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NEw DELhI, APRIL 15 (IANS): State-run Indian Oil Corp (IOC) on Friday announced a slash in transport fuel rates for Delhi -- petrol by 74 paise per litre and diesel by Rs.1.30 per litre -- with corresponding cuts in other states in line with the global trends.

The cuts will be effective from midnight on Friday.

NPF Central serves show cause notice to Neiphiu Rio DIMAPUR, APRIL 15 (MExN): Following the suspension of Imkong L Imchen from active and primary membership of the Naga People’s Front with immediate effect until further orders, the Disciplinary Action Committee (DAC) of the NPF has served a show cause notice to Neiphiu Rio, MP Lok Sabha on April 13, 2016 after it “received numerous complaints from various corners.” A statement received from Press Bureau, NPF Central said the DAC after examining the complaints found ‘beyond doubt’ that “Rio had involved in anti party activism, orchestrated and harbored dissident movement within NPF party… and violated party constitutional provision by abstaining from party meeting 4 consecutive times.” The DAC said the show cause notice must be replied within 15 days in written format from the date of issue of notice served in conformity with party constitution with Article XIV Section 1 (C) and Section (B) as to why disciplinary action should not be initiated against him.

NSF demand action DIMAPUR, APRIL 15 (MExN): The Naga Students’ Federation (NSF) has sought immediate action on the anomalies and discrepancies in the implementation of the Mid Day Meal (MDM) from the period of 2010-11 to 2014-15 as was highlighted in the Comptroller and Auditor General Report. A representation to this effect was forwarded to the Office of the Chief Secretary wherein it demanded the immediate cancellation of all agencies looking over the MDM scheme, and to strictly abide the MDM guidelines. The Federation also demanded that a State Vigilance inquiry be set up and report of the findings be submitted within a period of 30 days from the date of receipt of the representation. Further, the Federation demanded befitting punishment to all the erring officials.

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Union Minister for Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, Ram Vilas Paswan has asked the Nagaland State government to expedite process to implement the National Food Security Act in the state. Paswan, on his first visit to Nagaland since taking over charge of the Ministry, stated that the implementation will pave the way for enhancement of food grains allocation to Nagaland.

Addressing a press conference in Dimapur today on the sidelines of a ‘Review meeting’ with FCI officials of Nagaland, Paswan said Nagaland is the only state which is yet to implement the Act. Once the Act is implemented, allocation to the state will increase to 1, 38,000 metric tonnes from the present 1, 27,668 metric tonnes. In addition, the Centre will bear 75 percent of transportation costs.

“I have already spoken to the Chief Minister and have requested to implement the Food Security Act (and fulfil the criteria). The CM assured that very soon Nagaland will implement the Act,” Paswan said, while adding that he will meet state government officials before he departs.

The implementation will benefit at least 1, 84,000 beneficiaries in the state.

For BPL cardholders, wheat can be availed at Rs 4.15/kg and rice at Rs 5.56/ kg. For APL cardholders, wheat will be Rs 6/kg and rice Rs 8.30/kg. In the APL category, it will be Rs 2/kg for wheat and Rs 3/kg for rice.

However, for the Act to be executed the distribution system has to be revamped and loopholes plugged, the Union Minister said. Taking digitisation as key to that direction, Paswan said certain criteria would have to be fulfilled, while adding that online allocation, supply chain automation/management and SMS system of relaying information to

Union Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public distribution Ram Vilas Paswan is seen here with FCI officials during a press conference at Dimapur on April 15. (Morung Photo)

beneficiaries has not been implemented.

According to him, the Centre has already released Rs 5.53 crore out of an allocation of Rs 10 crore for the implementation of the Act while the state was yet to match its 10 percent share.

Also emphasising on the need for setting up of Grievance Redress Cell for beneficiaries complete with a helpline number (1967), Paswan informed that he has asked the General Manager, FCI, Nagaland to immediately look into the matter.

He also urged the Nagaland State government to avail the Hill Transport Subsidy Scheme entitled to states with hilly terrain to lessen transportation costs. “Nagaland has not been utilising it for some time. They’ve not been claiming their share of money in that,” an FCI official added.

Nagaland to have a second FCI district

The Union Minister also announced the opening of an additional FCI district with Kohima as the centre. Until now, the state is covered by only one FCI district which is headquartered in Dimapur. The additional FCI district has been neces-

Governor signs nagaland online Gaming Bill to law NEw DELhI, APRIL 15 (LIvEMINT): In a potential boost for online gaming in India, Nagaland Governor P B Acharya has given his assent to a bill, which aims to regulate and legitimize online games of skill. The Nagaland Prohibition of Gambling and Promotion and Regulation of Online Games of Skill Bill, 2015 will now become an Act. Acharya gave his assent to the bill earlier this month, said K Issac, Officer on Special Duty (OSD) at the Governor’s office. The development was first reported by gaming laws website GLaws.

The Act has a long list of online games which will now be allowed.

Any game, which focuses more on the skill of the players rather than chance, will be legal. The list

includes chess, Sudoku, poker, rummy, virtual sports like cricket, football and fantasy sports league games.

The law will allow online gaming websites to apply for licences for earning revenue out of such games. The licences will be provided to companies incorporated in India, so it actually extends to all states within Indian borders. In case any other state finds a licence holder to be in violation of its local laws, the state can inform the licensing authority in Nagaland and seek redress.

The law also penalizes games of chance or gambling, and prohibits them. A fine of Rs 20 lakh can be imposed on a licence holder engaged in hosting games of chance.

sitated because it was getting logistically cumbersome to cover a state with poor road connectivity through a single centre, Paswan said. The Kohima FCI district is expected completion by September 2016.

On fund misappropriation by F&CS

The Union Minister was also asked at the press conference whether his Ministry is aware of the fund misappropriation in the Nagaland Food & Civil Supplies (F&CS) department as reported in the Comptroller and Auditor General’s report for the year ending March 31, 2015.

To this, Paswan replied that it is the prerogative of the State Government in concern to check financial anomalies, if any. Citing the ‘Federal structure’ of the Indian Union, he added that the Centre cannot interfere in certain areas of governance in the states. Further maintaining that the Union Ministry is not aware of the anomalies, Paswan said that he will look into the CAG report.

The latest CAG report states that the F&CS department has two cases of financial misappropriation amounting to over Rs 400 crore with no action taken by the State Government.

Nagaland Chief Minister, TR Zeliang, today said an early solution to the protracted Naga political issue is crucial if Nagas were to have a future.

The Chief Minister said Nagas must seize the opportune moment as the present NDA Government under the leadership of Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, has the political will to solve the Naga issue. Even other national political parties including the opposition have assured to extend support once the Naga issue is put-up in Parliament, Zeliang said.

Back home, Zeliang said all 60 members of the Nagaland Legislative Assembly have put aside their political and party differences and were working concertedly on how to bring about and honourable and acceptable solution to the Naga problem.

Addressing hundreds of villagers on the occasion of Jalukie Rongkaidai Village inauguration, a few kilometers away from Jalukie town, the Chief Minister also said the ‘Framework Agreement’ signed between the Government of India and NSCN (IM) is a big step forward to address the problems and aspirations of all Nagas living under different administrative units.

Zeliang said if Naga people as a whole do not come and reason together and speak out in one voice at the right time, then it might be too late for Nagas to hope for a solution.

He said Nagas might never see another Prime Minister or dispensation at the Centre willing to solve the Naga issue as the present.

According to Zeliang, due to delay in finding a solution to the Naga issue,

Chief Minister, TR Zeliang, along with cabinet colleagues and others after unveiling the monolith of inauguration of Jalukie Rongkaidai Village, Friday. (Morung Photo)

more and more Naga political groups have cropped up. “If solution is delayed for another 2-3 years, then the underground groups will also multiply. Where then is the future of our children?” Zeliang questioned.

He said it was high time for the Naga public to also take a cue from the unity set by the 60 MLAs and work sincerely towards unity of all Nagas including the various Naga political groups.

Minister for Rural Development, CL John and Minister for Health & Family Welfare, P Longon, in their speeches, also dwelt on the need for Naga unity. Parliamentary secretary for Geology & Mining, Imtiwapang also accompanied the Chief Minister. DC Peren, Peter Lichamo, also spoke on the occasion.

Earlier, Jalukie Rongkaidai Village Council Chairman, Chingkhiulung Gonmei, delivered the welcome address and gave a brief history of the village.

Jalukie Rongkaidai Village was established in the year 2007 and recognized by the State Government in 2014. At present, the village has 124 households.

Implement ‘Tourism for All’ policy: NSDF

DIMAPUR, APRIL 15 (MExN): The Nagaland State Disability Forum (NSDF) has called upon the Nagaland Government to put in place the ‘Tourism for All’ policy in the State Tourism Department and make tourism welcoming to all, including people with disability.

This was contained in a representation submitted to Parliamentary Secretary for Tourism, C Apok Jami by the NSDF, a copy of which was made available to the media. The Forum, along with its Advisor and Disability Advocate Diethono Nakhro, also met the Parliamentary Secretary for Tourism, C Apok Jamir on Thursday.

At the meeting, the Parliamentary Secretary was apprised of the need to usher in

a ‘Tourism for All’ policy in the State’s tourism industry and for accessibility to be reviewed and improved in existing sites and events in the State, with particular mention of the annual Hornbill Festival.

With tourism a major focus in the State today and the industry only set to grow in the coming years, the Forum expressed concern that the Nagaland Government is excluding a large chunk of population in its tourism policy.

It drew attention to an aspect in the State Tourism Policy that has been completely ignored and neglected leading to the complete exclusion of the disabled population – the aspect of accessibility at the various tourist sites and events.

Besides violating the rights

of the disabled community of the State, most of whom are still unable to participate in a major state-sponsored event even after all these years, the Forum maintained that unfriendly environment means that the State is losing out on a new and important market.

According to Census 2011, there are 29,631 people with various disabilities in Nagaland, which according to the Forum, is still a conservative estimation. It lamented that this “large section continues to live on the fringes of our society completely deprived of their rights and dignity and facing exclusion and discrimination from society as a whole.”

Accessible tourism, or ‘Tourism for All’, is making travel and tourism destinations,

products, and information suitable for all those who have particular accessibility needs, including mobility, vision, hearing and cognitive dimensions of access, and even parents travelling with children, explained the Forum in the representation.

The Forum therefore urged the Nagaland Government to review and improve the accessibility in existing sites and events. It further said accessibility at the main venue as well as associated events of the annual Hornbill Festival should be taken up immediately and implemented.

The Parliamentary Secretary is learnt to have assured the Forum that he will take up the matter with the department on priority.

Nagaland archer aims for Tokyo Olympics 2020

Limalenden Longkumer don’t win, I would at least get the opportunity to see Mokokchung | April 15 Kohima, I thought,” reAn athlete from a humble called the talented archer.

Naga village competing in He won silver in the Olymthe Olympics may seem pic round and bronze in like a long shot but not the 20 meter round in that long enough for a young competition. “When I saw boy aiming to do just so – to the equipment others were compete in the Tokyo 2020 using, I was envious and I desperately wanted to own Olympics.

Meet Kilenmeren, 18, one myself,” he recounted. the third of seven siblings Based on his performance, of a family hailing from Mo- he was selected to attend pungchuket Village in Mo- the State Archery Academy kokchung District. He was a Kohima, admitted there on 13-year-old student of Class December 9, 2011.

Kilenmeren, now a fa8 when an archery coach, Mave Chakhesang, came to miliar name in the subhis school in the year 2011. junior and junior archery Kilenmeren fell in love circuits in India, was rewith the game instanta- cently in his native village. neously. The same year he During his brief stay, apart was selected as one of the from spending time with four boys from his school to his family, he was also seen demonstrating archery to compete in Kohima.

“I did not have a bow. the folks in the village and Without any practice, and to the students and teachso without any hope, I went ers of his alma mater, that to compete in the State is, Government Middle level competition. Even if I School Mopungchuket.

(LEFT) Kilenmeren posing for the lens during a demonstration at his native village Mopungchuket. (RIGHT)Kilenmeren receiving his memento from Rahul Dravid at Chennai on July 27, 2015. As many as 19 athletes from various streams were selected for Rahul Dravid Athlete Mentorship Programme, which offers mentorship and career guidance to some of India’s most talented athletes with Kilenmeren being one of the 19.

His first major tournament was the 33rd SubJunior National Archery Championship 2013 in Bangalore where he represented Nagaland. He thought back on how, as a first-timer, he failed to cope with the pressures of playing at the national level.

He did not win any medal

there, but has won at least a medal in every competition since. He is currently ranked No.3 in the Sub-Junior National Rankings as per the Archery Association of India’s official rankings table.

His first major title came in the form of a gold medal in the Mixed Doubles cate-

gory at the 35th Sub-Junior National Archery Championship 2015 played at the JRD Tata Sports Complex, Jamshedpur, pairing with compatriot Songmao Lam. He also won bronze in the Olympic round and gold in the Distance round during another sub-junior national archery competition the

same year in Hyderabad.

In November of the same year, he was selected as one of the four boys and four girls of Sub-Junior India Team to undergo a month’s training in Korea.

In January this year, he won a silver at the National Ranking Archery Tournament (NRAT) finals played in Shillong. The next week, he won another silver medal in the 60 meter round at the 36th Sub-Junior National Archery Championship in Margao, Goa. He also won a bronze in the 70 meter round, gold in the 30 meter round, and silver in the Olympic round, apart from helping his team win gold in the Team event during the recently held 4th All India Police Archery Championship 2016 at NAPTC Stadium Chumukedima.

In July 2015, Kilenmeren was selected as one of the 19 athletes from various

streams from all over India by the Rahul Dravid Athlete Mentorship Programme, executed by former Indian cricket captain Rahul Dravid in association with the GoSports Foundation, which offers mentorship and career guidance to some of India’s most talented athletes. His travelling expenses and equipment are also being sponsored by the Mentorship Programme.

In March 2015, Mopungchuket Reongsanger Club, through the initiative of Bendangkokba IAS, sponsored Kilenmeren’s first recurve bow for which he expressed immense gratitude.

The six-foot tall archer with big dreams is presently undergoing a Sub-Junior Recurve National Archery Coaching Camp at SAI JNS Delhi, one of four boys and four girls from India, and the only archer from Nagaland.

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Dialogue on ‘Learning to live together…’ underway ‘Change, connecting commitment and destiny’ Morung Express News Kiphire | April 15

Participants with the resource person during the inaugural of the dialogue, ‘Learning to live together…’ organised by Initiatives of Change at Alikhyang Zungki River Valley on April 15. (Morung Photo) Morung Express News Kiphire | April 15

Organised by the Initiatives of Change, a dialogue on the theme, ‘Learning to live together…’ is underway at Alikhyang Zungki River Valley in Kiphire district. More than 30 participants from Sangtam, Sumi and Tikhir community in the district have gathered for the dialogue.

The inaugural session was held on April 15 where Wennyei Konyak, ADC Pungro while delivering speech pointed out lack of literacy as the cause of problems arising in the district and said that the district does not have even 20% of literacy, if the interior of the district are taken into account. “Illiteracy is an advantage of other people and most of the problem related in Kiphire is due to illiteracy,” said the ADC.

He said that “lot of projects and crores of money have been pumped in the district but it only in papers. This can be corrected only if there is literacy.” The ADC said that reasoning power is essential in order to learn to live together and this reasoning power will come of one is educated.

Sharing some problems of the administration the ADC said that almost all the administrative officers posted in the district spend 90% of their time in law and order related works and there is no time for developmental work and with this how will the district move forward.

The ADC said that people of the district lack “reasoning power and anything happen it spark like a lightning and because of that things are not moving forward at all in the district.”

He sincerely appealed to the participants to take the learning

Niketu Iralua noted Naga social activist today while sharing his experiences and doing a session on ‘change, connecting commitment and destiny’ at the dialogue on ‘Learning to live together’ at Alikhyang Zungki valley said, “the little things which I felt silly, which might not have change the world has helps me in doing things right.”

Challenging the participants Iralu also said, “Big door swings on small hinges and added, whatever small you feel follow your heart and

forward and make a difference in the society and be an agent of change in the multi communities habited district like Kiphire.

Further, the ADC advised the participants to learn as much as possible and take this dialogue as an opportunity to make a difference in individual life as well as for community.

Niketu Iralu, social worker who led the team from Kohima said that the whole world is worried today as it is spinning and spiraling out and even the European countries are helpless with the crisis in the Middle East and especially in Syria and refugee crisis that the world is facing.

Iralu said that the famous Golden Triangle where all the drugs and other illegal things flows is situated very close to Kiphire and the impact is also felt on the people of the district. However, he

do it, it will help us to walk in the right direction.” Iralu also challenged the participants saying, “When you follow your heart and do it with God things will all be set right.”

Suresh Kathri who took another session asked the participants to think why others felt the people of Kiphire do not have sense of reasoning. He also asked the participants to reflect and find reasons why Yimchunger community could not participate this time and asked who will volunteer to take a message to them? Some of the team members also took on with sessions, skits and other activities.

added that the people living inside the Golden Triangle has produced seven noble laureate in the world and since we share the same ecosystem we should also share the same spiritual ecosystem.

Iralu also said, “Hearts not transformed are transferred” and appealed to the participants to reflect in the three day dialogue whether to transform or transferred.

Yangtsapila while welcoming the gathering appreciated the team for coming all the way from Panchghani and also from Kohima. She mentioned that the silent valley has become the most happening place because of the programme.

While giving the keynote address Lipichem said, the bigger ‘we’ feeling that the people of the district have yesteryears have been replaced with smaller ‘we’ where every community feels

that if I am ok that is fine which makes the image of the district reflect all the negative message to the outside world.

He added that the participants of the programme are all willing in hearts and at the end of the program lot of differences will be expected. “The accommodative spirit- the giving and sharing spirit that the forefathers have is lost, now it is time for us to revisit and make it alive so that the district move forward together,” he added.

Lipichem also mentioned that to create a safe and secure world it is up to us and since no one wants to live in a world where there is no peace and security together we should create through this dialogue.

Special song titled, “it is better to light a candle rather than to curse the darkness” was presented by the Action for Life team Panchghani.

Day Care Centre at ICH Mkg inaugurated

Opening for the first time in Kohima, HALINOMA Motors (Riven Honda) and Honda Motorcycle and Scooter Pvt. Ltd was inaugurated on April 15 at Kezieke, Kohima Lotha Hoho Building.

HALINOMA Motors includes its exclusive authorised service center which will prove to be a boon for Honda customers who has to travel all the way to Dimapur for servicing. Keeping the traffic problem in Kohima in view, Lijanthung Humtsoe, Proprietor of HALINOMA Motors stated that 'there is nothing like two-wheelers' for daily commuting. (Morung Photo)

impur, april 15 (mExN): The Principal Director, Health & Family Welfare Department Dr. Sukhato A Sema in the presence of Senti Ao Secretary to the Government of Nagaland inaugurated the Day Care Centre under National Mental Health Programme at Impur Christian Hospital Mokokchung on April 15.

The prevalence of mental disorders in the Country is 6-7% for common mental disorders and 1-2% for severe mental disorders while the rate of psychiatric disorders in children aged between 4 to 16 years is about 12% and nearly one-third of the population is less than 14 years of age.

With such a magnitude of mental disorders it becomes necessary to promote mental health services for the well being of general population, in addition to provide treatment for mental illnesses. In view of chronic nature of mental illness; socialization, work and work habits are severely

impaired. As a result, the affected person requires resocialisation process, where his life skills need to be re-instilled.

The Principal Director stated that this type of Centre will not only cater to the needs of recovering psychiatric patients but also those in need of psychiatric counselling wherein they will be motivated and encouraged to develop lost skills, so as to become a functional member of society.

Similar Centres will be established across the State under NMHP in phase manner.

With such a magnitude of mental disorders it becomes necessary to promote mental health services for the well being of general population, in addition to provide treatment for mental illnesses. Treatment gap for severe mental disorders is approximately 50% and in case of Common Mental Disorders it is over 90%. This was stated in a press release issued

by Impur Christian Hospital Medical Superintendent Dr. Bendang Ao.

PYO reaffirm resolution to Free medical camp at Yaongyimti (New) village safeguard environment Morung Express News Mokokchung | April 15

Dimapur, april 15 (mExN): With a vision to conserve natural resources and to strengthen the village resolution passed on January 23, 2016 the Phesama Youth Organisation (PYO) will be organising mass tree plantation day on April 23.

A press note from PYO President Khriezhapu Kuotsu informed that the January’s resolution was a reaffirmation of a resolution was adopted on 1994 by the Phesama Village Council expressing grave concern over the serous socio-ecological crisis and environmental issues looming in the area.

The resolution banned hunting, fishing, collecting

of firewood, grass, herbs, plants etc, burning of jungles and dumping of loose mud in its jurisdiction.

“The resolution was further reaffirmed on January 23, 2016 and authorised the PYO to implement the resolution in Toto,” the press note added.

The core aim of the tree plantation is in view of water conservation which has become a pertinent issue to the village community in particular and the surrounding areas in general, it said.

The PYO further requested all the members under Phesama Village Council both in the village and elsewhere to positively attend the mass tree plantation.

In a novel venture, doctors, IRCS Mokokchung Branch and well-wishers from Mokokchung town conducted a ‘free medical camp’ at Yaongyimti (New) village here today where more than two hundred villagers availed free medicines and checkups at the village.

The free medical camp was held under the aegis of Dr Supongmeren and assisted by four doctors – Dr Takosunep, Dr Rachel, Dr Asen and Dr Ayangla Saku.

Most of the medicines were supplied by the Indian Red Cross Society (IRCS) Mokokchung, Nagaland.

“It was one of the most successful medical camps ever held, I am happy at the huge turnout,” said Dr

MEx File AHODs and HODs meeting on April 18 Kohima, april 15 (Dipr): A meeting of the Administrative Heads of Department (AHODs) and Heads of Department (HODs) will be held on April 18 at 11:00 a.m. in the Secretariat Conference Hall, Kohima as informed by Nagaland Chief Secretary, Pankaj Kumar, IAS. All AHODs and HODs has been informed to attend the meeting positively. The meeting will discuss agenda such as review of the minutes of AHODs and HODs meeting held on 19/2/2016, Nagaland Rural Bank- Role of State Government, Representation from NFGS, State function/Assembly Session (Attendance of AHODs & HODs), Change dispensation under the NITI AAYOG raised by the Commissioner & Secretary DUDA, Launched of “the Ambassador of Girl Child” under Beti Bachao Beti Padhao (BBBP).

Career & soft skill seminar by WYSU Dimapur, april 15 (mExN): Western Yimchunger Students’ Union (WYSU) has informed all the Yimchungru students and youth in and around Kohima and Dimapur that WYSU will be organizing career oriented seminar and skill development programme at Yimchunger Baptist Church Dimapur (YBCD) on April 23 at 9:30 am. There will be separate seminar and orientation programme for skill development course and professional course on April 23, WYSU informed in a press release. The students from Class X and above, idle youths at home have been requested to attend the seminar positively. For more information, contact: 9862442717/ 8729931462.

Mock drill exercise at Zunheboto ZuNhEboto, april 15 (Dipr): National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) Battalion under NSDMA will be conducting a Mock Drill Exercise at Zunheboto on April 18 at 12:00 noon at Town Hall. In this regard, SDO (C), Zunheboto, Hollohon Yepthomi has asked all Government Employees, NGOs and School Representatives to be present during the Mock Drill.

KODH 43rd foundation day on April 16 Kohima, april 15 (mExN): The Kohima Orphanage and Destitute Home (KODH) will observe its 43rd foundation day on April 16 at 1.30 pm the KODH, five km from state capital. This would be the first time the KODH would be observing the day without their Founder and president KODH Ama Zaputuo-ü Angami who died on March 24, 2011. She was 89. Lt. Zaputuoü Angami with her commitment started the Kohima Orphanage and Destitute Home in 1973 and running this home for 38 years till her demise. Last year the KODH did not observe due to the demise of their founder. The KODH has appealed to all well-wishers and all to attend the foundation day and also extended gratitude to all the well-wishers for helping the KODH in both kind and cash.

KVYO new team to take over Kohima, april 15 (mExN): The Kohima Village Youth Organisation (KVYO) has elected its new team of office bearers for the tenure 2016 to 2018. Swearing-in ceremony of the new team will take place on April 15, 5:00 pm at KVC Hall, Kohima Village. The new team of KVYO office bearers is led by Medozhatuo Rutsa as President, Vice President – Dzüvinguzo Mepfhüo; General Secretary – Kezhalelie Keretsü, Assistant General Secretary – Ruokuoneitso Kire, Treasurer – Kiyachülie Belho, Games & Sports Secretary – Neilazetuo Khezhie, Publicity & Information Secretary – Khrieketoulie Tseikha, Women Coordinator – Keneitseiü Khruomo, Women Co-ordinator – Ketoukuoü Sote, Women Co-ordinator – Rüüngunuo Whuorie, Women Co-ordinator – Kevisenuo Kire.

Nomenclature of ‘Changkikong’ changed to ‘Jangpetkong’ moKoKchuNg, april 15 (Dipr): The nomenclature of ‘Changkikong Senso Mundang’ has been changed to ‘Jangpetkong Senso Mungdang. President, Nungsangtoshi and the General Secretary, J. Chubatoshi said a resolution to this effect was adopted in its 72nd General conference held on February 5 and 6, 2016 at Waromong village, Mokokchung district. The two leaders said, henceforth Changkikong Senso Mundang will now be called and used as Jangpetkong Senso Mungdang in all references and correspondence from the date of issue of this notification.

SD Jain student wins in national essay contest

Dr Takosunep and Dr Supongmeren along with others during thefree medical camp’ at YaDimapur, april 15 (mExN): Poonam Kumari Gupongyimti (N) on April 15.

Takosunep, who was a part of the team, and who is the Honorary Secretary of the Indian Red Cross Society.

The Yaongyimti villagers also expressed heartfelt gratitude to the doctors and

ta, a Class 12 Commerce student of SD Jain Higher Secondary School, Dimapur has secured second position in a national level essay competition for High School and Higher Secondary students organized by Ram Chandra Mission (SRCM) and United Nations Information Centre for India and Bhutan (UNIC). A press release from Principal of SD Jain Higher Secondary School informed that Poonam has been felicitated with a citation certificate and silver medal by the organizers. The Principal Reji Abraham lauded her for the exceptional achievement, while stating that it is a proud moment for the school and her feat will motivate many other students of the school according to a press release received here. to take part in similar competitions in future.

Short speeches were also delivered by Rev. M. Asangba, Pastor, KABA, T. Amenba Yaden, Parliamentary Secretary for Industries & Commerce and Treasurer KAT, and ZuNhEboto, april 15 (Dipr): Zunheboto town T. Imchen, IAS (Rtd). During the meeting, will be celebrating 'Melange 2016' under the theme 'Benew office bearers of KAT for the year 2016- ing Sumi' from April 21 to 23. The festival is organized by 18 were nominated as follows: President Zunheboto Town Youth Organisation (ZTYO) and will - Er. Talitoba, Vice-President - Er. Chiden Yaden, General Secretary - Imsünok Jamir, participate by residents across 11 Colonies in Zunheboto.

Asst General Secretary - Moameren Im- The program will witness competition among colonies chen, Treasurers - Impalong Longkümer, in various activities during the 3 daylong celebrations.

Penalty Shoot Out, Badminton, Table Tennis, Half MaraFinance Secretary - Sentiyanger Pongen. thon, Relay Race, Traditional Couple Show, Tug of war, Spear Kicking, Greased Pole Climbing, Yodelling, Traditional Cart Racing, Poetry Recitation, Quiz, Essay Writing, Painting, Debate, Photography and Videography are by the committee, on the strength of the some of the events to mark the celebration. recommendation/clearance made by the Executive Engineer or SDO PWD National Highway Division. In case of any violation of the above order, the owners of the build- tuENsaNg, april 15 (mExN): The Internationing will have no right to claim compensa- al Evangelistic Fellowship Tuensang in collaboration tion from the Government. with the Youth Front of Tuensang Town will be organisIn addition, a committee is hereby constituted to assess and report on the ing a youth revival crusade at Tuensang Town Baptist encroachments within the town area. The Lashong from April 19 to 21. Lima Imsong, missionary committee shall comprise of SDO (C) 1, will be the main speaker and the IEF Singers (The Grace Wokha as Chairman; Assistant Director Band) will lead the praise and worship and also present Urban Development, Wokha as Member special songs. The IEF Tuensang has invited all young Secretary and SDO, PWD (R&B) and SDO people from all churches in Tuensang Town to attend the crusade.

(PWD) R&B (NH) as members.

the well-wishers for their concern and held towards the villagers.

The Mokokchung wellwishers, spearheaded by Imonen Jamir of Sungkomen – collected some

amount of money, from within the frinds circle, which was donated to the Yaongyimti (New) villave council, the Yongyimti (N) Baptist Chuch and the Yaongyimti (N) CYE.

Hydroger brightens remote areas of Nagaland KAT general meeting held

Ya K s h u ( u K h a ) , april 15 (mExN): Continuing its relentless pursuit of harnessing the renewable sources of clean and eco friendly green energy, 15 Border Roads Task Force in convergence with NePED successfully implemented its 3rd scheme of installing Hydroger for meeting the power requirements of its camps and detachments spread all over the remote areas of Nagaland.

The 3KW scheme for the BRO camp at Km 71 on Tuensang-Mon road, adjacent to village Yakshu was inaugurated on April 5 by the Advisor, NePED, Naiba Konyak in the presence of Col SP Yadava, Commander 15 BRTF, Officers of 100 RCC and all esteemed members of the civil administration, local village councils and the team members of NePED. A press release stated

that with the press of a button, three decades of darkness were illuminated up by the glittering LED lamps installed in more than 30 houses and huts belonging to the Border Roads detachment and labour camps.

The camp at Km 71 was set up in early 80s and ever since was dependent upon hurricane lamps and candle light for illumination.

Naiba Konyak highlighted the initiative undertaken by the Border Roads in executing such schemes in convergence with NePED and complimented the dedication and efforts of the dynamic team members of NePED lead by Menukhol John, Team Leader, Commissioner and Secretary, Government of Nagaland which have now executed three schemes for the BRO (Khonoma, Poilwa and Ukha) within a short span of mere three months. He as-

sured the BRO that NePED would ever be willing to take on other sites where ever the scope existed to harness the potential of the renewable sources of energy.

Col SP Yadava, in his vote of thanks appreciated the role of NePED and highlighted the tremendous scope of tapping the renewable sources of energy within the State and the excellent effort, dynamism, dedication and commitment of the NePED team who were effectively pursuing this cause and spreading smiles all over.

He thanked the advisor for taking the pains to travel all the way and spend time with his troops and labours for such a noble endeavour and assured him that soon the 4th project at Botsa for one of the BRO camp would also be ready soon to tap the power from the Hydroger.

Kohima, april 15 (mExN): The Kohima Ao Telongjem (KAT) held a general meeting on April 9 at Molu Ki Kohima with Toshitsüngba Aier (IPS), IGP (Crime) as the resource person.

Speaking on the theme ‘The Role of Aos in the political and social scenario of Nagas’, the resource person encouraged the Aos to work and stand for a common platform in all aspects of the Naga issue.

He also lamented that Aos are lacking behind and called upon the Aos in general to wake up and work for better tomorrow,

Zbto town to celebrate ‘Melange 2016’

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WoKha, april 15 (Dipr): Co-Convenor of Verification Committee & EAC Wokha, Athrong in an official notification reminded all concerned, public of Wokha town, villages falling under the alignment of NH-61 that the specification of the NH-61 as per the National Highway Act for Right of Way is 60 (sixty) feet i.e, 20 meters starting from KM 68/0 (Santsuphen) to KM 105/0 (Doyang Bridge).

Hence forth, public will have to set aside 30 (thirty) feet i.e, 10 (ten) meters from the middle of the NH-61 road for taking up any kind of building construction.

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Violent incidents continue in Imphal West

imphAl, April 15 (iANS): A large number of women protested on Friday in front of a police station in Imphal West district demanding release of a man who was detained in connection with the lynching of two Muslim youths on April 7.

The lynching had led to violent clashes on Monday between Muslim and non-Muslim communities in the district, resulting in 60 people, including three police commandos, getting injured. Curfew has been imposed in the district since then.

The women protesters on Friday said there was no reason for the police to detain K. Ibungo, the owner of a two-wheeler that Muslim youths were accused of stealing before they were assaulted by the locals.

"It is not known why Ibungo was detained in the police station. He is the owner and victim. We demand unconditional release of him," a woman demonstrator said.

The Muslim agitators who are planning a complete shut down of Manipur from Friday evening maintain that the victims of April 7 incident were students and there is no proof that they had stolen the two-wheeler.

They said Chief Minister Okram Ibobi has failed to

tackle the situation in time.

The communally sensitive situation was worsened by more violent incidents on Monday and Tuesday.

On Monday night, three motorbike-borne men fired at some women vigilantes, injuring 14 persons, including children, in Imphal West district.

On Tuesday, three Muslim youths assaulted one rice trader and his two woman associates and looted their vehicle, rice, cash, mobile handsets, gold ornaments. Anjuman, an NGO of the Muslim elders, subsequently announced that the offending youths had "surrendered" to them.

The Imphal West district is now under heavy security with additional police and paramilitary personnel being rushed in.

A spokeswoman of the Kanglei Ima Lup, a sociopolitical organisation, appealed for peace and harmony. The organisation also staged a sit-in in Imphal, protesting against the Monday's firing on women vigilantes.

On April 7, residents of a locality in Imphal West district thrashed three Muslim young men on the charge of stealing a two-wheeler.

While two were killed, the third youth continues to battle for his life in a hospital.

Textile sector in North East gets a Rs.1,038 crore push

AgArtAlA, April 15 (iANS): The Union government has undertaken a Rs.1,038 crore ($156 million) scheme in the northeast to boost textile exports, increase jobs and and curb the migration of workers.

Funded by the union Ministry of Textiles under the North-East Region Textile Promotion Scheme (NERTPS), the project is also aimed at developing and modernising the textile sector by providing region-specific flexibility in execution.

"Under the NERTPS, the textile ministry has been providing Rs.18 crore each for setting up of a ready-made garment manufacturing unit or 'Apparel and Garment Making Cen-

dElhi, April 15 (mExN): The NorthEast Forum for International Solidarity (NEFIS) is undertaking a Signature Campaign in order to gather support for revoking the controversial Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA).

According to a press release from the NEFIS, the Signature Campaign has been started by the State Committees of NEFIS in five places viz., Chandigarh, New Delhi, Gwalior, Assam and Imphal. “NEFIS believes that by denying the right to rule of

imphAl, April 15 (iANS): The toll in the northeastern states from eating poisonous mushroom has risen to 14, a Manipuri housewife becoming its latest victim on Friday.

Her two children, aged 6 and 9, died last Sunday after eating the mushroom curry.

Her 12-year-old daughter had already died last Thursday.

Though the children died one after another, the tribal mother was helpless since there was no bus or other forms of transportation within the sub-division to take the affected to district town for medical help.

Official sources told IANS that the state governments will launch an awareness campaign among the tribals in these states not to pluck and

law, the Indian state has kept North-East people relegated to the status of Second Class citizen in the country that claims itself to be the world’s largest democracy,” the forum stated.

Informing that NEFIS activists will also be campaigning for people’s support against AFSPA, the forum added that it has also started an online support campaign to voice people’s hatred of the “brutal act”.

The signatures will be submitted to the President of India, along with a memorandum listing the long-standing demands of our struggle against the draconian AFSPA in the North-East, the forum informed.

Man divorces wife for voting for BJP

guwAhAti, April 15 (AgENCiES): Political differences led to divorce in a village in Assam after a Muslim man separated with his wife as she decided to go against the village diktat of voting for the Congress party. The wife, a BJP supporter, voted for the saffron party in the state assembly elections. Dilwara Begum was divorced by her husband Ainuddin after she

Cherrapunji received 70 mm of rain. In Assam Guwahati received 22 mm, Lumding 15 mm, Mazbat 24.2 mm and Silchar 23 mm.

Northeastern states get their share of rain this month from the Western Disturbances, gradually moving towards Northeast India after affecting North India. Secondly, they receive abundance moisture fed by the winds coming from Bay of Bengal.

UNLF claims responsibility for Imphal blast

imphAl, April 15 (pti): The proscribed United National Liberation Front (UNLF) has claimed responsibility for the April 13 bomb blast close to a transit camp of Assam Rifles (AR), which left one AR jawan dead. In a statement issued to the media last night, the outfit said its activists triggered the explosion.

The blast had claimed the life of the security personnel and caused injuries to three

others, the police officer said. The AR personnel were on foot patrol at a site located at Ragailong Khuman Lampak Stadium road.

The three injured were identified as Himansu Devnath (31) of West Bengal, K Rameshwor (32) of Manipur and Manish Kumar (28) of Bihar. The jawan, who succumbed to injuries at a private hospital here on that evening, has been identified as Gukulchand Yadav (32) of Rajasthan, the officer said.

He also ordered to fix up responsibility on the part of those protecting the rhinos.

Terming the killings as "very unfortunate", Gogoi asked the special task force constituted to curb poaching to intensify operations against poachers and their accomplices. He also issued directions for evolving strategies to tackle rhino poaching by holding discussions with various students, social and community organisations and NGOs involved in wildlife protection.

Inquiry ordered into non-observance of Ambedkar birthday

guwAhAti, April 15 (pti): Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi today ordered an inquiry into non-observance of 125th birth anniversary of B R Ambedkar by Kamrup Metropolitan district administration. According to an official release, Gogoi asked Chief Secretary V K Pipersenia to institute a probe as to why the 125th birth anniversary of Babasaheb Ambedkar was not observed by the Kamrup Metropolitan

forms and garments of the police, security and paramilitary forces - as also schoolchildren and civilians - in the region.

This is just for starters. A host of schemes are planned in the northeastern states under the NERTPS, which covers projects across the textiles sector ranging from sericulture, handlooms, handicrafts, power looms to apparel and garmenting.

Verma said that under the cluster development projects for handlooms, the rich and well-liked handloom sector of the northeast would be developed and modernised to increase production, productivity, employability

district administration in a befitting manner yesterday.

"Viewing the lapses on the part of the district administration with all seriousness, the Chief Minister asked the Chief Secretary to find out the lapses and to fix up the responsibility accordingly," it added. Gogoi asked Pipersenia to enquire the matter immediately and submit a report to him for necessary action.

five members of a family had died after similarly consuming poisonous mushroom a few days ago. A girl, aged 3, who was asleep was the only member of the family who survived.

Five members of another family in Garo hills in Meghalaya also died in similar circumstances.

The mountains in the northeastern region are fertile and edible vegetables grow in plenty. The tribals pick up these for daily consumption.

However, there is no fool proof means to identify the poisonous mushrooms. Most of the educated sections are avoiding mushroom consumption. Except for the news reports in the local media, there is no health warning to the people from the governments so far.

Baby elephant rescued in Assam

guwAhAti, April 15 (iANS): A baby elephant who got separated from its mother and injured itself after falling in a drain found its saviours in uniform when an army patrol rescued it and provided it food and medical treatment.

The animal, separated from its mother and the main herd, fell into the wide drain, fracturing its right forelimb.

However since the drain was near the boundary of the 14 ammunition

depot in Narangi Cantonment here, a routine patrol along the perimeter on Friday passing by early Friday found the injured animal, visibly in great pain and discomfort.

The patrol commander informed the depot commandant who immediately activated a Quick Reaction Team along to reach the area along with all available officers. Contact was also made with the local forest department for expert help.

The baby elephant was

rescued from the drain, and brought to a safe location. The team also fed the baby with flour and fruits and gave it water.

Army officials said the baby tusker is calm and being taken care of by the depot personnel while the army veterinarians are providing the required treatment.

In a similar incident in April 2014, a baby elephant was rescued from a pond by the personnel of the same depot.

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Gogoi orders probe into rhino killings at Kaziranga

guwAhAti, April 15 (pti): Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi today directed Additional Chief Secretary T Y Das to probe into the killing of two rhinos in Kaziranga National Park recently and to submit a report to him immediately. According to an official release, Gogoi expressed serious concern over the rhino killings in the past few days and asked the additional chief secretary to go into details of the circumstances leading to the killing of two rhinos.

migration of workers from this region to other parts of the country," she said.

Three hundred Japanese computerised sewing machines will be installed in each of the eight AGMCs. The Tokyo-based Juki company, which started making sewing machines in 1947, has customers in 170 countries from China to the Vatican.

Of the 300 sewing machines, 200 would be used for manufacturing and 100 for providing training.

Each AGMC will provide direct employment to 1,200-1,500 people, mostly women, and take care of skill up-gradation and marketing of finished products.

Each unit is expected to meet the demand for uni-

consume wild mushrooms which are lethal. Police said the middle-aged housewife died in the morning at Parbachong village in Parbung subdivision of Manipur's Churachandpur district.

Villagers told IANS there is a hospital at Parbung, the sub-divisional headquarters. In the absence of telephones, transportation and other means of communication, the doctors were unaware of the tragedy.

Villagers said the family had plucked wild mushroom and consumed the curry on Saturday.

The father of the children and a grown up son were in the paddy field working and the survived because they skipped the meal made of the poisonous mushroom. In Mizoram,

defied the village diktat and voted for BJP candidate Pramod Borathakur.

The bizarre incident took place in Donam Addahati village in Sonitpur district, where the village heads apparently have a strong inclination towards the Congress, said news reports quoting regional media.

In the diktat, the villagers were mandated to cast their votes for the Congress.

NE receiving continuous pre-Monsoon showers NoidA, April 15 (AgENCiES): At a time when most parts of India are witnessing extreme heat, the North East has been witnessing continuous pre-Monsoon showers.

The region normally receives very good rains during this time of the year and contributes sufficiently to the pan-India rains. At present, Meghalaya and Assam are witnessing good pre-Monsoon showers. On Thursday,

tre' (AGMC) in each of the eight northeastern states. It would also provide financial assistance to run the units after their commissioning," Textiles Secretary Rashmi Verma told IANS. The first AGMC was inaugurated in Nagaland on April 6 and the second one in Tripura on April 8.

"The AGMCs in other six states are expected to start manufacturing in a month. After starting production of all the eight AGMCs, there would be a landmark development in the textile sector in the northeastern region," the senior IAS officer added.

"The AGMCs aim to boost the scopes of employment and exports and curb

and value addition of the handlooms by means of technology up-gradation.

"As bamboo is one of the rich resources of the region, handicrafts with a variety of designs and its diverse use in northeastern states have an immense global market. This sector must be developed," Verma said, adding: "Sericulture is another viable sector which also has tremendous scope to provide more and more employment and to earn foreign exchange."

With a 46 million population, the northeastern states share a more than 5,435-km border with China, Myanmar, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Nepal. Some of the states have trade ties

with a few of these countries, especially Bangladesh and Myanmar. Thus, the AGMCs have scope to exporting readymade apparel to these adjoining and other countries.

Verma said that the readymade garments contribute 11 percent of India's exports, seven percent to GDP and provides the maximum employment after agriculture.

India's current share in the global apparel and garment market is a mere 3.7 percent against Bangladesh's 6.1 percent and Vietnam's 4.3 percent, signifying that India has the potential to step up output, both for domestic requirements and exports.

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India to get $250 mn for renewable from BRICS New Development Bank Washington, april 15 (ians): The New Development Bank, the latest multilateral funding institution in the financial world, has sanctioned a $250-million loan for India to fund its ambitious scheme on new and renewable energy, a top finance ministry official has said.

“Participated in meetings of BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) finance ministers and Board of Governors of the New Development Bank. Major policy issues discussed,” India’s Secretary for Economic Affairs Shaktikanta Das tweeted.

“New Development Bank sanctioned four loans, including a loan of $250 million for a renewable energy scheme in India. Good beginning,” Das said after the meeting that was chaired by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley here.

This, according to officials, is in the area of so-

lar energy and is also the first such loan from the development financial institution.

A statement from the Indian side later said the multi-tranche, $250-million loan will be given to Canara bank to, in turn, lend to renewable energy projects. “The projects will result in generation of 500 MW of renewal energy and savings of about 800,000 tonnes of carbon emissions,” the statement said.

In total, $811 million loans have been approved for projects in India, China, Brazil and South Africa.

Now into its second year, the New Development Bank, with noted Indian banker K.V. Kamath as president, was formed by the BRICS leadership to fund infrastructure projects in emerging economies, as also to meet the aspirations of hundreds of millions of people through

sustainable development.

The BRICS finance ministers and central bank governors’ engagement here was on the margins of the World Bank-International Monetary Fund Spring meetings. Besides Das, Jaitley’s delegation includes Reserve Bank of India Governor Raghuram Rajan and Chief Economic Advisor Arvind Subramanian.

During the meetings, Jaitley said even though India has consistently recorded the highest growth figures among large economies for the last three quarters, the global growth continues to remain sluggish and has witnessed recurring downward revisions.

“Weak demand, tighter financial markets, softening trade and volatile capital flows are key headwinds to robust global recovery. Further, the efficacy of monetary policy instruments has reached its limits and that its pass

through has not been seamless,” he said.

“Global and regional financial safety net and oversight need to be augmented -- including new financing mechanisms,” he said, emphasising the need for globally coordinated policy actions to address the persistent economic turbulence.

At the BRICS meeting, which he chaired, Jaitley raised issues of common concern of member countries -- global economy, structural reforms, voice reform of IMF and the World Bank and other new and ongoing initiatives.

He also expressed satisfaction that two key initiatives of BRICS -- the Contingent Reserve Arrangement and the New Development Bank -were both fully operational. The meeting decided to form a technical group to examine all issues in detail and present their findings before the next meeting.

US Government worse than all major industries on cyber-security Washington Dc, april 15 (reuters): US federal, state and local government agencies rank in last place in cyber-security when compared against 17 major private industries, including transportation, retail and healthcare, according to a new report released Thursday.

The analysis, from venturebacked security risk benchmarking startup SecurityScorecard, measured the relative security health of government and industries across 10 categories, including vulnerability to malware infections, exposure rates of passwords and susceptibility to social engineering, such as an employee using corporate account information on a public social network.

Educations, telecommunications and pharmaceutical industries also ranked low, the report found.

Information services, construction, food and technology were among

the top performers.

Government agencies have struggled for years to keep pace with malicious hackers and insider threats, a challenge that came into focus after it was disclosed last year that more than 21 million individuals had their sensitive data pilfered during a breach at the Office of Personnel Management.

SecurityScorecard said it tracked 35 major data breaches across government from April 2015 to April 2016.

President Barack Obama has made improving cyber defenses a top priority of his remaining year in office. His administration asked Congress to dedicate $19 billion (roughly Rs. 1,26,548 crores) to cyber-security in its fiscal 2017 budget proposal, which would include $3.1 billion (roughly Rs. 20,647 crores) for technology modernization at various federal agencies.

Federal agencies scored most

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Of the 600 government entities tracked, Nasa performed the worst, the report found. The space exploration agency was vulnerable to email spoofing and malware intrusions, among other weaknesses, according to SecurityScorecard’s analysis.

Other low-performing government organizations included the US Department of State and the information technology systems used by Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Washington and Maricopa County, Arizona.

Government organizations with the strongest security postures included Clark County, Nevada, the US Bureau of Reclamation, and the Hennepin County Library in Minnesota.

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Sensitization programme and book keeping training held Mokokchung, april 15 (Mexn): Two days ATMA Sensitization Programme-cum-Training on Book Keeping is underway at ATMA Conference Hall

by ATMA, Mokokchung. The programm would conclude on April 16.

With an objective to further strengthen and improve programme implementation, the event is held as an annual refresher course for all ATMA Support Staff, Block Technology Team Conveners and extension functionaries from Agriculture department on various important topics namely Extension Reforms; Concept and Organizational setup of ATMA, Cafete-

changtongya, april 15 (Dipr): The first Sub-Divisional Departmental Coordination Forum (SDDCF) meeting of Changtongya for the year 2016 was held on April 12.

The meeting was chaired by Chairman of SDDCF & SDO (C) Chumlamo Humtsoe, who encouraged all head of offices under Changtongya sub-division to cooperate with one another and maintain the tradition of coordination.

The Chairman further informed that the Election Commission of India has

tening, april 15 (Dipr): The Assistant Public Relations Officer, DIPR, K. Zeliang alongwith the newly posted Information Assistant, Tening, Dr. Tepekrovi Kiso interacted with IA centre staff on April 14.

While interacting, Zeliang shared his views and suggested for upliftment of the centre so as to function effectively for the upliftment of the department as well as for the interest of the people.

He also expressed his happiness for having a separate IA office in the sub division. He further urged all the staff to be sincere and honest in discharging the assigned duties.

The newly posted IA, Kiso hoped that the people of Tening would be able to cope up with the rest of the State in the field of Information technology.

He said road connectivity is the lifeline of the people domiciled in rural areas and place like Tening would experience a new era once the road is constructed and linked with State Capital Kohima and Dimapur, as well as the neighbouring state like Assam.

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Neiba apprises BRO KSON tours 19 Kuki villages; points out their needs Director General on negligence of NH-29 Kohima, april 15 (mExN): National Highway-29 (earlier NH 150), connecting the State capital Kohima to Jessami via Pfutsero to Manipur state, which has been neglected for many years without maintenance or repair by the authority has been brought to the notice of Director General (DG), BRO Head Office, New Delhi by Neiba Kronu, Parliamentary Secretary for Planning & Co-ordination, Evaluation, Monitoring and Taxes.

National Highway-29 is the lifeline of Phek, Zunheboto and Kiphire districts of Nagaland.

A press release issued by Thomas Thailu, Officer on Special Duty, Department of Planning & Co-ordination, New Delhi stated that Parliamentary Secretary Neiba Kronu apprised the DG, BRO of the problems faced by the local people of the districts concerned. Kronu also highlighted about negligence of the roads and Sidzu Bridge, which collapsed in 2007 and has not been constructed till date. The DG assured to instruct the BRO in Nagaland to start the work immediately and thereafter will visit the site in month of May 2016.

Kronu has appealed to civil societies, villages and the other civic bodies to co-operate with the BROs during the construction of roads.

The release stated that the DG, BRO, who assumed his office only in the month of January 2016, is an efficient, practical, and a person of dignity who is willing to bring road development in the country.

Dimapur, april 15 (mExN): The Kuki Students' Organisation Nagaland (KSON) toured Ahthibung and Khelma area from April 5 to 12 covering 19 Kuki villages.

KSON President, Paotinsei Khongsai in a press release stated that during the tour, KSON visited schools in the villages and held interaction with respective GBs, VECs, VCCs, VDBs, YSU Unit, health sub centers staff with regard to the difficulties and obstacles faced by them.

The students’ union discovered that Khelma Sub Center (HSC) established on May 30, 2009 and veterinary in Khelma have been running without medicines.

It was also learnt that the construction of GPS Chamcha building was halted and the parents are compelled to send their children mostly to Ahthibung Town and Jalukie Town for schooling.

The need for early construc-

Holy Cross School celebrates 50 years today KSON members interact with students during their tour to Ahthibung and Khelma area.

tion of GPS L. Lilen Village was also observed as there are good numbers of students in the school, the release said. Another observation was the shortage of teachers and fourth grade posts in some schools.

In these regards, the

KSON has appealed to the departments concerned for post creation, to provide sufficient medicine to Khelma HSC, veterinary and expedite the completion of GPS Chamcha building construction and early construction of GPS

Kohima, april 15 (mExN): The NNagaDAO Executive board, advisers and chief functionaries today resolved to take up the issue of non-release of fund and other HIV/AIDS program concerns with Governor, Chief Minister, and Chief Secretary and request them to address the issues.

In its emergency meeting held in Kohima, the NNagaDAO members expressed resentment towards the State government, National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO), and Nagaland State AIDS Minister for Road & Bridges Y. Vikheho Swu, Minister for School Education & SCERT Control Society (NSACS) for their inability Yitachu, Parliamentary Secretary for Industries & Commence Amenba Yaden and oth- to release fund for four months (Novemers during a visit to Tizu bridge after inspecting the ongoing construction of Pokhun- ber 2015 to March 2016). The emergency gri- Avakhung- Layshi road under NEC on April 15. (Morung Photo) meeting was held at Regional Resource &

L. Lilen Village.

During the tour, the students’ organization also appealed for contribution for the KSON Golden Jubilee Cum General Conference scheduled in December 2016 at Ahthibung Town.

Training Centre (Kripa Foundation), Kohima to discuss the non release of fund for the fiscal year 2015-16.

A press release from NNagaDAO President, Abou Mere and Secretary, Inatoli Choppy said that earlier, with the Chief Secretary Pankaj Kumar’s intervention, the proposed peaceful protest across the state was kept in abeyance. However, it said, Nagaland government, NACO and NSACS did not release fund to the NGOs and CBOs for November 2015 to March 2016.

Meanwhile, the NNagaDAO executive board has requested all members to have patience and wait for the outcome.

BJP tells Union Minister Health workers trained on ‘Timed and Targeted Counseling’ ly timed so that she has sufficient individual circumstances. about problems in PDS moN, april 15 (mExN): A worktime to act on the given messages, Based on these factors, the proshop for staff and frontline workers

but not so early that the messages gramme was scheduled on the basis with the District Health Society and seem irrelevant or are forgotten. of introduction and objective of the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) of Mon district was orga- • It is targeted: TTC is not only tar- meeting, sessions on TTC, Adolesgeted in time, but it is also targeted cent Health, Baseline findings and nized by World Vision on Timed and in space. All messages are delivered discussions.

Targeted Counseling and Adolescent by visiting a woman’s home so that L. Khobung, Programme ManHealth from April 14 to 15 at DRDA key decision makers in the family, ager, World Vision, Mon during the conference hall, Mon. The workshop such as male partners, mother-in- workshop said, “Children are the gift was attended by the ASHAs and Anlaws and grandmothers, also re- of God, When God wants to bless a ganwadi workers (AWW) of T/Chceive the information. Additional- man or a woman, he sanctifies the ingnyu, L/Sheanghah, Mon cluster, ly, the information itself is targeted womb of a mother with a child. And Pongkong, Longkei and Goching and individualized, with messages so, the District Health Society, the cluster. focusing on the circumstances of ICDS and World Vision, Mon are the Timed and Targeted Counseling each specific family. messengers to work for the children (TTC) refers to a community health worker/ volunteer approach to ex- • It is counseling: Often women face for better health and to remind the cultural, financial or geographic parents that children are the blesstending primary health care counbarriers to adopting healthy prac- ings from God.” He further added that seling to the household level, and is tices. In TTC, a community health “we” should work together keeping in one of the core approaches of World worker or volunteer engages in view the present stage of our commuVision's Global Health and Nutrition discussion with the family to iden- nity for the welfare of our society.

Strategy. tify barriers to preferred health Resource persons for the pro• It is timed: During a woman’s practices. They then work with the gramme were Grace Gangte, Cluster pregnancy, messages on materfamily to negotiate a feasible shift Technical Led, GHY PMO, Dr Sunal, newborn and child health are in their behaviors towards these pongmenla Walling, DIO, Mon and delivered to the woman and her preferred practices based on their Eunice Thalih, DCM, NHM, Mon. family. The messages are careful-

NGRCSU on alleged irregularity in Convent at Sanis & Catholic awarding contract works in BSNL church at Razeba inaugurated Kohima, april 15 (mExN): The Nagaland Government Registered Contractors and Suppliers Union (NGRCSU) has extended support to Kohima District Congress Committee (KDCC) for bringing out the alleged irregularity in awarding contract works (e-tender) in BSNL NE-II Zone, Dimapur.

“The reputation of BSNL has taken a beating for the alleged irreg-

ularity on favouritism, which should not have happened at all,” stated a press statement issued

by NGRCSU President, Seyiekuolie. “The BSNL which had the repute as one of the most trusted telecommunications in providing connectivity to millions of people over the years and the allegation has brought disrepute to the brand name BSNL to a large extent.”

The NGRCSU also appealed to the higher authority of BSNL to re-look into the e-tender of awarding of works. It asserted that any qualified contractor deserving should be awarded the works and the works should not be awarded through unfair means. The union also demanded the higher authority to take necessary action against the corrupt officials.

NGOs, drug users sensitized on TB Kohima, april 15 (mExN): Nagaland Users’ Network (NUN) in collaboration with Kripa Foundation and Treatment Action Group, New York, conducted sensitization programmes on tuberculosis at Kripa drop-in-centres at D’ Block and PR Hill in Kohima on April 12 and 15 respectively.

The programmes targeted participants particularly from the drug users’ community and NGOs, according to a press release from Renbonthung Tungoe, NUN Advocacy Officer, who facilitated in both the programmes. The objective of the programme was to sensitize and empower the drug users’ community and PLHIVs to seriously consider tuberculosis as a great concern and prioritize screening and treatment of the disease, the release added.

In both the programmes, the nature of

TB (as a blood borne disease), its routes of transmission, signs and symptoms, preventive measures, various types of TB were highlighted. Participants were also provided information on the various categories of treatment required to treat them, side effects of the drugs and the provisions available in the government health set ups to treat the disease were also highlighted.

The participants also discussed some of the key concerns under the RNTCP program like the absence of proper infrastructure for diagnostics and treatment related supports. They brought out the issues, gaps and inadequacy of the treatment services available in government set ups, which is of concern especially for the patients on treatment and people in general, the release stated, adding the government needs to seriously look into the issues.

Committee on women reservation calls meeting Kohima, april 15 (mExN): The Joint Action Committee on Women Reservation (JACWR) comprising NMA, TWO, Watsu Mungdang, ENWO, and NWHD has convened a meeting on April 19, 11:00 am at the HRLN Office, near DUDA Guest House, Kohima. Therefore, all Presidents and Secretaries from all tribe apex women organizations, NMA Advisors have been requested to attend the said meeting positively.

NNagaDAO to take issue of nonrelease of fund to Governor, CM

Dimapur, april 15 (mExN): Nagaland BJP today met Union Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution, Ram Vilas Paswan at Police Guest House, Chumukedima and apprised him of the state of affairs in the food and Public Distribution System (PDS) sector in the State. State BJP President Visasolie Lhoungu highlighted the plight of the people, especially in remote corners where accessibility is a huge problem, according to a release from BJP General Secretary (Media). Electricity and road connectivity as well as poor telecommunications were the main hurdles to delivering the PDS benefits, the BJP President added. The necessity of district FCI godowns was also highlighted and a representation in this connection was submitted by the State BJP. Meanwhile, Ram Vilas Paswan noted that while the rest of the country had effectually implemented the revamped PDS system, Nagaland was lagging behind, leading him to tour the state. He revealed that the Chief Minister has assured to bring into effect the reduced rate of rice and wheat under both the Antodhya and BPL scheme from June 1 in Dimapur and Kohima and from July 1 in the rest of the state, the release said. On the infrastructural aspect, particularly road conditions and district godowns, the Union Minister assured to look into them as well.

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Kohima, april 15 (mExN): The newly built convent for Sisters of Providence under St. Peter’s Church at Sanis was blessed on April 11 by Rt. Rev. Michael Joseph McKenna, the bishop of Bathurst, Australia. In a separate function on April 12, the newly built church at Razeba was inaugurated and blessed by the same bishop. He was assisted by Most Rev. Dr. James Thoppil, bishop of Nagaland.

The functions were attended by fathers, sisters and large gathering of lay faithful and public. The function at Razeba was also graced by John Tsilise, Additional District Commissioner of Meluri, Angela, NCWA President, and pastors.

Bishop Michael in his homily at Razeba said that the roads in Nagaland are rough and challenging to travel, a press release from Nagaland bishop’s secretary informed. Similarly, the road to heaven is also challenging and life here on earth is sometimes smooth and sometimes rough, Michael added.

Brother Litsuvi Rume Christopher received the clerical habit during the

Dimapur, april 15 (mExN): Holy Cross Higher Secondary School is celebrating its Golden Jubilee on April 16 with Nagaland Home Minister, Y Patton as chief guest and Most Rev Fr James Thoppil, Bishop of Nagaland, and Parliamentary Secretary for Irrigation & Flood Control, Jacob Zhimomi as guests of honour. The programme will begin at 4:00 pm with the unveiling of monolith and golden jubilee tree plantation, informed a press release. The school has invited all the parents, well-wishers and alumni to attend the programme, while adding that all former principals, headmistress, and vice-principals are also attending the celebration.

In the morning, Golden Jubilee Mass will be held in the Parish Church, followed by a basketball match between alumni and present & past staff.

Consultative meet on NERP Kohima, april 15 (Dipr): The Deputy Commissioner and District Election Officer Kohima, Rovilatuo Mor has informed that the consultative meeting on National Electoral Rolls Purification drive to improve the quality of the electoral rolls will be held with all the recognized political parties of Kohima district unit, Angami Public Organization, Angami Students’ Union, Angami Women Organization, Rengma Hoho, Rengma Women Hoho, Rengma Students’ Union, Angami Baptist Church Association, Angami Catholic Union, Angami Christian Revival Church Union, Rengma Baptist Church Association, Rengma Catholic Union, Rengma Christian Revival Church Union, Kohima Town Wards Council/Union, Media and Kohima district Head of Offices on April 18 at 1:00 pm in the DC Conference Hall, Kohima. Therefore concerned organization/union/Association/District Head of Office have been requested to depute representative(s) to attend the meeting.

One arrested in Kohima Kohima, april 15 (mExN): The Mobile Unit of DEF Kohima while conducting MVCP at Paramedical junction area in Kohima detained one Maruti Esteem bearing registration No. AS-01K-1450, where it was discovered that the chassis and engine number engraved in the vehicle and smart card did not tally. Accordingly, the vehicle owner Md. Nazir Hussain (20) was taken into police custody. Meanwhile, a regular case vide Kohima South PS Case No 0023/16 U/S 468/471 IPC was registered against the arrested person for conducting further investigation. This was informed in a release issued by PRO, Kohima Police.

Power supply disrupted in Phek Kohima, april 15 (mExN): Power supply to Phek district has been disrupted due to a technical snag developed in the main incomer 33 kV circuit breaker at Meluri Sub-Station on April 15. Informing this in a press release, Executive Engineer, Transmission Division, Kohima assured that the department is making all efforts to repair and restore the power supply at the earliest and asked the public to bear with the inconvenience caused.

WHKAA meeting today Dimapur, april 15 (mExN): Wester Huker Kiuru Arih Ako (WHKAA) has convened a joint meeting on April 16, 9:00 am at the residence of its treasurer at Loyir village. Therefore, all the office bearers and executive members have been requested to attend the meeting positively.

Tovihoto condoles

Dimapur, april 15 (mExN): MLA & Chairman of Nagaland Industrial Development Corporation (NIDC) Ltd Tovihoto Ayemi has expressed sadness at the demise of L Vihoto Sumi. He was the Head GB and founder of L Vihoto Village under Dimapur district, the former chairman of Sunrise colony and United North Block, Burma Camp and a former president of Western Sumi Students’ Union and Western Sumi Hoho. In a condolence note, Tovihoto described late Vihoto as a dynamic and selfless social worker who will always be remembered for his contribution to public life and taking a principled stand on public and grassroots issue. “In this sorrow times, I, on behalf of my family would like to express my deepest and most sincere condolences,” Rt. Rev. Michael Joseph McKenna and Rev. Dr. James Tovihoto added.

Thoppil with church members at St. Ignatius Church Razeba on April 12.

Mass at Razeba. Bishop James, who presided over the Holy Eucharist, in his homily congratulated the brother for the bold step he has taken to live for the Lord. He urged Brother Christopher to listen to the prompting of the Holy Spirit and follow His call. He also exhorted the gathering to accompany him with their prayers as he journeys towards priesthood. During the occasion, 25 children received the first Holy Communion at St. Ignatius Church Razeba.

Speaking at the felicitation programme at Sanis, Bishop Michael said that 32 years back he had a great

desire to come to Nagaland and today that dream has become a reality. He appreciated and marveled at the great singing abilities of the Nagas, the release said.

Meanwhile, Bishop James extended words of appreciation and thanks to Bishop Michael and Mike who accompanied Bishop Michael in his journey for having made it to Nagaland. He also thanked the congregation of Sisters of Providence for accepting to take up the challenge of working in the tough mission at Sanis. Sr. Thressiamma, the provincial superior also spoke on the occasion at Sanis.

NPCB to inspect industries Dimapur, april 15 (mExN): The Nagaland Pollution Control Board (NPCB) officials will be undertaking inspection of industries in and around Dimapur and Chumukedima, especially the stone crushing units. A press release from Rusovil John, NPCB Member Secretary said it had been experienced in the past that whenever inspection are conducted documents are not kept at the site of the industry and the workers are not able to furnish proper information, in many cases. Therefore, the industrial units have been requested under Section 5 of the Environment (Protection) Act,1986 to keep the following ready at the site of the industry for ready reference: A signboard indicating the name of the unit; Copy of Industrial License; Copy of Lease Agreement, in case the industry is operated in a lease land; Copy of “No Objection Certificate” from the village/ colony council; Copy of latest Electricity Bill from the Power department; Copy of Consent Certificate by Nagaland Pollution Control Board.

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Nagaland drowning in taxes and corruption Residents claim they are being mercilessly taxed by armed A Response to “India’s Nagaland drowning in taxes and corruption” Matthew Wilkinson age. But this alone can tell us very how governance works in Nagagroups, and short-changed by a corrupt state government little about the nature of corrup- land. Corruption is lived with,

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But a few years ago, they decided to go back to their farming roots and began to cultivate vegetables in the village of Zhavame, unaware of the difficulties they would soon face.

"Our cabbages are famous throughout the state.

In a year, the village contributes to a market value of about 17 million [rupees, or $254,000] through its produce," she said.

Yet her family, like other farmers in the region, only see a small percentage of the revenue. When they send their vegetables to be sold in Dimapur, the state's commercial centre, its municipal council levies transportation taxes on the vehicles bringing the produce to market - as do several armed groups along the 140km-long route from Zhavame to Dimapur.

When the cabbages finally reach the wholesale market, traders set the price of the produce, irrespective of the farmers' production cost.

"The traders have formed a syndicate and they pay something known as 'protection tax' to armed groups that gives them the power to dictate over the poor farmers. There's price monopoly here when there should be a free market.

If we're lucky, we make a small profit. Otherwise, most days end with deficits," Dukru explained.

Last July her father, Sanyi Dukru, 54, was assaulted by traders and found unconscious by the police at midnight. As the chairman of a local farmers' committee, Sanyi Dukru spent his days in Dimapur inquiring about the market prices of vegetables and updating farmers back home.

That day was no different.

"There was an argument, and the traders attacked him with the furniture lying around. A few suspects who were taken into custody have been bailed. I don't know whether to expect any justice from the system," said Dukru dejectedly.

long been a restive region, with many demanding sovereignty or full independence from the central government.

The Naga National Council (NNC) declared the area to be independent a day before India's independence in 1947, and later claimed that a plebiscite it held found that 99.9 percent of people favoured sovereignty.

The Indian government rejected the plebiscite, and after several failed attempts by the government to resolve the issue, the NNC took up arms in 1955. The Indian army retaliated with counterinsurgency operations, and in 1958, the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act was passed, which controversially gave Indian security forces immunity in conflict-ridden areas.

When the state of Nagaland was formed in 1963, it was given a special status and exempted from taxes, but disturbance in the area continued. Although separatist groups signed ceasefire agreements with the Indian government, there remain four major, and at least five small, separatist groups in Nagaland today.

Each runs a parallel government of sorts in the state, fights against the others, and levies taxes on state residents.

In 2013, a people's movement called Against Corruption and Unabated Taxation (ACAUT) was formed to protest against the taxation by armed groups and corruption in the state government.

Joel Nillo Naga, a social activist and the co-chairman of ACAUT, said that in the past, Nagaland residents voluntarily helped provide NNC fighters with rations and other supplies.

"But now, we're asked to Multiple taxation layers Nagaland, a state in pay several taxes to several northeastern India, has groups. People are being

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y inability to de-clatter my life had a prolong and hazardous effect on me. With my recent crossing of forty and officially facing an inevitable midlife crisis, I decided to act and started living without terms and conditions.

First out went the television. I have had enough of force-feeding. To top it all, my two daughters were hooked dangerously to the idiot-box. Ninja Hattori, Nobita, and Shin Chan were part of the family. It took more than a month to resize the family and to learn to live with the people who are alive. Story books were all in and bed time story telling became a big hit. Then came my Nishi’s 6th Birthday and I decided to do it with style.

My kind of style, without terms and conditions.

Dzuleke was on my radar for more than a year. Just before a day of the journey, I googled it and found almost nothing. Nervous yet excited, I called my friend Dole, an eco-tourism expert from Kohima. With some reassurance from him, I started my journey from Guwahati at eight after a light breakfast. It takes less than five hours to reach Dimapur via Doboka. In Dima-

pur, we all had a sensuous lunch at Zephyr Lounge, where I think you get the best Thai food after Thailand. The smell of lemongrass and coconut milk reassured me of impending good times.

After showing our Inner Line Permits in the check-gate, which is just when you reach the hills (and actually is almost 20 kilometres deeper into Assam-Nagaland border), we unleashed our box of happiness and from then on it was the journey, not the destination.

We stopped every twenty minutes and clicked photos and had tea on roadside stalls, thrice. Girls easily picked up conversations with the locals and with absolute ease. So much so that the journey of two hours to Kohima took us almost four. The sun was going down fast and just then my friend Dole called. “Sir, where have you reached?” What a question, I thought. Do I care? I thought again.

But then I woke up and reached reality. “Yes, my friend, 10 to 15 kilometres short of Kohima”. Dole told me to take a diversion before reaching Kohima. If I enter Kohima now, I will lose at least one to two hours. There-

exploited on the pretext of nationalism," he said.

"Every commodity is taxed multiple times, right from transportation to storage to the point of sale. The burden of taxation is added to the price of every product that a common man buys. In addition, there are retailers and traders who've formed syndicates and also decide the price at will."

To back up its demands, ACAUT formed a fact-finding committee to study taxes levied by separatist groups, as well as a "high power committee", backed by the state government, to investigate the issue further.

The high power committee found that each of the nine separatist groups imposes taxes on government employees, except the armed and paramilitary forces - which amounts to roughly two months' worth of an employee's salary.

Even funds for flood management and irrigation were taxed several times.

"The groups function very systematically, and collect tax from the government funds through their respective 'finance departments'. There are more than 80 departments in the government, and a tax of 5 percent is levied on each of their budgets," explained Khekiye Sema, a retired bureaucrat who was one of the three members of the high power committee along with Naga.

"What's worse," he added, "is that the government officials have begun to use taxation as an excuse to pocket the money."

Taxation or extortion?

In a camp a short distance away from Dimapur, the armed group the National Socialist Council of Nagaland, Isak Muivah, or NSCN (I-M), defended its taxation policy.

"We have the legitimate authority to tax people, just

like any other government in the world. It's a way for people to participate and contribute to the mass movement of the Nagas," said Varengam Horam, who identifies himself as the minister of information and publicity for NSCN (IM).

"Peace talks require money," Horam added.

"We have coordination offices in 10 countries and thousands of armed men from Nagaland deployed there. We cannot call them back or stop sending them rations and other necessary supplies. It'll be extremely easy for us to engage in illegal activities and make money, but we don't want to do that, so we seek people's support."

According to Chungkhojang Singson, an adviser to an NSCN faction called GPRN-NSCN, a small amount of 100 Indian rupees ($1.50) is collected from all villagers, but strict orders have been given to refrain from taxing funds allocated to villages for development work.

"We do not harass either businessmen or the government employees for tax. We seek a certain amount, but are open to negotiation and bring down the amount for most people," he claimed.

Shouka Kakheto, a senior police officer in Dimapur, is quick to point out that while armed groups consider it their right to collect taxes, the police force regards this as extortion.

"The problem has become so deep-seated that people complain only when it begins to bother them. Otherwise, they're silently paying or negotiating the amount every day," Kakheto said.

Even when the police file cases of extortion against members of separatist groups, locals refuse to appear as witnesses in court. As a result, the ac-

iscussions of Nagaland rarely reach the international arena. With the exception of a few rare and regrettable instances, March 5 2015 most obviously, Nagaland has remained a blank space internationally, and a distant enigma to the Indian public. However, Al Jazeera’s article “India’s Nagaland drowning in taxes and corruption”, written by Sarita Santoshini, has again brought the state of Nagaland and the complexities within it to international consciousness. Discussing illegal taxes and extortion, Santoshimi makes some poignant, but obvious, observations about the nature of corruption in Nagaland. First of all, that local insurgent groups extort businesses and departments through violent and threatening practices, and overlap each others tax claims in doing so. This creates a huge burden on local business.

Secondly, that insurgent groups claim these extortive taxes to be legitimate and necessary for the peace process. Finally, that corruption exists in the state government of Nagaland and the bureaucracy, where it is denied by some bureaucrats and ministers, and contritingly confirmed by others.

While these issues are of serious concerns to Naga communities, and on a wider scale, to the Indian public whose tax-dollars all too often find themselves in the pockets of violent extortionists in the border state, there is a bigger discussion of corruption, impunity, and the state of Nagaland that is being missed.

Corruption in Nagaland is many things. The insurgents extorting transport trucks and business owners; the minister siphoning development or other funds into his or her own personal accounts, or hiding personal expenses and embezzlement in dubious budget reports; even bus drivers forced to overload busses and pick up extra passengers off-the-books to substitute for his own unpaid or inexplicably shrunken pay pack-

cused are let go.

Tackling corruption On top of the multiple taxes, Nagaland residents complain of rampant corruption in the state government. India's central government allocates Nagaland a large budget each year, but little money is said to reach the public.

According to the secretary of a village committee, who spoke to Al Jazeera on the condition of anonymity, his village received only a small fraction of development funds it was entitled to under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act of 2005. The village was also asked to return 40 percent of the amount it received to Nagaland's rural develop-

tion in Nagaland, and nothing of what Nagaland can tell us about the nature of corruption. The fact that corruption exists is a well known fact, to all except those willfully blind to the fact, and often coincidentally woefully wealthy. But the issue reaches far deeper than marketplace extortion and bribing civil servants, it involves serious reflections about the nature of governance itself in Nagaland.

Corruption is endemic, extensive, and egregious. Corruption has become embedded into the culture and politics of the state, where politics of nationalism, clan-ism, gender and cultures of impunity create a perfect storm for impunity and informality.

Nationalist entities extort in the name of sovereignty, whether sincerely dedicated to the nationalist cause or not. Clan politics protect those in the ‘inner circle’ against accusations of corruption, as well as dissuading fellow clan members from speaking out against nefarious members, for fear of ostracism, or even violence. The gendered nature of power and politics in Nagaland state, entrenched in the formalization of customary institutions, and the informalization of patriarchal attitudes, continues to deny agency to half of those who live with and suffer due to endemic corruption and politics of violence. Finally, cultures of impunity - impunity in the law, from the law, in the government, impunity of the armed forces, impunity within clans, tribes, within households and families, casts violence and corruption to the shadows, obscuring the networks and personal relationships that feed on the resources and inefficiencies of the state, market, and the public.

In essence, corruption is not just a problem of governance in Nagaland, it is a part of governance in Nagaland.

The outcomes of deeply embedded corruption in Nagaland are valuable for understanding

ment department.

"Earlier, taxation was our biggest problem," the village committee secretary said. "Anybody and everybody would come and ask us to pay, but after ACAUT was formed, we managed to ban the paying of tax altogether as a community.

But how do we tackle corruption? If we speak up, our village will be blacklisted by the state departments, and the little money that is sent will be stopped as well."

Chotisuh Sazo, speaker of the Nagaland Legislative Assembly, denied that state funds were being misused, and said delays in payments were the result of a financial crunch in the state. "Of the total annual funds that we receive from the government, 65 percent is spent

Dzuleke Homestay Dipankar Jakharia

fore, I should take Jotsoma bypass and go straight through Khonoma road and keep on going until to Dzuleke. This road was not new to me, I took it before, but only until Khonoma. For Dzuleke, you have to keep going for another more hour. I was told that from Kohima to Dzuleke is a distance of 36 KM and takes around one and a half hour. Dole also told me after Khonoma, I would be out of range of any mobile towers.

I turned on my headlights right after the Khonoma gate and knowing very well after this point I will be away from the network, I gave my last call to Dole. Dole told me that the only WLL connection in Dzuleke is currently out of order, but he is trying, but fear not, keep going until you see civilizations. What the hack again. I am running away from it, I thought.

Be advised, one should not travel in the hills in the nights. Never with two children without any backup. Moreover, in an unknown territory, never in the nights. But then

again this was a trip without rules and regulations.

After entering the no-network zone, we encountered a huge man-made gate with raw bamboo and woods. The purpose of the gate looked very intimidating and defensive.

And was written “Mithun Breeding Project”. And after that, believe me, we were in a Mithun ground.

Those gentle giants were all flocking the roads, sometimes in a group of three and another in more than five. My eleven years old Khushi begged me to stop the car for few snaps.

I told her, “you will have a better opportunity on our return, on a broad daylight.” How much this will prove wrong, I hadn’t had a clue, since I was new.

Because Mithun's seldom come out into the open in daylight.

The trip of 22 kilometres from Khonoma gate took more than an hour and a half. Many people ask me my love of hills and I also ask myself, why??

Why I love hills and it’s people so much? First, it humbles you. It tells you, you are nothing in front of

it. Any assumption of the distance and time taken for an urbaner will grossly prove wrong. And secondly, it’s people. If God lives in children, a part of him must have stayed back with the hilly people even in their adulthood. The simplicity and innocence are equal.

Seeing streetlights, few houses, and smoke coming out of their chimneys and distant smell of bamboo shoots, oh I realized I have reached Dzuleke. I knocked at the first house on my left and came out a mother and a child tied at her back. The language was a problem, but within minutes came a young girl

with long jet-black hair, fluent in English. I told her I am here to stay and explore. They kept looking at me vaguely. Just then my two daughters got down from the car and stood beside me. I told her again, we are here for our holidays and inevitably, I told her my most hated word, we are “tourists.”

Someone took our bags and she guided us to her house and made us all sit in her kitchen, near the open fireplace. Warm tea was served and after initial introduction and chitchat, I noticed some background brainstorming in their dialect. What actually happened that they

in business, in local, district and state governance, in families and clans. As interactions are characterized by increasingly informal, off-the-books practices – ‘greasing hands’, paying commissions, backdoor appointments, dubious public-private contracts, questionable land and property sales, so too does the nature of governance. The divisions between the ‘state’ and the clan, tribe, family, and even the insurgents, becomes fuzzy and blurred. What is a government office if staffed and managed by one close-knit family and their supporters? What is justice when access to it is reserved for the highest bidder, or most influential? What is governance that turns a blind eye to illegal and extortive taxes by violent gangs? Corruption and the informal practices that surround it have shaped the nature of governance in Nagaland. ‘The state’ has become, and some would argue always has been, an amorphous network of personal alliances, family ties, and clan affiliations. The public are not subjects, but witnesses, and victims, to a governance model that feeds off them, rather than feeds them. Observing corruption in Nagaland through this lens, it becomes more than an issue of extortion and embezzlement. New questions are raised - questions of what is governance, who is government, and what, exactly, is corruption in an environment of informality and impunity.

This is the real value of discussing corruption in Nagaland. That it exists is not the issue, that is obvious, a truism even. Corruption is here, and likely, here to stay, at least for a long time. Corruption reconfigures roles in society – governments and people. Corruption redistributes resources – your resources. Corruption reproduces inequalities and injustices. It’s not a matter of it existing or not. It is a matter of how its existence changes, and challenges livelihoods, communities, and societies.

on salaries of government employees and the rest, 35 percent, on development projects. Where is the space for corruption?" Sazo said.

Yet Kuzholuzo Nienu, the former minister of Nagaland's Public Welfare Department, admitted that corruption was siphoning money from public projects.

"There are many governments but little governance in the state," he said. "Corruption begins in the electoral process.

Nominees pay locals to cast votes in their favour, and once elected, the legislative member or minister tries to earn back the money that he spent.

"The system is so corrupt that the contractor assigned to do a particular

development work by the government is barely left with any money to undertake the contractual work after the ministers, bureaucrats and different armed factions take their cuts."

The state's education and health systems are also deeply affected by this misuse of funds. Last September, teachers boycotted classes over the non-payment of their salaries, affecting the functioning of 49 schools.

"People feel neglected by the government, and the system of taxation and syndicates keeps them from starting out their own ventures," said Naga.

"The frustration eventually drives them to join the separatist groups. It's a vicious cycle."

never got the information that someone was coming. Thanks to our WLL or wireless in the local loop for not keeping Dzuleke in its loops.

The village recently introduced four home stays for people to witnesses it’s way of life and to boost eco-tourism, which includes birds and butterflies and tracking and camping. The houses were allotted to visitors on a rotation system and we became the guest of two sisters Niles and Tuseu, aged late forties and early sixties. For next two days, we become part of their family, which also include two ducks, three kittens, their mother, and few guinea pigs. The vegetables from their garden melted in our mouth and we melted in their hospitality. The first night younger Nishi got a shock of her life when out of excitement our host took some live crabs and release them in the kitchen floor. She locked herself in her room for full fifteen minutes refusing to come out. It took three kittens to pester her out and little did she realize that those crabs were inside her stomach after our dinner.

Next day was Nishi’s birthday and she cut a

small cake after blowing six candles, which I bought from Dimapur with our host and our guide Vimezolie. Together with Vimezolie and our host, we became best of friends. Vime took us to their field a pristine golden paddy field. It was a day of cutting the crops, a time to take the fruits of labour. The entire village was there. The concept of yours and mine has not reached Dzuleke. There is not a single shop in the village. No TV no mobile.

There are 34 houses with less than hundred people in total. Perhaps it is the smallest village of Nagaland. They have a primary school and a health centre with a staff nurse. I wondered if people ever fall sick here. That day I told my daughters, there are no rules or regulations here.

You can eat anything, talk to any strangers, make friends with them, play any place, run any direction, and climb any tree.

They quickly made some friends and start playing in the stream. Just then, younger Nishi picked up a crab from the stream, showed it to me, and told, “there is a technique to pick up a crab and it is never from the front.”

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

-The writer is from Guwahati and loves travelling Hills.

SaturDaY 16•04•2016

Morung Youth Express

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The ground beneath our feet

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n Wednesday evening around 7.27 pm the wind that had been blowing all day suddenly increased in tempo. My sister heard the wind roar mightily on its way downward toward the town of Kohima. Immediately after that the earthquake descended on us; the old part of my mother’s house which is mostly wood, and part concrete, swayed and rocked for a minute or more. The water which we had collected in sintex containers spilt over from the rocking, and the windows rattled violently. Before the earthquake had subsided, people began to shout in unison, a combined sound of terror and vulnerability.

The epicentre was in Indo-Burma. That was the latest update. Our minds turn to those who have suffered multiple of what we experienced here.

It must have felt like the ground beneath their feet was opening up. It is so unnerving to feel the ground beneath one’s feet turn fickle. It is like a deep betrayal.

In pre-Christian times, so great was the fear of natural calamities like earthquakes that members of the village would bring out the lids of their pots and bang on them making a terrible noise to ward off the earthquake.

Men alternately shouted, “La! La!” which means “Cease! Cease!” It was addressed to the spirits, the Terhuomia to stop the unnatural behaviour of the natural world. Imagine the complete chaos caused by shouting humans banging on lids, and barking dogs, and crying children and babies. The noise itself

would intensify the already present fear of the earthquake.

“The earth too has a spirit of its own,” said a young Naga poet. She narrated this story: Last year a neighbourhood near the Hospital area in Kohima was disturbed by screams and shouts at night. They thought it might be intoxicated young men and took up the matter. But they were told that no young men were out and about at the hour when they reported hearing

these disturbing sounds. Finally came the day when with a loud and very audible sound the earth slipped away in the middle of the night, taking hastily abandoned houses with it. This incident contributed to the folk saying that the earth has its own spirit. Pity we cannot verify this statement, but many with a similar worldview believe in it.

At the end of July and beginning of August last summer, a narrator tells me that a fierce wind blew for a whole week through the Kohima town area. It was confined only to Kohima town. When one drove toward the southern Angami areas, the wind dissipated. When a car crossed the Naga hospital area towards Dimapur, the wind subsided. A few days after this strange wind, the landslide of Phesama took

place. Was that fierce wind trying to warn of a greater calamity to come?

I believe Nature has not lost its power of communicating with us. It is still speaking to us and giving warnings before destructive events take place. And all that is part of our bondedness with the earth, and we should heed those warnings and do our part in taking care of the earth. If strange things are happening, perhaps it is our duty to take note and be attuned to what Mother Nature is trying to tell us. In the past weeks, Kohima has reached a sweltering level of warmth. The dry heat is enervating and many people are complaining of various ailments and lethargy in general. It’s not surprising considering our present environment.

There are almost no trees left in the town area. Except for a copse of pines near the former Assembly secretariat and the war cemetery area, our streets are devoid of trees.

The heart of the town is choking for fresh air that only trees can give. We have just too many houses, too many cars, too many people. We can’t do anything about the excess people but we can plant trees in allocated places in the town area like the new NST, on the border areas of the Khuochiezie ground, outside school compounds, along street borders, etc. We can do so much more in every town, and not just the capital town.

An earthquake is Earth’s very loud heartbeat.

Can we train ourselves to listen to it and respond in the way she wants us to?

Bad Skin? Frizzy Hair? Your *Pillow* Could Be The Reason Sakshi Budhraja

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e all read countless articles about products and home remedies that make our hair and skin gorgeous and healthy. On the contrary, we also read about the many things that damage both like harmful sunrays, chemicals in products… the list is endless. But did you know that even your pillow is coming in the way of long, beautiful locks and flawless skin? Read on to find out more…

SKIN Dirty Drama The Mr. fluffy you rest your face on, is dirtier than you can imag-

ine. Our skin secretes all kinds of oil and dirt in our sleep, which gets soaked up by our cotton pillowcases. Sleeping on these pillows night after night can cause all that buildup to clog our pores on our face, shoulder and back that leads to acne.

Miss The Moisture As our face rubs against the pil-

low, it is robbed of all its moisture and natural oils that are needed in the right amounts for a healthy, glowing skin. The material of the pillow constantly touches our skin, causes friction and strips off the essential moisture, leaving it dry.

Wrinkle Much Pressing our face against a pillow squeezes and stretches our skin in ways that cause it to becoming wrinkly faster. As the skin folds onto the pillow when we sleep face down, the collagen breaks down and the skin loses its elasticity. Hello, wrinkled skin!

Now that really is a nightmare!

Sleeping on a pillow means Allergies Galore your hair is pressed against it all Sometimes the detergent we through the night. This causes use to wash our pillowcases is too the hair to dry, leaving it parched without the natural oils that keep it moist and lustrous.

Breakage Alert The friction between your hair and the pillow causes strands to weaken and break. If you’ve been wondering what’s causing your hair fall, your pillow could be to blame.

Miss Frizz All that friction caused between your strands and the pillow as you toss and turn night after night also causes frizz. Who knew your fav pillow was to blame for your most annoying mane problem?!

Tangled Ever wondered how your harsh on the skin. Therefore, being strands get in contact with even a washed pil- knotted so lowcase can harm us because the easily? Not remnants of the detergent tend to only does the irritate the skin and damage it in friction cause breakmore ways than one and cause ing of the hair, it also tanredness, breakouts and rashes. gles up your hair and makes it unmanageable. Brushing your HAIR hair too much and haphazardly Dry Spell damages the roots, and eventual-

ly leaves you with even more hair fall.

So What’s The Solution To All These Pillow Threats?

The ideal escape for those who cannot slip into sweet slumber without a comfy pillow is to switch to satin or soft cotton pillowcases. The soft fabric is gentle on the skin and hair, keeps the moisture intact, causes no breakage or damage, and is no threat to your beauty, ladies! Also, always always make it a point to tie your hair back into a loose bun or braid at night to avoid all the risks mentioned above while you sleep. After all, you want to get the most out of your beauty sleep!

Sexist video games hamper empathy in men for women For you, Akoko.

If I so much as speak a decibel louder than you, Does that make me less a lady?

If I laugh louder than you just because I find it funnier Am I out of line?

If I let my hair down and have a night out with wine and laughter, Does that make me cheap?

If I am friendly and funny just because that is me Am I being forward?

If I voice out my thoughts just because I have an opinion, Does that make me an activist?

If I debate and try to prove a point much against your wishes, Does that make me oversmart?

If I justify my speech and actions just because I believe in something, Does that make me defensive?

If I choose to be ‘me’ and not ‘woman’ Just because I am built that way Does that make me a lesser creation of God? Or….am I even allowed to question?

(The writer is a Govt. servant who writes poetry as a hobby.

She is inspired by life and relationships in general)

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Source: IANS

oung male gamers who strongly identify with male characters in sexist and violent video games show less empathy towards female violence victims in real life, say researchers.

They found that males who played "Half Life 1" or "Half Life 2" games -- violent games sans sexist component -- did not show the same lack of empathy as those who played the "Grand Theft Auto" (GTA) games that combined sexism and violence.

"Males who really identified with their characters in the sexist, violent games didn't feel as much empathy for the victim," said Brad Bushman from The Ohio State University in Columbus.

In a video game, you are physically linked to the character.

"You control what he does. That can have a real effect on your thoughts, feelings and behaviour, at least in the short term," Bushman added in the paper published in the journal PLOS ONE. The team analysed 154 high school students, aged 15-20 years.

Some of the participants played GTA games that contained both violence and sexism. Bushman noted that in these games, women are secondary characters

who are used as sexual objects by players.

The second group played "Half Life 1" or "Half Life 2" which are violent but do not portray women in a sexual or sexist manner. In fact, the female character in the "Half Life" games plays an active role.

The third group played games which have neither violence nor sexism.

Afterward, all players were shown one of two photo illustrations depicting a young girl who was the victim of violence.

“Most people would look at these images and say the girl pictured has to be terrified,” Bushman noted.

The findings showed that after playing a violent, sexist game, male players reported lower levels of sympathy and compassion compared to those who played games without a sexist component.

These males were likely to agree with what are called "masculine beliefs.”

The study also identified which players are most likely to be affected by sexist and violent games and how exactly the games have their impact.

"This finding gives us a better idea of what exactly a combination of violence and sexism in video games does to harm male players," noted lead study author Alessandro Gabbiadini from the University of Milano Bicocca in Italy.

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A clarion call to the youth for clean election Nokchem Angth: It is time for Nagaland, special reference to the youth, to take under consideration. I think, we have discussed enough and even now we are discussing and we will discuss even more later, but the things remain same.

Why is it so? We complain and make noise for the lack of Development after the election but we become mute spectator during the time of election. Why we can't make the same complaint and noise even in the time of election, but this will happen if only we have a sincere commitment but very unfortunate that we Nagas lack such commitments severely?

Our past and present government has failed miserably to deliver justice to its subject. The candidates during election comes with a bunch of fake promises and bundle of 1000 & 500 cash notes to bribe us and we happily with a big smiling faces accept it all, in the name of "Good Gesture". Village councils, student bodies, women organizations, individuals and even the church are included and involved in good gesture scam. So my question is, do we recall our complaints and noise against government that we made during non-election time while we receive this good gesture? Answer is with you and me!

Why I said, the government has failed miserably? Because~: * Teachers and other government employees are starving for their salaries. * School Children are sitting inside the class without Text Book and Teacher. * RMSA party is fighting for their appointment order. * Genuine candidates are denied the seat in many competition exam and practice backdoor to fill the seat. * Corruption at its height * Many areas of the state are suffering without having proper road connectivity and communication and many more.

So can't we call them as a "failed government"? When they couldn't even develop a small place like Nagaland with only 11 districts in 5 years, how can we expect them to develop in 8 to 12 months (time of election)? And that is why I called their promise as "fake" and their government as "failed".

Cited above the major problems faced by us presently, we can, now, easily judge who is who and what is what. The teachers and the government employees who are starving for the salary have to rethink and ask yourself that "Am I going to sell my vote again just for a thousand rupees and suffer for another 5 years?” The students who are suffering with no text book and teachers have to interrogate yourself, what is more worthy: selling my vote during election just for one sip of whiskey or Rs 500 or moulding my future and enjoy what others are enjoying after election. RMSA party has to think what will be our problems after the appointment order, will it be nonpayment of salary? And the problems with questions go on. I think, this is the motion that we all need to discuss and deliberate, though it may be silly for others.

Everything begins from Election. Our electoral system is very poor, we have no clean electoral roll and our election process is one of the dirtiest in the Indian political system. We do not have free and fair election concept but money and muscle power are the major components that we have in our election system.

We need development after the election, but at the same time we need money during election, in other word, we need development as well as money which is next to impossible. Many youths can't stay away from the money during election which keeps up its bad influence after the election. As a result of this, the youth can't raise their voice strongly against the evil deeds of our politicians because we sold our votes just for a thousand notes and one sip of MC Whiskey.

It is time for us to know the prize of going clean during elections, if we are really concerned for the growth and development of our state. Only clean electoral process can make a difference in every aspect of the system but until and unless we don't learn its prize, we will swim in same dirty river.

How can we achieve our goals and dreams? It is easy and simple. The solution is, "Clean Election". If we could go free and fair election, we may see the bright or sparkle in our society because everything starts from election. We have to consolidate going the clean and unclean election. When I say clean election, it should be clean without any money, muscle, liquor power, we should become the enemy of election materialistic so as we wait for new Nagaland. Soon the election fever will be around us, let us pledge ourselves to go Free and Fair Election. Let us pledge not to vote for money, liquor, land, job etc. Let us also pledge not to vote for party and candidate's wealth but let's pledge to vote for capable, committed and God fearing person. Let us once pledge that no one, be it village council, father or clan or whoever it may be for this, have no right to decide our voting rights and we shall not oblige with their decision or declaration.

Whoever wants New Nagaland, let us join our hands together in clean election campaign and let us send a message to the society that we have every right and freedom to utilize what is ours.

I pledge to vote and I support Clean Election. Do you?

The Naga Blog Clean Election Cell also invites the members to join in our Clean Election Campaign. Interested members are asked to inbox any of the Admin or comment below.

Rochill Kivi: I agree, everything begins with the election process. And I stand by free and fair elections! But also, trust me, if you think, that only the candidates come forward with bundles of money, you've perhaps missed seeing the voters who come demanding and refuse to give votes until their pockets are filled. Some of these voters will go so far as to drain the candidate of his/her money for months just until the final hour, when they shamelessly fall over to the other side for even more money. They (the public) cannot raise voices during elections because that house they built, the food they eat, the car they drive all comes from the Candidate's pockets.

A clean and fair election is just as must a NEED for the Candidate as well. So yes, free and clean and fair elections please. Then the Candidates would have no more excuses and the Public will definitely have a clear conscience. I'm in for a clean campaign.

Stop eve teasing Pur Aren Imchen: EVE-TEASING MUST STOP! A school girl, a college student, a working woman and every woman especially the young women regularly go through humiliating comments by unruly men. Even teasing leaves a psychological scar on the minds of the women. In India, every 51 minutes a woman is sexually harassed; every 21 minutes 1 woman is molested and eve teasing is something that a woman has to contend with everyday. We are ready to kill a non local if he molests or rapes a Naga woman when in reality Naga women are not treated with respect by our own Naga brothers. So, one has no right to kill that non local whatsoever. We all came on this earth through a woman, then why is there no respect or dignity for women? From young boys to taxi and bus drives everyone has a comment to pass if a lady pass by. [Some of] the police and the so called home guards, wearing full uniform even pass harsh comments, which really hurts the sentiments of many young women, don't they have wife, sister, mother or a daughter at home? If we are not protected and respected in our own homeland, then how are we supposed to feel secured in a foreign state or country! Guys! What do you really achieve by passing comments on a woman?? Don't you have better things to do? Don't your parents give you morals?? Why can't you just let a woman pass by you without any comments?? It is such a shame that despite such development happening, the so called "civilized Nagas" behave in the most "uncivilized manner ". Cannot the government take stern action or steps against these crimes?? Just penning down rules won't help. What is required is real action and a change in attitude of Naga brothers towards women!

P.S. If I said something to hurt the sentiments of others, do please forgive me.

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INDIA

THE MORUNG EXPRESS

Kashmir violence begins to challenge Mufti's rule

Srinagar, april 15 (ianS): Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti could not have asked for a more troubled start to her innings as the head of the government in Jammu and Kashmir, one of India's most troubled states.

Two major incidents -- first a trouble at National Institute of Technology (NIT) in Srinagar and then deadly clashes in north Kashmir that left four people dead in police firing -have bogged Mehbooba since April 4 when she took over as the chief minister of the only Muslim majority state of India.

The NIT trouble, which began as locals versus outsiders over the nationalism debate, pitted Jammu against the Kashmir Valley.

Reducing the communal wide between the two highly polarised regions of the state formed an important part of the ruling agenda of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) combine.

The agenda was authored by Mehbooba's father Mufti Mohammed Sayeed last year after the two ideologically different parties came together to rule the state, which has been battling an armed separatist campaign since late 1980s.

Mufti died on January 7, leaving the PDP with its natural choice of Mehbooba to replace him as the

Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti

chief minister. But she was initially reluctant to shake hands with the BJP before she agreed to head the government with no new concessions promised by the central government in Delhi.

On April 4, when Mehbooba, 56, finally took oath, NIT erupted violently after celebrations by Kashmiri students of India's loss to West Windies in the semifinal of the T20 cricket World Cup. Outsiders objected violently and took out a march carrying national flags and shouting pro-India slogans.

They demanded that the college be shifted outside of the valley over their safety concerns after police allegedly used force to quell the demonstration.

As the trouble continued for the entire week, Mehbooba began her trip to Delhi on Tuesday to meet BJP leaders with whom she had refused to break bread earlier.

As she landed in the capital, violence began in north Kashmir Handwara town after rumours that a college girl was allegedly molested by an army man.

People protested and security forces opened fire. Two boys and a woman were shot dead.

A day later, more protests erupted in the nearby Drugmulla village of the Kupwara district, some 100 kms from Srinagar. Police fired tear gas shells. One of the cannisters fatally hit a 25-year-old man on his dead.

In both cases, it appeared that forces had not followed the laid down Standard Operating Procedures on controlling the crowd and heading Mehbooba a major security challenge in only 10 days of her in the office. And the criticism against her, particularly on social media networks, was abound.

Her bête noire and a usual critic led from the

front. "People died as a result of firing by security forces and what does the Jammu and Kashmir chief minister do? She continues her self-promoting tour of Delhi," opposition leader Omar Abdullah tweeted.

"This is the same person who until a year ago would rush anywhere in the valley to shed contrived tears at the slightest provocation," the former chief minister added, throwing the criticism back at Mehbooba who would tear into Abdullah over civilian deaths during his rule.

But on Thursday, when Mehbooba returned to the valley she ordered restraint in dealing with mobs. No civilian should be harmed while managing angry crowds, she told police. But the damage had already been done, giving a peak into what she may have to contend with in the coming years of governance.

The NIT and the Handwara killings are still burning. How she deals with the crises -- both politically as well as administratively -will set the tone of her new role and will also lay the path for the uneasy ties between the "soft separatist" and the "saffron" streams in the state.

Amid the crises, PDP leaders privately admit that Mehbooba is missing her father -- a shrewd politician who had seen and battled such challenges during his nearly 50 years in politics.

Army firing kills one more civilian in fresh violence

Protesters throw stones at the police in Handwara in Kupwara district of north Kashmir. (PTI)

Srinagar, april 15 (ianS): A civilian was killed and four others were injured on Friday allegedly in a firing by army men as angry residents clashed with forces and tried to storm a security camp amid a simmering anger over four similar deaths since Tuesday in a tense but curfew-bound Kashmir Valley.

A police officer told IANS that the protestors were demonstrating outside an army camp in Natnusa village of border district Kupwara when soldiers opened fire to stop them from marching in.

Five protestors were injured, the officer said, adding one of the them died in

a hospital later. Three critically injured were shifted to Srinagar. "The mob tried to enter the forces' camp and the army had to resort to firing," the police officer said.

Police identified the deceased as Mohammed Aarif, a resident of the north Kashmir district which has been the epicentre of fresh unrest in the valley. Aarif was a Class 11 student, according to residents.

The demonstrators were protesting deaths of four civilians in firing and tear gas shelling by security forces since Tuesday.

A police spokesman said "massive violent" protests took place in other areas of Kupwara in which

more than 40 security personnel were injured.

Strict restrictions on movements were imposed across the valley amid protests and shut-down call by separatist groups against the civilian killings, triggering fresh unrest in Kashmir.

Protests were also held in other parts of the valley even as the streets were patrolled by gun-toting police and paramilitary personnel to ensure prohibitory orders were not violated and peace maintained in more volatile parts of Srinagar, north and south of the valley.

As a precautionary measure and to prevent trouble-mongers from spreading rumours, cellphone

internet connectivity was snapped for the second day.

A senior district administration officer in Srinagar told IANS that the restrictions were put in place in parts of old Srinagar city.

Curfew was also imposed in the main business hub of Lal Chowk.

There was a near-total response to the shutdown call as shops, schools, colleges, offices and other businesses in areas where restrictions had not been imposed remained closed.

Public transport was also off the roads in the valley.

The separatist groups have called for shutdown on Saturday as Kashmir University cancelled all examinations that were to be conducted over the weekend amid apprehensions that restrictions may continue.

The latest unrest in the valley, which has been battling a separatist campaign since late 1980s, has thrown a challenge at the new BJPPDP coalition government headed by Mehbooba Mufti, the first woman chief minister of the state. The trouble erupted after allegations that an army soldier molested a college girl in Handwara on Tuesday.

The army has denied it.

A video was circulated the next day showing a girl denying she was molested.

Finally, a deal. India to buy PCI, Govt at loggerheads over media body's powers 36 Rafale Jets for $8.8 billion

Rafale fighter jets (AP Photo)

new Delhi, april 15 (nDTV):India's much-negotiated deal with France for 36 fighter jets is final - it will buy the Frenchmade Rafale planes for 8.8 billion dollars, said sources to NDTV. The agreement is to be signed within three weeks and it will take at least 18 months for India to get the first lot of aircraft.

France initially sought nearly 12 billion dollars for the sale of 36 fighters complete with weapon systems. India has closed the deal nearly 3 billion dollars below France's asking price.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi during a visit to Paris last year confirmed India's order of 36 read-to-fly jets. Before that, the Defence Ministry had sanctioned the purchase of 120 planes, but the deal was scaled down dramatically after both sides were unable for years to agree on the unit price and the assembling of the planes in India.

The Rafales are made by manufacturer Dassault Aviation. During PM Modi's visit, the countries agreed that the deal would be handled between their governments.

new Delhi, april 15 facie" view that it does have 11. Arora is due to retire on not present here to receive lative proposal for amendthe notices as he was out ment in the Press Council (pTi): The Press Council the powers to issue such a April 30.

Prasad said the min- of the country and that he Act, 1978. The sources said of India (PCI) and the Gov- warrant. At the same time, that it is also important to ernment were at logger- he said the Council is willing istry had in its initial re- would appear before it.

I&B ministry sources note that under section 25 heads over the issue of the to listen to I&B Ministry's sponse questioned the media body's powers after contention in this regard. Council's powers but in said that under the Press of Press Council Act, the it decided to serve a bail- The unanimous decision to another communication Council Act, the Council power to make rules for enable arrest warrant against secure Arora's attendance on Wednesday said the has been given powers to hancement of allowance of Union I&B Ministry Secre- before the Council at its next I&B Secretary would come. summon attendance of fees to the members of PCI tary Sunil Arora for failing scheduled meeting here on A request was also made to persons and examine them lies with the Central Govto appear before it follow- April 22 was taken by its the Council to consider a on oath, only for two pur- ernment. The sources said ing summons. Information members at their meeting change in the date for the poses -- for carrying out its the recommendation from and Broadcasting Ministry on April 11 under the chair- Secretary's appearance. functions and for holding PCI for enhancement of Regarding the request, an enquiry. The financial levy fee to be collected from sources said on Friday that manship of Prasad.

The PCI on March 17 Prasad said a decision and legislative proposals newspapers is already unthe PCI has "limited powers" and cannot decide ev- had decided to institute a would be taken after seek- of PCI are examined in the der government's considerything unlike the judicia- suo motu inquiry into the ing views of all the Council Ministry and legislature re- eration.

A PCI member said ry, which is an independent "continued apathy" of the members amid sugges- spectively, the sources said.

The sources also said since Arora did not turn institution recognised by I&B ministry towards the tions by a few that the dithe Constitution, days after activities of the Council rection for issuing the war- that the proposals of PCI for up on April 11, the memthe Council took a decision particularly at its efforts to rant be kept in abeyance. enhancement of their pow- bers present unanimously to issue the arrest warrant. preserve the freedom of the Prasad on Wednesday said ers and expansion of their brought out a resolution PCI C h a i r m a n press and its mandate un- the Council received a com- mandate required wide that a bailable warrant The Air Force has stressed it needs to start replacing its ageing jet fleet from 2017 Justice(retd) C K Prasad, der the Press Council Act munication from the min- consultations with all the may be issued and the auto effectively check the capabilities of Paki- however, said that the and directed its Secretary istry on that day in which it concerned stakeholders thorities concerned be inCouncil was of the "prima to appear before it on April was said the Secretary was before firming up the legis- formed. stan and China.

As the negotiations stretched - and a deal was not reached during French President Francois Hollande's visit to India in January, Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar said he is "a tough negotiator" and Kumar came down heavily on needed time to ensure a good bargain. paTna, april 15 (pTi): Citing from Wardha district in Maharashtra ning the habit of drinking, were The Air Force has repeatedly been asking behavioural change in men after that women wish to come to Bihar to now helping their wives in kitchen. opposition leaders for "provokKumar said peace has returned ing" the Pasi community engaged for its ageing warplane fleet to be urgently total prohibition in Bihar, Chief thank me for ordering blanket ban Minister Nitish Kumar today said in sale and consumption of alcohol," to villages in particular after prohi- in toddy business in the name of modernised.

Sources say that as part of the govern- social change due to the ban was the Chief minister, who announced bition as people who used to fight prohibition, although there was after consuming alcohol have no ban on toddy. ment's push to develop and support mili- transcending the boundaries of the state dry on April 5, said.

Senior BJP leader Sushil Kumar In Tamil Nadu, the two main stopped quarrelling and domestic tary manufacturing at home, in exchange Bihar triggering similar demands for selling India off-the-shelf Rafales, French in Jharkhand and Uttar Pradesh contending political parties AIAD- violence against women have also Modi and former Chief minister Jitan Ram Manjhi have been attackMK and DMK have announced come down due to prohibition. companies including Dassault will have to by women.

"The ban on alcohol has been ing Kumar over the toddy issue.

"Women groups in Jharkhand to go for prohibition in the state if invest three billion dollars in India to help Assembly Speaker Vijay Kumar firms here with stealth-capability and radar and Uttar Pradesh have invited me they won the state elections, Ku- implemented in Bihar after a thortechnologies. France had initially agreed to to help imposition of total ban on mar said adding, foundation of a ough study of past efforts in this di- Chaudhary and a host of ministers a 30 per cent offset obligation to be invested liquor there too," Kumar said ad- social change has been laid in Bi- rection including the one executed including Madan Mohan Jha, Alok by socialist leader Karpoori Thakur Mehta and Rajya Sabha member in India, while India had sought a minimum dressing a function in Samastipur har through the ban on liquor.

He said people of Samastipur in 1977 which unfortunately had to Ramnath Thakur were present on of 50 per cent. France has now agreed for 50 to inaugurate annual 'Baba Kwal Maharaj' fair. "A message has come told me that menfolk after shun- be taken back in one year," he said. the occasion. per cent offset obligation.

'Social change due to liquor ban transcending Bihar'

Vijay Mallya's passport suspended, ED seeks arrest India is drying out, study claims

new Delhi, april 15 (ianS): Trouble for beleaguered liquor baron Vijay Mallya, facing charges of misapropriation of bank funds amounting to Rs.9,000 crore, mounted on Friday after the government suspended his diplomatic passport for four weeks.

In a related development, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in Mumbai asked the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) special court for a non-bailable warrant against Mallya. The ED plea for non-bailable warrant against Mallya is likely to come up for hearing on Saturday, sources said. The suspension of his passport would make Mallya's overseas stay difficult, sources told IANS. Mallya is in Britain since over a month now.

Mallya, who is wanted by the ED on charges of misappropriation of Rs.9000 crore he received in bank loans, left India on March 2. On March 11, the

Vijay Mallya (REUTERS)

business tycoon tweeted that he is not an absconder.

Announcing suspension of Mallya's diplomatic passport, the Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson said in a statement here: "On the advise of the Enforcement Directorate, the passport issuing authority in the Ministry of External Affairs has today suspended the validity of Mr. Vijay Mallya's diplomatic passport with immediate effect." Mallya

has been asked to respond within one week as to why his passport should not be impounded or revoked under Section 10(3)(c) of the Passports Act, 1967.

"If he fails to respond within the stipulated time, it will be assumed that he has no response to offer and the MEA will go ahead with the revocation," the statement said.

On April 13, the Enforcement Directorate sought revocation of Mal-

lya’s diplomatic passport after he failed to appear before the probe agency.

Mallya is alleged by the ED of having skipped as many as three summons issued by the agency for questioning.

Earlier this month, Mallya had informed ED investigators that he will be unable to depose personally as he also had legal proceedings in the Supreme Court over settlement of a loans case. On March 30, Mallya's counsel told the Supreme Court that he has offered to pay Rs.4,000 crore to settle outstanding dues against the grounded Kingfisher Airlines on account of loans extended by a consortium of 13 banks headed by the SBI. The Supreme Court on April 7 directed the liquor baron to disclose all his assets -- movable and immovable and tangible and intangible -- and other shareholding and beneficial interests in India and

abroad by April 21.

An apex court bench of Justice Kurien Joseph and Justice Rohinton Fali Nariman asked Mallya to disclose all the assets held by his wife and children also and indicate the date when he can appear before it in person. Industry watchers say trouble for the sitting, independent Rajya Sabha member from Karnataka, known for his lavish lifestyle, had begun shortly after he launched Kingfisher Airlines in 2005 as the aviation industry slowly started dwindling.

Mallya first took loans from IDBI bank in 2006 and again in 2009 got loans from a consortium of banks led by the State Bank of India (SBI) for airline. By 2007, he also had spent a huge amount to take over lowcost carrier Air Deccan. But by 2010, the business tycoon had run into rough weather and tentatively had a debt of over Rs.7,000 crore -- which only increased with the passage of time.

new Delhi, april 15 (ianS): The persistent moisture deficit conditions, increase in hot days and day-night temperature is "drying India" and causing Latur-like water crisis, a latest study jointly conducted by Skymet Weather Service and ASSOCHAM claimed on Friday.

"Today nine states are reeling under drought. India has seen two back to back droughts. India is drying out. The overall temperature has been increasing while the all India monsoon has been decreasing from 1960 onward," the paper 'Managing Climate Risk in Agriculture' stated.

Skymet, India's independent weather forecasting service along with the India Meteorological Department has however predicted normal rainfall this year. But the onset of these rains is still far away.

The prediction of good rains was based on the pattern changes evident with drop in 'El Nino', a climatic phenomenon which is the warm phase of the cycle of warm and cold temperatures in the Pacific Ocean that also impacts the monsoon. A high El Nino has a negative effect in terms of the weather, agriculture and economics.

"There is an increase in the mean annual air temperature in many regions of the country," the report added.

The report claimed that the prominent

increase has been observed in the number of hot days, day and night temperatures from 1951 to 2013.

At present several parts of the country are facing water crisis, leading to distress in the rural landscape.

The report states that the climate change's severe impact on Indian agriculture is "undoing a lot of the achievements of the Green Revolution".

"Fluctuating weather patterns are increasingly manifesting themselves in stronger and more formidable ways. The recent Chennai deluge, El Nino induced back to back droughts and heat records setting new standards every year - all of these point bigger calamities in the future unless we treat climate change as a serious threat to the environment and to humanity," Jatin Singh, CEO of Skymet said.

The report pointed out the drastic effects of climate change on the yield of crop like rice. "An increase in temperature by 2 degree Celsius decreases the grain yield by 15 to 17 percent." "It is an alarming situation because the paddy and wheat production in Northeast India has already been stagnating or even declining. Short-season crops (vegetables and fruits) are the worst affected by changes, particularly during critical periods of their growth," the report adds.

SaturdaY 16•04 •2016

WORLD

THE MORUNG EXPRESS

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To curb climate change, “we need to move everything” OXFORD, ApRil 15 (ThOmsOn ReuTeRs FOunDATiOn): Meeting the goals of a new global agreement to tackle climate change will require social change on an almost unprecedented scale, sustainable investment experts said on April 14.

That includes shifting trillions of dollars each year into renewable energy – up from $345 billion last year – and making everything from transport to agriculture and consumer products much greener very quickly.

“This is about scale. It is about timing. It is about scope. We cannot move 500 companies and 200 investors in a few countries. We need to move everything,” said Mindy Lubber, president of Ceres, a U.S.-based business sustainability group.

Failure to make big shifts fast would amount to putting our children and grandchildren in the path of a speeding bus, she told the Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship in Oxford.

“We would each throw ourselves in front of a bus if it was coming at our child, regardless of our politics,” she said. “We have got to change this debate so people understand... climate change is that bus.”

COAL’S DAYS NUMBERED? Some of that transformation is already underway, said David Blood, a senior partner at Generation Investment Manage-

Mountain people bear brunt of climate change

The sun rises behind Fiddlers Ferry coal fired power station near Liverpool, northern England. (REUTERS File Photo)

ment. Much of the clean energy technology needed is already available, and a surging divestment campaign is persuading investors that keeping money in fossil fuel companies is a growing financial risk.

But while experts predicted the U.S. coal industry is on its way out of business, large-scale investment in coal – one of the biggest drivers of climate change – is still happening in parts of Africa and South Asia, particularly India.

Reversing that by ensuring India and other countries have access to clean technology should be a priority for efforts to hold climate change to manage-

able levels, they said.

“It’s in the interests of the whole world that India gets (to clean energy) faster,” said Mary Robinson, a former Irish president who runs a climate justice foundation.

But large institutional investors are wary of risk and want clear returns, which can make them hesitant to invest in emerging economies like India, the experts said.

Creating investment tools that work for both those with the cash and those that need it is crucial to drive money to the right places to address climate change, Lubber said.

That must be done in a

How cancer cells turn healthy cells to the ‘dark side’ lOnDOn, ApRil 15 (iAns): Cancer cells force neighbouring healthy tissue into helping with the disease’s growth and spread, a new study has found, shedding light on how cancer cells and normal cells communicate with each other.

The findings showed that cancer cells use an altered gene to persuade healthy cells to release unique growth signals, which cancer cells can use to multiply but cannot secrete them. Also, the faulty versions of the KRAS gene - often altered in cancer - can have an important effect on healthy tissues.

Normal KRAS makes occasional signals that asks a cell to divide, but when altered the gene becomes hyperactive and helps drive cancer cells’ rapid and uncontrolled growth. “What our research underlines is that cancer cells do not drive the growth and spread of tumours alone - they can bully their healthy neighbours into helping them,” said one of the researchers Chris Tape from The Institute of Cancer Research, in London.

Further, the altered KRAS gene also plays an important role in turning healthy ‘stromal cells’ -- connective tissue cells of any organ -- into cancer’s allies. In addition, the researchers discovered that healthy cells were responding with a totally new message - a message that doubled the capacity for KRAS to drive malignant

behaviour in the cancer cells.

They also recognised well-known pathways that KRAS uses to communicate with neighbouring healthy cells.

“We have discovered exactly how cancer cells can persuade stromal tissue to secrete key growth signals, and in doing so opened up exciting new possibilities for treatment,” Tape added. The study, published in the journal Cell Scientists, showed for the first time that there is a communication loop with a cancer-causing gene controlling cancer via healthy stromal cells and opens up avenues for new approaches to cancer treatment.

“We have identified a key role played by the most commonly mutated gene in cancer in communicating with healthy cells. Blocking its effects could be an effective cancer treatment,” explained lead author Claus Jorgensen researcher at the University of Manchester. The team studied communication networks in cells from a type of pancreatic cancer called pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma - one of the most deadly forms of cancer.

KRAS is altered in more than 90 per cent of pancreatic cancer, and in nearly 20% of all cancers. The team studied thousands of different growth factors, proteins, and receptors across different pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma cells to see how signals were being transmitted.

USCIRF calls on Myanmar to end abuses against Rohingya WAshinGTOn, ApRil 15 (ReuTeRs): The U.S. government agency charged with monitoring international religious freedoms called on Myanmar’s new government on Thursday to do away with abusive policies against the country’s minority Rohingya Muslims.

The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) praised the government of de facto head of state Aung San Suu Kyi for releasing political prisoners after its November election victory. But it said Myanmar, which is also known as Burma, needed to act to protect freedom of religion and end discrimination against minorities.

“One such step is Burma’s government radically changing its abusive policies and practices in Rakhine state, which have harmed members of the ethnic communities who live there, especially Rohingya Muslims,” it said in statement. The commission called on the government to do away with laws discriminating against ethnic and religious minorities, including Christians and Rohingya and other Muslims - notably the 1982 Citizenship Law. It said the government should ratify the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, improve access to humanitarian aid for displaced religious and ethnic minorities, and invite the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or

Belief to visit. It should also allow the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights to open a country office, the report said.

Myanmar has denied discriminating against 1.1 million Rohingya Muslims in the country, most of whom remain stateless and live in apartheid-like conditions.

Last month, Yanghee Lee, the U.N. Special Rapporteur on human rights in Myanmar, said creation of the first civilian-led government after decades of military rule offered the chance of breaking this “tragic status quo situation.”

However, 1991 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Suu Kyi has so far taken a cautious line on the Rohingya issue, in spite of her status as a human rights icon during her long battle for democracy. The Rohingya are widely maligned in Myanmar, where they are seen as illegal immigrants from Bangladesh - including by some in Suu Kyi’s party - and she risks haemorrhaging support by taking up their cause.

Some U.S. and other international sanctions remain in place in Myanmar despite its change of government and the Obama administration and influential members of Congress still have concerns about human rights, including treatment of Rohingyas. U.S. law allows for sanctions on countries the USCIRF terms of particular concern, but its recommendations are not binding.

way that persuades investors who “don’t recognise the urgency of the problem”, said Blood, whose company is one of the world’s largest sustainable investment firms.

If the investment picture has not changed hugely in four years, “we’re in significant trouble”, he predicted.

The U.N.-brokered Paris climate agreement, backed by 195 countries in December, aims to hold the rise in global average temperatures to “well below” 2 degrees Celsius, with an aspirational limit of 1.5 degrees.

To achieve that, the world needs to be emitting

no more carbon pollution than can be absorbed by forests and other planetary systems in the second half of the century.

The Paris deal “sends a signal to investors, sends a signal to consumers, sends a signal to everyone in the world... that fossil fuels have a very limited lifespan now”, said Thom Woodroofe, a climate policy advisor for Independent Diplomat.

UNBURNABLE RESERVES But switching away from dirty fuels will require some key changes to shift investment, experts said, among them putting a realistic price on carbon pollution

KAThmAnDu, ApRil 15 (iAns): Mountain people add very little by way of emissions but bear the brunt of climate change, international development specialist David Molden has said.

“It has been established by a series of research studies that people in the mountains release very small amounts of green house gases. This doesn’t cause the problem but mountain communities bear the burnt (of climate change),” Molden, who heads the Kathmandubased International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), told IANS in an interview.

Farmers in the mountains have been not only facing shortages of water for irrigation but are also fighting disease in their fields to save their crops for their livelihood, he said. He noted in this context that people in the mountains of the Hindu Kush Himalayas feel the impact of climate change much more than those in the plains.

“Mountains in the Hindu Kush Himalayas region are more vulnerable to climate change.It is a fact that several changes are and the damage it is causing – from worsening storms to agricultural losses.

Setting a workable carbon price “is one of the single most important things” that needs to be done, Lubber said. Another is to shut down fossil fuel exploration, given that two-thirds of the reserves already discovered can never be burned under the new Paris agreement, the experts said.

Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, who spoke at the Oxford forum this week, put the value of unburnable fossil fuels at $22 trillion.

Investment in fossil fuel exploration is already down over the last five years, from

fast taking place due to this,” Molden said.

“The global community is causing the problems and they should think seriously about helping poor communities of mountains to cope with climate change,” he said.

“Water resources are important not only for the people living there but also for people outside the mountains. The mountains are important for the eco-system and bio-diversity. That is also changing with climate change and they need to be protected for the future,” Molden noted. But then, it’s not only climate change. “We have many kinds of changes, besides climate change, like lots of migration, especially men to the cities,” he said.

“Fewer people have been left to take care of mountains and globalization is eroding local culture. Globalization and climate change have an increasing influence on the future of fragile mountain ecosystems and the livelihood of the mountain people,” he pointed out. “So, all these changes, plus climate change, is really challenging the mountain people and the environment,” the expert said.

$650 billion a year to $400 billion, Lubber said. But some of that decline is the result of dramatically lower oil prices and companies are still seeking oil in places from the Arctic to Canada’s tar sands.

Still, the fossil fuel divestment campaign “has forced the question of what is a profitable company”, Lubber said.

“Five years ago you didn’t see analyst reports on the financial strength of the fossil fuel industry.

Now there are hundreds of those. The debate has changed,” she added.

Equally important will be helping many more people understand that

climate change is something that needs action at home, in politics and on the streets, experts said.

When 400,000 people marched to call for stronger policies on climate change in New York last September, with thousands more on the streets of other cities, “it changed the debate, it changed the news media.

We need to see that times a thousand around the world,” Lubber said.

From today, “everyone has to take this personally”, Robinson said. “We need a movement that says, ‘This is too important to be left to the government and the United Nations and business.’”

North Korean missile launch apparently fails seOul, ApRil 15 (Ap): A North Korean launch of a missile on the birthday of its revered founder appears to have failed, South Korean and U.S. defense officials said Friday.

South Korea’s Yonhap news agency carried an unsourced report that the failed launch was of a powerful new mid-range missile that could one day be capable of reaching far-off U.S. military bases in Asia.

The U.S. and South Korean officials, however, provided few details, including the type of missile, of what would be an embarrassing failure for Pyongyang, if confirmed.

The launch comes as the two Koreas trade threats amid Pyongyang’s anger over annual South Korean-U.S. military drills that North Korea calls a rehearsal for an invasion. The

North has recently fired a slew of missiles and artillery shells into the sea in an apparent protest against the drills.

The surge in belligerent rhetoric and nuclear and missile activity in the North may also be linked to leader Kim Jong Un’s preparations for a major ruling party meeting next month that analysts believe he will use to further solidify his autocratic rule. Some believe that Kim may try to use the country’s claims of recent nuclear and missile success as a way to turn domestic focus toward tackling the country’s abysmal economy.

A senior U.S. defense official, speaking on condition of anonymity because the official wasn’t authorized to speak publicly, said the U.S. Strategic Command systems have detected and

tracked what officials assessed as a failed North Korean missile launch.

“We strongly condemn North Korea’s missile test in violation of UN Security Council Resolutions, which explicitly prohibit North Korea’s use of ballistic missile technology,” the official said.

The North American Aerospace Defense Command said the missile launched from North Korea did not pose a threat to North America.

The South’s Defense Ministry said it wasn’t immediately known whether the missile fired from an eastern costal area Friday morning was a short-range or mid-range missile. It also was not known if the missile exploded in mid-air shortly after its liftoff or landed in the water after failing to fly its intended range.

The North’s launch came amid speculation in the South that its rival was preparing to test a medium-range missile with a range of 3,500 kilometers (2,180 miles) — enough to reach U.S. military installments in Japan and Guam. Foreign experts have nicknamed the missile “Musudan” after the village in the northeast where North Korea has a launchpad.

Friday is the birthday anniversary of the late Kim Il Sung, the current leader’s grandfather and the nation’s founder. North Korea has occasionally used such celebrations to stage nuclear or missile tests that outsiders consider provocations.

In the North Korean capital, Pyongyang, citizens in formal clothing lined up to bow deeply be-

fore huge statues of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il, his son and the father of Kim Jong Un, and laid brightly colored flowers at the statues’ feet.

North Korea has unnerved the international community this year with an escalating campaign of belligerence. This includes a nuclear test in January, its fourth, and a long-range rocket launch in February, as well as nuclear threats against the United States and Seoul.

There is debate among analysts about the exact state of the North’s nuclear capabilities — many believe Pyongyang has a handful of crude nuclear bombs — but each nuclear and missile test pushes them farther along in their goal of a nuclear-armed arsenal of long-range missiles.

Aftershocks rattle Japan after quake kills nine TOKYO, ApRil 15 (ReuTeRs): Aftershocks rattled southwestern Japan on Friday after a strong quake the night before killed nine people, injured at least 1,000 and cut power and water across the region, forcing the temporary shutdown of several auto and electronics factories.

By afternoon, more than 130 aftershocks had hit the area around the city of Kumamoto in the wake of the initial 6.4 magnitude quake the night before. Officials said the frequency was tapering off but the risk of further strong aftershocks will remain for about a week.

While the magnitude of Thursday’s quake was much lower than that of the 9.0 March 11, 2011 quake that touched off a massive tsunami and nuclear meltdowns at Fukushima, the intensity was similar because it struck on land and at a much shallower depth.

“We managed to huddle into a space, that’s why we were saved,” one man told NHK national television after he and his family were rescued from their collapsed house two hours after the quake hit. “We’re all safe, that’s what counts.”

More than 44,000 people initially fled to schools and community centres, some spending the night outside after the first quake hit around 9:30 p.m. Roads cracked, houses crumbled, and tiles cascaded from the roof of the 400-year-old Kumamoto Castle in the centre of the city.

7.4 quake hits near Kumamoto; tsunami advisory issued

Collapsed houses caused by an earthquake are seen in Mashiki town, Kumamoto prefecture, southern Japan, in this photo taken by Kyodo April 15, 2016. Mandatory credit REUTERS

Among those pulled from the wreckage was an eight-monthold baby girl, wrapped in a blanket and passed hand to hand by firefighters. Several hospitals had to evacuate patients. More than 3,000 troops, police and firemen were dispatched to the area from around Japan, and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said more would be sent if needed.

“We will do everything in our power to ensure the safety of local residents,” Abe told a parliamentary committee.

Most of the dead came from Mashiki, a town of around 34,000

people near the epicentre of the quake, where firefighters battled a blaze late on Thursday. Daylight showed splintered houses under tiled roofs and an apartment building whose ground floor was pulverized, where two people died.

“I want to go home, but we couldn’t do anything there,” one boy at an evacuation centre told TBS television as he bounced a baby in his arms.

Though the intensity of Thursday’s quake on the Japanese scale matched that of the March 2011 quake that left nearly 20,000 dead, the absence of a tsunami helped

A magnitude 7.4 earthquake struck southern Japan early on Saturday morning, triggering a tsunami advisory. The quake's epicentre was near the city of Kumamoto and measured at a depth of 40 km (25 miles), the U.S. Geological Survey said. The USGS minutes earlier reported a 7.1 quake with a depth of 7 km close to the same location.

The Japan Meteorological Agency issued a tsunami advisory, which identifies the presence of a marine threat and asks people to leave coastal regions, for the Ariake and Yatsushiro seas. Local broadcaster NHK said the advisory suggested a possible wave of one metre in height. keep the death toll down. Service on the Shinkansen superfast train in Kyushu was halted after one train derailed, and highways were closed after some sections collapsed. About 12,200 households were without electricity as of 12 p.m. (0500 GMT), while some 58,000 lacked water.

The Nuclear Regulation Authority said there were no irregularities at three nuclear plants on the southern major island of Kyushu and nearby Shikoku.

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IPL 2016: Bengaluru to host final; Ferrari spring Shanghai pune, Mumbai given home options surprise on Mercedes NEW DELHI, AprIL 15 (pTI): Its schedule thrown haywire after the Bombay high court ordered the shifting of 13 IPL matches out of drought-hit Maharashtra, the cash-rich league picked Bengaluru as the venue for its finale and offered four alternate home options to the state's affected franchises.

In a meeting between IPL chairman Rajeev Shukla and representatives of the Rising Pune Supergiants and Mumbai Indians, it was decided to allot IPL's final and the first Qualifier to Bengaluru.

The second Qualifier and the Eliminator, on the other hand, have been proposed to be moved to Kolkata to implement the Bombay high court's order that asked the BCCI to shift all the IPL matches after April 30 from Maharashtra due to the acute water crisis in the state.

In Friday's meeting, the two affected franchises were asked to pick from

Raipur, Jaipur, Visakhapatnam and Kanpur as their alternate home base.

While Pune opted for Visakhapatnam, Mumbai Indians sought two days' time to choose their new base.

"We will propose before the Governing Council that Final and Qualifier 1 be shifted to Bengaluru, while Qualifier 2 and Eliminator to Kolkata," Shukla told reporters after the meeting.

"After speaking to the franchises, we have given them four options: Raipur, Jaipur, Kanpur and Visakhapatnam. Mumbai Indians have asked for time till day after tomorrow (to give their preference)," he added.

"Pune has given Visakhapatnam as its preference. We will put the proposal of Pune team before the Governing Council."

The logistical crisis was triggered despite the BCCI assurance to the high court that IPL franchises of Mumbai and Pune had agreed to contribute Rs five

crore each to CM's drought relief fund.

"As far as giving 5 crore is concerned, it will be as per the directive of the high court. They (the franchises) are supposed to get a written order on this," Shukla said.

Shukla also stated that the BCCI will plead before the HC to allow the May 1 clash between Mumbai and Pune to go ahead in Pune as the home franchise will be playing a game in the city on April 29.

"We will request the Honourable court to allow us to hold this match," he said.

The Rajasthan Cricket Association has been banned by the BCCI for factionalism but Shukla said the venue will be available for IPL as the offer to host has come from the state government.

"The offer has come from the government and they head the sports council. The stadium belongs to government so whatever will be done will be done

through the government.

These are only proposal which will be presented before the governing council," he said.

The BCCI had reacted sharply to the Court's order on Wednesday, saying that it would not be easy to move matches midway into the tournament.

Mumbai, Pune and Nagpur were the three venues in Maharashtra holding IPL matches before a Public Interest Litigation was filed, alleging wastage of water in maintenance of pitches.

The BCCI had asserted that it was not using potable water for ground maintenance and offered to supply water to the drought-affected areas.

Shukla had gone to the extent of stating that Board could not have done anything more than this.

However, taking a contrary view, Kings XI Punjab co-owner Ness Wadia, who was among the first to advocate shifting of matches,

had welcomed the Court order, saying that he was glad that sensitivities of the drought-affected people in Maharashtra were being respected.

BCCI Secretary Anurag Thakur had said that there was an attempt to create negativity around the league.

"We are not using drinking water, we have said that we'll use treated sewage water only. How many swimming pools of 5 star hotels have been shut?

Have people stopped watering their lawns?" Thakur had asked.

"There is an attempt to create negativity on every issue these days. IPL was to use 0.00038 per cent of water so that shows the requirement was not much."

The sentiment had found support former captains Rahul Dravid and Sunil Gavaskar as well, both of whom felt that IPL and cricket had become soft targets to generate controversies.

SSA wins 4th Altrura Football Tournment Altogether 32 teams from all over the State participated in the 10 day long tournament. Country Boys was adjudged the best discipline team of the tournament and was awarded Rs. 10,000.

Individual prizes:

Guest of Honour along with the State Sports Academy, Green Hill Club, Organizers and match Officials before the start of the final match at Medziphema Town Local Ground on April 15.

MEDzIpHEMA, AprIL 15 (MExN): State Sports Academy (SSA) Dimapur emerged as champion of the 4th Altrura Open football Tournament 2016 edg-

ing out Green Hill Club 3-2 in the final at Medziphema Town Local Ground on Friday. SSA walked away with a cash price of Rs. 50,000 along with the trophy while

GHC took home Rs. 30,000 and trophy.

Earlier, Guest of honor at the Closing ceremony, Sarah S Jamir, congratulated the organizers, Altrura

Society on being selected as the “State Best Youth Club Award” by Nehru Yuva Kendra, Nagaland Zone under Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports (GOI).

Fastest Score - 2.53 min - Nyithung (SSA) 1st Hatrick - Victor (Amateur Sporting Club) Player of the tournament - Tingnyek (SSA) Best Goal keeper Neithovilie Chalieu (SSA) Best Defender - Asiu (Green Hill Club) Highest Scorer - 8 goals - Kivi (SSA)

Surging Premier League wages 'dent profits'

pArIS, AprIL 15 (AFp): England's Premier League clubs scored record sales last season, a survey showed Friday, but their profits took a hit from player salaries that reached $2.8 billion.

It was nevertheless a strong year, giving the top flight clubs a "significant advantage" over most of the rest of Europe in luring

new talent, said a study released by professional services group Deloitte.

With record-breaking combined revenues of £3.4 billion ($4.8 billion), the Premier League posted a second straight year of profits in 2014/15, the first such double since 1999, according to Deloitte.

Pre-tax profits still took

a knock, though, skidding to nearly £120 million from £190 the previous season.

The culprit was a six percent rise in wage costs, which hit a record £2 billion (2.5 billion euros).

"Premier League clubs now enjoy a significant revenue advantage over all but a handful of the biggest clubs from elsewhere in

Murray sets up glitzy Monte Carlo semi-final with Nadal MoNTE CArLo, AprIL 15 (AFp): Andy Murray faces a severe test of his clay court credentials against Rafael Nadal in the Monte Carlo Masters semi-finals after crushing a below-par Milos Raonic 6-2, 6-0 on Friday.

Nadal, winner of eight straight titles in Monte Carlo from 2005 to 2012, holds the edge over the second-seeded Scotsman, defeating Murray in 2009 and 2011 semi-finals in the principality.

The Spanish fifth seed was in fighting fighting trim as he crushed French Open champion Stan Wawrinka 6-1, 6-4 in 77 minutes.

Wawrinka, who won the tournament in 2014, cracked a racquet in the fifth game of the first set.

The fourth seed ended with 29 unforced errors and dropped serve four times.

Murray was always in command against Raonic, who has been suffering from the return of a right leg injury that troubled him at the Australian Open two months ago.

Raonic was never in the match, failing to hit a single ace in his 66-minute defeat.

Murray said that while his win might not have

(TOP) Britain's Andy Murray reacts during his tennis match against Canada's Milos Raonic. (BOTTOM)Spain's Rafael Nadal celebrates victory against Stan Wawrinka of Switzerland. (AFP Photos)

been pretty, it still gave him confidence after he struggled through his first two contests this week.

"I've played a lot of tennis, though it has all not been of the highest quality," said the 28-year-old.

"I've been able to learn from my previous matches.

Today I served one of my best matches.

"Milos was not at his best.

He can certainly serve better than today. I'm looking forward to the semi-finals."

Europe," said Andrew Bull, consultant at Deloitte's sports business group.

"This has earned the Premier League clubs a huge and self-perpetuating advantage over continental peers in terms of attracting playing talent."

Last season, Chelsea usurped Manchester United and Manchester City

at the top of the Premier League's wage bill chart, according to annual figures released in January by Britain's registrar of companies., Chelsea, owned by Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich, reported a total wage bill of £215.6 million, a rise of £25 million, it said.

Ferrari driver Kimi Raikkonen set the fastest lap time of one minute, 36.896 seconds during a practice session for the Chinese Grand Prix in Shanghai, on April 15, 2016 (AFP Photo)

SHANgHAI, AprIL 15 (AFp): Ferrari struck a psychological blow ahead of the Chinese Grand Prix as Kimi Raikkonen and Sebastian Vettel pipped the dominant Mercedes in Friday's second free practice.

Raikkonen blazed to a fastest lap of one minute, 36.896 seconds, edging Vettel by 0.109, as Ferrari bared their teeth after some indifferent form in the season's first two races.

Nico Rosberg, who won in Australia and Bahrain, went third quickest in 1:37.133 after posting the fastest time in the morning, while world champion Lewis Hamilton was fourth in the Shanghai haze.

Fernando Alonso, who fractured ribs after a terrifying crash in the seasonopening race, was formally cleared to compete by medics after clocking the 12th-fastest time in the morning. The Spaniard inched up to 11th in the second session.

Though lacking, perhaps, the drama of Friday practice 12 months ago, when a Chinese fan vaulted the pitlane wall and demanded to test drive a Ferrari, there were plenty of thrills in the morning with two red flags after a series of blown tyres.

The jousting between

Mercedes and Ferrari in the afternoon was no less absorbing, Rosberg and Hamilton flexing their muscles early on before Ferrari's two former world champions put in their blistering qualifying simulation times on super-soft tyres.

Raikkonen, who finished runner-up to Rosberg in Bahrain two weeks ago, had not been happy at all before setting his fast lap, snapping over the radio: "Do you really want me to keep going?"

Four-time world champion Vettel placed third in last month's Australian Grand Prix as Raikkonen's engine caught fire, but in Bahrain the anguish was Vettel's as his engine blew on the out lap.

But Vettel cautioned against over-optimism.

"We had a decent day but it's only Friday so I wouldn't stress or put too much importance on the times today," said the German.

"We can still improve.

One lap is good for qualifying but in a race ideally you want to have a lot of good laps in a row."

But on Friday's form at least the omens look good for Ferrari, the most successful team in China with four victories -- including the last of Michael Schumacher's record 91 race wins

10 years ago.

Mercedes for once didn't have things all their own way, with Rosberg's car suffering ignition problems and Hamilton, who has been hit with a fiveplace grid penalty for Sunday's race after a gearbox change, twice spinning off at turn 11.

"Something's up, I keep having this locking into turn 11," complained Hamilton after his second mishap at the hard-braking left turn.

The Briton, who has won a record four times in China, including the last two years, added afterwards: "It wasn't a bad day, but it wasn't a spectacular day. Ferrari are quick, which means we're going to have a race and that's exciting."

Felipe Massa set the tone for a bizarre morning by skidding off at turn four with a punctured left rear tyre -- before astonishingly shredding another Pirelli on the same wheel.

"Something is broke on the car," the Brazilian observed with wry understatement, before Renault's Kevin Magnussen limped back to the pits on ruined rubbers, also to his left rear.

Williams technical head Pat Symonds blamed "wheel rim failure" for Massa's issues.

Elite Badminton Club meeting

DIMApur, AprIL 15 (MExN): The Elite Badminton Club, Dimapur has convened a General Body Meeting on April 17 at 2pm at Hotel Blue Haven. A press release from

the Club informing that the main agenda of the meeting would be the election of the new EBCD executives, requested all the members to attend the meeting.

public discourse

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od has given every person the Godlike power of choice, the ability to think, react and make up his mind. We can read every verse in Scripture from any passage God calls to your attention. The more we listen to Him in the word or prayer the more familiar you become and more certain you are when He is speaking. If we know why cannot we know whether we would be going to heaven when we die. Look at here, the Bible says, “Not everyone that said unto me Lord shall enter into the kingdom of heaven …… we had done miracles, prophesied in your name..... I will profess into them I never know you (Mathew 7:21-23). Every believer understood that these verses troubled us the most. We have a question before us as to whether our Jericho is a pride, fear of man, and out-of-control temper, spiritual decadence, a roving eye or a root of bitterness. In our search for eternal truth it is getting

The Christian Journey

closer to God, and let us know that hell is going to catch many people by surprise. How can you know what is out there after you draw your last breathe.

Is your love for Jesus burning so much in your heart that you just cannot wait to tell someone about Him today? The prophet Jeremiah records his struggle to speak out – “ But His words was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay ( Jer.20:8,9). John Wellesley pleaded for such bold witnesses; ‘Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin and desire nothing but God, and I care not as a straw whether they be clergymen or laymen such alone will shake the gates of hell. Wellesley would tell his evangelist trainees that when they preached, people should get angry or get converted.

Theirs was not- Jesus loves you, but a Biblical message of sin, righteousness, law, judgment and Hell. He knew that message would lead people to the cross and

to the Saviour.

Many people typically answer this question by saying they are good enough to go to Heaven.

Of course, you know you cannot guarantee that you are going to wake up tomorrow morning. Each of us will get to the edge of death at some point in our lives. We are all hanging by our fingertips, one breath away from eternity. You should not put your head on your pillow tonight unless you know for certain that Heaven is your eternal destination and He is the sovereign ruler over all heaven and earth- and hell.

We can remind ourselves of quiet scene of the night streets of Jerusalem, the tense, shouting of a crowd, most terrible sounds, the conclave in the house of the Sanhedrin to hold themselves ready for an emergency midnight sitting of the court, when men were working overtime to get three great wooden crosses ready for a triple execution at the dawn. The world had ever seen the pomp of power, the marching of

legions, the godless worship of brute forces, curse of spiritual wickedness in high places and domineering menace of materialistic politics. That was the setting of this hushed hour of Sacrament and peace.

Some people think they will live their life the way they choose and then, when they are old and satisfied, they will get right with God. Whether you are old or young is not determined by your age but by when you die. If you die at eighteen or you are going to die at eighty, you have a lot of life left. We will not have enough strength on our own to pull ourselves ‘over the top’. God does not promise that everything will become smooth in your life with material abundance and there will be no problems once you surrender your life to Jesus. The temptation to hunt you will come from ungodly religious people who are jealous of how happy you are and how blessed you are in the things of the Spirit as well as in things of the world.

And today, in the ser-

vices of faith, we are not playing at ritual in a crashing, needless world, not fiddling while Rome burns nor even, like the psalmist, crying for the wings of a dove that we may fly away for an hour from the pressure of tormenting facts and be at rest. We are here for the power that is going to help us to face the dark more manfully, the power which, - thanks be to heaven in the hours of testing. Over against the guilt and the standards of the world, we have affirmed Christ’s values till He comes. Believers of today by your action, you will remember that St. Paul put it challengingly to the members of the Corinthians Church, “as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup ye to show the Lord‘s dead till He comes”. Human life of ours is – resting back upon God, and then in the strength of that going to do battle with the thousand troubles of the world, and against the multitude of problems.

Keduovilie Linyu Chairman Baptist Revival Church Kharuzou

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Bollywood icon chases himself around the world

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ollywood icon Shah Rukh Khan uncorks a wildly over-the-top Jekyll-and-Hyde dual turn in this exhausting, bizarre yet watchable action-thriller melodrama. He plays a Mumbai megastar called Aryan Khanna, obviously modelled on himself – and incidentally using genuine footage in which he waves to hordes of screaming admirers from the balcony of his luxury home.

But he also, with the

aid of digital effects, plays a creepy lookalike fan called Gaurav, a dopey Delhi guy who owns an internet cyber cafe and wins a local talent contest with his Aryan tribute act. The doppelganger effect is creepy, but it’s not easy to tell how intentional this is. Guarav’s obsessive fan-love turns to fan-hate when he feels his devotion to be slighted and then travels around the world, staging crimes in all the cities where Aryan is on a singing tour, knowing

that his erstwhile hero will get the blame.

It could be that Khan has taken inspiration from fan nightmares such as Scorsese’s King of Comedy or Stephen King’s Misery.

By casting himself in both roles, Khan could have intended a complex satire of celebrity narcissism. Or he could just be, well, guilty of a fair bit of celebrity narcissism himself. Either way, it’s outrageous and enjoyably absurd.

ritain's Duke and Duchess of Cambridge trekked on Friday to a Buddhist monastery on a mountainside in Bhutan, going one better than the duke's father, Prince Charles, who on a 1998 trip broke off his hike to paint a watercolour.

Prince William and wife Kate dressed down for the three-hour expedition to the so-called Tiger's Nest that is perched on a mountainside at 3,000 metres (10,000 feet).

Kate's outfit featured knee-length boots, olive trousers and a leather waistcoat, while William wore an open-necked shirt and beige slacks. The couple stopped along the way to smile for the cameras

Source: The Guardian

before the backdrop of the and queen of the tiny Hi17th century Taktsang Pal- malayan nation. phug Monastery across the On Saturday, they reParo valley. turn to India to visit the Taj Mahal, which was built in AIR APPARENT 1632 by Moghul Emperor Porters were on hand, Shah Jahan in memory of including one with an oxy- his favourite wife. gen cylinder, but the couple William's mother, the - William is 33, Kate a year late Princess Diana, visited older - managed without in 1992 and was memoradifficulty as they walked bly photographed sitting hand-in-hand through alone on a bench on front sunlit wooded uplands. of the marble mausoleum, The royal couple finally in an image that came to got some time to them- symbolise her unhappy selves on the sixth day of marriage. their hectic tour of India Indian newspapers and Bhutan, where they have reported that the Britwere welcomed on Thurs- ish High Commission had day by the young - and asked for scaffolding, erectequally glamorous - king ed for repair work, to be

Film body to hold counselling sessions for actors

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n the wake of the untimely death of Pratyusha Banerjee, members of the Cine and TV Artistes Association (CINTAA) have decided to hold counselling sessions with actors. "Starting from April 17, we will have seven counselling sessions with all the actors. We really want to know the root cause of suicide and eradicate it," Amit Behl, chairperson dispute committee, CINTAA, told IANS. "Of course, it doesn't guarantee anything, but we all will sit as family members and discuss our own highs and lows," he added.

Pratyusha, who portrayed the

character of the adult Anandi in the famous teleserial Balika Vadhu, was found hanging from a fan by her boyfriend Rahul Raj Singh and neighbours at her Mumbai residence on April 1.

She was rushed to the Kokilaben Ambani Hospital where she was declared dead.

"Pratyusha was such a young girl and my concern is that as an actor, they need to understand highs and lows are part of this industry. So we have collectively taken this decision and have come forward to speak about it," Mr Behl said.

Source: Reuters

Source: IANS

women should chase male roles: Helen Mirren

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ctress Helen Mirren says actresses should go after roles written for men. In her new film thriller "Eye in the Sky", she plays an army colonel, a role originally written for a man, reported BB online.

The 70-year-old actress said it made her "cross" that many roles were given to men regardless of whether it was the lead character. "You look at a scene and it's going to be all men around a table and you think at least half of those could have been women," she said. "It's so hard to get a job as an actress, let alone as a star but just a job - to be a working actress it's so much more difficult than it is for men".

Mirren said the lack of roles for women was also markedly noticeable in the film industry when it comes to extras. "The only time that there is more women on the set as extras is a swimming pool scene and they're all in bikinis any swimming pool scene and suddenly it's full of women.

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removed from the oniondomed Taj Mahal. The Archaeological Survey of India turned down the request.

There are also concerns that the site may be overrun by tourists when William and Kate are there, as it only closes for visits by heads of state or government. The British High Commission in New Delhi did not reply to a request for comment.

There has been fierce competition among news organisations trying to secure the best spot on a viewing platform for the "money" shot of William, second in line to the throne, and Kate.

Source: PTI

Katy Perry wins archdiocese lawsuit against nuns

‘Deadpool’ sequel officially in the works

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ollywood star Ryan Reynolds is officially on board to suit up again for a "Deadpool" sequel. Two months after the Marvel superhero movie hit cinemas, bosses at 20th Century Fox confirmed they are already working on a follow-up for the blockbuster hit during an appearance at Las Vegas' CinemaCon, said the Hollywood Reporter.

In addition to Reynolds returning as the titular homicidal mercenary, aka Wade Wilson, director Tim Miller will be back, as well as original writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, who will pen the new script. It is currently unclear whether Reynolds' co-stars Morena Baccarin, T J Miller and Karan Soni

will reprise their roles for the second instalment. "Deadpool" proved to be a killer hit upon its release, grossing USD 760 million worldwide to date, making it the highest grossing R-rated movie of all time. The news of the sequel confirmation will be warmly welcomed by fans of the

popular comic book character, after waiting for years for the standalone "Deadpool" movie to emerge.

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op superstar Katy Perry on Wednesday won a round in a prolonged legal saga to move into a scenic former convent in Los Angeles. With more than 86 million followers, Katy is the world's most popular person on Twitter but she has struggled to win over a crucial market of two - a pair of elderly nuns who oppose selling the complex to the singer for $14.5 million.

The nuns, who voiced distaste for the I Kissed a Girl singer, had signed a deal to sell the convent to a restaurant owner, Dana Hollister.

But Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Stephanie Bowick in a brief hearing on Wednesday invalidated the deed. Her move came in response to the pleas not just of Katy but of the archdiocese, which said that the two sisters, Rita Callahan and Catherine Rose Holz-

man, did not have authority to complete the sale.

The archdiocese said that Katy had offered the $14.5 million in cash, while Ms Hollister had only paid $100,000 of a promised $15.5 million - $10 million for the former convent and $5.5 million to buy out a property on the complex.

The convent, known as the California Institute of the Sisters of the Most Holy and Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary, once

had more than 100 nuns.

The sisters no longer live on the property but Ms Callahan and Ms Holzman argued that they had sole authority under the institute's bylaws.

Katy, who grew up as a born-again Christian but is known for her support of gay rights and sultry songs such as Teenage Dream, has visited the nuns and sung for them in a fruitless bid at persuasion.

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Liverpool stun Dortmund, Sevila edge through

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Mishra, de Kock hand Kings XI thrashing

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Manan Vohra of Kings XI Punjab is cleaned bowled by Delhi Daredevils’ Amit Mishra during the first innings of match 7 of the IPL at The Feroz Shah Kotla Ground in Delhi on April 15.

In the run chase, Quinton de Kock anchored the Delhi innings with a strokeful fifty as the Daredevils won by 8 wickets with 6.3 overs remaining. (Photo by IPL)

BRIEF ScORES:

Kings XI Punjab - 111/9 in 20 overs [Manan Vohra 32; Amit Mishra 4/11] Delhi Daredevils - 113/2 in 13.3 overs [Quinton de Kock 59*, Sanju Samson 33; Sandeep Sharma 1/6]

Pep avoids Man City in Champions League semis

LONDON, ApriL 15 (reuters): Liverpool added another fairytale comeback to the history books as they fought back from 3-1 down against Borussia Dortmund to reach the Europa League semi-finals after Dejan Lovren's towering stoppage-time header secured a 4-3 win on Thursday.

Lovren rose at the far post to rifle home his header in the first minute of added time, recalling memories of Liverpool's 2005 Champions League final comeback against AC Milan and propelling them into the last four with a 5-4 aggregate victory.

Liverpool, 2-0 down after nine minutes, will be joined in Friday's draw by holders Sevilla, who needed a penalty shootout to edge past Spanish rivals Athletic Bilbao.

Spain will have two sides in the last four after Villarreal beat Sparta Prague 4-2 and 6-3 over the two legs, while Shakhtar Donetsk defeated Braga 4-0 at home to complete a 6-1 aggregate triumph.

Liverpool's victory at Anfield was greeted by typically exuberant celebrations from manager Juergen Klopp, who spent seven years at Dortmund and would have been no stranger to the quick-fire counter attacks that earned the visitors a 2-0 lead.

Liverpool might have

Liverpool face Villarreal, Shakhtar take on Sevilla semis NyON, ApriL 15 (AFp): Jurgen Klopp's Liverpool will play Villarreal in the Europa League semi-finals while defending champions Sevilla face Ukraine's Shakhtar Donetsk.

Liverpool, who hit back from 2-0 and 3-1 down to beat Klopp's former club Borussia Dortmund 4-3 and prog-

felt they had a slight advantage over Dortmund having snatched an away goal in a 1-1 first-leg draw, but the tables were turned in the blink of an eye after a whirlwind start by the Germans.

Liverpool were slapdash in possession, Dortmund ruthless on the counter as they brutally punishing Liverpool's errors with both early goals starting from the hosts gifting them the ball.

Dortmund played with the same intensity they did when Klopp led them to two Bundesliga titles and a Champions League final, harrying Liverpool all over the pitch and winning back the ball in dangerous areas.

The first goal arrived after five minutes as a rapid break ended with Simon Mignolet saving brilliantly from Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, only for Henrikh Mkhitaryan to sweep home the rebound.

It was soon 2-0 as Mar-

ress into the semis 5-4 on aggregate, have never played Villarreal before.

Sevilla ousted fellow Spaniards Athletic Bilbao on penalties in Thursday's quarter-final in their bid to win a third consecutive Europa League.

The final is set for Basel, Switzerland, on May 18.

co Reus powered through the Liverpool midfield and fed Aubameyang to rifle his finish into the roof of the net, beating Mignolet at his near post.

Having never lost at home to German opposition in 13 games, Liverpool were suddenly facing a mountainous climb back into the encounter, but they were given hope three minutes into the second half when Divock Origi raced through and poked his finish past Roman Weidenfeller.

Their spirits were swiftly dampened, however, when Reus made it 3-1 after 57 minutes, before being partially restored through Philippe Coutinho's curling effort.

WONDERFUL NIGHT The Anfield roar went into overdrive when Mamadou Sakho levelled with a header from a corner with 12 minutes remaining and the final blow was delivered when Lovren rose to

head home James Milner's cross.

That sparked euphoric celebrations among the home support and left the visiting contingent holding their heads in disbelief.

"It is difficult to explain. A wonderful, wonderful night at Anfield and to be honest the game was strange," an almost disbelieving Klopp said.

Liverpool are no strangers to titanic fightbacks with perhaps the greatest moment in their history coming when they came back from 3-0 down against Milan to win a fifth European title on penalties.

Just as on that night 11 years ago, their opponents were left wondering how they had lost control of the match.

"It was not logical. It was very emotional. At the end at 3-3 everyone here believed it was meant to be, it was destiny," Dortmund coach Thomas Tuchel said.

"If you have such a

strong belief then things can happen."

Sevilla, who have made the competition their own in the last two years, lost 2-1 at home to Bilbao, but edged through on penalties.

They fell behind when Aritz Aduriz scored his 10th goal in this season's competition and after equalising through Kevin Gameiro, were behind again when Raul Garcia found the net with a looping header 10 minutes from time.

That levelled the tie at 3-3 on aggregate and forced extra time. With the sides still level after 120 minutes, Sevilla sneaked through after Bilbao's Benat Etxebarria missed their fourth spotkick and Gameiro scored to secure a 5-4 shootout victory.

Shakhtar Donetsk cruised into only their second European semi-final with Darijo Srna opening the scoring from the penalty spot to mark his recordbreaking 486th game for the club.

Two own goals from Braga centre back Ricardo Ferreira either side of a goal from Viktor Kovalenko rounded off the scoring.

Villarreal's Cedric Bakambu struck twice to take his tally in the competition to nine goals as they reached the semi-finals for the third time with a 4-2 win at Sparta Prague.

Schweinsteiger unlikely to play again this season AFP Photo

NyON, ApriL 15 (AFp): Pep Guardiola avoided his future employers as Manchester City were on Friday drawn to play Real Madrid in the semi-finals of the Champions League while Atletico Madrid will face the Spaniard's Bayern Munich. Guardiola will take over as City boss next season and is in his swansong after three years at Bayern having steered the Bavarian giants to the last four in Europe on each of his three years in charge. Atletico, the Diego Simeone-coached team

that knocked out defending champions Barcelona in the quarter-finals, and Bayern have previously met once in European action, in the 1974 final, the Bundesliga side running out 4-0 winners in the replay following an initial 1-1 draw. Bayern striker Robert Lewandowski said the Bundesliga team would be wary of Atletico. "@Atleti did show the strength in the match with Barcelona.

We must maintain maximum concentration," the Polish international tweeted. For outgoing Man-

chester City boss Manuel Pellegrini, the semi-final will be a return to the club he managed in 2009-10.

City's only games against Real, unbeaten in their last eight games against English clubs and in the semi-finals for a record sixth successive time, were in the 2012-13 group stage.

They drew 1-1 at home and lost 3-2 away. The first leg of the semi-finals will be played on April 26-27, with the second leg scheduled for May 3-4. The final will MANchester, ApriL take place at Milan's San 15 (reuters): Manchester United midfielder Siro stadium on May 28.

Bastian Schweinsteiger is unlikely to play for his club again season due to a knee injury, manager Louis van Gaal said on Friday. The 31-year-old sustained the injury on international duty in March and is in a race against time to prove new entry list was published on the of- his fitness to lead Germany ficial website of the 2016 Roland Garros in the European Champion Thursday, reports Xinhua. According onship in France starting to media reports on Thursday, former in June. "I don't think SchWorld No.1 Sharapova, currently facing weinsteiger shall play this doping abuse accusations, was enlisted season -- I think, next seaas eligible for taking part in the tourna- son, he is prepared. Maybe ment, to be held in France between May he is prepared for the Euro16 and June 5. Prestigious Swiss watch pean Championship, I canmaker TAG Heuer has no intentions of not predict," Van Gaal told extending its sponsorship contract with the club's website. United, Russian tennis star Maria Sharapova who are fifth in the Premier even in case the player is amnestied of League, are vying with local doping accusations under new recom- rivals Manchester City for a mendations from the World Anti-Dop- spot in next season's Chaming Agency (WADA), the company said pions League. City, who are on Thursday. The company suspended in the fourth and final qualitalks on the extension of its sponsorship fying spot, visit Chelsea on contract with Sharapova which expired Saturday while United host on December 31, 2015 after the player an- bottom club Aston Villa, nounced last month that she had tested who will be relegated if they positive for doping. fail to win the game.

Players in action during the 2nd King’s Volleyball Tournament on Friday at State Stadium, Dimapur. (Morung Photo)

Sharapova not in French Open women's entry List

pAris, ApriL 15 (iANs): Russian tennis star Maria Sharapova does not figure in the final entry list of women participants of the 2016 French Open tennis tournament. The

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