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NEw DElhI, aprIl 26 (mExN): The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has stepped up its activities against the NSCN (K) that the Government of India considers a banned outfit.

The NIA, on Wednesday, arrested three Nagaland State Government Moi Bhidoor manu nahoi officers for providing substantial tey.moi B-door manu ase!! amounts of money to National Socialist Council of Nagaland-Khaplang (NSCN (K)) by contributing government funds to them in official capacity.

The NIA officials arrested Joint Director/DDO, Department of Social Welfare, Joint Director/DDO, Department of Land Resources and UDA/Cashier, Department of Land Resources, in connection with the alleged charges of large scale extortion and illegal tax collection on behalf of the banned organisation NSCN (K) from various government organizations and others by the cadres of NSCN (K) in Dimapur and Kohima The Morung Express areas.

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Govt notifies on Rongmei tribe KohIma, aprIl 26 (DIpr): In pursuance of the Nagaland State Cabinet meeting held on April 25, the recognition of Rongmei tribe as an indigenous Naga tribe of Nagaland, as notified by the Government earlier dated August, 4, 2012, has been withdrawn with immediate effect. The 1,313 people belonging to the Rongmei tribe, already identified by the Government of Nagaland through special enumeration process as having permanently settled in the present territory of Nagaland prior to December 1, 1963, along with their legitimate descendants, would continue to enjoy the status, privileges and entitlements as indigenous inhabitants of Nagaland, similar to the ones being enjoyed by members of other indigenous inhabitants, who had permanently settled in the present territory of Nagaland prior to 01-12-1963, as notified by the State Government vide Notification No APPT16/6/67 dated 06-07-1973 and No AR-8/8/76 dated 28-04-1977.

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government funds to the banned outfit, thereby supporting NSCN (K) in furtherance of its unlawful activities.

The government officers were arrested on the basis of their alleged involvement in paying huge amount of money to various factions such as NSCN (K), NSCN (R), FGN, NNC and others which was revealed during the scrutiny of the documents including demand letters and payment receipts which were seized during the search operation carried out by the NIA. The accused were produced in a Special NIA Court, Dimapur earlier today for police remand.

The court granted five days police remand for two while one was sent to hospital for treatment after being reported sick.

Chargesheet in NSCN (K) cases Meanwhile, the NIA Guwahati, on April 25, also filed a Charge Sheet under section 173(8) CrPC before the Special NIA Court, Dimapur, against two accused NSCN (K) cadres namely one Col Akaho and Col Aheto “of NSCN/GPRN” under various Arms Act and other relevant sections of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act. The NIA, in a press release, in-

formed that the case was initially registered at Zunheboto Police Station, Nagaland on June 28, 2012 on the compliant of the then Superintendent of Police, Zunheboto District, Nagaland.

“It was alleged in the complaint that, Armed Branch Sub Inspector (ABSI) and staff of Record Officer (Clothing) establishment of DEF Zunheboto had deliberately misappropriated the large quantity of arms and ammunition from the DEF Kote,” it said. Further investigation was carried out by the Agency following the direction of an MHA order.

The release further maintained that the NIA has collected sufficient evidences against the accused persons during the further course of investigation and identified the “accused persons belonging to NSCN (K) and NSCN/GPRN of Nagaland.”

However, the Agency said that “the accused are absconding and are yet to be apprehended.”

The main accused ABSI has already expired on November 12, 2013 and the NIA Special Court has issued Non-Bailable Warrants against the two charge sheeted absconding accused, it added.

With inputs from ANI

DImapur, aprIl 26 (mExN): Concerned Naga Senior Citizens (CNSC) have written to the Prime Minister of India enquiring about the progress of the Indo-Naga peace process two years after the signing of a ‘Framework Agreement’ between the National Socialist Council of Nagalim (NSCNIM) and the Government of India (GoI).

They also clarified that GoI “backtracking” on its past commitments could lead to “undesirable events,” which makes it all the more urgent to move the peace process forward and draw up a “final settlement.”

In the memorandum, the CNSC reminded the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, that after his party’s landslide victory in the last general election, the Government of India had claimed to “resolve the protracted Naga political issue within one to one and half years time.”

“Nagas heaved a sigh of relief on hearing the news after a prolonged distrust and frustration under the Congress regime which has miserably failed to achieve any tangible progress due to lack of political will,” they stated in the memorandum, also forwarded to Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh, Union Finance and Defense Minister Arun Jaitley, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, BJP President Amit Shah and interlocutor to Indo-Naga peace talks, RN Ravi.

The CNSC applauded the Framework Agreement that was a result of negotiations for nearly two decades between the “NSCN representing the Nagas” and the GoI. “This shows the commitments of both the entities for a permanent solu-

tion,” noted the senior citizens represented by TA Ngullie, former finance minister of Nagaland, DK Zeliang IFS (Retd.), rural economist and environmentalist, I Bendangangshi, ex MLA, L Suohie Mhasi, ex MLA and NA Kasar, senior administrative officer (Retd.).

Noting that it is going to now be nearly two years since the Framework Agreement was signed, the CNSC stated that no “tangible progress seems to have been achieved so far thereby apparently defeating past commitments.” “lf such opportunities are allowed to go away then the Nagas doubt the sincerity of the GoI for a peaceful political settlement,” they maintained. Moreover, if the GoI “starts listening to everyone by undermining the party who are genuinely trying to bring an honorable solution with the Gol, it will be committing Himalayan blunder and in such situation Nagas may be forced to seek different options,” the senior citizens maintained.

They found it pertinent to also mention that in the event that the GoI backtracks from its past commitments, it may “directly tantamount” to the Nagas “being driven away from the negotiating table and the consequences thereof will be irreparable whereby the loss may be more for India than the Nagas.” Thus, “in order to avert such undesirable events in the near future it will be in the best interest of both the parties to move forward the peace process expeditiously and come to a final settlement of the world’s longest insurgency movement once and for all.”

BAn allege harassment by cadres Nagaland implements Horticulture Mission

DImapur, aprIl 26 (mExN): The Business Association of Nagas (BAN) has demanded that cadres of the NSCN (IM) refrain from harassing entrepreneurs while appealing law enforcing agencies to be more proactive.

The BAN brought to light an incident that occurred on April 20 wherein a cadre from the NSCN (IM) led by a supervisor allegedly checked shops run by Naga entrepreneurs, namely Daily feed, Clothing World, Hot Topic, Liz’s studio, American boutique, The Blossom, The Shop and Furtados.

The Association accused the cadres of objecting to there being MRP tags on imported products and no MRP tags on local products, and then threatening the shop owners with Section 420 IPC for price manipulations.

As per a press release from the BAN’s media cell, the shop owners were summoned on April 21, 10.00 am, at a restaurant below Hotel Crown in Nagarjan Junction and a “penalty” of Rs. 50,000 was imposed upon the “defaulters.” On “defying to pay”, and “on request not to impose such unreasonable penalty, they reduced the demand

amount to Rs 20,000 which was to be submitted the same day before 2.00 pm or face back a listing (sic.) of the shops through daily papers,” informed BAN. “The harassment went on” and on April 22, the cadres allegedly visited the shops again and “threatened the shop owners and employee, using abusive languages and un-parliamentary words, threatening that if they don’t comply they will face dire consequences. Subsequently and unfortunately, out of fear two shops put their shutter down,” claimed the Association.

The BAN reminded that there is no pricing policy in Nagaland State. “An imported product with a price tag of foreign currency like Baht and Dollar etc. will not be sold in Nagaland unless it is converted into Indian currency. Likewise, locally produced goods will also have to be tagged or untagged as per the convenience of the seller and producer as Nagaland is not a regulated and controlled market but free and competitive market,” it explained, therefore demanding expediency on the behalf of cadres before taking such steps.

our Correspondent Kohima | April 26

Nagaland State’s Department of Horticulture is implementing the project, Mission for Integrated Development of Horticulture (MIDH) for, as they claim, holistic growth of the horticulture sector encompassing fruits, vegetables, root and tuber crops, mushrooms, spices, flowers, aromatic plants, coconut, cashew, cocoa and bamboo.

MIDH is a centrally sponsored scheme.

The primary objective is to improve production and productivity of horticulture crops through various interventions, according to Nagaland Economic Survey 2016-17 tabled in the

organic cultivation of cabbage, potato and others at Pfutsero in Phek direct. (Morung Photo)

recent State Assembly session here by Parliamentary Secretary For Economics & Statistics Tovihoto Ayemi.

During 2015-16, 1950 hectares of area has been brought under area expansion for various horticultur-

al crops with an amount of Rs. 5.61 crores under MIDH. In addition, 51 peckhouses, 10 evaporative cool chambers, primary processing units and low cost preservation units, 5 retail markets and 6 rural mar-

kets were established at a cost of Rs. 3.94 crores.

Besides, to strengthen, the department has focused on Research and Development (R&D) sector, management and infrastructure.

Management of viral diseases and productivity maximization of Naga King chilli through organic cultivation is one such programme.

Under RKVY 2015-16, 230 hectare was brought under crops like Kiwi, Citrus, Lemon Grass, Banana, Passion Fruit, Cardamom, Papaya and Litchi.

Construction of farmers’ hostel at Hortiscape Kisama, training hall at Dimapur and installation of 10 units of low cost mushroom units were completed during the period.

Khelhoshe Polytechnic Atoizu faculty call off protest Azad Hind Museum

DImapur, aprIl 26 (mExN): cause even though many requests will refrain from performing any of some government officials, inThe Khelhoshe Polytechnic Atoizu had been made to the government upcoming examination duty until stead of sympathizing their help‘fixed pay Lecturers, Assistant Lec- regarding the non-payment of sala- the Department disburse the pend- less case in times of desperation, the response was even more disturers and Demonstrators’ have ries both verbally and in written but ing salaries” on or before April 24.

The aggrieved faculty mem- couraging for the faculties to carry now decided to call-off protests to there was no positive response due abstain from conducting practical to which the members were com- bers also met the Director of Tech- out their duties and responsibiliexaminations due to non-payment pelled to serve an ultimatum dated nical Education to “apprise him of ties without any payment of salof 6 months’ salary from October March 30, 2017, to not declare the their grievances” on April 13, fol- ary in such a remote location,” the Progressive Assessment on April 12, lowing which the Director “gave aggrieved faculty members noted, 2016 till date. a verbal assurance that the sala- adding that they had no option but The faculty members stated 2017,” informed the press release.

However, no satisfactory re- ries will be paid regularly from the to “stick with their ultimatum until this in a press release today. Even though no positive response from sponse came from the authorities, month of March 2017,” the press the demand is fulfilled.”

But now that they have called the Government has come till so the faculty members decided to note informed, adding that the asoff the stir, the members requested date, they have taken this decision go ahead with the declaration of the surance was not fulfilled.

“Serving without pay for such the authority to “feel the genuine“keeping in mind the career of the Progressive Assessment “keeping in mind the career of the students.” long months in out-post location is ness of their case and continue to students at stake.”

“The decision to abstain from Another ultimatum was served on really miserable, the faculties were take up the matter with utmost urKohIma, aprIl 26 (DIpr): The Cabinet of the performing duty was made be- April 13 stating that “the faculties really taken aback by the response gency with professional ethics.”

Government of Nagaland has decided to ban the use of Red Beacon Light on all government vehicles in the State of Nagaland with effect from May 1, 2017. Ban on use of Red Light Beacon NEw DElhI/Guwa- government. He said the and representatives of All tion of fencing along the Assam,” Sonowal said after Indo-Bangla border has the meeting. will apply to Civil, Military hatI, aprIl 26 (IaNS): Central government has Assam Students’ Union.

Singh said that a com- already begun,” Singh said.

AASU Adviser SamujParamilitary, Police Func- Union Home Minister Ra- been closely monitoring tionaries Officials of Cen- jnath Singh on Wednesday the implementation of the mittee with representatives The Union Home Minister jal Bhattacharyya said that from the central govern- also said that construction all 60 proposals placed by tral and State Government assured a delegation of the historic Accord.

Departments, Agencies, All Assam Students’ Union “The Government of In- ment, Assam government work of the Bogibeel Bridge AASU for clause-wise imOrganizations, Public Sec- (AASU) that the spirit of the dia and the Government of and AASU will be formed to would be completed with- plementation of the Accord tor Undertakings. Howev- Assam Accord would not be Assam are committed to a ensure time-bound imple- in December 2017. were discussed threadbare er, Police vehicles escorting allowed to get diluted at any flawless NRC updation exer- mentation of all clauses of “We have started a in the talks. He said that they VVIPs, VIPs, High Dignitar- cost and the government is cise in Assam and to provide the Accord. meaningful and good be- discussed the issue of raising ies will be allowed to use committed to provide Con- Constitutional and econom“All issues raised by ginning to the implemen- of a Special Task Force at dismulti-coloured orange, stitutional and economic ic safeguards to the indige- AASU will be discussed in tation of Assam Accord. trict and state levels for deblue and white light already detail and implemented Today’s talks have ended tection of illegal immigrants. permitted vide Notification safeguards to the indige- nous people,” said Singh.

The tripartite talks at the in a time-bound manner. on a positive note, as we “A bilateral agreement benous people of the state. dated March 19, 2014. The The Union Minister Home Ministerial level is We are also mulling the have discussed in detail tween Governments of India decision comes in the aftermath of the Union gov- said this on Wednesday being held after a gap of al- option for second line of clause-wise time bound and Bangladesh for deporernment announcement while taking part in tripar- most 12 years. It was partici- defence along the border implementation of the Ac- tation of illegal immigrants of a similar ban on April 19 tite talks between the AASU pated by the Union Home for strengthening border cord for providing con- was also suggested by AASU with the aim of putting an delegation, the Assam gov- Minister, Assam Chief Min- security and checking in- stitutional and economic in the discussions,” Bhatend to VIP culture. ernment and the Central ister Sarbananda Sonowal filtration. Besides, erec- safeguards to the people of tacharyya said.

State govt bans use of red beacon light

Centre committed to constitutional safeguards for IPs

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senior citizens ask Goi to niA arrests nagaland state Govt naga move peace process forward officers for funding banned org

Files chargesheet in two NSCN (K) cases

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be set up in Kohima our Correspondent Kohima | April 26

A two day seminar on ‘The Battle of Kohima and its impact to India’s freedom,’ which concluded today at Ruzazho, resolved that Ruzazho village under Phek district of Nagaland where Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, Head, Provisional Government of Azad Hind and Supreme Commander of the Indian National Army (INA) visited during World War II should be declared as a National Heritage Village.

A resolution taken on the occasion stated that Bose camped for a few days at Ruzazho village in the middle part of April 1944.

“As the battle front of the combined Japanese and INA forces were Nagaland and Manipur during the relevant time, it will only be proper to give due credence to Netaji’s visit to Ruzazho village and honour the deathless struggle of Netaji and INA volunteers to free our motherland by recognizing the village as heritage village,” the resolution signed by the resource persons, organizations and others stated.

It also resolved that Azad Hind Museum should be set up at Kohima, where all relics concerning

Netaji and the INA such as weapons, uniforms, and flags etc. used by the INA, Azad Hind currency, books and films on the INA and so on should be maintained and displayed.

Further, it resolved that the routes taken by the INA are identified in Nagaland and suitable memorial installed at important places such as Jessami, Sangshak, Sangnyu, Sahpao, Lahe, Ruzazho, Chesezu, Viswema, Mao and also places in and around Kohima where INA freedom fighters fought their battles.

It resolved that the State and the Union government should institute serious research by competent scholars to unearth the history of INA deeds in Nagaland and Manipur and publish the same for the Indian public.

Earlier, Subenthung Kithan, President, Naga Students’ Federation (NSF), graced the valedictory session as special guest today.

The seminar, held from April 25 to 26, was organized

by Indian Council of Historical Research (ICHR) in association with Government College Pfutsero, Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Memorial Development Society, Nagaland and Chakhesang Students’ Union.

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Tobu sub-div sees huge health care breakthrough

DUDA Department launches Opium De-addiction Prog for Opium users and ambulance Service for pregnant mothers Morung Express News Mon | April 26

Making a remarkable achievement, the joint launching of Opium Deaddiction Programme/OST (Opioid Substitution Therapy) for Opium users and Ambulance Service for pregnant mothers under Mother & Child Care Programme under BADP for Tobu SubDivision was held here at the ADC Office Tobu.

Mention may be made that the OST programme for Opium users was initiated in 2015 jointly by the

Joint Action Committee Against Opium Addiction (JACAOA) with the support of Directorate of Health & Family Welfare Nagaland.

The Opium De-Addiction Programme is now extended and taken up by the Department of Under Developed Areas (DUDA) under BADP 2016-17 jointly with JACAOA and the Nagaland State Aids Control Society (NSACS). A total of 276 Opium addicts are being treated under this ongoing programme in three different OST Centres under Tobu Sub Division.

Thongwang Konyak and Naiba Konyak with officials and others during the joint launching held at the ADC Office Tobu.

The public of Tobu area also requested the DUDA Department to extend the Opium De-addiction programme to other border areas as the addiction problem is contagious and has to be fought in all fronts.

Thongwang Konyak,

Advisor DUDA, LMCP & NIDC addressing the programme as chief guest of said that opium abuse among the Konyaks started during the British era with an issue of permit for opium consumption. He made a commitment that

this programme will be continued for the benefit of the people in the border areas and the Naga Society in general. He further encouraged the public to made good use of ambulances provided.

Naiba Konyak, Advi-

sor Geology and Mining NEPED & NBDA also spoke at the programme and said that the success of such programmes is due to the efficiency and the cooperation of the Administrative Officers and other Departmental Officers

posted in Tobu.

W Moba Konyak Convenor, JACAOA said that both the State and Centre has so far not adopted any policy against the Mass Opium Addiction in the border areas and the Opium De-addiction Programme taken up under BADP 2016-17 will be the first of its kind to address this particular issue. The KU Unit Branch Tobu and TASU made a representation to the Government to set up Anti-Narcotics Cell Unit at Tobu to control the supply and abuse of opium in the region.

Also, two ambulances were provided by the Department under Mother & Child Care Programme which is being implemented by the Eleutheros Christian Society (ECS).

These Ambulances along

with other medical equipments and testing kits is a high tech health monitoring programme for pregnant mothers including the use of mobile apps and is launched to provide services to the villages under Tobu sub division under the joint supervision of ECS and CHC, Tobu. Chongsen, Co-ordinator ECS made a power point presentation of the programme.

A short speech was delivered by A Zibenthung Kithan ADC Tobu short speech while Anden Konyak Director DUDA pronounced the vote of thanks. The programme was chaired by Senti Ao, IAS, Secretary DUDA who also highlighted other capacity building and human resource development Programmes taken up by the Department.

Juvenile Justice System for effective legal assistance to children Fire destroys house at Changtongya

DiMapUr, april 26 (MExn): With an aim to ensure effective legal assistance to children who comes in conflict with law or are in need of care and protection, Dimapur District Legal Services Authority (DDLSA) conducted one day training workshop on Juvenile Justice System at conference hall, district court, Dimapur on April 26.

Panel lawyers, Para Legal Volunteers, police, children homes, labour department, Juvenile Justice Board, Child Line, ICPS, MSW students, Child Welfare Commission, women cell and social workers attended the workshop.

Delivering the keynote address, Limasunep Jamir, Commissioner of Police Dimapur, gave an over view of the Juvenile Justice Act and highlighted certain infirmities in the working of the act. Jamir, spoke briefly on the importance of The Protection of Children from Sexual Offenses (POCSO Act).

The Police Commissioner also handed over a compensation award of Rs. 1 Lakh as Victim Compensation under Nagaland Victim Compensation Scheme 2012,

A one-day training/workshop on juvenile justice system was held at Conference Hall, District Court, Dimapur on Wednesday. The resource persons spoke on various topics including, Juvenile Justice Act, 2005, Child Labour/ Trafficking and POCSO Act/ICPS. (Morung Photo)

sanctioned by Relief and rehabilitation branch, Home Department to the retainer lawyer Nathaniel Kevichusa.

Resource persons at the workshop were R. Limhathung Ezong, Legal Aid Counsel and Trainer, NSLSA, who spoke on Juvenile Justice Act, 2015, Esther K. Aye, Legal Aid Counsel and Trainer, NSLSA spoke on Child labour/illicit trafficking and Limasenla Longkumer, Legal Aid Counsel and Trainer, NSLSA spoke on POCSO Act ICPS. An interaction session was also held with the stakeholder.

NSLSA aims to improve access to justice for children Phek District Legal Services Authority (PDLSA) conducted training workshop on Juvenile Justice System at DC conference hall, Phek on April 26.

Speaking on Juvenile Justice System, Akumla Longchari, Master Trainer NSLSA highlighted on the aims and objectives of Juvenile Justice Act 2016. She informed that through the child friendly legal services to children and their protection scheme the National Legal Services Author-

ity aims to improve access to justice for children. She said that the main purpose of the schemes is to facilitate the proper implementation of the existing legislations and policies in favour of children which already exist, such as POCSO Act, JJ Act, prohibition child labour.

Speaking on POCSO Act, N. Longshithung Ezung, Chairman PDLSA and District and Session Judge informed on how to deal with the victims by all the stakeholders under the Act. He highlighted on the procedure to be followed by the SJPU under the act, procedure to be followed for recording the statement of the child and examination of the child etc.

A practical session on the juvenile justice system was conducted by the co-ordinator followed by group activity dealing with juvenile cases. Ketobu Vitsu, DCPO Phek gave the opening remarks.

The programme was chaired by Mamang Singson, Retainer Lawyer PDLSA while vote of thanks was delivered by Samuel Ritse, APP Phek. Earlier, invocation prayer was pronounced by Mezo Nyekha, Member JJB.

Suruhuto gets new Primary Health Center

Parliamentary Secretary Shetoyi Sumi with elders and others during the programme held at at Medical Colony Suruhuto on April 25. (DIPR Photo)

ZUnhEboto, april 26 (Dipr): Parliamentary Secretary for Fisheries and Printing & Stationeries, Shetoyi Sumi inaugurated the new Primary Health Center building as well as upgradation of Government Middle School at Medical Colony Suruhuto

on April 25 in the presence of Chief Medical Officer Zunheboto, Medical Officer and staff, Hekhushe Shikhu, President Sumi Hoho, other officials and area leaders.

The Parliamentary Secretary appraised the public on the importance of clean

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election campaign and thanked the various NGOs for their initiatives in making the people aware. He also said that public should give importance and raise voice for developments instead of bargaining for one's own benefits and work together and give co-

operation for more developments in the area.

The Parliamentary Secretary also inspected the Primary Health Center where the Department appraised him regarding the grievances and inconveniences faced including immediate need of equipments such as, cold storage, fencing, lab room etc.

Parliamentary Secretary assured the Medical Officer and staff that he will do the necessities and highlight the grievances to the authority concerned.

During his tour, the Parliamentary Secretary also inspected various offices at Suruhuto town along with the DBs, GBs and area leaders and raised concerns to the respective departments regarding the irregularities of employees/staff and also appealed to the government employees to be regular and serve the people with sincerity and dedication.

MoKoKChUng, april 26 (MExn): The Ao Baptist Pastors’ Fellowship (ABPF) has come out with a strong statement on cleaning the electioneering system in the state and also against the continued spate of discrimination and atrocities committed against the Christians in the country. The resolutions were made known in a statement released to the media by the Ao pastors that was made during their fellowship from April 21 to 23 last at Kumlong Baptist Arogo, Mokokchung Town.

The pastor’s fellowship in their 5 point resolution firstly resolved to have a chain of prayer in all the churches for cleaner elections in the state and also to uphold in prayer the continued discrimination and atrocities against ‘believers’ in the country to be culminated with a day of fasting and prayer.

The fellowship of Ao pastors also categorically denounced the selection of village and citizen’s forum candidates during elections as it undermines the rights of the citizens and therefore leads to corrupt practices during elections. It further resolved that the fellowship will not vote/ support any group/party that persecutes Christians.

The pastors also resolved to compose a theme song for Clean Elections that will be sung in all the churches.

In the fifth resolution, the pastors decided to write to the President of India on the discrimination and atrocities against Christians in the country.

The speakers during the Fellowship were Rev. Dr. Wati Aier Principal OTS, Rev. Dr. Mar Pongen Principal CTC, Rev. Bendangmeren Pastor KABA, and Rev. Maong Lemtur Asso. Pastor DABA, the release added.

The incident incurred a loss of around one crore rupees. No loss of life was reported. The RCC residential building of the owner was partially destroyed due to timely intervention by the citizen of the Town and the arrival of the fire brigade from Tuli. The fire was

prevented from spreading to the nearby building. The cause of the fire was reportedly due to electrical short circuit.

SDO (C) Chumbamo Humtsoe along with Dobashi visited the site and met the affected family and assured possible help.

A car in Kohima town, near Oking Hospital, is seen violating traffic rules, where it has parked over a No-Parking signboard. Though the car was found parked early morning and till evening on April 25, the Traffic Police could not track the owner of the vehicle. The Traffic police complaint of such constant violators of traffic rules in Kohima, causing inconvenience to the public.

NERFFSO meet resolves

7 AR and citizens of Pungro talks to uphold peace

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C h a n gt o n gya , april 26 (Dipr): A two stored semi-pucca building belonging to S.T Yanger of Akhoya village, residing at Longpangtsung Ward, Changtongya Town beside NH-2 were completely destroyed by the fire at around 11:40 PM on April 24.

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Late P. Motrong Yimchunger The family of Late P. Motrong Yimchunger would like to express our deep appreciation and thank you to each and every individual, churches, organisations, neighbours, friends and well wishers who stood by us physically, financially and with prayer during his sad demise. It is our sincere prayer that our Almighty God reward you in his munificence.

The remains of property destroyed by fire at Longpangtsung Ward, Changtongya Town which occured on April 24. (DIPR Photo)

Colonial Aditya Verma Commandant 7 Assam Rifle Kiphire greets village elders and leaders during the meeting at Administrative Guest House, Pungro under Kiphire district. (Morung Photo) Morung Express News Kiphire | April 26

Altogether 125 people from 40 villages under Pungro subdivision today attended a meeting with Colonial Aditya

Verma Commandant 7 Assam Rifle Kiphire at Administrative Guest House, Pungro under Kiphire district.

Addressing the gathering, Colonial Aditya Verma expressed gratitude to the

citizens of Pungro for their support and cooperation in establishing the new 7 Assam Rifle post at Pungro.

Sharing his concern on peace in the district, the Colonial said February 6, 2016

incident has disturbed the peaceful co-existence between the Sangtam and the Yimchunger in the district.

He appealed to the people gathered to move forward by leaving behind the past differences and come together to live peacefully.

The Colonial also assured to work for peace and development of the region for which he seek support and co-operation form the people gathered.

The Colonial requested the people gathered to send their children for prerequired qualification to COB Pungro for carrying out pre-recruitment training. He also emphasised on the need for pre-required qualification as it produce better result.

Leaders from the area also spoke on the occasion and assured all possible help and support for peace and tranquility.

Dr. Er. Vikuotuolie Angami (PhD), advisor NERFFSO addressing the executive meeting of NERFFSO at Guwahati on April 22.

KohiMa, april 26 (MExn): The executive meeting of North East Region Freedom Fighter’s Successor’s Organization (NERFFSO) was held in the premises of Hotel Grand Starline, Guwahati on April 22 last.

The meeting was chaired by Hiranmoni Phukan, president NERFFSO and senior advocate Guwahati High Court, Assam.

Two senior leaders from north east region, Golap Sarma, chief advisor NERFFSO

and Panel Advocate government of Assam, Guwahati High Court and Dr.Er. Vikuotuolie Angami, advisor NERFFSO, retired engineerin-chief, government of Nagaland exhorted the meeting.

The house also discussed and resolved on the future plan and organizational affairs of the freedom fighter’s family as well as successors, stated Hiranmoni Phukan, president and N. Neilo Koza, working president NERFFSO in a press release.

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Incessant rain in NE normal life affected AgArtAlA/AizAwl, April 26 (iANS): Weeklong incessant pre-monsoon rains, thunderstorm and heavy lightning disrupted life in northeastern states while road connectivity remained cut-off in Mizoram due to landslides, officials said on Wednesday.

"Cyclonic circulation persisting over East Bangladesh and adjoining Tripura, Manipur, Mizoram and Nagaland caused light to heavy rains since April 20 affecting normal life in the region," Meteorological Department Director Dilip Saha told IANS in Agartala.

Saha said: "The situation is likely to improve from Wednesday. The quantum of pre-monsoon rain this year is higher than last year in the four northeastern states.""The NH-54 remained blocked since Monday due to the landslide caused by non-stop rainfall since last week," Mizoram Disaster Management and Rehabilitation Director C. Lalpeksanga said in Aizawl.The NH-54 is the lifeline of the mountainous state. As many as 50 families have been evacuated from different places of the affected areas.

Biren Singh opens DIC in Kangpokpi Newmai News Network Imphal | April 26

Manipur Chief Minister, N Biren Singh today inaugurated District Information Office and District Social Welfare Office at Kangpokpi during his visit to the newly created district.

Ministers, Parliamentary Secretaries, MLAs, ADC Chairman, ADC Members, top bureaucrats and police officers were present at the inauguration ceremonies.

Kangpokpi is the first district among the newly created districts having a District Information Office under Directorate of Information and Public Relations. Now, the general public of the district will get all kinds of Governmentrelated information from this office.

The DIO’s office will also publicize all kinds of Government-related information of the district through the mass media.

In order to facilitate smooth running of the

newly opened office, one District Information Officer, an Information Assistant, an Office Assistant and a Grade-IV staff had been deputed at DIO Kangpokpi.

DIPR now has District Information Offices in Kangpokpi, Senapati, Ukhrul, Chandel, Churachandpur, Tamenglong, Thoubal and Bishnupur districts and a Manipur Information Centre at New Delhi. The State Government is yet to open District Information Offices at Jiribam, Kakching, Tengnoupal, Kamjong, Pherzawl and Noney districts.

A statement of DIPR said that with the creation of seven new districts namely Jiribam, Kangpokpi, Kakching, Tengnoupal, Kamjong, Pherzawl and Noney there is a need to open District Information Offices in all these newly created districts as well in order to function the district administration more effectively with the full support of the general masses

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Maximum seat limit: 20 persons Location: Peseyie Complex, 4th Floor, Near Christian Higher Secondary School, Dimapur Lunch will be provided.

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GOVERNMENT OF NAGALAND

OFFICE OF THE DEPUTY COMMISSIONER ZUNBEBOTO Dtd. Zbto, the 26/04/2017

Notice calling objection for the issue of Succession Certificate

Smt. Vizuli of Lutshumi Village, District Zunheboto has applied for the issue of Succession Certificate declaring that her husband Late B. Zhumla has expired on 15 -01- 2017.

It is hereby notified that if no objection to issue this certificate is received from anyone within a period of 30 (thirty) days w.e.f the date of publication in press, the Certificate shall be issued, and no further complaint will be entertained for issue of the same.

Sd/- Deputy Commissioner Zunheboto: Nagaland

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Dtd. Zbto, the 26/04/2017

Notice calling objection for the issue of Succession Certificate

Smt. Vitoli of Akuhaito Town, District Zunheboto has applied for the issue of Succession Certificate declaring that her husband Late Nihozhe Sema has expired on 10 -04- 2017.

It is hereby notified that if no objection to issue this certificate is received from anyone within a period of 30 (thirty) days w.e.f the date of publication in press, the Certificate shall be issued, and no further complaint will be entertained for issue of the same.

Sd/- Deputy Commissioner Zunheboto: Nagaland

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OFFICE OF THE DEPUTY COMMISSIONER ZUNBEBOTO NO.JUD.21/2016-17/ 44

imphAl, Arpil 26 (NNN):Manipur Chief Minister, N Biren Singh’s efforts for the public to have easy access to the government functionaries including legislators will see its practicality likely from next month. An official statement of the Manipur Government said today that on the 10th day of every month,

“hill representatives” will be allowed to meet CM from 10AM-4PM. The CM will meet village headmens, elected members of Autonomous District Councils (ADCs) and the leaders of hill-based civil society organizations for them to voice or highlight their grievances or issues to the CM directly. The 15th day of every

month as Meeyamgi Numit or People’s Day. On the day the CM, the Deputy CM, Ministers, the CS, the DGP, administrative secretaries, the HoDS, DCs, the SPs and the SDOs/BDOs will meet the general public in their respective offices from 10AM-4PM. If the days are holidays,it will be held on the next working day.

in the district.

After the inauguration, documentary film entitled, ‘Go to the Hills’ produced

by DIPR Manipur was also released by the Chief Minister; Works and IPR Minister Th. Biswajit; IFCD Minister Letpao Haokip, Social Welfare Minister Nemcha Kipgen; and Parliamentary Secretaries K. Robindro and Dr Sapam Ranjan.

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Dtd. Zbto, the 26/04/2017

Notice calling objection for the issue of Succession Certificate

Smt. Khuniho of Shena Old Village, District Zunheboto has applied for the issue of Succession Certificate declaring that her husband Late Nitovi has expired on 13 -11- 2013.

It is hereby notified that if no objection to issue this certificate is received from anyone within a period of 30 (thirty) days w.e.f the date of publication in press, the Certificate shall be issued, and no further complaint will be entertained for issue of the same.

Sd/- Deputy Commissioner Zunheboto: Nagaland

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Regd. No. 117 I Shri. Pauzidi S/o Shri. Dipeu of Jalukie Town, PO & PS Jalukie, Peren Dist. Nagaland hereby declared that: 1. That I am the deponent of this affidavit.

2. That the name Pauzidi and pauzidi Ipuing refers to one and the same person.

3. I hereby declared that my correct name is PAUZIDI and shall be used for all official purpose in the future.

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FOR ADMISSION TO: *DE PAUL INTERNATIONAL RESIDENTIAL SCHOOL & COLLEGE, MYSORE. Classes V to XII (ICSE) & Graduation.

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Issuing of Registration forms and Prospectus for CI11 (Eleven) Arts is going on. Interested candidates can collect during school hours.

Subjects offered1. English (Compulsory) 2. Alt Eng/Tenyidie 3. History 4. Political Science 5. Sociology 6 Economics.

SUMMON FOR SETTLEMENT OF ISSUE (ORDER- V, RULE-1, 5, 20) In the Court of Shri. Ajongba Imchen C.J. (SR.) Dimapur: Nagaland Suit No : C.S. No 64/16 & CMC 66/16 Plaintiff : Shri. Z. Kikheho Awomi & ANR. Defendants : Vishiyi Village Council & 6 ORS. To, The Additional Deputy Commissioner Nuiland Sub-Division Dimapur: Nagaland Whereas the plaintiffs has instituted a suit against you for declaration of title, rights & interest over the suit land & permanent injunction against the defendants.

You are hereby summoned to appear before the Court in person or by pleader duly instructed and able to answer all material questions relating to the suit on 24/05/17 at 10:00 a.m. without fail.

Take notice that in default of your appearance on the date mentioned the suit will be heard and determined in your absence.

Given under my hand and seal of the Court 24th day of April 2017.

Civil Judge (Senior Division), Dimapur: Nagaland

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I, Smti. M. Imtila Sangtam D/o Shri. Lt. Medenshiba, W/o T. Kikatemsu Sangtam R/o H/No-468, Lengrijan, Dimapur do hereby declare and solemnly affirm on oath as under: 1. That I am a citizen of India and a resident of above mentioned address.

2. That my name have been used/mentioned as M. Imtila Sangtam in my official documents.

3. That ‘M’ stands for Medenshiba, which is my Lt. fathers initial name.

4. That my husband name is Shri. T. Kikatemsu Sangtam, in which ‘T’ stands for Temjenmeren, which is the initial name of his father Shri.

Temjenmeren Sangtam.

5. That in my pension book my name has been entered as Imtimongla Ao. 6. That the name Smti. M. Imtila Sangtam and Imtimongla Ao are of one and same person.

7. Henceforth, I shall be known as Medenshiba Imtila Sangtam and my husband name as Temjenmeren Kikatemsu Sangtam.

Deponent Solemnly sworn before me by the deponent on this the 26th day of April, 2017.

Notary public, Nagaland.

AFFIDAVIT

Regd. No: 0040/17 I, Ms. Imtikala D/o Chungmalepten aged about 37 yrs resident of Bayavu Colony, Kohima, Nagaland do hereby solemnly affirm and declares as follows.

1. That I am a citizen of India.

2. That my Father's name has been recorded in variation in some of my academic records.

3. That inadvertently my Father's name has been entered as Jongmalepden in My HSLC Admit Card as well as in my Birth Certificate instead of Chungmalepten.

4. That, Jongmalepden and Chungmalepten are same and one person.

5. That this affidavit shall be used as evidence for all official purpose.

Deponent Solemnly sworn before me by the deponent on this the 28th day of March 2017.

Notary Public, Nagaland

LOST NOTICE I, Ms. Yurchanphy Raikhan am applying for a duplicate copy of Class XII Admit Card (HSSLC) as I have lost it.

Name: Ms. Yurchanphy Raikhan F/Name: Rawung Raikhan M/Name: Thotngamla Raikhan Roll No : 172803167 Regd. No: 1580968 D.O.B: 07/10/1998 School: Greenwood School

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SUBJECTS OFFERED: Art Stream1) English 2) History 3) Political Science 4) Sociology 5) Economics/Geography 6) Physical Education/Travel & Tourism 7) Fine Art/Music/NCC 8) General studies Science Stream1) English 2) Physics 3) Chemistry 4) Biology/Computer Sc. 5) Mathematics/ Geography 6) Physical Education/Travel & Tourism 7) Fine Art/Music/NCC 8) General studies Application forms can be downloaded from the School’s website or can be collected from the School’s office.

Last date of submission of Application form: 5th May 2017 Date of Interview: 6th May 2017 at 9:30 AM Selected list will be out 1 day after HSLC result. Limited seats available!

CORNERSTONE COLLEGE DUNCAN BASTI, DIMAPUR : NAGALAND VACANCY

Applications are invited from interested candidates for the posts of Assistant Professor in the following discipline: 1) ENGLISH 2) POLITICAL SCIENCE 3) EDUCATION 4) HISTORY 5) SOCIOLOGY 6) ECONOMICS All candidates are required to have a Masters degree with Honours in the relevant discipline.

Preference will be given to candidates with teaching experience and candidates with NET/M. Phil.

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DUNCAN BASTI, DIMAPUR : NAGALAND Applications are invited from interested candidates for the post of: 1) SUBJECT TEACHER (ENGLISH) – M.A./B.A. with Honours and B.Ed. Preference will be given to candidates with teaching experience.

All applicants are required to submit their applications along with bio-data, copy of relevant documents, photo and contact details between 9 am to 2 pm at: CORNERSTONE COLLEGE CORNERSTONE HIGHER SECONDARY SCHOOL Duncan Basti, Dimapur, Nagaland Applications for all the above mentioned posts should be submitted in an envelope with the post applying for mentioned in the front of the envelope and submitted on or before 10th May 2017.

Shortlisted candidates will be called for interview through their contact number.

For any queries contact 03862 248142 / 9862120949 (Between 9 am to 2 pm)

The CRESCENT CLUB, Kohima, takes immense pleasure in thanking the following WellWishers,with whose kind support and help, the All Nagaland Men’s Doubles Open and Veteran Badminton Championship,2017 was successfully held at the Indoor Stadium, Kohima from 20th to 22nd April: Mr Vilelie Khamo, Registered Supplier and Contractor, Nagaland.

Mr Vikramjit Banerjee, Advocate-General, Nagaland.

Mr Honje Konyak, NCS Mr Elu Ndang, Assembly Secretary, Naga Hoho NVBDCP, Nagaland Mr Yilobemo, Director, Treasuries and Accounts Mr Yanithung, NPS Er Swarai Meru Mr Merusagar Sumantary Mr Mukesh Aggarwal Mr R. P. Kikon, IPS Mr L. Kire, IFoS Mr Limasunep, IPS Mr Joseph Hesso, IPS

Mr Elias Lotha,Transport Commissioner, Nagaland Mr C.W. Tungoe, Medical Superintendent, Dimapur Mr Sacheo Ovung, Director, Economics and Statistics Mr Renben Jami, Addl. Director, Land Resources Mr L. Limsong, IAS Mr C. Khanyang Imsong, NCS Mr Senthil Kumar, IFoS Miss Jatila NPS Mr Supongnukshi Ao, IFoS Miss Abeinuo, NCS Mr Keyirangding Hegui, NCS Mr Metekhrielie Mejura (Evening Club) Mr KiusomongTikhir, NCS All spectators who came and encouraged the players with your presence.

Evening Club, Kohima Mrs Sede Miss Rongsen Imchen Mr Arep (Evening Club) Mr Aochuba, IFoS Mrs Lanumongla Jamir Mr Rajesh S, IAS Mr K.Sophie, NPS Mr Beizo, Proprietor, ( Where’s The Food) ER. Chandemo Tungoe Mr Aomeren Mr Renthungo Tungoe Mr Niresh, Consultant, CCTNS, PHQ, Kohima Mr Molung Aier, Chief Referee, and his team of Match Officials MrAmardeep Gurung and his team of Linesmen Mr Imlisunep, IPS Mr Shan Kikon, Pastor, Faith Harvest Church, Kohima Miss Arentula Kichu Mr MedomVizo, PHQ, Kohima Mr Tia, Caretaker Indoor Stadium, Kohima VICTOR GAV Sports, Opposite Indoor Stadium, Kohima The Morung Express Nagaland Post NM Cable Flavours Restaurant, PWD, Kohima Volunteers

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India nears $2-trillion market capitalisation club as Sensex crosses 30k MuMbai, april 26 (business standard): With the Sensex climbing up to 30,000 points, India’s market capitalisation (m-cap) is inching the $2 trillion-mark. India’s m-cap in dollar terms currently is highest-ever $1.94 trillion, less than 3% shy of the elite milestone.

Currently, only eight other countries have a market value higher than India.

The benchmark Sensex has gained 20 per cent in dollar terms so far in 2017, making it the best-performing index among its global peers.

In local currency terms, the Sensex is up by 13.24 per cent. India’s market capitlisation is now about 82 per cent the size of the national gross domestic product (GDP) in FY17.

The outperformance of Indian indices along with strong rupee performance has driven the markets towards this milestone, experts said. The rupee has appreciated six per cent against the dollar so far. A stronger rupee has raised

the value of Indian markets and has also juiced up returns for foreign investors in constant currency terms.

Interestingly, India’s share in global m-cap too has touched a seven-year high. India currently accounts for 2.7 per cent of global m-cap, the highest share since October 2011.

However, back then Indian’s m-cap was only $1.2 trillion.

This rise of India’s share in global equities is a positive development as it would increase India’s stature in various exchange traded funds (ETFs). This would, in turn, help in increasing the flow of over-

Dena Bank recruitment through PGDBF Dena Bank, a government nationalized bank, has invited application for recruitment to Probationary Officer in Junior Management Grade Scale through a 12 (Twelve) months Post Graduate Certificate in Banking and Finance (PGDBF) course in Amity University including 9 months on-campus program and three months on-the-job training programme in Dena Bank Branch.

On completion of these processes, the candidates will be offered appointment in the Bank as Probationary Officer in Junior Management Grade Scale-I. Total No. of Posts: 300 - Unreserved: 206 Posts; OBC: 22 Posts; SC: 62 Posts; ST: 10 Posts Age Limit: Candidates maximum age limit should be 20 – 29 years as on 01-042017. Age relaxation is applicable to 05 years for SC/ ST candidates, 03 years for OBC candidates & 10 years for PWD Candidates & for other as per rules.

Educational Qualification: Candidates should possess Degree (Graduation) with minimum 60% (55% for SC/ ST/PWD) marks in any discipline from a

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san F ra n c i s c o, april 26 (ians): To tackle fake news and hate speech and control Search results that show false, offensive or outrageous information about certain topics, Google has announced some major changes in its Search feature.

The Google update, codenamed “Project Owl,” gives consumers two new ways to report what they perceive as problems in the Search results.

The company is also using teams of humans as part of an effort to get its algorithms to show more reliable information, Fortune reported on Tuesday.

The biggest change that the company did was with Google’s auto-complete function where the search engine suggests options to complete your query.

“With longer-term effort in mind, today, we are taking the next step toward continuing to surface more high-quality content from the web. This includes improvements in Search ranking, easier ways for people to provide direct feedback and greater transparency around how Search works,” Google wrote in a post.

Google has incorporated a way by users can tell the company to tell Google if you encounter something wrong or objectionable. The tool now comes with little line that says ‘report inappropriate predictions’.

If a user clicks on the line, a box pops up

that lets the user tell Google that the predictions are hateful or violent and so on.

The other way is telling that if the information boxes contain inaccurate information, users can tell the company to respond whether the information was helpful or they have some problem with it.

The third big change coming to Google is the search engine will start giving more weight to “more authoritative” information.

“We combine hundreds of signals to determine which results we show for a given query-from the freshness of the content, to the number of times your search queries appear on the page,” Google wrote.

“We have adjusted our signals to help surface more authoritative pages and demote low-quality content, so that issues similar to the Holocaust denial results that we saw back in December are less likely to appear,” the company added.

The changes will be rolled out gradually, the company said.

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Coca-Cola to cut 1,200 jobs as earnings fall

recognized University or any equivalent new York, april 26 qualification as such recognized by Cen- (aFp): Coca-Cola plans to tral Government. cut 1,200 jobs as it deepens Selection Process: Candidates will its cost-cutting initiatives in be selected based on online exam, Group response to sluggish soda sales, the company said Discussion, Personal Interview.

Tuesday.

Application Fee: Candidates should The maker of Sprite and pay Rs. 50/- for SC/ ST/ PWD candidates Fanta announced the job and Rs. 400/- for all others candidates on- cuts as it reported lower line through their Debit card or Credit card second-quarter profits due only. to restructuring costs and How to Apply: Eligible candidates flat sales amid efforts to may apply online through the website tout new low-sugar bever“www.denabank.com” from 18-04-2017 ages in response to flagging demand for soda. to 09-05-2017.

The job cuts account for HOW TO APPLY about one percent of the Candidates can apply online only from soda giant’s 100,300 em18.04.2017 to 09.05.2017 through the link ployees. Coca-Cola said it in the careers page of the Bank’s website also is expanding its costwww.denabank.co.in and no other mode cutting program to reach of application will be accepted. $800 million annually by 2019.

Important Dates: While the job cuts “will Start date for Online Registration: April 18 clearly be difficult for those Last date for Online Registration: May 9 Date of Examination (Tentative): June 11, impacted, these changes are critical for us to cre2017

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have a higher free float and hence hold a greater value.

For instance, the free float market cap of Brazil is 89 per cent, while that of Hong Kong is 66 per cent.

Free-float market cap is the proportion of shares readily available for trade.

Free float excludes promoters’ holding, government holding, strategic holding and other lockedin shares. Free float is a key factor for institutional participation in a market because it determines the liquidity of a market.

With robust macroeconomic indicators and a strong flow of funds from both domestic and foreign institutions, the current buoyancy in markets is expected to continue, analysts say. However, revival in corporate earnings would be a key domestic trigger that would determine the market movement. On the global front, political developments in Europe along with the geopolitical situation in Syria would be key factors from a global front.

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Coca-Cola aims to deliver a “more consumer-centric portfolio that meets people’s changing tastes and preferences,” said Quincey, who will become chief executive next month.

New product offerings include “Honest Sport,” a sports drink that is an offshoot of the low-sugar Honest Tea. The company also is launching Coca-Cola Plus in Japan, a no-sugar drink with dietary fiber aimed at Japan’s large aging population.

“Importantly, these portfolio changes will help our consumers moderate the amount of added sugar they consume.”

Coca-Cola shares dipped 0.2% to $43.19 in afternoon trading.

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Thursday 27•04•2017

NAGALAND

‘Need to take education system seriously’

New GHS building in Razeba inaugurated

raZEBa, april 26 (mExN): Minister for School Education & SCERT, Yitachu on Wednesday said the Department of School Education is the richest department with 24% of the state budget being consumed by it while the remaining 80 plus departments in the state are running their activities on 76% of the state budget.

Addressing the inaugural programme of the new Government High School (GHS) building in Razeba, he impressed upon the gathering that it is important to realize why emphasis on budgetary provisions is given in this regard.

Pointing to the transformation brought about in the society with the dawn of education, he said that not only the state of Nagaland but the world over has given special emphasis on it while also asserting that, “education is the backbone of human civilization.”

Yitachu further stated that education does not only come from school institutions but also from the home, church, social gatherings, work place etc. He therefore stressed on the need for equal participation and interest from parents, society leaders, and general

Minister for School Education & SCERT, Yitachu, and Parliamentary Secretary for Higher & Technical Education, Deo Nukhu seen here with others during the inaugural of the new GHS build.

public as a whole to take equal responsibility in educating students.

In the meantime, stating that school dropout rate is very high, Yitachu disclosed that 1 out of 3 students is a dropout which, he maintained, does not bode well for the Naga society.

Arguing that the failure is not of the education department or the teachers alone, the Minister insisted that citizens have to share the responsibility equally.

He cited the success story of the cultivation of cabbage and potatoes (which Razeba area is especially known for), and said that the vegetables cannot grow by themselves but need daily

Meetings & AppointMents

JVYO meeting on April 29 The Jalukie Valley Youth Organisation has convened a meeting on April 29, 11:00 am at Jalukie Town Hall to discuss and chalk out plans for the Silver Jubilee celebrations which is scheduled to be held in 2018. A press release in this regard informed all former Presidents, General Secretaries, Advisors, Presidents and Secretaries of all affiliated villages to attend the said meeting positively with innovative ideas and suggestions.

AAUD coordination meeting The Aghunato Areami Union Dimapur (AAUD) will hold its first coordination meeting on April 29, 1:00 pm at the residence of its banker Tohevi Awomi, Ikishe Village. A press release from the union has requested all the AAUD Office Bearers, Finance Committee Member (Rest House Project) and all unit (Village) Presidents and Secretaries to be available for the said meeting.

BJP State Executive Meeting The 5th State Executive Meeting of the BJP Nagaland will be held on April 28, 10:00 am at C.K. Arcade, near Post Office, Kohima. All the entitled delegates of State Executive Members, Permanent Invitees, Special Invitees, Presidents and one General Secretary of State Frontals and Districts, are hereby informed to attend the same positively, a press release stated. The list of delegates may be confirmed from the State Party Office.

care and nurturing. “Education is just like that,” he insisted while emphasizing that students need constant nurturing. “We need to take the education system seriously to end the dropout rate,” he added.

Towards this, Yitachu called for a stop to the demands for opening new schools or upgrade of schools “only for the sake of job opportunities” and not for the purpose of quality education.

“Only then, we can fulfill our vision” of eliminating the dropout rate, he maintained.

Also highlighting the huge shortage of Math and Science teachers in the state, the Minister

called on every institution/VEC in Nagaland to report the shortage of teachers in these subjects to the department.

Parliamentary Secretary for Higher & Technical Education, Deo Nukhu also spoke on the occasion and noted that the first batch of the GHS Razeba achieved nil result in the HSLC examinations (2013) but added that the school fared better the following year(s).

In this regard, Nukhu expressed hope that the school will continue to maintain the standard of school education. Further urging the students to study hard, especially Mathematics

and Science, he assured that the students securing distinction in these two subjects will be given awards.

In his short speech, Khazi Lea, President of Razeba Public Organisation (RPO) contrasted the current state of Razeba with what it was 50 years ago. He impressed upon the gathering that the school grew from humble beginnings and has brought about social reformation, economic development, spiritual education and also better relationship amongst the 3 villages in the area.

Senokhape Chirie, Headmaster informed that the Government Middle School was upgraded to Government High School in 2010. Since then, the enrolment has been increasing, he said and further disclosed that the school has 19 teaching staff and 3 grade IV staff. He also gave a brief highlight of performance of the school in the last 5 years.

To mark the inaugural of the new school building, the Minister for School Education & SCERT, Yitachu also cut the ribbon and unveiled the monolith.

A host of dignitaries including officials from the school education department, officers from Razeba area, village leaders from Zhavame, Zelome and Tsüpfume, student leaders, etc attended the inaugural programme.

Governor interacts with officers in Chozuba phEK , april 26 (mExN): Governor of Nagaland and Arunachal Pradesh, PB Acharya held interactions with Deputy Commissioner Phek, Muroho Chotso, Chozuba Sub Division Administration and other officers at Chozuba on April 25 during his visit to Ruzaho village.

According to a press release, the Governor called on the Sub Division Officers to dedicate themselves in serving the people of the area and that the people should not be deprive of their rights. Holding the officers “accountable and answerable to the public”, Governor Acharya advised, “Be bold and work for the people.”

Expressing concern on the education sector, the Governor said that the SDEO should check that there are no proxy teachers under his jurisdiction.

While pointing out that government school teachers are paid more than pri-

Governor of Nagaland and Arunachal Pradesh, PB Acharya with Deputy Commissioner Phek, Muroho Chotso, Chozuba Sub Division Administration and other officers at Chozuba on April 25.

vate school teachers and are recruited through exams, Governor Acharya lamented that the results of the Government school remain unsatisfactory and insisted, “This trend should change”.

Arguing that education is the foundation of a developed society, the Governor asked the concern department to work towards achieving its goal.

Acharya also urged the concern officers to demand for up gradation of schools to meet the demand for taking in more students.

Student should not be made to travel to Kohima, Dimapur or other town for their higher secondary education, he maintained.

Stressing on the need for good roads, the Governor asked the PWD to improve the road connecting the sub division.

He stated that roads are the “life line to development” and added that good roads will in turn boost tourism sector in the sub division.

The Governor also advised the officers to high-

light the various schemes and welfare programmes of the state and central government such as Food Security, Jan Dhan Yojana, senior citizens schemes, Kisan Credit Card etc.

Governor Acharya also met with representatives of the Chozuba Range Public Organisation, who submitted a representation for establishment of a college at Chozuba to meet the needs of the students. The Governor assured to forward the matter to the Minister in charge.

Name change for Dimapur roads Dimapur, april 26 (mExN): In pursuance to the Government notification, the Deputy Commissioner of Dimapur has informed that two stretches of roads in Dimapur town has been designated with new nomenclatures.

The road from Dhobinallah to Thahekhu Junction shall be designated as “Dr. Hokishe Sema Road” and City Tower Junction to Tragopan Junction shall be designated as “I. Vikheshe Sema Road.”

In this regard, the DC has notified all shops, business establishments of Dimapur district along the said roads to re-designate their signboards accordingly.

Also, all shops, business establishments of Dimapur district along the Old market Durga Mandir to Deluxe Point road are notified to use the full form of MP Road i.e. Mhalie Peseyie Road in their signboards accordingly.

The DC Dimapur Kesonyu Yhome, IAS in a press release cautioned that non compliance of both the orders within 30 days from the date of issue of this order will invite penal action.

FGN’s Naga Army mourn Kohima, april 26 (mExN): The Naga Army of the Federal Government of Nagaland (FGN) has mourned the demise of Lt. Col. Kiurang, 2nd Bn. 1st Brigade.

In a message, the Commander-in-Chief of the Naga Army, FGN, Lt. Gen. Tavecho Lala, expressed deep grief and shock over the sudden demise and conveyed heartfelt condolences to the bereaved family.

Lt. Col. Kiurang of Chiulon village, Zeliangrong Region, joined the Naga Army on March 3, 1957 and “faithfully” served the Naga nation till his death, the C-in-C stated in his message. “His true sacrifice and patriotic service rendered to the Naga Nation will always remain alive in the living history of the Nation,” the message added.

MEx FILE Finance Dept notifies Kohima, april 26 (Dipr): The Finance Department has stated in a notification that in exercise of the powers conferred by Section 3 of the Section 3A of the Nagaland (Sale of Petroleum and Petroleum Products including Motor Spirit and Lubricants) Taxation Act, 1967 (as amended), the Government of Nagaland has notified that the rate of tax prescribed under Serial Number 5 and 6 of Schedule II of the Act shall stand amended. Rate of tax to be levied on Aviation Turbine Fuel (ATF) sold to TurboProp Aircraft as specified in clause (ii d) of section 14 of the Central Sales Tax Act, 1956 (Central Act 74 of 1956) will be 1% tax as opposed to the existing rate of 5%. Rate of tax for Aviation Turbine Fuel (ATF) not falling under the above will be 1% as opposed to the existing rate of 20%.

The amended rate comes into effect from the date of issue of this notification.

Open Drawing Competition Dimapur, april 26 (mExN): The Hindu Yuva Sanga (HYS) is organising its 4th Open Drawing Competition-cum-Felicitation Programme (for HSLC and HSSLC candidates, 2017) on May 21 at Pranab Jubilee Auditorium. According to a press release, the drawing competition is divided into 4 categories: Category 1 – Classes A-1; Category 2 – Classes 2-4; Category 3 – Classes 5-7; and Category 4 – Classes 8-10. The registration forms are available for a fee of Rs. 100 and the last date of registration is May 14. For further information, contact – 9774745422 / 9077000298.

Brick Field Union repairs roads ‘End Malaria for Good’: Nagaland observes World Malaria Day Dimapur, april 26 (mExN): Irked by government apathy and continued neglect towards the condition of roads, the Brick Field Union, Dimapur repaired the PWD road connecting Darogajan village to Bamunpukhuri and Zani Village under Dimapur District covering about 5 km approx on April 24 and 25.

A joint press release from the Village Councils of Bamunpukhuri, New Bamunpukhuri and Zani village informed that the repairing work has been completed by metaling with sand gravel but added, “there is much to be added to the noble effort of the union”.

The road repairing on the said stretch was earlier undertaken back in the year August 2012 by the Joint Council of the Area, the release informed. The joint village councils further expressed their appreciation to the Union for their efforts in making the roads better.

Arguing that many lives are affected due to the terrible condition of the said road, the joint village councils also appealed to the Government to construct the road at the earliest.

Rokabozou Colony observes World Malaria Day Kohima, april 26 (mExN): Residents of Rokabozou Colony, Kohima observed World Malaria Day on the theme ‘End Malaria for Good’. The programme was jointly organized by the Colony Panchayat, Youth and the team at Urban PHC, Seikhazou.

The programme started with a key note address and welcome note by Colony chairman and a brief awareness session by Dr. Aomeren Longkumer MO, UPHC Seikhazou.

He emphasized the need to keep the surroundings clean in order to stop mosquito breeding and highlighted various emerging diseases caused by mosquito bites. He also mentioned the importance of timely medical intervention in case of any fever like symptoms. A sanitation drive was later conducted in and around the colony.

During the programme, blood samples were collected from the residents for further investigation and validation. Dr. Aomeren, in his closing remarks, urged the colony leaders to take up sanitation and cleanliness issues collectively and make it an ongoing process to ensure a safe environment for everyone.

Signature campaign, quiz competition marks Malaria Day at Tizit moN, april 26 (mExN): Development Association of Nagaland & Caritas India in partnership with The National Vector Borne Disease Control Programme (NVBDCP) commemorated the World Malaria Day at the Government Higher Secondary School in Tizit Mon. The event was marked by a quiz competition in which 8 schools took part and pledged to fight malaria. Over 350 school students, teachers, medical staff, police and NAP personnel from C Company Tizit, District Administration, NGOs and Tizit Town student’s union members witnessed the event.

Dr Mukherjee, PHC MO, speaking on the occasion spoke on the causes of malaria and the need to prevent oneself from malaria. He highlighted to the participants the treatments available and the diagnosis of

malaria.

All the participants and guests pledged to fight malaria by signing on a signature campaign which was initiated by Tizit EAC Rorheu Peseyie.

Kishor Dass DPO DANCaritas in his keynote address

highlighted the importance of World Malaria Day and the need to fight Malaria by all key stakeholders i.e., public and private sectors, individuals and communities ensuring elimination of malaria which is also critical to ending poverty.

FGN to observe Phizo’s 27th death anniv Kohima, april 26 (mExN): The Federal Government of Nagaland (FGN) has informed that it will be observing the 27th death anniversary of the “Father of the Naga Nation” – AZ Phizo, on April 30, 7:00 am at Phizo Hill, Kohima. A press release in this regard has requested all national workers and fellow Naga citizens to participate in the commemoration.

A bamboo support structure of an under-construction building near City Tower, Dimapur collapsed on Wednesday. However, no one was injured in the incident.

Huska Yepthomi, Working President Naga People’s Front (NPF) and Advisor to Chief Minister (Political) addressing the party workers at Chozuba recently. The NPF central team is currently on tour to five assembly constituencies of Phek district. They will head for Mokokchung after covering 20 Meluri A/C on April 26. (Morung Photo)

Hebron- 1 colony Phek conducted a mass social work on April 25 to fill up the potholes along the main road. Around 60 youths carried boulder and stone chips to repair the deplorable colony road. The youth organisation of the colony has appealed to the department concerned for necessary action at the earliest. (DIPR Photo)

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IN FOCUS

THE MORUNG EXPRESS

The Power of Truth

The Morung Express volume XII Issue 113

By Aheli moitra

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Umuganda

he World Economic Forum (WEF), in April 2017, found Rwanda to be the 9th safest country in the world. Its biennial Travel and Tourism Competitiveness report ranked 136 countries in the world—Finland topped the list, India ranked 114 and Colombia found itself at the bottom of the pile.

A friend, while sharing this news, rolled his eyes questioning the validity of the survey. How is Rwanda on this list at all, leave alone among the top 10? It is easy to imagine Finland as the ‘safest’ place and Colombia the ‘unsafest’ given the images we have seen of snow clad Scandinavian countries and the street wars of Latin America. But Rwanda?

Rwanda’s popular image is the 1994 genocide when old neighbours turned foes and almost completely destroyed the society of Hutu, Tutsi and Twa peoples. The legacy of conflict goes back to its Belgian colonization that led to experiences of ‘divide and rule’, breaking social cohesion, institutionalizing violence and impunity, giving rise to extreme poverty and fiefdom. Women and minorities remained marginalized. In the aftermath of 1994, millions were driven to exile if they survived.

What we do not know very well is how the people of Rwanda put their lives together after the genocide. The country embarked on a National Unity and Reconciliation process. Umuganda, the traditional practice of community work, became the a major drive for State policy initiatives—despite differences, all members of the umudugudu (village) would come together on a particular Saturday in a month to do ‘social work’ (all too familiar to Naga society), performing different tasks relevant to the context.

It became symbolic of people building the country together.

Apart from several other policy initiatives that specifically focused on reconciliation thereby bringing innovative participatory methods, women came to play an active role in post genocide reconstruction. Women had been the worst victims of the violence, and the Government of National Unity embarked on a process to reaffirm the role of women in peacebuilding, and in prevention and resolution of conflicts.

Women came together in a shared vision, transcending political party lines to form their own conglomerates, like the Forum of Rwandan Women Parliamentarians. A Ministry of Gender and Family Promotion was set up to create gender-sensitive policies, also nurturing women councils at the grassroots that prepared them for larger political participation. A quota of 30 percent seats for women in all decision making bodies of governance was created. Women added layers to informal governance that brought communities together in safe spaces to address difficult issues—they changed inheritance and succession laws, gender based violence was legally curbed.

In 2016, women in Rwanda held 64 percent seats in the lower house of the Rwandan national legislature, a first anywhere in the world. Gender sensitive policies and power sharing, no doubt, contributed to Rwanda—one of the African Union’s smallest nation states—to not just rebuild but emerge a global leader in certain aspects.

23 years since the genocide, Rwanda is still one of the poorest countries in the world. Problems and loopholes exist at every level, as they do in Scandinavian, American or Asian countries.

But through deliberate and self determining policies of unity, reconciliation and inclusion, Rwanda has changed its extremely difficult circumstances to create a safe nation where social groups work together in advancing the aspirations of the people. Travel and tourism naturally flourish in this environment.

More reflections may be sent to moitramail@yahoo.com

lEfT WING |

Mari Marcel Thekaekara New Internationalist

Xenophobia shame

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itting Indian headlines right now are stories that fill all decent Indians with sadness and shame.

Periodically, recently, we’ve had ugly racist attacks on people ‘not like us’. We’ve always had caste-based prejudice and communal clashes (read: Hindu-Muslim riots).

These we are definitely inured to, and tend to treat as normal.

In Delhi, a boy went missing. Somehow a rumour was started that this particular boy had been – believe it or not – attacked and eaten by cannibalistic Nigerians (yes, you read me correctly). In this day and age, where almost every Delhi-ite has a mobile phone and is active on social media, and watches news from all over the globe, the ignorant still abound. The boy, sadly, turned up dead, of an overdose of drugs. This didn’t deter the Nigerian-baiters. Word spread that the boy died because Africans had sold drugs to him. One African, like one white person, or one Chinese-Burmese-Thai-Northeastern person, is exactly like another for these sick, hate-filled people. Newspapers reported that a mob descended on a nearby shopping mall and brutally beat up a young Nigerian student to within an inch of his life. This is not the first attack on Africans in Delhi. Bangalore too, has had frenzied xenophobic spurts of violence against Africans and our own Northeastern citizens. An African woman was pulled out of a cab and stripped by a mob. Another African was beaten with iron rods and stoned to death. Regrettably, the penalties for these crimes have not made headlines.

Millions of Indians have family and friends living and working all over the globe. There is widespread anger, understandably, when Indians face hate-crimes in the US and Australia. There’s generally a nationwide rage, reflected in newspaper and TV headlines. How then, can we do this to other visitors to our turf?

What’s even more annoying is that our government, every government, continues to pretend that racism and xenophobia don’t exist in India. It’s not even treated as a seriously criminal act. So very little action is taken against the perpetrators. They get off scot-free, which emboldens people to keep bullying and beating people up. This phenomenon is also totally against Indian culture, where the guest is supposed to be revered and treated like a visiting god. ‘Atithi Devo Bhava’ (‘The guest is divine’) is a phrase every Indian villager knows. So these vicious attacks are on one level incomprehensible. They are, however, very much a part of life for the bewildered African at the receiving end. African students in Delhi have messaged each other saying ‘Don’t leave your rooms, it’s not safe.’ What a shameful day for us as a country.

This time, though, outraged African envoys from several countries have demanded a separate, independent investigation by the UN into the racist and xenophobic attacks on their students. Reports are flying around that some African ambassadors, who have hitherto been fairly reticent regarding earlier attacks, have sent reports back to their home countries advising their nations to desist from supporting India’s bid for permanent membership of the United Nations Security Council.

They have realized, through bitter experience, that we as a nation allow racists, bullies and bigots to get away with murder. And unless they can protest effectively, vocally and internationally, so that it hits our government where it hurts, nothing will change.

I hope India’s non-racist, global community will get together to empathize with our African visitors.

To show them we are not all the same. We are not all bigots, racists or xenophobic. African sports heroes are revered. As is Nelson Mandela. But that’s not enough. We need to show solidarity here, in our country. On home ground.

It’s time for Africa.

C O M M E N T A R Y

Kadayam Subramanian Asia Times

Colonial-era legislation infects army mindset in Manipur state

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n April 12, Indian Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi submitted a “curative petition” to the Supreme Court requesting reconsideration of its July 2016 order restraining the security forces from using “excessive or retaliatory force” in insurgency-hit areas in the country’s northeast and the state of Jammu & Kashmir.

The petition sought to overrule calls to repeal the repressive Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act 1958 (AFSPA), a vestige of the colonial period described by some as a truly nasty and terrifying piece of legislation and as national-security tyranny. The petition demanded that the Supreme Court not dilute the repressive provisions of the law so that the Indian Army could retain its control over conflict-affected areas in the northeast and Jammu & Kashmir.

The “curative petition” thus showed scant regard for the present government’s “Act East” policy, which indicates a different approach to development challenges in the northeast.

As far as Jammu & Kashmir is concerned, the present government unrealistically appears to hold Pakistan responsible for all its ills.

The “curative petition” appears to adopt a national-security rather than a human-security approach to development challenges in northeast India.

So how and why did the July 2016 ruling of the Supreme Court the attorney general finds objectionable come about?

In 2012, the Extrajudicial Execution Victim Families Association, Manipur (EEVFAM), with Neena Ningombam as secretary, submitted a petition to the Supreme Court of India seeking justice for all innocent victims of extrajudicial executions by both central-government and state security forces in the northeastern state of Manipur, including the Assam Rifles (AR) and Manipur Police commandos, which had allegedly taken advantage of the immunity provision of the AFSPA. An organization of widows and mothers of those extrajudicially executed by the security forces, the EEVFAM wanted an independent probe into 1,528 cases of alleged extrajudicial executions by security forces in Manipur.

The victims allegedly included 31 women and 98 children killed by security forces in fake encounters during the period 1979-2012. A total of 419

had been allegedly been killed by the AR, a central-government paramilitary force, and 481 others by combined teams of Manipur Police commandos, AR and other armed police forces.

Further, state police alone allegedly killed 344 persons between 1979 and 2012. Of these, 40 were killed by Manipur Police commandos, 90 by Imphal East police district commandos, 132 by Imphal West police district commandos, 15 by Bishnupur police commandos, and 67 by Thoubal police commandos, it was alleged.

The United Nations Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary and Arbitrary Executions was also approached by the EEVFAM. In almost all the cases, young boys attending to their daily chores were picked up at random and killed by the security forces, the association reported. In several of these cases witnesses narrated the cold practice of picking up and gunning down young men and women by Manipur Police commandos and the AR. The killings were justified by the authorities as encounters with terrorists, but critics say the motivation of the killers was mainly to gain recognition, rewards and medals from the central government for their “excellent work” in fighting terrorism.

Neena Ningombam’s husband Michael was killed on November 4, 2008, by Manipur Police commandos who had branded him a terrorist. A district judge appointed by the Guwahati High Court found that Michael was not guilty of firing on the commandos as alleged.

On July 23, 2009, Manipur Police commandos killed two innocents: a pregnant woman, Rabina Devi, 23, and a young former militant, Sanjit Meitei, 25, in a crowded market area in Imphal, the capital city of Manipur.

Harrowing tales of human-rights violations were described by the EEVFAM. Women whose husbands were killed detailed their woes in the absence of their menfolk, whose earnings had been the only support of their families and which were now facing starvation. They demanded justice as well as income-earning opportunities to support themselves and their children.

The women also demanded the resignation of the Manipur chief minister on moral grounds and the dismissal of the state director general of police for gross dereliction of duty in allowing

fake encounters to be carried out by his subordinates.

After the complaint by the EEVFAM, the Supreme Court of India appointed a three-member commission led by Justice Santosh Santosh Hegde to look into the issue of extrajudicial executions by security forces in Manipur. The Supreme Court found that all the selected cases examined by Hegde were unjustified killings.

It ordered that the local police had the liberty to probe the role of armed forces that had used the provisions of the AFSPA to abuse the rights of ordinary people.

The AFSPA had been formulated by the British Raj in 1942. In 1958, the act was revived and applied to several northeastern areas including Manipur.

Briefly, Section 4a of the act allows any commissioned officer, warrant officer, non-commissioned officer or any other person of equivalent rank in the armed forces to fire “even causing death” upon any person acting in contravention of any law or order, any person carrying weapons or anything capable being used to prohibit the assembly of more than five people.

Section 4c allows armed police personnel to arrest without warrant and with any necessary force “any person who has committed a cognizable offense”. Section 4d allows armed-forces personnel to “enter and search premises without warrant” to make “any arrest”. Section 6 prohibits prosecution of any person in respect of anything done in the exercise of the powers conferred by the law.

The act applies to any area declared “disturbed” by the central government of India or a state government. The designation of Manipur as a “disturbed area” in September 1980 meant, in effect, that the state was subject to an undeclared state of emergency circumscribing not only the liberties of individual citizens but even limiting the freedom of the state government.

In 2009, a fact-finding team noted that Manipur, with a population of less than 3 million, had too many military and paramilitary personnel (about 60,000) and too few civilian police (about 5,000). The basic purpose of policing, namely to serve the public, was downgraded at the cost of maintenance of public order.

The team also found that the number of criminal cases registered per year (including normal crime and extraordinary crime) was not large and

the rate of conviction was poor.

Both findings were disturbing.

After the killing of a young woman named Thangjam Manorama by AR men in July 2004, the Jeevan Reddy Committee was set up. It made its report in 2005; its recommendations were ignored. Many Manipuri women demonstrated in front of the AR headquarters and disrobed. The only concession made by the authorities was to restrict the operation of the AFSPA to some selected areas of the state capital. Further, Manipur Police commandos were removed from the immunity available to federal armed police forces under the provisions of the act.

Irom Sharmila Chanu, a woman who was on a Gandhi-style indefinite hunger strike for 16 years demanding the repeal of the AFSPA in Manipur was kept alive through forcible nasal feeding. She faced a charge of attempted suicide under the colonial-era Indian Penal Code. Neither the state government elite nor those in the central government were bothered, though they assemble ritually every year on October 2 and January 30 to celebrate the birth and to mourn the death of the father of the nation, Mahatma Gandhi.

Many case studies in 2008 showed that security forces involved in unjustified killings in Manipur were often combined teams of state police commandos and army or federal paramilitary forces such as the Assam Rifles, which had been set up by the British in 1835.

After independence in 1947, the AR became a historical anomaly. It is redundant, since each state in the northeast has its own police forces headed by a director general of police.

Ironically, heads of state police forces have no jurisdiction over the AR deployed in their states. The AR reports only to the Indian Army headquarters in New Delhi. This further encourages the AR’s impunity and commission of human-rights violations.

Eminent scholars have pointed out that the Indian Criminal Procedure Code is sufficient to achieve the aims sought by the AFSPA, though minus the impunity available under the latter.

British historian Perry Anderson has insightfully noted that India has used the AFSPA only in non-Hindu areas such as the Jammu & Kashmir and the northeast. It is high time the Indian Army got rid of its counterinsurgency mindset.

Saudi Arabia’s Colliding Interests in Myanmar Daniel Wagner and Jesse schatz

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Fair Observer

espite Aung San Suu Kyi’s decades-old image as an embattled political prisoner and proponent of ardent reform as an opponent of the previous military government in Myanmar, her new role as state councilor has resulted in criticism from a variety of quarters domestically and internationally, as she juggles her predisposition toward humanitarianism with a pragmatic approach to governing.

Suu Kyi and her National League for Democracy (NLD) have been roundly criticized for their presumed complicity in what many international observers have deemed a process of ethnic cleansing and genocide against the Rohingya minority residing in the country’s rural Rakhine State.

While advocacy on behalf of the Rohingya has come from predictable sources in the West, it has also come from Saudi Arabia. The kingdom started providing financial assistance to the Rohingya when the situation began deteriorating in 2012. With its valuable investments in Myanmar’s oil infrastructure, located largely within Rakhine, Riyadh has undoubtedly wished to hedge its bets and play both sides of the same coin. Since then, armed resistance from the Rohingya people toward the Burmese government, including a 2016 attack on security forces linked to funds from Saudi and Pakistani actors, has motivated an increased Burmese military presence in the region.

On numerous occasions, the United Nations as well as human rights organizations have documented abuses leveled against the

Rohingya. Earlier this year, Human Rights Watch released a report that identified widespread and systematic human rights violations targeting Myanmar’s Muslim citizens in Rakhine State. The report has been disputed by the government. Suu Kyi disagrees with the findings and has denied that the government is guilty of ethnic cleansing.

The roots of the violence in Rakhine State are multifaceted and rooted in British colonial officials’ failure to include the word “Rohingya” in censuses taken of the then-British colony, which was subsequently used as a means of falsely characterizing the Rohingya as illegal immigrants from neighboring regions, with no historical legitimacy in Burma. The former military regime and the current democratically-elected government have both denied the Rohingya full citizenship, strictly limiting basic freedoms of movement and suffrage. Suu Kyi finds herself in a precarious position, reemphasizing her support for non-violent political change, while at the same time referring to the Rohingya’s disrespect for the “Rule of Law” as a justification for a strong military presence in Rakhine.

Prior to 2009, Saudi Arabia’s late King Abdullah recognized the plight of the Rohingya and offered permanent residency for in excess of 250,000 Burmese Muslims, but Saudi authorities segregated many Burmese upon arrival to the kingdom. Most Burmese expatriates in the Gulf have worked low-skilled/low-pay jobs and have faced challenges similar to those of other poor Southeast Asian migrants in Saudi Arabia. Following the death

of King Abdullah, King Salman detained 3,000 Rohingya families in Jeddah prisons and planned to deport them back to Myanmar for reasons that remain unclear.

SAUDI ARABIA AND MYANMAR Such reversals have further complicated Riyadh’s policy toward the Rohingya. This year, Saudi officials announced the kingdom would accept a total of 190,000 Rohingya refugees over a four-year period, in conjunction with providing limited financial assistance to the Rohingya. In 2013, the Saudi government publicly condemned the Burmese government’s treatment of the Rohingya at a UN meeting — something it has rarely done. Perhaps the ability to lecture other countries about human rights was one of Saudi Arabia’s original objectives for having first become embroiled in the Rohingya issue.

At the same time, Saudi Arabia has been working with the Burmese and Chinese governments to industrialize natural resource production and distribution within Rakhine State. Saudi Arabia and its smaller Persian Gulf neighbors became deeply involved in Myanmar’s oil industry in 2011, when Riyadh and Beijing signed a Memorandum of Understanding in which China pledged to provide 200,000 barrels of crude oil per day through the justcompleted Sino-Burma oil pipeline.

The United Arab Emirates has also built roads and hotels to supplement Rakhine State’s booming oil industry, and in 2014, Qatar began transporting methane to China via Myanmar, further emphasizing the critical role of Burma in connecting China and

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the Arab Gulf states. Although Saudi Arabia has maintained its support for the Rohingya, other Gulf Cooperation Council members, such as Qatar, appear willing to ignore the situation altogether if it counteracts their wider regional strategy — particularly if doing so creates tension with China.

The Burmese government is unlikely to reverse its position on the Rohingya in the future — with or without Suu Kyi at the helm. By the same token, Saudi Arabia’s support for the Rohingya may well continue, to the extent that it does not jeopardize the kingdom’s business, commercial and investment interests in Myanmar, particularly at a time when officials in Riyadh are increasingly focused on securing greater cooperation from members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) for advancing Saudi Arabia’s ambitious Vision 2030.

Can Saudi Arabia have its cake and it eat too by strengthening Riyadh’s ties with Beijing via their mutual interests in Myanmar, while having the luxury of maintaining the kingdom’s continued support for a repressed Muslim minority group?

The tangled web Saudi Arabia has weaved will in all likelihood become more complicated, yet the kingdom’s support for the Rohingya should be expected to continue for some time, given Saudi Arabia’s clearly demonstrated view that throwing its weight behind this Muslim minority group in Myanmar yields more net benefits than disadvantages in the forum of global public opinion.

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How to lose every war in the Middle East

A winning (losing) formula would look something like: Rush headlong into new conflicts. Create failed states. Prop up dictatorships. Alienate the public. Sound familiar?

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ake no mistake: After 15 years of losing wars, spreading terror movements, and multiplying failed states across the Greater Middle East, America will fight the next versions of our ongoing wars.

Not that we ever really stopped. Sure, Washington traded in George W. Bush’s expansive, almost messianic attitude toward his Global War on Terror for Barack Obama’s more precise, deliberate, even cautious approach to an unnamed version of the same war for hegemony in the Greater Middle East. Sure, in the process kitted-up 19 year-olds from Iowa became less ubiquitous features on Baghdad’s and Kabul’s busy boulevards, even if that distinction was lost on the real-life targets of America’s wars — and the bystanders (call them “collateral damage”) scurrying across digital drone display screens.

It’s hardly a brilliant observation to point out that, more than 15 years later, the entire region is a remarkable mess. So much worse off than Washington found it, even if all of that mess can’t simply be blamed on the United States — at least not directly. It’s too late now, as the Trump administration is discovering, to retreat behind two oceans and cover our collective eyes. And yet, acts that might still do some modest amount of good (resettling refugees, sending aid, brokering truces, anything within reason to limit suffering) don’t seem to be on any American agenda.

So, after 16 years of inconclusive or catastrophic regional campaigns, maybe it’s time to stop dreaming about how to make things better in the Greater Middle East and try instead to imagine how to make things worse (since that’s the path we often seem to take anyway). Here, then, is a little thought experiment for you: What if Washington actually wanted to lose? How might the U.S. government go about accomplishing that? Let me offer a quick (and inevitably incomplete) to-do list on the subject: As a start, you would drop an enlarged, conventional army into Iraq and/ or Syria. This would offer a giant red, white, and blue target for all those angry, young radicalized men just dying (pardon the pun) to extinguish some new “crusader” force. It would serve as an effective religious-nationalist rallying cry (and target) throughout the region.

Then you would create a news-magnet of a ban (or at least the appearance of one) on immigrants and visitors of every sort from predominantly Muslim countries coming to the United States.

It’s hardly an accident that ISIS has taken to calling the president’s proposed executive order to do just that “the blessed ban” and praising Donald Trump as the “best caller to Islam.” Such actions only confirm the extremist narrative: that Muslims are unwelcome in and incompatible with the West, that liberal plurality is a neo-imperial scam.

Finally, you would feed the common perception in the region that Washington’s support for Israel and assorted Arab autocrats is unconditional. To do so, you would go out of your way to hold fawning public meetings with military strongmen like Egyptian President Abdel Fattah alSisi, and suggest that, when it came to Israel, you were considering changing American policy when it comes to a twostate solution and the illegal Israeli settlements in Palestine. Such policies would feed another ISIS narrative: U.S. support for illiberal despots and the failure of the Arab Spring is proof that practicing Muslims and peaceful Islamists will never successfully gain power through the democratic process.

Key to such a losing strategy would be doing anything you could to reinforce ISIS’s twisted narrative of an end-of-days battle between Islam and Christendom, a virtuous East versus a depraved West, an authentic caliphate against hypocritical democracies. In what amounts to a war of ideas, pursuing such policies would all but hand victory to ISIS and other jihadi extremist groups. And so you would have successfully created a strategy for losing eternally in the Greater Middle East. And if that was the desired outcome in Washington, well, congratulations all around, but of course we all know that it wasn’t.

Let’s take these three points in such a losing strategy one by one. (Of course “losing” is itself a contested term, but for our purposes, consider the U.S. to have lost as long as its military spins its wheels in a never-ending quagmire, while gradually empowering various local “adversaries.”)

Just a Few Thousand More Troops Will Get It Done…

There are already thousands of American soldiers and Marines in Iraq and Syria, to say nothing of the even more numerous troops and sailors stationed on bases in Kuwait, Bahrain, Turkey, and other states ringing America’s Middle Eastern battlefields. Still, if you want to mainline into the fastest way to lose the next phase of the war on terror, just blindly acquiesce in the

finish the job in Syria (and Iraq, and Afghanistan, and Yemen, and so on).

Let’s play this out. First, the worst (and most plausible) case: U.S. ground forces get sucked into an ever more complex, multi-faceted civil war — deeper and deeper still, until one day they wake up in a world that looks like Baghdad, 2007, all over again.

Or, lest we be accused of defeatism, consider the best case: those endlessly fortified and reinforced American forces wipe the floor with ISIS and just maybe manage to engineer the toppling of Bashar alAssad’s Syrian regime as well. It’s V-Day in the Middle East! And then what? What happens the day after? When and to whom do American troops turn over power?

The Kurds? That’s a nonstarter for Turkey, Iran, and Iraq, all countries with significant Kurdish minorities.

The Saudis? Don’t count on it. They’re busy bombing Houthi Shias in Yemen (with U.S.-supplied ordnance) and grappling with the diversification of their oilbased economy in a world in which fossil fuels are struggling.

Russia? Fat chance. Bombing “terrorists”? Yes. Propping up an autocratic client to secure basing rights? Sure. Temporary transactional alliances of convenience in the region? Absolutely. But long-term nation-building in the heart of the Middle East? It’s just not the style of Vladimir Putin’s Russia, a country with its own shaky petro-economy.

So maybe leave Assad in power and turn the country back over to what’s left of his minority, Alawite-dominated regime? That, undoubtedly, is the road to hell. After all, it was his murderous, barrel-bombing, child-gassing acts that all but caused the civil war in the first place.

You can be sure that, sooner or later, Syria’s majority Sunni population and its separatist Kurds would simply rebel again, while (as the last 15 years should have taught us) an even uglier set of extremists rose to the surface.

Keep in mind as well that, when it comes to the U.S. military, the Iraqi and Afghan “surges” of 2007 and 2009 offered proof positive that more ground troops aren’t a cure-all in such situations. They are a formula for expending prodigious amounts of money and significant amounts of blood, while only further alienating local populations. Meanwhile, unleashing manned and drone aircraft strikes, which occasionally kill large numbers of civilians, only add to the ISIS narrative.

Every mass casualty civilian bombing or drone strike incident just detracts further from American regional credibility.

While both air strikes and artillery barrages may hasten the offensive progress of America’s Kurdish, Iraqi, and Syrian allies, that benefit needs to be weighed against the moral and propaganda costs of those dead women and children. For proof, see the errant bombing strike on an apartment building in Mosul last month. After all, those hundred-plus civilians are just as dead as Assad’s recent victims and just as many angry, grieving family members and friends have been left behind.

In other words, any of the familiar U.S. strategies, including focusing all efforts on ISIS or toppling Assad, or a bit of both, won’t add up to a real policy for the region.

No matter how the Syrian civil war shakes out, Washington will need a genuine “what next” plan. Unfortunately, if the chosen course predictably relies heavily on the military lever to shape Syria’s shattered society, America’s presence and actions will only (as in the past) aggravate the crisis and help rejuvenate its many adversaries.

“The Blessed Ban” The Trump administration’s proposed “travel ban” quickly became fodder for left-versus-right vitriol in the U.S. Here’s a rundown on what it’s likely to mean when it comes to foreign policy and the “next” war.

First, soaring domestic fears over jihadi terror attacks in this country and the possible role of migrants and refugees in stoking them represent a potentially catastrophic over-reaction to a modest threat. Annually, from 2005 to 2015, terrorists killed an average of just seven Americans on U.S. soil. You are approximately 18,000 times more likely to die in some sort of accident than from such an attack. In addition, according to a study by the conservative Cato Institute, from

ing Iraq and Syria) killed precisely zero people in the United States. Nor has any refugee conducted a fatal domestic attack here. Finally, despite candidate and President Trump’s calls for “extreme vetting” of Muslim refugees, the government already has a complex, two-year vetting process for such refugees which is remarkably “extreme.”

Those are the facts. What truly matters, however, is the effect of such a ban on the war of ideas in the Middle East. In short, it’s manna from heaven for ISIS’s storyline in which Americans are alleged to hate all Muslims. It tells you everything you need to know that, within days of the administration’s announcement of its first ban, ISIS had taken to labeling it “blessed,” just as al-Qaeda once extolled George W. Bush’s 2003 “blessed invasion” of Iraq. Even Senator John McCain, a well-known hawk, worried that Trump’s executive order would “probably give ISIS some more propaganda.”

Remember, while ISIS loves to claim responsibility for every attack in the West perpetrated by lost, disenfranchised, identity-seeking extremist youths, that doesn’t mean the organization actually directs them. The vast majority of these killers are self-radicalized citizens, not refugees or immigrants. One of the most effective — and tragic — ways to lose this war is to prove the jihadis right.

ish settlements on the West Bank as a major impediment to peace, the current U.S. ambassador to Israel was once the president of a fundraising group supporting just such an Israeli settlement. The notion that he could be an honest broker in peace talks borders on the farcical.

All of this, of course, matters when it comes to Washington’s unending wars in the region. Even Secretary of Defense James Mattis, soon after leaving the helm of U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), recognized that he “paid a military security price every day as a commander of CENTCOM because the Americans were seen as biased in support of Israel.” So, you want to lose? Keep feeding the ISIS narrative on democracy and Israel just as the Trump administration is doing, even as it sends more troops into the region and heightens bombing and drone raids from Syria to Yemen.

Send in the Cavalry…

If the next phase of the generational struggle for the Middle East is once again to be essentially a military one, while the Trump administration feeds every negative American stereotype in the region, then it’s hard to see a future of anything but defeat. A combination of widespread American ignorance and the intellectual solace of simplistic models lead many here to ascribe jihadist terrorism to some grand, ethereal hatred of “Christendom.”

The reality is far more discomfiting.

Consider, for instance, a document from “ancient” history: Osama bin Laden’s 1998 fatwa against the United States. At that time, he described three tangible motives for jihad: U.S. occupation of Islam’s holiest lands in the Middle East, U.S. attacks on and sanctions against Iraq, and American support for Israel’s “occupation” of Jerusalem. If ISIS and al-Qaeda’s center of gravity is not their fighting force but their ideology (as I believe it is), then the last thing Washington should want to do is substantiate any of these three visions of American motivation — unless, of course, the goal is to lose the war on terror across the Greater Middle East and parts of Africa.

In that case, the solution is obvious: Washington should indeed insert more troops and set up yet more bases in the region, maintain unqualified support for right-wing Israeli governments and assorted Arab autocrats, and do its best to ban Muslim refugees from America.

That, after all, represents the royal road to affirming al-Qaeda’s, and now ISIS’s, overarching narratives. It’s a formula — already well used in the last 15 years — for playing directly into the enemy’s hands and adhering to its playbook, for creating yet more failed states and terror groups throughout the region.

When it comes to Syria in particular, there are some shockingly unexamined contradictions at the heart of Washington’s reactions to its war there. President Trump, for instance, recently spoke emotionally about the “beautiful babies cruelly murdered” in Idlib, Syria. Yet the administration’s executive order on travel bans any Syrian refugees — including beautiful babies — from entering this country. If few Americans recognize the incongruity or hypocrisy of this, you can bet that isn’t true in the Arab world.

For ISIS, today’s struggle in Syria, Iraq, and elsewhere is part of an unremitting, apocalyptic holy war between Islam and the West. That narrative is demonstrably false.

The current generation of jihadis sprang from tangible grievances and perceived humiliations perpetrated by recent Western policies. There was nothing “eternal” about it. The first recorded suicide bombings in the Middle East didn’t erupt until the early 1980s. So forget the thousand-year struggle or even, in Western terms, the “clash of civilizations.” It took America’s military-first policies in the region to generate what has now become perpetual war with spreading terror insurgencies.

Want a formula for forever war? Send in the cavalry… again.

The Hypocrisy Trap Another way to feed the ISIS narrative is to bolster perceptions of diplomatic insincerity.

Americans tend to be some of the least self-aware citizens on the planet.

(Is it a coincidence that ours is about the only population left still questioning the existence of climate change?) Among the rare things that Democrats and Republicans agree on, however, is that America is a perennial force for good, in fact the force for good on Earth. As it happens, the rest of the world begs to differ.

In Gallup global polls, the United States has, in fact, been identified as the number one threat to world peace! However uncomfortable that may be, it matters.

One reason many Middle Easterners, in particular, believe this to be so stems from Washington’s longstanding support for regional autocrats. In fiscal year 2017, Egypt’s military dictator and Jordan’s king will receive $1.46 and $1 billion respectively in U.S. foreign aid — nearly 7 percent of its total assistance budget.

After leading a coup to overturn Egypt’s elected government, General Sisi was officially persona non grata in the White House under the last administration (though President Obama reinstated $1.3 billion in military aid in 2015). Sisi’s recent visit to the Trump White House changed all that as, in a joint press conference, the president swore that he was “very much behind” Egypt and that Sisi himself had “done a fantastic job.”

In another indicator of future policy, the State Department dropped existing human rights conditions for the multibillion-dollar sale of F-16s to Bahrain’s monarchy. All of this might be of mild interest, if it weren’t for the way it bolstered ISIS claims that democracy is just an “idol,” and the democratic process a fraud that American presidents simply ignore.

Then there’s Israel, already the object of deep hatred in the region, and now clearly about to receive a blank check of support from the Trump administration.

The role that Israeli leaders already play in American domestic politics is certainly striking to Arab audiences. Consider how unprecedented it was in 2015 to see Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu criticize a sitting president before a joint session of Congress in an Israeli election year and receive multiple, bipartisan standing ovations. Even so, none of this prevented the Obama administration, domestically labeled “weak on Israel,” from negotiating a record $38 billion military aid deal with that country.

While violent Palestinian fighters are far from blameless, for 40 years Israel has increasingly created facts on the ground Major Danny Sjursen, a TomDispatch meant to preclude a viable Palestinian regular, is a U.S. Army strategist and state. Netanyahu and his predecessors former history instructor at West Point. increased illegal settlements in the PalesHe served tours with reconnaissance tinian territories, built an exclusion wall, units in Iraq and Afghanistan. He has and further divided the West Bank by con- written a memoir and critical analysis of structing a network of roads meant only the Iraq War, Ghost Riders of Baghdad: for the Israeli military and Jewish settlers.

Soldiers, Civilians, and the Myth of the

bout a year ago, I asked our ex-Chief Secretary of Nagaland, Alemtemshi Jamir, to speak in a Think-Tank meeting to share his view on whether or not the way things are done in our bureaucracy should continue as usual, meaning, whether the status quo should be maintained. To which his wife, Madam Banuo, quickly interjected with a question: “What do you mean by status quo?” As one would expect, their spontaneous reaction was certainly understandable. For that matter, both of them are very nice people. But if we may, let’s probe a little deeper: Could it be possible that they weren’t tough enough to discipline governmentabusers under them and they were too complaisant to their political bosses? Or else, how could our bureaucracy in Nagaland go so wrong under their watch?

Real civil service leaders should display real courage by standing up to those who go against the rules and regulations that make a good government. Dubbing civil servants as the “steel frame” of India, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh recently asked them not to become simply “yes-men” to their political masters. He further added: “If a political executive gives wrong orders, do not be scared to show them rules. Tell him, ‘you are legally wrong’ and do not sign the file.” Indeed, civil servants have governmental authority too. They have the power to take decisions according to law and in the interest of the people.

The power of bureaucracy cannot be underestimated. Although the bureaucrats are, in theory, “servants” of their political masters, they are in a way the actual rulers in the modern state. Bureaucrats have such unmatched knowledge and experience in their specialized domains that generalist politicians rarely have sufficient expertise to question the bureaucrats’ information, recommendations, or actions.

Perhaps that was why an eighteenth-century Russian Czar once said, “Not I, but ten thousand clerks, rule Russia.”

Way back in the 1900s, the German sociologist and philosopher Max Weber saw the possibility for the liberation of humankind through bureaucracy or the possibility of dehumanization through the conversion of bureaucratic means into ends. For these reasons, those in bureaucracy should see their role as “servants of the people” who are hired to serve the public. And if they truly serve the people, or work to meet the established goals of the agency, the common people could be easily lifted out of poverty so they can all enjoy a higher standard of living. After all, bureaucrats are supposed to be experts having knowledge, organizations, and funds needed to implement policies, or the missions of the agencies, that benefit society.

Unfortunately, our bureaucracy in Nagaland has distorted itself by making its own survival the terminal value rather than an instrumental one. That’s why many of our civil service workers assume that pursuit of personal ends such as income and job security is everything. In addition, they have dehumanized human relationships by turning the bureaucracy into a system that is too inflexible and impersonal. For instance, the application of rules has often become so rigid that extenuating circumstances tend to be overlooked, and every individual is treated as merely a number. Or in some cases, the common people have to beg for services or almost worship the civil servants to get things done or pay them a bribe simply to expedite a request.

In bureaucracy, roles and duties are protected by tenure, professional standards, and appeal procedures. They enjoy very special career privileges and job security. As for their authority, it is vested in their positions or ranks. So, bureaucrats generally dislike structural changes, because they fear that their “little world” of comfort and power may be threatened.

That’s why, bureaucracy, far from directing change, intentionally or unintentionally tend to be defenders of the status quo in most societies.

How then can we change a bureaucracy that has failed or is broken? First, when things go excessively wrong in the bureaucracy, radicals and revolutionaries feel the need to transform the structure of the entire bureaucracy or to abolish it to fulfill their goals. Successful revolutionaries usually replace the old with a new form of bureaucracy. In such a case, those bureaucrats who resist change only end up being the real losers. Second, time is fast changing in favor for a new system of government: more production with less manpower. In an interview on Fox News a few days ago, the multi-billionaire Mark Cuban said, “There’s no stopping technology.

Robotic workers are coming. As a result, repetitive jobs will be the most at risk because they cannot compete with robots and technology.” This will certainly cause many government employees to lose their current jobs, because technology-powered machines will take over and do things much faster, much better, and much more...24/7 without any complaint. So, in order to counter this inevitability, today’s government employees would do well to begin preparing for change.

In developing countries, the bureaucracies still have to perform by physical powers such activities as maintaining order, collecting revenues, keeping records, providing public goods and services (e.g., roads, education, health care, etc.), and regulating or controlling factors of production (e.g., growth and distribution of food, transportation, etc.). But a time is coming when the state’s role in society will become more limited---perhaps focusing more on defending one’s country’s sovereignty against external aggression, promoting the country’s interests abroad, maintaining domestic social order, and ensuring the basic safety and freedom of every individual. In doing so, we may witness an increasing popularity of Thomas Paine’s (1737-1809) slogan: “That government is best which governs least.”

In the light of these possibilities, bureaucrats should reflect both their developing needs and external societal changes so that they can begin to serve as forces of change within their administrative enclaves. But the question is, will anyone of them be

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BJP's hat-trick win in Delhi Terrorism will recoil on those who nurture it: India civic poll routs AAP, Congress

Delhi BJP chief Manoj Tiwari at a polling booth during MCD polls in New Delhi.

New Delhi, April 26 (iANS): Riding on a Modi wave and defeating antiincumbency, the BJP on Wednesday retained with a sweeping majority its 10year hold on the capital's three civic bodies, routing the city's ruling AAP which blamed rigged EVMs for its poor show in the municipal polls.

The BJP won 181 of the 270 wards that polled on Sunday, way above the halfway mark to secure control of all the three Municipal Corporations of Delhi - North, South and East. The BJP won 64 of 103 wards in North, 70 of 104 in South and 47 of 63 in East.

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) led by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal could

manage wins in just 48 wards and the Congress was way behind with 30 seats. The Bahujan Samaj Party won three wards, Indian National Lok Dal and Samajwadi Party one each and independents won six wards.

A jubilant BJP credited its continued electoral success to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who tweeted his thanks to the people of Delhi for retaining their faith in the party. "I laud the hardwork of (Delhi BJP) team which made the resounding MCD win possible."

BJP President Amit Shah, who is in West Bengal, said the election results, coming close on the heels of the party's suc-

cesses in the assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Goa and Manipur, have taken forward the "Modi and BJP juggernaut".

Delhi BJP chief Manoj Tiwari, the brain behind the party's "AAP se na ho ga" (AAP can't do it) campaign, also credited the victory to Modi and his developmental policies.

Tiwari called for Kejriwal's resignation, saying "the people of Delhi have exercised their right to recall" by voting against the AAP, which rode to power more than two years ago, winning 67 of the 70 legislative seats in the Delhi Assembly polls.

The poor showing is seen as a setback for Kejriwal, as the civic elections were largely viewed as a

PM Modi takes serious view of corruption in railways, directs

New Delhi, April 26 (pTi): Prime Minister Narendra Modi today took a serious view of the "large number of complaints" about "corrupt practices" of Railway officials and directed strictest possible action against those found guilty.

He asked the Indian Railways to work towards a unified single telephone number for all grievances and queries, including helpline in the case of an accident.

Modi made the comments while reviewing the progress of vital infrastructure projects in the railway, road and power sectors,

spread over several states.

Chairing a meeting here of Pro-Active Governance and Timely Implementation (PRAGATI), an ICT-based multi-modal platform, he reviewed the progress towards handling and resolution of grievances related to Railways.

"Noting that a large number of complaints were related to corrupt practices of officials, he directed strictest possible action against Railway officials found guilty of corruption," said a PMO statement. The Prime Minister has been asserting that his government is determined

to eliminate corruption.

The projects reviewed today are spread over Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Jammu and Kashmir, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Tripura and Nagaland.

These included the Mumbai Metro, the Tirupati-Chennai Highway, long-pending road projects in Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, and Manipur, and important power transmission lines in Jammu and Kashmir and the North-East.

referendum on his twoyear-old rule. Kejriwal congratulated the BJP, and said he is looking "forward to working with MCDs for the betterment of Delhi".

Stunned by the defeat, the AAP alleged that the Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) were rigged to help the saffron party win. "Without rigging, such a massive win is not possible," Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said, reiterating the accusations the party has been raising since AAP's defeat in the Punjab and Goa assembly polls.

He said it was "unbelievable" that the BJP could return to power in the civic bodies with such a massive win even as the MCD in

the last 10 years had failed to maintain the upkeep of the city.

Alka Lamba, who represents Chandni Chowk in the assembly, said she was quitting on moral grounds for the party's defeat in the seats falling under her constituency.

The Congress drubbing saw its Delhi unit Chief Ajay Maken resigning from the post owning up moral responsibility for the defeat, while veteran party leader and former Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit put the onus of defeat squarely on local leaders.

The Congress was looking at a possible revival in Delhi, where it ruled for 15 years till 2013 but failed to win a single seat in the 2015 assembly elections or a Lok Sabha seat from Delhi in the 2014 polls.

The civic bodies are mainly responsible for the city's cleanliness, hygiene, primary health and education and prevention of vector-borne diseases.

The three corporations had a combined budget of nearly Rs 7,000 crore in the last fiscal.

The MCD polls are local in nature but the win is the latest in a series of BJP election victories credited largely to Modi.

The win has also boosted the BJP's prospects for the 2019 Lok Sabha elections and could act as a dampner to efforts of opposition parties to stop the Modi juggernaut.

MoScow, Aprril 26 (pTi): India today called for united global action in strongly resisting "opportunistic" efforts of some states to support terrorist groups by facilitating training, funding and providing safe havens to them.

Addressing an international security conference here, Defence Minister Arun Jaitley said terrorism is being "reinvented" in newer and even more dangerous manifestations and that the challenge must be dealt with effectively. Without naming any country, he said terrorism will recoil on those who nurture it, adding distinctions are still sought to be made between good and bad terrorists, despite all the evidence and experience to the contrary.

The sixth Moscow conference on international security is attended by defence ministers of a large number of countries.

"We should also resolutely resist opportunistic efforts by some states to support terrorist proxies by training, funding or providing safe havens to such groups for their limited objectives," he said. On the posi-

tive side, he said, the territory acquired by ISIS in the Middle East has begun to be effectively challenged by several countries.

"It is reassuring and should be taken to its logical conclusion. Cooperation between major powers in this effort can become a template for similar steps elsewhere," he said. At the same time, he said even work is on to eliminate the breeding grounds of terrorism in the Middle East, the dangers of such elements returning to their home countries has become a major challenge. "We need to encourage closer information exchanges and intelligence cooperation to address this threat," he said. The defence minister said the scourge of terrorism remains the primary security challenge for all peaceful countries, asserting India will steadfastly partner all friendly countries confronted with the challenge of terrorism. "We have successfully addressed this threat for over three decades. We will continue to strengthen ongoing cooperation in counter-terrorism with our partners," he said.

No plans to tax agriculture income, Centre cannot: Jaitley

New Delhi, April 26 (iANS): The government has no plans to impose any tax on agricultural income, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said on Wednesday, putting to rest recent speculations on a politically sensitive issue.

"I categorically state that the Central government has no plan to impose any tax on agriculture income," Jaitley said in a tweet, clarifying that the Centre has no constitutional authority to tax agricultural income. Talking to reporters here on Tuesday, Niti Aayog member Bibek Debroy had said that taxes should be imposed on agricultural income above a certain threshold in order to expand the tax base.

"The eventual answer to expanding the tax base is to tax the rural sector, including agricultural income above a certain threshold," he had said.

"While only the agricultural income of farmers is exempt from taxation, their

non-agricultural income also goes untaxed." "I don't believe in the artificial rural-urban distinctions. So whatever is the threshold of personal income tax in urban areas should be for the rural areas as well," Debroy added.

The NITI Aayog, in a statement on Wednesday, said Debroy's suggestion is neither the view of the Aayog "nor is such a recommendation made anywhere in the Draft Action Agenda document as circulated to the Governing Council at the meeting on 23rd April 2017".

"NITI Aayog notes that the views on taxing farm income expressed by Member Bibek Debroy were personal and not those of the Aayog," it added. Replying to the debate on the Finance Bill 2017-18 in the Lok Sabha last month, Jaitley had said there will be no tax on farm income.

"Income from agriculture will not be taxed," he had said.

Niti Aayog backs local GM crop policy

New Delhi, April 26 (reUTerS): India could prevent foreign firms monopolising the market for genetically modified (GM) seeds by allowing the sale of only locally developed varieties, a government thinktank has said, in a boost for transgenic mustard produced by a Delhi group.

The Policy Commission said in recommendations this week to the government, and seen by Reuters, that adopting new technology is one of the most important drivers of farm productivity.

Cotton is the only GM crop currently allowed to be sold in the world's second most populous country where arable land is

shrinking. U.S. company Monsanto Co. dominates the cotton seed market in India, and often faces resistance from local companies over its dominant position.

"There is some concern that GM seeds can be monopolised by multinationals, which may then exploit farmers," the commission said in its report to the government. "But this concern is readily addressed by limiting GM seeds to those varieties discovered by our own institution and companies."

A panel of government and independent experts gave its technical clearance in August last year for GM mustard, which is in the

same plant family as rapeseed, and developed by a group of Delhi scientists following multiple reviews of crop trial data generated over almost a decade.

The national government has been sitting on the fence since August largely because of stiff opposition from social and environmental activists who see GM food as harmful for humans and animals alike. India's biggest rapeseed-producing state, Rajasthan, has decided not to allow the commercial use of GM mustard even if New Delhi approves the lab-altered variety, its farm minister Prabhulal Saini told Reuters. The government has said it will take a call on

An Indian scientist points to a patch of genetically modified (GM) rapeseed crop under trial in New Delhi. (REUTERS/File )

GM mustard after taking all views on board, though experts say allowing its cultivation is critical to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's goal of attaining self-sufficiency in vegetable oils.

India spends around $10 billion annually on vegetable oil imports. GM mustard - with yields up to 30 percent higher than normal varieties - could give Modi a chance to slash this bill.

Modi, Sri Lankan PM discuss bilateral issues Social media platforms banned in J&K

New Delhi, April 26 (iANS): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday discussed a range of bilateral issues and matters of mutual concern with visiting Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe here. Following the talks, an agreement on cooperation in economic projects between India and Sri Lanka was signed.

"Held comprehensive talks with PM Ranil Wickremesinghe on ways to strengthen India-Sri Lanka ties for the benefit of our citizens," Modi tweeted after the meeting held at Hyderabad House.

External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, Home Minister Rajnath Singh, and Road, Transport, Highways and Shipping Minister Nitin Gadkari also called on the visiting dignitary.

"The discussions of the Indian leadership with the visiting dignitary provided both sides an opportunity to review the progress in implementation of the decisions taken during various high-level exchanges in the past two years or so, including the visit of the Prime Minister to Sri Lanka in March 2015 and the visits of the President and the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka to India since February 2015," the External Affairs Ministry said in a statement.

"The two sides expressed their satisfaction at the progress in imple-

J-K suspends Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp among 22 social media sites for a month

mentation of the outcomes of these exchanges, which further strengthened the historically close and friendly relations between the two countries," it said.

The ministry said that the Indian side reiterated India's commitment to promoting prosperity in the neighbourhood and affirmed the continued support of India for realising the vision of the Sri Lankan leadership for a stable, peaceful and prosperous Sri Lanka.

The leaders welcomed the memorandum of understanding (MoU) on cooperation in economic projects that was signed after the meeting between Modi and Wickremesinghe. The MoU outlines the agenda for bilateral eco-

nomic cooperation with both sides expressing their commitment to ensuring that this mutually beneficial agenda is expeditiously implemented.

The ministry statement said that both sides also expressed the hope for early conclusion of the ongoing negotiations on the economic and technology cooperation agreement.

"Pointing out that India had welcomed Sri Lanka co-sponsoring the Resolution 'Promoting Reconciliation, Accountability and Human Rights in Sri Lanka' at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) last month, the Indian leadership expressed the earnest hope that recommendations on the reconciliation would be

completed within the stipulated timeframe of two years," it said.

The Indian interlocutors requested continued cooperation of the Sri Lankan government "for humanitarian treatment of Indian fishermen, without resorting to force under any circums tances".

"Indian side also informed the Sri Lankan side of the measures taken by India to encourage the Indian fishermen concerned for adopting deep sea fishing," the statement said.

Wickremesinghe reiterated the invitation to Modi for a visit to Sri Lanka for the Vesak Day celebrations on May 10. The Sri Lankan Prime Minister arrived here on Tuesday ona fiveday working visit to India.

New Delhi, April 26 (AgeNcieS): The Jammu and Kashmir government on Wednesday suspended 22 social media sites, including Facebook, WhatsApp and Twitter, for a month as students’ protests and unrest refused to die down in the restive state.

The order by the home department came amid an existing ban on 3G and 4G mobile services. The services were suspended on April 17. Broadband has also been reduced to 2G speed.

“Any message or class of messages to or from any persons or class of persons relating to any subject or any pictorial content through the following social networking sites shall not be transmitted in the Kashmir valley, with immediate effect, for a period of one month or till further orders, whichever is earlier,” the government said in the order.

Social networking sites that have been suspended include QQ, WeChat, Ozone, Tumblr, Google+, Baidu, Skype, Viber, Line, Snapchat, Pinterest, Telegram, Reddit, Snapfish, YouTube (Upload), Vine, Buzznet, Xanga, and Flickr.

The government said the step was being taken

Kashmiri students shout slogans during a protest in Srinagar. More than 60 students were injured in clashes with security forces at a college in Pulwama. (HT/Photo)

because “... it has been felt that continued misuse of social networking sites and instant messaging services is likely to be detrimental to the interest of peace and tranquillity of the state”.

“Whereas anti-national and inimical elements largely succeed in transmitting unverified objectionable inflammatory material/content through the medium of these social networking sites and internet messaging services without any accountability, thereby endangering public life and property and causing unrest/disharmony in the state,” it added.

The government has also moved the Jammu and Kashmir high court and filed a caveat against any public interest litigation aiming to stop the ban.

“Any message or class of messages aimed at a person or class of people shall not be transmitted through any means in Kashmir for one month,’’ the state government said in the caveat.

Student protests have become a new challenge for the administration in Kashmir where the law and order situation has gone downhill after the killing of Hizbul Mujahideen militant Burhan Wani last summer.

The situation has become more tense after several video clips, widely circulated on social media, showed alleged human rights violation by the armed forces.

Unprecedented student protests had erupted across the valley on April 17 against the alleged highhandedness of security

forces in Pulwama Degree College in south Kashmir on April 15.

Following the April 17 clashes, the government had ordered the shutdown of classes in the institutions in an attempt to prevent escalation of law and order situation.

On Monday, 24 people, including 12 security personnel, were injured as students of Srinagar’s Sri Pratap Higher Secondary School and College clashed with police who used tear gas to disperse the protesters as colleges opened in Kashmir after a five-day shutdown.

It was the latest outbreak of protests after a botched bye-election in the summer capital in which at least eight people were killed.

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China launches first US moves THAAD anti-missile to domestically built aircraft South Korean site, sparking protests carrier amid tension SEOUL, ApriL 26 (rEUtErS): The U.S. military started moving parts of an anti-missile defence system to a deployment site in South Korea on Wednesday, triggering protests from villagers and criticism from China, amid tension over North Korea’s weapons development.

The earlier-than-expected steps to deploy the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system was also denounced by the frontrunner in South Korea’s presidential election on May 9.

South Korea’s defence ministry said elements of THAAD were moved to the deployment site, on what had been a golf course, about 250 km (155 miles) south of the capital, Seoul.

“South Korea and the United States have been working to secure an early operational capability of the THAAD system in response to North Korea’s advancing nuclear and missile threat,” the ministry said in a statement.

The battery was expected to be operational by the end of the year, it said.

The United States and South Korea agreed last year to deploy the THAAD to counter the threat of missile launches by North Korea. They say it is solely aimed at defending against North Korea.

But China says the system’s advanced radar can penetrate deep into its territory and undermine its security, while it will do little to deter the North, and is adamant in its opposition.

“China strongly urges the United States and South Korea to stop actions that worsen regional

until equipment is withdrawn from the site and ask South Korea’s new government to reconsider,” Kim told Reuters by telephone.

A police official in the nearby town of Seongju said police had withdrawn from the area and were not aware of any injuries.

The United States and North Korea have been stepping up warnings to each other in recent weeks over North Korea’s development of nuclear weapons and missiles in defiance of U.N. resolutions.

North Korea’s nuclear and missile threat is perhaps the most serious security challenge confronting U.S. President Donald Trump. He has vowed to prevent North Korea from being able to hit the United States with a nuclear missile.

North Korea says it needs the weapons to defend itself and has vowed to strike the United States and its Asian allies at the first sign of any attack on it.

The United States is sending the USS Carl Vinson carrier strike group to waters off the Korean peninsula, where it will join the USS Michigan, a nuclear submarine that docked in South Korea on Tuesday.

South Korea’s navy has said it will hold drills with the U.S. strike group.

North Korea’s foreign ministry denounced a scheduled U.N. Security Council meeting on Friday, chaired by U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, saying the United States was “not morally entitled” to force members states to impose sanctions on it.

“It is a wild dream for the U.S. to think of depriv-

A U.S. military vehicle which is a part of Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system arrives in Seongju, South Korea on April 26. (REUTERS Photo)

tensions and harm China’s strategic security interests and cancel the deployment of the THAAD system and withdraw the equipment,” Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang told a briefing.

“China will resolutely take necessary steps to defend its interests,” Geng said, without elaborating.

China is North Korea’s sole major ally and is seen as crucial to U.S.-led efforts to rein in its bellicose, isolated neighbour.

The United States began moving the first elements of the system to South Korea in March after the North tested four ballistic missiles.

South Korea has accused China of discriminating against some South

Korean companies operating in China because of the deployment.

The liberal politician expected to win South Korea’s election, Moon Jaein, has called for a delay in the deployment, saying the new administration should make a decision after gathering public opinion and more talks with Washington.

A spokesman for Moon said moving the parts to the site “ignored public opinion and due process” and demanded it be suspended.

Television footage showed military trailers carrying equipment, including what appeared to be launch canisters, to the battery site.

Protesters shouted and

hurled water bottles at the vehicles over lines of police holding them back.

The Pentagon said the system was critical to defend South Korea and its allies against North Korean missiles and deployment would be completed “as soon as feasible”.

‘WE WILL FIGHT’ More than 10 protesters were injured, some of them with fractures, in clashes with police, Kim Jongkyung, a leader of villagers opposing the deployment, told Reuters.

Kim said about 200 protesters rallied overnight and they would keep up their opposition.

“There’s still time for THAAD to be actually up and running so we will fight

‘Eating less DEPARTMENT OF POSTS: INDIA salt may not O/O THE DIRECTOR OF POSTAL SERVICES lower your BP’ NAGLAND; KOHIMA-797001 NEw YOrk, ApriL 26 (iANS): Contrary to popular belief, consuming less sodium may not lead to lower blood pressure in the long term, show results of a new study that followed more than 2,600 men and women for 16 years.

“We saw no evidence that a diet lower in sodium had any long-term beneficial effects on blood pressure,” said Lynn Moore, Associate Professor of Medicine at Boston University School of Medicine in the US. The new findings, presented at the Experimental Biology 2017 meeting, being held in Chicago from April 22-26, call into question the sodium limits recommended by the current Dietary Guidelines for Americans.

“Our findings add to growing evidence that current recommendations for sodium intake may be misguided,” Moore added.

The 2015-2020 Dietary Guidelines for Americans recommend limiting sodium intake to 2,300 milligrams a day for healthy people.

For the study, the researchers followed 2,632 men and women ages 30 to 64 years old who were part of the Framingham Offspring Study.

The participants had normal blood pressure at the start of the study.

However, over the next 16 years, the researchers found that the study participants who consumed less than 2,500 milligrams of sodium a day had higher blood pressure than participants who consumed higher amounts of sodium.

The researchers also found that people in the study who had higher intakes of potassium, calcium and magnesium exhibited lower blood pressure over the long term.

ing the DPRK of its nuclear deterrent through military threat and sanctions. It is just like sweeping the sea with a broom,” the North’s KCNA cited a foreign ministry spokesman as saying.

DPRK stands for the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, the North’s official name.

China’s envoy on North Korea, Wu Dawei, met his Japanese counterpart, Kenji Kanasugi, for talks in Tokyo and they agreed that they would “respond firmly” to any further North Korean provocation, Japan’s foreign ministry said.

“We are against anything that might lead to war or chaos,” Wu said.

KCNA said earlier leader Kim Jong Un had supervised the country’s “largestever” live-fire drill to mark Tuesday’s 85th founding anniversary of its military, with more than 300 largecalibre, self-propelled artillery pieces on its east coast.

“The brave artillerymen mercilessly and satisfactorily hit the targets and the gunshots were very correct, he said, adding that they showed well the volley of gunfire of our a-match-fora-hundred artillery force giving merciless punishment to the hostile forces,” KCNA cited Kim as saying.

There had been fears North Korea would mark the anniversary with its sixth nuclear test or a longrange missile launch.

BEiJiNG, ApriL 26 (rEUtErS): China launched its first domestically built aircraft carrier on Wednesday amid rising tension over North Korea and worries about Beijing’s assertiveness in the South China Sea. State media has quoted military experts as saying the carrier, China’s second and built in the northeastern port of Dalian, is not expected to enter service until 2020, once it has been kitted out and armed.

Foreign military analysts and Chinese media have for months published satellite images, photographs and news stories about the second carrier’s development.

China confirmed its existence in late 2015. The launch “shows our country’s indigenous aircraft carrier design and construction has achieved major step-by-step results”, Xinhua news agency said.

State television showed the carrier, its deck lined in red flags, being pushed by tug boats into its berth. Fan Changlong, a vice chairman of China’s powerful Central Military Commission, presided over the ceremony, Xinhua said, during which a bottle of champagne was broken on the bow.

The launch follows China’s celebration on Sunday of the 68th birthday of the founding of the Chinese navy, and comes amid renewed tensions between North Korea and the United States over Pyongyang’s nuclear and missile programmes. Little is known about China’s aircraft carrier programme, which is a state secret.

But the government has said the new carrier’s design draws on experiences from the country’s first carrier, the Liaoning, bought second-hand from Ukraine in 1998 and refitted in China. The new conventionally powered carrier will be able to operate China’s Shenyang J-15 fighter jets. Unlike the U.S. navy’s longer-range nuclear carriers, both of China’s feature Soviet-design ski-jump bows, intended to give fighter jets enough lift to take off from their shorter decks. But they lack the powerful catapult technology for launching aircraft of their U.S. counterparts.

China’s navy has been taking an increasingly prominent role in recent months, with a rising star admiral taking command, its first aircraft carrier sailing around selfruled Taiwan and new Chinese warships popping up in far-flung places.

The Liaoning has taken part in military exercises, including in the South China Sea, but is expected to serve more as a training vessel. State media has said the new carrier will be more dedicated to military and humanitarian operations. China claims almost all the South China Sea, believed to have huge deposits of oil and gas, through which about $5 trillion in ship-borne trade passes every year, and has been building up military facilities like runways on the islands it controls.

NAGALAND LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY SECRETARIAT KOHIMA

NO: AS/ESTT/4/2014/Pt/1561

Dated Kohima, the 25th April, 2017

PRESS RELEASE With reference to the Advertisement NO:AS/ESTT74/2014/Pt/I 204 dated 28th February, 2017, the candidates who have collected their ADMIT CARD for the post of ASSISTANT LEGAL OFFICER, LEGALASSISTANT, ASSISTANT TRANSPORT OFFICER AND SOUND ASSISTANT are hereby informed to appear the Written Exam on 19th May, 2017 (Friday) at NPSC Exam Hall at 10:00 A.M. No separate calling letter will be issued.

(N. BENJAMIN NEWMAI) COMMISSIONER & SECRETARY

NOTIFICATION FOR THE POSTS OF GRAMIN DAK SEVAKS IN NAGALAND DIVISION

NAGALAND LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY SECRETARIAT

Applications are invited by the respective appointing authority as shown in the Annexure ‘A’ against each post, from eligible candidates for the selection and engagement to the posts of Gramin Dak Sevaks under Nagaland Division as listed in the Annexure.

NOTIFICATION

No.A-1/GDS BPM/VACANCY/NL

Dated at Kohima the 25.04.2017

How to apply:Candidates who desires to apply will have to register himself/ herself online through the portal https://indiapost.gov.in or https://appost.in/gdsonline with the basic details to obtain the Registration Number.

Fee Payment:1. Applicant of category OC/OBC Male should pay a fee of Rs. 100/- (Rupees one hundred) at any Head Post Office.

Candidate who requires to make the payment has to visit any Head Post Office to make the payment. For making the payment candidate should inform Registration Number at the PO counter.

2. However, fee payment is exempted for all Female and SC/ST candidates. They may apply online directly through the provided link in the Website.

3. For applying online candidate should submit the application by providing information of Registration Number (and Fee payment Number once, in case of fee to be paid) to proceed to fill up the subsequent information. Documents once uploaded against one registration number will remain in the server hence for submission of subsequent posts or for other Circles, candidates need not upload any documents further.

ANNEXURE A Gramin Dak Sevak Vacancy Position for Nagaland Division

For All Posts: Application online Submission Start Date: 25/04/2017 Apppication online Submission End Date: 24/05/2017

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(R.M.Patel) Director Postal Services Nagaland, Kohima-797001

KOHIMA

Dated Kohima, the 25th April 2017 NO.AS/ESTT/4/2014 (Pt)/1562: This is to notify that the syllabus for the posts of Assistant Legal Officer/ Legal Assistant/Assistant Transport Officer and Sound Assistant are as under for information of the general/candidates.

A. SYLLABUS FOR THE POST OF ASISTANT LEGAL OFFICER & LEGAL ASSISTANT. Constitution of India 1. Part V — Union: Organization, Power & Functions (a) Chapter I - The Executive: President, Vice President, Prime Minister and Council of Ministers (b) Chapter II - Parliament (c) Chapter III - Legislative Powers of the President.

2. Part VI - The States: Organization, Power & Functions (a) Chapter I - General hi (b) Chapter II - The Executive: Governor, Chief Minister & Council of Ministers (c) Chapter III - The Stale Legislature.

3. Tenth Scheduled - Provision as to Disqualification on ground of Defection 4. Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business in Nagaland Legislative Assembly.

Note: - The topic mentioned for the above positions are only indication and cover broad meal in lute with the requirement of the post.

B. SYLLABUS FOR THE POST OF ASISTANT TRANSPORT OFFICER. Syllabus:- Introduction to Automobile.

- Classification of Automobile: Purpose, fuel used, capacity construction, drive, wheel & axle, suspension system, body, doors & transmission.

- Fluid mechanics - Hydraulics - Manufacturing technology - Structural & body building engineering - Classification of Engines.

- Automobile transmission & maintenance - Heat power engineering - Alternate fuels & energy systems - Components of automobile: Clutches, gear, propeller shaft, differential, axles, brake system, chassis & springs, steering mechanisms, fuel feed systems, MPFI, CRDi, supercharger, ignition systems, lubricating & cooling systems, piston rings, radiator.

C. SYLLABUS FOR THE POST OF SOUND ASSISTANT Syllabus:- Fundamentals of sound and audio system.

- Principles and characteristics of sound.

- Analog vs digital format, signal flow.

- Sound wave, effects.

- Dynamics (compression and expansion).

- Microphones, amplifiers, speakers, characteristics and placement.

- Recording equipment, editing and mixing.

- Cable construction, wiring, routing and patchbays - soldering and crimping.

- Limiters, synthesizers and noise gates.

- Reverberation, echo and digital delays.

- Measures and visualizations of sounds and signals.

- Studio setup and signal routing.

(N. BENJAMIN NEWMAI) COMMISSIONER & SECRETARY

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Rockets oust Thunder in NBA playoffs, Spurs & Jazz close in Los AngeLes, ApriL 26 (AFp): James Harden scored 34 points and the Houston Rockets withstood a furious effort from Oklahoma City star Russell Westbrook to oust the Thunder from the NBA playoffs on Tuesday.

The Rockets beat the Thunder 105-99 to win their bestof-seven Western Conference first-round series four games to one.

Rockets reserve Lou Williams scored 10 of his 22 points early in the fourth quarter as the Rockets responded to a sensational third quarter from Westbrook, who carried his team to a 77-72 lead going into the final period.

Westbrook scored 10 straight points in one stretch and finished with 20 points, five rebounds and three assists in the third.

But Williams opened the fourth with two free throws, and added three more from the line along with a three-pointer as the Rockets regained the advantage with Westbrook on the bench - and they held on even after Westbrook re-entered the game as the Thunder missed a string of shots.

Westbrook finished with 47 points, 11 rebounds and nine assists, but connected on just two of his 11 shots in the final period.

The defeat brought a close to a historic season for Westbrook, who joined Oscar Robertson as the only players in NBA history to average a triple-double and beat Robertson's 55-year-old record for most triple-doubles in a regular season with 42.

In withstanding Westbrook,

Houston Rockets' James Harden (13) goes up for a shot as Oklahoma City Thunder's Andre Roberson defends during the first half in Game 5 of an NBA basketball first-round playoff series on April 25, in Houston. (AP Photo)

the Rockets showed they have plenty of defensive ability to go with their free-wheeling offense.

"We're not just a three-point shooting team," said Harden, who scored 13 of his 34 points in the final eight minutes. "We get after it on the defensive end."

Thunder coach Billy Donovan agreed, calling the Rockets defense "underrated."

That included their defense on Westbrook, said the Rockets' Patrick Beverly, who took

exception to Westbrook's taunt that "no one can guard me."

The two received double technical fouls for jawing at each other during the game, but Beverly said the Rockets did what they set out to do against Westbrook.

"We did a great job on him," Beverly said.

In the second round the Rockets will face either the San Antonio Spurs or Memphis Grizzlies.

- Spurs, Jazz in command -

The Spurs, seeded second in the West behind the Golden State Warriors, seized a 3-2 lead in their series Tuesday with a 116-103 victory in San Antonio.

Kawhi Leonard scored 28 points, Patty Mills added 20 and Tony Parker chipped in 16 as the Spurs bounced back from a heartbreaking overtime loss to the Grizzlies in game four.

Reserve point guard Mills made five three-pointers, four of them in the fourth quarter en route to his career-high playoff scoring total.

The effort from Australia's Mills helped thwart a Grizzlies rally. Memphis trailed by 18 with less than two minutes to play in the third quarter, but a 17-3 scoring run saw them pull within four points with nine minutes to play.

The Utah Jazz are also closing in on a second-round berth after a 96-92 victory over the Clippers in Los Angeles.

Gordon Hayward scored 27 points and pulled down eight rebounds for the Jazz, who took a 3-2 series lead with game six in Salt Lake City on Friday.

Rodney Hood scored 16 points and Joe Johnson produced nine of his 14 in the fourth quarter for Utah, who had 11 points and 11 rebounds from French big man Rudy Gobert.

Chris Paul scored 28 points for the Clippers, who played their second game without standout scorer Blake Griffin, who will miss the rest of the playoffs with a right big toe injury.

The winners of the series will face the Warriors, who swept the Portland Trail Blazers in four games.

Can people of outside decide for Nagaland? Part – 3

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Thepfulhouvi Solo

he IM Kilonser Zeneituo Angami in local dalies of 25th April 2017 said- “all these Naga National Political Parties can have a say and decide what it best for Nagas”.

Theni. “Why do NSCN (IM) claim they alone only speaks for all Naga everywhere and refuse to include other NNPP in the TALK?” ii. They got this exclusive Authority from their superior Gun Naga do not accept iii. The Prime Minister of India has openly declared Muivah’s claim is “blatent Lie”, Home Minister Rajnath Singh said they are “eroneous” and R.N. Ravi, the Indian Interlocutor Author of 3rd August 2015 GoI-IM Accord said there is no talk of Integration that Muivah Claims. iv. Thepfulhouvi Solo, Khekiye Sema, Kahuto Chishi Sumi, Z. Lohe and a few others bring the true picture of the IM at the displeasure of the IM Barrel but for the hopeful benefit of the Naga Public, and they are condemned as ‘No Naga blood’, ‘stooges of Indian bureaucrats’ and what not!

The IM notion that it has every Right to Decide for every Naga everywhere is against the traditional customary practices of the Naga. A village cannot decide for other villages, a tribe cannot decide for other Tribes. A Naga from another Planet or permanently Settled in a Foreign Country may even lapse his or her traditional Right of his or her community of origin. Even a Member of one Family moving and settling in another Village no longer has every right of his Village of origin.

The NSCN (IM) forcibly tried to make a tribe of Manipur into a Naga Tribe, but the People publicly refused they are Naga. They have every Right and they are correct to say so.

The KARENS of Myanmar, two and half decades ago, asked the NNC to declare the Heimi Community as one of the Karen Tribes and demanded the NNC decision very early failing Dr. Temjennungsang Longchari Dental Touch & Facial Aesthetics

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eauty is defined as the quality that pleases the senses.

Accordingly it is more than just proportion and symmetry. There is a secret nerve in the heart of man that response to beauty” - Dr Bryan Mendelson.

What do you think? Do you agree with me that our naga men & women age slower than the mainland Indians or western countries?

It is undeniable that we look younger in age!

I must admit that I am often mistaken for being younger friends and colleagues I meet in conferences & workshops outside northeast are always surprised when they come to know my age, and this is the same with every naga.

Our face (naga) are wider and rounder, higher eyebrow, fuller upper lid, lower nasal

which the Passage of NNC Cadres through the Keren Territory in Myanmar to China may be kept in abayence for some time. The NNC was at a dilemma whether to say ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ which will in either case result in serious repercussion detrimental to the NNC. A Civil Authority of the NNC, Zhavio asked the view of this writer who suggested the NNC may not reply, but simply request the Karens to let the Heimi decide for themselves. If the Heimi say they are Karens, the NNC will accept it, but if they say they are Naga, let the Karens not force them. The Heimi is an important Naga Tribe of Myanmar.

With the NSCN (IM) adopting terrorist tactics and becoming violent, many tribes of Manipur Vehicles got their Tata Trucks Registered with Nagaland Number Plates in the hope of some protection from extraconstitutional Tax collectors and Ruffians, and made Nagaland Transport Department Crorepati! Communities hitherto unknown as “Naga” and now become “Naga”,so much so that the Naga of Nagaland tends to become a Minority in the Naga Hoho.

As late as early 1960s, the Chief Minister of Nagaland Shilu Ao sent his personal Envoy (Minister Chiten Jamir) to Manipur welcoming the Naga to Nagaland. The Commissioner of Manipur Kampani, -a great friend of Nagaland still alive in Delhi- gathered the Tangkhul and Mao Leaders at Ukhrul but they preferred to stay Manipuri. They have every democratic Right to decide for themselves. They are now important Tribes welcome in the community of Naga; a big Naga Community known as TANGSHA Naga is evolving in Myanmar, they are very hopeful Naga and one day the Naga in Northeast India and Upper Myanmar may live together in one integrated Territory.

Until that day, a Naga wherever he or she lives is a Naga, however- No Naga decides for others outside his traditional customary Territory.

The Breathe of God in the life of Man and Culture is the Basis of democratic Politics, not Blood, Race or Religion.

Kingdom Sports Academy, an undertaking of Kingdom Stewards, Jalukie, was officially launched on April 25 at KSA Hall Diphupar ‘B’ Dimapur with Kuchi R. Zeliang MD, Case Construction as Chief Guest. Dr. Thamsing Lamkang, Sports Ambassador, North East India, was the Speaker at the program. Mongzeung Mpom, Director of Kingdom Steward, handed over the files to L. Moa Chang, Administrator of Kingdom Sports Academy. Delegates from various churches, colleges and Organizations well wishers were present to grace the Launching program.

Sporting, Khanglai, KSU & MYSU progress in Frolic Cup MedzipheMA, ApriL 26 (Mexn): Sporting Club, Khanglai FC, Khanakhurü Students Union (KSU) and Molvom Youth and Students Union (MYSU) progressed to the quarterfinals of the Frolic Cup on Wednesday.

In the first of the pre-quarterfinal match at the Local Ground in Medziphema, Sporting Club, Phaipijang took on Starlit Maova and both teams made a number of unsuccess-

ful attempts. In the end, it was Sporting Club, Phaipijang, who sailed through to the quarterfinals courtesy a narrow 2-1 win.

In the second match, Khanglai FC eased to a controlled 2-0 win over United FC, Medziphema while KSU edged Liengai FC 1-0 in the third game.

The last match of the day showcased some fine footballing skills from both MYSU and Tribal FC as both teams were locked 1-1 at the end of

trinsic as well as extrinsic aging.

Intrinsic aging caused by genes we inherit, which is actually natural facial aging. The other, caused by environmental factors such as sun exposure, smoking, alcohol, poor diet, stress, sleep deprivation, repetitive facial expression and so on, is called Extrinsic aging and is in reality premature aging.

Types of facial ageing: Skin – Texture, tone and pigmentation.

Volume – loss of facial fat and contours - diminishing and redistribution of cheek fat Muscle – development of lines, wrinkles and folds - repetitive facial expression Bone – loss of bony skeleton support and foundation A significant change in facial bones - around the eye, temple and particularly the jaw bone - occur as people age and con-

April 26 (Quarterfinals) MVYO vs Tsiepama Youth Org @ 7:00 am KYC 'B' vs Winfield Club @ 8:30 am KSU vs Sporting Club @ 2:00 pm Khanglai FC vs MYSU @ 2:30 pm

The Annual InterHouse Junior Volleyball Championship 2017-18 of Sainik School Punglwa concluded on April 25 with Patkai House finishing at the top.

The final match was played between Japfu and Patkai House with the latter winning in straight sets 25-18, 25-22. Doyang House finished third in the championship.

The Beef Bans in Nagaland Rev. Fr. George Rino Assumption University, Bangkok

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ith the huge population, Indians are found all over the world. Living amidst other nationalities and be branded as “Black Indians” is considered unjust and racist. The Indians think that equal treatment is deserved by everyone and so it is. These same people who complain of racism and ostracism, segregate the minority groups, especially the Christians and Muslims in the country. With the BJP coming to power at the Centre and implementing some of the policies such as declaring of the December 25 as ‘Good Governance Day’; Good Friday as ‘Digital India Day’; the Ban of Cow slaughter throughout the country, “One Nation - One Religion” etc., has greatly disturbed the sentiments of the Indian Christians.

Accelerating the uncertainty, the raising of Yogi Adityanath to the post of new Chief Minister in Uttar Pradesh, the Christians feel much more unsafe and alienated. Besides these, the daily bombarding of the unpleasant scenes being circulated in the social media about the persecution of the missionaries and destruction of churches in some part of the country stir many to wonder if the equal treatment for the all citizens in the country is dissolving off.

Due to the prevailing situation, many expressions of re-

grets are often circulated in the social media. But looking at our own state, I see the very thing that we dislike others do to us is openly done, yet without any opposition. Few of such areas according to my personal observations and views are given here with the intention of creating awareness.

Firstly, some of villages in Nagaland function with the resolutions, ‘One-village, one religion’. This is not different from that of Hindus Rashtra trying to impose ‘one nation, one religion’. In our state, in fact, we have witnessed the implementation of such policies of excommunicating and expulsion people out of their own village because they had converted from one denomination to another. What we dislike others do to us on the freedom of religion is being done to one another by us, who are complaining of such injustices now. Looking at the works and contributions of the minority groups too, they neither function as agents of division in the village nor contribute less to the state and villages.

Secondly, I have raised this issue in some WhatsApp groups about the speech of our former CM, Shri TR Zeliang that on 29thMar. 2017, he shared the achievements during his tenure as the Chief Minister, (DAN-III government). The first in the list was the land procurement for the North East Christian University. If the ‘procurement’

of land, as shared by honorable former CM, is done from the treasury of the State Government, even if it is only partially done, then the majority group has taken advantage already. This seems to be one of the apprehensions the minority groups in India feel now.

To go further, if the Hindus want to build Ram Mandhirs or Temples, or divert the whole Government’s treasury for the establishment of ‘Lord Shiva’s University’ (just an example), how will the Minority community feel and think about it!

Thirdly, India being a Hindu Majority country, if the Government of India starts to appoint the Hindu priests/ pujaris to be the Chaplains of Lok Sabha, Raja Sabha and in all the army headquarters and camps, how will the minority Christians or Muslims feel or think about it! But we see similar kind here in our state.

To me, we need to separate the politics from the government.

The hue and cry of lack of money is due to creation of such additional posts in the state. These posts, supposed to be purely for religious affairs, incur extra expenses from the Governments’ exchequer. Besides, if there were collections from all the members in the battalions for the celebration of Ram Mandhir’s Jubilee or maintenance of the Mandhir, how will the minority members feel about such collections? Yet we see similar types of requests in our state.

Facial Ageing and Aesthetic Medicine – the future is today bridge, flatter midface, apparently more protuberant lips, and more receded chin. This feature has many attributes similar to an infant. These commonalities between the infant and the naga compel the viewer to perceive our face as more youthful. However, our face is subjected to a greater amount of gravitational force due to weaker skeletal support, heavier soft tissue, larger amount of malar (cheek) fat, thicker skin, and a weaker chin.

As you attend the age of 30, you will start to notice signs of ageing - fine lines, wrinkles, dry patches of skin and age spots/ pigmentation. In my clinical practice I come across patients who have started to show ageing as early as at their 25.

The facial ageing is a complex biological process influenced by a combination of in-

regulation time. Subsequently, MYSU held its nerve to win 6-5 in the tie break and booking their berth for the quarterfinals.

tribute to an ageing appearance.

This loss of bony volume may contribute sagging facial skin, decreased chin projection, and loss of jaw-line definition. As jaw volume decreases, soft tissue of the lower face has less support, resulting in a softer, oval appearance to the lower face and sagging skin, which also affects the aging appearance of the neck.

With all this together leads to the face sagging, drooping, changes in shape and contour, loss of facial fullness that used to give us that stunning and extraordinary fresh look.

Facial rejuvenation The treatment for facial rejuvenation using nonsurgical techniques have dramatically increased with the introduction of wrinkle reduction injectables, Botox and a variety

of Dermal fillers and facialsculpting procedures. The combination of art and science now provides doctors with the capability to make the face appear more youthful. The management options are focused on moderating and even reversing some of these changes.

Demand for nonsurgical care We are at present in the middle of a minimally invasive, no downtime, socially convenient, quick recovery, cost-conscious revolution. The public is seeking easy, pain-free methods of appearing youthful and healthy without the problems of invasive cosmetic surgery.

kles and other signs of ageing.

Benefits can vary depending on the type of treatment used.

While some procedures offer no down time, others have longer lasting results.

There has been an enormous increase in the supply and demand for aesthetic medicine. Every patient wants are different with the treatment, some wants to look less tired, look younger, less saggy, look slimmer, remove angry frown lines, as greater physical attractiveness can have psychological benefits affecting a person's social interactions, self confidence, job status, personal image and may even indirectly affect long-term health and longevity.

Benefits of Facial Rejuvenation Treatments These treatments can take Lifestyle advice years off your appearance by In my study I find some big reducing the amount of wrin- challenges in our people. We

Fourthly, the beef bans and persecutions of those who eat beef or carry it around are very disturbing and life-threatening.

The ‘Cow Vigilantists’ imposing their religious views upon the others is considered unjust.

Since many consider beef as yummy, such prevention by the majority Hindus due to their religious sentiments is considered unjust. Something similar that I see in our society is the “Nagaland Liquor Total Prohibition”, which many consider as a mockery, yet have kept it safe under the lockers. The strong-religious-strings tightened the bans and it is difficult to be relaxed due to the vote bank, even if the Government wants to. Instead of external persuasions which have failed miserably, the “Inbuilt System” among our people needs to be strengthened with regard to alcohol consumption and not just gloriously proclaiming our state as a ‘dry state’ in the papers. Following the example of the youths of Chetheba Town Baptist Church,(Youth Camp, April 13 to 16, 2017), where the “Youth members committed themselves (with the teacher’s guidance) to abstain from sex before marriage, avoid pornography and to follow Jesus Christ at all times”, our people need to be strengthened from within, so that even if one goes out and live in the midst of the pools of alcohol, one can abstain from it.

May God bless us all. need to change our life style.

This has a lot to do with what we drink and eat. Cut down your intake of sugar and alcohol. Smoking is completely NO. Lastly, it is our overall unwillingness to exercise or yoga.

I wasn’t surprised by the quality of life - wellness & happiness people enjoy in Singapore & their lifestyle, which I learned during my training at Singapore General Hospital (SGH) on Facial Anatomy and Facial Ageing.

Lastly, men are also getting more procedures done because they want to maintain the competitiveness in an increasingly ageist workplace.

The ‘successful ageing’ paradigm, focuses on health and active participation in life, counters traditional conceptualizations of ageing as a time of disease and is increasingly equated with minimizing age signs on the skin, face and body.

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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Tom Hardy becomes a real life superhero to catch thief

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ollywood star Tom Hardy jumped into action when he reportedly made a citizen's arrest in London after catching a man who had stolen a moped. According to reports, the Dark Knight Rises actor ran after a man who crashed the moped in Richmond, south west London on Sunday. A passer-by who saw the action told The Sun: "It was mental – like he’d switched to superhero mode in an action movie. Two boys on the nicked moped had jumped a red light and smashed into a car. Tom must have been walking down the road. He went off like a shot in pursuit and looked furious. If the kid had been dumb enough to resist I reckon he British singer, 26, surTom would have given him a good hiding." prised six-year-old Ollie The witness continued to joke that Tom was "clearCarroll at his concert in ly not a man you'd mess with," as the Oscar-nominated Manchester on Monday. The actor allegedly searched the culprit for weapons and young fan, who hails from Poynton, checked his ID. Fans were quick to voice their praise for suffers from a rare and degenerative the quick thinking star, with one writing: "Absolutely piddling myself at the #TomHardy story today. What a superstar. Imagine what went through that kid's mind when he was caught." Another added: "Tom Hardy fights crime & comes up with killer one liners… Surely he could be the first none toff #007?"

Ed Sheeran grants dying fan, 6, his final wish

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condition, called Batten Disease.

The award-winning star later took to stage wearing a red band to promote Ollie's Army, a family-led campaign to raise money for specialist equipment and research. Ollie's

mother Lucy shared her delight with Manchester Evening News: "The power of Ed’s voice has pulled Ollie through the hardest and darkest of times. As soon as Ed walked into the room and spoke Ollie's eye lit up and a smile spread across his face."

She added: "Ed is one of the loveliest guys we have ever met, he asked us to explain Batten Disease and Ollie’s Army. He was truly saddened by our journey. To us, last night Ollie wasn't meeting a star, he was meeting 'his' star, he was meeting the man that taught him the power and love of music. As parents we cannot thank Ed, his team and every single person who shared Ollie's video enough. Our dying boy wished to meet his hero, that wish was granted." Ollie has already lost his speech, sight and his ability to walk because of the condition. It is unlikely that Ollie will survive past 12 years old.

Source: Hello Magazine

Source: Hello Magazine

Before Tubelight teaser, Salman Khan and his boots are making us curious

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he makers of the Salman Khan’s film, Tubelight, are giving us reasons to be curious and excited at the same time. Now, right before the teaser release, they have released two stills from the film which has made us inquisitive to know not only about Salman’s character but his love for boots.

In a couple of stills released by the makers so far, we see Salman walking around with the shoes, which are not on his feet but slung around his neck. Is there a reason behind it? Well, only the director

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Kabir Khan can solve the puzzle.

Meanwhile, speculations are rife that the teaser of the film would release soon. Tubelight, which has Indo-China war as its backdrop, has been in the news ever since it was announced. While it gets back the hit director-actor jodi of Kabir Khan and Salman, there is a lot of excitement among the fans to watch Shah Rukh Khan and the Bajrangi Bhaijaan actor together on the silver screen. Shah Rukh will be seen in a cameo role in the film.

Source: Indian Express

Atto, a Naga Orpheus Hunt finalist 2015 is back in the music scene with his new single ‘Hold On.’ The song is recorded at studio-Clef Ensemble Kohima with music by-John & Thejaseno Ltu. You can download the song for free at- http://indihut.com/atto-achumi/

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Chelsea extend lead with Southampton win

3rd Open Penalty Shoot-out Tournament Our Correspondent Kohima | April 26

The Prodigies Group under the aegis of Khedi Baptist Church Kohima today announced that the 3rd Open Penalty Shoot-Out Tournament under the motto “Innovating a stronger fellowship” will take place on May 13 at D. Khel (Seikhazou) Ground, Kohima village.

The event aims to provide a platform for the youth to have a positive and uplifting experience, to promote professional football players and clubs and share the stage with them and to create new and strong partnerships with local business communities to sponsor opportunities for people to participate in well-established sporting events. The organisers also expressed hope that the youth departments in the various churches will participate in the tournament

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our answer was good," manager Antonio Conte said.

"We have reached the final of the FA Cup but the other competition is totally open.

But we fight until the end."

It took them less than five minutes to open a lead when Costa controlled a pass from Cesc Fabregas, surged forward and cut the ball back for the advancing Hazard, who angled his shot into the bottom corner of Fraser Forster's net.

Former Chelsea midfielder Oriel Romeu forced home from close range in the 24th minute after Gabbiadini's shot clipped the leg of keeper Thibaut Courtois and fell into his path.

They grabbed the lead again just before halftime when a Fabregas corner was cleared only as far as N'Golo Kante 30 metres out. The France midfielder curled the ball back into the area for captain Gary Cahill

to head home.

Costa, who has been misfiring of late, took his chance in the 53rd minute and powered in a header -his 50th Premier League goal -- after a corner and one-two between Fabregas and Hazard. He added a well-worked second for good measure in the 89th after a one-two with Hazard. Southampton scored a stoppage-time consolation through another former Chelsea player Ryan Bertrand.

Conte delighted fans by bringing on club captain John Terry, who announced his end-of-season departure from Chelsea last week after more than 18 years as a senior player, for the last five minutes of the game. The former Juventus and Italy coach has used 36-year-old former England captain Terry sparingly since arriving at Stamford Bridge last July.

Date : 28th April, 2017 Time: 10:00AM Chief Guest:

the proceedings scoring all the four goals in the first half – three of those coming in a span of just 6 minutes. Akho opened the scoring in the 20 minutues, and the floodgates opened.

Weku doubled the lead in the 34 minutes, before Deo added another two minutes later. Renbemo

completed the rout in the 40 minute.

The Sunrisers came back stronger in the second half and managed to keep the All Blacks at bay.

April 27 Fixture Morung United vs Power Comm Local Ground Kohima, 6:00 am

serving the Lord through various undertakings and charitable works.

From the diversities in their personal professions and trades they came together as a group to exalt God in “all the ways He has blessed us.”

In the process of searching for some new ways of fellowship, Prodigies Group initiated this open penalty shoot-out tournament.

It may be recalled that 32 teams participated in the 2nd edition last year.

Rules & Regulations for the tournament • All team shall comprise of six players including a goal keeper • All team shall have either a manager or a coach • All players are to be in matching numbered jerseys • All players are to be in the proper football attires (Jersey set, football boots and football stockings)

Venue: Ura Academy Hall, Kohima

Shri. Abhijit Sinha, IAS Home Commissioner, Govt. of Nagaland

Chairperson: Shri. Rendemo Shitio, SERO & DDMO (Dmp/Mon) Order of Programme Welcome address and Concept note Speech Message Vote of Thanks

MPL: All Blacks’ supremacy continues

KOhimA, ApriL 26 (mexN): All Blacks continued to consolidate its position at the top with a thumping 4-0 victory over MRH Sunrisers in the ongoing Morning Premier League being played here at Kohima Local Ground on April 26.

The All Blacks completely dominated

The tournament will be played on knock-out basis.

The event will also witness sale of sporting goods and jerseys, accessories and also a food stall to cater to the event.

“We have made preparations to make it a social and family event for people to support the teams and also bless us through their presence,” said Prodigies Group public relations Avilie Mepfhii-o.

Invitation has also been extended to the girls’ team of Indira Gandhi Stadium Kohima as well as Kohima Orphanage Home.

The event is also expected to draw participants from Kohima District Veteran Football Association.

The organisers have also invited interested teams across the state.

Prodigies Group consists of 15 members from Khedi Baptist Church Kohima, with a zeal for

Faith Based Organisations Conclave on Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) & Climate Change Adaptation (CCA)

Diego Costa, scores Chelsea’s third goal with a flying header. (Getty Images)

LONDON, ApriL 26 (reuters): Buoyant Chelsea extended their Premier League lead and calmed nerves at Stamford Bridge with a 4-2 win over Southampton on Tuesday that moved them seven points clear of their nearest pursuers Tottenham Hotspur.

Goals from Eden Hazard, captain Gary Cahill and two from a buzzing Diego Costa ensured Chelsea stayed on course for the double after they beat Tottenham by the same score in their FA Cup semi-final at Wembley on Saturday.

The victory pushed Chelsea on to 78 points after 33 games and exerted more pressure on secondplaced Spurs, who must win a potentially awkward London derby at Crystal Palace on Wednesday to restore the gap to four points.

"We had a really important psychological test and

and have an exciting and innovative fellowship through sports.

The champion will fetch a cash prize of Rs. 30,000 sponsored by Vuto Motors, Kohima while NV Press Kohima will sponsor 2nd prize amounting to Rs. 20,000.

Modicare Kohima will sponsor the 3rd prize amounting to Rs. 10,000.

Active Station, High School, Kohima will sponsor the 4th prize amounting to Rs. 5000 and also the prize for the best goal keeper (gift coupon worth Rs.5000).

Registration forms are available for Rs. 100 at: Town areaSports World, High School areaActive Station, opposite Axis Bank, BOC area- Kiran Sports & Stationary, MATO Building. Entry fee for the tournament is set at Rs. 2000.

Last date for submission of form has been fixed on May 11 and match fixture will be done on May 12 at D. Khel (Seikhazou) Ground at 3:00 pm.

:Smti. Khrienuo Metha, Commissioner & Secretary, NSDMA : Ms. Vilokali Zhimomi, Miss Nagaland 2017 and brand Ambassador for NSDMA : Chief Guest : Shri. Johnny Ruangmai, OSD, NSDMA

TEA BREAK (10:45AM-11:00AM) Technical Session I (11:00am 11:30 am) Interaction/Question Hour (11:30am 12pm) Technical Session II (12:00pm 12:30pm)

: "Eco-Theology" - Shri Johnny Ruangmai, OSD NSDMA : : "Role of Faith Based Organisations (FBOs) in Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and Climate Change Adaptation (CCA)" - Dr. Fr. CPAnto, Director, North East Institute of Social Sciences and Research (NEISSR)

Interaction/Question Hour (12:30pm 1:00pm) :

WELCOME GST!!!

KNOW GST!!!

For The Benefit Of Trade & Commerce In Nagaland AN OUTREACH PROGRAMME ON GOODS AND SERVICES TAX (GST) is being Organised By COMMISSIONER OF CENTRAL EXCISE AND SERVICE TAX, SHILLONG, GOVT. OF INDIA AND COMMISSIONER OF TAXES, GOVT. OF NAGALAND ON 28TH APRIL 2017 at 10:00 AM VENUE: TOWN HALL, SUPER MARKET, DIMAPUR And 29th APRIL 2017 at 11:00 AM VENUE: APO HALL, KOHIMA

LUNCH (1:00PM-1:45PM) Demonstration on basic Search E. Rescue Methods (1:45pm 3:30pm) - SDRF HG& CD Final Remarks : Shri. Jonjibemo Odyuo, SRRO NSDMA Vote of Thanks : Mrs. Khrolou Koza, STCBO NSDMA

Goods And Services Tax

All manufactures, dealers, VAT assesses, Service Tax assesses, Shop-keepers, Contractors, hoteliers, restaurateurs, stakeholders etc, are requested to take this opportunity.

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