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Dead body found beside rail tracks DIMAPUR, MARCH 31 (MExN): The dead body of a 60 year old man was found lying beside the railway track in Dimapur on Tuesday. Dimapur Police informed that the body is that of a non local male and “during enquiry it was ascertained that the deceased was run over by a moving train.” The deceased bears 3 cut marks on the head, a swollen mark on the jaw and a scratch mark on the forehead. The body has been shifted to Civil Hospital Dimapur morgue for post mortem and identification. The deceased was wearing a yellowish shirt, dark grey open sweater, white vest, black long pant, white pyjama, chappel and black belt.

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‘Any fragmentation only weakens the Naga family’

38 Naga organisations take ‘ responsibility for nation building’ Morung Express news Naga society today agrees on the need for honest and multi dimensional discussions in order to take the Naga struggle forward. To facilitate the reconciliation process within, the Forum for Naga Reconciliation (FNR) brought together representatives of 38 Tribe-based organisations, churches and civil society at Agri Expo here today for a consultative meet on ‘Taking Responsibility for Nation Building,’ a statement published in local dailies on March 16. Dr. Wati Aier, Convener, FNR, presented the document and termed this as a “defining moment” in Naga history. All the organisations unanimously endorsed the statement by a show of hands, stating, “Nagas fervently desire that their national groups should now evolve a mutually agreed approach with strength and unity, in order to achieve a settlement.” The participants expressed the need for all the Naga political groups to meet at the earliest. For this the FNR has been mandated to pursue and facilitate the same

without further delay. Peace activist, Niketu Iralu, while supplementing the statement, said that it lays out a difficult but possible roadmap for the Naga people. To delve on and overcome the barriers faced by the Naga people at this point of time, “honest conversations” are a necessity, he said. Noting that it is “extremely difficult” to do what is morally right during the course of human struggle, he lauded the efforts of the FNR for taking the responsibility to “heal and restore” the Naga struggle. “The Nagas must become a people who care more for the health and growth of the Naga tree than the Naga fruit,” he noted, asserting the importance of process in the Naga struggle. He predicted that the Nagaland State Government, an “illegitimate child” of the struggle, will become a main battleground in the years to come. While ‘sovereignty’ is not a problem for the Nagas, Iralu said, it is a problem for India to solve, which is why Naga people must not pursue short sighted agendas that lead to “frozen hearts” towards one another.

Peace & Sovereignty are indivisible: Lt Gen Niki

DIMAPUR, MARCH 31 (MExN): Military Supervisor for the NSCN (K), Lt General Niki Sumi today stated that “peace and sovereignty is indivisible component” in the context of the Naga struggle. A press note from Lt General Niki Sumi stated that clamouring for peace “without even an inclination” to discuss sovereignty or resolution of sovereignty is “only a farce and any settlement or solution short of sovereignty would only be a betrayal of Nagas historical and political legacy.” On allegations that the NSCN (K) is being anti-peace and anticeasefire, he reminded that 14 years of ceasefire with the Government of India has only been a “psychological ploy on the part of Government of India to undermine and demoralise the patriotic spirit and fervour of the Nagas.” He revealed that the GoI had not once “expressed courtesy to discuss Naga sovereignty issue.” Sovereignty being the only basis

YANGON, MARCH 31 (REUTERS): Myanmar President Thein Sein attended the ceremonial signing of a draft ceasefire accord between the government and ethnic rebel groups on Tuesday, which is aimed at ending more than 65 years of armed conflict in the country. The government’s negotiating team, known as the Union Peace Working Committee (UPWC) and the Nationwide Ceasefire Coordination Team (NCCT), which represents 16 ethnic armed groups, are the two parties that formulated the draft agreement, which ethnic representatives will take to the

of the Nagas struggle; he termed it “futile” to continue extension of the ceasefire. “On NSCN/GPRN chairman SS Khaplang’s credential being questioned by a few Indian sponsored agents who were recently expelled from NSCN/GPRN, it is to be reminded that they themselves have admitted recently to media that they regard SS Khaplang as their messiah,” reminded Sumi. He further alleged that when SS Khaplang directed them to abrogate the ceasefire, “realising that their comfortable and easy way of life on the pretext of maintaining peace was at the end they opted to condemn SS Khaplang.” Sumi said that SS Khaplang has “singlehandedly” been waging a “liberation war against India and Myanmar for more than 50 years even when all his contemporary compatriots abandoned him and fell victim to the lure of the Government of India.” With the coming of democracy in Myanmar and restructuring

leaders of the rebel groups. The ceasefire agreement would mark a significant achievement if it is ratified and respected, and allow for political negotiations between the government and ethnic groups that have been fighting for autonomy. “The signing of the draft accord between the NCCT and UPWC will pave the way for holding political dialogue,” Thein Sein said during a brief visit to the Myanmar Peace Centre, an organization set up by the government to facilitate the peace process. Myanmar’s semi-civilian government, which took power

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shilloi lake: logging & Jhumming taking its toll

of the Myanmar Union into autonomous democratic units, he informed that the Nagas under the SS Khaplang led GPRN were invited on several occasions to join the union of Myanmar. However, SS Khaplang refused the offer and even boycotted the first Myanmar democratic elections in the Naga areas, he added. Sumi then stated that it was only after constant demand from the Nagas of Myanmar to give peaceful political dialogue a chance that SS Khaplang complied to an unconditional ceasefire with the Myanmar government. “If SS Khaplang’s entry into ceasefire with Myanmar and consequent setting up of his thatch hut at the bank of River Teka is to be considered comfortable, the A view of the shilloi lake in Phek district. so called Naga nationalists livlipichem associated with the lake. The ing five star life across India and villagers claimed that earlier, abroad at the pretext of pursuing Lutsam (Meluri) | March 31 the thickly vegetated area surpeace must think twice and contemplate on any solution that is Shilloi, a still water body re- rounded the lake would make short of sovereignty,” he asserted. sembling the shape of a foot- the villager falls sick. This, they Full text on Page 5 print, is a tectonic lake located believed to be the doing of the in Meluri, under Phek district. lake’s spirit, called ‘Malik’. The Shilloi Lake, according ‘Guarded or protected’ in the Lurathura dialect, Shilloi was to the villagers, has not contribonce bounded by evergreen uted to their livliehoods. This Pine trees and mineral rich is despite the lake drawing in mountains, having a unique many visitors from across the in 2011 after 49 years of military expected to take place in No- beauty. However, the future of state and also from abroad. “So rule, has made ending hostilities vember this year. this picturesque lake does not we have to depend on ‘Jhum’ Myanmar’s authorities have bode well if the watershed area and digging of Pine root which with the many groups that have taken up arms since indepen- been unsuccessful in meeting where the lake is being fed is not is sold to local merchants on dence in 1948 one of its priorities. previous targets for concluding well protected and preserved. the spot in the jungle because “If everything goes well, the nationwide peace pacts. SpoPeople of Lutsam, the clos- it fetches us good amount of Nationwide Ceasefire Agree- radic resurgences of violence est village to the lake, just few cash,” said Matsemong, Chairment will be signed by top lead- and complaints about the mili- hundred meters above, in- man of Lutsam village. ers of ethnic armed groups in tary’s role in the complex pro- formed that the lake is not how He further goes on to lament Naypyitaw in May,” said Hla cess have hampered progress. it used to be. They said that con- that though the village hosts Maung Shwe, a senior adviser The United Nationalities tinuous logging and ‘Jhum- many bureaucrats, technocrats, from the Myanmar Peace Centre, Federal Council (UNFC), an ming’ have begun to take their contractors and officers, visiting the lake to spend quality time, referring to the country’s capital. umbrella organization repre- toll on the lake. This week’s meetings were senting ethnic armed groups, After much resettlement no sustainable developmental the latest of seven rounds of has said that a meaningful in the area, the present village activities have taken place in the talks to negotiate the agree- ceasefire cannot be agreed was finally set up in its present village as of yet. We have observed over the ment since 2013. The govern- while Myanmar’s military con- spot. The earlier shifting of setment had targeted reaching a tinues offensives against ethnic tlements, said the villagers, was years that the water level in six due to “legends and omens” to seven small ponds surrounddeal before a general election groups.

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ing Shilloi has been reduced drastically, informed Ashelo, Chairman of the Shilloi management committee. He stated that a way to tackle this issue would be to provide alternative livelihood activities to the villages. This, he added, would reduce ‘Jhum’ cultivation and logging, thereby reducing their effects on the lake. On March 26 and 27, the Director of Land Resources, Mhathung Yanthan along with other officials, undertook an inspection tour to the lake, for implementation of the Integrated Watershed Management Program (IWMP). They camped in Lutsam village for two days and interacted with the villagers. The Director, while inspecting the area and interacting with the villagers, gave ideas and suggestions on how effective implementation of the IWMP can be brought about in Lutsam village. He expressed optimism that such an effort, with the intervention of the IWMP, would bring back the natural beauty of the lake. Lutsam is set to be an IWMP mission village, disclosed the director and assured to visit the village after one year to assess the effectiveness of the IWMP program and its impact on the Shilloi Lake. The objective of the IWMP is to restore the ecological balance by harnessing, conserving and developing degraded natural resources such as soil, vegetative cover and water. Shilloi will be protected with this program, as Lutsam is under project 10 Badge 6 of the IWMP, which is set to be implemented within a month time.

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LRD to adopt Washelo as Green village Morung Express News Phek | March 31

The Director of Land Resources, Mhathung Yanthan paid a visit to the IMWP project areas of badge IV project VIII from March 26 to 28 with an objective to oversee the implementation of IWMP in the district who was accompanied by directorate officers and staffs. Inspecting the project site and interacting with the villager, Mhathung Yanthan disclosed that department will adopt Wasehlo as green village of the department and said, “The department intention is to uplift the rural economy so that the standard of living is improved.” Calling upon the villagers in all the project areas the director said, work culture is slowly fading in Naga society and many

people are after easy money, which is spoiling the social fabric of our society and asked the villagers to work so that there will be surplus in production as the climate soil and vegetation is very suitable. Sharing his observation in all the project areas the director also said, we have to work together to save the forest and conserve water so that generation coming behind us do no blame us for misuse of natural resources and asked the villagers to go for alternative means of livelihood other that ‘Jhumming’. The director also disclosed that Lutsam a village near Shilloi will be a model village for IWMP. Jt. Director K Peinyu, Jt Director Renben Lotha and Dy. Director Vanchamo, DPO N.Kehie, SLNA and staffs of Phek visited the project. Director of Land Resources, Mhathung Yanthan along with other officials during the visit to IMWP project areas. (Morung Photo)

KVK Phek conduct exhibition cum farmer scientist interaction 19th Ao Baptist Pastors’

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PhEk, March 31 (MExn): KVK Phek conducted exhibition cum farmer scientist interaction with the theme ‘Promoting technology transfer of agriculture and allied sectors’ on March 28 at KVK premises. The chief guest of the programme, Zubenthung Ngully, Extra Assistant Commissioner, Pfutsero said that the Chakhesang community is one of the most highly agriculture developed tribe of Nagaland with favourable climatic condition and encouraged the participants to be more hard working for the upliftment of the community. He also requested the participants to take the latest know how of agriculture and allied sector from KVK

to enhance the production. A short address by progressive farmer, Tavesuh from Sakraba village also spoke on the occasion. Where he said that, teaching farmers is a tough and difficult job, KVK is doing that noble and tough job for the betterment of the farmers. He emphasized to adopt one or two special enterprises for cultivation instead of cultivating many enterprises in small quantity where it will help the farmer to specialize/ expertise knowledge in a particular crop with bulk production thus increase the economic status of the farmer. During the farmer scientist interaction, queries regarding insect pest of paddy, difference between organic and inor-

ganic agriculture, kiwi and plum plantation, poultry diseases and fishery and mushroom production were asked. Imtilepzuk, SDAO Pfutsero, Liza Barua Bharali, SMS Plant protection, T.Esther Longkumer SMS Soil science, Hannah Krujia, SMS Agronomy, Dr. Prakash Ranjan Dutta, I/c SMS Animal science and Keniseto Chucha I/c SMS Horticulture answered the queries of the participants. Hannah Krujia, SMS Agronomy, chaired the programme and T.Esther Longkumer, SMS Soil Science, delivered welcome address. A short exhortation was delivered by SDAO, Pfutsero where he told the participants to take the opportunity of

learning and adopting the improved technologies transferred by KVK officials. He also requested them to support and cooperate with the officials. Keniseto Chucha delivered the vote of thanks. After the formal session, the chief guest, Zubenthung Ngully, Extra Assistant Commissioner, Pfutsero, did opening of the exhibition stall. The officials of KVK Phek explained the uses and benefits of the models, farm implements to the participants, which were on display. All together number of participants from different villages took active part in the programme and the programme ended with great success.

Conference concludes

DIMaPur, March 31 (MExn): The 19th Ao Baptist Pastors’ Conference hosted by Delhi Ao Baptist Church (DABC) concluded on March 30. The weeklong conference, attended by 139 pastors included events like seminars, educational tours, devotional services, and a business session. The conference, with focus on Expository Preaching, had the Theme “Study the Word, Practice the Word, Teach the Word” based on Ezra 7:10. The guest speakers from Pastoral Training Seminary, Goa and their respective topics were Chris Williams, ‘How to Study the Bible’; Sammy

Williams, ‘Preaching the Intention of the Bible’; DevrajUrs, ‘The Sufficiency of Scriptures.’ On March 29 Palm Sunday, the Pastors had an exclusive service, followed by the devotional service with members of DABC. During the Services, the renowned itinerary Bible Teacher C. B. Samuel emphasized on the Truth of the Word of God, and that believers, especially the Pastors should stick to it. In the first service, Rev. R. J. Amen, Pastor of Waromong Baptist Church gave an exhortation, while in the second service, Rev. Teka, Pastor, Impur Baptist Church, exhorted the Pastors to be brave in their Ministry.

Training for SOs, BLOs conducted Training for farmer’s clubs member under Tening

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Mokokchung, March 31 (DIPr): As per the directive of CEO’s office, training for Supervisory Officers, BLOs on National E/Roll Purification and Authentication was held at Town hall Mokokchung on March 30. Speaking during the training programme, ADC & Electoral Registration Officer, Mokokchung, Bendanglila stated the National E/Roll Puri-

fication and Authentication programme aimed to improve the quality of Electoral Roll and make it 100% error free by linking the E/Roll with Biometric data (Aadhar). She therefore urged all the BLOs and AEROs to act proactively in checking and verifying double entry in their respective areas. The training was attended by 109 BLOs from 23 AC to 28 AC of Mokokchung district.

tEnIng, March 31 (DIPr): Liangmai Baptist Association Tening under the aegis of its Development wing, the Comprehensive Rural Economic Development Society in collaboration with Nagaland Development Outreach (NBCC) conducted one day training for the newly promoted farmer’s clubs member under Tening block covering Azailuang, Nchangram, Tening,

Acknowledgement

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Late Mr. Bangdi Iheilung Born: 16.03.1946 - Died: 27.03.2015 We, the bereaved family members and relatives would like to express our sincere thanks and heartfelt gratitude to all who stood by us physically, materially, financially and through prayers during the prolonged illness and at the sad demise of our beloved father Late Mr. Bangdi Iheilung on 27th March 2015 at Jalukie Town. We would like to convey our special thanks to: 1. Shri. T.R. Zeliang, Hon'ble Chief Minister of Nagaland 2. Shri. Neiphiu Rio 3. Dr. Shurhozelie Leizietsu 4. Shri. Noke Wangnao Konyak 5. Shri. Khekiho Zhimomi 6. Shri. Namri Nchang 7. Shri. Chuba Longkumer 8. Shri. K.G. Kenye 9. Dr. Brian and his staff (NEIGRIHMS), Shillong 10. Dr. Judita (Civil Hospital), Shillong 11. Dr. K.K. Handa, Medanta The Medicity, Gurgaon, Haryana 12. Jalukie Town Local Baptist Church 13. Nagaland Legislative Assembly 14. N.P.F Central 15. N.S.F 16. Govt. Officials. 17. Various Churches, Political parties, Village Councils, Schools, Associations, Organisations and Unions. 18. Individuals, family friends and all well - wishers. We deeply regret our inability to personally thank each and everyone through this column, but it is our humble prayer that our Almighty God bless you all. Loving Wife, Children & Relatives

Tepun, Nzau Namsan, and Ntuma, being funded by ERIKS and HCDI The main resource person was Hangboi Jeff Coordinator Farmers club of Rongmai Baptist Association Nagaland and Nokching Chollen Trainee from Assam Don Bosco University, who assisted the resource person throughout the session. Subjects like concept and Role of Farmers club, features & func-

tionality of farmers club, role of promoting agencies, linkages with NABARD and other related banks and marketing were covered during the training. With the brief note of introduction by N.K. Joseph Development Secretary LBA & Project Co-ordinator of Liangmai Community Development project. Finance Secretary Kamwang Rentta pronounced the invocation prayer for the session.

N.K. Joseph acknowledged the sponsors ERIKS, HCDI & NDO and thanked RBAN for Extending resource person of Hangboi and Chollen. He further exhorted the participants to be more active as farmers and implore them to be the role model to the farming community. Around 200 farmers participated in the training which was held at ADC Headquarter Mission Center Tening.

Students demand for better health care in Kiphire

kIPhIrE, March 31 (MExn): A joint team from five areas comprising of Kiphire Area Students’ Union (KASU), Longmatra Area Students’ Union (LASU), Singti Area Students’ Union (SASU), Amahator Area Students’ Union (ARSU) and Seyochung Area Students’ Union (SASU) led by officials from the respective students union conducted a joint inspection in district hospital Kiphire on March 26. The student’s union leaders while acknowledging the service rendered by few dedicated doctors and staffs despite of the insurmountable obstacles they face while carrying out their duty, addressed to the Principal Director Health and Family Welfare that during the inspection and interaction with the staff, various pertaining matters faced by the doctors and staff were deliberated. Highlighting the plights in the District Hospital, the unions stated that the lack of work force and basic vital medical equipments is putting the lives of patients at perils. Even after decades of upgradation, the hospital to the status of district hospital, crucial medical equipments such as ultra snography ECG, and Boyle’s apparatus was found to be miss-

ing. The lack of basic medical equipments is dogging the effective functioning of the hospital. Even X-Ray which is in use is only a portable x-ray as the original x-ray is damaged and so far is not being repaired nor replace till now. The hospital is under-staffed with just a few doctors and nurse staff, leaving the citizens of Kiphire in a quagmire. Thus, in the absence of sufficient work force and basic medical equipments doctors helpless. They also stated that it was also quite disturbing to learn that district hospital Kiphire is without specialist doctor in the field of medical surgeon, pediatrician, and radiologist. While some senior medical officers of anesthetist and gynecologist was found to be not regular. Faced with lacked of work force and basic medical equipments doctors are left incapacitated with more work force and high medical equipments. It will greatly ease the burden of doctors and staffs enabling the doctors to carry out their duties in a more efficient and better environment. It may also be mentioned that at present with just a few handful of doctors and nurses only 8 regular nurses. It becomes an uphill task for doctors and staffs to func-

tion smoothly. “The state of the hospital is in a precarious situation, with ever-increasing demand for better health care. There is as urgent need to appoint more doctors and nurses to catered to the demand of good health care in a far flunk places like Kiphire,” the students union stated in the open letter. With pragmatic approach by the concerned department, it will altered the feeling of discrimination. Kiphire being located in a strategic area, it has the potential to be the hub of health sector for the entire eastern region. It can also generate good revenue for the department and the government. It may also be mentioned that, in this regard various memorandum and appeal has been submitted by the department as well as by various NGO. However, there is no concrete response from the department till date. “The concerned department cannot remain inert as countless of lives are at stake here. We implore upon the concerned department to immediately address the grievances’ of the people, keeping in mind the socio economic status in a place like Kiphire,” added the joint statement.

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AEO Mon informs

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Mon, March 31 (DIPr): The Assistant Election Officer (AEO) Mon has informed to all the President and Secretary of the Political Parties, NGOs, GBs and Ward leaders of Mon to attend a meeting convened by the Deputy Commissioner, Mon on 1st April 2015 at 12 noon at DC conference hall, Mon. The meeting is convened to discuss matters relating to the ongoing National Electoral Roll Purification and Authentication Program (NERPAP) activity in the district.

Atoizu Polytechnic students informed atoIzu, March 31 (MExn): All the concerned students of Khelhoshe Polytechnic Atoizu are informed that the filling up of examination forms for odd semester compartmental examination to be held from May 15 will be done from April 13 to 17 during office hours. KPA Principal Er. M. Nakro in a press release stated that no forms would be accepted under any circumstances after the last date.

BLOs training held in Tuensang tuEnsang, March 31 (DIPr): Training of Block Level Officers (BLOs) on newly proposed National Election Roll Purification and Authentication Programmme (NERPAP) was held at CKS Hall, Tuensang. SDO (C) Dr. Manazeer was the special guest of the meeting. Assistant Election Officer Tuensang Alila Chang attended the meeting along with the BLOs from Tuensang district. The main discussion of the meeting was based on the objectives of the newly launched programme, which includes correcting the details in EPIC, checking multiple entries in the EPIC, replacing the B/W photos with colour photos, and checking the EPIC Identification with ADHAAR card. The discussion also deliberated on the importance of including mobile numbers on the EPIC in order to convey direct information to the voters.

DC & DEO Zunheboto inform electors zunhEboto, March 31 (DIPr): Deputy Commissioner and District Election Officer Zunheboto Temsu Longkumer informed all the electors under 31 - 36 A/C under Zunheboto district that the Voters Registration and Education Centers (VREC) has been setup at Deputy Commissioner and District Election Officer office at Zunheboto HQ, SDO (Civil) and AERO office Akuluto Sub-Division and SDO (Civil) and AERO office Suruhuto Sub-Division. Therefore any queries relating with electoral roll and National Election Roll Purification and Authentication Programme (NERPAP) can be clarified from the above centers by all concerned.

DC Zbto informs on aadhar

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zunhEboto, March 31 (DIPr): Deputy Commissioner Zunheboto Temsu Longkumer NCS informed all the co-ordination (BLOs) and members of village/ward/awareness/group and booth awareness to hold a meeting in connection with AADHAR distribution and AADHAR information collection drive by BLOs and also on measures to make Electoral roll clean. The meeting shall be held on or before April 7 and submit report with attendance sheet containing contact numbers of members. The duplicate/multiple, entries so dictated by the VAG/BAG will be submitted along with the meeting report.

DC Zunheboto informs zunhEboto, March 31 (DIPr): Deputy Commissioner Zunheboto Temsu Longkumer NCS informed all recognized political parties, supervisors, ward/village awareness group and campus ambassadors that a meeting cum training will be held at the DC’s conference hall Zunheboto on April 8. All are therefore informed to attend the meeting. The ward/ VAG/BAG are also informed to submit report of the meeting held at the booth level as earlier informed Vide this office letter NO: ELE-Zbto/REV-4/2015 dated Zunheboto 20th March 2015.

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DFO Phek informs PhEk, March 31 (DIPr): DFO Phek has informed all the Eco Clubs Teacher-in-Charge under Phek District to meet the DFO/Staff in charge at the Office of the Divisional Forest Officer, Phek for receipt of NGC amount for the year 2014-15 along with the following items: NGC Report of the previous year; Photographs of the activities done (hard/ soft copy); Official Seal of Eco Club/NGC. DFO added that no Teacher-inCharge will be entertained without the above items.

Info to appoint BLAs zunhEboto, March 31 (DIPr): Deputy Commissioner and District Election Officer, Zunheboto Temsu Longkumer NCS in a notification informs all the recognised political parties that the Election Commission of India (ECI) desires that the political party appoint Booth Level Agents (BLAs). Therefore, all are requested to appoint the same for all polling stations and submit report of appointment at the earliest.

JE campaign in Tsg from April 15 tuEnsang, March 31 (MExn): One day workshop for SMOs, MOs, DPMU and BPMU staff for Micro Planning and preparation for JE campaign scheduled from April 15 in Tuensang district was held on March 30 at ECS conference hall. Tuensang Chief Medical officer Dr Pangjung Sangtam in a press release said that the objective of the programme is to fully immunize all children in the age group of 1 to 15 years in the district. The approximate target population is around 64944 children. Dr.Temsu DPO (RCH/UIP) facilitated the training programme. All parents, guardians have been requested to avail the service during the campaign period to protect the children from the dreaded JE disease.

KPC general body meeting kohIMa, March 31 (MExn): A general body meeting of the Kohima Press Club (KPC) has been convened on April 18 to be held in the conference hall of KPC, Kohima. KPC General Secretary, Alice Yhoshii in a press release said that the main agenda of the meeting is to approve the final draft of the amended constitution of the press club submitted by the Review Committee. In addition, membership drive will commence following the meeting. In this regard, all the members of KPC have been informed to attend the meeting compulsorily. Members are asked to treat this press release as official invitation.

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A three-day long XI General Conference of All Naga Students’ Association Manipur (ANSAM) kicked-off here on Tuesday at the Tangkhul Naga Long Ground. A magnificent monolith was unveiled on the occasion by the chief guest, MLA, 44-Ukhrul constituency, Samuel Risom. The plaque on the monolith read “The XI ANSAM General Conference – Shared Future: Our Collective Responsibility.” Guest of honour for the event MLA Victor Nunghlung hoisted the ANSAM flag. A large number of students from different school and colleges, delegates from Nagaland and other communities of the state

were also present at the event. Different troupes in traditional attires performed folk dances which enthralled the crowd. A troupe from Tangkhul Katamnao Saklong performed Luivat Pheichak, a time-honoured Tangkhul folk dance, during the inaugural session of the ANSAM general conference while the Inpui Students’ Union also performed a traditional folk dance, Taren Kaloi. Noted folk singer Guru Rewben Mashangva presented beautiful songs at the opening of the event which will end on April 2. Nagaland Chief Minister TR Zeliang was supposed to grace the event as the chief guest but did not make it to the programme and on his behalf, NPF MLA Samuel Risom attended as chief guest. On behalf of TR Ze-

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Tripura government ZUF levels charges against NSCN (IM) employees to get more pay

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guWaHaTI, MarcH 31 (PTI): Assam government will bring in a special Act to rein in the operations of private schools, which are allegedly charging exorbitant fees and not giving salaries to teachers as per norms. Replying to a query by AGP MLA Keshab Mahanta during the Question Hour, Education Minister Sarat Borkotoky said private English medium schools are not following the norms regulated to building, land, safety, fees structure and salaries of teachers among others. "I will talk to the Chief Minister and see how to handle this. We will try to control them by enacting a special Act," Borkotoky said. He alleged the schools do not even respond to any communication by the Ministers. "They charge very high fees from students but still do not give salaries to teachers as per norms. Most of the schools are also not following set rules in appointment of teachers like B Ed qualified faculty members," Borkotoky said. He said currently 1,167 private schools, excluding play schools, and 420 private junior colleges are in the state.

Kharing Kharak Pheichak (dance of livelihood) performed by Reisang Youth Club, Talui representing Tangkhul Katamnao Saklong (TKS) during the XI ANSAM conference at Ukhrul.

liang, a message given on the occasion was read out by Risom. In the message, Zeliang expressed regret for not being able to attend it due to the financial year ending and other

agarTaLa, MarcH 31 (IaNS): To pacify its aggrieved employees seeking central government pay scales, the Tripura government on Tuesday announced higher pay scales and allowances for its 161,000 employees. "Despite our severe financial crisis, the government has decided to give higher pay scales to its employees at par with the award of the sixth central pay commission recommendation... except DA (dearness allowance)," Chief Minister Manik Sarkar told reporters. He said: "Taking into account other unresolved issues, it has been decided to provide the benefit for the purpose of fixation of pay notionally by allow-

emergency works that had cropped up during the past few days. “These days, the students are not merely the leaders of tomorrow,” Zeliang’s message read. It

ing three percent annual increment with effect from January 2006 and financial benefit from April 2015." He said that to implement the higher pay scales, Rs.339 crore would be incurred in 2015-16 fiscal and Rs.407-645 crore would be required in the subsequent financial years until 2019-20. Sarkar said that due to the financial crunch, the state government could not give the dearness allowance to its employees at par with the central government. Currently, state government employees and pensioners get dearness allowance of 69 percent while the central government employees get 107 percent.

said that over the years, Naga students have always been playing active roles in the socio-political struggle, which has been going on for more than six decades. Zeliang urged, “Let me

remind everybody that solution to the Naga political issue is not the prerogative of any individual or organization, but the concern of all Nagas as a whole.” The message appealed

DILuNg, MarcH 31 (MExN): The Zeliangrong United Front has claimed that the NSCN (IM) is brutalising villagers in the pretext of Naga Nationalism. A press release from the ZUF Information & Publicity Secretary L. Longmei claiming this further alleged that the NSCN (IM) continues to forcefully use villagers as sentry, “shamelessly drag away and loot villagers’ rations, pigs, dogs, chickens” of Soubunglong, Taosang, Lungrang and the vicinity villages at “gun point.” The release informed that on March 30, there was a fierce gun battle between ZUF and NSCN (IM) at Taosang Khunou in Tamenglong. ZUF claimed that one Joshua Thangal of the NSCN (IM) was killed in the shootout and the body of the deceased was attended to by the villagers of Taosang Khu-

nou. Several other NSCN (IM) cadres were also injured, ZUF claimed. ZUF alleged that the NSCN (IM), in the recent past, has been sharing a temporary camp with the Gurkha Regiment stationed at Taosang to cordon the influence of the front. “The Indian security force continues to join hands with NSCN-IM in hunting the cadres of the Front,” ZUF alleged. The front claimed that in one instance, a village authority, Bamsuang Kamei s/o Lt. Gaigengpou Kamei, was beaten black and blue by the Gurkha Regiment falsely charging him of supplying food to cadres of the Front. Kamei is now undergoing treatment at RIMS, ZUF informed. Claiming that there was a “large presence” of Gurkha Regiment and NSCN (IM), both in the village and surrounding jungles, the Front stated that this has pre-

Mizoram to protest frequent changes of guvs Garo rebel leader killed, camp busted in Meghalaya

aIzaWL, MarcH 31 (IaNS): The students' organisations in Mizoram will hold protests here next week against frequent changes of governors in the state, a statement said on Tuesday. The Congress-ruled Mizoram has the odd distinction of having seen seven governors in eight months. Mizo Zirlai Pawl (MZP) or the Mizo Students Federation (MSF), the apex body of student organisations in the state, announced it would hold demonstrations and blockade central government

offices here and organise protest rallies during President Pranab Mukherjee's visit on April 9 and 10. "The spate of sackings and transfers of Mizoram governors is 'disrespectful' and shows how the central government looks down upon Mizos," MZP general secretary Ramdinliana Renthlei said in a statement. "The MZP cannot quietly accept the fact that the Centre uses the state to dump those governors it dislikes or wants to resign. Our land is not a place where you can just throw what you consider

garbage," he added. The MZP said it would protest outside Raj Bhavan here when West Bengal Governor Keshari Nath Tripathi, who has been given additional charge of Mizoram after incumbent Governor Aziz Qureshi was sacked on Saturday, arrives for the swearingin ceremony. "The MZP would also lay siege to all central government offices in Aizawl to stop employees from entering buildings for work and put up black flags on all buildings accommodating these offices," the statement said.

SHILLoNg, MarcH 3 1 ( I a N S ) : Sp e cial Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) commandos of Meghalaya on Tuesday busted a Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA) hideout, killing its top commander in a fierce gun battle, police said. The militant was identified as Kiljang Sangma alias Jangjang, the GNLA's eastern command area commander, who masterminded the killing of tribal Garo woman Josbina M. Sangma after she resisted

an alleged bid to rape her. The gun battle broke out in the GNLA's hideout in a thick forest area near Nengkhra village in East Garo Hills district, district police chief Davies N.R. Marak told IANS. Nengkhra village is about 18 km from Williamnagar, the district headquarters of East Garo Hills. One AK rifle and a cache of ammunition, some documents and Bangladeshi currency notes were recovered from the site.

Assam dragging its feet on illegal Bangladeshi migrants: SC NEW DELHI, MarcH 31 (PTI): The Supreme Court today slammed the Assam government for "dragging its feet" and rejected its "vague" and "highly unsatisfactory" affidavit on the steps taken regarding the influx of illegal Bangladesh nationals through the porous IndoBangla border in the state. The apex court expressed "displeasure over the conduct of the state government" and questioned its "seriousness" in taking steps to comply with its December 17 directions. "The affidavit of Assam Government is highly unsatisfactory. It is not only vague but the officer has no exposure to ground reality. We refuse to accept the affidavit. We are expressing displeasure over the conduct of the state government," a bench comprising Justices Ranjan Gogoi and RF Nariman said. The bench directed the Chief Secretary to file a "meaningful affidavit" within a week on the steps taken in pursuant to its December 17, 2014 order. The bench said the failure to file a proper affidavit would lead to calling of the state's chief secretary for explanation. It also directed the Assam Government to apprise it about the steps taken to comply with its direction to meet the deadline of January 2016 for updating of the National Register of Citizens (NRC). At the outset, the bench expressed its anguish over the affidavit filed by a junior offi-

cial and asked "does he know anything what is going on?" "See the seriousness with which this matter is treated," it said adding that "shall we call this man and ask what is there in the affidavit? Does he know what is there?" The bench was also at pain to say that despite assurances 500 police units and task force to detect illegal migrants have not been activated within a month. "Affidavit says that steps taken for constitution of 500 units of task force, but they are not yet in place," the bench observed, noting that three months have passed since the judgement was delivered with a slew of directions both for the state and the Centre. "The fact has been that you have dragged your feet. We will say your affidavit is highly unsatisfactory worth not accepting. We will call your chief secretary. This is not the way. You have dragged your feet for years and years and still dragging," the bench observed during the hearing. The anguished bench also asked the Centre to place on record the steps taken by it to comply with various directions like fencing of border,border patrolling and night patrolling. The bench said the Centre would specifically spell out the "scheme for deportation" of illegal migrants and posted the matter after two weeks. The court had earlier asked the Centre to detect and deport all illegal migrants who have come to Assam after March 25, 1971. It, however, had said

that the foreigners, who came to India between Jannuary 1, 1966 to March 24, 1971, be awarded citizenship as per law. The apex court on December 17 last had directed the Centre to complete fencing work along the IndoBangla border within three months to check cross-border influx of illegal Bangladesh nationals into Assam and streamline the process to deport them back. It had also asked the Centre to hold discussions with the Bangladesh government for ensuring that illegal migrants be sent back and passed a slew of directions in this regard. "We are at a loss to understand why 67 years after Independence, the eastern border is left porous," it had said adding, "We have been reliably informed that the entire western border with Pakistan being 3300-kmslong, is not only properly fenced but properly manned as well and is not porous at any point." The bench had directed the Centre to take all effective steps to complete the "fencing (double-coiled wire fencing) in such parts/ portions of the Indo-Bangla border (including Assam) where presently the fencing is yet to be completed to prevent illegal access to the country from Bangladesh." The bench had also said that vigil along the riverine boundary should be "effectively maintained by continuous patrolling. "Such part of the international border which has

been perceived to be inhospitable on account of the difficult terrain will be patrolled and monitored at vulnerable points that could provide means of illegal entry." The apex court had also directed that motorable roads alongside the international border, wherever incomplete or have not yet been built, should be laid so as to enable effective and

intensive patrolling. Taking note of the existing mechanism for deportation and international protocol, it had directed the Centre to enter into necessary discussions with Bangladesh government to streamline the procedure of deportation. The apex court verdict had come on the pleas of Assam Sanmilita Mahasangha, Assam Public Works and All

to all Naga citizens and Naga organizations and civil societies to unite for the common Naga cause and to collectively work for the peace process, and for the peaceful resolution of the Naga political issue. Zeliang further urged the educated and talented Naga youth to look forward to self-employment and entrepreneurship instead of being employed in a white coloured job under the state Government which is already saturated. Alternately, they (Naga youth) can look forward to jobs in the Central Government and in private sectors, the Nagaland CM said in his message. ANSAM central organizing committee convenor Alung Rungsung and executive council president Seth Shatsang also spoke on the occa-

sion. The ANSAM leaders talked about the theme of the general conference —“Share Future: Our Collective Responsibility” and stressed on the need to collectively fight for the rights of the Nagas and their common aspiration. A discourse on the theme will take place on Wednesday. The panelist for the discourse are: Dr Tuisem Shimrah, Assistant Professor, University School of Environment Mgmt, GGSIP University, New Delhi, Dr Joseph Kuba, Regional Director, IGNOU, Arunachal Pradesh and Armstrong Pame, IAS, Joint Secretary, TA & Hills/PHED, Manipur. Tongpang Ozukum, President, Naga Students’ Federation (NSF) will grace the valedictory function as special guest later in the evening.

vented villagers from going to the fields. Many villagers of surrounding areas have fled their villages, particularly Taosang, which looks deserted, ZUF stated. ZUF stated that the Gurkha Regiment joining hands with the NSCN (IM) is a “seditious measure” of some vested politicians. ZUF also questioned the NSCN (IM) if fighting the ZUF would bring a solution to the vexed Naga problem. Noting that in the recent past, the Zeliangrong area has seen an unexpected rise in chaos and insecurity, ZUF stated that it is closely monitoring the situation. “The Front will deal to whosoever without any hesitation if they don’t refrain from their evil ways,” ZUF warned. It further warned that the NSCN (IM) and the politicians shall be held responsible for any untoward circumstances in the future.

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New Delhi, March 31 (PTi): The Income Tax department on Tuesday took to the strategy of ‘naming and shaming’ of some large tax defaulters as it published names of 18 entities who owe over Rs 500 crore tax to the exchequer. “The step is aimed to publicise and put these names in public domain so that the common man can come forward to help the department in knowing the whereabouts of these. The step is to enhance public awareness against these entities who are acting against law. These names were earlier were put up the department’s website earlier,” a senior I-T officer said. Newspapers on Tuesday carried the names of the tax defaulters and the data published was quoted to have been published by the Principal Chief Commissioner of Income Tax (Administration) based in

the national capital. Adopting an aggressive approach, government had for the first time gone public with names of 18 tax defaulters, including Goldsukh Trade and Somani Cements which, according to I-T, have turned wilful defaulters. In a bid to force them these entities paying their dues, the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) had asked the I-T department to post on its website, few days back, the names of 18 defaulters, of whom 11 are based in Gujarat. “Defaulters are advised to pay tax arrears immediately,” said the notice. The department, in the public notice, has provided the PAN number and the last known address of these defaulters for the public to know,” the official added. The official said periodically the department has been proposing “naming and shaming” of wilful

defaulters and the step has now been taken on the last day of the current financial year on Tuesday. The companies in the list include Somani Cement with tax arrears of Rs 27.47 crore, Blue Information Technology (Rs 75.11 cr), Appletech Solutions (Rs 27.07 cr), Jupiter Business (Rs 21.31 cr) and Hirak Biotech (Rs 18.54 cr). The other Gujaratbased companies which figured in the defaulters list include Icon Bio Pharma & Healthcare Ltd (Rs 17.69 cr), Banyan & Berry Alloys (Rs 17.48 cr), Laxminarayan T Thakkar (Rs 12.49 cr), Virag Dyeing & Printing (Rs 18.57 cr), Poonam Industries (Rs 15.84 cr), Kunvar Ajay Food Pvt Ltd (Rs 15 cr). Besides, names of Jaipur-based Goldsukh Trade India (Rs 75.47 cr), Kolkata-based Victor Credit & Construction (Rs 13. 81 cr), Mumbai-based Noble Merchandise (Rs 11.93 cr)

are also there in the list. The list also includes the legal heir of Punebased GK Dharne involving a tax default of Rs 38.31 crore. India misses this year’s direct tax collection target Government’s direct tax mop-up is set to miss the revised target for the 201415 fiscal as the collection so far has been only about Rs 6,30,000 crore, an I-T department official said. Keeping in view of the sluggish rise in collection, the government had revised downwards its target at Rs 7,05,000 crore for the current fiscal, after initially having budgeted Rs 7,36,000 crore in the direct tax mop-up. The department may not be able to achieve even the revised target, the official said, adding as on March 24 the department had collected only Rs 6,30,000 crore from

across the country, up Rs 5,83,000 crore during the corresponding period last fiscal, thus showing a growth of 8.2%. Mumbai continued to be the largest centre for income tax collection and mopped up Rs 1,99,426 crore so far, but the I-T Department has a target to mop up Rs 2.30 trillion from Mumbai this fiscal out of the direct tax collection target of Rs 7.04 trillion for FY15. The Delhi circle collected Rs 96,722 crore as against Rs 86,619 crore during the corresponding period last fiscal, registering a growth of 11.7%, the official said. The official blamed the likelihood of lower than projected target of direct tax collection to certain sectors like manufacturing which have not been able to do well in the sluggish country’s economic growth.

SaN FraNciScO, March 31 (aFP): Google said Monday it was updating its mobile Gmail app for Android device users to allow them to manage multiple email accounts from a single program. “Starting today, you’ll be able to view all your mail at once, regardless of which account it’s from, using the new ‘All Inboxes’ option,” Google software engineer Regis Decamps said in a blog post. The new app will aggregate email from rival services such as Yahoo and Microsoft Outlook, among others. Gmail had allowed users to access multiple accounts from desktop computers, but the new app aims to seamlessly integrate the various email services in a unified inbox with search and preview capability.

New Delhi, March 31 (PTi): The new Foreign Trade Policy, scheduled to be unveiled Wednesday, will focus on promoting service exports and giving fillip to the manufacturing sector as part of the government’s ‘Make in India’ campaign. The FTP, which is being announced at a time when India’s exports are declining, may extend interest subsidy scheme and other incentives for labour intensive sectors such as leath-

India’s end-Dec external debt MuMbai, March 31 (reuTerS): External debt stood at $461.9 bn as of end-December, up 3.5% from end-March 2014, the government said in a release on Tuesday. India’s external debt-to-gross domestic product (GDP) ratio stood at 23.2% as of end-December, compared with 23.7% as of end-March 2014. The country’s short-term debt fell 6.7% from March-end 2014 to $85.6 bn as of December-end, while long-term debt rose 6.1% to $376.4 bn, the statement from finance ministry said.

A farmer holds a French flag and a plastic cow during a demonstration against the lifting of milk quotas in front of the European Parliament in Brussels on Tuesday, March 31. Dairy farmers hit the streets of Brussels to protest against the lifting European Union milk quotas amid concern the move will flood the market with surplus milk. (AP Photo)

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With regard to chit funds, the service tax will be paid by the chit fund foremen at full consideration received by way of fee, commission or any such amount. They, however, would be entitled to claim Cenvat credit. As part of the rationalisation programme, construction services will be exempted from payment of the levy from April 1, 2015 if the service is provided to the government with regard to historical monument, irrigation work, water supply and sewage treatment plant. Exemption provided to construction, erection, commissioning or installation of original works pertaining to an airport or port will be withdrawn from April 1. Services provided by folk or classical artists will be exempted from the levy provided the amount charged is less than Rs 1 lakh. Service tax exemption to transportation of ‘food stuff’ by rail, or vessels or road will be limited to transportation of foodgrains, including rice and pulses, flours, milk and salt only. The transport of other items, however, will become expensive

er and handicrafts. Besides services sector, it would focus on standards and branding of products and also take care of World Trade Organisations’s rule and free trade agreements. The new FTP (2015-2020) would have a total of 9 chapters including a separate one on services exports. The policy is likely to announce steps to improve ease of doing business in the country and Digital India initiatives. As part of ease of doing

business, the commerce ministry has reduced paper work and permitted online submission of documents to take Import-Export Code number, which is must for a trader. India’s exports in 2013-14 fall short of the USD 325 bn target and managed to reach USD 312.35 bn. The country’s exports stood at USD 300.4 bn in 2012-13. Falling for the straight third month, India’s exports declined steeply by over 15% to USD 21.54 bn in February.

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New Delhi, March 31 (PTi): Entry tickets to museums, zoo and tiger reserves would become cheaper, while business class air travel, investment in MFs and chit funds would become expensive with some of the service tax proposals announced in the Budget coming into effect from tomorrow. The proposals which will come into effect from April 1, 2015 include tax exemption granted to services like admission to a museum, zoo, national park, wild life sanctuary and a tiger reserve. Similarly, life insurance scheme Varishtha Pension Bima Yojna, ambulance service, retail packing of fruits and vegetables, too will not attract service tax levy. On the other hand, air travel will become expensive as service tax will now be levied on 60 per cent of the value of the ticket as against 40 per cent presently. Services provided by Mutual Fund (MF) agents, marketing of lottery tickets, departmentally-run public telephone and free telephone calls from airport and hospitals will be subject to payment of service tax.

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New Delhi, March 31 (reuTerS): Locally produced gas in India will cost 8% less during April-September, the government said in a statement on Tuesday, due to a decline in global prices. India in November introduced a new gas-pricing formula and raised the local prices by a third. The formula links the prices of locally produced gas with those in the US, Canada, UK and Russia. Prices will be cut to $4.66 per mn British thermal units (mmBtu) in the first half of next fiscal year from April on gross heat value basis. It will cost about $5.18/mmbtu on a net heat value basis compared with $5.61/mBtu now.

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MuMbai, March 31 (reuTerS): India’s benchmark BSE Sensex will recover from a recent dip to set a record high this year but analysts are less bullish than they were three months ago, a Reuters poll found. The Sensex fell to a 10-week low last week and closed at 27,975.86 on Monday but the poll of 21 analysts taken in the past week forecast it would recover to 29,500 by mid-year and reach a record high of 32,000 by the end of December. The mid-year consensus is a 500-point drop from a poll in December amid fears corporate earnings could miss expectations. And while the index is expected to bounce more than 14 percent by the year-end, that is also less than expected in December. Analysts identified the implementation of a goods and services tax (GST) and land purchase reforms as other big factors for the stock market.

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The GST would for the first time transform Asia’s third-largest economy into a single market, streamlining a myriad of state taxes in a bid to make it easier to do business. The land acquisition bill would make it easier for businesses to buy land but it has met opposition from farmers. The two reforms, if passed, would give the biggest boost to the financial services industry and be welcomed by manufacturers after industrial activity fell to a five-month low in February, the poll found. Uncertainty over the timing of a U.S. interest rate rise is another risk for the Sensex. Foreign investors have played a key role in India’s bull market, pumping in $16.1 billion in 2014 and $5.8 billion so far this year, but worries about foreign selling have spooked markets in recent weeks.

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NPF (N) reiterates on Indo-Naga peace talk Dimapur, march 31 (mExN): The NPF led by Noke Wangnao today reiterated its stand to play the role of active facilitator in the ongoing peace process. In its Central Executive Council emergency meeting held here today, the party appealed to the negotiating parties of the Indo-Naga political peace dialogue, especially the Government of India, to expedite the negotiations and bring about an early political settlement that is honorable and acceptable to the people. “We stand by our commitment to pave way for any alternative arrangement that may come about as declared in our election manifesto,” stated the meeting resolution, which was released to the media by convenor, Resolution Committee, CM Chang and President Noke Wangnao. The NPF (Noke) also expressed concern over the recent incidents of violence in Nagaland and appealed

to all sections and organizations to shun violence and come forward under a spirit of unity and reconciliation and work together to bring permanent peace and progress in the interest of the people. Acknowledging the direction of the Election Commission of India for the party to amicably resolve the internal crisis, the house also endorsed the President to “pursue the need for unity and reconciliation within the NPF family in the greater interest of the people, the party and the peace process.” It further appreciated the concern and appeal of the Naga civil societies for the NPF groups to reconcile. The party further acknowledged the direction of the Election Commission of India on the NPF Constitution and authorized the President to summon the General Convention of the NPF in compliance with the ECI direction and as per constitutional provisions.

Wednesday 1 April 2015

Youth urged to utilise social media in right way Workshop on social media for empowerment held in Kohima Our correspondent Kohima | March 31

The Digital Empowerment Foundation, New Delhi in collaboration with American Centre, New Delhi and supported by YouthNet Nagaland conducted a one day workshop on “Social Media for Empowerment” here today at Hotel Vivor. Gracing the inaugural function, MLA Mmhonlumo Kikon stressed on the need for every individual to be well verse with the impact of social media. He also requested the youth to use social media in the right way and give intellectual, thoughtful and constructive suggestions so as to bring a positive change and progressive society. Kikon called upon the youth to do homework be-

MLA Mmhonlumo Kikon speaking during the workshop.

fore they give comments and suggestions on social media so as to bring solution to many arising issues and at the same time to avoid placing random comment/opinion. He also called upon the youth to use social media

in an honest and effective manner, which would in turn contribute good to the society and for greater enhancement and strengthening of democracy in India. Among the many topics covered in the workshop included “Overview on potential of social media in north east with respect to government policies,” “Status of social media from a national perspective and reflecting on how social media has been the reason and solution for crisis in north east at different times,” “Social media, enablers for smarter government & progressive society,” “The status and power of social media and how it can be used in north east,” “The international perspective- overview on social media worldwide,”

“YouthNet and its social network message” and how NGOs and other organizations can adopt social media as an effective tool for communication and outreach. The speakers of the workshop included Ravi Gupta, Deputy Programme Director, Media & Communications, Digital Empowerment Foundation; Lawrence Migliolo, Barefoot College; Dr. Tali Ao; Yanpvuo Kikon; Sunny Sharma; Amba Jamir; and Lezo Putsure. The purpose of the workshop was to engage NGOs, organizations, alternative media, bloggers and social media enthusiasts. It also aimed to facilitate individuals/organizations in using social media for self development and also sharing best practices.

BJP Nagaland welcomes new members

Kohima Village Youth Organization (KVYO) assists Kohima Traffic Police during traffic awareness week in Kohima. The awareness week will continue till April 2. (Morung Photo)

Kohima police seize liquor Kohima, march 31 (mExN): The combined team of District Intelligence Branch (DIB) and Mobile Unit of DEF Kohima seized 50 cases of IMFL from a Mahindra Scorpio bearing registration number NL-01/C-3814 at PHQ point, Kohima on March 31 around 6:30 am. The consignment consisted of 29 cases of Foster Beer (500 ml), 1 case of Blenders Pride (750 ml), 8 cases of Kingfisher beer (500

ml), and 12 cases of MC Rum, informed a release issued by SDPO/PRO, Kohima Police Atu Zumvü in a release. In this connection, three persons, namely Satish Singh (25), Safdar Ali (43), and Kananya Kumar (15) were taken into police custody and a regular case vide Kohima South P.S Case No. 0042/15 U/S 44 (a) NLTP Act was registered against them for conducting further investigation, it added.

Procession in Dimapur to mark Mahavir Jayanti Dimapur, march 31 (mExN): The general public of Dimapur has been informed that on the occasion of Lord Mahavir’s birth anniversary – Mahavir Jayanti, on April 2 (Thursday), a procession will be held starting 10:00 am from Dimapur Jain Temple passing through Ram Janaki Road, GS Road, Kalibari Road, and culminate at Jain Temple by 11.00 am.

Permission in this regard has already been obtained from appropriate authorities, a press release from Sanjay Sethi, Information and Publicity Secretary, Shri Digambar Jain Samaj Dimapur informed. The Samaj expressed regret for the inconvenience, if any, to the commuters, while extending gratitude to the people of Dimapur for their co-operation as ever.

Dimapur, march 31 (mExN): The BJP Nagaland State unit on Tuesday welcomed the new members who had joined from Congress in a special meeting held at Hotel Saramati, which was attended by hundreds of BJP party workers from different districts across Nagaland and BJP legislators. In a press statement, BJP media cell said that

President Dr. Chuba Ao thanked the newcomers from various political parties, especially the Congress and NCP, and other new entrants of the party. Dr. Chuba also encouraged all the people of the State to get enrolled in the party. He also informed the party workers that the BJP national president Amit Shah will be visiting the State. The new members in-

lator from 38 Wokha briefed the gathering on the importance of being in the party. He also encouraged and urged the party workers to have the sense of belonging and have ownership of being in the party, the release stated. Others who spoke on the occasion included KH Khulu, retired Addl. Chief Secretary, Nagaland, Johnny Rengma, and various former candidates.

Viswema organizations condemn murder Kohima, march 31 (mExN): The Viswema Students’ Union, Kohima has condemned the “heinous and brutal” murder of Tepumecie (Meciebo) Lcho by unknown person(s) on the night of March 29. The students’ union in a press statement issued by its president Puvito Neikha demanded the law enforcement agencies to nab and penalize the persons responsible with befitting punishment at the earliest. The Viswema Students’ Union further extended deepest sympathy and condolences to the bereaved family. The Viswema Youth Organisation (VYO) has also condemned the brutal assassination of Tepumecie (Meciebo) Lcho on March 29. VYO president Eyosa and general secretary Puleto

Rhütso termed the murder as an “act of cowardice” and urged the law enforcing authorities to book and penalise the persons involved with befitting punishment. It further conveyed condolences to the bereaved family and also expressed heartfelt gratitude to the personnel of North Police Station, Chiephobozou Police Station and the people of Merema village for the timely help and prompt action in recovering the dead body and notifying the incident to the near and dear ones of the victim. Meanwhile, the union of Viswema people residing in Kohima (Viswema Kewhira Kelhouko Krotho) has expressed pain and shock over the gruesome murder of its member Tepumecie Lcho. A press release from the president and general secretary

of VKKK said that Tepumecie lived with his aged parents at Agriculture colony in Kohima and took care of the family by running a small shop. “To the best of our knowledge, his family members, neighbors and friends, he was a good natured young man who was liked by all in his neighborhood and had no involvement in any undesirable activities,” it stated. “Even on the night or the previous days before he was murdered he showed no indications of worry nor expressed apprehensions of any trouble to either his parents or family members.” The union said that according to his family, Tepumecie received a phone call around 10:00 pm “summoning” him to come to some place. “The conversation with the caller was also

reported to be friendly and he had said that he would come at once. That was the last the family saw him alive,” the release added. VKKK expressed hope that the investigation will soon reveal why he was murdered and by whom. It also lauded the police personnel and the citizens of Merema village for bringing back the body and at the same time extended sorrow to the parents and family members of Tepumecie. Stating that the “heinous and abominable” act upon Tepumecie is also an affront to the people of Viswema, the union asserted it will not tolerate such barbarism nor take it lying down. “We shall see that this case is solved and the perpetrators justly punished according to the law.”

ENPO urges NPF to resolve crisis Dimapur, march 31 (mExN): The Eastern Nagaland Peoples’ Organisation (ENPO) today lamented that the political crisis within the Naga Peoples’ Front (NPF) is “paralysing the developmental activity and the smooth functioning of the administrative machinery of the state.” A press note from the ENPO President, S Khoiwang Konyak and General Secretary, Manlang Phom stated that this is causing enormous hardships and untold sufferings to the common man. Elected members,

the ENPO asserted, are accountable for the day today living condition and general welfare of the common people. It cautioned that if the internal crisis of the NPF is prolonged further, it would “invite many unwanted situations in the state which will affect the lives of both the ruler and the ruled negatively.” The ENPO urged the party to resolve the crisis within the party as also put forth by the Election Commission of India (ECI), and “reconcile at the earliest in the spirit of brotherhood.”

MEx FILE CM extends Aoleang and Monyiu greetings Dimapur, march 31 (mExN): Chief Minister of Nagaland TR Zeliang has extended warm greetings on the auspicious occasion of Aoleang and Monyiu celebrated by Konyak and Phom tribes respectively. Zeliang hoped that the weeklong festive occasion, which begins on April 1, will fulfill the hopes and aspirations of all the people and usher in happiness, good fortune and prosperity among the Nagas, and especially the Konyak and Phom community. He further wished both the communities a happy and peaceful celebration.

Bethesda YWC office relocated Dimapur, march 31 (mExN): Bethesda Youth Welfare Centre has informed that the location of the Duncan drop in centre (DIC), Opiod Substitution Therapy (OST), and Integrated Care Centre (ICC) has been shifted to KIP-YAN Complex, House no. 42, Duncan Basti, Lengijan Road. The communities accessing harm reduction services, Opiod Substitution Therapy (OST), and Integrated Care Centre (ICC) service have been requested to avail services from the new location with effect from April 1, 2015.

Ballot papers to have photograph of candidate Kohima, march 31 (mExN): Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) of Nagaland has informed that as per the Election Commission of India letter No. 576/ 31 2015/ SDR dated March 16, 2015, the postal ballot papers, ordinary ballot papers, and ballot papers to be displayed on the balloting unit of the EVM shall, in addition to the particulars as per the existing directions, contain the photograph of the candidate starting from elections to be held in May 2015. CEO Sanjay Kumar in a release informed that the photograph of the candidate shall be printed on the panel for the name of the candidate and shall appear on the right side of the name in between the name and symbol of the candidate. Candidates are required to submit their recent photograph (taken during the preceding period of 3 months before the

date of notification); the photograph should be of stamp size 2 cm X 2.5 cm (2 cm in breadth & 15 cm in height) in white/ offwhite background, with full face view directly facing the camera, neutral facial expression with eyes open. The photo may be in colour or black and white as may be convenient for the candidate. Photograph should be in normal clothing; photograph in uniform is not permitted. Caps/ hats and dark glasses should be avoided, the release added. The candidates at every election shall be required to submit their photograph conforming to the above requirements/ specifications along with their nomination papers and, in any case, latest by the date fixed for scrutiny of nominations, it was informed. The photograph should also bear the signature of the candidate/ election agent on the reverse side.

TNAI Nagaland branch mourns First Catholic missionary to Nagaland honoured Kohima, march 31 (mExN): The Trained Nurses Association of India (TNAI), Nagaland branch has mourned the sudden tragic death of Akumla, FHW, and her daughter in Mon town recently. TNAI

Nagaland branch in a condolence message issued by its secretary Khuniho conveyed heartfelt condolence to the bereaved family and prayed that Almighty grant eternal peace to the departed soul.

Public SPace Peace and sovereignty is indivisible: Lt. Gen Niki Sumi

n the context of Naga struggle, peace and sovereignty is indivisible component. Clamouring for peace without even an inclination to discuss sovereignty issue or resolution of sovereignty is only farce and any settlement or solution short of sovereignty would only be a betrayal of Nagas historical and political legacy. The detractors of NSCN/GPRN accusing us of being anti-peace and anti-ceasefire must realise that the 14 years of ceasefire with government of India has only been psychological ploy on the part of government of India to undermine and demoralise the patriotic spirit and fervour of the Nagas. It must be understood that not a single time the government of India has expressed courtesy to discuss Naga sovereignty issue and sovereignty being the only basis of the Nagas struggle it is only futile to contin-

cluded Mughato Achumi, former INC candidate, 32 Atoziu PCC member & general secretary NPCC; Joshua Swu, former president, NPYC; Honito Achumi, retired SDO; Pito Achumi, active member, NPYC; Kakivi Sumi, active member, NPYC; Kiqheho Sumi, active member, NPYC; Honito H Achumi, active member, NPYC. Dr. TM Lotha, BJP legis-

Dimapur

ue extension of ceasefire. On NSCN/GPRN chairman S.S. Khaplang’s credential being questioned by few Indian sponsored agents who were recently expelled from NSCN/GPRN, it is to be reminded that they themselves have admitted recently to media that they regard S.S. Khaplang as their “messiah”. However, when S.S. Khaplang directed them to abrogate the ceasefire, realising that their comfortable and easy way of life on the pretext of maintaining peace was at the end they opted to condemn S.S. Khaplang. S.S. Khaplang has singlehandedly been weighing liberation war against India and Myanmar for more than 50 years even when all his contemporary compatriots abandoned him and fell victim to the lure of government of India. With the dawn of democracy in Myanmar and restructuring of Myanmar Union into autonomous

democratic units, the Nagas under S.S. Khaplang led GPRN were invited on several occasions to join the union of Myanmar. However, S.S. Khaplang refused the offer and even boycotted the first Myanmar democratic elections in the Naga areas. It was only after constant demand from the Nagas of Myanmar to give peaceful political dialogue a chance, S.S. Khaplang complied to an unconditional ceasefire with Myanmar government and therefore if S.S. Khaplang’s entry into ceasefire with Myanmar and consequent setting up of his thatch hut at the bank of River Teka is to be considered comfortable, the so called Naga nationalists living five star life across India and abroad at the pretext of pursuing peace must think twice and contemplate on any solution that is short of sovereignty. Lt. Gen Niki Sumi, NSCN/GPRN Military Supervisor, Nagaland.

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Kohima, march 31 (mExN): On the occasion of Chrism Mass, Rev. Sr. Guadalupe, the first Catholic missionary to Nagaland was felicitated at Mary Help of Christians Cathedral, Kohima on March 31. Sr. Guadalupe is one of the two sisters, belonging to the congregation of the Society of Christ Jesus, known as Spanish sisters, who volunteered to serve as nurse in Naga Hospital in the year 1948, according to a release issued by Fr. Thomas Toretkiu, Secretary to Bishop, Kohima. The Diocese of Kohima invited Rev. Sr. Guadalupe as the Catholic Church celebrated the ‘Year of Consecrated Life’ to appreciate and felicitate her for sowing the seed of Catholic Faith through her service in the hospital. Though advanced in age, she travelled all the way from Tura, Garo Hills, to be part of the celebration. Rev. Sr. Guadalupe recalled with joy the beautiful experience of her service in the Naga hospital and also expressed joy of returning to Nagaland. The release mentioned that the Chrism Mass is one of the most solemn liturgies of the entire Church year. On Tuesday of the Holy Week, every year, the bishop, joined by the priests of

Rev. Sr. Guadalupe, first Catholic missionary to Nagaland.

the diocese, gather at the Cathedral to celebrate the Chrism Mass, in which the parish community and the representatives of the faithful are present. There are two key moments during the Celebration of the Chrism Mass: Firstly, the renewal of the commitment to Priestly Service. The Chrism Mass

serves as moment for priests working in the diocese to renew their commitment to priestly service and to receive the prayers and support of the people. Secondly, the consecration of Holy Chrism and blessing of Holy Oils: the Oil of Catechumens, the Oil of the Sick takes place. These are used during the sacra-

ments in local church. The Chrism Mass, which the Bishop concelebrates with priests and during which he consecrates the Holy Chrism and blesses the other oils, is regarded as among the principal manifestation of the fullness of the Bishop’s Priesthood and as a sign of the close bond with him of the priests. The Chrism Mass, therefore, is a key moment in which the unity of the Bishop with his priests (together, they form the presbyterate) is manifested and renewed, the release said. The Catholic Community of the Cathedral parish, Kohima as well as members of the faithful from neighbouring parishes took part in the solemn celebration. After the solemn liturgical celebration, a felicitation programme was organised to felicitate the priests and Sr. Guadalupe. Meanwhile, the release informed that on March 30, the whole presbyterium (priests working in the diocese) had a general meeting. The morning of March 31 was spent in prayer and reflection. Most Rev. Dr. James Thoppil shared the reflection on the theme “Priesthood and Eucharist”. He said that priesthood has no identity without Eucharist.

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The Power of Truth

The Morung Express WEDnEsDAy 1 APrIl 2015 volumE X IssuE 88

Indigenous People Kaila George

Indigenous people Live their lives Unknown, unsure To a land no longer ours Lost in wars Of long ago Many of us Cultures no more We live in societies Torn from the past It breeds in us all A culture no more We fight our own doubts About cultures lost Who are we really? Natives of this land I speak for those Who believe in their dreams? Only to learn We are heathens of old Land once belonged To the natives of this world Now it belongs to a system That is tainted with wars The wild fields of old Live on in our dreams Dreams that our forefathers bared I'm a native, a warrior Born of this land I fight for the freedom To be indigenous and free I call forth my forefathers To claim to all whom I am An indigenous person Who fights to be free?

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Mazie Nakhro, Ph.D

Waiting for our reign with Christ

Thought-Provoking Question: The best is yet to come. Are you ready? What does God say? Read Revelation 20:6--21:4 One day when Christ returns to earth, He will rule as the King of kings and Lords of lords. The government will be upon His shoulders--that is, His government will not be burdensome or oppressive upon the people (Isa. 9:6). There will no injustice or abuse of power in His domain, for He will rule in perfect righteousness (Jer. 23:5-6; 33:15-16; Mal. 4:2; Isa. 11:45; 16:5; 32:1; 26:2; 46:13; 51:5; 61:3, 11; Ps. 72:1-3, 7; 96:10-13). First, Christ will rule on earth for a thousand years and during this period Satan will be bound up and curse upon the creation removed (Rev. 20:1-6; Rom. 8:19-22; Isa. 11:6-9; 35:9; 65:25). Sickness will be eradicated (Isa. 33:24; Jer. 30:17; Ezek. 34:16), deformity healed (Isa. 29:18-19; 35:3-6; Jer. 31:8; Mic. 4:67; Zeph. 3:19), oppression of any kind gone (Isa. 14:3-6; 42:6-7; 49:8-9; Zech. 9:11-12), and all hunger and thirst known no more (Rev. 7:15-17). There will be a fully developed society to meet all physical needs (Isa. 62:8-9; 65:21-23; Jer. 31:5; Ezek. 48:18-19), and perfect labor situation will produce economic abundance (Isa. 30:23-26; 35:1-2, 7; 65:21-23; Jer. 31:12-14; Ezek. 34:25-29; 36:29-30; Amos 9:13-14; Joel 2:21-27; Mic. 4:4; Zech. 8:12; 9:17). The living saints who go into the millennium in their natural bodies will have children and earth’s population will soar and explode (Isa. 65:20, 23; Jer. 33:22). Children born from these believing parents must be born again but many will not. Instead, they will eventually take side with Satan and rebel against the rule of Christ (Rev. 20:8). Resurrected saints are to have positions of responsibilities in the millennium as a reward (Dan. 12:13; Matt. 19:28; Luke 19:12-19). For example, David will be appointed as a regent over Palestine and will rule over that land as prince (Isa. 55:34; Jer. 30:9; 33:19-21; Ezek. 34:23-24; 37:24-25; Hos. 3:5; Amos 9:11). He is the prince who too will offer memorial sacrifices and worship to the Lord God(Ezek. 45:22; 46:2). But under David will be other subordinate rulers such as nobles and governors, judges and counselors (Jer. 30:21; Isa. 1:26; 32:1; Ezek. 45:8-9; Zech. 3:7; Matt. 19:28). As the King of kings, Jesus will exercise authority over all peoples, nations, and languages of the earth as well (Dan. 2:35; 7:13-14, 27; Zech. 9:10). In fact, the Gentile’s participation in the millennial kingdom is promised in the prophetic Scriptures (Isa. 2:4; 18:1-7; 19:16-25; 45:14; 49:6, 22; 60:1-14; 61:9-11; 62:2; Jer. 3:17; 49:6, 39; Ezek. 38:23; Amos 9:12; Mic. 4:1-2; 7:16-17; Zeph. 2:7, 11; 3:9; Zech. 2:11). They will be subject to the Messiah and to His saints (Rev. 2:26-27; 4:21; 5:10). This is when everyone will bow before Jesus and confess that He is Lord (Phi. 2:9-11). And the nations will make pilgrimage to Jerusalem to worship Him as their King or else they will suffer drought and plagues in their lands (Isa. 42:1; 49:6; 60:3-5; Obad. 21; Zech. 8:20-23; 14:16-19). After the rule of Christ for a thousand years on earth, Satan will be released for a short time. Then he will make one final offensive against the Lord and His saints by mobilizing all peoples who no longer wanted to submit to Christ’s authority, but fire from heaven will end their rebellion once for all (Rev. 20:7-10). Through the same fire, the Lord will burn up the old earth and the old heavens (the atmospheric heaven and the outer space) so He can make everything new (2 Pet. 3:7-13). That is, God will create a new earth which will have fresh atmosphere and no sea. The salt-sea water now serving as a cleaning solution to make life possible on earth will be needed no more. The 70 percent of the earth surface now covered by water will disappear and become habitable for billions of people. And of course, there is the recovered Paradise, even the New Jerusalem. This is the special place Jesus is preparing for His people (John 14:1-4). Indeed, this is the eternal abode of all God’s people, a very special place with inexpressible things which no man is permitted to tell (2 Cor. 12:1-4). Okay, so now what? God has created us to rule and appointed us to be the crown of His creation, and we will, if we are faithful, reign with Him forever and ever. This is eternal plan of God for us. Prayer: Lord, I will work to make my nation the best it can humanly become. Yet I will look to Jesus who will set up His kingdom and rule the world. Amen. Taken from the book “Breakfast with the King: The 100-Day Devotional” by Mazie Nakhro

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Marc Limon and Subhas Gujadhur

The Human Rights Council at 10: Too much talk, too little action?

n 2016 the UN Human Rights Council will celebrate its tenth birthday. Although the anniversary—unlike the Council’s five-year mark—will not be accompanied by any formal review of its work and functioning, it represents an important opportunity to take stock of the UN body’s achievements and failures. And what is immediately clear is that although the Council is good at debating human rights, it pays very little attention to how those rights are violated in specific countries. At one level—looking solely at its popularity and the seriousness with which states engage with it— the Council has unarguably been a great success. A casual visitor to its 28th session in March would have noted record levels of enthusiasm for and engagement with the Council. After a high-level segment that saw a plethora of heads of state, prime ministers, and foreign ministers —including Sergei Lavrov and John Kerry—address Council member states, delegations buckled down to work through an increasingly packed agenda, marked by ever more resolutions, panel debates, and interactive dialogues with Special Procedures. Over the eight years and 27 regular sessions since its creation, the Council adopted a total of 762 texts, the vast majority of them resolutions (these were not distributed evenly over time: for example, in 2006 the Council adopted 43 texts, while in 2013 it adopted 112). Similar exponential growth has been witnessed in the number of panel debates (rising from 2 in 2007 to 23 in 2014), Special Procedures mandates (now over 50, with 74 mandate holders), and reports commissioned from the High Commissioner or Secretary-General (over 450 presented to the Council since 2007). Another measure of the popularity is the fact that, after the Security Council, a seat on the Human Rights Council is one of the most sought-after membership positions at the UN. However, a more important evaluation of the Council is not on how much it is producing but rather on what it is producing, compared to its mandate. The Council and its mandate were created through a decision by heads of state and governments at the 2005 World Summit, and codified in General Assembly resolutions 60/1 and 60/251 later that year. Both documents envision the Council principally as a body that would “address situations of violations of human rights, including gross and systematic violations, and make recommendations thereon.” A new study by the Universal Rights Group, a Geneva-based policy think tank, has analysed the work

y all indications, the lynching of Syed Sharif Khan was the result of an episode of moral panic about the so-called IBI — “illegal Bangladeshi Immigrant” — in Dimapur. Sociologists use the term “moral panic” to describe heightened public anxiety, triggered by media frenzy, about an individual, a minority group or a subculture seen as an imminent threat to social order. The media has always been an active contributor to moral panics. But it seems that in a new media environment that includes mobile phones, the internet and social networks, there can be situations when crime and punishment move from the courts and prisons to the street. And the street can turn into a theatre of the absurd, or reality television of a frightening variety. The lynching of Syed Sharif Khan was the mediated spectacle of capital punishment of a person who — it is now believed — may not have been guilty of any crime. It is not accidental that these horrendous events unfolded in Dimapur. While many in India seem to think of Dimapur as a remote place, historians of World War II know it as an important strategic location. It was the main supply depot for the British 14th Army in its war with the Japanese. That is why capturing Dimapur was an important strategic goal for the Japanese. What made Dimapur so strategic was its railhead. Thanks to a metro-centric bias, we don’t think of places like Dimapur as urban spaces. However, those who study urbanisation in India deeply disagree with the way urban spaces are officially defined. Concepts like subaltern urbanisation or vernacular urbanism, debated among academics, give a sense of the issues involved. In the words of Naga journalist Y. Merina Chishi, Dimapur is “a city of villages”. Even important government build-

There is lots of talk about human rights at the UN Human Rights Council, but too little attention to the violations of those rights in specific countries

and output of the Council over the past nine years. The study reveals that the quantitative expansion of the Council’s work and output, especially the evolution of its resolution system, has occurred in a manner inconsistent with the tenets of the body’s core mandate. In particular, the Council has consistently prioritised discussion of general thematic issues over addressing country-specific human rights situations. Over 55% of resolutions adopted since the Council’s creation have been on general thematic issues under its agenda item three, (“Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights”). By contrast, country-specific resolutions under its agenda item four (“Human rights situations that require the Council’s attention”), have comprised a mere 7% of its total output. The imbalance is also reflected in the amount of time devoted to these two items during Council sessions: between 2010-2014, a total of 646 hours (26.9 days) was devoted to discussion and activities under

item three, compared to 153 hours devoted to item four. There are two main interlinked reasons for this imbalance. One is the fact that general thematic debates and resolutions are easier and less contentious—and thus more popular. Indeed many developing countries, especially those that are members of the Like Minded Group (LMG) consistently oppose resolutions focused on country-specific violations on the ground that “finger pointing” or “naming and shaming” are (they believe) against the spirit and objective of the Council and the wider UN system. The second (linked) reason for the imbalance is that only two actors at the Council—the EU and the US—have consistently shown the political will, and have been willing to expend the necessary political capital, to secure resolutions dealing with specific violations. Of 46 item four resolutions adopted between 2008 and 2014, 56% were pushed by the EU or a leading EU member state and 20% by the US. One important consequence of the Council’s reliance on Western Europe and the US to drive country specific resolutions (albeit sometimes in concert with the African Group)—along with its unprecedented decision in 2006 to dedicate an entire agenda item to just one human rights situation (the Occupied Palestinian Territories)—is that the body has been highly selective in terms of which human rights crises to address. Since 2007, only 14 situations of country-specific violations have been deemed to “require the Council’s attention”. When one considers the scale and breadth of the human rights violations that have taken place since 2007, it is clear that by addressing only 14 situations, the Council is guilty of a serious dereliction of its responsibilities. For example, an objective observer might find it questionable that of the ten lowest ranked countries in the Economist Intelligence Unit’s 2013 Democracy Index (i.e., the ten most authoritarian regimes), eight have never once featured on the Council’s item four agenda. Such trends are clearly contrary to the Council’s principal mandate of “address[ing] situations of violations of human rights”, as originally envisioned. We’d all like to believe that governments did not create the Council just to generate more talk and paper, with little real action to protect human rights in concrete situations. As the international community looks towards the body’s tenth anniversary, it must address such institutional imbalances in order to translate its contemporary popularity among states into real world relevance and impact.

reimagining Dimapur sanjib Baruah Indian Express

ings like the deputy commissioner’s office are located in “villages”, as are some of the city’s posh areas. In that regard, Dimapur may have a lot in common with the urban villages of Delhi, where many Northeasterners live. But Dimapur is also a city in the important sense that, like many other cities in the world, it is where people have to live with difference and deal with heterogeneity, both cultural and economic. Escaping to the comfort zones of imagined homogeneity is not an option. Dimapur is Nagaland’s only plains district. Its topography explains why Dimapur has the railhead, which was the reason why the Dimapur mauza of what was then the Nowgong district of Assam was transferred to the Naga Hills district in the early part of the last century — giving an opening to a district closed off by the Inner Line. The same railhead made Dimapur strategically important in the last World War. Even today, the railhead gives Dimapur its special economic niche. And since it is in the plains, Dimapur has always been outside the Inner Line regime. It is hardly surprising, then, that it is the state’s economic hub and attracts migrants from other parts of the country (and possibly some from Bangladesh), as well as from the rest of Nagaland. But perhaps it is equally unsurprising that in a state with all other districts closed to settlement by those not from the region, Dimapur should become

the focus of fears about so-called IBIs, or about outsiders corrupting Naga society. The growing demographic imbalance between Dimapur, with its growing non-Naga population, and the rest of Nagaland is also a source of significant political consternation. Dimapur has the only general unreserved seat in the Nagaland assembly. The constituency has an electorate that is many times that of other Nagaland constituencies. In 2002, the Delimitation Commission awarded four additional seats to Dimapur based on population shifts. The commission, however, did not get into the potentially explosive issue of whether those seats should be general or reserved. Fortunately, an ordinance in 2008 deferred the delimitation of constituencies in Nagaland till 2031, kicking the proverbial can down the road. Interestingly enough, what worries so many Naga activists and politicians about Dimapur are exactly the things that serious thinkers about northeast India’s economic future find promising. The region’s future prosperity, they believe, lies in the ability to create more Dimapur-like open economic spaces in the hill states of the region. The late B.G. Verghese was a great friend of the Northeast. Something of a futurist when it came to the region — and an eternal optimist — he extolled an implicit Dimapur model in some of his writings. In November 2014, during his trip to

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the Northeast, Prime Minister Narendra Modi flagged off the first passenger train from Mendipathar in Meghalaya’s North Garo Hills district to Guwahati. In a book published in 1996, Verghese had speculated on what this railway link could do to Meghalaya’s economy. Certain areas, he wrote, including perhaps Mendipathar itself, could be de-reserved or made free zones, “like Dimapur in Nagaland, where ‘outsiders’ may freely invest and settle”. Such a step, he thought, would build confidence and attract capital to the hill state. Elsewhere, he wrote of economic spaces designed for servicing the hills, again modelled on Dimapur. Many of the colonial era institutions that persisted in the Northeast, like the Inner Line, acquired important new functions after the end of the Raj. They have morphed into instruments of protective discrimination. Many benefits have come from these continuities. But the trouble with path dependency is that societies can be locked into dysfunctional institutional arrangements even when better alternatives are available. The difficulty with the Inner Line is rooted its very history. As historian Bodhisattva Kar succinctly puts it, the Inner Line was “not only a territorial exterior of the theatre of capital — it was also a temporal outside of the historical pace of development and progress”. The choice is not between keeping those institutions and abolishing them. Verghese seems to have thought that the Dimapur model, in some ways, provides a way out of the impasse. The hard lesson that Nagaland and the rest of northeast India must draw from the events in Dimapur is that the region must find a way of bringing in a politics that is based not just on the memories of shared ethnic pasts, but on the vision of a common future for those who live in the region today. The writer is professor of political studies at Bard College, New York

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7 A new language of hospitality

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1 April 2015

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pains as well as joys of communicating across difference, leaving the process of translation to be constantly negotiated. Once a month, a physiotherapist volunteers to give a free session to teach members exercises for relaxation and dealing with stress. Although she asks for their preferred language – either Dutch or English – most of those present are following her instructions in spite of not understanding either of those languages. So the challenge of translation, of finding a common language, lies with all of us present then and there. However what is even more difficult to translate is embodied difference: the difference in our relationships with our bodies. For instance, the physiotherapist instructed us to “swell our stomachs like a baby belly” and then to “let go”. As we were following this, there was suddenly a loud thud. One of the older women from Somalia had fallen to the floor. Most of us who did not know her very well because of the language barrier were taken aback. Indeed the assumption behind the physiotherapy sessions is that many migrants are stressed, and subject to traumatic conditions of displacement and rejection. But on closer inspection we realized that she had fallen down from uncontrollable laughter, finding the very exercise hilarious and absurd. The instructor used this episode to explore how laughter, too, can be incorporated into stressrelief. The starting point of searching for a common language allows for negotiation and accommodation of the Other without suppressing difference. This lies at the heart of a Derridean notion of hospitality.

The complex linguistic identities of migrants to Europe are constantly denied recognition. We must renew the language of hospitality, in which equality rather than homogeneity dictates our borders

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ccording to the philosopher Jacques Derrida, the relationship between hospitality and immigration should neither be a one-way street that imposes rules of assimilation and acculturation onto the Other, nor should it simply be the occupation of one's space by the Other. For Derrida, hospitality has to be negotiated at every instant, to be invented at every second with all the risks involved, and without pre-given rules. But the act of welcoming the ‘stranger’ has always been intensely contested, and only deepened with accelerated forms of globalisation. The current practices of welcoming the 'stranger' in the Netherlands, for example, are steeped in traditions of imposing pre-given conditionalities that are never really negotiated but rather imposed, such as visas, integration exams, citizenship tests, 'Dutch' as the language of asylum, and so on. Based on our interactions and negotiations as part of Stichting Gast, a local support organisation for 'undocumented migrants' based in the Netherlands border city of Nijmegen, we try to think through the notion of hospitality as an everyday practice of negotiation. Taking the critical question of "When two people who don't speak the same language meet, what should they do?" posed by Derrida as a starting

was probably around the impressionable age of six that day. Not unlike your everyday six year old girl in the 90s, I lived for two things – Barbie dolls and delicious food. And sometimes I’d walk around on my toes, wrapped in mom’s sheer dupatta and pretend to be Miss India. But it was mostly the food. On the aforementioned day, I had accompanied my parents for dinner to someone’s place. I can’t recall whose house it was, but I do remember it was a newly married couple, because along with the memory of the incident comes a memory of a dozen red and white bangles jingling on a delicate wrist every time I was served food. We were eating homemade Chinese. Terrible homemade Chinese. There was too much soya sauce in the Manchurian, the noodles were too thick and greasy and the whole point of the chewy chicken dish was destroyed with the amount of vegetables it had in it. After dinner, the host affectionately asked if I enjoyed my meal and I, full from the meal, decided it was my duty to now dish out constructive criticism. I let her know I was not pleased. My palette was not designed to enjoy the marriage of starch and soya she’d placed before me, nor was it created to have to bear with that rubber she called chicken (or whatever there was of it). I was like Gordon Ramsay on crack. Of course everyone laughed it off, but I felt the warmth disappear from the young lady’s hug as she thanked me for coming over. There was an unbearable silence in the car as we drove back home. I kept trying to break it with a joke or a song, but the weight of it made me feel like I’d done something wrong. I asked. I always ask – it’s better than living off as-

point, we reflect on our experiences to rethink language, hospitality, and the borders of nation-states. Border voices from a cafe Each time we enter the weekly cafe meetings of Stichting Gast, it feels like we are entering an island. This is because the dynamics of interaction inside the cafe are so starkly different from interactions just beyond the threshold of the cafe, whose location is nevertheless at the heart of the city of Nijmegen. The intimacy and proximity of people coming together in a small café, who nevertheless are here for reasons often not fully of their choice, pushes one to search for a common language. I use language in a broad sense: not only verbal language, but also the power of body language, gestures, habits, and the role of objects, in facilitating interactions. It is never the same group. There are always new faces and new languages. It is akin to the feeling of being on a journey, in an airport waiting room or a train, where people you develop a friendship with are getting off or new people are boarding. The cafe is run out of a voluntary kitchen and so the rituals of making, serving and drinking tea, coffee and soup often helps to create an environment in which the roles of who is welcoming whom are blurred or left to improvisation, as opposed to spaces such as embassies, asylum centres and visa offices, where it is quite clear who has the power to welcome or not. The lack of a common verbal language pushes one to look for common gestures of body language. It is a space full of frustrations, misunderstandings and disappointments as much as a space for communicating solidarity and friendship. But the challenges of translation lie on both parties who are communicating, rather than on a single one, unlike integration exams and asylum procedures, in which both the choice of language and translator is determined the state. The lack of a common verbal language also allows for each of us to be confronted with all the paradoxes, contradictions,

Thinking beyond ‘one state, one language’ The power of nation-states and the geopolitics of borders as lines in the sand are produced not only in visible strategies of walls and fences, and immigration and citizenship policies, but also in their ability to capture common-sensical imaginations. As Benedict Anderson famously argued, nation-states are most importantly 'imagined communities'. Yet the most challenging barrier to cross is often a mental threshold, or thinking out of the frame within which one is often used to. Nationality in Europe is attached to an oppositional discourse, linked to language. It is a challenging threshold to cross despite the territorial borders of Europe's nation-states themselves shifting across time and space (such as expanding colonial networks and decolonisation, and more recently the formation of the European Union, and the EU's enlargement and neighbourhood policies, to name some). However the box of ‘one language, one territory, one nation, one state’ is increasingly contested. A friend of ours recently shared her story of asylum in the Netherlands with us, a process made tortuous by errors of mistranslation in immigration interviews and the exclusionary language of “you are in the Netherlands, you should speak Dutch”. Hospitality continues to be seen by the state as a one-way process imposed onto the Other, mostly understood within the framework of nation-states. The expectation of "you are in the Netherlands, you should speak Dutch" denies the possibility of searching for a common language of hospitality, thereby producing integration as a fixed process rather than as something to be negotiated. The asylum system is also built on stereotypes of ‘asylum seekers’ as the 'illiterate Other', understood to be speaking ‘distant’ languages that require translation. This is blind to the lived reality of an asylum seeker's ability to speak fluently in English or another common language that might not fit neatly into the pre-determined languages of nation-states. The complex linguistic identities of migrants to Europe, rooted in intertwined colonial networks and histories, are denied all recognition in the space of the asylum interview. We need to think through hospitality and the language of asylum as a negotiated process, beyond the borders of nation-states and homogenous linguistic identities. This is the starting point for a renewed language of hospitality that acknowledges the diverse transnational conditions of migration and asylum today. Most crucially, we must renew a space for translation and negotiation in which equality rather than presumed superiority dictates our borders.

My opinion on opinions ayeesha Khanna

sumptions. So I asked my mother if I’d done something wrong. “No,” she said, almost immediately, her voice tinted with disappointment. “You did something that wasn’t nice. If you don’t have something nice to say to someone with good intentions, don’t say it.” I didn’t understand the difference between ‘wrong’ and ‘not nice’ then. I do now. You might disagree with what my mother said to me that day. On some level, I do too. We’re living in an era of unprecedented freedom of speech and everyone has an opinion on everything, laced with emoticons and hashtags, ready with links and videos, efficiently packaged with technology to shove itself down the throats of unsuspecting consumers. I recently watched a video called

‘My Choice’ by Deepika Padukone for the Vogue Empower campaign. It was mostly because of the barrage of negative comments that I decided to watch it. Words like ‘hypocritical’ and ‘urban garbage’ have been used against this video. It amazes me how people have so much time, to sit through something they don’t enjoy watching from start to finish, analyze it, form opinions on it, discuss it online, bash, shame, protest. Does this community not get exhausted complaining over and over again, making a fuss about things that were merely designed to make people who enjoy it smile and those who don’t, ignore it and move on with their lives? There was recently a big brouhaha about a photograph that Canada based poet Rupi Kaur posted on Instagram showing a lady in bed with a blood

stain on her behind as well as on the bedsheet, accompanied with words on the taboo in India around the topic of menstruation. Personally, I could not appreciate it. In fact, for the first time, I was unable to move on with my life after seeing something online that I didn’t agree with. What did I do about it? I could have written a 1000-word long post about how the reason I don’t discuss my periods in public is not because it’s a social taboo, but the same as why I don’t discuss my toilet habits. But before we begin to so vehemently oppose what’s on the internet, we need to consider that we chose to watch the video. Read the blog post. Listen to the podcast. Was the intent of the artist to piss you off? Because if it wasn’t, you really need to relax. Life is too short to watch movies you don’t rejoice in, to read books you don’t find an absolute delight. Life’s too short to spend getting offended and complaining about art. Do what makes you happy, savor what you enjoy. Spread good energy. You have the right to an opinion. You have the right to share this opinion. You also have a right to publicly complain about what you can’t appreciate, and shame those who do for their point of view. These can’t be classified as right or wrong. I just feel what we say online should be driven by the same set of rules that govern our offline interactions. If you don’t like something, raise your voice. If you don’t like something and the act of raising your voice doesn’t help anyone or leave anybody happier apart from yourself, ignore it. If you don’t have something nice to say to someone with good intentions, don’t say it.

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Everybody wants to be happy and everyone hasdifferent ways of achieving it. It might be a new car, a new house, a new job, finding the one or getting married, a promotion or performing a random act of kindness. Whatever it is, happiness has a great deal to do with the manner in which we choose to lead our lives. No matter how we define happiness for ourselves, a sure shot way of experiencing it everyday is to have positive energy around us at all times.

The art of living ZuchanoKhuvung, assistant Professor, department of Political science

t is a well known fact that every human being wants to live a joyful life, a life with content. So, how do you achieve that or why can’t you achieve it? It may be because you are missing out the very implications of a contented life. There are many ways through which we can achieve this, but most importantly we have to be a grateful person and need to have a good conscience, count our blessings, focus on giving and keep low expectations.People who have all these see the world differently and know that there are always good things behind everything that happens. We human beings tend to see only the negative side of things and overlook the good things.Try to see things differently and be observant of all the good things happening in and around you. If someone calls you a friend, that’s something you should be grateful for, or if you see a child smiling, that should remind you that there is always hope. One should know that bad or unwanted experience gives us valuable lessons and when a person has this mindset, it is not difficult to see the benefits one can get out of unpleasant experiences. Focusing on giving can also significantly help a person to be grateful. By giving, your mind will automatically focus on what you have rather than what you don’t have. Most people focus on receiving which makes their mind focus on what they don’t have – this is where greed creeps in, an insatiable want. No wonder it is difficult for such people to be grateful. This is when I want us to think about the things we possess, and the important thing is, we do not need them actually, which in other words would be wastage and a sin. . So what happens normally is, we do not physically go and hurt or kill someone but things are happening the other way round. In the pursuit of amassing wealth and prestige we may, in one way or the other, rob others means of survival which would be no less hurting them physically. So the question is do we feel guilty about that? Aristotle opines that no one tries to live well for the sake of some other goal, rather than being happy, which is the highest end. All subordinate goals like health, wealth and other such resources are just means to achieve the highest end – happiness, because they promote well being, and not because they are what well-being consists of. This is what most of us fail to differentiate – means and the end. We make the means which in this case, can be wealth, our highest end and somewhere in the struggle, we lose the most important thing called happiness.Meister Eckhart rightly quoted, if the only prayer you say in your life is thank you, then that would suffice. Gratitude may mean many things – thankfulness, counting your blessings, noticing simple pleasures and acknowledging everything that you receive. It means being aware on a continuous basis of how much you have been given. It shifts your focus from what your life lacks to the abundance that is already present. When people become oriented towards looking for things to be grateful for, they find themselves starting to appreciate simple pleasures and things that were taken for granted earlier. Furthermore, a person should have a good conscience which is indispensable to self respect because no one can really respect oneself if we do not keep a good conscience. Without it, you can have but little influence over others. We should first set our conscience right and live according to its dictates, and then only a time will come when people hear and regard what we say. Keep your moral sentiments strong and be an example and a blessing to others. The reputation of a good conscience will give you such a character that whatever you say or do will have weight and you become a person with a most valuable power of influence for doing good. For those who are not blessed enough to have a good conscience are never aware how they appear to others and they never have thought about this. They are self-opinionated that they would be so blind to their own real character and not aware of the impression they make on others. If we are to regard ourselves as good human beings, it must have something to do with being human, and what sets humanity apart from other species is our capacity to guide ourselves by using reason. If we use reason well, we live well as human beings or to be more precise, using reason well over the course of a full life is what happiness consists of. Happiness is possible through virtuous activities like justice, courage and temperance. Living well consists in doing something because ethics is never theoretical alone. It is always accompanied by practice. It consists in those lifelong activities that actualize the virtues of the rational part of the soul. “degree of Thought is a weekly community column initiated by Tetso College in partnership with The Morung Express. degree of Thought will delve into the social, cultural, political and educational issues around us. The views expressed here do not reflect the opinion of the institution. Tetso College is a naaC accredited UGC recognised Commerce and arts College. For feedback or comments please email: admin@tetsocollege.org”.

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Kerala HC upholds liquor policy Parties, church welcome Kerala bars' closure, tipplers unhappy

Kochi/ThiruvaNaNThaPuraM, March 31 (iaNS): The Kerala High Court on Tuesday upheld the liquor policy of the state government and dismissed a petition filed by the Kerala Bar Hotel Owners Association, allowing only 24 five-star hotels in the state to serve liquor. A division bench of Justice K.T. Shankaran and Justice Babu Mathew P. Joseph said drinking liquor was not a fundamental right and the state government has made things very clear in its liquor policy. The bench said the government has every right to frame policies and when it is done, it is just not the tourism industry that has to be considered, but the society's interest too has to be taken into account. Kerala Bar Hotel Owners Association representatives said they will appeal in

the Supreme Court against the high court verdict. "Today, the high court upheld the government's arguments and hence, we have the next option to approach the Supreme Court. We will be doing it at the earliest," said association president Raj Kumar Unni. As a result, around 300 bars in the state will now close down with effect from Tuesday midnight. The state government had to face a series of cases starting in August last year, when it announced as part of its new liquor policy that it had decided to go for total prohibition in 10 years and had given a notice of closure to all the 710 bars in the state, including the 418 that have not opened since April 1, 2014. Liquor, however, will be available through 344 retail shops owned by the state government.

As soon as the liqor policy was approved in August last year, the association sought legal recourse and it culminated with Tuesday's verdict. State Excise Minister K. Babu termed the verdict a historic one. Political parties and the church welcomed Tuesday's verdict of the Kerala High Court but people who are fond of their drink were unhappy. State Congress president V.M. Sudheeran, a known anti-liquor activist, termed the verdict a historic one. "Right from the time when K. Karunakaran headed the state, the policy of the Congress was to achieve phased prohibition. During A.K. Antony's time, he closed down all shops and now Oommen Chandy has come out with a policy which will take

Kerala to complete prohibition in a decade's time. Sudheeran told reporters. Syro Malabar Catholic Church spokesperson Paul Thelekat also welcome the court verdict. "Liquor has ruined the lives of many families and this is one real good decision of the present government and is going to be welcomed by numerous households," the priest said. Pradeep Philipose, an advertising professional in the state capital, was clearly unhappy. "You wait and see. The first repercussion would be against this Congress government. The tippler community will be fielding our candidate at the Aruvikara assembly constituency where bye-election is to be held soon. We may not win but we will be able to garner more than 10,000 votes,"

said Philipose. Thomas Joseph, a farmer in Chief Minister Oommen Chandy's Puthupally constituency, said he does not like to stand in queues to buy liquor. "We are told that the bars will not be serving liquor. The liquor we get here is synthetic. If we want the kick, it's the hard liquor that we want, and not always can we go and stand in queues at the state-owned liquor shops," he said. Today, there are 344 state-owned retail liquor shops in the state. K.P. Sasi, an IT professional, said it will now be "a test of one's patience, as the queues are going to be very lengthy". "We don't know if this government has any sense, because nowhere in the world has prohibition become successful," he said.

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Supreme Court notice to Advani, Joshi over Babri demolition New Delhi, March 31 (iaNS): The Supreme Court on Tuesday issued notice to senior BJP leaders L.K. Advani and Murli Manohar Joshi on a petition challenging the Allahabad High Court verdict discharging them of criminal conspiracy in the demolition of the Babri Masjid in 1992. Besides the two, union minister Uma Bharti and Rajasthan Governor Kalyan Singh have also been issued the notice. The Allahabad High Court on May 20, 2010 absolved them of the charge of criminal conspiracy that led to the razing of the 16th century mosque in the Uttar Pradesh town of Ayodhya on December 6, 1992. An apex court bench of Chief Justice H.L. Dattu and Justice Arun Mishra issued the notice as senior counsel Kapil Sibal told them that a fresh application had been moved by Haji Mahboob Ahmed

challenging the high court verdict. The apex court also gave the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) four weeks to get the papers to support its case challenging the discharge of Advani and others. Additional Solicitor General N.K. Kaul told the apex court that the CBI had filed an affidavit explaining the delay in filing the petition challenging the high court ruling. Allowing four weeks time, the court said it would be hearing the matter on the question of law, delay and merits. The CBI moved the apex court on February 18, 2011, nearly nine months after the Allahabad High Court verdict. The CBI said in its appeal before the apex court that the high court ruling discharging Advani and others of the offence of criminal conspiracy "is inconsistent with the previ-

ous judgment rendered by the Allahabad High Court on February 12, 2001". The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court had held that the trial court committed no illegality in taking "cognizance of joint consolidated chargesheet" and "all the offences were committed in the course of the same transaction to accomplish the conspiracy". The high court had noted that the "evidence for all the offences was almost the same". Besides Advani, others accused in the case include Joshi, Vinay Katiyar, Ashok Singhal, Giriraj Kishore, Hari Dalmiya, Uma Bharti, Sadhvi Ritambrara, Mahant Avaidyanath and Kalyan Singh, who was the Uttar Pradesh chief minister when the Babri mosque was razed. Since then, Giriraj Kishore and Mahant Avaidyanath have passed away, and their names will be taken off.

Rejected thrice by Prez, Gujarat assembly Kashmir bracing for fresh spell of rains operations continued, the March 31 (PTi): again passes controversial anti-terror bill JaMMu, Centre said the flood situation Jammu and Kashmir on Tues-

GaNDhiNaGar, March 31 (iaNS): Amid strong protests and a walkout by the opposition Congress, the Gujarat legislative assembly on Tuesday passed the controversial 12-year-old antiterror and anti-organised crimes bill for the fourth time. The proposed law, intended to combat terror and organised crimes in the state, has been hanging fire since 2003 when it was propounded by then home minister Amit Shah, now the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president, during the tenure of former chief minister Narendra Modi, now the prime minister. The bill has always managed a smooth sailing in the assembly owing to the ruling BJP's strong majority, but was not given assent by the president thrice in the past. It was sent back first by the then president A.P.J. Abdul Kalam in 2004 during the tenure of the NDA's central government headed by then prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.

The amended version of the bill was also rejected in 2008 by then president Pratibha Patil during the UPA-I government, and later by the state governor, preventing it from becoming a law. "This law is the need of the hour. Not just terrorism, but even organised crimes need to be dealt with firmly," Minister of State for Home Rajni Patel said in the assembly while moving the bill on Tuesday. Congress leader Shaktisinh Gohil raised strong objections pointing out that despite reservations from former presidents of India, no changes have been made in the bill. "The government is playing vote bank politics... It has merely changed the nomenclature... The (bill) content remains unchanged... The government has not even heeded to the technical issues we have raised regarding the bill," Gohil said, staging a walkout from the house. Named the Gujarat Control

One can predict eclipse, but not Rahul's return: Javedekar New Delhi, March 31 (iaNS): One can predict a solar and lunar eclipse but not when Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi will return to active politics, BJP leader Prakash Javedekar said on Tuesday. Speaking on the sidelines of an event of his information and broadcasting ministry, Javedekar told IANS: "One can predict a solar or lunar eclipse. But one can't predict when Rahul Gandhi is coming back." He was commenting on Congress vice president's long leave from politics since the budget session of parliament began on February 23.The BJP leader, however, quickly added that this was an "internal issue" of the Congress. Congress leader Digvijaya Singh has said that Rahul Gandhi was likely to attend the party's farmers' rally here on April 19. The rally is expected to be addressed by party president Sonia Gandhi.

of Terrorism & Organised Crime Bill (GCTOC), it is designed on the lines of the stringent Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA), and the new version comes with some amendments. However, it still vests too much power with police, including authority to intercept phone calls with recordings admissible as evidence in court, according to critics and rights activists. The other provisions include confessions made before senior police officers as permissible evidence before courts. This, activists warn, could result in custodial torture or coercion to make statements which can be held against the suspects. Another provision allows custody of suspects for 30 days instead of the present 15 days, and if the public prosecutor seeks, police can get up to six months (180 days) to file the charge sheet, up from the existing 90 days. This can pose immense harassment, warn critics.

day (March 31) braced for a fresh spell of rains over the next two days even as there was relief with the receding flood waters that have claimed 17 lives so far. There has been no fresh rainfall over the past 24 hours which eased the flood concerns in the valley earlier in the day. Water level in river Jhelum was also receding and it was flowing at 16.45 feet at Sangam in south Kashmir, down over six feet compared to 22.80 feet 24 hours earlier. The water level at Ram Munshi Bagh in the city also reduced by more than one and a half feet and it was expected to drop further by the night. However, the Met department has forecast light to moderate rains by tomorrow and intense rains by Thursday, raising fresh concerns among people who were hoping to see the end of woes caused by the floods. Schools and colleges have been closed across the Valley in view of the flood

Relatives of victims of a landslide wail during a joint funeral procession in the village of Laden, some 45 kms west of Srinagar on Tuesday, March 31. Floodwaters were receding in Kashmir, but residents of the main city of Srinagar were bracing for more trouble after predictions of additional rain in the next few days. Rains over the weekend were the worst since the region was hit by devastating floods last September that destroyed thousands of homes and $17 billion worth of infrastructure. (AP Photo)

threat and ongoing examinations have been postponed. However, University of Kashmir will hold examina-

Row over Rajnath's visit to BJP MP's comments on tobacco & cancer kick up storm Gandhi, head of Parliamenta- rette manufacturers. Delhi, March 31 (PTi): enclaves as Mamata questions New "One has to do some research A huge controversy broke out today ry panel on subordinate legislation

KolKaTa/TeeN BiGha, March 31 (PTi): A con- over comments by a Parliamentary troversy today erupted over Home Minister (HM) Ra- panel head and BJP MP Dilip Ganjnath Singh's visit to Teen Bigha in West Bengal bordering dhi that there was no Indian study to Bangladesh with Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee ques- confirm tobacco use leads to cancer, tioning the motive behind the trip while BJP accused her leaving the Government embarassed and rival parties and the medical fraof politicizing a national security issue. Banerjee said the Centre should have consulted the ternity gunning for him. Gandhi, an state government and wondered whether it was a 'politi- MP from Maharashtra, was also decal visit' by Singh with BJP MPs. Singh was accompanied scribed as "foolish" and "ignorant" for by party MP S S Ahluwalia. She said no prior discussion his "shocking and absurd" remarks or consultation about the visit was made with the state that coincided with the April 1 deadline for increasing size of pictoral government, though Chhit-Mahal and law and order fell warnings on tobacco products being within the jurisdiction of the state government. deferred by the Government amid Asked why no WB government official was present demands by various tobacco lobbies. during his visit, Rajnath told reporters in Teen Bigha "it "Do not listen to these things. is a visit to the forward areas of the border which is being Science is science. You cannot comlooked after by the BSF." BJP leader Sidharth Nath Singh, promise on science," Environment who is the in-charge of party's affairs in West Bengal, re- Minister Prakash Javadekar said disfuted Banerjee's claim and said the HM had informed her approving of Gandhi's statement at a New Delhi, March 31 (PTi): Swine flu claimed the office as well as that of the state Governor's on March 25 news conference where he was asked lives of 20 more persons as the death toll in the country about Rajnath Singh's visit. to give his response. rose to 2,064 while the number of persons affected by the H1N1 virus breached the 34,000-mark. Data collated by Union Health Ministry till yesterday said that 2,064 persons have perished due to the disease while the number of affected persons across various states was 34,068. The ministry said that the toll has increased to 432 in Gujarat, the state worst-hit by the H1N1 virus. A total of 6,514 cases of swine flu have been reported in Gujarat New Delhi, March increased from 60 in Decem- Germany (25,400). The resince January. Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh recorded the sec- 31 (PTi): Seven Indian cit- ber 2004 to 250 in December port noted that over the past ond and third highest swine flu fatalities at 404 and 300 ies, including the financial 2014, a jump of 317 per cent. 10 years, worldwide multiAfter Pune, Mumbai wit- millionaire numbers have capital Mumbai and political respectively. hub Delhi, have been named nessed the sharpest rise in grown by 71 per cent. A reamong Asia Pacific' top 20 cit- number of multi-millionaires. gion-wise analysis shows that ies in terms of growth in num- As of December 2014, it was South America was the stand ber of multi-millionaires, a re- home to 2,690 multi-million- out, with multi-millionaire aires. During the period, the growth of 265 per cent over port said. Pune, Hyderabad, Banga- number of multi-millionaires the 10-year period. PaTNa, March 31 (iaNS): A Maoist group, People's lore, Chennai and Kolkata are in Hyderabad increased from Other top performers inLiberation Front of India (PLFI), on Tuesday claimed re- the other Indian cities in the 160 to 510. In Bangalore the cluded Australasia (182 per sponsibility for a bomb blast in a residential colony in the list of 20 cities in Asia Pacific number increased from 140 cent growth) and Africa (142 Bihar capital on Monday night, police said. (APAC) for the decade ended to 440, Delhi (430 to 1,350), per cent growth). As per the No casualties were reported in Monday's blast, and December 2014, said the re- Chennai (130 to 390), Kolkata report, currently there are over police later recovered two more live high-intensity port by New World Wealth. (210 to 570). 13 million millionaires in the bombs from the site. The report further said, "In world (as of December 2014) Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam "A self-styled spokesperson of the PLFI telephoned topped the list. terms of country performance, and around 495,000 of these newspaper and TV channel offices in Patna on Tuesday A millionaire (or HNWI) major countries that registered individuals can be classified as claiming the group was behind Monday's bomb blast," an is an individual with net as- 200 per cent plus growth in- multi-millionaires. India has been ranked at official at the police headquarters here said. sets of USD 1 million or more, cluded: Russia, Brazil, China, A team of the National Investigation Agency on Tues- whilst a multi-millionaire is India, Indonesia and Vietnam. the 8th place on the list with 14,800 multi-millionaires. day began a probe into the blast to ascertain the involve- an individual with net assets All were emerging markets". Meanwhile, the US has Hong Kong topped the ranking ment of any terror organisation. Officials visited the spot of at least USD 10 million, as and collected evidence. per the report titled 'Fastest emerged as the top country in of cities for resident multi-mil"A timer device of lotus brand was attached to the growing cities for the super- the world for resident multi- lionaires, followed by New York bombs. Such bombs were also recovered during the 2013 rich'. Pune saw the fastest millionaires with 1,83,500 and London. Mumbai was the serial blasts in Patna during then BJP's prime ministerial growth in terms of number super-rich persons followed only city on the list with 2,700 candidate Narendra Modi's rally," police said. of super-rich people which by China (26,600) and then multi -millionaires.

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tions as per schedule from tomorrow in view of the improving flood situation, an official of the varsity said. As rescue

in Jammu and Kashmir so far is not as grave as last year but authorities are on alert to deal with any situation. "Situation is not as grave as last time. But we are fully alert and if required we will send more assistance," Home Minister Rajnath Singh told PTI in Bagdogra. Meanwhile, six bodies were today recovered from the debris of four houses which collapsed in Laden village in Budgam district yesterday, taking the death toll in the incident to 16. Ten bodies had been recovered till last night. One person trapped in the landslide is also feared dead but there was no confirmation. One person had died in flash floods in Udhampur area of Jammu region. Union Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, who was rushed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the Valley yesterday to assess the situation there, presented his report to him today, suggesting a number of measures to address the problem permanently.

examining the provisions of Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products Act, 2003, said all studies in regard to health hazards of tobacco consumption have come from abroad and one should consider the Indian aspect too. The panel had "strongly" urged the government to keep on hold its proposal to increase the size of pictorial warnings on tobacco packets from 40 per cent to 85 per cent. He said the Committee has only sought deferment of tobacco warnings till it looks into the whole issue in the Indian context and not be driven by foreign surveys. The statement of Gandhi gave ammunition to opposition Congress with its General Secretary Digvijay Singh demanding a probe to find out whether there was any connection between BJP and ciga-

on the connection between BJP and cigarette, gutka manufacturers. Then only we will find an answer...," Singh said. NCP MP Supriya Sule expressed her "shock" at the remarks and termed it as "unfortunate". "I am not alarmed but I am shocked anybody can make a statement like that," she said. "Go to Tata Memorial Hospital, oncologists all over India and all over the world have done so much research. All scientists and oncologists are wrong and one person is right." "I think that is the most absurd comment that could have been made. We are all aware that the amount of research that has been done on cancer in our country because India is one of the countries which has the largest incidence of cancer," said Ulka Bangui of the Society.

'Seven Indian cities see growth in number WHO urges India, SE Asia to of super-rich among Asia Pacific' top 20' make food safety a 'priority '

Maoist group owns up to Patna blast, two bombs found

New Delhi, March 31 (iaNS): The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Tuesday urged each nation in the South-East Asia region to make food safety a priority. It stated that over 700,000 children die in the South-East Asia region every year due to diarrhoea and several other diseases caused by the impure food and water. "Bacteria, viruses, parasites, chemicals, and other contaminants in our food can cause over 200 diseases ranging from diarrhoea to cancer. New and emerging threats such as climate change and its impact on food production; emerging biological and environmental contamination -- all Apose challenges to the safety of our food," said Poonam Khetrapal Singh, regional director, WHO South-East Asia in a statement. She said the countries must put in place comprehensive food safety policies and stringently implement it across the food chain. Food safety has been set as the theme for the upcoming World Health Day.

Khetrapal said food safety is one of the key focus areas under the International Health Regulations -IHR 2005 -- which includes events of all public health emergencies of international concern that involve contaminated food and outbreaks of food borne diseases. She informed that the WHO and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) have established the International Food Safety Authorities Network (INFOSAN) to rapidly share information during food safety emergencies. "WHO supports countries to prevent, detect and respond to food borne disease outbreaks using the Codex Alimentarius, a collection of international food standards, guidelines and codes of practice. "Codex provisions concern the hygienic and nutritional quality of food, including microbiological norms, food additives, pesticides and veterinary drug residues, contaminants, labelling and presentation, and methods of sampling and risk analysis -- covering all the main foods and processes," she said.

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US leads pledges with $507 mn at Syria donor conference KUWAIT CITY, MARCH 31 (AP): The United States pledged $507 million in humanitarian aid at an international donors’ conference for Syria on Tuesday as the United Nations issued an appeal for $8.4 billion in commitments this year — the organization’s largest appeal yet for the war-ravaged country. Kuwait, which is hosting the third annual conference, pledged $500 million at the start of the meeting. The European Commission and EU member states pledged close to $1.2 billion total, double the overall EU pledge at last year’s conference. The civil war, now in its fifth year, has killed at least 220,000 people. Around 11 million people, or half of Syria’s population, have been displaced, according to U.N. figures. Of the displaced, nearly 4 million have been forced to flee to the nearby countries of Lebanon, Turkey, Jordan, Iraq and Egypt, stretching the resources of those nations. U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon delivered

stinging remarks at the conference, saying Syrians are the victims of the “worst humanitarian crisis of our time,” and that he has “only shame and deep anger and frustration at the international community’s impotence to stop the war.” “They are not asking for sympathy, they are asking for help,” he said of the Syrian people. Syria, long one of the most stable countries in the region, was swept up in Arab Spring protests in 2011 calling for greater freedoms, better standards of living and more political rights. Protests quickly spiraled into armed conflict as President Bashar Assad’s forces unleashed a lethal crackdown on cities where protests erupted. The influx of extremist fighters into the conflict sparked a proxy-war between Arab Gulf monarchies backing some rebel groups and Iran backing Assad’s army. A U.S.-led coalition is now bombing Islamic State group targets in both Syria and Iraq. The U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humani-

tarian Affairs says the Syrian war has created the “the largest displacement crisis in the world” and that 12.2 million people — just under half of them children — are in “dire need of aid.” The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres said the situation for people is “at a tipping point” and “unsustainable.” Guterres said this current U.N. appeal is different from previous ones because it recognizes both the immediate and the longer-term imperatives of responding to the crisis. The U.N. says $2.9 billion is needed in 2015 for Syrians inside the country, and $5.5 billion for those who have fled to the five surrounding countries. Prior to the conference, UNRWA, the U.N. agency that works with Palestinian refugees, said that just four percent of its emergency work for those affected by the Syrian war had been funded for the year. Due to high unemployment caused by the Syrian civil war, more than 95 percent of the 535,000 Palestinian refugees from Syria rely on

UNRWA assistance, particularly cash distributions to individuals that last year totaled just $16 a month. U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Samantha Power said that despite the U.N. making its largest humanitarian appeal in history, “many countries are giving the same amount, or even less than they have in the past.” Tuesday’s roughly half-billion-dollar U.S. pledge is in addition to nearly $3.2 billion the country has provided since the conflict began, she said. “Years from now, when Syrians and the world look back on the country’s horrific crisis, they will remember which countries stepped up to help people in dire need, and which countries did little or nothing at all,” she told the conference. Some 78 countries and 40 international aid organizations are present at this year’s conference. Ahead of this year’s gathering, the German government said it would pledge $277 million in new aid — part of the EU’s overall figure. Kuwaiti state me-

In this Sunday, March 8, 2015 file photo, Syrian refugee Rifaa Ahmad, 50, cuddles her granddaughter at an informal tented settlement near the Syrian border, on the outskirts of Mafraq, Jordan. Kuwait opened an international donors’ conference for Syria on Tuesday, March 31, with a pledge of $500 million in humanitarian aid as the United Nations issued its largest yet appeal for $8.4 billion in commitments this year for the war-ravaged country.(AP File Photo)

dia say local charities and aid organizations pledged another $506 million just before the conference started. Gulf envoys addressing the conference said the United Arab Emirates pledged $100 million. Sau-

di Arabia pledged $60 million, while Norway said it would pay $93 million and the United Kingdom $150 million. At last year’s donors’ conference, about $2.4 billion was pledged, though the U.N. had called for $6.5

billion in pledges. In 2013, some $1.5 billion were pledged, less than half of the U.N.’s appeal for $4.4 billion. The U.N. humanitarian office’s Financial Tracking Service said in November that nearly a quarter of last

year’s pledges, or $585 million, had not been fulfilled. In his speech at the Kuwait conference, the U.N. secretary general said that more of last year’s pledges have since come through, totaling 90 percent of total promises made.

UN, Red Cross alarmed over Yemen casualties in airstrikes Iran nuke talks to continue in new phase SANAA, MARCH 31 (AP): Saudi-led airstrikes pounded Yemen’s Shiite rebels for the sixth day Tuesday, destroying missiles and weapons depots controlled by the rebels as international aid organizations expressed alarm over the high civilian casualties from the strikes and the violence roiling the country. The airstrikes’ campaign by Sunni Arab states, which began last Thursday, is meant to halt the advance by the Shiite rebels known as Houthis who have overrun the country with the help of the deposed president’s loyalists and forced Yemen’s current president to flee abroad. The U.N. human rights office in Geneva said that in the past five days, at least 93 civilians have been killed and 364 wounded in five Yemeni cities engulfed in the violence, including the capital, Sanaa. The overall figures are likely much higher and it was not immediately clear if the casualties cited by Geneva referred to just airstrikes or the strikes and fighting between Yemen’s warring factions. Overnight and into early hours Tuesday, the coalition bombed the Iran-backed rebels around Sanaa, according to Yemeni military and security officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media. Along with warplanes, warships and naval artillery were used to deter the Houthis and

their allies loyal to ousted President Ali Abdullah Saleh from advancing into the southern port city of Aden. It was not immediately clear which coalition countries the ships in the waters off Aden belong to. Over the past days, the airstrikes have targeted at least nine of Yemen’s 21 provinces and have prevented the Houthis from reaching Aden, the former capital of the once-independent south, where President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi declared a temporary capital after fleeing rebel-controlled Sanaa. Hadi, who was a close U.S. ally against Yemen’s powerful al-Qaida affiliate, fled the country last week, but remains Yemen’s internationally recognized leader. The U.S. has provided support to the Saudi-led coalition but is not carrying out direct military action. Meanwhile, Iran said it sent an aid shipment to Yemen, according to the official IRNA news agency — Tehran’s first such delivery since the airstrikes started. The aid contained 19 tons of medicines and medical equipment and two tons of food provided by the Iranian Red Crescent, IRNA said. The agency reported that the aid was delivered by air early Tuesday but did not say where the cargo landed. The coalition has bombed a number of rebelheld airports and has announced it is in full control of Yemen’s airspace. The conflict in Yemen marks

Singapore charges teen for video attacking Lee, Christianity SINGAPORE, MARCH 31 (AP): A court in Singapore on Tuesday charged a teenager over a video he posted online that was critical of the nation’s late founder and Christianity. In the 8-minute clip that was posted on YouTube, 16-year-old Amos Yee Pang Sang said that Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore’s first prime minister, and Jesus Christ were both “malicious,” among other disparaging comments. The video has been taken off Yee’s YouTube channel, but copies continue to circulate on social media. Yee was arrested Sunday, the same day the country held an elaborate state funeral for Lee. He was charged Tuesday with three offenses — two for insulting Christianity and the late statesman, and another for allegedly transmitting online an “obscene representation.” Yee, who had previously made local headlines with his controversial and opinionated videos, could face jail time of up to three years if found guilty.

Peru’s PM to resign after censure vote LIMA, MARCH 31 (REUTERS): Peru’s prime minister was ousted by Congress in a vote of no confidence late on Monday following allegations of spying on her opponents, delivering a blow to President Ollanta Humala who will now have to form another new government. Seventy-two lawmakers voted to remove Prime Minister Ana Jara from office after less than a year in the job, while 42 opposed the move. “It is an honor that this Congress has censured me,” Jara said in a Twitter message. Jara, who denies snooping on her political rivals, must now present her resignation to the president, who has 72 hours to accept it. Humala’s next prime minister will be his seventh in his less than four years in office. He can, however, reappoint cabinet ministers.

a major escalation in the regional struggle for influence between Saudi Arabia and Iran, which also back rival sides in Syria’s civil war. Arab leaders unveiled plans at a conference Sunday in Egypt to form a joint military intervention force for Yemen, which could raise tensions further. Critics of the Houthis charge that they are an Iranian proxy. Iran has provided aid to the rebels, but both Tehran and the Houthis deny it has armed them. Iran reiterated those denials Tuesday. “Claims about the dispatch of weapons from the Islamic Republic of Iran to Yemen are completely fabricated and sheer lies,” said the Foreign Ministry’s spokeswoman, Marzieh Afkham. Afkham criticized Saudiled airstrikes, saying they have caused a high number of casualties and extensive damage From Riyadh, Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal insisted that Yemen’s security was integral to the Gulf Arab region’s overall security. “We are not warmongers, but if the drums of war call for it, we are prepared,” Saud said in a speech to the consultative Shura Council. “The Houthi militias and the former president (Saleh), with the Iranian support, insist on messing in Yemen.” Tuesday’s statement from Geneva said U.N. human rights staffers in Yemen verified that at least 19 civilians died when airstrikes hit a refugee camp near

the Houthi stronghold of Saada in northern Yemen, with at least 35 wounded, including 11 children. There were different reports of casualty figures from Monday’s strike. The Houthi rebels said 40 people died while Doctors Without Borders tweeted that 29 people were dead on arrival at a hospital it supports and that it treated two dozen wounded, among them women and children. However, witnesses told The Associated Press that the camp — used to house people displaced by an earlier conflict that ended five years ago — is now occupied by Houthi forces and that most of those killed were fighters. The U.N. human rights chief Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein on Tuesday said he was shocked by Monday’s airstrike at the camp for displaced people and called on all sides to protect civilians from harm and to resolve their differences through dialogue rather than through force. “The situation in Yemen is extremely alarming, with dozens of civilians killed over the past four days,” Al Husseins said. “The country seems to be on the verge of total collapse.” Also from Geneva, the International Committee of the Red Cross on Tuesday called for the urgent removal of obstacles to the delivery of vital medical supplies needed to treat casualties from a week of deadly clashes and air strikes in Yemen.

LAUSANNE, MARCH 31 (AP): Wrapping up six days of marathon nuclear talks with mixed results, Iran and six world powers prepared Tuesday to issue a general statement agreeing to continue talks in a new phase aimed at reaching a final agreement to control Iran’s nuclear ambitions by the end of June, officials told The Associated Press on Tuesday. Officials had set a deadline of March 31 for a framework agreement, and later softened that wording to a framework understanding, between Iran and the socalled P5+1 nations — the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Russia and China. And after intense negotiations, obstacles remained on uranium enrichment, where stockpiles of enriched uranium should be stored, limits on Iran’s nuclear research and development and the timing and scope of sanctions relief among other issues. The joint statement is to be accompanied by additional documents that outline more detailed understandings, allowing the sides to claim enough progress has been made thus far to merit a new round, the officials said. Iran has not yet signed off on the documents, one official said, meaning any understanding remains unclear. The talks have already

been extended twice as part of more than a decade of diplomatic attempts to curb Tehran’s nuclear advance. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to comment on the talks on the record. If the parties agree only to a broad framework that leaves key details unresolved, President Barack Obama could face stiff opposition from members of Congress who want to move forward with new Iran sanctions legislation. Lawmakers had agreed to hold off on such a measure through March while the parties negotiated. The softening of the language from a framework “agreement” to a framework “understanding” appeared due in part to opposition to a two-stage agreement from Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, who left Lausanne Monday, was heading back to the Swiss city, also indicating that an end to the talks was near.In Moscow, he told reporters: “Prospects for this round of negotiations were not bad, and I would even say good.” Some of the P5+1’s foreign ministers joined Kerry and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif at the talks over the weekend

in an intense effort to reach a political understanding on terms that would curb Iran’s nuclear activities in exchange for sanctions relief. Kerry and others said the sides have made some progress, with Iran considering demands for further cuts to its uranium enrichment program but pushing back on how long it must limit technology it could use to make atomic arms. In addition to sticking points on research and development, differences remain on the timing and scope of sanctions removal, the officials said. The Obama administration says any deal will stretch the time Iran needs to make a nuclear weapon from the present two to three months to at least a year. But critics object that it would keep Tehran’s nuclear technology intact. Officials in Lausanne said the sides were advancing on limits to aspects of Iran’s program to enrich uranium, which can be used to make the core of a nuclear warhead. Uranium enrichment has been the chief concern for more than a decade. But Western officials say the main obstacles to a deal are no longer enrichment-related but instead the type and length of restrictions on Tehran’s research and development of advanced centrifuges and the pace of sanctions-lifting.

Tokyo ward 1st in Japan to recognize same sex marriage TOKYO, MARCH 31 (AP): Fumino Sugiyama will finally be able to marry his girlfriend of four years. He couldn’t before, because same sex marriages weren’t recognized in Japan, and he is legally a woman. With a landmark vote Tuesday by the assembly of Tokyo’s Shibuya ward, the district famous as a mecca for trendy youngsters became the first locale in Japan to recognize same sex partnerships as the “equivalent of a marriage,” guaranteeing the identical rights of married couples, including hospital visitations and apartment rentals. Sugiyama, who runs a couple of restaurants, said he welcomed the move as a key step in starting a longneeded debate about LGBT issues in Japan — a culture that values harmony so much that being different can get downright traumatic. “We are not out to change the world,” said Sugiyama, 33, who knew of his male identity since

In this Monday, March 30, 2015 photo, Fumino Sugiyama speaks during an interview with The Associated Press at a restaurant he runs in Tokyo’s Shibuya ward. Sugiyama will finally be able to marry his girlfriend of four years. He couldn’t before, because same sex marriages weren’t recognized in Japan, and he is legally a woman. With a landmark vote Tuesday, March 31 by the assembly of Tokyo’s Shibuya ward, the district famous as a mecca for trendy youngsters became the first locale in Japan to recognize same sex partnerships as the “equivalent of a marriage,” guaranteeing the identical rights of married couples, including hospital visitations and apartment rentals. (AP Photo)

he was in kindergarten and had cried as a child because he didn’t want to wear a skirt. The new ordinance applies only to Shibuya, and it’s technically not legally binding, though violators will have their names posted on the ward’s website. Shibuya — an area with a population of 217,000, including 9,000 foreigners — is also planning an aggressive educational campaign on LGBT issues. Japanese conservatives, including the powerful politicians of the ruling party, have been unwilling to back the initiative, and protest rallies have popped up in Shibuya. “A great social ramification will be expected from such a decision,” Mari Sato, a ruling party ward legislator opposed to the move, told the assembly ahead of Tuesday’s vote. The vote passed, with the majority of the 34 ward’s legislators standing up to show their approval. Many Japanese lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people keep their sexual

orientation secret for fear of a social backlash, so the number of people who will take advantage of the change is unclear. But Shibuya is expecting an influx of gay and lesbian people. The first certificates are expected to be issued in July. Koyuki Higashi and Hiroko Masuhara, a rare visible and vocal lesbian couple in Japan, emerged from the Shibuya ward office Tuesday, holding up a rainbow banner that said, “Thank you, Shibuya,” in English. The couple said they moved to Shibuya four months ago, just to apply for a same sex marriage certificate. They have been together for three years, and held a symbolic wedding at Tokyo DisneySea two years ago. Sugiyama, who was also in Shibuya to celebrate, acknowledged that the ordinance was just a beginning. He said he struggled growing up as a transgender in Japan, and hated going to an all-girls school. He never thought of himself as female, even when he was

on the Japanese national women’s fencing team. It was when he was volunteering, sweeping the streets, that he was befriended by a Shibuya ward legislator. Pretty soon, LGBT people were flocking to the volunteer project from all over Japan. That gradually started raising awareness, recalled Sugiyama, who coheads an LGBT advocacy group called Tokyo Rainbow Pride. Sugiyama has had sex reassignment surgery, but under Japanese law he is categorized as a female. This means he would not be able to marry a woman under national law, which does not recognize same sex marriages. Now he can — in Shibuya. Still, Sugiyama, who said he plans to have children, turned tearful, reflecting back on the years of pain, especially those he knew who had killed themselves, unable to bear the suffering. He was merely asking society to accept the LGBT lifestyle as an option, he said.

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Contemporary Nagas: Villagers, Nationals & Transnationals When I pronounce the word Future The first syllable already belongs to the past. (Wislawa Szymborska, Polish writer and Nobel Laureate)

Time and Space and this Conference Our conference theme, “Rethinking the Nagas in the Contemporary,” directly points to the importance of time and implies the importance of space as well, since time normally needs physical habitation called places to have lived reality. We get born at some time, in some place; we grow up, live, work, and die some time, some place. Life begins, progresses, and ends at intersections of time and space. Time and space are the two dimensions of human existence we cannot transcend either as individuals or as a people. So I’d like to think with you this morning about Nagas on two sets of questions. One having to do with space: Where are Nagas now and where will Nagas be? The second set has to do with time: Who are Nagas now and who will Nagas be? I will approach these questions in a sweeping bird’s-eye view kind of way and not get into a systematic analysis. And so we can start with the spatial and temporal facts of our conference. First, we are meeting in New Delhi, the capital city of the leading postcolonial nation-state in the world. It is easy to assume, because Nagas have a long-standing political quarrel with the government of India, that Nagas are anti-India. But that is nonsense. Nagas are not anti-India. We are a people who happen to like ourselves – at least half of the time. And liking ourselves doesn’t mean disliking India and Indians. Far from it. Nagas owe a lot to India, which is a matter of fact. We just need to look around and see where most Naga jobs and salaries come from. And we are grateful to the Indian government and Indians for this. And when it comes to space, physical geography, which determines so much of human existence, Nagas and Indians are nature’s nextdoor neighbors. It’s true we are different peoples and our relationship is complicated, but it is also close and intimate. And intimacy can generate friction and that has been the history of our relationship. But that can change, should change, in time, to the benefit of both sides. And it is because we believe in change for the better that we are gathered here. Secondly, time. We are meeting in the shadow of the tragedy that happened three weeks ago in Dimapur. There is no skirting it, and we shouldn’t try to, not only because it was global news but especially because the incident shows Nagas have to get our act together. Whatever explanations can be produced -- and there must be several -- the fact remains that there was a total breakdown of public responsibility and social awareness in Dimapur for about a week leading up to and on the day of the lynching. So we need to talk about it together as a people in shame, less for laying blame than for understanding where we went wrong, and how we may improve the existing mechanism or develop new ones for preventing incidents like it in the future. The failure of the local law enforcement has been universally noted. But as the local papers have pointed out, there were lots of people and agencies missing in action. When the signs of trouble were brewing for over a week the elected representatives of the people were nowhere on the scene. Nor were the civil society organizations, church leaders, tribal leaders, heads of colleges and schools and professors and teachers, and neighborhood elders and parents. Where were all our leaders and elders when the young people needed us most? This is a serious and legitimate question because a wellfunctioning society takes more than law enforcement to run. I’ll have more to say later about how we can come together to refashion ourselves into a people and build a global Naga society with Nagaland as the home base so we can be better prepared. But for now, I’d like to comment briefly on another aspect of the Dimapur tragedy: the extreme reaction against the Nagas as a whole that has emerged in its wake. There is a small but powerful element in this country, with some grassroots following, which has gone so far as to equate the Nagas with ISIS and al Qaeda, and we need to protect ourselves against their calumny. In their eyes, Nagas have suddenly become, in one day, the worst people on earth because a Naga mob lynched an alleged non-Naga rapist. Nagas recognize and have condemned the lynching as a most horrendous and “barbaric” crime, and will need to do much more than condemning. But anything Nagas do will be too little for these Naga haters because what they are really after is something else, and it is not justice or preventing violence. They have another agenda. For them, Nagas are the enemy, their Other, onto whom they subconsciously project their worst selves and fears. For them, Nagas have no right to resent Indian occupation and domination, past or present. If you ask them why, they can’t give you a coherent answer because there is none. They might grumble about the economic dependency of the Nagas on India, which is true, as we said. But if it is that, I understand Nagaland gets less than one-third of one percent of India’s annual tax revenue, which, though a substantial sum in itself, would not be much more than what other states of similar size are getting from the central government. So we wonder what these Naga denigrators want. And we realize that they are pulling a familiar Indian trick out of an old playbook going back to the earliest years of Naga nationalism. They are recreating the colonial image of the Nagas as too ignorant, backward, wild, and violent to deserve respect and equal treatment, much less full human

rights. They are engaging in a propaganda strategy of containment and dissemination. By that I mean, they want to push contemporary Nagas into a make-believe corral of barbarism in Nagaland, based on the events of one day, and broadcast and disseminate the false fabricated image to the rest of the country and the world. The rhetorical ploy behind this Naga demonization, meant especially for Western consumption, says in effect: “See what Nagas have turned Christianity into in India! Christian ISIS. You understand now what the Indian government has had to deal with for so long.” When we hear these self-righteous, boisterous voices in the halls of government in New Delhi, we wonder where the famous tradition of champions of human rights and civilization in the Indian parliament were when the Indian Army pillaged and terrorized Naga villages, desecrated churches, raped Naga women, tortured Naga men, and boasted that they were “better headhunters” than the Nagas. Think, for instance, the massacre in Yengpang village in 1954, when Indian soldiers under the leadership of the Political Officer in Noklak Camp massacred 356 innocent, peaceful villagers in two days. In short, we need to counter this hatred of the Nagas, this neocolonial narrative of Naga barbarity, because it has deep mass psychological affect and wide physical and political consequences. We can’t let this discourse of Naga demonization as justification and fuel for Indian domination go unchallenged. Not again. We need to win this representational image battle this time around, with the help of our Indian friends, for the sake of our common humanity and the country’s. Let’s keep our eyes and ears open wherever we are in the world. That said, when it comes to the Naga’s long standing political disagreement with the Indian government, we know that with each passing day the conventional sovereign-state nationalism of the type Nagas have fought for is headed closer and closer to the museum. Does anyone use manual Remington typewriters anymore? And I don’t say this in ridicule, not at all, on the contrary. But Nagas have to have the integrity not only to state the facts of history but the courage and intelligence to face the facts of life in the present, in the contemporary. And the 21st century world, though still in the grip of the nationstates arrangement of the world, offers multiple alternative forms of individual self-definition and group affiliation besides citizenship rooted in the sovereign nation. What I mean is, contemporary Nagas as a people are freer than we realize, and the whole world has quite literary opened up for us, as it has for other people, who are prepared to enter it and reshape it in the ways we and they want. Nagas in the Contemporary World Let me digress a little here in order to loop back to my point. The original plan was for me to speak at this conference by Skype. Had I done that I would have been there in the US and with you here in Delhi, two places at once. It would have been night for me in Washington state and morning for you in Delhi: night and day, two different times at the same time. We obviously live in a world in which the unprecedented advances in science and technology of the last few decades have compressed places and time differences for people continents apart into instantaneous events shared on simultaneous digital screens. We live in a globally interconnected world, and Nagas are part of it. This revolutionary instantaneity of time and space in the contemporary world, coupled with another phenomenon -- global migrations of peoples -- has released two related trends in the world that are changing the course of human history. First, it is changing the way the human subject (in the philosophical sense) is being constructed and defined; second, it is restructuring the individual’s relationship to the State, which is the locus of political rights. In the modernist territory-bound nationstate the relationship between the State and the citizen was and still is top-down. But this top-down structure is being transformed and replaced by the postmodern bottomup relations engendered by what some have call the “media-State,” represented by the global reach of electronic communication, social media, and entertainment networks. Functioning in this postmodern, borderless, planetary, electronic State requires the self to be multi-faceted; in effect, the postmodern subject has become multiple rather than unitary. And in the contemporary environment of global cultural flows and transnational migrations, the self can create culturally and ethnically hybrid locations and spaces that are beyond anything the nation-state imagined. And what the individual can do, a group can as well. This is a world in which the conventional State seems fated to always play catch-up with its citizens. One of the hybrid human-groups whose numbers are growing is what Guillermo Gomez-Pena has termed the “Fourth World,” which is “a counterspace that challenges the privilege and identity of citizens, those who have a home” -- a state-sanctioned home. It is “the world of the displaced, the exiles, immigrants, asylum seekers, and other mobile citizens” (Rodowick 17). Gomez-Pena adds another category, the Fifth World, which is a more developed version of the “media-State.” The Fifth World is “a mobile space” of reciprocal exchange and of dialogue “where con-

cepts of border and identity can be contested and reconfigured” (Rodowick 18). Together, the Fourth and Fifth States constitute a conceptual space of heterogeneity composed of the “portions of all the previous worlds” the participants carry with them and inside them. In this way, the postmodern age has inaugurated the arrival of a new human being who is increasingly getting disengaged from the conventions of territorialized States. To be sure, it is nation-states that still rule our lives and the world. But its hold on the people is loosening in many parts of the world. Given our history and present circumstances, it is a safe bet to say that the future of the Nagas will be determined not by the nationalism of the past but by the globalizing forces of the contemporary age. Globalization has gotten a bad name, and rightly, if by the term we mean the unscrupulous financial institutions and exploitative multinational corporations. But there are other forms of globalization with real potential for good. Like creating awareness about human rights, promoting women’s rights, making available opportunities for transnational cultural exchange and enrichment, disseminating knowledge about global warming, and learning how we can live more ecologically-friendly lives. One specific and positive application of transnationalism, as a counter to global capitalism, comes from Etienne Balibar. Balibar gives transnationalism an activist’s turn by associating it with the belief in a common humanity. He makes it into an instrument for political and economic equality especially for minorities throughout the world, and for their access to self-governance; in his view, transnationalism is a form of resistance to the “promulgations of Eurocentric universalism”. It is easy to see why people like the Nagas might find Baliber’s concept of transnationalism empowering. It offers nations without a State an alternative mode of belonging to meaningful global communities. This is part of the contemporary world Nagas belong in: a transnational world linked up by multiple channels of communication and united around the call for and practice of human rights for all. End of History, Clash of Civilizations, and Nagas There’s one trend in the contemporary world where, happily, Nagas don’t belong, and that is the ideological battle being waged on the question of which country should own the world and what civilization should own history. The agonistic discourse has huge policy and material implications and smells of the Cold War era. It has two versions, both from the perspective of the dominant West. I won’t rehearse them here because they are familiar, except to note that Francis Fukuyama’s master narrative of the “end of history” contends that Western liberal democracy and free market capitalism are the political and the economic systems humankind will ever need. One wonders what the rest of humankind lived and worked for or why they bothered to build communities and civilizations of their own for millenia. And for people like Bernard Lewis and Samuel Huntington, the future of humankind will be decided by which of the half-dozen or so major civilizations of the world wins in the unavoidable “clash of civilizations” that lies ahead. Huntington concludes that the clash of civilizations will essentially boil down to “the West and the Rest,” the forces of Western neo-liberal values and institutions against the “weakness and irrationality” of the Rest. There are at least two reasons why Nagas don’t need to participate in these battles. First, politically speaking, Nagas are still in a neocolonial stage of history, having been excluded from the age of postcolonial freedom. In that sense, Nagas are twice removed from the power-struggle between the First and Second Worlds, which is the context in which these ideological wrangles are taking place. Secondly, and more importantly, these narratives of history and civilizational debates often end in wars and in violations of civil liberties and human rights. Nagas: Then, Now, To be Briefly, then, where are the Nagas and who are the Nagas in the contemporary world? It can be said generally that Nagas have been politically aware and have demonstrated a high degree of group agency and decision-making capacity in the recent past. Some of the nodal moments of Naga history can be summarized thus: 1. In the old days, the village government was the stage, the territorial space, for participatory democracy – for the Naga men folk at least. Our ancestors lived their history, though they did not put it into written records. 2. Nagas were then suddenly thrust into the messy colonial age, and while the postcolonial age swept throughout the formerly colonized world, we were left behind in the colonial backwaters of the British Empire, and rendered anachronistic in the age of decolonization by Government of India, so that we find ourselves excluded from the nation-states narrative of history. 3. Then came the forces of globalization and transnationalism which catapulted us into the brave new world of the 21st century. And now, Nagas are in Nagaland, Myanmar, Manipur, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, and throughout India, including 30,000 strong in Delhi alone, and are all over the world, from Australia to Norway,

China to the United States, and many countries in between. 4. Contemporary Nagas are faced with two questions related to our place in the world: One is the unresolved political problem with India. This involves the commitment of both the parties, and should be settled quickly in a way that benefits both sides. (But this is a subject that will come up later in the conference.) The other is the yet-tobe defined place of the Nagas in the fast changing transnational world. And this is the subject I wish to conclude on. Constructing a Transnational Naga society How do Nagas prepare for responsible citizenship in the heterogeneous, mobile, global, transnational, electronic-media world without losing our sense of the indigenous communitarian values we inherited from the past? This is too large a question to tackle in a few minutes, unless we take a specific case to illustrate the workings of the whole. And that’s what I want to do by returning to the Dimapur incident with which I started. Three days after the incident, on March 8, the Overseas Naga Association tried to connect with one another globally and with our people in the homeland through a simple email. This is different from the Press Release which some of you may have seen. The email said: “Dear ONA Members around the World: As you know, news from Nagaland in the last few days could not have been worse. The events have scandalized and hurt us deeply. This is the kind of time when we each retire into the privacy of our interior lives to find support and grace there. It is also the kind of time when Nagas as a people need to dig deep and find the cultural and spiritual resources, old and new, so we don’t despair. The old tradition of truth-telling and simple, honest living in intimate village communities produced a robust and generous people in our ancestors; and the new message of the redemptive power of faith and love reinforced those traditions, and together they continue to sustain the Nagas throughout the world. Nagas are now a global people and we the members of the Overseas Naga Association are an important part of this expanding story. It is the story of a hearty, resilient people of goodwill. Let us keep it that way.” The reason I’m sharing this email with you is to emphasize the need for a new kind of Naga society consisting of all the Nagas from around the world, with Nagaland as the ancestral home. It practical terms, it will require serious renovation and improvements, among them: • Eliminating unfair and corrupt practices in government that generate resentment and anger among the people. • Mending the divisions within each tribe; opening channels of communication and creating a climate of co-operation between and among tribes. • Putting in place a legal system and an effective enforcement mechanism to keep out illegal immigration; at the same time, being tolerant of and reaching out to the non-Nagas who are in Nagaland lawfully for peaceful, collaborative co-existence. This way, crime and anti-social activity can be prevented, or quickly detected and dealt with when they occur, because the community mechanisms we’ve put in place will be readily available for use, unlike what happened on March 5. • Improving relations with the people and the governments of the neighboring states will be critical as well. This can be achieved by cultivating good will among the people through cultural and educational exchanges, joint economic ventures and development projects for mutual benefit. The effort will need to be various, and carried out at the levels of both government and civil society. • And very importantly, it will be remiss on our part to leave behind our fellow-Nagas in the region and in Myanmar as we make life better for ourselves in Nagaland. In short, what contemporary Nagas need is a vision and a comprehensive plan with a goalsoriented set of actions to improve government, built and maintain infrastructure, develop the villages, create peaceful and vibrant communities in the state, build social and economic bridges with other states in the region, so that Nagaland can become (a) an exemplary provider of good quality life for all its people, starting with the villagers and the working class in the towns; and (b) become a leader in protecting human rights – ours and our neighbors’. The idea behind a transnational Naga society is to recapture the vibrant self-help culture of our ancestors and build upon the communitarian ethos of the Nagas village. That culture and that tradition will be the gear driving the vision and plan for constructing the Naga society on a transnational scale. If Nagas in the homelands and throughout the world can get invested in the project in spirit and with goods and services, there’s no reason why we cannot reshape ourselves into the people we want to be, and the land we take pride in calling home. To do this, Nagas will need India’s support and friendship, Myanmar’s co-operation, and the goodwill of countries where Nagas have settled. In this way, in fifty years or less, this generation of Nagas would have built a Naga homeland where the participatory democracy of the traditional Naga village and its

sense of community will find continuation in the contemporary world. We could say of ourselves then, that our Naga ancestors came to this part of Earth in the Naga Hills from “time immemorial,” and some headed further east, some west, others north and south, and we became a transnational, global people. But we have a homeland we are proud to claim our own, even from the ends of the world. God bless the Naga people and our homelands! God bless India and the World! Thank you. This paper was presented during the International Conference on “Rethinking the Nagas in the Contemporary,” held from March 2021, 2015, at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India, organised by Naga Scholars Association & The Hao Research Initiative. Works Referenced Etienne Balibar, “World Borders, Political Borders,” PMLA.117(1) (January 2002): 6871. Francis Fukuyama, The End of History and the Last Man, New York, Free Press, 1992. Guillermo Gomez-Pena, The New World Border. San Francisco, City Lights, 1996. Samuel Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order, New York, Simon & Schuster, 1996. Bernard Lewis, “The Roots of Muslim Rage,” The Atlantic Monthly. Vol. 266.No.3 (September 1990): 47-58. D.N. Rodowick, “Introduction: Mobile Citizens, Media States,” PMLA.117(1) (January 2002): 13-23. Wislawa Szymborska, Poems: New and Collected, 1957-1997. New York, Harcourt, 1998. Paul/Paulus Pimomo Central Washington University, USA

COURAGE I am a woman, I have all in me I will keep rising, deep trenches cannot stop me. My will, my desire, with all my dreams, Will help me cross all streams. I am woman, I have all in me, I will keep rising, deep trenches cannot stop me. The zest to live, the courage to stand, Living for everybody and lending a helping hand. I am a woman, I have all in me, I will keep rising, deep trenches cannot stop me. I am ready to face all that my way comes, I will turn all sorrows to bits and crumbs. I am a woman, I have all in me, I will keep rising, deep trenches cannot stop me…

Eranbeni Erui

Sacred Desires of Holiness Desiring to become more and more like you In all that I do, Lord, I want to think in the way you think, To see in the way you see: Talking in the way you talked, Praying in the way you prayed I desire to love in the way you love. Preaching in the way you preached Desiring to be holy as you areYearning to be pure as you are Striving to be righteous as you are I desire to be transformed Into your complete likeness Living in the way you lived, Serving God in the way you served. Doing your will as you did the Father’s will Not my will but yours be done in me For I am yours. The servant of the Most High A lover of the eternal God And a son of the Lord Almighty This servant, writes, prays and waits All that this servant does and become Will be for the glory of God. This servant lives for the glory of God. God loves holiness. Ambrose.J.Chakre

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WELLINGTON, MARCH 31 (AP): Veteran spinner Daniel Vettori returned home to New Zealand on Tuesday and confirmed what he had hinted at last week — the Cricket World Cup final against Australia was his last match for New Zealand. Vettori had indicated that Sunday's final at the Melbourne Cricket Ground would likely be the last of his 18-year international career but didn't formally announce his retirement. He did so Tuesday when the New Zealand team arrived home from Australia, telling reporters at Auckland's airport that the World Cup final was "a lovely way to finish. Obviously, it would've been great to win but I'm really proud of everyone and the way we've gone about things the last six weeks." Vettori retires as New New Zealand captain Brendon McCullum, left, talks with his bowler Dan Vettori during the Zealand's most-capped Cricket World Cup final against Australia in Melbourne, Australia, Sunday, March 29. (AP Photo)

NPL – 3 iN APriL

Morung Express News Dimapur | March 31

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The Nagaland Premier League (NPL) is back. The third edition of the NPL is scheduled sometime around the end of April and will be held over 9 weeks. Informing this, Yudang Ao, Managing Partner, 442 Management – the organisers of the league, stated that the dates for the tournament is still being worked out as the Kohima Local Ground has been booked by the state government. The league will be based on a home and away basis and will only be played in Dimapur and Kohima, with Mokokchung missing out as one of the venues. Yudang explained that this was because of “logistic issues” and “requests” from some of the teams. He revealed that transportation and lodging issues had cropped up

for some teams during the last two seasons. He also reasoned that Kohima and Dimapur were “easier” as venues for the teams. 10 teams will participate in the league. While stating that he hasn’t confirmed with some of the teams on their participating, the Director maintained that the league will be a ten team affair. “There have been new teams asking about participating in the league, so if some of the older teams don’t play, we might see new teams,” Yudang stated. Last played in November 2013, many had assumed the league scrapped. NPL debuted in March 2012 with Barak Flamingoz FC winning the inaugural season while debutants, Veda FC, emerged champions in the last edition.

player in tests and oneday internationals. Having made his debut in 1997 at 18 years old, he's spent half his life on the New Zealand team. "To be able to finish in the final, albeit without a win, I'm just very grateful for the amount of support I had," he said, mentioning captain Brendon McCullum and coach Mike Hesson, specifically. "To be able to get back from a number of injuries and to be here and to be part of it ... is something I'll always treasure." Vettori appeared in 113 test matches and 295th one-day internationals in his New Zealand career, scoring 4,531 runs and taking 362 wickets. In his final match, he scored nine runs and took 0-25 from five overs, but it wasn't enough as Australia won its fifth World Cup title Memphis Grizzlies guard Mike Conley (11) drives against Sacramento Kings guard Nik Stausby seven wickets. kas in the second half of an NBA basketball game Monday, March 30, 2015, in Memphis, Tenn.

Chizami Cup postponed

DIMAPuR, MARCH 31 (MExN): The 6th Chizami Cup 2015, a Nagaland Football Association registered open football tournament, has been postponed. A press release from Colo Mero, Director, Life Sports, stated that the postponement has been warranted because of the proposed 3rd edition of the Nagaland Premier League (NPL) which, as per sources, is scheduled to be held in April 2015. Regretting the inconveniences caused to aspiring clubs and players, Mero informed that new dates for the tournament will be announced in due time.

European clubs win more money, influence in new UEFA deal

Clubs agree to more even distribution of Champions League funds

GENEVA, MARCH 31 (AP): Europe's top clubs have agreed to a new deal with UEFA which gives them more money and a bigger say in how European soccer is run. The European Club Association said Tuesday it renewed a working accord through May 2022 which guarantees clubs at least 200 million euros ($214 million) from UEFA's 2020 European Championship income. The current deal is for a flat fee of 150 million euros ($161 million) for Euro 2016. The new deal tops the $209 million that FIFA agreed to with the ECA two weeks ago to share among clubs worldwide from each of the 2018 and 2022 World Cups. Including other considerations, UEFA is likely to give even

more than the promised $214 million in 2020. "Clubs will receive 8 percent of income from broadcast, commercial and ticketing (and) hospitality (for Euro 2020)," the ECA and UEFA said in a statement. UEFA will also give the 214-member ECA two seats on its policy-making executive committee. "These achievements are an extraordinary success," said ECA chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, who is likely to take one of the executive committee places. Rummenigge, the Bayern Munich chairman, said the new accord "will strengthen the solidarity among the clubs and our sense of responsibility for football." UEFA President Michel Platini said in a statement that Rummenigge "has been a pleasure to work with." The ECA also gave details of its updated working agreement with FIFA, which requires "explicit consent" from clubs when

deciding dates for mandatory release of players to national teams. FIFA will create a Professional Football Department for club and players' union delegates to advise the world body. "ECA now has its strongest ever mandate to promote clubs' interests at FIFA level and develop a more collaborative working relationship," the group said. The deal with UEFA, announced at the clubs' assembly in Stockholm, also confirmed increased revenue of 2.24 billion euros ($2.4 billion) for the Champions League and Europa League combined over the next three seasons. The 32 Champions League group-stage clubs will share 1.2 billion euros ($1.29 billion) each season, up from 957 million euros ($1.03 billion) this season. Each is guaranteed a 12 million euro ($12.9 million) entry payment instead of 8.6 million euros ($9.2 million). The club earning the most prize

money from UEFA next season can expect a big increase on the 57.4 million euros ($61.8 million) collected by Champions League winner Real Madrid last season. Key to the deal was making the second-tier Europa League more lucrative, and giving bigger shares to teams eliminated in the qualifying rounds. The 48 clubs in the Europa League groups next season will share 381 million euros ($409 million) and be guaranteed 2.4 million euros ($2.58 million). This season, the figures are 232 million euros ($249 million) and 1.3 million euros ($1.4 million). The ECA was created in 2008 in a peace deal between UEFA and FIFA and top clubs. The governing bodies gave official recognition and a share of major tournament revenues, and clubs dropped legal actions relating to players injured on national team duty and threats to form a breakaway European league.

The Grizzlies won 97-83. (AP Photo)

MEMPHIS, MARCH 31 (AP): Mike Conley scored 18 points and Jeff Green had 16 as the Memphis Grizzlies ended a three-game losing streak and moved back into the second spot in the Western Conference playoff race with a 97-83 win over the Sacramento Kings on Tuesday. The Grizzlies are now a half-game ahead of the Houston Rockets, who lost 99-96 at Toronto. Zach Randolph scored 15 points for Memphis, and Marc Gasol had eight points and 11 rebounds. Kosta Koufos grabbed a season-high 12 boards as the Grizzlies outrebounded the Kings 45-41. In Toronto, DeMar DeRozan scored a careerhigh 42 points and tied his career best with 11 rebounds as the Raptors earned their eighth straight home victory over the Rockets. Jonas Valanciunas scored 15 points for Toronto, and Lou Williams had 13. James Harden scored

31 for the Rockets, who had won four in a row. Houston has not won in Canada since March 2007. In other games, Boston beat Charlotte 116-104 to move back into the eighth and final playoff spot in the Eastern Conference, Portland secured a playoff berth with a 109-86 win over Phoenix, and Eastleading Atlanta maintained its rhythm heading into the playoffs with a 101-88 win over Milwaukee. Boston's Avery Bradley had 30 points and eight rebounds and Evan Turner scored 15 points as the Celtics won for the 10th time in the last 16 games. The Celtics are now a few percentage points ahead of Brooklyn in the battle for the East's final playoff spot. Charlotte's playoff hopes have dimmed after dropping four of its last five games. In Portland, Oregon, Damian Lillard scored 19 points for the Blazers, who

have won four straight to edge closer to their first Northwest Division title since 2008-09. LaMarcus Aldridge added 17 points and seven rebounds, and Portland led by as many as 31 points. The Blazers rested their starters in the fourth quarter after building a 92-65 lead. Atlanta has already clinched the top seed in the Eastern Conference but is trying to maintain its playing edge while staying healthy for the final two weeks of the regular season. DeMarre Carroll scored 23 points to help Atlanta improve to 5618, one win away from tying the team record. Elsewhere, Jordan Clarkson made the tiebreaking basket with 0.7 seconds left in overtime, lifting the Los Angeles Lakers past Philadelphia 113111 in a matchup of two of the NBA's worst teams. Utah's Gordon Hayward scored 22 points as the Jazz topped Minnesota 104-84.

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Northern Angami -1 T20 BASH April 1 Fixtures (Starts 7:00 AM) 1st match: P. Khel Eagles vs Middle Bayavü Lions 2nd match: Upper L. Khel Riders vs Lower Bayavü Giants 3rd match: Mission Compound Dukes vs North Block Warriors

Djokovic, Nishikori & Raonic reach last 16 in Miami

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MIAMI, MARCH 31(REuTERS): Defending champion Novak Djokovic defeated Belgium's Steve Darcis 6-0 7-5 on Monday to power into the last 16 of the Miami Open along with Japan's Kei Nishikori, Canada's Milos Raonic and American John Isner. The Serbian world number one, who just like last year won at Indian Wells before heading to South Florida, will face Alexandr Dolgopolov, a 7-5 6-4 winner over Brazilian Thomaz Bellucci, in the fourth round. Djokovic, who is seeking a fifth win at Miami, wrapped up a one-sided first set in 26 minutes but faced a sterner test in the second. Darcis broke to go ahead 5-4 but after the Serb levelled up the set, he broke back and held on to secure the match. "I managed to come back in the right moment," Djokovic said. "I kind of elevated the intensity and started playing a little bit more with depth on the ball. "He's got a lot of variety, especially from his backhand side. "So I was handling it really good for first 30 minutes, then started to make some unforced errors and started to play a little bit Novak Djokovic, of Serbia, returns to Steve Darcis at the more neutral, a little bit slower, and he got Miami Open tennis tournament, Monday, March 30, in Key into the match. "I complicated my own life Biscayne, Fla. (AP Photo) in the second set but in the end of the day,

it's a win." Fourth-seed Nishikori had even less trouble as he crushed Serbia's Viktor Troicki 6-2 6-2 in 63 minutes. Troicki, who needed medical treatment to his left side during the match, struggled to cope with Nishikori throughout with the 25-year-old converting five of his six break points. "I was almost perfect on the court. It is so exciting that I am playing well here," said Nishikori. "Maybe he was hurting a little bit but I was still putting him under pressure with my return." Raonic also moved into the fourth round after a hard-earned 6-1 5-7 7-6 (3) win over French 31st seed Jeremy Chardy. Raonic was broken when serving for the match at 5-4 in the second and then Chardy went on to force the third set. "He started playing more freely and I sort of went the other way," said Raonic. "He played well in the second set and I think he played better than I did in the third." Isner provided an upset as the 22nd seed won 7-6(2) 6-2 over ninth seeded Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov while Belgian 18th seed David Goffin beat Poland's Jerzy Janowicz 6-4 6-3 and Spain's sixth seed David Ferrer got past Czech Lukas Rosol 6-4 7-5.

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