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Grid failure affects power supply to Nagaland State DimapUr, april 16 (mExN): Power supply to Nagaland state was affected for nearly 4 hours today following a failure in the NER Grid. “Due to partial grid failure in NER grid, power supply to Nagaland was affected today from 12:04pm,” informed a press release from the Executive Engineer (Transmission), Dimapur. The snag was rectified at around 4:00pm restoring supply to Dimapur. However, power supply to Kohima could not be restored due to break down of circuit breaker at power grid sub-station, Dimapur.

This will also affect Wokha, Phek and Kiphire districts.

Meanwhile, alternative power supply from Karong (Manipur) is being ar- An eight-month-old baby is carried away by rescue workers after being rescued from her collapsed home caused by an ranged on emergency basis, earthquake in Mashiki town, Kumamoto prefecture, southern Japan. (REUTERS) the release stated, while requesting consumers to bear with the inconvenience.

Nagaland CM, NPF president get pledge of support

DimapUr, april 16 (mExN): Naga People’s Front (NPF) legislators along with Central office bearers have reiterated unflinching support to the leadership of Chief Minister TR Zeliang and party president Dr Shurhozelie Liesietsu. A press note from NPF Legal Cell convenor Achumbemo Kikon said this pledge of support was made at a closed-door meeting held at the NPF Central Office Kohima on Saturday. The meeting also discussed at length the various issues confronting the party and the present government.

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NNagaDao concerned by Nagaland’s ‘complacency’ to HIV/AIDS program HIV/AIDS field workers unpaid for four months

Kohima, april 16 (mExN): The Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) has such a far reaching spread that human kind has been able to fight it only through a long and consistent battle, through targeted interventions, treatment and care services.

The Network of Nagaland Drugs and AIDS Organisation (NNagaDAO) is now concerned about the efficiency of the HIV/AIDS program in Nagaland State, as it remains “unclear” if the NGOs/CBOs invested in the HIV/AIDS intervention program will be refunded for the fiscal year 2015-16 either by the National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) or by Nagaland State government (Nagaland State AIDS Control Society).

This has led to “thousands” of workers with the NGOs/CBOs unpaid for four months—they are “demotivated” to continue working in the field as their livelihood is under threat.

“It will be very unfortunate to lose trained personnel, as resources are now very limited to train new personnel,” stated a press release from NNagaDao President, Abou Mere.

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According to the release, Govt. of India’s NACO has asked the Nagaland State government to provide 20% of the total budget as State contribution to the HIV program. It also informed that these NGOs/CBOs have signed a contract with NACO/NSACS as per World Bank guidelines and implemented programs as per the MoU of the Annual Action Plan 2015-16.

Whatever may be the barriers, the NNagaDao expressed concern for the “sense of complacency” with which the Nagaland State government has responded to the situation.

The body reminded that the Constitution of India guarantees the Protection of life and liberty (Article 21) Equality before law (article (14) Non-discrimination (Article 14&15). In that, the State Government has the “constitutional obligation” to take legislative, administrative, budgetary, judicial, promotional & other measures for realization of the right to health, making sure that “there is no violation of the fundamental right (Right to life/health) of any person, particularly when he/she belongs to the weaker section of the community.”

Moreover, it is “critical” to continue and sustain comprehensive efforts with “un-interrupted funding” in response to HIV/AIDS, increasing the coverage of targeted interven-

tions, treatment and care services.

“Evidence worldwide shows that without sufficient funding and effective intervention, the number of new infections is bound to climb up. We will be recreating an epidemic and putting at risk the gains made over the last decade, face health and economic implications as well, if State Government does not intervene with all sincerity and provide political leadership and action,” reiterated NNagaDao. The State Government, asserted the NNagaDao, is “duty bound to ensure that the human rights of key populations/vulnerable groups and those most affected by HIV are upheld.” Therefore, it stated, the Nagaland State Government should “facilitate to address policy barriers and take measures and ensure that it do not exploit its citizen.”

The NNagaDAO Executive board, advisers and chief functionaries of NGOs and CBOs had an emergency meeting on April 15 in the Regional Resource & Training Centre (Kripa Foundation) Kohima where it resolved to take up the issue with the Governor, Chief Minister and Chief Secretary of the Government of Nagaland before “any democratic peaceful protest and civil disobedience action” is taken for the “non release of funds.”

Nagaland will implement Food Security Act from June Morung Express News Dimapur | April 16

Nagaland State Government will begin implementing the National Food Security Act (NFSA) from June 1, 2016 onwards.

Union Minister for Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, Ram Vilas Paswan made the announcement today in Dimapur at a hurriedly arranged press conference at the Nagaland Armed Police Training Centre (NAPTC), Chumukedima.

Paswan said that he met the State Chief Minister, TR Zeliang on April 15 and had a thorough discussion on the modalities for the implementation of the NFSA. According to Paswan, the CM assured to “fulfil all the pre-conditions for implementation of the Act.” The Nagaland State government will begin executing the NFSA coverage phase-wise from June 1 starting with Kohima and Dimapur districts. From July 1, the rest of the districts will follow.

On the “pre-conditions” or criteria for implementation of the Act, which include digitisation/com-

puterisation of the Public Distribution System for greater transparency and checking pilferage, Paswan said Ration cards would soon be seeded or linked to AADHAR. AADHAR coverage in the state is said to have touched the 65 percent mark. For this, new Ration cards are being printed and online allocation of food grains will begin immediately.

Ensuring this and other measures of checks and balances “will monitor leakages and improve transparency in the Public Distribution System,” Paswan stated.

On quality control, Paswan asserted that the Ministry ensures that food grains allocated are totally safe, while adding that quality checks are made before dispatch.

On the prospect of Nagaland being allocated a greater proportion of rice out of the total rice-wheat allocation, Paswan informed that relaxations in the supply guidelines can be made if the State Government wishes or puts up proposal in proper format.

Paswan also made certain clarification on the

Hill Transport Subsidy Scheme. At the press conference on April 15, an official of the Food Corporation of India (FCI) had reported that Nagaland state has not been availing the scheme for 3-4 years.

On the contrary, it has emerged as a case of poor documentation on the part of the State Government that resulted in the state making “unsuccessful claims.” The claims have been pending for over 20 years.

The department in concern failing to properly file ‘Utilisation Certificates’ in the prescribed format emerged as be the reason with the FCI official clarifying today that “anomalies” in filed documents translated into withholding of fund reimbursement.

The accumulated amount pending amounts to over Rs 700 crore.

“A Special Task Force has been constituted to settle the Hill Transport Subsidy claims of Nagaland,” Paswan informed. The special committee will have officials from the Nagaland State government, FCI and the Government of India.

The report is expected to be submitted by July 30, 2016.

Nagaland State Govt orders in the ‘interest of public peace’ Kohima, april 16 (mExN): The Nagaland State Government has ordered that no conference/religious conference/ religious gatherings/ Jubilee celebrations organised by student unions, tribal bodies, churches and Non-Governmental Organisations shall be allowed “in any place which is likely to invite tension and clashes along tribal or sub-tribal lines.”

This was stated in an Office Memorandum (OM) from the Commissioner to the Nagaland State, Sentiyanger Imchen IAS, issued in pursuance of the directive of the State Cabinet Vide No. CAB-2/2013 Dated: Kohima, the 30th December 2015 and is “in partial modification” of the Commissioner’s Office OM dated 4th April 2007.

This order, which was released to the media through the DIPR was passed “in the interest of public peace and tranquility and to maintain peace and harmony between different tribes and sub-tribes of the State,” the OM stated.

It also mentioned that there are some “unresolved issues and disputes” between some “tribes and sub-tribes” as a result of which there is “latent tensions and animosity” between “opposing parties.”

“Such latent tensions and animosity are accentuated and brought to the fore when conference/religious gatherings/ Jubilee celebrations organized are proposed to be held in a place which is under dispute between two tribes/sub-tribes,” stated the OM by way of reasoning.

Catalyst for change through education The Myanmar Link Is Making Progress Holy Cross Hr Sec School Dimapur completes 50 years Morung Express News Dimapur | April 16

What contribute to the success a school? Is it the dedication of teachers or the quality of the students? Is it the search for financial success or a mission to educate the people?

By all accounts, the fifty years journey of Holy Cross Higher Secondary School (HCHSS) from its humble beginning in a thatch shed in 1966 to its present status as the premier institution for learning is a success story replete with unselfish service, dedication to duty.

The School was established in April 16, 1966 by Father Joseph Felix, the then assistant priest of Christ the King Church, Kohima and was recognized by Nagaland Board of School Education (NBSE) in 1989. It upgraded to a higher secondary school in 2008 and at present is governed by the Diocese of Kohima and managed by the Parish Priest of Holy Cross Church, Dimapur.

From 12 students, the school has now grown into a family of over 3000 studentscharacterized with enviable academic records over the years.

From a modest beginning, the

Home Minister Y Patton unvieling the monolith. (Morung Photo)

school has gently cultivated the reputation of being a “School with a difference” catering the different sections of people over the years.

In a celebration befitting both the school and the occasion, the Holy Cross family came together on Saturday to celebrate its Golden Jubilee at the School premises- to reminisce the past and plan for the future.

In a poignant moment, students - both old timers and present - and teachers numbering in thousands met at the campus making it an emotional

reunion for many.

It was also a occasion of camaraderie as old classmates came together to remember the past as well as meet their teachers who had molded them and who are still working.

Apart from Nagaland and India, alumni from Singapore, Dubai and other places were there in attendance.

As part of the celebration, 14 teachers who have worked more than 25 years were honoured. Among them, Catejan Mahung is the longest serving teacher who has been with the school for 47 years.

Luminous alumni, the schools have many. Chief Guest, Y Patton, the Home Minister of Nagaland as well as one of the Guest of Honour, Jacob Zhimomi, Parliamentary Secretary, Irrigation & Flood Control were once students of the school.

Speaking on the occasion, Y Patton attributed the success of an educational institution with the role played by the teachers.

He said, “Let us not forget that good teachers are costly, but bad teachers cost the nation even more.” Patton also exhorted the school to strive, work and achieve even more as it venture into a new day.

On the occasion, Patton unveiled the Jubilee monolith and the souvenir while Jacob Zhimomi planted the jubilee tree.

In a brief address, Zhimomi paid tribute to the vision of the schools and urged the school to move into mainstream and nurture the leaders of the future.

Rev. Dr. James Thoppil, the bishop of Kohima, who was the other Guest of Honour said, “Jubilee is a time of Restoration, Reformation and Renewal and asked the family of Holy Cross School to be act as the catalyst for change.”

Minister for Roads & Bridges, Y. Vikheho Swu, Minister for School Education & SCERT, Yitachu, Parliamentary Secretary for Industries & Commerce, Amenba Yaden and others during inspection of the ongoing construction of Pokhungri-Avakhung–Layshi road on April 14. (Morung Photo)

Pokhungri- Avakhung – Layshi road is motor-able Chizokho Vero Meluri | April 16

Though still incomplete, the Pokhungri-Avakhung-Layshi road connecting Myanmar from Nagaland side of the border of India has become motorable for vehicles.

Minister for Roads & Bridges, Y. Vikheho Swu, who inspected the ongoing road construction on Thursday last, said vehicles are already using the road to get to Myanmar from India. However, it was still not feasible for commercial vehicle to ply along the International trade road, the minister informed.

Inspecting the trade route along with Minister for School Education & SCERT, Yitachu,

Parliamentary Secretary for Industries & Commerce, Amenba Yaden and several other officials on Thursday, the minister expressed satisfaction with the formation cutting.

He said even though the actual specification of the road is 3.5 meters, the contractor, M/S Viu Angami & Sons has widened the road to nearly 5 meters. The minister however observed that he (contractor Viu Angami) has yet to complete the black topping and carpeting.

Swu said that if the funding agency - North Eastern Council (NEC) agrees, the Nagaland Government has in mind to propose 7.5-meter road, which would be two lanning from Pokhungri to International Trade Centre, Avakhung.

Dwelling on the importance of the road, Swu pointed out that Nagas would have a lot

to gain once the road is officially opened.

He also suggested that the road from Akhegwo to Pokhungri should be upgraded while taking into consideration the road connecting to Myanmar once operational is going to benefit everyone.

The international trade route is expecting completion

by November. “On our part we want to inaugurate the road officially only when commercial vehicles can ply,” Swu said.

Education minister Yitachu expressed optimism that the trade route connecting Nagaland with Myanmar can link the commercial hubs in Myanmar and usher in good neighborly relationship and cooperation between two countries.

Yitachu maintained that both India and Myanmar has good prospects for trade- with rice, fish, livestock, electronic goods and even precious stones expected from Myanmar and while India can trade textile products, medicines, agriculture machineries, etc.

Due to its strategic location, the Government of India through the then Union Minister of State for Commerce declared Avakhung as the first Land Custom Station (LCS) at Mandalay, Myanmar on October 14, 2008, according to Er Abija Khing, Executive Engineer PWD (R&B), Phek Division.

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Ambedkar remembered for ‘Time to give women reservation in Panchayati system’ fight against social evils

Dr. T.M Lotha with the officials and leaders of civil society organization during the Panchayat Day cum commemoration of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar’s 125th Birth Anniversary observed at Wokha on April 16.

Morung Express News Wokha | April 16

Wokha district today observed National Panchayat Day cum commemoration of Dr. BR Ambedkar 125th Birth Anniversary on April 16 at Don Bosco Youth Centre, Wokha. Dr. TM Lotha, Advisor Treasuries & Accounts, Relief & Rehabilitation, Government of Nagaland was the chief guest.

Dr. Lotha exalted Dr. Ambedkar’s rich contribution to the country’s fight against social evils and discrimination of various forms. He stated that Dr.

Ambedkar was the chief architect of the Constitution of India, and also the one who shaped the destiny of the ST/SCs in India. DR. Lotha urged the audience to pay highest respect to the Father of Indian Constitution.

Furthermore, he also stated that India under P.M Modi is very likely to become one of the leading nations in the I.T Sector. He also encouraged the youngsters to equip themselves with the knowledge, Skills and Attitude and to cope up with the fast changing trends of the world. He urged everyone

to strive and thrive towards uplifting one’s society.

Chairing the programme, A. Robin Lotha, Deputy Commissioner, Wokha delivered the welcome address and administered the oath to the audience. Thungdeno Mozhui, Project Director DRDA, Wokha in her brief speech spoke on the various types of schemes such as MGNREGA, IAY, NRLM and the significance of April 24- National Panchayati Raj Day. She stated that the same programme would be held at block and village level from April 21 to 24.

Limhathung Odyuo SDO Sanis delivered a speech on the Swatch Bharat Mission stating that the mission has two levels – Rural and Urban. Some of the villages like N. Longidang, Yanthamo, Tsungiki and Selukvu have been awarded and recognized as fully-sensitized villages but also lamented that most of the stake holders seem to be waiting only on the government to give them development.

Zubemo Kikon, DWO Wokha (NSAP) also enlightened the audience on the various schemes provided by the National Social Assistance Program.

The programme concluded with Hamdok M Konyak, BDO Sanis, pronouncing the vote of thanks which was followed by light refreshment.

The programme was well attended by about two hundred and fifty people from the villages of the district, CSOs, NGOs and government officials. It was jointly organised by Department of Rural Development and Social Welfare Department.

Dimapur, april 16 (mExN): Addressing the celebration on National Panchayati Day in commemoration of 125th birth anniversary of Dr. BR Ambedkar, SI Jamir, Advisor, Urban Development felt that “in the context of Nagaland, a time has come to give women reservation in Panchayati system and also especially in the systems of towns and cities where traditional does not apply much.”

While appreciating the government for observing the programme, Jamir stated that government has taken a step to fight against inequality and caste system by commemorating the birth anniversary of leader who visualized the country to emerge as a modern India through socio-economic and political transformation. The Advisor described Dr. BR Ambedkar as a person who rose from bottom to top and fought against social injustice of caste/class system that existed in India and to inculcate the spirit of oneness and equality among all Indians.

A press note stated that the Dimapur district level celebration was held in the conference hall of Deputy

SI Jamir speaking on the occasion of Dimapur district level programme on National Panchayati Day in commemoration of 125th birth anniversary of Dr. B. R. Ambedkar held in the conference hall of DC on April 16.

Commissioner on April 16 jointly organized by Rural Development Department and Social Welfare Department.

Alemla J Chishi, Project Director, District Rural Development Agency who chaired the programme gave a remark on the significance of the day. Nezolu Rhakho, DPO, Social Welfare, Dimapur presented a life sketch of Dr. B. R. Ambedkar. Zhitho Nyuthe, DPO, DRDA Di-

Lotha Women Summit at Wokha Town on April 21-22 Morung Express News Wokha | April 16

The Lotha Eloe Hoho in partnership with the Department of Women Development, Government of Nagaland is all geared for the Lotha Women Summit on April 21 and 22 at Wokha town on the theme ‘Towards Pledge for Parity.’

PB Acharya, Governor of Nagaland and Assam will be grace the occasion as the chief guest.

For the first time in the history of the Lotha women, a summit of this magnitude will be held where various topics on women empowerment will be deliberated minutely by resource persons with enough expertise.

Other topics include Livelihood intervention through Skill and resource development, Women in Primary Sectors, Acts and Legislations, Rights and

duties relating to Women, Gender and Health, Climate Change and Disaster Management, and Interactive Session with young Lotha Women achievers etc.

Mmhonlumo Kikon, Parliamentary Secretary for Labour and Employment, Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, Border Affairs will also address the gathering. As one of the youngest Naga politicians he is not only pro youth, supporting the causes and Rights of Women but also a great initiator of peace and harmony having enough influence with leaders of the neighboring states and even in mainland India.

Men and women of dynamic personalities from various fields will share the dais with a common vision, “To help and let the common women realize, feel the guts and start living towards pledge for parity.”

DCCF meeting on April 23 Dimapur, april 16 (mExN): A meeting of the Dimapur Concerned Citizens Forum (DCCF) has been convened on April 23, 10:00 am at its new office in the ISBT Complex, East Dimapur. Office dedication and other agendum will be discussed in the meeting concerning the welfare of the old settlers of Dimapur town, stated a press release issued by DCCF President, Joseph Sumi. Hence, all office bearers and members have been requested to attend the same positively.

Mon DPDB meeting held Minister for Roads and Bridges, Vikheho Swu is seen here with other leaders after inaugurating the Administrative Block of Trinity Theological College, Thahekhu on April 16. (Morung Photo)

Drama contest on World Malaria Day in Mon

Dimapur, april 16 (mExN): With an aim to reduce the burden of malaria in Nagaland, Development Association of Nagaland (DAN) and Caritas India have distributed over 6100 Long Lasting Insecticidal Nets (LLIN) in Mon district. The nets were distributed in 11 villages of Mon district covering 2610 households, including two villagers at the IndoMyanmar border from April 8 to 14.

The LLIN distribution programme led by DAN and Caritas India was also carried out in Dimapur, Mokokchung and Wokha districts. This massive distribution of bed nets ensures all households, especially with children and pregnant women, are protected from malaria. The distribution programme has also witnessed high level of awareness on malaria and use of LLIN among the villagers through BCC activities, stated a press release from DAN. The LLIN distribution is

Kohima, april 16 (mExN): Union Minister for Science & Technology and Earth Science Dr. Harsh Vardhan will be visiting Nagaland from April 18 to 19.

The Union Minister will visit Production Facility established by DBT under the project “Value Chain Citrus

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Deputy CMO of Mon Dr Akaba Jamir handing over LLIN to a woman at Goching village in Mon on April 14.

one of the major strategies under DAN’s Intensified Malaria Control Program Phase III in preventing malaria and saving lives.

DAN and Caritas will also commemorate World Malaria Day in Mon on April 25 at Don Bosco High School. The event will witness drama competition from various high

schools and awareness by the district vector borne control team and signature campaign. DAN and Caritas have also invited students from class 9 - 12 to join in the drama with the theme “End Malaria for Good”. For further details on the event and participation, one can contact the District Program Officer at +919615900900.

Development” ICAR Research Complex for NEH Region Jharnapani on April 18.

He will visit Mithun farm, ICAR National Research Centre on Mithun, Jharnapani. He will also inaugurate DBT created Biotech Infrastructure facility at ICARNational Research Centre

on Mithun, Jharnapani.

On the same day, he will meet Nagaland Chief Minister T.R. Zeliang and Nagaland Governor P.B. Acharya.

On April 19, the union minister will inaugurate Twinning Network Project on Chemical Ecology of

NER at Nagaland Science and Technology Council.

At 9:30 AM, he will visit the DBT Healthcare Laboratory & Research Centre at Naga Hospital Authority Kohima.

Later, Dr. Vardhan will visit Model Naga village Kohima.

NPBCA holds refresher course from pastors

moN, april 16 (Dipr): The monthly District Planning and Development Board meeting of Mon district for the month of April 2016 was held on April 15 at DC's conference hall under the chairmanship of Deputy Commissioner Mon, Honje Konyak. M.A Shihab (IAS) ADC Mon shared the ideas of cleanliness competition to be held on World Malaria Day that falls on April 25 collaborating with District Swach Bharat Mission under the banner of 'I Love My Mon town'. He also talked about the issue on illegal coal mine, how it affects the people living in that areas and the need of awareness programme in Tizit and Naganimora block.

He also shared ideas for awareness programme on Disaster Management. Project Director DRDA, Mon also highlighted the district level celebration of National Panchayat Day on the occasion of the 125th birth anniversary of Dr. B. R. Ambedkar.

Naga Heritage Centre launch on April 19 Kohima, april 16 (mExN): A programme for launching of Naga Heritage Centre (NHC) and release of the Centre’s First Volume of Peoples Stories will take place on April 19 at 4:00 PM at Ura Academy Hall, Mission Compound, Kohima. Dr. Shurhozelie Liezietsu, President NPF and President Ura Academy will be the chief guest while Deo Nukhu, parliamentary secretary for higher & technical education will be the guest of honour. Dr. Avinuo Kire, president NHC will make introductory speech while Vishu Rita Krocha will deliver publisher’s note. The function will be chaired by Dr. Meneno Vamuzo Rhakho, secretary NHC.

NAYO appeals to maintain road Kohima, april 16 (mExN): The Northern Angami Youth Organisation (NAYO) has appealed to the public and the villages located along the NH 61, particularly the stretch from IG to Botsa, to take care of the newly renovated road by maintaining cleanliness, refraining from dumping waste materials on the road, washing of vehicles. Picnickers have been requested not to litter the environment for the longevity of the road condition. The NAYO lauded the government and the contractors for the quality work and also the villagers for their co-operation in the road extension/ widening works.

Nzaunalui Baudi general body meeting

e the Zunheboto G.B. Association would like to convey our extensive gratitude to

pErEN, april 16 (mExN): As per the resolution adopted and approved by the Nzauna Village Council, Peren, the first general body meeting cum election of new office bearers for the Nzaunalui Baudi will be held on April 21, 9:00 am at the Nzauna Village Council Hall.

A press noted issued by Amos Pame, Convenor and Ichulung, Organising Secretary has requested all the citizens of the village living in different places to reach Nzauna by April 20 without fail. The meeting will be hosted by the Village Council.

Late. Vihoto Chophi (G.B)

S/o Late Hokishe Chophi (Yehemi Village), of Project East Colony Zunheboto for his Eleventh year of his support, commitment and contribution towards the Association. He was appointed as a G.B. on 12/08/2005, he has also served as a General Secretary for G.B. Association Zunheboto from 2007-2008. The Association described him as a God fearing person and remained humbled which was indeed a great message to all.

for maintaining social harmony and equity to create an equitable society which was the dream of Dr. B. R. Ambedkar. Rural Development (RD) director Metsubo Jamir spoke on the significance of April 24, National Panchayati Raj Day, the day the constitutional amendment for Panchayati Raj came into force.

About 80 people from different walks of life attended the commemoration programme.

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Union Minister Dr. Harsh Vardhan to visit Nagaland

The Kohima Orphanage & Destitute Home commemorated its 43rd Foundation Day on April 16 at the Kohima Orphanage Home. The Home was established in 1973 by Late Zaputuoü Angami, which today takes care of over 90 children with the youngest at the age of 3. The Foundation day was commemorated with music, recitations and songs composed in remembrance of Late Zaputuoü whom the children lovingly remembers as 'Ama'. (Morung Photo)

mapur highlighted that programmes and activities of Rural Development department while Tosheli Zhimomi, District Welfare Officer, Dimapur gave a power point presentation on the activities of Social Welfare department.

Albert Ezung, EAC, Dimapur Hq administered oath taking wherein various department officials and members and leaders of social and public organizations made a pledge

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May the Almighty God grant solace to the bereaved family at this hour of grief and peace to the departed soul.

G.B. Association Zunheboto

Participants with the resource persons during the NPBCA pastors’ refresher course cum executive committee meeting held on April 12.

TWOD office bearers inducted

Dimapur, april 16 (mExN): Nagaland Police Baptist Churches Association (NPBCA) held pastors’ refresher course cum executive committee meeting at its conference hall from April 12 to 14.

The resource persons for the refresher course held under the theme

Dimapur, april 16 (mExN): Tenyimi Women Organisation Dimapur (TWOD) held an emergency meeting on April 11 at Tenyimi Complex here. A press release from TWOD President Aba Khing informed that all the ten women unit presidents, Tenyimi Union Dimapur office bearers, TSU and youth organization attended the meeting and resolved to go ahead with the induction of the new office bearers of TWOD for 2016-2018 tenure. The new team of TWOD will be led by Aba Khing as President, S Caroline Pao as General Secretary.

“Abundant Life in Pastoral Ministry” were Rev. Dr. N. Tzüdir, Senior Pastor, DABA, Rev. Dr. Z.K. Rochill, Senior Auxiliary Secretary, BSI and Rev. Dr. Hukashe Zhimomi, Executive Secretary, NPBCA. Thought for the day was delivered by Pusuinla, Women Secretary,

NPBCAWD. Dr. Molusen Jamir spoke on awareness of HIV/AIDS and encouraged the pastoral leaders to do away with stigma and discrimination.

Exhortations were delivered by L. Bendang Lemtur, IPS, IGP (NAP) and Lakha Koza, NPS, Commandant 14th NAP (IR).

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Factory of spurious food ‘Bordoichila’ whips Assam, NE; one killed items closed in Manipur

Imphal, aprIl 16 (IaNS): Activists in Manipur are up against manufacturers of spurious food items who make a good fortune but pose a grave threat to public health, selling repackaged outdated items bought from other states.

A group of activists in Manipur on Friday raided the factory of Ajay Prasad from Bihar. He was doing a roaring business in Manipur and some other northeastern states, allegedly in spurious food items.

The activists shut down his business forever.

It may be noted that the north eastern states have become a dumping ground of various spurious Indianmade foreign liquor, medicines and edible items.

Various consumer items with expired date of consumption are collected from cities like Kolkata, Delhi, Chennai and Mumbai and brought for sale in the north east states.

One of the student activists said: "Food inspectors in most of these NE states are conspicuous by

their absence and inaction.

It is the student activists who seize the food items which are highly injurious to health."

"There had been complaints about suspicious looking medicines and contaminated bottles," a medical representative said.

Joint Committee on Inner Line Permit System (JCILPS) and other activists of International Peace and Social Advancement (IPSA) and Kangleipak Students' Association raided the street factory owned by Prasad at Khurai Ahongei in Imphal West district.

IPSA president Luwangcha Chingkhei said: "The raid was conducted on receiving complaints from some consumers. We found empty printed packets of popular brand names of various consumer items.

"The modus operandi is that sub-standard and injurious food items are stuffed in these packets for sale to the gullible consumers."

He said there were huge quantities of used and odourless tea leaf sacks

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perhaps collected from hotels and restaurants. It is mixed generously and packed in "Kaziranga tea" manufactured in Assam.

Confessing to the crime of selling such a harmful consumer items, Prasad reportedly told the activists that he had bought a packaging machine two months ago. He also said various biscuits, which expired long time ago are packed in new packets for sale through the region.

During recent raids, it was found that popular brand ice creams were manufactured at roadside factories using dirty drain water. Shops and houses divert washrooms' effluents to the drains, from where criminals draw water for manufacturing the ice cream.

Ingredients of the ice creams were found full of flies and maggots inside the street factories during the raid. Food inspectors and police were not available to comment as yet on the raid of the street factory of Prasad.

Tripura HC raps SIT over NBFC asset details aGartala, aprIl 16 (tNN): The Tripura high court has expressed displeasure over the functioning of the Special Investigation Team (SIT) constituted to investigate fraudulent Non-Banking Financial Companies (NBFCs) in the state. A division bench of the high court, comprising chief justice Deepak Gupta and justice UB Saha, on Wednesday directed the SIT to submit another affidavit providing details of the movable assets of the NBFCs and their top functionaries. In an affidavit submitted on March 21, the probe team did not explain the steps taken to seize the NBFCs' movable property in the past year and a half. The affidavit stated that the SIT could assess the movable assets of the NBFCs only in 32 cases. The high court directed the SIT to re-submit the details before the next hearing on June 30. Earlier, hearing a public interest litigation, the court directed the SIT to ascertain the assets of the companies against whom depositors had lodged complaints with police and the administration.

Later, it directed all eight district magistrates of the state to file separate affidavits on the companies' assets and the administrative steps taken to recover the money. As many as 77 NBFC fraud cases were referred to the SIT last year but chargesheets were filed only in eight cases.

Chief minister Manik Sarkar said, "The decision was taken following recommendations of the administrative reforms committee and after approval from the state cabinet.

The system should be implemented at the earliest to ensure better work culture." Sarkar said the

fore the poll in Delhi but no action was taken despite a complaint.

Referring to the assembly the election in Assam, the Chief Minister said he is confident of winning at least 65 seats out of the total of 126 seats.

"If the people of Assam want us to sit in the opposition, then we will do that.

We will accept any verdict given by the people. Only government-formation is not responsibility. If we are in the opposition, then we will play the role of a positive opposition," he added.

Talking about floods in Assam, Gogoi said the centre has not released "hundreds of crores" of rupees to the state and it is affecting the work of repair and reha-

districts including Nagaon, Hailakandi, South Kamrup, Kamrup (Metro), Goalpara, Baska, Bongaigaon, Barpeta, Nalbari, Hailakandi, Silchar and Karimganj, reports said.

Roofs of houses in many places in these districts were blown away while uprooted trees have dis-

information and technology (IT) department has been assigned to set up infrastructure for the system in these offices. The government has already installed biometric attendance system in Agartala Municipal Corporation and the DM's office in West Tripura.

Wagah replica for AgartalaAkhaura border with Bangladesh aGartala, aprIl 16 (IaNS): India's tourism ministry has sanctioned a Rs.18 crore project for the Tripura government to create a variety of infrastructure along the IndiaBangladesh border similar to that at the Attari-Wagah border with Pakistan, a state minister said.

"Wagah-like infrastructure, including a mini-stadium, would be created at the Agartala (India)-Akhaura (Bangladesh) border to organise a Beating Retreat ceremony like that at the Wagah border with Pakistan," Tripura's Tourism Minister Ratan Bhowmik told IANS. He said the union tourism ministry recently sanctioned Rs.18 crore and 20 percent of the sanctioned funds have already been released for the AgartalaAkhaura project.

"Under the tourism ministry's 'Swadesh Darshan' scheme, the Centre sanctioned Rs.99 crore for Tripura to implement several tourism projects in the

state. The Rs.99 crore ambitious project includes building of a mini-stadium, open theatre, cafeteria and other infrastructure at the Agartala-Akhaura border at a cost of Rs.18 crore."

The Tripura government's Public Works Department (PWD) would execute the project.

The Agartala-Akhaura check post is the second largest trading point between India and Bangladesh after the BenapolePetrapole post with West Bengal.

The Beating Retreat ceremony, which marks the closing of the AttariWagah border near Amritsar every evening, is a military routine that the India-Pakistan border guards -- the Border Security Force (BSF) and Pakistan Rangers -- have jointly conducted since 1959.

People travel specially to the border to witness the ceremony in which the flags of the two countries are lowered by security personnel with a number

EC played partisan role by filing FIR against me: Gogoi GuwahatI, aprIl 16 (Et): Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi today accused the Election Commission of playing a partisan role by having an FIR filed against him for alleged violation of the Model Code of Conduct by holding a press conference.

"I have not violated the Model Code. I have not asked voters to vote for us.

How did the EC know even before holding the press meet what would I say? I came to know about the FIR from newspapers only.

If necessary, we will fight it out in the court of law," Gogoi said at a press conference here.

He said Finance Minister Arun Jaitley had also held a press meet a day be-

A rickshaw puller wading through a water logged street at Ambari area after shower in Guwahati on Saturday. (PTI Photo)

Biometric attendance system in Tripura BDO, DM’s offices soon aGartala, aprIl 16 (tNN): The Tripura government has decided to introduce biometric attendance system in all offices of the block development officer (BDO), sub-divisional magistrate (SDM), district magistrate (DM) and all directorates and secretariat soon.

GuwahatI, aprIl 16 (IaNS): A Druk Air flight to Bangkok carrying 90 passengers from Paro in Bhutan was grounded at the Lokapriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport in Guwahati on Saturday after it was damaged by a hailstorm, officials said. Airport Authority of India officials here said the aircraft was grounded due to bad weather. "The aircraft was at the take-off point when the weather deteriorated. There was thunder, and hailstorms partially damaged the nose of the aircraft and there were dents on its wings and body," an official said.

An alternate flight was arranged later by the Druk Air authorities to ensure that the passengers reach their destination safely. This was one of the weekly flights between Paro and Bangkok via Guwahati.

GuwahatI, aprIl 16 (ENS): At least one person was killed, several injured, and hundreds of houses damaged when heavy thunderstorms and hailstorms – Nor’wester, locally called Bordoichila – lashed Assam and other Northeastern states on Saturday, with power transmission affected in many districts.

One person was killed during thunderstorm in Hailakandi district in southern Assam, officials in the Assam State Disaster Management Authority control room in Guwahati said on Saturday evening.

“Reports of damage to houses are still being collected and compiled,” a control room official said.

In Guwahati, several localities including Anilnagar, Tarun-nagar, Juripar, Panjabari, RG Barua Road were inundated due to flash floods that were triggered off by several rounds of heavy downpour that were accompanied by hailstorm during the day.

Rain-water overflowing from drains also entered houses in those localities.

Trees and electric poles were uprooted in many

bilitation.

"I will again take up the issue with the centre till the election results are out," he added.

He also said there has been encroachment attempts of Assam land in Karbi Anglong district by miscreants from Nagaland in recent times.

"I have discussed the problem with the Chief Secretary and the DGP. At any cost, we will protect our land," Gogoi said.

Gogoi alleged the bloody Assam agitation in 1980s was "sponsored"

by RSS and was guided by former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and former union minister Arun Shourie.

"Assam agitation was

sponsored by RSS. (Atal Bihari) Vajpayee and Arun Shourie were guides for them (agitators). AASU was getting all funds and other helps for agitators from RSS," Gogoi alleged.

He appreciated AASU's current leadership for opposing BJP leader Himanta Biswa Sarma's reported statement of shifting the base year for updating the National Register of Citizens and deporting "infiltrators" should be shifted from 1971 to 1951.

"We have been fighting and we will continue to fight against the divisive forces. We want to form the government but not by hook and crook. We will take people's verdict respectfully," Gogoi said.

of aggressive gestures and a mutually coordinated performance.

"To build a Wagahlike infrastructure at the Agartala-Akhaura border, official level meetings between Bangladesh and India were held and the Bangladesh government has no objection to the project," Bhowmik said.

"However, the Bangladesh government has not yet taken any decision to make similar infrastructure on their side at Akhaura."

"The Agartala-Akhaura border is not only a big trading point between India and Bangladesh, it is also an important tourist spot. After creation of the proposed infrastructure, the tourist attraction would increase to a large extent," he added.

The jurisdiction of the 145-year-old Agartala Municipal Corporation, northeast India's oldest municipal body, extends up to the Agartala-Akhaura check post.

rupted power supply.

The regional weather office in Guwahati forecast said thunder-squalls with wind speed exceeding 60 kmph accompanied with hail was very likely to occur at isolated places over Assam, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram and Tripura on Saturday

and Sunday. It also forecast “heavy to very heavy rain” in different districts of Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura and Meghalaya till Sunday.

Rains have already played havoc in eastern Arunachal Pradesh, with several houses getting

damaged and even washed away due to flash flood that was triggered off by cloudburst and heavy downpour in Changlang district on Thursday. In Itanagar, the state government directed disaster management teams to remain on roundthe-clock high alert in view of the heavy rains.

Manipur JAC calls off strike

Imphal, aprIl 16 (IaNS): A joint action committee (JAC) formed after the lynching of two Muslim boys on April 7 after they allegedly stole a two-wheeler and which had threatened to impose an indefinite blockade if the people behind the lynching were not booked called off all forms of agitation from Saturday.

The announcement came after an agreement between Chief Minister Okram Ibobi Singh and JAC leaders on Friday night.

Ibobi Singh was accompanied by a few of his ministers, including the Muslim leaders in his cabinet, during the talks. It was also announced on Saturday that the government would pay Rs.5 lakh each to the family members of the two dead boys.

A committee headed by the collector or the sub-district collector will examine cases of other injured people for extending financial solatium. Over 60 people sustained injuries, as five shops and two houses were burned down in clashes after the lynching incident. Another Muslim youth was injured along with the other two.

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The softening of the JAC's stand was triggered by the resolutions several Muslim and non-Muslim NGOs took on Friday evening at Lilong, a little distance from Mayang Imphal where the clashes took place. The meeting resolved not to support any kind of agitation which has communal overtones. It said all communities in Manipur have been living in peace and harmony and some elements should not be allowed to vitiate the atmosphere. The Muslim NGOs said no agitation shall be permitted in Muslim-majority areas in Lilong without

prior approval from the authorities.

Meanwhile, a group of women who launched a sitin protest and submitted a memorandum to the chief minister to book the three Muslim youths -- for firing at their office in Nungrei in which 14 people were injured -- said they were not pressing their demand in view of the changed situation.

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India joins G20 in fighting tax evasion, terror funding New Delhi, April 16 (iANS): Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has joined the G20 leadership in fighting money laundering, tax evasion and terror financing while calling upon tax havens to become transparent in this regard and share information.

After a meeting of G20 finance ministers and central bank governors here, attended by Jaitley and Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Raghuram Rajan from India, a joint communique also warned noncooperative jurisdictions with "defensive" steps.

The G20 leadership said it was important to

improve transparency in the global financial system to prevent the misuse of such entities for illegal acts such as corruption, tax evasion, terror financing and money laundering.

It said all countries and jurisdictions must become members of the the Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering that was established at the G7 Summit of rich nations in Paris in 1989. India is a member of this initiative.

Held on the margins of the World Bank-International Monetary Fund Spring Meetings, the G20 said countries that have not committed to automat-

ic exchange of information by 2017 or 2018 must do so without any further delay.

"We mandate the OECD (Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development) working with G20 countries to establish objective criteria by our July meeting to identify non-cooperative jurisdictions with respect to tax transparency," the communique said.

"Defensive measures will be considered by G20 against non-cooperative jurisdictions if progress as assessed by the Global Forum is not made," it said adding it looked forward to its report before the end

of the year for further decisive action.

The communique comes when another global expose has surfaced on people with accounts in tax havens, including top politicians. With 500 Indians, too, named in the list, dubbed the "Panama Papers" a probe is currently on by a multi-agency team.

India does not have any official estimate about the quantum of black money stashed away by its nationals abroad, but unofficial estimate puts it somewhere between $466 billion and $1.4 trillion.

Earlier, during his interaction with US Treasury

Satyendra Garg visits pineapple canning plant DimApur, April 16 (mexN): The Joint Secretary to the Ministry of Home Affairs (North East), Satyendra Garg visited the pineapple canning plant at Medziphema on April 10 and interacted with the villagers and Assam Rifles posted there.

An AR press note informed that while the Joint Secretary was received

by Brig Brijesh Dhiman, Commander of 6 Sector Assam Rifles, he was given a traditional welcome by Village Council Members of Medziphema.

Later, Garg interacted with the employees of the canning plant which include four women of Medziphema Village. He was briefed regarding functioning of the canning plant, security situation of the area as well as the re-

Secretary Jacob J. Lew, both countries agreed to step up their joint work in pursuing tax evaders and terror financing, steps such as joint tax audits and examination.

"We have enhanced our cooperation in tackling money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism through increased information sharing and cooperation, including a dialogue held recently in India," the duo said in a joint statement.

"We both agree on the importance of fighting illicit finance in all forms as an important means of tackling global terrorism."

Indian Springfield Motorcycle Kohima DPDB meeting conducted launched at Rs. 30.6 Lakh New Delhi, April 16 (NDTV AuTo): Indian Motorcycle yesterday launched the all-new 2016 Indian Springfield at Rs. 30.6 lakh (ex-showroom, Delhi). The bike, named after the birthplace of the motorcycle brand, brings together classic styling with modern technology to offer purist's both, touring comfort and urban versatility. While bookings are now open, deliveries of the motorcycle will begin only from August, 2016.

Mr. Pankaj Dubey, MD, Polaris India Pvt. Ltd. said, "The Indian Springfield offers a good mix of touring comfort and urban versatility through its blend of classic styling and comprehensive modern tech.

The launch of the iconic Indian Springfield is part of our strategy to introduce products which would take the growth story of Indian Motorcycle to the next level. It has been launched to inspire a new generation of riders and satiate their wanderlust. Using a toureroriented steering geometry

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The motorcycle comes powered by the Thunder Stroke 111 engine, and delivers a torque of 138.9Nm @ 2600 rpm. Its unique new chassis was designed to handle a wide load range, featuring cartridge forks and an air adjustable rear shock with 11.43cm of travel for safely transport-

KohimA, April 16 (Dipr): The Kohima District Planning & Development Board meeting for the month of April was held at DPDB’s conference hall on April 15 under the Chairmanship of Deputy Commissioner and Vice Chairman DPDB, Rovilatuo Mor, IAS. At the outset, the chairman welcomed the new members to the Board and reviewed the last meeting minutes. On the agenda of yearlong activities, the ADC, Planning and Member Secretary DPDB Kohima, Ketoho Luho apprised the members on the activities for the current year where he requested the Education department to submit all reports in regard to school upgradation, grant-in-aid and opening of new school to the screening committee.

In this regard, the DC also reminded the DEO and all the SDEO’s under Kohima district to submit the applications before June 15.

On the Adoption Committee under DPDB Kohima, the DC has requested all the committees not to relay on asking for exemption from the Committees

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The meeting also decided to have a resource person on the topic of disaster management to address the members in the next DPDB meeting. The House also decided to approve for the renewal of Nagaland Adventure’s Club which was recommended by the Screening Committee. The house also deliberated on the concept note for improvement of Peducha and Tseisema road proposed by the EE PWD Chiephobozou where the house recommended the proposal noting the importance of the road used by many districts in the state.

In regard to the ongoing carpeting of road within Kohima town by the PWD National Highway Division No-1, the DC has suggested for carpeting of road in a phase wise with one-half at a time for the public convenience where the EE NH noted to talk with the concerned contractor.

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District Agriculture Officer, Kohima, Vizonyu Liezie in his departmental powerpoint presentation, gave a basic information on the set up and activities carried by the department.

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NAGALAND

DNSU disposes seized tobacco products Ganja worth Rs. 16 lakh seized Morung Express News Dimapur | April 16

As part of its anti-tobacco drive, the Dimapur Naga Students’ Union (DNSU) put to flames seized tobacco and tobacco-based products in Dimapur on April 16.

During the drive, which had begun in January this year, the DNSU had confiscated a sizeable quantity of tobacco-based substances from shops located in proximity to educational establishments. The seized products were burned today at a programme held at the DNSU office.

It had in attendance the District Nodal Officer, National Tobacco Control Programme (NTCP),

The seized tobacco products put to flames.

Dr.C.Tetseo, Deputy Chief Medical Officer, Dr.Antoly Suu and Food Safety Officer, Sendong Jamir.

Dr. Tetseo, while highlighting the high prevalence rate (at 57 percent) of tobacco use among Nagas,

also expressed concern on the prevalence of tobacco abuse among school students. At this rate, Dr. Tetseo said that tobacco-related mortality will increase in the next 40 years.

Of the many schools in

Dimapur district, only 45 schools are declared to be tobacco free, he said, while calling for schools to take greater responsibility to free students from tobacco.

Informing of the statutes in place in the country to check tobacco abuse, Dr. Tetseo said that there are laws warning of action against offenders. The amended Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act 2015 under Section (a) and (b) has laid down stringent punishment for those selling tobacco products or cigarettes to minors. Offenders could face jail term upto 7 years and a fine of Rs. 1 lakh against the earlier Rs. 200 penalty imposed under the

Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products Act, it was added, while stating that there is law prohibiting sale of tobacco products within a 100-yard radius of any educational institution.

Section 4 of the ‘Cigarettes and other Tobacco products (Prohibition of Advertisement and Regulation of Trade and Commerce, Production, Supply and Distribution) Act, 2003 clearly prohibits smoking in public places. Any person can use the toll free number 1800110456 to inform of any offender, it was informed.

Deputy CMO, Dr. Antoly Suu suggested the idea of having anti-tobacco committees in schools.

The two accused in police custody in Kohima on April 16.

Kohima, april 16 (mExN): Kohima him for conducting further investigation.

The second vehicle was intercepted Police seized ganja worth Rs. 16 lakh in national market from two separate vehicles on around 8:30 am at the check gate. 220 April 16 at Khuzama inter-state check gate. kg of ganja worth Rs. 11 lakh was recovThe police intercepted the first vehicle ered from the vehicle (Maruti Gypsy (Maruti Zen, NL-01C-0574, Chassis No. – King, NL-01C-5621, Chassis No. MA5E428228, Engine No. – 418457) around 5:50 GF41500228382, Engine No. 202889) and am from where 100 kg of ganja worth Rs. 5 one person identified as Th. Shile (21) was lakh was recovered. In this connection, one taken into police custody. Meanwhile, a person identified as Loli Poumai (24) was regular case vide Khuzama P.S Case No. taken into police custody and a regular case 0016/2016 U/S 20 (b) (ii) (c) NDPS Act has vide Khuzama P.S Case No. 0015/2016 U/S been registered against him for conductWith a view to create Dimapur, april 16 sible limits whereas 3 (mExN): Under the initia- failed the test. One of the awareness for general pub- Dimapur, april 16 prove to be futile. There- 20 (b) (ii) (B) NDPS Act registered against ing further investigation. tive of the Sr. Superinten- vehicles which failed the lic, the PRO also informed (mExN): Under the Na- fore, people’s participation dent of Police, Kohima, a test was found with a val- with regard to vehicles ply- galand State Rural Liveli- is indispensable,” the DC team from Nagaland Pol- id pollution certificate ing with excessive thick hood Mission (NSRLM), stated. He also stressed that lution Control Board con- (PUCC) issued by Trans- black smoke which is pos- a Village Level Organi- one should stop running afducted air quality, noise port Department, ac- ing health hazards to the zation (VLO) office has ter government jobs alone and vehicular emission cording to a release from citizens and the environ- been inaugurated at Se- for livelihood support when tests at New Secretariat PRO, Kohima Police. ment. “Black smoke emis- luophe village by Ke- there is plenty of fertile soil.

T h e p ro g ra m m e, Dimapur, april 16 the Joint Secretary of the enced, Business, etc. The area in Kohima on April 15. Tests were also done on sions is gas that spew from sonyu Yhome, Deputy chaired

by P. Koza, DPO, (mExN): The Naga Tradi- Centre, David Long Saing. term for the Commission/ Commissioner, Dimapur 8 two wheelers, where 3 automobile and pollutes The campaign, aimed at Naga Traditional Lit- leaders will be as of the DRDA, Dimapur, also tional and Cultural Center educating police over the were found within the the environment with its as chief guest. erature and Cultural Cen- Government (5 years).

Committee in Myanmar Charge Officer for SeYhome urged Seluophe monitoring of air, noise and permissible limits, while combination of un-burnt ter has been formed for the The names of the leadhas been renamed as Naga luophe SAGY programme, community to take its own 5 failed the test. hydrocarbons, carbon vehicular pollution, was atThe release said that monoxide and nitrogen initiative for developing the was attended by Dimapur Traditional Literature and development of traditional ers (Commission) are as tended by around 20 police officers from DEF Kohima. DEF Kohima will be car- oxides, which forms a pho- village into a model village. DRDA Project Director, Cultural Center. The com- literature and culture of all follow: Patrons: U Kay Checks were carried rying out such exercises in to chemical smog, acid de- “When villagers don’t fully DPOs and BDO. Seluophe mittee was renamed dur- the Naga clans in Myanmar San – Chairman of Naga out on 36 four wheelers, the near future in order to position and towering CO involve and participate, all is a village adopted by MP ing its general meeting in relation to other tribal Self Administrative Zone, out of which, 33 were enforce the pollution emis- levels causing respiratory developmental works from Neiphiu Rio under Saa- held from March 23 – 27 groups in the country, the U Hla Phe, U Hla Htut, U Myat Ko, U Naung Khom. government alone may nsad Adarsh Gram Yojana. in Khamti district, Sagaing release stated. deficiencies,” he stated. found within permis- sion regulations.

New Commission was Office Bearers: U Aung Regional, Myanmar. The attendees were selected formed for the Centre and Htut – Chairman, U Ya Poh representatives from ev- new leaders were chosen – Vice Chairman, U Mat ery township of Myanmar from different sectors re- Chu – General Secretary, where Nagas live, informed spectively such as Educa- U David Long Saing – Joint a press release issued by tion, Traditionally Experi- Secretary.

Kohima, april 16 (mExN): is today and lauded his vision in left alone to determine their own on secularism was the protector of NPCC celebrated the extended adopting the 5-year planning sys- future. He said that when a del- the NE and its multi-cultures, cus125th birth anniversary of Pt. Jawa- tem which has moulded the nation egate from Nagaland met Nehru toms and social practices. It is apharlal Nehru at Congress Bhavan, to what it is today till Modi came to in 1946, they were diplomatically propriate for the Northeast to pay power. Imkong also acknowledged replied and urged to join the Union our humble respects and honour Kohima on April 15.

Recounting the life of Pt. Jawa- that “he was the main person who of India with autonomous powers to him for we owe him all that we With regard to the news harlal Nehru, former president of along with his colleagues gave Na- which the Naga leaders rejected. have after India’s Independence.” item ‘NGOs, drug users General Secretary, NPCC, Jon- sensitized on TB’ pubNPCC, I. Imkong said from 1919 till gas statehood through the 16th- “In 1959 when Nagaland Peoples Assam Rifles construct Convention delegate met Pandit athan Ao, read out the resolutions lished on April 16, it is corWorld War II, Nehru went through Point Agreement.” borewell in Atoizu rected that the first line Speaking on ‘Pt. Jawaharlal Jawaharlal Nehru, he patiently to the house which were adopted. a difficult time and was jailed nine Meanwhile, NPCC resolved of the third paragraph times, informed a release from Me- Nehru in the context of Nagaland’, heard the delegates and agreed to ZuNhEboto, april 16 (mExN): The Assam Rito undertake tree plantation in should read as “In both dia Cell, NPCC. He said it was dur- NPCC President, K. Therie said the 16 Points with NPC,” he said. fles has constructed a Water Supply Scheme (BoreTherie further said it was on school compounds all over the the programmes, the naing this time that Nehru penned on January 10, 1929, leaders from well) at Atoizu village in Zunheboto district to alleviture of infection of TB (as the famed letters to his daughter Nagaland represented to the India August 1, 1960, Nehru declared state by all Congress Units, i.e. ate the problems of drinking water of the villagers. an air borne disease), its Indira Gandhi which became the Statutory Commission (popularly in the Lok Sabha that it had been ACCC/DCC & PCC with name People were facing acute shortage of water and water routes of transmission... book “Glimpses of World History” known as Sir Simon Commission) decided to create a new 16th State plates to honour and remember were highlighted.” It was borne diseases due to unhygienic water sources, statand that the book inspired him camp in Kohima, requesting that within the Indian Union known Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. It de- inadvertently written as ed a press note issued by Assam Rifles. It expressed to “work for the Nagas as a Naga the Nagas be exempted from re- as Nagaland. Appreciating Neh- cided to appeal to members to blood borne instead of hope that the Water Supply Scheme (Borewell) will nationalist.” He stated that it was forms and new taxes proposed ru’s farsighted vision, Therie said, contribute Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru’s air borne. resolve the scarcity of safe drinking water to a large Nehru who led India to what it in British India and should be “Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru’s vision portrait to be put up in schools. extent. The Borewell was handed over to the village authority on April 8.

Vehicles fail pollution test in Kohima

VLO office at Seluophe

Naga Traditional Literature and Cultural Center in Myanmar

NPCC celebrates Nehru’s birth anniversary

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BJP Peren workers interact with district in-charge

pErEN, april 16 (mExN): An interaction between BJP Peren district and the party District In-charge, Mughato Achumi was held at the district party office here on April 11.

Various agenda, issues and grievances were discussed during the meeting, where Mughato Achumi encouraged the party workers stating that Peren District being the home ground of the BJP needs to produce a strong candidate. He pointed out that though the district has only two

assembly constituencies, it has produced a Chief Minister who is a BJP ally, a press release from BJP Peren district informed.

He also stressed that as a political party, it is the duty of the workers to put things right and work hard to bring development and progress in the district and state.

BJP State Co-operative Cell convenor, Anito, addressing the district workers stressed that in Peren district, the BJP was first formed by Late NC Zeliang and that

NEISSR students organize health camp at Kangching

the district has the potential and mandate; therefore, the workers should work hard to keep the party spirit flying.

The other speakers were the Mandal President, State Council member and senior party workers, who all requested the in-charge to inform the State unit that it should in consultation with the Mandals and District make appointments to the state level as per the recommendations of the district otherwise it will create confu-

sion and misunderstanding amongst the district and state, the release stated.

Meanwhile, BJP Peren district unit also observed the foundation day of the party on April 6, remembering both the central and state founding members, especially those who are no more and also prayed for the good health of ailing BJP leader Atal Bihari Vajpayee. The unit also had condolence meeting on April 7 in respect of Kamala Advani, wife of BJP leader LK Advani.

TCEA encourages NPSC/UPSC aspirants tENiNg, april 16 (Dipr): The Tening Citizen Employees Association (TCEA) all over Nagaland held their 12th annual session at ADC Hq Tening on April 15. The union unanimously resolved to sponsor Tening students who are willing to avail coaching classes for NPSC/UPSC exams within Nagaland. The union also resolved to look after the community welfare as and when their help is required and also

agreed to organise a seminar on career guidance for the aspirants within the sub-division.

While deliberating on career guidance, APRO, K. Zeliang encouraged the students to work hard and achieve something in life which would not only bring laurels to an individual, but also to community as a whole. He asked the educated members and elders of the union to keep motivating the youngsters so as to develop a sense of

competitive spirit in order to compete with others in the competitive world. He also challenged the students to develop work culture which he described as the need of the hour for the present generation.

The new office bearers for the tenure 2016-18 will be headed by Kunglungbo as Chairman, Mezikan as Vice- Chairman, Huzenglui as Secretary, Zinthai as Joint Secretary, Aninge as Finance Secretary, and Aduanne as Treasurer.

Induction training in Peren

Students of NEISSR with beneficiaries of the health camp on April 13.

Dimapur, april 16 (mExN): As part of their ten days Rural Camp at Kangching village in Longleng, the students of North East Institute of Social Science and Research (NEISSR) organized health check-up camp in collaboration with Community Education Centre Society (CECS) Mobile Medical Health Unit and Primary Health Centre (PHC), Tamlu on April 13 at the village.

The camp saw active

participation from the chairman of Kangching Village Council, I Met-ai and council members.

The medical camp was found to be beneficial for the villagers who had no knowledge they were suffering from diabetes, Blood Pressure (BP), ulcer, lack of necessary vitamins etc, according to a press release. Altogether, 120 people benefited from the camp, it added.

During the camp, preg-

nant women were provided with free medicine along with economically challenged people.

During the stay in the village the trainees have carried out survey using different tools and accordingly conducted awareness programmes on issues like Malaria, Typhoid, Tuberculosis, Cancer and such other killer and communicable diseases. The Rural Camp started on April 5.

Dimapur, april 16 (mExN): The second phase of twelve days Induction Training Programme (ITP) for group ‘B’ and ‘C’ state government employees is currently underway at Town Hall, Peren.

The programme is sponsored by Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT), Government of India and organised and conducted by Administrative Training Institute (ATI) Kohima in collaboration with District Administration Peren.

According to a press

communiqué received here, during the programme, various soft skills topics such as Motivation; Citizen Centric Behaviour, Personal Effectiveness; Verbal and Non-Verbal Communication; Leadership & Team Building, Managing Conflict, etc. will be taken up.

Ch. Kangba Andrew and Igong N. Ipuing, District Master Trainers, who were trained by the DoPT at Administrative Training Institute, Kolkata will conduct the training.

During the training,

other topics such as File management, Noting & Drafting Skills, Govt. Servant Conduct Rules, Discipline & Appeal Rules, Forms of Communication, Maintenance of Service Books, Working System in Government, Record Management, Accounts, etc will also taken up by Er. N. Moa Longkumer, Deputy Director (Trg.) & Kaholi Sema, Deputy Director (Trg.) from Administrative Training Institute, Kohima.

The ITP also includes two days visit to an NGO and field study, it added.

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BJP 39th A/C Mandal joint meeting held WoKha, april 16 (mExN): The Bharatiya Janata Party, 39th A/C Mandal in Wokha district held joint meeting of all units, mandal office bearers and mandal executive members with Er. Senkathung Jami, Vice President State Unit and 39th A/C BJP Candidate, James Patton, District President, N. Nchumbemo Jami, District General Secretary (Admn), District BJYM President at Sanis Town on April 14. A press note said that the District President spoke on the organisational matters of the party, which was supplemented by the District General Secretary. Er. Senkathung spoke on the prospect of BJP in the 2018 State General Election. He urged the party workers to steadfastly stand firm and work hard for the party’s upliftment and enhancement of the party members. He also stated that Mandal and Unit workers are the foundation for every aspiring candidate to achieve victory and asked every worker to work hard in their respective units.

NCSU Dimapur supports head office Dimapur, april 16 (mExN): The Nagaland Contractors’ & Suppliers’ Union (NCSU), Dimapur unit has extended support to the stand of its head office in opposing Maytas & Gayatri company to execute the Dimapur - Kohima four lane project unless the previous SARDP phase – I projects are completed. “When the citizens of Nagaland, particularly the districts of Longleng, Mon, Mokokchung, Phek, and Zunheboto are facing great hardship owing to the abandoning of two- lane road projects, i.e., Longleng to Changtongya, Mon to Tamlu, Merangkong, Pfutsero to Phek and Chakabama to Zunheboto, how could the Gayatri be awarded the four-lane project again?” NCSU Dimapur unit questioned in a release issued by its President W Khape and Joint Secretary A Tureng. The unit stated that the Maytas & Gayatri should be blacklisted for failing to complete the SARDP phase – I projects.

VHC Lamhai Village conducts awareness programme JaluKiE, april 16 (mExN): The Village Health Committee of Lamhai Village, Jalukie Block under Nagaland Health Project (NHP) conducted an awareness programme on the topic 'Ante Natal Care' (ANC) and 'Post Natal Care' (PNC) at Lamhai Council Hall on April 14. The resource person for the programme was Dr. Martha, Medical officer of Dungki PHC. She urged the mothers to avail the medical facilities available to them during pregnancy for a healthy mother and child. A total of 59 people attended the programme.

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_____________________________ Because Children Matters

Dot to dot Hard Hearts

Children's Ministry Magazine

Leading the whoLe ChiLd

Use this children’s message: Hard Hearts with kids from age 7 to 12.

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ou’ll need a Bible, hard-boiled eggs, and washable markers. Give every child an egg, and allow kids to decorate the outside of the shells. As they work, ask: How does the outside of the egg feel?

Once they’ve finished decorating the eggs, read aloud Psalm 95:6-9.

Ask: What are some things that might happen to make people’s hearts hard?

Say: When our hearts get hard, they’re closed toward God.

Have kids crack their eggs. Once they’ve peeled Say: God wants our away the shell, ask them to hearts to be soft toward feel the inside of the egg.

Ask: Describe what the him. But our hearts can be inside of the egg feels like. hard.

Say: When our hearts are hard, God can crack away the hard outer shell to reveal something soft on the inside. What helps to make your heart soft toward God? Pray with kids and ask God to make each of their hearts soft like the inside of the egg, not hard like its shell. Then let kids wash their eggs and enjoy a snack.

Making Music with Water

ave you ever tried making music with glasses or bottles filled with water? I bet you favourite band hasn't. Experiment with your own special sounds by turn-

ing glasses of water into instruments, make some cool music and find out how it works.

What you'll need: • 5 or more drinking glasses or glass bottles • Water • Wooden stick such as a pencil Instructions: • Line the glasses up next to each other and fill them with different amounts of wa-

ter. The first should have just a little water while the last should almost full, the ones in between should have slightly more than the last.

• Hit the glass with the least amount of water and observe the sound, then hit the glass with the most water, which makes the higher sound?

• Hit the other glasses and see what noise they make, see if you can get a tune going by hitting the glasses in a certain order.

different tone when hit with the pencil, the glass with the most water will have the lowest tone while the glass with the least water will have the highest. Small vibrations are made when you hit the glass, this creates sound waves which travel through the water. More water means slower vibrations and a deeper tone.

What's happening?

Each of the glasses will have a

A Trader and his Luck

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here was a trader who carried goods, to and from far off places. Luck smiled on him and he grew rich. Whatever he touched turned into gold. His ships reached their destinations without any shipwreck. His partners, agents and vendors proved faithful. His

goods were sold at the highest prices. He earned more money than he could spend.

One day, one of the trader’s friends asked him, “How did you get so much wealth?”

“It was all because of my skill, hard work and sound judgment,”

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he replied proudly. “I knew exactly when and where to invest,” he added.

Then the trader put in all his money in new businesses. This time he did not succeed. It was because of his ill judgment. One of his ships was wrecked on high seas, another was plundered by

ead some funny science facts for kids. Children will love the cool, crazy, strange, funny, weird, odd, bizarre and wacky information as well as did you know facts and other interesting info that will help them learn a thing or two along the way.

Find the Hidden Picture ould We sh e luck m not bla failure, for our do not if we or our tf thank i ess. succ Mice. His wares did not sell because of the change in fashions.

He lost all the wealth and money he had!

The Trader’s friend asked him again, “How did you lose all your wealth and money?”

“It is because of bad luck!” he answered, sadly.

Facts Corner

Funny Science Facts

• Rabbits and parrots can see behind themselves without even moving their heads!

• Butterflies taste food by standing on top of it! Their taste receptors are in their feet unlike umans who have most on their tongue.

• Most of the dust in your home is actually dead skin! Yuck!

• Although the Stegosaurus dinosaur was over 9 metres long, its brain was only the size of a walnut.

• Humans get a little taller in space because there is no gravity pulling down on them.

• Because of the unusual shape of their legs, kangaroos and emus struggle to walk backwards.

• A hippopotamus may seem huge but it can still run faster than a man.

• Even if an analog clock is broken, at least it shows the correct time twice a day.

• Sneezing with your eyes open is impossible.

• The trickiest tongue twister in the English language is apparently "Sixth sick sheik’s sixth sheep’s sick". Give it a try and see for yourself.

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INSPIRATIONAL STORIES, MESSAGES, POEMS & SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCES

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AZUSA NOW WHAT? Prophetic

perspectives on the imminent move of God

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Cornelius Quek

pril 9 was a monumental day as 100,000 believers gathered at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum for 15 hours of worship and prayer to celebrate Azusa Now, the 110th year anniversary of the Azusa Street Revival in 1906, the catalytic movement of the Holy Spirit that resulted in more than 600 million Pentecostals and charismatics today.

Thousands showed up as early as 3 in the morning to get in line. This was the same venue where the great evangelist Billy Graham preached the gospel in 1963 before 134,254 people inside the stadium, and more than 20,000 left outside. There was great momentum and expectancy in the atmosphere as thousands in America and around the world have anticipated this event for months, and more significantly, for another powerful move of the Spirit in our time and generation once again Lou Engle, leader of the TheCall and the event, opened up the meeting with worship and powerful intercession and declarations from Korean pastors and leaders for another revival and great awakening.

At the heart of every awakening is the cry for unity and reconciliation. The next several hours saw powerful acts of confession, repentance, reconciliation, acceptance and love from leaders of various denominations and ethnic groups.

You could sense the pleasure, delight and presence of God as these leaders chose to lay down their differences to embrace and prefer each other for the sake of Christ and for the kingdom. The power of unity cannot be undermined; it sets the stage for a great move of God. The Azusa Street revival in 1906 was a restoration of spiritual gifts and a sovereign release of the power of the Holy Spirit. The next segment saw Pastor Bill Johnson of Bethel Church in Redding, California, lead the charge for the ministry of healing. Significant healings and miracles took place. Accurate words of knowledge and prophecy were also released by Shawn Bolz, leader of Expression 58. The evening ended with Evangelist Daniel Kolenda, leader of Christ for All Nations and successor to evangelist Reinhard Bonnke, giving a provoking call to evangelism and salvation. It was a historical day in the body of Christ where declarations have been made, covenants have been forged, and heaven has been beseeched for another great move of the Holy Spirit in our land and in our time.

Azusa Now, What Next?

The sovereign move of the Spirit has characterized every revival and renewal in every era, from the early church to the middle ages, to the reformation era, to

modern-day Christianity. Saints of old and present have contended for another great awakening. The bowls of intercession in heaven are about to tip over with an authentic move of God. I believe we are on the precipice, a tipping point of another great move of the Spirit in America and in the nations of the Earth. What the Holy Spirit has done in the past, he is getting ready to do it again. Knowing where we have been in the past will position us to better anticipate and steward our future. What will this next move of the Spirit include? Here are a few prophetic insights that we as a body of Christ can look forward to:

1. Unity and Synergy William Seymour paved the way for the blurring of color lines and social status in the kingdom of God in 1906. I believe we are going to witness a level of unity and synergy across color, gender and denominational lines in an unprecedented manner. It will not be a superficial, verbal assent and agreement, but an actual working together, preferring one another for the sake of Christ and His kingdom in place of personal agenda and glory.

There will be an emergence of young leaders, an army of Holy Spirit empowered warriors who could care less if they become recognized or prominent. Their soul desire is bringing glory to the One who alone deserves it all.

2. Restoring the Power of Spiritual Gifts The First Wave (Classic Pentecostalism in the early 1900s), the Second Wave (charismatic renewal in the 1960s) and the Third Wave (the Neo-charismatics in the 1980s) have all been birthed out of a cry for the tangible power of the Holy Spirit and a restoration of the manifestation of spiritual gifts. Since the beginning of the early church, there have been many strands of charismatic expressions. These groups and individuals purposed to preserve and perpetuate the charismatic practices and traditions that were consistent with the early church.

Ignatius of Antioch, one of the earliest bishops in the history of the church, was a Christian prophet who honored the gifts of the Spirit in the first century. Justin Martyr (100-165) claimed that prophecy and charismatic gifts still existed in the church. The prophet Montanus founded the first “charismatic movement” in church history, Montanism, or the “New Prophecy” in roughly A.D. 160-170 in modern Turkey.

The Greek church father Gregory Thaumaturgus, otherwise known as Gregory the “Worker of Wonders,” is known for the miracles that accompanied his sermons.

Antony, a third-century ascetic monk and father of Christian monasticism, was known to experience great signs, wonders and miracles living in the deserts.

The list goes on throughout history: St. Patrick (387-460), the apostle to Ireland, Gregory the Great (540-604), Symeon the “New Theologian” (949-1022), perhaps the most famous Eastern charismatic Christian, Hildegard of Bingen (10981179), Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153), Bonaventura (1217-1274), Francis of Assisi (1181-1226), Thomas Aquinas (12251274), Thomas Müntzer (ca. 1489-1525), the Catholic reformer, Ignatius of Loyola (ca. 1491-1556), Francis Xavier (15061552), George Fox (1624-1691), founder of the Quakers, Count Nikolaus von Zinzendorf and the Moravian Brethren, John Wesley (1703-1791) and many others were advocates and practitioners of the gifts of the Holy Spirit.

An outstanding individual worth highlighting is Edward Irving (1792-1834), the Scottish clergyman and founder of the Catholic Apostolic Church who sought to restore the Church to the fivefold offices according to Ephesians 4:11-12, as well as the list of charismata described in 1 Corinthians 12. He is regarded by many Pentecostal scholars to have been a pivotal forerunner of the outpouring of the Spirit in Topeka and Azusa Street in the twentieth century.

The Lord is restoring and increasing the operation of the gifts of the Spirit en masse globally, all across denominational lines and mainline churches, including the Catholic Church. It will be like the Second Wave in the charismatic renewal in the 1960s, where denominational alliance pale in importance compared to the hunger for a powerful move of the Spirit in our time. Again, the priesthood of all believers will be emphasized. Every believer will be empowered to be conduits of the manifestation of the gifts of the Spirit beyond the four walls of the church, in the marketplace, into every sphere of society.

It is not reserved for the selected, anointed few. It is already happening, but the supernatural will increasingly become commonplace in the life and ministry of the church.

3. Increase in the Prophetic Among the Young Between 1688 and 1702, in the southern part of France, there emerged a prophetic movement which became known at “The Little Prophets of Cévennes.” A 13-month old baby who has neither spoken or walked would prophesy in perfect King’s French. Young children and teenagers would roll around on the floor and prophesy.

When caught up in the Spirit, the children spoke the language of the Bible, French, although their mother tongue was the local patois. A shepherdess teenager by the name of Isabeau Vincent, 15 years old, would be caught up in ecstasy, prophesy in perfect French, and call sinners to repent. We are going to witness a power-

ful move of God among the young in our time. God is giving them a voice and releasing them to prophesy the manifold wisdom of God to confound and astound the wise.

4. Collegiate Revival One of the fruit of the Azusa revival in 1906 was revivals on campuses. In 1905-1908, collegiate revivals exploded all over the nation and God began to move on young adults. The power of God was poured out as waves of God’s presence, prayer, repentance and evangelism swept across institutions like Cornell University, Rutgers University, Princeton University, Trinity College, Baylor University, University of California in Berkeley, Stanford University, Northwestern University, Iowa State College, McGill University, Seattle Pacific College and Asbury College. At Taylor University in Upland, Indiana, President Charles Winchester preached on “The Baptism of the Holy Spirit” on Jan. 6, 1905.

The power of God came on the campus and academics was suspended for a week.

I see the Holy Spirit getting ready to blow on college campuses once again.

Yale, Harvard, Princeton, Asbury University, Wheaton College, Oral Roberts University, UCLA and many others are primed for a great move of God. This move will also impact campuses all over the world. Remarkably, this will be the catalyst to another great student awakening 7. Empowering the Intellectual Charismatics and missionary movement.

In the past, with the impact of experiential Pentecostalism, intellectualism 5. Stadium Revivals and a Great became the nemesis of vibrant spirituHarvest of Souls Lou Engle and many others have spoken ality. Seminaries were dubbed as “cemabout the coming of stadium revivals. Sta- eteries.” Whatever spiritual fire and pasdiums will be filled all over the world and sion one had entering seminary would be the gospel will be preached to masses with quenched by the rigors of academia and systematic learning. As a result, there was an accompanying outbreak of signs, wona focused yet reckless pursuit of power ders and miracles. Lou mentioned at Azu- spirituality and experience that was not sa Now that the Circuit Riders from YWAM anchored in the proper understanding are believing God for 80 million souls in and handling of the Word of God, the baAmerica and 200,000 missionaries. Sta- sic tenets of our faith, doctrine and praxis. dium crusades will continue to take place This was where heresies and unorthodox in Europe, Africa and other parts of the beliefs and practices began to infiltrate world. There will be a concerted evange- the church. Paul wrote to the Colossians listic thrust in the coming days. Get ready to warn them about a “philosophy” that for the incoming harvest of souls! was creeping into the Colossae church that elevated special knowledge and ex6. Community House Movement periential spirituality that did not have With the anticipated harvest of souls, dis- Christ as the Source and Head. cipleship, community and authenticity As we embrace the move of the Holy will become words the church is going to Spirit and the restoration of spiritual gifts, have to embrace and flourish in. In the the Church must all the more lean in to book of Acts, when Pentecost came, Peter the orthodoxy and foundation of the Word preached in the power of the Holy Spirit of God and solid doctrine, not a departure from it. I see a greater emergence of inteland 3,000 souls were saved.

“Then those who gladly received his lectual charismatics who are well-versed word were baptized, and that day about and trained both in the Word of God and three thousand souls were added to them. in the power of the Holy Spirit.

Let Thy kingdom come, Thy will be They continued steadfastly in the apostles’ teaching and fellowship, in the breaking done on Earth as it is in heaven. Do it of bread and in the prayers. Fear came to again, Holy Spirit. every soul. And many wonders and signs Cornelius Quek is the founding were done through the apostles. All who director of The 7K.

Set your hearts on things above S

Selie Visa

cripture passage: “Are you still so dull?” Jesus asked them. “Don’t you see that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and then out of the body? But the things that come out of the mouth come from the heart, and these make a man unclean. For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander. These are what make a man unclean; but eating with unwashed hands does not make him unclean.” (Matthew 15:16-20) Out of the heart: What goes into a man’s mouth is merely food, which passes through the body and is excreted. But what comes out of a man’s mouth and makes him unclean comes from his heart. Out of the “heart”, the center of human personality, the mouth speaks, revealing what is in the heart. In other words, what a person truly is affects what he or she says and does. What is needed is a change of heart. True religion must deal with the inner nature of a person and not with mere externals.

In contrast to the mindset and rituals of the Pharisees, the teachings of Jesus insist that real “cleanness” is of the heart. What concerned Jesus most was to see people transformed and their hearts renewed, because he came to save his people from their sins.

Command of God versus tradition: Matthew 15:3-6 Jesus replied, “And why do you break the command of God for the sake of your tradition?

For God said, `Honor your father and mother’ and `Anyone who curs-

es his father or mother must be put to death.’ But you say that if a man says to his father or mother, `Whatever help you might otherwise have received from me is a gift devoted to God,’ he is not to `honor his father’ with it. Thus you nullify the word of God for the sake of your tradition.”

Jesus made a fundamental distinction between the authority of the command of God (as found in Scripture) and Jewish tradition, and he insisted that the Pharisees and teachers of the law were guilty of breaking the former for the sake of the latter.

Jesus’ teaching opens up a fresh approach to the question of the law. It discounts the Pharisees’ oral tradition while defending the law; yet it insists that real “cleanness” is of the heart, so discounting some of the law’s formal requirements. The true direction in which the Old Testament law points, is precisely what Jesus teaches, what he is, and what he inaugurates. He has fulfilled the law; therefore whatever prescriptive force it continues to have is determined by its relationship to him. Romans 14:17 & 18 says, “For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking, but of righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit, because anyone who serves Christ in this way is pleasing to God and approved by men.” With pastoral insight, Paul tells his readers that all of them are the loyal subjects of Christ in the kingdom of God. In that sphere the real concerns are not externals such as diet but the spiritual realities motivating life and shaping conduct. Joy and peace are the fruit that the Holy Spirit produces in the believer’s life. The manifestation of the fruit of the Spirit is acceptable not only to God who provides it, but also to those who see it in opera-

tion and experience its blessings.

Strive for heavenly things: Colossians 3:1 Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. To set the heart on things above is to desire and to strive for heavenly things. It is to see to it that one’s interests are constantly centered in Christ, that one’s attitudes, ambitions, and whole outlook on life are molded by Christ’s relationship to the believer, and that one’s allegiance to him takes precedence over all earthly allegiances.

The only remedy for sinful passions is found in the believers’ experience of union with Christ-- a union by virtue of which the Christian dies to sin and to the world’s way of thinking and doing. The death with Christ involves also participation in his resurrection life. This releases into the believer’s life a power that is more than adequate to resist the appetites and attitudes of the lower nature.

Guard your heart and your thoughts: In 2001, a Japanese man turned himself in to the police, and confessed of thinking of doing a robbery. According to police, the man said he had planned a robbery but didn’t have the courage to commit it. He had recently lost his job and was in debt, so he planned to rob a post office with a can of oil, and threaten to light it. The man was put under arrest and charged with planning the robbery as well as stealing the oil container.

A man’s life is governed by his thoughts; he will ultimately become that which he dwells most upon in his mind. Paul wrote an instruction to the Philippians, “Finally, broth-

believed were together and had all things in common. They sold their property and goods and distributed them to all, according to their need. And continuing daily with one mind in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, they ate their food with gladness and simplicity of heart, praising God and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily those who were being saved” (Acts 2:41-47).

The early church exploded but what sustained them in ‘revival’ was a focus on intimate, intentional community, discipleship and authenticity. We cannot afford to birth a revival and then “orphan” it by our negligence and lack of intentionality. The early church flourished in a “house” environment, “breaking bread from house to house.”

This generation is crying out for authenticity. They are seeing past the smoke screens, bright lights, attractive activities, an attractional model of church that is devoid of a tangible transformation and encounter with the presence of God. They are longing to know authentic faith, thrive in authentic relationships and community and be released to be authentic witnesses in the power of the Holy Spirit. We will be seeing an emergence of a community house movement that will be centered on the values of the presence of God, family, transformation and multiplication.

ers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable-- if anything is excellent or praiseworthy--think about such things” (Philippians 4:8). Believers should keep on thinking and doing what is morally and spiritually excellent. This involves centering their minds on exalted things and then putting into practice what they have learned. In Proverbs 4:23 we find a similar message, “Above all else, guard your heart, for it is the wellspring of life.” The heart (i.e., the mind) must be guarded diligently for it is the wellspring of life.

Conform to the pattern of Christ: The heart is the starting point of the activities of life; it determines the course of life. This is the reason for Paul’s instruction to the Romans, “Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind” (Romans 12:2).

We must be continually vigilant lest our original decision to serve God is weakened. The threat comes from “this world”, whose ways and thoughts can so easily encroach on the child of God. “The renewing of your mind” means believers must keep going back in their thoughts to their original commitment to God and reaffirm its necessity in the light of God’s grace extended to them.

Dedication leads to discernment and discernment to delight in God’s will.

Our heavenly calling includes residence in this world, among sinful people. But God has called us out of darkness into his marvelous light and we are in the world for witness, not for conformity to the fallen ways of the world. Our pattern is Christ.

Bible Ranks No. 6 on list of top 10 most challenged books Stoyan Zaimov

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he American Library Association has revealed that the Bible is among the books most often challenged and called to be banned in libraries.

“You have people who feel that if a school library buys a copy of the Bible, it’s a violation of church and state,” said James LaRue, who directs the Office for Intellectual Freedom for the American Library Association, according to The Associated Press.

“And sometimes there’s a retaliatory action, where a religious group has objected to a book and a parent might respond by objecting to the Bible.”

Guidelines for the Office for Intellectual Freedom have clarified that including Bibles in the library does not violate the separation of church and state, as long as it is not endorsed or promoted above other religious material.

While the Bible ranked at No. 6 on the list, most of the other books were objected to because of sexually explicit content, or because of having an LGBT theme.

The LA Times released the full list, which includes: Looking for Alaska by John Green at the very top, due to its sexually explicit nature. Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James came in at second for the same reasons, while books such as I am Jazz, Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out, and Two Boys Kissing focused on LGBT themes.

The association clarified, however, that the list of challenged books is not comprehensive, and offers only a snapshot of reports. “[T]he Top Ten Most Frequently Challenged Books list should be seen as a snapshot of the reports [the Office for Intellectual Freedom] receives and not an exhaustive report,” it said. “[S]urveys indicate up to 85 percent of book challenges receive no media attention and remain unreported.”

Some evangelical voices, such as Creation Museum CEO and President Ken Ham, have suggested that due to the rising tide of secularism across the Western world, it might not be long before the Bible is publicly banned.

Last month, Ham commented on a case involving a prison chaplain who was forced to resign from his post after being warned by authorities not to read verses from the Bible dealing with homosexuality.

“This is an alarming example of how quickly Christians are losing religious freedom across the West. In this case, it wasn’t even acceptable for this chaplain to use God’s Word during a chapel service — a completely voluntary service where those attending would expect to hear from God’s Word. It won’t be long before we see this happening in other countries, including America,” Ham responded.

“And really, the authorities are saying the Bible itself is not suitable for people! How long before it will be outlawed?”

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

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CM Mehbooba visits Handwara, more troopers being sent to Kashmir

Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti

sRinAGAR/new Delhi, ApRil 16 (iAns): Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti on Saturday visited curfewbound Handwara town to take stock of the situation even as the central government has decided to send more paramilitary forces to the state - on the boil for four days over civilian killings by security forces.

Mehbooba Mufti was accompanied by state Deputy Chief Minister Nirmal Singh, Chief Secretary B.R. Sharma and Director General of Police (DGP) K. Rajendra Kumar. She met relatives of the youths killed on Tuesday in the security force firing in Handwara.

Five civilians have been killed in five-day long violence in north Kashmir Kupwara district since Tuesday in security force firing.

Her visit to Handwara comes as restrictions imposed by authorities and the protest shutdown called by separatists continued in Srinagar for the fourth day.

Meanwhile, the mother of the young girl allegedly molested by a soldier in Handwara town, the incident that triggered the violent protests in the Valley, on Saturday approached the state high court maintaining that her daughter was being held in "unlawful confinement" by the state police.

The chief minister, meeting with relatives of the killed youths, expressed condolences and asserted that the state government would ensure that anybody found guilty of having violated the standard operating procedure (SOP) during Tuesday's incident would face the process of law.

"I had wanted to visit Kupwara with a special economic package, but it is unfortunate that I had

to come to console the bereaved families," Mehbooba Mufti said.

She also promised ex gratia relief to the next of kin of the slain youth.

Authorities had enforced curfew restrictions strictly in the town during the chief minister's visit. She interacted with relatives of the victims and senior officials of the district administration at the Kupwara Dak Bungalow in the town.

In New Delhi, union Home Secretary Rajiv Mehrishi in a meeting of senior officials from the Intelligence Bureau, ministry of defence, Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) and the ministry of home affairs reviewed the situation in the Valley and assessed the requirements of the Jammu and Kashmir government to bring the situation under control without any more loss of life.

"The central government is concerned over the loss of human lives in J&K during the last four days. It was decided to send additional Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) to strengthen the security grid in the Kashmir Valley," a home ministry statement said.

The statement said the ministry has assured "full cooperation and support to the government of J&K to ensure that there is no further loss of lives".

The statement also said the development package announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his visit to Kashmir in November last year "is being expeditiously implemented for the overall development of Jammu and Kashmir, which will generate employment for the local youth and bring overall prosperity in the State".

On Friday, protesters attacked the Natnusa camp of the counter insur-

gency Rashtriya Rifles (RR) in Kupwara. Soldiers at the camp fired at the protesters who army said had tried to enter the camp.

One teenager was killed in the Natnusa firing incident while three others were injured.

Police said 60 people were injured in violence in the Valley on Friday of whom 40 were security personnel while 20 were stone pelting protesters.

Fearing escalation of violence, authorities imposed restrictions in Handwara, Kupwara, Baramulla and Pulwama towns in addition to areas falling under the jurisdiction of seven police station areas in Srinagar on Saturday.

In Srinagar city, some skeletal private transport and three-wheelers were seen moving in the civil lines and outskirts areas.

Some shops also opened in civil lines and outskirts areas of Srinagar city where locals were seen buying essentials.

Restrictions imposed by the authorities and the protest shutdown called by the separatists continued in Srinagar for the fourth day Saturday.

Train services between the Valley and Banihal town also remained suspended for the fourth day while board of school education and the University of Kashmir postponed all exams scheduled for the day.

Meanwhile, the mother of the girl allegedly molested by a soldier told the state high court that her daughter was being held in 'unlawful confinement' by the state police.

The girl's mother has also alleged that the statement attributed to her daughter in which she said there had been no molestation attempt on her had been obtained by police 'under coercion'.

The state high court has directed the state police to come up with its reply quoting the provisions of law under which they were holding the girl in custody.

The high court also ordered that the police will not record any statement of the young girl till April 20 and she be produced before the chief judicial magistrate (CJM) Kupwara on that day where her statement will be recorded by the CJM in camera.

In Princess Diana's footsteps, William & Kate visit Taj Mahal AGRA, ApRil 16 (ReuteRs): Where Princess Diana went alone, her son Prince William visited the Taj Mahal with his wife Kate on Saturday, bringing the British royal couple's week-long South Asian tour to a poignant close.

William and Kate sat side by side on the same bench where his late mother was photographed on a solitary visit in 1992.

Kate wore a slimline white dress with a circular navy pattern while William braved intense afternoon heat in a blazer and openneck shirt. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge were rounding off a tour in which they met another glamorous young royal couple, the king and queen of Bhutan, and saw rhinos and elephants in a national park in Assam.

The final stop at the Taj Mahal was an emotional one for William, who was 15 when Diana died in a car crash in 1997. He has often spoken of how much Britain's Prince William and his wife Catherine, the Duchess of Cambridge, pose at the Taj he misses his mother, and Mahal in Agra, April 16. (REUTERS) that he thinks of her every

eradicate Indian President cautions against ‘judicial activism’ Will drugs problem bhopAl, ApRil 16 (iAns): President Pranab Mukherjee on Saturday cautioned against “judicial activism”, saying it should not lead to the dilution of separation of powers. He also stressed on a balance between the judiciary, executive and legislature organs of the country.

Mukherjee, speaking at the fourth Retreat of Judges of the Supreme Court at the National Judicial Academy in Bhopal, said that the “Constitution is supreme” and the equilibrium in the exercise of authority must be maintained at all times.

“Judicial activism should not lead to the dilution of separation of powers which is the Constitutional scheme. Each organ of our democracy must function within its own sphere and must not take over what is assigned to the others. The balance of power between the three organs of the state is enshrined in our Constitution. The Constitution is supreme. The equilibrium

Modi is still the best bet for India Amulya Ganguli IANS

Even if Narendra Modi hasn't lived up to the expectations which he aroused two years ago, he is still the best person for turning India into a modern and economically advanced country.

The claim about modernity may seem odd considering that the medievalists of the saffron brotherhood constitute an influential section of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and their affiliates like the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) - not to mention the abusive “Internet Hindus”.

Moreover, the hope that Modi will restrain them hasn't been fulfilled.

There are still elements who call for beheading those who do not chant a slogan which is used by the saffronites to check a person's patriotism.

Besides, the Sangh Parivar's familiar aversion to beef is still in place, although the unavoidable modernistic trends have compelled some of the BJP-run state governments like Goa to allow the consumption of the forbidden meat.

If, notwithstanding these negative points, Modi is ahead of other leaders in the popularity stakes, as seen in an Economic Times-TNSA survey, the reason is his outlook, which is in sync with the 21st century.

Fortunately for the BJP, this evidence of belonging to the present times cannot be found in some of the others.

Consider, for instance, the credentials of Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, who wants to lead an anti-BJP combine at the national level to replicate the success of the 'mahagathbandhan' (grand alliance) in his state. Yet, the retrogressive nature of his ideas shows that he cannot look beyond the familiar obsession of the Hindi-belt politicians with caste. Not only does he want his caste brethren to find employment in the private sector

through quotas, thereby reducing this sole successful segment of the economy to another version of the lossmaking public sector, Nitish Kumar is also in favour of expanding the ambit of reservations beyond the 50 percent limit set by the Supreme Court. Inextricably related to this desire to boost the quota system is the Janata DalUnited chief's conviction that catering for the backward castes on the plea of social justice is a surefire way to enable his party to win elections and for him to gain popularity.

He is not bothered about job creation via industrial expansion, but wants only to enable the backward castes, the main support base of the mahagathbandhan, to secure government employment via the reservation system which looks at birth and not educational certificates.

If Nitish Kumar's ideas are implemented, India can say farewell to economic or educational progress. While the quota-based entries into official service will squeeze out the meritorious, the educational system will see a preponderance of those for whom caste is the route to a degree and not a devotion to studies.

If Nitish Kumar had endorsed the elimination of the wealthy "creamy layer" from the beneficiaries of quotas, it would have at least shown that he is not wholly focussed on electoral success and has some interest in taking everyone along, including the upper castes, in the task of ensuring the country's progress. But he apparently thinks that such a demonstration of reasonableness will be detrimental to his position as a backward caste leader because it will make him vulnerable to the machinations of Lau Prasad and other votaries of castebased affirmative action.

There is not a word, therefore, from him on industries, infrastructure, educational advancement, health facilities and so on. It is only

day.

Diana's solo visit to the 17th-century mausoleum - built by Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan in memory of his favourite wife - came to symbolise her unhappy marriage to Prince Charles.

The couple separated months later. Three of the Taj Mahal's four minarets were swathed in scaffolding for repairs. Still, images of William and Kate sitting before the onion-domed monument, its ivory coloured marble translucent in the afternoon sunshine, were striking.

It was raining earlier in the day when the couple flew out of Bhutan's only international airport, a day after they trekked to a Buddhist monastery 3,000 metres (10,000 feet) up a mountain.

They landed in Agra in afternooon temperatures that reached 41 degrees Celsius (105.8F). Much of India is suffering a heatwave and severe drought after two years of failed monsoon rains.

about caste.

This is where Modi is different.

Though he belongs to a backward caste himself - he is a ghanchi or teli - Modi almost never talks in terms of caste. Nor of Hindus like others in the Hindutva brigade who want to give the community a status above all others in the country. Indeed, Modi has distanced himself from the saffronites to such an extent that he is the only one among them to have described Islam as a religion of peace, a concept which is anathema to the Sangh parivar.

There is little doubt that Modi has shown greater interest than any other politician in recent years in India's industrial development. Hence his emphasis on projects like Make in India and entrepreneurial endeavours like Start Up India, Stand Up India, Skill India, Digital India and so on.

His predecessor, Manmohan Singh, also favoured market-oriented economic reforms and succeeded in effecting the fastest ever reduction in overall poverty between 2005-06 and 2011-12, according to the Modi government's chief economic adviser, Arvind Subramanian.

But Manmohan Singh was stopped in his tracks by Congress president Sonia Gandhi, who feared that the "accidental" prime minister's economic success will make him a hero and put her son Rahul Gandhi in the shade.

Modi has picked up from where the gentle sardar had left off and, ironically, facing resistance from none other than Sonia Gandhi, who has threatened to stall the goods and services tax, one of the key components of the economic reforms.

But the middle class, one of Modi's major bases of support, is aware that only he can make the growth rate cross eight per cent, as Subramanian expects, and ensure a significant erosion in the levels of poverty.

in the exercise of authority must be maintained at all times,” he said.

He added: “The exercise of powers by the legislature and executive is subject to judicial review.

However, the only check possible in the exercise of powers by the judiciary is self-imposed discipline and self-restraint by the judiciary itself.”

The president said the judiciary, one of the three important pillars of our democracy, is the “final interpreter of the Constitution and laws”.

“It helps in maintaining the social order by swiftly and effectively dealing with those on the wrong side of the law. As an upholder of the Rule of Law and enforcer of the right to liberty, the role of the Judiciary is sacrosanct,” Mukherjee said.

He further said that the faith and confidence people have reposed in the Judiciary must always be maintained. “For justice to have meaning to the peo-

ple, it must be accessible, affordable and quick,” the president said.

The judiciary has enlarged the scope of justice, Mukherjee said, adding that for the enforcement of fundamental rights, the Supreme Court through judicial innovation and activism has expanded the common law principle of ‘locus standi’, a legal premise by which one may pursue a case.

“It has been made possible for courts to permit anyone with sufficient interest and acting bona fide to maintain an action for judicial redress, and to activate the judicial process.

This has helped to bring justice closer to the common man. The faith and confidence people have reposed in the judiciary must always be maintained,” President said.

He also stressed on the importance of quick delivery for efficient jurisprudence.

“Justice delayed is justice denied. Justice must be accessible, affordable and quick,” said the president.

He expressed concern over pendency of a huge number of cases in courts, and said courts were being overburdened by these.

“There are over three crore cases pending in various courts throughout the country. Out of these about 38.5 lakh cases are pending in 24 high courts. The pendency of cases in the high courts has slightly declined from 41.5 lakh in 2014 to 38.5 lakh in 2015, but we still have a long way to go.”

The president said that since the start of the year, as many as 145 appointments have been made as on April 12, 2016 by the Collegium and complimented the efforts of Chief Justice of India, Justice T.S. Thakur, for speedily filling up the vacancies in the high courts and the Supreme Court.

Mukherjee also congratulated judges for organising the Retreat saying it would provide a forum to discuss contemporary challenges the country is facing.

from Punjab: Rahul Gandhi

MohAli (punjAb), ApRil 16 (iAns): Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi on Saturday asserted that his party will eradicate the drugs problem in months if it comes to power in Punjab.

"When Congress party would form the government in state, you will see that we will take action against the people responsible for drug abuse.

We will eradicate it and you will see the difference in months," Gandhi said.

The Congress vice president was on a day's visit to Punjab to meet and boost the morale of party workers. He addressed a gathering of more than 2,000 party workers at the farm house of a local Congress leader in Mohali.

Many sitting Congress MLAs, MPs, block presidents were also part of the gathering. The Congress leader slammed the ruling Shiromani Akali Dal-Bharatiya Janata Party government, saying it does not want to focus on the problem of drug abuse in the state and is not working effectively to root out the menace.

"The Akali Dal government does not want to even recognize this problem.

They are not doing enough to tackle this menace," he added. He also said the Punjab government had mocked him in the past for raising the sensitive issue.

"Drug problem has always been a very serious issue in Punjab. I raised this issue several times earlier, but Akali Dal made fun of me. We want to give a new kind of government in Punjab, one that is sensitive to people," he said. "Punjab is the heart of the nation and nobody can insult it. Punjab gives life to the country. I have a special place for Punjab in my heart and all I want is to help the people of the state," Gandhi added. The Congress had faced defeat in the 2007 and 2012 Punjab assembly polls and is aimA migrant labourer brushes his teeth in front of a scrapped helicopter model in Mumbai. (REUTERS) ing to wrest power in 2017.

ITC to resume cigarette production amid health warning row

new Delhi, ApRil 16 (ReuteRs): India's biggest cigarette maker ITC Ltd will soon resume production at its factories, the company said in a statement, two weeks after it decided to shutter its plants over the government's stringent new packaging rules.

India from April 1 ordered 85 percent of a cigarette pack's surface to be covered in health warnings, up from 20 percent, but cigarette firms halted production saying the pol-

icy was not clear.

India's $11 billion tobacco industry is up in arms against the new rules and has taken New Delhi to court. Industry estimates show the production halt has already cost $850 million and risks the livelihood of millions of farmers.

In a statement to the Indian stock exchange late on Friday, ITC, which is partowned by British American Tobacco, said it will resume manufacturing of cigarettes "consequent upon a high court order passed in

favour of the company".

It did not give any details of the court decision. It was not immediately clear whether the company will print bigger health warnings on its packs or not.

On Saturday, repeated calls to an ITC spokesman went unanswered. Industry lobby the Tobacco Institute of India declined to comment.

ITC said earlier this month it was not ready to print bigger, "excessive" health warnings. It also said the government was imple-

menting new rules despite a parliamentary panel report that called for reducing the size of warnings.

But the panel's report is not binding on the government, and health ministry officials have maintained that manufacturers must comply with the new rules.

Smoking kills more than 1 million people a year in India, according to BMJ Global Health. The World Health Organization says tobacco-related diseases cost the country $16 billion annually.

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Japan earthquake: Rescuers race against time

TOKYO, April 16 (reuTers): Japanese rescuers were digging through the rubble of buildings and mud on Saturday to reach dozens believed trapped after a powerful 7.3 magnitude earthquake struck a southern island, killing at least 32 people and injuring about a thousand.

The shallow earthquake hit in the early hours, sending people fleeing from their beds on to dark streets, and followed a 6.4 magnitude quake on Thursday which killed nine people in the area. Rain and cold were forecast overnight, adding extra urgency to the rescue effort.

Television footage showed fires, power outages, collapsed bridges, a severed road hanging over a ravine and gaping holes in the earth. Residents near a dam were told to leave because of fears it might crumble, broadcaster NHK said.

"I felt strong shaking at first, then I was thrown about like I was in a washing machine," said a Tokai University student who remains isolated in the village of Minamiaso in Kumamoto province on the island of Kyushu.

"All the lights went out and I heard a loud noise.

A lot of gas is leaking and

while there hasn't been a fire, that remains a concern," the student, who is sheltering in a university gym with 1,000 other students and residents, told Japanese media.

Many frightened people wrapped in blankets sat outside their homes while others camped out in rice fields in rural areas surrounding the main towns. About 422,000 households were without water, and about 100,000 without electricity, the government said. Troops were setting up tents for evacuees and water trucks were being sent to the area.

The National Police Agency said 32 people were confirmed dead. The government said about 190 of those injured were in serious condition.

Heavy rain and wind were forecast, with temperature expected to drop to 13 degrees Celsius (55 degrees Fahrenheit) overnight. Firefighters handed out tarpaulins to residents so they could cover damaged roofs.

"The wind is expected to pick up and rain will likely get heavier," Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told a government meeting. "Rescue operations at night will be extremely difficult ... It's

A woman reacts in front of collapsed house caused by an earthquake in Mashiki town, Kumamoto prefecture, southern Japan, in this photo taken

by Kyodo April 16. (REUTERS)

a race against time."

Self Defence Forces personnel in the town of Mashiki, close to the epicentre, were providing food and water.

"I don't mind standing in line. I'm just thankful for some food," said a man in his 60s waiting for a meal.

Japan is on the seismically active "ring of fire"

Women living around natural vegetation live longer: Study NeW YOrK, April 16 (iANs): Women who live close to natural vegetation live longer, compared to women with the lowest levels of greenery near their houses, a study has found.

According to researchers, women with the highest levels of vegetation around their houses had a 12 percent lower death rate.

The findings showed 41 percent lower death rate for kidney disease, 34 percent lower death rate for respiratory disease and 13 percent lower death rate for cancer in the greenest areas.

"It is important to know that trees and plants provide health benefits to our communities, as well as beauty," said Linda Birnbaum from National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences in the US. "The finding of reduced mortality suggests that veg-

etation may be important to health in a broad range of ways," Birnbaum added in the paper published in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives.

The team examined greenness around the homes of 1,08,630 women from 2000 to 2008 to explore how an environment with trees, shrubs and plants might lower mortality rates.

They then mapped their home locations and used high resolution satellite imagery to determine the level of vegetation within 250 metres and 1,250 metres of homes.

"The ability to examine vegetation in relatively fine detail around so many homes, while also considering the characteristics of the individual participants, is a major strength of this study,"

said lead researcher Bonnie Joubert from NIEHS. The researchers consistently found lower mortality rates in women as the level of trees and plants increased around their homes.

Improved mental health and social engagement are the strongest factors, while increased physical activity and reduced air pollution also contribute, the study found.

The scientists also looked at characteristics that can otherwise contribute to mortality risk, such as age, race, ethnicity, smoking and socioeconomic status.

This enabled them to be more confident that vegetation plays a role in reduced mortality, rather than these factors.

It needs more than a law for equal land rights for women

In more than half of all countries, laws or customs hinder women's ownership or access to land

OXFOrD, April 16 (THOmsON reuTers FOuNDATiON): Laws giving men and women equal rights to land are not enough to ensure equality if they are not accompanied by efforts to empower and educate women, said the head of an organisation working to put the power of the law into people's hands.

In more than half of all countries, laws or customs hinder women's ownership or access to land, undermining development and the fight against poverty, studies have shown.

"Our starting point is the law … but it has to be an approach in which you can take the power of the law and put it in the hands of people," said Vivek Maru, chief executive of Namati, which trains and deploys grassroots legal advocates to work with disadvantaged communities.

Maru, who spoke to the Thomson Reuters Foundation before being awarded the $1.25 million Skoll Award for Social Entrepre-

neurship at a conference in Oxford, cited Myanmar as an example where women are at risk of being left behind even though a new land law does not discriminate against them.

Land ownership is a complex issue in the Southeast Asian country as it emerges from decades of military rule. Fighting between ethnic insurgents and the army, which flared up in Kachin state in the north after a ceasefire fractured, has weakened communities' rights and driven more than 100,000 civilians from their homes.

Many worry whether they will still be able to access their farmland when peace returns and have accused the army of seizing swathes of land.

Fresh land disputes were fuelled by the semicivilian government of former President Thein Sein whose liberalisation policies drove up land prices and attracted foreign and domestic investment, according to analysts.

Women in Myanmar have benefitted far less from land registration efforts - 80 percent of more than 2,000 applications came from men, Namati said in a report published this month.

"It is crucial to take steps to help communities to understand the laws and how to go through a pro-

cess to claim tenure, otherwise you risk leaving the most vulnerable behind and that usually means women," Maru said.

Almost all the government officials dealing with land registration in Myanmar are male, Namati's report said.

Only 42 out of 16,758 village administrators are women and there is no female administrator in the country's 330 townships, the report found.

Namati, founded in 2011, has trained hundreds of community paralegals in eight countries, including Uganda, the Philippines, Mozambique and India.

Sometimes referred to as "barefoot lawyers", Namati's advocates have helped 5,000 stateless people in Kenya and Bangladesh to get legal identity documents and with Mozambique's government to increase awareness of health policies and how to seek redress in case of grievances.

"There are more than four billion people without the protection of the law," said Maru, a lawyer who started working with local communities in Sierra Leone in 2003, a year after a decade-long civil war ended.

"With the grassroots local knowledge deployed, you can fix a lot of things, even broken systems," he said.

around the Pacific Ocean and has building codes aimed at helping structures withstand earthquakes.

A magnitude 9 quake in March 2011 north of Tokyo touched off a massive tsunami and nuclear meltdowns at Fukushima, contaminating water, food and air for miles around. Nearly 20,000 people were killed in

the tsunami. The epicentre of Saturday's quake was near the city of Kumamoto and measured at a shallow depth of 10 km (six miles), the United States Geological Survey (USGS) said. The shallower a quake, the more likely it is to cause damage.

The quake triggered a tsunami advisory which was later lifted and no ir-

regularities were reported at three nuclear power plants in the area, a senior government official said.

TSUNAMI ALERT LIFTED The city's 400-year-old Kumamoto Castle was badly damaged, with its walls breached after having withstood bombardment and fire in its four

centuries of existence.

Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda, speaking at a G20 event in Washington, said it was too early to assess the economic impact but bank operations in Kumamoto were normal.

The USGS, which is a government scientific body, estimated that there was a 72 percent likelihood of economic damage exceeding $10 billion, adding that it was too early to be specific.

Major insurers are yet to release estimates. Electronics giant Sony Corp said a factory producing image sensors for smartphone makers would remain closed while it assessed the damage from the quakes. One of its major customers is Apple which uses the sensors in iPhones.

Toyota Motor Corp halted production at three plants producing vehicles, engines and trans axles in Fukuoka.

Toyota said there was no damage at its plants, but it was checking the status of its suppliers. It will decide on Sunday whether to resume production. Nissan Motor Co Ltd stopped production at its Fukuoka plant which produces vehicles including the Serena, Teana, Murano and Note.

South Korea said it had rented five buses to trans-

port 200 South Korean tourists stranded in Oita, to the east of Kumamoto.

Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said nearly 80 people were believed trapped or buried in rubble. Rescuers managed to pull 10 students out of a collapsed university apartment in the town of Minami on Saturday. Extra troops would be sent to help, with up to 20,000 due by Sunday, as well as more police, firefighters and medics, he said.

"We are making every effort to respond," Suga said.

The region's transport network suffered considerable damage with one tunnel caved in, a highway bridge damaged, roads cut or blocked by landslips and train services halted, media reported. Kumamoto airport was also closed.

There have been more than 230 aftershocks of at least level 1 on the Japanese scale since Thursday's shock, said Japan's meteorological agency.

"We have already seen of several of the mid to upper 5 plus magnitude range, and over the next several days and weeks, we would not be surprised to see more earthquakes of this size," said John Bellini, a geophysicist with the USGS.

Front runners emerge for UN chief

uNiTeD NATiONs, April 16 (reuTers): Two or three front runners for the position of United Nations Secretary-General have emerged after 18-hours of unprecedented General Assembly town hall meetings with nine candidates, though the race is set to widen with more nominations expected, several diplomats said.

The current U.N. SecretaryGeneral Ban Ki-moon steps down at the end of the year after two fiveyear terms, and some predict up to 15 candidates could be vying for the job by the time the Security Council holds its first informal straw poll in July.

Former Portugal Prime Minister Antonio Guterres and former New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark were deemed by some diplomats, speaking privately, to be leading the pack after each nominee was quizzed for two hours by the General Assembly.

The third candidate to watch was not so clear. Diplomats cited performances by U.N. cultural group UNESCO Director-General

Irina Bokova of Bulgaria, former Serbian Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic and former Slovenian President Danilo Turk.

"It's too early to rule anybody in or out, but I think there are at least two of three good candidates already amongst the ones we have seen," said Saudi Arabia's U.N. Ambassador Abdallah Al-Mouallimi.

Ukraine's U.N. Ambassador Volodymyr Yelchenko, currently an elected member of the 15-member Security Council, had a similar assessment: "I would say that approximately three out of nine I would call front runners."

For 70 years the U.N. Security Council has met behind closed doors to choose the world body's eight male secretary-generals, who were then rubber-stamped by the 193-member General Assembly.

The ninth U.N. chief will be chosen the same way, though for the first time candidates have been publicly nominated.

Ultimately the council's veto powers - the United States, Britain, France, Russia and China - have to

agree on a candidate, but there is no requirement for them to pay attention to the popularity of nominees with the General Assembly.

They could, however, turn to betting odds. British bookmaker William Hill has Clark as the favourite, followed by Jeremic, Bokova, Guterres and Turk. Former Macedonian Foreign Minister Srgjan Kerim comes next, followed by Moldova's former Foreign Minister Natalia Gherman; former Croatian Foreign Minister Vesna Pusic and Montenegro Foreign Minister Igor Luksic.

Four of the nine candidates are women amid a push by 56 U.N. states and civil society groups for the first female secretary-general to be chosen.

Argentina's Foreign Minister Susana Malcorra, who has served as Ban's Chef de Cabinet, is also expected to be nominated. Others said to be eyeing the job include Colombia's Foreign Minister Maria Angela Holguin, former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and Slovakia's Foreign Minister

Miroslav Lajcak.

"We urge now every country and every candidate ... to come forward and come forward quickly," said U.N. General Assembly President Mogens Lykketoft of Denmark.

Under an informal tradition of rotating the top post between regions, it is Eastern Europe's turn and six of the current nominees are from there.

Moscow backs the regional rotation, but when asked if Russia would veto a non-Eastern European candidate U.N. Ambassador Vitaly Churkin said: "No, we are not going to ... There are respected, qualified people so we have to be objective."

A senior council diplomat, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that if Russia wanted to choose an Eastern European to be the next U.N. chief then "they need to make sure there is a better candidate or a choice of better candidates."

"In terms of expectations I think Bokova was disappointing," the diplomat added.

Higher possibility of NKorea nuke test after missile failure

seOul/WAsHiNGTON, April 16 (reuTers): The possibility of North Korea conducting a fifth nuclear test, possibly within weeks, has been heightened by a failed missile launch on Friday that was an embarrassing setback for leader Kim Jong Un, South Korean officials and international experts said.

North Korea holds a ruling Workers Party congress in early May, at which Kim is likely to trumpet his achievements in building up Pyongyang's weapons prowess.

South Korean officials and experts say he will be keen to go into the congress with a show of strength, and not a failed rocket launch.

"North Korea is capable of conducting an additional nuclear test at any time if there is a decision

by Kim Jong Un," said a senior South Korean official involved in national security policies involving the North, its bitter rival.

When asked if the failed missile launch had increased the possibility that Kim would order a nuclear test, the official said the North is likely to "engage in additional provocations."

"Such a nuclear test and the missile launch believed to be a failure this morning are both among the provocations that North Korea would have reason-

ably tried," the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity since he was not authorised to speak to the media on the matter.

U.S. and South Korean officials have said the North attempted and failed to launch what was believed to be an intermediate-range ballistic missile on Friday as it celebrated the "Day of the Sun" birthday of the country's founder Kim Il Sung, the current leader's grandfather.

The U.S. Defense Department called the test of the road-mobile missile a "fiery, catastrophic" failure, while North Korea has not made any public comment on the issue.

The senior South Ko-

rean official said Kim's military aides would try to compensate for the failed missile launch and another official in Seoul said South Korea's military was on high alert for an additional missile launch, or a nuclear test.

Michael Elleman, a U.S.-based rocket expert with the International Institute for Strategic Studies, said another missile test was unlikely any time soon.

"Given that this test failed, North Korea might elect to conduct another nuclear test," he said.

John Schilling, an aerospace expert contributing to the 38 North website, said he would not expect North Korea to attempt another launch until it had fig-

ured out the problem. "That would be several months at a minimum, possibly much longer," he said.

Failure on the launch pad was in some respects an advantage as it was easy to examine the wreckage, he said, adding: "Failed tests are always learning experiences, and North Korea has demonstrated the ability to persevere and eventually develop an operational system."

IMPATIENT FOR SUCCESS The missile that failed on Friday was likely a Musudan intermediate-range ballistic missile, experts and South Korean media said. The Musudan has a design range of more than

3,000 km (1,800 miles) that can be fired from a roadmobile launcher.

It has never been flighttested, although many experts believe that the North may launch it as part of its effort to develop an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM).

An Chan-il, a former North Korean military officer who now heads a think tank in the South, said ordinarily the North would repeat the failed missile launch to try to perfect it, but the impending party congress may mean Kim and his military aides will be impatient to show off success.

"What if they try the Musudan and fail again?

That will look so bad, so I would say a nuclear test is more likely next," An said.

North Korea conducted its fourth nuclear test in January and said it was a successful hydrogen bomb test, a claim disputed by experts and the South Korean and U.S. governments.

The U.N. Security Council imposed new sanctions on the North in March, for its nuclear and rocket tests this year.

The U.S.-based 38 North website, which monitors North Korea, said this week that satellite imagery showed there had been activity at the country's nuclear site and the possibility of a fifth nuclear test "could not be ruled out".

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rosberg on pole in chinese Gp Lin Dan booted from Singapore Open Chinese set to buy

SHANGHAI, AprIl 16 (reuterS): Formula One championship leader Nico Rosberg stormed to pole position for the Chinese Grand Prix in a mixed Saturday qualifying session for Mercedes, with world champion Lewis Hamilton left at the back of the grid after engine trouble prevented him setting a time.

The German put in a one minute 35.402 second lap to seize a 23rd career pole and first of the season as qualifying reverted back to the 2015 formula following complaints from the teams about a new system used in the two opening races.

Despite the chopping and changing in formats, Sunday's race will be the ninth straight a Mercedes has started from the front.

Nico Rosberg (Reuters)

That put the German, who last started on pole in the 2015 season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, over half-a-second clear of Red Bull’s Daniel Ricciardo, who was a surprise second.

But despite the margin of his dominance, it was a day of contrasts for the Mercedes as Hamilton ran into engine problems in the opening phase of qualifying.

The Briton, already carrying a five-place grid penalty for a change of gearbox, complained of a lack of power from his Mercedes engine.

Though he did go out near the end of the 18-minute session, the problem was too severe and forced him back into the pits.

"These things are sent to try us and I am sure we will learn from it," Hamilton, who had been hoping to land his third successive Shanghai win in Sunday's race, told broadcasters immediately after the session.

"The car is quick,

hopefully they get the issue fixed and we can have a race tomorrow."

Kimi Raikkonen was third quickest and Sebastian Vettel fourth in an allFerrari second row.

The Maranello-based squad had set the pace in all sessions except Friday morning’s opening practice but their challenge faltered when it mattered in an incident filled qualifying.

The session started in damp conditions and was halted twice.

The first stoppage lasted 20 minutes as marshals dried up wet patches on the track after Manor rookie Pascal Wehrlein crashed in the opening session, while the second came in the next when Nico Hulkenberg's front-left wheel came off his Force India.

SINGApore, AprIl 16 (AFp): Two-time Olympic champion Lin Dan became the latest casualty at the Singapore Open on Saturday when he suffered a stunning semi-final defeat at the hands of Indonesian qualifier Sony Dwi Kuncoro.

The 32-year-old Lin, who has never won the tournament, trailed early on against the composed 2004 Olympic bronze medallist Kuncoro, who raced to a 11-4 lead before taking the first set 21-10.

The Chinese superstar salvaged the second set to win 21-17, but the 31-year-old Indonesian kept his cool to seal a nailbiting 22-20 victory in the final set.

On Friday world number ones Chen Long of China and Carolina Marin of Spain had crashed out in the quarter-finals, unceremoniously shown the door by young upstarts.

Chen fell to Hong Kong's 21-year-old Angus Ng, while

AC Milan – broker

Marin fell in three sets to Japan's 18-year-old Akane Yamaguchi.

Kuncoro, who won the Singapore Open in 2010, will face Korea's Son Wan-Ho in the finals after Son beat giant-killer Ng. In the women's singles world number two Ratchanok Intanon beat Yamaguchi 21-12 22-20 to progress to the finals.

The clinical Thai will be bidding to win three successive Superseries tournaments in as many weeks when she faces Chinese defending champion Sun Yu.

MIlAN, AprIl 16 (AFp): A Chinese consortium with big ambitions for AC Milan should complete a takeover of the seventime European champions within six to eight weeks, a broker acting for both parties said in reports Saturday. If confirmed, it would prove a dramatic about-turn for Milan owner Silvio Berlusconi, who only weeks ago said he would not sell a majority share in the Serie A giants. In an interview with Gazzetta dello Sport on Saturday, the man brokering the deal between both parties -- Italian-born American Salvatore Galatioto -- said the deal could be sealed by the end of the current season. Galatioto, considered one of the 50 most influential men in American sports, told the sports daily: "For obvious reasons I can't reveal the names of the interested parties. All I can say is that it is a very ambitious Chinese group which is very, very interested in the club." Reports on Friday suggested the bidder could be either internet entrepeneur Robert Li or He Xiangjian, who made his fortune in producing air conditioning. Both men are among the 10 richest in China, according to the 2015 Forbes rich list.

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Myth of Development and Konyak Heritage Affinities: Reflection on Building Longva Angh and Angya’s House Lemwang Chuhwanglim Researcher & Activist

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tourist, who recently visited Longwa (a Konyak village) said, “oh those architecture took a toss today! Had a good laugh! - to whoever the person was who thought it so wise to turn the Angh of Longwa’s house into an ugly concrete structure! - please Konyak friends ask around and stick to the original at least with such priceless addresses!” is the response to current scheme of reconstructing Angh’s palace with concrete wall.

Longwa village in Mon district is known far and wide for its peculiar setting. Firstly, the village in theory is a center to international trade and market. Secondly, the international boundary between India and Myanmar cuts through the heart of the village. Third and a prominent making of Longwa village is the great Ahng’s house in its full traditional glory standing tall Angh’s traditional palace capturing the interna-

tional boundary of India and Myanmar. But the international boundary has not forgiven the Angh’s house for it has not spared His kitchen on the Indian side and his bed room to the Burmese. This eminent construct has caught the imagination of both the outsiders and locals. It is here that tourist flocks into Longwa to see the village in its entirety and more so the great Angh traditional house cutting through India and Myanmar. Longwa people are more hardworking, hospitable, kind and intelligent. They concurrently expose to modernity of two nations (India and Myanmar) almost every day in many aspects in culturating time immemorial cultural and traditional. Such magnificent village rivets people for implementing numerous development activities in the village for it has illuminating history, culture, social and political significance.

Development upgrades moment for people, place and time – it uplifts the status of community in association with

cultural affinities and people’s attention towards retrospection of one’s own position contextualizing the global dynamism.

However, development without introspection on demolishing history and culture of community brings despair than peace. For instance, the current scheme avails to demolish cultural heritage of Longwa Angh’s building to erect concrete walls would remain the unpleasant history tomorrow.

Development and culture are two social inevitable phenomena among many which exist inseparable and remain associated within human civilization. Each Culture is autonomous, unique, and diverse which symbolically express historical desires. The functional notion of culture is that it primarily solves problem and provides fundamental prerequisites of the people. Certainly culture exists because people could feed and house themselves (Lindholm. 2007). Similarly, development appears as process of human desires towards seeking additional ac-

tion. Restoration and preservation of cultural heritage is not the new idea today. It has been discussed in the Athen Charter of Restoring Historical monument in 1931 (Frediani. 2013).

Deteriorating culture through natural calamities such as cyclone, volcano, earthquake, flood, drought and famine cannot be prevented but it is feasible that human action to destroy cultural heritage is preventable through different means based on every different act of the people.

Within this context, the demolition of the traditional Angh’s house of Longwa with an intention to rebuild it with concrete walls and in somewhat modern architectural approach has largely negated two significant outcomes. (a) Traditions are invented and developed in time and space but while not destroying at the cost of another tradition.

Angh’s house construction is a collective effort which binds people together in the village.

This practice precedes a collective responsibility accom-

panied by feasting and merrymaking, not as a burden. In addition, it encompasses social harmony, identity, community workmanship and belongingness. This culture proliferate the indigenous organized sustainable social system and structure through local wisdom and knowledge.

However, to despair, the current traditional Angh’s house demolition undermines this positive aspect and brings threshold to cessation of tradition and culture. (b) Economically the current reconstruction of the Angh house in Longwa village through modern technology and in modern architectural form destroys the influx of visitors and tourists to the village. Hence, it relegates the growth of sustainable culture and economy.

Konyaks appreciate and acknowledge any individual’s development initiative in interior place like Konyak area. However, failure to identify negative impact on culture and tradition through development based on personal political discretion

remains venomous towards relinquishing normal way of life (psychologically, physically, culture, history and identity) of the community. Such absurdity scheme hegemonizes even a great, literate and educated Naga towards unconscious act without explicating damages emanated upon one’s own culture and tradition, as a result. Such ramification is the root cause of destroying community, culture and traditional integrity. Moreover, intentional act which destroys the significance of culture and tradition in the pretext of development in favor of personal benefits is the worst.

Angh and Anghya culture among the Konyaks has reduced due to numerous factors like social, politics and religion.

As a result, predominant tourists and Konyaks divisively presume that this culture has become an absolute insignificant, which is untrue; to claim absolute death of Angh and Anghya culture insignificantly, for personal argument is an illusion.

Though Konyak political lead-

ers from towns and cities have fragmented the Angh and Anghya culture, every grassroots in village assembles the significance of it in everyday life. One of the evidences of it has been indicated in the recent Konyak Aoleang where Angh and Anghya’s traditional costumes significantly differ from the common people. If Angh and Angya culture is dead today, such significance would remain invisible. The Konyak in general grief and regret today for commoditizing culture to politics based on power discrimination. People may utilize the concrete wall Longwa’s Angh house to shelter visitors; subsequently, rebuild a big traditional house for the Angh beside it. One should understand that rebuilding Angh’s house traditionally does not mean rejecting development.

It is preserving and conserving culture and identity of the Angh and his people. There is a hope for the revival of Angh and Anghya culture through the initiative of few concerned Konyaks to preserve yesterday and today for the future generation.

Assam elections: How NdTV got it all wrong Tanmoy Sharma

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NewsLaundry

n the year 1808, a Scottish physician named Francis Hamilton was instructed by the Governor-General of Bengal to undertake a survey of the whole of the territories spanning the districts of Eastern India. There was a caveat — the gentleman was “prohibited from quitting the company’s territories” and was asked to confine his “inquiries to consulting such of the natives of those countries as you may meet with, or natives of the British territories who have visited the countries in question.”

Subsequently, Hamilton was quite candid about the fact that he wrote Account of Assam, on the basis of information collected from Assamese fugitives in Bengal and the Bengali visitors to Assam. Hamilton’s most reliable guide was “a very sensible Brahman of Bengal”. And so he went on to organise the people of Assam into categories like “governing nations” as well as a hierarchical order of tribes, all on the basis of what Hamilton had heard from certain Brahmins.

More than 200 years later, on the night of April 8, 2016, three gentlemen from New Delhi sat down on the bank of the Brahmaputra, in Guwahati, to discuss what has been called Assam’s most important assembly elections in decades. Aired live on NDTV, Prannoy Roy, the news channel’s co-founder and

The discussions on Assam elections showed how little Prannoy Roy, Shekhar Gupta and Dorab Sopariwala know of the state most recognisable face, began by lamenting that “national media” had not focused much on these really “complex” and “fascinating” elections, although “it’s important to realise that this election is of great national importance”. Roy quickly got philosophical: “Often we in Delhi think a great deal of ourselves, but it’s a far away from Assam”.

Unlike Hamilton who didn’t have the permission to see for himself how the Brahmaputra looked from the bank in Guwahati, Roy and company — comprising psephologist Dorab Sopariwala and journalist Shekhar Gupta — were seated right in the heart of the state. Also, unlike Hamilton, Roy was armed with numbers and data. Yet, even after 200 years, the modern understanding of the region doesn’t seem to have changed much.

Beginning on an exclamatory note on this “beautiful, beautiful river” (the Brahmaputra) and on the “so many states and countries” that border this recently-discovered little kingdom called Assam, Roy flashed some graphics to tell the viewers what Assam is all about. The graphics on top read, “Assamese: A Minority in Assam”. Out of the 31.2 million people in Assam, we were told,

22 million were migrants, “which is over 66 per cent” (actually, it’s 70.5 per cent if we’re going to be precise) and the Assamese number just 10 million. Two red circles, one bigger than the other, represented the set of migrants and the Assamese respectively in Roy’s Venn diagram.

Roy further asked, “How do the migrants and the Assamese actually break up?” Three smaller red circles appeared on screen. “It’s a big divide!” he exclaimed. Of the migrants, the Muslims number 11 million; Bengali Hindus are six million; and the tea garden workers, “which have come from Jharkhand, and Orissa and areas around that” add up to five million.

Roy then divided the Assamese into two categories: “the original Assamese”, or Ahoms, (now only two million) and the Bodos (1.4 million). “Christians which actually overlap a bit here and there are 1 million”, he said, adding that the Mising tribe were 0.6 million, and “other tribes” were about 1.6 million.

The entire discussion that followed was premised on this extraordinary classification. The idea that a heterogeneous community called the Assamese can exist above and across caste, tribal and religious divide

is not admissible. According to NDTV, not unlike the ethnological schema of the colonialist, there are some people sprouting out of the soil called the Assamese, indistinguishable from the Ahoms. Then there are, like flowers in a garden, groups called “tribes”, with names like the Bodos and the Mising and “Other Tribes”, which belong to one side of the divide between minority and majority. Finally, there are the two big Others: Muslims and Bengali Hindus, which suggests no Muslim can be Assamese, all caste-Hindus are Bengali, and the Christians and tea garden workers are just here and there.

Prannoy Roy has the means to measure the numbers in these groups, but apparently not the curiosity to wonder how these communities have actually lived through history with one another and sometimes even switching groups.

Roy seems to be equally unaware of the extremely complex and entangled history of Muslims in Assam, that the 33 per cent of Muslims see themselves as “indigenous”, that a huge chunk of migrant Muslims from the erstwhile East Bengal read, write and speak in Assamese along with their local dialects,

and that around 3 lakh Assamese Muslims are now members of the Bharatiya Janata Party. What explains the spectacular ignorance of a postcolonial nation’s best commentators, who claim to speak authoritatively of politics in every nook and corner of the country?

Sopariwala and Gupta tried to qualify Roy’s version of history by adding how most migrants have been absorbed into Assam over the years except for “Bangladeshi Muslims”, but their corrections never call into question the very premise of this classification. They also don’t challenge what Roy meant by calling the Assamese a minority in Assam, nor do they have a problem in clubbing all Muslims and “caste-Hindus” in the category of migrants. While Gupta raises the important point about how the Indian subcontinent was one nation at a point, he offers an equally curious narrative of migration into Assam.

In Gupta’s version of things, Assam’s history begins with the mainland Indians entering it. “This was a region which was very empty because it was not very hospitable,” he said. “It had a lot of swamps, with very hostile conditions, and it was very far away from

the mainland. It is only when people started venturing out in search of economic opportunities, and the British discovered tea and then oil … and Assam started to get populated by people coming in from outside.” Gupta, despite having covered the region for more than three decades, continues to represent the ‘mainland’ version of history that is founded upon what Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri once called “the utopia of open spaces”.

Hardt and Negri wrote, “The North American terrain can be imagined as empty only by willfully ignoring the existence of the Native Americans — or really conceiving them as a different order of human being or subhuman, part of the natural environment” (Empire, 2000, p. 169). In a similar historical imagination, typical of the Indian nation-building project, Assam (or for that matter, much of the wild swampy terrain in the east of the Ganges) could be incorporated into the history of the nation only through the histories of the mainlander’s migration into that “empty”, “inhospitable” land.

Adding to Roy’s theory of assigning tribals and Muslims to fixed territories and how they vote, Sopariwala went one step further

and claimed, “Upper and Lower Assam are like two different countries.” Later in the show, he was baffled as to why BJP had to field its chief ministerial candidate Sarbananda Sonowal in Majuli, “which is a Mising majority”. “Now why would a leader who is an Ahom going to a constituency like that!” Sopariwala wondered.

Sonowal, in fact, is not an Ahom in the modern classificatory schema of tribes. Even if he were one, in the rigid taxonomy of the NDTV pundit, the idea of one “tribal” contesting in a territory occupied by other “tribals” is not plausible.

When Gupta added that Majuli is the largest river island in the world, Sopariwala tried to crack a joke by saying that’s why the tribe that lives there is “Missing” (referring to the Mising).

No one laughed.

Unlike in Bihar last November, NDTV might get its projection right, this time in Assam. However, no excuses can save the factually and sociologically erroneous interpretation of communities and their histories, as if what goes on in the national television had no impact in shaping and fermenting distrust and division in the country.

In his masterpiece, Seeing Like a State: How Cer-

tain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed, the political anthropologist James C Scott argues that the central problem of the modern state has always been to make a society legible, “to arrange the population in ways that simplified the classic state functions of taxation, conscription and prevention of rebellion” (p. 2). Simplifying the society, to borrow Scott’s phrase, into neat divisions of castes, tribes and religions, as if they were uniform and exclusive entities with distinct political ideologies — where the individual and the local doesn’t matter — not unlike the classificatory vision of the state and the big political parties, is what exemplifies NDTV’s understanding of electoral democracy. That the elections could also be about roads and bridges, floods and erosion, local rivalries, inter-ethnic alliances, anti-incumbency, corruption, illicit money flow, insurgency and peace, land rights, gender issues, and more importantly unique regional histories tends to escape this blinkered point of view.

In that, there is not much difference between seeing like a Francis Hamilton, seeing like a state, and seeing like a New Delhi Television.

Tanmoy Sharm has studied Physics and Sociology at Delhi and Jawaharlal Nehru University.

He is currently a research scholar at the Centre for the Study of Social Systems, JNU. Shuttling between the dreams of becoming a physicist and a pastoralist he has ended up in the unlikely place of anthropology

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.

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A man of many dreams

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man of many dreams! After reading the story of this young entrepreneur, you’ll definitely conclude with this statement.

Hito Shohe knew he wanted to be his own boss since even his school days.

And he couldn’t wait!

Right after his studies, Hito straightaway setup a venture that was hitting salesa mobile store. But this didn’t go as he expected so he shut it down.

Subsequently, he dabbled in a bit of cooking and baking course but he was not convinced that this was the right choice. He then started to take coaching in Table Tennis and Badminton. He even went on to represent Nagaland State

in Table Tennis. For a while he also contemplated taking lessons in Lawn Tennis.

A keen lover of sports, and clearly with the right skills, Hito made the hard choice not to pursue it further. “I felt there was not much scope.

Maybe I can take time out and play again,” he says.

However, it is his love for four-legged furry darlings which truly cemented his choice of profession. And it is this choice which paved the

way towards recognition.

Hito is known by many people for organizing the first dog show in Nagaland.

The dog show was held successfully with various categories such as best of breed, fancy dress competition, cutest dog, ugliest dog, obedience and best hairstyle. It was a good opportunity for dog owners to show off their four-legged family members and also for dog lovers to witness different breeds of dog.

Understanding that the concept of pet care is still at a nascent stage in Nagaland, he brought everything related to pets under one roof“Furry Friends” located at DC Court Junction, Dimapur. A complete pet store it offers pet food, vitamins, fishes, birds, pet accessories, books etc. He is also a whole-

sale distributor for Pedigree.

This store is Hito’s longawaited dream. After having owned several good quality breed dogs and seeing the standard of quality in other cities, he really wanted to bring in good quality breed of dogs for sale. Furry Friends has so far sold 240 dogs.

He prides himself in the fact that he offers quality dog breeds. After many years of experience, he now orders from two main dog breeders who assure him quality of the highest standard.

He admits that good quality breeds costs a lot of money, definitely not affordable for everyone. Good quality breeds are bought as show dogs, status symbol or by serious dog lovers. “I have seen an increase in the trend for quality breed dogs. People

are willing to spend a lakh and more here,” he says.

For those who cannot spend so much money, as a solution, Hito recommends local people to sell the offspring of these quality breed dogs at a reasonable rate. Nevertheless he honestly shares that a lot of his clients always walk in to Furry Friends wanting to sell at commercial price; many times, at the original price of the dog which they bought.

Hito himself is the proud owner of 11 dogs who he spoils to no end. He candidly admits that Sunday is Dog picture time. The dogs also have a specially made water tank which serve as their swimming pool.

From his first dog- a Golden Retriever, Hito’s love for four-legged furry darlings kept increasing. And when

he saw online videos of dogs being trained, he was so impressed. This led him to take a training course. He figured he should take the course to train his own dogs at home.

But offers to train dogs keep pouring in for Hito. But with limited time, having to maintain his dogs at home along with his pet store and several other businesses, he regrets that he has no time for training.

“Training takes time. It’s not easy. Buying a dog is not enough and just because you love dogs is also not enough.

Dogs become like human beings the more time you spend with them. I don’t agree to people who buy a dog and leave him alone at home.

Buying a good breed for show or status symbol is not enough,” says this passionate pet lover. He adds, “I love

my dogs so much that when I don’t spend enough time with them, I feel they are sad”.

Hito shares some suggestions with our readers: The owner should always give the food. When giving food, try teaching basic training commands like sit, stay, wait, stand etc. take your pet for walks. Also, make the habit of taking your pet out for a short stroll after food to be potty trained. He also recommends letting your pet socialize with human beings and also other pets, but only after a period of six months.

“When you teach your dog, not only their behavior but even their personality changes. Every training requires time and effort so stay patient,” he advises.

A man of many dreams.

This serious pet lover also runs several other establishments. He is currently in the midst of setting up a family restaurant which would cater to Indian Food.

For a young entrepreneur, one wonders if it is a daunting task. “You just have to be brave and give it time.

Any business, if you give time it works out. I also believe that if you follow anything which is genuinely something you’re interested in, it will never go to loss,” he says.

SONGS OF OUR PEOPLE: with the U-RA-MI-LI Project imchatsung imchen

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ur lives have mirrors that contain stories of our past, our everyday lives. It’s how we perceive and get inspired by them that transform us.

There is a growing need today in the way we effectively communicate our stories, especially when our rich oral art forms have such complex nature and depth.

The two days event at the prestigious NCPA Centre (National Centre for Performing Arts) titled “NCPA Living TraditionsFestival of Nagaland) recently held on 19th & 20th Mumbai was noteworthy. This year it was a collaborative effort between Archives and Research Centre for Ethnomusicology – American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS) and u-ra-mi-li Project, which focused on the Chokri Li of Chakhesang. The first day had twenty people from the village of Phek led by Vepusa Venuh, consisting of the young and old, men and women, while the second day featured the Tetseo Sisters. Both two groups spellbound the audience with their voices, poetry and conversations as splendid visuals and subtitles (Documented by the u-ra-mi-li Project in Nagaland) were interspersed adding value to the narrative at the soldout NCPA ‘Experimental Theatre’.

The U-ra-mi-li project (uramili.in), which means “Songs of our people” in Chokri, consists of Storytellers Anushka Meenakshi and Iswar Srikumar from Chennai, who out of chance landed in Phek in their quest for ‘everyday music’ five years ago. Since then there has been no looking back.

Women singing Thüvü Li, a song about Rooster and the Hen

Kuvelü & Imchatsung Imchen singing Umi Thatsü

Iswar Srikumar Firstly, Congratulations on the show at NCPA and thank you for curating such lovely work about Nagaland. Could you tell us something about uramili and how the show came about with the artists and AIIS? Well, the NCPA does a show every year called the Living Traditions. The scope of this show is to present a little more in-depth introduction to a form of music to their audience. This programme is not like a regular concert. Here the work is curated and presented with more research material from one particular area.

Shubha Chaudhri from the Archives and Research Centre for Ethnomusicology in Gurgaon (Part of AIIS) has been working closely with them for a few years now.

She has done a lot of field work in Rajasthan, Kutch, and Goa. They in fact did festivals from all these regions in earlier years. So when they were planning what next, Shubha suggested to the NCPA that they get in touch with us as we had been filming with the Tetseo Sisters and in Phek village since late 2011.

Vepusa Venuh, leader of the group, speaking about Li It was refreshing to witness the focus on Li of Chakhesang, could you tell us about your understanding of Li, and the scope of folk music of Nagaland, especially when it comes to presenting it to a wider audience?

Li as a form of music is very unusual. It’s a polyphonic form, and as a form itself it is very rare in folk music in India. We fell in love with the music the first time we heard it in 2011. It sounded almost as if everyone was singing their own song but somehow all the voices were coming together to form a larger song.

Nagaland is undoubt-

edly one of the most musically rich spaces in the whole country. The music is everywhere, and the music is not just restricted to performers but belongs to the people. It is u-ra-mi-li.

We also feel the variety of music is mind boggling.

The various forms, the gospel, the western influence, all of this give musicians from Nagaland quite an edge. These can be performed separately or also can help create a new voice, kind of like what the Tetseo Sisters are doing now by bringing together all their musical influences to create a rather unique sound.

Your video visuals were

breathtaking. I have never seen something so seamlessly photographed. How long have you been documenting in Nagaland? If you could shed light on any interesting challenges faced or lessons learnt in the process?

Thanks for that. We have been filming since late 2011. We usually come back during busy farming seasons as our major interest has been in the songs that people sing outside of a performance space. The music in the paddy fields is truly mesmerising.

Challenges wise actually there were none. Nagaland is an extremely

Anushka Meenakshi friendly place and we have been taken excellent care of everywhere we have gone.

Our main irritation has been that we don’t speak even Nagamese, but we are starting to learn a few things at least so we can have a basic conversation with people. For two people who don’t speak the language and are so obviously out of place we have really managed to have developed a number of meaningful relationships and make Phek a very special place for us.

Lastly, I gather you work with different art forms from different parts of India; do you have any specific plan or project car-

Group exiting after singing Hey-Hee, a Li for begining and ending festive occasions rying forward with Li, the songs of our people?

Well our full length feature film on songs of agriculture based out of Phek village is in post production now and we should have a film ready this year. We hope to send the film to various festivals and hopefully that would also help generate more interest in the music.

We hope to then use that to try and organise more concerts so that this wonderful music can be shared with a much larger audience.

As Day Two of Living Traditions come to close, I hear the echo of the people of Phek raising their voices in harmony, the men folk in their traditional red, white and black singing ‘Talle Li’ (Li for roaming).

I am overwhelmed. The Tetseo Sisters have just ended the festival with the unforgettable ‘O Rhosi’ and backstage, us friends (Team Hiyohey) assisting them share our sigh of relief. “Do you always have to carry so much heavy jewelry, clothing and accessory when you can always simplify and carry less baggage?” I ask Mercy, the eldest of the Tetseo siblings. It is only in the Green Room when we take the opportunity for a much needed wefie

Indihut artist of the week

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une up Channel is an experimental / Alternative Rock band from Mokokchung, Nagaland.

The band started their journey from the month of March 2015. It is a collaboration project formed from the combination of Dice and The Purpose.

The band consists of Sunep on Vocals, Temjen on Guitar, Meren on Bass, Sangyu on Drums & Ayu

on Keyboards. Tune Up Channel bagged the title of “Best Nagaland band” at the Hornbill International Rock Contest 2015.

Bands like Switchfoot, Paramore and R5 are some of the bands that brought up this band together.

The band released their début single “You are not alone” in the month of April 2015. The hit single “Tomorrow

with you”, released in the month of February 2016 was recorded and produced at home with no studio works. The song hit a new download record a few months ago with nearly 6500 downloads on Indihut. The band released another soulful single “Through the Rain” where the band experiment something different from their previous releases.

that we realise that we see so many colourful pieces reflected along with the lyrical sheets- necklaces, accessories, textiles, and musical instruments from different tribes of Nagaland and beyond. The song of our people has only just begun.

(The writer is a Multidisciplinary Artist & Designer, who also showcased his acclaimed collection ‘Mangko Akir’ as a Gen Next designer at Lakme Fashion Week on August 2008 at NCPA, Mumbai) Twitter @im_ chat_sung

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Finch helps Lions win thriller

Gujarat Lions player Aksh Deep Nath stops a six during the IPL match against the Mumbai Indians at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai on April 16. (Photo by IPL)

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MuMbai, april 16 (iaNS): Gujarat Lions defeated Mumbai Indians by three wickets in an Indian Premier League (IPL) match at the Wankhede Stadium here on Saturday.

Batting first, Mumbai scored 143/8 in 20 overs

with Parthiv Patel (34) the Brief Scores: top scorer for the hosts.

MI - 143/8 in 20 overs In reply, Aaron Finch [Parthivc Patel 34; Dhascored an unbeaten 67 as wal Kulkarni 2/19] Lions chased down the Lions – 147/7 in 20 target comfortably posting overs [Finch 67, Raina 147/7 in 20 overs to grab 2; Mitchell McClentheir third straight win of the season. aghan 4/21]

Villa relegated as Rashford strikes again for Man United loNdoN, april 16 (aFp): Aston Villa's longexpected relegation from the Premier League was finally confirmed with a 1-0 loss away to Manchester United on Saturday as teenage rising star Marcus Rashford scored his seventh goal in 12 games.

The 18-year-old striker, also on target in United's FA Cup quarter-final replay win over West Ham United in midweek, struck in the 32nd minute when he turned in Antonio Valencia's low cross.

Defeat left bottom-ofthe-table Villa 15 points shy of safety with only a maximum of 12 on offer to the Birmingham club in their four remaining league matches this season.

Villa, under the caretaker charge of Eric Black after former manager Remi Garde was sacked last month, have won just three times in 34 league games this campaign and this latest loss saw them drop down to the second-tier of English football for the first time in 29 years.

Earlier, Sunderland gave themselves hope of yet another escape from relegation, with a 3-0 win away to fellow strugglers Norwich City.

Victory at Carrow Road left the north-east side still in the bottom three but just one point adrift of Norwich and with a game in hand over the Canaries.

Fabio Borini's first-half penalty and strikes from Jermain Defoe and Duncan Watmore after the interval saw Sunderland to a first win in seven matches.

The result was an understandable relief for Sunderland manager Sam Allardyce, who told the BBC: "The most pleasing thing of all was the clean sheet, that is our way forward with five games to go.

"I know if we can keep two or three clean sheets in those game we'll be safe because I know we can score."

Newcastle United, Sunderland's north-east rivals, bolstered their hopes of topflight survival with a 3-0 win at home to Swansea.

Jamaal Lascelles headed in Andros Townsend's corner four minutes before the break and Moussa Sissoko made the game safe for the Magpies eight minutes from time, as they marked manager Rafael Benitez's 56th birthday in style.

Townsend rounded off the scoring in the 89th minute.

Aguero hat-trick sinks Chelsea

loNdoN, april 16 (aGeNCieS): Sergio Aguero completed a hattrick to give Manchester City a 3-0 victory at Chelsea, who had Thibaut Courtois sent-off. Aguero opened the scoring with a low drive in the 33rd minute before doubling City’s lead by rounding off a counter-attack nine minutes into the second half. Courtois was dismissed after halting Fernandinho’s charge towards goal in the 78th minute, and Aguero had no trouble converting from the penalty spot to get his hat-trick.

Manchester United's Marcus Rashford, front, battles for the ball with Aston Villa's Alan Hutton during the English Premier League soccer match between Manchester United Watford maintain a lead and Aston Villa at Old Trafford Stadium, Manchester, on established through Ben Saturday, April 16. (AP Photo)

Newcastle remained in the relegation zone but victory saw them move to within three points of Norwich.

Watford, promoted last season, cemented their place in the Premier League with a 1-0 win away to West Bromwich Albion, that saw goalkeeper Heurelho Gomes twice save

penalties from Saido Berahino.

His first spot-kick stop came in the 66th minute after he had tripped Berahino and Gomes denied the striker again when, after a foul on Stephane Sessegnon, he dived low to his left to push another penalty effort past the post.

Gomes's saves helped

Watson's 27th-minute goal at the Hawthorns.

Meanwhile Southampton moved to within a point of a top six place after a 1-1 draw away to Everton.

Ramiro Funes Mori put Everton ahead in the 68th minute but the hosts' lead lasted just eight minutes, with Sadio Mane equalising for the Saints at Goodison Park.

Real ease to victory at Getafe New Boxing body elections on May 8

barCeloNa, april 16 (reuTerS): Real Madrid moved to within a point of La Liga leaders Barcelona after Karim Benzema, Isco, Gareth Bale, James Rodriguez and Cristiano Ronaldo all scored in a 5-1 thrashing at struggling Getafe on Saturday.

Benzema opened the scoring on 29 minutes by tapping home from close range and then laid on the pass for Isco to double the lead in the 40th.

Bale got the third five minutes after the restart, taking his league tally to 16 goals this season, his

best since moving to Madrid in 2013.

Pablo Sarabia pulled one back for Getafe in the 84th when he curled the ball into the top corner from the edge of the area, but Rodriguez added another for Madrid, before Ronaldo tapped in with the final kick of the game.

Madrid have 75 points and provisionally move ahead of city rivals Atletico, who play Granada on Sunday, when Barcelona host Valencia.

Getafe drop to the bottom of La Liga on 28 points with five games left of the season.

Australia drubs India to win Azlan Shah Cup

ipoH, april 16 (iaNS): India's hockey team suffered a 0-4 drubbing in the final against reigning world champions Australia who captured their ninth Sultan Azlan Shah Cup title here on Saturday.

Thomas Craig (25th and 35th minutes) scored twice before Matt Gohdes, playing in his 150th match, scored in the 43rd and 57th minutes as Australia produced a stirring high-pressing game. It was Australia's fourth Azlan Shah Cup title in six years, while five-time champions India claimed their second runners-up finish in the annual tournament. India

had finished runners-up in the 2008 edition, to Argentina.

Earlier in the bronze medal match, New Zealand defeated Malaysia 5-4 via penalty shoot-out. New Zealand scored twice in the final quarter to equalise 3-3 as the match headed to the shoot-out.

In the presentation ceremony, Australia's Blake, who scored four goals, was declared the player of the tournament. Pakistan's Arslan Muhammad Qadir scored six goals -- maximum in the tournament and walked away with the young player of the event award.

New delHi, april 16 (pTi): The days of turmoil in Indian boxing seem finally headed for an end with the country's administrators on Saturday deciding to hold fresh elections on May 8 to put together the Boxing Federation of India as the new national body.

In a meeting of the stakeholders in Kolkata, it was unanimously decided to hold the elections on May 8, a good six days before the end of the deadline set by the tough-talking International Boxing Association (AIBA).

"The elections will be held on May 8 and the process will have the support of the Indian Olympic Association (IOA). The venue

of the elections is still to be finalised. The nominations will now be sent to the International Boxing Association, which will take a call," a top official present in today's meeting told PTI. The race for the President's post is likely to be a three-way showdown between Delhi's Rohit Jain, who narrowly lost out on the Secretary General's position in the now defunct Boxing India, and former Secretaries Rakesh Thakran and Rajesh Bhandari.

The Secretary General's position is set to be contested by Jay Kowli, a member of the ad-hoc committee currently administering the sport, Goa's Lenny D'Gama and Jammu and Kashmir's

Dr Nirmolak Singh.

While D'Gama has been a former Chairman of the Ring Officials Commission, Dr Singh has been the official doctor of the Indian boxing teams in the past.

"The clauses related to giving two votes to every member unit has been worked out. Besides the zonal representation has also been agreed on. So, it looks to be smooth from now and a new boxing body will take shape," the official said.

The development would come as massive relief for the country's boxers, who are facing expulsion from the Olympics if a new federation does not take shape by May 14.

Players in action during the final of the 2nd King’s Volleyball Tournament at The State Stadium, Dimapur, on Saturday. Mangkolemba ‘B’ emerged as champions of the tournament defeating Alangpang Zunga, Changtongya in the final. The winners and runners-up of the tournament took away Rs. 50000 and Rs. 30000 respectively along with the trophy and citations.

KKR post comprehensive win over Sunrisers 10th and 11th together produced 36 runs, with Gambhir hitting Karn Sharma for three boundaries in an over.

The 92-run partnership finally broke when Uthappa was out leg-before-wicket in the 13th over.

Earlier in the day, the visitors once again put up a disciplined bowling show as they restricted Sunrisers Hyderabad to 142/7.

Eoin Morgan topscored for Sunrisers with a 43-ball 51 and was well supported by Naman Ojha who smashed 37 off 28 Gautam Gambhir square cuts a delivery during match 8 of the IPL at the Rajiv Gandhi Intl. balls. Pacer Umesh Yadav Cricket Stadium, Hyderabad on April 16. (Photo by IPL) bagged figures of 3/28 for Hyderabad, april League (IPL) encounter at on a strip which was slow- the visitors.

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