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Fish production increased to 8220 MT in Nagaland

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Kohima smart city: Panama PaPers

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KG Kenye takes oath as Nagaland MP to RS DIMAPUR, APRIL 4 (MExN): Newly elected Member of Parliament (MP) from Nagaland State to the Rajya Sabha, KG Kenye took oath today at the Rajya Sabha in New Delhi for the term 2016-22. Kenye along with AK Anthony from Kerala were the only MPs who took the oath today. Kenye was elected to the lone Rajya Sabha seat from Nagaland, aft following the passing away of former MP, Khekiho Zhimomi. He was elected unopposed, and is the 9th Member of Parliament to the Rajya Sabha from Nagaland state since 1964.

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A State level consultative meeting on smart cities mission was held at the Secretariat Conference Hall, Kohima on April 4.

Highlighting that the core purpose of Smart city is to make a city progressive and sustainable, Chief Minister, TR Zeliang mentioned that a city has to have a good and efficient transportation system, quick and effective system for disposal of solid waste and liquid waste, sufficient and regular supply of water and electricity, good health care and education facilities and effective policing system and security arrangement.

However Zeliang also stated that the objectives of Smart City may be hard to achieve as ‘Kohima is a very old and unplanned city’ therefore it is bound to see some serious limitations. “What we are to do is basically that of ‘retrofitting an old city’ and not developing a new planned township or city,” he said.

The success of the Kohima Smart city project will depend on the involvement and contribution of the whole community of Kohima, particularly the landowners, Zeliang said, hoping that they would sacrifice individual interest for the larger cause of the whole community when necessary.

Kovi Meyase, Administrator, KMC informed that a Special Fast Track competition was provided to 23 states/UTs including Kohima to upgrade their proposals and submit them before April 15. The proposals which achieve the benchmark set by winning cities will be eligible for funding on accelerated basis in 2016-17, remarked the Administrator.

Certain gaps were identified by the Ministry which needed upgradation such as elaboration on the needs and aspiration of the city, establishing the identity of the city, stronger linkages between the vision and strategies ad-

A file photo of Nagaland State capital Kohima. (Photo by Kazu Ahmed)

opted towards it, proposals to be more inclusive with consultations to include citizens from all sections of the city, more source of municipal financial strength, inclusion of MoUs from various link and allied departments, to address the absence of periodical baseline survey etc.

Meyase further updated the activities completed by the KMC based on the requirements such as holding meetings with stakeholders, various allied government departments. The KMC is also exploring more options for revenue generation through collection of property tax and other urban facility fees. Meyase also intimated that firms and organizations are coming forward towards being partners in viable developmental areas on PPP mode. So far 7 contractors in Kohima, Ura Academy, Kohima and Ramky Estates & Farms Ltd, Hyderabad have expressed their interests in partnering.

“Our prospects do appear far more encouraging this time because all stakeholders realize the purpose of the Smart City Mission which effectively is to improve the quality of life for the

citizens and drive economic growth by enabling local area development and harnessing technology,” stated Kovi Meyase.

Voyants Pvt Ltd, Vice President, Atreyee Mitra Aggarwal said that the strength of Kohima lies in its cultural and historical heritage such as the Kohima War Cemetery, considered one of the most well maintained WWII cemetery in the world, and its urban morphology with extensive, interconnected pedestrians network connecting every ward to the city core. He further stated that the extensive geo-spatial mapping carried out by city administration to create interactive dashboards on e-portals for the community, and its human capital are strong points.

However, the weaknesses of Kohima lies in its poor basic infrastructure, inefficient public transport, vehicular pollution, land availability, and regulatory and governance issues.

Kohima being in the Seismic Zone 5, and the havoc caused by the rains are also major threats to urban growth, pointed out Atreyee, while calling for better disaster preparedness.

NEw DELHI, APRIL 4 (IANS): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday ordered a multi-agency probe team on the global expose by International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), dubbed the “Panama Papers”, which found over 500 Indians also had alleged offshore links.

“A multi-agency group is being formed to monitor the black money trail,” Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said here after the expose was published in The Indian Express. “Details of the assets worth Rs.6,500 crore has already been found,” he added.

The probe team will comprise officers from the Central Board of Direct Taxes’ Financial Intelligence Unit, its Tax Research Unit as also officials from the Reserve Bank of India.

“The group will monitor the flow of information in each one of the case. The government will take all the necessary actions as required to get maximum information from all sources including from foreign governments to help in the investigation process,” the statement added.

The journalists’ consortium had said late on Sunday that its members and more than 100 other news organisations around the globe have found offshore links of some of the planet’s most prominent people. The list included over 500 Indians.

The details of the Indians with such offshore funds were published in The Indian Express. But whether or not such funds exist, and also if they were illegal is what the probe team ordered

by Modi is expected to look into.

“In terms of size, the Panama Papers is likely the biggest leak of inside information in history - more than 11.5 million documents - and it is equally likely to be one of the most explosive in the nature of its revelations,” the consortium said of its investigation published.

In the context of the commitment of the central government to bring out undisclosed money both from abroad and from within the country, information brought out by any investigative journalism was welcome, the finance ministry said.

In India, The Indian Express ran several pages of the investigation reports alleging, among other names, Bollywood superstarts Amitabh Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai, being directors in companies in Panama.

The two did not immediately respond despite efforts to contact them.

Aishwarya Rai’s media adviser told the newspaper that the information was false. The spokesperson for Aishwarya Rai said “no” when IANS asked her if she intended to issue a statement.

Among those named in the report were Sameer Gehlaut of India Bulls and K.P. Singh of DLF. Vinod Adani, elder brother of industrialist Gautam Adani, politician Shishir Bajoria from West Bengal and Anurag Kejriwal of Loksatta Party were also alleged to have set up companies in tax havens.

Bajoria told the paper that that “erroneous beneficial owner information” was given by mistake.

The Express said it had carried out the investigations spread over eight months with several global newspapers. Many of the other persons named in the Express reports responded, some denying while others maintaining that they had worked within the laws of the country.

Among the global leaders named were 12 current and former world leaders, including Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s family members. It also sought to reveal how associates of Russian President Vladimir Putin secretly shuffled as much as $2 billion through banks and shadow firms.

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Over 500 Indians feature in sensational expose of global web of corruption

nagaland remains out of acaUt tells KVic to uphold assurance contention in education Morung Express News Dimapur | April 4

Nagaland, Manipur, Arunachal fail to feature in first HRD university ranking Morung Express News Dimapur | April 4

Nagaland State is still out of reckoning in University and Higher Education studies, as per the ‘India Rankings 2016,’ a first of its kind indigenous survey of educational institutions in the country, released by the Union HRD Minister, Smriti Irani on April 4.

The survey featured a list of top 100 institutes in Engineering, Management, Pharmacy and traditional Universities category. The ranking was done by the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF).

“The final framework identified nearly 22 parameters in five major heads, several of them are similar to those employed globally such as excellence in teaching, learning and research” the NIRF Report noted adding that a few are India-centric parameters relevant to the Indian situation.

The parameters broadly cover five categories: “Teaching, Learning and Resources,” “Research and Professional Practices,” “Graduation Outcomes,” “Outreach and Inclusivity,” and “Perception”.

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The Indian Institute of Science Bangalore was adjudged the best University in India, and the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras topped theengineering category.

The Indian Institute of Management, Bangaluru (IIM-B) and Manipal College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Manipal bagged the top slots in Management and Pharmacy respectively.

In engineering, IITs occupy the top 10 slot, while the IIMs capture most of the top 10 positions in Management category.

Nagaland and North East

While Nagaland, Manipur and Arunachal do not feature in any category, Assam and Meghalaya have performed outstandingly. Assam has Tezpur University at 5th, Gauhati University at 22nd, Dibrugarh University at 74 and Assam University, Silchar at 77. IIT-Gauhati and NIT Silchar ranked 11th and 65 in the engineering category, while Dispur university ranked 27th in management.

Meghalaya was represented by the North Eastern Hill University at 15th slot in the University category while Rajiv Gandhi Indian Institute of Management, Shillong was number 20 in management. National Institute of Technology (NIT), Shillong is 57th in the Engineering list.

Tripura is represented by NIT Agartala and Tripura University at Engineering and University categories respectively, while Sikkim and Mizoram Universities feature at 51st and 61st positions.

Non- performances

The poor performance of the State’s institutions, especially the NIT Chumoukedima is more glaring since most others NITs feature in the list and admissions are done with an All India Entrance Exam.

A faculty of the institute reasoned that it is the youngest institution in the category and has only graduated two batches so far. The present campus was shifted in 2012 to the present location after two year of mentoring from NIT Silchar and had to start from scratch, he added.

Agartala and Silchar were upgradation of previous institutes, he maintained while appreciating the NIT Shillong’s achievement as both fall under the same category.

Internally, he admitted that while NIT Chumoukedima has adequate infrastructure facility, lack of delegation of works might have impacted its performances as a cohesive entity.

The ACAUT has urged the Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC) to uphold its assurance to transparently and fairly conduct the process of issuing application forms of Central government sponsored employment schemes.

The ACAUT on April 4 visited the Nagaland State KVIC office at Naga Shopping Arcade, Dimapur following allegations of the KVIC withholding PMEG application forms from aspiring applicants during 2015.

According to ACAUT, several applicants were deprived

of availing forms in 2015 for unexplained reasons. Quoting accounts of applicants who were able to avail the forms, ACAUT alleged that applicants had to pay Rs. 1500 a form contrary to the KVIC guidelines, which stipulates that forms should be issued free of cost. Further, ACAUT said that applicants had to endure harassment waiting in queue for hours while the form issuing counter opened for barely 15 minutes a day. In total only around 400 forms were issued in 2015 by the KVIC, which was confirmed by employees at the KVIC state office today.

Firing reported at Dmp-KA border Morung Express News Dimapur | April 4

As the first phase of the Assam polls progressed, tension gripped the Dimapur-KarbiAnglong border on April 4 as sounds of gunfire reverberated around the Daldali Reserve Forest. According to reports, some 3-4 rounds were fired in the air by Assam Police personnel reportedly to warn people from Nagaland side, who had entered the Daldali Reserve Forest. It could however not be ascertained from which side the shots were fired with police sources stating it could have been from either side.

There was no report of casualty.

Defying the prohibitory order imposed by the Deputy Commissioner, Dimapur, discouraging people from entering the disputed belt of the Dimapur-Karbi-Anglong border, around a hundred people was reported to have entered the area today. It happened as the district administration reinforced police deployment along the border belt. The people, who have entered are reportedly cutting roads using machinery and building hutments.

The United Naga Tribes Association of Border Areas (UNATABA) has meanwhile condemned the incident and demanded that the Assam Police Border Out Posts (BOP) in Lahorijan, Kashiram and Shankartilla BOPs be immediately withdrawn from the present posting places.

The numbers of applicants seeking forms were more than double, ACAUT said while adding that equal opportunity be given to all applicants irrespective of the targeted number of projects being sponsored by the Central government.

As a new financial year begins and the KVIC prepares for a fresh round of issuing and processing applications, the ACAUT urged KVIC to be fair and transparent in its dealings.

In this regard, the ACAUT said that it met the Assistant Director, KVIC, Nagaland state office in March 2016.

During the meeting, the KVIC

official assured of transparently conducting the form-issuing process while ensuring that no aspiring applicant is deprived of availing form. The official also assured to make available application forms throughout the form-issuing period and without charges, the ACAUT said. As per advertisements published in the local dailies in 2015, the form-issuing period was July 1-8 with the last date of form submission as July 22, which was extended.

The ACAUT however could not meet the official today as one of the employees present said that he was away

on an official tour.

Expressing displeasure, the ACAUT further said that the KVIC in failing in its stipulated duties. As per the guidelines, the KVIC is required to conduct awareness drives and provide free counselling and guidance. On this, one KVIC employee said that it is because of a lack of manpower.

Further, pointing to an alleged nexus between banks and the KVIC, one ACAUT member said, “The problem not only ends at the form processing stage. Selected beneficiaries later face the banks where another fresh round of ‘running around’ begins.”

Dimapur gets 15th road in 15 months Morung Express News Dimapur | April 4

The Dimapur Municipal Council (DMC), which has been undertaking various developmental works in the town since the beginning of 2015 on Monday inaugurated their 15th road in 15 months at Lengrijan Colony, Dimapur.

Advisor, Urban Development, SI Jamir, who inaugurated the road pointed out that Dimapur, in the past, had not seen this much positive developmental activities currently carried out under the leadership of DMC Administrator, H. Atokhe Aye. Lauding the DMC in this regard, SI Jamir urged upon the public to extend their support and cooperation to the Municipal Council for more development.

He said that in the past, DMC funds were mishandled by the elected councillors owing to which concrete development could not take place. “So the residents of different wards should elect a man of integrity to the DMC,” he added.

Further, SI Jamir said that the

Advisor, Urban Development, SI Jamir; DMC Administrator, H Atokhe Aye and others during the inauguration of road at Lengrijan, Dimapur on Monday. (Morung Photo)

earlier system of leasing out collection of revenues left DMC with little money since the leased parties took greater share of revenue collected.

DMC Administrator, H Atokhe Aye thanked the Nagaland State Government and the public whose support enabled the Council to carry out its duty of providing basic developmental needs in the town.

Inforing that at least 65 community dustbins have been con-

structed by the DMC so far, Atokhe, however, lamented that the public were not using the designated dustbins during specified time thereby littering localities. He appealed the public to inculcate civic sense for hygienic environment of the town.

Affirming that the DMC was committed to carry out more developmental activities, Atokhe welcomed any positive feedbacks and criticisms from the public towards the Council.

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Nagaland launches IPV into routine immunization prog

Kohima, april 4 (mExN): Nagaland has officially launched and introduced IPV into routine immunization programme on April 4 by injecting IPV to a number of children by nurses in Naga Hospital, Kohima, in the presence of Dr. Yankho Lotha, Mission Director, NHM, Managing Director NHAK, MS NHAK,

State Immunization Officer, District Immunization Officer, partners like UNICEF, RRC representative and other staffs. The districts will also officially introduced IPV into their routine immunization programme in the similar way. The health staffs are all well trained to carry out this activity.

The IPV injection will

be given to children below one year of age along with the third dose of the Oral Polio Vaccine (OPV) at the routine immunization session. IPV and OPV together will further strengthen the children’s Immune system and will proved double protection against polio.

India has achieved a landmark by eradicating

polio. The last case of polio was in January 2011 in Howrah, West Bengal and India was certified polio free on March 27. However, the battle against polio is not over yet. There are still cases of polio in some of our neighboring countries such as Afghanistan and Pakistan. Till the time even one case of polio exists in the world, children

are at risk of polio.

To ensure that children are doubly protected from Polio, India is introducing the inactivated Polio vaccine (IPV) into the routine immunization programme from November 30, 2015.

In the first phase, the IPV injection is being introduced in Assam, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Punjab.

Fish production increased to 8220 MT in Nagaland

Nagaland Adolescent Girls Club launched at TMHSS

Chairperson NSSWB, Bano Vinito Chishi addresses students during the launching of the Nagaland Adolescent Girls Club Thinuovicha Memorial Higher Secondary School on April 4. (DIPR Photo)

Kohima, april 4 (Dipr): The Nagaland Adolescent Girls Club (NAGC) was officially launched at Thinuovicha Memorial Higher Secondary School (TM) Kohima on April 4 by the Chairperson Nagaland State Social Welfare Board (NSSWB),

Bano Vinito Chishi.

Launching the Club, Bano said the NAGC called on the students to study hard and to trust in God so that they may achieve their goals in life. She also mentioned that the Government of India is giving priorities to the girl child,

however to one must work hard to avail the opportunities. Stating that “hardly pass or just pass” is outdated she challenged the students to give their best and not waste their time unnecessarily.

Secretary, NSSWB, Daisy Mezhur highlighted

the students on the activities of the Nagaland Adolescent Girls Club. She said that membership to the Club is for girls between 10 to 19 years of age and aims to instill a sense of pride and self worth in adolescent girls, help them to respect themselves and

others, help them to fight against abuse, violence and exploitation and also offer support and guidance. She also spoke on the motto of the Club, ‘Live the promise’.

Giving a brief note on NAGC, Ruovinuo Kiewhuo said that the NAGC was formed in May 2008 and has so far been introduced in 11 schools in the State. The programme was chaired

by Medochunuo Chielie while Principal TM Government Higher Secondary School, Kohima Avino Tase proposed the vote of thanks. A special song was also presented by the students of the school.

Our Correspondent Kohima | April 4

Nagaland recorded total fish production of 8220 MT during 2015-16. The availability in the state is further supplemented by imported fish of 3850 MT, which constitutes about 32 per cent of the total fish available for consumption.

Taking into account the domestic production and the imports, the state’s per capita consumption of fish in 2015-16 was 6.10 kgs (As per 2011 census).

Nagaland has large tracts of land with poten-

tial for fishery activities.

However, only negligible area is utilized for the purpose.

Presently, out of the total area of 1, 12, 500 hectare with potential for inland culture fisheries and 5558 hectare for inland capture fisheries, only 6339 hectares was utilized for inland culture fisheries and 3218 hectare for inland -capture fisheries, according to Nagaland Economic Survey 2015-16 brought out by economics & statistics department.

In percentage terms, 5.63 per cent of the total

potential area was utilized for inland culture fisheries and 57.90 per cent for inland captured fisheries.

In the year, 2015-16, the total quality of fish production increased to 8220 MT from 7835 MT in 201415 registering a growth of 4.91 per cent over the previous year.

On the basis of type of source of fish production, ponds and tanks recorded production of 6758.50 MT, paddy-cum-fish culture 1094.60 MT, reservoirs 358.00 MT, rivers/streams 2.98 MT and lake/weirs/ swamps 5.92 MT.

Inspection of registered Yitachu call for best use of potentials children homes underway Our Correspondent Kohima | April 4

Dimapur, april 4 (mExN): The State Level Inspection Committee under Integrated Child Protection Scheme (ICPS) is presently conducting an inspection of all the registered Child Care Institutes (CCIs), Open Shelter/ Shelter homes, Observation homes, Specialized Adoption Agency (SAA) in Dimapur district.

The inspection is headed by Dellirose M Sakhrie, Secretary Social Welfare Director Social Welfare along with District Child Protection Officer, District Project Officer and District Officials of the Social Welfare Department. This is being taken up as the first phase and similar inspections will be carried out in other districts in the state.

The purpose of this

Minister for School Education & SCERT Yitachu while expressing that Meluri sub-division under Phek district is the richest land in the state has called upon people of the area to extend support to the government to develop its potentials and help Nagas move forward.

“We occupy a very strategic location and it is high time we ponder on how to help other Nagas,” Yitachu said while addressing a mammoth gathering

State Level Inspection Committee under the ICPS conducts inspection of all registered Child Care Institutes, Open Shelter/Shelter homes, Observation homes, Specialized Adoption Agency in Dimapur district.

inspection is to ensure proper functioning of all homes run by the Government/NGOs, and as-

during the inauguration of full-fledged Meluri Town Council on April 2 last.

He said Meluri Sub Division has potentials of making Nagaland self-sufficient in power generation while there are also huge deposits of minerals and limestone.

He therefore said that people of the area should be willing to support in developing power generation for industrial growth.

Further, the Minister expressed that once the International Trade route between India and Myanmar is opened through

Minister for School Education & SCERT Yitachu. (Morung Photo)

Avakhung village of the sub-division, doors will be opened for South East

Asian countries.

This will make Meluri strategically located for commercial activities and industrialization, he said.

In this connection the Yitachu appealed to the people of area not to disturb the government in developing power so that mineral industry can be boosted, which will ultimately lead the Nagas forward, instead of only depending on funds provided by the Centre.

“We have to practically use the available resources instead of simply claiming the availability of resourc-

es,” he said.

Meanwhile, Yitachu acknowledged Chief Minister TR Zeliang for granting fullfledged town to Meluri. Describing Zeliang as a ‘very courageous Chief Minister’ of the state, he recalled that “Zeliang handled the affairs of the State during the most difficult period being faced by total financial crisis”.

Nagaland being a salaried economy, such financial crisis would created major problems in the State, but Chief Minister Zeliang has not failed to pay the salaries of government employees, he added.

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Apparel & Garment Making Centre inauguration

certain adherence to the guidelines of the ICPS in the state under the Juve- Dimapur, april 4 (Dipr): Minister of State for Textiles (Independent charge) Santosh Kumar Gangwar will nile Justice Act of 2011. inaugurate the Apparel & Garment Making Centre in the presence of Chief Minister of Nagaland, TR Zeliang at 6th Mile, District Industries Centre complex Dimapur at 1:00 PM on April 5. After the inauguration, the chief guest will lay the foundation stone for Muga P3 Basic Seed Station Kobulong, Mokokchung, Nagaland and also launching of Newly Approved Integrated Eri Silk Development Project On Monday, MLA and Chairman NIDC Ltd, Tovihoto Ayemi accompanied by department offiunder NERTPS for women empowerment and sustain- cials headed by managing director visited Agro and Food Processing Special Economic Zone, Ganeshnagar, Dimapur; Staff Quarter at 5th Mile; Old and New Industrial Estate, Firing Range; You are cordially invited to the Inauguration able livelihood in Kohima district.

Ceremony of Phek Town Welcome Gate on Thursday, the 7th of April 2016 at 10.30 hrs near Assam Rifles Gate-1 Bible Hill, Phek.

Shri Kuzholuzo (Azo) Nienu,

Hon’ble Member, Nagaland Legislative Assembly, 19th Phek A/C has consented to be the Chief Guest and will unveil the monolith.

ANHTU emergency meeting on April 8 Kohima, april 4 (mExN): The All Nagaland Hindi Teachers Union (ANHTU) will convey an executive body emergency meeting on April 8 at Bharat Scout and Guide Building Conference Hall at 11:00 A:M. The Union President Rometo Sema requested to All District Unit President & Secretary compulsory to attend the meeting without fail. Central Body all Office Bearer and Advisory Board Members compulsory attained the meeting.

NIDC Residential Complex behind Hotel Saramati, Super market. Tovihoto later called a review meeting with the department officials of NIDC headed by managing director, Taku Jamir.

Rohbi Jinger becomes first EAC from Chimonger Village

BJP Kohima dist meeting INAUGURATION PROGRAM OF PHEK TOWN WELCOME GATE Chief Guest Chairman

: Shri Kuzholuzo (Azo) Nienu, (Hon’ble Member, Nagaland Legislative Assembly) : Er. Abija Khing, Executive Engineer, PWD(R&B) Phek Division

Order of Program Arrival of the Chief Guest : 10:25 Am Dedicatory prayer : Rev. O. Alem, Pastor Ao Baptist Church Phek Town

Followed by unveiling of the monolith by the Chief Guest Welcome Note Brief Technical Report

: Shri. Neihete Akami : Chairman

Short speeches (10 Minutes) each a) Shri. Murohu Chotso, DC Phek b) Shri. Vejoi Vero (Ex. Minister) c) Shri. Chiekhutso Rhakho (Ex.MLA) Special Number : Neivolu & Khukruno Speech : Chief Guest Vote of Thanks : Shri. Vezhehu Vero, President PAPO Benediction : Shri.Thupuchiyi Khesoh, Pastor Phek Town Baptist Church

Followed by Lunch at GA rest House, Phek Town

Kohima, april 4 (mExN): The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Kohima district will hold a meeting on April 6 at Hotel Hut, opposite head office Kohima. All the district office bearers, mandal presidents, frontal chief and senior party leaders have been requested to attend the said meeting positively.

MMU Camp cum LLIN distribution at Yezashi Village ZuNhEboto, april 4 (mExN): The District Health Society, Zunheboto organised MMU Camp cum LLIN distribution in collaboration with NVBDCP at Yezashi Village on March 31. The camp was assisted by Dr. Heto, SMO Aghunato CHC, Dr. Puloto, MO, Aghunato CHC and assisted by BPM, GNM's, Pharmacist and Opthalmic Assistant of Aghunato CHC. The camp administered to 70 patients. During the camp 9 Immunization was given, 18 refractive errors was screened and 2 cataract case detected. Sample blood test was carried out by the technician on NVBDCP. Free IEC materials were distributed and 2 (Two) FGD session on Child and Maternal Health was carried out. Hekuto, MI (NVBDCP) shared about the awareness on LLIN's and the importance of Healthy lifestyle and living followed by distribution of LLIN.

Lecture at RCEMPA Jotsoma Kohima, april 4 (Dipr): A lecture on ‘the relevance of boutique/village hotel design for Nagaland’ will be held on April 7 at Regional Centre of Excellence for Music and Performing Arts (RCEMPA), Jotsoma. The lecture will be delivered by Ar. Made Wijaya while the programme will chaired

by Parliamentary Secretary for Tourism, Nagaland, C. Apok Jamir. According to the programme, the welcome address will be given by Secretary, Tourism Department, Angau I. Thou, IAS and vote of thanks will be delivered by President, Nagaland Tourism Association, Vincent Belho. There will also be an interactive session during the programme.

Rohbi Jinger (third from right) with his parents, Imtilemba Sangma and others duirng the facilitation programme organized by Chimonger Union Kohima on April 3.

Kohima, april 4 (mExN): Rohbi Jinger has become the first from Chimonger Village under Tuensang district to get NCS. He would now become EAC. In honour of his success, a facilitation programme was organized by Chimonger Union Kohima (CUK) on April 3.

Lauding Jinger, advisor to the Cooperation Department of Nagaland, Imtilemba Sangma, who also hails from the same village, said “he was the first person from their village to get NCS. Jinger will be serving as EAC now. We are proud of him.” The Adviser said most of their people living in Kohima or Dimapur were Government servants with lower grades. “Therefore, when our own villager getting an NCS, the first from our village, we have immense joy,” he said and further wished him all the success in his future endeavors.

A press release stated, “Chimonger village is the largest village amongst the Sangtam tribe, with over 6000 populations and having 647 households and Rohbi is the first person to cleared the NPSC and be-

come an EAC from the Chimonger village.”

Sharing his joy, Jinger said that he was active in student activities during his school and college days and came to know about the plight of the student communities as well as the people in the rural areas. “From this experience, I was committed to becoming a civil servant in the State,” he said.

“At the same time, with the constant support from the family members, hardworking and the prayers of many, I got NCS.” Jinger, who is the third of his five siblings, started his early education in his village, Chimonger and later in St. Joseph School in Tuensang. He graduated from Japfu Christian College in 2010.

His parents also thanked many village people particularly Adviser, Sangtam, for extending helps to their son during his study days.

President of CUK T Lemli also spoke at the programme which was attended among others by members of CUK and other prominent Kohima Sangtam residents.

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Over 78 percent votes cast in Assam polls first phase

Guwahati, april 4 (iaNS): Over 78 percent of the 95 lakh electorate cast their ballot on Monday in the first round of assembly elections to pick 65 legislators in Assam, officials said.

Officials said 78.02 percent turnout was recorded till close of polling, but the percentage was likely to increase as reports were still coming in from some remote constituencies.

The turnout saw an increase from the 2011 assembly election figure, which was 75 percent.

"The poll percentage is likely to increase as we are waiting for reports from some of the constituencies," said Additional Chief Electoral Officer Nitin Khade.

Polling started on a brisk note at 7 a.m., as long queues of people started forming in front of the polling stations. Officials said no violence was reported from anywhere during the first phase of the polls and balloting remained peaceful.

A total of 64 Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) developed snags and were replaced.

Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi seemed optimistic. "Polling was good and it was due to the significant increase in the number of young voters. I am hopeful that the Congress will do well," Gogoi said.

The BJP's chief ministerial candidate Sarbananda Sonowal also thanked the people for coming out in such large numbers to vote. "People want change and that is why they have come

20 injured in Assam blast Guwahati, april 4 (iaNS): At least 20 people, including a policeman, were injured as suspected militants triggered an explosion on Monday evening in Dudhnoi in western Assam's Goalpara district, police said.

Superintendent of Police Nitul Gogoi confirmed that a policeman was injured in the blast along with civilians. The blast site is close to the Dudhnoi police station, police said, adding that they were yet to ascertain the exact nature of the explosives.

A old lady showing marked finger after voting (IANS Photo) out in huge numbers. The BJP is going to become the single largest party in the state," said Sonowal, who is seeking election from Majuli, the world's largest riverine island.

The 65 constituencies which saw polling on Monday are mainly located in the tea belt, north of the Brahmaputra river and in the Barak Valley. These include three seats reserved for

Dalits and 10 for tribals.

The second and final phase of elections to pick a 126-member assembly will take place on April 11.

Sonowal said the BJP would win a majority of the seats in the first phase.

A total of 95,11,732 voters were eligible to decide the fate of 539 candidates in the first phase. There were 12,190 polling stations spread across 17 districts.

Of the total polling stations, 78 were staffed exclusively by women. There were also 134 'model' polling stations which had a medical team and an eatery, and where elderly voters were felicitated in a traditional manner.

Gun toting youth guard Manipur village Our Correspondent Imphal | April 4

Gun toting youth of Nongshum village under Khundrakpam constituency in Manipur’s Imphal East continued to guard their village today against armed militants constantly threatening and assaulting them.

The Meitei village covered by Sagolmang Police Station has around 65 households with a population of only 300. The villagers claimed that heavily armed cadres belonging to Kuki National Organisation/Kuki Liberation Army (KLO/KLA) frequently come there to threaten and physically assault them to

extort money.

The village youth have armed themselves with licensed guns to defend the populace against the militants day and night on rotation basis. Nongshum is surrounded by a couple of hill villages.

A joint action committee (JAC) constituted against the torture of Nongshum villagers by KNO/KLA said they had been facing persecution at the hands of the Kuki militants for several years.

The KNO/KLA is currently under ceasefire with the government. There have been many incidents wherein the militants were alleged to have attacked

and destroyed houses in Nongshum and subjecting villagers to severe beatings without provocation.

The committee said security forces are not taking any step against them, except that they want to remain mere onlookers. It said the paramilitary forces, Army and police were unwilling to help the suffering villagers.

The villagers are now ready to respond to any kind of harassment and humiliation from the Kuki militants. Protesting against the hostile situation, the villagers have also been enforcing an indefinite bandh along ImphalKhamenlok and Imphal

'Assam polls a fight between opposing ideologies' Guwahati (aSSam), april 4 (iaNS): Terming the Assam assembly polls a "fight between two opposing ideologies", Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi on Monday urged the people to vote for his party for peace, development and progress in the state.

Addressing three public rallies at Goalpara, Dhubri and Abhayapuri, Gandhi said if the BJP comes to power in Assam, the state will go back to those days when there was violence, bloodshed and tears everywhere 15 years back.

"This election is a fight between thoughts and ideologies. On one side, there is an

Thailand delegation to visit Arunachal itaNaGar, april 4 (pti): A high-level delegation of World Tipitaka Foundation (WTF) from Thailand will visit the Kongmu Kham (Golden Pagoda) of Tengapani in Arunachal Pradesh's Namsai district on April 12.

The delegates will be discussing the transcription of Tipitika Tai-Khampti Pali into Tai Khampti language.

They will also survey the proposed site for establishment of an International Tipitika Centre at Kongmu Kham in Namsai district, an official release said here today.

The WTF is famous for its innovative work of the Tipitaka in Tai Siam (Thai) script and Roman script Pali which they have been giving as Dhamma gift to many institutes and organizations such as World Court, United Nations and many universities globally for the past 16 years, the release said.

ideology that fought against the British, brought the Constitution of India, loves and respects the citizens of the country -- the name of which is Congress."

"On the other hand, there is a thought which believes in breaking things, that wants people to fight against one another, wants to spread hatred -- the name for this thought is Narendra Modi, BJP, RSS," Gandhi said at a rally in Dhubri, located along the India-Bangladesh border.

"India does not belong to any particular caste or community. It belongs to all Indian citizens who have been living here," he said.

"The Congress is committed to secure the rights of all Indians and the party will not allow anyone to break the unity between the people of different castes, communities or religion," he assured. Asking the people to recall what was the state 15 years back, he said: "There was violence, bloodshed and women were crying. There was no security in Assam then...Then the Congress came and brought peace by uniting the people," Gandhi said, adding that the same situation will be repeated if the BJP comes to power.

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Regd.No: 169/16 Dated: 04/04/2016 I, Mr. BENKA KONYAK, Son of Shri. Yannyei Konyak, resident of Lengrijan, Dimapur, Nagaland, do hereby solemnly swear and declares as under: 1. That I am a bonafide citizen of India.

2. That I am the legal father of Master Jatlam Konyak, who is a student of Government High School, Lengrijan, Dimapur, Nagaland.

3. That my son has lost his Original Class VIII Pass Certificate for the year 2015, bearing Registration No. Regd.No. A157768.

4. That I am applying for duplicate copy of the said Pass Certificate.

5. That this declaration is made to declare that my son has lost his Original Class. VIII Pass Certificate for the year 2015 and also that I am applying for a duplicate copy.

Deponent Solemnly sworn before me by the deponent on this 4th day of April 2016 Notary Public, Nagaland

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The Dimapur Chamber of Commerce & Industry (DCCI) expresses appreciation to the Rotary Club for conducting a Free Medical Camp in Dimapur. Under the RAHAT Mission, the Rotary Club has extended humanitarian services to the people of Dimapur in particular and Nagaland in general.

This truly reflects the adage "Service to man is service to God." It is learnt that RAHAT Mission is being conducted in Dimapur for the first time in Northeast. In this regard, the DCCI lauds District Governor, Chandu Agarwal for his efforts in successfully organizing the medical camp by inviting a host of doctors specializing in different areas.

Sd/- Hokivi Chishi, President, DCCI

Khongbal roads.

Reports said womenfolk in the village are trying to restrain impatience of the youth who could take up violent measure to

counter the militants.

The surrounding villages are not responding to the call of Nongshum to settle the matter together, the reports added.

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Tripura, M'laya get relief from major power cut aGartala, april 4 (iaNS): Tripura and Meghalaya on Monday heaved a sigh of relief as the Northeast Electric Power Corporation (NEEPCO) agreed to continue to supply power from its plants, thereby saving the two states from a major power outage from Tuesday.

NEEPCO, which is under the union power ministry, had earlier served notice to both Tripura and Meghalaya to clear their dues, saying it would otherwise cut supply from its power projects to the two states from April 5.

Tripura and Meghalaya owe Rs.550 crore as outstanding dues to NEEPCO. "Both the Tripura and Meghalaya governments have assured us to repay their outstanding money at the earliest and after getting the written assurances, we have withdrawn our power suspension order for the time being," a NEEPCO official told IANS

over phone from its headquarters in Shillong.

"Other northeastern states, including Assam, also have dues to NEEPCO. These states, except Tripura and Meghalaya, taking into account a waiver scheme, liquidated their dues against power supply," said the official requesting anonymity.

When contacted by IANS, Tripura State Electrical Corporation Limited chairmancum-managing director Shyamal Kumar Roy said he was unaware about the dues to NEEPCO and it was being looked into by senior officials of the state government.

NEEPCO, which contributes around 38 percent of the total installed capacities of various state and central government run power projects in the northeastern region, currently has its combined installed capacity of 1,287 MW from seven power plants in Assam, Tripura and Arunachal Pradesh.

M'laya govt may collapse on its own: BJP ShilloNG, april 4 (iaNS): The Congress-led government in Meghalaya will not complete its full term and can collapse under its own weight of "non-performance" and "internal bickering", BJP leader Nalin Kohli said on Monday. "The very fact that Mukul Sangma found the need to appoint 18 parliamentary secretaries in addition to 12 ministers clearly shows that things are not in good condition in the Congress party," the BJP's national spokesman told journalists.

Kohli, who is also a BJP general secretary in charge of the party's affairs in Meghalaya, said the controversial appointment of such parliamentary secretaries was

also likely to attract legal challenges.

The lone North East Social Democratic Party legislator, Lamboklang Mylliem, who is supporting the Mukul Sangma government, resigned from his post of parliamentary secretary following reports that the government violated the 91st amendment to the Constitution by appointing parliamentary secretaries., who would be availing the same perks and facilities provided to ministers.

Stating that the BJP will have no role in toppling the Congress government in Meghalaya, Kohli said: "If the Congress government collapses, it will be under its own internal contradictions and internal conflicts."

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We could not thank each and every individual in person but your good deeds will always remain in our hearts.

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World figures deny wrongdoing as ‘Panama Papers’ turn spotlight on tax evasion L O N D O N / PA N A M A CITY, APrIL 4 (reuTers): Governments across the world began investigating possible financial wrongdoing by the rich and powerful on Monday following a leak of documents from a Panamanian law firm which allegedly showed how clients avoided tax or laundered money.

The documents detailed schemes involving an array of figures from friends of Russian President Vladimir Putin to relatives of the prime ministers of Britain, Iceland and Pakistan and as well as the president of Ukraine, journalists who received them said.

While the “Panama Papers” detail complex financial arrangements benefitting the world’s elite, they do not necessarily mean the schemes were all illegal.

The Kremlin said the documents contained “nothing concrete and nothing new” while a spokesman for British Prime Minister David Cameron said his late father’s reported links to an offshore company were a “private matter”.

Iceland’s Prime Minister Sigmundur Gunnlaugsson could not immediately be reached for comment on the naming of his wife in connection with a secretive company in an offshore haven which brought opposition calls for him to resign.

Pakistan denied any wrongdoing by the family of Prime Minister Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif after his daughter and son were linked to offshore companies. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has not commented on his reported offshore links.

Australia, Austria, Brazil, France and Sweden were among countries which said they had begun investigating the allegations, based on more than 11.5 million documents from law firm Mossack Fonseca, located in the tax haven of Panama.

Banks as well as individual clients came under the spotlight.

The documents were leaked to the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) and more than 100 other news organisations. Mossack Fonseca has denied any wrongdoing.

“I think the leak will prove to be probably the biggest blow the offshore world has ever taken because of the extent of the documents,” ICJC director Gerard Ryle said.

ARMS AND DRUGS? The material covers a period over almost 40 years, from 1977 until last December, and allegedly show that some companies domiciled in tax havens were being used for suspected money laundering, arms and drug deals, and tax evasion.

Britain’s Guardian newspaper said the documents showed a network of secret offshore deals and loans worth $2 billion led to close friends of Putin, including concert cellist Sergei Roldugin.

Reuters could not confirm those details.

Putin’s spokesman dismissed the reports, saying they aimed to discredit him ahead of upcoming elections.

“This Putinophobia abroad has reached such a point that it is in fact taboo to say something good about Russia, or about any actions by Russia or any Russian achievements.

But it’s a must to say bad

things, a lot of bad things, and when there’s nothing to say, it must be concocted. This is evident to us.”

The British government asked for a copy of the leaked data, which could be embarrassing for Prime Minister Cameron, who has spoken out against tax evasion and tax avoidance.

His late father, Ian Cameron, is mentioned in the files, alongside some members of his Conservative Party in the upper house of parliament, former Conservative lawmakers and party donors, British media said.

Jennie Granger, director general of enforcement and compliance at HM Revenue and Customs, said the government had a great deal of information from a wide range of sources.

“We will closely examine this data and will act on it swiftly and appropriately,” she said.

Cameron’s spokeswoman declined to comment on whether the leader’s family had money invested in offshore funds set up by his father, saying it was a “private matter”.

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Party’s finance spokesman, John McDonnell, tweeted: “Cameron promised and has failed to end tax secrecy and crack down on ‘morally unacceptable’ offshore schemes, real action is now needed.”

The Australian Tax Office said it was investigating more than 800 wealthy Mossack Fonseca clients and had linked more than 120 of them to an associate offshore service provider located in Hong Kong, which it did not name.

shore companies by Pakistini Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ’s family, including his daughter Mariam and son Hussain.

Pakistani Information Minister Pervez Rasheed denied any wrongdoing on their part.

“Every man has the right to do what he wants with his assets, to throw them in the sea, to sell them, or to establish a trust for them. There is no crime in this in Pakistani law or in international law,” Rasheed said.

Media reports also said the leaked data pointed to a link between a member of global soccer body FIFA’s ethics committee and a Uruguayan soccer official who was arrested last year as part of a U.S. probe into corruption in the sport.

FIFA’s ethics committee said Juan Pedro Damiani, a member of its judgment chamber, was being investigated over a possible business relationship with fellow Uruguayan Eugenio Figueredo, one of the soccer officials arrested in Zurich last year.

Damiani told Reuters in Montevideo he broke off relations with Figuere-

DATABASE “HACK” The head of Mossack Fonseca, Ramon Fonseca, has denied any wrongdoing but said his firm had suffered a successful but “limited” hack on its database. He described the hack and leak as “an international campaign against privacy”.

Fonseca, who was up until March a senior government official in Panama, told Reuters the firm had formed more than 240,000 offshore companies, the “vast majority” used for “legitimate purposes”.

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GuwAhATI, APrIL 4 (AGeNCIes): Activeda 2016 – the annual college fiesta of NERIM Group of Institutions was celebrated with much pomp and fair from March 29 to 31 at NERIM Khanapara campus.

The three day extravaganza began with a Cultural Rally flagged off by the Director of NERIM Group of Institutions, Prof (Dr.) Sangeeta Tripathi, wherein the distinguished colourful tableaus of the seven sister states along with Sikkim was exhibited.

Afterwards, the main event was inaugurated by renowned visual artist Neel Paban Baruah. In his inaugural speech he emphasized on the need for maintaining a balance between academics and other co-curricular activities for the overall development of the students and success in life.

The festival saw a large scale participation of students from all the departments in multilateral events and competitions in the genres of – Academics, Cultural, Co-curricular and Sports. The event culminated with an array of cultural performances from the students that created a mesmerizing evening of light and sound.

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Driven by IT sector, Karnataka is country’s top job creator BeNGALuru, APrIL 4 (PTI): Karnataka has been ranked as the country’s top job creating state with over 24% share during the fourth quarter of the last fiscal, according to a study. It is followed by Maharashtra (23%) and Tamil Nadu (10.5 %), said the study by Assocham.

Information technology (IT) sector created about 57% of about nine lakh job openings recorded between January-March, 2016, followed by services (19%) and manufacturing (11%), according to the report. Banking, financial services and insurance (BFSI) sector accounted for just over eight per cent share followed by construction and real estate (3.5 % share).

Within Karnataka, ITEs accounted for over 65% share in job openings across the state followed by services (16%), manufacturing (8%), BFSI (6%) and construction and real estate sector (2.5% ).

The Assocham Economic Research Bureau (AERB) had analysed the data sourced primarily from vacancies posted by companies via various job portals together with advertisements offering employment opportunities published in national and regional dailies across India.

Karnataka had recorded 2.16 lakh job openings in the first quarter of the last fiscal followed by Maharashtra (two lakh), Tamil Nadu (93,000), Andhra Pradesh and Telangana region combined (82,000) and Haryana (72,000).

Sector-wise, Karnataka leads in terms of job openings in ITES sector with 28% share in over five lakh jobs created by the sector followed by Maharashtra (20.5 per cent), Tamil Nadu (11 per cent), Andhra PradeshTelangana (10 per cent) and Uttar Pradesh (eight per cent), it said.

Services sector recorded 1.69 lakh jobs in JanuaryMarch quarter of 2015-16 with Maharashtra accounting for the “lion’s share” of about 24% followed by Karnataka (21%), Haryana (8.4%), Uttar Pradesh (8.2%) and Andhra Pradesh-Telangana (8.1%).

In manufacturing sector, Maharashtra has recorded highest share with 22.5% in over 99,000 job openings, followed by Karnataka (19%), Tamil Nadu (12%), Andhra Pradesh-Telangana (9%) and Gujarat (8%).

Maharashtra also topped with highest share in job openings recorded in BFSI and construction and real estate with a share of about 31 per cent in both sectors each, while Karnataka followed with a share of 18 per cent and 17 per cent respectively, it added.

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Govt discusses ways to clean State electoral roll

Kohima, april 4 (Dipr): The Chief Electoral Officer of Nagaland, Sanjay Kumar had a meeting with some Government bureaucrats and departments with regard to cleaning of electoral roll (E-Roll) in the State at Hotel Japfü on April 4.

Deliberating on the issues pertaining to National Electoral Roll Purification (NERP) 2016 drive, the CEO stated that to clean up the present electoral roll, it requires collective support of all Government and private institutions, State level NGOs and every responsible citizen as it contains duties and responsibilities of every individual in the State. Stating that Nagaland was the only State in the whole world which has a negative growth rate in the last decade, the CEO remarked it as a serious abnormality and further asked all departments concerned to contribute as to how best

Ministry of Finance team to visit Nagaland Kohima, april 4 (mExN): A study team fro m the Ministry of Finance, Government of India will be visiting Nagaland from April 5 to 7. The study team will have meeting with Nagaland State Government officials on April 6 at 10:30 am at the Chief Secretary’s conference hall, Kohima.

Presentation will be given by K. Kikheto Sema, IAS, Secretary, Finance. Chief Secretary Pankaj Kumar, IAS, will also address the meeting.

The meeting will discuss on National Horticulture Mission, Integrated Child Development Scheme, Deen Dayal Upadhyay Gram Jyoti Jojana, externally aided projects, rural local bodies, urban local bodies and disaster management grant.

The team will also visit Land Resources Directorate, Minister’s Bungalow construction, Assembly Secretariat Complex, District Hospital Kohima construction, Kohima treasury (N), Lerie Solid Waste Management site and World War II cemetery.

Chief Electoral Officer Nagaland says collective support required

Meeting on NERP held in Dimapur

CEO Nagaland, Sanjay Kumar speaking at the NERP 2016 & SVEEP meeting at Hotel Japfü on April 4, 2016. (DIPR Photo)

“we” could collaborate and cooperate to strive for the successful implementation of the NERP drive. He urged the departments to educate, spread awareness, motivate their respective employees on NERP 2016 & SVEEP and ensure that there are

Dimapur, april 4 (Dipr): A meeting was held regarding National Electoral Roll Purification (NERP) in Dimapur between Assistant Election Officer R. Toshi Aier and the leaders of political parties, ward chairmen, and representatives of different organizations at DC’s conference hall on April 2.

The Assistant Election Officer briefed the gathering about the Election Commission of India’s recently declared NERP programme.

He said that the main focus of the programme will be registration of no multiple registrations in the E-Roll and also to go for Aadhaar Card entry to link up in the E-Roll. He added that a Pledge card will also be a supporting measure which could bring about a large change in the matter.

The CEO also informed that there is an Award for some good practices as directed by the Election Commission of India.

Commissioner & Secretary YR&S, Menukhol John opined that the multiple en-

further informed the house that if needed, the election officials can be invited to any meetings and gatherings in different places to brief about the process.

He also explained to the participants about the Possible Duplicate List software and E-Roll management software used by the Election Commission. Issues regarding correction of Voters’ Identity Card, rationalisation of polling station, enrollment of genuine voters, malpractices during elections were also discussed during the meeting.

tries in the E-Roll is because of human issues/problems and further urged to think out of the box in order to tackle the issue. Secretary Forest, Imtienla suggested that in order to spread awareness, a common mes-

sage or discussion on the issue in all the local dialects could be broadcasted in the FM Radio. The Joint Forest Committees in Nagaland and Eco-Clubs under Nagaland Pollution Control Board could also spread the

Farmers in Tokiye share NSCN (IM) welcomes 34 challenges, suggestions cadres from Arunachal Region Dimapur, april 4 (mExN): Farmers under Tokiye block in Zunheboto have suggested to increase emphasis on development of crops like large cardamom and kiwi (Alison var.) fruit in the area considering the climatic suitability and the success rate achieved.

The suggestion was made during the Block Farmers’ Advisory Committee (BFAC) meeting conducted by Agricultural Technology Management Agency (ATMA), Tokiye block on April 1 at Sub Divisional Agriculture Officer’s (SDAO) office, Aghunato.

The meeting, which started with an opening remark by SDAO & BTT Convenor, ATMA, Pekiye Sumi, had discussions on varied topics concerning the welfare of farming community of the block. The members shared their experiences and also the various challenges faced in undertaking agricultural activities in the area, according to a press release received here.

The farmers participat-

ed actively in the meeting and made several suggestions for enhancing and improving the agricultural and allied activities in the block.

Tokiye block being one of the most suitable and largest producers of potato and kholar beans in the district, the farmers also suggested increasing production of the same by making available suitable planting materials and seeds, the release said. They also highlighted the urgent need for setting up cold storage facilities.

For achieving the dual purpose of soil and moisture conservation and sustaining livelihood through fish cultivation, the farmers highlighted the need for constructing Water Harvesting Structures (WHS) and farm ponds in the fields.

The members also suggested organising exposure and educational tour programmes for the block farmers.

Altogether, 28 farmers attended the meeting.

Uttaranchal University officials counsel students in Dimapur Morung Express News Dimapur | April 4

Uttaranchal University (UU) in collaboration with Genius Career Guide, organized a seminar on career motivational prospective and counseling for students ranging from Class X to XII at Town Hall here on Monday.

The Chancellor of UU, Jitendra Joshi, Vice Chancellor SC Joshi and Joint Director, Planning & Development, Prof. Abhishek Gupta, in their speeches motivated and enlightened the students on courses and options in higher technical education and other streams.

Vice Chancellor, UU, SC Joshi, also highlighted on the

electors of 18 and 19 years of age since their percentage is very low in the district. In this regard, he appealed to the gathering to co-operate with the BLOs in their respective areas and at the same time create awareness and educate the mass for purification of electoral roll. He further asked the gathering to point out any issues if noticed or give feedback during the NERP exercise.

The representatives also gave their suggestions and grievances in regard to election process. Aier

Chancellor of Uttaranchal University (centre), Vice Chancellor (right) and Joint Director, Planning & Development, at the seminar at Town Hall, Monday.

“global standard” infrastructure and amenities available at UU, including serene academic atmosphere, hostels and various courses recognized by UGC. The visiting dignitaries also made a PowerPoint presentation on the stateof-the-art UU campus and

co-curricular activities of the university.

More than 200 students from different schools in Dimapur attended the seminar. For more details, interested students may log on to e.admission@uttaranchaluniversity.ac.in or geniuscareerguide@gmail.com.

March 27, 2014, India was certified “Polio free”.

He further stated that from April 25 - National Switch Day, the district will also switch from trivalent oral polio vaccine (tOPV) to bivalent oral polio vaccine (bOPV) along with the rest of the country and all tOPV will be recalled, destroyed and validated subsequently.

Dr. Lanuakum also presented on Mission Indradhanush Phase-3. The main objective of Mission Indradhanush 2016 is to immunize children below 2 years who are either partially vaccinated or completely unvaccinated and also to increase DPT booster coverage of children 5

years of age. He also stated that sessions planned under Mission Indradhanush will finally be part of the Routine Immunization.

James Swu, SDO (C), Dimapur encouraged the Social Welfare Department to continue activating the Anganwadi workers to identify and mobilize beneficiaries during the implementation of the said programmes and also the Education Department to continue to co-operate with Health Department.

The meeting was attended by representatives from Education Department, Social Welfare, Indian Association of Pediatrics and staff under CMO Dimapur.

MEx FILE ANCSU appeals to power dept Kohima, april 4 (mExN): The All Nagaland College Students’ Union (ANCSU) has appealed to the Power Department to adopt all possible measures to provide uninterrupted power supply during the forthcoming End Semester degree examination. The union in a release also appealed to the general public, all responsible wards, colonies and town areas to control noise pollution (melas, concerts etc) during the course of the examination. It further wished all the students the very best in their exam.

State meet on technology

In this photo released to the media, some of the people who joined NSCN (IM) are seen.

Dimapur, april 4 (mExN): NSCN (IM) led

by Kilo Kilonser Rh. Raising today officially welcomed to its fold 34 people from the GPRN/NSCN, Arunachal Region. Among the 34 people included Brig. Nokto Wangsa, Commander.

A press release from MIP, NSCN (IM) informed that the Kilo Kilonser, conveying immense happiness at the “home coming”, extended gratitude to the Almighty and appreciated Brig. Nokto Wangsa and others for responding to the “clarion call of the NSCN to all the comrades who are in different camp to come

home and strengthen the Peace process which has gained momentum towards final solution after the signing of Framework Agreement.” Kilo Kilonser Raising also appealed to all “who are still at large to join the peace process for which the door of NSCN is wide open.”

Brig. Nokto Wangsa, on behalf of all those who joined NSCN (IM), expressed hope and expectation with the coming together of the three “great leaders”, Isak Chishi Swu, Th. Muivah and Gen. Kholi for the best interest of the Naga people and the signing of the 3rd August 2015

Framework Agreement, which will lay out the political future of the Naga people, the release said.

Among the 34 people, one was Commander, one Lieutenant Colonel, one Major, three Captain, six Lieutenant, three 2nd Lieut, two Sergeant Major, one Sergeant, six Corporal, one L/Corporal, one Leacy, one Tatar, one Under Secretary Cum Advisor to Arunachal Region, one Secretary (Arunachal Region), one Acting Supervisor (Arunachal Region), one Razou Peyu (Arunachal Pradesh), one PO (Arunachal Pradesh), two Khapur.

Refrain from misleading news: LLRPO

Dimapur, april 4 (mExN): The Lotha Lower Range Public Organisation (LLRPO) today convened an emergency meeting in Dimapur to deliberate on a “calling letter” issued to its president by the Lotha Hoho, regarding media reports last month of a statement allegedly made by an official of the NSCN (IM).

This was informed in a press statement by the LL-

RPO today.

The Lotha Hoho, in its ‘calling letter,’ made available to the media by the LLRPO, asked the LLRPO president to attend a meeting on April 5 in Wokha. It cautioned that “failure to attend the meeting in person will invite serious consequences...”

The LLRPO reminded that it had already issued a clarification on the is-

Kohima, april 4 (Dipr): A one day State meet on ‘Promoting use of Space Technology and Application in Governance & Development’ will be held on April 6 at the Capital Convention Center, Kohima. Parliamentary Secretary, Planning & Co-ordination, Neibu Kronu will grace the inaugural programme as the chief guest, while Chief Minister TR Zeliang will be the chief guest during the special session. Officials/ scientists from ISRO/ NRSC, NESAC Department of Space, Government of India will be attending the meet.

Apparel & Garment Making Centre to be inaugurated today Dimapur, april 4 (Dipr): Santosh Kumar Gangwar, Minister of State (Independent Charge) will inaugurate the Apparel & Garment Making Centre at 6th Mile, District Industries Centre Complex, Dimapur on April 5, 2016. The Minister will also lay foundation stone for Muga P3 Basic Seed Station Kobulong, Mokokchung and launch the newly approved Integrated Eri Silk Development Project under NERTPS for women empowerment and sustainable livelihood in Kohima district.

This is the first Apparel & Garment Making Centre inaugurated and funded by the Ministry of Textiles, Govt. of India in the North East Region.

Appeal to claim body from hospital Dimapur, april 4 (mExN): The man who was found in an unconscious state at New Market, near Dhobinala Police Point on April 1 as published in the local dailies on April 4 passed away this morning at 10:00 am at Dimapur Civil Hospital. Therefore, proprietor of JR Travels, who was one of the persons who took the man to the hospital, has requested anyone who has any knowledge about the man to come and claim the body urgently by April 5. Call the JR Travels proprietor Nizamul Hoque at 9856745856 or West Police Station at 7085055034.

sue, and thereby expressed concern at the ‘calling letter.’ During its meeting on April 4 and during an earlier meeting on April 2, the LLRPO “resolved to reaffirm the clarification statement” published earlier regarding the issue. It further appealed to all to “re- KSON to tour Kuki villages frain from misleading news which will harm the good Dimapur, april 4 (mExN): The Kuki Students' relations among us which Organisation, Nagaland (KSON) will start its tour to all we have always treasured.” Kuki villages of Ahthibung and Khelma areas from April 5. A press release from KSON officials informed that during the tour, the organization will visit schools and interact with teachers, GBs, Village Councils and youth and students' unions under KSON. Recently, a visit to Kuki villages of Molvom area was conducted, the release said. Informing the village authorities of Ahthibung and Khelma areas of its tour, the organization asked them to prepare for the same.

Aoleang Monyu festival celebrated in Pune

Meeting on tOPV to bOPV Switch and Mission Indradhanush Phase-3 held Dimapur, april 4 (mExN): The District Task Force held a meeting on tOPV to bOPV Switch and Mission Indradhanush Phase-3, First Round 2016 on April 4 at DC’s conference hall in Dimapur.

Dr. Lanuakum, DPO (UIP/ RCH) gave a detailed presentation on Global Polio Eradication Strategy and tOPV to bOPV Switch. He also informed the members on the recent milestones and achievements under Universal Immunization Programme. In India, he said, the last case of wild polio virus was detected in 2011, and in 2012, India was removed from the list of polio endemic countries. On

awareness in their respective areas, she said.

Director, Youth Resources & Sports, Asangla Imti shared that the department will educate and create awareness on SVEEP among the various organizations such as NYK, NSS, BS&Gs and NCC. She also shared her past experiences as ERO and stated that the most active groups in the election process in rural areas are women groups and youth, while in the urban area, it is the unions.

Additional PCCF (T), Dr. Ramesh Aima; Secretary Health & Family Welfare, Senti Ao; Joint Secretary Social Welfare, Z. Nyusietuo Nyuthe also shared their views and suggestions during the meeting.

Deputy CEO, Vekho Vero also gave a brief highlight on the SVEEP and cel-

ebration of 6th National Voters’ Day and further requested all departments to spread awareness in their departments’ websites to celebrate National Voters’ Day in the rightful manner.

The NERP 2016, an intensive drive which was launched on March 1, is to be completed on or before August 31, 2016. The drive was launched with the main objective to improve the health of the Electoral Roll (ER) and to rationalize the Polling Stations (PSs) boundaries and location.

The NERP drive will also include enrollment of all citizens and removal of repeated and multiple entries, entries of dead, shifted and absent voters, correction of errors in EPIC and removal of other data errors. During the drive, repeat images will also be corrected, missing photographs will be collected, and poor quality of images will be replaced by good quality photographs.

BJP Nagaland unit condoles Dimapur, april 4 (mExN): The BJP Nagaland unit has condoled the demise of Saluvi Shohe, retired RTO, father of BJP State Executive Member, Kupoto Shohe (Atobu) on April 3. The party prayed for strength of the bereaved family members at this time of grief and that the departed soul rest in peace.

RMSA selected candidates 2014 meeting

Konyak and Phom students in Pune and guests during the Aoleang Monyu celebration.

puNE, april 4 (mExN): The Konyak and Phom students in Pune celebrated Aoleang Monyu on April 3 with a dinner event. The students from both the tribes gave informative presentations about the festival prior to the feast,

according to a press release received here.

“Aoleang Monyu is the festival when we pray to the Almighty and share love and honour with the elder family members and friends,” the release said.

The celebration was graced

by the NCF Pune Pastor, Achu Chang, who conveyed his best wishes and initiated the celebration.

He informed the gathering about the similarities between the Jewish Passover festival and the Aoleang Monyu festival.

Kohima, april 4 (mExN): There will be a meeting of all the RMSA selected candidates 2014 who have already submitted acceptance letter but yet to receive appointment letter on April 7, 10:00 am at Kohima local ground. Candidates from every district have been requested to attend the meeting without fail. For further details, contact 8014657598.

Zbto DPDB meeting on April 8 ZuNhEboto, april 4 (Dipr): The monthly meeting of Zunheboto District Planning & Development Board has been scheduled on April 8 at DC Conference Hall. All members have been asked to attend the meeting without fail.

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IN FOCUS The Power of Truth

The Morung Express volume Xi issue 92

Political Defiance - I

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he 2016 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India on the Social, Economic, Revenue and General Sectors for the year ending 31 March 2015 of the Government of Nagaland that was tabled on March 19, 2016, during the Budget Session of the Nagaland Legislative Assembly is damning. The Report identified specific anomalies, fraudulent fund withdrawals, pilfering, lack of planning, absence of rigorous monitoring mechanisms, poor maintenance of records, financial losses by departments and discrepancies in recovery among other failures of the Nagaland State Government.

By bringing to public expression the overall performance of the Nagaland Government, the CAG confirms people’s assumptions and allegations of bad-governance and abuse of political and financial power in Nagaland State.

What is further disturbing has been the alleged attitude of the Nagaland State Government. The CAG has termed the government’s response as “obnoxious,” and pointed out that instead of discouraging such “blatant malpractice,” the government is trying to “legitimize/cover-up the matter and even going to the extent of encouraging offence.” In doing so, is the Nagaland State Government defying the basic tenets of democratic governance and also violating the public trust put on them by the people?

The fact however remains that this is only a symptom of a much deeper predicament. The source of this domineering and corrupt system needs to be identified. Actually, it can be traced back to the formation of Nagaland State in 1963, which came through the 16 Point Agreement of 1960 between the Government of India and the Naga People’s Convention.

While a State is usually a result of an informed and inclusive political, and social contract between peoples, the Nagaland State was formed through an Agreement as part of the broader counter-insurgency policy to fracture the Naga movement. Hence, Nagaland State was not the result of an informed and participatory political contract between the Nagas and the Indian State. By this very nature, a certain degree of State impunity was already inherent in its foundation. Charles Tilly reminds us that war made States and States in turn made war.

If we look carefully, the formation of Nagaland state is a classic example of the link between State Building and War Making.

In light of this historical event and in the face of rapid fundamental changes, the Naga society has moved away from its base of evolving inherent course. Consequently, the people of Nagaland State are conditioned to submit to authority without questioning it. Furthermore, the society has been turned into one of isolated individuals and groups that are unable to work together to achieve justice and freedom, to confide and stand in solidarity with one another, or even to do anything at their own initiative.

As a result, civil institutions have become weak and are facing a crisis of self-confidence in their ability to sustain an effective nonviolent resistance. Invariably, the public, in their isolation, are often too afraid, even troubled to think seriously of publicly resisting the powers that be which leaves them in the margins alone to suffer without purpose and with a diminished sense of hope.

The revelations of the recent CAG Report have implications on fundamental issues of human freedom, democratic governance, political liberties, and economic well-being, all of which are wrapped up around the people’s future development.

The guile of the State cannot be underestimated. In recent months a number of protests on public issues such as backdoor appointments, scholarships, and non-payment of salaries have been kept in abeyance on the assurance that they will be addressed. However, when promises offered by the State during negotiations, remember that the State may promise anything to secure submission and obedience, and then audaciously violate the same assurance. Bear in mind that words don’t mean the same thing to everyone, for example, not everyone who uses the word “peace” wants a justpeace with equality, freedom and dignity.

Given these present realities in Nagaland State and in light of the recent CAG report findings these conditions offer an opportune moment for a nonviolent initiative to emerge that will empower people to break down barriers driven by fear that separate and divide, and overturn their habit of obedience to authority. Such an initiative will rely upon the people’s determination to stand together and form new relationships, organize and mobilize themselves into a selfreliant people’s movement based on intelligent strategies and disciplined tactical decisions that take into account both short-term and long-term measures.

Eventually, such an act of political defiance by the people will depend on their desire, their determination, collective ability and commitment to liberate themselves from this unjust status quo.

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Lt. Siegfried Sassoon.

3rd Batt: Royal Welsh Fusiliers.

Public statement Of Wilful Defiance

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am making this statement as an act of wilful defiance of military authority because I believe that the war is being deliberately prolonged by those who have the power to end it. I am a soldier, convinced that I am acting on behalf of soldiers. I believe that the war upon which I entered as a war of defence and liberation has now become a war of aggression and conquest. I believe that the purposes for which I and my fellow soldiers entered upon this war should have been so clearly stated as to have made it impossible to change them and that had this been done the objects which actuated us would now be attainable by negotiation.

I have seen and endured the sufferings of the troops and I can no longer be a party to prolonging these sufferings for ends which I believe to be evil and unjust. I am not protesting against the conduct of the war, but against the political errors and insincerities for which the fighting men are being sacrificed.

On behalf of those who are suffering now, I make this protest against the deception which is being practised upon them; also I believe it may help to destroy the callous complacency with which the majority of those at home regard the continuance of agonies which they do not share and which they have not enough imagination to realise.”

This is a copy of the open letter by Lt. Siegfried Sassoon, 3rd Batt: Royal Welsh Fusiliers and published in The Times newspaper, 31 July 1917. The letter published by a war hero (Sassoon won the Military Medal) caused a minor furore and questions were asked in the Houses of Parliament.

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Colum Lynch and John Hudson Foreign Policy

Is the International Community out of Ideas to fight Terrorism?

After every attack, officials cry out for more intelligence sharing and hard security measures. Maybe it’s time for something else

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skew of Islamic State attacks, from Paris to Turkey to Brussels, is shaking confidence in the international community’s approach to combating terrorism and has prompted a new look at what critics call a failing strategy that relies too heavily on law enforcement, intelligence gathering, and military operations — and not enough on winning hearts and minds.

It has been nearly 18 years since the United Nations was first asked to support the budding U.S. war on terror with a Security Council resolution calling on states to cooperate in pursuing those behind the Aug. 7, 1998, attacks on two U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.

Following the 9/11 attacks, the U.N. built an industry of counterterrorism panels and committees that has documented the spread of militant organizations across Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. The world body has pressed countries to rewrite laws, share intelligence, and criminalize terrorism.

But extremist violence continues to bedevil the big powers, prompting a major rethink of counterterrorism priorities.

“Here we are, 18 years later, with pretty much the same problem and no really strong strategic approach for dealing with it,” Richard Barrett, a former director of global counterterrorism for the British Secret Intelligence Service, or MI6, who headed U.N. investigations into al Qaeda, told Foreign Policy. “It’s very much about bombing and arresting rather than understanding why this is happening and what can be done to try to address that.”

The problem has become so pronounced that even the U.N.’s most senior leaders are sounding the alarm.

“Over the past two decades, the international community has sought to address violent extremism primarily within the context of security-based counter-terrorism measures adopted in response to the threat posed by AlQaida and its affiliated groups,” U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon wrote in a Dec. 24 report titled “Plan of Action to Prevent Violent Extremism.”

“However, with the emergence of a new generation of groups, there is a growing international consensus that such counter-terrorism measures have not been sufficient to prevent the spread of violent extrem-

A vote is taken during a meeting at the United Nations July 21, 2014 in New York, to draft a UN Security Council resolution demanding that pro-Russian separatists provide "full and unfettered access" to the crash site of the downed Malaysian jet in eastern Ukraine. (AFP PHOTO)

ism,” Ban wrote.

Ryan Greer, a former advisor at the U.S. State Department’s Counterterrorism Bureau, agreed that a militarized response to terrorism has limits.

“There are too many returning foreign fighters and ISIL supporters to arrest and kill our way out of this, particularly as new recruits join each day,” Greer told Foreign Policy. “We need to better understand the root causes of support to ISIL and prevent people from radicalizing and reintegrate returning fighters who are not dangerous.”

One challenge is settling on exactly what the United States and its allies should be fighting. In February 2015, the Obama administration hosted a summit on countering violent extremism. But the phrase remains an “elusive concept,” even within the borders of Europe, where the United Kingdom, Sweden, Norway, and Denmark have different definitions of what constitutes violent extremism, according to Ben Emmerson, the U.N. special rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism.

In a Feb. 22 report, Emmerson said the lack of an internationally recognized definition for violent extremism or terrorism has created what he called a “well-founded concern” that authoritarian states could use the terms to justify targeting “members of religious minorities, civil society, human rights defenders, peaceful separatist and indigenous groups and members of political opposition parties.”

“You don’t want to make life easier for dictators,” said François Heisbourg, a former French diplomat who serves as a special advisor at the Foundation for Strategic Research in Paris. The lack of a definition, he added, “does make life easier for dictators. It enables them to define those terms.”

There is also disagreement over what social, economic, or psychologi-

cal forces drive individuals into a life of terrorism.

Shortly after 9/11, then-President George W. Bush and other world leaders proclaimed at a summit on poverty in Monterrey, Mexico, that it is essential to eradicate poverty to defeat terrorism. Heisbourg, by contrast, cast doubt on that conclusion: “Were the 9/11 terrorists primarily defined by the fact that they were poor?” he said.

“Most of them were not.”

Regardless of the cause of violent extremism, the national reflex for most governments struck by terrorists is to hit back.

Over the last year, and since attacks in Paris and Brussels, French and Belgian authorities have stepped up their bombing campaigns against the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq while pressing for tighter European border controls, more intelligence sharing, and arrests of suspected accomplices. Following the March 22 bombings in Brussels, Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel confirmed plans to resume F-16 airstrikes on Islamic State targets as a part of the U.S.-led coalition against the extremist group.

While counterterrorism experts have suggested ways Europe can more effectively share critical information, there’s a growing realization in New York that the U.N. can only do so much.

European powers say the U.N. Security Council has already given member states sweeping powers to crack down on terrorism. What is missing is the resolve to exercise those powers.

“It’s hard to imagine what more can be done in terms of a resolution,” Barrett said. “I think all the tools have been unpacked, laid out, ready to use.

It’s about getting on with it.”

That’s not to say there aren’t important improvements to be made in Europe, where the lack of political will to share intelligence on the movement of suspected Islamic State militants has been glaring.

In 2004, following the Madrid train bombings that killed 192 people, the EU created a counterterrorism coordinator position to foster cohesion among member states. But the coordinator’s office “doesn’t have any authority,” Eric Rosand, a former State Department official who specialized in counterterrorism, told FP last week.

“He has a grand title, and he produces wonderful reports. But he has a limited mandate and no resources.”

The current coordinator, Belgian diplomat Gilles de Kerchove, issued a March 1 report warning that “further urgent improvements to information sharing and border security are necessary” — especially related to the use of a common database for DNA, fingerprints, and car license plates for suspected terrorists. The report also noted governments aren’t even using a separate database to help with ongoing prosecutions and convictions of suspected extremists.

But those are fixes that don’t involve U.N. action.

In theory, the U.N. has the power to sanction countries that fail to take steps to cooperate on intelligence sharing. But the world body virtually never does. The language of U.N. resolutions calling for such action is more “aspirational than real world,” Heisbourg said.

And in practice, states jealously guard the secrets their security agencies dig up; Heisbourg cited the prominent failures by the CIA and FBI to routinely share intelligence before 9/11. “I don’t think the U.S. intelligence community would be delighted to have to share on a systematic basis all its product” with other countries, he said. “Intelligence is not shared; it is traded.”

Recent revelations that the Islamic State showed signs of planning attacks on Europe as far back as 2014, as first reported by the New York Times, have heightened criticisms of Western intelligence agencies. The newspaper’s report, based on court proceedings, wiretaps, and interrogation transcripts, found that local authorities in Europe repeatedly shrugged off a series of uncovered plots by Islamic extremists as “isolated or random acts” and downplayed the connections to the Islamic State.

Yet the ability of intelligence services — no matter how competent they are — to never miss a threat is often overestimated, some experts said.

“The ‘this was an intelligence failure’ line is almost always a bit of a red herring,” said Greer, who is currently CEO of Vasa Strategies, which consults on countering violent extremism.

“Would we like to know everything all the time? Sure. But we won’t.”

“It’s really hard to collect intelligence in a war zone where your military is not on the ground,” he added.

Introducing the human smugglers roundtable luigi Achilli and Gabriella sanchez openDemocracy

Human smuggling and irregular migration are hot topics yet poorly understood, a situation which has allowed dangerous, security-focused policies to proliferate. We ask those studying smugglers first-hand to weigh in

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rregular immigration has produced political heat across the world. Dramatic photos of migrants crammed into wretched boats circulate in the media, while journalistic accounts tell stories of poor and desperate individuals deceived by organised crime ‘cartels’.

When EUROPOL launched the European Migrant Smuggling Centre last February, it cited astonishing statistics on human smuggling operations: networks of unprecedented reach have taken over the market; profits are breaking records; ‘smugglers’ are able to transport anybody from asylum seekers to ‘economic migrants’ to members of terrorist and fundamentalist organisations.

All this has allowed for political leaders and authorities to frame clandestine migration processes as a war, a war where the evil is represented by the smugglers. But who are the smugglers? And to what extent does human smuggling actually jeopardise the security of the receiving state and that of

the migrant? For those who have followed migration flows over the years, such doomsday narratives are far from new. The smuggler has long been the quintessential predator of late modernity, with his exploits occupying, and at times even dominating, media headlines via the display of graphic images of victimisation and death.

The emphasis on smuggling networks’ transnational ties, the smuggling/trafficking nexus, and the conceptualisation of human smuggling as fundamentally coercive have been endlessly mobilised to justify immigration enforcement operations. Yet, empirical evidence shows that human smuggling across the world is largely the sum of highly heterogeneous organisations operating on small scales and in short time frames; that these groups are characterised by a lack of solid hierarchies and the existence of interchangeable figures; that they provide a service that is in great demand without necessarily exploiting clients; and that the smuggler and the customer may, at times, be the same person. An effective eradication of these organisations without addressing the causes of clandestine migration may thus prove difficult, for smuggling networks are deeply enmeshed within migratory flows.

Nonetheless, nation states all over the world tend to remain overwhelmingly focused on implementing a security-based policy. The recently signed EU-Turkey agreement is in fact another clear step in this direction. The strategy has proven difficult – if not dubious –

for a number of reasons. First, enforcement of irregular migration operations through deterrence has often proven inefficient. The evolution of smuggling across the Asian, American, and Mediterranean corridors demonstrates this with dramatic clarity. Effectively blocking smuggling groups has often resulted in redirected unauthorised migration flows onto different routes.

Second, the implementation of these security-based policies increases the level of risk faced by those on the move, who in an attempt to avoid detection often opt, with the hopes of reaching less precarious locations, for more remote and hence more dangerous travel mechanisms and routes.

Finally, the militarisation of border control has accompanied a growing tendency of smuggling groups to specialise and to increase their capacity of delivering specialised services to would-be migrants in a systematic and standardised manner. This has led to the emergence of increasingly precarious conditions characterised by specific forms of smuggling violence afflicting those on the move.

The search for better policy The urgency of migrant ‘crises’ all over the world calls for alternative policy measures. A better understanding of human smuggling is crucial in light of ensuring the security of the migrants and that of the receiving states.

On 5 and 6 April, an international group of scholars will gather at the European University Institute in Florence to challenge widely-held notions about smuggling and to provide an empirical basis for one of the least re-

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searched fields in migration studies: the facilitation of irregular migration.

The workshop ‘critical approaches to irregular migration facilitation: dismantling the human smuggler narrative’ constitutes the first collective attempt to provide grounded and much needed critical notions in the area of human smuggling scholarship.

Our goal is to furnish unique insights into the much-debated issue of human smuggling, at a time when Europe is calling for the official return of strict immigration controls and restrictions to asylum conventions; America is witnessing the spectral return of the radical-right and supremacist groups; and calls for the establishment of walls, fences, and detention facilities for migrants and refugees seem to be spreading like wildfire.

Over the next few days, in preparation for the workshop and through a dual collaboration between openDemocracy and Allegra Lab, we will first present a round table that records our participants’ approaches to human smuggling. The following week we will publish a series of articles from the workshop participants on the main lessons found in their work. Drawing on firsthand work in Europe, the Middle East, southeast Asia, Oceania, Africa and the Americas, this series reveals smuggling as a complex practice that cannot be boiled down to the narrow parameters of transnational crime, violence and greed. In the words and works of our contributors, smuggling emerges instead as a far richer practice embedded in notions of collective solidarity and support.

We invite you to join us in this global journey on the facilitation of migration across five continents.

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The Reality of Naga Nationalism “Arena of Mind” portrays a space for idea germination, a field where ideas from multi-disciplinary viewpoints fertilize the world of intelligence. The writers aspire to envision a new future by exploring the mind, discovering new seeds of insights and unleashing them to enlightenment.

Skill Development in Higher Education T. E. Martha Lotha Asst. Professor (St. Joseph’s College, Jakhama)

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Robert A. Silverstein*

I have listed a few books below that are directly related to the topic, abbreviated the titles, and I refer to the abbreviated titles in the body of my document, below. Also, I will refer to other materials not listed below • Andrews, C. F. India and the Simon Report. New York: Macmillan, 1930. “Simon.”

• Berlin, Isaiah. “Nationalism: Past Neglect and Present Power.” In Against the Current: Essays in the History of Ideas, pp. 333-55. Edited by Henry Hardy. London: Hogarth Press. 1979.

“Ideas.”

• Chakravarti, Sudeep. Highway 39: Journeys through a Fractured Land. New Dehi: Fourth Estate. 2012. “39.”

• Fraser, Steve. The Age of Acquiescence: The Life and Death of American Resistance to Organized Wealth and Power. New York. Little, Brown and Company. 2015. “Age.” • Glancey, Jonathan. Nagaland: A Journey to India's Forgotten Frontier.

London: Faber and Faber. 2011. “Journey.”

• Hedges, Chris. Wages of Rebellion.

New York. Nation Books. 2015. “Wages.”

• Iralu, Kaka D. The Naga Saga: A Historical Account of the Sixty-two Years Indo-Naga War and the Story of Those Who Were Never Allowed to Tell It. Third Edition. Kohima. Kaka D. Iralu. 2009.

“Saga.”

• Kire, Easterine. Bitter Wormwood.

New Delhi. Zubaan. 2011. “Bitter.”

• Lotha, Abraham. The Raging Mithun: Challenges of Naga Nationalism.

Tromso, Norway. Barkweaver. 2013.

“Mithun.”

• I begin with two presumptions: First, I'll presume, for the sake of argument, that the Nagas have established a valid case for their own nation-state.

• Second, I'll presume that violence of any sort is out of the question in pursuit of the goal of a Naga nation-state.

• (For the remainder of this paper when I refer to Naga's aspirations for an independent nation-state I will simply use the word “nation” for nation-state, and when I use the word “you” I will mean the Naga people.)

• A statement about history. Saga is, for the most part, a history of atrocities by the Indian government over a period of decades against the Naga people. Focusing on atrocities in the Indian-Nagaland context is irrelevant, no matter how tragic these atrocities were. In fact, those trying to prevent a solution will perpetrate atrocities to foment distrust.

Based on the above, I will not consider the history of atrocities in my analysis of the situation now.

• Sir Isaiah Berlin, the great historian of ideas, defined a nation thus: “... the essential human unit in which man's nature is fully realised [sic] is … the nation; that it is to the creation and maintenance of the nation that the lives of subordinate units, the family, the tribe, the clan, the province, must be due, for their nature and purpose, what is often called their meaning, are derived from its nature and its purpose; and that these are revealed not by rational analysis, but by special awareness, which need not be fully conscious, of the unique relationship that binds individual human beings into the indissoluble and unanalysable [sic] organic whole … which for nationalists is, and can only be, the nation, whether its social structure or form of government.”

Ideas, 342.

• Based on the above, it strikes me that the Naga people have a very weak argument that they are a nation. The tribal history of the Nagas indicates that the members of the Angami, Ao, or other sub-tribes have a stronger attraction to those sub-tribes than to the Naga people as a whole. Even Iralu states, “The world, for the Nagas[,] was his village. Saga, 83.

The relevant issue is whether the Naga sub-tribes relate to each other like

the immigrant groups who emigrated to countries like the USA, all of whom generally wanted to lose their previous European or Asian or Latin American tribal identities and assimilate. The sub-tribes of Nagaland certainly do not want to assimilate • For Naga nationalists, “The issue is between two separate entities [India and all the Naga people]. And so, it cannot be looked at from the perspective of the Indian Constitution.” 39, 351.

But, I must emphasize, that the goal in politics is not total victory but what is in fact possible. To state such things prior to negotiations as, “... if India wants to have any dialogue with the Nagas, … [i]t can only be within the framework of the Naga Plebiscite of 1951[,]” Saga, 21, is not helpful or realistic.

Iralu states, “India must get this very clear that the Nagas will never ever give up or surrender their inalienable rights.

This is more so because we have paid too dearly in blood and tears for those rights. …. Should India refuse to acknowledge the Naga rights and instead choose to continue the war with her military might, she must remember that Nagaland will not bleed alone.... she will always be Nagaland's companion in that bleeding and that weeping.” Saga, A NOTE TO THE READER, [my page numbered 3].

Does Iralu really mean this? Words are cheap. Are you willing to “bleed” India for the sake of Naga rights? Nagas must seriously question what those “inalienable rights” that Iralu referred to are.

Are things bad in Nagaland? Yes. But realistically how bad? What of the Adivasi on the Indian mainland? What of the dalits? What of the Muslims and Christians?

Nagas have an obligation to look at their situation as objectively as possible before threatening unending bloodshed if they do not get exactly what they want.

The issue always is, what is realistic, who is to pay the price of idealism, who is to do the bleeding, etc.

• “The truth is that anti-Catholicism is still the staple food for many people in Nagaland.” Mithun, 88. This article was published July 27, 2010. What is the situation now? Is this another factor that will stop the Nagas from working together if in fact they try to work toward their own nation?

• Paralleling the above, is this reality. “Nowadays, the Indian Army and the Assam Rifles barely need to take up arms. Sadly, this is because the Nagas have been doing the job for them, tearing themselves apart. Today there exists a political and military stalemate of sorts among the various Naga factions....

What violence remains in Nagaland is almost entirely internecine, while independence seems as far off as ever it did.”

Journey, 199.

• On 10 May, 2015 I met, and talked (through a translator) for a number of hours, with L. Kaiso, the NNC Secretary, at the Chedima Peace Camp. I afterward found out that he and the NNC are considered traitors by some nationalists for the signing of the 1964 cease-fire.

• It must be remembered that for many Nagas, prominent and otherwise, “The struggle of the Naga nation is about creating a better future for the Nagas whether within or outside the Indian state.” Mithun, 67. An insightful and wise speech is at the end of the novel by Easterine Kire, Bitter Wormwood. It is by Niketu Iralu, and says, in part, “Nagas have done virtually nothing to speak to the minds and hearts of the Indian people whose understanding alone can solve the problem [of the status of Nagaland and its fight for sovereignty]. Bitter, 262.

See whole speech: 258-269.

• I will now address the main issues necessary to obtain national independence. First, the military issue.

It is obvious that China is a potential threat to India. In 1962 the China war with India proved that.

The Israelis, a good analogy, have,

at times, justified their occupation of the West Bank in terms of security, in relation to having a buffer between Israel proper and Arab countries. It has been argued, and I believe correctly, that possession of the West Bank by Israel is more of a liability to Israel than an asset in case of war. It would require that Israel use much of the Israeli armed forces to spend precious resources on protecting the settlers on the West Bank.

Is Nagaland a buffer and an asset for India in a major war? I suggested to Secretary Kaiso, and I suggest now, that nationalists do research on line to find military think tanks outside India to address the issue of Nagaland as a buffer for, and an asset to, India.

• Second, the issue of precedent. This is the issue that India is concerned with most, that if Nagaland is given its freedom, then other minorities (e.g., Sikhs, the entity of the Kashmir Valley, other states and tribes on the mainland) will demand the same thing, which will endanger the integrity and survival of India.

I know that Iralu and others have argued that this is in fact a simple issue because of the nature of the Naga people, for instance being a different race, religion, and culture than other groups demanding independence in India.

This is a weak argument, not necessarily on the merits, but related to the facts on the ground. Most Indians aspiring to be a separate nation will not view the Naga demands as unique, but will treat such demands as a precedent for them.

• (A third issue for India would be the loss of the mineral rights to oil and other valuable commodities upon independence. This, like the military issue, is allegedly able to be resolved by treaty prior to independence, with a sharing agreement, as with the positioning of troops or other military units in Nagaland.

The problem with that is having Nagaland as part of the federal system, as it is now, allows for substantial more control over these issues than dealing with an alleged violation of a treaty between India and an independent Nagaland, where the UN and other international or regional bodies might intervene on behalf of Nagaland.)

• The integrity of India is a key issue which, despite the views of Nagas that it is not a serious problem in relation to other groups wishing for an independent state within the borders of India, is in fact a critical issue to India and is, in my opinion, insurmountable.

• Despite the skepticism I have expressed above on the chances of success for a separate nation for the Naga people, I will now touch on what it would take to attempt such a goal. First, it is my opinion that this attempt would be a radical or revolutionary goal similar to the one that took place over decades by India to free itself from the United Kingdom.

“Any revolutionary movement that builds a mass following will have to contend with the kind of state-orchestrated vilification and vigilante violence that plague[s] [the lives of those who attempt such movements]. Vitriol and violence will be unleashed, with the tacit approval of the state, on all who resist, even nonviolently. These reactionary movements, while defining themselves as the guardians of patriotism …, will draw on the deep reserves of racial hostility.” Wages, 160.

• This is just the Indian state I'm referring to above. There are much more serious issues a potential mass movement would have to contend with. Nagaland has one of the highest percentages of people in an Indian state who are members of a “scheduled tribe.” Many of these people, perhaps most, have taken advantage of the educational and vocational benefits given to those designated as members of a scheduled tribe. More importantly, many want their children to take advantage of these things.

• The vast majority of people in Nagaland are comfortable enough under the

present laws that they will not risk all of their benefits to gain a separate nation.

Also, the corruption in Nagaland is endemic (in 2007 “...the third most corrupt state in the country.” Mithun, 106). All those people who are “on the take,” have a vested interest in the present system and will not want to change the status quo and risk their gains under the present system.

Moreover, many former insurgents have now morphed into gangs cynically using the movement to extort money from small businesses and the Nagaland government seems helpless to stop this sort of violent extortion.

• There is only one hope to address the immediately preceding points; “If …

[Nagaland] could find ...some God-given moral genius who could stir up, not in one province only, but throughout the whole … [state], the spirit of moral revolt and independence, then there might be some hope. If … [Nagaland] could produce, out of her own store of inner resources, such an inspiring and unifying personality, then … [independence might be possible].” Simon, 119.

I don't see such a person on the Naga horizon. There is no Phizo in the wings. The people are comfortable, daily life has improved in the last generation or two, and it is improbable to expect them to risk all for a cause that probably is not winnable and, even if winnable, may not be worth the price, despite fantasies to the contrary.

• CONCLUSION. It is my opinion that the Naga dream of having a sovereign nation is, at best, a long shot, and, at worst, an easy diversion from the real work that can be accomplished with the determination of the population to improve the life of most Nagas. That work, more realistic than the fantasy of sovereignty, is, for example, to deal head on with the endemic corruption in Nagaland, so that roads that are to be repaired get repaired, and that other infrastructure gets built with the money sent to the state government from the Center rather than going into the pockets of the state bureaucrats, private contractors, et al.

• (I have had the dubious pleasure of traveling the road from Dimapur to Kohima and back many times, and it seems to me that the road might have been in better shape under Slim, Stoppard, and Grover during the Battle of Kohima in April 1944 than it is now. The fact that it is the main artery from your only airport to your capital is a disgrace. A state that cannot even properly maintain its most important road is not a state that should be aspiring to be a separate nation.)

• There is no reason to believe that the Nagas who are now corrupt, purchased

by Indian largess, or extortionists of their own people should all of a sudden see the light and reform just because they are a sovereign nation. The more limited but realistic goal should be to energize a few good people to run for political office, win, and clean up state government.

• Nagas may say that it is better to have a corrupt nation which is at least yours than a corrupt state within a nation whose majority of citizens look down upon, even despise, you. Perhaps.

But Nagas should ask the African-American community in the USA about that.

As our first black president finishes his second term in office, and as most blacks in our country have ancestors who were literally slaves, I think there has been some improvement in most of their lives. And that improvement has been within a still racist country, like India in some ways. The fight in Nagaland is not easy, but if American blacks can do it, Nagas can do it, within India more successfully than outside it.

*The author is a retired Criminal defense lawyer and a former Military Police officer. Upon retirement he finished nursing school and practiced on a medical-surgical floor of a local hospital. He has also done voluntary service in different parts of India. The author completed his M.A. Degree in Politics at New York University in 1978 and his M.Phil. Degree in Politics at Oxford University, Oxford, England in 1980.

ducation plays an important role in the allaround development of human being as well as the nation. It is a unique investment in the present as well as for the future. Every country develops its own system of education to express and promote its unique socio-culturaleconomic identity besides meeting the challenges of time to leverage the existing potential opportunities. India, at present, is recognized as one of the youngest nations in the world with over 50% of the population under the age of 30 years. It is estimated that by 2025, India will have 25% of the world’s total workforce. In order to harness the full demographic dividend, India needs an educational system which is of high quality, affordable, flexible and relevant to the individuals, economy and to the society as a whole.

Presently, the country faces a demand-supply mismatch, as the economy needs more ‘Skilled’ workforce and also the managers and entrepreneurs that is created annually. In fact, majority of the contemporary institutions of higher learning remain almost disconnected with the requirements of the workplace. The skill oriented courses available in the market have low credibility and acceptability with the employers. The traditional higher education system in the country is also rigid in terms of duration of courses, timings for teachings-learning, place of study and choice of subjects.

There is a worldwide shift from conventional education system to competence based education system. With a view to make skills acquired by the learners acceptable nationally, the curricular and system of certification should align with the National Occupational Standards. In order to facilitate offering of nationally standardized skill related programmes, the Government of India has notified the National Skills Qualification Framework (NSQF) on 27th December 2013. It is a nationally integrated education and competency based skill framework which provides for multiple pathways, both within vocational education and general, to link one level of learning to another higher level and enable learners to progress to higher levels from any starting point in the education and skill system.

It permits individuals to accumulate their knowledge and skills and convert them, through testing and certification by the competent authorities, into higher level of certification which could be a certificate, diploma, advanced diploma, a degree or a PG diploma in common parlance.

The 12th Five Year Plan Document of the planning Commission has also laid a special emphasis on expansion of skill-based programmes in higher education, it recommends setting up of Community colleges (CC) to serve multiple needs including: (I) Career oriented education and skills to students interested in directly entering the workforce (II) Training and education programmes for local employers (III) High-touch remedial education for secondary school graduates not ready to enroll in traditional colleges, giving them a path to transfer to three or four year Institutions (IV) General interest courses to the community for personal development and interest The community college model, as envisaged, will be accessible to a large number of individuals of the community that encompasses both skill development as well as traditional coursework, thereby providing opportunities to the learners to move directly to the employment sector or move into higher education. It provides a flexible and open education system which also caters to communitybased life-long learning needs. It has a synergistic relationship between the community, learner and the job market.

The main objectives are: (I) To make higher education relevant to the learner and the community (II) Integrate relevant skills into the higher education system (III) Provide skill based education to students currently pursuing higher education but actually interested in entering the workforce at the earliest opportunity (IV) To provide employable and certifiable skills based on National Occupational Standards (NOSs) with necessary general education to senior secondary school pass-outs, with general education or vocational education background (V) To provide up-gradation and certification of traditional/acquired skills of the learners irrespective of their age (VI) To offer bridge courses to certificate holders of general/vocational education, so as to bring them par with appropriate NSQF level (VII) To provide entrepreneurial orientation along with required skill training for self employment and entrepreneurship development Fostering an attitude of appreciation for lifelong learning is the key to workplace success. Continuously learning and developing one’s skills requires identifying the skills needed for mobility. Successfully seeking out training or on-the-job opportunities for developing those skills. Improve Skills not only for employment but for self business.

To attain such feat requires indefatigable effort from various reliable agencies. In reality, there is no educational institution offering consistent skilled based education to the population in our State, perhaps, unable to meet the national and international standards. The concerned agencies or departments in our State should act as a catalyst in facilitating such arrangements, in order to prepare the population by enhancing their skills and ability based on the market demand, making them employable in any sector. On the other hand, the educated population in our State should initiate progressive campaigns to give awareness to the State and its population about the need for transformation in our existing education system, encouraging the State to develop a new education system that focuses not only on academic curriculum but give priority to skilled based curriculum.

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Bengal polls first phase sees nearly 81% turnout

kolkATA, April 4 (iANS): Braving the sweltering heat and oppressive humidity, nearly 81 percent of the 40 lakh voters cast their ballot in three Maoistaffected districts of West Bengal on Monday in the first phase of the assembly polls covering 18 constituencies.

The constituencies that went to the hustings included 13 in areas identified as affected by the LeftWing Extremism (LWE). An Election Commission official said in Delhi that the polling was "by and large peaceful". "There was no incident of violence, any injury or death to any person, which is a creditable achievement," the official said.

Till 6.30 p.m., the overall polling percentage was 80.92. While 81.66 percent voters cast their ballot in West Midnapore district, the figure was 80.59 percent in Bankura, and 80.18 in Purulia, state Chief Electoral Officer Sunil Gupta said in Kolkata.

The scheduled time of polling was reduced by two hours in six insurgencyhit constituencies of West Midnapore, four in Purulia and three in Bankura districts. The elections got

Voters queued up at Sherkhadi primary school poling station under Bandwan constituency in Purulia District on the first day of first phase assembly election. Election was held at 18 Assembly constituencies in the State on April 4. (Express photo)

over at 4 p.m. in these constituencies.

In five other constituencies of Purulia, polling ended at 6 p.m. However, the polling figure may go up as lot of people were in queue in many of the areas long past the closing time, said Gupta.

He said there were no arrests, or formal complaints about booth capturing. He said a presiding officer was removed after there were allegations that a polling agent was moving to the voter compartment in polling station No.15 of

Purulia district's Balarampur constituency.

Another polling official was removed for dereliction of duty after votes were found not being recorded in the Electronic Voting Machines in booth No.30 of Ranibandh constituency in Bankura district. For the first phase of the elections, there were 40,09,171 registered voters eligible to record their democratic choices in 4,945 polling stations. Of these, 1,962 were classified as critical where special security measures were taken.

Gupta said there were no reports of poll boycott in any of the booths. Prominent among the 133 candidates -- 11 of them women -- were Paschimanchal Development Affairs Minister Sukumar Hansda of the Trinamool Congress from Jhargram and the CPI-M's Pulin Bihari Baske from Gopiballavpur.

The Congress and the Left Front accused Trinamool activists of attempting to influence and intimidate voters in many booths across the three districts, and also complained that

the central forces were not active in many of the areas.

"Our expectations were not completely fulfilled. We don't know yet the extent of terrorisation of voters in the interior areas," said state Congress president Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury.

Communist Party of India-Marxist politburo member Md. Salim said polling was "more or less peaceful", though a section of police personnel played a "partisan role".

The Trinamool, Left Front-Congress combine and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) were in the fray for all the 18 constituencies.

Among the Left Front partners, the CPI-M has put up candidates in 11 seats, and the Communist Party of India and the All India Forward Bloc in one seat each.

The Congress was in the race in five constituencies.

Multi-layered security was put in place around the constituencies, with at least 10 personnel of a central paramilitary force deployed to secure each polling station in the 13 LWE-affected constituencies. Besides two helicopters carrying out sorties, an air ambulance and quick response teams were on standby.

Jammu and Kashmir gets first woman CM in Mehbooba

PDP leader Mehbooba Mufti becomes the first woman chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir on Monday, April 4. (PTI photo)

JAmmu, April 4 (iANS): PDP president Mehbooba Mufti on Monday took oath as Jammu and Kashmir's first woman chief minister heading a 22-member coalition ministry with the BJP -- and in no time attended office.

Mehbooba Mufti, 56 and now a Lok Sabha member, was sworn in by Governor N.N. Vohra at Raj Bhavan here, almost three months after the state came under Governor's Rule on January 8.

The Peoples Democratic Party has nine cabinet and three junior ministers -- the chief minister included -- and the Bharatiya Janata Party has eight cabinet and two junior ministers in the new government.

BJP leader Nirmal Singh remains the deputy chief minister.

Constitutionally, the Jammu and Kashmir council of ministers cannot have more than 25 members.

Mehbooba Mufti drove to the civil secretariat in Jammu that houses the offices of the chief minister, ministers and top bureaucrats.

There, she was presented a guard of honour by the state armed police in the presence of Director General of Police K.

Rajendra Kumar.

The chief minister is likely to chair her first cabinet meeting later in the day.

The new coalition takes office after three months of political uncertainty sparked by the death on January 7 of then chief minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed.

The PDP dropped two cabinet ministers -- Altaf Bukhari and Javaid Mustafa Mir and inducted three-time legislator Zahoor Mir. The other new face brought in as a junior minister by the PDP is Farooq Andrabi, who defeated state Congress president Ghulam Ahmad Mir from Dooru constituency.

The BJP dropped cabinet minister Chaudary Sukhnandan and brought in his place Shyam Lal Chaudhary. The BJP also dropped a junior minister, Pawan Gupta.

Ajay Anand, a BJP legislator from Reasi constituency, took oath as a junior minister. He is a fresh entrant.The BJP share of cabinet ministers includes People's Conference leader Sajjad Lone, son of late separatist politician Abdul Ghani Lone.

Mehbooba Mufti is the 13th chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir, India's only Muslim-majority state.

Central govt officials asked Jayalalithaa to contest from Chennai, AIADMK from record seats to declare assets by April 15 cheNNAi, April 4 (iANS): ry and put up seven candidates in tors turned rebel and supported spectively. They are among the September 2014 when she rethe AIADMK during the most seven candidates from smaller signed due to a legal row.

Tamil Nadu's ruling AIADMK will Tamil areas of Kerala.

New Delhi, April 4 (pTi): W DELHI: All central government employees have been asked to mandatorily file details of their assets and liabilities, including those of their spouse and dependent children, for past two years

by April 15, as required under the Lokpal Act. The declarations under the Lokpal law are in addition to similar ones filed by the employees under various services rules. An employee has to give details of deposits in foreign bank accounts, expensive paintings, antiques, furnitures, electronic equipments, movable assets, insurance, bonds, shares and mutual funds, among others, in the declaration.

The department of personnel and training (DoPT) has recently written to secretaries of all central government ministries to ensure that the employees working under them declare details of their assets.

"The declarations and returns for the years 2014 and 2015 are required to be filed by all public servants by April 15, 2016 mandatorily," the DoPT said in a communique.

For 2016, they have to file another return of their assets by July 31, this year, it said. There are about 50 lakh central government employees.

An investment above Rs 2 lakh has to be reported individually. Investments below Rs 2 lakh may be reported together. "Details of deposits in foreign bank(s)(have) to be given separately," the DoPT said.

Employees have to give details like cash in hand, bank deposits, investment in bonds, debentures, shares and units in companies or mutual funds, insurance policies, provident fund, personal loans and advance given to any person or entity, among others.

They also have to declare expensive furniture, fixtures, antiques, paintings and electronic equipment also if the total current value of any particular asset in any particular category (e.g. furniture, fixtures, electronic equipments) exceeds two months' basic pay or Rs 1 lakh, it said. The DoPT has already made it clear that there will be no extension in the last date of filing the returns.

Rlys to operate first semihigh speed train from today New Delhi, April 4 (iANS): The Indian Railways on Monday announced that the country's first semi-high speed train -- Gatimaan Express -- will be run from Tuesday. The new express train will operate between the national capital's Hazrat Nizamuddin station and Agra Cantonment station. It will operate six days a week, except on Friday.

The new express train can attain a maximum speed of 160 km per hour, according to the Ministry of Railways.

It will be flagged off by Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu on Tuesday. "The launch of this train heralds a new era of high-speed rail travel in India. Railway Minister has been emphasising about increasing the speed of both passenger and goods trains in his budget speeches," the ministry said in a statement.

The Gatiman Express train comprises of two executive AC chair cars and eight AC chair car coaches. The fare for a single AC chair car seat will be Rs.750, and that for the executive AC chair car seat Rs.1,500. The ministry elaborated that the on-board catering on the new train will be carried out by the Indian Railways Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC), a railway undertaking.

"IRCTC has made arrangement for deploying train hostesses on-board the train. This train will see improved catering and will have options of different kinds of cuisines," the statement added. The new train also provides on-board entertainment facility free of cost by a private agency -- MyFreeTv.in.

"Under this facility, passengers can view various entertaining videos during the travel on their smartphone, tablets or laptops even without internet connection through Wi-Fi," the statement said. In addition, the ministry pointed out that the express train features new LHB (Linke-Hofmann-Busch) coaches fabricated by Rail Coach Factory (RCF), Kapurthala.

"These coaches have been fitted with bio-toilets and are fit to run at 160 km per hour. These coaches have also been fitted with balanced draft gear couplers for a smooth ride," the statement added.

field a record highest 227 candidates in the assembly elections, with Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa contesting from flood-battered Chennai. Even the allies in the remaining seven seats will seek votes on the AIADMK symbol.

Jayalalithaa, 68, announced the candidates' list, saying she will seek re-election from Radhakrishnan Nagar constituency in north Chennai, an area that was badly affected in the unprecedented December floods.

The decision is significant as opposition parties were hoping to make the government's handling of the floods in the city a major election plank.

The AIADMK general secretary also said that her party will contest all 30 seats in Puducher-

Assembly elections in all three states are scheduled for May 16. While a majority of the Tamil Nadu ministers have been retained as candidates, some outgoing legislators, including 10 ministers, have been dropped.

Jayalalithaa rewarded those who switched loyalties to her party from the DMDK, DMK and PMK. The notable new entrant is Panruti S. Ramachandran, who had quit the DMDK. He was one of the leading lights of the AIADMK when its founder, the late M.G. Ramachandran or MGR, presided over the state.

Another old timer who has been fielded is C. Ponnaiyan, a former minister.

Though eight DMDK legisla-

part of the outgoing assembly and later joined the ruling party, only K. Pandiarajan out of them has been given a ticket.

Jayalalithaa has also fielded M. Kalaiarasu and P.T. Elangovan, who had quit PMK, and Parithi Ilamvazhuthi, who had quit DMK and joined AIADMK. Former DGP R. Nataraj is one of the new faces in the party list.

He will contest from Mylapore in the heart of Chennai.

The AIADMK candidates' list is a mix of graduates, post-graduates and those with professional qualifications. Over 10 percent of the candidates are women.

Actors-turned-politicians R. Sarathkumar and Karunas will contest from Thiruchendur and Thiruvadanai constituencies re-

parties allied with the AIADMK. AIADMK spokesperson Avadi Kumar told IANS that it was the first time that the party was contesting in more than 200 seats.

Though the allies have been given seven seats, they will contest under AIADMK's "two leaves" symbol. Thus, for the first time, the AIADMK symbol will be seen in all the 234 constituencies.

Jayalalithaa first became chief minister in June 1991 and was voted out in 1996. She again became chief minister in May 2001 but stepped down in September that year due to legal hassles.

She was allowed to return to her post in March 2002 and retained it till May 2006. After the May 2011 elections, she took charge of Tamil Nadu again till

She returned to the chief minister's post in May 2015.

In Puducherry, the AIADMK will contest all the 30 seats. In 2011, it had tied up with All India NR Congress there. After the elections which the alliance won, the relationship between the two soured.

In neighbouring Kerala, the AIADMK has fielded seven candidates as against six in 2011. The AIADMK tasted success in six wards in last year's Kerala civic polls.

For the 2016 assembly elections, Jayalalithaa has fielded three candidates each in Palakkad and Idukki districts and one candidate in Thiruvananthapuram. All the areas have sizeable Tamil population.

SC begins hearing appeals by Dec 16 gangrape convicts 47 UP policemen get life New Delhi, April 4 (iANS): in a hurry to decide the appeals gaps that could be read in favour of term for staged gun battle The Supreme Court on Monday of his clients the moment they his clients. The other two convicts commenced the final hearing on the appeals by four December 16, 2012 Delhi gangrape accused challenging the Delhi High Court verdict upholding their death sentence.

As the bench of Justice Dipak Misrra, Justice V. Gopala Gowda and Justice Kurian Joseph commenced the hearing, counsel M.L.Sharma appearing for accused Mukesh and Pawan told the court that there was haste and hurry on the part of the high court in deciding the matter without deciding on the application relating to their torture by police.

Arguing the high court was

reached before it, Sharma said that applications alleging torture of his clients were not even taken up by the court. At this, Justice Misra said: "Let us hear the case as if fresh case is being raised" and asked Sharma to proceed in the matter in his own way. "We have to deal with the matter in its entirety," the judge added.

After making his preliminary objections on the manner his clients were allegedly not given a fair opportunity before the trial court and later the high court, Sharma sought to take the apex court into the judgment pronounced by the trial court with an objective to point

are Vinay Sharma and Akshay Thakur. On March 13, 2014, the Delhi High Court bench had upheld the death sentence of all four.

Mukesh, Pawan, Vinay Sharma, Akshay Thakur and Ram Singh along with a juvenile were accused of gang rape and assault on a 23-year-old paramedical student inside a private bus.

The victim and her friend were thrown out of the bus after the crime. Ram Singh allegedly committed suicide while in incarceration. The victim died of grave intestinal injuries Dec 29, 2012 at Singapore's Mount Elizabeth Hospital.

luckNow, April 4 (iANS): A special CBI court on Monday sentenced 47 Uttar Pradesh policemen of various ranks to life imprisonment in a 1991 staged gun battle case in Pilibhit. These policemen were on Friday convicted by the court for gunning down 11 Sikh pilgrims in cold blood in Pilibhit on July 12, 1991, while the latter were returning from a pilgrimage.

The police had dubbed the victims as terrorists and said they had fired at the police personnel when intercepted. The court held the policemen guilty under sections 302 (murder), 364 (kidnapping or abducting in order to murder), 365 (kidnapping or abducting), 218 (public servant framing incorrect record) and 117 (abetting commission of offence) read with 120-B (criminal conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).

The Supreme Court handed over the probe to the Central Bureau of Investigation after a public interest litigation. The CBI said the Sikhs killed in the staged gun battle were innocent. The agency charge-sheeted 57 police officials in the case. Ten of the accused died during the trial. The CBI court framed charges against the accused on January 20, 2003.

New technique for blood test results could help emergency patients New Delhi, April 4 (iANS): In a boon for trauma and emergency transplant patients, a new revolutionary technique promises to give results of complex blood tests in just 10 minutes - helping save precious lives, and also unwanted blood transfusion.

The technique, developed by a German research firm, is currently being used in several European and Asian nations, including in neighbouring Sri Lanka.

The technique, called Rotational Thromboelastometry (ROTEM), would save a liver transplant patient in India from having to undergo unwanted blood transfusion, with just two-three units making do instead of the usual 10-15

units of blood. This would also benefit the patients economically, while hospitals could save up the blood for other needy patients.

The portable machine, developed by German firm Tem International, can be taken to where the patient is. A small sample of blood is enough for around 10-12 tests, including blood cultures, with results delivered in 10 minutes, which would take 40-50 minutes in medical laboratories.

"The ROTEM diagnostic technique helps in giving results of all the tests within 10 minutes. Bleeding and blood transfusion have been shown to be independent risk factors for increased morbidity and mortality. Introduction of ROTEM will be an important initiative for blood

management in India," Klaus Goerlinger, senior consultant for Anaesthesiology, Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine at the Germany-based University Duisburg-Essen, told IANS here.

Mahila Singhe, a 40-year-old- Sri Lankan who was operated upon in a Colombo hospital following a severe accident, was able to make do with just two units of blood - thanks to the ROTEM technique.

Doctors attending on him took his fluid samples and within 10 minutes found out what type of blood products were needed to save him.

In the normal course, the profusely bleeding Singhe would have required at least 10 units of blood, in addition to the

risk from delay in blood tests done in medical labs, which could have also put his life in danger.

India needs 12 million units of blood annually but collects only nine million - a 25 per cent deficit. In summer, the shortfall often hits 50 per cent due to rising demand from malaria and dengue patients.

The shortage has led to a spurt in professional donors cashing in on the needs of desperate patients, and a flourishing black market.

Goerlinger, who is director of sales and marketing of Switzerland-based Tem International, said: "ROTEM plays an integral role in blood conservation strategies by significantly reducing usage of blood products and components.

This technology will allow rapid and reliable treatment decision to be made during emergencies and is a solution for detecting, managing and monitoring haemostasis during cardiac surgery, liver transplant, trauma patients and obstetrics."

Poonam Malhotra Kaapoor, assistant professor of Cardiac-Anaesthesia at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), told IANS: "Blood unit shortage is a colossal problem as many people are still scared to give blood. This technique will save a lot of money and blood of public hospitals."

Kaapoor said ROTEM will also help in reducing the costs incurred by patients in purchasing blood units.

The pricing of the device has yet been fixed for India.

In order to make ROTEM technology available in India, Tem International has collaborated with Vijyoti, one of India's leading corporate social enterprises.

Vijay Pandey, managing director of Vijyoti, told IANS: "Patient Blood Management demands a change in the mindset towards bleeding management. The technology helps minimize risks of mortality, morbidity, hospital-acquired infection sepsis - arising from blood transfusion. It also leads to reduction in costs to patient, hospitals, and other stakeholders like medical insurance companies and blood banks."

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UN audit identifies serious lapses and due-diligence linked to alleged bribery UNITED NATIONS, AprIl 4 (rEUTErS): The United Nations’ internal investigations office has uncovered serious lapses and due-diligence failures in the world body’s interaction with organizations tied to an alleged bribery scheme involving a former U.N. General Assembly president.

The 21-page confidential report by the U.N. Office of Internal Oversight Services’ (OIOS), reviewed

by Reuters, outlines the results of an audit ordered

by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in response to charges against John Ashe, General Assembly president in 2013-2014, and six other people.

The report gave the U.N. an overall grade of “partially satisfactory” in the March 22 report, which is available to U.N. member states on request. It noted “important deficiencies” in the way United Nations and its staff interacted with non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and oversees U.N. employees.

It is the biggest financial corruption crisis to rock the United Nations since the Oil-for-Food scandal hit the world body during the tenure of Ban’s predecessor Kofi Annan. U.N. officials

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and diplomats say latest scandal highlights the need for greater transparency at the United Nations.

OIOS recommended improvements in internal U.N. risk management and controls in light of the irregularities uncovered - a U.N. document improperly altered, travel expenses paid by NGOs against U.N. guidelines, U.N. employees keeping iPads given to them by an NGO headed by an indicted individual.

OIOS urged Ban to ensure that any outside organizations the U.N. deals with are properly vetted.

It also said that the U.N. should review any continuing relations with NGOs linked to the indictment.

The audit came in response to an ongoing U.S. investigation that has since October resulted in charges against seven people including Ashe, a former U.N. ambassador from Antigua and Barbuda.

U.S. prosecutors say Ashe received $1.3 million in bribes from Chinese businessmen including Ng Lap Seng, a billionaire real estate developer who heads Macau-based Sun Kian Ip Group and was seeking to build a U.N.sponsored conference center in Macau.

Francis Lorenzo, a suspended deputy U.N. ambassador from the Dominican Republic who prosecutors said helped

At least 55 killed in flash floods in Pakistan ISlAMABAD, AprIl 4 (rEUTErS): Flash floods triggered by heavy rain in Pakistan have killed at least 55 people and rescuers were trying on Monday to help thousands of survivors including some cut off by a landslide in a mountain valley, officials said.

The weather system that brought the unusually heavy rain was expected to move northeast, towards northern India, although more isolated storms were expected in northern

Pakistan, the Meteorological Department said.

Yousuf Zia, a disaster management official in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, said nearly 150 homes had been destroyed and tents and blankets were being distributed to the homeless.

“There are 30 people stranded by a landslide in the Kohistan Valley where we have sent a helicopter to rescue them,” Zia said.

Forty-seven people were killed

and 37 injured in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Zia said, while eight people were killed in Pakistani-administered Kashmir, officials there said.

Landslides caused widespread damage to roads and communication infrastructure in the Pakistani side of Kashmir, they said.

One of the worst-affected districts was the Swat Valley, northwest of the capital, Islamabad, where 121 mm (4.76 inches) of rain fell on Sunday, the Meteorological Department said.

Climate change puts trillions of dollars of financial assets at risk, says study OSlO, AprIl 4 (rEUTErS): Trillions of dollars of non-bank financial assets around the world are vulnerable to the effects of global warming, according to a study on Monday that says tougher action to curb greenhouse gas emissions makes sense for investors.

Rising temperatures and the dislocation caused by related droughts, floods and heatwaves will slow global economic growth and damage the performance of stocks and bonds, according to the report, led by the London School of Economics.

“It makes financial sense to a risk-neutral in-

vestor to cut emissions, and even more so to the riskaverse,” lead author Professor Simon Dietz, an environmental economist, told Reuters. A global climate summit in Paris last December set a goal of limiting global warming to “well below” 2ºC (3.6º F) above pre-industrial times, while leaving open precisely how this would be achieved.

If the rise were limited to 2C by 2100, the study’s central scenario put the total of current financial assets that could be damaged at $1.7 trillion. But if the temperature rose a further 0.5C by the end of the century, $2.5

trillion would be at risk under the most likely scenario. Global regulators in the Financial Stability Board (FSB) say all the world’s current non-bank financial assets are worth $143 trillion.

At the extremes of the study’s thousands of scenarios based on a 2.5ºC rise, the value at risk ranges from 0.5% of total financial assets up to a worst case of 17%, or $24 trillion. The study did not try to identify which sectors were most at risk from the damage that climate change can wreak, ranging from the destruction of buildings, bridges or roads by storms or floods

to losses of agricultural productivity and enforced movement of populations.

Many previous studies about the financial impact of climate change have focused on fossil fuel companies, together worth around $5 trillion on stock markets, whose shares may lose value if investors shift to cleaner energies. Stephanie Pfeifer, head of the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGC), told Reuters the report was “yet more evidence that unabated climate change would negatively impact economic growth and investment returns over the long term”.

facilitate Ng’s bribes and received bribes himself, pleaded guilty in March and agreed to cooperate with U.S. authorities.

Sheri Yan, chief executive of Global Sustainability Foundation, a New Yorkbased NGO, and Heidi Hong Piao, its finance director, accused of facilitating bribes to Ashe, pleaded guilty in January. Julia Vivi Wang has not yet entered a plea, and Ng’s assistant Jeff Yin pleaded not guilty.

Attorneys for those charged either did not respond or declined to comment when contacted by Reuters. A spokesman for the Manhattan U.S. attorney’s office also declined to comment.

U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said that while the Secretary-General was glad that the audit found many controls working properly, the flagged procedural lapses were a concern.

“Instructions reinforcing the correct procedures with respect to document issuance have been issued to the Departments and Offices concerned,” Dujarric said.

“With regard to the specific cases referred to in the audit, action is being taken to determine responsibility and any measures, including possible disciplinary action, that may be deemed appropriate,” he said, adding that the U.N. was committed to cooperating with the U.S. authorities.

ALTERED DOCUMENT AND FREE IPADS The most serious lapse OIOS identified involved a Feb. 24, 2012 letter from Ashe to Ban supporting the Macau center that was “reissued for technical reasons” on June 6, 2013.

OIOS said the amended letter, which U.S. prosecutors say was crucial in aiding Ng’s plans for the Macau center, should have been cleared with Ban’s office first and then flagged as a “revision,” not a reissue.

The revisions included mentions of Ng’s group as the representative for the center’s implementation and South-South News, founded by Ng, as the project’s “leading partner.”

Lorenzo was president and Wang vice-president of South-South News, which remains among media organizations accredited to the U.N. South-South News did not respond to a request for comment.

OIOS said commercial enterprises should never be mentioned in official U.N. documents, unless they qualify for an exception, which was not the case here.

The audit said the irregularities “assume significance” in the context of the allegations against Ashe and the role the document played in the alleged scheme. “It is therefore essential that responsibility is assigned for these lapses, and steps are taken to prevent possible misuse of authority in publishing official documents of the

United Nations,” it added.

It was not immediately clear if assigning responsibility for reissuing the document could lead to further charges. U.S. authorities say at least two unnamed U.N. employees were involved in amending the document.

The report also cited an August 2015 conference in Macau, co-sponsored

by Sun Kian and the U.N. Development Program (UNDP), whose participants, among them several U.N. staff members, received iPads worth $599 plus tax from the organizers.

Three U.N. staffers told OIOS they handed over the devices to their superiors immediately upon return from Macau, while four others did not do so until later.

The audit recommended that the U.N. Ethics Office issue more specific guidance on gifts to avoid conflicts of interest.

The UNDP is an autonomous U.N. agency and is conducting its own audit, due to be released soon. Last week the U.N. released a report recommending new ethical rules and financial disclosures for the General Assembly president’s office.

US and Philippines begin military exercises as maritime tension simmers MANIlA, AprIl 4 (rEUTErS): About 8,000 U.S. and Filipino troops began annual military exercises on Monday against a backdrop of tension over China’s greater assertiveness in the South China Sea though a Philippine commander played that down as the reason for the drills.

Over the next two weeks, the allies will test their command-and-control, communications, logistics and mobility procedures to address humanitarian and maritime security, Philippine defence officials said.

Their troops will also simulate retaking an oil-and-gas platform and practice an amphibious landing on a Philippine beach.

“The Balikatan exercise is designed not to address a particular concern but the whole lump in the spectrum of warfare,” Vice Admiral Alexander Lopez, the Philippine military’s exercise director, told a news conference.

“China is not part of the idea.”

Ash Carter, will be the first U.S. defense secretary to observe the exercises when he arrives next week, underscoring the significance of the war games for both countries.

China’s more assertive pursuit of its claims in the South China Sea over the past year or so has included land reclamation and the construction of air and port facilities on some isles and reefs. The patrols have drawn sharp rebukes from China but despite that, U.S. officials have made clear the United States would con-

Soldiers carry a Philippine and U.S. flags during the exit of colours, as part of the opening ceremony of the 2016 Balikatan military exercises at the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) headquarters in Camp Aguinaldo, Quezon city, metro Manila on April 4. (REUTERS Photo)

tinue to challenge what it considers China’s unfounded maritime claims.

China claims almost the entire South China Sea, believed to have huge deposits of oil and gas. Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam also have claims to parts of the waters, through which about $5 trillion in trade is shipped every year.

The Philippines has sought international arbitration on the dispute and a decision is expected late this month or in early May. China has declined to take part in the case.

Lieutenant-General John Toolan, commander of U.S. Marine forces in the Pacific, told the news conference

it was prudent to plan for any situation that could occur and to practice how the two allies would likely respond.

Asked if that included a security crisis in the South China Sea, Toolan said: “It does, absolutely.”

Toolan said U.S. forces would for the first time in the Philippine exercises fire a long-range truck-mounted multiple-rocket launcher known as the high mobility artillery rocket system (HIMARS).

A small contingent of Australian troops will join the exercises while Vietnam and Japan have sent officers to observe.

Migrants sent back from Greece arrive in Turkey under EU deal

Activists hold placards as they protest against the return of migrants to Turkey, at the port of Mytilene on the Greek island of Lesbos, April 4. (REUTERS Photo)

DIKIlI / l E S B O S, AprIl 4 (rEUTErS): Migrants sent back from the Greek island of Lesbos began arriving in Turkey on Monday under a disputed European Union scheme aimed at closing the main route by which a million

people poured across the Aegean Sea to Greece in the last year.

Under a deal denounced by refugee agencies and human rights campaigners, Ankara will take back all migrants and refugees who enter Greece

illegally, including Syrians, in return for the EU taking in thousands of Syrian refugees directly from Turkey and rewarding it with more money, early visa-free travel and progress in its EU membership negotiations.

Two Turkish-flagged

passenger boats carrying 131 migrants arrived in the Turkish town of Dikili early on Monday, accompanied by two Turkish coast guard vessels with a police helicopter buzzing overhead, a Reuters witness said.

A coastguard official on the Greek island of Chios told Reuters that 66 people, most of them Afghans, were also sent to Turkey on a third boat early on Monday.

The aim of the EU-Turkey deal is to discourage migrants from perilous crossings, often in small boats and dinghies, and to break the business model of human smugglers who have fuelled Europe’s biggest migration wave since World War Two. A few hours after the first boat of returnees set sail from Lesbos, Greek coast guard patrol vessels rescued at least two dinghies carrying more than 50 migrants and refugees, including children and a woman in a wheelchair, trying to reach the island.

“We are just going to try our chance. It is for our destiny. We are dead anyway,” said Firaz, 31, a Syrian Kurd from the province of Hasakah who was travelling with his cousin.

Asked if he was aware that the Greeks were sending people back, he said: “I heard maybe Iranians, Afghans. I didn’t hear they were sending back Syrians to Turkey... At least I did what I could. I’m alive.

That’s it.”

A group of 47 mainly Pakistani men were also intercepted by the Turkish coast guard on Monday and taken to a holding centre next to Dikili’s port, a Reuters witness said.

Under the pact, the EU will resettle thousands of legal Syrian refugees directly from Turkey - one for each Syrian returned from the Greek islands. German police said the first Syrian refugees arrived by plane on Monday under the deal.

PROTESTS

A few dozen police and immigration officials waited outside a small white tent on the quayside at Dikili as the returned migrants disembarked one by one, before being photographed and having their fingerprints taken behind security screening.

The returnees from Lesbos were mostly from Pakistan and some from Bangladesh and they had not applied for asylum, said Ewa Moncure, a spokeswoman for EU border agency Frontex. Asked if Syrians would be returned, she said: “At some point, but I don’t know when.”

Turkish EU Affairs Minister Volkan Bozkir said there were no Syrians in the first group coming from Greece, but that when they did begin to arrive they would be sent to the southern city of Osmaniye, around 40 km (25 miles) from the Syrian border.

For non-Syrians, Turkey would apply to their home countries and send

them back systematically, Bozkir said in an interview with Turkish broadcaster Haberturk.

Rights groups and some European politicians have challenged the legality of the deal, questioning whether Turkey has sufficient safeguards in place to defend refugees’ rights and whether it can be considered safe for them.

Turkey insists it is meeting its international obligations. The EU was determined to get the programme under way on schedule despite such doubts because of strong political pressure in northern Europe to deter migrants from attempting the journey, There were small protests as the returns got underway.

On Lesbos, a small group of protesters chanted “Shame on you!” when the migrant boats set sail as the sun rose over the Aegean.

Volunteer rescuers aboard a nearby boat hoisted a

banner that read: “Ferries for safe passage, not for deportation.”

Each migrant was accompanied on Lesbos by a plainclothes Frontex officer. They had been transported in a nighttime operation from the island’s holding centre to the port.

Greek riot police squads also boarded the boats.

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and rights groups have said the deal between the European Union and Turkey lacks legal safeguards. Amnesty International has called it “a historic blow to human rights”, and was sending monitors to Lesbos and Chios on Monday.

More than 3,300 migrants and refugees are on Lesbos. About 2,600 people are held at the Moria centre, a sprawling complex of prefabricated containers, 600 more than its stated capacity. Of those, 2,000 have made asylum claims, UNHCR said.

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barca need to overcome Ranieri urges Leicester to continue title push tired legs for cl clash London, ApriL 4 (iAnS): Terming the ongoing season as a magical one, Leicester manager Claudio Ranieri has urged his team to do their best to clinch the English Premier League (EPL). Leicester beat Southampton 1-0 on Sunday to open up a sevenpoint lead at the top of the EPL table with six games remaining in the season. The 'Foxes' have seen a radical transformation in their fortunes as exactly a year ago, Leicester were seven points from safety near the bottom of the league table and battling relegation.

Leicester have won 20 of the 32 matches they have played so far and Ranieri wants the players to continue the momentum as he believes that it will be difficult to recapture this form

BArceLonA, ApriL 4 (iAnS): Catalan football giants Barcelona have to put memories of their Clasico defeat against Real Madrid behind them and recover quickly from their tired legs when they take on Atletico Madrid in the first leg of their Champions League quarter-final here on Tuesday night.

Although the defeat to Real Madrid hurt Barcelona fans, most would say that their lead in the La Liga means Tuesday's game is the most important of the two.

But they must be worried by the image the Catalans gave at the weekend against their traditional rivals in the Camp Nou Stadium, reports Xinhua news agency.

Key footballers such as Neymar, Lionel Messi and Luis Suarez all looked tired after the international break, while midfielders Sergio Busquets and Andres Iniesta were also off

the pace as was Arda Turan when he replaced Ivan Rakitic. Neymar, Messi and Suarez will all start again, with the doubt that the three days between games has given them the time to recover, but elsewhere Luis Enrique's options are limited.

The knee injury suffered by Jeremy Mathieu means Gerard Pique and Javier Mascherano only have Thomas Vermaelan as a possible replacement in the defence and the Belgian is not up to facing top level rivals these days.

One area where the Barcelona coach could think about making a change is at right back with Aleix Vidal stepping in to replace Dani Alves, who was at fault for Madrid's winning goal, while the adaptable Sergi Roberto could see his energy used to good effect in midfield. Atletico come into the game in apparently better shape than

Barcelona after kicking off their weekend match early on Saturday afternoon and enjoying a comfortable 5-1 win at home over Betis.

The result allowed coach Diego Simeone, who has seen his side lose twice to Barcelona this season, to rest key players in the second half and Atletico should be in better physical shape for what promises to be a demanding tie.

The main problem for Atletico is the probable absence of central defenders Diego Godin, Jose Gimenez and Stefan Savic through injury, meaning that youngsters Lucas Hernandez and Nacho will face Barcelona, unless Saul Niguez drops back to carry out defensive duties.

Lucas and Nacho had few problems against Betis.

But Messi, Suarez and Neymar are a different prospect, providing of course they are fit themselves.

next season.

"I'm very calm. We believe in what we are doing.

We believe it's a magical season. We believe next season it will not be the same and so we try to do our best," Raneiri told the local media here on Sunday.

"We are dreaming. If we fight, we can do something and we must continue. It's important to stay very calm and maintain our feet on the ground," he added.

Leicester captain Wes Morgan headed home in the first half and the EPL leaders held on to extend their lead at the top of the table. The Jamaican defender played despite struggling with mild illness and Raneiri was all praise for the 32-year-old.

"Wes is fantastic. He didn't have a holiday this

2nd peren air gun shooting competition held peren, ApriL 4 (Mexn): The 2nd Peren District Air Gun Shooting Competition was held at Samziuram Local Ground on March 29.The inaugural function was graced

by Gaubeu Rangkau, NPS, (Retd) Asstt Commandant IRB, and chaired by Arupe Zeliang (Retd), Addl. Director of Youth Resources & Sports, Government of Nagaland.

In the closing function, Benjamin was the chairman, whereby K Kire, IPS (Retd) Director General of Police, Nagaland was the guest of honor. He delivered words of encouragement and value of sports to the participants for further improvement.

There were 28 participants from 14 towns & villages, whereby the champion position was bagged by Victor from Heningkunglwa village and the Runner’s up went to Teihang of Gailli village.

season. He had the national team in July and he came back here, so I gave him some days off during the season because he needed them. But he came back on Friday. He had a cold, was tired, but he is a strong man and a good example for everybody. When he speaks, everyone listens to him. But everybody is a leader in my dressing room. Everybody knows what I want," Raneiri said.

"Today, we have a clean sheet and I'm so happy.

The chairman is happy. Tomorrow it will be his birthday and we sang 'happy birthday' to him before the match. I asked the players to give him a good present, three points," the 64-yearold Italian added.

"Clean sheet, three points, step by step. It's

fantastic because we know very well Southampton came here with a lot of confidence." Before the current season, Leicester's best-ever performance was finishing as runners-up in 1929.

The last time they came anywhere close to making a challenge for the title was in 1963 when they finished fourth and were beaten in the FA Cup final.

"Look, we are very close

to achieving the Champions League. That's it. That's it," Raneiri said. "Another two or three weeks, we'll be in the Champions League.

Sure. But whether the gap to second is six, five, one or seven points is not important. What is important is how we react, how we play.

That's what I want from them. When they give me everything, their heart and soul, I'm happy."

4th Altrura Open Football Tourney begins

Special Guest Kuolachalie Seyie, along with the officials and players at the Opening Ceremony.

diMApUr, ApriL 4 (Mexn): The 4th Altrura Open football tournament, under the aegis of Altrura Society commenced on Monday, the 4th April 2016 on the theme, ”Goal for Unity” at Medziphema Town Local Ground with Kuolachalie Seyie, Chairman Sanitation & Env. Committee, Businessman and Social Worker as the Special Guest in the Opening Ceremony.

Earlier the program was compered by Neivikho Savi, Information & Publicity Secretary Altrura Society(AuS), Ps.Keviuchülie Mezhü, Pastor Medziphema Town Baptist Church pronounced the invocation, Keynote address by Megosielie Kruse President AuS, Greetings by Neikhonyü Kuotsu Chairman Medziphema Village, Special no. was presented by

Kezhalesie Kuotsu, Oath taking by Shurhotsilie Asst.Games & Sports Secy. AuS, while vote of thanks was delivered by Mhasileto Medoze Advisor AuS. Altogether 32 teams from different parts of Nagaland are participating in this year’s tournament.

The opening Match was played between Legend Club Cmd vs Jharnapani Y.O.

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The Church leads and shows the way Human Mind in discernment of God

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was caught by the attention of a news item that read about 400 churches in the United Kingdom shifting their energy provider sources to renewable sources rather than the green house and carbon emitting fossil fuels. It is such a great initiative that the church being the main hub of religion can also play a major role in bringing a great change in the face of the numerous challenges faced today by all of us. Our Naga society is no exception to all these too. I couldn’t agree more with Uncle Niketu Iralu’s in his presentation ‘The Direction of the Church’ at DABA last November when I got invited by some friends and insisted that I attend it too. He said that ‘”We and our Christianity have reached a stage in our journey when our Christianity starts to get its energy and strength through addressing and answering the challenging issues confronting us. The Church urgently needs to fulfill this role for our society”……..there are other area of life where the Church urgently needs to be the initiator of creative leadership and pathbreaking solutions.

Now coming back to the point, one of the areas the Church can be play is the role of a guide and mentor too in this age of climatic change caused by our thoughtless and wanton destructive human actions on this good old earth created by God which our actions is endangering and jeopardizing all His beautiful creations. Climate change affects everyone, but its effects are felt most by the poorest section. In a land besotted by myriad problems, chronic power disruption, i.e. power-cuts and loadshedding have become a regular phenomenon. The rich few can afford those generator sets and are not much bothered about all these but their indifference to the powercuts and various greenhouse gases emitted from those giant-size gensets in the surroundings sure are contributing to the global climatic change and the global warming.

Our hilly areas may be somewhat immune from the blistering heat of our peak but for Dimapurians who can ever escape it? I remember my childhood days whenever our parents take us to Kohima during the summer vacations, we use to

be amused and smirk at our Kohimian cousins that they don’t have ceiling fans like us. And most of them didn’t even know what ceiling fan was. But if you go today one will feel how the Kohima heat too is catching up in spite of the extreme chilly winters. Running ACs in our cars and owning fans is now becoming a common thing. Thanks to the global warming. I happened to visit Mokokchung two years back during summer and man, the heat and the humidity really astonished me. I was lucky my relative had a long standing fan to relieve me from time to time. Hill station resorts all over India seem to be on buying spree of coolers, ACs and fans. Owing an inverter and a battery set in Dimapur is now no longer a thing of luxury like some years back but has become a thing of necessity. Who can sleep in this searing heat of Dimapur nights with constant load-shedding? It’s like been barbecued inside a grill.

With the impact of global warming taking place much sooner than expected, it’s high time we must really be concerned the things happening here right in front of us like about our decreasing forest covers, our vanishing streams and rivers, our dwindling wild life population all by destroying nature at the behest of not only development but to earn more money, money and money. One Indian saying goes ‘Only when the last tree has been cut, only when the last river has been poisoned and only when the last fish has been caught then only men will realize that they cannot eat their money”.

It is said by scientists that as long as we human beings give nature the chance it has a capacity to replenish itself and renewable energy will always be available. And if applied correctly, they are nonpolluting too. But the thing is, we humans never give that chance. To put it straightly, we aren’t thinking of our children. How can we say we love them? Buying them the latest electronic gadgets, expensive clothes, luxurious cars or letting them splurge your money won’t give them a better world and a cleaner world to live tomorrow or will it? But teaching them to live a healthy lifestyle or plant a tree, manure it, water it, nurture it is lov-

ing them so that they will inhabit a healthy environment to live it.

Teaching them to love the environment will let them know the importance of life. Unless you teach them, how are they ever going to inherit it tomorrow? The way we meet our needs today is compromising the ability of future generations to meet theirs – the very opposite of sustainable development.

Switching our energy provider to clean sources of power is a simple thing we can do to help the global transition to a low carbon world. Pope Francis, the leader of the 1.2 billion-member Catholic Church, has been outspoken about the need for reductions in carbon emissions to tackle climate change. The expansion on the usage of renewable resources will make a substantial contribution to reducing the environmental burdens associated with conventional energy supplies - it will reduce the use of fossil fuels and greenhouse gas emissions associated with climate change. Changes to our ageing grid and storage infrastructure will come at a cost and will need bold political and private sector backing, but the benefits will far outweigh the cost of inaction. It will be worth it.

Governments need to subsidize those equipments and apparatus so it will be within the common man’s reach. Not only will it solve our shortage of supply-demand of power problem but will ease the common man’ burden of huge electricity bills and of course a more substantial approach in this age of global climatic changing patterns. To realize this huge potential, we need to further boost new programmes and ambitious support schemes from the government. Mankind is under severe threat than ever before. Now we face dangers that have been only just the talks of scientists, environmentalist and futurologist years ago. That years ago has become now and we Nagas being a part of the great human race, this threat is not an exception to us also and we can never escape from the threat that has already reached us silently and swiftly and now knocking hard right at our doors. Among the different dangers the world is facing today like terrorism, population

explosion, pollution, epidemics new diseases, the rising global temperatures are the most serious currently active challenge facing humanity, comparable in scope of impact to global nuclear war, if such were to occur. Human beings are considered as the most intelligent creature on the earth, but our irresponsibility and stubborn proves otherwise. The implications and consequences deserve our urgent attention. Simple ways of making awareness and enlightening people on the careful usage of resources created by God can transform people lives.

Director General World Wildlife Fund, Marco Lambertini says “The upcoming generation must seize the opportunity to close this destructive chapter in our history, and build a future in which people live and prosper in harmony with nature. Our churches can surely lead the way. Protecting nature and using its resources responsibly are prerequisites for human development and well-being, and for building resilient, healthy communities. Last year’s CBCNEI Youth Fest hosted by NBCC at DABA too saw some speakers stressing on this point. It is a good initiative taken by our churches to start observing Green Sunday in the month of June when World Environment Day falls .The task is difficult, certainly, but not impossible – because it is in ourselves, who have caused the problem, that we can find the solution.

Climate change is hitting hard on our farmers too. Many of our farmers in the villages are facing difficulty due to changing monsoon patterns and droughts. In a world where so many people live in poverty, it may appear as though protecting nature is a luxury. But it is quite the opposite. For many of the world’s poorest people, nature is a lifeline. Importantly though, we are all in this together. We all need nutritious food, fresh water and clean air – wherever in the world we live.

The DABA youth department initiatives on the World Environment Day under their dynamic leadership of their Youth Director, Imnatoshi to conserve our energy and power saving methods last year is sure worth emulating by all of us.

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he Human Mind has Six principal Senses: i. Sight, ii. Hearing, iii.

Taste, iv. Smell v. Touch and very importantly vi. Intelligence, in addition of the Human Mind to discern what is Right or what is wrong and to perceive Ethical Values that transcends the Physical.

Humans have been able to now put all these faculties into Robot and today the Robot has become more intelligent than Man. While writing this Piece, I forgot the name of one of this century's most Intelligent Humans today. He is deaf, dumb and completely invalid to do any of his basic bodily needs and a Computer interprets his communications in a phony voice. Try as I might, I could not recover his name from the memory box in my head.

The computer of my brain 'crashed' and I could not force it to recover the name of Stephen Hawkins from my memory box.

It is said that within the not distant future, the memory in the brain could be downloaded into the Computer!

AI (Artificial Intelligence) of a Robot can now do recovery of Memory in millionth of a second faster than Man's Brain.

AI can also do so many other wonderful things much faster than Man that Hawkins once remarked AI may put an end to 'Human Civilization'.

Within a short time some advanced Governments may ban Human driving of Vehicles and make Robots do the job but a speeding Robot driven Car cannot decide killing a stray Dog suddenly appeared in the Road and save serious accident of a School Bus full of small Children going to School.

An interesting real incident is told of one of my son's South Indian friends, a Kerelian named Mathaiya Alias and the Bank refusing to release his money electronically because his name ends include the word 'Alias'. He had to personally go to the Bank and settle the matter with the Officials.

The same is said to have happened to one named Mrs. Dull; a story is told of sophisticated Germany of a Man's Car refusing to obey the command of its Owner to open its door because the quality of his voice has changed due to his suffering from a sore Throat of Influenza!

The Human Mind and Intelligence are different. AI cannot differentiate Right or wrong; it can not evaluate the relative value of a School Bus full small children of in the busy Street from that of a stray Dog ignorant of Traffic Rules.

In our pursuit of God, We use our Senses of Hearing, of Sight principally, but less

of our Intelligence and very little of our Mind.

It is interesting to note the Apostles Saw Jesus by Sight with their Eyes, Heard him by their Ears, Touched him personally with their Fingers, Sniffed his body Odors with their Nose, Tasted what he Ate but perceived him with much less Intelligence and almost with none of their Mind for a long time.

Jesus told the Pharisees and the Religious Leaders that they can foretell the kind of weather to come the nest day by looking at the Sky today but could not perceive the Son of Man by the examples and signs of his Life.

Evangelist John advises Believers to Study the Spirit carefully first whether it is from God or the Evil one before accepting it gullibly.

Saul, one of the most educated Lawyer of the Jews of the time -a qualified student of then acclaimed Jewish Teacher Gamaliel- could not interpret with his Intelligence the countless the implications of the Messiah written in the Scripture he knew so thoroughly, to mean Jesus. Saul now Paul heard Jesus and even saw him, but his Intelligence could not comprehend Jesus the Messiah.

He saw it only when he became blind and then taught the Revelation of Jesus with foolishness and not with Intelligence of the time.

Man is very gullible: i. Because every one of us is lazy and want to Rest our Mind avoiding time taking cumbersome Enquiry. ii. Because we think we are Intelligent and think we understand the 'things of the world', but gullibly accept all of what is traditionally said by the Teachers because we are lazy for laborious personal Scrutiny. iii. And because we believe things said repeatedly even if it were a lie.

Our Intelligence can not ourselves take us to God because no one can lead himself or others to Him unless God himself chooses. He has given us the Human Mind to comprehend his Words, accept them and live according to his Son's Commandments. The Human Mind is infinitely more discerning than its Intelligence.

If we are Christians, we are to follow what He has said through His Son though we have not Seen, Heard, Touched, Tasted or Sniffed Him but pursue Him with our Mind, -the Gift of life He has given every Man and Womanto do his Commandments; if not, we are not Christians downright.

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he Christian organisation, yesHeis Cinema India, had recently held "The 48hours Short Film Challenge" where the participants had to register as a team following which a

specific theme were given on which the teams had to story, shoot, edit and submit a 1 to 5 minutes film within 48 hours.

There were around 47 entries across 15 cities of India and the winning film was a work by The Dreamz Unlimited

team, film VAGUE, directed by Tiakumzuk Aier from Nagaland.

The Nagaland based team won a cash prize of Rupees 30,000 along with certificates and merchandises. The second place went to the film SPIN of APC

team from Bangalore who won a cash prize of Rupees 20,000 and certificates.

The theme of the short films was on Easter. The winning films will be distributed across the festival circuits by yesHeis Cinema.

Priyanka tried committing suicide: Ex-manager

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ollywood star Priyanka Chopra attempted suicide three times during her struggling days includollywood star Pri- "Baywatch", did not respond ing in 2002 after the death yanka Chopra's to the messages for her reof her alleged former boymother Madhu has action, rebutting his claims, friend Aseem Merchant's called the actress' Madhu wrote on Twitter, mother, her ex-manager former manager Prakash Jaju "That lying b****** spent time Prakash Jaju claimed on "a liar" after he claimed that in jail... His old mother and Sunday. her daughter tried commit- father fell at PC's feet begging In a series of tweets, Jaju ting suicide three times dur- forgiveness." said the 33-year-old QuanPochury women present cultural dance during the inaugural function of Meluri Town tico star was extremely ing her struggling days.

Things between the "BaCouncil at Meluri on April 2. The Town Council was inaugurated by Chief Minister T.R. ZeJaju, who managed the jirao Mastani" star and Jaju close to Merchant's mothliang in the presence of minister for school education & SCERT Yitachu and parliamentaactress from 2000-2004, turned sour when she termiry secretary for municipal affairs and economics & statistics R. Tohanba. (Morung Photo) er and did not take her posted on Twitter on Sunday nated his services. demise well. PC was very that one such incident was in Later, he even filed a close to Aseem merchant's 2002 after the death of Priyan- criminal suit against her, mother, her death in 2002 ka's alleged former boyfriend accusing that she has not shattered her so much that Aseem Merchant's mother. cleared his dues. she tried to jump off Karan The ex-manager said the Jaju, however, ended up apt to commit suicide, Jaju 33-year-old "Quantico" star serving 67 days in jail after wrote. I reached at nick of was extremely close to Mer- Priyanka's father Ashok Chotime and caught hold of chant's mother and did not pra filed a complaint against her and tied her to a chair take her demise well. him for interfering in his till grills were fixed in all the ctor Martin Freeman, who loves While Priyanka, who is daughter's privacy. windows of the flat. clothes and shoes, says that he in Los Angeles shooting for The celebrity manager Source: PTI likes people who have an affinadded he wanted to make a ity for good clothes and immediately point that suicidal tendency tends to trust them. "I like people who is in most of the girls of film Priyanka and Aseem used crying... and I used to take Girls don't act intelligently at like clothes. I immediately trust men industry. PC may look very to fight on daily basis and on her from Aseem's house, the age of 18-19. who are into clothes, even though they strong now but she was also one such night, the actress make her understand and Priyanka, who is shootcould turn out to be horrible people. very vulnerable in struggling attempted suicide. drop her at her home. Once ing in Los Angeles for her There is an intelligence about cardays, tried to commit suicide Daily PC and Aseem madam went to Vasai to at- maiden Hollywood film ing about what you wear," The Times 2-3 times but I managed to used to fight... She used to tempt suicide after fighting Baywatch, did not immedinewspaper's Luxx menswear supplestop her, he wrote. Jaju said call me at 2 am in the night, with Aseem. I got her back. ately respond to messages ment quoted Freeman as saying, reports femalefirst.co.uk.

"I was always into fashion and, as I've got older, it's got worse. I know there are more important things in the world. Outside my normal life, ind of Mine knocked Adele's 25 from the top spot, with just aside from music, it's where most of over 4,000 more sales. The former One Direction singer told my energy goes. I'm not very proud the Official Charts Company it was "mind blowing". "I can't of that. Some people's energy goes on believe that I have managed to achieve this as a solo artist. saving Syrian refugees. Mine goes on "I am very proud coming from Bradford achieving this in my home shoes," he added. country."

He added: "It's mind-blowing to me. I don't take the support I The 44-year-old actor described have received for granted. My life at 23 could have been very different." his fashion addiction as a "sickness", The album's lead single, Pillowtalk, went straight to number one in and shared that it infuriates his partFebruary.

Also entering the top five of the album chart are Joe Bonamassa ner of 16 years, Amanda Abbington. "I at three with his collection Blues of Desperation and Birdy's Beautiful Lies can't leave the house unless I'm happy at four - the 19-year-old's highest charting album. At five is Justin Bieber's with my appearance. It's a sickness. It's Purpose, which has now spent 20 consecutive weeks in the top five. a nightmare for Amanda," he said.

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aylor Swift had a great night at the iHeartRadio Music Awards in Los Angeles, picking up four prizes and watching her boyfriend and best pal triumph. The pop star claimed the first award of the night when she was named Female Artist of the Year, and she went on to win Album of the Year for 1989 and Best Tour. Swift also won the Most Memeable Moment for her "Crazy Girl with Running Mascara" from the Blank Space video.

She also cheered on boyfriend Calvin Harris as he accepted the Dance Artist of the Year title, and best pal Selena Gomez, who was named the ceremony's Triple Threat. Talking of triple threats, Selena's ex Jus-

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tin Bieber, who opened the Year. Double winners were show with a performance, Drake and Twenty One Pipicked up three awards, in- lots. cluding Male Artist of the Source: Yahoo News

Kung Fu has its origins in India, says Tiger Shroff

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ven though Kung Fu is strongly associated with the Orient, it is said that this martial art originated in India. Bollywood heartthrob, Tiger Shroff, whose recently launched trailer of producer Sajid Nadiadwala's 'Baaghi' gives viewers a closer look at his jaw-dropping action scenes, reveals how it was founded by an Indian Buddhist monk named Bodhidharma.

The maestro taught this martial art form and took it

forward after he travelled to China. That's how it become synonymous with that country. Apparently, Bodhidharma is also referred to as the 'Father of Kung Fu' in several temples of Shaolin.

Calling Kung Fu the most ancient of all martial arts, which doesn't involve any weapons, Tiger, whose 'Baaghi' directed by Sabbir Khan, releases on April 29, says, "Though there are conflicting opinions on whether it actually originated from the teachings of

an Indian Buddhist monk, Bodhidharma, who arrived in China in the 6th century, one thing is certain, he definitely brought a form of martial arts with him, most likely Kalaripayattu.

He transformed the newly-formed Shaolin temple and the Buddhist monks settled there, dedicating themselves to Kung Fu and becoming a warrior elite whose fame spread throughout China and later, all over the world."

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upermodel Behati Prinsloo debuted her baby bump at the launch of her new Juicy Couture collection in New York City last month, and just a few weeks after the Victoria's Secret beauty's first major red carpet appearance since becoming pregnant, Adam joined in on the celebration on Saturday by posting a sweet Instagram photo of his family.

In the picture, Behati wears a Los Angeles Lakers cap with the team's name inscribed onto it, and the proud dad-to-be acknowledged his spouse and their unborn child by writing the caption: "My two favorite laker (sic) fans." He signed off the loving message with emojis representing a baby, a bottle and a basketball.

Adam and Behati wed in 2014, and the singer has previously spoken about his desire to start a family with the Namibian beauty. "If I had a kid tomorrow or in five years, that would be beautiful," he said in 2013. "I don't know when that will happen. I don't plan."

However, he knows he wants a big family: "Like 17 (kids)," he joked in 2014. "Is that reasonable? I love kids so much, though." Behati is due to give birth later this year.

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Eden Gardens, Kolkata

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Punjab Cricket Association Stadium, Mohali .M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru

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Eden Gardens, Kolkata

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Saurashtra Cricket Association Stadium, Rajkot

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Ferozeshah Kotla, Delhi

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Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium, Hyderabad

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Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai

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M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium, Hyderabad Punjab Cricket Association Stadium, Mohali

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Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai

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Saurashtra Cricket Association Stadium, Rajkot .MCA International Stadium, Pune Ferozeshah Kotla, Delhi

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Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium, Hyderabad Saurashtra Cricket Association Stadium, Rajkot .MCA International Stadium, Pune Punjab Cricket Association Stadium, Mohali Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium, Hyderabad

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Ferozeshah Kotla, Delhi

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Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai

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.MCA International Stadium, Pune

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Ferozeshah Kotla, Delhi

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Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium, Hyderabad Saurashtra Cricket Association Stadium, Rajkot .MCA International Stadium, Pune .M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru Saurashtra Cricket Association Stadium, Rajkot

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Eden Gardens, Kolkata

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Ferozeshah Kotla, Delhi

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Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium, Hyderabad .M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium, Nagpur

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Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai

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Eden Gardens, Kolkata

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Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium, Nagpur MCA International Stadium, Pune M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium, Hyderabad

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Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai

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M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru

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Eden Gardens, Kolkata

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Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai

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Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium, Nagpur

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Eden Gardens, Kolkata

20:00

MCA International Stadium, Pune M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru

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TBC, TBC

20:00

Shaheed Veer Narayan Singh International Cricket Stadium, Raipur

20:00

Eden Gardens, Kolkata

16:00

TBC, TBC

20:00

Eden Gardens, Kolkata

16:00

Shaheed Veer Narayan Singh International Cricket Stadium, Raipur

20:00

KnocKout Stage tiMe table

Match Qualifier 1: TBC vs TBC Eliminator: TBC vs TBC Qualifier 2: TBC vs TBC Final: TBC vs TBC

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Venue M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru MCA International Stadium, Pune MCA International Stadium, Pune Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai

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Djokovic beats Nishikori for Miami title

MIAMI, APRIL 4 (REUTERS): Top seed Novak Djokovic continued his domination of men's tennis with a 6-3 6-3 win over Japan's Kei Nishikori in the Miami Open final in Florida on Sunday, before quickly turning his thoughts to the upcoming clay court season.

The French Open is the only grand slam missing from Djokovic's otherwise glittering resume, but he has already been installed by the bookmakers as odds-on favourite for Roland Garros after a magnificent start to 2016.

Djokovic dropped serve in the first game against Nishikori but it was pretty much one-way traffic after that as he outclassed the sixth seed in all facets of the game on the hardcourt at Key Biscayne.

The 28-year-old Serb took 85 minutes to join American Andre Agassi as a six-time Miami Open winner.

Djokovic said his first Miami win in 2007 paved the way for a career that now includes 63 ATP titles.

"It gave me a lot of confidence, a lot of self belief that I can finally win these big tournaments, finally beat the top players," he said in a courtside interview.

"Every year I come back to this tournament I get goose bumps from those

Antonio Conte appointed new Chelsea coach LONDON, APRIL 4 (AGENCIES): Chelsea have confirmed Antonio Conte will become their new head coach following the conclusion of the 2016 European Championship.

Current Italy coach Conte signed a three-year deal with reigning Premier League champions on Monday and becomes the 10th boss to take charge of Chelsea since Roman Abramovich completed his takeover of the club in 2004.

The 46-year-old will officially take control after leading Italy at Euro 2016 in France in the summer.

"I am very excited about the prospect of working at Chelsea Football Club. I am proud to be the coach of the national team of my country and only a role as attractive as manager of Chelsea could follow that," he told Chelsea's official website.

"I am happy we have made the announcement now so everything is clear and we can end the speculation. I will continue to focus on my job with the Italian national team and will reserve speaking about Chelsea again until after the Euros."

Chelsea have been searching for a permanent successor to Jose Mourinho since sacking the Portuguese in November, with current interim boss Guus Hiddink stating on a number of occasions that he would not be staying at Stamford Bridge beyond the end of the season.

Conte arrived in London on Sunday afternoon and met with Abramovich, chairman Bruce Buck and director Marina Granovskaia before signing a contract that will keep him at the club until 2019.

Novak Djokovic celebrates with the Butch Buchholz championship trophy as tournament director Adam Barrett looks on after his match against Kei Nishikori (not pictured) in the men's singles final of the Miami Open at Crandon Park Tennis Center. Djokovic won 6-3, 6-3. Mandatory Credit: Geoff Burke-USA TODAY Sports

days. I was still 19 years old and making my way to the top." He collected $1,028,300 on Sunday, becoming the sport's all-time leading money-winner with career earnings approaching $100 million.

It was his fourth consecutive championship, and a record 28th overall, in the Masters 1000, a series of nine tournaments consid-

ered the most prestigious other than the four grand slams.

"First set was a real battle, but towards the end of the first set I started serving better... which means a lot in matches like this against top players," he said of his latest victory.

It was Djokovic's fourth title of 2016, following victories at the Australian

Open, Qatar and Indian Wells.

His only blemish on an otherwise perfect record so far this year came in Dubai in February, when he retired during a quarter-final with an eye infection.

Djokovic will fly home on Monday to Monte Carlo, where he will begin his clay court season next week.

"I have plenty of energy

and lots of motivation for the beginning of the clay court season that ends up, hopefully, with a crown in Paris (in June)," he said.

"That’s obviously one of the top goals each year, but I’m not the only one that wants to win that big trophy. There are many big events prior to that so I’m hoping I can build my form."

Kohli named captain of ICC World T20 dream team, Nehra included

MUMbAI, APRIL 4 (IANS): Following his sublime form in the World T20, India's star batsman Virat Kohli has been named the skipper of the International Cricket Council's (ICC) men's dream team of the tournament.

Kohli’s compatriot and veteran pacer Ashish Nehra have been named as the 11th man in the squad, ICC said in a release on Monday.

“The teams were chosen by a select group of former cricket stars and highly respected commentators who were given the task of picking a balanced side for all conditions on the basis of performances in the tournament. Statistics were used but were not the sole basis for selections,” the release said. The West Indies women’s World T20 winning skipper Stafanie Taylor has been named the captain of the women’s team.

“The experts chose India’s Virat Kohli as captain of the men’s side while Stafanie Taylor of the West Indies was named to lead the women’s line-up,” the ICC release said.

The men’s team, including 12th

man, contained four players from England, two players each from India and the West Indies, and one each from Australia, Bangladesh, New Zealand and South Africa.

The women’s team comprised four players from New Zealand, two players each from Australia, England and the West Indies, and one player each from Pakistan and South Africa.

“The experts had an extremely difficult task to select the men’s and women’s squads from around 400 cricketers who represented the 26 teams, thanks to outstanding performances by all the players at this hugely successful event,” ICC General Manager - Cricket, Geoff Allardice said in the release. “In the end, I believe the selectors have chosen two very well balanced sides which are capable of beating any opposition under any conditions,” Allardice said.

The selection panel that chose ICC teams of the World T20 consisted of Allardice, Ian Bishop (former West Indies fast bowler), Nasser Hussain (former England captain), Mel Jones

(former Australia women’s batter), Sanjay Manjrekar (former India batsman) and Lisa Sthalekar (former Australia women’s all-rounder).

TEAMs: Men: Jason Roy (England), Quinton de Kock (South Africa, wicketkeeper), Virat Kohli (India, captain), Joe Root (England), Jos Buttler (England), Shane Watson (Australia), Andre Russell (West Indies), Mitchell Santner (New Zealand), David Willey (England), Samuel Badree (West Indies), Ashish Nehra (India), Mustafizur Rahman (Bangladesh) (12th man) Women: Suzie Bates (New Zealand), Charlotte Edwards (England), Meg Lanning (Australia), Stafanie Taylor (West Indies, captain), Sophie Devine (New Zealand), Rachel Priest (New Zealand, wicketkeeper), Deandra Dottin (West Indies), Megan Schutt (Australia), Sune Luus (South Africa), Leigh Kasperek (New Zealand), Anya Shrubsole (England), Anam Amin (Pakistan) (12th player)

Waqar Younis resigns as Pakistan coach

LAhORE, APRIL 4 (IANS): Pakistan's head coach Waqar Younis resigned on Monday weeks after his team's humiliating exit from the World Twenty20 in the group stages. Pakistan lost three consecutive matches at the group stage of the World T20, including a bruising defeat to India, to exit the tournament amidst heavy criticism.

Pakistan's T20 captain Shahid Afridi has also stepped down from his post accepting responsibility for the poor show. Younis said the PCB's failure to implement his recommendations after the 2015 World Cup and the "leak" of his confidential report after the team's disastrous run at the World T20 played a 'big' role in his walking away from his post three months before his contract expires.

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