Also, the Tuscan squad's coach Vincenzo Montella served a touchline ban following the fallout from Monday's 2-2 draw at Parma, which featured three red cards. Albanian midfielder Lorik Cana scored for Lazio five min-

utes in with a bicycle kick.

Livorno moved level with Chievo Verona third from bottom, with the last three clubs destined for Serie B at the end of the season.

Higuain is among the Serie A leaders with 13 goals but was suspended for this match. His replacement, Goran Pandev, earned Napoli's penalty with what appeared to be minimal contact from Livorno defender Federico Ceccherini, leading to protests from the hosts.

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t was an emotional night for the cast and crew of 12 Years A Slave, as the film took home the award for Best Picture at Sunday night's Oscars. Producer Brad Pitt thanked the Academy for the 'incredible' win, while director Steve McQueen praised his mother Mary for her 'hardheadedness' and said the film was about the will 'not just to survive but to live'.

However, it was Lupita Nyong'o's heartfelt acceptance speech as she took to the stage to accept Best Supporting Actress that really hit struck a chord with the audience. The most competitive category, was won by a tearful Lupita for her harrowing portrait of a cotton picker who was repeatedly raped by her owner in 12 Years A Slave.

The actress, who celebrated her 31st birthday on Saturday, had worked behind the scenes on films but this was her first role in front of the camera. Jennifer Lawrence, who had been vying with Lupita for most of the awards season had privately told friends that she wanted Lupita to win because ' she so deserves it'. It's clear that Academy voters felt that way too. Cate Blanchett and Matthew McConaughey took the top acting honours. Cate was named Best Actress for her role in Woody Allen's Blue Jasmine, while Matthew won his award for Dallas Buyers Club. The win for Cate was somewhat overshadowed by a hilarious and controversial speech from the Australian actress - who both praised and ribbed her fellow nominees and thanks director Woody.

Jennifer Lawrence presented the best actor honour to Matthew McConaughey for Dallas Buyers Club. In the movie he played a red-blooded hellraising electrician who finds he is HIV positive and goes on to help those suffering from the illness. Ever since 12 Years A Slave was shown at the Telluride Film Festival back in August Lupita has behaved with great dignity and has impressed many Academy members.

Anne Hathaway presented the award, for Jared's performance as a transgender HIV sufferer in in the film, and taking to the stage, the actor became emotional as he gave a stirring speech dedicated to his mother Constance. 'In 1971... in the city of Louisina there was a teenage girl who was prengnat with her second child and she was a high school drop out, and a single mom, she encouraged her kids to be creative and work hard,' he began.

'That girl is my mother and she's here tonight. I love you mom thank you for teaching me to dream.'

Jared handed his Oscar statuette to journalists in the press room so they could ,in his words, 'fondle it'. As the award was passed along he joked: 'This is the first time someone has giv-

Matthew McConaughey, from left, holds his award for best actor for his role in "Dallas Buyers Club", Cate Blanchett holds her award for best actress in "Blue Jasmine", Lupita Nyong'o holds her award for best supporting actress for "12 Years a Slave," and Jared Leto holds his award for best supporting actor in "Dallas Buyers Club" in the press room during the Oscars 2014, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo)

en their Oscar away for an orgy in the press room'. He then shouted out for people to go ahead and take a selfie of themselves with the Oscar.

Told that photos weren't allowed in the press room he said that there, perhaps, should be a 'revolution in the room' and that the media should

created for The Great Gatsby. Dallas Buyers Club then won a second gong for Best Make-up and Hairstyling and Adruitha Lee and Robin Mathews gave another emotional speech. Frozen, which has taken over one billion dollars at the box office worldwide , won the best animated feature film Oscar for Disney.

Loving tribute: Singer Pink performs Over The Rainbow onstage during the Oscars

be allowed to take photographs, a sentiment that was greeted with a roar of approval from the press corp. 'Who's your favourite Oscar winner', Leto asked.

Starting the show taking aim at the weather, host Ellen DeGeneres got things off to a good start by joking, 'It's been a tough couple of days for us... it's been raining.' 'We're fine, thank you for your prayers,' she added. However, Ellen’s next joke fell flat as suggested Liza Minnelli was in fact a drag impersonator. ‘Well done sir,’ Ellen joked, while a visibly unimpressed Minnelli looked on.

Pregnant Kerry Washington then introduced Pharrell Williams – who she described as being ‘phenomenally cool' - to sing Happy from the movie Despicable Me 2.Australian Catherine Martin, wife of director Baz Luhrmann , won the the next Oscar, her third, for the costumes she

Best-actor nominee Matthew McConaughey was greeted by fans in bleachers along the red carpet humming and patting their chests as he does in The Wolf of Wall Street.

Lupita Nyong'o, the 12 Years a Slave nominated star and new red carpet favorite, wore a flowing ice blue Prada gown that she said reminded her of her

Kenyan home.

Ellen's other high point came when she encouraged the A-List crowd to take selfie pictures, with the likes of Meryl Streep, Following her gag, Gravity's sound mixing technicians won the Oscar for sound mixing. The four man team included three Britons, one of whom, Chris Munro won his first Oscar 12 years ago for Black Hawk Down Gravity also won the award for best sound editing for British technician Glenn Freemantle. Gravity took its fifth Oscar, for editing. The honour went to director Alfonso Cuaron and British colleague Mark Sanger. It's a significant win at this point because the editing win is sometimes, but not always, seen as an indicator of what will take the best film prize.

British composer Steven Price also won the Oscar for the score he wrote for Gravity. Penelope Cruz and Robert De Niro presented the best adapted screenplay to 12 Years A Slave writer John Ridley With the win for supporting actress Lupita Nyong'o and now Ridley it's just possible for 12 Years A Slave to take best picture.

But it's such a close race between Gravity and 12 Years A Slave it's going to go right down to the last envelope. Angelina Jolie paired with Sidney Poitier to present the best director prize to Alfonso Cuaron who turned Gravity into a roller-coaster hit.

He said making Gravity was a 'transformative experience'.

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Best Picture: 12 Years A Slave Best Director: Alfonso Cuaron (Gravity) Best Actor in a Leading Role: Matthew McConaughey Best Actress in a Leading Role: Cate Blanchett (Blue Jasmine) Best Actor in a Supporting Role: Jared Leto (Dallas Buyers Club) Best Actress in a Supporting Role: Lupita Nyong'o (12 Years A Slave) Best Animated Feature: Frozen Best Live Action Short Film: Helium (Anders Walter, Kim Magnusson) Best Visual Effects: Gravity (Tim Webber, Chris Lawrence, Dave Shirk, Neil Corbould)

 Fondly remembered: Paul Walker, who tragically died in a car crash in November, was remembered by his peers at the Academy Awards on Sunday  Still raw: Philip Seymour Hoffman died from an overdose just last month, shocking the industry  Remembered: James Gandolfini was one of the many stars who lost their lives in the past year  Former hellraiser: Galway actor Peter O'Toole was included in the sad tribute which aired on the ABC telecast of the Oscars  Child star: Shirley Temple, probably the most famous child star of all time, was remembered fondly by her peers  Uncle Vernon: Harry Potter star Richard Griffiths passed away last year  Nice touch: The Academy showed how much critic Roger Ebert meant to the industry by including him in the tribute

Best Film Editing: Gravity (Alfonso Cuarón, Mark Sanger) Best Sound Editing: Gravity (Glenn Freemantle) Best Original Score: Gravity (Steven Price) Best Original Screenplay: Her (Spike Jonze) Best Make-up and Hairstyling: Dallas Buyers Club (Adruitha Lee, Robin Mathews) Best Animated Short Film: Mr. Hublot (Laurent Witz, Alexandre Espigares) Best Documentary Feature: 20 Feet from Stardom Foreign Language Film: The Great Beauty, Italy Best Costume Design: Catherine Martin, The Great Gatsby Best Cinematography: Gravity (Emmanuel Lubezki)

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Best Production Design: The Great Gatsby (Catherine Martin, Beverley Dunn) Best Documentary Short Subject: The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life Best Original Song: Let It Go (Frozen) Best Adapted Screenplay: 12 Years a Slave (John Ridley) Best Sound Mixing: Skip Lievsay, Niv Adirj, Christopher Benstead and Chris Munro (Gravity) Honorary Oscars: Peter W. Anderson.

Film-processing labs over past century: Angelina Jolie.

Angela Lansbury.

Steve Martin.

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The chat show host and prolific tweeter took what is being described as the 'best selfie ever' during her hosting duties, a picture which started off as just her and Meryl Streep but soon expanded to include Julia Roberts, Brad Pitt, Jennifer Lawrence and Kevin Spacey in a picture taken

by Bradley Cooper.

Multi-tasking Ellen then shared the snap on her Twitter page, where it broke the record for most retweets, with 1,076,971 in less than an hour as social media fans went wild for the snap, while continuing to host the show. However,

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The 23-year-old tripped over her strapless orange gown as she climbed out of her limousine, but was helped to her feet by her boyfriend Nicholas Hoult outside the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles on Sunday.

But Jennifer was quick to rectify the situation, declining any help as she picked herself up and continued to accept the award. As she got back onto her feet, the star-studded audience gave the actress a standing ovation much to the actress' embarrassment.

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It was just one in a series of fun moments as Ellen won over the celebrity crowd at the Academy Awards with some gentle teasing but one person was less than impressed.

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PRETORIA, MARch 3 (AP): The first witness in the Oscar Pistorius murder trial testified Monday to hearing "blood-curdling" screams before the sound of four gunshots on the night the doubleamputee Olympian killed his girlfriend. Michell Burger, a woman who lives on an estate next to Pistorius' gated community, said she and her husband were awoken by the screams in the pre-dawn hours of Feb. 14 last year, when Pistorius killed Reeva Steenkamp by shooting four times through a door in his bathroom.

Pistorius says he killed Steenkamp by mistake thinking she was a dangerous intruder in his house, but prosecutors believe the world-famous athlete shot his girlfriend after a fight and immediately tried to paint a picture at the trial of a loud argument before the fatal shots.

"It was very traumatic," Burger said, speaking in Afrikaans through an interpreter and in answer to questions from lead prosecutor Gerrie Nel. "You could hear it was blood-curdling screams.

You can't translate it into words.

The anxiousness in her voice, and fear. It leaves you cold." Burger said: "She screamed terribly and she yelled for help" and testified that after the gunshots a man shouted for help.

Pistorius earlier pleaded not guilty at the start of the trial to charges of murder and three other counts relating to shooting guns in public and illegal possession of ammunition. Wearing

Oscar Pistorius is watched by June Steenkamp, right, the mother of Reeva Steenkamp, as he arrives for his trial at the high court in Pretoria, South Africa on March 3. Pistorius is charged with murder with premeditation in the shooting death of girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in the pre-dawn hours of Valentine's Day 2013. (AP Photo)

a dark gray suit and black tie, he spent the first 30 minutes of the first day of the trial at the high court in the South African capital standing before his defense lawyer, Barry Roux, asked the judge for permission for Pistorius to sit.

The Olympian's murder trial was being broadcast live on TV in South Africa and across the world. The first witness, Burger, was called before even an hour had passed as the prosecution

went straight into testimony. The trial itself started 90 minutes late after an earlier delay because of an interpreter problem. When he entered court, Pistorius walked past the victim's mother who says she came to court so she can "really look him in the eyes."

Defense lawyer Kenny Oldwadge laid out Pistorius' legal strategy, reading a statement from Pistorius in which he says the killing was an accident and that there

were inconsistencies in the state's case, as well as an attempt to introduce inadmissible character evidence to discredit him.

In the statement, Pistorius said he brought two fans in from the balcony on the night of the killing, after speaking to his girlfriend who was in bed beside him. He said Steenkamp must have gone into the bathroom while he was fetching the fans.

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that she had gone and heard the bathroom window open.

"I approached the bathroom, armed with my firearm, so as to defend Reeva and I," Pistorius said in the statement. He said he then heard a noise in the toilet, and was in a "fearful state" because he was unable to run away or defend himself physically since he was not wearing his prosthetic legs. "The state has embarked on a strategy to rely on unsubstantiated allegations," he said, citing a neighbor's testimony that an argument had been heard in his home.

According to Pistorius' statement, other neighbors living nearby said they had not heard any argument. He also cited evidence provided by police detective Hilton Botha as "false in material respects." In the courtroom, Pistorius was seated near Steenkamp's mother, June. She was quoted in the Pretoria News, which published an interview she gave to a British newspaper, saying that she wants to see Pistorius.

"I want to look at Oscar, really look him in the eyes, and see for myself the truth about what he did to Reeva," said June Steenkamp, 67. "Whatever the court decides at the end of his trial, I will be ready to forgive him ... But first I want to force him to look at me, Reeva's mother, and see the pain and anguish he has inflicted on me. I feel I need that."

Reeva Steenkamp was a glamorous model and budding reality TV show star when she was cut down at age 29.

Rory McIlroy's fiancee, tennis player Caroline Wozniacki, of Denmark, watches as he prepares to play on the fourth hole during the final round of the Honda Classic golf tournament on Sunday, March 2 in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. (AP Photo)

54 wrestlers to vie for Naga style championship Our Correspondent Kohima | March 3

The Nagaland Wrestling Association (NWA) is all set to conduct 24th Naga style, 9 senior and 5th junior tournament 2014 from March 4 to 5 at the Kohima Local Ground. Altogether, 54 wrestlers will participate in the Naga style, said NWA president Nikhrolo Khalo while talking to media persons. Not less than 40 wrestling are also expecting in free style, he added.

Chief minister Neiphiu Rio, who is also president of Nagaland Olympic Association (NOA) will grace the tourney as the chief guest while minister for planning & coordination, geology &

Preparation for NWA wrestling meet at Kohima Local Ground. (Morung Photo)

mining and evaluation T.R. Zeliang will be the guest of honour. The champion in Naga style will fetch a cash prize of Rs. 2 lakh sponsored by Rokolhou Angami Ist class contractor, 2nd prize Rs. 1,50,000 sponsored by C. K. Enterprises, proprietor Küdechoyi Khamo, 3rd prize Rs. 1,00,000

sponsored by Kuchi R. Zeliang, MD Hi-Tech Construction and 4th Prize Rs. 50,000 sponsored by Vikedosie Kehie, chief engineer police project. Further, quarter finalists will get Rs. 10,000 each while group champion will be awarded with Rs. 15,000 with running trophy. Prize for free

style (both male and female in all categories) include; senior- Ist Rs. 10,000 and 2nd Rs. 5,000. Junior: Ist Rs. 5,000 and 2nd Rs. 3,000. The inaugural function will start by 8:30 AM. Lighting of the tournament torch will be done by NWA former president Keku Zeliang while reigning cham-

pion Kezhalelie Keretsü will be the torch bearer.

NWA president Nikhrolo Khalo will deliver presidential address while NWA technical secretary Hukhoneyi Soho will administer oath to the wrestlers. Refrees (Naga style) will compise of Visüto Yore, Huvesü Puro and Hangcheu. Free style referees- Chisazo Dawhuo, Kikhwesul Thokwe, Sapi Kin, Vilhou Zhasa and Vekhriyi Chuzho. Field judges include Zumolhi Mero, Datui, Neingulie Nagi, Heipetdaing, Rukhietuolie Liezietsu and Vecusuyi. Source said the Naga style wrestling will now be a one day affair.

Meanwhile, entry ticket has been set at Rs. 2000 (Donor), Rs. 300 (Chair) and Rs. 100 (Gallery).

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New York Knicks point guard Raymond Felton (2) has his shot blocked by Chicago Bulls center Joakim Noah (13) during the first half of an NBA basketball game on Sunday, March 2 in Chicago. (AP Photo)

chIcAGO, MARch 3 (AP): The Chicago Bulls were open all over the floor, so Joakim Noah kept collecting assists. Jumpers for Jimmy Butler and Kirk Hinrich. A dunk for Taj Gibson, another jumper for Butler, and on and on it went.

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on quite a show. Noah had 14 assists in his fifth career triple-double, leading the streaking Bulls to a 109-90 victory over the New York Knicks on Sunday. "It's really all my teammates," he said. "I think we're getting better every game."

Noah also had 13 points

and 12 rebounds in his second triple-double of the season, but it was his deft passing that really stood out. It was the most assists by an NBA center since at least the 1985-86 season and a franchise record for his position. "What can you say? He is playing MVP bas-

ketball," Gibson said. "He is doing everything in all facets of the game." Chicago had seven players score in double figures and set a franchise record by committing only three turnovers in its ninth win in the last 10 games. The Bulls also reached 100 points for the fourth consecutive game for the first time since Oct. 30-Nov. 5, 2010.

D.J. Augustin had 21 of his 23 points in the fourth quarter as Chicago (3326) improved to 21-8 since Jan. 1 and a season-high seven games above .500 overall. Butler scored 19 points and Carlos Boozer had 14. "We've hit a stretch where we have guys that are healthy playing that I think they know what to expect from each other," coach Tom Thibodeau said.

"I think they're playing to their strengths."

While the Bulls are galloping through the weak Eastern Conference, the Knicks are floundering.

Carmelo Anthony scored 21 points and Tyson Chandler had 22 rebounds, but New York dropped its sixth consecutive game. The Knicks (21-39) are just 6-16 since Jan. 14. "It's embarrassing," Anthony said. "It's frustrating and it's embarrassing."

Swingman Iman Shumpert had three points on 1-for6 shooting in his return to the lineup. He missed five games after he sprained the medial collateral ligament

in his left knee during New York's 98-91 victory over New Orleans on Feb. 19.

Noah rolled his right ankle at the beginning of the second half and got it retaped before coming back in at the start of the fourth quarter. He heard more chants of "M-V-P! M-V-P!" when he went 1 for 2 at the line to make it 89-70 with 9:26 to go.

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