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Every single thing changes and is changing always in this world. Yet with the same light the moon goes on shining National Institute of Technology hosts Ekarikthin 2017

Petrol price cut by Rs. 3.77/litre, diesel

by Rs. 2.91/litre

By Sandemo Ngullie

Dimapur | March 31

Kohima, march 31 (DiPr): Nagaland Board of School Education has notified for information of all concerned that the Nagaland Board of School Education (NBSE) is a member board of the Council of Boards of School Education in India (COBSE). The NBSE grants reciprocal recognition to the certificates of examinations conducted by the member Boards/ Councils of COBSE only.

The NBSE admits only the students who have studied from the member Boards/ Councils of COBSE and on fulfillment of the criteria prescribed by the Board. As such, all registered institutions shall admit only those students who have been certified passed or qualified at an examination by a member Board or Council of COBSE. Before admitting, the institution shall also verify and check that the student have studied and appeared in the Core subjects i.e. Mathematics, Science, Social Sciences, English and a Second language.

ARSU demands construction work at GHS Amathor by April 8

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DimaPUr, march 31 (mExN): The Amahator Range Student’s Union (ARSU) today decided that it would file an FIR if construction work on the incomplete Government High School, Amathor Town does not begin

by April 8. A press note from the ARSU apprised the State Mission Director, RMSA Nagaland on the incomplete construction of GHS Amahator Town.

The ARSU informed that construction of the school building was started in 2012 and after the completion of 60% works, the department has paid 80% fund. Regarding this, the ARSU served an open letter to the State Mission Director (RMSA). It however expressed dismay that “nothing has been done.” It further informed that the District Education Officer, Kiphire had on March 31 “personally requested the ARSU Officials to wait till April 7.” “Surprisingly the Department supplied furniture and fixtures, and was also trying to do electric wiring for the school when the building is lying in pathetic condition,” it stated, while questioning the “logic of the Education Department Officer’s where fraudulent drawal of funds is entertained for neglecting the contract works not only to GHS Amahator Town but also to the other schools.”

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nagaland: cAG detects fraudulent payments, misutilisation of funds

reflections

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The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India in its report for Nagaland State for the year ending March 31, 2016 has detected cases of excess/ fraudulent payments and suspected misappropriation of government funds in several departments.

It particularly pointed to cases involving the PWD (R&B), Rural Development Department, Department of Fisheries and the Tourism Department.

Excess payment to contractor The CAG report informed that “excess and inadmissible payment” to the amount of Rs 8.01 Crore was made to a contractor “by arbitrarily increasing the rates of three items of work.”The payment, the CAG stated, was made for the upgradation of the Dimapur-Niuland Road to a major district road. The Ministry of DONER had sanctioned Rs 29.41 Crores for this work in August 2010.

The CAG however revealed that the Executive Engineer, PWD (R&B) had on July 14, 2011 submitted a proposal for revision of the estimate of project cost to Rs 39.90 Crores “only nine days before the actual completion of the work (July 23, 2011), on grounds of variation in quantities of work during execution.”

On examination of revised Bill of Quantity (BOQ), the CAG observed that the quantities of three items of work were increased while the quantities of six items of work were reduced.

While informing that the government in reply on August 2016 had stated that the project cost was revised, the CAG however pointed out that it was silent on how the rate of the three items of A farmhouse built on top of trees with bamboo ladders seen at Akuk village area un- works was enhanced arbitrarily. der Wokha district, Nagaland. These hut-on-trees acts as a safety measure for the farmers from wild elephants trespassing on their fields time and again, while foraging for food. It also serves as a watchtower to scout for wild elephants coming from afar. Due to loss of their habitats, the elephants have been encroaching into human habitation. Reports of conflict between the humans and the pachyderms have been reported frequently from Wokha district. (Photo by Steve Odyuo/Natural Nagas)

WWII museum boasts 432 relics Our Correspondent Kohima | March 31

The state WW II museum, Kisama, about 20 km away from state capital Kohima, boasts a collection of 432 relics.

Over the years, the museum has become an attraction for visitors both domestic and international alike, according to annual administrative report 2016-17 of the department of art & culture tabled by parliamentary secretary for art & culture, Eshak Konyak in the just concluded state assembly session.

The revenue generated during the year 2016-17 is Rs. 1, 08,

400, the report added.

During the year under report (2016-17), the state museum received six VVIP, 48 VIPs and 2922 students, police, para military forces, NCC and scout and guides in uniform.

19, 024 persons with entry ticket visited the state museum generating revenue of Rs. 1, 27, 000 and Rs. 39, 910 from fee realized from photography.

There is one state library, eight district libraries and 620 enlisted rural libraries under the department. The state library also houses approximately 59, 990 books with 3279 members.

Misappropriation of MGNREGS fund With regard to the RD Department, the CAG reported suspected misappropriation of MGNREGS fund. It referred to a case where the BDO, Ghatashi

“transferred an amount of Rs 2.53 Crore to two private bank accounts out of the fund of Rs 8.69 Crores received under MGNREGS during 2013-14.”

It further termed the government’s reply that the fund was temporarily parked in two individual accounts due to “unavoidable circumstances,” and the explanation of the BDO along with the furnished APRs to support payment of the “temporarily transferred” amount to the VDBs as “not acceptable.”

It informed that the APRs provided “in fact pertained to Rs 1.01 Crore drawn in cash by the BDO and not in respect of the amounts transferred to individual accounts.” The CAG further reported that as per the actual transaction of the two accounts and the accounts of the VDBs, “Rs 2.43 Crores transferred to these two accounts were never credited to the VDBs nor reverted back to government account.”

Rather, it observed that the Rs 1.07 Crore parked in one of the accounts was transferred to the other on April 2, 2014 through Real Time Gross Settlement (RTGS).

“The possibility of misappropriation cannot be ruled out. The government needs to investigate these transactions,” the CAG recommended.

‘Fraudulent payment’ In the Department of Fisheries, the CAG found that the department obtained fund worth Rs 4.99 Crores for construction of community based fishery ponds at Beiswampui, Peren from the Government of India on the basis of “doubtful beneficiaries list.” It revealed that the full amount was paid to an individual “who was not among the eligible beneficiary.” Out of this, Rs 1.77 Crore was paid “without actual execution of civil works,” it added.

Scrutiny of the Utilisation Certificate, Quarterly Progress Report and Completion Certificate revealed discrepancies of “incorrect beneficiary list, payment to an ineligible beneficiary and fictitious payment,” the CAG

stated.

Meanwhile examination of the Detailed Project Report found that 47 fisheries ponds were to be constructed at the cost of Rs 4.65 Crores. However, the CAG stated that only 36 fishery ponds existed on the project site, out of which three were natural water bodies.

The quantum of civil works actually executed would “likely work out to Rs 2.88 Crores,” it posited. During physical verification, the CAG informed that as per the project in charge, work was still in progress and more fishery ponds would be constructed.

Regarding the beneficiary issue, the government and the department on July 2016 stated that the “villagers authorized the individual to receive the payment.”

The CAG viewed this reply as “not acceptable as there was nothing on record to show that the beneficiaries authorized the individual to receive the funds on their behalf.”

‘Misutilisation of govt revenue’ The CAG also reported the “possibility of misutilisation/misappropriation” of Rs 50.74 lakh received as compensation from the National Highway Authority of India through the DC, Dimapur during October and November, 2014.

The compensation amount was in relation to two amenity centres located at Kukidolong and Piphema village, constructed through funds received from the GoI on land acquired by the Department of Tourism.

The CAG informed that Rs 50.74 lakh received as compensation was “neither accounted for nor deposited into the government account by the DoT.” The department meanwhile has stated that an amount of Rs 25 lakh was utilized during departmental trip to China for attending the International Travel Mart and the whereabouts of the balance amount remain unknown.

This case is under investigation by the State Vigilance Commission.

P&AR dept informs Gujarat makes cow slaughter on period of service punishable with life sentence

Kohima, march 31 (DiPr): The P&AR Department has informed that the period of service rendered on adhoc/contract/workcharged/substitute basis, which is followed by regularization or regular appointment without break or any gap in service, shall be treated as public employment and included in computation of length of service for the purpose of pension under the Nagaland Retirement from Public Employment (2nd Amendment) Act, 2009.

This applies except for resignation, but notwithstanding die cases of resignations taken up with proper permission for another appointment. This supersedes all office memoranda on the subject including the P&AR Department memorandum dated August 1, 2012, informed a statement issued through the DIPR.

GaNDhiNaGar, march 31 (iaNS): The Gujarat assembly on Friday made its anti-cow slaughter law the toughest in the country with the offence now becoming non-bailable and punishable with a lifetime in jail.

The Gujarat Animal Preservation (Amendment) Act, 2017, was passed with the ruling BJP’s brute majority and the opposition Congress remaining suspended from the house for the entire day on the last day of the Budget session.

Moving an amendment, Minister of State for Home Pradeepsinh Jadeja said: “During this auspicious occasion of Chaitri Navratri, the government, on sug-

gestions of many sadhus and sants, has made amendments to the Gujarat Animal Protection (Amendment) Act, 2011. This is the harshest law in the country.”

The new law provides for financial penalty from Rs 1 lakh to Rs 5 lakh for such a crime. “If anyone is found to illegally keep or transport a cow, the new Act has provision for 10 years’ imprisonment and minimum of 7 years in jail and a fine of Rs 1 lakh to Rs 10 lakh,” Jadeja said.

There is also provision for permanent seizure of vehicles used for transportation of animals for slaughter as against the earlier version which allowed only impounding of such vehicles for six months.

Jcc doubtful of state government’s Nagaland literacy progressed from fair handling of ULB election fiasco 10.52% in 1951 to 79.55% in 2011 Morung Express News Dimapur | March 31

The Joint Coordination Committee (JCC) today expressed apprehension that of the Nagaland state government initiating a fair and impartial inquiry into the January 31 incidents of violence in Dimapur and Longleng, which resulted in 2 two deaths and several injured.

Addressing the media in Dimapur on March 31, the JCC questioned as to how the state government could arrive at conclusions in public while facts has not been ascertained yet. “When the (proposed) JIC is yet to be formed, the CM is giving the verdict,” said the JCC reacting to Nagaland Chief Minister, Dr. Shurhozelie Liezietsu’s reported comments on the January 31 incidents at a party meeting recently.

The CM had reportedly stated that one of the bullets retrieved from one of

the injured youth on the night January 31 was not from any of the weapons used by the security forces in the state.

Terming this statement as “unbecoming” of a responsible leader, the JCC said that the CM instead of trying to calm the situation has rather exhibited “arrogance and ignorance of the rule of law.”

On the JCC/NTAC demand for suspension of the former Commissioner of Police, Dimapur, Longleng DC and police personnel involved, the JCC said that the ultimatum served to the government on March 8 demanding the same was based on a resolution adopted on March 3. The state government subsequently constituted a Cabinet Subcommittee, the latter convening a meeting with the JCC/NTAC at Kohima on March 11.

At the meeting, the JCC said that the Sub-commit-

tee asked for more time to implement the demands and “accordingly the deadline for meeting the March 8 ultimatum was extended, which expired on March 24.”

With the JCC/NTAC receiving no intimation from the government even after March 24, a 3-day ultimatum was served on March 28, the JCC said. Meanwhile, the JCC said that the government instead of explaining the circumstances for the delay has chosen to draw conclusions.

JCC rejects govt response to March 8 ultimatum It further informed that a letter regarding the March 8 ultimatum was received from the Home Commissioner on March 31. The 6-point letter (Full text on page-5) from the state government, containing the government’s response and steps to be taken, was rejected by the JCC. It stated that govern-

ment’s purported attempt to meet the demands of the March 8 ultimatum is “contrary to established rules and procedure.”

The letter, while it complied with the demand for expansion of the proposed JIC into a 3-member commission and its scope of investigation, explained, “It is felt that suspension of the officials and the police personnel at this stage would neither be justifiable nor proper.” It added that it would be appropriate to wait for the report of the JIC to initiate any disciplinary proceedings against the erring officials.

The JCC, while citing Rule 10 of the Central Services (CCA) Rules, maintained it cannot be accepted. The JCC further informed that a meeting of the JCC/NTAC with apex tribe hohos is scheduled for April 5 at 12 noon at the Chakhesang Hoho building, Dimapur.

Mokokchung has highest literacy rate @ 91.62% followed by Wokha @ 87.69% Our Correspondent Kohima | March 31

With the improvement in the system of education, the state of Nagaland has witnessed tremendous improvement in its literacy rate over the past decades.

From literacy rate of 10.52 % in 1951, the state has achieved a literacy rate of 79.55 % as per 2011 census, according to Nagaland Economic Survey 2016-17 tabled in the just concluded state assembly session.

As per the 2011 Census, among the eleven districts of Nagaland, Mokokchung has the highest literacy rate of 91.62 % followed by Wokha 87.69 %, Zunheboto 85.26 %, Kohima 85.23 %.

At the bottom is Mon district with a literacy rate of 56.99%.

As per UDISE statistics, till 2015 the state government recruited a total of 18, 849 teachers comprising of 11, 315 primary school teachers, 5236 middle school teachers, 1783 high school teachers and 515 higher secondary teachers.

Corresponding to this number of teachers, the total enrolment of student in government schools during 2015 was 1, 89, 032.

The breakup of the enrolment in the

different levels of schooling was; primary school-1,16,834,middleschool-45,122,high school- 19, 129, higher secondary – 7947.

Against the Right to Education student teacher norms of 30:1, government schools in Nagaland overall has a student teacher ratio of 10:1.

The breakup of ratio was- primary school- 10:1, middle school- 9:1, high school- 11:1, higher secondary- 15:1.

The student teacher ratio in government school was similar across districts except for Mon district where the ratio was 17:3.

At the state level, the total enrolment of students in both government schools as well as private schools during 2015 was 4, 33, 120.

The respective enrolment in the different levels of schooling was- primary school- 2, 35, 998, middle school- 1, 09, 058, high school- 57, 688, higher secondary- 30, 376.

Against this enrolment of student, the total number of teachers in school both government and private school was 30, 242.

The breakup of teachers in the different level of schooling was- primary school- 16, 059, middle school- 8856, high school- 3881, higher secondary- 1446.

For the maintenance of the structure of education in the state, government incurred an expenditure of Rs. 1392.92 crore for school education during the financial year 2015-16 (B.E).

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National Institute of Technology hosts Ekarikthin 2017

School of Planning & Architecture and Engineering School in Nagaland soon Morung Express News Dimapur | March 31

Stating Nagaland is still far away in technical and professional studies, Deo Nukhu, Parliamentary Secretary- Higher and Technical Education announced that under the sponsorship of Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India, a “School of Planning and Architecture and an Engineering School will be setup very soon”.

He further disclosed that the school of Planning and Architecture will be setup in Peren district near the Sainik School and the Engineering School in Dimapur district for which verification of site will be held very soon. He made this announcement during the launch of website and releasing of brochure of the Na-

Parliamentary Secretary Deo Nukhu launches website of the NIT, Nagaland at Chumukedima on the inaugural day of Ekarikthin 2017 on March 31. (Right) Students present a cultural item during the festival at NIT Nagaland. (Photo by Manen Aier)

tional Institute of Technology (NIT), Nagaland at Chumukedima.

Speaking as the chief guest at the inaugural function, he also stated that a lot of progress has taken place in the institute since its inception. To the students he said, by organizing this cultural festival you have the choice of participating in various events to showcase your talent and gifts. Un-

dergoing technical and profession not an easy task and therefore this is an occasion to refresh yourselves.

Stating that Ekarikthin in Sanskrit means sharing the “same heritage” which will be of great importance to our country, having unity in diversity in different culture and religions to come together through this event, he also said that the event will give an op-

portunity for students from NIT and other institution to come together and showcase their gifts and talents.

To all the participants he said, “Your participation here will help you to excel in your career not just your studies. Perform in utmost sincerity and diligence to display your potential and enlighten the audience in NIT and in achieving the national goal of diversity.”

NIT Director welcomed all the invitees, schools, colleges and faculty to the Techno-Cultural festival.

She informed that Ekarikthin 2017 is an event where students can exhibit their skills and talents through the various events that the organizers have arranged. Winning is not the only goal but the spirit of participation can help the students to their

personal growth and which will boost their confidence and motivate them to attain a bright career.

Students of Patkai Christian College presented an outstanding cultural song and dance, followed by a song from Kalino.

This is the third edition of annual event of NIT Nagaland. A community of four hundred students from Ekarikthin plus participating schools and colleges are taking part in this three-day mega festival.

Voice of Ekarikthin, Ritzy, Counter Strike, Dota, FIFA, Need for Speed, Chess Competition, Dubsmash, Maze Runner, Science Exhibition, Pick and Place and Mud Race, Stream The Boat, Gully Cricket, Rockville, Cosplay, Impressions, Pencil Sketching, Rangoli Making, Junkyard Electronics, Treasure Hunt, are the event lineups for the three day festival. This will be followed in the evening by performing artistes like Magadalene Band, Alobo Naga and The Band, and DJ Night.

Sazolie College 4th Trip gives GMS Thenyizu students exposure to city life Annual Lecture held

‘Finding job opportunities in the private sector: Be Your Own Boss’

Kohima, march 31 (mExN): Sazolie College, Jotsoma, organised its 4th Annual Lecture on March 31 with Rev. Dr. Mazie Nakhro, Director, Mission Facilitators, Texas, USA, speaking on the topic ‘Finding job opportunities in the private sector: Be Your Own Boss.’

Stressing on the prevailing situation in the state, Dr. Nakhro lamented that our leaders and elders, unlike in developed countries, are not doing enough to create opportunities for the younger generation. Instead, at present, he said the older generation is eating the food of the younger ones and the younger ones are not doing anything about it. He opined that the older generation should take the responsibility of laying a good and strong foundation so that young people can stand on their shoulders and progress in all areas.

For creating more opportunities, Dr Nakhro said that more investment should be made in the private sector instead of creating more government jobs without improving the work quality. According to him, distribution and devolution of power, instead of concentration of power in a few individuals, and privatisation instead of nationalisation are necessary for creating more opportunities. Creation of small businesses is also vital because it can be seen that they are the engines of economic activity in advanced countries.

Dr Nakhro urged the students to wake up, strive

knowledge and also to let phEK, march 31 textbook alone.

Altogether 42 students the teachers give more in(mExN): With the view to upgrade the student’s ra- from Class V to VII along terest in the days to come.

“90% of the students tionality on rural areas and with teachers went for the exposure to city life, Gov- exposure trip. The students have not even gone to Koernment Middle School visited Green Park, Naga- hima, the collection per (GMS) Thenyizu organized land Science Centre and students is Rs.200/- only, exposure trip to Dimapur Tea Garden in the Dimapur but many could not even Head teacher of pay for that,” Zazhota addon 30 and 31 March.

It was informed in a GMS Thenyizu, Zazhota ed. He, however, said with press release that the ex- Dawhuo, said that the ex- the contribution from posure was an initiative of posure was to enable the the good wishers and the the staffs from GMS Theny- students to get an expe- teachers, the trip was held.

Some of the students izumi. The programme was rience of what is an iceto encourage young aspira- cream, a cup of tea a hotel, mentioned that the exposure was an eye-opening tions to get exposed to the a plate of food in a hotel.

Rev. Dr. Mazie Nakhro speak- city life and to give them a He also mentioned experience and the 3D at ing at Sazolie College. taste of ground reality other that exposure to make the the Science center had and be more assertive, and than being confined to the school students enhanced amused them. also to rebel in the right manner. Instead of going with the flow and being complacent, he asked them to be more passionate in what they do and believe. There are thousands of professions and within one profession there are in turn many job opportunities, so the focus should be on diversifying and creating more opportunities, he opined. After his talk, Dr Nakhro also discussed at length the various questions posed by the students.

The programme was chaired by Neikepelie Shunyu, Asst. Prof., English and Dr Kangzangding Thou, Principal, gave the Introduction.

Toshinaro Imchen, Asst. Students participate in the disaster management drill held at Kohima Science College, JotProf., English, gave a special soma on March 31. number and Nzan Kikon, Kohima, march 31 (mExN): Naga- expressed gratitude to the organizers and Chaplain, said a prayer. departments for selecting. In Dr. Nakhro is an or- land State Disaster Management Author- supporting response, Johnny Rongmie, OSD, NSDMA dained minister of the An- ity (NSDMA) in collaboration with State and L. Jonjibemo Odyuo, SRRO, said this Response Force (SDRF) orgagami Baptist Church Coun- Disaster nized a disaster management drill at Ko- college may be used as a model to develop cil. He holds several degrees hima Science College, Jotsoma on March a module of training in disaster manageboth secular and theologi- 31. The exercise was supported by Fire & ment for other institutions of the state. cal, including a Ph. D from Emergency services, Kohima.

Earlier, on the day before, led by KenDallas Theological SemiThe college in a press release issued by neth Punyu, Assistant Professor of the colnary, Texas. He has a wide its media cell stated that this event focused lege, a programme was held on the basics array of interests and has at disaster preparedness in institutions. of disaster management in which officers held various responsibilities Both teachers and students participated, from the NSDMA and the district’s counimpacting many lives both guided and supported by the mentioned terpart, namely Thejangulie Zao, Temsuin India and USA. Although disaster management agencies. Debrief- wangshi and Khrolou Kosa Lohe spoke. his family is based in USA, ing was held to review the performance, The programme culminated with instruclately he has been involved and thence to formulation of steps to im- tions on fire safety and table top exercise and calling for a socio-polit- prove upon response in the event of a di- delivered by Kenny Khing, Inspector, Fire& ical-economic transforma- saster. The Principal and “Responsible Emergency Services and L. Jonjibemo tion in Nagaland.

Officer” of the drill, Dr I. Anungla Aier Odyuo, SRRO, NSDMA, respectively.

Disaster management drill at WSBAK open school at upper Assam to teach Sümi Kohima Science College held KMES language along with

‘Weaving and Design Development’ at Chizami

Trainees with resource persons during 'Weaving and Design Development' training at NEN Chizami.

chizami, march 31 (mExN): A four-day ‘Weaving and Design Development’ training was organised

by North East Network (NEN) in collaboration with North East Society for handicraft Incubation and Livelihood Promotion (NE- SHILP) , a CSR initiative of NEDFi from March 27 to 30 at VTC Chizami.

The training was imparted by NEN members Neitshope-u Thopi, Kezunyipe-u Tsuhah and Neimeseu Kapfo along with 4 master weavers namely Konei-u Lohe, Khwepelo-u Naro, Wetezo-u Chirhah and Neiwulo-u Kezo, who works with the ‘Chizami Weaves’- a livelihood project of NEN that focuses on promotion of Naga-loinloom weaving.

GMS Thenyizu team during their trip to Dimapur held on 30 and 31 March.

Total 19 young weavers from the villages of Chizami, Sakraba, Enhulumi, Thetsumi, and Mesulumi in Phek district, and two weavers from Guwahati were trained.

hah, Project Team Leader, NEN. In her closing remark, Seno encouraged the young girls to continue weaving so that the newly acquired skills and knowledge will not be forgotten.

Promoting traditional weaves The objective of the training was to promote traditional weaves and to build the skills of young girls on loinloom weaving and designing. In the 4-days training, the young weavers learnt the technique of warping, weaving, pattern designing and standard sizes of home furnishing products and accessories.

At the valedictory function on March 30, the trainees were given certificates of participation by Seno Tsu-

About ‘Chizami Weaves’ A press release further added that ‘Chizami Weaves’ – a livelihood project of NEN started in the year 2008 with 7 weavers in Chizami. Today, the project engages 500 women weavers from 14 villages of Phek district. ‘Chizami Weaves’ products include traditional shawls and mekhalas, home furnishing, and accessories, which are available in NEN stores at Chizami, Kohima, Guwahati and a select number of stores in Bangalore, Delhi and Mumbai.

English, Assamese and Hindi

Dimapur, march 31 (mExN): The Western Sümi Baptist Akukuhou Küqhakulu (WSBAK) has opened Khelhoshe Memorial English School (KMES) at Lalpahar, Tinsukia district, Assam on March 28. The school was inaugurated by Bikram Kairi IAS, SDO (C) Margherita and dedicated by Rev. Dr. Hevukhu Achumi, Executive Secretary WSBAK. “As part of its mission initiative, the WSBAK conceived to open a school at upper Assam. The school has been rightly named after Late Khelhoshe Sema who was the first and the only Minister when Naga's were part of then Assam state under the Chief Ministership of Bishnuram Medhi in the year 195758,” WSBAK Executive Secretary Rev. Dr. Hevukhu Achumi informed in a press note. He also added that there are six Sümi villages in upper Assam and most of the younger generations

Bikram Kairi IAS, SDO (C) Margherita inaugurates the Khelhoshe Memorial English School (KMES) at Lalpahar, Tinsukia district, Assam on March 28.

have stopped speaking Sümi language and therefore Khelhoshe Memorial English School (KMES) will also teach Sümi language along with English, Assamese and Hindi.

The programme was chaired by Jogdang Jugli, invocation by Rev. Shikuho Zhimomi, Secretary Mission & Evangelism WSBAK, special song was presented by KMES students and staff, vote of thanks was brought by Hokheto

Sema GB Longtong village, President, All Assam GBs’ Association and benediction was pronounced by Simon, Pastor Tsaliki Baptist Church.

The children of Late Sema including K. Khekiye Sema IAS Retd., Ghukhato Chishi, Project Director Music Task Force, Nagaland, Ghotoli Hokhezhe and Kagholi were part of the inaugural service along with host of parents, teachers and students of KMES.

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Entire NE converted into BG line: NFR Dimapur, march 31 (mExN): With the completion of Baraigram-Dullabcherra section, the entire railway network in northeast has been converted from medium gauge to broad gauge, an NFR official informed today.

The Railway Minster of State Rajen Gohain, on March 31, flagged off the first BG passenger train service in the newly converted Baraigram -Dullabcherra section in the Karimganj district of Assam.

Conversion of section with the length of 29.40Km from MG into BG marks the completion of gauge conversion of the entire MG lines in Northeast region to BG, Pranav Jyoti Sharma CPRO, N.F.Railway stated in a press release received here.

While the sanctioned cost of the gauge conversion work was about Rs.140 Crs, it was completed with the saving of saving of about 16.00 crs by eliminating a permanent diversion of 1.5 kms through hills, it added.

There are 8 major Bridges and 60 Minor bridges and 6 manned Level crossing gates in the sectio and theree are 6 stations in the section viz.

Eraligul, Phakhoagram, Bazarghat, Ratabari, Anipur and Dullabcherra.

“This section starts from Bariagram station which lies on the Badarpur-Kumarghat-Agartala line and is about 40Km from Badarpur Railway Jn. Dullabcherra being the terminating station,” the release further informed.

After being certified

by CRS to run passenger trains, today passenger trains are being flagged off fulfilling a long standing demand of the local population, it said.

According to NFR at present, two pairs of trains one from Silchar another from Badarpur will connect Dullabcherra daily.

Train number 55688 will leave Silchar at 05-00 hrs to reach Dullabcherra at 08-45 hrs while train number 55689 will leave

Dullabcherra 09-10 hrs to arrive Badarpur at 12-25 hrs. The other pair train number 55690 will leave Badarpur at 15-15 hrs to arrive Dullabcherra 18-30 hrs while train number 55687 will leave Dullabcherra 1910 hrs to arrive Silchar at 23-00 hrs.

During the flagging off ceremony, Gohain said that Railway Ministry is taking up various developmental projects on priority basis for the northeastern region.

Among others, Parimal Suklabaidya, Assan Minister for PWD (Road & Building, National Highways), Fisheries and Excise; General Manager of NFR Chahatey Ram; General Manager of NFR Construction Organization HK Jaggi; and other senior officials were present on the occasion.

“At Baraigram station, Aziz Ahmed Khan, MLA of Karimganj (South) alongwith other distinguished guests were present to witness the historic event,” the release said.

Two from Northeast die under mysterious circumstances The hospital authorities, The room where the girls NEw DElhi, march 31 (pTi): Two young however, said they were yet to were present last night has women from the North- receive a request for the con- been sealed and it is being inspected by the forensic team. east died under mysterious stitution of medical board. circumstances here today.

The two women, both aged 22 and residents of Aizawl in Mizoram, were taken to Safdarjung Hospital by AFFILIATED TO NAGALAND UNIVERSITY their friends where doctors Near BSF Camp. Below ATI Office: Kohima declared them dead on arContact No : 0370-2280071/9856974717 rival. Police have requested ARTS AND COMMERCE the hospital authorities to constitute a medical board Classes Admission Install(quart) to ascertain the exact cause 11&12 5500 3000 of their death, a senior poB.A (Gen) 6500 3100 lice officer said.

B.A(Hons) 6800 3200 Theduohadgonetomeet a friend at her flat in Munirka Hostel Monthly fee - 3500 around 6 PM yesterday, he said. This morning, when the friend returned from work, she found the door locked from inside. Despite repeated knocks, no one responded. She peeped into the room through a window and found the duo lying.

She called her cousin and they rushed the duo to Safdarjung Hospital. "Preliminary inquiry has revealed that they died due to overdose of drugs. We have requested Safdarjung Hospital to constitute a medical board to carry out the autopsy in order to ascertain the exact cause of death," the police officer said.

Mountain View Christian College, Kohima

Incessant rains cripple normal life in M'pur State Cabinet reviews flood-like situation Newmai News Network Imphal | March 31

With the incessant rainfall over the past two days triggering flood-like situation and crippling life in many parts of the state, Manipur Cabinet today reviewed the flood-like situation in parts of Imphal and other areas of the state.

A flood control room with telephone numbers 2450195 and 2451550 has been opened at Khoyathong here which will be kept operational 24X7.

During the Cabinet meeting Chief Minister N Biren Singh instructed the Deputy Commissioners to

visit affected areas and to submit a report. The meeting chaired by the Chief Minister was held at the CM office’s conference hall, as a per a DIPR press release.

The Cabinet decided to provide immediate safe drinking water and relief materials to the affected people. Biren Singh further asked officials to identify locations badly affected by flooding.

Incessant rainfall over the past two days has triggered flood-like situation in many parts of the twin capital cities of Imphal East and Imphal West.

Lives in some parts of Tamenglong district were

also crippled where power cut has aggravated the problem for villagers who are facing waterlogging.

Heavy rains resulted to the swelling of rivers flowing through the hill district, a report said.

Traffic movement was disrupted on the landslideprone National Highway 37, Imphal-Jiribam road section of Tamenglong due to continuous rainfall which triggered landslides at Kotlen and Sinam villages on the highway, according to a police report.

The Cabinet also decided to constitute an action committee to tackle the problem of flood in

culture as well as potential.

President inaugurates AN" the President said.

Terming Assam rich in The five-day river fesBrahmaputra festival GuwahaTi, march 31 (iaNS): President Pranab Mukherjee on Friday inaugurated a five-day Namami Brahmaputra river festival here in Assam and suggested that the state government make it a regular event.

Mukherjee inaugurated the programme by lighting a ceremonial lamp at the Kachamari Ghat near Fancy Bazar in Guwahati.

"Assam is emerging as an economic hub of East India and South East Asia, which is an important destination for India's investment and trade. India will soon celebrate 25 years of its association with ASE-

natural resources and its people hard working, the President said a "strong drive, right policies and effective implementation" was needed.

Referring to the diverse and distinctive culture of Assam, Mukherjee said India's strength was its ability to manage diversity and forge unity.

The President said the Brahmaputra River is the lifeline of Assam and the region. It was intertwined into the economy, culture and day-to-day life of the people.

He complimented the state government for having started "Namami Brahmaputra" as an annual festival to showcase Assam's

tival is being organised across 21 districts of Assam through which the mighty river passes.

Bhutan's Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay also participated in the inauguration ceremony besides Assam Governor Banwarilal Purohit, Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal and senior Assam ministers.

The festival is a tribute to the Brahmaputra river which is revered as a lifeline for the people of Assam.

Assam's culture, heritage, history, music, food, tourism potential and other aspects would be showcased during the festival which will continue till April 4.

GOVERNMENT OF NAGALAND DIRECTORATE OF ANIMAL HUSBANDRY & VETERINARY SERVICES NAGALAND, KOHIMA

NO.VE/EST-201/2016-17/2911-14

Dt. Kohima, the 31st March 2017

POSTPONEMENT In continuation to this office even letter no. Dated 6th March 2017 written examination and computer test for filling up of 6 (six) post of LDA cum Computer Assistant (District) under the Department of Animal Husbandry & Veterinary Services, Nagaland, Kohima which is scheduled to be held on 8th and 22nd April 2017 respectively is here by postponed due to unprecedented receipt of too many applicants coupled with the shortage of manpower and infrastructure in the Directorate Office as well as other technical reasons.

The new schedules of the Exams shall be informed later on. The postponement causing inconvenience to the applicants is regretted.

Sd/- ( Dr. I.P.Khala.), Director Animal Husbandry & Veterinary Services Nagaland, Kohima

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

OFFICE OF THE ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER AUCTION NOTICE No. 07/16-17 Dated Dimapur the 31st March, 2017

Regd. No. 75

It is hereby notified that the under mentioned goods as is and where is basis will be sold in Public Auction on 10.04.2017 at 1100 hrs. at the Customs Divisional Office, Khermahal Chariali Police Point, Dimapur.

All intending bidders are requested to be present on the stipulated date and time. The successful bidder will have to deposit the full amount of the bid in cash on the spot. The officer conducting the Auction reserves the right to cancel the bid if the bid amount does not fetch the reserve/fair price. For further details, please contact the Superintendent (Disposal Unit), Customs Division, Dimapur.

I, Shri Heilamding S/o Shri.

Lamgum of Punglwa, PO & PS Jalukie, Peren Dist. Nagaland hereby declare that the name Heilamding and Heilamding Zeliang refers to one and the same person. That the above mentioned declarations are true to the best of my knowledge and belief and signed in the declaration in sound mind and robust health.

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Description of the goods Sandals small size (Foreign origin)

Total

Quantity 593 pairs 593 pairs

Chungkholen, Superintendent (Disposal) Customs Preventive Division, Dimapur

G.B SUPPLY COLONY

DIMAPUR-797112, NAGALAND REJOINDER With regard to "NOTICE" issued against Shri. Hokuto Zhimomi by the Model Village Yourabami Youth Association in the Morung Express on 31.03.2017. The GB Supply Colony would like to clarify the issue as follows; That on 3rd March 2017, Mr. Pothita along with a group of persons numbering to 15 persons trespassed into the land of Mr. V.K. Sema within the jurisdiction of Supply Colony which has been in occupation of Mr. V.K. Sema for more than 50 years by trying to erect pillar posts, claiming ownership on the strength of a duplicate patta. Upon trespassing the land of Mr. V.K Sema, which is within his fenced land and on receipt of the said information the citizens of the colony went to the site for ascertaining the facts. On further enquiry it was ascertained that the claim made by Mr. Pothita in respect of the said land was on the basis of a land patta which was purportedly issued in the year 2015..

Moreover, with regard to the said incident, the undersigned had lodged FIR against Mr. Pothita for trespass and on the other hand another FIR had been lodged by Mr. Pothita for assault wherein both the FIRs are pending investigation before the West Police Station.

In view of the above, the undersigned urge the Model Village Yourabami Youth Association to withdraw the said Notice issued against Mr. Hokuto since the matter at hand is not between the communities or any other organization or groups but a land issue between individuals within the jurisdiction of Supply Colony, Dimapur.

(H.Y. SWU) G.B. Supply Colony, Dimapur: Nagaland

2 rain related dead Meanwhile, two people were killed due to torrential rains in Manipur, IANS reported on Friday quoting police source.

Nilakanta Das, 45, was killed on Thursday in Jiribam

'Assam is emerging as an economic hub'

CUSTOMS PREVENTIVE DIVISION:: DIMAPUR Khermahal Chariali Police Point, Dimapur-797112, Nagaland Phone: 03862-226688/ Fax: 03862-226868/ Email: cusdmr@yahoo.com

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the state. The committee will monitor the flooding situation and take actions for taking up relief programmes.

Irrigation and Flood Control minister Letpao Haokip placed the preliminary flooding report like the level of rainfall during the past 24 hours in millimetres, water level of major rivers in metres and position of barrages and regulators.

REJOINDER Apropos to "NOTICE" issued against Shri. Hokuto Zhimomi by the Model Village Yourabami Youth Association in the local daily i.e. Morung Express on 31.03.2017, the Sumi Council, Dimapur has taken exception of the notice issued by the same to one of its bonafide member. The Sumi Council would further like to clarify the matter in the following few lines; That on the fateful day of 3rd March 2017, a group of persons numbering to 15 persons led by Mr. Pothita trespassed into the land of Mr. V.K. Sema which have been in occupation of Mr. V.K. Sema for more than 50 years by forcefully by trying to erect the pillar post on the strength of a duplicate patta. The said land is well fenced and developed by Mr. V.K Sema and has been in his occupation peacefully. Whereas, Mr. Pothita tried to illegally demarcate the land of Mr. V.K.Sema, on the said day with the patta which was purportedly issued in the year 2015. The said incident had occurred at Supply Colony, Dimapur therefore the validity of the said Notice is self explanatory.

With regard to the said incident two FIRs are pending before the West Police Station Dimapur, one which had been lodged by Mr. Pothita for assault while, the Supply Colony GB had lodged counter FIR for trespass and both the FIRs are under investigation for logical conclusion.

Therefore, the Sumi Council, Dimapur request the Model Village Yourabami Youth Association to withdraw the said Notice issued against Mr. Hokuto Zhimomi to avoid the peaceful and cordial relationship maintained between the two communities.

(KUHOI ZHIMOMI) Chairman, Sumi Council, Dimapur: Nagaland

by lightning. The second victim died when a truck skidded into a gorge alongside a slippery mountain road in Tamenglong district, it said.

The heavy rains will continue for the next 48 hours accompanied by strong winds and hailstorm, it added.

For three days, the egion has been reeling under torrential rains. Reports from rural areas say cabbage and other vegetables have been extensively damaged by hailstorm. The rains have also caused several flights to be delayed or cancelled. Private bus services have stopped longdistance journeys.

NOTICE

Dt. Dimapur the 30th March’17

No.M-96/17: Notice is hereby given that Shri Paolal Hangsingh -Vrs- Letkhomang Hangsingh resident of Dimapur, Nagaland under Rule 50 & 51 of Assam Land Revenue Regulation 1886 have applied for mutation of land described in the scheduled below:The undersigned under Rule 52 of the said rules do hereby invites claims/ objections concerning to the said land, if any & should be submitted to this court in writing on or before 30/4/17.

Schedule of Land and Boundary Name of Patta Holder : Paolal Hangsingh Village/Block No : Darogapathar Patta No : 476 Dag No : 132/664 Area : 00B-01K-06Ls Sd/- Deputy Commissioner Dimapur: Nagaland

No. NU/PE-110/ELECT/SASRD/2009-33

Dated: 27th March 2017

NOTICE INVITING TENDER Sealed tenders are invited from the registered and eligible Electrical Contractors empanelled under Nagaland University for the undermentioned work.

Particulars

Tender Value Earnest Money Tender Fee Completion (`) time (`) Deposit (`)

Electrification of the Department of Plant Pathology & 46,10,066.00 92,200.00 Entomology building at NU, SASRD, Medziphema.

1,000.00

06 (six) months

Tender documents can be had from the Engineering Section, NU, Hqrs. Lumami on working days upto 7th April 2017. The tender should be submitted in a sealed envelope addressed to the Registrar on or before 10th April 2017 (upto 2:00 PM). The cost of Tender document (non-refundable) is to be deposited through NU Challan. EMD from any Nationalized Bank through Demand Draft/Bankers Cheque and IPO worth `10/- (Rupees Ten) only duly addressed in favour Nagaland University, HQs. Lumami should also accompany along with the Tender. Nagaland University reserves the right to accept or reject any tender without assigning any reason, whatsoever.

Registrar

FORCEFUL OCCUPATION OF PRIVATE RESIDENT - Tongmeth Wangnao

It was the year 2003 that I shifted my allegiance to work under the leadership of Chairman Isak and Gen. Secy. Th. Muivah with clear vision about the Naga Political Movement and its logical solution.

I had grudge with no one, leaders or comrades, neither did I commit any wrong doing worth confiscating my family’s resident. Forceful occupation of my family’s residence at Mon till today is nothing but sheer jealousy. Baseless Himalaya accusation they may make but the fact is proven by the letter, served by one senior worker to their town command, which reads; “we love and respect Tongmeth Wangnao so much but since he had gone, send out his family to be with him and lock the doors of their house without fail or else situation will develop when he comes to meet his family”. That letter was written in Konyak language which is still available.

Wife and children were pulled out to the street, all household belongings were thrown out, even the peace stone I erected was pulled down without an ioda of shame. They established their office in my private resident without paying a month’s rent for the last 15 years. The cry of my family members went with the wind. There seems to be no Konyak Union, no ENPO or Naga Hoho who stand for the truth and the griefs. The only remedies I have been given with is when my paternal uncle told me that I should focus on Nagas, their history and politics but not on small matters. The second and from internal is I used to think, “a day will come soon when I will pen down and bring out a small book in which the worst of my situation will be the sweetest chapter for the readers”.

15 years punishment for no fault is enough friends, it’s time to think for yourselves that you too are human being and national workers like me and hence should vacate my family’s private resident at the earliest.

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Vodafone 4G in Dimapur, Kohima & Mkg Our Correspondent Kohima | March 31

With the roll-out of its 4G services in Manipur, Vodafone, one of India’s leading telecom service providers announced that it has successfully launched Vodafone SuperNet 4G services in 248 towns & more than 1300 villages across all Seven States in Assam & North East Circle.

Vodafone SuperNet 4G will be available in more towns and villages in the region in days to come.

Commenting on this accomplishment, Nidhi Lauria, Business Head - Assam & North East, Vodafone India said, “We are proud to expand our 4G services to 248 towns and 1300+ villages across Assam & North East, which is one of the important markets for Vodafone India. As one of the leading operators in the region we understand and support our customers changing behaviour of becoming digital and data savvy. Our vision is to expand our 4G to enable faster data speeds and better coverage to our customers. We would like to thank our customers for their cooperation & assure that Vodafone SuperNet 4G will continue to enhance the customer experience.’’

Vodafone SuperNet 4G is already present in key centers across

the region like Guwahati, Silchar, Dibrugarh, Jorhat, Tinsukia, Tezpur, Bongaigaon, Sivasagar, Nagaon, North Lakhimpur, Golaghat, Goalpara, Nalbari, Dhubri, Kokrajhar, Hojai, Barpeta, Lumding & Duliajan in Assam; Shillong, Tura, & Jowai inMeghalaya; Agartala in Tripura; Kohima, Dimapur & Mokokchung in Nagaland; Itanagar, Tawang, Naharlagun, Ziro, Along & Pasighat in Arunachal Pradesh; Aizawl & Lunglei in Mizoram; Imphal inManipur. Apart from these major towns, Vodafone’s 4G service is also available in large number of connected towns and areas.

Vodafone is rapidly expanding its 4G footprint in Assam & North

East in a phased manner to deliver a superior network experience to customers and moving towards Digital Assam & North East. Vodafone SuperNet 4G service in the region is built on a strong fibre backhaul, enabling significant volumes of seamless data flow and superior connectivity.

On Vodafone SuperNet 4G, customers can experience a significant enhancement in their mobile internet experience with faster download/upload of videos and music, seamless video chats and also enjoy greater ease in using their favorite apps. Customers will also adore features like high definition video streaming, mobile gaming and two-way video calling.

Vodafone also offers free of cost 4G SIMs to customers with an attractive data offer - 2GB of free data for a period of ten days on 4G enabled smartphones. Customers can upgrade to 4G SIMs at their convenience at any Vodafone Store, Vodafone Mini Store and multi brand outlets across Assam & North-East.

Vodafone customers from Assam & North East Circle can also enjoy free incoming calls while on roaming nationally. Vodafone users travelling anywhere in the country can continue to talk worry free without having to cut short their conversations.

Assam & North East Circle is a focus and significant growth market for Vodafone India. To cater to the growing volumes of customer usage, increasing need for speed, the company has invested Rs 2200+ cr in Assam and North East circle till date including Rs. 150 cr in H1 FY 17 to expand, modernize and build a more technology and energy efficient network.

In the circle, Vodafone has a large retail footprint with 290 Vodafone branded stores spread across prominent locations in Assam & North East, making it convenient for customers to access Vodafone’s products and services within their neighbourhood.

Nagaland government constitutes SLAC under SBM-U Kohima, march 31 (DiPr): The Urban Development Department in a notification informed that in pursuant to Government of India, Ministry of Urban Development and as per amended Guidelines of Swachh Bharat Mission-Urban (Section 11.2.1), the Government of Nagaland has constituted the State Level Advisory Committee (SLAC) under SBM-U to discharge the powers and functions of the State High Powered Committee (SHPSC).

The State level Advisory committee will consist of the following: • Secretary, Urban development Department- Chairman • Secretary, Public Health Engineering Department- Member • Secretary, Finance Department- Member • State Mission Director, SBM-UConvenor • Director, Municipal AffairsMember • Any other members as may be co-opted by the committee.

The functions of the State Level

Advisory Committee (SLAC) under SBM-U shall be as Para II (i-xvi) of Notification of even number dated 19.04.2016.

Re-constitutes S-HPC for Swachh Bharat Mission The Urban Development Department in a notification has informed that the Government of Nagaland has re-constituted the State High Powered Committee (S-HPC) for the management of Swachh Bharat Mission (Urban) at the State level with immediate effect.

The S-HPC will consist of the following members: Chief Secretary- Chairperson ; Secretary, Urban Development Department- Vice Chairperson; Director, Urban Development & State Mission Director (SBM) Member Secretary; Representative of Planning & Coordination Department- Member; Representative of Home Department - Member; Representative of Finance Department- Member; Repre-

sentative of Housing DepartmentMember; Representative of School Education Department- Member; Representative of Tourism Department- Member; Representative of Health & Family Welfare Department- Member; Representative of PHE Department- Member; Representative of Municipal Affairs Department- Member; Representative of Ministry of Urban Development- Member; State Informatics Officer (SIO), NIC- Member; Administrators, KMC/DMC- Coopted Members The functions of S-HPC will include the following:1. Preparation, approval, and online publishing of State Sanitation Strategy (SSS) for Nagaland and City Sanitation Plan (CSP) for all cities covered under SBM (Urban).

2. Finalisation of the Concept Note of the Urban Sanitation Situation before submission to the SBM National Mission Directorate,

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Dimapur, March 31 (MExN): KVK Dimapur ICAR Research Complex for NEH Region, Nagaland Centre, Medziphema conducted training cum demonstration on ‘Soil Health management’ for the farmers of the district.

The programme was held in order to address the soil productivity related constraints on Soil acidity and related fertility constraints, Water logging in valley lands, Loss of top fertile soil through run-off water, scarcity of water during lean season,

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WoKha, march 31 (DiPr): Training cum demonstration and management of potential fruit crops was held at LBES Mission Centre, Vankhosung on March 30 and 31.

The training was a part of the five days programme organised by KVK, Wokha, with Subject Matter Specialist from KVK Mhalo and Megokhono as resource persons.

The resource persons spoke on raising and maintenance of fruits orchards,

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nursery plantations, nurture and maintenance through proper use of tools, manure treatment, spacing between saplings plantation, management, labour cost, etc.

They also spoke on farming fruit crops as source of nutritional food, economic income and sustenance, identification of feasible areas, climate and environment for profitable harvest, consumer relations, availability of stockists for produced goods,

transportation and market avenues to sell their produce etc. The participants were enlightened on the harmful effects caused by unsupervised use of chemicals such as pesticides, insecticides and other agro related chemicals.

Practical training was also imparted on flower maintenance, soap making and mushroom cultivation in the programme. Free vegetables and mushroom seeds were also distributed in the programme.

Nagaland & Meghalaya Cashew EIB makes nut farmers attend training 200 mn euro meDziPhema, march 31 (mexN): Two days training cum exposure visit on ‘Advances in production and processing of Cashew nut’ was conducted for progressive Cashew farmers of Nagaland and Meghalaya by Central Institute of Horticulture (CIH), DAC&FW, Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, Medziphema on March 24 and 25 Bhubaneswar, Odisha.

The programme was organized to equip the farmers with the advanced production technology and of processing of Cashewnut for better income generation.

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and variety on cashew was delivered by Kabita Sethy, Horticulturist, AICRP on Cashew, OUAT, Bhubaneswar and Dr. P.K. Panda, Horticulturist, AICRP on Cashew, OUAT, Bhubaneswar, deliberated on the topic of establishment and maintenance of cashew plantation. Dr. S. Mukharjee, Associate Professor& Head, AICRP on Cashew, OUAT, Bhubaneswar gave lecture on the topic of pest and disease management on cashew.

Certificates were distributed to all the participants along with reading materials. A press release informed that altogether 20 Cashew growers attended the programme accompanied by one CIH official, Eliyamo Humtsoe, FA. The programme was coordinated by Shisarenla Aier, i/c Training, CIH, Medziphema.

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mumbai, march 31 (iaNS): The European Investment Bank on Friday announced a euro 200 million (Rs 1,400 crore) longterm loan to State Bank of India to finance megasolar projects in the country. The loan will support a total investment of euro 650 million in five different large-scale photo-voltaic solar power projects for India’s National Solar Mission.

Four schemes, with a generation capacity of 530MW have been identified for the purpose. The loan was announced, ahead of the inauguration

by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley of the EIB’s first permanent presence in India,

by EIB President Werner Hoyer and Vice-President Andrew McDowell, responsible for the India and South Asia operations.

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A total of 159 farmers attended the training programme covering four villages viz. Dhansiripar, Ekhyo Yan, Diphupar and Seluophe village in the month of February and March 2017. Inputs such as Agriculture Lime, Vermicompost, Plant protection chemicals and Improved Maize seeds were distributed during the said training programme.

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3. Empanelment consultants of repute and experience for: • Preparation of DPRs under SBM • Conducting independent review and monitoring during execution of projects 4. Empanel reputed Institutes like IITs, NITs, State Technical Universities etc for appraisal of DPRs. 5. Sanction projects relating to Solid Waste Management recommended by the ULBs. 6. Plan for additional resource mobilization.

7. Plan for fund flow in the short, medium and long term.

8. Recommend proposals for release of installments of funds for projects under the Mission.

9. Monitor outcome and O&M arrangements of projects sanctioned and completed under the Mission.

10. Review the progress of Capacity Building, IEC, and Public Awareness activities under the Mission and approve their annual action plan.

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NAGALAND

congress redundant by ‘their fault’: cMO jibes back at NPcc Kohima, march 31 (mExN): The Chief Minister’s Office today jibed back at the Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee stating that the Congress party has been made redundant by “their fault”.

The CMO was reacting to the NPCC statement claiming that the Dr. Shurhozelie Liezietsu had become the Chief Minister by “default”. “It would appear that the Congress party has been made redundant in today’s context by “their fault” and by no fault of anyone else when all its legislators and senior leaders parted ways with it leaving a few rejects to man the organization,” the CMO responded back in a lampooning statement.

Taking the ridicule further, the CMO insisted that the NPCC must be appreciated by one and all regardless of political affiliations for admitting in the local media this morning that it has now been reduced to a

mere “idea”.

“It takes sheer courage, and also extenuating circumstances, for a political party to publicly admit that it is headed for political oblivion,” it taunted.

Pointing to the political misfortunes of the Congress party in the recent past, the CMO stated that it should not come as a surprise to anybody that in the near future this “idea” of a political party would become a “faint memory”.

Further stating that the Congress party knows best how it is to have communal or secular masters in Delhi since its High Command is based there, the CMO argued, “As far as the NPF party and NPF-led DAN Government, the people are its High Command and the Party and the Government is answerable to the people.”

“If Dr Shurhozelie Liezietsu has now become the Chief Minister it is because of Constitutional

provisions and Parliamentary procedures, and not through backdoor or front door, as alleged by the Congress party,” the CMO maintained and argued that no one ever considered Manmohan Singh becoming the Union Finance Minister of the Country in 1991 as backdoor when he had to be hurriedly elected from Assam as a Rajya Sabha member.

The CMO also cited the case of former Prime Minister PV Narasimha Rao becoming the Prime Minister without being a member of either House of Parliament and had to contest in a byelection Nandyal constituency in Andhra Pradesh.

It accused the Congress party of having “selective amnesia” when it comes to its own history, or the heinous acts committed during its regimes such as the Anti-Sikh Riots of 1984, “where its leaders acted more fanatical than communal elements

it avers to”, or the “darkest era” the nation went through during the Emergency declared by the Congress Government at the Centre in 1975.

Claiming that the allegation that Dr Shurhozelie “ditched” his party in 1999 to contest the parliamentary elections “clearly shows” the selective amnesia of the Congress party, the CMO reminded the “treachery on the Naga people” by the Congress party which did not heed the call of the people to solve the Naga political problem and not to hold or participate general elections in 1998. The call was obeyed by all other political parties in Nagaland except the Congress which went ahead to file nomination papers in most of the Constituencies and won uncontested.

“As a result of not participating in the 1998 elections for the sake of the Naga peace process, the

Election Commission of India “froze” the party symbol of the NPF (then NPC),” the CMO stated and insisted that to “salvage the regional party and regain its party symbol”, Dr Shurhozelie made the “supreme sacrifice” of contesting as an Independent candidate against the ruling Congress Candidate “knowing very well that the chances of winning were very slim”.

“For records, Dr Shurhozelie secured 1, 62, 521 votes and could redeem the party symbol,” the CMO informed.

“If it had paid heed to the clarion call of the Naga people then, the Naga political problem might have been given more importance by the Government of India earlier, and perhaps, the Congress party might not have been pushed to the political oblivion it is in now, especially here in Nagaland,” the CMO concluded.

corruption in society all-pervading: NPF Kohima, march 31 (mExN): The Naga People’s Front today stated that the deep-rooted corruption in the society is “all-pervading” and needs the concerted efforts of everyone to eradicate it.

Replying to ACAUT’s challenge for public debate on corruption, a statement from the Media & Press Bureau, NPF Central Office, Kohima maintained that the NPF “does not defend or condone any kind of corruption in the system”.

“The deep-rooted corruption in the society is all-pervading and needs concerted efforts of everyone to eradicate it,” the NPF asserted adding, “This cannot be done in a short period of time, and we cannot expect miracles to hap-

pen right in front of our eyes.”

It insisted that providing good governance to the people is the professed and avowed stand of the NPF-led DAN Government and claimed that the President and Chief Minister, in several closed door meetings with senior party functionaries and party legislators, had warned of stern action against those involved in corrupt practices.

The NPF Media Bureau further charged that ACAUT of being “grossly off the mark” when it alleged there are Press Secretaries to the Chief Minister drawing Government salaries and working in the Media & Press Bureau of the NPF Central Office.

“The Bureau has sincere and

dedicated party functionaries who voluntarily render their services to the party and the people without expecting or drawing any pecuniary benefits from the Government,” it stated and clarified that the Press Secretary or Media Officers to the Chief Minister are appointed on a co-terminus basis. “And it is the discretion of any Chief Minister to appoint persons of his choice and no procedural lapses are involved in these appointments,” it maintained.

“Moreover, those attached to the Chief Minister need not necessarily mean they are manning the Media & Press Bureau of the party, and/ or even if they are involved in the functioning of the party affairs it is nothing out of the ordinary

since they are political appointees,” the Media Bureau argued.

With regard to the demand for declaration of assets, NPF reminded the ACAUT leaders that every contesting candidate to the Assembly elections declare their property/ assets, moveable or immovable, on affidavit papers before the Election Commission and are displayed for public consumption.

Further expressing “wonder” as to how ACAUT had deduced the population of Nagaland as “not more than 12 lakhs”, NPF pointed to the 2011 Census and asked ACAUT to get their facts and figures right.

According to the 2011 Census, the population of Nagaland stands at 19,78,502.

Shürhozelie greets Phom community NPF a springboard for RSS: Therie Dimapur, march 31 (mExN): The Chief Minister of Nagaland Dr Shürhozelie Liezietsu has wished the Phom community a happy and a successful Monyiü 2017 celebration.

Monyiü is also the time when young boys and girls would be taught the customary practices which needs to be upheld, the CM said in his greetings adding that it is also the time when young boys renew the cordial relationship with their close friends by inviting them to have feasts, which is called “Mongchemba Hahying”.

Folk songs and dances are taught during Monyiü and it is a spring festival normally observed in the first week of April after the sowing is done in paddy fields in order to invoke God’s blessing to have a bountiful harvest, he added.

The Chief Minister also expressed happiness that Phom youngsters are making strong efforts to rediscover and preserve their rich cultural heritage.

Students’ unions of every Phom village are playing commendable role in this direction and youngsters must also continue to make every effort for the preservation and development of our rich cultural heritage, he added.

Dimapur, march 31 (mExN): Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee President K. Therie today stated that the Naga People’s Front is a “springboard” for the RSS-BJP in Nagaland. He also blamed the NPF as being “partially responsible” for installing BJP in the North East.

In a statement, Therie pointed to the belief that “unless we are close to the central govt. at Delhi, we cannot run the state govt,” and argued that the Finance ministry or any other ministry in the BJP Government “will be answerable to RSS” for giving any special plan or non-plan assistance to wipe out the deficits and shortfall assistance to a Christian state like Nagaland.

Pointing out that the BJP Government has not even released the entitlements under the “14th FC award”, Therie questioned the benefit of associating with the RSS-BJP

“at the risk of our identity, religion, customary laws, social practices and our future”. He stated that the UPA government in order to cover the 6th RoP had given Rs. 712 Crs as special non-plan assistance and Rs 326 Crs as special plan-assistance.

The RSS and the BJP's principle objective is to pass the Bill of Uniform Civil Code (UCC) which would mean “One Nation, One Law, One religion and One Tax”, he stated and claimed that the BJP is only waiting for majority in the Rajya Sabha, the states and the union territories.

“Once UCC is passed, special provisions such as Art 370 and 371 (A) and others, would also be rendered powerless,” he cautioned.

“Whatever we express about our uniqueness and identity will sink in the huge population of India. This is the greatest threat in our lifetime,” he added.

will be held from April 1 to 6.

“Let us also continue to safeguard and promote the rich culture and traditions through our festivals and come together and rededicate ourselves to make the atmosphere conducive in our towns and villages for peaceful co-existence and for all round development in the State,” Governor Acharya stated in a message.

“My wife, Kavita Acha-

rya joins me to convey our best wishes to the Konyak Community during this festival period,” it added.

Chief Minister Dr Liezietsu in his message stated that the festival marks the end of a year and heralds the coming of a new agrarian year. “Let us all pray to the Almighty for a successful and bountiful year and forge ahead with renewed vigor into the coming year,”

the message read and called for protecting and preserving our culture.

“During this joyous celebration, let us all aim to develop relationships between the government and the people, between people of various communities and bridge communication gaps, and at the same time, promote peace, culture and progress,” Dr Liezietsu stated.

PPC mourn demise Proper agency needed to of Wokshing, Hepong check Inner Line Permit: KYI

Dimapur, march 31 (mExN): The Phom Peoples’ Council (PPC) has mourned the demise of Ex-MLA Wokshing Phom and Ex-IBM Hepong Phom.

In a message, the PPC stated that the two leaders made “enormous contributions” towards the uplift of the down-trodden and added, “Their footprints will always be remembered by the people of Phom Community.”

Expressing deep pain over the loss of their “tall leaders”, the PPC on behalf of the entire Phom Community conveyed deepest condolences to the bereaved families and prayed for the departed souls to rest in eternal peace.

Dimapur, march 31 (mExN): Kyong Youth Initiative (KYI) today said that enforcement of Inner Line Permit (ILP) to check on “illegal immigrants” has not been successful as expected, “owing to factors redressble and reasons beyond the grasp of law” and called for a proper agency to check the same.

It is felt, therefore, necessary to initiate certain steps and policies to put a halt on certain things which otherwise would have negative impacts in later stages, KYI said in a press release.

Due to non-implementation of the ILP effectively, KYI further

alleged that there is a rapid rise in diversity of composition of population in Wokha Town which might pose adverse impact in future.

It’s a serious issue that needs immediate intervention from the administration as well as NGOs, it insisted.

Tenants should have proper documents from the administration as well as colony council, and should not be patronised by locals on baseless pretext, it maintained.

KYI further called for a proper agency to check on the movement of migrants and timely review by the administration as well.

Kohima, march 31 (Dipr): In pursuance of the provisions under Sec. 117 and Sec.127 of the Motor Vehicle Act 1988 and Sec. 34 of the Indian Police Act 1861, and as deliberated and decided by the Regional Transport Authority (RTA) during the meeting held on March 27, the Deputy Commissioner and Chairman Regional Transport Authority, Kohima, Rajesh Soundararajan, IAS has notified the following traffic and parking regulations in addition to the earlier and existing regulations.

The area/lane between Ladies Mile to Box Cutting: No parking on the left side (hill side); Y Junction to New NST – No right side parking; Old Tata Parking to Aircel Office - No right side parking (hill side); Lotha Sector Church, Keziekie to Tinpati – No right side parking (hill side), Tata mobile parking limitation up to 5 vehicles and No zonal/local taxi between Bus stand & Tata mobile parking (Blue Dart Line); Tinpati Point to Bayavü Police Point – No Taxi Parking near the Traffic Point and No left side parking up to Tata mobile parking (valley side); CANSSEA Office to Alder College Junction – No parking on either side; ITI Junction to GHS Point – No parking on either side; GHS Junction to G. Rio School Junction – Parking on left side only below Peraciezie Church, No parking on either side from Peraciezie Church approach road till GHS ground junction and To write “No Parking” on the retaining walls on the left side; Road from Census Office Junction to NHK Junction – Parking and No Parking side on the basis of availability of area and width of the road; General – Parking of vehicle on pedestrian footpath is not permitted.

The area/lanes from AIR Junction to South PS: Rokohol Ketsu Building to AIR Junction - No Parking on right side (hill side); Kezo Building (opposite AIR Junction) - Parking on left side (valley side); Diagnostic Centre to Rokohol Ketsu Building - Parking on right side (hill side); Neiphiu Rio building - No Parking on either side; Kere Pharmacy/ General Automobiles to Canara Bank - No Parking on right side (hill side); Canara Bank to Viu Belho Building - Parking on right side (hill side); Viu Belho Building to Mohonkhola

(Dzüvürü) bridge - No Parking on right side (hill side); Akum Building to Francis Belho Building - Parking on left side only (valley side); AG Point to South PS point No parking on either side; Yantsü building to Kohima Bajaj - Parking on left side only (valley side).

South Point Market to CM’s Residence and TCP: City Bus Stop Stand, Below Japfu Hotel - Limiting to 5 buses at a time. Rest of the Buses can be stationed at Lerie Stand; BOC Market - Temporary Taxi stand to be removed; KMC Dustbin area Public Parking; Japfu Hotel Point to State Academy - Taxi Parking on left side (valley side) for 5 vehicles at a time (to be demarcated); Below SBI Branch (PHQ) – Parking; Department of State Lotteries - Parking for the Department only; From opposite ADS junction to Big Bite - No parking on left side (hill side); LK Hardware Shop to Supply Office junction - No Parking on right side (valley side); Supply Office Point to Bank of India - Parking for Western Angami bound Sumos & public; BoI to old Hotel Fira - No Parking on right side (valley side); Hotel Fira junction to West Road Mall - No Parking right side (valley side); District Jail point & Big Bite Area – Parking; Opposite Big Bite to Agri-Forest Junction No Parking on right side (valley side); Agri Junction to CM’s In & Out route - No Right Side parking ( hill side).

P.R. Hill to TCP Gate: LK Hardware to Axis ATM (P.R. Hill) - One side parking only on the left (valley side) i.e., Jack & Jill, Popular Bakery side; Below F&ES Service point - Parking for F&ES only; Classic Island to Foot Bridge above Mezhür School - No Parking on both Sides; Box Cutting Area - Parking on both sides only for pickup and drop-off of school children; Opposite Car Decora near WW-II Cemetery - Parking for max. 7 vehicles at a time; WWII Cemetery to TCP Gate - Left side Parking only but no parking approaching the turning at TCP Point toward NHK. This order issued by Deputy Commissioner and Chairman Regional Transport Authority, Kohima, Rajesh Soundararajan, IAS comes into effect from March 31, the date of issue of this order and will be in force till further order.

ENPUD concerned over situation in Sangtemtilla Dimapur, march 31 (mExN): The Eastern Nagaland People's Union Dimapur (ENPUD) has expressed that it is seriously viewing the prevailing situations at Sangtemtilla village under Dimapur district.

The ENPUD in a press release alleged that a few “vested interest individuals/parties” are trying to encroach upon the Sangtemtila village jurisdiction boundary line with the sole intention of occupying the said stretch of plot/land.

The union informed that it had learned from records (both written documents and oral) that Sangtemtila village which was established in the year 1951 prior to attainment of Nagaland statehood. The village is bounded by Thahekhu village on North, Dhansiri river on East,

Railway on West and Tilla Bosti of Karbi Anglong Assam on South. “They have been maintaining peace and was living harmoniously with Tilla village and other neighbouring villages without any dispute for more than 60 years now,” it added.

Pointing out that in the context of Nagaland, there can be no single plot of land, forest or jungle without having owners either individual, clan or community, the union argued, “Encroachment upon others land without any authenticated proof and documentary evidence cannot be justified and is therefore, illegal.”

The ENPUD further informed that it held consultations and interactions with members of both Sangtemtila and Tilla Bosti and learnt that both the villages have been maintain-

ing cordial relationship without any fear and tension with well demarcated boundary line “except or despite certain mutual lease agreement between this two villages which was said to have been entered with mutual understanding.”

Stating that the present situation created by some vested interested persons has now created fear and tension to the peaceful village dwellers, the ENPUD on behalf of the eastern people living within Dimapur district appealed to the people concerned in the issue to restrain from such move in the larger interest of justice and also to maintain peaceful and harmonious relation amongst the Naga brethren in general.

The Union also appealed the district administration to take up the matter for early amicable solution.

Public SPace

Governor, CM extend Aoleang Mongyu greetings Kohima, march 31 (mExN): Nagaland Governor PB Acharya and Chief Minister Dr Shürhozelie Liezietsu have extended greetings to the Konyak Community on the occasion of Aoleang Monyu Festival 2017.

Aoleang Mongyu, the main festival of the Konyaks, is celebrated in the first week of April every year.

This year the celebrations

New traffic & parking regulations in Kma

Home Commissioner writes to NTAC, JCC To,

1. Shri K T Vilie, Convener, NTAC, Kohima 2. Shri C T Jamir, Secretary, NTAC, Kohima 3. Shri Sapu Jamir, Convener, JCC Subject: Regarding the ultimatum dated 08/03/17 and the meeting on 11/03/17 with the Cabinet Sub Committee Sir, I would like to refer to the ultimatum dated 08/03/17 submitted by the JCC and NTAC to the Chief Secretary, Nagaland and the subsequent deliberations with regard to the same in the meeting held with Cabinet Sub Committee on 11/03/17 at Kohima 2. The demand for suspension of the former Commissioner of Police, Dimapur, Deputy Commissioner, Longleng and the police personnel who were handling the violent crowd both in Dimapur and Longleng on 31/01/17 for an impartial judicial inquiry has been duly considered and examined from all aspects by the Government and it is felt that suspension of the officials and the police personnel at this stage would neither be justifiable nor proper. A Judicial Inquiry Commission (JIC) with a mandate to make a detailed inquiry into the violent incidents

that occurred in Dimapur, including the steps taken and the security arrangements made by the police and administration has been constituted.

It would be appropriate to wait for the report of the JIC before deciding initiation of departmental proceeding or suspension or for taking other type of punitive action against the officials and the other personnels.

3. As regard the steps to be taken for ensuring an impartial judicial inquiry it may be mentioned that the then Commissioner of Police Dimapur and the Deputy Commissioner of Police (11), Dimapur have already been transferred out by the Government.

4. The matter regarding expansion of the Judicial Inquiry Commission as brought up in the meeting on 11/03/17 has been considered and a decision has been taken by the Government to make it a three member body with inclusion of another judicial member and a member, preferably with judicial background, to be nominated by NTAC/ JCC. It is requested that you may suggest the name of a suitable person accordingly so that the necessary notification for constitution of an expanded JIC may be issued by the Government.

5. The ambit of the present JIC is limited to the violent incidents which

occurred in Dimapur on the 31st January 2017. In view of the ultimatum submitted wherein reference is made of the incidents in Longleng and also considering that there were violent incidents elsewhere as well, it is proposed that the scope of the Judicial Inquiry Commission may include all such violent incidents that occurred in connection with the Elections to ULBs in the State. Thus JIC would be mandated to make detailed inquiries into all the incidents including the entire chain of events leading to the incidents, the arrangements made by the administration and police for dealing with the situation, the causes and the persons responsible for the violence.

6. I would like to state that in the event of inclusion of the violent incidents of Longleng in the scope of inquiry of the JIC, the Government may consider transferring out the Deputy Commissioner Longleng for free and impartial inquiry.

Your response on the above is solicited for enabling the Government to take further necessary action on the whole matter.

Yours faithfully, Abhijit Sinha, IAS Home Commissioner

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The Virtues of Isolation at the right time

Under the right circumstances, choosing to spend time alone can be a huge psychological boon Brent Crane The Atlantic

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n the ’80s, the Italian journalist and author Tiziano Terzani, after many years of reporting across Asia, holed himself up in a cabin in Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan.

“For a month I had no one to talk to except my dog Baoli,” he wrote in his travelogue A Fortune Teller Told Me. Terzani passed the time with books, observing nature, “listening to the winds in the trees, watching butterflies, enjoying silence.” For the first time in a long while he felt free from the incessant anxieties of daily life: “At last I had time to have time.”

But Terzani’s embrace of seclusion was relatively unusual: Humans have long stigmatized solitude. It has been considered an inconvenience, something to avoid, a punishment, a realm of loners. Science has often aligned it with negative outcomes. Freund, who linked solitude with anxiety, noted that, “in children the first phobias relating to situations are those of darkness and solitude.” John Cacioppo, a modern social neuroscientist who has extensively studied loneliness—what he calls “chronic perceived isolation”—contends that, beyond damaging our thinking powers, isolation can even harm our physical health.

But increasingly scientists are approaching solitude as something that, when pursued by choice, can prove therapeutic.

This is especially true in times of personal turbulence, when the instinct is often for people to reach outside of themselves for support.

“When people are experiencing crisis it’s not always just about you: It’s about how you are in society,” explains Jack Fong, a sociologist at California State Polytechnic University who has studied solitude.

“When people take these moments to explore their solitude, not only will they be forced to confront who they are, they just might learn a little bit about how to out-maneuver some of the toxicity that surrounds them in a social setting.”

In other words, when people remove themselves from the social context of their lives, they are better able to see how they’re shaped by that context. Thomas Merton, a Trappist monk and writer who spent years alone, held a similar notion. “We cannot see things in perspective until we cease to hug them to our bosom,” he writes in Thoughts in Solitude.

Much of this self-reconfiguring

happens through what Fong calls “existentializing moments,” mental flickers of clarity which can occur during inward-focused solitude. Fong developed this idea from the late German-American sociologist Kurt Wolff’s “surrender and catch” theory of personal epiphany.

“When you have these moments, don't fight it. Accept it for what it is.

Let it emerge calmly and truthfully and don't resist it,” Fong says. “Your alone time should not be something that you're afraid of.”

Yet, at the same time, it is not only about being alone. “It’s a deeper internal process,” notes Matthew Bowker, a psychoanalytic political theorist at Medaille College who has researched solitude. Productive solitude requires internal exploration, a kind of labor which can be uncomfortable, even excruciating. “It might take a little bit of work before it turns into a pleasant experience.

But once it does it becomes maybe the most important relationship anybody ever has, the relationship

you have with yourself.”

Yet today, in our hyper-connected society, Bowker believes that solitude is “more devalued than it has been in a long time.” He points to a recent study at the University of Virginia in which several participants– a quarter of the women and twothirds of the men–chose to subject themselves to electric shock rather than be alone with their thoughts.

Bowker sees this heightened distaste for solitude playing out in pop culture as well. For example, vampires used to be portrayed in stories as secluded hermits, whereas now you’re more likely to see them on camera as sexy socialites, he notes.

And even though many great thinkers have championed the intellectual and spiritual benefits of solitude–Lao Tzu, Moses, Nietzsche, Emerson, Woolf (“How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table”)– many modern humans seem hellbent on avoiding it. “Every time we have a chance to go running we plug in our headphones. Every time we sit

in the car we listen to NPR,” laments Bowker. “I mean, my students today tell me they can’t go to the bathroom without their phone on.”

This is not to say that true solitude necessarily requires an absence of stimuli. Rather, “the value of solitude depends on whether an individual can find an interior solitude” within themselves, says Bowker. Everyone is different in that regard: “Some people can go for a walk or listen to music and feel that they are deeply in touch with themselves. Others cannot.”

Generally, Bowker contends that our “mistrust of solitude” has consequences. For one, “we’ve become a more groupish society,” he says. In Ideologies of Experience, an upcoming book Bowker co-authored with David Levine, a psychoanalyst at the University of Denver, the authors trace a line between the devaluing of solitude and the ongoing ideological conflicts afflicting college campuses.

“We’re drawn to identity-markers and to groups that help us define

[ourselves]. In the simplest terms, this means using others to fill out our identities, rather than relying on something internal, something that comes from within,” Bowker says.

“Separating from the group, I would argue, is one thing that universities should be facilitating more.”

That is where solitude comes in. Such a separation requires what psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott called the “capacity to be alone.”

This is key to Bowker’s idea of solitude as self-strengthening. “You have to have that capacity: the ability to know that you’re gonna survive, that you’re gonna be okay if you’re not supported by this group,” Bowker says. “Put another way, a person who can find a rich self-experience in a solitary state is far less likely to feel lonely when alone.”

There is a catch to all of this: For solitude to be beneficial, certain preconditions must be met. Kenneth Rubin, a developmental psychologist at the University of Maryland, calls them the “ifs.” Solitude can be pro-

ductive only: if it is voluntary, if one can regulate one’s emotions “effectively,” if one can join a social group when desired, and if one can maintain positive relationships outside of it. When such conditions aren’t met, yes, solitude can be harmful. Consider the hikikomoriphenomenon in Japan, where hundreds of thousands of depressed or troubled young people quarter themselves away, sometimes for years, often requiring extensive reintegration therapy to move on. The difference between solitude as rejuvenation and solitude as suffering is the quality of self-reflection that one can generate while in it, and the ability to come back to social groups when one wants to.

When preconditions are met, solitude can be restorative. For Fong, who meditates 15 minutes a day and takes monthly solo camping trips, it is at least as essential as exercise or healthy eating. Possibly, he says, it is necessary for a truly healthy mind.

“It really lifts you out of problems. It really, really has a powerful function for making you understand your predicament in this universe,” he says.

Yet, because the study of solitude as a positive force is new, it’s hard to speak in precise scientific terms about it: We don’t know what the ideal amount is, for instance, or even if there is one. Most likely, such measures are different for everybody. But researchers recommended taking it where you can get it, by meditating, taking solo walks or going on camping trips alone. Bowker makes a point of driving in silence.

The point is to be away from social interaction and looking inward, however this may be achieved for you. “Solitude does not have form,” says Fong. “It is amorphous.”

After his month-long seclusion in Japan, during which he “put [himself] back together,” Terzani, already a well-known reporter in Italy, went on to build a successful career as an author. Though he was an atheist, Terzani gained an almost religious following for his later writings, much of which interweaved reportage with personal experience and philosophical musings. After his death in 2004 from stomach cancer, the adoption of him as a guru-like figure was something which some intellectuals bemoaned, calling it a disservice to his message. “The only real teacher is not in a forest, or a hut or an ice cave in the Himalayas,” he once remarked. “It is within us.” One imagines him reaching the conclusion alone.

A super-powered bug to inspire us all IMMUNIZING YOUR CHILD. WHY ITS’S IMPORTANT?

Nury Vittachi

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y wife and her friends were discussing the topic "What is the deepest question ever", so I gave them my choice: "What superhero would you be?"

The women sneered that my favoured issue was not clever nor existential, but the guys in the room backed me, agreeing that choosing a superpower was an important subject deserving serious consideration. This may be a Guy Thing.

I know two lads who have been having a passionate two-year debate over whether it would be better to be a Beetleman or a Lizardman.

They initially supported Lizardman, as lizards can move each eye independently, can detach their tails, and have tongues which strike faster than the eye can see. But after much heart-searching, they switched to Beetleman, as beetles generate their own body armour, outlived the dinosaurs, and will likely inherit the Earth, possibly some time this year, judging by trends in global politics.

Superhero fans of either sex struggling with this crucial issue will be interested to hear that there's a new candidate for best new origin concept: Tardigrade Man or Woman. I learned about this from a writer friend who reads incredibly boring scientific papers as a source of inspiration.

A tardigrade is a very small bug

with astonishing superpowers.

1) It can survive at minus 272 Kelvin, an unbelievably cold temperature found only in deep space ice planets and the heart cavities of nationalist politicians.

2) You can more or less kill a tardigrade and dry it out and then bring it back to life, months later, an ability hitherto seen only in this writer's hard-drinking greatuncles and a certain vintage of journalist.

3) Tardigrades can stay alive on food-free diets for up to 30 years, a trait that reminds me of my wife and her friends, many of whom have forsworn food, living for decades only on herbal tea and traces of frosted lipstick.

Using bugs as a source of powers is a classic tradition, although the recent fashion in superhero literature is to have regular human characters inside large machines, as seen in Gundam. It frankly astonishes me that science today is focused on useless things like travelling to the stars instead of making the world a better place by developing cool machines which we can climb inside and use to hit each other.

When I mentioned this, a friend told me about two machine-using brothers in the United States who recently had an argument. Stanley Emanuel was in a crane and his brother Peter was in a front-end loader when the row escalated and turned into a battle. Who won? Peter's front-end loader eventually tipped the crane over, but Stanley jumped out and had his brother arrested, according to news reports.

Someone showed me a video from China of guys fighting from inside construction equipment, so I guess this is a Thing now.

The above-mentioned wives thought having fisticuffs from inside machines was dangerous and irresponsible, but the mental image prompted one of the guys to raise a new philosophical question: "What construction vehicle would you be?"

Oh, that's deep.

We'll get back to you in a couple of years, maybe.

can "catch up" later.

Any Side effects of immunization?

In most cases these are usually mild and disappear in a few days.

Most common minor reactions to an immunization are: • Soreness or redness around the injection site • Low-grade fever • Rash In extremely rare instances some children can have fever >104o F, serious allergic reaction to a vaccine.

If you think your child has or may have an allergyto any component in a vaccine, be sure to share that information with your doctor.

Dr Tenukala Aier Consultant, Paediatrics Department (Child Health), CIHSR, 4th Mile Dimapur

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s a parent, you want to give your child a healthy start in life. Getting your child vaccinated is one of every parent’s first big parental decisions.

Immunization is the single most important way parents can protect their children from serious diseases.

This makes the decision to immunize your child an important one, especially since there are no effective alternatives to immunization.

All parents and especially those having a baby for first time have so many questions regarding immunization. What is immunization? Is it safe? Are there any side effects? Are all vaccines really necessary?

World Health Organization (WHO) defines Immunization as the process whereby a person is made immune or resistant to an infectious disease, typically by the administration of a vaccine. Vaccines stimulate the body’s own immune system to protect the person against subsequent infection or disease.

Immunizations are the number one public health achievement of the last century, saving millions of lives and preventing illness and lifelong disability in millions more.Immunization is estimated to avert between 2 and 3 million deaths each year. Many childhood diseases now preventable by vaccines often resulted in hospitalization, death or lifelong consequences only a few decades ago.

eases to others • Prevent serious outbreaks of many of the diseases that we are now protected from (example measles, diphtheria, whooping cough) • It’s so important that for enrollment in school orday care, proof of immunization is often a prerequisite.

What are the vaccine preventable diseases?

Under Universal Immunization Program(UIP), Government of India (GoI) is providing vaccination to prevent Seven vaccine preventable Importance of immunization: • Protects your child from serious diseases, namely Diphtheria, Pertussis, Tetanus, Polio, Measles, Hepatitis vaccine preventable diseases • Prevent the spread of those dis- B &Tuberculosis. Vaccines for Hae-

mophilus influenza type b,Japanese encephalitis (endemic areas) are provided in selected states.

However, with the advances in medical sciences many new vaccines for diseases like Rota viral diarrhoea, hepatitis A, chickenpox, mumps, rubella, pneumococcal pneumonia, typhoid, cervical cancer are also available. For more information, one can contact their nearest child specialist.

What if your child misses his/her immunization schedule?

It's important to keep your child's immunizations on schedule and up to date, but if your child misses a scheduled dose he or she

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

Vaccine myths and facts: Myth 1: Better hygiene and sanitation will make diseases disappear – vaccines are not necessary. FALSE Fact 1: While better hygiene, hand washing and clean water help protect people from infectious diseases, many infections can spread regardless of how clean we are. If people are not vaccinated, diseases that have become uncommon, such as polio and measles, will quickly reappear.

Myth 2: Giving a child more than one vaccine at a time can increase the risk of harmful side-effects, which can overload the child’s immune system. FALSE Fact 2: Scientific evidence shows that giving several vaccines at the same time has no adverse effect on a child’s immune system.

Myth 3: Vaccines cause autism.

FALSE Fact 3: Because symptoms of Autism occur around the same time as the first measles, mumps, rubella (MMR) and other immunizations in children, some have assumed that there is a link between thimerosal (a preservative used in vaccine) and autism. In 2004, Institutes of Medicine report concluded that there is no association between autism and vaccines.

Conclusion: As the saying goes PREVENTION IS BETTER THAN CURE, it’s much easier and more cost-effective to prevent a disease than to treat it. That's exactly what immunizations aim to do.

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SIGNIFICANCE OF CRM IN RETAIL MANAGEMENT

By Lipokmarla Imchen, Assistant Professor (Department of Management-BBA)

What exactly is Management about? Is it necessary only for large corporate companies? Is it required only for private enterprises or for businesses only? These are some thoughts that may cross the minds of many. However, we opine that these are only a part of the wide area of management.

In this series of short papers, C-Edge College with the initiative of Management Department will draw out and illustrate the necessity and applications of management skills.

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n this article, we introduce you to the basic idea of the importance of maintaining good customer relationship by any organisation with special reference to the retail sector.

When we talk about retailing and customer relationship management, these are two of the most talked about topics in the current marketing scenario. And talking about marketing, the heart of one’s business success lies in its marketing. Most aspects of a business depend on successful marketing. The overall marketing umbrella covers advertising, public relations, customer relationship management, promotions & sales and retailing. Marketing is a process by which a product or service is introduced and promoted to potential customers. Without marketing, your business may offer the best products or services in your industry, but none of your potential customers would know about it.

Customer relationship management (CRM) is an approach to managing a company's inter-

action with current and potential future customers which tries to analyse data about customers' history with a company, to improve business relationships with customers, specifically focusing on customer retention, and ultimately to drive sales growth. It is not merely the response of the times, but the necessity of the times as well. CRM has become very essential for every business in today’s business environment where we have cut throat competition.

Retailing is defined as a definite set of actions and steps used to sell a product or a service to customers for their personal or family use. The Indian retail industry has emerged as one of the most dynamic and fast paced industries in the world and India is one of the most popular destinations attracting FDI which is believed to be contributing to the growing organised sector (in Retail). Pantaloons, Big bazaar, Tata Trent and RPG enterprises are among the biggest players in the Indian retail market. In Na-

galand, the organised retail scenario comprises of Tata Westside (Trent), Vishal Mart, Jack & Jill, BabyOye (Mahindra), and many other players. Precious Me Love is one of the pioneers in eretailing business based in Nagaland. Big Bazaar is expected to enter the Dimapur market soon.

Customer relationship management in retail can increase customer satisfaction, reduce your costs and improve your company's performance in the marketplace. CRM software manages your relationships with individual customers to create advantages for both parties. A retailer’s relationship with their customer is key to repeat store visits, brand loyalty and ultimately sales conversions. But how do you go about creating a winning formula? How can you engage consumers in today’s multi-channel environment; be it through a website, social media channels or in-store, to keep them coming back? One can send a voucher offering a discount once a year. And if you

haven’t seen a customer for a while, we can send an email with the latest news and products available. For regular customers, invite them to an exclusive event.

A good retail CRM system can help build loyalty, creating brand ambassadors who will happily spread the word about their positive customer experience. Once the customers have a bad experience with the retailer, they’ll be even more vocal about a bad customer experience.

There are several ways to collect information to build a successful CRM database. Many retailers ask for an email address when you purchase in-store, others offer the latest news and discounts by signing up to their newsletter online or by developing customer chat rooms and communities. Using a database to personalise products, discounts and events for consumers is crucial to creating repeat customers who are keen to engage with a brand.

And it’s not just stores that offer personal, targeted marketing

but E-tailors such as Amazon, Myntra, Shop Clues, etc. also do the same – they all want repeat customers who they know better, and who they are willing to go the extra mile to get them.

Customer Relationship Management (CRM) in retail is not a new concept, but it is one that could help retailers win the battle for sales in these competitive times.

Customers need to be attracted in to the store, given a reason to visit and a reason to stay and shop. Retailers need to create a welcoming environment as well as an experience for their customers.

Having an accurate retail CRM database, focused on the customer, is an integral part of the jigsaw for any retailer. Today, the consumers are savvy, demanding and often in a hurry, so a successful retail CRM system will pay, when it comes to building loyal customers. Retailers need to think smarter to engage shoppers and create loyalty towards their brand, and to do this they need to know as much as possible about them.

This band is combating the issue of parental How two teens in leggings became pressure with the quirky song, Beta Sweater Pehno a PR mess for United Airlines Dan Whitcomb | Reuters

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warathma is completely in the albummaking zone. The Bengalurubased band has already come out with the first single the sardonically charged 'Beta Sweater Pehno' - and is now in the process of creating a music video for the second single.

Jishnu Dasgupta, the band's bassist says, "The song - 'Savera' - is a collaboration between our band and Clinton Cerejo. He is famous for his work on Coke Studio." Dasgupta says that they are currently in the middle of making their new album, follow-up to 2012's Topiwalleh, and will soon be going on tour to Pune, Mumbai and back home in Bengaluru.

"The tour will be in support of the 'Beta Sweater Pehno' music video," he says, adding, "We love playing our new songs live. There are no rules in the music industry now; there is no set rule that there have to be 10 songs in an album.

We are in the process of writing

7-8 songs for the album, and are proud to play them for the audience. We will release singles as and when we record them."

Their first single has gained a lot of traction online, with half a million views on YouTube already. An added bonus of the song is its connection to a social issue - parental pressure. The music video sees the entire band dressed as school kids, with very morose expressions on their faces, as they go about their daily life. "We stepped out of our comfort zone for the video," reveals Dasgupta, but we had a lot of fun making it. It was difficult keeping such straight faces throughout and we cracked up quite a few times in between takes."

It was a very serendipitous turn of events, Dasgupta reveals, that around the same time that the band came up with the song, Mirinda came up with their 'Release the Pressure' campaign which focuses on the parental pressure faced by students during examinations. "We created the song independent of the campaign," says the bassist. "We

had been working on the song for quite some time. We decided to join hands with Mirinda because we saw a lot of synergy with them. The song itself is a satirical take on the pressure that parents put on their kids, and was created during a jamming session.

I must add though that we aren't against parents. We don't doubt for a moment that they don't mean well for their children but the way they communicate ends up putting pressure on the kids."

Like their characters in the music video, Dasgupta says, the bandmembers too have gone through difficult times at school.

"Even at school," he adds, "I was interested in music. Swarathma is my first professional band though. And it is a band that got created organically. I had actually studied engineering and management after school. I had never considered becoming a professional musician."

Coming back to 'Beta Sweater Pehno', the core idea of the song is simple. Dasgupta says, "Our message to both parents and children is to chill out and take it easy."

bystander who touched off a social media furor after she saw United Airlines stop two teenage girls dressed in leggings from boarding a flight admitted on Monday that she did not fully grasp the situation when she started tweeting her indignation.

The girls, who were flying standby on Sunday from Denver to Minneapolis using free passes for employees or family members, were told by a gate attendant that they could not get on the plane while wearing the form-fitting pants.

Passengers using the passes are considered airline representatives, United Air Lines Inc spokesman Jonathan Guerin said, subject to a dress code that prohibits sleep or swimwear, torn clothing and revealing attire.

The girls were fine with the policy, Guerin says, but a traveler named Shannon Watts who overheard the exchange took offense.

Watts was further incensed when another woman who was listening told her 10-year-old daughter to put a dress on over her leggings, apparently thinking United's policy applied to all passengers, not just those flying free.

Her subsequent tweet storm, which accused the airline of "policing women's clothing," quickly went viral, with celebrities such as model Chrissy Teigen and actors Seth Rogen and Patricia Arquette decrying United's stance.

After the incident, United's mentions on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram exploded from its average 2,000 daily mentions to 174,000, nearly 70 percent of them negative, said Kellan Terry, a spokesman for the social media

analysis firm Brandwatch.

Watts, in a phone interview on Monday, conceded that she did not initially realize that the girls were using passes that entailed following a dress code. Regardless, she said, the policy is wrong-headed.

"I don't get why that's the issue here," she said. "A dress code still shouldn't be gendered and sexist. To be clear, this was happening very publicly right here in the gate."

American Airlines Group Inc has a policy on free passes that is similar to United's, but Delta Air Lines Inc defers to travelers' "best judgment" about their clothing.

United may have limited any damage to its image if it reacted more quickly to the tweets and explained its policy on the free passes, Terry said.

"Once the fire starts to burn, it's all about containing that fire," he said.

United's Guerin conceded that the airline could have done a better job of getting the facts out early.

"But our response following that, once we did have all of the facts, I think we reacted the right way with this," he said.

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Clean Election & Corruption: Root cause and ways to eradicate corruption through clean election

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s general election of Nagaland is round the corner in Feb. 2018, I also wish to put forward a few opinions how to make free corruption in our land. Yes, it might be useful or not but here I go. We talk corruptions and accused our elected leaders all the time but what about you and me? Is it not collectively responsibility for all of us? Yes, we Naga parents vote for a candidate in favor to get backdoor appointment for their children and seeking easy money. With these the burden of Nagaland govt. increased due to excessive government employees in every department. appointed by them and with no options all the central development funds meant for public is nil in every sector and never reach to people due to the salaries of these excessive ghost, fixed, contract, ad-hoc employees… so on are being paid from that public fund.

Now let’s stop complaining and change our mindset, there will be no more backdoor appointment and easy money in our land. So don't let you lure or convince by their fake promises, money power, muscle power and gun power instead vote to the deserving candidates(development ) and save your children’s bright future, after all where there is development the wealth itself is there and you can earn your livelihood from it....meantime the worse virus in our society these days is a new system of village candidates basing on these, some vested individuals claims 100% support without the consent of the entire village people and robbed their rights and even threatening and forcing their neighbors’ village with a condition to vote in favour of their candidate then how can there be good governance, the corruption starts itself even before they become a elected members and this system is hopelessly killing the Naga public in various constituencies seats... Yes, we have to check this foolish, sick and orthodox mentality which is not acceptable in our present generation today (now a mental game society ) at any means and must vote for the deserving candidates and make Nagaland a better place.

Now, how to eradicate the village candidates system?? Yes, I am from 38ac Wokha town, the Lotha headquarters ....instance if my village candidate do so forcefully without the will of my village people, I request all the Lotha villages people to take up necessary actions and give exemplarily punishment and must never allow such candidate to get elected cause a single village need the entire villages likewise the entire villages don't need and can tied up the single village easily.... and yes, again if my village candidate and his supporters continue the same sick acts and undermine the entire Lotha people... let’s put heads together and must let them bow down and apologies before the majority of Lotha public at any cost for insulting the Lotha in general and can even make resolutions from my parental Lotha hoho at various districts Like Kohima, Dimapur ..etc to expel all my village people from there, irrespective of job holders, self-employed....so on to my village and let them educate my village people how they suffer from their rawness and foolish acts and learn a lesson from it how to respect their fellow beings and live co-existence peaceful lives and free corruptions society.... Yes, I also request the other constituencies people to apply the same yardstick if such candidates arise in your area and vote out the deserving, capable and efficient candidates.....last but not the least, I request the NBCC to fight tooth and nail for the successful clean election and educate all the people living in rural areas how to use their rights properly and allow them to save their children’s future...lastly. I am not against anyone individuals here and yes I don't bother and mind whoever is elected but a piece of words for the sake of my Naga public in general!

Thank you! God bless the Nagas!

The articles in this column are compiled by The Naga Blog administrators.

Disclaimer: The opinions expressed here are the views of the individual and do not necessarily reflect the views and opinions of The Naga Blog.

Are Skinny Jeans Going to Kill Me? Can pants be so tight that they cause blood clots, or back pain?

Chelsea Beck |The Atlantic

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ecently I was sitting next to my friend Arianna in a coffee shop when I noticed her pulling at the side seams of her jeans, looking worried.

I asked her what was going on.

“Have you ever worried that your jeans are going to give you blood clots?” she asked. Surprisingly, of the many dubious health concerns I have considered in my lifetime, that wasn’t one of them. “It just seems like maybe we shouldn’t be wearing skinny jeans all the time,” she added. “I feel like they squeeze our organs or something.”

When I got home (and after I took off my own skinny jeans, and replaced them with sweatpants), I did a little research. It was not especially hard to find people who echoed Arianna’s skinny jean-related fears: There was a Daily Mail story about a woman who spent four days in the hospital after having to have her jeans cut off of her body; there was a summary of a study that purported to show that wearing skinny jeans can cause muscle and nerve damage by cutting off blood flow. Interestingly, nearly everything

I found referred to the same story of the woman whose jeans were surgically removed from her body. A New York Post story (which uses pictures of Kendall Jenner and Harry Styles wearing tight jeans to illustrate their dangerous sexiness) cites a physical therapist whose client once wore jeans “so tight that they forced her knees into extension, so she could not bend them the proper 35 degrees for a proper gait.” The tightness of her jeans, he said, was likely responsible for her back pain.

I think it makes sense (at least for us non-experts) to think that wearing anything very tight could affect our internal health; just think of the diagrams of Victorian ladies’ torsos pre- and post-corset. One is under the general impression that it is never a good thing to be squeezed. But corsets were often made of bone (or other rigid material), and were yanked tightly around the body with the help of another person.

Hopefully that is not how anyone is getting into their jeans in the morning.

And no matter how tight your jeans are, they’re still made of fabric that moves with your body.

“I own a couple pairs of skinny jeans myself, and I feel fine,” says Kurtis Kim, a vascular surgeon and the director of the vascular laboratory at Mercy Medical in Baltimore. “I’m older, but I’m not too old to wear them.

And most of them are very stretchable—they bend and confine to the position you take when you sit down.”

As Kim explained it to me, there is little to no reason to fear that your skinny jeans will lead to clotting problems. “Arteries will not compress even in really tight jeans that you have a hard time fitting into, because arterial

pressure is pretty high,” he says. Vein pressure, on the other hand, isn’t as high, which is why people sometimes get indentation marks on their calves from socks—veins can be compressed by the sock, displacing fluids in the underlying tissue. It’s more feasible that skinny jeans could cause circulation problems than blood clots, but even still, it’s not likely. “Most skinny jeans don’t get tight enough [around the ankle] to manifest in swelling,” says Kim. Your jeans—whether skinny, straight-legged, flared—might be really tight around your butt and your

thighs, but they’re usually not as uniformly tight around the ankles as even socks are. And if your non-skinny jeans aren’t causing you health problems, there’s no reason your skinny ones should either.

Additionally, most people who wear skinny jeans are on the younger side, and therefore much less likely to be at risk for the sorts of health issues that wearing really tight jeans might feasibly cause. “These jeans are being worn by a younger group of people who really should not have any peripheral vascular disease or venous disease,” Kim says. “Now, if you’re talking about an 89-year-old lady who’s trying to wear this and go to church and sit down for awhile, that’s another story.” It’s worth noting, too, that the woman who was cut from her jeans had been wearing them in a crouched position for “hours” packing for a move—and that lack of movement likely played as big a role in the leg swelling she experienced as did the jeans themselves. If you’re relatively mobile, and you don’t have any sort of vascular disease, and you’re younger than, say, 89, you’re

probably going to be just fine.

Of course, it’s important to use common sense when shopping for new jeans. It’s like that dad joke about visiting the doctor (“Doc, it hurts when I do this.” “Then don’t do that.”): If your jeans are so tight they’re hurting you, don’t wear them. “If people wear some skinny jeans and their legs swell up when they sit down, or if their feet or toes or those distal parts of the leg become numb and tingly—when people feel those things when they wear jeans, this is not a fitting jean for them,” Kim says. As unlikely as it is for you to develop any circulation problems (much less a blood clot) as a direct result of your skinny jeans, life is still too short to be that uncomfortable.

Still, there’s no need let an alarmist headline convince you to throw your favorite jeans away. It’s curiously easy to find articles that suggest clothing commonly worn by women (and especially young women) is harming their health— ahem—but often much harder to find any actual scientific support.

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Nationwide advocates stir cripples judicial work

New Delhi, March 31 (iaNS): Judicial work across the country was crippled on Friday following a nationwide strike by advocates in protest against a proposed bill that prohibits them from holding agitations and makes them liable to pay monetary compensation if they go on strike. The strike call was given by the Bar Council of India (BCI) - the apex body of advocates - which has termed the Advocates (Amendment) Bill, 2017, "draconian" and one which will "completely destroy" the independence and autonomy of the Indian Bar. "The strike was successful across the country. It was observed in all the high courts, district courts and lower courts. Lakhs of advocates in the entire country have voiced their protests against this draconian bill which if passed will completely rob the Bar's independence," BCI Chairman Manan Kumar Mishra told IANS here.

According to Mishra, there are around 14 lakh advocates across the country.

In the national capital, lawyers at the high court and all six district courts -- Patiala House, Tis Hazari, Rohini, Karkardooma, Saket and Dwarka - observed the strike.

Lawyers from the Supreme Court did not participate but extended their support.

Judicial work was also affected across Punjab, Haryana and Chandigarh with the courts adjourning hearing of cases due to the strike.

The situation was similar in West Bengal with the State Bar Council claiming the strike to be successful. In Maharashtra and Goa, the majority of the nearly 1.5 lakh advocates abstained from work.

Kerala High Court advocate A. Jayasankar said the strike was "total" in the state, but added it was his personal opinion that it was needless and unwarranted.

Judicial work was also affected in Uttar Pradesh with lawyers abstaining from work across district courts as well as at the Allahabad High Court.

The strike call was given following the Law Commission's latest report in which it has recommended sweeping changes in the Advocates Act including prohibiting lawyers from going on strikes and making them liable for monetary compensation for misconduct or going on a strike.

"Advocates' conduct in courts, behaviour with litigants and their unprofessional conduct, including the act of going on frequent strikes as a measure of protest for irrelevant issues, has reached terrifying proportions," it said in the report submitted to the government on March 23.

Providing a wide definition of "misconduct" by advocates, the Law Commission has also proposed imposing a fine extending up to Rs 3 lakh or a compensation to a maximum of Rs 5 lakh payable to the person aggrieved by the misconduct of an advocate. The BCI has also opposed the definition of "misconduct", saying it has been defined in a "provocative way", making it "risky and difficult" for advocates to accept the brief of any client.

'Pakistan Trying to Destabilise India'

'Make a choice'

China again warns India over Dalai Lama's visit to Arunachal Pradesh

Rajnath Singh

• The Chinese foreign ministry said it was seriously concerned about India's decision to allow the Dalai Lama to visit Arunachal Pradesh • The Dalai Lama will visit Arunachal Pradesh from April 4 to 13

Tibet's exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama is seen at the Arcimboldi theater before receiving honorary citizenship of the city of Milan, in Milan, Italy. (REUTERS/File Photo)

BeiJiNG, March 31 (PTi): China on Friday warned India of "serious damage" to bilateral ties if it allows Tibet's exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama to visit Arunachal Pradesh next week and asked New Delhi to make a "choice". In its second warning to India in a month, the Chinese foreign ministry said it was seriously concerned about India's decision to allow the Dalai Lama to visit Arunachal Pradesh, which Beijing claims as part of south Tibet.

"We are seriously concerned about the news. On the eastern section of the China-India border, China's position is clear and consistent," Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Lu Kang told media here, responding to a question on the Dalai Lama's upcoming visit to Arunachal Pradesh.

"The Dalai clique has long been engaging in separatist activities with inglorious record. India should be very clear with the true nature of the Dalai clique," Lu said.

"But despite this India still invit-

ed the Dalai Lama to visit the region.

This will have serious damage on bilateral relations," Lu said.

The Dalai Lama will visit Arunachal Pradesh from April 4 to 13.

This is the second time this month Chinese foreign ministry has aired its objections to the Dalai Lama's visit to Arunachal Pradesh.

"China is gravely concerned over information that India has granted permission to the Dalai to visit Arunachal Pradesh," Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang had said on March 3.

China has protested to India last year also when New Delhi cleared his visit to Arunachal Pradesh.

"Such visits will have deep damage on China India relations. We have asked India to stick to its political pledges and not to hurt China-India relations. It will come down to India to make a choice," Lu said.

"China firmly opposes the Dalai Lama carrying out any activities in the relevant region and we have ex-

pressed our concerns to the Indian side. We urge India to stick to its political statements, respect the consensus and avoid doing anything that might further complicate the matter," Lu said. He said India should not provide any platform for the "Dalai clique and only that way can ChinaIndia relation can move forward in a sound and steady way".

"China and India are two major developing countries and we are close neighbors". It is very important for the two peoples to maintain sound and steady China India relations. But such relationship has to be built on certain foundation," Lu said.

Last year, China also protested the visit of then American Ambassador to India Richard Verma to the area.

The India-China border dispute covers the 3,488 km long Line of Actual Control (LAC). While China claims Arunachal Pradesh as Southern Tibet, India asserts that the dispute covered Aksai Chin area which was occupied by China during the 1962 war.

New Delhi, March 31 (iaNS): India on Friday accused Pakistan of using social media to incite trouble and mobilise youth to throw stones at security forces during counterinsurgency operations in Jammu and Kashmir.

"Social media platforms like Facebook and WhatsApp are being used to mobilise youth to provoke them for stone pelting," Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh told the Lok Sabha after Trinamool Congress member Saugata Roy raised the issue of stonepelting on security forces in the Kashmir Valley.

The security forces fighting militants in the valley have been facing a new challenge of stone-pelters who come in groups to obstruct soldiers engaged in military operation against insurgents. The problem has been raging particularly since the July 2016 killing of Hizbul Mujahideen militant Burhan Wani that led to one of the deadliest series of street protests across the valley.

Earlier this week, three civilians were killed when security forces allegedly opened fire at a group of protesting stone-pelters

trying to help a besieged militant escape from the security cordon in a central Kashmir village.

Rajnath Singh said it was "a new trend (that) has begun in Kashmir".

"When our security forces go to villages in search of terrorists, the youths of the locality start pelting stones."

He said those indulging in stone-pelting were doing so at the behest of the neighbouring country and "the group which operates the (social media) accounts (to incite stone-pelting) are based in Pakistan".

The minister said the security forces would continue to give a befitting reply to terrorists and infiltrators in Jammu and Kashmir and also expressed confidence that India would defeat all forms of terrorism.

He said Pakistan was trying to destabilise India by sponsoring terrorism.

"Not only Jammu and Kashmir, the terrorists are trying to destabilise the whole country through their cowardly acts. The whole country is aware of this act of Pakistan. Our security forces are retaliating against them in their own language," he said.

Sc bans hotels, restaurants along highways from serving liquor

New Delhi, March 31 (iaNS): The Supreme Court on Friday said hotels and restaurants falling within 500 metres on either side of the national and state highways cannot serve liquor.

The top court by its December 15, 2016 order had banned the liquor shops within 500 metres on the either side of the national and state highways.

Refusing to issue a clarification that the December 15 judgment applied only to liquor shops and not to hotels and restaurants, the bench of

Chief Justice Jagdish Singh Khehar, Justice D. Y. Chandrachud and Justice L. Nageswara Rao, said no such relaxation could be made that would defeat the object of preventing drunken driving.

"Since the object of the (December 15) direction is to prevent drunken driving, no such relaxation can be made which would defeat the object which is sought to be achieved. Consequently, the directions issued by this court cannot be read down, as suggested. The directions shall be read as they

stand," said Justice Chandrachud pronouncing the order.

However, the court relaxed the ban on the location of liquor shops by reducing it to 220 metres in respect of municipal/local bodies with 20,000 or less population falling along the highways.

"In the case of areas comprised in local bodies with a population of 20,000 people or less, the distance of 500 metres shall stand reduced to 220 metres," the court said in its order.

Besides, the top court exempted Sikkim and Meghalaya

Jio extends enrolment of prime membership till April 15 MuMBai, March 31 (iaNS): Reliance Jio Infocomm on Friday said the deadline to buy Jio's 303 (and other) plans had been extended till April 15 after the unprecedented rush to sign up for Jio Prime offer in just one month. "Reliance Jio Infocomm announced today that in just one month, over 72 million Jio customers have signed up for Jio Prime, making it one of the most successful customer privilege programmes anywhere in the world," the company said in a statement.

"Considering the unprecedented demand for enrolling to Jio Prime and doing the first recharge, Jio has extended the deadline for purchasing Jio's Rs 303 (and other) plans till April 15. This extension will provide the necessary breathing room for users to avoid service disruption during the transition from free to paid services," the statement added. Jio also announced the Jio Summer Surprise for its Jio Prime

members. "Every Jio Prime member, when they make their first paid recharge prior to April 15 using Jio's Rs 303 plan (or any higher value plan), will get services for the initial three months on a complimentary basis. The paid tariff plan will be applied only in July, after the expiry of the complimentary service," the statement said.

Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani in a letter to the Jio customers said: "I want to personally thank you for choosing Jio, and for being a founding member of the Jio movement. A movement to transform India. A movement to empower and enrich each one of you with the revolutionary power and possibilities of digital life. "Over the past few days, we have been deluged by millions of customers queuing up to purchase Jio's popular Rs 303 and other tariff plans. This nationwide trend indicates that very many customers are still in the process of purchasing Jio Prime and their first paid tariff plan.

PPF, Kisan Vikas Patra, Sukanya Samriddhi interest rate slashed by 0.1%

New Delhi, March 31 (PTi): The government has lowered interest rates on small saving schemes like PPF, Kisan Vikas Patra and Sukanya Samriddhi scheme by 0.1 per cent for the April-June quarter, a move that would prompt banks to cut their deposit rates. For April-June, these have been lowered by 0.1 per cent across the board compared to January-March.

However, interest on savings deposits has been retained at 4 per cent annually.

Since April last year, interest rates of all small saving schemes have been recalibrated on a quarterly basis.

A finance ministry notification said investments in the public provident fund (PPF) scheme will fetch lower annual rate of 7.9 per cent, the same as 5-year National Savings Certificate. The existing rate for these two schemes is 8 per cent. Kisan Vikas Patra (KVP) investments will yield 7.6 per cent and mature in 112 months.

The one for girl child savings, Sukan-

ya Samriddhi Account Scheme, will offer 8.4 per cent annually, from 8.5 per cent at present, while it will be the same at 8.4 per cent for the 5-year Senior Citizens Savings Scheme. The interest rate on the senior citizens scheme is paid quarterly. Term deposits of 1-5 years will fetch a lower 6.9-7.7 per cent that will be paid quarterly while the 5-year recurring deposit has been pegged lower at 7.2 per cent.

“On the basis of the decision of the government, interest rates for small savings schemes are to be notified on a quarterly basis,” the ministry said while notifying the rates for the fourth quarter of 2016-17 starting from April 1, 2017. While announcing the quarterly setting of interest rates, the ministry had said the rates of small saving schemes would be linked to government bond yields. The move is expected to prompt banks to lower the deposit rate in line with the small savings rate as offered by the government.

from the ban order altogether.

Noting the 82 per cent forest cover in Sikkim and the peculiar hilly terrain in Meghalaya, the court said, "We are of the view that insofar as the states of Meghalaya and Sikkim are concerned, it would suffice if the two states are exempted only from the application of the 500 metre distance..."

H o w e v e r, H i m a c h a l Pradesh has been brought in the ban limit of 220 metres as applicable to local bodies adjoining the highways with 20,000 or less population.

"We are of the view that the exemption which has been granted earlier in respect of areas falling under local bodies with a population of 20,000 will sufficiently protect the interests" of Himachal Pradesh and "no further relaxation is granted over and above what has already been stated in that regard," the order said.

The court declined to provide any relief to Tamil Nadu which had sought more time to implement the December 15, 2016 order.

Rejecting the request for

the extension of time by Tamil Nadu, the order said that in the state (Tamil Nadu) the liquor vends are operated by stateowned Tamil Nadu State Marketing Corporation (TASMAC) and the April 1, 2017, deadline was fixed on its request only.

Referring to the varying excise years in different states including in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, the court said that in the case of licenses which were renewed prior to its December 15 order and they expire on or after April 1, 2017, "the existing licence shall continue until the

term of the licence expires but in any event not later than 30 September 2017".

"In other words, no licence shall either be granted or renewed or shall remain in operation in violation of the direction of this court beyond September 30, 2017," the order said fixing September 30 as a deadline.

The top court order on Friday came on a batch of applications filed by some state governments and the owners of hotels and restaurants located on the highways seeking modification of the December 15, 2016 order.

New 1 page ITR form notified, e-filing to start from today

New Delhi, Mar 31 (PTi) The government on Friday notified a simpler, one-page form for filing income tax returns while making it mandatory to quote Aadhaar number and disclose bank deposits of more than INR 2 lakh post demonetisation.

The Income Tax Return Form-1 (Sahaj) will replace the 7-page form, removing a plethora of columns on deductions from income claimed. Sahaj can be filed by an individual having income of up to INR 50 lakh from salary, house property and interest.

Currently, SAHAJ (ITR 1) is filed by salaried employees and ITR 2 by individuals and HUFs whose income does not include income from business.

The government has done away with form ITR 2A (used by individuals & HUFs not having income from business or profession and capital gains and by those who do not hold foreign assets).

Sahaj makes quoting of 12-digit biometric identifier Aadhaar number mandatory along with Permanent Account Number (PAN) and also seeks details of cash in excess of INR 2 lakh that was deposited in bank accounts in the 50day post demonetisation window.

ITR 2 and ITR 3 have a Schedule AL requiring assessees to declare their assets and liabilities at the end of the fiscal.

Only 6 crore out of 29 crore people having PAN

file income tax returns at present.

The e-filing facility for ITR-1 is enabled from April 1 and ITRs can be filed till the stipulated deadline of July 31.

While the old ITR form too had column to quote Aadhaar, the government has through an amendment to the Income Tax Act this week made quoting it mandatory.

"The Central Board of Direct Taxes has notified Income-Tax Return Forms (ITR Forms) for the Assessment Year 2017-18. One of the major reforms made in the notified ITR Forms is the designing of a one page simplified ITR Form-1 (Sahaj)," CBDT said in a statement.

In the new form, parts relating to tax computation and deductions have been rationalised and simplified for easy compliance.

Besides personal details, an income tax filer needs to disclose only his income from salary or pension, one house property and other sources like interest. Thereafter, deduction claims are to be stated, followed by computation of taxable income.

Bank details are to be filled in the column following that. Details of advance tax, self-assessment tax payments and tax deducted at source come next.

In the column for providing bank details, cash deposited in excess of INR 2 lakh during November 9 to December 30, 2016 has to be mentioned. .

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SBI has also increased IMPS (Imme- would be penalised if found violating this diate Payment Service is an instant in- rule with effect from April 1, 2017. Earlier terbank electronic fund transfer service) there was no such ban or penalty. charges, where up to Rs. 1000 is free of charge and for transaction amount great- Pay more for health insurance and er than Rs. 1000 charges will be leviable much more for vehicle insurance With the start of the new financial as follows: A minimum Rs. 1.50 + service tax (ST) per transaction to Rs. 11.50 + ST year, you will have to pay much more for in case you are using USSD method of health and vehicle insurance. IRDAI, the transfer and Rs 2 + ST to Rs12 + ST in case insurance regulator, has allowed general you are using IMPS/UPI transfer mode. insurance companies to pay higher comSBI account holders will also be re- missions to insurance agents and also quired to maintain a minimum balance charge more for third party insurance in in their savings account ranging from Rs. case of vehicles. Third party insurance, 5,000 - Rs. 1000 depending on their geo- which is mandatory for all vehicles, will graphical location: i.e. whether account is cost between 40% to 50% more dependin a metro or non-metro branch. In case of ing on vehicle type. However, there will non-maintenance of required balance you be no hike in the third party insurance could be charged a maximum of Rs. 100 + for private cars with engine capacity beservice tax. However, PM Jan Dhan Yojana low 1000 CC and for two-wheelers with and Basic Savings Bank Small Accounts are engine capacity less than 75CC.

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North Korean suspects sent home with murder victim as Malaysia makes swap KUALA LUMPUR, MARch 31 (ReUteRs): Three North Koreans wanted for questioning in the murder of Kim Jong Nam, the estranged half-brother of their country’s leader were believed to be returning home with the coffin of the victim on Friday after Malaysia agreed a swap deal with the reclusive state.

Photographs obtained

by Reuters from Japan’s Kyodo news agency show Hyon Kwang Song, the second secretary at the North Korean embassy in Kuala Lumpur, and Kim Uk Il, a staff member of North Korea’s state airline Air Koryo were on a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on Thursday evening.

The pictures match those released by the Malaysian police earlier. The coffin carrying the body of Kim Jong Nam was also believed to have been on the same flight, though this has not been confirmed by authorities.

Malaysian media reported that a third North Korean, Ri Ji U, also known as James, who had been hiding with them at the North Korean embassy in Kuala Lumpur was also allowed to go home.

The three men and the coffin were expected to be transferred to a flight to Pyongyang.

Malaysian authorities re-

day as the murder and another was held for a week before being released due to insufficient evidence.

Angered by the probe North Korea slammed a travel ban on Malaysians leaving North Korea, trapping three diplomats and six family members - including four children - in Pyongyang.

Malaysia, which had previously friendly ties with North Korea responded with a ban of its own, but was left with little option but to accede to North Korea’s demands for the return of the body and safe passage for the three nationals hiding in the embassy.

North Korean officials arrive in an embassy car at the VIP entrace at Beijing airport ahead of an Air China flight to Pyongyang, China on March 31. (REUTERS Photo)

leased Kim’s body on Thursday, in a deal that secured the release of nine Malaysian citizens held in Pyongyang after a drawn out diplomatic spat.

Kim Jong Nam was killed in Kuala Lumpur International airport on Feb.13 in a bizarre assassination using VX nerve agent, a chemical so lethal that it is on a U.N. list of weapons of mass destruction.

Malaysian prosecutors have charged two women - an Indonesian and a Vietnamese - with killing him, but they are regarded by South Korean and U.S. officials as pawns in an operation carried out by North Korean agents.

North Korea’s young, unpredictable leader, Kim Jong Un, had issued a “standing order” for his elder half-brother’s

assassination, and there was a failed attempt in 2012, according to some South Korean lawmakers.

Malaysian police had named eight North Koreans they wanted to question in the case, including the three believed to have been given safe passage to leave Malaysia.

Of the others, police believe four fled Malaysia on the same

Most of Mars’ atmosphere was lost to space: NASA WAshingtOn, MARch 31 (iAns): Solar wind and radiation were responsible for stripping the Martian atmosphere, transforming Mars from a planet that could have supported life billions of years ago into a frigid desert world, new results from NASA have revealed.

“We’ve determined that most of the gas ever present in the Mars atmosphere has been lost to space,” said Bruce Jakosky, principal investigator for the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution Mission (MAVEN), University of Colorado in Boulder.

The findings showcased that about 65 per cent of the argon (a noble gas which is the third-most abundant gas in the Earth’s atmosphere) that was ever in the atmosphere has been lost to space.

CO2 is of interest because it is the

major constituent of Mars’ atmosphere and because it’s an efficient greenhouse gas that can retain heat and warm the planet.

“We determined that the majority of the planet’s CO2 was also lost to space by sputtering. There are other processes that can remove CO2, so this gives the minimum amount of CO2 that’s been lost to space,a explained Jakosky. Liquid water, essential for life, is not stable on Mars’ surface today because the atmosphere is too cold and thin to support it.

However, evidence such as features resembling dry riverbeds and minerals that only form in the presence of liquid water indicates the ancient Martian climate was much different - warm enough for water to flow on the surface for extended periods.

“This discovery is a significant

step toward unraveling the mystery of Mars’ past environments,” added Elsayed Talaat, MAVEN programme scientist in a paper to be published in the journal Science.

There are many ways a planet can lose some of its atmosphere.

For example, chemical reactions can lock gas away in surface rocks, or an atmosphere can be eroded by radiation and a stellar wind from a planet’s parent star.

The new result reveals that solar wind and radiation were responsible for most of the atmospheric loss on Mars, and the depletion was enough to transform the Martian climate.

The team made its estimate using data from the Martian upper atmosphere, which was collected by MAVEN’s Neutral Gas and Ion Mass Spectrometer (NGIMS).

Ousted South Korean leader behind bars after arrest on bribery charges seOUL, MARch 31 (ReUteRs): Ousted South Korean leader Park Geun-hye was behind bars in the Seoul Detention Centre on Friday after her arrest, on charges including bribery, in a corruption scandal that has brought low some of the country’s business and political elite.

In a dramatic fall from power, Park, 65, became South Korea’s first democratically elected leader to be thrown out of office. She is accused of colluding with a friend, Choi Soon-sil, to pressure big businesses to contribute funds to foundations that backed her policy initiatives.

She and Choi, who is already in custody and on trial, deny any wrongdoing.

In the early hours of Friday, the Seoul Central District Court approved prosecutors’ request for an arrest warrant for Park after she gave about eight hours of testimony.

Park and her lawyers had argued that she should not be arrested because she did not pose a flight risk and would not try to tamper with evidence. But the court disagreed, and said she might try to manipulate evidence.

Just before dawn, Park was driven to prison just outside Seoul in a black sedan, ashen-faced and flanked by two female officers in the back seat, her hair down apparently having removed the hairpins that held her hair in its usual classic chignon style.

Prosecutors now have

20 days to build their case while Park remains in detention.

Park’s removal from office capped months of paralysis and turmoil over the corruption scandal that also landed the head of the Samsung Group, South Korea’s largest “chaebol”, or family-run conglomerate, in detention and on trial.

The political upheaval comes at a time of rising tensions with North Korea over its weapons programme and with China, which is angry over South Korea’s decision to host a U.S. anti-missile defence system.

Park’s impeachment on March 10, which upheld a parliamentary vote in De-

cember, effectively left a political vacuum with only an interim president in place before a snap May 9 election.

Liberal opposition politician Moon Jae-in is leading in opinion polls and is expected to win that election.

“The arrest of the former president Park amounts to upholding the people’s stern order to build a country where justice and common sense stand firm,” Moon’s spokesman, Park Kwang-on, said in a statement.

“It is the first step to rebuilding a collapsed Republic of Korea,” Park Kwang-on said, using South Korea’s official

name.

Prosecutors said on Monday Park was accused of soliciting companies for money and infringing upon the freedom of corporate management in her position as president.

She could face more than 10 years in jail if convicted of receiving bribes from chaebol bosses, including Samsung Group chief Jay Y. Lee, in return for favours.

Lee, who denies charges that he provided bribes in return for favours for Samsung, is in detention in the same facility as Park and on trial separately.

After several preliminary hearings, Lee’s trial will begin on April 7.

“CLEAR WINNER” Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak issued a statement announcing the return of the body, but did not mention Kim by name.

“Following the completion of the autopsy on the deceased and receipt of a letter from his family requesting the remains be returned to North Korea, the coroner has approved the release of the body,” Najib, who is currently on an official visit in India, said in the statement.

North Korea has maintained that the body was that of Kim Chol, the name given in the passport carried by the victim,

and not Kim Jong Nam. Najib’s statement did not mention the safe passage given to the North Koreans that police had wanted to question, but it did say the travel ban on North Koreans leaving Malaysia had been lifted.

North Korea also released a statement saying both countries managed to “resolve issues arising from the death of a DPRK national.”

The swap agreement brings to an end nearly seven weeks of diplomatic standoff, with Pyongyang emerging the clear winner, analysts said.

“It is a win (for North Korea), clearly,” Andrei Lankov, North Korea expert at Seoul’s Kookmin University said on the swap deal.

“I presume the Malaysians decided not to get too involved in a remote country’s palace intrigues, and wanted their hostages back.”

The episode, however, is likely to have cost North Korea one of its few friends.

“For all intents and purposes, I think this relationship is going to go into cold storage for a very long time,” said Dennis Ignatius, a former Malaysian diplomat.

Kim Jong Nam, the eldest son of the late North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, had spoken out publicly against his family’s

dynastic control of the isolated, nuclear-armed nation.

For the past few years he had lived in exile in the Chinese territory of Macau, and his family has gone into hiding since the murder.

Najib said the police investigation will continue.

SIMULTANEOUS TAKE-OFF The nine Malaysians who had been trapped in Pyongyang were brought home to Kuala Lumpur early Friday morning on board a small Bombardier business jet operated by the Malaysian air force.

“We won’t deny that when the DPRK government imposed the travel ban which prevented (us) from leaving, we were very concerned especially since we had committed no wrong,” Mohd Nor Azrin Md Zain, one of the returning diplomats, said.

“During that time we were not particularly harassed by DPRK authorities,” he added.

According to the Plane Finder tracking website the Bombardier took off from Pyongyang at the same time that the Malaysian Airlines flight MH360 left Kuala Lumpur for Beijing.

The Malaysian Air Force crew dressed in civilian clothes as a “precautionary step” for the mission, pilot Hasrizan Kamis said.

Australians cling to roofs as floodwaters swamp towns sYDneY, MARch 31 (ReUteRs): Flooding rivers swamped towns along Australia’s east coast on Friday forcing tens of thousands of people to be evacuated as fast-flowing waters cut roads and destroyed bridges after the remnants of a powerful cyclone swept through the region.

The disaster zone from ex-Cyclone Debbie stretched 1,000 kms from Queensland state’s tropical resort islands and Gold Coast tourist strip to the farmlands of New South Wales state, with more than 100,00 homes reportedly without power. Six large rivers had hit major flood levels and were still rising, said the Bureau of Meteorology.

Flood sirens sounded before dawn at Lismore when the Wilsons River surged over the town’s levee. By daybreak the centre of the town of 25,000 people in the Northern Rivers region of NSW was underwater. Throughout the day several towns suffered the same fate and were sub-

A local resident watches as floodwaters enter the main street of northern New South Wales town of Lismore, Australia on March 31. (REUTERS Photo)

merged under floodwaters.

Stranded residents climbed onto roofs of flooded homes to await rescuing, but fast-moving water and high winds hindered emergency crews reaching some people.

Farmers moved livestock to higher ground, while others sandbagged property, desperately trying to stop floodwaters.

NSW police said they had recovered the body of a woman from floodwaters on Friday, the first reported

death since Cyclone Debbie hit on Tuesday. Authorities had feared that people may have died overnight as floodwaters rose swiftly in the dark.

Cyclone Debbie, a category four storm, one short of the most powerful level five, pounded Queensland state on Tuesday, smashing tourist resorts, bringing down power lines and shutting down coal mines, has become a huge rain depression.

Debbie will hit Aus-

tralia’s A$1.7 trillion ($1.3 trillion) economy, with economists estimating it will slow growth to under 2 percent in the first quarter.

In the Bowen Basin, the world’s single largest source of coal used to make steel, Glencore said its mines were not damaged by the storm but restarting production depended on railways reopening.

Lismore mayor Isaac Smith said it was the worst flood in at least three decades.

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Career guidance & skill development programme Dimapur, march 31 (mExN): The Tenyimi Students’ Union Dimapur (TSUD) in collaboration with Pinnacle Skills and Pro Rural organised ‘Career Guidance and Skill Development’ programme on March 25 at Town Hall here.

Dr. Yelhi Vero, Asst Prof., Peren Government College; Adahe Neli from Pro Rural; and James Kithan from Pinnacle Skills were the resource persons.

Speaking in the first session on the topic ‘Choosing a rewarding Career’, Dr Yelhi Vero stressed on the need to have faith in God in making every decision and to believe in the word of God, stated a press release received here.

In the second session, Adahe Neli spoke on the topic, ‘Understanding self interest and abilities, 1st step toward career building’. He exhorted the students to explore all the wide range of possibilities and make use of the various schemes and policies introduced by the government for the students.

James Kithan speaking on the topic ‘Skill Development’ highlighted the wide range of training facilities provided by the Pinnacle Skills centres. He emphasised that all the training programmes are free of cost and provided by the government in order to skill its citizens.

Gaitangliu Gonmei, TSUD Vice President chaired the programme, Azo Wetsah, President TSUD gave the keynote address and A. Shyerhunlo Lorin, TSUD General Secretary pronounced vote of thanks.

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eside sovereignty, amalgamation of all contiguous Naga areas in North East India is the contentious issue of the Nagas that remains unresolved till today. The 13th serial of 16-Points Memorandum of 1960 runs “The other Naga tribes inhabiting the areas contiguous to the present Nagaland be allowed to join Nagaland if they so desire”.

The Nagaland Legislative Assembly passed four successive resolutions on 12.12.1964, 28.8.1970, 16.9.1994 and 18.12.2003 respectively. Thus, within a span of 39 years the Nagaland Legislative Assembly reiterated the demand for integration four times. Yet, all those resolutions had to remain a monologue.

The predicaments are: a) The Nagas in Arunachal Pradesh are disorganised. They do not have common public platform like UNC in Manipur.

The Naga students in Arunachal do not have students’ body. The worst was that some years back, certain elected Naga leader led signature campaign and reportedly submitted a memorandum to Union Govt. that they were Arunachalees and not Nagas. Despite of the substantial presence of pro-Naga population, there was no leader to stir and counteract those anti-Naga elements. If Nagas in Arunachal are organised properly they could become formidable both in the Legislative Assembly and outside but the ground reality is otherwise. b) Secondly, I have never come across any Naga being elected to the Assembly in Assam. I also doubt whether the Naga Diaspora in Assam has any organised platform. c) The Nagas in Manipur are better organised and are more politically enlightened. But the setback is at the most Nagas can have 11 MLAs in the house of 60 and perhaps there had never been a collective elected formidable team in Manipur Assembly other than polarization.

Beside, there had never been consensus amongst the Nagas in Manipur on the issue of Naga integration. The worst is the most prominent Naga political leaders who were Chief Ministers during their time swore that not even an inch of Manipur’s land will be conceded for Naga

integration. Even the last Deputy Chief Minister Mr. Gaikhangam was always rigid with his stance against Naga integration.

Meanwhile, recently the Prime Minister of India Sri. Modi and the Union Home Minister Sri. Rajnath Singh assured the three States, namely, Manipur, Assam and Arunachal Pradesh that their respective territorial integrity will not be disturbed by 3rd August 2015 Framework. Sri. Rajnath Singh went a step further to say that even the name Manipur is not there in the agreement of the Framework. Whereas, the NPF has been the pre-poll alliance partner of BJP and a member of NDA and it has to abide by the directive given by the mentor despite of sounding patriotic.

What the Prime Minister Modi had said that Naga demand for integration cannot be considered at the cost of Manipur, Assam and Arunachal cannot be opposed by NPF and therefore it remained mute. The 4 NPF MLAs have to walk within the parameters set by BJP led ministry in Manipur.

Whereas, the 6 tribes under ENPO are having talks with GOI for a separate Statehood. In other words, ENPO wants to secede from Nagaland. The rest of the tribes in Nagaland can neither encourage nor discourage ENPO in regard to secession. ENPO always feels that it fails to get from Nagaland what it deserves during the last 54 years and it believes that better life awaits them when it becomes autonomous. Well, it is ENPO’s democratic right to assert for oneself. What the other tribes can do is just to wish ENPO all the best.

Contrary to what the Prime Minister of India had stated, the leader of NSCN(IM) Mr. Muivah claimed that ‘GOI admitted that without integration there is no solution’ as appeared in local media on 22.3.2017. To this claim, the Union Home Ministry has vehemently refuted branding Muivah’s claim as ‘erroneous’ as on 26.3.2017. Who is lying and who is bluffing the people are the questions. It caused much apprehension in Nagaland’s neighbour States. Beside people’s rancour raised against the statement, MPs sought its white paper on Framework from GOI in Parliament. To my observation, both the negative and positive statements cannot remain correct. The Prime Minister of India

cannot afford to tell lie on the sensitive issue. Therefore, if what was stated by Prime Minister during his election campaign in Manipur probably on 25.2.2017 is true, that will disprove what Muivah claims. On the other hand, if at all what Muivah claims is the actual concession granted by GOI to amalgamate the Naga territories hereafter as he cannot afford to take Nagas for a ride for long, but as per the convenience of GOI to keep the agreement as a ploy for fear of severe repercussion from the affected States, it will prove GOI a liar ultimately. In any case, if one of the parties is honest the other is dishonest and will emerge as liar finally. Also, if there is no clandestine understanding between GOI and NSCN(IM) on the agenda in question, there may not be meeting point despite of more than 80 rounds of talk during the last 20 years.

The other people in North East India hardly talk about unity except the Nagas as if the word is discovered to be used by the Nagas exclusively. Yet, the Nagas stand to be the most divided people in the country. At the moment, 6 out of 9 NNPGs (5 NNC/FGN+4 NSCN/GPRN) have agreed to work together though yet to have a common political nomenclature. This is a positive development though much to the consternation of some section of people.

Few NNPGs believe that when they become united the Naga political issue will get diluted. The NNPGs prefer nursing the old wounds which they placed above principle common issues. The past errors committed by each one are enumerated in written and keep it in frame and hang it on the wall of their sitting rooms lest they forget and forgive. We cannot sit across a table and share our sadness and joy. Even mentioning the name of a group causes allergy to the other.

The ego and ism therefore rule the roost.

Yet, we talk about living together under one administrative unit known as integration. At the moment talking about integration is placing the trailer before the car. The geographical amalgamation may come only when the Naga hearts are united, and in our case the reality is otherwise. Mere population integration is not a lasting solution to the problem, rather it will elongate the dimension of the issues. I therefore wonder what weight it carries to talk about integration in the midst of fragmentation.

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am hereby clarifying on the content of the article titled “Revisiting the Final Chapter” by Khekiyie K. Sema IAS (Retd.) which appeared in the Morung Express on 13th March, 2017.

Khekiye K. Sema in his article said “Mr. Phizo had every right to condemn this accord in the aftermath as a document signed under duress instead of ignoring it as a non issue. His judgment of ground reality was a monumental failure on his part for there can be no justifiable excuse.” Where Khekiye K. Sema an Indian Administrative Service (Retd) himself stated as if he is a preacher/an advisor and also he wants to be a servant of two nations. He knows the policy of how India tried to suppress and divide the Nagas because he was one of the most loyal servants of India. Likewise the Naga nationalist knows much better than Khekiye on the historical background of the Naga Nation as a nationalist had life experience to save the Nagas and Nagaland.

It is undeniable fact that Khekiye K. Sema had given his whole life to serve India, the aggressor. Then he was given retirement by GOI as his service was no more needed by India. Thereafter, Khekiye began to learn about the Naga Nation at the sunset of his life. He must know this very clearly and should not boastfully oppose against the historical truth of the Naga Nation. However, on the one way, it is good for the Nagas to know his concrete colour through his write-ups which were published in Nagaland Dailies.

A.Z. Phizo is the father of the Naga Nation not because of he is orator but because of his extraordinary work done and sacrificed for the Naga Nation. As for the Shillong Accord, we have been clarifying about it and the stand of A.Z. Phizo from time to time, but if Khekiye continued to oppose against our leader and Nation like Th. Muivah, Khekiye also will be one of the wicked persons among the Nagas. As far as Phizo and the Shillong Accord are concerned, the record shows the following facts: 1. Phizo’s letter to the Editor, The Times of London dated November 25th 1975, had clearly stated that he had nothing to do with the Shillong Accord.

2. In his letter to the NNC Vice President, T. Venuh had also clearly stated that he and the NNC had nothing to do with the Shillong Accord and that if the Government of India thinks it has achieved a settlement with the Nagas through the Accord, let India raise the issue first and he (Phizo) would handle the matter himself.

3. As for the Accord, why should Phizo denounce it when he does not recognize it as a valid settlement/document in the first place?

May the good Lord grant soon the year of the Lord and let every Naga witness that God has a purpose and plan for Nagas to be a nation. When Nagas enjoy this joyful day in reality, some Nagas who cuddle with Indians will have to pack their things and go to their guy country because the land of law may enforce to those who go against the Nation. The NNC does not want our people to become the refugee in other Nations and therefore we always tried to make our people to understand the truth.

Jesus said, “And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”

In the same way, with faith in God, the NNC will continue to serve and save the Naga Nation.

Kohima, march 31 (mExN): The Kohima Law College conducted an awareness campaign on the conduct of fair election on March 29 at the college premises with Kezhokhoto Savi, Professor-in-Charged B.C.I Practical Training Papers as resource person.

According to a press release, Savi, addressing the law students as potential ambassador for fair elections, urged them to help bring a break-through in the forth coming State Assembly Election and bring an end to all illegal means and corrupt practices. The State General Assembly election is slated to be held in early 2018.

Terming elections as the “root cause of corruption”, Savi further urged the students to take a bold step to fight against corruption by contributing their share of creating awareness to educate the importance of clean election.

“We all demand for a corruption-free government and a better society to live in and we can achieve it only when the conduct of election is clean,” he said.

Kaka D Iralu none of the signatories of the how can you accuse the NNC But besides an Organization, if “Let us vote for a government who could be people friendly and ready to sacrifice to eradicate corruption in irst of all, I am not a Kilon- accord were from the NNC set of having sold out the rights of at all some individuals should up. Not one of the signatories of the Nagas through the Shillong be blamed for framing such a running the government by introducing an anti-corrupser of the NNC as the NNC the Shillong Accord was an offi- Accord? Or graver still, how so called settlement document tion mechanism especially the Lokayukta, to set up State has no Kilonsers. The cial of either the Central Execu- can A.Z. Phizo, who was at that between two nations without Human Rights Commission to protect the rights of man NNC is only the political instituas human, to set up Food Commission as per the National tion of the Naga nation “to guide tive Council or any Regional or time the President of the NNC mentioning even the name of Sub- Regional Council of the as well as the Chairman of the one party to the conflict, then it Food Security Act 2013, etc.,” it added. and control the political policy NNC political institution.

NNC Central Executive Coun- is Dr. Aram, Governor L.P. Singh and decisions of the nation”.

To show this fact by quoting cil be accused of having sold and his Advisor Ramunny who This power is exercised through the names and portfolios of the the Naga nation when neither should be blamed. All these the Central Executive Council signatories, they are as follows: he nor any of his colleagues facts are true and are on record. and the Regional and Sub-Re- 1. Kevi Yallie was at that time (Including Th. Muivah) knew (The Shillong Accord does not gional Councils (Naga Yehzabo serving just as an interpreter anything about the Shillong ac- mention the word Naga or NaArt. 143,144 Clause 1&2). As for for the FGN. He was not even cord when it was signed under galand even once in the whole me, I am just a Kilonser without a Tatar or Kilonser of the FGN duress on November 11, 1975? document). portfolio in the Federal Govern- though he was the younger If at all someone or some As for the signatories, they ment of Nagaland (FGN). The brother of A.Z. Phizo. 2. Z. Ra- organization has to be blamed signed the document because phEK, march 31 (mExN): An orientation training FGN in turn is the Executive myo was a Kilonser of the FGN for signing the Shillong Ac- it neither implicated the NNC programme was organized at DPDB Conference Hall, Government of the Naga peo- without portfolio at this time. cord, should it not be “The Un- nor the FGN as they had signed Phek by Phek District Legal Services Authority (PDLSA) ple headed by a President with 3. S. Dahrü was a Tatar (Mem- derground Organization” that the document with only their with resource persons and master trainers from Naga- a Council of Kilonsers who are ber of Parliament) of the FGN. signed it? And what was this names without mentioning land State Legal Services Authority (NSLSA) on March 30. elected by the Tatar Hoho (Par- 4. M. Assa was a Major General “Underground organization?” their designations in the FGN. in the Naga Army. 5. I. Temjen- It was but an Indian Govern- As for the then President ZaA press note informed that the programme aims at liament) of Nagaland. improving the quality and enhancing competent free As for the Shillong Accord ba was a Secretary of the FGN. ment created organization- the shei’s reply as well as Phizo’s legal services to the poor and marginalized society by of 1975 for which you (and the As for Veneyi, though he was name of which was proposed by statement on the Shillong Acthe empanelled Panel Lawyers and PLVs of Legal Ser- NSCN IM) are accusing that the also a Tatar of the FGN and a Dr. Aram and accepted by Gov- cord, refer to Shapwon’s book vices institutions in the State. The orientation also im- NNC has sold out the rights of member of the delegation, he ernor L.P. Singh and his Advisor “The illegal Formation of the parts legal training on new legislations and State Welfare the Naga nation through the refused to sign the accord. The Mr. Ramunny on the spur of the NSCN.” In this book, you will Schemes, ensuring the benefits of various schemes to Accord, let me clarify to you list of names and their portfo- moment at Shillong. This name also find the true facts about reach all section of people with the aid of Legal Services that the NNC had nothing to do lios thus show that all of them was proposed by Dr. Aram of the the formation of the NSCN with the Shillong Accord. This were officials of the FGN and Nagaland Peace Centre at the which are totally different from institutions.

Governor’s Bhavan in Shillong the version you have presented N. Longshithung Ezung, Chairman Phek DLSA, Addl. fact must be clearly understood not officials of the NNC. Now when this is the case, on November 11, 1975 itself. in your article against me.

District & Session Judge spoke on the do’s & don’ts for by every Naga citizen because Para Legal Volunteers. Interaction on Motor Vehicle Acf the Burha luit could speak, cident Claims/Cases (Role of PLV) was coordinated by L. it would definitely clamour Likhase Sangtam, Retainer Lawyer, Kiphire DLSA. about its abundance and In the practical session on writing petition/comendurance. It for a river is plain/FIR, Tongpang L. Jamir, Master Trainer (PL), Samhita Barooah | Traveller NSLSA divided the PLVs into groups to draft FIR and obsolete in today’s legislative also supplied FIR sample to help file proper and effec- terminology as rivers are getting humanised. Probably river mys- health for people along its banks ers and then travelled through ighat, Goalpara, Koliabhumura tive FIR. On the topic, Consumer Redressal Techniques & Fo- tics are waking up from the deep all year round. Rivers are the elixir the Luit, Barak, Kolong, Kopili, and now in Dhemaji. The river is rum, Role of PLVs/PL, Tongpong illustrated the defini- slumbers after decades of indus- of life and such rivers are restored Pagladia, Aie along Dhemaji, already bordered with embanktion of Consumers and the duties and responsibilities of trial pollution, riverbank erosion with adequate measures which Lakhimpur, Sonitpur, Darrang, ments and spars which are routed and siltation around the river val- would keep its flow alive and Kamrup, Nalbari, Baksa, Chi- along its North and south banks to a vigilant consumer.

Akumla Longchari, Master Trainer (PL), NSLSA, ley. Wonder how the psyche of never stop the course of the river. rang, Kokrajhar, Dhubri, Goal- irrigate, regulate the flood waters trained the PLVS on Role Play on crimes against Wom- people is played around the river Burha Luit has always been an in- para, Nagaon, Majuli, Umrangsu, and also to reduce the impact of en/Children (Role of PLV) and a short role play through on grounds of religious territorial- spiration for the fisher-folk, boat- Jatinga, Cachar, Karimganj in live- erosion. It has huge hydro-electric video screening was presented on Domestic Violence ism and a mirage of development riders and travellers across its lihood pursuits. Sometimes dur- dams sites across the downstream against women. Role of PLV on Human Trafficking was along the river banks. The Burha banks and also for the artists and ing floods, otherwise during reg- from Pagladia to Subansiri which demonstrated by Akumla in the form of quiz/brain- luit has always been a treasure literary figures whose paintings, ular days and even during acute have high risk factors keeping in storming to the participants to make rational reasoning for the people who live along its songs, dance forms, articles and drought season where one could mind very high seismic zones. and understand what actually is human trafficking, who banks both for the gains of grains, poetry have always kept the river walk across the banks. The river Burha Luit is alive and adored by are and can be a victim of such trafficking and who can prosperity and mobility and also alive and awake. There are famous seems to hold my grit together ev- the people as a source of livelibe a trafficker. Akumla also appraised the participants for the losses of lives, livelihoods songs of Dr. Bhupen Hazarika like ery year to face its wrath, adore its hood, life and living identity more on the relevant social welfare Schemes available for the and land. In Assam people have Bistirna parore..., Jilikabo Luitor fascinating beauty and enjoy its than being an incarnation of one always entwined their lives ac- Paar..., Jyoti Prasad Agarwalla’s serenity. The river has its own flow particular religious sect. Its priswelfare of the general public.

M. Glory Sema, Panel lawyer, NSLSA coordinated the cording to the whims of the river Luitor Paarore Ami Deka Lora..., frothing and fuming during heavy tine glory and resources are still practical session on Maintenance of Record/PLV Regis- course, depth, resources and Parvati Prasad Baruva’s songs like monsoons and soothing during intact because of minimal human reminiscences offered by the liv- Luitor saporit kore naworiya... spring and autumn and drying industrial interventions along its ter/Filing of Success Stories.

During the group discussion on NALSA Schemes, ing traditions attached to India’s have immortalised the essence, up during winters. In Dhemaji, banks. But with the recent shifts Tongpong L Jamir, Master Trainer (PL), NSLSA informed longest river Burha Luit or Brah- emotions and attachments of the the river changes course thrice in and oil exploration missions, dam the trainees about the 7 NALSA Schemes and the newly maputra. We have grown up writ- people of Assam with the mighty the year. Any work which is done sites and further plans of riverbed ing essays on floods, Brahmapu- Burha Luit and its innumerable alongside the river does not hold dredging the Burha Luit seems to added 3 schemes.

L. Likhase Sangtam, Retainer Lawyer, Kiphire high- tra, livelihoods along the river and tributaries. The river lived in the ground as the river decides the be pushed beyond its natural limlighted Prisoner Rights and Legal Services. He spoke on the richness of soil which is settled heart and soul of every person might not humans. I am just won- its which could backfire on the the rights of the arrested person and various legal provi- in the riverbeds adequate for the who lived, thrived, travelled, sur- dering with humanising the river, crops, aquatic life, people and the flora and fauna of Assam. Dur- vived and struggled along with the how such might will be tamed. heritage sites along the river. sions available to protect the rights of the prisoners.

Before getting into clandestine Challenges and problems and way forward for PLV & ing the monsoons the rivers plays tides and turns of this enormous Human beings do not respond Panel Lawyer was presented by N. Longshithung Ezung, havoc on people with sleepless resource defining the identity of to their needs but more profuse- deals for profit, promotion and ly to their greed. Luit has always prayers on and along the Burha Chairman Phek DLSA, Addl. District & Session Judge. nights and loss of lives, livestock, Assam and its people.

I have grown up along the up- taken care of people’s needs but Luit, the hidden, covert and unFeedbacks from the trainees were also recorded during property and livelihoods. But the the session. Altogether 38 participants attended the one same river brings the boon of allu- per most banks of luit across Di- never their greed. The river has known impact assessments and vial soil, rich vegetation and good hing, Dikhow and Dhansiri riv- 4 bridges along its banks Sara- ecological implications needs to day orientation training.

My reply to Mr. akaho assumi

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Panel Lawyers and PLVs trained for enhancing free legal services

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Riverside Wisdom

be in public discourse, discussion and debate. Festivities do not hold any ground for all those who lose their children, crops, parents, friends, neighbours, livestock and treasured resources every year to the devastating floods. Religious branding of the river will not answer the ahoy calls of people crying for help when their granaries, house roofs, older, immobile and sick family members are drowning during the floods, when their minor girls have to sell their bodies to feed their siblings on National Highways, when the soil patches of large fragments gets eroded in the river, when youths are drowned in the river due to coercive activities, when the young men from riverine communities migrate from Assam to be security guards in metropolitan cities of Indian sub continent, when endangered animals float dead during floods and do not find any safe space. Already the people of Assam have traded its oil, gas, tea, jute, bamboo, paper, wildlife, people and now the latest is the river, all in the name of festivities, religious ritualism and divisive mono-cultured politics. Hope the river decides its own discourse, restoration plan and regeneration processes and makes way for life along its banks. Listen to the riverside wisdom of Burha Luit before it uproots everything coming on its way.

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

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EntErtainmEnt

Awareness, not commercial I'm a big basketball fan: Maatr: success the intention, says Raveena Katie Holmes

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ollywood actor Raveena Tandon, whose next film Maatr deals with crime against women in society, says the clear intention behind making the film is to create awareness among the audience.

Speaking in Mumbai at the trailer launch of the film, Raveena said: “Intention behind Maatr is not commercial success but to spread a message of crime against women. This is the need of the hour, where people should start changing their mindset about women and take action against such criminals instead of shaming the victims based on the length of their clothes.”

She was present at the trailer launch along with the film’s director Aster Sayed and producers Anjum Rizvi and Manoj Adhikari.

Raveena, who last ap-

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ctress Katie Holmes says she is a fan of basketball and likes to follow the sport. Holmes opened up about her love for basketball while appearing on "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" on Wednesday, reports dailymail. co.uk. "I'm a big basketball fan," Holmes said. "My dad played at Marquette under Al McGuire," she said while referring to her father Marty Holmes, who played on the legendary coach's first two teams at Marquette University in 1965 and 1966.

Holmes said everyone in her family is "very good" at basketball except for her. "I'm a very intense fan," she said.

Source: IANS

peared in a cameo role in Anuraag Kashyap’s Bombay Velvet, said she does not like the word ‘comeback’ as she has become very choosy about her films.

“I used to work in 30 films in a year during the early stage of my career. But now I have reached a point where I will do films that I completely believe in and I have no idea what I am doing next after Maatr. So how many times should I make my comeback? I really do

not like using that word,” the Mohra actor said.

As there are many upcoming women-centric films like Noor, Mom, Haseena besides the latest Naam Shabana, according to Raveena, “it is a great time in Indian cinema where so many women-oriented films are being made”.

“I would say that this (phase) should continue,” she said.

Maatr is all set to release on April 21.

Source: IANS

Tom Cruise to Shoot 'Mission: Impossible 6' in India

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om Cruise’s Mission: Impossible franchise has a new Indian connect. According to reports, the sixth instalment of the series will be shot in India among several other international locations.

Jeff Sneider of Tracking Board, a Hollywood news portal, tweeted the news. “Mission: Impossible 6 filming in London, India, Paris & New Zealand. Will be released in IMAX 3D on July 27, 2018. NO MENTION of Renner!,” he wrote.

Jeremy Renner, who joined the series with the fourth instal-

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ment of the franchise, Ghost Protocol, will not be starring in this film. His dates are reportedly clashing with Avengers: Infinity War. Rebecca Ferguson, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Alec Baldwin and Sean Harris are all returning for the new movie. Henry Cavill, Vanessa Kirby and Sian Brooke will be new entrants. Christopher McQuarrie will helm the film. He had also directed Mission: ImpossibleRogue Nation, the fifth and the latest (until now) in the series.

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ew days ago an image that showed two gentlemen, one holding a bat and another a mic, standing facing backwards. In no time the image went viral and people started speculating about the identity of the duo, which was an easy task as the two legends in the pic were Sonu Nigam and Sachin Tendulkar. The difficult task however was to speculate, as to what they have in store for us. Many thought this might be related to Sachin’s film but they were wrong. Turns out, the collaboration was for a song for Sachin’s newly launched app, ‘100 MB’. Where 100 probably signifies his record of 100 centuries and MB for Master Blaster, as he was fondly called by many.

The app will help his fans, followers and devotees to get to know their idol closely and vice-versa. Talking about that aspect of the

app he said, “This is something I am looking forward to in the digital world, to be closer to my fans. This app will guarantee that whatever I say reaches my fans. Through this app, my fans can directly connect with me. My views, whatever I post, are guaranteed of reaching all my fans. Whatever I am today is because of the fans. Whatever my videos, opinions, posts will reach my fans.”

Talking about his singing stint with Sonu Nigam, he said, “I have always been fond of music. I never thought I would sing a song. My wife (Anjali) is the brain behind me singing this song. It was her idea. She was the only one who believed I could sing.”

Through the song, Tendulkar has also thanked all the players who has been part of his 24-year international journey including six World Cups.

Source: Bollywood Life

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ctor-filmmaker Ben Affleck, who earlier this month revealed that he had undergone treatment for alcohol addiction, made his first official appearance since admission to a rehabilitation centre. Affleck, dressed in a navy blue suit with a green accent tie, made a surprise appearance at CinemaCon on Wednesday evening here. The event marks the actor's first official event since going public with his health struggles. He appeared in good spirits while joining the cast of "Justice League", reports eonline.com. He posed for photos at the Warner Bros. presentation with co-stars Jason Momoa, Ezra Miller, Ray Fisher and Henry Cavill.

Source: IANS

My mother is Divyanka Tripathi's fan: Sonakshi Sinha

Source: Hindustantimes

Victoria Beckham back to singing

Sachin Tendulkar makes his singing debut with Sonu Nigam

affleck returns to red carpet after rehab

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inger-turned-designer Victoria Beckham, who became a sensation as part of girls group Spice Girls in the early 1990s, returned to her singing roots with the 'Carpool Karaoke' session of "The Late Late Show with James Corden".

Victoria, who parted ways from the music industry in 2008, on Wednesday gave a backstage peek into the shoot over Instagram in which she showed her hairdresser Ken Paves giving her a new style before she gets into the car with Corden, reports dailymail.co.uk.

"Carpool Karaoke" is a session where Corden is joined by singers and hums

their popular songs alongside them. Before Victoria, popular singers like Justin Bieber, Adele, Selena Gomez, Bruno Mars, Britney

Spears, Jennifer Lopez, Madonna and Elton John, have appeared in the 'Carpool Karaoke' session.

Source: IANS

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ollywood actress Sonakshi Sinha, daughter of actorturned-politician Shatrughan Sinha and former actress Poonam Sinha, says her mother is a "huge fan" of actress Divyanka Tripathi and her TV show "Yeh Hai Mohabbatein".

Sonakshi will next be seen as a judge alongside director Mohit Suri and ace choreographer Terence Lewis on upcoming couple dance reality show "Nach Baliye 8", where Divyanka will appear as a contestant alongside her husband Vivek Dahiya.

After watching Divyanka and Vivek's performance while shooting for

the first episode, Sonakshi said: "They set the perfect example of ‘romance wala dance'.

"My mother is a huge fan of Divyanka. She loves her performance in ‘Yeh Hai Mohabbatein' and looks upon Ishi Maa's character on screen and catches her episodes whenever she spares time."

Divyanka was overwhelmed on hearing that and said: "I hope I can have her on one of the episodes, seek her blessings in person and get a chance to share the stage with her."

"Nach Baliye 8" will be aired on Star Plus starting from Sunday.

Source: IANS

Stallone says his dog helped launch his acting career

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eteran actor Sylvester Stallone says his dog Butkus helped him launch his acting career because he inspired him to write "Rocky", which he also starred in. The 70-yearold credited his dog on social media on Thursday night for being the major help behind writing the 1976 movie "Rocky", reports femalefirst.co.uk.

The actor posted an image of his younger self with his dog in his lap.

"1971... Since we're on the subject of 'man's best friend' this is myself and Butkus as a puppy, we were both thin, hungry and living in a flophouse above a subway stop. I used to say this apartment had 'hot and cold running roaches'... Anyway there was not much to do except spend time with each other and that's where I

By:

Vikheho Swu

(Cabinet Minister, Government of Nagaland)

Khesheli Chishi

(OSD & Principal Secretary, Department of Justice & Law, Government of Nagaland)

YouthNet started to learn the craft of screenwriting," Stallone captioned the image.

"Since I never went out, I relied on his companionship and actually it was his idea to write 'Rocky', but don't tell anyone," he added.

Stallone also said he was forced to sell the Bull Mastiff for $40 to help him survive, although he later bought back his beloved friend for $15,000 following the success of his action film.

"Years later when

things got even worse I had to sell him for $40 in front of a 7-Eleven store, because I couldn't afford food, then like a modern day miracle, the screenplay for 'Rocky' sold, and I could buy and buy him back, but the new owner knew I was desperate, and charged me $15,000... He was worth every penny," he posted.

The "Creed" star thanked his "best friend".

Stallone shared another black and white image of himself with the dog

and captioned it: "I absolutely love pictures like this. When I was 26, totally broke, going nowhere very fast, owned two pair of pants that barely fit, shoes that had holes in them and dreams of being successful were as far away as the sun... But I had my dog, Butkus, my best friend, my confidant, who always laughed at my jokes, and put up with my moods, and was the one living thing that loved me for who I was."

Source: IANS

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Grassroots Football Coaching concludes

[TOP] Chief Guest Kuchi R. Zeliang along with participants, parents and others at the Free Grassroots Football Coaching Camp at the State Stadium, Dimapur on Friday. The camp was organised by the Nagaland Football Coaches Association (NFCA). (Morung Photo) [RIGHT] A young boy runs with the ball during a practice session. (Photo by Mireuyi Herie) Morung Express News Dimapur | March 31

The Free Grassroots Football Coaching Camp being organised by the Nagaland Football Coaches Association (NFCA) at the State Stadium, Dimapur came to a close today.

During the five-day camp, 103 children aged between the ages of 6 to 12 years were provided with basic

trainings like passing, kicking, heading, dribbling, control and other ball exercises.

17 coaches including 1 AFC ‘C’ licensee, 2 AIFF ‘A’ and 14 AIFF ‘D’ licensees were engaged in the camp which was held under the theme “Make Football Happen”.

Chief Guest at the closing, Kuchi R. Zeliang, Director of Barak Football Club and Executive Member,

Dimapur District Football Association, congratulated the NFCA for the successful conduct of the coaching camp. He acknowledged the camp as a “very good initiative” and assured his support to the NFCA for future endeavours.

A fan of football himself, Kuchi exhorted the youngsters to take active interest and pursue sports as a career. In this, he called on parents

to be supportive towards their children. “Let the children have the freedom of choosing their career,” he urged.

In a bid to inculcate discipline, the NFCA encouraged the children to uphold discipline both at home and in school besides the football field.

The children were also urged to practice regularly and to be in touch with the world of football.

At the same time, the NFCA also impressed upon the children that proper education and school are pre-requisites of a “complete footballer”.

As the young children perform different drills with the ball under the watchful eyes of the coaches, parents are visibly happy. “Our children don’t want this camp to stop. They are more excited about

attending this camp than school,” a mother at the camp laughed and expressed hope that such camps will be held again soon.

Earlier, the five-day coaching camp got underway on March 27 with Khekato V Tuccu as chief guest at the inaugural.

Felt long overdue, the camp will go a long way in enhancing the football scenario in the state.

Case Premier League concludes today Sindhu beats Saina to enter India Open semis Morung Express News Dimapur | March 31 C M Y K

The inaugural edition of the Case Premier League will come to a close at the Police Ground, Chumukedima on Saturday.

Two matches are scheduled for the day with one of the matches being a potential decider for the winner of the league. Case FC takes on Nizams FC in the first game, while Trinity FC take on STAFAC United Patkai in the second match.

HHH made a come from behind after registering consecutive wins in their last three matches to top the table with 15 points to complete their 8 games.

However, a formidable Trinity FC who were beaten in their

ble with 13 points.

Nizams FC and STAFAC United are joint third with 8 points and are level on goal difference at –5.

Case FC are bottom of the league with 5 points.

Under the theme “Beyond Friendship, Beyond Fitness and Beyond Football”, the inaugural edition of the Case Premier league kicked off in early February at Patkai Christian College ground with five teams – Case FC, Nizams FC, STAFAC United Patkai, Trinity FC and HHH. The unregistered football league, named after sponsors Case Constructions Dimapur, was started with the sole aim of last outing by HHH can win the promoting fitness and friendship league if they beat STAFAC Unit- through football for non profesed. Trinity are second on the ta- sionals above 30 years of age.

D. Khel, Dukes, P. Khel win in Northern Angami T20 Bash

Pusarla Venkata Sindhu of India returns a shot against Sania Nehwal of India during the women's single badminton match at the Yonex-Sunrise India Open 2017 at the Siri Fort Sports Complex in New Delhi on March 31, 2017 (AFP Photo)

New Delhi, March 31 (aFP): India's PV Sindhu won a much-anticipated clash with compatriot Saina Nehwal in straight games to

book a place in the semi-finals of the India Open badminton tournament in New Delhi on Friday.

Rio Olympics silver

medallist Sindhu served past former champion Saina 21-16, 22-20 in an intense 47-minute quarterfinal battle at the Siri Fort Sports Complex.

Sindhu, 21, had to dig deep into her reservoir of talent against the former world number one Saina as a raucous home crowd found it hard to take sides.

Sindhu, who lost to Saina, 27, in their only international meeting in 2014, won the first game in 19 minutes but had to fight hard to recover a 16-19 trail in the second game.

"Overall a very good match... even when she was leading 20-19, I still had the belief that I could pull through, I can do it," Sindhu told reporters.

"Sindhu-Saina is not a new rivalry... rivalry is always there on court but off court we are normal friends. I didn't feel any pressure. I don't know about her.

"Saina is not someone special that I have to win against her. Against each player, I will give 100 percent."

Sindhu will now meet second-seeded South Korean player Sung Ji Hyun, who earlier edged out defending champion Ratchanok Intanon of Thailand 21-16, 22-20, in the semifinals on Saturday.

Top-seeded Spanish star Carolina Marin also booked her last-four spot after battling past Minatsu Mitani of Japan 21-10, 2022, 21-14.

Marin will clash with fourth-seeded Akane Yamaguchi, who staved off a challenge from fellow Japanese Nozomi Okuhara 2113, 11-21, 21-18.

In the men's singles quarter-finals, Denmark's Viktor Axelsen survived a tough challenge from Wang Tzu Wei of Taiwan to prevail 19-21, 21-14, 21-16 in 65 minutes.

Cavaliers in a 'bad spot' as Bulls complete sweep

Our Correspondent Kohima | March 31

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Mourinho has regrets about how he treated Schweinsteiger MaNcheSTer, March 31 (aP): Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho mistreated Bastian Schweinsteiger, and said Friday he regrets it.

Mourinho let the 32-year-old German midfielder join the Chicago Fire this week, bringing an end to his brief spell at Old Trafford.

“Bastian is in the category of players that I feel sorry for something that I did to him,” the Portuguese coach said. “I don't want to speak about him as a player.

I don't want to speak about him as whether I would buy him or not to buy him.

I want to speak about him as a professional.

“I want to speak about him as a human being and that was the last thing I told him before he left, 'I was not right with you once, I have to be right to you now.'

So, when he was asking me to let him leave, I had to say, 'Yes, you can leave,' because I did it once, I cannot

The Chicago Fire's new player Bastian Schweinsteiger, of Germany, speaks during an MLS soccer press conference at the The PrivateBank Fire Pitch in Chicago, Wednesday, March 29, 2017. (AP Photo)

do it twice. So I feel sorry for the first period with him.

He knows that.”

Schweinsteiger spent 17 years at Bayern Munich and won more than a dozen trophies, including the Champions League. He also helped Germany win the 2014 World Cup before announcing his retirement from international duty.

But Schweinsteiger made only four appearances for United this season none in the Premier League.

He trained alone in the early part of this season before being re-introduced back into the squad in November.

Last week, he signed a one-year deal with the Fire. Mourinho said he will “miss a good guy, a good

professional, a good influence in training.”

“We had a huge squad in the beginning. But, after knowing him as a professional, and as a person, the way he was behaving and the way he was respecting my decisions as a manager, yes, I regret it and it is no problem for me to admit it and he knows that because I told him.”

United, which is in fifth place in the Premier League and faces West Bromwich Albion at home on Saturday, will be without five players this weekend. In addition to Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Ander Herrera serving suspensions, Mourinho said Paul Pogba (hamstring), Phil Jones (toe) an d Chr is S mal l ing (knee) were sidelined through injury.

Mourinho said Jones and Smalling had “longterm injuries” sustained while on England duty.

chicago, March 31 (aFP): LeBron James says the reigning NBA champion Cleveland Cavaliers are "in a bad spot" after losing their third consecutive game, falling 99-93 on Thursday, at Chicago.

The Bulls completed a 4-0 regular-season sweep of Cleveland, boosting their chances of reaching the playoffs and dropping the Cavaliers (47-27) behind Boston (48-27) at the top of the Eastern Conference.

"We're in a bad spot right now," James said. "Not disappointed with the effort.

Just in a bad spot. Got to try to figure it out... we've got some work to do and we don't have a lot of time."

The Bulls (36-39) moved within one game of Miami and Indiana for the last two playoff spots in the Eastern Conference with seven games remaining over the next two weeks.

"We need them all," Chicago star Jimmy Butler said.

"That's what we talk about.

We've got to have these."

Nikola Mirotic, a Montenegrin-born Spaniard, scored 28 points and grabbed 10 rebounds for Chicago.

"I just want to finish strong at the end of the season and help us get into the playoffs," Mirotic said.

Butler added 25 points for the Bulls, who used defensive effort to close the third quarter on a crucial 11-3 run.

"We got back in transition," Butler said. "It always helps to make shots but we guarded. That's how we've got to play. We've got to rely on our defense."

James sparked Cleveland with 26 points, 10 rebounds and eight assists

At 35-41, the Pistons are 2 1/2 games behind Miami and Indiana in the playoff hunt.

"Anything we can do to get a win at this point is good and make one more little push," said Ish Smith, who had 21 points, six rebounds and five assists.

LeBron James #23 of the Cleveland Cavaliers handles the ball during a game against the Chicago Bulls on March 30, 2017 at the United Center in Chicago, Illinois. (Getty Images)

while Kyrie Irving added 20 for the Cavaliers, who were without forwards Kyle Korver and Richard Jefferson due to sore left knees.

James passed Shaquille O'Neal for seventh on the NBA's all-time scoring list, ending the game with 28,599 career points, three more than "Shaq."

- Blazers down the Rockets Damian Lillard scored 31 points to lead six doublefigure scorers in Portland's 117-107 home victory over Houston.

The Trail Blazers (3738) won their fifth consecutive game and moved 1 1/2 games ahead of Denver in the eighth and final Western Conference playoff spot.

"We did a great job of executing down the stretch,"

Lillard said. "We trusted each other. We kept the ball moving. We showed poise.

We had confidence and we did what we needed to get the win."

James Harden, who led Houston with 30 points, sank a 3-pointer late in the first quarter to give the Rockets an NBA record 1,078th 3-pointer this season, breaking the old oneseason mark set last season

by Golden State.

Marcus Morris scored 28 points and grabbed 13 rebounds as Detroit snapped a five-game losing streak with a 90-89 home victory over the NBA-worst Brooklyn Nets (16-59).

"We barely got this one," Morris said. "To finally just get one, hopefully it can lead to more."

- Rubio scores career-high 33 Spanish guard Ricky Rubio scored an NBA career-high 33 points and added 10 assists while KarlAnthony Towns contributed 32 points as host Minnesota defeated the Los Angeles Lakers 119-104.

"I'm filled with a lot of confidence," Rubio said. "I think the experience is paying off and the work that I put into it, too. Starting the season I wasn't feeling that good and now I feel the best I've ever felt."

Andrew Wiggins added 27 points for the Timberwolves while Senegalese center Gorgui Dieng had 11 points and a seasonhigh 15 rebounds. Minnesota (30-44) is all-but out of playoff contention while the Lakers (21-54) took their 17th loss in 19 games.

"I wish we could fight for the playoff. That's what I came here for," Rubio said.

"I hope we can build from here and finally take off next season."

At Phoenix, Blake Griffin scored 31 points and Chris Paul added 29 points and 10 assists as the Los Angeles Clippers beat the host Suns 124-118.

The Clippers (46-31) are one game behind fourthplace Utah in the Western Conference. Phoenix fell to 22-54 with a 10th consecutive loss.

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