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Dimapur VOL. IX ISSUE 122
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Modi assails Gandhis; Sonia tells him to read history
Sussanne to get custody of Hrithik’s sons
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reflections
By Sandemo Ngullie
Gangster. Local mafia? No, He was attacked by politicians for writing about the mango ban and the delayed monsoon.”
The Morung Express POLL QUESTIOn
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Is the nagaland government taking adequate measures to tackle the rising crime in our society? Yes
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Six women injured in Manipur bomb blast IMPHAL, MAY 5 (PTI): Six women workers were today injured when a powerful bomb exploded at the Thoubal Kiyam Siphai area in the Thoubal district of Manipur, police said. They said the bomb was allegedly planted by militants at a stone crushing factory, which exploded at around 5 AM this morning when the workers came to work. The injured were rushed to Thoubal district hospital where the condition of two was stated to be serious. It was not known who planted the bomb, but militants who demanded money from the owner of the crusher unit seemed to be behind the crime, sources said. The police said the area was cordoned off after the blast and search operations were launched, but no arrest was made. No individual or group has claimed responsibility so far for the crime, they said.
NTC rally on May 13
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DIMAPUR, MAY 5 (MExN): The Nagaland Tribes Council (NTC) is scheduled to organize a public rally on May 13 at Clock Tower Dimapur from 9:00 am onwards. The rally has been organized in order to apprise the public on “the impact of recognition of Rongmei as one of the Naga Tribes in the state, entitling them all the benefits of Indigenous Scheduled Tribes by a Cabinet decision of July 23, 2012.” A press note from the NTC stated that the “blatant decision, which was taken at the expense of its citizens,” is “detrimental to the future generation” and has “hurt the sentiments of the aboriginal people of Nagaland.” Asserting that it is a “people’s subject,” the NTC stated that the people “must know the far reaching perilous consequences of the decision, if not revoked.” It appealed for all concerned to extend their support and attend the said rally.
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Although the left hand may conquer the right, no advantage is gained
Financial Management workshop in Mokokchung on May 16-17
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Tuesday, May 6, 2014 12 pages Rs. 4 –Chinese proverb
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British tennis player dies of cancer
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Pitched gun battles in east Ukraine
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World Health emergency: No firearms to be given to UN cautions spread of polio violence-hit people: Gogoi
LONDON, MAY 5 (AP): The spread of polio is an international public health emergency that could grow in coming months and ultimately unravel the nearly three-decade effort to eradicate the crippling disease, the World Health Organization said Monday. The agency described the ongoing polio outbreaks in Asia, Africa and the Middle East as an “extraordinary event” requiring a coordinated international response. “Until it is eradicated, polio will continue to spread internationally, find and paralyze susceptible kids,” said Dr. Bruce Aylward, who leads WHO’s polio efforts, during a press briefing. Polio usually strikes children under five and is most often spread via infected water. There is no specific treatment or cure, but several vaccines exist. Experts are particularly concerned the virus continues to pop up in countries previously free of the disease, such as Syria, Somalia and Iraq - where civil war or unrest complicates efforts to contain the virus. That spread has happened during what has traditionally been the low season of polio spread, leaving experts worried that cases could spike even further in the coming months. Last week, WHO convened an emergency committee to decide whether the ongoing polio outbreaks — in at least 10 countries in Asia, the Middle East and Africa — merit the declaration of an international health emergency. Declaring polio to be an international public health emergency means numerous measures will be adopted, including requiring people from countries cur-
FILE - In this file photo dated Tuesday Jan. 21, 2014, a Pakistani health worker gives a child a polio vaccine at the door way of his home, while going house to house checking on children who need the vaccine, in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. In an announcement Monday May 5, 2014, the World Health Organization (WHO) says the spread of polio is an international public health emergency that threatens to infect other countries with the crippling disease and could ultimately unravel the nearly three-decade effort to eradicate it, describing the ongoing polio outbreaks in Asia, Africa and the Middle East as an “extraordinary event” requiring a coordinated international response. (AP Photo)
rently exporting cases to have a certificate of polio vaccination before being able to travel internationally. Those measures will be reviewed in three months, WHO said. As of the end of April, there were 68 confirmed polio cases, compared with just 24 at the same time last year. In 2013, polio reappeared in Syria, sparking fears the civil unrest there could ignite wider outbreaks across the region;
the virus has also been identified in the sewage system in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza though no cases have been spotted. In February, WHO found polio had also returned to Iraq. It is already circulating in eight other countries: Pakistan, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Afghanistan, Equatorial Guinea, Cameroon, Somalia and Kenya. An independent monitoring board set up by WHO
to assess progress in eradicating polio has described the problems as “unprecedented” and said the situation in Pakistan was “a powder keg.” Dozens of Pakistani polio workers have been killed in the last two years and the vast majority of new cases are in Pakistan. Officials also worry countries torn by conflict, such as Ukraine, Sudan and the Central African Republic, are rife for polio reinfection. Some critics say it may even be time to pull the plug on polio eradication, since the deadline to wipe out the disease has already been missed several times. The ongoing effort costs about $1 billion a year. “For the past two years, problems have steadily, and now rapidly mounted,” said Dr. Donald A. Henderson, in an email. Henderson led WHO’s initiative to get rid of smallpox, the only disease ever to have been eradicated. “It is becoming apparent that there are too many problems (for the polio eradication effort) to overcome, however many resources are assigned.” Aylward said WHO and its partners aren’t yet considering pushing back their latest deadline to eradicate polio — by 2018. Still, the independent board monitoring the progress being made on polio is not so convinced and has called for the program to be completely overhauled. “Few involved in (polio eradication) can give a clear account of how decisions are made,” concluded a recent report by the group. “If a billion-dollar global business missed its major goal several times, it would be inconceivable that it would not revisit and revise its organizational and decisionmaking structure.”
Activists of All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) with black bands around their mouths march on a street as they participate in a silent procession against the killing of Muslims in the recent ethnic violence in India’s remote northeastern Assam, in Gauhati on May 5. (AP Photo)
GUwAHATI, MAY 5 (IANS): Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi Monday said the government would not provide firearms to the people affected by violence in the Bodoland Territorial Area Districts (BTAD). Gogoi said this while refuting news reports in a section of print and electronic media that the government would issue firearms to the people affected by violence in the BTAD areas, where series of militant attacks have left 31 people killed since last Thursday. “Thegovernmenthasnot taken any decision in this regard,” said the chief minister. Gogoi said the government would provide security cover to the people in the vulnerable areas by increasing the number of police pickets and outposts, strengthening village defence parties, formation of peace committees, and by taking up other security measures. A delegation of the All Bodoland Minority Students’ Union met Gogoi Sunday with a 12-point charter of demands, which also included the demand of arming themselves with
Govt for judicial probe GUwAHATI, MAY 5 (PTI): Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi today said his government would institute a judicial enquiry by a retired judge to probe into the outbreak of violence in the Bodoland territorial Area Districts (BTAD) areas. In a statement released here today, Gogoi said instituting the judicial inquiry would help to unravel the conspiracy angle behind the incidents and to bring the culprits to book. “The government which has already moved the National Investigation Agency to probe into the incidents would leave no stone unturned to unearth the truth behind the incidents,” Gogoi was quoted as saying in the release. firearms. Normalcy is limping back to the troubled Baksa and Kokrajhar districts of Assam with no reports of any fresh violence in the last three days. The district administration Monday lifted the curfew after 10 a.m. in Baksa, Kokrajhar and Chirang districts. Although, there was a protest called by some students’ organisations in the BTAD Monday, it did not evoke any response. Meanwhile, protests erupted Monday in other districts like Nagaon and Dhubri, where many people and a organisation named Muslim Students Union called a protest
against the violence. At Dabaka area in Nagaon district, police had to fire shots in air to disperse a mob, which tried to block the national highway and stop vehicular movement. The protestors also pelted stones at some passing by vehicles and injured a truck driver. “Although the BTAD remained peaceful for last three days, we are seeing protests Monday in Nagaon and Dhubri over the violence. We have deployed more forces across the state so that these protests cannot take any communal colour,” said Assam Home Commissioner G.D. Tripathy.
Naga Hoho extends solidarity to SSA teachers DIMAPUR, MAY 5 (MExN): The Naga Hoho, while extending its solidarity to agitating SSA teachers in Nagaland, has appealed for the latter to “accept the three months salary and kindly discharge their duties.” It further appealed for the concerned authority to “pursue the Government of India for the same in advance, so as to avoid additional chaos in future.” It called upon the concerned authority to comply with the “legitimate demands” of the aggrieved teachers and stated “The nuisance and hardships that members of NS-
SATA are going through at this period is felt by all of us, not forgetting the students who have to bear the brunt of this ugly episode.” It added
acknowledging that the SSA is a central flagship scheme, the Naga Hoho however stated, “We have all read time and again that the amount has been deposited and clearance has been obtained from the concerned department for disbursement of the same.” The Naha Hoho expressed hoped that both parties would work to achieve an “end to this chapter and hammer out a conducive atmosphere so as to function smoothly as in the past for the department/teachers and for the larger interest of the student community.”
Simultaneously appeals to accept three-month salary and discharge duties that the needs of the students should not be compromised. The Naga Hoho expressed resentment over the plight of the teachers and at the delaying of release of legitimate dues to the teachers. While
AR apprehends three armed cadres
newmai news network during which the cadre was apprehended from Dimapur | May 5 Super Market, near SaraThe Assam Rifles, in three mati Hotel in Dimapur. separate incidents, have He was in possession of apprehended three per- one 7.65mm pistol and sons in possession of assorted ammunition. weapons and for “extor- The individual has been tion activities.” identified as H Akato ZhiAccording to the PRO- mo (33). The apprehendIGAR (North), a GPRN/ ed individual was later NSCN cadre was appre- handed over to the East hended on May 2 by per- Police Station, Dimapur, sonnel of the 29 Assam informed the PRO-IGAR Rifles in Dimapur. It said (North). that “based on specific In a separate inciinformation,” an opera- dent, based on specific tion was launched by information, a search optroops of the 29 Assam eration was launched by Rifles, under the aegis of troops of 37 Assam Rifles Headquarters 6 Sect AR, under the aegis of Head-
quarters 6 Sect AR, and an armed miscreant was apprehended near NIT Complex, Chumukedima. The person has been identified as Longri Anthony Yimchunger (26). He was held in possession of one .22 automatic pistol, live rounds and two fired cases. On questioning, the individual revealed that he was carrying the weapon with the purpose of selling it, the PRO-IGAR (North) said. Subsequently, on search of his house, three barrels of a .22 rifle were also recovered. The individual was handed over to Diph-
upar Police Station along with recovery, it added. Meanwhile personnel of the 11 Assam Rifles apprehended one FGN cadre for “extortion. The PRO identified the apprehended as one Acii Vadeo (37), who was “collecting tax” from civil loaded trucks at Mission Colony Pfutsero town. On searching the individual, a cash amount of Rs. 13750 was recovered. The individual along with recovered items have been handed over to the police and an FIR has been lodged at Pfutsero Police station, the PRO added.
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