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If you want to change people’s obedience, you must change their imagination —Paul Ricoeur

Maharashtra justifies beef ban, says state still agri-dependent [ PAGE 8]

Chinese leader in Pakistan to unveil $45B in investments

Young Bengal cricketer dies after on-field collision

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reflections

By Sandemo Ngullie

• Chief Minister urges govt employees to introspect and give their best • Laments that effectiveness of govt servants does not commiserate with their number

We`re running out of letters in the alphabet!

An Indian man sleeps on the roof of his house at a shanty area in New Delhi, Monday, April 20. While hundreds of millions of Indians remained mired in poverty, the International Monetary Fund recently said it expects India’s economy to grow by 7.5 percent in 2015, its strongest growth in five years. (AP Photo)

Centre determined to push land bill despite opposition

One injured while fleeing from Police Morung Express News Dimapur | April 20

One person was injured, while trying to flee from the Police in Dimapur on Monday, April 20. The incident occurred at around noon at Khushiabill. According to the sources, the injured person was identified as one Atoshe Awomi, a section officer in one of the Naga political groups. He was shot on the leg while trying to evade arrest. The incident occurred as police were investigating an extortion case which was registered at East Police Station Dimapur on April 17. In the ensuing investigation, two persons were arrested. Interrogation of the two revealed more names. Based on the information, a police team was dispatched today to Khushiabill. When the police team reached the spot, two persons reportedly started to flee on seeing the policemen. The police team gave chase and was able to arrest one of the persons. The other person however continued to run, despite a warning shot fired in the air by the police.

Eventually the police shot the fleeing person on his leg and arrseted him. The injured person is reportedly undergoing medical treatment for his wounds.

NEW DElhi, april 20 (rEUTErS): India’s reformist government went on the offensive on Monday, pushing ahead with a plan to make industrial land purchases easier that sets a course of direct confrontation with an opposition that accuses Prime Minister Narendra Modi of failing farmers. Modi’s government passed a slew of economic reforms before a March recess in parliament’s budget session, and now wants to cap his first year with a new goods and services tax (GST) and amendments to a land law he says has halted industrial development.

Before the recess, Modi

failed to get approval for an executive order easing land purchase rules, forcing him to reissue a decree opponents say is undemocratic and will lead to a raw deal for land-owning farmers. “I appeal for support of all parties so that in the second session the nature of talks will be positive,” Modi told reporters as he entered parliament.

On Sunday he said his party was dedicated to the poor.

In the first day back at work, Rajiv Pratap Rudy of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party introduced the new decree for approval in the lower house, to shouts of “they are looting the farmers” from opposition benches. The

speaker adjourned proceedings twice to let tempers cool. The opposition is led by the Congress party, whose vice-president Rahul Gandhi returned from an eight-week break at the weekend to lead a farmers’ rally protesting against the proposed changes to a land law he had promoted when his party was in power.

Congress was decimated in the election that brought Modi to power a year ago, but senses an opportunity to regain ground on the land issue at a time when tempers are high in rural India over plunging commodity prices and crops damaged by bad weather. Modi’s government has a majority in the lower

housebutwillstruggletopass its decree in the upper house, where opposition parties dominate. If it fails again, Modi’s next step might be to callarare jointsessionof both houses, a senior government source said.

In such a scenario, the BJP and allies would command a majority, but would face renewed criticism that they were strong-arming the democratic process.

Modi’s determination to pass the land law stems from the conviction that existing rules requiring businesses to win consent from 80 percent of landowners before purchase will derail the government’s industrial development agenda.

Spending on government employees • 60 percent of state budget (excluding CSS) • Rs. 70 crore annually on medical reimbursement • Rs. 100 crore annually for leave encashment of retiring govt employees

ther noted that it has become a major challenge to control and reduce the burgeoning non-plan expenditure. He said that a mechanism is being worked out to monitor all government appointments, including casual and work charge appointments, and to give every appointee a permanent roll number, which will serve as his basic identification throughout his service, as well as throughout his lifetime, so long as he enjoys pension. This number will be generated electronically, in the pattern of Aadhar number, without which no salary bill in respect of any new appointee may be passed by the Treasury. He also spoke on the need to monitor and keep track of pensioners.

The Chief Minister highlighted that out of Nagaland state’s own budget, excluding Centrally Sponsored Schemes, (CSS), around 60% is spent on government servants and pensioners, constituting about 10% of the population, while around 18% is spent on debt servicing, leaving around 22% for development works. He said that around Rs. 100 crore is spent annually on leave encashment of retiring government employ-

ees because most retiring government employees, including those who are habitually absenting from their posting stations, always manage to produce a leave admissibility certificate with 300 days of earned leave to his credit.

“This would suggest that our leave records are not being maintained properly.” He also said that the state government spends around Rs. 70 crore annually on medical reimbursement of government employees. He added that as far as government servants are concerned, even if they fall sick, their earning remain the same. He called upon government servants to introspect whether they are giving their best in return to the public. “I want to remind you again that you are ‘public servants,’ and not public masters.”

The Chief Minister however also noted that the state has been fortunate, since the very beginning of statehood, to have civil servants of high caliber, with courage and deep commitment towards public service.

He later released the ‘State Civil List’ 2015 and a ‘Compendium of Important Notifications, Orders, Office Memoranda issued by Government of Nagaland.’

432 staff-nurse posts vacant Maple Pine Farm: lodging in Nagaland, reveals UTNA with an independent mind

DimapUr, april 20 (mExN): The Unemployed Trained Nurses Association (UTNA) of Nagaland state has revealed that there are approximately 432 posts of staff nurses lying vacant in the various district hospitals, Community Health Centers (CHCs) and Primary Health Centers (PHCs) of the state.

This was informed in a letter from the UTNA to the Nagaland state Minister for Health and Family Welfare. The figures, according to the UTNA, were collected after a survey conducted in the 11 district hospitals, 21 CHCs and 127 PHCs of the state.

The UTNA further expressed concern at the recent re-amendment of Nursing Service rules, which was re-amend-

ed on November 12, 2014. The said amendment dictates that 50% of service entry will be from open competition conducted by the NPSC and 50% by direct appointment batch-wise. The UTNA however asserted that the department should stand by the Nursing Service Rules 1988 wherein 100% recruitment is to be made on seniority and merit.

The association said that it was not consulted when the amendment was made.

The UTNA also said that despite the upgrade of district hospitals/CHCs/PHCs etc in the state, “there is hardly any change in the staffing pattern.”

It added that there are disparities and shortages of nurses in all the district hospitals/CHCs/ PHCs in regard to Nurse/Pa-

tient ratio and Nurse/Population ratio. It called upon the department to implement the norms of Nurse: Patient/Bed ratio, and Nurse: Population ratio as prescribed by the Indian Nursing Council.

The UTNA also called for immediate filling up the higher posts and subsequent posts of Nursing cadre against promotion so as to prevent stagnation in the lower cadre. It then asked for upgrades in the posts of Nursing Superintendents/ Assistant, Nursing Superintendents and District Public Health Nursing Officers at Kiphire, Longleng, Mon, Phek, Peren, Wokha and Zunheboto. The association expressed hope that the Minister would respond to their concerns within 15 days.

Rubber plantations ruining biodiversity

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Kohima, april 20 (Dipr): Nagaland state Chief Minister TR Zeliang has called upon civil servants to re-dedicate and re-commit themselves to the service of the people.

He was speaking as the chief guest at the inaugural function of the 2-day Civil Services Day Celebration at the Administrative Training Institute (ATI), Kohima on April 20. He said the day should provide an opportunity for introspection and for chalking out future strategies to deal with new and emerging challenges.

Assuring that the state government is committed to fight corruption and to bring about peace and development in the state, TR Zeliang urged the civil servants to contribute their best towards fulfillment of these goals. He urged them to be honest and fearless in carrying out their duties and in advising superior authorities, including political leadership.

He lamented that though Nagaland has one of the highest ratio of government servants to population, many of them are not being engaged in productive works. “Hence, the effectiveness or output of the government employee is not commensurate with the number of government employees,” he added. He said it is high time that a proper census and rationalization of government employees is conducted.

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loNDoN, april 20 (iaNS): Spiralling demand for natural rubber fuelled by the tyre industry is threatening rich flora and fauna in Southeast Asia, says a new study.

“The tyre industry consumes 70 per cent of all natural rubber grown and rising demand for vehicle and aeroplane tyres is behind the recent expansion of plantations.

“But the impact of this is a loss of tropical biodiversity,” said lead researcher Eleanor Warren-Thomas from University of East Anglia, England.

The study predicted that between 4.3 and 8.5 million hectares of new plantations will be required to meet pro-

jected demand by 2024. But expansion on this scale will have catastrophic biodiversity impacts, with globally threatened unique species and ecosystems all put under threat.

“There has been growing concern that switching land use to rubber cultivation can negatively impact the soil, water availability, biodiversity, and even people’s livelihoods,” Warren-Thomas said.

The study focuses on four biodiversity hotspots in which rubber plantations are expanding -- Sundaland (Malay Peninsula, Borneo, Sumatra, Java, Bali), Indo-Burma (Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Myanmar and Thailand), Wallacea (Indone-

sian islands east of Bali and Borneo) and the Philippines.

“Rubber can thrive across a wide range of climate and soil conditions across Southeast Asia and could replace a whole range of forest types containing large numbers of globally threatened and unique species. “Protected areas have already been lost to rubber plantations. For example, more than 70 per cent of the 75,000 hectare Snoul Wildlife Sanctuary in Cambodia was cleared for rubber between 2009 and 2013,” Warren-Thomas noted.

Macaques and gibbons are known to disappear completely from forests which have been converted to rubber.

Conversion to rubber monoculture also has a knock on effect for freshwater species because fertilisers and pesticides run off into rivers and streams.

“In Laos, local people have reported dramatic declines in fish, crabs, shrimps, shellfish, turtles and stream bank vegetation. “These findings show that rubber expansion could substantially exacerbate the extinction crisis in Southeast Asia,” the researchers warned.

They urged the manufacturers such as Goodyear and Michelin to support sustainability initiatives and drive change in the industry. The findings appeared in the journal Conservation Letters.

James and Valeriena are seen here with their youngest son Imryie in front of some of the cottages and one of the windmills at the Maple Pine Farm in Mawphlang, Meghalaya. (Morung Photo)

Morung Express Feature Shillong | April 20

It doesn’t take long to spot the green roofs and windmills if you look into the valley. Maple Pine Farm, a small family run Bread and Breakfast, 25km away from Shillong towards Mawsynram, in Meghalaya, blends into its grassy environment, surrounded by a little stream and hills.

A few light blue bodied, green roofed cottages (for lodging) lie scattered on the land after crossing the rock-bridge stream. Two windmills and solar panels line one side of the humble plot. They generate all the power needed to run Maple Pine Farm, which remains unconnected to the Meghalaya power grid. A yellow massage room stands at another spot.

A water purifier unit is placed near a common bath, running drinkable water through every tap on the plot, next to a kitchen and common room (welcoming you with the smell of pancakes divine). Friendly dogs and a foal

lounge on the rest of the land.

James Perry (51) and Valeriena Perry Syiemlieh (40) built this collection of cottages from scratch. “We were in travel business in the region (North East) since 1997. From 2011, we wanted to offer something different for people, a place where people could stay and then travel to other places based on advice and discussion with us,” says James, a Canadian born in Meghalaya, who feels this is his home. He briefly lived in the Canadian countryside learning how to build.

The Farm was built independently, without any help from the government, allowing the couple, along with their three sons, to host people without turning it into a resort with questionable ethics. Unlike a resort, there are no servants here running behind masters, providing the much needed respite from a tourist industry plagued by class burdens.

Often, the Farm’s visitors are people looking to have a quiet time of introspection, a little family picnic or a time to heal.

The sacred groves of Mawphlang lie a short trek away, a walk through which completes the essence of calm.

The cottages are built predominantly out of wood, and have simple-superior interiors (all made and painted by James).

Every cottage, with some variation, has a double bed at the first level, with a loft that provides space for two children. Tents are also available on hire. The common room provides for the perfect reading space with soulfully picked music. To top it all off, the food comes straight out of paradise. From its daal-bhaat-aloo lunches to pan cakes-French toast-flower nectar breakfasts, James and Valeriena team up their culinary skills to produce delightful food, meal after meal.

Such independent enterprises that remain true to the environment and their sovereignty are hard to come by, with people overdependent on the government.

While there is a place for government subsidies and leadership, the dependence on such should not go too far. “People who see what we have here automatically assume that we got money from the government to build this place.

You have people from villages wanting to know how they can do it. We say just start,” says James, who came to live on the land in 2011, and built the first cottage over 2012 and 2013 with whatever finances they had. For this KhasiCanadian couple, it is time to stop wanting and start giving.

The key to healthy business in the region today, they believe, is “participation and trying to learn and work together.”

To find Maple Pine Farm, log on to www.culturalpusuits.com.

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Civil Services Day Celebration underway

Nagaland Chief Minister T.R. Zeliang addressing the inaugural function of Civil Services Day Celebration at the Administrative Training Institute (ATI), Kohima held on April 20. (DIPR Photo)

Kohima, april 20 (Dipr): Speaking at the inaugural function of Civil Services Day Celebration at the Administrative Training Institute (ATI), Kohima on April 20, the Chief Secretary to the Government of Nagaland, Pankaj Kumar, IAS said that Civil Service Day was initiated by the GOI in 2006 and usually it is celebrated every year in New Delhi. However, in compliance with the direc-

tives of Cabinet Secretary, the State Government has decided to observe the Civil Services Day in the state for the first time, which he said, was a landmark occasion for all the civil servants from various services. This was an occasion for all the civil servants to participate to re-dedicate and renew ourselves while performing our assigned duties, he added.

Secretary (Home) &

Director ATI, Lithrongla G. Chishi chaired the programme and delivered the vote of thanks.

Nagaland Chief Minister T.R. Zeliang also spoke during the occasion.

During the technical session, the topics highlighted by representatives of various departments including ‘Overview of State Finances’ by Secretary, Finance Department; ‘Overview of Horticulture De-

partment’ by Dy. Director, Horticulture; ‘IT Services in Nagaland’ by IT Department and ‘Report on Study Tour to Kerala Civil Services Academy’ by ATI. Presentation of success stories by the Nagaland Bamboo Development Agency, Music Task Force and Higher Education Department were the other highlights of the first day’s programme.

The second day would

witness presentation on Externally Aided Projects

by Health & Family Welfare Department and Urban Development Department.

Agriculture Department would present ‘Roadmap for achieving Food Security and Food for all by 2025’.

Thematic presentations

by Forest Department, Tourism Department and Planning Department, besides livelihood activities in the state under NSRLM

by Rural Development Department would conclude the technical sessions.

The valedictory function on April 21 at 3:00 p.m. would be chaired by ACS & Development Commissioner, R. Binchillo Thong, IAS. Valedictory address would be delivered by Chief Secretary, Pankaj Kumar, IAS. Administrative Heads of Departments, Heads of Departments and large number of offices from all departments are participating at the programme.

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Excise revenue shoots up to five crores

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Commissioner of Excise, Maongwati Aier, IAS with Addl. Commandant of 173 BN CRPF and others during a function held in the Excise Directorate on April 20.

Dimapur, april 20 (mExN): The excise revenue has increased from three crores to five crores during 2014-15.According to the Commissioner of Excise, Maongwati Aier, IAS the seizures and case registered under NDPS Act & NLTP Act have increased to 7000 cases during the last three years. He also stated in a press release that the

District Prohibition Committee has also been set up successfully in almost all the Districts of the State.

The Commissioner of Excise, Maongwati Aier, IAS also expressed gratitude to the 173 Bn CRPF, Dimapur imparted basic and arms training to the Excise Department personnel during January 2015. In this connec-

tion, certificates to the passed out personnel were awarded by the Addl. Commandant of 173 BN CRPF in a function held under the Chairmanship of the Commissioner of Excise, Nagaland, Dimapur in the Excise Directorate on April 20. Asstt. Commandant, 173 Bn CRPF sand Senior Excise Officers were present during the function.

SSP Investiture Ceremony conducted NUCF organises an evening of music

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Cadets of Sainik School Punglwa receives Brig Brijesh Dhiman, DIG, 6 Sector Assam Rifles with Guard of Honour.

pErEN, april 20 (mExN): Investiture Ceremony to select new appointments for the academic year 2015-16 in respect of Sainik School Punglwa was held

on April 20 at the School Campus. Brig Brijesh Dhiman, DIG, 6 Sector Assam Rifles was the chief guest for the occasion.

A press note stated

that the Cadets received the chief guest with Guard of Honour. This was the maiden Armed Guard of Honour given to a dignitary in school history.

Workshop on sustainable development & waste management

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Kohima, april 20 (Dipr): The Directorate of Higher Education is organizing a one-day workshop on Sustainable Development & Waste Management for secular colleges on April 22 at Capital Convention Centre, New Secretariat Complex, Kohima from 10 a.m. onwards. Parliamentary Secretary for Higher Education & SCERT, Deo Nukhu will grace the inaugural function

as chief guest. The programme is being organised with a view to create environmental awareness on Earth Day. Resource persons during the workshop will be Asst.

Professor, Kohima Law College & Advocate, L&N Law Firm, Dimapur T. Limanochet Jamir and Asst. Professor, City Law College & Advocate, L&N Law Firm Dimapur Liksungla.

10th Years Death anniversarY in heaven

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A total of 40 Cadets were appointed and honored with stripes. Cadet Nsimtube Ndang was selected as School Captain, Cadet Tai Chader and Cadet Kevitsieto Savino as School Vice captains.

The chief guest, in his address to the newly inducted School Appointments advised them to take up their new responsibilities with enthusiasm, courage and zeal for the betterment and upliftment of the cadets and the school as a whole. Investiture ceremony was followed by Guest Lecture, wherein, the Chief Guest reiterated the enviable profession in the Armed Forces and encouraged the cadets to join the National Defence Academy.

A portrait created and designed by Dailee Mao, Art Master was presented to the chief guest by Capt (IN) Kanchan Mukherjee, Principal.

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Nagaland University Christian Fellowship, Lumami team during the celebration of an evening of music held on April 19.

Morung Express News Mokokchung| April 20

The Nagaland University Christian Fellowship, Lumami celebrated an evening of music under the theme ‘Sing for Joy’ at Ihoshe Kinimi Hall, Lumami featuring the Nagaland

University Christian Fellowship music team, Prof.

Lanusosang, Registrar NU Lumami and the Evangelical Union Nagaland University.

The musical night, held on April 19 was organised in aid of NUCF staff quarter through free will offer-

ing. The night saw a line of talented singers and musicians enthralling the crowd with their performances.

The NUCF, Lumami was established in 2006 as an inter-denominational fellowship. What started as a humble home fel-

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ASU consultative meeting

NE review meeting on malaria

Kohima, april 20 (mExN): The Angami Students’ Union (ASU) has convened a consultative meeting at the ASU office premise on April 22 at 5:00 pm. ASU General Secretary, Sedevikho Angami in a press release has requested the presence of all executive and former ASU leaders to attend the meeting.

Kohima, april 20 (Dipr): Nagaland Minister for Health & Family Welfare, P. Longon will grace as the chief guest, the review meeting for all NE States on malaria on April 22 at 9:30 a.m. The programme to be held at Hotel Japfu will be attended by dignitaries from Geneva representing Global Fund. People from Global Fund finances the Malaria Control Programme for the entire North East States.

Extension of time for renewal of licenses Kohima, april 20 (mExN): The Nagaland Electrical Contractors’ Union has informed all the Electrical Contractors that the submission of Contractor’s license along with supervisors and workman undertakings has been extended till April 30. Failing to do so, the Union will not forward any License to the Chief Electrical Inspector for renewal. A press note issued by Shikato Rotokha, General Secretary has also requested the Chief Electoral Inspector not to entertain any document for renewal/registration of license after the due date is over.

lowship through the efforts of the 4th grade staff of the university is now a full-fledged body of Christ working towards togetherness and fellowship. It aims to bring all the campus dwellers into spiritual maturity through the fellowship with God.

Registered societies called for meeting Dimapur, april 20 (mExN): All the president and general secretaries of societies registered under the Societies Registration Act 1860 as amended vide the Societies Registration (Nagaland Third Amendment) Act 2008 under Dimapur district are informed to attend a meeting in the Conference Hall of the Deputy Commissioner on April 24 at 11:00 am along with the Xerox copy of their Societies Registration Certificate without fail. This was informed

in a press release issued by DC Dimapur, Kesonyu Yhome, IAS.

AKM inform non-locals of Mokokchung

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moKoKchuNg, april 20 (mExN): Ao Student’s Conference (AKM) Mokokchung has informed all the non-local residents under Mokokchung district to renew/ register their AKM survival census card from April 24-30, 2015 from 10 am to 4pm at AKM office with required documents mentioned as under: From Assam: Permanent residential certificate (PRC); Land Patta; Ration Card; Any supporting Documents issued on or before 1960 From the rest of the States of India: ID card issued from Block (Phaichan Patra); Residential Certificate (Awasi); Election Card; Indian Passport From Nepal: ID card issued from Gorkha Union All persons availing for new registration must be accompanied by his/ her guarantor along with required documents and 2 numbers of passport of both the guarantor and applicants.

CTC graduates called to crusade against evils

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Our Beloved Father! Grandfather, On this day, 21 April 2005, you went home to heaven with our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Your love and prayers are with us for all eternity. You truly fought the good fight, finished the race, and kept the faith in Christ. (2 Timothy 4:7) Leaving us a Christian example to follow. We love you and miss you always!

Loving Children, Grandchildren, Great-Grandchildren & Family.

aolijEN, april 20 (Dipr): Clark Theological College (CTC) Aolijen, Mokokchung district held 40th Graduation ceremony with Robert G. Lyngdoh, Vice Chancellor, Matin Luther Christian University, Shillong as guest of honour and Rev. Dr. M. Mani Chacko, General Secretary, Bible Society of India, Bengaluru as the main speaker at the Multi-purpose court of the college on April 19.

The guest of honour, Robert Lyngdoh in his address expressed deep concern over prevailing social exploitation, corruption and degeneration of ethics and moral values and added that these evils are now ‘readily accepted’ by our society. He gave a clarion call to the graduate to make an agent of change wherever they place to serve society. He said, “To bring about a change is not an easy task but if all of us join in the crusade against these evils a change would

Robert G. Lyngdoh, Vice Chancellor, Matin Luther Christian University, Shillong and Rev. Dr. M. Mani Chacko, General Secretary, BSI with the faculty and others during the 40th Graduation ceremony of CTC. (DIPR Photo)

sprout.”

Delivering graduation address, Rev. Dr. Mani Chacko called upon students to become an ardent crusader and campaigner to build our society an inclusive society with ‘token of trust’ in the true spirit of Christ instead of allowing it to convert into a ‘token of suspicion’ In his welcome ad-

dress, CTC Principal, Rev. Dr. Takatemjen said CTC College has students from 40 tribes with their distinctive languages where they become one family in the college.

On the occasion, certificates of diplomas were conferred to 56 successful students of Bachelor of Divinity and 9 students of Master of Theology in

Christian Ministry (General), Christian Ethics and Christian Theology. Besides Awards were presented to those students who have made outstanding achievements in academic proficiency, conduct, music, leadership, contribution towards college, Greek and Latin languages and outstanding ability in Christian ministry

during their academic sessions. Diplomas were conferred by Rev. Maong Lemtur, Chairman, CTC Board of governors while awards were presented by Rev. Dr Mani Chacko.

Parents of graduating students, invitees, college faculty and staff and students attended the graduation ceremony among others.

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Zero prosecutions in 22 years: Why Arunachal fears the AFSPA Abheet Singh Sethi IndiaSpend

Ten days after a special law protecting army personnel from prosecution was promulgated in new areas of Arunachal Pradesh, 12 soldiers have been accused of groping and sexually harassing three women in the state’s most populous district.

The act raises fears of a new cycle of violence in Arunachal—previously witnessed in Jammu and Kashmir, and Manipur— where the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) is now in force in 12 of 14 districts declared “disturbed areas”, to help the army combat two major insurgent groups.

Of the 38 requests made to the Centre for prosecution of army personnel between 1991 and 2015, none have been granted; 30 were rejected and eight are under review—one of these for more than two decades—according to an IndiaSpend review of data tabled before Parliament.

The 12 soldiers, as yet

unidentified, were alleged to have descended on the village of Lower Taraso in Papumpare district on April 6, 2015, and invaded the home of Techi K, a widow, according to a report in The Arunachal Times.

“They barged into my bedroom. They did not say anything to me but ripped apart the mosquito net and started touching my face and other parts of the body,” Techi told The Arunachal Times.

The next invasion allegedly was in a married couple’s home. “We were sleeping when the Army entered our room and started to misbehave with my wife,” the woman’s husband said.

“When I protested, they dragged me out of the house.

There were 12 of them. They left our compound laughing.”

The local police have started investigations after filing FIR. AFSPA was previously only in use in three eastern Arunachal districts (Tirap, Changlang and Longding) that share a 20-km border with Assam and Myanmar, both home

None of the 38 requests made to the Centre for prosecution of army personnel between 1991 and 2015 have been granted to a variety of insurgents.

Protests broke out and resentment was apparent in Arunachal after the special law was announced.

“In the capital (Delhi), a two-star general does not even travel with a PSO (personal security officer). But in AFSPA areas, a captain travels with sirens blazing and an escort vehicle following it (sic) full speed even when he returns from an evening drinking party,” wrote Joseph Kuba, regional director of the Indira Gandhi National Open University in the Eastern Sentinel.

There were protests in Itanagar, Arunachal’s capital, by hundreds of students under the banner of the All Arunachal Pradesh Students’ Union.

How AFSPA works?

AwFSPA empowers the governor of the state, or the central government, to declare any part of a state as

“disturbed”, a region that requires the deployment of armed forces, as this note explains. AFSPA protects security forces (army, central police forces and state police personnel) from investigation and murder charges in a variety of circumstances, arrest without a warrant and the destruction of property likely to be used as shelters by insurgents.

The sweeping powers that AFSPA grants are frequently criticised. Between 2010-2012, the Indian army received a total of 127 complaints for alleged custodial killings, torture and human rights violations according to data tabled in the Rajya Sabha. As many as 84% of these complaints were from the north-eastern states, and Jammu and Kashmir.

The Central government has never granted sanction for prosecution.

Data tabled in the Rajya Sabha revealed that of

the eight pending requests for prosecution received between June 16, 1991, and February 24, 2015 the oldest, from J&K, is now 22 years old.

“The armed forces view is that AFSPA helps in counter-insurgency operations” said Namrata Goswami, research fellow at Delhi’s Institute of Defence Studies and Analyses. “However, the perception of the act in areas where it is imposed is not positive and local perceptions are what should matter in a democracy. So, if the act alienates the local base, it would only lead to more violence, as has been the case in Manipur.”

Why has AFSPA been expanded in AP? Arunachal is often cited as a peaceful corner of India’s turbulent northeast, but it has lately been used as a haven by an array of insurgent groups from neigh-

Manipur BJP to announce names Meghalaya CM completes 5 years in office of candidates for ADC polls ShilloNg, april 20 cess stories during his five ANVC in the Garo Hills reOur Correspondent Imphal | April 20

Manipur BJP secretary N Nimbus said on Monday the party will begin announcing names of party candidates from April 24 for the ensuing ADC polls in Manipur.

Six Autonomous District Councils (ADCs) in the five hill districts of Manipur will go to poll on June 1. Earlier, the council election was scheduled on May 30 but later a decision of the Manipur Cabinet deferred it to June 1 as a grand religious function of Seventh Adventist Christian group clashes with the poll date.

“Names of candidates for contesting the upcoming ADC polls will be announced officially by party president Th Chaoba in three phases beginning April 24,” Manipur BJP unit secretary N Nimbus told this correspondent.

He said the BJP is fielding its candidates in all 140 seats of six ADCs in the five hill districts of Manipur-- Ukrhul, Tamenglong, Churachandpur, Chandel , Senapati and Sadar Hills which is under Senapati.

Nimbus said a control cell is being opened at the BJP head office here to monitor ADC election related activities in the hill

Fully ‘gear up’ for ADC Election: NPF Manipur Tadubi, april 20 (MExN): The NPF Manipur Unit has claimed that the party is well prepared to fight in the forthcoming ADC election for the “rights of Naga people and the tribal rights in general.

The general secretary of Naga People’s Front (NPF) Manipur, Dr Loli stated this at a one day political awareness organised by the party at Tadubi Town Hall on April 19 with an objective to reach out to the “Naga people and spread the message of unity and Naga integrity.”

MLA L Dikho addressing the crowd urged the people to remove any confusion with the recent crisis of the NPF central unit.

“NPF have now come together as one party and therefore NPF candidates will contest in the ADC election to put forward the voice of the Nagas” he said.

Meanwhile, the state unit president, N Awangbou Newmai President NPF(Manipur state unit) lambasted the present Congress government in Manipur for its “several attempts” to distort and penetrate the rights of the tribal people in Manipur. “To ensure that our rights remain intake, we have to elect NPF representative to protect and defend our rights,” he added.

districts where party incharge leaders from every district units will be camping soon.

The BJP leader said Union Ministers are also visiting the state very soon to attend election campaigns in the hill districts.

BJP National President Amit Shah who was here in a 2 day visit to Manipur promised the state BJP leaders to send Union Ministers for campaigning.

The ADC polls in Manipur are likely to witness a threecornered fight among BJP, Congress and Naga People’s Front (NPF).

Asked about the Manipur JD-U president’s statement that BJP President failed to mention the controversial issue of Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act (AFSPA) and other key issues during his public rally on April 18, Nimbus said the party’s stance on the issues of AFSPA and territorial integrity is still firmed.

The state JD-U leader also alleged that Shah’s visit was aimed at wooing voters ahead of the ADC polls.

However, Nimbus said Shah was here to collect a detailed report on the state BJP’s organization adding that the visit was part of his 4 day tour to NER to strengthen party organization in the region.

(pTi): Meghalaya Chief Minister Mukul Sangma today completed five years in office on his 50th birthday today.

Earlier Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweeted his birthday wishes to Sangma.

He became Chief Minister after taking over from D D Lapang and regained his position as the leader of the House in the 2013 Assembly polls. Opposition parties, however, said Sangma had more failures than suc-

years' reign.

Law and order, corruption and crimes against women have risen in these five years and there was no sign of positive development, they alleged.

Opposition chief whip and National People's Party legislator James K Sangma said militant outfits mushroomed under Sangma's rule.

"There were only 2 militant outfits - the HNLC in the Khasi Hills region and

gion - in 2010. Today, there are over 21 outfits.It speaks of the law and order situation especially in the Garo Hills," James said.

United Democratic Party working president, Bindo Lanong said people got no result of the CM's visit to Philippines, Germany and other places. Power shortage, lack of employment opportunities and lackadaisical health-care system are other concerns, the UDP leader said.

bouring states.

On 4 April, 2015, 3 soldiers were killed and four others were injured in an ambush by suspected Naga militants in Tirap district in southern Arunachal Pradesh. This could be the immediate reason for AFSPA’s promulgation in the state. Separatist groups, such as Assam’s National Democratic Front of Bodoland (Songbijit) or NDFB (S), United Liberation Front of Assam (Independent), the ULFA (I) and the ULFA-Paresh Barua faction, have been using Arunachal Pradesh as a sanctuary and transit area to Myanmar, the home ministry has said. Goswami pointed to infiltra-

tion attempts by the ULFA (I) faction led by Paresh Barua and the NDFB (S) into “bordering districts of Arunchal Pradesh in order to carry out attacks on Assam’s Sonitpur district, which has witnessed a rise in violence in recent months”.

She attributed their presence in Arunachal to police and military pressure in their traditional strongholds. “Operation All Out”, as this offensive is called, is currently underway in Assam, forcing insurgents into quieter Arunachal Pradesh.

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UN Crime Prevention Congress calls for action on recovering black money

United nations, april 20 (ians): A major UN meeting of law officials has called for a strong international action to track down and recover black money hidden in safe havens.

The 13th United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, which ended on Sunday in Doha, Qatar, declared that effective steps should be taken to trace, recover and freeze “money and other assets that have not been accounted for and are found in safe havens” so they can be confiscated and transparently disposed of.

The confiscation, it said, can be carried out “in accordance with domestic law” and can also be “non-convictionbased.” These were among the proposals adopted by the week-long congress in a document called The

Global information exchange must to curb black money: Arun Jaitley Washington, april 20 (ians): Finance Minister Arun Jaitley here has sought urgent implementation of the automatic exchange of financial account information globally to tackle the menace of black money.

“We strongly feel that there is a need to ensure that the common reporting standards on automatic exchange of information should be implemented on a fully reciprocal global basis and those countries which have not yet committed to the timeline of 2017 or 2018 should do it without any further delay,” he said at the weekend’s annual Spring Meeting of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.

As offshore tax havens are obliged to provide information on cases only when investigation is launched, offshore tax evasion and flow of illicit money can be tackled only by the free flow of account information exchanged by countries on an automatic basis, Jaitley told the global forum.

He said the forum should ensure that every country is effectively implementing common reporting standards, have the necessary legal and regulatory framework, and are also exchanging information in practice.

India has strongly advocated fast implementation of the automatic exchange of tax information globally, within the time-frame agreed to by the G20 countries, Minister of State for Finance Jayant Sinha told a meeting of the G20 nations’ finance ministers and central bank governors in Istanbul in February.

At the G20 Brisbane summit last November, leaders endorsed a new global transparency standard by which more than 90 jurisdictions will begin automatic exchange of tax information, using a common reporting standard by 2017-18.

India has no official estimates of illegal money stashed away overseas, but the unofficial assessments put the figure from $466 billion to $1.4 trillion.

Doha Declaration.

The meeting was attended by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, union Law Minister D.V. Sadananda Gowda and the top legal and law enforcement officials from around the world. The Declaration said strategies should be developed to combat “all illicit financial flows” and urgent steps should be taken “to fight against economic and financial crimes, including fraud, as well as tax and corporate crimes, especially in their relevant trans-national dimensions.”

It also called for strengthening international cooperation and finding for nations “ways of affording one another similar cooperation in civil and administrative proceedings for confiscation purposes.” The international call for action comes as India grapples with the issue of

black money kept abroad and the government facing criticism as the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) promised quick action to recover them during the last year’s election campaign.

Key problems the government has encountered are laws and procedures in the safe havens, which have traditionally protected account-holder secrecy.

Gowda welcomed the actions proposed at the Congress on black money.

Speaking during the proceedings, Gowda said: “I am happy to note that this Congress has endorsed the need for greater international cooperation to effectively deal with critical issues such as unaccounted black money stashed in safe havens, money laundering.”

The Doha Declaration also dealt with fighting terrorism, another issue of vital interest to India.

Flipkart to shutdown website within a year neW delhi, april 20 (et): Flipkart would move to an apponly format within a year, a senior executive said, confirming growing speculation that India’s largest e-commerce platform would follow the route announced for unit Myntra.

“Last year, we had more on the app, but still did our web and desktop. In the next year or so, we’re going to be only mobile,” said Michael Adnani, vice-president, retail and head of brand alliances, Flipkart. “A year ago, 6% of our traffic was coming from mobile. In less than 18 months, that traffic is 10-fold. That shows the significance of what a mobile phone is doing for the consumers and consequently doing for us,” he said.

As the rate of transactions mirrored that of traffic increase on the app, Flipkart’s move to app-only platform makes sense, Adnani added. Flipkart has more than 40 million registered users and has about 30,000 merchants selling over 20 million products on the platform.

India is the third-largest internet market in the world with more than 243 million users,

Branch Manager, HDFC Purana Bazaar, Dimapur, Santudas (right) on Monday launched the new 4s Fluidic Verna at Floyd Hyundai, Dimapur.

Meanwhile, i20 Active was launched

by Branch Manager, Axis Bank, Purana Bazaar, Dimapur, Nikato Sema on the same day.

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trailing China and the US in that order. Boston Consulting Group expects more than 580 million people in India to use the internet by 2018, 70-80% of them accessing the web on mobile phones.

Smartphones have also become far more affordable, compared with a couple of years ago, and 6-7 million of them being brought into India for local sale.

Going by the numbers, an app’s consumer reach will be larger than the mobile version of a website or the website itself.

Flipkart does about 8 million shipments a month, and twothirds of its online traffic comes from users in small cities and towns. Flipkart’s app-only direction assumes larger significance in these places where most people don’t own desktop computers and have limited access to broadband.

Adnani said Myntra’s growth on the app was higher than that of Flipkart, which led the online fashion retailer to decide to shut down its website and move all operations to its app starting May 1. Flipkart had acquired Myntra last year for Rs 2,000 crore.

Videocon-BPCL JV strikes oil off Brazilian coast neW delhi, april 20 (ians): A joint venture between Videocon Industries and state-run Bharat Petroleum Corp (BPCL) together with Brazil government-owned Petroleo Brasileiro (Petrobras) has discovered good quality light oil in a field off the Brazilian coast. “The results of the formation test confirmed the presence of light oil (37 Degrees API) and good productivity of the reservoirs,” the two Indian firms said in separate filings to the stock exchange on

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Drilling has identified two reservoir intervals of light oil and gas in the BM-SEAL-11 concession in the SEAL-M-426 block in ultra-deep waters of the SergipeAlagoas Basin, they said. The well is located 102.7 km from the city of Aracaju and 10.3 km from the first discovery well ‘Farfan’, in a water depth of 2,467 metres. “The well drilling reached a final depth of 6,060 metres. This is the third appraisal well in Farfan area, discovered in October 2012,” the fil-

ings said. “The formation tests of the new hydrocarbon accumulations at multiple plays will further add to the hydrocarbon resources already indicated in the block,” said Pradeep N. Dhoot, director of exploration and production (E&P) at Videocon.

Petrobras holds 60 percent interest in the block while IBV Brasil -- a Brazilian joint venture, equally held by Videocon subsidiary Energy Brazil and BPCL subsidiary BPRL Ventures -- holds the remaining 40 percent.

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Govt must not be a tax terrorist: Experts Chennai, april 20 (ians): Even as the central government has decided to review the new norms to file income tax returns barely three days after it was notified, due to widespread angst, experts termed the original proposal nothing but “tax terrorism” unleashed on honest tax payers.

“This is real tax terrorism. This does not target corrupt politicians, dishonest bureaucrats or the unscrupulous businessmen and film personalities who merrily evade taxes and stash away their ill-gotten wealth abroad,” said P.S. Prabhakar, partner, Rajagopal and Badrinarayanan, a chartered accountancy firm. “The government’s decision affects the common people. They are expected to unnecessarily spend huge time and cost even for doing their basic duty of filing returns. It will involve filling up so much of detail not significant to them,” Prabhakar told IANS. The move, accordingly, drew loud protests and there were indications that the norms will be reviewed. “The finance minister (Arun Jaitley) spoke to me from Washington. He has asked me to make the format simpler. He said the government must be proactive and he quickly decided to review the new income tax returns’ format,” Revenue Secretary Shaktikanta Das told IANS on Saturday.

“The additional information was actually sought to deal with unaccounted cash. This was also one of the recommendation of the SIT on black money,” he said referring to the Special Investigation Team set up by the Narendra Modi government at the behest of the Supreme Court.

Asked when the decision will be taken, Das said: “I can’t say now when the format will be revoked. We have to follow a process. All I can say now is that the format will be reviewed.”

Another well-known chartered accountant, M.R. Venkatesh, said nothing useful will actually emerge by resorting to the new forms. “It is really a draconian measure. It has the potential to turn into tax terrorism. The real culprits would continue to go free,” Venkatesh told IANS. On April 15, the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) had notified new norms and the attendant forms that, among other issues, requires an assessee to furnish all bank details, opened or closed in the year with the closing balance, as also the sources of funds for expenses in an overseas travel. People complained the move was far from the promise of making the process of filing returns easier. “Tax return forms are getting more complicated and taxpayer-unfriendly. No matter which government is in power, honest citizens are harassed due to the neverending sadism of bureaucrats in North Block who seem to enjoy this,” said Prabhakar, referring to the finance ministry in New Delhi. “There is no serious attempt to get those millions of people who earn well but never bother to file.”

Former chief economic advisor Arvind Veermani who knows the subtleties of how the decisions are taken in North Block, also felt the move was ill-aimed. He suggested a much bolder review of the items that were introduced over the past few years to make it simpler for the average assessee. “Can guarantee, it won’t cost you much revenue (less than Rs.1 crore) but gain goodwill from ordinary tax payers,” he tweeted in a message, ostensibly meant for the finance minister, while also alluding to the fact that there are just 3.7 million income tax assessees in India and fewer who evade taxes. “The revenue department’s intelligence wing is either un-intelligent or dishonest. Otherwise, is it possible for any finance minister to shamelessly admit that in this country of 1.2 billion people, only 42,800 filed returns with income of more than Rs.1 crore?” Prabhakar said. “The policy appears to be: Forget those who never file returns, squeeze those in our net.”

Tax experts said there was, indeed, a stipulation that a person who has been overseas has to file returns. “But asking information for the year that has already gone by even from the salaried and interest income earners, definitely shows an overbearing attitude,” said Prabhakar. Tapati Ghose, partner with Deloitte Haskins and Sells, added: “Given that disclosures are required for the financial year 2014-15, one would need to collate and analyse the expenses incurred on the trips made in the recently-concluded tax year.”

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encroacher evicted Morung Express News Dimapur | April 20

Residents of United Colony, neighbouring Kuda Village (Nagarjan) have finally managed to evict an encroacher claiming the land belonging to the State Fishery Department.

The news of the alleged encroachment by a Kilonser of a Naga political group appeared in local media on February 21 this year.

The new Dimapur Deputy Commissioner, Kesonyu Yhome, in an order dated March 26, 2015, summoned a joint spot verification of the encroached area within the state’s “lone Fish Farm” under the Fishery Department on April 16.

Interacting with a section of the local media on Monday, GBs and elders of

United Colony reiterated that the colony stands firm in its decision not to allow any development activity in the “encroached area.”

“In the April 16 meeting, residents of United Colony made it clear that we will not succumb to any kind of pressure, be it from the administration side or Naga political groups”, a senior GB of United Colony said.

According to elders of the colony, the district administration represented by SDO (C) also supported the initiative of the colony not to allow any encroachment on the said site, which is only a meter stretch of drainage system touching the main road and Fishery pond.

“Even the Fishery Department assured us to give full support and cooperation in evicting the alleged

Meriyan Baptist Church becomes 125th KBES recognized church Wokha, april 20 (mExN): Meriyan Baptist Church became the 125th church to be recognised

by Lotha Baptist Churches Association (KBES) on April 19. Located about 38 km from Wokha Town, the new church building was dedicated and recognised on the day through the Executive Secretary, KBES, Rev. MC Kithan, who administered the pledge to the church members and handed over the certificate of recognition to the Pastor, Meriyan Baptist Church, L. Chonben Khuvung.

On the occasion, MLA Dr. TM Lotha dwelt on the importance of love, which, he opined, could not be bought but comes from one’s heart. “Love comes automatically if we have faith in God and for the Church to be used for the extension of God’s glory, love is of utmost importance,’ he maintained.

Re-iterating that the government of the day extends support to the newly recognised villages, Dr. TM Lotha

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reminded, especially the village council members, about their responsibilities and asked them to work sincerely and also to undertake proper planning keeping in mind the welfare of the new village.

Associate Pastor, Wokha Town Baptist Church, Rev. S Thungrio Khuvung, who was the main speaker, described the church as an institution for strengthening one’s faith and belief in God. Towards this, he exhorted that it is the duty and responsibility of every believer to keep up the sanctity of the church, reminding that the church has been consecrated in the name of the Father, Son and the Holy Spirit. “Church is a Holy place and the sanctity of the holy place has to be maintained,” the Rev. said.

In the programme, SP Wokha, T. Chumrenthung Khuvung extended greetings to the congregation, while Meriyan Baptist Church members presented a special song.

encroacher”, an elder from the colony said. According to the colony elders and GBs, the latest encroachment is the third such incident.

“In the 80’s and 90’s, the Fishery department carried out two eviction drives to thwart encroachment.

This year (2015) when the third encroachment issue arose, the United Colony took the collective responsibility of demolishing the temporary structures raised by the encroacher,” a colony elder said.

With residents of United Colony standing firm on their earlier representation to the district administration, it was reported that the alleged encroacher has so far not undertaken any construction activity in the site.

Stolen bike recovered kohima, april 20 (mExN): With regard to Kohima South Police Station Case No. 0045/15, U/S-457/380/34 IPC, wherein three bike lifters were nabbed by the Kohima Police on April 15, the Kohima South Police Station personnel, during the course of investigation recovered another bike (Bajaj Discover 125cc), black color, bearing chassis number - MD2DSJZZZUPC21075, engine number - GZUBUC34406 from Tseminyu. A press release from SDPO/PRO Kohima police informed that it has been ascertained that the recovered bike was stolen by members of the same bike lifters’ gang based in Dimapur and subsequently sold in Tseminyu. The Kohima police have asked the rightful owner to claim the noted bike after producing valid documents.

tinued their service with baba Khaplang not because they were anti-reconciliation but, because Khaplang is one of them and their conscience did not allowed them to leave him alone and therefore, both the leader decided to work for the Naga cause along with Baba Khaplang.

In 2012 both the leaders played a major role in getting a ceasefire with the Union of Myanmar, which was historic for the eastern Nagas because, it also brought lot of peace and appeasement for the eastern Nagaland along with the ceasefire. The eastern Nagas were for the first time experiencing a changed scenario, who were otherwise always at threat of being raided at anytime or forced to work at the tip of the barrel for the Myanmar Army. Now people started to plan for their future who were otherwise spending every single day with a fear that, if they will survive to see the next day.

Unlike the GOI the Union of Myanmar has also given a free hand in all administration and commercial activities to the NSCN in the Naga areas to run their day to day affairs.

But, ultimately when the peace was achieve on the Myanmar side Baba Khaplang decided to abrogate the ceasefire on the Indian side. It doesn’t mean that we are against the abrogation of ceasefire but, our argument is that, will it serve any purpose when the other Naga NPG’s are in ceasefire? Now, the water was flowing above our heads, because the people especially the TangsangKonyak, inhabiting along the international border would be worst affected

and it will gradually engulf all the other Nagas as well.

He did not bother to inform his kilonsers and workers from Nagaland. He also did not inform the commanders and cadres in Ponghong designated camp, who were taken by surprise

by AR troops. He also did not bother to inform his supervisor, CFSB, who was detained in Assam for more than six and half hours. Yet the two leaders, decided to defend Baba Khaplang in the CFSB meeting, the next day citing that, Baba Khaplang can never resort to anti-people activities like planting bombs in public places but, the next day he officially abrogated the ceasefire and the second day he expelled his two kilonsers for attending the CFSB meeting, when he himself is the appointee. Mr. Pusa should have asked Mr. Khaplang the logic behind abrogating the ceasefire when he is under similar arrangement with the Union of Myanmar.

He should ask for a logic for expelling his supervisor CFSB and co-member, whom he himself has appointed to attend the CFSB meeting. He should ask for logic from Mr. Khaplang for walking out of the reconciliation process, when fervent prayers were conducted all over Nagaland for peace and unity among the Naga family. He should ask for logic for unilaterally abrogating the ceasefire with the GOI without taking into confidence his council of kilonsers. He should also ask for logic for not informing his own cadres in designated camps apart from Shuruhoto, before attacking the security forces. He must also ask for logic in giving a signature

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Committee formed to check random excavation at Dhansiri

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MEx FILE NSCN (K) informs Dimapur, april 20 (mExN): The NSCN (K) through its Secretary Khekaho Rochill has informed that Col. Akaho Zhimo, Military Finance, Dimapur will continue to handle all financial matters for the year 2015-16 in Dimapur. Hence, all establishments, unions, businesses and commerce are to deal with the assigned official, the Secretary stated.

Advertising agencies asked to renew permit Dimapur, april 20 (mExN): The Dimapur Municipal Council (DMC) has informed all the advertising agencies to renew their permit for the period 2015-16 DC Dimapur and members of the Enforcement Committee inspecting random excava- within fifteen days from the date of issue of this notice. tion at Dhansiri River.

DMC administrator in a notice cautioned that failing to Dimapur, april 20 sioner of Dimapur, on April lauded the Deputy Com- comply with the notice, necessary action will be initimissioner, Dimapur, Ke- ated as per Nagaland Municipal Act 2001. (mExN): An ‘Enforcement 8 and 17.

The DRFCB applauded sonyu Yhome for the EnCommittee’ has been constituted to deal with the is- the Enforcement Commit- forcement Committee, SAKK condoles sue of random excavation tee members for their ini- which was formed in a joint of sand, sand gravel and tiative and conducting spot meeting held on March 17 Dimapur, april 20 (mExN): The Sumi Aphuyemi boulders at Dhansiri River verification. It expressed with DMC administra- Kiphimi Kuqhakulu (SAKK) has mourned Tennyson Z. hope that some proper reso- tor, administrative officer Zhimomi, former vice president of SAKK (2002-2004) and its tributaries.

A press release from lution will come out during concerned, representa- and Graduate Teacher at Government High School, chairman of Dhansiri Riv- the April 23 meeting for the tive from I&FC dept, rep- Ghathashi, who passed away at Ghathashi town on er Flood Control Board protection of government resentative from depart- April 16. SAKK in a note expressed pain at the loss of a (DRFCB), Hokheto Kiba developments and public ment of geology & mining, leader “who sincerely dedicated his life for the Union Divisional Forest Officer and community while he was alive.” It further conveyed informed that the commit- properties in Dimapur.

“The rivers are also a life of Dimapur, Land Record condolences to the bereaved family members and tee did a spot verification pertaining to the random line for human being and it and Survey Officer, presi- prayed for the departed soul to rest in peace. excavation at some impor- has to be maintained free dent of Naga Council Ditant places such as 4th mile flow of water without any mapur, Chairman/ Hd. GB Lotha Hoho Dimapur mourns bridge, Referral Hospital, damage/obstacle on the concerned, representative behind Global Open Uni- river bed to save our rivers,” from sand, sand gravel and Dimapur, april 20 (mExN): The Lotha fraterboulders moholdar’s and nity of Dimapur has grieved the passing away of Abeversity and behind Airport the release stated. mo Humtsoe on April 20 in Dimapur. Besides being The DRFCB further the DRFCB. led by the Deputy Commisthe Chairman of Lotha Hoho Dimapur from 1990 to 1995, late Abemo Humtsoe was a social worker with strong leadership quality, who contributed towards the betterment of the society in general and the Lotha fraternity of Dimapur in particular through various Dimapur, april 20 from superintendent of ex- regard and the accused for- capacities, stated a condolence note issued by Lo(mExN): The personnel of cise & prohibition, Ghokiho warded to the judiciary. The tha Hoho Dimapur chairman, TL Merry and general Mobile Squad Excise has Yeptho informed that the Mobile Squad Excise per- secretary Renathung Ezung. His contribution will be arrested one person identi- accused was arrested under sonnel, the release said, will cherished and remembered by the people, it added. fied as Zadimo Resu at Pat- Section 8 of NDPS Act 1985 continue to maintain strict The Lotha Hoho Dimapur further expressed deepest kai College Bridge for pos- and charged under Section vigil at the entry points to sorrow and conveyed heartfelt condolences to the session of opium (1kg) in 17 of NDPS Act 1985. A case curb the inflow of banned bereaved family and relatives. his vehicle. A press release has been registered in this and prohibited substances.

One arrested for possession of opium

Excise personnel arrest one

kohima, april 20 (mExN): The excise personnel manning Khuzama Check post under the command of AIE Lichopi on April 20 arrested one Bapan Das for transporting illegal consignment of IMFL and beer (122 cases). Su-

perintendent of Excise Katoho Sumi in a press note informed that to check flow of liquor to the neighbouring State and adjoining areas, round the clock surveillance team has been set up for duty. Therefore, he requested the public and

Public SPace NSCN (R) for active involvement of the people

n 2011 the NSCN (K) got split into two groups One led by (than C-inC) Gen. Khole and Ato kilonser Ketovi Zhimomi and the other faction led by Chairman Khaplang. The reasons behind the split were many but the most important of all was the unilateral decision of Baba Khaplang in all administrative and political matters without consulting his Ato-kilonser or his council of kilonsers. He was literally running the GPRN autocratically, which did not go down well with the leaders of the Indian side. The next important thing was walking out of the reconciliation process. When all the Naga people were praying ceaselessly for peace, when there were tremendous efforts from people of all walks of life for peace and reconciliation, when there were programmes organized for the widowed and orphaned children, when there were football matches among the fiercest rivals, I am sure Naga people were not able to believe their own eyes.

But, such was the wonder of FNR that, the national workers who were gunning after each other with AK47 were now fighting for a small foot ball to the great applause and mesmerisation of the Naga family.

Mr. Wangtin who repeatedly attended the reconciliation meeting on behalf of the NSCN (K) along with Kilonser P.Tikhak fervently appealed Baba Khaplang to rethink on his decision to withdraw from the reconciliation process but, he was adamant and went ahead with the declaration to withdraw through Mr. P. Tikhak, than his spokesperson. Both Mr. Wangtin and Tikhak con-

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for “Deed of Commitment, for Peace and National Reconciliation” on 12th of February 2015 to the Union of Myanmar.

It is unfortunate that, in spite of our repeated appeal to the people on the formation of NSCN-REFORMATION and informing through the media that, it was never our choice but the situation compelled us to form a new party to accommodate our followers.

Mr. Pusa giving a new twist and trying to portray as if we were too interested in forming a new party is really disturbing and uncalled for. All members of NSCNREFORMATION are former NSCN (K) cadres and civil workers. After Baba Khaplang decided to unilaterally abrogate the ceasefire all the NSCN cadres of the Indian side decided to continue the ceasefire with the GOI under the leadership of Wangtin Naga and P.Tikhak but since Khaplang has already abrogated the ceasefire officially it was not possible to continue under the same banner. Therefore, we have to re-name it for the convenience of our cadres and easy identification.

But, why should Mr. Pusa have any problem if the former NSCN (K) cadres, now members of NSCN-REFORMATION want to have a ceasefire to maintain peace as desired by the people.

What logic is he looking for when the same group of national workers were in ceasefire before it was renamed? The only difference is earlier it was including Khaplang and now it is without Khaplang. Why is he talking about peace and progress on the one hand and indulging in mudslinging with the NSCN workers on the other hand, who also

wants to have ceasefire for peace? Yes, if I he has any other agenda, and wanted to invite a volatile situation in the Naga country so that, he can slam the state and the central government on law and order to get a political mileage than, he has the right to criticize and ridicule the NSCN-REFORMATION for expressing their desire for peace.

The basic idea behind naming NSCN- REFORMATION is also our humble attempt to reform the Naga National movement by involving all the people, including the church, NGO’s, civil society, intellectuals and in sync with other Naga political groups. We also intentionally didn’t tag the name of the party with the name of the leaders as it is neither a personal movement nor a private issue. It belongs to the people and we have a strong believe that, only with the active involvement of our people we will be able to reach the desired goal. I think what Mr. KV Pusa has said on ‘antinational’ and ‘waging war against India’ was incorrect at first place as we are still in war though the battle is yet to be won. So any activities of NSCN cannot be considered as anti-national. Secondly, why should we go and wage war against India in New Delhi or elsewhere, we are only defending ourselves against their forceful occupation in Naga homeland. So, I think next time as a responsible person, if he is little careful and keep himself updated on the National activities this kind of unwanted situation can be avoided.

MIP, Secretary, NSCN-REFORMATION, Government of the People’s Republic of Nagaland

The Morung Express is introducing “Public Space” as part of our intention to provide deliberate space for the opinions of the people to be expressed and heard through this newspaper. Nonetheless, The Morung Express points out that the opinions expressed in the contents published in the “Public Space” do not reflect the views and position of the newspaper or the editor.

passengers to bear with the enforcing agency on duty.

The accused was arrested and booked for violation of NLTP Act 89 Sec. 4 (a) & (e) and the seized articles deposited at the Excise Malkhana in Kohima, the release added.

One apprehended with pistol Dimapur, april 20 (mExN): Dimapur police along with personnel of E/10 NAP (IR) while conducting checking at Signal Bosti area here apprehended one person identified as Prasenjit Nandi on April 20. Nandi was apprehended for pos-

session of 7.65MM pistol with magazine, 4 live rounds and 2 empty shells.

A case in this regard is under investigation at SubUrban Police Station, a press release from Shouka Kakheto, Addl. Dy. Commissioner of Police/PRO, Dimapur police informed.

President of Mauritius Chaired 4th Convocation at Lovely Professional University

LPU Chancellor Ashok Mittal and Pro Chancellor Rashmi Mittal giving honorary doctorate degreeto the President of Mauritius Rajkeswur Purryag during the 4th Convocation at LPU on April 20.

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ourth Convocation of Lovely Professional University manifested the commencement of a new chapter of life for 30,878 international, regular and distance education students of the year 2013 & 2014 batches. LPU Convocation also turned out to be momentous for Mauritius and India when the Chief Guest, President of the Republic of Mauritius, Rajkeswur Purryag was conferred upon honorary doctorate (Honoris Causa) degree of the University.

President Purryag bestowed first Doctorate Degrees of the University upon six Ph.D students and awarded gold medals to students for their academic excellence.

The students of the 2013 batch who got honours, citations and degrees, today, on the first day of the convocation included regular 7145 national students, 116 international and 7745 distance education students. Of these, 11 students received gold medals and 142 academic-excellence citations. On the second day, regular7450 national students, 398 international and 8024 distance education students of 2014 batch will get honours, citations and degrees. Of these, 14 students will receive gold medals and 164 academic-excellence citations.

LPU Chancellor Ashok Mittal congratulating the graduating students asked them to follow the hard-working nature of President Purryag who started his career as an attorney and is presently head of a great nation. Talking about the students, he shared: “We are proud that LPU students are more than degree holders. Combining

the best of diverse fields to which students are exposed at the campus, they are settling across the world as truly innovative and empathetic human beings. They are regularly achieving heights and proving as great ambassadors of LPU.”In his concluding remarks, he asked the students to give their best and make the nation proud.

President of Mauritius started his convocation address stating, “This will remain a memorable day in my life. For me, LPU is probably one of the few universities that has not only grown in terms of size but is also able to successfully set high standards of education coupled with a state-of-the-art infrastructure.”

Referring to PM Modi’s Make in India campaign, Governor Solanki praised LPU for providing meaningful and relevant education to the youth of India. He opined that all educational institutions should focus on all levels of teachings, research, extension and consultancy.

Chief Minister Badal expressed his desire to implement short-term skill development courses in the state so that needy youth of the state may be able to earn their livelihood early in their life.

Referring LPU as the largest university of the country, the CM wanted LPU to come forward to implement skill-development programs for which free land and other facilities will also be provided by government. In response, Chancellor Ashok Mittal assured the CM that LPU will definitely become part of his dream and will contribute in the skill development in Punjab.

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The Power of Truth

The Morung Express TuEsDAy 21 APrIl 2015 volumE X IssuE 107

Partners in Peace

THE EDIT PAGE

C O M M E N T A R Y

Lily Tuck IHT

Reading With Imagination

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he effort to find a just solution through nonviolent peaceful means to one of the oldest political conflicts remains distant between the State of India and the Nagas. The fundamental issue in the Indo-Naga conflict is sovereignty; and, more specifically the question of how Nagas can freely exercise their sovereignty with responsibility in an interdependent world. Though in principle the issue is quite clearly defined, in reality it has been compounded, and simultaneously the national, regional and global stakes have multiplied.

The mainstream media and state-analysts in the sub-continent have crafted and conditioned a perspective which suggests that the responsibility to arrive at a solution lies solely with the Nagas and portrays them as unruly and uncooperative. However, the root causes of the issue goes back to when the Indian State was formed. Hence, the process for reaching any enduring solution will require a sincere effort on the parts of both Nagas and the Indian state. Only then can the central question of Nagas exercising their sovereign rights be addressed meaningfully when the burden of accountability and responsibility is shouldered equitably by the parties involved.

For that reason, the existing viewpoint that suggests the Nagas need to take greater responsibility is erroneous and negatively impacts any genuine efforts to partner for peace.

This imbalanced viewpoint downplays the obvious fact that the bargaining power lies with the Indian state. Failure to establish and recognize this power-imbalance will only undermine the credibility of any peace process, especially since the theatre of negotiations continues to be defined by the degree of power. Consequently, so long as the question of power being in the hands of India is not openly recognized, constructive dialogue on the focal issues will elude the process.

This biased perspective is based on the subcontinent’s long history of imperialism, colonization and militarization that has been generated through violent conquest, subjugation and humiliation. The socio-political mindset reflects the violent conditions from which it emerged have instilled a climate of insecurity, trauma and fear. This mindset has been further reinforced as a result of the approaches to negotiations which are based on national security where the State dominance is defined by territorial control. The reluctance to openly engage with issues of territory and sovereignty is obstructed by fearing a ‘domino effect.’

Such continuing reluctance however, only complicates the situation for the Indian State. Hence, in order for the political conflict to successfully transition involves broader narratives in which political decisions are constructively engaged both internally and externally that supports peoples to peoples’ dialogue at all levels. A public discourse that engages with historical injustices is necessary to end climate of insecurity and fear in order to constructively move the peace process forward.

Nagas, too, must grabble with these very issues that prevent honest dialogue and acknowledge that the painful acrimony from the past and present are disabling their ability to move forward to a shared future. When Nagas begin to talk to each other in open dialogue then they can explore meaningful ways of healing and coming together as one with unity in purpose. This unity will help the Nagas to sincerely demonstrate to India that while exercising its sovereign rights it does not intend to harm the State’s interests.

India and the Nagas need to make a quantum leap together based on a new understanding where power politics no longer are the basis of the peace process, and fear-based tactics generating insecurity are no longer used to control the Nagas. A dynamic approach where both parties share responsibilities that is guided by the honoring each other’s rights and having mutual respect can become the spirit of the process.

The manner in which the Indo-Naga political issue is resolved will undoubtedly determine the Naga future as a people exercising their sovereign rights without infringing on the rights and interests of the other. The challenge is to find a solution in which they both enjoy a peaceful coexistence.

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Mazie Nakhro, Ph.D

Correcting Economic Injustices What does God say? Read Ecclesiastes 7:7-10 In today’s passage, King Solomon talks about corruption: Corruption makes fools of sensible people and bribery destroys personal integrity (7:7). These are injustices in government which should not surprise anyone (5:8-9). Despite having to live with all these problems in society, do not say, “Why is everything worse than it used to be?” (7:10). Such question gets no one anywhere. So, when dealing with injustice and corruption, the common men needs some patience (7:8-9).

The American Experiment Andrew Jackson was born in a log cabin and had no formal education. But he became the 7th President of the United States (1829-37). In July 1832, President Jackson, believing that too much economic power was concentrated in the hands of a small elite group of people, said: In the full enjoyment of the gifts of Heaven and the fruits of superior industry, economy, and virtue, every man is equally entitled to protection by law; but when the laws undertake to add to these natural and just advantages artificial distinctions, to grant titles, gratuities, and exclusive privileges, to make the rich richer and the potent more powerful, the humble members of society--the farmers, mechanics, and laborers--have a right to complain of the injustice of their Government.

There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses. If it would confine itself to equal protection, and, as Heaven does its rains, shower its favors alike on the high and the low, the rich and the poor, it would be an unqualified blessing.

In reference to the cause of economic injustices, President Jackson further complained, “It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their selfish purposes.” Therefore, he said, “I believe that just laws can make no distinction of privilege between the rich and the poor, and that when men of high standing attempt to trample the rights of the weak, they are the fittest objects for example and punishment. In general, the great can protect themselves, but the poor and humble require the arm and shield of the law.”

Okay, so now what?

In Nagaland, our politicians are given a free pass to tear communities apart, create economic divide and commit corruption. Yet we condone their behavior as normal and thus expected. This is nothing but social malfunction which will only lead to total destruction of our society.

When are we going to realize that we are heading in the wrong direction? It is time we correct our mistakes and start doing the right things.

Taken from the book “Breakfast with the King: The 100-Day Devotional” by Mazie Nakhro

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eading,” Jean-Paul Sartre writes in his essay “What Is Literature?,” “is a pact of generosity between author and reader. Each one trusts the other; each one counts on the other, demands of the other as much as he demands of himself.” Literature, he maintains, is a shared experience, and a literary work’s reception and success is integral to it. “What the writer requires of the reader is not the application of an abstract freedom but the gift of his whole person, with his passions, his prepossessions, his sympathies, his sexual temperament, and his scale of values.”

Every author, he believes, constructs his work from notions about the implied or potential reader; in other words, in choosing his reader, the author chooses his subject. Thus, since in Sartre’s view a literary work is a such close collaboration between writer and reader, it must necessarily follow that a “good” reader produces “good” literature while a “bad” one, “bad” books. “The bad novel,” Sartre writes, “aims to please by flattering, whereas the good one is an exigence and an act of faith.”

Reading, Sartre goes on to say, is predicated on personal concerns and experiences and there is no such thing as a totally objective reader, a tabula rasa without tastes, opinions, loves. It is certain that the “The Aeneid” got a different reading (hearing?) in Virgil’s time than it does today. Equally, a Nabokov scholar and a family therapist would read “Lolita” quite differently, neither of them being right or wrong. It is not, then, the different textual interpretations that are at stake — the more the merrier, in fact — but instead it is the approach to the act of reading that matters. This approach does not rely on the tastes or the qualifications of particular readers — the feminists, the Tea Party members, the liberals — but rather on how exactly people read.

So how should one read?

In the Middle Ages, reading was regarded as a contemplative act. It was lectio divina and limited to sacred texts that, for the most part, were read out loud and optimally, the words read were repeated by the listeners in order to fill body and soul with their significance. Reading then was essentially a form of prayer. Today, however, most people read to be informed and instructed — where to take a vacation, how to cook, how to invest their money. Less frequently, the reasons may be escapist or to be entertained, to forget the boredom or anxiety of their daily lives. These are valid reasons, but I believe most of the reading one does for these reasons is actually a “bad” practice for reading literature.

What’s more, our ability to read for pleasure is taxed by the amount of reading we do. There is such a glut of blogs, emails, texts and tweets that the distinction between literary works and nonliterary works has become badly blurred and people tend to read everything in the same way, pragmatically.

Literature has no single or simple definition

and is not merely “imaginative” writing. Biographies, histories, diaries, essays are rightly read as literature as they combine the statement of facts with ideas and personal values and often do so in unusual or pleasing language. One does not read Samuel Pepys’s “Diary” for a factual account of the London fire but for his style and point of view, just as one does not read Gore Vidal’s “Lincoln” for the facts of the 16th presidency since more than 15,000 books have been published on the subject, but for Vidal’s wit, intellect and insights on personal ambition.

Fiction, which I believe suffers most from modern readership, is by definition not factual. It may be about the real world and it may try to illuminate some facts about the real world or how real people behave in it or, as is so often the case in modern literature, it may also be about the impossibility of portraying any such reality since the very nature of art is artifice. Primarily, however, fiction (and biography, essay, history, memoir only perhaps to a lesser degree) is a creative act, an act of the author’s imagination and likewise, ideally, it should be read with imagination.

In my own writing, I have been accused of (or is it praised for?) being a minimalist, which I suppose means that I don’t write a whole lot.

This is true. For the most part, I avoid adjectives and I definitely avoid adverbs, which also means that I tend not to describe much. I rarely describe what my characters look like or what they wear or how they do their hair. My hope is that this will either not be important or if it is important it will somehow surface within the text. But better yet, by avoiding descriptions and explanations, I allow the reader the freedom to picture for themselves what my characters, their clothes and haircuts look like and thus participate in the text. In other words, I hope my readers will read my work with imagination.

In his book “The Act of Reading,” Wolfgang Iser, known for his reader-response theories, writes that ideally a book should transform a reader by “disconfirming” his habitual notions and perceptions and thus forcing him or her to a new understanding of them. Take for example the beginning of “A Hundred Years of Solitude” by Gabriel García Márquez: “Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.” Here the reader is shown ice

as if for the first time, as a sort of miracle, firing his imagination and making him see something commonplace as something new.

Or look at the opening of “The Blue Flower,” the stunning and wholly imagined life of the young German Romantic poet Novalis by Penelope Fitzgerald: “Jacob Dietmahler was not such a fool that he could not see that they had arrived at his friend’s home on the washday.” Another writer, a more ordinary writer, as Julian Barnes points out, would simply have written, “Jacob Dietmahler could see that they had arrived…” With no preamble, Fitzgerald then goes on to provide the reader with the most intimate details of a family, their dirty laundry. Why not begin by describing the members of the family — how old they are, what they look like, what their names are — in a straightforward fashion? Instead, as in all her work, Fitzgerald eschews the predictable in favor of the accidental whose significance may not be readily apparent or, truth be told, may not have any real significance. Most important, crucial to it really, the washday passage both captures the movement of life and provides an indelible picture of 19th-century domestic life — how people looked and smelled.

Imagination is defined as “the creative process of the mind,” and its power is both limitless and marvelous and most probably redemptive as well. We are surrounded by works of the imagination: our transportation, our communication, our technology. Every song we hear, every picture we look at that genuinely gladdens our heart for a moment is a work of the imagination. Literature is the language of the imagination refined by heightened sensibility, and reading, to use the literary theorist Geoffrey Hartman’s phrase, should be “an encounter of imagination with imagination.”

Lily Tuck is the author of five novels, two short story collections and a biography; her forthcoming novel is “The Double Life of Liliane.”

Coal and its future are fueling conflicts

"Coal Wars: The Future of Energy and the Fate of the Planet" (Palgrave Macmillan), by Richard Martin

Jerry Harkavy

Associated Press

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ierce conflicts over coal are taking place around the globe, but author Richard Martin says the decline and ultimate demise of the fuel that powered the Industrial Revolution is inevitable and cannot be reversed.

What he cannot predict, he says, is whether the transition to energy sources that are less damaging to the environment will occur soon enough to avert catastrophic climate change.

Martin, whose previous book outlined the case for thorium as a substitute for uranium in nuclear reactors, takes the reader on a tour of coal mining operations and power plants from Appalachia to northwestern China, where the coal industry remains a linchpin of the economy and a rare source of decent-paying jobs.

Even as the industry rails against what it calls the Obama administration's "war on coal," shutdowns of the remaining 580 coal-burning plants in the U.S. are accelerating, driven in large part by the availability of lowcost natural gas from shale. Globally, however, it's a different story. Nearly

1,200 new plants are on the drawing board, most in China and India, and the use of coal is increasing in Germany and Japan as they transition from nuclear power.

Martin's tour of coal country in "Coal Wars" begins with the Tennessee

Valley Authority, which evolved from hydro dams to coal plants and is now shifting to natural gas. From there it's a short hop to eastern Kentucky's Harlan County, once the richest coal land on Earth but now a place that's long on poverty and short on hope. With the decline in coal production, workers who spent their lives in mines find themselves too old to start over and too young to die.

Production remains high in Wyoming's Powder River Basin, producer of 43 percent of the nation's coal. It's a largely mechanized process that requires a minimal workforce. The author takes us in the cab of a seven-story-high mechanical shovel, with a price tag of $10 million, as it fills a waiting line of trucks with a capacity of 400 tons apiece. That coal makes its way to mile-long trains that haul the black pulverized rock to power plants as far away as Virginia.

Because readers are probably less familiar with China's coal industry,

Martin's descriptions of the breathtaking scale of mining operations in Shanxi province, one of the most polluted places on Earth, make for his most interesting accounts. But even at the huge Ta Shan mine complex in Datong, which employs 200,000 miners and supplies 6 percent of the world's coal production, jobs are disappearing as a result of mechanization.

There are signs of a nascent environmental movement. Hangzhou, along the southern coast, became China's first city to wean itself from coal, and residents of Shanzhen blocked construction of a new coal plant within the city.

While applauding those types of small victories, Martin maintains that the only way to avert environmental catastrophe is to shut down the global coal industry root and branch. He would ease the impact on its workers by offering education, retraining and pensions for displaced workers that would be financed by putting a price on carbon emissions.

The author makes no bones about where he stands in the coal war and what he sees as its centrality to the Earth's future. Readers who may regard his one-sided views as extreme can still benefit from the compelling descriptions of coal production and the many people whose lives depend on it.

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Good Friday Agreement and the wait for a new politics in Northern Ireland Northern Ireland's peace process may be upheld as an international "model", but it still has a long way to go in shifting identities away from tribalism and towards mutual recognition david Mitchell n Saturday, 11 April, 1998, the Irish Times announced the multi-party agreement reached in Belfast the day before with the headline “Easter 1998”. It was, of course, a factual statement: the negotiators had missed the Holy Thursday midnight deadline and the document had been finalised on Good Friday. However, to those well versed in Irish history, the headline had a greater depth of meaning.

The rebellion led by Patrick Pearse against the British in April 1916 is often referred to as “Easter 1916”. The Irish Times’ implication was that the 1998 Agreement could be as significant a turning point in the centuries-long conflict as Pearse’s Rising. Yet, at the same time, the Irish Times was drawing attention to the dramatic contrast between the natures and meanings of the two events.

Pearse, a fervent Catholic, imagined himself as a Christ figure, shedding his (and others’) blood for the redemption of the Irish people during the very season in which Christians celebrate the death and resurrection of Christ. Eastertide 1998 had a different theological resonance. This time, the sacrifice was not of blood but of enmity and hatred, or at least of maximal political demands. It appeared to be an historic compromise that heralded new relationships, a society resurrected from the violent past and set free for the future.

In sum, the headline captured the twin hopes that many people placed in the Agreement in its immediate aftermath: that it would be historic in significance and reconciliatory in effect.

The historic nature of the Agreement, at least, is beyond doubt. Despite dramatic changes in the partypolitical landscape and some relatively minor reforms contained in the 2006 St Andrews Agreement, Northern Ireland is governed as broadly set out on 10 April 1998. However, seventeen years on, the accord has not yet brought the kind of inter-communal reconciliation that many assumed was its ultimate purpose.

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Identity politics Sporadic street violence, paramilitary attacks, conflict over symbols, parades and “dealing with the past”, as well as residential and educational segregation, have all continued, despite the operation of the Good Friday institutions, while those institutions themselves have frequently been paralysed by Orange versus Green disputes.

Whether anything fundamental about Northern Ireland politics has really changed since 1998 was in sharp focus yet again after the recent Westminster election pact between the Democratic Unionist Party and Ulster Unionist Party, the two largest pro-British parties. The deal, designed to avoid splitting the unionist vote in four marginal constituencies, was widely condemned as sectarian – evidence that unionists, hankering after the Protestant privilege of the past, will do anything to keep out the other side.

For unionists, it was simply a pragmatic response to ensure that pro-Union voters did not lose out in the “winner takes all” Westminster system. (Sinn Féin, the main Irish nationalist party, incidentally, was rebuffed

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he embarrassing news that India ranks 101th in the Social Progress Index among 133 countries, lower than even Nepal, may well be the right occasion to narrow the focus on states which might be examined as milestones. This examination will have to be done by serious social scientists. An itinerant journalist can offer no more than a bird’s eye view.

In Human Index, Kerala remains the pioneer but its copy has been blotted in recent years on other counts including that of governance. States like Tamil Nadu rule themselves out because they fall short on the corruption criteria.

Gujarat is in because the media gives it brownie points. Even so, final judgement must await thorough studies.

Exactly the opposite are the circumstances of the Aam Aadmi Party. The media has turned upon it. But if attendance at the India International Centre for Ashutosh’s book release is any indication the negative images of the past month may fade as a bad memory. In which case it will be worth the while to see what Delhi’s Human Development Index will look like some years from now.

One state, which has been ploughing its furrow diligently with some quite extraordinary results on the Human Development scale is one which no one discusses - Tripura. Is the state with a population of 40 lakhs, not in focus because it is small? Only Sikkim and Goa are smaller. Or is the media squeamish about applauding a state which for 32 of the past 37 years has been under Left Front rule?

Some of its records are amazing. Its 96 percent literacy makes it the country’s most literate state. Literacy rate in Gujarat is 83 percent.

Life expectancy of 71 years for men and 73 for women too is a record. In Gujarat, it is 64 and 66. Tripura’s Bengali population ruins the absence of gender bias among tribals. Even so, it is 961 as against 918 in Gujarat.

The great genius the leadership has demonstrated is in grasping an essential truth: like politics, good governance too is essentially the art of the possible. Instead of beating its breast and flailing its arm around, the regime picked up all the central and state schemes, put its head down, called in the officials, party cadres, involved the three tier Panchayati Raj

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N by the SDLP in its attempts to form a rival pact on the grounds that the idea was sectarian). Sectarian or not, the pact at least demonstrated how the constitutional issue, allied to identity politics, continues to trump all other issues and cleavages.

This is not what was meant to happen. The rationale of the Agreement was that the national question could be “parked” by the principle of consent i.e. everyone agrees that Northern Ireland remains in the UK for now and that this can change in the future if a majority wish. In the meantime, both sides get on with building a united and prosperous society. The Agreement allowed unionists and nationalists to retain their national aspirations but did not allow either side to realise those aspirations without taking account of the identity and fears of the other side.

Unionists, in order to preserve the Union, would have to ensure that Northern Ireland was a place to which nationalists could feel belonging, while nationalists, to attain Irish unity, would have to convince unionists that they had something to gain, or at least nothing to fear, from a united Ireland. Parties would have to “compete for mutual assurance” rather than “compete in mutual attrition”, as the SDLP’s Mark Durkan, one of the Agreement’s chief architects, puts it.

An international model?

Yet instead of undertaking the self-examination and change that might win over those of a different political point of view, unionists and nationalists have, to a great extent, nursed their own wounded identities and defended their borders. The repeated detonation of disputes stemming from the Troubles (arms decommissioning, police reform, demilitarisation, controversial commemorations, “on-theruns”, enquiries, including or excluding paramilitarylinked parties) has worked against the unwinding of conflict identities and stoked the suspicion that preferred constitutional futures are best guaranteed, not through generosity and rational arguments as the Agreement intended, but through communal solidarity and power. As a result, the growth of non-ethnic party politics has been stunted.

Moreover, given the future constitutional uncertainty, many in Northern Ireland have calculated that “dealing with the past” really means dealing with the future, and that any ground given on the past is a zero-sum loss

that only assists the other side in pursuing its constitutional ideal. The Agreement drew a moral equivalence between the two sides which was threatening to both.

Now, victories on the past boost morale in the present and enhance the odds for the future. Or so it is thought.

A pall of negativity has rested on the Northern Irish political scene at least since the Belfast City Hall flag protests began in late 2012. There has been failure to make substantive progress on the three issues which are symptomatic of the underlying and ongoing identity conflict: flags, parades and the past. Logjam in Stormont is mirrored by logjam in a parading dispute in North Belfast.

Question marks hang over Northern Ireland’s acquired status as an international model for conflict resolution.

While the Executive has struggled with conflict legacy matters, many of the famous “bread-and-butter” issues have also flummoxed it, with impasses in relation to a raft of policy areas, a state of affairs not eased by worsening austerity. And the public has been paying attention.

According to the 2013 Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey the proportion of people who think relations between Protestants and Catholics are better now than five years ago has fallen from sixty-five percent in 2007 to forty-five percent in 2013.

A long wait Yet the weight of evidence suggests that the political progress that has been made is irreversible. The Agreement was the outworking of twin processes: strengthening ties between the evolving British and Irish states, and learning on the part of the parties in Northern Ireland that the long-imagined, exclusivist utopias were precisely that – utopian. The difficulties of implementing the Agreement were not inevitable, but neither were they surprising after decades of violence which left few families untouched. That violence, so polarising during the “Troubles”, has been in continuous, if at times, faltering, decline since 1998.

It follows that a sustained period of peace and political stability will further “de-escalate” identities away from tribalism in the direction of mutual recognition and trust. The wait, however, for a truly new politics in which the Orange-Green divide is obscured by new alliances and issues, may be a long one.

The piece is an edited extract from 'Politics and Peace in Northern Ireland: Political Parties and the Implementation of the 1998 Agreement', by David Mitchell, to be published in September 2015 by Manchester University Press.

Which will be admired most: Gujarat, Delhi or Tripura? saeed Naqvi iANS system and gave a sense of real participation to the elected Autonomous District Councils which cover two thirds of the state and all the tribal areas of Tripura.

This is the key. The basic conflict in the state, one which exploded as the fiercest insurgency in the North East, was on the tribal-non tribal faultline.

Under the Maharajas, who figure in mythology, Tripura was overwhelmingly tribal. But after the creation of East Pakistan (later Bangladesh), Hindu Bengalis from contiguous territories that were once managed by the Maharaja, migrated to Tripura. The tribals, (a total of 19 tribes) became a minority in the state. The 70:30 ratio in favour of the tribals was exactly inverted. Today 70 percent of the population is Bengali.

The Congress, born for power, fell back on the simple divide and rule strategy, pocketing the Bengali vote bank. If ever there was a shortfall, there was always a tribe to be played against the other.

A great tribal, communist leader, Dashrath Deb had seen the future. He launched Jana Shiksha Abhiyan or campaign for education among tribals in 1945 forcing the Maharaja to recognize 500 primary schools, which mushroomed and today saturate the state - a school every kilometer.

It was from this wide base that the tribals gravitated towards communism while the Bengalis were turning towards the Congress. While the Congress was content with sectarian divine, a leader like Nripen Chakraborty accurately gauged the difficult social reality: without tribal support all Bengali agenda would be circumscribed. Likewise, tribals would not advance without Bengali help. The call went out: tribal-non tribal unity was the absolute imperative.

The idea flared up, across the state for two reasons. Tribals, who had taken to communism in the 40s and 50s, grasped the idea instantly. In driblets, Bengalis

too came into the fold. So, while the Left slowly expanded its platform of unity, the Congress persisted with its Bengali focus, not without electoral gains. True, the Left Front has 50 seats in a House of 60, but the 36 percent of the opposition vote share must be largely credited to the Congress.

What keeps the electorate, indeed the population persistently in the Left’s thrall is the universally accepted incorruptibility of the leadership. Congress MLA Gopal Roy shook his head in agreement “personal incorruptibility cannot be denied”.

The first Left Front Chief Minister Nripen Chakraborty (1978 to 88) entered and left the official residence with same two tin trunks - full of clothes, books, and a shaving kit. Grocery purchases for the CM’s household were made on a ration card. Modern capitalism would probably consider him a pariah because he never had a bank account.

His disciple, Manik Sarkar, chief minister for 17 years without a break, is equally austere. He is known to have walked to the office on occasion. His wife, a school teacher, goes to work on a rickshaw.

Incredibly, the CM finds time to review all major central and state schemes. He had completed an implementation review of the National Rural Employment Guarantee scheme when I met him in his spartan office, decorated with a Tagore photograph.

“We have already distributed 85 days worth of work out of the 100 for the year mandated under MNREGA” beams the CM. “Maharashtra is the next best and it has not yet completed 50 days.”

In efficient implementation of schemes, the state has no parallels.

Clinics, schools, anganwadi, infant and mother care, electricity distribution and, above all, building roads, connecting the remotest areas. All of this has created an atmosphere for general tranquility. Director General of Police K. Nagaraj

leaves you quite stunned. “There is very little crime in the State - negligible.” This is a miracle in a state where people were afraid to leave their homes three years ago because of the insurgency. “Perfect co-ordination between the police and the politician is the only explanation.”

Heaven knows what feedback Prime Minister Narendra Modi has on his Swacch Bharat or clean India mission, but if he were to send his officers to some of the more remote parts of Tripura, they would rub their eyes with wonder at what has been achieved in such a short period.

The road from Agartala winds around Longtarai hill range to Ambassa, about 80 km away. A measure of the administration’s reach is Kumardhan Para, at a forbidding height.

A few years ago, folks at the village walked 18 km to reach grocery stores in Ambassa. Today the Kumardhan peak has been conquered; a motorable road has been laid right upto the village centre.

Little wonder Milind Ramteke, IAS, collector of Ambassa (Dhallai) and his Block Development Officer, Amitabh Chakma, are local heroes, village after village.

Implementation of the prime minister’s toilet scheme has not escaped supervision of the chief minister’s office.

Kumardhan village was provided with pucca toilets along with small, underground water tanks. The peer pressure of the entire village on each other, visible cleanliness, has made the scheme a success in a short period.

The problems of Tripura, in a sense, begin now. The King of Bhutan floated the idea of Gross National Happiness. That, roughly, has been Tripura’s trajectory. But it is now on an efficient welfare plateau.

What next? It has an inimitable school network. But very little by way of college and technical education. There are no openings for the educated youth. The state, surrounded on three sides by Bangladesh looks admiringly at Sheikh Haseena. India-Bangla friendship will give it access to Chittagong port, 70 km away.

The regime is not paranoid, but it is aware that the Church networks affect both college and post college job scene.

A middle class so created is inherently anti “Left”, says a CPM leader. Moreover, further penetration of the Church would provide an opening to Hindutva forces to enter the scene with a sectarian agenda.

agaland state has been in a tremendous transformation in terms of education. But unsurprisingly there are still many things to be done. Quality education still seems to be a major concern. Of course, every child has the right to get education but the fundamental goal is to deliver quality education to every child whose future depends on it. Before a child is ready for schooling, every family has a very huge role. They can do their roles by creating a caring environment to help their child prepare themselves to adapt to learning. Every family’s job need not only be to provide physiological needs but also of psychological needs too.

Now, a child can learn more on an environment which is conducive. In school, a teacher of quality teaches things about life, which need not always be in the curriculum.

Success and failure are the two important things that a teacher makes for them; success would be much easier with an education of quality.

Coming to the examination-test system, it is more or less focuses on answering examination than imparting a quality of knowledge. Most often, questions set in examinations are merely a test of memory rather than application of students to critical analysis. To strive for academic excellence teaching methods should be efficient enough. The role of a teacher and his motivation towards every student is, no doubt, extremely important. To make courses interesting a teacher should initiate it wisely and also apprise themselves of the latest developments in their respective disciplines.

The real foundation of an educational institution is the quality of teachings and teachers. An average teacher only conveys, a good teacher communicates but a great teacher is a great source of inspiration. Therefore, inspiring teachers is the need of the hour at present. Education is not only of direct classroom teaching if quality education is to be realized upon the student.

Sufficient school facilities like classrooms, school buildings, libraries, laboratories and clinic just to mention a few, should be well set up at all times. One important thing is that, classes with overcrowding will result in less personal attention. It also opens ways for students with learning disabilities which goes unnoticed by teachers furthering the damage to their learning capability.

Equally important, is the attitude of students, they should regard learning as an exciting experience and show a genuine desire to learn.

Equipping a quality education will surely produce a more mature and responsible society, so more problems will be fixed. Students having quality education will have better job opportunities. The present evaluation system in educational institution needs to be revamped to facilitate a more meaningful assessment of students competence.

Therefore, examinations should be purely of critical and analytical abilities rather than memory test.

The rise and downfall of a nation or society is directly related to the quality of education. India, which is standing on an important threshold of emerging as a superpower, cannot ignore the need of providing its people universal access to the quality education. The issues about quality are often neglected, this maybe because the current concern about the government is to increase access to education. There have been several suggested solutions, many of them range from frequent inspection, more government funding etc. But the best of all these, undoubtedly is evaluation by the students.

Democracy is a beautiful principle. It allows the ruled to choose their rulers. Similarly, this can be used to improve the quality of educations. Student’s evaluation at schools and colleges level will be a breakthrough in quality education. The students can point out the faults of the systems more accurately. They can tell what they did not understand and comments on lack of aids.

Through this, not only the quality of education will improve but the extra money which the parents spend on tuitions and coaching can be saved. Most of the schools and colleges just try to fulfill the AICTC guidelines, but do not take any corrective steps. Likewise, inspections of schools have also not improved the teaching quality.

Evaluation by students should be conducted solely by the authority on monthly basis.

The evaluation by students will help the teachers and administration of the schools/colleges to know about the performances of the teachers. It will give them an insight into the mind of the students and show whether the teachers are successful in imparting their lessons. It will also expose those who are not doing enough and will lead them to correct their teaching methodologies as well as their attitude towards students. Thus the quality of teaching will certainly improve.

With certain conditions and modification it can be made useful and free of faults. First of all, grading should be done by students who are above 14 years of age. Students should be asked to mention the reasons for giving the grades to respective teachers. The school administration should also see that they are able to differentiate the right feedback from the wrong feedback. Detailed grading system would ensure that all relevant points are being brought to notice in specific and direct ways. Parents-teachers meeting should be regularly conducted. Thus the students, parents and the administration of the school/colleges should collectively and responsibly grade the teachers in a fair way. It is a promising concept and will yield surprisingly good result applied with, if refrain, the right condition as proposed above.

Thus, the system of grading a teacher may prove to be a boon for the institutions who aim to nurture the “HOPE OF TOMORROW”.

A quality education has the power to transform societies in a single generation, provide children with the protection they need from the hazards of poverty, labor exploitation and disease and given them the knowledge, skill and confidence to reach their full potential.

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Rahul attacks "suit-boot" govt in Lok Sabha

New Delhi, April 20 (pTi): Rahul Gandhi today sharpened his attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, accusing his "suitboot" government of being pro-industrialists while ignoring the plight of farmers and farm labour.

In the second attack after yesterday's farmers' rally speech in the capital where he prised the Modi government of being antifarmer and pro-industrialists, the Congress leader made repeated jibes playing on the words 'ache din (good days) government' and 'suit-boot sarkar' and claiming it had failed.

"The ache din government has failed the country on the issue of farmers," he said in a 25-minute speech accusing it of "ignoring" the farming community and favouring the industrialists and rich people, which was a "blunder" as the farmers will 'harm" BJP in future.

Making a rare speech, the Congress Vice President, who was absent in the House during the first part of the Budget session as he had gone on a mysterious 56-day leave of absence, took the floor as the House resumed discussion on the the agrarian situation in the country, which was partly discussed during the first

Re-promulgated land ordinance tabled in LS amid protests New Delhi, April 20 (iANS): The opposition parties, led by the Congress, on Monday accused the NDA of trying to get the controversial land acquisition bill passed in parliament through the "backdoor" as the government tabled the re-promulgated ordinance in the Lok Sabha.

Protests against the bill began as soon as Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Rajiv Pratap Rudy tabled the land ordinance which was re-promulgated by President Pranab Mukherjee on April 3.

Leading the opposition charge, Congress leader of the house Mallikarjun Kharge said: "We feel that this ordinance was not required as the government has been trying to impose this on the people again and part of the budget session.

Later, he told reporters outside the House that the government had no answers to the questions he had raised in the House.

His mother and Congress President Sonia Gandhi was also appreciative of his speech.

The speech was repeatedly interrupted by BJP members, who clashed with Congress members who got up to defend their leader. Parliamentary Affairs Minister M Venkaiah

again and specially prorogued the Rajya Sabha as they wanted to repromulgate it (the ordinance)."

"You (government) want to pass the bill through backdoor," Kharge said raising the matter during zero hour.

Trinamool Congress leader Sudip Badopadhyay said his party was completely against the bill.

Both Congress and Trinamool Congress walked out of the house in protest against the bill.

Earlier, as soon as the ordinance was tabled in the Lok Sabha by Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Rajiv Pratap Rudy, opposition parties started chanting slogans accusing the government of being "anti-farmer".

Opposition members trooped

Naidu had to intervene to calm down the treasury benches, telling them let the debate continue without interruption.

Intervening in the debate on the agrarian situation in the country, Parliamentary Affairs Minister M Venkaiah Naidu also hit out at the previous UPA dispensation for issuing over 460 ordinances during its tenure compared to about ten by it.

The land ordinance was re-issued after much

near the speaker's podium, asking the government to take back the land ordinance.

Rudy told the house that tabling the ordinance in the Lok Sabha was a constitutional process and the opposition was raising the issue for political gains.

The opposition repeatedly tried to disrupt the house proceedings over the issue. External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, who was making a statement on Yemen, had to complete her speech amid a ruckus.

Soon after this, Speaker Sumitra Mahajan adjourned the house for more than an hour.

The ordinance was re-promulgated by President Pranab Mukherjee on April 3. It had earlier been promulgated in December last year.

deliberations, he said, adding that the previous UPA dispensation "had issued 462 ordinances, while this government has come out with hardly 10".

You looted them for 10 years: Government Hitting back at Congress after Rahul Gandhi’s barbs, government on Monday said the party was trying to bat for the farmers’ interests after “looting” them for 10 years as it insisted that it was com-

mitted to provide relief those in distress.

Replying to a debate on agrarian situation in the country, Singh said the government had relaxed norms for compensation to farmers hit by the recent unseasonal rains and hailstorm which had affected 93.81 lakh hectares of farm land as per the latest reports.

“People who looted the farmers, they are now trying to stand for farmers’ interest,” Singh said

that the NDA government will not allow the farmers to suffer and would adequately compensate them for losses.

“People who are talking for farmers now they are wearing coloured glasses.

They had mortgaged the country to the corporates.

Now they are accusing us of being pro-corporate. If Atal Pension Yojana for corporates?,” Singh said.

He specifically sought to respond to the issues raised by Rahul Gandhi.

“Rahul babu, you (Congress party) were in power for 50 years and we have been in power only 9-10 months,” Naidu said, as he listed out various measures taken by the government to help farmers, especially those affected by unseasonal rain and hailstorms.

The counter attack came after Gandhi targeted the the government over the problems being faced by farmers, saying the NDA government had “failed” them.

In his first speech in the Budget Session, the Congress Vice President said the government was “ignoring” the farming community and favouring the industrialists and rich people, which was a “blunder” as the farmers will ‘harm” BJP in future.

Kashmiri separatist leader Syed Ali Geelani flanked by separatist leaders Yasin Malik, right, and Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, left, speaks during a joint protest against the killing of a teenage boy in Narbal, some 15 Kilometers west of Srinagar on Monday, April 20. (AP Photo)

Top Kashmiri separatist leaders share platform after 10 years

SriNAGAr, April 20 (iANS): Kashmir's senior separatist leaders Syed Ali Geelani, Mirwaiz Umer Farooq and Muhammad Yasin Malik shared a common public platform on Monday after over a decade as they took part in a condolence rally held for a killed teenager.

Addressing the rally for the recently killed teenager at Narbal village in Jammu and Kashmir's Badgam district on Monday, Geelani, Mirwaiz and Malik alleged that the Indian security forces were "killing Kashmiri youth in a systematic manner".

The 17-year-old youngster, Suhail Ahmad Sofi, was killed in police firing during clashes that occurred between stone-pelting protestors and the security forces on Saturday in Narbal village. Two policemen were later arrested for violating the standard operating procedure (SOP).

The three senior separatist leaders also visited the family of the slain boy to offer condolences.

Geelani heads the hardline group of the Hurriyat Conference while Mirwaiz heads its moderate group. Malik is the chairman of the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF). Both the Hurriyat groups stand for the state's merger with Pakistan while the JKLF supports the idea of an independent Jammu and Kashmir.

Maharashtra justifies beef ban Commit more resources for single mothers: NCW MuMbAi, April 20 (pTi): Justifying its controversial ban on slaughter of cows, bulls and bullocks and consumption of their meat, Maharashtra government on Monday told the Bombay High Court there is a need to protect and preserve these animals as the state’s economy is still predominantly agricultural.

The government, in an affidavit, said the ban introduced under Maharashtra Animal Preservation (Amendment) Act, which has received Presidential assent, was not violative of the fundamental rights of citizens to have food of their own choice.

The affidavit was filed

by Chitrakala Suryavanshi, Deputy Secretary, Animal Husbandry, Agriculture, Dairy Development and Fisheries Development Department, in response to a bunch of petitions challenging the ban which came into force early this month.

The petitions have challenged only Sections 5 (d) and 9 (a) of the Act, which prohibits possession and consumption of meat of cow, bulls and bullocks even if the animals have been slaughtered outside Maharashtra. According to the petitions, this puts a ban on import of meat.

The government has

ShillONG, April 20 (pTi): National Commission for Women (NCW) member Laldiangliani Sailo today said single motherhood is one of the growing problems in the country, which requires the more attention by the Centre and commitment of more resources towards their betterment.

"It (single motherhood) is perhaps one of the major growing problems in the country and the world.

In the light of this, single mothers deserve a separate set of schemes and programmes for their well being," Sailo said while ad-

dressing a National Consultation on issues related to single mothers here.

"We also need to take note that this is not just for the sake of single mothers alone, but also because of the ramifications this has for society," she said urging the Centre to take a holistic look and adopt "integrated approaches" towards them.

"Most states have now recognised the need for making provision of pension for single mothers in their plans. But, the pensions are low... just around Rs 1,000 a month," Sailo said.

The NCW member emphasised the need to in-

crease the pension for single mothers to a level that would enable the women to look after themselves and her children.

Highlighting that skill development was important to alleviate the problem, the NCW member said providing vocational training to such women was as critical to enhance their lives.

"These women need to go through skill development to enable them to achieve economic empowerment - be it for jobs in the organised or the entrepreneur sector and the government must play the

central role in skill development to facilitate women to work," she said.

Sailo also advocated for the police to be specially sensitive to single mothers, as they were often victims of crimes against women.

"Also that it is equally important for the school system to be sensitised to make room for single mothers and their children," she said.

Organised by the Meghalaya State Commission for Women (MSCW), the National Consultation was inaugurated by the State Assembly Speaker Abu Taher Mondal.

Now EPIC or Aadhaar document enough to get PAN card

In this April 2, 2015 photo, a worker drags a buffalo after it is unloaded from a truck at Ghazipur slaughterhouse complex in New Delhi. India is the world’s second-largest exporter of beef, but with the victory of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party last year, the industry is facing tougher bans on slaughter. (AP Photo) New Delhi, April 20 (pTi):

said that Sections 5 (d) and 9 (a) do not suffer from either lack of legislative competence or violation of any fundamental rights.

“Section 5 (d) is essential so as to prevent practical difficulties in the administration of law. It would otherwise be very difficult to implement the policy of the Act,” the affidavit said.

“It is considered that the economy of Maharashtra was still predominantly agricultural and cow progeny is its backbone. Bulls

and bullocks are useful not only as draught animal but also for agricultural purposes and breeding. They never cease to be useful as their dung is also a form of rich manure. Considering their usefulness, it was felt necessary to preserve and protect this cow progeny, including bulls and bullocks,” the affidavit stated.

Refuting the petitioners’ contention that Maharashtra government cannot prohibit import of meat of animals slaughtered outside the state, the affidavit

said “having received assent from the President of India, the law made by the state legislature would prevail over existing law.”

It further claimed the Act was introduced to give effect to several Articles mentioned in the Constitution.

“Article 51- A (g) imposes fundamental duty on the citizen to protect and improve the natural environment, including forests, lakes, rivers and wildlife, and to have compassion for living creatures.”

‘India being closely watched for its contribution to climate change' New Delhi, April 20 (iANS): Contrary to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's recent observation that India was under "no pressure" for climate commitments, a US envoy said on Monday that India is being "closely watched" for its contribution to climate change.

US envoy Richard Verma said the country was being "closely watched" for its intended contribution towards the global response to climate change.

In January, at a bilateral engagement with US President Barack Obama during his state visit to India, Modi had said that India was under "no pressure" to announce a peak year for cutting its own emission like the US and China.

India is the world's third largest emitter of greenhouse gases.

Speaking at a Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) event here Verma, however, noted that "India's size, economic growth projections and already significant greenhouse gas emissions means there is tremendous interest around the world" on its proposed contribution to mitigating climate change.

"I don't think it's an understatement to say the world is watching very closely what India will do," he said.

Ahead of the crucial climate change negotiations at Paris 2015 in December, global emitters will submit their "Intended Nationally Determined Contributions" (INDCs).

The INDCs will be the announcement of their commitment to adopt measures for clean energy and produce green house gas emissions.

Dismissing the perception that the world is divided in two camps "the countries with historical responsibility as early industrialisers and the ones that are now embarking on the path of development", Verma said: "We (India and the US) are not in two camps anymore. We are in the same camp.

"We have to move forward (to address the scourge of climate change) taking into account our national circumstance."

Impressing on Obama's interest in being India's "best partner", Verma said the US would like to extend cooperation not just in the field of defence and trade but also strengthen understanding in the global response to the "toughest issue on the planet ... climate change".

"We are working closely with India to find ways to promote the

transition to a low carbon, clean energy future.

"We hope our recent breakthrough understanding in the civil nuclear sector will ultimately allow us to build low-carbon base-load nuclear power plants together," he remarked.

Drawing on the potential "countless opportunities" offered by programmes like Smart Cities, Make in India, and Swachh Bharat campaigns as well as the government's commitment to 175 Gigawatts of clean, renewable energy by 2022, Verma urged the business community in India to lead the way on climate change.

These programmes, Verma said, would have "countless opportunities to utilise cleaner technologies that are more energy and cost efficient", adding that "the economic benefits of action and moving to a low-carbon future are enormous".

The US envoy to India was speaking at the launch of a global engagement initiated by the US to highlight the economic opportunities associated with climate action.

"Green - the colour of growth: The business case for climate action" kicked off in India at the CII here.

An EPIC or Aadhaar document will now be enough for any individual to obtain PAN card as the Income Tax Department has relaxed the cumbersome procedure of having multiple documents to prove one's own identity.

The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT), the apex policy making body of the I-T Department, has recently issued a notification making the Elector's Photo Identity Card (EPIC) and Aadhaar, issued by the Unique Identification Authority of India, valid proof of "date of birth" for obtaining PAN card.

Till now, both these photo ID cards were only considered as valid

proof for substantiating the "identity" and "address" of an individual and not their date of birth.

"The new notification, in simple terms, means that henceforth having only an EPIC or Aadhaar will be enough a document for any individual to obtain the PAN card.

"These two documents will be valid as the proof an individual's identity, address and date of birth, thereby reducing the cumbersome procedure of having multiple documents to prove one's own identity," a senior I-T department officer told PTI. As part of the new notification, the government has also made a "photo identity card issued by the central government or state government or

central public sector undertaking or state public sector undertaking or the central government health service scheme photo card or ex-servicemen contributory health scheme photo card" as the valid proofs for establishing the date of birth of an individual.

The officer said this new arrangement has been made possible as the government has embarked on a mission to bring the three unique identifiers - EPIC, Aadhaar and PAN - on one platform and have inter-links between their databases in order to thwart attempts of duplicity or forgery in any of these three documents which are the most essential when it comes to taking legitimate benefits of government schemes.

Navy's new warship put to sea

The Indian Navy’s newly built warship INS Visakhapatnam sails into the Arabian Sea during its launch at Mazagon Dock in Mumbai on Monday, April 20. At 7,300 tonnes, Visakhapatnam will be the largest destroyer commissioned by the Indian Navy and will be equipped with the Israeli Multi Function Surveillance Threat Alert Radar (MFSTAR) which will provide targeting information to 32 Barak 8 longrange surface to air missiles onboard the warship. (AP Photo)

MuMbAi, April 20 (iANS): The Indian Navy's new and biggest destroyer, Visakhapatnam, which has enhanced capacity to operate in nuclear, biological and chemical atmosphere, was put to the sea at a function here on Monday, officials said.

It was ceremonially launched by Minu Dhowan, wife of naval chief C.K. Dhowan, in the presence of top naval, defence and

civilian officials.

The 163-metre long 7,300-tonne Visakhapatnam is the first of the four followon warships of the Kolkata Class Project 15A, designed indigenously and will give a significant boost to India's maritime capabilities when it joins Indian Navy in 2018.

The Kolkata Class did not have a full-fledged Total Atmosphere Control System (TAC), which is included in Visakhapatnam,

according to an official.

The TAC system provides a capability of almost endless operating in a fall-out region whether it is a nuclear, chemical or biological, because the complete air taken inside is through nuclear, biological and chemical filters barring the machinery compartment, where wearing specialized masks would be mandatory.

Visakhapatnam is equipped with several indigenous weapon systems and an Israeli Multi Function Surveillance Threat Alert Radar (MF-STAR), which would provide targeting information to the 32 Barak 8 longrange surface-to-air-missiles aboard.

The Barak 8 missiles, being developed jointly by India and Israel, are being integrated into the Indian Navy's new destroyed INS Kolkata and shall be testfired in October.

Besides, Visakhapatnam will also carry eight BrahMos missiles, a 127mm main gun, four 30mm rapid fire guns, and achieve speeds of over 30 knots with a maximum endurance of 400 nautical miles at an economical speed of 14 knots.

Fitted with a sophisticated Ship Data Network, an Automatic Power Management System and a Combat Management System, all information critical to operate the ship is made available to key officers through the SDN which the Indian Navy terms a "data information highway".

It incorporates state-ofthe-art weaponry, sensors, supersonic surface-to-surface missiles, enabling it to engage shore-based and naval surface targets at long range.

The ship also has advanced air defence capability, designed to counter the threat of enemy aircraft and anti-ship cruise missiles and would revolve around the vertical launch and long range surface-to-air missiles system.

The ship can house a complement of 250 sailors and 50 officers, and has been designed by the Indian Navy's Directorate of Naval Design, as part of the country's commitment towards indigenization.

Visakhapatnam has been built by the Mazagaon Docks Ltd., India's premier warship building yard where four other destroyers and six submarines are being constructed.

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EU discuss migrant crisis, 900 feared dead CAtANiA/ LUxEMBOURG, ApRiL 20 (REUtERS): EU foreign ministers met on Monday under pressure to produce more than words to save migrants drowning in the Mediterranean, as the first bodies were brought on shore of hundreds feared killed in a shipwreck while trying to reach Europe.

Malta’s Prime Minister Joseph Muscat said as many as 900 people may have died off the coast of Libya when a large boat capsized, by far the highest death toll in modern times among migrants trafficked in rickety vessels across the Mediterranean.

Italy and Malta were working to rescue another two migrant boats with around 400 people off the coast of Libya on Monday. Hundreds of kilometers (miles) to the east, coast guards were struggling to save scores of migrants from another vessel destroyed after running aground off the Greek island of Rhodes.

Greek coast guards said at least three people were killed there. Television pictures showed survivors clinging to floating debris while rescuers pulled them from the waves. Italy’s Prime Minister Matteo Renzi compared the smuggling of migrants across the Mediterranean to the African slave trade of 300-400 years ago.

“When we say we are in the presence of slavery we are not using the word just for effect,” he told a news conference. “The point is that we can’t accept this kind of trade in human lives.”

European officials are struggling to come up with a policy to respond more humanely to an exodus of

EU urged to rescue endangered migrants

Rescuers help children to disembark in the Sicilian harbor of Pozzallo, Italy, early Monday, April 20, 2015. About 100 migrants, including 28 children, were rescued on Sunday by a merchant vessel in the Sicilian Strait while they were trying to cross. Another smuggler’s boat crammed with hundreds of people overturned off Libya’s coast on Saturday as rescuers approached, causing what could be the Mediterranean’s deadliest known migrant tragedy and intensifying pressure on the European Union Sunday to finally meet demands for decisive action. (AP Photo

migrants traveling by sea from Africa and Asia to Europe, without worsening the crisis by encouraging more to leave.

“Search and rescue alone is not a silver bullet,” said German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere.

“If you just organize search and rescue, criminals who get the refugees on board will send more boats.”

But a sharp reduction in European naval search and rescue efforts since last year appears to have made the voyage far more perilous, increasing pressure on politicians to soften their hearts.

Last year Italy called off its naval operation in the southern Mediterranean,

known as “Mare Nostrum”, because of its cost and domestic opposition to sea rescues that encourage more migration. It was replaced in November by a far smaller and less ambitious EU mission with a third of the budget.

“This is a humanitarian emergency that involves us all,” the International Organization for Migration’s Italy Director Federico Soda said, calling for a mission equivalent to the Italian operation to be relaunched immediately.

If the toll is confirmed in Sunday’s tragedy, as many as 1,800 migrants will have died so far trying to cross the Mediterranean since the start of this year.

The IOM estimates around 21,000 made the voyage successfully.

In comparison, by the end of April last year, fewer than 100 had died out of 26,000 who crossed.

The number of migrants normally surges in the summer, meaning far greater numbers are likely to attempt the voyage in coming months. In total last year 174,000 made the journey successfully and around 3,200 died.

The IOM estimates hundreds of thousands of people could be planning to attempt the crossing from Libya, now in a lawless state with two competing governments at war with each other and inca-

GENEvA, ApRiL 20 (iANS/EFE): The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) urged the European Union on Monday to establish rescue operations to address the increasing number of migrants perishing in the attempt to traverse the Mediterranean Sea. The request came after a boat attempting to reach European shores sank on Saturday night in the Strait of Sicily, where the 700 people on board apparently drowned, while some sources say that there may have been as many as 950 people on board.

“The world needs to react with the conviction with which it eliminated piracy off the coast of Somalia a few years ago,” William Lacy Swing, the IOM director general, said. “All of us, especially the EU and the world’s powers can no longer sit on the sidelines watching while this tragedy unfolds in slow motion. Well over 1,500 have drowned since the beginning of January,” he added.

Swing recalled the success of Task Force 120, which successfully eliminated Somali piracy, “as an example for the EU to follow in both saving lives and preventing

pable of policing people- cers brought ashore the 24 corpses found so far. Wearsmuggling gangs. ing white protective suits, Reality Hits Us In The Face they carried the victims in “The reputation of Eu- body-bags off the Italian rope is at stake,” said Ital- ship Gregoretti and deposian Foreign Minister Paolo ited them in hearses as surGentiloni. “I have been say- vivors looked on from the ing for weeks and months deck. Twenty-eight survithat Europe has to do more, vors rescued so far will be now unfortunately the real- taken on the same boat to the Sicilian port of Catania. ity has hit us in the face.”

In Greece more than 90 The vessel overturned and sank off the coast of people were rescued from Libya on Sunday when pas- the boat wrecked off the sengers rushed to one side coast of Rhodes: “We have to attract attention from a recovered 3 bodies so far passing merchant ship. A - that of a man, a woman Bangladeshi survivor told and a child,” a coast guard police there had been 950 official said. Europe’s polipassengers onboard, ac- ticians face criticism from cording to the IOM. aid and human rights In the Maltese capital groups that they have been Valletta, coast-guard offi- abandoning those in need

criminal smuggling gangs from operating”.

After yet another migrant boat sank last week, killing 400 people, the IOM asked the EU to once again “support life-saving operations on the scale of the Italian-run Mare Nostrum programme”, which shut down in December last year without being replaced.

The IOM warned on Friday that the death toll could reach 30,000 by the end of 2015 if the death rates from the first three months of the year persisted.

“We’re talking about a death toll this year that’s already 10 times what it was last year,” IOM spokesperson Joel Millman said. “I think 3,179 deaths in the Mediterranean last year. If this trend were to continue we’d be talking about over 30,000 and that’s quite alarming,” he added.

These statements came roughly a day before the 700 migrants drowned while trying to reach Europe. According to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), roughly 290,000 migrants and asylum-seekers crossed the Mediterranean Sea in 2014, while more than 35,000 people have already attempted the voyage in 2015.

of help to pander to anti-immigrant sentiment among the electorates in their home countries.

European foreign ministers held a moment of silence at the start of their meeting in Luxembourg.

However there are differing views among them about what needs to be done, from ramping up costly search and rescue operations to trying to intervene in Libya. Renzi said a military operation in Libya was not on the table. Malta’s Muscat said the United Nations should mandate a force to intervene directly in Libya to disrupt or attack people-traffickers and stop boats from setting off.

France called for a big-

Al-Shabab bombs UN van, Chinese leader in Pak to unveil $45B in investments ApRiL 20 the next three to five years. He four UNICEF workers killed iSLAMABAD, (Ap): Chinese President Xi called the agreements a “mileMOGADiSHU, ApRiL 20 (Ap): A bomb exploded Monday on a van carrying U.N. employees in northern Somalia, killing at least seven people and wounding several others, police and U.N. officials said.

Al-Shabab claimed responsibility for the attack.

UNICEF said in a statement that four of its employees were reportedly killed in the bombing of their van, which was painted white and had UN painted on the side in blue letters. Four others were seriously injured, the U.N. children’s agency said.

Both foreigners and Somalis were casualties of the attack in Garowe, the capital of the semiautonomous Puntland region, Col. Ali Salad, a senior police officer in Puntland, told The Associated Press by phone. He said 10 people had died though Garowe Police Chief Col. Ahmed Abdullahi Samatar said seven died.

A U.N. employee in Garowe, who insisted upon anonymity because she was not authorized to speak to

the press, said most of the victims are foreigners working with the U.N. The U.N. representative to Somalia, Nicholas Kay, said in a Twitter post that he is “shocked and appalled by loss of life.”

The bomb was apparently planted under a seat and was detonated by remote control, said police official Yusuf Ali. Garowe resident Jama Hashi said he heard a thundering blast inside the van, which he said was passing near the offices of the U.N.’s food agency when the bomb went off. Human limbs were scattered around the scene, he said. Security forces sealed off the area as ambulances carried the wounded away.

“It’s a dark day, but terrorists must know that the blood they shed will not go in vain. We shall deal with them with an iron hand,” Salad said.

Bomb attacks are not common in northern Somalia, unlike in the south where al-Shabab Islamic extremists are fighting the Somali government and the African Union forces bolstering it.

Jinping arrived in Pakistan on Monday for a two-day visit in which he is expected to announce $45 billion worth of investment projects in energy and infrastructure development.

Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and the country’s top civilian and military leadership received the visiting president at an air force base near the capital, Islamabad.

Xi will announce $45 billion worth of projects in the energy and infrastructure sectors, Pakistan’s minister for planning and development, Ahsan Iqbal, said, calling it “proof of our great bond with China.” He said around $37 billion of that would be invested in energy.

He also clarified that the total amount was $45 billion. Pakistani officials had previously put the total at $46 billion.

Iqbal said work on $28 billion worth of projects can begin immediately, with work on the remainder starting in

stone in our history.”

Sharif said the visit will open a new chapter in bilateral relations. “We will work hand in hand with you to remove any obstacle in your way to ensure timely completion of the planned projects,” he said in a meeting with the heads of three Chinese companies.

China and Pakistan have long maintained close political and military relations, based partly on mutual antipathy toward neighbor India. However, stronger ChinaIndia ties have challenged that perception and Xi’s visit seems intended to reassure Pakistan that relations remain robust.

China is also eager to boost trade and investment with New Delhi, and Indian PM Narendra Modi is expected to visit Beijing in the coming weeks.

China is a leading arms supplier to Pakistan and has sought its help in combating anti-Chinese Islamic separat-

Municipality workers walk past a billboard showing pictures of Chinese President Xi Jinping, center, with Pakistan’s President Mamnoon Hussain, left, and Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on display in Islamabad on Monday, April 20. Xi arrived for a two-day visit during which the two sides will launch an ambitious $45 billion economic corridor linking Pakistan’s port city of Gwadar with western China. (AP Photo)

ists reportedly hiding in the country’s lawless tribal areas.

China is also eager to enlist Pakistan’s help in stabilizing Afghanistan as U.S. and international troops wind down their presence there.

Xi will be traveling with a large business delegation and is expected to oversee

the signing of investment agreements in the energy and transportation industries, part of Beijing’s plan for a ChinaPakistan “economic corridor.”

“This is very important for our economic stability and development,” said political science professor Raul Bakhsh Rais.

In Puerto Rico, a push to revive indigenous culture

In this April 10, 2015 photo, Brayan Lopez, 9, plays a Taino wood drum while students perform a ceremonial dance in San Lorenzo, Puerto Rico. Brayan is a fourth grader and one of the designated caciques - or chieftains - because of his musical skills. He gets to blow a conch shell while other students gather around him and beat on the small, elongated wooden drums. (AP File Photo)

SAN LORENZO, ApRiL 20 (Ap): In Puerto Rico’s misty, bamboo-studded mountains, elementary school students are studying a nearly extinct language, beating on drums and growing native crops like cassava and sweet potato as they learn about the indigenous people who

lived on the island before Christopher Columbus.

The children in four towns in the island’s southeast corner play a ceremonial ball game that was called batey by the native Tainos, who were all but wiped out during colonial times. The boys and girls also learn words from the

local Arawak language, which was in part rebuilt with help from linguists, and still exists in varying forms among other native groups in the hemisphere.

Now, a group of academics and educators hope to expand the Taino education program to other public schools around

the U.S. territory in an effort to teach children this little known part of the territory’s history.

“If you don’t know your roots, you don’t know yourself,” said anthropologist Carlalynne Yarey Melendez, director of the Taino cultural organization that runs the educational program. “There are so many communities and schools that want the classes, but I can’t keep up with the demand.” Puerto Ricans’ interest in the territory’s indigenous past has grown in recent years, with 42,000 of the 3.7 mn people then living on the island identifying themselves as at least partially Taino in the 2010 Census.

But even though that’s just a little more than 1 percent, Puerto Rico’s legislature is considering a proposal to declare Melendez’s Naguake organization to be the island’s first indigenousbased community. The designation would allow it to receive federal funds under a program that aids native groups, and expand the program to other towns.

“As one of our elders said at one time, ‘Just as they wrote us off the books, we will write ourselves back in,’” said Tai Pelli, a liaison officer for the New Yorkbased United Confederation of Taino People.

Melendez has lobbied legislators to pass the proposed measure. She has also worked with U.S. researchers on several recent DNA studies sponsored by the National Geographic Society to explore the lineage of people living in certain regions of Puerto Rico.

Before Europeans came to the New World, the Tainos also lived in the nearby islands of Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica and other parts of the Caribbean, and spoke the Arawak language. The Tainos are a subgroup of the Arawak Indians. Historians and anthropologists believe that up to 60,000 Tainos lived in Puerto Rico when Columbus arrived in 1493, but their ranks were soon decimated by infectious diseases, such as smallpox, brought from Europe.

Today, many towns

in Puerto Rico bear Taino names, but there are few remaining traces of the culture except for several wellknown landmarks. There’s a massive river boulder carved with petroglyphs in the central town of Jayuya.

The Caguana indigenous park in the central town of Utuado also features petroglyphs, along with artifacts and ceremonial plazas.

The program has met resistance from parents suspicious of an unfamiliar language and culture.

Melendez said some parents in the program here were skeptical until their children shared what they had learned.

Maribel Rodriguez said her 9-year-old Brayan Lopez is enthralled by the classes. Brayan is a fourth grader and one of the designated caciques — or chieftains — because of his musical skills. He gets to blow a conch shell known as a fotuto while other students gather around him and beat on their mayoacanes - small, elongated wooden drums that the Tainos used.

ger search and rescue at sea.

Sweden said it would send its own coast guards if the EU did not do more. Lawlessness in Libya has made it almost impossible to police criminal gangs who can charge thousands of dollars to bring mainly sub-Saharan Africans to Europe.

Only last week around 400 migrants were reported to have died attempting to reach Italy from Libya when their boat capsized.

Northern European Union countries have so far largely left rescue operations to southern states such as Italy. According to the IOM, Italian coast guards have rescued 10,000 migrants in the Mediterranean in the past few days.

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Bolt unhappy despite victory in Rio

RIO DE JANEIRO, APRIL 20 (IANS): Sprint legend Usain Bolt claimed his first 100 metre race of the season by winning the "Mano a Mano" sprint challenge here. But the 28-yearold was unhappy with his time of 10.12 seconds at the Brazilian Jockey Club on Sunday, reports Xinhua.

"I think it was poor execution overall," Bolt said.

"I am sure my coach isn't going to be too happy. The good thing is that I won."

American Ryan Bailey finished second while Brazilian Jose Carlos Moreira was third in 10.51 seconds.

Before the race Bolt said his aim was to eclipse the 10-second mark. But a lack of recent competitive racing and a wet track counted against the Jamaican.

"Overall I didn't feel myself, but I think it is just lack of races," he said. "It will take time for me to get back to my best so I just need to run more and I'll be OK." "This is always my

first race of the season so it is not going to be as fast as everyone wants it to be."

The race is likely to be Bolt's last competitive event in Rio before next year's Olympic Games, where he will aim to add to his six gold medals won in Beijing (2008) and London (2012).

His next competition will be the World Relays in the

Bahamas early next month.

Meanwhile Veronica Campbell-Brown made it a Jamaican clean sweep by winning the women's challenge in 11.04 seconds. The dual Olympic gold medallist finished ahead of Carmelita Jeter of the US (11.19 seconds) and Jamaican Kerron Stewart (11.30 seconds).

Ningting Cham Peren District Open Badminton C’ship

DIMAPUR, APRIL 20 (MExN): The Ningting Cham Peren District Open Badminton Championship 2015, organised by the Ningting Society, Tening Town, is scheduled to be played from May 4 to 6 at Indoor Stadium, Tening Town. A press note informed that there will be categories of Men’s Singles, Men’s Doubles and Women’s Doubles with a total cash prize of Rs. 35000/, certificates and winner trophies. This tournament is being sponsored by Ningting Cham, the Liangmai half-monthly newsletter and supported by Peren District Badminton Association. The Opening and Closing ceremony will be graced by Thsuvisie Phoji, ADC, Tening and Iteising, BDO, Peren Block. For registration and queries please contact : 9402482582, 9402828073 or 9402902086.

TYo lifts Frolic cup 2015

Winners of Frolic Cup along with Frolic Club officials.

DIMAPUR, APRIL 20 (MExN): Tossed in favour of TYO, FC Rangers kick started the much awaited match of the Frolic Cup Final at local ground, Medziphema Town. The closing ceremony was graced by Shri.

Lhousito Khro, vice-president, youth wing NPF as the guest of honour.

Addressing the closing ceremony as the guest of honour, he said that games and sports plays a very important role in shaping the career and future of the young people. Realising the fact that Frolic Club has been successfully conducting such event

and which is their 4th edition and admitted that he is happy to be in their midst. The guest of honour was joined

by ADC Medziphema,Officials of various departments, NPF party workers of 5th Ghaspani-II A/C, NPF Mahila Ghaspani Unit, GB’s and elders.

Earlier, invocation prayer was offered by Kakheto Aye, Pastor, Sumi Baptist Church, Medziphema, special number by Vetsho Chiezou.

While vote of thanks was given by Vibalie Nakhro, Secy. Organizing Committee followed by prize distribution.

Match officials were Kevisweyie Chaya, Referees Inspector; Zavibinyu Sano, State Referee; Meyieto Sachu, State Referee; Neichuvotsolie Nagi, State Referee; Kevilekho Tsukru, State Referee; Thangboi Thomsong, District Referee; Meyalhou Chase, District Referee.

1. Highest scorer – Imlongchaba Chang ( TYO ) 2. Best goal keeper – Achi ( VFA ) 3. Best defender – Salu ( KYC ) 4. Player of the tournament – Kekhrieletuo Tsira ( TYO )

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djokovic beats berdych in Monte Carlo Masters final

Novak Djokovic of Serbia kisses his trophy after defeating Tomas Berdych of Czech Republic in the final match of the Monte Carlo Tennis Masters tournament in Monaco, Sunday, April 19. (AP Photo)

MONACO, APRIL 20 (AP): Even when Novak Djokovic doesn't play very well, he manages to win titles.

Despite hitting 38 unforced errors in a back-and forth match, the topranked Serb won the first big claycourt tournament of the season with a 7-5, 4-6, 6-3 win over Tomas Berdych in the final of the Monte Carlo Masters.

It was Djokovic's second triumph in three years in the principality, where he lives with his wife and kid, and his 11th straight win in a final.

"In the end, I'm sitting here with this trophy that is very special to me, of course," the Australian Open champion said. "This is what matters. Sometimes winning ugly is necessary. It's been a remarkable start of the season for me." Djokovic, who has lost only two matches in 2015, became the first player in tennis history to win the first three Masters tournament of the year after completing the Indian Wells-Miami sweep this spring.

"The fact that now I won three Masters in a row, that nobody ever has done that ... that has given me, even this week, more motivation," he said. With his 23rd Masters title, Djokovic extended his winning streak to 17 matches, including a straightset win over clay specialist Rafael Nadal in the semifinals on Saturday.

Djokovic's next big goal is to win the French Open, the only major tournament missing from his collection. Al-

though he tamed Nadal for the second time in three years at the Country Club this week, the nine-time French Open champion stopped him at Roland Garros over the past three years.

"I think the most important period of the year is coming up right now," Djokovic said. "Obviously Roland Garros and Wimbledon are the priority. That's where I want to perform my best. But we'll take it step by step and see how far I can go."

In windy and humid conditions, both players struggled with their serve and made several unforced errors in a final that lacked rhythm and was suspended by rain.

The sixth-seeded Berdych put Djokovic on the back foot in the early stages with his powerful groundstrokes and forced the Serb into a deciding set for the first time this week but was ultimately made to pay for his erratic display. "There have been just a couple of points that didn't go the way that I wanted," Berdych said.

"Otherwise I think I've been pushing him quite hard. I had enough chances to make this match happen on my way and I could be the one with the trophy today." Chasing a second Masters title 10 years after his breakthrough at the Paris Masters, Berdych raced into a 2-0 lead, dropping just two points on the way. But Berdych could not keep hitting with such accuracy for long, allowing Djokovic to break back in the sixth game when he

made three mistakes on his forehand.

The Czech dropped his serve again to trail 5-3 but Djokovic could not serve out the set. The Serb raised his level in the 12th game, claiming the set on his third opportunity.

Berdych failed to seize his chance in the fifth game of the second set when Djokovic double-faulted to find himself 0-40 down. The Serb kept his head cool and won five consecutive points to move up 3-2 before the match was suspended for 70 minutes.

The rain delay had a positive impact on Berdych. He fended off a break point after a long rally punctuated by a smashed winner and was rewarded with a break in the seventh game as he pushed Djokovic into a flow of mistakes with a series of deep returns. But the momentum swung again toward Djokovic as Berdych made five unforced errors in the first two games of the decider and dropped his serve for the fourth time.

Djokovic broke again for a 4-0 lead, but the eight-time Grand Slam champion failed to hold his serve in the next game. He overcame another break point with a kicked second serve to move up 5-2 and raised his arms in triumph as he returned to his chair. The Serb sealed the win on his second match point when his opponent sent a return long. "I thought I won this match with my heart and with battle," Djokovic said. "That's how I feel like I won it."

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here seems to be a lot of confusion regarding Aadhaar card. Is Aadhaar card compulsory for availing government schemes like LPG and other subsidy, scholarships, for marriage for buying property etc. The matter relating Aadhaar is very lengthy. Therefore, let us briefly see what this Aadhaar card fuzz is about. The word “Aadhaar” in Hindi means “Base” or “foundation”. The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) is simply an agency of the planning commission of India. It is not a department of Government of India. The UIDAI issues a Unique Identification Number known as "Aadhaar" number to residents of India with or without any documentation or Identity proof.

The Supreme Court interim order issued on September 23, 2013 said Aadhaar card is not compulsory. On March 17th 2015 once again the Supreme Court headed by three-judge bench headed by Justice Jasti Chelameswar issued an order stating that Aadhaar card is not compulsory because the way information/bio data are collected while applying for Aadhar card is against Article 21 of Indian Constitution and it clearly encroaches into the public's right to privacy.

It might be a revelation for many to know that the Aadhaar card is not supported nor backed by any Bill or Act in India. The national identification Authority of India Bill which supported the Aadhaar card was introduced in 3rd Dec 2010 in the Rajya Sabha.

It went on to get the Cabinets approval but was not approved by the Parliament/President of India and the Bill ended up getting rejected. Thus, Aadhaar card is unconstitutional. It will be shocking to know that the present Aadhaar enrolment system does not have any provisions to penalize for misusing of data by authorized persons (eg UIDAI officials), and therefore has an in-built potential for use of personal data to identify and eliminate “Maoists”, “terrorists” “insurgents”, “habitual offenders”, political opponents and others who are perceived as threats by those in power. It is sad to see that many Nagas from various backgrounds are blindly applying for Aadhaar card just because someone is applying not knowing the real danger. The Aadhaar card authority/UIDAI operating without any Parliamentary approval/Bill/Act clearly shows the dictatorial Nature of the Aadharr

card/UIDA which is one of the charter of Antichrist. It is as if some unknown satanic force is pushing the Aaddhra enrolment with great success even though it is absolutely unconstitutional.

We must understand that information is the currency of the future. All the personal information collected while applying for Aadhar card are collected by purely private companies and not by the government.

All the collected information becomes the property of the private companies and are priceless. It is sad we gave our consent/permission to the private companies to use our information as they wish when we applied for Aadhaar card that too free of cost. Private agencies are always in hurry to make more profits, so if they want they can sell our data.

I am worried about the safety of our Nagas and all Indians. There is always a possibility of our data being leaked. Any data can be stolen with the help of advanced technology.

In the present day and age when every country is facing the problem of identity frauds, usage of fake identities for money laundering, terrorism, etc, the Nagalnad State government is letting the Aadhaar/ private contractors to collect sensitive data of persons, which is not protected or governed under any law. Without a framework for data-protection, offences for violation UIDAI/Aadhaar card, the Nagaland State Government and its administration are putting in danger not only life and rights of people in Nagaland but also security of our country. The UIDAI way of using NGOs to collect the data without any safety measure for the collected data makes it prone to misuse not only by private companies but also by State Government.

Today any person who has an Aadhaar card is open to identity fraud and all his/her personal information has been compromised.

Nandan Nilekani the co-founder of Infoysis who also contested for MP election but lost to the Modi wave is the chairperson of UIDAI/Aadhaar card, he may be a very professional man and have sound knowledge in the field of technology, but can he guarantee the safety of all the data collected? The right to privacy is one of the basic human right of an individual, can the UIDAI protect this aspect? One gentlemen told me he applied for Aadhaar card but when he went online and checked it is totally blank. Where is all his

personal information? It surely cannot just disappear. Did someone misuse it? Stuck between the Supreme Court order and some self-vested Ministers and MP in Delhi who are using the State Government and NGO’s to enroll people in the Aadhaar program, without telling the ugly truth about Aadharr are the unfortunate uniformed public in state of confusion and mental harassment.

It may be shocking news for many to know that state government of Maharashtra has fined more than Rs5.5 crore on various contractors it authorized for Aadhaar card enrollment. The details were made available through a Right to Information (RTI) application filed by applicant Anand Pargaonkar.

Tera Software Ltd was levied the maximum penalty of Rs1.85 crore. Strategic Outsourcing Services paid the second highest fine of Rs87.68 lakh, followed by GSS America InfoTech Ltd at Rs 65.67 lakh and Mahaonline Ltd at Rs64.11 lakh. Some of these companies had also been among those who were found collecting information even after their contracts had been cancelled/suspended by the state. All of them were fined for delay in uploading the packet (data) as per UIDAI guidelines, which is kinda fishy because how can the State impose such heavy fine on the UIDAI for such silly reasons like delay in uploading data, the reason might have been more severe one. Which we may never know.

I wonder if our Nagaland Sate Government has implemented any guidelines to see that our information are not misused. Aadharr card is not a full proof card it can be misused and tampered. More than 30 lakh Aadhaar card were rejected in Orissa in 2014 because of many errors, one of which was that many applicants ended up with wrong photos in their Aadhaar card. One of the key points of Aadhaar is that it would be impossible for one person to get more than one Aadhaar card, but what happened in Orissa shows that Aadhar card is not a full proof. Imagine if tomorrow the police comes to arrest you because someone with your identity had killed someone. Even though you might be innocent, you will have to spent money and time running to court just to prove that you are not guilty. Worst even if you win the case, you might end up losing all our dignity and honour in the Society.

The another ugly face of Aadhaar card is

that it is not actually for the poor and the unfit. The Aadhaar card system could be indirectly trying to implement the theory of the “survival of the fittest.” It is because there are millions of Indians working in agriculture, construction workers and other manual works who have worn-out thumb and fingers due to a lifetime of hard labour and other millions with no hands, missing finger and thumb. There are an estimated 6-8 million people in India with corneal blindness, and many without eyes according to researchers at the all India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi. All these poor farmers and people with worn out fingerprint, no finger and eyes and eyes diseases cannot apply for aadharr card because the finger print and the eye scan is mandatory. So in realty the Aadharr card program is silently excluding the poor by eliminating the physically unfit and the poor from the Aadhaar beneficiary program.

Thus paving the way for the “fittest” generation to march into the future, while the unfit populating is left to fate into history. Is Aadharr card number the number of the beast “666” as mentioned in the Bible Rev 13:16-18 ? Well the Bible does not say that the Aadhaar card number is the number of the beast. The Bible also does not say the devil will come with a horn and a tail. If we see carefully, both Aadhaar card number and 666 functions the same way. Both 666 and Adhaar numbers are not compulsory both voluntary. Both 666 and Aadharr number are from a higher authority and not from the government. Both 666 and Aadhaar card number is made to be received by both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond. In both the case food/medicine/ bank account/medical/ even voting rights and other basic things one needs to survive will be tied up with Adhaar card and with 666.

Just like the meaning of the word “Aadhar” which means “base” or “foundation” Aadhar card could be secretly laying the foundation for 666. After all a strong foundation is crucial for building anything. WELL I LEAVE THE ANSWER TO YOUR DECISION as it says in Rev 13:18 “This calls for wisdom, let him who has understanding reckon the number of the beast, for it is a human number, its number is six hundred and sixty six. The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) which gives out the 12 digit Aadhaar card number admitted that once a person gets the Aadhaar

card number it can never be deleted. Which means once you have an Aadhaar number, you are stuck with it for the rest of your life.

The only option is not to apply for Aadhaar.

It is my humble request to the all the Deputy Commissioners and head of Institutions and organizations in all the Districts in Nagaland to issue a circular based on the Supreme Court order dated March 17, 2015 that Aadhaar card is not compulsory. This would help remove the mental harassments, because even if the supreme court has issued an order saying Aadharr card is not compulsory, for some reason many people in Nagaland specially living in the remote districts think that unless there is an order/circular from the Deputy Commissioners or head of the department office in black and white it cannot be real. Therefore, in the Interest of the all-public, all the Deputy Commissioners and heads of departments should kindly issue the circular soon. In addition, All India Radio Kohima should repeatedly broadcast in all Naga dialect for at least one month that Aadhar card is not compulsory until the information sinks in the mind of the people. Even a well-educated person can be blind as a bat if not informed. The local Newpspsers should also take the incentive. After all our Sovereign Nagaland State government and its administration have the duty not only to protect its citizens but also to protect its citizen’s identity and their personal information against possible misuse. I wonder why has our State Government not issued any circular saying that Aadhaar is not compulsory as directed by the Supreme Court to all States? Why is the NSF/ANPSA and other NGO’S so silent while students are harassed to produce Aadhaar card for Scholarship and other schemes. Is it because the State government, NSF/ANPSA/ NGO’s are uniformed of the danger of Aadhar card or are they all busy assisting the UIDAI in enrolling all the Nagas in the Aadhaar card program? If so God help us. My suggestion to all Nagas especially students and those who have not applied for Aadhaar/got rejected is “DON’T APPLY FOR AADHAAR IT IS ABSOLUTELY NOT SAFE AND UNCONSTITUTIONAL” Let us spread the awareness of the danger of Aadhaar Card. May God give us the wisdom to decide what is right. God blesses us All. Imlisanen Phom, Dimapur

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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Northern Illinois offers honors course on 'Game of Thrones'

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mother presents her with Academy of Country Music Award

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orthern Illinois University is offering a course this semester on the HBO series" Game of Thrones." Program calls the class "Game of Thrones, Television and Medieval History" and students can take the course for honors credit. The popular cable television show, based on books by George R.R. Martin, is in its fifth season.

"It represents aspects of the Middle Ages much more realistically than other media depictions

that purport to be more accurate," co-professor Valerie Garver said. "It stands out because it comments on the human condition in a way that seems real to people. It's a really good example of a piece of modern culture that draws on how the past impacts the present."

The course's syllabus includes readings and watching episodes of the show. Students also see presentations on how the show relates to modern cable technology, history

and current events. NIU plans to offer the class again next spring, Garver's co-professor Jeff Chown said. "There was tremendous demand. I think the class filled up in about an hour," Chown said. Junior accounting major Alex Weier said the show is deeper and more in-depth than many realize. "The themes of the show are reality-based themes, where good doesn't always beat evil," he said. "It keeps you on your toes."

Honoree Taylor Swift (L) accepts the Milestone Award from Andrea Swift onstage during the 50th Academy Of Country Music Awards at AT&T Stadium on April 19 in Arlington, Texas.

Real life journalists in 'JD'

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e have seen many Bollywood actors like Soha Ali Khan, Priyanka Chopra, Tusshar Kapoor and Rani Mukerji playing journalists on the big screen. This time we are going to see something different which we have never seen before - a real journalist in reel life.

Bollywood director and producer Shailendra Pandey has invited some of the editors, reporters, video journalists and photographers to be the part of his most awaited movie JD, based on the

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life of a journalist. After completing the shooting in Lucknow, Shailendra Pandey is now planning to shoot in Mumbai and is looking for a real journalist to be a part of his film.

Shailendra Pandey said, "A very interesting thing about the movie is that we have invited a real photo journalist, reporter and editors of different organizations to be a part of the film. The film is based on the life and hardships faced by journalists. It is an outright entertainer and heavy on concept".

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dress that cost $20 in 1939 sells for $137,000 at auction

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dress worn by Vivien Leigh when she played Scarlett O'Hara in the classic 1939 film Gone With the Wind has fetched $137,000 at auction. Heritage Auctions offered the gray jacket and skirt, featuring a black zigzag applique, plus more than 150 other items from the Academy Award-winning film at auction on Saturday in Beverly Hills, California.

The outfit has suffered a little with age, however.

When Leigh wore it in the movie, it was slate bluegray but over the years it has faded to light gray. It was one of more than 150 items that were part of the private collection of James Tumblin, formerly in charge of the hair and makeup department at Universal Studios.

Tumblin began collecting onscreen costumes, props and behind-the-scenes artifacts from the film in the 1960s, amassing a collection of more than 300,000 pieces of memorabilia.

During a visit to the Western Costume Company

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he spotted the Scarlett O'Hara dress on the floor. He learned that the dress was about to be thrown away and negotiated a deal to buy it for $20.

Gone With The Wind, which celebrated its 75th anniversary last year, was based on Margaret Mitchell's 1936 best-selling book about a spoiled Old South socialite.

Actress Hattie McDaniel, who played Scarlett's devoted nanny Mammy, a slave, famously became the first African-American actor to be nominated for and win an Academy Award.

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ot many beauty pageants have contestants whose biographies say they like to pass gas. Then again, Drake's Beautiful Bulldog Contest is no ordinary pageant. Fifty bulldogs strutted — and drooled — across the stage at the 2015 Beautiful Bulldog Contest at the Knapp Center in Des Moines on Sunday. There were more than 1,300 people in attendance, the largest crowd the event had seen in its 36 years. The dogs came from eight different states, from California to New Jersey. But it was a Des Moines resident, Tank, who ultimately took home the beautiful bulldog title.

aylor Swift's mother honoured her with a heartfelt tribute as she presented her with the Milestone Award at the Academy of Country Music Awards last night (19.04.15). The 25-year-old singer's mother, Andrea Finlay - who was recently diagnosed with cancer - took to the stage to introduce the blonde beauty at the AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, and gushed over the star's achievements.

She said: ''I've watched this milestone artist from the time she was a tangled hair little girl growing up on our farm, full of imagination and creativity. And ever since then, her favourite thing in the world to do has been to write a song, tell a story, play a guitar, or a piano. And I've seen those things carry her through every emotion, every experience in her life. Good or bad. ''I'd like to thank the ACMs for honouring her in this way. But I'd also like to thank the entire music community for taking such good care of her. And [to] the fans, I know you love her as I love her, And for that I thank you eternally. ''I am a very proud mom.'' After Taylor made her way on stage, the teary pair were seen hugging before the 'Black Space' hitmaker went on to personally thank her fans for accepting her transition from country music to pop in her latest album '1989'.

She said: ''You truly see who a person is when you give them news that they weren't expecting. And so, to the country community, when I told you that I'd made a pop album and that I wanted to go explore other genres, you showed me who you are with the grace that you accepted that with.''

Other winners at the ceremony, which was hosted by Blake Shelton and Luke Bryan, included Blake's wife Miranda Lambert, who took home the Female Vocalist of the Year, Album of the Year and Song of the Year Awards. His co-host Luke picked up the Entertainer of the Year gong, while Jason Aldean won Male Vocalist of the Year and Cole Swindell took home the New Artist of the Year prize.

The full Academy of Country Music Awards 2015 winners list is as follows: Entertainer of the Year: Luke Bryan Female Vocalist of the Year: Miranda Lambert Male Vocalist of the Year: Jason Aldean Album of the Year: Miranda Lambert, 'Platinum' Song of the Year: Miranda Lambert, 'Automatic' New Artist of the Year: Cole Swindell Vocal Duo of the Year: Florida Georgia Line Vocal Group of the Year: Little Big Town Single Record of the Year: Lee Brice, 'I Don't Dance'

"This is a big deal for me," said Adora Smith, Tank's owner, as she jumped up and down in excitement. The Smiths got Tank just a little too late to enter him in Drake's Beautiful Bulldog Contest last year. The 2015 contest was the first in which Tank had ever participated. "When he was selected as a contestant, I told him, 'Tank, you're going to be the Drake bulldog champion,' " Duane Smith said. "And now, he is."

As Drake's beautiful bulldog, Tank will have to attend several Drake events in the coming year. Duane Smith said he is confident Tank will be able to fulfill

his duties.

"He's a friendly dog," Duane Smith said. "He'll be a good Drake champion."

Judges at the 2 0 1 5 B e au t i f u l Bulldog Contest crowned dogs as winners of other awards — Drake Spirit, Family Theme, Congeniality, Best Dressed, Rescue Dog Recognition and Porterhouse People's Choice. Two dogs were also selected as the first and second runner-ups for the most beautiful bulldog.

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'Bobbi Kristina is awake' says Bobby Brown

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obby Brown has said his daughter Bobbi Kristina "is awake" nearly three months after she was found face down and unresponsive in a bath tub at her home in Georgia, Atlanta. The R&B singer made the surprise announcement during a concert appearance at the Verizon Theatre in Dallas, Texas. He told his audi-

ence: "Bobbi is awake. She is watching me."

He failed to elaborate further on his daughter's condition, but his comment was followed by wild screams from the crowd.

Ms Brown's family had said that she was "fighting for her life" since she was found unresponsive on 31 January. Family friend and gospel singer Kim Burrell

said in February that doctors had put Ms Brown in a medically induced coma to stop brain swelling.

Ms Brown was moved to an undisclosed location since being released last month from Emory University Hospital in Atlanta.

The 21-year-old is the only daughter of Brown and the late Whitney Houston.

Houston, who battled sub-

stance abuse, was, like her daughter, found unresponsive in a hotel bath tub in February 2012.

Authorities found a dozen prescription drug bottles in the 48-year-old's Beverly Hills Hotel suite and concluded that she accidentally drowned, although heart disease and cocaine use were listed as contributing factors.

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Young Bengal cricketer dies after on-field collision ‘Big 3’ lead Cavaliers

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KolKata, april 20 (iaNS): Promising cricketer and former Bengal Under-19 captain Ankit Kesri, who sustained a head injury in an on-field collision during a local game three days back, died at a private hospital here on Monday morning. The bereaved family alleged "medical negligence".

The 20-year-old East Bengal player was injured and fell unconscious on Friday following a collision with another fielder while taking a catch during a Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) senior knockout match against Bhowanipore.

The opening batsman, who was also a member of the Under-23 Bengal squad this year, passed away Monday morning following a massive heart attack, a CAB official said.

CAB treasurer Biswarup Dey said soon after the collision, Kesri was given mouth-to-mouth resuscitation by another cricketer, S.S. Singh, and then examined by a doctor before being rushed to a hospital close to the ground in an ambulance stationed at the Jadavpur University stadium. Ankit's father Raj Kumar Kesri alleged his son had to be shifted to a private city hospital in central Kolkata on Sunday following the instructions given by a CAB official. "On Friday, tests and scans were done

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initially and the doctors said he is fine. We were told he is normal and he will be transferred to the general ward from the ICU. But later they said, he had contracted fever and so they didn't shift him to the general ward," Ankit's father told a TV channel on Monday.

"We shifted him to another hospital after the doctors said CAB officials had suggested so."

"At the other hospital, doctors said there is a slight injury and he is drowsy.

They said he will remain there for three to four days.

On Sunday, they informed us he will be shifted to the general ward but we got a phone call early morning today saying there was a heart block," he added. Raj Kumar also alleged medi-

1st Along Memorial Trophy Final today

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DiMapUr, april 20 (MExN): The final match between Flamingoz and ISAH XI of the 1st Along Memorial Trohpy will be played on April 21. On Monday, the first semi final match saw ISAH XI defeat Brotherhood. ISAH XI won the toss and opted to bat, setting a target of 182 runs losing 8 wickets. Brotherhood in return were bundled out for just 43 runs. Man of the match was awarded to Jonathan Rongsen of ISAH XI, who scored 89 runs. Along Pongen of ISAH XI took five wickets and the match ball was awarded to him. The second semi final saw Flamingoz take on Blue Star, which witnessed a tight contest. Blue Star set a target of 82 runs. Flamingoz won the match by achieving the target on the last ball of the match. Imliwati of Blue Star was the top scorer for his team with 39 runs. Hokaito Zhimomi was declared man of the match for single handedly steering Flamingoz to victory by scoring 50 runs. On April 21, an exhibition match will be played between NCA XI and DDCA XI, which will be followed by the final.

2018 World Cup will be best ever: Blatter MoSCoW, april 20 (aFp): Nothing will stop Russia from hosting the best World Cup in the tournament's history in 2018, FIFA president Sepp Blatter said on a visit to one of the host venues Sochi on Monday. "I am a happy and proud president. I am proud that Russia is getting ready to host the World Cup," Blatter told the TASS news agency from the southern Russian city. "A lot of this is happening thanks to President Vladimir Putin, but also due to the sports minister (Vitaly) Mutko and (Alexei) Sorokin (CEO of the Local Organizing Committee). They are a true team and have a wonderful working relationship." Blatter said the 2018 World Cup will be his 10th after more than 40 years working for soccer's world governing body and he expected the finals to be a "wonderful" event. "Some people are wanting the World Cup to be taken away from Russia, but we will give one answer to this -- we are involved in football and we will not allow politics to get in the way," the 79-year-old Swiss said.

Blatter was set to hold a working visit on Monday with Putin and said he would tell the Russian leader he was pleased with the progress the country was making on the World Cup. "Everything is going to plan and nothing will get in the way of Russia hosting the best ever World Cup. The economic situation is not the best, but I know it will get better. "The main thing is that the people of Russia are organizing this tournament. The people want this championship to go ahead and I personally feel this," added Blatter. Sochi will be one of 11 host cities where matches will take place at the World Cup which runs from June 14 to July 15.

cal negligence for his son's tragic demise.

"If the treatment was good, then he could have been saved. He was playing well. He did not have any bad habits," the grieving father said.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee condoled Kesri's death.

"Saddened, shocked with the news of young cricketer Ankit's death as a result of an on-field accident. My condolences and prayers. RIP," Banerjee posted on Twitter. Kesri's tragic fate invoked the memories of the unfortunate death of Australian cricketer Phillip Hughes who was fatally hit by a bouncer during a domestic match on November 25 last year, and succumbed to the injuries two days later.

NEW DElHi, april 20 (iaNS): Indian cricket legends Sachin Tendulkar and Anil Kumble condoled the death of former Bengal Under-19 cricket captain Ankit Keshri, who died in a private city nursing home on Monday after sustaining a head injury in an on-field collision during a local game. "Saddened by the demise of Ankit Keshri. A promising career aborted by an unfortunate incident on field. May God give strength to Ankit's family and friends to cope with this loss #RIP," Te n d u l k a r wrote on his social networking page Twitter.

Keshri sustained a head injury in an on-field collision during a local game and died in a private city nursing home on Monday.

Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) treasurer Biswarup Dey said the 20-year-old promising East Bengal player was injured on Friday in a collision with another fielder while taking a catch during a senior knockout match against Bhowanipore. Kumble also tweeted his grief at the death.

"Sad news of a young promising cricketer Ankit losing his life on field of play. May God give strength to loved ones to bear this loss!," he wrote. Keshri was given mouth-to-mouth resuscitation by another cricketer, S.S. Singh, and then examined by a doctor before being rushed to a private hospital in an ambulance stationed at the Jadavpur University stadium. The opening batsman, who was also a member of the Under-23 Bengal squad this year, passed away this morning following a massive heart attack, a CAB official said.

Lancashire batsman hits world record 350 in 138 balls

loNDoN, april 20 (rEUtErS): Young Lancashire batsman Liam Livingstone has smashed a world record 350 in just 138 balls during a one-day match. The 21-year-old allrounder bludgeoned 34 fours and 27 sixes for Nantwich in a Royal London National Club Championship game against Caldy.

The England and Wales Cricket Board said on its website (www.ecb.co.uk) that his innings was the highest recorded in any form of one-day match, beating the previous record of 334 not out by Nikhilesh Surendran in an Indian club fixture in Hyderabad.

Nantwich, a club based in the north-west of England, amassed 579 for seven in 45 overs and ended up winning by a remarkable margin of 500 runs.

Caldy's poor bowlers were hit to all parts. One regis-

tered figures of nought for 123 from nine overs and another finished with two for 124 in eight overs.

Caldy were then bowled out for 79 and Livingstone completed a memorable day by taking three catches.

"It was just one of those days when everything I did came off," said Livingstone, who was used as a substitute fielder by England in last year's third test win over India in Manchester after Stuart Broad was struck in

the face while batting.

"The ball was moving about a bit early on and the third ball I faced nipped back through the gate and just missed the off stump.

After that I thought I'd try whacking a few. "I hit the next one for six and everything kept hitting the middle. Someone told me at drinks when I was on 190odd that I was on for a record but I only knew when I came off what the record was and that I'd broken it.

"It's a great feeling, and my phone's been busy since, with texts and my Twitter going mental. I suppose that's the good thing about social media," said Livingstone. "One of the texts was from Ashley Giles, our cricket director at Lancashire, and for all that this was good fun, the main aim for me this season is to try and earn a place in the first team."

past Celtics in Game 1

ClEVElaND, april 20 (ap): Kyrie Irving scored 30 points in his playoff debut and LeBron James added 20 in his first postseason game with Cleveland in five years as the Cavaliers opened a run toward an NBA title with a 113-100 victory over the Boston Celtics on Sunday.

Ir ving made five 3-pointers and Kevin Love, another postseason rookie, had 19 points and 12 rebounds. It was Cleveland's first home playoff game since May 11, 2010, when the Celtics won Game 5 and James left the floor to some boos from Cavaliers fans. He departed for Miami two months later, but he's home now, all is forgiven and Cleveland is aiming to end a championship drought dating to 1964.

Isaiah Thomas scored 22 points to lead the seventh-seeded Celtics. They will try to even the best-of-7 series in Game 2 on Tuesday night.

Clippers point guard Chris Paul scored 32 points, and Blake Griffin added 26 points and 12 rebounds, as Los Angeles surged in the second half to beat the San Antonio Spurs 107-92 in their first-round playoff series opener. Jamal Crawford added 17 points for the Clippers, who met the defending NBA champions' challenge in a difficult postseason-opening matchup for two powers.

Griffin threw down his usual array of roof-raising dunks, while Paul quarterbacked Los Angeles to an 18-point lead in the third quarter.

Kawhi Leonard scored 18 points for the Spurs, who had won the opening game in their previous 11 playoff series. Tim Duncan had 11 points and 11 rebounds, but the Spurs couldn't rally from their hefty second-half deficit. Game 2 is Wednesday night.

In Atlanta, Kyle Korver scored 21 points, including five 3-pointers, as the top-seeded Hawks held off

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Cleveland Cavaliers' Kyrie Irving (2) is fouled by Boston Celtics' Avery Bradley (0) while shooting in the fourth quarter of a first-round NBA playoff basketball game on April 19, in Cleveland. (AP Photo)

the Brooklyn Nets 99-92 in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference playoff series. The Hawks led nearly the entire game and pushed the margin as high as 16 points, but the Nets kept coming back. Finally, Jeff Teague dropped in a floater coming off the left wing, giving Atlanta a 95-89 lead. Joe Johnson missed a 3-pointer from the corner for Brooklyn, and Teague made a pair of free throws with just under a minute remaining to essentially seal it.

Teague and DeMarre Carroll scored 17 points apiece. Game 2 is Wednesday night in Atlanta.

The Memphis Grizzlies downed the Portland Trail Blazers 100-86 after

reserve Beno Udrih scored 20 points in Game 1 of their Western Conference firstround series. Zach Randolph had 16 points and 11 rebounds, and Marc Gasol added 15 points and 11 rebounds. Mike Conley finished with 16 points and didn't play the fourth quarter. Jeff Green had 11.

LaMarcus Aldridge led Portland with 32 points while taking more shots than anyone had ever taken against Memphis in the postseason, going 13 of 34. Damian Lillard added 14 points, shooting 5 of 21 overall and 0 of 6 beyond the arc. Nicolas Batum had 15 points. The Trail Blazers have lost five straight overall. Game 2 is Wednesday night.

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loNDoN, april 20 (iaNS): Chelsea footballer Eden Hazard is among the best three players in the world, claims team manager Jose Mourinho. The 24-year-old has enjoyed a stellar season, scoring 18 goals and making 10 assists in all competitions as Chelsea close in on a first Premier League title since 2010. The Belgian footballer has been nominated for the Professional Footballers' Association (PFA) Player and Young Player of the Year award after another fine English Premier League campaign, notching 13 goals and eight assists in the competition alone.

"He's a kid, but he is also a family man and he knows he is one of the three best players in the world, responsibility comes with that and he is coping with that responsibility," Mourinho was quoted as saying by goal.com on Monday.

Hazard was the hero on Saturday as Chelsea extended their lead at the top to 10 points after he scored the winner in his side's 1-0 victory over Manchester United. "If people want to be fair, he gets that award (Player of the Year). But the award I want him to win is the Premier League. I've had lots of stars, but he's the humble star," the 52-year-old manager said. "He's a great kid. Physically, mentally he's getting very, very strong. He understands his role. He understands his talent is fundamental for the team."

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