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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness — Stewart Udall
50 dead as warehouse blasts hit Chinese port [ PAGE 9]
Dhawan, Kohli tons Need to improve hand India control Nagaland health system of first test [ PAGE 2]
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‘naga nationalism is not lost’
Naga right to govern themselves cannot be hijacked: General Khole
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“The spirit of nationalism is not lost. Before we worked with our courage, now the present generation will work with their minds,” says Gen. (Retd) Thinoselie Keyho, a veteran Naga leader. In 1956, when he saw the dead bodies of two Gaonburas from Mima village killed by the Indian Army were brought to Kohima North Police station, General Thinoselie Keyho decided to join the Naga struggle for independence. A young Thinoselie, in his mid twenties, joined the movement, angry at the way the Indian army had killed the Nagas. General Thinoselie went on to lead the first batch of Naga Army as a Commander to China (1966-67) along with Th Muivah, who he considers as a true friend. During the initial days of the movement, it was a real struggle, says Thinoselie, noting the scarcity of food, and the swarms of mosquitoes, leeches and fleas in the jungle. “Our clothes were wet. We did not have seats or beds. But there was something true about the struggle, some-
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Naga people waving the Naga national flag at a reconciliation meeting. (Morung File Photo)
thing higher that guided us, that’s why we survived.” I have enjoyed the highest and lowest phase of life, he notes, while recalling how he had stayed in a luxurious International Hotel in China, and was also locked up in Tihar jail soon after. In jail, his only connection to the human world was a peep hole. Thinoselie was caught in Dhaka and imprisoned from 1971 to 1976, four years in Tihar jail and one year in Mawlai Special Jail, Shillong. Honorable and acceptable settlement means unity first An honorable and acceptable settlement for me, notes Thinoselie, is unity first and settlement second, while referring to the
Framework Agreement between the Government of India and the NSCN (IM). “An acceptable and honorable settlement cannot come through NSCN (IM) alone. The August 3 Peace Accord did not take the consent of the Naga public. This time also the Government of India has made a blunder. It is a great injustice and humiliation to the Nagas,” says Thinoselie. He further cautions that many Nagas will not be able to stand against bullets and money. On the drawn out Naga issue, Thinoselie states: ‘A spark neglected burns the house.’ The longer the Naga problem drags on, he says the more damage it will cause to India. “They have not really tried to under-
stand us or our struggle.” On Naga Independence Day On the August 14 celebration of Naga Independence, Thinoselie notes that the date is significant. He points out that had the Nagas declared independence a day after August 15, Nagas could be labeled as rebels or secessionists. But this was not the case. While celebrating Independence Day, Thinoselie urges Nagas to question where their roots are. “It did not emerge from India. We need to strengthen our political rights. We need to determine our faith.” There are many lies, but only one truth “It is a shame to live without a story. The Naga Na-
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Dimapur, august 13 (mExN): The 69th Naga Independence Day celebration at Camp Hebron will be telecast live in Pratidin Time, a 24 hour North East channel based in Assam and TV Manipur on August 14 from 9 am onwards. NSCN (IM) General Secretray TH Muivah, who arrived Dimapur on Wednesday will address on the occasion. Viewers can watch the proceedings at Pratidin Time in the following DTH services - Dish TV channel no - 783; Tata Sky channnel no- 995, Airtel Digital TV channel no619,Videocon DTH channel no-847, Reliance big TV channel no- 788.
the people who are going to have a final say in deciding their future.” He further assured the Naga people that “no final political settlement will take place with the Government of India without taking the opinion and consent of my people.”
‘We will not bow down: Brig singnya Brig. (Retd.) S. Singnya, Kedahge, Federal Government of Nagaland (FGN) meanwhile stated on the 69th Naga Independence Day that “We will not bow down to any power however powerful they may be nor be impatient if it means anything less than our historical and political rights.” Wondering what has been gained in the last five decades of statehood, Singnya said that the land of the Nagas has been “divided and fragmented without our knowledge or consent.” The Naga National Movement has been reduced to that of a ‘secessionist’ movement and even referred to as an ‘insurgency’, he noted. “To top all these, laws which are obsolete in the modern world like Disturbed Area Act under the Armed Forces Special Powers Act of 1958 is continued to be imposed in the Naga inhabited areas,” he said. The Kedahge maintained that they have committed themselves to the work of reconciliation among the Naga Political Groups to “hammer out our differences so that we can harbour on our commonality, namely, Naga historical and political rights making it to stand at the forefront of our political movement.” He expressed gratefulness to the Forum for Naga Reconciliation for this accomplishment. “Our unity and our resolute decision to go on as one people is the only legacy that we can leave to the younger generations,” stated Singnya, affirming the NNC/FGN’s belief that “anything short of political sovereignty would be suicidal and a tragedy for our people.” Naga Independence Day speeches on page 10
Allegations of 427 “backdoor” ASU to protest against Vet & Animal Husbandry dept appointments in Medical Dept Morung Express News
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tional Movement was a true cause. It was the will of God. Our lives, the way we have survived and came out alive is a miracle,” says Thinoselie. He mentions the early period of the movement as a very ‘kemenga’ struggle (Kemenga can be loosely translated as humiliating), where the media ignored them, and there were no telephones or telegram services. As Thinoselie narrates how Naga villages were burned, and villagers were sent to concentration camps, tortured and killed, he asserts the need to tell these stories. “These stories are not mine to keep, it belongs to the people,” says the veteran leader. He concludes that there are many lies but there is only one truth.
Dimapur, august 13 (mExN): Nagas have suffered enough due to mistrust and disunity, controversies and conspiracies, stated Gen. (Retd.) Khole Konyak, President of GPRN/NSCN, in his speech on the 69th Naga Independence Day. “The political scenario in the past 10 years or less has changed dramatically where we find that the essence and principles of Naga political movement has merely featured in the forefront, with the people and leaders less concerned about it, which has misguided the confidence and political rights of the Nagas,” the leader stated to his ‘countrymen’. Noting that Nagas have suffered enough because of mistrust and disunity thereby creating a sense of hatred and insecurity among ourselves, Konyak said that problems still remain unsolved. “Integration or disintegration, greater or smaller Nagaland has never been an agenda of Naga freedom movement. Our aims and objectives have always been to get recognition of our political rights and its domain areas, which the Indian Government has agreed verbally,” he maintained. Konyak expressed gladness at the signing of an accord between the NSCN (IM) and Government of India. He said, “any solution that may arrive for our brothers in Manipur or NSCN (IM) will be gracefully supported and acknowledged by the GPRN/NSCN. In return, I would also wish that they understand the minds of Nagas living in Nagaland in their process to redesign their future.” He said it would be a “great achievement if we could pave way at this given situation by bringing up common agenda to see that all Nagas are contented.” The GPRN/NSCN, he affirmed always welcomes right thinking Nagas to “express your dreams and aspirations of a free and contented Nagaland.” The Naga people’s right to govern themselves, he stated, “cannot be hijacked in the form of an accord because at the end of the day, it will be
Dimapur, august 13 (mExN): The Against Corruption and Unabated Taxation (ACAUT) Nagaland today alleged that approximately 427 “backdoor” appointments have been regularized or are in the process of being regularized in the Nagaland state Medical Department between the years 2005 and 2015. These appointments, ACAUT informed through a press note, stretch back to the 1990s and exclude grade 3 and 4 employees. As per information obtained by the ACAUT through a RTI filed with the Medical Department, it informed that 70 doctors were appointed between 1992 and 2005 on ad-hoc as Assistant Surgeons, Class 1 Gazetted officers, by the State Health & Family Welfare Department. On August 1, 2005, the Directorate requisitioned the Nagaland Public Service Commission (NPSC) to conduct exams for the said posts. Further on June 20, 2006, ACAUT informed that the department notified the selection of only 10 Assistant Surgeons through NPSC exams. It revealed that none of the 70 appointees went through the examination process and the department resorted to various “machinations to protect its appointees.” ACAUT said that on September 15, 2005, out of the 70 appointees, the State Cabinet regularized the services of 10 doctors. On March 6, 2006, the Department notified the regularization of a further 30 appointees, however,
backdating it from September 15, 2005. This, the ACAUT alleged, was done to avoid the NPSC exam notification 2006. Again, in 2008, 19 appointees were regularized in 2008 after allegedly “hiding the posts and appointments from the NPSC and its examination held in 2006,” the ACAUT said. Therefore, it said that out of the 70 appointees, 59 were “appointed and regularized backdoor and 3 managed to clear NPSC exam.” The ACAUT further informed that between 2005 and 2007, 11 doctors were appointed on ad-hoc as Medical Officers, Class 1 Gazetted officers. Despite NPSC holding exams in 2007 and 2010 for the posts of Medical Officers, it alleged that the 11 posts and appointees were “hidden again by the department and all subsequently regularized in December 2011.” As such, it lamented that “well meaning doctors entered fraternal service as backdoor appointees.” Further, between 2005 and 2015, out of 366 clerical and technical posts (Grade 2), 298 posts were appointed directly by the department “without calling for any interview or selection process,” ACAUT said. It alleged that only 2 were appointed through the NPSC and the rest 66 appointed after “interview selection,” according to claims of the department. “However, this claim seems fishy as the department has not furnished any document as proof of interview, including newspaper advertisements,” the ACAUT said.
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The Angami Students’ Union (ASU) will begin its first phase of agitation against the Department of Veterinary and Animal Husbandry on August 17 by picketing the Directorate, the district office and the SCGF office, Lerie. The agitation is against the backdrop of the department’s failure to cancel the backdoor appointment of a cattle attendant at SCGF, Lerie. As is conventionally the norm in the rest of the districts in Nagaland where the lower grades especially III and IV posts are filled by the indigenous
inhabitants of the district, the ASU had also demanded the same in Kohima. “We are not against any tribe. We are against the system. Till today there has been no response from the government. We have given them enough time to cancel the appointment. We want our rights back. We do not want to be deprived,” asserted President, Dievi Yano. A representation was sent earlier to the Department giving them 15 days to respond for which the deadline ended on August 13. Stating that the silence of the department has hurt the sentiments of the Angami community, Yano added that if
there is no response after the first phase, the second phase will include a total bandh in Kohima town. “If anything happens to any of our volunteers, the concerned Department and the Parliamentary Secretary will be held responsible,” added Yano. Stressing on the inherent rights of the original inhabitants, General Secretary, Visako Rino stated that this inherent right has been deprived for a very long time. “It all comes down to asking for what we deserve, without any intention of offending anybody of the Naga community. We live in a very compli-
cated and sensitive society which has a lot of imbalances within tribes and strata of the society. It is about time for all of us to morally take a stand and do the right thing. Are we doing the right thing or do what is wrong because everybody is doing it,” added Zakie Khate, Advisor. ASU has also informed that it has filed RTIs in all the departments in Kohima district, however some departments have not responded within the stipulated time of 30 days. The union has cautioned that it will take its own democratic and legal course of action against the departments.
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Like the rest of the Naga populace, villagers of Chishilimi in Zunheboto district are also keeping their fingers crossed on the possible outcome of the ‘historic’ Framework Agreement signed between the Government of India and NSCN (IM) on August 3. Chishilimi, situated some 70 kms from Kohima, is the native village of NSCN (IM) Chairman, Isak Chishi Swu, whosignedtheFrameworkAgreement. However, unlike the cautious optimism or pessimism expressed by various Naga civil society and individuals, villagers of this tiny hamlet have full faith that Swu would not disappoint decades of anxious waiting for an honourable solution to the protracted Naga political issue. “Ashu (grandfather) Swu has sacrificed everything for the cause of the Naga people. All these years we have been waiting and praying for a final solution and a new dawn for the Nagas. We thank God for giving us hope and I feel the peace accord is a good
Ninety-four -year old Zhehovi, one of the oldest man of Chishilimi village and a childhood friend of Chairman Isak Chishi Swu. (Morung Photo)
portent,” said Haito, the Chairman of Chishilimi village. “Our concern was whether our leader would be able to bring about a settlement during his lifetime. Many Nagas are apprehensive of the peace accord but we are optimistic that the accord will be something worthwhile,” said another village elder.
Ninety-four year-old Zhehovi, the second oldest man of the village and Swu’s childhood friend has fond memories of both of them going together to work in the jhum field. “God has destined Isak to liberate us. We the older generation also pray that God will grant us more time so that we can behold the day of deliverance,” the nonagenarian said. The pastor of the village church said 28 local churches had been organizing fasting and prayer programmes of late to pray for good health of their ailing leader. Swu, 85, was admitted to a Delhi hospital on July 5 following “severe kidney ailments and urinary tract infection.” Sources said he is slowly recovering since then. Isak Swu’s younger brother Jacob Chishi Swu, a retired major in the Naga army turned a prayer warrior, said their prayer group had been praying continuously for the Nagas and Swu for the past 21 years. Chishilimi has twice risen from the ashes after the village was completely burnt down by the Indian Army in 1957 and 1959 during the height of the Naga movement.
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Two NSCN (K) cadres killed Dimapur, august 13 (mExN): Two NSCN (K) cadres were killed in a shootout with the Assam Rifles (AR) at Tamatai, which is about 4 kilometers away from Longsa Village, under Mokokchung District on August 13. According to police, the shootout took place at around 5:45am. According to sources, the two cadres have been identified as Azheto and Khekato Chopy. A press note from the AR informed that troops were sent to the area based on inputs that NSCN (K) cadres were present at Longsa village. The AR said that their troops were fired upon by the NSCN (K), and in the ensuing shootout, two cadres were killed. A press note from the DPRO, Mokokchung informed that one AK-56 rifle, ammunition and explosives were recovered from the spot. The AR meanwhile claimed that the arms and ammunition were to be used for attacks on the Mokokchung-Tuensang highway and in the nearby towns, in the run up to India’s Independence Day. Police forces led by Additional SP, Mokokchung went to the spot to assess the situation. Mokokchung DC Sushil Kumar Patel has meanwhile said that law and order situation in the district is “absolutely under control,” and that there is no need to panic. He assured that the district administration, police and security forces are taking measures to ensure peace and tranquility.
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State govt with World Bank conducts workshop on health insurance
kohiMA, August 13 (DiPR): The three-day orientation training on health insurance for government official, which started on August 11 at the Directorate of Health & Family Welfare, concluded on August 13. Addressing the closing function, Commissioner & Secretary, H&FW, M. Patton, IAS said that the need to improvise the health system in the state is the pressing issue. He said that by the virtue of being a welfare state, the government is giving medical allowance and medical reimbursement to the employees and their dependents where the government is spending much money, which is an outdated system. He was optimistic that the workshop has benefited all the participants from different departments and
thanked the World Bank for giving many inputs and for having so much concern for the State of Nagaland. Delivering the overview of the workshop, Secretary, Finance, Y. Kikheto Sema, IAS stated that the State has a huge burden of deficit thereby finding it difficult to reach out for better services to the people, especially in the rural areas. He urged the participants to work out together to bring changes in the present process and asked them to give more importance to the rural people. The programme was chaired by Principal Director, H&FW, Nandira Changkija while power point presentation was given by two groups during the closing ceremony. The workshop was organized by Government of Nagaland in collaboration with the World Bank.
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kohiMA, August 13 (Mexn): The public are informed that in view of the 69th Independence Day Celebration at Secretariat Plaza, Kohima, the following traffic regulations will be enforced on August 15 from 6:00 am onwards as part of the security arrangement. 1. Only vehicles with appropriate car pass will be allowed entry to the Secretariat Plaza. 2. Parking outside the main gate of the Secretariat Plaza will be free for all public. 3. No vehicle will be allowed to be parked by the roadside from 0600 hrs onward in the following area: From BSNL Telephone Exchange till Classis Island and from Raj Bhavan to New Secretariat Complex via Meriema, High Court Junction. Any defaulting vehicles on the above mentioned stretch of road will be towed away and towing charge shall be recovered from the defaulters. Entry of heavy vehicles as well as unloading in the town will be restricted from 0700 hrs onwards. This was informed in a press release issued by Sr. Superintendent of Police, Kohima, Nagaland.
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faring well in the competitive exams, the SP said that it is a matter of great concern and urged each individuals and families to take responsibility in humility and give due attention to the younger generation in mentoring them. He acknowledged that we need to preserve our language and culture, which is our identity as a community but needed to be broad minded and move along in advancement with others and not remain isolated from others. Kelhikhe Kenye, Secretary KWO, led the programme and Tsholhi Khape, KWO President extended the welcome address. The organisation facilitated Rev. Kewezolo Mero, pastor, Nepali Baptist church and Ngutsolo Therie, Asso pastor Phek town Baptist church. The meeting was attended by the KWO office bearers, village representatives and Kuzhami Gazette officers posted at Phek. The house resolved to convene Kuzhami General meeting in the month of December 2015.
Zunheboto, August 13 (Mexn): Chief Veterinary and AH officer Zunheboto has informed that the office would be organizing a Animal Health Camp on August 15 during the celebration of Independence Day at Zunheboto, local ground where there will be free distribution of Medicines, Tonics, Anthelmentics and min mixtures etc. besides attending to clinics and vaccination. CVO Zunheboto Dr. Neikeyielie Theiinuo in a press release has requested farmers and public to avail the facility. For further details, contact @ 9436072892 or 8257009546.
BJP Wokha meeting on August 17
WokhA, August 13 (Mexn): The Bharatiya Janata Party Wokha District has convened a joint meeting on August 17 at the president’s residence. BJP Wokha Unit General Secretary (Adm) N. Nchumbemo Jami in a press release has directed all frontal office bearers, mandals president and general secretary to attend the meeting without failed.
Community social work at Sanuorii bridge
kohiMA, August 13 (Mexn): The Tsieramia Council of L. Khel, Kohima village will be conducting a community social work at Sanuorii Bridge on August 17. All Tsieramia members have been requested to reach Sanuorii, near Working Women Hostel by 9:00 AM. The members have also been requested to bring dao, spade, crow bar, shovel and empty sacks. Food and refreshment will be provided by Tsieramia Council, a release received here said today.
Fresh Doyang Fish sale
kohiMA, August 13 (Mexn): The Department of Fisheries, Nagaland has arranged Lerie Baptist Church, Kohima to sell Fresh Doyang Fish at P.R. Hill Junction, Kohima on August 14 from 6:00 AM onwards. The public is informed to avail this opportunity.
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Kohima DPDB on Aug 17
kohiMA, August 13 (DiPR): Deputy Commissioner Kohima, Rovilatuo Mor IAS has informed that on account of Independence Day celebration on August 15 and 16 being a Sunday, the DPDB Meeting for the month of August will be held on August 17 at DPDB Conference Hall at 12:30 a.m. All the DPDB members have been requested to note the date and attend the meeting positively.
Mass social work at Akuluto Kohima District Legal Services Authority members and others during the legal awareness programme at G Rio School, Kohima held on August 13.
kohiMA, August 13 (Mexn): The Kohima District Legal Services Authority (KDLSA) organised a legal awareness programme at G Rio School, Kohima on August 13 on the topic, ‘legal sensitization on cyber world & violence against children.’ Nino Iralu, Member Secretary, Nagaland State Legal Services Authority & Special Judge, TDP Vigilance presented a short speech on the activities of the Nagaland State Legal Services Authority. Iralu also spoke on how by an amendment of the Article 39 of the Constitution of India, the National Legal Services Authority Act came about for the benefit of the marginalised and the economically backward section of the society. Mezivolu T. Therieh, Chief Judicial Magistrate & Secretary, KDLSA, who spoke on the topic, “Cyber World and the Information Technology Act”, presented a short Documentary film on Child Abuse followed by topic presentation. In her presentation, she highlighted on the evolution of the social media, its merits and demerits. She went on to say that, social media is no doubt making our life easy and giving us ample opportunity to know the world at our desk but there are also nega-
tive impacts that are caused to humanity or for that matter to the children through misuse of the IT by some miscreants. She expressed that the students should use the networking sites responsibly, transparent and legally with proper guidance. Resource person Joshua Sheqi, Panel Lawyer, spoke on “Juvenile Justice Act (JJ Act) & The Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act”. In his presentation, he emphasised on the law relating to Juveniles in conflict with law and children and children in need of care and protection. Further, he highlighted on the POCSO Act, which operates in a manner that is best for the interest and well-being of the child. The Act also gives paramount importance to insure the health, physical, emotional, intellectual and social development of the child. He also said that whoever commits penetrative sexual assault, sexual harassment, child pornography, upon children who are below 18 years of age are punishable under the POCSO Act. A press note stated that the students were receptive and an interactive session with the students was held before closing the programme. Altogether 327 students were present in the programme.
KWO Phek Town consultative meeting held Sanitation vehicle for Upper Agri Colony
Phek, August 13 (Mexn): The Kuzhami Welfare Organisation (KWO) Phek Town convened a consultative meeting on August 11 at Phek Town Council Office with Rukewelo T Mero, Superintendent Police of Phek as resource person. While exhorting the gathering, SP Phek acknowledged that Kuzhamis are united by the bond of brotherhood and common language, though they are scattered in different places including the state of Manipur. He urged the people to stand above the trivial differences between linguistic accents and uphold the spirit of brotherhood for progress and development. He encouraged the Kuzhamis to be sincere in every walks of life and aspire to be a 'model citizen' in the society and project the positive image of the community. He cautioned the community of complacency as such is the sign of downfall as individual and community as a whole. While expressing his concern over the Kuzhamis not
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ICAR conducts awareness prog on Agromet Advisory Legal sensitization on cyber world
Chekiye Village Baptist church celebrated creative Sunday on August 9under the theme “we are his works” with Vishiho Shohe, Christian Education Secretary, WSBAK as the speaker. Highlights of the programme included praise & worship from the children, display of streamers, musical play, handclap skit, little voice, female voice and pom-pom. Hokali Robert, Asso pastor women CVBC, prayed for the children, teachers, Sunday school parents while Toluho pastor CVBC, concluded the programme with benediction.
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The District Level Vigilance Committee on Bonded Labor System (Abolition Act 1976) meeting with Deputy Commissioner and chairman, A. Chumremo was held in his official chamber. Members of the Committee attended the meeting. The DC who is also the chairman of the committee highlighted the Act to the members and initiated the discussion. He also said that the presence of Labor Office in the district is very much needed but since the district is being taken care from Phek, it is difficult for the committee to initiate much discussion he added. Members present felt it would be fruitful if the department concerned highlights the activities and progress on the Act to the committee in order to initiate follow up action.
Commissioner & Secretary, H&FW, M. Patton giving away certificate to participants during the concluding function orientation training on health insurance for government official held on August 13. (DIPR Photo)
land Centre discussed in length about The Impact of weather parameters on the incidence of pests and diseases on crops. Dealing on the topic, the scientist appraised the farmers about the symptomatic diagnosis of pathogen and pests infestations. Imtisenla Walling, Technical Officer, AMFU Jharnapani, ICAR Nagaland Centre apprised the participants on Role of Agromet Advisory and its usefulness in depth. Speaking on the occasion she told them that climate change is the biggest threat of the present century. In the recent past, it has become a burning issue in every part of the globe to access the climate change behavior using past records and to predict the future expected global change. So in this scenario if integrated agromet advisory is incorporated it would save them from different weather calamities on agriculture and allied activities. She also mentioned about the monthly advisories that are being provided on the first Friday of every month through the Morung Express. The farmers actively participated in the interaction session.
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Kids relax as parent as sells pineapple along National Highway between Dimapur- Kohima. Morung Photo/Chizokho Vero
DiMAPuR, August 13 (Mexn): Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), Nagaland centre under Gramin Krishi Mausam Sewa conducted an awareness programme cum interactive session on “Agromet Advisory” for the farmers of Touluzouma Village on August 11. KH Henry, CDF Dimapur chaired the programme. Dr. Ebibeni Ngullie, Subject Matter Specialist Animal Science deliberated on the topic Livestock production management with the changing climate scenario. She addressed the gathering that climate change comes from different sources and affecting humans, livestock and plants. It is a major threat to the survival of many species, ecosystems and the sustainability of livestock production systems in many parts of the world. Dr. Ngullie also dealt with the problems faced by the farmers in the context of animal husbandry. She apprised the farmers about the symptoms of the common diseases in livestock and their remedial measures. Tasvina. R. Borah, Scientist (Plant Pathology) & Scientist I/c GKMS Project, ICAR, Naga-
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Akuluto, August 13 (DiPR): In view of the Independence Day celebration and in continuation of ‘Clean Akuluto Campaign’ a mass social work was carried out successfully on August 13 along with BRO, USCA, town GBs, all head of offices and students union of Akuluto town. Different departments cleaned office premises and surroundings while town drainages, disposal of garbage and the town areas were cleaned by the BRO, town GBs, Urban Station Committee Akuluto and students union Akuluto town.
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NPA convenes meeting
kohiMA, August 13 (Mexn): Nagaland Pharmacists' Association (NPA) has convened a meeting on August 21 at 11.00 am at Conference Hall, Red Cross Complex. The President, General Secretary of all district units, cadre review committee members and NPA executive members have been informed to attend the meeting without fail. For more information, contact 9812672016, 8794728868.
NPF Tseminyu division meet held
kohiMA, August 13 (Mexn): The NPF Tseminyu division held its office bearers’ meeting on August 8 last at the residence of Dr. K. Kath at Tseminyu New Town and deliberated the issues pertaining to party activities. The meeting also resolved to revamp the party office bearers and inducted few new faces to improve the party. The party appointed BLA agents in all polling stations in Rengma area. The meeting also discussed the matter relating to issue of ID Card to all active members. This was stated in a release issued by NPF Tseminyu division president Kenilo Kath and general secretary Hansilo Apon.
Nukhu to grace Kohima college annual day
kohiMA, August 13 (Mexn): Parliamentary secretary for higher & technical education Deo Nukhu will grace the 49th annual freshers’ day of Kohima College Kohima on August 18 at 10:00 AM at the college auditorium. The function will be chaired by Jevika Awomi while welcome address will be delivered by Kohima College vice principal Zetso Sakhrie. Kohima College principal Dr. Watijongshi Jamir will also speak on the occasion. Tsalila and Veyito will speak on behalf of freshers and seniors respectively. The occasion will also witness declaration of Mr. & Miss Kohima College 2015-16.
Prayer warriors, Chakhesang Faith Home meeting Minister Dr. Nicky Kire formally flag off the sanitation vehicle for Upper Agri Colony on August 12 at AEF Council hall. (DIPR Photo)
kohiMA, August 13 (DiPR): Minister for Forest, Environment and Wildlife, Dr. Nicky Kire formally flagged off the sanitation vehicle for Upper Agri Colony on August 12 at AEF Council hall. Speaking on the function, Dr. Nicky Kire stressed on the need to implement Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT) in the State to bring
changes in the society. He also congratulated the colony people for the purchasing the sanitation vehicle through contributions of the residents. This shows the unity among the people, he said. He further encouraged the colony people to be the cleanest ward and be a leading example to all the Wards. Chairman, Upper Agri Colo-
ny, Atuo Metha chaired the program. Pastor David invoked God’s blessing. Advisor, Hoto Yeptho said that the sanitation vehicle was purchased with an amount of 8 lakhs.In his acknowledgements, Treasurer of the Colony, N. Ato Kichu thanked the colony people for their cooperation. Vote of thanks was proposed by Vice Chairman, Upper Agri Colony, Limawati Ao.
DiMAPuR, August 13 (Mexn): A prayer meeting of the Chakhesang Faith Home and prayer warriors is scheduled to be held from August 21 to 23 at Chesezu Christian Revival Church, Phek under the theme “Those who sow in tears will reap with songs of joy” Psalms 126:5. The speakers in the prayer meeting will be Executive Secretary, Chakhesang Baptist Church Council (CBCC) Rev. Dr. Vezopa; Executive Secretary, CCCRC, Rev. Vevozo Khamo; and NCRC Mission at large, Ado Kezo. In a press release, programme committee, Chesezu CRC informed all the delegates to bring their own sleeping bags. It also invited all the prayer warriors, irrespective of denominations, to come and pray for the nation and be blessed in the name of the Lord.
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Air Force ready to ensure flight safety in Northeast SHILLONG, AUGUST 13 (PTI): The Indian Air Force today said it is always ready to assist the civil aviation sector in ensuring flight safety in the Northeast, which has witnessed a number of helicopter crashes recently, mostly in Arunachal Pradesh. Chief of Air Staff, Air Chief Marshal Arup Raha said, "In case the civil aviation sector asks for any assistance from Indian Air Force, we are always there. Indian Air Force has high standards, and those could also be implemented in some of the civil operation sector in this area." T h e m o s t re c e n t chopper accident occurred when a Pawan Hans helicopter went missing on August 4 with Tirap deputy commissioner Dr Kamlesh Kumar Joshi and pilots M S
Brar and Rajeev Hoskote in Khonsa in Tirap district. All three of them died in the accident. The Air Force chief said that apart from being engaged in post-crash rescue operation, the Air Force could also help 'prevent' air accidents. "We don't want to be there only for rescue operation. We want to be there to prevent such accidents," Air Chief Marshal Raha told reporters at the Eastern Air Command Headquarter. He pointed out that all five recent chopper crashes in Arunachal Pradesh were mostly caused by inclement weather, saying "We have to have the highest standards of safety implemented, Standard Operating Procedures followed and rules and regulations put in place in addition to proper monitoring..."
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PNU condemns killing of 3 persons
SENAPATI, AUGUST 13 (MExN): The Poumai Naga union (PNU) has condemned “in the strongest term” the killing of three persons from their community namely Veiraizii, S Francis and S John. A press note from the PNU expressed pain at the “repeated killing/murder in Poumai areas in spite of agreement and understanding reached with all party/organisation/group/individual not to harbour any malice or action...” The PNU further urged any individual/group/organization to own up and explain behind this barbaric act. It also urge the government and police to undertake investigation before the situation further escalates.
NIT Agartala to sign MoU with Bangladeshi varsity AGArTALA, AUGUST 13 (IANS): The National Institute of Technology (NIT), Agartala is likely to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with a Bangladeshi varsity, an official said here on Thursday. The MoU is likely to be signed with Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) to share and exchange knowledge and academic curriculum. "As Bangladesh is our close neighbour and there is a huge scope to share and exchange knowledge and academic curriculum, the NIT, Agartala and BUET are likely to sign a MoU soon," NIT Agartala director Gopal Mugeraya told reporters. BUET vice-chancellor Khaleda Ekram is in Agartala to participate in the valedictory function of the year-long golden jubilee celebrations of NIT Agartala, that turned into a national institute in 2006 from a regional engineering college. "Already, a Bangladeshi student got admitted in the NIT Agartala and there is a huge scope to study in the institute by the students of neighbouring countries, specially Bangladesh," he said. The foreign students have to be admitted in the institute following the provisions of DASA (Direct Admission of Students Abroad) under the ministry of human resource department. Bangladesh's BUET is one of the most prominent institutions for higher studies in the country with over 5,500 students pursuing undergraduate and postgraduate studies in engineering, architecture, planning and science. It has 16 departments. Mugeraya said NIT Agartala's job placement is over 81 percent making the organisation a leading technical establishment among India's 31 NITs. The official said the computer science and engineering department, named after former president A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, would be inaugurated on Friday.
Many AIDS deaths caused by TB in Mizoram AIZAwL, AUGUST 13 (PTI): Many AIDS deaths in Mizoram were actually due toTuberculosis (TB), state health department officials today said. State TB Officer Dr Vanlalfela said that among the 1097 TB cases in the state during January to June, 83 people were HIV positives. Vanlalfela said that 5,216 samples were tested during the period of which 1097 were found to be positive while ten people died during the same period. He said that while the percentage of cure among the TB patients was 83 there were 24 with Multiple Drug Resistance TB.
Assam governor concerned over NRC update process GUwAHATI, AUGUST 13 (IANS): Assam Governor P.B. Acharya on Thursday expressed his deep concern about the slow process of updating the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in the state. In a statement, Acharya appealed to all Indian citizens to expedite and without fail complete the application process for the NRC before the August 31 deadline. The governor said no Indian citizen will be left out of NRC for any reason. The updating of the NRC is being done under the direct supervision of the Supreme Court. "All tea tribes, Bengali Hindu refugees, orphanage inhabitants, jailed prisoners, Indians from neighbouring states, especially from Tripura, Indians from other states of our mainland who have migrated to Assam by marriage, jobs, business etc. are eligible to enter in NRC as per the Supreme Court judgment," Acharya said. The governor met Pratik Hajela, state coordinator of the NRC, and discussed about the progresses and hindrances in the updating process. He strictly ordered that no foreigners should be allowed to get into NRC, either because of corrupt officials giving false birth certificates or by any fraud. Acharya stressed the need for all NRC Seva Kendras in the state to be very careful and not succumb under any pressure or fear. "The integrity and security of not only the northeast, but of India is very important and the patriotic citizens of Assam should take special care in this regard," he said. He appealed to all political parties, student organisations, universities, Sahitya Sabhas, merchant chambers, NGOs, tribal and non-tribal social organisations to be in the forefront to assist and correctly complete the NRC process by August 31. "We have only seventeen days left for the last date for submission of applications," he reminded.
"No amount of your skill, capability can protect you from weather. You have to be very, very careful in making decisions, whether to get airborne, fly that route or return for safety reasons," the Chief of Air Staff warned. "What is required to prevent such accidents is very strict implementation of the Standard Operation Procedure. Indian Air Force has got very strict rules, yet we get involved in accidents in this area," Raha pointed out. Noting that the Northeast was "getting top priority" from the IAF, he said that the Air Force has "lots of plans for the Northeast." He said that a "large number of capable systems" and upgradation of ALGs in various parts were creating more manoeuvring areas in the region.
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Manipur today widely marked the 124th Patriots Day to pay homage to the martyrs of the historic Anglo-Manipuri War of 1891 with the state function organised at the Bir Tikendrajit Park here on Thursday. Chief Minister, Okram Ibobi Singh, Deputy Chief Minister Gaikhangam, ministers, MLAs, Speaker Th Lokeshwar Singh and a host of Government officials paid floral tributes at Hicham Yaichampat, the memorial tomb complex of Bir Tikendrajit and the Complex of Thangal General Temple, Palace Compound here. At the function held at Bir Tikendrajit Park, a contingent of Manipur Rifles gave a gun salute to the martyred leaders who had gallantly fought against the British to defend the independence of the erstwhile kingdom of Manipur. The British army finally took possession of the Kangla Palace on April 27, 1891. Manipur fell into the hands of the British after the Anglo-Manipuri War.
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Naga Herpatologist lectures on Conservation Awareness Militants GUwAHATI, AUGUST 13 (MExN): A northeast India based herpetologist and field biologist, noted for her outstanding working on India’s biodiversity conducted a “Conservation Education and Awareness Raising” programme for students of the Schools of Social Sciences, and Life Sciences, at Assam Don Bosco University Azara campus, on August 12. Addressing a packed hall of some 180 students Dr. Rachunliu G. Kamei (Chun), a Postdoctoral Marie Curie Fellow at the Natural History Museum, London, UK said, “this community education programme involves raising awareness in the general public about our remarkable biological diversity, the threats our biodiversity faces, why it is important to conserve them, and how each of us can contribute to conservation.” Hailing from Nagaland, Dr Kamei’s research interest is in amphibians and
reptiles (herpetology), with special emphasis on a group of extremely poorly known vertebrates (animals with backbones), which are snake-like, legless amphibians called caecilians (pronounced as seh-SILL-yens). “My research has helped highlight the importance of North East India to the international audience (both the scientific and the general public), and put North East India in the global amphibians map in a significant way,” said former professor at St Stephen’s College New Delhi placing on record her modest contribution. Dr Kamei has the unique distinction of having conducted caeciliandedicated soil-digging surveys carried out as part of her PhD project. It is the world’s most extensive caeciliandedicated survey ever attempted. Besides undertaking some 2000 person-hours of soil-digging in 240
plus localities throughout North East India, “it was as a pioneering effort to scientifically document North East India’s caecilian fauna,” Dr Kamei said. Recognizing the contribution of her scientific research has made to the world so far, she was the only Indian Invited Speaker at the World Congress of Herpetology in 2012, at Vancouver, Canada. The WCH is the largest meeting of world experts on amphibians and reptiles held once every five years. Discovery of one new family of amphibians (Chikilidae), one new genus (Chikila), and nine species of amphibians (frogs and caecilians) from North East India are credited to her. National Geographic Society selected the discovery of the new amphibian family CHIKILIDAE as 3rd in Top 10 Scientific Discoveries of 2012, and a photograph of a Chikila mother guarding her eggs as 2nd in 10 Best News Pictures of 2012.
Security tightened across Manipur IMPHAL, AUGUST 13 (PTI): Security measures have been tightened in the state capital as well as district headquarters of Manipur where Independence Day functions will be held in the face of a strike call by militant outfits, a police officer said today. Work for security sanitisation has
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Yuvraj Bir Tikendrajit, 35, who led the Manipur army in this war and Thangal General, 80, were hanged by the British on August 13, 1891 at Imphal Pologround. After independence, this ground in Imphal where they were hanged was renamed as Bir Tikendrajit Park. The leaders in the afternoon offered flowers to the heroes of Anglo-Manipuri War, also known as War of Independence at Shaheed Minar and Kangla Uttra Sanglen where another contingent of Manipur Rifles offered gun salute as a mark of respect to the patriots. The day was also observed in different parts of the state by various organisations.
been geared up in all these places by using metal detectors by the bomb experts and conducting frisking and checking of passers by at strategic points, the officer said. Meanwhile, militant outfits have jointly called for a total shutdown in Manipur in view of Independence Day celebrations, the officer said.
They include outfits like United National Liberation Front of Western South East Asia, the Coordination Committee (corcom), United Revolutionary Front (Lalheiba) group and Kangleipak Communist Party (KCP). The shutdown would start from midnight of August 14 and would last till 6 PM on August 15.
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apprehended in Assam DIPHU, AUGUST 13 (PTI): Karbi Peoples Liberation Tigers 'chairman' and eight other militants of the insurgent outfit were apprehended during a joint police and CRPF operation in central Assam's Karbi Anglong district last night, a police officer said today. A joint operation was launched by the 23rd India Reserve Battalion - Assam Police and CRPF 210 Combat Battalion for Resolute Action (COBRA) personnel led by Sub Divisional Police Officer, Bokajan, on specific input about the presence of KPLT cadres in the jungle areas in between Mouzadar Basti and Langmili village, Superintendent of Police Mugdhajyoti Dev Mahanta told PTI. The security forces apprehended eight KPLT extremists, including its selfstyle chairman Sarmung alias Welson Timung, and recovered some firearms and ammunition along with documents of the extremist group, Mahanta said.
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I, Shri MHONTHUNG EZUNG, S/o. Late. PASANTI SANGMA, aged about 56 years old and resident of Senjum Village, district Dimapur: Nagaland do hereby solemnly affirmed and state as follows: 1. That I am a bonafide citizen of India and residing at the above mentioned address. 2. That my parents have christened my name as Mahindra Sangma and the same has been using same in my documents and records however, I have changed my name to Mhonthung Ezung since 2001. 3. That since then my name is changed from MAHINDRA SANGMA to MHONTHUNG EZUNG hailing from Tsungiki village, Wokha: Nagaland. And from thereon, I shall be call and known as MHONTHUNG EZUNG and not as MAHINDRA SANGMA in all official records and communication. Solemnly sworn before me by the deponent
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Civil aviation probe into chopper crash ITANAGAr, AUGUST 13 (PTI): The Union Civil Aviation Ministry has ordered an inquiry into the Pawan Hans chopper crash, Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Nabam Tuki said on Thursday. Tuki said that the inquiry report would help in knowing the cause of the crash. "Our government has been informed about the inquiry by civil aviation," he added. Tuki today airdashed to Dibrugarh and was accompanied by Khonsa East MLA Wanglam Sawin, Chief Secretary Ramesh Negi, ADC to Governor Tage Habung and other officers. The Chief Minister along with Negi consoled the bereaved kins. The mortal remains of Tirap Deputy Commissioner Dr Kamlesh Kumar Joshi and Captain M S Brar were flown to Delhi in an AN 32 IAF plane, deployed at the request of the Arunachal government. The mortal remains of the other deceased Captain Rajeev H Hoskote were flown in a Pawan Hans chopper to Guwahati. The Dauphin VT-PHK chopper with all three men on board had lost all contact with the Air Traffic Control five minutes after take off on the morning of August 4. The thick forests and inclement weather meant that the search operations were severely hampered for a week.
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India’s states go it alone to woo investment
mumbaI, august 13 (ReuteRs): It took two months of courting, dozens of negotiators and final talks that ran into the early hours, but Maharashtra secured its prize: a $5 billion investment commitment from iPhone maker Foxconn (2354.TW). The 5-year deal, announced last weekend, is a reminder of the pulling power of India’s wealthiest states - even as the central government under Prime Minister Narendra Modi hits its biggest reform roadblocks to date, over tax and land reform. India’s states, often led by charismatic local heavyweights, have long courted big businesses individually. But for the first time under Modi, previously chief minister of the state of Gujarat, states are actively encouraged to find solutions to reform hurdles and to compete themselves for investors’ cash. That has provided reassurance for investors betting on India’s economic growth, a lifeline for big business and a boost for states desperate to create jobs. Days before Foxconn’s agreement, General Motors (GM.N) announced it would invest $1 billion in India, largely to expand its main plant in Maharashtra. On Tuesday, South Korean steelmaker POSCO (005490.KS) said it would set up a new steel plant in the state, with an Indian partner. The forward mo-
tion in the states contrasts sharply with stalled reforms in New Delhi, which has some Indian businesses fretting a full fledged recovery will not happen until 2016-17. “The states have to move towards making investments easier, that is in the power of the state government,” said R.C. Bhargava, the veteran chairman of Maruti Suzuki (MRTI. NS), India’s largest carmaker. “The expectation is the competition between states will drive the so-called less fortunate states to change their systems and regulations, to create the infrastructure and environment for investment.” Maharashtra’s chief minister Devendra Fadnavis, a young party official from the Hindu nationalist heartland said to enjoy favour with Modi, met Foxconn’s management for the first time when he travelled to China with Modi in May. Officials travelling with him said Terry Gou, Foxconn’s chief, spent a day with Fadnavis then, and led a factory tour. They met several more times before a charm offensive - and possibly Gou’s professed love of Indian naan bread got Foxconn what it needed: a hint that value-added tax refunds could be extended beyond the usual 7-9year limit, permission for solar power generation and help with financial transfers. “The bottom line of this en-
tire thing is the production cost per unit. That should be less than China, otherwise there is no point,” said Bhushan Gagrani head of the Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation, who travelled with Fadnavis. Traffic Jams India’s states have been sidestepping what officials call reform “traffic jams” in New Delhi, making the most of greater freedoms under Modi to manage everything from budgets to relaxing rigid labour laws for the first time in decades. After spending much of the year battling tough opposition to his bid to make it easier to buy farmland for industry through a federal law, Modi last month decided that it would be easier to let states set their own rules. Ten states accounting for almost half of India’s economy, and most of them led by the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, have said they want to enact their own laws to ease land deals that boost infrastructure development. Local businesses are fretting over reform setbacks - such as delays to a tax shake-up - but a crash in commodity prices as well as slowing global growth have made India a relatively more attractive bet for foreign investors. “The pace of implementing reforms has indeed been more
disappointing than we or the market consensus had hoped, but a bit of realism is necessary,” said Kamakshya Trivedi, managing director in emerging market research at Goldman Sachs in London. Of course, not all industries can work without national laws. Foreign supermarkets have found it hard to open in India because only certain states allow them to, affecting scale. Most of the recent flush of foreign investment, including this week’s new plant launch in Andhra Pradesh by Chinese phone maker Xiaomi, in partnership with Foxconn, is from businesses targeting India’s increasingly affluent consumers. And there are risks to a states-led development that will be skewed to India’s wealthier regions, like Gujarat, Karnataka, which includes Bengaluru, or Maharashtra, home to financial hub Mumbai, and at the expense of others. “We have seen some states coming up reasonably well over the last few years - Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan - but to make a bet there will be more even development is difficult,” said Gautam Chhaochharia, head of India research at UBS in Mumbai. “It’s a chicken and egg thing. You already have industry clusters ... and if you are setting up manufacturing, you can’t ignore those clusters.”
Government Primary School, Tsiepfütsiepfhe Kohima students with officials of Bank of Baroda, Kohima and others during the school bags distribution held on August 13. Chief Manager, Bank of Baroda, Kohima, KB Hmar distributed School bags to the School Children and also gave a short speech during the occasion. Chairman, TTC, Akhrie-o Sorhie delivered the welcome address while the programme was chaired by Ward Education Chairman, Zenohol Kikhi. Vote of thanks was given by Headmistress, GPS Tsiepfütsiepfhe, D. Gloria. (DIPR Photo)
Advanced farm mechanization training held Longjemdang, august 13 (dIPR): One day training cum demonstration on advanced farm mechanization was held at Longjemdang village which was organized by the Department of Agriculture, Mangkolemba on 12th August 2015. Resource person Onglutsuba Jamir, A.O.II emphasized on the importance of farm implements and machines which are rele-
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mokokchung, august 13 (dIPR): Treasury Officer, Mokokchung has informed all pensioners in the district that physical verification to update and confirm the continued existence of the pensioners will be conducted on the following dates. All concerned have been informed to bring their identity card “D” duly renewed from the pension office and to obtain life certificate from the Treasury Office, Mokokchung. It further informed that no pension payment shall be made without verification: • August 20: Tsusapang Ward, Sungkumen Ward, Tongdentsuyong Ward, Alempang Ward, Alongmen Ward, Dilong Ward, Yimyu Ward, and Kapayong Ward • August 21: Majakong Ward, Artang Ward, Marepkong Ward, Lichaba Lijen Ward, Mongsenbai Ward and Kumlong Ward • August 24: Salangtem Ward, Kichutip Ward, Sangtemla Ward, Arkong Ward, Penli Ward and Aongza Ward • August 25: Ongpangkong Range • August 26: Asetkong & Langpangkong Range • August 27: Changkikong, Tsurangkong & Japukong Range
to inquire on the progress of their entitlement benefits solicit percentages/cuts in the name of this Office . An Online Grievance Redressal System is functioning in this Office and can be viewed on this Office website. Any person having grievance with any Entitlement functions (PENSION, GPF, PAYSLIPS & LOANS ) discharged by the Office of the Accountant General (A&E) can record his/her grievance online. Along with text of the grievance, relevant documents can also be uploaded. Acknowledgments would be provided both via SMS and e-mail, along with status updates via SMS.They can also write to the Deputy Accountant General (A&E) Kahoto J Yepthomi via e-mail at kahoto_j@yahoo. co.in or agaenagaland@cag.gov. in or through a simple letter mentioning nature of complaint addressed to: Kahoto J Yepthomi, IAAS; Deputy Accountant General (A&E); Office of the Accountant General (A&E); Kohima:Pin No. 797001,Nagaland.
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training programme, Sunep Ao, A.O.II, welcomed and briefed the trainees on the present scenario of farm mechanization in Nagaland. He also highlighted about the advantages in using mechanized farming and how it reduces human labor, farm expenditure and increases farm income. Altogether 21 farmers from Longjemdang village attended the programme.
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AG Nagaland informs Pensioners informed retired officials on pension for physical verification dImaPuR, august 13 (mexn): All retired State Government officers/officials are informed that Pension and GPF Final payment cases settled upto the month of July 2015 have been uploaded on the AG Nagaland website. Pensioners may log on to this Office web-site at www.agnagaland.gov.in by clicking at Felicitation and PENSION or GPF Felicitation or by directly clicking on the Sticky Note written “Click here to view list of settled PENSION /GPF final payment cases”. The list has also been put up for display at the Public Relation Cell and can be view on any working days during Office hours. This is to request all retired state government employees once again not to approach “Middlemen “ or “Dalals” for settlement of their entitlements cases as chances of hugh sums of hard earned money being siphoned off is not ruled out. Outstation retired government employees are requested to immediately inform this Office in case persons engaged by them
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The Morung Express
Friday 14 August 2015
Dimapur
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Focus from a broader perspective, not only on two months: KSU DiMApur, August 13 (Mexn): While appreciating the efforts made by the CSU and NPCC in highlighting the rampant recruitment in police department, the Kyong Students Union (KSU) today stated that, “It is imperative particularly on the part of a Students’ organisation to focus beyond those appointment/recruitments made in April & May 2015 in police department” but in a larger perspective and bring within the ambit of public scrutiny all the appointment in all government department since their inception. The KSU was giving its takes on recent exposé of rampant recruitment in police department in Media by Chakhesang Stu-
dents’ Union and Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee. The Union feels it is rather absurd as the CSU/ NPCC press release emphasised only on the aforementioned appointment, KSU maintained in a press note issued by its president, Amos Odyuo and general secretary, T Phyobemo Kikon. “The backdoor appointment has been rampant for years together in every department” it maintained adding that it cannot be ruled out “particularly in Health & Family Welfare, Rural Development, Social Welfare, and Road & Bridges.” “Therefore questioning the legitimacy of recruitment made within 2
ASU registers 4100 non locals in Kohima Morung Express News Kohima | August 13
In its Inner Line Permit (ILP) Verification drive, the Angami Students Union has registered a total of 4100 non-locals working in Kohima town. In the Hindu category, it registered a total of 2227 people, out of which 665 comprises of business enterprises, 1157 wage labourers, and 405 shopkeepers/ salespersons. In the Muslim category, a total of 1850 has been registered comprising of 651 business enterprisers, 568 wage earners and 631 shopkeepers and salespersons.
The ‘Others’ category comprises of only 23 in total. ASU further informed that it will be operating surprise field checking on ILP card holders and has encouraged Tibetans and Nepalis who arrived to Nagaland after 1963, to register for ILP. The Union has also appealed Contractors to direct its labourers to possess proper ILP. ASU furhter extended its support to the Chakhesang Students’ Union (CSU) statement against the rampant recruitment in the police department in favour of a single tribe.
Cancel all the police backdoor appointment: SKK Zunheboto, August 13 (Mexn): Lauding the Chakhesang Students’ Union for taking a bold step highlighting the back door appointment in the police department, the All Sumi Students Union (SKK) today called for cancelling all the 259 appointments and to contact open recruitment examination without delay. “The back door appointment months period is not fully justified” KSU asserted. KSU is not questioning the valid concern raised CSU/NPCC, it further claimed but added that “The motive behind selectively and particularizing the action of Home Minister is not understood
in the police department to 259 posts within the span two months is a huge incursion and disregard of the student’s community stand on fair appointment” the SKK stated a press note issued through its president, Holuvi Chophy. Maintaining that the State is facing acute shortage of employment opportunity and even a few advertised post is a matter of “hope and
with regard to said recruitment.” It further argued that equality in recruitment, also call for removal of undue opportunities and the government reservation policy is due for a “serious consideration” by “de-reserving those tribes who
smile” the Naga youth, SKK called for ensuring proper opportunity of participation for all the students. “SKK will not remain silence to see away that a common opportunity of Nagaland is manipulated by a single minister,” if further asserted adding that, for justice and governance, “SKK will initiate any form of resentment if the demand is not fulfilled.
are already at par with the advanced tribes. In this connection, KSO called for seriously scrutinizing the menace of backdoor appointment from the system. “Therefore, if it applies to only those recruit in the month of April & May 2015 in Police Department
and to consider their appointment as null and void shall amount to discrimination”, it added It also claimed that KSU have “accumulated grievances” since the inception of statehood and will be sharing the same in “due course of time.”
ENSF temporarily suspends agitation Morung Express News Dimapur | August 13
The Eastern Naga Students’ Federation (ENSF) have temporarily called off their agitation against the Nagaland state government with regard to the job reservation policy concerning ‘backward tribes’ in the state. ENSF Vice President, Z Throngshe Yimchunger,
while speaking to the Morung Express, informed that t he agitation has been temporarily called off in light of certain assurances made by the state government on August 12. He said that the ENSF had met with the Chief Minister, the state cabinet and senior bureaucrats on August 11 and the Chief Secretary on August 13. He stated that the fed-
eration would “wait and see” as to whether the state government delivers on its assurances. Meanwhile, the Nagaland state Governor, PB Acharya had also urged the ENSF to call off their agitation in light of the state government’s assurances and also on account of India’s Independence Day. “Since Government
has taken the necessary measures to address your demands and also in view of the celebration of the 69th Independence Day, I appreciate if the Eastern Naga Students Federation calls off their proposed agitation and let the State observe the Independence Day peacefully,” the Governor said in a press note today.
NSCN (R) welcome new members into its fold DiMApur, August 13 (Mexn): The NSCN-Reformation welcomes members from different factions and regions into its fold and appreciated their decision to join the group and work together “for the greater cause of the Naga people.” According to a press
from Secretary, Ministry of Information and Publicity, NSCN (R) the members who joint their fold are:Maj. M.K.Angami of NSCN (U); Maj. Khreivo Angami of NNC from Angami region; and Kheansu, Dy.Kilonser from NNC; Jiuren, CCMfrom NSCN (K): Atong,
RCM, from NNC; Sgt.Maj. Philip from NNC; Sgt.Maj. Lintsuba of NSCN (K) and Capt. Yapmuli of NSCN (K) from Yimchunger region; Sgt. Maj. Tingkam Wangsu of NSCN (K); Pte Changlainong of NSCN (K); 2nd Lieut. Nanghap of NSCN (K); Lieut. Thingman
Lungchang of NSCN (K); and Sgt. Chomlu Mossang of NSCN (K). They also deposited 2 MQ rifle, 1 M-16 rifle, one hand grenade, 600 rounds of live bullets, 1 M-20 pistol to the commander of Arunachal unit, the press note added.
Assault on Principal condemned DiMApur, August 13 (Mexn): More organisations has condemned the assault on Er. M. Nakro, Principal of Kheloshe Polytechnic Atoizu, Zunheboto on August 7. NSF: The Naga Students’ Federation has vehemently condemned the physically assault and threat meted out to the Principal of Kheloshe Polytechnic Atoizu on August 7 evening. The physical assault and threat on the head of an institution is unacceptable, a press release from NSF Education Secretary Imtiyapang stated. Warning that the Naga Students’ Federation will not tolerate such kind of action by uncivilized people in the future, the Federation urged upon the law enforcing agency to take proper action against the culprits. ANCSU: The All Nagaland College Students' Union (ANCSU) has also vehemently condemned the assault meted out to the Principal of the Khelhoshe Polytechnic Institution, Atoizu by four armed miscreant. In a press release, ANCSCU General Secretary Katho P. Awomi stated that it sternly views the incident as a confrontation towards the progress of education and added that such criminal act “directly challenges” the students' community causing threat to the well being of the institution. Calling for befitting punishment, ANCSU cautioned that it will be compelled to take its own course of action if justice is not delivered to the victim by giving befitting punishment to the culprit. It also called upon the district administration to provide proper security to Khelhoshe Polytechnic Institution. ANCSU further appealed to all responsible societies and organisation to denounce the act.
SKK : The Sumi Kiphimi Kuqhakulu (SKK) today condemned the assault on the principal of Kelhoshe Polytechnic Atoizu on August 7 night. The union in a statement urged the faction to identify and terminate those responsible and at the same time called upon the law enforcing authority to book them as per the law. “At this juncture, where everybody is steadily working hard for the peaceful solution, this kind of uncivil act creates more problems,” stated SKK president Holuvi Chophy and joint secretary Vikai Yeptho. “The SKK has always initiated and stood high in the matter of peace. The SKK would not tolerate such kind of behavior especially on the guardian of education,” they asserted. The union further stated that if deemed fit it will take its own course of action to ensure the safety of the society at large within its jurisdiction. TVC: The Thenyizumi Village Council has also vehemently condemned the physical assault of Er. M. Nakro, a citizen of Thenyizumi Village, and Principal, Kheloshe Polytechnic Atoizu. In a press release, TVC claimed that the Principal was assaulted by an NSCN (K) cadre and questioned if the cadre was authorised by NSCN (K) authorities. “Apart from the physical assault, the Principal was mentally tortured and warned that wherever he may be posted, any untoward incident can happen to him,” id added. The Council maintained that educational institutions nurture and promote young people and further urged upon all to respect NSF’s plea to keep educational institutions tax free. It further urged upon the authorities to provide adequate security to the Principal. It also expressed its gratitude to all the staff and students of Kheloshe Polytechnic Atoizu for their solidarity
and called upon all right thinking citizens to condemn such act of atrocities and barbarism.
choose.” “DLSU will be ever willing to extend its utmost cooperation to Chakhesang Students’ Union in its fight for justice if more inputs were furnished taking into account the recruitment since past few years, not particularly targeting a specific period or a tribe,” DLSU argued. Expressing “grave concern” on the rampant backdoor appointments in every department “curtailing the aspiration of genuine candidates,” DLSU further called for “streamlining or evolving a mechanism to check backdoor appointment a thorough analysis without any prejudice or having malicious intent should be executed with all sincerity and bonafide intent.”
MEx FILE ATMA exhibition on August 15 DiMApur, August 13 (Mexn): ATMA Dimapur in collaboration with the District Administration will be organising an ‘exhibition cum sales’ at DDSC on the Independence day, August 15. In this connection, DPD, ATMA Dimapur, Janet Chishi in a press note invites all the denizens of Dimapur to participate on the said event.
SOAM musical concert KohiMA, August 13 (Mexn): The annual musical concert of Symphony Academy of Music, Kohima will take place on August 16 at 4:30 PM at RCEMPA, Jotsoma. The concert will feature students and teachers of SOAM.
Tobu SDPDB meeting held Mon, August 13 (Dipr): The Tobu Sub Divisional Planning &Development Board meeting was held at ADC’s conference hall under the chairmanship of the new ADC Tobu, A. Zibenthung Kithan. The Board welcomes new member, SDO PWD (R&B) Tobu, Y. Khetoli Aye. Secretary SDPDB Tobu, Temsuchuba Jamir reviewed the last meeting minutes. Discussions at the meeting included construction of FCI godown building at Tobu Headquarter, construction of quarter guard and security fencing at Pokyang post Tobu Headquarter, Construction of security fencing and black topping from bazar junction at NST station Tobu Headquarter and maintenance of road from Tobu headquarter to Shennyu village.
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CYF: The Chakhesang Youth Front (CYF) has vehemently condemned the assault “at gun point” of Er. M. Nakro by alleged NSCN (K) cadre. In a press release, CYF lodged a strong protest against what it called “attempted murder.” It stated that the incident has created insecurity to the victim and his family and also to the innocent citizens at large. CYF further called upon every responsible citizen to rise up against such atrocities meted out on innocent and The Road connecting Peren Town to the New Headquarter Site is virtually cut off due hard working individuals. It to incessant rain and mudslide during the past weeks causing severe hardship and also urged the authorities difficulty to the commuters (Photo Courtesy: Kengimpeuding Hegui) concern to arrest the culprits at the earliest. CGOA: The Chakhesang Gazetted Officers' Association has expressed shock to learn of the dastardly act of some armed miscreants threatening the life of Er. M. Nakro, Principal, Khelhoshe Polytechnic, Atoizu on the night of August 7. In a press release, CGOA stated that the threat meted out to the Principal by means of firing a revolver inside in his official residence by those professing to be National Workers “is yet another instance of terror” which has direct impact on the minds and dreams of hundreds of students. The association termed it “unfortunate” that a handful of “untamed cadres” were demeaning political ideologies and adversely overshadowing the “cynosure of statue” build by top-leaders of the Naga Political Groups. Strongly condemning the act, the association urged law enforcing agencies to probe into the case and punish all the offenders directly involved in the incident at the earliest and further appealed to the NSCN (K) authority to reign in their cadres.
Address the menace in its entirety: DLSU Meanwhile, stating that it is committed in addressing the menace of backdoor appointments in its entirety, the Dimapur Lotha Students’ Union (DLSU) today expressed its resentment that only 2 months were specifically mentioned “targeting a particular tribe.” While appreciating the stand of Chakhesang Students’ Union in expressing their utter shock over the recruitment in Police Department in the month of April and May 2015, DLSU in a press statement, called for addressing the “menace of backdoor appointments in its entirety encompassing all departments and not in the form of pick and
DiMApur, August 13 (Mexn): A meeting of the Waromung Officer Telongjem will be held on August 22 at the residence of Dr. K. Chuba Ao at 10 a.m. All the members are requested to attend the meeting without fail.
Main culprit in Zunheboto assault arrested by Police Zunheboto, August 13 (Mexn): One of the main culprits responsible for the assault on the Principal of the Khelhoshe Polytechnic Atoizu (KPA) was arrested by Zunheboto Police on August 11. In this connection, four persons have been arrested so far.
According to a press note from Addl. Superintendent of Police/PRO Zunheboto, the accused was identified as Hokato of Hekiye village under Zunheboto district. He is a SS. Rajapieu of NSCN-K, it added. Further investigation is still under progress, the police added.
UNTABA flays establishment of new village inside Rilan
DiMApur, August 13 (Mexn): The United Naga Tribes Association of Border Areas (UNTABA) has condemned the Karbi Anglong and Diphu administration for allegedly establishing Disapur village inside the recognized Rilan village. “Such high handedness of the administrative authorities in the border areas from Assam side has not only
caused numbers of precious lives but has led to innumerable conflicts between the people living in and around the border areas,” a press release from the UNTABA stated. In the particular case of establishing Disapur village, UNTABA claimed that it was “well inside Rilan village.” Stating that the main culprit in the incident are the Dimapur District admin-
istration and the Government of Nagaland, UNTABA claimed that the district administration and the state government have continuously failed to raise objection against its counterpart in spite of repeated reminders served to appropriate authorities including the Home Minister and Chief Minister. Stating that it had submitted a list of illegal villages
and settlements “well inside” the Daldali and Dhansiri Reserve Forests for immediate evictions, however, the matter has been kept aside by the administration for reasons best known by them, UNTABA stated. Maintaining that illegal encroachment of Naga land “by people of questionable origins” is the most crucial issue confronting Naga people today, UN-
TABA reiterated the need for immediate strong corrective measures so as to avoid adverse ramifications in future. Lamenting on the lackadaisical attitudes, UNTABA cautioned the authorities concerned to take full responsibility in the case of any eventuality arising in border areas consequent to the establishments of such illegal villages.
MEC initiates 9th phase of Micro Loan Distribution Morung Express News Mokokchung | August 13
The Mokokchung Entrepreneurs Consortium (MEC) held its 9th phase of Micro Loan Distribution under the Micro Finance Initiative at District Planning Office Conference Hall, Mokokchung. Sushil Kumar Patel (IAS), Deputy Commissioner Mokokchung, who was the guest of honour at the loan distribution programme, distributed the micro loan to the beneficiaries. The Mokokchung Entrepreneurs Consortium was formed in the last
Mokokchung Entrepreneurs Consortium conducted their 9th phase of Micro Loan Distribution Ceremony here today at the Deputy Commissioner’s conference hall with Deputy Commissioner of Mokokchung. Sushil Kumar Patel IAS as guest of Honour.
quarter of 2011 and since its inception; it has been helping and identifying young entrepreneurs in Mokokchung by providing loans and assisting them through various workshops and seminars. MEC has
also organized trade fairs and exhibitions. “Obtaining loans from the banks is not an easy task. We have to run around wasting days only to be rejected without a single penny. MEC has been identify-
ing young entrepreneurs and giving us loans which are a great opportunity and privilege,” stated Imlitula, one of the beneficiaries. The Guest of Honour, Sushil Kumar Patel (IAS) lauded the effort of the
MEC and said that the government cannot provide employment for everyone, therefore establishing one’s own business is a good way of earning for our livelihood and MEC assisting the entrepreneurs through soft loans with lesser interest is a way of serving the society. He further encouraged the beneficiaries to utilise the money not for one’s own benefit but for the future and for the society. So far 92 genuine local entrepreneurs in Mokokchung have been benefited thorough the Micro Finance Initiative of the MEC.
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The Power of Truth
The Morung Express FrIDAy 14 AuGusT 2015volumE volumEXXIssuE IssuE185 221 THursDAy 9 July 2015 By Dr. sao Tunyi
Who is a free person?
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he Nagas’ fight for that thing called ‘freedom’ is as long as the lifespan of an average Naga. But it doesn’t seem that ‘absolute freedom’ which we also call as ‘political sovereignty’ will be possible in our time or anybody’s life time. But in this many, many years of freedom struggle, how many of us ponder on ‘what does it mean to be free?’ How do we define a free person or people? Besides the political and economic rearrangements, how will that freedom taste like to the individual? In our present set-up, who do we think is the freest person? In the WordWeb dictionary, ‘freedom’ is defined as ‘the condition of being free; the power to act, speak or think without externally imposed restraints’. To go by this definition, none of us experience complete freedom because we all suffer from restraints. Even the chief minister or the governor of our State cannot act, speak, or think freely all the time. We often have the misconception that only if we go higher in social or economic strata, we will become our own boss. But there is circularity in the social hierarchy that the ones at the top are subject to the masses, as in the case of politicians. Some may be of the opinion that a thinker, an artist, a free lancer, or a university professor is freer than other government officers because of freedom of thought and speech. There is truth in that and is a good point to ponder when one chooses a career path. But each has his/her restraint, for example, to act out his ideas for societal change beyond the four walls of the university campus becomes a restraint in the professor’s freedom. Most Nagas who fight for political freedom also profess another kind of freedom which makes the two strange bedfellows. We often see the rainbow flag and the cross of Christ side by side (sometimes, amusingly we also see the flag of Israel with the Naga flag). The cross is a symbol we use as a legitimizing factor and an impetus for our freedom struggle. But the symbolism gets discomforting that the cross is used as a symbol of freedom. The message of the cross is one of liberation. But the pathway to freedom is where the two doesn’t seem to match. The cross is a symbol of defeat. The hero of that freedom died the death of a criminal and hung outside the city walls some 2000 years ago. It is a freedom which comes from submission and surrendering. The message of the cross has political ramifications. But it is a freedom which does not come by overthrowing a political enemy by hook or crook but by winning them over. The means to achieving that freedom is as important as the end of having achieved it. National freedom wasn’t a foreign thought to the people among who the message of the cross came. Good News meant in the minds of the people, freedom from foreign occupation. Messianic expectation of all things included kicking out the Romans, rebuilding the temple, and return of YHWH to Zion. And when Jesus talked of Kingdom, people must be filled with hope. But Jesus would turn this expectation upside down. Instead of focusing on the Romans, he asked the people to give up their way of being Israel and trust the kingdom he was bringing. The characteristics of the new kingdom were so distasteful to the people that they hanged him, collaborating with their foreign oppressors. We Nagas have created a very dangerous mix of pseudo-religion and nationalism where we use the former to legitimize the later. But true freedom will come when we give up ‘our way’ of attaining that freedom and surrender ourselves (personally and corporately) to the character of the cross. Dr. Sao Tunyi works as an Epidemiologist at Directorate of Health and Family Welfare, Kohima. Feedback can be sent to saotunni@yahoo.co.in, or visit his blog www.thatchhouse.blogspot.in
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Francis expected to challenge lawmakers
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political pope is sure to seize his opportunity when he addresses a political body. So both Democrats and Republicans are looking forward to Pope Francis' remarks to Congress next month — and bracing for them, too. The pope thrills Democrats with his teachings on climate change, social justice and immigration. At the same time, his message on life and the Catholic Church's traditional opposition to abortion comfort Republicans. There is genuine giddiness among Catholic Democrats — many of whom have long been uncomfortably at odds with their church over abortion rights — about the pope's strong emphasis on addressing poverty and the environment. "I've been waiting for this pope all my life," said liberal Massachusetts Democrat Jim McGovern, 57. "I find him inspirational and I know a lot of other people do, not just Catholics." The pope comes to the Capitol on September 24, where he will be the first pontiff to ever address a joint meeting of Congress. He will also appear on a West Front balcony to greet the public. There's little doubt that Francis, who in a speech last month in Bolivia spoke out against unchecked capitalism before an assemblage of groups representing the poor, will seek to send a similar message to lawmakers representing the richest nation on earth. "Whether it's climate change or hunger or taking care of the poor, the Pope's message is really the embodiment of what Catholic social teaching has been about, historically," said Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., who traveled to Rome to witness the pope's installation two years ago. The pope was, of course, invited by the most powerful Catholic in Congress, Republican House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner, who will be accompanied by Vice President Joe Biden, another Catholic, in familiar seats behind Francis on the dais. House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi of California, also a Catholic, will occupy a prominent seat on her party's side of the aisle. For joint addresses like the State of the Union or even the recent appearance before Congress by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, partisan politics is unavoidable. One side will jump to their feet while the other will sit on their hands. In September, however, most hope and anticipate such grandstanding can be avoided. "You will not know it's the Congress," said Democratic Congressman Bill Pascrell. A top adviser to Francis visited Washington in April and said the pope will speak "frankly but friendly" in his U.S. trip. "Even the Congress people can listen to other voices, to counsels, to advisers," said Honduran Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga, according to Religion News Service. "The one who receives advice commits less errors and is not mistaken. The one who does not like to listen to advice will have a lot of trouble. So I think the Congress will receive very well the advice (of the pope) — even if there are some things that will not be comfortable." Francis' recent encyclical chastised policymakers across the globe for inaction on the environment as the skies warm and the oceans are ravaged by overfishing and pollution. "We may well be leaving to coming generations debris, desolation and filth," the pope wrote, mincing no words. "The pace of consumption, waste and environmental change has so stretched the planet's capacity that our contemporary lifestyle, unsustainable as it is, can only precipitate catastrophes." In September, such warnings could be seen as a challenge directed to a Congress populated by Republican skeptics of proposals to reduce greenhouse gases like new curbs on coal-fired power plants. Francis is not shy about expanding his reach beyond a traditional role as he leads the church in a rapidly changing century. "He's a very different pope. He's defined himself in a very different way," said Republican Sen. Thom Tillis, another Catholic. "He's talking about outcomes. We've got to work on means."
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IS top command dominated by ex-officers in Saddam's army
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hile attending the Iraqi army's artillery school nearly 20 years ago, Ali Omran remembers one major well. An Islamic hard-liner, he once chided Omran for wearing an Iraqi flag pin into the bathroom because it included the words "God is great." "It is forbidden by religion to bring the name of the Almighty into a defiled place like this," Omran recalled being told by Maj. Taha Taher al-Ani. Omran didn't see al-Ani again until years later, in 2003. The Americans had invaded Iraq and were storming toward Baghdad. Saddam Hussein's fall was imminent. At a sprawling military base north of the capital, al-Ani was directing the loading of weapons, ammunition and ordnance into trucks to spirit away. He took those weapons with him when he joined Tawhid wa'l-Jihad, a forerunner of al-Qaida's branch in Iraq. Now al-Ani is a commander in the Islamic State group, said Omran, who rose to become a major general in the Iraqi army and now commands its 5th Division fighting IS. He kept track of his former comrade through Iraq's tribal networks and intelligence gathered by the government's main counterterrorism service, of which he is a member. It's a common trajectory. Under its leader, Iraqi jihadi Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the Islamic State group's top command is dominated by former officers from Saddam's military and intelligence agencies, according to senior Iraqi officers on the front lines of the fight against the group, as well as top intelligence officials, including the chief of a key counterterrorism intelligence unit. The experience they bring is a major reason for the group's victories in overrunning large parts of Iraq and Syria. The officers gave IS the organization and discipline it needed to weld together jihadi fighters drawn from across the globe, integrating terror tactics like suicide bombings with military operations. They have been put in charge of intelligence-gathering, spying on the Iraqi forces as well as maintaining and upgrading weapons and trying to develop a chemical weapons program. Patrick Skinner, a former CIA case officer who has served in Iraq, said Saddam-era military and intelligence officers were a "necessary ingredient" in the Islamic State group's stunning battlefield successes last year, accounting for its transformation from a "terrorist organization to a proto-state." "Their military successes last year were not terrorist, they were military successes," said Skinner, now director of special projects for The Soufan Group, a private strategic intelligence services firm. How officers from Saddam's mainly secular regime came to infuse one of the most radical Islamic extremist groups in the world is explained by a confluence of events over the past 20 years — including a Saddam-era program that tolerated Islamic hard-liners in the military in the 1990s, anger among Sunni officers when the U.S. disbanded Saddam's military in 2003, and the evolution of the Sunni insurgency that ensued. The group's second-in-command, al-Baghdadi's deputy, is a former Saddam-era army major, Saud Mohsen Hassan, known by the pseudonyms Abu Mutazz and Abu Muslim al-Turkmani, according to the intelligence chief. Hassan also goes by Fadel al-
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n 1909-10, Theodore Roosevelt headed a Smithsonian hunting and trapping expedition in Africa that included colleagues who prepared the wildlife he killed for shipment back to America. The former U.S. president and his son, Kermit, shot hundreds of animals. "Really, I would be ashamed of myself sometimes, for I felt as if I had all the fun," Roosevelt later said in a speech. "I would kill the rhinoceros or whatever it was, and then they would go out and do the solid, hard work of preparing it. They would spend a day or two preserving the specimen while I would go and get something else." Despite the killing spree, Roosevelt also advocated "a happy mean" between hunting and preserving wildlife sanctuaries, foreshadowing today's debate on hunting that has become more polarized as poaching and human encroachment have vastly reduced wildlife in subSaharan Africa. An international outcry erupted after an American dentist killed a well-known lion named Cecil in Zimbabwe last month in an allegedly illegal hunt. Wildlife authorities in Zimbabwe on Sunday reported another allegedly illegal lion kill involving a different American in the same area in April. Many hunters of the "Big Five" — lion, leopard, elephant, rhino and buffalo — believe that what they do is a legitimate sport, conserves wildlife by funneling funds back into game reserves and can be the ultimate person-
FILE - In this June 18, 2003 file photo, U.S. soldiers, partly seen at right, prevent former Iraqi soldiers from trying to enter the American headquarters during a deadly demonstration in Baghdad. After the 2003 collapse of the Saddam Hussein's regime, hundreds of Iraqi army officers, infuriated by the U.S. decision to disband the Iraqi army, found their calling in the Sunni insurgency. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano, File)
Hayali, a fake name he used before the fall of Saddam, the intelligence chief told The Associated Press. Like others, he spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the intelligence. During the 2000s, Hassan was imprisoned in the U.S.-run Bucca prison camp, the main detention center for members of the Sunni insurgency, where al-Baghdadi also was held. The prison was a significant incubator for the Islamic State group, bringing militants like al-Baghdadi into contact with former Saddam officers, including members of special forces, the elite Republican Guard and the paramilitary force called Fedayeen. In Bucca's Ward 6, al-Baghdadi gave sermons and Hassan emerged as an effective organizer, leading strikes by the prisoners to gain concessions from their American jailers, the intelligence chief said. Former Bucca prisoners are now throughout the IS leadership. Among them is Abu Alaa al-Afari, a veteran Iraqi militant who was once with alQaida and now serves as the head of IS's "Beit al-Mal," or treasury, according to a chart of what is believed to be the group's hierarchy provided to the AP by the intelligence chief. Al-Baghdadi has drawn these trusted comrades even closer after he was wounded in an airstrike earlier this year, the intelligence chief said. He has appointed a number of them to the group's Military Council, believed to have seven to nine members — at least four of whom are former Saddam officers. He brought other former Bucca inmates into his inner circle and personal security. Saddam-era veterans also serve as "governors" for seven of the 12 "provinces" set up by the Islamic State group in the territory it holds in Iraq, the intelligence chief said. Iraqi officials acknowledge that identifying IS leadership is an uncertain task. Besides al-Baghdadi himself, the group almost never makes public even the pseudonyms of those in its hierarchy. When leaders are killed, it's often not known who takes their place — and several have been reported killed multiple times, only to turn up alive. Figures are believed to take on new pseudonyms, leaving it unclear if a new one has emerged or not. "IS's military performance has far exceeded what we expected. The running of battles by the veterans of the Saddam military came as a shock," a brigadier general in military intelligence told the AP, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive topic. "Security-wise, we are often
left unable to know who replaces who in the leadership. We are unable to infiltrate the group. It is terrifying." Estimates of the number of Saddam-era veterans in IS ranks vary from 100 to 160 in mostly mid- and seniorlevel positions, according to the officials. Typically, they hail from Sunnidominated areas, with intelligence officers mostly from western Anbar province, the majority of army officers from the northern city of Mosul and members of security services exclusively from Saddam's clan around his hometown of Tikrit, said Big. Gen. Abdul-Wahhab al-Saadi, a veteran of battles against IS north and west of Baghdad. For example, a former brigadier general from Saddam-era special forces, Assem Mohammed Nasser, also known as Nagahy Barakat, led a bold assault in 2014 on Haditha in Anbar province, killing around 25 policemen and briefly taking over the local government building. Many of the Saddam-era officers have close tribal links to or are the sons of tribal leaders in their regions, giving IS a vital support network as well as helping recruitment. These tribal ties are thought to account, at least in part, for the stunning meltdown of Iraqi security forces when IS captured the Anbar capital of Ramadi in May. Several of the officers interviewed by the AP said they believe IS commanders persuaded fellow tribesmen in the security forces to abandon their positions without a fight. Skinner, the former CIA officer, noted the sophistication of the Saddam-era intelligence officers he met in Iraq and the intelligence capabilities of IS in Ramadi, Mosul and in the group's de facto capital of Raqqa in Syria. "They do classic intelligence infiltration. They have stay-behind cells, they actually literally have sleeper cells," Skinner said. "And they do classic assassinations, which depends on intelligence," he said, citing a wave of assassinations in 2013 that targeted Iraqi police, army, hostile tribal leaders and members of a governmentbacked Sunni militia known as Sahwa. Knowing who to assassinate and how to get to them requires good information, Skinner said, and the IS obviously knew how to acquire it. One initiative that eventually fed Saddam veterans into IS came in the mid-1990s when Saddam departed from the stringent secular principles of his ruling Baath party and launched the "Faith Campaign," a state-sponsored drive to Islamize Iraqi society. Saddam's feared security agencies be-
Africa - The Hunters story Christopher Torchia Associated Press al challenge in a natural setting. "Hunters are normal, living, natureloving people," said Adri Kitshoff, chief executive officer of the Professional Hunters' Association of South Africa. "They're not bloodthirsty killers." Some 7,600 foreign hunters traveled to South Africa in 2013, more than half of them from America, according to association figures. Numerous slick websites tout hunting tours. South Africa's Palala reserve offers a 7-day beginner's "safari" for more than $5,000 in which clients hunt species including a large antelope and a warthog. Martin Pieters Safaris says it provides "ethical, fair-chase safaris" in Zimbabwe and describes the suspense of a leopard hunt: "In the shadows you wait . as silent and as quiet as the dark night ... this is what it is all about sitting motionless a mere 60 yards from your bait, waiting for your chance, knowing that even though you have done everything right, he still might not come, that is leopard hunting!"
Critics say the Zimbabwe cases points to wider irregularities in the trophy-hunting industry. Online photos of triumphant hunters posing beside the carcasses of African wildlife only deepen the gulf for hunting opponents. Minnesota dentist Walter James Palmer lacked authorization to kill Cecil the lion, according to Zimbabwean authorities who say they will seek his extradition. The lion was lured out of Hwange National Park, wounded with a bow and then tracked down and shot, conservationists said. Hunters can pay tens of thousands of dollars to shoot a lion, making it an exclusive club. King Juan Carlos of Spain made an elephant hunting trip to Botswana in 2012 at the height of Spain's financial crisis. Word got out after he was injured on the expensive expedition, and his reputation plummeted. The king, who abdicated in 2014, apologized for the trip. In "African Game Trails," an account of his expedition, Roosevelt described
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gan to tolerate religious piety or even radical views among military personnel, although they kept a close watch on them and saw to it they did not assume command positions. At the time, the move was seen as a cynical bid to shore up political support among the religious establishment after Iraq's humiliating rout from Kuwait in the 1991 Gulf War and the Kurdish and Shiite uprisings that followed. "Most of the army and intelligence officers serving with IS are those who showed clear signs of religious militancy during Saddam days," the intelligence chief said. "The Faith Campaign ... encouraged them." In the run-up to the 2003 U.S.-led invasion, Saddam publicly invited foreign mujahedeen to come to Iraq to resist the invaders. Thousands came and Iraqi officials showed them off to the media as they were trained by Iraqi instructors. Many stayed, eventually joining the insurgency against American troops and their Iraqi allies. After the collapse of the Saddam regime, hundreds of Iraqi army officers, infuriated by the U.S. decision to disband the Iraqi army, found their calling in the Sunni insurgency. In its early stages, many insurgent groups were relatively secular. But Islamic militants grew in prominence, particularly with the creation and increasing strength of al-Qaida in Iraq. Some Sunnis were radicalized by bitterness against the Shiite majority, which rose to power after Saddam's fall and which the Sunnis accuse of discriminating against them. Al-Qaida in Iraq was initially led by a Jordanian militant, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, and had a strong foreign presence in its leadership. But after al-Zarqawi's death in a 2006 U.S. airstrike, his Iraqi successor, Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, began to bring in more Iraqis, particularly former Saddam officers. That process was accelerated when Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi took over after his predecessor was killed in a 2010 airstrike. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's first two deputies, who each played a major role in setting up what would become its sweep over Syria and Iraq, were both Saddam-era officers, according to those interviewed by the AP. They were Sameer al-Khalifawy, an air force colonel killed in fighting in Syria in 2014, and Abdullah el-Bilawy, a former intelligence officer who was killed in Mosul by the Iraqi military in May 2014, a month before the city fell to the Islamic State group. He was replaced by the current deputy, Hassan. "It's clear that some of these (Saddamera officers) must have been inside the core of the jihadist movement in the Sunni triangle from the beginning," said Michael W.S. Ryan, a former senior executive at the State Department and Pentagon, referring to the Sunnidominated area that was the most hostile to American forces in Iraq. "Their knowledge is now in the DNA of ISIS," he said, using an alternate acronym for the extremist group. "This melding of the Iraqi experience and what we might call the Afghan Arab experience became the unique ISIS brand," said Ryan, now a senior fellow at the Jamestown Foundation, a Washington-based think tank. "That brand ultimately became more successful in Iraq than al-Qaida in Iraq ... and, at least for now, stronger in Syria than al-Qaida." himself as a "hunter-naturalist" and said he and his sons' kills included 11 elephants, 17 lions and 20 rhinos. "Game butchery is as objectionable as any other form of wanton cruelty or barbarity; but to protest against all hunting of game is a sign of softness of head, not of soundness of heart," Roosevelt wrote. In recent years, poachers have killed tens of thousands of elephants annually to meet demand for ivory in Asia. In South Africa, home to most of the world's rhinos, more than 1,200 were reported poached last year for their horns, which also fetch big money in Asia. Lions are designated as vulnerable on an international "red list" of species facing threats. Brent Stapelkamp, a wildlife researcher who monitored Cecil, said he believes that some hunters in Africa try to locate and kill their quarry as quickly as possible, in contrast with old-style hunting trips that lasted weeks or months. "They're here for the trophy more than the actual experience," Stapelkamp said. But for some, it is also about the experience. "You cannot describe a wild lion's roar," Ernest Hemingway wrote in "True at First Light," a book that was published posthumously. "You can only say that you listened and the lion roared. It is not at all like the noise the lion makes at the start of Metro Goldwyn Mayer pictures. When you hear it you first feel it in your scrotum and it runs all the way up through your body."
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hen the intention was selfsacrificing and pure, the goal of regaining freedom seemed a step away; there was ‘hope’ though the soil was drenched with blood.The few years following the formation of Naga National Council, a teacher left his job to join NNC; an inspector in fire department left his job to join NNC. For these two comrades and thousands steadfast Nationalists (henceforth referred to as old),the resolve to stand against the invaders and protect their land was above everything else. Such instances of patriotism aren’t heard of in today’s time. Those concernedmight ask themselves, “Would I still choose to put my nation’s agenda first and resign my job to join national army?”Stories are told of, those wounded and sick freedom fighters who surrendered, deniedjob and other offers made to them. Those concerned might as well ask themselves, “Would I deny and be steadfast in my pursuit of justice and freedom?” Today, the illegitimate and unacceptable activities of some nationalists are overt and cannot be denied. These fewnewfangled nationalists (henceforth referred to as new)taintthe image of the old nationalists-dead as well as living- or the organizations they belong to.Reflecting general discontent andan eroding public support, what we hear is a legitimate public cry that the new are using nationalism as an outer colouring to disguise their play of material intterests at the expense of the public. Against such backdrop, the primary intention of those new joining the nationalist movement can be called into question. What was nationalism to the old nationalists is now a last resort to the new— burden to the common people. And this overt fact provides us an occasion to discuss on our contemporary socio-political and economic realities (discussed below under the following sub-heads ) that are directly or indirectly linked to the current political imbroglio. On Unemployment: Nagaland has the highest unemployment rate amongst the NE states-16 per 100 persons labour force (NSSO 66st Round, 2010). In the face of current high unemploymentcoupled with lack of employment opportunities-employment rate being only 32 per 100 persons(NSSO 66st Round), the possibility that the newthat I alluded to above- might be joining the movement out of frustration and for other reasons than patriotismcannot be ruled out. Again, it’s highly probable that those whoresort to unwelcome actionsare these uninspired new. Here, it is important to note at least as a thought exercise that in a circumstance of varied employment opportunities, only those with genuine heart for the cause will join the movement, and the potential new might opt for other vocations. This will be in the interest of the organizations at stake. Contrary to the rhetoric of politicians and some people wholament as towhy the youth queues up for government jobs and do not venture out to other business avenues, the strong preferences of the educated youth for government jobs can be more of a symtom rather than a cause of unemployment. With pathetically underdeveloped industrial sector, services sector and agricultural sector, combined with infrastructure and market constraints (the recent Phek cappage for free episode is worth noting), what other secure and profitable jobs the educated youth can aspire for? At a first glance, one can easily identifythe obvious reasons as to why the
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ack in the country where they were detained as prisoners of war in the 1950s, two former North Korean soldiers now find little apparent objection or hostility, at least superficially — they were even welcomed by veterans who had fought for the South. But it's also a trip that brings back bitter memories of war and puts them on the defensive again. They are among the 76 North Korean POWs held in South Korea who opted to resettle abroad at the end of the 1950-53 Korean War. Labeled traitors, opportunists or fence-sitters amid fierce Cold War rivalry between the Koreas, they've died abroad one by one and now less than a dozen are still believed to be alive. Kim Myeong Bok and Kang Hidong came back to South Korea on July 23 with a South Korean movie director who's making a documentary on ex-POWs. The film, titled "Return Home," is intended to trace back their turbulent lives, but the men may not be able to make one important stop. Pyongyang has not given them permission to enter North Korea. Kim, who is 79 and lives in Brazil, is desperate to return because he thinks this is his last chance. "I left my home when I was young and I don't know whether my
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youth do not venture out to other business avenues are inadequate private sector employment opportunities, and the subtle yet crucial fact that some disillusioned think they have a last option to join nationalist groups-this adversely affects their mentality and make them put in lessser efforts in their works or while looking out for livelihoods. It is not hard to observe that failures of business start-ups far outweigh the small success stories that we hear. This can be ascribed largely to the unfavourable business ambience (and not at the least to competitive conditions), or precisely the many factors like unabated taxation, infrastructural constraints etc., which inhibit the growth of entrepreneurial culture, which have otherwise germinated. The successful bussiness stories are almost limited to the cream of the crop who have connections and capital, the so called marwaris belonging to this section.Besides, it is totally welfaredecreasing that the many micro enterprises startedby the poor to meet their basic ends, instead of providing technical and finacial support, are subjected to unabated taxation The present scenario is anti-poor and endangering our priceless inheritance of egalitarianism. Employment oppurtunies are created only when there is economic growth and development. And sound infrastructure precedes, facilitates and expedites over-all development—industries, private sector, service sector including tourism etc. The dynamics involvedin this growth process is beyond the scope of this writeup, but just to get a flavour: given quality transport infrastructure, people in the far flung areas will get more diverse products at cheaper prices. Likewise, farmers can earn better remuneration by transporting their produce to sell in the city markets.
velopment should be facilitated and not obstructed. One crucial aspect hindering hard infrastructural development is taxation from varied quarters. Costly delays, poor execution and the consequent substandard roads and other infrastructures built, are most of the time attributed by the contractors to the taxes. This issue is very serious and is hijacking our economy, and hence this taxation should be rationalized. While thenationalists’ voice against anti-social activities is laudable, it should be recognized by them and also those concerned that economic problems breed social problems. Recognizing the fact that people legitimately attribute their failures and miseries to the current nationalists’ actions, the nationalist factionshave to rediscover themselves and bring a change in the attitude of the people towards them-freedom fighters without people’s support are no less than ‘repels’. It may be true that in few occasions there are baseless blame (...by contractors etc…) against the nationalists to find excuses, but the adverse environment created for such to happen is a creation of the new nationalists, and can be remedied by them only. Hoping for the best political solution with Government of India, the infrastructure that we develop with their help, they will not take away. But, such infrastructure will only facilitate our economic development now and later. Facilitating infrastructural development is in our larger interest and the need of the hour. Towards this, basic requirements are rationalized taxation by recon-ciliated nationalists factions, uncorrupted technocrats-those engaged in planning as well as quality testing, and of course political commitment of an enlightened government. All these are for the moment just people’s aspirations, those who claim to be governments should respond to such legitiOn Poor Infrastructure: It looks ironical that though Nagas mate aspirations. (originally industrious and enterprising) are standing above huge natural resourc- On Fiscal Deficit: Coming to our alarmingly high es, surrounded by scenic natural beauty with huge potential for eco-tourism, Government fiscal deficit (Rs 1,252.45 with excellent agro-climatic conditions, crore for 2014-15, which is more than are economically crippled..The pathetic half of the tentative state plan outconditions of those that constitute what lay of 2300 crore), the government is is called hard infrastructure ( it refers to left with no space to manoeuvre but the large physical networks like roads to beg alms from the centre-this over etc. needed for a modern industrial na- and above the provisions under spetion to function) and soft infrastructure cial category state status. Noting the ( it includes institutions which are re- RBI’s caution onNagaland governquired to maintain the economic, health, ment to reduce fiscal deficit to 3% and cultural and social standards of a coun- Finance Minister Arun Jaitley’s call on try, such as the financial system, the ed- states to maintain ‘fiscal discipline’, ucation system, the health care system, the issue at hand has not received the the system of government, law enforce- needed amount of discussion. On the ment, emergency services et.al.) need one hand, the government cannot cut not be elaborated, as the sheer hearing its expenditure in a salaried economy of those terms bring forth a mental pic- where the bulk of the demand of the ture of their sorry state. And as such ev- products of those engaged in non-govery initiative towards infrastructural de- ernmental services (and hence their
livelihood) comes from the government employees. On the other hand, when people are crying against unabated taxation; when enterprises are still in incubators; much to the misery of the poor, when for the shopkeepers in our very own state, giving unabated taxation as their reasons Maximum Retail Price(MRP) is Minimun Retail Price; when almost all those engaged in agriculture, plantations, farming etc. could barely meet their family annual basic needs, increasing taxation or broadening tax base will only add to people’s misery. The factors as to why government cannot raise its tax revenue are themselves problems that merit immediate attention. Given the failure of public sector undertakings, the deficit is bound to cumulatively increase (in the absence of financial grants), and a day will dawn when the government will find it extremely difficult to secure loans to even meet its administrative expenditure. PM Modi on his Nagaland visit might have disappointed the current politicians in power; however, such initiatives are the need of the hour. Expanding production base (private as well as public or Private Public Partnership) is the only way out to increase government revenue (through taxation or otherwise) in the long run. The more time we remain in this sorry state of inertia, the quantum of these problems will increase cumulatively, and our government and major chunk of us will be left at the mercy of external aid. The Way Forward Inadequate infrastructure coupled with unfavourable business environment is crippling our economy, giving rise to adverse social problems. Ensuring rapid development of standard infrastructure (physical as well as human capacity building) coupled with providing favourable business ambience is very much in the interest of the Government, nationalists, and the public in general. Employment oppurtunities will be created only when such development happens, and in such a situation only those genuine will join to fight for freedom. Also, government’s revenue will increase when the economy develops. If our resources, both physical and human are optimally utilized, the over all living standard will increase, and with higher disposable income, talent and creative industry in music, sports and others can be better developed and rewarded. It’s high time we recognize and pull out all the stops for political and economic advancement. Militant nationalism ridden with factionalism lacking people’s base and support will take us no where near honourable solution. The struggle has to be national movement in the sense that it should unite people from different tribes, classses and sections of society, sinking the mutual differences to unite for the common cause. The demand for ‘Frontier Nagalnd’ by our Eastern breathrens should awaken us of the threat that negligence of economic development without regional disparities pose to our ‘One people, one nation’ assertion. What is suppose to be a huge historical watershed, the so called Peace Accord, assuming the contents are indeed honourable, is undermined by factionalism.Besides,it is self defeating and unjustifiable to arrest the solutions to socio-economic problem on the pretext of political problem. Tumbenthung Humtsoe is a Doctoral Candidate at the School of Economics, University of Hyderabad. His field of research interest includes Applied Micro Economics, Environmental Economics, Urban Economics, and Transport Economics. He can be contacted at benthunghmt@gmail.com
rebecca Willis OU KNOW THE scene. You’re trying something on in a shop, and as you look in the mirror you notice that it hangs better on one side than the other. One seam—usually the one on your left—sits slightly awkwardly, with a little pucker, so that the smooth line of the garment is broken. And you know before you even look: it’s because a label, or sometimes a whole sheaf of them, has been sewn into the seam. When you get home, you might be able to remove the label. Might. It will rarely be clear whether the stitching on it is also holding the seam together. But if it is, the whole seam is likely to come undone, and you’ll be repairing your purchase before you’ve even worn it. Sometimes there’s a helpful dotted line and a pair of scissors printed on the label, indicating that you should cut it off. But this, you know from experience, leaves a scratchy little stump, which still spoils the hang. You might be able to pluck out the remains of the label, fibre by fibre, with tweezers, but by now this piece of clothing is starting to feel like a full-time job. And sometimes—if you’ve bought a swimsuit, say— the seam has been densely overlocked, and the truncated label is destined to remain trapped there for ever, unsightly and uncomfortable. It’s the same story with labels at the back of the neck, which can irritate like a mosquito bite and which children routinely beg to have cut out. These usually display the brand name and they often have a little, extrascratchy size tag attached to them. We should be grateful to those companies that have wised up and print information directly onto their products. Because a label can make the difference between whether you live in a garment, or whether it lives at the back of a cupboard. Why do we need so much writing on our clothes? The relationship between words and what we wear must, once upon a time, have been so simple. It seems reasonable to assume, for instance, that the loincloth existed before the word “loincloth” did, and that it was centuries, or possibly millennia, before it was necessary to say anything else on the subject. But as soon as clothes began to be described—for literary, advertising or journalistic reasons—this relationship became more complex. And with the mass-production that grew from the Industrial Revolution, clothes needed words attached simply in order to, er, keep tabs on them. The gap between the signifier and the signified is today a yawning chasm, filled to the brim with excess verbiage. Exhibit A is a pair of grey jeans I bought recently from Zara, so bristling with labels that it looks like the result of a high-speed collision between a wardrobe and a filing cabinet. There were two cardboard tags on a string plus one stitched through the waistband, all quite easy to remove; inside were five further labels of fabric, firmly sewn in. Between them they carried more than 700 words, not counting washing symbols, barcodes and numbers. (For comparison’s sake, this column is about 800 words.) That seems like a lot of words for a pair of trousers to need. It is a consequence of globalisation that one of these labels informs me, in 31 different languages, that “this garment may fade and stain surfaces and/or other garments in lighter colours”. You have been warned. I bought the jeans for one sort of arse-covering, but got both kinds: a two-for-one deal. Washing instructions are another symptom of blame culture. They’re helpful up to a point, but when a jumper that costs £19.99 says “dry clean only”, you know it’s just so the shop can say “I told you so” if you put it in the wash and it comes out the right size for Barbie. As well as numbers and a barcode for all their electronic encounters, my jeans have a name—announced on a tag of its own. Offputtingly, it is “Black Rock Denim Biker”. Presumably this is to distinguish it from the dozens of other jeans in the shop and to make it easier to find online. The sheer magnitude of the fashion business, and the technology that underpins it, mean that our clothes have to be nailed down with words and numbers. If I sound grumpy, it’s not because I once had to go to a party with a scratch across my forehead from a tag in a shop. Nor is it because so many labels are about complying with a forest of regulations or protecting the retailer from liability. It’s not even because labels can spoil your clothes. Rather it’s because they are physical reminders that the clothes we buy, in which we want to feel individual and to express ourselves, are in fact being churned out on the scale of a natural disaster by the vast, impersonal machine of the clothing industry. The chatter of the labels makes me feel I’m being processed. Their verbosity makes me nostalgic for a time when clothes didn’t have three forenames and a surname, and when the country of origin was not a trigger for planetary guilt. My 700-word jeans give me existential angst: I wish they would hush. Rebecca Willis is an associate editor of Intelligent Life and a former travel editor of Vogue
Retracing war past, NKorean POWs return to South Korea family is still alive or not. What I've been wishing is visiting my hometown before I die," Kim told reporters in a tearful news conference in Seoul late last month. "My father and mother must have passed away ... I still want to see even their ashes." Kang, 86 and living in San Francisco, doesn't want to go back to the North for a reason that he refused to specify. A fragile armistice that ended the Korean War has yet to be replaced with a peace treaty, thus leaving the peninsula at a technical state of war and split along the world's most heavily fortified border. For Kim, the main character in the documentary, it's his first visit to South Korea since he left here in 1954, before resettling as a farmer in the remote Brazilian city of Cuiaba in the western state of Mato Grosso. Kang, a retired pastor, has previously visited South Korea a few times. In South Korea, they are trying to reconstruct their fading memories about the war. They've visited the sites of their POW camps, which have changed to busy downtown streets or vacant lots; war museums; a charnel house where the ashes of a fellow exPOW are stored; and a town where Kim became a prisoner of war. They've
Hyung-Jin Kim Associated Press also met people who share their pain, including the widow of another prisoner and a POW-turned-Buddhist monk who had chosen to stay on in the South after the war. At a Seoul war museum, Kim watched vividly re-enacted Korean War scenes in an audiovisual room, and walked out of the place in tears. He took traditional anxiolytic pills when he visited a southern island where he was imprisoned and said his "heart was aching" during a visit to a POW museum there, according to Cho Kyeong-duk, the movie director traveling with Kim and Kang. They also visited Yangpyeong, a small farming town near Seoul, where Kim surrendered to South Korea's army only weeks after he was conscripted into the North's Korean People's Army in 1950. There, Kim found everything has totally changed. "I cannot find a place where I became a POW. I only remember it was a mountain valley," he said. In Yangpyeong, he and Kang met several octogenarian South Korean veterans, including one who was
still limping slightly due to gunshot wounds from the war. The veterans initially refused to meet with their former enemies, but changed their minds following Cho's repeated requests. Kim and Kang waited in the corridor of a veterans' hall for about 15 minutes while Cho first talked to the South Koreans. The director described the meeting that followed as unexpectedly amicable. The former North Koreans said they had suffered religious oppression in their homeland and that they were forced into the army against their will. The South Korean veterans tried to help Kim find a place where he surrendered, though at the end he couldn't remember it. They later ate together cold noodles at a restaurant and visited a local war museum before exchanging warm farewell handshakes. "I had earlier wondered how I could embrace you as the (North) Korean People's Army was my enemy. But on second thought, I realized I don't have to think about something like this now because ... (we) are the same nation," said Lee Kyu-hwan, an 83-year-old South
Korean veteran. "It was like meeting (old) friends ... I don't have any particular feeling that they were the enemies at all," Kim said after parting with the South Koreans. Despite the ostensibly nice atmosphere, Cho believed he had felt there was still some emotional baggage between aging former rivals. Cho said he spent several days persuading the South Korean veterans into meeting with Kim and Kang and that the ex-POWs had also worried much about meeting with them. Most of the ex-North Korean POWs who left the peninsula resettled in Brazil, Argentina and India, though some 10 of them voluntarily returned to either North or South Korea. Kang, who first resettled in Brazil, later moved to the United States. Their ranks include a medical professor, a quarry owner and pastors, but others struggled to make a living. Some suffered from mental illness. Many chose not to stay in the South because they worried about living with the label of ex-communist soldiers in a place where they had no relatives and friends. And they feared punishment in the North for being captured in the South. Kang worries about safety of
any living relatives left behind in the North. In a May interview with The Associated Press, he asked to be identified only by his initials, but later agreed to have his full name published. Kang's Brazilian wife of more than 50 years knows how much her husband missed his family during his early days in Brazil, where she met him. "He always told me about the war, about his family and how he missed his family. He lost everything during the war. Each day I felt ... close to him," said Maria Valerio Kang, 79, who traveled to South Korea with her husband. "I decided myself I want to give (him) ... a peaceful place to live and I have to give him all my love then he ... could be happy forever." Kim wishes to go to the North with Cho via an inter-Korean border route this month. He wants to return to his hometown in the northwestern city of Ryongchon to visit the grave of his parents and the site of his church. But his chances appear dim. Cho said he's separately contacted North and South Korean diplomats in Brazil, but both sides asked to come to their countries only. He said he'll keep trying to help Kim reach North Korea even if he fails to do so this time. "I think whether this elderly man can visit his hometown can be a barometer to see whether South and North Korean authorities have resolve to improve their ties," Cho said.
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Monsoon session ends with protests & acrimony
Key legislations delayed during the washed out session
New DelhI, AUgUst 13 (IANs): Acrimony between the BJP and Congress marked the monsoon session of parliament which concluded on Thursday and had significant legislation on its agenda, including the GST bill. The session was washed out over the Congress demand for the resignations of three BJP leaders and witnessed the suspension of 25 MPs of the opposition Congress from the Lok Sabha for five days. The only major debate of the four-week session took place on the Lalit Modi issue on the penultimate day in the Lok Sabha and was marked by sloganeering, interruptions and high-pitched personalised attacks by both leaders of the Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party. The constant interruptions during the session, which began on July 21, forced the presiding officers of the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha to express anguish and pain. The Congress carried out its protests vociferously inside and outside the parliament and constantly attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his "silence" on party's demand for the resignations of three BJP leaders. The Congress protested through black bands, placards and slogans targeting
Keen on GST bill, govt may convene Special Session New DelhI, AUgUst 13 (IANs): Amid indications that the government may convene a special session of parliament -- mainly to secure passage of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) Bill, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Thursday said the government was determined to try and roll out the GST system from April next year. "The aim of the opposition was to delay the GST. The government will not disclose its strategy but it will try to implement GST by the set deadline," Jaitley said at a press conference here. Jaitley didn't rule out the possibility of convening a special session of parliament to secure the passage of GST Bill.
House of Chaos: A view of the Indian parliament building is reflected on a car in New Delhi April 24, 2012. (REUTERS File Photo)
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje over their alleged help to Lalit Modi, who is facing an Enforcement Directorate investigation. The party also pressed for the resignation of Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan over the Vyapam scam. According to PRS Legislative, which tracks work of parliament, productivity for Lok Sabha stood at 48 percent while that of Rajya Sabha at only nine percent. Question hour functioned for 52 percent of its scheduled time in the Lok Sabha and one percent of its scheduled time in Rajya Sabha.
PRS Legislative said eight of the nine planned bills were introduced but only one of the 12 planned bills could be passed. The Rajya Sabha lost over 82 hours due to interruptions, the Lok Sabha lost over 34 hours. With the Congress insisting on "resignation first and discussion later" and the government ruling out any resignations at the beginning of session, the stage was set for a stalemate that could not be broken through meetings convened by Parliamentary Affairs Minister M. Venkaiah Naidu. The session saw Congress president Sonia Gandhi coming near the
speaker's podium during a debate on the Lalit Modi issue to protest against a remark by a BJP member which was expunged. Party vice president Rahul Gandhi launched fiery attacks on the prime minister and Sushma Swaraj. The BJP made strong counterattacks. Speaker Sumitra Mahajan suspended 25 Congress members on August 3 for "willfully obstructing the business of the house" after her repeated warnings not to carry placards and to not come near her podium went unheeded. The Congress held daily protests for the next four days near the Mahatma Gandhi's statue in the parlia-
given by the government during a debate on the Lalit Modi issue in the Lok Sabha and said it would continue to raise its voice and ask questions on the matter. "The monsoon session of parliament has come to an end. It began with BJP's acrimony and ended with more acrimony on their part. Is anyone wiser at the end of the session on Modigate issue that was the cause of so much debate," senior Congress leader and former finance minister P. Chidambaram asked at a press conference here. He said while putting forward the government's views on the Lalit Modi issue on Wednesday, both Finance Minister Arun Jaitley and External Affairs Minister Sushma Will continue questioning: Swaraj failed to answer the quesChidambaram Meanwhile, the Congress on tions posed by the Congress. "Sushma Swaraj and Arun Jaitley Thursday rejected the arguments ment complex to protest the decision. The suspension rallied some other opposition parties, including the Samajwadi Party, Rashtriya Janata Dal and Janata DalUnited behind the Congress. The session held months ahead of assembly polls in Bihar saw three allies - Rashtriya Janata Dal, Janata DalUnited and Congress - acting mostly in concert. Samajwadi Party chief Mulalayam Singh Yadav did signal distancing from the Congress but it proved shortlived for the government as his party joined the protests next day to demand the release of caste census. The Left parties also demanded resignations of three BJP leaders.
The government finally agreed to discuss the Lalit Modi issue under an adjournment motion as demanded by the Congress but the debate seemed to have aggravated the acrimony between the BJP and the Congress. The Congress decided to continue pressing for the resignation of Sushma Swaraj while the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance took out a march on Thursday against the Congress "for disrupting parliament proceedings". The two parties have decided to carry out their battle against each other among the people. While the Lok Sabha saw some bills being passed
Old vehicle may get upto Rs 1.5 lakh sops Former service chiefs appeal to President on OROP New DelhI, AUgUst 13 (PtI): Government is looking at a "middle path" in resolving the "ticklish issue" of 'One Rank One Pension' demand of exservicemen, officials sources said. 'OROP' scheme may put a huge burden on the exchequer because of the need to revise the pensions every year and so the government is in discussions with the ex-servicemen community towards finding a middle path, they said. Meanwhile, four former service chiefs have written an open letter to President Pranab Mukherjee requesting his intervention in the issue. Expressing concern over the delay in rolling out 'OROP' scheme, they said, "It is with a sense of deep anguish that we are writing to draw the attention of the Supreme Commander to the dismal spectacle of our veteran soldiers, driven to undertake public protests and demonstrations to press their demand for the - long overdue grant of OROP". The letter was written by General S F Rodrigues Admiral L Ramdas, Admiral Arun Prakash and Admiral Sureesh Mehta. They said that the denial of OROP is merely the last straw that has exhausted the veterans' patience. It appears to be the culmination of a process by which successive Pay Commissions have been used to whittle down the financial and protocol status of the military over the years vis-a-vis their civilian counterparts, the letter said. It added that the decline in the status of military in India "has been orchestrated" to make it "subservient to
the bureaucracy". The former chiefs said there does not seem to be adequate realisation that this development "has the potential for inflicting long-term damage to India's proud and apolitical military ethos". No one in the political or bureaucratic establishments seems to have recognised that veterans retain a strong umbilical connection with serving personnel because the two constitute one extended family, it said. Referring to the on-going protests by ex-servicemen at Jantar Mantar, the report said anything which denigrates or humiliates the veteran also hurts the self-esteem of the serving soldier - because he sees himself as tomorrow's veteran, the four retired chiefs said. "Thus, the recent developments have not only triggered a process of politicisation of the Indian military, but also served to inflict grave damage on its morale and self-esteem," the letter stated. It said that since no administration has deemed it appropriate to convey the actual reason for the interminable delays, there is a growing feeling in the rank and file that the senior armed forces leadership has not done enough to pursue their cause. "An erosion of confidence such as this could inflict severe damage on the officer-jawan relationship. This is a sacred trust, built on a 350-year old tradition, which we will find very difficult to rebuild," it said. It said the factors mentioned above have the potential to cause immense damage to India's military edifice and hence, to our national security.
New DelhI, AUgUst 13 (PtI): Government is considering giving financial incentives of up to Rs 1.5 lakh on surrender of over-ten-year-old vehicles to check pollution and address road safety concerns, Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari today said. This comes at a time when the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has banned plying of diesel vehicles which are more than ten years old in the national capital region. A proposal to formulate the new incentive policy for surrendering old vehicles is being worked out and would be soon sent for the Finance Ministry's approval, said Gadkari, who is also the Minister for Roads and Highways. Under the proposed policy, people would get an incentive of up to Rs 30,000 for discarding small vehicles like cars, while total benefits after taking into account tax exemptions etc could be up to Rs 1.5 lakh for big vehicles
like trucks, the Minister said. The new policy is likely to be valid for overten-year-old vehicles across the country. "We are bringing such a scheme that, for example, if you sell your old vehicle you will get a certificate which on being produced at the time of new purchase will get you a discount of up to Rs 50,000. "For small vehicles like cars it will be up to Rs 30,000. Besides, there will be exemptions in taxes. Total benefits for big vehicles like trucks will be up to Rs 1.5 lakh," Gadkari said here on the sidelines of a global conference on public transport innovation here. The plan is to set up 8-10 industrial units near ports like Kandla which will give certificates for accepting old vehicles and also recycle vehicles from India and abroad, thus giving a boost to employment and economy, he added.
Sartaj Aziz confirms he will attend NSA talks in India IslAMABAD/New DelhI, AUg 13 (IANs) Ending the suspense, Pakistan's National Security Advisor Sartaj Aziz confirmed on Thursday that he will visit India on August 23 for talks with his Indian counterpart Ajit Doval. "I can confirm I will proceed to India on August 23 for the NSA talks," Aziz said while responding to a question at a joint press conference with visiting Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif. The NSA level talks are part of the agreement arrived at between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz
Sharif during their July 10 meeting in Ufa, Russia. The NSA talks are mandated to "discuss all issues connected to terrorism". "Although the security talks are not the revival of the Composite Dialogue, the meeting would be 'icebreaking' as we will hold discussions on some important issues," Aziz said. "Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif believes that dialogue is the only option to peacefully resolve issues," he added. India had proposed August 23-24 for the NSA talks about a month ago, but Pakistan declined to confirm the dates.
Escalating tensions between the two neighbours since the Ufa meeting had put a big question mark on the talks. The Gurdaspur and Udhampur terror attacks by suspected Pakistani terrorists added to the heightened tension. Last week, India decided to boycott a Commonwealth parliamentary meeting in Islamabad in protest against the Jammu and Kashmir assembly speaker not being invited. Pakistan has invited the speakers of all the Indian states barring Jammu and Kashmir, citing it as disputed territory.
Bombay HC scraps Maggi recall order, but demand re-test MUMBAI, AUgUst 13 (ReUteRs): The Bombay High Court on Thursday ruled in favour of Nestle in its battle to overturn a nationwide ban of its Maggi instant noodles, but demanded the popular snack be tested again for safety before it can go on sale again. The ruling marks a partial victory for the Swiss food giant, which withdrew the noodles from Indian stores in June after the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) said they contained unsafe levels of lead. A spokesman said Nestle India (NEST.NS) would comply with the court order, which it hopes will mark the beginning of the end of India's worst packaged food scare in a decade. "It is Nestle India's endeavour to get Maggi noodles
back on the shelves as soon as possible for the benefit of our consumer," the spokesman said. The company had said its own tests showed the noodles were safe to eat. Lawyers acting for the food safety regulator said they may appeal, depending on the results of the fresh tests. The Bombay High Court order said these tests must be conducted at specific laboratories, after media reports criticised the FSSAI's facilities as ill-equipped and under-staffed. The regulator itself has said India needs to strengthen food safety infrastructure. The safety scare left Nestle with a 66 million Swiss franc ($67.46 million) recall bill as well as the challenge of rebuilding its brand after its worst public relations crisis
in India to date. It replaced the head of its Indian unit last month with turnaround specialist Suresh Narayanan, the first Indian in almost two decades to run operations in the country. Industry experts said the credibility of all involved was at stake. "A lot of work has to be done both by the industry as well as the regulator to ensure that a controversy like this does not erupt again," said Arvind Singhal, chairman of retail consultants Technopak. Separately, the government earlier this week filed a lawsuit against Nestle's Indian unit, seeking $99 million in damages on behalf of consumers, citing unfair trade practices and the sale of defective goods. That case is not related to the food safety A painted sign on the wall of a closed tea stall advertises Maggi instant noodles next scare. to a waterfall near Dharmsala on Wednesday, August 12. (AP Photo)
made last ditch efforts. They did everything except answer the crucial questions that arose out of Sushma Swaraj's intervention on behalf of Lalit Modi," he said. The Congress leader said some facts that tumbled out were that the external affairs minister intervened with the British High Commissioner on behalf of Lalit Modi at a time when his passport had been cancelled and the case was pending in the high court and that her ministry has so far not appealed against the high court order setting aside the cancellation of the passport. The former finance minister said: "I am afraid that the two ministers have failed the government and the people. Instead of a debate, we got a diatribe. Instead of answers, we got sermons. Instead of facts, we got a fudge."
in the third week during the boycott of the house by the Congress and some other opposition parties over the suspension of 25 MPs, the Rajya Sabha saw daily adjournments forced by the Congress members. The government lacks majority in the upper house and could not take up the Goods and Services Tax Bill, which is regarded as the biggest tax reform since Independence. Following the pandemonium in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday, the Speaker asked the Lok Sabha TV to telecast the continuing protests. The house witnessed a paper being torn close the speaker's chair in the Lok Sabha and the
Congress complaining that its protesting members had been "elbowed." A notice of breach of privilege was given against Robert Vadra, son-in-law of Sonia Gandhi in the Lok Sabha. The Lok Sabha also witnessed an instance of members of treasury benches displaying placards. The session also saw BJP making an about-turn on the land bill with its members moving amendments in the joint committee to bring back crucial provisions of the land Act of the UPA government, including those on consent and social impact assessment. The bill is expected to come up in the winter session of parliament.
Nine die in bus crash in Himachal Pradesh shIMlA, AUgUst 13 (IANs): At least nine people, including a child, were killed when a state-run bus rolled down from a hill in Himachal Pradesh's Chamba district on Thursday, police said. The Himachal Road Transport Corp bus was on its way from Chamba town to Killar when the accident occurred near Tissa, around 100 km from the town. Eight people were injured. Assistant Superintendent of Police Kulwant Thakur told IANS over the phone that the cause of the accident was not yet known. The accident spot, some 550 km from here, is one of the remotest places in the state. Survivors blamed the accident on a road damaged by a landslide. "A portion of the road was damaged. As the driver was about to cross the landslide, he advised the passengers to get down. Most got off. As the driver was about the cross the road, it caved in and the bus skidded off the road," a survivor told police. Most of the dead and the injured were from Chamba district. The dead included three women. The bus driver and the conductor sustained injuries
Fake lawyers to be identified in 7 months New DelhI, AUgUst 13 (PtI): The Bar Council of India has initiated an "exhaustive" process of identifying "fake and non-practising" lawyers which will be completed over the next seven months. The BCI, a statutory body regulating legal practice and education in the country, has introduced an "exhaustive" mechanism to ascertain the identity and numbers of such lawyers, Law Minister D V Sadananda Gowda informed the Lok Sabha today. In a written reply, Gowda said the Council had informed that "the number of fake lawyers cannot be exactly ascertained by now." The Minister said the Bar Council of India Certificate and Place of Practice (Verification) Rules, 2015, have been framed which will help prevent the "occurrence of the use of such fake degrees or to stop the non-practicing persons enrolled with the State Bar councils from getting benefits." Gowda said the entire verification process will be completed and fake lawyers identified within 6-7 months. The development came days after BCI Chairman Manan Kumar Mishra was reported to have said in Chennai that 30 per cent of lawyers in India were fake. He said the Council, which is statutorily empowered to discipline errant lawyers and take action against them, was in the process of weeding them out.
'Notices to news channels an attempt to muzzle media' New DelhI, AUgUst 13 (PtI): CPI(M) today asked the Government to withdraw show-cause notices issued to three news channels in connection with the coverage of Yakub Memon's hanging, alleging that it was a "brazen" attempt to muzzle the media. In the editorial of forthcoming issue of its mouthpiece, People's Democracy, former party general secretary Prakash Karat said that the decision implied that the Government intends to exercise censorship on channels. Karat also accused Information and Broadcasting Ministry, which served the notices, of showing "same intolerance and vindictiveness" being displayed by BJP-RSS. The notices asking why licences of the channels concerned should not be suspended is a brazen attempt to muzzle the media. The intention is to exercise censorship of content in the media. Modi government should withdraw the notices forthwith," Karat insisted. What the Government is objecting to is discussions in which there were criticisms either on the way the trial was conducted, or, the appeals to the judiciary and President were disposed off, he said.
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50 dead as warehouse blasts hit Chinese port TIANJIN, AugusT 13 (AP): Huge, fiery blasts at a warehouse for hazardous chemicals killed at least 50 people and turned nearby buildings into skeletal shells in the Chinese port of Tianjin, raising questions Thursday about whether the materials had been properly stored. Hundreds of people were injured in the explosions shortly before midnight Wednesday, which sent out massive fireballs that turned the night sky into day and shattered windows several kilometers (miles) away. Twelve of the dead were from among the more than 1,000 firefighters sent to the mostly industrial zone to fight the ensuing blaze. “I thought it was an earthquake, so I rushed downstairs without my shoes on,” said Tianjin resident Zhang Siyu, whose home is several kilometers (miles) from the blast site. “Only once I was outside did I realize it was an explosion. There was the huge fireball in the sky with thick clouds. Everybody could see it.” Zhang said she could see wounded people weeping. She said she did not see anyone who had been killed, but “I could feel death.” The municipal government in Tianjin, a key port and petrochemical processing hub about 120 kilometers (75 miles) east of Beijing, said 701 people were injured, including 71 in serious condition. It gave no figure for the missing. There was no indication of what caused the blasts, and no immediate sign of any toxic cloud in the air as firefighters brought the fire largely under control by morning. However, the Tianjin government suspended further firefighting to allow a team of chemical experts to survey hazardous materials at the site, assess dangers to the environment and decide how best to proceed. State media said senior man-
Charred remains of a warehouse and new cars are left burned after an explosion at a warehouse in northeastern China’s Tianjin municipality on Thursday, August 13. Huge, fiery blasts at a warehouse for hazardous chemicals killed many people and turned nearby buildings into skeletal shells in the Chinese port of Tianjin, raising questions Thursday about whether the materials had been properly stored. (AP Photo)
agement of the company had been detained, and that President Xi Jinping demanded severe punishment for anyone found responsible for the explosions. “It was like what we were told a nuclear bomb would be like,” said truck driver Zhao Zhencheng, who spent the night in the cab of his truck after the blasts. “I’ve never even thought I’d see such a thing. It was terrifying, but also beautiful.” In a sign of sensitivity over the hazardous materials stored at the warehouse, state broadcaster CCTV went into a live broadcast of a news conference in Tianjin when the head of the municipality’s Environmental Protection Bureau chief, Wen Wurui, was speaking. He said there had been no apparent impact on air monitoring stations, but that water samples were
still being examined. However, when a reporter asked him whether the chemicals at the warehouse had been stored far enough away from residences in the area and Wen seemed at a loss for a response, the broadcaster suddenly cut away from the news conference, only to return to it again later. Authorities said the blasts started at shipping containers at the warehouse owned by Ruihai Logistics, a company that says it stores hazardous materials including flammable petrochemicals, sodium cyanide and toluene diisocyanate. The initial blast apparently triggered an even bigger one. The National Earthquake Bureau said the first blast was the equivalent of 3 tons of TNT, and the second 21 tons. The enormous fireballs
from the blasts rolled through a nearby parking lot, turning a fleet of 1,000 new cars into scorched metal husks. As is customary during disasters, Chinese authorities tried to keep a tight control over information. Police kept journalists and bystanders away with a cordon about 1 or 2 kilometers (about a mile) from the site. On China’s popular microblogging platform of Weibo, some users complained that their posts about the blasts were deleted, and the number of searchable posts on the disaster fluctuated, in a sign that authorities were manipulating or placing limits on the number of posts. The website of the logistics company became inaccessible Thursday. The Tianjin government said that because of the blasts it had suspended online
access to public corporate records. These records might be used to trace the ownership of Ruihai. It was not clear whether the blackout was due to technical damage related to the explosion. No one answered the phone at the Tianjin Market and Quality Supervision Administration or the Tianjin Administration for Industry and Commerce on Thursday. Ruihai Logistics said on its website — before it was shut down — that it was established in 2011 and is an approved company for handling hazardous materials. It said it handles 1 million tons of cargo annually. Photos taken by bystanders and circulating on microblogs show a gigantic fireball high in the sky with a mushroom cloud. Other photos on state media outlets showed a sea of fire that painted the night sky bright orange, with tall plumes of smoke. About 2 kilometers (1.2 miles) from the explosion site is the luxury Fifth Avenue apartment complex on a road strewn with broken glass and pieces of charred metal thrown from the explosion. Like surrounding buildings, the Mediterranean-style complex had all its windows blown out, and some of its surfaces were scorched. “It’s lucky no one had moved in,” said a worker on the site, Liu Junwei, 29. “But for us it’s a total loss. Two years of hard work down the drain.” “It had been all quiet, then the sky just lit up brighter than day and it looked like a fireworks show,” said another worker on the site who gave just his surname, Li. Tianjin, with a population of about 15 million, is being promoted by the Chinese government as a center for finance and high-tech industry. The Tianjin Economic Development Area has attracted foreign investors including Motorola, Toyota, Samsung and Novozymes.
Jimmy Carter says he has cancer ATlANTA, AugusT 13 (AP): Former President Jimmy Carter, who at age 90 still travels the world supporting the humanitarian endeavors that have consumed his time in the decades since he left office, announced he has cancer that has spread to other parts of his body. A statement released by the Carter Center on Wednesday makes clear that Carter’s cancer is widely spread but not where it originated, or even if that is known at this point. The liver is often a place where cancer spreads and less commonly is the primary source of it. The statement said further information will be provided when more facts are known, “possibly next week.” “Recent liver surgery revealed that I have cancer that now is in other parts of my body,” Carter said in the statement. “I will be rearranging my schedule as necessary so I can undergo treatment by physi-
cians at Emory Healthcare.” Carter announced on Aug. 3 that he had surgery to remove a small mass from his liver. Good wishes poured in on social media after Carter’s announcement, while President Barack Obama said he and first lady Michelle Obama wish Carter a fast and full recovery. “Jimmy, you’re as resilient as they come, and along with the rest of America, we are rooting for you,” Obama said in a statement. Carter was the nation’s 39th president, defeating Gerald Ford in 1976 with a pledge to always be honest. Before his career in politics, Carter graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy and served seven years in the Navy submarine force. A Georgia peanut farmer who had been a state senator and governor of Georgia for a single term before running for president, Carter ended up seeing his second term for president doomed
by a number of foreign policy conflicts, most especially the Iran hostage crisis — losing in a landslide to Ronald Reagan in 1980. He spent the decades since carving out a reputation for promoting such global issues as health care and democracy, often with his wife Rosalynn by his side. He joined the staff of Emory University and in 1982 established the Carter Center to promote those issues. His new role as global statesman took him into places often shunned by other diplomats. Carter helped defuse nuclear tensions between the Koreas and monitored the first Palestinian elections. In 2002, he won the Nobel Peace Prize. According to the Carter Center, he and Rosalynn volunteer one week a year for Habitat Humanity, a nonprofit that helps build and renovate homes for people in need. Despite remaining active through the years,
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KAbul, AugusT 13 (IANs): Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri has pledged allegiance to the newly-appointed Taliban chief Mullah Mohammad Akhtar Mansoor, the media reported on Thursday. “We pledge our allegiance … (to) our lord, leader of the faithful, Mullah Mohammad Akhtar Mansour, may god protect him,” al-Zawahiri said in an online audio statement. Al-Zawahiri is believed to be seeking refuge in the Afghanistan-Pakistan border area which also is the Taliban base, Khaama Press reported. The pledge was issued by Al Qaeda’s media arm Al Sahab and was Zawahiri’s first message since September 2014. His message of allegiance comes amid disputes among the Taliban leadership regarding the appointment of Mullah Mansoor as the successor of Mullah Mohammad Omar who was declared dead last month. Taliban formally confirmed the death of Mullah Omar by issuing a statement around a week and later announced the Mullah Mansoor was appointed as the group’s new leader.
Trump, Sanders upend USA race for president WAshINgToN, AugusT 13 (IANs): Teflon ‘Donald’, as ‘Donald Trump’ has come to be called, and selfproclaimed socialist Bernie Sanders have upended the US presidential race with their surprise surge against establishment favourites in both Republican and Democratic parties. Defying media pundits who had predicted that the Trump campaign would unravel after his dustup with a female host during the first presidential debate on Fox News, the real estate mogul Trump tops the Republican field with 22 percent among likely caucus-goers in Iowa, the first nominating state, in a new poll. He is also seen as the candidate seen as best able to handle top issues including the economy, illegal immigration and terrorism, according to a CNN/ORC poll in the state. Trump is most cited as the one with the best chance of winning the general election and, by a wide margin, as the candidate most likely to change the way things work in Washington. On the Democratic side, Vermont senator Bernie Sanders has for the first time pulled ahead of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in New Hampshire, the first primary state, according to a new poll. Sanders topped Clinton with 44 percent compared to her 37 percent support among likely Democratic primary voters, according to a Franklin Pierce University/Boston Herald poll. Sanders has been gaining momentum as he generates enthusiasm among the Democratic Party’s progressive base but until now he has still trailed Clinton in every early state poll, CNN said.Clinton continues to enjoy more than double Sanders’ support in national polls. Vice President Joe Biden, who is reportedly still considering whether to enter the fray, would start with a 9 percent base of support in New Hampshire if he decided to run, according to the poll.
Former President Jimmy Carter. (AP File Photo)
Carter’s health has recently become the subject of speculation. In May, he was forced to cut short an election observation visit to Guyana when he developed a bad cold. Carter also completed a book tour this summer to promote his latest work, “A Full Life.” Carter included his family’s history of
pancreatic cancer in that memoir, writing that his father, brother and two sisters all died of the disease and said the trend “concerned” the former president’s doctors at Emory. Carter wrote that being the only nonsmoker in his family “may have been what led to my longer life.”
UN social media campaign showcases activism In this May 6, 2014 photo provided by Skateistan, three young Afghan girls pose with their skateboards in Afghanistan. Skateistan, a program founded in 2009, has used the fun of skateboarding to promote education and leadership skills. The program will be highlighted in a new United Nations social media campaign spotlighting 17 stories of survival and humanitarian activism in conflict-torn and disaster-hit countries from Syria and Afghanistan to South Sudan, Nepal and Sierra Leone. (AP File Photo) Edith M. Lederer Associated Press
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ennis star Maria Sharapova, British mogul Richard Branson and Nobel Peace laureate Malala Yousafzai have signed up. So have actor Ashley Judd, Colombian singer Juanes and Brazilian football star Kaka. They are supporting a new U.N. social media campaign to spotlight 17 stories of survival and humanitarian activism in countries struggling with conflict and disaster around the world,
from Syria and Afghanistan to South Sudan, Nepal and Sierra Leone. “We’re calling on the young and digitally connected to help us push out these compelling stories and give a voice to the voiceless,” U.N. humanitarian chief Stephen O’Brien said. What the U.N. and its humanitarian partners are asking is for Facebook and Twitter users to go to the website www.worldhumanitarianday.org and sign up to allow the World Humanitarian Day #Share-
Humanity app to post one of the 17 stories on their chosen social media feed for 6 hours starting Wednesday. The campaign runs until Aug. 19, which is World Humanitarian Day, and supporters can share as many stories as they want during the eight days. People can also just use the hashtag #ShareHumanity and plug the campaign. The U.N. does not gain access to anyone’s contact list. Kieran Dwyer, chief of communications for the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Af-
fairs, said the ultimate goal is to spur action “to create a mass core of support for humanitarian life-saving action in the world today.” The U.N. also hopes that people inspired by the stories of men, women and children “who have hit the worst days of their life, and have come through them” will follow up by donating to the U.N. fund for global emergencies, to U.N. humanitarian efforts in individual countries, or to non-governmental organizations working to help the needy, he said. Dwyer said the U.N. humanitarian office needs $20 billion this year to keep 100 million people in need alive - double what it asked for in 2009 - and so far it’s received less than 30%. The stories range from a circus school in Jordan for Syrian refugees teaching children skills like juggling and acrobatics to an organization called Skateistan in Afghanistan that teaches Afghan girls and boys how to skateboard and a team of health works in South Sudan that defied conflict and flooding and walked on foot, crossing five rivers, to immunize youngsters
against polio. Oliver Percovich, who founded Skateistan in the Afghan capital Kabul, has used the fun of skateboarding to promote education and leadership skills, expanding the program to Cambodia and South Africa and reaching over 3,200 youngsters last year, many marginalized and over 40 percent girls. Skateboarding is now the largest female sports federation in Afghanistan, he said. The campaign also features gripping individual stories: A 12-year-old Nigerian girl whose father was killed by Boko Haram extremists and who rescued her 10-year-old brother who was left for dead in a makeshift grave after being attacked with a machete; a Sherpa guide from Nepal who lost his home in the recent earthquake but trekked through the mountains with U.N. relief workers to deliver aid; and an Ebola survivor in Sierra Leone who joined a team promoting safe burials. One of the most dramatic stories, with video, is Khaled Farah’s rescue of a 10-day-old baby buried in rubble after a barrel bomb
hit the family’s apartment building in Syria’s largest city, Aleppo, last year. Farah, a former printer and decorator, is a member of the White Helmets volunteer group founded in March 2013 to help rescue fellow Syrians caught up in the war, which is now in its fifth year.
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Friday 14 August 2015
The Morung Express
‘Nagas are a Naga people’s right to govern free Nation’ themselves cannot be hijacked Naga Independence Message by Temjenyanger Aier, President NNC/NA
My dear fellow Naga citizen, On this historic day I would like to give thanks and gratitudes to our Almighty God for His all out care shown to our Naga people till today. Also I salute and pay homage to our Naga patriots both dead and alive who declared Naga independence on 14th August' 1947 and make known to the world for recognition. The Naga delegation met Mahatma Gandhi on July 19, 1947 at his Panghi Colony House in Delhi in which he told them that if you say that you are not Indians and your country does not belong to India then the matter ends there. Nobody will force you to join the Indian Union. Jawaharlal Nehru also described the status of Nagaland on 16th August' 1945 as the tribal areas are defined as being those long frontier of India which are neither part of India nor Burma nor of any foreign powers. In May 1947 the constituent assembly of India sent a delegation to Naga National Council (NNC) and made an offer for Nagaland to join the union of India but was rejected by the Nagas. A modified form was repeated in June 1947 in the form of ten years agreement negotiation continued but India broke off the term of agreement. The Nagas under the leadership of NNC in the British occupied territory declared their Independence and cabled message to that effect was acknowledged by the UN at the withdrawal of the British power from their territory. Nagaland shall never yield its sovereign independence to any nation. Nagas are not demanding anything from India and Myanmar except recognition to their property of sovereign right. As for me and NNC/NA stand for non-violence, non-cooperation and sovereignty, from the time immemorial Nagas is a free Nation and are born free to live freely but the India and Myanmar put our hands-off and could not move freely. On 3rd August' 2015 signed an accord between the NSCN (IM) and Govt. of India, the contents of this accord is acceptable to the Nagas and the neighbouring states or not we cannot say till the accord displayed by them. Anyway they have achieved something on their goings. My dear Naga brethren, once again, we re-affirm NNC and go further till the Nagas achieves our own sovereignty. Nagas of yesterdays were not the Nagas of today and so, let us use the civilized or diplomatic ways to approach to bring our national unity and final settlement to the Indo-Naga Political impasses and Myanmar as well. We the Nagas are delighted to express our profound gratitude to the KWIA, NVHRC, UNFO, friendly nations international Human Right Groups (NGOs) and individuals for their support given to our Naga cause. We also pledge our strong support and partnership to all the oppressed nations of the world. Kuknalim
Speech Of (Gen Rtd) Khole Konyak, His Excellency The President Of GPRN/NSCN
My Dear countrymen, On this auspicious day, I thank our almighty for His grace that has enabled all of us to celebrate the 69th Naga Independence Day. I also thank all the pioneers of the Naga freedom struggle who had contributed and sacrificed their all, which has kept the flames of this movement burning. The political scenario in the past 10 years or less has changed dramatically where we find that the essence and principles of Naga political movement has merely featured in the forefront, with the people and leaders less concerned about it, which has misguided the confidence and political rights of the Nagas. Nagas are not meant to be enemies of each other; neither are we aliens to each other’s culture or traditions. However, the politics of adversaries to create disunity among us that we ourselves adopted and by nurturing the isms and frustration of some leaders, we have been fighting amongst ourselves trying to be champions among brothers. Nagas are by nature a warrior and selfdetermined people who have been free and independent people since times immemorial. Nagas have never been slaves or inferior to any and have lived for so many years as
brothers, where respect and harmony were the ethics practiced by everyone. Politics itself has both good and bad effects, and I feel that the Nagas are facing the worst part of being politicized. The value of humanity and dignity of life has become a far cry, and we have been blaming each other for what has gone wrong, forgetting that we are responsible of what is happening around us, which has created a big vacuum among ourselves and created a space for others to get an advantage. The Naga political movement and its rights do not start from the ceasefire agreement or accords that are signed from time to time with the Government of India (GoI), but a determined slogan. A pledge that Nagas have undertaken during the early 19th century when even the Indians WERE UNDER the East India Company’s administrative rule, a legacy we have inherited and been maintaining it steadfast. It was a dream and aspiration of our forefathers to see a united and free Naga nation. Integration or disintegration, greater or smaller Nagaland has never been an agenda of Naga freedom movement. Our aims and objectives have always been to get recognition of our political rights and its domain areas, which the Indian Government has agreed verbally. However, problems still remain unsolved, and this has taken us so long a journey, with many difficulties and
pains, which I can tearfully say that Nagas have suffered enough all because of mistrust and disunity, controversies and conspiracies that we have thrown at each other’s face thereby creating a sense of hatred and insecurity among ourselves. The time has come where each Naga should admit our mistakes, put our heads together and recommit ourselves to determine the future of Nagaland. Let us all see that we are no more into the past but a nation that strive forward with a brighter vision for the young generation to fulfill their dreams. Let us build a nation that can endure the responsibility of making its people reach their destination and a nation that provides hope for the future. Let every Naga be a harbinger of peace. I am glad that today, the GoI and NSCN IM have signed an accord, an agreement that is better known to them. However, one thing every Naga should know and understand is that two different problems cannot be solved by one solution, because every problem needs a solution and therefore, any solution that may arrive for our brothers in Manipur or NSCN IM will be gracefully supported and acknowledged by the GPRN/NSCN. In return, I would also wish that they understand the minds of Nagas living in Nagaland in their process to redesign their future. Nagas are brothers no matter how distanced or how big a wall exists between us. At this point of time, we have great
If nothing else, remember the blood-soaked feet Yuimi Vashum
“Once, all villagers decided to pray for rain. On the day of prayer all the people gathered but only one boy came with an umbrella… THAT’S FAITH The content of the peace accord is still not known to the public. But still, the people of Senapati came out in praise of the Peace Accord. While we still wait in speculation, I am encouraged by the faith they have shown in the collective leadership…” A very good friend of mine forwarded me this text after Senapati District held a Thanksgiving rally when the Government of India signed a historic Peace Treaty with the NSCN (IM) on 3rd of August, Monday, 7:30 pm. Strangely, I found my peace with this text. I am glad my town finally gave it’s Thanksgiving too. Since the signing of this Treaty, the nation has been battling with reasons and speculations. Even among the Naga ourselves, the signing of this peace accord has not been all sunshine and rainbows. The younger generation of Nagas is skeptical about the feasibility of the accord, and if the decisions made behind closed doors have been ‘in the best interest‘ of every Nagas. The older generation, however, embraced the news. This to them was a sign of God fulfilling a promise, for all the emotional & physical torture they went through in the early days of the Naga struggle, and the
endless prayers chanted over skinned knee. And here I am, glad that something came out of this 70+ years of struggle. Today, I would like to leave a story with you. From the initial Naga Struggle, something I grew up listening to. If nothing else, I hope this helps you reconsider why this Peace accord is after all, a good thing. During the early 70s when the Naga struggle was at its prime, we lost hundreds of our patriotic men. This is one such story. One fine August morning, in 1974, when the sun decided to peek-a-boo after a heavy downpour, 264 Naga patriots packed their bags and readied themselves for a long trek to China. Some of them had said their goodbyes to their loved ones while some couldn’t as they had run away from home to join the army. With a packet of salt, an army boot, and a rifle on their back, they set the trail for the land on the east, for better ammunition and a better training. Come November and they were still pushing their way through the forest. Scramble away at night, rest when the sun was up. Then they started losing their men to sickness, ambush, and starvation. When they ran out of food and salt, they dug into the jhum land hoping to find even one piece of leftover yams to survive. All these soldiers did was- walk, rest, fight- walk, rest and all over again. Evn before they reached Burma, their shoes were already worn out. In their climb of the rocky mountains and thorny hills, some of their shoes succumbed to the journey. With no option left, some started to walk barefoot.
In three days time, their feet were soiled in blood and dirt, leaving trails of marooned footprint and snipped flesh. The feeling was so overwhelming that death seemed like a more reasonable option. But they dragged on. It was every man on his own, a rifle, a bag and each own sorry body to drag along. By the time they reached China, there were only 159 of them, wearing soiled boots, patched uniforms made of many colors yet undeterred hearts, still set for nothing but absolute sovereignty. It was April by then. After a considerable time of training at China, when they finally headed back home, they were met with the same ordeal. One time, their salt ran out and they had to survive on whatever green leaves and wild roots they could grab. During this time, their bodies were filled with so many ticks and bugs that they could see them fleas hopping off from one body to the other. And as they neared the Burma border, they managed to bribe villagers to bring them packets of salt for 20-30 rupees, when they had actually bought the salt for less than 3 rupee. The stories of their journey are far more bizarre than this. And I will tell you all about it another time. As for the lives they lost, some were laid to rest at unmarked graves, covered with leaves and twigs, and a final prayer to guide the body. And when some men could no longer drag their tired body, they would be left in a snug corner, the only luxury away from the sun and sights of bullets. To those
‘We will not bow down’ Speech Delivered By Brig. (Retd) S. Singnya, Kedahge, Federal Government Of Nagaland On The Occasion Of The 69th Naga Independence Day
Dear Countrymen, On this historic day, the 14th of August 2015, as the nation celebrates the independence day of our nation, I take the privilege to address you on behalf of the Federal Government of Nagaland. We are profoundly thankful to our Almighty God for sustaining and guiding us through the course of our history. But for His grace we might have been trampled by a power that has often sought to destroy us. Our dream and aspiration may seem to allure us at a distance but the foundation upon which we stand is reinforced by every move we make. The spirit of oneness with those who framed our present in the distant past will continue to lead us to our destined future. This is the reason why my government has time and again stood firm and resolute on the “historical and political rights of the Nagas.” We will continue to walk on the same path and not betray the lives and blood of those who had made the supreme sacrifice. This defines the nationalism of the Federal Government of Nagaland then and now. We will not bow down to any power however powerful they may be nor be impatient if it means anything less than our historical and political rights. We are aware and our mind is one with those who gave their lives fearlessly and unselfishly believing that one day Nagas without any territorial limit will be free from the power that sought to throttle the voice of freedom and liberty. We have listened to the voices of those opposed to us and who try to manipulate our destiny. We will listen but we will also learn to filter what is right and what is destructive. The minds of many have been diminished and have now learnt to speak the language of others well by calling us fools in the name of modernity and advancement. If we must be reckoned as fools for Naga historical and political rights to be preserved and guarded, we are ready to be called fools for what we believe to be right. The language of modernity has completely sucked the Naga language of SOVEREIGNTY. But I know of no country that is sovereign and yet still reels under the domain of power from within or from outside. We fight for a sovereignty that will resonate within us that we are indeed a free people
concern for our Naga brothers living outside Nagaland; Yet, this can never mean that we forget our dreams while paving ways for our neighbours to realize their dreams. It will be insane on our part if we go astray from the track that our leaders have already framed for us, but a great achievement if we could pave way at this given situation by bringing up common agenda to see that all Nagas are contented. To fight, we need muscles but to negotiate we need wisdom. As such, GPRN/NSCN always welcomes all right thinking Nagas to come forward and express your dreams and aspirations of a free and contented Nagaland. The Naga people’s right to govern themselves cannot be hijacked in the form of an accord because at the end of the day, it will be the people who are going to have a final say in deciding their future. As have been the practice of GPRN/NSCN, our Government, which is a people’s government, will continue to meet all sections of Nagas of Nagaland to bring up a unanimously agreeable and feasible solution. My dear countrymen, I assure you once again, ‘no final political settlement will take place with the government of India without taking the opinion and consent of my people’. And on this occasion, I fervently call upon our countrymen to remain steadfast as we continue to fight for our inherent political right to self determination. Kuknalim
and a nation having the freedom to shape and decide our own destiny. A freedom that is no longer under the domination of a power that has always sought to destroy and take advantage of our situation for her own vested interests. What have we gained in actual terms in the last 5 decades after we have been given statehood? The land of the Nagas has been divided and fragmented without our knowledge or consent. The Naga National Movement has been demeant to that of a secessionist movement and even referred to as an insurgency. To top all these, laws which are obsolete in the modern world like Disturbed Area Act under the Armed Forces Special Powers Act of 1958 is continued to be imposed in the Naga inhabited areas. The AFSPA is regarded as a Draconian law, named after the famous ancient Athenian Greek law maker Draco of the 6th Century BC whose laws were regarded as extremely harsh and severe as it gives power to the Indian armed forces to act with impunity in the areas covered by the Act. The GOI inherited the Armed Forces Special Powers Ordinance from the British who used it to suppress the Quit Indian movement in 1942 as a result of which many prominent Indian leaders like M.K. Gandhi were imprisoned. India not learning from their experience have imposed the Act in our land and under the protection of this Act the Indian army had perpetrated inhuman and barbaric atrocities on our people. The recent Wuzu incident on 16th July, 2015 wherein two innocent Naga students were killed in cold blood and a housewife injured in a fake encounter by the Indian army is another example. It also depicts the harsh reality of how Peace is prevailing in our land. The desire of the Nagas to live in peaceful coexistence with our neighbours should not be construed as weak and we cannot afford to allow others to buy time to destroy the fabrics of our movement. We must reorient ourselves to walk on the path that our great leaders had chosen and we must do so together in the spirit of forgiveness and mutual understanding. We have never lost sight of what our forefathers have laid for us. Had it not been for the declaration of our independence on this very day in 1947 where could we ever be in our political movement? And had it not been for the Naga Plebiscite of 1951 and had we not put our thumb impressions to say “we are Nagas and not Indians” and we will forever be free without the interference of any nation outside of us, where would we be standing today? The historic declaration and the momentous action exhibit our histori-
cal and political rights before the world then and now. And therefore, the NNC/FGN holds these twin planks as the solid rock foundation for without these historical facts, our political movement will seem headless and tailless. The NNC/FGN stands to preserve the long cherished dream of the Nagas. For this very reason the NNC/FGN has embarked on ‘A Journey of Common Hope’ initiated by the Forum for Naga Reconciliation. Our stand from the beginning has been clear. We have committed ourselves to the work of reconciliation among the Naga Political Groups to hammer out our differences so that we can harbor on our commonality, namely, Naga historical and political rights making it to stand at the forefront of our political movement. We are grateful to the FNR for the great accomplishments they have made. However, much need to still be achieved as we have agreed upon. My government will not back off from the commitments we have made so long as we all remain true to our words. We will continue to sail with full trust and will honour the trust that our people has reposed in us. Today, we may still lack many things which the world measures success and might but we have the will power that is mightier than the military weapons or the economic power with which the Nagas have often been lured. Our will power is our strength as it has always been and will continue to be. Our unity and our resolute decision to go on as one people is the only legacy that we can leave to the younger generations. The NNC/FGN believes that anything short of political sovereignty would be suicidal and a tragedy for our people. As we celebrate this historic day of our Nation, I wish to acknowledge and put on record my appreciation and gratitude to all our people who are praying for and observing this day throughout the world. Let us take pride in the strenuous journey we have taken thus far but until we reach our destination, much will still be required of us. We must stay strong and focused. Today, we celebrate with pride and honour those who have made the supreme sacrifice towards the National Cause for it is because of them we can be proud of our stand today in the midst of all the trials and difficulties. To all who have stood steadfast, I congratulate you. My special salute goes to the recipients of the awards and commendations for the dedication and sacrifice you have made. Let us rededicate ourselves today to what we all hold dear, know is true and right till we reach our final destination and attain our rightful place among the Nations of the world. God bless you and KUKNALIM
lives claimed by ambush and encounters, there was nothing they could do except for the fact that our slain patriots have made a patch of a foreign land, a naga-land. It is for this very reason, their sacrifices and hardships that our struggle for freedom is built upon, I respect the freedom fighters till today. The slain patriots left us a solid foundation, and I believe this peace accord will in a way help us build a united nation, brick by brick. I respect this accord for the sake of the men who gave up their life protecting their leader. We ought to respect this accord as a flicker of justice for the innocent lives lost in the hands of Indian Army- for the thousands raped women, beheaded menfolk and the countless orphans. Like everybody else, I will respect the decision made by our leaders, for all that Nagas have been through. And for what it is worth, I am willing to put my unfailing faith in them. We have to realize that what the whole Naga need is not the preamble to be made public, but a pinch of FAITH, TRUST and a whole lot of UNITY. If a day comes that you would not want anything to do with Nagaland, I want you to remember the blood-soaked feet, walking on pebbles and thorn, just to fight for a better future, for our pride and for our Freedom. Yuimi Vashum describes herself as a budding entrepreneur, fascinated by anything kooky & loony. If not writing, she is busy handling Public Relations. Follow her blog at http://www.yuimivashum.com
‘Stand united to defend our freedom’
Speech of Z. Royim Yimchungrii, Acting President of Naga National Council on the occasion of 69th celebration of Naga Independence of 14th August 2015
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oday 14th August 2015 is our Naga Independence Day and the 69th celebration after the official declaration in the year 1947 and the acknowledgement by the United Nations. This auspicious day is the main political landmark and achievement of our democratic right as a Nation. This great achievement by the Naga National Council is the political backbone of the Naga people and the celebration marks our stand as a people and Nation seeking proper recognition for the last more than 60 long years. On this special occasion, we the Naga National Council salute the Naga people, our supporters, well-wishers and the countries who are concerned for us and our fight for freedom and justice. The Naga National Council also pays its deepest homage to the Naga Martyrs who laid down their lives for the cause of Naga freedom. Their great sacrifice for Naga sovereignty will bear fruit because our Lord Jesus Christ is in control of our people and Nation. The destiny will be fulfilled ultimately. Both the Governments of India and Myanmar are responsible for the last more than six decades political conflict because of their occupation of Naga-inhabited areas in the West South East Asian Region as aggressors and oppressors. With their military might they have been suppressing the political rights of the Nagas for freedom and recognition by the world. They are answerable to the world and the South East Asian Nations in particular. Today, the NNC being the Parent Body and the Political Institution of the Nagas expressed sadness regarding the Accord signed between the Government of India and the NSCN (IM) while bypassing and neglecting the majority of Naga National Political Groups and the stakeholders in toto and creating destructive division and political confusion. The result of this trav-
esty could indeed destroy the Naga people and we strongly condemn it. The Govt. of India always applies divide and rule policy to destroy the Naga people and the North East people in particular for their political and religious agenda in the West South East Asian Region. The present BJP Govt. of India is responsible for all these happenings of political, religious, land and social chaos in the Region of peaceful people and the BJP Government will be held fully responsible for any further conflict in the Region. The NNC must say today that the NSCN (IM) leadership were wholly against the Shillong Accord of 1975 agreed by the Federal Government of Nagaland leadership 40 years ago, but now the NSCN (IM) is following the same line. To do this after so much bloodshed over the Shillong Accord will be cursed by God and the Naga people in particular. History will never forgive them and the blood of the Naga martyrs will be upon them forever as many precious lives were killed in the name of sovereignty. The Naga society has become such that the wrong people are right and the right people become wrong, looked down upon and neglected. This is the trend that is happening now in the Homeland and it is a very sorry state of affairs. As a result the wrong will flourish and Naga society will never become blessed but will be cursed by God. The people has become such that the wrong are supported and honored but the right people are never supported. For this reason, the right people should never be blamed for the downfall of the Naga sovereign right of freedom. The NNC must state today that the ultimate Judge is the living God who will judge the wrong and the right of the Naga cause and the right, who will stand to the last, will win the political race of Naga freedom. May God pronounce His judgment on the Naga people. Lastly, but not the least, the NNC must say that the majority of the Naga National Political Groups and the Stakeholders of the Mainland of Nagaland should stand united to defend our freedom of sovereignty. May the Naga people rise up at the right time to support and defend the right cause of the majority of people who uphold the sovereign right of Nagaland. VICTORY TO NAGALAND
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Entertainment Blake Shelton, Gwen Stefani Pink debuts new theme song for return to Post-Divorce 'EllEn DEGEnErEs show'
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The Morung Express
14 August 2015
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t’s been a tough couple of weeks for Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani. Both artists had headlinemaking divorce news when they announced their splits from Miranda Lambert and Gavin Rossdale, respectively. But on Wednesday, Aug. 12, the costars returned to the set of their hit NBC reality series The Voice to tape the Season 9 Battle Rounds. “Gwen seems sad,” an eyewitness tells Us Weekly of the No Doubt singer, 45, on set. Stefani filed for divorce from Rossdale, 49, earlier this month after 13 years of marriage, citing irreconcilable differences. The couple have three sons to-
gether, Kingston, 9, Zuma, 6, and Apollo, 17 months. Shelton, 39, who announced his divorce from Lambert, 31, in a joint statement in late July after four years of marriage, had a different demeanor, the observer says. “Blake, on the other hand, seems to have moved on from Miranda and is just over it,” the source tells Us. “Neither Blake nor Gwen are wearing their rings.” Following Shelton and Lambert’s split, the country superstars are trying to move forward. "There are no hard feelings," an insider previously told Us. "They want to move on as friends, and they are doing just that."
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ink has written and recorded a new theme song for the upcoming season 13 of "The Ellen DeGeneres Show". The singer debuted the new track called "Today's the Day" in a video shared on the show's website on Wednesday, August 12. The one-minute clip shows Pink recording the uplifting tune in a studio with her daughter, 4-yearold Willow. The video also features footage of host Ellen DeGeneres with her A-list guests includingTaylor Swift, Reese Witherspoon, Will Smith, Jennifer Aniston, Anne Hathaway and more. "Today's the Day"
Hollywood production house comes on board for ‘Brothers'
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ollywood production house Lionsgate, a prime GenNext content leader behind franchises like The Hunger Games, The Twilight Saga, Divergent, The Expendables and Saw, gears up for its Bollywood debut, Brothers. Starring Akshay Kumar, Sidharth Malhotra, Jacqueline Fernandez and Jacke Shroff, the Karan Malhotra-directed Brothers is adapted from the Hollywood company's critically-acclaimed film, Warrior (2011). Produced in partnership with Endemol India and Dharma Productions, the family drama is about two estranged brothers (played by Akshay and Sidharth), their struggling relationship with each other and their father (essayed by Jackie), set in the gritty and action-packed world of Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) competition. Brothers has already
piqued the curiosity of the Indian audience with its trailers and entrancing mix of soundtrack. Moviegoers will also get to witness its first authentic mixed martial arts action, as no Indian film has previously showcased this full contact combat sport. Also, as part of the production house's global roll out, the film, adapted for the desi audience, will open wide across India. "We're delighted to partner with our friends at Dharma Productions and Endemol India on our first Hindi language co-production, a powerful and exciting film that has something for everyone," said Lionsgate Motion Picture Group Chair Patrick Wachsberger. Brothers, presented by Fox Star Studios and produced by Lionsgate, Dharma Productions and Endemol India, releases August 14.
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The uplifting track was written and recorded by the singer for Ellen DeGeneres' talk show which will premiere its 13th season on September 8 is Pink's first solo material in a while. She dropped her last album, "The Truth About Love", in 2012. The chart-topping record spawned hit singles like "Blow Me (One Last Kiss)", "Try" and "Just Give Me a Reason". Last year, she formed a duo with City & Colour a.k.a. Dallas Green, and released a full-length called "rose ave." in October. The new season of "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" premieres on September 8.
'Beauty and the Beast' to make stage debut in India
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isney India on Wednesday announced plans to bring the timeless classic "Beauty and the Beast" as a live stage musical to India for the first time ever. Based on the Academy Award-winning animated feature film, this classic musical love story will be presented to Indian audiences on the same scale as the mega productions seen on New York's Broadway and in London's West End. Over 100 of the best musical theatre performers in
India will bring the story of "Beauty and the Beast" alive on stage, with world class production values, lavish sets and gorgeous costumes, according to a statement from Disney India. Disney India's managing director Siddharth Roy Kapur said: "We are always thinking of ways in which to bring our audiences truly memorable world class entertainment experiences, and this pioneering effort to locally produce one of our most beloved Broadway musicals, is another
example of that ongoing effort." "'Beauty and the Beast' is a story that has resonated with millions of fans from around the world and we are sure it will do so in India as well", he added. The musical will be completely developed locally in India, while retaining the original script and memorable music of the Broadway show. The production will be in English of 130-minute duration, with select shows across Mumbai and Delhi from October to December 2015.
Global Open University Nagaland fashion show to display richness of NE
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he Fashion Technology department of The Global Open University Nagaland (TGOUN), Kohima Campus is all set to showcase the rich culture and traditions of the north east through its 4th Annual Fashion Show 2015 scheduled for August 20 in Kohima. This 4th edition fashion show is supported by de Oriental Grand. Event coordinator Sentitola Ao told a press conference here at de Oriental Grand that it has chosen “Color of Northeast” as the theme to highlight the rich culture and traditions of the north east. The show will highlight traditional collections and designs to mainland. She said Eclectic
magazine has announced to give chance to winner of this show to display the design/ creations in its Model Hunt Contest event. 16 models will walk the ramp of the creation of six students of the institute. The duo Desoulas Vemai and Therali Ovung will present “Ancestrial Warriors,” Sashibemla- “Sunneal Meadows,” Kudulii Sapuh“Masquerade,” Riilhouvonuo Angami- “Dark Classic” and Neishe-ii Puro- “Tears of Warriors.” Stating that the show will be one hour (Maximum) affair, she said entry to the show will be through invitation only, which will be very formal and exclusive. “We want the show to be
TGOUN fashion technology department officials with students during press conference in Kohima on August 13. (Morung Photo)
very classic. We want to give benchmark for rest of Nagaland,” said Nchum Ovung. Ovung said Governor P.B. Acharya will grace the show. “We want to spread our culture to outsiders” said Desoulas Vemai who will be presenting the creation en-
Khiuribo Pamai and Rosey I Namgi were crowned TSUD's 'Mr and Miss Freshers 2015' respectively today at 5th Tenyimi Students' Union Dimapur Freshers Meet held at Jotsoma Community Hall , Kuda Village 'A' Khel, Dimapur.
Elvis Presley's private Nurse releases Memoir
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lvis Presley's Former Nurse has released a Memoir featuring stories about her time working for the music legend. Letetia Henley Kirk has written a tome titled Taking Care of Elvis - Memories with Elvis as His Private Nurse and Friend, which is a collection of short stories as well as never-before-seen photos of her time with the music icon. Kirk first met Presley in 1968 when she treated him at the medical clinic in
Memphis, Tennessee where she worked, and by 1972, he invited her and her husband and two young daughters to move to his famous Graceland compound to become his regular carer. Kirk and her family lived at the sprawling Memphis property until 1983, six years after Presley's death, and now she is finally ready to share her stories, telling The Hollywood Reporter she decided to write the book after attending the annual Elvis Week gathering at Grace-
land last August (14). Kirk says, "I realised how hungry the fans are for stories about what life was like during a normal day at Graceland... They already know the stories about drugs and sex and life on the road. They want to know what Elvis was like at Graceland during his private time. That's what this book is, light-hearted stories of my memories and experiences with Elvis." Kirk's self-published memoir was released on Monday (10Aug15).
titled ““Ancestrial Warriors,” along with Therali Ovung. The show, to take place at de Oriental Grand, Themezie, High School Road, Kohima, will also witness special performance from Oren Mozhui and Music Academy Kohima.
Ruth K Chang will act as host, Thejasielie Sekhose as choreographer, Suchamayang Kichu- photographer and Rakovi Mocha as makeup artist. According to its concept on “Color of northeast,” it aims to inspire and also to showcase the creative talent
of upcoming fashion designers. The annual fashion show will highlight today’s fashion trends and also include a wide variety of styles. The show will strive to create an ideal ambiance and platform to showcase the creativity of upcoming fashion designers.
All the participants will be awarded a certificate from TGOUN. The students award category will be based on the judgment by an expert panel of jury. “This impending Fashion Show is an important part of the students’ curriculum as they will be given a chance to showcase and express all they have learned during the past academic years,” stated Sentitola in a brochure. The Department of Fashion Technology was established under TGOUN and was formally inaugurated on the 4th November 2009 by Lalthara, the then chief secretary of Nagaland. Launching this department was made possible as a result of an academic collaboration with
the International Institute of Fashion technology (IIFT) based in Delhi. TGOUN was legislated by the Government of Nagaland under The Global Open University Act 2006 (Act 3 of 2006) and received the assent of the Governor of Nagaland on 30th August 2006 vide notification number Law/Act -10/2006 on 18th September 2006. This university was established with the aim to introduce vocational, job oriented and employment centric education in the north east region, particularly in Nagaland. At present, the university has developed three campuses in Nagaland, namely Kohima, Dimapur and Wokha. (Morung Express News)
Dhawan, Kohli tons hand India control of first test gaLLE, august 13 (REutERs): Centuries by opener Shikhar Dhawan and skipper Virat Kohli earned India a handy first innings lead before their spinners dismissed both the Sri Lankan openers to put the tourists on top of the first test at Galle on Thursday. Resuming the second day on 128-2, India were all out for 375 in the final session to claim a first innings lead of 192 runs and Sri Lanka's troubles did not end there. Openers Dimuth Karunaratne and Kaushal Silva were both dismissed in the first two overs with the hosts reeling at 5-2 in their second innings at stumps, still trailing India by 187. Earlier, Dhawan (134) and Kohli (103) frustrated the Sri Lankan bowlers with a 227-run stand that was the cornerstone of the Indian innings. Bowled out for 183 in the first innings, Sri Lanka had a few half chances in the morning session but otherwise failed to trouble the batsmen on the slow pitch at the Galle International Stadium. The hosts made a stronger comeback in the later sessions, riding on off-spinner Tharindu
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GOVERNMENT OF NAGALAND INDEPENDENCE DAY – 2015 CELEBRATION AT SECRETARIAT PLAZA, KOHIMA, NAGALAND PROGRAMME 0600 hrs - Hoisting of National Flag at Government Offices, Institutions, Public/Private buildings. 0855 hrs - Review of Parade by DGP, Nagaland. 0900 hrs
- 1. Chief Minister of Nagaland, Shri. T.R. Zeliang arrives, takes salute and inspects the Parade. 2. Address by the Chief Minister. 3. Presentation of Awards.
India's Shikar Dhawan, left, celebrates scoring a century with teammate Virat Kohli during the second day of their first test cricket match against Sri Lanka in Galle on August 13. (AP Photo)
Kaushal's second fivewicket haul and three wickets from paceman Nuwan Pradeep. Left-handed Dhawan, who scored 173 against Bangladesh in India's last test in June, hit a cover drive for four off paceman Dhammika Prasad to complete his fourth test century. The 29-year-old, who was dropped on 28 and 122 during his knock, hit 13 fours in his patient 271-ball innings before he chopped
paceman Nuwan Pradeep onto the stumps. Kohli, in his first full series as India's test captain, hit 11 fours to complete his 11th hundred in tests but was out shortly after going past the three-figure mark. The 26-year-old fell leg before after fluffing his sweep shot against offspinner Tharindu Kaushal, who also dismissed Ajinkya Rahane lbw for a duck in his next over. Pradeep brought the hosts the fourth wick-
et of the second session by castling Ravichandran Ashwin (seven), an over after he dismissed the wellset Dhawan. Wicketkeeper Wriddhiman Saha (60) stretched India's lead with his maiden half-century before he became Pradeep's third victim. Kaushal also dismissed Harbhajan Singh and Amit Mishra and took his fifth wicket with the dismissal of number 11 batsman Varun Aaron.
28th NTA meet today Kohima, august 13 (mExN): Preparations are complete at IG stadium, Kohima for the conduct of 28th Nagaland State Taekwondo Championship organized by Nagaland Taekwondo Association (NTA). The championship will be played from August 14 to 15. Around two hundred participants from various districts will take part in various categories ranging from sub-junior, junior and senior for both boys and girls. As prelude to the championship, a two-day referee clinic started on Wednesday conducted by the senior Nagaland Taekwondo Association conducting referee clinic on Wednesday at IG Stadium, officials from NTA. Kohima for the upcoming 28th NTA tournament to be held in Kohima.
4. March Past by the following Parade Contingents: a. 19th Assam Rifles b. 78th Bn CRPF c. 4th NAP d. DEF, Kohima e. 10th Bn NAP (IR) f. Home Guards g. Forest Protection Force h. I Nagaland Girls BnNCC, Kohima i. 24 NL (Independent) Company NCC j. I Nagaland Air Sq. NCC, Dimapur k. Bharat Scouts & Guides l. Ex-Servicemen m. School Students
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5. Entertainment by the following troupes: a. Bhangra Dance by 78th Bn CRPF. b. Presenting National Anthem through Sign Language by Tabitha Enabling Academy. c. Martial Arts Display by All Nagaland Shaolin Kungfu Association. d. Dance: ‘Lead Us To The Truth’ by Nagaland Adolescent Girls’ Club. e. Cultural items by Naga Tribes. f. Armed Drill Display by 15th Bn NAP (IR) Mahila Battalion.
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1500 hrs - Exhibition Football Match between Commissioner, Nagaland XI and DGP Veterans. 1600 hrs - Prize Distribution. 1630 hrs - Band Display by: a. Pipe Band of 9th Assam Rifles. b. Brass Band of Nagaland Police.
BEATING OF RETREAT - Issued by DIPR
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