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th. Muivah: sovereignty and integration still on the table
DIMAPUR, APRIL 4 (MExN): General Secretary of NSCN (IM), Th. Muivah, has clarified to the Naga people that in the course of political negotiations with the Government of India (GoI), they have not given up on issues including the “sovereign rights and integration of all the Naga areas that was divided by the colonial powers without the free and informed consent of the Nagas.” “We have not endanOne nation, one religion, gered the Naga people asone language, one culture and one curry! piration on sovereignty and integration and neither will we in the days to come,” stated Muivah in a press statement today, explaining these two important issues, the “inalienable” and “inherent” rights of the Nagas, have “become a contentious subject” due to “concocted rumours.” CITIZEN UMBRELLA He assured that there CITIZEN UMBRELLA MANUFACTURER LTD. are reasons to believe that H.O.: 147, Mahatma Gandhi Road, Kolkata-7 Ph. No. 033-2268-1396, 2271-2152 both parties to the negotiaFax : (033) 2271-2151 E-mail : citizenkolkata@gmail.com tions are “on the course of a win-win ground although the political talk is still in A total lunar eclipse is observed above cherry blossoms in Shiraishi city, Miyagi prefec- the process.” DIMAPUR, APRIL 4 ture, northeastern Japan, Saturday, April 4. (AP Photo) Muivah informed the (MExN): Dimapur Police on Friday recovered a body from G Khel, Sovima identified as one Jamgmilen Khongsai alias Pamin, aged 32 years, s/o Jamkholam of Phaizol village under Peren DIMAPUR, APRIL 4 scam in the light of the Mindistrict. The body bore two (MExN): ACAUT Naga- istry of Road Transport and DIMAPUR, APRIL 4 that the resultant increase bullet wounds and was land has termed the Cen- Highways (MORTH) report (MExN): Expressing se- in deployment of security found blind folded and tral Government’s move specifying the 2-laning proj- rious concern over the forces and heavy militarihands tied, said a press to terminate the contract ect “revised estimate of 200% violent factional clashes zation in the area has given note from ASP & PRO, Di- awarded to M/s Maytas- as shocking.” MORTH had between NSCN (IM) and rise to restriction of free of civilians to mapur. The deceased was Gayatri for the highly con- also termed the revision from Zeliangrong United Front movement (ZUF) in Tamenglong dis- other villages and towns for reportedly a cadre of NSCN troversial highway project initial Rs. 1296 Cr to a whop- trict of Manipur which business and other social (K). A case has been regis- in Nagaland a “step in the ping Rs. 2978 Cr as “…funds continue unabated, the and economic pursuits. For meant for SARDP Nagaland Zeliangrong Citizens Fo- which the villagers are untered at Diphupar Police right direction.” A press statement from Projectwereillegallydiverted rum (ZCF) on Saturday ap- able to venture into the forStation, the press note said. ACAUT Nagaland today through manipulative meth- pealed to the two groups to est for day to day livelihood also stated that it is impera- od…to derail Government of chalk out their differences for fear of unnecessary intive that M/s Maytas-Gay- India’s objective as a growing through dialogue. They terrogation, frisking and atri is “not only blacklisted economic superpower...” urged them to refrain from detention. ACAUT Nagaland causing further harm and but its officials responsible Therefore, the ZCF has DIMAPUR, APRIL 4 for the embezzlement of found the Modi Govern- inconveniences to the in- appealed the two groups to (MExN): Tikhir Women funds booked and jailed to ment’s taking cognizance nocent villagers. chalk out their differences Union Kohima (TWUK) has set a befitting example; and of the scam as “laudable.” Condemning the vio- through dialogue and at condemned the attempted the same yardstick should It noted, however, the lence, ZCF president Ran- the same time requested rape and murder on a six be applied to the conniving State should not lose out gro Herie, in a press note, the Manipur government month old pregnant woman parties in the State R &B de- on the development front rued that the continuing to beef up activities of good on account of corrupt offi- violence between the two governance and instill conon April 2 evening at High partment.” It reminded that as per cials for which ACAUT Na- groups, even despite sever- fidence among the poor vilSchool Colony, Kohima. The victim was fortunate ACAUT Nagaland represen- galand requested MORTH al appeals made by Zelian- lagers in such precarious that she was rescued by her tation submitted to Prime and GoI to “kickstart” the grong frontal organizations, times. It further appealed husband, neighbours and Minister Narendra Modi on project, i.e., 2-laning of has gripped villagers with Zeliangrong frontal orgarelatives before matters went November 30, 2014, dur- Longleng-Changtongya, fear and are now afraid to nizations to actively pursue out of hand, a press note ing his visit to the State, it Mon-Tamlu-Merangkong, attend their jhum fields and and ensure that normalcy from the union’s president had demanded that the GoI Phek-Pfutsero and Zunhe- farms during this important is brought back as soon as possible in the Zeliangrong Yongchem and general sec- review the project and in- boto-Chekhabama at the season of seed sowing. stitute a CBI probe into the earliest. region. ZCF also pointed out retary Rebecca informed. The union has appealed every right thinking citizen and women folk in particular to condemn the incident. started a mission this big merely with VARANASI, APRIL 4 (TNN): a bunch of four people,” she said, Following Prime Minister Narenadding that social media proved to dra Modi’s Clean India Campaign, be a boon as more and more people Temsutula Imsong, a native of Nagabecame aware of it and came forward KOHIMA, APRIL 4 land, initiated a campaign- Mission to join hands. “Recently, few people (MExN): Easter Sunrise Prabhu Ghat to keep the temple town from Rajasthan told us how inspired service will take place at the clean. The initiative got a boost after they were from our work, that they the PM lauded the team’s effort on World War II cemetery here have decided to clean up the sites unon April 5 at 5 am under the his page on a social networking site, der the same tag of Mission Prabhu recently. theme, ‘He is not here, He has Ghat,” she said. “It feels great to have your efforts risen!’ Rev Dr Kethozelhou acknowledged by the person who Imsong said that initially they apKeyho, general secretary, has motivated you all along. Modi ji proached the district authorities reNBCC will grace the service has been an inspiration for all of us garding the issue but they simply as the speaker while pastor and his appreciation has encouraged ignored. “We then purchased basic neKedo Peseyie will lead the me to work harder,” Imsong, who cessities like brooms, dust bags, masks service. According to a state- works for a non-voluntary organisaand also hired two cleaning staff to rement issued by the Kohima tion, ‘Sakaar Sewa Samiti,’ told TOI. move the human excreta dumped at the corners of the ghat,” she said. Recalling her first cleanliness Baptist Pastors’ Fellowship “This campaign is becoming big(KBPF), pastor Surjay B. drive, she said, “Back in 2012 we startger every day. Recently I received a call Sapokota would invokes ed cleaning Shool Tankeshwar Ghat from four friends of mine, from SonebGod’s blessing and read the and Assi Ghat. But, the condition was hadra, who are also willing to be a part bible passage, and welcome nowhere close to what we witnessed of it,” said a third year student of UP colat Prabhu Ghat, while enjoying our address by Rev. Dr. Vevo lege, Ashutosh Dikshit. boat ride in February. While strolling Phesao, president KBPF. It may be mentioned here that on this ghat, we came across what we Highlights of the service in- call as ‘open defecation’. The sight was Mission Prabhu Ghat kicked off on clude- special songs to be so appalling that we thought someMarch 18 at Prabhu Ghat and Chet presented by Police Baptist thing needs to be done and that is echoed similar views and was brim- Singh Ghat. The six-day cleanliness Church, New Reserve and when Mission Prabhu Ghat came up, ming with joy for the appreciation re- drive conducted under this mission Khedi Baptist Church, Kohi- she added. ceived by Modi on his social network- culminated on March 23 with a tribma Village respectively. Fellow volunteer Darshika Shah ing page. “It was not easy at all to have ute paid to martyr Bhagat Singh.
Maytas-Gayatri blacklisted officials chalk out differences should be booked and jailed: ACAUT through dialogue: Zcf
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national cause. After few de• We have not endangered cades of fierce fighting with India and her armed forces the Naga people aspiration the political leadership and on sovereignty and the Generals of India realized the futility of crushing integration the Nagas by military force,” reminisced Muivah. • We shall come back to the Indian leadership’s efmeefìpesve íelee !§!ê˛ˆÏçl SÈThe yï˛y that India must Naga people for consultation recognition
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Congress given the go ahead to join TR Zeliang ministry? Morung Express News Dimapur | April 4
Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee (NPCC) has reportedly been given the go ahead by its high command in Delhi to join the proposed reshuffle of the DAN ministry led by TR Zeliang. The proposed reshuffle, according to the Chief Minister will take place before the second week of April. The Congress at present has eight legislators in the 60-member Nagaland Legislative Assembly, and was in the opposition seat, up until the floor test of the Nagaland Legislative Assembly on February 5 where they unanimously voted in favour of TR Zeliang. According to sources from the Congress camp, a verbal affirmation has been given so far by the Congress leadership at the Centre. They are now awaiting an official
statement in this regard, the source added. When contacted, CLP leader Tokheho Yepthomi neither denied nor agreed to the report. He said, “We can only inform on this matter after a day or two.” Since the Congress party developed ‘close ties’ with the TR Zeliang led NPF group, it has sought two cabinet posts and a couple of parliamentary secretaries. Just recently, the State BJP unit, which is a pre-poll coalition partner of the DAN government, has informed that they await the decision of their central leadership on whether it will join the TR Zeliang ministry. BJP and Congress are arch rivals at the Centre. According to observers, both the BJP and the Congress at the Centre is expected to give a green signal in joining the TR Zeliang government if that takes place. If Congress joins the TR Zeliang ministry, this will pave way for an oppositeness government.
Muslims to equal christians worldwide at 2050, study says
WASHINGTON, APRIL 5 (AGEN- the coming four decades as a result of a CIES): Shifts in the world’s major religions “comparatively youthful” population with will see Islam growing faster than any other high fertility rates. If current trends confaith, with the number of Muslims nearly tinue, Muslims will outnumber Christians worldwide around 2070. equaling that of Christians by 2050. Muslims worldwide are projected to A new Pew Research Center study “The Future of World Religions: Population see a 73 percent increase while Christians Growth and Projections, 2010-2050” finds will rise about half that fast (35 percent). that with the exception of Buddhists, the The world’s overall population is predictworld’s major religions will all see an in- ed to rise to 9.3 billion by 2050, also with a 35 percent rate of increase in numbers by crease over the same 2050, although some Decades from now, will make up a smaller Christians and Muslims timeInperiod. the United percentage from toStates, Christians will day. Muslims are the may account for twodecline from more only major religious thirds of the global than three-quarters group projected to inpopulation—suggesting (78 percent) of the crease faster than the population to about world’s population as that not all societies are two-thirds (66 pera whole. becoming more secular cent) by 2050. Over the coming The largest demofour decades, Christianity will remain the world’s largest reli- graphic of Muslims will continue to live in gious affiliation, but Islam will see a major the Asia-Pacific region, which is defined as increase that will make the two religions including South, Southeast, East, and Cennearly equal in numbers by 2050. In 2010, tral Asia. By 2050, there may be almost 1.5 Christianity was by far the world’s largest re- billion Muslims in the Asia-Pacific region. ligion, with 2.2 billion followers of the faith This would make Muslims the single largand composing nearly one-third (31 per- est group in that region by 2050, ahead of cent) of the Earth’s 6.9 billion people. Islam Hindus (about 1.4 billion), unaffiliated (838 was second, with 1.6 billion adherents, or 23 million), Buddhists (476 million), and Christians (381 million). percent of the world’s population. By 2050, India will have the world’s largIf current fertility rates and youth populations continue to grow at their current est Muslim population, of around 310 milrate, Muslims will make up 10 percent of lion. Nonetheless, Hindus will remain the Europe’s overall population by 2050. Islam solid majority in India, though their proporis expected to nearly match Christianity in tion could decrease.
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GoI to declare 101 National Waterways SCPS reach out to more IWAI Hydrographic surveys Tizu River for inland water transport villages on Child Rights
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Kohima, april 4 (mExN): The Government of India along with Government of Nagaland had a viability study last year to develop the river Tizu in Nagaland for Inland Water Transport (IWT) under centrally sponsored scheme. The Government of India is in the process to declare 101 National Waterways (NWs) for navigation, which the country has huge untapped potential of rivers that will make posi-
tive impact on the socioeconomic situation of the country, under which Tizu River is one of them, which is much more cost effective compared to road and rail transportation. Accordingly, a team comprising of 20 people and officials from Inland Waterways Authority of India, from the state Planning & Co-ordination Department, Precision Survey Consultancy from Kolkata and local guides from Longmatra village and
Laluri village did a hydrographic survey from Longmatra ( 0 KM) to Avangkhu (Burma border 35 Km ). The team comprised of KD Thongon, Supervisor, of Inland Water Authority of India (IWAI) under Ministry of Shipping, Government of India; Thomas Thailu, OSD for the department of Planning and Co-ordination, New Delhi; Feroz Khan team leader of Precision Survey Consultancy; local guides Paul Mutrong and Peter Tso-
lenmong of Longmatra village, Athanglow Jangri of Laluri village and Wetsiilo Venuh of Chizami village. The team started the hydrographic survey in rubber boat with latest hydrographic instruments on March 29 from Longmatra in the morning and reached Burma international boundary, Avangkhu village on April 1 afternoon. During the survey, the team took ground and water level at different locations using Real Time Kine-
matic system (RTK) velocity of current. The team also observed that the river has maximum depth of 5.00 m and minimum depth of 0.50 m and with meandering through the rocky hills on both sides. The team also encountered about 70 rapids of various categories, which needs to be cleared for navigation purpose for 7 to 8 months in a year. The team also identified few locations to set up terminals mainly at Longmatra village, Laluri Tizu Bridge and downhill of Avangkhu village, which can be taken up after the river is developed for IWT. The team headed back to Kohima from Avangkhu village on April 2 after taking water and bed-soil sample of river for testing. The survey team briefed the outcome of the tour and possibility to develop the river to Neiba Kronu, Parliamentary Secretary for Planning & Co-Ordination, Evaluation & Monitoring, KG Kenye, Advisor (Political) to Chief Minister where Dr.Vesapra Tinyi, Project Co-Ordinator of Planning & Co-Ordination Department were present. The team after the hydrographic survey proposed to develop the river in phase manner first taking stretch till Laluri Tizu bridge and later on taking stretch from Laluri bridge to Avangkhu village. This was stated in a press release issued by Thomas Thailu, OSD, Planning & Co-ordination Department.
Kohima, april 4 (mExN): In continuance with its effort to sensitize and create awareness on child rights at the grassroots, the District Child Protection Society, Kohima under the aegis of the State Child Protection Society (SCPS) organized a sensitization programme on ‘Child Rights & its importance’ today at Kezo Basa village falling under Southern Angami area of Kohima district. A press note stated that the effort to reach out to the villages across the State is to create a platform at the grassroots, wherein the villagers and the Child Welfare department will be able to collaborate on cases related to child rights and their protection. The said initiative comes following the Supreme Court’s order directing every village to set up a Village Level Child Protection Committee. Going by the centre’s directive to set up the committee, it is solely to safeguard children in need of care and protection and those children in conflict with law. Speaking as the re-
source person, Megoneituo Kielienyü, Legalcum-Probation Officer, emphasized on the good upbringing of children so as to make them responsible citizens of tomorrow. Educating the villagers on the importance of child rights and their protection, Kielienyü while stating that children are the supreme assets of the society, urged the villagers to create an environment conducive for their physical and mental wellbeing. Stating that children at a tender age will not be able to defend or speak for their rights, he told the villagers to take responsibility to safeguard their rights all the time. “By knowing their (children) rights and defending them whenever needed, you are helping them at the same time giving them the guidance to be in the right track,” Kielienyü said. Expressing the inability of the departmental staff to know what is happening at the grassroots, he made an ardent plea to the village leaders to come up with
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relevant measures to tackle child related issues. “Knowing the inability of the departmental staff to go down to the grassroots, the Supreme Court has passed the order to set up Village Level Child Protection Committee. By setting up the committee, we can work hand-in-hand for the wellbeing of all the children,” he remarked. The Legal-cum-Probation Officer also educated the villagers on the various schemes sanctioned by the government for children’s welfare. He, however, told the villagers to first set up the child protection committee through which they (villagers) may approach the concerned department. Earlier, the keynote address was delivered by Povezo Puro, DCPO Kohima. The programme was chaired by Pungoyi Nienu, counselor SCPS, while Meneo Sanchu, DEO, summed up the interactive session. Village leaders from Kezo Basa, Kezoma attended the sensitization programme
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Dimapur, april 4 (mExN): CAN Youth, a nonprofit organization and youth led initiative from Nagaland represented India along with other states in the recently World Youth Summit 2015 from March 29 to April 2 in Imphal, Manipur. Chief Minister of Manipur, O. Ibobi Singh along with other ministers, MLAs and bureaucrats from state and central level attended inaugural programme of the summit, which was held under the theme ‘Youth for Global Empowerment’. Youth from across the globe participated in the dialogue and deliberation on various topics including youth development, con-
CAN Youth Team along with Country Coordinator and Malaysia delegates at the World Youth Summit 2015.
servation of biodiversity for sustainability, disaster risk reduction and youth central urbanization, ecotourisms development in north east and its linkage
to ASEAN countries, youth against hunger-poverty eradication, food and nutrition security, realizing equal access to quality education and health, social
justice– gender equality, realizing peace, reconciliation and ending violence. Jenpu Rongmei, Founder CAN Youth gave a presentation on aspiration
Eco-Club teachers trained to engage students effectively
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Kohima, april 4 (mExN): Around 50 teachers’ in-charge of Eco-Clubs of various schools across Kohima District was enlightened about various activities to be taken up by Eco-Club under National Green Corps scheme at t the Conference Hall of Forest Office Complex, Kohima on April 2. The programme was organised by Kohima Forest Division in association with Nagaland State Pollution Control Board (NSPCB) as a ‘Training-cum-Resource Material Distribution Programme’ for the teachers. According to a press note received here, the programme was chaired by Beizo Suokhrie, ACF and Rusovil John, IFS Member Secretary, NSPCB and Sidramappa DFO, Kohima spoke on the occasion. The former informed the participating teacher that the state is reasonably well in terms of reaching out to the student communities for creating environmental awareness while the latter called upon the teachers to be more innovative and proactive to use the setup of Eco-clubs to create awareness in the society. Resource materials were also distributed to enable the teachers to enable them to engage the students more effectively in eco-club activities. Lhinghoikim Touthang, IFS and Samon Khelen Singh, IFS who were the resource persons for training programme gave technical inputs to the participating teachers to effectively organize the Eco-Club activities in each of the identified schools.
and problems of school/ college dropouts. Gugu Haralu and Senti K Kichu who represent on group presentation got the best presentation on the topic ‘conservation of biodiversity for sustainability development’ The Executive Board of CAN Youth in a press release has congratulated the individual members Senti K Kichu, Vitono Gugu Haralu, Joel Zhove Lohe, Vezito Tetseo, Jeh Wotsa and Jenpu Rongmei for their active participation and giving their valuable time BJP members cleaning the Imlong place in Mokokchung as a mark of the launch of Swachh and effort not only for the Bharat Abhiyan in Nagaland. (Morung Photo) summit but in every aspect Morung Express News Bharat is component of Other officials speaking of field towards bringing development, ” he added. on the occasion included positive change and unity. Mokokchung | April 4 Mokokchung is a land of Limawati, President BJP, The Bharat Janata Yuva pioneers and it is one of the Mokokchung and Pramod Morcha (BJYM) launched cleanest towns in the state. Singh, Former BJP, Naits Swachh Bharat AbhiKick starting the tional Executive Member, yan campaign in Nagaland Swachh Bharat Abhiyan Nagaland. The president with Mokokchung district in Mokokchung will be an BJYM, Mokokchung, Limaas the first launching point. example and other dis- meren gave the welcome The campaign kick started tricts and will comply and address while Tiaakum at Imlong Place, Mokokc- cope up with it, he further Jamir, General Secretary hung with a short inaugu- added. Mukibur Rahman, (Admin) BJYM, Mokokcral programme, which was Gen.secy, Administration, hung pronounced the vote graced by K. James Vizo, BJYM, Nagaland also stated of thanks. The BJYM MoGeneral Secretary cum that Mokokchung is fortu- kokchung District, initiated spokesperson BJP, Naga- nate to be the place from and organized the launchland as the chief guest. where the Swachh Bharat ing of the Swachh Bharat The launching of the Abhiyan campaign is kick Abhiyan campaign in MoClean India programme by starting. He encouraged kokchung and keeps the the BJP is not for politiciz- that the youths should have vision of building a toilet at ing but for public welfare, he a mindset of developed Imkongliba Memorial Hosstated in his keynote address. people and should pledge pital in Mokokchung as a “BJP’s main proposal is for to sacrifice two hours time mark of the Swachh Bharat development and Swachh in a day to clean. Abhiyan campaign.
The Mon Circle Citizen Union Kohima commemorated its annual session cum Aoleang Monyu Celebration on April 4 hosted by Thongwnag Konyak, Advisor, DUDA official at his residence. Aoleang Monyu is celebrated to bid farewell to the dead and to seek blessings for cultivation.
Discover Positive project empower dropouts
Dimapur, april 4 (mExN): Skill and vocational training programme conducted with the school and college dropouts girls under project ‘Discover Positive’ on March 28 at Amaluma Village, Dhansiripar Sub Division, organised by CAN Youth. Altogether 17 girls between 18 to 32 ages participated in the training programme. CAN Youth Secretary Samuel Walling in a press release said that the girls were trained on tailoring, knitting and making of Tea costar, Hair stick, earring and cushions by trainers Ashinuo Belho and Marina Gonmei. The Secretary of CAN Youth exhorted the participants saying that CAN Youth under its own initiate project ‘Discover Positive’ aims to enable school and college dropouts and underprivileged youths to transcend from dependency to
School and college dropouts girls during the skill and vocational training programme conducted at Amaluma Village, Dhansiripar Sub Division.
independency by facilitating them to face challenges whilst enhancing their talents/abilities for a productive life. Project Discover Positive
target to reach out 200 Drop out students and under privileged youth by 2016 and train them on various livelihood skills.
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Tohanba graces talent show at FTC
Dimapur, april 4 (mExN): Faith Theological College (FTC), Dimapur on Saturday organized Musical and Talent Show in aid of college building construction at its college premises with Parliamentary Secretary for CAWD, Economics & Statistics, R. Tohanba as the chief guest. Acknowledging the various talents exhibited by the students, Tohanba encouraged them to utilize their talents for gospel outreach as well while adhering to principles of morality and religion. Lamenting the prevailing situation of violence and killing in every nook and corner of the Christian state, he said the theologians also have a huge moral responsibility towards bringing healing to the society in such a scenario. Tohanba called for the need to practise moral based politics with religious zeal for the uplift and meaningful development in the state. During the progamme, FTC stu- Parliamentary Secretary, Tohanba addressing students presented various songs, chore- dents of Faith Theological College, Dimapur on Satography, musical pieces, dramas etc. urday. (Morung Photo)
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Gloomy future for students of Catholic schools in Manipur Our Correspondent Imphal | April 4
Manipur is witnessing a gloomy academic career for thousands of students as the banned militant group KCP-MC has imposed an ‘indefinite ban’ on all Catholic schools since March 31 last. Earlier, a militant outfit had forced these Catholic schools to shut down for weeks. The schools resumed normal classes in late March after remaining closed since March 15. Democratic Students’ Alliance of Manipur (DESAM) had named the militant outfit as KCP-Poirei group. However, KCP-MC, another group of Kangleipak Communist Party-Military Council, again enforced an indefinite ban on these schools for allegedly failing to heed to the clarion call of
both the outfit and the public concerning strict management in admission norms. KCP-MC has said the group has a launched a fresh movement called “Operation Mangal” to clean the current school admission, selection, tuition and reservation norms of all schools in the State. It has said the new operation aims at fulfilling the right to compulsory education policy, adding the central security committee (CSC) of the group recently held a crucial meeting which decided to counterbalance the alleged 'neoimperialist India's diluted education system (DES).' Nirmalabas School, Imphal had to discontinue resumption of normal classes though other Catholic schools started classes in late March after Manipur Students’ Federa-
tion (MSF) interdicted it on the charge of showing lack of respect to student organizations and other social groups. MSF and Democratic Students’ Alliance of Manipur (DESAM) had engaged in a harsh exchange of words on the forced closure of Nirmalabas School by the former. In the midst of the standoff, KCP-MC announced the indefinite ban on all the Catholic schools. Another underground group, Communist Party Manipur (Maoist) has also warned that the outfit may soon ban two CBSE-affiliated schools in Imphal— Shishu Nishta School and UNACCO School, Imphal. The outfit has accused both the educational institutes of transforming the schools into pseudo-learning centres for making profits.
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Meanwhile, UNACCO School has been embroiled in a deadlock after the school authority expelled three students. Locals of Lisam Leirak in Khongman in Imphal East have been protesting against the managing director of United Aeroma Commercial Company Limited (UNACO) Group over failing to repair a lane which has been left in a bad condition following construction of a new office building of the company. Now, the locals have banned functioning of both the UNACCO headquarter office and UNACCO School located near Lisam Leirak. At least 16 UNACCO employees were injured when a mob attacked them yesterday near the office. The locals had barred company employees from en- Indian Christian devotees enact the crucifixion of Jesus Christ to mark Good Friday, in Guwahati, Assam on Friday, April 3. tering the office. Christians all over the world are marking Good Friday, the day when Jesus Christ was crucified. (AP Photo/ Anupam Nath)
Tripathi sworn in as Mizoram governor Assam speaker seeks explanation from MLA over criminal links aIzawl, aprIl 4 (IaNS): West Bengal and Bihar Governor K.N. Tripathi, who has been given additional charge of Mizoram, was sworn in as the 16th governor of the northeastern state here on Saturday. Justice Michael Zothankhuma of the Gauhati High Court administered the oath of office to Tripathi, 80, at the Durbar Hall of the Raj Bhavan here. Chief Minister Lal Thanhawla, his cabinet colleagues, assembly Speaker Hiphei, parliamentary secretaries, legislators, leaders of various political parties and top security and civil officials were present at the swearing-in ceremony.
Earlier in the day, on his arrival from Kolkata, Tripathi was received at the Lengpui airport by Lal Thanhawla, Home Minister R. Lalzirliana and top officials including the chief secretary and state police chief. Tripathi replaces Aziz Qureshi, who was sacked last week. His term would have ended in 2017. Tripathi practised as a lawyer in the Allahabad High Court from 1956 till 2014 except for the three times when he was speaker of the Uttar Pradesh assembly -in 1991, 1997 and 2002. Congress-ruled Mizoram has the dubious distinction of having seen seven governors in eight
months. President Pranab Mukherjee had transferred Qureshi, who had filed a petition in the Supreme Court over the Bharatiya Janata Party-led central government's pressure on him to relinquish his post, to Mizoram on December 30 last year from Uttarakhand. Qureshi's case was referred to a five-judge constitutional bench as it involves a substantive question of constitutional law relating to removal of governors. The bench is yet to be formed. Politicians, civil society groups, youth and students' unions have criticised the central government for frequent transfers of the governors in Mizoram.
GuwahatI, aprIl 4 (IaNS): Assam assembly Speaker Pranab Gogoi on Saturday sought an explanation from Congress legislator Rumi Nath over her alleged links with the kingpin of an inter-state auto lifting racket who was arrested here on Friday. He sought explanation after police found that racket kingpin Anil Chauhan's vehicle had pasted on it car passes issued by the Assam
Legislative Assembly. Assembly officials confirmed that the passes were issued to Chauhan on the recommendation of the MLA. Chauhan is wanted in states like Maharashtra, Delhi and Meghalaya. "I was asked by the speaker to send a letter to Rumi Nath, asking her to explain her position. Accordingly, I have sent the letter and fixed April 8 as last date to reply to the let-
ter," said assembly's Principal Secretary G.P. Das. Rumi Nath, a legislator from Borkhola constituency in Barak Valley, admitted of knowing Chauhan's wife for a long time. "Chauhan's wife is a Congress member and she approached me for recommendation for the passes and I gave it," she said while expressing her ignorance about what Chauhan does. Reacting to the inci-
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A horizontal collectiveness unmoved by tribal or regional boundaries Morung Express News Ukhrul | April 4
“Our forefathers taught us to be collective that we do not own our folk song and dances. It belongs to us all. We don’t own the history and stories, it belong to us all. It is shared. This is the life we know and we must continue to uphold.” asserted ANSAM President, Seth Shatsang in his presidential address during the XI All Naga Students’ Association Manipur (ANSAM) general conference which was held at Ukhrul Town hosted by the Tangkhul Katamnao Saklong (TKS) from March 30 to April 1 under the theme ‘Shared Future; Our Collective Responsibility’. Admitting that the common vision and aspiration of the people has often been weakened by internal rifts, peace and trust deficit, Shatsang pointed out the core aspiration of the Nagas that is the right to administer, so that “our identity, our culture and way of life, our land and resources are recognized, protected and safeguarded so that we can live with honor and dignity collectively.” The conference which drew over 500 Naga students from all the 16 Naga tribe units of Manipur engaged the students on the discourse of land resources and development, inherent rights and political aspiration and educational rights.
For securing a shared future, one element that is absolutely indispensable is the strength of unity of the people- the collective, as L Adani, Former United Naga Council (UNC) President states while delivering the exposition of the conference theme, “Narrowness, myself, my village, my tribe, my interest, my welfare, my responsibility, my prosperity – all these have to be toned down, to accommodate the collective into our lives once again.” Focusing on the “Horizontal collectiveness”, Adani opined that collectiveness should not remain only a vertical idea, where Nagas are joined by a commonality at the top. The horizontal collectiveness, Adani puts, should be a backward, forward, left and right collectiveness unmoved and undivided by “tribal or regional boundaries of the physical or the imagined.” Also pointing out that all Nagas, in their interest and convenience has been responsible in stripping off the “collective” of strength and voice, Adani urged Nagas to own up to the breakup of the collective that has kept the people in disgrace without dignity, honour and respect in spite of the truth and rights of the Naga history. “We have not experienced the kind of horrors our grandfathers and grandmothers, our parents, and those who have gone before us suffered. However, we are certainly facing a number of human rights violations albeit in more subtle forms. We are facing the urgent violation and disrespect for our cultures and identity. Our lands and territories are gradually
being subsumed into alien systems which have made us refugees in our own land,” reminded Chingya Luithui, NPMHR South Convenor, in his solidarity speech to the students stating that a shared future rests on the collective efforts and responsibility of the Naga peoples. Unlike other societies, the Naga society was able to withstand invasions, hardships and challenges because of the value and emphasis they placed on the collective, however Luithui points out that Nagas are losing that collectiveness. And thus, the greatest challenge confronting the Nagas in defining a shared future and collective responsibility, according to Luithui, is the erosion of the unity on tribal, ethnic, political lines, geographical locations and many other isms.
He demand a high-level probe into the incident. BJP state unit spokesperson Bijan Mahajan said: "Any MLA, who hobnobs with criminal cannot be above law. The initiative taken by the speaker is a welcome step."
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Imphal, aprIl 4 (mExN): The Indigenous Women Forum for North East India (IWFNEI) in collaboration with the Henry Martyn Insititute (HMI) Hyderabad held a workshop from March 21 to 24 at DHP Imphal. The workshop focused on gender equality and empowerment for peace, reducing structural and cultural violence along with two field visits. A press release received here stated that the workshop engaged the participants in understanding and analyzing the effects of developmental activities and its relation to land alienation. Environmental issues, effects of global warming and its impact on indigenous community were also discussed, the release informed.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT DON BOSCO HR. SEC. SCHOOL, DIMAPUR EXPRESSES PROFOUND GRATITUDE TO THE FOLLOWING: Shri Kesonyu Yhome (DC of Dimapur) for giving permission to organize marathon race 2015 on the theme “RUN FOR PEACE” on 21st March, 2015 OC (Traffic Police, Dimapur) for the assistance in conducting Marathon Race on 21st March. Morung Express & Eastern Mirror for the help rendered to spread message of peace through their print media. Brig Brijesh Dhiman, DIG 6 Sector, Assam Rifles for gracing as the Chief Guest on the occasion of the Inaugural Ceremony of the Annual Sports on 25th March, 2015 29 Assam Rifles, Dimapur for the pipe band accompaniment on 25th March. MAY THE ALMIGHTY BLESS THEM ALL!!! Principal
The Morung Express 4 businEss Foreign investors cry foul over As Microsoft turns 40, what does Indian tax surprise, seeks clarity the future hold for tech giant? Dimapur
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U.S. and European investor groups have called for the Indian government to urgently clarify its tax regime for foreigners, following surprise attempts by tax inspectors to claw back money they say is owed on years of previously untaxed gains. International funds and banks could face a bill of as much as $8 billion, said tax experts, just as many foreign investors are poised to pour money into India following the election of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who has pledged to create a more businessfriendly environment. “This development has caught everyone by surprise and is extremely worrying for foreign investors," said Patrick Pang, a managing director at the Asia Securities Industry & Financial Markets Association (ASIFMA) in Hong Kong. "It suggests that the Indian government can come out at any time and re-clarify what was believed to be an established tax policy on foreign investments." ASIFMA is one of several business groups, including London-headquartered ICI Global, the European Fund and Asset
Management Association, and the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry, to have raised the alarm over attempts by the Indian tax department to levy minimum alternative tax (MAT) on foreign investors' profits, according to sources and letters seen by Reuters. In many jurisdictions governments use a form of MAT to ensure that tax breaks don't pull domestic companies' effective tax rate below a minimum threshold. Foreigners without local operations are not typically covered by such provisions. In India, foreign investors have hitherto paid 15 percent on short-term listed equity gains, 5 percent on gains from bonds, and nothing on long-term gains, but from late last year many firms received notices from tax inspectors requiring them to pay MAT, potentially bringing overall tax on these gains to as much as 20 percent. The following month Finance Minister Arun Jaitley intervened via the 2015 budget bill to state that capital gains made by foreign investors as of April 2015 were exempt from MAT, but that did not resolve the issue. "The government’s clarification in February, though right in intent, has
Two individuals said some foreign investors had begun legal proceedings against the government. Investors say the change is at odds with Modi's desire to welcome investment, since it could hit private equity and venture capital transactions, not just portfolio investors. Some investor groups are also concerned that the finance bill wording does not preclude MAT liability on other future income and are asking the Ministry of Finance to amend the bill to specify that the MAT exemption covers all future and past gains and income. "An amendment which introduces a clarification embodying the principle that a foreign company which has no business presence ... is not liable to MAT is required to end unwarranted litigation on this aspect," the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) said in a statement. The senior official from the income tax department, which is part of the Finance Ministry's Department of Revenue, said he believed it was clear future gains would not be taxed. He added that Jaitley might provide further clarification in the parliamentary budget session starting on April 20.
created unwanted confusion, and the view the tax office is taking is that, by implication, the past years' gains can be subject to MAT," said Keyur Shah, a partner in the India tax practice at EY. LEGAL PROCEEDINGS A senior official from the tax department who declined to be identified confirmed that the tax office believed the exemption from MAT does not apply retroactively. “There is nothing (in the budget) to suggest that it (the exemption) would apply to old cases," this person told Reuters. He added that a 2012 decision by India's Authority for Advance Rulings, a body that mostly non-residents can apply to for tax rulings to avoid legal disputes, had set a precedent for levying MAT on foreign companies, and that the tax department was enforcing the ruling. In recent weeks, many foreign investors have duly received notices requesting their MAT calculations for financial year 20112012. The tax office has said it would also apply the tax to previous years. Tax inspectors could go back seven years, according to Indian law, and could also charge interest and penalties.
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Microsoft and Bill Gates are the matriarchs of the modern technology era, alongside Steve Jobs and Apple. The company behind Windows turns 40 today, having contributed a huge amount to the world over the past four decades. From the rise of the PC to pioneering home desktop software, building one of the world’s leading games consoles and now disrupting the smartphone and tablet market. But that’s the past and the present – what about the future? At their Windows event in January Microsoft chief Satya Nadella led a presentation that appeared to show new life in the firm – most starkly through the unveiling of HoloLens, the augmented reality headset that will enable users to work and play via a device that places interactive holograms on the surfaces and in the world around you.Longer term, this could pave the way for more immersive software for all manner of productivity and leisure activity, via Microsoft products. Windows It’s still the premiere desktop software around, but it’s starting to get an almighty fight from Apple’s iOS. There have been some blips along this iconic road too; while Windows 95 set
But the Windows Phone has to compete with the likes of Apple and Samsung’s, it appears Microsoft thinks this could be through an invasion of software first. Cortana is coming to iOS and Android, and it remains the most intelligent of the voice assistants. Betterself-awarenessisclearly taking hold at Microsoft, with the newly announced Surface 3 tablet running full Windows 8.1 – upgradeable to 10 – rather than the ringfenced Windows RT that previously tablets have used.
The then Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates sits on stage during the launch event of Windows 95 on August 24, 1995. Considered the standard for personal computing software, it sold a record-setting 7 million copies in the first 5 week, propelling Microsoft into a software behemoth. (AP File Photo) the standard for personal computing software, the mention of Vista or 7 might make some start to shift uncomfortably. However, Windows 8 was a corner, and the upcoming Windows 10 looks like completing the turnaround. Integrating Cortana, working fluidly across Microsoft devices both mobile and desktop, and combining classic things like the Start button with the tiles of modern Windows have all received positive response from users. Looking further ahead, Microsoft will be keen to keep levels of integration high. Continuum is the first step towards making it seamless to jump
from one device to another. Where does this level of technology eventually end up? Everything within a touch or click, and on devices smart enough to evolve as you change between keyboard and touchscreen. Mobile Devices Curiously, the company’s own Windows Phone is still very much stuck under the bracket of work in progress. But there is a ray of light, in the Lumia brand, absorbed as part of the Nokia takeover, as entry-level and mid-range smartphones Lumias are very, very good. The new 640 and 640 XL unveiled at Mobile World Congress in March prove that.
Wearables Microsoft is making strides on the wrist too. The Microsoft Band is already here, looking and working like a hybrid between a fitness band and a smartwatch. Cortana on your wrist, but also, how about the ability to edit Office files like Word or Excel from your watch – maybe through voice commands? Plus a link with your Xbox to turn on and pick a game as you walk in the house, ready to play. Microsoft has made it to its 40th birthday by constantly innovating and producing products and services that consumers want. The business is built on some mainstays of modern life – Office, Xbox, Windows – but now more need to be added. It could be a smartwatch, it could be the next generation of Windows Phone.
PM asks better-offs to forgo LPG subsidy ‘U.S. would back India buying U.S. aircraft carrier technology’ Bengaluru, april 3 (pTi): Prime Minister Narendra Modi today coined a new slogan - "give it up" - to exhort the better off sections of society to forego their LPG subsidy that can be utilised in providing subsidised LPG connections to the poor. Urging the well-off to give up their LPG subsidy, he said "gas cylinders surrendered by them would be transferred to the poor who use wood for cooking. If one crore people give up their LPG subsidy, one crore poor people will benefit as they will be given new LPG cylinders instead. "Give it up" campaign should be taken up on the lines of "Swacch Bharat" and "Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao initiatives, Modi said adding "I appeal to all MPs, MLAs, ministers, IAS and
IPS officers, professors and professionals to forgo their LPG subsidy and derive happiness by doing so. Addressing a public meeting on the sidelines of BJP's twoday National Executive meeting which began here, Modi also pitched for reforms in agriculture sector. He, however, refrained from making any reference to the controversial land acquisition bill over which the Opposition is on the warpath against the government. In his nearly hour-long address, Modi assured the people that his government would fulfil all the promises made on bringing back the black money stashed abroad. He cited the measures taken so
far including a bill with stringent provisions against those concealing their money held overseas. The rally was attended by the entire top brass of BJP including party President Amit Shah, veterans L K Advani and Murli Manohar Joshi, Home Minister Rajnath Singh, besides other cabinet ministers and Chief Ministers of BJPruled states. Modi said his government was making all efforts to provide strength to farmers and safeguard their interests to help make them prosperous. "Farmers need technology in agriculture sector. They need infrastructure. They need electricity and water. We want to strengthen the agriculture sector and our plan is to help provide water to farmers and also protect their land."
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WaSHingTOn, april 4 (reuTerS): The U.S. government would support selling General Atomics' electromagnetic launching system for aircraft carriers, and other key technologies, to India, the Pentagon's chief weapons buyer told Reuters on Friday. Defense Undersecretary Frank Kendall, who heads a joint U.S.-India defence trade and technology effort, said he was optimistic about the two countries' efforts to cooperate on a planned aircraft carrier for India. "I'm optimistic about cooperating with them on that," Kendall told Reuters in an interview, when asked about the possibility of India acquiring the Electromagnetic Air-
Frank Kendall craft Launch System (EMALS) built by privately held General Atomics, which is based in San Diego, California. "They’re going to have to make their own decision about what technology they want, but I don't see any fun-
damental obstacles to them acquiring some of our carrier technologies, if they want them," he said. India wants to use stateof-the-art U.S. technology to boost the range and potency of a planned aircraft carrier, in a move that would deepen cooperation between both countries and counter China's military influence in the region. General Atomics, which has also proposed selling the system to Brazil, says selling the system to foreign countries could help lower the cost of installing the system on the new Gerald R. Ford class of U.S. Navy aircraft carriers being built by Huntington Ingalls Industries Inc.
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The new system helps jets launch off a flat deck at a faster rate and with less fatigue to the aircraft. Kendall said the issue would be addressed by a new working group that is being set up by the two countries. The Pentagon recently appointed Rear Admiral Thomas Moore, the Navy's two-star program executive officer for aircraft carriers, to lead the U.S. part of the working group, said Pentagon spokeswoman Maureen Schumann. Moore will work with his Indian counterpart, Rear Admiral-select Surendra Ahuja, a former Indian test pilot, to set up the first meeting of the group in the next couple of months.
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Governor and CM greet on Easter KohiMA, April 4 (MExn): Governor of Nagaland PB Acharya has extended cheerful greetings to all the people of Nagaland on the occasion of Easter. “Easter is a significant event upon which faith is based; the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Let the Day of Resurrection inspire all of us to work with Unity and without any difference in the communities/caste etc,” the governor stated in a message. He further wished that the spirit of Easter fill all with peace, joy and forgiveness. Meanwhile, chief minister of Nagaland TR Zeliang has also extended warm Easter greetings to the Christian community in Nagaland as well as the rest of the country. Zeliang reminded that Easter commemorates the resurrection of Jesus Christ and his victory over death. “For Christians, it is the foundation of our faith. If only we can live as faithful Christians, we can transform our society and create a better place to live in, he stated in a message. “On this joyous occasion, let us put aside our differences, and let us present ourselves before the Lord with gratitude and thanksgiving for what He has done for us.”
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KohiMA, April 4 (MExn): A joint team of 13 NAP (IR) and Khuzama Police Station personnel on April 3 recovered a stolen vehicle while conducting frisking and checking at Zero Point, Chakhabama. A press release from Atu Zumvü, Sub–Divisional Police Officer & PRO, Kohima Police informed that the vehicle (Maruti Alto) bearing registration number NL07-6604, Engine number - D060706228 and Chassis number - (X)
MA8EYD81S00814290 (X)16 was intercepted around midnight. On being unable to produce any documents, the two occupants of the vehicle identified as Kmugha and Inato Aowomi were detained on suspicion and for conducting further verification. When subjected to thorough interrogation, the duo revealed that they were asked to deliver the said vehicle in Dimapur by Panika Sumi and Kinato Sumi (both residents of Alahuto
Colony, Zunheboto), for which, they were supposed to be paid Rs. 5000/- each, the release said. The record of the vehicle was checked from NCRB database and was ascertained to be involved in Diphupar P.S. Case No. 0074/2007, the release said. In this connection, a suo-motu case vide Khuzama P.S Case No. 0013/2015 U/S 379/34 IPC has been registered against the arrested persons, who are remanded into police custody for further investigation.
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DiMApur, April 4 (MExn): On April 2, one person was arrested from Burma camp here for possession of drugs. Based on specific information, Excise duty party searched a residence at Burma Camp and detected 127 capsules of Spasmo Proxyvon and 2 tablets of Nitrosun. In this connection, Ashili was arrested for contravention of Drug & Cosmetic Act. In a separate incident, Chuba Imsong, a resident of Naga Cemetery here, was arrested for possession of 84 capsules of Spasmo Proxyvon and 6 tablets of nitrosun. Both the arrested persons were charged u/s 27(b) of D & C Act and forwarded to court for trial.
DiMApur, April 4 (MExn): On the occasion of Hanuman Jayanti, Hanuman Jayanti Committee, Dimapur has extended greetings to all. A release from the committee informed that on April 5, a religious procession will be taken out from Hanuman Mandir at 10 am, which would pass through Kalibari Road-Durga Mandir junction-Deluxe Point-Plaza Point-Dhobinala police point- GS road-Durga mandir junction and back to Hanuman Mandir.
Techa ward of Mon town due to incessant rain on April 4; it completely blocked the road to Mission Center. Around 200 meters of road was covered with earth affecting 2 houses. MLA Pohwang provided an excavator which cleared the debris. The landslide was further worsened by unauthorized dumping of earth for building construction, which blocked the stream/drainage. The road was clear with timely intervention of the district administration.
condolence messages
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ome Minister Y Patton has expressed shock at the passing away of former Member of Parliament Rano M Shaiza on April 1 at her private residence in Kohima. In a condolence message addressed to the son and two daughters of Rano, Patton recalled that Rano was the first and only woman Member of Parlia-
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ment from Nagaland. She won as UDF candidate in the 6th Lok Sabha elections in 1977. Patton recognized Rano as a successful politician, educationist, reformist and intellectual. “Her lifetime works will be treasurers for the future generations and will be a source of inspiration to the Nagas in general,”
he added. “In her death, the Naga people have lost a visionary Naga leader and the void created by her death will be difficult to fill.” Patton and his wife further conveyed heartfelt condolences to the children of late Rano M Shaiza and prayed to the Lord to grant them strength at this hour of grief.
Tangkhul Union Dimapur
he Tangkhul Union Dimapur has expressed grief at the demise of Rano Shaiza. “In her death we have lost a great leader and one of the tallest Naga women politicians who always had worked and cared
for the weak and downtrodden,” stated Lungmi Kasar, president, Tangkhul Union Dimapur in a message. “Her inspirational actions of hard work and always facing the truth fearlessly will remain imprinted deep in our
hearts. We are proud to have had a good leader in the person of Ayi Rano Shaiza,” it added. The union further hoped that the bereaved family members “find solace in the love of Christ, who is the best comforter.”
Ex-Parliamentarian Forum Peren District
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he Ex-Parliamentarian Forum Peren District has expressed shock at the untimely demise of its gen-
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eral secretary and former minister Bangdi Iheilung on March 27 at Jalukie Town. Stating that the Forum as well
as the public have lost a great leader, the Forum in a condolence message prayed for the departed soul to rest in peace.
Nikhekhu Village Council
he Nikhekhu Village Council (NVC) has condoled the demise of V Pitoli Zhimomi, wife of Er. Vikiye Zhimomi and mother of Hekali Zhimomi, the first Sumi woman IAS officer. In a condo-
lence message, NVC stated that Late Pitoli, the first graduate among the Sumi women, was a God fearing woman and mother. “Her simplicity in nature and compassionate at heart continues to inspire peo-
ple of different generation and walks of life,” the council stated. It further conveyed heartfelt condolence to the bereaved family members and prayed for eternal peace of the departed soul.
NSCN/GPRN denounces Wangtin and Tikhak claim
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he NSCN/GPRN would like to place on record for public consumption and to dispel any confusion in connection to fabricated claims of Wangtin and Tikhak. It is to be mentioned that there has been no convention of regional meeting and purported supporters as claimed. Whereas Mr. Zaremo Lotha has been removed from the chaplee ministry GPRN in 2014 and placed under indefinite suspension due to financial misappropriation and therefore the question of Zaremo as cabinet kilonser of NSCN/GPRN supporting Wangtin and Tikhak does not arise. Similarly kilonser Tongmeth Konyak and deputy kilonser Langkho Konyak have been removed since 2014 from chaplee ministry and does not command any responsibility of the GPRN at the moment.
Besides this, few Naga army officers included as having extended their support to the two expelled kilonsers are fictitious and published without their consent. In any case show cause notice will be issued to the Naga army officers to clarify their position. The Sangtam Region (USR) chairman Y Selongkyu has also categorically condemned the misguiding and propaganda of the duo for dragging the USR involvement in their conspiracy, it is thus clarified that no regional meeting has been convened or attended by the USR authority. The NSCN/GPRN cautions the duo to immediately stop using the platform or any ministry of the GPRN particularly MIP since they have already been expelled and are no longer accounted for. It must be understood that the MIP belongs to
GPRN and misusing the platform to condemn the government will not be tolerated. It is a joke that Wangtin and Tikhak have been using the nomenclature of the government which has expelled them to condemn the same government which they no longer belong to. Should Wangtin so desires to propagate his peace and reconciliation agendas, he should do so in Delhi which bestowed him with the best citizen of India award when he was still in the NSCN/GPRN rather than trying to malign the image of the NSCN/GPRN by using its platform despite the fact the he is already expelled. If the duo possesses even an ounce of integrity or morality they should stop making themselves an idiots and laughing stock before the Nagas and the world. MIP, NSCN/GPRN
Tobu Union Mon declare the Aoleang festival open with beating of log drum and invoking the Almighty for bountiful harvest on April 4 in Mon Town.
discipline the youths about the tradition and moral values of love, respect, peace and reconciliation. He also felt the need to preserve the rich traditions and customs of the Konyaks and urged upon the elders to take the initiatives in establishing a cultural institute to impart to the youths. The Aoleang celebration, organised by Konyak Union, was attended by Commanding Officer 33 A.R, Sabu (Industrialist) from Delhi, Khoiwang Wangsha, President ENPO, Toshi Wangtong, Advisor ENPO and both national and international tourists.
The highlights of the day were a grand feast and traditional dance and songs from Aboi Union, Chen Union, Chi Union, Hongphoi Union, Leangha Union, Leangnyu Union, Longkei Union, Longwa Union, Mon Union, Moka Union, Shang Union, Sheanghah Union, Tang union, Tizit Area Union, Tobu Area Union Totok Union, Wakching area union. Konyak Aoleang, the most important festival of the Konyak Naga, celebrated in the first week of April every year is observed after completion of sowing of seeds in the new fields.
Aoleang also marks the end of the old year and welcoming of New Year beginning with spring. It’s a festival to ask God for bountiful harvest of crops in that very year. The main object of Aoleang is celebrating the presence of ‘Wangwan’, the divine spirit of blessing. Aoleang is spread over six days with each day having its own significance, with fourth day - ‘Lingnyu Nyih’ - the greatest day. On this day, men and women, young and old, dressed in beautiful traditional attire and ornaments spend the day in community feast, dances and merry making.
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Landslide in Mon Mon, April 4 (Dipr): A landslide occurred at
Mon, April 4 (Dipr): Konyaks in Mon today celebrated Aoleang festival at Local Ground, Mon Town, with YM Yollow, MLA and chairman NKVIB, and Honje Konyak, Deputy Commissioner, Mon as chief guest and guest of honour respectively. YM Yollow said that Aoleang festival has been celebrated since time immemorial and it will go on from generation to generation. He expressed hope that one day, the Aoleang festival will be celebrated outside the district and expose the distinct culture to the world. Urging upon the Konyak youths to respect the elders, as is in tradition, he also appealed to the Konyak community to work together for peace and development. Asserting that youths today are naive of the tradition and customs, Deputy Commissioner Honje Konyak urged upon the Konyak elders to be thorough with traditions and customs so as to impart correct customs and traditional values to the younger generation. He also stressed to educate and
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Th Muivah on "Sovereignty and Integration'
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t no stage of time did the National Socialist Council of Nagalim (NSCN) intentionally or consciously give up the outstanding issues of Naga sovereignty and the aspiration of the Nagas to live together as one people through integration of all the contiguous Naga areas. These issues are the inherent rights of the Naga people. In the recent past concocted rumours emerged blaming the NSCN for betraying the Naga people stand on sovereignty and integration. Is it sheer jealousy or ignorance of the rumour mongers? We the NSCN on our part are very clear about the historical rights of the Naga people. There is whatsoever no ambiguity on our position on the two inalienable rights of the Naga people. But for better understanding we should know
how negotiation started. The Nagas and India had fought an extended war that is reaching almost a century now. While upholding the National political rights of the Naga people thousands sacrificed their lives but unfortunately in 1975 the Shillong Accord was signed by some members in the Naga National Council (NNC) as "Naga underground" which was totally against the rights and decision of the Naga people. The Accord was subsequently condemned as it was an act of complete sell-out of the Naga National rights. Soon after, the NSCN emerged as the forerunner for the sovereign rights of the Nagas. We stood up in the spirit of do or die. The organization never wavered but stood steadfast for the truth and national cause. After few decades
of fierce fighting with India and her armed forces the political leadership and the Generals of India realized the futility of crushing the Nagas by military force. The Indian leadership came to recognize that, "Military solution is not possible, it is political issue, and therefore, India must seek political solution". We can say that it was the most significant realization of India's political leaders and Generals to understand that the reality of the Naga people and their history. It was this change of attitude in the Indian leadership that made the Nagas to appreciate the significance change and therefore, they agreed to seek political solution to the Indo-Naga issue on the negotiation table. In the course of the political negotiation the Government of India (GoI) has also officially agreed with the fact
that Naga history is unique and significantly, they say that solution will have to be worked out-basing on the recognized “Unique, history and situation of the Nagas"- Hence, the Indo-Naga issue naturally became a matter of negotiation. The truth of the above facts no one can certainly deny. As such in a political negotiation no party can expect cent-per-cent victory. Political negotiation is a process of give and take between two entities or parties and we are moving forward positively. No doubt it has taken much time. We have reasons to believe that both the parties are on the course of a winwin ground although the political talk is still in the process. In fact, in all the stages of the negotiation we have not given up the most important issues including the sovereign rights and Integration of all the Naga
areas that was divided by the colonial powers without the free and informed consent of the Nagas. We are quiet amused as to why these two important issues have become a contentious subject. We have not endangered the Naga people aspiration on sovereignty and integration and neither will we in the days to come. We therefore want to inform the Naga people and all others that the GoI and the Nagas represented by the NSCN are-in the process of working out an honourable political solution acceptable to both. We also reiterate our commitment that we shall come back to the Naga people for consultation on all important matters when the time comes to decide the final political agreement with the GoI. Th. Muivah General Secretary
Advisory to Wangtin and Tikhak
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ot more than nine years old in the Naga National movement and having involved in the NSCN/GPRN as late as post ceasefire 2005 it is but natural for Wangtin and Tikhak alike to be bereft of any experiences of harsh political realities except for periodic review of ceasefire, these political juveniles basks on imaginary peaceful po-
litical solution conceived through enemy’s hypnotised state of purgatory. Theaddictiontoill-gotten luxury, greed and Indianised subservient way of life and thoughts incites these disgrace individuals to uphold and espouse the fake goodwill of the enemy, meantime denounce any move to curtail the conveniently established status-quo. The self-styled policy
of gimmick and conniving with enemy at the expense of NSCN/GPRN and Naga cause is very ironic on the part of the so called exponents of peaceful solution. It is also a classic case of hypocrisy that self-proclaimed leaders of peace find it too petrifying to raise a single voice against India yet contently crucifies Naga sovereignty at the altar of own selfish materialistic
cravings. The spiteful rhetoric aiming to sow seeds of discourse among the senior NSCN leaders by this flock is only a sign of desperate writhing of a dying organ. The NSCN/GPRN is less bothered of whatever antics being played out by loud mouthed jesters however cautions the forged usage of MIP NSCN/GPRN to magnify their hollow agendas.
Besides this cheap act of plagiarism the NSCN/ GPRN does not give a wink as to any style or manner of activities by expelled and dishonoured kilonsers slouts. It only remains to be seen if the performance of the ceasefire based peace could possibly achieve anything but sovereignty. Lt. Gen Niki Sumi, NSCN/GPRN Military Supervisor, Nagaland.
“One must practice, what he preaches”
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r. Niki, who may not have even seen a school gate or may not have even heard a school bell ringing should not try to lecture Y.Wangtin Naga and Mr. P.Tikhak. Who has ever stopped him from taking over the supervisor CFSB, if he considers himself so capable of representing the NSCN/GPRN at all levels? We would have been the happiest person to find someone to take the CFSB burden from us but, we continued only because there was none to replace us. Will Mr. Niki also explain to the Naga people, where was he when Baba Khaplang was impeached and expelled from the NSCN/ GPRN on 7th of June 2011? Wasn’t he a part of that conspiracy? Wasn’t he also a signatory to that document? Baba Khaplang was
officially expelled from the NSCN/GPRN as a chairman and president by the joint Council on 7th of June 2011 but, it was Y. Wangtin Naga and P.Tikhak who reinstated him as the chairman and president of the re-organized NSCN/GPRN in the eyes of the world. The two leaders also managed to regain the Ceasefire back on track with the GOI. Mr. Niki may not have also forgotten that he re-joined the NSCN/GPRN only after the ceasefire was regained. Why did not he express his solidarity and support prior to the ceasefire agreement and why did he took more than 3(three) months to rejoin NSCN(K)? We also would like to remind Mr. Niki that, although he was just a few days old after his re-enrollment in the Naga Army, after defecting from
NSCN (U) he was given the responsibility of Military Supervisor, Western Command on our advice. After his appointment as military supervisor, Mr. Niki started showing his true color by luring Baba Khaplang and became money collector in Dimapur, Kohima and Zunheboto with no honor for his position which has been undoubtedly witnessed by all the Nagas. These activities of Mr. Niki have also solved our mystery on the attitude of Baba Khaplang, developing slowly and gradually negative feelings against us. He has managed to sow seeds of differences in our family. Baba Khaplang has crucified Mr. Y.Wangtin Naga and P.Tikhak to please Mr. Niki but, our relation with Baba Khaplang is of
blood and not monetary or temporary. Therefore, people like him should not try to shed crocodile’s tears before the Naga people in the name of sovereignty. He should know that, today the Naga people are more intellect, more qualified, more educated and well versed on the Naga issue to be lectured by him. We also demand from him to explain to the Naga people on the “ Deed of Commitment, for Peace and National Reconciliation” signed on the 12th day of February, 2015 at Nay-Pyi-Taw, which was represented by Kilonser Chowangsing and Kilonser Ang Kan on behalf of the NSCN(k) and put their signature in the document; which reads in article (one) 1 that, “Aiming to safeguard Sovereignty,Unity and Ter-
ritorial Integrity on the basis of the Peace process and building a Union based on Democratic and Federal principles in the spirit of Panglong and in accordance with the outcomes of Political Dialogue to ensure freedom, equality, justice and self determination for all citizens.” I have serious doubt on the mental stableness of Mr. Niki. I wonder if he is even aware of any such development. Once Eno. Th. Muivah has rightly mentioned in his conversation with the media that,” Sovereignty lies with the People” If the people of our country wants sovereignty, it is not far from us but, the only thing we need at this hour is unity and peace and not exploitation and extortion or bomb blast in the garb of Sovereignty. NSCN/GPRN
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Children: Right to Elementary Education
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AM Toshi Jamir
he Right Of Children To Free And Compulsory Education Act, 2009 was enacted by the Parliament of India and received the assent of the President of India on the 26th August 2009 and published in the Gazette of India the following day . It was extended to the whole of India except the State of Jammu and Kashmir. The Section 38 (1) of the above mentioned Act empowers the appropriate Government to make rules and issue notification to carry out the provisions of this Act. Subsequently , the Nagaland Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Rules, 2010 was brought out by the Nagaland State Government and published in the Nagaland Gazette on 21.3.2011 for implementation from the following year. The Act provides Rules, out of which some may be mentioned as under: To provide free and compulsory education to all children. CHILD means a male or female child of the age of 6 (six) to 14 (fourteen) years. ELEMENTARY EDUCATION means the education from class 1 (one ) to class 8 (eight). COMPULSORY EDUCATION means the obligation of the appropriate implementing Government to provide free and compulsory education; to ensure compulsory admission; to ensure compulsory attendance and to ensure the completion of elementary education.No child admitted in a school shall be held back in any class or expelled from school till the completion of elementary education. No child shall be subjected to physical punishment or mental harassment. All theseGuide-rules call for further framing of other farsighted Sub-Rules by the implementing Government Department for putting into practice by institutions having elementary classes (from class 1 to 8 ). Steps taken during the past three years or so may be evaluated and strengthened. The reason why physical punishment or mental harassment are being discouraged under this Act is not far to seek. We have come across incidents of many such harsh physical punishments and mental torturings inflicted on the tender age students by the irresponsible and cruel Teachers in other parts of the country without justifications.Perhaps this provision must have been inserted in the Act to caution in advance the Teaching community so that they might exercise utmost restraint and limit their actions. Extreme cases of physical punishment and mental harassment are rarely heard in this part of the region. While the imparting of education to the children between the age group of six to fourteen years have been emphasised under this Act, it has also not forgotten the children below the age of six years in respect of providing education. The act states that with a view to prepare children above the age of three years for elementary education and to provide early childhood care and education for all children until they complete the age of six years, the appropriate Government may make necessary arrangement for providing free pre-school education for such children. To bear excellent fruit at elementary level of education, the pre-school education (that is serving as the foundation stone) may be revitalised by adopting continuous reformatory steps. In providing quality education to the children studying from class 1 (one) to class 8 (eight), amongst other contributing factors, the TEACHERs are expected to play very important part. The present Act provides the following duties to the Teachers, namely, (i).maintain regularity and punctuality in attending school; (ii).conduct and complete the entire curriculum within the specified time; (iii).assess the learning ability of each child and accordingly supplement additional instructions,ifany,as required; (iv).hold regular meetings with parents and guardians and apprise them about the regularity in attendance ,ability to learn,progress made in learning and any other relevant
information about the child. (v).perform such other duties as may be prescribed. If the above mentioned duties are performed by the Teachers more earnestly and sincerely, improvements will definitely take place. The State haveexperimented with the current new system for a period of about three years only. Whether three years is too short a period to expect positive results and pass judgement? Rather, self-evaluation by all Stakeholders, namely, the Department(including the officers serving at various levels) ,School Heads, Teachers, Parents,Education Committees etc) have become a necessity. To disfavour the present system ,showing numerical figures of children dropped out during the past three years or so may be too early. As and when the drop out statistics are collected in the coming years, it may be done separately, for those schools located in Urban areas and Rural Areas; and also separately for the private run schools and govt run schools. That exercise is likely to give a clearer picture of dropouts and also the performance picture of both private and govt schools respectively under the new system. The Act also provides for the formation of School Management Committee, namely,VILLAGE EDUCATION COMMITTEE; WARD EDUCATION COMMITTEE; TOWN EDUCATION COMMITTEE; COMMON EDUCATIONCOMMITTEE, to ensure the proper implementation of the provisions contained under the Act and also to liaise between the Schools and the Government Department. Whether these responsible Committees are performing the assigned responsibilities in line with the direction contained in the Act requires to be monitored periodically by the concerned Authorities. Formal education in Nagaland is about little over one hundred years or so. It will not be so incorrect to state that the Private Schools and Government run Schools existed simultaneously from the very beginning. In the early years, they produced the desired results and met the manpower requirements at that point of time. However, with the passage of years, many of the Private/NGOs run institutions started to outshine many of the Govt run institutions. And this could be possible on the part of the privately run institutions only after undergoing many struggles.Amongst other reasons, it is because,(side by side with vision and mission of the school), the Head,the Teachers and the Ministerial staff of the Private Sector Educational Institutions are directly accountable to the Management / Owner (s) for their all round performances. Any indiscipline committed / non-performance of academic duties by any employee of the private schools can be corrected immediately, which may not be possible in the Government Sector owing to many time taking factors. The private institutions have also to compete with other private institutions for reputation and survival and to attract students .The preference for Private Schools shown by the parents (to educate their children starting from lower classes) during the recent pastyears has been to enable their children to learn English which will help them to easily communicate and acquire more knowledge to face the competitive world. Many of the institutions under public/govt sector appears to be complacent (may be mainly due to thejob security). As a result, even the children of poor parents and also more often the children of Govt schools Teachers seek admission in the private schools. This trend is not confined to this region alone. The private schools are not easily affected by the introduction of any change in education system because many of them are disciplined and are able to adjust to the changing scenario. What is necessary in this part of the country is to Self-evaluate, find out the weaknesses and correct them, instead of playing the blame game. The following measures collected from elsewhere may be examined to correct the present ailmentsconfronting especially the govt-run elementary education
(and at higher levels too),namely, loss of working days in the beginning of every academic year/session mainly due to non-arrival of free-text books in time (school must keep at least a Teacher’s Copy of the text book to teach the pupils from the first day of the school); toomany self-made off-days, if practised, may be stopped totally (instead, full academic working days as prescribed must be observed); it is often said that a mediocre/average Teacher is able to produce only a mediocre student(, as such, the Teachers may make efforts privately to sharpen the knowledge of the Subject-matter by mastering the allotted subjectthroughregular home studies); immediately after Summer Holidays; Puja Holidays and Winter Holidays ,classes must be started from the first day; the concerned department may look into the infrastructural requirements of the educational institutions. Some of the above remedies are also applicable to the institutions of higher learning in Nagaland. In the olden past, there were shortage of the educated manpower requirements in Naga Hills /Nagaland in many government departments and private sectors. Many matric passed students preferred to go for further studies. As a result a number of under-matric products could get employment. Many such Undermatric students were recruited at the lower level of education during those days. Teaching profession was, if fact, the last choice of the people then.Education at the lower level became a casualty till the recent years due to the presence of many untrained and lowly qualified Teachers. They were slowly phased out over the years and replaced with the candidates having Matriculation qualification and above. To cope with the emerging tough curriculum, it is foreseen that more qualified degree holders will be required and the under graduate degree holders are likely to become a thing of thepast within a few years or so.The Applications for employment being submitted evenby the Post Graduates and Graduates (with additional Trained certificates) to fill up the teaching posts which requires only plus two qualification is likely go a long way in improving the quality of teaching. According to the 2011 final Census released on 6.6.2013, the total population of Nagaland State was 19,78,502. The 71.1 % (about 14,06,714) of the population live in Rural areas (villages) and 28.9 % (about 5,71,787)of the population live in the Urban areas (Towns).The little development that have been taking place in the eleven district headquarters cannot represent the true picture about the overall conditions of the whole State. When even the Govt’s educational institution located in the Urban areas(Towns) are confronted with many problems (thereby affecting the quality education), we can well imagine the uncomfortable condition of education in the Rural areas (villages) which are located in the jungles far away from the modern civilization. Under the present discussion, the reasons for giving up/leaving studies by the school students before the completion of Matriculation examinations may be many, such as,due to financial support problem ; availability of employment; desire to undergo training and seek employment thereafter; detention in the same class due to poor performance in the examination conducted by the school; and other reasons. The DETENTION system and NON-DETENTION system will definitely have their respective merits and demerits. Under the detention system the possibility/ probability of failing a pupil a couple of times,(due to poor academic performances) foreseenbetween class 1 to class 8 .Under the old system, there were many instances of children (especially in rural areas) leaving their studieseven while in lower classes (due to their inability to cope with the studies). The same problem is likely to be greatly minimised under the non-detention system. The chances of giving up the studies due to detention policy appeared to be more in the rural areas
than the urban areas . In the absence of detention, every student is permitted to reach class 8 (eight). Thereafter, the brighter and capable students can pursue higher studies. The State Government have alsobeen providing many types of trainings to those who drop-outs before and after the completion of elementary education. After all, it is not possible for all the students to pursue higher level of University education. They have to leave the learning institutions at different levels. Besides many other reasons, to minimise the stress and the study burden of many study-deficient students at the High Schools and college levels, certain students’ friendly measures have been introduced by the Nagaland Board of School Education and Nagaland University. Unlike before, the Matric final examination failed students are presently allowed to appear , it is told, up to the maximum of 3 (three) failed subjects by the NBSE. From three years Undergraduate year-end/ final examination system, the Nagaland University has already switched over to six semesters-end examination (say six monthly examination) since a couple of years ago. Under this six times semester-end examination system, the colleges affiliated to Nagaland University have been authorised to conduct the examinations and to internally evaluate the Answer Scripts(within the college) till the fifth semester. We have to wait and see regarding what about of the sixth semester.It appears that the provision for appearing in certain failed subject(s) is also provided under the new system.The grievances lodged to the University Authorities by the Students for delay in Results declaration under the Old System appears to be no more in the semester system, at least till to-date.In the past, all the educational reform systems used to have their respective minus and plus points.The present system will be of no exception. However, it is anticipated that,the present studentsfriendly measures would go a long way in relieving / minimising the problem of early School/College leavers. The statistics released by the School Education Department, Govt of Nagaland, on 21.8.2014, through the Parliamentary Secretary, will be helpful to know about the Department.There are3299 Government Schools ( Govt Primary Schools = 2045; Govt ME Schools=961; GovtHighschools=252; Govt Higher Secondary schools=41). Regarding the manpower, the Directorate and the subordinate institutions/establishments have 27,000 employees. The task of monitoring and running the 3299 governmental educational institutions efficiently is indeed a great challenge for the Officers and Teachers working in the education Department. As a layman, it may be viewed that the successful management of the above mentioned institutions requires proper manning by Officers both inthe Directorate as well as in the fields throughout Nagaland. If the press releases issued by the employees and appearing in the local papers are to be relied upon, the tussle/ differences of opinion between the Higher Secondary Teachers and the rest of the School Teachers for sharing of Administrative posts both in the Directorate as well as in the fields requires early attention. Moreover, it is also given to understand through the media that the division of powers (especially financial power) and functions between the Principals and other subordinate School Officer(s) working under the Higher Secondary roof/establishment requires proper streamlining. To facilitate the Officers to attend to the other pressing problems presently confronting the School education sector, it is desirable and wished that the above mentioned two issues (and others, if any) may be addressed by the concerned Authorities through mutual consultations, give and take, and consensus. (The writer is formerly, Director, Higher Education, Govt of Nagaland.)
Higher Education in nagaland: History of Higher Secondary Challenges and remedies Education: a Flashback
Prof. G.T. Thong igher Education for all, at least till the degree level, is vital today because a literate and educated society only can take us forward. However, the enrolment is dismally low due to lack of adequate number of colleges, particularly in the remote areas. Moreover, the quality of Higher Education is in serious jeopardy. This requires a total overhaul from Primary Education itself. But that is another story. The affiliated colleges of the Nagaland University are catering to Society’s needs against insurmountable odds. While it is true that a few are doing well, the vast majority are struggling with quality. The dominant factor is the lack of qualified teachers in the Private Colleges; most lack NET/PhD (UGC requirement). The Government College teachers are well paid; it is expected that they are also appropriately qualified. On the other hand, the Private College teachers are paid a pittance while being overworked. This is the reason why most Private College teachers, including qualified ones are constantly on the lookout for other better paid jobs. Under such conditions it is impossible to retain talent. With better salaries, the teachers lacking NET/PhD are sure to try to earn the same as early as possible, which will, in turn make our colleges more vibrant and society more dynamic. It is expected that teachers who do not have PhD degrees, acquire them. Teachers are also expected to attend Refresher and Orientation courses from time to time.
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These programs and courses are to improve he knowledge of the teachers and ensure that they are kept abreast with the latest trends in their respective fields. Interest will also develop in the teachers to take up research seriously, ultimately to society’s benefit. However, Private College teachers, most if not all, are granted study leave for 2 to 3 years to pursue PhD programs without salary. It is a huge challenge, with some opting to resign to be eligible for some fellowship, while those remaining in service are left to fend for themselves. This is indeed tragic. Taking into consideration the vital needs of society it would be prudent on the part of the Nagaland Government to support the Private Colleges by way of paying salaries of the qualified teachers, at par with their Government counterparts. This is happening in our neighbouring states like Assam, West Bengal, etc. where their governments pay the salaries of the Private College teachers also. Those teachers lacking PhD degrees should be encouraged to study, with salaries, while those without NET should be encouraged to acquire the same as early as possible. It is known that many of the teachers, though lacking the aforementioned qualifications, are as excellent as they are dedicated. It is the responsibility of the Private College authorities and the Nagaland Government to ensure that they acquire the necessary qualifications and expertise and are retained at all costs. Hopefully our dream of a well educated society is around the bend.
The history of Higher Secondary Education described above makes it crystal clear that the higher secondary classes (11 & 12) are integral part of the school education… The higher secondary stage of education is a crucial stage in the academic career of children as diversion of professional selection takes place during this stage Nellayappan B
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he present system of Higher Secondary Education is the outcome of intensive researches made by numerous Education Commissions and Eminent Educationists, brainstorming deliberations and discussions by different Committees and Conferences during the last 100 years. Prior to the introduction of the Higher Secondary Education, the duration of the school course was 11 years and the 2 years Intermediate Education was exclusively a part of collegiate education that offered 2 years degree course. Thus the dividing line between the School and University courses was drawn at Matriculation. The journey of the Higher Secondary Education started way back in 1917 with the appointment of the Calcutta University Commission popularly known as the Saddler Commission. It was the first Commission that suggested to make the duration of school education to 12 years and to put forward the idea of restructuring of education in the shape of 10 + 2+ 3. The University Education Commission (194849) also known as the Radhakrishnan Commission under the Chairmanship of Dr S Radhakrishnan also recommended for adoption of a uniform pattern of 10 + 2 + 3 for the entire country. The Secondary Education Commission (1952-53) popularly
known as the Mudaliar Commission recommended adding the first year of the Intermediate course to the Schools and the second year to the 2 year under graduate degree course so as to create the 3 year degree course. The Planning Commission Panel (1960), the third conference of the Vice-Chancellors of Indian Universities (1961), The Central Advisory Board of Education Meeting (1962), The Conference of the State Education Ministers, Vice – Chancellors and Eminent Educationists (1963) had all recommended the same 12 years of school education up to the Higher Secondary level and 3 years of first degree course. The Education Commission or the Kothari Commission (1964-66) also recommended the present structure of 10+2+3 pattern of education. After long years of deliberations and recommendations of different Education Commissions, the Government of India had notified the National Policy on Education 1968 and the National Structure of Education (10 + 2 + 3) came in to existence. Thus the process of upgrading of High Schools into Higher Secondary schools began from the implementation of NPE 1968. But, the two year Higher Secondary course at the beginning was conducted both at the schools and the colleges. Later, the objectives of the school education covering the +2 stage of last two years were redrafted under the National Policy on Education 1986. The new policy of 1986 clearly recommended the +2 stage or the senior secondary education to be properly belongs to the school education and the colleges offering +2 stage of education were asked to transfer those classes to the schools. The history of Higher Secondary Education described above makes it crystal clear that the higher secondary classes (11 & 12) are integral part of the school education and I need not explain why the finest brains of our country had brought this system into existence. The higher secondary stage of education is a crucial stage in the academic career of children as diversion of professional selection takes place during this stage. The educational administrators and teachers should remember one thing at this juncture. Even though the diversification of course of studies starts after passing of class 10, children should be helped to identify their natural aptitude and inclination towards the different courses when they are in classes 9 and 10.
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The Resurrection of Christ: Prove it to me The foundation of Christianity: “And if Christ has not been raised, our preaching is useless and so is your faith” (1 Corinthians 15:14). The Resurrection of Christ is the crowning proof of Christianity. It is the foundation of the Christian faith. If the Resurrection did not take place then Christianity is a false religion and it may have vanished the very day Christ died.
Furthermore, if this was all it was just a hallucination, then where was the body? Where was the body? Show us the body! The mistaken identity theory: There is another theory that's been propounded and that's the "mistaken identity theory." This one says that somebody impersonated Jesus, that somebody tried to dress and look like Jesus to falsify the resurrection by impersonation. The problem with that is he must have crucified himself to produce the scars in his hands. He must have stabbed a spear into his side to produce the scar that was. And how do you explain the post-resurrection miracles if hewas just an impostor? How can you explain walking through walls? How can you explain the controlling the fish in the sea, creating a meal, appearing and vanishing at will, ascending to heaven in full view of the Apostles? No impersonator can do that.Moreover, the disciples knew Jesus too well to be fooled.
Two questions: G.B. Hardy, a Canadian scientist wrote a book about life, about philosophy. It asked two very important questions. This scientist said, "I have only two questions to ask. One, has anyone ever defeated death? Two, did he make a way for me to do it also?" This scientist found the answer to his question in the resurrection of Jesus Christ. He found the hope for his own resurrection in it as well. And yes, Christ made a way for you and I to defeat it as well. The swoon theory: Time and again opponents of Christianity have attempted to prove the Resurrection as a myth or a fable. One common theory is the "swoon theory." This is the theory that Christ never really died. Due to the loss of blood on the cross and the wounds he became unconscious. Inside the tomb, the aroma of the spices and the coolness of the tomb revived him. And when He came out of the grave, the disciples assumed that he was resurrected. The women, who carefully wrapped his body in linen and anointed Him along with Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus with 75 pounds of spices, must have known whether or not he was dead.The Romans were renowned for their military strategies and discipline. History will stand the test of scrutiny that the Romans were experts at execution. They came by and did not break Jesus' legs because they knew he was already dead. They rammed a spear into his side and out came the blood and the water around the heart, indicating that he was dead. Escape from the tomb: If the swoon theory is true, it means that Jesus successfully survived severe beating, loss of blood, crucifixion, the spear thrust into his side and survived three days with no food or water. Then he woke up, moved the stone, overpowered the Roman guard and then walked seven miles to Emmaus on feet that had been pierced with nails. That is ridiculous and absurd. The no-burial theory: There's a second theory known as the "no-burial
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The wrong tomb theory: This theory says that the women were so distraught with grief and they went to a tomb which happens to be empty. This theory too is preposterous. The women have followed Jesus to the place where Jesus was crucified. They knew exactly where he was buried. Most important Jesus was not buried in a public cemetery but in a private cemetery in a new tomb belonging to Joseph of Arimathea (Matthew 27:57-60) and there was no room for error in finding the right tomb.
theory." The no-burial theory says Christ was never put in the tomb so obviously he wasn't there on Sunday. Since He wasn't there Friday or Saturday, we don't expect Him on Sunday. This theory doesn't work either. If the tomb was empty there was no pointin posting a Roman guard. Instead of denying the Resurrection they would have The theft theory: brought the body to the city of Jerusalem.They could There are many more theories. But if you're going not produce the body because Christ has indeed risen to deny the resurrection, there's really only one theory from the dead. that you ought to adopt and that's the one these Jews adopted in Matthew 28. That is the "theft theory" that The hallucination theory: The third theory is the "hallucination theory" which says the disciples came and stole His body. If you can't says that everybody who thought they say Jesus after his find the body, the best explanation is somebody came dead suffered from hallucination. It was a pathologi- and took the body. In Matthew 28:11-15 the priests and the elders cal problem. They thought they saw Jesus because they bribed the soldiers and instructed them to say wanted to see him so badly. This theory doesn't work either. How could the that the disciples came at night and stole the body church be built on hallucination? 1 Corinthians while they were asleep. This lie is so apparent that 15:3-8 outlined the appearances of Jesus after his Matthew did not bother to give a clarification. If Resurrection. The passage also mentioned that you are asleep how you can see what is happening? 500 people saw him at the same time. At the time If you are asleep how you can identify the people of his writing, Paul said though some of them have who are coming or going? This is the lie that proved died many of these eye witnesses were still alive. the truth of the Resurrection. Jesus Christ said, “I am the resurrection and the life” How could 500 people have the same hallucination at the same time? And since they didn't even (John 11:25). He is alive today. He will walk with you believe or expect a resurrection, where was this down every road of life. He will stand by you in the hour strong desire that brought them to hallucinate? of death. He will keep you throughout all eternity.
This Easter, don't forget about the cross
The utter darkness of Calvary and the brilliant sunrise of Easter
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ay I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world" (Galatians 6:14). Why does the cross offend the world? Why are so many disturbed when the name of Jesus is mentioned? Why is His name, above all others, often taken in vain? The answer is simple: There is power in His name, and there is power in the cross—power that shakes the spiritual realm. Philippians 2:9-11 says that God has highly exalted Jesus and has given Him a name that is above every other name, that at the name of Jesus every knee will bow and every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord. No wonder the world hates the cross and the name of Jesus—they convict. The cross, sin, and repentance have never been popular terms even though they are at the heart of the Christian faith. Jesus Himself said that the cross would be offensive. Sadly, many today water down the gospel and avoid talking about the cross. They want the Bible to be more appealing and marketable. But truth is not marketable! We are to guard it, proclaim it, and defend it, but never compromise it. A.W. Tozer addressed this decades ago, "There has come in modern times a new cross into popular evangelical circles. It is like the old cross, but different; the likenesses are superficial, the differences fundamental. The old cross slew men; the new cross entertains them. The old cross-condemned; the new cross amuses. The old cross destroyed confidence in the flesh; the new cross encourages it. The old cross brought tears and blood; the new cross brings laughter." Tozer continues, "Any objection to the carrying on of our present gold-calf [lukewarm] Christianity is met with the triumphant reply, 'But we are winning them!' And winning them to what? To true discipleship? To cross carrying? To self-denial? To separation from the world? To crucifixion of the flesh? To holy living? To nobility of character? To a despising of the world's treasures? To hard self-discipline? To love for God? To total committal to Christ? Of course the answer to all these questions is…No." This pleasant, "new cross" view, often leaves people confused and deceived because they believe in a self-promoting, self-seeking Christianity that bears
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no resemblance to Jesus' sobering call to full surrender…to dying to self. For this reason, it's been said that one of the greatest mission fields in the world today is the church, as a whole, in America. In our zeal to lead people to Christ, many paint a false picture of discipleship, or water it down altogether. Jesus didn't say, "Follow me and you won't have to change anything"; He said, "Deny yourself, pick up your cross, and follow Me" (Matthew 16:24). Jesus wants us to understand what's involved when we follow Him—there is a cost. The cross cost Him and it will cost us. If current statistics hold true, many will continue to embrace a glamorized Christianity and be led astray. Life is a battleground not a playground! If you've never sincerely repented and trusted in Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, there is no better time than now. Many who are trapped in religion go through life lacking passion, direction, and purpose, often living with a sense of remorse and guilt. They wonder, "Have I been good enough?" A relationship with Christ changes that. 2 Corinthians 5:17 states: "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new." Your past is forgiven, your present secure, and your future certain. The resurrection and the cross set us free from sin and death: "For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord" (Romans 6:23). No matter what you've done, you have the opportunity to believe in Jesus and be forgiven of sin. Acknowledge that you are a sinner in need of a Savior (Romans 3:23). Acknowledge that Jesus died for your sins (John 3:16). Repent and turn from your sins (Acts 3:19). Live your life for Him (Hebrews 12:1-2). This Easter, although we rejoice in the empty tomb, don't forget about the power of the cross. The cross cleanses, redeems, releases, crushes, and triumphs. It offers hope and peace to a dying world. "There is no peace until we see the finished work of Jesus Christ—until we can look back and see the cross of Christ between our sins" (D.L. Moody). What does the cross mean to you? You cannot live your life with a question mark here. Watch the short clip here. Shane Idleman is the founder and lead pastor of Westside Christian Fellowship in Lancaster, California, just North of Los Angeles.
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alvary (crucifixion) and Easter (Resurrection) are the two events that divide human history from darkness into light. Calvary signifies the utter darkness of man lost in sin while Easter signifies man made alive again through the redemption of Christ. But I believe that dark Calvary and bright Easter also has a different meaning for our lives as Christians in the here and now. Now, it is true that on Calvary, the condemnation of the law and the penalty of death thereof were all nailed to the outstretched hands of Jesus our savior. And as our savior hung on that cross, all the darkness of human sin-past, present and future- were poured unto his spirit, soul and body. And as this darkness enveloped his broken body, even the sun refused to shed her light upon that utter pit of darkness from 12 noon to 3 p.m (Mat.27:45). At the end of the third hour, our savior cried out: “Eli, Eli, lamasabach-thani (My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?) Now, coming to our own lives, in our human relationships, even when all our friends or even loved ones have forsaken us, we always still have a last refuge to turn to. We can always turn to God on our knees and seek companionship and comfort by pouring our grief and loneliness to Him. And I am sure many of the readers of this article have experienced such situations when they were abandoned even by their own loved ones and were left with no other options except to fall on their knees and seek God’s comfort. But in the case of Jesus, as he hung on the cross that day, his experience was one where even that last refuge of turning to God in despair was found missing and void. In his case, all his disciples had earlier abandoned him. All those thousands of admirers and followers had also either gone into hiding or were standing afar off on mount Golgotha that day.This included his own mother and brothers. And then, in the midst of that utter abandonment and forsakeness, that pitiful cry of “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?” pierced the darkness of Calvary. For all of us who have believed in the saving grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, we have all reaped the richest rewards of dark Calvary and have received our personal salvation all free. But besides this most wonderful gift, we can also now be comforted by the fact that we now have a High Priest who can understand our deepest grief, sorrows and even abandonment. This is because our savior and our Lord has already been to the deepest depths of betrayal and abandonment on the mount of Golgotha. What this means in our own personal lives is that even when we meet situations where we feel that we have been forsaken by everyone else, we can still find comfort and hope at the feet of Jesus-our Advocate and also High Priest. This is precisely because our savior had already trodden that path of despair and helplessness himself. In his case, he had not only experienced “human forsakeness” but even “God forsakeness”. He went through that experience not in some immune and divine body that could not experience mental distress or physical pain. He went through that experience in human flesh and blood just like ours. Therefore, the scriptures, in regards to this fact says: “ For we have not a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin. Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may find grace to help in times of need”. (Heb.4:15&16) Our real Easter-that of the resurrection of our bodies- is still in the future. Scripture tells us that it will happen only at the event of the Rapture when Jesus returns to earth with his saints (1 Thess.4:13-17) But for the present times, as we continue to walk our Christian lives, I believe this is our brilliant Easter sunrise- THE JOY OF HAVING A RISEN LORD WHO UNDERSTANDS OUR DEEPEST SORROWS AND GRIEFS. Indeed, no human made pit of despair is too deep, that God’s love is not deeper still. (Words expressed by Corrie Ten Boon, survivor of the 2nd Word War German concentration camp). This, I believe, is our Easter sunrise!
Are we like the guard at the tomb?
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he greatest joy of every Christian and the existence of Christianity is because of resurrection and every year from all over the world christens observe and commemorate this day as “Easter Sunday” because this is the day when Christ was risen from the death after washing our sins by His blood. And this is the day when every Christian is delighted and every Christian’s family make sure that they go to church! And i wonder how many of as goes to church to thank and take a step to spread His love to different people in various ways after church and i too wonder how many of as goes to church for the sake of wearing white cloths or for the sake of egg or for the sake that someone whom you like is singing or for the sake of being a Christian. When i was going through the BIBLE something struck me and i began to ask to myself that, “am i like a guard at the tomb of Jesus” and after a while i nodded to myself by saying no in my heart. And wanted to ask all the Christian that are you like the guard at the tomb? And as the story of guard goes on in MATTHEW 28:11-15 “while the women were on their way, some of the guards went into the city and reported to the chief priests everything that had happened. When the chief priest had met with the elders and devise a plan, they gave huge sum of money, telling them, “You are to say, ‘his disciples came during the night and stole Him away while we were asleep. ` If this report gets to the governor, we will satisfy him and keep you out of trouble.” So the soldiers took the money and did as they were instructed. And this story has been widely circulated among the Jews to this very day. And learning how the guards were bribe i realised how loss was their value to spread such a false statement for the sake of money. And as i was pondering on my thoughts i too realized that they are many Christians who are playing the role of guard in different ways, like many of us fail to be a good Christian when we are rich, smart, and popular. Most of the Christian may commemorate “Easter Sunday” only for the sake assuming a as a yearly routine not knowing that one day we will meet Him face to face and it may be our last Easter yet many of us are too lost in our position, status and pride. Jesus was crucified for our sin and today we are save and He has shown many miracles in the life of many people and grant successes to many who have asked yet we are like the guard who always give false statement and never testified His name. Therefore as we celebrate “Easter Sunday” let us celebrate with our all heart and ask yourself that “Are you like the guard in the tomb”? Lumtsase C Sangtam
Gospel is My Life (In commemoration with Passion Week) Purity of white dove You release, Flying high for eternal peace; Takes me yonder endless road to freedom, Singing songs of love and wisdom, I heard Your Voice and You’re my choice. I pray to You God for my restless soul. I plead to You God in reaching my goal. Gospel in my heart, Gospel in my mind, Gospel is my life, Gospel is my life. I rejoice to the life You gave me, Power of love for blinds to see. You brought hope and redemption to many, Joining the caravan of salvation army, I called Your Name, I treasure the same. Senti Longchar (DK) Waromung Village
The necessary violence of Easter
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here is something deeply violent about Easter. A necessary and creative violence. How else would you kill death? You can kill death twice: first, you kill death with death, and the second time around, you kill death for good with resurrection, which is like a mighty shot from an enormous cannon releasing unstoppable power and energy, blasting hellish forces and gravestones and any obstacles into dust and nothingness. And we must be clear what death is; it is complete separation from the eternal source of life. Death is life lived in the entrails of darkness. And Easter is the glorious burst-through of Christ's eternal life and eternal love. No wonder it was so difficult for the human mind to comprehend what Jesus was doing in the grave. His disciples could not understand how the powerful leader who raised the dead to life would allow his enemies to kill him. It was a sign of powerlessness. It was, in other words, a sign of death, and death meant only one thing, utter defeat. No wonder Peter abandoned him. Easter focuses on the resurrection of Christ. But it is profitable to consider what was happening in the hours and days and nights that He lay 'dead' in the sepulchre. I love the way a teacher said that Jesus was not lying passive in the grave. He descended to hell. He went as the warrior of warriors and plundered hell, and wrested back what Adam had given away to satan in the garden of Eden. It was probably not a pretty sight. Imagine Sheol's pitch darkness lit up by the Light wielded by the heavenly warrior; screams as we have never heard even in the most terrifying horror movies would have resounded in those depths and echoed back from its walls. The shrieks of an invaded kingdom. Imagine the kingdom of Sheol trembling, like a thousand earthquakes at the same time, as it realised that here finally was the one who would take back what no mortal man was capable of doing. Now satan could no longer claim that all the kingdoms of the world and their glory belonged to him. For the greatest warrior was taking back his property. This is where the New Covenant begins with the cross manifesting its greatest gifts. Hereafter, are we conquerors because of His finished work. There is a continuing counter violence in reaction to the violence of the resurrection. An insidious warfare on our minds to steal back what the divine warrior has given us: the peace, love, grace, healing and forgiveness and deliverance gifts of resurrected life. The beauty of Easter is that in addition to the gifts mentioned above, He also gifted us his fiery resurrection power. Easter is much more than white lilies and pink eastereggs and cuddly bunnies. It is such an immeasurably hard-won gift that we ought to do no less than guard it against theft with the assiduous devotion of the soldier. And learn to love as He loved us with His death-defying love. (From Thoughts after Easter, Barkweaver 2014)
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Fabindia apologises, but denies mischief; four get bail in CCTV row panaJi, april 4 (ianS): Four employees of upmarket boutique chain Fabindia were released on bail by a trial court on Saturday, as Goa Chief Minister Laxmikant Parsekar ruled out any mischief and the company issued an apology to union HRD minister Smriti Irani who reported the alleged CCTV snooping at a store in the coastal state. The manner in which the incident played out in the media, both nationally and internationally, forced both the Bharatiya Janata Party as well as the Congress to express concern about the image of the state, which they believed was being tarnished. Earlier in the day, four employees of Fabindia's store in Candolim, who were arrested on Friday for allegedly setting up a CCTV camera which overlooked the store's changing room where Human Resource Development Minister Irani was trying out clothes, were granted bail by a trial court. The four - Karim Lakhani, Prashant Naik, Raju Panche and Paresh Bhagat - were released on a personal bond of Rs.5,000 each, after the Judicial Magistrate First Class Mapusa accepted the contention of the defence counsel that the CCTV camera was not installed with malafide intention. All the four accused are junior employees of the
Centre extends food security act deadline Jaipur, april 4 (pti): The Centre has given another six months to the States for rolling out the National Food Security Act (NFSA), Union Food Minister Ram Vilas Paswan said on Friday. The deadline, which has already been extended twice, was to end on Saturday.Only 11 States and Union Territories have so far implemented the Act which was passed by Parliament in September 2013. The deadline had been extended for the third time so that the remaining States could adopt and implement the law within six months, the Minister added.The law aims at providing a legal entitlement to 5 kg of subsidised foodgrains a person per month at Rs 1-3 a kg to two-thirds of the country’s population. The Centre had warned the States that it would stop the supply of subsidised APL foodgrains if they failed to meet the April deadline.Despite the extension of the deadline twice, only Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan, Himachal Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Delhi and Chandigarh have so far implemented the Act, some fully and others partially.
Another Fabindia staffer held for filming woman in Kolhapur Kolhapur (MaharaShtra), april 4 (ianS) Spelling further trouble for Fabindia Overseas Pvt. Ltd, a staffer at its Kolhapur outlet was arrested for secretly filming a woman customer on his cellphone, police said here on Saturday. Despite repeated attempts by IANS, Fabindia officials refused to comment on the matter on Saturday. The incident occurred on March 31 at the Tarabai Park outlet here when a salesman Prakash A. Ispurle was caught snooping on a woman customer. The following day, the woman lodged a police complaint and who was arrested and taken into police custody, a police official told mediapersons said. The woman in her complaint alleged when she was trying some clothes, Ispurle put his mobilephone in recording mode and slipped it in the gap between the trial room floor and the door, the official added. She raised an alarm after which Ispurle hurriedly pulled the phone back, rushed to a corner and attempted to delete the recording. However, the police nailed him on the basis of CCTV footage of the store which showed Ispurle in the act of filming the customer. boutique chain and were arrested following a complaint by BJP legislator Michael Lobo under charges of voyeurism, intrusion into privacy and under the Information Technology Act. The Crime Branch, which is investigating the case, is expected to record statements of senior officials of Fabindia as well as managing director William Bissell. Fabindia Overseas Pvt. Ltd. on Saturday formally apologised to Irani, but denied that there were any hidden cameras installed anywhere in the store
or in the trial rooms and that the camera in question was part of a surveillance system at the outlet. Superintendent of Police (Crime Branch) Karthik Kashyap later said Fabindia officials "are cooperating in the investigation", but they have sought time to appear before the investigators. The company has also appointed its own threemember women's team to probe the incident and said that if any mischief has been perpetrated by anybody, such person should be punished as per law.
BJP's national executive ends, marks generational shift within
Bengaluru, april 4 (ianS): A generational shift was evident in more than one way as BJP concluded its two-day strategy meet here, with veteran L.K. Advani choosing to stay quiet as the party discussed its massive expansion plans. Advani, one of the founder members of the party, did not speak at the national executive meet, the second time in the history of the party founded in 1980 by him and Atal Bihar Vajpayee along with others. The other time he did not address a national executive meet was in June 2013 in Goa which he had skipped. The ambitious membership drive launched by party president Amit Shah meanwhile received accolades with the numbers expected to touch 10 crore by the deadline of April 31. Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders expect this will pump fresh blood and energy, involving large the masses in party activities. The party appeared happy with its performance of 10 months, with Amit Shah saying on the first day of the meeting that the party was here to stay for 10-20 years. The stage was however dominated by the contentious land acquisition bill with an aggressive
Prime Minister Narendra Modi waves to his supporters after addressing a rally organized by his party, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), in Bangalore, India, on Friday, April 3,. Modi's speech was mostly addressed to farmers on a day that President Pranab Mukherjee signed off on the latest version of the government's land acquisition ordinance, which proposes to ease rules for acquiring land to facilitate infrastructure projects, in a country where agriculture is the main livelihood of about 60 percent of the 1.2 billion people. (AP Photo)
BJP appearing ready to go at length to get it through. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, addressing a press conference after the meet ended, said though the government will try to get the bill passed as it is now after amendments in Lok Sabha, it is open to suggestions, if the opposition agrees for a discussion. On Saturday, the final day of the meet, the land acquisition bill dominated the scene, with an elaborate presentation being made on its main points. While the BJP admitted it is "worried" about the opposition's "disinfor-
mation campaign", it also expressed full confidence over convincing people that the bill is pro-farmer. "We are worried about the disinformation campaign. It is a campaign against the reforms we are bringing," said party leader and union minister Nirmala Sitharaman. "We are confident about the amendments brought by us and about Prime Minister Narendra Modi directly engaging with people and explaining the points on radio. We are willing to discuss with anyone," she said. The minister said a de-
tailed power point presentation on the bill was made which explained the legislation and the amendments brought by the government. "The members were briefed. No they will go and spread the message forward," she said. Sitharaman said the BJP will go to the people and explain that the law is not anti-farmer. "It is a disinformation campaign which particularly the Congress is trying to spread." Jaitley said the land acquisition bill passed by the UPA government in 2013 was "anti-farmer" as it "pre-
vents rural roads, housing in rural areas and rural electrification" and the BJP will campaign among people to explain its benefits of the new bill. He said that the bill brought by the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government will help boost rural infrastructure and added the proposed industrial corridors will provide jobs to all including the landless and the Dalits. On Advani's silence, Jaitley refused to say what was the reason behind it. A party leader, speaking on condition of anonymity, said it was Advani who decided not to speak. Another issue that has created trouble for the government - formation of a government in alliance with People's Democratic Party in Jammu and Kashmir- was also discussed at length. Jaitley, talking to reporters later, said the party "endorsed" the government decision to be a part of coalition government in Jammu and Kashmir. The two-day national executive meet was preceded by the meeting of office bearers of the party. This is the first time the national executive of the party met after it came in power in Delhi.
Fake IAS Officer sent to jail for two weeks 1350 Indians evacuated from Yemen
DehraDun, april 4 (pti): Ruby Chaudhry, the woman who stayed at the prestigious IAS training academy in Mussoorie for over six months masquerading as a probationer and accused a senior officer of taking bribe to facilitate her stay there, has been arrested and sent to jail today for two weeks. Judicial Magistrate Chavi Bansal sent Chaudhry to judicial custody for 14 days after she was produced before her hours after her arrest late last night, SP (city) Ajay Singh told PTI. She was arrested from a city hotel by the SIT probing the case for offences under sections 420 (cheating, dishonesty), 467 (forgery of valuable security), 468 (forgery for purpose of cheating), 471 (using
as genuine a forged document) and 170 (impersonating as a public servant) of the IPC, Singh said. The official denied the woman's allegation that there was an attempt to shield Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration (LBSNAA) Deputy Director Saurabh Jain by authorities as he had held key positions in the administration. Jain is the official whom she had accused of issuing her a fake ID card to facilitate her stay at the academy and taking Rs 5 lakh as part of a Rs 20 lakh deal to get her a job at the institute. A rebuttal issued by Joint Director of the Academy D Nariala had said, "The allegations of false promise of job to the alleged person were base-
less, malicious and hence are categorically denied," Jain himself has strongly refuted the charges. According to an FIR lodged by local police against Chaudhry on Tuesday, the woman arrived at the Academy on September 20 last year and introduced herself as a trainee IAS officer and stayed there for a little over 6 months before mysteriously disappearing on March 27. Meanwhile, members of 2014 IAS probationers' batch today came out in support of Saurabh Jain, Expressing solidarity with Jain, the probationers at the prestigious LBSNAA said they shall strive to assert the truth and preserve the integrity of the civil services in times to come.
new Delhi, april 4 (pti): 1,350 Indians have been evacuated from Yemen and efforts are on to rescue over 2,000 others from various parts of the strife-torn country where situation has deteriorated significantly due to escalation in fighting between warring groups. Minister of State for External Affairs V K Singh, who was overseeing the massive evacuation operation from Djibouti, had also gone to Sanaa, the largest Yemeni city from where Air India was rescuing Indians after getting permission to land. Singh has come back to Djibouti today. Meanwhile, Navy ship INS Mumbai sent to evac-
uate Indians from Aden could not dock at the city port due to heavy shelling and small boats were used to ferry the people to the ship. "There is heavy shelling in Aden. The ship is anchored 5-6 kilometres off the coast. Indian nationals are being taken by boat to board the ship there," Swaraj said. Official sources said the evacuation operation was going on notwithstanding the deteriorating situation across Yemen. "We hope to complete the evacuation operation in the next few days," they said. The sources said though security situation was becoming more precarious
in Sanaa due to increasing hold of al-Qaeda, India has been given slots to carry out air sorties to take out its citizens from the city. "Maximum slots to carry out air sorties have been given to India. We were given two slots yesterday and two slots today. We hope to continue the evacuation from Saana." They sought to allay fears of kidnapping of Indians in Yemen, asserting that the situation was not like that in Iraq. The sources said Indian Navy ship Tarkash and two other commercial ships are also available for evacuation of Indians from port cities including from AlHudaydah. They said India had
rescued two Nepalese and three nationals each of Bangladeshi and Pakistan also from Al-Hudaydah city two days back. They said around 1,350 Indians have been evacuated so far. External Affairs Ministry Spokesperson Syed Akbaruddin said over 300 Indians have been brought back from Sanaa and reached Djibouti enroute to India. "Two Air India flights out of Sana'a land in Djibouti today with 325 on board," he tweeted. The sources said situation in Sanna was serious as militants have stepped up their offensive and particularly due to movement of heavy artilleries and missiles during nights.
PM set to appoint Mehbooba Mufti to CoM End of legacy: Money order goes telegram way new Delhi/Srinagar, april 4 (reuterS): Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to expand his council of ministers to include a key leader from the restive Kashmir region, sources said, as he looks to win the support of allies to push economic reforms through parliament. Mehbooba Mufti, daughter of Jammu and Kashmir chief minister and president of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), which governs in the region alongside Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), will be inducted into the 65-member council, two
sources with knowledge of the matter said. Modi is expected to announce the changes - his second reshuffle of the executive body since he stormed to power last May - before he departs for an overseas trip on April 8, the sources said. The BJP made history in February when it formed a surprise coalition in Jammu and Kashmir with the PDP, the first time the Hindu nationalist party has had a role in governing the Muslimmajority state that is the centre of a long-running revolt against Indian rule. The PDP's decision last
month to release from prison a leading figure in that revolt angered opposition politicians and embarrassed Modi just as he is struggling to get key pieces of his economic reform agenda passed in parliament. That includes a controversial bill to change land acquisition rules, which has been held up in the upper house where Modi's party lacks a majority. Unlike BJP, the PDP supports self-rule for the region. Among several other expected changes, Modi will also induct a representative from the Shiv Sena, one of the sources said.
Yoga is secular, rules US court
waShington, april 4 (ianS): Ruling that yoga taught in elementary schools is not a gateway to Hinduism and does not violate religious freedoms, a California appeals court has allowed it to continue. "We conclude that the programme is secular. (and) does not have the primary effect of advancing or inhibiting religion, and does not excessively entangle the school district in religion," the threemember appeals court ruled Friday. The decision by California's 4th District Court of Appeal upheld a lowercourt ruling in support of the Encinitas Union Elementary School District in San Diego, utsandiego.com reported. The school had been
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sued by parents who argued the school yoga programme was inherently spiritual and therefore unconstitutional. Attorney Dean Broyles, who represented the parents in the lawsuit, was quoted as saying he and his clients "are disappointed with the decision and we are carefully considering our options." "No other court in the past 50 years has allowed public schools to lead children in formal religious rituals like the Hindu liturgy of praying to, bowing to, and worshipping the sun god," Broyles said in an email to U-T San Diego. Yoga has been a health and wellness activity in the school district since 2012, when the Encinitas-based
Sonima Foundation gave the district $2 million to add yoga to all physical education classes. Broyles sued the district on behalf of a couple and their two children, saying the programme violated the separation of church and state by endorsing Hindu religious beliefs promoted in Ashtanga yoga. The state Superior Court sided with the district in 2013, finding that the school programme had been stripped of religious overtones, utsandiego.com said. The trial court noted in its decision that the district's yoga classes "consist of instruction in performing yoga poses, breathing, and relaxation, combined with lessons in positive
character traits, such as respect and empathy." District Superintendent Tim Baird said school district officials had always anticipated a favourable ruling and are pleased now that it's happened. All students in the district, which includes kindergarten through sixthgrade, get two yoga classes of 30 minutes or more per week. "We are seeing tremendous results," Baird said. "Kids are more flexible, stronger, and have more ability to focus." Baird said he was surprised at the flap over the lawsuit as "Yoga has become ubiquitous in the United States." "The argument that it turns somebody into a Hindu is a stretch."
new Delhi/MuMBai/KolKata, april 4 (ianS): A 135-year-old legacy comes to an end! Like in the case of the telegram, India Post has quietly discontinued the traditional money order service, which was an integral part of the department since 1880, facilitating pan-India door-delivery of funds to a payee from over 155,000 post offices. In an era of instant communications, the traditional money transfer facility has made way for an electronic version, which was introduced in October 2008, thanks to the proliferation of mobile telephony and data communications in the country through the internet - 18 months after they led to the demise of the telegram. "Yes, the traditional money order as we know it has been discontinued," said Shikha Mathur Kumar, deputy director general for finance with India Post based in the national capital. "What we have now are electronic money orders, or eMO, and instant money orders, or iMO, systems," Kumar told IANS. "Both these are much faster and simpler means to remit money." The iMO system, according to India Post, provides instant money order service for amounts ranging from Rs.1,000 to Rs.50,000. An instant, webbased system, money can be remitted by designated iMO post offices - where an electronic version of a form
A sample of Money Order Form, India Post has quietly discontinued the traditional money order service, an integral part of the department since 1880.
is filled along with an identity proof. Once the money is transferred electronically, along with one of the 33 standard messages that can be chosen by the remitter, the payee can visit the post office and receive the money on producing a proof of identity. The money can also be be credited to the savings bank of a payee. In the case of eMO, money is paid at the doorstep of a payee - from Rs.1 to Rs.5,000 - within a day, along with 21 standard messages. It is booked at an authorised post office and delivered pan-India from all delivery post offices. This can also be tracked on the India Post website. But for many, especially the senior citizens, the end of the traditional money system - which was withdrawn from April - did evoke a sense of nostalgia and, to an extent, some sadness as well. "I would send money
through money orders to my family in a village Madhya Pradesh," recalled K. Abdulhussein, a retired printing manager, now settled in Mumbai. "My folks back home would wait for it. In fact, the village postman was an important man. But what happens now," he wondered. When the new, electronic system of money order was explained, Abdulhussein told IANS that the move was expected. "People today have two bank accounts - a salary account and a personal account. Then there are mobile phones. Everyone has it. So the old system had to go." A similar sentiment was shared by R.R. Pandya, a retired 80-year-old banker in Mumbai, who also recalled having regularly sent funds through the traditional money order system to his parents in Gujarat. "They were more comfortable dealing with the
friendly neighbourhood postman. You had this option of sending money with messages. So, during marriages, we would send Rs.11, Rs.21, Rs.51 - along with congratulatory messages." For Kanai Lal Ghosh, a retired teacher in Kolkata, yesteryear memories and contemporary India's reality present contrasting pictures. "I'd send funds only by way of money orders to my parents. Now my son does it instantly, from his mobile phone. I presume old ways are redundant now." According to information provided by India Post, the money order system was transferred from the official treasury department to the Posts and Telegraph Department in 1880 to save people the ardour of long journeys they had to often undertake to pay revenues and rent. This was when Rai Saligram Bahadur, the second guru of the Radhasoami faith, was the postmaster-general of the North-Western Provinces, based out of Allahabad. He was the first Indian to hold that post and money order was one of the many firsts he brought to the table. From a mere 283 such transactions at that time, it grew to 108 million by the time the service was in vogue for 100 years in 1980. The numbers dropped to around 95 million when the eMO and iMO schemes were launched and even further now, officials said.
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Militants vow to turn Kenyan cities 'red with blood' GARISSA, APRIL 4 (ReuteRS): Somali militants vowed on Saturday to wage a long war against Kenya and run its cities "red with blood" after the group's fighters killed nearly 150 people during an assault on a Kenyan university. In the worst bloodshed in Kenya in nearly two decades, four al Shabaab gunmen went on a killing spree on Thursday, hunting down and executing students in a campus in Garissa, a northeastern town 200 km (120 miles) from the Somali border. The raid has put Kenya on heightened alert and spooked Christian congregations, horrified by survivor testimonies recalling how the Islamist militants had sought out Christians to kill, while sparing some Muslims. In the message directed at the Kenyan public, the al Qaeda aligned group said the raid was retribution for Kenya's military presence in Somalia and mistreatment of Muslims within Kenya. "No amount of precaution or safety measures will be able to guarantee your safety, thwart another attack or prevent another bloodbath from occurring in your cities," the group said in an emailed statement received by Reuters in the Somali capital. It said it would run cities "red with blood", adding: "This will be a long, gruesome war of which you, the Kenyan public, are its first casualties." The death toll in the Garissa blitz has risen to 148, Interior Minister Joseph Nkaissery said late on Friday, adding that po-
lice were interviewing five suspects after making three additional arrests on Friday. The raid on Thursday was the deadliest in the east African nation since 1998, when al Qaeda bombed the U.S. embassy in the capital Nairobi and killed more than 200 people. SCEPTICISM The bloodshed piled further pressure on President Uhuru Kenyatta, who has struggled to stem the violence that has dented Kenya's image and ravaged the country's vital tourism industry. The timing of the attack has been embarrassing for Kenyatta, who a day earlier had berated Britain and Australia for putting out travel warnings over security threats to the country. Local media, whose coverage has been uncharacteristically tame due to a new law that forbids them from showing images that would create "fear" among the public, have been skeptical about the government's latest promise to halt the slaughter. "The usual assurances that security is being beefed up and patrols intensified have become hollow," the biggest-selling Daily Nation newspaper said in an editorial comment. Foreign media published a photograph they said was taken by Kenyan police that showed more than 70 bodies, lying face down in a university hallway, each apparently shot in the head. More than 400 people have been killed by al Shabaab on Kenyan soil since Kenyatta took power in
Survivor found in school attack which killed 148
GARISSA, APRIL 4 (AP): A survivor of the killings at Garissa University College was found on Saturday, two days after the attack by Islamic extremists killed 148 people. Cynthia Cheroitich, 19, told The Associated Press from her hospital gurney that she hid in a large cupboard and covered herself with clothes, refusing to emerge even when some of her classmates came out of hiding at the demands of the gunmen from the al-Shabab group. She was rescued shortly before 10 a.m., according to Kenyan officials. Cheroitich said she didn't believe that rescuers urging her to come out of her hiding place were there to help, suspecting at first that they were militants. "How do I know that you are the Kenyan police?" she said she asked them. Only when Kenyan security forces had one of her teachers appeal to her did she come out, she said. "I was just praying to my God," Cheroitich, a Christian, said of her ordeal. Cheroitich appeared tired and thirsty, sipping on yoghurt and a soft drink, but otherwise seemed in good health. She said she drank a lotion because she was so thirsty and hungry while in hiding. The good news that Cheroitich survived the attack came as grieving Kenyans gathered in Nairobi to view the bodies of family members killed in the Garissa attack. Five people have been arrested on suspicion of involvement in the Garissa attack, a Kenyan official said. Kenyan security agencies arrested three people trying to cross into Somalia, said Interior Ministry spokesman Mwenda Njoka in a Twitter post. He said the three are associates of Mohamed Mohamud, also known as Dulyadin Gamadhere, a former teacher at a Kenyan Madrassa Kenya Red Cross staff assist a woman after she viewed the body of a relative killed in Thursday’s attack on a univer- Islamic school who authorities say coordinated the Garissity, at Chiromo funeral home, Nairobi, Kenya on Friday, April 3. Al-Shabab gunmen rampaged through a university sa attack. Kenyan authorities have put a $220,000 bounty in northeastern Kenya at dawn Thursday, killing scores of people in the group’s deadliest attack in the East African for information leading to Gamadhere's arrest. Two other country. Four militants were slain by security forces to end the siege just after dusk. (AP Photo) suspects were arrested at the college. April 2013, including 67 people who died in September of that year during a siege on an upmarket shopping mall in the capital Nairobi. Chilling testimonies from survivors, many of whom saw their friends shot at point-blank range, suggest the fighters were speaking Kenya's Swahili language, rarely spoken in Somalia, making it likely the raid was carried out by home-grown gunmen. Diplomats and analysts have often criticized the
heavy-handed approach of Kenyan police, saying tactics such as indiscriminate mass arrests of Kenya's Somali population plays into al Shabaab's hands and fuels resentment among Muslims. Kenya said Mohamed Mohamud, a former teacher at a Garissa madrasa, was the attack mastermind, and offered a 20 million shillings ($215,000) reward for his arrest. Kenyan media has also shown mugshots of eight men who the police say
saults, owners of malls in Nairobi and the port city of Mombasa have sought greater government protection and ratcheted up private security. "We are getting more armed police and plain clothes police officers. Everywhere is on heightened alert right now," said the owner of one high-end Nairobi mall popular with Westerners. Along Kenya's palmfringed coastline, where several resort towns cater NOT GOING BACK Fearful of further as- mainly for Western tourists, are in hiding and planning fresh attacks. Garissa residents have reacted with fury to the massacre, and question why only two security guards were on duty despite warnings that al Shabaab was planning an attack on a university. "You can't say this will be the last attack in Garissa," said construction worker Tobias Ayuka. "We are very worried."
police have put armed officers in major public buildings. "Officers are everywhere both on the ground and in the air. We have two helicopters that will be patrolling the entire coastal area, especially crowded public places, during Easter and beyond," Robert Kitur, police chief for Kenya's Indian Ocean coast region, told Reuters. Garissa Governor Nathif Jama said the region has a number of security "soft spots", including
Iran eases ban on women Germanwings co-pilot increased speed as jet went down attending sports matches dubAI, APRIL 4 (ReuteRS): Iran has partially lifted a ban on women attending men's sports matches, the deputy sports minister said on Saturday, days after a court pardoned an Iranian-British woman who had been jailed for protesting against the law. Iran's Islamic law bars women from watching men playing sports. In January, the government said it would allow foreign
women to attend men's matches, but Iranian women were still forbidden from doing so. The new policy for women and families will come into effect during this Iranian year, Abdolhamid Ahmadi was cited as saying by state news agency IRNA. The Iranian calendar year ends in March 2016. However, Ahmadi said some matches would remain off-limits.
"Of course, in some areas of sport families are not interested in attending nor is there a possibility for them to attend," he said. Last week, the Court of Appeal pardoned Ghoncheh Ghavami, an IranianBritish national who had been arrested in June outside a stadium, where she and others were demanding that women be allowed in to watch a men's volleyball match.
Musharraf challenges non-bailable arrest warrant
ISLAmAbAd, APRIL 4 (IANS): Pakistan's former president Pervez Musharraf has challenged a non-bailable arrest warrant issued against him for the alleged murder of a former Lal Masjid cleric, media reported on Saturday. On Tuesday, Islamabad additional district and sessions court judge Wajid Ali issued the warrant against Musharraf following his repeated absence from the trial for the murder of Lal Masjid's former cleric Abdul Rasheed Ghazi, Dawn online reported. In 2013, police registered a case against Musharraf for the alleged murder of Ghazi
and his wife during the Lal Masjid military operation. Musharraf faces a string of cases dating back to his 1999-2008 rule, including the death of Ghazi when more than 100 people were killed after troops stormed the Lal Masjid here on July 10, 2007. In his petition, filed through advocate Malik Tariq, Musharraf contended that police had declared him innocent after a thorough investigation in the case. The petition requested the court to set aside the non-bailable arrest warrant. A single-member bench of the Islamabad High Court is expected to hear the petition on Monday.
PARIS, APRIL 4 (ReuteRS): The pilot at the controls of a Germanwings jet that crashed in the French Alps accelerated the plane into the mountainside, killing all 150 people on board, according to French investigators. France's BEA crash investigation agency declined to confirm growing evidence against the co-pilot before completing its own analysis, but the chilling new detail from a newly recovered second 'black box' seemed to corroborate prosecutors' claims that he killed himself and everyone else deliberately. "A first reading shows that the pilot in the cockpit used the automatic pilot to put the airplane on a descent towards an altitude of 100 feet," the BEA said in a statement. "Then several times the pilot modified the automatic pilot settings to increase the speed of the airplane as it descended." Based on cockpit audio recordings from the first black box, recovered hours after the March 24 crash, prosecutors believe 27-year-old German co-pilot Andreas Lubitz locked the captain out of the cockpit and veered the plane into a descent. As he barricaded himself at the Airbus A320's controls, he appears to have ignored efforts by his senior colleague to bash his way through the cockpit door of the 24-year-old jet, which had been reinforced under rules to protect pilots after the Sept. 11, 2001 at-
In this Sunday, September 13, 2009 photo, Andreas Lubitz competes at the Airportrun in Hamburg, Germany. Investigators believe the 27-year-old Germanwings co-pilot locked his captain out of the cockpit during a March 24, 2015 flight from Barcelona to Duesseldorf and deliberately put the plane into its fatal descent into a French mountainside. (AP Photo/Michael Mueller)
tacks in the United States. The latest evidence on the plane's speed was extracted from a charred and badly dented flight data recorder discovered among wreckage on Thursday, nine days after the worst aviation disaster in France since the 2000 Concorde crash. The box arrived at BEA headquarters outside Paris under police guard on Thursday evening and investigators immediately set to work reconstructing the last moments of flight 9525 to Duesseldorf. The BEA's purely factual description of the initial data focused on the autopilot, which is governed by a set of knobs sitting on a console between the two pilots.
ANALYZING DATA The flight data recorder monitors hundreds of parameters, including any commands made directly from the co-pilot's seat. As well as inputs to shared controls such as the autopilot, it may record seat movements that might prove which pilot remained at the controls while the other left the cockpit. The BEA now faces the laborious task of synchronizing the flight data extracted from thermally protected memory strips with the earlier cockpit audio recordings and radar tracks. The agency's spokeswoman said it would take "days or even weeks" to finish analyzing the data. The BEA, whose mandate is to prevent future accidents rather than attribute blame, signaled its intention earlier this week to complete its own safety investigation and deliver a final report, whatever the outcome of separate judicial probes. It said it would focus on cockpit door mechanisms and pilot screening, in a sign that it could issue recommendations that some experts say may prompt a rethink on regulation worldwide. Lubitz's motives remain a mystery but investigators have uncovered evidence that he had made suicide preparations. German prosecutors said on Thursday that Lubitz had made Internet searches on ways to commit suicide in the days ahead of the crash as well as searches about cockpit doors and safety precautions.
Iraq's Tikrit, free of the Islamic State, is a city in ruins tIKRIt, APRIL 4 (AP): In Iraq's Tikrit, liberation from the Islamic State group comes at a heavy price, both in loss of life and in the sheer devastation the militants leave in their wake. Much of Tikrit, Saddam Hussein's hometown and once a bustling city north of Baghdad, now lies in ruins. Islamic State extremists captured it during a blitz last June that also seized large chunks of northern and western Iraq, along with a huge swath of land in neighboring Syria. After a nearly 10-month Islamic State occupation, it took Iraqi forces and their allies, including Iranianbacked Shiite militias, a month of ferocious street battles to win the city back. They declared victory in Tikrit on Wednesday, and
U.S.-led coalition airstrikes also helped turn the tide in the final weeks of the battle. Today, the houses that still stand are pocked with bullet holes and Tikrit's streets are lined with potholes where mortars slammed down. The provincial headquarters in the downtown — now adorned with Shiite militia flags in place of the Islamic State group's black banner — is burned from fire and damaged from heavy fighting. On Friday, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi warned that the military will start arresting and prosecuting those who loot abandoned Tikrit properties. He also urged security forces to quickly ensure that normalcy is restored so that Tikrit's residents, most of whom fled the Islamic State onslaught, can return home.
Iraqi security forces chant slogans against the Islamic State group after opening the main gate of their base that was closed for months in Tikrit, 80 miles (130 kilometers) north of Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, April 3. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)
The looting was first reported within hours of the military victory but authorities have refrained from blaming anyone. A number of human rights organizations have accused the Shiite militias of carrying out
revenge attacks on Sunnis in newly-recaptured towns, or destroying their homes so they can never return. Some Shiite militias have set up checkpoints on the southern approaches of Tikrit, and stop passing cars
to check for looted goods. A satellite image of Tikrit, released in February by the United nations, showed that at least 536 buildings in the city have been affected by the fighting. Of those, at least 137 were completely
destroyed and 241 were severely damaged. The Iraqi offensive to recapture Tikrit also exacerbated previous damage, particularly in the city's southern neighborhoods where clashes were the most intense. So much about life in Tikrit under the Islamic State group's rule remains unknown. On the city's outskirts, near Camp Speicher — a base once used by American forces — blood stains are splattered on a wall, next to a window offering a picturesque view of the Tigris River. Government officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to journalists, say a mass grave was found on the camp's grounds with bodies of up to 1,700 Iraqi sol-
diers killed by the extremists in Tikrit and northern Iraq last June. In the heart of the city, Iraqi policemen are out in full force, along with explosives experts working to clear remaining roadside bombs and booby traps left behind by the militants. Evidence of the damage caused by the bombs is everywhere — charred military vehicles and remains of cars bombs have yet to be collected from the city streets. But elsewhere, there is little law and order, and the Shiite militias roam Tikrit streets freely, spray-painting their graffiti and slogans on buildings and homes. Much remains to be done before Tikrit residents, most of whom are Sunnis, can return. Services such as power and water are yet to be restored.
schools and hospitals, and asked for more boots on the ground in his county, which forms part of Kenya's porous 700km border with Somalia. Jama said Garissa University was shut indefinitely and some students said they had no plans ever to return to the area. "When I just manage to get out of this place safely, I'm telling you I'll never come back," said Sheillah Kigasha, 20, who survived Thursday's rampage by hiding under a bed.
Alcoholism may cut short your life by 8 years: study LoNdoN, APRIL 4 (IANS): Alcohol dependent patients die about 7.6 years earlier on average than hospital patients without a history of alcohol addiction, warns a new study. The study, published in the journal European Psychiatry, highlights how alcoholism affects both mental and physical health and calls for early treatment for addiction. "Mental problems as well as significant physical health impairments are associated with alcohol addiction," explained Dieter Schoepf from the University of Bonn Hospital in Germany. "Alcoholics who were treated in British general hospitals for health problems die an average of 7.6 years earlier than non-alcohol dependent patients; this is due to the interaction of several concomitant physical illnesses," Schoepf noted. For the study, Schoepf and professor Reinhard Heun from the Royal Derby Hospital in England evaluated patient data extending over a 12.5-year period from seven general hospitals in Manchester. Using these data, the scientists analysed comorbid physical illnesses of 23,371 hospital patients with alcohol dependence and compared them with those of a control group of 233,710 randomly selected patients without alcoholism. "During the observation period, approximately one out of five hospital patients with alcoholism died in one of the hospitals, while only one out of twelve patients in the control group died," Heun pointed out. "Through diligent screening and early treatment of concomitant mental and physical illnesses, it should be possible to significantly increase the life expectancy of alcoholic patients," Heun noted.
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at Tanhai and Chingdang moN, april 4 (mExN): Agricultural Technology Management Agency (ATMA) Mon organized training and demonstration programmes at Tanhai and Chingdang villages under Mon district on March 21 and 23 respectively. Vithwel Kweho, Assistant Block Manager, ATMA, Mhonchumo Khuvung, Assistant Block Manager, ATMA, and T Joakting Konyak, AO were the resource persons, who spoke on Integrated Pest Management (IPM), cultivation of
cardamom, and king chilli culture and cultivation. At Tanhai village, Vithwel Kweho stressed on the importance and need of quality seed if the production of cardamom is to be sustained in the village in particular and Mon district in general. Meanwhile, Joakting Konyak, speaking on the importance of integrated pest management, highlighted the biological control of pests and also the importance of clean cultivation and chemical free control of pests. An interactive session
with the farmers was held after the programme, where the farmers highlighted various problems faced by them in their field. At Chingdang village, Mhonchumo Khuvung spoke on the importance King Chilli as a cash crop. Biological control of pests and diseases in jhum rice field and control of rodent and its management were demonstrated after the programme. More than 60 farmers, including Farmer’s friend benefitted from the programme, according to a press release.
H&FW bids adieu to retiring officers
Kohima, april 4 (mExN): The Directorate of Health & Family Welfare bid farewell to outgoing Principal Director Dr. G. Kemp, Addl. Director Dr. I. Sungit, Joint Director Dr. Ahokhe Shikhu (voluntary retirement) and other officers and staffs on March 31. A press release from the IEC Bureau of the DHFW informed. H&FW Commissioner & Secretary, M. Patton, speaking during the farewell programme, said that
the retiring officers have rendered their best and are retiring in good health and satisfaction. He further urged everyone to strive towards the goal of retiring with contentment. Patton also congratulated the incoming Principal Director and exhorted the officers and staffs to work in cooperation and sincerity. Dr. G. Kemp was lauded for his humility, positivity and sincerity during his service as Principal Direc-
tor as well as his 35years of service. Dr. Kemp, in his farewell speech, shared his experience of being able to solve 90% of the work load and responsibility just by being at the place of posting and exhorted medical officers and other personnel to work from their respective place of posting. Chaired by Dr. Nandira Changkija, Mission Director (NHM) the programme was attended by officers and staffs from all the districts.
Managerial skill & leadership dev training held
Dimapur, april 4 (mExN): All together 29 participants from various district of the state attended a 4 days training on “Managerial Skill and Leadership Development” from March 23 – 26 at SAMETI, Medziphema. It was jointly organised by EEI (NER), AAU, Jorhat and State Agricultural Management and Extension Training Institute (SAMETI), Nagaland, Medziphema. According to a press
note from Principal IETC & Director SAMETI, Nguzonyi Wetsah the trainees were imparted knowledge on various issues such as Training need Assessment; Ice breaking; concept and features of management practices; conflict management of group sustainability; Importance of motivation for performance accomplishment; skills and leadership competencies; skills need for team work;
and managerial skills for entrepreneurship development. The resource persons for the training were Dr. A. K. Bhattacharya, professor, EEI (AAU) and B L Khuhly, RA, EEI (AAU). The trainees were also taken for a field visit to Molvun village where they interacted with a very active SHG group and they were given participation at the end of the training, the press note added.
Kohima, april 4 (mExN): The District Child Protection Unit (DCPU) of Wokha, under the Department of Social Welfare held a one day sensitization programme on March 28 at Old Riphyim Tourist Village, Wokha with the district administration, Juvenile Justice Board (JJB), Child Welfare Committee (CWC), village council chairman, church leaders, student leaders, women leaders, and youth leaders. The resource persons were Neinguvotuo Krose (Legal cum Probation Officer), Phuleto Yeptho (Chairman, Juvenile Justice Board), and Yahamo Patton (Member, Child Welfare Committee), who spoke on Integrated Child Protection Scheme (SCPS), Child Right & Protection, and the role of Village Level Child Protection Committee (VLCPC) respectively. They also focused on dealing with the Children in conflict with law, Missing and found children, Orphaned abandoned destitute children, differently abled children, Children from families
Resource persons and others during the sensitization programme at Old Riphyim Tourist Village.
at risk, affected by conflict and disaster, Street children, Working Children, Trafficked Children and Abused children. The resource persons highlighted that the role of the stakeholders like JJB, CWC, Special Juvenile Police Unit (SJPU), Child Care Institution (CCIs), and Village Level Child
Protection Committee (VLCPC) in the district are to contribute in the well being of the children in difficult circumstances, exploring the potentials that is hidden in them, and providing necessary support service in the lives of the less privileged children as well as bring them back to the social mainstream of life. In this
regard, the resource persons also made an appeal to the public to report any child related cases to the nearest police station so that the Special Juvenile Police Unit (SJPU) can refer the matter to the JJB or CWC within 24 hours and take necessary corrective/ rehabilitative measure for the children.
BJP Nagaland welcomes new entrants Health camp for Mithuns at Phek
Dimapur, april 4 (mExN): The BJP Nagaland State Unit on Tuesday welcomed newcomers from the Congress party in a special meeting held at Hotel Saramati. The meeting was attended by hundreds of party workers comprising BJP legislators, office bearers, state executive members, frontal organisations, various cell members and enthusiastic party workers from different districts across Nagaland. BJP Nagaland State Media Cell in a press statement the Bharatiya Janata Party media cell said that the president, Bharatiya Janata Party Dr. Chuba Ao thanked the new comers from various political parties especially Congress and NCP and other new entrants to the party. Dr. Chuba also encouraged all the people of the state to get enrolled in the party. The President also informed party
workers that the BJP national president Amit Shah will be visiting the state. He heartily welcomed the new entrants which was led by Mughato Achumi, exINC candidate 32 Atoziu, PCC Member & Gen Secy NPCC; Joshua Swu ex-president NPYC; Honito Achumi, Rtd. SDO; Pito Achumi, active member NPYC; Kakivi Sumi, active membership NPYC; Kiqheho Sumi, active member NPYC; and Honito H. Achumi, active member NPYC. Dr. T.M Lotha, BJP legislator from 38 Wokha, briefed the gathering on the importance of being in the party. He also encouraged and urged the party workers to have the sense of belonging and have ownership over the party. Others who spoke on the occasion included K.H. Khulu Retd. Addl. Chief Secretary, Nagaland, and other ex- candidates.
phEK, april 4 (mExN): A Technology injection cum animal health camp was organized by ICAR-National Research Centre (NRC) on Mithun, Medziphema at Pholami and Middle Khomi villages under Phek district of Nagaland on March 20 and 21 under Tribal Sub Plan (TSP). Both the villages are under MoC with NRC on Mithun. 39 Mithun farmers from Pholami and 30 from Middle Khomi village participated in the programme. A press release received here informed that the programme was conducted by a team of scientists comprising Dr. Vidya Singh and Dr. Akhilesh Kumar of NRC on Mithun (ICAR), Medziphema. The farmers were provided with raw materials for construction of Mithun shed such as GI sheet, cement, sand, barbed wire, water
trough, fencing etc. The farmers contributed man power to construct the sheds and other infrastructures. The scientists imparted hands-on-training of application of ear tag to establish the identity of mithun and other scientific information related to advanced mithun husbandry to mithun rearers. The farmers were also briefed about different diseases as well as importance of vaccination and mass deworming. They were also given various inputs to encourage semiintensive farming of mithun from existing free range system of rearing. The farmers of both the villages participated enthusiastically in the programme and chairman Mithun rearing society expressed gratitude to the Director, NRC on Mithun for rendering the services to the farmers of Pholami and Middle Khomi.
ATMA Dimapur organises Kisan Gosthi Nursery under Special meeting on NERPAP held at Mon
Dimapur, april 4 (mExN): ATMA Dimapur organized KISAN GOSTHI programme at Hovishe Village under Niuland Block on March 31. Farmers Friend, progressive farmers and active SHGs from all the four blocks (Dhansiripar, Kuhuboto, Medziphema and Niuland) attended the programme. During the first session, Toivi, AO-II & BTT Convenor, Kuhuboto Block welcomed the farmers and briefed the farmers all about Kisan Gosthi and programme sequences. The farmers had a first visit to Tea plantation farm school followed by lunch. Angela BTM, Medzi-
phema Block, chaired the second session of the programme. Feedbacks from the farmers of each block were done. Here the farmers shared about their different farming activities and how ATMA, Dimapur assisted them and how they were benefited and got success from their activities. The programme concluded with a short entertainment initiated by Ronchamo, AOII & BTT Convenor, Dhansiripar Block. On returning, the farmers were taken for a field visit to Rubber plantation farm where mother plantation is carried out and seed nursery is done. Farmers also had a visit to Muga
Farm School, Niuland town where Mr. Kahoto Zhimomi, farm school teacher and best farmer ATMA award winner at Nagpur 2013 showed and explained on som nurseries, muga and eri silkworms, various tools and silk weaving machineries to the farmers. The Muga Silkworm which is semi domesticated, rearing is carrying in outdoors on host trees whereas spinning and seed production are done indoors. The programme was attended by BTT Convenors & ATMA staffs comprising 2 DPDs, 4 BTMS and ATMs. All together 28 farmers attended the programme.
TFC 2014-15 inaugurated
ChumuKEDima, april 4 (mExN): The Range Forest Office: Chumukedima has inaugurated its nursery under TFC 2014-2015. A short inaugural programme was organized in which Y M Jami.IFS, the Divisional Forest Officer Grace and blesses the nursery for the people of the range. He also appreciated the sincere initiative of the range ACF Dr. Sentitula (IFS) and all the staffs of the range and encourage the range officer and staffs to take more effort towards forest conservation, which will simultaneously enhance livelihood and bring about economic growth to the people.
moN, april 4 (Dipr): In order to achieve the target of the National Electoral Roll Purification and Authentication Program (NERPAP) and to ensure error free electoral roll, the Deputy Commissioner, Mon, Honje Konyak convened a special meeting of all the Political Parties, NGOs, BLOs, Public leaders and Ward leaders of Mon at his office chamber on April 1. Briefing on the importance of the meeting, the Deputy Commissioner said that the objective of the NERPAP is to link E/Roll with Aadhaar Card, correction of particulars in the e/roll and to do away with proxy voters and to make ethical voting of ‘one man one vote’ a reality in the country. He also informed that with the advancement
of technologies, a time has come where truth cannot be concealed anymore. Emphasizing on mass awareness of the people especially in the rural areas to achieve the target, Honje appealed to the leaders gathered to disseminate the information to the people in their respective community, adding NGOs, Political Leaders and Ward leaders are well connected to the people. He also suggested and appealed to them to announce in the Churches and other social gathering about the NERPAP program. He also directed the BLOs to strictly identify suspected illegal immigrants for deletion from the e/ roll and at the same time advised the BLOs not to delete genuine In-
dian citizens residing in the district based on communal, caste and religious lines. The Assistant Election Officer, Mon, Akheto, in his keynote address informed that the NERPAP program is a time bound exercise and briefed on the timely scheduled of the program. He informed on Special Camps which will be conducted every month and setting up of Voters Registration and Education centers (VRECs) and permanent Centre for Aadhaar at DC office, Mon. The meeting concluded with healthy discussion and to create mass awareness of the people in the remote place. It also discussed about the wrong entry of information not only in the e/roll but also in the Aadhaar Card.
‘Award For Academic Excellence’ In Dimapur Govt College Dr Hokishe Sema Academic Excellence award in Arts stream-2015
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rom the year 2015, Dimapur Govt. College will be presenting the “Dr Hokishe Sema Award for Academic Excellence”. Captain Hekiye, son of the late Dr Hokishe Sema, has instituted this Award on behalf of the family, to honour the legacy of his father and to encourage students’ academic performance. The student from BA 6th Semester, who tops the Nagaland University Examination from the College will receive the Award consisting of Rs. 10000/- (Rupees ten thousand only), along with a citation. Late Dr. Hokishe Sema, ex-Chief Minister of Nagaland and former Governor of Himachal Pradesh, has contributed immensely to the overall growth and development of the state of Nagaland. Born on 6 March 1921 at Apitomi village, Zunheboto, he married Shitoli Sema in 1951. They are blessed with five sons, two daughters, twenty-six grandchildren and a great grandson. Educated at Aizuto Mission School, Mission School Impur, Mayangnokcha Higher Secondary School, Mokokchung, Serampore College, Calcutta, and St Anthony’s College, Shillong, late Hokishe Sema
was conferred a Doctorate in Theology by Serampore University Calcutta on 7th February 1988. He entered politics as a member of the Drafting Committee of the Naga People’s Convention which negotiated with the Government of India for Naga statehood. Prior to the formation of the Naga Hills as a full-fledged state, he served as a member of the Interim Body from 1961-1963. As Executive Councilor, he was in charge of Finance and PWD. After the first general elections of Nagaland held in 1964, he became Minister of Finance, PWD and Medical. The second general elections was a defining moment for him as in its wake, he became the Chief Minister at the young age of 48 and completed a full term from 1969-1974. He held the reins of power in an era when the total financial outlay was around Rs. 7 crores and unspent money used to be returned to the Treasury. He served during one of the most turbulent times of Naga history popularly known as the ‘underground movement’ then but enjoyed the confidence of the central leadership and initiated many developmental activities through liberal central funding.
He served as the president of the Naga Nationalist Organization (NNO) from 19741976. It was during his tenure that the NNO merged with the Indian National Congress bringing the Nagas to the mainstream of national politics. After the merger, he served as the first NPCC president from 1976-1979. He was a member of a high powered panel for Minorities, ST, SC, and other backward Minorities from 1981-1982, member of National Integration Council and Communal Harmony 1981-1983, and member Commission for SC, ST 1982-1983. He was appointed as Governor of Himachal Pradesh in 1983 and served till 1986. He was elected to the Rajya Sabha in 1986. He became CM of Nagaland for the second time in 1986. He took over the reins of Chief Minister after the general election in 1987, but could not complete the term due to a rift within the Congress. Dr. Hokishe became the first president of the Democratic Alliance of Nagaland (DAN) and Chairman of DAN with Neiphiu Rio as chief minister of DAN coalition government in 2003. He was also the BJP Legislature Party Leader in the state assembly during the same period and a member of
the consultative committee for peace with cabinet status. He represented India at the UN General Assembly in 1972 and 1974 and led the Indian delegation on the Indo-Soviet friendship mission in 1976. He visited UK, Italy, France, West Germany, Australia, Switzerland, Canada, USA, USSR and Japan in various official capacities. He has a publication to his credit, Emergence of Nagaland: Socio, Economic and Political Transformation of Nagaland. This book is a potent resource for students, academicians and government officials. He is also credited with earmarking the present DGC campus to further the cause of education, exemplifying his concern for the younger generation his visionary leadership. It is only in the fitness of things that the Hokishe Sema Award for Academic Excellence has been instituted by the children of late Dr. Hokishe Sema, a befitting tribute to the memory of their illustrious father. With the transformation of Dimapur Govt. College into an important centre of learning, his name will go down in the annals of the College for posterity. Late Dr Hokishe Sema
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rs. Luxmi T. Yepthomi is presently Associate Professor and HOD of the English Department at Dimapur Govt. College. She completed her postgraduation in English from NEHU and PGDES from Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages, Hyderabad. Mrs L. T. Yepthomi was first appointed through NPSC as Lec-
turer to Fazl Ali College, Mokokchung in 1982. She then taught in Kohima Science College before being transferred to Dimapur Govt. College. In 2009, Mrs L. T. Yepthomi was honoured with the “Best Teacher Award” in recognition of her dedication and service to the profession of teaching and educating young minds. The Award instituted by the Govern-
ment of Nagaland comes with a citation and a cash bonus of Rs. 20,000/. Mrs L.T. Yepthomi took the decision to reward student achievers. From 2010 onwards, Mrs. Yepthomi’s family has been awarding top achievers of the college as under “L.T. Yepthomi Award”. As of 2014, Mrs. Kuholi Chishi, Principal, DGC, in the process of streamlining the Award mecha-
nism, has named this Award as the “L.T. Yepthomi Award for Academic Excellence in the Commerce Stream”. The student from the 6th Semester Commerce Stream who tops the University examination would be recipient of this Award, along with a cash Award of Rs. 10000/ The College intends to organize a function to award the recipients in a befitting manner in
the presence of the donors/sponsors, parents and alumni. The College acknowledges the contribution of the sponsors with deep gratitude and calls upon all students at DGC to make the most of this opportunity and join the academic race to vie for these prestigious awards. Suzanna Yaden, Convener Media Cell, DGC
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Entertainment Cosmopolitan beauty trends article branded ‘racist’ Cosmopolitan under scrutiny for article that
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ndigenous Cultural Society Nagaland observed 16th foundation day cum felicitation for music student today with R.Amongla Jamir Deputy District Education Officer Dimapur and Rev.Vinod Rai Pastor Bethlehem Church as chief guest and speaker respectively. The ICS foundation day also recognized Kilenkala T. Longkumer daughter of Temsukaba Lkr for toping the nation in scoring highest mark 96, in drums grade one exam conducted by Rock School International London, and students who have excelled in their respective instruments; guitar, piano, and violin grade exams conducted by different institutions and colleges. The programme was chaired by Dr,Hesheto Y.Chishi, Director ICS, music students performed instrumental piece, Chief guest R.Amongla Jamir, Deputy District Education Officer Dimapur spoke on the importance of Cultural values and personality development of the students and awarded certificates to the students. Foundation day blessings was delivered by Rev. Vinod Rai, Pastor Bethlehem Church and Vitoho Z.Chopy BoD pronounced vote of thanks.
effort to remove the offending article from its website - a fact which many of its critics have found incredibly insensitive. 'I don't understand why they've taken this beauty feature and made it about race,' one person
commented on Twitter, alongside a screen grab of the article. A second user agreed, saying: 'Rare to see women of colour in a mainstream magazine. And when you do it's to tell us we're ugly (sic).' The writer of the article, Carly Cardellino, has yet to make a comment.
John Legend sings at his dogs' wedding
he 36-year-old star serenaded his pet pooches Puddy and Pippa with his hit "All of me" at their nuptials on Wednesday. He even sprinkled rose petals down the aisle for the pets and even fed them their first piece of wedding cake on their big day, reports femalefirst. co.uk. Legend's pets were appropriately dressed for the occasion in suit and bow tie and a bridal gown and they found time to take some photographs with their owner-turned-wedding singer in a photobooth at their marriage. Legend ding, I filmed my rehearsal. wrote on micro-blogging My babies helped too! (sic)" website Twitter: "I'm so exThe singer even officicited to play at your wed- ated the wedding for his
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osmopolitan magazine's website is facing heavy criticism over a beauty-focused trends feature which compared old, 'dead' looks with fresh and 'gorgeous' new ones - and used only white models to showcase the on-trend fashions, while the only women of color featured were all said to be off-trend. The article, which is entitled '21 Beauty Trends That Need to Die in 2015' has sparked outrage among readers, many of whom have taken to social media to call for a boycott of the US publication, which used only five black models in the feature, labeling their 'outdated' looks with 'RIP'. The article features a number of famous faces, from Kendall Jenner, who
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Singer John Legend sang at his dogs' wedding to promote a charity initiative.
and wife Chrissy Teigen's bulldog and French bulldog, who looked to be thoroughly enjoying their 'cer-
emony'. Some fans thought the event might be an April Fool's joke but that was not the case as Legend in fact
put on the dogs' big day to help promote a new initiative for his charity, The Show Me Campaign, which aims to give impoverished children an education. Legend is encouraging fans to donate money to the initiative -- which is also raising money to rebuild the auditorium at the former South High School in Springfield, Ohio -- over the next 14 days, and anyone who does will be put into a prize draw to win a private performance from the star at an event of their choice. The star has partnered with Omaze, which offers once-in-a-lifetime experiences which benefit charitable causes, to raise funds for the initiative.
Nagaland participates at Festival of Choral Music
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rtistes from Nagaland led by the coordinator, L.Bendangla Jamir represented Nagaland in the four day, ‘Sur Poorva Festival of Choral Music and Instrumental Ensemble from North East region of India,’ being held at Junagadh, Gujarat, organized by Sangeet Natak Akademi in collaboration with Patel Cultural Foundation, Mumbai from March 30 to April 2. In an occasion showcasing and promoting the different traditional and indigineous instruments of the Northeast, the Drum Ensemble led by Guru Sangyusang Pongen, an awardee of Sangeet Natak Akademi, and the Refiners Choir conducted by Supongsangla Jamir, represented Nagaland and enchantingly performed on March 30 and 31respectively. The performances were highly greeted and applauded by the locals of Junagadh, fellow participants and the officials. The four-day Festival also featured some of the leading musicians of the Northeast India.
Oren Mozhui live road concert at Wokha
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ith the purpose to help the victims of the bomb blast tragedy that occurred on February 24 at Wokha town, Oren Mozhui is all set to stage on live in different colonies at Wokha on April 11. The show will be for twenty minutes Road concert where Oren will be performing his originals. A donation box (free will donation) will be placed in every venue during the concert, which will be handed over to the victims. Oren Mozhui has already released four solo albums and he will be performing some of his original songs from his albums. Oren Mozhui and his team further requested everyone to come forward and support the cause by being there at the concerts. The concert will start from 3 P.m. In his message Oren said, “We are helping those unfortunate victims and its not because we have everything but because we care for those victims and we want to bring happiness and unity among the Nagas by volunteering in a small way through this good deeds .”
Robert Pattinson and FKA Twigs want a 'Pub Wedding' Sonakshi Sinha to judge
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ters Lizzy and Victoria found it especially difficult to communicate with Kristen and build a relationship with her. They're very pleased that Rob found someone after what Kristen put him through," the source further added. Pattinson's sister, Victoria, also got engaged a few months ago to longtime boyfriend, John Pepitt. This may be a potential double wedding for the Pattinsons, though it will entirely depend on the preference whether it will be formal or informal. However, Pattinson and Twigs want to get hitched during summer but the wedding plans are still not definite. Though several sources from T-Pain and tabloids have confirmed their engagement, they have been dating for only six months but reportedly exchanged promise rings earlier this year. Pattinson seemed to be more 'calm and happy' when he is around Twigs, according to close sources.
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icole Kidman has been slammed by an American union representing 25,000 flight attendants for her new ad campaign with Etihad Airways. In an open letter to Kidman, the president of the Association of Professional Flight Attendants (Apfa), Laura Glading, said the sponsorship deal was at odds with the Australian Oscar winner’s role as a United Nations women’s goodwill ambassador. Etihad rejected the allegation, saying its commitment to its employees was a top priority. The union has waged a public campaign against Etihad and other United Arab Emirates airlines claiming they “are well-known in our industry for their discriminatory labour practices and deplorable treatment of female employees”. Glading wrote to Kidman: “Last month, on March
8, International Women’s Day, you said, ‘I envisage a world where all women and girls have equal opportunities and rights ... Now is the time to step it up’. “Later that very same week, we saw that you had begun appearing in a new campaign for Etihad, a company that the Wall Street Journal has publicly reported ‘may fire women if they become pregnant’ and forces flight attendants to live
in ‘confinement’ in secure compounds’. “These are the types of conditions that Apfa fought to eradicate decades ago in the United States.” Kidman stars in Etihad’s new “Hollywood Glamour” global brand campaign. Last month Etihad began running a new TV commercial starring and narrated by Kidman, shot onboard its new flagship A380 plane. Etihad rejected the union’s
claims, saying in a statement: “At Etihad Airways, we have become a global, award-winning employer because we value our employees and we treat them with dignity and respect.” The airline said it fully supported its cabin crew during and after pregnancies. It said pregnant staffs were provided with appropriate ground duties for the duration of the pregnancy, remained fully compensated and were entitled to paid maternity leave if more than one year’s service was completed. “Our cabin crew are then able to return to their flying role at the end of their maternity leave period. “The health and safety of our cabin crew remains paramount. Therefore, we follow the GCAA [General Civil Aviation Authority] requirement that crew do not continue to fly while pregnant.” Comment was being sought from Kidman.
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ctress turned producer Dia Mirza is all set to produce her next film venture, and this time it’s going to be a Telugu film. The actress revealed her plans about her next film as a producer, in an interactive session organised by FICCI Ladies Organisation. The actress’ second film as a producer ‘Bobby Jasoos’ was a tribute to the spirit of Hyderabad as well. She revealed, “I'm not here to make money. I want my films to be an instrument of change. The Telugu film shall be no different.” This film will be Dia’s first Telugu project as a producer. According to reports the actress recently met up with two script writers when she visited Hyderabad. The actress is aiming at making more meaningful movies and money-making is not her priority.
A documentary on Sunny Leone's life! A documentary on Sunny Leone's life will be premiered at the Sundance Film Festival next year
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unny Leone’s lifestory is no less than a typical Bollywood potboiler, which is perhaps what inspired Dilip Mehta, brother of filmmaker Deepa Mehta, to make a documentary on her. It will premiere next year at the Sundance Film Festival in the US. Sunny’s husband, Daniel Weber, confirms the story, saying, “The documentary captures both Sunny’s and my life-story. Dilip Mehta shot us over 18 months and it has gone to the editing phase. It will release at the Sundance Fest next year.” Born to Sikh parents in Canada, she always had other dreams. And Sunny’s dream was to become a pediatric nurse. She even
worked hard for it, and enrolled herself in a training institute in Orange County, California. Sunny was studying to be a paediatric nurse when one of her classmates introduced her to the photographer of a lads’ mag. After that, she ventured into the adult film industry. About a decade later, she took part in reality show Bigg Boss here in 2011 and was noticed by Mahesh Bhatt. She made her Bollywood debut with Pooja Bhatt’s Jism 2 (2012). Since then, there has been no looking for her. Today Sunny is counted among the most sought-after actresses in the Hindi film industry. Her husband steps into Bollywood with a project titled Dangerous Husn.
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10 Northern Angami-1 T20 Bash
Kohima, april 4 (mExN): In the ongoing 2nd 10 Northern Angami-1 T20 Bash 2015, T. Khel Knights defeated Upper Bayavu Sixers by 91 runs to advance to the semifinals on a better net run rate. T. Khel scored a mammoth 210 runs in the stipulated 20 overs losing five wickets. In reply, Upper Bayavu could only manage 119 in their 20 overs while losing 9 wickets. Chulo Keppen of T. Khel was awarded the man of the match. The second match witnessed a close fight as Zienuobadze High Flyers defeat-
ed Chedema Strikers by a narrow 4 runs. High Flyers were bowled out for 123 in 17.5 overs. In reply, Strikers could only manage 119 from the 20 overs while losing 9 wickets. Mengusetuo of Zienuobadze was awarded the man of the match. Semifinals (April 6) High School Daredevils vs P. Khel Eagles @9:00 am T. Khel Knights vs North Block Warriors @1:00 pm
ANKA win medals in NE Karate Championship
Dimapur, april 4 (mExN): Members of the All Nagaland Karate-Do Association won 2 gold
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participated as Nagaland Team in the recently concluded championship held at DTRP Indoor Stadium, RGB Sports Complex, Guwahati on March 28 and 29. A press release received here informed that Yoisi won gold in the individual kumite junior 48 kg event for women. Chandan Muchari also won gold in the individual kumite and 1 silver medals at the senior 75 kg men’s event 3rd Northeast India Karate while Satam grabbed silver in the individual kumite seChampionship. The state association nior 50 kg event for women.
Saina loses in Malaysia Open semis
Kua l a lu m p u r , april 4 (iaNS): World No.1 shuttler Saina Nehwal went down in her women's singles semi-final to reigning Olympic champion Li Xuerui at the $500,000 Malaysia Open Superseries Premier here on Saturday. The Chinese beat the third seeded Indian in a marathon match that lasted an hour and eight minutes with the top seed prevailing 13-21, 21-17, 22-20 at the Putra Stadium. With the win, World No.3 Xuerui extended her career record to 9-2 against Saina, also ending the Indian challenge at the tournament. Xuerui will take on reigning World Champion Carolina Marin in the final, who beat second seeded Chinese Shixian Wang 2117, 24-22 in the other semifinal. The newly crowned World No.1 started in perfect fashion to clinch the first game in dominating style. Though the Chinese matched Saina's shots till 6-all, the Hyderabadi stamped her authority to take flight and quickly seal the first game. The second game was a neck-and-neck fight till 1817, in favour of Xuerui, who held her nerve to win the last three points and push the match into the decider. The third game was an
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loNDoN, april 4 (rEutErS): Arsenal delivered a brutal lesson in fast-paced Premier League football to beat Liverpool 4-1 on Saturday, maintaining their faint title aspirations and almost certainly dashing their opponents' hopes of a top-four finish. While Liverpool's defending was catastrophic at times, Arsenal fizzed with intent and three goals in eight first-half minutes from Hector Bellerin, Mesut Ozil and Alexis Sanchez and a late curler from Olivier Giroud secured a 10th Premier League win in 11 matches. That moved them above Manchester City into second place on 63 points, four behind leaders Chelsea, who will be looking over their shoulders at their in-form London
rivals even though Jose Mourinho's side have two games in hand. Fifth-placed Liverpool, who netted a penalty through Jordan Henderson before Giroud's effort, now look out of the running in the battle for Champions League qualification after a second consecutive defeat. A miserable afternoon for the visitors was capped off by a late red card for Emre Can and the result meant the gap to fourth place could be extended to eight points if Manchester United beat Aston Villa later on Saturday. While much of the pre-match debate had focussed on Liverpool forward Raheem Sterling's ongoing contract impasse, within minutes of kickoff it was clear that more pressing issues lay with the
visitors' defence. Liverpool's back-three spent the opening minutes regularly gifting the ball to the hosts in dangerous areas and their only chance of the half was inexplicably wasted by Lazar Markovic, who tried and failed to pass to Sterling when through on goal. The breakthrough came after 37 minutes when Bellerin was allowed time to cut inside the Liverpool box before curling a superb finish past Simon Mignolet. Given their defending on the day it seemed remarkable that it was the first goal Liverpool had conceded on the road in more than nine hours after keeping six successive clean sheets. Arsenal doubled the lead two
minutes later when Ozil stepped up to curl a free kick around the wall and into the net and Sanchez smashed home from outside the box to make it 3-0. The hosts would have increased their lead but for a stunning save from Mignolet to deny Giroud's header at the start of the second half before Liverpool were given a faint lifeline when Sterling was felled in the box. Henderson squeezed his penalty past David Ospina with 14 minutes remaining. Any hope of a comeback was extinguished, however, when Can received a second yellow card for a foul on substitute Danny Welbeck and Giroud added a coat of gloss when he curled in from 20 metres in stoppage time.
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India's Saina Nehwal returns a shot to China's Li Xuerui during their women's singles semifinal match at the Malaysia Open badminton tournament in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Saturday, April 4. (AP Photo)
even more hotly contested one. Saina held the advantage at 12-17 but the former World No.1 won five straight points to close the gap. Thereon, both shuttlers did not allow the oth-
er more than a point's difference. But at 20-all, the most crucial point of the match, Xuerui showed the killer attitude to smash the next two points and enter the final.
maNchEStEr, april 4 (aGENciES): Ander Herrera scored a pair of goals and Wayne Rooney added another with an exquisitely taken volley as Manchester United leapt third in the table, a point behind No. 2 Arsenal and a point ahead of Manchester City, which plays Monday at Crystal Palace. Villa remains in 16th, just three points ahead of the drop zone.
Rooney went down in the fifth minute under pressure on his shoulder, and protested loudly for a penalty to no avail. United were all over Villa, living in the final third and stymied by blocked shots and deflected attempts. Brad Guzan didn’t see too many early shots get to him, but when he did he was big, flying to push a Marcos Rojo shot just over the bar in the
24th minute. Ander Herrera put the inevitable past Guzan off a neat combination play that began with Ashley Young laying off for an overlapping Daley Blind, who took the ball to the end line before cutting it back for Herrera. His second touch was a left-footed shot into the goal. Rooney made it 2-0 in the 79th minute, setting up a volley for himself off An-
gel Di Maria‘s cross and un- mistake, allowing Benloading a shot past Guzan teke's shot to go through who had no chance what- his legs. However, there soever. was to be no comeback as But Villa picked up a Herrera sidefooted home corner a minute later, and his second of the afternoon Christian Benteke pulled in injury time. a goal back from the reLeicester City 2 – 1 West Ham sultant corSwansea City 3 – 1 Hull City ner. United West Brom 1 – 4 QPR goalkeeper Everton 1 – 0 Southampton David de Gea made a rare
Djokovic, Murray set to clash in Miami final Sania-Martina enter Miami Open final
miami, april 4 (iaNS): Indo-Swiss tennis combine Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis reached their second successive women's doubles final when they entered the summit clash of the Miami Open with a straight sets win at the Tennis Center at Crandon Park here. The top seeds defeated the Hungarian-French pairing of Timea Babos and Kristina Mladenovic 6-2, 6-4 in exactly an hour on Saturday. Sania and Martina will take on Russian second seeds Ekaterina Makarova and Elena Vesnina in the final on Sunday whom they had defeated last month in Indian Wells to win their maiden tournament as a pair. Though the top seeds served twice the Andy Murray, of Great Britain, celebrates after defeating Tomas number of double faults, they were betBerdych, of the Czech Republic at the Miami Open tennis tourna- ter in every other aspect of the game than their seventh seeded opponents. ment on April 3, in Key Biscayne, Fla. (AP Photo)
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miami, april 4 (aFp): Andy Murray will try to cap a milestone week, while Novak Djokovic is aiming for another hardcourt double victory when they square off in the Miami Open final on Sunday. Murray will be gunning for his third Miami Masters title after beating Czech Tomas Berdych 6-4, 6-4 on Friday to secure his final berth. It marks the fourth trip to the championship match for Murray who earlier this week joined the elite club of players to win 500 career matches. Djokovic beat hardserving John Isner 7-6 (7/3), 6-2 in the other semi-final. Djokovic, 27, is trying to become the first player to sweep the Indian Wells and Miami Masters
hardcourt titles on three separate occasions. He achieved the US hardcourt double in 2011 and again last year. "We have very similar games," Djokovic said of Murray. "I expect a battle, long rallies, and I know what is expected of me on the court." Djokovic won the first set against Isner in a tiebreaker then got the early break in the second set to go up 2-1. Djokovic served brilliantly, blasting 10 aces and winning 80 percent of his first-serve points in the 90-minute match. His two service breaks against Isner were the key as the towering American had not been broken coming into the semi-final contest. "He is the best server we have in the
Crucially, Sania and Martina won five of the available breakpoints to that of two out of 10 chances for Timea and Kristina. "We're still learning to play with each other so it's good to play against a tough team like that. They're really good," Sania said. "We were down a break in the first set so we're happy we were able to get it back and win the first set 6-2. We're just happy to be in another final now." Their opponents in the final -- Ekaterina and Elena -- overcame Czech ninth seeds Andrea Hlavackova and Lucie Hradecka 6-4, 6-2 in the other semifinal. Asked what they would be doing to defeat the Russian girls, Sania quipped, "The same as we did last week! We just have to keep focused and fight for every point. I keep saying this -- names don't win you matches, neither does any result. Every day is a different day."
game," Djokovic said of Isner. "He is 6'10" so he can hit any angle he wants. I didn't know what my preference was -- to have him hit his first serve in, or his second serve in. They are both equally good." With the win over Berdych, Murray evened his record against the eighth-seeded Czech at 6-6 and backed up his victory in the semi-finals of the Australian Open. "I thought it was a high quality match," said the 27-year-old, who is set to return to number three in the world next week. "We played some good points. I thought it was a pretty clean match. I felt like I just played a bit better than him. That was the difference." The two sets unfolded in iden-
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tical fashion, Scotland's Murray opening with a break of Berdych's serve, dropping his own serve then breaking again. That second break in each set proved enough for Murray, who is now poised to battle for his first Masters level title since he lifted the trophy here at Crandon Park in 2013. Down 0-30 in the ninth game of the second set, Berdych rallied to hold serve and force Murray to serve for the match. Murray trailed 0-30, but battled back and gave himself a match point with an angled forehand volley followed by a backhand crosscourt winner before sealing it with a final cross-court forehand that was too much for the Czech.
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