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NMP+ recommends introduction of intervention prog for PLHAs

Pooja Bhatt’s foreign fan lives forlorn in jail

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Medziphema rallies for peace

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reflections

By Sandemo Ngullie

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12-day Karbi bandh DIMAPUR, AUGUST 5 (MExN): The Karbi Peoples Liberation Tigers have called for a 12-day Karbi bandh, which started on 5:00 pm, August 5. Sources informed that the bandh will continue until 5:00 am on August 17 and that railways, PHE, fire services, medical services, schools and colleges will not be exempted from the bandh. The bandh comes at the backdrop of violent protests in the Karbi Anglong area with demands for a separate Karbi state.

Earlier, the Hill State Democratic Party had also called for a hundred hour bandh but this was called off.

ACAUT meet postponed

DIMAPUR, AUGUST 5 (MExN): The Action Committee against Unabated Taxation (ACAUT) has postponed the general meeting which was scheduled to be held on August 6. A press note from the ACAUT Media Cell informed that the meeting has been postponement for two or three days due to “an invitation extended by the NSCN-IM collective leaders for discussion and to address the grievances put forth by the ACAUT in regard of multiple taxation and dealership system.” The ACAUT expressed regret for the inconvenience caused.

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NEW DELHI, AUGUST 5 (PTI): Lok Sabha witnessed slogan shouting by members against the proposal to form Telangana and demand for Bodoland during question hour on the first day of the monsoon session of Parliament on Monday. Soon after new members took oath and obituary references were made, TDP members and Congress MPs opposed to Telangana walked into the well and shouted slogans.

TDP members, who were also protesting against TRS chief K Chandrasekar Rao’s remarks that officials who hail from Seemandhra but are working in Telangana region will have to go back, were heard shouting “We want justice”.

Congress MPs from Andhra Pradesh opposing Telangana walked into the well to press for their demand. They carried placards which said, “We want justice for Seemandhra area” and “We want united Andhra Pradesh”. At one point, TDP member N Sivaprasad walked up to one of the protesters from the Congress with a threatening gesture but was stopped by his party colleagues.

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Kohima | August 5

Veipune Sarah from Nagaland is among eight students from India eligible for a 100% scholarship from the United States government for higher studies in the US. Sarah has been selected to join the prestigious Whatcom Community College in Washington, where she will pursue business management free of cost.

20 year-old Sarah from Leshemi village under Phek district is a student at JNV Zuketsa and is scheduled to depart for the US on August 11. Courtesy of the Guwahati based Darwin School of Business, the door was opened for her and another girl from Manipur for the first time in the north east

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PM urged to consider ‘Bodoland’

NEW DELHI, AUGUST 5 (IANS): Bodoland People’s Front MP Biswajit Daimary Monday said he has raised with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh the demand for carving a separate state of Bodoland out of Assam.

Daimary, who met the prime minister in the Rajya Sabha following a brief adjournment of the house, said he urged Manmohan Singh “to send two union ministers” to talk to people of the region in the wake of their renewed agitation following the UPA’s decision to split Andhra Pradesh and create a separate state of Telangana.

“The way Telangana has been given statehood, Bodoland should also be made a separate Members of parliament from Indian northeastern state of Assam, Bwiswmuthiary, left, and and Biswajit state,” Daimary told IANS. DaimaDaimary shout slogans of separate Bodoland state during the opening day of the monsoon session at the ry, who is the only MP of the BPF in the Rajya Sabha, said the governParliament house, in New Delhi, Monday. (AP Photo)

ment should at least talk to people and tell them about its thinking on the demand for a separate Bodoland state. “I told him that you at least send two ministers to talk to people and tell them what the central government was thinking,” Daimary told IANS. The Assam MP said the prime minister told him that he will discuss his demand. Daimary was among the members who went near the chairman’s podium during question hour to press their demand related to creation of new states. The house witnessed two adjournments during question hour. The BPF is the ruling party in the Bodoland Territorial Autonomous District, with its president Hagrama Mohilary as the chief of the Bodoland Territorial Council.

Bodoland People’s Front (BPF) member SK Bwiswmuthiary walked into the well with a banner that read: “Bodoland MPs strongly stand for a separate state of Bodoland”. Parliamentary affairs minister Kamal Nath tried to pacify the members but could not be heard in the din. Speaker Meira Kumar asked the agitating members to go back

to their seats but her request went unheeded. After one starred question was taken up amid din, she adjourned the House till noon.

Earlier when the House met for the day, new members - Prabhunath Singh (RJD), Haribhai Parthibhai Chaudhary (BJP), Vithalbhai H Radadiya (BJP), Partibha Singh (Cong) and Prasun Banerjee (TMC) - took

oath. Prabhunath Singh demanded Bhojpuri be included in the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution to give it an official status, but the Speaker asked him to take oath in Hindi.

The decision to create Telangana and demand for carving out Bodoland state led to uproar in Rajya Sabha on the opening day of monsoon session of

Parliament leading to two adjournments before noon.

Soon after the House paid obituary references, two TDP members entered the well opposing creation of separate Telengana state.

Biswajit Daimary (Bodoland People’s Front) too entered the well carrying a placard. While TPD members raised banners against division of Andhra

Pradesh, Daimary held banner that read: “If Telengana, Why Not Bodoland?” “I am sorry you can’t do this. No banner shall be shown,” chairman Hamid Ansari said to unheeding members, asking them to go back to their seats.

Upset with members not listening to his appeal, Ansari adjourned the House for 10 minutes say-

ing he was forced to do so because of “disturbances created by three members in the well.” When the House reassembled, similar scenes were witnessed.

Ansari once again asked the three members to return to their seats. However, the members kept shouting slogans in the well. Amid slogan shouting, the Chairman adjourned the House.

press release from Acting President Shahsha L. Menhahu and General Secretary Honang M Jessuhu. In another school in Nagaland, a school teacher said that they go for “annual picnic” to “utilize” the MDM at the school. Keeping this aberration in mind, the ENSF discouraged the misleading publication in newspapers of photos of children having a sumptuous meal once in a year in school.

The ENSF has revealed a number of other anomalies that plague the MDM Scheme on the top bureaucratic as well as lower levels, one connected to the

other. Money is sanctioned but does not trickle down.

ENSF has asked the Government to “come clean” on which department is implementing the MDM Scheme in Nagaland and for this authority to justify as to “what extent they claim that the provision of MDM in the state was judiciously implemented and benefited the children in the schools.”

Some resolutions have been adopted by the ENSF to rectify the problems plaguing the Scheme.

These include the provision of a mid day meal every day without negotiation

and, among others, federating units of the ENSF collecting detailed project implementation reports from Sub Divisional Education Officers (SDEO) from their respective zones.

The Federation also made suggestions for the implementation of the MDM Scheme in Nagaland that include accountability on part of the implementing agency through press release of a detailed implementation project, communitization of the Scheme and encouraging locally available food products to be served.

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DIMAPUR, AUGUST 5 (MExN): The Nagaland Baptist Church Council today encouraged young people not to be overtly alarmed or confused by speculations on “satanic influences” but to stand firm amidst the confusion and take it as an opportunity to reaffirm their faith.

The NBCC stated that as per their research and investigation, “there are some elements of satanic influence in some activities among some young people.” However, it said that “there is no such established place of satanic worship.”

This was revealed through an NBCC press note after a meeting of all

NBCC officials with the Baptist Pastor’s Fellowship of Kohima on August 5 at the Kenneth Complex, NBCC HQ in Kohima. It was informed that the meeting dealt on various issues pertaining to Naga society and that the recent news of “satanic worship” was also discussed at length.

With regard to “satanic influences” among the youth, the NBCC along with the Baptist Pastor’s Fellowship of Kohima and Dimapur appealed for all Churches and congregations to be vigilant of “such satanic elements as the scripture warns.” The note also appealed for churches to intensify home visita-

tions and prayers, as well as to conduct educational seminars and bible studies.

It further encouraged families to create awareness by educating amongst themselves on the elements of satanic influences. “As it says in the Scriptures people under satanic influences can be delivered through the power of the Holy Spirit. Therefore, all the believers in Jesus Christ, our Lord should positively work towards this end,” it added.

The NBCC urged upon the public to not “over publicize the matter at hand because unintentionally, there are tendencies to popularize or even blow the matter out of proportion.”

Mid Day Meal Scheme in Nagaland: Total Failure NBCC encourages youth to stand firm

DIMAPUR, AUGUST 5 (MExN): The Eastern Naga Students’ Federation (ENSF), having observed various anomalies and irregularities in the implementation of the Mid Day Meal (MDM) Scheme in the state, has declared that children in schools in Nagaland do not eat a mid day meal and that the MDM Scheme in Nagaland is a “total failure.”

Children in a school in Nagaland on the AssamNagaland border watch their peers in the Assam school having a meal at midday everyday while they starve, revealed an ENSF

Veipune Sarah (Centre) with Dr. T.K. Bharali and Jasmine during a press conference at Kohima Press Club on Moday. (Morung Photo)

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Uproar in Parliament over telangana, Bodoland

Naga girl gets 100% US scholarship

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One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors Manmohan’s plea goes in vain

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to study abroad through 100% scholarship package from the US government.

This scholarship is part of a Community College Initiative Program of the US Government. The scholarship provides an opportunity for students who do not possess the funds to study abroad.

Community Colleges are the gateway to higher education in the U.S. for a growing number of students. They are the largest and fastest growing sector for higher education in America. These colleges offer various types of courses, which are mostly joboriented. Depending on the courses, students are awarded associate degrees or certificates.

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lected for the scholarship this year. The students are Baccalaureate students of Darwin School of Business, Guwahati. Expressing happiness over 100% scholarship awarded to two students from North East for the first time, Darwin School of Business deanacademics Dr. T.K. Bharali hoped many more students from the region would be able to avail such opportunities in the coming days too. “It is a great thing for north east people,” Dr. Bharali maintained.

Talking to media persons here at Kohima Press Club, Dr. Bharali said “Most of the students in this part of the country are unaware of the various scholarships/grants that are available for higher stud-

ies in India and especially abroad. Children of the political and bureaucratic class in the rest of India, most of whom do not need assistance, avail such opportunities and our pupils are left uninformed. We wish to take this message to the masses that higher education is now not only a privilege of the powerful and the rich.”

One of the selected students Zenith Lairikyengbam from Manipur has already joined her college in Florida, Miami Dade College, where she would be pursuing her business studies. Explaining her journey through the selection process, Sarah is still in disbelief that despite being from a humble background, she too could make it to the final cut and be eligible for the scholarship.

Her entire stay, travel and education will be sponsored by the U.S. Government along with her classmate Zenith. They will also be earning a stipend of 700 USD every month during the one-year course. Sarah is an inspiration for students in Nagaland to take such international tests and to not feel inferior.

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of intervention prog for PLHAs Mokokchung, August 5 (MExn): The Network of Mokokchung District People Living with HIV/AIDS (NMP+) has written a spirited statement to the Legislator Forum on HIV/AIDS suggesting to “investing towards the introduction of intervention programmes for PLHAs.” NMP+ Mokokchung President, T. Temsu Jamir in the appeal statement addressed to the Legislator Forum on HIV/AIDS said that the activities of the Legislator Forum on AIDS are laudable and acknowledgeable. “Though commendable, when we look into the welfare and benefit of the PLHAs, many of the activities do not aid towards the advantage of PLHAs. Sadly, to address, the activity such as advocacy

has only yielded towards prevention, which we feel it is outdated because such activities has been in surf for a long time and today most of the people are aware of it.”

The NMP+ Mokokchung suggests that instead of spending resources on such programmes, it would be more profitable if LFA invest towards the introduction of intervention programmes for PLHAs such as focusing towards care and support and treatment; effective referral system; and quality counselling by appointing trained outreach workers as a medium. The current pace of HIV detection is increasing so are the clients, and the increase has added more challenges and problem in reaching out the clients.

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shortage of man-power with only one outreach worker who has to reach out the six ranges under Mokokchung district which is a herculean task.

It has been our sincere effort since the inception of our organization. In this connection, Mokokchung as a district has ten legislator having their own contribution toward the fight against this pandemic. “To our observation, LFA has conducted 7-8 advocacy programmes in the last 5-6 years. This has yielded a small impact towards this cause. It is our proposal, out of total amount collected annually; only 5 lakhs investment can also meet all the programmes as mentioned above for the welfare of PLHAs,” the NMP+ Mokokchung added.

Further, it stated that

Mokokchung District has six ranges and therefore, appeal if LFA could appoint an outreach worker each in all the ranges and a monitoring/evaluator personal to monitor the activities.

NMP+ is a District level Network formally formed on November 30, 2006 by Positive members with a strong vision to struggle the challenges faced by the people living with HIV/AIDS. NMP+ is a registered society NMP+ is not for profit making but working for the upliftment of people living with HIV/AIDS in the district.

Since, its inception NMP+ has been working together with the Positive for the infected and affected people in Mokokchung district by improving the overall quality of life and by giving a humane face to the pandemic.

DIMAPuR, August 5 (MExn): Nagaland parliamentary secretary for National Highways & Mechanical, Nuklutoshi, has stressed on the need to revive “work culture” of forefathers for Naga society to march forward and prosper.

“Where is the work culture of our forefathers gone? We need to revive this work culture. Even the Bible says that one has to earn and eat by the sweat of the brow,” the parliamentary secretary during his visit and interaction with officers and staff of the Mechanical department in Dimapur on Monday.

Stating that the Mechanical department was one of the few revenue generating departments in the state, Nuklutoshi urged the officers and staff of the department to work harder to achieve the revenue target set by the government.

Nuklutoshi also expressed hope that the proposed

Parliamentary secretary, Nuklutoshi, addressing officers and staff of Mechanical Department, Dimapur, during his visit to the department on Monday. (Morung Photo)

setting up of a central workshop-cum-training institute would materialize in the next couple of years.

Dwelling on the fund constraints of the Mechanical department, which was bifurcated from the Nagaland PWD, the parliamentary secretary personally felt that the department would be in better position if it re-

mained under NPWD. He however said that through hard work and coordination among the departmental officers, staff and field workers, the department would bring substantial revenue to the government. The parliamentary secretary also assured to look into the grievances and problems of the

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employees, especially the field workers.

On the occasion, staff and field workers (mechanics) also shared their grievances. They urged the parliamentary secretary to look into basic demands of the field workers including providing uniforms and TA for mechanics as most of them get their salary after 3-4 months. They also requested the parliamentary secretary to look into the grievances of ad hoc field workers, some of who have not been regularized even after serving more than 20 years.

Additional chief engineer, HoD, and representatives of All Nagaland Mechanical Filed Staff Association also spoke on the occasion. Er. Pupaho Vitsu delivered the welcome address and Sr. K Tsashikha Wotsa proposed vote of thanks. Er. Imtinuksang Longkumer chaired the programme.

Solo inaugurates Yingli College Women’s Hostel Indian Himalayan Photography

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LongLEng, August 5 (MExn): Commissioner & Secretary, Higher & Technical Education, Nagaland, Kohima FP Solo inaugurated the Yingli College Women’s Hostel on August 2, 2013. The hostel was constructed through UGC assistance received under XI Plan (2007-2012).

A press release issued

by Temjeninla Tia, Convenor, Programme Committee stated that the chief guest appreciated the college authority for the successful completion of the hostel. He said that this is a demonstration of sincerity and dedication on the part of the college authority, and said that with hard work and dedication one can do a lot for the people and community. The hostel was blessed by offering the thanksgiving and dedicatory prayer by Pastor Adao of Bhumnyu Baptist Church.

The Commissioner &

Secretary also graced the Freshers’ Day 2013 of the college as the chief guest.

In his speech, he congratulated the students who got through the HSLC, HSSLC and graduation examinations. He exhorted the students that success has only

one formula i.e., ‘to stop thinking in terms of limitation and to start thinking in terms of possibility.’ He encouraged the students to look beyond the present trend of aiming only for government job since appointment in government

job has reached saturating point. He stated that government is planning to establish model college in each district with all streams like Arts, Science and Commerce, and said that Yingli College could be one among them.

The programme commenced after the rendition of college anthem and invocation prayer offered by Youth Secretary C. Hamyan Phom of Phom Baptist Christian Association. Welcome address was given

by Principal incharge Dr B Henshet Phom, after which senior students welcomed the freshers by presenting them gifts. It culminated with the crowning of Phanglong C Phom and Chuthei Y Phom as Mr & Miss.Yingli 2013 respectively.

BA students enchanted the audience with Um-o symphony. Hamphen, President, Association of Phom Graduates also presented a solo and Officers B Manpong and Deputy Commissioner, Longleng K Libanthung Lotha spoke on the occasion. Asst. Prof. B N Jha declared the vote of thanks.

Various items presented by the students marked the second session of the day.

tal, New Delhi. Till date, six children from different parts of Nagaland, have availed of this free heart surgery through the Rotary Club of Kohima.

A press release received here stated that the family can contact the following Rotarians: President, Rotary Club of Kohima, Rtn. Rosemary Dzuvichu, Department of English, Nagaland University, Kohima Campus (8974248224); Vice President, RC, Kohima, Rtn. Kezhokhoto Savi, Kohima Law College, Kohima (9436209438); Director, Community Service, RC Kohima, Rtn. Dr. Neisatuo Mero, Mero’s Dental Clinic, Opp United Traders, Kohima (9436070224); Director, International Service, RC Kohima, Rtn. Dr. Kezevituo Keditsu, Putuonuo Nursing Home, Kohima (9436001870).

Club (RRC) of Immanuel College organised a seminar on the topic ‘Blood Safety’ on August 2.

The resource person Dr. Temsu, MO Blood Bank District Hospital Dimapur spoke about the importance of donating blood. He said that donating blood was akin to performing a

ery individual should lead a clean life, so that we are free from dreadful diseases like HIV/AIDS, STI, and Hepatitis, the possession of which could disqualify us from donating blood when needed. He mentioned that the certificate issued by the blood bank to blood donors is a proof

the country.

Immanuel College Vice Principal Charles Mhonthung Ezung in a press release stated that Imolangla Asst Prof English department chaired the programme, Abeni Mozhui, Asst Prof Education department offered the opening prayer, Principal SC

Commissioner & Secretary FP Solo along with Deputy Commissioner, Longleng K Libanthung Lotha and others during the inauguration of the Yingli College Women’s Hostel on August 2.

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kohIMA, August 5 (MExn): The third Indian Himalayan Photography Competition in association with the Eastern Art Council will be held in Kohima from to September 25 to 27, 2013 as part of the Kohima Summit 2013 - Sustainable Mountain Development Summit (SDS-III), under the aegis of Sustainable Development Forum Nagaland (SDFN) and the Indian Mountain Initiative (IMI).

The Competition is expected to not just highlight the salient features of the Indian Himalayan Region but to encourage photography as a medium to speak for and about mountains, its people, their challenges and celebrate life as it is.

The format of submission is as follows: 1. There will be no entry fee for the competition

2. Entries can be submitted in both Colour and Black/White format 3. Entrants may submit maximum of 3 (high resolution digital photographs) 4. All digital files must be in JPEG format 5. Minimum resolution of photographs in soft copy should be 2500 pixel for both landscape and portrait orientation at 300 dpi 6. Participants in Students category MUST submit a valid ID card 7. All file size must not exceed 5 MB 8. Minimum or minor burning, highlights, dodging and colour correction are acceptable.

9. Photography must be taken within three years before the date of entry 10. Only photographs taken within the boundaries of the mountain states

of India namely Jammu & Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Mizoram, Manipur, Tripura and the hill district of Assam and West Bengal will be accepted 11. Caption must be complete and accurate, sufficient to convey the circumstances in which photograph was taken 12. Submission of entries implies acceptance of the rules of the exhibition in all respect 13. Disputes if any, shall be settled within the jurisdiction of the High Court of Nagaland, Kohima, Nagaland The last date for submission of entries is September 14, 2013. For more details, log on to http://sdfnagaland.org/photography.html

delivered welcome address and S Keppen Asst Prof Political Science introduced the aims and objectives of the RRC of the college. Vote of thanks was delivered by the Dean Students’ Welfare Temjenzungla and concluding prayer was offered

by Sutsungmenla, Asst Prof Zoology department.

Mokokchung, August 5 (MExn): The year 2013 is a significant one for Molungyimsen Church as the Lord is leading it in His grace and blessing. Since the year started, two revival programmes have been already conducted in the Church. The first revival was held from May 21 to 26, 2013 organised and sponsored by Artang Baptist Church Youth Department. The second revival was organised and sponsored by Sinai Ministry from July 19 to 21, 2013.

Molungyimsen Baptist Church Pastor, Imli Ozükum in a press release stated that during both the revivals, the Church has been immensely blessed through the worship services and the home visitations.

Pastor Imli said that Sinai Ministry conducted the revival as part of their Vision 2013 for 100 days

of Revival. A team of 15 members led by President Wabang Longchari and administrator Meren Jamir ministered in Molungyimsen with Nuklu Phom, Executive Secretary, Phom Baptist Churches Association (PBCA) as the main speaker.

The Pastor also stated that the Ministry sowed an amount of Rs 35000 as ‘Love Offering’ to the Church for a ‘Homecoming Revival’.

“The Church workers are praying for this ‘Homecoming Revival’ which will be held before shifting to the new church building which is nearing completion. This revival will be for spiritual grounding before shifting to the new church as directed by the Lord,” the Pastor added. While acknowledging the Sinai Ministry and the team, Molungyimsen Church also prays that God will bless them more for His glory.

Rotary Club of Kohima informs Immanuel College organises seminar on ‘Blood Safety’ Molungyimsen Church DIMAPuR, August 5 good deed in one’s life. In that the donor is a healthy Singh, Programme Officer on Free Heart Surgery (MExn): The Red Ribbon this line, he said that ev- and responsible citizen of of RRC of Immanuel College recount revival blessings kohIMA, August 5 (MExn): The Rotary Club of Kohima has informed those families who have children suffering from congenital heart disease that they can apply to the Rotary Club Kohima for the Free Heart Surgery. The following details must be enclosed with the application; latest recent clear/legible Echocardiography report of the child; all relevant medical details and papers of medical treatment; one photograph of the child.

The RC Kohima is continuing the Rotary Gift of Life Project for children with congenital heart disease (CHD). This Rotary Project has been giving children from under privileged families, suffering from CHD a new lease of life through a free heart surgery at Escorts Hospi-

Tsg District Hospital gets rainwater reservoir tank

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tuEnsAng, August 5 (DIPR): In an attempt to alleviate the anguish, due to acute shortage of water faced by the patients of the District Hospital Tuensang, the Department of Soil & Water Conservation initiated by DSCO constructed a harvesting tank which was handed over to the hospital authority.

The harvesting tank was inaugurated by Deputy Commissioner and District Health Society Chairman, T. Mhabemo Yanthan on July 9. In his inaugural speech, the DC appreciated the gesture on the humanitarian act and also appealed the user to develop the sense of ownership, so as to fulfill the wishes of the donor.

The Medical Superintendent Dr. Medem while speaking on the occasion stated that the Reservoir Tank was a much needed facility for the patients.

He thanked the chief guest, for providing a Deep Bore well to the same hospital which is the only source of water for the hospital at present.

The recently inaugurated Reservoir Tank has a capacity of 8150 litres built at a cost of Rs.52,000 it was reported.

Mass social work in Dimapur on August 9

DIMAPuR, August 5 (DIPR): The Dimapur District Planning & Development Board Meeting was held in the conference hall of Deputy Commissioner on August 5. In view of the forth-coming Independence Day celebration it was decided that a mass social work would be held on August 9. Therefore, all concerned are requested to actively participate in the social work from 6 am to 10 am, in the areas/colonies as assigned to them by the District Administration.

The meeting after deliberation,

unanimously approved the various schemes of LADF for the year 20132014 for all the five A/Cs under Dimapur Districts. Implementing/Verification Committees for LADP Schemes 2013-2014 were also approved and constituted. Earlier, District Transport Office Dimapur and DFO (Forest) Dimapur gave a power point presentation of their departmental activities.

Various suggestion and views were put forth by the elected representatives during the meeting which were well taken note of. Henceforth it was

also decided that for seeking permission of opening new schools from the DPDB it was decided that the application/process have to be routed through the respective local administrators and DEO where necessary inspections/formalities would be followed for onward submission to the board.

Parliamentary Secretary for IT & C, T.E., S & T and Taxes and Chairman Dimapur DPDB, Tovihoto Ayemi, chaired the meeting. The meeting was also attended by MLA S.I. Jamir and MLA Tokheho Yepthomi.

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First School of Rock in BHHS conducts spiritual awakening programme Kohima inaugurated

Our Correspondent Kohima | August 5

Chairman DPDB, Kohima and Advisor Music Task Force, Nagaland Khriehu Liezietsu graced the opening of the first School of Rock institute at Jail Colony, Kohima on Monday, August 5.

Addressing the function, Khriehu Liezietsu cited that Nagaland was one of the only states in the whole of India to have a government policy for promotion of music and added that Music Task Force (MTF) will try its best in its stride to promote local musicians to the international level. Citing MTF’s policy to promote local musicians by sponsoring them and also encouraging local musicians to take up music as a career and not just as a hobby, he assured that MTF would do its best to promote local musicians to make it big both in the national and international arena.

Khriehu also expressed hope that

MTF’s vision of making Nagaland the music hub of India would eventually come true one day.

Commenting on the event Chairman for the occasion Theja Meru commented and applauded the Government for patronizing music in the state. Earlier, Melekhoto Pucho proprietor of School of Rock giving his testimonial in the opening of the school acknowledged all his well-wishers who had helped and guided him in making his dreams of promoting music come true. It may be mentioned that Melekhoto and Mebu Sekhose also run the Symphony School of Music which has 250 + students under it.

The function witnessed musical pieces from the students of School. The faculty of the school has household names like Obed Kath, Bendang, Lichen Kichu, Niu Zümvü, Vikhie, Kusazo, Richard, Pezet, Thejangunuo and Limongi. The School also has an inbuilt cafeteria.

DIMAPuR, August 5 (MExn): Bethesda Higher Secondary School organised spiritual awakening programme for different categories of students. Keeping in view that the needs and interests of students at different levels vary, the programme was stretched into three days, from August 1 to 3for students of classes 10,11 & 12, classes 3, 4, 5 & 6 and classes 7, 8 & 9 on the theme “Be faithful”, “Follow Jesus”, and “Call to Jesus” respectively.

It was interesting to notice that the children happily involved themselves in activities other than academics on the very first day of re-opening of school after summer break, stated a press release issued by BHSS principal, MK Money. In order to make the programme more friendly and meaningful, the school management engaged Pastor Ivan, Jane

A section of the students attending the programme spiritual awakening organised by Bethesda Higher Secondary School, Dimapur.

and John — all from Australia who go around the world for children's ministry as resource persons. Bethesda volunteers were engaged in different activities while assisting the resource persons.

Pastor Ivan, Jane and John led different activities

throughout which included praise and worship, Bible games, songs, workshop on creativity and sharing of word of God. The children of different categories were highly enlightened spiritually and blessed. It was wonderful

to observe children engaging themselves enthusiastically in activities other than academics. Each day the programme culminated in sharing refreshments for all children. Many children gave their lives to Jesus, the principal stated further.

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3 Regional Nagaland, Manipur affected by Karbi agitation Abducted Officials released Tuesday

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have stopped coming from Assam. A Muslim vendor who deals in birds (country chicken, ducks, pigeons) told Newmai News Network in Dimapur on Monday that he has been at his home here due to the serious agitation in Karbi Anglong. The trader, who did not want to be identified, has been bringing local chicken, ducks and pigeons from Assam to Dimapur for the past 20 years or so. Meanwhile, Manipur and Nagaland bound trucks have been stranded in various places in Assam owing to the violent

agitation in Karbi Anglong district. Even as the JACAS agitation is heightening, the Karbi People’s Liberation Tiger (KPLT) has announced to a Karbi Anglong and Dima Hasao 300 hours bandh from 5:00 am of August 5.

Meanwhile, the Eastern Naga Peoples Organisation (ENPO) that had just turned down the Rs 300 crore package in lieu of the Frontier Nagaland, is believed to be indulging in intense discussion on the matter. Attempts to contact the ENPO leaders proved

futile by this news agency.

On July 24, holding rallies in the four districts of Kiphire, Tuensang, Mon and Longleng, the ENPO leaders had demanded that the government of India immediately starts the dialogue on the 'Frontier Nagaland' state creation by carving out the four districts from Nagaland state.

The ENPO's demand for the creation of 'Frontier Nagaland' peaked in 2011 accusing the successive Nagaland governments of meting out step-motherly treatments

to the four eastern districts of Nagaland. Two years ago, Nagas in four Nagaland districts had carried out massive public rallies demanding the creation of a new state christened as 'Frontier Nagaland' by bifurcating Nagaland.

The ENPO, which is the apex organization of six Naga tribes including Konyak, Khiamniungan, Chang, Yimchunger, Sangtam and Phom inhabiting the four districts, had submitted a memorandum to the Prime Minister urging him to realize the demand.

Darjeeling political Kuki agitation to begin soon August Kuki National Organisation without outside interfence scenario gets complicated IMPHAL, 5(NNN): The Telangana (KNO) and United People’s in their affairs.Since the

sILIguRI, August 5 (Et): Political scenario of Darjeeling hills, at present under indefinite bandh in old demand of separate statehood spearheaded by Gorkha Janamukti Morcha(GJM) and refueled

by Telengana development, is gradually taking complicated turn. Following initiation of indefinite period bandh from Saturday morning, many government properties including a police outpost at Pokhriabong in Sukhiapokhri area, tourist lodge in Takdah or rest house of PWD at Mirik were torched.

Shops, banks, private establishments, markets, hotels, all are closed.

Though officially cinchona and tea plantations are out bandh purview, "Without any vehicles running, we cannot get essentials in or our productions out," said a planter. Vehicles to and from Sikkim through its life line NH31A that runs over Darjeeling hills are also not free from fear as one of them was set ablaze

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AAPSU demands census of refugees in Arunachal

ItANAgAR, August 5 (PtI): The All Arunachal Pradesh Students' Union (AAPSU) today urged the state government to conduct census of the Chakma and the Hajong refugees and initiate measures to deport the illegal migrants.

The apex students' body urged for creating an independent department, headed by an IAS officer, to deal with the refugee issue. In a statement, it said that the refugees should be settled at a single place as they were scattered in the three districts of Lohit, Changlang and Papum Pare. Besides, the illegal settlers who came to the state after 1969 should be identified and deported. "If the state government fails to do so, AAPSU would conduct massive eviction drive against the illegal settlers and the government should take responsibility for any problem which arises out of the situation," the statement said.

AFFIDAVIT

Regd.No:1991/2013 Date: 05/08/13 I, Mr. Alex John Pfoze, son of ThiruAlex, resident of oriental colony, Dimapur, Nagaland, do hereby solemnly affirm and declare on oath as follows:1. That, I am a citizen of India and residing at the above address.

2. That, I usually used my name in short as John and also entered in my service records.

3. That, my actual name should be used in full as Alex John Pfoze for all purposes and intent including my service records.

4. That from now on I shall be using my name as “ALEX JOHN PFOZE”, in all official purposes and future references to me.

5. That this declaration is made to declare that I have changed my name from “John” to “ALEX JOHN PFOZE” which may be kindly accepted by any concerned authority.

6. That, the statements made in Para 1 to 4 are true ad correct to the best of my knowledge and I have signed this declaration on this 5th August 2013 at Dimapur, Nagaland.

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On July 8, while recalling its movement, the Kuki State Demand Committee (KSDC) had said that it was revived on November 2, 2010 based on the political movement of the Kuki National Assembly (KNA) for creation of Kuki State in the present day Manipur (First memorandum was submitted in 1960 to the then Prime Minister of India Late PT Jawaharlal Nehru). Before the advent of the British colonialists in the soil of the Kukis, the Kukis governed themselves under chiefs in their territories

merged of the Kuki territories with Kangleipak (Manipur) without the consent of the Kukis which added their suffering increases day in and day out, the KSDC said.

KSDC has been leading the mass movement for a separate Kuki State within the Constitution of India as Kukis are denied of their rights for life, security and development and peaceful governance of their affairs in their ancestral land even after India got independence and the attainment of statehood by Manipur.

The Kukis in present day Manipur is left with pamper and has no future for political as well as administration, it had lamented.

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nangkhong and Naorem Surchandra of Uripok Polem Leikai in Imphal.

A contractor named Sanayaima Sharma, a resident of Nagamapal Singjubung Leirak, Imphal and two drivers L Sharatchandra of Uripok Sorbon Thingel Leikai and L Ibobi of Naharup Pangong, also in Imphal were among the seven.

They were kidnapped by heavily armed militants near Dolaithabi Ahalllup on their way to Imphal on board two vehicles--one Maruti Gypsy

Hard Top and one Ambassador Car. The team visited the Dolaithabi Project site for inspection when the kidnapping took place.

IFCD Executive Engineer N Surachandra talking to reporters said he did not know the exact reason behind the kidnapping.

Disclosing the ordeal, he said they were kidnapped by heavily armed KRA militants. Notably, KRA is currently under suspension of operation involving both the state and Centtral Governments.

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AgARtALA, August 5 (tNN): The Tripura government has demanded relaxation of forest and environment clearance norms for developmental activities in northeastern states.

Finance and PWD minister Badal Choudhury said that most project proposals infrastructure in the region are held up in Delhi pending environmental clearance.

"I've asked road transport and highways minister Oscar Fernandez in the meeting on national highway development in Guwahati on Friday whether it is the mistake of the people of the region that they are protecting the environment in a region blessed with natural bounties," Choudhury stated. He also alleged, "Nowhere in the country development projects have suffered for so-called environment clearance except the northeast; whenever we undertake any road construction, housing, power line erection and railway track laying works it becomes a big issue."

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Despite strong message of Darjeeling District Magistrate Mr. S Mohan to all to attend offices, practically inside of all offices remained deserted even today but with heavy gathering of picketers outside.

A GJM activist Mangal Singh Rajput, who attempted selfimmolation succumbed on Saturday giving fresh blood to the movement."This death took place because of insincere hearing of the Centre and the State to our Statehood demand," said Benoy Tamang, GJM assistant general secretary.

To give the movement a moral boost, large number of Gorkha ex-servicemen have decided to surrender their medals. According to administrative officials, top home department officials are likely to visit Darjeeling soon to assess the situation.

While GJM President Mr. BimalGurung is leading the activities in Darjeeling, Mr. RoshanGiri, GJM General Secretary is leading a delegation in Delhi.

effect is fast affecting the North East region and in Manipur it is the Kuki Statehood Demand Committee (KSDC) that is likely to resort to agitation any day. Interacting with few media persons today, KSDC leaders said they may announce within the next few days its course of agitation.

KSDC leaders rued that they have been resorting to democratic forms of agitation in the past few years but the government has chosen to turn a deaf ears on the matter.

The KSDC leaders then said the Kukis have been demanding separate statehood since 1960 and had appraised the matter to the then Prime Minister of India Jawaharlal Nehru. "Even after 50 years of our movement, the government of India has not acknowledged our sentiment," the KSDC leaders expressed their regrets.

The KSDC has been demanding from both the state and the Central Governments to start peace parleys with two umbrella Kuki armed groups—The

IMPHAL, August 5 (NNN): All the seven state IFCD officials, including two Kolkata based engineers were freed by their abductors after three days of captivity. The Kuki Revolutionary Army (KRA), now under Suspension of Operation (SoO), was involved in the kidnapping, it has been revealed.

The seven persons, including two engineers Abhijit Sinh and Debajit Singh from Kolkata based RN Sinh Constructions Ltd were abducted by suspected militants somewhere in Dolaithabi Ahallup about 10 km from Dolaithabi Barrage Project, Dolaithabi village on August 1 afternoon, according to media reports.

Yesterday morning, Abhijit and Debajit were released by the abductors and later the remaining five were also freed around 10:30 pm.

The abducted two engineers of the state Irrigation and Flood Control Department were identified as Nandeibam Karunacharya, a resident of Thangmeiband Lilashing Khong-

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DIMAPuR, August 5 (NNN): Manipur and Nagaland will face serious impact if the ongoing violent agitation in Assam's Karbi Anglong district bordering Nagaland prolongs. People in Karbi Anglong district under the banner of Joint Action Committee for Autonomous State (JACAS) are fast intensifying their stir demanding statehood status.

In Nagaland's commercial hub of Dimapur, the pinch of the Karbi Anglong district agitation has begun to be felt as commodities

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ENSF to track out corruption in implementation of the Mid day Meal scheme in Nagaland State

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he Eastern Naga Students’ Federation (ENSF) in reference to the notification letter issued to its federating units dated 18th Jan 2013 and the subsequent report collected and analyses conducted thereafter had observed various anomalies and irregularities while implementing Mid Day Meal (MDM) scheme in the state. As per the findings on MDM, the Federation strongly declares that the children in the school do not eat Mid Day Meal.

A tale of two schools, at the inter-state border (Assam & Nagaland). (Based on true observation). The government of Assam had implemented the Mid Day Meal scheme efficiently where the children in their states’ school gets regular meal in the school. Nagaland on the other hand had failed to do the same. As usual, children come to school regularly to learn. The climax of the story is saddened when Children from school in Nagaland have to keep watching the children from the School in Assam having sumptuous meal during the day. In another incident, A school teacher replied that they go for annual picnic when asked on the utilization of the Mid day meal in the school.

Under Public Distribution System (PDS) the provision has been made for allocation of 150 grams of rice per child per school day (Std 1-VIII). Effective form April 2008, cooked/processed hot meal with minimum content of 300 calories & 8-12 gms of proteins was served each day of school for a minimum of 200 days or 3 Kgs per student per month for 9-11 months in a year, where

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food grain was distributed in raw form.

As per the Annual administration Report under the Department of School Education, The Project outlay Approval Board (PAB) has approved total an outlay of Rs. 2827.35 Lakhs for implementation of MDM Scheme in Nagaland in the financial year 2012-13. However, the department had claim that they had received only 2768.23 Lakhs till date out of the total PAB. As per the detail fund provision under MDM Scheme Rs. 375.45 lakhs have been sanction for purchasing food grains, 1288.98, 462.56 & 13.04 lakhs on cooking cost for Primary, Upper primary & NCPL schools respectively, Rs 157.54 lakhs was sanction on transportation, 49.99 lakhs on MME and 497.79 lakhs on Cook honorarium.

ENSF would like to question the Government to come out clean as to which department is implementing the MDM scheme.

The concern authority should also justify as to what extent they could claim that the provision of MDM in the state was judiciously implemented and benefited the children in the schools. Can anyone claim to have served for at least 30 days in a year? ENSF totally declare the MDM Scheme in Nagaland as total failure.

It’s a shame to talk & debate on misutilization of MDM scheme in the state when India (developing country) is talking about on how to improve the nutritious level of content in the meal.

Nagaland has the total of 878 middle schools and 1794 Lower primary schools.

You work to earn a morsel To fill something that is empty.

You break your back And bruise your hands Building towers for the rich, And soon those at the top Will forget about Those left on the bottom.

One day you go back To your parents house.

You ride on the same old dusty road.

You meet your parents.

Your mother is pale and old Your father is weak.

You say nothing As the tears roll down on your father’s eyes And you saw your own reflection in his tears.

You feel like a nothing man.

You slip away to your old room.

Only the silence lingers in your ears.

You watch the fading afternoon light Lit up your room.

You close your eyes.

You know the years, months, days Will take nothing away from you.

You are so devoid of any hope.

You know the coin will keep on spinning And the old beggar Will still be sitting On the same old pavement.

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You stand in line at the Employment Office Under a scourging sun Waiting for hours to apply for a job Taken by someone.

You walk back home.

On the way you meet a beggar You toss a coin On his aluminum plate.

You watch it spin.

He stares at you Anticipating for something more.

You smile and walk away.

Your thoughts wander on And you wonder does the old beggar ever envy all the people Who walks pass him every day in their fancy dress Or wish to be the man who drives the SUV. You kick at a stone And curse the astrologer who foretold your stars.

You look yourself in a cracked mirror Your hair is thinning The lines on your face are scars You seem like in a dark wood Where the right road was lost and gone.

Your road less travel Is trample by the cons, charlatan……..

The fund on MDM scheme Rs. 2827 lakhs if shared among 2672 schools judiciously, then every school should get about Rs.110000 (one lakh ten thousand only) each but sadly no schools ever receive more than 10 bags of BPL Rice in a year costing Rs, 400 per bags.

The question of Transportation issue should not be tabled as Rs 157.54 lakhs had been sanction on transportation. Many schools sell off their provision in the town as they are not allotted with transportation cost. Publication in the news paper with a photo of children having sumptuous meal once in a year should be strictly discouraged. Citizen/community should understand that the MDM scheme provision is to be served daily and it does not mean for School Annual Picnic.

With all this understanding the ENSF had adopted a strict resolution under its theme ‘Rectification’ which needs to be adhered by the concern authority for the welfare of the children in the school especially for the eastern region (can be applicable to whole state) • Mid day Meal should be served daily. (no negotiation) • Out of Rs. 157.54 lakhs reserved for transportation by the PAB, Major Share of the total budget outlay should be invested in the eastern region and those pocket areas with deplorable road condition and transportation problem.

• All the federating units under ENSF are directed to collect the detail project

implementation report from the office of the Sub Divisional Education Officer (SDEO) by 10th August. The concern authority at the district level should furnish the name of the appointed cook under every school to the ENSF through its federating unit.

The Federation also would like to make some humble suggestion on the implementation of the MDM scheme in the region.

• The Implementing agency at the state level should publish the detail implementation report of the MDM scheme at the state level (district wise) through press.

• MDM Scheme project should be communitized.

• Franchise the MDM scheme project to the local self help group in the village/area.

• The Self Help group at the village level should open an account where the cash should be credited directly from the implementing agencies.

• Encourage locally available food products to be served in the school.

Lastly, the federation upholds and anticipates positive response in good faith and further appeal to all section of society to come forth and contribute in its fight for rectification.

Shahsha L. Menhahu, Acting President

Honang M Jessuhu, General Secretary

Aviva may exit Indian insurance market New Delhi, August 5 (Pti): UK-based financial services major Aviva Plc is reportedly planning to exit from its over 10-year old Indian joint venture life insurance company with diversified FMCG player Dabur. Aviva is reportedly in the process of hiring corporate advisors to find buyers for its 26 per cent stake in the Indian business.

When contacted for comments, Aviva India in an e-mail said: “We don’t comment on market speculations or rumours as a policy.”

E-mails sent to Aviva Plc in this regard did not elicit response. Various options are being considered for the exit including the sale of its stake to Dabur Group if Aviva Plc fails to find a foreign insurer to buy it.

Started in 2002, the life insurance firm has a paid up capital of Rs 2,004 crore. Aviva India, a 26:74 joint venture the UK-based Aviva Plc and Dabur posted a decline of 11 per cent in terms of total premium collection at Rs 2,140.6 crore in 2012-13 compared with Rs 2,415.8 crore in the previous fiscal. Earlier this year, the Netherlands-based ING decided to exit ING Vysya Life Insurance Company by selling its 26 per cent stake to domestic partner Exide Industries.

ING’s exit from the Indian life insurance joint venture is part of the previously announced divestment of ING’s Asian Insurance and Investment Management businesses, the

Dutch banking and insurance company had said in a statement. Last year, the US-based insurer New York Life had exited India by selling its 26 per cent stake in its joint venture company to Japan’s Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Company.

Indian insurance sector has 42 private players in life and general insurance business sharing about 30 per cent of the market share in life insurance and 41 per cent of the market share in general insurance sector.

Are consumers aware of what we are consuming?

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s consumers are we aware of what we’re consuming? If ACAUT finding is anything to go by, Nagas should stop eating pork. During its investigation, ACAUT found out that the whole system, from pork suppliers to butchers including the veterinary department have put at risk the health of consumers-if anything, over the years the system has been hijacked by vested interest and greedy individuals making a mockery of the adage consumer rights and public health.

ACAUT invited all the pig suppliers for a meeting and raised the following points: 1. As soon as the train wagons carrying pigs reaches Dimapur, the dead pigs are off-loaded at discounted price to butchers. These butchers sell off the meat of the dead pigs as normal meat.

2. The diseased pigs are sold off to butchers at discounted price to be sold to consumers.

3. The pigs are fed forcefully with weight gaining additives at the time of disposal so that it gains much weight minus meat content accruing profit for suppliers which is unfair trade practice 4. Rs. 400-500 is charged extra upon butchers on every pig sold as feeds expenditure incurred between arrival of pigs and its disposal.

The suppliers did not respond to the points raised by ACAUT and their refusal to answer the points raised purely in public interest was taken as an acknowledgement of the former indulging in unfair trade practices.

ACAUT also invited the butchers’ union and put forward the following proposals for implementation: 1. The consumers should get their choice of meat.

2. There should be separate rates for meat, hoofs or trotters, intestines and head.

3. They should stop cheating consumers and implement usage of weighing machines instead of hand-held “palas” or weighing scales.

4. The butchers should bring down the retail rate of meat.

The butchers expressed their inability to implement the above points raised. In fact, with straight faces they justified the usage of “palas” on the ground that weight machines would reduce their margin of profit. They also deftly rejected the issue of consumer choice and different rates for different body parts. The union was uncompromising on all the points raised by ACAUT and instead flatly blamed the suppliers for all the ills in pork retailing. On the issue of dead meat, the union was evasive but acknowledged that members indulge in it at their own risk. However, the union admitted as much, that pig is sold to butchers on credit on daily basis by suppliers and repayment is done after the meat is sold off. Given this system, ACAUT suspects that the suppliers give mostly the diseased or infirm pigs to Dimapur butchers and supply the relatively consumable ones to other districts.

ACAUT is of the view that Nagas should not give premium value to “local” pork which is highly sought after. Unscrupulous butchers never buy healthy pigs but always seek diseased or dying animals at discounted price and this is sold off to unsuspecting consumers with a neat profit.

The question which should be on everybody’s mind is, is it worth consuming pork at the risk to our health?

Issued by Media cell, ACAUT

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Tuesday 6 August 2013

Medziphema rallies for peace

Dimapur, august 5 (mExN): Braving incessant rains on Monday, hundreds of people from all walks of life, including students gathered at the Medziphema town junction for a peaceful protest rally against factional violence and the dumping of dead bodies in the Medziphema area.

The rally, organized by the Medziphema Village Council, included a function which was chaired by Nikhonyü Kuotsu, Chairman of the MVC. In his opening remarks, Kuotsu said that Medziphema is considered to be one of the most peaceful places in Nagaland, cohabitated by people from different parts of the state. However, he expressed resentment against the recent

Expresses resentment against factional violence

factional violence and subsequent dumping of dead bodies in the area. Dosau Kuotsu, former Chairman of the MTC, along with Presidents of various tribal units in Medziphema also lashed out at the perpetrators of such violent and criminal acts.

The function was followed by a procession with placards and banners to the administrative office, where a memorandum was submitted to the ADC, Medziphema urging for immediate measures against these “senseless, nefarious activities,” while also pledging cooperation to the administration.

The joint memorandum signed by Nikhonyü Kuotsu, Chairman of MVC, Vi- Students hold banners in a protest rally against fackuolatuo Miasalhou, Head tional violence and dumping of dead bodies at MedziGB & Khriengulie Kapo, phema on August 5.

Secretary of MVC stated that “so far four unknown persons had been murdered and dumped in our land by unknown persons and retrieved from four different locations under different conditions on December 12, 2012; December 18, 2012; March 18, 2013 and July 27, 2013.”

It said that these incidents have created a sense of fear and insecurity among the people of the area. It stated that the people of the area would not remain silent spectators to “any criminal activities which vitiate the peaceful atmosphere and defilement of our land by any individual or group.”

The memorandum expressed disappointment over the inability of the law enforcing agencies to crack the cases, “even

though it had been registered and considerable number of days passed.”

It also added that none of the cases have been solved nor any arrests made in connection with the cases.

The memorandum therefore urged upon the ADC to immediately take cognizance of the matter and initiate necessary actions to arrest and award befitting punishment to the culprits at the earliest. It also demanded that further security be provided to the public. The memo also called for strict vigilance and deterrent actions from the authority so that such “ugly and unwanted incidents do not happen again and that Medziphema is not used as a criminal haven and a dumping ground of dead bodies in future.”

State government has got nothing Cong says NPF responsible for ‘indirectly to do with factional clashes: Kaito sabotaging outcome of Naga peace talks’

Dimapur, august 5 (mExN): State Home Minister G. Kaito Aye has termed it as “very unfortunate that the NPCC still fails to realize that the State Government has got nothing to do with the factional clashes as the factions are engaged in ceasefires with the Government of India and all these factional clashes have to be dealt with the Ceasefire Monitoring mechanism headed by the Chairman appointed by the Government of India”.

In a rejoinder to a statement issued by the Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee (NPCC), the Home Minister expressed regret that whenever the NPCC started criticizing the Government, “they have the habit of mixing up with the Naga political issue which should not be at all pulled up in a manner

in which they (NPCC) have been repeatedly using”.

While welcoming “every criticism made by the NPCC against the NPF-led DAN Government in the State” the Home Minister pointed out that “we should be very cautious when we start criticizing on Naga political related issues”.

With regard to the illegal taxation issue in the State, Kaito expressed equal concern over what he termed as a “scourge” and also appreciated the movement launched under the banner of the ACAUT. “However, I personally feel that while taking up such issue, it should be steadily handled and those connected with it should be given some kind of breathing space to think to reach a logical conclusion”, the Home Minister stated.

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JaKhama, august 5 (mExN): Jakhama Baptist Church (JBC) is organizing a spiritual awakening program exclusively for the students of St. Joseph’s College, Jakhama from August 9 –11, 2013 with the theme, “Remember your creator in the days of your youth”- Eccl. 12:1.

JBC pastor Rev. Zapovil Sophie in a press release informed that the speakers will be Rev. Dr. Mechiehol Savi, Evangelist, Kezhosato Savi, Khetoni Tase and consumer activist Kezhokhoto Savi. Creative Arts and Worship team of CFZ, Jakhama will lead the worship.

Presentation on topics, “True Love Waits” and “Financial Management” would be conducted during the business hour at noontime on the second and third day respectively. Registration is limited, therefore interested students have been

requested to register their names with the executive of Christian Fellowship Zhodi (CFZ) so as to attend all the sessions. The pastor further requested the students of St. Joseph’s College, especially the ones residing in rented house, hostels both private and main (college) to attend the program.

CFZ is one of Jakhama Baptist Church’s centenary missionary projects and the project has its special target for college students and non-local working families residing in and around Jakhama. Today, it is more or less a college students’ Christian fellowship and is growing every year with more and more students being enrolled in the college, Rev. Zapovil said adding, “We are blessed for God’s faithfulness in our mission for the extension of His kingdom.”

He further urged all to pray for the program.

out that any Government without an effective opposition cannot be expected to be a good Government, “yet if the opposition started playing destructive role and cannot digest the good works and realities that have been happening in the State, then their role as an opposition is under question”, Kaito stated.

The Home Minister reminded the NPCC that as a responsible Government they have been discharging their “responsible duties in maintaining law and order and also in protecting the lives of the civilians in the State” and that the “NPCC cannot appreciate the realities that have been happening in the State”. Kaito also advised the NPCC that “unmindful and blind allegation hurled” against his statement (rejoinder) “shall not be appreciated”.

Spiritual awakening prog One SBI for St Joseph’s students employee found dead in Tuensang

tuENsaNg, august 5 (mExN): An SBI employee, Kamal Sharma from Main Branch Tuensang was found dead at his rented house on the evening of August 4. It was reported that the house of the employee, who was staying alone, was found locked from inside for the whole day. After receiving information from the house owner and neighbours in the evening, police force-opened the door and found the person lying dead in his bed with signs of blood and other ingested substances vomited from the mouth. Post mortem report indicated that the person died of "hepatitis and acute liver failure".

The bank remained closed for half the day on account of paying homage to the deceased.

Yimchunger folks in Delhi celebrate Metemneo festival

Celebrants of Metemneo festival in Delhi pose for a lens on August 5.

NEW DElhi, august 5 (mExN): Yimchunger tribe in Delhi celebrated their most popular Metemneo festival on August 5 at Nagaland House, New Delhi. A press release issued

by PRO Nagaland House

New Delhi Kuolie Mere informed that parliamentary secretary for CAWD, R. Tohanba graced the occasion.

He highlighted the significance of the festival and its values, and cultural practices of the tribe, it said.

Parliamentary secretary for Rural Development, C.L John Konyak also exhorted and greeted the gathering.

Deputy Resident Commissioner John B. Chawang as well as the PRO was also present.

Dimapur, august 5 (mExN): The Opposition Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee (NPCC) has claimed that the NPF led DAN govt, into its third term, should be held responsible for “indirectly sabotaging the outcome of Naga political peace talks by creating a situation where all our neighbouring states particularly Manipur views us with suspicion and have become the main hindrance to the outcome of any solution”.

The Nagaland Congress also disclosed that as the Indo Naga political talk reaches its final stages, “the main obstacle to hammer out a political solution lies with the State of Manipur with whom the NPF govt has soured relations during the past decade”.

“The opportunism and doublespeak of the NPF to foray into the political landscape of Manipur claiming to be the champions of the Nagas inhabiting the hill districts of Manipur have done more harm than good to the centuries old relations maintained between the hill tribes and the dominant Meitei tribes living in the plains”.

Also it was reminded that the NPF led by Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio had on various occasions described Manipur Chief Minister Ibobi as the big-

gest enemy of the Naga people which according to the NPCC had further created “lot of animosity with the majority populace of Manipur”.

All this was stated in a press rejoinder issued by the Media Cell of NPCC in response to a statement of peace activist Niketu Iralu published in some section of local dailies on August 4 2013, on the recent meeting of the State Congress legislators with Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh at Delhi.

“Terming the Prime Minister’s assurance to the State Congress legislators on finding an early solution to the Naga Political issue as bureaucratic response is unfortunate and unwarranted”, stated the NPCC in response to Niketu Iralu.

The NPCC stated that Naga intellectuals and peace activists like Niketu Iralu should question the NPF govt headed by Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio for what it termed as “their reckless statements and actions which has politically isolated the Nagas and more so on their (NPF) contribution to the Naga political talks which they proudly claim to be facilitators without knowing the content of talks going on between the GoI and Naga Underground Groups”.

According to the NPCC,

the NPF also stands politically isolated by having antagonized and lost trust of all major national parties at the Centre through its sheer political opportunism and has no friends or allies elsewhere.

The State Congress press note also stated that it wanted to “rescue the people of the state from the uncertainty of long drawn political negotiations between GoI and various underground groups” and that it was giving all out support to find a solution setting aside “other ideological party differences” in order to arrive at a consensus to the Naga political talks which has been going on for the past 16 years.

The NPCC also stated that “ultimately, the Naga political talks will be resolved at the highest political level”. As such it wanted Naga intellectuals to refrain from making unwarranted statements, “more particularly when it comes to sincerity of Delhi”.

“The Nagas at this juncture can ill afford to unnecessarily implicate the Govt of India for the present imbroglio and cause irreparable damage to whatever goodwill or rapport that has been established with the highest political office in the country”, stated the NPCC.

Dimapur, august 5 (mExN): The Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM), youth wing of the BJP released a journal written by Bill Lotha, convenor BJYMNER, which records all the party activities in the northeastern states on August 3 at BJP state office Dimapur. President BJP Nagaland, Dr. M. Chuba Ao, was the chief guest.

A press release from the BJYM general secretary

Mathew K Janger informed that Dr. M. Chuba Ao said that every citizen of the country wants peace and development, so, people of the nation would live in cordial association with the neighboring states in the country. Stating that the prime agenda of the BJP leadership is to develop rural areas, he said that BJP party could play a role in fulfilling the needs of the common people.

Meanwhile, Hayithung Bill Lotha, convener BJYM NER asserted that many activities still have to be done. He assured that BJYM would continue to serve for the needs of the people in the region.

The note further informed that Guest of honour, Prashan Arora, general secretary (Org), and in-charge of Nagaland and Arunachal Pradesh BJP also spoke at the programme.

chizami, august 5 (mExN): The Chizami Town Adhoc Committee, Chizami Village Council and the community in general have expressed appreciation to the SBI, Chizami Branch for their “concern and services towards the development of our rural economy.” A press release appended by Chizami Village Council chairman and Chizami Town Adhoc Committee vice chairman informed that the Bank was on the brink of closing down few years ago owing to non sensitization of many banking facilities, few government schemes/loans, and non-recovery of loans.

“Today, the Branch is thriving to generate profit for the institution and benefit the rural communities in the area,” it stated. With the improvised ambience

and latest facilities available, the note acknowledged that it makes entrepreneurs or any citizen have confidence and security to invest or transact with the branch.

It further stated that the branch has been made people friendly across all sections of the community, leading to efficient running of the branch. “Loans for Govt. employees, businessmen, entrepreneurs, farmers, pensioners and villagers, etc. are processed on priority basis and at the convenience of the customers,” it said. “Schools and students are not left out; accounts for students are opened at zero balance conveniently from the schools itself.”

Apart from the loans and facilities offered by the Branch, the note particu-

larly highlighted present branch manager's inspiration, which it said has made the people to invest, “which is a lasting indication of financial boost for the rural populace.” “This is one SBI Branch which runs after the people regardless of their economic status,” it recognized while wishing for the positive trend of activities to continue even in the years to come.

Therefore, in support of the present branch manager’s “able leadership and initiatives”, Chizami people have fervently appealed to all the government departments, NGOs, business enterprises and all the villages under the 17th Chizami Assembly Constituency to co-operate and safeguard the Branch, which it said was the lone financial institution in the constituency.

BJP youth wing release journal

SBI Chizami lauded for its service

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CM extends festival greetings Dimapur, august 5 (mExN): The Chief Minister of Nagaland, Neiphiu Rio has extended festive greetings to the Khiamniungan tribe, Yimchunger tribe and the Muslim community on the occasions of the Biam festival, Metemneo festival and Idu’l Fitre respectively. In a press note issued by the CM’s office, Rio expressed hope that the festivals would be celebrated under a spirit of peace and brotherhood and that they would contribute towards unity and understanding between all communities.

RSU to inspect govt schools within its jurisdiction

Kohima, august 5 (mExN): Razeba Students’ Union (RSU) in an executive meeting held on July 30 resolved to carry out inspection drive in government schools within Razeba jurisdiction. In a press release, RSU president Dapulu Lea Tho-o Shupao general secretary stated, “RSU delegates its power to all affiliated units to exercise inspection drive within its own unit and report to the RSU office once in a month.” Looking at the concerned units’ report, RSU expressed regret to that few teachers were neglecting their duties.

RSU further warned it will “execute extreme power for the welfare of the students’ community” and strongly stated “the students’ future will not be compromised under any circumstances.” In this regard, RSU has directed all the erring teachers to be in their respective station and be sincere in their duties. The defaulters will be penalized as per the union’s meeting resolution, it warned.

Alder College sad over student’s death

Kohima, august 5 (mExN): The principal, staff and faculty of Alder College, Kohima have expressed sadness over the sudden death of their student, Abraham Siarau. “We all knew him as a sincere student and a cheerful person,” a condolence note stated. The note further extended heartfelt condolences to his family and loved ones.

Phek dist VDB election

Kohima, august 5 (mExN): The Phek District VDB Association office bearers’ election and adoption of resolution is scheduled to be held on August 8 at Phek Town Guest House at 10:00 AM. Two representatives from each block and intending candidates have been asked to attend the same.

LMRSU to tour villages and towns

WoKha, august 5 (mExN): Lotha Middle Range Students’ Union (LMRSU) will be undertaking a tour in the villages and towns within its jurisdictions from August 8 to September 8. Therefore the Union has asked all the respective village/town Students’ Union presidents, Village Council chairmen, Village Education Chairmen, women hohos, VDB secretary, Headmaster, Head in-charge, teacher in-charge and all the departmental heads to co-operate during its tour. Further, the LMRSU president has asked the entire unit presidents to be stationed in its respective towns/villages during its tour without fail. The main focus for this tour is to motivate and encourage the students to perform academically, it added. The exact schedule for the proposed tour to each respective village and town will be pre-informed to its unit president.

LSUSJC 25th anniversary today

Kohima, august 5 (mExN): The Lotha Students’ Union St. Josephs’ College (LSUSJC) will celebrate its 25th year anniversary on August 6 at The Heritage, Old DC Bungalow at 10: 30 am with MLA and Chairman NSMDC, N. Thomas Lotha as the chief guest. The celebration will be held under the theme “Heralding tomorrow” where assistant professor, department of sociology Nagaland University Athungo Ovung will be the theme speaker and PS to minister forest, Hachio Patton will be the special guest. The organizing committee has informed all the present students, alumni and well wishers to come and join the celebration.

Helpers’ Club feed stranded passengers

Dimapur, august 5 (mExN): In an effort to provide food to the passengers stranded at Dimapur railway station due to statehood demand protests in Assam and West Bengal, Helpers’ Club Dimapur prepared food at the railway station and fed around 3000 to 4000 passengers on August 3 and 4. In a press release appended by its president and general secretary, the Club has thanked Rokonicha Pucho, Inspector RPF and GRPF OC Salie Nagi for providing space to prepare food and also for other assistance.

ZSWO Mkg informs

moKoKchuNg, august 5 (Dipr): Zila Sanik Welfare Officer, Mokokchung, Lt. Col. R S Ahluwalia (Retd) has informed all Ex-Servicemen (ESM) that Mokokchung district Ex-Servicemen contingent will take part during Independence Day Celebration on August 15. Therefore, all Defence ESM and Assam Rifles ESM from the following villages - Aliba, kenunger,Chungtia, Khensa, Longkhum, Mangmetong, Ungma, Chuchuyimpang, Mokokchung village and Mokokchung Town have been directed to attend the function. Further, it informed that the Commandant 31 Assam Rifles will host Independence Day feast after the function.

Excise Peducha seizes liquor

Kohima, august 5 (mExN): The Excise duty party at Peducha has seized 180 bottles of 750 ml IMFL, 192 cans of 500 ml beer, and 36 bottles of 650 ml beer during July 29 to August 5. Stating this in a press release, Superintendent of Excise & Prohibition informed that the accused were penalized under NLTP Act and the seized articles were deposited at the Superintendent of Excise & Prohibition office Malkhana Kohima.

Ex Underground Khellers meet

Dimapur, august 5 (mExN): The Ex Underground Khellers meeting has been convened on August 9, 2013, 11:00 am at the residence of its village chairman TL Angami. A release from the Ex Underground Khel convenor Theja Angami informed that the meeting will discuss about the rehabilitation land which was legally allotted to them by the village authority. All the members of Ex Underground Khellers have been informed to attend the meeting positively.

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The Power of Truth

The Morung Express TuEsDAy 6 AuGusT 2013 vol. vIII IssuE 214

The Blindness

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t was Mohandas Gandhi who lamented that “an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.” Today, Nagas are compelled by our circumstances to recognize that we have indeed become blind. Almost 70 years ago, Gandhi was the only Indian leader that seemed to understand the Naga aspiration to live as free peoples and even stated that “Nagas have every right to be independent.” Our Naga elders inspired by Gandhi’s non-violence guided the Naga struggle on the commitment of non-violence through practicing civil-disobedience and non-cooperation.

Today, Gandhi’s words that “an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind” are more pertinent then ever in the Naga situation. The internal chasms within the Naga culture have blinded us, distorted our vision and blurred our ability to see the way to peace and reconciliation. We are captive with our narrow domestic walls and are blocking consciously nurturing political unity among the Nagas. We see patterns of new organizations emerging all the time leading to further fragmentation of the collective and wholeness of Naga society.

This contributes to isolating one Naga from the other, not realizing that the isolation of one leads to the isolation of all and further strengthens the State’s practice of divide and rule.

We have complied with and become trapped in the mythmaking of an institutionalized state identity. Our isolation and rejection of one another has broken relationships, destroyed trust and created barriers. Ironically, we think we see, but, in reality, we have grown blind to our shared humanity through this divisiveness. We may not even see one another as fellow human beings. Instead, we see ‘them’ as aliens, outsiders, competitors, and as objects of status, class, clan, and tribe, etc. When that happens, we label the rejected as “the other,” and declare them as dispensable and disposable, thereby throwing ourselves into further chaos.

If Nagas want to see our way towards a new world based on justice, liberty and equality, we need to first recover our sight and rekindle the desire for the vision of JustPeace. We need to begin imagining such a Naga world is possible and to recognize that our shared humanity is an essential stepping stone in this journey. Then, we can begin to evolve a praxis of reflection and action that transforms into a new reality. It is through recovering our imagination and desire that our culture can transition from blindness to having full vision, from numbness to imagination and from oppression and subjugation to justice.

As Gandhi said, we need to become the change we envision. This is the first step needed to catalyze the momentum for Nagas to experience a shared humanity. When Nagas open our eyes and imagine a new world of justice and equality, then we are on the road to JustPeace.

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Katrina Rabeler and Chris Francis

How to See Stars We could all see the sky as our ancestors once saw it just by turning off the lights, according to the International Dark Sky Association 1. Catch a meteor shower Meteor showers occur when the Earth moves through debris left by passing comets. They’re named according to the constellation from which the meteors appear to fall. In general it’s best to view meteor showers after midnight, looking east.

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HE FONDEST memories I have of Kathy Kelly are of her singing. It’s safe to say that her three nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize were not for her voice, which is sometimes sweet but often a touch out of key. At times I’ve imagined her feeling briefly self-conscious about this, but that passes. The song remains, and I am again reminded of just how deeply this woman can move me.

In spring 1999, in a small banquet room at Georgetown University, I first heard Kelly sing and speak about the suffering in Iraq. A crowd of about 200 people had gathered to hear about her work. She had been to Iraq dozens of times to put a human face on the conflict there and to defy the drastic financial and trade embargo that the U.N. Security Council had imposed shortly after Iraq’s 1990 invasion of Kuwait.

She briefly went over the statistics—the deep poverty, the lack of medicines, the estimated half-million children who had died, many due to the U.N. sanctions, enforced in part by a U.S.-led blockade—but she quickly moved on. Statistics weren’t her strength.

Instead she spoke from the heart. Kelly talked about the ordinary Iraqis she had met: the worn women who served her tea and biscuits they could barely afford, the countless kids in threadbare handme-downs who ran after her merrily in the street, the tired doctors who broke down crying as they remembered all the children they had lost, the stone-faced parents who accepted her condolences because they didn’t know what else to do. She also told the story of Zayna, a 7-month-old baby girl who died of malnutrition shortly after Kelly visited her in the hospital.

Then she started singing “We Shall Overcome” in Arabic, after telling the crowd how her friend Sattar, an Iraqi engineer turned taxi driver, had spent hours sitting with her in Baghdad, patiently translating the lyrics into Arabic and teaching them to her. I felt completely ridiculous listening to her singing words to a song I imagined had no cultural relevance to Iraqis. Noticing people in the audience crying, I silently mocked them for being so sentimental. Then I realized that I, too, was crying.

Like many in the room that day, I was already aware of the crisis. Like others, I was already reasonably outraged. But intellect is not enough. The ultimate failure of reason is that it alone cannot break through a distant heart, and you have to break hearts if you’re going to move people to take action.

KELLY FIRST STARTED singing in the choir of her family’s church during the tumultuous years of the ’50s and ’60s. The third of six children, she was raised in a working-class Catholic home in Chicago’s Garfield Ridge neighborhood. Those times had a deep effect on her. “There were plenty of heroes and heroines to look up to during my teen years,” she says, “when Martin Luther King’s brave efforts in Chicago were denounced by my relatives and neighbors, and Daniel Berrigan’s flashy wit and smile lit up our imaginations about creative subversion. “I was fairly sure that I’d grow up to join the nuns. Nuns showed no interest in acquiring personal wealth, and they seemed happy about looking after us. I didn’t become one of the nuns, but I’m surely cheering for them now.”

In the ’70s, Kelly earned a master’s degree in religious education from Chicago Theological Seminary and started teaching at St. Ignatius College Prep, where she sometimes presented articles to her students from a range of radical sources, including essays by Karl Meyer—a pacifist, member of the Catholic Worker movement, and war tax resister whom she later married in 1982. Although they divorced in 1994, they remain close friends. “I think fatalism trumped imaginative creativity during my late teens and early adulthood,” she says. “Meeting Karl made a huge difference in my life. Karl’s radicalism easily made sense to me and caught me at a time when I could rely on both him and a community of friends for ‘backup.’”

Kelly started volunteering at a local soup kitchen, where she began lifelong friendships with other Chicago activists, including Roy Bourgeois. A Catholic priest and former naval officer, Bourgeois later founded SOA Watch, which works to expose the mas-

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sacres and human rights abuses committed by graduates of the U.S. military-run School of the Americas (aka WHINSEC) in Fort Benning, Ga. In 1980, Kelly stopped paying federal income taxes because almost half of those taxes fund the military. Protesting trade sanctions against Nicaragua, she and Meyer smuggled Nicaraguan coffee beans into the U.S. and used them to serve “illegal” coffee in the Chicago office of the U.S. district attorney.

Nonviolent direct action and community remain at the center of Kelly’s faith. She likes to say that we can all “catch courage” from one another: the courage to do peace work, to make ourselves vulnerable not only to violence but to ridicule and sometimes loneliness as well, and the courage to keep on working even when we can’t know what the end results of our work will be.

For Kelly, the most hopeful lessons of Jesus’ life are his radical love and his call for courage. Although the injunction in Romans 13 to submit to worldly authorities has often been used to discourage civil disobedience, she points out that Romans 13:8 teaches us, “Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.”

“The love command trumps other commands whenever lawmakers usurp their own authority by prescribing or upholding the devaluation and destruction of life,” says Kelly, “and Jesus consistently tells his friends and followers not to be afraid. When the disciples are petrified that a storm will overturn their boat and quite likely fearing the cost of being associated with Jesus and the radical love he practiced and preached, Jesus walks on the sea and says, ‘Don’t be afraid’ [Matthew 14:22-33]. I can relate to the overwhelming fear of the disciples. And I also cherish the encouragement to overcome our fears, catching courage from one another.”

One of the peace activists from whom Kelly caught courage was Jesuit priest Daniel Berrigan.

In 1980, Berrigan and seven other peace workers broke into a nuclear missile plant in King of Prussia, Pa., hammered on two warhead nose cones, poured blood on some of the documents they found, and offered prayers for peace. Their actions started the Plowshares movement, which aims to literally enact the prophet Isaiah’s words: “They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore.”

Inspired in part by Berrigan’s work, Kelly joined

Ramzi Kysia Source: Sojourners

the Missouri Peace Planting in 1988. She broke into a U.S. military installation housing nuclear missiles and unlawfully planted corn in the ground to symbolically reclaim the land from war. The peace planting resulted in her first long-term prison term—nine months in a maximum-security federal prison in Kentucky. It would not be her last.

After the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990, Kelly joined the Gulf Peace Team, a group of dozens of peace workers from around the world who established a camp on the border between Iraq and Saudi Arabia in order to provide a direct, nonviolent presence opposing the world’s rush to war. Building on this experience, Kelly co-founded Voices in the Wilderness in 1995 to draw attention to the humanitarian catastrophe caused by the 1991 Gulf war and the continuing sanctions against Iraq. From 1996 to 2003, Voices organized more than 70 delegations to Iraq, openly defying the U.S. blockade. In 2003 she helped lead the Iraq Peace Team—an international nonviolent presence in Baghdad during the U.S. invasion.

In 2000, the American Friends Service Committee nominated Kelly for the Nobel Peace Prize as “an expression of the importance of the individuals who transform a personal commitment to peace into visible and effective action.” She was also nominated for the award in 2002 by Irish Nobel Laureate Mairead Maguire and, again, anonymously, in 2003.

The U.S. government eventually prosecuted Voices in the Wilderness for illegally delivering banned medicines and children’s toys to Iraqi hospitals and imposed a $20,000 fine. Although the government never tried to collect the fine, in 2005 Kelly and others founded a successor organization, Voices for Creative Nonviolence, to continue their work. Since then, VCNV has organized several campaigns of active resistance in the U.S. and sent dozens of delegations of ordinary Americans to Afghanistan, Pakistan, Jordan, Syria, and Iraq.

I NOW REALIZE the impact of Kelly’s song that day at Georgetown University. Like so much of her work, it was a conscious strategy of connection.

Peace work is as much about making connections as anything else: making the intellectual connections between institutionalized violence and poverty and the emotional connections between our choices and their consequences, and building concrete, physical connections between our diverse human communities.

A fundamental truth obscured by years of violence and suffering is that places such as Iraq and Afghanistan are not, in fact, “war zones,” but nations of deep history. They are places of marriage and love, of children and artistry, of entrepreneurship and creativity, of grief and joy, and of suffering and perseverance. They are lands of human devotion to which war has been brought by militants of many nations and ideologies—and prolonged by our collective inability to effectively oppose them. “At its core,” says Kelly, “war is impoverishment. War’s genesis and ultimate end is in the poverty of our hearts. If we can realize that the world’s liberation begins within those troubled hearts, then we may yet find peace.”

I recently asked Kelly what advice she had for young people thinking about doing peace work themselves. “Young people could, understandably, feel sullen and resentful about the world they’re inheriting,” she said, “but I’m hoping they’ll find resilience more attractive. My advice to them would be to find kindred spirits. Learn about courage, the ability to control your fears, in all kinds of exciting, interesting ways, ranging from your current crush to jumping off the high-dive. “Give yourself a pat on the back for the good you’ve done. And always remember that if you spread the peanut butter too thin, the bread rips.”

At 59 her hair is starting to show more gray than brown, but her passion and good humor haven’t changed. Although she stands only 5-foot-3, Kathy Kelly still towers over most everyone I’ve ever known.

Ramzi Kysia is an Arab-American pacifist and writer. He volunteered several times in Iraq with Voices in the Wilderness from 1999 to 2003 and has worked on peace and justice projects in the U.S., Europe, and throughout the Middle East.

Will Telengana live up to its people's expectations?

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Parthasarathy Chaganty Source: IANS

t 66, Mother India gets ready for the 29th baby" - so ran the headline in a national daily, highlighting the Congress party's decision to carve Telengana out of Andhra Pradesh which will be the 29th state of the Indian Union in the 66th year of Independence. The modalities need to be worked out, which could take about four months, before the new state comes into being, but no difficulty is envisaged as the move has wide support across the political spectrum.

The demand for a separate Telengana state is about half a century old with periodic agitations of varying intensity in its support. And it is more than three years since the government announced in December 2009 its firm resolve to address the issue. The Justice Srikrishna Commission, constituted in its wake, was not categorical with its recommendations but its report viewed bifurcation with disfavour, its preference being greater autonomy and increased resource allocation for the region within the ambit of the existing unified state. However, the government had not acted on the report and continued to dither, bedevilled as it was with multiple corruption scandals, apart from other preoccupations.

With the general elections looming (due in May 2014), and fearing a rapid erosion of its electoral base, the Congress was probably desperate to get a move on and hence the sudden urge to grant statehood to Telengana. The party seems to have struck a deal with TRS (Telengana Rashtra Samithi), the force behind the latest agitation for a separate state. Even if the two parties do not merge immediately, they are sure to fight on a common platform and are expected to sweep the polls, capturing most of the 17 Lok Sabha seats and 119 assembly seats that the region offers. It is a foregone conclusion that there will be a backlash against the party in the rest of the state, comprising coastal Andhra and Rayalaseema, which account for no fewer than 25 Lok Sabha seats, besides 175 assembly seats. That the Congress has virtually given up on this larger area, being content with its prospective hold on Telengana, appears to be indicative of the party's low morale rather than any well thought-out strategy.

In such a scenario, the clear winner appears to be Jagan (moniker for Jaganmohan Reddy), chief of the YSR Congress, the party named after his late father and former Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y.S. Rajasekhar Reddy. Jagan has the advantge of being consistent in his opposition to the formation of Telengana, unlike the major regional

party, TDP (Telugu Desam Party), and the major national party, BJP. Jagan has been embroiled in corruption cases and may not even be able to contest elections as per a recent Supreme Court order, but that is not likely to come in his way. Notwithstanding the grandstanding of duly "hurt" Congress MPs and MLAs from this area, some of whom could in fact be resigning their seats, the Congress will have no alternative but to come to terms with him. He will acquire the kind of clout now enjoyed by Mulayam Singh Yadav and Mayawati by virtue of their outside support to the government. If the Congress had been more accommodative of Jagan in the wake of his father's death and not driven him away from its fold, the party may not have had to concede Telengana, but history is not about counterfactuals.

Arguments like smaller states being more amenable to effective administration are just academic. Issues like division of states will almost invariably be based on political considerations in a democracy. Thus, it is futile to deride the Congress' decision on Telengana as political opportunism. But a major concern here is that the main protagonist, K. Chandrasekhara Rao, chief of TRS, who is sure to wield enormous influence in running the fledgling state, at least in the initial years, is not known for his integrity or administrative experience. And his party seems to have thrived on extortion during the past few years, hence the nuanced agitation, which permitted the Congress to sit on the issue for years.

People from Telengana have often complained about "loss of jobs". It is not that people from the region are at present discriminated against: what they want is a distinct preference for sons of the soil - and this is where the rub lies. A major national party like the Congress owes it to itself to check the parochial tendencies of its ally and ensure peace and harmony.

Considering that Hyderabad, which will serve as a joint capital for the two states for the first 10 years and that the city is not even going to be a union territory in the interim period, people from Andhra could suddenly find themselves reduced to the status of second class citizens in the megalopolis, which has been home to millions of them. Every care should, therefore, be taken to ensure that Andhras do not feel alienated and there is no flight of capital or business from the city.

The first few years are bound to be marked by turmoil, but it is to be hoped that Telengana, which is well-endowed in terms of natural resources, will eventually come to occupy a proud place among states and prove that the sacrifices made by thousands to realize the dream have not been in vain.

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Letters to the editor Neglected Orphan: The Road Always Travelled •- A fundamental infrastructural development the govt of Nagaland and the stake holders needs to address and implement changes, is in regard to the much feared road conditions within and outside the state capital Kohima.

The irony is the lack of govt concerns and the apathy of the general Naga public. Till date, unlike other states, Nagaland's "life -lines" are "road transport," which consist the major bulk of communication between people and districts.

Despite, its importance the neglect of the "road always travelled" is becoming a serious socio-economic problem. Be it the exponential growth of vehicle population; sinking highways and roads to the goodaism of the politico-administrative elite who thinks they own the public space.

The fall out of this will occupy gigantic space for debate and finger pointing blame games in days to come, unless the stake holder addresses the issue now.

Development and maintenance of roads needs to become our chief fundamental concern. The reality of these facts should overrule the states intention of opening railway line, to having an airport in the state capital, as a prestige issue. The failure of previous attempts should serve a lesson. Besides, the demographic and environmental hurdle, the economic viability of Air/railway project should close the argument in favour of developing of our road transport on a war scale. But is anyone listening?

The terrible habit of road construction, sane any drainage system in Nagaland, baffles all common-sense and logic. Perhaps it will be quite difficult to find such parallels in other state-capital of India. A thing not to be proud of in the 21st century! Its sheer madness to see roads in Nagaland without any proper drainage system.

Road improvement should be the focus on priority basis, and after having done well, and only then, let’s think of other mode of transports.

Robin Temsu, Kohima

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‘This is an honor for all of Us’

Kachin Woman Wins Ramon Magsaysay Award

Nyein Nyein

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n ethnic Kachin woman who co-founded Burma’s largest civil society organization was awarded with this year’s Ramon Magsaysay Award, Asia’s version of the Nobel Prize, along with four other Asian leaders. Lahpai Seng Raw, a stay-at-home mother turned social worker who helped launch the Rangoon-based Metta Development Foundation, which provides support to displaced people in Burma’s conflicttorn areas, says she was inspired by other Kachin leaders in her 40s. In an interview with The Irrawaddy this week, she said the prestigious award was an achievement that she shared with her colleagues, and added that the honor was a reminder that much work remains to help the people of Burma, also known as Myanmar, as the country transitions from military rule.

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Question: First of all, can you share your thoughts and feelings about receiving such a prestigious award, which is the Asian equivalent to the Nobel Prize?

Answer: I was amazed when I first heard about it on July 12, while I was traveling to Lashio [in Shan State]. I am deeply honored by this award, but also humbled in the knowledge that I owe it all to the host of wonderful friends, colleagues and partners at home and abroad who have sustained me in my work with their wise counsel, help and encouragement. So I accept this award not as a personal honor, but as a celebration of our collective achievement.

I handed over the Foundation’s leadership role to a new generation two years ago. This honor is a force for our foundation, to the new generation, to keep up the work we are doing. There are many displaced people all over our country, including in my state, Kachin State. As you know, tens of thousands of Kachin refugees are among those who have been displaced in Burma due to unstable ceasefires. As the president [Thein Sein] said, only after negotiations are made and sustainable peace is built can the refugee issue be solved. I reckon the honor comes at just the right time, while our country is on the path of reform. It also highlights that much still needs to be done.

Q: What is your role in the Foundation, after leaving your leadership position in 2011?

A: I have been working in social development for more than 20 years, since 1987. I will keep supporting those individuals or groups who I have been helping. For our country’s reforms, our civil society group must be effective. We still have to keep up a lot. I will serve again on the Foundation’s board of trustees this coming September.

Lahpai Seng Raw

Q: When you traveled, were you be able to work in ethnic areas affected by civil wars?

A: Of course, we were able to work in areas where ceasefire agreements were signed. We have also expanded our reach to help people displaced by natural disasters, not only man-made disasters, since 2004. We provided support to the tsunami victims in 2004, to the 2008 Cyclone Nargis victims in the Irrawaddy Delta, and in 2010 to the Cyclone Giri victims in Arakan State. Our support was not limited to a region. When local residents informed us about their need for help, we would reach them.

Q: Can you tell us a bit about the Foundation and its present work?

A: I began providing assistance for community development in 1987. After a decade assisting people in the communities, the Metta Development Foundation was formed in November 1997, several years after ceasefires were made with ethnic armed groups in Burma. It [the Foundation] pro- Q: Were there any other co-founders? vides support for community development for the A: Yes, I am one of four founders of the Foundation.

Actually, the four of us, we are all women who share ethnic [communities] in these areas. the same commitment—two Karen ladies, another Q: What are the specific activities of the Foundation? Kachin lady and I started it with US$20,000 in funding.

A: We support the community’s needs, which in- We supported the development of agriculture, health volves agricultural awareness, education, health care, education and hygiene development. Now the care, and relief and social rehabilitation works. Foundation has expanded through multi-ethnic colFor example, rehabilitation in the post-Nargis [cy- laboration, with ethnic Mon and Shan representatives. clone] period was not only a matter of building My current successor is a Shan man, Dr. Sai Sam Kham. shelters, but also raising awareness among teach- He took the leadership role in September 2011. ers and parents about hygiene as well as environmental issues. … We focus on the community’s Q: Do you have any plans for how you’ll use your proposal to implement a project, based on their cash prize?

A: In keeping with my commitment to work for decision, which is the most beneficial for them. sustainable peace and a development process that Q: When you started the Foundation under the pre- spreads evenly across the country, I pledge to use the vious military regime, what challenges did you face? prize money for projects that will protect and preA: We were able to travel to areas where interna- serve the Myitsone area in northern Myanmar and tional organizations could not go. The locals also that will provide sustainable livelihood opportunities cooperated with us. We did not face huge challeng- for communities there. We provided agricultural and es implementing our projects, except for the lack of breeding support as well as forestry preservation asinternational aid. If we had secured more foreign sistance before the residents were relocated to new aid or technical assistance under the previous gov- villages. Today the area is under threat from a dam project [currently postponed], which poses grave ernment, we would have done more.

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he Mighty Americans believe, “Problems is followed with solutions”. In Nagaland today, there are full of problems in all fronts. But unfortunately, we extremely weak in finding solutions. We therefore need to learn from the Americans what to do in the holistic mess in the land led by the political leadership in a Welfare State.

In the recent days, we continue to experience unusual state of affairs in all levels. The mass evil societies have been up in arms against the Welfare State for failing them in all fronts-not maintaining law and order, peace and security, development for peace which she has been propagating ever since eleven years. Recently, mass based organisations such as All Nagaland Teacher Association, Nagaland Students’ Federation, Action Committee Against Unabated Taxation have expressed their anger and frustration against the State for not taking any criminal action against the various factions of the Underground for their continuous harassment, violence, oppression, exploitation against members of the innocent community. The state of such continuous affairs have become beyond tolerance. The public at large is crying for Save our Souls to the Welfare State as the guardian of the people.

Instead of hearing their helpless cries, the State is continuing to shift her legal responsibility to the Centre for reasons best known to her. The public therefore is loosing their confidence on the State with the crux of the critical question, “Have we elected the Government to kill, extort, harass us at gun point

dangers to its delicate ecosystem, its cultural and religious heritage sites and its communities, displaced and deprived of land and livelihood.

Q: What was the driving force behind your decision to get involved in social development?

A: I was a stay-at-home mom in Myitkyina [the state capital of Kachin State] before getting involved in the field. Many people impressed me—those who were dedicated to our country and weren’t taking advantage of it for their own sakes. I was working with them, including ethnic leaders, and they inspired me.

My first role model was the late Maran Brang Seng, who was chairman of the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO). He encouraged me to become involved in work to improve the situation of destitute Kachin communities along the borderlands of northern Myanmar. Today, I thank him and the KIO leadership for directing me on this path. I would also like to offer my sincere thanks to the government of Myanmar, for opening the door for me to openly and freely initiate programs that would assist conflict-affected communities after the 1994 ceasefire agreements.

The active young people in the communities are also a force that keeps me working in the field.

Q: There are many young philanthropists in Burma.

What advice would you give to those who are working with civil society groups?

A: I want to encourage other women as well as the youth to try hard on their tasks, whether they perform philanthropic work individually or with a group. The power of civil society groups is significant in moving toward change in our country. The recognition of the RMAF [the Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation]to a Myanmar citizen shows that civil society groups in Burma are capable of change. This is an honor for all of us.

source: the Irrawaddy

ahpai Seng Raw, co-founder of Burma’s largest civil society organization, is among five winners of the Philippines’ prestigious Ramon Magsaysay Award this year.

The 64-year-old widow, whose Metta Development Foundation has worked to provide support to displaced people in Burma’s conflict-torn areas and rehabilitate affected communities, told The Irrawaddy that she was deeply honored to receive the award, which many consider to be Asia’s version of the Nobel Prize. Lahpai Seng Raw is the first ethnic Kachin to win the award, which was given in recognition of the more than two decades of social assistance given by the humanitarian.

The Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation (RMAF) said in their announcement on Wednesday that Lahpai Seng Raw was recognized for “her quietly inspiring and inclusive leadership—in the midst of deep ethnic divides and prolonged armed conflict—to regenerate and empower damaged communities and to strengthen local NGOs in promoting a non-violent culture of participation and dialogue as the foundation for Myanmar’s peaceful future.”

In a telephone interview with The Irrawaddy on Thursday, Laphai Seng Raw said credit for her achievements was to be shared.

“I am deeply honored by this award, but also humbled in the knowledge that I owe it all to the host of wonderful friends, colleagues and partners at home and abroad, who have sustained me in my work with their wise counsel, help and encouragement.”

Laphai Seng Raw is one of four female founders, along with one other Kachin woman and two ethnic Karen women, who established the Metta Development Foundation in 1997 to support displaced persons in areas of Burma where ceasefire agreements had been reached. The RMAF award winner said the recognition was due to the team effort of her foundation.

“So I accept this award not as a personal honor, but as a celebration of our collective achievement,” she said.

Over the last 15 years, the Metta Development Foundation has joined hands with many of Burma’s ethnic minorities, including the Karen, Kachin, Shan and Mon. It has provided assistance to the displaced and those otherwise affected by the “man-created disasters in Burma’s ethnic areas,” a mission it expanded in 2004 to include those affected by natural disasters.

Laphai Seng Raw added that “the award highlights that there is much to be done for the people along with the changes in the country’s transition” toward democracy.

The awardee said she would continue the work that her foundation has been doing, although she handed over leadership of the organization to a successor two years ago.

Born in the Kachin State capital of Myitkyina and a graduate of Rangoon University, Laphai Seng Raw was a stay-at-home mother of one before embarking 25 years ago on a career in social development. She told The Irrawaddy that her involvement in social work was rooted in encouragement from the late Maran Brang Seng, chairman of the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) in the 1980s.

Laphai Seng Raw said the award’s $50,000 cash prize would go toward development projects to “provide sustainable livelihood opportunities for the communities,” especially in the Myitsone area of Kachin State, where the confluence of two smaller waterways forms the Irrawaddy River. Local villagers there were relocated for a massive Chinese-backed dam project that has since been suspended.

Along with Laphai Seng Raw, Afghan Dr Habiba Sarabi, Filipino Dr Ernesto Domingo, Indonesia’s Corruption Eradication Commission and the Nepalese anti-human trafficking organization Shakti Samuha were also honored with the Ramon Magsaysay Award.

RMAF President Carmencita Abella said in the statement that “each of this year’s awardees is showing us that there are ways to build genuine success, one smart and persistent step at a time.

“Working selflessly in unpretentious yet powerful ways, they are showing us how commitment, competence and collaborative leadership can truly create ripples of change, even from the bottom of the pyramid,” Abella added.

The Ramon Magsaysay Award was first given in 1957 and is named after the popular Filipino president, who was highly respected for his humility and service to humanity. It is awarded every year to individuals or organizations in Asia who “manifest the same sense of selfless service” as the late Filipino leader, according to RMAF. Laphai Seng Raw will attend the award ceremony in Manila on Aug. 31. She will be accompanied by her successor, Dr Sai Sam Kham.

The ethnic Kachin leader is the fifth Magsaysay Award winner from Burma. The previous winners were the founder of the English-language Nation newspaper (shut down during the Ne Win regime) Edward Michael Law-Yone in 1959; social worker Tee Tee Luce (1959), for her public; Mae Tao Clinic founder Dr Cynthia Maung (2002), for her health services to Burmese migrants and refugees; and human rights activist Ka Hsaw Wa (2009), cofounder of Earth Rights International.

Mass Movement In search Of solution

collaborating with the criminals”? We have elected them to protect us form all harms.

But they have betrayed us for reasons best known to them”.

The public today is critically questioning the “Equi Closeness Policy of the Democratic Alliance of Nagaland”. They now realise the fact that the Government in power has committed grave political blunder detrimental to the peace and security of the people. In this context, the doctrine of Welfare State in great peril. The doctrine must be examined thoroughly as to whether the Democratic Alliance of Nagaland is practising what they preach, “Peace for Development, development for peace” or “Violence and destruction of the life and property of the people of Nagaland”.

dr. E. Renphamo Lotha Former Law Officer, Advocate Welfare of the people securing and protecting as effectively as it may a social order in which justice: social, economic and political, shall in form the institutions of the national life”. Hence, the role of the State is essentially to create a congenial social, economic and political order and not to promote anarchy-lawlessness which Nagaland is fully experiencing today.

Interpretation of Social Welfare Measures Social Welfare measures should be interpreted in the light of the public welfare as envisaged under the Articles 14,15,21, 38,3,43-A, 39,46 and 51-A of the Indian Constitution. The State is continuing to ignore these constitutional measures after having taken the oath to abide by them for the effective governance. Thereby she has become anti people against their manifesto: “peace for development, development for peace”. Thereby the state is in a state of anarchy-lawlessness against the rule of law, the common people called it khushi khushi land to the joy of Satan flooding the land.

Doctrine of the Welfare State Considering the merits of the aforesaid facts and circumstances, it is considered necessary to re-examine the doctrine of the Welfare State for necessary correction in the interest of the people in a democracy. In modern democracy, the State is called a “Welfare State” against “Apathetic State or Comma State”. It is the State to secure the social order for the promotion of the welfare of the people. The Article 38 of the Constitution of Promotion of Welfare of People.

India specifically laid down as follows:When the State is on fire filled with (1) The State shall strive to promote the anti socials, criminals, terrorists in the

name and style of various noble names, she is continuing to hide her head in the sand like the ostrich shying away from responsibility of effective administration of justice as the primary duty of the State.

In such context, the Supreme Court has passed a judgement as follows: “The State cannot pass on the burden of its social obligation on to the private parties, have the bus operators under liscenses or permits issued by the State” (Captain Sue Singh V.Ly. Governor of Delhi (2004) 6 SCC 440, 452 (Paras 31 and 32) : AIR 2004 SC 3821. Contrary to such landmark judgement of the Supreme Court, the State is found shifting the burden on the Centre and the Voluntary organizations which speaks volumes about the state of a failed state unfit to hang on to power anymore.

The Duty of the State : Justice : Social, Economic and Political Any State (Nagaland or other States) is duty bound to deliver Justice, Socially, Economically and Politically to the people who have elected them with confidence to shoulder the responsibility of the guardian.

If she cannot perform her assigned sacred duty, she must the courage to step down as a failed State humbly in the interest of the people without further betrayal.

Article 38 in Part-IV is the only article which refers to Justice: Social, economic and political. However the concept is not limited to directive principles of State Policies. There can be no justice without equality. There can be no peace without justice, no development without justice.

Article 14 of the Constitution guarantees the fundamental right to equality before law on all persons.

There is no distinction underground, overground, criminals, anti-socials in the eyes of laws. Even the President, the first citizen of India is equal to all others in the eyes of laws. They are all liable to the rule of law enforced through the State.

Conclusion Dear right thinkers and doers, you are the best judges in democracy. The elected representatives have failed youpeace, security, protection of your life and property despite your endless cries for eleven years. How long will you wait for your guardian to come and rescue you from hopeless and helpless conditions? Since your guardian has failed you intentionally, it is you r turn to ask him to step down humbly witnessed by you as their judges of a failed democratic state.

Well, before you exercise your legal and constitutional right, you better give him atleast one month grace period to correct her failure. Let us be responsible citizen to bring about responsible government in the near future.

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Manmohan’s plea goes in vain

New Delhi, August 5 (reuters): Standing outside parliament, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh appealed to opposition parties to allow the legislature to function without disruption so that it could pass key bills. His appeal, delivered in his usual quiet monotone, fell on deaf ears. Opposition lawmakers disrupted proceedings with demands for Singh to quit over corruption allegations. With parliament effectively stalled, the government gave up and adjourned the session, two days earlier than scheduled.

Just two out of 38 bills had been passed. That was in May. On Monday, Singh again stood outside parliament to appeal to political parties in the world’s biggest democracy to cooperate with the government to ensure the monsoon session of parliament that started this week is “truly productive”. With dozens of important bills piling up and a national election possibly just months away, the session may be Singh’s last chance to drive through some long-pending economic reforms and get parliament’s seal of approval on its flagship programme to give cheap grain to 67 percent of the population.

In New Delhi, there is much speculation that the government, now ruling as a minority after the withdrawal of key allies, could call early elections in November or December, although it insists that it plans to serve out its full term until next May. “We have wasted lot of time in the previous two or three sessions and I hope that will not be repeated in this session,” Singh said, speaking so softly that he was barely audible at times.

“I appeal to the opposition to cooperate with the government in smooth running of the session.”

But when the trouble came within minutes of his plea, it was from

‘Food security ordinance top priority’

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, center, talks to his cabinet members as they walk towards media after his arrival at the opening day of the monsoon session of the parliament, in New Delhi, on August 5. Singh on Monday appealed to the Opposition to cooperate in smooth functioning of Parliament and said government is willing to discuss all issues during the Monsoon Session, according to local news reports. (AP Photo)

Singh’s own Congress party.

BIG LEGISLATIVE AGENDA Congress lawmakers forced the Lok Sabha to adjourn many times on Monday as they protested against their party’s decision last week to break up Andhra Pradesh into two states. Andhra is a major IT hub for multi-nationals such as Google and attracts much of India’s foreign direct investment. “The whole nation is watching. Please sit down,” said an exasperated Satpal Maharaj, a lawmaker who was presiding over proceedings in the Lok Sabha amid shouting from protesting lawmakers.

Singh does not have time to waste. The monsoon session is short - there are just 16 working days, even fewer if you don’t include the four days devoted to private members’ bills. The govern-

ment has proposed a formidable legislative agenda - 43 bills and ordinances including one measure to allow up to 49 percent foreign investment in the pension sector and another aimed at simplifying the process of buying land for business purposes. The most important measure is the food security ordinance, which will lapse if not passed this session.

The $22 billion cheap food plan is a central plank of the Congress party’s election platform as it seeks a third straight term in government. The plan aims to give 5 kg of cheap rice and wheat every month to 800 million people, more than doubling the reach of the existing subsidised food system.

The plan is due to be discussed in parliament on Wednesday, after a planned vote on Tuesday on

the Companies Bill, which aims to strengthen corporate governance and ease the process of mergers and acquisitions.

“The intention of the UPA (United Progressive Alliance coalition) is to use the monsoon session to push as many bills as possible in an attempt to wipe out four years of misrule and lack of governance,” Arun Jaitley of the main opposition party, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), told the India Today weekly. Frequently paralysed by verbal brawls between lawmakers, parliament is doing less and less work. The 20092012 parliamentary session was the least productive in nearly three decades, according to the think tank PRS legislative research. In 2012 alone, the parliament passed just 22 of the 94 bills listed for consideration and passing.

New Delhi, August 5 (iANs): Indicating that getting the food security ordinance approved in parliament was the UPA’s top priority, the government tabled the document in the Lok Sabha Monday, on day one of the monsoon session. “The food security bill is our top priority. We want all the parties to support it. We hope this session is better than past few ones,” Congress spokesperson Meem Afzal later told reporters.

Amid the din in the lower house, Food Minister K.V. Thomas tabled the ordinance to intimate the house that when it was not in session, the government had brought in the measure through decree. Thomas said the government was already procuring an average 60.2 million tonnes of grains in the past four years and would have no difficulty in managing the 61.2 million tonnes needed for the ordinance. The ordinance is expected to be taken up for consideration and passing by first the Lok Sabha and then the Rajya Sabha this week,

said informed sources.

The government is expected to withdraw the existing Food Security Bill, which could not be passed in the budget session of parliament, as the BJP did not allow the house to run demanding Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s resignation over faulty allocations of coal blocks, said the sources.

The ordinance, which would then become a bill, would then be taken up Wednesday, said the sources.

The bill, expected to be a game changer for the ruling Congress ahead of five assembly polls this year-end and the national elections in 2014, aims to provide subsidised grains at prices much below the market rate to around 67 percent of India’s 1.2 billion people, numbering around 800 million. The bill, part of Congress manifesto in 2009 polls, is expected to bring electoral benefits just as the rural job plan, the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, brought in 2009.

Sachin steals limelight in parliament

New Delhi, August 5 (iANs): Cricketing star Sachin Tendulkar stole the limelight on the first day of parliament’s monsoon session, as he arrived here to attend the Rajya Sabha. Wearing a blue striped shirt and black trousers, Tendulkar walked in with Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Rajeev Shukla well before the house was called to order. Tendulkar, who was nominated to the upper house in April last year, attended the upper house for the second time Monday. He has so far only one attendance marked - that, too, in the monsoon session of 2012. In the house, the cricketer was seen walking up to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and shaking hands with him. He was also seen chatting with lyricist Javed Akhtar, sitting next to him. He also thumped the desk when Chairman M. Hamid Ansari congratulated the Indian cricket team for winning the Champions Trophy.

Indian cricketer and members of parliament Sachin Tendulkar, arrives at the parliament house on the opening day of monsoon session, in New Delhi, August 5. (AP Photo)

Govt flayed for Sand mining banned across India; UP, Centre spat over Durga Sakthi Nagpal amending RTI Act

New Delhi, August 5 (iANs): Activists Monday came down heavily on the government for making amendments exempting political parties from the Right to Information (RTI) Act and threatened to launch a public agitation against the move. The cabinet cleared amendments to the RTI Act, which will be introduced during the ongoing monsoon session of parliament. The move to amend the act was a reaction to a Central Information Commission order which declared six political parties to be public authorities under the RTI Act. “Spending money on elections makes one prone to corruption. By not passing the RTI act without the amendment, the political class has lost a historic opportunity,” RTI activist Aruna Roy said at a press conference here. “This will lead to a big problem. Every organisation will now ask to be excused from this act,” she added. Activist Harsh Mander said: “Every agency is happy to have transparency. But when it comes to them (the government), they don’t want it.” The activists have also written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh opposing the proposed amendments to the RTI Act. “India’s governance is going through a credibility crisis as never before, in which all sectors of governance and social formations have been suspect,” the letter said. The letter added: “We as citizens of India demand that it (the RTI act) not be amended.

The act has enabled the making of informed choices and strengthened participatory democracy.” The letter has been signed by 300 people, including Roy and activists Harsh Mander and Nikhil Dey. “More than 6,000 people have sent their signatures online supporting the campaign,” Roy said. The activists also announced a campaign to oppose the amendments at Jantar Mantar from Tuesday.

New Delhi, August 5 (pti): The national green tribunal (NGT) on Sunday banned mining or removal of sand from river beds across the country without an environmental clearance amid the uproar over suspension of an IAS officer who had cracked down on sand mafia in Uttar Pradesh. In its order, the Tribunal noted that the loss caused to the state exchequer due to illegal sand mining may run into lakhs of crores of rupees. The order was given on a plea alleging that such activities were going on in UP with the “wilful connivance” of its state machinery.

Widening the ambit of the plea, a bench headed by NGT

chairman Justice Swatanter Kumar said its order would be applicable across the nation as the petition raised substantial environmental issues. Initially, the bench banned illegal sand mining on the beds and banks of rivers Yamuna, Ganga, Hindon, Chambal, Gomti, among others, but later modified its order saying the issue of illegally removing sand has nationwide implications. The bench said the clearance has to be obtained from the ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) or state environment impact assessment authority (SEIAA).

“We restrain any person, company, authority to carry out any

mining activity or removal of sand, from river beds anywhere in the country without obtaining environmental clearance from MoEF/ SEIAA and license from the competent authorities,” the bench said while issuing notices to all respondents seeking their response by August 14. The tribunal also directed all the mining officers and police officers concerned of all the states to ensure compliance of its orders, on the plea filed by the National Green Tribunal Bar Association.

The petition alleged that those who have opposed such sand mining, including field level officers, like suspended SDM Durga Sakhti Nagpal, have been victim-

Rains claim sixteen lives in Kerala

thiruvANANthApurAm, August 5 (iANs): Heavy rain in Kerala since Sunday afternoon has caused huge loss to life and property, especially in Idukki district, where 14 deaths were reported. Two rainrelated deaths were reported from Ernakulam, officials said. The hilly district of Idukki was the worst affected, as landslides were reported in 16 places, state Revenue Minister Adoor Prakash, who reached the district to personally supervise mitigation and relief efforts, said Monday.

Cheeyapara near Munnar, the famous hill station, saw a huge mass of hillside slip. The incident occurred

Indian participant races his horse driven cart as part of a race in Allahabad, on Monday, August 5, 2013. Traditionally attired horse driven carts participate in the race held every Monday of Hindu holy month “Shravan:” (AP Photo)

when vehicles were parked on the road beneath, witnesses said. “Rescue operations were on to clear the road when the landslip occurred.

Three vehicles were parked on the road nearby, and were pushed into a crevice by the falling mud. Five bodies were recovered from the vehicles,” a witness said, adding that the land mass that slipped is spread over nearly 200 metres.

“Only after the rescue operations are completed can we know how many vehicles are trapped under it,” the witness said. Heavy rain has hampered rescue work. The state government has requested

ized which is also apparent from is justified. various news reports.

“It is correct. It is final,” he told reporters outside Parliament UP, Centre spat over Durga with a firm “no” on being asked Sakthi Nagpal whether the suspension orMeanwhile, a defiant Sama- der would be revoked. Amid the jwadi Party (SP) appeared head- brewing hostility between the SP ing for a confrontation with the and the Centre over the suspenCentre over the IAS officer’s sus- sion issue, Prime Minister Manpension issue, asserting that UP mohan Singh said government is government’s decision is “correct in touch with the state authorities and final” and went a step further on the issue and that laid down taunting it to remove all IAS of- rules will be followed. The unreficers from the state. Firing the lenting stand of the ruling SP govfirst salvo, SP supremo Mulayam ernment was also voiced in LucSingh Yadav said the decision to know by Chief Minister Akhjilesh suspend IAS officer Durga Sakthi Yadav who made it clear that ofNagpal, who hit the spotlight for ficials who make “mistakes” will cracking down on the sand mafia, be punished.

the aid of the defence forces in the rescue effort. Indian Navy personnel have already left for Idukki, a defence press release issued here Monday said. Chief Minister Oommen Chandy called for an emergency cabinet meeting to discuss the issue and sanctioned Rs.2 lakh as compensation to the next of kin of each of the dead. He asked special medical teams to be rushed to Idukki. “In view of the heavy rains, it is in the interest of all tourists to put off their journey to Idukki district. Almost 200 km of roads in the district have been damaged in rain and landslide,” Chandy told reporters.

Unauthorised use of beacons must be dealt with strictly: SC

New Delhi, August 5 (AgeNcies): Coming down heavily on unauthorised use of sirens and beacons, the Supreme Court on Monday said that such cases should be dealt with strictly. The apex court also added that fines should be imposed on those vehicles which violate the rule, so that an example can be made of them. The SC also said that only a limited number of people should be allowed to use beacons and sirens on their vehicles The apex court had directed the Centre and states to amend the Motor Vehicles Act on April 4 to ensure that the use of red beacons on official vehicles is restricted. The Supreme Court had warned that if Centre fails to come up with a solution, then it will be forced to pass a decision in the matter.

The Road Transport Ministry had objected this and is reportedly in favour of limiting the number of beneficiaries who are entitled to use the read beacons. The Law Ministry is also in favour of restricting the use of red beacons.

Hundreds die in India for lack of organs New Delhi, August 5 (iANs): Neera Yadav (name changed), a 20-year old college student suffering from an end-stage renal disease, was in desperate need of a kidney transplant. Though her parents went from pillar to post, they could not find a donor for her in Delhi and she died last month. Experts say this is not an isolated case. Hundreds of people in need of organ transplants cannot be saved every year because of lack of donors.

According to M. C. Misra, chief of the Jai Prakash Narayan Apex Trauma Centre at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), the donor scene in India is still very “dismal” despite amendments to a law which the government passed in 2008. The amendments to the Transplantation of Human Organs Act (Thoa), 1994, were passed following the unearthing of a thriving kidney donation racket in northern India. While in western countries around 70-80 percent of people pledge their organs, in India only about 0.01 percent do so, Misra stated.

Sanjiv Gulati, director of nephrology at Fortis Hospital in Vasant Kunj, told IANS: “There has been almost no improvement in the organ donation situation. Things have not changed at all. People are not ready to part with organs of their loved ones even after death.” While most donors in India are women, many don’t come forward to pledge organ donation be-

cause of religious or superstitious reasons, the expert said. “We need to rope in religious leaders to make people aware of the need for organ donation. People have weird thinking like whichever organ you donate, in the next life you will be born without that,” Misra told IANS. Another major problem is that in India brain death itself is not recognised by many people. “People think till the heart is beating

(August 6 is Organ Donation Day)

the person has to be alive. Which makes it difficult for us to harvest organs,” Misra explained.

According to AIIMS figures, of the 205 patients declared brain dead at the trauma centre in the past five years, only 10 were potential donors. In a study published in the Indian Journal of Anaesthesia, the AIIMS Trauma Centre, which admits over 6,500 patients every year, analysed the number of cadaver donations between September 2007 and August 2012.

The study said that 90 percent of donors were middle-aged males. The cause of brain death in 70 percent of cases was injuries sustained in road accidents, 20 percent after falling from heights and 10 percent due to being gored by animals, particularly cows. The average time

recorded from certification of brain death to organ harvesting was 33 to 46 hours, the study said, adding the organs harvested were kidneys, hearts, heart valves, livers and corneas.

Gulati said in case of live donations, it was mostly women who were donating their body parts like kidneys. The ratio of male versus female in live donations was around 20:80.

The amended version of the Transplantation of Human Organs Act allows donations from a “near relative” defined as spouse, son, daughter, father, mother, brother or sister.

The amended law broadens the definition of “near relative” to include grandparents, grandchildren, uncles and aunts. Also, notso-close relatives who have stayed with the patient can donate organs, provided there is no commercial dealing.

The law makes swapping of organs between two unrelated families legal in cases where organs of willing near-relative donors are found medically incompatible. But the swap should be without any commercial transactions, it stipulates. Misra said the organ donation scene could change in the country if the government offers incentives. “Donors should also be appreciated on events like Independence Day and Republic Day,” he said, adding that concessions in railway reservations and medical benefits to the donors can make others come forward to pledge their organs.

INTERNATIONAL

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Tuesday 6 August 2013

Myanmar rockers break silence on religious attacks

YANGON, AuGust 5 (AP): Punk rockers draw double-takes as they dart through traffic, but it’s not just the pink hair, leather jackets or skull tattoos that make these 20-somethings rebels: It’s their willingness to speak out against Buddhist monks instigating violence against Muslims while others in Myanmar are silent. “If they were real monks, I’d be quiet, but they aren’t,” says Kyaw Kyaw, lead singer of Rebel Riot, as his drummer knocks out the beat for a new song slamming religious hypocrisy and an antiMuslim movement known as “969.” ‘’They are nationalists, fascists. No one wants to hear it, but it’s true.”

Radical monks are at the forefront of a bloody campaign against Muslims, and few in this predominantly Buddhist nation of 60 million people are willing to speak against them. For many, being Buddhist is an important part of being Burmese, and monks, the most venerable members of society, are beyond reproach. Others are simply in denial, or buy into claims the Muslim “outsiders” pose a threat to their culture and traditions.

The silence is as dangerous as the mobs razing mosques and cheering as Muslims are hunted down and beaten to death with chains and metal pipes, says Michael Salberg, director of international affairs at the U.S.-based Anti-Defamation League. “It’s not perpetrators that are the problem here,” he says, pointing to conditions that paved the way for the Holocaust in Germany and the genocide in Rwanda. “It’s the bystanders.”

After half-century of harsh military rule, a quasi-civilian government installed two years ago has implemented sweeping reforms, releasing pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi from house arrest, relaxing restrictions against peaceful assembly, opening up the media and throwing away the censor’s pen.

The same freedoms have also given voice to monks like Wirathu, a charismatic speaker and supporter of 969.

His following is growing as he crisscrosses the country calling for boycotts of Muslim-owned shops and a ban on marriages between Buddhist women and Muslim men, and warning that a higher birthrate could one day bring Muslims from 4 percent of the population to a majority.

“All I can really say is, people should look at the teachings of Buddha and ask themselves, is this what he meant?” says Ye Ngwe Soe, the 27-year-old frontman of No U Turn, the country’s most popular punk rock band. He wrote the song “Human Wars” after violence against Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine state started spilling into other regions.

“When I go to some urban areas, I hear talking about 969, hating Muslims, being violent. It shouldn’t be this way.”

Hate speech experts say the best way to counter peo-

ple like Wirathu is to seek the voice of moderate Buddhists. But outside of a handful of monks and civil activists who have gotten together for interfaith dialogues, few are stepping up. Westerners working in Myanmar are often surprised when their otherwise progressive Burmese subordinates softly defend the monks or say nothing when discussions turn to religious violence.

“I’m sure a lot of them think this is total madness, but they don’t dare to say that openly,” says Bertil Lintner, a Swedish journalist who has written several books about Myanmar. “If they do they will be attacked by these new nationalists, religious bigots, accused of being friends with Muslims ... . It’s a very difficult situation.”

Arker Kyaw, a 20-year-old graffiti artist bursting with an electric creativity, has several friends — mostly musicians and DJs — who are Muslims and was very upset about the violence that has wracked their communities in the last year.

He and others of varying religious backgrounds put together a music video expressing solidarity, saying basically, “Don’t worry, at least between us, everything will be OK.” But when asked if he isn’t tempted to answer to 969 when he sees their stickers and signs on the walls of Yan-

JEANNEttE, AuGust 5(AP): Looking dapper in a tiny tan pinstripe suit and orange shirt, a 2-year-old boy with only weeks to live served as the best man for his parents’ wedding.

Christine Swidorsky carried Logan Stevenson on her shoulder at the Saturday afternoon wedding in Jeannette, a suburb of Pittsburgh, in Pennsylvania, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reported.

Logan stood with his grandmother, Debbie Stevenson, during a 12-minute ceremony uniting Logan’s mother and his father, Sean Stevenson. The boy has leukemia and other complications. After a whirlwind week, the Jeannette couple tied the knot in a hastily arranged backyard ceremony that formalized their union and celebrated Logan’s life, which doctors say will be cut short soon by cancer.

The Stevensons abandoned an original wedding date of July 2014 after

myeloid leukemia. He has Fanconi anemia, a rare disease that often leads to cancer. He endured a stem cell transplant in July 2012. Logan is spending his remaining days at home, where he is showered with attention from family members.

In this Monday, July 1, 2013 photo, group of punks, including members of punk rock band Rebel Riot, distribute food rations at a railway station during a routine food distribution for homeless people in Yangon. (AP File Photo)

Couple’s best man is dying 2-yr-old son

gon, he says: “No. It’s very complicated. On this one, I think it’s better to be the audience, not the show.”

President Thein Sein, embraced by the U.S. and others for his reform-minded agenda, banned an issue of Time magazine that splashed Wirathu on the cover and called him “the face of Buddhist terror,” and issued a statement saying he supports 969 and considers the extremist monk a “son of Lord Buddha.” With national elections scheduled for 2015, opposition leader Suu Kyi has said nothing, worried, analysts say, there will be a backlash at the polls if she is perceived as anti-Buddhist.

That leaves the punk rockers, who know what it’s like to be outsiders. During military rule, the tiny punk community practiced and performed in secret, often in abandoned buildings, by the railroad tracks or in private, before a small group of close friends. While others were cowed by the constant threat of arrest and imprisonment, they screamed out about abuses at the hands of the army and asked why politically-connected businessmen were getting rich while everyone else suffered. Today they have a new battleground, religious intolerance. And they aren’t about to shy away.

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‘Syrian missiles kill hundreds of civilians’

BEIRut, AuGust 5 (AP): The Syrian military is firing ballistic missiles into populated areas where it is battling rebels, killing hundreds of civilians in recent months, Human Rights Watch said in a report Monday. The U.S.-based group said it has investigated nine apparent missile attacks that killed at least 215 people, half of them children, between February and July. The most recent attack HRW investigated occurred in the northern province of Aleppo on July 26, killing at least 33 civilians including 17 children.

HRW activists visited the sites of seven of the nine attacks and found no apparent military targets nearby, the group said. Ole Solvang, a senior researcher with HRW, said it’s impossible to distinguish between civilians and fighters when firing missiles with wide-ranging destructive effects into densely populated areas.

“Even if there are fighters in the area, you cannot accurately target them and the impact in some of these cases has been devastating to local civilians,” Solvang said in a statement. The HRW called on President Bashar Assad to stop indiscriminate attacks. Government officials could not immediately be reached for comment. The military has repeatedly denied it is targeting civilians during the 2-year conflict, saying its troops are fighting “terrorists” hiding in civilian areas.

More than 100,000 people have been killed since the conflict started in March 2011 as largely peaceful protests against Assad’s rule. It turned into an armed uprising after opposition supporters took up arms to fight a brutal government crackdown on dissent. The Assad government claims it is not facing a popular revolt, but a conspiracy by Gulf Arab states and the West seeking to destroy Syria by supplying Islamic extremists with weapons and funds.

In his last public appearance late Sunday, Assad called on the Syrians to unite behind the army’s efforts to “defend their homeland.” “There is no solution with terrorism but to strike with an iron fist,” Assad was quoted as saying by state news agency SANA. “With this kind of battles that aim at the destruction of the cultural identity and the Syrian national fabric, we either win together as Syrians or lose together.” Assad spoke while taking part in an iftar, the meal that breaks the dawn-to-dusk fast during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

Christine Swidorsky carries her son and the couple’s best man, Logan Stevenson, 2, down the aisle to her husband-to-be Sean Stevenson during the wedding ceremony on Saturday, August 3, in Jeannette, Pa. (AP Photo)

learning from doctors late last month that their son had 2 to 3 weeks to live. The couple wanted Logan to see them marry and to be part of family photos. Logan, who was born Oct. 22, 2010, was diagnosed shortly after his first birthday with acute

Mars rover hoping to yield more secrets

WAsHINGtON, AuGust 5 (AFP): The dazzling success of NASA’s rover Curiosity has paved the way for a human conquest of Mars, scientists say, almost one year after the groundbreaking probe first touched down on the Red Planet. Since it successfully alighted on the Martian surface on August 6, 2012, Curiosity has gathered and beamed back to Earth a treasure trove of information expected to be vital when a manned mission to Mars eventually takes place.

Curiosity, roughly the size of a small 4x4 vehicle and weighing around a ton, has already ticked one of the most important boxes of its mission -- establishing beyond doubt that Mars’ environment was capable of supporting microbial life in the distant past. That breakthrough in March means the rover’s mission is likely to be extended beyond its provisional two-year mandate. “Successes of our Curiosity -- that dramatic touchdown a year ago and the science findings since then -- advance us toward further exploration, including sending humans to an asteroid and Mars,” said NASA Administrator Charles Bolden.

“Wheel tracks now will lead to boot prints later.”

Curiosity’s nerve-jangling touchdown last year -- when the six-wheeled robot landed in the Gale Crater, roughly 10 kilometers from the foot of the planet’s 5,000-meter high Mount Sharp, had also provided crucial encouragement for those hoping to one day mastermind a successful human mission.

The complex nature of the landing showed that successfully landing heavier loads on the planet -- something that has been regarded as one of the major technological challenges of a manned mission -- is possible. “We have been extremely pleased so far this year,” said Michael Meyer, the lead scientist of NASA’s Mars Program. “In terms of contribution to general exploration it’s a fantastic step forward because for one, the landing system is new. So that represents a way to get to the planetary surface. We put a metric ton on the surface. “The more we learn about Mars the better informed we will be to send humans in the future.”

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NAGALAND PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION KOHIMA

Dated Kohima, the 13th June, 2012

NOTIFICATION In inviting a reference to the Nagaland Public Service Commission Notification of even no. dated 5th June, 2012 the Commission is pleased to declare the complementary results of successful candidates of NCS, NPS, NSS & Allied Services-2011 for Chang and Yimchunger tribes under BT reservation as given below: Sl. Name No. 1. H. Berimong

Roll No. 1492

Chang

1627

Yimchunger

3.

K. Hanso Yimchunger Honkiumong

1282

Yimchunger

4.

C. Ebou Chang

1552

Chang

5.

T. Asuthong

1067

Yimchunger

6.

Lokhum Yimchunger Y. Hongkin Yongkong Ruthsan Y.

1791

Yimchunger

1159

Chang

1469

Yimchunger

Khiungakiu S. Tikhir

1103

Yimchunger

2.

7.

8.

9.

Remarks

Post & Department EAC (Extra Assistant Commissioner) Cl-I Gazetted-Junior Grade under P&AR Department Inspector of Vigilance (Cl-II Gazetted), under State Vigilance Commission Inspector of Taxes (Cl-III Non-Gazetted), under Taxes Department Secretariat Assistant (Cl-III Non-Gazetted), under Personnel & Administrative Reforms Department Secretariat Assistant (Cl-III Non-Gazetted), under Personnel & Administrative Reforms Department JDA (Junior Divisional Assistant) Cl-III Non-Gazetted, under Treasuries & Accounts Department JDA (Junior Divisional Assistant) Cl-III Non-Gazetted, under Treasuries & Accounts Department JDA (Junior Divisional Assistant) Cl-III Non-Gazetted, under Treasuries & Accounts Department Record Keeper (Cl-III Non-Gazetted), under Art & Culture Department

For all category of posts where BT reservation for Chang and Yimchunger tribes exists, the inter-se merit for the purpose of seniority shall be specified in the nomination letter to the user Department.

Sd/- SARAH R. RITSE Secretary, Nagaland Public Service Commission, Kohima

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SPORTS

Tuesday 6 August 2013

9TH ATOU MEMORIAL OPEN SNOOKER C’SHIP 2013 hika Ayemi emerges champion title

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The winners with Kohima SDPO Shouka Kakheto and others during the prize distribution ceremony of 9th Atou Memorial Open Snooker Championship 2013 in Kohima on August 5.

(Morung Photo/Chizokho Vero) Our Correspondent Kohima | August 5

Hika Ayemi from Dimapur today emerged the champion title of 9th Atou Memorial Open Snooker Championship 2013 which concluded here this evening at Atou Pool House.

Winning the coveted champion title, Ayemi walked away with a cash prize of Rs. 15,000 along with citation and trophy.

Seyiekhrielie Zao stood runners- up and pocketed a cash

prize of Rs. 10,000 along with certificate and trophy while the third prize winner Diesie Khruomo received a cash prize of Rs. 7000 along with certificate and trophy.

Kekhrieneizo Ziephrü stood 4th position. The tournament also recognized Filoka Chishi and Hrüvilo for highest break point (28 points) and the most promising player (12 years) respectively and awarded them with cash prizes. Kohima SDPO Shouka Kakheto graced the award/closing ceremony

as the guest of honour and gave away prize to the winners. Atou Pool House Club president Bendang chaired the closing function.

The two day long tournament was sponsored by parents and family members of Ketoulhou (Atou) Keditsu. It may be mentioned that the tournament was inaugurated by minister for youth resources & sports Merentoshi R. Jamir on August 4 last. This year’s edition witnessed 37 participants from Kohima and Dimapur.

A.C. Milan's Mario Balotelli takes a free kick at the Guinness International Champions Cup, on Sunday, August, 4 in East Rutherford, NJ. (AP Photo)

I-League Club, Shillong Lajong FC kick started the pre-season with its first training session on Monday at the Fifa Turf, Polo Ground. New signings, Subhash Singh, Milan Singh and Vinay Singh joined the squad in its first training session, under the guidance of Coach Thangboi Singto. The Club’s other two new signings, Cornell Glen, Charles Edoa and last season’s joinee Taisuke Matsugae will be arriving later this month. The first day saw the Senior team squad members train with a lot of intensity and energy and all looked sharp and committed throughout the session. Shillong Lajong FC is set to usher in the new season with a well balanced team composition ,even as the city prepares to welcome the I-league with a new team in town.

I am a cricketer not a terrorist: Chandila

FARiDAbAD, AUgUST 5 (iANS): Tainted Rajasthan Royals cricketer Ajit Chandila was shocked that Delhi Police have slapped stringent Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) charges against him and pleaded that he is a "cricketer not a terrorist". "My family and I are in a state of shock that such charges are being levelled against me, I am a cricketer not a terrorist," said Chandila here Monday.

Chandila, one of the prime accused in the Indian Premier League (IPL) spot fixing scandal, was on a three-day bail, that ended Monday, to attend the last rites of his elder brother. “My elder brother was admitted in a hospital a day after my arrest. A lot has happened in my life since then. I pray god doesn’t let this happen to anyone else,” said Chandila at his residence. Chandila, along with his Rajasthan Royals team mates S. Sreesanth and Ankeet Chavan, was arrested by Delhi Police

EAST RUTHERFORD, AUgUST 5 (AFP): Goals from Kevin de Bruyne and Andre Schuerlle lifted Chelsea to a 2-0 victory over AC Milan and set up a reunion for manager Jose Mourinho against former club Real Madrid.

Mourinho, who left Real Madrid two months ago to return to the London club, and Chelsea will face off against 32-time Spanish champions Real Madrid on Wednesday in Miami's Sun

Life Stadium for the inaugural title in the International Champions Cup, an eight-team friendly tournament.

Chelsea are the only side who haven't allowed a goal in their first two matches, while Real, who beat Everton 2-1 in Los Angeles on Saturday, have a tournament-high five goals.

On Sunday, Branislav Ivanovic gave Chelsea the initiative in the fourth minute, finding space on the left

side near the byline only to have his effort blocked at the right post by Milan keeper Christian Abbiati.

Ivanvonic put a header wide in the 12th before Milan had its first chance, a blast by Kevin-Prince Boateng that went high and wide. De Bruyne had a goal disallowed 22nd for offside, but Chelsea got on the score sheet in the 29th minute when Eden Hazard found space on the left, dribbled toward the middle

May 16 after a midnight raid in Mumbai.

Sreesanth and Chavan have secured bail in June but Chandila hasn't been as lucky. He is out on three-day interim bail for the last rites of his elder brother. Chandila said he has never been approached by any bookie.

"I have no clue about the spot fixing controversy. I have never been approached by anybody. I am absolutely unaware of this," he said. When asked if he was being framed, Chandila refused to comment and said: "I don't want to say anything. I am shocked. It is a tragedy for me and my family. I don't even know what will happen to me. I also don't know what is MCOCA. When my lawyer told me the details of the law, I was shocked and devastated."

Asked about his penchant for luxury jeans and watches, Chandila said every sportsperson has a penchant for designer clothes.

"Each cricketer participating in Ranji or IPL gets paid handsomely. Everyone likes wearing good clothes and watches. It is not that this is possible with wrong means. In fact, we're paid enough that we don't have to resort to any wrong means. As far as my lifestyle is concerned, everybody wants to wear good clothes, shades, etc. So, if I had been spending on myself, it is my personal choice and nobody should be concerned about that." Chandila said nobody should interfere in his personal life. "My dream was to become a cricketer and I've worked very hard to achieve that. My performances in the past two seasons of IPL are a Jose Aldo, from Brazil, right, and Chan Sung Jung, from South Korea, battle during their UFC testament to that. God willing, I'll soon make a 163 mixed martial arts Featherweight Championship bout in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sunday. comeback," he said.

Aldo defeated Jung and kept his Championship belt. (AP Photo)

Sun Yang wins 3rd gold, top male swimmer at worlds

bARCELONA, AUgUST 5 (AP): Sun Yang perched his imposing physique astride the lane rope and flexed one last time Sunday after winning his third gold medal at the world championships, confirming his status as the preeminent long-distance swimmer.

Sun unleashed a strong finish to power to victory in the 1,500-meter freestyle, adding to wins earlier this week in the 400 and 800 at the Palau Sant Jordi indoor pool. When asked if this meant he was the "King of Freestyle," Sun said he isn't keen to take on that moniker — as snazzy as it sounds. Besides, the question was redundant.

While the women — led by American teenagers Missy Franklin and Katie Ledecky — made most of the waves with all six world records set

and passed to an unmarked Debruyne.

The 22-year-old Belgian international, who transferred from Genk in 2012 but spent last season on loan at Werder Bremen, angled a shot across the goal line. It wasn't until the second minute of injury time that Chelsea added another goal, when Victor Moses broke free on the left and sent a ball across the area to Schuerrle.

The 22-year-old Ger-

by female swimmers, Sun won the official title as the meet's top male swimmer.

"This night is an amazing night for me in my swimming life," Sun said through a translator. "During the competition tonight I felt very tired. It's very hard to get these performances. (But) I have never had the feeling of being the King of Freestyle."

Never headed after the first lap in the 400 and 800, Sun's biggest challenge came on the competition's last day from Ryan Cochrane of Canada.

Cochrane went in front by the 250-meter mark and held a slender lead until Sun surged past him on the next-to-last lap to finish in 14 minutes, 41 seconds and win by 1.33 seconds.

"My training has not been so systematic, so it was a pretty tough race,"

that in the last 100 I had the advantage." This was the fourth time Cochrane has taken silver behind Sun in the 800 and 1,500 at the worlds and Olympics.

"I think to race a guy who has gone 14:30 you know he will have the back-end speed, or speed at any stage of the race.

So I knew I had to push the pace and get ahead, but it wasn't far enough," Cochrane said. "I think to have somebody that pushes the event is very positive, even though it can be frustrating to get second year after year. But it's exciting and invigorating for the event itself."

The 21-year-old Sun China's Sun Yang holds the Best Male swimmer of the event won the 800 and 1,500 at trophy at the FINA Swimming World Championships in Bar- the 2011 worlds in Shangcelona, Spain, Sunday, Aug. 4, 2013. (AP Photo) hai, while claiming silver in Sun said. "I really appreci- After all my races, I felt a the 400. He took gold in the ated my opponent pushed bit fatigued. But I just tried 400 and 1,500 at the 2012 me, otherwise I wouldn't to convince myself to stay London Olympics, which have been able to make it. with him because I knew doesn't include the 800 as

an event. Gregorio Paltrinieri of Italy took the bronze on Sunday, ahead of American pair Connor Jaeger and Michael McBroom.

Jaeger described Sun as a "super friendly guy" and applauded his ability to save that extra energy for the end of the most grueling pool race. "That's what he's great at," Jaeger said. "He can go hard and he can still sprint at the end, and that's what you need in long races like this. It has paid off for him — and that's what Katie (Ledecky) does. So maybe it's something we need to learn." When Sun emerged from the water on Sunday, he turned to the Chinese fans in the stands, pounded his chest, pointed, and gave them a bow. "I must give thanks to my family, coach, and teammates," he said. "They give me a lot of support."

man international, who joined Chelsea on a reported 21 million euro transfer from Leverkusen in June, volleyed the ball low inside the right post. The match was part of a football double-header at the Meadowlands, home of the NFL's New York Jets and New York Giants. Jonathan Vanega scored a goal in each half and Ever Banega and Jonas also scored for Spain's Valencia in a 4-0 victory over Inter Milan.

Mkg dist volleyball association informs

MOkOkCHUNg, AUgUST 5 (DiPR): The 8th Imchaba Master Memorial Nagaland Open Volleyball Trophy is scheduled tentatively from September 17 to 19, 2013. The organizer (MDVA) has informed that a total of Rs.1, 50,000/- (Rs. One lakh fifty thousand only) would be awarded to the winners, (1st prize Rs.60, 000/-, 2nd prize Rs.40, 000/-, 3rd prize Rs.25, 000/-, 4th prize Rs.15, 000/-) besides individual prizes of cash and certificates. It is further informed that the organizers would compensate minimum travelling allowance (Bus fare) to teams coming from outside Mokokchung district. In addition to this, a grant of Rs.5, 000/- (Five thousand only) each would be given to all the participating teams, except for the final four teams. Interested Teams / Clubs may contact the Convenor, steering committee at #9436017577 or Convenor, Technical Committee at #9436218083.

Balijan cricket tourney

DiMAPUR, AUgUST 5 (MExN): Four matches were played on August 4 at the ongoing Cricket Tourney in Balijan. In the first match, Karagaon youth cricket club beat Stallion, while in the second match Balijan Youth cricket club were defeated by Cobra challengers. In the third match Blue star defeated Kings 11 by 87 runs. In the fourth match Stallion cricket club beat Latika Tigers by 10 wickets.

Iran's Asghar Kardoust, left, and India's Amritpal Singh battle for a rebound as the FIBA Asia Basketball Championship enters its second round Monday Aug.5, 2013 at the Mall of Asia Arena at suburban Pasay city south of Manila, Philippines.

Iran won 102-58. (AP Photo)

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prah Winfrey did not pull any punches with Lindsay Lohan in her exclusive sit-down interview. The 59-year-old asked the troubled actress who has just got out of rehab after a 90 days stint : 'Are you an addict?' The 27-year-old wore a bright orange frock with

dia mogul an in-depth interview about her time in rehab. OWN is also producing an eight-part docu-series chronicling Lindsay on her mission to rebuild her career and stay sober. Additionally, a close Lindsay source exclusively told E! News: 'She is taking this really serious. She wants people to know the days of her

clubbing and partying are over and she is a new girl.'

The actress certainly looks a lot healthier these days and she recorded the Chelsea Lately Show just two days after leaving her latest stint in rehab. According to TMZ, sources on set said the actress was 'very funny,' mocking host Chelsea Handler for drinking too much and holding her own during a roundtable with with comedians Jen Kirkman and Fortune Feimster.

She then took a jab at Harry while also referencing her own relationship with ex Samantha Ronson. 'Harry Styles was on the cover of British GQ, he was questioned by the interviewer about rumours that he’s bisexual with a DJ named Nick,' Lindsay said and then joked, 'I’ve been there, I have.' Lindsay continued: 'He answered we’re just friends. When asked how many people he slept with Harry said yes, lower than 50, you’re cornering me, I’ve only ever had sex with two people.'

'Yeah, he’s never hung out with The Wanted and he’s obviously not counting oral,' referencing her own fling with Max George.

her trademark hair tied back complete with polka dot shoes as she facedoff with Oprah in a serene looking room.

Oprah, sitting on a white chair, dirrectly opposite Lindsay wote a grey cardigan, white shirts and black pants for the interview that will air or Oprah's Next Chapter on August 18.

Winfrey continued, "What does it feel like to be both an adjective and a verb for child-star-gone-wrong?"

The exclusive conversation is just one part of Lohan's plan to turn her life around by getting sober once again.

LiLo did a guest-hosting stint on Chelsea Lately (which airs tomorrow!), along with giving the me-

in 1992.

"Sharif's jail term ended in 1994. He has lost his memory. At times he claims he hails from Iran and at times, Pakistan. We have already contacted the missions of the two countries but nobody owned up to him," said Amrik Singh, superintendent of Amritsar Central Jail, where Sharif is currently lodged.

Sharif remembers only two names - Gulam Mohammad, his father, and Pooja Bhatt - and even professes his undying love for the ac-

rince Harry says the "pressure is off" him having kids now that his nephew Prince George has been born. Harry's older brother Prince William and his wife Duchess Catherine recently welcomed their first child, the future heir to the British throne, and Harry, 28, says his father Prince Charles is so happy to become a grandfather he won't be badgering Harry to settle down and have children.

He said: "My father is over the moon to be a grandfather." When asked if he plans to have kids soon, Harry answered: "No, he's got one [grandchild] now it will be fine. The pressure's off now."

When asked previously what his mission was as an uncle, Harry said: "To make sure he has a good upbringing, and keep him out of harm's way and to make sure he has fun. "The rest I'll leave to the parents."

William and Catherine welcomed their son, whose full name is Prince George Alexander Louis, into the world at St. Mary's Hospital in Paddington, London, at 16:24pm on July 22 and left the following day. The Duke, Duchess and Prince of Cambridge left Kensington Palace later that tress by flaunting a tattoo week and are now staying at the home of Catherine's parof her name on his left arm. ents, Carole and Michael Middleton, in Bucklebury, BerkHe has also prepared some shire, South East England. dialogues which speak volumes about his love and devotion for Bhatt. "He still wants to meet Bhatt and is keen to do a film with her," said the jail's deputy superintendent R.K. Sharma.

Sharif is very popular with the jail staff and other prisoners. Amritsar Central Jail authorities said Sharif spent some years in two other Punjab jails before being shifted to Amritsar jail on July 18, 1997.

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ohnny Depp is looking to buy a pad in the UK. 'The Lone Ranger' actor and girlfriend Amber Heard are reportedly viewing several palatial houses to temporarily call home while he is in the UK to shoot Disney musical, 'Into the Woods'. The 50-year-old star was looking to rent a home in Surrey previously occupied by fellow A-list stars Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, but the deal fell through.

A source spoke to The Sun newspaper saying: "He's keen on the Home Counties [around London] and has his heart set on a ranch."

Depp is set to star alongside a who's who of Hollywood stars in the new film - based on the Broadway musical of the same name that includes Oscar winner Meryl Streep, 'Star Trek' hunk Chris Pine, James Corden and Emily Blunt. The iconic star recently claimed he is strongly considering retirement from acting for a "quieter" life after his latest release failed to make it big at the US box office.

He said: "At a certain point you start thinking and when you add up the amount of dialogue you say per year and you realise you've said written words more than you've had a chance to say your own words that becomes an insane option for a human being.

"Are there quieter things I wouldn't mind doing? Yes, I wouldn't mind that. "I wouldn't say I am dropping out any second but I would say it's not too far away."

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Now aged 42, the foreign national could never have imagined that his journey - which he made without documents would lead to two decades in jail. Film actress Pooja Bhatt was one of the hottest Bollywood stars of the 90s Abdul Sharif has spent 21 years in jail after travelling to India to pursue Pooja Bhatt - but without the necessary papers. Sharif, who was sentenced to two years' imprisonment, has been languishing in Indian jails for around 21 years since he doesn't have any papers to prove his nationality. Sharif was arrested while he was crossing over to India via Wagah Border

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In this Aug 4, Sunday photo, Bollywood actors Sharuk Khan, left, Deepika Padukone, center, and Indian designer Manish Malhotra walk at the ramp, during the Delhi Couture Week. (AP Photo)

Victoria Beckham, Mel C plan Spice Girls get together ormer Spice girls - Melanie Chisholm aka Mel C and Victoria Beckham are planning to meet their other bandmates and party together. The popular group, which also consisted of Emma Bunton, Melanie Brown and Geri Halliwell, took an indefinite break in 2008, only to perform for the last time at the 2012 Olympics Closing ceremony. However, since Beckham has shifted to London, she gets enough time with Mel C and the two have many plans on their mind, reports contactmusic.com.

"Victoria and I caught up a few weeks ago for a coffee and a chat actually - it's been so amazing to have her back in Britain," Closer magazine quoted Mel C as saying.

Victoria has now got into fashion designing, and Mel C said: "She gets really busy when she's got a new collection to prepare, but now things seem to have settled down a bit, Vic and I are planning a girl's night with the other Spice Girls. According to Mel, they also love to chit chat with each other.

"It's rare for us to all get together, so I'm very excited. When we do find time to catch up, we're like normal girlfriends who love a bitching session and a glass of red wine. We might head out for a night on the tiles, which I'm sure will be quite the spectacle," she said.

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England retain Ashes after third Test draw

England players including Kevin Pietersen, right, and Jonathan Trott, centre, celebrate after their side retained the Ashes as play is abandoned on the final day of the third Ashes Test series cricket match against Australia at Old Trafford cricket ground, Manchester, England, Monday, Aug. 5. (AP Photo)

MANCHEStER, AuguSt 5 (AP): England retained the Ashes on Monday - but only after grim Manchester weather came to the team's rescue on the final day of the third Test.

Rocking at 37-3 and with Alastair Cook, Jonathan Trott and Kevin Pietersen losing their wickets, the English were stumbling in their bid to bat out the day and secure the seriesclinching draw.

Then a band of persistent rain - promised by forecasters for the past two days - arrived shortly after lunch, denying Australia a shot at a series-saving win.

Play was abandoned an hour after tea, leaving England with an unassailable 2-0 lead with two tests

remaining in the series.

Not since 1981 has it won three straight Ashes series, extending the team's dominance over its great rival since 2009. It was a thoroughly unsatisfactory end to a test that was building up to a thrilling finale after four days of absorbing cricket at Old Trafford.

And Australia will bemoan the fact that rain has spared England when not a single minute was lost to weather in the series up until Sunday afternoon.

After being dominated in losses at Trent Bridge and Lord's, the tourists hit back strongly in the third test and have had England on the rack since the opening day in Manchester. But they were well aware that

rain could scupper their chances and had no option but to declare overnight on 172-7 - setting England a victory target of 332.

Initially, the bleak forecast proved wide of the mark. Play began 30 minutes late because of overnight rain but the sun was poking out from beneath a full cloud covering and there wasn't an umbrella in sight in a sparsely populated crowd when Cook was trapped lbw by Ryan Harris in the 15th ball of the innings.

The England captain wasted a review, as replays showed he was clearly out.

England was on the defensive - Root took 26 balls to get off the mark - and Trott narrowly survived

an lbw review from Harris before his sketchy innings came to an end when he glanced a leg-side edge to wicketkeeper Brad Haddin.

The score was 15-2 after an hour's play and Australia was scenting a chance under the floodlights.

Pietersen was England's star act in the first innings with a dazzling 113 but after one classy pull for four, he was dropped at second slip by Michael Clarke before eventually departing when he edged behind for Haddin's seventh catch of the match. With Pietersen referring the call to DRS before heading back to the pavilion after audio revealed a clear nick, both of England's reviews were used up.

Stosur topples Azarenka for Carlsbad crown CARLSBAD, AuguSt 5 (AFP): Samantha Stosur steamrolled top-seeded Victoria Azarenka 6-2, 6-3 on Sunday to win the WTA Carlsbad crown, her first title since the 2011 US Open.

Australia's Stosur, the fifth seed, made a late decision to accept a wild card into the draw pay off, notching her first victory over Azarenka in their ninth career meeting. Stosur decided to play Carlsbad after she was bundled out of the previous week's tournament in Stanford in the second round.

"Stanford didn't quite go to plan, and I took a last minute wild card that obviously, now I'm super-grateful for," she said.

Stosur hadn't reached a quarter-final all year until this week, when she beat

second-seeded Agnieszka Radwanska in the quarters before dispatching fellow wild card Virginie Razzano of France in the semi-finals.

She brushed off suggestions that with a US Open title already on her resume, her victory in this hardcourt tune-up for the final Grand Slam of the year suddenly thrust her among the Flushing Meadow favourites. But she was delighted to collect a fourth career title.

"It's been a little big up and down," she said of her on-court fortunes since she beat Serena Williams in the 2011 US Open final.

"This year has certainly been a little tough. I'm very, very happy now to get another win and hopefully that can mean some good things in the future." After

racing through the opening set against an out-of-sorts seeming Azarenka, Stosur broke for a 4-2 lead in the second. Facing a 0-40 deficit in that game, Azarenka saved one break point with an ace, but on the next point saw a forehand bounce back off the net cord.

Stosur kept the pressure on, muscling a forehand winner over on game point to take a 5-2 lead.

Azarenka trailed 15-30 in the next game, but held serve to force Stosur to serve for the match. After a shaky double-fault for 15-15, Stosur edged ahead with a stinging forehand volley. She gave herself a match point with a service winner and sealed it when Azarenka fired wide with a backhand.

Root and Bell survived to lunch but Bell took a fierce blow to the thumb from Siddle in the third delivery after the resumption, the ball floating over the slip cordon to safety.

While Bell was receiving treatment, rain started to fall again - and there wouldn't be another ball bowled. Root was on 13 and Bell on 4.

England hasn't been at its best this series, only winning the first test by 14 runs and being outplayed here in Manchester. It gives Australia renewed hope of not just leveling the series by winning the final two tests in Durham and at The Oval but also reclaiming the tiny urn in the return series starting November.

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